The Forgotten Octopus that strangles our future

The Forgotten Octopus that strangles our future

Some Americans feel that they have never faced an enemy like this, but they are wrong. It feels to them like a many-armed octopus is tapping them on their shoulder while picking their pocket. Something incomprehensible has the ability to reach into minds and hearts, extracting information and instilling thoughts and ideas so cleverly, they seem original. Few push back, deciding subconsciously that it is just too big to resist, and file along with the group, like lemmings... 

Something hidden from view enslaves them with debt, and yet few can name that number. Sons and daughters die or scarred for life in wars that can not be explained, and yet few ask the question. In our homes, schools, and community, our children are bombarded, enticed with tantalizing lust and promises. Moral Standards that once unified our country are now in question, blending the lines between good and bad and right and wrong, sex and violence, and our children are products of this new Big Brother addendum.   With constant negative stimulation from every side, and no place to turn for the truth, Americans can't make a decision to fight or take flight, and as new enemies are manufactured one on top of another, we are becoming collectively dissonant, despondent, fearful and timid. Liberty for safety, that's the ticket!

Older Americans claim that history is being rewritten in the name of entertainment. Subliminal propaganda produce mind-altering schema, and it moves smoothly from a black box we are conditioned to watch almost 4 hours a day. Scientifically promoted, it manifests with repetition into a conscious act, while bypassing objectivity... and all of it is very lucrative indeed, a pure Freudian science, a Machiavellian philosophy to control the masses, and it all goes comfortably unnoticed. It is business as usual, as we are pushed and pulled along in what can only be described as slavery of the spirit...

The Bureaucratic Octopus is nothing new... it has plagued men from the very beginning of civilization, and pushing back is both destructive and bloody...

Many think something fearful is about to happen, like the destruction of civil liberties, or WW3, but it is so nebulous they just can't quite wrap their minds around it. Few get to the point where they can comprehend that the first is already gone, and the second is an ultimate war, for their very souls, the virtual enslavement of their spirit. In desperation, they purchase the last boxes of hand-gun ammunition from empty shelves, and with a stimulated "spontaneous inspiration", a new gun. And The Military Industrial Complex laughs in its dark heart, for another lucrative... black bottom line...

Some even join an organization like The Oath Keepers, hoping to find some sort of solace, support, and answers to questions they can't quite formulate for themselves. Instead, they realize the same octopus that is seemingly threatening them, the octopus they want to defend against, is making money on the manufacture of the weapons they are buying, and the Oath Keeper T-shirt is made in China. It seems a cruel joke, a cosmic joke of epic proportions, and irony at its best... that the Oath Keepers have been infiltrated to be inconsequential.

They feel more the fool because they can't see this enemy. It is hidden from them like a wisp of smoke in a storm. They think of it as a sort of Wizard of OZ, a man behind the curtain if you will, and as they buy silver and gold, thinking their world is coming to an economic end, they hope that investing in tangible precious metals will help their family to survive. Certainly, it will keep in step with inflation.... But then, in a flash of doubt, and possible insight, they realize that the same octopi selling it to them, might very well be the entity who controls their own Fort Knox. Is it possible we are buying our own gold? They don't know, because they have not cared to know, that the Federal Reserve has not allowed a public audit of Fort Knox in over fifty years. They do remember, however, that Ron Paul talked a bit about "fiat" something-or-other, and referred to things that were just too complicated to contemplate. No, we need someone out of the Washington loop, someone for the common man, a Patriot like Mr. Trump.  They got what they wanted, and hopefully will realized the power they actually possess... Many were of the same ilk who cut those odd-ball Ron Paul supporters at the GOP convention...ha! Yes, few remember it... Those Paul supporters were just bad sports, yes, who cares if the rules were changed at the last minute...and they looked kind of strange too, all red-in-the-face as they walked out...

