BP Oil Masters and The Art of Masterful Deception

BP OIL MASTERS AND THE ART OF MASTERFUL DECEPTION

By Fahim A. Knight-El

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico should give us a better understanding of how duped the American people truly are, as well as the global community. This writer has heard people on various mediums make some of the most ignorant and arcsine statements that one can make, which is, why don't the federal government does something to hold British Petroleum (BP) responsible and make them more accountable relative to this disaster?

This is what most Americans do not understand, BP functions as a sovereign government, it translate to mean that big oil answers to no one, but to their invisible Dynastic family bosses. The United States Congress and President Obama are deceptively giving the American people the impression that BP is answerable to the laws, rules, regulations and enactments of the United States Government (this is the furthest thing from the truth). BP makes the damn rules and their invisible tycoons are all sovereign and above all nations jurisprudence systems, what part of that doesn’t you understand?

A few weeks ago Congress summoned BP executives Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg and Chief Executive Tony Hayward to testify at hearings on Capital Hill and on the surface it appeared that our elected officials had power to at least get a reasonable explanation for who, what, where, when, how and why this oil spill took place and why hasn't BP been able to control, as well as contain this disaster after 83 days and counting. What future measures does this oil giant have in place to prevent future deep well oil drilling spill disasters?

BP executives who appeared at the hearing were not interested in apologizing or taking full responsibility because they are above the law (they have been more concern with minimizing their financial liability than admitting corporate negligence). But do not be deceived, these BP executives that are being charade in front of the public are low level pawns and operatives, who are suited at best for window dressing and are not the true decision makers that operate behind the curtain. But perhaps you didn't take notice that there weren't any subpoenas issued to the Rockefeller family and the Rothschild family mandating that they appear and testify before the American people and the world. This writer wonders, why?

They are the hidden principals behind the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and are the architects of this induced disaster (they have been masters at creating events like this one in order to enhance their bottom line). These induce crisis have one objective which is to use human suffering to create more wealth at the expense of the misery of humanity and the environment (these crisis are highly profitable). The national and international courts will never bring the true culprits to justice because their money, power and influence determines all the world's economic markets, as well as the destiny of men—this alone makes them unchallengeable and untouchable.

The entire United States gulf coast and its people are expendable and these criminals as usual will walk away from this crime scene “unscaved” and definitely unpunished; the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds do not play by the established rules, they are the invisible ones behind BP and the Seven Oil Sisters. The Seven Oil Sister—Exxon, Mobil, British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil, Texaco, Gulf (As of 2005, the surviving companies are ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP—members of the "supermajors" group are the one’s that set the American and world agenda.

Who has the authority to bring the Rothschilds or Rockefellers into a court of law? Perhaps you did not know that President Barack Obama and British President Gordon Brown are low level operatives and pawns of the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds (the greatest purveyors of evil on earth).

The author Andy Stern in his book titled, "Oil: From Rockefeller to Iraq and Beyond' stated: "The freewheeling gold rush years in the US soon gave way to the all-devouring empire created by John D. Rockefeller, whose fortune was built on sharp business practices, corruption of government at the highest levels, and the creation of one of the most successful and enduring cartels the world has ever seen. Then as now in the US, government and Big Oil were closely interlinked. Rockefeller had agents all over the world, forming a semi-official diplomatic structure that negotiated trade deals directly with national governments. Today, the links are even closer, with former oil executives occupying many of the top positions in the current US administration, and taking policy positions highly favourable to the industry in which they made their fortunes." (Reference: Andy Stern;” Oil: From Rockefeller to Iraq and Beyond"; pg. 7).

President Obama would not be president of these United States, if he hadn't acquiesced to their power and the power of the Seven Oil Sisters. He doesn't have the authority to dictate what course of action BP is going to take in this immediate crisis and its future direction. President Obama daily courtesy briefings relative to the oil spill, is more designed for his oil bosses to give him his daily marching orders and not the other away around. He is actually powerless in this situation.

