Demonizing the non-compliant is a quick way to scare the sheeple. And it’s just getting started. Wait till you’re demonized for owning guns to protect yourself.
I wonder how many people see the path we’re on, the road we’re heading down. Many free people have traveled this path, and it always ends in the same place. We aren’t so free anymore are we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=G7epsqda7fg
The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 1: Demonizing the Non-Compliant
By Oleg Atbashian
January 21, 2013
In the libertarian sci-fi classic, “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,” Robert A. Heinlein describes a successful revolution of the individualistic, free-market-oriented residents of the Moon against the Earth’s tyrannical big government. The ins and outs of agitating and organizing the masses to fight the oppressive Authority feel just as realistic as the finer points of everyday life in the underground Lunar cities of the future.
The proposed revolutionary scenario could even serve as a workable model for similar real-life endeavors, if only the renowned futurist author hadn’t neglected to factor in the immanent function of any oppressive regime: systemic brainwashing of its subjects through the media, education, and entertainment channels.
If the tyrants on Earth were worth their salt, all the freedom-loving colonists would be subjected to an intense, manipulative indoctrination, which would shape their self-image as small and sinful “little guys” vis-à-vis the powerful, virtuous government that serves the powerless and protects them against all enemies, including themselves.
Thus, the government’s propagandistic narrative would establish the illusion of a society divided into three major classes: the ruling government class, endowed with benevolent powers to guide or punish; the majority class of hapless losers, whose survival depended on the government’s largesse and protection; and an unquantifiable class of demonized mysterious enemies of the government and, by extension, of the people, who would be the perceived culprits of all failures, hardships, and misery of the little guys’ everyday existence.
The majority class would itself be divided into an assortment of narrow-interest groups, held together only by the glue of government’s redistributive, pacifying and equalizing powers, as well as by their shared hostility towards the designated “enemies.”
The prevailing feelings in such a society would be the collectivist fervor, envy of individual achievers, fear of chaos in the absence of the government’s protection, hatred of anti-government elements, and hope for a better future once all the hidden enemies are unveiled and eliminated.
This makes Heinlein’s scenario of a free-market revolution highly unlikely. No self-respecting oppressive regime would start a crackdown on the rebels without priming the population with a mass-media campaign that would show how big government benefits most of the people, and how the resistance is destroying the lives of the common folk. As a minimum, the government would parade a poor little girl crying on camera because she and her family suffered from the hands of the rebels. Even those who didn’t hate the rebels before would hate them now.
In a society shaped by the government’s mind games of manipulative illusions, a dissenter sticks out like a sore thumb. Once the resistance has been demonized, its members will be quickly identified and denounced by the compliant citizenry, labeled as the enemy, and be dealt with by law enforcement.
In the end, the self-preservation of modern-day totalitarianism is ensured, not so much by the secret police with its army of snitches and brutal enforcers, as by modern technologies of psychological manipulation through the media, education, and entertainment. Sound familiar? It should.
Perhaps, Heinlein’s tyrannical regime came off so hapless because the author had had no experience of living in a totalitarian statist system. Writing The Moon in the early 1960s, he likely modeled the actions of the Lunar Authority on the methods used by the U.S. government against the Communists. And, as we now know, the U.S. government failed that mission, just like the Lunar Authority did in Heinlein’s novel.
The FBI mostly relied on surveillance, infiltration, and recruiting of informants. Occasional amateur propaganda designed to immunize Americans against the seductive statist rhetoric turned out to be a flash in the pan. It was child’s play compared to the vast arsenal deployed by the KGB and its affiliates in Communist countries.
The United States at the time didn’t have an all-encompassing, totalitarian propaganda machine like its enemies did. State-enforced mind control, by definition, is incompatible with the principles of living in a free world. Statists, on the other hand, have no such limitations; playing mind games for them is a way of life. This makes it asymmetrical warfare.
Statists, of course, would like to have everything shared — except their power. In free democracies they always demand their share of political power — and always get what they want. However, once they are in power, they keep it to themselves and demonize the opposition.
The Marxist ideal of Communism is an altruistic collectivist society of the future, in which there will be no need for government, family, or private property. Freed from capitalist exploitation, people are expected to unleash their full potential and create unprecedented material abundance. The selfish notion of the pursuit of individual happiness will wither away. There will be no money, no greed, no deprivation, and, therefore, no crime.
