2004 - Year of the Slave

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Here is a link to an article which seems very timely in view of the

recent election result, and my comment to the friend who sent it

along.

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/yearoftheslave.html

 

Thanks for sending me that link. Indeed we are slaves and we realize

it if we only look closely at what's happening. In the aftermath of

the US election, the article seems a very timely read.

 

 

 

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The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition...

 

Sepp Hasslberger

 

 

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[Guest guest]

, " Sepp (Josef)

Hasslberger " <sepp@l...> wrote:

> Here is the article.

 

>

> Here is a link to an article which seems very timely in view of the

> recent election result, and my comment to the friend who sent it

> along.

>

> Kind regards

> Sepp

>

>

> http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/yearoftheslave.html

>

> Thanks for sending me that link. Indeed we are slaves and we realize

> it if we only look closely at what's happening. In the aftermath of

> the US election, the article seems a very timely read.

>

2004 – Year of the Slave

You are a slave.

 

I know that's not what you want to hear as you hoist your New Year's

champagne, but it is the unpleasant truth that we all face going into

2004.

 

Movies and public school like to portray slaves as bound by chains and

beaten with whips, creating a polarized image of slavery that can be

pointed to with the comment, " You are not like that, therefore you are

not a slave. " But history shows that slaves have been treated in all

manner of ways, some more cruel than others, yet even with the most

kind treatment, a slave remains a slave.

 

Setting aside the stereotyped image of a slave as a bleeding

chain-bound wretch, slaves throughout history are often hard to

recognize. In some cases, such as the Medieval Serfs, they were held

slaves to the rulers by religious belief, and did not see themselves

as slaves even though they were treated as such.The favored slaves of

Asian potentates wore jewels to make a movie star gasp, yet were still

slaves for all their finery and comfort.

 

So, what is a slave? How do we define a slave? What test do we use to

tell if someone is a slave. What makes them different from free people?

 

Free people can say " no " . Free people can refuse demands for their

money, time, and children. Slaves cannot. There is no freedom without

the freedom to say " no " . If someone demands that you do something and

you can say " no " and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being.

If you can be forced to do something or surrender something that you

do not wish to, then you are a slave. No other test need be applied.

 

When you are forced to surrender half your life's work to the

government in ever-increasing taxes, then you are a slave.Throughout

history, slaves were expected to perform the work needed for their own

upkeep, then perform additional work for the rulers. For Roman slaves,

the ratio of work-for-self versus work-for-rulers was about 50-50. The

same ratio applied to Medieval Serfs, and even to the slaves of the

American south. And, when you add up all the overt taxes, covert fees,

tariffs, excises, plus the increased price you pay for products to pay

the taxes of the companies that make those products, you will find

that Americans are at that same " half-for-self " versus

" half-for-rulers " ratio! Can you say " no " to the confiscation of half

of your life? Can you even get the masters to maybe reduce the burden

by a significant amount? No? Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

The masters have decided they want wars on anyone living over oil. The

idea is that it is better for American corporations to steal the oil

they need than to pay for it. Millions of Americans (and millions more

around the globe) did not want the war, but the masters started them

anyway, by lying to the people. Could you refuse the war? Can you

refuse being lied to? No? Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

The rulers want your children for their future wars. Legislation for a

draft is already in Congress. Can you refuse the confiscation of your

children? No? Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

The government has been caught lying over and over again to the

people, from who really did 9-11, to the legality of the tax system,

to Cheney's Energy Task Force papers, to Saddam's WMDs. Americans are

the most lied-to people on Earth. Can you refuse to be lied to? Can

you punish the liars? No? Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

Vote fraud is rampant in the nation, and the mandated imposition of

audit-less electronic voting systems means that elections will be

decided (as Stalin admitted) not by those who vote but by those who

count the vote. Can you refuse a dishonest voting process? No?

Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

Just because you cannot see the slave-chains doesn't mean they are not

there. Chains made of steel are obvious, but chains made of beliefs

are not always recognized for what they are. Hitler enslaved the

German people to war with a belief that Poland was about to invade.

LBJ enslaved the American people to war with the belief that Vietnam

had attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. Poland wasn't

invading. There were no torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin, but the

slaves, held by invisible chains of beliefs, went to war. Millions died.

