“Ranters” dare to speak their mind then get labeled as “crackpots” and “bomb throwers”. Remember, ranters are some of the most radically honest and last “free-beings” left on earth. Spewing burning truths and incendiary opinions may be the only real freedom and human dignity that mankind has left.
Truth stings. We typically may not like facing the truth. Ranters are truthful but become scapegoats, driven away to the realm of the “unheard”, branded as extremists and cultists. Society’s punishment is to banish ranters from any kind of position of power or power potential, kind of like what happened to New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, who conceivably got too close to discovering who REALLY assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Anyone considered by those in power to be a threat to that power will be considered to be social foes and these foes tend to get their “teeth kicked in”, so to speak, by those in power and control. If a ranter can successfully “spin control” his burning truths and incendiary opinions he can then possibly sway public opinion and control the media that sets out to destroy him but “spinning” may, in itself, too often dilute and weaken the rant and rave.
Wicked people, like blackmailers, moneylenders, employers of child laborers, pimps for prostitutes, ‘scab’ laborers, drug pushers, strip miners, slumlords, libelers, like ranters, are all society’s scapegoats. They are the objects of revulsion even though they are not generally thought of as aggressors or violent by nature. Yet, in one sense, they actually fulfill functions in the economy just like scorpions, vultures, cockroaches, mosquitos and maggots perform necessary functions in nature.
A ranter’s radical honesty is learning how to get good at telling the truth without making everyone hate or despise you in the process. Stress does not come most often from environmental influences but more often comes from the self-built jail of our mind which keeps our mind locked up through telling lies. We lie like hell. We cannot help it. Telling lies burns us out and is a primary source of stress…and stress kills.
Not telling the truth about how we really feel about things, in general, keeps us stressful. The only relief is to get good at telling the truth in a radically honest way. It may even save you from a stress-related heart attack. Speaking in “politically correct” terms means “telling lies” (untruths) just to help you get by day to day and not be hated or despised by friends, family and co-workers. Speaking in ‘politically correct’ terms can also make a person feel miserable inside. Telling lots of lies or untruths can put unnecessary stress upon you because you are too often searching for”just the right ” lie or “fib” to tell others that will be believed to be truthful so they will not ‘turn on you’ or hate you.
True selfishness in a revolution may be the ONLY friend you can trust because unselfish people can “turn on and turn off” their loyalty like a light switch. The TRUE revolutionary is the ONLY one you can ALWAYS trust and count on because he or she is loyal ONLY to themselves, and in it for themselves, as only true revolutionaries could ever be. This means if a true revolutionary is on the side of YOUR cause he or she will not bend or break and will “go down with the ship”, so to speak, while unselfish others around you could easily “switch sides” or loyalties just to save themselves, consequently, leaving you stranded.
That being said…let the rant begin. Some anonymous sources are sending to America, and other countries in the Free World, what seemingly looks like innocuous, free seeds from China, Taiwan and elsewhere from the Mid-East to the Far East. Is sending these free seeds to the Free World symbolic or sinister, or both?
Sending the world free seeds can be seen as similar to the scene in the movie Jurassic Park where the extremely dangerous, captive Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex) dinosaur was always testing its captors and noting its captors’ reactions and responses to the T-rex trying to punch holes in the electric fence, always testing for weaknesses, always testing in different places to find the weakest points to break through the fence and attack its captors. The line in the movie from one of the T-rex captors was, the T-rex is smart. “And they remember.” The gist here is be ready for an attack when you least suspect it.
During the 1960s in America there was a Japanese professional wrestler on TV that called himself Tojo. In American TV wrestling there is always someone promoted as a ‘good guy’ and the opponent is always promoted as a ‘bad guy’. Tojo was most always ‘billed’ as the Asian ‘bad guy’.
Americans, for the most part, because of their self-centered thought patterns and mostly isolated, inside America lifestyles, they too often do not distinguish one nationality of Asian from another. Consequently, in many Americans’ minds, anyone from the Far East that looks Asian are basically all the same, and Tojo, during the 1960s in TV wrestling, was pretty much the only wrestler of Asian descent.
Tojo’s ring tactics were always based on being ‘sneaky’, for example, sneaking up on his opponent for a blind side attack when his opponent least expected it. Of course, in America, Tojo was always the guy the crowd loved to hate week after week for years. Tojo’s ring tactics were all based on the ‘sneak attack’ which always reminded Americans of the ‘sneak attack’ made by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, that brought the U.S. into World War II to take on the world’s aligned fascists at the time…Germany’s Adolph Hitler and the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito.
