The Dark Brotherhood of the Takers

J. Speer-Williams
Infowars.com
February 8, 2010

Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) was perhaps the most accomplished actress of her generation. It was Ms. Barrymore who said, “You grow up the day you have the first real laugh – at yourself.”

	The first step in changing our government begins by changing ourselves; which may begin by fully realizing most republican and democratic mouth-pieces are united in the dark Brotherhood of the Takers.

Do you remember your first real laugh at yourself? Mine came when I was about 30.5 years old. You see, I belong to the “Late Bloomer” generation. Anyway, my proof of maturing came after reading the great Gary Allen’s, “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” and finally realizing there was no substantial difference, in practice, between the democratic and republican political parties.

My laugh at myself was less of a side-splitter, and more of a panic. Had I been lost in a cloud of systematic propagation disseminated by the highly paid proselytizers of the corporate media, who had constantly convinced me of the validity of the “Left/Right paradigm”?

What a joke! And the joke was on me. Today, it’s a joke on practically every registered voter in America, especially on the Baby Boomers, who are largely more occluded than those of my Late Bloomer generation.

And while there is no great differences between our two major political parties, there are – at least – two distinct classes of people. Human motivation can be easily seen by separating the basic dynamic of mankind into two great divides: There are those who serve themselves at the expense of others – the Takers; and those who serve themselves by helping others – the Helpers.

The top echelons of the US government has long been largely composed of republican and democratic Takers. And, Takers with the power of the federal government behind them can take far more from us than nasty neighbors can.

Takers come in all sizes and assortments, with varying abilities and aptitudes to take what is not rightfully theirs from others. The most cunning Takers naturally gravitate to where they can most easily take the most, which is into high-level governmental positions.

And if such democratic and republican Takers could become satiated with their vast sums of money, fame, adulation, and all the gratuitous and perverted sex they could possibly bear, our national plight might not be so severe; but sadly, those of both political parties are not so easily sated.

Part of the psychopathy of these bipartisan Takers is strange, in deed: The more they take, the more they are driven to take, until the grief and agony of others so excites the Takers, that it exceeds their ecstasy from sexual culmination, their love of money, or their lust for power. In fact, advanced Takers must see or know of the suffering of others, or the Takers become obviously quite mad to all observers, when usually their madness is cleverly hidden.

To the psychopathic democratic and republican politicians and bureaucrats in government taking your job, your savings, your home, all too soon become passe, and not fulfilling enough to the psychopathic mind, especially if you are still, somehow, happy.

Ultimately, Takers compulsively degrade themselves until only the severe suffering of others, that comes from physical abuse and torture, will satiate them; thus we have a very fast growing wave of physical abuse from the police constabulary sweeping America, and a seriously expanding pandemic of torture taking place in many of the US military bases around the world.

And while there is absolutely no excuse for police abuse at home, the Takers tell us they must torture human beings abroad in order to gain the intelligence data that will keep America safe; while the truth is Americans will never be safe with psychopathic Takers in charge of our country.

The English, 17th century philosopher John Locke wrote, “As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil which they set out to destroy.”

Presidential candidate Barack Obama touted through out his campaign on how his good would eradicate the evils of the preceding eight years of a republican administration. But once he gained the presidency, democrat Obama refused to investigate the torture crimes of the preceding Bush administration, or to even release a series of photographs depicting outrageous US tortures of thousands of Iraqis, that had been stuffed into the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. These photographs show scenes of Iraqi men, women, and children being raped and sodomized by US soldiers. Eye witnesses told of not only seeing such things as strangulation, but brutal beatings, and the cramming of lit cigarettes into the ear canals of defenseless prisoners.

I’ve seen some of these photos, but could not look at them for very long. Even Harper’s Magazine writer Scott Horton states he “has obtained specific corroboration from a highly credible senior military officer with firsthand knowledge, of the suppressed photos,” which is surely the very tip of a  hell we cannot even imagine.

Keep in mind, that the above tortures were photographed, or took place in front of witnesses; but, there seems to be a number of secret prisons where special torture techniques are carried out by the CIA, without any witnesses allowed, as reported by the Washington Post.

And by special order of President Bush, and not repealed by President Obama, the CIA does not have to reveal to anyone who these prisoners are, or what happens to them behind the solid and impenetrable walls of over 100 US prisons around the world. Not satisfied with torturing detainees, American officials seem to also want to leave relatives of the “detainees” in a constant state of misery, wondering what happened to their loved ones.

According to a Human Rights Watch report, the US Army, since March of 2003, has imprisoned about 2,400 children in Iraq, alone. Some of these children were as young as ten years old when they were taken captive, without charges or trials, all in violation of the Coalition Provisional Authority memorandum on criminal procedures.

Married Iraqi men are segregated from their wives in prison, and children from their parents, unless children are being tortured in front of mothers and fathers. Do these tortured children know of complicated terrorist plots that can be tortured out of them? No, the rational – or justification – for torturing children – is the parents will break down and tell what they know about terrorists plots, in order to stop the torturing of their children. If the parents know nothing, are such children tortured endlessly, until the parents divine something to tell? And, I suppose that imprisoned children without parents are simply tortured for good measure.