 

The OK Coral

 

Petitions circulate begging for their signature, and they ask themselves why they should solicit something that is already theirs... and they get angry, and angrier still. But this kind of anger is not the kind they can take to a proper gunfight, something like the OK Corral. They don't see their enemies on the street at high noon. It is a echo, a reflection, a flicker just beyond their scope of vision and ken, and again, when they attempt to focus on it, they feel that little tap on their shoulder from long, well practiced and delicately nimble tentacles, distracting them. They have such trust, like little children, lambs to be sheered... or to the slaughter, and when it is seen that a push is needed, a false flag will manifest out-of-the-blue.

They look around, and see the hollow-point rounds recently bought by what is called "Homeland Security" and envision for the moment the possibility that it could be used against them. They see the stacks of plastic coffins that can hold ten bodies at a time, and the detention centers being built called FEMA Camps all around the country. Their anger becomes a rage of fear and desperation, and vow that they will not go down without a fight... But they look around, and everyone is watching the game and laughing. What the hell, are we insane? Eat, drink, and be merry!...and they think that surely it is all just some grand illusion, a bad dream...

 

Yes, fear inspires action, but what action can one take when fighting an invisible foe, as one might think the battle will be fought from house to house as guns will be confiscated. You think you will die to defend your constitution, a constitution you realize has long been dissolved by the NDAA and the Patriot Act, and that state's rights have not existed since the 14th amendment... And we watched old Abe, the author of this amendment, fight vampires on the silver screen this year... Are you planning to storm the White House when there is somehow a call to arms? Are you going to tar and feather White House staff for treason, and run them out on a rail? Or hang them all from the arms of a great oak on the White House lawn, for treason? You want it gone? So what, prey tell, are you going to replace it with? Most can't even balance a check book, read anything over a paragraph in length, or even know we were given the gift of a Republic based on Constitutional Law. But ask them the stats of any NFL player...

What chance does a ignorant and undisciplined mob have in the face of a well trained military industrialist complex of international bankers, and a Federal Reserve who can print money out of thin air? With that money they can buy machines, drones, mercenaries like Black Water, men without a conscience, without a country, without a thought but payment for services rendered. If they do not own it, they can control it, and the media is a case in point.

Are you going to face tear-gas, batons, bullet proof flak jackets and shields, 50 caliber machine gun nests, rockets, and all of it welded by men dressed in black? Are you going to hide behind a burning car in the middle of your neighborhood and toss a Molotov cocktail at them? Can you win? And if you actually won such a skirmish, what would you replace your old world with? What standard would be picked up? For instance, Ron Paul was a Libertarian, and he thought his best chance to be elected was as a Republican, but did the Libertarians help him? No, they wanted their own man with a Libertarian banner to win, and so we had Obama for a second term. Dr. Paul was a strict Constitutionalist. Did the Constitution Party help? No. And what of the Tea Party? Infiltrated by Neocons, they backed the socialist Romney. And what did Romney do? Divided the country with his designed aggression toward the failings of the left, ultimately alienating them forever, and what was the outcome? Obama won. And now, we have another chance... Trump. Now, we see war.

 The Key 

We even think, from deep in the pit of our stomachs to our disenchanted, disenfranchised intellect, that the voting machines were fixed, and those who have asked questions see that building seven was pre-wired to be demolished, that 134.5 billion in US bearer bonds were not forgeries, that there were 350 times the amount of put-options three days prior to 9-11 for both American and United airlines, and that our media will not get to the bottom of it. Ha! Less than 10 percent of the population has any inkling of what is described above... And all of this is in the craw of those who shout, "I'm awake!," and it is eating at them like a cancer.

Here we are, the tentacles now coercing us into a self-defeating class war, and socialism slashes us like a cat-o-nine-tails, as our nation's blood falls into a collective pool. In desperation we contemplate arresting and court-marshaling military leaders who led illegal and unconstitutional wars, or those who sell illegal arms and fire bombs to both sides of a conflict for profit. Arrest the bankers who drove illegal resource acquisitions, who conspired to enslave the world in debt, and now control our own government by fearful coercion, greed, lust, and all orchestrated by unrestrained lobbyists. Who are these un-elected men with duel citizenship controlling our lives?

