{"id":13,"date":"2008-01-31T01:14:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T06:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-01-31T01:14:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T06:14:34","slug":"sleeping-sheeple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Sheeple"},"content":{"rendered":"

I write this now after watching the CNN\/Politico Republican
\nPresidential debate earlier tonight.  <\/span>I\u2019m
\nwriting it as a means to express my incredible frustration.  <\/span>People in this country need to wake up.  <\/span>Take the red pill.  <\/span>Understand what is going on in this nation,
\nand the world.  <\/span>The facts are out there, we
\nlive in a time where information is more readily available than ever before,
\nbut people are too lazy to make use of it, to understand things.<\/p>\n

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During this campaign season, the big emphasis has been
\nchange, change, change.  <\/span>I agree.  <\/span>We DO need change, drastic change.  <\/span>We need to get the Washington out of the
\npockets of lobbyists.  <\/span>I don\u2019t care about
\nRomney\u2019s semantics, and how lobbyists aren\u2019t \u201crunning his campaign\u201d, he just is
\nsurrounded by them, as they are his advisors (I wonder if those lobbyist
\nadvisors have your best interests at heart\u2026 somehow, I doubt it\u2026).  <\/span>This is SO frustrating though.  <\/span>You want change?  <\/span>Then why in the hell would you vote for  <\/span>Hillary, Obama, McCain, or Romney?  <\/span>They\u2019re the only choices you say?  <\/span>Not really, you have more\u2026 and you HAD even
\nmore than that.  <\/span>Candidates who truly
\ncare about the people that are marginalized by the media that is controlled by
\nthe very elitists that control you.  <\/span>You
\nare not free.  <\/span>America is no longer based
\non freedom, it is based on the illusion of freedom.  <\/span>These candidates were handpicked by the
\nestablishment, to let you feel like you have a choice.  <\/span>The thing is, you still COULD have a
\nchoice.  <\/span>Primaries are coming up in many
\nstates, including here in Maryland in the next few weeks.  <\/span>There is still one true statesmen in the
\nrace, and his name is Ron Paul.  <\/span>He has
\nbeen marginalized, just as Kucinich was\u2026 
\n<\/span>both of them are constitutionalists, and while Kucinich is a bit off on
\nhis economic policies, the man truly supports the people.<\/p>\n

The media would have you believe that Ron Paul is
\ncrazy.  <\/span>A weirdo.  <\/span>A kook. 
\n<\/span>A nut.  <\/span>The media would have you
\nbelieve a lot of things, and there is a reason for that\u2026  <\/span>control. 
\n<\/span>If you believe Ron Paul is crazy, I challenge you to offer a position or
\nstatement that he has made that would justify that assertion.  <\/span>He is spot on on the issue of the war in
\nIraq.  <\/span>We had no justification for
\ninvading Iraq.  <\/span>There were no Al Qaeda
\nthere, they were in no way tied to 9\/11. 
\n<\/span>Speaking of which he is also spot on for the motivation for that
\nattack.  <\/span>The 9\/11 commission report
\nstates exactly what he has said\u2026  <\/span>the
\nmotivation for the attack was American intervention and presence in Islamic
\nlands.  <\/span>And don\u2019t pretend for a moment
\nthat you wouldn\u2019t be pissed if another country started building military bases
\non our soil.  <\/span>No one is saying that this
\njustifies 9\/11.  <\/span>Absolutely not.  <\/span>Al Qaeda is our enemy, but fighting in Iraq
\nis not fighting Al Qaeda\u2026 not really.<\/p>\n

Al Qaeda has stated that their strategy is to bleed America
\nof its money supply.  <\/span>They can operate on
\na very small budget, and it requires us billions to retaliate.  <\/span>Yet we stay in Iraq, where they can easily
\nattack our troops, and cost us money and lives. 
\n<\/span>Our economy is faltering.  <\/span>The
\nSoviet Union collapsed because the economy crashed, and the same thing can
\nhappen here.  <\/span>It looks like the same
\nthing WILL happen here.  <\/span>By staying in
\nIraq and spending money we don\u2019t have, Al Qaeda is winning.<\/p>\n

