A Rebel On The Radio: In Defense of Alex Jones

In the wake of last week's suicide attack on an IRS building in Austin, Texas by software engineer Joseph Stack, numerous media critics and establishment pundits are blaming influential documentary filmmaker and radio show host, Alex Jones, for the violent act.

An article in The Guardian called Austin, Texas: paranoid politics central by Amanda Marcotte makes the linkage between isolated acts of violence with truth-telling and data-mining that Jones is known for. As a regular listener of Alex's radio show, I can say for certain that the notion that Alex has made statements in favor of violence against government authorities and government property is completely false. Although Marcotte doesn't target Alex as the prime motivator for Stack's decision to commit what is clearly an act of terrorism, she makes the point that his informational operation in Austin is the nucleus that should be held responsible.

But what is Alex Jones doing wrong exactly? Is questioning your government a vice? Why is disbelief in government accounts of reality considered paranoia? Shouldn't we have learned by now, after the brutal oppression of human rights by governments in the last century, that distrust of authority is a healthy thing in society?

Unlike Joseph Stack, Alex Jones is not a political man. He is a vigilant truth-teller, and unfortunately for the rulers of America, a very successful one. To him, breaking political ties, even when it is against the interests of his politics, is more desirable than lying or sacrificing his integrity. When Debra Medina, a candidate for the Governor of Texas, appeared on his radio show at the beginning of her campaign he was enthusiastically supportive of her intentions and encouraged his listeners to assist her run. But after Medina made the remark that 9/11 truth and the individuals who compromise it are despicable on national television, Alex immediately held her feet to the fire for backtracking on her previous statements, a quality that many journalists lack today. A starkly political man would have let it go, being that the statements were campaign rhetoric meant for the less tolerant members of the voting public. But a man who is dedicated to liberating his countrymen from deceitful politicians, criminal interests and powerful delusions is unfriendly to all who turn their back on the truth and those who righteously demand and stand by the truth.

There is indeed much to admire in such a man. And they are few in number. Even fewer are those who combine passionate truth-telling with mighty eloquence, as Alex Jones does. But such men do not live to enjoy their fruits. As Hannah Arendt writes in her essay "Truth and Politics":

Throughout history, the truth-seekers and truthtellers have been aware of the risks of their business; as long as they did not interfere with the course of the world, they were covered with ridicule, but he who forced his fellow-citizens to take him seriously by trying to set them free from falsehood and illusion was in danger of his life: "If they could lay hands on [such a] man . . . they would kill him," Plato says in the last sentence of the cave allegory. 1

The fact that Alex is attracting all citizens, instead of just those from the left or right, is another telling sign of what he is about. The call of patriotism reaches beyond republican and democrat, liberal and conservative, and Alex is a citizen who has responded the loudest. Marcotte acknowledges his wide appeal but spins it in order to portray it as a bad thing. She says:

Jones's politics are ostensibly libertarian-conservative, but really, his ideology is paranoia. His empire sucks in rightwingers with conspiracy theories that feed the militia gun culture, but they also love conspiracy theories that appeal more to the left, such as the belief that 9/11 was an "inside job".

Marcotte and others are obviously troubled that Alex is objective about the different White House administrations and political candidates, unlike others in the mainstream media who have taken only one side of the field, such as Beck and Limbaugh. Marcotte fails to realize that truth is neither left nor right. That freedom is not republican. And that justice means putting the country above yourself and your party. Then again, how should she know? For she is not a rebel.

And what is a rebel? To Albert Camus, a rebel is a "man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion." 2 And "with rebellion, awareness is born, " Camus writes, specifically, the awareness that all men are born free and have certain rights. And not just any act of rebellion guarantees these rights for a new generation, but a confident act of rebellion, the kind that requires battle out in the open, the kind that Joseph Stack, who cowardly attacked a building out of nowhere, was unfamiliar with. Camus points out:

Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended. 3

Stack acted from the part of man that must always be denounced, the profane and incompetent part. He targeted innocent people, an act which will cement his reputation as a terrorist more so than his raunchy rhetoric will solidify him as a one-time populist polemicist. His suicide attack was not an act of rebellion, but an act of resentment, and false desperation. If he had burned himself alive in his own home, and left a note for the media and IRS explaining his wrath, he would have gained much more sympathy, but causing destruction and injuring ignorant authorities automatically discredits all his grievances.

