“Under control? It doesn’t look like it’s under control.” – Chernobyl
Personalities? Looks like this guy has about 20. Sadly, all of them smell like him.
[J.W. note – this is the post I had ready to go last Monday. So, I get to go to bed early tonight!]
When I’m on the treadmill, I find that reading a book helps to move things along and make the time go faster, even though I’m stuck in the same place. I’m currently reading a very long, and (so far) very entertaining book, and one of the passages caught my eye:
“. . . They had to keep working smoothly, and the same way. Everything interlocked. If one unit messed – [my edit, JW] up, then every other unit would suffer. That couldn’t be allowed. Which was a paradox, because you couldn’t keep the jackboot stamping down forever. However benign a dictatorship, some generation down the line will rebel. So somebody, centuries ago, had worked out how to keep the lid screwed down tight. An old enough idea, never quite managed in practice. Until now. A government department that quietly and secretly takes control of society’s lowest strata. Criminals and radical insurgents actually working for the people whose existence they threaten.”
– Peter F. Hamilton, The Naked God
This book was written in the 1990s and is the capstone to a trilogy. This is the first trilogy I’ve read since I finished the fifth book of the Learning to Count Trilogy.
In Hamilton’s book, the Earth is ruled by a shadowy cabal who creates a cult for the lowest rungs of society and uses the cult to distract those dregs from ever being a real threat. Likewise, the cult is used as an excuse to create threats. Strangely enough, I think we’re living in that society, today.
Punch anyone drinking Sierra Mist™. That’s the first rule of Sprite© club.
The idea that Trump was anything more than an interloper that was barely tolerated should have been apparent to most people nearly immediately. As soon as it became apparent that the FBI was intent on getting him about two weeks after the inauguration, the writing was on the wall. The fact that no real justice will ever be visited on the agents that conspired together to vilify Trump and “subvert democracy” should tell you enough.
The agencies are not on your side. Like every other institution in Washington, D.C., the agencies are on the side of themselves and the Left. Even evil Chuckie Schumer inadvertently told the truth when he told Trump that the intelligence agencies have “six ways from Sunday to get back at you.”
Why?
Preservation and increase of power is one – the Left will do anything for power, and the intelligence agencies are now entirely Leftist. The attack on Waco had nothing to do with public safety or firearms laws – it was a flashy attack in force at the time of Congressional hearings so that the ATF could get a bigger budget. They didn’t want to help America. They just wanted to prove they needed more cash.
How better to prove that? Knock over some cult-y type guys in Waco and show how tough you are. That will play well. It worked. The Branch Davidians are (mostly) gone, yet the ATF is bigger than ever.
And this strategy normally does work. The FBI comes up with the idea for, sets up, funds, and provides all the equipment for, say, a plot to kidnap a governor. Then they get the headline of stopping a dangerous group, all while admitting that the dangerous group wouldn’t have existed without them in the first place.
What does the ATF call dozens of lives ruined for no benefit to society? A good start.
But I really don’t think the .GOV agencies are afraid of the Right. If so, they’d be busy trying to take control of the movement. So far, I see little evidence of that, I mean, besides the alien entity that appears to be Sean Hannity’s hair.
I do, however, see evidence that the Left (which, in 2021, is synonymous with .GOV) is very concerned with managing the violence on the streets of BLM® and Antifa™. Why?
First, they provide convenient groups to stir up trouble and headlines whenever inconvenient things are happening. The Ferguson, Missouri riots in 2014 occurred in August. These riots were big news for weeks. What else was in the news then? The Congressional committee about Benghazi. Coincidence?
Maybe.
Distracting from shedding light on a governmental embarrassment?
Certainly.
I have definitive proof of Hillary Clinton’s involvement in the Bengh
The same pattern was repeated during 2020 with the outbreak of violence across the country. Was it organic? Certainly not. I recall seeing photos of pallets of bricks dropped off at likely riot locations. Beyond that, at least some of the rioters were highly trained and very tactically aware. They were also aided and abetted by District Attorneys that would not charge Leftists for criminal behavior.
Those District Attorneys? They were voted in on huge rafts of Leftist money, including from Senator Palpatine George Soros.
The goal, in this case, was creating division. Most of the time, when the country is faced with a crisis, it pulls people together. I’m sure the polls said something like, “Trump is winning.” The crowds certainly showed that to be the case, since Biden was just as exciting to the crowds as “split pea soup day” was at the cafeteria when I was in elementary school.
The result? The powers that be made a video of an overdosed junkie dying while a cop used a restraint technique he was trained to use go viral.
And it did. It didn’t have to be George Floyd, he was just available and they had good video. Don’t think that the media doesn’t create stories – it does. It also suppresses inconvenient ones.
What’s the difference between George Soros and a vampire? Stumped? Me, too. I can’t think of any difference, either.
Second, the groups provide another distraction – a distraction for the group itself. Let them shut down a chunk of Portland or Seattle. Let them burn their own neighborhood in Minneapolis. The idea, I believe, is to keep the group in a state of perpetual rage, most of the time not quite boiling. Just a simmering rage.
Throw in perpetual articles about “Reparations” and build envy. Stir with some cilantro and entitlement along with a dash of Social Justice.
This makes the group easy to control. With Antifa®, their religion is Leftism. Keeping them under control is easy. Just give them the candidate they can get behind (Bernie Sanders, for instance), and then don’t let that candidate win. It keeps them involved, but angry.
True, hardcore, Antifa™ want nothing more or less than the destruction of the United States. That’s why we get stupid articles about, “When I See the American Flag I Think of Hate.” It’s food for keeping the hard Left engaged and enraged.
Is it all by design?
It happens too frequently, and too conveniently for anything but coordination.
How better to contain the rebellious than to let them rebel a little, and contain it?
If I had a nickel for every time I got cursed out by a puppet, I’d have two nickels. Weird that it happened twice, but at least I learned that the best way to fight a puppet is to disarm it.
The alphabet agencies are, in 2021, firmly on the side of the Left. Likewise, everything points to them being in control of groups that oppose them on the bottom rungs of the social strata, like BLM® and Antifa©.
Me? I’ll be back on the treadmill. I have a feeling being in good shape might be important soon.
