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Originally posted by hidatsa
Excuse my ignorance of American politics, please, but is it a foregone conclusion that the next presidency will be a Democratic one? Will that mean a Republican congress or senate or something? Isn't that the check-and-balance American Way?
The One World Government has been anticipated for generations, since Queen Victoria (who very nearly achieved it) in fact, or possibly Elizabeth I, but surely the population has become far too large and unweildy for anyone actually to desire such a thing?
Economic unity would seem impossible. Where would be the point? Isn't it the disparaty of costs and values around the world that encourages profiteering and exploitation? Isn't it this and gun trade that makes the fat cats fatter?
Any moral, ethical, social, religious and legal unification of could only happen through subjugation and internment of the type going on now, unsuccessfully, in the middle east and fairly recently and equally unsuccessfully in Northern Ireland. This provides short-term, quick and huge profits for the arms trade. There would be no long-term financial gain in successfully unifying the world in this way, but would the political gain be sufficient to warrant an attempt at achieving it?
If the primary political motivation is positive - ie, for the benefit of all mankind - then a world government is not to be feared. If aliens land next week, they might just be of a type that would look favourably on our developed civilisation, were this the case.
If the political motivation is in actuality a covert financial motivation, the aliens had better just stay away - their planet could be next.
Originally posted by Question
They have all the money they could ever have or need. They want power, absolute power.
Yeah, you are correct again. However, any of this in my mind is trumped by my right to free speech along with an untapped phone. Thus they are breaking the law, because they think they are above it. Maybe if more were willing to die and show some backbone, they would not be so high and mighty. As long as the bully wins, he never sees the error of his ways!
Originally posted by Karlhungis
reply to post by Shar_Chi
If anything, mankind seems to be devolving in my opinion
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
OK tough guy, then let me ask you this:
Why, with all this violent rhetoric people like you put out, with your "I'm keeping my guns", "They'll have Hell to pay of they knock on MY door" etc. (paraphrasing here), has no one actually done anything yet?
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
See, I hear everyone talk as if it's inevitable that this horrible NWO is on its way. I hear everyone talk about hiding out, survival, and fighting back when they come for you. Why have none of the militia types, survivalists, people on this site, not actually taken steps to stop it BEFORE it comes? Where's the "lone gunman" to take these people out before their plans come to fruition? Jim Marrs (I think he's the one) supposedly tracks the Bilderbergers or whatever their names are. Why no surgical strike from the "forces of freedom"? Where's the vigilante hero willing to put his life and future on the line to keep these things from happening in the first place?
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
IF you really believe this is happening, and you're REALLY that scared (I think, more and more, that the "NWO" is mere fantasy for people who read too many adventure novels and gun magazines), you or someone like you would have stopped it by now. That whatever it is is still going on leads me to believe most folks squawking about this are full of it. Do what you will. When this turns out to be nothing more than just an attempt to steal massive amounts of money from the world's societies by base criminals I'll still wake up in the morning, go to work, come home, and cook dinner. Nothing will really change.
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
Is Bushco a criminal enterprise? Sure it is. But unless Congress or a new Administration puts a stop to it there's no force on Earth that will fix what has been done. Better to put your efforts to good use, joining your political party of choice on a local level, taking a more active role in your party's operations, and change its culture from within if you don't like what you see.
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
Try thinking about a future for yourself that doesn't involve stockpiling ammunition. It does wonders for your mental health.
Originally posted by percievedreality
I don't know, but it isn't me. I have 3 children, ages 11,6, and 3 so I am not wanting to leave them yet. Hopefully, others are out there planning the surgical strike!
"Nothing will really change, I think you are missing the warning signs, along with the vast majority of the population.
Politics as well as the voting process is a waste of time at this point. I will vote, but I am not expecting to see change, I never have yet!
Okay, your now a qualified psychiatrist? I think my mental health is better than most, at least I am not wrapped up in the BS American Dream and am aware of my surroundings, unlike most of the American public.
Originally posted by McKennalite
reply to post by SEEWHATUDO
The one thing I would add to that involves our collective definition of the "middle class." Having a middle class implies that there are three distinct classes: Upper, middle, and lower. I have trouble with this categorization of wealth, and prefer that we call it what, I believe, it is; Us v. Them.
