| the government and I’m here to help” comes to mind. The last thing anyone wants to see is the government coming to help, they will often make the situation much worse than it was and it will be very expensive in terms of liberty as well as taxpayer funding. I am not alleging that our public servants in Washington DC initiated or coordinated the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I am too cautious in my analysis to make that conclusion, at least at this point. I will go on record as saying though that if our public servants had been obeying the Constitution of the United States (that they swore an oath to) instead of another agenda, one about self empowerment and self preservation at any cost, we would not be embroiled in the Middle East. The war in Iraq is bearing some interesting and very profitable fruit, specifically for that social gathering I refer to as the FOBs or Friends of the Bushes. Massive and lucrative contracts are being handed out like candy to those who paid for them during the Bush election process; you don’t think all that election money given to politicians is a “gift”, do you? The most obvious conflict of course was with Dick Cheney’s Haliburton corp., but even that disgusting and rather flagrant abuse has been all but ignored by the plastic bumper sticker “God Bless America” crowd (I never knew the mythological god Mars had so many worshippers in America). We’ve seen many TOPOFF exercises already and except for Alex Jones and a handful of others who have courageously been reporting the truth, these were seen as non-events at best. The most the mainstream propaganda machine will say about them is to issue glowing platitudes and regurgitation of government press releases. The truth is though these are exercises to condition the footsoldiers of the coming police state. As a professional soldier myself I can tell you that for every exercise, war or engagement you enter, you have to condition your troops. The reason is simple, we are creatures of habit and we also have God given sensibilities about ourselves (the God I refer to is of course the God of the Bible). Most of us for instance are repulsed at the idea of burning another human alive, but given the right amount of desensitization and de-humanizing of our foes, we can achieve horrible and barbaric things and even feel good about it. The raid on Mount Carmel in Waco by the FBI and ATF shows FBI agents urinating on the dead and charred bodies of women and children, running up the ATF “battle” flag over the carnage and generally applauding themselves when a normal person would have been sick with grief and empathy. Conditioning is physical and psychological, that is, you must perform the tasks but more importantly you must be told that certain tasks, especially those that don’t come naturally such as jumping out of an airplane, running somebody through with a bayonet or shooting another human being, are okay. As a soldier many of the things I was asked to do were hidden behind the comfortable phrase “I was just following orders”. TOPOFF is a conditioning exercise designed to condition both the police state as well as it’s intended victims (that would be you and I). TOPOFF’s exercises against a fictitious enemy whose capacities change to fit the political climate indicate to me that TOPOFF is going to be the primary delivery system for instituting a police state here in America. Care to guess who the enemies of the state are going to be? Under a TOPOFF exercise, the age old workhorse of “emergency” is used to justify illegal and un-Constitutional, but temporary, suspension of civil rights and local government. The idea being that under an “emergency”, the Federal government has the right to seize power, take control and do as it pleases. That’s funny, my Constitution doesn’t say they have the right to do that. The whole aim of our public servants taking an oath to the US Constitution, especially those whose job it is to deal with bona-fide emergencies is to ensure that the Constitution remains intact. The Founding Fathers were not unaware of “emergencies” and how they were used by people with a modicum of authority to seize broad and often permanent power unto themselves. While it may be a challenge, the whole purpose of having a Constitution was so that our public servants and society in general would have a plan to follow in all situations. Crying like chicken little that “the sky is falling” is merely an age old strategy for getting people to relinquish their God given rights. None of us would, under normal circumstances simply march down to the nearest police station, turn in our weapons and agree to some of the terms of surrender and abdication under normal conditions. It ought to be that under these manufactured crises we become even more uncooperative with our public servants and tell them to get the job done the proper way, not by destroying the law of the land. But unfortunately, the American people as a whole have been conditioned themselves. We have been conditioned to believe a pack of lies starting with the one that the Federal Government is an entity which has unbridled authority over the citizenry of this nation. We have been conditioned to believe that freedom and liberty are just too hard to maintain during an emergency and so we have to give up our rights “for a little while”. Make no mistake though, you are being asked to give up your rights “for a little while” as part of a conditioning exercise to prepare you for a modern slavery. The modern slavery won’t have you chained to a dungeon floor (unless you speak out too much or don’t comply fully with your new slave masters). The modern slavery doesn’t want you chained to the floor, you don’t produce as much that way. Modern slaves will be conditioned to believe they are free when they are not and thus the most effective prison ever developed will be instituted. Not a prison with expensive walls and costly facilities, feeding and housing the occupants but a self imposed prison of willingly duped individuals who believe they are subservient to anyone who gives the appearance of authority (however illegally obtained so long as it appears “official”). The new slave will go to work, pay his tribute, supply his blood for wars and in fact do everything to support the police state having been conditioned that to do so is “patriotic”. As TOPOFF practices we should counter this obvious conditioning by making ourselves fully aware of our rights and specifically by learning the history of this great nation. The first rule of any bureaucracy is to protect itself (the second rule is to expand the bureaucracy) and careful scrutiny of TOPOFF will show that it’s primary goals are to do both of these. While we cannot halt the tidal wave created by the war worshippers (who interestingly don’t seem inclined to actually fight in the war) and the resident hysteria it brings, we can at least refuse to be conditioned for slavery. Let’s start thinking and acting like free men and women for a change. |
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| ------------------------------------- Al Lorentz is a Fundamentalist Christian, father and devoted husband, state chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas. Al has served as a Marine Sniper and later as an Airborne Ranger in the Texas National Guard. He welcomes your comments at allorentz@truevine.net. |
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| Police State: TOPOFF and GLODO By Al Lorentz TOPOFF is another governmental tool designed to fight this self manufactured war on terror we find ourselves embroiled in. TOPOFF stands for Top Officials and was mandated by the US Congress during the Clinton administration, and is not a new entity but rather an amalgamation of existing ones for a very broad purpose. The purpose of TOPOFF is couched in flowery bureaucratic language but the bottom line is it will be one of the tools for our coming police state. TOPOFF conducts exercises to aid in recovery from a terror attack. The now famous and utterly untrue statement “I’m with |