"All the petty princes of Europe in medieval times had their Merlins, wise old men who in many instances were the actual rulers of the State. It is obvious that if these counselors were bound together by some common purpose their collective power would be considerable. And they were bound together, in the secret society of unknown philosophers, moving the crowns of Europe as on a mighty chess board. Men of this calibre bring about the mutations of empire. It is the general opinion that revolutions begin with the common people, but this is not true; the benevolently informed always guide and direct public opinion . . .nearly all great causes are furthered by mysterious and obscure persons who receive little or no credit for the part which they have played . . . In an old book of rules used by the brothers of the secret orders, is the following: 'Our brothers shall wear the dress and practice the customs of those nations to which they travel so that they shall not be conspicuous or convey any appearance that is different or unusual. Under no condition shall they reveal their true identity, or the work which they have come to accomplish; but shall accomplish all things secretly and without violating the laws or statutes of the countries in which they work.'"

— Manly P. Hall, from The Secret Destiny of America (pp. 97, 171-72)

"Foreign wars brought the temporary impositions of a semimartial law, notably through curbs of the freedom of press and the freedom of assembly, but the domestic wars have created a permanent state of semimartial law. For example, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the State from conducting "unreasonable" searches and seizures, has been dramatically curtailed while the powers of the police have been equally extended. Drug and gang-related "profiles" are now commonly accepted as sufficient criteria for the police to stop and search citizens. Adequate suspicion has been defined almost exclusively along racial and cultural lines . . . In general, the recent decline of the Bill of Rights has served to reinforce the traditional federalist project to strengthen the powers of the State against the danger of social disorder. A rising militarism on both foreign and domestic soil, then, and increasing recourse to a politics of social alarm, fear, and racism show the emergence of some fascistic elements of the State and the tendency toward the institution of a police state."

— Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, from Labor of Dionysus (pp. 242-43)

"In my belief system, guns/firearms have divine symbolism — like the knife is to the Sikh, the Balisong is to the Filipino, and the cross is to the Christian. I dare anyone to abolish my religious rights with such a cavalier attitude as to make a joke of it! If so, I know how the court system works — I, too, know the way of the serpent. I think civil action is fine, but step on my rights with your trampling feet of clay and die outright for it, you fool. 'Don’t tread on me, for my venom is pure fire.' . . . If they say that guns are bad, then it is also my right to say that Guns are DIVINE!!! Guns as religious artifacts are my right as per freedom of religion! I assert that guns are indeed religious artifacts — free from persecution, prohibition, or witch hunts of any type!"

— Master-at-Arms James Keating (slightly edited), from: www.combattech.com

"In 1968, one person working full-time at the minimum wage would come pretty close to the federal poverty level for a family of four (so if someone else in the family worked part-time, that family would be over the poverty line). Today, that same full-time, minimum-wage job takes a worker up to just 56% of the poverty line.

     Who makes up the difference? We do, through food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit and other programs designed to help the working poor. In effect, we’re subsidizing employers so that they can pay less than a living wage.

     The Federal Reserve Board tries to keep the pool of unemployed workers above 5%, so as not to fuel inflation (it does that by raising or lowering interest rates to slow down or speed up the economy). Unemployment above 5% guarantees that there will be plenty of competition for jobs at below-subsistence wages. But there’s a steadily growing pool of even cheaper labor — the nation’s prison population.

     Since 1990, thirty states have legalized contracting prison labor to private firms. Inmates are now employed booking reservations for TWA, doing data entry for the Bank of America and restocking shelves for Toys 'R' Us. Not only do prisoners work for much lower wages than people on the outside, but they have virtually no way to organize or strike. For an employer, it’s the best of all possible worlds.

     The US imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation on earth, and prison construction is growing by leaps and bounds. This great boon to the construction industry results from mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenders, the tough new "three-strikes" laws (the California version alone is costing $5.5 billion a year, five times what was estimated), and the roundup of illegal aliens.

"Back in the 1950s, US corporations paid 31% of the federal government’s general revenues. Today, they pay just 11%. . . . Taxes that corporations don’t pay have to be raised by taxing individuals. Not by taxing all individuals indiscriminately, of course — that would be un-American. A series of tax 'reforms' that began in 1977 have cut the rate paid by the richest Americans nearly in half, while Social Security taxes — which are paid overwhelmingly by ordinary wage earners (and not paid at all on income over $62,700) — have steadily risen.

     Not surprisingly, these tax changes have contributed to a widening gap between rich and poor. Between 1983 and 1989, 99% of the increase in American’s wealth went to the top 20% of the population, and 62% of it went to the top 1% of the population (currently made up of families whose net worth is $2.35 million or more). Income disparity in the United States is now the widest it’s been since the crash of 1929, and it continues to grow.

     The total net worth of that top 1% is now wqual to the total net worth of the bottom 90% of the population! In other words, the 2.7 million Americans who are worth 2.35 million or more have as much money as the 240 million Americans who are worth $346,000 or less.

     Wherever you look on the economic ladder, the rich are getting richer. The wealth of the top 20% has increased while the wealth of the bottom 80% has decreased. Within that top 20%, the top 5% have gotten richer than the bottom 15%. Within that top 5%, the top 1% have gotten richer than the bottom 4%. Within that top 1%, the top 1/4% have gotten richer than the bottom 3/4%.

