Harlow
2004-04-21 21:53:00 UTC
Found this in alt.dreams.castaneda. enjoy.
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"Americans may still prefer to use euphemisms
like 'lone superpower,' but since 9/11, our country
has undergone a transformation from republic to
empire that may well prove irreversible."
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
by Chalmers Johnson
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18119
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Sleepwalking to Fallujah
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/041404Bageant/041404bageant.html
By Joe Bageant
Online Journal Guest Writer
In the war against terrorism, FBI agents at the Norfolk,
Virginia, airport took anal swabs from a mechanical farting
dog to make sure it did not contain explosives.--Reported
by the British Broadcast Corporation and Harpers Magazine
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"Americans may still prefer to use euphemisms
like 'lone superpower,' but since 9/11, our country
has undergone a transformation from republic to
empire that may well prove irreversible."
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
by Chalmers Johnson
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18119
****** ****** ******
Sleepwalking to Fallujah
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/041404Bageant/041404bageant.html
By Joe Bageant
Online Journal Guest Writer
In the war against terrorism, FBI agents at the Norfolk,
Virginia, airport took anal swabs from a mechanical farting
dog to make sure it did not contain explosives.--Reported
by the British Broadcast Corporation and Harpers Magazine
Democracy Explodes Over Iraq
Few Survivors Expected
Saturday, April 10, 2004
... I always love
people that blow up my neighborhood. Don't you?
What I think is, the Iraqis need to learn that democracy isn't easy, and
doesn't come cheap.
http://www.fredoneverything.net/IraqExplosion.shtml
PROTOCOLS OF THE ILLUMINATIFew Survivors Expected
Saturday, April 10, 2004
... I always love
people that blow up my neighborhood. Don't you?
What I think is, the Iraqis need to learn that democracy isn't easy, and
doesn't come cheap.
http://www.fredoneverything.net/IraqExplosion.shtml
PROTOCOL NO.1
Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each
thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon
surrounding facts.
What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of
view, that of ourselves (The Cult of Illuminati) and that of the Cattle
(i.e., the mob).
It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the
good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by
violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man
aims at power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could,
and rare indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the
welfare of all for the sake of securing their own welfare.
What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has
served for their guidance hitherto?
In the beginnings of the structure of society they were subjected to
brutal and blind force; afterwards to Law, which is the same force, only
disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature right lies in
force.
Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know how
to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to
attract the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of
crushing another who is in authority. This task is rendered easier if the
opponent has himself been infected with the idea of freedom, so-called
liberalism, and, for the sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of his
power. It is precisely here that the triumph of our theory appears:
the slackened reins of government are immediately, by the law of life,
caught up and gathered together by a new hand, because the blind might of
the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and the new
authority merely fits into the place of theold already weakened by
liberalism.
In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were
liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of
freedom is impossible of realisation because no one knows how to use it
with moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to self-government
for a certain length of time for that people to be turned into a
disorganised mob. From that moment on we get internecine strife which
soon develops into battles between classes, in the midst of which States
burn down and their importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes.
Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its
internal discord brings it under the power of external foes -- in any
case it can be accounted irretrievably lost: it is in our power. The
despotism of Capital, which isentirely in our hands, reaches out to it a
straw that the State, willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not it goes
to the bottom.
Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reflections as the above
are immoral I would put the following questions: If every State has two
foes and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not
considered immoral to use every manner and art of conflict, as for
example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans of attack and defence, to
attack him by night or in superior numbers, then in what way can the same
means in regard to a worse foe, the destroyer of the structure of society
and thecommonwealth, be called immoral and not permissible?
Is it not possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to
guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any
objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and
when such objection may find more favour with the people, whose powers of
reasoning are superficial? Men in masses and the men of the masses,
being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, customs, traditions
and sentimental theorism, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders
any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable
argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance or packed
majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts forth some
ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of anarchy.
The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is
governed by the moral is not a skilled politician,and is therefore
unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to
cunning and to make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and
honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their
thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy.
Such qualities must be the attributes of the kingdoms of the Cattle, but we
must in no wise be guided by them.
Our right lies in force. The word "right" is an abstract thought and
proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give me thought and
proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give me what I want
in order that thereby I might havea proof that I am stronger than you.
Where does right begin? Where does it end?
In any State in which there is a bad organisation of authority, an
impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality
amid the flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new
right -- to attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the
winds all existing forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all
institutions and to become the sovereign lord of those who have left to
us the rights of their power by laying them down voluntarily in
their liberalism.
Our power in the present tottering conditions of all forms of power will
be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until
the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any
longer undermine it.
Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the
good of an unshakeable rule, which will restore the regular course of the
machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The
result justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our
attention not so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary
and useful.
Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from
which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labour of
many centuries brought to naught.
In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to
have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob,
its lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own
life, or its own welfare. It must be understood that the might of the mob
is blind, senseless and an unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a
suggestion from any side. The blind cannot lead the blind without
bringing them into the abyss; consequently, members of the Cattle,
upstarts from the people even though they should be as a genius for
wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come
forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin.
Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have
understanding of the worlds that can be made up of the political alphabet.
A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst,brings itself
to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honours
and disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the
people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgements, to deal
with the affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal
interests? Can they defend themselves from an external foe? It is
unthinkable, for a plan broken up into as many parts as there are heads
in the masses, loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible
and impossible of execution.
It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively
and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the
several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is
inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one
that concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without
an absolute despotism there can be no existence for civilisation which is
carried on not by the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person
may be. The mob is a savage and displays its savagery at every
opportunity. The moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly
turns to anarchy, which in itself is the highest degree of savagery.
Behold the alcoholized animals, bemused with drink, the right to an
immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and
ours to walk that road. The peoples of the Cattle are bemused with
alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from
early immorality, into which it has been inducted by our special agents
-- by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by
clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented
by the Cattle. In the number of these last I count also the
so-called "society ladies", voluntary followers of the others
in corruption and luxury.
Our countersign is -- Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in
political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential
to statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and
make-believe the rule for governments which do not want to lay down their
crowns at the feet of agents of some new power. This evil is the one and
only means to attain the end, the good. Therefore we must not stop at
bribery, deceit and treachery when they should serve towards the
attainment of our end. In politics one must know how to seize the
property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submission
and sovereignty.
Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to
replace the horrors of wars by less noticeable and more satisfactory
sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to
produce blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest
factor of strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also
in the name of duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the
programme of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts
is precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is
not so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that
we shall triumph and bring all governments into subjection to our
super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are merciless for
all disobedience to cease.
Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of
the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times
repeated since those days by stupid poll-parrots who from all sides round
flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of
the world, true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded
against the pressure of the mob. The would-be wise men of the Cattle, the
intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words in their
abstractness; did not note the contradiction of their meaning and
interrelation: did not see that in nature there is no equality,
cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality
of minds, of characters, and capacities, just as immutably as she has
established subordination to her laws: never stopped to think that the
mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to bear rule
are, in regard to the political, the same blindmen as the mob itself,
that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the non-adept,
even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political -- to all
these things the Cattle paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon
these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a
knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that none
should know it but members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the
governed. As time went on the meaning of the dynastic transference of the
true position of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the
success of our cause.
In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore
our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were
canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the Cattle, putting an
end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the
foundations of the Cattle States. As you will see later, this helped us to
our triumph; it gave us the possibility, among other things, of getting
into our hands the master card - the destruction of the privileges, or in
otherwords of the very existence of the aristocracy of the Cattle, that
class which was the only defence peoples and countries had against us.
On the ruins of the natural and genealogical aristocracy of the Cattle we
have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the
aristocracy of money & power. Thequalifications for this aristocracy we have
established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for
which our learned elders provide the motive force.
Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations
with the men whom we wanted we have always worked upon the most sensitive
chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon
the insatiability for material needs and entertainment of man; and each one of
these human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyse initiative, for it
hands over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought
their activities.
The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all
countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people
who are the owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced
like a worn-out glove.
It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people
which has placed them at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the
power of appointment.
PROTOCOL NO. 2
It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should
not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the
economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the
assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of
things will put both sides at the mercy of our international agency;
which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any
limitations whatsoever. Our international rights will then wipe out
national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule the
nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of
their subjects among themselves.
The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with
strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be
persons trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily
become pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who
will be their advisers, specialists bred and reared from early childhood
to rule the affairs of the whole world. As is well known to you,
these specialists of ours have been drawing to fit them for rule
the information they need from our political plans, from the lessons of
history, from observations made of the events of every moment as it
passes. The Cattle are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced
historical observation, by theoretical routine without any critical
regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account
of them -- let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on
hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all
they have enjoyed. For them let that play the principal part which we
have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is
with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press,
arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The intellectuals of the
Cattle will puff themselves up with theirknowledge and without any
logical verification of it will put into effect all the information
available from science, which our agentur specialists have cunningly
pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction
we want.
Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think
carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism,
Nietzsche-ism, Neoconservatism. To us the mob, at any rate, it
should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance these
directives have upon the minds of the Cattle.
It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters,
tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political
and in the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our
system, of which the component parts of the machinery may be variously
disposed according to the temperament of the peoples met on our way, will
fail of success if the practical of it be not based upon a summing up of
the lessons of the past in the light of the present.
In the hands of the States of today there is a great force that creates
the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part
played by the Press is to keep pointing out requirements supposed to be
indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express
and to create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom
of speech finds its incarnation. But the Cattle States have not known how
to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through
the Press & Media we have gained the power to influence while remaining
ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press (e.g. Foxnews, et al.) we have
got the gold in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it
outof oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we have
sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the
sight of God a thousand Cattle.
PROTOCOL NO.3
Today I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off. There
remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is
ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Digital Snake, by which we
symbolise our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be
locked in its coil as in a powerful vice.
