SOURCES OF AFFIRMATION
The specific object of
this book, “what the chip in the hands of power is doing to us,” is not any
easy concept to support with direct demonstration. We have to connect as
many dots as possible, and use the resulting picture to advantage.
Though much has been
written and bandied about by electronic and print media pertaining to a
failing America -- it all dances around the obvious ... only nibbling here
and there at really essential issues.
Three books in my library
attracted my attention. I read them once again.
Free To Choose .... by the
Freidmans’
The Third Wave .. by Alvin
Toffler
The Biggest Con .. by
Irwin A. Schiff
Each of these well written
books criticized America’s road to the future. In each, I found fleeting
generalizations, supporting my specific target ... “the chip.”
The following three
chapters will refer to those books, selecting information that reinforces my
assumptions.
THE VISIONIST
Convinced my depictions of
“power generated chip domination” are reasonable, to find other books that
touch on the subject lends credence to my subject matter. The “Third Wave”
written by Alvin Toffler, much different in scope, does relate to my
forecast of social and economic restructuring.
One chapter opens with a
statement I consider to be well under way. “A strange thing is happening in
the high technology world. Instead of new nations arising, old ones are in
danger of coming apart.”
That is exactly what I
believe is happening in the U.S. ... right now. Politicians, together with
their many compliant economists, steadfastly elude to a future of healthy
economic growth. The elite acknowledge, embrace and echo that scenario. The
working class has become just background noise. That they are claiming to be
absent from a lopsided presentation of the future, is of little if any
concern of power.
For our future to once
again resemble the future of the past ... we would have to piece together
what was torn asunder. There would have to be a reversal of the homeless
dilemma. There would have to be a reversal in the welfare dilemma. There
would have to be a reversal of the now essential two wage earner dilemma.
There would have to be a return to a once believable “American Dream.”
The chapter went on to
proclaim “There are those that seek to shift power upward from the nation,
ensuring transitional agencies and
organizations, become controlling factors of our future.”
It correlates with our
most recent history. The short lived middle-class in the U.S. was allowed to
exist only to the extent that it coincided with power’s short term needs.
When the time was appropriate “for power” -- industry disappeared --
downsizing followed -- profits soared ... the worker’s world was altered
beyond recognition.
This fusion of power’s
will is evident throughout the world. The European Common Market is forging
ahead. Canada barely avoided becoming two entities. Prime Minister Trudeau
warned, “If certain forces win out Canada’s ability to act as one nation
will be destroyed.” Nations like Australia and New Zealand display similar
problems. A mining magnet in Perth battles against western Australia.
Outside the office building of Lang Hancock, hangs a gold lettered sign ...
“Western Australia Secession Movement.”
Once it was difficult to
imagine a sudden break up of the Soviet Union -- though in private circles
-- there were those who knew it was coming. A dissident historian Andrei
Amairik wrote of it. Was it unbelievable, summarily dismissed, or purposely
buried from the public. Could it be the break up had unseen value for
power’s specifics? If Andrei Amairik knew something and was eager to spread
the word ... how did the event come as a complete surprise?
Most Americans can hardly
conceive of circumstances that would tear the United States apart. Neither
could most Canadians. An outrageous correlation? Chew on this for a while.
A report prepared for
Henry Kissinger, while he was still national security adviser, discussed the
possible break-away of California and the Southwest. Texas newsstands sold
prominently displayed bumper-stickers. They consisted of the Texas star,
followed by a single word ... “Secede.” Far fetched nonsense?
Our constitutional
structure and national authority, lying in the hands of suspect officials,
is being tested to the limit. They swear to guard and protect our interests
yet treat their oath with out and out indifference. They play the power game
to the fullest and shamelessly insist it’s in our interest. Somehow they
must have forgotten our government was supposed to be committed to
protecting us from both “foreign and domestic predators.”
