[Users] Intellectual Violence - article from Think Or Be Eaten - By Ang

Fri Jul 4 13:50:28 CDT 2008

Bunch of liberals.

On 04/07/2008, Hanif Kruger <grr at kwagga.com> wrote:
> Something I've learned over the last few years is that there really is such
> a thing as evil in this world. True, sheer evil.
>
> I've also learned that all evil is perpetrated by force; and that can be
> physical violence or it can be intellectual violence, i.e. by deceit and
> deception.
> Lies. Lies are every bit as much a form of violence as guns, clubs and bombs
> because just like physical violence, lies are used to violate someone else's
> free will and free choice.
>
> The reality is that the violence of lies is infinitely more common than
> physical violence. There's just no contest there. Lies are the single most
> prevalent form of violence in our country today, and that intellectual
> violence is taking a serious toll.
>
> What is violence and why is violence used? It is used as a means to an end.
> More specifically it is the quickest way to get what you want from somebody
> else. You can either just shoot someone and take what you want or you can
> lie them out of what they have that you want, either way, you achieve the
> goal of getting what you want from somebody else. Lying is the means to
> perpetrate a robbery or theft. Just like a mugging in a dark alley,
> individuals and
> nations alike are violently attacked with the aim of destroying the true
> owners of something to take what they own for yourself.
>
> The mere threat of using violence against somebody is often enough to get
> them to hand over the desired things. It works well because everybody knows
> what
> violence is and nobody wants to be violated, which is exactly what violence
> is. It is violating another person. It's using whatever superior tools or
> strength or advantages you posses to harm, or threaten to harm another with
> the aim of taking something that belongs to them and that you have no right
> to take. It means over riding the free will and free choice of another
> person and to force your own will on them, so that you can have it your way.
> And that's just
> wrong.
>
> Depriving others of the God given right of having free choice over their own
> lives, bodies and property is the very definition of what we think of as
> crime. That is the DNA behind all crime, that's the reason that we even have
> the concept of crime. Forcefully depriving another of their free will is
> what all
> crime is. It violates a person in the most serious, egregious ways. It's an
> insult that goes very deep into the psyche of any victim of violence,
> physical
> or intellectual.
>
> Victims of violence do feel violated. They feel the terror of powerlessness
> over their own lives. They feel the horrible loss of control over their own
> fate. The overwhelming insult of not having any choice in matters regarding
> their own life and best interests. They are reduced to irrelevance because
> of the appetites and will of their attackers.
>
> Being made to feel irrelevant is probably the most damaging experience that
> any human being can go through. It's the worst feeling in the world to
> suddenly become nothing and no one as far as some dominating, violent others
> are concerned. To be deprived of the obligatory recognition of your
> sentience and inherent right to be treated as an equal to other human beings
> is to feel one's own life being negated, as if it had no meaning, importance
> or significance. There is no greater insult and no greater harm that can be
> perpetrated on another.
>
> To become nothing more than the extension of another man's will is to become
> a slave or an object, and we are not slaves or objects. We are equals with
> the same human rights in this world, and we all deserve to retain our
> dignity and sovereignty at all times. No one has a right to take those
> things from us. When they do take those things they defy known reality and
> relegate us to a realm of confused suffering, and permanent damage that
> cannot be undone or recompensed.
>
> The only way anyone can make you feel that way is by violating you,
> depriving you of your dignity and personal sovereignty, and this is why the
> concept
> of simple respect for others is such an important thing. It's a huge thing.
> In fact I'd have to say it's the biggest thing there is.
>
> In a decent world we would all agree to respect the others in our lives and
> all over the world. We would comprehend the simple fact that those others do
> not owe us anything. They don't owe us their prosperity or their lives. They
> don't owe us their property or their rights. They are not in any way
> obligated to do as we desire so that we may feel happy.
>
> The only people who think the opposite is true are the people in this world
> who are truly evil. They are the criminals who commit all the worst crimes
> in this world. Although those crimes can take many forms the bottom line is
> that it's always the same crime being committed, the crime of depriving
> another of their free will and their right to determine their own fate and
> their own life choices, whether or not anyone else happens to like those
> choices. It's just not our call to make for anyone else.
>
> That's where we run into problems because there are a great many people,
> people who think of themselves as upright, good people, religious people
> even, who will not agree that everyone has the same right to self
> determination in this world. Right off the bat, that attitude is criminal.
