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They Live, We Sleep: A Dictatorship Disguised As A Democracy
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong.”—They Live
We’re living in two worlds, you and I.
There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of), the latter of which is a far cry from the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors, including the media.
Indeed, what most Americans perceive as life in America—privileged, progressive and free—is a far cry from reality, where economic inequality is growing, real agendas and real power are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak and corporate obfuscation, and “freedom,” such that it is, is meted out in small, legalistic doses by militarized police armed to the teeth.
All is not as it seems.
This is the premise of John Carpenter’s film They Live (1988), in which two migrant workers discover that the world’s population is actually being controlled and exploited by aliens working in partnership with an oligarchic elite. All the while, the populace—blissfully unaware of the real agenda at work in their lives—has been lulled into complacency, indoctrinated into compliance, bombarded with media distractions, and hypnotized by subliminal messages beamed out of television and various electronic devices, billboards and the like.
It is only when homeless drifter John Nada (played to the hilt by the late Roddy Piper) discovers a pair of doctored sunglasses—Hoffman lenses—that Nada sees what lies beneath the elite’s fabricated reality: control and bondage.
When viewed through the lens of truth, the elite, who appear human until stripped of their disguises, are shown to be monsters who have enslaved the citizenry in order to prey on them. Likewise, billboards blare out hidden, authoritative messages: a bikini-clad woman in one ad is actually ordering viewers to “MARRY AND REPRODUCE.” Magazine racks scream “CONSUME” and “OBEY.” A wad of dollar bills in a vendor’s hand proclaims, “THIS IS YOUR GOD.”
When viewed through Nada’s Hoffman lenses, some of the other hidden messages being drummed into the people’s subconscious include: NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, CONFORM, SUBMIT, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WATCH TV, NO IMAGINATION, and DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.
This indoctrination campaign engineered by the elite in They Live is painfully familiar to anyone who has studied the decline of American culture. A citizenry that does not think for themselves, obeys without question, is submissive, does not challenge authority, does not think outside the box, and is content to sit back and be entertained is a citizenry that can be easily controlled.
In this way, the subtle message of They Live provides an apt analogy of our own distorted vision of life in the American police state, what philosopher Slavoj Žižek refers to as dictatorship in democracy, “the invisible order which sustains your apparent freedom.”
We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality. The powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, shooters, bombers). They want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized armies for our safety and well-being. They want us distrustful of each other, divided by our prejudices, and at each other’s throats. Most of all, they want us to continue to march in lockstep with their dictates.
Tune out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: the moneyed elite who rule us view us as expendable resources to be used, abused and discarded.
In fact, a 2014 study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University concluded that the U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens. Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and powerful, or the so-called “economic elite.” Moreover, the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups.
In other words, we are being ruled by an oligarchy disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascism—a form of government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen as mere subjects to be controlled.
Consider this: it is estimated that the 2016 presidential election could cost as much as $5 billion, more than double what was spent getting Obama re-elected in 2012.
Not only do you have to be rich—or beholden to the rich—to get elected these days, but getting elected is also a surefire way to get rich. As CBS News reports, “Once in office, members of Congress enjoy access to connections and information they can use to increase their wealth, in ways that are unparalleled in the private sector. And once politicians leave office, their connections allow them to profit even further.”
In denouncing this blatant corruption of America’s political system, former president Jimmy Carter blasted the process of getting elected—to the White House, governor’s mansion, Congress or state legislatures—as “unlimited political bribery… a subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect, and sometimes get, favors for themselves after the election is over.”
Rest assured that when and if fascism finally takes hold in America, the basic forms of government will remain. As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, fascism will appear to be friendly. The legislators will be in session. There will be elections, and the news media will continue to cover the entertainment and political trivia. Consent of the governed, however, will no longer apply. Actual control will have finally passed to the oligarchic elite controlling the government behind the scenes.
By creating the illusion that it preserves democratic traditions, fascism creeps slowly until it consumes the political system. And in times of “crisis,” expediency is upheld as the central principle—that is, in order to keep us safe and secure, the government must militarize the police, strip us of basic constitutional rights, criminalize virtually every form of behavior, and build enough private prisons to house all of us nonviolent criminals.
Clearly, we are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests. We have moved into “corporatism” (favored by Benito Mussolini), which is a halfway point on the road to full-blown fascism.
Vast sectors of the economy, government and politics are managed by private business concerns, otherwise referred to as “privatization” by various government politicians. Just study modern government policies. “Every industry is regulated. Every profession is classified and organized,” writes economic analyst Jeffrey Tucker. “Every good or service is taxed. Endless debt accumulation is preserved. Immense doesn’t begin to describe the bureaucracy. Military preparedness never stops, and war with some evil foreign foe, remains a daily prospect.”
In other words, the government in America today does whatever it wants.
Corporatism is where the few moneyed interests—not elected by the citizenry—rule over the many. In this way, it is not a democracy or a republican form of government, which is what the American government was established to be. It is a top-down form of government and one which has a terrifying history typified by the developments that occurred in totalitarian regimes of the past: police states where everyone is watched and spied on, rounded up for minor infractions by government agents, placed under police control, and placed in detention (a.k.a. concentration) camps.
For the final hammer of fascism to fall, it will require the most crucial ingredient: the majority of the people will have to agree that it’s not only expedient but necessary. But why would a people agree to such an oppressive regime? The answer is the same in every age: fear.
Fear is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government. And, as most social commentators recognize, an atmosphere of fear permeates modern America: fear of terrorism, fear of the police, fear of our neighbors and so on.
