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Killing the “Bad People”
What If It’s US?
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Good people take care of children, not just their own, all children. They care for the aged, they love the land, they live a rich spiritual life based on values internal, inherent, even genetic or, as believed by some, external, perhaps “revealed” but also inherent in all people.
Wisdom is defined as adding value and meaning to the lives and existence of all, meaning based on respect, built on a foundation on innate kindness, patience and good manners.
Then men made gods or gods made men…you choose. The rules changed, people became “our people” and reason became “our ideas” and “our beliefs.” Humanity raced backward, often directly proportional to the extent of technological development or religious fervor. Freud spoke of such things, not without some insight.
What we now face is a question for which we know there is no real answer. We continue to ask because, failing to accept a common delusion would entail our belief in our own evil, in our own degeneracy, in a fate leading, as most long have accepted, to certain doom.
Our “darker angels,” the expression of our “reptile brain” has formed the basis of our civilizations, organizations formed to mitigate personal responsibility, to create mythologies supporting immoral, inhuman, behaviors, not even predatory but those of the scavenger or perhaps parasitic. Marx spoke of the ruling classes as social parasites, producing nothing with their labor, demonstrating no inherent skill or redeeming characteristic other than the ability to feed off others.
There is another explanation, not religious, not anthropological or even sociological, but literary. I think it explains why thing on earth are as they are, I believe it explains it quite well.
British author Douglas Adams wrote of this in his The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
The ‘B’ Ark
… “I mean, I couldn’t help noticing,” said Ford, also taking a sip, “the bodies. In the hold.” “Bodies?” said the Captain in surprise. Ford paused and thought to himself. Never take anything for granted, he thought. Could it be that the Captain doesn’t know he’s got fifteen million dead bodies on his ship?
The Captain was nodding cheerfully at him. He also appeared to be playing with a rubber duck….
“Bodies?” said the Captain again….
“Yes,” he said, “All those dead telephone sanitizers and account executives, you know, down in the hold.”
The Captain stared at him. Suddenly he threw back his head and laughed.
“Oh they’re not dead,” he said, “Good Lord no, no they’re frozen. They’re going to be revived.”
“You mean you’ve got a hold full of frozen hairdressers?” he said.
“Oh yes,” said the Captain, “Millions of them. Hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants, you name them. We’re going to colonize another planet.”
“Exciting isn’t it?” said the Captain.
“What, with that lot?” said Arthur.
“Ah, now don’t misunderstand me,” said the Captain, “we’re just one of the ships in the Ark Fleet. We’re the ‘B’ Ark you see. “
“What,” he said, “is a ‘B’ Ark?”
“This is,” said the Captain, and swished the foamy water around joyfully with the duck.
“Yes,” said Ford, “but …”
“Well what happened you see was,” said the Captain, “our planet, the world from which we have come, was, so to speak, doomed.”
“Doomed?”
“Oh yes. So what everyone thought was, let’s pack the whole population into some giant spaceships and go and settle on another planet.”
“You mean a less doomed one?” prompted Arthur.
“What did you say dear fellow?”
“A less doomed planet. You were going to settle on.”
“Are going to settle on, yes. So it was decided to build three ships, you see, three Arks in Space,
“Yes, so anyway,” he resumed, “the idea was that into the first ship, the ‘A’ ship, would go all the brilliant leaders, the scientists, the great artists, you know, all the achievers; and into the third, or ‘C’ ship, would go all the people who did the actual work, who made things and did things, and then into the `B’ ship – that’s us – would go everyone else, the middlemen you see.”
He smiled happily at them.
“And we were sent off first,” he concluded, and hummed a little bathing tune.
“Er …” said Arthur after a moment, “what exactly was it that was wrong with your planet then?”
“Oh, it was doomed, as I said,” said the Captain, “Apparently it was going to crash into the sun or something. Or maybe it was that the moon was going to crash into us. Something of the kind. Absolutely terrifying prospect whatever it was.”
“That’s not what I was told!” he hissed, “My commanding officer told me that the entire planet was in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star goat!”
“Oh really …” said Ford Prefect.
