-------------------------------------------------------- From: Bill Blum Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:11:05 EDT Subject: Anti-Empire Report, October 1, 2007 Anti-Empire Report, October 1, 2007 <http://killinghope.org/aer50.htm> ------- Bill - thanks for your ongoing analyses! - rkm -------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lincoln Justice" <> Subject: How to Create Real Democracy? Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:08:12 -0500 To Bill Moyers, I deeply appreciate your leadership. I recently discovered at least three outstanding authors who have been exploring creative ways to create real democracy. I believe they would provide excellent resources for a segment of Moyers Journal. Richard Moore, author of ESCAPING THE MATRIX (<http://escapingthematrix.org/>http://EscapingTheMatrix.org ) and Mark Kimmel, author of BIRTHING A NEW CIVILIZATION (<http://www.cosmicparadigm.com>www.cosmicparadigm.com) Cliff Durand, Morgan University author of "Democracy, Polyarchy, and the Struggle for Social Justice" ( http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/papers/durand1.htm) The central issues they are all exploring is finding ways for 'We the People' to take back our power and responsibility for what is happening in our world. "What would a truly democratic society look like and how to achieve it?" I believe that if we co-operate, we can create a network of like minded people of good will who can effect a major shift in the balance of power. Lincoln B. Justice 312 West Summit Ave Seymour, MO 65746 417 935-5552 •••@••.••• .....Become Mortgage-free..... <http://www.u1stfinancial.net/miracle1> --------- Hi Lincoln, Good work! Let's hope Bill listens! Any reply? rkm -------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:56:45 +0700 From: "Dave Patterson" <> To: •••@••.••• Subject: the box Hello Richard, Long time no post - hope all is well, and you have had a good trip - you must be close to getting back home now. Anyway, not to gossip - just thought I'd let you know about a small book I have just finished that you might think worth mentioning to your readers. It's mainly about the situation in Canada, but I think the general ideas apply to most modern western 'democracies'. It's a book that is intended to reach out to those not already in 'our' choir, rather than preaching to the converted as it were - it seems to me that is what we need to do somehow. It's online now - They're Building a Box - and You're In It - at http://www.rudemacedon.ca/dlp/box/box-intro.html - I am working on a print version through Lulu if I can ever convince someone to give me a credit card (been avoiding them, and they me, for all of my life, but it seems I may finally have to bite the bullet for this one!), and some other version for people to download and print/photocopy themselves, but for now this is what there is. Take care - Dave Patterson ---------- Hi Dave, My schedule has been too hectic to permit much attention to postings. Next time I'll leave an extra day in each place so I'll have time to catch my breath and keep a blog of my visits. "They're Building a Box - and You're In It" looks like a very important book. Below I've pasted in the TOC and Chapter 9, " What can I do?". thanks! rkm -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents The Box - Introduction / Ch 1 - The Money Supply Scam / Ch 2 - The Work Scam / Ch 3 - The Democracy Scam / Ch 4 - How do they do this? Indoctrination / Ch 5 - Indoctination II: From Birth / Ch 6 - Indoctrination Maintenance - Propaganda / Ch 7 - They're Building a Box / Ch 8 - Why should I care? / Ch 9 - What can I do? / Appendix 1: The National Debt Scam / Appendix 2: The Corporate Reactionary Revolution of the 70s / Appendix 3: Behind the Mask - What Capitalism Really Is / Appendix 4: Some places to start reading / Appendix 5: Perverse capitalist lies -------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 9 - So How Do We Unbuild This Box, and stop this stealing from us and the destruction of the world, and create the better society your talked about at the beginning? ..... As any good scientist, or just normally curious and intelligent person, knows, when you're facing a serious problem, just figuring out the right question to ask, the right path to search for an answer, is halfways already to the answer - and so it is with the box. Escaping from the box is impossible if you don't even know a box exists that you need to escape from. If you think Canadian 'democracy' is less than perfect, but you're not sure why, but think that maybe fixed election dates is the solution because some guy in the newspaper is pushing that - then you're heading down the wrong path and things are not going to improve. If you have read this book, and now understand that the problem with 'democracy' is that we don't actually have 'democracy' in Canada, then your quest for solutions is going to be much more useful. And so it is with the other things I talk of. And just being aware of the evil called capitalism, and the extremely destructive control of everything in our society by the capitalists, is the all-important first step throwing down the box walls and taking control of your own life and society. There are other, and far better, options for arranging the work that we need to do to