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The Fight Against Totalitarianism

 "...If I wrote at the time (1931) that fascism and bolshevism were not solutions, just easy ways to escape from the problems of freedom into simple obedience, I was still convinced that National Socialism would never triumph in Germany. Today I do not believe that any nation is proof against giving birth to the same evil, even though in other ways and in a different spirit.

All over the world I dread the self-deception which we have experienced - that this could not happen here. It can happen anywhere. It is improbable only where the broad masses of the population are aware of the possible menace and thus will not be lulled into security; where they know the type of totalitarianism and will recognize it in its rudimentary stages and in each of its manifestations - this Proteus who keeps appearing in ever new masks, who slips eel-like out of our grasp, who does the opposite of what he says, who distorts the meaning of words, who speaks not in order to communicate or tell the truth, but in order to numb, to distract, to hypnotize, to intimidate, to dupe - who will exploit and evoke every fear, and will promise security and utterly wreck it at the same time.

Totalitarianism is neither Communism nor fascism nor National Socialism, but it has appeared in all of these forms. It is the universal, terrible threat of the future of mankind in a mass order. It is a phenomenon of our age, detached from all the politics governed by principles of a historic national existence of constitutional legality. Wherever it comes to power, domestic politics gives way to intrigues and acts of force, and foreign policy, the conduct of relations with other states, is shrouded in a semblance of talk and negotiation, but without being tied to any rules of the game, to any community of human interests.

It is not easy to see through totalitarianism. It is like a machinery that starts itself while its very operators often fail to grasp what they are already putting into effect. It seems like an independent being. To speak in mythical terms, it seems like a soulless, daemonic something which seizes everybody - those who drift into it blindly as well as those who half-knowingly bring it about. Totalitarianism is like a specter which drinks the blood of the living and so achieves reality, while the victims go on existing as a mass of living corpses. ..."

... from kristine 1/14/02 (click for entire essay)

Excerpted from the "Fight Against Totalitarianism", Philosophy and the World, Selected Essays, Gateway Editions, Regnery, 1963 (no longer in print, but used copies can be found from time to time)

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The New Totalitarianism

 

The deep pattern of the male corporate gang in its global form is, as David Rockefeller put it at the June 1991 Bilderberg's meeting in Baden Germany, a "supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers which is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries".7 As such a structure of world rule, it is accomplished by the same financial and media system deciders as put Tony Blair into office in Britain and George Bush Jr. into the White House against majority vote. Transnational corporations have marketed and financed these political leaders to ensure that captive states serve them rather than the peoples governments are elected by, guaranteeing through state plenipotentiaries and transnational trade edicts that governments can no longer govern them in common interest without infringing the new trade and investment laws in which transnational corporations alone are granted rights.

 

All along the corporate media have, as Rockefeller again advises, co-operated with this "plan for the world " by a "discretion" of public secrecy for which he thanks them. "It would have been impossible for us to develop a plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years".

 

With financial and media selectors ensuring compliant party government leaders, all the requirements for this "plan for the world" have been set in place for a totality of control of world societies by a centralised global system which is by law not accountable to any electorate. The meaning of the post-September 11 bombing of Afghanistan may be best understood in the light of this general background. What is important to recognize beneath all the spasms of propaganda of "America's New War" and "the forces of Good versus Evil", variations on an old theme, is that every step of the preparation and aftermath of this "whole new war with no end" confers cumulatively more strategic, legal and military control over the world's peoples from an unaccountable U.S. financial and armed-force centre. But the "war with no end" is not just for world dominion and, as it is humorously titled, a "fight for civilization". The grand prize of this war is unimpedable control by U.S. multinational oil corporations over the world's greatest oil and gas deposits which are located around the Caspian Sea of Central Asia, formerly the territory of the Soviet Union. Long-time U.S. strategic adviser,

 

Zbigniew Brzezinski, counselled "unhindered financial and economic access" to precisely these "Central Asia natural resources" years ago in 1997, referring specifically to the "enormous economic prize of natural gas and oil located in the region". Brzezinski advised that in the face of domestic resistance, it will become ever "more difficult to fashion a concensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat" (emphasis added).8 Brzezinski's plan is not disconfirmed by any evidence since.

 

The result is that the U.S.-led corporate regime is more effectively total and pre-emptive of thought or act in opposition to it than any previous totalitarian interregnum - as successive catechisms of "no alternative", "globalisation", "controlling earth from space", and "the whole world has changed" reveal to connective thought. In Congressional expression of this totalitarian mind-set, U.S. Senator Bob Smith, whose legislation got the U.S. "Space Commission" for monopoly military control of the heavens passed in 2000 long prior to September 11, prescribes this new world order as the plan of Fate: "It is our Manifest Destiny. You know we went from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States of America settling the continent [sic] and they call that Manifest Destiny and the next continent if you will is space, and it goes on forever".9

 

This is the supra-terrestrial correlative of the doctrine of total power, and it can conceive of no limit to itself. As earth events interfere in resistance to the unaccountable world rule, military and police links are forged on the very sites of any resistance, constructing and exploiting the new Enemy to justify the sweeping new powers of coercion and terror which the global corporate system requires to rule an unwilling world. As in all protection rackets by terror and financial manipulation, the greatest threat to life comes from the very system of armed force, surveillance and attack which is said to be protecting citizens from it - conceptualised by presidential proclamation after September 11 as one in which all "in every region - - are for us, or are with the terrorists". U. S. Trade Representative, Robert Zoellick then explained this meaning to include those protesting against the WTO. "This President and this administration will fight for open markets. We will not be intimidated by those who have taken to the streets to blame trade - and America - for the world's ills".

 .... click here for the entire speech

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Bush's New 57-cent Stamp Invokes Nazi Germany - Or Imperial Rome...

Al Martin writes, "Now even US postage stamps will project the supremacy of American Imperial Power into the world. The new 57-cent stamp shows an eagle, which is an exact copy of the symbol of the Waffen SS, which in turn was taken from the Imperial Praetorian eagle of Ancient Rome... The stamp portrays an eagle resting on triple-perched pediments. It’s a beautifully executed design, if one wants to portray State Power. This eagle is man’s most ancient and recognizable symbol of State Power. Any philatelist would recognize this eagle and any numismatist, who collects Third Reich or Caesarian coins, would also know it... This same Imperial Eagle design on the new US 57-cent State Security stamp will also be used for the triangular arm badges given to those participating in the new Neighborhood Watch program... A new commercial with Ed McMahon, the new Department of Justice spokesman, is advertising this program on TV.  He's the pitchman for the Neighborhood Watch and the Civilian Defense Force in the new so-called "public service" announcements.

      The triangular arm badges are red, white, and blue and the words "Homeland Security" are above and the Imperial State Eagle design is in the center. These are the sinister origins of the symbolism of the Neighborhood Watch program...

... The commercials, narrated by Ed McMahon, suggest that you cooperate with the Neighborhood Watch Association and the Civilian Defense Force. You will be told how to spot "suspicious" characters or even people you might have known all your life, who are suddenly acting "out of character.

...Another commercial, which is now in production, will show a quiet peaceful neighborhood with American flags plastered everywhere. And everybody's got a George Bush bumper sticker. Then you'll see a troop of seven or eight year old kids coming home from elementary school marching, with their uniforms of white shirts and blouses and blue pants. They have their child's Civilian Defense Force volunteer armbands on and their Good Citizen badges that the local CDF chapter leader gave them. But they're actually marching down the street with big smiles on their faces. And the kid in the front who's leading them is holding up a little American flag. The child will be talking to the commander of the group, who's telling the child about being obedient to your parents and being obedient to your government. ..." 

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