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Turning America Into A Battlefield: A Blueprint For Locking Down The Nation

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Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

A standing army - something that propelled the early colonists into revolution - strips the American people of any vestige of freedom. How can there be any semblance of freedom when there are tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, Blackhawk helicopters and armed drones patrolling overhead?

It was for this reason that those who established America vested control of the military in a civilian government, with a civilian commander-in-chief. They did not want a military government, ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.

Unfortunately, with the Constitution under constant attack, the military’s power, influence and authority have grown dramatically. Even the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which makes it a crime for the government to use the military to carry out arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other activities normally handled by a civilian police force, has been weakened by both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who ushered in exemptions allowing troops to deploy domestically and arrest civilians in the wake of alleged terrorist acts.

Now we find ourselves struggling to retain some semblance of freedom in the face of police and law enforcement agencies that look and act like the military and have just as little regard for the Fourth Amendment, laws such as the NDAA that allow the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens, and military drills that acclimate the American people to the sight of armored tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, and combat aircraft patrolling overhead.

Making matters worse, we find out that the military plans to use southwestern states as staging grounds for guerilla warfare drills in which highly-trained military troops equipped with all manner of weapons turn American towns and cities in quasi-battlefields. Why? As they tell us, it’s so that special operations forces can get “realistic military training” in “hostile” territory.

They’ve even got a name for the exercise: Jade Helm 15.

Whether or not Americans have anything to fear from Jade Helm 15, a covert, multi-agency, multi-state, eight-week military training exercise set to take place this summer from July 15 through Sept. 15, remains to be seen.

Insisting that there’s nothing to be alarmed about, the Washington Post took great pains to point out that these military exercises on American soil are nothing new. For instance, there was Operation Bold Alligator, in which in which thousands of Marines and sailors carried out amphibious exercises against “insurgent” forces in Georgia and Florida. Operation Robin Sage had Green Beret soldiers engaging in guerrilla warfare in North Carolina. And Operation Derna Bridge sends Marine special forces into parts of South Carolina and the National Forest.

Yet if Americans are uneasy about this summer’s planned Jade Helm 15 military exercises, they have every right to be.

After all, haven’t we been urged time and time again to just “trust” the government to respect our rights and abide by the rule of law only to find that, in fact, our rights were being plundered and the Constitution disregarded at every turn?

Let’s assume, for the moment, that Jade Helm 15 is not a thinly veiled military plot to take over the country lifted straight out of director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May, as some fear, but is merely a “routine” exercise for troops, albeit a blatantly intimidating flexing of the military’s muscles.

The problem arises when you start to add Jade Helm onto the list of other troubling developments that have taken place over the past 30 years or more: the expansion of the military industrial complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance, the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the economy flirting with near collapse, etc.

Suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister. Clearly, as I point out in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, there’s a larger agenda at work here.

Seven years ago, the U.S. Army War College issued a report calling on the military to be prepared should they need to put down civil unrest within the country. Summarizing the report, investigative journalist Chris Hedges declared, “The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a ‘violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,’ which could be provoked by ‘unforeseen economic collapse,’ ‘purposeful domestic resistance,’ ‘pervasive public health emergencies’ or ‘loss of functioning political and legal order.’ The ‘widespread civil violence,’ the document said, ‘would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.’”

At what point will all of the government’s carefully drawn plans for dealing with civil unrest, “homegrown” terrorism and targeting pre-crime become a unified blueprint for locking down the nation?

For instance, what’s the rationale behind turning government agencies into military outposts? There has been a notable buildup in recent years of SWAT teams within non-security-related federal agencies such as Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department. As of 2008, “73 federal law enforcement agencies… [employ] approximately 120,000 armed full-time on-duty officers with arrest authority.” Four-fifths of those officers are under the command of either the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Department of Justice.

 

What’s with all of the government agencies stockpiling hollow point bullets? For example, why does the Department of Agriculture need .40 caliber semiautomatic submachine guns and 320,000 rounds of hollow point bullets? For that matter, why do its agents need ballistic vests and body armor?

 

Why does the Postal Service need “assorted small arms ammunition”? Why did the DHS purchase “1.6 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition, along with 7,000 fully-automatic 5.56x45mm NATO ‘personal defense weapons’ plus a huge stash of 30-round high-capacity magazines”? That’s in addition to the FBI’s request for 100 million hollow-point rounds. The Department of Education, IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service, are also among the federal agencies which have taken to purchasing ammunition and weaponry in bulk.

 

Why is the federal government distributing obscene amounts of military equipment, weapons and ammunition to police departments around the country? And why is DHS acquiring more than 2,500 Mine-Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles, only to pass them around to local police departments across the country? According to the New York Times:

 

[A]s President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice. During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft. The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units.

 

Why is the military partnering with local police to conduct training drills around the country? And what exactly are they training for? In Richland, South Carolina, for instance, U.S. army special forces participated in joint and secretive exercises and training with local deputies. The public was disallowed from obtaining any information about the purpose of the drills, other than being told that they might be loud and to not be alarmed. The Army and DHS also carried out similar drills and maneuvers involving Black Hawk helicopters in Texas, Florida, and other locations throughout the U.S., ostensibly in order to provide local police with “realistic” urban training.

 

What is being done to protect the American populace from the threat of military arms and forces, including unarmed drones, being used against them? Policy analysts point to Directive No. 3025.18, “Defense Support of Civil Authorities” (issued on Dec. 29, 2010), as justification for the government’s use of military force to put down civil unrest within the United States.

 

Why is FEMA stockpiling massive quantities of emergency supplies? On January 10, 2014, FEMA made a statement enlisting the service of contractors who could “supply medical biohazard disposal capabilities and 40 yard dumpsters to 1,000 tent hospitals across the United States; all required on 24-48 hour notice.” This coincides with other medical requests seeking massive amounts of supplies, such as “31,000,000 flu vaccinations,” “100,000 each of winter shirts and pants and the same for summer” and other goods and services requests as well like tarps, manufactured housing units, and beverages. And why does the TSA need $21,000 worth of potassium chlorate, a chemical compound often used in explosives?

 

Why is the Pentagon continuing to purchase mass amounts of ammunition while at the same time preparing to destroy more than $1 billion worth of bullets and missiles that are still viable?

 

Moreover, what is really being done to hold the Pentagon accountable for its doctored ledgers, fraud, waste and mismanagement, which has cost the taxpayer trillions of dollars? According to Reuters, “The Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments. That means that the $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited, has never been accounted for. That sum exceeds the value of China's economic output.”

 

Given the similarities between the government’s Live Active Shooter Drill training exercises, carried out at schools, in shopping malls, and on public transit, which can and do fool law enforcement officials, students, teachers and bystanders into thinking it’s a real crisis, how much of what is being passed off as real is, in fact, being staged by DHS for the “benefit” of training law enforcement, leaving us none the wiser? These training exercises come complete with their own set of professionally trained Crisis Actors playing the parts of shooters, bystanders and victims in order to help schools and first responders create realistic drills, full-scale exercises, high-fidelity simulations, and interactive 3D films.

 

Given that Americans are 110 times more likely to die of foodborne illness than in a terrorist attack, why is the government spending trillions of dollars on “national security”? How exactly is the $75 billion given to various intelligence agencies annually to keep us “safe” being spent? And why is the DHS giving away millions of dollars’ worth of federal security grants to states that federal intelligence agencies ruled have “no specific foreign or domestic terrorism threat”?

 

Why is the government amassing names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation, and what criteria is the government using for this database? Keep in mind that this personal information is being acquired and kept without warrant or court order. It’s been suggested that in the event of nuclear war, the destruction of the U.S. Government, and the declaration of martial law, this Main Core database, which as of 2008 contained some 8 million names of Americans, would be used by military officials to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security, a program to be carried about by the Army and FEMA.

