Tyranny is the logical conclusion of every people who lose the sense of theirNatural Rights, and it appears that is, for most Americans, the case. As withevery threat, the governments response to that threat determines the extent ourRights are affected. Although I am sure that there are very real threats in theworld, the "War on Terror" is just another in a long line of threats that has beeneffectively used by government "Statists" over the last two centuries, used totheir advantage over the People.We can see this trend, as it began, when John Adams implemented the Aliens andSedition Act of 1798, then again in the War between the Several States, which hadlittle to do with the slavery issue and more to do with a Federal power grab. TheSpanish threatened us at the end of the 19 Century, and then The Hun was thethreat during WWI, and fascism in WWII, then the long list of communist threats,which called for preemption and containment from the Korean Conflict, throughVietnam.Now, we have the threat of Islamic Fascists, otherwise known as terrorists, who,we are told, threaten our very existence as a "free nation" (how many times havewe heard that before?). We must come to understand that there are forces at workwithin our government, which require the existence of such external threats. Theyexist (or are created) not only to justify a massive war machine, but in a veryreal sense, they exist to serve an even broader social purpose within our society.With each threat, there must be a response and it is within that response that TheState finds its raison d'état, it is the grease required to keep the machinery inmotion. The War Machine requires the existence of threats, without such threatsthere is no reason for such a vast arsenal consisting of enormous productive andsocio-political waste.Though there have always been Statists within our government, it was not until theadvent of the Federal Reserve Act and the progressive income tax, that they had atool with which to expand their grasp over this nation. It has allowed them togain not only the mechanism, but also the power to adjust the very restrictivelimitations on The State Machine by the Constitution. From there it was just amatter of time before the idea of a never-ending threat could be utilized tobenefit their agenda.Although WWI provided fodder for their machine, it was not until the end of WWIIthat the machinery could be brought up to full speed with the threat of globalCommunism. Since then, the machinery has been running over-time and the by-productof that machinery is enormous waste and destruction. Such waste proves to be anincredible asset to The Statists, without it there would be no room for theirpolitical agenda or apparatus; indeed we would have a Constitutional Republicwhere prosperity would replace the overt waste of their political endeavors. Apolicy of peace is just too politically expensive…it allows Liberty to flourishand the individual to achieve his or her state of self-ownership and sovereignty.The Statists fully understand that without the Waste Machine of War (whatever typeof war that might be, i.e. "war on terror, poverty, drugs, you name it), there canbe no control over the population; it serves a larger social utility than werealize, or perhaps understand. In the eyes of The Statists, War is a wonderfulthing; it serves them well, economically, politically and socially.Peace is the Enemy of The State…that has always been the case. Peace does notallow The State to function as it pleases; peace inhibits The State from the powerof imposition and coercion. The State calls it "foreign policy", but in reality itis a medium to enforce its ideals and attributes on both the foreign and domestic
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