The War on Consciousness

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THE WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS (1 of 2)
by Paul Levy

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/warconsc.html

We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is
the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a
foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The
global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an
embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental
war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself.

We have the most criminal regime in all of our history wreaking
unspeakable horror on the entire planet, while simultaneously waging war
on the consciousness of its own citizens - US. If we aren’t aware of
this, we are unwittingly playing into, supporting and complicit in the
evil that is being perpetrated in our name.

A government’s war on the consciousness of its own citizens is by no
means unique to the Bush administration. Abusing power over others so as
to limit their freedom is an archetypal process that has been endlessly
re-enacted by governments throughout history in various forms. With the
Bush administration, however, the pathological aspect of this process
has become so exaggerated and amped up to such a degree that it is just
about impossible not to notice its staggering malignancy. With the Bush
administration, the underlying evil that has played out in our
government over many years is becoming overwhelmingly obvious for all to
see. With the Bush administration, the underlying evil that informs
systems of government that are based on “power over” instead of “liberty
for” is coming out from hiding in the shadows. Instead of being acted
out underground, our government is acting out this evil above ground, in
plain sight for all who are courageous enough to look.

Impeaching Bush and Co. ultimately won’t change anything unless we deal
with the corrupt powers which control and direct them. George Bush is
just a finger-puppet of the hidden hand which animates him. Bush only
has apparent power, as he himself is a minion of far more powerful
predator-like forces whose nefarious interests he serves. Whether we
call it the illuminati, the global elite, a shadow government, or a
secret cabal, there is no doubt that there are darker, self-serving
forces that have insinuated themselves into and taken over our
government. The terrorists that we should be worried about are domestic
terrorists who are actually implementing their agendas from deep within
our very system of government itself.

The United States Government itself has become a “front” for the
underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that animates
it. This is not to say that there aren’t many good, well-meaning people
in our government – they are simply prohibited by the very nature of the
corrupt system they are in from reforming it. Our system of government
is rigged in such a way so that there is no way to transform the system
within the system itself.

The underlying core of our government has become rotten such that the
entire operation simply feeds into and is an expression of the same
underlying corruption. All of the scandals continually coming out are
like the superficial skin rash of a much deeper systemic disease, like a
cancer that is infecting the greater body politic. Citizens who are not
aware of our government’s insidious intrusions into our lives are
unwittingly feeding the corruption they are looking away from in their
very act of looking away.

The “powers” that have taken over our government have become
concentrated and centralized in just a few elite hands, proving how easy
it is for the few to control the many. They almost control all the
levers of power: financial, political and judicial. In this war on
consciousness, these powers-that-be are using the most advanced
mind-control technology that our world has ever known to make its
takeover complete. The essence of mind-control is information control,
which is one thing our overly secretive current administration is very
good at.

MIND-CONTROL

The private interests that control our government have an incredible
mind-control/propaganda machine at their disposal in the form of the
mainstream media, which if not quite fully owned and controlled, is
certainly under their “influence” enough to serve their underlying
self-serving agenda. George Orwell once said that omission is the
greatest form of lie – this perfectly describes the corporate owned
media of today which is nothing other than the propaganda organ of the
state. The corporate world and our government are becoming
indistinguishable, which is one of the hallmarks of fascism, or more
accurately – corporatism.

In addition to information, our government is adept at putting out
dis-information, whose intention is to create distractions and confusion
so as to cover its tracks and hide its true intentions. It will
purposely leak stories that are not true simply to cover-up what it is
really doing. By putting out misleading information, the government
hides behind its self-generated smokescreen like an octopus squirting ink.

Quite often, right at the moment when people’s focus is moving towards
some area of criminality in the White House, the administration will
even create a diversionary event for the public to put their attention
on. Memories of those color-coded terror alerts that always seemed to
happen right when something bad was starting to happen for the Bush
administration come to mind. In creating distractions, our government is
able to steer our collective attention in directions that allow it to
successfully accomplish its malevolent goal of grabbing all the power it
can get.

In a diabolical ploy, the administration will even feed stories to a
compliant press, and then reference these stories as justification for
enacting its pre-planned agenda. One glaring example is when the
administration fed Judith Miller of the New York Times stories about
Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Once this propaganda appeared on the
front page of the Times, the administration was only too happy to use it
as evidence for why we should go to war.

