AC
"Dominion and Deception"
Sun Oct 26 02:18:24 2003
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After reading this oh so "right on" piece, the thought occurred to me just how boring history in the making can be. The modern day "religious" Straussian misfits, cheered on by the hypocrites in sacerdotal drag and all those starry-eyed, that huge electorate for Skull&Bonesman Bush, spirited by their delusions of fantastic interpretations of prophesies, all those onward "Christian" soldiers-cum pharissees for war--all of them literally duplicating history in the remaking of Pope Urban's II call and creation of the crusades of Hell. Just like the visionary call "to make it right for the common people" of the Jacobins who brought the reign of terror on France, or Hitler's or Lenin's or Stalin's, or Pol-Pot's, or Idi Amin's, aim to remake the world for all the "righteous and fit to live and the rest be damned." And on and on, ad infinitum. History in the making can be boring, but never dull, nevertheless, and most certainly its shady characters today, no less dangerous but in fact much more so, than all their mattoid predessessors of the past. The big question is, will the people sit by idly once again, like the thousands of times before and just shut up and put up? Will once again, but this time, the very few remaining children, read about the blood and gore and almost total world destruction and wonder why? Will they be able to read at all? World destruction by means of weapons of mass destruction by the "civilized" world? Einstein predicted that after the next great world war, any survivors would fight from then on, from caves with sticks and stones.
The most sickening and bizarre thing about it, but certainly with much precedent as history bores us, is that again this present horrific crime against humanity, is done in the name of God, by, again, the reptilian pretenders of the faith. Is it any wonder most people have lost their faith or hate God the Creator and Christ the Redeemer.

ac - angie2@midmo.com

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:21:51 +0930
Subject: DOMINION AND DECEPTION
From: Jilinda
To: Judith Moriarty

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DOMINION AND DECEPTION
By Gillian Norman

jilinda@globalismnews.com


“One prince of the present time, whom it is not well to name, never preaches anything else but peace and good faith, and to both he is most hostile, and either, if he had kept it, would have deprived him of reputation and kingdom many a time."
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince: Concerning The Way In Which Princes Should Keep Faith, Florence, 1532

“You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
George W. Bush, joking at a Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 2001



“Goodbye Jack Daniels, Hello Jesus!" So it was that George W. Bush says he met the Messiah as he switched the bottle for the Bible on a summer day after his 40th birthday. When he was young and irresponsible, he was really irresponsible, he admits, but all that has changed. Now, they say, his Christian faith permeates his daily life; he starts each day on his knees, reads the Bible and devoutly attends church. The air in the White House is said to be scented with the fragrant incense of prayerfulness, and presidential speeches are spiced with religious metaphors.

Bush envisions himself fulfilling a divine calling, as he heads a global battle that pits the forces of good against the forces evil. He claims God speaks to his mind, directing his actions and inspiring his presidential policy decisions. He says he “felt the call" before his inauguration as Texas governor in 1999, as he listened to Methodist pastor Mark Craig preach on Moses' reluctance to lead. It spoke conviction directly to Bush’s heart for abrogation of responsibility. Assembling leading pastors at the governor’s mansion for a laying-on of hands, he announced the news: "I've heard the call, I believe God wants me to run for president."

Bush’s testimony appears to the sincere evangelical to be genuine; his heart was changed in a “born again” experience, through a personal encounter with Christ leading to repentance, reconciliation with God, and a conviction of God's plan and purpose for his life. Desperate for a breath of moral fresh air after the putrid impropriety that disgraced the Clinton White House, honest Christians who never question the meaning of the word “is”, were swayed by Bush's invocation of the name of “Christ”. He was, by his own admission, “one of them”.

Few doubted and even fewer publicly questioned the veracity of Bush’s “born again” claims. But, hey, hey, in those exuberant days that brought the warm glow of Christian fellowship right to the heart of the election campaign, who would have dared to mouth a ripple of doubt?
And who could have foreseen that in pursuing their quest for a leader of integrity and compassion in action, the Christian churches, armed with the Bible in one hand and the flag in the other, were just about to exchange one liar in the White House for a better one.