Amnesty Human Rights Watch, and all other oversight agencies, have even been denied permission to see these children or to know where they are imprisoned in Iraq.

In an article entitled “US and Allies Torture Children in Iraqi Prisons,” Sherwood Ross writes, “Iraqi lawyer, Sahar Yasiri, representing the Federation of Prisoners and Political Prisoners, said in a published interview there are more than 400,000 detainees in Iraq being held in 36 prisons and camps, and that 95 percent of the 10,000 women among them have been raped.” “Children,” he said, “suffer from torture, rape [and] starvation, and do not know why they have been arrested.” He added, “The children have been victims of random arrests, not based on any legal text.”

Still there are some Americans who do not think we torture human beings. But even former President Jimmy Carter has confirmed that we are torturing detainees.

“I don’t think it, I know it,” snapped Carter to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer’s inane question, “What makes you think we torture …”.

“Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights,” continued Carter. “We’ve said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Guntanamo and the Abu Ghraid prison, and we’ve said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they have been accused.” Meaning our prison detainees do not have to be guilty of anything in order to first by imprisoned and then tortured.

Even American psychologists have gotten in on the “fun” of torturing innocent human beings. With a membership of about 150,000 members, the American Psychological Association (APA) condones the practice of psychologists tutoring CIA operatives with torture methods that are used in the vast networks of secret, black operative sites around the world.

APA president Gerald Koocher, clearly highly placed in the Department of Defense, is an enabler of US torture, insisting that psychologists play a valuable and ethical role with the interrogation [torture] of US prisoners.

Psychologists have long functioned as “The CIAs torture teachers,” as proven by articles in both magazines of Vanity Fair and Salon.com.

Reporter Mark Benjamin writes, “And with a [Bush] White House utterly convinced that abuse is an effective interrogation tactic – and equally committed to protecting those who traffic in it – few experts think justice will be served. That goes for the psychologists who set up the diabolical program, and those who gave them the authority to carry it out.”

Ah … Mr. Benjamin, the psychologists, CIA operatives, and anyone else who carries out torture on innocent human beings aren’t looking for intelligence data, they torture for kicks. Much, much higher up in the control grid, torture is part of a war for men’s souls: Those who authorize torture, condone it, carry it out, make excuses for it or supported it in any way, will lose their souls to the dark side, unless they make some major reconsiderations.

But the brilliant gad-fly and TV personality Max Kaiser reminds us that Hannibel Lecter was a psychologist, and anyone who’d take advice from a common garden variety psychologist might as well have a dinner-date with Hannibal Lecter, at his home.

But then, Obama dismissed this most heinous chapter in American history with his, “We’re moving on.”

Moving on where, Mr Obama, to even more torture of more women and their children?

Obama’s only excuse for continuing Bush’s torture policies was he didn’t want to offend the military/intelligence establishment. Who’s running your administration, Mr. Obama, you or the psychos in the intelligence establishment?

Largely unknown to the American public, thanks to the corporate media, once in office Obama quickly out-matched the insane torture policies of Bush, the Younger, with his doctrine called “Prolonged Detention.”

Yes, that’s right. We are now officially imprisoning people who cannot be found guilty of any crimes, but who may commit crimes in the future. This is George Orwell’s concept of “Thought Police” taken to unfathomable heights, and only “kindly” Obama could openly get away with it.

After condemning republican Bush Junior for his ad hoc legal strategy, of making up laws as he went, our new democratic president had the gall to say he’d do the very same thing: Obama said, “We’ll develop an appropriate legal regime [outside the US court system to make illegal detention legal] so our efforts are consistent with our values and Constitution.”

Consistent with our Constitution? Did you really teach Constitutional Law, Mr Obama? One doesn’t have to teach or even study Constitutional Law to understand that you as a sitting president cannot legally make-up laws, whether they are consistent with the Constitution or defy it, as does your ad hoc Prolonged (Preventive) Detention scheme proposes.

Prolonged detention? How long is “prolonged,” Mr. Obama?

A 28 day imprisonment is the longest period of preventive detention allowed, under law, in any civilized country any where in the world, except the United states under Obama. How long is your Preventive Detention, Mr. Obama?

Obama spoke of ten years, but didn’t limit his Preventive Detention to a mere decade.

Will those suffering under Obama’s Preventive Detention be tortured until they confess to the crimes they had planned to commit in the future?

If such tortured detainees do confess to crimes they have not committed, but planned to commit, what then? Ten more years of detention until they confess to more crimes they are not guilty of having committed?

What’s the ultimate solution? More detention? More torture? More what, Mr. Ex-Constitutional Law professor turned full-time tele-prompter reader? Have you even thought that far ahead, Mr. Obama? Can you think that far ahead?

Even leftist Reporter Rachel Maddow said, [Obama's Prolonged Detention decrees] are one of the most radical proposals for defying the Constitution that we have ever heard made to the American people.”

Ah … Ms. Maddow these are not proposals, these are current orders to US military/intelligence officers, which are being carried out, that are resulting in the torturing  hundreds or thousands of innocent people and children as I type these words.

