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Rich Springs the Day on Friday, July 10, 2009 6:14:06 PM
Part 5 — Nothing New Under the Sun
It has always been, and always will be, with us:
While it doesn’t make sense to the average Joe, certain personality-types have an insatiable thirst for Power and Control —which always eventually ends up concentrating into a totalitarian Center of Power, attaining to itself All Authority. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Humans are intrinsically political beings.
For example, when three people come in contact with each other for some period of time, it is usually the case that two of them are going to have more of an affinity towards each other than they do to the third. Thereby a constituency develops. Everyone knows the potential consequences of this, both good and bad, for all three people.
Likewise, all human organizations are intrinsically political.
When a bunch of people are in contact with each other over long periods of time, larger constituencies develop within the organization’s internal body politic. Constituencies inevitably develop that “look out for their own”, whether that takes place solely within a department, between departments, between a department and management, or even between an organization’s entire workforce and management.
As well, an organization’s internal constituencies deal with the world outside of the organization, which represent the interests of that organization to, e.g., the marketplace it find itself in —dealing with, e.g., both potential customers (“you should do business with us because…”), and potential competitors and benefactors (“you fund us —not the other guy— because…”).
Likewise, within all governments internal constituencies develop.
And governments have various bureaus that become constituencies internal to that government. These constituencies have a vested interest to compete, obtain, maintain and increase public monies to themselves.
Many such constituencies have a tendency to become corrupted, in that they don’t look out for their employer’s or their customer’s bests interests —even if a bureau’s mission is a Noble one. Instead, their focus tends to be in the interests of themselves …particularly funding and power/authorities (which give rise to “turf wars”, some of which have become famous, such as domestic vs foreign intelligence agencies).
This becomes a problem when the customer is the People.
Especially when the People’s representatives become lazy in their oversight of the bureaus. Doubly especially when the People’s representatives become corrupted themselves. And triply especially when a nation’s federal government becomes too Centralized, too huge, and too powerful. And too hungry and greedy for money and power.
The larger and more geographically-remote the Bureaucracy, the larger, more powerful, inaccessible, callous, inefficient, wasteful, etc., are its bureaus and its internal constituencies.
When it’s a Bureaucracy the size of the U.S. FedGov you’re talking about …you’re talking about a very powerful Bureaucracy —with all of the characteristics listed above (inaccessible, etc.) magnified.
Now, that’s something to be scared of!
That is why Centralized governments become so dangerous to a people.
That is why government has to be de-centralized, its authorities and powers severely limited, vested in, and controlled by the People.
The grinding march down the road towards Total Control of the Known Universe has been attempted from time to time, in fits and starts, since the Garden. With periods and pockets of peaceful Liberty.
The particular “fit” we find ourselves in is truly global in scope. Don’t let a [global economic] crisis go to waste! (Especially since the 19TH century, Crises —genuine or manufactured; large or small; general or personal/unique; mundane or spectacular/grotesque— have been used to grab and centralize power, to tear down jurisdictions, to change or wear-down public opinion into accepting the unacceptable/immoral. Even the disgusting/depraved.)
Total Control IS the Ultimate road that Obama and his cadre of Marxists ARE taking us down, NOW. Forcing all of us to go down that road. Period. You will change your habits. “For the Planet.”
To wit: Obama’s nationalizing entire “sectors”: energy, health care, etc.: Eventually, no choice. No matter His and His minion’s protestations to the contrary (that they won’t adversely affect, e.g., your Freedom to Choose): Well, then, why are you nationalizing and socializing various sector of our lives, O???
Take health care, for example: O’Sophist knows very well that an “optional” government health care “plan” —subsidized and regulated —and even directly operated— by the 800 trillion pound FedGov (thereby appearing cheaper to those who don’t understand)— will, like the twin abominations Medicare and Medicaid have, distort the markets, eventually causing non-government companies and doctors to lose money, thereby forcing them out of business. And provide less care. And lower quality care. He knows this. Liar. (On the one hand, He’s telling us what “His” health care plan will and will not do “for us”; on the other hand, He says He doesn’t know what it will and will not do, because it’s Congress’ legislation. And so He lies once again.)
That the actions of Him (and His Regulators, and His Horde in the one-party Congress) have and are taking us down that road …is proof of their ultimate intentions.
There is no longer any possibility of denying it, or lying about it; their road is inexorably leading to a place-certain: Total, Centralized Control of our lives, our future. In poverty. That is their Goal.
The majority of the people don’t see it yet, because they don’t know history, don’t understand political science, aren’t aware of, and/or don’t understand the consequences of the numerous pieces of legislation being proposed and being passed, nor of the Executive Orders being executed.