As Camus writes, "the man who kills himself in solitude still preserves certain values since he, apparently, claims no rights over the lives of others." 4 In contrast, "the rebel's aim is to defend what he is," Camus says, and since a true rebel is peaceful and honest like Martin Luther King Jr, he must remain peaceful to the very end, or else his whole work will unwrap before the rest of the world as another episode in the violent age of humanity.

Islamic extremists, and all extremist suicide bombers, deserve no respect and should never be given any clout because they have a mentality of conquest, and are still ignorant of their true and non-violent power. Stack made the mistake of letting the IRS get to him, and he copied their values of destruction and robbery with his final act, which revealed a tired individual’s indifference to life and human innocence. Camus, again:

Resentment is always resentment against oneself. The rebel, on the contrary, from his very first step, refuses to allow anyone to touch what he is. He is fighting for the integrity of one part of his being. He does not try, primarily, to conquer, but simply to impose. 5

Stack did not impose himself by flying a plane into a building, he exposed himself. He grabbed the attention of the country by performing a weak and desperate act, whereas Alex Jones has continually used peaceful and educational means to wake up individuals from across the globe. Some falsely equate the ability of Alex Jones to impose himself in conversation and on a public street with a pure act of aggression, but it is not, it reflects the warrior's urge to defend the values of his community and all the people in it. And the reason he is able to strongly position himself is because he has chosen to stand behind an invisible shield, the truth, with all his being, which in the present political climate is a very dangerous thing to do because never before has the truth been a bigger threat to the powers that be than today.

In her essay, Arendt describes the indestructible nature of truth, and its much feared ability to stand above the crowd. She writes:

Seen from the viewpoint of politics, truth has a despotic character. It is therefore hated by tyrants, who rightly fear the competition of a coercive force they cannot monopolize, and it enjoys a rather precarious status in the eyes of governments that rest on consent and abhor coercion. Facts are beyond argument and consent, and all talk about them--all exchanges of opinion based on correct information--will contribute nothing to their establishment. Unwelcome opinion can be argued with, rejected, or compromised upon, but unwelcome facts possess an infuriating stubbornness that nothing can move except plain lies. 6

Almost a year ago I wrote, "I'm sure as Alex Jones' popularity and influence grows a bucket full of lies will be thrown at Americans about his intentions, affiliations and message by the government and corporate media." It appears that is happening with increasing frequency, except a bucket full of lies may become a bucket full of spikes. The fact that there is a rebel on the radio whose influence grows every day does not sit well with the rulers of America and the cowardly bunch who stick up for them. But nothing they throw at Alex Jones will ever stick. They can even throw sticks. And bones. And bullets. And bones infused with bullets. And still, they will cause no damage, because Alex Jones is a testament to resistance and courage. He has demonstrated that rebellion is a daily act, not a final violent deed, and surely he packs more explosive energy into one radio broadcast than anything a plane could muster.

Once America's totalitarian government is peacefully and financially reduced to a fraction of its size, and our nightmare is over, we'll have a lot of people to be thankful for, and Alex Jones is certainly at the top of the list. "No permanence, no perseverance in existence," said Arendt, "can even be conceived of without men willing to testify to what is and appears to them because it is." 7





Notes
1. Arendt, Hannah. The Portable Hannah Arendt. Pg. 547
2. Camus, Albert. The Rebel. Pg. 13
3. Ibid. Pg. 19
4. Ibid. Pg. 7
5. Ibid. Pg 18
6. Arendt, Hannah. The Portable Hannah Arendt. Pg. 556
7. Ibid. Pg. 547


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Glenn Beck is a Traitor, Alex Jones is a Patriot

Rolling Stone has caught on to the fact that the Glenn Beck show is a cheap imitation of the Alex Jones show. Alexander Zaitchik, who wrote a profile of Alex Jones for Rolling Stone, calling him "the most paranoid man in America," says in another piece on Alex, this time focusing on his influence on Beck, that Beck is "reverse engineering," material that is first covered by Alex on his show and then using it to attack progressives and the left while protecting the republican party and the American corporatocracy.

