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Fear Of The Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the prevailing value for the beleaguered survivors is a sort of siege mentality, a vigilance so constant and unremitting that it’s indistinguishable from the purest paranoia.”— Terrence Rafferty, New York Times
The zombies are back. They are hungry. And they are lurking around every corner.
In Kansas, Governor Sam Brownback has declared October “Zombie Preparedness Month” in an effort to help the public prepare for a possible zombie outbreak.
In New York, researchers at Cornell University have concluded that the best place to hide from the walking dead is the northern Rocky Mountains region.
And in Washington, DC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have put together a zombie apocalypse preparation kit “that details everything you would need to have on hand in the event the living dead showed up at your front door.”
The undead are also wreaking havoc at gun shows, battling corsets in forthcoming movie blockbusters such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, running for their lives in 5K charity races, and even putting government agents through their paces in mock military drills arranged by the Dept. of Defense (DOD) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
The zombie narrative, popularized by the hit television series The Walking Dead, in which a small group of Americans attempt to survive in a zombie-ridden, post-apocalyptic world where they’re not only fighting off flesh-eating ghouls but cannibalistic humans, plays to our fears and paranoia.
Yet as journalist Syreeta McFadden points out, while dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties, now they reflect our reality, mirroring how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us.
Fear the Walking Dead—AMC’s new spinoff of its popular Walking Dead series—drives this point home by dialing back the clock to when the zombie outbreak first appears and setting viewers down in the midst of societal unrest not unlike our own experiences of the past year (“a bunch of weird incidents, police protests, riots, and … rapid social entropy”). Then, as Forbes reports, “the military showed up and we fast-forwarded into an ad hoc police state with no glimpse at what was happening in the world around our main cast of hapless survivors.”
Forbes found Fear’s quick shift into a police state to be far-fetched, but anyone who has been paying attention in recent years knows that the groundwork has already been laid for the government—i.e., the military—to intervene and lock down the nation in the event of a national disaster.
Recognizing this, the Atlantic notes: “The villains of [Fear the Walking Dead] aren’t the zombies, who rarely appear, but the U.S. military, who sweep into an L.A. suburb to quarantine the survivors. Zombies are, after all, a recognizable threat—but Fear plumbs drama and horror from the betrayal by institutions designed to keep people safe.”
We’ve been so hounded in recent years with dire warnings about terrorist attacks, Ebola pandemics, economic collapse, environmental disasters, and militarized police that it’s no wonder millions of Americans have turned to zombie fiction as a way to “envision how we and our own would thrive if everything went to hell and we lost all our societal supports.” As Time magazine reporter James Poniewozik phrases it, the “apocalyptic drama lets us face the end of the world once a week and live.”
Here’s the curious thing, however: while zombies may be the personification of our darkest fears, they embody the government’s paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent.
Why else would the government feel the need to monitor our communications, track our movements, criminalize our every action, treat us like suspects, and strip us of any means of defense while equipping its own personnel with an amazing arsenal of weapons?
For years now, the government has been carrying out military training drills with zombies as the enemy. In 2011, the DOD created a 31-page instruction manual for how to protect America from a terrorist attack carried out by zombie forces. In 2012, the CDC released a guide for surviving a zombie plague. That was followed by training drills for members of the military, police officers and first responders.
As journalist Andrea Peyser reports:
Coinciding with Halloween 2012, a five-day national conference was put on by the HALO Corp. in San Diego for more than 1,000 first responders, military personnel and law enforcement types. It included workshops produced by a Hollywood-affiliated firm in…overcoming a zombie invasion. Actors were made up to look like flesh-chomping monsters. The Department of Homeland Security even paid the $1,000 entry fees for an unknown number of participants…
“Zombie disaster” drills were held in October 2012 and ’13 at California’s Sutter Roseville Medical Center. The exercises allowed medical center staff “to test response to a deadly infectious disease, a mass-casualty event, terrorism event and security procedures”…
[In October 2014], REI outdoor-gear stores in Soho and around the country are to hold free classes in zombie preparedness, which the stores have been providing for about three years.
The zombie exercises appear to be kitschy and fun—government agents running around trying to put down a zombie rebellion—but what if the zombies in the exercises are us, the citizenry, viewed by those in power as mindless, voracious, zombie hordes?
Consider this: the government started playing around with the idea of using zombies as stand-ins for enemy combatants in its training drills right around the time the Army War College issued its 2008 report, warning that an economic crisis in the U.S. could lead to massive civil unrest that would require the military to intervene and restore order.
That same year, it was revealed that the government had amassed more than 8 million names of Americans considered a threat to national security, to be used “by the military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension of the Constitution or the imposition of martial law.” The program’s name, Main Core, refers to the fact that it contains “copies of the ‘main core’ or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.”
Also in 2008, the Pentagon launched the Minerva Initiative, a $75 million military-driven research project focused on studying social behavior in order to determine how best to cope with mass civil disobedience or uprisings. The Minerva Initiative has funded projects such as “Who Does Not Become a Terrorist, and Why?” which “conflates peaceful activists with ‘supporters of political violence’ who are different from terrorists only in that they do not embark on ‘armed militancy’ themselves.”
In 2009, the Dept. of Homeland Security issued its reports on Rightwing and Leftwing Extremism, in which the terms “extremist” and “terrorist” were used interchangeably to describe citizens who were disgruntled or anti-government.
Meanwhile, a government campaign was underway to spy on Americans’ mail, email and cell phone communications. News reports indicate that the U.S. Postal Service has handled more than 150,000 requests by federal and state law enforcement agencies to monitor Americans’ mail, in addition to photographing every piece of mail sent through the postal system.
Fast forward a few years more and you have local police being transformed into extensions of the military, taught to view members of their community as suspects, trained to shoot first and ask questions later, and equipped with all of the technology and weaponry of a soldier on a battlefield.
Most recently, the Obama administration hired a domestic terrorism czar whose job is to focus on anti-government American “extremists” who have been designated a greater threat to America than ISIS or al Qaeda. As part of the government’s so-called war on right-wing extremism, the Obama administration has agreed to partner with the United Nations to take part in its Strong Cities Network program, which will train local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism.
In other words, those who believe in and exercise their rights under the Constitution (namely, the right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share their political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), have just been promoted to the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.
Noticing a pattern yet?
“We the people” or, more appropriately, “we the zombies” are the enemy in the eyes of the government.
So when presented with the Defense Department’s battle plan for defeating an army of the walking dead, you might find yourself tempted to giggle over the fact that a taxpayer-funded government bureaucrat actually took the time to research and write about vegetarian zombies, evil magic zombies, chicken zombies, space zombies, bio-engineered weaponized zombies, radiation zombies, symbiant-induced zombies, and pathogenic zombies.
However, in an age of extreme government paranoia, this is no laughing matter.
