Monday, May 2, 2016
Is the US a Carefully Constructed “Mock-Up?”
By Janet Phelan
Those familiar with settings for Hollywood movies
will recognize that there is a difference between façade and structure.
In the case of celluloid, a “mock-up” may be used to simulate a
structure, without, however its three-dimensional and functional
integrity. A mock-up may look like what it is simulating, but on close
examination, it will become apparent it is only a Sim.
A “mock up” may be defined as follows: a “full sized scale model used for demonstration, study or testing.”
This article will explore the possibility that, far
from being a Constitutional republic, that the United States is, in
fact, a “mock-up” and a Sim.
First, we must ask the questions: “What is the United
States? How do we define this entity? And are there indications that
the definitions do not describe the reality?” This would be our first
clue that the US may be a Sim.
For most purposes, the United States can be described
in two ways: 1) As a system of laws which define it and 2) As a
territory, circumscribed by its borders.
IS THE US A SYSTEM OF LAWS?
The first definition quickly breaks down under
scrutiny, as the reality peeks out behind the Sim. As described in
Article 1 of its founding document, the US Constitution states: “All
legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the
United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of
Representatives.”
Well, that’s not the way it is! For one, the
President of the United States has been regularly noted for bypassing
Congress and legislating via executive order. Secondly, the judicial
branch is also under fire for the increasing tendency of judges to
ignore the law and issue directives from the bench which are actually
barred by law.
In addition, we see increasingly that the agents of
the US government are exempt from the laws. The disturbing caveat in
the Expansion of the Biological Weapons Statute sums this up neatly.
This statute, which was codified as Section 817 of the USA PATRIOT Act,
was ostensibly enacted to protect the country from the spectre of
biological weapons. So when the Statute states: “The prohibitions
contained in this section shall not apply to any duly authorized US
governmental activity,” we might all rightfully experience our hair
standing on end, as reality peers out at us from behind the Sim.
The exemption granted the US from adhering to the
laws of the US is also seen in the blind eye turned by prosecutors to
the killings of US citizens by police. According to killedbypolice.net,
which tracks these killings through media reports, 1207 individuals
were killed by the police in 2015 alone. It is unusual for the police to
be held accountable for these killings. And when a Department of
Justice official declared to the UN last year that the United States
Department of Justice had prosecuted 400 police officers in the relevant
time span–when in fact less than six had been prosecuted– we again saw
the reality gazing grimly at us from behind the Sim.
The mask slips again from the Sim when we look at
cases involving either child abuse or elder abuse. Children and the
elderly/disabled constitute the most vulnerable members of US society
and as such, the Sim has appeared to create a plethora of agencies and
procedures to protect them.
In fact, the US government has gone into the elder
abuse business, which is a lucrative business indeed. While loudly
proclaiming that its proliferation of agencies, including Adult
Protective Services, Aging agencies and courts, are protecting the
rights of the elderly, the reality is that elder abuse is now an
institution and arm of the US government.
One can clearly see this in action in court cases
wherein a “guardian” is appointed for an elderly or disabled
individual—ostensibly to protect his interests when in reality the
guardian sacks his client’s estate and ignores his most basic needs,
with total protection and support by the attending US government
officials, including judges, police officers, social workers and
Department of Justice officials.
Cases in which there are allegations of child abuse
reveal an equally disturbing reality. The recently published book by
former UN investigator Keith Harmon Snow, “The Worst Interests of the
Child,” exposes the harsh reality behind the “child protection”
industry, an industry littered with for-profit “service providers” such
as psychiatric evaluators, supervised visitation agencies, lawyers and
more. As Snow reveals, when there are allegations that a child has
been abused that child will more often than not be placed with his abuser.
A cornerstone of democracy has been the ability
afforded the citizenry to “vote the bums out.” However, concerns that
our vote has been taken from us through a variety of machinations,
including pre- programmed electronic voting machines, “hanging chads”
and “Super Delegates,” has turned the formerly sacrosanct act of voting
into a charade.
WHERE ARE THE AMERICAN BORDERS?
The US should be quite a bit easier to define through its borders and
geography, right? In fact, through its invasions of other countries and
its propensity to topple unfriendly regimes and set up “puppet”
governments, the actual influence of the US extends far beyond its
territorial boundaries. The United Nations could potentially provide a
check to such undisguised and rampant imperialism. Rather than providing
oversight, the UN is enabling the United States in its quest to become
the uni- power.
This was well expressed by John Bolton, former US
Ambassador to the UN, when he said: “The point that I want to leave with
you in this very brief presentation is where I started, is that there
is no United Nations. There is an international community that
occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and
that’s the United States, when it suits our interest, and when we can
get others to go along. And I think it would be a real mistake to count
on the United Nations as if it is some disembodied entity out there that
can function on its own.”
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ALL THIS DISSIMULATION?
People who have become aware that something is seriously wrong in the US
often become so alerted when they become the recipients of injustice,
and the reality manifests rather than the Sim. It is not uncommon for
such people to state: “My county (city, state) is the most corrupt in
the country!”
In fact, it is not corruption that they are experiencing. It is the unacceptable reality that the Sim seeks to obscure.
Behind the Sim lurks the reality. And it is the
reality that the Sim is in place to protect. The reality may be so far
from anything remotely resembling the Sim that its presence must be
obscured at any cost.
In fact, reality may approximate a totalitarian
regime, something that the US continues to rail against, in its speeches
and posturing concerning other nations. A simple and compelling
definition of totalitarianism follows:
Totalitarianism is a political system where the state
recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every
aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.[1] Totalitarian
regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda
campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media,
a single party that is often marked by political repression,
personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and
restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror.
We can tick these off pretty quickly. Indeed, we can
agree that the given state recognizes no limits to its authority. While
Americans are still free to shop to their hearts´ content and to toodle
around the country in cars, most aspects of public and private life are
now both surveilled and controlled. One only has to look at the
mainstream press’s coverage of events like the attacks ofSeptember 11 or
its failure to cover the atrocities happening in its family and
guardianship courts to understand the extent to which the state controls
the media. Political repression might have escaped many people’s
attention, due to the failure of the media to report it, but online
publications have pointed the way towards an increasing awareness of this.
Possibly the bailout of 08 and the manipulation of
gas prices might alert those that the “free market” economy that the Sim
proclaims to be so sacred is in reality carefully controlled.
As far as restriction on speech, exercise of freedom
of speech has gotten lawyers disbarred, activists jailed and more than
one whistleblower has fled the US on these grounds.
That leaves us with terror. While it is not in the purview of this article to dissect the events of September 11,
the Boston bombing, Sandy Hook and other recent terror events, others
have conclusively demonstrated that the Sim and its faithful hound dog
media are not reporting the facts of these events.
If it is true, as this reporter’s research indicates, that–
when reality peered out from behind the mask of the Sim and let us know
that the US does not have to abide by its own biological weapons
legislation–what we were seeing was the authorization of a future event
which could parallel the Holocaust in its devastating impact on select
populations, then the reason for all this carefully structured hooey
becomes quite clear.
The Sim is NOT Big Brother, whom we are told to believe truly loves us. The Sim aims to have us for dinner.
Janet C. Phelan,
investigative journalist and human rights defender that has traveled
pretty extensively over the Asian region, an author of a tell-all book EXILE, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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