For instance, "Beck takes a page from Jones in discussing state-sponsored terror, but twists it for use against Democrats — ignoring Jones’ more radical theory that both parties are historically capable of heinous acts against their own people," writes Zaitchik. In other words, Beck is a republican and elitist shill, while Alex is a maverick and a true patriot who cares about the well-being of his country, and mankind, not any political party or ruling class.

Alex is the quintessential truth-teller, and rebel. He is the real thing. Beck is not only a copycat, but he is a copycat who changes his spots in order to bamboozle the millions of people who watch Fox News, mistaking it to be the anecdote to the so-called "liberal media," and "liberal agenda."

The truth is there is no liberal media, or liberal agenda. Conservatives and republicans of good will have bought the myth that their enemies are on the left. In reality, conservatives and liberals can be allies and friends against America's real enemies: Washington's war criminals, and Wall Street's criminal banks.

Conservatives should be worried about an agenda that threatens America, but it is a corporatist, globalist agenda. Banks on Wall Street, the leadership of Congress and the Senate, and the President of the United States in the last thirty years, from Reagan and Bush, to Clinton, Bush and Obama, have deliberately deindustrialized America, deceived the American people about the nature of U.S. foreign policy and its wars, and overlooked a transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to globally minded oligarchs who are banking on the fact that the American people will be asleep until the day they are finally slaughtered, and shoved aside.

Glenn Beck has gained wealth and fame not by alerting the American people to this very real agenda, but by selling himself as a faithful follower of the constitution and a supporter of conservative values to a clueless and horribly betrayed audience. If the Fox News audience was ever informed that the shining lights on Fox News like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly are in reality devious liars and paid partisan propagandists, they would get mad and demand justice.

Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly, and others on Fox News are not innocent, or merely cynical stooges. They have deviously sold their gullible listeners a false bill of goods, which includes the official lie about 9/11, two criminal wars in the Middle East which have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, Wall Street's rape and takeover of America's economy, and other scandalous events. They could care less about the disappearance of the American middle class, the destruction of America's freedoms under the USA Patriot Act and Homeland Security, and the needless deaths of American soldiers, Iraqis, and Afghans, because they don't have any inkling of patriotism, or love in their dark hearts.

What do you call people who knowingly deceive you into false wars, and persuade you to hand over your life savings and hard-earned tax dollars to cover-up financial crimes committed by soulless bankers? Traitors. We should not shy away from using this word. Beck is not just a sad clown, or your average television whore, he is a traitor because he is consciously dividing his country during a time of crisis. Instead of bringing the left and right together in a common cause against the bankrupt two-party beast, the military-industrial complex's illegal wars, and crooked banks, Beck is pitting ignorant and brainwashed conservatives who love their country against ignorant and brainwashed liberals who also love their country.

Beck is a divider, whereas Alex is a unifier and a real leader. Alex doesn't play ball with the republican establishment, the democratic establishment, and the corporate titans of the news world like Roger Ailes or Rupert Murdoch. He is a man on a mission to educate his countrymen and help save his country. Beck is on a mission to nowhere. His fame is fleeting, and his reputation among his followers will sink when they realize that he is a total fraud. Alex's roots run deep, his moral and intellectual foundation is strong, and his ship is made of steel, which is the complete opposite of Beck. His ship is made of paper, he didn't dig deep for the truth, and he is fine with lying to people about war and murder.

A man who consciously divides his country and helps destroys it by failing to inform his countrymen about the real dangers that threatens their lives and future deserves scorn, and ultimately, a rope around his neck.

Apart from being a traitor, Beck is also a cheap scam artist. People with discernment and good judgment were able to tell right away that Beck was a classic huckster. Fox News was dirty and treacherous before Glenn Beck was brought on board during the first year of Obama's presidency, but since his arrival in January 2009 Fox News has entered the political arena by manufacturing political rallies against the Obama administration. It can no longer be viewed as a right-wing media organization, but a political weapon used by the republican establishment against the American people.