The DOD’s strategy for dealing with a zombie uprising, outlined in “CONOP 8888,” is for all intents and purposes a training manual for the government in how to put down a citizen uprising or at least an uprising of individuals “infected” with dangerous ideas about freedom.
Rest assured that the tactics and difficulties outlined in the “fictional training scenario” are all too real, beginning with martial law.
As the DOD training manual states: “zombies [read: “activists”] are horribly dangerous to all human life and zombie infections have the potential to seriously undermine national security and economic activities that sustain our way of life. Therefore having a population that is not composed of zombies or at risk from their malign influence is vital to U.S. and Allied national interests.”
So how does the military plan to put down a zombie (a.k.a. disgruntled citizen) uprising?
The strategy manual outlines five phases necessary for a counter-offensive: shape, deter, seize initiative, dominate, stabilize and restore civil authority. Here are a few details:
Phase 0 (Shape): Conduct general zombie awareness training. Monitor increased threats (i.e., surveillance). Carry out military drills. Synchronize contingency plans between federal and state agencies. Anticipate and prepare for a breakdown in law and order.
Phase 1 (Deter): Recognize that zombies cannot be deterred or reasoned with. Carry out training drills to discourage other countries from developing or deploying attack zombies and publicly reinforce the government’s ability to combat a zombie threat. Initiate intelligence sharing between federal and state agencies. Assist the Dept. of Homeland Security in identifying or discouraging immigrants from areas where zombie-related diseases originate.
Phase 2 (Seize initiative): Recall all military personal to their duty stations. Fortify all military outposts. Deploy air and ground forces for at least 35 days. Carry out confidence-building measures with nuclear-armed peers such as Russia and China to ensure they do not misinterpret the government’s zombie countermeasures as preparations for war. Establish quarantine zones. Distribute explosion-resistant protective equipment. Place the military on red alert. Begin limited scale military operations to combat zombie threats. Carry out combat operations against zombie populations within the United States that were “previously” U.S. citizens.
Phase 3 (Dominate): Lock down all military bases for 30 days. Shelter all essential government personnel for at least 40 days. Equip all government agents with military protective gear. Issue orders for military to kill all non-human life on sight. Initiate bomber and missile strikes against targeted sources of zombie infection, including the infrastructure. Burn all zombie corpses. Deploy military to lock down the beaches and waterways.
Phase 4 (Stabilize): Send out recon teams to check for remaining threats and survey the status of basic services (water, power, sewage infrastructure, air, and lines of communication). Execute a counter-zombie ISR plan to ID holdout pockets of zombie resistance. Use all military resources to target any remaining regions of zombie holdouts and influence. Continue all actions from the Dominate phase.
Phase 5 (Restore civil authority): Deploy military personnel to assist any surviving civil authorities in disaster zones. Reconstitute combat capabilities at various military bases. Prepare to redeploy military forces to attack surviving zombie holdouts. Restore basic services in disaster areas.
Notice the similarities?
Surveillance. Military drills. Awareness training. Militarized police forces. Martial law.
As I point out in my book, Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if there is any lesson to be learned, it is simply this: whether the threat to national security comes in the form of actual terrorists, imaginary zombies or disgruntled American citizens infected with dangerous ideas about freedom, the government’s response to such threats remains the same: detect, deter and annihilate.
To return to AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead: it’s the police state “tasked with protecting the vulnerable” that poses some of the gravest threats to the citizenry.
When the military arrives, mowing down hostile “walkers” with ease, setting up camp to screen out any further infection, the moment is presented with an ironic note of triumph. The main character, Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis), tells his group they can rest easy—help has finally arrived… As the soldiers begin hauling anyone spiking a fever away to quarantine zones, Travis insists their intentions are noble while the rest of his family begins to realize the military doesn’t really have a plan except to crush any potential threat. Are you a zombie? They’ll shoot you in the head. Do you look sick? You’re probably about to be a zombie. Do you have a problem with their approach? Then they have a problem with you, too.
One of the show’s most brilliant touches has been the characterization of the soldiers themselves, not as impassive robots hell-bent on enforcing martial law, but as worryingly recognizable guys around town. Whenever Travis pleads with his local commander to address community fears and complaints, he might as well be talking to an ornery bowling buddy. The soldiers are tetchy and irritable rather than monstrous, clearly overwhelmed by the impossible situation they face, and granted authority through the guns in their hands and little else. In a pivotal scene, one of them tries to cajole Travis into firing a killshot at a distant zombie through a sniper scope, even though he knows Travis believes there might be a cure. The soldiers insist the zombies are dead beyond salvation—an unfortunate truth on the show, but also a sad reflection of just how dehumanized the enemy can become in the midst of war.
The latest episode, “Cobalt,” revealed the military’s endgame: With the zombie situation deteriorating, they plan to flee and wipe out everyone they leave behind, at this point motivated only by the need to survive, rather than to protect. Countering that is the family unit that has forged new bonds in the crisis. These organically loyal communities, the writers Robert Kirkman and David Erickson argue, are the only kind that can survive in such a world… More than anything, Fear the Walking Dead is a drama about occupation, the breakdown of society, and the ease with which seemingly decent people can decide that might makes right. Like any dystopian fiction, it’s easy to dismiss as fantasy, but remove the zombies and Fear could be taking place in dozens of real-world locations… This is happening here, Kirkman and Erickson are saying, but it could happen anywhere.
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It's a Fascist Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. not a "Government ." No worries, these Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag much less defeat some Sand Niggers.
After an EMP attack on the USA, a lot of zombie killing incidents will occur, but they'll be neither undead nor walking dead, nor fast zombies of WW Z and I Am Legend. They'll be soon-to-be-dead. Mostly of thirst, disease, and starvation, but not a small amount of 5.56mm perforation, and all the other calibres. Dont expect to do well a la Michonne with her blade. You will need a LifeStraw and a carbine.
I think the most thoughtful part of "Fear the Walking Dead" was in fact, the military taking over and establishing a 'safe zone'. I can easily see that play out in an EMP or many other scenarios - not unlike the concept of FEMA camps. Herd everyone into a controlled zone - and anyone still on the streets is either arrested or shot by military patrols. That concept means that preppers could well become 'the hunted' once they refuse to go to the safe zones. But it could work out well if you can avoid detection and if the military clears the streets of zombies.
We are assume control! We are assume control! We are assume control!
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As EMP novels go, I think 'A Distant Eden' by Lloyd Tackett probabaly has put the best thought into what the domestic military woukd do in an EMP situation. They would already have a plan ready to break out, and that would be to use still-working vehicles and men available on base to go out to food and fuel distribution points and take by force as much bulk food water fuel and medecines as they can to bring back to base. They would cut loose most of their personnel after a few weeks of such work to make it on their own or find their way back to family or...whatever. Ranking personnel and those with famiky on base woukd set up to ride it out. "it" being a hobbesian zombie movie die off of most of the general public over the next nine months or so.
