Here’s where I'm "coming from." Dismiss me as you will, but not (I hope) without examination.
1. The country has been systematically sold out over decades by many (most?) of those of both parties who swore oaths "to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic." Often, as soon as they were sworn in, they became the very domestic enemies they swore to guard against, by taking actions specifically prohibited by the Constitution. Why? Because anyone who chooses to make a career as a politician soon realizes that re-election, not to mention rising to higher office, depends on keeping on the good side of those who provide the campaign funds, and who control the organs of publicity -- newspapers, magazines, radio and TV networks. "Ya gotta dance with them who brung ya."
Few aspiring politicians, even very decent people (just like the rest of us) are such lifelong saints that they would wish to have every last detail of their lives minutely examined in public. Take any officeholder, present or past, and with enough detail of some past error revealed (and magnified and repeated endlessly) in the press, on talk shows, and on the nightly news, and eventually a majority of the public would come to believe that the true essence of that person would be accurately represented by that amplified screw-up.
For example, JFK, a veteran, war hero, and much-beloved president at the time of his death, has come to be known best by the current generation, as a skirt-chasing horn-dog, and if not exactly deserving of assassination, at least marginalized to the extent, that the underlying motives to kill him are so little understood, that anyone who fails to accept the specious conclusions of the Warren Report, point blank, is dismissed as a nut.
So nobody gets to the point of being a viable candidate for high office without first being vetted by people who own the networks and major newspapers, nor without making the kinds of promises that can get them $bazillions to spend on the campaign. Those who can provide such funds and influence are deep insiders, heirs to centuries-old mega-fortunes. They own or control not only networks, newpapers, and magazines, but banks, munitions, drug, oil, and chemical companies, among others. They are able not only to profit from wars, regardless of who "wins," but to profit from bankrupting nations, then buying up the distressed assets on the cheap. They own entire governments.
We get to choose (at least major party-supported candidates) only from among people who have already mortgaged their future offices, if they haven’t sold their souls outright. I suspect that people without secret, well-documented, but inflammatory ("useful"), embarrassments in their pasts, don’t rise very far.
There is also a valid question whether votes, electronically tallied (in some cases, by machines with modems and internet connections) without a verifiable trace, necessarily represent the true vote of the citizens, especially in districts where dead people and illegal aliens vote.
2. I believe and contend, on the basis of the reading I have done, that America has been tricked and maneuvered into its wars (at least since the Revolution) for the purposes of enhancing the political control over her affairs of (not to mention further enriching) certain ultra-wealthy banking families. True, our military has risen gallantly to the challenges, and acquitted itself honorably -- even in those wars where obviously they have been prevented from winning, by the decisions and actions of the civilian authority. But clearly, some agenda, aside from the publicly asserted purposes, has been the true interest in the Korean and Vietnam wars. I count the present wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (not to mention the one they are trying to ignite in Iran) in that category.
You may accept the self-contradictory official stories of the 9-11 attack in New York and D.C. I don't. I have seen too many video clips of TV broadcasts taken that day, heard too much first-hand testimony from people who were present that day, seen too many reports of the physical evidence, and heard expert testimony from too many dissenting experts, to accept the government story as valid pretext for wars that were in the planning stages before the planes crashed. I believe some within the government participated knowledgeably, at a minimum, in a coverup of the truth, if not directly in the design and management of the exercise. "Your mileage may vary."
Further, I believe the purpose of dragging this nation into various wars has as much to do with completely reversing the Revolution, and bringing America completely to heel, by impoverishing us, while using the claimed security needs of each successive war to ratchet the enhanced anti-constitutional executive powers to such a level, that some future outrage will be used to spring on us the full array of police state mechanisms that have been in preparation since the 1970's. People behind razor wire and under machineguns, can yell all they want about their stolen liberties, until they run out of breath -- to no effect.
I think we’re on a similar track to national enslavement and destruction as Germany was after WWI.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Preparing for the Police State
As one who is dismayed by the decline of sovereignty, liberty, and prosperity in my nation, I have been trying to assemble a coherent point of view from the political/economic/social facts and causes of the last few years. Sufficeth it to say that I have concluded that both Democrat and Republican parties equally share the blame -- the Democrats, largely for adhering to their political principles, the Republicans, largely for abandoning theirs -- for the impending economic collapse and likely resultant civil strife.
I hesitate to term such strife "civil war," because I hope the contending factions -- America's Black, White, and Hispanic cultures -- may yet come to their senses, and realize that blaming and fighting each other will only strengthen the hand of those whose long term moves have been to set them against each other for fun and profit, but strife there will be.
When large numbers of people, whose major economic choices have been predicated on a falsely portrayed stable and growing economy, begin to lose first their high-wage jobs, then their cars, finally their houses, there will be a reaction beyond mere despair and self-blame. The jobs of citizens have been "outsourced' to foreign lands, and the replacement lower-wage jobs to which they might have resorted, have been largely "insourced" to outlaw migrants.
