Controlling The Masses: From Religion To Bernays

Great article, I liked the poster (follow the link and check out Dubya's Island - priceless)

He left out taxation, though. Control of the masses involves promotion of consumerism, maintaining an aura of fear and need of protection, reduction in access to and quality of education, and also taxation.

A 'perfect' citizen of the masses is taxed just enough to keep his nose just above water, living paycheque to paycheque, with a small amount of disposable income to spend on Wal-Mart crap, and the need to take out high interest loans for big ticket items like cars and houses ect. He has no free time to spend doing independent investigation, taking up a 'hobby' like submitting freedom of information requests, or going to the library and learning the truth, for example.

This is the primary function of taxation - control. We are punitively taxed for things that are not desireable, ie, making money (ie, gathering power), until such point as we finally climb the ladder into the elite class. This is rare in normal society and strongly discouraged by increasing taxation.

If you do finally make it to this level, however, then you will have at your disposal powerful people to protect you, ie, taxation lawyers, accountants. You will be introduced to the world of the elite, ie, offshore accounts, tax sheltering, insider trading, backroom dealing ect...



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I have been sitting on this for the last 24 hours and waiting for an appropriate place to post it.<br />
This thread is as good as any.<br />
We live under a system the incorporated private law, lex mercatoria/ law merchant, into Anglo-Saxon law along with canon law and Roman law.<br />
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The following quote is from a law Review called The Georgetown Law Journal, written by Judith A. Shapiro. The name of this article is called The Shetar's Affect on the English Law, a Law of the Jews becomes the Law of the Land. The introduction reads as follows: <br />
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&#8220;English Law, like the English language, is an amalgam of diverse cultural influences. The legal system may fairly be seen as a composite of discreet elements from disparate sources. After the conquest of 1066, the Normans imposed on the English and efficiently organized social system that crowded out many Anglo Saxon traditions. The Jews, whom the Normans brought to England, in their turn, contributed to the changing English society. The Jews brought a refined system of commercial law. Their own form of commerce and a system of rules to facilitate and govern it. These rules made their way into the developing structure of English law. <br />
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&#8220;Several elements of historical Jewish practices have been integrated into the English legal system. Notable among these is the written credit agreement, Shetar, or Starr, as it appears in English documents. The basis of the Shetar, or Jewish gauge, was a lean on all property, including realty, that has been traced as a source of the modern mortgage. Under Jewish law, the Shetar permitted a creditor to proceed against all the goods and land of the defaulted debtor. Both movable and immovable property was subjected to distraint. <br />
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&#8220;In contrast, the obligation of knight service, under Anglo Saxon Norman law, barred a land transfer that would have imposed a new tenant, and therefore, a different knight owing service upon the lord. The dominance of personal feudal loyalties equally forbade the attachment of land in satisfaction of a debt; only the debtor's chattels could be seized.&#8221; <br />
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At this point we will pause here and explain the above quote. When someone took out a loan, that loan could not be applied to the land. The land was free of any debt, because it was under knight service. To continue the introduction: <br />
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&#8220;These rules kept feudal obligations in tact, assuring that the lord would continue to be served by his own knights. When incorporated into English practice, the notion from Jewish law, that debts could be recovered against a loan secured by &#8220;all property, movable and immovable&#8221;, was a weapon of socio-economic change that tore the fabric of feudal society and established the power of liquid wealth in place of land holding.&#8221; <br />
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So, they brought in the Shetar as a weapon, and it completely changed what debt could apply itself to. And it is now the modern mortgage system. Previously to that law being implemented, the land could never be taken from you, but of course today it can. And to continue: <br />
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&#8220;The crusades of the twelfth century opened an era of change in feudal England. To obtain funds from Jews, nobles offered their land as collateral, although the Jews, as aliens, could not hold land in fee simple, they could take security interest in substantial money value. That Jews were permitted to hold security interest in land, they did not occupy expanded interest in land beyond the traditional tendencies. The separation of possessory interest from interest in fee contributed to the decline of the rigid feudal land tenure structure.&#8221; <br />
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So, when they bring in a new law, it changes it slightly, and then over time they bring in new laws. Similar to what the Federal government does today. They'll bring in just a little change that really doesn't affect much, then they'll bring in another little change, and so on and so forth, and before you know it everything is turned upside down and things aren't exactly as they used to be. And finally: <br />
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&#8220;At the same time, the strength of the feudal system had inheritant resistance to this widespread innovation abated. By 1250, scuttage had completely replaced feudal services. Tenant obligations had been reduced to money payments, and as the identity of the principles in the landlord tenant relationship became less critical, a change in the feudal rules restricting alienability of interest in land became possible.&#8221;<br />
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From <a href="http://ecclesia.org/truth/debt.html">http://ecclesia.org/truth/debt.html</a> <br />
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Bottom line is we have been bamboozled, and will continue to be until we start to learn law and law history. And by the by UCC, Universal Commercial Code got its start from lex mercatoria I am told.<br />
Is the following un-attributed quote that I often use now beginning to make sence?<br />
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The Bar, the Pulpit and the Press Nefariously combine To Cry up an usurpt Pow'r And stamp it Right Devine. -1695<br />
<p>---<br>We have met the enemy and he is us<br />
Pogo<br />
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.<br />
Plutarch