The use of "zombies" in these plans is to de-humanize the citizenry, making it easier for .gov drones to turn their weapons on you. Recall the use of d has targets which featured pregnant women, old men, and kids holding guns. They are carefully de-sensitizing the .gov drones to kill you on sight w/o hesitation.
Really pretty much all that's left is "The Night of the Long Knives," but this time it won't be the gay SS that gets whacked, it will be Joe Six-Pack and Joe Hippie, along with Joe Soul Brother and Jose Tequila.
I do not watch shit TV or Hollywood but see enough on the internet to see the media is pushing this walking dead, zombie and vampire crap in movies and TV. All about dehumanizing just like war, poilice state and other movies.
Fort Myers, Florida had a downtown zombie fest (zombie con) a couple of weeks ago and 1 person was shot dead and 3 or 4 were wounded. Morons like Comc Con and Star Trek fans like to dress up like zombies. What idiots.
http://fox8.com/2015/10/18/deadly-shooting-sparks-panic-at-zombicon-even...
Looks like it happened close to the Thomas Edison (General Electric and tormentor of tesla) and Henry Ford (helped bankroll Hitler) estates. Irony.
I think most of the zombies are the ones working for .gov
Zombie - "the nickname for conscript soldiers during WWII" or “Soldier who falls in next to lowest category in Army classification tests; see goon.”
Zombies are also those who have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation or disease and are beyond saving (can be executed in good conscience.)
Zombies are the lowest in the militaries' own ranks. Civilians are always considered beneath even this.
I've long believed this latest popular zombie meme was simply a desensitization operation bt TPTB. Good to hear some confirmation.
"The zombie exercises appear to be kitschy and fun—government agents running around trying to put down a zombie rebellion—but what if the zombies in the exercises are us, the citizenry, viewed by those in power as mindless, voracious, zombie hordes?"
we were citizens, now we're consumers.... ready for the next downgrade?
It'll be a lot easier for the commander to say "200k zombies are coming down the highway, time to take them out." If the soldiers thought of them as family members, citizens, or even consumers, it would be more difficult to kill them.
Onion? Nope
Jamie Dimon is probably the first to get his face ripped off and eaten
I'll buy the popcorn.
the attackers wouldnt even need to be zombies for that to make sense
Everyone I meet is so dumbed down. Its a fucking nightmare to go out in mingle with the public anymore. The sheeple will offer 0 resistance when it's time to be culled.
Many would not even run. Shit, you would not even need a gun to do the job. You could just smash them over the head with a toaster for a couple of minutes.
Right, Most would just stand there and look at you while you beat them into submission. Truly disturbing and amazing at the same time.
I remember I got into a fight with this kid when I was about 12. I hit him once and he started crying. I think I felt more bad then he did.
Isn't that what they're doing to us?
*whack* Psy-Ops *shrug*
*whack* Wars *shrug*
*whack* Drones *shrug*
*whack* Depression *shrug*
*whack* Weather Modification / Hurricanes *shrug*
*whack* 1,200 year droughts *shrug*
Kardashians .... *drroolz*
*whack* Chris Tranz-Jennerz *???*
*complainz to internetz* #ZombieLife
Simple, just take their iPhone's away & watch them go Fuck'n ape shit.
No, let them keep their iPhones. They will stand there filming the apocalypse and give you ample time to shuffle towards the exit while pretending to film (TPTB will be watching for people running and not filming).
phones are secondary to EBT cards.
I've always liked the word 'sheeple'.
It's an uncannily accurate description of most of the people that I encounter whenever I have to venture into town- ie, they're little more than well-trained herd animals basking in the artificial glow of their I-Gadgets.
but soon they'll be on the lamb.
I prefer the spelling: sheople.
No. Everyone is looking out the window now. They know something is coming but not sure what. The logical answer is this is an elaborate scheme funded by the banks, incorporating a propaganda campaign and enough side shows to pull it off. Master thieves.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/15-signs-that-we-live-during-a...
More evidence of government paranoia
It seems that Ms Snyder is getting a wee bit big for his/her breeches...
The U.S. Military will not fight the good American people, no matter what the communist elite, U.N., or POTUS orders them to do. Period!
U.S.N. Veteran
I hope (in the memory of Gen. S. Butler) that you are correct, sir.
You mean like in 2005 when the Natoinal Guard went door to door in New Orleans and took away everyone guns and beat an old lady who resisted? That military?
Mam, step aside from your walker and undo your ventilhator. This is your final warning.
You would get resistance from many in the military (and police forces) once they figured out what was going on. The officers and senior NCOs would figure it out fairly quickly too. I suspect many of you have an overly negative view of all military/veterans. They are human, generally brave, and loyal to what they view as their country. They may not all be the brightest, but by and large they are not the idiots portrayed in pop culture either.
You're probably correct that many of us have an overly negative view of all military/veterans. Speaking only for myself, I agree that they aren't the idiots portrayed in pop culture.
My concern is their loyalty to what they view as their country, and how they perceive what their country is. If the military were mostly draftees, I'd expect most of them to have a firm connection to you and me and everybody else just trying to scratch out a living and do what we need to do. Those who devise our military forces know this too, and have eliminate this possibility. That's why our mililtary is entirely composed of professionals. My worry is that they've been trained to view "their country" as whatever is defined to them by their officers, in a professional fashion that separates them from society, and places their officers' judgement above their own.
Where I grew up, a young man who wasn't cut out for college and whose daddy didn't have a farm or a business to give him faced either a life of poverty or a military career. One of my younger brothers had a very close friend in that situation. He joined the Army around 1988. He fought in Desert Storm and came home with every single symptom of "Gulf War Syndrome." It made him 100% disabled for any "civilian" purpose, so he eventually re-enlisted over and over again, until his late 30s, so he served in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and some other places he won't name. Now he's in his mid-40s, out of the military, and has a full-time job with a very understanding employer between his ongoing constant medical appointments.
He's fine until he drinks. Unfortunately, he can't face an idle moment sober. Get more than one beer in him, and he's weepy at best, hysterical and frenzied at worst. He talks about the families he slaughtered kicking in their doors at 3:00 AM, night after night, knowing they weren't "Terrorists" in any way except that's what he was told they were, so they had to be "taken out." After the first time, he knew what he was doing. And he kept doing it, over and over and over again, because he was told to. He can snap back into the mentality where he has to kill anything that moves because he's been told everything is a threat to his safety, and his safety is paramount. He's been so conditioned to this that he did it even knowing perfectly well in his rational mind that these old men, women and children posed no threat to him; certainly not if he weren't kicking in their door at 3:00 AM. My brother learned to avoid taking his calls when he couldn't emotionally handle what this poor guy had to say to him. And then, after pouring out his guts, the guy would re-enlist because his symptoms kept him from doing anything else, but the Army would always put him in charge of a squad, kicking down doors at 3:00 AM.