Taken individually, these questions are alarming enough. But put them together and they add up to the kind of trouble that the American founding fathers not only warned against but from which they fought to free themselves.

Indeed, when viewed collectively, they leave one wondering what exactly the U.S. government is preparing for and whether American citizens shouldn’t be preparing, as well, for that eventuality when our so-called “government of the people, by the people, for the people” is no longer answerable to “we the people.”

 

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Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:06 | 6041216 DanDaley
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So much ammo...how many times do they plan to kill me?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:18 | 6041248 NoDebt
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As many as it takes.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:32 | 6041288 NoDecaf
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and as often as possible.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:33 | 6041291 The Juggernaut
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Its best to familiarize yourselves with these people: http://oathkeepers.org/

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:37 | 6041307 TahoeBilly2012
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I like "loss of political or legal order"...that's pretty funny, you mean the military knew our Government sucked, was a bunch of criminals and that could be a problem? Really?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:59 | 6041365 MonetaryApostate
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Something leads to me to believe that the government is 100% broke & they want the public to wreck it all so they can blame us for the problems they created, and when you see their tools handing the clueless masses a "How to destroy your nation" guide, it really should make you wonder..... HARD!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:02 | 6041375 TahoeBilly2012
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Yea well prepare to by suprised...there may be an destroy and bailout plan in place for certian cretins who run things. I wouldn't count any scenarios out.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:08 | 6041383 MonetaryApostate
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I thought it was called QE?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:20 | 6041388 The Juggernaut
Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:46 | 6041506 Save_America1st
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The Judge rocks!  I've seen him speak in person twice and it was kick ass.  He got fucked over by Fox because he's a true legal and lawful judge, a true Libertarian, and was for Ron Paul. 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 03:13 | 6041715 Oh regional Indian
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In America's case, it has become a living example of living and dying by the sword.

Though never really attacked from the outside (post War of Ind), it's a blood soaked history like no other for it's 300 and odd years.

Y'all ought to stop standing behind the cruel slaughter of meat, the cruel slaughter of your children in the schooling meat-grinder, the cruel slaughter of brown and black people. 

Wheat/Chaff time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJjChT1nq4

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 04:29 | 6041782 HowdyDoody
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The US Government plans to bring Democracy (TM) to America. We know that 500,000 dead will be a price worth paying.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 07:03 | 6041896 DanDaley
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Hey ORI, every place lives by the sword..pick your place -India, China, Europe, Africa, Mexico, South America...nobody is above the fray.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:15 | 6041510 Motasaurus
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Remember that attempt at a military coup Prescott Bush was involved in back in the 30s? 

Don't think that plan ever went away.  

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:55 | 6041353 cnmcdee
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In Vietnam 30,000 rounds were fired for each enemy casualty.

If you dropped that ratio say by a factor of 30 as US citizens do not (yet?) have elaborate underground tunnel complexes (or do they??!) and DHS ordered 300 million rounds then simple extrapolation would indicate they are prepared to kill 300,000 Americans - a significant revolutionary force.

The only thing that will stop future violence is a concensus now among the people - ALL the people.  

For example I am not a black kid that had his neck broke by raging cops so it does not matter to me.  And I was not this or that so it does not matter to me.

But when people realize that their silence, indifference, and consent have complied us to living in a multi-tiered legal system where they can be the next head smashed victim, while banks flaunt and insider trade and only pay fines. Where people like Hillary who should be going to prison instead is trying to run for the presidency. 

Your voice does matter especially when you show serious commitment about an issue.  If you need an example consider if a 1000 people wrote the mayor of some corrupt system and said 'We have committed as a group to work full time to ensure you will never get re-elected because you have been complicitly silent about cop x,y,z. We will be making and copying fliers about the corruption in this city and if you try to arrest us we will be using social media.  

Messages like that make people in power think because nothing scares them more than a full time team working to remove that power from them.  

Take from the elite the only thing they value so - their control over you.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:11 | 6041389 A Nanny Moose
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First they came for *, but I was not a *, so I did not speak up...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:31 | 6041436 BandGap
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Two things - we do not need camo or tunnels. We are them. Second, no one reads the minds of these people. If 5% do not believe in the repression of the people it will be impossible to supress the will of the people.

 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 07:21 | 6041926 msmith9962
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Here is a good book I think a lot of ZHers would like. 

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness.  Get it from the library. 

One of my favorite parts basically says we can't all be Ghandi but our day to day actions collectively make up what is societally acceptable.  Not laughing at racist jokes, always doing the right thing.  Don't take what you have not earned. It all matters.  I write my elected officials to let them know why I plan to vote them out.  Sadly I want to vote them all out.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:19 | 6041249 Cliff Claven Cheers
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I support the the military over any other gov institution.  At least we will get our monies worth versus all the other constitutional violations as of late.  I think a military dictatorship would be more representative of the people.  Finally we can not have anarchy in place of our fake democracy so more power to them.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:22 | 6041256 Karl-Hungus
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Your loyalty is appreciated, citizen. Your owners thank you

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 00:43 | 6041505 Kprime
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how can you keep them on the farm once they've seen karl hungus

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:30 | 6041282 Wahooo
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Bend over son, Uncle Sammy wants to pound your ass.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:22 | 6041377 ZD1
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Wahooo lifts up his burqa and bends over for his leftist anarchist masters 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 02:53 | 6041697 Alvin Fernald
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anarchist masters = fail

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:20 | 6041516 Kirk2NCC1701
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Cliffy has always had a man-crush on Sammy.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:32 | 6041290 NoDebt
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Are you also EKM?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:00 | 6041360 Cliff Claven Cheers
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No.  I am just your above average everyday social analyst.  Think about it we would have a more just society under our military then under our current kleptocracy/oligarchy.  Think of the military as your benevolent overlords.

Who do you want in 2016, Hillary, Bush or the Military?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:13 | 6041393 MonetaryApostate
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What makes you think they wouldn't just press the launch button??

Did you not see the news about them getting rid of all those military leaders in command of nuclear launch stations?

They also have control over the bio/chemical weapons & can launch those too.... (We don't even need to go there)

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:27 | 6041621 zhandax
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What makes you think you can escape with only one of the three.  The joint chiefs will spend their last bullet to insure you get either clinton or bush in the name of 'democracy'. (why fuck up a tidy pay package?)

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 06:05 | 6041818 MonetaryApostate
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The ship is sinking, or are you simply not reading the news?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:15 | 6041396 A Nanny Moose
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Think of the military as your benevolent overlords.

Yeah...good luck with that. Why do we need anyoverlords at all?

Who do you want in 2016, Hillary, Bush or the Military?

Does it matter?

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:51 | 6041653 scaleindependent
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+1 

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:55 | 6041477 McMolotov
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Who do you want in 2016, Hillary, Bush or the Military?

That's like asking whether you want a chainsaw, a drill, or a jackhammer up the ass. I choose none of the above.

The weak-minded will always think they must choose from among the various unholy options presented to us by the powers that be. Those who can see through the bullshit will reject their authority altogether.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:11 | 6041501 Kprime
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A Hillary or a Bush, is that like Tits or a Twat?

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 06:06 | 6041819 MonetaryApostate
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I want an AR-15 with 1,000 rounds & 4 X 30 round clips...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:12 | 6041391 A Nanny Moose
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What is the problem with Anarchy?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:56 | 6041405 seminal1
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So like anarchy is not a problem if you be a white dude in a black shithole of a city like Baltimore and black gangsta ghetto thugs be playing the knock out game on you while they be looting your house and raping your wife and daughters? 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:29 | 6041527 Anusocracy
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Hey stupid, do you let poisonous snakes, lions, and other deadly animals into your house to live with you? Are they roaming through your neighborhood?

