CHAPTER 1
BEYOND OUR CONSENT

TO THE STATES
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Walt Whitman, “LEAVES OF GRASS”, 1860

s there an all important question concerning the destiny of human kind that we should be addressing at present? Is there an all pervading “something” that influences and directs our lives from just beyond our awareness, control and consent? Wouldn't it be tragic if each of us, every man, woman and child were the unwitting accomplices to the most insidious and far reaching crime of the millennia?

When we examine various literary, philosophical and scriptural correspondences from the past, we quite often find references to a vast conspiracy, a “Great Deception” or, as in biblical prophecy, “Mystery Babylon, The Great”. These writings are found to be quite insistent that by whatever name it is called, it does exist, that it has prevailed for centuries, perhaps for millennia, that it embraces and enslaves every human being on the planet, and that its secret is guarded and maintained by what the eminent British statesman, Sir Winston Churchill, referred to as the High Cabal. The distinguished China scholar, Dr. Joseph Needham of Cambridge University, referred to this entity as the gentry and the prominent R. Buckminster Fuller in his important book, CRITICAL PATH, makes reference to them as the Power Elite.

Fuller also writes: "Great battles ensued - waged under the flags of England, France and Spain - to determine who would become supreme master of the world’s high-seas lines of supply. These great nations were simply the operating fronts of behind the scenes, vastly ambitious, individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. Always their victories were in the name of some powerful sovereign-ruled country. The real power structures were always the invisible ones behind the sovereign powers."

The agencies of this Power Elite in modern times have been variously referred to as the "Club of Rome", the "Bilderbergers", the "Internationalists", the "Bavarian Illuminati", etc., and their influence manifests under many guises such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Federal Reserve System, the Chartered Institute of Transport in London, the European Economic Community, the United Nations, the New World Order, etc.

It is said that there is no escape from the overwhelming influence of this High Cabal, who change their robes and their titles as time passes and fashion dictates. Their calling seems to foster a mindset and perpetuate a belief system in mankind which allows them to keep us subdued and under control so that their aims may be realized.

Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegel defined a philosophy which has become known as “Hegelianism”, which according to Webster’s Dictionary, holds that every existent idea or fact belongs to an "all embracing mind" in which each idea or situation (thesis) evokes its opposite (antithesis) and these two result in a unified whole (synthesis) which in turn becomes a new thesis.

This philosophy might appear to be rooted in truth except, in their ambition for power, the Power Elite have appointed themselves as the "all embracing mind". The most recent thesis they have orchestrated for us is the New World Order, which has necessarily been synthesized out of world Bi-Polarism. We presently seem to be emerging from this in the wake of the apparent collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the demise of the Cold War.

It must be realized that this Bi-Polarism, and the accompanying Cold War it caused, were also the fabrications of this Power Elite by means of clandestine organizations like the American CIA, the Russian KGB, the Israeli Mossad, the Vatican P2 and the British MI-6.

These organizations engaged in decades of secret operations in many places around the world. These led to the instigation of many, small scale “controlled wars” for which we (and the Russians) were able to produce and supply the necessary war material. In turn, this facilitated the basis and cause of our own socio-economic advancement.

Let us quickly review the recent Bi-Polar Cold War period, which now seems to be fading into the past: At the outset of this period the American

O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services, eventually to become the CIA), the Russian KGB, the Israeli Mossad, the Vatican P2 and the British MI-6, were to become the doorways that this Power Elite constructed into the chambers of the highest levels of our respective governments. Through these doorways they have been able to influence and erode their honorable and traditional purposes and functions by way of secret operations and schemes that deceive and misrepresent the people on whose behalf they purportedly act. In fact, they serve only to further the questionable aims of this Power Elite at the expense of each of us.

Ponder these lines by Thomas MacCawley, written to H.S. Randall in 1857: "Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand or your republic (America) will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the Twentieth Century as the Roman Empire was in the Fifth; with the difference that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions." Does this sound prophetic?

