Thesis and Antithesis - Freedom and Operation MOCKINGBIRD

When one realizes that, regardless of how this or that ideology may view it, the individual’s life is essentially a dual game played against society and nature, a fact that means a continual demand for decision, he realizes the further need to think critically. More, in any adversarial situation, the good tactician follows a rule once enunciated by none other than Abraham Lincoln – that of preparing his opponent’s case just as though he were the opponent. Indeed, the one essential reason for “intelligence” – to use the military term – is understanding of what the opponent both might do and is capable of doing.

Indeed, “Be Prepared,” the Boy Scout motto with which I began my productive life quickly meant “know your adversary.” To know the adversary that is Operation Mockingbird means to recognize that in the first place that all forms of government are the people’s adversary. The democratic forms of government are no exception, for unless kept under the auspices and controlled by the people, even democratic government is an enslaver. “All men,” Abigail Adams observed, “would be tyrants if they could.” To be a good and loyal citizen of the United States requires that one view the as an adversary, citizenry as a dual game played by the individual against his government (and society).

Government, and those who would make you live as they choose for you to live, are NOT your friends.

To be country does not mean loyalty to government; in fact, to so much as trust government is antithetical to democracy, and relentless demand for sycophant loyalty by any government is to be taken as evidence of totalitarian leanings. The duty of a citizen is to be very critical, and very demanding. Measure a Sean Hannity in those terms and see what you get. Failure to be critical of what we have for government is the reason we are in the desperate straits we are.

Consider that for a moment. Only yesterday, news came that a nationally known and respected columnist, Patrick Buchanan has published a book in which he expresses openly belief that the U.S. will collapse, and cease to be as a nation. Welcome aboard, Mr. Buchanan – my friends will tell you I’ve been saying that for several years, now.

For instance, I remarked yesterday that few citizens of the U.S. have not been arrested. One in thirty-one of us is in prison or jail, on parole or probation, or awaiting sentence. The United States imprisons more of its citizens per 100,000 than and other nation extant, and that in multiples. U.S. citizens likewise pay, again by multiples, more taxes to their government than the citizens of any other nation. The U.S. citizen is victimized by government larceny and fraud more than any other citizen of any other nation on earth, and that – still again – in multiples of the next most preyed upon.

Federal larceny, fraud, and waste since World War Two alone have amounted to trillions of dollars.

THAT is an adversary!

And, of course, the Federal Government of the United States knows that were the public to somehow realize the extent to which they are being bilked, imprisoned, and enslaved, the “jig would be up.” U.S. government has become what is essentially a protection racket, its propagandists using massive and state-of-the-art electronic technology to create a virtual reality wherein the benighted citizenry lives effectively disarmed and in relentless fear.

By “effective” I mean that equally relentless court rulings, together with confusion spread by the media concerning the individual’s right to self defense and continual polemics by pacifist individuals and groups have resulted in individual uncertainty concerning when he may fight for his life or limb. Each time, for instance, that a citizen defends his person or property with a weapon, the hue and cry of the pacifists rises. Here in Texas as I write this, for instance, the freedom – even life: he is now under death threat – of man who prevented the burglary and looting of his neighbor’s house by shooting the burglars hangs in the balance.

This despite Texas “Castle” law which says he may do exactly that.

In fact, each time a U.S. citizen – Constitutionally empowered to exactly that – prevents by citizen’s arrest a crime, the same hue and cry goes up. To the news and information media and the federal auxiliary that calls itself “liberal,” only the elected government may enforce the law. All others are “vigilantes.”

To a critical thinker, all this is pretty obvious. In the first place, if such things as “rights” exist, what is the most basic of them all? Which of the several rights given by god and possessed by man is, even, shared by all life forms on the planet? Of course. Any creature that does not enjoy the most fundamental of all prerogatives, that of fighting to keep his life, is a non-entity. No such thing exists, anywhere.

What, therefore, can we say about anyone, any government, who would infringe or deny that right? In the game that is living, what must one recognize in an opponent who would arrogate to himself a right as absolutely fundamental as the right to fight for one’s life? You’re damned right – he is an adversary, and one who intends, at the very least, to make you a prisoner or a slave.

