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October 10, 2009 Newsletter
"The Government Pretends to Govern Us, and We Pretend to Obey Them"
This title is based on a well-known saying from the old Soviet Union: "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work." Really I can't think of a better way to put it. Why should Congress take anything We the People, or, as some might put it, "Tea Party" or "Angry Mob"-type folks, do or say seriously when it is so easy for them to ignore us? Easy, since they have many secret service folks making sure that we have no direct access to them (except for Town Hall meetings, where they have ACORN and SEIU instead). Fun, because it is really really cool to know that you are above the law. Profitable, because while taxpayers pay the salary it is a drop in the bucket compared to what they make from lobbyists and think tanks. They listen to their owners. Period. And wouldn't you know it, it is so easy to become utterly corrupt. Pays better, too! In fact, it is not only easy to ignore We the People, but, when you have tools like Olbermann, Maddow, and Hannity and O'Reilly standing with the rulers against "the rabble," or acting like they are calling you out but in fact obfuscate the issues into "bad liberal Democrats vs. good conservative Republicans" (as Hannity and O'Reilly do), gee, doesn't that make being traitorus and corrupt that much easier, fun, and profitable? So easy, a caveman could do it...and what would the difference be if a real caveman ran for office? As long as he loved money over duty and honor to uphold the rule of law (ie. the Constitution), none.
In fact, it is getting so whatever they do, whether it is passing hate crime bills, to spening money on weapons that won't work in wars we ain't gonna win, to bailing out the folks who own them (and these folks call US slaves!), to stirring up folks like Alex Jones into such a froth it riles the imagination, to giving themselves pay raises while cutting back on days at work... Need I go on? It is getting so the more they legislate the less anyone is really going to pay attention to it. Since they don't bother to read the bills, likelihood is they don't even know what is "the law." In trying to enforce whatever the law is, they'll make it up as they go along. Hate crime laws? They'll have one or two show trial examples of patsy anti-semites or whatever just to scare us into silence, and then it'll come out that the hate victim wasn't a victim after all, at which time they'll bury the truth as they always do. Think Duke University's Lacrosse Team. Weapons? Makes the opium harvesting less obvious, and besides, who wants to spend money on repairing infrastructure? Not glamorous enough. And why shouldn't Congress bail out the banks and giant corporations? They know who owns them! What choice do they have? (Again, who the hell are the slaves here? Jones and the rest keep calling us "sheeple" slaves. BS! The slaves...and I have a feeling Barack "Nobel Peace Prize" Obama just set African-Americans back a hundred years or so...led by the biggest slave of all [the Big O], must do what they are told. Period. Just like Bush. Just like Clinton [though, in Slick Willie's case, I'd say he rather enjoyed it], and the rest of the CIA handled bunch). And did you know that Congress now works 2 and a half day weeks? Talk about pretending to govern us! Is that what us taxpayers are paying them for? (Actually, a two-and-a-half-day workweek from Congress is probably a good idea...that way they can do less damage, maybe...but the fact remains they are still getting paid to work a full week).
Now, I am not generally a cynic. But everytime I read something about what the government does I can't help but feel they are doing what they are doing, on purpose, to screw We the People. Not only that, but I think they revel in it. I mean, passing laws in bills they don't even read? I guess they figure since they keep getting re-elected, they figure folks back home don't really give a crap. In some respects this is true. I have a feeling though that all this is changing. I mean, come on, Congress critters. You can only screw people so much, just as you can only get so much blood out of a turnip. Since we may be approaching the point where the vast majority of Americans have virtually nothing left to lose, screwing us won't really make that much of an impact, except to compel us to act, and without fear of "losing" something.
I now present a true worst case scenario that might actually stand a chance of happening. Let's say we have official unemployment at 15 percent, meaning the real unemployment is about 30 percent; along with that seventy percent of college grads cannot find work other than, say, flipping burgers. And let's say along with that we have kids in college who will be unable to complete their education because they can no longer afford it in any way, shape or form. And, through all this, we are rapidly approaching the point of Zimbabwe-level hyperinflation, so that whatever money the government has not managed to steal from us can't buy much, anyway. Finally...just to add spice to the mix...the government must bring our troops back home from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and everywhere else (since others, like Japan [good for them!], want us out of their countries anyway). So now, in this scenario, we have millions of unemployed workers, young folks, teens--and now, soldiers in civilian life. Except for the mercenary outfits like Xe (Blackwater, who also owns the so-called "American Police Force" of Hardin, Montana, fame), who will hire the psychopath scumbags who will think nothing of killing We the People if we "get outta line," most of these soldiers will also be unemployed. I hope you are keeping track of what I am saying with this possible scenario. Because it has existed in the past, and I don't mean Weimar, Germany.
I mean Czarist Russia, right before the 1917 February Russian Republic Revolution, not the October Bolshevik one.
