Sunday, April 5, 2020

Americans Are Marching To Their Own Enslavement And They're Happy About It


American’s are marching to the beat of a different drummer. No longer concerned about freedom or their constitutional rights, they have allowed fear to dictate their every move. Despite emerging evidence suggesting this “pandemic outbreak” is not as bad as originally projected, Americans are still allowing themselves to be locked down in their homes and corralled in lines ̶ like cattle, while shopping. Nation wide stores like Lowe’s, Home Depot and Wal-Mart have started enforcing social distancing rules, while allowing only a certain number of people in the store per 1000 square feet. This is very dehumanizing and is resulting in long waiting lines. Church pastors are being arrested while criminals are being released from prison and more and more people are losing their jobs. Yet, Americans for the most part, insist the government take these actions because they have allowed fear and irrational thinking to control them. This is a conditioning process; a process designed to make us happy with our enslavement and accept our demise as a free, prosperous country.

Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Health and advisor to President Trump over this matter, has been preaching gloom and doom from his bully pulpit. He has advised Americans to expect a death toll possibly in the hundreds of thousands in the coming weeks. Most Americans are unaware of the paper he published in The New England Journal of Medicine on March 26th 2020. It’s as if the man is talking out of two sides of his mouth. This paper, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, suggests the consequences of Covid-19 may be no more severe than a seasonal flu with a death rate of less than one percent. He does suggest a possible two percent rate for those that develop severe pneumonia symptoms; but as new data from New York suggests, this is occurring mostly in people with pre-existing health conditions. In fact, much of the response to Covid-19 has been based on bad data. Epidemiologist John Ioannidis, from Stanford University, notes that had it not been for the massive reporting and fear mongering over this alleged new virus, it would appear as nothing more than a harsh flu season.

On one hand, for those seeking alternative information, it seems this may have been over-hyped. On the other, watching this play out as most people continue to pay attention to the mainstream media, we appear to be living in a dystopian novel. People are increasingly allowing themselves to be controlled.

The consequences of over panicked reactions are already manifesting themselves in disturbing ways. Our cell phones are being used, in some cases, to track us and our compliance with social distancing rules. People are calling the police on one another, and apps are being created to make it easier to do so. Worse than this even, is the effects this is having on the economy. There were over ten million unemployment claims in March and that number is expected to climb. Disturbingly, there is a definite correlation between the unemployment numbers and suicide rates. According to a study by The Economist, for every point unemployment goes up, 21 out of every 100,000 people commit suicide. This could mean many more hundreds of thousands dead than the predicted numbers killed by the virus. This isn’t even counting those that could die simply by losing everything and starving.

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a conditioning process is described where newly hatched babies are shocked whenever they are shown flowers and books. When this is done enough, an association is created between the pain and the image being shown to them, leading to the hatred and rejection of flowers and books. This is very similar to the conditioning process taking place today. Through the media, Americans are constantly being exposed to stimulus designed to cause fear and panic. While watching television, the brains limbic system, which governs our survival responses in times of panic, is more active than the neo-cortex, which allows us to think logically. Therefore, we perceive what is being presented to us in a manner that makes us react with fear. We believe we are in the middle of a massive pandemic and turn to government for help. The government enacts draconian controls and most of us thankfully accept them under the false notion that if we didn’t life would end, and we would all be doomed. Just as the case in Huxley’s novel, any deviation from what the controllers want you to fear is met with hatred and vitriol. Americans are blissfully marching into their own imprisonment, and they are happy about it because the government is protecting them.   


Sunday, March 22, 2020

A Constant State of Trauma


The coronavirus can best be described as the latest crisis the government will not let go to waste. America is in a state of panic and in a very timely fashion, the powers that be are responding with their pre-planned solutions. Unfortunately, most Americans do not see this for what it is. They are allowing themselves to be guided into a state of predictable behaviors. They are willingly self-quarantining, for example, while the government is considering using our cell phone data to track us to ensure we are practicing good social distancing behaviors. Allowing the government to control how many people can socialize in one group will only result in Americans being isolated from one another when we need to be coming together. It seems that after years of discrediting the mainstream media as fake news and propaganda, millions of Americans are now, following their every dictate. This is because of fear, and the fact that our reaction to it has been made into a science. 

