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Guest Post: The Essential Rules Of Tyranny
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt Market
The Essential Rules Of Tyranny
As we look back on the horrors of the dictatorships and autocracies of the past, one particular question consistently arises; how was it possible for the common men of these eras to NOT notice what was happening around them? How could they have stood as statues unaware or uncaring as their cultures were overrun by fascism, communism, collectivism, and elitism? Of course, we have the advantage of hindsight, and are able to research and examine the misdeeds of the past at our leisure. Unfortunately, such hindsight does not necessarily shield us from the long cast shadow of tyranny in our own day. For that, the increasingly uncommon gift of foresight is required…
At bottom, the success of despotic governments and Big Brother societies hinges upon a certain number of political, financial, and cultural developments. The first of which is an unwillingness in the general populace to secure and defend their own freedoms, making them completely reliant on corrupt establishment leadership. For totalitarianism to take hold, the masses must not only neglect the plight of their country, and the plight of others, but also be completely uninformed of the inherent indirect threats to their personal safety. They must abandon all responsibility for their destinies, and lose all respect for their own humanity. They must, indeed, become domesticated and mindless herd animals without regard for anything except their fleeting momentary desires for entertainment and short term survival. For a lumbering bloodthirsty behemoth to actually sneak up on you, you have to be pretty damnably oblivious.
The prevalence of apathy and ignorance sets the stage for the slow and highly deliberate process of centralization. Once dishonest governments accomplish an atmosphere of inaction and condition a sense of frailty within the citizenry, the sky is truly the limit. However, a murderous power-monger’s day is never quite done. In my recent article ‘The Essential Rules of Liberty’ we explored the fundamentally unassailable actions and mental preparations required to ensure the continuance of a free society. In this article, let’s examine the frequently wielded tools of tyrants in their invariably insane quests for total control…
Rule #1: Keep Them Afraid
People who are easily frightened are easily dominated. This is not just a law of political will, but a law of nature. Many wrongly assume that a tyrant’s power comes purely from the application of force. In fact, despotic regimes that rely solely on extreme violence are often very unsuccessful, and easily overthrown. Brute strength is calculable. It can be analyzed, and thus, eventually confronted and defeated. Thriving tyrants instead utilize not just harm, but the imminent THREAT of harm. They instill apprehension in the public; a fear of the unknown, or a fear of the possible consequences for standing against the state. They let our imaginations run wild until we see death around every corner, whether it’s actually there or not. When the masses are so blinded by the fear of reprisal that they forget their fear of slavery, and take no action whatsoever to undo it, then they have been sufficiently culled.
In other cases, our fear is evoked and directed towards engineered enemies. Another race, another religion, another political ideology, a “hidden” and ominous villain created out of thin air. Autocrats assert that we “need them” in order to remain safe and secure from these illusory monsters bent on our destruction. As always, this development is followed by the claim that all steps taken, even those that dissolve our freedoms, are “for the greater good”. Frightened people tend to shirk their sense of independence and run towards the comfort of the collective, even if that collective is built on immoral and unconscionable foundations. Once a society takes on a hive-mind mentality almost any evil can be rationalized, and any injustice against the individual is simply overlooked for the sake of the group.
Rule #2: Keep Them Isolated
In the past, elitist governments would often legislate and enforce severe penalties for public gatherings, because defusing the ability of the citizenry to organize or to communicate was paramount to control. In our technological era, such isolation is still used, but in far more advanced forms. The bread and circus lifestyle of the average westerner alone is enough to distract us from connecting with each other in any meaningful fashion, but people still sometimes find ways to seek out organized forms of activism.
Through co-option, modern day tyrant’s can direct and manipulate opposition movements. By creating and administrating groups which oppose each other, elites can then micromanage all aspects of a nation on the verge of revolution. These “false paradigms” give us the illusion of proactive organization, and the false hope of changing the system, while at the same time preventing us from seeking understanding in one another. All our energies are then muted and dispersed into meaningless battles over “left and right”, or “Democrat versus Republican”, for example. Only movements that cast aside such empty labels and concern themselves with the ultimate truth of their country, regardless of what that truth might reveal, are able to enact real solutions to the disasters wrought by tyranny.
In more advanced forms of despotism, even fake organizations are disbanded. Curfews are enforced. Normal communications are diminished or monitored. Compulsory paperwork is required. Checkpoints are instituted. Free speech is punished. Existing groups are influenced to distrust each other or to disintegrate entirely out of dread of being discovered. All of these measures are taken by tyrants primarily to prevent ANY citizens from gathering and finding mutual support. People who work together and organize of their own volition are unpredictable, and therefore, a potential risk to the state.
Rule #3: Keep Them Desperate
You’ll find in nearly every instance of cultural descent into autocracy, the offending government gained favor after the onset of economic collapse. Make the necessities of root survival an uncertainty, and people without knowledge of self sustainability and without solid core principles will gladly hand over their freedom, even for mere scraps from the tables of the same men who unleashed famine upon them. Financial calamities are not dangerous because of the poverty they leave in their wake; they are dangerous because of the doors to malevolence that they leave open.
Destitution leads not just to hunger, but also to crime (private and government). Crime leads to anger, hatred, and fear. Fear leads to desperation. Desperation leads to the acceptance of anything resembling a solution, even despotism.
Autocracies pretend to cut through the dilemmas of economic dysfunction (usually while demanding liberties be relinquished), however, behind the scenes they actually seek to maintain a proscribed level of indigence and deprivation. The constant peril of homelessness and starvation keeps the masses thoroughly distracted from such things as protest or dissent, while simultaneously chaining them to the idea that their only chance is to cling to the very government out to end them.
