Trillionaire

For those who laugh at ideas of conspiracy, it is time to take a walk in the most expensive shoes on earth.

Imagine having personal wealth in the trillions. Wealth you've had all of your life.

You've never set foot into a grocery store, you don't even know what one looks like inside. You've never cooked a meal, made a sandwich or washed a single dish. You have servants that buy the finest fresh foods daily, even procuring your favorites from around the world. You have personal world class chefs who cook every meal you eat, and servants who serve those meals to you in the appropriate dining rooms: the breakfast nook, the luncheon room, the formal dining room. You've never seen a Chips-Ahoy cookie or a Cheeto, in fact you've never even heard of them. You don't eat any junk food at all and would be disgusted at the thought.

You've never given a car a tune up, or washed one or even put gas into one. You have a chauffeur staff that sees to all of your vehicles and they are always spotlessly clean and in perfect working order. You've never bought a piece of clothing off the rack, or picked up a 3 pack of underwear. Every article of your clothing is made by your personal tailors, including your underwear. You've never gone to the bank, used an ATM, or ever experienced having to wait in a line. You have staff that takes care of all of that for you.

You've never had to wait in a doctor's office, or spend any time in a local hospital. Your doctor visits you, wherever he's from, and wherever you are. If you must have surgery or hospitalization, you'll go to one of the exclusive clinics in Europe where no working class people are even allowed, even if they could afford to pay for it.

In fact you've never done anything that most people do every single day of their lives. You've never gone shopping, changed a diaper, scrubbed a toilet, used an iron, or been on a job interview. You've never applied for a credit card; and your credit records aren't even listed by the major credit bureaus, they're private.

You've never once compromised yourself in order to get a paycheck. You don't follow the rules, you make them. You've never had a thought about getting through the month, or wondered how you were going to make your mortgage payment. Your many expensive homes around the world are fully maintained by staff, and are paid for. You've never had a sick child you couldn't afford to get medical care for, or had to choose between food or medicine. Your children have first class medical care in your own home and the kinds of pharmaceuticals you use are not available to the public, or even known to them. You are able to maintain optimal health and extend your life with them. You have no fear whatsoever of cancer or most diseases, and you've never taken a vaccination and would never agree to any. You own all of the pharmaceutical sciences anyway, and the real breakthroughs, the real cures, those you keep for yourself. The masses don't deserve them.

No one ever tells you "No." No one. No heads of state, no CEO's, no bank presidents, no generals. No one. No one criticizes you or corrects you. No one dares to show you disrespect and whenever you speak, you are obeyed. Immediately. With smiles. And you never have to get your own hands dirty, not even once.

Your day revolves around your money. Your money and your power put you in an entirely different, and largely invisible world to the other 99% of people on earth. All of your "friends" aren't really friends, they're business associates, lawyers, royalty, people with enormous personal wealth, owners of huge multi national conglomerates. There is nothing you can't afford, nothing you can't have, and very few you can't buy. And the ones you can't buy, you can delete, in any number of ways. You have staff that will see to it.

You fear no policeman, no court, and no nation. Your name or face will never be in any newspapers, or in any Google Search. This is easily guaranteed because you own the world's media. Or most of it. The others are made to comply through various means. No FBI, or CIA or MI5 or Moussad agents will ever be allowed to so much as sniff in your general direction. They all work for you, whether they know it or not.

You call on Kings and Queens and tell them what to do. You are capable of arranging any form of nightmare for any individual, group or even nation on the planet without regard to fame or status or human rights. You don't have to care about anything or anyone but yourself.

You believe your wealth makes you superior to others, more intelligent, more deserving of the finest things, justly deserving of the power it bestows on you. You believe it entitles you to run the world however you wish. You don't have to discuss it with anyone, and you never need permission to act. You do what you please.

You, and a small, exclusive group of the most super rich persons on the planet realized long ago that your mutual goals could be much easier met if you worked together, instead of in cut throat competition. So you meet annually, and you talk about what direction you want the world to go. You carve up the world's resources in high powered meetings with a handful of other super wealthy elites, and agree to an over all global plan. You can start wars and will allow certain underling counterparts to achieve piddling wealth and power, a small reward for their obeisance. You choose the heads of states, and you lay down the real law. They are all under your control, in one way or another. They don't need to know how the power grid is laid out. They only need to know what you decide they need to know.

It is agreed across the board that super wealthy elites are the only ones entitled to make global decisions. It is your right, probably by birth into long standing global-class top wealthy families. With that right comes no responsibility to the people of the world. They are useless feeders, and there are too many of them. Their blood, their diseases, their poverty, their excrement, the sheer volume of it sickens you. They are destroying the earth and using up it's resources. They are growing at an exponential rate too, and are over populating the planet with inferior dirty, stupid, poor masses who will never accomplish anything in their lives. Only you can do that.

The danger of the masses comes from the traditional difficulty in maintaining total control over them. They refuse to submit to our will and do not accept our right to control them. We know how to control them without their knowing it, and they are controlled by us now as they always have been. Their sheer numbers would become an immediate threat to our continued existence if they ever realized how we have indeed gained total control over them. We let them talk of equality and freedom, constitutions and rights, to propagandize themselves. None of those things exist. But because they are told they have them, they believe they have them, in spite of the obvious reality that they do not. They don't have the intellectual capacity to see reality.

These stupid followers are no threat to you, at least, not as long as they don't unite against you. That is why you always control the opposition. You install your own opposition leaders and control what they talk about, what they focus on, and what they will never get a chance to see. When that's not possible, you destroy it. Arrest protesters, assassinate journalists, replace heads of state that dare to serve their populace instead of you. No matter what they try, or what they do manage to discover, you can make sure it never reaches the public. They can be discredited, made miserable, targeted by authority, and be imprisoned for life on false charges, that's easily done, and normal procedure. But any who cross certain lines, they will be killed. It sends the right message to others who might want to try it. They never do.

Keeping your identity secret to the general public is half the battle. The other half is the long perfected system of global propaganda that teaches them to be submissive to wealth and authority, to see it as justified, even enviable. The invention of the television set made the success record of propaganda take an exponential step forward. It has become the most powerful tool of control in the history of the world. And they clamor for it, they want it. They want it every day and they sit there and take it all in. Nothing has ever existed to make it so easy. We can train them to see the world exactly the way we want them to see it.

The wealthy will be respected. They should be in control of everything, the nations, the corporations, the law. They themselves are above the law. No billionaire will ever do prison time for murder. Do billionaires murder? Every day. But they get special treatment. They may do whatever they like. The masses have been taught to agree. The law applies only to them. They expect to be punished for their wrong doing, but they know better than to expect the same would apply to you.

It is profoundly simple to bring the masses to your will. They are so irretrievably stupid. Simple minded, unsophisticated animals, they lack the intellect to see how they are manipulated in every way, even down to how they wear their hair and what clothing they choose. They actually believe they think for themselves. They believe they are making independent choices when it is you who decides what they will have to choose from. They cannot even think beyond what you supply them to think about. It never occurs to them that choices and options exist beyond your supplied lists. They never think off the menu, and would never ask what's off the menu that might appeal to them more. They don't believe they have the right to think beyond your choices. They are not possessed of your superior mentality, and because they think like sheep, and act like stupid followers, they make it easy to lead them everywhere they go.