     And so it goes, right up to the 400 wealthiest Americans. In the eight years from 1980 to 1987, their average net worth tripled."

— Mark Zepezauer, from Take the Rich Off Welfare (pgs 10-11)

"Guerrilla and underground movements have seldom enjoyed the backing of a majority of the populations around them, even in countries occupied by foreign armies. Typically, such movements have been regarded as dangerous jabs at authority which often result in heavy reprisals against persons either not involved in the armed opposition or involved only against their will. . . . such forces often operated in a hostile environment. Usually, widespread support for resistance movements has emerged only when it appears they might succeed in actually displacing existing authority, or if they seem balanced on the edge of military victory."

— Perry Biddiscombe, from Werwolf! (p. 4)

"If you are out in a bar and some drunk asshole comes up and spits in your girlfriend’s face, and you bust about three or four of his teeth out, you will be arrested, charged with felony assault, and incarcerated — even if you have ten witnesses and the drunk guy apologizes and refuses to press charges! (In this case — if you have no prior record — the felony could be reduced to a misdemeanor which means you’ll serve a couple months in jail (possibly only weekends, if you’re lucky), be put on probation for three years, and be required to pay for the creep’s medical bills.) If some crackhead with a meat cleaver breaks into your family’s dwelling at four AM, and you spray him across your livingroom carpet with a couple rounds of 12 gauge buckshot, then call 911 and report the incident to the local constabulary, all the firearms in your house will be seized and you will be hauled off to jail charged with murder. (After paying several thousand dollars in legal fees, you will probably get your property back and the charges dropped — provided you could legally possess a firearm in the first place.) If you find out that the boyfriend of your three-year-old’s babysitter has been jerking off into your kid’s mouth, and you feel that a year in jail, counseling, and probation is too lenient for a baby-raping piece of shit and decide to administer justice yourself, you will be put in prison for the next eight to twenty-five years, because even though a ‘jury of one’s peers’ would probably sympathize with you, the prosecution would bully the partially informed jurors into thinking they had no other option than to convict you for the maximum allowable penalty.

     The government wants all of its citizens to be ‘civilized’ in dealing with criminal activities. This means that one’s natural aggressive survival instincts must be suppressed and the citizen be totally dependant on law-enforcement officers for his personal protection. No citizen in New York State is permitted to carry any sort of weapon on the street. According to legislation, ‘weapons’ are not limited to firearms, knives, and exotic martial-arts garbage. Anything that could conceivably be used as a weapon is prohibited. For example: mace, electronic stun guns, slapper coshes, and telescopic steel whips are all non-lethal self-defense items which are carried by numerous women for protection from attackers. It is impossible to kill or even seriously injure someone with one of these toys — they are designed to provide a weaker individual with an opportunity to flee from a stronger attacker and nothing more, however, all are illegal in New York (NOTE: pepperspray was recently made legal to possess by persons over the age of 18 with no criminal history, but you have to show ID and fill out a form in order to purchase it). If you are pulled over by the police and you happen to have a jack handle, tyre iron, hammer, or crescent wrench on the floorboards, the policeman can cite ‘probable cause’ to search you and your vehicle, confiscate your tool, and arrest you for ‘Criminal Possession of a Weapon’ because the tool would meet the criteria for being a ‘dangerous instrument.’ If you have a cane or walking-stick and are not lame or elderly, you can have your cane taken away from you and be thrown in jail if the cop decides he doesn’t like the looks of you. If you kick someone during a physical altercation, your sneaker (‘shod foot’) would even be classified as a ‘weapon’ under New York’s statutes! What sort of self-defense items (other than a legally possessed handgun — for which carry permits involve a tedious and expensive application process — after which many folks who are legally entitled to receive one are often arbitrarily denied without any explanation) are available to the law-abiding New York State resident then? Well, it looks like we’ve got a choice between a whistle and an airhorn!"

— anonymous (RWT)

"Elizabeth I ascended the throne soon after her 25^th birthday. At court, by careful observations, she developed the style that later became her motto, which translates into: 'I see and am silent.’

     She learned self-possession from practicing her observations. She also discovered that public power was a derivative of some overmastering idea about which all people agree, and is a force accrued from some transcendent principal.

     She learned that such power can only be held if one becomes the embodiment of the idea oneself. She learned that prior to holding such power one must deny oneself certain luxuries that might disperse potency and principle . . . something she wished to get done early in life.

     She also learned that those who share in one’s power are thus bound by need, but can become resentful if the source of power recedes, or dangerous if they begin to fear exile.

     She learned that true power is concerned only with the maintenance of itself, and answers only to its source, and that power in itself can never spoil or be corrupted.

     She saw how the carful cultivator of power always stores extra power in reserve and uses the power of others at every opportunity in an effort to conserve his own. She also saw that others would gladly waste their small bits of power on one’s behalf if they were sufficiently enthralled.

"Telltale signs of a potentially assaultive subject include extreme pacing, the inability to keep his arms or hands in one position, wide stance, jutting chest, erect body posture, fixed eyes, speaking to himself, rapid speech, changes in speech volume, refusing to cooperate, looking at you out of the corner of his eye, the inability to maintain a relaxed facial expression, and leaving the area and then returning to stalk you or another intended victim. Bent legs or a bobbing motion are signs that the subject is preparing to spring at you. Long pauses in the middle of a sentence could be a sign that the subject is contemplating an attack. Pacing behind you or outside your vision (i.e., in a blind spot) are signs of a possible sneak attack. If a subject looks you over from the top of your head down to your feet, he may be sizing you up for an attack. Hitting a fist into the open palm, having a tense body, or rubbing a clenched fist with the opposite hand are intimidation gestures."