The Committee of 300, Club of Rome, Bilderberger, Carlyle Group, Council on Foreign Relations, House of Rothschilds, etc., these are the other links that consist of that circle within a circle that shields and protect the global financial interest of the Invisible Elitist, which gave the Seven Oil sister carte blanche to do as the hell they please. We in the United States must first understand that we do not live in a democracy our destiny is in the hands of international bankers and until we overthrow them our future is blight and predetermined.

President Obama imposed an offshore drilling moratorium as though that will be the solution to containing and controlling the hidden culprits who are behind the oil spill in the gulf. Why did not President Barack Obama impose a moratorium against the Rothschilds and Rockefellers and the other invisible cohorts relative to how much of the world's wealth and natural resources they will be allowed to possess (this would have been a more realistic solution to the problem)?

However, this is the type of question and outside the box thinking that could end his political career because his loyalty is to the invisible families and not to the American people. It was big oil money that got him elected as the first so-called African American U.S. president and this is why his foreign policy in the Middle East and Central Asia is no different than former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney. He has betrayed almost every campaign promise made relative working to end the two senseless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. How many more U.S. troops will have to lose their lives fighting for the interest of big oil and the Invisible Rulers?

Look at how the United States has devastated the lives of millions of innocent men, women and children that have lost their lives because a thief desired to steal these nations natural resources and the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by unjust military action. However, no tears are being shed for the victims of U.S. imperialism. There will be no peace between Islam and the west until United States Foreign policy learns to respect the history, politics, culture, religion, etc., of black and brown people around the globe.

The United States is making the same identical mistakes the former Soviet Union made in Afghanistan and after a nine year conflict the Russians exited Central Asia as a defeated superpower. This writer is anticipating this to be America's fate as well. Halliburton will decide when the U.S. troops will leave Iraq and Afghanistan and not the United States Congress.

What drive these type induced crisis is greed, and their desire to accumulate more and more money and natural resources for themselves. The masses of the people do not have clue of how the power schemes are structured and formulated. They do not know that 99% of the world's wealth is dominated and controlled by 1% of the world's population. It is this paradigm that serve as the social, political and economic back drop for wars, hunger, international political instability and human division.

Yes, this writer is going to say it, there must be a redistribution of the world's wealth and resources with the world's people (there is no other solution to this human imbalance). It should be considered criminal that the masses of humanity are engaged in conflicts of survival while the bloodsuckers of the poor continue to rob us from the soles of our feet to the crown of our heads. Who can make war with the beast other than God himself?

The United States foreign policy in the above the Persian Gulf region, is being shaped and driven by the Seven Oil Sisters. If you looked a both wars objectively and asked yourself, what is the ultimate strategy and goal (short and long term) in Iraq and Afghanistan? There is no war strategy other than stealing oil and heroin (two of the most sort after commodities in the history of humanity) and I just read somewhere recently that the CIA had detected along time ago that Afghanistan was rich in other minerals, metals and natural resources besides the poppy plant.

Big Oil has a noose around President Obama's neck and they are choking the life blood out of the American people. This writer believes that this BP oil spill and crisis was artificially induced contrary to the accident which has been portrayed to the dumbfound masses by the propaganda machines both electronic and print mediums (surely 11 people lost their lives and many more were injured on that BP oil rig explosion, but to this giant, it was part of the price that one pays for doing business and their deaths were considered casualties of war and nothing else).

The United States is in debt to China and Japan in which the international bankers and the Seven Oil Sisters literally run the world. China has become extremely restless about the United States inability to resolve its outstanding foreign debt with this superpower. The American dollar has declined and is worthless as a monetary instrument of exchange and the 14 trillion dollar deficit is choking the life blood out of the taxpaying citizens of the United States and our foreign trade deficit have created the atmosphere for a perfect economic storm. This led us into an economic depression in 2008, which the government bailed out international bankers and this unprecedented maneuver forever changed the face of capitalism. It cost the U.S. taxpayers over 1.5. Trillion dollars and has enslaved perhaps five unborn generation to a system of debt.