“Yes! A monstrous creature from the pit of hell with scything teeth ten thousand miles long, breath that would boil oceans, claws that could tear continents from their roots, a thousand eyes that burned like the sun, slavering jaws a million miles across, a monster such as you have never … never … ever …”
“And they made sure they sent you lot off first did they?” inquired Arthur.
“Oh yes,” said the Captain, “well everyone said, very nicely I thought, that it was very important for morale to feel that they would be arriving on a planet where they could be sure of a good haircut and where the phones were clean.”
“Oh yes,” agreed Ford, “I can see that would be very important. And the other ships, er … they followed on after you did they?”
For a moment the Captain did not answer. He twisted round in his bath and gazed backwards over the huge bulk of the ship towards the bright galactic centre. He squinted into the inconceivable distance.
“Ah. Well it’s funny you should say that,” he said and allowed himself a slight frown at Ford Prefect, “because curiously enough we haven’t heard a peep out of them since we left five years ago … but they must be behind us somewhere.”
“Unless of course,” he said softly, “they were eaten by the goat …”
“Ah yes …” said the Captain with a slight hesitancy creeping into his voice, “the goat …” His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word. He glanced at his first and second officers, but they seemed lost in their own thoughts for a moment. He glanced at Ford Prefect who raised his eyebrows at him.
“It’s a funny thing you know,” said the Captain at last, “but now that I actually come to tell the story to someone else …”
When I joined the Marine Corps, 43 years ago, did I do it so I could kill “bad people?” As a United States Marine, it wasn’t my first occupation as a “telephone sanitizer” nor would it be my last. Life managed to teach me, slowly at first, that reaping was much better than sewing. In a nation filled with parasites pretending to be predators, a good lawyer, rich friends and kissing ass outweighed the grace of god and goodness of the soul ten times over.
When family doesn’t matter, when friends are never real, when experience and accomplishment can be bought through university diplomas, military commissions and country club membership, the “hunter gatherer” experience of our neanderthal soul, the feeling of conquest is as close by as the nearest amusement park or a motel room to wile away an afternoon with a 12 year old met in an internet chatroom.
As for our kids? Turn them over to the schools or the priest or preacher, that has certainly worked out well. The army can handle them, make “men” of them.
Later, they can come home, live in the basement, take drugs and wait a decade, maybe two, likely three, for the VA to decide they are totally disabled from years in a combat zone while on experimental anti-psychotic drugs. Thousands will kill themselves in the process, each an American family destroyed forever in ways unspeakable while others find solace in prison or the outdoor life, under a bridge, belongings stored in a convenient shopping cart.
You think this all wasn’t planned? You think congress doesn’t know? You think Veterans Affairs has made abject failure an art form without purpose?
DUPED, ME, YOU, SO MANY OF US….
Osama bin Laden was killed, we are told anyway, though unarmed and unguarded, because he was “bad people.” I have access. I grilled people who knew him, people of authority, big big security clearances, who said he died long ago. Some liked him, none thought him a terrorist.
American pilots are out today, trying to kill Colonel Gaddafi because he is “bad people.” Millions more out there are saying this policy is wrong. Some may be paid by Gaddafi. Some may simply be pointing out a moral course. If ordering people to murder is evil, if evil people are bad, and bad people should be killed, then who belongs on the list? Gaddafi? How many Americans?
Is it for people to make such judgements? Do we say law is responsible when law serves money? Law is written by money and power, enforced by guns and executed by judges who are invariably protectors of the powerful over the weak, the evil over the good. Judges are parasites, telephone sanitizers are more useful. Judges and legislators can be right, good and decent. This is why money buys elections and planes with politicians onboard crash so often.
Why Gaddafi? Why not Cheney or Assad or Netanyahu? Why not any of us?
More pilots, more “joystick jockeys” are trying to kill “insurgents” in a dozen countries, many we won’t begin to admit, because they are “bad people.” Imagine the unthinkable. You can destroy a house full of children, burn them to cinders, destroy the life of an entire village, wipe out a generation and still make “Miller Time.”
This is behavior seen in few insects.