Of course, if he can accomplish that without your awareness – have Delilah cut Sampson’s hair while he sleeps – he will not have to endanger himself. Weakened, stopped, castrated – or left without male strength dedicated to your defense – you are a pet, a kept animal intended for use (you don’t, in that, recognize your state as a citizen of the “land of the free?”).

Sometime in the late sixties, I heard a federal think-tank representative address that problem in a lecture – I mean that of effectively enslaving three hundred million people without violent rebellion. He said that in order to accomplish what would be necessary would require something much more than conventional law enforcement methods and organizations. It would be necessary to “deceive, confuse, and bewilder” the public under the guise of providing for public safety while assuring continued public order. There isn’t the slightest doubt that he was referring to a federal operation already in progress, that of “Operation MOCKINGBIRD.”

Already here, we have considered certain of the MOCKINGBIRD methods, most recently those having to do with behaviorist technique and technology – including hypnosis. There are more; many more. See if you recognize them.

All propaganda is a kind of persuasion. It sounds innocent, doesn’t it? After all, the brainwashing we spoke of yesterday is the involuntary break-down of the individual’s mind, even nervous system, in order to take control of his mind and thoughts. Pavlovian and similar conditioning are more subtle, more of surreptitious nature, and – while the favored method of the Operation MOCKINGBIRD technician – they less cruel and fearsome. The techniques of studied persuasion are even less so.

But that doesn’t mean they are either less insidious, or less effective. Consider what they have accomplished; what, in other words, they have done to you:

1. They have permitted the military industrial complex corporations to spend since World War Two upwards of $15,000,000,000,000, a major factor in inflationary spending that has multiplied the cost of life in the nation by ten, twenty, even thirty times. Under the crushing weight of federal government, U.S. citizens have gone from a basic unit of society, the family, supported by one person, to a family wherein everyone – even children - must find some kind of gainful employment. Deprived thereby of normal rearing, our youth largely have devolved into fearsomely ignorant, illicit drug-consuming animals who despise their parents and teachers, rove in ravening packs in order to seek victims for their savage cruelty and instant gratification for a dozen new kinds of neurotic and psychotic addictions.

Under the relentless pressure of repressive and punitive law, arbitrary and totalitarian taxation, and waves of media and entertainment industry promoted lewdness, promiscuity, and immorality, the relationship between the sexes has been broken, with more than half all marriages failing in the first few years.

The new wave of “If it feels good, do it!” morality fomented by taxpayer-funded (of course) federal programs providing support for all manner of concupiscent depravity, together with ethics and morality-destructive rulings by federal courts, has provided for a cheapening of and contempt for human life.

2. They have squandered, and continue to squander, in wars fought solely for the purpose of profit for those same corporations, the lives of scores of thousands of our military personnel. The undeclared military intervention in Vietnam cost – utterly without benefit or profit to the U.S. citizen - 58,000 lives, 350,000 casualties, and $130,000,000,000; the wars in the Middle East have cost more than 4,700 lives, 35,000 casualties, and, thus far, $750,000,000,000. Again, the U.S. citizen has received absolutely nothing but a staggering bill for services supposedly rendered the citizens of other nations.

3. Hundreds of U.S. corporations desirous of even more profit than that already made due patronage by the U.S. citizen, and while remaining in control of their government, have gone overseas in search of greener pastures, taking with them hundred of thousands of jobs.

4. Meanwhile, their subsidiaries import millions of immigrants, both legal and illegal, stealing not only millions of jobs but hundreds of billions in social and other services arrogated to themselves by the illegal aliens. While two percent of illegal aliens actually work in the profession Mexico claims is essentially the only work “undocumented workers” do, forty-one percent are on one kind of welfare or the other, ten percent of babies born in the U.S. are born to illegal aliens, and thirteen U.S. citizens are killed daily by uninsured and drunk driving aliens. More, the average illegal alien imprisoned here has been arrested eight times, and committed thirteen felony crimes. In any given year, there are as many as 230,000 (two hundred, thirty thousand) illegal aliens in our prisons, at a cost to the U.S. taxpayer of $9,200,000,000 (nine billion, two hundred million).