The U.S. State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, Homeland Security, Central Banks, Federal Reserve, etc., are all part of the gulf oil scam. This disaster was created in part to repay the international debt owed to China. The oil spill will destroy the United States fishing industry in that region along the boarders of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. This trillion dollar industry is systematically being destroyed by the deadly pollution of oil in which I am estimating that this disaster will negatively affect marine life for the next 50 years in that region—the water, fish--crabs, lobster, crow fish, etc., have been devastated and people's way of life on the gulf coast have been altered and destroyed forever. But most Americans trust their government and do not realize that since September 11, 2001, the game has changed and trick bag has gotten bigger.

The same individuals that brought Wall Street to it knees and caused a global economic catastrophe are the same culprits who are manipulating this so-called oil spill in and around Louisiana and the gulf coast. These forces have allowed the Mafia as an agent of organized crime for generations to reap huge monetary incentives from the fishery industry in the Gulf region and were viable partner with the dope trade (BP with this incident has brought this arrangement to an end); while they will continue to exploited America's oil resources. The U.S. Gulf ports after this oil spill disaster will become almost exclusively used for the international trafficking of drugs operated by the United States Government and drugs will become the number one commodity along the gulf coast states.

However, 83 days ago this formal arrangement with the Mafia came to an end by this induce crisis which has altered the economic paradigm in the U.S. Gulf Region forever. They will turn the fishing and seafood demand and market over to China. This agreement will give China an even larger piece of the United States import seafood market and over the years this untold agreement will help satisfy the United States international economic debt owed to China (which is anywhere from 600 billion dollars to over two trillion dollars). Also, this incident will continue to break the back of organized labor and will render American workers even more vulnerable (in reality U.S. labor has become obsolete and good wage earning is something of the past) while they covertly and systematically outsource this vital gulf coast fishing industry to the Chinese.

President Obama and Congress have mandating that BP put 20 billion dollars in escrow as a monetary projection for possible future compensation and damages; this is a joke. Thus, BP sees this amount as mere crumbs and this writer can tell you right off the top that the true liability and compensation will amount in the trillions of dollars. They have wrecked the environment in which scientist and biologist have yet to truly assess the short and long term affect this tragedy will have on the food chain, public health and environment. We have seen oil soaked birds and marine life and at the same time have watched the corporate media spin doctors boast about their efforts to wash and clean these animals. But have you noticed they very seldom inform us about the possible effects this oil will have on the internal organs of the animals. It is superficial to rinse the birds and do not mention any solutions for the birds and marine life who ingested this poison. This writer predicts that in the next five to ten years from this catastrophe you will began to see high incidents of cancer and other debilitating diseases plaguing the people of the U.S. Gulf coast region due to the seafood, water and air contamination caused by this massive oil spill.

Perhaps you think you live in caring democracy and believe that U.S. Government has the best interest of the American people and have not realized that corporate interest is much more valuable than the interest of the citizens of this nation. The health of the American people and environment mean absolutely nothing to the interest of BP. BP lawyers and legal counsels have already determined their anticipated monetary liability, but settlement compensations will be at a mere fraction for their gross negligent conduct and behavior.

They will readily settle most of the anticipated claims outside of courts of law in which the billions of dollars in oil revenue will continue to flow long after the Gulf oil spill is no longer front and center in the media. They will not lose one brown cent and like all debts they will pass this one as well to the American people, in particular and globe in general.

This writer has watched this television commercial, which was a savvy infomercial of BP featuring an African American BP claims representative named Darryl Willis. This operative and the advertisement are designed to desensitize blacks, in particular and all the people in Louisiana in general, to the magnitude of BP crimes. They are using a savvy public relations campaign to humanize BP and the public does not realize that BP is likening to a highly trained assassin. Thus, they are systematically using this Louisiana homeboy whom they present in these ads of so-called speaking from the heart and he is assuring the people of that region that BP cares (this is outright bullshit). BP is using this operative as a deceptive ploy to relax the natives and keep them calm while we continue to dupe them on every level.