WMD could easily stand for “Weapons of Mind Deception”, as our own
government is continually trying to “Deceive” our “Minds”, which is the
battlefield in which the war on consciousness is being fought. We are
all on the front lines in the war on consciousness, whether we know it
or not. Instead of shooting us, our government is using cutting-edge
mind-control technology to psychically emasculate us. In order to be
able to deal with the evil that the Bush regime is perpetrating, we
first have to become acquainted with that very same potential evil in
ourselves so as to be able to recognize it in the outside world. The way
to vanquish our adversary is to be found hidden within the very nature
of our own awareness, which contains the key to its own freedom.

The corporate-mainstream media “captivates” our attention, capturing a
part of our self-reflective, discriminative awareness, thereby
restricting the range of our conscious awareness, which is what
hypnotism is all about. Once the attention of the masses becomes
entranced, the corporate/government media can then “play with” our mind.
This unholy trinity of corporate/government/media can create an
obsessive fixation on certain superficial events that “seize” the
collective psyche. For example, it feeds the masses sensationalized
stories such as Anna Nicole Smith ad nauseam so as to divert our
attention from the evil that is being done behind the scenes in our name.

Ex-CIA director Allen Dulles used to say that the most effective way to
disguise a secret is to pretend to openly share information. The Bush
administration isn’t interested in solving problems as much as creating
good PR (Public Relations) for itself. With one hand the Bush
administration will try to appear like it is openly sharing information
and being transparent, while with its other hand it will be actively
obstructing the very process it is seemingly supporting. A vivid example
is the government’s 9/11 commission, whose aim was allegedly to shed
light on what happened on 9/11, while covertly – behind the scenes – the
Bush administration was doing everything it could to hinder the
commission’s inquiries (see, for example, 9/11 Commission Report:
Omissions and Distortions, by David Ray Griffin). All one has to do is
investigate the numerous ties to the core cabal of the neocon Bush
administration that the members of the 9/11 commission have and the
degree to which it was a deliberate operation to obscure the truth
becomes apparent. It was as if the White House was investigating itself;
the foxes truly guarding the henhouse. The 9/11 commission and its
report, just like the Warren Commission and its report on the Kennedy
assassination, was a façade, a show, a display in which it appeared like
our government was giving us what we wanted, while actually being part
of a deceptive game of smoke-and-mirrors. It is like a magician has
hypnotized us, and is stealing what’s in our pockets while they have us
under their trance in which we believe they are serving us.

As if by a perverse Jedi mind-trick, the Bush administration has
bewitched us into believing that it controls the national dialogue, when
in a democracy the opposite is actually true. One of many examples –
when confronted with overwhelming evidence that we have been torturing
our adversaries, Bush responds by saying he “rejects” that claim, and
the conversation stops right there and moves on to other, more
superficial topics. Our government is supposed to represent us, which is
to say that they are our employees. Bush has turned this around and put
himself in the role of the dictator with us as his subjects. And somehow
we have allowed him to get away with this. There is no escaping our
individual and collective complicity in this sad state of affairs.

One difference between what is happening in our country and the
state-controlled media of the old Soviet Union, is that in the Soviet
Union, most people were quite aware that what was being presented to
them by their corrupt government as news was nothing but mind-warping
propaganda. Many Americans have fallen so under the spell of the Bush
regime’s criminal lies that they don’t even know they are being lied to.
It is like we are living in a land of state-controlled zombies who think
they are free citizens of a free country.

It is as if millions of our fellow citizens have fallen asleep, as if
they have become hypnotized and brainwashed by the powers-that-be‘s
incessant “managing” and “massaging” of reality. These powers simply
manipulate an already gullible and highly suggestible public into a game
of “divide and conquer.” They get rich off of other’s blood - they
incite conflict, and covertly support both sides, as they themselves
reap the benefit of the conflict.

The corporate war machine, which is co-dependently entangled with our
government, profits wildly from our invading other sovereign countries.
The government-military-industrial complex’s solution to the very
problem that they created by instigating wars – more war! It’s
completely sick and totally insane. And we, in our dulled denial – like
hypnotized sheep - simply go along and allow the whole parasitic
enterprise to be fed by offering our sons and daughters as fodder. To
the extent that we are not shedding light on the utter criminality and
insanity of what the Bush administration is doing and saying “No,” we
are all complicit in feeding our own genocide.

