Open Letter to Friends, Acquaintances….

Dear Current & Former Friends, Associates, Acquaintances & Family,

A special note before my follow-up info about the airport scanners and groping:

I want to apologize for the two recent unsolicited e-mails (this being the second) and promise not to make this a regular thing. I know how many messages most people get, and don’t care for getting a lot of the unasked-for type myself. In fact, because it is awkward, and I know this will be mostly greeted by impatience, rolling eyes, chuckles and/or pity, I won’t contact most of you again about things political, but, with the hope that the fact of our current or former acquaintance will cause you to read at least this one message from me – with a promise of no further – I will instead offer a general political comment and observation now, and a few resource suggestions and then leave you alone, likely to your approval and relief.

What I’d like to suggest to you is what I have concluded after 20+ years of gradually increasing political wakefulness, the last 6 or 7 of which have been particularly bright-eyed, and that is that the U.S. is not the country most of us pretend it is, or thought it was, and never has been. Bush to Obama, Johnson to Nixon, whatever, it’s always been a harmful empire at permanent war in my lifetime – and long prior to that – and a lot of countries and people around the world have had and are having their people killed and hurt, their governments manipulated, and their land badly abused and resources depleted in the service of it, and it’s gotten much worse in recent times for most of those doing the servicing.

What’s different now is that our government, and those of Britain, Canada, Australia, and others – and which, like theirs, is a wholly owned subsidiary, enforcement arm and collection service of the banks and corporations that are provably its owners – has now begun to introduce for use on American citizens the sort of overt human control mechanisms it has either used or supported the use of elsewhere around the world for a long time, and now augmented by recent significant and sometimes dangerous technology leaps. These are probably and plausibly more about citizen control & training than citizen protection, and are certainly not about guys in turbans, not with thousands of miles of open borders for anyone to avail himself of. The body scanners are an example of that, and the body grope is just old school intimidation – admittedly so – to make the scanner look more palatable by comparison as an option.

But neither should be an option, as both are worthy of the former East German Stasi, the Nazi Gestapo, the Soviet NKVD, pick your poison, not of a free society, and would have been thought preposterous as options on Americans or in America just a few years ago. But the frog is truly on the slow boil, and the majority public reaction now is mostly faint to each new increment of rights degradations.

For those who get their news from sources other than the cable TV and newspaper giants, this is pretty clear, and the picture that gets painted in that alternative news realm from a thousand different directions and perspectives is always the same about certain things. The biggest thing is that you are not the constituents of your government – never have been – big money is. Big money includes all the Central Banks (Federal Reserve, IMF, Bank of England, World Bank, etc.) and the too-big-to-fail commercial banks and brokerages (Goldman Sachs, Morgan-Chase, B of A, etc.), which also make up a big part of the shareholding owners list of the central banks (so they loan money to themselves, among other frauds), the military-industrial/Pentagon group (Lockheed, GE, Northrup), Big Oil, and the other non-finance/defense/oil/energy members of the Fortune 100 (Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Pfizer, Microsoft, Archer-Daniels Midland), and a bunch of old elite money and royalty families like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, the British royal family, the Dutch royal family, etc. There are others, but that’s enough.

I am persuaded that all significant governmental policy of the Western nations gets carried out according the general wishes of that group. This is obvious just by looking at even the mainstream news – note that most citizens overwhelmingly objected to the Iraq invasion and the financial bailouts and now object to the TSA security, but to absolutely no effect – so far. If you look at alternative news much, the details get filled-in about how and why – the real (or more plausible) how and why. Whether the news group is an honest progressive group, or libertarian, whatever, if they report truthfully and about anything and everything that comes their way, then the stories usually jibe, and the general picture painted is also quite consistent, and it supports my general conclusion above.

The many vehicles of this policy production; The Council on Foreign Relations, The Tri-Lateral Commission, The Bilderberg Group, The Rand Corporation, the G20, et al, all really do exist, are made up of many of the same people, and do exert massive policy influence on governments and mostly do the bidding of Big Finance. No mystery about any of that anymore. It’s official and I hope you’ll check yourself.

So now, because of the internet, this mechanism, a version of which has quietly governed world events for centuries, is becoming known to Joe Six-Pack for the first time, or can be if he’d like the news. That’s new and it’s a great development. It’s not rocket science, though, and while it is a conspiracy, so many of the pieces that make up the mosaic are verifiable, with supporting, confirming documentation, that it really can’t be said anymore to be “theory,” except by the uninformed and the willfully ignorant. It’s obvious, anyway, that those who have the most will use their additional pull to ensure that they keep it and get more. That’s hardly an astute observation, and it’s definitely not a radical proposition. It’s even less radical to point out the supportable facts that prove it, and there are a zillion of them now to cite, but any one of them leads down the same rabbit hole and to all the others, and they do all converge. I have a starter list of biggies below.

I suspect that because of this awakening and realization by an increasingly vocal minority (I don’t mean the manipulated Tea Party, though that’s a degraded and co-opted symptom of it), plus the availability finally of the right kind of advanced technology, along with the deep disinterest and apathy seen in most Americans about anything which might actually matter and be of fundamental importance to their rights or their children’s rights, the process to have a world security state is now moving more quickly than it used to – I imagine to forestall more wake-ups as the horse gets further and further from the barn.

