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Roots of Terrorism
"The contest for ages
has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
-Daniel Webster (1762-1852)
Let us have
a quick glance at the beginning of recorded history and show how a relatively few extremists have hijacked the executive powers
to neutralize the potential of the public for being in charge of its own destiny, that stopped with the American Revolution,
but revived later and is continuing even during our twenty-first century Information Age.
Sinohe (pronounced SeeNoHay)
was a man who rose from the depth of degradation to become personal physician to the Pharaoh Akhnaton. His views of the public
in 14th Century B.C. Egypt was the title of the first major historical novel (The Egyptian, listed at amazon.com) published
in 1949 by Mika Waltari, widely considered the greatest Finnish writer of 20th Century. In this book Sinohe states:
The public as a whole has a tendency to think that ignorance is bliss and, if educated, always tends
to revert to its original state of ignorance! He likened educating the public to dipping a person
in water by saying that We can not deny the fact that almost all rulers had the common denominator of fearing an educated
and informed people. He likened public education with immersing a person in water and reasoned that as that wet person does
not stay wet long when out of water, the public and education, too, do not stay
together long! The irony is that Sinohe himself was one proof of what a common man can achieve by
education and perhaps good luck of rubbing the Pharaoh the right way!
Rulers despised the
public that could limit their power and question their authority. Education was valued, but it was for a few trusted elite,
mostly of male gender. People were treated as mushrooms-were mostly kept in dark and fed horse manure, as the saying goes!
Later in relatively recent times this system of controlling people was called propaganda machine-like most of today's popular
media, if you will.
Pecking order, bullying and competition for people's bodies, minds and pocketbooks was the
name of the game. Stronger kings robbed the weaker ones in the name of God and the kings' men robbed the people in the name
of kings! Slavery was common, and even many "respectable people" were for sale if the price was a match for their
ambition.
Ordinary people, were also called flocks. They were meant to be herded rather than to be heard from.
Rulers found it easier to exterminate their internal and external opposition rather than persuade them. In doing this, ends
always justified the means. In a relatively recent time this was given a modern name, Machiavellian theory-a sort of plagiarism
or reinventing the wheel, if you will. It was this fear of government that, deep in their heart, people were reluctant to
entrust it with more power than they needed for a specific mission. As an example the Greek city-states did not form a federal
government until they felt a strong need to confront the Persians.
Numerous theories and counter theories evolved
on the feasibility of trusting the mass in governing itself one of of which was Edward Bernay's proposal of irrationality
of mass mind and George G. Gallup's partially rational mass. In summary humankind went through struggles for power during
its long history both by religious and secular groups such as Nazism, Fascism, Communism Fascism and the like. Those who only
associate the former repressive regimes at odd with freedom have no adequate justification for existence of secret societies
such as Mafias, Bilderberg Society, and financial institutions in the Free World since all of them vie for the control
of people's thoughts, mind and pocketbooks only in different ways. In fact the trend of returning to central control and government
of few are gaining momentum especially when the extremists in America succeed to completely erase the word People from the
Government of the People. One should not overlook warnings such as George Orwell and others about a grim future and bondage
of humankind if the present trend of growth in public apathy continues.
The following passage, attributed to Julius
Caesar, albeit not verified, summarizes the universal feeling of tyrannical rulers if their vises are not balanced with their
virtues by a vigilant public.
"BEWARE THE LEADER WHO BANGS THE DRUMS OF WAR IN ORDER TO WHIP THE CITIZENRY
INTO A PATRIOTIC FEVER, FOR PATRIOTISM IS INDEED A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD. IT BOTH EMBOLDENS THE BLOOD, JUST AS IT NARROWS THE
MIND. AND WHEN DRUMS OF WAR HAVE REACHED A FEVER PITCH AND THE BLOOD BOILS WITH HATE AND THE MIND HAS CLOSED, THE LEADER WILL
HAVE NO NEED IN SEIZING THE RIGHTS OF THE CITIZENRY. RATHER, THE CITIZENRY, INFUSED WITH FEAR AND BLINDED BY PATRIOTISM, WILL
OFFER U In P ALL THEIR RIGHTS UNTO THE LEADER AND GLADLY SO."
Page summary- Contrary to what we are told,
terrorism is nothing new in the history of the world. It has been a staple part of struggle for power between the rulers and
the ruled. Most importantly, it is not conspiracy of the world against America or at least not nearly enough to justify America's
paranoid to fight the so called War on Terror and self-destruct in the process.
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