Vincent Warren, the Black Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights said (after Obama spoke of his intentions for Prolonged Detention) “I was really stunned when I heard those words come out of his mouth. This has never been done before. It is completely outside the realm of what is constitutionally permissible. It is deeply shocking that he’d even go there, when George Bush didn’t even go there. This was really something that was beyond the pale [well outside the bounds of morality].”

Author Yvonne Ridley wrote, “This president [Obama] has gone from charming to harming and few have noticed.”

Nothing – not even mass killings – demonstrates what one’s moral and ethical values really are more than how one feels about the torturing of life; and, Mr. Obama, along with almost every other Washington politician, bureaucrat, and judge, of both parties, have all clearly told us how they feel about torturing human life by not noisily denouncing Obama’s Prolonged Detention program of infamy.

The fact that our country now officially engages in torture, under the auspices of the American people, is the worse immorality in our country’s history; even greater than the atomic bombing of innocent Japanese children, women, and men, as torturing people, indefinitely, is worse than killing them outright.

Clearly Obama is breaking the law, but where are the angry voices from congress or the Supreme Court? There are none, for junior Takers always bow to senior Takers, especially in matters of torture. The only fights that occur in Washington are of the World Wrestling Federation variety, all intended for public consumption.

The US mass media, however, is keeping this particular piece of Obama insanity under wraps, ostensibly so as to not overly shock the Obamanoids, who have long been stuck dumb with paralytic political naivete. But, you may still be able to see and hear Obama, himself, confessing his guilt on YouTube (Search – Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you, President Obama).

One civil liberties advocate told the New York Times,”We’ve known of this [prolonged detention] was on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting it with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.”

Yes, “stunning” to those who have yet come to grips with a basic reality: The same dark Takers who controlled the previous republican administration control the current democratic administration.

We’ve been told that the people we detain and torture are the worse of the worse terrorists, which is another gross lie to gain support of the American people for torture, and implicate them in this unspeakable crime against humanity. In reality, the US military and intelligence services merely gather up stray non-combatants, living near battlefields, or they pay local warlords to provide them with innocent men, women and children to torture.

In Afghanistan, according to Human Rights Watch, “Anti-Taliban forces regularly cast a wide net, sweeping up non-combatants, and many of those they captured are delivered to U.S. officials, and in at least some cases in exchange for bounty payments … Some sent to Guantanamo were simply farmers, taxi drivers and labors with no meaningful ties to the Taliban or al Qaeda, not the enemy combatants the Bush administration claimed … The military is also jailing an undisclosed number of children.”

It is doubtful that such tillers of the soil, drivers of cabs, or labors digging ditches have any real data to give to their torturers, but they must have one overriding question: “Why are you Americans here in our country torturing and killing us, and destroying our country?” Good question, the answer to which will not come from our corporately owned media.

Highly paid propagandist, Rush Limbaugh, long effective in locking good Americans into the phony left/right paradigm, has gone as far as justifying US torture of human beings.

“You ever heard of emotional release? asked Limbaugh on one of his radio shows. “You ever heard of the need to blow off some steam?” continued Limbaugh.

You ever heard of war monering, Rush? Ever heard of psychopathy? Ever heard of the criminally insane? Which group do you belong, Rushbo? All of them?

A national policy of torture will certainly increase anti-American sentiments, abroad, and will likely create torturous retaliations. And, unless we voice our objections to a policy of torture, would we not inherit the national karma sure to befall a nation that torturers its prisoners?

Moreover, when interrogators resort to torture methods, they are admitting their ineptitude as interrogators. We don’t need more vicious torture methods, we obviously need better interrogators to interrogate actual terrorists.

In the future, without a public outcry, there will be more planned leaks of our torture methods, with official denials; never too much information released too quickly, until at last, it will be become an accepted fact that our government has the power, intention, and “right” to torture even you and me.

The dark Controllers of all Takers know torture doesn’t produce the results their interrogators claim; but, they torture, and will soon enough make it widely known for two main reasons: It’ll produce wide-spread fear of being tortured, which will cause some people to turn in their neighbors to avoid torture themselves, and still some will continue to support torture in a belief it’ll provide them some sort of protection, all at the expense of their souls, as fear effectively blocks all spiritual advancement.

The gestalt of torture, and its threat, is configured on physical and psychological phenomena, meant to reduce human kind into such a fearful state, man is prohibited from spiritual advancement. Torture, and the threat of it is the ultimate weapon in the war for men’s souls.

Fear has long been the ultimate weapon used by the Controllers, commencing with anxiety of being thought a kook for believing in conspiracy theories, then ultimately giving away to fearing the every thing which so many have long and arrogantly dismissed … themselves being imprisoned and tortured.

Your first sign of growing up may have been the first time you really laughed at yourself; but, recognizing and shunting the psychopathic behavior of the Taker is proof of one’s spiritual maturational process.

And as a nation’s government is a reflection of her people, it is easily seen there are far more Takers than Helpers.

The first step in changing our government begins by changing ourselves; which may begin by fully realizing most republican and democratic mouth-pieces are united in the dark Brotherhood of the Takers.