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Executive Orders
By Jessi Winchester, Author of From Bordello to Ballot Box
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein
Ever wonder why more and more prisons are being built but so many stand empty? Current presidential executive orders certainly make it clear. Under a "national emergency," these prisons would become concentration camps for American citizens run by F.E.M.A. [Federal Emergency Management Agency].
The FEMA website is quite candid about the fact that for the past 15 years presidential executive orders authorize the agency to exercise powers akin to Nazi Germany's should a "national emergency" be declared.
George W. Bush is a pampered brat born into a family that spoiled him into believing he was entitled to get whatever he wanted regardless of anyone else. Everything he touches turns brown. He controlled every company into oblivion and had to rely on Daddy's rich friends to get him out of trouble. And now he is ruining our nation.
It is frightening to realize that this one person can interpret what is an emergency and start the ball rolling that would separate families and ruin millions of lives. But executive orders already written and part of law, do exactly that.
Copies of the orders are available from the Federal Register in Washington, D.C. If/when enacted, these orders would completely do away with the Constitution, render it totally worthless, and it would cease to exist.
Under the incredibly powerful F.E.M.A., the following executive orders could be immediately enforced:
E.O. 12148 - FEMA would take over under conditions of national disaster, social unrest, insurrection, or a national financial crisis.
E.O. 10995 - ". provides for the seizure of all communications media in the United States."
E.O. 10997 - ". provides for the seizure of all electric power, petroleum, gasoline, fuels and minerals, both public and private."
E.O. 10998 - ". provides for the seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private, and ALL farms, lands, and equipment."
E.O. 10999 - ". provides for the seizure of all means of transportation, including personal cars or vehicles of any kind, and control of all highways, seaports, and waterways."
E.O. 11000 - ". provides for the seizure of ALL American people for work forces under federal supervision, including splitting up of families if the government has need to."
E.O. 11001 - ". provides for government seizure of all heath, education and welfare functions."
E.O. 11002 - ". designates the postmaster general to operate a national registration of all persons." [This is where families would be split up, as people would be ordered to report to the local post office to be separated and assigned to a new area].
E.O. 11003 - ". provides for the government to take over all airports and aircraft; commercial, public and private."
E.O. 11004 - ". provides for the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations and populations."
E.O. 11005 - ". provides for the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities."
E.O. 11051 - ". FEMA has complete authorization to put the above orders into effect in time of increased international tension or economic or financial crisis."
President Nixon combined all of the above orders into E.O. 11490, which would be implemented if a national emergency is declared by the President. Another terrorist attack on U.S. soil could present the perfect circumstances for a power hungry president to become a dictator.
President Clinton signed E.O. 12919 in June, 1994, which spells out the extent of power allocated to FEMA. Included among those powers are confiscation of all property - including firearms - from the American people, their relocation, and assignment to "labor camps." FEMA would work in conjunction with the U.N. and American troops are already being brainwashed and conditioned to assist U.N. forces against their own fellow citizens, family, friends, and neighbors.
George W's push to invade Iraq without provocation would certainly create the "international emergency" needed to implement the above orders and turn America into a total dictatorship.
George Bush, Sr. even signed an executive order in 1989 permitting FEMA to build internment camps. Yes, you heard me right. There are currently 43 primary camps capable of holding up to 100,000 citizens and hundreds of secondary facilities - including countless state prisons that have been completed and staffed but hold no prisoners. It appears George W. is simply carrying on Daddy's agenda to turn America into a fascist country.
An operation is even in place [Operation Dragnet] where all it would take is a call from the President to Attorney General John Ashcroft and millions of arrest warrants will be issued to round up patriots they deem a threat to total control. Citizens on the "politically incorrect" list would find themselves residing in the internment camps that have already been set up and run by FEMA.
Another FEMA operation [Operation Rolling Thunder] would use ATF, National Guard, active duty soldiers, and local police to make house-to-house sweeps to seize all guns and food.
On October 1, 1994, the United Nations took control of underground satellite tracking facilities within the U.S. that have the ability to focus a camera on a person's property to the point of being able to read the street number on your door. Modern technology and evil intent by top leaders in our own government have made it impossible for innocent, law abiding citizens to live without fear.
