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VALENZUELA'S
VERITAS:
"The only thing for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing."
--
Edmund Burke
The Arrival of Tomorrow
by
Manuel Vallenzuela
Already
in control of government, possessing the technologies of private enterprise and
the resources of governance, holding all the mechanisms by which to brainwash
and manipulate the populace, their wallets thick with the Almighty Dollar, the
tentacles of power and control omnipotent and omnipresent, corporatists have all
the ingredients deeply entrenched to enact the next step in America’s
history.
It is they, the power hungry and corrupted, those addicted to
greed and wealth that cannot stand democracy and must, therefore, try to destroy
it. For real democracy, and not the illusion meant to convey in the masses a
sense of participation, is a threat to those seeking to rule by authority and
through absolute control of the nation. To them the will of the citizenry is an
obstacle; a government of, by and for the people is a hindrance, because in real
democracy the population chooses, decides and controls the path a country will
take. In a real democracy the rights of minorities are protected, the freedom of
everyone is guaranteed.
Democracy is, therefore, incompatible with
authoritarianism, with a system ruled by the few, not the many. Democracy
becomes an obstacle to those at the top, because they are few, the masses many,
and, in deciding the fate of a nation the elite can never outvote the masses.
Given that the interests of the elite are incompatible with those of the people,
and that the people will, without manipulation, vote for those espousing their
own interests, the elite must use all tools at their disposal to manipulate the
vote or the mind of the voters. In order to steer the nation in the direction of
their interests, then, the wealthy few must control government and society,
using all weapons at their disposal to control the thoughts and opinions of the
population. Hence, the importance of the elite to control all aspects of the
corporate media is understood, for in the television the thoughts and decisions
of the American people are born.
To the corporatists and the elite, the
will of the people becomes meaningless, their interests emaciated by the
instruments of corporatism. Instead, the illusion is maintained in the minds of
the people that their interests are being protected and defended, yet to the
careful eye, the interests being pursued are only those of the elite. Slowly but
surely, the ambitions of power become a parasite feeding off the interests of
the weak, hemorrhaging centuries old rights birthed through revolution. A nation
of liberties, freedoms and rights interferes with the wants and visions of those
seeking to become overlords of the most powerful and wealthiest nation the world
has ever seen. It is, therefore, imperative that the Bill of Rights be torn to
shreds, that the Constitution be ripped apart. It is only a “god damn piece of
paper,” after all, a document meant for the masses, a barrier to complete
control by the elite. To the corporatists now in power, cherished American
documents, wonderments in the evolution of human society and thought, are
nothing but the toilet paper used to clean themselves of the refuse they call
the masses.
A nation of liberty, freedoms and rights is a nation of
people able to become threats to governance, their lives protected by law and by
the will of the people. Freedom and rights gives birth to a society free to
question the actions of government, to seek accountability, a citizenry that
owns a government created to serve the interests of the people. A nation of
liberties possesses millions of people unwilling to become the sheeple of the
powerful, always searching for the truth, seeking it through protest, dissent,
debate and intelligence.
A nation free is a nation educated and
intelligent, wise to the chicanery of the elite and criminality of its leaders,
a people emancipated through the powers of knowledge. An educated people are a
liberated people, given the tools to question authority, myth, fables and the
auras of false leadership. Indeed, a citizenry that thinks for itself is the
greatest threat to corporatists and the elite because free minds question,
analyze and are able to see beyond the haze of aerolized bull manure, seeing
through the lies and crimes and propaganda, the thoughts of controlled
television not given entrance to a mind free to think and reason.
A
people free is a threat to the Establishment, for it places barriers to
government and corporate chicanery, acting as a firewall to the actions of
thieves and murderers, helping, in some way, to try to make right what has been
made wrong. Knowing the vital protections endowed to them by the Constitution,
the population has the confidence to rise up and be heard, speaking truth to
power, marching for justice and liberty.
In this document, a living,
breathing, always evolving masterpiece of human understanding, meant to adapt to
the present, not cement itself to archaic notions of the past, exists the
impediment to corporatism desired by the elite. It is the Constitution that has
halted their rise to total prominence, for in their ideology, humanity has
always and must always be governed by authority, by a Machiavelli type despot
thinking for those that cannot, for only then can civilization thrive and only
then can the total domination of the corporatists become reality. In their
warped mind, then, America must come under the grip of corporatism, for today,
in this stage of civilization’s evolution, the corporate Leviathan is overlord
of the planet and those that control it are, therefore, our
masters.