These latter have been all but formally invited by traitorous federal, state, and local governments, which have compelled us citizens to cover through taxation, all of the other living costs that the employers of "those who only want to do the jobs that Americans won't do," can escape paying under such wink-and-nod law enforcement, and hence can add to their "bottom lines." Such invitees can hardly be expected to behave as unentitled to the modest incomes and social benefits they receive, having been taught since childhood that the poverty they must leave home to escape is, in some unexplained way, our fault.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the radical Democrats have used the resultant social destabilization and crime to accuse the average American of undeserved wealth, "laziness" and "racism", and to call for expanded social programs. The neocon Republicans have used it for expanding the presidentially-declared war and growing the profits of a few selected insider corporations. The "moderates" of both parties have "gone along for the ride," fearing criticism from presstitutes controlled by the two extremes.
Meanwhile, the nation has become well beyond broke. In addition to the acknowledged "national debt" of merely $9.4 Trillion (~ $30,000 per capita.) I don't know about you, but if pressed for "my share" (and that of my wife), to save our lives, I suppose we could scrape that much together, but it would leave us indefinitely continued in employment, just as we are trying to retire.
There are worse things, of course. Like figuring out how to help my kids and grandkids, who haven't had the time to accumulate "their shares" of the "national debt." And when one begins to add in at least a portion of "Social(ist In)Security," and of "Medi(s)care," plus other federal retirement schemes -- civil service, railroad, and CONgressional (estimated to total somewhere between $50 and $90 Trillion) there simply isn't enough total value in the nation's assets to "pay off" the $300K per capita. Re-fi anyone?
Of course "we" are putatively "the world's only superpower," and "we" could tell most of our creditors some version of what "we" in effect told most of the nations to whom "we" now owe it, "Use our dollar to conduct business or we will come to your country, rape your daughters, and kill you." Most of them might be intimidated enough to merely gripe and take whatever payments "we" send -- most, but not all. Such an offer might not fly at all in a large, recently industrialized nation that has a 25% surplus of young, horny dudes over daughters.
Of course, "our" government can probably once more arrange to get China (or whoever else refuses to just shut up and go away) to fire the first shot, placing the blame on "the enemy," whereupon WDII will have successfully given birth to WWIII, but it's not likely to do us, and our kids (or them and their kids, for that matter) any lasting good.
Meantime, "success" in these pre-choreographed World Wars (whatever that may mean in a thermonuclear context) usually goes to those who can manufacture their way to victory -- which usually means those who can afford to manufacture their way to victory, which usually means whoever can borrow enough to afford to manufacture, ... etc.
But since wars are usually arranged to enable the creditors of excessive national debt to collect on their foreclosures, I'd be willing to bet that sufficient offers of further credit might be rather few and pricey for "us." At last count, America's manufactures were about a 20% shadow of their former selves, with some essential industries now moved entirely abroad, and the remaining few trained employees scattered and otherwise employed.
A local proud neocon (and social Darwinist) radio talkstitute was loudly opining this evening, that anyone who ever gets sweet-talked or tricked into a sucker deal bears the full responsibility of covering his end of the deal, up to and including submitting to full-on chattel slavery, if that is what it takes to "pay off" -- the perpetrator of the con who, as "smart businessman," is incapable of blame.
According to his doctrine, it is inevitably your fault alone, if you believed the lies you were told from the cradle up, even if those who inculcated them in you were as ignorant of the facts as you, and if, on the basis of an intergenerational con game, you were suckered into decades-long deals (e.g., buying an overpriced house, working a suddenly "outsourced" trade, accepting a "retirement package") you eventually could no longer sustain, once those who had conned you, had (ever so smartly) pulled the economic rug out from under you.
Naturally, he is more than proud of a country in which such rules (ones he advocates -- currently in the ascendancy) allow smart businessmen -- like, presumably, himself -- to pick the bones of their "inferiors." Where else could he do so well?
Since the guidance of the nation has long been in the hands of power-trippers left and right, we have lost virtually all of our rights, and exercise such freedom of action as we do, more by virtue of governmental slack -- the calm before the oncoming storm -- than by explicit and scrupulous governmental recognition of the Rights of Man.
Spokesmouths of the neocons (e.g., General Tommy Franks) have been at pains in past years, to explain that the next "terrorist attack" on American soil will spell the formal end of our remaining "constitutional" liberties, under the currently unenforced provisions of the Military Commissions Act, the PATRIOT Act II, and the yet unused capabilities of FEMA. I took him as "not kidding." There is also little likelihood, if (by the Grace of Diebold) the incipient dictatorship is yielded to the radical left, that such plans will be more than slightly re-tailored.
I invite you to read a few of the linked articles, or to proceed from what you already understand, and tell me how you approach the likely outcomes of current trends.
The Grim Reality of Economic Truths
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8261
FUNDING FOREIGN MILITARY WHILE DUMPING ON AMERICAN VETERANS http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd349.htm
Mankind at the Turning Point: Interdependence is Totalitarian http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8245
Republicans and “Free Market” Zealots Bring Death To America http://vdare.com/roberts/080312_republicans.htm
In Los Angeles, Hispanic Gangs Ethnically Cleansing Black Neighborhoods http://vdare.com/walker/080310_gangs.htm
Martial Law, Inc.