Executive Orders were created, signed, and placed in the Federal Register in Washington, D.C. without fanfare or public notice. While they are technically public knowledge, one would not be aware of their existence if they were not a watchdog of public policy. These sinister orders are a deception and betrayal of the U.S. Constitution and the American people by the occupant of the Oval Office.
Our military is comprised of American fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. Washington would turn them into jackbooted thugs with implementation of current Executive Orders. Our own relatives, friends, and neighbors would be the ones stomping through the streets, surrounding our neighborhoods, and breaking down our doors.
Never in my darkest nightmares could I have imagined the enemy would be my own countrymen.
Copyright @ Jessi Winchester 2002 All Rights Reserved
Column written for LibertyForAll Internet Magazine, August, 2002
Comment on this article on our Message Board.
Copyright @ Jessi Winchester 2002, All Rights Reserved
Column written for LibertyForAll Internet Magazine, April, 2002
Winchester was raised on a cattle and crop ranch in Iowa. Besides working full-time for Hollywood executives and doing some part-time motorcycle stunt work, Jessi has also worked in the legal bordellos, competed in a Mrs. Nevada pageant, produced an industry calendar, held annual Bordello Balls for charity, was the subject of an infamous larger-than-life painting by renown artist John Hunt, ran for political office, and has now become a published author. Jessi Winchester remains an advocate for the every day citizen and an outspoken voice for individual liberties as defined under the U.S. Constitution.
"Childhood on a cattle ranch in Middle America led to adulthood on a very different type of *ranch* in Nevada," so says Jessi Winchester in her recently released book.
Jessi's autobiography, From Bordello To Ballot Box, was released by BainBridgeBooks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November, 2000. The book goes behind the mysterious closed doors of Nevada's legal brothels to look at the ladies who choose to work in the industry and the clients who visit them. It also chronicles the author's personal experiences as a political candidate, provides a revealing look at the private faces of political personalities and explores how ruthless and unseen power mongers control and predetermine political choices. Her journey documents the strength of the human spirit in overcoming prejudice and double standards in an effort to simply be treated as a human being. Jessi can be reached via email at Jwinchster@aol.com
http://libertyforall.net/jessi.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Jessi Winchester, Author of From Bordello to Ballot Box
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
- Albert Einstein
Ever wonder why more and more prisons are being built but so many stand empty? Current presidential executive orders certainly make it clear. Under a "national emergency," these prisons would become concentration camps for American citizens run by F.E.M.A. [Federal Emergency Management Agency].
The FEMA website is quite candid about the fact that for the past 15 years presidential executive orders authorize the agency to exercise powers akin to Nazi Germany's should a "national emergency" be declared.
George W. Bush is a pampered brat born into a family that spoiled him into believing he was entitled to get whatever he wanted regardless of anyone else. Everything he touches turns brown. He controlled every company into oblivion and had to rely on Daddy's rich friends to get him out of trouble. And now he is ruining our nation.
It is frightening to realize that this one person can interpret what is an emergency and start the ball rolling that would separate families and ruin millions of lives. But executive orders already written and part of law, do exactly that.
Copies of the orders are available from the Federal Register in Washington, D.C. If/when enacted, these orders would completely do away with the Constitution, render it totally worthless, and it would cease to exist.
Under the incredibly powerful F.E.M.A., the following executive orders could be immediately enforced:
E.O. 12148 - FEMA would take over under conditions of national disaster, social unrest, insurrection, or a national financial crisis.
E.O. 10995 - ". provides for the seizure of all communications media in the United States."
E.O. 10997 - ". provides for the seizure of all electric power, petroleum, gasoline, fuels and minerals, both public and private."
E.O. 10998 - ". provides for the seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private, and ALL farms, lands, and equipment."
E.O. 10999 - ". provides for the seizure of all means of transportation, including personal cars or vehicles of any kind, and control of all highways, seaports, and waterways."
E.O. 11000 - ". provides for the seizure of ALL American people for work forces under federal supervision, including splitting up of families if the government has need to."