Beck is not focused mainly on repeating republican talking points, which O'Reilly and Hannity mastered with their propaganda operations during the Bush era, instead, he has branched out into the dangerous territory of cultural myth-making, and political scapegoating. He tells his millions of listeners every day that progressives and democrats are responsible for all the problems in America but that is a total lie. Both parties are responsible for the downfall of America. To say otherwise is insane.

Can Beck reform, and walk the path of righteousness with integrity and honesty? I doubt it. He is an opportunist, not a patriot. Beck loves wealth and short-lived recognition more than the truth, and his country. He has chosen his fate. I think it is sad, and tragic. But, not surprising. There are traitors in every country, and every era. Beck probably believes he's on the winning side, the side of the oligarchs, and he doesn't mind fooling conservatives because it's a well-paying gig. If America wasn't a "nation run by swine," as Hunter S. Thompson said, Beck would still be a scumbag on some small-town radio show, not a mega-television star.

In September 2009, Alex wrote an open letter to Glenn Beck, telling him to be on the right side of history. Of course, Beck didn't heed the call. He is happy that his new mask has brought with it millions of dollars, and a prime-time show. Here is an excerpt from Alex's letter:

History is what matters and being on the right side of history is what’s important when it comes to the legacy we leave on this planet. You don’t want people to look back on you as a Benedict Arnold, as a traitor to America. You don’t want people to look back on you as a media whore, as playing the role of being loyal opposition to sucker legitimate and growing grass roots opposition to the new world order.

Your agenda is to put out a dual message – to discredit and polarize the conservative movement to the benefit of the establishment left and the elite. Your bizarre and clownish antics of fake crying, which you proved were staged when you replicated them on demand for a GQ photo shoot, are doing nothing but reinforcing the stereotype that the conservative right is insane.

Your entire 9/12 project has nothing to do with uniting America and everything to do with reinforcing neo-conservative rhetoric about how we should relinquish our rights and accept the police state because terrorists want to attack us and Saddam Hussein has WMD’s and yellowcake.

People who compare Alex with Beck, or view Alex as a wackier version of Beck have no clue what they are talking about. Alex is nothing like Beck. Beck is a fraudster. Alex is filled with courage, compassion, and love for his country. He is not misleading his audience by saying that the democrats deserve all the blame for America's problems like Beck is doing, and he doesn't endorse ignorant and deceptive political opportunists like Sarah Palin. He is an anti-war and anti-corruption voice who deserves to be recognized by the mainstream press for the hard-working hero and patriot that he is, not marginalized and ridiculed.

Alex's meteoric rise into the mainstream is an indication that American culture is resilient and good. Scum like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin can rise, but so do good men like Ron Paul and Alex Jones. This was also true in the 1960s, when Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and other peaceful warriors were rising. They appealed to the better natures of the American people, rather than instilling fear in their minds about the exaggerated communist threat.

The exaggerated threat in our day is terrorism. It is a manufactured threat, and the fact that Alex has done the most to expose this charade should not be forgotten. If Alex was given a national platform on a television network he would undoubtedly lead America into a new enlightenment, and a new political renaissance. He has the talent, and potential to be one of the greatest Americans ever, and remembered as a real hero. His popularity will continue to climb because he has been telling the truth for years. May God bless him, and his loud voice, because it is one of mankind's greatest resources against tyranny in the 21st century.

You should read Alex's letter to Beck in its entirely. He ended the letter by appealing to Beck's better instincts:

"I appeal to you directly Glenn – think twice about what you are doing, think twice about what you are a part of right now. Try to do what you can to redeem yourself and don’t be a Benedict Arnold, don’t be a traitor that takes legions of good-natured but hoodwinked people down the rat hole with you as America collapses because those who had voices and platforms used them to deceive and distract rather than tell the truth."

Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?

Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?

By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Global Research
January 27, 2011

For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive... The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination... The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening... That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing... The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches...