They fall for every romanticized flag you wave. Go to war for Patriotism, and they go. Go to war because the enemy is evil and coming for you, and they go. No questions, no self respect. What is Patriotism but a contrivance to get them on board to do your bidding. They are fools and they deserve to die.

Right now you and your fellow elites are making the final arrangements to achieve global financial domination and hence control of the entire world. America, the only challenge to your goal of rightful planetary domination and control, is coming down. Where laws used to prevent you from using simple force to get what you want, they have been removed. No one is safe in America now, and nothing can be done about it. It is yours and you are free to move ahead at the time you've chosen. It's absolutely wonderful.

The nagging problem of overpopulation is being dealt with, but not nearly fast enough. Billions of people consuming precious resources, and making no contribution whatsoever. They disgust you and you see them as animals. Their art, their traditions, their cultures are offensive and of no value. They are all irrelevant in the greater scheme of things. None of them matter and they are making your personal planet unpleasant.

The topic has come up over the years many times, and you are not alone in wishing to get rid of them. Finally, the subject was taken up for official consideration. While some few of the others in the meeting expressed initial discomfort with the idea, it took little to bring them around. It was agreed, 90% of the earth's population has to go. It must be done.

Ten percent are all that is required to perform as laborers and servants, armed guards and soldiers, farmers, chefs and architects, scientists and doctors. There is no need for artists or writers, they have nothing to offer of any value or pertinence.

So far, their foods have been genetically modified to ensure their offspring will be diseased, malformed and unable to reproduce. Their foods have been transformed into toxic substances that are sickening them by the millions, and they are dying from cancers and dozens of viruses and diseases, all of which were created by your pharmaceutical sciences. Their farmers are nearly eradicated, no memory of natural food production may survive. They are accepting the mass production of packaged chemicals and nutrients as food. Their water is teeming with bacteria, diseases, and organisms, as well as radioactivity. Your own water is safe, you have the means to make it safe. But they do not, nor do they even suspect they are being slowly killed.

Bio-weapons have been perfected and are ready to be released into the world's populations. It must be done in a way that is not obvious. It requires a period of time to use the media for proliferating fear of pandemics, to bring pandemics into the average mind, and to let their precious official experts publicly claim that pandemics are definitely coming. When the public accepts the inevitability of it, they will not question that it suddenly descends on them, killing them by the tens of millions.

Your elite group of ultra rich people is selling them very quickly on an entire menu of false flag threats. Global warming, to help you strip them of dignity and property, terrorism, to enable you to take military control of all populations. Troops in the streets and no electricity or means to power vehicles will keep them obedient, will keep them from attempting to travel. You need them all in one place. The media will proliferate their expectations of all of these things, always in the quickly believed disguise of good causes, and the people will agree to their own enslavement and executions. Their minds must be brought to believe in what they are told. Otherwise, they could possibly ask questions, they could figure it out, and they would revolt against us. Sufficiently roused to anger, they could track us all down, and murder us. But when we are certain enough of them believe, we will move ahead without fearing the questions of the few.

Indeed, there is no possibility of a natural global pandemic. Western civilization is immune to the diseases of poverty. But we are lowering that immunity in one of our favorite ways, right in front of their stupid faces. They are rushing to take vaccinations which are filled with viruses, cancers, toxins and death. Their simple minds cannot grasp they are being lied to by their precious idealized notion of government. Yet some are catching on because of that vile Internet and it's vast informational sources. No problem. As growing numbers continue to refuse, we simply made it mandatory by law. ALL will be injected. They all must die.

Nor can anything man does affect the planet, what rubbish. The natural cycle of the sun is bringing the increased temperature and other changes, but blame the people and they will accept the guilt and pay the price they are told they must. Nor is there any global terrorism, but they believe it when we tell them over and again they are in danger. They never ask for proof, they just beg us to protect them. It works so easily and so well it's almost no fun at all.

We are poisoning everything from their clothing to their oxygen, and are stirring international fury to justify a global nuclear war. That will finally get rid of them all. But we will survive. We have taken the steps to ensure it. Ourselves and our small percent of servant class persons. We are accustomed to our lifestyles and have no intention of losing it. We are insulted at the thought of sharing it! The masses must go.

A global clearing of the useless eaters will be the greatest gift to mankind. It will protect the environment and preserve the air and water for your future offspring. They deserve to inherit the earth free of useless eaters and pollution and irrelevancies. Reducing the numbers of unnecessary teeming humanity is the most noble goal that exists. It will save the world. And in the minds of your elite counterparts, would make YOU the greatest hero the world has ever known.

The plan now focuses on the United States.

America! Accursed symbol of revolt and freedom for the filthy masses! It is time to pay for your transgressions against the real people, the only people, the pure blooded superior people, the true ruling class! How dare you revolt against us! You committed the cardinal sin when you stole the land mass that rightfully belongs to us. You who would dare to assume some right to rule yourselves, to obtain wealth, to own property! Ptooie! I spit on all of you. You have set an example for the world that must be punished, then wiped from the earth's memory forever.

How stupid you are to think yourselves capable or even worthy of having the kind of lives that belong only to your superiors. You have been a pain in our sides for decades, but you again proved so easy to subjugate to our desires. Barely one hundred years ago you owned your homes and property and we could not get to you. You carried guns and shot anyone who dared trespass on your land. How dare you! That right belongs only to our class! You are peasants! Servants!

So we introduced technology, factories and suburbs. Your media obediently praised the qualities of moving off your lands and buying our products. Even as you made us wealthier than anyone has ever been in all time, we were forcing you to depend on us for your survival. We showed you commercials and movies and stupid magazines, portraying the average man as someone who could live the life of a rich man. We told you that credit was wealth instead of debt, and you bought it! You still run about today desperately seeking the latest and the newest gizmos and cars and appliances trying to portray yourselves as one of us. Fools! You have no wealth at all. You have nothing. You own no land, you don't own your own homes. And now that we have you utterly dependent on us for mere survival, we are taking away your jobs. We are sending them away! To China and every other place that wants them, just so long as you don't have them
anymore. You are becoming once again what you deserve to be, a third world country. We will have stupendous pleasure watching you suffer and die in poverty, wars, and waves of bio-engineered viral plagues. It is deeply satisfying to watch you surrender in stupidity to your little madman presidential puppet!

Yes! Yes! Keep on wailing about the failure of your government to respond to your needs! We love it! Keep knocking on their doors and telling off your elected officials. It is all good. Anything to keep you from seeing what's so obviously going on. Anything to keep you from uniting against us. You are too weak now, too demoralized, too cowardly to do anything but shiver and beg us for protection! It is so sweet, this irony! And long overdue. Good-bye you dirty little peasants. You will now bear the weight of the punishment of your disobedience to us. No country in the world will survive what's coming next, and the few survivors will never hear of "America" or freedom or your precious democracy! They will be born into slavery and they will remain slaves for all time, serving US, your masters, with devotion. Even as we tighten the noose around your neck America, your stupid masses can't see it. You are making our revenge so sweet, and you are proving once and for all, as your final act, that your kind is too stupid to exist. We are right. We are always right. We have always been right and we will always be right. And now you'll realize that in your last dying gasps. This is our time, we are finally back! May you burn in your imaginary hell for all eternity for your transgressions against us. Good-bye, stupid disobedient America!