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. (Alinsky, Rules for Radicals)

Americans have been exposed to constant chaos and trauma since at least, the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The media, since that time, has been used to create a state of mind that is always reacting to a frightening stimulus. Constant shootings, economic problems, global warming and the threat of dangerous weather, war, terrorism and of course, killer viruses by the dozens. Zika, mersa, sars, bird flu, swine flu and Ebola, to name just a few in the past ten years alone. Americans are addicted to entertainment media, spending an average of thirty-five to forty hours a week in front of the television. There is research that suggests that too much television changes the way the brain functions. In an article entitled “Brain wave Measures of Media Involvement,”  by Herbert Krugman, it is suggested that the brains Neo-cortex, also known as upper region, shuts down while the limbic system, (the lower portion) becomes more active. These lower regions of the brain cannot process information the way the Neo-cortex does, therefore, the ability to discern reality from television programming is diminished.

When you’re watching television the higher brain regions (like the midbrain and the neo-cortex) are shut down, and most activity shifts to the lower brain regions (like the limbic system). The neurological processes that take place in these regions cannot accurately be called “cognitive.” The lower or reptile brain simply stands poised to react to the environment using deeply embedded “fight or flight” response programs. Moreover, these lower brain regions cannot distinguish reality from fabricated images (a job performed by the neo-cortex), so they react to television content as though it were real, releasing appropriate hormones and so on. Studies have proven that, in the long run, too much activity in the lower brain leads to atrophy in the higher brain regions. (Krugman, 1971)

In other words, watching too much television activates the brains natural fear mechanisms. The powers that be have known this since the War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938. The book “Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic” highlights this by noting the fact that social scientists immediately began studying man’s panicked reaction to the belief that Earth was being invaded by Martians. As silly as it seems, they were able to gain valuable “insight into his intelligence, his anxieties and his needs, which we would never get by tests or strictly experimental studies” (Cantril, 1940). This suggests that we are always under a microscope, with our reactions being studied, and our behaviors being manipulated.

We are being conditioned to respond to fear, and our reactions are being studied for the purpose of developing future policies and gaining control of our behavior. There are those who would call this alarmist and conspiratorial; however, in 2015 an executive order was issued which essentially laid the ground work for such an agenda.

A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights -- research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them -- can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people.

While the order seems to revolve around making life better for the American people, very few could legitimately argue any of the objectives have come to fruition. Instead, society is spinning out of control. The order also proves that government studies us and uses our reactions to push us in certain directions. In the case of the coronavirus, it can be argued they knew how we would react, and they are taking advantage of our fear by encouraging us to isolate ourselves from the world while buying large amounts of toilet paper.

Fear is a powerful motivator. It could theoretically be argued that Americans are trapped in a constant state of post traumatic stress like symptoms. Since September 11, 2001, as mentioned earlier, we have been constantly exposed to media propaganda aimed at creating a state of panic. Our schools are beating our children down with an indoctrination designed to cause angst and hatred towards the country, undoubtedly causing them stress. According to an article in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, traumatic memories can be triggered when the brain receives a stimulus in the context of that traumatic event. It does not have to be the same, nor does it have to have a meaningful relationship with the original trauma. This is of course, the standard definition of post-traumatic stress disorder. Given the evidence presented in this article it must be considered that media, along with the government and other powers that be, are deliberately creating panic in order to guide and further learn how to predict your behavior. When we see a mass shooting for example, and they call it home grown terrorism, our brains are subconsciously reminding us of the horror of September 11. Furthermore, with every mass shooting that occurs our reactions to anything gun related are likely to be the same due to the created association between guns and terrorism. The coronavirus is just another panic inducing crisis that will be capitalized on by our government. The best thing you can do is shut the TV off and live your life.