Rule #4: Send Out The Jackboots
This is the main symptom often associated with totalitarianism. So much so that our preconceived notions of what a fascist government looks like prevent us from seeing other forms of tyranny right under our noses. Some Americans believe that if the jackbooted thugs are not knocking on every door, then we MUST still live in a free country. Obviously, this is a rather naïve position. Admittedly, though, goon squads and secret police do eventually become prominent in every failed nation, usually while the public is mesmerized by visions of war, depression, hyperinflation, terrorism, etc.
When law enforcement officials are no longer servants of the people, but agents of a government concerned only with its own supremacy, serious crises emerge. Checks and balances are removed. The guidelines that once reigned in police disappear, and suddenly, a philosophy of superiority emerges; an arrogant exclusivity that breeds separation between law enforcement and the rest of the public. Finally, police no longer see themselves as protectors of citizens, but prison guards out to keep us subdued and docile.
As tyranny grows, this behavior is encouraged. Good men are filtered out of the system, and small (minded and hearted) men are promoted.
At its pinnacle, a police state will hide the identities of most of its agents and officers, behind masks or behind red tape, because their crimes in the name of the state become so numerous and so sadistic that personal vengeance on the part of their victims will become a daily concern.
Rule #5: Blame Everything On The Truth Seekers
Tyrants are generally men who have squelched their own consciences. They have no reservations in using any means at their disposal to wipe out opposition. But, in the early stages of their ascent to power, they must give the populace a reason for their ruthlessness, or risk being exposed, and instigating even more dissent. The propaganda machine thus goes into overdrive, and any person or group that dares to question the authority or the validity of the state is demonized in the minds of the masses.
All disasters, all violent crimes, all the ills of the world, are hoisted upon the shoulders of activist groups and political rivals. They are falsely associated with fringe elements already disliked by society (racists, terrorists, etc). A bogus consensus is created through puppet media in an attempt to make the public believe that “everyone else” must have the same exact views, and those who express contrary positions must be “crazy”, or “extremist”. Events are even engineered by the corrupt system and pinned on those demanding transparency and liberty. The goal is to drive anti-totalitarian organizations into self censorship. That is to say, instead of silencing them directly, the state causes activists to silence themselves.
Tyrannical power structures cannot function without scapegoats. There must always be an elusive boogie man under the bed of every citizen, otherwise, those citizens may turn their attention, and their anger, towards the real culprit behind their troubles. By scapegoating stewards of the truth, such governments are able to kill two birds with one stone.
Rule #6: Encourage Citizen Spies
Ultimately, the life of a totalitarian government is not prolonged by the government itself, but by the very people it subjugates. Citizen spies are the glue of any police state, and our propensity for sticking our noses into other peoples business is highly valued by Big Brother bureaucracies around the globe.
There are a number of reasons why people participate in this repulsive activity. Some are addicted to the feeling of being a part of the collective, and “service” to this collective, sadly, is the only way they are able to give their pathetic lives meaning. Some are vindictive, cold, and soulless, and actually get enjoyment from ruining others. And still, like elites, some long for power, even petty power, and are willing to do anything to fulfill their vile need to dictate the destinies of perfect strangers.
Citizen spying is almost always branded as a civic duty; an act of heroism and bravery. Citizen spies are offered accolades and awards, and showered with praise from the upper echelons of their communities. People who lean towards citizen spying are often outwardly and inwardly unimpressive; physically and mentally inept. For the average moral and emotional weakling with persistent feelings of inadequacy, the allure of finally being given fifteen minutes of fame and a hero’s status (even if that status is based on a lie) is simply too much to resist. They begin to see “extremists” and “terrorists” everywhere. Soon, people afraid of open ears everywhere start to watch what they say at the supermarket, in their own backyards, or even to family members. Free speech is effectively neutralized.
Rule #7: Make Them Accept The Unacceptable
In the end, it is not enough for a government fueled by the putrid sludge of iniquity to lord over us. At some point, it must also influence us to forsake our most valued principles. Tyrannies are less concerned with dominating how we live, so much as dominating how we think. If they can mold our very morality, they can exist unopposed indefinitely. Of course, the elements of conscience are inborn, and not subject to environmental duress as long as a man is self aware. However, conscience can be manipulated if a person has no sense of identity, and has never put in the effort to explore his own strengths and failings. There are many people like this in America today.
Lies become “necessary” in protecting the safety of the state. War becomes a tool for “peace”. Torture becomes an ugly but “useful” method for gleaning important information. Police brutality is sold as a “natural reaction” to increased crime. Rendition becomes normal, but only for those labeled as “terrorists”. Assassination is justified as a means for “saving lives”. Genocide is done discretely, but most everyone knows it is taking place. They simply don’t discuss it.
All tyrannical systems depend on the apathy and moral relativism of the inhabitants within their borders. Without the cooperation of the public, these systems cannot function. The real question is, how many of the above steps will be taken before we finally refuse to conform? At what point will each man and woman decide to break free from the dark path blazed before us and take measures to ensure their independence? Who will have the courage to develop their own communities, their own alternative economies, their own organizations for mutual defense outside of establishment constructs, and who will break under the pressure to bow like cowards? How many will hold the line, and how many will flee?
For every American, for every human being across the planet who chooses to stand immovable in the face of the very worst in mankind, we come that much closer to breathing life once again into the very best in us all.