E.O. 11001 - ". provides for government seizure of all heath, education and welfare functions."
E.O. 11002 - ". designates the postmaster general to operate a national registration of all persons." [This is where families would be split up, as people would be ordered to report to the local post office to be separated and assigned to a new area].
E.O. 11003 - ". provides for the government to take over all airports and aircraft; commercial, public and private."
E.O. 11004 - ". provides for the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations and populations."
E.O. 11005 - ". provides for the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities."
E.O. 11051 - ". FEMA has complete authorization to put the above orders into effect in time of increased international tension or economic or financial crisis."
President Nixon combined all of the above orders into E.O. 11490, which would be implemented if a national emergency is declared by the President. Another terrorist attack on U.S. soil could present the perfect circumstances for a power hungry president to become a dictator.
President Clinton signed E.O. 12919 in June, 1994, which spells out the extent of power allocated to FEMA. Included among those powers are confiscation of all property - including firearms - from the American people, their relocation, and assignment to "labor camps." FEMA would work in conjunction with the U.N. and American troops are already being brainwashed and conditioned to assist U.N. forces against their own fellow citizens, family, friends, and neighbors.
George W's push to invade Iraq without provocation would certainly create the "international emergency" needed to implement the above orders and turn America into a total dictatorship.
George Bush, Sr. even signed an executive order in 1989 permitting FEMA to build internment camps. Yes, you heard me right. There are currently 43 primary camps capable of holding up to 100,000 citizens and hundreds of secondary facilities - including countless state prisons that have been completed and staffed but hold no prisoners. It appears George W. is simply carrying on Daddy's agenda to turn America into a fascist country.
An operation is even in place [Operation Dragnet] where all it would take is a call from the President to Attorney General John Ashcroft and millions of arrest warrants will be issued to round up patriots they deem a threat to total control. Citizens on the "politically incorrect" list would find themselves residing in the internment camps that have already been set up and run by FEMA.
Another FEMA operation [Operation Rolling Thunder] would use ATF, National Guard, active duty soldiers, and local police to make house-to-house sweeps to seize all guns and food.
On October 1, 1994, the United Nations took control of underground satellite tracking facilities within the U.S. that have the ability to focus a camera on a person's property to the point of being able to read the street number on your door. Modern technology and evil intent by top leaders in our own government have made it impossible for innocent, law abiding citizens to live without fear.
Executive Orders were created, signed, and placed in the Federal Register in Washington, D.C. without fanfare or public notice. While they are technically public knowledge, one would not be aware of their existence if they were not a watchdog of public policy. These sinister orders are a deception and betrayal of the U.S. Constitution and the American people by the occupant of the Oval Office.
Our military is comprised of American fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. Washington would turn them into jackbooted thugs with implementation of current Executive Orders. Our own relatives, friends, and neighbors would be the ones stomping through the streets, surrounding our neighborhoods, and breaking down our doors.
Never in my darkest nightmares could I have imagined the enemy would be my own countrymen.
Copyright @ Jessi Winchester 2002 All Rights Reserved
Column written for LibertyForAll Internet Magazine, August, 2002
Comment on this article on our Message Board.
Copyright @ Jessi Winchester 2002, All Rights Reserved
Column written for LibertyForAll Internet Magazine, April, 2002
Winchester was raised on a cattle and crop ranch in Iowa. Besides working full-time for Hollywood executives and doing some part-time motorcycle stunt work, Jessi has also worked in the legal bordellos, competed in a Mrs. Nevada pageant, produced an industry calendar, held annual Bordello Balls for charity, was the subject of an infamous larger-than-life painting by renown artist John Hunt, ran for political office, and has now become a published author. Jessi Winchester remains an advocate for the every day citizen and an outspoken voice for individual liberties as defined under the U.S. Constitution.
"Childhood on a cattle ranch in Middle America led to adulthood on a very different type of *ranch* in Nevada," so says Jessi Winchester in her recently released book.
