"We’ve been wrong about two major things. Our leaders don’t ‘mean well,’ and they aren’t stupid.

     They’ve succeeded in creating a world of financial control in what looks like private hands, dominating all nations through world economy . . . but those ‘private hands’ are not the hands of the human Insiders and it isn’t money they grasp for.

     The Conspiracy has many noble, ignorant patriots duped into swallowing hook, line and sinker the fallacies that either ‘Communism’ or ‘Capitalism’ is the Big Threat, but either way it’s the same power elite in control.

     The same ones who promulgated the Red Scare and the Commie Witch Hunts also financed the Russian Revolution. Those who rule Russia and China don’t believe in Communism any more than those who rule America believe in Capitalism. Both are only two arms of a very unholy octopus indeed.

     (This slamming of Capitalism may be a shock coming from the ‘megacapitaliast’ Church of the SubGenius, but all we really preach is free enterprise, which hasn’t been seen in this country in 100 years except on the most piddling scale.)

     They aren’t readying us for takeover — THAT’S already HAPPENED. ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IS HERE. It just isn’t obvious yet. But any day now the media will have people not only prepared for the realization, but welcoming it. One World Government is ‘hip.’

     They WON the political battle long ago. Politically, they’ve conquered the world, from the KKK to the Libertarian Party to the Kremlin and the Pentagon.

     Now they want our SLACK.

     Oh, their World Government plans are humanitarian enough . . . they don’t want to make us miserable, they just don’t want us to be happy.

     Most of the traps have already been sprung.

     For instance, even you think we’re kidding.

     They effectively erased private property for the middle class and are working on erasing the middle class itself. They dissolved the foundations of the family. They keep the individual’s choices for lifestyle within an increasingly narrow range. All humans are numbered from birth and thus tracked through education, military service, taxes, medical requirements, retirement benefits, and especially BANKS, all the way to death.

     They control all natural resources and business, all systems of transport, all major entertainment sources. Through the deliberate fomenting of wars, revolutions, depressions, and epidemics, it’s easy for them to eliminate all competition and deliver the coup de grace to free enterprise.

     And it was so damn easy it’s PATHETIC. They created a Central Bank and called one of its main branches ‘the Federal Reserve.’ That monster bank is the real U.S. Government — the duly-elected one in Washington being a soap-opera opiate for the masses, a stageful of bad stand-up comics propped up for the rubes to throw things at.

     There’s no Constitution — there’s just the MONEY. The ‘U.S. Government’ has to borrow from the Federal Reserve, which really means from international banking. Our supposed leaders are in debt to themselves, and, worse, to their secret bosses.

     This is literally true: there’s a big ‘Men’s Club’ to which belong all major politicians from all major parties, plus the heads, directors, editors and superstar personalities of ALL THE MAJOR NETWORKS, MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS. In this Club they can all meet to agree on how to explain things.

     Sounds like kook-talk, huh? That’s because they’re always one jump ahead of you. THEY ENGINEERED THE SPREAD OF CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORIES, because even though many of the theories are true, they still sound crazy: the Rockefeller Conspiracy, the C.F.R., The Round Table, the Bilderbergers, the JFK ‘cleanup,’ ALL OF IT.

     The C.F.R. and the Trilateral Commission: oh, they’re bad guys, alright, but compared to the REAL controllers they’re just the clerks at the front desk. They’re just the sales force of a far larger ‘company.’ Sure, they have more control than any sane American ever dreamed possible, but they themselves are more controlled than THEY ever dreamed possible."

— The SubGenius Foundation, from The Book of the SubGenius (pp. 92-93)

"You must understand that money itself is worth nothing. It is only a tool. Yet, because The Conspiracy controls its printing, They extract great life energy from those who worship it.

     Until we rid ourselves of the artificially-induced obsession with the colored pieces of paper themselves, we are still slaves to Their conditioning. If you worry about its lack you are theirs, for they make far more off your hours of labor than you do. If you were paid what you’re worth, they’d go broke. (They are not really obsessed with money, but with TIME — your time. They are Time Junkies who vampirize your minutes and days until you are nearly drained of Slack.)

     To break this vicious cycle of exploitation, you must purge yourself of all respect for paper money. DEBASE THE FALSE GODS of the Federal Reserve. Make a game of its destruction; feel righteous pleasure as you draw on it, write on it, shred it. Make it useful for something real."

— The SubGenius Foundation, from The Book of the SubGenius (p. 141)

"‘INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT' is a phrase for which it would be difficult to formulate a dictionary definition without sacrifice of accuracy to brevity. It may perhaps be best described as the political and economic control of the community . . . by groups who are careful to evade the responsibility which should always accompany power. They operate behind a mask of puppets in politics and business, and these must take the blame in courts of law, and before the bar of public opinion, for any errors in the technique of knavery.

     To this end, our law-administration and, to a certain extent, even our ethics have been twisted in order to make the servant more responsible than the master. For example, when it comes to light that a public officer has been directly or indirectly corrupted by men of wealth, or by the higher officials of a great corporation, the prosecuting authority will almost invariably ignore or immunize the true authors of the corruption in order to crush the instrument. Of the men who bribed Secretary Fall to make over to them hundreds of millions of dollars in Government oil lands, not one was convicted; nor has their standing in the business or financial world been in the slightest degree impaired. Fall went to the penitentiary. There are scores of such cases in our history."

