WE ARE ENEMIES OF THE STATE

USPA NEWS - Edward R. Murrow, a well-respected CBS journalist who was exalted as a broadcast luminary, once exclaimed, “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.“ How true and prophetic he was. We now live as sheep, subservient to our masters, who are also our devourers.

We literally cannot do one thing in our lives that hasn´t had the government´s approval or regulation. To which some may well say, “I still don´t need them to “¦fill in the blank. Yes you do, or yes they´ve regulated it. Let´s get base here, you can´t even void your bowels without government approval and intense regulation. Think not? Well then, consider this; your plumbing system has to have been permitted by the local building department, approved, and inspected by a government agent. “Well I didn´t get a permit for my toilet,“ you smugly cajole. Doesn´t matter, your toilet still must meet specific government requirements to be manufactured.

And even if you don´t use a store bought toilet, defecating outside is prohibited under a myriad of laws and regulations depending on where you are at the moment. It just doesn´t matter, if you don´t abide by the laws and regulations, you will be devoured. Either by having your liberty denied, e.g. imprisoned, or you´ll be fined or both fined and imprisoned. Pardon me for being crass; I´m just trying to point out that we do not have liberty.

We are “law´d“ to death; yes, even unto death. Try to leave your estate, inheritance, possessions, or body to anyone of your choosing. You´ll soon discover, actually your loved ones or responsible persons will discover, that there are a multitude of forms, proofs, and regulations that must be abided by before you can be laid to rest and or have your possessions distributed to whom you desire. By the way, if you owe anything, you still have to pay. Don´t have money in your estate? No problem, your property will be sold to pay your debtors, that way your credit rating will remain intact. If your loved ones don´t follow orders, any number of government agents will be available to assist them, under threat of punishment of course.

But why has it come to this? Why are we considered enemies? Allow me to answer. An experiment conducted in 1961 by Professor Stanley Milgram at Yale University, will help me to enlighten you. Adult test subjects were told to administer shocks to the subjects in the adjoining room (actors who pretended to be shocked), where they could be seen, when the person got an answer wrong. The “shockers“ really believed they would be causing pain and harm to the “shockees,“ who were really just acting as if they were getting shocked. Twenty-six out of forty subjects shocked the other person up to the highest level, labeled XXX for extreme danger.

None of the subjects refused to shock the “shockee“ at all, in spite of the fact that the person was exhibiting an intensely painful reaction. The subjects obeyed the white-coated authority figures even though they knew (thought) they were causing pain, and possibly physical harm. Why? It is because they were following orders from an authority figure. The authority was the one really responsible. The test subjects were physically doing the shocking, but weren´t ultimately answerable for harm, it wasn´t their experiment.

So what was learned from this experiment? We, the people, defer to authority figures, providing there´s no personal accountability, or in other words, as long as we have immunity we´ll do what we´re told. We will enforce whatever it is we´re instructed to enforce. This implies that some hostile force or coercion will be necessary against us. The enforcers want us to do something we don´t want to do (or we would be doing it already). Or, we want to do what we want, but are prevented from doing it. We, as a result, become the foe that must be vanquished, i.e. the enemy.

Bureaucrats from all government agencies expect immunity for doing their job. It´s not their rules, they just enforce them. If you have a problem, take it up with their boss. And they´re right to say so. Following rules is highly prized in any walk of life, from infancy to adulthood, in every personal or business capacity. If you´re following the rules, you won´t suffer any punishment yourself. We all tend to conform; we all want the pleasure, not the pain.

Therefore, I submit that the laws, the rules, the regulations, the codes, the ordinances, the acts, the policies, and the directives are partly to blame for our enslavement to the wolves ““ our protectors and devourers. A quote from Martin Luther King Jr. in “ Letter From Birmingham Jail“ aptly conveys the point: “We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was “˜legal´“¦“ During the Nuremburg Trials, the Nazi´s, who were just following orders, soon discovered that following orders provided immunity up until the time the laws themselves were found to be guilty“”guilty of depriving one of life, liberty and property without a humane process.

Editor´s Note: This is part 1 of 2 parts.