On an even ‘sneakier’ side, for centuries, covert sabotage, better known today as ‘Black Ops’, (Underground Operations) is nothing new between countries that want to disrupt each other’s national and international political stability, or in other words, ‘bring each other down’ without having to go to all-out war to do it. For example, U.S. government intelligence agencies ‘unsuccessfully’ tried for years all kinds of acts of sabotage on Cuba’s farm crops and infrastructure, including assassination attempts and trying to starting a revolution inside Cuba to try and disrupt Cuba’s economy and bring down Cuba’s communist government led by Cuba’s revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro.
However, throughout history, unlike the Romans, Vikings, Persians, Germans, Japanese and others, the Chinese have never tried to overtly take over any other nation. Historically, China attacks only by going on ‘the defensive’ when they or their neighbors are attacked, like during World War ll, the Korean War and Vietnam War, yet critics charge, we are now in a ‘new era’ for China.
When China was allowed by the Free World to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) during the 1990s, China officially became acknowledged by the Free World as a trading partner. Trained in America’s most prestigious universities during the 1950s, Chinese nuclear physicists obtained the necessary secrets for making the nuclear bomb for China, so China was already a formidable world power before joining the WTO.
In the 1990s, the Free World had hopes that opening up free trade with China would turn them away from ruling their people with the ‘iron fist’ of communism and move them toward the freedom of democracy and capitalism. However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had different ideas.
The CCP does not call their ‘brand’ of governing ‘communist’. They call it ‘socialism with a Chinese character’. This form of governing and trade appears to allow a dynamic capitalistic market, but is controlled as a totalitarian, top-down structure from the CCP with rigid rules, social restrictions and ‘social credit’ expectations with limited freedoms for the Chinese people and, as always, enforced by the heavy handed, ‘take few, if any, prisoners’ CCP.
China’s Belt and Road Project and manifesto to become the world’s dominant power by 2049, at the latest, is no secret. The year 2049 will be the centennial of the Chinese Communist Revolution as noted in the book, The Hundred Year Marathon written by Michael Pillsbury in 2015.
And it is also no secret that China may not have enough military might to take on the U.S. head-on because the U.S., like Russia, has ten times more nuclear warheads than China, so China ‘taking down’ America may need to be done surreptitiously, or ‘on the sly’ so to speak, using more covert means that do not have the CCP’s fingerprints all over it like…high-tech sabotage, cyberwarfare, bacteria pandemics, smuggling Russian-made, ‘suitcase nuclear bombs’ to terrorists inside America, getting Americans to plant free, suspicious seeds…just to name a few.
In November 2001, Pakistan alerted U.S. intelligence officials that, under coercion, a captured suspected terrorist admitted that terrorists had been trying to smuggle two Russian-made, portable nuclear weapons, effectively called ‘suitcase bombs’ into the USA. The suspect knew details of how to activate the weapons and their construction that are not in the public domain. The weapons could easily be nuclear ‘backpack weapons’, of the suitcase variety, or some other Russian-made portable nuclear weapon.
The U.S. has since put U.S. law enforcement agencies on highest alert. The ‘finished nuke’ could be a radiological device with a core of conventional explosives wrapped inside nuclear waste such as iodine 131. U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that Russia, in the past, reportedly produced 132 portable nuclear weapons and that nearly 50 of them have disappeared and are unaccounted for. Terrorists from around the world have gone to great lengths to purchase weapons of mass destruction.
In fact, in a hidden camera investigation, it was shown how easy one can acquire shopping lists of what is available in the way of nuclear bomb-making materials, readymade biological weapons, and goods and services to export terror which can be bought and sold on the streets of Third World nations.
Today, no one is talking much anymore about the outbreaks of the Ebola Virus in Third World nations. Other deadly viruses may be coming soon and erupt in a ‘theatre near you’. Critics contend, that silence on the subject may be because U.S. intelligence officials may not want to panic the sheepish U.S. citizenry because no known cures will be readily available for highly contagious and deadly viruses. Eighty per cent of those who contracted Ebola died and, at that time, all we could do is set up quarantine camps to send all those who contracted Ebola and, basically, watch them die.
Moreover, remember, too many ship containers, as well as too much air freight, entering the U.S. may not get thoroughly inspected and over 20 million import shipments come into the U.S. every year by truck, train, ship or air.