Decent people outnumber the humanimal predators about ten to one. Without government, people could exclude the humanimals from society and kill them if they tried to enter it.

There are 7.3 billion people on earth and there isn't one single reason to include the humanimals in anything.

It's past the time for man to evolve into human.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:09 | 6041498 Kprime
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the lord told Noah to build him AnArchy Archy

the lord told Noah to build him AnArchy Archy

(the h is silent)

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:20 | 6041252 dexter_morgan
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figuring on poor marksmanship apparently. mustn't have a lot of NRA members in their ranks since the NRA was founded in 1871 in large part to rectify the poor marksmanship skills displayed during the civil war.

that and choking out the supply for the 'other' side

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:55 | 6041354 813kml
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Spray and pray.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:19 | 6041411 A Nanny Moose
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Hmm...what was the shots fired/casualty ratio in the War of Northern Aggression vs. The Vietnam Cluster Fuck?

 

War, just another government program.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:29 | 6041276 Wahooo
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Assuming you are white and middle class, you have nothing to worry about. They will first target blacks and Hispanics, those without historic elite support. After they are gone, the whites will cower and bend to the will of the State. None of these big talkers will be willing to sacrifice their families' safety for the sake of keeping arms. The violence will end and we'll be enslaved.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:17 | 6041379 MonetaryApostate
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I don't think it's the elite you have to worry about, it's probably all those Asians & Indians on the other side...

(I seriously doubt we could stop 200+ million foot soldiers on the run spread out...)

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:21 | 6041387 ZD1
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Delusional libtard Wahooo has had the knockout game played one too many times on that thick libtard head. 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:30 | 6041628 junction
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You are already as good as dead, on a low prority hit list.  Until 35 years ago, Catholic pedophile priests and religious workers at Catholic schools routinely viciously molested young children with impunity.  The recent firing of two fag TSA employees who targeted male passsengers for sexual groping was the tip of the iceberg, and a one off event since degenerate federal judges protect their own kind where possible.  In England, Leon Brittain, when he was Home Secretary in 1984, participated in pedophile activities that included the rape and murder of young boys, activities he and his accomplices covered up by using the Official Secrets Act.  Anyone here think AG Eric Holder is any better than Brittain, who was later made a Lord?  Those wiretapping activities by the DEA protected the druglords who worked with the DEA from outside competition.  Remember the DEA arming the Sinoloa cartel under the pretext of the Fast and Furious operation?  Obama is a creation of the CIA, a "legend." A cokehead elevated to the Presidency.  You notice, there were no news reports of drug testing for any of the cops involved in the murders of unarmed civilians.  Nor of the drug addicted police chiefs who initially defend the actions of their Nazi cops.  The USA is doomed, run by crime families whose front men have names like Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and Biden.  When Senator Reid failed to evict Clive Bundy from his ranch, his Chinese employers expressed their displeasure by ordering their goons to beat him to a pulp, after which Reid announced his not running for re-election.  Lying Hillary Clinton has been a tool of the druglords for 30 years, since Bill Clinton covered up the murder of two teenagers near the Mena, Arkansas airport, then site of the largest cocaine and heroin smuggling operation in the world.  Those Baltimore rioters are like girl scouts compared to the homicidal dope dealers we have had run the USA into the ground since Reagan. 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 03:41 | 6041730 Oh regional Indian
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Superbly said Junction, all around.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 03:52 | 6041742 legend247
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Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:05 | 6041217 SofaPapa
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Long story short, there is now an "us" and a "them".  The government is no longer for the people.  It is for itself against the people.  Clear as day, and more and more are waking up to it.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 03:22 | 6041721 Deathrips
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Remember what to do...learn to take care of yourself.

If not, you have no choice.

Life is all about choices.

RIPS

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:56 | 6041357 SDShack
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The world is run by sociopaths. Govt is just a tool for TPTB to control the sheeple with laws they write specifically for masses, but do not have to follow themselves. Likewise, through their govt proxies, they control the security system to insure the serfs are controlled, violently if necessary. In return, the masses barely get enough to survive and are forced to battle each other, while the masters thrive. Same as it ever was. Welcome to the New Feudal World Order.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:01 | 6041487 Lore
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Having glimpsed the friction that exists between different government agencies, I wonder if we should also consider a scenario that resembles turf war between different gangs. Consider: the main weakness of the United States Government is its sheer size.  Human organizations are not meant to grow this large. It creates too much opportunity for pathology, enabling legions of aspiring control freaks to infiltrate and swell middle- and upper-management. Superficially, one might regard procurement of the sort listed in the article above as a kind of jingoistic Arms Race akin to seeing which director has the longest swinging dick.  More ominously, as bureaucracies continue to swell and gain increasingly negative and dangerous reputations, the level of fear rises, and supervisors might be pressured to police their subordinates and suppress dissent within their own ranks.  Some might fear for their lives.  Many might be pushed out, leaving only the most unscrupulous. When the imbalances of amorality become more extreme, those with the most to lose may foresee challenges to their unstable thrones, and so begin raising armies to wage battle with one another, using tools and tactics formerly employed against outside groups, with the public caught in the middle.

REMEMBER THE POWER OF THE PEN.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:41 | 6041553 Anusocracy
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There was always an us and a them. Government is one group controlling another group.

Thinking that that wasn't always the situation means you deserved your Dupe Merit Badge they gave you.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:06 | 6041218 HonkyShogun
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If Hillary gets a Nobel Peace Prize, we'll really know we're screwed.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:24 | 6041261 fudge
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as if it makes a difference who gets a medal or the WH, you're screwed no matter what happens.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:00 | 6041484 Kprime
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if Hillary could get screwed she'd deserve a piece prize, but that ain't gonna happen.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:11 | 6041227 gwar5
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What I see when I see the militarization and escalating military training excercises on Mainstreet, USA around the country is provocation calculated to provoke a violent response so it can be used to crackdown on guns and freedom minded dissidents who don't like what is happening and want their legitimate government back.

 

That's how they do it everywhere else in the world. When they announce they will be training with helicoptors at night and infiltrate the citizenry of small towns, they are hoping some white guy who is fed up opens fire on a tank rolling past his house. They are daring us to take a shot at them and they would love it. It would justify disarming and killing us. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:20 | 6041232 weburke
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the only useful reaction is to be a prepper, and have a go-to area that even a poor ZH poster can live in and eat when all the food is poisonous. May I reccomend boston area for those in that region. Go camp out next to the Cardinals home if the shtf.  And dont drink all the drinks you now do. tap water only. and change the way you eat at that time. Forget all the guys who want to insite us to take up arms, includeing john the lawyer who wrote this peice and wont spend 300 dollars to file a federal lawsuit to try to stop this stuff and then he could tell us about THAT.        Live through those days first. And then you can regroup and take up arms. 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:14 | 6041237 bitterwolf
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Who are "they" scared of.......in a nutshell......white militants...... especially ones who are veterans.......they spend an inordinate amount of resources on that target "threat"......

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:16 | 6041243 Miffed Microbio...
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A mine resistant armored vehicle? How is this determined? Perhaps we should concentrate on building more mines and improving their efficacy.

Miffed

I think I just got on yet another list.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:23 | 6041260 disabledvet
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No we will not.

Lay down in front of tank? Yes. Better "mines"? No.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:52 | 6041340 Miffed Microbio...
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Maybe Tall Tom will come up with some ideas. I have a few interesting things stored in the dark recesses of the lab, long forgotten.

So many things can't be ordered anymore under the guise of " restricted due to use in the manufacture of controlled substances." when I don't see the connection. Must be like plumbing problems at Walmart.