>
> The Liar's Toolbox
>
> Today there is much killing of innocents happening in the name of the good
> guys vs. the bad guys, but what is never called to account is who defines
> good and bad. Without exception it is never a simple case of good guys
> versus bad guys; it is in fact a case of aggressors calling the others bad
> because those others are not doing what is desired by the aggressor. They
> are the legal owners of lands and resources the aggressor covets, they exist
> in the way of the aggressors and in blatant contradiction to false claims to
> ownership of the land and its resources. The others who have what the
> aggressors want are always automatically the bad guys, and that's nothing
> but a big fat lie. It's hypocrisy. And that's always attached to lies.
> Hypocrisy is one of the main tools in the liar's toolbox.
>
> Hypocrisy is when we believe we deserve to have free will but we refuse to
> extend the same human right to others. This is a very important tool in the
> Liar's toolbox. It is used to try to justify violence against others with
> all manner of lies and excuses, like religious differences, racial
> differences, any kind of differences will be used to try to justify
> perpetrating violence against others when we want what belongs to them.
> Where ever there is hypocrisy there is lying going on and the sad reality
> will be that a lot of good people will have bought in to those lies and will
> be an opposing force to the truth. They will not be able to see their own
> hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is a serious, dangerous sin and it's one we should add
> to the list of things we want to find
> in ourselves and do away with.
>
> Another item in the Liar's Toolbox is indifference. Sometimes called
> depraved indifference the meaning is simple enough to gather. When we are
> indifferent to the suffering of others we are committing a crime of violence
> against them. When big corporations or governments take steps in their own
> self interests that result in harm being done to others, directly or
> indirectly, they know it. That they proceed anyway makes it criminal.
>
> Failing to notice or consider that our actions harm others is not an excuse
> and it cannot be justified. Saying they just didn't know, or worse, framing
> and promoting illicit depraved concepts like "collateral damage" is no
> excuse either. There is no such thing as lives that don't matter.
>
> No matter what claims are being made to justify violence in the name of self
> interest, there is no justification. When we are led to believe otherwise
> that in itself is a crime being perpetrated on all of us. We are being
> insulted every bit as much as their innocent victims. The message is that
> others don't matter in the name of their personal goals and desires, and
> that's invalid on its face. Others always matter and life always matters
> more than any ideology or game plan. More than any government's desire for
> power and prestige, more than any corporation's greed and psychotic lust for
> endless expansion. Those things in fact and in reality are worthless up
> against human life and well being. Pretending otherwise is always and only a
> lie.
>
> It's Not Just About Stuff
>
> We're encouraged to believe that crime is all about property and ownership
> rights, and that there can be no crimes without property or life being
> involved but that's only seeing the peel and missing the entire banana
> beneath it. Every dishonest contract, every con job, every petty theft,
> every rape or act of child molestation, every bogus war we're led into based
> on lies, is always about depriving people of something that's rightfully and
> only theirs. That can be property, rights, dignity, life or limb, freedom of
> choice, or even the information needed to make the best decisions. Again,
> all of that boils down to overriding the free will of others. These are all
> forms of violence, ways of violating the human birthright to have free will
> and freedom of choice in all things pertaining to our own lives, persons,
> and property.
>
> Violence used at any other time than in literal, imminent self defense from
> a violent attacker is criminal. It is unnecessary and unjustified. Yet it is
> prevalent and it is everywhere, from behind the closed doors of private
> homes to out in the open in the streets, the kinds of violence of wars and
> political unrest. Take Africa for example and the carnage going on there.
> It's all completely unjustified, it's criminal, people are getting hurt and
> dying and there is no end in sight. No good comes of this way of getting
> what you want at the expense of others without the consent of all involved.
>
> There is no need to fund and instigate the social crisis there, which is
> what is being done by powerful, wealthy corporations and their copartners in
> governments. It is being done to consume the rich resources of that land for
> the benefit of those who already have more than enough, so that they can
> have even more for themselves. Greed is not good. It is just another weapon
> in the liars toolbox. Greed is always fed with the blood of innocent people
> and it is a crime.
>
> Depriving others of what's rightfully theirs is what it always boils down to
> and that's why violence beyond literal, imminent self defense from a violent
> attacker is always criminal. It can not be tolerated. Not any more. Not in
> the 21st Century. It is long past time for humanity with its consciousness
> raised and its improved access to education to make the necessary
> spiritual/emotional/doctrinal adjustments to go along with that increased
> knowledge and awareness. Meaning, it's time for us to change for the better.
>
> It's time for us now to take responsibility, which is what must be done when
> we become world aware and educated. To posses and use knowledge without
> responsibility is an unforgivable failure. It's also self-defeating because
> it enables that which is not true to dominate us.
