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Tyrant's Trail pt.2

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posted on Mar, 9 2007 @ 11:36 AM
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Tyrant's Path


Throughout time, many tyrannical governments have passed along, some more prominent than others. Common among such governments is the drive for global conquest, domination of its population, and bending its people to the will of corrupt leaders. Masters need slaves, crusading churches need zealots, and countries aspiring to world domination need patriots. Adolf Hiter, perhaps, created the modern blueprint for appealing to the best of men for the worst of purposes. Taking a look back at his methods for rallying his men to commit atrocious deeds, reminds one of what is happening today in America. 9/11 is a shadow of the Reichstag Fire, as is the blaming of the alternative source of the destruction, and the ensuing war.
Let it also not be forgotten how the Roman Catholic Church eliminated its threats. Paganism and witchcraft were feared throughout the continent of Europe, as they were blamed for nearly all mishaps, including the Bubonic Plague. Thousands of citizens were hanged and burnt at the stake over hundreds of years in a vain effort to annihilate the inquiring population who posed a threat to the presiding catholic church and presiding monarchy. Manipulating the population to carry out the misdeeds of an elite few is not a new concept, and a tactic that everyone today should be well aware of by the lessons of yesterday.
America is trodding a well worn path to oblivion. Freedom now means fighting in endless wars and surrendering your rights for protection from an invisible foe. War with no end provides the puppeteers power with no bounds, they play tricks of illusion and deception that insure the gears of war don't stop turning, and that as few people as possible see the truth behind the curtain. Let's take a look behind that curtain, and the methods employed to enslave a population.

Excessive Laws

Laws are passing in every state to ban and restrict what people have, in the past, always considered simple, rudimentary rights to lifestyle decisions. Smoking, food, and clothing are among the choices that are no longer only yours to make. I know many of you hate cigarettes, and those Truth commercials did say that they killed everyone, but let's focus on the bigger picture. New York has banned restaurants from using trans fats, many states have told us what's too harmful or offensive for us to do on our own free will. Everyone will lose freedom to make many personal choices because some find them distasteful. Casting a net of criminality over a population insures that most citizens can be discredited or imprisoned whenever one becomes a threat to the system. Punishment and labeling of "sexual predator" has become a greatly exploited method to criminalize a large portion of the population. Definitions of crimes will broaden, and anyone conducting themselves outside a slim margin of error will find that they're subject to various criminal labels. Dangerous is the broadening of definitions, and the word "terrorist" has been broadened to epic proportions. There are over 400,000 people in the terrorist database. Al-Qaeda's getting big.

Propaganda

Mainstream media pounds a few terrible stories into our heads until we submit to excessive laws and regulations which are necessary to end the horrible threat. Selling the story of terrorism and foreign invaders grants the excuse for use of military force worldwide. Television swarms with programs which seek to inform us on how terrible and dangerous the internet is to the safety of us and our children, and congress can't wait to pass Net Neutrality. Punishments for existing infractions become more strict, and more infractions are being created to incur said punishment. Full prisons can hold no more, so the walls build around.