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The world is a stage
Indeed it is BB.
When the dust settles on this thread, take a look back at the litany of crazy-ass comments on here. You will see no shortage of people fighting wars that don’t exist or exist solely in their own head.
Then BB you will understand what the mystics did: there is no spoon. There is only RobotTrader, Spaulding and peteybear over on the wallstreatbear.com threads.
johnny,
I disagree the uselful idiots are everywhere,how do you think 9 of the 10 planks of the Commie Manifesto are now in place within our system.
Their using useful idiots.They never realize that they are the last to be slaughtered when the masses have been subdued, and controlled.
Anyone different was rounded up and murdered.........their usefulness was over.
I completely agree that the useful idiots are everywhere however my broader point is that they've actually proven quite useless as the good life has turned them into weak metro sexual cowards.
The revolution should have happened ages ago as we're now 50 years into the KGB's 4 stages of subversion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMZGGQ0ERk
Reason alone the FED should be ended...
we go to the fifth plank of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto
because the government has proven that it is so responsible
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -Claire Wolfe
Obviously this quote is a few years old.
babiotic boils and and heretic toils in the pipeline...that's abiotic energy bubbling under the people's undercovers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQbe9ATUNU&feature=related
What Famous Men Have To Say About Jews 1-3
http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=jewish&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11#873 See for Yourself! how much MORE! Money Israel Pays (Lobby Dollars) than ALL the Brand Name Banks and subsidiaries Combined! 29 Standing Ovations! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnq2AXDyry8&feature=related See for Yourself the Money Paid and the Result of the River of Lobby Dollars that stuff the Washington DC Lobby Whores Pockets!
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Oh, you mean the Pope's masonic court Jews, bankers for the Vatican, meat shield for the Vicar of Satan, who are traitors to their own people? Jewish politicians, Muslim leaders, and western governments are all controlled by Jesuits, Knights of Malta, Opus Dei, Knights of Columbus, et al. You should read the text of the Extreme Jesuit Oath and if you have an ounce of reasoning ability left you can discern that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were written by the Society of Jesus (Sovereign Military Order of Malta). People should take a closer look at Rome, and research for themselves how many US politicians owe their allegiance to, and work for, Rome.
What Famous Men Have To Say About the Roman Catholic Order of Jesuits
"My history of the Jesuits is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities,
[and] is very particular and very horrible. Their [the Jesuit Orders] restoration [in 1814 by Pope Pius VII]
is indeed a step toward darkness, cruelty, despotism, [and] death. I do not like the appearance of the
Jesuits. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this
Society of [Ignatius de] Loyola."- John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd President of the United States)
"The Jesuits are a secret society a sort of Masonic order with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous." Samuel Morse (1791-1872; American inventor of the telegraph; author of the book Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States) President Thomas Jefferson:I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits...Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as
many disguises as only a king of the gypsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and
schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is
this Society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer
them an asylum.... (The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, Rene Fulop-Miller, 390)
Thomas Jefferson replied to his predecessor: Like you, I disapprove of the restoration of the Jesuits, for it means a step backwards from light into darkness.... (The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, Rene Fulop-Miller, 390)"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country, the United States of America are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated MOST of the wars of Europe."
Marquis de LaFayette,(1757-1834; French statesman and general who served in under the command of GeneralGeorge Washington during the American Revolutionary War)
President Abraham Lincoln: This [American Civil] war [of 1861-1865] wouldnever have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to popery thatwenow seeour land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North on the question ofslavery, neither Jeff Davisis [President of the Confederacy] nor anyone of the leading menof the Confederacy would have dared toattack the North, had they not reliedon the promises of the Jesuits, that under the mask of Democracy, the moneyand arms of the Roman Catholic, even the arms of France, were at their disposal if they would attack us. I pity the priests, the bishops,and monks ofRome in the United States,when the people realize that they are, in great part,responsible for the tears and theblood shed in this war. I conceal what I know on thatsubject from the knowledge of the nation, for if thepeople knew the whole truth, this war would turn intoareligious war, and it would at once take atenfold more savage andbloody character. It would become merciless aa all religious wars are. It wouldbecome a war of extermination on both sides. The Protestants of both the North andthe South wouldsurely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits,if they could hear what Professor [Samuel B.]Morse [Ed. Note: famous for the Morse code] has said to me ofthe plots made in the very cityof Rome [i.e., at the Vatican] todestroy this Republic, and if they could learnhow the [Roman Catholic] priests, the nuns,and the monks,which daily landon ourshores,under the pretext ofpreaching theirreligion, instructing the people in their schools, taking care of the sick in the hospitals, are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope,of Napoleon, and theother despots ofEurope, to undermine our institutions,alienate the hearts of our people from our Constitution , and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free. (Burke McCarty; The Suppressed Truth About The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln)President Lincoln told Catholic priest, Charles Chiniquy (whom as a lawyer, Lincoln had defended
against the Catholic Church; defeated them, revealed great scandal in the Chicago diocese, which led the
Vatican and its military intelligence/assassins [the Jesuits] to become Lincoln's mortal enemy!) Abraham
Lincoln's views on the Jesuits:
"So many plots have already been made against my life, that it is a real miracle that they have all failed .
