SO WHY AREN’T WE MANNING THE BARRICADES?
From Murph


I’ve often commented that it seems like every day there is a new event
coming out of the government that scares the hell out of me, or enrages me. I hear a lot of talk and read a lot of material that indicates there is a lot of other people out in this world that feel the same way. I frequently come across stuff by authors asking why we are not in the street armed and ready to rumble.

It appears to me that only the most deluded and most ignorant and most uniformed person can possibly ignore what is happening to us as American citizens. I listen to the presidential candidates lie and avoid the really hard stuff. I listen to the present government officials lie and put spin on the actions of their bosses. We see, nearly every day, on the popular media, where parts of our infrastructure are decaying and crumbling and yet federal funding is being cut for civilian projects to finance the empires expansion. The bridge in Minnesota is just the latest. The whole Pat Tillman affair has not gone away and that is about two years old now. It appears that he was assassinated, and the reasons are ambiguous. The administration is sacrificing fall guys at a stupendous rate while the big boys walk away free and collect their 200 million when they pass go. The war in Iraq is a joke. We are pouring money into that venture at a stupendous rate. Latest information I have read is that the total cost before this is done, and that is if we start withdrawing troops right now, is 1.9 trillion dollars. Meanwhile, the wealthy that benefit most by this kind of expenditure are paying less for the privilege of looting the treasury and the pockets of the rest of the citizens of this country, and the public debt in total is now so large that it will take 3 generations at the current GDP to pay it back. So you know how that is going to turn out. The corporate control of the government is almost absolute now, and that by definition is called Fascism.

And if that is not enough, our president is assigning himself powers and authority that only belong in a country run by a despot. Edi Amine would be proud of his step child. Adolph would be chuckling. I suppose if they were all alive now they would be jealous as hell. My oh my, 350 million people in one country under his thumb and he can do anything he wants and get away with it. No U.N. sanctions, no internal revolution, no armies collecting along the borders, no international talk about stopping these mad men. How good can it get?

So ok, why aren’t we in the street? Why hasn’t a large segment of the population risen up in righteous indignation with guns in hand and stopped this shit? Well, here it is.

This population, as a whole and compared to the rest of the western countries, is young. We haven’t endured centuries of brutal leaders yet. In actuality, this is our first experience with an overt brutal leadership, unless of course you want to examine Lincoln carefully. He managed to get several million killed too. But we will put that aside for now. Our population, as a whole, simply doesn’t understand just how bad it can get.

We have endured over 50 years of intense propaganda preparing us for this. There has been a very gradual buildup to this point for over 100 years. The people that have the control over the political leaders have been working for this outcome for a very long time. Overcoming the propaganda that insists that the leaders have our interests and well being at heart is not going to happen quickly. These ass holes in leadership positions and that run for leadership positions have been and are lying to us almost incessantly. Politics and those that run for office are only a sham to convince us that we have some real control over what happens. The shame we bear is in believing them. For to believe them means that, among other reasons, our educational system has failed us. Our owners do not want an informed, rational, critical thinking population. That is not in their plans at all. We complain about the “sheeple” blindly following and doing and believing what they are told. Well, what in hell do you expect? We have been trained to be just smart enough to run the machinery, do the paper work, to be team workers, to not question decisions, to be compliant and non-complaining, to respect and acquiescent to authority. We have been supporting that kind of education since before the industrial revolution. Now we are getting the payoff. So the next time a school levy in your area is being put on the ballot, how are you going to vote?

This country has been, and especially now, fear driven in most of its policies. A fearful population is much easier to control. Promise to protect against some boogeyman, and most people will do whatever it takes to satisfy the people making the promise so they don’t have to deal with the real or imagined boogeyman. And just in case the population starts to question the boogeyman theory, you kill some of the population with false flag events to get them back into line. Works every time.

I have hit on this over and over. Western civilization, but not restricted to us, has some kind of mental fixation on elitism. A person that has a lot of money and/or has a lot of connections to money is held up as being smarter, more aware, more competent. I guess if control of other people is a sign of being smarter and more competent, it is true most of the time. So why in hell has the populations of every country on earth had this thing about paying homage to those with money? Giving them special privileges, giving them authority over others lives? Appears to me it is about jealousy, greed, being lied to, and fear of losing what little they have. I would think this would have a tendency to inhibit people from rebelling against their owners. A lifetime of slave mentality and living is damned hard to overcome.

Another repeated summary. Plus, the elites have just about everything sewed up right now; availability of money, information, ownership and force. Rebelling is dangerous stuff under these conditions. You have to see yourself as having nothing else to lose to those bastards. Either that or a very radicalized sense of righteous indignation. As long as the carrot is dangled in the face of the slave population, they will not rebel. Until they realize that they can’t get to the carrot, they will not rebel. So until the really big pinch comes on the average Joe in the street, there isn’t going to be any French type barricades in the street, or active rebellion. Few people, including myself, are willing to be martyrs for a population that likes and defends their slavery. When they become aware of what has been done to them and start to grumble and pick up arms, then I will come out of the closet. I suspect many who are reading this feel much the same way.

Until the general population begins to growl and paw the ground, it’s hunker down and protect ourselves as best we can. And no damn it, I don’t like having to say that. But I will be damned if I will expose myself by taking up arms to keep Joe and Ann able to go to the mall and keeping the SUV gassed up. Besides, I have firewood to put up for winter. So there!