Here is what happened if you forgot your history. The "war cry" of the revolutionaries, consisting of two main political movements, the Bolsheviks (Lenin) and the Mensheviks (Kerensky...and also Trotsky) was this: "Peace, Bread, and Land." Russia, in the midst of the eastern front during WW1, was losing not only soldiers in battle against the Germans, but also losing soldiers to serious starvation, lack of guns, ammo, clothes, shoes, clean water, medicines, you name it, on top of the cold Russian-Polish winters. By February, 1917, the soldiers, and even some of the Czarist officer corps, had had it. They left the front and left the battle. The Czarists had to hire paid mercenaries, and the few they could come up with kept fighting for the Russians (most of the mercs were other East Europeans). So what do you think these Russian soldiers, mostly peasants, did when they came home in the midst of revolution, and were asked to fire on unarmed civilian protesters led by Lenin and Kerensky? Did they fire on the people? Hell no! They refused! THIS IS THE ONLY REASON THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION SUCCEEDED! Had the soldiers done what they were told, the revolution would have failed. But, of course, the Kerensky government, enslaved to the west at the time, did NOT take Russia out of the war! Had they done so, the Bolshevik Revolution that made Russia Communist never would have happened. There are those who believe that this is the precise outcome the west and the bankers wanted, so they ordered Kerensky to keep Russia in the war (of course, they did not actually need Russia to stay in the war, because Russia's "lack of fight" was a liability in the first place). Now notice the rest of the slogan: "Bread" and "Land." Bread, because most Russians were starving or borderline, because of hyperinflation in Russia during the war, and because much of the fighting had taken place in "Russia's breadbasket" (aka the Ukraine). Land, because after the serfs were liberated in the 1860s they received the lowest quality land while the nobility retained the best land. Since the Kerensky government could not do anything to alleviate poverty and starvation conditions--again, there are those who believe the west made sure of this--this only fueled further the Communist Revoltuion ther in November, 1917. And did you know that similar conditions did the same thing in China? The only reason why Mao and the Communists won there, after they had worked with Chaing KaiShek to defeat Japan, was because Chaing would not make the reforms necessary to assure the majority peasant population became more prosperous. Mao did, so he won. Again, western interference.
Let's review one point I was trying to make. When ordered to fire on unarmed protesters, especially at a large protest in what was then St. Petersburg, Russia, outside the Winter Palace where the Czar lived, the soldiers refused to fire. Because the soldiers refused to obey orders and kill unarmed peaceful civilians who were demanding from the Czar peace, food to feed their families, and land (or industry, in other words, jobs--most of the protesters were industrialized workers), the first Russian Revolution was able to be carried out with nary a shot being fired. In other words, PEACEFULLY. (If you get a chance, see Sergei Eisenstein's amazing 1920s vintage silent film, "Ten Days that Shook the World"...the beginning of the film relates the first revolution). So that, should such conditions arise here, particularly if they happen quickly, serious change for We the People might only happen IF the soldiers that the government orders to fire on protesters refuse to fire their weapons. Or, if outfits like Xe are called upon to do this (and they will--don't be surprised however if the majority of Xe operatives are foreign!), and the regular soldiers fire on them instead. Do not forget that many soldiers take their oath to defend the Constitution seriously. (As for the link I provided, read the article and especially the comments...folks, soldiers aren't stupid! And they do "Remember the Liberty!")
Now, of course, we are not at that point yet, and I hope we never get to that point. Remember: Prepare for the worst but hope for the best. However, there are signs that a scenario like I presented could happen, at least a few years down the road. In other words, there is still time to prepare for this or something similar (hopefully, not this bad). Yet there are signs, nevertheless.
For one thing, several sites (including Cryptogon) have posted a Robert Fisk story about how the Arab states, France, China and Russia are moving away from dollars to buy and sell oil, wanting to use a "basket of currencies" (none of which is the dollar) instead. (A video of Glenn Beck posted below also brings this out). However, this story was soon "officially denied", meaning it will likely happen at some point.
Second, as is shown in this You Tube video called "Preparing Americans for Hyperinflation", it appears inexhorable that we might wind up with a similar scenario, at least over the course of the next few years. And don't forget to watch this video, exposing how CNN faked its footage of the 1991 Gulf War, here, and realize they are likely doing this sort of thing today as well.
Third, as Glenn Beck (who really does get it right sometimes...too bad he gets it wrong so many times!) says in the video, it would only make sense if the Arabs did sell their oil for a "basket of currencies not including the dollar."
Fourth, there is already a rather large coalition of various libertarian leaning organizations, such as the Campaign for Liberty and the Liberty Lobby, that are planning a "Continental Congress 2009" meeting in Illinios in November of this year. In other words, politically there are already preparations to deal with the possibility that the government will fall of its own weight, with something peaceful to replace it. However, I still say I am not holding my breath over this.
Finally, I found a site that corroborated my line that the Arab-Islamic literature found in a vehicle at Logan Airport was not a figment of my imagination. But what I had failed to remember was that there was also a manual found titled, "How to Fly a Passanger Jet" in the vehicle as well. Just letting you know. And I also found an article by Dmitri Orlov (who has been predicting a US collapse for years now) showing how over the next several years there could very well be a US collapse, using his "five stages of collapse" model: Financial, Commercial, Political, Social, Cultural. I don't agree with everything he says but this is still a must read if you are preparing or are "preparing to prepare." But I do agree with his notion of who will come out best in such a scenario: the people who are getting with their neighbors, espcially in communities where there is already a mututal bonding set up, and folks, like those who read this site, that I call "the remnant". And, in my next newsletter, I will relate about what we might be doing to go solar. I am now convinced that NOT going solar (or off the grid otherwise) in the next few years is NOT an option.
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