Miffed

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:21 | 6041413 A Nanny Moose
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iMine

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:47 | 6041468 Yen Cross
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 WeBe<> Toys & Shit.... Bitchez

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:45 | 6041565 Anusocracy
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Burn their armored vehicles. Trap them like cockroaches and burn them.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:25 | 6041425 stormsailor
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but are you on the list of list

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:57 | 6041480 Captain Benny
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You don't take on an MRAP head on without decent military weaponry. You prevent it from returning to base and then you take out the weakest part of it... The people.

Of course for each MRAP you disable and/prevent from returning to its bade, you take the weapons and ammo it carries.  Eventually you'll have a decent arsenel.

Many Americans already have a small arsenal... 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:18 | 6041515 Miffed Microbio...
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Actually, I had always wondered if the scenario as portrayed in the movie The Beast could actually happen. It does seem plausible. I never thought I would have to consider such tactics to live in my country today.

Miffed

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:17 | 6041244 booboo
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Stopped reading at "our own government"

They are a collection of child molestors, con men, witches, drunks, drug addicts, pedophiles, porn addicts, race baiters, dick suckers, carpet munchers, thieves, busy bodies, law breakers and assorted losers of the baser sorts.

They sure the fuck ain't a "our government".....unless of course you validate them.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:18 | 6041247 HonkyShogun
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Damn Right!

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:47 | 6041571 Anusocracy
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May not be yours but an awful lot of morons support it.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:22 | 6041245 22winmag
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Are you kidding me?

 

This is a peacetime sideshow, the grid is up, the trucks are running, and iCrap still functions.

 

In a real nationwide SHTF event, every local, state, and federal thug with a badge will either be a) ducking for cover or b) joining the resistance.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:23 | 6041258 NoDebt
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They never send troops to quell the area they are from.  They know the people they're shooting at and will often refuse to do so.

However, take troops from Arkansas and tell them to put down "dangerous terrorists" up in Oregon, for instance, and it's a totally different story.  Scared kids in unfamiliar surroundings will have far less problem pulling the trigger on their fellow Americans.

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:29 | 6041272 IridiumRebel
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There will be no "locking down". Revenues must flow, banksters must be paid. Maybe a section of a city, but beyond that none of this will happen.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:24 | 6041422 MonetaryApostate
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Gee, I wonder how business flows with rioting everywhere....

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:45 | 6041463 IridiumRebel
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It doesn't. Let them burn the already burnt out sections, take civil liberties, rinse and repeat. It's a controlled fire. When they start burning down upper middle class neighborhoods wake me.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:29 | 6041279 CaptainObvious
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Ah, NoDebt, this is why the UN has an army.  Unfortunately, they chose helmets in Screaming "Here I Am!" Blue.  That, I think, will prove to be an unwise choice in hindsight.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:36 | 6041304 NoDebt
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You're right.  I forgot about the UN angle.  All it would take is the US voting "yes" (or abstaining) in the security council resolution and they'd be here with full legitimacy.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:53 | 6041346 DanDaley
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Exactly what the Romans did...shuffle them around.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:00 | 6041366 booboo
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so the ducks call the razor backs and the razor backs round up the families of the razor back red coats. Lunch break

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:32 | 6041286 seek
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or c) abusing their position for person profit/gratification. I don't think that last one will work very well as a long term survival strategy, but if recent events indicate anything, there's not a lot of long term thinking going on in general.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:17 | 6041246 zorba THE GREEK
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WTF

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:21 | 6041253 IridiumRebel
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They couldn't lock down a fuckin ham sandwich let alone goat herders in Afghanistan. Look at Baltimore. Is that "locked down"? No.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:26 | 6041427 MonetaryApostate
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People don't want to admit it, but the system is failing, and it's all by design, but few are smart enough to see the "who, what, where, when, why, and how"....

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:21 | 6041254 disabledvet
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What matters is THE TYPE OF WAR WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING not "the war itself."

In short this is an "entity" that is FULLY prepared to deal with domestic disturbances of any kind and indeed "in kind" (meaning Code of Retaliation.) you will be more than "disrespected" by it once it turns on you...and me.

In short "respect while not constituting admiration still constitutes respect."

Authority exists for a reason.

Move along...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:22 | 6041257 Bill of Rights
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Bottom line a lot of mother fuckers are gonna get shot, This is America not Iraq, but if its Iraq you want Iraq you will get.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:26 | 6041269 Pancho de Villa
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You guys need an Army to Liberate yourselves from all this Bullshit! 

 

Just go to "www.mexicanrevolutionaries.rev"  Ah, ha... Buen Suerte!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:33 | 6041440 e_goldstein
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If we join up will you pay us in bullets, tequila, and weed?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:27 | 6041271 CaptainObvious
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"“The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a ‘violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,’ which could be provoked by ‘unforeseen economic collapse,’ ‘purposeful domestic resistance,’ ‘pervasive public health emergencies’ or ‘loss of functioning political and legal order.’ The ‘widespread civil violence,’ the document said, ‘would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.’"

What is this thing the document speaks of?  "Unforeseen" economic collapse?  Sheeit, it's been visible for years.  And ha! at the phrase "force the defense establishment to reorient priorities".  The priorities were oriented long before the widespread civil violence was established, and the civil disturbance isn't even that widespread yet.

"Clearly, as I point out in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, there’s a larger agenda at work here."

Quit it with the book hawking.  Nobody is going to buy your fucking book, so deal with it.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:08 | 6041385 dogismycopilot
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go back to your desk DOD troll. The book will make people think. People should buy this book.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:35 | 6041448 CaptainObvious
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Fuck you, asshole.  I have never been nor will ever be a gubmint worker.  What I am bitching about is the book hawking, not the book itself.  I'm sure the book would be very educational.  I just get tired of reading "in my upcoming book" in every other guest post.  Get it now, or do I have to draw you a fucking map?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:29 | 6041278 flyonmywall
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You can tell these people in Baltimore haven't been beaten down enough, and that most of what you see on TV is just a psyop agitator D movie actor production.

If these people were THAT pissed off at the local cops, they would not be protesting, they would be shooting them while they are out on patrol. There are areas of Baltimore and other American cities that cops simply do not go into, because their patrol car would be turned into Swiss cheese by the bullet holes.

It's all a fake, bullshit story to distract people with a made-up show. The question is, distract them from what that is going on behind the scenes?

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:37 | 6041309 seek
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I think it may be to condition the military to large in-country deployments. 5,000 are being deployed to Baltimore, and I learned yesterday (and this factoid stunned me) that the Boston Marathon bombing had a deployment of 20,000, and that it was the largest deployment of NG troops since the Watts riots. That's 10X was deployed to Ferguson.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:37 | 6041312 CaptainObvious
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Most of what you see on TV isn't protesting.  It's looting.  Big difference.  The FSA loves it when one of their own gets smeared by a cop, because that provides the perfect excuse to use their Oppressed People Rage to burn down the CVS and hoof it down the street with their arms filled with illicit Doritos and toilet paper.

Coming soon to a theater near you!

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:16 | 6041399 fudge
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It's looting

It's also encouraged and made absolutely clear via the media that these ' protesters ' are nothing but ' grubs ' ...It serves to reinforce that narrative so that when the need arises people ' protesting ' can be shot as ' looters '.

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 22:45 | 6041328 Reaper
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They expect a trained sheeple to crave order. They expect the resistance to be as they planned. They expect the police to be trusted. Trust was an intoxicating debilitating drug.

Their plans may not survive contact with their expected enemy.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:25 | 6041361 Kprime
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Listen to the .gov representatives.  Listen to the Media.  I love it when the twit on TV says in her best motherly voice, “Non violent protest was advocated by all the great protest leaders like MLK and Gandhi.”

