Post by Stephen on Feb 6, 2008 22:04:04 GMT -5
From the article, "Inside al-Qaeda Meetup Groups" by William Huff:
Some well-traveled friends have told me that the interests of common people [meetup groups] the world over are much the same. Boy meets girl. They decide to marry and raise a family; put food on the table; build lives together; pursue education and careers; rock their grandchildren on their knees, and finally they go to meet their Maker – they All go to meet their Maker – just as we do. Very few of them want to lift their eyes to the hills from whence cometh a thousand fighter jets interspersed with cruise missiles.
An "al-Qaeda" does not just happen. It has to be planned or made up by someone somewhere.
Common people do not spontaneously have fantasies about going across the oceans to burn up the homes and mangle the children of imagined enemies. Someone has to convince them that there is a real threat from a real Enemy. Once this is accomplished, and especially if it is promoted by government, "free" public education [or madrasahs], clergy, and Media, it becomes a shameful act NOT to go and kill, kill, kill someone far away, whose culture is so remote from your own that you may never know the grievousness of the acts you were duped into. Once "those foreigners" are dehumanized in your mind you can become the Exterminator and expect to be decorated for it.
Euphemisms rule the public consciousness: "Innocent Civilian Deaths" becomes "Non-Combatant Deaths," which becomes "Collateral Damage." If it were happening in our own backyard we might call them "Precious Loved Ones" or "Defenseless Women, Children and Elderly."
If you have ever realized that beliefs or positions you held in the past were based on contrived information you understand that you have been brainwashed to some degree. But you cannot begin to discover the depth of your delusions until you make your own effort to explore the many ways in which you have been deceived and become aware of the classical tools used to do the job.
Is it possible that most of what you "know" – just ain’t so?
How do we wake up from bad paradigm? Is there a formula?
The process can begin when you notice an anomaly – a glitch in "The Matrix" – something just doesn’t add up.
For instance, consider the following questions:
* How do people who never had a real job in their life become multi-multi-millionaires on Congressional salaries? Do the math.
* Why do medical doctors statistically die younger than the general population?
* How is mercury a deadly poison wherever it is found except while it is inside of your tooth?
* Why did I get a seatbelt ticket while 40 Million kids ride school buses daily with no seat belts?
* What is the significance of the evolution of the Legal Tender Notice on Federal Reserve Notes?
* Why would the US drop cluster bombs and food packets of the same color in Afghanistan?
You can start your own list today.
Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? ~ Morpheus in The Matrix
Those who have gone through major paradigm shifts have sometimes documented their journeys and occasionally they have done such a good job that their accounts create patterns or roadmaps for the rest of us.
For Major General Smedley D. Butler the lights began to come on when he started analyzing the money trail of WWI as well as the disparities and inequities involved in how the US treated its soldiers and its veterans. If you haven’t read his pamphlet: "War Is A Racket" please read it at least once at this time [Free Online Version]. Read it again and again until you can see parallels and draw inferences that help you see through the rhetoric, propaganda and brainwashing being foisted on us 24/7/365 by Media, Academe and the people in DC who have long ago forgotten the mandates of Representative Government.
Consider this: Smedley Butler began a Quaker [we don’t get a lot of Quaker Marine Corps Generals]. He became a warrior and leader in the Spanish American War and in WWI, being awarded Two Congressional Medals of Honor and many more decorations. Before WWII he was solicited to lead an army against the US Government and take over the country on behalf of some powerful American business interests who had observed the early activities of fascist governments in Europe, e.g. Mussolini’s Italy, and thought a fascist government would be just the right thing for our country. Instead of cooperating and agreeing to lead an army of 500,000 men against Washington D.C., where it was hoped by the cabal that he would arrest FDR and install himself as a fascist military dictator, he testified against the conspirators before the Congress. None of them were ever brought to justice for their acts of Sedition.
Can you imagine the gut wrenching General Butler must have endured as he gradually became completely disillusioned and realized the truth about war for profit? Any career military man can follow Butler’s example – provided he has the courage. He can start by reading the book and comparing it with his own career, insights and experiences.
Our Marine Corps vets are fond of saying Semper Fi [Latin for "Always Faithful"]. But what is the object of their faithfulness? Is it to the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend against All enemies foreign AND domestic – or is it to a chain of command, or some concept of "honor" or fraternity? Can they discern between a Lawful and an Unlawful order? How many have ever disobeyed an unlawful order based on their understanding of the Constitution?
What about you? Are you a veteran? Did you serve as well as you knew at the time? If so, Bravo! We have no issue, unless you leave it at that. It may be time to reenlist your mind and your conscience on the side of the rule of law and the Constitution – once you have acquainted yourself with the real battle, and determined to confront your country’s domestic enemies, who have always been a greater threat than her foreign ones. You don’t remember too much emphasis on Constitutional Correctness during your military training do you? No! It was all about following orders. That’s how they trained Eichmann isn’t it?