Only the truly oblivious, indifferent, or deep in denial will not have noticed all the surveillance cameras that have gone up the last 5 years in all the Western nations (London has about a half-million), while Minority Report facial recognition is also about five minutes off, and there is pre-crime technology and protocols (recently shown on Discovery Channel), and other forms of biometric ID and micro-chipping are deep in the works, too (Wal-Mart just rolled out a trial of tracking men’s underwear and jeans by recently putting RFID chips in the waist bands), and cash is starting to get phased out, and electronic credits phased in, meaning that eventually, if the central government – of whatever version – doesn’t like the cut of someone’s jib, your debit card gets turned off. Very Book of Revelations, simple, and definitely on the way (American Airlines recently started refusing cash (my cash, as it happened) on board their planes as one example.

For now, though, it’s the airport scanners and grope downs, as I suppose it’s time to find out if the herd is sufficiently compliant now to move on quickly to the next step (body cavity searches and the introduction of like measures to train, subway, and bus stations appear to be next up, followed by malls, schools, hospitals, and stadiums), and if not, then these are also good training devices and useful to get the frogs used to the latest temperature increase before introducing the next thing or escalation of the same thing. So this moment, in my estimation, is the one that can’t be ignored. If we’re ever going to, it would appear to be time to not comply and/or not participate, or it’s going to be a full-blown and a very ugly genie – which students of history will recognize clearly – that will be out of the bottle, but this time with a very hi-tech assist.

That’s why I’ve here written a bunch of people who didn’t ask to hear from me, most of whom I barely know or see anymore. I felt I wanted to say something to the people I’ve known before moving on exclusively to people I don’t and never have, partly out of respect for knowing you and the harm you (and we all) could face, and partly because I hope that my knowing you will lead to a higher readership and/or a more open-minded read than I might get with strangers (though it’s usually the opposite). But this isn’t a hand to play often, so you won’t hear from me like this again. This is my evaluation, not hastily formed, and my warning at what I deem to be a critical moment, much past which it might not matter, anyway, so once is enough, and now is the time. Hear it, verify it and heed it if you’re interested & able.

There’s always a point where the bad thing is clearly on, and the change has clearly begun to turn the corner, but because it’s still early on, anyone that points out the obvious, as I am now, is still marginalized. Often, though, no amount of proof is enough. I have learned that however egregious or many the violations, most people will either say, ‘no, it’s not happening, I don’t care about your proof’ or ‘yeah, so it’s happening – what do you want me to do about it? I don’t have any time (or influence)’ or ‘yeah, it’s happening – it’s fine by me’ (even when “security measures” provably lead to decidedly less security in other ways, like with health).

Those responses seem to be hardwired into human nature. Having seen all the documentaries about WWII with interviews of German people who claimed into very old age that they didn’t know what was happening at the camp at the end of their village road or who was on those trains (or that there were camps or trains in the first place) tells me what I need to know about this moment, so I’ll be content if my note of alarm captures the attention of any of the people I’ve sent it to.

If you’re still reading at this point, then it possibly has, and I hope you’ll look into a couple of the things I will mention shortly via either one of the means I’ll suggest or by another of your own choosing, but definitely not via either Fox, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, PBS, Time Magazine, et al. They only report truthfully about trivial or secondary matters and/or when the alternative media has forced their hands about important things, and are always therefore late to the party in those cases anyway. In general, I am persuaded that they exist to legitimize the status quo, and they enable the escalation of the loss of rights and the continuation of empire, and need to be shunned by the general public. It’s hard not to once the wakefulness sets in and one is exposed and used to more fundamental and honest news.

It’s an escalation on many fronts, though. So many, in fact, that it’s quite daunting, so I’m not without understanding or empathy for those who learn just a little and then want to block it all out. But I suspect that the block-out will soon have ceased to be an option, or already has, and that the practical realities of living in an aspiring police state owned by banks and major corporations are about to become unavoidable to almost everyone, so here are some things you may not know (and may not want to) or are only dimly aware of, in case you’d like to do some homework and possibly raise your voice in opposition or otherwise attempt to reverse the current ugly trajectory of things.

Additions to this:

My understanding is our rights are inalienable. We don’t give up some to utilize others. But we don’t keep them either unless we demand they be recognized. No chance. To want that is to want what never was or ever will be, to paraphrase Jefferson (I think).

Anyway, that’s my written Paul Revere’s ride. If you care about poverty, public health, the environment, privacy, animal or human rights, or just consider yourself anti-war, there’s going to be something in the above list to rouse you, if you’re not already up.

I’d love to hear from anyone with constructive or good news or contradictory evidence, but if I’m imposing, then know that I already assume that, and that I won’t bother you again anyway (unless you specifically ask me to), so no need to let me know.

I wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who made it to the end of this, and thank you for your time reading it. If you look into anything I mentioned, then consider me additionally grateful, and please pass it along as you see fit. Good luck whatever comes.

Sincerely,

Jim Funk