overpopulation coupled with irresponsible, trash-producing lifestyles and the mindset called "herd mentality",
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There ARE too many people, and as Melville put it, they are a mob of useless duplicates, and they are involved in living the false-god-worshipping lifestyle of the American Consumer, complete with their traid of sacraments: Denial; Sprawl; and Trash.
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he thinks there is nothing *wrong* with piling up the trash on the planet's surface or accumulating more wealth than his forebearers deemed necessary.
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the FSP may unknowingly be attracting the deluded wannabes who've failed to find their own inner sovereignty and inner freedom already, which is what I think should be the qualification displayed before anyone should be accepted into the FSP.
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never wondering about what the next generation shall face in the wake of their cakewalk through a plastic, false lifestyle
Whew!
Well, I guess I should be grateful that you're not judgmental !
There are "too many people," huh? Shall we hazard a guess as to who will be the one to determine which ones are "useless duplicates"? What does one do with "useless duplicate" people?
I'll stand next to 'bug when they line up the ones guilty of "accumulating more wealth than his forebearers deemed necessary." If not guilty by the act, I'll certainly be guilty of conspiracy to break that law!
If the FSP were foolish enough to adopt a test, whether administered by the likes of Mr. Alias or anyone else, to determine which ones had "failed to find their own inner sovereignty and inner freedom already" we'd all know that freedom was truly dead, or that FSP had caught some of those nasty facist cooties wafting north from the DC swamp.
The degree of hatred and bigotry in this rant is quite remarkable, particularly considering the politeness I've generally encountered in the forum.
Clearly, free people everywhere need always watch their back as well as their front. To find this kind of poison posing as talk about freedom is sobering indeed.
I guess I'll do the best I can to be free in my "cakewalk through a plastic, false, lifestyle."
Peace,
Silver
(Please note: I reserve the right to edit this post after it is placed into the thread. Thanks.)
Howdy, Silver,
Thank you for reminding me to keep an eye on my feet. Before I address your points I would like to tell you that I've read a number of your posts on a few threads here at the boards, and everything I've read to date by you has been wonderfully clear and enjoyable reading. I have personally found that your postings here are refreshing, individualized in a seamless manner, accurate, and indicative of an intelligence I readily respect. I gratefully appreciate your additions to the consciousness, or contents thereof, to these boards, and have not found to this date any reason within my own mind to challenge anything you've written. I just wanted to say that to you before I look into your notes on my discourse with the worry-bug.
Yes, I've been testy with the worry-bug. Actually, I've been testing that guy, in hopes of inspiring him to test his perceptions. But please allow me to note with you that I like something about the worry-bug; that I sense behind his zeal for pursuing his vision of freedom an *intent* which is certainly honorable, if somewhat diluted by his intrinsic fascination for the material "reality" as he calls it. I bear no ill will whatsoever toward the worry-bug. I have been challenging him, however, to question with very difficult questions the very tenets upon which his view of freedom relies. That has not been done with malice or hatred or resentment, and I'm sorry if I came across that way to you and other readers here. I actually like the worry-bug, and am glad to see his voice operating at these boards too. One thing which I appreciate about him is his resiliency, which denotes a depth of character. I like well-formed character, and our adamant little worry-bug seems, to me, to have a good store of that stuff. Yet character itself can be infused with misperceptions, errors, and/or downright illusionment. I'm hopeful that the worry-bug will gain from my proddings and promptings the motive for requiring of himself the trait of "thinking outside the box".
Next, I'd like to state again very clearly that I support the FSP, that I think the FSP is a wonderful and worthwhile project, that I am grateful to Jason Sorens and his officers---sans, as I've just learned, the work of Mary Lou Seymore---for creating the FSP and devoting so much of their lives toward the fulfillment of the FSP's goals. Also, I do think the FSP can be very successful. I recently obtained a copy of Alex Jones' film "Matrix of Evil", which contains Jones' fifteen-minute address to the Mayor and City Council of Austin, Texas on the subject of why the City of Austin, Texas, should get on record by passing a resolution against the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001. (After Alex Jones' tirade, which itself is very moving, even gripping, the City Council of Austin, Texas did pass a resolution banning the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001 in Austin, Texas, joining thereby over four hundred other cities and townships and counties which have done likewise.) Therefore, I, in watching that fifteen minute diatribe by Jones as he stood before Austin's City Council with a full crowd of citizens present, am very encouraged in seeing that a group of inspired citizens can still, in this country, have an effect upon the mechanism of encroaching national governance.