And, of course, there is more. Every year, as I noted yesterday, the various legislatures state and federal continue their all-out assault on our freedoms, that while handing our tax money to 56,000 publicly-operating and legal lobbyists and thousands more of the covert and criminal kind. Daily, the U.S. President and his Executive Branch bureaucrat minions continue their assault on our privacy, eavesdropping on every conceivable aspect of our lives; that while having suspended even the right of Habeas Corpus.

Next (but not necessarily in the order of danger it represents where MOCKINGBIRD propaganda is concerned, of course), we have censorship. Mind you, state-of-the-art censorship is not done in the old, blatant manner of the Nazi stormtrooper. Oh, no. The purpose of censorship is the same as that of propaganda – to hinder critical thinking. And without adequate information, judgment and evaluation of political issues will be biased, prejudiced, and slanted. The purpose of censorship is to control the thoughts and actions of the public. The government of the U.S. and its information media treat the citizen as though he were a child, prohibiting him the material that would permit him to think critically. Operation MOCKINGBIRD government – like the think-tank “wonk” I spoke of a minute ago – insist that the citizen not only should not but cannot think and act for themselves.

Neither is there any longer doubt that they have accomplished to a large degree what they believe. One need go little further than Jay Leno’s “Jay-Walking” – or a White House press secretary who didn’t recognize reference to the Cuban Missile Crisis (do YOU?).

In the aftermath of the JFK assassination, a CIA inter-agency memo concerning conspiracy theorists was revealing of MOCKINGBIRD (to say nothing of proof of its existence). “The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other country. Background information is supplied in a classified section and in a number of unclassified attachments.” Agents were instructed to contact members of the media - “liaison and friendly elite contacts (especially editors),” in order “to instruct these persons that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition.”

Further, the order read, “Employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of our critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose.”

There was more - much, much more – but it is singularly interesting to someone like me that even today, when the lawlessness and immorality of the Central Intelligence Agency is, like the now infamous WMDs in Iraq that never existed, as obvious as the Rocky Mountain range, an open-and-shut case any lawyer could make in any court, the history of everything I have discussed here remains the subject of debate. Think about it. Ask yourself why you believe the CIA’s original purpose and reason for being was to combat and deter communism, when in fact its real mission – what have we been talking about here? – was to deter democracy.

Isn’t the reason for the free press they have co-opted and seized by means of Operation MOCKINGBIRD the informed public necessary for maintenance of democracy?

THINK! Hasn’t the history of the CIA reflected relentless effort – successful effort – directed toward assassinating leaders inimical to “U.S. interests” and installing murderous dictators like Augosto Pinochet and the like? Hasn’t the CIA since its inception been run by the military industrial complex corporation, businessmen whose animosity toward democracy is almost legendary? Each and every one of the democracies overthrown by the CIA were places where the people tended to vote for policies the multi-national corporations didn’t like – labor unions, land reform, nationalization of industry, regulation protecting workers, and so on.

Look around at what’s going on today in Latin America. Iraq. You name it – name a place where the U.S. doesn’t have “interests.” If you can’t remember Cuba and Fidel Castro – or Che Guevara – look them up. See if you can figure out why we hate Fidel Castro so.

Operation MOCKINGBIRD has literally hundreds, even thousands, of journalists on its payroll. It owns dozens of media organizations for the purpose of disseminating CIA propaganda. It owns controlling interests in foreign newspapers, radio, and television networks. In fact, in 1985, a proprietary company of “the Company,” Capital Cities, bought ABC news. WHY?

Why does the United States Government want to own a major news network?

Well, for one reason, the fact that you don’t recognize the incontrovertible truth of what I’m saying. The fact that things like the evil of the CIA and the industrial military complex corporations is still a matter of debate. And the fact that political and economic power generated by “deceive, confuse, and bewilder” – fragment and set one against the other – has permitted the CIA corporations to completely subvert and seize or control otherwise all of corporate business in the United States. By creating literally hundreds of foundations with which to finance domestic operation – Capital Cities, for instance – the CIA co-opted others like Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller.

With each new success of the kind, the Operation MOCKINGBIRD agents added to their propaganda arms – “news” services everywhere, “news” services and networks that clamored for new corporate power. And guess what . . .