Let me say it again, Mr. Darryl Willis is not concern about the poor people of Louisiana and the gulf; his interest is saving BP money and manipulating the emotions of those who have been victimized by the BP disaster. BP will handsomely reward this agent provocateur Mr. Willis for his public acts of deception and his loyalty to the interest of BP. His calm demeanor and gentle spirit is presented to lure the poor and oppressed to sleep and into believing that BP is going to right this tragic wrong (let me be the bearer of bad news you are in for a rude awakening). Oil prices in the very near future are going to sky rocketed because these den thieves will use their propaganda machines to further manipulate and convince us that gulf oil spilled has created a U.S. oil shortage and deficit; moreover, we might even see oil and gas prices soar to $6.00 and $7.00 dollars per gallon (after all someone has to pay for BP's inconvenience).

This writer found the political commercial of North Carolina Senator Richard Burr rather amusing. They depicted him in the commercial of being pulled from the gulf (like the marine life and birds) soaked in oil from head to feet, which they desperately tries to clean him of the oil by washing and brushing him down. I believe the moral of the commercial is to inform the American people that Senator Burr is in political bed with big oil and is dirty from the oil perks. Yet, the commercial exposed Burr, but at the same time it negates to expose the other members of congress who have been bought and paid for by big oil—both political parties Republican and Democrat are slaves to big oil.

BP will probably be fine by the United States Government, but the fine will be insignificant when compared to the magnitude of the crime and damage this oil giant has caused on the American people. Your lying and manipulative elected officials will lead you to believe that they are angry with BP. Moreover, and will talk about imposing all types penalties and sanctions against BP while at the same time these cruddy lapdogs will continue to receive the crumbs that fall from the table of big oil.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

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yes! i hate those pathetic bp commercials! bp is @#%*! and it is full of it too. all i can hope is that most of the flock won't fall down into the throat of blind foolishness...

...oops too late.

"Following the dog’s example, you will have to be wise in sniffing, smelling and estimating these fine and meaty books...after which you should break the bone and suck the substantial marrow..." ~ Rabelais

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I agree with you, it is probably to late for the sheep because we do not understand the many layers of deception and trickery. We are hastly being led to the slaughter.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

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fahim knight wrote:

I agree with you, it is probably to late for the sheep because we do not understand the many layers of deception and trickery. We are hastly being led to the slaughter.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

then don't be a sheep!

"Following the dog’s example, you will have to be wise in sniffing, smelling and estimating these fine and meaty books...after which you should break the bone and suck the substantial marrow..." ~ Rabelais

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I think forums like the TDG gives us philosophical, theoretical and intellectual alternatives and it allows us have these type conversations, which makes us aware that there is a problem (most of humanity doesn't know that there is a problem). Thus, proper education is one of the first necessary steps of not becoming a sheep because humanity has been mis-educated. I had relinquished my sheep garment (which was based in a certain type of mindset) a long time ago and this led me to reassess and reevaluate everything around me. Moreover, very few of us, are ever led to this necessary reality and those who possess an interest in keeping humanity in invisible chains and balls do not have to concern themselves with any type of personal revolts because we are self-checked. The sheep will remain prey unless he/she changes their thinking; I was introduced to this paradigm when I was in my teens and have been fighting all my adult life to remain liberated. It also led me to seek higher spiritual development and transition into a reality that will not allow the external world to misdirect the divine laws of the universe, which do not recognize the power and influence of our deceptive earthly masters.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

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fahim knight wrote:

This is what most Americans do not understand, BP functions as a sovereign government, it translate to mean that big oil answers to no one, but to their invisible Dynastic family bosses. The United States Congress and President Obama are deceptively giving the American people the impression that BP is answerable to the laws, rules, regulations and enactments of the United States Government (this is the furthest thing from the truth). BP makes the damn rules and their invisible tycoons are all sovereign and above all nations jurisprudence systems, what part of that doesn’t you understand?