Dominion and deception go claw in glove. From empire to empire there have always existed foul creatures in elegant attire lurking beneath the mud of political intrigue with megalomaniac intent. Deeply dark elites have always wielded untold influence beneath the mantles of anonymity that keep the powers behind the powers hidden from the public eye. Yet today, as the autocratic American Empire performs its awesome debut on the global stage, some of these dangerous schemers have boldly emerged from their subterranean refuge to reveal their previously hidden lust for power, and are now, in public statements and policy papers, baring their visible teeth.

These nefarious elitists ­ all too often naively scorned as paper tigers by sensible folk who dismiss conspiracy theories ­ may have a smile as sweet as sugar and spice, but they also have a nasty snarl and a fearsome bite. The deception that promotes their bid for dominion is the claim that American military dominance over the world is best for everyone, and that this policy ­ disguised as “democracy” ­ is endorsed, even directed by God.

The new elite that slipped from the shadows to direct the Bush administration foreign policy are neoconservatives, or neocons, who have formed an unprecedented right-wing alliance of former leftists and liberals. Their ideology is paradoxical, spawned in that fetid breeding ground where right meets left, producing a hybrid offspring that resembles a power-hungry, pro-Zionist mutation of Trotsky's ideas on permanent revolution. This new elite now openly promotes a glorious vision of American supremacy based on a messianic ideology that exalts American culture as superior in every way to the cultures of other nations.

Under the motto “peace through strength,” their aim is to subjugate every aspect of American society to the bare-fisted control of the state, as part of a military crusade for complete U.S. global dominance. Like the wolf in disguise who fooled Little Red Riding Hood, their voracious blood-lust is masked by soothing reassurances of good intentions. Only this time the wolf is far more ambitious. It is the people of America and the nations of the world who are lined up for lunch under the guise of benevolence. But first, the trusting victims must be convinced that the hungry wolf is just as benign as lil’ ole granny in a frilly nightgown.

The elite made its first move from the shadows of power to the spotlight when a draft of the Defense Policy Guidance (DPG) on U.S. grand strategy was leaked to the New York Times in 1992. This literal Pax Americana ­ American Peace ­ was framed along the same lines as the Pax Romana, and foretold a world in which global U.S. military intervention would become permanent.

Surprised commentators described the policy document as stunning in the clarity and ambition of the new U.S. military vision. The proposed strategy called for U.S. military pre-eminence over Eurasia by preventing the rise of any potentially hostile power. It also established a new policy of pre-emptive action against any state suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction. Written more than a decade ago by former Pentagon analysts Paul Wolfowitz, now Deputy Security of Defense, and I. Lewis Libby, now Vice President Cheney’s chief-of-staff, this prospective defense strategy has today become the backbone of America’s aggressive foreign policy, and many aspects of it are included in the important document outlining 2002 National Security Strategy. As Richard Perle put it: "The President of the United States, on issue after issue, has reflected the thinking of neoconservatives."

Cleverly masked in the rhetoric of justice and benevolence, the new doctrine promoted by the Bush Inner Circle is characterised by a distinctly Machiavellian tinge. Niccolò Machiavelli, the political philosopher who served the Italian government in the 16th century, wrote that the true purpose of political power is to maintain and extend itself. It has nothing at all to do with the welfare of the people, nor with principles of right and wrong.

Machiavelli taught that it was useful to promote morals, ethics and religious convictions among the people for the purpose of maintaining control and productivity. The ruler himself, while advised to maintain a guise of morality and religiosity, was sanctioned in the covert use of dishonesty, cruelty, murder, or any other means necessary to perpetuate power.

