How "kill the pigs" became "only the police should have guns"
by Jon Rappoport
March 30, 2013
In
the fabled 1960s, the cops were called pigs, and anybody on the
political Left who wanted a ticket to the show knew that and mouthed it
often.
At rallies, protests, and riots,
people said: are the pigs here yet? I heard they were three blocks away.
Wonder how many pigs they're sending today? There! There they are! The
pigs!
Now, on the Left, that tradition has morphed into: repeal the 2nd
Amendment; turn in your guns; citizens with guns are satanic; the
police will protect us; a private citizen with a gun is a killer and
needs psychiatric lockdown; suspend that five-year old with the gun
screen-saver.
What happened?
In
1968, if you asked a leftie college student whether a black man living
in the inner city had a right to own a gun to protect himself against
the cops, the answer, ten out of ten times, would have been yes.
Now, that leftie kid will be talking about the insanity of anybody owning a gun. Except for the cops.
Well,
three things have happened since the 1960s. The end of the military
draft, and the end of anybody caring who smokes pot or who has sex with
who. Those changes melted away the whole "movement."
A
professor friend taught at UCLA during the turbulent 60s and early 70s.
He told me as soon as the Vietnam war was over, the campus transformed
in a flash. Students were suddenly all about finding a niche in the job
market after graduation. Boom. Switch on, switch off.
The titanic idealism was put away in a drawer and filed under "crazy shit I did."
The
one remaining piece from the 60s that has endured is hatred of big
corporations. But gradually, a parallel mindset has developed. First,
grudging acceptance of big government; then toleration; then admiration.
Now, the Left is all about big government and the "positive changes" it can make.
And
when I say the Left, I also mean the center, and a great deal of the
right, because they've come along for the ride, too. They are the Left
now.
In 1968, a big-time liberal
presidential candidate, Hubert Humphrey, was the target of riots, by the
Left, at the Democratic National Convention. Those riots tore apart
half the city. Two years earlier, a march, by the Left, on the Century
Plaza Hotel in LA, where Democratic President Lyndon Johnson was
staying, sealed his fate. It was the last stone. Johnson, who had
presided over the war on poverty and the creation of "The Great
Society," the biggest federal program since FDR's New Deal, was mangled
into oblivion.
Johnson announced he wouldn't run for office again in 1968.
If
Pelosi, Reid, Frank, and Obama had been around then, they would have
been hammered in the same way by the Left. If they were for the war in
Vietnam.
That was the big key, the war. Or to be precise, the military draft.
"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?!"
Meaning: "I won't risk my neck going to Nam!"
The
elite Left has become the personification of the soccer mom now.
Worries about everything. Danger everywhere. Needs more helmets.
Schedules more play dates. Wants more state surveillance. "If you're
against intrusion on your privacy, maybe you have something to hide."
"Keep the poor bottled up in inner cities, give them anything they want,
just don't let them into my neighborhood."
The
Left has also become the promise of a vague fairyland new age. "We're
all in this together." "We can raise up the lowest among us (by printing
more money)."
And the police are part
of that fantasy. They're the centurions at the gate. "Arm them to the
teeth." "Render the rest of us powerless." That's the grand solution to
all our social ills. Naked, hairless, unarmed, watched around the clock,
we'll be beautifully safe, under the machine of a national police
force.
You think I'm attacking a straw
man here? You think I'm devising a distorted picture of the collectivist
Left and their allies? You think there's some still-powerful rebellion,
on the political Left, against the State, that can put a million people
on the street to protest a specific fascist program of that big power?
Where is it?
What was it, really, even in
1968? If the Vietnam war had been fought with no draft, with a
volunteer army, a large part of the 1960s wouldn't have happened at all.
As
the 1970s droned on into the 80s, a rapprochement was achieved between
the citizens and the police. More and more, the Left came to believe the
whole idea of rebellion against the State was an old delusion. It was
something people like Camus and Sartre had written about. It was really a
European thing, an abstract philosophical pose.
Once
the dust and the smelly underwear of the 1960s had been cleared away,
the real State Op came into being. Encourage, in every way possible,
crime and criminals; and then come in behind that with an answer to the
horrific threat: cops.
Irresistible. On
the streets, in the newspapers, on television, enact crime after crime
after crime...and then promote the only answer: cops. More cops. More
cops with bigger and better weapons.
Disarm everybody and leave the police and the FBI and the military and numerous other government agencies with the only guns.
Does
this excuse the actual perpetrators of street crimes? No, of course
not. In fact, it makes them more guilty, because they're aiding and
abetting a much larger plan. I'm not here to excuse a man who picks up a
gun and shoots somebody. I'm spelling out context:
Seed
the whole country with violence-inducing toxic psychiatric drugs and
you will get plenty of crime. Which is exactly what has happened. All
the way from Ritalin (cheep speed) to the SSRI antidepressants, to the
brain-hammer anti-psychotics, the drug companies and their allied
psychiatrists have been creating killings.
Allow
American street gangs to work for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels,
while providing those cartels with US government protection as they sell
tons of heroin and cocaine and crack all over the country, and you will
get plenty of crime.
