Who Will Answer?

Again I have to thank my friend Aaron from Soldier Hugs for pointing me in the direction of this so very timely article. 

Who Will Answer?  It reminds me of the famous speech by Martin Niemöller about the disregard of German intellectuals during  the Nazi rise to power followed by the extermination of their targets, group after group.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. 

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist. 

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. 

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me. 

Who Will Answer?  Who will answer for YOU?






Who Will Answer?
by Ian MacLeod

In my long-ago youth, WWII wasn’t far gone, and being Southern country folk and Tennessee and Kentucky hill-folk, we remembered a lot farther back than that. I can remember staying with relatives somewhere up around Cumberland, in their two room wood, partly log, cabin, an old Franklin stove providing the only heat besides the people there. They brought out quilts (home-made, of course), comforters (the same) and all manner of bed-clothes for us, and we all slept on the floor. This was back when any relatives, no matter how distant, could and did camp out on any others. We’d had many stay with us; now Dad was on leave between duty stations, and we were going from California to see Mom’s and his relatives in Texas,Tennessee,Kentucky, and New York City(those were Dad’s). I met an uncle I had never heard of while walking back from the fancy double-seater outhouse (it had been the first in the county) who had a shotgun and a bloody bag I was informed was full of squirrels for our supper. This was also long before the Beverly Hillbillies. They gave me a Teddy bear that was taller than I was.

Every male member of that family, all branches, had always joined up, in wartime if not as a career. Still, they approved of Dad because he was making his career in the military. They thought a lot of Mom because she had joined also, and had spent time serving in Germany. I remember her complaining about how the blasted (well, she said, “damned”) shower heads there were made for Hitler’s “supermen” were over seven feet off the floor – too high for her to reach at five feet, two inches tall. Later I went to school, and I was always really proud my mother really did wear Army boots. The kids who derided me about it that I kicked the snot out of got kicked because they thought it was an insult, not because it was insulting. They’d insulted my country as well as my mom, you see.

America had never lost a war. Dad told me about the German mamas who brought home-made German dishes to the poor German boys in the POW camp near where they lived that Hitler had lied into being Nazis to remind them of home, and the Army guarding them allowed it – especially when they shared. That was good chow! But we were always good to our prisoners, even though they tortured, beat and starved ours. We were the good guys. The FBI always had and always would get their man – and the occasional woman. Cops were helpful, and they only hurt bad people, and only then when they had to. Even people who were protesting and saying nasty things about America didn’t really get in trouble, because that was what America meant: you could say what you wanted, hold any opinion, and you had that right! No other country on earth was so free.
I watched my favorite cartoon characters fight the bad guys, who often had German or Russian accents, or they had red flags with hammer and sickle, or swastikas on the airplanes.  I had my collection of army men, those little green plastic guys (they were lead at first, but that went away), and my babysitter was a TV with a small screen, black and white, of course. Every adult I knew was horrified and absolutely livid when they learned there was a commie satellite up there over our heads going, “Beep! Beep!”.  I got all the propaganda. I remember “Duck and cover!” and the little Civil Service turtle. I went through the drills, hiding under my desk in case of a nuclear attack (I guess they thought it’d be easier to find the bodies). I was even a Crest Kid, using experimental fluoride toothpaste. And my dad was lifer military – I grew up on military bases, and was probably better cross-trained than a lot of guys who’d been in for years by the time I hit boot camp. During the hippie years, my dad’s squadron gave me a coffee cup for my birthday when I was a teen (I grew up on coffee too – they said it would stunt my growth, but I suspect that by the time I passed six feet tall with size thirteen feet, it was wishful thinking) that said “Peace” on it in every major language in the world.