. . But can we expect that God will make a perpetual miracle to save my life? I believe not. The Jesuits
are so expert in those deeds of blood that Henry IV (king of France who was assassinated by the Jesuit
Revaillac for giving liberty to his people), said that it was impossible to escape them, and he became their
victim, though he did all he could to protect himself. My escape from their hands, since the letter of the
Pope to Jeff Davis has sharpened a million of daggers to pierce my breast, would be more that a miracle.
. . . I know that Jesuits never forget nor forsake (never give up). Man must not care how and where he
dies, provided he dies at the post of honor and duty."
(C harles Chiniquy; Fifty Years In The ChurchOf Rome-1886)
Above all I have learned from the Jesuits. And so did Lenin too, as far as I recall. The world has never known anything quite so splendid as the hierarchical structure of the [Roman] Catholic Church. There were quite a few things I simply appropriated from the Jesuits for the use of the [Nazi] Party.
Adolph Hitler (1889-1945; Nazi leader and chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945)
"The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not
the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power power in its most
despotic exercise absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single
man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms and at the same time the greatest and most
enormous of abuses." Napoleon I (i.e., Napoleon Bonaparte; 1769-1821; emperor of the French)
"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country , the United States of America , are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated MOST of the wars of Europe." Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834; French statesman and general. He served in the American Continental Army under the command of General George Washington during theAmerican Revolutionary War.)
Alas, I knew they [i.e., the Jesuits] would poison me; but I did not expect to die in so slow and cruel a manner. (1774) - Pope Clement XIV (Who had forever abolished the Jesuit Order in 1773)It is impossible to read Elizabethan history [i.e., the history surrounding Queen Elizabeth I of England; queen: 1558-1603] except in the context of an army of Jesuits, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration, subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plotting for the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Popes foes anywhere in the world. (1987)
- J.E.C. Shepherd (Canadian historian)"Between 1555 and 1931 the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuit Order] was expelled from at least 83
- J.E.C. Shepherd (Canadian historian)countries, city states and cities, for engaging in political intrigue and subversion plots against the welfare
of the State, according to the records of a Jesuit priest of repute [Thomas J. Campbell]. Practically
every instance of expulsion was for political intrigue, political infiltration, political subversion, and inciting
to political insurrection." (1987)
If you trace Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.
- James Parton (American historian)In Roman Catholic circles it is well known that the Black Pope is the term used for the [Superior] General
- M.F. Cusack (Ex-nun of Kenmore; author of the book The Black Pope)of the Jesuits. As the Pope is always robed in white, and the [Jesuit Superior] General in black, the
contrast is obvious. But those Romanists who do not greatly love the Jesuits, and their number is not
limited, use the term as indicating that the Black Pope rules the White Pope?even while the former [i.e.,
the Black Pope] is obligated to make, at least, a show of submission to the latter.? (1896)
The Jesuits are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881; famous Russian novelist)Pontiff of Rome for emperor... that's their ideal. It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of
domination- something like a universal serfdom with them [i.e., the Jesuits] as masters - that's all they
stand for. They don't even believe in God perhaps.
The organization of the [Roman Catholic] Hierarchy is a complete military despotism, of which the Pope
- Brigadier General Thomas M. Harrisis the ostensible [i.e., apparent; seeming] head; but of which, the Black Pope [Ed. Note: The Superior
General of the Jesuits], is the real head. The Black Pope is the head of the order of the Jesuits, and is
called a General [i.e., the Superior General]. He not only has command of his own order, but [also]
directs and controls the general policy of the [Roman Catholic] Church. He [the Black Pope] is the power
behind the throne, and is the real potential head of the Hierarchy. The whole machine is under the
strictest rules of military discipline. The whole thought and will of this machine, to plan, propose and
execute, is found in its head. There is no independence of thought, or of action, in its subordinate parts.
Implicit and unquestioning obedience to the orders of superiors in authority, is the sworn duty of the
priesthood of every grade
Or you can continue to believe the Jewish race is responsible for all the evil on the earth, if that is your religion.
It's always a slippery slope when you look back.
We made our pact with the devil in the US when we decided "Greed is Good", and went "shopping till you drop" in China on credit. Through the magic of money printing, loose financial regulation and the consumerist economy, we became experts at spending money. That we never had. We unlearned that there had already been 2 energy crises and allowed gargantuan SUVs on the road. We unlearned how to manufacture things. It was all a get rich quick scheme with very little substance, only the bills and the tears to show for it.
It was easier to ignore deteriorating realities and bargain away freedoms in exchange for champagne dreams. That word, American dreams: we became a nation of dreamers...remember when they announced that proudly? Money for nothing and chicks for free (and houses).
Supersizing everything in sight till we became obese. Putting everything on roids so we could impress ourselves and maintain the illusion that we were stronger.
But now we've made our bargain. We entrusted the power brokers with our money and government and they're not gonna give it up.
Except it was not an informed choice. It was a long, ongoing and relentless campaign.
see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM
If every authority economist, banker, govt, etc tells you that it's safe to buy a house, for example, is it fair to say that you got what you had coming to you when it all comes crashing down?
trollcitythinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM
FANTASTIC!!
Thanks theopco !!
The manager of a strip club told me once that "Strippers know the price of everything and the value of nothing." I saw over the years how that applied to so many people.
We are surrounded by the enemy, never mind governments themselves.
The film Idiocracy has gone from being a fictional, satirical comedy to being a documentary in progress.
Thank-you ZH and contributors/posters for being a bastion of sanity in a world gone absolutely fucking bat shit crazy.
That scene in Idiocracy where the guy has a disproportionately large "masturbating" arm was hilarious.
