A Lawful Order
Officer Friendly died decades ago, and we didn't even mourn his passing. These days, either as an economy measure, or simply because those "in charge" are as ignorant (or as contemptuous) of the concept of constitutional limits as those they supervise, many police departments are hiring marginally literate bullies, whose only alternate career would be the other (illegal) kind of street thug.
Such a cop is ill prepared to heed (or even to comprehend) the notion that the badge does not automatically legitimize whatever ill-considered command should manage to escape his sneering mouth, however garbled, self-contradictory, or impossible to accomplish, it may be. Once uttered, whatever he managed to say instantly becomes "law," and as such, can never be withdrawn, lest he lose "control" of the situation.
Consequently, they have no compunctions (beyond the supervisory demand for written reports) about immediately escalating to deadly force whenever the subject of their attentions fails to instantaneously acquiesce. They are utterly unprepared to brook even the briefest hesitation, let alone dispute.
"Rights? Hah! I got yer rights, right here in my sidearm, citizen! You don't look like someone who could survive arrest, anyway."
Exercise your rights of course, but know in which jurisdictions to be prepared to be maimed or terminated on the spot for daring to look like you might have been thinking about doing so. Welcome to the USSA!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Continuing the Public Fool System matter: A friend in town replied to my wife: "You are correct that Obama's change will ruin this country. Hope there will be a movement to write in Ron Paul's name."
I answered: "There is such a movement. See: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
Unfortunately, it's probably not big enough ... yet. (These days, it would have to be so big, and its strength so well-publicized, that the commie vote counters couldn't get away with "restructuring" the vote count.) For a pretty good start at explaining why it's not big enough, see: http://newswithviews.com/Stang/alan41.htm.
Many Republicans are as corrupt as the Democrats they complain about, though sometimes they choose different corruptions. But as long as most sheeple in both parties are products of the Public Fool System, it's hard to see how things can be otherwise.
I answered: "There is such a movement. See: http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
Unfortunately, it's probably not big enough ... yet. (These days, it would have to be so big, and its strength so well-publicized, that the commie vote counters couldn't get away with "restructuring" the vote count.) For a pretty good start at explaining why it's not big enough, see: http://newswithviews.com/Stang/alan41.htm.
Many Republicans are as corrupt as the Democrats they complain about, though sometimes they choose different corruptions. But as long as most sheeple in both parties are products of the Public Fool System, it's hard to see how things can be otherwise.
A highschool buddy sent me the following link with his hearty comment: AMEN!!!!!!!
Absolutely right! Yeah, good idea ... let's throw the bums out. If we're the boss, we'd better start acting like the boss....
According to Wikipedia, "[i]n the 2000 Congressional Election, out of the 435 Congressional districts in which there were election, 359 were listed as "safe" by Congressional Quarterly. [4] In all of these 359 there was no uncertainty as to who would win. The results a week later confirmed that very few House races were competitive. The 2000 House election resulted in a net change of only four seats (+1 for the Democrats, -2 for the Republicans, and the electing of an additional independent). In total 98% of all incumbents were reelected, and this was not unusual." (my emphasis)
Sadly, typical. I sometimes have a hard time understanding that voters generally don't lay the blame for bad government at the feet of government ... until I reflect that I was processed through the same Public Fool System -- often by teachers who themselves were similarly processed a generation earlier.
The Public Fool System works far too well. We who are thereby sheepified, "graduate" unable to perceive how little we really understand the actual workings of the political/economic world, unable to recognize when our kids are being indoctrinated, mentally disarmed, and taught to despise learning in general, so that the conditioning is cumulative, becoming almost impossible to overcome. We intellectually blind often do not even suspect how much we cannot see. (Your mileage may vary.)
Since (partially) awakening, I have tried (to almost no avail) to interest my fellow sheepizens to take thoughtful political action (e.g., voting for "unpopular" -- but honest [non-socialist] -- candidates, for or against various ballot measures.) My effort is inevitably outweighed by the Inertia Twins, Apathy and Ignorance. Sheeple vote for names they recognize -- even when the only reason they recognize those names is: that's who shafted them last time around!
Either they're ashamed to admit their mistake, or it's analogous to Aesop's fable about how the mice voted to tie a bell around the cat's neck, so he couldn't sneak up on them. Problem was, they never found a hero-mouse brave enough to volunteer, and they wouldn't team up to do it -- too risky! Oh well! ....
George W. Sockpuppet ("The Decider") is a fitting prez for such a nation. Sadly, his successor will be likewise.