 

In 2003, however, the chains started to become visible. The

Constitutional right to freedom of expression was confined to

" free-speech " zones. A slave may have an opinion, so long as it is not

expressed where it might upset the other slaves. The Constitutional

right to an armed populace, the means by which the men who set up a

nation of free citizens hoped to keep them free, is under constant

attack from those who fear a nation of free citizens, and who will not

sleep soundly until we are a nation entirely of slaves. Armed citizens

can, after all, say " no " and make it stick. That was why there was a

Second Amendment, to allow the people to say " no " to those who would

return them to the slavery they had so recently escaped from. Other

Constitutional rights and protections have been set aside. The

government can now search through your private records without cause

and without warrant, even break into your home and not have to tell

you. Simply by declaring a citizen an enemy combatant, the government

can now lock up US citizens without a charge and without a lawyer. You

can be prevented from traveling simply for having the wrong name. If

you purchase too much gold or take home too much cash, or hoard food,

the government will take notice. Having a Farmer's Almanac is grounds

for suspicion. Talking about the Constitution is now deemed grounds to

suspect a terrorist link. Torture is now espoused as " necessary " to

" deal with the crisis " . Were you able to refuse those changes to the

Constitution? No? Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

The government (at all levels) has borrowed trillions of dollars and

stuck your kids with the payments. Children not even born will be

paying off the bills. To declare the lives of children not yet born,

let alone old enough to vote, indentured to the state is slavery most

obvious and odious. Can you refuse responsibility for payments on

debts the government incurred without your permission? No?

Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

The government has borrowed so much money that it has long ago run out

of gold to pledge as collateral on the debts. Starting in Nixon's

administration, natural resources were used as collateral for the

mounting debts. Borrow more money, promise a chunk of public lands as

collateral. These land pledges were concealed behind

" Environmentalism " to disguise the real purpose. Numerous names such

as " Wilderness Reserve " , " Wetland " , " Heritage River " , and so forth

were used to conceal the true scale of the confiscations. But the end

result was the same. Huge tracts of public land containing natural

resources were walled away from the public that owned them, mortgaged

to the holders of the US Government debt. We are well on our way from

being citizens, to being mere tenants. Were you able to refuse having

your public lands placed at risk by the US Government to cover loans

you never authorized the government to make? No? Congratulations. You

are a slave.

 

Trust funds under government control are being looted, from the Social

Security trust fund to Native American trust accounts to Federal

Retirement Funds. Congress pays lip service to the looting of Social

Security, but considers only more taxes to cover the looted shortfall.

Meanwhile, court cases over other looted trust accounts drag on

without resolution. Are you able to refuse corrupt and dishonest

government? No? Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

You are a slave because the ruling class can do what they want, take

what they want, and you cannot refuse. You may have freedom to decide

what TV channel to watch tonight, or just which style car you will

drive to your work in, but little power over the rest of your life.

Even that home you have worked to pay for over the last decade can be

taken from you at a moment's notice via " eminent domain " . Can you

refuse? No? Congratulations. You are a slave.

 

In October 2001 I wrote that more damage would be done to our nation

by those claiming to save us from the terrorists than by any actual

terrorist act. Even as Bush claimed that the terrorists hated the US

because of our freedoms, he took what few remaining freedoms we had

away until we are more watched, more spied on, more limited, more

silenced, more taxed, and more enslaved that at any other time in our

nation's history. Not only are we slaves, we are at last starting to

see that we have been slaves all along. We did not have rights,

because a right cannot be taken away. What we had were indulgences,

granted by the masters to the slaves, to be removed when the masters

grow fearful of the slaves' resentment and anger.

 

I know this is a very depressing article to read on the New Year, but

I have watched through 2003 as people I care about lost their homes

and businesses, as the labors of a lifetime evaporated in stock market

manipulations by corporate crooks.These Americans who had worked hard

to achieve the American dream lost it all through no fault of their

own. Our schools are broke, hospitals under-staffed, the roads and

bridges and rails of the nation are crumbling while billions of

dollars are given away to foreign nations, favored cronies, and the

ravenous war machine. The priorities of the government that feeds on

taxes seems focused everywhere but on those who pay those taxes. And

we can't seem to refuse that either.