KBR: A Halliburton Subsidiary http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8258
I hesitate to term such strife "civil war," because I hope the contending factions -- America's Black, White, and Hispanic cultures -- may yet come to their senses, and realize that blaming and fighting each other will only strengthen the hand of those whose long term moves have been to set them against each other for fun and profit, but strife there will be.
When large numbers of people, whose major economic choices have been predicated on a falsely portrayed stable and growing economy, begin to lose first their high-wage jobs, then their cars, finally their houses, there will be a reaction beyond mere despair and self-blame. The jobs of citizens have been "outsourced' to foreign lands, and the replacement lower-wage jobs to which they might have resorted, have been largely "insourced" to outlaw migrants.
These latter have been all but formally invited by traitorous federal, state, and local governments, which have compelled us citizens to cover through taxation, all of the other living costs that the employers of "those who only want to do the jobs that Americans won't do," can escape paying under such wink-and-nod law enforcement, and hence can add to their "bottom lines." Such invitees can hardly be expected to behave as unentitled to the modest incomes and social benefits they receive, having been taught since childhood that the poverty they must leave home to escape is, in some unexplained way, our fault.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the radical Democrats have used the resultant social destabilization and crime to accuse the average American of undeserved wealth, "laziness" and "racism", and to call for expanded social programs. The neocon Republicans have used it for expanding the presidentially-declared war and growing the profits of a few selected insider corporations. The "moderates" of both parties have "gone along for the ride," fearing criticism from presstitutes controlled by the two extremes.
Meanwhile, the nation has become well beyond broke. In addition to the acknowledged "national debt" of merely $9.4 Trillion (~ $30,000 per capita.) I don't know about you, but if pressed for "my share" (and that of my wife), to save our lives, I suppose we could scrape that much together, but it would leave us indefinitely continued in employment, just as we are trying to retire.
There are worse things, of course. Like figuring out how to help my kids and grandkids, who haven't had the time to accumulate "their shares" of the "national debt." And when one begins to add in at least a portion of "Social(ist In)Security," and of "Medi(s)care," plus other federal retirement schemes -- civil service, railroad, and CONgressional (estimated to total somewhere between $50 and $90 Trillion) there simply isn't enough total value in the nation's assets to "pay off" the $300K per capita. Re-fi anyone?
Of course "we" are putatively "the world's only superpower," and "we" could tell most of our creditors some version of what "we" in effect told most of the nations to whom "we" now owe it, "Use our dollar to conduct business or we will come to your country, rape your daughters, and kill you." Most of them might be intimidated enough to merely gripe and take whatever payments "we" send -- most, but not all. Such an offer might not fly at all in a large, recently industrialized nation that has a 25% surplus of young, horny dudes over daughters.
Of course, "our" government can probably once more arrange to get China (or whoever else refuses to just shut up and go away) to fire the first shot, placing the blame on "the enemy," whereupon WDII will have successfully given birth to WWIII, but it's not likely to do us, and our kids (or them and their kids, for that matter) any lasting good.
Meantime, "success" in these pre-choreographed World Wars (whatever that may mean in a thermonuclear context) usually goes to those who can manufacture their way to victory -- which usually means those who can afford to manufacture their way to victory, which usually means whoever can borrow enough to afford to manufacture, ... etc.
But since wars are usually arranged to enable the creditors of excessive national debt to collect on their foreclosures, I'd be willing to bet that sufficient offers of further credit might be rather few and pricey for "us." At last count, America's manufactures were about a 20% shadow of their former selves, with some essential industries now moved entirely abroad, and the remaining few trained employees scattered and otherwise employed.
A local proud neocon (and social Darwinist) radio talkstitute was loudly opining this evening, that anyone who ever gets sweet-talked or tricked into a sucker deal bears the full responsibility of covering his end of the deal, up to and including submitting to full-on chattel slavery, if that is what it takes to "pay off" -- the perpetrator of the con who, as "smart businessman," is incapable of blame.
According to his doctrine, it is inevitably your fault alone, if you believed the lies you were told from the cradle up, even if those who inculcated them in you were as ignorant of the facts as you, and if, on the basis of an intergenerational con game, you were suckered into decades-long deals (e.g., buying an overpriced house, working a suddenly "outsourced" trade, accepting a "retirement package") you eventually could no longer sustain, once those who had conned you, had (ever so smartly) pulled the economic rug out from under you.
Naturally, he is more than proud of a country in which such rules (ones he advocates -- currently in the ascendancy) allow smart businessmen -- like, presumably, himself -- to pick the bones of their "inferiors." Where else could he do so well?
Since the guidance of the nation has long been in the hands of power-trippers left and right, we have lost virtually all of our rights, and exercise such freedom of action as we do, more by virtue of governmental slack -- the calm before the oncoming storm -- than by explicit and scrupulous governmental recognition of the Rights of Man.
