Morality is a highly misunderstood component of human
nature. Some people believe they can create moral guidelines from thin
air based on their personal biases and prejudices. Some people believe
that morality comes from the force of bureaucracy and government law.
Still, others believe that there is no such thing; that morality is a
facade created by men in order to better grease the wheels of society.
All of these world views discount the powerful scientific and
psychological evidence surrounding Natural Law — the laws that human
beings form internally due to inherent conscience, regardless of
environmental circumstances. When a person finally grasps inborn
morality, the whole of the world comes into focus. The reality is that
we are not born “good” or “evil.” Rather, we are all born with the
capacity for good AND evil, and this internal battle stays with us until
the end of our days.
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Every waking moment we are given a choice, a test of our free will,
to be ruled by desire and fear, or to do what we know at our very core
is right. When a man silences his inner voice, the results can be
terrible for him and those around him. When an entire culture silences
its inner voice, the results can be catastrophic. Such a shift in the
moral compass of a society rarely takes place in a vacuum. There is
always a false shepherd, a corrupt leadership that seeks to rule.
Rulership, though, is difficult in the face of an awake population that
respects integrity and honor. Therefore criminals must follow these
specific steps in order to take power:
Pretend To Be Righteous: They must first sell the public on
the idea that they hold the exact same values of natural law as everyone
else. The public must at first believe that the criminal leaders are
pure in their motives and have the best interests of the nation at
heart, even if they secretly do not.
Pretend To Be Patriotic: Despots often proclaim an untarnished
love of their homeland and the values that it was founded upon.
However, what they really seek is to become a living symbol of the
homeland. They insist first that they are the embodiment of the national
legacy, and then they attempt to change that national legacy entirely. A
corrupt government uses the ideals of a society to acquire a foothold,
and when they have gained sufficient control, they dictate to that
society a new set of ideals that are totally contrary to the original.
Offer To “Fix” The Economy: Tyrants do not like it when the
citizens under them are self sufficient or economically independent.
They will use whatever methods are at their disposal including
subversive legislation, fiat currency creation, corporate monopoly and
even engineered financial collapse in order to remove the public’s
ability to function autonomously. They will begin this process under the
guise that the current less-controlled and less-centralized system is
“not safe enough,” and that they have a better way to ensure prosperity.
Offer To Lend A Hand: Once the population has been removed
from its own survival imperative and is for the most part helpless, the
criminal leadership moves in and offers to “help” using taxation and
money creation, slowly siphoning the wealth from the middle class and
raising prices through inflation. Eventually, everyone will be “equal”;
equally poor that is. In the end, the whole nation will see the
rulership as indispensable, for without them, the economy would no
longer exist and tragedy would ensue.
Create External Fear: Once in place, the criminal leadership
then conjures an enemy for the people, or multiple enemies for the
people. The goal here is to create a catalyst for mass fear. When the
majority of people are afraid of an external threat, they will embrace
the establishment as a vital safeguard. When a society becomes convinced
that it cannot take care of itself economically, little coaxing is
required to convince them that they are also not competent enough to
take care of their own defense. At this point, the establishment has
free reign to dissolve long cherished freedoms while the masses are
distracted by a mysterious threat hiding somewhere over the horizon.
Create Internal Fear: They move the threat from over the
horizon, right to the public’s front door, or even within their own
home. The enemy is no longer a foreigner. Now, the enemy is the average
looking guy two houses over, or an outspoken friend, or even a
dissenting family member. The enemy is all around them, according to the
establishment. The public is sold on the idea that the sacrifice needed
in order to combat such a pervasive “threat” is necessarily high.
Sell The People On The Virtues Of Moral Relativism: Now that
the populace is willing to forgo certain liberties for the sake of
security, they have been softened up enough for reprogramming to begin.
The establishment will tell the people that the principles they used to
hold so dear are actually weaknesses that make them vulnerable to the
enemy. In order to defeat an enemy so monstrous, they claim, we must
become monstrous ourselves. We must be willing to do ANYTHING, no matter
how vile or contrary to natural law, in order to win.
Honesty must be replaced with deceit. Dissent must be replaced with
silence. Peace must be replaced with violence. The independent should be
treated with suspicion. The outspoken treated with contempt. Women and
children are no longer people to be protected, but targets to be
eliminated. The innocent dead become collateral damage. The innocent
living become informants to be tortured and exploited. Good men are
labeled cowards because they refuse to “do what needs to be done,” while
evil men are labeled heroes for having the “strength of will” to
abandon their conscience.
Thus, the criminal leadership makes once honorable citizens
accomplices in the crime. The more disgusting the crime, the more apt
the people will be to defend it and the system in general, simply
because they have been inducted into the dark ceremony of moral
ambiguity.