Who's The Boss?

As postscript to yesterday's entry I wish to report the following.

Right after lunch today I stepped into the bathroom to brush my teeth and as I stood there brushing something caught my eye.

I turned and glanced down at the doorway. Tink was sitting there like the great Sphinx looking at me with a very strange, wide eyed, comical expression. It was that, but it was also guilty looking. It's not unusual for Tink to dog me into the bathroom but what was unusual was suddenly noticing his brand new collar fully extended on the floor in front of his paws.

He had gotten it off.

The thing is, I did not have the physical ability yesterday to over ride the safety clasp, which ostensibly, should release with a firm tug. I almost pulled my dang brains out and couldn't get it to budge. I'm not a physicist, but clasps aren't rocket science. I'm telling ya, the thing was not going to budge for anyone. I wrote it off to crappy manufacturing, you know - the usual and forgot about it.

I closed the clasp again and tried to pull it apart. No go. Impossible. No mere mortal could do it.

How did Tinker the Stinker manage to not only get it open, but lay it out in a straight line at my feet? What a funny boy. He REALLY wanted it off, and as I see it, if he was so bothered by it that he used kitty scalar technology to overcome it, he should probably get his way on this one. At least for the time being. He is an indoor only kitty so I suppose a few more weeks without a collar would be all right. And perhaps a different one should be tried. A scalar proof collar. I should probably call around first on that one.

This was a great example of wanting your freedom bad enough to overcome someone who thinks they have the right to deny your free will. I couldn't get the thing open, but Tink did. And he doesn't even have opposable thumbs. All of my supposed advantages were not nearly as bodaciously superior as I thought. The moral of the story? Just because somebody thinks they have the right to run your life and even though they hold all the cards, it is no guarantee of success and no more true than you tell yourself it is.

And that's all there is to it.

Think Or Be Eaten

Tonight was a monumental occasion, in a small at-home sort of way because The Tink, who is just reaching nine months old, got his very first collar. It's a stylish little thing, all in black and white zebra stripes. Tres' chic, as these things go.

I took the bell off as I know no self-respecting cat, no master of stealth and silence, could possibly retain his dignity with a tinkle bell announcing his every stride. And I personally know, I would not like a bell hanging around my neck either. Therefore, there shall be no bell.

Even though Tink had never seen a collar before, as I approached him to slip it over his head he instinctively knew he wanted nothing to do with it. As much as I can appreciate that, there is really no choice in the matter. A big, beautiful healthy boy kitty seen outside without a collar would become instant county meat around here. As it is, all dogs and all cats upon being seen by the League of Pet Nazi's are immediately deprived of their reproductive organs. It's non negotiable where I live, and frankly, I find that frightening. The government is wasting no time setting precedents for intruding deeply into our personal lives, always under the guise of a "good cause".

Over the last decade, this zealotry has proven to be beyond efficient and has evolved into a religious-like fervor. For the first time in my life my qualifications as a loving pet owner are constantly challenged, and I have been verbally attacked EVERYWHERE I've gone to try to find a kitten.

The reasons for this are bizarre and quite worrisome. My desire was to have a cat that had not been violated with deadly vaccinations and that had not already been castrated at the tender age of six weeks. I find both of those things appalling. But more than that, they are not necessary and even more than that, it is not what I want and that is the bottom line. I am in the surreal position of needing to defend my personal beliefs, choices and decisions, to twits in medical garb who have no concept of who's the boss.

So my search for The Tink took three years and I have been repeatedly accused of being a socially deviant animal hater because I don't believe in butchering baby animals or injecting them with vile, deadly toxins. Go figure.

If this were really America, it would be nobody's business what my personal decisions around my own feline family members' health would be. In every sense of the concept, it's nobody's business but my own. If I am the responsible party, and I am, and if I pay all of the bills, and I do, then I will make all of the decisions and call all of the shots. That's just how it works in the real world. Outside opinions are nothing that should ever be able to obligate me. And while everyone has the right to an opinion, I have the right not to give a damn what it is. It's a beautiful system. I do miss it.

Where once I could find a new kitten in a local pet shop or from a local newspaper ad in one day, it took me literally three years to locate The Tink. I think that's overkill, and I use the word deliberately. Anyway, back to the topic at hand, Tink's first collar.

After getting down on the floor with him and petting him for a moment, I was able to slip that zebra striped gizmo up over his chin, then over his face, and finally over his ears, and then let go. At which time he began to walk backwards immediately in the belief he'd somehow walked into something and could simply back out of it. Pretty brilliant if you ask me, but in this case, wrong.

I must confess I did laugh my ass off, but only for a minute or two. He was pretty hilarious. I've rarely seen a cat move in that manner. Jerking his shoulders around and walking backwards sort of reminded me of Michael Jackson back in the 80's.

It was obvious Tink hated the collar. He really hated it. And as I type these words he is sitting nearby staring at me with a look on his face I can only describe as incensed. "How dare you", he seems to be saying. "I will not be enslaved." I honestly, and rather deeply understand what that must feel like.

Some people say life is a hologram, a flat surface with a gajillion identical splinters twinkling in three dimensional repetition. As above, so below, within you or without you, choose your cliché. But just like I slipped the zebra striped collar around this freedom loving creature's neck, an even bigger collar is being slipped around the neck of this entire country. I am experiencing that same feeling of desperately walking backwards, trying to get it off, and like Tink, am having little in the way of luck. In fact it's more like a Chinese finger puzzle in that the harder you pull on it, the tighter it's hold becomes.

For those few of us who are really awake, (and you can tell who we are because we haven't slept in years), it is terrifying to watch the government attaching it's millions of cast iron collars around the necks of our citizens. They are invisible to the naked eye, but with special glasses like the ones in "They Live", you would be able to see everyone walking around with dozens and dozens of collars around their necks. It is very surreal to witness this and at the same time listen to people proclaim that they are free and that this is a democracy. If only we had a few thousand boxes of those special glasses to pass around.

Maybe it's just me, but I think people have the right to know that they are being systematically stripped of rights and freedoms by people who have no right to take them. I just think people should know about things like that. I guess I'm funny that way.

It seemed like it would be the perfect ending to present you with a photo of The Tink in his new collar. Unfortunately he is in no mood to cooperate with me tonight, and who could really blame him.
My hope is that the next time you are presented with an assertion that you are "required" to jump through another government hoop that never existed before, instead of complying without any thought, first think about what it is that someone you don't even know is telling you to comply to. Ask why it's necessary, decide if it even makes sense, and ask yourself if it's really anyone's business or right to intrude into your personal life in the matter at hand.

Also ask yourself if a King or a Queen would be treated in the same manner and if not, I assure you, something is wrong. For we are all sovereigns in this country, meaning we are the Kings and Queens of our own lives, and nobody exists who has the right to tell us what we can and cannot do; or what we can or cannot be. That is the birthright of any sovereign being, to live our lives without interference or state intrusion.

If we are law abiding citizens we should never expect to encounter the government in our lives, our Constitution makes that perfectly plain and simple. We are not here for the benefit of government and authorities. It is they who are supposed to be here for our benefit. They work for us. Their job is nothing more than to facilitate our wishes. It is not the other way around.