The sixties were a revelation for me. I saw people get hurt, even killed, even harmless young girls holding flowers, because they held opinions the government didn’t like and told other people about them, and because they chose to live their lives in ways other than their parent’s generation did, ways that generation considered “sinful”, immoral. I’ll also be the first to admit that with a young, very healthy body just chock-full of ridiculous amounts of testosterone – the world’s most powerful “stupid drug” as far as I know – the “free love” idea was at least as attractive to me as a lot of the other philosophies going around then. Remember, this was when bikinis and miniskirts, hell, micro-miniskirts first came out! Bras were burned, and I walked into a lot of things – walls, trees, pedestrians – for a few years. Anyway, by this time I had read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and I wanted to go shake these uniformed and uninformed idiots and ask them exactly how they thought they were helping America while spitting on everything the Founders and succeeding generations had believed in and fought and died for, including a number of my own relatives and ancestors. And now including my brother and me. Also, like everyone, I just didn’t understand this Vietnam “police action” idea any more than I did the Korean one, so I could see where people might want at least a reasonable explanation (the domino theory was not a reasonable explanation), and people had a right to choose anyway. They especially had a right to demand that explanation, though – it said so right there in the Constitution of the United States and elsewhere in the law. They never got it, though. There were a lot of explanations we never got.
Still, I joined up. It was a family thing. Even so, I decided to avoid killing as much as possible and maybe save a few lives if I could, so I went Hospital Corps. As it turned out, the only time I got shot at was in East Oakland while working civilian ambulance after I got out, but I was willing to go wherever Uncle Sam sent me. I had no say over which war zone they sent me to, and I figure even in retrospect that East Oakland counted as a war zone; it still does. Actually being in the military was the beginning of my education in government corruption. It continued and accelerated after I got out, when I worked as a drafter for a civilian contractor side by side with civil service. As the years passed, I met some politicians and rich people and learned even more. Then I started reading some real history – as opposed to the victor’s rewrites that the schools taught – and politics, the military-industrial complex and other things. I found out that the government had been corrupt back in Jefferson’s time, which was why he and Madison had included some of the things they did in the Constitution; that much made sense to me, finally.

Nowadays I still read a lot, and I think a lot. I still have the testosterone, but for a time it came out of a bottle because the medications I have to take for the nerve damage, the pain, and other problems destroy it (I just ignore it now). Besides, I more or less got used to it, and it isn’t so much in the driver’s seat anymore, though I don’t think that ever goes away entirely.  I’m not so healthy anymore. I am still proud at least of our ideals, and of our Founding Documents and the wonderful ideas they lay down, which are there for as much of eternity as humanity has, even if we are not. I’ve watched the military-industrial-banking complex take over most of the government a little bit at a time, then watched it join forces with a network they needed – the so-called “fundamentalist” and the cult fanatic evangelistic (and these people I knew well from Southern Texas) Christians, and then the rest of the corporate world – the more hidden part of things. Some time before George W. Bush, I began to get afraid. I had always hated politics; now I loathe it, and I keep thinking there must be a better way. It’s even worse than Smedley Butler and old Ike warned us about, and it happened in a way that no one had prepared for: There was an almost thirty year infiltration of the government by ultra right-wingers. The more reasonable-seeming of them slithered into government positions, some of them quite high, and some of them, to my surprise, were Democrats. You just can’t count on anything at all anymore. Then I watched George W. Bush actually steal two presidential elections, and I began writing. I have now seen a man who wasn’t even qualified get “sanitized” by the “Cartel” and elected President, I’ve seen him all but literally trample the Constitution and bring this country to the ragged edge of another Revolution after the Central Banking system (the Fed) and the corporations utterly destroyed the economy and the dollar. My country now hangs over the sharp edge of the precipice of Total Collapse by a thread, and the Cabal is standing there with a pair of scissors while the rest of us can do little but stand here and wait.

Over my lifetime of fifty-seven years, I have been: a Hospital Corpsman (the guy the Marines yell, “Medic! Medic!” for when they get hurt); a martial artist since age nine; a lifelong musician/singer/songwriter (I play almost anything with string or keys, percussion, some brass, and sing with 3 ¼ octave range); a paramedic and a few other things in the medical field, usually EMS; an electronics and mechanical design drafter, often in jobs that required a clearance anywhere from “company confidential” to “top secret”; a general laborer at everything from food service dishwasher, cook and whatever else they needed to road crew in a logging camp, to x-ray and lab assistant, to construction laborer, to bowling alley mechanic and general help, to handyman, to one-time private bodyguard, to landscaper, to pretty much you-name-it. I’ve gotten to see a lot of the country, and I’ve met a lot of different people, which is something I’ve always enjoyed. After all the things I’ve seen, and all I’ve learned and figured out, it absolutely amazes me how many people are stuck in the “America is always the good guy”, “America never lies to We the People”, “our elections are always fair”, etc., etc. ad nauseam mind-set. I grew out of that before I was in my mid-twenties, and I thought I had been a little slow.