(from the Charlie Reese article) They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.========
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Absolutely right! Yeah, good idea ... let's throw the bums out. If we're the boss, we'd better start acting like the boss....
According to Wikipedia, "[i]n the 2000 Congressional Election, out of the 435 Congressional districts in which there were election, 359 were listed as "safe" by Congressional Quarterly. [4] In all of these 359 there was no uncertainty as to who would win. The results a week later confirmed that very few House races were competitive. The 2000 House election resulted in a net change of only four seats (+1 for the Democrats, -2 for the Republicans, and the electing of an additional independent). In total 98% of all incumbents were reelected, and this was not unusual." (my emphasis)
Sadly, typical. I sometimes have a hard time understanding that voters generally don't lay the blame for bad government at the feet of government ... until I reflect that I was processed through the same Public Fool System -- often by teachers who themselves were similarly processed a generation earlier.
The Public Fool System works far too well. We who are thereby sheepified, "graduate" unable to perceive how little we really understand the actual workings of the political/economic world, unable to recognize when our kids are being indoctrinated, mentally disarmed, and taught to despise learning in general, so that the conditioning is cumulative, becoming almost impossible to overcome. We intellectually blind often do not even suspect how much we cannot see. (Your mileage may vary.)
Since (partially) awakening, I have tried (to almost no avail) to interest my fellow sheepizens to take thoughtful political action (e.g., voting for "unpopular" -- but honest [non-socialist] -- candidates, for or against various ballot measures.) My effort is inevitably outweighed by the Inertia Twins, Apathy and Ignorance. Sheeple vote for names they recognize -- even when the only reason they recognize those names is: that's who shafted them last time around!
Either they're ashamed to admit their mistake, or it's analogous to Aesop's fable about how the mice voted to tie a bell around the cat's neck, so he couldn't sneak up on them. Problem was, they never found a hero-mouse brave enough to volunteer, and they wouldn't team up to do it -- too risky! Oh well! ....
George W. Sockpuppet ("The Decider") is a fitting prez for such a nation. Sadly, his successor will be likewise.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Earth Hour 2008
* Earth Hour 2008:
First Annual North American Burglars’ Invitational Tournament
Monday, March 17, 2008
Preaching to the Choir
Among people who undertstand that the fedgov is really "ripping off" the Citizens, it is common to pass around "horror stories" illustrating the point. Here's one forwarded by a friend:
(I responded:) It angers me as it does you, but to whom would one logically forward it? To other likeminded friends and acquaintances? Are they not usually as aware of this and similar problems as we? I'd rather not waste the bandwidth to remind my friends of something they already know: we are so screwed.
To whom would one logically complain? -- To the beneficiaries? You've just read typical responses from those who come here to "cash in" rather than to "join up." Their numbers are increasing, and "our" government only increases the inducements.
-- To the socialist/communist schools whose brainchild and sustenance this is? Imagine how unhappy they'd be to hear that they're slowly ruining you and undermining your country, when all their adult lives they've been advocating your undoing and the overthrow of your nation (but lacking the cajones to do their own "wet work".)
-- To the socialist/communist/fascist who "represents" me (or you) in CONgress? Oh, that'll get 'em right ... er ... somewhere! They're not THAT stupid. Think they don't appreciate the function of the Public Fool System? Think they don't understand that they've been selling you out since they first got a seat on the Planning Commission? That's how they "earn" the elitist backing to run for office in the first place. If they screw up and give you more than skillfully parsed BS, they'll be out of a job next election.
There's only one thing they do understand, and that's a landslide of votes for someone decent (so they can't "adjust" the vote count in a close election.) Well, there's another ... technique that's ultimately as effective, but it's frowned on in our oversocialized society, though it may eventually become the only realistic alternative. (Read Molôn Labé!, Unintended Consequences, or Enemies Foreign and Domestic, to see how that works.)
It is way too late for business as usual. If you can't afford the time/money commitment to make a new career of fighting well-heeled rats in the political arena (I know I can't), keep your powder dry until the national collapse, and have your bugout bag packed and getaway car fueled. Minimize your "contributions" to their schemes. Make plans for whatever you think is coming. It will.
Watch: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1079.html
Listen to: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1064.html
Something IS wrong ! !
This from a University professor:
This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants to go to school?
One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money left over.
She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training.
The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER country.'
I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for!
I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education.
Something is WRONG HERE, Right?????
Part of the Problem : ? Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is Time for America to Speak!!!
If you agree -- pass this along, if you don't agree -- delete it!
I passed it along..
(I responded:) It angers me as it does you, but to whom would one logically forward it? To other likeminded friends and acquaintances? Are they not usually as aware of this and similar problems as we? I'd rather not waste the bandwidth to remind my friends of something they already know: we are so screwed.