Out of the funding resulted from the “new businesses,” the New Right – neo-conservatism grew. SURPRISE!

Are you paying attention? All of this has been done right in your face. Begin a study of what I’m saying, the evidence is incontrovertible. THE PEOPLE IN QUESTION ARE SAYING SO!

But I digress. Censorship is also done by law, law resulted from the demands of a public totally “bewildered” – remember the think-tank guy? – by MOCKINGBIRD propaganda. Hate mongering extremists from either end of the political spectrum use every verbal tool in the behaviorist’s repertory in an unrelenting effort to divide and conquer the electorate politically, and to encourage lawsuits silencing dissent and ruinous to the public’s interests in controlling government and the corporate powers that own it.

Efforts to gain control the Internet, for instance, are beginning. The CIA already posts on behalf of the federal government as much as half of the pornography there, pornography that, of course, CIA writers and television pundits will rail against in order to demand federal government control. Rather than instruct the viewer to simply push the buttons necessary to turn off the computer, or otherwise control what children watch (strange, isn’t it, that in a nation so concerned for its children that for every penny it spends in, for instance, and effort to recover those missing, it spends $100,000 on munitions?), the extremist pundits and talk show hosts plead and inveigh for the government to do it.
More, the duplicitous ACLU – “American Civil Liberties Union” – strives just as mightily to confuse matters even more (talk about “limited hangout!”). Have you ever looked into what happened to any of the seemingly bizarre “civil rights” actions they prosecute? DO it – and be prepared for an eye-opener.

Consider, while you’re thinking critically about the ACLU, all those heroic patriots (with their lapel pin flags, and the unctuous “thank yous” to the troops) of yellow network journalism. I mean, in case you’re so MOCKINGBIRD benighted that you missed it, those fulminating firebrands of television who would set everybody against everybody. Consider, too, that in the last few years free speech has come under such scheming scrutiny that we have also had speech-censoring lawsuits intended to stop Oprah Winfrey from “libeling” beef – that by the State of Texas – a suit by the State of Florida aimed at making it illegal to criticize citrus growers (you should just drink your pesticide-laden juice and shut the hell up), and more.

Presumably, anyone who speaks up to warn against lead in Chinese toys will be sued by corporate “America.” Sweat shop owners in India, China, and fifty more places will likewise sue to silence their critics (in the new Land of the Fee created by the CIA and its MOCKINGBIRD Operation, the guy with the enough money can silence anyone – how good and attorney can you pay for?).

In closing this time, I can’t help but mention Mika, the de rigueur female on the “Morning Joe” program, who - when “Joe” averred that had there been no one armed present at the time of the latest lunatic hunting expedition into a crowded place, as many as hundreds might have died - labeled the remark “inane.” Think – critically - about that one. What kind of biasing mental condition could make an otherwise apparently intelligent (I concede the possibility of PMS) adult say something so impossibly stupid?

Tell us, honey – what do you think would have happened?

Revisiting Orwell's "1984" - Our "Fair and Balanced" Media

Well, gosh – here we go again. Another of the great minds agrees with stumbling, mumbling, Neanderthal me. This one says his piece in language so close to the language I used when I said it long before – three years in this case, but usually more recently – that my friends all think these guys are reading my website. Rita, my wife, will never be convinced otherwise.

Actually, it may indeed be coincidence. Most of this stuff isn’t rocket science (which, even if it were, I’d still get right), you know, and – since it’s still just logic and math – unbiased people have to get the same answers. Two and two are four, whether you’re adding or multiplying, in any language. It doesn’t make any difference whether you’re Democrat or Republican, either.

Yes, I know you THINK it does, but it doesn’t.

The latest example of what I’m talking about is today’s story that Comptroller General of the U.S. David M. Walker is warning us of “looming disaster for America's economy if an effort isn't made to control spending.”

Well, now. General Walker heads the Government Accountability Office (talk about your oxymorons), the supposedly independent, nonpartisan Congressional watchdog that evaluates the spending of American tax dollars and advises Congress on improving government programs. I don’t know how they manage to say stuff like that with a straight face - I always expect a punch line right after something like “independent, nonpartisan” - but it IS the kind of thing they always say.