The youth of the Third World are particularly restless and resentful. The demographic revolution they embody is thus a political time-bomb, as well... Their potential revolutionary spearhead is likely to emerge from among the scores of millions of students concentrated in the often intellectually dubious "tertiary level" educational institutions of developing countries. Depending on the definition of the tertiary educational level, there are currently worldwide between 80 and 130 million "college" students. Typically originating from the socially insecure lower middle class and inflamed by a sense of social outrage, these millions of students are revolutionaries-in-waiting, already semi-mobilized in large congregations, connected by the Internet and pre-positioned for a replay on a larger scale of what transpired years earlier in Mexico City or in Tiananmen Square. Their physical energy and emotional frustration is just waiting to be triggered by a cause, or a faith, or a hatred...

[The] major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.[1]

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

Former U.S. National Security Advisor

Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commission

Member, Board of Trustees, Center for Strategic and International Studies

An uprising in Tunisia led to the overthrow of the country’s 23-year long dictatorship of President Ben Ali. A new ‘transitional’ government was formed, but the protests continued demanding a totally new government without the relics of the previous tyranny. Protests in Algeria have continued for weeks, as rage mounts against rising food prices, corruption and state oppression. Protests in Jordan forced the King to call on the military to surround cities with tanks and set up checkpoints. Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Cairo demanding an end to the 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. Thousands of activists, opposition leaders and students rallied in the capitol of Yemen against the corrupt dictatorship of President Saleh, in power since 1978. Saleh has been, with U.S. military assistance, attempting to crush a rebel movement in the north and a massive secessionist movement growing in the south, called the “Southern Movement.” Protests in Bolivia against rising food prices forced the populist government of Evo Morales to backtrack on plans to cut subsidies. Chile erupted in protests as demonstrators railed against rising fuel prices. Anti-government demonstrations broke out in Albania, resulting in the deaths of several protesters.

It seems as if the world is entering the beginnings of a new revolutionary era: the era of the ‘Global Political Awakening.’ While this ‘awakening’ is materializing in different regions, different nations and under different circumstances, it is being largely influenced by global conditions. The global domination by the major Western powers, principally the United States, over the past 65 years, and more broadly, centuries, is reaching a turning point. The people of the world are restless, resentful, and enraged. Change, it seems, is in the air. As the above quotes from Brzezinski indicate, this development on the world scene is the most radical and potentially dangerous threat to global power structures and empire. It is not a threat simply to the nations in which the protests arise or seek change, but perhaps to a greater degree, it is a threat to the imperial Western powers, international institutions, multinational corporations and banks that prop up, arm, support and profit from these oppressive regimes around the world. Thus, America and the West are faced with a monumental strategic challenge: what can be done to stem the Global Political Awakening? Zbigniew Brzezinski is one of the chief architects of American foreign policy, and arguably one of the intellectual pioneers of the system of globalization. Thus, his warnings about the 'Global Political Awakening' are directly in reference to its nature as a threat to the prevailing global hierarchy. As such, we must view the 'Awakening' as the greatest hope for humanity. Certainly, there will be mainy failures, problems, and regressions; but the 'Awakening' has begun, it is underway, and it cannot be so easily co-opted or controlled as many might assume.

Continued. . .

Midnight Tirade: On the slow train long coming

Nassim N. Taleb and Robert Shiller

The video above illustrates the gap between people 'in the know' as in knowing the shit is about to hit the fan, and people who are still sucking at their thumbs while waiting for mommy to come clean their nose. The tremendous divide in knowledge and understanding of the current societal collapse is astounding. Nassim N. Taleb, who describes himself as a "bottom-up libertarian" is another emergent voice of sanity and is taking a no-nonsense approach to the extreme situation we find ourselves in. He accurately says economics is not a science, echoing H.L Mencken who called it a dismal science. Sitting next to him is Robert Shiller, who can only be characterized as a very meek idiot. By comparing the economy to a game in which the referee is the regulator he reveals the lack of sophistication in his and most economists' thinking about the relation between the 'economy' and society. Showcasing his utter naiveté, he calls Bernanke "the great experimenter" and his hyper inflationary policy at the Fed "well intentioned." Shiller exemplifies exactly the type of morons who fill-up most of America's institutions. In the university, government, banks, basically any institution you name these clueless pinheads are running around making bad shit worse. Ignorance is not just in the peasantry anymore, in America the university elite are just as brain-dead about the role of dominant elites and their greatest instrument, a private central bank, as the slaves without a Ph.D