maintain our society, for supplying the money we use and, most importantly, for the way we use to govern ourselves in some sort of society that is truly democratic, and truly tries to arrange things for the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people. You should know by now that it is most important to start really thinking for yourself, and not believing anything anyone says to you about anything without asking questions about everything and getting other information, and coming to your own conclusions about what is right or wrong, what should be done or not done, and then talking with the others in your community and coming to some sort of agreeable path that everyone, or almost everyone, is happy with (the capitalist predator types will always be with us, and will of course never be happy with or willingly agree on any course of action that is good for the majority, as any path that is good for We the People will not be the path that leads to the majority of us working in great satanic mills of some type producing great amounts of money for the capitalist-predators to steal). I've only scratched the surface here with this short book of what is wrong, or what might be done to improve our lives - the only idea was to try to open your mind to ideas you have never had a chance to learn about from your education or the mainstream media you have been reading or listening to for most of your life, ideas which your education and media have actively tried to hide from you, to get you thinking and involved with what is happening with our society, and thinking about ways that might be better. This book is not a prescription for a better society, beyond the idea that it is simply my belief that a society we ALL have a say in shaping will be better for us all than a society shaped by a few and imposed on the rest of us, a society that operates in the interests of those who shape it. How else would you expect such a society to operate? The idea of a 'benevolent dictator' may be attractive to some, and there may even be some benevolent ruler-types out there - but invariably such people become deposed one way or another, and the dictatorial system becomes somewhat or much less benevolent. As a man named Lord Acton noted long ago, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I see no reason anywhere today or throughout history to doubt those words. As it is in nature, so it must be in our human subset of nature - strength lies in diversity, and the strongest government will be the government in which we all participate. Now that you understand your society is not really democratic in any truly meaningful way, and how you are slowly being forced into a big sandbox that really looks free but really is not, and how they are turning your potentially magnificent human mind into believing that meaningless pursuits like acquiring expensive fancy toys and wasting your time in meaningless games and punching a timeclock all of your life to max some investor's profits and lifestyle are the point of your life rather than pursuing some truly human and responsible things like actually working to create a better community and society for us all, how they are stealing your labor and your life and even your planet, your first job is to chase more knowledge and understanding. Such information was hard to come by in years gone by when the capitalists controlled all major information flow, but no longer. Get on the internet, the unbelievably huge and free and endlessly growing new library that has just recently opened and the capitalists have not yet managed to control, and start googling and reading and talking with others, and following where it all takes you, throwing aside the curtains of the box and opening your mind to the real world of knowledge and ideas and freedom outside of the sandbox, so much greater, and better, than the little constrained capitalist-dominated work-consume-watchtv-work-consume-watchtv world your mainstream media has been trying to make you believe in and live in. Sure there's a lot of crap out there in internetland, that's what 'freedom' really means, we all have a voice - but there's a lot of truth too, a lot of truth about things the people who have been trying to build this box around everyone very much do not want you knowing, truth you will never hear or find talked about in the shallow, comicbook-like sandbox fantasyland of Pres Sheen and Capt Kirk all dressed in white protecting we poor innocent citizens in our great free democracies from the evil jahadist klingons and etc. Knowledge that if widely enough known will break down the walls of this box once and for all, for people who come to their senses and see the great cancer that is trying to take over their society completely will surely throw it off once they understand the danger. And don't forget also, as you should now understand, there is a great deal of crap in the mainstream media that you have been regarding as truthful for all of your life as well, very, very dangerous crap, quicksand crap for the mind, and you've been very, very close to going under forever because of that crap. Tvland is NOT freedom - the most important ideas of all are not allowed in tvland. The mainstream media tells you to sit passively in front of that television and believe what you are told