The constitution scales of these days will shortly breakdown, for we
have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order
that they may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on
which they turn. The Cattle are under the impression that they have welded
them sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that
the scales would come into equilibrium. But the pivots -- the kings on
their thrones -- are hemmed in by their representatives, who play
the fool, distraught with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
This power they owe to the terror which has been breathed into the
palaces. As they have no means of getting at their people, into their
very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer able to come to
terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers after power.
We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and the blind
force of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the
blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart.
In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set
all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal
tendencies towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every
form of enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority
as a target for every ambition.Of States we have made gladiatorial
arenas where a host of confused issues contend ... A little more, and
disorders and bankruptcy will be universal.
Babblers inexhaustible have turned into oratorical contests the sittings
of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and
unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of
power will put the final touch in preparing all institutions for their
overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the blows of the
maddened mob.
All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than
ever they were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and
another, they might free themselves, these could be settled with, but
from want they will never get away. We have included in the constitution
such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All
these so-called "People's Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which
can never be realised in practical life. What is it to the
proletariat labourer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by his
lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get
the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the
proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those
pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their
voting in favour of what we dictate, in favour of the men we place in
power, servants of our agentur ...Republican rights for a poor man are
no more than a bitter piece of irony, for the necessity he is under of
toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but on the other
hand robs him of all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by making
him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters.
The people under our guidance have annihilated the aristocracy,
who were their one and only defence and foster-mother for the sake of
their own advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of
the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people
have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who
have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers.
We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this
oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting
forces -- Socialists, Anarchists, Communists -- to whom we always give
support in accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity
of all humanity) of our social masonry. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by
the law the labour of the workers, was interested in seeing that the
workers were well fed, healthy and strong. We are interested in just the
opposite - in the diminution, the killing out of the Cattle. Our power
is in the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker
because by all that this implies he is made the slave of our will, and he
will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy to set
against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker
more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority
of kings.
By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mob
and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way.
When the hour strikes for our Sovereign Lord of all theWorld to be
crowned it is these same hands which will sweep away everything that
might be a hindrance thereto.
The Cattle have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the
suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent
necessity of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely
this, that it is essential to teach in national schools one simple, true
piece of knowledge, the basis of all knowledge -- the knowledge of the
structure of human life, of social existence, which requires division of
labour, and, consequently, the division of men into classes and
conditions. It is essential for all to know that owing to difference in
the objects of human activity there cannot be any equality, that he who by
any act of his compromises a whole class cannot be equally responsible
before the law with him who affects on one but only his own honour. The
true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of which we
do not admit the Cattle, would demonstrate to all men that the positions
and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a
source of human suffering, arising from an education which does
not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to
do. After a thorough study of this knowledge the peoples will voluntarily
submit to authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the
State. In the present state of knowledge and the direction we have given
to its development the people, blindly believing things in print, radio & TV--
cherishes -- thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own
ignorance -- a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers
above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class
and condition.
This hatred will be still further magnified by the effects of an
economic crisis, which will stop dealings on the exchanges and bring
industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean
methods open to us and with the aid of gold and theocracy, which is all in
our hands, a universal economic crisis whereby we shall throw upon the
streets whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the countries of
the world. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those
whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their
cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot.
"Ours" they will not touch, because the moment of attack will be known to
us and we shall take measures to protect our own.
We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the Cattle to the
sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will
know how by wise severities to pacificate all unrest, to cauterise
liberalism out of all institutions.
When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences
are yielded it in the name of freedom it has imagined itself to be
sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally, like
every other blind man it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks, it has
rushed to find a guide, it has never had the sense to return to the former
state and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at our feet.
Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of
"Great": Thesecrets of its preparations are well known to us for it
was wholly the work of our hands
Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one
disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from
us in favour of that King-Despot of the blood of Illuminati, whom we are
preparing for the world.
At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because
if attacked by some we are supported by other States. It is the
bottomless rascality of the Cattle, peoples, who crawl on their bellies to
force, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and
indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free
social system but patient unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold
despotism -- it is those qualities which are aiding us to independence.
From the premier-dictators of the present day the Cattle suffer patiently
and bear such abuses as for the least of them they would have beheaded
twenty kings.
What is the explanation of this phenomenon, the curious inconsequence of
the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to
be events of the same order?
It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to the peoples
through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury
on the States with the highest purpose --to secure the welfare of the
peoples, the international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and
equality of rights. Naturally they do not tell the peoples that
this unification must be accomplished only under our sovereign rule.
And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded
ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this
state of things the people are destroying every kind of stability and
creating disorders at every step.
The word "freedom" brings out the communities of men to fight against
every kind of force, against every kind of authority, even against God
and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our
kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as
implying a principle of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty
beasts.
These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have
drunk their fill of blood, and at such times can easily be riveted into
their chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and
continue to struggle.
PROTOCOL NO. 4
Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these is
comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither
and thither, right and left: the second is demagogy, from which is born
anarchy, and that leads inevitably to despotism -- not any longer legal
and overt, and therefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and
secretly hidden, through blind patriotism...