The bill of rights is not a list of what we get, it is a list of restrictions on the government. Our rights are not given to us by government, and no one has the right to take them away from us. Yet our own government is taking them away because sadly, too many of us don't understand that simple, astoundingly important fact.

Are you obediently jumping through their hoops on command? Why are they intruding into your personal telephone calls, emails, medical history, financial records and travel plans? Why are they refusing to answer your questions? At what point did our public servants, whom we pay, become our masters?

They have managed to attach their collars to our necks, and now that they have us on leashes they will yank us wherever they want us to go. Are we willingly becoming slaves of the state? Are our servants calling the shots and are we then to obey them without question? I wonder how many of us have abdicated our thrones in the belief we will be safer beings; and have done so without even realizing it. We have fallen into the trap of believing our trusted servants, even when they are stealing our property before our eyes, even when we catch them in continual lies, and even when we demand explanations that are met with refusal and the catch all excuse of state secrecy. The fact of the matter is, no one will ever protect us except ourselves.

A good intention is not the same thing as a good plan; and a stupid sovereign would probably be an almost irresistible mark for a corrupt slave. If we lose our discernment, and if we arm our slaves and allow them to run our lives, the tables will fully turn. The Kings and Queens of America will be reduced to irrelevancy. The bottom line is this: When you no longer have a kingdom you are no longer a king.

Think Or Be Eaten.

Democratic Leg Humpers

Can anyone please explain to me why Harry Reid is a big pink weenie-boy?

What is this bizarre trend of Democrats in the House to morph into leg humping bush supporters? When my dog does that I smack him with a rolled up newspaper. Oh that I could be closer to Washington DC. All of those newstands! Where are my brothers and sisters in heart and mind? YO, D.C.!, grab the next Washington Post or WSJ, roll it up, and go visit our elected officials. PLEASE. A few hollow, resounding brisk taps about the nose and forehead may do the trick. It's at least worth a try, isn't it? Nothing else seems to be working.

Our calls, letters and emails don't seem to be getting the point across. Our thousands of protests and marches are getting about as much attention in DC as they are in the corporate media. Precisely ZIP.

We have entered the age of government breaking off from the people and then promptly ignoring them, while feeding off of them. It's not working for me. How are you doing with it?

Mr. Reid, since you so aptly aped Mr. Bush's nonsensical diatribe that "we must prevail in Iraq. The mission must succeed. Too much is at stake.", then would you be so kind as to explain why you believe this? To just pronounce it to be your opinion is in no way the equivalent of having a reason for taking this position. I am not interested in your opinion sir, I am interested in your reasons.

WHY do you believe this to be true?

While we're having this chat, could you also let us all know what exactly the "mission" is? You would be surprised to find out how very few people have a clue what the mission is. I don't personally know a single soul who can answer that question.

Also, what is it that is at stake? If it all boils down to "face" then you're wasting everyone's time. America no longer has face to save thanks to our fearless leader and king, president chimply. We've spent hundreds of billions of future dollars to dig ourselves deeply into the pickle of all time. Now we sit there, surrounded by angry arabs who want us to leave please. They are so polite. At least they were for the first couple of years but their patience has all but run out. They don't want us there. We don't want us there. But you and mr chimply keep spouting your little diatribe about needing to complete the mission successfully. Again, the parameters of which are clear only to you.

Could it be that you are keeping something from us? Could it be that there is something going on here that has nothing whatsoever to do with what we've been told are the reasons for our invasion of Iraq? As little as you may like it sir, you need to cough it up. We darn well deserve to know what you folks are really up to.

As I see it, there is no conceivable reason for us to be in the middle east. Zero. Zip. Most of the middle least would agree with that. Most of the planet agrees with that. Only you and the bush administration stand alone pounding your little pink fists on your expensive mahogany podiums, claiming we're un-American troop hating flag burners because we don't want to stay in Iraq like you do.

Exsqueeze me Mr. Reid, but who's the real twit around here? The whole planet? Or the handful of no-war-experience-politicians who want to be at war, and now want to increase the size of the military, and send tens of thousands more troops abroad? Is it everybody else or is it you guys? It's you guys. That's what the odds say. Only a politician could try to spin something like, "sending thirty thousand more troops to Iraq will bring them all home". No Harry. It won't. It will send more troops abroad. If you can't even get that much straight, we are really in a load of trouble.

The president's Homeland Security forces are driving us up the wall. THOSE people haven't even gotten step one of their jobs down pat. They can't tell the difference between terrorists and citizens. Their whole strategy is to convict the whole planet as terror suspects and when it turns out they finally torture someone long enough to figure out they're just regular people, then they let them go. This may work for them, but it does not work for anyone else. REAL security people do their jobs without anyone even noticing them. That allows the rest of us to go on living our lives normally. So the strategy of ruining everything for everyone is just a crappy strategy, it's one I don't respect and frankly, I don't think the bushy folks are qualified for this job.

Which leads me to believe that bush's Iraq strategy is likely to be just as obtuse, backwards, and repressive. I think you should know sir, that WAR is not a democratic experience. So, unless you can explain to everyone a)WHAT the darn mission is, b) WHY it's so important to succeed, c) WHAT you're defining success to be, and d) WHY you think it's required - not justified but absolutely required to send 30,000 more Americans to Iraq, then understand this: you're not making a damn bit of sense. I don't respect that. I can't even take you seriously. You're acting like a pod person.

Globiopaths

It occurs to me that the drive for industrial globalization is a very well laid out plan. It's been in the works for a very long time. The people who are involved in the planning have such vast wealth, resources and connections that they can spend most of their time planning in the very long range, and bringing into reality every step, every phase, every bit of the overall plan. Where they are headed is as obvious as it is sociopathic; or should that be globiopathic?

Everywhere they go they remove and displace people, preventing them access to their land, property and resources which they then quickly take over to bring in their big box stores and nasty fast so called "food" chains. People are relegated to lives of poverty and even the ability to support themselves as they have always done is now blocked, it's made illegal. The globalists' homogenized, bland identical corporatized logo emblazoned buildings have erased community after community, decimating it's prosperity, identity, balance, life and culture, relegating everything human, real and natural to nonexistence. They call this a good thing. Now once thriving communities are out of work and hungry, the government is taking their property to give to corporations, and there is no where to go except to those global corporations or you can not survive. They are robbing us to death in far more ways than just financial.

They want everybody's ability to support themselves taken away from them leaving the entire planet dependent on some small handful of companies for jobs, for food, for health care, for literally everything. Our very lives will one day be 100% dependent on global sized corporations who don't give a rats ass about life or health or people or animals or the environment. Or justice.

In the meantime the folks at home are only vaguely aware that something has gone terribly wrong. Most people are working so long and hard that their jobs are as much work as three people's jobs used to be not so long ago; and for longer hours, less pay and less to no benefits. The corporations measure productivity by how many less people it takes to get a job done which is not good for the vast majority of us. They are systematically condemning millions of people to irrecoverable poverty, loss, injustice and hopelessness.

Our food supply is being irreversibly genetically modified at an astounding rate leaving the natural evolution of all life on this earth at risk. All natural evolution is now critically threatened. It will never again be able to progress naturally, to evolve into whatever it was going to become. They've robbed us of all natural life and it's natural progress. What chance is there that this could be a good thing for everyone and everything affected?

