All is Geared to the Flesh

By Michael Helton, The Chattanoogan

2/14/2005

Osama Bin Laden performed a master stroke of genius towards achieving his goals, and he didn't even know it.

His was the earthquake, and soon the tsunami of destruction will be full force upon us. Yes, tsunamis come in all forms. It is upon us already, but in our greed, and our arrogance, and in our deceived minds we have yet to be aware of it.

As a nation we are already awash in the filth of depravity. Corporations have now replaced the soul of our nation. We have allowed the film community to inculcate our children with every kind of selfish notion that our bodies can conceive of, while obliterating the notion of God or spirituality. We let the advertising firms and the companies that they represent tell us what to think and do and wear and drive and eat and smoke and drink. We sit and stare at televisions all day long. Yes, they lead us down the path with a ring in our nose because, alas, we are but sheep. Everything is geared to the flesh.

The greatly touted internet is a two-edged sword which does far more social harm than good. When your government can use a number to represent you and collect your life’s history on it, then your government has gotten too big. All fascist governments know that the way to control the people is to have information on them. Computers and the internet give them great power. The internet has also caused an exponential rise in pornography and sexual degeneration like this nation has never seen before, and we call it freedom of speech. One of the internet's greatest abilities is the ability to deceive. Not good for a people as gullible as we.

The tobacco industry kills half a million people a year and we do nothing. Terrorists kill three thousand and we go in to a trillion dollar war, only considering the financial cost. There is a much greater cost than that to be paid. Just wait and see.

We have allowed the Justice Department, all the way from the Supreme Court to the lowest police officer, to become a huge industry, taking our freedoms away while they feed at the trough. Their interest is not justice, or the constitution, it is power and money and control - three of the greatest intoxicants known to man.

George Bush and his administration were already looking for ways to expand big government, and, when the World Trade Center was bombed, he used it to propel the government into fascist proportion. Yes, that’s what I said, fascist. Look it up.

We give away our freedoms as if we were throwing out old clothes and no longer have need of them. Some day you will say, “Where did they all go?” and I will reply, “You gave them away.” Others have their freedoms taken at gunpoint, but in our blindness, and in our ignorance, through lack of reason and insight, we just give ours away.

And then we go to war. If ever a man was led around by the nose, that man is George Bush. Osama Bin Laden says “go here” and he goes here, and Iran says “go there” and he goes there. That was the stroke of genius on Bin Laden's part, that he has used a man like George Bush, the President of the United States, to do his bidding. Were it not for Bush, Bin Laden would never have achieved so much. He has played Bush like a piano, and Bush has played us like a piano. You see, we have met the enemy, and he is us. We have taken the bait, much to our own demise.

Yes, the full force of the wave will soon be upon us, and I am ready. I love to see judgment come, to see the shock on peoples' faces when they find out that they are no longer in control, to see the bewilderment when they realize that they have taken themselves far too seriously for far too long, when they find out that the world wasn't about them after all, when they find out that they were only sheep.


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