The propaganda of fear has been used quite effectively by those who want to gain control, and it is working on the American populace.
Despite the fact that we are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack; 11,000 times more likely to die from an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane; 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a terrorist attack, and 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist, we have handed over control of our lives to government officials who treat us as a means to an end—the source of money and power.
We have allowed ourselves to become fearful, controlled, pacified zombies.
In this regard, we’re not so different from the oppressed citizens in They Live. Most everyone keeps their heads down these days while staring zombie-like into an electronic screen, even when they’re crossing the street. Families sit in restaurants with their heads down, separated by their screen devices and unaware of what’s going on around them. Young people especially seem dominated by the devices they hold in their hands, oblivious to the fact that they can simply push a button, turn the thing off and walk away.
Indeed, there is no larger group activity than that connected with those who watch screens—that is, television, lap tops, personal computers, cell phones and so on. In fact, a Nielsen study reports that American screen viewing is at an all-time high. For example, the average American watches approximately 151 hours of television per month.
The question, of course, is what effect does such screen consumption have on one’s mind?
Psychologically it is similar to drug addiction. Researchers found that “almost immediately after turning on the TV, subjects reported feeling more relaxed, and because this occurs so quickly and the tension returns so rapidly after the TV is turned off, people are conditioned to associate TV viewing with a lack of tension.” Research also shows that regardless of the programming, viewers’ brain waves slow down, thus transforming them into a more passive, nonresistant state.
Historically, television has been used by those in authority to quiet discontent and pacify disruptive people. “Faced with severe overcrowding and limited budgets for rehabilitation and counseling, more and more prison officials are using TV to keep inmates quiet,” according to Newsweek.
Given that the majority of what Americans watch on television is provided through channels controlled by six mega corporations, what we watch is now controlled by a corporate elite and, if that elite needs to foster a particular viewpoint or pacify its viewers, it can do so on a large scale.
If we’re watching, we’re not doing.
The powers-that-be understand this. As television journalist Edward R. Murrow warned in a 1958 speech:
We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
This brings me back to They Live, in which the real zombies are not the aliens calling the shots but the populace who are content to remain controlled.
When all is said and done, the world of They Live is not so different from our own. As one of the characters points out, “The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain.”
We, too, are focused only on our own pleasures, prejudices and gains. Our poor and underclasses are also growing. Racial injustice is growing. Human rights is nearly nonexistent. We too have been lulled into a trance, indifferent to others.
Oblivious to what lies ahead, we’ve been manipulated into believing that if we continue to consume, obey, and have faith, things will work out. But that’s never been true of emerging regimes. And by the time we feel the hammer coming down upon us, it will be too late.
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You just sent an invitation to the Obama IRS/FBI/Homeland "Security" to stop by your place.
the propaganda is steadily becoming less subtle: http://www.philiacband.com/propaganda.html
RIP ROWDY RODDY PIPER!!!
I really hope they didnt kill him..he didnt look sick in his early 60s.
RIPS
That was pretty darned interesting. Now, where'd I put the remote, ah hell I'm sitting on it. "Honey could you bring me that bag of Cheetros? OK Thanks."
Guess I'll rise up in revolt tomorrow, this Walker Texas Ranger re-run is kick ass, or at least it was the other two times. Damn spilled the cheetos! FML!
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
It's stupid...so many people I know who had no idear who RRP was. Then they're talking about him today. So then I ask them if they've ever seen the most bad-ass movie ever, They Live..and hardly any of them have ever seen it or even heard of it. They "want" to see it only now.
geez.
well...hope it wakes them up.
RIP - RRP
We're from the same town bro :-)
Either put on these glasses...Or start eatin' this trash can!
I came here to kick ass...and chew bubble gum...and I'm all outta buble gum! LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdqkbradtuw
RIP RRP!
Hopefully this helps to wake up a few more sheeple. That's all we can hope for outta RRP dying.
Force those people to put on the glasess no matter what the cost.
Save them....
The fact that the Murrow quote in the article is from 1958 is pretty staggering. That was then....
TeeVee now....whew!!!!!
I think a true republic could never have been disguised as a democracy...
I always found "They Live" to be an almost literal representation of the truth of this world, with the exception of the alien influence.
Humans do not require otherworldly provocateurs to begin treating each other viciously. In some ways, this makes reality more disturbing than fiction; In the case of aliens or demons, we could at least blame outside agencies as the root cause for us mutually mistreating one another. It seems more likely however we have none but ourselves to blame for the state of our world, with nothing to look to but our own shortcomings and short-sightedness.
Eirik thinks it's our fault..that is part of the programming..you know those evil red necks and racists just ruined it for all of us..LOL...like they have power or are in power in DC or Brussel's.
in the west we are all brainwashed into not seeing the real world..and Eirik is a perfect example of not seeing what is in front of his face..the invasion of EU from the MidEast and Africa and the world view of stone age people they bring with them.
Eirik needs to put on the special sun glasses..they are right here on ZH, but he cannot he is programmed not to.
Well I've got news for em.. there goin be hell to pay.. cus I ain't daddy's little boy no more.
"with the exception of the alien influence."
The argument could even be made that they're not aliens, because they sure look like a certain group of dual-citizens when viewed without the special glasses.
Gotta pipe in on this one. Me thinks she doth protest to much. The art's author seems to be doing a tad bit of gate keeping, i.e. part of the agenda apparatus, either purposely, or cause it make him feel good, or, as many of our "trying to hide inner fears" neighbors, workmates and acquaints, a victim of the sum of all that behavioral doctrine crap deep hypno embedded, and hard prothlesized with extreme prejudice, from teach's desk since K.