Jessi's autobiography, From Bordello To Ballot Box, was released by BainBridgeBooks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November, 2000. The book goes behind the mysterious closed doors of Nevada's legal brothels to look at the ladies who choose to work in the industry and the clients who visit them. It also chronicles the author's personal experiences as a political candidate, provides a revealing look at the private faces of political personalities and explores how ruthless and unseen power mongers control and predetermine political choices. Her journey documents the strength of the human spirit in overcoming prejudice and double standards in an effort to simply be treated as a human being. Jessi can be reached via email at Jwinchster@aol.com
http://libertyforall.net/jessi.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
Start beating up on your Congresspersons.
OleDuk[V][V]
In the event of a declared emergency, the government has given itself the authority to confiscate all foodstocks, crops, and cattle, and to determine how everything would be redistributed. Hoarding or hiding anything would bring severe penalties.
Would food redistribution be politically motivated (just as the crisis which brought the emergency on, could well be) with the redistribution probably weighted more towards 'blue' areas than towards 'red' ones?
There are precedents, when Draconian powers get into food management.
During WW2, the Nazi Governor-General of Poland submitted lists of food requirements for those in his area of responsibility. I saw one of those lists, and it went something like:
Each German occupation soldier: 2700 calories/day
Each German civilian: 2200 calories/day
Each Polish civilian: 1800 calories/day
Each incarcerated person (prisons, concentration camps): 300 calories/day.
Lots of different models have existed.
The issue of the existence of any FEMA camps aside, would the current elite really take advantage of a 'crisis' and it's companion of dictatorial control, to help weaken their perceived political opposition?
Is there a problem here? Does this make one fear the very gov't we elected?
EXECUTIVE ORDERS ISSUED
Teddy Roosevelt 3
Others to FDR NONE
FDR 11 in 16 years
Truman 5 in 7 years
Ike 2 in 8 years
Kennedy 4 in 3 years
LBJ 4 in 5 years
Nixon 1 in 6 years
Ford 3 in 2 years
Carter 3 in 4 years
Reagan 5 in 8 years
Bush 3 in 4 years
Clinton 15 in 8 years
George W. Bush 62 in 8 years
Obama 923 in 3 1/2 years!
If you don't get the implications you're not paying attention.
923 Executive Orders in 40 Months
During my lifetime, all Presidents have issued Executive Orders, for reasons that vary, some more than others. When a President issued as many as 30 Executive Orders during a term in Office, people thought there was something amiss.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT 923 EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN ONE PART OF ONE TERM ? YES, THERE IS A REASON.
Even some Democrats in the House have turned on him, plus a very small number of Democrat Senators question him.
DOES THIS SCARE YOU?
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Remember what he told Russia's Putin: "I'll be more flexible after I'm re-elected".
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION:
Obama has signed 923 Executive Orders in 40 months!
What did Congress do in those 40 months? (The House - considerable. The Senate - nothing, not even a budget nor allowing any House bill to be considered.)
Now look at these:
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the registration of all persons.
Postmaster General to operate a national registration
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
Feel free to verify the "executive orders" at will... and these are just the major ones I'm sure you've all heard the tale of the "Frog in the Pot"... you all comfortable???
Watch Obama's actions, not his words! By his actions he will show you where America is headed.
Sounds to me like he is superceeding the Constitution of the USA. But, yet I did not find any provision in the US Constitution for such Executive Orders.
.Obama has issued a new executive order that seeks to "harmonize" U.S. economic regulations with the rest of the world. This new executive order is yet another incremental step that is pushing us closer to a North American Union and a one world economic system. (New World Order)
Unfortunately, most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening.
The American people need to understand that Barack Obama is constantly looking for ways to integrate the United States more deeply with the rest of the world.
The globalization of the world economy has accelerated under Obama, and this latest executive order represents a fundamental change in U.S. economic policy.
Now federal regulators will be required to "harmonize" their work with the international community.
THIS IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE? THEN PROVE TO YOURSELF IT'S WRONG.
DATE: August 15, 2002
BACKGROUND: Touring the State Fair in Iowa, where the first presidential vote will be held in 2004, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) criticized President Bush's proposal to make the current temporary tax cuts permanent, saying, "That's not spending restraint. Tax cuts are spending."