Awesome movie. Weird that fox didn't fully support it's release. I'm pretty sure they could have made a lot more money
Fox has a history of not supporting shows and films when they disagree with them, in some form or another.
Idiocracy probably pissed off some higher up executive who probably took a look at his own masturbating arm and realised the parallels....
Can you tell us about this history and which films and shows were pulled by Fox?
But we need .gov to redistribute the $$ from those rich $250k a year jet owners to the poor people who only have a 55 inch flatscreen tv, and a cellphone, and not even the very latest xbox games....
How does someone making $250k a year afford a jet?
Ask Obunghole who keeps saying that those who make $250K per year are too rich and need to hand over more money to him so he can buy votes for 2012
Every point is applicable to Amerika. If you disagree you're part of the problem.
US world order, maybe time to update the cultural references stock.
That guy on the pic, when was he born? in the nineteenth century?
Bring a US face, the US military and all... Tyranny is not a fantasy of the past. No reason for the bogeyman to be a man of the past.
Well since the same people who took down the czar and rolled the revolution also took down the US, it really is no different.
We are both products of the real tyranny.
pods
If you are a keen observer you can see all this unfold in the comments found here on ZH. The fear, apathy, blame, hate. This fascinates me. That we look at the big picture and rarely take notice of how big started out as small.
Right. The US citizens nature is eternal. The US is not the solution. The US is the problem.
Collectivism is the problem. There are always problems when you group people together as a whole, when in reality they are Individuals.
In some respects the author has yet to fully appreciate the role of money interests in Government. Whether a nation is in its golden years, or in terminal decline, the nationstate is (usually) run for the benefit of the 'companies'. ..so Tyranny doesn't really 'creep up', it is just staffed with different men. And when the whole 'expolitation' thing starts needing constant inflation and becomes too vicious, the good people leave and the venal thug -types start getting hired...who hire more of their own type.
They have turned bad into good and good into debt slaves.
"you go to school and learn the golden rule, so why are you acting like a bloody fool". (lyrics from the Cops theme song bad boys):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AQmPQJCoTc
The 48 laws of power. Best book written on this subject http://www.amazon.com/48-Laws-Power-Robert-Greene/dp/0140280197
Excellent article!
Rule #8) If all else fails, have everyone drink Kool-Aid.
Change you can believe in will not come until you are so bad off that you have to jerk off the dog to feed the cat. Just before the dog goes on the barby for dinner. Then, you might just get a bit peeved, and complain to your neighbor that things don't seem to be getting any better - the " recovery " has yet to occur. The meek shall inherit the earth - who the fuck came up with that brilliant prediction anyway? Fema camps and green crackers, here we come!
I believe it was imperial rome that came up with that particular chestnut
"The meek shall inherit the earth - who the fuck came up with that brilliant prediction anyway? " Indeed. The meek end up in ditches dead, nude and laying on top of other bodies
Hahahahaha - your right!! Our montra is "Blessed are the prepared for they shall inherit the Earth"... anything else and your a victim... :)
https://www.gunsgrubandgold.com/forum
"What Jesus fails to appreciate is that it`s the meek that are part of the problem..."-Reg of the PFJ
Anyone see film of a trainwreck in slow motion?
How America has allowed this bloodless coup is beyond me.
so few understood the implications of going off the gold standard (hunt brothers did) and then so few understood the implications of 'free trade' and globalization and many cheered for it and still do
For more in-depth analysis of what happens to people (especially on the inside, how people change) please read The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz. It is not an easy read but very insightful as "these are your neighbours on totalitarianism!"
The best part of that book is the bit on Borowski...who I mentioned above!
Yes, but note (from one of the reviews on Amazon):
Here are some other excerpts of reviews which give some reasons to read the book:
A book that memorably explores "the ways that people tried to cope with the nonsense and lies of the Communist system," as Hooman Majd described it.
We'll probably never truly understand how so many millions of people could capitulate to the extreme ideologies of fascism and communism, from the intellectual act of stifling one's own independent thoughts to the emotional act of apologizing for repressive regimes. But this insider's account is a fascinating and disturbing look at the mental suffering of those living under imposed philosophies. While Milosz largely criticizes communism here, don't fall for political simplicity because he also examines fascism (which is not the polar opposite of communism) and extremism in general. Milosz examines the painful coping mechanisms of the thinking person oppressed by ideologies that were not just unyielding but half-baked, with philosophical demands shifting with the winds of politics and history. The book is built around vignettes of four writers Milosz once knew - former independent thinkers who either subsumed their passion in support of the state or fought the power, always with saddening results.
The Captive Mind is the book written in the 20th Century that inadvertently and metaphorically best explains our present early 21st Century.
For many Americans, whose questions of freedom are restricted to whether or not one is allowed to burn their draft card or a Koran, or utter a prayer in school, reading "The Captive Mind" may very well have a stultifying effect.
Milosz's stories are a warning to those that would collaborate in their own destruction.
I often wonder as I read about the horrors committed by the worst regimes in history, how the people that perpetrate crimes against humanity can live with themselves. What is the motive and reasoning of those who praise the slaughter of innocents? The Captive Mind sheds a little bit of light into these darkest corners of the human psyche. It describes the path that leads righeous people on the road to immorality, written by a man who, along with his friends and comerads, traveled that road but took another path before he came to his final destination.
Milosz exposes us American to the real experience of war and oppression which also should expose to us the hollowness of our courage, and hopefully spur us to a greater understanding of resistance and freedom.