Spokesmouths of the neocons (e.g., General Tommy Franks) have been at pains in past years, to explain that the next "terrorist attack" on American soil will spell the formal end of our remaining "constitutional" liberties, under the currently unenforced provisions of the Military Commissions Act, the PATRIOT Act II, and the yet unused capabilities of FEMA. I took him as "not kidding." There is also little likelihood, if (by the Grace of Diebold) the incipient dictatorship is yielded to the radical left, that such plans will be more than slightly re-tailored.
I invite you to read a few of the linked articles, or to proceed from what you already understand, and tell me how you approach the likely outcomes of current trends.
The Grim Reality of Economic Truths
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8261
FUNDING FOREIGN MILITARY WHILE DUMPING ON AMERICAN VETERANS http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd349.htm
Mankind at the Turning Point: Interdependence is Totalitarian http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8245
Republicans and “Free Market” Zealots Bring Death To America http://vdare.com/roberts/080312_republicans.htm
In Los Angeles, Hispanic Gangs Ethnically Cleansing Black Neighborhoods http://vdare.com/walker/080310_gangs.htm
Martial Law, Inc.
KBR: A Halliburton Subsidiary http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8258
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, there was a country where the people had no problems. Well, that’s not exactly true -- they had problems -- but none they couldn’t solve by themselves … until the Prostiticians got involved.
The Prostiticians studied the situation very carefully. "If they don’t have problems, we’ve got a problem!" said one. "If this keeps up, we'll be out of business," whined another. "If this keeps up, we’ll have to get honest jobs," whimpered a third. "Let’s go ask the Lawiars for advice." So that is what they did.
The Lawiars reflected on how their business had dwindled, with people solving their own problems, and they put on their thinking caps. "Think, Lawiars!" implored the Prostiticians. "Tax your brains!"
"That’s it!" cried the Lawiars. "Tax their brains."
"Okay, but we'll need a good excu… uh, reason," said the Prostiticians. "Do you have one?"
"No" said the Lawiars, "maybe the Banksters have one. Let's ask them."
"Simple as compound interest," said the Banksters. "Borrow lots of money from us, buy the votes of the people with it, tax them to repay it -- with interest, of course, since we don't work for free, ya know. Before you know it, the people will be over their heads in debt, blaming each other, begging you to solve their problems. You can start wars to distract them, buy their votes with "bailouts", the Lawiars will be up to their eyeballs in lucrative lawsuits, the Justitutes can reverse the Constitution, and we'll be rolling in profits."
"Such a deal!" exclaimed the Lawiars. "Genius!" proclaimed the Prostiticians. "Do you Banksters have that much money to loan?"
"We have pens, printing presses, and computers" said one Bankster. "We know how to write, print, and push buttons on a keyboard," said another. "Bottom line, we can fake it," said a third. "All we need is for you to pass a law making our 'money' the only money the Sheeple are allowed use. Ya think you Lawiars can write up a law for that?"
"Piece o'cake!" said one Lawiar. "Can o' corn!" said another. "Easy-peasy," said a third.
"Well, don't get carried away with simplicity," said the Banksters in unison. "We don't want the people figuring it out before they're over their heads in debt."
"Trust us!" said the Lawiars.
"Just like we trust the Prostiticians," said the Banksters, "sign here."
"How much can we borrow?" asked the Prostiticians.
"As much as you can squeeze out of the Sheeple, minus our interest," said the Banksters. "But you'll need to start small, so they don't smell a rat," they advised. "Get our Presstitutes to help sell the idea."
"We’ll need to raise the next generation of Sheepizens to know their places, but not too much else," said the Prostiticians. "Let's give the schools some of this borrowed money, so we can tell them what not to teach, and how to not teach it. Our Professtitutes at the Universities can tell their Stoogents how brilliant our new idea is, and the Treacher's Union can muzzle any Treacher who might teach kids stuff they shouldn't know, and drug any kids who show signs of figuring it out."
"What if some Sheepizen objects about, you know … the Constitution?" asked a nervous Prostitician.
"That g__d___ piece of paper?" sneered one. "Idiot!" said another. "Don't be stupid -- remember we get to pick the Justitutes from a list of Lawiars." reminded a third. "It's all under control."
So they all breathed a collective sigh of relief. The Presstitutes made up any "news" they were told to write. The Prostiticians made laws to let the Banksters create the Feudal Reserve System to lend more "money" than anyone could ever repay, and the Infernal Revenue Service to tax it back, and soon had their Sheeple firmly saddled with unending problems. The Lawiars had all the lawsuits and trials they could handle, in courts run by their brother and sister Justitutes. Professtitutes and Treachers were well paid to keep the kids from learning too much. The Banksters were rolling in obscene profits, and would soon own everything in sight. And the Sheeple never did figure out why they couldn't get out of debt.