Our government has become fascist, our police have become brutal and militarized, and hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars that could be put to important use is being used to blow up people and infrastructures around the world.

While the game plan of the globalists is being forced through world courts under the guise of doing benefit to the world, the people of the planet are going under. There is less community, more strife, fewer jobs, no hope of improving standards of living and much more that is being lost to the majority of the humans on the planet. Yet the globiopaths are experiencing never before seen levels of profit and wealth. It comes to them at the mere price of buying off politicians and judges, threats, bribes and even murders. But the real costs are always left to us to pay, in money, time, freedom, choice, health, justice, property, prosperity and autonomy. They stick us with all of the responsibility and costs and just keep the profits. They're even passing laws to force us to pay them when we don't let them take over what belongs to us, claiming lost profits. Since when is anyone on this earth given a guarantee of profits in business? These people are unbelievable hypocrites and have limitless arrogance. They are the most destructive, dishonest evil force the world has ever encountered.

They sue the press when it tells the truth about the damage they are doing to us, and are suing anyone who says anything about them that is true and ugly and even more, is the right of everyone to know.

They block reports from highly respected institutions that would expose the threats they're posing to life and health and prosperity, and see to it that world class experts are fired and destroyed. They always have them stopped. We are not ever again going to be allowed to know the facts, the downside to what these globiopaths are doing to us to make themselves the kings of earth.

But we are at a terrible deficit because there is no formal discussion or debate about what is happening. All we are allowed to hear are the fawning praise and applause for the investment class, about how good it all is. Sure it's great, for a very few. There is no debate because they also own the news media, and they alone have the right to determine who is able to address us through our electronic boxes. Just the fact that there are no corporate media voices ranting and shouting and debating the other side of almost any issue you can think of is a sure sign we are being manipulated. There is a zero percent chance the whole country is ever delighted with a single idea, save perhaps getting rid of bushco.

Suffice it to say, they are not putting any effort into creating a public sounding board, in fact it's just the opposite. They have been fighting very hard to drop the requirement to provide local access broadcasting, and most people don't even care. They are all lulled by the lies that assure them that everything is great. Even though they know somehow it isn't so. I predict that inside of five years people will really be upset about the loss of local access broadcasting because there won't be any way for us to share information or news, much less unite to fight this.

We are not yet at the level of knowing the plan of the globalists or even understanding that they have one. We cannot look at their road map and see where they're going. We don't even have a common vocabulary yet to express the damages already being done. So few people are able to take the time to look around long enough to notice that it's all going to hell in a hand basket because they're living their lives in a tiny haze filled cage. It seems that people don't wake up until their own little existence is finally infected and dies and they begin to struggle to survive. Then all of a sudden they can see it everywhere.

We are so far behind them as they lie and cheat and steal and rob and destroy, that we don't even have a public conversation about what's happening. To broach the topics to the average person on the street provokes uninterested shrugs and words like conspiracy theory. But there's no theory about it, the facts are voluminous. They just also happen to be kept from public knowledge. And besides, you know what they say about conspiracy theories; they are only facts that are not allowed to be heard in any courtroom.

We are in serious trouble and they're way far out ahead. They have a plan and a concerted effort to succeed before we wake up, and they have made a lot of headway. The people by and large still can't quite formulate an overall concept of what's going on, and because it's so vile and underhanded and unconscionable, it will take all the longer before they are finally able to see the big picture. And then when they do they'll find there is no longer any public stage to "get the word out". It's a painful moment time and time again for every waking individual, who become filled with rage and overwhelmed with fatalism and feel helpless.

But to the extent that we don't buy into it, it won't work. They are counting on us to cave in, they think they know us so well. I say they are in for a surprise. I just hope I'm right. We have to talk to each other people, it's all we have left and they're working on taking that away too. We are under attack. Everything we see happening in Mexico and the Sudan and China is on it's way here. It's only a matter of time if we don't get some mainstream public discourse going, and lawsuits flying, and lots of brakes put on these people. They are stealing the world out from underneath us and they have no right to do so. Why on earth are we letting them get away with it?

At What Price?

What is wrong with the people who run our world?

What is it they want so much that they are so quick to condemn millions of innocent lives? What could possibly be worth that price?

Have they never seen what a starving child looks like?

Have they ever heard the wails of grief when a mother or a father finds the broken body of their 3 year old, flesh torn from their bones because of bullets and bombs?

Are they incapable of understanding what that feels like?

Does it really escape them to care about anyone besides themselves?

The wars of the 20th Century killed tens of millions of human beings who had no quarrel with anyone's government. These were regular, normal human beings. People with families, and small quiet lives, who wanted nothing more than a way to live in peace, support their families, and leave their children a better world than the one they got. They aren't soldiers, they aren't insiders to government power. They're literally innocent civilians, like the vast majority of the people on this earth. People who want to live in peace, happy to mind their own business, to respect their neighbors and their differences, to help each other, to share, and to have sanity.

People who just want clean water to drink, and fresh food they're willing to grow themselves. But even that is taken from them. The governments of the world think nothing of condemning tens of thousands of people to suffering and death, violence, rape, abuses, oppression and murder.

There is something so basically and so profoundly wrong with that, it cannot be sane. It is the worst form of mental illness that a human being can be infected with.

What arrogance does it take to wave off thirty thousand innocent deaths knowing over half are children under 14? What arrogance makes a single man feel comfortable knowing 500 million children died because of what he believes is "good" for the world?

What single human male on this earth is so profoundly superior to the children he kills that he could actually believe that his insignificant notions of how things should be, really matter more than a piece of dog crap in this universe?

Who are they who demand that people meet to commit mass murder until the last one standing "wins"? What is it they believe they are winning? Who wins? And who loses? And who pays all the prices? And who doesn't?

If military forces exist to protect the innocent, then why do they kill them?

If military forces and governments are not fully engaged in protecting the weak and the innocent and the defenseless, then tell me, who are they protecting? What is it all for, if not for the people of this world?

If governments have the capacity to perform ultimate good in this world, can anyone tell me why we don't even expect them to try? How has it come to be that we know and accept it's the last thing they're interested in? What is wrong with us?

It is apparent that the people of this world are theirs to prey on for games of masculine power, deceit, posturing, greed, perversion, lies, gambling and all forms of self serving selfish self adoration. When anyone is in a position that every move he makes affects other people, is he not obligated to consider the effects of his actions on every single person he would affect? Shouldn't it require their consent? Isn't that at minimum what we call being responsible persons?

What would happen if we all behaved like our governments do? Wouldn't the world devolve into a bloody, suicidal crisis? It would. In record time.

Are the governments of earth exempt from acting responsibly? Are they above compassion? Are they above justice? Are they entitled to lie and steal and loot their own people because of their arrogance and whims? Are these people somehow so special that they should not be held accountable for their nuclear bombs and bullets and murder? Are any one of them better than any one of us? Are any one of them better than any of the millions of children they've murdered?

I don't think so. I don't think these people have any such rights.

We are witnessing the world come apart at the seams over a battle of demented testosterone and hubris. We are the pawns, and the stakes are everything. It's completely insane. Do we really want an emergent victor if these are the players?

It's clear to me now that when we let our beliefs become more important than reality, we will ultimately destroy ourselves. For that reason alone we must no longer accept the insanity or the lies of anyone in power. We have to start demanding better, loudly, endlessly, relentlessly. Is it worth losing all for the sake of the pride of a handful of completely forgettable men? You tell me.