Anyway, Walker says the “decision-makers” – his terminology, again; I couldn’t say that with a straight face, either (the words “decision-maker” always makes me think of Iraq and how we got into that mess) – “suffer from tunnel vision and myopia.”

Stop right there. It sounds like he’s on our side, doesn’t it? “Independent?” “Non-partisans?” DAMN – you haven’t been paying attention!

I thought by now you’d recognize a CIA-style “limited hangout” when you saw it; guess not. Walker says that “getting the budget under control could even require steep tax increases if action isn't taken now.” NOW do you get it?

What’s this, the latest “limited hangout” about? Yes, Mordecai, it’s about justifying more tax raises and concomitant impoverishment of even more people.

But this guy is good – with the rhetoric, anyway. Among the Goebbels-ian deceit he puts into his talk is this little gem. Asked during the course of these U.S. Senate hearings about President Bush’s cost estimates for sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq this year, Walker said. “It is unclear what much of the $5.6 billion is to be spent on."

Yeah, we noticed that, too – and it didn’t take a Ph.D. in accounting, either.

At any rate, the news story emanating from the hearings had the Comptroller saying that since the year 2000, America's total social insurance commitments and other fiscal obligations have increased to $50 trillion from $20 trillion, a number representing four times the nation's total economic output.

Book-keepers like Walker don’t deal in exponential growth, apparently, because my numbers come out closer to sixty-five trillion. He probably, I suspect, didn’t add all the illegal aliens we’ll be adding to the Social Security rolls before the Bush League leaves office. Throw in the time it will take the dithering Congress to come to realization and do something, you have the whole twenty million aliens drawing Social Security.

Wait a minute! If I put that into the mix – at the rate illegal immigration from Mexico is pouring in – the number comes closer to 71 trillion (70,666,000,000,000, matter of fact). According to the “Comp General,” rising national health care costs are the greatest culprit, and if that doesn’t tell you our government intends to make all of us who’ve been working all our lives to provide for our own retirement pay for the Mexicans, too, nothing will. It might tell you about social programs in general, matter of fact.

I’m afraid it’s Tubesville, folks – as in “down the tubes.” Now that you have a celebrity wonk telling you, you’ll maybe forgive me for my “I told you so” here and years ago. You might consider the fact, though, that my friends and I have been planning for it all for several years now, knowing damned well what is coming.

Actually, Walker holds out hope (don’t forget, of course, this is CIA-style “limited hangout” – they figure you’ve got more to give) by saying that we could save the country by cutting federal spending by sixty percent or by doubling federal taxation.

Well, we know for certain what chances are for that first one, so that leaves the second. He said tax revenues should be more than 18.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product, but below 25 percent.

Incidentally, I’d have liked to be at those hearings, because nothing here adds up. Nothing! Have a look at that “sixty percent or doubling taxation.” And twenty-five percent of GDP is about 3.25 trillion. Even at today’s prices and without projecting for inflation and the like, the taxation Walker is talking about won’t so much as cover, once they’ve grown to welfare size, the “anchor babies” of the twenty million Mexicans who are already here illegally. Pie in the sky, anyone?

And did I say “Tubesville?” Yeah, I think I did.

I told you this was “limited hangout.” As we used to say in the scatological jargon of the military, BOSEHIC – “Bend Over and Spread ‘Em, Here It Comes.” To know how right I am, and have been for a long time now, you’d have to have some idea as to what a trillion dollars is. I haven’t the space here to do what our wondrous public schools education doesn’t seem to have bothered to do for you, but suffice it to say that the entire Gross Domestic Product – that’s the total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a nation during a specified period (wages + rents + profits + interests + adjustments for dividends, corporate income taxes, and corporate profits) – is less than thirteen trillion.

When I noted that my friends and I have been planning for years now, expecting this, I might have added that I, personally, saw it coming even earlier. That has a great deal to do with my defensive eaves-dropping on the government, but it also has to do with my avocationally passionate study of history. The wars we fought in Korea, Vietnam, and two in Iraq are not the only wars “Americans” are fighting. There’s one in its own way even more brutal where the poor and middle class are concerned. That war is the class war, the all-but-always vicious assault being waged by the rich in order to become even richer. Greed, history taught me, is an addiction that makes all the other addictions pale by comparison. Look around, as I’m wont to say.

