Tyranny vs. Freedom
The long slow consistent erosion of our civil liberties has been going on for decades and seems to have accelerated in recent years. The article describes an excellent example of the governments lack of accountability to the people for its actions. The problem is not a superficial aberration but the result of the exacerbation of a fundamental tension in our society which will eventually destroy the United States as we know it.
Historically, that tension has been between the progressive and traditional elements in our society. When viewed in light of political currents worldwide, they both seemed fairly centrist, capitalist, democratic, and libertarian. In fact they need to be centrist to avoid the tyrannical practices of the far right - Fascism - and the far left - Communist dictatorship.
In reaction to the alleged hypocrisy of their parents generation, the baby boomers coming of age in the 60s presented a hyper-progressive alternative to the status quo. The anti-establishment movement personified by the hippies relied heavily on the thinking of Rousseau and Marx and declared a new independence based on the three cornerstones of an enlightened society, Atheism, Communism, and Free Love. This counter-culture movement extolled the virtues of communal life; getting back to the garden was idolized and encouraged.
Having made a powerful and profound statement through both peaceful and violent civil disobedience, many hippies decided that their efforts might be more fruitful by working for change within the system than against it. They went on with their lives, got law degrees and found a path into the establishment. Many of the New Left have finally risen to positions of authority. Good for them. They havent forgotten their original ideological tendencies.
In the meantime, the neo-conservative movement was quietly building its forces and infiltrating government, business and academia with a Globalist agenda in an antidisestablishmentarian reaction to the ground-shaking effect of the counter-culture movement. Encouraging globalization of markets, communications, and trade they have partially succeeded in creating a global community that supersedes political boundaries and is overseen by a super-wealthy oligarchy of overlord/benefactors.
The traditional roles of the Republican and Democratic parties have been quietly usurped by the Globalist and the New-Left agendas. The Republican party used to be the protector of individual liberty and traditional values, and proponents of less government and lower taxes. Today they have become the patsies for the Globalist oligarchy in its pursuit of maximizing shareholder wealth and control of markets and labor.
The Democratic party used to be the protector of the common man, the worker, labor unions, and civil liberties, even if this meant larger government and social programs. Today it has become the launching pad for the New-Left international socialist agenda of one-world government, redefinition of what constitutes a family, abolition of traditional religion, redistribution of wealth, and social engineering.
The irony of the inevitable result of the essential tension between progressive and traditional elements in society is that both the Republicans and Democrats have become advocates for authoritative global power and repression of individual freedom resulting in the disintegration of the middle class, repression of the poor, dissolution of national sovereignty, control of the media, and the maximization of power in the hands of the few at the top.
As the tabloid mentality of the American media-consuming public continues to be fed hysteria and panic through orchestrated crises, (terrorism 9-11 Fraud, immigration, epidemics, drug abuse, domestic spying, etc.) and as the moral and social fabric of our society continues to unravel, thread by thread, the increasingly dictatorial powers will justify their actions in the name of the common good and national security.
The disintegration of the traditional family, widespread recreational drug use, the burgeoning of alternative religions, disenfranchisement of the working class, redefinition of the appropriate use of our bodies, irrational xenophobia, exportation of manufacturing industries, and the disengagement of the populous from the political process combine to further the authoritarian agendas of both parties by providing a pretext for government intervention into our lives.
As each new crisis unfolds and we hand over our freedoms for the perception of security, we abandon the principles of self-determination and liberty our nation was founded on. Eventually, the authoritarian powers (of the Right or the Left) which we ourselves will have condoned, will use the extensive powers at their command to reshape society, by force if necessary, to satisfy their one-world objective of global socialism, military hegemony, social engineering, and economic dominance. The losers will be every one of us who did nothing while watching it all come to pass. Its not a question of which party or which candidate. It is a question of tyranny vs. freedom.
The long slow consistent erosion of our civil liberties has been going on for decades and seems to have accelerated in recent years. The article describes an excellent example of the governments lack of accountability to the people for its actions. The problem is not a superficial aberration but the result of the exacerbation of a fundamental tension in our society which will eventually destroy the United States as we know it.
Historically, that tension has been between the progressive and traditional elements in our society. When viewed in light of political currents worldwide, they both seemed fairly centrist, capitalist, democratic, and libertarian. In fact they need to be centrist to avoid the tyrannical practices of the far right - Fascism - and the far left - Communist dictatorship.