True Believers

We all know that the truth is when anybody says that God has spoken to them, or even told them to do something, they're either nuts or lying. If they really believe it, then, they're kind of delusional, to be kind about it.

Even true believers will doubt someone who claims that God talks to them. Because the fact is that God does not show up and visit people. He doesn't phone, he doesn't write, he doesn't use a walkie talkie. He just doesn't get in touch. Ever. It is not by any means a regular occurrence. In fact, it just doesn't happen. Nobody really gets visited by God. And we all know that.

But what if God did just pop in to anybody's house any time? What if He was always showing up and giving people instructions? "Fred! Go out into your back yard and build me an ark!" What a pain in the ass that would become in no time flat. Just the idea of God popping in and out without notice, all the time, it's just, well, annoying to think about that happening.

Imagine you're at home, ironing your pants, and suddenly a voice booms out, "It's me, God, I'm here".

You look around your living room, and you don't see anyone, so you say, "Where are you God? I don't see you."

God says, "I'm over here. In the pen. On the coffee table."

So you put down your iron and walk over to your coffee table and you address your pen. "You're in my pen? Why Lord? Whatever happened to the burning bush thing?"

Annoyed God replies, "Well I just didn't think it would be a very good idea to burst one of your house plants into flames, okay? It might burn your house down."

"Oh, I see. Sorry. All right then. What can I do for you today God?"

There is a long pause. And God says, "Well darn it, you made me forget what I was going to say! Next time don't distract me with so many stupid questions! I'm not a young God anymore, honestly, mankind! I'll be back later." And he's gone.

Can you imagine this being commonplace? How long would it be before the biggest topic of conversation in churches would be how damned rude it is of God to constantly be popping in on people at the most inopportune times? They'd say, "It's downright aggravating! And it seems He's doing it more and more all the time! How long is this going to go on? No one can live with God constantly dropping in unannounced!"

"It's always at a bad time, like when you're right in the middle of having sex; or when you're on the john; or when you just got the kids off to school and you're running late for work and you still have to grab a quick shower. Then, Boom! God shows up again and now you're going to be late. A visit from The Lord is not a good enough excuse to be late for work. You could lose your job over this."

God was not very considerate was He. "Can't He just go away and be invisible and quiet like before? What is up with Him dropping in on everyone all the time anyway, is He going senile? It has to stop!"

After much discussion, they decide, "We have to start telling Him not to visit us at home." "Maybe He could just show up at church on Sunday and give the sermons. That would be okay. " "It's true, this dropping in behavior just won't do. It's bugging us. Pastor, YOU tell him. You're our religious leader, you tell him!"

All over the country pastors are being besieged with demands that they set God straight. The Pastors are not thrilled with the idea of telling God to leave their parishioners alone, but they are the ones who supply the milk money, so it's either risk pissing off the Lord, or be out on the streets. Obviously, God has to go! People have to eat, and you can't eat the words of God. Especially when he shows up and can't remember what he was going to say.

What were they supposed to do? They talk and decide that God should understand. "We have to make a living!" He'll just have to wait until Sundays to visit, and then He can address the whole congregation all at once. It would increase God's productivity in a jiffy, cutting out all those extra visits! It would just be better that way for all involved.

So the Pastors finally get up the nerve and when God comes down for His next visit, they approach Him. They tell Him how everyone feels and suggest He should curtail His visits. They feel really really bad about it, but they're under tremendous pressure to get it taken care of. It was a very tense moment, and all of the pastors fully expect to get an angry earful from God over it.

But what happened, they didn't expect. Because God just looked at them, and a big old tear ran down His cheek. Then He started crying. Then Jesus showed up and said, "What's going on here? You made my dad cry!" And they told Jesus what they'd just told God. Jesus wept. Then He said, "Come on dad, let's get out of here!" And They went away and never came back.

Now all of the people are happy again. Things could finally get back to normal! No, it wouldn't end war or poverty or greed because God wouldn't actually be "Gone" gone the way they'd see it. They'd still go to church every Sunday and claim to love Jesus. You bet they would. Nothing will have changed. In the absense of any real God they'll do what they've always done; worship a God they've made in their own image. Because they're true believers.

The Most Powerful Weapon

We are witnessing a full blown swing into fascism. Perhaps it's the inevitable backlash of the sixties, the Anti-60's. A pro war, pro police, pro power, pro control, pro corporatism, pro wealth hoarding drive to conquer whoever we can with our military might, in God's name. No doubt God is chomping at the bit for more dead babies to be thrown at his feet. No doubt the smell of napalm, blood and burnt flesh wafting upward to heaven will fill his nostrils with heavenly delight.

As we enter this country's traditional time of worshipping Christ through mindless addiction to consumerism, our president is ever focused on his goal of blasting Iran to smithereens with nuclear warheads. Not to defend the United States. Not because we are threatened. Not because there are once again, no WMD's over there. And not because it is in the best interests of our country in any way, shape or form. He would be doing it for Israel.

Israel who is not even an American ally. No they aren't. They refused to sign any treaty or agreement. It's offensive to them to consider ever having to take other perspectives into consideration, hence, no agreements. How it has happened that our high officials in the military, intelligence, foreign policy and government are dual citizenship Israeli Americans is beyond me. It doesn't seem appropriate. Especially not when we are being pushed so hard to start another pointless, illegal war while we still have two of those going. And we're not doing well with either of them. We don't want to attack Iran. We don't even want to be in the middle east. No one wants to bomb Iran except Israel. But no one needs to bomb Iran at all, period. Most definitely not the United States.

It's a bad plan being pushed on a stupid man.

The president is a man who stands for refusing to back down from his plan, regardless of how much evidence exists to prove how stupid it is. In short everything about these times in our country reeks of insanity. It could hardly be more wrong than it is. But what's to come is even more wrong. That is, if this administration has it's way. If the democrats refuse to stand up for the people. If wealthy globalists are able to buy off the legislature again and turn the Internet into an extension of their personal dominant commercial control; then they'll continue to help the government use our media for total control of what we think and what we think we know and what we believe, which is already 100% based on state propaganda. And we're paying for it. We pay them to make it, and then we pay to watch it. This is how they always do us, it's their standard m.o..

Surely everyone can see where they're going with all of this. But no. Unbelievably there are many who refuse to see what's right in front of their faces.

The push is for the rich to return to their favorite positions, as the robber barons of old where democracy only applies to those who can afford it. They're building a nation governed by a secret clubhouse gang of selfish, greedy crime lords, comfortable with lying and cheating and breaking any law they see, even arranging untimely deaths to get what they want. They'll create their vision of perfection: a divided society of unspeakable luxury and abundance for themselves, closed off to the starving masses, the vast majority of the people. The people's wasted lives will be lost in hopeless confusion, struggles for bare survival, raging crime and violence. They'll be over run by all of the traditional diseases of poverty, as well as those unleashed by an out of control military run by the same men who are changing all the laws to benefit themselves at any cost, to the rest of us.