TEN SECOND RESPONSE: To say tax cuts are spending implies all money belongs to the government. It doesn't. Taxes are the people's property, which the government takes from them.
THIRTY SECOND RESPONSE: Karl Marx, the founder of communism, would have believed taxes were spending because under communism all money and other forms of property first belong to the state. It does not. Money in America belongs to the people who work hard for it. Taxes are the money government takes from the people. To say, "Tax cuts are spending," demonstrates the warped notion of freedom held by many in Washington.
DISCUSSION: The notion that property belongs first to the state not only goes against everything our Founding Fathers fought for, it refutes everything Americans and others fought and died for in the long Cold War against communism. Property, like power, in this and any free country, is not handed down from on high by the federal government. It is what a free people voluntarily hand down to the government that belongs to, and owes its existence to, them. Two quotes make the distinction clear:
"That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed" -- The Declaration of Independence, Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
"In this sense, the theory of communists may be summed up in one sentence: Abolition of private property." -- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848.
Very different world views.
by Tom Randall, Director
John P. McGovern, MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs
The National Center for Public Policy Research
Contact the author at: (773) 857-5086 or tranndall@nationalcenter.org
The National Center for Public Policy Research, Chicago office
3712 North Broadway - PMB 279
Chicago, IL 60613
http://www.nationalcenter.org/TSR81502.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Jon Roland
Definition of tyranny
Tyranny is usually thought of as cruel and oppressive, and it often is, but the original definition of the term was rule by persons who lack legitimacy, whether they be malign or benevolent. Historically, benign tyrannies have tended to be insecure, and to try to maintain their power by becoming increasingly oppressive. Therefore, rule that initially seems benign is inherently dangerous, and the only security is to maintain legitimacy - an unbroken accountability to the people through the framework of a written constitution that provides for election of key officials and the division of powers among branches and officials in a way that avoids concentration of powers in the hands of a few persons who might then abuse those powers.
Tyranny is an important phenomenon that operates by principles by which it can be recognized in its early emerging stages, and, if the people are vigilant, prepared, and committed to liberty, countered before it becomes entrenched.
The psychology of tyranny
Perhaps one of the things that most distinguishes those with a fascist mentality from most other persons is how they react in situations that engender feelings of insecurity and inadequacy. Both kinds of people will tend to seek to increase their power, that is, their control over the outcome of events, but those with a fascist mindset tend to overestimate the amount of influence over outcomes that it is possible to attain. This leads to behavior that often brings them to positions of leadership or authority, especially if most other persons in their society tend to underestimate the influence over outcomes they can attain, and are inclined to yield to those who project confidence in what they can do and promise more than anyone can deliver.
This process is aided by a common susceptibility, which might be called the rooster syndrome, from the old saying; "They give credit to the rooster crowing for the rising of the sun." It arises from the tendency of people guided more by hope or fear than intelligence to overestimate the power of their leaders and attribute to them outcomes, either good or bad, to which the leaders contributed little if anything, and perhaps even acted to prevent or reduce. This comes from the inability of most persons to understand complex dynamic systems and their long-term behavior, which leads people to attribute effects to proximate preceding events instead of actual long-term causes.
The emergence of tyranny therefore begins with challenges to a group, develops into general feelings of insecurity and inadequacy, and falls into a pattern in which some individuals assume the role of "father" to the others, who willingly submit to becoming dependent "children" on such persons if only they are reassured that a more favorable outcome will be realized. This pattern of co-dependency is pathological, and generally results in decision making of poor quality that makes the situation even worse, but, because the pattern is pathological, instead of abandoning it, the co-dependents repeat their inappropriate behavior to produce a vicious spiral that, if not interrupted, can lead to total breakdown of the group and the worst of the available outcomes. In psychiatry, this syndrome is often discussed as an "authoritarian personality disorder." In common parlance, as being a "control freak."