 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.


Monday, March 9, 2020

Sometimes I just write poetry


Sometimes I just write poetry.
To show the world the different, hidden parts of me.
There is so much more that I long to say.
Perhaps I'll share that with the world one day.
Sometimes when I'm alone spending time with me, I sit down and let my thoughts, just focus on my poetry.


If I told the world today what I aspired to be, would any understand or take me seriously?
I want to write poetry, let words pour from the depths of my soul.
Share with the world the important things in life, that I have come to know.
Learn to show compassion for the sake of all humanity.
Jump off this rushing train, to self-induced insanity.
Appreciate this life we've all been blessed to live.
Open your hearts, your love learn to give.


The sound of white capped waves crashing the beaten shore.
Inhabitants far inland, bracing for the storm.
Natures furious anger, reaping vengeance on the weary.
Sunlight going fast, approaching clouds dark and dreary.
Will this storm pass and leave us be in peace? Or will the violent winds grow in anger, and ravagely increase?
We will stick it through, bracing 'till the end. When it finally passes our lives we'll surely mend.



I awoke this morning from a dream so strange.
I had dreamt the world was different, it somehow had changed.
Just how glorious can this beautiful world be?
To find out, start by being the change you want to see.





Sunday, February 23, 2020

Gun Control and the Silencing of Opposition


A mass shooting in Germany, which took the lives of nine people is being blamed on an anti-immigrant, right-wing extremist. On Wednesday, February 19, the gunman launched his attack in an area well known to be inhabited by immigrants, and the first victims were of Turkish origin. This was enough for the Interior Minister of the state of Hesse to label this a mass slaughter motivated by bigotry. The shooters alleged manifesto (the fact there is a manifesto should be the first clue something is out of place) calls for the outright elimination of several African countries that all happen to be Muslim majority. The implication being that he is an anti-Islamic, white nationalist. In America the left-wing media also attempts to blame all mass shootings on the so called racist, right-wing extremists who supposedly hate everyone who isn’t white. In the report Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, Americans who speak out against immigrants are considered potential threats to national security. Labeling dissenters as extremists is part of a larger agenda to silence the growing opposition to the destruction of national borders and the flooding of nations with third world immigrants.

Germany has very stringent gun control laws in place. Out of a population of 80 million, two million people own nearly five and a half million guns. Police also estimate that there are over twenty million illegal guns in the country. In order to legally purchase a gun an individual must first have a justifiable reason, (self-defense is not considered justifiable) undergo a very strict background check, demonstrate knowledge of firearms satisfactory to the licensing agency and, first-time applicants under the age of twenty-five must complete a thorough psychiatric evaluation. Their gun laws were recently updated to include provisions such as home inspections of gun owners by the countries domestic intelligence agency. This was done to ensure compliance with the nations safe gun storage laws, and monitor behavior for signs of right-wing extremism. These checks would occur every five years, and the gun owner would have to justify to the government’s satisfaction, the reason they need a firearm. This is another example of the utter and complete failure of gun control because the shooter in the February 19 killings was a licensed firearm owner. Of course, this shooting has renewed interest in the passage of stricter gun control laws.

Allegedly, gun crime rates in Germany are low compared to the rates of gun ownership. What is on the rise, however, is violent knife crime. This is a trend that is occurring all over Europe. For example, Jihadwatch.com is reporting that there are over one-hundred-twenty knife related crimes per day in France, that all can be linked to the countries immigration policies. In Germany, the number of knife related crimes has skyrocketed by over nine hundred percent in the past decade. There are over ten a day and the media does not report them, nor do the police release the names of the perpetrators.

 German media do not report most knife-related violence. Crimes that are reported are often dismissed as "isolated incidents" that are unrelated to mass immigration. Moreover, many crime reports, including those in police blotters, omit references to the nationalities of the perpetrators and victims — apparently to avoid inflaming anti-immigration sentiments.... Many Germans have the sense that danger lurks everywhere, but the lack of official statistics seemingly allows German authorities to pretend that the problem is imaginary (Kern, 2019).