Gotta love those leaders at all levels of government who are advocating non-violence.  It's such a blessing to be guided by leaders who've bathe in the blood of freshly mudered babies.  Heil the leaders of America

Leaders of a nation that outspends all other nations by a multiple factor on their military.

Leaders that spend trillions on war and murder functions.

Leaders that drone non-combatants of multiple countries, and are proud of it.

Leaders that depose and kill leaders of other countries, on a reoccurring and regular basis.

Leaders that propagate torture as an “enhancement” of their interrogation performance.

Leaders with the most advanced sea going, warfare advancing, killing machines

Leaders with the most advanced air warfare killing machines.

Leaders, proud leaders no doubt, of the first and only country to nuke another country.

 

Leaders who steal from their own citizens.

Leaders who, by their very actions, condone rape and assault on their citizens.

Leaders who pass regulations legalizing the murder of their own citizens.

Leaders who call it “acting according to policy” when they drop grenades in babies cribs.

Leaders who rehire repeat offenders and give them paid vacations for shooting preteens.

Leaders who employee thugs in blue to empty entire magazines into the backs of citizens.

Leaders who cheer on vehicular violence perpetrated by their paid enforcers.

Leaders who seek out lower intelligence and psychotic thugs to enforce the imprisonment of American citizens.

Leaders who have “legalized” for themselves the right to spy, track, and record every thing you do 24/7.

Leaders who Do Not want you to record anything they do.

Leaders who authorize a platoon (30+) of officers to fire over 400 rounds nonstop into a parked vehicle, killing American citizens;  innocent citizens taken hostage by bank robbers.

Leaders who have granted themselves the right to kill by drone any citizen they deem non-compliant; all without an open trial by peers.

Leaders who are now leading and amassing the greatest military build up ever seen on earth, and all for what target?  By their own words they are preparing to target, “The American Citizen.”

The American government/media/military/and corporate America have prepared for war on the American citizenry.

Now with blood dripping from their hands, these murderous tyrant leaders plead for Non-Violence. All as they ring their palaces with an army that looks like it came straight from a foreign battlefield. I am sure the next step will be mining their own lawns, you know "for the protection of the children."

Oh yes, I pray for the day when the ears of the American citizens go deaf, so they can no longer hear the self-styled “leaders” and their heralds, the msm of America.

 

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:31 | 6041437 WTFUD
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In the words of the late great Roy Orbison , Kprime ' You Got It '.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 06:29 | 6041846 Gone Full Retard
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Heil the leaders of jew'merica.

fixed.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:34 | 6041443 MonetaryApostate
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I'm glad Americans are idiots.....

They won't be crying when London goes up in flames, nope....

 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 06:26 | 6041839 August
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>>>murderous tyrant leaders plead for Non-Violence.

All they want a stable society and your obedience to Law.

Plan with care, and don't go off... half-cocked.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:08 | 6041382 snblitz
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When AH was carrying out his various programs the military would often refuse to carry out his special actions. So AH had to attach SA, SD, SS, Sipo, or Gestapo units to carry out those actions. Can you guess what 'po' in Sipo and Gestapo is short for?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:09 | 6041386 shankster
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Since the US has already fell, lock up can't be far behind. 'The USA has Fallen!' http://www.prepsite.org/2015/01/the-usa-has-fallen.html?spref=tw

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:12 | 6041390 WTFUD
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It would be a real double ass-fuck-whammy for the Amurikan tax-payer to be funding Jahe Helm 15, overseeing his or her own demise.

Every jurisdiction needs its own IRA to protect it from Tyranny.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:14 | 6041394 Herdee
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I recommend the 40 square miles of run down industrial wasleland for miliray exercises.That way the military can get afeel for Ukraine and the Feds can get a better idea as to how much money they can sink in there with the IMF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QHJ3Ho4QQ

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:16 | 6041400 A Lunatic
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I was planning on dying anyway........

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:23 | 6041419 stormsailor
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step one, you do not concentrate to fight a stronger opponent.  you disperse.   you concentrate only where you will have superiority carry out exact plans and then disperse.  there are any number of blueprints to read about fighting a stronger, better equipped opponent. in fact any sustained resistance against an illegal army sent to restore order would ultimately become the fission portion of the fission fusion reaction that would restore our country to its basic constitutiality.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:59 | 6041586 Kirk2NCC1701
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Make asymmetry, bandwidth and creativity your BFF, when dealing with a superior force.

One thing that drove the Redcoats nuts was that the Am. Revolutionaries contravened established fighting norms, by shooting the officers (leaders), instead of the Regulars (grunts). You always attack the head of the snake, not it's body.

Using the same logic and principles, an asymmetric response would be to target Banksters and their ilk.   Everyone has to eat and sleep somewhere.  If you have the Dear Santa List of who was naughty or nice.

What goes around...

 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:08 | 6041598 Seek_Truth
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Carrying that thought further- you go after the ultimate heads.

There's still plenty of officers to replace those taken out.

There's a lot fewer billionaire elite.

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:24 | 6041420 Yen Cross
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 The headline of this article is pathetic. I love my my country, it's leaders, NOT SO MUCH.

 Tyler, keep the clickbait for "Sunday Open" gap hunters...

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:47 | 6041469 IridiumRebel
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Love my country, fear my government. Same as it ever was.
This is click bait, Yen.

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:46 | 6041467 Lyman54
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Given the U.S. army success rate against farmers who grow rice for a living or nomadic desert tribesmen why is anyone worried?

Tue, 04/28/2015 - 23:52 | 6041471 q99x2
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We and I guess that means me and the rest of the q99x2 need to get this information to be taught at the university level across America. Collectively academia has the power to slow the process down. They are a hell of a lot brighter than the NWO's propagandists. When the consensus begins to teach that those in control of government are the ones behind terrorism change will be possible. It is already happening. One of my professors is subtly approaching the real issues but I'm pretty sure that the person and other professors are already somewhat afraid. 

But in answer to all the questions, the reasons are that the same people are in charge that took down the World Trade Centers: Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bandar who are funded by the FED, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:04 | 6041493 seminal1
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Collectively academia is full of leftist Marxist pigs who are only too happy to support an authoritarian totalitarian dictator and a repressive regime--as long as their programs are funded. 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:11 | 6041502 calltoaccount
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Patently absurd, seminal crony capitalist troll.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 12:05 | 6043031 Ass Burger
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Piggybacking off someone's earlier (and much appreciated) link on Larry Grathwohl, I present to you Bernardine Dohrn, terrorist, Marxist, wife of Bill Ayers, and professor at Northwestern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:05 | 6041495 seminal1
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Collectively academia is full of leftist Marxist pigs who are only too happy to support an authoritarian totalitarian dictator and a repressive regime--as long as their programs are funded. 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:10 | 6041500 calltoaccount
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Patently absurd, seminal crony capitalist troll.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:12 | 6041504 arrowrod
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Huh???

Anybody paying attention to our vaunted allies, the Iraqi's?  Billions of rounds of ammo, MRAPs, Hummvees, artillery, and air force. 

The ISIS folks, thanks us for supplying them. 

Wherever the feds put "stuff", it's available to anyone.   Bonnie and Clyde liberated BARs.

Remember, our government is inept.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:38 | 6041548 DLux
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You forgot the /SARC tag. ISIS (as well as Al Queda) was a creation of the CIA and very likely Mossad.

This fits in with the Yinon Plan. In February 1982 the foreign minister Oded Yinon wrote and published ‘A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties‘, which outlined strategies for Israel to become the major regional power in the Middle East.