Bush and our Congressional leaders are mouthpieces for the advertising
campaign of distortion and falsehood that is being “bomb-arded” into our
psyches on a daily basis. Our “leaders” repetitive slogans and
incantations brand and imprint themselves deep into our unconscious,
where many who do not have enough psychic resistance fall under the
spell. (please see Chapter 8 – “Breaking Bush’s Spell”, in my book The
Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis).
People’s ability to discern truth from fiction has been rendered
inoperative by our own government’s pattern of routinely taking liberty
with the truth. Government propaganda has inverted the perception of
what is actually happening, as lies are presented as truths, and up is
portrayed as down in a truly Orwellian universe of confounding
doublespeak. Through the “Big Lie” – which is based on that the bigger
the lie, the harder it is for people to see the truth - the government
has transformed myth into seeming fact, and has achieved its goal of
muddling our minds so as to dis-empower us.

Many of us haven’t developed the psychic immunity to be able to fully
ward off the toxic effects of our government’s covert, fear-based
psychological warfare. An expression of the success of our government’s
psy-ops against US is the fact that there’s so little awareness about
the government’s assault on our minds that it’s hardly even a part of
our national dialogue. The insidiousness of the government’s covert
manipulation of our minds is even found in the very term “Global War on
Terror”. “The Global War on Terror” is a crazy-making,
self-contradictory statement, as we can never stop terror with a war –
on the contrary, wars induce terror! This term carries with it a false
and self-negating premise that if we accept we’ve already given away our
power. If we leave this underlying assumption unquestioned, we
unwittingly allow them to frame the agenda on their terms. We have then
already fallen under their spell without knowing it, as our capacity to
think and respond creatively is undermined. Our inability to creatively
respond to the war on our consciousness is an expression of being
immobilized in fear as if frozen in trauma. The war on terror is really
a war on our psyche. The war on terror is ultimately about control –
control of our minds.

What Bush and our Congressional leaders are doing is so morally
outrageous that it is literally off the charts of accepted, “normal”,
ethical, sane human behavior. In the words of French poet Andre Chenier,
Bush and Co. are committing “crimes that make the laws tremble,” as they
are covertly undermining our very legal and political system itself. The
corruption that has infected our body politic is like a virus that is
exploiting weaknesses in our political immune system so as to feed and
spread its pathology.

Those of us who are somewhat sane can easily lack the imagination for
the depth of depravity that the Bush administration regularly acts out
in the world. Our lack of imagination works to the government’s
advantage, as it allows them to continue to act out the darkness in a
manner which is incomprehensible to us. This is why the great doctor of
the soul C. G. Jung counseled us to develop an “imagination for evil,”
as being able to imagine the scope of evil that human beings can fall
prey to and act out empowers us to see it clearly and thereby deal with
it more effectively.

Our government’s lying and criminality is so pervasive that we have
become desensitized to their corruption. Their evil has become so
“normalized,” that just like someone watching TV becomes numb and
anesthetized to the violence, we have become desensitized to the horror
of what Bush and his cronies are doing right in front of our very eyes
day after day. We’ve learned – or, shall I say, become programmed - to
accept the fact that the Bush administration is almost always lying,
for, as we are told “All governments lie”.

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DEFRAUDING US OF THE TRUTH

Bush and Co., with the help of the US Supreme Court and the approval of
Congress, rigged the 2000 and 2004 elections (see, for example, Fooled
Again by Mark Crispin Miller). Then, with the help of the corporate
media which is dependent on the good graces of military and government
budgets and operations, Bush and Co. put out mind-numbing propaganda
that no such hostile takeover had even taken place, to the point where
after a little while most people forgot that anything out of the
ordinary had occurred. The government’s propaganda machine plays with
our minds, putting us in a somnambulistic state so that we eventually
begin to accept the version of reality (in our example, that Bush has
been “elected” to be our president) that serves its underlying agenda.

Once the office of “perception management” convinces a critical mass of
people of a particular viewpoint, there is a “consensus” or “agreement”
that is reached among the masses as to what is objectively true. The
agreed upon version of reality takes on a “weight” and becomes the
established dogma of what is collectively imagined to be really
happening. Like a “religious” truth, it is irrationally believed like an
act of faith by its card-carrying members, even if overwhelming evidence
points to the contrary. Anyone who doesn’t buy into the arbitrarily
established story is marginalized and demonized, and either called
crazy, a conspiracy theorist, or even a terrorist (“You’re either with
us or you’re with the enemy”).

If only one person believed the propaganda-created consensus version of
reality, they’d be thought of as crazy. If a small group of people
believed it, they’d be thought of as a cult. When a certain critical
mass of people irrationally believe this fictionalized version of
reality (in our case, that Bush has been “elected” by the people) to be
objectively true, however, they are considered normal.