Shiller actually called the creation of the Fed a sign of economic progress, probably understanding it as an act of reason in a wild capitalist economy that preceded FDR's regulatory policies. Wild capitalism? I think the man has a wild imagination, maybe his brain needs to be regulated for the betterment of society. But Shiller is not a free thinker, he obviously does not understand the role of the Fed, or its structure, or the men who designed the Federal Reserve Act, and or even how it was passed in Congress. I'm not a fan of wild guesses but I'll take a risk of my own and guess Shiller isn't aware that the Federal Reserve Act was written by bankers on an island far from Washington and passed in the dead of night on Christmas Eve. But that's the American educational system for ya! The men with the Ph.D's in this society know less than the cab drivers. Cab drivers will take you down memory lane, while the economists yell go, go, go, stop looking back. Maybe we need to figure out how to better measure intelligence in society cause the current models aren't working. So much for degrees, the higher the ladder you get the more narrow and dumb your mind becomes.

I might seem a little hard on Shiller and men like him, but until they own up to their ignorance and gullibility I will not retract any statement. People, and I include experts with Ph.D's, have no more excuses. We can no longer point to propaganda for blocking our eyes when the facts are staring us in the face. Are we going to be rude and not say hello? Have we forgotten that reality is friendly only if you greet him immediately? We don't want to keep him waiting. The glaring facts about the nature and intentions of our financial rulers on Wall Street are no longer hidden from mainstream society, unlike two years ago. Today, there is all out corruption on display for even the blind to see. Ever since Bush, Paulson & co. decided to bail out the banks with taxpayer money, and then subsequently Obama's team continuing the same policies, America has been on a collision course. Some competent souls are speaking out against the direction the US government has taken in the 'economy' but very few of them hold public office. Most are authors, a few are congressmen, and some are very popular radio show hosts. This has obviously become a political and social crisis. The fraudsters on Wall Street did not merely cause a vast transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, their actions have resulted in the loss of even more confidence in the leaders and institutions of our society. There are no conscience and moral leaders with any power in our society. Social unrest and rioting is only a matter of time in America. Judgment day is at hand for a nation whose arrogance and ignorance has reached unbelievable, even apocalyptic, proportions.

I sincerely believe the people no longer have any excuses, they deserve what is coming to them. We all deserve it. I deserve it. I don't believe in collective punishment, but every once a while a catastrophic event is needed to wake the people up spiritually, enticing them to act in the present moment instead of holding off their instinct to rebel to some future date. We should all be marching tomorrow because of the emergency we are in. Throughout my whole conscious life I've lived with anxiousness and an anxiety about a future cataclysmic crisis. I have to gather my opinions thoughtfully so I can state what I feel more honestly. But I'll say this for now, it's easy to remain calm before the storm but we have to be calm in the eye of it. Men like Mr. Taleb who are currently perceived as crazy and flaky because of their constant warnings will be serene when the final hour arrives while the spineless and spiritless who prize their confidence and falsely believe the worst is over will scream themselves to sleep. The tables will be turned and I won't be surprised to see men like Shiller crawling under one.

Evil In The Name of Good: America From December 25, 1913, To September 11, 2001

"The Almighty has His own purposes," said Abraham Lincoln in his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865. Those five simple words explain a lot. It humbles us in a good way. There are some things in this world that the human mind can't penetrate and understand. Some things happen for a reason, not by chance, but we can never know that reason. We have our own conception of the universe, of where we came from as a species, and where we're going in this century, a question that is left ultimately to us to answer, but there is another hand in the universe, a higher power in creation, and spiritual leaders like Lincoln have reminded their fellow human beings of its existence in times of crisis through the ages. It doesn’t direct mankind towards any course, that is our decision, but it is a benevolent force, and it moves in its own way to restore the good in the world when we decide to move.