Despite the Army's best efforts, this guy isn't a monster. But if there's a complete breakdown of society and the Army is told to neutralize the "Terrorist Forces" in, say, Omaha, soldiers like him will do it first and sob about it later. There's a reason these guys are killing themselves at a record pace. Their inconsolable remorse doesn't do anybody any good anymore, though.
That's a valid point. Certainly there will be those in positions of authority that will do anything they're ordered to do. I've fortunately never had to deal with anything like that, but I have known guys that for whatever reason had trouble after their military service, and some were loose cannons.
For the most part military people have a low opinion of politicians and the press, though while active they wouldn't say so publicly, amongst their buddies is a different matter. I believe a lot of this has to do with their (& my) experiences and how it does not square with what is told to the public by politicians and the press. As a result many secretly question much of what they're told from the start.
It was for good reason that the current administration warned police to watch out for returning veterans, and don't count them among their allies. If the heavy handed tactics against the civilian population ramped up so too would the resistance, and a good deal of it would come from vets. I guess my point was to not view them (even those on active duty) soley in a negative light. If things break it'll likely break in various directions.
I hope you're right. I hope the move to isolate the military and the police from "civilian society," meaning of course their innate humanity, hasn't proceeded far enough.
I think you should review the actual footage. The ones that beat the old lady were California Highway Patrol. CHP. Chips. Only it wasn't John and Ponch.
When I lived out there 30 years ago those guys were militant dicks.
Not surprised a CHP SWAT team was picked for that special duty.
Also, those famiiar with histories of totalitarian regimes will note that those regimes often bring enforcers for a distant part of the emprire to do the dirty work.
When the day comes, if you live in Mississippi, it with be the CA or MA national guard or state police that kicks in your door, not the MS guard.
Likewise if you live in Maine, it'll be the NM or FL guard doing the door kicking. No matter what happens, they cannot have their enforcers identifying with the victims. How many CHP officers have a granny with a southern accent who's not afraid of firearms? My guess is zero.
How many LA guard members would identify with that granny? Now you know why the LA guard was not tasked with weapon confiscation.
I have reviewed the videos. The videos don't enable officer agency identification. However Patty Konie's federal lawsuit names Louisana and California Highway Patrol officers as the perps. They clearly weren't in SWAT uniforms, and from the officer gut size on video I feel certain that they would fail the SWAT physical.
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/ca5/11-30557/
The ones that do will be viewed as traitors.
The One Party knows that the US military will not attack civilians - hence the need to classify undesirable civilians as 'domestic terrorists'!
Correct. When you have an unsolvable problem, redefine it.
+100 (retired vet).
You all would give up your monthly paychecks and housing allowances and finally do what's right? Yeah, y'all have such a great history of standing up to local tyranny, LOL! Just try not to rape the women when you are out hunting "anti-government guerrillas," mmmkkay?
lots of zombie corporations out there. buy bullshit stocks.
WE are a threat.
They got a real smart governor in Kansas.
Good thing americans are so exceptional.
Must be The Ferguson Effect.
Wait until the EBT cards stop working...and the welfare checks stop coming...then you'll know the zombie apocalypse has begun
Wait until the Social Security Welfare checks stop going out. The cranky old entitled man explosion will rip the atmosphere from the Earth.
The only "enforcers" that will slaughter civilians are the 'roid users.
You notice them in their uniforms with shaved heads and big muscles. Don't irritate them, they blow up at the slightest provocation.
"You notice them in their uniforms with shaved heads and big muscles. Don't irritate them, they blow up at the slightest provocation."
The downvotes on your post are a pretty good indication that you've just alienated a substantial portion of the parasite class.
Congratulations.
You are now an enemy of the state.
Drone footage at eleven.
I watched a couple of episodes of the walking dead. Meh. What worried me was that the zombies don't look or sound much different from me when I get up after a night on the booze in search of some greasy bacon. It's designed to appeal to the prepper type person but how it's managed to sustain six seasons is beyond me.
It's not about zombies or preppers. It's about what happens to ordinary people when civilization breaks down.
Forget zombies. Imagine a virus that spreads like wildfire and turns its victims into raging psychotics, or simply kills them in massive numbers. The effect would be much the same.
I think the most realistic aspect of the series is how quickly the military collapsed. When the threat is external you can control the situation with force, but when it strikes from within, all bets are off. I think that's the point of the show, at least that's what I take from it. Past a certain point, there is no one left to turn to - you are entirely on your own.
TV and Hollywood appeals to morons who enjoy being brainwashed. Drunks and losers too.
They hate us for our zombies
Zombies will have a hard time navigating in the Northern Rockies. We know all the strategic places in the wilderness and there is alot of wilderness. We take care of are own.
Wife had C entral B ull S hit on the box tonight. Summary red meat will kill you high school football will kil you the rebel Flagg gona kill you trump gona kill you
That's impressive. You may be one of the only commenters here that actually admits to allowing that poison into your home.
Newsflash: American propganda shown to cause death of critical thinking and elimation of all reasoning ability, replacing it with hindbrain driven emotional condition.
High School football = Trayvons. College and pro watched by dumb white males cheering Trayvons like little cheerleader girls.
All signs of an empire in decline.
one drill zombie looked just like Robbie Parker
In 2016 Mitt Zombie will win in a landslide when he cleverly places human brains in all the polling stations.
No, like Drudge said recently on Infowars, Hitlery will die from some illness, but her brain will still be elected and hooked up in the oval orifice with a clear canister and lots of wires and stuff attached to it.
It is not that complicated.
<<Notice the similarities?>>
Yes. People who are starving and sickly look a lot like zombies.
The zombie fad in popular culture is social programming along with sick violence in movies, television and video games --- that make us cheer and laugh. We are being de-sensitized to killing and at the same time, we are being conditioned to blow up starving people.
It is that simple. They want to watch us eat eachother alive.
So just turn it off.
Why? I find it entertaining.
Are you suggesting that I stop paying attention to the agenda?
Zombies feed on brains. Zero Hedge commentors have nothing to fear.
"Zombies feed on brains. Zero Hedge commentors have nothing to fear."
So says the guy who's been suckling at the .gov teat since infancy.
Teat? You mean dick, right?
hahahaha. whenever I want cheap entertainment, I bait the low-IQ mouth breathers around here. So much fun to watch them salivate and grunt.
"hahahaha. whenever I want cheap entertainment, I bait the low-IQ mouth breathers around here. So much fun to watch them salivate and grunt."
Lemmee guess.
Never, ever, have you even come close to having had a genuinely independent thought.
Amiright?
You should place a higher value on your time. There's not much distinction in becoming a Master of your chosen diversion.
Teats...dicks.
Does it really matter what's shoved up your backside without your consent?
