What is keeping the various Western Civilizations and their vast populations, so indifferent? So passive? So willing to go along with their plundering and enslavement? Why haven't the people risen up to take back what's rightfully theirs? Why haven't the people resisted the slow but rapidly increasing momentum towards complete nullification of their very own Constitution? The people are being walked into a state of complete and utter passivity, complete and utter entranced cooperation, and even more frightening is their nearly ravenous defense against those who are trying to grab them by the scruff of their necks, trying to shake some sense into them! It's terrifying to watch my fellow countryman defend their captors, defend their owners, and it gets even worse when you discover how willing everyone is to throw their comrade under the bus... We seem to be in some sort of mass mind control world, so much so, that I'm not even sure the people can be awakened anymore... Something far more powerful, far more sinister, far more out of reach is responsible for this willing slave phenomenon, something I cannot fathom apparently, something I cannot understand because I am no longer under it's spell, perhaps I never really was and that's why I can't solve this issue of sleeping sheep we're calling western civilization, freedom, liberty, the pursuit of happiness... Really?! The pursuit of happiness you say? Where? How?! Please, show me where this free pursuit of one's hopes and dreams is TRULY occurring... I'm guestimating that a large majority of the American population has NEVER even reflected on the idea of a "Passport". Have you? Have you ever thought about it in a critical, objective, honest manner? Or have you simply been told that you must acquire a passport from the government before you're allowed to leave your own country and enter another, and then just got with the program, shelled out $150, and "APPLIED" for a piece of paper that grants you the PERMISSION to go somewhere else? You asked. Yes, you were told you must ask this other group of human beings for permission to leave this specific geographical area? Which you're granted, unless you've been told that you've broken certain rules that now have you labeled as a "felon", in which case you are no longer allowed to leave this specific geographical area. But, let's say you were granted permission, never mind reflecting on why you even had to ask for right now, just imagine you were "allowed" to leave the area. You CANNOT be unaccounted for though, so they've allowed you to leave that area of land to go to another area of land, but you MUST carry this piece of paper with you, you MUST present it to any one of us who demands it, and on this piece of paper you must have a record of every area of land you've visited, why you traveled there, and how long you stayed... Don't forget to bring it back to this area of land when you return though, failure to do so would result in a most difficult, lengthy, quite uncomfortable period of time, in which yet another group of fellow human beings is going to go pull up everything they know about you from surveilling you 24/7/365 to determine who you really are... While they're doing this of course, you will NOT be allowed to leave the immediate area, in fact, you'll probably end up in either a "fancy" holding cell, it will appear like some sort of small office, but in reality it's just where the sheep will sit while their slave masters (who are also slaves, isn't that ironic) tear a part their entire life in order to understand more about you... You've never met these people, you've never actually thought about it this way before, but you're realizing something, wait a minute, woah, woah, woah... I'm a human being damn it, I own as much of this planet as you do, it belongs to me as much as it belongs to you, yet I'm willingly subjecting myself to being herded around like some pathetic lamb... I just happened to be born in this specific region of the world, and because of that I'll be labeled as someone who comes from that area permanently, I'll be given a tracking number (starting to sound more and more like farming to you?), a number that will forever be attached to me, and I must possess and display this number anytime certain groups of fellow human beings demand I do so... Failure to comply will result in my immediate arrest, for it's against the rules for me to refuse to identify myself, off to the nearest holding area I go. This is just one of scores of rather depressing, certainly frightening, defintely infuriating, somewhat ridiculous rules and standards we've all been lulled into quietly abiding by. It's important to understand that I'm certainly no different, so I'm not audaciously proclaiming that YOU are a sheep, and I AM not, in fact, I'm probably less respectable than this average person I'm talking about, for I'm aware of so many grave injustices, yet all I can bring myself to do is write about it, always writing about it, never doing anything to change it. Well, I guess I'm at a loss, I don't know what to do, and I think that's part of the problem, none of us do, and most are perfectly content now with their increasingly