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30 January 2010 By Keith Johnson Don’t open
your eyes Think you’re free? Think again, slave! This week the Federal government will attempt to
auction off 118 billion dollars in U.S. debt to anyone
who thinks the U.S. dollar is a great place to be.
Of course if you ask liars like Fed Chief Ben Bernanke
or his young sidekick “tiny” Tim Geithner, they will
most certainly assure you that the dollar is strong
and that the U.S economy is on a miraculous rebound.
But this is fiction. Lets do our own risk assessment, shall we? After
all, barring any foreign investors stupid enough to
take the bait, it’s going to be you and I… and several
generations of our descendants left holding the check
as the fat gluttons on Wall Street lick their plates
before dashing out of the restaurant. But I warn
you; what you are about to read is nothing short of
horrifying and should convince you – once and for all
– that we are in the final stages of a freefall spiral
into outright despotism. Stewart Dougherty is a specialist in inferential
analysis, the practice of identifying historic and
contemporary patterns and then extrapolating their
likely effects upon the future. In his recent piece,
“America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship”,
Mr. Dougherty crunches some numbers for us and finds: “According to the Federal Reserve’s most recent
report on wealth, America’s private net worth was
$53.4 trillion as of September, 2009. But at the
same time, America’s debt and unfunded liabilities
totaled at least $120,000,000,000,000.00 ($120
trillion), or 225% of the citizens’ net worth. Even
if the government expropriated every dollar of private
wealth in the nation, it would still have a deficit of
$66,600,000,000,000.00 ($66.6 trillion), equal to
$214,286.00 for every man, woman and child in America
and roughly 500% of GDP. If the government does not
directly seize the nation’s private wealth, then it
will require $389,610 from each and every citizen to
balance the country’s books.” Sorry, but I don’t have that kind of scratch! Few
of us do! And though we should feel no obligation to
pay this debt, we still must bear some of the
responsibility for allowing it to happen. Somewhere
along the way our ancestors dropped the ball. Our
fathers failed to heed the warnings of great men.
They allowed their words to echo down the memory hole
into oblivion only to be replaced with the words of
actors, sportscasters and anchormen. They allowed
great texts and historical documents in our schools to
be substituted with training manuals and rulebooks for
the enslaved. Their apathy has delivered us into
dependence, and from there we are entering back into
the final stage of a never-ending fatal sequence:
bondage. Democracy may well be the worst of all forms of
government. We are often told of the virtues of
democracy and taught that it was under its principles
that this nation was founded. But that is not true.
We were born a Republic; a representative form of
government designed to protect the rights of the
individual. However, from the day of our nation’s
founding, insidious forces within and from without
have incrementally caused our government to
deteriorate into a democracy. Where once the center
of power was concentrated in our elected
representatives in the House and senate, that power
has now been usurped by the Executive Branch. The
vast majorities of Americans have considered their
vote for the presidency as the single most important
elected office, and as a result, have rendered their
sovereignty to that single entity. The office of the President has become a seat of
power. Through signing statements and a self
appointed “executive privilege”, the President has
become a ruler rather than a servant of the people who
acts upon the direction of Congress. Though the author of the following passage is
unknown, it has been quoted as part of a speech given
in 1943 by American Industrialist H.W. Prentis though
much of what he said has been attributed to late 18th
Century writer Andrew Fraser Tytler. Regardless of
who or when it was said, it certainly seems prophetic
now in relation to the situation we currently find
ourselves in… “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it
simply cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. A democracy will continue to exist up
until the time that voters discover that they can vote
themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the
candidates who promise the most benefits from the
public treasury, with the result that every democracy
will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy,
which is always followed by a dictatorship. The
average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from
the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always
progressed through the following sequence: That last part, that has come to be known as the
“Tytler Cycle”, could be used to chronicle our
nation’s rise and fall from the day our ancestors fled
the tyranny of King George (from bondage to
spiritual faith), the American Revolution
(from spiritual faith to great courage), the
Declaration of Independence (from courage to liberty),
the Industrial Revolution (from liberty to
abundance), the signing of the Federal Reserve
Act (from abundance to complacency), the
Great Depression (from complacency to apathy),
the entry into the United Nations (from apathy to
dependence) and everything that has happened
since: the endless wars, socialism/facism, the CIA,
etc., etc., etc. … (from dependence back into
BONDAGE!) Should we accept our fate? Surely we can adapt. A
frightening number of men and women whom have received
long-term confinement in our nation’s prison system
succumb to a thing known as “institutionalized
syndrome” characterized by a loss of independence and
self-confidence, erosion of desire and skills for
social interaction and fear of authority. Upon the
prospect of release many prefer to stay in that
nightmarish environment rather than face the world
alone due to excessive reliance on these institutions
to provide food, clothing and shelter. Could this be
where we are headed? And what of our destiny? Will we go the way of
North Korea, a communist regime that controls it’s
population through hunger and fear? One only needs
to read accounts of daily life in it’s largest city,
Pyongyang to conclude that this is precisely what our
masters have in store for us. Imagine living in tiny
living quarters within towering, drab apartment
complexes that siphon intermittent supplies of water
and electricity while reliably feeding government
propaganda through living room speakers that can never
be fully turned down. A place where no citizen is
allowed to drive or even own a bicycle. A place
where rations of food are so miniscual that hunger and
starvation are commonplace. And though I suspect that none of us will live long
enough to be forced to live under such harsh
conditions, is it acceptable to use that as an excuse
to leave that fate to our children? Perhaps for some
of you it is. Perhaps the work that lies ahead of us
is an insurmountable task. Perhaps the victories of
our enemy have caused you to become complacent, even
apathetic in your own personal “Tytler Cycle”? If so,
then I wish you well. Hopefully you will find
comfort in the distractions provided to you by our
social engineers. And although you may find your
liberty in short supply, be comforted in the fact that
there will always be an abundance of drugs, sports,
music and all manner of entertainment to keep your
buzz going through these tumultuous times. If you accept this conclusion then I offer, in
parting, these words from Samuel Adams: “If you love wealth more than liberty, the
tranquility of servitude better than the animating
contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask
not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick
the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest
lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you
were our countrymen.” In other words, may you find “Happiness in
Slavery”. |
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