To whom would one logically complain? -- To the beneficiaries? You've just read typical responses from those who come here to "cash in" rather than to "join up." Their numbers are increasing, and "our" government only increases the inducements.
-- To the socialist/communist schools whose brainchild and sustenance this is? Imagine how unhappy they'd be to hear that they're slowly ruining you and undermining your country, when all their adult lives they've been advocating your undoing and the overthrow of your nation (but lacking the cajones to do their own "wet work".)
-- To the socialist/communist/fascist who "represents" me (or you) in CONgress? Oh, that'll get 'em right ... er ... somewhere! They're not THAT stupid. Think they don't appreciate the function of the Public Fool System? Think they don't understand that they've been selling you out since they first got a seat on the Planning Commission? That's how they "earn" the elitist backing to run for office in the first place. If they screw up and give you more than skillfully parsed BS, they'll be out of a job next election.
There's only one thing they do understand, and that's a landslide of votes for someone decent (so they can't "adjust" the vote count in a close election.) Well, there's another ... technique that's ultimately as effective, but it's frowned on in our oversocialized society, though it may eventually become the only realistic alternative. (Read Molôn Labé!, Unintended Consequences, or Enemies Foreign and Domestic, to see how that works.)
It is way too late for business as usual. If you can't afford the time/money commitment to make a new career of fighting well-heeled rats in the political arena (I know I can't), keep your powder dry until the national collapse, and have your bugout bag packed and getaway car fueled. Minimize your "contributions" to their schemes. Make plans for whatever you think is coming. It will.
Watch: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1079.html
Listen to: http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/1064.html
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Why the Fuss About Global Warming?
A highschool buddy asked:
Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The same leftist political stripe of people (in some cases, the identical people, e.g., Paul and Anne Ehrlich) who in the '70s, made a lot of noise about the impending "Ice Age," began screaming in the '90s about "Global Warming." After a few cold years cooled that concept, the greenies began to beat the drum for the latest bugaboo, "Climate Change" (which, if memory serves, is what we unenlightened usually call, "weather.")
Oddly enough, their cure for all three putative ills turns out to be the same: de-industrializing and impoverishing the uSA and its allies, at least down to the level of, say, the Peoples' Paradises of China and Russia. Of course greenies believe themselves to be fighting the (evil) multinational corporations.
Odder than that though, great trusts, controlled by the (same, evil) owners of multinational corporations, names like Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, fund the environmentalist organizations, making it possible for them to afford to harangue politicians, scare the public, etc. Might the multinationals and the enviros share some undisclosed interests? But a politician, however scientifically savvy, who fails to reflect the political conclusions of his/her constituency is not long for the office. And a corporation which fails to be owned by "informed people" is ripe for the takeover.
Of course America’s (relatively) stringent -- therefore expensive -- environmental regulations have done their part, along with inflated wages, to chase the evil manufacturing from American shores, to places like China, Russia, India, so much so, that the only remaining stick with which the enviro-saints can effectively beat their unholy fellow Americans, is that at least so far, most of us have been able to continue purchasing (foreign-made) consumer goods, because the prices have been relatively low. (This will change.)
Of course with all of the voluminous (7,000+ pages, in some cases) "Free Trade" agreements of the past decade, "America's" major industrial corporations were able to make the necessary moves abroad early and profitably, leaving their competitors wondering how they got left behind until they were taken over, the uSA less able to defend itself, Americans less able to keep up payments on the car and house, but overall, less blameworthy for the horrors of climate change (except for the CO2 we continue to guiltily exhale.)
Global warming/climate change is but one of the strategies that have been employed to impoverish America unto bankruptcy. Why would international bankers want to do that? Well, why would they want to have caused the last (Great) depression? the last two world wars? many other smaller ones? How could any of these human tragedies been good for the owners/controllers of multinational corporations?
Well, profits from the sales of armaments, munitions, medicine, and endless rebuilding are great! (Someone once observed that there are two things at the price of which, no one in need ever balks: medicine and ammunition -- life and death.) WWII was a cost-plus orgy, and once we were in it, had to be that way. Nobody wanted to lose. Whether the slimy deals made, and dirty tricks pulled, by certain Americans and allegedly "American" organizations in the years leading up to that war, may have helped to make it "necessary," is another matter.
Moreover, when a great nation undergoes a major depression, tremendous "buying opportunities" are created for those with deep pockets and either (1) fantastic luck, (2) extreme prescience, or (3) inside information. Many great old fortunes were tremendously enhanced in the wartime decade following the "Great Depression."