The logic of tyranny
In Orwell's classic fable, Nineteen Eighty-Four, the protagonist Winston Smith makes a key statement:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Following the trial of the surviving Branch Davidians in San Antonio, Texas, in March, 1994, in which a misinstructed jury acquitted all the defendants of the main crimes with which they were charged, but convicted them of the enhancements of using firearms in the commission of a crime, the federal judge, Walter F. Smith, first dismissed the charges, correctly, on the grounds that it is logically impossible to be guilty of an enhancement if one is innocent of the crime. However, under apparent political pressure, he subsequently reversed his own ruling and sentenced the defendants to maximum terms as though they had been convicted of the main crimes, offering the comment, "The law doesn't have to be logical."
No. The law does have to be logical. Otherwise it is not law. It is arbitrary rule by force.
Now by "logical" what is meant is two-valued logic, which is sometimes also called Boolean, Aristotelian or Euclidean logic. In other words, a system of propositions within which a statement and its negation cannot both be true or valid. One of the two must be false or invalid. The two possible values are true and false, and every meaningful proposition can be assigned one or the other value.
A system of law is a body of prescriptive, as opposed to descriptive, propositions, that support the making of decisions, and therefore its logic must be two-valued. It is a fundamental principle of law that like cases must be decided alike, and this means according to propositions that exclude their contradictions.
It is also a fundamental principle of logic that any system of propositions that accepts both a statement and its negation as valid, that is, which accepts a contradiction, accepts all contradictions, and provides no basis for deciding among them. If decisions are made, they are not made on the basis of the propositions, but are arbitrary, and that is the definition of the rule of men, as opposed to the rule of law.
So what Winston Smith is saying is that freedom means being able to distinguish between a true proposition and a false one, and what his nemesis O'Brien therefore does to crush him is make him accept that "2 + 2 = 5", which cannot be true if the logic is Aristotelian. O'Brien represents the logic of arbitrary power, a "logic" we might call Orwellian, although Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, was strongly opposed to it.
The methodology of tyranny
The methods used to overthrow a constitutional order and establish a tyranny are well-known. However, despite this awareness, it is surprising how those who have no intention of perpetrating a tyranny can slip into these methods and bring about a tyranny despite their best intentions. Tyranny does not have to be deliberate. Tyrants can fool themselves as thoroughly as they fool everyone else.
Control of public information and opinion
It begins with withholding information, and leads to putting out false or misleading information. A government can develop ministries of propaganda under many guises. They typically call it "public information" or "marketing."
Vote fraud used to prevent the election of reformers
It doesn't matter which of the two major party candidates are elected if no real reformer can get nominated, and when news services start knowing the outcomes of elections before it is possible for them to know, then the votes are not being honestly counted.
Undue official influence on trials and juries
Nonrandom selection of jury panels, exclusion of those opposed to the law, exclusion of the jury from hearing argument on the law, exclusion of private prosecutors from access to the grand jury, and prevention of parties and their counsels from making effective arguments or challenging the government.
Usurpation of undelegated powers
This is usually done with popular support for solving some problem, or to redistribute wealth to the advantage of the supporters of the dominant faction, but it soon leads to the deprivation of rights of minorities and individuals.
Seeking a government monopoly on the capability and use of armed force
The first signs are efforts to register or restrict the possession and use of firearms, initially under the guise of "protecting" the public, which, when it actually results in increased crime, provides a basis for further disarmament efforts affecting more people and more weapons.
Militarization of law enforcement
Declaring a "war on crime" that becomes a war on civil liberties. Preparation of military forces for internal policing duties.
Infiltration and subversion of citizen groups that could be forces for reform
Internal spying and surveillance is the beginning. A sign is false prosecutions of their leaders.
Suppression of investigators and whistleblowers
When people who try to uncover high level wrongdoing are threatened, that is a sign the system is not only riddled with corruption, but that the corruption has passed the threshold into active tyranny.
Use of the law for competition suppression
It begins with the dominant faction winning support by paying off their supporters and suppressing their supporters' competitors, but leads to public officials themselves engaging in illegal activities and using the law to suppress independent competitors. A good example of this is narcotics trafficking.
Subversion of internal checks and balances
This involves the appointment to key positions of persons who can be controlled by their sponsors, and who are then induced to do illegal things. The worst way in which this occurs is in the appointment of judges that will go along with unconstitutional acts by the other branches.
