Ladies And Gentlemen The President
By Melvin J. Howard
How many laws do you live under? Thousands. We all live under thousands of laws. Now, in your lifetime, how many of those laws have you written, proposed, voted on, or been consulted upon? For the vast majority of people, the answer is none. None. And do you have any friends or relatives that have written any of those laws, or proposed them, been consulted, or voted on them? Most people would say no. So in a system of majority rule (democracy), how is it that you are living under laws you never wrote or voted for? And if they are being written, someone must be writing them. And if it isn’t the majority participating in those law-making stages, it is the minority. Which minority? Well, in the U.S. it is the senate, house, president, and advisors. Are there any legitimate laws proposed by majority groups and brought to senate? Yes, of course there are laws made that truly represent the majority view. Are there any that are manipulated in by special interest groups and passed as law for the masses? Yes, there are plenty of laws passed that in no way serve the majority and only serve a powerful minority (that is part of the whole point of spending vast amounts of money for a candidate). Enter President Obama he is doing something different then any other President he is actually making ordinary citizens apart of the process. Let’s face it until he came a long we didn’t know what the heck was going on in the white house. The fact is President Obama is intellectual and has charisma irks some.
Never the less for whatever critics that the President might have I for one love the transparency. It’s unprecedented the white house is open to the public. It’s refreshing to get information direct from the President. So whether it’s on Leno or 60 minutes I will take it. What I am trying to say we live in a system. The system has defaults and exceptions. If you live by default, you will experience the default states of the system. If you live by your own code, you will experience your own results. In this system, there are laws and structures that put everyone ‘in their place’ within the system. This is the default of the system.
We are under thousands of laws, of which you had nothing to do with the creation of most. You just wake up every day and get your new laws issued to you on TV during news. You accept them as the truth about the way things are – not realizing that your acceptance is what makes them come alive. Millions of people do that simultaneously across the country, all watching the same TV news program, and a new law comes into effect because each one of you just didn’t question it. This works almost all the time. You are predictable in your response. You just believe it is for your own good, or that you can't change it, and you do as told, becoming the default. You have given away your power to experience your own truth and make up your own mind. Original thought is replaced by rehashing what you have been told. We have done that for the last 20 years. Once you make a habit out of this, you become predictable. You even forget how to have original thought that is not tainted by your past experience (which was also tainted by other people’s past experiences). Advertising works and it works because of this reason – predictable, trained response to certain scenarios. Companies spend millions of dollars on one 30-second appearance of an ad during the Super Bowl because they know it works. As an individual, you don’t want to admit that adverts and media influence your behavior strongly, yet you can admit that the population is influenced. Nobody wants to admit that they are influenced. But don’t you make up part of the population?
In this system, you have a government. This government also decides on who prints your money. Your government also sets your education curriculum up. You cannot legally study outside of the education system framework set up. You must follow the system. Even the corporations where you get your ‘jobs’ force you to have followed the education system. Who writes the education system? The government (which is elected through corporate power). This education system tells you how to live your life, how to get jobs, what you are worth, what you should do and think. It prepares most people for jobs – for dependence. Few walk out of it and start self-reliant enterprises. Which is odd when you consider that each human being has a unique thumb print, unique mind, and unique everything. So each being would, if he or she followed their hearts, produce in a unique and thus self-reliant way. As long as they don’t try to conform to one way of doing things for everybody, logic tells you they would be able to do what they love and be self-reliant in it because no one else would be able to duplicate them. If fact, we all know of someone who succeeded wildly by doing what they love and doing it they’re way with persistence. Americans can come out of this loss of confidence if they just look inside themselves and not on outside forces.
