I joined this facebook group without looking at it closely enough. It was about 11 September 2001. About two years ago I heard about Tower 7. I always knew that the events of that day served the Bush regime well (and by "Bush regime" I really mean Senior and Rummy and Cheney, and people that most of us don't even know about). But a government conspiracy? It was too much.
But after I heard about Tower 7 and started looking into groups like Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a new idea began to emerge. It was DoD contractors and the Bush regime. And probably a lot of other groups in government and the defense industry, and not just in this country. (Learning about Serco was also a contributing factor. They are known in St. Louis for sabotaging the Affordable Care Act- but a global company that has it's fingers in everything, and strong ties to the Bush regime.)
Some of the sites I have visited about 9/11 theories have really un-academic research methods (not Architects and Engineers, but a lot of the conspiracy theory sites, etc). And even though I use the term "Illuminati" pretty freely, I don't mean the same thing these people do.
However, I've always been happy that there are conspiracy theorists out there, in addition to regular folk that question the official story our government tells us. It's better that way. Freedom and justice cannot thrive among the obedient and docile, the unquestioning.
But I also want to get as many facts as I can, and as many viewpoints. I always seek out the opposition, or at least their version of the story. However, I did think the facebook group I joined was more people with my slant on the events of that day than people that were satisfied with the official story.
In fact, it was a group devoted to "debunking" the "truthers." Turns out I am a "truther". A label I don't like because it instantly brings to mind the Obama birth certificate people. But, you know, you can't always be what you want in someone else's story. Everybody is the good guy in some stories, the bad guy in others, and everything in between.
I found out I was the bad guy pretty quick after I posted in the group. I was getting slammed by two people I would normally call "trolls" except, midway through it, I realised that I was the troll!
One of the group admins did try to keep things at a calm discussion level, but as I was fending off attacks, I scrolled down the page again and realised that I had not looked closely enough. I deleted my comment and I was gonna lurk but the two trolls just wouldn't stop. Private messages insulting me and public posts gloating they had "scared me off". There was nothing to gain by continuing, and now that I have the links to the "truther" "debunker" websites I don't need the group. (I can just go read what the group is reading.)
It's ironic to find myself a troll, even inadvertently. I've sworn off trolls and trolling- every now and then I do respond in the comments section of the Riverfront Times, or other media sites, But I reel myself back in pretty quickly. In the last year I've gotten a good look at the trolls, because of Ferguson, and over a year later, and without any contact on my part, they still drive my blog stats up on a weekly basis. (Thanks Trolls!)
One of them still follows me on facebook, directs other trolls to both of my blogs. I can't imagine that mindset as permanent. I can't imagine reading ever single thing someone I don't agree with and don't like, writes. I can't imagine wasting my own time like that, when it would be better put to use contacting government officials, signing petitions, etc. What on earth does a troll stalker think they are going to accomplish? It's pointless.
But then again, I'm not one of the people watching their world collapse. There are a lot of people in the world suffering, really suffering. Hungry, homeless, lost, ill. All of them could have everything they need, but the division of wealth keeps the abundance of the world from those that need it the most. In fact, the Old Age kept wealth out of the hands of the people that produce it. So there are people in the world fighting real battles.
But here in 'Murica, you have these (mostly) white guys just freaking out about how they are losing their privilege and control. And all they can do is sit around on the internet, attacking people they don't know, and stalking them for years- just waiting to find the opportunity to"make them pay" for not upholding the myth of "white might is right."
When I talk about the muggle/micro/Piscean Age world collapsing, I am sometimes a little gleeful. But the armed thugs that took over the Oregon wildlife centre today are a good reminder that it is actually not at all something to feel superior about. Because this what the trolls do when they get off the internet. They go out with their guns in their hands.
This stupid micro/Piscean Age world has sucked for most of us waiting for the New Age, but anarchy and revolution aren't going to be pretty either. Especially since it won't be us New Age hippie Macro Love Freaks launching it. We're lending a hand to systems that are already collapsing, and trying to put the new New Age structures in place.
These conservative muggle people are literally fighting to the death to drag the world backwards, or to take out as many people as they can. And it is going to get even uglier, I expect. It was really easy for a lot of people that wanted to keep their head in the sand to ignore what happened at Bundy ranch last year. You could count on sixteen hours of Ferguson looting reruns to be on television to overwhelm the 10 minute story on armed white men pointing their guns at federal agents.
The Constitutional violations of the St Louis county and city police, and the Bundy ranch stand off were actually two of the most significant things to have happened during that time. For every citizen of the U.S., not just the people involved. But true to form, all we heard about was the looters.
And open carry is allowed in all courthouses and federal buildings? In a country where random shootings occur at about 3 per week currently? No one ever gets mad enough at a judge or cop or lawyer or a politician to want to shoot them. Smart move, voters.
If this were another country and the CIA was trying to install a coup, open carry everywhere would be a smart move. (I don't think the CIA is launching a coup, but it's hard not see the possibilities in plot lines.) If I were a government official, or had an interest in maintaining the status quo, I'd be "up in arms" about open-carry. It's basically an invitation to insurrection.
It's ironic that the country is getting a dose of the real terrorists. The white patriots. It's more ironic than Bureau of Land Management and Black Lives Matter having the same initials. (There are people on twitter that actually thought the BLM with the crossed out circle in the white patriot terrorists photographs was anti-Black Lives Matter. And it wasn't Black Lives Matter activists and supporters. It was the people too busy looking at the looting footage to pay attention to Cliven Bundy and his ilk.) The crazy white right wing white guys are busy fighting each other.
I am going to find it very interesting to see if the 2nd Amendment people are right. That you have to have a gun to make the government stand down. Maybe I am wrong about guns. Maybe we should all go get one, just to keep the "man" off our backs. (At least, until the next "man" comes along.)
Because let's be clear: whether Bundy ranch and federal land, or a Federal wildlife rescue centre, these guys are not out protesting the government in the streets- getting arrested and tear-gassed and having their Constitutional rights violated.
No, they are being "negotiated with" and sent snacks.
So maybe the gun people are right. Maybe we need a gun to make revolution, not protest and love and justice and non-violence and Bernie Sanders and signing petitions. Or maybe we just need to find some white guys with guns. Because the cops bombed the shit of out Move. But on the other hand, they also shot up Waco.
So what is it about these Bundy people that makes them so special? Is it just their white skin? Just their guns?
I hope these Bundy people are right wing wack jobs. But it looks like more than just that. They represent something bigger or a lot more people than is being reported in the press. And in any other instance, this would be an act of treason and the start of an insurgency. There is a reason they have been handled with kid gloves since this started.
If it is because they are white, which it very well could be, then wow. I expect a lot of consciousness awakening at having the truth so exposed. But I expected that last year, too,
Uranus goes direct tomorrow and Mercury is retrograde. We are still in some Mars cycle that brings revolutions. (Read astropro.com to get the actual astrology.) This seems like the beginning of something, even with the Mercury retrograde cycle in effect.
I don't know. I am just musing. But this seems far more serious than I see it being treated, and I don't like the vibe.
We shall see. Peace out, Peeps!