Hit a nerve there...lol
Astoundingly enough, I can say that on my Google Plus page, a VIP is following me. Flattered by the acknowledge? Nope. Changing my identity and moving. Nah, I am a Canadian. Nothing scares me but being cold. I live in Calif.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109602593095554487591/about - Seriously. I think since the Hastings incident is associated with this particular VIP, Gen McChrystal, or a fraud (says his wife died in an auto accident, but WIKI says they divorced). He has several friends and they are all saying the same thing: "Why are you following me, Sir?" and he says...he just is.
So, giz, what's your advice? "Go with the flow" ???
Nice story. My money is on the zombies. The easiest culture in which to be an insurgent is your own, besides the tree needs watering.
I am still here. I see everything because I can't NOT see it. Turn and fight? I am running out of options. I have that state senate idea in my head for some reason.
Yeah, I am not thrilled but are we being given any other options? I will try the politics one more time most likely but don't hold your breath because I will lose. I couldn't save you all anywway but I would give it one hell of a try.
All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. I can't sit still even though I know I can't win. Maybe so but so be it. I can make a mess.
http://alphanewsmn.com/2015/10/dayton-to-those-questioning-refugee-resettlement-find-another-state/
What an asshole.
Don't forget to avoid or boycott Target stores because Somali loving and American hating Gov. Mark Dayton (D) of Minnesota is a Dayton of Dayton-Hudson which owns Target.
Target has gotten real shitty since they lost 60 million credit cards of customers in a hacking case. Mark dayton deserves the Mussolini treatment. Target is anti-American and pro-illegal invasion and pro-Somali.
If you ever wanted to destroy a country - you would import Somalis. Started by Bush/Clinton.
ever since i was a little kid I have seen nothing but complete incompetence from the government, and I dont think anyone can debate me on the subject. they are the most fucked up ass backwards group of retards to ever discgrace this planet.
All of that was inevitable due to the international banksters capturing control over the public "money" supplies, which thereby became runaway debt slavery systems. After the international banksters were able to sufficiently dominate all aspects of the funding of the political processes, the die was cast for the development of the runaway situation where governments ENFORCE FRAUDS by privately controlled banks. Both metaphorically, as well as literally, "American Families" became victims of "Home Invasions," when the international banksters were able to seize control over the American public "money" supplies.
The structure of those debt slavery systems necessarily drove the development of debt insanities, and those in turn will necessarily provoke death insanities. All private property was always based upon backing up claims with coercions, while money was measurement backed by murder. When the distribution of the ownership of private property was more wide-spread, then the police, and their armed forces back-up, were serving those larger groups of people that owned various private property and financial assets. However, as the ownership (based upon backing up legalized lies, backed by legalized violence) becomes more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, then the police and the armed forces back-up are more and more serving the smaller and smaller minorities that own various private property and financial assets.
As the monetary systems (debt slavery backed by wars based on deceits) automatically got worse, faster, at an exponential rate, therefore, that overall social situation necessarily became more and more like metastasizing cancers, or like parasites killing their host. Of course, at the same time, those who captured control over the public "money" supplies, in ways whereby governments would continue to enforce those frauds, were then able to reinvest their profits from frauds in more frauds, driving worse and worse vicious spirals of more sophisticated and integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which embraced more and more thoroughly all other sociopolitical institutions, such as the school systems and mass media, etc., etc., ...
The most important of the VARIOUS ENFORCED FRAUDS are the ways that governments enforce the frauds by privately controlled banks, which thereby are given the extraordinary privilege, as the supreme achievement of organized crime, which is the legalized counterfeiting of the public "money" supplies, while governments enforce those frauds through demanding that everyone must pay their taxes with that form of legal tender, which is "money" created out of nothing as debts by privately controlled banks.
The deeper levels of the problems which were both metaphorically and literally discussed in the article above are that the vast majority of "We the People" have already been so brainwashed to believe in bullshit, so much, for so long, for generation after generation, that the vast majority do behave like "Zombie Sheeple." The biggest bullies have been able to have their bullshit social stories so totally dominate society, so much, for so long, that those are now public opinions based upon mostly taking for granted sets of false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, which have been built into the dominate natural languages, and philosophy of science, to the degree that it is not possible for most people to think in sufficiently different ways about what is happening, nor to communicate that to sufficiently large numbers of people.
The entire history of civilization has been based upon backing up lies with violence, which has been developing at an exponential rate. Hence, the overall debts of the American people have been on nearly a perfect match to an exponential growth curve since 1971, as the basic structure of the established debt slavery systems drove the runaway development of debt insanities. Article after article published on Zero Hedge presents correct, but superficial, analysis of those problems, which then tend to be followed by superficial "solutions" which are bogus, because those "solutions" tend to continue to collapse back to reliance upon the deeply entrenched bullshit world views, based upon false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals.
Governments have always been the biggest forms of organized crime, which were always controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. A Democratic Republic was supposed to be the way to limit that. However, step by step, it was possible to persistently apply the principles and methods of organized crime through the political processes. The results were that the public "money" supply became about 99% privatized, while the powers of governments to rob and to kill to back up that robbery (which were referred to as taxation, and the rule of law) continued to become more and more privatized, as the ownership of private property and financial assets became more and more concentrated.
After that, those combined money/murder systems followed with an increasing level of the effective privatization of the public murder systems. My guesstimate is that the public murder systems have become about 75% privatized. However, after those sorts of levels are reached, i.e., about 99% privatization of the public money systems, and about 75% privatization of the public murder systems, there is more and more obviously manifested the blatancy of those social facts.
The overall social facts ARE that the overwhelming vast majority of people act like Zombie Sheeple. That is obvious to anyone who looks at the degree to which the public "money" supply has become about 99% privatized, while "We the People" now retain less than 1% control over the public "money" supply. IN FACT, THE OVERWHELMING VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ACT LIKE INCOMPETENT POLITICAL IDIOTS ALL THE TIME, IN EVERY WAY!
With appropriately perverse irony, that also applies to the various police and other armed forces, who were selected and trained to even more believe in bullshit than the general population. However, the basic issues are always that being able to enforce frauds never stops those frauds from still being false. Therefore, as the American society & government became the biggest and best organized manifestation of organized crime, it also simultaneously became the greatest manifestation of runaway criminal insanities.
The excessive successfulness of systems based upon governments ENFORCING FRAUDS by privately controlled banks is the SOURCE for how and why there has more and more become Battlefield America: The War on the American People. By and large, almost nobody trapped within those kinds of runaway social psychoses is able to gain enough perspective upon what is really happening, while even if a few did, that would still make no significant difference to the masses of Zombie Sheeple (which actually also includes most of the police and other armed forces personnel too.)
In my view, the only things that actually exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. Governments exist because organized crime exists. It is not possible for organized crime to not exist, and therefore, it is not possible for governments to not exist. Citizens are actually members of an organized crime gang, called their country. However, they have been so totally brainwashed to believe in bullshit about that, so much, for so long, that they have become incompetent political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple, rather than competent citizens. (Again, that includes, even more so, most of the people in the police and other armed forces.)