Like suggesting "the government" is not within the domain of the commons. Forget if the art referenced politicians as "leaders". They ain't - `cept for their staff.
We govern. Our proxies represent more than 99% of ownership. Politicians couldn't afford their "find the quarter" quarters, goods wouldn't move, be sold, or be paid for, without "US", the commons, making it happen.
Old story. Dog walked with the neighbor. PHD Geology - has a nose for de gooey carbon that can't be beat. I ask a trick question, "Is the president a world leader?". Neighbors responds, "No, but he is my leader.!" Get the same catechism-ish response from righties and lefties in the hood.
Knowing my dog walk bud say something like that, the rant was ready to go.
I sez:
He ain't your leader, he's your employee. The only thing he leads is a staff. He's the commander and chief, by agreement and our authorizations. I point out to my hood-mate that at this very moment our dogs, who are sniffing around halfway down the bayou, are our leaders. We're following them, not because a rule somewhere says we must "follow our dog". We're following our dogs because our relationship with our dogs compels us to follow.
Jizt being defined as so don't make it so! IOW The diff tween a job description saying the person hired for that job is a commander and chief don't don't necessarily mean that person is a leader, or that he'll be followed by whatever a piece of paper sez he's commandeering and chiefing.
Government is word for an organizational chart. A dimensionless structure. Juz like corporate structures are defined in any Delaware LLC stamped incorporation papers.
Senators, congressmen, the guy who cleans the Yellowstone tourist potty, and even our imagined illustrious leader, are employees hired to service the role of their node in the organizations "structure".
Ya can't touch a government, ya can't smell a government, ya can't taste a government. Why? Because a government is an "idea".
However, one can "taste" a politician if they're hungry znuff, and food be short. One can smell a politician - juz ask Benito's ghost!
Look at the republic, instead, as an inverted pyramid, with the commons, that be you, me, most all of us, on top, and everything else below. The presidential node is the pointy bottom bit. If we just shift the center of balance by a "pentaquark", it all come tumbling down.
Dat should answer the perinniel "who is in control" question. We are in control.
We are not governed, we, instead, "govern". (practice in front of mirror until you convince yourself - or just pretend, and soon or later the idea will become a 'truth" - it will be part of you).
The problem is way back when the Reg was tele prompting, the face jobs in the new media, like CNBC, came up with a new slave caste, "consumers". And they, and others worked that riff till the fret wore flat. But it worked. A lot of smart people really believe they're consumers.
In the scheme of stuff, ya got the so-called "consumers", and the so-called "producers". Ask yourself, who creates the wealth, who owns ever brick and mortar government asset from DC to the Rechawed County court house?
We do.
The government is a bunch of cost centers. It don't produce nothing. Therefore the government is a consumer. And the manufactures, well they're getting a subsidy from us, that ,so that sector is also a consumer. And don't get me started on the magical fractional reserve illusionists self anointed tug jobs claiming as "wealth creators".
Subsidies are of two forms: 1) pipes out from the IRS, that gush into private sector coffers, filled with token converted represenations of the stuff we produce and tithe into IRS intake sumps, and, or 2) Money printing that pushes the commons cost of living higher `n higher, but, OTH, also inflates equities, or Bankster Soveriegns, that can be converted to other commons sovereigns that have a more reliable assay.
And, one could say, given the rule of "eminent domain", that we, the commons, own, literally, every fucking thing on, in and above this rock, aka, the USA.
Message is to be wary of words that seem to assign dominion to any element of the chart that ain't us, aka the commons.
Be wary of words that suggest we are afraid of our employees. Be wary of words that suggest we fear.
And that's why I don't do two shows a night. I just won't!
Word to your momma: 'Our Land'
Ha! Figures it'd be something like this...
It's a corporate-brand-entity-owned future, the Matrix. The tech giants, especially Apple, have been buying up acres upon acres of land in Silicon Valley. It will be a monument to their dominion over man. The Eye of Sauron arises.
OT - Since Matrix, Wachowskis' moved to a different, (PC3 I might add) kind of production. Check out 'Sense8' series...
idiot, show us a link....anyway-they have bought tons of land in south Carolina for their new Manufacturing/Campus...what a dolt!
Since WIndows 10 connects directly to the NSA, MI6 and the MOSSAD, take your whining elsewhere
Sauron
In the same work, he is identified as the Necromancer mentioned in Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit.
Bu Bu Bu But Microsoft Windows 10 connects straight to the NSA?
That souds kinda bad.
Maybe I need to move to PCLinuxOS, without 10 million line who knows what -systemd- swallowed by Debian.
Gotta stay on top of your tech stack, or become the next Happy Meal™.
Morpheus goes on to star in blackish. Naggers idolizing joo.
Naggers idolizing the very joo matrix that they are suppose to be fighting in the joo movie cinema!
You fucking idiots!
PLANTIN SEASON STARTS IN SPRING, SUCKER.
"I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
RIP Roddy!
"I got one who can see"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBY6pF42I-c
I always got the sense that Carpenter used the aliens as kind of metaphor for the jews in They Live.
A Zionist is not a Jew. A Zionist is a Zionist - period.
Rowdy Roddy Piper had some interesting posts on Twitter, such as They Live is a Documentary.
This film pretty much killed Carpenter too, well his career anyway.
They Live is such a classic, completely underrated and under-appreciated at the time.
MSNBC's Maddow: Fox News deliberately ‘ending candidacies’ of Republicans they don’t like
http://tinyurl.com/p6sx88m
Become one who can see!