Now I’ve watched the illegal disenfranchisement of huge segments of the population, the opening of re-segregation by the Supreme Court, the destruction of the labor unions, the dumbing down of the school system with an eye toward removing all public education, the takeover of most government regulatory agencies by fanatic demagogues and totally amoral industry insiders and crony, party partisans, the rise of the corporations at the expense of the economy and of We the People (too many of whom are now the working and overworked poor), and much more in this pattern, and now – now, to my heartbroken, incredulous disbelief, I have watched us attack and destroy, then occupy and rob a completely harmless country that had something the rich wanted, so they hijacked the government, lied to the people, and used our own faithful military to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent souls and they stole it; and Are stealing it. I watched our valiant military standing around guarding an opium crop, knowing it wasn’t going to any “legitimate” use. Now the liars and thieves want to do it all over again, but maybe this time they’ll get to use nukes, which the higher-ups and Israel are clearly just salivating to do. And at least as bad as all that, I’ve watched our military getting completely screwed by the Pentagon after multiple – too damned many! – tours in combat zones and after they got out, very often, again too often, with crippling injuries. I watched the shameful climb upwards of military suicides until they outnumber deaths by enemy fire! That says more to me about Command abuse of our soldiers than it says about the quality of my younger comrades-in-arms.

It appears that none of the “elites” who set these policies and strategies have ever seen the pictures of melted human beings in the remains of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the suffering and maimed children and the warped succeeding generations, the total devastation, they’ve never read the stories of the survivors, or about those who lived a little while, thinking those who had died were the lucky ones. Either that or those in charge of our country are truly monsters, with no souls, no compassion, no empathy, no – with nothing that would make them worthy even of the name human. As I’ve written elsewhere, the “elites” really don’t understand a lot of the powers they wield; they think a nuclear war, for instance, is something that can be won. For that matter, they have been poisoning huge portions of the biosphere in pursuit of their “Depopulation Agenda”, and they don’t seem to realize that if they destroy enough of it, the remainder may not be able to recover! That means that humanity, themselves included (I’m fairly sure), may well be one of the many species that are now sliding onto the lists of extinct species. They seem to think their wealth will protect them, even though no matter how much gold they have, they can’t eat it, or breathe it, or drink it, and if there is no more nontoxic food, no more potable water or breathable air, they will die along with the rest of us. If they manage to do this over the protests of We the People, and literally tens of millions of us are screaming as loudly as we can – though they will doubtless have the cooperation of the traitorous and cowardly Congress – then We the People, if we allow this government to continue to exist, if we do not withdraw our consent to be governed by them, we deserve everything the rest of the world has to say about us, and we cannot fault anything they do to us in self-defense any more than we could fault anyone for shooting a rabid dog they see stalking their children.

One way or another, we must break through the crony, propaganda-spouting media we used to count on for the information we needed, through the lies calling protesters and dissenters “traitors” when those are our patriots, through a government that is all too willing to use violence on those who disagree with it – and that is one of the most telling things about this government that says they are totally un-American! We must break through the stunned disbelief, the bovine, stuporous followers of television trance, the HAARP and other mind-control, their belief of all they’re told by professional liars, and WE. MUST. ACT!!  One way or another, we MUST act!

If we do not, if we cannot throw off the electronic chains, the poisoning of our minds and bodies by a knowing, murderous government and their corporate masters, brethren all, bloody-handed each and every one… If we cannot set aside all false divisions placed upon us for their use and act, decisively, together, we will, in the following months at most, lose all chance forever to be the free, loving, inventive, self-directed people we were meant to be.  George Orwell will have become a true oracle, Machiavelli a prophet, and a monster will be God. It will be almighty as far as those of us underfoot are concerned: all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-destroying.