Furthermore, terrorists are known to have their own ships registered to companies in various countries. U.S. intelligence officials admit that the biggest problem is all that we do NOT know. There is so much intelligence data being collected and shared by nations around the world that too often U.S. intelligence is unable to separate fact from opinion.
Regardless, China will likely resort to covert actions against the U.S. with no China fingerprints on their actions. In the past when covert actions were more militaristic in nature, compared to today’s potential cyber and bacteria warfare, for example, during the late 1970s, the U.S. covertly used the Afghan people to militarily defeat the Soviet Union from taking over Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The U.S. covertly supplied the Afghan fighters through Pakistan ONLY with Soviet-made weapons to defeat the Soviets because none of the weapons could ever be seen as being American-made for fear of starting an all-out war with the Soviets. The Soviet-made weapons were acquired from the country with the largest stockpile of Soviet-made weapons in the world at the time…Israel. Israel had already captured a huge stockpile of Soviet-made weapons during their overwhelming victories during the Arab-Israeli war, and other military actions, against all the Arab countries in the region surrounding Israel that have been seeking to ‘wipe Israel off the map’ for decades since the 1960s.
By the same measure America can expect China to try and do the same to America…covertly at first. Once the China ‘seed project’, and many others like it, or unlike it, that have already successfully or unsuccessfully been put in place and delivers the necessary data to the Chinese Communist Party, like that of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, so how will America respond now, and in the future, to all China’s covert actions taken against the U.S. and others in the Free World?
How America responds, or does not respond, may determine the fate of America remaining a world superpower. Here is an example of how to respond or not respond. When the first American soldier was lost to an Iraqi improvised explosive device (IED) during the invasion of Iraq by America during the 1990s, America’s political leaders went ahead and decided to send American soldiers fighting ‘door to door’ inside Iraq to ‘take down’ Iraqi resistance.
When America invaded, most all of Iraq surrendered almost immediately rather than suffer the wrath of the U.S. military and, at that time, the U.S. had lost few American soldiers. However, there were numerous Iraqis who chose to stand and fight who were ‘holed up’ in just three small provinces in Iraq. Put into perspective, around seventy per cent of Iraq’s citizens are Iranian Shia, while the rest of Iraq’s citizens are Iraqi Sunnis, and the Sunni leader of Iraq, fascist leader, Saddam Hussein, ruled Iraq with an iron fist through torture and murder. The Iranian Shia and the Iraqi Sunnis have been trying to conquer each other for centuries.
To keep from losing American soldiers’ lives during the invasion of Iraq, conceivably all the U.S. had to do was surround Saddam’s homeland in the three Sunni provinces where most of Iraq’s Sunni population lived and were willing to resist the U.S. invasion. Blocking the few roads that even exist in and out of the 3 Sunni provinces would starve them out with a siege until the Iraqi resistance fighters came out, one by one, if necessary.
However, U.S. political leaders, at the time, felt a siege leading to possible starvation of the Iraqi resistance would look bad in the ‘eyes of the world’ as inhumane. And they were right. However, what should have been more important to Americans and American political leadership? The lives of American soldiers or Iraqi men women and children? If thousands of Iraqis had died during the siege, yes, America would be called inhumane. However, 5 000 American soldiers would likely not have died and 10,000 likely would not have been injured, many maimed for life, all in all destroying 15,000 American families during the invasion of Iraq.
So, what was the correct response? A wise, prudent decision conceivably would be to save as many lives of American soldiers as possible first and foremost, with concern for Iraqi citizens coming in a distant second. Conceivably, many Iraqi women and children would have walked out alive during a siege and only Saddam’s soldiers would have been starved out during a siege. The bottom line is, just like everything in world politics, wait just one generation later in seven years and no one would even care what happened during the American invasion of Iraq, and wait two generations later in 14 years, and too many people worldwide would hardly even recall much of what even had happened during the Iraq invasion because, as we all know, people may not forgive but they soon forget as life’s day to day struggles continue, and Mother Nature rules at the end of every day while the masses contend daily with the survival of the fittest.
So what is the proper response to China’s covert actions to dominate and/or eventually rule America? The movie Forest Gump’s main character was named after the Confederate General, Nathan Bedford Forest, who during the American Civil War of the 1860s established a military strategy that is still considered today in military warfare as a formidable strategy. Nathan Bedford Forest coined the military phrase “get there firstest with the mostest.” If there was ever a military confrontation with China, currently, China has ten times fewer nuclear warheads than the USA.