However, since a society can’t directly leap from capitalism into communism, Marx reasoned that a dictatorial socialist state would be a necessary transition in order to develop the required material base, help to spread the revolution around the world, and to condition the people’s minds by uprooting greed and selfishness (or to eliminate those individuals who can’t be conditioned).
Leaving the debunking of utopian follies for another time, let’s just say that the totalitarian socialist state is where they always get bogged down. Despite their ideal of a stateless future, the leftists invariably become ruthless and uncompromising statists. It no longer matters whether it’s a doctrinaire Marxist socialism or “corporate” fascism; if the end result is evil, original intentions don’t count.
In Russia, the communists used to demonize their opponents long before the Revolution, which made it easier for them to physically eliminate the opposition later. As soon as they were in full control of the government, they began to demonize entire segments of the society, subcultures, and classes of people whom they deemed incapable of change.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/the_collectivist_mind_game_part_1_demonizing_the_non-compliant.html#ixzz2JEJuB6yB
Stan says:
It will only get worse from here. We have crossed the rubicon
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27th January 2013 at 5:18 am
flash says:
It soon comes down to a choice between full blown servitude at the barrel of a gun , incarceration or worse….
http://cliffsofinsanity2010.blogspot.com/2013/01/information-ideology.html
“The Constitution will be restored. The only question at this point is, ‘How rough do we have to get to make sure that happens?’” – Bob Wright
A friend a church was mentioning guns and the gun grab and I told him and a couple of others that where this is all headed towards a civil war. (Nothing like throwing some cold hard reality to weigh down a feather light discussion.) Later, he was leaving and asked me to let him know when it was starting (still being light).
“It already has”, I told him.
I offered the other day that silence was an appropriate and ominous response to this ping. Silence might be another appropriate response to the ideologues in a discussion. Give them the thousand yard stare until you bore a hole into their eye sockets. Get comfortable with silence and make them uncomfortable with it.
However, we are fast approaching the point where silence will profit nothing and nothing you say will make you more of an enemy to the state than you already are.
Part of our fear in America at present stems from the unknown. How might the bad stuff happen? (usually voiced in terms of me personally-because it’s all about me.) A midnight raid? A planned road rage incident conveniently set to ensnare you? Something at your job? One of those random “license and registration” stops or “sobriety checks”? Or maybe you just disappear off the street in an NDAA black bag only to receive “rendition” later back into society where you will remain forever under suspicion from both sides and accepted by neither? Society grants more credibility to those who say they were abducted by aliens than to one who claims to have seen the orbiting helicopters!
Some still have hopes of a favorable outcome for their case and are afraid to ruin their chances by an outcry. (For after all, we get no news from that other world and we do not realize that from the very moment of arrest our fate has almost certainly been decided in the worst possible sense and we cannot possibly make it any worse.) (emphasis added)
Gulag Archipelago
Volume1, Chapter 1; Arrest
Will I get sentenced to 30 months for a malfunctioning firearm? Will I get 8 years for a magazine? Will I be shot and killed by some random person programmed by Professor Raoul X? Our police state is ever increasing the consequences and in line with AlSol’s thoughts, this could be a good thing for resistance. Expanding the boundaries of the criminal class to include everyone means that we no longer have to pretend to follow a code of ethics designed by sociopaths, for sociopaths, to prevent the public from knowing their sociopathy, while continuing to fleece the public. Especially true if the most trivial crime will get you a tenner.
http://www.bussjaeger.org/s150_analysis.html
Executive Summary: It’s about as bad as sensible, mentally competent people expected, but still with some potential nuclear landmines.
A few things stand out:
The purpose of the bill explicitly includes “to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited”. I think the scum-sucking senator has finally answered the perennial question, “What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ don’t you understand?”
All of it.
The portions describing weapons to be banned seem to be pretty much what we’ve already seen in the media: Any semi-auto using detachable magazines plus one purely cosmetic characteristic. Well, OK. Grenade and rocket launchers aren’t exactly “cosmetic” but they’re also already regulated. Heavily.
Just to be sure that nothing is missed, the gallows-bait includes that list of scary, wet-panties-inducing weapons to be banned regardless of having the nasty cosmetic features. But just to be real sure, we see this: “All of the following rifles, copies, duplicates, variants, or altered facsimiles with the capability of any such weapon thereof”.
