This blog is concerned with the economic crisis and imminent economic and social collapse, survival after such a currency crisis in which the dollar and other fiat currencies become useless. Libertarian and Austrian School of Economics viewpoints with smaller more responsive government that represents the people and protection of individuals rights. See my older posts for important survival and preparedness information.
What we are seeing is the result of
what happens to a people that have allowed a large corruptible system
to take care of us for the supposed good of the many. We have given
up our own authority over ourselves and placed it in the hands of
people who are often bribed by those seeking favor and influence to
our detriment. We cling to the hope that those who claim to lead us
will solve our many human problems but instead we have given them the
power to send armed men to our homes if we do not comply to the
demands of others we do not agree with.
They say the road to hell is paved with
good intentions and it truly is. Most of what we have done has been
because we all truly care about each other. We empower our police to
enforce seat belt laws yet they have used this simple thing as a tool
to generate money and abuse their authority over the free choice of
adults. We give them the authority to keep us safe from badly
produced food yet they allow large multibillion dollar corporations
to poison us with additives, chemicals and genetic modifications that
adulterate the natural world for the profit of others yet small
family farms are locked up for selling whole unpasteurized clean milk
to people that choose to drink it.
We allow the might makes right
mentality and corporate profits to fill our foreign policy and wonder
why those in foreign lands hate us as people and find ourselves
counting the bodies of our brave soldiers being sent home in boxes to
protect our so called freedom. Terrorism is a symptom and one man's
terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Yet the government who we
look to to solve humanities woes brings us closer to an inevitable
extinction.
The answer is personal freedom and self
accountability. No one should tell you what to do if you are an
adult, no licenses or permits required. Allowing everyone to pursue
their own definition of life liberty and happiness is all we need
with the only limitation being that in doing so you do not infringe
on those rights for another. The only job government should have is
not that of player but of referee that provides an impartial stage
for us, the players, to govern ourselves. You are innocent until
proven guilty and only a unanimous impartial jury of 12 can convict
you. No more corporate protections making CEOs unpublishable for
negligence, incompetence or criminal intent under the umbrella of
corporate law, No special privileges given to banks that allow them
to create money out of thin air and impoverish a world in debt. No
more meddling in the sovereign affairs of nations who's people must
decide their own fate. Equal individual freedom, opportunity and
responsibility regardless of wealth, color, or difference.
Nature does not have a top down system
but a bottom up system yet their is total harmony in nature. Every
organism plays a role and pays the price for error in nature. Learn
from nature.
Many will think this is absurd and
humans need to be regulated or need a central governing body that
tells them what to do and what to think for their own and the greater
good. To them I say look at all the current systems we have now from
Corporatism, Fascism, democracies, communism and socialism and ask
yourself if any of these systems is really working? Their common
problem is allowing others to have control over the individual This
nation has never really experienced true freedom because it's people
have, early on, allowed the government to interpret their rights for
them instead of interpreting our rights for ourselves. Slavery ended
at the realization that "All men are created equal" yet
someone said black folks. Indians, Asian weren't entitled to that
right. Never allow someone else to interpret your rights for you.
Imagine if anyone could start a
business or venture without a license or permit? how many jobs would
be created? Prices would fall, quality would rise as a result of open
competition. Imagine if everyone knew if they hurt someone or
defrauded them that they would be held criminally responsible? Being
held responsible has a habit of making people much more careful and
honest.
Any questions give me a buzz at newamericanow@ymail.com
With the way that things are heading in this country, it is not surprising that there are approximately 3 million preppers in the United States today. What is surprising is that there are not more people prepping. The economy is rapidly falling to pieces, the national debt is absolutely soaring, the earth is becoming increasingly unstable, a major war could erupt in the Middle East at any time, and the fabric of our society is coming apart right in front of our eyes.
We have become incredibly dependent on technology and we have become
incredibly dependent on our economic system. If a major natural
disaster, a killer pandemic, an EMP attack or the imposition of martial law caused a significant transportation disruption, America would literally change overnight.
We live during a time of tremendous global instability, and yet most
people still see no need to start prepping at all. Most people just
continue to have blind faith in our leaders and in our system. But what
happens if our leaders fail us? What happens if our system collapses?
What are they going to do then?
The number of preppers
in the United States today is steadily increasing, but the vast
majority of people out there still see no reason to start getting ready
for "the end of the world as we know it". Most people just assume that
things will always somehow get better or that they will somehow be
immune to whatever calamities are heading our way. Most people always
seem to have a "good excuse" for why they do not need to prepare.
The following are the top 50 excuses for not prepping....
1. "The U.S. Economy Is The Greatest Economy On The Planet - There Is No Way That It Could Ever Collapse"
2. "Once Barack Obama Wins The Election Everything Will Be Better"
3. "Once Mitt Romney Wins The Election Everything Will Be Better"
4. "When Things Get Really Bad The Government Will Take Care Of Us"
5. "When Disaster Strikes I Will Just Steal From Everyone Else That Has Been Busy Preparing"
6. "The Rapture Will Be At Any Moment So I Don't Have To Worry About Prepping"
7. "The Economy Has Always Recovered After Every Recession In The Past And This Time Will Be No Different"
8. "The People That Are Running Things Are Very Highly Educated And They Know Exactly What They Are Doing"
9. "Wal-Mart Will Always Be There"
10. "Our Politicians Are Watching Out For Our Best Interests"
11. "The 2012 Apocalypse Is Almost Here And We Are All Doomed Anyway - So Why Even Try?"