The U.K. is another example where up to sixty percent of the violet knife crime occurring is committed by Islamic immigrants. Britain, like Germany and France, has very restrictive gun laws but that is not keeping people safe. It is making them easy targets to violent criminals who have no regard for human life. The problem is so out of hand in London that the only solution the government can come up with is the pushing of knife control campaigns to further disarm law abiding people.

America is also under extreme pressure from massive illegal immigration. This is a trend occurring all throughout the western world and the excuse is that civilized nations must take in refugees from war torn countries and nations affected most by issues like climate change. Mass immigration is an agenda driven by the United Nations in its quest for global government. The U.N. report, “Replacement Migration: Is it a solution to declining and aging populations?” highlights the need to replace populations where there are allegedly low fertility and high mortality rates. Ironically, the United States, Britain, France and Germany are all listed as targeted nations for population replacement. This is interesting considering the fact that many western countries are being brainwashed into believing that having children is unsustainable for the environment due to over population of the planet. Also, in these very same countries abortion is being pushed as a human rights issue. Is it possible that the western world is being programmed to de-populate itself, so that there is a need to replace populations?

Those considered to be politically conservative tend to advocate for laws that honor a nations national identity. They oppose illegal immigration and encourage assimilation into the nation’s culture. They have no problem with legal immigration, they just believe there should be some level of adopting the welcoming country’s culture and customs. According to the article Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, conservatives suffer from mental illness because of their rigidity towards change. Political conservatism, according to Jost, Kruglanski, Glaser and Sulloway (2003) is merely an attitude developed to “reduce fear, anxiety, and uncertainty; to avoid change, disruption, and ambiguity; and to explain, order, and justify inequality among groups and individuals.” In other words, you are a racist if you oppose millions of people who have no regard for your culture but expect you to honor theirs pouring into your country.

Recent mass shooters in the United States have been labeled as white nationalists, or white supremacists. Just as it is in Germany, if the shooter doesn’t fit this description it receives very little airtime or may be swept under the rug and ignored all together. The agenda is to label all those opposed to mass immigration as being unstable, uncompassionate or potentially dangerous. Several states have passed red flag laws, with many more somewhere in the process of doing so. Under these laws the government can remove an individual’s firearms if they have been deemed a threat to themselves or others. In this article it has been demonstrated that Germany is actively seeking to keep firearms out of the hands of people the government deems to be “right-wing extremists.” American’s that oppose illegal immigration are also considered to be extremists and conservatism as a political ideology, a mental illness. There is a definite correlation between violent crime and mass immigration, and people in western nations feel as if their livelihood and national identities are being stolen from them. The more we speak up, the more they label us as potential terrorists. Every time they portray one of these shootings as being committed by an anti-immigrant nationalist” the more public opinion turns against rational conversations about immigration. How long is it before a political ideology can have you deemed a danger to yourself or others in the United States?

           

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Another Red Flag Failure


There was another tragedy in Florida. Though, this one did not involve a gun. If a gun had been involved it is all too obvious that Florida’s increasingly oppressive gun control laws would have done little to stop it. Florida was one of the first states to adopt the unconstitutional red flag laws after the Parkland school shooting two years ago. Since that time, over 3,500 people have been stripped of their firearms after being deemed a danger to themselves or others. Thirteen-year-old Corey Johnson should have been considered a danger to himself or others. Perhaps that would have stopped him from slashing the throat of young Jovanni Alexander Sierra after he converted to Islam

Johnson bought the knife from a local Publix store. The parents of Sierra are seeking to sue Publix for selling him the knife because it is illegal for people under the age of eighteen to purchase one. Prohibiting the sale of a knife to minors would most definitely prevent them from obtaining one from just about anywhere else. Perhaps they should institute a national background check for knife purchases because it has kept firearms out of violent criminals’ hands so well. It is a good thing Florida doesn’t have knife control laws in place because they would be a colossal failure.