I am looking for The Nerve. Did I hit it yet?
Some well-traveled friends have told me that the interests of common people [meetup groups] the world over are much the same. Boy meets girl. They decide to marry and raise a family; put food on the table; build lives together; pursue education and careers; rock their grandchildren on their knees, and finally they go to meet their Maker – they All go to meet their Maker – just as we do. Very few of them want to lift their eyes to the hills from whence cometh a thousand fighter jets interspersed with cruise missiles.
An "al-Qaeda" does not just happen. It has to be planned or made up by someone somewhere.
Common people do not spontaneously have fantasies about going across the oceans to burn up the homes and mangle the children of imagined enemies. Someone has to convince them that there is a real threat from a real Enemy. Once this is accomplished, and especially if it is promoted by government, "free" public education [or madrasahs], clergy, and Media, it becomes a shameful act NOT to go and kill, kill, kill someone far away, whose culture is so remote from your own that you may never know the grievousness of the acts you were duped into. Once "those foreigners" are dehumanized in your mind you can become the Exterminator and expect to be decorated for it.
Euphemisms rule the public consciousness: "Innocent Civilian Deaths" becomes "Non-Combatant Deaths," which becomes "Collateral Damage." If it were happening in our own backyard we might call them "Precious Loved Ones" or "Defenseless Women, Children and Elderly."
If you have ever realized that beliefs or positions you held in the past were based on contrived information you understand that you have been brainwashed to some degree. But you cannot begin to discover the depth of your delusions until you make your own effort to explore the many ways in which you have been deceived and become aware of the classical tools used to do the job.
Is it possible that most of what you "know" – just ain’t so?
How do we wake up from bad paradigm? Is there a formula?
The process can begin when you notice an anomaly – a glitch in "The Matrix" – something just doesn’t add up.
For instance, consider the following questions:
* How do people who never had a real job in their life become multi-multi-millionaires on Congressional salaries? Do the math.
* Why do medical doctors statistically die younger than the general population?
* How is mercury a deadly poison wherever it is found except while it is inside of your tooth?
* Why did I get a seatbelt ticket while 40 Million kids ride school buses daily with no seat belts?
* What is the significance of the evolution of the Legal Tender Notice on Federal Reserve Notes?
* Why would the US drop cluster bombs and food packets of the same color in Afghanistan?
You can start your own list today.
Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? ~ Morpheus in The Matrix
Those who have gone through major paradigm shifts have sometimes documented their journeys and occasionally they have done such a good job that their accounts create patterns or roadmaps for the rest of us.
For Major General Smedley D. Butler the lights began to come on when he started analyzing the money trail of WWI as well as the disparities and inequities involved in how the US treated its soldiers and its veterans. If you haven’t read his pamphlet: "War Is A Racket" please read it at least once at this time [Free Online Version]. Read it again and again until you can see parallels and draw inferences that help you see through the rhetoric, propaganda and brainwashing being foisted on us 24/7/365 by Media, Academe and the people in DC who have long ago forgotten the mandates of Representative Government.
Consider this: Smedley Butler began a Quaker [we don’t get a lot of Quaker Marine Corps Generals]. He became a warrior and leader in the Spanish American War and in WWI, being awarded Two Congressional Medals of Honor and many more decorations. Before WWII he was solicited to lead an army against the US Government and take over the country on behalf of some powerful American business interests who had observed the early activities of fascist governments in Europe, e.g. Mussolini’s Italy, and thought a fascist government would be just the right thing for our country. Instead of cooperating and agreeing to lead an army of 500,000 men against Washington D.C., where it was hoped by the cabal that he would arrest FDR and install himself as a fascist military dictator, he testified against the conspirators before the Congress. None of them were ever brought to justice for their acts of Sedition.
Can you imagine the gut wrenching General Butler must have endured as he gradually became completely disillusioned and realized the truth about war for profit? Any career military man can follow Butler’s example – provided he has the courage. He can start by reading the book and comparing it with his own career, insights and experiences.
Our Marine Corps vets are fond of saying Semper Fi [Latin for "Always Faithful"]. But what is the object of their faithfulness? Is it to the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend against All enemies foreign AND domestic – or is it to a chain of command, or some concept of "honor" or fraternity? Can they discern between a Lawful and an Unlawful order? How many have ever disobeyed an unlawful order based on their understanding of the Constitution?
What about you? Are you a veteran? Did you serve as well as you knew at the time? If so, Bravo! We have no issue, unless you leave it at that. It may be time to reenlist your mind and your conscience on the side of the rule of law and the Constitution – once you have acquainted yourself with the real battle, and determined to confront your country’s domestic enemies, who have always been a greater threat than her foreign ones. You don’t remember too much emphasis on Constitutional Correctness during your military training do you? No! It was all about following orders. That’s how they trained Eichmann isn’t it?
I am looking for The Nerve. Did I hit it yet?