12. "Preppers Do Not Have A Positive Mental Attitude"
13. "If An Economic Collapse Comes I Will Just Go On Welfare"
14. "There Are Some Things You Just Can't Prepare For"
15. "Prepping Is Too Expensive"
16. "We Are Not Like Other Countries - U.S. Cities Are Designed To Withstand Major Earthquakes"
17. "I Need To Save Up For Retirement Instead"
18. "The Stock Market Has Been Soaring So Why Worry?"
19. "I Don't Have Room To Store Anything"
20. "Prepping Is For Crazy People"
21. "I Don't Believe In Conspiracy Theories"
22. "All The Food I Store Is Going To Go Bad"
23. "I Would Rather Spend My Time Watching American Idol"
24. "All The People Who Freaked Out About Y2K Look Really Foolish Now, Don't They?"
25. "I Don't Want To Look Like Those Idiots On 'Doomsday Preppers'"
26. "An EMP Attack Could Never Happen"
27. "There Will Never Be A Nationwide Transportation Disruption In The United States"
28. "Instead Of Being So Paranoid, I Would Rather Just Enjoy Life"
29. "If Society Falls Apart I Wouldn't Want To Continue To Live Anyway"
30. "There Will Never Be Another World War"
31. "I'm Too Lazy To Grow A Garden"
32. "If You Assume The Worst Is Going To Happen Then You Don't Believe In America"
33. "Deficits Don't Matter"
34. "I'll Always Be Able To Get A Job In My Field"
35. "If There Is A Financial Collapse All Of My Debts Will Be Wiped Out So I Might As Well Live It Up Now"
36. "If Things Hit The Fan I Will Just Go Move In With My Relatives Who Have Been Busy Prepping"
37. "Those That Believe That There Will Be Massive Riots In American Cities Someday Are Just Being Delusional"
38. "My Spouse Would Think That I Have Finally Lost It"
39. "I Don't Know Where To Start"
40. "I'll Just Deal With Problems As They Arrive"
41. "I Don't Have To Prepare For A Natural Disaster - That Is What FEMA Is For"
42. "We'll Never See Martial Law In The United States"
43. "I Don't Want To Scare My Children"
44. "Once I Get Rid Of All My Debt Then I Will Start Thinking About Prepping"
45. "My Relatives Already Think That I Am A Nut Job - I Don't Need To Make It Any Worse"
46. "If People At Work Find Out That I Am Prepping It Could Hurt My Career"
47. "If There Really Was A Good Reason To Prepare They Would Tell Us About It On The News"
48. "People Have Been Predicting Doom And Gloom For Years And It Hasn't Happened Yet"
49. "The United States Is The Greatest Nation On Earth - There Is No Way That It Could Collapse"
50. "I Don't Plan On Becoming A Card Carrying Member Of The Tin Foil Hat Brigade"
A useful place for Americans to stand is with the US Supreme Court in one of its most cited decisions that concluded anything passed as law in obvious violation of the US Constitution is not law, but void. Void as a legal term means the alleged “law” has zero legal force; that “void things are as no things.”
A 3-minute video asks police, military, and other law enforcement: When you signed-up to serve the US Constitution, was your Oath sincere?
US military are authorized by their Oath of Enlistment and training to refuse unlawful orders, with officers authorized to arrest those who issue them.
Given that US wars are unlawful because
the US is treaty-bound to only use our military if under attack by
another nation’s government, all current war orders are unlawful and
should be refused. Military of civilian “leadership” who issue such
orders should be arrested to immediately stop War Crimes.
Our peaceful and lawful 2nd American Revolution points to other “emperor has no clothes” obvious void laws and criminal acts:
control-drown/waterboarding anyone dictated as a “terrorist” despite all US and international case law finding this to be torture,
NDAA 2012 and 2006 Military Commissions Act that state a president can dictate any person as a “terrorist suspect,” and then disappear them without challenge,
presidential executive order saying the US government can seize any resource, any person, at any time for “national defense.”
US agencies’ official reports that show all “reasons” for war on Iraq were known to be false as they were told that are unacknowledged by the 1% and not prosecuted.
all “reasons” for war on Iran are easily and objectively proven as also false as they are being told in the present, yet the 1% continue to lie for war.
tripling of the US national debt since 2001 while we ignore obvious solutions to create money for full-employment and infrastructure investment (here, here, for examples). Pushing Americans into debt-slavery rather than using money is financial fraud.
the King Family civil trial
found the US government guilty for the assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr. The King family’s conclusion of motive was to prevent Martin’s
“Occupy DC” for the summer of 1968 until the Vietnam War was ended and that funding directed to ending poverty. The 1% never acknowledge this.
Here is the US Supreme Court’s ruling (my parenthetical notes and emphases):
The powers of the Legislature are defined
and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the
Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to
what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits
may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained? The
distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is
abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are
imposed ...
Between
these alternatives (limited and unlimited government) there is no
middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law,
unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary
legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the
legislature shall please to alter it.
If
the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act
contrary to the Constitution is not law; if the latter part be true,
then written Constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people
to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
Certainly
all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as
forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and
consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of
the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.
...
So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and
the Constitution apply to a particular case, ... those, then, who
controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered in
court as a paramount law are reduced to the necessity of maintaining
that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution, and see only the
law.