Mass psychology then becomes the order of the day, as our species,
animated and inspired by fear – which Bush and his regime are only too
happy to cultivate - reverts to the primitive psychology of the herd. A
collective amnesia ensues, continually fed by a self-generating web of
endless denial, as the manufactured consent is recreated anew every
moment. A field of force which literally resists conscious reflection
becomes conjured up around those who have fallen under the seductive
spell of the agreed upon and artificially constructed consensus reality.
Anyone reflecting back their unconscious condition is considered to be
the enemy. Dissociating from their own darkness, they fight with it
outside of themselves as it is projected into and reflected back by the
world. Believing the agreed-upon fantasy, they collectively fall into
their unconscious together and reinforce each other’s delusions in a
self-perpetuating feedback loop, which is another way of saying that
they have fallen into a collective psychosis.

Bush was not elected by the people. The military-industrial-financial
crime syndicate’s minions and operatives had already insinuated
themselves into key positions of power so as to accomplish their
long-planned for covert takeover of the government. Some of their
cronies had already infiltrated the Supreme Court, where they literally
derailed the democratic process and decided, with no basis in law, to
unconstitutionally invest themselves with the authority of bestowing the
election upon Bush. Bush’s seeming “election by the people” was in fact
a strategically implemented political coup d’etat. Very few even noticed
this act of violence because of the criminal syndicate’s control of the
mainstream media. Their propaganda machine succeeded in managing our
perceptions just the way they wanted, which is a polite way of saying
they successfully pulled the wool over most of our eyes, or pulled the
rug out from under us without too many of us even noticing.

In a diabolical feedback loop, the underlying crime syndicate, by
putting out propaganda (that Bush has been elected president) creates
the very situation (Bush becoming president) which confirms the truth of
their propaganda, like in a self-fulfilling prophecy. Being in a
position of power, they are tapping into how they can shape the world in
their own image, which they are imposing on the world through forceful
means. They have in some perverse way begun to access how they can
seemingly manipulate and create “reality”.

Because of their position of power, these sick few can control the
masses by manipulating events in the world, as well as playing with our
perceptions. They are tapping into how in managing our perceptions, they
can literally create events, and in creating events, they can manage our
perceptions. This is a divine secret, but in tapping into it with an
impure heart, where power is prioritized over love, it is always
destined for failure. In the end, these black magicians will ultimately
self-destruct, there is no question about this whatsoever. It is simply
a question of mitigating the disaster as they create their own ruin.

Another example of our government’s attack on our consciousness: After
the 9/11 attacks, there is only one thing certain – the official story
put out by our government, itself a conspiracy theory, is not true.
There is no question about this to any thinking person who has even
minimally studied the evidence. (see, for example, 911truth.org). The
fact that our own government is not telling the truth to us about what
happened on 9/11, as well as actively obstructing any investigation into
what actually did happen, is a huge red flag – why would our own
government be lying, and covering up their lie? Who knows (maybe the
shadow?) at this point whether 9/11 was a false flag operation, covertly
perpetrated by our own government against us, or whether they knew about
it beforehand but simply allowed it to happen so as to gain political
advantage? Something’s very fishy about the whole thing. The fact that
our country, except on the margins, is not even having an open
discussion about what really happened on 9/11 – the official version put
out by the government is blindly accepted by millions of people as the
objective truth - is another expression of our government shaping our
dialogue, both nationally and within our own minds. The government’s
distorted story about what happened on 9/11 is itself an expression of
the deeper and more general underlying conspiracy of our government to
defraud us of the truth.

The last thing this criminal enterprise wants is for us to see what it
is doing. These criminal war lords want us to believe that we live in a
democracy. For example, in a diabolical sleight of hand, we are given
the illusory stage-show of free elections, while there is overwhelming
evidence that the elections were rigged. Even to be in a position to run
for president you have to be able to raise hundreds of millions of
dollars – this itself is the entrance fee to the game. In addition, the
only people who would be allowed by these robber barons to be in a
position of power such as “Commander-in-Chief” is someone they control.
Barack or Hillary? It’s an illusion of choice, a stage-managed
distraction from what’s really going on. We are left with the
appearance, and a misguided belief, that we live in a government run “by
the people and for the people.” In a very real sense, the Democrats and
Republicans are simply various factions who are fighting for the right
to represent the underlying military-industrial-financial crime
syndicate that owns and operates our government. Those who control “our”
government want to keep their operations covert, beneath our conscious
awareness. For if enough of us become conscious of the evil and
depravity that they are perpetrating in our name on the entire planet,
their gig is up.