In fact, most of what America does is watch, catalog, listen to, imprison, torture and murder “bad people.” It is America’s biggest industry. It isn’t just the military or the defense industry. It goes further, so much further. Americans watch each other. Millions of Americans are designated “bad people.” They drive drunk, beat their wives, use drugs, cheat on taxes, steal elections, teach children lies in school, work for the mainstream media, take part in a corrupt political system, go to prison or imprison others, but there’s more.
More bad people simply dissent. Some ideas are sound, some less so, too many are orchestrated dissent, fear and envy manipulated to excuse social crackdowns, draconian laws or press forward totally “whacked out” political agendas, putting forward one idea but keeping another “stealth” agenda in reserve.
Thus, one can support independent schools, oppose gay marriage and abortion but politically be forwarding an platform of race hatred, totalitarianism, endless war and feudal oppression. Control of information has made lying a high art.
Americans live in fear. The mail box could contain anything, foreclosure, utility turn-off notices, lawsuits, fines, letters filled with anthrax or, worse and more predictable, the endless stream of bills and taxes that enslave all of us. Your door bell rings. Is it a process server, homeland security, an armed mob there to kill you for money to buy drugs, murder you for your race or political beliefs?
The average American receives 20 emails today, prostitution scams are the most prolific, government agencies offering child pornography or endless business deals designed to cost you what few assets you have.
Fear.
If we can define good people using the models we have from our 3 primary religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the models of love, humanity, forgiveness and righteousness, we are faced with an interesting dilemma. Though millions of Americans consider themselves righteous and even “godly,” most religious organizations are aligned politically. In doing so, they assume the values, the prejudices of the organizations they have gone to in order to seek temporal power.
Thus, they seek that kingdom of this earth and, in doing so, become, in themselves parasitic, preying on those they are sworn to serve, to protect and often even, those they should exhalt. Victimizing the least of god’s children, for some, for many, for too many, find foundation in scripture, books written in obscurity many centuries ago, translated, edited, twisted and “interpreted” into something unrecognizable.
All alive today will be dead in the ground before the dead sea scrolls, found decades ago, are “translated”and made public. Its hard to find Jesus’s views on killing homosexuals or creating new crop diseases? How would Jesus feel about Fukajima? If he came back, would the Jews still hate him?
Did he come back? Is he is prison now? Guantanimo?
Gaza?
Did anyone ever consider that Jesus might not give a damn about Israel or Palestine? Why would he? There is a whole world out there.
Wasn’t there a whole world out there then? Is Jesus, Abraham, Moses, all of it, simply ethnocentric cultural crap, leftover drivel from “flat earth” types repackaged with a bit of TV drama, Greco-Roman idolatry and a touch of Zoroastrianism?
Its about “them,” the “bad people,” the people that the “good people” kill, sell into slavery, exploit, make into soap and lampshades, drop white phosphorous on.
Or is it that few of us think more than an inch past the end of our noses?
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Aren’t bad people just one’s perspective? All American bad people are people who don’t stay in line and sing the American Rhetoric of what’s right and wrong. But when the Bankers defraud a nation and give them the bill, then who’s really keeping the Americans in line?
Clever Bankers…
They don’t even keep it hidden:
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.”
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
They are not as clever as they think they are.This whole mess they’ve created is coming down on them too.They were going to blame Pakistan for their Bin Laden terrorism but China said and attack on Pakistan will be an attack on it’s sovereignity.Israel want them to stay in Afghanistan but it is just too costly.So now they go for easier targets like Libya or Syria to try and consolidate the gains.
China is the foe because its’ Govt banks create 80% of new money to equal GDP increases debt free of private banksters.This reduces their tax burden.
Obama wants to raise the debt ceiling from $ 14.5 trillion to $ 17 trillion to finance the wars of imperialism.This will be death of the US $ and bring in a Greek like austerity situation.Ths US people must fight Obama to the bitter end.They will drive us into the deepest depression that will last for decades.
The founding fathers of the US Constitution would be totally devestated at what is happening now.We have allowed few grreedy men to pervert and corrupt our entire economic/political system.
Ross when Bush raised the debt ceiling Seven times, didn’t even include the war debt in there, were you on the pulpit fighting to the bitter end?!