Using as pretext an attack on one of our cities by terrorists,
America’s new stated enemy, corporatists now entrenched in power will declare
martial law, pronouncing that the security of the nation and the protection of
our way of life are at stake. Through the exploitation of patriotism, xenophobia
and the ignorance of large segments of the American public, the corporatists
will introduce new laws designed to further control our lives and eviscerate our
rights. The tools of propaganda will bombard us with psychological warfare,
molding us to threats existing only in our fears and in our altered state of
mind, making of us the soldiers embedded deep inside the trenches of American
society, doing the dirty work for the corporatist government.
Exploiting
the blindness and silent acquiescence of the masses that fear, anger and hatred
engenders, corporatists in government will give rise to the police state, first
by deploying the military throughout key cities and regions, creating the
environment necessary to begin the conditioning process of the population. Under
the rubric of securing the homeland, the military will be placed at the helm of
a new security apparatus that will maintain an ever vigilant eye on the
population. The citizenry will be told to be vigilant and to report suspicious
activity. It will be told to become the eyes and ears of the corporatists,
transforming itself into agents of tyranny. In time the populace will become
paranoid sheeple robbed of freedom, shadows of their former selves, created by
the ceaseless suspicions bred by years of Americans spying on
Americans.
The Bill of Rights will be truncated and the Constitution,
which is already seen as a piece of toilet paper to the corporatists, will be
altered or amended to suit those holding the reigns of absolute power. The
government will be further degraded into serving the interests of the
corporations, its vast resources, with its tentacles of governance, used to
expand the reach and wealth of corporatists. Gone will be our rights to free
speech and of assembly and of the press, replaced instead with draconian laws
designed to quash dissident voices pronouncing the sounds of wisdom.
A
police presence throughout large cities will permeate, designed to intimidate
and control. Everywhere one goes will be seen the tools of subservience and
obedience, from army fatigues to machine guns to surveillance cameras located in
every street corner to police patrols to curfews to heavily armed men stationed
at all points of public interest. Warrants will cease to exist, as homes will be
invaded without the authority of the law. Courts will become tribunals judging
those guilty of breaking the laws of draconian intent.
Dissent will be
made quiet, and all forms of protest and debate will not be tolerated for in the
America of tomorrow only the voices and visions of the rulers will be allowed to
stand. The idea of due process, along with habeas corpus, will become an
abstract concept reserved for future historians, for those designated enemies of
the state will simply be made to disappear without reason into the national
system of gulags, its numbers swelling into the tens of millions, the fates of
its prisoners decided by the level of truth they once tried to
tell.
Subservience to the state will become a principle to be embedded
into the minds of all, particularly the young, whose education will further be
implemented to dumb them down, brainwashing them, making them, over years of
conditioning, soldiers and automatons loyal to corporatists and the powers of
the state. Free thought will become a thing of the past, as books of knowledge
will be banned or burned, the opinions of reason made extinct. Television and
music will be controlled much more so than today, becoming the loudspeakers of
propaganda and the education of enslavement. The pages of past history will be
erased or altered; those of the present will be manipulated as reality becomes
what the corporatists decide it to be. News, opinion and current events at odds
with the goals of power will disappear from society, for the citizenry will only
be allowed to hear the propaganda and see only what is beneficial to the
state.
Arrests without cause or suspicion will be legalized, wiretaps and
eavesdropping will be said to benefit the quest for the homeland’s security. The
wonders of the Internet, already a grave and gathering threat to the
Establishment, will be destroyed; censorship of websites and their content will
become policy and throughout the country, the free opinions of the population
will become less than a whisper of a dying society, for in the last breaths of
freedom the last palpitations of America’s heart will be heard. Fear and
intimidation will permeate throughout the nation, thereby controlling the
population, for in the threatening posture of a police state the people are
forced into shells of their former selves.
A culture of surveillance will
be endemic as the instruments of the security state are used to spy on its own
citizens, especially those deemed threats and dissidents. Those fighting for the
freedoms and rights now lost will be picked up in the middle of the night, lost
like a morning fog, joining a growing group of the disappeared, likely tortured,
imprisoned or dropped from a plane at 10,000 feet. Mass graves will be hidden
from reality, unmarked and untended, forgotten like the cadavers contained in
their bowels. Dissent and protest and debate will be outlawed, and all around, a
society made to conform and acquiesce to totalitarianism will be born, its
children never experiencing the freedom and the rights once afforded their
parents.