This doctrine would subvert
the very foundation of all written Constitutions. It would declare that
an act which, according to the principles and theory of our government,
is entirely void, is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. It would
declare that, if the Legislature shall do what is expressly forbidden,
such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality
effectual. It would be giving to the Legislature a practical and real
omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their
powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and declaring
that those limits may be passed at pleasure.
That
it thus reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvement
on political institutions -- a written Constitution, would of itself be
sufficient, in America where written Constitutions have been viewed
with so much reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar
expressions of the Constitution of the United States furnish additional
arguments in favour of its rejection.
... Why otherwise does it direct ... an oath to support it? This
oath certainly applies in an especial manner to their conduct in their
official character. How immoral to impose it on them if they were to be
used as the instruments, and the knowing instruments, for violating what
they swear to support!
The oath
of office, too, imposed by the Legislature, is completely demonstrative
of the legislative opinion on this subject. It is in these words:
I
do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to
persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will
faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as
according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to
the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Why
does a judge swear to discharge his duties agreeably to the
Constitution of the United States if that Constitution forms no rule for
his government?
... If such be the real state of things, this is worse than solemn
mockery. To prescribe or to take this oath becomes equally a crime.
It
is also not entirely unworthy of observation that, in declaring what
shall be the supreme law of the land, the Constitution itself is first
mentioned, and not the laws of the United States generally, but those
only which shall be made in pursuance of the Constitution, have that
rank.
Thus, the particular
phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and
strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written
Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and
that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument
(the US Constitution).
Carl Herman is a National Board Certified Teacher in economics, government, and history. His
conclusions are explained and documented in these two articles
(academic/professional voice, and more passionate citizen voice):
"Timid
men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
There
is immense
confusion about the nature of the State.
There is even more bewilderment about what constitutes a patriot. Any
discussion
in the civic realm begins with a cultural
viewpoint. An attitude toward the proper role of the individual’s
relationship
with government based upon one’s value system
and interpretation of civil order is natural. One man’s patriot
is another man’s traitor. Where do you stand
on the sentiments behind the penning of the below ideas? Quiz yourself
and see if you can figure out the name of the
author. The quotes
assembled
in this essay illustrate that government
officials and agencies would put the critic on a terrorist watch list.
Read each
and compare if the thought behind the passage
agrees with your value system or if the attitude is too extreme for
mainstream
politics in today’s America. If left up to
the national security apparatus, the author would be on a wanted poster,
labeled as the Number One Enemy of the State.
Imagine the
government’s
response for advocating a society that
promotes Liberty. Tolerating grievous radical expressions like these
examples is dangerous.
Consider the outlooks.
"I would rather be exposed to
the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." "What
country can preserve its liberties if its
rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the
spirit of
resistance?" "It
is better to tolerate that rare instance
of a parent’s refusing to let his child be
educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible transportation
and education of the infant against the will
of his father." "It
is strangely absurd to suppose that a million
of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws
which
bind each of them separately."
Many
people complain
about government but most consent to the
dictates of authority as a required acceptance of citizen obedience. How
many times
have you heard the viewpoint it is your duty
to act in compliance with the law as the price of a civilized society?
The vast
majority obeys whatever regulation or edict
comes their way. This fact keeps the system functioning. The standards
set forth
for your submission often evolve, but people
learn to adjust. Pushing
the envelope of the acceptance quotient
varies in intensity, but seldom does government retreat. The state is
the final judge
of acceptability, because force is the
ultimate weapon of threat for disobedience. Ruling regents restrain,
ignore or discard
eternal indivisible rights if a conflict
exists with the interests of the state. Freedom can be a very
treacherous opponent
for a municipal establishment. You
can just hear the opposition to the
next series of quotes. The idea that natural
law permits all legitimate authority is downright radical and inhibits
the living
Constitution.
"No
man has a natural right to commit
aggression on the equal rights of another,
and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." "The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength,
and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." "To
compel a man to furnish funds for the
propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and
tyrannical." "The
two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie
the second
down with the chains of the Constitution so
the second will not become the legalized version of the first." "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot
sleep forever."
Governments
pursue greater influence
and range of regulating behavior. As the
state grows the tentacles of reach expands. Challenging this trend risks
acceptance
and imposes penalties. Torturing the meaning
of fairness, the state uses all the muscle of intimidation and brute
coercion,
to justify public acceptance of the methods
used to gain conformity. Testing
the limits of government forbearance is an
act of courage that most shy away from undertaking. Open confrontation
is chastised
as behavior of a delinquent subject.
Confiscation of individual wealth for the greater good champions the
supreme sacrifice
that transforms into the shared cost of being
part of the great government governance. Conferring
legitimacy and respect for government
programs and policies is the criterion of a loyal national. Deviating
from symbolic
recognition and deference must signify that
the person is hostile to the good works of public sector. Advocates that
express
dissent are tabbed as agitators and threats,
calculated to challenge the survival of the state. The
role of government amplifies as the drumbeat
of the welfare clause vibrates to the inner soul of the nation. This
group of
citations adds fuel to the fire that the
writer is an enemy of the state.
"Experience
hath shewn, that even under the best forms
(of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
operations,
perverted it into tyranny" "I
predict future happiness for
Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care
of them."
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than
is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." "The
democracy will cease to exist when you take
away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would
not." "A wise and
frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another,
which shall leave them otherwise free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not
take from
the mouth of labor and bread it has earned.