Example: You couldn’t possibly cajole me to voluntarily replace all my light bulbs with much more expensive (and depressing and hard-on-my-eyes & brain) bulbs, which more than negate any energy cost savings. But uncaring, ideologically-motivated government Bureaucraps (whose ideologies blind them to other people’s valid concerns) can, in magical I Dream of Jeanie fashion —with the flick of a pen, command us to do so, regardless of the consequences. Because they consider themselves to be our lords, and because they have all the B-52’s and shiny, gold G-man badges.
And the vast majority of the American People are completely unaware of this or the thousands of other legislative initiatives “our” Congress is inundating us with, drowning us in.
No one person can be aware of them all. But the various Bureaus —that include people who certainly know what they want to do!— know the Regulations that they can use for The Cause.
If they wanted to, they could all come down on a single person and destroy him, both psychologically and physically.
Total, Centralized Control of our lives, our futures, into a one-size-fits-all paradigm: This is the Road to economic and social Perdition, that the Dru’s intend for America …and the world:
Which is why the myth of Warming is called “Global”: Global Problems logically need Global Controls and Bureaucracies, yes? If we agree: Gotcha. Global Endgame. If we don’t agree, well, it’s a slower road for them, to be sure, as controls must then be instituted more slowly, without our glowing support, our voluntarily skipping merrily along that Road in the Quest to Save those eating machines, the Cuddly 2,000 pound Polar Bears.
But, not to despair! Thank God the U.S. Congress finally has a solid, one-party socialist majority in both houses! So now, all kinds of controls can be rammed through and executed by that same party’s very willing accomplices in the so-called “independent” Executive and Judicial Branches.
And this one-party socialist majority is continuing to ensure that hundreds of billions of dollar per year of pork barreling just keeps on and on. In fact, it is increasing by the second —literally!! I wonder if a single piece of legislation that Congress generates does not include pork?
Even with our economy in dire straights, with so many people out of work: billions and billions of dollars of additional “earmarks” (graft) are “tucked away” (hidden) in the massive pieces of legislation that keep being pumped out of Washington! And our Representatives and Senators keep letting it happen!!
Makes one wonder if the fall of our country is inevitable: These people are acting as if they can keep stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from our economy, perpetually; that our wealth is infinite; that no amount of diverting money from our real economy can destroy us; that no amount of stealing money from taxpayer’s pockets could ever finally crush us.
Thereby, the Slow Road to Hell is being greased by all kinds of corrupt “Representatives”, Senator Godfathers, and Judicial Barons, who learned their trade as Bosses of one sort or another in Chicago and other Dark Denizens and government-funded Socialist Corruption Learning Centers.
The slow, inexorable Centralization of power to Wash, D.C., that we’ve witnessed since FDR’s unconstitutional dictatorship was temporarily scotched (remember? virtually all of FDR’s New Deal Bureaus were adjudicated as being unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court). It will eventually be played out on a global scale, with Brussels being the new Washington, D.C. of the world.
That’s their ultimate Central HQ location …noting that the Chinese have been making noises which indicate they want Beijing to be The Center of It All. So stay tuned for some fireworks along those lines: It’s not for nothin’ that the Federal Reserve sends one of its Grand Poobah’s (Tim Geithner, presently in the guise of U.S. Treasury Secretary) with hat in hand to cajole the Chinese to stop making waves (the Chinese want their Central Bank’s notes to be the world’s “Reserve Currency”, instead of the Anglo-Saxon/Eastern Establishment’s Federal Reserve Notes).
The Free World is being talked into merrily (and with Hope for Change in their hearts!) going down this pipe dream Road, in the name of Fairness and “Protecting” such things as the cute, defenseless Children Polar Bears, etc. —so don’t even think about protesting, you “single-issue Right Wing Extremists”!
(By the way, just who has time to seriously engage more than one issue —being that those who actually pay taxes work more than half the year just to pay all of them? And by the way, aren’t most liberal activists “single-issue”, too —except those liberal-socialist-Marxist “quasi-governmental” entities that are subsidized to the tune of millions and millions of your dollars each year?)
Meanwhile, Polar Bears are more numerous than any time in the past century.
And ice is growing/accumulating in the Antarctic. And the Globe is cooling (so revive the Global Cooling Scare of the 1970’s!).
More truths that are inconvenient to that perennial liar and dumb bunny, Al Gore. It will suck to be him on Judgment Day.
[See my next post as to what O & Co. think they are, some of the things they have to do to achieve their Goal, and a little bit on how we got our undies in this bundle.]
© Rich Yount 2009