citizen!!, while the internet tells you to read widely and think for yourself - it should be a classic no-brainer for anyone who honestly believes in democracy and freedom which approach is better between those two ideas. If you care about the things in this book, you need to look around, and see how many people do not care much, they're happy with the malls and tv shows. People have a right to their lives, of course, but in this case, they are going to take you over the lemming cliff with them, all of us will go together into the Brave New Global World if we don't act together to stop those who are building the box around us. Which means you have to talk to some of these people who don't seem to care, and make them care. Share your new knowledge with others. True escape from the box will only come in the nature of a society-wide 'paradigm shift', as enough people understand about this box that the elite have been trying to create around them that a critical mass happens, and there is a widespread rejection of the indoctrination we have all received, as we all start to move against those who control the box, to take back our democracy - or, really, in many ways, to establish the first ever true democracy 'of, by and for the people' in the world, as the wealthy have always exerted considerable control in 'democracies' through buying politicians and controlling the information flow and coercement of various sorts that pushed people in certain directions. (Don't frown and think that America did that over 200 years ago - American 'democracy' has always been controlled by the wealthy. Always. Their constitution was even written by and for 'the wealthy' - you couldn't even vote back then if you didn't own land, women and African-Americans only got the vote this century. And today the first gate to pass if running for president is the ability to raise 100 million bucks. Do you really want to go on record as calling that 'democracy'?) Think of the box as a great cancer growing around the body politic in Canada - and removing that cancer will have the same effect as removing a cancer from your own body. Almost overnight, you, and the country, will notice great improvements in everything, as that great greedy endlessly money-sucking vacuum is removed from your, and our, lives, and the lies they have used to force us in certain directions evaporate like fog in the bright sunlight and you begin to see more clearly as if having a large, noisy, throbbing cataract removed from the eye of your brain. I want to say turn off the tvs, but you don't need to do that, really, once you are thinking for yourself and understand the danger of spending too much time in front of that 'boob-tube', so named for obviously a good reason. The television has potential as an extremely useful tool in a truly democratic society, a society truly devoted to the wellbeing of all of its citizens - but its power has been taken over by those who are trying to build the box, and it now functions almost exclusively as an indoctrinating device, as the voice of the enemy, no matter how normal it may sound most of the time or how accurate much of the in-the-box 'news' may be. It is thus useful to use against them, as it can help us to understand them - once you understand what lies they tell all the time, and how much propaganda is really being fed to you as you sit watching, you will not want to watch much of their indoctrinating fare anyway, anymore than you would knowingly sit at your dinner table eating cancer-causing chemicals. What you need to do is to spend at least one hour reading 'alternative' media on the internet for each hour you watch television. Every time you see that tape of the World Trade Centers falling to the ground and some 'expert' voice droning on about those little fires melting all that steel and pancake collapses and other mysterious stuff, go to the internet and listen to someone talking about controlled demolition and watch a few other examples of it, and decide for yourself which analysis makes more sense to YOUR brain. Analyse what you hear on the television against what you read elsewhere, and this will strengthen your analytical tools, and help you gain a more balanced and truthful understanding of what is happening around you, and make you a better teacher of others, and less and less likely to ever be fooled by these capitalist parasites again. And also, as I noted before, with the duality of the box and the reporters watching what happens inside the box, there is still a lot of reasonably true information coming from the mainstream news sources that is useful - although not much interested in the movie actors' love lives (at least as 'news'), the investors and bankers need to know with some accuracy a great deal what is going on in the country and world as much as we do, and much news is as factual as it can be, although you always need to be aware of the endless spin they use to keep your mind in a certain place, or out of others. It is only, as I have noted, with certain things that the box curtains draw completely closed insofar as the mainstream media is concerned, things the box people can not learn about or understand if the capitalist vaccuum is to continue sucking up the great wealth the citizens create and passing it to the rulers of the country unimpeded. And