To the Voting Sheep of 2012

This is a partial transcript from a speech made in the book, The Iron Web, by Larken Rose. In it's entirety, it condemns both Republicans and Democrats and what they imagine to be kind and rightious. What I have posted, however, is the part that resonates with me and how I feel about our system all the way around. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Everything you think you know is upside down, backwards and inside out. But what has to take the cake, the height of your insanity, is that you view as violent terrorists the only people on the planet who appose the initiation of violence against their fellow men; Anarchist, Voluntaryists, Libertarians. We use violence only to defend ourselves against someone who initiates violence against us. We use it for nothing else. Meanwhile your belief system is completely schizophrenic and self contradictory. On the one hand, you teach children that violence is never the answer, yet out of the other side of your mouth you advocate that everyone and everything everywhere and at all times be controlled, monitored, taxed and regulated through the force of government. In short, you are teaching your children that the masters may use violence whenever they please but that the slaves should never ever resist. You indoctrinate your children into a life of unthinking, helpless subservience. You are placing the chains around their little necks and fastening the locks tight, and worst of all…you feel good about it. Out of one side of your mouth you condemn the evils of socialism and fascism and lament the injustices of the regimes of Hitler, Mao and Stalin, while out of the other side of your mouth you preach exactly what they did. The worship of the collective. The subjugation of every individual to that evil insanity that wears the deceptive label “The Common Good”. You babble on and on about diversity and open-mindedness and then beg your masters to regulate and control every aspect of everyone’s lives. Creating a giant herd of unthinking conformist drones. You wear different clothes and have different hairstyles and you think that makes you different. Yet all your minds are enslaved to the same club of masters and controllers. You think what they tell you to think and you do what they tell you to do, while imagining yourselves to be progressive, thinking and enlightened individuals. From your position of relative comfort and safety you condemn the evils of other lands and other times while turning a blind eye to the injustices happening right in front of you. You tell yourself that had you lived in those times, in those places you would have been among those who stood up against the oppression and defended the downtrodden. But that is a LIE. You would have been right there with the rest of the well trained flock loudly demanding that the slaves be beaten, that the witches be burned, that the non-conformist and the rebels be destroyed. How do I know this? Because that is exactly what you are doing today. Todays injustices are fashionable and popular and those who resist them, well they’re all malcontents and freaks, peoples whose rights don’t matter, people who deserve to be crushed under the boot of authority. Isn’t that right? You bunch of spineless unthinking hypocrites. Look in the mirror. Take a good look at what you imagine to be righteous and kind. You are the devils plaything. The crowds of thousands applauding the speeches of Adolph Hiter…that was YOU The mob demanding that Jesus Christ be nailed to the cross…that was YOU The white invaders who celebrated the wholesale slaughter of those godless redskins…That was YOU The throngs filling the coliseum applauding as the Christians were fed to the lions…that was YOU Throughout history, the perpetual suffering and injustice occurring on an incomprehensible scale, it was all because of people just like YOU The well trained thoroughly indoctrinated conformist, the people who do as their told, who proudly bow to their masters, who follow the crowd, believing what everyone else believes and thinking what ever authority tells them to think…That is YOU. And your ignorance is not because the truth is unavailable to you. They’re have been radicals preaching it for thousands of years. No you are ignorant because you shun the truth with all your heart and soul. You close your eyes and run away when a hint of reality lands in front of you. You condemn as extremists and fringe kooks those who try to show you the chains you wear…because you don’t want to be free. You don’t even want to be human. Responsibility and reality scare the hell out of you so you cling tightly to your own enslavement and lash out at anyone who seeks to free you from it. When someone opens the door to your cage, you cower back in the corner and yell “Close it! Close it!” Well some of us are done trying to save you. We’ve wasted enough effort trying to convince you that you should be free. All you ever do is spout back what your masters have taught you. That being free only leads to chaos and destruction, while being obedient and subservient leads to peace and prosperity. There are none so blind as those will not see. And you, you nation of sheep would rather die than see the truth.