Dear Friends,
It seems to me, before a government can do real harm to its citizens, several factors must be met. For example, elections need to be rendered harmless to the elite, the courts must be controlled, speech must be censored, the media a tool of manipulation and the people disarmed. Once these conditions have been met, government can oppress at will. Genocide, eugenics and sterilizing children for fun and profit, are not only on the table, they are what’s for dinner. Any government then that implements even one or two things on this list is one that clearly has bad intentions. The further along this list a government travels, the closer to absolute tyranny the people are. A government that censors, uses fraud to manipulate elections, exploits law as a political weapon and disarms the people… is a villain.
There is a natural order to this list of oppression. First the media must be made into mockingbirds. Without the ability to control the narrative the people would quickly awaken to the threat of their elites. So the media has to be taken over first. As the Church commission exposed the Mockingbird Media. Censorship is the next goalpost, once the media is controlled, the voices of truth tellers must be silenced. Since the Constitution forbids censorship, a government could go around it by using contractors to subcontract out the censorship, thus avoiding Constitutional restraints. Like the US government did with Twitter according to the Twitter files. Once those conditions have been met, the rest of the list opens up. The next obvious choice of the would be tyrant though is the courts.
Once the court system is utterly corrupted, that state is by definition, tyrannical. A court system that is a rubber stamp for the strong to oppress the weak, is a court system that abets lawlessness. The power such a corrupt court system bestows on the elite is staggering. Thrasymachus would be abashed at the open injustice. He famously said that justice is a swindle the strong play on the weak, so when the strong take from the weak, they can claim it was “just.” A corrupted court system is the acme of this philosophy in action. You can know a court system is corrupted by how it rules. If some are allowed to break the law with impunity, and others are not allowed even to seek a redress of grievances, without going to prison lacking bail or trial, you know the courts are absolutely corrupted.
The final solution to the problem of the people is gun control. Disarm the public so only the elite have guns and the list is complete. North Korea, China and Cuba are examples of this paradigm. The US and Europe are not far behind. The fly in the ointment in Europe are elections. They haven’t been tamed there yet. While the problem in the US is the millions of firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens. Guns in the hands of criminals is not a problem, because it justifies unconstitutional gun control laws, instills fear in the people and the chaos criminals create can be exploited, in a Hegelian manner, to herd the people closer to the precipice. Once the European elites can get mail in voting, they will have tamed democracy, and once the US elites have banned guns, the elite have won.
In Europe the sheep are desperately trying to vote the wolves away from the flock. Only time will tell how that works out for them. In the US, we cling to our guns while hiding in a closet and pray that when the government is done rummaging through our personal effects, they don’t come for us. Just as a home invasion is impossible to deny, what our governments are doing today is undeniable. Yet we are not as powerless as the media, government and culture tells us. You can contact your senator and representative. If enough of us do, they will balk, that we don’t is implicit agreement. If we don’t speak up then, and boycott the mockingbird media, ignore the censorship, force our courts to follow the law and criminally punish elite criminals… they will be able to play out their evil on us and our children.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