Johnsons conversion to Islam should have been a red flag because according to the journal “Combating Terrorism Exchange,” the number of Islamic converts committing acts of violence has risen dramatically since September 11, 2001. This isn’t to suggest that all people who convert to Islam are potential threats, that would be a bigoted assumption. There is anecdotal evidence however, that shows “they constitute a growing pool of hundreds, if not thousands, of very dangerous people who represent direct security threats” (Arasli, 2011). There is also evidence suggesting a high percentage of Muslim terror attacks involve people who have recently converted to the religion. For example, Arasli (2011) states that out of forty-two Islamic terror plots foiled in the U.S. immediately following 9/11, twenty-six of them involved converts. After September 11, Johnsons conversion would have likely caught the attention of investigators. Today’s rampant political correctness has entirely changed the way terrorism is investigated. Over fears of appearing “Islamophobic,” former FBI director Robert Mueller removed hundreds of pages of documents which identified the growing threat of radical Islam from the training manuals. Taking its place as the new terrorist threat is the American gun owner.

Red flag laws are becoming the go to solution for an imagined gun violence epidemic. Under these draconian, soviet style laws, a person can file a petition with the court to have an individual’s firearms removed based on behavior alone. Dr. Dennis Petrocelli, a clinical psychiatrist, writes in his article Raising Red Flags, that confiscating guns based on the premise that someone may commit a violent crime is not something that can be proven effective. There is no evidence, according to Petrocelli, that any medical doctor or psychiatrist has, or can, successfully predict an individual’s future behavior.

Red flag laws have just become a convenient excuse to disarm America one person at a time. They have accomplished little in the way of public safety by focusing on people who have committed no crime. Even in the case of Johnson, there is no law that would have prevented this tragedy. Even if the FBI had been keeping tabs on Islamic converts, there was nothing in this individual’s behavior suggesting that he would commit a murder. Florida claims its red flag law has been enormously successful, however, in August of 2018 there was another school incident where two people were shot. On February 19, 2020 a man was shot dead near a North Miami Dade grocery store. On February 18, 2020 a home invasion left one man dead and another wounded, with no information on the suspects. A shooting on February 17, 2020 left one dead in Miami Gardens. Finally, three hours after the last one a twenty-three year old was shot dead at Lauderdale Lakes. This is four murders, excluding Johnson, in a three day period that Florida’s red flag law did nothing to prevent.

The only thing red flag laws are doing is disarming innocent people and denying them their rights to due process.


Sunday, February 16, 2020

Warrior's Forgotten and A Nation Lost


There’s a patch that’s commonly seen on the back of old veteran’s biker jackets, or sometimes hanging at a local V.A. hospital. The patch has a quote that always rung in my head with a certain truth because so many people disregard our nations warriors, and our country is so much the worse for it. The patch reads “A nation that forgets its defenders is a nation soon forgotten.” Our government has sent them off to foreign wars under the lie that they are defending freedom and then, leave them to rot, or label them as terrorists when they return.

In Wisconsin a combat vet named Rich Clewien is experiencing this now, as I write this article. Rich has no criminal record and was discharged honorably from the United States Army. He purchased ten acres of land in rural Wisconsin where him and his wife both work for the state corrections department. Rich built a makeshift shooting range on his property which is perfectly legal to do. His neighbors however were offended and called law enforcement. Despite officers finding no evidence of wrongdoing and filing no charges, his neighbors continued the unnecessary harassment by filing a civil suit against him. The suit alleges that Rich is creating a public nuisance which is a complaint that is nearly impossible to defend against. Again, it should be noted that Mr. Clewien has broken no law at this point.

