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 2003-01-04 14:07, by Julie Solheim-RoeFrom the December 2002 Idaho Observer: by Hari Heath "There are none so blind as those who will not look. If you are one of those who will look, take a look around. You are surrounded -- surrounded by millions who will not look. These are the blue pill people. Who are these blue pill people and why won't they look? "The Matrix" may be only a movie, but it presents some scenarios with much relevance to our current situation. In the movie, Neo meets Morpheus and is offered an opportunity and a choice. Neo can take the red pill and see the truth for himself, or he can take the blue pill and return, comfortably unaware, to the illusion of the Matrix. There he can live out his life undisturbed by the truth. The truth depicted in The Matrix is an extreme version of modern socialism. In the futuristic scenario of the movie, a massive array of human beings are kept in self-contained pods that resemble artificial wombs. These "row-cropped" human entities are maintained in their pods, from their in vitro conception until they are no longer useful to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) entity. The AI entity needs certain things from these "humans" for its own sustenance, so it continuously breeds new human crops and extracts from them what it needs. In return, the AI entity supplies the humans' needs with several permanent intravenous connections and a neural link. The neural link provides the pod-bound humans with a complete illusion -- the Matrix. In the AI-created illusion the humans have a normal life in a real world. In reality, however, the civilized world was destroyed some time ago and humans have been harvested as crops for the benefit of the Al entity ever since. The Matrix is a complete digital holographic type "world" created by the AI entity to mentally contain its human crops while it extracts what it needs from their pod-bound bodies." http://proliberty.com/observer/20021209.htm From the December 2002 Idaho Observer: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Blue Pill People by Hari Heath There are none so blind as those who will not look. If you are one of those who will look, take a look around. You are surrounded -- surrounded by millions who will not look. These are the blue pill people. Who are these blue pill people and why won't they look? "The Matrix" may be only a movie, but it presents some scenarios with much relevance to our current situation. In the movie, Neo meets Morpheus and is offered an opportunity and a choice. Neo can take the red pill and see the truth for himself, or he can take the blue pill and return, comfortably unaware, to the illusion of the Matrix. There he can live out his life undisturbed by the truth. The truth depicted in The Matrix is an extreme version of modern socialism. In the futuristic scenario of the movie, a massive array of human beings are kept in self-contained pods that resemble artificial wombs. These "row-cropped" human entities are maintained in their pods, from their in vitro conception until they are no longer useful to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) entity. The AI entity needs certain things from these "humans" for its own sustenance, so it continuously breeds new human crops and extracts from them what it needs. In return, the AI entity supplies the humans' needs with several permanent intravenous connections and a neural link. The neural link provides the pod-bound humans with a complete illusion -- the Matrix. In the AI-created illusion the humans have a normal life in a real world. In reality, however, the civilized world was destroyed some time ago and humans have been harvested as crops for the benefit of the Al entity ever since. The Matrix is a complete digital holographic type "world" created by the AI entity to mentally contain its human crops while it extracts what it needs from their pod-bound bodies. In the movie, when Morpheus is about to offer Neo the choice between either the red pill or the blue pill, he explains: "You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain -- but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life; that there's something wrong with the world; you don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?" "The Matrix," Neo asks? "Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes; it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." And Neo asks, "What truth?" "That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch; a prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to experience it for yourself." Those few humans who were either born into reality, or have successfully taken the red pill, become the focus of the movie's story -- their attempts to destroy the Matrix and liberate the mass of humanity that lives completely encapsulated in their pods and the illusions fed to them by the powers that be -- powers that will go to any length to maintain the illusion. Extreme, but not much different than our modern system of corporate government and capitalistic socialism. The governing powers need things from us, not the least of which is our consent. To obtain our consent we are fed all manner of benefits. We are programmed from an early age to believe that such benefits are necessary. To obtain these benefits, a number of conduits are attached to each of us. Adhesion contracts like Social Security, a driver's license; voter registration for a pretended choice of social masters, bank accounts where credit is manufactured for our use and other memberships, registrations, licenses, deeds and permits to insure the conduct of our affairs will be confined within the "matrix" of corporate governance. We are given our own numbered "pod," a social net provided by the government. Educated according to mandates of the state, our belief system is further cultured by corporate media. There are various forms of "welfare" should