There is a reason the military industrial complex and the CIA in
particular has been for decades the most powerful influencer in
Hollywood. As Etienne de la Boetie explained over 500 years ago, the monopoly of state power
rests on the willing compliance of whole populations, gained by virtue of a
very human need for a unifying story, and for each other’s approval.
The institution of the state
appears as a dark menacing iceberg – imposing, intolerant, unmoving, and
deadly. The Orwellian future of “a boot stamping on a human
face—for ever” is a present reality, a present risk. We are
seeing this future/now in the treatment given by the
dominant empire on the planet, the largest and most powerful empire that has
ever existed on the planet, to a single man who competently challenged that
empire with a small dose of transparency.
The torture and permanent
destruction of the great mind of Julian Assange – continuing even after the
state had extracted his encryption keys for Wikileaks, meaning even after the
state has extracted the IP addresses, times, dates, content and ultimately the
whistleblowers around the world who were inspired by ideas of truth and
transparency over the past decade – is nothing more than a cruel exercise of
evil, in the name of the citizens and taxpayers and patriots in those “free”
and “good” states of the US and the UK.
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The technologies that enabled Wikileaks to
publish have evolved, and chasing these technologies, owning them and
controlling them, using them against people in the name of state order, is Job
1 for the US Intelligence Community. Trillions of black budgeted dollars in the US alone have
created a problem for people everywhere, the American people specifically, and
that problem needs to be solved.
We
bear witness, via state-directed media, of kangaroo courts, star chambers,
courtroom scenes straight out of Idiocracy,
and it seems Hollywood. CNBC and Reuters reported Tuesday that “[Julian
Assange] appeared in good health, with his white hair combed back and wearing a navy suit over a light blue sweater and white
shirt.” As an afterthought, we read he understood very little,
and was confused and couldn’t think. But it’s all fine, he appeared in good
health, in a clean outfit that he had been physically dressed in by his
torturers for Monday’s court appearance.
CNBC
doesn’t name the British judge at all, but she is a woman of mystery, Vanessa
Baraitser, who in the past has been quite lenient, but now takes
her orders regarding Assange from five American lawyers in the room, two of
which whom were CIA. The cheerful reporting by state media is
designed to entertain and calm that remnant of the population that is paying
attention.
We
are witnessing a purge of those the state finds inconvenient, a purge we
subsidize and consent to, an amoral passion play where everyone plays a part.
Meanwhile, Hans-Hermann Hoppe shared basic truths about state power,
organization and monopoly to over 1,500 reflective Russians. Is Russia
the future of freedom, the new city on a hill, having already completed their
end of empire, their secession, their financial collapse, now refreshed and
rejuvenated? Hoppe explained how smaller states rarely attempt war,
usually due to lack of resources and inability to convince their involved and
aware populations of the need for it. But larger states, particularly
democratic states, do seek war, empire and expansion. The dictum taught to generations of
political science students that we promote democracy around the world because
democracies rarely make war (sub voce against each other, they qualify), like so much we
have been taught, is utterly false! Democracy invites popular, socialized
and mandatory investment in state activity, and as we have long known and oft
repeated, war is the health of the state. Hoppe shared that
states dependent on actual – not manufactured – consent embrace the
idea of self government and the right to secession of villages, provinces and
regions. These states compete for
their population, and earn every citizen’s confidence, or they fail.
Not
so for the great democratic empire of the US, where walls and biometric
identifications systems and “Homeland Security” and internal passports for movement have already been
implemented. The American history of secession is buried and
scatologized, and any talk of dividing or reducing the vast empire is
dangerous, traitorous talk. The enemy of an empire in permanent
decline is the very population it claims – a population the state views as
tax-beasts, livestock, slaves and helots – a population that necessarily
evolves against the state, here failing to identify with the empire, there no longer
sharing a sense of belonging, now turning away, and ultimately disappearing.
We the people are the natural enemy of the
empire. The intellectual murder of Julian Assange and his
physical murder to come, by our government, is a public message to all of us,
direct from the soulless powers that be, our criminal Congress and the perfect
parasite of the IC and the military industrial complex that we are owned, we
are enslaved, we are worth only what the state says we are worth, and we must
comply.
Julian is the beneficiary of torture
and mental destruction techniques perfected by CIA scientists and
psychologists of the past, and all
empires
have been well practiced in these dark arts. But in killing Assange, we can
understand what frightens the state monopolies, the US empire, and its
parasitic monsters of war, the most? Not surprisingly, it is
transparency. Who are these people? How do they operate? What have
they stolen, lied about, destroyed? Why do we subsidize them? Can
we eliminate them, and the institutions that empower them?
Certainly,
this is not accomplished via democracy, via a vote or two. It is changed
by the story we tell, and the stories we believe. Trump, in the days
remaining to his presidency, has the power to change the story. He should
start with a presidential pardon for Julian Assange.
He
should also immediately replace the Director of the CIA and FBI, and charge
them and many of their subordinates, for the various crimes they have
committed, relating to Assange, relating to his own presidency, relating to
misuse of billions and billions of taxpayer dollars over the past
decades. Trump could also take real steps to end the overseas empire, and
tend to the health of the domestic one – as he promised in his 2016
campaign. What does he have to lose?
Breaking the CIA into a thousand pieces –
even talking about it – is the kiss of death for any President. The
Assange treatment stands as a message for journalists and for government and
government contractor whistleblowers or truthtellers that everyone – from an
elected President to leaders of political parties to CEOs and line workers – everyone
must remain silent, compliant and invisible, or you will be mentally and
physically destroyed. That’s a story I cannot accept, and a mandate I
will not obey.
There are not enough prisons for all of
us, and once we realize we are building prisons for ourselves, the gig is
up. This is the brittle fragility of the US empire. The dark menacing
unmoving iceberg of state power is an illusion; it can be shattered by a small
set of harmonic vibrations, many of which are already in play. However,
the blood of tyrants is real. In my last essay I advised those who have contributed to Wikileaks to
run, to seek cover, as you are being hunted by the US and her
allies, and they have the tools in hand to destroy you. For the purveyors
of state evil, I advise you to run as well. History is not on your
side. Get out while you still can, while there is still time.
Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D. [send her mail], a retired USAF lieutenant
colonel, farmer and aspiring anarcho-capitalist. She ran for Congress in
Virginia's 6th district in 2012.
Copyright © 2019 Karen Kwiatkowski