Everything in nature is unique and self-reliant. Only we human beings require employment to live! Don’t you find that strange? No other creature in nature requires employment to live. Self-reliance is the natural state of all beings for they are extensions of the Almighty Creator, all part of the One. So, your education system is written and maintained as is by the government. Its effects as we see them are the majority walking out programmed to look for jobs and scared to death of being self-reliant. Correlate this with the fact that 2% of the world’s most powerful people own, influence or control about 75% of the resources in use, resources that need people to work them, and you may see a pattern there. And correlate this with the fact that they also have a hand at the government set up and the money supply and printing, and you may see another pattern there. This is not an attempt to point to any one conspiracy or anything. This is not a conspiracy theory far from it. But the facts as they are showing us that there are people who are aware and those who are not. And those who are aware have goals, some with very large global goals, which they pursue. Some goals may be noble and some not. And nothing is impossible. And the laws of cause and effect always work. No matter how ridiculous the situation itself sounds, they work. What is amazing about the education system is that everybody knows that it trains people to know certain facts but leaves them unprepared for the world. Everybody says, “Why don’t they teach us how to make money, how to live with other people, basics of humanity?” And everybody knows that the leaders of the nation read self-development books and materials, because they work. For example, the book Think and Grow Rich has been a classic must-read for the most powerful people ever since the 1930s. Yet none of its principles ever made it into the education system, even though the leaders know the principles very well because they read that book and apply it. The knowledge you would pay thousands of dollars for in a weekend seminar is so simple yet empowering, but no one ever puts it into the education curriculum.
Why? Did you know that, for all of humanity’s history, powerful civilizations have always been led by a small group of people, families or dynasties? All over the world, this same pattern has been in place since 8,000 B.C. Always, the one thing that differentiated the masses under control with the controllers was always a lack of awareness, a withholding of knowledge there is no excuse for that today. Has this pattern stopped, or are we in delusion? As you can see, there is never anyone to blame as such. The masses have to accept the delusion for it to work. So the idea of victim and victimizer is inaccurate, although fairness, in human terms, may not be present.
The whole point I am making of all this is to show you that if you live by default, within the system, you will get the default results of the system. Awareness and making your own choices is the only way you can have your own results. But there is more. You can extend your own wealth and freedom by helping others see theirs, and by adjusting your system to make it more efficient and easier for you. The U.S. spends $1.03 billion on military expenditure per day! The whole world including the U.S. spends $3 billion per day on the military. The U.S. makes a handgun every 20 seconds (and guess who owns the gun factories). All this is done in the name of peace. The means of war are the means of war, and the means of peace the means of peace. You cannot confuse the two and think one will create the other. You cannot use the means of war to make peace. Cause and effect dictate it to be impossible. Peace is only achieved when people choose peace, truly, in their hearts and mind. The more weapons you make, the cheaper they get and the more available they become. Just like faxes and mobile phones. At one time, very few people had nuclear weapons. Now anyone with $100,000 can get a small one in the black market. You can buy an AK47 assault rifle in Afghanistan for $15. The more you make of anything, the cheaper and more available it becomes. You cannot increase peace by spending more on the military – you simply guarantee conflict that way. Simple economics. (By the way, every time there is a war, the national debt increases and the Federal Reserve Bank are owed more by the taxpayer.
What people have yet to realize is that democracy is not necessarily freedom. Democracy simply means majority wins. Even the dictionary defines it as that. Majority rules. Majority of what? People? Money? Right now, it is money. So the one with the most money rules. The golden rule, right now, is that the one with the most gold rules. You find this applying in almost all democracies. Even in ‘poor third-world countries’, money is always used to ensure the results of elections. Majority rules. Democracy. Interesting concept.
Freedom, each being recognizes the sovereign divinity within other beings. Within that simple boundary, each being is free to do, as they like. In other words, you are free to be free, to deal with your own consciousness, to live and let live.
And so is everyone else. The idea that one is free because they live in a democracy is a contradiction. Look up the words freedom and democracy in a dictionary:
· Freedom: The condition of being free; the power to act, speak, or think without externally imposed restraints.
· Democracy: The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.
Find your freedom within you. You are built with it. Just like, as all of life, you are built with self-reliance capabilities. You can be wealthy and free through many means and for varying periods of time, but you most easily and effectively do so with your own inner power, wealth and freedom. Everyone has that. You cannot blindly rely on the system – you can't wait for the government to do it all for you get up off that couch. President Obama is doing his part now its time to do yours. You will simply become a default output if you do anything. The government has pluses and minuses. There are parts of it that can help you on your path and parts that can hinder you. But at the end of the day, you have to stand up for yourself. You have the inherent uniqueness and capability to! Humans are still evolving. We are not even civilized yet (can you imagine a civilized society that somehow gets innocent children at birth and manages to turn them into people full of fears, children who shoot each other?); we are only just learning to use our reasoning capabilities; we are a race at the adolescent stage of evolution. Democracy is not the end stage – it was simply a stepping-stone to something bigger.