— John McConaughy, from Who Rules America? (p. 1) 1934

"If a judge signs an order restraining a citizen, or a group of citizens, from doing certain things, no matter how much their legal and Constitutional rights permit them, they must immediately desist or go to jail for contempt of court, while the legal rights of the question are being threshed out in a tangle of writs and appeals. The peculiar viciousness of this method lies in the fact that, in many cases, time acts automatically against the citizen so restrained. By the time he has established his rights, he has lost his cause."

— John McConaughy, from Who Rules America? (p. 304)

"History demonstrates that men have often built imposing, elaborate cities, flourished in them for hundreds or even thousands of years, then deserted them to live in simple grass huts on their perimeters. Wars and natural calamities often played a part in this pattern, of course. Great cultures have risen and then died out. Men returned to simpler ways of life. It is a natural order of things. A thousand years from now people may be living in thatched shacks in New Jersey and on Long Island within full view of the decaying towers of Manhattan. They may tell the children about the peculiar ancients who built the towers as part of the strange religion which worshiped the great god Money."

— John A. Keel, from Our Haunted Planet (p. 65)

Your duty"

— received by Donald Tyson via automatism whilst meditating on the rune Nyd

I the herald, speak His Word"

— received by Donald Tyson via automatism whilst meditating on the rune Tyr

CP: "I remember having the option of going crazy or not. I could just let myself go and go that way. . . . I had no idea that it was a temporary possibility. To me it was an all-out choice, either I’m going to go crazy or I’m not. I was in the hospital at the time. I never thought I could just walk over there for a little while and take a look around and come home."

HS: "A lot of people don’t know that. That’s something I learned from working with a guy named Marty Lane. . . . he was probably one of the best with schizophrenics. He taught me how to literally go in — he was a psychiatrist, a medical doctor, but he was a shaman, he wasn’t a fucking psychiatrist — he showed me how to go in where schizophrenics and catatonics are at. Go right in the same place with them and come right back out. I’ve gone crazy a few times. I know how to go there and come back, and that’s important. . . . That’s an important revelation, that there is a moment you face, knowing you can just step into that twilight zone. That you’ve got that choice. Some choose to do it and don’t come back, and some just say I don’t think I’m going to go there."

— conversation between Chris Pfouts and Harley Swiftdeer, as related in the former’s book, Lead Poisoning (pp. 164-165)

"Shame has taken the place of violence as a routine form of punishment in Western societies. The reason is simple and perverse. The shame an autonomous person can arouse in subordinates is an implicit control. Rather than the employer explicitly saying ‘You are dirt’ or ‘Look how much better I am,’ all he needs to do is his job — exercise his skill or deploy his calm and indifference. His powers are fixed in his position, they are static attributes, qualities of what he is. It is not so much abrupt moments of humiliation as month after month of disregarding his employees, of not taking them seriously, which establishes his domination. The feelings he has about them, they about him, need never be stated. The grinding down of his employees’ sense of self-worth is not part of his discourse with them; it is a silent erosion of their sense of self-worth which will wear them down. This, rather than open abuse, is how he bends them to his will. When shame is silent, implicit, it becomes a patent tool of bringing people to heel."

— Richard Sennett, from Authority (p. 95)

"The Federal Reserve is a secretive privately-owned corporation which is not held accountable to any government agency through the common practices of utilizing inspectors and oversight committees. This is puzzling, since they alone guarantee the negotiability of all of America’s paper currency — which is NOT backed by our depleted gold reserves at Fort Knox, but rather by a somewhat insubstantial system of ‘interest, loans, and credit’ which give these ‘Notes’ their constantly fluctuating value.

     In a hypothetical (though admittedly unlikely) scenario in which the corporation known as the ‘Federal Reserve’ (which is NOT part of the Federal government) were to suddenly and unexpectedly dissolve (how could this happen? I don’t know specifics, but bear with me nonetheless), all of their ‘Federal Reserve (promissary) Notes’ would immediately become worthless scraps of paper. Only coins (which are minted by the U.S. government and not regulated by the Federal Reserve) would continue to retain their negotiable value!

     This means that, unless you had a credit card, debit card, checking account, or sacks of dollar coins, you would be UNABLE TO BUY AND SELL. The resultant ‘cashless society’ would effectively eliminate any illusion of privacy pertaining to the transfer and distribution of funds! Not only would ‘investors’ be unable to hide certain assets from the government anymore, but the illegal ‘black market’ economy would be virtually decimated overnight! An unlikely scenario, but a scary thought nonetheless."

"Man has the right to live by his own law — to live in the way that he wills to do: to work as he will: to play as he will: to rest as he will: to die when and how he will.

Man has the right to eat what he will: to drink what he will: to dwell where he will: to move as he will on the face of the earth.

Man has the right to think what he will: to speak what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mold, build as he will: to dress as he will.

Man has the right to kill those who thwart these rights."

— from The Equinox: A Journal of Scientific Illuminism, 1922

"All authority is a function of coding, of game rules. Men have risen again and again armed with pitchforks to fight armies with cannon; men have also submitted docilely to the weakest and most tottery oppressors. It all depends on the extent to which coding distorts perception and conditions the physical (and mental) reflexes.