Watch it all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMym1-uf5eI
Ehh, I keep them pretty busy, such as their capabilites allow. you all have some time.
Yes!!!! Well done Tylers; My respect for your efforts has just lifted by a huge degree. This is what this site has needed on its path to its maturity. This is the platform that has the membership large enough to establish a springoard for a return to true justice and freedom, through education.
We MUST educate all we can, brushing off the derision heaped upon us before the other solution to tyranny dawns. This is one parrable of truth, bring on many more.
Kudos Ts.
You haven't figured out what this website is yet huh? Carry on ZHeeple.
Visit without an ad blocker of some kind and it's like putting on those glasses in the movie. Then you understand the wild click-bait shit they put up so often, throwing red meat to the ignorant mob.
Then, of course, you gotta wonder if funding is being supplied by the neo-liberal "libertarians" whose causes they so strongly promote.
My invitation is engraved and proclaimed. Fuck these assholes, you already know my address.
Oblivious to what lies ahead, we’ve been manipulated into believing that if we continue to consume, obey, and have faith, things will work out. But that’s never been true of emerging regimes. And by the time we feel the hammer coming down upon us, it will be too late.
Speak for yourself, don't include me in the over-simplification.
Good. I've been needing to take a piss.
I think the US FED just kicked it off with this meaningless comment about rate hike. Already see forex moving in Euro UK like it should not for this time.
Yen breaks higher and slowly it should become the next Ruble.
tuesday was the beginning of a china sized correction
this is nothing new.
This is exactly how our plutocratic founding fathers wanted it.
And Madison, the father of the constitution, wrote that the governmental structure of the federal govt was meant to dampen democracy.
But don't listen to me.
Read what Dr Fresia wrote, and read the original documents he quotes. Here is Dr Fresia's book online in its entirety:
http://cyberjournal.org/authors/fresia/
Or read Dr Holton's book UNRULY AMERICANS.
Both of them use orginal documents to show that the elite structured america to steal democracy from us.
The EU has the same purpose.
Oh, I think I have read enough books for now Sir. I like that you are researching some history.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5103
you point to an EFFECT of the loss of our democracy...I point to the CAUSE of our loss of democracy.
I see your point. What is the perfect system? That one is tough.
so if you are being bit by a snake and I point that out, in order to do so I first have to offer a perfect way to avoid snake bites?
Mata, re "Both of them use orginal documents to show that the elite structured america to steal democracy from us. The EU has the same purpose."
without you thinking I want to defend that club called "the EU", since you talk about structures, democracy and this article is about propaganda...
note two little things:
- the EU is structured in a completely different way then the US, and even it's sovereign members are structured in a completely different way
nevertheless...
- English speakers are bombarded with the message that "the EU is a copy of the US", coupled with the sublimal "the US is so awesome that europe is copying it"
this does not mean we don't have elites (national ones, and by the way old ones, too) or propaganda (in several languages, and in some countries switched from socialist propaganda to the new brands)
this does not mean we have in any way a perfect, or even satisfactory system, by far
but nevertheless, you are fed a constant message: the EU ought, if it does not yet, to resemble every year more the US, because the US is just perfect, structurally
and interestingly even sources that try to seem critical of the US system... parrot this message. so it becomes: "The EU has the same purpose"
yes, the key is structures. no, our structures are different. break your indoctrination and study a bit the differences, and you might get a bit nearer the truth
then one thing where the current propaganda in the US puts a lot of emphasis is simple: don't question the structures
both the EU and US use fake money.........fake money designed by elites to steal from the sheep
and this comment somehow just highlights what I am saying
first, the whole EU does not "use" the EUR
the EU is a club of 28 sovereigns. the 19-strong club of the EUR users is the eurozone, a different club
second, all currencies in europe were backed by the USD, after 1946. meaning that our national banks were stuffed with USDs, which were exchangeable for gold... until 1971
I repeat: we europeans had the right to exchange our currencies to USD or gold. you Americans... were not even allowed to hold gold, from 1934 to 1974
the EUR? is a response to the post-1971 USD, the "Nixon Shock". first in form of fixed exchange, then more formally
and the current currency war is a Chinese response to the US "privilege" of issuing the mighty fiat global reserve currency... the true enemy of gold
are we, in the Old World, subjected to a relentless propaganda against gold? no. are you Americans? yes
even some little details might or might not open your eyes:
does the FED own gold? no. since 1934, it's forbidden to own gold, only hold it for the Treasury
do the european national banks own gold? yes. does the ECB own gold? yes
So we are losing our democracy? Great, we must be regaining our Constitutional Republic then.
Grrrrreate, mate!
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Bang on.
Down with democracy, the snivilling whore.
learn to read--we lost our democracy in the late 1700s when the plutocrats illegaliy discarded the highly democratic Articles of Confederation and installed the undemocratic constitution.
Learn to think-- democracy and Republic are polar opposites.
well, since "republic" as defined by our founding plutocrats is another word for pseudo-democracy, I certainly agree. Thanks for making my point.
You must love having that elite cock up your ass and having their propaganda in your mind.
Democracy is mob rule, what exactly is it that you think these progressives are pushing again?
progressives are cheap-labor hacks/drones of the elite. They help their elite get more cheap labor with their acceptance of elite anti-white multiculturalist propaganda.
On the other hand you have the conservatives drones of the elite, who help the elite push their anti-worker propaganda and their anti-democracy propaganda.
It is not hard to tell which drone tribe you belong to.
Oh really now? That's an amazing talent, reading minds and telling us what we all think.
