Recently I shot through the new Jesse Ventura book “American Conspiracies”. I found it an interesting read, though one that requires you walk along on several assumptions based on a biased point of view. Now, we’re all biased to one degree or another and there are certainly mountains of evidence that Mr. Ventura and his ghost writer Dick Russell exposed. All of that evidence is proof positive of many things, however the oddity is that conjecture is tossed in with the evidence and any discernable fact and message is lost in personal point of view. Supporters of Jesse Ventura (I count myself among them) will understand that he’s a very vocal and opinionated man and frankly, we would be highly disappointed if he didn’t add some of his color to the dry facts of the conspiracies he covers in this book.
Odds are quite good that he did this on purpose. He’s not a stupid man and is likely already under observation by most state and federal departments just because he’s a former governor, not to mention a conspiracy theorist and defender of 3rd party politics.
As a bit of a history nut and a conspiracy theorist myself, his final chapter had be thinking about how amusing it is that movie quotes should hold gems of wisdom within them. ‘Pump up the Volume’, a coming of age John Hughes style movie that came out in 1990, had an interesting quote.
Mark (Christian Slater): All the good themes have been used up. They’ve been turned into theme parks…It was something that stuck with me from that movie. This was possibly because I was only eleven at the time, or possibly because it struck a chord. I’d like to think the latter, though I’m sure there’s an argument for either to be honest. At any rate, the ‘themes’ the character of Mark referred to, from my point of view, are historical precedents. Any assassination of a political giant is likely to be compared to two men; Julius Caesar or John F Kennedy.
It’s actually Julius Caesar that inspired this conspiracy theory to form inside my head. Born into a prominent yet ultimately low family, Caesar rose through the ranks of the military based most chiefly on his innate ability to command. It was well documented and imitated by his adopted son, that he gave brilliant speeches to his men prior to combat to raise their morale and give them focus. It was this skill that he parlayed into his political career and jockeyed into becoming the first king in Rome in centuries.He methodically set about creating laws and passing legislation that facilitated his dictatorship while quietly holding the reigns of power. He distracted the people with games, charity and allowed wars to carry on that he could easily crush. When the moment came, he set himself up as ‘dictator for life’ and began magnanimously building temples, roads, low income housing, he created the first ‘welfare’ system which gave the poor a loaf of bread a day.
After all this was accomplished, the Roman Empire was established and the Roman Republic began to be a marketing scheme rather than an actual governmental body. Senators fought back by slaying Julius and turning him into a martyr. Ironically, given his failing health, this is probably what Caesar was hoping for. Marcus Antonius briefly took over as dictator, though he’d never been the intended successor. Eventually, after a bloody Roman-Egypt war, Julius’ adopted son Octavian (Augustus) became Caesar, a new honorific that sat with the Roman people better than ‘dictator’, ‘king’ or ‘ruler’. Rome recovered from its economic crisis, old wars were decisively won and the common people experienced a calm and peace that they hadn’t experienced in decades.
The economy is still in shambles, created by greed & stupidity. Somehow, the biggest and richest country in the world…suddenly became retarded overnight? Highly unlikely. A country and prides itself on a strict capitalist market…suddenly decided to adopt socialist ideals and give money away? Highly unlikely. A country that’s been making money on every war they’ve been involved in over the last two and a half centuries…suddenly doesn’t know how to make a profit on this one? Highly unlikely.
We’re being setup my friends, setup to believe that after two centuries a financial giant like Wall Street can somehow become fucking retarded overnight and blow it all? Please. The market was re-invented almost a century ago with thousands of built in redundancies to prevent this exact problem we’re supposedly in right now. Jobs are still being cut, almost a trillion dollars has been handed out to ‘boost’ the economy and CEO’s are still getting million dollar bonuses? Really?
Fun fact, if the government had just given every man, woman and child $1 million dollars each…the economy would be saved. Here’s why. No one believes in saving anymore. The national average is that even before the ‘economic meltdown’, 90% of people live paycheck to paycheck. You give someone who makes $25k a year a MILLION dollars…he’s going to run out and buy a house, a nice car, a big screen TV, insurance, services….and tada! The economy is back on track.Instead, the government gives out a TRILLION dollars to a couple dozen companies and it somehow vanished. Really? Money managers, CFO’s and shareholders suddenly don’t know how to handle money? Please.
Here’s the setup. A ‘savior’ is going to appear when things get worse. No, it’s not Obama. He’s in too deep with the money men at this point. It won’t be Palin either. She just rubs too many people the wrong way. It’ll be some 3rd party hero or something the people can really believe in. He (or She!) will ride in on a tide of support from the people who elect him into office and start kicking ass and taking names. Everyone will love him. Even the ‘media’ can’t find dirt on him. Once everything’s getting better, a threat will appear on the horizon and he’ll come to us and say; ‘Give me absolute power and I’ll fix this problem too! Look at my track record…blah blah’.
We will too. Because we’ll all feel like we can trust him, and we really have no choice at this point because no one wants to go backwards. So he’ll become “President for Life” or something like that, maybe something less inflammatory so the historians don’t freak out. He’ll solve that problem too (probably something he orchestrated in the first place). People will come to love him and folks who figure it out will be rounded up. It’ll be a quiet conquering of our liberties and we’ll all still love him for it because we’ll be better off.
In laymen’s terms…the USA will become Rome 2.
The irony here of course is that Rome never actually ended. It still exists. It’s just marketing. The Roman Empire changed its name to The Holy Roman Catholic Church, and it spread its influence all over the world. It indoctrinated the weak minded, oversaw the appointment of Kings and still to this day exhibits the best of Roman traits; cover-ups. Don’t believe me? Ask an alter boy.