When I rant on message boards about personal liberty, sovereignty, and freedom, I would hope that any reader who chances upon my rants understands that America is laboring already under a militarized police state which itself is but the domestic arm of a campaign for, in Brzezinski's words, "American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives"; in other words, the establishment of the Global American Empire.
My focus, and that of The Mental Militia, is firstly, primarily, at the Global level and upon those players who move the powers on that level. You see, whatever the globalists of the New World Order have up their sleeves bears most-serious and immediate implications for the lives of all Americans and their respective local communities. Doodoo rolls downhill, if you please. What is downhill from global empire is the demise of national sovereignty for every nation-state, domestic region, township, city and rural sector, which gets suckered, forced, coerced, levered, tempted, or conquered into the global empire. Should the PNAC boys and the highly-criminal Cheney-Bush Junta get their way, which so far they're getting, we'll soon see the demise of all foreign nation-states' sovereignty, as well as the sovereignty of the USofA. This goal is stated, declared openly, by the CFR, the Trilateral, the Bilderberger group, the PNAC, the IMF/World Bank, and a host of other pillars of Empirism presently under the control of a very few "houses" (families). Those international banking families print the money, own the banks, and own the national debts of all those nation-states who's names adorn the membership rosters of the United Nations. Their ownership of such intangibles means but one thing for Americans---slavery. For readers who do not understand that clearly yet, I'll give it here in one of their champion's words:
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"Although America's international preeminence unavoidably evokes similarities to earlier emperial systems, the differences are more essential. They go beyond the question of territorial scope. American global power is exercised through a global system of distinctively American design that mirrors the domestic American experience. Central to that domestic experience is the pluralistic character of both the American society and its political system.
"How the United States both manipulates and accommodates the principal geostrategic players on the Eurasian chessboard and how it manages Eurasia's key geopolitical pivots will be critical to the longevity and stability of America's global primacy. In Europe, the key players will continue to be France and Germany, and America's central goal should be to consolidate and expand the existing democratic bridgehead on Eurasia's western periphery. (TMM note: that would be, of course, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan) In Eurasia's Far East, China is likely to be increasingly central, and America will not have a political foothold on the Asian mainland unless an American-Chinese geostrategic consensus is successfully nurtured. In the center of Eurasia, the space between an enlarging Europe and a regionally rising China will remain a geopolitical black hole at least until Russia resolves its inner struggle over its post-imperial self-definition, while the region to the south of Russia---the Eurasian Balkans---threatens to become a cauldron of ethnic conflict and great-power rivalry.
"In that context, for some time to come---for more than a generation---America's status as the world's premier power is unlikely to be contested by any single challenger. No nation-state is likely to match America in the four key dimensions of power (military, economic, technological, and cultural) that cumulatively produce decisive global political clout. Short of a deliberate or unintentional American abdication, the only real alternative to American global leadership in the foreseeable future is international anarchy. In that respect, it is correct to assert that America has become, as President Clinton put it, the world's "indispensable nation".
"It is important to stress here the fact of that indispensability and the actuality of the potential for global anarchy. The disruptive consequences of population explosion, poverty-driven migration, radicalizing urbanization, ethnic and religious hostilities, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction would become unmanageable if the existing and underlying nation-state based framework of even rudimentary geopolitical stability were itself to fragment. Without sustained and directed American involvement, before long the forces of global disorder could come to dominate the world scene. And the possibility of such fragmentation is inherent in the geopolitical tensions not only of today's Eurasia but of the world more generally.