it is these things you need to understand if you are to take back your country. Assuming, since you have read this far, that this small book has been of some use to you in your own understanding of the way things really are here and the box they are trying to build around you, you can help spread the truth around - this book is free to copy and distribute to people you think might be ready for the truth about our society, and feeling that their lives could do with some improvement, but need to find a way to that path. Learning for yourself, and then sharing that learning with others who have yet to throw off the chains of their indoctrination, is the path to change. You can do some Direct Action, in a small way. Small is beautiful, as a man named Schumacher said, and true Democracy happens only one step at a time, one person at a time. True Democracy means not waiting for and following orders from somewhere above, true democracy means YOU participate in every important action and decision in your society, based on grassroots meetings about anything of importance in your country or community. If you think the ideas here are good and worth sharing - do it. Don't wait for leaders to do it for you - in a truly functioning and alive Democracy, there are no leaders beyond yourself, and, in full consultation with the other citizens, YOU are the leader, YOU are 'the decider' - in a true democracy, those representatives we must choose from time to time to go to Ottawa or your provincial government or anywhere to 'represent' us do just that - they represent us and our views, they do what you, and the other citizens, tell them to do, not the other way around, as we have all so perversely been led into accepting as 'democracy'. We the People are the government in a true democracy - we hire administrators and bureaucrats to carry out our wishes. We do not 'elect' 'leaders' who are going to do as THEY wish for the next several years, including sicking the cops on us and throwing us in jail if we try to stop them in any way - it escapes me entirely how so many people have been fooled into calling that 'democracy' - the great power of indoctrination when started at an early enough age, I suppose. You don't need to make a huge deal of your democratic initiative, not all people are the same or have the same abilities to do things, but everything counts, just do something small, whatever you can manage - the longest journey is composed of small single steps, the biggest skyscraper or moon rocket the end result of hundreds of thousands of small individual thoughts and actions, all done one turn of the screwdriver at a time. And so it is with democracy - somehow we have let some people take over who have turned our great shining Saturn V Moon Rocket of Democracy into a huge black F-16 with rockets pointing at our face dictatorship. Watching television and thinking what the talking suitheads tell you to think, even if they give you option A vs option B, is never democracy (in such cases option C, that they do not talk about, will almost invariably be best for you, and they are equally invariably hiding option X, that will be very, very bad for you, but is the real plan of both party A and party B). For instance - you could take some Saturday morning when you're not working, and instead of going to the mall to shop or wasting your time at some Big Buffet Brunch Gala!!! (think bread and circuses for the masses, meaningless shallow capitalist candy to fill time that might be devoted to useful pursuits), have a normal little healthy sort of breakfast at home, accompanied by some thought or thoughtful conversation with someone or just sitting on the back porch for an hour listening to the birds and sounds of nature, then go to the mall to talk to people and try to help them understand why they should support smaller, local businesses rather than large international corporations like Walmart (if that comes as a bit of a surprise to you because cheap stuff is really useful on your income that seems to buy less every year, think about money leaving your town, and rock bottom wages for the walmart workers, and many small businesses owned by your friends or local people who live in your town and keep the money circulating in your town, the big money of the big corporations buying governments wherever they operate - is all that really worth saving a few cents on a product you probably don't really need anyway?) Go read some more on the internet about these things you do not read about in your daily mainstream paper, make copies of a few essays and talk about them and hand them around (unlike the profit-driven capitalists, almost everything useful on the internet is some kind of 'open' licence - that's part of a better society, sharing meaningful things rather than trying to turn useless stuff into a buck...). Have a little coffee carafe or something to give people a coffee, and a few copies of this book to read and then pass around or other essays you have found that you think need to be shared and read, or things you have written about your own feelings about things in your own community, and a small sign of some sort, and just talk to people. No confrontations or fights or shouting matches, that's the predator's game and we'll never beat them on their field using their rules and