In reaction to the alleged hypocrisy of their parents generation, the baby boomers coming of age in the 60s presented a hyper-progressive alternative to the status quo. The anti-establishment movement personified by the hippies relied heavily on the thinking of Rousseau and Marx and declared a new independence based on the three cornerstones of an enlightened society, Atheism, Communism, and Free Love. This counter-culture movement extolled the virtues of communal life; getting back to the garden was idolized and encouraged.
Having made a powerful and profound statement through both peaceful and violent civil disobedience, many hippies decided that their efforts might be more fruitful by working for change within the system than against it. They went on with their lives, got law degrees and found a path into the establishment. Many of the New Left have finally risen to positions of authority. Good for them. They havent forgotten their original ideological tendencies.
In the meantime, the neo-conservative movement was quietly building its forces and infiltrating government, business and academia with a Globalist agenda in an antidisestablishmentarian reaction to the ground-shaking effect of the counter-culture movement. Encouraging globalization of markets, communications, and trade they have partially succeeded in creating a global community that supersedes political boundaries and is overseen by a super-wealthy oligarchy of overlord/benefactors.
The traditional roles of the Republican and Democratic parties have been quietly usurped by the Globalist and the New-Left agendas. The Republican party used to be the protector of individual liberty and traditional values, and proponents of less government and lower taxes. Today they have become the patsies for the Globalist oligarchy in its pursuit of maximizing shareholder wealth and control of markets and labor.
The Democratic party used to be the protector of the common man, the worker, labor unions, and civil liberties, even if this meant larger government and social programs. Today it has become the launching pad for the New-Left international socialist agenda of one-world government, redefinition of what constitutes a family, abolition of traditional religion, redistribution of wealth, and social engineering.
The irony of the inevitable result of the essential tension between progressive and traditional elements in society is that both the Republicans and Democrats have become advocates for authoritative global power and repression of individual freedom resulting in the disintegration of the middle class, repression of the poor, dissolution of national sovereignty, control of the media, and the maximization of power in the hands of the few at the top.
As the tabloid mentality of the American media-consuming public continues to be fed hysteria and panic through orchestrated crises, (terrorism 9-11 Fraud, immigration, epidemics, drug abuse, domestic spying, etc.) and as the moral and social fabric of our society continues to unravel, thread by thread, the increasingly dictatorial powers will justify their actions in the name of the common good and national security.
The disintegration of the traditional family, widespread recreational drug use, the burgeoning of alternative religions, disenfranchisement of the working class, redefinition of the appropriate use of our bodies, irrational xenophobia, exportation of manufacturing industries, and the disengagement of the populous from the political process combine to further the authoritarian agendas of both parties by providing a pretext for government intervention into our lives.
As each new crisis unfolds and we hand over our freedoms for the perception of security, we abandon the principles of self-determination and liberty our nation was founded on. Eventually, the authoritarian powers (of the Right or the Left) which we ourselves will have condoned, will use the extensive powers at their command to reshape society, by force if necessary, to satisfy their one-world objective of global socialism, military hegemony, social engineering, and economic dominance. The losers will be every one of us who did nothing while watching it all come to pass. Its not a question of which party or which candidate. It is a question of tyranny vs. freedom.
Her corn silk coif collapsed and splashed across golden dunes settling in her cleavage like autumn leaves in a bronze bird bath. Glancing up at him, her gently crows-feeted eyes betrayed the vain attempts at conjugal bliss that continued to haunt her.
Without a word, he brushed her hair away from her ample breasts. His hesitant fingers, chisled with years of unfulfilled effort, glided across the fertile landscape, arriving at her supple nape. Carressing her with profound longing and regret, he recalled his summer of first love at 14. It nagged him from behind a subtle heavy curtain of emptiness in his heart. Maybe this time, maybe this one.
Without a word, he brushed her hair away from her ample breasts. His hesitant fingers, chisled with years of unfulfilled effort, glided across the fertile landscape, arriving at her supple nape. Carressing her with profound longing and regret, he recalled his summer of first love at 14. It nagged him from behind a subtle heavy curtain of emptiness in his heart. Maybe this time, maybe this one.
she wore a loose white blouse that hung over her breasts like vestments on a priest. tight blue jeans advertised her fertile and youthful pelvis despite her 36 splendid years. they took a booth in the smoking section and ordered. she spoke with a duranguera lilt ornamenting her excellent Spanish. long silky bituminous waves, sparkling blue eyes, and an aristocratic straightness in her nose, gave her an air of refined mixing of bloods: French, Aztec, Spanish.
a girlish hesitancy reined in her feminine power thus beguiling and seducing her listener simultaneously. she lied to him effortlessly about her disinterestedness and torpor. catching himself almost drawn into her charms and deceit his practiced mindfulness rescued him from his self-indulgent ego. "to deceive rather than to be deceived." the art of deception, wasn't that what he had learned in "The Art of War"?