This is the sum of good government."
Resistance
to government abusive authority qualifies the
opponents of the regime as outlaws. Envision claiming that government
can become
a tyrant and implying that revolt is
justified. Advocating acts of rebellion and equating an ethical mandate
surely qualifies
the essayist as a foe of the government. Self-defense
and individual
autonomy disturbs the state. The
all-encompassing scope of government involvements and intrusions claim
that such practices,
warranted for the public good, are valid.
Challenging this omniscient authority qualifies one as an antagonist of
the sovereign
master. Disputing
the entrenched submission to the state as an instrument
of rule is perilous to the magistrates.
Punitive prosecution of indignant protestors must be a prime directive
of the state.
Granting access to the corridors of power and
rule to the generator of the next thoughts is unthinkable. Allowing
these words
to influence the population is dangerous.
Such ideas desecrate the purity of government genuineness.
"The
spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions
that I
wish it to be always kept alive. It will
often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at
all."
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep
and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." "When
wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality."
By
now, you should have a good idea who wrote all these quotations. Many
complacent Americans
are uncomfortable with the spirit and intent
of this wisdom. The ageless insights apply as succinctly as when they
were first
uttered. These words disturb many cowardly
peons, who abdicate their self-dignity by willingly pronouncing their
allegiance
for the state, especially when the conduct
based upon coercion and dependency is the norm. The
state is the enemy, when authorities assault
individual liberty and embrace collectivism. The sage of these quotes
would be
demonized as a rebel and unelectable in
today’s "PC" environment. Secure in his place is history, the current
political class often rejected the origins
and truth in the ideas. The
Democratic Party has strayed a very long way
from their anti-federalists beginnings. The most avid voices of
condemnation
and dismissal in the message of the verses
shout out for an all controlling and omnipresent government. Therefore,
the call
for limited government is a primary reason to
label followers of the intrepid author as enemies of the state. In case
you
have not figure out the authorship yet,
review the Solitary Purdah essay and discover the answer. America
is in deep trouble because the country has
lost its way and people scorn their heritage. Instead of cherishing
sound principles
and universal values, the population has
embarked on a self-destructive rush for fallacious gratification. In
order to continue
the decadent orgy of debt and entitlements,
dependants swear fidelity to the state, deny their natural birthrights,
and avoid
intrinsic responsibilities. Will you adopt
the proud title – Enemy of the State? On the other hand, will you
continue
to aid and abet the downfall of the nation
and keep saluting a despotic dictatorship? Source
of quotations 1, 2SARTRE –
May 6, 2012
"Of
liberty I would say that, in the whole
plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our
will. But rightful
liberty is unobstructed action according to
our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I
do not
add 'within the limits of the law,' because
law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the
right of
an individual." Number ONE Enemy of the State
In a riveting interview on TruNews Radio,
Wednesday, private investigator Doug Hagmann said high-level, reliable
sources told him the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is
preparing for “massive civil war” in America.
“We have problems . . . The federal government is preparing for civil
uprising,” he added, “so every time you hear about troop movements,
every time you hear about movements of military equipment, the
militarization of the police, the buying of the ammunition, all of this
is . . . they (DHS) are preparing for a massive uprising.”
Hagmann goes on to say that his sources tell him the concerns of the
DHS stem from a collapse of the U.S. dollar and the hyperinflation a
collapse in the value of the world’s primary reserve currency implies to
a nation of 311 million Americans, who, for the significant portion of
the population, is armed.
Uprisings in Greece is, indeed, a problem, but an uprising of armed
Americans becomes a matter of serious national security, a point
addressed in a recent report by the Pentagon and highlighted as a
vulnerability and threat to the U.S. during war-game exercises at the
Department of Defense last year, according to one of the DoD’s war-game
participants, Jim Rickards, author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis.
Through his sources, Hagmann confirmed Rickards’ ongoing thesis of a
fear of a U.S. dollar collapse at the hands of the Chinese (U.S.
treasury bond holders of approximately $1 trillion) and, possibly, the
Russians (threatening to launch a gold-backed
ruble as an attractive alternative to the U.S. dollar) in retaliation
for aggressive U.S. foreign policy initiatives against China’s and
Russia’s strategic allies Iran and Syria.
“The one source that we have I’ve known since 1979,” Hagmann
continued. “He started out as a patrol officer and currently he is now
working for a federal agency under the umbrella of the Department of
Homeland Security; he’s in a position to know what policies are being
initiated, what policies are being planned at this point, and he’s
telling us right now—look, what you’re seeing is just the tip of the
iceberg. We are preparing, we, meaning the government, we are preparing
for a massive civil war in this country.”
“There’s no hyperbole here,” he added, echoing Trends Research Institute’s
Founder Gerald Celente’s forecast of last year. Celente expects a
collapse of the U.S. dollar and riots in America some time this year.
Since Celente’s ‘Civil War’ prediction of last year, executive orders
NDAA and National Defense Resources Preparedness were signed into law by
President Obama, which are both politically damaging actions taken by a
sitting president.
And most recently, requests made by the DHS for the procurement of 450
million rounds of hollow-point ammunition only fuels speculation of an
upcoming tragic event expected on American soil.
These major events, as shocking to the American people as they are, have taken place during an election year.