— Edward Lewis, from Hostile Ground (p. 15)

"Now I’m not pro-drug. They obviously cause a lot of damage. But I am pro-logic, and you’re never going to stop the human need for release through altered consciousness. . . . Our displeasure with someone hell-bent on self-ruination through drug use seems really disproportionate to its direct impact on us. And as a matter of fact, we amplify that impact when we attempt to enforce unenforceable laws. It not only costs us billions but puts us in harm’s way as addicts are driven to crime as a means to an end. Why do we chase druggies down like villagers after Karloff? Let them legally have what they already have and defuse the bomb. You know, I think the hysteria about drugs is oftentimes baseless, . . . fruitless, and patently hypocritical. . . . We seem to be willfully turning away from reality, and from logic might I add, to punish people who in many instances are doing an extremely fine job of punishing themselves . . . let’s save the money we’re wasting trying to regulate other people’s private lives. . . . They are going to do with their lives what they want to do, whether you like it or not. There is nothing you can do about it that won’t break the bank, overcrowd the prisons, or corrode an already oxidized judicial system."

"The Swiss always has his rifle at hand. It belongs to the furnishings of his home . . . That corresponds to ancient Swiss tradition. . . . the Swiss soldier lives in constant companionship with his rifle. He knows what that means. With this rifle, he is liable every hour, if the country calls, to defend his hearth, his home, his family, his birthplace. The weapon is to him a pledge and sign of honor and freedom. The Swiss does not part with his rifle."

— Philipp Etter

"Switzerland was the only country in Europe that had no single political leader with the authority to surrender the people to the Nazis. On Swiss soil there were no Jewish victims, no Gestapo jurisdiction and no slave labor for the German war machine. Every man in Switzerland had a rifle in his home. Switzerland was the only European country which proclaimed that, in the event of invasion, any announcement of surrender was to be regarded as enemy propaganda, and that every soldier must fight to the last cartridge and then with the bayonet."

— Stephen P. Halbrook, from Target Switzerland (p. ix)

"The monster who occupied Heinrich Himmler, the world’s most unlikely tyrant, achieved the pinnacle of personal power over life and death over the people of Germany under the guise of safeguarding their interests and protecting the Nation from non-existent enemies!

     The vessel for this role of mass enslavement and mass extermination of millions of innocent people had to be a man without an Ego, a soulless zombie totally incapable of the experience of love or of any human motive. And this is exactly what Heinrich Himmler was, an anti-human in a human body. One cannot even call Himmler a soul imprisoned and possessed by evil as was the case of Adolf Hitler. For in Himmler there was no self-conscious soul to be possessed, only a body and brain to be occupied and bent to inhuman purposes. . . .

     The most prominent feature in the working of the Doppelganger is an endless capacity to counterfeit and dissemble, to make something look what it is not, and to feign benign reasons and moral justification to cover up evil motives.

     The whole Nazi regime was built up on such practices. For instance, Adolf Hitler achieved personal power through such a counterfeit law, the so-called ‘Enabling Law’, by which (he) gained complete independence from both President and Reichstag. The actual title of this law, which Hitler secured by burning down the Reichstag to prove the existence of dangerous enemies of the state, was ‘Law for Removing the Distress of People and Nation’. In this manner the power of all other political parties, state institutions, and the Trades Unions was eliminated overnight. The application of the same law on an individual level extinguished the personal liberty of every single German in the Reich."

— Trevor Ravenscroft, from The Spear of Destiny (pgs. 295, 306)

"(Time is) the most precious commodity we have. I always view my time as divided into infinite moments or transactions or contacts. Anyone who steals my time is stealing my life because they are taking my existence from me. As I get older, I realize that time is the only thing I have left. So when someone comes to me with a project, I estimate the time it will take me to do it and then I ask myself, ‘Do I want to spend weeks or months of what little time I have on this project? Is it worth it or am I just wasting my time?’ If I consider the project time-worthy I do it.

     I apply the same yardstick to social relations. I will not permit people to steal my time. I have limited my friends to those people with whom time passes happily. There are moments in my life — necessary moments — when I can’t do anything but what is my choice. The choice of how I spend my time is mine, and it is not dictated by social convention."

— Stirling Silliphant

"The only reason men fight is because they are insecure; one man needs to prove that he is better or stronger than another. The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist — a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

     The point of achieving proficiency in any martial art is to be able to walk away from a fight rather than to win it. But you will walk with shoulders erect, pride in your bearing, knowing inside what the outcome of the battle would have been had you wished to precipitate it. And the attitude of confidence will be communicated to your antagonist, who will realize that he narrowly escaped defeat."

— Ed Parker

"To say that laws are necessary to protect individuals sounds all right until you realize that most laws interfere with the freedom of individuals — particularly the endless number of absurd victimless-crime laws on the books. How can any group of people — whether it calls itself a government or any other name — know what’s good for you when you have desires, ambitions, needs, beliefs and standards different from anyone else’s? How can they act in your best interest when they don’t even know you? Only you can decide what’s best for you; anyone who tries to do it for you, through force, is an aggressor and is in violation of natural law."