tactics, just talking to people who are interested in what you have to say, who maybe feel some of the same troubles you feel about what is happening to your life and society and world and are open to new ideas. There are many, many people who want to do the right thing, but who have no idea that our society is not really a democracy, or that the banks are stealing unbelievable amounts of money from them with the complicity of 'their' government, or many of the other things of which I have scratched the surface in this book that need to be changed. Even if a lot of them walk away calling you names or laughing at you, a few others will have their eyes opened, and you can suggest to them that they go and help open other eyes. And that is how we save the world - one small step at a time. Just like a snowball rolling down a hill - there's a lot more snow out there than there seems to be, and it gets a lot bigger a lot faster than you could imagine. For many people working in the government or in large corporations - you can be the anti-capitalist anti-cancer, opening like a lotus flower and becoming the core of the Aquarian Conspiracy, finally finding the right time to emerge from your cocoon, a Trojan horse, a fifth column that will drive a fatal stake into the heart of capitalism in Canada, for they cannot survive without the managerial role all the middle managers perform for them. It would be fitting, as this is how they took us over originally. The Aquarian Conspiracy was a book written way back in the dark ages of around 1980 that you can find and read that suggested such a thing was necessary before we could successfully throw off the chains of the capitalist cancer-monster and find true freedom of our own. It has a lot of good ideas and information and a better ways of looking at things - actually, it helped open my own eyes one summer of reading I spent on a farm in southern Ontario back around 1986. Its basic notion, the 'conspiracy', is that maybe it is time all of the tens or hundreds of thousands of 'middle-level' people working within the government and large bureaucracies and businesses stopped being little robot pawns for the system, and started working for the people, opening eyes instead of pablum-izing brains and organizing the trains to the treadmill factories. Imagine. The Democratic Revolution, the Aquarian Conspiracy, is not 'out there' somewhere waiting for you to wave and say 'come save us come save us!!', it is within us all, each and every one. If it does not start from within, it does not start at all. Besides the mid-level bureaucrats we also need to think of the military and police, the enforcement arm of the capitalist democratic fraud - if you want to make a better world, you need to start thinking about who such people are really working for - the pseudo-government, or the people of the country or your community. They are not the same thing. Many soldiers and police enjoy the role of enforcer, of course, the 'legitimized' violence they are 'authorized' to use, as our highly disfunctional society produces many such people who are not happy as factory slaves and their lack of education and unhappiness finds an outlet in violence, and they are the enemy of our or any democracy. But I know there are many others out there also who have true and good ideals and who actually want to be a positive force in our lives by doing their job of protecting us, and work for those people rather than against them. These police ought to be asking themselves, for instance, what they are doing hunting down people who smoke pot, and prosecuting them and throwing them in jail, when most Canadians do not think that pot should be illegal. It is simply not good enough to protest you are 'upholding the law', when it is so obvious those 'laws' do not have the approval of a majority of the people, and are thus not legitimate laws in a country that calls itself a democracy, where the will of the people is, by definition, paramount. Nor is it in any way acceptable to say 'Well, I believe that smoking pot is bad for people, so throwing them in jail is good!' - nobody hired you to impose your views on the people of Canada. You were hired as a police officer in a democratic country, a democracy which, by definition, means the views and wishes of a majority of people are, or should be, what defines legal or otherwise. It is time for some of you to stand up, and say you will no longer enforce un-democratic laws - and talk to your fellow police officers and help open their eyes - and start doing your true job working for we the people, which means turning your thoughts and scrutiny the other way, and going after those who have been engaging in the huge frauds against the citizens of Canada such as I describe in this book, including the theft of our government and the people who should be protecting us, rather than protecting those who have stolen our government from us and now use it against us. Likewise our soldiers - if you truly want to work for Canada and protect Canadians - then it is Canadians who you should be taking your directions from. If you know most Canadians think we have no business in Afghanistan - then what are you doing there, if your work is to follow the orders of a majority of the people in this country? It makes no difference at all if YOU think