Escalating preparatory activities by the executive branch and DHS
throughout the last decade—from the Patriot Act, to countless executive
orders drafted to suspend (or strip) American civil liberties “are just
the beginning” of the nightmare to come, Hagmann said.
He added, “It’s going to get so much worse toward the election, and
I’m not even sure we’re going to have an election in this country. It’s
going to be that bad, and this, as well, is coming from my sources. But
one source in particular said, ‘look, you don’t understand how bad it
is.’ This stuff is real; these people, the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), they are ready to fight the American people.” TruNews‘
Wiles asked Hagmann: who does the DHS expect to fight, in particular?
Another North versus South, the Yankees against the Confederates?
Hagmann stated the situation is far worse than a struggle between any
two factions within the U.S.; it’s an anticipated nationwide emergency
event centered on the nation’s currency.
“What they [DHS] are expecting, and again, this is according to my
sources, what they’re expecting is the un-sustainability of the American
dollar,” Hagmann said. “And we know for a fact that we can no longer
service our debt. There’s going to be a period of hyperinflation . . .
the dollar will be worthless . . . The economic collapse will be so
severe, people won’t be ready for this.”
Source: Full TruNews interview, May 2, 2012.
The concept of government power is a strange and complex cipher. The existence of governments has always been predicated on assumptions of necessity, but few societies have ever truly considered what those necessities might be. What is government actually good for? What do they do that is so important? And, what happens when a government fails in the roles and duties that a culture deems vital? We tend to view government as an inevitability of life, but the fact is, government is NOT a force of nature, it is a creation of man, and it can be dismantled by men just as easily as it can be established.
In America, many people see government as an extension of the Republic, or even the source, and an animal that feeds at the behest of the common citizen. An often heard argument against the idea of drastic change or even rebellion within the establishment system is the assertion that the government “is us”. That it is made of Americans, by Americans, and for Americans. That there is no separation between the public, and the base of power. This is, of course, a childish and fantastical delusion drawn from a complete lack of understanding as to how our system really operates today. How many people out there who make this argument really believe at their very core that they have any legitimate influence over the actions of the state? I wager not many…
At bottom, to cling to the lie that the government as it stands is a construct of the people is an act of pure denial designed to help the lost masses cope with underlying feelings of utter powerlessness.
Unfortunately, the U.S. government has shown clearly through word and action that its concerns are not with the average American, and that its loyalties rest with decidedly smaller and more elite interest groups. When elections once meant to dissuade political abuse become a false paradigm tool for the maximization of tyranny, have we not lost our voice as a society? When any government decides it is no longer concerned with the freedom and prosperity of a nation, no matter how righteous that government claims to be, we MUST, as citizens, ask ourselves whether that government is still useful to us, and what kind of power it should be allowed to wield. It is a dereliction of our duty not just as Americans but as human beings to simply treat government as a realm outside of our control or concern. It is lazy. It is dangerous. It could very well be disastrous. Government should answer to us, now and forever.
As the new millennium stampedes forward, however, it appears that the intended roles of the American dynamic have been reversed. The progression of the past decade has seen a hailstorm of legislation and executive orders that impede personal liberties and erode Constitutional protections in place for centuries. So many trails towards totalitarianism have been blazed recently that it is becoming difficult to track them all, and yet, I do not think many in our country have asked themselves what this means to their future. What kind of rights are you ready to hand over to government? How many aspects of your life should the establishment be able to dictate? How much freedom are you willing to give away?
While pondering these questions, each man and woman should also take into account the powers that those in government THINK they deserve. What have they asked for lately? What have they taken without permission? Here is just a short list of the more detrimental declarations of authority attempted over the past decade along with the pieces of legislation and executives orders used to make them “all legal”…
The Power To Invade Your Privacy
The U.S. government has long held at least a private belief that it should be allowed access to every aspect of a citizens personal life. In the past, the excuse of criminal suspicion was a standard rationalization, but this expanded beyond the targeting of individuals to broader surveillance of the populace as a whole with the advent of the drug war. Financial records especially became subject to government perusal without warrant and generally without any criminal charges filed.
This trampling of the 4th Amendment over a fabrication of a “war” on substances that by all rights should be legal anyway was just a taste of what was to come. With the explosion of the war on terror (another fabricated conflict), the application of mass surveillance became standardized. The Patriot Acts and the FISA bill, both upheld by so called “Republican” and “Democratic” presidents, have opened the door for centralized electronic spying in the name of “national security”. Never before has the world seen such an unbridled assault on the private lives of common citizens. The big brother grids of the Soviet era are child’s play compared to the data mining of the 21st century, and this tyranny is made possible by the marriage of government and corporate interests, working in tandem to ensure an ever tightening net.
The usual ill conceived debate point for such surveillance is the claim that it is “for the greater good”, for our own safety, and that if we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear. It is not uncommon for slaves to embrace the loss of privacy in the name of safety, even if that feeling of safety is an illusion, but, in the end, whether we have something to hide is none of the government’s concern. In a true Republic, innocent until proven guilty is a paramount ideal, and this ideal cannot exist in a country where everyone is treated as a suspect at every moment of every day. No politician, no corporate body, no president, no alphabet agency in existence is exalted enough to play the all seeing all judging eye of god. This kind of power in the hands of an organization whose sole purpose is self preservation and expansion at any cost? Absolutely unacceptable!