Peggy Noonan puts the boots to Obama:
And so his failures in the debt ceiling fight. He wasn't serious, he was only shrewd—and shrewdness wasn't enough. He demagogued the issue—no Social Security checks—until he was called out, and then went on the hustings spouting inanities. He left conservatives scratching their heads: They could have made a better, more moving case for the liberal ideal as translated into the modern moment, than he did. He never offered a plan. In a crisis he was merely sly. And no one likes sly, no one respects it.
So he is losing a battle in which he had superior forces—the presidency, the U.S. Senate. In the process he revealed that his foes have given him too much mystique. He is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
Nahhhh, that could never happen in the United States.
oh, wait....
We are indeed living in dire times. But it is also worth noting that, while human nature remains fairly constant, the world situation has changed enormously. The PTB had to buy up nearly the whole MSM to do what they are doing now, yet the first world is critically dependent on the tight networking of modern communications to function. In short, I think we will see some major surprises as the screws are turned. Not all can be predicted.
What it seems to come down to is Organize or Submit.
We do not live in a democracy, we live in a republic.
Yet in just a couple years of tea party activity, the House has changed hands and its republican leadership now has to deal with freshman reps who are not toeing the party line on this budget deal. This is real change! And it's come from all of us who have spent time calling or writing or voting or all of the above as part of the political process. If enough of us speak, organized by similar principles, the pols do listen. They're only interested in self-preservation, so why wouldn't they.
Write one letter to a congressman. Make one phone call to a senator's office. Get involved with a local tea party. This is how it's done.
Joey,
Now it is time to organize a national strike until we have tptb silent and motionless.
This is the time, baby------shut her down until she stops and is silent
enough of this theater
om
odd how the 'tea party' was non-existent during the spending spree of deficits-don't-matter dick's reign of terror
Odd how the democrats were screeching about Bush's $400 billion deficits and have nothing but praise for Obama's $1.7 trillion deficits and want to spend even more
Might want to get a little more serious...
[warning: strongly advised not to view this at work, on a public network or without at least minimal protection]
http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/soa-manuals/counter-intelligence
[edit - damn, was supposed to be a response to a post]
Century of the Self: How to Brainwash a Generation. Hint; Bernays, not Stalin here folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8ZvYNlxiM&feature=related
D ear Use,
This is the last line of defense for tptb. A general strike is an act of civil disobedience that cuts these dudes off in a very short time------and it just happens when everyone calls in sick or takes his vacation. No conspiracy here-----a simple coincidence.
but you are right----the dudes trained by the military at the soa will love coming back and torching this country and the dogs of war that trained them
still, someone has to cook, sweep the floor, maintain the grid, clean the bathrooms, etc., so i am dreaming the good dream rather than fighting the good fight---for me, they are the same-----brothers and sisters do different things together to survive----and i think this is really what we are talking about, no?
om
Romulus states strongly his faith in the system, and ignores the warnings;
Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care--
When first he planned his home,
What City should arise and bear
The weight and state of Rome.
A shiftless, westward-wandering tramp,
Checked by the Tiber flood,
He reared a wall around his camp
Of uninspired mud.
But when his brother leaped the Wall
And mocked its height and make,
He guessed the future of it all
And slew him for its sake.
Swift was the blow--swift as the thought
Which showed him in that hour
How unbelief may bring to naught
The early steps of Power.
Foreseeing Time's imperilled hopes
Of Glory, Grace, and Love--
All singers, Caesars, artists, Popes--
Would fail if Remus throve,
He sent his brother to the Gods,
And, when the fit was o'er,
Went on collecting turves and clods
To build the Wall once more!
Remus replies, after accepting the sacrifice;
"Not knowing when the Dawn will come,I open every Door,
Or has it Feathers, like a Bird,
Or Billows, like a Shore --"
Some paraphrases
"Those who would trade liberty for safety deserve neither" B. Franklin
"What have you given us?" Woman in Philadelphia
"A republic if you can keep it." B. Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be regularly refreshed with the blood of tyrants" T. Jefferson
"Live Free or Die." NH state motto
"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees": Att. to Zapata
"Obama is a cornerned, wounded animal and cornered, wounded animals are twice as dangerous." Me.
"Let's Roll," Todd Beamer, Flight 93
Obama lacks the passion of animal -- now Valerie Jarrett might be a different story.
"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." -Adolf hitler
Obama will walk away from this nightmare with millions upon millions in payola from the financial sector (probably in some other currency stashed in a swiss account like former Sen. Phil Gramm collected), just like bush 1 is, clinton did, bush II has, and whatever deceiver/liar gets into office the next time around. It is the american people who are not wealthy enough to leave the country who are cornered, wounded animals.
#8. deep deep divisions... the idea that liberty suits israelis and christians in some cultivation of charity... or that terrorism even exits and is asymetric to some race war perpertrated by leaders of mankind
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that we must protect insolvent COMPANIES or risk the republic
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our military is preventing muslim 'jihad' on our shores when 2000 US soldiers die and 20k? are mutilated every year to return to their families
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that fox news is fair and balanced... and 80% of old people dont pay taxes
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tyranny is only extreme when it cant 'solve' your problems... invented by zelots and puritans for the most part
prescient and very relevant post. thank you
The idea of democracy was born at a time when a bunch of people were sitting on a hill. They could all see each other, and holding a public office was considered a duty to be avoided if possible.
No one has figured out how to organize hundreds of millions of individuals. We are living in an experiment, with the Chinese trying one paradigm and the U.S. clinging to an idealism that is being deftly manipulated by the sociopaths.