"The resulting risks to global stability are likely to further increase by the prospect of a more general degradation of the human condition. Particularly in the poorer countries of the world, the demographic explosion and the simultaneous urbanization of these populations are rapidly generating a congestion not only of the disadvantaged but especially of the hundreds of millions of un-employed and increasingly restless young, whose level of frustration is growing at an exponential rate. Modern communications intensify their rupture with traditional authority, while making them increasingly conscious---and resentful---of global inequality and thus more susceptible to extremist mobilization. On the one hand, the rising phenomenon of global migrations, already reaching into the tens of millions, may act as a temporary safety valve, but on the other hand, it is also likely to serve as a vehicle for the transcontinental conveyance of ethnic and social conflicts.
"The global stewardship that America has inherited is hence likely to be buffeted by turbulence, tension, and at least sporadic violence. The new and complex international order, shaped by American hegemony and within which "the threat of war is off the table", is likely to be restricted to those parts of the world where American power has been reinforced by democratic sociopolitical systems and by elaborate external multilateral---but also American-dominated--- frameworks.
"An American geostrategy for Eurasia will thus be competing with the forces of turbulence.
"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues , except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely-perceived direct external threat."
Taken from pages 24; 194 and 195; 211 in "The Grand Chessboard" by Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission for David Rockefeller, trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations, imminent buddy of Henry Kissinger, among other dubious "honors". Copyright 1997; Published by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, New York, ISBN: (paperback) 0-465-02726-1.
Please note that Brzezinski wrote this in 1997, published it in 1998. At that time, the CIA went into Uzbekistan and other Eurasian states in force. The British support divisions were put on alert and began to form for their deployment into the region four years later in October, 2001. U.S. battle fleets were brought online off the coast of Pakistan. And al Qaeda with bin Laden at the helm was set on course by the CIA for the events of 911. THAT is some of what Bush knows and refuses to reveal to the families of 911 victims as they sue and posture for access to PDBs afforded Bush by U.S. Intelligence prior to 911. Ossama bin Laden is a CIA creation; his al Qaeda was funded, transported, trained, paid, and given marching orders by CIA under Brzezinski's, G.H.W. Bush's, Bill Clinton's, and many others' watches. 911 was the globalists' answer to the question of how to "fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues".
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So, Silver, we have on the one hand a quest for global Empire which is published, announced, and is being actively facilitated by the Cheney-Bush Junta. That arm of the Empire is engaged in establishing footholds on Eurasia's western borders, which include Afghanistan and Iraq. And on the other hand we have Ashcroft's (and the entire Federal mechanism's) assault on personal liberty and freedom here in the United States of America. In addition to the USA PATRIOT ACT of 2001, we also have the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the coming Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 (written last year but not passed into law as of this writing) and the two VICTORY Acts. They *HAVE* to control us in order to "fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues". That means: American Empire, its primacy, and its geostrategic imperatives. They know already that general anarchy is the only response which might come from the very peoples which this grand plan shall enslave into the Corporate Dynasty's operation, and they are willing to waste literally millions of peoples world-wide in order to establish this Empire. They are willing to take America into the status of being a cashless society, forbidding "money" both theirs and ours. They are willing to mandate the national ID card. They are willing to control who may "buy and sell". They are willing to implant all of us by force with under-the-skin microchips. They are willing to use technology, bio/chem attacks, the threat of terror, confiscation of property, reallocation of residential grids. They are willing to re-educate in FEMA camps those dissenting voices such as are found on boards like this one. They are willing to do whatever it taks to entrench their Empire as the final reality, even if they have to hit us with yet another "terrorist" attack such as the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 or 911, both examples being now known to have been at least in part *facilitated* by agencies of the Federal government. Expendable individuals also include nice folks who dare not rock the boat of economic largesse.