     It seems at first glance that authority could not exist at all if all men were cowards or if no men were cowards, but flourishes as it does only because most men are cowards and some men are thieves. Actually, the inner dynamics of cowardice and submission on the one hand and of heroism and rebellion on the other are seldom consciously realized either by the ruling class or the servile class. Submission is identified not with cowardice but with virtue, rebellion not with heroism but with evil. To the Roman slave-owners, Spartacus was not a hero and the obedient slaves were not cowards; Spartacus was a villain and the obedient slaves were virtuous. The obedient slaves believed this also. The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly."

— Hagbard Celine

"The besetting sins of the Right-hand path are pride, and the tendency to set oneself apart from humanity. What better way of doing this than to claim that one’s own race comes from the heavens, all others from the dirty earth? The more fanatical the quest for purity, the worse the consequences for anyone who gets in the way. If Aryans alone can tread the path to Deliverance, those who are disqualified by blood, race, or caste from this high destiny are an unfortunate nuisance, to be shunned, enslaved, or exterminated, while the masters set their steely eyes in nostalgia for the cold purity of their Hyperborean home.

     The corresponding fault of those who take the Left-hand path is to misunderstand the famous motto of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema: ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.’ In a sense, but a very precise and restricted one, this implies freedom from ethical restraints. But it is all too tempting to identify one’s ‘will’ with one’s basest impulses of indulgence and selfishness. Hitler invariably acted as if everything were permitted him: no amount of suffering and death mattered so long as it served his purposes, and he set an example of how a whole people can be willed into a frenzy of hatred and nationalism. The second part of the motto of the Left-hand path, ‘Love is the law, love under will,’ became for the Nazis: ‘Hatred is the law, hatred under will’ — a powerful formula indeed.

     The inescapable historical parallel to all of this is to be seen in the innumerable cruelties committed by Christians against Jews, pagans, witches, heretics, and each other: a disgrace to the Solar tradition, as the Nazis are to the Polar. Yet many of the worst offenders were pious, and believed themselves to be sincere Christians; some of them were even mystics. All this goes to show that any religious tradition can do more harm than good, unless it is tempered by the simple humanity and compassion that come more readily to women than to men. When the Dalai Lama says with his characteristic smile, ‘My religion is Kindness,’ he is pointing the way to the Golden Age more surely than any priest, shaykh, or esoteric pundit."

— Joscelyn Godwin, from Arktos (p. 175)

"A major Ahrimanic stratagem in the battle for the earth is exploitation of the neurotic deference inculcated in human beings towards the forms of ‘authority.’ Modern humans are all too willing and ready to be reassured and diverted from significant matters by generals, presidents, doctors and spokesmen for learned societies.

     Where the existing neurotic mechanisms in these processes are insufficient, vulnerable human beings in positions of authority run the risk today of being placed under various forms of psychic control. Etheric tunings, via advanced radionic-type instruments, are in all probability employed to this end from the unseen. The victims think, voice, write, and otherwise place into earthly currency, the misleading falsehoods that the Ahrimanic powers wish to have disseminated as part of their own continuing concealment. . . .

     Political corruption in America has reached unprecedented levels. Political corruption is simply the expression, in and through the body politic, of the corruption poured into the souls of men by the Ahrimanic powers. . . . Just as destructive power has extended to a world scale and made the occult manipulation of leaders of signal importance — all humanity being effected — so on a smaller scale within America itself has Federal power become total power. . . .

     The President is deceitful concerning his income tax. The verbal environment in the innermost sanctum of the White House, the political and spiritual center of America, becomes saturated with constant profanity. The power of words is never underestimated by persons of occult knowledge. If a man uses constant profanity he creates for himself a psychic environment that is profane. If he surrounds himself with profane men, their profane force is added to his. Soon there is created a profane center wherein flourish unseen beings with profane motives. . . . Such processes as these, opening American life and fortune to control by the powers of darkness, created America’s downskidding fortunes and descent from grace and respect in the world."

— Trevor James Constable, from The Cosmic Pulse of Life (pp. 385-387)

"The symptoms that ‘educators’ are treating with drugs may in fact have nothing to do with congenital brain defects, as they have argued, but with a number of other less mysterious factors including:

— Poor nutrition, fostered by parents either too poor, irresponsible, or dumbed down themselves to provide decent food for their kids; encouraged by a criminal food production industry more intent on moving cheap, sugar-coated, chemically-dyed, pesticide-poisoned swill than in providing healthy food. Sugar, pesticides, and chemical additives may be a key factor in causing what is termed ADD and ADHD.

— Television and other media. Kids are estimated to watch six hours per day of an electronic medium deliberately designed to foster a short attention span, with quick three-to-five second visual cuts purposely stimulating the kind of artificial agitation that induces a child to respond to commercials. Is it any wonder that these kids have a short attention span?

— Another negative aspect of the pop media is the abundance of sexual and violent images disseminated via TV, movies, hyper-violent video games, and music with violent/sexual ‘gangsta’ ghetto rap. There are many studies showing that when television is introduced to a community that violent acts double over the course of a few years. . . .

