Gangster Government - Back To The Future, 1920s-Style

Politicians protect the racketeers, manufacture a 'constant threat'

Mentality of ‘the constant threat’ drives a state-corporate protection racket.
Legal system hijacked to spread fear, social disintegration.
Media tries to divide people, reframe reality.
Technocrats regard population as ‘useless eaters.’

Jan 29, 2022

Train robberies are back! Joey The Brains, Ice Pick Boris, Dutch and Bugsy, Jacinda and Dan, Blackface Castro...

Gangsters seized 80 guns from a train headed for Tennessee. [1] Union Pacific’s security is deficient all of a sudden. Amazon’s cardboard boxes litter the sidings in downtown LA as thugs rip open mailbags, making off with the swag.

As trains slow down, thieves leap aboard with bolt cutters, pillaging goods bound for Oregon, Washington, Arizona and California.

They don’t match Dillinger or Machine Gun Kelly for daring but give it time. As the 2020s roll back to the 1920s, this is not happening by accident.

As in the Roaring Twenties there are outlaws, mostly freelance criminals from the West and Midwest, and mobsters based in the cities working with police and politicians. They operate on the inside.

Things to come

Those who plan to reshape society need these breakdowns to introduce more control. The population would prefer to be left alone but happenings — that justify claims to defund the police, or Covid as a pretext to empty prisons — are “set up to fail” in order for later exploitation.

This violence may be a taste of things to come. H.G. Wells wrote the script based on his intimacy with the Fabian Society and Lord Alfred Milner’s Round Table a century ago. When corporations are freed of obligations; when the banking cartels effectively replace government, instability will reach unforeseen levels. War will become private enterprise, protection rackets will extend to entire peoples who will be reduced to slaves on a plantation — or at least labourers on a reservation — social credit scores will be a numbers game, social mobility will cease and money will be reduced to vouchers at the company store.

It is safe to assume that most everything in the MSM is put there to shape the public mind. Sure enough, the Inside Edition news show focuses, on the littered ground beside the tracks, on a box of Covid home testing kits: “A precious product,” the reporter intones, “tough to buy at many pharmacies.” Some of the boxes from UPS and Amazon “contained retail goods bound for America’s empty store shelves.”

Why would anyone deliberately break down law and order, in reality or perception? The narrative of feral gangs recalls the Great Depression in the U.S., and in Europe, Weimar’s disintegration. It corrals people into the pen under the watchful eye of big papa government; to plea for protection by the G-Men (who used similar public relations back in Edgar Hoover's days).

Monopoly capitalism is morphing into something with less soul than autocracy, more invasive than a police state and more total than any totalitarian project. The Wobblies were mostly homeless day labourers who trod the path before us. See Moneycircus, Sep 2021 — A Wobbly Perspective: The Aesthetics of Resistance

District Attorneys are in on the plan. When train-robbing criminals are caught, charges are reduced to a misdemeanor or petty offence. Thugs are back on the railroad less than 24 hours after paying a nominal fine.

This is the work of international financier George Soros and his collaborators who lavishly bankrolls progressive candidates in district attorney elections. Of course, a billionaire financier is unlikey to share leftwing values nor care a fig for the quality of life of Black people in the inner cities. It makes more sense that he wants to divide and disrupt society, after which the “new normal” can be implemented — as has been stated quite plainly.

Soros has also financed work “to address the harm of policing in the US.” The financier pays the Justice and Safety PAC as well as 20 other similarly-named political action committees and non-profits. [2]

Soros and his Open Society Foundations work closely with the CIA-influenced State Department and USAID and leech funds from U.S. taxpayers — as part of an “active and ongoing effort to affect politics, economics, and societies in Europe and across the globe.” [3]

White on Black

This has achieved a strange reversal. We liberal lefties wanted people to live better, without regard to race. Now people calling themselves liberal support policies that do the reverse: that segregate, that make inner cities more dangerous. Most bizarrely, they reduce life chances for the very people they purport to help.

In the 1980s it was conservatives who called for censorship, of rock lyrics and those guilty of Thoughtcrime, and who sought to impose their narrow standards on society. Now it is more likely the left.

This reversal is the result of reframing by the media. If you read a newspaper like The Guardian it will discuss how people's views have evolved. It will not reveal the media's role in shaping those views.

While people nail a red or a blue pennant to a particular cause, they fail to see — or they accept as a rule of the game — that they have swapped ends of the pitch, like football players. What seemed blue is now red, and vice versa.

The simplest example is Trump, who spent his life as a noo yawk Democrat. Whatever he really believed, he talked of taking down the deep state, the establishment, the ruling class — a classic left or liberal position. So the media called him a racist… and the rest is history. People naming themselves liberals supported anything the CIA or FBI could do to subvert the political system.

Silencing voices

Step back and take a panoramic view. People have less trust in politicians and journalists — 92 per cent say made-up news confuses the public, according to Pew — yet they believe the narrative of the pandemic, even as it contradicts itself. How does that work?

By silencing any voice other than the government.