So what will America do when China literally walks in and, soon than later, takes over the whole South China Sea including the democracy of Taiwan, and finally puts down the Hong Kong protests annexing both as part the China mainland; like when Russia blatantly walked in and stole the Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 to gain untold, rich natural resources and strategic access to the Black Sea, even though America warned Russia there would be grave consequences for Russia if they stole the Crimea from Ukraine. However, Russia did not ‘blink an eye’ or hesitate due to the weak political leadership being exhibited by the U.S. at the time.
When it comes to confrontations between nuclear war powers, pro-democracy India hopefully can keep a Muslim Pakistan at bay. Israel and Russia are wild cards. Israel favors the USA and Russia is the ‘lone wolf’ waiting for which side best suits their own national progress. As long as Russia gets ‘a cut’ of any proceeds from any international political instabilities then Russia will likely side with those who will guarantee Russia gets their fair share of the liberated ‘booty’ while Russia continues spying to steal as many medical, technological and military secrets as possible allowing them to be able to keep up with the international governments ‘pack of wolves’ taking part in robbing, stealing, money-grabbing, land-grabbing, regime changing and so on.
Iran, and no other nation, will likely ever be allowed to build a functional nuclear bomb unless, for example, Iran purchases a ‘suitcase nuclear bomb’ from a Russian capitalist or traitor so all the Iranians would have to do to activate it is ‘push a button’.
The Iranians are friendly, good people. It is the 21st Century Iranian government that keeps their people down and, like the Chinese people, if the oppressive Iranian and Chinese governments were ‘brought down’ internally by military coups the freed peoples of Iran and China would be ‘dancing in the streets’, like Iraq’s citizens were doing when Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, was brought down in 2003 by the USA during the Iraq Invasion.
So, does America go pro-active and ‘take care’ of China by ‘getting there firstest with the mostest’? Or, like in American football, does America sit back and play ‘prevent defense’? The prevent defense in American football is a losing strategy that will not win 90% of the time. The idea is when you get a decent lead in points on the scoreboard built up ahead of your opponent you sit back and try to prevent the opponent from making any ‘big plays’ to catch up and win the game.
The problem with a prevent defense is the opposing team simply chips away and chips away at their opponent’s lead until they ‘make a play’ that ends up winning the game. Just ask the American football team, Miami Dolphins, who have used the prevent defense for decades and have never really had a winning season since they had a ‘winning’ leader (quarterback), for 17 years from the 1980s through the 1990s. During those proud 17 years with a strong leader, the Dolphins rarely ever were left in a situation where they had to play prevent defense to try and ‘eek’ out a win.
The U.S. can wait and hope the Chinese people rise up, like their Chinese cousins in Hong Kong are currently trying to do, and overthrow the CCP but unless the Chinese military goes along with a resistance movement inside China there will likely be millions of Chinese who would die at the hands of the CCP. And if the Chinese population is anything like the complacent, sheepish, all-pleasure no-pain ‘softboys’ and ‘snowflakes’ being homegrown in the U.S. these days, who are too often more interested in how many mindless Tik Tok or Twitter followers they have than truly contributing something worthwhile to society or the planet; there may be little back bone and guts from anyone coming of age in America to fight anyone on the planet, much less fight to the death for freedom and the homeland.
So like the upcoming generations of Americans, the Chinese may just roll over and submit rather than die for ‘the cause’ of freedom like America’s forefathers sacrificed and died for freedom. However, Americans’ strengths, these days, are different from the Chinese. American culture means pornography and ‘slasher’ movies. American ethics is all about payoffs, insider trading and graft. American integrity means lying, whoring and intoxication. No clue what the strengths of the Chinese people are these days. Regardless, there may be limited choices for Americans in ‘the big game’ with China…fight back with first strike…or give up and play defense. As a U.S. President said, “Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction.” Time will tell. GLTA America!
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: CHINA’S GRAND PLAN TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD IN FORBES MAGAZINE BY JOHN MAULDIN, PRESIDENT OF MAULDIN ECONOMICS 11/19/19 and THE BOOK: THE HUNDRED YEAR MARATHON BY MICHAEL PILLSBURY, 2015 and NEWSMAX.COM 12/21/01 and CBS-TV NEWS SHOW ‘60 MINUTES’ 12/19/01 and THE MOVIE: TALK RADIO, 1988