— Little parental contact with kids at all. The prevailing economy is designed so that both parents usually have to slave full time, leaving very few moments for contact with the kids. The situation of the single parent family is usually worse.

— Finally, there is a problem with the nature of public schooling itself, which does not challenge children to learn or to think creatively, but instead indoctrinates them to conform to their prison-like surroundings. . . .

     There is no indication that the drugging of children is going to diminish in the near future. Quite the contrary."

— Jim Keith, from Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness (pp. 26-29)

"I always wondered why the teachers just threw the knowledge at us when we were in school, why they didn’t care whether we learned it or not. I found that the knowledge which they had made into a cabala, stripped of its terms and the private codes, its slang, you could learn in a few weeks. It didn’t take 4 years, and the 4 years of university were set up so that they could have a process by which they could remove the rebels and the dissidents. By their studies and the ritual of academics the Man has made sure that they are people who will serve him. . . . Some of these people with degrees going around here shouting that they are New Negroes are really serving the Man who awarded them their degrees, who has initiated them into his slang and found them ‘qualified,’ which means loyal."

— Ishmael Reed, from Mumbo Jumbo (p. 37)

"Intelligence is the capacity to discern, to understand, to distinguish; it is also the capacity to observe, to put together all that we have gathered and to act from that. . . . Intelligence demands doubting, questioning, not being impressed by others, by their enthusiasm, by their energy. Intelligence demands that there be impersonal observation. Intelligence is not only the capacity to understand that which is rationally, verbally explained but also implies that we gather as much information as possible, yet knowing that that information can never be complete, about anybody or anything."

— J. Krishnamurti, from The Network of Thought

"When I argue, I face power, the power of the Other. It is the Other’s power that I wish to overcome and that I fear. I am therefore fascinated by power and I wish to trace its source. If I understand power, if I understand its nature and where it abides, if I understand how to get it and how to resist it, I will have attained great power of my own. I want power. I need power to win . . .

     Power is first an idea, first a perception. The power I face is always the power I perceive. Let me say it differently. Their power is my perception of their power. Their power is my thought. The source of their power is, therefore, in my mind.

     The power others possess is the power I give them. Their power is my gift. I give them all the power in the universe, as, indeed, the faithful give to God, or I give them no power at all, as, indeed, is the quantum of power we too frequently allot to our children. If I have endowed the Other with power that the Other does not possess, then I face my own power, do I not? My own power has become my opponent, my enemy. On the other hand, if the Other possesses power, but I do not perceive the Other’s power as effective against me, he has none — none for me."

— Gerry Spence, from How to Argue and Win Every Time (pp. 32-33)

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, pitch manure, solve equations, analyze a new problem, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

— from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, by Robert Heinlein

"Various beliefs can be implanted in many people after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger, or excitement. Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily impaired judgement and heightened suggestibility. Its various group manifestations are sometimes classed under the heading of ‘herd instinct,’ and appear most spectacularly in wartime, during severe epidemics, and in all similar periods of common danger, which increase anxiety and so individual and mass suggestibility."

— from Battle for the Mind, by Dr. William Sargent

"Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons."

— Barton L. Ingraham and Gerald W. Smith, from "The Use of Electronics in the Observation and Control of Human Behavior and its Possible Use in Rehabilitation and Control"

     The fanatic simplifies matters: He is immune to doubt and to hesitation. Intellectual exercise is distasteful, and the art and beauty of dialogue alien to him. Other people’s ideas or theories are of no use to him. He is never bothered by difficult problems: A decree or a bullet solves them . . . immediately. The fanatic feels nothing but disdain toward intellectuals who spend precious time analyzing, dissecting, debating philosophical notions and hypotheses. What matters to the fanatic is the outcome — not the way leading there.

     And more: The fanatic derides and hates tolerance, which he perceives as weakness, resignation, or submission. This is why he despises women: Their tenderness is to him a sign of passivity. The fanatic’s only interest is in domination by fear and terror. Violence is his favorite language — a vulgar language filled with obscenities: He doesn’t speak, he shouts; he doesn’t listen, he is too busy yelling; he doesn’t think, he doesn’t want anyone to think.

     In other words, the fanatic, intoxicated with hatred, tries to reduce everybody to his own size.

     He has a goal and is willing to pay any price to achieve it. Or more precisely: He is ready to make others pay any price to achieve it."

"Warriorship is a personal and individual path. It is a path which deals with all aspects of life. The essence of warriorship is the process of fulfilling one’s potential. The ways towards warriorship are many, and they are all hard. Few ever go far, though all benefit. This is a commitment to a life of discipline and development in mind, body, and soul. The true warrior is an athlete, a scholar, a poet, a magician, a priest, and a skilled lover.

     As a part of warriorship, the combat principles you learn can be applied to all areas of life. Discipline, flexibility, strategic thinking, and the ability to stay calm and see the larger perspective. These along with physical fitness, allow the warrior to succeed in any endeavor. This is what makes a true warrior. Skill in battle is of little use if you do not have a life worth fighting for."