In America’s tomorrow, neighbors will be made to spy on
neighbors, strangers will inform on strangers, children will be told to report
the suspicious activities of parents and all around the nation paranoia will
hover over towns and cities and the homes of the population, trust having become
one more victim of corporatism, the loyalty amongst friends and relatives
compromised with the arrival of self-preservation. False accusations will be
made against thousands whose only crime will be thinking for themselves, not
being liked by an informer, or being at the wrong place at the wrong time, and
guilty they will stand in a court not of law, but of guilt, where justice is not
blind, though it will be unknown and unwanted.
Secrecy and
unaccountability will be hallmarks of America’s government; constant
surveillance of its citizens will become routine. With the advent of newer
technologies the complete whereabouts of citizens will be known at all times.
The national ID card will contain all the biometric information about a person,
its carrier able to be tracked through GPS surveillance. The introduction of
permanent police stops throughout various city streets, state highways and
borders will assure authorities of one’s intentions, our vehicles, already
equipped with GPS, ransacked without need for reasonable suspicion or probable
cause.
The intrusion by the corporatist state will define our existence
in our daily lives. Propaganda posters will line the streets and public spaces;
surveillance cameras will watch our every move. Project Echelon and its
offspring will monitor our phone calls, emails, faxes and conversations; through
our fingerprints, DNA and iris scanning the state will be aware of our movements
at all times. National psychology examinations for children will be made
mandatory, with those deemed ‘troubled’ forced to take certain prescription
drugs, made to attend special schools, creating a caste system of undesirables
through genetic and social engineering. Through the use of television we will be
told what to think and what reality is. Our children will be forced into
conscription, trained to become soldiers of fortune in wars against East Asia,
Middle Asia and South America. The end of privacy as we know it will arrive with
the insertion of cameras into our homes, used to monitor our daily lives and
record our most intimate moments.
Birthed from a slippery slope of
America’s past and present, fusing the sins of the fathers and ignorance of the
sons, our tomorrow will be a mutation of the natural regression that American
capitalism has taken over the last two hundred years. We are entering an epoch
of cataclysmic momentum, for the evils of 21st century capitalism, having
gathered unstoppable momentum during the last 100 years, have generated forces
uncompromising and degenerate, gathering power through our inability to
visualize the damage inflicted by our economic system’s cycles. The America of
yesterday cannot survive in the America of tomorrow; to the corporatists they
are mutually exclusive.
We have reached a moment in history where the
opening of different doors can be made by our decisions in the next few years.
Yet time is precious, for it passes fast and without contemplation, passing us
without so much of a realization on our part. Today, corporatism grows and
festers in our midst, using the fictional and over-exaggerated war on terror to
entrench itself into our culture, methodically conditioning us, preparing us to
its eventual and permanent rise. The instruments of its governance are
systematically being put into place, clandestinely inserted into our
consciousness, one piece of the puzzle at a time, the easier to assimilate us to
America’s tomorrow.
Soon we will wake not to find a new dawn but a
dreaded twilight, marking not the end of yet another day gone by but the end of
America as we knew her, a once brave people succumbing to fear, and once
intelligent citizenry cowering to manipulation and a once free society shackled
to the dungeons of America’s tomorrow. With each day that passes that we remain
passive, silent and indifferent, becoming submissive to further corporatist
control over our lives, we are helping to cement the unforgiving future of our
progeny and of a once great nation.
Through our inability to act to
reality and understand where we are headed we have burdened yet one more
generation with the sins and errors of those that came before, in the process
imploding the foundations of a nation that once acted as the beacon of freedom,
rights and liberty to people throughout the globe. In the end, we have begun
assisting in burying the grave of American liberty and freedom, helping to give
birth to American corporatism and invariably acting to give rise to the dawn of
America’s tomorrow.
Manuel
Valenzuela is a social critic, commentator, Internet essayist and
author of Echoes in the Wind, a novel now published by Authorhouse.com. His
essays appear regularly at various alternative news websites from around the
globe. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be reached at
manuel@valenzuelas.net This column is herein published with the author's
permission.
Posted March 17,
2008
URL:
www.thecitizenfsr.org
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