"Feign disinterestedness, challenge her to win my attention and curiosity, use silence to my advantage" - he thought to himself and assumed a casual air of aloof boredom. noticing his focus move lazily behind her as she put forth about her boring job, she grew imperceptibly nervous and insecure in her attractiveness. the slightest change in her facial expression, or perhaps it was an infinitessimal shift of inflection that informed him of the success of his maneuver.
a girlish hesitancy reined in her feminine power thus beguiling and seducing her listener simultaneously. she lied to him effortlessly about her disinterestedness and torpor. catching himself almost drawn into her charms and deceit his practiced mindfulness rescued him from his self-indulgent ego. "to deceive rather than to be deceived." the art of deception, wasn't that what he had learned in "The Art of War"?
"Feign disinterestedness, challenge her to win my attention and curiosity, use silence to my advantage" - he thought to himself and assumed a casual air of aloof boredom. noticing his focus move lazily behind her as she put forth about her boring job, she grew imperceptibly nervous and insecure in her attractiveness. the slightest change in her facial expression, or perhaps it was an infinitessimal shift of inflection that informed him of the success of his maneuver.
Mazatlan Poolside
The azure chlorine pool rippled in the Pacific breeze emulating the ocean waves tumbling on the stretching golden beach only meters away. The navy and royal blue tiling lined the sides and bottom like carefully groomed teeth. The edge closest to the beach stood like an implacable guardian between the self-assured north-American tourists and the hostile Latin essence of the third-world beach beyond. The chemically tamed water of the swimming pool brimmed timidly against the bulwark of tile as the primal sea churned just out of reach, the two melding in an ironic dance of human striving and natural indifference.
The other attendees of this poolside tribunal convened in unsettled bliss, wary of each others relative affluence, yet united in condescension and common fear of the Latin culture that surrounded their little island of tidy civilization. James, the interloper among them, had, by this time in his self-imposed exile, assimilated into Mexican life as well as anyone could have expected. Desiring no compatriots in his life, his language, eating habits, and diurnal rhythm had unwittingly adjusted themselves to his adopted land. Yet, in spite of his efforts to fit in, it is never easy being a stranger in a strange land. Both his wife and his mistress were proud of themselves, having landed a gringo - a status symbol of the highest order. This neither pleased nor irritated him.
Aqui tiene Usted, fired the elegant elderly waiter as he placed a rough wooden tray laden with a glistening ceramic mug of hot coffee, a mosaic bowl of dark cane sugar and a tiny brown crucible of thick cream.
The azure chlorine pool rippled in the Pacific breeze emulating the ocean waves tumbling on the stretching golden beach only meters away. The navy and royal blue tiling lined the sides and bottom like carefully groomed teeth. The edge closest to the beach stood like an implacable guardian between the self-assured north-American tourists and the hostile Latin essence of the third-world beach beyond. The chemically tamed water of the swimming pool brimmed timidly against the bulwark of tile as the primal sea churned just out of reach, the two melding in an ironic dance of human striving and natural indifference.
The other attendees of this poolside tribunal convened in unsettled bliss, wary of each others relative affluence, yet united in condescension and common fear of the Latin culture that surrounded their little island of tidy civilization. James, the interloper among them, had, by this time in his self-imposed exile, assimilated into Mexican life as well as anyone could have expected. Desiring no compatriots in his life, his language, eating habits, and diurnal rhythm had unwittingly adjusted themselves to his adopted land. Yet, in spite of his efforts to fit in, it is never easy being a stranger in a strange land. Both his wife and his mistress were proud of themselves, having landed a gringo - a status symbol of the highest order. This neither pleased nor irritated him.
Aqui tiene Usted, fired the elegant elderly waiter as he placed a rough wooden tray laden with a glistening ceramic mug of hot coffee, a mosaic bowl of dark cane sugar and a tiny brown crucible of thick cream.