Over and above the profits to be reaped from wars and from impoverishing people, once a great nation becomes involved in war or bankrupted, major changes in its laws and political structure are far easier to effect, especially by those who knew what to expect, and had a well-developed strategy for how to "play it."
Hegelian dialectic is not merely for forcing a conclusion in a debate. Sufficient preparation brings about an undesireable condition as "thesis," strategic planning offers an equally undesireable opposite condition as "antithesis", impelling the desperate to choose the desired (prearranged) compromise (snare) deal as "synthesis."
Example: A consortium of banks and corporations offers loans for development to Nation X at a hopeful time in its history, temporarily ignoring its shaky economy, promising a bright future for its enhanced export capacities. Once the deal is signed, and the development built, other nations (coincidentally?) put up stiff competition, lowering the price of the exported goods, leading to default on the loan, and resumed (worsened) poverty for Nation X, and disgrace for its overly optimistic leaders. "Not to worry," say the bankers, "We'll refinance the loan on manageable terms, but you'll need to make a few changes in collateral. All of those publicly-owned properties like hydro-electric dams, water-supply facilities, roads, bridges, harbors will need to be 'privatized' (sold to us on favorable terms.) Etc."
In a nation where the people are (a) used to believing that they have a right to say what their government does and, (b) armed, such moves cannot be made too quickly or overtly. Allowances must be made, and plans laid, to fool and/or disarm those who would mount effective opposition. But once a man is forced to focus all of his waking hours on keeping his family housed and fed, he has little time, energy, or money to spend in opposition, especially when he is offered a plausible (if B___S___) explanation for why his former trade must be sent abroad, and his earnings increasingly taxed.
The multinationals have not only not decreased their global output of CO2 ,and pollutants, they've increased them, by moving the production to nations where the energy production is less efficient and dirtier, and emission standards are a joke, if not non-existent. And their profits are just fine, thank you very much. Witness Halliburton's move to Dubai.
The simultaneity and interdependence of (1) the Public Fool System, the world's premiere sheeple factory; (2) the collapse of the dollar and with it, pension plans; (3) the disappearance of jobs paying traditional American wages; (4) the unwritten -- but obvious -- invitation to outlaw border-crossers to become replacement "Americans;" (5) the repeal of ordinary bankruptcy laws; (6) the draconian -- but as yet unused -- federalized/militarized police forces trained in urban warfare, martial law, detention camps; (7) the spying on ordinary people, tracking their finances, and pushing for spychip IDs; (8) the advent of designer diseases, (9) the moves to create a federalized healthcare system wherein once the government refuses to provide care, one has no legal alternative but suffering and death; all could be mistaken as preparatory steps for "instant police state," to someone with a suspicious turn of mind.
Fortunately, I am a trusting soul. I rely on the fact that no such thing has ever happened here before, and am thereby reassured that my imagination has merely run wild for an hour or so. Now, back to the solid reality that is the land of the free and the home of the brave!
I can't figure why the big multinationals need to stop or slow CO2 emissions - it's essential to their profits and their way of life.
It should be obvious that the fuss about the human role in global warming is political - reality doesn't seem to enter into it. And, politicians, world wide, work directly or indirectly (mostly directly) for the multinationals (including drug dealers, who may be also be working for the larger corporations.) So why the fuss about global warming? What am I missing here? Any ideas?
Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The same leftist political stripe of people (in some cases, the identical people, e.g., Paul and Anne Ehrlich) who in the '70s, made a lot of noise about the impending "Ice Age," began screaming in the '90s about "Global Warming." After a few cold years cooled that concept, the greenies began to beat the drum for the latest bugaboo, "Climate Change" (which, if memory serves, is what we unenlightened usually call, "weather.")
Oddly enough, their cure for all three putative ills turns out to be the same: de-industrializing and impoverishing the uSA and its allies, at least down to the level of, say, the Peoples' Paradises of China and Russia. Of course greenies believe themselves to be fighting the (evil) multinational corporations.
Odder than that though, great trusts, controlled by the (same, evil) owners of multinational corporations, names like Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, fund the environmentalist organizations, making it possible for them to afford to harangue politicians, scare the public, etc. Might the multinationals and the enviros share some undisclosed interests? But a politician, however scientifically savvy, who fails to reflect the political conclusions of his/her constituency is not long for the office. And a corporation which fails to be owned by "informed people" is ripe for the takeover.