Since the apparent politico-economic collapse in Soviet Russia, the CIA now seems to stand alone as the greatest threat to the security and well being of the world. Consider the words of the eminent British historian and friend of America, Arnold Toynbee, as they appeared in the New York Times on May 7, 1971: "To most Europeans, I guess, America now looks like the most dangerous country in the world. Since America is unquestionably the most powerful country, the transformation of America's image within the last thirty years is very frightening for the great majority of the human race who are neither European nor North Americans, but are Latin Americans, Asians and Africans. They, I imagine, feel even more insecure than we feel. They feel that, at any moment, America may intervene in their internal affairs with the same appalling consequences as have followed from the American intervention in South East Asia (Indo-China). For the world as a whole, the CIA has now become the bogey that communism has been for America. Whenever there is trouble, violence, suffering, tragedy, the rest of us are now quick to suspect the CIA had a hand in it. Our phobia about the CIA is, no doubt, as fantastically excessive as America's phobia about world communism; but in this case too, there is just enough convincing guidance to make the phobia genuine. In fact, the roles of America and Russia have been reversed in the world’s eyes. Today, America is the nightmare."

While this may be true, we must examine circumstances a bit more closely to identify who and what has inspired America to deviate from its role as champion of the free world.

There was a time when we thought we were a democracy. This is not true. There is no such thing as a true democracy in existence as yet. We pretend to be a republic, which is similarly structured to a democracy, with the exception that our representatives govern us under law. This is fine if our representatives truly have our best interests at heart. However, if this is not the case, then in time we unwittingly become exploited and enslaved by our own elected authorities, as similarly happens in a feudal state. In fact, the only difference is that it is accomplished by deception instead of force. Either way, however, it is a tyranny and enslavement.

How is this achieved and why does it seem to be happening?

The conditions are introduced to the populace gradually over the period of a generation or longer. The symptoms eventually begin to be felt in various ways that lead, inevitably, to a fascist form of government “which is usually characterized by a rigid, one party dictatorship that forcibly suppresses opposition and places private economic enterprises under centralized governmental control.” (Websters)

In actuality, the reverse may be true. We in America have a one- party system with two faces which keeps us divided against ourselves, yet seems to pacify and distract the rebellious elements while accomplishing the same ends as the one-party system… corporate fascism.

Study the symptoms of growing fascism and one will see: Inordinate increases in taxation and the forcible collection thereof; legislation which stifles the operation of true free enterprise; an obvious increase in self-interest and corruption among government and industrial officials; increased governmental seizures and control of property; a bureaucracy noted for licentious abuse of authority and expenditure of public funds; noticeable increases in homelessness, substance abuse, and crime; breakdown of the family, child abuse and disillusionment; loss of respect, values and dignity among the nation’s youth; etc.

It’s possible that a slight suspicion might be raised in even the least concerned citizen, that something of the above nature might be affecting the quality of life in our society at present. Only the most pronounced case of denial and self-deception would fail to see this.

The more astute citizen who is readily able to recognize these conditions growing in our midst and happened to be around on a day back in 1963, will remember when a government sanctioned agency took it upon itself to murder its widely respected president, John F. Kennedy. It then was able to take over the reins of government for the purpose of perpetuating an unpopular war, which it had created, that it might go on profiting its masters in this Power Elite and committing genocide in the “interests of human welfare”. They then, very clumsily, attempted to rewrite history so future generations would never know the truth... that their nation had suffered a coup d' etat.

We must ask ourselves at this point whether this is still a country that is controlled by its people, or even by their elected representatives. I think not.

It would seem, instead, that our legislators no longer have any meaningful purpose as our representatives in government. Their only reason for being there is to serve as buffers, as actors and players on a stage upon which they "strut and fret their hour upon the stage" in roles scripted for them by invisible writers, producers and directors, all intended to distract and deceive the masses from their dire purposes.