So they all lived happily ever after, at least until the Sheeple no longer had enough brains to tax, so they couldn‘t both pay taxes … and eat. Then, the Prostiticians, Banksters, Lawiars, Justitutes, Presstitutes, Professtitutes, and Treachers all had a big barbecue.
Moral: If problems are what you want, problems are what you can get, especially when you're dealing with Sheeple.
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Fortunately, this is only a fairy tale! Wouldn't you hate to live in a country like that?
The Prostiticians studied the situation very carefully. "If they don’t have problems, we’ve got a problem!" said one. "If this keeps up, we'll be out of business," whined another. "If this keeps up, we’ll have to get honest jobs," whimpered a third. "Let’s go ask the Lawiars for advice." So that is what they did.
The Lawiars reflected on how their business had dwindled, with people solving their own problems, and they put on their thinking caps. "Think, Lawiars!" implored the Prostiticians. "Tax your brains!"
"That’s it!" cried the Lawiars. "Tax their brains."
"Okay, but we'll need a good excu… uh, reason," said the Prostiticians. "Do you have one?"
"No" said the Lawiars, "maybe the Banksters have one. Let's ask them."
"Simple as compound interest," said the Banksters. "Borrow lots of money from us, buy the votes of the people with it, tax them to repay it -- with interest, of course, since we don't work for free, ya know. Before you know it, the people will be over their heads in debt, blaming each other, begging you to solve their problems. You can start wars to distract them, buy their votes with "bailouts", the Lawiars will be up to their eyeballs in lucrative lawsuits, the Justitutes can reverse the Constitution, and we'll be rolling in profits."
"Such a deal!" exclaimed the Lawiars. "Genius!" proclaimed the Prostiticians. "Do you Banksters have that much money to loan?"
"We have pens, printing presses, and computers" said one Bankster. "We know how to write, print, and push buttons on a keyboard," said another. "Bottom line, we can fake it," said a third. "All we need is for you to pass a law making our 'money' the only money the Sheeple are allowed use. Ya think you Lawiars can write up a law for that?"
"Piece o'cake!" said one Lawiar. "Can o' corn!" said another. "Easy-peasy," said a third.
"Well, don't get carried away with simplicity," said the Banksters in unison. "We don't want the people figuring it out before they're over their heads in debt."
"Trust us!" said the Lawiars.
"Just like we trust the Prostiticians," said the Banksters, "sign here."
"How much can we borrow?" asked the Prostiticians.
"As much as you can squeeze out of the Sheeple, minus our interest," said the Banksters. "But you'll need to start small, so they don't smell a rat," they advised. "Get our Presstitutes to help sell the idea."
"We’ll need to raise the next generation of Sheepizens to know their places, but not too much else," said the Prostiticians. "Let's give the schools some of this borrowed money, so we can tell them what not to teach, and how to not teach it. Our Professtitutes at the Universities can tell their Stoogents how brilliant our new idea is, and the Treacher's Union can muzzle any Treacher who might teach kids stuff they shouldn't know, and drug any kids who show signs of figuring it out."
"What if some Sheepizen objects about, you know … the Constitution?" asked a nervous Prostitician.
"That g__d___ piece of paper?" sneered one. "Idiot!" said another. "Don't be stupid -- remember we get to pick the Justitutes from a list of Lawiars." reminded a third. "It's all under control."
So they all breathed a collective sigh of relief. The Presstitutes made up any "news" they were told to write. The Prostiticians made laws to let the Banksters create the Feudal Reserve System to lend more "money" than anyone could ever repay, and the Infernal Revenue Service to tax it back, and soon had their Sheeple firmly saddled with unending problems. The Lawiars had all the lawsuits and trials they could handle, in courts run by their brother and sister Justitutes. Professtitutes and Treachers were well paid to keep the kids from learning too much. The Banksters were rolling in obscene profits, and would soon own everything in sight. And the Sheeple never did figure out why they couldn't get out of debt.
So they all lived happily ever after, at least until the Sheeple no longer had enough brains to tax, so they couldn‘t both pay taxes … and eat. Then, the Prostiticians, Banksters, Lawiars, Justitutes, Presstitutes, Professtitutes, and Treachers all had a big barbecue.
Moral: If problems are what you want, problems are what you can get, especially when you're dealing with Sheeple.
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Fortunately, this is only a fairy tale! Wouldn't you hate to live in a country like that?
'Splain this one to me, please!
Take a look at this photo, and tell me what this arrangement of equipment is for:
It's part of this article: http://tinyurl.com/2os45c, but I don't know whether to believe it or not. Still, I'm hard pressed to come up with an alternative that makes sense.
It's part of this article: http://tinyurl.com/2os45c, but I don't know whether to believe it or not. Still, I'm hard pressed to come up with an alternative that makes sense.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Q: What’s the greatest political failing of American voters -- ignorance or apathy?
A : I don’t know, and I don’t care.
These are bitter words for me. Although I sometimes seem a pessimist to those who know me, I am usually upbeat about many things, e.g., work, learning, exercise, non-coercive human interaction.