What to do? Perhaps the answer to this dilemma is not found in any of these overt primers, but might possibly be found inside. Yes, both the cause and the answer might be found in you. 

Wouldn't that be amazing if you held the key to this dilemma all along? What a concept that would be?

Of course, if you are reading this, the following thoughts most likely will not be considered a reflection of you. Few Americans have the ability to get this far... as Liberty once given, will not be returned without a fight.

To put out a multiplicity of simultaneous fires that are surrounding us, consuming us from all sides and directions, you must go to the very root of the problem, and the root of that problem belongs to all of us, yours and mine. I know, this is a lot to swallow...

You see, tyrants die, but someone, or another conglomerate entity, always tries to pick up that baton. It is a universal law. We must fix the underlying problem. Wait, I'm going to tell you the answer. I'm going to tell you the problem. 

The cancer in this world is not the $67 trillion shadow banking system, but the reason it exists at all, you. It is the acclimation of wealth, and it moves from the bottom to the top. It is designed that way, and always has been in a capitalistic system. 

It is a system designed to stimulate both success and failure, and guarantees nether. It can also destroy, inadvertently, your will. If you have no will to resist, or no will to achieve, you are a slave to an invisible octopus. An octopus that will tap you on the shoulder until you twist your head right off your neck, looking for it. And then, there are some who actually revel in this system, and move to the very top of the food chain, seemingly unimpeded.

Why? How is that possible?

 

It is knowing how to play the game.

It isn't just what you buy, but what you participate in that empowers this octopus. It is you who pays a ticket to a movie full of unconscionable violence and sex, and thus promoting it. It is you who buys music full of negativity and lack of fervor, and you wonder why your boy is selling drugs, and your daughter is giving away sex without a moral compass.

You are what you eat; you are what you think, and this is what America has become.

You are what you think you are...

It is you who continually buy low quality processed foods with empty calories, and eat it with relish at the same time wondering at your failing health. You, who swallow fluoride, and breathe aluminum dust, who heats their foods in plastic pouches that leech out carcinogenics by the infusion of a radiation-leaking microwave. As the bell rings, you pull your heated TV dinner of heavy-metals and toxic-tainted food to consume in front of a black box that spews both propaganda and radiation into your fat stomachs and blank minds... ouch! 

Yes, it is you who feeds your kids junk food out of convenience, and sugar-laced synthetic cool-aide to wash it down, and you wonder why they have ADD and both boys and girls have sacks of fat that hang from breasts developing early from animal antibodies and growth hormones. And when you are through, you grind everything down the yawning mouths of garbage disposals, where it originally belonged. You have never heard of GMOs, and actually salivate like Pavlov's dog when thinking of low quality carbohydrates covered in processed cheese.

It is you who choose not to know history, and so you can't envision how it repeats itself, or how to stand up and be counted to make a change. You have never read the Constitution or the Bill Of Rights, and you even think you live in a democracy, and yet you can argue your case by denying another to speak. You, who voted in a black man without knowing his past, out of laziness, guilt, or racism, and you sleep quite well at night with a drug that flies like a lunar moth across your TV screen, with a final medicinal toke from a hidden bud of ganja while looking at porn. You, who no longer have the ability to read, to think an original thought, who creates by mimic, who views the world's beauty and opportunity from a microcosm of myopia, justifications and ego. It is you who are responsible for every aliment that plagues you, every malady is an extension of the way you chose to live your life, outside the bounds of luck.

 

You leave responsibility for your undoing on the back of the government you have created to enslave you, and in the process, will eat the rationed peanuts they feed you, and with great relish, polish your collective collars with pride. It is you who have replaced morals and ethics, responsibility and accountability, with your own selfish concerns, who would not know truth or love if it bit you on your nose. It is you who have lost your sense of pride for a job well done, who hides without accountability in the face of dependability, who grovels and begs for crumbs in a world of plenty.

Those who choose to copy for affect, steal both ideas and ideals because they have spoiled, lethargic, indecisive minds who reason by default that being different is somehow better. And they continue to twist their hair into greasy knots, balance designer pantaloons on underwear-covered pubic bones, walk around with an evil eye and a punkish chip on stooped shoulders, while drooping their hooded heads for effect... for three generations.