Is it possible that the very context in which we (society) live is a fabrication of the powerful and devious minds of an invisible group of survivalists, a Power Elite, who hold the destiny of the nations in their hands? I am caused to wonder.

To realize how this may have come to pass, we must examine certain historic events and principles, which could have been causative factors. To begin with we can assume from many historical references that these High Cabals and hidden governments have probably existed in one form or another since time immemorial. However, this is, the first time in known history that their influence has had the opportunity and capability to embrace all the peoples of the world.

For our purposes of the present we must look back at least to the year 1521, when the great voyager, Magellan, who was killed by natives in the Philippines, but his ship, Victoria and its crew successfully completed the first known circumnavigation of the world. This was a major revelation, because it proved to the great merchants, statesmen and financiers of that time that the world was truly round and not endlessly flat, as they had believed. What this told this High Cabal was that the world was finite and controllable. This knowledge gave rise in the minds of the already rich, powerful and ambitious, the concept of “property ownership and expansionism”. This concept brought about the creation of the East India Companies.

Thus began the age of European colonialism by missionary influence or invasion and conquest. The precept that "might is right", justified their actions to themselves. The key thought here is that the victors claimed the right to "own the property and lives" of the vanquished. Would it not be interesting if this same thought still prevailed in the minds of some invisible High Cabal?

We must now move ahead to some time around the end of the Eighteenth Century when Thomas Robert Malthus, a British political economist, shook the establishment with his theory that the population of the world tends to increase faster than the food supply, and that war, famine and disease serve as natural restrictions on this increase. (Websters) This has become known as the “Malthusian Theory” and is one more of the main influences governing the mind-set of this Power Elite. (Our modern "High Cabal" - * Author’s note)

Another key factor influencing the thinking of the modern Power Elite is the contribution made by Charles Robert Darwin at about the middle of the Nineteenth Century. This English naturalist and physician came up with the "theory of evolution", which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that the forms which survive are those that are best adapted to the environment. (Natural Selection - Webster’s) This has become popularly referred to as "survival of the fittest."

Since it would appear that the Power Elite are able to control the economic conditions upon which we are all dependent and also by way of “planned wars”, (who lives and who dies – *Author’s note) it would also follow that they must deem themselves to be the fittest.

We must now move further ahead to the early part of the Twentieth Century when Werner Karl Heisenberg, a German theoretical and nuclear physicist, appeared on the scene with his “Uncertainty Principle”, or acausal indeterminacy. The “Uncertainty Principle” says, in effect, that "God throws the dice" and we take it from there. What this means is that "what we observe is not nature itself, but rather, nature exposed to our method of questioning." To explain a bit further, we do not see nature as it really is. We tend to change it simply by defining or interpreting it.

Thus, a small group of unimaginably wealthy and powerful men may have initiated great schemes in which we, the cattle, are herded along to the destiny which they have envisaged.

The four previously mentioned theories make up the body of the greatest propaganda scheme ever devised by men on earth. (*See Addendum) These precepts influence our “systems” of civilized life in every facet of its existence... culture, politics, religion, economics, education, ethics, enterprise, etc. In essence, whatever our cultural background might be, we will still find these principles, as guided by the Power Elite, influencing our lives, livelihoods and lifestyles.

It is said that we are mere puppets living within the limits of our own complacency and ignorance of the “system” which has been designed and imposed upon us by this Power Elite. Their invisibility, it seems, assures them the security of a guaranteed position of power over humanity and sustained control over the destiny of the world. Apparently, they have been instigating and perpetuating the conditions of war between and within nations for centuries for the purpose of profit and population control (Genocide).

To accomplish this in present times, they have created a vast military/industrial complex that provides all the needed weaponry and war materiel to the factions they have induced to war with each other. The inducement, of course, is provided by secret agencies with specially trained personnel who engage in insidious clandestine operations intended to facilitate these intended purposes. This, in turn, provides them with returns of unlimited wealth with which to maintain their invisible power structure and serves the “benign” necessity of removing the threat of overpopulation by hundreds of thousands, often millions, of lives in a given theatre of operations.

