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The Real Winners after a Publicized Shooting

8/24/2014

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After the shooting in Ferguson, who are the real winners?

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As evidenced by this article on gun sales, gun sales are going way up in the area near Ferguson Missouri, where a police officer recently killed an unarmed young black man. Maybe this is not surprising.
But what if this event was staged? The possibility may shock you, but take a listen to this.
Staged event + escalating gun sales = a small group of people winning until society figures it out it has been had!

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In the First Place: Why Public Debate Is Usually Pointless

6/6/2014

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What are the pillars of our society?

Those who make decisions on our behalf, those who enforce those decisions and those who report them to us:

Government
Churches
The military
The media

They are all institutions whose existences are based on beliefs they do not accept
any dissension from.

Government – we are legitimate and all of our actions are legitimate
Churches – our dogma is correct and you will be punished in the next life if you disobey
The military – our wars are justified and you are not patriotic if you say otherwise
The media – what we say is true, we hide nothing important and if you disagree, you are a nut.

The institutions control public discussion by labeling thoughts that would harm their existence. The following questions will never be answered by any of these pillars:

Government – What is national security and what types of information are really hidden to the public for this reason?
Churches – Can you prove that the leader of your religion really existed?
The military – How many soldiers would you recruit if you told them the truth about why we were sending them to war?
The media – How often are you pressured into dropping stories and who pressures you?

To get these questions answered, we need another actor to join the debate. Many fear the institutions and their enormous power and do not ask why our society functions as it does.

But we need the questions answered.

Almost every debate, whether about something like guns (especially in light of recent reported shootings in the national news) or butter (like the perpetual debate of how much money to devote to the military) starts off with at least one of the false beliefs stated above. In short, the debate gets it wrong IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Be a part of a public that reasonably questions what we hear. Disregard those who state beliefs but do not back them up or who refuse to answer your questions. This is how we collectively will get these questions answered. Then we can discuss the details.

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Freedom from Fear Forever

5/1/2013

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The events of 9/11 were a hoax. I spent several years researching the event and have presented my conclusions on this topic. People are free to read what I have to say and agree or disagree with those conclusions.

My question now is: what should we who are convinced of the falsity of the official theory of 9/11 want?

We will never convict those responsible for this fraud.

We will never get the mainstream media to show our side to the story.

We will never reverse the policies that came about as a result of the fraud.

With that in mind, we can and should focus on something that we can attain. It is something far more basic than any of these other goals and perhaps even more useful.

It is the simple concept of freedom.

The controversy over what happened on September 11 and many other events before and since has stoked the fears of all of us.

Fear of terrorists. Fear of foreigners. Fear of flying. Fear of freedoms being taken from us. Fear of the future.

In the words of Franklin Roosevelt, we need freedom from fear.

We can work toward this goal by untangling us from what makes us so afraid: the unknown. Answers to a few simple questions would be helpful.

Are you afraid the government will take your guns (or other freedoms)?

Do you often believe what the same government tells you about 9/11 and other events?

Do you believe history repeats itself?

Do you believe the future will be much different than the past?

If you are willing to hold two contradictory thoughts at the same time, will you ever achieve freedom of thought?

Welcome to a future that will be a lot like what we have already experienced. The government and media will continue to lie to protect interests. People will continue to predict Doomsday. The truth about anything important will be known but never stated openly until it no longer matters.

Clear your mind and follow the way of the world. Not a straight line to disaster but one big familiar circle instead.

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Have No Fear - Doomsday Predictions Won't Happen!

2/21/2013

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Here is some good news. Some fears that have been voiced publicly will NOT come true!

The government will not take your guns away.

With three hundred million guns in the United States, what is the government going to do – send in the tanks to force gun owners to give them up? And even if you have all of your weapons, would you have a chance against the full force of our government, anyhow? Relax. Besides, have you noticed gun sales going up recently after the shooting tragedies in Sandy Hook and elsewhere?

The world is not going to end.