Creation of a class of officials who are above the law
This is indicated by dismissal of charges for wrongdoing against persons who are "following orders."
Increasing dependency of the people on government
The classic approach to domination of the people is to first take everything they have away from them, and then make them compliant with the demands of the rulers to get anything back again.
Increasing public ignorance of their civic duties and reluctance to perform them
When the people avoid doing things like voting and serving in militias and juries, tyranny is not far behind.
Use of staged events to produce popular support
Acts of terrorism, blamed on political opponents, followed immediately with well-prepared proposals for increased powers and budgets for suppressive agencies. Sometimes called a Reichstag plot.
Conversion of rights into privileges
Requiring licenses and permits for doing things that the government does not have the delegated power to restrict, except by due process in which the burden of proof is on the petitioner.
Political correctness
Many if not most people are susceptible to being recruited to engage in repressive actions against disfavored views or behaviors, and led to pave the way for the dominance of tyrannical government.
Avoiding tyranny
The key is always to detect tendencies toward tyranny and suppress them before they go too far or become too firmly established. The people must never acquiesce in any violation of the Constitution. Failure to take corrective action early will only mean that more severe measures will have to be taken later, perhaps with the loss of life and the disruption of the society in ways from which recovery may take centuries.
Related Links:
Source: Constitution.org
Reader Comments:
On 2002-08-18 01:38:39, cjruf wrote:
World Government by Design
by: Steve Bonta
America's subservience to the United Nations and transformation into the world's policeman is not accidental but is part of a grand design to establish world government.
As with so many of history's so-called trends, America's transformation into global policeman isn't accidental. Official admissions of this little-known truth aren't commonplace, but they do occur. Take journalist Michael Hirsh's stunning comments in a recent issue of Newsweek, for example. Buried more than four pages into an otherwise typical anti-isolationism screed entitled Death of a Founding Myth, we find the following:
"While the isolationists...tempted millions with their siren's appeal to nativism - the internationalists were always hard at work in quiet places making plans for a more perfect global community.
"In the end the internationalists have always dominated national policy. Even so, they haven't bragged about their globe-building for fear of reawakening the other half of the American psyche, our berserker nativism. And so they have always done it in the most out-of-the-way places and with little ado.
"In December 1917 the 'Inquiry,' a group of eager reformers who included a young Walter Lippmann, secretly met in New York to draw up Wilson's Fourteen Points.
"In 1941, FDR concocted the Atlantic Charter in the mists off Newfoundland. The dense woods of New Hampshire gave birth to the Bretton Woods institutions - the IMF and World Bank - in 1944. And a year later the United Nations came to life at the secluded Georgetown estate of Dumbarton Oaks....
"So what emerged took us more or less by surprise. We had built a global order without quite realizing it, bit by bit, era by era, with our usual schizoid approach: alternating engagement and withdrawal.... "Like it or not - and clearly large numbers of Americans still don't - we Americans are now part of an organic whole with the world that George Washington wanted to keep distant.
Leaving aside the snide reference to George Washington, and Hirsh's shifty use of the term 'we,' what of the claim that America has been deliberately, semi-secretly maneuvered into globalism, that her "berserker nativism" [i.e., patriotism] has been neutralized by stealth and subterfuge?
Background to Betrayal
Hirsh is absolutely correct. America's modern obsession with internationalism, including global militarism, is hardly a grass-roots impulse. It all started, as Hirsh observes, with Woodrow Wilson and the war to make the world safe for democracy. Wilson himself was a left-leaning idealist, in step with the progressives and socialists of his day with their heady designs of making America over in their own image. But, as is ever the case with idealists in the arena of practical politics, Wilson was ultimately the tool of other men, men of cunning and ambition far surpassing his own.
One of Wilson's keepers was Edward Mandell House, a longtime political operative from Texas who had learned to work the levers of power behind the scenes. House had been born into wealth and privilege and had no visceral need for fame. The consummate political insider, House manipulated Wilson's internationalist idealism as a personal confidant to the president but declined any official appointments.
