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

[Davis, Alexandria SM CAP 119 ND/WG ANG CDT SQ]

No, it's all I want to take the time to say. And yes, I will have a
lovely day, because soldiers are fighting for the freedom for me to
enjoy it thank you. Now. I have to go do something worthwhile and get
packed for Air Force Aux training.

On 04/07/2008, Hanif Kruger <grr at kwagga.com> wrote:
> Is that all you can say?  Wow, what an intelligent response.
>
> Have a lovely day further.
>
> Hanif Kruger
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> From: "Davis,Alexandria SM CAP 119 ND/WG ANG CDT SQ"
> <alexdavis at honorguardbugler.com>
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> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Intellectual Violence - article from Think Or Be Eaten-
> By Ang
>
>
>> 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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Alexandria Davis
Senior Member Tech Admin Officer 119th Air National Guard Cadet
Squadron CAP, The United States Air Force Auxiliary
http://www.happyhooligans.org
http://www.cap.gov
American Military University Student Sociology Major and Military History Minor
Bugles Across America
North Dakota State Director
Phone: 701-540-5555
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Beginning Member Company of Fifers and Drummers
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Milford Fife and Drum Corps Honorary Member
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