HOW TO ACHIEVE VICTORY IN THE WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS

The powers that have taken over our country will do anything in their
sorcerer’s bag of tricks to distract us and keep up the illusion that
they are protecting us so as to maintain power. These banking and
corporate pirates are willing and more than ready to intimidate, buy
off, or destroy any and all critics. It is important for us to realize
the depth of evil we are dealing with here – they are willing to kill as
many people as needed to accomplish their aims. It is shocking to
realize that the very entity that is supposed to be protecting us – our
government – is the very thing from which we need protection. It is
shattering to realize that our leaders are genuine psychopathic
criminals who are trying to take over our planet, impose full-spectrum
dominance, enact a new world order and centralize power and control.
Instead of this being a conspiracy theory, the evidence is all around
us, as it is everywhere we look if we have the eyes to see beyond the
carefully crafted and disseminated spell that is being perpetually woven
all around us.

What is happening in our world has more the “feeling” of an invasion
from a parallel universe than a physical coup d’etat. This is because
the intrusion is taking place on the plane of mind, and only secondarily
on the physical plane. If we could stop this covert incursion into our
minds it would be much easier to mitigate the outer wars that plague our
world.

These criminals clearly have way more power than we do in terms of guns,
tanks, media and technology, but they are no match for us if we activate
the inherent brilliance of our consciousness – a force with unlimited
potential. Part of the spell they are casting is that there’s nothing we
can do, that we are powerless to stop them from doing whatever they
want, like when Cheney mentioned it doesn’t make a difference what
Congress or the American people want, this administration is not going
to be stopped from sending more troops to Iraq.

The Bush regime’s worst nightmare is for us to wake up to how we’ve been
manipulated, hoodwinked and played by them like fools. The last thing
they want is for us to access the natural intelligence inherent in being
consciously aware, and connect with each other through the open-heart of
lucidity. The powers-that-be’s greatest fear is for us individually, as
well as collectively, to connect with our intrinsic God-given power to
create.

Once we clearly see what is being perpetrated in our name, we can come
together and “conspire to co-inspire” so as to awaken – and mobilize –
our collective genius, which is a power greater than any weapon of mass
destruction. In actuality, our connecting in shared lucidity is the
antidote to all WMD’s – it is what I call a WMC – a “Weapon of Mass
Consciousness”. It is what becomes activated when enough of us come
together and see (C – i.e., become conscious of) what is happening.

Connecting with each other is crucially important, as the more of us
that consciously associate with each other - as if re-membering (putting
our “members” back together to form a unified body) - the stronger the
field of unified force that we are able to generate. Once enough of us
sync up, we become more able to collectively invoke and channel through
our expanded awareness a power that is able to dis-arm any WMD: the
power of consciousness infused with wisdom and compassion. Genuine
compassion can be very fierce, however, as it both demands and empowers
us to come together and say “No” to the evil being done in our name. We
can step out of the fear-based reality in which we appear to exist
separately from each other in any moment and consciously connect with
each other through the open-heart of lucidity. When we are truly serving
what is best for the whole – for everyone – a world-changing power
becomes available to us.

The solution to winning the war on consciousness is for us to RECOGNIZE
the nature of the war we are in, which can only happen through the
agency of our consciousness. Realizing that the true war we are in is an
assault on our own minds is the expansion of consciousness which is
itself simultaneously the solution. From a deeper, more expansive
perspective, the war on consciousness is itself the very catalyst and
instrument for consciousness to awaken to itself.

It is our turn to come together so as to render powerless these sick
criminals who have been terrorizing us. We can help each other to access
our intrinsic heart-centered power and collectively turn the light of
truth upon them so that they have no where to hide from their lies and
corruption. For “truth”, to quote the infamous Nazi minister of
propaganda Joseph M. Goebbels, is “the greatest enemy of the state.”
Bush and the private interests who keep him in power and profit richly
from his actions are absolutely terrified of one thing - the truth. As
the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, “Sunshine is the
best disinfectant.” Like pouring water on the Wicked Witch of the West
in “The Wizard of Oz”, when the true light of awareness is shed on what
Bush and the real powers behind him are doing, their illegitimate power
over us is dis-spelled as the illusion it always was.

Paul Levy is an artist and a spiritually-informed political activist. A
pioneer in the field of spiritual awakening, he is a healer in private
practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dream-like
nature of reality. He is the author of “The Madness of George Bush: A
Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis,” which is available at his
website www.awakeninthedream.com. Please feel free to pass this article
along to a friend if you feel so inspired. You can contact Paul at
paul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections.