There is no middle class, but rather a more pronounced gradation of wealth in the lower class. It is quite literally Upper v. Lower, perhaps not 1% v. 99%, but I'm not going to claim to know where to put the cut off line between the two classes. Now, surely, many many folks have it much "worse" than others within the lower division, but creating false categorizations such as lower, middle, and upper divides us in places where unity could give us more strength in struggle.
Too much attention is paid to this nebulous middle class in status quo political discussion, and, as such, this phenomenon has spread into the radical / alternative discussion. If we're going to bring a serious and sustained critique of the current system, we must be united as one large struggling people against the monolith of wealth, power, and apparatus that makes up the ruling class.
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
So in other words, you're all talk. You have too much to lose, so you'll either let someone else do your dirty work (assuming such a person exists to do it), or wait for the worst, run and hide, and hope you and your family will be safe somewhere. Either way, you're not expecting your children will have much of a future. If what you fear comes to pass they're either slaves to an elite group of fascists or hiding out in the wilderness waiting for a hero to save them. Seems to me, if you really believed you'd take a more active role in stopping your "enemy" to PREVENT either scenario.
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
Then I suggest that YOU are missing some signs as well. Record voter turnouts in Ohio and Texas, massive anti-war and anti-"free trade" (no such thing) protests (that the MSM hasn't covered) and a political upswell on the Net that is translating to real-life action at the polls and, I believe, is truly shaping the attitudes of the candidates (the Democratic ones at least) back to really, truly serving the people.
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
I'm just as aware as you are. I just see things a little differently. I'm looking for the positive: Peace, economic stability, the glimmer of hope for a better tomorrow. You're looking for doom, death, destruction and violence. You, and many others here, seem to want a negative future. Whether you want it because it would prove you "right", or whether you want excuses to remove yourself from society and wall yourself up in a fortress, matters not. You see only the worst in humanity and thus you expect the worst. I see the bad as well, but I also try to see the best in humanity and I expect good things to happen. I'm no Christian, but I do believe in the power of positive energy and creative visualization. I also believe in karma. One has to have faith that things will turn out for the best. You don't have to be a psychiatrist to understand that those who only expect the worst, will only find the worst. Negativity, especially for its own sake or to justify some dark, apocalyptic fantasy, poisons the mind and soul.
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
The American Dream isn't BS. It's hard to achieve, harder now because there are so many roadblocks to those not born rich, but one has to believe it can be done-and if it can't under the current rules then you have to believe the rules can be changed. This is a dark period in human history, no doubt. But the balance WILL be restored. Choose your deity or spiritual path, love your family, and have some faith. Life is too important to waste waiting for Armageddon.
Originally posted by percievedrealityIf I saw the upswell of support like in the democractic primaries as you suggest, in a revolt against the government, I would play ball. But not when death is certain for all involved, get 100,000 citizens to attempt it and I will march along.
Until Obama calls out Hillarys' connections to the Bilderburgers, he is playing nice.
I am not going to overlook all the changes in laws and planning that have taken place in the last five years which ultimately givess some corrupt person complete control over 300+ million people with not oversight from another single person! Well, Congress can look into it, 6 months after....sound like due process to you or someone stacking the deck to play God. I am not looking for "doom, death, destruction and violence." I am looking to AVOID "doom, death, destruction and violence."
Originally posted by NellahB
Let's stop blaming Bush for everything! We haven't been attacked since 9/11 ... this is Bush's watch that has kept us safe.
It's your liberals you'd better keep an eye on. They want complete control of us and our country.
Let's get government out of our lives and take back our government of the people, for the people and by the people!
Originally posted by percievedreality
Well, we are more alike than you think! I was just about to tear into that brainwashed conservative blaiming liberals for this mess we are in, but you beat me to it! GOOD JOB!!!
I would like to suggest that the NWO has made all the profits it would ever need (hence the markets are no longer "easy" profit makers and are being closed down) and have also secured the vast majority of infrastructure needed to advance their agenda.
At this point, it is no longer about making money off of us OR to keep us in line, it is about a SIGNIFICANT population reduction worldwide. This gets back to my argument of being "80% down the road" on the path to destruction.