I'm not a God-fearing person. And I hardly ever pray. But I am mindful that this life is a gift, and that the idea of a God is a good thing when it is not used as a force for violence. Anybody who speaks of the Almighty today is viewed as a religious extremist, or an unscientific, faith-worshipping idiot. I am neither of those things. If God doesn't exist, if he is merely an early invention by the human mind, then I think it is Man's greatest invention, because the idea that there exists in the universe a power that is greater than us humbles us, and makes us less arrogant, less knowing, less consumed by our own madness. Elevating ourselves as the prime movers of this world causes great ruin.

For the record, I believe in the theory of evolution, but I also believe that evolution is a process that was knowingly instilled into us by a high-minded creator. And I am not a blind admirer of this creator that we call God, or whatever intelligent being(s) that made humanity. I respect the dark powers of life, and sympathize with their rejection of the goodness and beauty of this world. The devil, after all, was the first rebel. Some people flirt with the dark side, but they're not strong enough to avoid being taken in by its charm, and are pushed into signing a pact that seals their independence.

Thomas Mann wrote in his essay on Goethe's Faust that, "Goethe, like Mephisto, is no angelic flatterer of creation; and he invents a devil in order to have a mouthpiece for all the rebellion, denial, and critical bitterness he feels in himself," (1). After a while the devil's tricks get old, but his spirit always attracts new followers because it is lively in its own way. Writing of Mephistopheles, Mann says: "Above all he is the genius of fire, he has reserved to himself that destructive, sterilizing, annihilating element," (2). Goethe did not surrender his will to this force that he knew to be hateful, and small. Mann writes, "Goethe's own attitude towards evil is not uniform; it hovers between recognition and contempt," (3).

The powers of Evil have a small but important role to play in human drama. When evil is done people's ears perk up, and they take in the world through a new understanding, and with a new appreciation for life. Awakening mankind's better nature is the gift of darkness. Evil's constant presence in the world, and its active nature, serves as a reminder to the powers of good that they should not let their guard down. Complacency leads to great misfortunes, and horrible tragedies. The attaks on September 11, 2001 woke a lot of people up, most were misled into following, and doing the work of evil, while others are persistently hunting down the truth of what happened on that day so that justice can be done, and the process of spiritual healing can be freed in the world.

Mann said that Goethe wrote Faust with the knowledge of "Everlasting Goodness," that Man's predicament with evil can be overcome as long as he strives to do good. Mann delivered his essay at Princeton University in 1938, before all hell broke loose on the European continent. At the end of his talk he lamented that the world had "fallen a helpless prey to evil and cynicism," and advised his audience to "hold fast to the anti-diabolic faith," that is always present in mankind. Lincoln held fast to this faith at a critical hour in Mankind's journey to eternal freedom, and under his direction America was saved from division, and sin.

The grand experiment prevalied at least for a couple more generations, but it was then blindly forsaken in the dead of night on Christmas Eve in 1913, the day Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act which granted a cabal of ruthless private bankers the unconstitutional power to create money for the whole nation, which they then lend to the federal government with heavy strings attached. Through deception and propaganda the owners of the diabolical Fed seized America's will, and then by the weapon of debt they put America in financial slavery, a misfortune that many Americans are still unaware of to this day.

In our time much of the world is under the dominion of a private banking system (IMF, World Bank) and there is a hidden agenda under away to keep mankind's dynamic will under this cruel system for many more centuries to come. The only thing that stands in the way of the global financial elite's evil designs for mankind is the public exposure of the many crimes and wars that they've financed through the years in various parts of the world.

From the days of when Ezra Pound was preaching that usury is sin to his radio audience during World War II to the current global political awakening the ongoing project of demystifying the Federal Reserve Bank has been long and hard, and it will take even greater effort to expose this beast from hell. Exposing evil, after all, is no easy task. It takes persistence, and will. But the truth is making significant headway. The crime of September 11, and the ongoing war on freedom by the American empire opened a lot of people's eyes to not just the corruption of the National Security State, but to the reality that a private banking class holds tremendous power over our so-called democratic governments through their ability to create money out of thin air.

December 25th, 1913 will be marked by historians as the day when America descended into tyranny. What date will be listed when they write of its liberation?


Notes:
1. Mann, T. Essays of Three Decades. Pg. 23.
2. Ibid., 23.
3. Ibid., 27.