You have no inkling of the universal law of cause and effect... So desperate for recognition, you will even accept negativity as payment, as even a look of disgust or disdain is enough to justify your existence. Minds full of darkness. Full of emptiness but for a vacuous inability to cope... Lost souls, lost in what can only be considered retarded minds, weak of nature and undisciplined, undernourished, uneducated, unproductive, mean-spirited, and infertile. Abused and ruined men, who did not know their fathers, unaccountable fathers on street corners and prison courtyards, pump iron and brag of sexual prowess without accountability, and women, who are so hungry for family they will open their legs to any man with hope. They are found on the dole without direction, untaught, and seemingly without the ability to reason a solution, they approach this world like rutting animals in a gilded cage. And all of it paid for with our tax dollars. All of it promoted for a vote. Do they know that the United States of America has more incarceration than any country in the world, and Louisiana has the most incarceration than any state? There is a reason for this... it is what you deserve, cause and effect.

Because you are irresponsible and unloving, you use abortion like birth control. You feel no moral obligation, only a compulsion to selfishly purge yourself, and since you have only public funding to justify both your reasoning and existence, the octopus seeks payment out of taxpayer dollar, to stimulate the evil you create. No matter how moral or ethical is the taxpayer, he consents by what is referred to as voluntary servitude, and therefore just as responsible. Just as the 53 percent of so-called Christian women who voted Obama into office in 2008, they too are responsible for every child cut in half, every skull crushed. Yes, this stat is true!

Nationally, there are about 1.3 million abortions each year, which works out to 3,562 abortions each day, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, and The New York Times.

And there are men who guide you along, and feed like sharks on the ciaos you create. They stand for noting but a bottom line, and it is a lucrative business.

 

The Octopus defined

It might seem to you that the octopus is laughing in its dark heart, but the octopus is nothing more than a reflection of yourself. And as you startle at the touch on your shoulder, you may someday realize that the distraction comes from our own weak and evil natures. You see, there are many ways to enslave, and a tangible on is our National Debt... it is a debt that steels American legacy we so wanted for our children, well, a few did.... And as we may see their shining faces in our mind's eye, only a very few hope for the strength to fight another day. Our legacy, as dominated, is the most profound and horrible of all slavery... it is the slavery of our very spirit. And though it will mostly go unnoticed by all, as time's linear progression winds down our existence like a clock with a broken spring, our life's justifications will soon be forgotten, like a bad dream in the light of day. And since you did nothing to help, you will soon be forgotten like a bad dream. In fact, you will be considered the cog that slowed the wheel of Western Civilization. That will be your epitaph, your legacy.

Hope...

Cause and effect is a universal law, and it stimulates the law of probability to indicate both ruin or boom, and men of vision will always transpire. It is indeed true that both you and I make this world what it is, and we are joined in our humanity. And though we share this common bond, we do not share a common destiny. It takes one bad apple to spoil many more, so too will a powerful seed, like the seed of Liberty from tyranny, grow into a powerful tree, and we in the Liberty movement will plant it. And we know this duality must be fought in every generation, as it must forever, because everything of value is won, even our immortal soul.

Author's note: One beautiful spring day, possibly a Sunday, my Dad and I played catch in the back yard. I was about six, I suppose. I missed another one, and started chasing it all the way to the fence. I think my father saw in me an embarrassment for the miss...

"Hey, A-hole!" he yelled loudly, and I stopped dead in my tracks and turned around glaring. 

"Are you an A-hole?" he said with a smile.

"NO!" I said emphatically.

He walked up to me, looked me in the eyes, and put his hand on my head. "Then why did you turn around?" he said.

Facets of Truth in a world of lies

Facets of Truth in a world of lies

By Ken La Rive

What can be more important to perceive and possess in this world, even when compared to the blessings of Love and Liberty, but the finding of Truth? No matter what road we take, our guiding light is our profound quest to find and realize Truth. Without it, all meaning, all goals, all intellectual and spiritual pursuits would be futile, and of little value. 