I have even striven to persuade some sheepizens of this once (and future) worthy nation to somehow pull their collective head out of their collective, er, … TV set, long enough to realize that their government, money, and fate are in the hands of their worst enemies, and that they had best take them back into their own hands, lest they die broke, hungry slaves.
Alas, they would no longer know what to do with them if they did. The vast majority are sheeple. Their ignorance is as incurable as it is willful; it’s what makes them sheeple. All they want is to be entertained and directed without the need to think, fed enough to grow large without effort, sheared without having to admit it, and when time comes to feed the shepherd, swiftly terminated without embarrassment.
We’re not quite down to, "every man for himself," yet, but close. It’s more like, everyone for his/her own self, family, and friends – the few likeminded people you can trust when the razor wire goes up, which doesn’t leave most of us with a lot of options. We are now living the Weimar Republic experience, all too soon to be followed by the Fourth Reich experience, barring Celestial Intervention.
The sheepizen next door may be a nice enough guy in good times, but when he (not to mention thousands like him) loses his job in this "robust" economy, or his government check fails to cover his ever-inflated survival costs, how much do you really want him to know about your food/water/medicine/fuel/ammo stashes? (You do have them – right?)
Regardless, I have given up trying to persuade sheeple to be sovereign Citizens – it only annoys them, and will eventually bring me attention I don’t want.
A : I don’t know, and I don’t care.
These are bitter words for me. Although I sometimes seem a pessimist to those who know me, I am usually upbeat about many things, e.g., work, learning, exercise, non-coercive human interaction.
I have even striven to persuade some sheepizens of this once (and future) worthy nation to somehow pull their collective head out of their collective, er, … TV set, long enough to realize that their government, money, and fate are in the hands of their worst enemies, and that they had best take them back into their own hands, lest they die broke, hungry slaves.
Alas, they would no longer know what to do with them if they did. The vast majority are sheeple. Their ignorance is as incurable as it is willful; it’s what makes them sheeple. All they want is to be entertained and directed without the need to think, fed enough to grow large without effort, sheared without having to admit it, and when time comes to feed the shepherd, swiftly terminated without embarrassment.
We’re not quite down to, "every man for himself," yet, but close. It’s more like, everyone for his/her own self, family, and friends – the few likeminded people you can trust when the razor wire goes up, which doesn’t leave most of us with a lot of options. We are now living the Weimar Republic experience, all too soon to be followed by the Fourth Reich experience, barring Celestial Intervention.
The sheepizen next door may be a nice enough guy in good times, but when he (not to mention thousands like him) loses his job in this "robust" economy, or his government check fails to cover his ever-inflated survival costs, how much do you really want him to know about your food/water/medicine/fuel/ammo stashes? (You do have them – right?)
Regardless, I have given up trying to persuade sheeple to be sovereign Citizens – it only annoys them, and will eventually bring me attention I don’t want.
Monday, December 31, 2007
I'm being a RepugliCon (until the primaries are over)
Well, I did it -- put the mark of Cain on my own forehead, as far as anyone who sees my voter's registration knows. From today until the primary election is over, I'm just another RepugliCon, easily mistaken for one of those new-style RepugliCons proudly known (by themselves, anyway) as "neo-cons."
I had to do it. In the People's Republic of California, parties may choose whether they'll allow "crossover" voting (by voters not registered in their party) in the primaries. The DemocRat party, and the Constitution party do. All other parties don't. Their actions and mine are understood this way: This is the only way I can vote for Dr. Ron Paul to be the Republican presidential candidate. It's also the only roadblock the neo-con fascists have to (legally) throw in my way, and they hesitate to draw Blackwater into the process so early (thrift -- no doubt.)
I know they hate being called fascists, since that's a tag which still retains much of its pejorative punch, like "communist" ought to, but never really did. But if the Dems can laugh off "commie," and play Sir Parse-a-lot word games about how they're not really socialists, just "progressives," the 'Pugs can't shake "fascist" so easily. They much prefer "corporatist," since they like turning most of the dirty work of government (what they consider "government" work) to big, well-heeled, insider corporations. "Corporatism," said Mussolini (who ought to know) is the proper way to think of fascism -- the marriage of the corporation and the state.
"But the private sector is so much more efficient than government -- they have to meet a payroll and show a profit." It's true. Ask those who worked so efficiently for so many of the favored German corporations, during WWII. Oh, that's right, you can't -- they were so efficient, they're dead. You can, however, bet your bottom Reichsmark, er, dollar, that those corporations got the tip-top efficient most out of those, uh, workers, before, well ... you know.
Private business is almost always more efficient at what it does. But there are jobs governments are notoriously good at, that they still should never undertake, except when attacked (like killing people and breaking things.) Moreover, those "jobs" should never be contracted out to the private sector, regardless of how efficiently and profitably it can do them, since humankind are generally better off when those jobs are not being done, and we don't want to fall in the trap of prolonging the "job" for the sake of (someone else's) profit. And it's not really cricket for the government to supply its own initial attack, either.