According to a National
Council of State Legislators, there is a second civil war taking place in
the United States. The conflict pits the industrial Northeast and Midwest
against the Sunbelt States (the South and Southwest).
Infuriated by White House
energy proposals, Governors from the South and Southwest (from a New York
Times article), pledged everything short of secession from the Union.
Another threatening bumper-sticker appeared in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana
... “Let The Bastards Freeze In The Dark.”
Midwesterners had been
advised to stop chasing smoke-stack industries and start thinking.
Northwestern governors organized to defend their own regions. Is this a
symptom of desperation induced by a troubled union? As our traditional road
to the future becomes more and more disrupted, solutions for
correction will be harder to come by. Accountability will be dispersed.
Culpability will remain elusive.
National governments
squeezed between power and the masses, clearly indicate their path of least
resistance ... they are more willing to be responsive to power. It is
becoming less possible for citizens to be respected as individuals with a
choice. It is becoming impossible to project our voices. As our cries for
relief echo and fade, those on high do what they do best ... deliberate
about how to mitigate, but only infuriate. Join the bandwagon they insist
... do less, you will be deemed an expatriate.
As national governments
around the world buckle to the forces of power, surrender all obligation to
their constituents, the “New World Order” marches forward. Powerful forces
claw at the Nation State from above. As newly endowed actors surface on the
world’s stage the sovereignty of the Nation State diminishes. In America’s
case, the notion we are a government, “Of, By, and For The People” is almost
history.
A French political
thinker, Denis De Rougement stated, “No one of our twenty six European
States can any longer by itself, assure its military defense, its
prosperity, its technological resources ... nor can the United States, the
Soviet Union, or Japan.”
Linkages between nations
can increasingly be characterized as linkages between powers’ domains.
Recognize that fact, and the picture of an impending “universal order” must
also be recognized. In one way
or another power has
pocketed selected governments. Under the pressure of an approaching “New
World Order” (make no mistake the writing is on the wall) ... politicians
struggle to blunt our fear of the aftermath.
One way to attack a
nation, writes Senator George S. McGovern, “Is to restrain the flow of
information, cutting off contact between headquarters and overseas branches
of a multinational firm ... building information walls around a nation.” A
new phrase is entering international lexicon ... “information sovereignty.”
Have we in America already been subjected to that theory? Is it only a
theory? Has the “Chip” entered the fray in full force.
Economic disarray, social
redefinition, monumental data gathering enhanced by instantaneous
communication technology ... amplifies the ability for power to converge and
destroy. No nation or its people are immune from the domineering
capabilities of the “Chip” in the hands of tyrants.
During the past few
decades there has been a quiet, insidious globalization of production. It
has not been limited to export or import of finished goods. It has become an
organized elaboration of corporate planning ... that totally disregards
national lines and social achievement.
Today, multinational
corporations may develop a product in one country, manufacture in another,
assemble in a third, sell in a fourth and secrete profits everywhere and
anywhere. Operations deployed around the world require corporate’s political
pressure to encircle the globe. The combined power of such multinationals
becomes awesome.
According to a statistic
of the “International Trade Subcommittee of the United States Senate” ...
liquid assets of corporate, can be more than twice the total of all monetary
institutions on the same day.
In the early 70’s, General
Motors annual sales revenues were greater than the gross national product of
Belgium and Switzerland combined. Lester Brown, president of World Watch
Institute, noted that it was once said ... “The sun at one time never set on
the British Empire. Today it does, but not on the scores of global corporate
empires like IBM, Unilever, Volkswagen, Hitachi ... to name a few.”
East-West specialist
Joseph Wilezynski, an economist at the Royal Military College of Australia,
once whimsically remarked, “The proceeds from the sales of only ten
multinational corporations would have been enough to give fifty eight
thousand members of the communist party in all fourteen socialist countries
a six month holiday at the American standard of living.”