The Power To Silence
From the DHS, to the private Federal Reserve, to Google and Facebook, the tides of opinion and social observation are being tracked, catalogued, and flagged for future intervention. With active programs now in place to identify and isolate negative online criticism of these institutions as well as to marginalize freelance web journalists and more mainstream media icons with a strong voice, the general public is finally beginning to see what we in the Liberty Movement have been warning about for years: http://abcnews.go.com/US/dhs-creates-fake-accounts-monitor-social-networks/story?id=15247533#.T2mCinkkU3E
The invasion of privacy is merely the first step in the process of silencing dissent. If the citizenry is put in a position in which they know they are constantly being watched, they may decide to censor themselves to avoid possible retribution. In fact, the destruction of free speech has always been accomplished in history first by the target population itself. Terrified of real and imagined consequences, people begin to filter their own views, until a single harmless and homogenized collective voice forms.
The near miss of SOPA legislation has proven as well that the government hopes to one day be able to summarily vaporize internet outlets based on whatever guidelines they see fit to apply. It also showed that the American public is not going to roll over while this occurs. I think it safe to say that the internet is the very last bastion of free speech in the world, free from filtration, bureaucratic meddling, and corporate vampirism. SOPA was a test case. New and more subversive methods will arise, and shutting down the web as we know it will be a number priority for our government for the foreseeable future.
“Free speech zones” aside, protest is becoming far more difficult in this country. Less-than-lethal devices like tasers, rubber bullets, tear gas, sound cannons, microwave guns, etc. have “humanized” the act of government violence against peaceful protest, but the effects of violating the 1st Amendment are the same. Add to this the use of Fusion Centers to coordinate armies of riot cops with the help of the DHS, the FBI, and even the military, and you have a high grade goon machine constructed to undermine the people’s right to redress grievances. It has become obvious that this government not only wants to stifle your ability to affect change through electoral means, but it is also determined to make sure you can’t openly complain about being muscled out of the political process either. The Power To Financially Destroy
Of course, much of the economic distress that we suffer today was generated by the corrupt activities of the Federal Reserve (a privately controlled banking cartel) and global financing conglomerates like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, however, the government’s complicity in these activities cannot be denied. It was the Congressional repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act that gave international banks the ability to derivitize massive numbers of mortgages and create the ongoing implosion of the housing bubble. It was the SEC that turned the other cheek for years while credit fraud flooded markets and ratings agencies gave AAA status to toxic and basically worthless assets. It is the U.S. government to this day that defends the Federal Reserve’s nonstop quantitative easing, the destruction of the dollar, and increased deficit spending driving our nation even deeper into debt. The passage of the bailouts despite an 80% opposition from the public sent a stark message; the government does not care what you think about the economy, and will do what it pleases, even if it means destroying your means of fiscal survival. The Power To Imprison Without Trial
The NDAA is truly a perfect representation of the kind of power the government would like to have over the people, no questions asked. The Obama Administration’s half hearted promises to not use the provisions of the legislation to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial are little comfort, especially when one considers that the man has not kept a single positive promise since taking office in 2008. Frankly, I would have slightly more respect for the president (which isn't much) if he had the guts to come out and admit what the language of the NDAA clearly states; that American citizens can and will be designated as enemy combatants under the rules of war, and that anyone, regardless of citizenship, can be labeled a “terrorist” for any reason by the executive branch.
I suppose the one good side-effect of the passage of the NDAA is the level of awakening going on in the American public to the direction our country is taking. Not to mention, the scrambling that political representatives now have to do to cover themselves and explain away their support for the draconian measures.
For those who do not grasp the ultimate goal of this kind of legislation, the NDAA seems outlandish, or insane. But, in a certain light, it is perfectly logical. A government that seeks totalitarian control is REQUIRED to remove the protections that a jury trial affords, otherwise, it cannot function in the manner it desires. If a person is given the opportunity of a jury by his peers, this takes the ability to criminalize out of the hands of government and places it in the hands of a third party. Just as in the economy, the globalists who stand at the helm of our country would very much like to centralize law. This means removing all checks and balances from the equation. In the name of national security, Washington D.C. considers all things possible… The Power To Kill Without Trial
Another program supported by both Republican and Democratic presidents, the ability to assassinate American citizens without trial based on mere accusations from the executive branch is a highly useful tool for tyranny. Over the past couple years the questions have always been; how far do they plan to take this policy, and, will they try to use it against American citizens on American soil? These questions have been indirectly answered by FBI head Robert Mueller when he tried to dodge them in a recent hearing:
Mueller’s claim that he is “not sure” if Americans can be assassinated on U.S. soil is the same as an admission that this is at the very least being considered. Given the legaleze wrangling that both Mueller and Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder have tried to implement in rationalizing the use of assassination, I find it hard to fathom that anyone would NOT expect they would use the policy for Americans on home turf. The power to kill or imprison without trial is expressly forbidden by Constitutional law and the Bill of Rights. Such abuses were the primary cause of the Revolutionary War, yet, here we are again, dealing with the same murderous reasoning with a slightly different face. The Power To Militarize
Federal fusion centers and funding for local law enforcement has irreparably damaged state and county objectivity and opened the door to a steady diet of anti-liberty propaganda for police officials across the nation. Some eat it up, some don’t. However, the issue here is one of intention. Why does the federal government feel the need to arm divisions of local law enforcement with automatic weapons, predator drones, and even tanks? Why is Congress going out of its way to free up FAA regulations to allow police organizations unprecedented access to predator drones, up to 30,000 by 2020, for use in civilian airspace? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=all
Why does the DHS suddenly need 450 million rounds of .40 cal ammunition from ATK?