The U.S. class war has now reached proportions to which few historians – none, that I can find – have ever dreamed. By fraudulent finesse – usually, in the form of lobbying Congress and the state legislatures - and deceit protected by the legislation so obtained, without so much as getting their hands dirty, let alone firing a shot, the richest five percent of “Americans” have increased exponentially since 2000 their wealth and power.

The remaining ninety-five percent of the population has on the other hand seen their income and opportunity plummet. Eavesdrop in the halls of Congress for a half hour and you’ll know why.

Only a few years ago, incidentally, and curious about the trend made inexorable by the mere fact of Internal Revenue Service – it’s purpose, you know is to redistribute the nation’s wealth; either they’re doing it or they’re a near total failure – I compiled these figures: the approximately (I don’t have the same research capabilities as, for instance, the news media has) five hundred billionaires in the world have an income equal to that of the poorest fifty percent of the people here. These five hundred have wealth equal to that of approximately three billion human beings. Finally, the exploding wealth of the greed-obsessed means that sometime in the year 2,012, 6.9769 X108 (.00000006.9767) of the world’s people will have income equal to the rest.

I leave it to the reader to calculate what will happen then. As Thomas Jefferson once observed, “. . . man is the only animal which devours his own kind; I can think of no milder term to apply to the general prey of the rich upon the poor."

Neither is there any room for doubt about why the United States' plebian five percent are slaves to the patrician ninety-five percent. The losers are, pure and simple, so because they do not have access to their supposed representatives in Washington, D.C. They don’t have access to the courts, either. The cost of both is far beyond their means, kept there, of course, by their opponents in the class war.

Oh, yeah – I hear it every time I bring it up. It’s the anthem of people like FoxNews host Bill O’Reilly. The rich are rich because they deserve it, because they’re smarter, because they’re more talented, because they work harder. What Bullshit! I’ve known them, eaten with them, drunk with them, and protected their soft asses. The truth is – and if you can’t see that by watching what happens when one gets too big for his breeches and buys his way to public office, you’re too far gone to save – that I wouldn’t trust most of these clowns with my checking account, let alone my finances or life. Certainly not with the nation’s finances or life.

O’Reilly, incidentally, with his bosom buddy, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, often and blatantly encourage – in the case of O’Reilly, even demand - that the rich wield their economic power to control the news media and public’s information, that in order to keep the poor ignorant of what's going on. You need more proof of the effect of CIA Operation Mockingbird? Consider the assault independent and un-funded by government public radio and television networks are under.

Contrary to indoctrination of yourselves and your children by the government-controlled news media and educational systems, the rich are seldom the big-leaguers they are made out to be. I’ve known dozens of corporate CEOs, for some of the nation’s biggest companies, and I can tell you that I wouldn’t trust them with “executive operating” of a lemonade stand. Most of these guys got where they are by lying, cheating, stealing, exploiting, and walking all over their co-workers. They excel, all right – they excel in acquisitive rapacity, greed.

Uh-uh, save it! I’ve not only broken bread with the Captains of Industry, drunk with them, and covered their butts, I listened. I’ve heard their contempt for everything they profess publicly to believe, from the people they exploit to the system and government that gave them their power. I’ve heard them betray their concupiscent lust – not a few times twisted and depraved – their fascination with fame, and their willingness to prostitute literally anything and anybody for money and power.

How else do you explain the individual who makes a hundred and fifty times what an employee of his company makes, then cheats to get even more (how many Enrons have been in the news of late, huh?)?

There’s a better question, too. How is it that we can elect these same people to high office, then wonder when the government and nation comes to be in the shape it is? It’s like putting the town drunk in charge of the liquor, then wondering where it all went. There’s no reasonable doubt about why we’re in the shape we’re in as a nation, why we’re in Iraq, or any the rest of our troubles. NONE!

Some things, as I said, are just numbers – book-keeping. Numbers add and subtract the same no matter who’s doing them. George W. Bush created wholesale the economic hardship we’ve come to by orchestrating horrendous debt. “Orchestrating.” What else do you call cynical tax cuts intended to benefit the richest five percent I speak of here (in fact, the richest one percent got as much as forty percent of his tax forbearances). Add to that the societally insane war in Iraq, where no one has benefited (unless you consider military industrial complex corporations like Halliburton).