Since the entire political economy is based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS, that has resulted in every sociopolitical institution being run by the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, which includes the people running the police and military. At deeper levels, the excessive social successfulness of systems based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS requires that the vast majority of people deliberately ignore the principle of the conservation of energy, as well as deliberately misunderstand the concept of entropy in the most absurdly backward ways.
In each short to medium term increment, military and financial successfulness became more and more based upon backing up deceits with destruction, and enforcing frauds. However, in the longer term, that drove that society as a whole become psychotically insane. The vast majority of people are living inside of fragmented fantasy worlds. They were rewarded for agreeing with bullshit, while punished for not agreeing with bullshit, for generation after generation. Therefore, of course, they mostly want to continue to believe in that same old bullshit. Moreover, meanwhile, within the still established and dominate sociopolitical systems, being the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, able to spout that sort of bullshit, continues to be personally most successful, vis-à-vis their personal careers inside of the established systems, which are based upon thereby ENFORCING FRAUDS.
Around and around that went, automatically getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate ... which basic social situation continues at the present time, as demonstrated by the exponential growth of the debt slavery systems having generated numbers which are debt insanities, that have been DOUBLING DOWN ENFORCING FRAUDS, WHICH ARE THE CENTRAL SOCIAL FACTS! The established debt slavery systems have ALREADY generated numbers which are debt insanities, and the structure of that MAD Money As Debt systems MUST drive greater debt insanities, in order to keep those systems going and growing. There are no ways within those established systems other than for the defaults to death insanities. The only realistic resolutions to the real problems are for some new death control systems to perhaps emerge out of those death insanities, which then might be able to back up new debt control systems.
One of the most entangled of the paradoxes of the ways that there has become almost nothing but a core of organized crime, surrounded by layers of controlled opposition groups, are that there are almost no publicly significant presentations of "solutions" to those problems which are not also similarly backward bullshit, that still indulges in the same old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals.
The core of organized crime, the international banksters capturing control over governments, has become the actual DEEP STATE SHADOW GOVERNMENT. However, while more and more people are noticing that, due how blatant the doublings down on the enforcement of frauds has become, mostly the situation continues to be that the only public significant "solutions" are those promoted by those groups which could be referred to as the Black Sheeple, whose ideas have all their mechanisms as absurdly backward as possible, because, after all, they are controlled opposition, and are even more controlled the more that they are not able to think differently, but rather, continue to take almost totally for granted the biggest bullies' bullshit world views.
In my view, most of the content published on Zero Hedge is the work of those kinds of Black Sheeple, or reactionary revolutionaries. They continue to react to the runaway criminal insanities being caused by the excessive successfulness of false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, by still promoting those same old-fashioned dichotomies, as the basis for the "solutions" caused by believing in that bullshit in the first place. HOWEVER, I REPEAT: Governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. There are no realistic resolutions to the real problems outside of that, because nothing else actually exists outside of that. Ideally, enough people should understand that enough, so that they could become more competent citizens. However, of course, at the present time, and for the foreseeable future, that appears to be politically impossible, but rather, the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites will continue to have the most successful personal careers within the established systems that were built upon that foundation.
Meanwhile, the longer term consequences are accumulating. The short to medium term benefits from believing in bullshit are more and more being overwhelming by the accumulating consequences of having believed in bullshit, so much, for so long, that the entire civilization developed to become runaway criminal insanities. Indeed, there is a Zombie Apocalypse coming! Anyone who looks long and hard enough at the basic social facts regarding the dominate state religions, which are the monetary system, backed by national security, will discover that those are all being operated by Deep State Shadow Government, on the basis of the maximum possible frauds and deceits, which are therefore becoming the maximum possible runaway criminal insanities.
For several decades, I have been indulging in my own personal insanity, as the vain hope that we could have enough social psychiatry to cope with the runaway social psychoses that surround us now. However, the magnitudes of cognitive dissonance that enough of the people would have to suffer through to enable that to happen makes that actually happening appear to be politically impossible.
Without some series of technological miracles, surpassed by even greater political miracles, then the exponential growth of Neolithic Civilization based upon being able to back up lies and violence, and thus, that civilization being controlled by enforcing frauds, MUST result in that civilization committing collective suicide. The degree to which the vast majority of people actually behave like incompetent political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple, is so totally overwhelming and unbalanced, that it automatically continues to get more unbalanced, faster. Therefore, the most probable futures over the next few decades are for Battlefield America: The War on the American People, to get almost unimaginably worse, faster ...
GIVEN THAT THE CENTRAL SOCIAL FACTS ARE ENTRENCHED DEBT SLAVERY SYSTEMS WHICH HAVE BECOME DEBT INSANITIES, there does not appear to be any ways to avoid some sort of Second American Revolution of Civil War, despite that probably resulting in terrible tragedies. I would recommend that enough people should stop being Zombie Sheeple, and become more competent citizens, by going through series of intellectual scientific revolutions, and profound paradigm shifts in the ways that they think about political problems. However, it tends to appear to be too much that case that talking to Zombie Sheeple is a waste of time, rather, their mass murderers seem to be the only realistic resolutions to their real situation, since the already established systems can otherwise do nothing than continue to DOUBLE DOWN ENFORCING FRAUDS, regardless of how much more psychotic the overall situation becomes by doing THAT.
Hey Radical, will you stand with me then? What are we going to do to change anything? This is not going to be easy. Far from it. I am not even sure we can change one damned thing but for fuck sakes we do have to try don't we? Radical, this means that you have to run for a political position. What are we supposed to do? Are we to sit here on ZeroHedge and bitch all day long? I think I need to put my money where my mouth is. I have told myself that I should shut up or put up.
I don't think a lot of people realize that running for even state senate is no joke. Oh hell yes, you are going to be pissing off some people to no end. Do you want that fight? This shit is for keeps and not some day trade on a stock. I looks like I can get the Constitution Party endorsement as a major party candidate and I can do some political damage on the state level. So it goes. I am conservative though so I have to be careful. Be careful what you wish for.
The thing is this, I realize the politics of it all but I have no intention of financial gain. Who coulda knode? I can't do something like that. I really do not want to do this but no one is stepping up. What am I supposed to do and I am arguing with myself about this. I do not know what to do. If I could fix it all I would but I don't think I have one prayer in hell to do so.
I sure did like Idaho.
go for it
Manipuflation, I have become involved in registered political activities in Canada since 1983. Since then I have had two court cases against the Canadian government over the laws that control the funding of political parties. I continue to work on the problem of POLITICAL FUNDING through Canadian Electoral District Associations. (That has no direct relevance to the American situation, but does demonstrate the real results of those kinds of on-going political experiments.)
I hate to have to agree with it, but the prognosis in one of George Carlin's presentations appears to have been too tragically true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jQT7_rVxAE
George Carlin on American Owners and EducationThe "owners" are the "owners" on the basis of their historically developed abilities to become the pyramidion people in social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence. The main source of their LEVERAGE was due to their dominance of POLITICAL FUNDING. Everything related to that has become so extremely unbalanced that it appears to be practically impossible to fix those problems.