— Sweyn Plowright, from True Helm (pp. 2 & 58)

"Simply by saying a few words, in a certain tone of voice, it is possible to alter and /or manipulate the energy of another. This phenomenon could be called "Non-Verbal Communication combined with Deep Linguistics," "Psychotherapy," or even "Magick" — but whatever you choose to call it, it works great for defusing hostilities (especially when dealing with the emotionally unbalanced). Conversely, it is also possible, through the usage of different words and tones, to so unbearably antagonize another that it is virtually guaranteed that the situation will degenerate to the point of actual physical violence. Due to these facts, it is imperative that your most experienced diplomat should always be the designated speaker for the group in the event of a potentially hostile confrontation (or potentially sensitive "Public Relations" issue) — and everyone else needs to know to keep their fucking mouths shut.

— Scribe 27 (RWT)

"There is no such thing at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

     The business of journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

     We are the tools of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks — they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

— John Swinton, in his "toast" to the New York Press Club in 1953.

     Although true warriors are difficult to find, many people want to become warriors and begin walking the path, but they allow their energy to be taken from tem and their light to dim. You can see it in their eyes. They want the rewards, but they are no longer willing to pay the price to fill the lamp with the kind of oil that keeps it from growing dim. They have lowered their self-esteem and feel a constant need to prove themselves to others."

— Larry F. Jetmore, from The Path of the Warrior (p. 65)

     It’s not easy to become a warrior. It’s even more difficult to remain a warrior after becoming one. Many answer the call of the drums, but few are able to sustain the strength of character necessary to march to them. There are many labyrinths, traps, and dragons along the path to the way.

     Courage and inner fortitude are required to overcome the difficult and sometimes painful obstacles along the path a warrior must travel. Abuse of power and self-diminishing behavior are traps that snare and draw a would-be warrior off the path. We are often seduced by illusions of power bestowed upon us by the titles, promotions, or credentials we receive. These outward symbols quickly lose their luster unless placed on a foundation of self-worth. Because we often close our hearts to the people in our lives, many would-be warriors suffer the penalty of loneliness while surrounded by heaps of gold. Temptation and suffering for the sake of others are tests each person on the path to becoming a warrior must face. The voice and comfort of the herd is loud and strong. Although a warrior is sometimes joined by others, the walk is often the high and lonely path of the nomad. True warriors do not cower at the opinions of others, but feel themselves accountable to a higher tribunal than man.

     All who walk the path have the freedom to choose where their steps will take them. There are many different paths but only one ‘way.’ Warriors accept total responsibility for their thoughts, behaviors, deeds, and actions. This is known as decision making."

— Larry F. Jetmore, from The Path of the Warrior (pp. 103, 106-107)

— Article VII of the "Canons of Police Ethics" adopted by the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 1957

"The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone; but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is the test of a true gentleman. The power which the strong have over the weak, the magistrate over the employed the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the silly; the forbearing and inoffensive use of all the powers or authority, or a total abstinence from it, when the case admits it, will show the gentleman in a plain light. The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He can only forgive; he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be but the past."

"Things didn’t just ‘get’ this way. Not even humans could cause this much trouble by accident. It had to be PLANNED. It’s a CONSPIRACY. It is THE Conspiracy. . . .

     One can endlessly explore the world of conspiracies, intricately detailing its works, mapping its eddies and flows, its secret, subtle currents, its dangers — but one risks succumbing to its apparent friendliness and charm. For it contains within it so many infinitely varying conspiracies of fanatics that there’s BOUND to be a conspiracy JUST FOR YOU to sink into forever! There are certainly plenty to go around . . .

     The conspiracy we truly hate, the real Conspiracy, isn’t one of those fiendishly clever ones. It doesn’t even know it’s a conspiracy. It can’t. It’s a faceless confederacy of dunces, so vast and broad that it underlies all the lesser conspiracies and permeates all human reality. Quite the opposite of devious, it dominates by merely exploiting the overall, mealy-mouthed, chickenbutt-kissing ‘Code of Normality’ (or CON) of ALL the Pinks, norm-worms and mere-humes at large. But there is no more insidious and subtle a weapon as that.

     The Conspiracy has no face; we know it only by its desires — a great Mirror of Disfigurement, it reflects what’s wrong with everyone. Politics and the petty squabbles of nations are only part of what The Conspiracy manipulates. It is MUCH BIGGER than gods and demons, Republicans and Democrats, or Presidents and interlocking corporate directorates; it’s everything from the school bully to the wimp principal, from Mom and Dad to the Bobbie in the woodpile. More than anything else, The Conspiracy is an attitude — a fear — a PINKNESS, a cancer of the imagination, the hatred of the real, the yearning for ‘cuteness,’ the eagerness to obey . . .

     The Conspiracy is not vengeful. It has nothing against you PERSONALLY; you’re being persecuted and hobbled by people who couldn’t care less who you are. The hive automatically protects itself from evolution by negating any individual member whose circuits are too ‘resonant.’. . .

     The modern Conspiracy hive functions just like the old Mayan hives, with smug priests, brutal warrior castes and larval masses quivering in mortal fear of nature and power. . . .

     Immersion in the TV reality . . . makes people paranoid and isolated. While simultaneously uniting them with common imagery and fantasies, it cuts them off from reality. . . . TV distorts what we are; we aspire to become what it shows . . .