we succumb to poverty or disease. If we are threatened or in danger we can call 911. Government's job of "securing" us is made easier by the massive database tracking our movements, our finances, the location of our homes and businesses and our tax records. When old age creeps up, we can rely on government to take care of us. The corporate/government/financial interface combines to create a massive illusion of benefits -- the American dream. For the price of a promise to indebt our future labors, pay our taxes and play within the system, there are seemingly limitless toys, castles, comforts and consumables for those who believe in this Matrix. For half our productivity taken in taxes (the other half in payments) and the deeds and title to whatever we think we own, government and its private affiliates will take care of us. To live in this Matrix, all we have to surrender is any genuine sense of independence, personal responsibility and our right to live freely and actually own the fruits of our labors. And, like in the movie, a contingent of agents are deployed to combat any renegade humans who have a will for freedom from the Matrix which surrounds us. As Morpheus expiained, "The Matrix is a system Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so hopelessly dependent on the system, they'll fight to protect it." Why will blue pill people fight to protect a Matrix that enslaves them? It's all they know. And all their toys, castles, comforts and consumables will be gone without the Matrix. Their whole illusionary existence will evaporate, leaving them naked and alone. What won't the blue pill people in our current "real" world look at? They refuse to acknowledge they are funding their enslavement to a socialist homeland police state. Last month, a few "red pill" people traveled to D.C. for an eloquent conclusion to Freedom Drive 2002, exposing the fraud of the l6th Amendment, the IRS, and the federal income tax. But the blue pill people remained comfortably in their coma, ever willing to pay a tax they do not owe. They fund Congress and the Nazi/moron president's implementation of America's new Third Reich, so they can feel "secure." And, so the blue pill people can finally understand what really happened the morning of September 11, 2001, Henry Kissinger, the angel of death and global tyranny, will investigate the facts and tell us the blue-pill truth. Will Americans really believe the Doctor of genocide? Hidden away on the 6th floor of the Department of Justice building is the secret FISA Court. U. S. attorneys have been going there for years to get secret search warrants from in-house, rubberstamp judges under the guise of "national security." This parallel "legal" system can order clandestine searches of citizens' and non-citizens' homes. From the "evidence" gathered, we can be secretly declared "enemy combatants" and held indefinitely at U. S. military bases. Remember the detainment camps those paranoid conspiracy theorists told you about years ago? U.S. officials claim they can detain and interrogate enemy combatants until the executive branch declares an end to the war on terrorism. This includes no access to lawyers or family members; investigations, interrogations, trials and punishments can be held without the protections secured by the Constitution. The Nazi/moron president's administration says there is ample precedent for what it is doing. Are we following the "ample precedent" of a man named Hitler? Meanwile, the Congress has passed the American Gestapo Authorization (Homeland Security) Act which defines a terrorist as: "The term "terrorism' means any activity that -- involves an act that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources; and is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State or other subdivision of the United States; and appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping." As a test for social compliance, 838 blue pillers recently passed blissfully through an unconstitutional random roadblock in Pittsburgh without "seeing" the real "terrorists" in Homeland Security's new America -- the police state (See page 22). Is our present police state "dangerous to human life" and "destructive of critical infrastructure" like the Bill of Rights? Is it "against the laws" (18 USC 241; 242) to deprive a citizen of their right to travel and be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects? Do random roadblocks, by design, "intimidate or coerce a civilian population?" What happens if you don't comply with the roadblock? The next test for blue pill compliance will be mass inoculations for smallpox. Will the blue pill population literally trample all over each other to get their shots as some officials predict? Has the vaccination "matrix" been so well entrenched in the blue pillers' minds that they will actually let mercury, monkey puss and aborted fetal tissue be injected under their skin based on an unproven theory that such things promote health and prevent disease? And what greater "matrix" is there, than our current "fiat;' financial system? We "believe" that a piece of paper with the picture of a dead president has the value of the number printed on it and that one dead president is more valuable than another. We don't even consider that the use of this dead president paper is the direct cause of our own enslavement. Have you ever seen your bank account? It's not there. Only the slight-of-hand practiced by the teller and the accountant behind the scenes makes this illusion look real to the blue pill people. How deep does the rabbit hole go? Near the end of the movie, the Matrix's agent Smith acclaims the virtues of the Matrix to the captive red pill people's leader Morpheus: "Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at is beauty; its genius? Billions of people, just living out their lives -- oblivious." The Idaho Observer P.O. Box 457 Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869 