The power of the Establishment to control human affairs in modern society is based on two factors: 1) A monopoly on the control of force (government), and 2) a monopoly on the control of information (schools and the mass media). The development of modern computer technology threatens this balance of power by offering the people -- the masses -- freedom of information exchange, which violates the fundamental compartmentalization which makes oppression feasible.

The government of the Republic functions theoretically under principles of popular consent, as a coercive agency of "law"; however, in reality, it is a bully-mechanism which routinely sides with commercial and industrial interests, at the expense of the people. Industry has, in effect, employed the government to harness the people as a labor resource. To accomplish this, an elaborate creed has been developed, justifying a slave-like Work Ethic that places patriotic paramount value on the total submission of the individual, even though the richest members of the society never officially "work", but transfer their enormous wealth by inheritance. The possession of wealth, of course, is not at issue; it is the means of acquisition of wealth which raises questions of morality, because the true blue blood "Old Money" in America was built on the backs of genuine human slaves, before the Civil War. With the overlay of the public creed of the Republic taught in all U.S. schools (public and private), that justifies a system of government that is out of control, the American Revolution enabled the rich to do anything they wanted, and impose it upon the people, with or without their consent. (The U.S. Constitution was never voted on by Americans, in a FREE ELECTION). However, the fiction of popular consent, giving rise to the appearance of a democratic political system, makes the control of information that much more important.

It is important to understand the dynamics of compartmentalization, or the deliberate fragmentation of people and ethnic groups -- which is a characteristic of the modern state -- for this is the more powerful tool of the state: TERROR. This is achieved by a type of government that functions by examples of force, so that above all, the people understand that their cooperation and obedience is EXPECTED. The other side of this coin is that the people also understand that disobedience is punished by physical compulsion and pain. This underlying reality is enforced with a system of threats, so that the system is perpetuated with a minimal amount of actual coercion needed to force the population to submit. Additionally, this system of threats, and sinister punitive innuendo, is hedged in with a sophisticated legal fiction of popular sovereignty. To perpetuate this legal fiction, the influence of those people who suffer punishment for exerting free will must be isolated from the obedient; and even better, the obedient citizens must be encouraged to RESIST the influence of the punished. There is no better way to do this than to tell the people that he who was punished was a criminal. This is what control of the government enables one to do.

The personal computer, however, enables two ordinary people to communicate with each other, without the permission or inducement of any institution. Additionally, the requirements of computers induce individuals to become literate, which is the most valuable of all assets in a genuinely free society. The key to the way advanced industrial societies suppress and control information to preserve maximum social control by the power-elite, can be found in the American educational establishment, which is a monolith that dwarfs even General Motors. The schools prepare the population in its formative years -- when the people are children -- so that their expectations are in effect conditioned to accept direction from the official leadership. The so-called "educational establishment" actually closes minds by drilling them with the public creed -- a false history -- which is designed to bore young minds to mental death. Once the public creed is installed, the recipient of this bogus information has an automatic impulse to avoid any open discussion of history because "history" was a form of torture inflicted upon him or her in school, and in terms of accurate information, they have none, so they are unable to keep up with the conversation. When people ask why high school graduates cannot read or write, the schools blame the kids and their parents! The fact that the school system sucks billions of dollars out of the economy annually, producing students who cannot find their OWN country on the map, who are functionally illiterate, and who are actively joining gangs in open defiance to the government, should be some indication that the most powerless pawns in the system -- the parents and their children -- are NOT to blame. One of the most controversial desegregation measures of all time, bussing, is a classic example of bureaucracy gone mad. Bussing was really concerned with separating the children from the control of their parents, to secure more certainly the control of the education of the students in the hands of the school bureaucracy ("Professional Educators"). The end result, in most instances, was parents who were unable to go the distances to their children's schools, to consult with the teachers regarding their children's progress, or to take any active role other than as a bystander. The "intended" result of bussing -- desegregation -- while certainly a noble goal, not only did not occure, but became increasingly set back, as inter-ethnic suspicions became compounded; which actually serves the Republic's interests by compartmentalizing (fragmenting or splitting the body politic), because victims of its abuse will resist the UNITY that is necessary to successfully fight the government.