Democracy is a progressive ideal. I'm not a progressive, and your false dichotomy isn't very effective on people like me. You see, you're not going to find anyone else like me, so there is no chance of you having a clue what tribe I belong to. I'm also not ashamed to admit that I prefer my own people over the weak mental midgets such as yourself.
Boy, if you knew ANYTHING you would know that the Founding Fathers considered the word "democracy" a dirty, filthy word because it is the most vile form of government.
Benjamin Franklin defined democracy as “two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
the rich have always hated democracy....
And a large number of working class people have always taken the elite propaganda up their ass....you are obviously among that number...
Thomas Jefferson: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.
jefferson was born rich...of course he is going to be against democracy....If I could go back in time, I would cut his throat...after cutting his balls off first.
Yes, we know you are a faggot obsessed with balls, but men of all stripes have spoken out against the evils of democracy.
Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Karl Marx: Democracy is the road to socialism.
Uh-oh!!!! Couple this with Marx' pal Lenin: "Communism is the goal of socialism." So DEMOCRACY = COMMUNISM
BOOYAH BITCH!
He's a progressive trying to pretend to be altruistic. It's fucking hilarious IMO.
Altruism is a con by the left to make those non-leftists feel guilty about not cooperating.
moron-they both work for the same Elite that rule the world-the next President has already been chosen, no matter how you vote
Judging from CNN coverage, apparently our selectees for our considered vote will be 'Bush Vs Clinton' II.
"Learn to think-- democracy and Republic are polar opposites"
that's pure propaganda
the two terms are often used as polar opposites... in the US. for the simplest of reasons: the US Democratic and the US Republican party
a Republic can be democratic or not... in various degrees. a dictatorship can be a republic, too
the underlying message of your phrase is that it might be wise to temper democracy with constitutional restraints
(two lions can't legally deliberate if the lamb is going to be lunch or dinner, today, if it's unconstitutional to eat the lamb)
Multiple levels of Government, probably multiple levels of banking since TBTF are in a class by themselves. Multiple Classes of Citizens, some voting, some criminal, some debtor class, some diplomatic class and government class, and some are super wealthy class who have the diplomatic or monarchy privileges.
Local Democracy has recently lost to dependence on National/Federal Government Funding to make budgets... and they lost to Wall Street Banks at some point and is on going.
Stratified Society? Classes based on wealth, earnings, education, privilege, parentage, background check, employer, membership in international associations?
Republic of dependencies?
Rule By Monarchies?
Corporatism?
Inverted Totalitarianism?
Capitalist Strategies will always involve creating monopolies, Racketeering, Dependence of Workers or Citizens, Influence of Government Officials, War for False Reasons, Suspension of Democracy or Civil Rights for Threats, Supplication of Citizens to Authorities for comfort and to dispel fear...
Perhaps this is all known 6,000 years ago in Sumeria. They had law and Contracts and Liability.
Money in the form of Gold held in houses and public buildings make it all possible to war, capture a city, take the wealth and gold...
Power, control, status, wealth, money... capitalism.
Capitalism doesn't have to mean corrupt Auditors.
Capitalism doesn't have to mean corrupt Accounting.
Capitalism doesn't have to mean looting by corporations.
Capitalism doesn't have to mean false Financial Ratings.
Capitalism doesn't have to mean Fraud.
Capitalism doesn't have to mean money in politics or "No Term Limits"
Yes, we want to dampen democracy. We want thoughtful, unselfish, people to represent us in a Rupublic and argue about the best way to make shit happen that benefits the entire nation.
We don't want democracy, which is, essentially, mob rule. We want seasoned, intelligent, people to consider the costs and consiquences of decisions that we simply don't have the time to make. We're too busy. That's why we elect parasites to sit on boards and connedgrease to think about things.
If only any elected vermin actually had a thought. That's what's wrong with goobermint. We elect psychopathic morons and expect them to think deliberatively.
And fucking morons like you elect them.
Buy PMs at discount and hold on is all I can say. There are massive private stockpiles of weapons, ammo, seed and PM's in the U.S. that can not be measured by any metric. They have no idea what they are facing but they are worried and they should be.
It is the New World Disorder.
http://youtu.be/NIzyoKsWTA4
I still like the song though.
Rowdy Piper - Rest his soul.
"We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality."
lol...wut?...you mean like manmade global warming lectures given by politicains & elites and dutifully covered ad nauseum by a captured state press flown into exotic locales on jets belching CO2 or a flag that needs to be banned in order to assuage moar "progressive white guilt" or Jon Corzines still Faaaarrreeee!...or motherfuckers...Trump once supported...Hillary?
http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/19/bill-clinton-on-donald-trump-he-supporte
Everything is not always as it seems, kids.
Haha.
If something Govt. come up with that actually looked good I'd probably shit myself.
It means they took the time to disguise the bullshit.
Somebody in the Govt. actually did their job.
By their fruits you shall know them. This is why I am saddened to see so many look to Trump as a leader out of our current situation.
I agree with the assertion we are living in a corporatocracy as suggested and the end of Benito Mussolini was appropriate. I don't see any out there ready for this type of justice. There is no other kind and benevolent way for removing the tyrants in power.
Miffed
He stikes me as exactly a Mussolini type.
I simply don't believe the hype and the polls, that a man who declared corporate bankruptcy multiple times will be given a national budget can even be considered, one who can even say the words "assault weapon" or background checks in relation to my God given rights, who actually spent money on Hillary! (where I wouldn't even piss on her if she were on fire writhing in agony at my feet) and he's a fucking New Yorker.