So long as money remains the most important commodity in this world(as opposed to health, peace, enlightenment, brotherly love, etc), this will NEVER change. The golden rule is, “He who has the Gold(oil, banks, big business)makes the rules”.
You asked:

fahim knight wrote:

What future measures does this oil giant have in place to prevent future deep well oil drilling spill disasters?

But you answered your own question, when you said:

fahim knight wrote:

The Committee of 300, Club of Rome, Bilderberger, Carlyle Group, Council on Foreign Relations, House of Rothschilds, etc., these are the other links that consist of that circle within a circle that shields and protect the global financial interest of the Invisible Elitist, which gave the Seven Oil sister carte blanche to do as the hell they please.

In other words, they’re not required to have anything in place to prevent future deep well oil drilling spill disasters.

fahim knight wrote:

We in the United States must first understand that we do not live in a democracy our destiny is in the hands of international bankers and until we overthrow them our future is blight and predetermined.

What do you propose? While I agree that this is happening, I can’t see any way of stopping them. The entire country would have to rebel against the government, and I’m willing to bet that the sheople are way too hypnotized by the baubles of mass consumerism, to give a damn, and the people who see through the smoke and mirrors are too few to create any effective revolution. It seem that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, is working EXACTLY as they planned. Probably proposed by a demon, much older and wiser than most of us mortals...but that's a completely different discussion.

fahim knight wrote:

Why did not President Barack Obama impose a moratorium against the Rothschilds and Rockefellers and the other invisible cohorts relative to how much of the world's wealth and natural resources they will be allowed to possess (this would have been a more realistic solution to the problem)?

Again, this must be rhetorical, because you KNOW why President Obama did not impose a moratorium against the Rothschilds and Rockefellers…

fahim knight wrote:

However, this is the type of question and outside the box thinking that could end his political career because his loyalty is to the invisible families and not to the American people. It was big oil money that got him elected as the first so-called African American U.S. president and this is why his foreign policy in the Middle East and Central Asia is no different than former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney. He has betrayed almost every campaign promise made relative working to end the two senseless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. How many more U.S. troops will have to lose their lives fighting for the interest of big oil and the Invisible Rulers?

Don’t tell me that this surprises you? Anyone elected president of the good ole US of A is already a marionette with their strings firmly in the grasp of those with the Gold.

fahim knight wrote:

What drive these type induced crisis is greed, and their desire to accumulate more and more money and natural resources for themselves. The masses of the people do not have clue of how the power schemes are structured and formulated. They do not know that 99% of the world's wealth is dominated and controlled by 1% of the world's population. It is this paradigm that serve as the social, political and economic back drop for wars, hunger, international political instability and human division.

Yep this is the way it works, but again I ask, can we really change this? Those great forefathers of our past who challenged the powers that be had someplace to go in order to start their new life. They came here, to the shores of Virginia. Where can we go to escape and start over? The moon?

fahim knight wrote:

Yes, this writer is going to say it, there must be a redistribution of the world's wealth and resources with the world's people (there is no other solution to this human imbalance). It should be considered criminal that the masses of humanity are engaged in conflicts of survival while the bloodsuckers of the poor continue to rob us from the soles of our feet to the crown of our heads.

Again, I completely agree. It is out right criminal that I live in the lap of luxury, have so much food in my refrigerator that after dinner I throw a lot of it in a trash can, and just a few hours away there are people in the world(in our own USA too!)starving, malnutritioned, and so poor that they live in the dirt . The philosopher Peter Singer has an irrefutable argument that goes like this:

1) Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medicine are BAD.
2) If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing or giving up something of COMPARABLE MORAL WORTH, we ought, morally, to do it.

