Too Close For Comfort...It's Getting To Feel Alot Like 1984.

  To put it bluntly, I don't understand why people do not seem to be concerned about the NSA surveillance systems which have literally placed us squarely onto the pages of George Orwell's nightmarish novel, 1984.  But that's not all.

I don't understand why people aren't concerned about Syria, about the line we're being fed regarding the threat of their chemical weapon program.  We were lied to  about Viet Nam.  We were lied to about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which was the justification for killing over a hundred thousand innocent Iraqis and destroying the bodies, lives and psyches of our own children who were  and are willingly handed over to a military industrial complex which mindlessly chews up and spits out the young like some monster from outer space.  I don't understand why people allow this to go on.

Now, it's on to Syria.  Chemical weapons.  Uh huh.  Young Americans, once again, will be sent into hell, and we sit back and accept yet more lies and half truths...with nary a peep.  Why?

I don't understand how we continue looking to the same people, or to people who hold the same positions...whether it be the President, or Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Secretary of State or Defense, etc...to tell us the truth about the world, when, it seems pretty obvious to me, at least, that people who hold those positions are well paid to lie, tell us half-truths, or confuse us so much as we no longer even understand which questions to ask.

Maybe what we're experiencing here in America is a loss of innocence.  I'm not the only one going through this process, not by a long shot.  I am anxious about this cultural shift. I thought America was a country where you could say whatever you wanted to say, and do whatever you wanted as long as you didn't actually harm anyone else.  There you go.  How naive was that?

"Our" government really wants to get its hands on Edward Snowden for telling us the truth about the NSA surveillance of everything we do, write, and say. 

Obviously, it's no longer "our" government.  That's pretty much what Ed was telling us.  Wake up.  This is not a government of and for the people.  It's no different than all the worst governments the world has known.  It's a group of insiders with secret programs, secret agendas, secret financial dealings and ties to international corrupt corporations. And it's all funded by a population which is considered nothing but a resource for these creepy oligarchs who have made it their business to run the world for their own benefit.

The scary part is they have more subtle means of control than they used to have.  You won't be seeing anymore odious people in high office.  They'll all be likable, pretty good looking, and unsweaty.  Remember Nixon?  He lost the presidential debate with JFK because you could see him sweat.  You will never see Obama sweat.  Gotta hand it to them.  In the case of Obama, they chose well.  They've learned much.

So maybe this loss of innocence is just a necessary step on a spiritual path.  If we're protected from evil, then how can we ever evolve?  Obviously, no growth is possible without a challenge.  Well, I think the challenge has arrived, not only for Americans, but for the whole world.

America was a beacon.  I believe, in reality, it was a huge threat to the way business was done, mainly, Might Is Right.  The Constitution said, no, might is not right... a human being's sovereignty is right.  The individual is valuable, and should be protected from the mindless, soulless force of some collective force.  

Now, however, the Constitution is clearly no longer held in high esteem.  That is bad news, for people who think like I do, because it celebrated the individual.  I've never been a joiner, and I don't plan on becoming one, whether the government or anyone else demands it or not.

Now, many Americans see individual rights as basically disposable, if not outright threatening to their view of a "just" collective.  I laugh to think of an exchange Eric Lieberman had with Robyn Gabel, your state rep, when they chatted after a debate.

Eric, while running against Robyn for Illinois State Rep, brought up the idea of people actually being able to vote on what programs their tax money supported.  Robyn was aghast at this idea, and said, but Eric, then none of my programs would be funded!  

The very idea of people having the right to decide where their hard-earned money was being used was totally foreign to her!  She, in my book, is a shining example of a "minion."  She doesn't really think...she serves her master, the government, which, in her obedient and inflexible mind, should do the thinking for everyone!  (She, of course, was referring to her programs which "help" pitifully helpless women and children....yes, we must keep reminding them how pitiful and helpless they are... but which actually enrich BIG PHARMA and the huge law firm that settles those pesty little legal cases regarding death and damage done by these hugely profitable drugs.)  Check out Robyn's list of wonderful, altruistic funders, and you'll see what I mean.  Yikes, people.

So, where are we going here?  I believe Americans are sleep walking into the same nightmare humanity has been grappling with for eons.  They are unwittingly embracing and abetting a collectivist vision, whereby the state holds power over the people.  Nothing much new there.  We've seen it a hundred times before.

Now you're felt up at the airport, and soon, trains and busses will demand the same.  Your phone calls, emails and blog posts are collected into some huge data-base, and called up should the government find a reason to become interested in you, and feel the need to leverage you for some reason.   When a bomb goes off somewhere, the government's media arm, the corporate media, tells you who done it...and you are told to dismiss independent journalists and researchers, as conspiracy nuts.
 
I believe this is just the beginning.  It's only the groundwork.

The Department of Homeland Security has been buying up ammunition at alarming rates, making it impossible for people to get their hands on any themselves.  Many Americans cheer at this.  I've never owned a gun, but this little wrinkle has me worried.  (Okay, I use a squirt gun on my dog to break him from his nasty habit of whining and begging people for attention when they come to the house.  (SO ARREST ME!)

Not only does the Department of Homeland (isn't that what the Germans called it in the 30's?) Security hoard bullits, they have scads of armoured vehicles and body armour.  And IRS agents are training with AR 15 rifles....the same ones they want to get out of the hands of the American public.  So cheer on about gun control, but aren't you a little concerned about the heavy arming of these government agencies?  Just a little?  Against whom are they arming themselves?

Well, I guess nothing becomes truly strong unless it is challenged.  So, maybe it's just as well.  If enough of us don't wake up and meet this challenge, freedom won't survive.  The government is holding all the cards, and too many people are either kissing the boot of the state by lauding their sweat-free, smiley faced "leader," thoroughly apathetic, or cowering in the corner, afraid to even think about what's going down.

But, for every force, there is an equal and opposite force...so, take advantage of the wonderful community of writers and researchers now emerging.  They give me hope for humanity.  They  keep me from sinking into a pit of depression, and their ranks are growing.

Some of my favorites...James Corbett, Gerald Celente, Katherine Austin Fitts, Jim Sinclair, Stephan Molyneux, David Wilcock (whose Finnancial Tyranny series on his divinecosmos.com site is well worth the time) Lew Rockwell, Eric King...and yes, Alex Jones, if you can tolerate his voice and hot-headed style (his heart's in the right place, and he has a great research team.)