     Television both integrates the culture and destroys literacy, reducing us to a homogeneous mass of photon-dependant P-heads. Pinks aren’t sentient enough to disengage their sense of reality from the products being sold to them. They are their tennis shoes, jackets, drugs, favorite shows and stars -- and the Con, rather than protecting the minds and psyches of the undiscerning, childlike Pinks, exploits that weakness. Everything, including ‘news’ and ‘fact,’ is reduced to ‘entertainment’ geared to the lowest common denominator — irrelevant sound bites and factoids made to seem meaningful. . . .

     In the normal job world, the Conspiracy keeps you on the tightest leash possible. They would completely deprive you of Slack if they could, but, out of necessity, to keep you alive for another year, they grudgingly give you Sundays, sometimes Saturdays, sometimes a whole week out of your life for that minimum life-sustaining drop of False Slack. . . . Somewhere along the line, (you) receive some pitiful modicum of Slack, or else (you) would die. HOW MUCH Slack (you) receive is what the Conspiracy tries so hard to control. They want to ration it out to you, drop by drop, as with an eyedropper, so you’ll always be at Their mercy, carrying out Their evil whim.

     Their arbitrary ‘laws’ extend unquestioned into every minuscule aspect of your private life. Every last vestige of Slack, even the act of standing around doing nothing, is regulated. Notice that "loitering" isn’t illegal only in stores and restaurants, but even so-called public sidewalks, parks, everywhere. You’ve got to keep moving. For that matter, you can be thrown in jail for "vagrancy," the inability to produce a driver’s license, passport or money. We are not legal life forms without a shell of paper and cloth defining our bodies. The only place you can legally cease moving is in your own home. . . .

     They listen to you through your telephone without its even being off the hook, and record you through satellites that can peer down on any street, anywhere. The only legal drugs are alcohol and other reality-numbing tranquilizers; most forms of sex are crimes. Exercise of instincts must be suppressed for Their system to work. No one who is getting due Slack is really going to feel like saluting a flag or dying for God and Company.

     They kick your door in any time they want to. All they have to yell is ‘DRUGS!’ and your spouse is in jail, your kids are farmed out to the state, your car and house are suddenly Theirs. They can walk up to you anywhere today and say, ‘Excuse me, can we see your wallet, please? Hmm, you have a lot of cash here. We’ll have to confiscate it — you fit the profile of someone who might be a drug dealer.’

     The fake ‘war on drugs’ is eroding every last bit of freedom we’ve managed to wring out of the sons of bitches since 1776. We’ve spent 200 years trying to make ‘we the people’ include someone besides the white land-owning aristocracy, and now that we’re finally beginning to do it, they’re going over to the other end of the Constitution and telling us what rights we don’t have. Everything that is not forbidden is proscribed."

"In my vision of a perfect world, advertising — as it now exists — would be classified as a punishable offense. Through silly catch-phrases (memes) and high-tech computer imagery (which could easily conceal prohibited subliminals), inferior products are wrongfully being misrepresented by unscrupulous marketeers. Impressionable teenagers are being told that they won’t ‘fit in’ unless they display the appropriate brand names. Elders are being frightened into purchasing questionable heath-care items, monitoring systems, and ‘insurance’ coverage that they don’t need. Even home mortgages and prescription pharmaceuticals are being advertised on the TV! Remember, lying is not a criminal offense (as long as an actual ‘fraud,’ as defined by law, does not occur), so these advertisements cannot be trusted! For examples: Pontiac vehicles, Gateway computers, and Red Devil paint are still being purchased by gullible dupes for no discernable reason other than that they ‘liked the commercials’ — even if the product being sold is crap, by spending a few million on TV marketing you can ensure that people will buy it! And the most abominable thing about this false advertising is that the majority of TV commercial messages have deliberately been engineered to make them attractive to children! As a result of this incessant media bombardment, our culture has become far more ignorant, materialistic, and shallow — and now the multi-nationals are attempting to inflict this mindless consumerism on the rest of the world as well (which is, perhaps, the primary reason why our enemies are so hostile to America). If our country was not being run by soulless multi-national corporations, the majority of advertising executives would be thrown in padded cells where they would be subject to 18 hrs of continuous TV commercials every fucking day! For sustenance, they could have all the Coca-Cola, McFood, and candy bars they wanted — but nothing else. After 4 months of incarceration, the executives probably wouldn’t have been ‘rehabilitated’ (i.e., transformed into ethical citizens), but they certainly would have ‘learned their lesson,’ and perhaps would be ready to be released back into society — with the understanding that if they were convicted of a second offence, they’d be looking at an 8 month sentence next time! What was their crime? Insulting the public sensibilities. Sure, the masses might be stupid, but it oughta be a crime for corporate predators to exploit their naivete for commercial gain (or other, more sinister, reasons)."

"The media likes to portray all violent criminals as ‘sociopaths.’ By definition, a sociopath (or psychopath) is nothing more than an extremely selfish person with no ethical boundaries (honor, conscience, etc.) and no emotional rapport with other human beings (except, perhaps, from the sadistic joy derived from watching them suffer). The true sociopath is a demonic egomaniac that thrives on the accumulation of power, which he (or she) uses almost exclusively for the subjugation of the weak. By this definition, only about a third of all incarcerated violent offenders (a demographic which includes many ‘first offenders’) could be considered sociopaths (indeed, many have close emotional ties with friends and family, and only use violence impulsively — usually when either desperate or impaired). However, using this definition, the vast majority of ‘respected’ salesmen, evangelists, attorneys, politicians, and corporate executives can be seen as they truly are — psychopathic predators who repeatedly victimize others through deliberate premeditated acts."