Indeed, all of my work on the issues regarding the funding of the political processes in Canada have mostly demonstrated, over and over again, what I asserted in my comment above, which are the main social facts that more than 99% of the population always act like incompetent political idiots, which is obviously the case after one considers the ways that the public "money" supply has been privatized, while only a tiny, tiny minority benefit from that.
Collectively we are trapped inside of the vicious spirals of integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, getting worse, faster, at an exponential rate. The "owners" have perfected their abilities to continue to ENFORCE FRAUDS.
As with all exponential growth developments, for those in more at the beginning of the pyramid scheme, things were good for them, then. However, those who enter into those pyramid schemes later and later are more and more screwed and screwed. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is the "logical" outcome of the "owners" attempting to consolidate their control over civilization, despite that trending towards destroying civilization instead.
From my attempts to have a more practical and relatively objective point of view, I do not believe that Carlin was wrong, and therefore, I do not believe that participation in the established political systems could actually fix anything, because of the already extremely UNBALANCED POLITICAL FUNDING. However, from a subjective point of view, I find that I can not live without hope, even if that hope appears to be irrational hope for some series of political miracles. Furthermore, from a subjective point of view, I like to say that it feels better to try to do something, rather than do nothing, and that all resistance is assistance, to perhaps slow down how fast things get worse, and maybe prevent things from getting as bad as they otherwise would, without that resistance.
Therefore, Manipuflation, on that basis I would encourage you to "get the Constitution Party endorsement as a major party candidate and ... do some political damage on the state level." I would not recommend developing irrational attitudes that are based on disregarding the degree to which the political problems are already quite overwhelming, and probably cannot be fixed before they they get still way worse. Rather, I suggest you continue to walk the tightrope with respect to your opinions:
Paradoxically, when Carlin recommends that one "be happy with what you have," in my view that includes the ways that one may be relatively more happy participating in the political processes, in the sense that it feels better to try to do something, than nothing, and in the sense that providing any resistance to the runaway social insanities is assistance, if only by maybe slowing down how fast things get worse, and perhaps preventing them from getting as bad as they otherwise would, and therefore enabling some real recovery after the worst social storms blow through ???
"there are almost no publicly significant presentations of "solutions" to those problems which are not also similarly backward bullshit, that still indulges in the same old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies and related impossible ideals."
Exibit A: Laudato Si'
interestingly, the word "children" does not appear on the laudato si wordcloud @CatholicNewsSvc
As the article above quoted:
The degree to which the established systems are run by the best available professional hypocrites is also the degree to which their bogus "solutions" are based on mechanisms which are presented in absurdly backward ways, and therefore, whose actual effects backfire badly (except when regarded as being controlled opposition, that is covertly intended to cause the opposite to what they say they are supposed to be doing to actually happen.)
Of course, practically by definition, the Pope is one of the greatest All-Star Professional Hypocrites. The essential problems are that pretty well all old-fashioned religions and ideologies are forms of controlled opposition, which actually cause the opposite to happen to what they say they want to make happen. (That is consistent with the perception of them as actually being controlled opposition.)
The deeper levels of the dilemmas are that the necessarily central core to any resolutions to the real problems are the real death control systems, while the actually existing systems were developed to become most socially successful by being the most deceitful and treacherous. It was around that accomplishment that there grew the various controlled opposition groups, such as the Catholic Church, which has always been one of the All-Star Professional Hypocrites. Hence, the Laudato Si is based on the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, that deliberately does not address the central social facts regarding the combined money/murder systems that made and maintained the problems that it is supposed to be promoting its kinds of bogus "solutions" for.
THE DEEPER DILEMMAS ARE THAT REAL RESOLUTIONS TO THE REAL PROBLEMS REQUIRES DIFFERENT REAL DEATH CONTROLS, BUT THAT IS POLITICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO IN ANY BETTER WAYS, WITHIN THE ESTABLISHED DEATH CONTROLS HAVING BECOME MOST SOCIALLY SUCCESSFUL BY BEING THE MOST DECEITFUL, WHOSE SUCCESSFULNESS BASED ON BEING DECEITFUL PRECLUDES BETTER DEATH CONTROLS FROM BEING DEVELOPED.
THEREFORE, THE DEFAULT "SOLUTIONS" ARE DEATH INSANITIES ERUPTING, RATHER THAN ANY BETTER DEATH CONTROLS TO PREVENT THAT, WHILE THE EVENTUAL ERUPTIONS OF SUCH LEVELS OF DEATH INSANITIES MAKES IT VERY PROBLEMATIC TO ATTEMPT TO BE EFFECTIVELY PREPARED FOR THOSE LEVELS OF DEATH INSANITIES.
The article above could be read as directed against the Professional Hypocrisies of the American Police and American Military, so that they could use the justification of "protecting the vulnerable” to attempt to rationalize their imposition of democidal martial law. In general, it is too tragically true that all of the dominate social political systems are dominated by professional hypocrites, who are either unable or unwilling to be more honest about what they are actually doing with regards to enforcing the death controls that back up the debt controls. The kinds of professional hypocrites that dominate the police and other armed forces are unable or unwilling to go through sufficient paradigm shifts regarding how they perceive and think about what they are really doing, because they continue to have to express themselves through the well-developed bullshit that professional hypocrites use.
The overall tragedies continue to be that natural selection pressures drove the development of artificial selection systems based upon the maximum possible deceits and frauds, which now makes developing any better artificial selection systems look like those are politically impossible. Rather, as much as possible, the established systems based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS deliberately ignore and/or misunderstand the basic laws of nature which are expressed as natural selection pressures. Intense paradoxes abound that natural selection made and maintained artificial selection systems that are based on the maximum possible bullshit about themselves.
Human civilization has become overwhelmingly dominated by professional hypocrites, to the degree that anything else now appears to be politically impossible. Progress in physical science continues to not be matched by progress in political science, due to the ways that almost everything regarding politics is based upon the social successfulness of professional hypocrites, promoting false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals, which actually make the opposite happen in the real world.
It appears to me that the vast majority of people continue to approve of the performances of the best professional liars and hypocrites, and therefore, those kinds of professional hypocrites continue to be most socially successful within the established systems based upon enforcing frauds, despite that doing so drives civilization as a whole to become more psychotic. In the context of elections, the best professional hypocrites tend to win those elections. Then they gradually use up their political capital by actually doing the opposition to what they promised ... BUT, then the next crop of professional hypocrites arises, which again is able to fool enough of the people, enough of the time, to win elections, which then gives them the political capital to continue to operate the actually existing systems based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS.