The actions of the state become the actions of all society. A single
minded collectivist culture is born, one in which every person is a
small piece of the greater machine. And, that which the machine is
guilty of, every man is guilty of. Therefore, it becomes the ultimate
and absurd purpose of each person within the system to DENY the crime,
deny the guilt, and make certain that the machine continues to function
for generations to come.
Though we have already passed though most of the above stages,
Americans are still not yet quite indoctrinated into the realm of moral
relativism. This is, though, swiftly changing.
The Current Sales Pitch
Just take a look at the attitude of the Barack Obama Administration
and the mainstream media towards Edward Snowden and his recent asylum
approved by Russia.
The White House, rather than admitting wrongdoing in its support for
the NSA’s mass surveillance of American citizens without warrant, or
even attempting to deny the existence of the PRISM program, is now
instead trying to promote NSA spying as essential to our well being, and
wag a shaming finger at Snowden and the Russian government for damaging
their domestic spy network. Obama lamented on Russia’s stance, stating
that
their thinking is “backwards.”
Did I miss something here? I’m no fan of the Russian oligarchy, but
shouldn’t Obama and most of the NSA (let alone every other Federal
alphabet agency) be sitting in a dark hole somewhere awaiting trial for
violating the Constitution on almost every level? Yet, we are instead
supposed to despise Snowden for exposing the crime they committed and
distrust any country that happens to give him shelter?
Due to public outcry, Obama has attempted to pacify critics by
announcing plans to make NSA mass surveillance “more transparent”.
First, I would like to point out that he did not offer to end NSA spying
on Americans without warrant, which is what a President with any ounce
of integrity would have done. Second, Obama’s calls for more
transparency have come at the exact same time as the NSA announces its
plans to remove 90 percent of its systems administrators
to make sure another “Snowden incident” does not occur.
Does this sound like an agency that plans on becoming “more transparent”?
Second, would Obama have called for ANY transparency over the NSA
whatsoever if Snowden had never come forward? Of course not! The
exposure of the crime has led to lies and empty placation, nothing more.
In the meantime, numerous other political miscreants have hit the
media trail, campaigning for the NSA as well as other surveillance
methods, bellowing to the rafters over the absolute necessity of
domestic spy programs. Fifteen years ago, the government would have
tried to sweep all of this under the rug. Today, they want to
acclimate us to the inevitability of the crime, stating that
we had better get used to it.
Their position? That Snowden’s whistleblowing put America at risk. My
questions is, how? How did Snowden’s exposure of an unConstitutional
and at bottom illegal surveillance program used against hundreds of
millions of innocent Americans do our country harm? Is it the position
of the White House that the truth is dangerous, and deceit is safety?
I suspect this is the case considering the recent treatment of
military whistleblower Bradley Manning, who has been accused by some to
have
“aided Al Qaeda’s recruiting efforts” through his actions.
How did Manning do this? By releasing information, including
battlefield videos, that were hidden from the public containing proof of
U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Perhaps I’m just a traditionalist and not hip to modern diplomatic
strategy, but I would think that if you don’t want to be blamed for war
crimes, then you probably shouldn’t commit war crimes. And, if you don’t
want the enemy to gain new recruits, you should probably avoid killing
innocent civilians and pissing off their families. Just a thought.
So, just to keep track, U.S. government commits war crimes, but is
the good guy. Bradley Manning exposes war crimes, and is the bad guy.
Moral relativism at its finest. Moving on…
The shift towards moral bankruptcy is being implemented in the
financial world as well. Investors, hedge funds, and major banks now
surge into the stock market every time the private Federal Reserve hints
that it may continue fiat stimulus. When bad news hits the mainstream
feeds, people playing the Dow casino actually cheer with glee, exactly
because bad economic news means more QE from the Fed. They know that the
Fed is artificially propping up the markets. The Fed openly admits that
it does this. And they know that our fiscal system is hanging by a thin
thread. And you know what, very few of them care.
The Fed created the collapse with easy money and manipulated interest rates, and now, some people cheer them as the
heroes of the U.S. financial structure.
The American narrative is quickly changing. There has long been
criminality and degeneracy within our government and the corporate
cartels surrounding it, but I believe what we are witnessing today is
the final step in the metamorphosis that is totalitarianism. The last
stage accelerates when the average citizen is not just complicit in the
deeds of devils, but when he becomes a devil himself. When Americans
froth and stomp in excitement for the carnival of death, and treat the
truth as poison, then the transformation will be complete.
-Brandon Smith
A biographer of former President Ronald Reagan said some scenes in "Lee
Daniels' The Butler" may amount to what he describes as "Hollywood
malpractice" if they turn out to be based on anything other than facts.