Phone: 208-255-2307 Email: observer@coldreams.com Web: [link] http://proliberty.com/observer/ ************************************************************************* From Franz Schurmann Professor-emeritus of history and sociology UC-Berkeley USA Emergency Powers - The New Paradigm in Democratic America Directions Franz Schurmann, Pacific News Service, Dec 23, 2002 France's leading newspaper Le Monde has just published a major article warning of the growing use of emergency powers in democratic countries. The author cites President Bush's Nov. 13, 2001 military order on the detention of non-citizens as a prime example of "sovereign" power over the rule of law. A lot of Americans are worried that the country is drifting in a direction that seems ominously similar to Germany in the early 1930s. Those who read French would be even more worried if they had read a long article in the authoritative Le Monde of Dec. 12 that warned of the growing use of emergency powers by democratic states. The author of the article is Giorgio Agamben, an Italian who teaches at the University of Verone in France and is currently lecturing at the University of California. He is a deep-thinking European philosopher known for his work on the "Nazi philosopher" Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), whose works on emergency powers are regarded by political scientists as classic. Agamben writes that "the deliberate creation of permanent emergency powers is an essential tool of all contemporary states, including those that are democratic." He specifically cites President Bush's "military order" of Nov. 13, 2001, entitled "Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism." With this military order, the president exercised his authority to suspend the constitutional rights of "certain non-citizens." He was able to do this not as the Chief Executive but as the Commander in Chief in the War against Terrorism. Even before the Nov. 13 decree, hundreds if not thousands of individuals allegedly involved with the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were "disappeared." Many eventually reappeared in foreign countries. Some still remain disappeared. But in the week before Christmas 2002, hundreds, if not a thousand, Middle Eastern non-citizens were deceptively rounded up in Los Angeles and disappeared. This time, authorization came directly out of the Oval Office. And when asked why the roundup occurred the president answered, to "protect the American people." Agamben points out that shortly after he took power, Hitler issued a decree on Feb. 28, 1933, that "suspended" the "Weimar Constitution," which is still admired for its provisions on individual liberties. Hitler justified his decree as "protecting the German people and its state." Shortly after Hitler proclaimed his decree, concentration camps sprang up fast and were filled by "enemies of the people" -- Jews, Communists, Socialists, etc. Yet Hitler did not do away entirely with the Weimar constitution. Weimar courts still operated throughout the 12 years of Nazi rule. A dramatic example occurred in the spring of 1934. Top international Communists in a trial subject to Weimar law were found innocent of setting off the Reichstag (Parliament) fire. And only one mentally retarded Dutchman was found guilty and guillotined. Thus, law was for the German people but not for their "enemies." When Schmitt was born in 1888, the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck was the de facto ruler of the newly united Germany. He was known for his belief that "might comes first, then rights." In Bismarck's day, a nation could put rights first, like Britain, or do like Germany and put might first. But what struck Agamben about Schmitt's ideas was the latter's view that law and politics, while polar opposites, are both needed in modern states. Like batteries, where both poles are needed to make the flashlight work. In democracies such as traditional America or Weimar Germany in the 1920s, the supreme ruler was subject to the law of the land. But Schmitt held that all modern heads of state, whether dictators or presidents, are "sovereigns." He saw the sovereign as being in the nation (the people) and therefore subject to its laws, but at the same not being in the nation by virtue of his special immune position in the state. For Schmitt, whether a head of state could or could not use emergency powers was a concrete test of a ruler's immunity. If he could do so he was a sovereign. If not he only was a chief executive. By Schmitt's theory, George Bush is a sovereign. And that means Bush is beyond the law as Commander in Chief, but subject to the law as Chief Executive. An example is President Nixon. He was immune from the law until his last hour in the presidency. But the immediate act of his successor, Gerald Ford, was to grant Citizen Nixon a full pardon before he could be indicted. This was an act of political might by Ford that only a sovereign could make. Power politics drove Nixon out of office, not law. Americans are not surprised that non-democratic regimes use all kinds of force to maintain their state and keep their peoples passive. But why would democracies do the same? Agamben has an answer. He speaks of a growing "global civil war that is making emergency powers the dominant paradigm in contemporary politics." The War on Terrorism enunciated by President Bush only a few days after 9/11 is global, but civil wars, so far, are not threatening the global system. So in America, middle-class life goes on oblivious to the fate of non-people disappeared into the darkness. But an apparatus, in the form of the Department of Homeland Security, has been created for handling a much worse situation than now. The DHS already has a budget that ranks second to only that of the Pentagon. PNS Editor Franz Schurmann is professor emeritus of history and sociology at UC-Berkeley and author of numerous books on foreign and domestic politics. |