— Robert J. Ringer, from Looking Out For #1 (p. 240)

"There is an Establishment history, an official history, which dominates history textbooks, trade publishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, revolutions, scandals, assassinations, are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can NEVER be the result of a conspiracy, they can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within 9 hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was NOT a conspiracy, regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven, and that the investigation had barely begun.

     Woe betide any book or author that falls outside the official guidelines. Foundation support is not there. Publishers get cold feet. Distribution is hit and miss, or non-existent. . . .

     Times have changed. The weaknesses, inconsistencies and plain untruths in official history have surfaced . . . . it is rare to find a thinking reader who accepts official history. Most believe it has been more or less packaged for mass consumption . . .

     . . .The only reasonable explanation for recent history in the United States is that there exists a conspiracy to use political power for ends which are inconsistent with the Constitution.

     This is known by the official historians as the ‘devil theory of history,’ which again is a quick, cheap device for brushing facts under the rug. However, these critics ignore, for example, the Sherman Act, i.e., the anti-trust laws where conspiracy is the basic accepted theory. If there can be a conspiracy in the marketplace, then why not in the political arena? Are politicians any purer than businessmen?"

— Antony C. Sutton, from America’s Secret Establishment (pgs. 1, 3)

"Secret political organizations can be — and have been — extremely dangerous to the social health and constitutional vitality of a society. In a truly free society the exercise of political power must always be open and known.

     Moreover, organizations devoted to violent overthrow of political structures have always, by necessity, been secret organizations. Communist revolutionary cells are an obvious example. In fact, such revolutionary organizations could only function if their existence was secret.

     In brief, secrecy in matters political is historically associated with coercion. Furthermore, the existence of secrecy in organizations with political ambitions or with a history of political action is always suspect. Freedom is always associated with open political action and discussion while coercion is always associated with secrecy."

— Antony C . Sutton, from America’s Secret Establishment (p. 185)

"There are few things in the world I can conceive as being more instantly ludicrous than a prosperously middle-aged lump of pudgy Euroamerican verse-monger, an apparition looking uncannily like some weird cross between the Mall-O-Milk Marshmallow Man and Pillsbury’s Doughboy, suited up in a grotesque mismatch combining pleated Scottish tweeds with a striped Brooks Brother’s shirt and Southwest Indian print vest, peering myopically along his nose through coke-bottle steelrim specs while holding forth in stilted and somewhat nasal tonalities on the essential virtues of virility, of masculinity, of being or becoming a ‘warrior.’ The intrinsic absurdity of such a scene is, moreover, compounded by a factor of five when it is witnessed by an audience — all male, virtually all white, and on the whole obviously well-accustomed to enjoying a certain pleasant standard of material comfort — which sits as if spellbound, rapt in its attention to every nuance of the speaker, altogether fawning in its collective nods and murmurs of devout agreement with each detail of his discourse."

— Ward Churchill, from "Indians ‘R’ Us?"

"The CIA has many media personnel on its payroll to plant stories or discredit charges against it. The Agency secretly pays out large sums of money for articles and books to be written on the CIA’s behalf. Its control over the media is like a Wurlitzer, orchestrating and manipulating all segments of the written or broadcast media. The CIA uses taxpayer funds to control reporters and publishers of newspapers, magazines, and books. . . . (p. 175)

     Instead of the CIA being primarily an intelligence gathering and coordinating agency acting under the National Security Council, the CIA has become so powerful that it can destroy any politician who seriously questions its activities. This is especially true when combined with the criminal misuse of power by Justice Department attorneys and federal judges.

     The average American is unaware of the gravity of the CIA’s criminal activities, thanks to the orchestrated coverup and disinformation by the establishment media. The corrupt mindset has existed for years. Initiating wars, as in Vietnam, and assassination operations, as in Vietnam and Central America, are routine. Engaging in drug trafficking in foreign countries and the United States, a key reason for the world-wide proliferation of drugs, is the type of criminal activities this dangerous agency considers proper. . . .

     Although the CIA is not permitted by law to operate within the United States, it has done so. It has engaged and is engaging in many forms of criminal activities against the American people. Through fronts, cutouts, and proprietaries, the CIA has defrauded all types of U.S. financial institutions, including savings and loans, banks, and insurance companies. . . . (p. 231)

     It is standard practice for the CIA to use contract employees and mercenaries to carry out CIA activities within the United States and abroad, and in this manner fraudulently deny any involvement. Another standard practice is for the CIA to conspire with Justice Department attorneys to charge covert employees with violating federal law, and seek long prison sentences so as to silence or discredit them. . . . (p. 238)

     In its bag of dirty tricks, the CIA has promoted pedophilia for the purpose of blackmailing and controlling people, especially those in high government positions. . . . (p. 547)

     Their power . . . reaches into every home in America . . . It is the power which shapes and molds the mind of virtually every citizen . . . The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that image. . . . Employing carefully developed psychological techniques, they guide our thought and opinion . . . Most Americans fail to realize that they are being manipulated. . . . Every point on the permissible spectrum of public opinion is acceptable to the media masters — and no impermissible fact or viewpoint is allowed any exposure at all, if they can prevent it." (P. 581)

— Rodney Stich, from Defrauding America

"Regardless of the unattractiveness or noisy militancy of some private citizens or organizations, the Constitution does not permit federal interference with their activities except through the criminal justice system, armed with its ancient safeguards. There are no exceptions. No federal agency, the CIA, the IRS, or the FBI, can be at the same time policeman, prosecutor, judge and jury. This is what constitutionally guaranteed due process is all about. It may sometimes be disorderly and unsatisfactory to some, but it is the essence of freedom . . . I suggest that the philosophy supporting COINTELPRO is the subversive notion that any public official, the President or a policeman, possesses a kind of inherent power to set aside the Constitution whenever he thinks the public interest, or ‘national security’ warrants it. That notion is postulate of tyranny."