the mission is great - you are not supposed to be running the country, but are supposed to be working for the Canadians who pay your salaries - and if Canadians overall do not want you in Afghanistan, then you need to do some serious thinking about what you are doing there, and who you are serving. Mostly, Democracy is what we need to do, true Democracy, government truly by, of and for We the People - and starting soon because the frog is almost cooked, the last nails are being driven into the box coffin even as I write or you read. Nothing happens, nothing changes, until We the People control, really control, our own government - and that means Democracy must finally come to Canada, perhaps the first true democracy in the history of the world (Greek 'democracy' was even worse than American, as they had a large population of slaves to do all the work while the 'democrats' sat around playing pretend society, but they were a 'democracy' to about the same extent George Bush is an 'intellectual' or something), a real democracy in which We the People rule, rather than the 10% pseudo-democracies, or sandbox democracies, which are all we now have, in which we are given elections and tweedledee-dum parties to choose from, but the people we 'elect' then answer to the power of money issuing orders from boardrooms high in corporate towers to which We the People have no access, rather than the desires of We the People, and tell us what they are going to do whether we like it or not, rather than do what we actually wish, as established by meetings and discussion among us all on important things. Imagine real, we-the-people Democracy starting to happen. Imagine if a majority of people in any riding in Canada (or a province), or a lot of ridings, organised and held their own meetings, and talked about things of importance to the country (or province) and their community, and, after a couple of next-level meetings involving a significant percent of the people of the normal riding area, selected a representative, or a few representatives (to speak for each side of an issue, and confirm the process and wishes of their constituents), to go to the relevant legislature (meeting of the whole) and present the ideas that they had all agreed on to the national/provincial parliament. (You also need, I guess, to imagine they started a website also, to clearly lay out what they were talking about and had decided for everyone in Canada to read and start similar discussions themselves, since we can pretty reliably suppose the mainstream media would not be very interested in any real democracy movements such as this, beyond trying to belittle and marginalize their efforts if they acknowleged them at all, with at least a few columnists accusing them of terrorism for trying to depose the 'elected' government, etc and etc.) What would the government do in the face of such a real push for Democracy by We the People of Canada? If only a couple of groups tried this it would be easy to ignore them, or charge them with something to get them off the street, but what if a lot of people did it? The pseudo-'democratic gov' could huff and puff a lot about laws and democratic procedures that need to be followed, and call in *their* cops and military to 'maintain democratic order in the face of the terrorist threat' or some such nonsense (fully supported by *their* media, of course) - but what could be more democratic than this type of mass meetings and discussion and agreement? And if they happen in many places at once - well, who knows, Democracy might actually start to happen. But something like this - real grassroots, 'we-the-people democracy, is the only way things are going to change, the only way your life, and the life of everyone in the country, is going to improve. We must take back the democracy ourselves, the control of our democratic institutions - they surely are not going to willingly give it back. And 'bloody revolution' is not an answer, as first they have all the power, and secondly, all bloody revolution ever does is replace one set of wannabe-rulers with another - We the People remain in the background - as always, anyone who wants to rule does so by violence and lies. True Democracy is the only answer, a true democracy of all the people, all participating, all vigilant all the time against those who are ever lurking under rocks and in dark places, ever ready and scheming to usurp the democracy and steal everything tied down or otherwise when given the opportunity. Government is not supposed to be something separate from us, something 'over there' that tells everyone what to do - that is some other kind of government besides democracy. A Democratic Government means, by definition, government OF the people, government BY the people, government FOR the people. Lincoln wasn't just talking through his hat, he was stating something very true - We the People ARE the government in any true Democracy, it can be no other way, if it is any other thing telling us what to do instead of doing what we together want, then by definition it is NOT democracy - no matter what lies they tell us, no matter how many pretty toys and distractions they give us to keep us happy. In any true Democracy, anything that gets done, gets done because WE want it done, no other reason - if someone is doing things, even