No, not now, not ever.
It's all a big stinkin' joke, and we're the punchline.
Perhaps Trump is playing the carnival barker or carney, shouting "step right up folks and behold the greatest show on earth", all the while knowing that the show will NOT go on. In other words a distraction like Cecil the Lion. Kill your television.
I'm expecting a turd trimester of Obie Wang Chugobi.
We'll be fighting in the street
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship
Will be gone
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g_SWP3qI7Rg&itct=CAYQpDAYCiITCJ2fgPOJkccCF...
God bless you Moonie and Entwistle, greatest rhythym section ever RIP
...fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
I saw The Who just a few days after Entwhistle died, in Marysville, CA. Great show, though it was strange that they played on so soon after his death. Stiff upper lip and all that, I guess.
That was my favorite song growing up, even long after I found Black Sabbath. Killer message that even children can understand damn well. Moon and Thunderfingers were the best drum 'n' bass section in rock music. No one plays the drums like Kieth Moon.
Back to the story at hand, even if Trump wins, one has to ask, what change can he possibly bring that will be beneficial to current or future generations? Do the endless wars end? Will there suddenly be a big scaling back of multi-national corps and a return of local production and jobs? Will Wall St. be broken up and the fraudsters hanged?
Long ago I had a friend who made a sizable investment in one of Trump's businesses. He was squashed in the bankruptcy as were all the other investors. He had tried to get me to participate showing some impressive numbers and was incredulous I would not partake. My simple reason? I do not trust Trump. He will always look out for himself and others be damned. My friend did admit I was right and I am sure he too will not be fooled again.
I need no official "transparency" in government. What I see cannot be hidden from those who care to look if they had any inclination. And I agree, save your urine for more worthy victims.
Miffed;-)
Holy Crap, that is testimony!!
NMEWN you are speaking as a realist now, you don't always speak as a realist so you know, 'Reality is what YOU think it is', Trump as Savior! get on the wagon, it is a lot of fun and the ride will soon be over.
I always thought you were someone I wouldn't 'Piss on' perhaps I was wrong, anyway welcome to the human race!
The Rabbi is dead?
I don't know whether to feel complimented or offended ;-)
In truth reality never changes only ones perception of it. There are only two types of animals in this world, predators and their prey.
As an apex predator, I too can admire the cleverness, the raw power, the cunning, the energy and the majesty of a Cecil the Lion...right up until he turns his attention toward me, then I have to be better than him or be the prey.
So you see, the reality never changed, only the perception of it.
Sparkey, welcome to the race of humans that thinks, occasionally... Btw your piss sensor is broken..
You scared?
I ain't scared.
They don't get shit from me.
Its fascism. We are at war. The federal government of the United States of America is attacking and killing its citizens. The books are already being written. Some of it is already being taught in college courses. There aren't any complete college text books of it yet but they are on their way. The final chapter of the books in the future will have photos of FED member heads stuck on the tops of poles posted outside the Eccles building and politicians hanging outside the White House. Time is the only thing seperating people from seeing such things today.
The hero will be some military generals that decided to take the most logical path of least resistence. So let it be written. So let it be done.
Any state is, by definition, at war with its own people.
I like Spooner who said even the constitution was an unlawlul document with regards to him because he didn't sign it.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
I renounce my 'pledge of allegiance.' If you can't say those words, you still openly support our beloved NeoStasi State.
Supporting the country and our Constitution is NOT the same as supporting the government.
Well, I think for most, the US Government is the country today, and the Pledge doesn't reference the Constitution. I won't pledge to a flag that now represents the opposite of so much our history and our Constitution. I can't even recognize anything remotely promoting Constitutional gov't anymore. Especially from said gov't. I won't lift a finger to defend that gov't from any 'enemy.' I'll fight for my family, my community, and in the unlikely event that my state actually asserts its sovereignty, then I'll fight for my State as well.
With the population heavily armed and the government becoming more out of touch, it will only take one screw up to set off a civil war and now you have the blacks doing open-carry marches, I think the days of sporadic violence like that in Ferguson/Baltimore are numbered.
Roddy Piper knew too much.
i see jeb is stalking the donald, and with karl rove and the keys to diebold he could win with 35% of americans supporting him, but if its 34% there will be a revolution (yeah sure)
Communism disguised as a REPUBLIC, remember that.
Media was mentioned. Let's take a look at who controls the idiot box or "Talmudvision: https://thezog.wordpress.com/who-controls-television/
The original ten planks of the Communist Manifesto written by the JEW Karl Marx (real name Mordecai Levy) in 1848, along with the American adopted counterpart of each of the planks, The American people have truly been "buried in Communism" by their own politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties. One other thing to remember, Karl Marx was stating in the Communist Manifesto that these planks will test whether a country has become commmunist or not. If they are all in effect and in force the country IS communist. Communism, but by any other name...??
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We call it "paying your fair share".
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
We call in government seizures, tax liens, Public "law" 99-570 (1986);
Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system nationally organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.
We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver's licenses and Department of Transportation regulations.
7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Fedral Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" . Add Common commie Core to this lis.
You left out "Nationalized Healthcare."
what, are you in favor of the Giant Health Care oligarcy that is making money hand over fist, while the average guy cant afford medical care- Obamacare is Nationaized Medicine-for the big health care companies-NOT for US
USA offers a good mix of historical and modern architecture and is rich in culture. Approximately 90% of the population is Spanish with ethnic minority groups including Moroccans, Romanians, Ecuadorians, and Colombians.
Sarc.