House was the real impetus behind the Inquiry, a semisecret group of internationalist intellectuals including Harvard-trained journalist and co-founder of The New Republic, Walter Lippmann. Many members of the Inquiry, including both House and Lippmann, were also involved in the negotiations at Versailles following World War I.
The Inquiry created the Fourteen Points, the famous set of postwar policy recommendations that included as its centerpiece the League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations. Despite a blizzard of propaganda on its behalf, the League of Nations was ultimately defeated in the U.S. Senate, an act that set back the plans of House and his associates. But House, ever the patient pragmatist, joined with many others who had thrown their energy into the League of Nations and formed the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR,] the American counterpart of the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs. The Council on Foreign Relations aspired to nothing less than creating conditions favorable for the establishment of a world government - although in recent decades, globalist elites have generally avoided using that politically risky phrase.
With the outbreak of World War II, internationalists in the CFR and elsewhere had another chance to convince a reluctant American Congress [and public] of the wisdom of a world order. Accordingly, the United Nations was created and this time, the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of the UN treaty.
From the beginning, the architects of the UN recognized that, as with all governments, only the ability to exercise force could confer legitimacy. This meant that the UN would have to be given police and military powers. But how? Member nations were jealous of their sovereignty and largely ignorant of the megalomaniacal objectives of UN insiders. They would not easily be persuaded to surrender their weapons or commit their armed forces to UN service. As long as a country as militarily powerful and independent as the United States wielded influence apart from the United Nations, a true world order would be impossible.
The infamous Kennedy-era State Department document Freedom from War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World gives a rare glimpse into the mentality of the men who in public always carefully insist that the United Nations and kindred international organizations are but benign 'frameworks' or 'forums' for peace and cooperation. The document envisages strengthening the United Nations militarily by a careful, step-by-step process while gradually reducing the military might of independent nations, until "no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force." Clearly, to achieve this objective, the United States must be weakened militarily and persuaded to commit its resources to the United Nations.
This has been precisely the outcome of more than a half-century of UN-supervised war-making. American confidence was severely eroded by the Korean stalemate, the original UN 'police action' which included capturing, torturing, and successfully brainwashing a surprising number of American servicemen by a brutal Communist foe. And Vietnam was worse: Our troops were placed deliberately in a no-win quagmire with inane rules of engagement precluding victory. The American defeat in Vietnam - the first in our history - devastated our national confidence, even as sundry subversives on the home front sowed the seeds for a cultural revolution in the '60s and '70s that blasted American moral values and cultural norms.
The Persian Gulf War in 1991 marked the next major turning point. Regarding the UN-supervised war and cease-fire that followed [UN-led wars usually end in 'cease-fires,' not 'peace treaties,'] President George Bush [the elder] fondly recalled:
"In the Gulf, we saw the United Nations playing the role dreamed of by its founders, with the world's leading nations orchestrating and sanctioning collective action against aggression."
After such a precedent, it became a simple matter for eager-beaver internationalists during the Bush and Clinton eras to dispatch American troops to the likes of Somalia, Kosovo, and Bosnia to fight on behalf of the United Nations.
Fast Forward to Today
Now, in the era of George W. Bush, the true objectives of the internationalist set are more transparent than ever. An international UN-mandated peacekeeping force is now being assembled in Afghanistan. UN troops are stationed in much of Africa, most notably in the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. Smaller contingents patrol the former Spanish Sahara in Morocco and many other African states. UN forces also wage peace in Cyprus, Korea, the Balkans, and Palestine, and token observer forces are stationed in many other hot spots.
But the most significant fact about UN operations is that they seldom end. The UN has kept the Korean peninsula in a state of war for almost fifty years. The UN-mandated campaign against Iraq shows no sign of ending. And even the most credulous observer would now admit that Clinton and his internationalist friends never intended to extricate UN-supervised U.S. forces from Bosnia and Kosovo.
But the prize for the globalists remains the United States. Soberingly, the United Nations can now muster the military force to subdue much of the Third World, given an adequate political pretext. And America is being duped into subscribing to the internationalist agenda, as each new UN military adventure strengthens the precedent for U.S. subservience to international authority.
http://www.patriotist.com/guest2.htm
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=3651
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878