— Congressman Don Edwards (1975)

"Probably the most-well-known agent provocateur was Thomas Tongyai, known as Tommy the Traveler. Tongyai, who was paid by both the FBI and local police, spent over two years traveling among colleges in western New York state urging students to kill police, make bombs and blow up buildings. He supplied students with radical speakers, literature and films, tried to organize an SDS chapter at Hobart College, organized SDS conferences in Rochester and urged students to participate in the Weatherman ‘Days of Rage’ in Chicago in October, 1969. Tongyai constantly talked violence, carried a grenade in his car, showed students how to use an M-1 rifle and offered advice on how to carry out bombings. After some students at Hobart College apparently took his advice and bombed the Hobart ROTC building, and Tongyai’s cover was exposed, the local sheriff commented, ‘There’s a lot of difference between showing how to build a bomb and building one.’ As a result of disturbances connected with Tongyai’s activities on the Hobart campus, nine students and faculty faced criminal charges, but Tongyai was cleared by a local grand jury and went on to become a policeman in Pennsylvania."

— Robert J. Goldstein, from Political Repression in Modern America

"See the old man at the corner where you buy your papers? He may have a silencer equipped pistol under his coat. That extra fountain pen in the pocket of the insurance salesman who calls on you might be a cyanide gas gun. What about your milk man? Arsenic works slow but sure. Your auto mechanic may stay up nights studying booby traps. These patriots are not going to let you take their freedom away from them. They have learned the silent knife, the strangler’s cord, the target rifle that hits sparrows at 200 yards. Traitors beware. Even now the cross hairs are on the back of your necks."

— anonymous, taken from a death threat post card sent to many "leftist" activists by the "Minutemen" domestic terrorist group during 1970

"In order to produce marked changes in behavior, it is necessary to weaken, undermine, or remove supports for old attitudes. I would like you to think of brainwashing not in terms of . . . ethics and morals, but in terms of the deliberate changing of human behavior by a group of men who have relatively complete control over the environment in which the captives live. . . (These changes can be induced by) isolation, sensory deprivation, segregation of leaders, spying, tricking men into signing written statements which are then shown to others, placing individuals whose will power has been severely weakened into a living situation with others more advanced in thought reform, character invalidation, humiliations, sleeplessness, rewarding subservience, and fear." (emphasis added)

— Dr. Edgar Schein, in a 1962 address to all federal penitentiary wardens

"A pattern is emerging in which the ‘attitude adjustment’ represented by police and prison becomes a normative rather than exceptional experience of power in the U.S. If the present dynamics of spiraling police power and state sanctioned secrecy, proliferating penal facilities and judicial abandonment of basic constitutional principles is allowed to continued unabated, it is easily predictable that upwards of 20% of the next generation of Americans will spend appreciable time behind bars . . . any hint of politically ‘deviant’ behavior will likely be met with more-or-less immediate arrest, packaging as a ‘criminal’ by the FBI and its interactive counterparts in the state and local police, processing through the courts and delivery to one or another prison for an appropriate measure of behavior modification. The social message — ‘don’t even think about rocking the boat, under any circumstances’ — is both undeniable and overwhelming. . . . (COINTELPRO) will have moved from covert and relatively selective or ‘surgical’ repression of dissent to the overt and uniform suppression of political diversity. . . (which would amount to) outright social pacification and maintenance of a rigid social order. . . . concern with questions of police power and the function of prisons has been consigned mainly to lawyers and a scattering of researcher-activists whose work has been typically viewed as ‘marginal,’ esoteric,’ and even ‘paranoid’ . . . the posture of far too many people on the left suggests they are (ambivalent) . . . . This is readily borne out by the number of progressives who have rallied nationally to the cause of removing assault rifles and other semi-automatic weapons from the hands of the populace, while doing nothing to confront the rampant proliferation of SWAT capabilities among police forces throughout the country. Another choice indicator may be apprehended in the range of ostensibly progressive individuals and groups which have lately queued up to ‘take back streets’ they never had in the first place, righteously endorsing a government-sponsored ‘war on drugs’ entailing unprecedented police prerogatives to engage in no-knock entry, warrantless search and seizure, the routine ‘interdiction’ of people of color driving along the nation’s highways, uncompensated impoundment of personal property, massive applications of physical and electronic surveillance, the use of preventive detention on a wholesale basis, and myriad other abridgements of civil rights and liberties which would have remained unthinkable just five years ago."

— Ward Churchill, from The COINTELPRO Papers (pp. 324-325)

"The tyrant recruits his countrymen in his crusade against those he suspects might oppose him. He uses unceasing propaganda to incite mass hysteria and witch hunts, transforming the nation into an army of informers, starting an undeclared civil war of hunters against prey.