The torches are lit, the evil spells are almost complete, the poisons are poured and waiting, the guns are loaded and aimed, the syringes filled with new diseases are filled and ready, the prisons stand with their doors open behind the barbed wire and guard towers, more invisible poisons are riding the ocean and air currents, raining from the skies and hiding in our food, and the Inquisitors have their instruments heated and waiting for tender flesh to rip and burn. There’s worse than that ready and waiting.

All they need now is us. We The People. Dedicated to… what was it again? Oh yes, another thing they disagree with: all men are not created equal: the Rich are the self-proclaimed Elite, born to rule or dispose of their inferiors – us – as they see fit. One way or another, there will be one Last Call. Who will answer? You?

Ian MacLeod

Oregon

September 5th, 2007                                                                                                          Updated/Edited October 5th, 2012

Originally posted to Ian MacLeod on Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 06:45 PM PDT, at Daily KOS at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/09/05/381130/-Who-Will-Answer

10 Signs that you are fully AWAKE

I will make an addition to this list of signs of wakefulness:

You recognize that we have been programmed for centuries by the Powers That Be to be divided and separated into small controllable groups. That words and ideologies have been used for generations to brainwash the masses into thinking that they are different than others, better than others- whether it's through religious, political or philosophical doctrine. You recognize that we are all ONE people and that nothing divides us, that we are all equal regardless of race, skin colour, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or philosophical background. 

Monday, September 3, 2012

10 Signs That You're Fully Awake

Activist Post

Isn't it obvious that there is a significant global awakening happening? Just as the Mayans predicted so many years ago, the apocalypse would become apparent in 2012. But many misinterpret the apocalypse to be the end of the world, when in fact it actually means an "un-covering, a revelation of something hidden."

As many continue to argue the accuracy of the Mayan calendar, it can no longer be argued that a great many people are finally becoming aware of what has been hidden from them for so long. Of course this awakening is not an overnight process. It takes time to peel away the many layers of lies to get to the core of the ultimate truths.

It would be beyond pretentious for us to claim to know all of the secrets of the universe. We don't. Everyday we are humbled by what we don't yet know.

However, it is becoming clearer by the day what isn't true. And by that measure alone, it is possible to determine if you're one of the people beginning to wake up.

Here are ten signs you may be fully awake:

1. You know there's no meaningful difference between major political parties (Democrats and Republicans): It's so easy to get caught up the left-right debate and believe there's a difference between the two major political parties. However, debate is one thing, while actions are another. By their deeds you shall know them, and it is indisputable that there is no significant difference between political parties when it comes to action on the most important issues. Even hardened ideologues like John Cusack are beginning to wake up.

2. You understand that the Federal Reserve, or international central banking more broadly, is the engine of our economic problems: Debt slavery is the totalitarian force that threatens all of humanity, not some temporary political puppet or some greedy Wall Street trader. When a small group of people have the ability to create wealth out of nothing and charge interest on it, they have the ability to enslave the planet to their ownership despite what type of government a country claims to have.

3. You know that preemptive war is never necessary:  When we realize that self-defense is the only acceptable form of violence, then we become awakened human beings. To suggest war because someone is different from you, or they may pose a threat in the future is simply ludicrous. And when did the idea of bombing civilians become humanitarian? No one wants war except for the immoral creeps that benefit from it.

4. You know that you're being systematically poisoned, how, by whom, and why: Admittedly, there's a lot to learn in terms of how we are secretly being poisoned. But the fact remains that we are being systematically poisoned, and it is likely for the deliberate purpose of dumbing us down and, ultimately, culling the population. Who could believe anyone is so evil to do that to innocent people, you may ask. Well, once you begin to seek the answer to that question, you're one step closer to enlightenment.

5. You understand that government can never legislate morality, nor should they: When you realize the role of government is only to protect your liberty and work for the well being of the citizens, you're awakened. There should be one simple law regulating morality: Do no harm. Thus, it's impossible for the government to enforce morality with guns, cages, and taxes because those clearly cause severe harm to your liberty and our well-being.