expedient dissolution of their rights and freedoms. The psychotic, sociopathic, secret societies that run this world of ours, have done a fantastic job of making everyone scared to leave their home, let alone protest in the streets. Though I tend to avoid public demonstrations anyway, they've become feeding frenzies for the hidden hand, they almost never accomplish what they're hoping to accomplish, and even more unfortunate is how they're handled by this police state of ours. Rioting in the streets is not going to accomplish anything, but then again, neither has legitimate, judicial based, initiatives through our wonderful court system. I don't know folks, I guess I'm just trying to get people to step outside the box for a second, and observe the state of the world from a completely fresh perspective. Have you ever asked yourself why, and how, you pay an income tax every year? Weren't you taught in school that one of the largest reasons for the breakout of the Revolutionary War was due to "Taxation Without Representation"? Wasn't a direct tax against an individual's working income made Constitutionally illegal?! Yet here we are, turning over roughly 30% of everything we make, just handing it over to this group of human beings that's made it very clear that should we refuse to pay them, not only will we be forcibly robbed of all our assets, but we'll also probably end up in a federal prison. That's right, you will be thrown into a concrete box, your freedom stripped from you, forever labled as a criminal, and you'll stay there as long as they want you to stay there. Did you know that the Patriot Act effectively nullified this Constitution of ours? At least the parts that we're barely holding onto, or were holding onto that is. You can now be held INDEFINITELY without trial, without even being told what your charges are, without so much as a notification to your family, and you certainly don't have that one phone call we all see in the movies. Granted you'd have to be "suspected" of some sort of terrorist related offense, but they keep their interpretation of the laws SECRET! So we don't actually know what the criteria really is! You can literally be whisked up into a van as you walk down the street, taken to a classified prison, and held indefinitely, without so much as a whisper to anyone, as to where you are. I don't know about you, but that scares the hell out of me! Not because I'm some terrorist, but because ANYONE can be called "a terrorist", and since we're not allowed to know what the government's criteria is for falling victim to this tyranny, they can effectively swoop up any dissident they like, throw them in a box, throw out the key, and wipe their hands of them, and they'd be "within the law" while doing so. Even now, as I sit here writing this, I grow angry. I grow angry because I sense a little bit of nervousness, and what should I be nervous about? I'm simply writing here, I'm not advocating for violence, I'm not plotting to overthrow the government, and I'm certainly not some "terrorist", yet I realize that because I write things of this nature, it would be very easy for this federal group of thugs to make me appear to be something I'm not, so I could fall victim to this tyrannical new regime of ours, be thrown into a cell, and all they'd have to do is release some snippet of something I've written, make sure it's taken out of context, and tell the world a bunch of lies that I was plotting something I was certainly NOT plotting! AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FEAR SOMETHING LIKE THAT! That's why I grow angry, and that's why I write about these things, it helps me to just vent it out. But I ask YOU, have YOU ever caught yourself "self-policing", or my personal favorite, "self-censoring"? Have you ever gone to write something about a current event, but then changed your mind because you know everything you're doing is being logged? Or because you were worried about some sort of backlash? I'm not talking about writing some violent manifesto, I'm talking about writing an honest opinion about some current event, but you end up choosing not to because you fear there might be consequences for expressing your own, personal, honest, OPINION? I know that I certainly have, and that's just really sad. We shouldn't have to fear consequences for expressing our true opinions on things. Anyway, I guess I'm curious to know if YOU think the sacrifice that everyone is making in the name of "security" is worth it. That sacrifice being, you pretty much can't go anywhere, do anything, say anything, without being watched in some fashion, and not just watched, but recorded, stored, logged, everything you do, kept in a proverbial vault, just in case "they" may need to go back and scrutinize your entire life someday. Do you feel safer because of this? Are you now less likely to fall victim to one of the many "terrorist attacks" we see happening all over the world today? If so, are you safer because your iPhone is literally beaming everything you do, over to one of our many Alphabet Agencies? How has that made you less likely to have your head blown off by some crazed gunmen? I'll save you the time - IT DOESN'T.