Thus, it would seem that this Power Elite is able, through the manipulation of ideologies, media propaganda, psychological conditioning, warfare training, technical and material assistance, to guarantee their absolute control over the destiny of the peoples of the world. To wit: Are we born with the desire to kill each other and destroy each other’s homes, or is it a learned trait?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, in a speech regarding the bombing of Pearl Harbor: "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way." Was Pearl Harbor political? Was Korea?... Vietnam?... Ireland?... the Balkan nations?… Afghanistan?... Iraq? Who will be next?

If we are to believe that these possibilities might exist, then we all must, of course, be accomplices in this dubious enterprise by virtue of our passive ignorance and our willingness to subjugate ourselves and cooperate within this man-made “system”. Ultimately we, the manipulated, are as guilty as they, the manipulators, because, as our suspicions and awareness grows regarding the position they have placed us in, so does our responsibility to do something about it. Perhaps the idea of “conspiracy” might be more correctly interpreted as “consensus by acquiescence”.

We must suppose it is possible, at least, that by gaining control over our publishing and news media, our entertainment and educational means, the Power Elite might, by long term propagandizing and induced conditioning, be able to fragment the American psyche ideologically and divide us against ourselves…”divide and conquer”, so to speak.

This could be accomplished by encouraging excessive competitiveness rather than cooperation and making it appear fashionable to profit at other’s expense rather than fair exchange, and by simply eliminating the teaching of values, ethics and the building of character from the educational institutions.

In the foreword to his classic novel BRAVE NEW WORLD, Aldous Huxley had this to say: "The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." It takes the span of a single generation in this manner to bewilder, overpower and enslave a great nation.

Might we assume, at least for those readers who are willing to ponder a bit further the possibilities that are presented here, that questions may now arise in their minds, such as: Is there anything we can do about this? If so, what will we do about it?

It should be understood at the outset that we, either as individual citizens, or even as citizens groups, could not effectively fight the “system”. It is too well entrenched and all embracing and, besides, as we have pointed out, it is designed to "feed on fight". It is inspired and guided by experts in behavior control and “makers of war”.

To regain control over our lives and defeat this man-made monstrosity, this Great Babylon, we may wish to borrow advice from two sources. Firstly from the Bible, which says: "Resist not evil." Perhaps this will begin to make sense now. Secondly, from the great American naturalist and author of the literary classic, WALDEN, Henry David Thoreau who said this: "Simplify, Simplify!" And then, he undertook to do just that.

It might seem prudent, then, to establish a mindset to remove oneself from such a “system” in stages. The first stage would be to cultivate an awareness of the truth of one’s present circumstances. Make every attempt to find out whether any of what is presented here is true. I will call this the RECOGNITION stage.

If one finds, beyond reasonable doubt, that it is true, then we must move on to the second requirement, which is to acknowledge the reality of one’s own present circumstances. I shall call this the ACCEPTANCE stage.

Thirdly, one must sincerely examine, evaluate and take responsibility for one’s priorities and allegiances within these circumstances. This very important stage shall be called the RESPONSIBILITY stage.

Finally, one must decide whether one is to remain in, or to remove ones self from, these circumstances. This most difficult undertaking shall be called the CHOICE stage, and, of course, from this point the path divides. For those who cannot, or will not decide beyond the first or second stage, the outcome is inevitable and obvious. They remain oblivious to and ensnared within the circumstances, which their self-limited perceptions regiments them to. Their inability to choose becomes their choice and they are unconsciously swept along by this juggernaut destined for... What? Nothing more should need to be said concerning this choice.