>
> Honesty isn't just the best public policy, it's the only public policy
> because dishonesty is literally a criminal act. It's an act of violence
> because it violates the peoples right to exercise their free will. It
> undermines our ability to make intelligent, meaningful choices for ourselves
> by giving us
> false information and forcing false perspectives on us that will lead us to
> draw conclusions based on that false information. The public will then be
> infinitely more likely to agree to whatever the liar or liars want. That's
> every bit as violent as holding a gun to our heads, it's just not recognized
> as such, and that's no accident. It's so obvious as to be painful, yet how
> many of us have ever made the connection? They're taking what they want by
> force and we can't even see it anymore, we expect no less.
>
> We tend to think of violence only in terms of physical things, blood, bullet
> wounds, physical harm. But being lied to can do equal damage to our minds
> and souls, and can and does cause terrible harm and injury to the collective
> consciousness of mankind.
>
> We're living in a society which, at this moment in time, is being controlled
> and dominated by people who have no respect for others. By people who by the
> very nature of how they think and act are criminals. There's no wiggle room
> here, it's quite simple when you stop to remember that the essence of crime
> is depriving others of their free will and their right to act in their own
> best interests. Those who dominate our reality right now are master liars,
> and
> the damage they are perpetrating has no historical equivalent in this
> country. The destruction they're wreaking is total and we're only beginning
> to see the tip of the iceberg. By the time they're done there won't be much
> left standing, and a whole lot of people are going to suffer, and a whole
> lot of people are going to die. You tell me what's not criminal about that.
> Everything about it is criminal.
>
> These controllers have managed to get a dominant foothold into every major
> aspect of society. The justice system, the departments of government, the
> church, public and higher education have all been infiltrated and are in the
> process of being ideologically raped. They own and control the media and
> they do this with the specific purpose of being able to withhold the truth
> about themselves and what they do, what they want and how they're getting
> what they want,
> from the public. You can't even buy TV time today if you have a different
> perspective than the one they want to dominate the public consciousness
> with. They can't afford the truth going out to the people because they know
> the people would never agree to go along with them. Therefore, they either
> have to shoot us all, which simply isn't possible, or they have to violate
> our consciousness with an endless stream of lies to make us want to go along
> with them. And they're experts at this. And we pay them to do it and they
> use our money to do it to us.
>
> Every aspect of how they operate is an insult and a violation of the
> public's right to choose in their own behalf. We can no longer make
> appropriate choices because we no longer have access to all of the
> information, to truth, or to all of the sides to any story. All we will ever
> hear again as long as the media laws stay the same is only what they want us
> to hear.
>
> We have only to look around us to gauge the numbers of innocent people dying
> both here and abroad to get an accurate idea of just how much evil has
> managed to insinuate itself into our minds and lives. We have only to
> witness the metamorphosis of ordinary men who once upheld our laws to
> protect us, into militarized, soulless, dishonest inhuman robot killers and
> thugs to recognize that evil is transforming our society from its very roots
> and defining principles into its exact mirror opposite. We are being turned
> into everything we claim to hate and would risk our lives to fight against,
> and we no longer seem capable
> of recognizing it.
>
> Our laws are quickly being changed from things that protect our God given
> right to exercise our free will without encumbrance from power and
> privilege, into things which give all permission to power and privilege to
> encumber us and prevent us from living in freedom. The lie is that it is
> being done to secure us, but we are not secure. We could never be kept safe
> by anyone, and especially not by a government so obsessed with secrecy, so
> disdainful of
> being bound by the laws that bind the rest of us, and so unconcerned with
> our core principles of protecting every individual from violence and
> interference
> by the government into their private lives. This government represents
> everything we once fought to be free of, and then some.
>
> They use every form of violence and force conceivable, and have many others
> being developed, most of which are further insults to freedom and free will.
> All of them have the intended goal of depriving us of even more freedom, of
> our right to speak openly about what we see happening, of our hope and
> expectation that justice will be done and that they will be made to stop.
> Now that they are making the rules they will not stop. We are drowning in a
> sea of lies.
>
> When lies dominate us then evil dominates our society. We are willingly or
> unwillingly forced to be complicit in the actions that evil desires to carry
> out. And it will always desire to perpetrate the greatest possible evils it
> can get away with. It spells the destruction of centuries of hard work and
> struggle specifically to stop, control and prevent evil from taking over our
> government, our country and our private lives. When lies are so common they
> become what feels normal and rational to us, we are certainly lost and it's
> only a matter of time before we'll have to pay the price of our ignorance
> and inability to discern something as simple as right from wrong.
>
> We are all victims of intellectual violence, and knowing right from wrong
> will always be the first thing to go, and the last thing we'll ever
> recognize. Until it's far too late.
>
> source - http://ThinkOrBeEaten.Blogspot.com
>
> Regards
>
> Hanif Kruger
>

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