This regional balkanization plan is centred on the exploitation of ethnic, religious, tribal and national divisions within the Arab world.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:32 | 6041520 WTFUD
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' ask not what your country can do for you but . . . . '
'fuck off rope a dope '
'OK'

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 06:31 | 6041848 Gone Full Retard
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Sounds good, in theory....

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:43 | 6041529 Moccasin
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It is by design, a slow and controlled demolition of our society with expectations that include riots such as Baltimore and Ferguson and much worse. The rioters in Baltimore are reacting in a predictable way that suits the state and as expected the state has reacted, I would call it marshal law when you have curfews and the military patrolling the streets of a major city. DARPA, RAND and other organizations do hire evil scientists who are "really fucking smart" and their social scientists have most of us pegged as to the reaction we will present when shtf. If people plan on a frontal attack or think they are going to stand up to the federal government against their well trained zombies with a few rifles (local militia) and a few thousand rounds of ammo, they are going to be sorry, they will end up face first on the ground in a pool of their own blood. But an American revolution will not come to pass unless we break the cycle because we (most of us/overwhelming majority) are products of the propaganda model and will not realize our political agency until it is too late. The Spy apparatus is in place and they will usurp our plans of revolt or rebellion, they will disrupt our organizations, they will infiltrate and they are prepared to kill anyone who gets in the way in order to win. The state, our government plays for keeps when it comes to power. They have not invested this much in having a monopoly on violence to not have the will to use it against us. They will use every available capacity to defeat any insurrection that presents itself. If 'we the people' are to defeat the tyrannical syndicate that claims to be our government we must attack where they are weak and where they least expect it. We must also attack on the propaganda front and deliver meaningful ideas to the greater public and win the hearts and minds. We must break the stereotypes of everything that we have been taught and break the stereotypes of what is instilled in everyone about our 'society'. We must admit the truth about our society, the good and the bad. If we are to be successful we must instil a new vision from the ashes of the old, taking the best from yesterday with a blend of new ideas. Representative democracy has not served us well in the long run, we should look to new forms of democracy and completely reorganize our society to adjust for a new and more pluralist democracy, I would suggest we rally over the idea of a pure democracy, a direct democracy. Consider it as an option because we are going NOWHERE if 'we' think we can toss out the old trash and replace it with what will become quickly the new-old trash of another type of representative democracy. I am saying that representative democracy is inherently corrupt and we can and must do better, I believe we can do better, I believe we have to bring forward real potential for change and in my opinion our best option is a direct democracy. I also believe that direct democracy will be an effective weapon against the criminal sydnicates who claim to be our government. If we rebel or revolt without solid new ideas and real change, then no change will happen, we must break the cycle which has led to our enslavement.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:20 | 6041614 Kprime
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run on paragraph much?

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 07:12 | 6041911 August
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The above is constructive criticism!

Anyone who wants their comment to actually be read needs to understand the use of paragraphs, or at least fake it.  Even if you only use them to enhance legibilty (rather than organize content), paragraphs are still worth their weight in electrons.

Many readers will tend to take your comment more seriously if use martial law rather than marshall.

Just trying to help here....

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 08:20 | 6042052 Dickweed Wang
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PROOFREAD, PROOFREAD, PROOFREAD . . . .

Paragraphs are used to break up the written word into succinct parts or thoughts (that's a rough definition).  Their use makes it much easier on the reader.  Same principle applies to sentences.  The shorter the better.

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 00:25 | 6045862 Kprime
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I agree.  :)

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 00:32 | 6045872 Kprime
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Say it.  Use three words; or less. That’s hard. Who will understand? Why you can’t. Share a message.  Give it up. Later, dude.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 17:16 | 6044326 Moccasin
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It is a day later or so.... and lol, yes... yes it was a run on paragraph. When I wrote my original comments I was extremely tired and just spewed the thoughts down.... and if this is the worst criticism of rambling good thoughts then my point in the comments was likely made. I thank you for taking the time to read it and accept your constructive criticism. However, I am very tempted to write again with long run on sentences and even bigger run on paragraphs just for a laugh.... but I won't. lmao, Have a great day. :)

Thu, 04/30/2015 - 00:24 | 6045858 Kprime
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sleep is a wonderful thing, lol

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 00:41 | 6041556 WTFUD
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No politician/ elected officer should represent a jurisdiction unless born in that jurisdiction or has lived in that jurisdiction for 20 years.

Astonishing that Political Parties can cherry pick a candidate for a constituency that he set foot in 10 minutes before an election.

Simple Ideas like the above will ensure the bastard ( and family ) who promised you the world lives among you and will be answerable.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:25 | 6041622 Sandmann
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Get rid of TV and you will break the passivity of US political engagement

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:55 | 6041656 WTFUD
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. . . . but . . . err . . what if Kimmy K comes up with a brilliant idea or a must have, buy, see moment? s/c

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:02 | 6041560 Radical Marijuana
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An exponential

deterioration:

“government of the people,

by the people, for the people”

became

government of the money,

by the money, for the money.


MONEY IS MEASUREMENT BACKED BY MURDER.


"To defend basic

domestic order and human security”

serves a continuity of that

 government of the money:

to defend the money order

and the security of money.

 

While the American people were losing control over the public "money" supply, they were losing control over the government. After "we the people" lost control over the public "money" supply the government is no longer answerable to “we the people.” Hence, there is nothing NEW, other than deterioration at an exponential rate, which itself is NOT novel, except that becomes more painfully obvious at an exponentially accelerating rate, inherent to the structure of the ALREADY PRIVATIZED MONETARY SYSTEM. 

There is nothing in human history that can be compared to globalized electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs. There is no generally recognized coherent theory for any Second American Revolution or Second American Civil War. The only reasonable expectations are for extremely unreasonable psychotic breakdowns, severe social storms, and crazy collapses into chaos. I predict that martial law is not going to work, because the chain of command will fragment, and keep on fragmenting, and thus, the vast armories of weapons which were stockpiled end up feeding the death insanity situations, with the fragmentation of the chain of command and control over weapons of mass destruction becoming the most extreme manifestation of that overall process.

Nothing is going to work, because the only things that could theoretically work are things that the vast majority of people will continue to deliberately ignore, while they persist in attempting to believe in the same old bullshit. From a theoretical point of view, there is nothing less than a radical series of radical paradigm shifts in the perception of politics, in order to come to terms with the basic ways that money is measurement backed by murder, that could eventually resolve these problems. The debt controls were always backed by the death controls. Therefore, the debt slavery systems driving debt insanities are going to provoke death insanities. It is reasonable to expect that those will manifest on astronomically amplified scales, due to the development of physical science enabling technologies to become trillions of times more powerful and capable. However, tragically, it is not reasonable to expect that enough people will go through a sufficient series of intellectual scientific revolutions regarding how they perceive politics to come to terms with the realities of there existing globalized electronic frauds, backed by the threat of the force of atomic bombs.

What any real resolution of the problems would theoretically require is to radically transform the ways that people think about death controls. There should be revolutions in the basic paradigms of militarism. However, there are no overt signs that I am aware of that the vast majority of the American Military and militarized police are able and willing to go through sufficient paradigm shifts, since publicly they are seem typical professional liars and immaculate hypocrites. Rather, what is actually happening is that the PRIVATIZATION of the public "money" supply is driving towards the PRIVATION of the public "murder" system, in ways which are psychotic, and which will result in increasingly severe failures regarding any coping with the crazy collapses into chaos and severe social storms driven by the debt insanities provoking death insanities, in ways which will primarily be the manifestations of the psychotic breakdowns of the established social and political systems.

The only theoretically better resolutions of these problems would require developing an understanding of the combined money/murder systems which was more consistent with understanding the general energy systems of industry and the natural world. While that is possible, it would require such profound paradigm shifts in the basic ways that people perceive their problems that it appears politically impossible.

