The Bull
by Rand Clifford
 In the 1933 Paramount motion picture “Tillie and Gus”, W.C. Fields said: “There comes a time in the affairs of men, when we must take the bull by the tail, and face the situation.”
The
term “motion pictures” is rather archaic nowadays, but there’s nothing
archaic about W.C.’s insightful wisdom—almost 80 years ago spinning a
clear image of precisely where we are in 2010.
Indeed, ours is a
confusing time of wars over fossil energy, imperialism, secrecy,
disinformation, massive upward transfer of wealth, economic collapse,
environmental devastation and, well, bullshit. We’ve actually been deep
in the stuff since even before Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the
United States, wrote a more sobering scenario:
“Since I entered
politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some
of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and
manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know
that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so
interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak
above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
There’s that bull again, horns and all. President Wilson also wrote: “A
great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation,
therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.... We
have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a
government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and
the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress
of a small group of dominant men.”
What IS History?
Many
say it is more accurate to call history, “His Story”. And it’s
difficult to imagine a more transparent characterization of the story
than this, offered by George Orwell in his seminal novel, 1984:
“He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future.”
So
there’s Wilson’s small group of dominant men, again. Certainly, the men
change over generations, but the domination not only remains, it gets
ever more ruthless, bold, pervasive and complete.
Consider the
astonishing difference between the official, historical account of the
assassination of President Kennedy, and what really happened; between
the “official story”, and the truth. Call it gross perception
management. Comparably astonishing is the difference between what really
happened leading up to, and culminating on 9/11—what mountains of
evidence say—compared to the official story. And what may be even more
astonishing is that the dominant ones not only have the power to pull
off 9/11, and the assassination of JFK and so much other subterfuge, but
also the power to cover things up. The power to control the past,
present, and future.
The bull is loose in our china shop...in
Earth’s magnificent life-support system. Of course much of the awesome
power is a direct result of an incredibly gullible, perception-managed
American public that will swallow any lie as long as it’s properly
packaged. A public breathless to blurt “conspiracy theory”! with little
or no thought, even though it is getting difficult to identify anything
of great moment that is not a conspiracy. Can you think of anything
important that is free from conspiracy’s taint?
So Late in the Game
Whether
we take the bull by the tail, or by the horns, we are at a critical
time because that’s what we are running out of, time. Saturday,
entertainer-disguised-as-newsman Glenn Beck conducted the “March On
Washington”. Lincoln Memorial, exactly 47 years since Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the same marble
steps, the “Tea Party”...partied, the most amazing corporate shills ever
invented. A “grassroots” movement funded by the bull itself!
People
marching and protesting against their own best interests, and not even
knowing it. Wow. Certainly those at the top know, but how many of the
masses have any idea that the Tea Party is actually just the latest
chimera largely funded “indirectly” by the billionaire Koch brothers? (1)
And with classic GOP vacancy, Michele Bachmann, a republican
representative from Minnesota bellowed: “We are not going to let anyone
get away with saying there were less than a million here today—because
we were witnesses.” So, what are you going to do, Michele, force anyone
who says there were less than a million attendees to drink a quart of
castor oil? And about the “...overwhelmingly white crowd”, partier
estimates of its size vary between “...300,000 and 500,000", to the
million witnessed by Representative Bachmann. Meanwhile, aerial
photography “pegged” attendance at 87,000. Apparently the Tea Party is
not as good at counting as they are with castor oil, (2), and corporate shilling.
So
I must be a democrat? Not a chance, republicans and democrats are
simply 2 sides of the same coin, 2 different acts of the same sorry
play—a play designed to keep the public bickering about such things as
mosques 2 blocks from “ground zero”, or returning God to America,
ensuring that all of our genuine problems remain unaddressed. Flip the
coin...it matters little which side comes up. We don’t need democrats
and republicans, we need a new coin....
Corporate power has spent
vast sums to get the people all frothy about “creeping socialism” and
Obama’s socialism when in fact fascism seems to be America’s destiny and
fate. Fascism and socialism could be considered exact opposites—which
reinforces the reality that the American public can be convinced of
virtually anything if enough moneypower is involved. (3)
Positive
signs are finally showing here and there. For instance, the latest
polls reflect that roughly 86% of Americans do not believe the
government is telling the truth with their “official story” of what
happened on 9/11. But then again, there was Saturday’s March On
Washington. Apparently, the Tea Party’s main message is that “We must
restore America and restore her honor. We must turn the nation back to
God and protect traditional values.” So many vagaries they use,
mouthfuls of words to say nothing about the bull. However, one part of
their vague and nebulous (secret?) message does have identifiable
meaning: Both sides of our political coin, both acts of the play, need
to go back to following the Constitution.
Sounds swell, but a major
problem jumps from that: The Constitution states that only congress has
the right to coin and regulate the nation’s money. Whoa...what about the
private corporation that in 1913 solidly embedded into its role of
bleeding the nation to death with debt-money—that cabal of international
financiers so misleadingly called the “Federal Reserve”, which now
“...makes our money out of thin air”? Does the Tea Party support
abolishing the Fed? If so, have they ever actually said so, amid their
“non-political” bluster about God, soldiers, honor and values, wandering
in darkness, good things we can do tomorrow, slaves to debt, prayer,
and the Constitution?
President Kennedy would tell you—if the
bull hadn’t gored him to death at Dealey Plaza in November of 1963—that
messing with the Fed is very dangerous. He apparently had little fear of
confronting the bull head-on. Not only did Kennedy deliver a speech
(perhaps the fatal speech?) about ridding America of the pervasive and
infective influence of “secret societies” and all of their secret and
misanthropic ritual the bull is so steeped in...he confronted “the
generals”, the CIA, the international capitalist cabal that actually
rules America, and of course, the Federal Reserve.
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