6. You know that the mainstream media is wholly owned and manipulated by the ruling elite: A dwindling number of people still actually believe what they hear coming from the establishment media as if it's gospel, even when they already accept that they are bought and paid for by the elite controllers. Yet, recognizing that they are nothing more than a propaganda machine and a form of mind control are the first steps in being able to critically think beyond the scientific messaging they broadcast.

7. You know that your neighbors are not your enemy even if you have fierce ideological disagreements: This is perhaps the most difficult thing to overcome in the awakening process. But it's vital to understand that your neighbors have been indoctrinated and hypnotized like the rest of the us, until someone helps shine a light on inconsistencies in our thoughts and beliefs. Most of their ideas are not their own. They are suffering just like the rest of us. It's okay to condemn their actions if they're harmful, but those who are awake will not give up on spreading information that can enlighten those who might still be in the dark. None of us were born "awake" and all of us can learn even more.

8. You know that the endgame is one-world control of planet Earth: Once you understand that the endgame for the ruling elite is to have complete control of all vital facets of society through a global government, one-world currency, international armed forces, and so on, it is simple to see through the lies and propaganda surrounding even the most confusing world events. You will never go back to sleep when you fully accept this reality.

9. You recognize that there are esoteric powers manipulating our physical world: Whether you're a religious or spiritual person, scientific or just plain curious, there are many theories about an invisible force at play in all of this. Obviously it's impossible to prove exactly what it is. You may not want to believe it, but the ruling elite takes their occult rituals deadly serious. And they likely know something we don't. Just by keeping an open mind about this possibility, you'll forever keep an open mind about the things we can actually see, hear, taste and touch. Current science has shown that we can only "see" what the visible light spectrum reveals, which amounts to the tiniest fraction of all that can theoretically be seen within the full spectrum of energy. Part of any awakening is realizing that there is much more that is possible than impossible.

10. The power to change the world rests with you and you alone: For too long people have believed themselves to be weak, or relied on others to change the world for them. You'll know that you're fully awake when you realize that you have infinite power to change the world by simply living the change you want to see. First, you have to identify the principles that you believe in and then go out and live by them. If just a small minority took steps to do this, it would shake the establishment to its core.

What kind of world do you want to live in?

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Do We Dare Keep Our Hearts Open?  

I have pondered this question for years.  I have waxed and waned in both directions, occasionally cutting myself off from the flow of the negative to guard my bruised and battered spirit, taking respite in burying my head in the sand for a while.  And for a while the view from under the dirt is numbing and deliciously peaceful, but deep inside you know that that blind sense of calm tranquillity is not real.

Then the intermission is over and it's time to return to the surface, to wash the sand out of my eyes and take a look around. 

The Controllers of the main stream media "News" focuses  continually on the murder and mayhem and the scenes of violence and destruction, constantly bombarding our hearts with utter blackness. They guide your attention to feed your fears- fears that they instilled in you to begin with.

The underlying message is "There is no hope here" because people without hope just give up.

Our hearts are our guides.  The cabal knows this, and they take every opportunity to desensitize our hearts to the evil and wrongness of the world.  They have created division to keep people separate and used the media to continuously drown us with their images. Movies, TV, Video games, Music, Sports...  They have created distrust to keep people divided. They have created alienation and prejudice to keep people in distrust. They have created distrust to fill people with animosity and indifference.

The Powers That Be, for centuries and millennia, have  divided people by race and colour, by religion and philosophy, by political ideologies.  They have spent centuries telling the people "THOSE people are different.  THEY are not like you. THEY are wrong and you are right. THEY are not worthy".  

The time has come for us to analyse the words that we have had programmed into our society and our consciousness to divide and separate us.  Words like Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Capitalist, Socialist, Marxist, Communist, Catholic, Christian, Jew, Agnostic, Muslim, Hindu, Atheist, Sikh, Pagan, Coptic, Messianic, Orthodox, Extremist, Gay, Straight, Bi, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Red, Mulatto...

These are man made words, created to control the masses. They have created a fiction into which we are forced to use these words to define ourselves, creating a paradigm of right and wrong, good and bad, and to fire up volatile emotions- which makes humans easy to manipulate.

