Joe Biden has been Obama’s long time Chief of Gaff, but I feel we may be able to expect big things from our friend and rising star Rahm Emanuel Obama’s Chief of Staff, who served on Freddie Mac’s board of directors. At the risk of sounding too much like a conspiracy theorist (someday I will divulge my theory on how the government is hiding the existence of Atlantis from us), I would like to engage you with a couple statements I have found quite scary and an explanation of exactly why I feel that way.
It seems our country, or rather our government, uses times of hardship as an advantage to take advantage of us, the citizen. That is, when a war occurs or any sort of national crisis, our government finds a way to use these situations to their benefit by increasing taxes, taking away rights, or otherwise widening the divide between the populace and any government office, often increasing the government’s power over the people. Hence the regular citizen eventually gets a feeling of disassociation or of powerlessness to the injustices we perceive the government to be engaging in.
The examples of this are numerous, from the Civil War being used to impose a property tax, to the bailout situation. Throughout history, crisis has spelled opportunity for governments around the world and finally we have a person in the highest levels who readily admits it. This person is Rahm Emanuel, who said in November, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."
Now maybe I am looking too much into things, but I find this to be an alarming statement. It’s not the sort of statement which lends itself to the interpretation, “Hey, hang in there. Everything is going to get better!” No, it’s more so, “Hey, I am going to manipulate this situation to all its possible potential in order to shape policy, the hearts and minds of citizens, while furthering the power of the government.” Although it may be subject to interpretation, within my little ol’ noggin, that’s certainly the impression I am getting.
Try going out on the street and asking a random person: “Hello, how about this economic opportunity we have here hu?” I hope for your sake you are wearing a cup, because we, that is normal people who lack the power to mind-fornicate whole factions of people (I have met some people who can do it on an individual basis quite well), would much rather prefer to be without such circumstances as lay offs, 401 meltdowns, inability to buy food, clothes, and medicine. Oh, but what great opportunity!
I recall during the campaigns when John McCain came out and said the, “fundamentals of our economy are strong,” referencing the American work force’s resilience and ingenuity in the midst of bad economic times. I also recall the far left having a severe brain aneurysm in response to the statement. McCain must have not been not nearly vague enough to satisfy them.
For the Kids (I do my part to support literacy):
Fundamental: serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying
Opportunity: a situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal.
All this begs the question, is government not just using a crisis to further its goals, but also orchestrating one as well? Let us keep in mind such crises would need to be an extreme hardship to the average citizen, otherwise the lack of affect on the populace would render the plan and its possible outcome ineffective. Meaning, if a orchestrated crisis were to occur we would all suffer less than desirable consequences and government, our hero, would show up to bail us out with the stipulation we give something up, for the sake of our own security and well being of course. In the midst of such hardship, we may forego such freedoms or economic security more willingly than we would normally. Though it can be debated where this tactic of crisis orchestration has been used, certainly the reasoning behind it is quite sound and inarguable.
Is this truly what Emanuel is hinting at though? I can’t say for certain and to make a charge like this, one is going to have to apply some more evidence. It may not be enough to convince, but it certainly has enough to make me paranoid to the extreme. Consider what Joe Biden said in Seattle, WA in October of last year:
“Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy . . . He's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right. Gird your loins. We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride."
Gird: to prepare or provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.
He also says in that little speech that such trouble is going to come from either the Middle East or Russia. Pretty darn specific and scary there if you ask me. I frequently have nightmares of Biden now, chasing me around with his little army of hair plugs which dangerously wield hammers and sickles flailing them about to and fro. Back to the topic though, if you turn on MSNBC (I don’t recommend it) you will find plenty of democrats in high places urging the public for faith in Obama in the days ahead, which could be completely innocent, or innocent relative to politics, or it could be completely evil ridden. Biden continued:
"(Obama) has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us. There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision', because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."
Though the last sentence is enigmatic and philosophers will be pondering over the depths of Biden’s wisdom for years, more evidence Biden let something slip may be further apparent in his next statement, made only after spying some media. He said, putting on an air of humor, “I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here.”
What scares me is there is even a remote possibility in my mind of some pre-orchestrated crisis, which has been in the works since before his first day in office. I hate sounding this paranoid because I don’t know the future and I am not Dion Warwick. Yet, perhaps this event is already in the works. Let us consider Obama’s first item of business was to call Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas by the way is alleged to have funded the Palestinian operation in 1972 to massacre 11 Israeli athletes and he later penned the book, “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship between Nazism and the Zionist Movement,” which denied the truths behind the Holocaust.
The last part is merely speculation though, for Obama’s true motives cannot be known except within the man himself and many people are hailing this act as Obama’s move to bring peace to the region, which at this time I cannot immediately refute. Yet, it seems odd the first person he would call is a leader with terrorist ties that’s supposedly not even officially supposed to be in power (he extended his term another year).
Again, as to whether or not it is beyond government to orchestrate a crisis, I would like to close this rather sloppy blog entry with a quote from Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud:
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power in our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
Your Conservative Fear-Monger,
Brandon Myhre
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