Fides de Habenae

With the upcoming election it get's me thinking about our government and the truth that lies within it. I look back at relatively recent history at the point where our own governments actions fit under the definition of terrorism within the "cointelpro" operation where the FBI infiltrated peaceful organizations and labeled them as "dangerous" or "a threat to society". I can see the same thing happening in modern times since 9-11 with the whole "homeland security" system, where even a 8 year old girls teddy bear getting on a plane is seen as a threat...spare me. When I look at the candidates the speak of "change", change is all well and good, but what are they going to change? A true change would be a change in the politicians who we are able to choose from, it is no longer the American people having a say in the government it is rich CEO's, lobbyist's, and special interest groups, controlling how we the citizens think are the issues and how we think about them. The American democratic system is no longer democratic. It is a authoritarian oligarchy acting as a democratic constitutional republic. I don't want to be another person mindlessly labeling the Bush administration as a the new Nazi party, but the new gestapo is the "homeland security", a result from the 9-11 tragedy. It proves that our government is not pro-active but re-active, they make us feel like a patriot by complying with the "homeland security" by staring down the man that looks a little too tan with a thick mustache at the airport, but in reality they treat us like blind people being led by leader dogs, because we are supposed to trust our government. I am not a communist nor a socialist, I believe that both economical and governmental systems impede on the progress of the human being. I believe in the self-reliance and improvement of the human spirit and body. But we have been deterred from looking at life for the improvement of ourselves and family, because we have been told to view the necessary commodities of life, not warmth, food, and education, but to view a success from a materialistic standpoint, how large of a house we own, what car we drive, the clothes we wear, how well we fit into the mass population. But think, if we were all to become self-sufficient in building our own homes to provide warmth and the development of the land around us to provide a sustainable lifestyle it would provide a more peaceful civilization. There would be no more need to fit into keep up with the masses, but to sustain a mode of living and advance the knowledge of ourselves and family, so therefore a wider scale of peace would be possible because it would eliminate the majority of greed and envy, main causes of violence, if we were able to control ourselves with proper conduct in our own area and ways of life it would limit the need for a overbearing government which would eliminate the exploitation of the human race from our home lands to other countries from being tarnished because of imperialistic powers.


So after that extensive look at American government and society, when you look at the candidates, look closer at who is really making "change" and whose doing the best for the human race and the progression of the American people, or if they're trying more to thicken the class boundries that keep our country divided.

Mario Savio

Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

subterranean homesick blues

So with my first blog I thought I'd cover the most obvious issues with the world around us, specifically the American media. It has to be one of the biggest jokes of all time, I mean turn on any "news" channel and it's the same garbage forced down the throats of the American populous, like a feeding frenzy of mindless cows ready for slaughter. A small tidbit about the media in general and the mass production of it through television to the consumer, how you're made to feel you need the deluxe package with 4 gazillion channels and nothings ever on, but that's just a minute issue. Back to the "news", if you are able to compare a foreign news channel with an American one such as the embarrassment of Fox News and CNN and company, you can see that the things that we are told are so trivial it's disgusting. The objectiveness in American broadcast journalism has disappeared, the special interest groups and major cooperation funding these channels tell them what to say so there's no more room to think or filter information for yourself it's all spoon fed to us like morons(politically incorrect). Even the newspapers are infiltrated by the same people who own the television channels, which is almost a single person(Rupert Murdoch) who owns a ridiculous amount of the world-wide media markets. So with all this singular control on every single market, it's making the consumer a marionette puppet of sorts, which isn't as bad as a robot quite yet. So with all this mass control into the hands of the few(opposite of what our country was founded on) we are given limited exposure to politics, art, music,literature(my God to the few who even read anymore). When you look at the news it's like you should sit down and watch with a number 2 pencil and a scan-tron sheet fill in the blanks for the things you find appealing put it in a machine it will then proceed to print out a label for you, "Republican" or "Democrat", "Liberal" or "Conservative", or just "Don't fit interest group, don't say anything. Shhh"and then you follow the fodder to the voting booths and you pull the lever for whatever you're label tells you, and there goes the American system. So whoever said a couple hundred years ago that it is a citizens duty to revolt every 60 some odd years to maintain the balance in America, I firmly agree.