The day before our Comptroller General testified, the news channels were telling us that the administration and its prat-falling generals say we’ll be in Iraq, “for generations.” We’ve spent there nearly $600,000,000,000 – six hundred billion dollars, thus far. How much did Mr. Walker say tax revenues will have to be?

Had you any money left after the taxes you’ll be paying, you should buy Halliburton – that way, you’ll be paying one hand with the other.

‘Splain to me, Luci, how it is that Mr. Bush – planning it all without error as he does everything else - could justify tax cuts to corporations whose annual incomes already average in the billions. I can’t imagine it, but I have no doubt whatever that he’d try. The man seems to have no shame (he’s of the patrician class, don’t forget).

Which brings us back to the Comptroller General and the latest “limited hangout” by the rich and federal. Just as it is in real warfare, deception is the critical weapon in class warfare. Do you really believe, when a wonk like this begins to wring his hands about the “state of the union,” that he really gives a shit? First off, David M. Walker works for the federal government, a government owned lock, stock, and barrel by the military industrial complex corporations. He knows, as does every blathering bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. what would happen were he to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

And you know, too. Compare what will happen, now that he’s said as much as he has, with the current global warming debate. Go out on the highway: See anybody slowing down in order to burn less fuel and put less hydro-carbons in the air? Sure you do. Private debt in the U.S. isn’t in the dozens of trillions (excluding the federal, it’s almost forty trillion, now) because the public is so self-disciplined, self-controlled, and moderate. Here’s a site that should be entertaining. http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat.htm

In order to take back control of our country – which is to say win the class war - we need first to take back control of ourselves and our own lives. When we can’t be used as cannon fodder like slaves, we’ll know we’ve done that. That's for just one thing; there are many more “things.” Suffice it to say that to take governing power back again means that the people have to take the weapons of class war out of their enemy’s hands. Only when one corporate lobbyist doesn’t have more power than the voters of several states (or more) have can that be done.

Fifteen years ago, I took power over me and my affairs back from the rich. I stopped using their system, both economic and legal. I went to the wilderness, lived entirely off the land, and I rode a bicycle. It isn’t necessary, however, that the public flee to the wilderness. The experience taught me how powerless the government can be made. Government in the United States is a kind of “pigeon drop” swindle, wherein the dupe must be a participant in order to be defrauded. Simply refusing to take part in the electoral process, for instance, would send a message that would shake the patrician royalty to their boots. They have the French Revolution seared into their memories, you know. It’s part of every Patrician’s education; and it is his worst nightmare. Society has its absolutes, too.

“This country with its institutions,” as Abraham Lincoln observed, “belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

That’s why the first time the super rich in the guise of the military industrial complex’s new CIA risked betraying their coup d’etat was the program of deceit by propaganda known as Operation Mockingbird. The only way to fight a bull as powerful as a nation’s people is with a cape – the cape of deception. It has worked magnificently. In the words of the poet Markham writing about the French Revolution, “stunned and stolid, a brother to the ox,” the people of the United States have been reduced to the pitiable level of the peasant who was the object of Markham's poem. Using state-of-the-art propaganda and opinion-control devices more effective and powerful, even, than those of the “Inner Party” of another writer, George Orwell, the “American” public is kept living in a reality only virtual, believing contradictory nonsense their grandparents would have scoffed at angrily.

To restore the Land of the Free, the people must wake up, wake up to the fact that they have the power to rule their lives any time they decide to recover it. The way to re-take our nation is refusal to be deceived. We need to take back the free press. Contradictory nonsense like that of the last few days – the Comptroller General’s “revelation,” the specious global warming “debate,” and the odiously dissimulating like repeated again and again – amounts to nothing more than a demonstration of the pitiable, docile and subservient state to which the public and its poor have been brought.

This, in short, is nothing more than the latest newspeak and doublethink from the ruling military industrial complex plutocracy. Nothing but a stunned, stolid, and stupefied “Man with a Hoe” would believe this claptrap, but it permits the rich to control his money and his very life.

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."