United we stand, Divided we fall.  ...and that's the point, isn't it?

Getting back to the question: Do we dare Keep our Hearts Open? ... Yes, we must.  There might be times when we need to take a break from the harsh manipulation of our society, from the onslaught of negative imagery that is constantly bombarding us from every side, but even if our eyes are closed, our hearts need to remain open.  Our hearts are our guides.  Our hearts can see through false words and the make-believe walls that have been inserted into our society.  Our hearts see that a child is a child, regardless of his or her skin colour, race or what religion their parent follows.  Our hearts feel the suffering of others and guide us to help those in peril or need. 

Our hearts create the field that ties all humans together.  Our hearts tell us that we are ONE. 

Our Hearts need to remain open, for without that openness of our hearts we cut ourselves off from the world around us. Without an open heart, we will not be able to move above and beyond the imaginary divisions that the Cabal have created to cut us off.

If your heart is closed, then you will never truly see or feel the real world and you will always be tied down by the false reality of the controllers.

Yes, I Dare to Keep my Heart Open. 

Do We Dare Keep Our Hearts Open?

by Zen Gardner

Funny how things evolve in the pursuit of truth. We’re emotional beings. That’s why the matrix makes everything out to be so cold and scientific.

When I watch certain movies or musical presentations or see a touching human moment I get emotional. I can’t help it. People are emotional, I’m emotional, and I feel them.

When we stop feeling we’re through. Empathy is what separates us from the reptilian mindset that is destroying humanity and our planetary home. We must never be like them, consciously or subconsciously.

Why Feelings?

Like you, I’m just observing and empathetic. It often hurts but it feels good at the same time. It’s the stuff that life is made of and we need to feel alive and not be ashamed of it.

We just need to connect. It’s fundamental. I don’t listen to a lot of music as it affects me so strongly. Especially unknown tunes, I don’t trust them. Same with movies, I don’t like to be overwhelmed or taken places without my permission or knowing the purpose. But, like you, I still do at times. And sometimes it’s a great experience, or at the least a good learning one.

Way more important is the drama of life itself and what is playing out in the world around us. How do we react, or should I say handle our reactions? Do we agree to shut down our empathy for those who are suffering or in need? Do we just stand idly by and suppress the natural outrage that tries to surface when we see cruelty and injustice all around us?

Are those kinds of feelings prompts from our consciousness that need heeding and expressing instead of suppressing?

I think we all know the answer to that.

Keeping Our Lights Burning and Chins Up, In Spite of the Outlook

There are a lot of choices each of us make everyday, like our diets and other “habits” and their eventual consequences. The bigger challenge is our thoughts, emotions and resultant actions. And in the world we live today, a lot of very unsavory news is coming at us all the time and it takes its toll. It can get us down and discouraged if we’re not careful.

The good news is we’re always potentially in control and can take the reins any time we see fit. We just have to raise our consciousness levels and respond accordingly.

I know, easy to say. But it’s true.

When I look at the horrific effects of DU (depleted uranium) on the children in Iraq and Palestine (and I make myself look…we need to see it for what it is) and the white phosphorus dumps on innocent Palestinians, or the long term Dow and Monsanto chemical warfare deformities of the violently assaulted Vietnamese population, or see another autistic child knowing it was induced by vaccines, my heart goes into overload.

You don’t want this reality in your world.

The rows of coffins (many lined with or simply carrying drugs from Afghanistan, don’t be fooled) of sacrificed American young men and women returning from an engineered deliberately unwinnable war arena makes me nauseous as well.

Then you get into chemtrails, GMOs, Fukushima and the rest, never mind things like mind control and ritual abuse, and you can really lose it.

But I’m not going to close my heart. In fact, I need to do the opposite.

There’s strength in empathy.

The Agenda is to Desensitize

Feelings are powerful motivators. They’re also transmitters. We can’t afford to shut down, no matter what the barrage of degrading information the PTBs throw at us. That’s why information and knowledge are so important. When you understand the “who, what, how and why” it’s happening you can intelligently distance yourself from the wrong type of impact and maintain your conscious awareness.