The momentum of American hegemony, the velocity of the establishment of Empire, means that we're now, presently, running out of minutes to avert it. Severe actions are in order. Radical solutions are required. It is my thinking that Bush has to be impeached and removed along with his entire Cabinet. The Federal Reserve System, Inc., has to be disbanded and the task of printing the nation's money supply has to be brought back into Federal offices at the U.S. Treasury. (note: President Kennedy signed an Executive Order to do just that mere months before he was shot.....which is NOT to say that that was the only reason Kennedy was assassinated by CIA, of course, but it is an interesting point.) We are going to have to eliminate the clandestine sections of CIA and return CIA to its original mission, which is ONLY the collection and analysis of intelligence. We are going to have to rescind all secret treaties involving troop-transfers between nations. We are going to have to do a lot of very serious things, as a people working together, which will seriously overhaul the way this present imposter government administers itself upon the people. We may have to give up some creature comforts, some luxuries, some financial padding, maybe even some of our lives, in order to fight this monster. THAT is what I've been preparing Mr. Worry-bug to conceive. At present, he seems to be looking through a condition which we used to call "tunnel vision", at his beloved "reality", which, btw, would belie the fact of causation from external zones, outside the physical, but that's a point I'll direct to the worry-bug in another post. When this mechanism establishes the police state openly, above-ground, for all to see, feel and know, the FSP and any individual who once cared about financial security, the little guy living week-by-week, paycheck-to-paycheck, as well as the upper-middle class and even the quasi-wealthy, all of us are going to have everything confiscated in the name of national security. Income taxes? Think in terms of more than eighty-percent of gross income, and the "right" to make an income at all will first be approved or withheld by the government, if this mechanism is not stopped in its tracks right now.
How dire is it? Well, the Commanding General of the Central Command, the brassy dude who coordinated the 'liberation' of Iraq last year for the Empire, General Franks himself, puts it this way:
"It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important."
You see, Silver, these bastards *know* what they're doing, how they will accomplish their goals, and the target of their industrious energies is the individual American "citizen" who might object. THAT present and demonstrated attitude by those who ride at the helm of our ship of state is undebatable. Can you agree with me on that much?
Okay. So much for setting the stage on which I'd like to address your observations in exchange. Thanks for reading so much just to get to this....
Silver: Well, I guess I should be grateful that you're not judgmental !
Elias: Actually, I'm quite judgmental, but my judgements are always passive by nature, kept deliberately to the confines of exchanged words, debates, arguments, explorations of mentality. I have not shot anyone I "judged" since Viet Nam.
Silver: There are "too many people," huh? Shall we hazard a guess as to who will be the one to determine which ones are "useless duplicates"? What does one do with "useless duplicate" people?
Elias: You would hardly fathom the voluminous nature of the stack of pages your query here elicits in my old head just now. I could write some books, at least, on the over-population situation and how over-population catalyzes the plight of today's libertarian individual. But the notion is not original with me, as someone else on this thread noted, so I can't take credit for its discovery. I can, and shall, however, ask you to note the source of my screed regarding "useless duplicates". I took that phrase from traditional American literature, namely from the book "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, which he dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Published by Signet, New American Library, New York; no ISBN in the edition which I own.) Here is the exact quote, from back in 1851. Chapter 107. page 441:
"Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary."
Now that I've shown that the notion of "unnecessary duplicates" derives a century and a half prior to my using the phrase, and in fact is embedded in a novel which is often considered by scholars and academicians and readers world-wide to be among the top five American works of literature ever produced, perhaps you'll forgive me for drawing from that book in my assault upon the worry-bug's complacency and generalized habit of denial. But now, let's look at the content of your reply to my use of that phrase.
First, you seem to announce with alarm that I somehow implied or stated that somebody should "be the one to determine which ones are "useless duplicates". Silver, that ain't my cup of tea. I did not state that someone, or anyone, should or ought to make such a decision. I understand how the mind can make that leap from what I did say to what my comment *may* imply, but I assure you that I am Voluntaryistic and libertarian in my view of life, and do NOT initiate aggression or force on anyone or upon anyone's property. I do know exactly what you're getting at by implying that since I said the masses are comprised of a "mob of useless (unnecessary) duplicates", someone, therefore, would be needed to ajudge the select exceptions and dispose of the rest. I however am not an authoritarian in any way. I own no one, seek to own no one, and I steadfastly refuse to "order" anyone around, whether it be what someone "thinks" or what someone "does", either in the metaphysical realms or in the worry-bug's corporeal consensus natural Newtonian "reality". But you may wish to reflect with extreme gravity upon this one thing: if there were only you and myself upon this continent, with no others present, there would be absolutely no need for government, would there? Of course not. It is only when the available lands are overpopulated that some perception for a need for governance arrives. As Lao Tzu put it twenty-five hundred years ago, "When mankind lost sight of the way to live, came codes of law and order".