Of course America’s (relatively) stringent -- therefore expensive -- environmental regulations have done their part, along with inflated wages, to chase the evil manufacturing from American shores, to places like China, Russia, India, so much so, that the only remaining stick with which the enviro-saints can effectively beat their unholy fellow Americans, is that at least so far, most of us have been able to continue purchasing (foreign-made) consumer goods, because the prices have been relatively low. (This will change.)
Of course with all of the voluminous (7,000+ pages, in some cases) "Free Trade" agreements of the past decade, "America's" major industrial corporations were able to make the necessary moves abroad early and profitably, leaving their competitors wondering how they got left behind until they were taken over, the uSA less able to defend itself, Americans less able to keep up payments on the car and house, but overall, less blameworthy for the horrors of climate change (except for the CO2 we continue to guiltily exhale.)
Global warming/climate change is but one of the strategies that have been employed to impoverish America unto bankruptcy. Why would international bankers want to do that? Well, why would they want to have caused the last (Great) depression? the last two world wars? many other smaller ones? How could any of these human tragedies been good for the owners/controllers of multinational corporations?
Well, profits from the sales of armaments, munitions, medicine, and endless rebuilding are great! (Someone once observed that there are two things at the price of which, no one in need ever balks: medicine and ammunition -- life and death.) WWII was a cost-plus orgy, and once we were in it, had to be that way. Nobody wanted to lose. Whether the slimy deals made, and dirty tricks pulled, by certain Americans and allegedly "American" organizations in the years leading up to that war, may have helped to make it "necessary," is another matter.
Moreover, when a great nation undergoes a major depression, tremendous "buying opportunities" are created for those with deep pockets and either (1) fantastic luck, (2) extreme prescience, or (3) inside information. Many great old fortunes were tremendously enhanced in the wartime decade following the "Great Depression."
Over and above the profits to be reaped from wars and from impoverishing people, once a great nation becomes involved in war or bankrupted, major changes in its laws and political structure are far easier to effect, especially by those who knew what to expect, and had a well-developed strategy for how to "play it."
Hegelian dialectic is not merely for forcing a conclusion in a debate. Sufficient preparation brings about an undesireable condition as "thesis," strategic planning offers an equally undesireable opposite condition as "antithesis", impelling the desperate to choose the desired (prearranged) compromise (snare) deal as "synthesis."
Example: A consortium of banks and corporations offers loans for development to Nation X at a hopeful time in its history, temporarily ignoring its shaky economy, promising a bright future for its enhanced export capacities. Once the deal is signed, and the development built, other nations (coincidentally?) put up stiff competition, lowering the price of the exported goods, leading to default on the loan, and resumed (worsened) poverty for Nation X, and disgrace for its overly optimistic leaders. "Not to worry," say the bankers, "We'll refinance the loan on manageable terms, but you'll need to make a few changes in collateral. All of those publicly-owned properties like hydro-electric dams, water-supply facilities, roads, bridges, harbors will need to be 'privatized' (sold to us on favorable terms.) Etc."
In a nation where the people are (a) used to believing that they have a right to say what their government does and, (b) armed, such moves cannot be made too quickly or overtly. Allowances must be made, and plans laid, to fool and/or disarm those who would mount effective opposition. But once a man is forced to focus all of his waking hours on keeping his family housed and fed, he has little time, energy, or money to spend in opposition, especially when he is offered a plausible (if B___S___) explanation for why his former trade must be sent abroad, and his earnings increasingly taxed.
The multinationals have not only not decreased their global output of CO2 ,and pollutants, they've increased them, by moving the production to nations where the energy production is less efficient and dirtier, and emission standards are a joke, if not non-existent. And their profits are just fine, thank you very much. Witness Halliburton's move to Dubai.
The simultaneity and interdependence of (1) the Public Fool System, the world's premiere sheeple factory; (2) the collapse of the dollar and with it, pension plans; (3) the disappearance of jobs paying traditional American wages; (4) the unwritten -- but obvious -- invitation to outlaw border-crossers to become replacement "Americans;" (5) the repeal of ordinary bankruptcy laws; (6) the draconian -- but as yet unused -- federalized/militarized police forces trained in urban warfare, martial law, detention camps; (7) the spying on ordinary people, tracking their finances, and pushing for spychip IDs; (8) the advent of designer diseases, (9) the moves to create a federalized healthcare system wherein once the government refuses to provide care, one has no legal alternative but suffering and death; all could be mistaken as preparatory steps for "instant police state," to someone with a suspicious turn of mind.
Fortunately, I am a trusting soul. I rely on the fact that no such thing has ever happened here before, and am thereby reassured that my imagination has merely run wild for an hour or so. Now, back to the solid reality that is the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Where I'm Coming From
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.
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.
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