Pour billions of
dollars into "rehabilitating" inner cities and stand by while the money
disappears and is stolen, dedicate funds to programs that have no chance
of working, stop genuine grass roots movements to build vast urban
farms and provide free food and a sense of community, and you will get
plenty of crime.
These and other
strategies are the actions of a war to expand crime, to necessitate
massive intervention by the State. This is an Op.
Our
current leader, after similar mouthpieces like Bush and Clinton, is the
one man who couldn't possibly be on board with the Op. Barack Obama. He
couldn't possibly be doing his part to destabilize the whole society.
He couldn't. Which is exactly why he is the president of the United
States now. Because he seems to stand for something better. But he
doesn't. He is definitely part of the Op.
But
if he really did stand for something better, he could do several
things, by executive order, that would detonate a real revolution in
this country. Three crazy wild out-of-left field things, just for
starters.
Declare and wage an all-out war on drug cartels and their sub-contracted domestic gangs.
Kick
off a huge---and I mean huge---genuine urban farming program in every
city in America. Free, clean, non-GMO food for the poor, grown by the
poor, shared by the poor. The ramifications of such a program, carried
out swiftly, would be astonishing on every level.
And attack, with a vengeance, Big Pharma and their psychiatric drugs.
What???
Huh???
The baffled response to such a program illustrates just how deep the brainwashing in this country goes.
And some people would say, "If Obama stood up and did those things, he'd be killed tomorrow."
That's
getting us closer to the truth. But it would be senseless to stand up
alone. He would need allies. Lots of them. Where would he find them?
(Assuming he would launch this three-pronged program...a ludicrous
assumption.)
Would he meet with Pelosi, Frank, Reid, Hillary, Boehner, Paul Ryan, Rubio, Rachel Maddow, Rush Limbaugh....
Where in the familiar circles of power would any president find allies to turn things around?
Nowhere.
And that's exactly why rebellion against the State isn't just some old crusty abstract idea.
That's
why decentralization of power in America, at all levels, is THE
counter-agenda. Intentional communities, nullification of
unconstitutional federal laws, boycotts against corporations like
Monsanto, alternative news sources, growing your own food, local parents
threatening school boards to back off forcing psychiatric drugs down
the throats of their children, home schooling, etc., etc.
Rendering
every citizen weaponless, while at the same time giving the police
every possible weapon and surveillance tool, is a solution in the same
way that closing your eyes and jumping into a big barrel and pulling
down the lid over your head is a solution.
300 million barrels with TV sets and smart phones is exactly what the State Corporatists are pushing.
The
political Left promoted rebellion against the State as long as they saw
themselves outside in the cold. But when they began to realize that
they were, in fact, becoming the State, with all the power of the
federal government, they dropped the idea of genuine rebellion like a
hot potato. They praised big government, they assured everybody it was
the solution, not the problem.
They shed bottom-up revolution because they were top-down.
There
are lots of old Lefties who have been working to stop GMOs. When Obama
signed the Monsanto Protection Act the other day, they paused and
pondered. They began to realize they've been caught in a squeeze play.
Their man, the president, isn't who they thought he was. Not at all.
This
disaffection is a familiar theme: outsiders feel solidarity in their
revolution; then their leaders become insiders; then the ideals vanish,
leaving the foot soldiers in the lurch.
Down
through history, this scenario has played out countless times, in every
conceivable organization that became big, bigger, and biggest. But
history isn't our strong suit. If a teacher really wanted to educate his
college students, he'd put together a course on this very subject: The
Carrot and the Stick.
The promise of something better, announced from a perch or pulpit of leadership; and what eventually happened to that promise.
What
happens is a grand reversal. The very force that is being fought
against eventually becomes the "guardian of the Good" and the supreme
ruler.
The cadre who once railed against
the rise of the police state is now dealing, not pot, but the
surveillance of every phone call, email, text, computer keystroke, and
purchase in this country. They're dealing the TSA and the war in
Afghanistan. They're dealing covert ops in the Middle East and executing
regime change, using thugs and terrorists. They're bailing out
mega-corporations and banks. They're buying billions of rounds of ammo.
They're appointing people to hold the door open for Monsanto. They're
using psychiatry to drug the population. They're spraying heavy metals
in the sky. They're presiding over and sustaining the economic disaster.
They're funding the transhuman future.
They're doing all this while continuing to mouth the ideals they once swore to uphold.
In the words of the 1960s, they're working for the Man.
The
Man is the group of elite Globalists who have always followed the same
plan: put the management of the planet under one roof.
To
accomplish this Globalist aim, every honest cop and effective cop and
idealistic cop and indifferent cop and corrupt cop will have to be
turned into a faceless pig with a weapon pointed against his own people.
These
"former rebels" who now rule the roost are saying, "Today, the pigs
work for us. We tell them what to do. Just love the pigs and everything
will be okay. You don't need to own a gun. It's all good. Just keep your
eyes straight ahead and march into the future."
Who would have thought rebels of bygone days would be staging their own version of neocon glory?
Anyone with a grain of sense.
Jon Rappoport
The
author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th
District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked
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