The deeper dilemmas always continue to be that some death control systems must exist and do exist, but that those developed to be done through the maximum possible deceits about themselves, and therefore, ended up surrounded by controlled opposition groups that are the best professional hypocrites, that promote the bullshit of false fundamental dichotomies and impossible ideals, that continue to fool enough of the people, enough of the time, that want to continue to believe in that bullshit.
The Pope is not likely to discuss any better death control systems, because he would not admit and address the actual social facts regarding the already existing death control systems. In general, the professional hypocrites are not able to go through profound paradigm shifts with respect to how they perceive and operate their death control systems, due to the degree to which they are professional hypocrites regarding those issues.
The longer term consequences of controlling civilization through ENFORCING FRAUDS, which never stops those frauds from still being false, is that civilization as a whole becomes more and more psychotic, due to society as a whole being controlled by belief in bullshit. American society was leading the world at doing that, and therefore, is one of the leading edges towards manifesting the longer term consequences from having done that.
It is tragically too typical for people like the Pope to admit and address those problems in superficial ways, that therefore provide superficial "solutions" which will continue to backfire badly, because professional hypocrites always get their mechanisms backwards. Those are pretty well universal problems through the whole of Neolithic Civilization at the present time. Indeed, there are hardly any worse manifestations of the runaway social successfulness of the Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire, dominating globalized society through its systems of ENFORCING FRAUDS, all of which are automatically getting worse, faster, because being able to back up lies with violence inside society still never stops those lies from being false. Therefore, the entire Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire "leads" the way towards final failures from too much success.
At the present time, it appears politically impossible that human beings and civilization would develop more scientific solutions to their problems, because of the degree to which society developed to become dominated by the best professional hypocrites, who are unable and unwilling to face those facts about themselves. Instead, the vast majority of people continue to be Zombie Sheeple, who tend to approve of the bullshit that the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing promote, as the bogus "solutions" for the problems that were actually being resolves by those Wolves in the first place, through those Wolves actually operating the murder systems, BUT WHOSE SOCIAL SUCCESSFULNESS WAS BASED ON BEING DECEITFUL AND TREACHEROUS.
From the point of view of natural laws, there must exist some death control systems, and, of course, there do exist such systems, i.e., the combined money/murder systems, based upon enforcing frauds, which have become extremely unbalanced runaways, due to the degree to which the best professional hypocrites have become excessively successful. It is inside of that overall context that I repeat my sentence that you singled out to quote:
It is politically impossible to have better police or better military, when the previously best forms of those were operated by the best professional hypocrites, that will not publicly admit that those are the facts, but rather, have to continue to double down on their hypocrisy! Meanwhile, the underlying currents are that the prodigious progress in physical science, manifesting through industrial revolutions, continues to pump up and UP the ability of human beings to do what they want, while what they mostly do not want is to stop believing in the bullshit that they want to continue to believe in.
There are so many things I would like to say that occur to me when I read your comments! Too bad my mind isn't stronger or else it's a problem I have with the medium (blog-blog), or some of each. This quote provoked me because while I'm somewhat impressed that Pope Francis is pushing the envelope like speaking out in the US Congress, I think it cowardly that he avoided the issue of over-population aka "death control" thereby consigning the poor to remain vulnerable to genocide and/or martial law.
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I'm slightly confused when in your reply you identify the Catholic Church as a controlled opposition group then further down say:
the professional hypocrites are not able to go through profound paradigm shifts with respect to how they perceive and operate their death control systems
The death control system is wars based on deceit. You did say "in general" but aren't the death controls operated by the core group, with the controlled opposition bleating their outrage while at the same time becoming socially successful by going along with the bullshit stories? I guess that means that by clicking "I accept", the controlled opposition group leaders and we the Zombie Sheeple tacitly agree to the death control system which makes us, if not exactly the owners, at least operators. As I've said before, it would be more democratic if we operated better death controls by simply admitting that we do that ourselves by preventing pregnancy. Those deaths, which could be called murders, would control debts, and I would say that is better than seeing our sons and daughters blown to bits on a battlefield. The bankers and CEOs and Generals won't like it though, and the priests always want to grow their flock! Given that these are the folks who command the education system, the mass media, and the political process, I think natural selection pressures will overtake civilization long before sufficiently profound paradigm shifts do, only then to realize we are collectively on, as The Guess Who said many years ago, a one-way road to hell : (
as always, thanks for the reply Rad, and well put to Manipuflation too.
The US Army uses "Zombie" training to densensitize soldiers and familiarize soldiers and police with shooting Americans in their street clothes. It is mass programing. Try to avoid it.
They haven't thought that through. Scenes of soldiers or police shooting at Americans in their street clothes in large numbers will NOT have any kind of positive effect on their plans.
The sight of uniformed LE beating and abusing citizens are currently NOT having the effect of improving people's attitudes towards cops. They are getting the fear, yes, but they are also laying the groundwork for epic blowback.
One day, sooner rather than later, a mob will form around one of these 'beat-downs', and the police will discover they are NOT free to leave. The first mob that stops and disarms a couple of rogue cops, saving a citizen from assault or worse, will be game-changing imagery.
I am surprised that Paul Krugman hasn't suggested that the gov't fake a zombie outbreak (like he suggested they fake a space alien invasion) to "stimulate" the economy and secure the righteous sanctity of the almighty State.
I hate to admit it, but in a sense, I can understand why the government treats the people the way they do. Too many are WORSE THAN ZOMBIES. Look at all the people who voted for Obozo? SOB was even re-elected. By who? I have $100 that says we will be saddled with Hillary in 2016. Just look around at the 'tatted up, "I just got out of prison" looking males, and the 'tatted up, "I'm a crack whore" looking females with their dirty kids with Mohawk hair styles and are on ADHD meds, walking around with their pit bulls. These types USED to be the exception, but now they are the norm. All of these things are the signs of a spiritual condition {whether you want to admit it or not}. John Quincy Adams said:" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." And that is where we find ourselves today. People with the moral code of animals can expect to be treated and RULED {not governed} like animals {kept in pens and slaughtered}.
I can tell Ya one thing; Glenn was useless, he had to be removed by zombies
http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/glenn-maggie-wedding-merle.jpg
Glen rolls under the dumpster. You watch. That was Nicholas getting ripped apart. Doesn't mean I'm not pissed off though. I was just getting interested in the Nicholas character - had big hopes for him actually. Fucking zombies.
Seriously though, the show has become a caricature of itself. Time to end it.
U have my respect; you're 3 weeks older ;)
Seniority counts for nothing around here, unless you're George Washington.
I do appreciate the gesture though.
It's not even funny ...
When do the walking dead aka USA citizens wake up and take back their country from its dictators??
Abolish stupid/current/newer laws, re-start from the constitution and get government to work accordingly...
Dreams ....
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA!
Even the most useless, drug using, slothful, waste of air person has at least ONE thing in common with the most productive genius: BOTH ARE MADE OF CARBON. I propose that we use the former as a fuel source. At least society can make some use of their existence.