TJ Bronco.I’m not American.When Bush raised the debt ceiling ,I was unaware of 911 or what they were up to.The fact is now US debt is = to GDP and now Obama is moving beyond the impossible to recover unless the US Federal Reserve is Nationalised.If the USA goes down and so does the rest of the West.
I think that the Central Banksters are doing a deal with China to share their Global Govt.The Bilderberg Group for the first time have invited China to their meeting in Switzerland just a few weeks ago.When they tried to take on Pakistan and China warned them off ,the mood changed to one of conciliation and compromise.
You may well in the future find Chinese troops on your soil with the aid of the central banksters,since only China has the troop numbers to subdue your well armed civilian population.
The banksters financed both sides during the two world wars and their only allegiance is their power base and survival.They will even trash Israel,if it becomes a burden.
Ross,
You are correct, however the extreme wealth met with Chinese Government Officials in 2006, in Beijing. And thereafter, they invited all African Leaders to Beijing immediately after the meeting, why, I’m not certain? Too extreme….and sudden, I was in Beijing during this time.
Chinese troops on US soil, it’s possible, but not because of the Chinese or US people. Because of the fear Chinese people have toward their government, but then it maybe the same in the US now? It’s amazing how most Chinese people like US people, and how most of the party members hate US people.
In the future people will discover a smaller country is provoking all, and not the one who people think? They are well experienced in exploitation and using drugs to incapacitate their victims.
And of course China will assist Pakistan, because they helped this country develop nuclear weapons. This information is for anyone who does not know.
The US and China in collision is not beneficial for either country, however there are the ones who benefit from war, as you stated.
Here’s what they may do, establish an arms deal with China and have these arms manufactured in the United States. This is accomplished by shipping the arms to a third party, a company in another country. The small trouble maker….they know China has the numbers, but lack in the hardware.
Or is this already being performed?
This group is very skilled at stealing, “tax dollars”, from everyone, regardless of your country. They say it’s for big projects, but in fact, most is for big bonuses or method and means of stealing your earnings. They have performed this task to such magnitude; they need chaos to attempt to escape their crimes.
Do you know what a “Lunatic” is?
It’s a person or person(s) who excessively accumulate, not for the reason of having, for the reason of not allowing others to have. They make decisions based on this sickness and inability to rationalize anything. They are easily identified….
You hit this nail clearly on the head. First time I’ve seem this quote. Mayer may be the real father of capitalism. Humm. Thanks, Enjoy the Day.
Good one, Gordon.
John Lamb Lash said the first people to parse the Dead Sea Scrolls later became operatives for the CIA, and they microfiched it on the roof of the US Consulate in (what was then) Palestine in 1947, the first time it was even possible to do that with a portable.
WHY did spooks want to control the Scrolls? Something was in them, NOT in them, or is there really a BIG SECRET of the world, like the Masons always said? Doug Adams is the right guy to bring in on this.
The word of God being held up by the biggest liars on Earth should sober us all.
Franz
the DSS’s contained little idolatry, cheek turning and no patience for a continuation of Judaic traditions
Don’t forget John Marco Allegro, an Athiest,-which I am not, -He has some extremely interesting things to say of his viewing of these scrolls.
Thanks for sharing that great piece (as usual)… this site gives me hope that there are actual ‘thinking’ people out there… much needed in a society dominated by the MSM and it’s mindless zombies, who pride themselves in the ability to read and regurgitate!
I’m just starting to read this G, but those first 2 paragraphs are right on target! For those of us whose cups are 1/2 full, they were a pleasure to read.
T.
Okay, the whole article was a winner. No wonder True Mysticism (not religion, anti-religion or people in general–especially politicians–make no sense to me. Thanks G, I’m going to bed now. I may not even bother to get up tomorrow!
T.V.
This essay is outstanding, Gordon. A bold and soul-searching inquiry into the dynamic of life itself. Bravissimo!…and thank you
Einstein, who was not a “religious man” predicted that the future modernized society would have less of a place for religion. “Godly Values” like integity, dignity, and self denial are in direct conflict with today’s society of lust, greed, and immorality. Try to tell a kid today that pre-marital sex is wromg. If you do you’re denying him his pleasure. So, the baby winds up aborted in a dumpster somewhere or is raised by a relative or becomes a ward of the state. Talmudic Values are dictating the modernized world today. Theft, murder, and immorality are all permissable if the rabbi says so. The Gentiles have a history of following the Jew, after all, he has the money and the power. Without a belief in God over man, we are all doomed!