Multinational interests,
more often than not run counter to those of their home nation. Corporations
constantly violate national law. American corporations also violate their
home nations laws, unfortunately with government assistance. This is the
very kind of assistance we fought to eradicate. The kind of assistance that
led to our royalty shattering Declaration of Independence. Corporate
welfare, (a debate of our times), concerns corporate aids from government
that prompt them to operate outside our boarders. It conceals escalating
secret illegal operations.
The growth of
multinationals parallels their emerging visibility as “super
political entities” manipulating economies of Nation States. They have grown
so large as to require their own diplomatic corps and super effective
intelligence agencies.
Multinationals with their
ability to instantaneously move mountains of money back and forth across
national boundaries, position technology commensurate with their global
interests, evade and outmaneuver any nation states interests.
We are witnessing growth
of global trade affiliations, political power groups, and special interest
organizations such as ... Bilderberg, Trilateral, and CFR. Their secrecy is
so tight, when we conjecture about their purpose, we are dismissed as
crackpots with fanciful imaginations.
The structuring of a
European Common Market is a most visible demonstration of powers’ abilities.
Though citizens and individual states resist such unity ... they will
succumb. It will become reality.
Without letup the
machinery of controlling power lumbers on, intent on suppressing any
remaining ability for a state to self govern. The speed and procedures
forcing a state to yield, depends on the extent of effective isolation its
citizens have become programmed to accept.
Citizens of America are
being subjected to insidious programming at an ever increasing pace. “We”
know it, “government” tries to conceal it, “media” highlights it for rating
awards. Are we witnessing the “New World Order” hard at work ... “creating
disorder in our world”? Are we witnessing the formation
of an ultimate “corporate colossus” creating money and credit no nation can
regulate. Bent on creating law for its own purpose (it was done before), or
live outside our law if need be, power’s march toward a New World Order
threatens the imagined future of all prosperous societies ... “with
extinction.”
The struggle to survive as
a nation with its promised future intact -- will fail -- unless we rethink
our purpose, alter the tide of conditioning we are caught up in ... and
summarily reject the false preaching of those on high. In other words, fight
back, “tear down the deceptive directional signs” and resuscitate the
hallmark of our heritage, “Of, By, and For The People.”
Alter or eradicate the
present day manner we have been trapped into ... power presenting us with a
limited selection of candidates we can choose to serve us. Alter or
eradicate secretly revised laws designed to lessen our participation in our
country. Construct a temporary life saving wall around our boarders until we
can sort things out. A wall will not disturb free trade because no such
thing exists. A wall will demand that fair trade must become a realization.
Drastic recommendations?
Don’t dismiss them too quickly. No one can guarantee the future of how
global maneuverings of power will shake out. Only if we display a union of
strength and determination and confront corporate with road blocks they
never anticipated, can we hope to survive in our own accustomed manner. A
concept our forefathers spilt their blood to create.
History details more than
one “seemingly unimpregnable empire” that was torn
asunder. Corruption and deceit have never proven to be enduring formulas for
lasting control.
Whether you like him or
not, Perot, head of his own corporate empire -- claims his success was never
the result of hammering away at his workers. He never subscribed to the
concept, make them work hard and run scared. He is one of the few vocal
advocates campaigning for a manufacturing renaissance. He insists
manufacturing must again be elevated to past capabilities, employing a well
paid upwardly mobile work force. The more he expressed those views, the more
diligent and effective was powers’ actions in trashing his bid for the
presidency. He lost, but the subjects he brought before the American people
keep reverberating today.
Have we become so
disoriented, power so capable of trashing irritants to their agenda? Has
power grown to the point it can deprive us of self determination ... so all
is lost? I think not. Sooner or later the pressure, the realization that we
are being put in a place not of our own choosing, will unite the masses to a
common cause. Once again it will be demonstrated, “the King can be defied.”
What form might it take ... the rule of law, or quick on the draw?
I’M AFRAID MAGIC ALONE WON’T HELP ME
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