Czar Nikolay II, the last emperor of Russia
I was just noting the current administration has at this point appointed about forty four “Czars” who are now reigning over various sectors of previously protected private enterprise. That’s what can happen when a Constitutional Republic that continually ignites the spark of Democracy, careens from a Federal Republic into an uncertain future.
But it’s funny, whenever I hear the word Czar used in conjunction with the name of America, it has a way of blurring my focus. It may be just a name for an appointed representative of government, but for me, it instead calls to mind an unfortunate chap by the name of Nikolay Romanov, otherwise known to us as Czar Nicholas II, the very last emperor of Russia. Nikolay believed in giving the working class a fair chance, and he had decided to rescue the destiny of Russia from the control of the international banks.
So that’s not quite the way you heard it eh? Well, let me finish before you pass judgment. You see, Czar Nikolay envisioned a Russia that would one day be free from the domination of the international financiers. But those folks would stop at nothing to preserve and increase their wealth, and their power... nothing short of financing nations against one another to help start the First World War.
In Russia, the bankers’ interests were threatened by the high-minded young Czar, so they backed the revolutionary philosophy of a political philosopher by the name of Karl Marx, who had been fired from the New York Daily Tribune. Marx made no distinction between the inherently evil robber baron Monopoly Capitalism, and the venerable standard of Competitive Capitalism wherein hard work, free enterprise, and honest competition in the marketplace is allowed by government, to give everyone a chance to be financially successful, or make a contribution to society.
In Marx's view, Capitalism only served a just purpose inasmuch as it exhausted every resource, and enslaved every consumer, because only then would it hasten a socio-economic revolution. He wrote several books and essays about it, justifying the replacement of privileged elites, with a democracy of workers councils, and leaders that would hopefully respect what it was like to earn an honest living.
Nice in concept. But the main problem for the financiers in backing a revolution based upon a direct Democracy of workers, was that Czar Nicholas was already sincerely trying to achieve democratic justice for the workers. Unfortunately, he was also consumed with his obligation to lead the Russian Army when World War One started; and his public relations team, if he even had one, was no match for his adversaries the Masons, and the propaganda campaign financed by the bankers. They disparaged him as a stubborn dim-witted sort who was off riding around with his military, neglecting the needs of the people, while the country was being run through his wife by a mad faith healing monk named Rasputin. Today’s sharpest spin masters couldn’t have assassinated him any better.
Meanwhile, the international financiers republished Marx’s books and furthered his revolutionary ideas at the rallies they funded, until many in the starving wartime working class, embraced the concept of killing all the elite, and taking the government into their own hands. And that’s what happened. They installed their own leaders of the revolution, many of whom eventually began to live in the same expensive homes, and accumulate the same wealth upon the backs of the proletariat, as their predecessors did.
It’s a sad story. It makes me think of the misguided man in the Netherlands who lost his job, and then his home to foreclosure. As a result he lost his family, and then last month he was so outraged and desperately helpless that he lost his mind, and he ran his car into a score of innocent victims while trying to attack the Queen. He had heard on the internet that she was a member of the Bielderberger Group and the Illuminati, and that they were allegedly to blame for his financial slavery under the New World Order.
It somehow reminds me of listening to the leader of the California Democratic Party a few years ago, when he motivated a largely Latino mob against a proposition by telling them it was Whitey’s last hope. It even reminds me, on the other hand, of all the people who joined the Republican funded Tea Parties, with the vague notion that they were fighting the greatest involuntary transfer of wealth in world history (the TARP and the Stimulus) from the middle and lower classes to the banking elite, but who were instead diverted and contained within easier to comprehend rhetoric blaming the Democratic party for high taxes.
It reminds me how the public mind is eager to transfer the vehement hatred of its own dire circumstances, to any other place, and that there are plenty of politicians and religious leaders who are ready to oblige, fomenting hatred between one party and another party, one religion and another religion, or bigotry between one race and another race, all for the Machiavellian purpose of distracting people, and motivating them for their leader’s own agendas.
But we ought to free ourselves from the conflict between the Republicans and the Democrats. We must no longer remain captured between the Capitalists and the Socialists, the Blacks and the Whites, the thousand year old war of survival between the Christians and the Muslims, or the Radical Left and the Self Righteous Right. There is no longer any real choice between a Right or a Left. Our only remaining choice is whether to sink or to swim. It is now either brotherhood under liberty, or comradeship under slavery.
And it is the corporate and banking elite who have chosen comradeship under slavery for us. So it is for us, if we are a free people, to choose our elected officials upon their past deeds, and not upon what they say they are going to do or how eloquently they speak. It is for us, to choose compassion over hatred, to choose knowledge above ignorance, and to use our knowledge to elect a new legislature that will restore and uphold the old laws and protections that were deliberately disassembled by our current legislators and their masters at the corporations and financial institutions.
We are not divided on this issue. We have been chosen to put one foot in front of the other together, and so we are going to move forward together, until we have safeguarded the entire system from undue influence. And once we have won, we’re not going to be celebrating, for that’s when we are really going to get to work. And we are going to remain vigilant too. So that never again, will we allow ourselves to be brought to the brink of losing our Liberty, and so that once again, we will be able to truthfully affirm a future of freedom and justice for the people of America.
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