According to Pew Research Center, 68 per cent say “made-up news” damages confidence in government. Or to put that another way, any information that questions trust in government must be made-up. [4]

Suspicious minds don't trust each other. The kerfuffle over made-up news reduces citizens' confidence in each other, according to Pew. If I point a finger at a perpetrator, the response will be: why are you saying that?

Where did the kerfuffle over “made-up news” come from? The accomplished news reporter Sharyl Attkisson has shown it came from Pentagon insider and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, prior to the 2016 election but possibly with an eye to coming emergencies. [5]

The former CBS investigative journalist Attkisson this month shows it is not some historical dialectic. This is the work of specific people. This is the rich paying off politicians, and subverting the media and the justice system, for a purpose. [6]

“Virtually every piece of information that can be co-opted has been, whether it’s Wikipedia online, fact-checkers, the news. This is all part of a very well-funded, well-organized landscape that dictates and slants the information they want us to have.”

The media and political action committees have succeeded in subverting the public mind on multiple issues like gender, race, social roles (which entail obligation, the flip side of freedom). What all these have in common is disruption — and that disruption is financed by capital — to dismantle regulation and weaken political power versus corporate freedom to do what it likes.

News racket

On the television news, a deep-furrowed brow… every word a lie. “Tonight haunting new images…” The reporter’s camera pointing away from the hundreds of supporters of the truckers’ convoy, at a solitary couple, giving the impression of a lone protest. At a stadium where children are being herded for vaccination, five youngsters fall ill. The press refuses to cover the adverse reaction and journalists scurry away, cursed by angry parents. There is no news: only damned lies and statistics.

This is the manufacture of the constant threat. And because there is a threat we must manage everybody, tagging and tracking them, so that nobody steps out of line. It is a cliché to talk of sheep but it remains an accurate analogy. Anyone who strays from the flock is a danger: independence could cause others to roam. The shepherd needs his flock to be obedient because he wants their wool and their meat.

“How easy is it to rob a train,” is a top search result on Google. “Banks are easy targets, and the pay is good,” says an article — granted, it’s talking about Red Dead Redemption and for many who spend half their lives in video games you can’t shuck the difference. Going feral is part of the appeal of the metaverse.

Columnist Michael Barone popularized the phrase “gangster government” in a 2010 article on the Dodd-Frank Act that gave the government unlimited bailout authority, and let it apply it, partially, to special interests. [7]

He could not have foreseen the bailout of 2019-20, in which Larry Fink’s BlackRock wrote instructions for the Federal Reserve to “go direct” and hand trillions of dollars to private banks and corporations.

The Great Reset would take thugocracy to new levels. It would give corporations more privilege, private central banks control over wealth, and shackle the people to digital identities, track and trace, social credit scores, carbon taxes and energy allowances.

It proposes something called “agile governance” (not the same as Agile Six Sigma management). This would let corporations roll out new products before getting regulatory approval or completing trials. We have already seen this with the Covid shot and the rollout of 5G near airports.

Interconnected

There is a line that connects the totalitarian experiments of the 20th century. Read H.G. Wells’ comments on liberalism as “enlightened Nazism” and you  begin to probe the attitude of his Fabian colleagues toward “useless eaters.”

Even though an author like Wells or Aldous Huxley framed his novels as dystopian, it contained, like a photographic negative, the outlines of the utopia he desired.

If alive today, Wells would claim a technocrat is a beneficent ruler, of a moral quality quite different to a mobster. Each, however, claims to safeguard you from the constant threat; each is running a protection racket; each is shaking you down “for the good of the community.”

Given the handling of the bailouts in this and the previous decade, are there any grounds for giving corporations the benefit of the doubt and getting government out of the way?

Turns out there may be. Part of the red-blue miasma is the conflict over regulation versus unbridled corporate greed. There is a trade-off. The post-Soviet experiment has shown that the bureaucratic habits of excessive inspection and intrusion foster corruption and retard the development of a working and middle class.

The argument for getting government “off business’ back” is not just conservative dogma as The Great Reset shows. The partisan Red-Blues scrabble is a confection to distract the masses. In the serene, interconnected airstreams of the troposphere, the architects of the Reset look down on a different world, in which fascists and communists are football teams, manipulated by corporate profiteers and poprietors. For them, each represents wealth and continuity.

[1] NY Daily News, Jan 27, 2022 — 80 guns among stolen items in Los Angeles train robberies, police say

[2] NYP, Dec 2021 — How George Soros funded progressive ‘legal arsonist’ DAs behind US crime surge

[3] Judicial Watch, 2018 (PDF) — The Financial and Staffing Nexus Between the Open Society Foundations and the United States Government

[4] Pew Research, Jan 5, 2022 — Trust in America: Do Americans trust the news media?

[5] The Daily Squib, 2018 — ‘Fake News’ Created by Eric Schmidt Former Google Boss

[6] Sharyl Attkisson, Jan 18, 2022 (Transcript) — How Propagandists Co-Opted ‘Fact-Checkers’ and the Press to Control the Information Landscape

[7] Michael Barone, Townhall, 2010 - Gangster Government Becomes a Long-Running Series