However, despite my knowledge of the just reasons to never interfere with the life or property of any other mortal man on earth, I suggest that it is not toward "me" that your, and the bug's, disapproval might best be directed. I am but a messenger, and well do I know that the message I bring is somewhat less than pleasant. I have removed myself, and my support, from the mechanism which dreamed up the message. That is all. You see, the elite of the New World Order HAVE reached Melville's conclusion regarding the nature and intrinsic value of the masses, and they HAVE devised a plan for reduction of over four billion souls from the world's gross population. I often wonder, daily, whether Americans are capable of seeing what the encroaching police state shall furnish into their presently-enjoyable lives. Slavery to a corporatized State is going to be much more severe than people seem to grasp at present. All the while Mr. Greenspan and Company assure us that all is hunky-dory, the ravages of fiat-money-printing, debt-based economic pillars, and abused "credit" are bound to come home to roost whenever the "rob Peter to pay Paul" syndrome exhausts its momentum and Americans are left standing agape at the collapse of the fraudulently-derived "economy". Prior to such a startling view being permitted to finally dawn upon public consciousness, the globalizing socialist bankers who are robbing America and every other productive nation shall drop that iron net of military-police totalitarian martial-law rule over our every movement, over our very lives.
We're talking assignment of careers, placement of all residences, confiscation of all personal property, suspension of habeas corpus, military tribunals and executions, severe punishments for diversions from the prescribed lifestyle as admonished by the State, a prison-based economy, internal passports, tons more "permits and licenses" for everything, state-sponsored interference between parents and children, mandatory service to government (see the article on my website which lists the links for the Senate and House versions of bills already existing in Congress mandating re-enactment of the Selective Service --the *draft* -- for ALL citizens between the ages of 18 and 26, both female and male, for military service AND for other duties in the name of Homeland Security---these bills are already written, and have been introduced into Congress, and are currently being reviewed by the Pentagon), government control over all communications, government control over all transportation, government control over all health-care services, government control over all food distribution and consumption, government control over all Feducation, government control over all monetary transactions, government control over all 'family planning', and on and on the list runs. These observations are more than the wiles of my wondering imagination. The infrastructure for every one of these aspects of a police state already exists in an amazing array of Executive Orders, secretly-passed "stealth legislations" (thanks, Claire, for that term), and Presidential Decision Directives, among other Fedgov vehicles for pressing authority and control over the 'useless duplicates'. I'm on your side, and on the worry-bug's side. I am not seeking political power, am not seeking to control anyone, am not seeking to "judge" who "should" or "should not" be allowed to live their natural lives on this earth. That is not my nature, nor would such an approach be acceptable to me under any circumstances. I value freedom of the individual, period. But I'm not in a state of denial about the simple logistics of over-population, and I'm damned sure that EVERY American needs to confront this causal source of the acceleration of both governmental power and proxemic implications. Were the masses not financing governmental power, there would be no need for a Free State Project in the first place, now would there? Since there IS a perceived *need* for a FSP, there is obviously already in place the perception, shared by more than five thousand freedom-loving Americans, of the *need* for the FSP. What is the FSP trying to avoid? Isn't it trying to avoid being controlled by government? Isn't it trying to avoid becoming slaves to a "system" put forth by those financial interests which pull the strings on which our governmental offices dance? But to move along here....
Silver: I'll stand next to 'bug when they line up the ones guilty of "accumulating more wealth than his forebearers deemed necessary." If not guilty by the act, I'll certainly be guilty of conspiracy to break that law!