in the name of 'our' government, that we do not approve of - well, pretty obviously, it is not democratic, no matter how many media people or politicians or school teachers tell us it is, it is, it is dear children!! To the extent we have representatives because it is not practical for all of us to meet together all the time, those representatives do what we TELL them to do, or otherwise explicitly authorise them to do - no exceptions, ever. Once they start assuming the power to tell US what to do - it does not matter what excuses or justifications they use, they stop being a democratic government, and it is up to us to get rid of them ASAP. One last point needs to be acknowledged. You need to understand clearly also that Democracy, Real Democracy, is not going to happen easily. You will have to fight for it. The capitalist 'investors' and bankers running our society have a very luxurious and privileged life based entirely on stealing from you and everyone in the ways I have talked about in this book, and have had such a life for a very long time, so long they undoubtedly feel it is theirs by right, and they are not going to give it all up without a fight, a serious fight, which would be against their very natures - predators feel the compulsion to rule, they truly enjoy the fight, the struggle, the competition, to be King of the Castle, or Sandbox in this case. There are no rules in the SunKing-Emperor-Dictator-King-etcetc-capitalist game beyond winning at any cost, and in this struggle they have one great advantage over normal humans - they feel none of the moral compulsions against lying and stealing and violence against their fellow humans which most humans naturally feel. When you talk about the things in this book, or related things, they will fight back in every way they can, from lies and propaganda at first to violence if necessary. They will try to tell you first simply that these ideas I (and others) talk about are crazy, paranoid conspiracy theories, rants and ravings, and the way things are in Canada really, truly, cross our fingers!! is the very best way for everyone, all the experts agree!! really!! - just like they have been doing for years in the schools and on the television and in the newspapers, trying to pound down your resistance. They have a lot of money to promote their 'vision' in all the ways available in our big, modern, communications-loaded, advertising-compliant society, and keep the doors you might use to escape from the Big Sandbox tightly closed against you. They have all the money they need to hire all of the very best and cleverest propagandists to make all the clever arguments they can about why you should keep believing their lies, keep working for them, and not yourselves, about why the money supply system controlled by the banks is really, really great for everyone, and why letting big capitalists own all the work places is the only way, the best way, in the modern world, why the 'terrorist threat' is so dangerous you must continue letting their police order you around and tell you what you can do and where you can go, and why it is ok when they secretly jail 'dangerous people'. If those means of persuasion fail, they will break out the fences and cops and tear gas as we have seen in many places during this transition period, from Seattle to Tianenmen Square to Kent State to Montibello and Sydney this year - the juggernaut does not intend that the peasants are going to stop it, or even slow it down in any way. It's up to you, in the end - like any con man, or con conspiracy, these people will keep stealing from you as long as you let them. It's about that simple. Why would they willingly or easily give up such a beautiful scam, that rewards them so well? We have been invaded and taken over by a cancer called capitalism, the current economic system of the few people in our society who feel they have a right to steal from us continually, to treat us like soul-less farm animals on some sort of treadmill, producing great quantities of the things we need to survive, and they steal most of it from us, forcing us to work endlessly, rather than working a bit and enjoying the fruits of our labours. It is important to think of the struggle in these sorts of terms - removing a terribly debilitating and rapidly growing cancer from the body, and letting the natural health of our 'body politic', our society, flourish, without that terrible parasite draining our energy and wealth every minute of our lives. When you think of it like that, it is easy to see what needs to be done, and to keep your eyes and thoughts and work on that goal. Get rid of the cancer. Get rid of the capitalists. Tear down the walls of the box they are trying to build around you, around all of us, and let us enter the new world together, a world of responsible adults rather than dependent children. -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------- Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org How We the People can change the world: http://governourselves.blogspot.com/ Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Film treatment: A Compelling Necessity http://rkmcdocs.blogspot.com/2007/08/film-treatment-compelling-necessity.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)
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