But we don’t. Why don’t we? Because the current infrastructure is too deeply rooted. Many of us understand, at least on a fundamental level that there is a disparity between the poor and the wealthy, and we here in the USA are wealthy compared to many other countries and societies. Again I ask YOU, “As the extreme minorities who comprehend the blatant immorality of the current consumeristic feeding frenzy, what are we supposed to do about it?” Would blowing up the capital fix it? No, they’d just build another one and hire(elect)a new staff to continue the regime. Can we possibly fight them? No, they have bigger guns, more military, all the resources that the world has to offer at their disposal.

fahim knight wrote:

China has become extremely restless about the United States inability to resolve its outstanding foreign debt with this superpower. The American dollar has declined and is worthless as a monetary instrument of exchange and the 14 trillion dollar deficit is choking the life blood out of the taxpaying citizens of the United States and our foreign trade deficit have created the atmosphere for a perfect economic storm. This led us into an economic depression in 2008, which the government bailed out international bankers and this unprecedented maneuver forever changed the face of capitalism. It cost the U.S. taxpayers over 1.5. Trillion dollars and has enslaved perhaps five unborn generation to a system of debt.

Mel Brookes summed it up in History of the World part one. “Leader of the Senate: All fellow members of the Roman senate hear me. Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote?
Entire Senate: F#CK THE POOR!”

Those in power don’t give a damn about us. We are the cattle that is slaughtered to feed their families. Period. End of story.

fahim knight wrote:

Perhaps you think you live in caring democracy and believe that U.S. Government has the best interest of the American people and have not realized that corporate interest is much more valuable than the interest of the citizens of this nation.

No I don’t.

fahim knight wrote:

This writer has watched this television commercial, which was a savvy infomercial of BP featuring an African American BP claims representative named Darryl Willis. This operative and the advertisement are designed to desensitize blacks, in particular and all the people in Louisiana in general, to the magnitude of BP crimes. They are using a savvy public relations campaign to humanize BP and the public does not realize that BP is likening to a highly trained assassin. Thus, they are systematically using this Louisiana homeboy whom they present in these ads of so-called speaking from the heart and he is assuring the people of that region that BP cares…

If the sheople are buying it, then it must be working for them. But see, I’m back to the beginning here. What the hell are we supposed to do about it? If their campaign is successful, HOW THE HELL DO WE EDUCATE THOSE MORONS WHO BOUGHT THEIR LIES?

You’ve spent a great deal of time and effort talking about this situation. You’ve also spent a great deal of energy showing your obvious disgust for it. I've read most of your posts over the years, but this is the first time, I’ve commented. You are obviously educated, well read, and have a fire to fix things, but I don’t ever see you offering solutions.

I want to know what you think we are supposed to do to fix this mess? I don’t think it’s possible. I think we are screwed. You are most certainly not the only one out there who feels this way. But the sad truth is this: If you were a threat to the current regime, you’d already be dead. They don’t care that a few of us know and are pissed about it, because we can’t really do anything at all to stop them…and they KNOW it.

My solution to the cataclysmic catastrophe that is knocking at our door step is this: I work on myself. I stay educated, and I educate my family(I have three kids) and friends. I meditate. I exercise. I stay strong and sharp. This does not help to fix anything in the world, but it DOES fix me. I raise my own energy, and help to do the same in those around me. When the walls come tumbling down, and they will, those of us left need to be strong of body, mind, and spirit. I don't hate the governments of the world or the controllers of the money any more. They are doing what they always do...deceiving, bleeding, and raping the poor, and licking their lips as they do it.

They may actually succeed in bringing George Orwell's 1984 to fruition, I doubt it though. My feeling is that their comfy cozy glass tower is going to crumble. But if they do succeed, then God help us all.

Dustin

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Solutions: I think many of us have solutions, but are reluctant to convey some of those thoughts publically. We truly live in some dangerous times and even as we convey these type ideas which is within the realm of our so-called constitutional and legal rights; yet some will/could view these types of ideas as being treason and anti-government pursuant to the type of longitude and latitude that the United States Patriot Act possess relative to its legal language.

