- Some of us these days wonder where our world is going,
or, perhaps, better said, where our world WENT?
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- How can it be that peaceful elderly folks, simply walking
down a shopping street in Maimi, can get picked up and kept for up to 11
hours in handcuffs?
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- Is this new ... or is it rather truer to say that there
actually IS nothing new under the sun?
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- Perhaps it is informative to take a peek back at what
we'd prefer to forget and which was our most un-favoured subject at school
(at least, it was mine!): History.
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- Why was it so easy for the German people to accept Hitler's
promise of peaceful streets again, after Communists and Nazis had fought
running battles on them for years?
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- Had the Nazis NOT battled the Communists, but had they
tolerated peaceful demonstrations, perhaps this would not even have been
an issue, HAD the other side, the Nazis, REALLY had something to offer
that was better than what the Commies had to show?
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- Perhaps it is only when one has nothing to show, or is
hiding a secret hand with a fifth ace that one will not show or cannot
show without being called out to a High Noon justice, that it is advantageous
to deflect attention from it by provoking a ruckus outside, while preparing
to skim the table of the honest players' hard-earned cash?
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- Certainly, Hitler's rise to power was greatly aided by
the street troubles. Without them, he would not have had the German people
so willing, at almost any price, to see their streets calm again. Peaceful
protest by the peopple, especially the elderly, is the one thing any dictator
must fear: students are expected to get radically violent, they are young,
impetuous and impatient, while older folks' opinions are always looked
upon with fear by would-be oppressors, for the elderly have lived through
enough history of their own, to have seen the differences between times
and so make a more-rational judgement as to the state of current affairs,
and are also more likely to be listened to, than younger, more-intolerant
hotheads.
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- Now recently, in the USA, demonstrators have been demonised,
most recently with targetting of innocent older people, concerned citizens
caring only for some modicum of social justice.
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- Suddenly, these inoffensive older folks have become an
object of fear.
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- Why?
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- And by whom?
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- Well, an easy guess is, someone on the rise to absolute
power, just like Hitler was? There is nothing any despot fears more, than
the people taking to the streets to protest him clear out of office --
just look what happened to Slobodan Milosevic and Eduard Shevardnadze quite
recently -- imagine it might happen to the (p)Resident of the White House?
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- But how to protect against it happening to him? -- how
to make the people get off the streets so it doesn't happen -- and, in
an election year, as people are waking up to the scams of corporate government,
the unwelcome elections don't happen either?
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- How to make people willingly give up their hard-won "Freedoms,
that the world hates us for having"?
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- Well, I should say, the answer is right there! ... let's
see ... what would YOU do anything to protect?
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- Well, next to your own family members and of course yourself,
your valuables, perhaps, which a lot of envious, starving people might
really hate you for having -- your FREEDOMS!
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- Where do you put them?
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- Valuables, certainly in a place of safekeeping, of course!
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- OK, so when they are in that place of safety, you can't
walk around as usual with your jewellery showing, or your Rolex flashing
that you've made it, have a certain amount of freedom (if only financial),
but -- what the heck? -- they are SAFE!
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- Where could this safe place be? In your own safe, of
course, if you can afford one, or, safer still, in a safe in the bank!
Then they are doubly-protected!
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- Even better would be, if the entire US Army and Department
of Homeland Security would protect them for you!?
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- And it WILL!
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- -- especially your greatest assets of all --
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- -- your FREEDOMS, the ones the whole world hates you
for!
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- Now we hear that Mr Ridge has determined upon whatever
rumoured evidence likely never to appear in a court of law, that a situation
of danger makes a Code Orange (Clockwork Orange???) level of alertness
necessary!
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- ... Just strangely, at the end of a year!
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- -- and it is always good to start a new year with a great
resolution, and get used to the idea that an old situation has been left
behind with the old year, and a new situation has arisen, which will be
the new paradigm for the new year (and perhaps for all eternity, if we
get used to it, and to so many, many things, and situations, we CAN!
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- And, sooo conveniently -- in an ELECTION YEAR! -- (why
rock the boat, by the way, "and change jockeys in the middle of a
race"?) -- when the present administration is keeping us all so safe?
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- A New Year's resolution like, say, "We accept the
level of state security necessary to protect our Freedoms (for which the
entire rest of the world hates us!), and so we give them into the safe,
safekeeping hands of our Department of Homeland Security! OK, so we can't
walk around with them on our sleeves! -- because, if we did, then SOMEONE
OUT THERE (some goddam raghead) -- might STEAL THEM from us!"
