October 25, 2019
There is a reason
the military industrial complex and the CIA in particular has been for decades
the most powerful influencer in Hollywood. As Etienne de la Boetie explained over 500 years ago, the monopoly of
state power rests on the willing compliance of whole populations, gained by
virtue of a very human need for a unifying story, and for each other’s
approval.
The institution of
the state appears as a dark menacing iceberg – imposing, intolerant, unmoving,
and deadly. The Orwellian future of “a boot stamping on a human face—for
ever” is a present reality, a present risk. We are seeing this future/now in the treatment
given by the dominant empire on the planet, the largest and most powerful
empire that has ever existed on the planet, to a single man who competently
challenged that empire with a small dose of transparency.
The torture and
permanent destruction of the great mind of Julian Assange – continuing even
after the state had extracted his encryption keys for Wikileaks, meaning even
after the state has extracted the IP addresses, times, dates, content and
ultimately the whistleblowers around the world who were inspired by ideas of
truth and transparency over the past decade – is nothing more than a cruel
exercise of evil, in the name of the citizens and taxpayers and patriots in
those “free” and “good” states of the US and the UK.
The technologies
that enabled Wikileaks to publish have evolved, and chasing these technologies,
owning them and controlling them, using them against people in the name of
state order, is Job 1 for the US Intelligence Community. Trillions
of black budgeted dollars in the US
alone have created a problem for people everywhere, the American people
specifically, and that problem needs to be solved.
We bear witness,
via state-directed media, of kangaroo courts, star chambers, courtroom scenes
straight out of Idiocracy, and it seems
Hollywood. CNBC and Reuters reported Tuesday that “[Julian Assange]
appeared in good health, with his white hair combed back and wearing a navy suit over a light
blue sweater and white shirt.” As an
afterthought, we read he understood very little, and was confused and couldn’t
think. But it’s all fine, he appeared in good health, in a clean outfit
that he had been physically dressed in by his torturers for Monday’s court
appearance.
CNBC doesn’t name
the British judge at all, but she is a woman of mystery, Vanessa Baraitser, who
in the past has been quite lenient, but now takes her
orders regarding Assange from five American lawyers in the room, two of which
whom were CIA. The cheerful reporting by state media is designed to
entertain and calm that remnant of the population that is paying attention.
We are witnessing a
purge of those the state finds inconvenient, a purge we subsidize and consent
to, an amoral passion play where everyone plays a part.
Meanwhile, Hans-Hermann Hoppe shared basic
truths about state power, organization and monopoly to over
1,500 reflective Russians. Is Russia the future of freedom, the new city
on a hill, having already completed their end of empire, their secession, their
financial collapse, now refreshed and rejuvenated? Hoppe explained how
smaller states rarely attempt war, usually due to lack of resources and
inability to convince their involved and aware populations of the need for
it. But larger states, particularly democratic states, do seek war,
empire and expansion. The dictum taught to generations of political
science students that we promote democracy around the world because democracies
rarely make war (sub voce against each other, they
qualify), like so much we have been taught, is utterly false! Democracy
invites popular, socialized and mandatory investment in state activity, and as
we have long known and oft repeated, war is the health of the
state. Hoppe shared that states dependent on actual – not manufactured – consent
embrace the idea of self government and the right to secession of villages,
provinces and regions. These states compete for their
population, and earn every citizen’s confidence, or they fail.
Not so for the
great democratic empire of the US, where walls and biometric identifications
systems and “Homeland Security” and internal passports for movement have
already been implemented. The American history of
secession is buried and scatologized, and any talk of dividing or reducing the
vast empire is dangerous, traitorous talk. The enemy of an empire in
permanent decline is the very population it claims – a population the state
views as tax-beasts, livestock, slaves and helots – a population that
necessarily evolves against the state, here failing to identify with the
empire, there no longer sharing a sense of belonging, now turning away, and
ultimately disappearing.
We the people are
the natural enemy of the empire. The intellectual murder of Julian
Assange and his physical murder to come, by our government, is a public message
to all of us, direct from the soulless powers that be, our criminal Congress
and the perfect parasite of the IC and the military industrial complex that we
are owned, we are enslaved, we are worth only what the state says we are worth,
and we must comply.
Julian is the
beneficiary of torture and mental destruction techniques
perfected by CIA scientists and psychologists of the past, and
all empires have been well practiced in these dark arts. But in killing
Assange, we can understand what frightens the state monopolies, the US empire,
and its parasitic monsters of war, the most? Not surprisingly, it is transparency.
Who are these people? How do they operate? What have they stolen,
lied about, destroyed? Why do we subsidize them? Can we eliminate
them, and the institutions that empower them?
Certainly, this is
not accomplished via democracy, via a vote or two. It is changed by the
story we tell, and the stories we believe. Trump, in the days remaining
to his presidency, has the power to change the story. He should start
with a presidential pardon for Julian Assange.
He should also
immediately replace the Director of the CIA and FBI, and charge them and many
of their subordinates, for the various crimes they have committed, relating to
Assange, relating to his own presidency, relating to misuse of billions and
billions of taxpayer dollars over the past decades. Trump could also take
real steps to end the overseas empire, and tend to the health of the domestic
one – as he promised in his 2016 campaign. What does he have to
lose
Breaking the CIA
into a thousand pieces – even talking about it – is the kiss of death for any
President. The Assange treatment stands as a message for journalists and for
government and government contractor whistleblowers or truthtellers that
everyone – from an elected President to leaders of political parties to CEOs
and line workers – everyone must remain silent, compliant and invisible, or you
will be mentally and physically destroyed. That’s a story I cannot
accept, and a mandate I will not obey.
There are not
enough prisons for all of us, and once we realize we are building prisons for
ourselves, the gig is up. This is the brittle fragility of the US empire.
The dark menacing unmoving iceberg of state power is an illusion; it can be
shattered by a small set of harmonic vibrations, many of which are already in
play. However, the blood of tyrants is real. In my last essay I advised those who have
contributed to Wikileaks to run, to seek cover, as
you are being hunted by the US and her allies, and they have the tools in hand
to destroy you. For the purveyors of state evil, I advise you to run as
well. History is not on your side. Get out while you still can,
while there is still time.
Karen Kwiatkowski,
Ph.D. [send her mail], a retired USAF
lieutenant colonel, farmer and aspiring anarcho-capitalist. She ran for
Congress in Virginia's 6th district in 2012.
Copyright © 2019
Karen Kwiatkowski
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