But it’s OK to let it hit home. It is grievous, and that’s part of our experience here. We also know there’s much more beyond all this that keeps us bouyant.

They say many nurses become callous having seen so much suffering. They no longer feel as they once did, they think they can’t afford to. I don’t know, it wouldn’t be easy seeing that kind of suffering day after day. But getting hardened is another thing.

Much of the World is Traumatized

Remember that whole countries live in that condition of seeing suffering constantly. How would you like to be an Afghani, an Iraqi or a Libyan, watching your people be slaughtered and the world around you trashed by people saying they’re saving you? How would you like to live in Iran or Syria knowing you’d done nothing wrong and the bullies of the world were spreading lies about you and threatening to invade and destroy your nation and possibly your family?

Meanwhile the terrorist charade continues its march subduing whole populations through media fear campaigns and staged terror events. Even those not at war are suddenly also in the arena with phantom terrorist bogeymen around every corner to justify fascist clampdowns.

The reality is the bad guys are the ones pointing the finger at the innocent whom they want to rule. At home and abroad. A total and complete lie and reversal of what the world is being told.

We Cannot Succumb

We have to keep our loving touch. We have to keep our sense of humor. We have to keep our sanity in this wicked, insane environment.

While all reason has been turned on its head to give us this Orwellian nightmare, we cannot succumb to their barrage of twisted lies, inferences, intimidations and tricky false assumptions and deductions. We must stay alive and awake.

We cannot sleep like the masses who’ve refused to see the painful truth. Ours is to see, feel, express and empathize.

True consciousness cannot do otherwise.

And wise, loving actions that make a difference will naturally follow.

Keep on daring to love.

Much love, Zen

www.zengardner.com

You can read the original article HERE

Predatory Government

Lets begin at the end of the article, because for me, this is EXACTLY what I have been talking about.  But not just Americans.  Canadians, Australians, British, Germans, Israelis... every person living on this planet needs to stand up and take back their lives and their country.

What have we got to lose that we won’t lose anyway if we continue silent? The only way to change anything in America, is to once again be who we were born to be – Americans!

Predatory Government

Soldierhugs has recently invited new article writers into the fold here. The below article is from a very knowledgeable patriot and Veteran of our Military who comes from a long line of Military service Veterans in his family. I am proud the introduce one our new authors Ian MacLeod, and his first article post on Soldierhugs.

 Hugs, Aaron




When the Founding Fathers were wrestling with their ideals, their conscience´s and their own fears, cudgeling their imaginations and drawing on a wide, well-educated experience, they could not have imagined the world we live in now. They could, however, imagine fanatics and others who would want, and try, to take power for themselves, and therefore away from the people. They were none of them naïve idealists who did not understand the world, business, war, diplomacy, philosophy and politics, as well as other cultures. They brought all of this to the Continental Congress with them in the document they finally created, and it shows. They were clearly men of courage: having signed their names to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, they signed their own death warrants if they lost, and they were taking on one of the most powerful empires on Earth. Nonetheless, while they could easily have made the Constitution ten times as long as it is and attempted to regulate a great deal more of business as well as personal behavior, they did not.


It was their belief that people should and could regulate themselves in their personal behavior as they chose so long as they did no harm by it to others. The group included Christians, but it had a preponderance of what was called “free thinkers.” They interpreted the Bible for themselves if they chose to live by it, and regardless, they lived their lives as they chose, including with reasonable consideration for those around them. They wrote the Constitution so that, first, others could do the same, and second, so that it remained a living document, notwithstanding the ossified opinions of Antonin Scalia and his ilk: it can evolve. They knew that times would change, and while good and evil do not change, how they are dealt with does, as do a great many things. Looking at what they did not do is as instructive as what they did do.