Soap and lampshades? come now Gordon. As Abe Foxman might say ” not that old canard”.
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Yep, Real tribal blessing here, Hey, what’s the inside on tomorrows T-Bill rate? The new religion of Capitalism Vs. the bible, torah, pluralism, monotheism, zoroastrianism, and all while American disabled veterans hide in their basements and wonder about under the VA supplied pills wondering when to pull the trigger at their own head, or eat tht hand ful of VA / Juw supplied med.
Dismayed my friends, we all are.
We are lost in a lost world where the torah has been outflanked by Budda. Isalmist have lost as well.
Guess it will be quite a cool meeting as we all meet up in hell. Lock and load man, just pull the trigger before the first nod. See you all on the other side.
Nothing here that is not dealt with in Scripture, which is amazing since our sacred scripture was born of hubris and hypocrisy via Talmudists. It not only survives and continues to teach and inspire, but it is the lynchpin for Faith. There is nothing so noble as a genuine man of faith at the head of his household; the hypocrites and liars are still surrounding us, as they did the rightous people during the time of Christ.
Clever writing can titillate, but the soul needs more.
Tom Valentine,
I appreciate your comments. I believe these scriptures may be encouraging to you: Matthew 24 in part says that ‘nations will fight against nations and kingdoms against kingdoms. Jesus said that people will hate you because you believe in me. Many false prophets will come and cause many people to believe lies. There will be more and more evil in the world, so most people will stop showing their love for each other. But those people who keep their faith till the end will be saved.’ Also, Jesus warned that if people tell you the Christ is in the desert or in the inner room, don’t believe it. When the Son of Man comes, he will be seen by everyone, like lightning flashing from the east to the west.’
In the last verses in Revelation, Jesus said, “Yes, I am coming soon.”
The apostle John replied and said, “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”
May God be with you.
As a kid I used to have nightmares about a nuclear war my parents told me I was paranoid. Now I know I was right to be worried.
Launch Code for U.S. Strategic Nuclear Missiles Was Twelve Zeros Until 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YT5sm2Lhj94
Well, this seems to imply that you reconsidered your unfortunate endorsement of the aggression to Libya. If it so, it would be the case of an explicit statement.
excellent article, but a few quips. I am less inclined to Quote the following due to a realisation of the overwhelming influence of Khazar/Zionist propaganda and control, all for the big plan. Freud, Marx, Einstein, anything Holocaust (lamp shades? guggh!), Alex Jones. etc & et al.
watch out for the orbiting solar power space-to-earth transmission beams. any power can be misused.. look at who owns it and what they are characteristically and recividistically up to, particularly the long run.
you specifically are a light on the hill.
solar power in oregon?
solar from space TO wherever via microwave beam. HAARP on steroids perhaps
Are you talking about the moon station?
As long as we think it is alright to go into someone else’s country and kill them because we don’t like the way they think then we are the bad guys, no matter what asses the others may be.
Maybe we can start a Ford Prefect movement and go around in our bathrobes carrying a towel as he did around the Universe as a sign of our refusal? Nah, that won’t work either.
I’ve read your essay three times now…… I like you Gordon, thank you.
I have legalised robbery,
Called it belief,
I have run with the money,
And hid like a thief,
I have re-written history,
With my armies and my crooks,
Invented memories,
I did burn all the books,
And I can still hear his laughter,
And I can still hear his song,
The man’s too big,
The man’s too strong.
~Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdB-UKfxD4
Thanks Gordon.pow.The time has come for everyone individually to look inside themselves,and see if they are good or bad.pow.
We need elected officials who have the courage to enforce existing laws (and our constitution) on U.S. government officials.
I support means testing: FOR ALL U.S. CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE
I’m sick and tired of the media re-enforcing incorrect information and statements re: what is and what isn’t unconstitutional.
btw, ending the 10-yr. long Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich IS NOT RAISING TAXES!
IT’S ENDING TAX LOOPHOLES!