THE POWER OF THE COMPUTER HACKER rests in two things: 1) His or her skill in traversing the computer "superhighway" (also called cyberspace), and 2) His or her willingness to "violate" transient property right boundaries. Property is not physical items; it is a convention which the human society employs with regards to the use of physical and intangible resources of the civilization. In other words, it is a system of ideas regarding the possession and use of things. Revolutions represent the destruction of a convention, for the introduction of a new one, and the outcome depends on the VALUES embraced in it. The values of the Founding Fathers of the United States were the values of the owners of slaves. These men actually believed in the idea that one man could MORALLY OWN ANOTHER MAN, AS PROPERTY, and that the owner could justifiably punish his slave with corporal punishment, including death, for any form of disobedience. This was so fundamental to the egos of the Founding Fathers, and also to the apparatus of a Republic which was in essence a police state from its genesis, that they put a clause in the Constitution requiring and commanding the Federal Government to return fugitive slaves to their "owners." (A police function if there ever was one). The same Federal Government that would later allow troops to open fire on strikers, to break strikes for improved work conditions, like a maximum work week of 40 hours, and limitations on the exploitation of children. The values of the Founding Fathers were clearly not very noble, and it's time for a new convention of ownership to be adopted, which has MORE than a thread of human decency holding it together.

We look at the institutions controlling all the money and power in the industrial world, and we cannot imagine the power-brokers handing over the government willingly, to actual and genuine legal scholars with positive agendas. But the Czar of All the Russias, in his day, seemed invincible, and today he is a memory. The Soviet Union seemed unstoppable, and today it is a memory. The United States Government, today, appears eternal -- like Rome -- but tomorrow it will be a memory! This is why: It is built on a foundation of lies.

When we think of revolution, we think of masses in the streets, throwing rocks, starting fires, breaking windows. These are merely the symptoms of the inward revolution of ideas; they are the symptoms of the actual injustice being visited upon our fellow countrymen, and the Los Angeles Riots give us some idea of future events. Even though the propaganda after the riot spread news of progress -- that it is safe for the tourists to come back and spend their money -- the reality is that nothing has changed in Los Angeles! When billions of dollars are "allocated" to some social issue, there are THOUSANDS OF INSTITUTIONS, public, non-profit and private, that are well-connected and ready to absorb ALL THAT MONEY, and then deliberately neglect the issue, because if the underlying issue is resolved, the institutions would have NO REASON TO EXIST. (This will be especially true of the $1.7 billion Clinton loudly committed to the homeless crisis; it was already spent when he announced it, and we obviously still have a homeless problem with the proportions of a genuine crisis). The social situation is increasingly a tinderbox, with a government stubbornly unwilling to examine itself with any real vigor. The only other parallel in history, of a rich yet bankrupt nation, powerless because it was caught in its own web of lies, was France in 1789.

France was deep in the middle of social turmoil, with food shortages, and a large body of unemployed, disenfranchised people (something very similar to the homeless people of today). Tensions were running high when the government -- technically bankrupt from, among other things, lending money and soldiers to the American republic to beat the English -- sought to tax the privileged, by convening an assembly of "Notables." This assembly, being made up OF the privileged, quickly scuttled the notion, which led to a conflict which inevitably resulted in the ordering of an Estates-General, which was like a congress, (except that in France in 1789 it had not met in over 100 years, and its customs were not within the memory of any living people). When the Estates-General finally met, it was in the middle of a bad harvest, and a food shortage, but its first controversy revolved around the rules for voting. This illustrates the same strange disconnected quality we see today, here in America, of a government absorbed in dry legalistic technicalities, while people starve in the streets.

The controversy over voting revolved around the three chamber system of the Estates-General, the Three Estates: the nobility, the clergy, and the people. The people had the numerical superiority (having 600 deputies), and the question was whether the voting should be by head, or by Estate, in which case the two privileged Estates (the nobles and the clergy), could "outvote" the people. The Third Estate (the people) decided to demand that the vote be counted by head, and basically went out on strike when they were locked out of their meeting place (possibly by accident). The Third Estate gathered on the tennis court at Versailles, swearing never to disband until the king agreed to grant a constitution for France. The king agreed, and the new unicameral chamber became the National Constituent Assembly; but the king also started gathering troops to disperse it, because he was suspicious of its leaders. This became the flashpoint of the GREAT FEAR.

The shortages of food and the corruption of the absolutist government infuriated the French people, but the fear of an aristocratic conspiracy to stop the reform movement energized and gripped the populace, who understood that the absolutists had a history of murdering their opponents; this left the people literally panic-stricken with fear for their lives. This was fed by rumors and innuendo, and the concentration of troops; the dismissal of a popular reformist minister was the spark that set off rebellion, in what was described as a carnival atmosphere, exciting and dangerous. It was in the midst of the mob's total panic for self-survival that the Bastille fell, and the king was forced to realize that this was not just a minor rebellion, but a full scale revolution. It is the legacy of tyrants that they must live in the shadow of the very fear they use to rule. The very terror they used to suppress opposition, became the driving force and catalyst in the people for change.