Someone at work has told me he\u2019s crazy because he wants to
\nget rid of the IRS and the income tax. 
\n<\/span>As Ron Paul has stated, and it\u2019s TRUE, you can look into it if you don\u2019t
\nbelieve him, I assure you the facts support it, if we get rid of the income tax
\ntoday the government would take in just as much money as it did 10 years ago.  <\/span>It is a realistic possibility.<\/p>\n

The gold standard thing? 
\n<\/span>Really, what he wants to do is introduce a legal competing currency to
\nthe federal reserve notes we use today, that is backed by gold and silver.  <\/span>If you think it\u2019s crazy, look into Austrian
\neconomics.  <\/span>Keynesian economics has been
\nso ingrained into Americans, and the gold standard so demonized and ridiculed,
\nthat people are unable to look at it objectively.  <\/span>Look into it yourself. With no
\npreconceptions.   <\/span>Besides, if things don\u2019t
\nchange drastically, all our federal reserve notes are going to be worthless
\npieces of paper anyway far too soon.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand why people want more of the same.  <\/span>People know that our system is broken, and yet
\nthey keep voting in the same establishment candidates year after year after
\nyear.  <\/span>When are we going to wake up?  <\/span>When are we going to take our country back?  <\/span>The time to do it is now.  <\/span>Before it\u2019s too late.  <\/span>Before it requires more than a democratic process
\nto realize change.  <\/span>If the economy
\ncollapses, do you believe martial law is far off?  <\/span>All it takes is for the President to declare
\na state of emergency, and he can institute it. 
\n<\/span>Don\u2019t think it wouldn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

The debate was so transparent tonight\u2026 Ron Paul was largely
\nignored.  <\/span>Almost every single one of his
\nanswers was cut short by the moderator, while McCain and Romney were allowed to
\ndrone on and on about slight technicalities in their foreign policy.  <\/span>A large portion of the beginning of the
\ndebate was an argument between 2 guys who aren\u2019t terribly conservative about
\nwho was the most conservative (Romney and McCain obviously\u2026 the winner?  <\/span>Neither. 
\n<\/span>They both lose the conservative test). 
\n<\/span>To be fair, Huckabee also was ignored a large part of tonight.  <\/span>He is now being marginalized\u2026  <\/span>he was used to give some credence to the
\nprocess\u2026  <\/span>and now that they\u2019re done with
\nhim, they\u2019re unmaking him.  <\/span>The media
\ngiveth and the media taketh away.<\/p>\n

The media\u2026 people listen to the media as though they were
\ndelivering the gospel truth.  <\/span>Who do you
\nthink controls the media?  <\/span>It\u2019s
\nowned  <\/span>and controlled by people of the
\nsame establishment that has a vice on our democracy.  <\/span>Republican, democrat\u2026 it\u2019s just 2 sides of
\nthe same coin.  <\/span>Occasionally somebody
\nslips through their control\u2026.  <\/span>But even
\nthen they know how to handle it.  <\/span>Why are
\nyou going to listen to the people who want to tell you what to think and who to
\nvote for, the people who want to control you?<\/p>\n

You know why you are told that the income tax is
\nnecessary?   <\/span>Why you aren\u2019t told that it
\ndoesn\u2019t pay for roads, or schools, etc, as we are so often led to believe that
\nit does? (In actuality, it all goes to the federal reserve, to pay off our
\ngovernment\u2019s debt\u2026 see the Grace Commission report).  <\/span>Why the tax code won\u2019t be reformed?  <\/span>Because it\u2019s another form of control.  <\/span>Your indebtedness (through taxes) and dependence
\n(through entitlements) on the government makes you a slave to government.  <\/span>You are not free.<\/p>\n

Wake up.  <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe price of liberty is eternal vigilance.\u201d \u2013 Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n

Stop sleeping.  <\/span>Be
\nvigilant.<\/p>\n

Vote for freedom. 
\n<\/span>Vote for Ron Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I write this now after watching the CNN\/Politico Republican Presidential debate earlier tonight.  I\u2019m writing it as a means to express my incredible frustration.  People in this country need to wake up.  Take the red pill.  Understand what is going on in this nation, and the world.  The facts are out there, we live in … Continue reading Sleeping Sheeple<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}