 

I think the state of the nation can be summed up by a simple contrast.

Tommy Chong is in jail for selling a pipe, while Ken Lay walks around

a free man with the billions he stole from his employees and

investors. Any way you slice it, that's a pretty screwed up situation.

 

I promised a reader that I would make some predictions for 2004 in

this article. I wish I hadn't because I am hoping I am wrong on most

of them.

 

1. There will be another fake terror attack. The Neocon war agenda

cannot move forward without it. Those who hoped Iraq would be the end

of the wars are in for a rude shock. The hawks want the entire planet,

either directly ruled by the US, or ruled by obedient puppet regimes.

Another " attack " is needed.

 

2. The US will eventually lose their war of conquest of the world. The

US does not have enough troops to garrison the planet, and as Hitler

learned much too late, merely having superior weapons isn't going to

win a war when you've pissed off absolutely everyone else in the

world. On a more practical level, sooner or later the US will wind up

at war with someone who really DOES have nuclear weapons of mass

destruction. That this is the government plan is witnessed by the

numerous underground facilities which have been built or upgraded in

recent years. You paid for them, but you won't be allowed in them.

Such an attack on the US is small price to pay for those who promote

these wars, not for America, but for another nation standing by while

its victims are tricked into fighting each other.

 

3. Minus a war, the US Government will eventually collapse as did the

Soviet Union, dragged down by debt and corruption. As the final

collapse looms closer, look for the looting of the nation to become

even bolder than it is now. The last official act of any government is

to loot the nation.

 

4. I am opposed to violence. I wish it could be avoided but I do

believe that this nation is headed towards a collision between the

rulers and the ruled. The government fears this as well or we wouldn't

see so much bullet-proof Lexan between us and our " public servants " . I

think that the reason we have not seen it yet is that Americans have

been conditioned to expect a hero or savior to come and make things

right. We know things have gone wrong, but we are waiting for someone

else to fix it, Superman, the cavalry riding to the rescue, Spartacus,

the Messiah, Batman, What Really Happened, etc. This belief that one

should wait quietly for a hero is part of the slavery mechanism, to

keep you in your place, rendering unto Caesar, breeding more slaves,

waiting for salvation that never comes. However, as history has shown,

even the patience of an entire people can run out, and I predict that

when the final upheaval comes, it will arrive as suddenly as that

which occurred in Romania. In November 1989, Romania seemed stable

under the rule of Nicholai Ceausescu. One month later, a sporting

event erupted into a spontaneous political protest and on December

25th, Nicholai Ceausescu was tried and sentenced to death. Ceausescu

proved that tyrants should not confuse silence with consent. The

Romanian people finally realized that nobody was coming to save them,

and they had the courage to save themselves. The collapse of the USSR

was equally rapid and almost as unexpected. So shall it be in the US.

 

Like I said above, I hope I am wrong in my forecasts. However it is

clear that the US Government is under the control of individuals

intent on personal enrichment, or loyalty to a foreign nation above

our own, and seeing no reason at all not to continue on their present

course. Confrontation seems inevitable.

 

The founding fathers set up a nation in which government was by the

consent of the people. We The People agreed to certain obligations,

and the government we allowed to care for our national sovereignty

agreed to abide by certain limits set forth in the Constitution. The

present government has broken the agreement, discarding the

Constitutional limits on their power and authority while at the same

time piling more and more obligations onto the people. Were you able

to refuse them? No? This more than any of the other reasons is why you

have ceased to be a free human being, and are now a slave.

 

You are a slave. When you live under a government that takes your

wealth and your children and lies to you to keep you docile and scares

you to keep you obedient, how can it be otherwise?

 

You are a slave. You can stay that way, or not. It's that simple.

Nobody is coming to save you. There are no heroes, no cavalry riding

to the rescue. Whether you and your children will live as slaves or as

free human beings is entirely up to you.

 

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> The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition...

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> Sepp Hasslberger

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> My page on physics, new energy, economy: http://www.hasslberger.com/

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> Critical perspective on Health: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/