     His paranoia may infect his country, spreading racism, religious intolerance, and persecution of specific people and groups. Obsessed with vengeance, the tyrant delights in torture and annihilation. Concentration camps and genocide are the final solution, the balm for his burning anxieties. . . .

But the dreams! They won’t let me alone!"

— excerpted from "Death of a SEAL," an epic poem by Jake Bishop

"We shall all be considered ‘World Citizens’ and shall be issued ‘Worker Cards’ that will help keep track of everyone’s movements, expenditures and activities. There shall be one World currency, which shall primarily be composed of digitalized ‘credits’ on one’s Worker Card account. Eventually the Worker Card shall be replaced with a non-transferable, unreproducible and unlosable form of identification, such as computerized records of palmprints and retinas or even a UPC barcode indelibly tattooed with ultraviolet ink in one’s flesh. No funds can then be transferred from one party to another without government knowledge/approval. This will effectively wipe out the black market economy, which will be forced to resort to the barter system. Furthermore, any (or all) account(s) may be ‘frozen’ at any time, making access to funds for various transactions impossible, plus an alert could be transmitted to the Enforcement Branch as to your present location. All transactions of every conceivable nature will be closely monitored by Artificial Intelligence, which will immediately red flag any anomaly for government administrators, who will then examine the suspect transaction and decide whether to alert the Enforcement Branch. New ‘advances’ in communication technology (such as miniaturized computers/pictophones) will serve as combination homing beacons/listening devices. Every person on the planet will be under computerized scrutiny for any evidence of ‘disloyalty.’"

— excerpted from the anonymously published Prophesy File, which was distributed to a number of underground groups in the Summer of 1991

"All firearms will be declared contraband, with possession of a gun being considered the highest level of treason and grounds for summary execution, as civilian gun owners will all be classified as violent subversive criminals (first, guns will be ordered to be turned in to the proper authorities in exchange for compensation in the form of ‘credits,’ then a short amnesty period will be declared so ‘dawdlers’ have no excuse not to turn in their guns, finally a ‘General Warrant’ shall be issued and Enforcement Branch agents throughout the former United States will simultaneously launch a mass raid versus the digitalized listing of known gun owners suspected of non-compliance. After the mass gun raids, any civilian found in possession of a firearm will obviously be a terrorist and the government will show no mercy towards them). Hunting will have been outlawed due to mass outbreaks of deadly wildlife plagues which are easily transmitted to persons who handle carcasses or eat meat. Target shooting will have been reviled as ‘violent and anti-social behavior’ and totally banned. Self-defense will not be a legitimate excuse either, as all World Citizens will have a ‘duty’ to respect the rights of others, as well as an ‘obligation’ (non-compliance being a punishable offense) to immediately report any wrongdoings to the proper Authority figures. All forms of ‘weapon’ (including: knives, bludgeons, pepperspray, bows, BB guns, and slingshots) will be prohibited, as well as toys which either look like guns, or are believed to ‘encourage violence’ (i.e., ‘action figures,’ footballs, darts, etc.). Books, magazines, and comics which depict the use of weapons will be declared ‘subversive literature’ and burned in massive bonfires (as well as any other materials deemed antagonistic to the new worldview). Possession of any form of contraband (or failure to report those known to possess contraband — even an antique cap gun rusting away in someone’s attic), or even being in the same place where contraband is discovered, will be considered irrefutable proof of disloyalty. There will be no juries and no appeals process."

— excerpted from the anonymously published Prophesy File

"Overpopulation is considered a serious threat to mankind, and steps are being taken to reverse the process. Ways to control population growth include: genocide, sterilization or reduction of the average lifespan through various environmental stressors. Genocide may occur as a result of: war, riots, plague, famine (caused primarily by economic manipulation), ‘ethnic cleansing,’ cataclysmic weather conditions (which may be artificially induced) or mass poisoning. Sterilization may be encouraged through: cash (or ‘credit’) disbursements, mandatory eugenics programs, or chemicals surreptitiously introduced into the food/water supply (perhaps the most popular corporate-sponsored soft drink or fast food sandwich?). Reduction of the average lifespan can be caused by repeated (if not constant) exposure to toxins (i.e., pollution, solvents, fumes, mysterious food additives, or prescribed medications) and radiation (primarily electromagnetic), resulting in a variety of stress-related ailments, cancers and energy imbalances. Population controls are already being practiced (conspicuous examples of possible officially sanctioned genocide programs could include: Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Brazil, Haiti, Rwanda, and East Timor), and many more are expected to be introduced in the near future."

— excerpted from the anonymously published Prophesy File

"We must accept that, sad as it may be, many people do not merit sex on a regular basis as a result of either visual unpleasantness or social ineptitude. These persons often channel their repressed sexual energy in an unacceptable or self-destructive manner. Depression is common, which can lead to alcoholism, drug use or perversion. Many clients of the Nevada brothels are disabled veterans who are unfairly shunned by most women in our image-conscious society. Are we, as a society, going to deny legions of ugly, stupid and awkward people what Maslow considered a basic need? What often happens is that one of these ‘rejects,’ feeling sad and unloved, pairs up with a like reject whom he or she finds dull and unattractive but a convenient partner for coitus, and then because the Fundamentalists whom these rejects follow shun contraception they inflict upon society a sizable brood of miniature rejects — in which they instil their twisted sheeplike ‘values,’ and the cycle is thus doomed to repeat itself exponentially. Many individuals would be deeply offended by what I have just said, and would vehemently deny the truth of my statement, but it is a sad fact that many unattractive individuals marry one another simply as an excuse to have sex with someone, are often unhappy with their choice of a mate, and usually have an above average amount of ill cared for children who tend to become burdens upon society later in life (if not predatory criminals). If a safe, legal, and socially acceptable opportunity to sate one’s sexual appetites existed, I believe that many of these marriages, and the ensuing broods of delinquents, would not occur."