And why has Obama quickly and quietly signed the Executive Order for National Defense Resources Preparedness? Though many will claim the order only rehashes such continuity of government policies seen in older programs like Rex 84, I find it a bit disconcerting that our government suddenly feels the need to rehash Rex 84 powers at all! http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
The order is a claim to eminent domain, not just over land, but over every resource imaginable in the face of a “national emergency”. Using military force, all goods, services, and property, can be confiscated in the name of support for military and governmental logistics. In an article written in February titled “The DHS Defends Globalism, Not America”, I warned that Janet Napolitano’s language of supply chain protection and resource allocation could only be supported by the pilfering of goods from one place to feed another:
Now we see that this was indeed the intention all along. Given that the John Warner Defense Authorization Act allows the president to declare a national emergency and martial law for almost any reason at any time without oversight from Congress for at least 6 months, the possibility of vast programs of resource confiscation becomes much more likely.
The power to militarize a culture at will, and to force that culture to work and produce in the name of the state and the benefit of the state is perhaps the most terrifying power of all. It is, for all intents and purposes, the power to enslave. What Has Our Government Become?
Really, who needs terrorists when you have a government like ours? If it is the widespread destruction of the principles that founded our society that you fear, then the last enemy you need worry about is the Muslim boogie man. The greatest threat to our way of life is an institution that has always operated right under our noses and acted with impunity sheltered by the very borders it is tasked to defend. It is the only group in existence that has the resources, the military backing, and the proven intent to undermine liberty in America. It is the supreme threat to individual freedom in the world today. And, the worst irony of all is that it commits every one of its crimes in our name.
So, there comes a point when we have to decide what kind of respect this brand of monstrosity deserves? It would appear that the government, or at least root elements of it, see the American people as the enemy. And why not? We are, in the end, the only force on the planet in a position to deconstruct the machine, so it only follows that we find ourselves locked in its crosshairs. We have not been given much choice. The only decision left to make is one within each individual. How much do we really need the system, and how much pain and horror are we willing to endure to satisfy its insatiable hunger? Where will we finally draw the line…?
Looming up in front of us like some ghoulish malevolent giant, is the prospect of mankind having to endure the devastation of a 'Third World War'.
An event, should it come to pass, would pit brother against brother, sister against sister, 'faith' against 'faith', ideology against ideology, nation against nation and all of it together against the continuation of life on Earth.
The forces covertly operating to bring this Third World War about will not be in the direct line of fire, but a long way off, comfortably ensconced in leather chairs in the plush offices of high-ranking officialdom. They made their plans many years ago and the Third World War is a keystone in bringing these plans to fruition.
These individuals come from countries well practiced in historical and modern empire building and share a 'special relationship' whose vision of the future completely excludes the great majority of us. We do not feature on the planet they see ahead of them, except as slaves to whatever activities they may wish to pursue. To them, we are essentially 'dispensable'.
Those who would perpetrate this plan have already prepared their underground bases to survive the destruction they propose to unleash upon this world. We will not be invited to join them there either, except a few carefully chosen minions to manage the technologies that keep this underworld functioning and those who serve their daily needs. It is a very exclusive 'club'.
The master plan involves certain nations being sacrificed to the cause. Those nations will have their populations wiped off the map and most of their history with them. The fact that they are nations situated in key geographical areas that hold extraordinary historical records of great importance to an evolving humanity – is not coincidental. The timing of this Third World War is not incidental either. Its perpetrators have long since noted the approaching changes at the universal macro-cosmic level which will directly affect Earth. They have noted that energies associated with these changes might work against them, especially if humanity were to embrace them unhindered.
So they set their clocks to ensure that this particular alarm will go off at a time designed to obscure the relevance of the simultaneously unfolding macro-cosmic event. And to draw the attention of mankind away from that which aids the evolution of its consciousness – and towards that which ensures its further victimization.
We are, according to the manipulators of this scenario, not supposed to know that we have a choice. We are not, of course, supposed to ever recognize what their game is, or what our real potentiality is. We are not supposed to know that we have the power to stop this Third World War from ever happening.
The procedures which have been put into effect to ensure that humankind remains in a state of non-awareness are many and varied. Many, which are quite deadly underneath, look innocuous enough on the surface and remain accepted by the majority as necessary aspects of the standard routines of daily life. Others are less easily received and even resisted; but few amongst us comprehend the fact that they all belong to one underlying plan of repression, control and domination.
The financial and material resources employed to keep the lid on humanity's awakening depend entirely upon the unconscious majority fulfilling their role as unstinting providers. Providers of both the energy and the money to keep in place all the elements of the control system. The 2012 London Olympic games are to provide a perfect smoke screen for the further imposition of this control system.
There are to be some 35,000 police and troops on hand to impose 'lock down London' and the lock down will not be relinquished when the event is over. It has its complementarity in the heart of Europe where plans for a totalitarian superstate are nearing completion. And since bankers and 'security agents' feature strongly in the mix which constitutes 'the club' standing behind these impositions, it is not too difficult to guess where the 'missing billions' of recent banking scandals ultimately lands up.
In summary: unless we take conscious action to withdraw our support from the system, the Third World War will be sponsored by we the people, freely and at times grudgingly, donating our energy, our money and even our brain power to our own self destruction.