There really is not an answer at this time. We will have to invent one.
America's Founding Documents
The Magna Carta
The Mayflower Compact
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Bill of Rights
The Federalist Papers
The Anti-Federalist Papers
The American Creed
Washington's Farewell Address
The Gettysburg Address
http://www.miatoday.com/AmericasFoundingDocuments.asp
Thank you and I believe this should be added
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html
President Eisenhower's Farewell Address
Many have been saying that America is too big to be run as a republic. I agree. It's time to repudiate the debt and break this empire up into pieces. This will end our global wars.
Rule #1: Keep Them Afraid Not sure if we can pay SS
Rule #2: Keep Them Isolated Get in the back of the bus
Rule #3: Keep Them Desperate Drill less for oil; spend more
Rule #4: Send Out The Jackboots IRS
Rule #6: Encourage Citizen Spies See something, say something
Rule #7: Make Them Accept The Unacceptable Let the people vote for a community organizer
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I hope to be a citizen spy some day and catch an Al Qeda. See something. Say something guys.
Once again...
You twinkie eating fucks have derailed the topic. The first time Jesus is mentioned in this article is... aw shit, it isn't mentioned in the article.
The topic is REVOLUTION.
What's your next bold move?
(guilty on all counts) MY next bold move: TURN THE OTHER CHEEK BITCHEZ!
OTOH, certain religions have had everything to do with tyranny.
If any of you get the time soon, I would highly recommend F.A. Hayek's 1944 Masterpiece, The Road To Serfdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
on a lighter tone but that takes you to the root of things past when Jerusalem fell :
http://www.falakpema.com/
outlook of how close the US has come to Marx's uptopia
1. Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
The courts have interpreted the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868) to give the government far more "eminent domain" power than was originally intended, Under the rubric of "eminent domain" and various zoning regulations, land use regulations by the Bureau of Land Managementproperty taxes, and "environmental" excuses, private property rights have become very diluted and private property in landis, vehicles, and other forms are seized almost every day in this country under the "forfeiture" provisions of the RICO statutes and the so-called War on Drugs..
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913 (which some scholars maintain was never properly ratified), and various State income taxes, established this major Marxist coup in the United States many decades ago. These taxes continue to drain the lifeblood out of the American economy and greatly reduce the accumulation of desperately needed capital for future growth, business starts, job creation, and salary increases.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Another Marxian attack on private property rights is in the form of Federal & State estate taxes and other inheritance taxes, which have abolished or at least greatly diluted the right of private property owners to determine the disposition and distribution of their estates upon their death. Instead, government bureaucrats get their greedy hands involved .
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
We call it government seizures, tax liens, "forfeiture" 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.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a "national bank" and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.
In the U.S., communication and transportation are controlled and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established by the Communications Act of 1934 and the Department of Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission (established by Congress in 1887), and the Federal Aviation Administration as well as Executive orders 11490, 10999 -- not to mention various state bureaucracies and regulations. There is also the federal postal monopoly, AMTRAK and CONRAIL -- outright socialist (government-owned) enterprises. Instead of free-market private enteprrise in these important industries, these fields in America are semi-cartelized through the government's regulatory-industiral complex.
7. Extension 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.
While the U.S. does not have vast "collective farms" (which failed so miserably in the Soviet Union), we nevertheless do have a significant degree of government involvement in agriculture in the form of price support subsidies and acreage alotments and land-use controls. 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 obligation of all to work. 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 Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000. And I almost forgot...The Equal Rights Amendment means that women should do all work that men do including the military and since passage it would make women subject to the draft.
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" .
http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html
well...here we are last thirty minutes just like yest & it looks like the hft 'plunge team' ran out ammo again
horseshit
Arbeit Macht Frei... says it all.
If you really stop and think about it, I mean REALLY stop to think about what is going on - what would the vast majority here, or elsewhere, who are sound, logical and level headed, thought if someone twenty/thirty years ago painted a picture of 2011? You probably would have said they were full of crap, yet science fiction (ie 1984) has become a reality. Hell, the men and women who fought in WWII, and even further back to 1776 must be rolling in their graves. In the end Socialism is THE disease.
What is even more interesting, and yet a sad truth for humanity, is humans, by and large (especially in todays climate) don't give a shit about each other - it is all about ME, ME, ME!!! You would think from a logical perspective, that since we are all HUMAN we should be bound together - yet RELIGION, COUNTRY, even COLOR have divided man from the beginning of time - ask yourself WHY?
I truly believe the ONLY time you will EVER see man united as a people and race is if a third party, ie aliens, invaded Earth - now you have an unwanted third party, not of Earth origins who would be the new whipping boy. Even then, that is a big IF - humans for some reason love to screw each other over. Makes you wonder what sort of "god" created us if we were made in "his" image??? :)
https://www.gunsgrubandgold.com/forum
Enjoy
http://www.letmewatchthis.ch/watch-7317-District-9
[note: your ISP might get irked, depending on location and nature of said ISP - be warned]
can somebody please explain to me why the Ponzi scheme market isn't encouraged by getting an audit & a balanced budget amendment I don't get it...
It's the nature of the beast. A great analogy is how the pharm companies keep pumping out drugs, eventhough most have worse side effects than the reported benefits. Pharm companies would rather make BILLIONS on treating the symptoms rather than curing the disease with no long term profits. The entire system may be a ponzi, but they like it that way because it makes $$$$$$$$$$...