USA offers a good mix of historical and modern architecture and is rich in culture. Approximately 90% of the population is Islamic with ethnic minority groups including Yemenis, Syrians, Iraqis, Lebanese, Afghani, Turks, Kurds, Egyptians, Libyans, Turkmen, Uzbekis, Tajikis, Pakistanis, Saudis, and Chechens.
Sarc.
"We?" What "we?" Some of us are very aware of what is happening. We just do not know how to change it without ugly consequences.
Once one begins to awaken, s/he must decide either to stand and fight (revolution) or pack up and take flight (expatriation), both of which are honorable choices. Otherwise, just go back to sleep. There is no "voting the bums out", because the hopefulness of that notion is the very fallacy on which successful deployment of the Carroll Quigley model depends.
To review, your choices are: revolution, expatriation... or hiburnation.
Whitehead and the Rutherford Institute are awesome. They're out there every day battling in court for us and they make a difference. It's a good place to make a donation. They are fire-breathing Libertarians.
"Fear makes people stupid." --John Whitehead
Stupid enough to believe the "official story"? Naahh... I'm not stupid for believing 9/11, I just know that the rest of the world is jealous of all our freedoms, so of course the government is telling the truth. Hello!
--The Sheeple
Well whoever is running this show? One thing thats stands out is generational continuity. They have had our shit covered for a very long time.
Absolutely. That's the point of the 1889 book "The Great Red Dragon: Foreign Money Power in the United States." From small beginnings in the 1600s, to the most powerful empire that ever existed on earth, so far. We're smart enough to read such a book as an "example" and fill in what's happened since then. Same circus, different clowns, bigger tent. Book is free, courtesy of U of CA. Link at http://GreatRedDragon.com No ads, no tricks.
Thanks, bookmarked for later reading.
tl;dr = Stupid should hurt.
YMMV
About a month ago a ZH'er posted a link to "They Thought They Were Free: the germans 1933-45." First published in 1955, then again in 1966; the author died in 1986. So there's no influence here from today's world in the United States. Of course, I ordered a copy.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
Spooky reading. One point stands out right up front: there are two countries within every country. For ordinary lives of ordinary people, they have no idea what goes on elsewhere, and they really don't want to know, as long as they are not directly confronted with a different reality. That's a good reason the masses seem asleep and able to be manipulated. ZH'ers are already outside that group simply by showing up here, no matter what their opinions.
Recently bought the book, but haven't read it yet.
We've turned on.
We've tuned in.
Now let's drop the fuck out and starve the beast.
It has always been this way. The masses will always be an easily controlled herd. But at the end of the day it's their choice and it's probably better that way. Some will choose to break free and walk their own path. Good for them. The mass of humanity does not seek freedom. They seek security and stability. Those who seek freedom have always done so at their own peril.
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It has always been this way. The masses will always be an easily controlled herd. But at the end of the day it's their choice and it's probably better that way. Some will choose to break free and walk their own path. Good for them. The mass of humanity does not seek freedom. They seek security and stability
Newbies to sociology ought to look up the work done long prior to the full implementation of the "Nineteen Eight-Four system" that's been in full effect ever since 9/11/2001: e.g.
E. A. Ross, 1901, Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order.
W. Trotter, 1916, Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.
Total Gold Supply, 2013, 2014,:
Tons Gold supply, 4282, 4410,
http://www.gold.org/supply-and-demand/gold-demand-trends#full
Looks like a Balance where the Demand takes all the Supply for whatever reason.
Would love to sell Jewelery in India or China.
Table 7, Gold Demand By Country for 2014, Tons:
Greater China, 1,051,
China, 974,
Hong Kong, 61,
Singapore, 22,
Taiwan, 16,
Indonesia, 63,
India, 811,
Malaysia, 19,
Thailand, 107,
Vietnam, 67,
Saudi Arabia, 84,
UAE, 66,
Egypt, 51,
Iran, 75,
Turkey, 117,
Russia, 75,
United States, 164,
Germany, 112,
United Kingdom, 33,
Switzerland, 48,
But Table 11 shows some historical data that Coins & Bars, Central Bank Purchases have pushed Global Demand Up by 1000 Tons each year over the last 10 Years.
Historical Annual Demand in GOLD TONS:
Global Demand, Coins/Bars, Central Banks, Total Everything
2005: 418, -663, 3,127,
2006: 430, -365, 3,096,
2007: 438, -484, 3,115,
2008: 918 -235, 3,777,
2009: 832, -34, 3,674,
2010: 1,202 80, 4,213,
2011: 1,493, 481, 4,728,
2012: 1,300, 569, 4,690,
2013: 1,702, 626, 4,436,
2014: 1,004, 588, 4,212,
Coins and Bars are soaring, India, China, Europe, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Turkey, USA.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SOCIETY WE LIVE IN TRULY IS?
TAKE A RED PILL AND READ THIS:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/matrix-of-control-a-s...
This is nothing new. Maybe John Carpenter learned about it by reading Harry Barnes, which is how I found out.
Barnes was in all the newspapers in the early 1950s but he died in 1968. And he's the only one I've ever seen in print saying that the intended title of George Orwell's last novel was to be Nineteen Forty-Eight.
The control of everything by veritable zombies is old news. But it's all explainable with social theory ... if you can find the old books printed prior to our current Ministry of Truth as a peer-to-peer implementation guided by political correctness.
Many of us have never been brainwashed so we see only one world, not the two of the article. Apparently, John Whitehead had some kind of awakening, allowing him to see the world of manufactured group-think delusion as well as the world of "reality" unaffected by the social distortions primarily induced by mob fear, as he says.