No health care for tens of millions of us, is by their design, not by happenstance. Homelessness and hunger doesn't bother these people, we have only to look at Katrina or Iraq to see that. Bloated bodies laying in our streets will not affect them, because they will never have to look at them. In their luxury, comfort and arrogance, they are loyally protected by their new militarized police state which facilitates whatever heinous act they next wish to inflict on us. Officers in black helmets let them do whatever they like, and they already see the rest of us as dirt. There will be calls for ever more prisons, ever more police, and ever more control. We'll see forced vaccinations, forced treatments for phony mental disorders, and ever more demands to eradicate what little is left of our rights.

They hate us, and they treat us like they hate us. They fear us because of that egregious treatment. The more hideous they are, the more they fear us. They have good reason for their paranoia. They deserve to be publicly hung and left there to rot and they know it.

Whenever these slimy liars talk, they are lying. It's all they've got and they use it for everything they can get. If only just to throw us off long enough to perpetrate their next crime against us. Or to keep claiming they do what they do for national security. I am to the point of feeling like vomiting when I hear them claim something is critical to national security. It always happens to be a full frontal attack on human rights and dignity and destruction of our constitutional protections that they claim is so critical for safety. For who's safety? Attacking our stuff isn't safety. Our stuff is our freedom, our rights, our futures, our jobs, our fair shake in this world. It looks to me like they want to protect away every last one of our rights. Is that some more of that pro torture kind of compassion they feel for everyone but themselves?

I hate these people.

However it plays out we do know that nothing is forever, whether it's perfect or whether it's perfectly foul. The great pendulum of society swings back and forth hailing times of vivacious celebration that bucks authority, then back to times of oppression, racism, heavy handed control and hardship for the masses. It's all created and planned by those rich men in suits who use us to make themselves rich, and to make us ever more powerless; more desperate for increasing governmental control. It's quite a little game they've got the whole world playing.

It's just such a shame that they can't use all that energy and power to make something brilliant and wonderful and whole and healthy in this world. But no, they like to cause the death and the suffering, the starvation, the desperation, the loss, the diseases, the hardships and the war. Especially the war. The torture rooms, the atrocities, the rape, and the dead babies give them an appetite.

These are the men who have so far surpassed their ability to have everything they could possibly want that their capacity to even amuse themselves is destroyed. They must cross a line that no real human being would ever dream of; one that goes fully into the realm of the obscene. Here are the child predators, the pornographers, the war mongers. They worship wealth and nothing else. They have no ability to comprehend love or humanity, in fact the very notions nauseate them. Yet there they are, having lied and cheated their little moronic, psychopathic puppet into the highest office in the land, controlling the future of every last one of us. We are the guinea pigs for their sick "medical" experimentation, for their implants, their mind control and torture. We are the victims of their lust for death. We are dying from their expensive bio-weapons, toxins in our food, water and air, from the depleted uranium poisoning the earth and the poisons in the products they sell us. We are the toys they kill in their contrived public attacks that murder thousands in mere minutes, or dozens in classrooms and restaurants around the world. They are experts at convincing the world that their lies are truth, and the truth is the realm of conspiracy theories, the hazy dreamland of the mentally ill.

They stand for everything wrong and yet there they are, in control of everything. Isn't it interesting to realize that something as small and simple as the truth would bring them down in a single hour? If everyone could suddenly see who and what they really are, and understood how they've manipulated the world for so long, how they alone have stood in the way of all true progress for humanity, how they have hoarded the wealth through dirty tricks and complicated ruses with financial games, they would be hunted down and executed inside a week. They would have nowhere to hide.

Perhaps that's why they are so hysterical in their grab for control of the Internet. It's the only level playing field in existence. It's the only major medium they do not control. What we are learning and seeing and finding out there, are all of the things they have spent billions of dollars and decades on, to ensure we would never know. The books they hide, the history they rewrite, the evidence they destroy, someone always knows about it, and someone always wants to expose them for what they are. They cannot control everyone, though they won't stop trying.

They can only crush the most prominent voices of truth who raise public awareness and spur the masses to action. They can affect a prison state, patrolled by black booted police who shoot first and don't bother asking questions later. But they cannot change the fact that they are vile and despicable and have no right to do any of the things they do to the people of this world. They are wholly illegitimate and the fact is their only weapon is selling lies as truth. That's the whole of it. The most powerful weapon that has ever existed. It turns people against themselves, against each other, against believing in their own rational self interests, and in their own ability to be every bit as important and powerful as those cowards in silk suits with personal trillions in the banks.

We must come to treasure truth, to understand it's value. Only when society shares a desire for truth, when the people demand it, when they refuse to be impressed, when they refuse to accept anything without evidence, when they no longer desire to lick the boots of phony heroes, only then will we ever stand a chance of breaking this hideous cycle and ending the return of a private power class once and for all. We only have to believe we deserve our own power and freedom, because to the extent we don't it will always be taken from us.

The Truth Shall Set You On Fire

We Americans have always led a double life. As we grow up we are taught the usual positive ideas of ourselves as a nation. We're told how free we are; how honest and fair and benevolent our government is. There is something about having all of these positive notions constantly reinforced during childhood that allows them to become hard wired into our belief systems. We find it impossible to think about people in positions of public trust being corrupt, dishonest, or flat criminal.

Even when we are made aware of that usually invisible undercurrent of reality, where power meets money and deals are spun that forgive pollution and destruction and murder, we still hold on to our visible world and tell ourselves that everything will be all right somehow. Someone will see to it. When it happens that one of our trusted elected officials, or a group of them are exposed having involvement in organized crime, bribes, racketeering, murder, we shake our heads and say how shameful those men were. But we always see it as an aberration, something beyond the norm. One begins to wonder just how much it will take to shake some people free of their die hard notions of American purity.

People in other countries, who are on the outside looking in at us, are able to see us without that gauzy veil of happy fluff obstructing their view. They just see us for what we are. It is comforting in these increasingly dour times to hear them say they have nothing against the American people per se, but they do truly despise our government. They can see how cut off we are from the rest of the world. They are always astonished how naive we are and how little we know about our own country much less the rest of the world.

They can clearly see how propagandized we've become, having the most censored and controlled press in the western world. As obvious as it is to those looking in, to us it's a totally alien idea. Even though our corporate media output has become the equivalent of something we send swirling down our bathroom plumbing, we have our first amendment which clearly states that we have freedom of the press. It no longer informs us, it insults us with Hollywood nonsense in the place of news, and it reflects nothing whatsoever of our real life experiences, challenges or realities.

Even so, we still can't wrap our heads around the notion that we are being lied to, by design. It is too hard for many Americans to grasp that there are two divided, separate factions, not one united country. That there is an us, and there is a them, and that they have all the power and the authorized guns and most of the money and that they are doing things that threaten all of the rest of us in the most serious of ways. We can't see it as class war. We will chalk it up to capitalism and defend it as evidence of the American dream in action.

It doesn't help that the corporate media speaks with one voice. Everything in print, on the radio and on the television channels we restlessly flip through broadcasts the identical disconnected tripe. We never hear alternative view points, at least not in any serious way. Alternative view points are always delivered from unknown people with little credibility who are never allowed to develop and present their views. Those serious few who try are promptly torn apart at the seams and sent packing; or they soon humbly join with the other side. It leaves many of us with a sick feeling of loneliness wondering if there really is no one else who can see what we see.