But I have always known and understood that even prior to the era of Homeland Security former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover under the counter intelligence program Cointelpro accrued massive amounts of Dossiers on US citizens and foreign persons. These surveillance initiatives have been expanded since 9/11 and this is a reality that you are overlooking and many activists are not willing to put themselves in a compromised position.

Thus, things we write and say are no longer fully protected by our constitution and therefore, we have to walk a very thin line and pray that something that I, you and/or someone else says on the TDG forum do not render us as being possibly classified as Enemy Combatants and subject to the long arm of U.S. law.

So I wouldn’t take or even make the inference that I and/or others are short on solutions, but most of us have taking everything into account based on where we are in space and time. For example, our “freedom”, lives, imprisonment and the monetary legal cost it would entail to defend your innocence if accused of violating U.S. law.

But I know you are intelligent enough to already know these things and so some things are better yet unsaid. Perhaps if I publically conveyed what I may deemed to be practical solutions (which is within the realm of U.S. law and I am against any revolutionary or subversive activities that would undermine the U.S. Government); I still think most will view some of those thoughts as being to idealistic. However, I still make every attempt to agitate the system and use whatever little talents that the creator has blessed me with to teach and reach as many people as I can. I do not have a big bully pulpit nor do I desire a massive stage; I am not that ego driven.

Perhaps we who are free thinkers and who are conscious should be the ones bearing the responsibility to determine what the solutions are going to be and devise the strategy and tactics which to accomplish some ultimate realistic goals.

Now, I say this because it is a bit unfair to even suggest or infer that one Blogger as myself should be responsible for presenting solutions to a problem that has existed as recently as 1913, but ultimately the problem within the United States began when the first settlers touched down on the eastern seaboard in the 16th Century. The problem is complex and comprehensive and the solutions will be equally complex and comprehensive.

Let me give it to you straight, I do not have the answers to all the political, economic and social problems plaguing humanity. Yet, my life has been committed to levels of activism and working within the legal and jurisprudence dynamics of the nation of my citizenship to alter change on small levels. I accept most of your critique and analysis and believe we have more in common on this issue than for me to be finding points of disagreement.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

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...I totally understand your point. You use the daily grail as a way to ensure that the general public is at least made aware of your understanding of the situation. You want to spread your knowledge to as many people as will listen. I respect that immensely. I meant no disrespect to you in my reply. I came across as overly aggressive and for that I apologize.

I've given the current human situation a lot of meditation time. I've come to the understanding that I am not intelligent, savvy, or broad minded enough to rule billions of people. I cannot wrap my mind around the shear amount of responsibility that is required to govern so many human beings, and I have honest to God tried. I can't do it. With so many different cultures, and so many mouths to feed, and economies to keep running, citizens/consumers to keep happy, treaties to sign, wars to wage, etc, etc, etc, I simply can't fathom the kinds of decisions that have to be made, the kinds of sacrifices that have to be made(or is easier or more cost effective to be made) UNDER THE CURRENT CONDITIONS. And I don't have any ideas on how to change the current conditions.

It never occurred to me during the writing of my reply that this conversation could be viewed as treasonous. I simply see how the current system sucks, and in my naivety I just sort of assumed that any discussions on how to fix our current conditions would be viewed as a patriotic attempt to rescue, or at the very least salvage the remains of what appears to be, even by many economists, a sinking ship. It was not my intention to make you so uncomfortable by putting you on the spot like that. I mean, I did want to put you on the spot, but I didn't mean to "put you out there" like that...I just wanted to know if your anger was backed up by solutions.

I am not happy with the disparity between the wealthy and the poor. It sickens me to my core, but I have absolutely zero solutions. I know exactly what needs to happen hypothetically, however: We need to find a way to redistribute wealth. The super rich need to learn compassion. We need to take all of those trillions of dollars spent on war, and redirect that money to feed, clothe, provide shelter for, and educate the poor of this world. The investment of educating and providing funding for the poor to learn how to take care of themselves would pay for itself a thousand times over.