Most men have not picked up that quest as it is just too difficult. The great majority have accepted the coerced dominion of masterful men as their own reality. 

Many philosophers through the eons have described this great loss of Liberty in many ways, but in essence it can be referred to as slavery of the spirit.  Machiavelli, in his book called "The Prince," explains the concept of voluntary servitude. It is a scientific method of instilling a reality in a person and society for complete dominance and control of mind and soul by any means necessary. It is the use of hard won, moral and ethical concepts, and good, bad, right and wrong are wielded any way necessary for their focused pursuits... indeed, the concept is evil incarnate, as it eliminates one of our greatest gifts, free will. 

They would use a mother's love for her child to sell a dangerous product, knowing the ingredients are harmful, and a man to give up his life to promote a concept called democracy, which has never existed since the dawn of men... all for war's corporate profits. They would implement false flags to achieve their purposes, destroy whole civilizations, poison the minds and spirit of innocence... anything at all, because their true god is a black bottom line... 

In a world created by them, a lawless and immoral world of lies, Liberty and Truth always remains but a dream. Even the definition of True Love, a precious gift of selflessness, is redesigned as lust... And it is well known by them that the rewriting of history, with the distortion of Truth in the here and now, is what keeps them in power. A dominate and powerful government, with limitless resources, bought and paid for with fiat currency printed out of thin air is hard to understand and resist, as it enslaves us in a debt that can never be paid... As they promote a common mindset of weakness and lack of value, they replace self-responsibility with dependence, increment by increment...  

Of all of the profound moments in our lives... the birth of a child, the death of a parent, the waste and horrors of war, even contemplating our place under God's great umbrella... all conscious realization of life's profound experiences come from our ability to see it truthfully. What can be more horrible for humanity but to be slaves, of body, mind and spirit? 

Alfred Tennyson wrote, “But what am I? An infant crying in the night? An infant crying for the light? And with no language but a cry!” And what is Tennyson referring to here but the light of Truth? And when Henry David Thoreau wrote that "Most men live their lives in quiet desperation and go to their graves with the song still in them." Can we not contemplate the true reason? Was it the lack of truth, or the failing of the person to seek it?  

 We are charged with responsibility from birth to death, as we are both intellectual and spiritual by nature. The responsibility for finding it is entirely ours, and though truth can indeed be considered a survival technique, we put our complete trust in institutions and individuals they lobby into office, without the truth of what they represent, and who they actually are.  We trust without seeking Truth, and we do it over and over again. 

Some say they are waiting for death to finally give them an ultimate realization of truth, while others depend on human interpretations to embrace as their own, like the footnotes in a bible or propaganda of a University English Professor. They let the words of others flow from their mouths as original thoughts, and few understand that we alone are accountable for finding it... 

What value, what importance can be placed on an element such as this, the ultimate axiom of every life? Truth is of singular and primary value, ultimate, definitive, and inspiring.  Without it we can never make a viable decision, and will be manipulated and coerced to the very last day.  

Growing

Growth is not only adding to our intellect, but at time to rewrite over past understandings we now find bogus, draft upon draft, to the very core of our reality...  And we must, at some point in our quest, admit that the Truth we held so dear and profound when we were young, is redesigned again and again with further life experience. We grow to realize that many of the truths we held in our hearts and minds were wrought by worldly experiences only to that point. Truth we once held in great value, might be seen and understood to be lacking validity, as we further develop and grow emotionally with new experiences. The reason for this is simple, as in that particular instance, that very point in our lives, we had not yet found ultimate truth...   

Let me explain:

Truth lies at the very epicenter of our minds and hearts to be realized, one of intellect and one of spirit, like two metaphorical lenses focusing on the future. It is well- hidden under countless layers of man-made hyperbole, myopic and narrow justifications taught to have legitimacy, and it has caused much unhappiness, confusion, with spurious and convoluted realities in our mind's eye. Truth, at times, cannot yet be realized or understood, hiding in what might be considered plain sight... It is no simple matter to realize, to even recognize, and it takes effort...  The ultimate truth in your life comes from your efforts, from the inside out, not the outside in.