Of course, when you're the aforementioned "someone else," and you're collecting the profits, not paying them, the desirability of prolonging the killing and breaking looks somehow, ... different. And when you're a stockholder in a profitable corporation, and/or a doctrinaire corporatist being feted at corporate parties, living on corporate stipends, or kept in office by corporate campaign funds, killing and breaking for a nice hefty profit (even if not always fun) can be downright seductive. Just ask the families Rothschild, Rockefeller, Roosevelt, and Bush.
When you're more committed to the survival of "allied" nations than to that of your own, pouring the treasure of your nation, and the lives of its youth, down the funnel of war, into corporations whose stock your friends and family own, can probably seem almost holy, not to mention courageous. I wouldn't know, but seeing and hearing those who advocate for it, I suspect.
Dr. Paul is light years away from the new "mainstream" (downstream) of his nominal party. I hope and pray he survives this election.
I had to do it. In the People's Republic of California, parties may choose whether they'll allow "crossover" voting (by voters not registered in their party) in the primaries. The DemocRat party, and the Constitution party do. All other parties don't. Their actions and mine are understood this way: This is the only way I can vote for Dr. Ron Paul to be the Republican presidential candidate. It's also the only roadblock the neo-con fascists have to (legally) throw in my way, and they hesitate to draw Blackwater into the process so early (thrift -- no doubt.)
I know they hate being called fascists, since that's a tag which still retains much of its pejorative punch, like "communist" ought to, but never really did. But if the Dems can laugh off "commie," and play Sir Parse-a-lot word games about how they're not really socialists, just "progressives," the 'Pugs can't shake "fascist" so easily. They much prefer "corporatist," since they like turning most of the dirty work of government (what they consider "government" work) to big, well-heeled, insider corporations. "Corporatism," said Mussolini (who ought to know) is the proper way to think of fascism -- the marriage of the corporation and the state.
"But the private sector is so much more efficient than government -- they have to meet a payroll and show a profit." It's true. Ask those who worked so efficiently for so many of the favored German corporations, during WWII. Oh, that's right, you can't -- they were so efficient, they're dead. You can, however, bet your bottom Reichsmark, er, dollar, that those corporations got the tip-top efficient most out of those, uh, workers, before, well ... you know.
Private business is almost always more efficient at what it does. But there are jobs governments are notoriously good at, that they still should never undertake, except when attacked (like killing people and breaking things.) Moreover, those "jobs" should never be contracted out to the private sector, regardless of how efficiently and profitably it can do them, since humankind are generally better off when those jobs are not being done, and we don't want to fall in the trap of prolonging the "job" for the sake of (someone else's) profit. And it's not really cricket for the government to supply its own initial attack, either.
Of course, when you're the aforementioned "someone else," and you're collecting the profits, not paying them, the desirability of prolonging the killing and breaking looks somehow, ... different. And when you're a stockholder in a profitable corporation, and/or a doctrinaire corporatist being feted at corporate parties, living on corporate stipends, or kept in office by corporate campaign funds, killing and breaking for a nice hefty profit (even if not always fun) can be downright seductive. Just ask the families Rothschild, Rockefeller, Roosevelt, and Bush.
When you're more committed to the survival of "allied" nations than to that of your own, pouring the treasure of your nation, and the lives of its youth, down the funnel of war, into corporations whose stock your friends and family own, can probably seem almost holy, not to mention courageous. I wouldn't know, but seeing and hearing those who advocate for it, I suspect.
Dr. Paul is light years away from the new "mainstream" (downstream) of his nominal party. I hope and pray he survives this election.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
"Terrorist Catch and Release Program "
A friend sent a recycled oldie (~2003) called the "Terrorist Catch and Release Program "
"U.S. Navy releases Al Qaeda Terrorist -
"I can't believe it!
"The US Navy today announced that it has released a senior Al Qaeda terrorist after questioning him extensively for 27 days while being held prisoner aboard a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
"In a humanitarian gesture, the terrorist was given $50 US and a white 1962 Ford Fairlane automobile upon being released from custody.
"The attached photo shows the terrorist on his way home just after being released by the Navy."
The message ends with a photoshopped pic of the subject automobile sailing off the bow of the main deck of a carrier in the vast and choppy sea.
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Here's my reply to him:
Even as a 4-year old stretch, it's a good joke. But I'm far more concerned with domestic catch and release, wherein the cops end up tippy-toe-dancing like Nureyev to avoid, at all costs, accidentally uncovering some un-ignoreable evidence that the perp they have just stopped (or arrested) is a criminal foreign invader ("illegal immigrant," to use the inaccurate vernacular) which discovery, however inadvertent, runs so violently counter to the prevailing "political correctness" (cultural Marxism) of the jurisdiction for which he/she works, that his/her job might well be forfeit.
Consequently, many lesser violations of the law are so flagrantly and openly tolerated, e.g., traffic offenses, that the criminals hardly fear to commit them openly in the presence of law enforcement officers, as long as they make no secret of not being here legally. A "YO ♥ JALISCO" bumpersticker, or amped-up Cumbia blasting from the car stereo works on cops in San Francisco like garlic on vampires in Transylvania. After all "Es mí cultura," dontchaknow?