To them, the government was nothing sacred – it was a creation of human beings for the benefit of human beings, to be changed as necessary when it no longer adequately served the needs of the people. What was, and is, sacred are the concepts of equality, freedom, liberty – of human rights – that are enshrined within the Constitution. They were not so foolish as to believe that everyone had the same potential and abilities, and that is not what the words say, though some would have it so. They merely believed that everyone had the right to attempt to fulfill whatever potential they had without being stepped on by those who had achieved wealth or had gotten together in a cabal that held all the power, and had done it first. They were also creatures of their times, and did not include women, people of color or some others – however, they also did not specifically exclude them. Times have changed, as they knew would happen, and we – most of us, that is – now recognize that, within the limits set by body size, a woman can do anything a man can do save sire a child, just as a man can do anything a woman can save bear and nurse one. Down all the long ages we have been discounting a huge portion of our own potential with misogynistic ideas of male superiority, and finally, most of us have grown up enough to grow past such prejudices, which are now held by a group of intellectually anachronistic knuckle-draggers who want to drag us all back to a comfortable past where white skin and a penis – and all the wealth they can steal – confer mastery over everyone else, and again relegate most of the human race to servitude. The rest of us much prefer equal partners, or even our betters.


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Do Not Divide

*Standing Ovation*

As I have said over and over, every person that knows even one small fact has a responsibility to share that knowledge with everyone.  Every person has something that they can do.  Big things, small things- it doesn't matter.

Stand up and stand together. Drop the egos at the door and just pick up and get it done.  Stop the back seat driving from your couch. This is not just about you- this is about the entire world.

Do Not Divide.

It doesn't matter if you are Christian, Buddhist, Pagan, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Hari Krishna, Druid, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness or Jew.

It doesn't matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Liberal, Capitalist, Leftist, Socialist, Marxist, Communist, or Anarchist.

It doesn't matter if you are White, Black, Brown, Yellow, Red , Blue, Pink, Green, or Orange.

We are HUMAN.
We are One Species.
We live on One Planet.
We Are the SAME.

Do Not Divide.

We Must Unite.

Thank you "22" for writing this excellent reminder.

OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

The simple fact is, as human beings, regardless of any difference, we now together must all rise and stand hand in hand once and for all. If we do not, the misery and theft of your personal belongings, time and energies will carry on and become even worse, a whole lot worse. The Internet is awash with whistleblowers, commentators, researchers and bloggers whom bit by bit and together have worked and stated, there are agendas that those who think they control the world have and are trying to put into place. We know what they are doing we know what they want to do; well no more excuses for our lack of action our apathy. We must stand now and finally put these people where they belong, We have to come together, have to stop and really listen to one another, to not “judge unless he be judged”, to have, compassion, love and respect from those who stand and place themselves first in the line of danger, WE ALL want the right answer’s to know what the real plans are that consistently go on behind the scenes, people have to stop with the childish ranting’s and cry baby calls when they do not hear an answer they wanted. What do people not understand about STRATEGY! Do your own research an think for yourselves and ask yourself “If I was a White Hat or a Top Brass in the Military what would I do or be doing, how would I communicate as not be discovered?  The information is given that can be given, and it’s beginning to flood out now. Do you all actually grasp the magnitude of the situation, this isn’t one country this is 7 billion odd people on the line! Plans alter and change, they are fluid, make a move and somebody might counter act it, so you step back and decide on the next. We must all do our part, we all have skills so use them, think for yourself, act for yourself, don’t wait for someone to do it for you, If there is a problem in your area, ask what it is, what you can do and do it, don’t look for praise or ask somebody else to do it for you, or argue because you’ve heard different on some forum. You can do it, your are capable, you are a human, with the brain and body to do anything you want to do. We must stop the bickering, the arguing, the slander, the fights and the separation. For as long as we act that way we do not deserve our freedom, for what would we do with it once we got it carry on that way?  Stop the fear They DO NOT have the capability to come and get everyone in the world do not be scarred of them, they are cowards, if we stand and stand together now, we are and will win and bring this to a hault. Stop thinking negative!

PUT AWAY THE FEAR, STAND AND CLAIM YOUR FREEDOM, WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF THE STARS. AND NEVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU DIFFERENT.

WE ARE HUMANS WITH THE ABILITY TO MAKE ANY AND EVERY DREAM COME TRUE.

I love this planet and I love you all.

Your friend: 22

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