The reaction of the people in the countryside was different than the reaction of the townsfolk , in Paris. Where in Paris the symbol of absolutism that was attacked was an old unused prison, with seven inmates, in the provinces the people attacked the castles of the manor lords. It began with rumors of imaginary "brigands" (which in modern terms would be hoodlums), against whom peasants across France armed themselves. Then, once armed, when their focus was directed at opposing the absolutist government, following the trends of what was occuring in Paris, their desire to protect themselves converted through collective psychology into a punitive will, the desire to punish those who violated them locally for generations, the manor lords. In a few days mobs of peasants attacked the regional castles of the manor lords through-out France, looting and more importantly, BURNING ALL THE RECORDS OF THEIR FEUDAL OBLIGATIONS TO THE MANOR LORDS. When the fires died down, the Ancient Regime was irretrievably lost. The lawyers of the National Constituent Assembly in Paris had NO ALTERNATIVE but to abolish feudalism by decree on 4 August, 1789.

IT WAS THE RECORDS WHICH GAVE THE SYSTEM ITS RESILIENCE; as long as the records continued to exist, it could outlast any insurrection. Using the records, it was possible to use as much force as necessary to annihilate the domestic opposition, and then the status quo could be pieced back together. Once the people expressed the determined will to change, followed by the absolute destruction of the legal records for existing relationships (duties, obligations and rights), there was no turning back. That is what computer hackers can do TODAY. All bank records, all criminal records, driving records, ownership records, credit records, employment records, all are increasingly computerized, and they constitute the basis for all the rulings of the Republic's institutions. If you are shrinking from the idea of criminal records, remember that most criminal records amount to violations of the Vehicle Code, and other than that, they revolve around childhood mistakes, irregular disagreements that got out of hand, or crimes of passion. The smallest minority of criminal records are for "hard-core career criminals," many of whom are in prison, where they actually WANT to be. (Besides the fact that the definition of an actual career criminal is someone who has made a career of defying the government).

This is not to say that there are no criminals, because there ARE genuine criminals who are dangerous, however, the ones who do the MOST damage do so with the help of lawyers, and fully enjoy the fruits of their crimes. This is not to imply that there are no principles of law; instead, we must recognize that these principles of law have been compromised by the wheeling and dealing of the Democratic and Republican politicians, in a system which has no institutionalized neutral ballast. That is the role of the CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH, which is absolutely essential for the proper exercise of responsible authority in a free society. For those who accept the false propaganda of the Republic, deliberately incited to cause fear of a Royalist restoration of TRADITIONAL VALUES, by senselessly comparing a king and Royal Family to military dictators, just consider for a moment the actual power of an American president. The president has unilateral power to command over 2 million Executive employees, who are ALL required to obey him unconditionally . As Commander-in-Chief, the president controls the entire Armed Forces of the United States, members of which must literally obey his commands under strict oaths of allegiance, and more than one president involved the nation in wars it did not want to fight, by simply deploying forces into an active theatre of war, necessitating further involvement. Many times, the orders of the president were aimed directly at Americans, to deprive them of rights that are ancient and established, but which posed a contradiction to his authority as president under the Constitution. It is fairly easy to overlook the fact that it was an AMERICAN PRESIDENT -- NOT a king -- who ordered a civilian population bombed by the ONLY nuclear weapons ever detonated in war.

The institution of the monarchy is hedged in by traditions that are thousands of years old, and which are parallel to the traditions of chieftaincy accepted by the American indians, and aboriginal people universally. They represent rituals and customs which integrate the nation into an actual union of the organic families that compose it. It also gratifies the ancient requirement of national identity to have a genuine human family at the core of the society, THE ROYAL FAMILY. The Republic was founded on the backs of the poor, and it has NEVER FAILED to increase the burden of the poor, and to punish them for complaining. If the American Republic is not legally concluded and retired, to be succeeded by men of good will acting in accordance to the ancient and accepted principles of law, then we can only expect a time of troubles that will far surpass the violence we are now experiencing, to pry the nation loose of the death grip of the Republic's mean-spirited politicians. The United States Government cannot be reformed, for the privileged who benefit from its form of social control are in control of the government itself, and the electoral process. Like in France, they literally refuse to stop embezzling the national treasure of the American people. They have no answers other than to make demands for MORE work and MORE money in taxes on the average laborer, and they fail to see that the average man is worn out from his labors, and the unending greed of the political class.

WHATEVER GOVERNMENT WE ASPIRE TO, IT SHOULD HAVE A SENSE OF LAW GOVERNED BY THE DEMANDS OF COMMON HUMAN DECENCY. ANYTHING SHORT OF THIS WILL LEAVE US BURDENED AS SLAVES IN PERPETUITY.

If it's good for the People to destroy the records of GM, then it's good for GM ...

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