Entire districts are "allowed" to park in the middle lanes of the street, on the sidewalks, and if our "guests" ever master the art, up on the sides of buildings, for that matter. Graffitti, speeding, drunk driving, illegal voting, and gang rape are simply taken for granted as part of the price we must pay for having them here, for Heaven only knows, housing, food, transportation, medical, education, and legal service subsidies -- to the tune of $20K/family/year -- are hardly enough reward to keep the price of lettuce down where it presumably belongs.
Only murder (of other, ... honored guests, certainly not mere Americans) -- and then even only if committed with ... wait for it ... a gun(!) is heinous enough to warrant uncovering the perp's unfortunate lack of documentation, whereupon his consulate must be notified, and bail (and sometimes, flight to avoid prosecution) arranged.
Lest you think all my distaste is aimed at those native to our nearest southern neighbor, I'll recall for you that in 2005 alone, the Border Patrol (before it was rolled up into the Department of Homeland Insecurity to contain its unfortunate tendency to actually catch invaders) apprehended (and then released -- on their own recognizance[!] and promise to later appear at a hearing[!] to determine their immigration status) -- approximately 79,000 persons from "nations of interest," bureaucratese for Muslim countries, North Korea, and China. Fortunately, that problem has been ameliorated by ordering the remaining BP (now ICE) agents not to stop obviously Asian "visitors" coming across the Mexican (also the Canadian?) border.
I know that if millions of us went to their nations, and behaved as they do when here, we would be lucky to merely be arrested and jailed. So, yes, I like "the Navy's" version of catch and release better than the civilian version. I expect it to become more popular as the sellout progresses. But this one-at-a-time business will need streamlining.
"U.S. Navy releases Al Qaeda Terrorist -
"I can't believe it!
"The US Navy today announced that it has released a senior Al Qaeda terrorist after questioning him extensively for 27 days while being held prisoner aboard a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
"In a humanitarian gesture, the terrorist was given $50 US and a white 1962 Ford Fairlane automobile upon being released from custody.
"The attached photo shows the terrorist on his way home just after being released by the Navy."
The message ends with a photoshopped pic of the subject automobile sailing off the bow of the main deck of a carrier in the vast and choppy sea.
======
Here's my reply to him:
Even as a 4-year old stretch, it's a good joke. But I'm far more concerned with domestic catch and release, wherein the cops end up tippy-toe-dancing like Nureyev to avoid, at all costs, accidentally uncovering some un-ignoreable evidence that the perp they have just stopped (or arrested) is a criminal foreign invader ("illegal immigrant," to use the inaccurate vernacular) which discovery, however inadvertent, runs so violently counter to the prevailing "political correctness" (cultural Marxism) of the jurisdiction for which he/she works, that his/her job might well be forfeit.
Consequently, many lesser violations of the law are so flagrantly and openly tolerated, e.g., traffic offenses, that the criminals hardly fear to commit them openly in the presence of law enforcement officers, as long as they make no secret of not being here legally. A "YO ♥ JALISCO" bumpersticker, or amped-up Cumbia blasting from the car stereo works on cops in San Francisco like garlic on vampires in Transylvania. After all "Es mí cultura," dontchaknow?
Entire districts are "allowed" to park in the middle lanes of the street, on the sidewalks, and if our "guests" ever master the art, up on the sides of buildings, for that matter. Graffitti, speeding, drunk driving, illegal voting, and gang rape are simply taken for granted as part of the price we must pay for having them here, for Heaven only knows, housing, food, transportation, medical, education, and legal service subsidies -- to the tune of $20K/family/year -- are hardly enough reward to keep the price of lettuce down where it presumably belongs.
Only murder (of other, ... honored guests, certainly not mere Americans) -- and then even only if committed with ... wait for it ... a gun(!) is heinous enough to warrant uncovering the perp's unfortunate lack of documentation, whereupon his consulate must be notified, and bail (and sometimes, flight to avoid prosecution) arranged.
Lest you think all my distaste is aimed at those native to our nearest southern neighbor, I'll recall for you that in 2005 alone, the Border Patrol (before it was rolled up into the Department of Homeland Insecurity to contain its unfortunate tendency to actually catch invaders) apprehended (and then released -- on their own recognizance[!] and promise to later appear at a hearing[!] to determine their immigration status) -- approximately 79,000 persons from "nations of interest," bureaucratese for Muslim countries, North Korea, and China. Fortunately, that problem has been ameliorated by ordering the remaining BP (now ICE) agents not to stop obviously Asian "visitors" coming across the Mexican (also the Canadian?) border.
I know that if millions of us went to their nations, and behaved as they do when here, we would be lucky to merely be arrested and jailed. So, yes, I like "the Navy's" version of catch and release better than the civilian version. I expect it to become more popular as the sellout progresses. But this one-at-a-time business will need streamlining.
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