The new elite, whose driving force is the pursuit of power, believe they have a right to impose their rule by way of deceit. As disciples of Machiavelli they consider themselves to be free from the constraints of moral absolutes. Their philosophy also encourages them to promote religious faith among the people, even though they themselves are not true believers. This may, perhaps, explain why some of the elite clique who are secular Jews and members of occult fraternities, have strategically embedded themselves with the Christian Right, and successfully persuaded most influential evangelical churches in America to serve their cause. The “born-again” George Bush certainly knows just how important “faith” is to the 100 million professing American Christians who form the Republican political power base.

In his book, The Prince, Machiavelli writes:
"Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite. And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion… There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.”

Surrounded by policy shapers with allegiance to a philosophy that advocates the shameless blinding of the electorate, President Bush has aggressively pursued strategies that have finally resulted in the imposition of new moral absolutes. Grounded neither in truth nor in national interest, the ambitious Machiavellian clique exploits religion only to rally support for the perpetuation of their own power and profit. Ironically, this strategic deception and manipulation is the exact antithesis of the faded values of the Christian community, who remain entirely oblivious to the elite’s predation.

Like Machiavelli, the German Jewish political philosopher Leo Strauss also taught that the elite, who transcend moral absolutes, should exploit religious faith in order to autocratically control the masses. Strauss became convinced, as a result of his experience of World War I, that faith in human nature without God, as it was exalted in the Enlightenment, was mistaken. He saw religion as the indispensable opiate of the people. Deception, for Strauss, was a necessity in political life, and he considered religion to be a desirable “pious fraud” ­ a fraud to be encouraged as a means of control, through the imposition of “moral law”. Religion is necessary for the people, he advised, but the rulers themselves ­ not bound by the same moral laws they preach and impose on others ­ should maintain only an outward form of religion, a convincing façade.

Leo Strauss emigrated to the United States in 1938, where he obtained a fellowship with the Rockefeller Foundation and a position teaching philosophy at the University of Chicago. The eccentric opinions of this obscure German academic would not be expected to hold much sway, except that Leo Strauss happens to be the mentor of influential neoconservatives including William Kristol, former chief of staff to Dan Quayle, and Paul Wolfowitz, now Deputy Defense Secretary.

In 1997, members of the neoconservative elite formed a number of interlocking think tanks and front groups dedicated to their fundamental belief that “American leadership is good both for America and for the world”. Several founder members were influential veterans of the Reagan administration and future senior officials of the G.W. Bush foreign policy team.

William Kristol founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with the stated goal to “promote American global leadership”. PNAC brought the neoconservatives who promote global U.S. dominance together with powerful militarists in the Bush administration such as Vice-president Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
Here, at PNAC, the neoconservatives and militant hawks rub shoulders with influential Christian activists such as Gary Bauer, and other prominent leaders of the Religious Right, who obediently promote the neocon cause throughout the churches.

Influential think-tank warriors also formed several other revolving door interfaces between high positions in government and top jobs in the military-industrial complex. The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is described as the “main battle tank” whose mission is to promote world peace through American strength. The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) links American defense policy with the security of Israel. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential Washington think tank, is known as the heartbeat of neoconservative thought.

William Kristol is often described as “the crown prince” of the neoconservative elite. His father, Irving Kristol, the “godfather” of neoconservatives, credited with defining the neoconservative credo, was a member of the American Trotskyists’ Fourth International in 1940, before veering to the right. Other members of the neoconservative Inner Circle who drive U.S. foreign policy include Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas Feith; Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, John Bolton; and National Security Council director of Near Eastern Affairs, Elliot Abrams, who was convicted in the illegal Iran-Contra scandal run by George Bush Sr. in the 1980s, involving the sale of American weapons to Iran to fund the CIA’s covert war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.

Serving President George W. Bush as an international affairs analyst is another neoconservative who was also implicated in the Iran-Contra affair. Michael Ledeen, an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar with alleged ties to the Italian P-2 Masonic Lodge, is a long-time advocate of regime change in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. He believes with Machiavelli that it is the nature of human