© 2007 Paul Levy

[Veteran Joker]

Right, free mushrooms for any of SWIM's friends, provided they read this and meditate to reawaken dormant consciousness.

If I may add to this, people can and should read all the chapters of www.mentalanarchy.com which covers similar ground to this, especially with the "war" on/of terror.

[Veteran Joker]

Additional: I didn't use url tags for that website, following some condemnation in the rules about posting links to websites.

[Micklemouse]

VJ, the only problem with posting links to websites is if they are commercial, government owned or forum based. If SWiY didn't use url tags, how come it still comes up as a link, unless it was copy-pasted of course?

[Veteran Joker]

Originally Posted by Micklemouse

VJ, the only problem with posting links to websites is if they are commercial, government owned or forum based. If SWiY didn't use url tags, how come it still comes up as a link, unless it was copy-pasted of course?

There's also a rule about not posting to other forums, so I was unsure if I would be reprimanded for posting anarchist literature. I just typed the url without putting the tags, thinking it wouldn't make it a hyperlink (so if people wanted to, they could type it in themself, it wouldn't show drugs forum as the reffer, although the site owner is cool, Iv'e spoken with him a few times)

[Nicaine]

I enjoy Paul Levy's writing quite a bit, although this one isn't one of my favorites (very tired, repetitive, overplayed subject matter at this point IMO).

In my opinion, his essay titled "The madness of George W. Bush: A reflection of our collective psychosis" is much better, definitely one that shouldn't be missed.

[Bajeda]

^^^^^ Speaking of Bush and madness, this was a pretty funny psychological analysis of Bush by Bill Maher.

[Shiacmkmleer]

Whoa! I can't belive how much I agree with the overall message of this article... It is sad because I can't reallly figure out how to fight this war back.

[Heretic.Ape.]

My above post turned out looking pretty ugly, would someone please delete it for me, I can't edit yet.
Thanks.

[bowdenta]

Originally Posted by baudmax

We have the most criminal regime in all of our history wreaking
unspeakable horror on the entire planet, while simultaneously waging war
on the consciousness of its own citizens - US. If we aren’t aware of
this, we are unwittingly playing into, supporting and complicit in the
evil that is being perpetrated in our name.

c'mon nazi germany, stalin, sudan

people would actually listen to them and read their articles if they didn't spout nonsense like this from the beginning

[Veteran Joker]

Oh, america is full of sunshine, rainbows and smiles. Yeah, the article is just 100% lies.

[baudmax]

Originally Posted by bowdenta

c'mon nazi germany, stalin, sudan

people would actually listen to them and read their articles if they didn't spout nonsense like this from the beginning

You might want to pay more careful attention. Look very carefully at what is going on around you... can you really say that we are not now facing extraordinary abuses of power by our government? Of blatant trends to subvert the law itself? I mean, c'mon, seriously... comparisons to earlier fascist regimes is both factual and relevant. Perhaps not the historic decorum associated with old regimes (say, the American gestapo hides in the shadows still, does not parade around in black trenchcoats and boots, etc). But we are well on the way to a bad place.

Peace and Divinity
Love is the Law

Baudeaux Machs

[bowdenta]

what? I didn't say anything about rainbows or us not following a destructive path. i just think its ludicrous to say the bush regime is at present worse hitler's, stalin's or whats going on in sudan. making statements saying we are worse than the nazis completely alienates readers who otherwise might actually listen to the facts presented later in the article.

[bowdenta]

Originally Posted by baudmax

You might want to pay more careful attention. Look very carefully at what is going on around you... can you really say that we are not now facing extraordinary abuses of power by our government? Of blatant trends to subvert the law itself?

I dont have to look carefully. you seem to think im some sort of ignorant american sitting on his couch watching fox news and merrily presuming we will always be the ultimate global supremecy. I was at a liberal college when 9/11 occured and we got into iraq. for hours everyday I was bombarded with messages like this comparing america to fascist regimes. oh yeah I drank the kool aid for a while, but after years of consideration, i've deduced that comparisons like the ones made in this article do hold some weight, but are mostly just sensationalism. I think every american should be really careful about whats happening both internationally and domestically

but ultimately I think there is more balance at both the national and local level and the american populace has a stronger voice than its leaders ever will. like lincoln said, this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

not to mention the ease of which information flows nowadays, its impossible to brainwash an entire populace. all you need is for 20% of us to strongly hold fast to our ideals for the preservation of our current way of life. I honestly believe that Americans can and will succesfully use the power the vote to overturn such a regime