Surveillance and Imprisonment

The walls build around. Cameras and GPS devices are a simple fact of American life. No, no one's really watching you, and no one's really tracking you, and no one really cares enough to do so. But are we missing the point? Being under the watchful gaze of a camera or the relentless tracking of a GPS device is nearly unavoidable. Local news informs me of where new cameras are going up and on what street, some to prevent reckless driving, some preventing crime, and some watching for vandals. New excuses arise for why cameras are needed and apparently they're needed everywhere. Folks seem more or less unconcerned with this evolution of surveillance. Tracking devices are an even easier sell, as they provide convenience and security. Solitude seems to be an impossible concept under these circumstances, circumstances that are very difficult to escape. Realizing that most people have simply accepted these intrusions, I nonetheless felt inclined to include them as an important aspect of a police-state society.
Construction of camps is FEMA's business, and business is good. Forty-three of the constructed camps can hold as many as 45,000 individuals along with hundreds of facilities capable of holding up to 100,000 individuals. Such camps are intended as holding facilities in case of national disasters, obviously, but I guess they're not for victims of massive hurricanes in which thousands of people are displaced and homeless. FEMA retains executive authority to suspend all constitutional rights in the case of "national security emergencies, national disasters, social unrest, and insurrection".
Hitler bows in reverence.
A 2004 MSN poll showed that 20% of Americans have no objection to mandatory biochip implants. I have no doubt that that percentage will increase as we're led to believe that it's necessary for safety and convenience. People in general also seem to have little objection to our government having granted itself the authority through the National Surveillance, I mean Security, Agency to spy on it's citizens in all forms and fashion. Citizens are now subject to screening and monitoring of phone calls, internet chat, and private records of all sorts. NSA utilizes a supercomputer system that picks out key words located in phone calls and chat conducted anywhere in the country. This supercomputer system, with the aid of satellites, also has the capability of tracking any United States (perhaps even international) citizens who have been implanted with a biochip. Not so long ago, these were all things that only paranoid conspiracy theorists talked about. Amazingly, the population is still unwilling to believe that the government would be inclined to mandate national ID cards, biochip implants, or saturate their neighborhood with cameras. This is no longer science fiction, it's right in front of our eyes. What seems unfathomable today will likely become perfectly acceptable tomorrow.

False Choice

Obama and Clinton, among other candidates, pose as our saviors. Personally, I find it a scary prospect if people think that electing a new president will make for a dramatic positive change. Should we forget about the Patriot Act, or the suspicious circumstances surrounding 9/11, or all the rights and privacies we've lost just because Bush is out? I haven't heard anything about repealing the Patriot Act from either side. Change in presidency will change little, because what gets done is up to the elite at the top, and they're often hidden from public scrutiny. Presidents only serve as a smokescreen to keep us blinded from the true mechanisms. Last election, we were presented which a choice of Skull and Bones member number 1 and member number 2. We've been under Bush/Clinton rule for 20 years, 24-28 if Hillary is elected. Regurgitating the old 9/11 story as an excuse for more crimes, high punishment, and surveillance will still be in full swing. Perhaps once the people get wise to that trick another catastrophe will be in order to inspire "patriotism" once again.
Even if 9/11 was carried out by people in a cave, it's been said since the founding of the country that liberties should never be relinquished for any reason. Patriot John Locke issued wise words when saying, "Give me liberty or give me death", probably not because he wanted to die, but because he knew that if people would give up their liberties for fear of dying, then that would be a vulnerability to be exploited by those who would wish to take those rights away. I would only like to offer that we turn away from divisive left-right politics and begin to look at the situation from an independent perspective (and no, don't vote Nader). America is currently in a chinese finger-trap of politics, a system in which continuing to pull for either pre-designated side results only in further entrapment. The 2-way tug-of-war for political supremacy only seems to cancel out common sense.


Subversion and Manipulation

Relatively small groups of elite orchestrate the agendas that are then carried out worldwide. Striving to control all markets and angles of power, the inner circle creates beaurocracies, corporations, powerful central banks, various secret societies, and subversive governments, all of which are efficient methods to siphon away sovereignty and prosperity from the general public into the coffers of the few and exceptionally greedy at the top of corrupt pyramids. Masters of propaganda, subversion, and manipulation position themselves at the finger-strings of select puppets, puppets whose purpose is to present a deceiving front and keep the population searching in the dark for answers. Ignorance of the masses is the single most important element of such a plan.
History teaches us valuable lessons of the decline of great civilizations into decadence and apathy. Looking to the past provides us with a clear vision of what the future has in store. No more is simple research a primary form of enlightenment, instead, we have a handful of influential political commentators on television and radio, informing you of typically insignificant issues and which set of political ideals should apply. Basically, these commentators only serve to divide and arm you with an endless supply of rhetoric ammunition so that you may find an "ignorant liberal", or "barbaric conservative" and cancel yourselves out.

Congress has granted our government incontestable rights to unreasonable search and seizure, unwarranted wire-tapping and surveillance, use of Homeland Security for everyday domestic issues, torture of terrorists in order to obtain information - some misdemeanors have even been identified as crimes of terrorism. America's Bill of Rights and Constitution are being dismantled at an alarming rate, and the damage done is irrevocable.

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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." - Theodore Roosevelt



 
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