Millions of Americans every week are abandoning their television sets in favor of the Internet, seeking serious information about the serious changes happening all around us that the corporate media acts utterly oblivious to. How could they not have any questions about September 11th, 2001 when respected polls are revealing at least 80% of us do not believe the official story put out by the bush administration? Still, when anyone dares to bring it up they are harshly criticized by big media and accused of being conspiracy theorists which in this country at least, almost equates to having a mental disorder.

Yet facts are facts and as more of us take it upon ourselves to just have an honest look at what all the commotion is about it doesn't take long before we are feeling the fear, the pain and the doubt that comes as it dawns on us in no uncertain terms that we have been betrayed. The unthinkable transforms into reality and for many, it is almost crippling. No one wants it to be true but once we understand it is true, there is no turning back. And after the depression comes the rage.

There is always something in the back of our minds, something deep within us, that urges us to seek an explanation for the wall of lies from government and media. We still want to believe that there is a reason for what is happening to our country, so we set out to dig deeper, to get a little more information, in the attempt to make sense of it all. It is disconcerting to say the least, to find that the more we find out, the worse it gets. There is no end to the deceit, the manipulations, and the robbery of the people by institutions and politicians.

We discover the endless chain of covert military operations in the poorest countries we've been involved in nonstop since W.W.II ended. Wars we never heard of, or barely paid attention to. South America and Asia have been the defenseless target of American might and greed, leaving tens of thousands of innocent people dead. We are dripping in the blood of innocents all over the world, and we have no idea whatsoever. Whichever president it is will always take his position before the cameras and tell us contrived lies to reassure us that our involvement is always in the role of saviors of the downtrodden. And we always believe it because the press is guaranteed to fawn and bow and adore our leaders, leading the way for national sycophancy.

Yet all over the world, news that America is coming to deliver democracy to some small country sends a very different, and very chilling message. Freedom and Democracy are well understood code words for death and the oppression of the weak, for the shameless stealing of someone else's resources so that corporations may consume them and turn them into ever increasing profits and wealth. Yes, absolutely the more we learn, the more we realize that things are not what we've been led to believe. In fact, they are unbearably unbelievable. The truth exceeds our ability to comprehend, to excuse, to support. We find that we have been thoroughly used to the point that we, our entire country, is literally on the verge of being totally used up.

It becomes something that eats us up within, and our desire to see truth broadcast on prime time television is painfully denied. We realize how many have tried to break through that great wall of propaganda, and how many continue to try every day. Once we finally comprehend how impenetrable that wall is, and understand that the media is not interested in the truth, it again sends us into a tailspin. It is not easy to stand alone with the ugly truth when all around you revile you for it and violently stick to the nonsense they've been led to believe is true. We get torn between understanding that they just don't know any better, and the desire to punch their foolish lights out.

It is tempting to drop out, to return to ignorant bliss. It is too hard, it is painful, maybe even too painful to look betrayal this profound directly in the face. One longs for days that were not so long ago, when things were better, when people laughed, when life seemed fairer, cleaner, safer, more sane. But we are changed now, because of what we know. And as we walk through our daily routine, we are different, pent up, mourning, angry; while those around us, those closest to us are exactly the same. They don't want to hear what we've learned. They don't want to believe it. Their desire to hold fast to the childhood beliefs of American purity is so profound and so deep, that they will throw us aside before even considering we have never lied to them. They refuse to see the growing darkness, even as it billows around their lives, and wafts into their children's bedrooms. What to do? What to do...

Every day we are drowning in a sea of admitted wrong doing printed in the same corporate media that shrugs reality off like a silk scarf. It's all there, though never on the front page, or even in the first section; and never highlighted or made an appropriate hysteria over. It is simply slipped in the back door, quietly, much like legislation being snuck into bills unnoticed at two in the morning by unknown persons. It is obvious there is deceit. It is obvious we are being betrayed. It is obvious that more laws are passed every day that legalize the crimes of the powerful at the same time our own normal human behavior is criminalized. They are minimizing us in plain sight while claiming rights of arrogant entitlement for themselves.

There is nothing fair about it, there is nothing noble, or ethical, or reasonable. The people would never agree to their own enslavement, or their own destruction. They would never agree to the destruction of the planet by our military; or the development of weapons to be used on us; or the research into mind control or tracking chips or the testing of covert, classified weapons on innocent people right here at home, without their knowledge or consent. They would never agree to ending the constitution, to erasing our borders, or merging with Canada and Mexico to become one teeming mass of poverty stricken, miserable new world serfs. They would never agree to the slaughter, the bio weapons, the prison camps, the looting of our treasury, the export of our jobs, or the import of slave laborers from China, who work for an entire year before they are stiffed a lousy paycheck.

Our friends, families, coworkers are still living in a pretend world, oblivious to the monsters taking up permanent residence within their trusted systems of life. It is only a very small percentage of us who are keeping track of the changes, the rules that excuse their wrong doing, that make it a crime to even look at them with suspicion. Only a few of us are connecting the dots, learning the names, and doing the further digging that never fails to bring up more corpses, more dirty lies, and more terrifying plans in the works. We oscillate between fury and accepting what seems to be inevitable. More are waking up every day, but not nearly enough. Our population is so used to being lied to and used and cheated that unless it sees it on the six o'clock news, it cannot believe that truth is real. It looks like the people are not going to get it until it's way past too late to do anything about it.

So what can we do about it? I wish I knew. I can only keep doing what has become my new way of being alive in this time and place. I can only keep learning, keep thinking, keep asking questions, keep trying to understand why, and keep trying to break through to the ones who refuse to listen. I am becoming more indignant, more vocal, and more unable to suffer the fools who are waving and cheering for the very people who are seeing to their demise. I have to fight the ever growing impatience I feel, and learn how to have the split personality it takes to be a sane being in an insane world. I don't express my compassion for the guy who set himself ablaze for the morning commuters because he couldn't take the killing in Iraq for another day. While all around me tell themselves he'd lost his mind, I am sure that in fact, he found it.

Perhaps therein lies the reason that so many fight the truth. Maybe the full realization of the horror of it all, the reality of the suffering, the dying children, the sickness, the lies, the deceit, the greed and the complete lack of reason for all of it... maybe once it's grasped with all of one's heart and soul and mind it becomes too terrible to bear. Maybe the knowledge that one is powerless to change it is too much to take. Maybe the only reasonable thing left to do is douse yourself with gasoline and go out in a blaze.

That may seem right for some small number of people, but I don't think it's true. It may reflect a deep, instinctive fear, like the fear of sharks. But self immolation due to truth is no more likely than a shark attack due to swimming at the beach. On the contrary. It may just be that this naive population who clings so strongly to our ideals of freedom and democracy will be just as unwilling to let go of that dream to criminals conspiring to take it from them, as they are to having it revealed to them by their own. Perhaps when at last the new world order is officially being crammed down their throats they will surprise everyone by refusing to swallow it. It would not be surprising to me to see the people of America get real good and angry once they can no longer deny what's coming. We don't like our beliefs messed with, that much is certain. Some percentage may willingly lay down and cower in fear, while others proudly don their 21st century brown shirts. But the vast majority will not go calmly into that dark night. I don't know how it all will play out but one thing I can say for sure, it's going to be a very interesting show. It's not over until it's over and that means there is no reason to expect the worst. We shall see what happens when it happens.