Any variant. No more redesigning to comply with dumbass laws. If a weapon is banned, then all its children, their children, their children’s children unto the Nth generation shall be banned forevermore. Original sin as applied to inanimate hunks of metal. I thought “liberals” wanted the separation of church and state.
Dianne “I’ve got my carry permit; fuck you” Feinstein even slipped “safe storage” in there.
Here’s a little oddity: “The term ‘detachable magazine’ means an ammunition feeding device that can be removed from a firearm without disassembly of the firearm action.” Without disassembling the action? I think she just banned nearly any box or tube magazine that isn’t welded or otherwise integral to the frame/receiver. Other than that, we still have a ten round cap on magazines.
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27th January 2013 at 6:25 am
Thinker says:
Have to be careful here, but companies are spending HUGE amounts of money to convince the brainwashed masses that smart meters are the “right thing to do.” We need to oppose them at all costs… I’ve seen the background on the information they can collect on homeowners.
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27th January 2013 at 11:20 am
AWD says:
The government, Federal and State, and local, the utilities, and the corporations are all working to relieve you of your private property.
Look at the housing bubble. Who’s ending up with people homes? Banksters and Hedge Funds, then renting them back to the owners.
The socialist/communist state does not recognize private property, and neither do these idiots. Pretty soon they’ll be allowed inside your house, by law, whenever they please, and you’ll be arrested if you don’t let them.
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27th January 2013 at 11:41 am
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27th January 2013 at 11:43 am
Wow says:
Why do those douches get free power. Why don’t I get free power.
In other news how come nobody has shot and pissed on the likes
Of fuckstien and her ilk yet. Where’s all the medicated killers now?
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27th January 2013 at 12:04 pm
Kill Bill says:
The government, Federal and State, and local, the utilities, and the corporations are all working to relieve you of your private property.
Look at the housing bubble. Who’s ending up with people homes? Banksters and Hedge Funds, then renting them back to the owners. -AWD
I would not call that communism or socialism but soft fascism.
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27th January 2013 at 12:08 pm
AKAnon says:
Thinker is right (again)-the “smart meter” is bad news. Monitoring power use is only the beginning. New appliances will be able to “talk” with the smart meters, which in turn talk to the utility company (and lord knows who else). Upshot-the utility company will not only know how much electricity you use, and when, but it will know what appliances you use, and when. Then the utility company will be able to control when you use a given appliance, by putting it “on hold” when it wants. That is the official justification. The smart folks at TBP can infer some of the other possible uses.
The parallel technology is VMT vehicle taxation-vehicle miles travelled in lieu of (or more likely, in addition to) fuel taxes. Currently the Fed tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon. Diesel is 24.4 cents. The tax has not increased since the Clinton administration. This tax is, theoretically, the funding source for FHWA funding of highways across the nation. Since US drivers are driving less and driving more efficient cars (thanks, Admin), taxes have decreased. Meanwhile, costs have gone up, so revenues have not kept up with expenses. We can argue about whether FHWA should dispense funding the way it does, but for better or for worse, it does, and Congress has been making up the shortfall.
The pols have determined that increasing the gas tax is political suicide, that the folks will revolt, so instead, they have proposed the VMT, as an alternative. Why they think a new, higher tax is more palatable than increasing the existing tax is a mystery (not really-that is a red herring). Upshot-Big Sis will be tracking your vehicle’s whereabouts to calculate your tax burden.
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27th January 2013 at 12:08 am
JJ3 says:
It’s funny how every government throughout history has eventually become tyrannical. I have a solution, get rid of government altogether, it is a virus on humanity.
Look into the Celtic culture of the Irish before the English tried to invade. They lived without a formal State for centuries and it worked out pretty well for them, until of course the British Government tried to annilihate them for resisting their rule.
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27th January 2013 at 3:26 pm
JJ3 says:
The fathers of libertarianism all dreamed of a time when the State was eliminated altogether and mankind could get on with doing what he does best, following his dreams without State interference. Fuck John Lennon, imagine a world without the State, an entire world with no formal governments, you may say I’m a dreamer but it’s an infinitely better way to create a society with every man and woman working for their own best interests.
Educate yourself to understand true libertarianism, read Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Von Mises, Hayek (The Road to Serfdom) the way you look at the world will be forever changed.
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27th January 2013 at 3:30 pm