"Like many of my colleagues in the field, I have become convinced that the U.S. Government, as well as other governments, was very much involved in the UFO business. This involvement is not limited to the kind of data collection that is the normal responsibility of intelligence agencies. It extends to the close monitoring of the UFO organizations themselves and, in some cases, to the staging of false sightings and the occasional leaking of false documents. It is not my business to interfere with such activities. The belief in extraterrestrials, like any other strong belief, is an attractive vehicle for some mind control and psychological warfare activities. I do not believe that any government has the answer to the UFO problem, although several governments must have the proof of its reality."

"In recent years the major powers have done much development of their own in the area of beam weaponry. Microwave technology is now used under the general acronym HPM (high-power microwave) to jam or burn the electronic hardware of enemy missiles, aircraft, and tanks.

     Generators for the types of beams used in the new weapons include magnetrons and klystrons, as well as newer devices with names like gyrotron and vircator (virtual cathode oscillator). Vircators are especially relevant here. They operate in the pulse mode at demonstrated powers up to twenty gigawatts.

     An obvious biological effect of microwaves is that they heat tissue. Brain temperature changes of only a few degrees have been shown to cause convulsions, unconsciousness, and amnesia in rats. Even weaker microwave pulses, too weak to heat animal tissue, can have serious effects by disturbing cell membranes. . . .

     In his review of the field, Dr. Keith Florig, an expert on policy issues involving ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, notes that ‘HPM weapons that merely stun the nervous system temporarily seem, like short-acting chemical agents, to be more humane than lethal force. . . . HPM weapons that blind, burn, or bake people to death are likely to be viewed as an abhorrent addition to the arsenal.’ . . . Interestingly, Dr. Florig remarks that ‘the difference between a disabling and a lethal (force) is largely one of range. So it would be hard to show that a weapon intended to disable could not be lethal at close range.’"

"Sir:

     I have two objections to this duel matter. The one is lest I should hurt you; the other, lest you should hurt me. I do not see any good it would do me to put a bullet through any part of your body. I could make no use of you when dead for any culinary purpose, as I could a rabbit or a turkey . . . for though your flesh might be delicate and tender, yet it wants that firmness and consistency which takes and retains salt. At any rate, it would not be fit for long sea voyages. You might make a good barbacue, it is true, being of the nature of a racoon or an opossum, but people are not in the habit of barbacuing anything human now. As to your hide, it is not worth taking off, being little better than that of a two-year old colt. As to myself, I do not much like to stand in the way of anything that is harmful. I am under the apprehension that you might hit me. That being the case, I think it most advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object — a tree or a barn door — about my dimensions, and if you hit that, send me word. I shall then acknowledge that if I had been in the same place you would have killed me in a duel."

"Weapons can be used without it being final! People often think ‘lethal’ when they think of weapons. Any tool that is used to aid and abet knocking the shit out of someone is considered a weapon! Capisce? You have to widen your definition of what constitutes a weapon. In my time, I have been clobbered by or attacked with hairbrushes, a pot, rope, scissors, beer bottles, pens, a cat, tables and chairs, pool cues, shuriken, playing cards, keys, razor blades, rocks, a candleholder, shoes, a cup of Coke, and, of course, chains. I have used leaves, dirt, the water from a dog dish, a shirt, a belt, trash cans, paint scrapers, beer, orange juice, spit, and many of the things I previously listed, to open conversations. Many of these things serve to knock you off balance or mildly hurt you so you’ll choke and your attacker can get in there with something more serious."

— Marc "Animal" MacYoung, from Pool Cues, Beer Bottles, & Baseball Bats (pp. 3-4)

"I pretty much quit drinking about seven years ago. Being half Irish and half Cherokee, my genetics are such that alcohol doesn’t sit well with me. I can down an entire liter of vodka, and it’ll fuck me up, but the scary part is that I won’t fall down, pass out, or yak — it’s like I’m turbocharged, or something, and I just don’t give a fuck. I can be kicked back, all happy and shit, then someone says something stupid or starts eye-fucking me, and the next thing you know, I’ve kicked a table full of drinks in his face and started beating him over the head with a lamp. For an insult I would’ve simply laughed off if sober, I’d be inclined to slit someone from asshole to eyeball when I’m ‘in my cups.’ And I’m pretty much unstoppable in this capacity — I’ve been punched full-force in the face by people three times my size, had chairs and pool cues broken across my back, and even took lead from a small caliber handgun without even feeling it. If I’ve been drinkin’, I will not back down from anyone, regardless of how many opponents I might be up against. On several occasions, large groups of pissed-off rednecks have decided to retreat rather than take me on, and I have never gotten my ass kicked — ever. It was like the ‘Legend of the Drunken Master,’ or some shit, but I finally realized that if I continued to drink vodka by the quart, eventually I’d wind up either dead or in prison, so I decided to quit. Nowadays, if I’m at a social function where I’m expected to drink, I’ll make my second bottle of beer last the whole night — because I know that once I finish that third drink, I’ll just keep drinking till it’s all gone — and there’s probably gonna be casualties."

