Sometimes, during years of research, unusual dots pop up, and you see connections you never suspected were there.
Here is a bottom line connection. When the poor and disenfranchised
people mount a protest against some draconian action of the State or
corporation, the super-rich controllers don't register outright panic.
They believe they can manage the situation. They
can offer more aid, more welfare, more sympathy, more empty promises.
They can divert and re-channel problems. They can form groups that
essentially go nowhere.
However, when protestors show up who are obviously from the middle
class, alarm bells sound. These middlers are supposed to be allies of
the controllers. They have very nice perks from the system. They know
how to look the other way when horrible things
happen to others. They spend most of their time protecting what they
have.
At that point, when the middle class goes rogue, weird things happen. Unpredicted things.
I have three examples.
In 1982, when I was just starting out as a reporter for LA Weekly, I
interviewed Bill Perry, who had quit his plush job as head of PR for
Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley, California, where they do research
on better nuclear weapons.
Bill told me this job was the culmination of a long upward struggle for
him. He had arrived at a pinnacle. He could now call press conferences
in fancy hotels, and reporters would flock to his events and cover
them. A dream realized.
This was the time of a movement called the Nuclear Freeze. Groups
around the world were calling for a moratorium on the production of
atomic and hydrogen weapons. Outside the gates of Lawrence Livermore,
protestors gathered every day.
At first, Bill paid no attention to them. But eventually, he began
looking. He saw more and more people wearing suits and business
clothes. These were the middle class. That shook him up. He started
thinking about the real meaning of his job and the work
of the Lab. He found a conscience. You could say he was a
representative of "the controllers." One day, he just handed in his
resignation papers and left the cushiest job he would ever have. Who
could have foreseen that?
Recently, as New Jersey legislators were trying to pass a bill that
would eliminate religious exemptions from the vaccination of children, a
large group of protestors gathered every day outside the building where
the debate was taking place. Again, many of
these parents were middle class. They should have been happy
robots---but they weren't. Far from it. Suddenly, the pro-vaxx
legislators didn't have the votes to pass the bill.
Last summer, in Wuhan, China, a city where air pollution often reaches
very dangerous levels, protests erupted. Against all odds, in a brutal
police State, thousands of people took to the streets. They and their
children were experiencing serious lung problems.
Again, many of these protestors were the very people who were
benefiting from the economic juggernaut that is Wuhan. Middle class.
And a few months later, voila. Suddenly, China announces that a very
convenient coronavirus is causing a very serious disease. One of the
major features of this supposed epidemic? Lung problems. Not only
that, the whole city of Wuhan must be locked down.
Protests? Totally vanquished. Outlawed.
Is it fair and just that the poor and disenfranchised are ignored or
"re-purposed" when they rebel, while the middle class is paid great
attention? Of course not. But that's the way it is. And it's
understandable when you think about it, because: FROM THE
POINT OF VIEW OF THE STATE, OR A MAJOR CORPORATION, these middle class
people are being groomed for success. They're being "paid off" to think
like properly programmed entities. They're supposed to support
whatever the State is doing, because they benefit.
From the point of view of the State, when the "payoffs" stop working,
that's a sign of trouble.
And when significant numbers of the middle class gather and show up in
one place and make it clear they're sick and tired of the all-powerful
dragon blowing smoke at them, that's an even bigger sign of trouble.
Here's a fourth example. Go watch Vaxxed2, a new film in which parents
tell the heartbreaking stories of what happened to their children after
they received vaccinations. Damage. Brain damage. These parents are
credible. Some of them look and sound like
the middle class neighbors of other middle class people. They're
supposed to be happy and complacent, and walled off from the problems of
society. But they aren't. They're grief-stricken and outraged. If
they once believed they were protected from the
usual tragedies that beset others, they don't believe it anymore.
The State and its corporate partners have a monolithic view of power and
how it operates. They can lay on fancy propaganda and media drivel,
but underneath it all, they think they're kings. Kings rule, everyone
else follows.
When that concept begins to break down, the kings start looking at
themselves and wondering where their vestments have gone and why they
are naked.
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