The PRIVATIZATION of the public "money" supply has already been roughly 99% accomplished. I would guestimate that the PRIVATIZATION of the public "murder" system has been about 75% accomplished. However, the successfulness of those projects are the deeper reasons regarding how and why the chain of command will fragment, and continue to fragment, as the stresses of the runaway debt insanities provoke runaway death insanities.

The basic problems have ALWAYS been getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate, through the entire history of Neolithic Civilizations, and throughout the entire history of America. There is NOTHING new or novel about that, except for the paradoxical ways that progress in science and technology has been astronomically amplifying, by order of magnitude, after order of magnitude, the ways that social pyramid systems were controlled by backing up lies with violence, which could never stop those lies from being false, but only drive society as a whole to become terminally sick and insane, due to the paradoxically ways that social successes based on backing up lies with violence drives society as a whole to become more psychotically insane, in the sense that the triumphant enforcement of frauds never stops those frauds from still being false.

Therefore, the American Monetary System gradually became an increasingly absurd manifestation of the force of governments enforcing frauds by privately controlled banks. That generated feedback loops whereby private property was based on backing up claims with coercions, which became crazier and crazier, since the most abstract form of that was that money is measurement backed by murder, yet that was being done through the maximum possible enforcement of frauds. Around and around and around that has gone, with the paradoxical ways that civilization was being controlled by integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, automatically getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate.

The American Military and militarized police are being given increasingly impossible missions, which are to continue to enforce frauds, and back up lies with violence, despite that it is ultimately impossible to do, but rather, only drives everything towards severe social storms and psychotic breakdowns. The American Military and militarized police are going to be given more and more insane orders. As their orders get more and more blatantly insane, some of them are eventually going to refuse to obey such insane orders. At those points, the chains of command will fragment, and some sorts of real revolutions and civil wars will begin. However, as long as the American Military and militarized police fail to go through enough profound paradigm shifts in the basic ways that they understand the political processes, then they will continue to not be able to cope with the exponential deterioration of the problems that they will be faced with, and struggling to cope with.

Militarism has always been the ideology of the murder system. Militarism deserves to be recognized and respected as necessarily the supreme ideology. However, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of the American Military and militarized police were too brainwashed to believe in bullshit, and so, unable to go through the sorts of intellectual scientific revolutions that they would need to go through in order to develop radically different comprehension of the death control systems, much less the ways that those death controls back up the debt controls.

The basic problems continue to be the Grand Canyon Chasms opening up between progress in physical science, versus nothing remotely like that in political science. Hence, the existence of globalized electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, without almost anybody actually doing those things being able and willing to consider the profound paradigm shifts that happened in physical science, which enabled those technologies to be developed. At the present time, as far as I can tell, the American Military and militarized police are pathetically unable to change the basic ways that they think regarding the death control systems that they operate. Furthermore, that is pretty well universally the case regarding the vast majority of the rest of the American population. Moreover, that also applies to every other manifestion of social pyramid systems, everywhere.

IF there is going to be any useful and eventually survivable Second American Revolution and/or Second American Civil War, then those are primarily going to have to be intellectual scientific revolutions. Furthermore, the same issues also apply everywhere else on the planet, although not as intensely as with the case of America, since it has the American Dollar as the global reserve currency, backed by the American Military, which is also, by far, the single greatest on the planet.

The combined American money/murder systems dominate the planet at the present time. Those have become MAD Money As Debt, backed by MAD Mutual Assured Destruction. What is worse is that recently that situation has continued to deteriorate at an exponential rate. A recent article on Zero Hedge, Cyber-Attacks Are The New Cold War, identified an emerging new system:

The warfare ideology today is ‘Multilateral Unconstrained Disruption’ (MUD).  This unrestrictive warfare is meant to disrupt societal functioning; to ‘poison’ information to elevate distrust of all computer information.

Obviously, the established systems of MADNESS have NOT actually gone away. The political economy is still based on the enforced frauds of the MAD monetary system, which are still backed up by the MAD military system, HOWEVER, we are now watching more and more MUD thrown around on top of that MADNESS.

Backing up lies with violence with technologies trillions of times more powerful and capable is the manifestation of the oxymoronic "scientific dictatorship," which is actually as profoundly unscientific about itself as it can possibly be. The same problem now applies to another classic oxymoron, "military intelligence."

Thousands of years of the history of warfare whose successes were based on deceits and treacheries have driven those kinds of successes to become runaway criminal insanities, which automatically become more psychotic the more socially successful those systems of being able to back up lies with violence become. Generation after generation, after generation, the social successfulness of operating systems of organized lies and robberies, becoming more sophisticated systems of enforced frauds, have driven too many of the people doing that to be such extreme manifestations of professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, that they tend to believe in their own bullshit. As far as I can tell from their public performances, most of the American Military and militarized police are professional hypocrites. While that used to work well enough in the past for them, that is no longer such a socially successful strategy, but rather has become increasingly morbid psychological and political habit.

That is the overall context in which there have developed monetary systems based on electronic frauds, whose enforcement includes every possible weapon of mass destruction that could be developed due to progress in physical sciences, being applied to become better at backing up lies with violence, which now includes the new doctrine of MUD piled deeper and splashed around over all of the previously existing MADNESS. Indeed, at the present time, political "progress" amounts to spraying MUD on top of MADNESS.

 That is going to be the context in which the American Military and militarized police are supposed to impose martial law on the American people. I can not imagine any way that covering MADNESS with MUD could work. There must necessarily be some monetary systems backed by some murder systems. However, those should be radically transformed by developing political science which is made more consistent with the progress based on profound paradigm shifts in physical sciences.

Of course, I do NOT expect that to actually happen, since the real world is not almost totally dominated by MAD privatized monetary system, backed up by MAD military systems, whose degree of privatization is catching up to the previous privatization of the monetary system. In general, there is no private property outside of some system of public violence. At the present time, doing that is increasingly psychotic, with no end in sight of the degree to which the debt insanities are going to provoke death insanities.

Ironically, one way to regard the American Military and militarized police is that they have become too good at their job, for too long. The oldest book on The Art of War started by saying that "success in war is based on deceits," and ended by saying that "spies are the most important soldiers."  Hence, the history of warfare was based on backing up deceits with destruction, which then became the foundation for a political economy based upon enforcing frauds. In that context, the American Military and the militarized police are providing the destruction to back up deceits, which serves those who keep the established systems of enforced frauds going, and growing, despite those trends getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate, due to the basic issue that backing up lies with violence, no matter how successfully that is done, still never stops those lies from being false. Therefore, more and more every day, the American Military and militarized police are being given insane orders, where the more that they follow those orders, the worse the problems they face become.

It is a general observation that revolutions do not tend to succeed unless some significant portion of those who supposed to suppress them decide to join that revolution instead. I would hold on to that apparently irrational hope with respect to the American Military and militarized police. There is nobody else who should go through radical transformations of the ways that they understand death controls more than them. They are the ones who most need to change the ways that they think about the murder systems that back up the monetary systems.

Of course, while I regard that as mostly being an irrational hope at the present time, one can still have solace in the transcendental hopes that human beings and civilizations operate as general energy systems, through which the principle of the conservation of energy manifests. Theoretically, the kinds of progress achieved through profound paradigm shifts in physical science could also be achieved in political science. Indeed, from a sublime point of view, that is imperative, since the technologies like electronics and atomic energy already exist ...

Generally speaking, the American Military and militarized police have become de facto members of the transnational scientific community, in sense that, in order to do their job, they have to become some range of scientists, engineers and technicians, that are able to understand the science and technologies that enable the weapons systems that they have to be functionally operated. In that context, in does not appear too totally impossible that some of them might be able to go through the kinds of intellectual scientific revolutions which would be necessary for them to cope with the weapons that they have access to becoming trillions of times more powerful and capable than ever before in human history.