That is – so long as we continue our refusal of consciousness and avoid seeing what is staring us in the eye almost every day of our lives. And that state of refusal, of course, is exactly what 'the club' wants maintained.
As the Occupy Movement has discerned: it is the 1% who hold power over the 99%; and in all other circumstances 99% would certainly hold the whip hand over 1%. But while the majority of the 99% remain dumbed down, docile and divided, they remain easy prey to the 1%.
In a state of semi-sleep most can be hypnotically induced to accept the political lies and distortions that contrive to place in our minds an unimpeded acceptance of the 'inevitability' of a Third World War. A war which would constitute a big step down the road to the end of the human race.
Seven Steps to Defeat the Matrix and End War:
Now please take a deep breath. This is no idle threat dreamed up by an amateur prophet; it is a reality and one which is being revealed by more and more awaking individuals daily. We are getting a handle on the great lie being perpetrated against humanity and we have had enough. We are going to put an end to it. It is perfectly possible for us to make sure the Third World War never happens.
The first step in doing so involves breaking the spell that 'the club' employs the mass media to hold us under. Just on the other side of the television set and the Sunday newspaper lies the road that leads to the end of war and the beginning of freedom … if we want to take it. But 'freedom' is not achievable without an effort; a real effort. It is not achieved by prayer or by meditation, although both can support it. Neither is freedom simply the removal of a state of oppression. It is a direct and determined statement of intent to put in place a better world and to take the actions that give expression to this intent: physically, mentally and spiritually.
The second step is to use this intent to challenge, unmask and expose corrupted authority by refusing to go along with its life inhibiting demands and revealing its ideology to be fundamentally false. The accompanying action to this involves withdrawing support for the military-industrial complex which is the foundation of the war machine.
This means taking pragmatic, practical steps. Start by taking your money out of the mainstream banking system and putting it into ethically oriented banks that do not support the weapons industry and the war machine, but do support benign enterprises and human-scale creative initiatives.
The third step is to trace how the arteries of war are spread throughout the veins of our consumer society. How everyday acts of aggression, suppression and control are the elements that fuel corporate domination in today's globalized market place.
How today's (and yesterday's) education system encourages all the wrong instincts in young minds: the urge to be 'competitive', 'successful' and to achieve the exclusivity of status which guarantees the top positions and highest salaries in the matrix.
How deliberate human, animal and ecological exploitation are rife within the supermarket-dominated food chain.
How the same deliberate exploitation is equally rife within the money system, the medical profession, the pharmaceutical industry, the housing market, the political and legal system, the family, marriage and in the church.
Join the dots and see how the same underlying 'war' symptoms are at large in all these and more.
The fourth step is to seek out others who are also endeavoring to bring about positive change. Keep company with such individuals; mutual support, cooperation and encouragement is crucial in overcoming the war state which relies on divisions and incriminations to keep society weakened, fractious and self absorbed.
The fifth step involves moving out of the city and into the country. That's a big one isn't it? However, the only alternative is to be part of a major greening of the city and this may not be possible to achieve within the short time span available to us. The need is to transition away from the crass consumerist 'supermarket syndrome' and establish links with local food and farming operations that can provide fresh and nutritious foods grown in the proximity of your home.
It also means starting to grow your own chemical-free food, saving water and introducing renewable energy systems to heat your home and to cook with. Reasserting authority and self-reliance over your home is an excellent starting point from which wider fields of resistance can grow.
Step six is about re-educating yourself. Re-educating yourself to be able to recognize the behavior patterns and appearances of oppressors, posers and infiltrators, for they are many and often move with great guile and cunning.
Once one is true to oneself, one can spot those who disguise their intentions behind falsehood and flattery. The process of re-education also involves dedicating serious time to researching and exploring the phenomena which stand behind events often portrayed by the mainstream media as the precise opposite of what they really are.
Step seven: grow your own spiritual and creative powers! This is a very personal process because there are many different pathways leading to creative and spiritual awakening. Each individual needs to find his or her own right of passage and feel comfortable with it.
However, a prerequisite for becoming a conscious human being is the recognition that this state is not something external to ourselves which we try to draw down; rather it is a force which lies dormant within us and simply needs awakening. Much of the process of this awakening involves shedding the protective layers we have built around ourselves as a form of extra persona, deemed necessary to get along in this distorted modern world. Beneath the mask of this persona lies a great wealth of creative spiritual potential just longing to be allowed to shine forth.
This potential is the quality most feared by our oppressors. This is because it has the power to render their control system and war agenda completely powerless. It is the one force capable of freeing humanity from the state of funk which holds millions in hypnotic captivity to a consumerist indoctrination which lies at the heart of our present society's ills.
In order to renounce war we have to do far more than just come out onto the streets waving anti-war placards. We have to vibrate with an unswerving passion to defend Life to the very end. Once so empowered, nothing can stand in the way of a process of planetary transformation which will cut off the arteries of war at their base and render those who stand behind its grotesque atrocities powerless to pursue their dark agendas.
Addendum: I would like to state that I would not be making any of the above recommendations if I had not already put them into effect in my own life and drawn great benefit thereby.
Julian is a British pioneer organic farmer, writer and activist. He is currently president of the 'International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside' which is leading the fight against GMO in Poland. He is author of "Changing Course for Life - Local Solutions to Global Problems" www.changingcourseforlife.info
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