Truth is well- hidden in the folds of what we perceive as reality, underneath the smoke and mirrors of our education and the curtains set before our eyes by many teachers. Some tried to instill their thoughts into our psyche with Loving hearts, some out of ignorance, and some for selfishness, but all of it, to the very last, was designed to control our thoughts, emotions, opinions, belief systems, judgments, and to become a viable and valuable part of a particular society, or aspect, one way or the other... And  yet, without truth, all of these words have little or no meaning, as extensions of these ideals are honor, justice, principle, moral code or compass, law and many more... all of whom could not manifest itself without Truth.

Truth is the last element to be found at the very core of who we are and what we can eventually become, and yet few know of this most amazing concept, that finding Truth is our ultimate goal. Let me restate that it is one of he greatest of all gifts, even surpassing Love and Liberty, is the gift of free will, intellect and consciousness, and is the only tool we have to find true Liberty and emancipation from the shackles that bind us to worldly powers. Indeed, Truth is our guiding light.

Universal destiny

There has to be something laudable, something worthy of our precious lives and endeavors, something to work for greater then ourselves, and this is the idea that there is indeed an ultimate truth, and this truth is ours to find. Also called a universal truth, and it is a core element of each person's soul, and it is so pure, so elemental, so fundamental, it cannot be broken down, divided, or denied. That is the primary goal of a singular life of value, and though some might call it the golden mean, purely mathematical, and others God inspired, truth is the core essence of humanity in every aspect.  

That is the manifest (ultimate) destiny of all men, whether they have come to realize it or not... and of all of the manufactured exaggerations designed to divide and separate us for power and control, this is the one singularity that is universal and uniting for all humanity... Truth.  With Truth, everything is possible, and any entity, corporation, or institution that intentionally hides it, distorts it, manipulates it for their own selfish designs, are enemies of humanity, and should be abolished.  No enemy should be more revolted and feared, as denying Truth is the bane of all that is good on this green Earth.  

When men seek truth above all, Liberty will be theirs. It is our reason for being. Trust no one with your life, and the direction of your immortal soul will belong to you alone, and so, take responsibility for your own life, and do your own homework. Once you take up this standard, and pledge it from both mind and heart, truth will set you free. Ask a positive question of life, and you will get it in like kind...

Fin

Author's note: This following two paragraphs are taken from a book of my poems compiled in 1999, not published. It explains the metaphor comparison of a diamond to a human soul. A diamond is so abundant and virtually worthless without the controlling hand of men, and our souls are worthless without truth to light its way.

"Sometimes it is the most simple that seems the most beautiful to the mind of men. Our spiritual side is the most artful side, and filled with all of the wonder and speculation this life can offer. Tempered by awesome and unknown powers, and from a source buried deep inside, it is carried by God's likeness, a vessel called soul. It was given to all men as a gift of hope, and though it is sometimes considered by philosophers to be the fundamental core of men, who can deny it is profoundly beautiful and precious... and yet, so very misunderstood, and taken for granted. 

To attempt to understand, it seems we must hold the concept up to our mind's eye, in metaphor. As a lens, our soul is like an uncut diamond, pure, perfect, and unrealized. Our reason for being, our purpose, our meaning of life, is to learn truth.   When we do so, even the smallest of instances, a facet is cleaved on the face of our soul, and the light of Truth illuminates and clarifies.  If what is realized from the experience is righteousness, then the facet is a clear window where the light of new profound questions and ideas take form. You see, every question we ask of this life is answered in like kind, as the law of cause and effect, and what you sow so too will you reap. This is the universal law of attraction, and an ultimate Truth. If revenge, wrath, hatred, bitterness, anger or any form of negativity is the motivation for the questions you ask this life, you will get that in like kind. It will cloud your soul like the carbon inclusions found in an earthly diamond, and value will be diminished with its inability to absorb light. . And then, as this truth becomes realized, you will move in the world of men emphatically knowing that what you are is what you think you are, after all."