Hypothetical Occupation of America

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Hypothetical Occupation of America

Lots of new readers have been finding GuvWurld since I wrote We Are Being Set Up: The Manchurian Nation (many thanks to Angry Girl for the link). This is a commentary on Michel Chossudovsky's analysis of a leaked report from the Homeland Security Council.

The report lends weight to the idea that the government is intentionally dividing Americans, largely by creating a rift in the common perception of reality. Much of this revolves around creating fear, and planning to evade or overcome something traumatic. With such great influence over corporate owned media, the government's propaganda reinforces scenarios and paradigms presented for the purposes of disaster training and emergency preparedness.

The "scenarios" and anti-terrorist exercises develop observance and compliance by public officials, law enforcement, intelligence, military and civilian federal and State employees, etc.

This is the breeding ground of the Manchurian Nation, inhabited by many people superficially appearing as upstanding members of the establishment while simultaneously oppressing the ideals and values for which the establishment supposedly stands.

In trying to think like it seems the Homeland Security Council does, I found myself wondering what a sustained foreign attack on America might do. Not listed in the leaked report is a hypothetical occupation of America by a liberating force that comes to defeat fascism and free the American people. Well of course Homeland Security won't plan, or at least not publicly plan, a response to that. But what about us? Aiding and abetting the enemy is a serious thing. Many people, and I think I'd be one of them, would consider this hypothetical to contain two sets of enemies of America, each at war with the other and both likely looking to use as pawns.

Perhaps, just maybe, this might be a place from which we could possibly come close to beginning to imagine the plight of Iraqis today. I don't suggest we ask John Kerry for his help but we might think about what it will take to develop a "smarter, tougher, more effective" insurgency to drive out the invaders and take control over own affairs.

"We're not waiting for another attack. We can't wait for another attack to employ the full power of America in this cause. We're acting now to protect the American people and to shape a future of peace."

initiatives - getting people to accept the official line, and not question authority.

I don't have a pick-up truck. Come to think of it I don't have any firearms either. I do have a really good knife - one of those knives that will cut through a tin can? I don't have to cut through tin cans a lot, though, so I must use it on vegetables.

Guess i won't be much help in this insurgency movement.

Bryant
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I got a PM from somebody asking about this post:

Hey - this really takes things down the road, a ways. If I'm understanding "Manchurian" correctly, we citizens are going to - at some point - act out in a way that is pre-ordained by some prior conditioning. But, I'm not sure what it is you are suggesting we are going to do....

when you get time, I would very much enjoy reading your clarification....

This is my response:

The Manchurians among us are already acting according to conditioning. These are people who think things are mostly OK and do what they do because they're just "following orders." They seem to have lost the critical reasoning ability to even consider acts of civil disobedience, even if it would be the difference between thinking for themselves and doing the right thing rather than committing horrible acts of oppression or violence.

I am making no predictions about pre-ordained futures. I presented this hypothetical to cause readers to put themselves in the shoes of Iraqis - imagine what we might do if our country was under attack! Underlying this rhetorical provocation is an assumption that perhaps this is an extreme enough example to get people thinking about being willing do to things you and I are ready for, but which they never really realized they could handle too.