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conspirator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 06:12 PM
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you'll never win the lottery
Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.
On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it -- you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!

As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.

Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us -- and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.

Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!

You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold."

Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against.... We continually push your wages down by invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand," "national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage-managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening -- instead, you blame "Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "Niggers," "Jews," Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled situation.

We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do!

Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system -- robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.

So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" -- without even knowing it!


Rich $cum of America
He who hath the gold makes all the rules.

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This is an old text but there are always new people who need to be awaken
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 06:16 PM
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1. Who runs Barter Town?
What happens when the damn blue collar tweakers aim to misbehave?
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 06:18 PM
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2. You just gave me fantasies of standing outside the local Mall Wart
leafletting with this tract until I get chased away, then go to another Mall Wart.
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Labors of Hercules Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 06:24 PM
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3. I must say...
Edited on Fri Jun-08-07 06:27 PM by Labors of Hercules
The sarcasm is truly delightful! It is never too much to hear it again... K&R!
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 06:47 PM
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4. Bravo. Nicely written.
I think this would make great 'spam' if you don't mind ;-)
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 07:21 PM
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5. I wish you had used the word "blacks" instead of the N-word.
It makes me wince just to see it in print.

Otherwise, an excellent commentary. Repeat after me: Governments exist to serve corporations, people exist to serve the government. (Don't know who said it first, but it's oh so true.)
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 07:48 PM
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6. I've aleays loved this piece. K&R
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 11:16 PM
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7. Nail meet head
Edited on Fri Jun-08-07 11:18 PM by undergroundpanther
I remember this one,because it is so true
Ever read the secret covenant?

An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception.

Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.

We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us.

We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive. *Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.

We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute.

We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy. Death will come to he who speaks.

We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite.

We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening.

We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air.

They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn.

The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds. We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison.



The poisons will be absorbed trough their skin and mouths, they will destroy their minds and reproductive systems.

From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information.

The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them, in what they drink, eat, breathe and wear.

We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far.

We will teach them that the poisons are good, with fun images and musical tones.

Those they look up to will help. We will enlist them to push our poisons.

They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect.

When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them its for their help.

We will start early on, when their minds are young, we will target their children with what children love most, sweet things.

When their teeth decay we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future.

When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine.

We will render them docile and weak before us by our power.

They will grow depressed, slow and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison.

We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they many never connect with their inner self. We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all.

Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say. If they refuse we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives. We will use fear as our weapon.

We will establish their governments and establish opposites within. We will own both sides.

We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan.

They will perform the labor for us and we shall prosper from their toil.

Our families will never mix with theirs. Our blood must be pure always, for it is the way.

We will make them kill each other when it suits us.

We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion.

We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how.

We will guide them kindly and gently letting them think they are guiding themselves.

We will foment animosity between them through our factions.

When a light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death, whichever suits us best.

We will make them rip each other's hearts apart and kill their own children.

We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend.

The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers. They will be busy killing each other.

They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit.

We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us.

Author Unknown


A reply..
http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/nov_2000/archons.htm
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piesRsquare Donating Member (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-08-07 11:44 PM
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8. Wow
Thanks for the pep talk...
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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 05:31 AM
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9. My 6 year old is learning to play Monopoly
I told him, Son, what if we started the game off where one person got 100 of these $500 bills and the rest of us each got one? Would anyone want to play the game?

No.. he said.

Well, life is kind of like that. It's not fair from the get-go, but you try to make it work anyway.

*************
He's more likely to be one of the "lucky" ones but I at least want him to think about it.


Heard a program about unschooling (see "Dumbing Us Down" by John Taylor Gatto).. Your comment "robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself." is so tragically true. The thought of turning him over to a school system next year is deeply disturbing for that reason. Even now, because of my own 9-5 job, it seems that I am always rushing him from one thing to another, telling him what to do. Twelve formative years of being told what to do and what to think for your entire day. It's really very, very sick.
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NotGivingUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:24 AM
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10. the truth in a nutshell. k&r!
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Lilith Velkor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-11-07 07:43 PM
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11. Fuckin A.
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