More than anybody else, ideally, the American Military and militarized police should breakthrough to understanding the nature of the dilemmas that they face regarding how to be the best at backing up lies with violence, after progress in physical science has already broken through to the development of technologies which are trillions of times more powerful and capable, and are headed towards becoming quadrillions of times, IF a technologically based civilization could survive the contradictions regarding it doing that!

In general, we ALREADY DO live in a technological civilization, and therefore, theoretically, nothing is more important to a technological civilization than its philosophy of science. Therefore, especially with regard to the American Military and militarized police, they should go through intellectual scientific revolutions, which then would apply to the combined money/murder systems, or the ways that they are supposed to back up the debt controls with death controls, which is especially imperative because the established debt slavery systems, based on governments enforcing the frauds of privately controlled banks, are automatically becoming worse runaway debt insanities every day, which therefore, are automatically trending towards driving worse death insanities to develop.

At the present time, too much of the American Military and militarized police do not seem to fully comprehend the paradoxical ways that they have been attempting to back up deceits with destruction, or enforce frauds, in ways which are more and more obviously backfiring badly, since no amount of violence used to back up lies ever can actually stop those lies from still being false. I REPEAT, the American Military and militarized police are, more than anybody else, suffering from the paradox of final failure from too much success. They have been doing their jobs of enforcing frauds, backing up deceits with destruction, or manifesting the legalized violence to uphold legalized lies, too much, for too long.

Being ordered to impose martial law on Americans will become worsening series of severe social storms and psychotic breakdowns, because no amount of violence is ever able to stop lies from being false. The paradoxical problems will only get worse, faster, at an exponential rate, the more that the American Military and militarized police attempted to impose martial law.

There seems to me to be no doubt that the established systems of MADNESS are planning upon becoming even MADDER, while they are also adding their new tactics of throwing around more and more MUD on top of that mess. However, I can not imagine any way that doing that could ever work. Rather, there could be nothing less than an intellectual scientific revolution, in order to guide a Second American Revolution, and Second American Civil War, that might be sufficient. Furthermore, the same ideas also apply everywhere else on the planet, to every social pyramid system.

Everywhere, social pyramid systems are based on their history of successfully being able to back up lies with violence, and everywhere those are facing the problems presented by progress in physical science and technologies not being surpassed by progress in political science. America led the world in doing that ... In my opinion, the only, albeit apparent irrational, hope for the future of America, as well as the rest of the world, is for political science to go through enough of a series of intellectual scientific revolutions, which would then apply to the ways that the combined money/murder systems were perceived and operated.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:04 | 6041597 Kirk2NCC1701
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RM, yours is not a comment but an Article. 

Next time send it to TD, so he can post it as an article. 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:12 | 6041601 Seek_Truth
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Exactly.

I don't think he'll ever learn.

Reader's Digest version, please!

We could all write novels and post them in the comment section.

It would be the end of the ZH comment section, because no one has time to read everyone's novels.

It reveals a certain narcissm, methinks.

 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:27 | 6041624 Radical Marijuana
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Another useless ad hominem. There is no substance in any such "criticism". Not a single point is refuted. Nothing is added in the way of content. Just more obnoxious ad hominem.

The only thing that such "replies" do is prove my main point that there is no reasonable hope for the foreseeable future, since such "replies" only once again demonstrate how deliberately stupid most people are!

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:42 | 6041645 Seek_Truth
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Look up "Ad Hominem, I am not attacking you, or your character- I am giving you constructive criticism.

And think about this word "comment".

Keep it succinct.

Or else you lose people.

Try being verbose with a stranger and see how long they listen to you, especially when you repeat yourself incessantly.

 

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 16:10 | 6043960 Lore
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@ Radical: Your good thoughts are appreciated, and your writing reflects desire to be thorough, but it's good practice for all of us to comment efficiently in consideration of fellow ZHers who have day jobs. Boil down your articles to essential points, make them ONCE clearly and succinctly, and reach more people with better effect. That's what matters, yes?

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 08:07 | 6042019 Dickweed Wang
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Man you are totally missing the point here.  Everyone that is taking the "shorter please" stance is trying to tell you that the comment section is intended to allow people to provide feedback or comments on the main article (obviously people get off track, this is a case in point).  Not to provide readers a forum for a complete rebuttal of the article or, worse yet, a forum for them to provide a dissertation length treatise on an issue not truly related to the main article.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:22 | 6041616 Radical Marijuana
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It is just some electrons and magnetic fields in some servers.

I write for my own amusement, to pass the time. I am not interested in asking Zero Hedge to publish my "articles." Actually, about the only thing that I expect follows from publishing is that one's name gets added to the list of people to be put in concentration camps and mass murdered, when the martial law lockdowns kick into higher gear. As described in a recent article by Roberts, as republished on Zero Hedge: The Limits Of Propaganda

IF, IF, IF, I could think of anything which provided worthwhile actionable intelligence, then I might ask that to be published. However, all of my analysis ends with the most probable conclusions that the vast majority of Americans have become Zombie Sheeple, that were being fleeced to exhaustion, while they were set up to be slaughtered. I believe that North America IS going to be turned into an insane battlefield, and that the established systems are going to try and fail to impose the lockdown of martial law.

For several decades I have endeavoured to think of some ways to prevent that, or prepare for that. However, as far as I can tell, I have failed to do so, and nobody else that I am aware of has sufficiently succeeded. I try to understand things simply for the sake of doing that. Writing is a tool to assist with thinking. However, my overall conclusions continue to be dismal cubed, so much so that, other than for me to pass the time amusing myself thinking out loud about my analysis of the problems, there is no practical point to bother to do so, and therefore, no practical point to bother to try to get my stuff published anywhere, other than that which I merely do for my own amusement, to pass the time, since that is practically free to do so, taking only some fraction of a cent's worth of electricity to do so ...

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:35 | 6041635 Seek_Truth
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"I have failed to do so, and nobody else that I am aware of has sufficiently succeeded."

Here's a thought: Try writing succinctly. Nobody wants to read repetitive statements over and over again- it's very tedious.

Do you ever proofread?

You repeated yourself about "amusing yourself", "Just electrons", etc, all the while having no empathy for your reading audience. If everyone's "comments" were as lengthy as yours, nobody would read any of them. Empathy man empathy!

And before you say it again- NO, this is not an Ad-Hominem, as I am not attacking you- I am merely giving you constructive criticism as to why you don't have a lot of people reading your "comments".

That is all.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:38 | 6041641 Radical Marijuana
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There is absolutely nothing "constructive" in your "criticism." It is merely various versions of telling me to shut up. Well, right back at you!

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 01:44 | 6041647 Seek_Truth
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One last time-

I'm not telling you to shut up.

I'm telling you to be brief and succinct.

Everyone else can do it.

You can to.

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 06:40 | 6041858 Gone Full Retard
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"I write for my own amusement, to pass the time."

What? Are you incarcerated?

Anyhow, I see what you did. You applied a layer on top by 'bolding' key words. If you skim the keywords you get the gist of your posting.

Well done. It makes for a quick read plus you get to waste all kinds of your own time. **thumbs-up**

Wed, 04/29/2015 - 07:55 | 6041961 August
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>>>There is absolutely nothing "constructive" in your "criticism." It is merely various versions of telling me to shut up. Well, right back at you!

You are certainly entitled to your own perception.  Personally I second the criticism, RM. 

Some of yours post here are quite good, but the repetitiveness and length of your text tends to swamp the ideas which are buried therein.

IMHO you should decimate your text prior to posting which, as good zh'ers all know, means "reduce by 10%".  At least.

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