Elias: And I'll be right there in that trench with both of ye. I'm already there, in fact. But unlike the worry-bug, I have willingly sacrificed the goodies of the system, having closed a damn retail jewelry store which I co-owned for eight years prior to discovering what ails this nation and moving to the mountains of Montana for to fight the beast. I fight to protect the bug's *right* to property and to the accumulation of the fruits of his moral and righteous labor, mentality, and will. I did, however, realize a few years ago that I would need necessarily to close that store and give up my comfortable life there in order to fight against the murder and robbery which this government's leaders presently intend for all of us. Call me a fool. But as I have hinted elsewhere, I've had three businesses, one of which was a sub-chapter corporation; I've paid employer's taxes on my employees' paychecks; I've had the BMW, the frequent rounds of golf with millionaires, the nice home, the money, all the bennies this false system provides to those who are willing to accept their freedom on a leash. When I relinquished all that, I did so willingly, happily, and in full knowledge of the hardships which would inevitably accompany my decision. I did NOT, however, ask anyone else to walk in these shoes with me, preferring to alot my friendships and company among those who already had seen what I see in and of their own accord. But please do not ask me to sit down and shut up about what I see happening to America. Hopefully, my nudging of the worry-bug will some day afford him, if only in reflection upon previous discussions and concepts, the inner vision which would fortify his vision of freedom and enable him thereby to take positive and meaningful action on liberty's behalf. If the cat can come to see what I'm trying to get across to him, he'll become a powerful force in the liberty movement. For you, personally, I see nothing to offer you. You strike me as being a fully-awakened individual, and a fluently graceful one at that. That is why I've not picked on you anywhere at these boards. Truly, I've not disagreed with anything of yours that I've chanced to read here. So please know that I'll be breaking that law right alongside you and the bug, and in fact, already am. Y'all apparently just haven't noticed that the law is already evolving into the horrid reality I'm trying to describe in this post. But rest assured, the face of this beast isn't far from revealing itself in an absolutely undebatable format.
Silver: If the FSP were foolish enough to adopt a test, whether administered by the likes of Mr. Alias or anyone else, to determine which ones had "failed to find their own inner sovereignty and inner freedom already" we'd all know that freedom was truly dead, or that FSP had caught some of those nasty facist cooties wafting north from the DC swamp.
Elias: If you prefer not to call me "Elias", I like "General Elias" better than I like "Mr.". Thanks.
Now, to touch on this note by yourself briefly, I repeat that I am not in the business of judging individuals. If my language here implies that I do intend to judge people, it is only because I am not representing my mentality properly with my choices of words.
Silver: The degree of hatred and bigotry in this rant is quite remarkable, particularly considering the politeness I've generally encountered in the forum.
Elias: I would like to suggest that actually, if one were to go back and re-read my words to the worry-bug, one would not find hatred or bigotry among my comments and statements. There is a starkness, a lean-ness, an assertiveness, and a taunting challenge to the bug to re-evaluate his premises in some areas of his portrayed cosmogony. The only thing I "hate" is governance by force, i.e., slavery. What you're construing to be "hatred and bigotry" is merely my rudeness and crudeness, and I do think that I can finally explain *why* I have used that tone in approaching Mr. Worry-bug. Please understand that I have a purpose in my selection of the "tone" of my discourse with him. But to fully define my motive for dealing with the worry-bug in that tone would over-burden this already too-long screed, so I'll await a specific request, at which time I'll treat that matter on another posting sans all the foregoing of this one. I do not hate people. I am not a bigot, except perhaps when it comes to Fedgov, for which I have ample research and historic prompts (I.e., corruption and conspiracy against free people) which give rise to my bigoted resentment of Fedgov.
Silver: Clearly, free people everywhere need always watch their back as well as their front. To find this kind of poison posing as talk about freedom is sobering indeed.
Elias: I submit that you will never find a more loyal co-fighter for liberty than myself, and that I stand right alongside you and the bug in our mutually-seen fight for liberty. I'm on your side, Dude, and I'll not knife you in the back, physically OR psychologically. When I chance to see incoming fire, however, I'll be quick to alert anyone else sharing a bunker with me. I know how war is done, and I believe that we're presently in a war which has yet to be declared; there is a reason I speak to the worry-bug the way I do. I'll bet you one drink at a Montana Saloon that the worry-bug shall some day thank me for rattling his cage. Time shall show all.....
