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When the CIA, FBI, Federal Reserve, and IRS are abolished the dictatorship will end. After that it will just be a mopping up action to abolish government education, health, EPA, OSHA, and commerce departments. The Pentagon will be destroyed and turned into a graveyard for military veterans.

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I'm reading an interesting book by Aldous Huxley called "Grey Eminence". It's a biography of a compeer of Cardinal Richelieu named Father Joseph in the time of Louis XIII. At one point, Huxley states: "The greatest obligation of kings is the repose of their subjects, the preservation in its entirety of their state, and of the reputation of their government." Our current government provides none of these attributes. Good article, by the way.

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Good article! The accompanying graphic is an appropriate reminder for our betters of how dictatorships really end. BTW, special thanks for the link to WRSA, thought I lost them forever.

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You're quite welcome

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Definitely time to study up on subterranean countercultures, so to speak in euphemism, to see what might be gleaned. For examples, Christians during the Roman period, currently in China; the parallel economies that exist in places such as Argentina (been there many times, if they didn't have the 'blue market' and alternate sources of everything, they would have been toast in 2001.

To continue, N. Ireland; the former Eastern Bloc - all with an idea to see how to make life go on despite 'disadvantageous circumstances.' These skills and double-speak are already coming into a time of great value, as is speaking euphemism to minimize 'targeted speech' in matrix Eye and Ear of Sauron world.

But not saying go hide and do nothing; more a prayer (for self included) to gain the right skill set and the right judgement to know when to stand, when to contest, and when to fade away. These things do not come naturally to the middle class Traditional American.

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Know when to stand, when to contest, and when to fade away sounds like N. Ireland back in the day. We can learn from that, can't we?

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Lived there back in the 90s when things were peaceful, except in certain areas. But the stories people told, and after a while catching on to the very fluent, but carefully guarded language instilled by survival instincts was amazing. Somehow Many had mastered the art of living a normal life, but still having extra curricular hobbies as well.

After a while, even though the people were absolutely tremendous, I started to see deeper with some of the very subtle PTSD effects. So many of them had grown up were not too many years before a pub or a car could explode just like that.

Event, we think absolutely wonderful things about the people in the beautiful countryside because that was the country and which we actually started our family.

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