"‘So you like to hurt people, huh?’ Hanse breathed, gliding across the floor as he closed the distance between them. Kat’s knife flipped and rolled in a silver blur — the suit blinked, mesmerized. Half a heartbeat later his forehead was slashed open and the Imada high-hollow blade had stabbed completely through his forearm, twisting as it retracted. The broken bottle clattered to the barroom floor, useless. Hanse’s Red Bird shattered his knee joint and he fell. Flipping balisong, he buried it deep in the fucker’s chest to run the gears. As he slammed it into second he noted the lack of resistance and realized that he’d fucked up . . . the knife wasn’t open. He reeled as frantic thoughts flooded his mind and it suddenly dawned on him what he was doing: Shit, I’m really wasted . . . I almost killed this fuck in front of all these witnesses . . . lucky thing I flipped it one too many times . . . can’t let him get up! Holding balisong closed in his fist, he used it to mash the fucker’s face. Job finished, he slid the streamlined weapon into the back pocket of his reinforced 550's — knifefighting jeans. He could clean the blood off later.

‘Fuckin’ jerk . . . come back here again, I’ll make you disappear.’ He spat on him, kicking him in the groin."

"This is a difficult concept for many people to grasp, but it is one of the most powerful methods of self-improvement we know of. It has its basis in certain occult teachings, but there is no "magic" involved — except for the results. In the original teachings, one is told about the many invisible beings which we encounter every day, and how people who lead interesting lives tend to attract these beings, which may even feel compelled to intervene on our behalf in time of need. Positive behavior attracts positive beings, and negative behavior attracts negative beings. We thought that this was an interesting concept, but decided to alter it in order to make it more suitable for defensive applications. Simply think of yourself as the protagonist in an ongoing movie about your life. The movie is put on hold while you’re sleeping (except for the occasional interesting ‘dream sequence’), but is being viewed by an unseen audience at all other times — until shortly after your eventual demise. Your control over the script is limited primarily to the dialogue and actions of your character. You will decide how he (you) reacts to various crisis situations — will he proceed calmly and bravely, or will he instead scream like a girl and run away? The choice is yours — and the audience is watching. Is your character interesting, or is he boring? Is he likable, or is he despicable? Will your story be an adventure, a drama, a comedy, a tragedy, a romance, a combination of the above, or something altogether different? If you do not like your character, feel free to transform him into something more suitable for your purposes. Make sure your character always is presentable in appearance, and conducts himself in a proper manner — even when he thinks no-one’s looking. Always try to do the right thing, proceed with valor, and don’t behave like an idiot (through giving in to: rage, pettiness, dishonesty, lechery, or other forms of immaturity). Above all, don’t bore your audience! No-one wants to waste their time watching some pathetic, stoop-shouldered, procrastinating, slothful, wage-slave mope! Don’t be afraid to do what you want, stand up for yourself, and live up to your full potential . . . after all, it’s only a movie!"

"A common misconception is that evasion requires driving at unsafe speeds and ignoring red lights and ‘one-way’ signs . . . nothing could be further from the truth. Whether on city streets or back roads, you seldom want to exceed 60 mph. If you go too fast, you cannot negotiate sharp turns, nor can you compensate for unexpected obstacles or the stupidity of other drivers. If your vehicle is low to the ground and you are being pursued by a vehicle with a high center of gravity (such as a ‘sport utility vehicle’), you can put more distance between your vehicles by accelerating through sharp curves and taking unexpected turns which a more top-heavy vehicle would need to slow down for to avoid tipping. The only time speeds in excess of 100 mph are permissible is when you are being pursued on a well-maintained, multi-lane highway and feel you have a good chance of safely outdistancing your tail (for example, you are driving a new sports car and they are in a rusted out pickup truck with bald tires). You do not want to drive beyond your abilities or your car’s capabilities. Once you wreck, the chase has most likely come to an end."

     Thus we see how the artificially inflamed beliefs and desires behind one metal have given a fiery prod to the acquisitive impulse, and have been responsible for wave after wave of warfare. It is known, of course, how large a part the lust for gold has had in stimulating bloodthirsty raids among scores of peoples . . . and how — most important of all — it nourished a spirit of callousness and of violence that tended towards war’s indefinite propagation, somewhat as a fire will tend to indefinite burning, so long as fuel remains."

— Stanton A. Coblentz, from From Arrow to Atom Bomb (pp. 60-61)

— Charles Swindoll

THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT

     Or consider the relative power of the three branches of government. From the Woodrow Wilson administration, the federal government has grown even stronger. It now looms as by far the largest employers in the U.S. Within that executive, some political scientists claim that a fourth branch — the CIA, National Security Council, and other covert agencies — has developed in the last thirty years. The Constitution cannot save democracy when officials in the FBI, CIA, State Department, and undercover agencies determine not only our policies but also how much the people, the Congress, and perhaps even the President need to know about them."

— James W. Loewen, from Lies Across America (pp. 360-361)

— Richard Cummings, from Proposition Fourteen (pp. 15-16, 20)