Silver: I guess I'll do the best I can to be free in my "cakewalk through a plastic, false, lifestyle."
Elias: Well, not to fan dying embers too much, but I wonder if you'll also admit that your present lifestyle is totally dependant upon fossil fuel, electricity, and technology? If there IS a dependency by the American public on such things, so that in the absence of such things the infrastructure of survival and health vanishes, at such a time my words to bug will take on a new shine. It is exactly the addiction to government, fossil fuels, debt-based economic platforms, and mass-media mind control which is foremost on the government's collective mindset. As is being evidenced in Iraq and Afghanistan, this power-group will do ANYTHING to keep the American SUVs rolling, to keep the plastic coming, to keep the myriad consumables, video games, sports paraphenalia, drugs, media output, insurance scams, portfolios, social and cultural mores and morays, laws and regulations, taxes, subtle and not-so-subtle coercions, coming and remaining in place so that people never have to worry about the precarious little limb on which their precious industrial revolution has placed them. All I am saying is that for thousands of years, mankind made do with much less, and while there were some features of that more bleak existence which I'm as glad as are you to see vanish into history, I judge that the price we're paying for creature comforts, convenience, and constitutional concessions is greater than the services rendered back to us by that system which is controlled and regulated by Fedgov. For a few examples consider that suicide and divorce rates, the family-unit's integrity, and general stress levels have produced within society an unacceptable series of symptoms which suggest, shout, that something is not quite right in Denmark. An addict is an addict. At present, America is addicted to fossil fuels and an industrial base which itself is dependant upon Americans' drive for "more", for consumption. Consumption is a known killer, ya think?
But it's not just me. Here's this, written by a really fine friend, a brave and eloquent lady of liberty:
"To reach Hardyville, you must grind your way up to Lonelyheart Pass, then slither on ice into the Great Brown Valley. If you know where to look, you'll find the ghost town of Lost Fortune crouched at the foot of the grade. But this time of year, it's best not to stop. From Lost Fortune, count 4,387,004 sagebrush bushes and you'll find yourself at the one-and-only stoplight in the middle of nowhere -- Hardyville.
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"As the snow drives down from Lonelyheart Pass, shutting us off even more tightly from the outside, I know Dora and I are thinking of all the advantages we lack.
No stock exchanges, sushi bars, Furbys, frequent fliers or FBI agents. No bureaus, block grants or Friends of Bill Clinton. No major leagues, no Junior League, no malls, boutiques, department stores or mega-corps. No Red Robin, Red Lobster or Whoppers. No rush hour with choppers reporting traffic-on-the-nines. No Versace, Gucci, Ralph Lauren or Calvin Klein. No personal trainers, credit jewelers, street gangs, liposuckers, homeowners associations, post-modern architecture, deconstructivist intellectuals, PC committees or Lexus dealers. No arbitragers, executive producers, multinational millionaires, multi-level marketers or media stars. Ronald McDonald, Bill Gates, Bill Bennett, Ralph Nader, Martha Stewart, Dr. Ruth and Dr. Laura are all somewhere, far away, beyond the forbidding hills. We are on our own here.
It's a bleak life. But somehow we will survive.
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Originally published at WorldNet Daily:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=14079 It is perhaps disconcerting for us all to face the fact that today's society is totally dependent upon an infrastructure which is so fragile that it requires the establishing of a global Empire in order to keep social foundations functioning. Whatever their lies regarding establishing "Democracy" in every nation-state this Empire intends to dominate, the truth is that more than seventy percent of the world's known remaining energy resources are to be found in the 'Stans of Eurasia, and to keep their positions of power, the bankers who own our government and their go-to boys on Capitol Hill will never cease with their military enforcement of ownership of Eurasian energy. I know my message is harsh, but as Catherine Austin Fitts has so sweetly observed, "If we can't face it, God can't fix it."
Thanks for your reply. I'm sorry I came across with such vehemence. Now that you have read into my perspective somewhat, I trust you'll see more accurately that I was not trying to defile the polite environment of these boards, and that I was not trying to decimate or destroy the worry-bug.
Salute,
Elias