We live in a time where constant propaganda has created an environment of irrational fear and mistrust of people who own firearms. Most of us remember being eleven or twelve and taking hunter safety classes at the local rod and gun club. These days, children are suspended from school and mass chaos ensues when children bite pop tarts in gun shapes. In Colorado, a teenage boy was suspended from school for going to a shooting range with his mother.

The country’s attitude towards firearms certainly has changed. There is a concentrated effort to manipulate the young minds of America into an anti-gun mindset. Eric Holder, Obamas former attorney general, said that people need to be brainwashed into thinking differently about guns. America has traditionally been a warrior culture where firearm ownership has been considered our birthright and as much a part of American heritage as apple pie. If they want to disarm us, then they must first change our minds. This is being accomplished in any number of ways. The schools are continually running shooter on campus drills which, along with the spectacular media coverage of actual school shootings, creates a state of panic in our children. These children will grow up being tomorrow’s gun control advocates.

Without a doubt the most dangerous development of the gun control agenda is the spreading plague of red flag laws, or extreme risk protection orders. Ever since Donald Trump said on live television, “take the guns first go and then go to court,”, states have been passing them at an increasingly alarming rate. Many of these states are headed up by republican majorities as well. Under most of these laws a person can have their guns confiscated on the mere suggestion that they may pose a danger to themselves or others. There is no forewarning, no trial, no charges filed. Just an accusation based on fear. The term “a threat to themselves or others” itself is so vague and is ripe for abuse. Some of these laws even consider a recent purchase of a gun or ammunition to be a warning sign. Ultimately, the goal of red flag laws is to do exactly what Eric Holder suggested, create a constant fear of gun ownership to the point where simply owning a gun can have one labeled as potentially dangerous.

Wisconsin does not currently have a red flag law, though one has been introduced in 2019. This doesn’t matter for Mr. Clewien because the state is acting as if they do. Marquette County Judge Chad Hendee, on behalf of the suing party, has ordered him to release his V.A. medical files, which are protected by federal HIPPA laws. The judge has also order Mr. Clewien to provide an inventory of his firearms and all receipts for purchased ammunition. The judge cannot do this, it is a violation of the fourth amendment. If Mr. Clewien fails to provide this information by March first, he will be held in contempt of court.

Judge Hendee says that “a good judge listens well and treats all people fairly and equally without drawing immediate conclusions” (Allen, 2019). It seems to me that he is extremely biased against war veterans. Mr. Clewien has broken no laws and served his country honorably under the sincere belief he was defending their freedom, unaware of how the country has slowly changed. He is being treated like he is dangerous simply because he was in the service and he likes to shoot. With today’s increasingly hostile attitude towards the constitution, the bill of rights and gun ownership; along with the engineered mistrust brought about by divide and conquer tactics, this could happen to any one of us at any time.

The Plight of the American Vet….

Warriors in search of honor,
     in a war where there was none.

     Home to the ungrateful,
    labeled, they took his gun.

    A soldier in search of faith,
    his religion been replaced,
    Comes home from all the fighting
             To a completely different place.

              Fighters search for peace,
              war rages in their head.
              Goes back to those that sent them,
              homeless without a bed.

             Young men search for truth
              among men who only lie.

              We fought your war, yet you forsake us,
              may I ask you why?

















Friday, February 14, 2020

In A World Not of Our Making


Trapped in a world not of our making,

Glimpses of the future, our hearts sadly aching.



What happened to freedom? Where did our country go?

Where did these tyrants come from? Whom to liberty they say no.



I have hopes and my children their dreams.

My wife wants to sail in the brisk ocean breeze.


I want to share joy, fancy the world’s wonder.

I love to write poetry in storms of roaring thunder.



Our freedom is slipping, being ripped away.

No not tomorrow, it is happening now, it is happening today.



Quiet soul shudders, my eye sheds a tear.



The day that would never come, drawing dangerously near.



This life is mine by virtue of God, and freedom is my right. It is not I who is picking, this senseless needless fight.



For the tyrant is here and we know what is to come.

For this life we hold dear, we can never turn and run.


The Warrior's Poet

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