Interesting, so say products produced by a GMO company (let's call our imaginary co. 'Monstrous Santa') had the side effect of triggering mild to moderate allergic reactions in a percentage of those who ingested their products, amongst other unstudied ill effects, how would that make the pharma co.'s that produce allergy symptom treatment products feel? This would have to be good for GDP, no?
You left out
Keep them ignorant
Also left out keep them sedated. Prozac anyone?
Flouride in the water?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation
or??????????????
Dear Readers,
We had a discussion in the QFS about Prozac. Someone mentioned the technical name of the compound and it was noted that it was similar to Fluoride. So, several members of the group started looking at this issue and, yes, sure enough, the same poison that is being used to dumb us down in so many other ways, is being given to people as a prescription for any number of psychological problems. I guess that the Powers that Be figure if you are made stupid enough, you won't have brains enough to be depressed. This material was compiled for Signs of the Times by mgt.
[Note: portions of this summary are drawn from a number of more extensive articles at fluoridealert.org]
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/fluoride.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKO_21TrgIo&feature=related
No you got it all wrong. You're rules are only part true after the effects of Democracy, Internationalism have lead to a declining nationalism. Once usury is mixed with mass immigration, free speech... national bankruptchy. Until the Military can no longer be payed and all hell breaks lose sending a signal to every high minded organization that ......Now is the time to move!
From Jesse's:
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/07/gold-daily-and-silver-w...
National Madness
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"This slow and awful self-hypnotism of error is a process that can occur not only with individuals, but also with whole societies. It is hard to pick out and prove; that is why it is hard to cure. But this mental degeneration may be brought to one test, which I truly believe to be a real test.
A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane...
I should, in other words, think the world a little mad if the [wild] incident, were received in silence. Now things every bit as wild as this are being received in silence every day.... For madness is a passive as well as an active state: it is a paralysis, a refusal of the nerves to respond to the normal stimuli, as well as an unnatural stimulation. There are commonwealths, plainly to be distinguished here and there in history, which pass from prosperity to squalor or from glory to insignificance, or from freedom to slavery, not only in silence, but with serenity.
The face still smiles while the limbs, literally and loathsomely are dropping from the body. These are peoples that have lost the power of astonishment at their own actions. When they give birth to a fantastic fashion or a foolish law, they do not start or stare at the monster they have brought forth. They have grown used to their own unreason; chaos is their cosmos; and the whirlwind is the breath of their nostrils.
These nations are really in danger of going off their heads en masse; of becoming one vast vision of imbecility, with toppling cities and crazy country-sides, all dotted with industrious lunatics.... "
Very impressive writing, my compliments.
Our govt. has been working on all these steps concurrently.
They are nearly done.
yawn.
and now for some entertainment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzvCZojnWQ
Stop Crying... weeee weeee weeeee ... cause we are AAA rated for now.. Monday may be another day... LMAO...
Good article and reminder. We're always one gerneration away from another totalitarian.
I particularly like the citizen spies. They're already here. We have Wal-Mart cameras watching the dangerous soccer moms -- what are they supposed to catch anyway? And Big Sis "see something, say something" campaign. We are definitely a banana republic.
Good article and reminder. We're always one generation away from another totalitarian.
I particularly like the citizen spies. They're already here. We have Wal-Mart cameras watching the dangerous soccer moms -- what are they supposed to catch anyway? And Big Sis "see something, say something" campaign. We are definitely a banana republic.
Brandon Smith, care to show us your photograph you little creep?
Articles like this should be burned. Tyler should not be allowed to post them. Complicity.
My blood is starting to boil.
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--You WILL Obey!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTOcAt44_QA
Napolitano reminds me of Arnie in disguised as that woman going through security in Total Recall. I'm waiting for Napolitano to explode and for Cheney to emerge. You just know it would not be a surprise.
Rule number one for tyranny is eliminating those best able to highlight the tyranny; marginalize if not physically purge the intellectuals.
Rule number two is give the people something to deplore other than the tyrant (e.g. Iraq or Oceania).
I’m afraid the deck is stacked against law, order, and freedom.
When I started looking into where the money was coming from to buy off the politicians and subvert the immigration laws of the world, I came across what may be the root of many of our problems. Fiat Money.
No matter how much real money people can put together to build their countries the way they want there are those that can print up what ever it takes to get their way.
Maybe this will help make the danger of fiat money clear.
Imagine you and me are setting across from each other. We create enough money to represent all of the world's wealth. Each one of us has one SUPER Dollar in front of him.
You own half of everything and so do I.
I'm the government though. I get bribed into creating a Central Bank.
You're not doing what I want you to be doing so I print up myself eight more SUPER Dollars to manipulate you with.
All of a sudden your SUPER Dollar only represents one tenth of the wealth of the world!
That isn't the only thing though. You need to get busy and get to work because YOU'VE BEEN STIFFED with the bill for the money I PRINTED UP to get YOU TO DO what I WANTED.
That to me represents what has been happening to the economy, and us, and why so many of our occupations just can't keep up with the fake money presses.
Printable free Super Dollar
http://photos.imageevent.com/stokeybob/followthemoney/Supersingle640x537...
Yes, like Obama and his 14th Ammendment remedies to raise the debt ceiling. But I guess this is the result of Clinton not being removed from the WH after he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. At that point, the US became a country of men and not laws. Like the old Italian adage goes, the rot in a fish sets in at the head.
Well - we got the best government that money can buy!
http://metthatceleb.blogspot.com/
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