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- Perhaps I have a suspicious mindset, but if I were a
would-be dictator such as even the particularly patriotic obtuse are beginning
to recognise in the top US politician today, and his pirate-crew junta,
having ripped off the rights and it looks like the savings and social benefits
of so many with legislation friendly mainly to the already ultra-rich,
I'd do it this way:
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- I'd make sure demonstrations COULD NOT be peaceful,
no matter how peaceful the intent of the demonstrators.
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- I'd get the fuzz to start the action, then demonise
all, young and old alike, and let them be thoroughly defamed by a servile
monopoly press.
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- I'd also be making sure that the internet will come
under my control, by hook or by crook (in my own opinion, likely by both).
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- I'd then give a nation-wide, heavily-moralising speech,
with many references to "Western Civilisation", "Christian
Values", "God", and the morality which the speaker himself
feels no obligation whatever to conform to in his own actions, national
and international.
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- As that speaker, I'd call for restraint, making myself
look like a reasonble, moderate voice of calm and reason, and a return
to the "Rule of Law" -- whatever that might mean to a lawless
person, as he himself has proven to be.
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- And at the next peaceful demonstration, I'd make sure
that violence, by the police and by trained instigator-provocateurs, reaches
new proportions, even should, by great restraint, the demonstrators prove
resolutely peaceable and unmoved by police and other provocative action.
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- Even in this far-out case, I'd have my media blow up
only my own side of the story, and that out of all proportion, and disseminate
their lies as the absolute, God's-honest, unimpeachable truth.
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- I then would re-moralise before the nation, and appear
as a clear voice of reason in what would appear in the press to be an impending,
uncontrollable chaos, warning of measures not willingly taken to control
freedoms, etc.
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- The next demonstration would then be characterised by
unprecedented violence. Someone, some convenient Neo-Osama never to be
caught -- unless some poor flunky serves as the patsy in the case -- will
do something incredibly heinous, my guess being some sort of poison gas,
which will cause public casualties, and, for good measure, some of the
police will be sacrificed too.
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- I should then again go on nationwide television, and
with stern and sombre face, carefully grimmed and greyed in the dressing-room,
roundly condemn the "riots" and -- finally, with many regrets
-- introduce a ban on public demonstrations and the Right of Assembly --
for at least -- according to me, "during a 'Time of War'" --
or perhaps "Until further notice".
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- QED.
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- If any of the above takes place within relatively short
notice, be warned.
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- After reading these two articles:
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- Legal observer details police violence against FTAA protesters
in Miami
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- http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/miam-d16.shtml
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- and
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- "This is not America"
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- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5384.htm
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- turn to:
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- http://www.awitness.org/news/november_2001/nazi_anti_terrrorism_bill.html
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- and cheeck out how it was done before, and how it is
about to be done again ... your departed civil rights have kissed your
ass goodbye, and you are all about to become meat for the barbed-wire canning
factory:
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- http://www.awitness.org/news/november_2001/nazi_anti_terrrorism_bill.html
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- A simple quote from the last url there:
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- "Hitler concentrated his attacks on the 'Marxists
lumping them together with the trade unions and the Social Democrats...
"The activities of subversive organizations are to be combatted with
the most drastic methods. Communist terrorist acts are to be proceeded
against with all severity and weapons must be used ruthlessly when neccesary..."
Hitler, Feb 4th, 1933.
- On Feb 22 Goring issued another order which had far reaching
consequences. The Prussian police force was to be reinforced by enlisting
auxiliaries to "combat the growing excesses of the radical left"...Recruitment
was limited to the SA and SS...who were virtually given freedom of the
streets..."
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- *******
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- ... and when in doubt ... read what looks like will become
of the Internet:
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- A Net of Control
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- Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of
corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works
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- http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3606168&p1=0
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- As an afternote, there IS a way out, of course!
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- Simply put, if everyone with some sense of social responsibility
simply went out to sit out on the streets in front of their houses and
refuse to go to work until the dictatorial new rules of social conduct
were rescinded, or the government stepped down, or both?
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- The results could be one of three:
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- 1. The government steps down;
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- 2. Police violently clear the streets, making it perfectly
clear what kind of state you are presently living in, and also making clear
your foremost duty, which would be to overthrow that kind of state, as
per your First and Second Constitutional Amendments;
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- 3. You all get fired -- and don't go back to work, so
the economy collapses, the fuzz realise it is hopelss, and join the demonstrators
like recently in Georgia, and a true people's government takes over from
the fleeing pirates?
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- Your call.
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- George
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