— anonymous (RWT)

"If any man was a habitual criminal, I am one. In my lifetime I have broken every law that was ever made by both God and man. If either had made any more, I should very cheerfully have broken them also. The mere fact that I have done these things is quite sufficient for the average person. Very few people even consider it worthwhile to wonder why I am what I am and do what I do. All that they think is necessary to do is catch me, try me, convict me and send me to prison for a few years, make life miserable for me while in prison and turn me loose again . . . If someone had a young tiger cub in a cage and then mistreated it until it got savage and bloodthirsty and then turned it loose to prey on the rest of the world . . . there would be a hell of a roar . . . But if some people do the same thing to other people, then the world is surprised, shocked and offended because they get robbed, raped and killed. They done it to me and then don’t like it when I give them the same dose they gave me."

— the demonic serial killer Carl Panzram, from Killer, a Journal of Murder (ed. by Gaddis & Long)

"Winston Churchill called it ‘The High Cabal.’ Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, JFK’s Director of Covert Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called it ‘The Power Elite.’ Others knew it as ‘The Enterprise,’ ‘The Council,’ ‘The Committee,’ and other names. But no matter what it was called, the organization that has pulled the political strings of government since before World War I in not only the U.S., but Europe, Russia and Japan, exists. It is resident in four major areas of international affairs: the international banking community; certain, selected boardrooms of major corporations; cells within the command structure of the military services of the most powerful of countries; and within the secret corridors of the covert intelligence community. It is an all-powerful organization that makes its own laws as needed, disregarding any that happen to be objectionable, utilizes the covert intelligence services of virtually every major country as footsoldiers during peacetime, and their military machines in times of war.

     Such an elite and powerful organization requires highly educated, extremely qualified, and very loyal individuals to fill its upper echelon ranks. The astute student of history will note that during the past eighty years, many of the same names appear over and over within the administrations of the upper levels of government. Often these names are not in the forefront of historical events, but certainly involved in a staff or advisorship position. It is these people who truly control the fate of the nation — and the other nations of the world. And it is these people who are consistently awarded key positions and promotions, and continue to serve within the hallowed halls of government from one administration to the next without fear of replacement. It is this resiliency and continued success in ascension that, even though they attempt to hide behind other, more visible figures, identifies them for what they are: members of The Power."

— Craig Roberts, from Kill Zone (pp. 149-150)

"In modern Western culture, we are surrounded by what we are told are warrior images. GI Joe stuff. Heroic Hollywood figures played by actors like Eastwood, Stallone, Willis, and Schwartzenegger. Gladiators solving all of the world’s problems with fists and firearms. I’m not such an idealist that I believe that I could do my job as a police officer without occasionally using force to manage the violence of criminals. But there is a big difference between using only as much force as is necessary and the excessive force and destruction that are characteristic of these Hollywood crime dramas, If I let myself behave in this violent manner, I would be no better than the criminals that I deal with. Force isn’t the answer. Too often it simply breeds more bloodshed in the form of vendetta and revenge. This Hollywood ‘warrior’ stereotype is incomplete and unbalanced."

— Kerr Cuhulain, from Wiccan Warrior (p. 6)

"He is a man driven by a manic need for self-esteem — to feel that he is a ‘somebody.’ He is obsessed by the question of ‘losing face,’ so he will never, under any circumstances, admit that he might be in the wrong. . . . the Right Man is an ‘idealist’ — that is, he lives in his own mental world and does his best to ignore aspects of reality that conflict with it. Like the Communists’ rewriting of history, reality can always be ‘adjusted’ later to fit his glorified picture of himself. . . . The Right Man hates losing face; if he suspects that his threats are not being taken seriously, he is capable of carrying them out, purely for the sake of appearances. . . . the central characteristic of the Right Man is the decision to be out of control, in some particular area. We all have to learn self-control to deal with the real world and other people. But with some particular person — a mother, a wife, a child — we may decide that this effort is not necessary and allow ourselves to explode. But — and here we come to the very heart of the matter — this decision creates, so to speak, a permanent weak-point in the boiler, the point at which it always bursts. . . . What is so interesting here is the way the Right Man’s violent emotion reinforces his sense of being justified, and his sense of justification increases his rage. He is locked into a kind of vicious spiral, and he cannot escape until he has spent his fury. . . . The Right Man feels that his rage is a storm that has to be allowed to blow itself out, no matter what damage it causes. But this also means that he is the slave of an impulse he cannot control; his property, even the lives of those he loves, are at the mercy of his emotions."