The choice we are concerned with here is the choice to remove oneself from these circumstances. However, before we can confidently consider what will be the appropriate measures to be taken, we might be wise to first cultivate in ourselves an attitude of sincere desire and intelligent discernment when examining our position in the life we are living at the behests of such a system. If we are able to do this honestly and objectively, then the strategies and disciplines required of us to effectively deal with our situation will become clearly and unmistakably evident. Then we would be rightly advised to examine some statements and advisories of some of society's better minds.

Let us begin by returning to another statement made by Aldous Huxley in the foreword to his novel BRAVE NEW WORLD. He says: "Only a large scale, popular movement toward decentralization and self help can arrest the present tendency toward statism" (enslavement to the state -*Author's note). I think it is quite clear to most of us that the more power we give to our elected “servants” in government, the less control we have over our own lives.

To examine further, a scientist of some repute, Dr. Carl Sagan, in his popular book, DRAGONS OF EDEN, has this to say: "As a consequence of the enormous social and technological changes of the last few centuries, the world is not working well. We do not live in traditional and static societies. But our governments, in resisting change, act as if we did. Unless we destroy ourselves utterly, the future belongs to those societies that, while not ignoring the reptilian and mammalian parts of our being, enable the characteristically human components of our nature to flourish; to those societies willing to invest resources in a variety of social, political, economic and cultural experiments, and prepared to sacrifice short term advantage for long term benefit; to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."

If we are to sincerely believe that we are intelligent, civilized beings, then how long will it take us to realize that it will not be the people we elect to represent our interests, who will resolve the chaos and corruption that plagues our civilization, because in actuality, they are the cause of most of it. So, who shall we rely on to regain our self-reliance? Hidden in this question is man’s best-kept secret from himself. For to become self-reliant, one must become self-responsible, and to become self-responsible, one must become self-realized, and to become self-realized, one must simply be honest with ones self.

Is it possible that, somewhere upon this long and thorny path of self-deception, we have chosen to allow our indolent leaders to convince us we really need them in the posh offices we've bequeathed to them? All the easier for them to rob us blind in order to expedite their own wasteful extravagance, to deprive us of our God-given rights and to chortle in secret gatherings at our ignorant impotence and cowed willingness to be so degraded and humiliated. Have we also become convinced that we need them planning more “controlled wars” requiring the production of unending amounts of destructive weaponry to annihilate millions of hungry mouths so that we can have our extra helping? Is this how we truly prosper? Are we convinced that we need them to keep devising new and better schemes to exploit and foul our nest to the extent that it may become hopelessly un-restorable and un-liveable? There is little wonder that such a brilliantly contrived and persuasive deception would make America suspect even to our allies and incorrigible to our enemies.

Yet, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, who now is our enemy? We must now create new enemies to feed the insatiable appetite of the military/industrial complex. It would be the irony of ironies if we were inevitably forced to face the fact that we have become our own worst enemy because we so readily succumb to these invisible persuasions. Perhaps there is still some hope of reawakening to the true heritage and purpose of America.

As the English novelist and essayist, H.G. Wells, once wrote: "The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than the "gang in possession" and their days are numbered."

Perhaps the day will come when the American people will persuade their leaders to build a fence around their citadel, Washington, D.C. (The State of New Columbia?), not for the purpose of keeping us, the rebellious masses out, but to keep them, our misguided and corrupt authorities in. Then following the American example once again, fences may begin appearing also in Moscow, in Rome, in Baghdad, in Tel Aviv, in Brussels... a "chain fence reaction"... until we truly have a New World Order... by popular choice.

Addendum

The author wishes to note that the idea put forth in the four theories making up the greatest propaganda scheme ever devised by men, can be found on page 2 of J.F.K: THE C.I.A., VIETNAM AND THE PLOT TO ASSASSINATE JOHN F. KENNEDY, a compelling and informative book by L. Fletcher Prouty. Prouty, a retired Air Force Colonel, was assigned in 1960 to the Office of Special Operations, immediately under the Secretary of Defence, where he became the senior Air Force officer responsible for the provision of military support for the clandestine activities of the C.I.A., among other duties.