Talk Fish, Walk Wolf, 2006.
 Talk Fish, Walk Wolf, 2006. “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” “The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” -Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, unanimously approved by the United States Senate, presumed to have been authored by treaty negotiator Joel Barlow (a friend of Thomas Jefferson). "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." -Thomas Jefferson, February 10, 1814. “He who dares or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.” -Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book One, Chapter Twenty-Five, 1531. "Today the path of total
dictatorship in the United
States can be laid by strictly legal means,
unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we
have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and
political system, another body representing another form of government - a
bureaucratic elite.” -Senator William Jenner, 1954.‘‘If this were a dictatorship, things would be a lot simpler. As long as I was the dictator. Heh heh heh.’’ -George W. Bush, 2000. "The president has the power to seize
property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities,
assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2.5 million men
to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all means of transportation,
regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of
particular ways, control the lives of all Americans. Most of these laws remain
a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a president should he
choose to activate them. It is possible that some future president could
exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian
rule. While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem
remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the
use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar
Republic." -Senators Frank Church and Charles McMathias, September 30, 1973. "When fascism comes to America,
it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." -Sinclair Lewis "Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of state and corporate power." -Benito Mussolini
"To live in this process is absolutely
not to be able to notice it... unless one has a much greater degree of
political awareness, acuity, than most of us ever had occasion to develop. Each
step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion,
'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the
beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what
all these ‘little measures’ that no patriotic German could resent must someday
lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his
field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head." -Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945, 1955, page 168. "Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning." -Gore Vidal "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. … Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.” -Professor Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966, pages 1247-1248. "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin “Let our position be
absolutely clear. An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the
Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of
the United States of America,
and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military
force.” -Jimmy Carter, January 1980, "Oil is too important to be left to the Arabs." -Henry Kissinger “Oil has literally made
foreign and security policy for decades. Just since the turn of this century,
it has provoked the division of the Middle East after World War I; aroused Germany and Japan
to extend their tentacles beyond their borders; the Arab Oil Embargo; Iran versus Iraq; the Gulf War. This is all
clear.” -Bill Richardson, Secretary of
Energy, December 9, 1999."Clearly, no longer can a dictator count on East-West confrontation to stymie concerted United Nations action against aggression. A new partnership of nations has begun. And we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective — a new world order — can emerge: a new era, freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, east and west, north and south, can prosper and live in harmony." -George Herbert Walker Bush, Speech to joint session of Congress, September 11, 1990, Confrontation in the Gulf; Transcript of President's Address to Joint Session of Congress, The New York Times, September 12, 1990. "We are at present working, discreetly, but
with all our might to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the
clutches of the local nation states of the world. All the time we are denying
with our lips what we are doing with our hands." -Professor Arnold Toynbee, 'World Sovereignty and World Culture: The Trend of International Affairs Since the War', Speech before the Institute for the Study of International Affairs in Copenhagen, November l931, in Pacific Affairs, vol. 4, University of British Columbia, 1931, page 760. “We cannot leap into world
government in one quick step.... The precondition for eventual globalization —
genuine globalization — is progressive regionalization.” -Zbigniew Brzezinski, State of
the World Forum, 1995.
“In this unhappy state of
affairs, few people retain much confidence in the more ambitious strategies for
world order that had wide backing a generation ago . . . If instant world
government, Charter review, and a greatly strengthened International Court do
not provide the answers, what hope for progress is there? The answer will not
satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems, but it comes down
essentially to this: The hope for the foreseeable future lies, not in building
up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general
jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the
much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or
adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal
with specific problems on a case-by-case basis, as the necessity for
cooperation is perceived by relevant nations. Such institutions of limited
jurisdiction will have a better chance of doing what must be done to make a
‘rule of law’ possible among nations . . . In short, the ‘house of world order’
will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will
look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’…but an end run around national
sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than an
old-fashioned frontal assault. Of course, for political, as well as
administrative reasons, some of these specialized arrangements should be
brought into an appropriate relationship with the central institutions of the
UN system….” "There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."-Richard N. Gardner, The Hard Road to World Order, Foreign Affairs, April 1974. “NAFTA was merely the first
draft of an economic constitution for North America.” -Robert Pastor, key architect
of North American integration, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004."We shall have one world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." -James Warburg (banker, and architect of the Federal Reserve System) Senate Foreign Relations Committee, February 17, 1950. -Senator Daniel K. Inouye, during the Iran Contra Hearings and former chair, U.S. Senate, MKULTRA-era hearings in 1977. "It is often possible-by adopting all kinds of measures of deception-to drive the enemy into the plight of making erroneous judgments and taking erroneous actions, thus depriving him of his superiority and initiative." -Mao Tse-Tung "Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State" -James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter Intelligence 1954-1974. 1 comment | Post comment
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