Remember Fleetwood Mac’s song. “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.” It is where we will spend the rest of our lives. Whenever people stop thinking about the future and how our consequences affect it, they tend to act without restraint. Some people have been duped by talk of a Second Coming or the end of the world and they sell their possessions and plan for the hereafter, only to be disappointed. On a larger scale, leaders who believe the end is near often show disregard for protecting our environment and may even see the wars we wage as part of the run-up to the end. Keep acting today and keep living for tomorrow and we will keep the world turning!

Dissenters will not wind up in concentration camps

Our leaders are lying or repeating lies about a number of matters, but don’t worry, they can handle the few who stand up to challenge them without resorting to extremes. Talk about FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) camps being built for dissenters ignores the fact that dissenters have not convinced the public to change its collective attitude about much of anything. The jailing of the political dissenters is the last stand of a dictatorship. As the United States prides itself as the bastion of democracy, the government has no interest in this strategy.

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From Garfield to Aurora: History's Lessons about Firearms

8/19/2012

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James A. Garfield was the last United States president to take the job without first seeking it. He may not have wanted the job, but the public certainly wanted him.

As a man who rose from poverty, the poor liked him.

As a man who achieved wealth on his own, the wealthy liked him.

As a man who welcomed the former Confederate States back, the South liked him.

As a man who had taken in and hidden a runaway slave, the former slaves liked him.

So why did someone shoot him?

The year was 1881. Before the automobile. Before the Secret Service protected the president. Before medical care included antiseptic practices. Before job seekers went through civil service to get a job with the federal government. Before public mental institutions.

The president walked unguarded in public. He took the train to go out of town just like any other citizen. The bullet-proof limousine came much later.

On the day of the assassination, July 2, 1881, President Garfield walked with a few aides, including the Secretary of State, but none had the responsibility of guarding against would-be assassins. There was a Secret Service then. They protected the public against counterfeiters. They did not protect the president until after the NEXT presidential assassination twenty years later.

The gunman shot Garfield twice in the back. One went through him and one lodged in him. Neither struck a vital organ. The president would have been much better off NOT receiving the medical treatment that he did. The physician who treated him on site did not use gloves nor any anti-septic procedures which were known at the time but not widely practiced. Garfield really died of infection from medical care.

Assassin Charles Guiteau (Gee-To) sought a job in foreign service. He stood in line like many other office seekers. He came back to the White House several times to make his case, mostly with the president’s personal secretary. A simple civil service test would have screened out the man, who had no qualifications for the job he wanted.

Guiteau also harassed the Vice President Chester Arthur and other presidential advisors by stalking them and walking up to them in public. His rude behavior in a church even caught the attention of the president. His family knew he had a mental illness, but could not afford to place him in a private institution. Public institutions were not then common.

History was not of much help to warn the public. While it is true that the assassination of President Lincoln sixteen years prior was still fresh in the public mind, most people believed that the murder was an act of war rather than an assassination.

We still experience the tragedy of violence today. But we are no better off in stopping the recent horror of the movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado if we accept the status quo without question. The parallels between Guiteau and the accused shooter in Aurora are startling:

Both obtained the weapons they used legally and without question.

Both exhibited signs of anti-social activity before the events for which they are associated.

Cries for their executions sprang up immediately.

Few people in either case wanted to discuss the underlying factors, such as gun availability.

So I have some questions about violence, especially gun-related, in our society in 2012:

Does the Second Amendment to the Constitution permit ANYONE to buy a firearm?

(If your answer is yes, you would appear to be in agreement with the strict wording of this Amendment. That would mean children, convicted criminals and the mentally ill may purchase firearms without question).

(If your answer is no, where do we draw the line so as not to contradict the Constitution?)

We need a rational discussion about the use of weapons and who may purchase them. It is not the result of this discussion that matters so much, but the open-mindedness of those who participate. Who wants to talk?

Take the poll on Hartwell Perspective here

Background Source: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Anchor: 2011) by Candice Millard

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The Real Winners after a Publicized Shooting

After the shooting in Ferguson, who are the real winners?

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In the First Place: Why Public Debate Is Usually Pointless

Freedom from Fear Forever

Have No Fear - Doomsday Predictions Won't Happen!

From Garfield to Aurora: History's Lessons about Firearms

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