Just a little bit arrogant - Many of us have never been brainwashed so we see only one world. Its probably a little more complicated than that. Consciouness is a danger to the status quo. The Buddha must be smiling.
Sounds like you're angry at the suggestion that you've been brainwashed without knowing it. That's totally understandable given that you don't have a clue what I'm talking about and have never read Barnes.
You must be twenty or thirty years older than me. I definitely was brainwashed without knowing it. School, society, parents...though I was aware in the 80's that I'd never see a penny of social security, I was basically the average zombie ignoring what our government was, and is, doing.
Sadly, it took until 2008 to wake my ass up and I spent a solid year of research to figure out what the fuck was going on. (As far as the last page of the internet...where fantasia rules...I had to know what was out there. http://www.1112.net/lastpage.html)
Now, I'm not as brainwashed. I still have ideals that I need to question, certainly, but I'm aware and educated now in a way I wasn't previously. I know I couldn't sit on a Jury for anything other than murder, and even then I'd lean to acquit; I have so little trust in govenrment anymore.
Since you seem totally focused on Buddhism for some reason ...
consider the possibility that it's a common misnomer to think that Buddhists say "Everything is Illusion."
I say that it's a deliberate mistranslation because eastern philisophy is much more easily understood if it's based on "Everything is DELUSION!"
Look into the two slit experiment and understand the role of the observer. Then understand that we are all observers.
"Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness."
This was the most important part.
Putin = Bad.
Obama = Good.
This is all you Ameropeons need to know.
I see them- for a good example look at this guy.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Koskinen
he tells congress fuck off and with bluster and fuss they do..the IRS story of lost emails and records seems to be the go to position..a lot like hillary's but I digress.
the press can't seem to bring themselves to ask obvious questions of this Koskinen alien being.
THEY LIVE.
Fascism is already firmly entrenched in America.
This country was a plutocracy right from the beginning with maybe only a brief period of democracy under Andrew Jackson.
At the time of the vote to approve the Constitution, only 10% of the adult white males were entitled to vote on it. Only landowners who were alreeady the local rulers were allowed to vote. See Barnes 1926 History and Social Intelligence.
When you warn, “The powers-that-be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, shooters, bombers)”, you should add germs.
The Germ Theory of Disease has mislead and also stampeded the public into the arms of Big Government. Even the author, Louis Pasteur admitted on his deathbed
that it wasn’t germs that determined whether you will contract a disease but rather the cleanliness of the body (he called terrain) that freed up the natural immune system to attack and destroy invading organisms.
The elite understand that domination of a population requires that their immune system must be overwhelmed by toxic metals and chemicals that form the basis for infectious
sites throughout the body continuously emitting caustic enzymes that inflame body tissue and cause a subtle fear and anxiety subconsciously.
This is the original capturing process that creates sheeple and drives them to government/oligarch controlled television
for distraction, comfort and security from this continuous caustic inflammatory enzyme flood from invading germ sites, into their blood streams.
We’ve completely lost sight of what natural health is. Healthy people have a natural contempt for any coercive force over them like government.
Healthy people are highly competent, moral, compassionate, independent and resourceful and don’t like paying for “services” from anyone that they can do themselves.
In many ways the poisoning agenda of deliberately polluting and disabling the public with fluoride, vaccines, chemtrails and GMOs that overwhelm and disable the human immune
system and cause germ infections that result in anxiety, fear, fatigue and depression, explains even better the capture of the public through fear compared to external
false-flag attacks and propaganda. It’s the internal attacks from toxic injury that enable the external fear campaign from false flag attacks and media propaganda to get any traction.
Our oligarch/government rulers are adamant that everyone gets the poison early and often with our infants starting with a health disabling vaccine at birth, even bottled water
containing fluoride that’s as toxic as lead and the continuous shower of chemicals from chemtrails and Roundup and Anthrax-like BT Toxin in GMO food.
While external false flag events stampede the public into the commonly perceived safe haven of the Establishment, the greater impetus behind this blind loyalty is the fear
everyone feels internally when these infectious sites, causing life-long diseases, emit inflammatory enzymes causing a pre-existing state of fear.
As Edward R Murrow says, “We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information.” That’s because we are already disturbed, depressed and anxious from the
continuous internal inflammation from our toxic injury. Most of the public is already subconsciously in overload with anxiety and depression and will not tolerate criticism of their
perceived savior and safe-haven Government. The only symptom we see is a blind loyalty to the Establishment that when criticized, provokes anger, ostracism and immediate dismissal as “crazy” talk.
To better understand the Poisoning Agenda see Neurosurgeon Dr Russell Blaylock’s Vaccine & Fluoride expose video for a real wakeup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB3xcN_eoPo
When dealing with government, you must remember, they are the servants of the people. THEY ARE SERVANTS! Make them act like servants. You have to learn law though, because the lawyers are either incompetent, indoctrinated, or just down right evil. Either way, they will not help you, so you must learn to help yourself. Government always has fatal flaws when they come against you, you need to learn to spot them and stop them. If you don't, you will be left without.
This is the wrong way of looking at the situation.
Democracy has delivered us down this vile path. The American people voted these people in power, and have clamored at every turn for welfare legislature and other acts of rent-seeking. The mob demands goods free-of-charge and access to easy credit.
The western world has willingly accepted governmental paternalism and technology has made us absolutley complacent. We took the shackles of debt/media serfdom and put them on WILLINGLY! We shouldn't be surprised when the master pulls on the chains.
Is that Oppenheimer??