We need to find alternative power sources, because coal and fossil fuels are killing us and our environment. It is my opinion that our "unalienable rights" are NOT simply life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but rather they are also food, shelter, clothing, medicine, more evenly distributed work vs leisure time, and the comfortable lifestyle that can be provided by the unlimited resources that this great earth can provide, but see, that's called utopia, and I have absolutely zero ideas on how to point society, government, business, education, etc, in that direction.

Once I truly understood that I am not the person to fix the problems, because I cannot fathom where to get the immense amount of energy it would require to turn humanity around nor would I know where to direct that energy if it were ever dropped into my lap, I stopped being angry at the governments of the world. They are doing what I cannot. If it is meant to last then it will, but history has shown me at least one reality, and that is this: All the systems of governing from the past have fallen and been replaced by other systems of governing. Every so often, the corruption of a government gets so bad that it collapses on itself, and something else rises to take it's place.

Believe it or not, there is a quote from a video game called Knights of the Old Republic that I'd like to share. I believe it to be full of wisdom and completely relevant to our discussion. Two characters are arguing about the current state of affairs and Jolee Bindo(an ex-Jedi who is neither light side nor dark side, but still wields the force) makes this statement:

"Look, everybody always figures the time they live in is the most epic, most important age to end all ages. But tyrants and heroes rise and fall, and historians sort out the pieces...Malak is a tyrant who should be stopped. If he conquers the galaxy, we're in for a couple of rough centuries. Eventually it'll come around again, but I'd rather not wait that long. So we do what we have to do and we try to stop the Sith. But don't start thinking this war, your war, is more important than any other war just because you're in it." --Jolee Bindo

We will continue to try to survive as a human race with all of it's villains and hero's, but if humanity is torn to pieces trying to figure it out, then maybe when the dolphins evolve sentience they will be able to do better than us.

In the mean time, you keep doing what you think is important, I'll keep doing what I think is important, and if we ever cross paths maybe what you think is important and what I think is important will be able to work together to help make humanity a better place.

...unless the robots kill us all first...

Dustin

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I wouldn't have thought it treasonous or illegal to say any of this stuff.

Acting on it might be different, but it depends on how it was done. Surely staying within the system is fine. Peaceable political activity of any type is acceptable, incitement is not.

Any democracy can be changed, but bloomin eck, it would take some work and no-one is likely to let you try without arguing against you.

Most people agree on the idealism stated above. No-one has a sure fire way of getting there other than hopefully meandering our way in that general direction through discussion and the occasional shouting. Hopefully we are heading that way generally, though there are some serious hurdles. If only politics and sociology were developing as quickly as technology - perhaps that is what will kill us, scientists are too good and we are not keeping pace in other areas.

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... 15,948 characters (19,148 w/spaces)forming up some 3,239 words (including title header and signature) packed into... what? Is that 30 paragraphs?

Back in the late 1960s, I hawked copy on the street corner for a couple of underground rags. One was out of Atlanta called The Great Speckled Bird, the other was a smaller local pub called Albion's Voice. Before it all ended, I even managed a brief gig writing for the latter.

While I was there, I learned that the average reader of that day, circa 1968-69, would never make it to the all-important closer of any piece over about 500-700 words. In fact, readers generally wouldn't even begin to try and read an article that was spread over more than one lean column on a single page.

Today, circa 2010, the average attention span of the everyday reader (most TDG regulars excluded) has shortened significantly from even that meager sum. In fact, most publishers now limit paragraphs to a single sentence, two at the most, and put a 250-300 word cap on the entire length, start to finish.

Also, subject matter has very little impact, as even those who are devout followers of religious/political causes simply don't have their uptake machinery geared to take that kind of load.

Fahim A. Knight-El, your article was a grand rant and offers up a lot of fine points. But if you don't mind an honest, well-meaning critique, I do fear that much of it could be lost because of the packaging.

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