— Colin Wilson (paraphrasing A. E. Van Vogt), from A Criminal History of Mankind (pp. 67-70)

"In reprisal for Resistance activity in the area, the Germans rounded up all the inhabitants and made them go to the marketplace. The women and children were herded into the village church. No one was alarmed at this stage — the Germans were laughing and joking, and playing with the babies. Then, at a signal from a captain, the soldiers in the square opened fire on the men and massacred them all. The church was set on fire and the women and children burned alive. The children who managed to stumble out were thrown back into the fire. A Swiss who described the massacre remarked, ‘I am convinced these Elite Guards did not feel the slightest shade of hatred against the French children when they held them in their arms. I am equally convinced that, if a counter order had arrived . . . they would have continued to play daddy.’ But the SS men were ‘under orders,’ and the order had the effect of a hypnotist’s command. They ‘blocked out’ the reality of the women and children, and ‘did their duty.’ A confidence trickster swindles his victims in much the same way; he may actually feel genuinely friendly towards them as he lulls them into a state of trustfulness, yet the basic intention remains unchanged."

— Colin Wilson (on the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944), from A Criminal History of Mankind (p. 35)

"Dominance is a subject of enormous interest to biologists and zoologists because the percentage of dominant animals — or human beings — seems to be amazingly constant. Bernard Shaw once asked the explorer H. M. Stanley how many other men could take over leadership of the expedition if Stanley himself fell ill; Stanley replied promptly: ‘One in twenty.’ ‘Is that exact or approximate?’ asked Shaw. ‘Exact.’ And biological studies have confirmed this as a fact. For some odd reason, precisely five percent — one in twenty — of any animal group are dominant — have leadership qualities. During the Korean War, the Chinese made the interesting discovery that if they separated out the dominant five percent of American prisoners of war, and kept them in a separate compound, the remaining ninety-five percent made no attempt to escape."

— Colin Wilson, from A Criminal History of Mankind (p. 72)

"Gunpowder was invented in China some time around the year 1000, and seems to have been used for fireworks, but not, so far as we know, for destructive purposes. It is interesting to speculate how the discovery came about. Its chief ingredient is nitre — saltpetre. And in Europe at least its discovery came about by a rather curious process. Walls of farm buildings were often built with mud in which the hardening ingredient was cattle dung. Men would go and urinate against these walls, with the consequence that white streaks would form on the wall. This was nitre — potassium nitrate. Someone no doubt tried the experiment of tossing some of this crystalline substance on a bonfire, and observed that it made the wood burn with a new fury — it releases oxygen. The next step, which was probably made by some Chinese alchemist — for they had been at work trying to make semi-magical drugs and elixirs since the fifth century B.C. — was to find that, in certain proportions, nitre, sulphur and powdered charcoal will burn with a single bright flash, or — if confined in a tube — explode. So the Chinese made fireworks, and the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan seem to have learned about it from them and brought gunpowder to the west when they invaded the Kharismian empire in 1218 A.D. By about 1250 the Arabs had invented the first gun, a bamboo tube reinforced with metal bands which would fire an arrow. And so man’s most dangerous invention before the atomic bomb reached Europe around 1300, and helped to blow apart the last remnants of the Middle Ages."

— Colin Wilson, from A Criminal History of Mankind (p. 298)

"The alignments possible for characters are described below:

Chaotic Evil: The major precepts of this alignment are freedom, randomness, and woe. Laws and order, kindness, and good deeds are disdained. Life has no value. By promoting chaos and evil, those of this alignment hope to bring themselves to positions of power, glory, and prestige in a system ruled by individual caprice and their own whims.

Chaotic Good: While creatures of this alignment view freedom and the randomness of action as ultimate truths, they likewise place value on life and the welfare of each individual. Respect for individualism is also great. By promoting the gods of chaotic good, creatures of this alignment seek to spread their values throughout the world.

Chaotic Neutral: Above respect for life and good, or disregard for life and the promotion of evil, the chaotic neutral places randomness and disorder. Good and evil are complimentary balance arms. Neither are preferred, nor must either prevail, for ultimate chaos would then suffer.

Lawful Evil: Creatures of this alignment are great respecters of laws and strict order, but life, beauty, truth, freedom, and the like are held as valueless, or at least scorned. By adhering to stringent discipline, those of lawful evil alignment hope to impose their yoke upon the world.

Lawful Good: While as strict in their prosecution of law and order, characters of lawful good alignment follow these precepts to improve the common weal. Certain freedoms must, of course, be sacrificed in order to bring order; but truth is of highest value, and life and beauty of great importance. The benefits of this society are to be brought to all.

Lawful Neutral: Those of this alignment view regulation as all-important, taking a middle road betwixt evil and good. This is because the ultimate harmony of the world — and the whole of the universe — is considered by lawful neutral creatures to have its sole hope rest upon law and order. Evil or good are immaterial beside the determined purpose of bringing all to predictability and regulation.

Neutral Evil: The neutral evil creature views law and chaos as unnecessary considerations, for pure evil is all-in-all. Either might be used, but both are disdained as foolish clutter useless in eventually bringing maximum evilness to the world.

Neutral Good: Unlike those directly opposite them (neutral evil) in alignment, creatures of neutral good believe that there must be some regulation in combination with freedoms if the best is to be brought to the world — the most beneficial conditions for living things in general and intelligent things in particular.

True Neutral: The "true" neutral looks upon all other alignments as facets of the system of things. Thus, each aspect — evil and good, chaos and law — of things must be retained in balance to maintain the status quo; for things as they are cannot be improved upon except temporarily, and even then but superficially. Nature will prevail and keep things as they were meant to be, provided the "wheel" surrounding the hub of nature does not become unbalanced due to the work of unnatural forces — such as human and other intelligent creatures interfering with what is meant to be.