The Rule Of Law No Longer Exists In Western Civilization   ~  hehe
Putin is correct. America and its vassals are lawless. No one is safe from the government.

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research, January 06, 2016

Paul Craig Roberts 5 January 2015

Theme: Global Economy, Law and Justice

My work documenting how the law was lost began about a quarter of a century ago. A close friend and distinguished attorney, Dean Booth, first brought to my attention the erosion of the legal principles on which rests the rule of law in the United States. My columns on the subject got the attention of an educational institution that invited me to give a lecture on the subject. Subsequently, I was invited to give a lecture on “How The Law Was Lost” at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
The work coalesced into a book, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions, coauthored with my research associate, Lawrence M. Stratton, published in 2000, with an expanded edition published in 2008. We were able to demonstrate that Sir Thomas More’s warning about prosecutors and courts disregarding law in order to more easily convict undesirables and criminals has had the result of turning law away from being a shield of the people and making it into a weapon in the hands of government. That is what we witness in the saga of the Hammonds, long-time ranchers in the Harney Basin of Oregon.
With the intervention of Ammon Bundy, another rancher who suffered illegal persecution by the Bureau of Land Management but stood them off with help from armed militia, and his supporters, the BLM’s decades long persecution of the innocent Hammonds might have come to a crisis before you read this.
Bundy and militiamen, whose count varies from 15 to 150 in the presstitute media, have seized an Oregon office of the BLM as American liberty’s protest against the frame-up of the Hammonds on false charges. As I write the Oregon National Guard and FBI are on the way.
The militiamen have said that they are prepared to die for principles, and the rule of law is one of them. Of course, the presstitute media is making the militiamen into the lawbreakers—and even calling them terrorists—and not the federal government’s illegal prosecution of the Hammonds, whose crime was their refusal to sell their ranch to the government to be included in the Masher National Wildlife Refuge.
If there are only 15 militiamen, there is a good chance that they will all be killed, but if there are 150 armed militiamen prepared for a shootout, the outcome could be different.
I cannot attest to the accuracy of this report of the situation:
https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/723
The resources required to verify the information in this account of how the government escalated a “crisis” out of the refusal of a family to bend is beyond the resources of this website. However, the story fits perfectly with everything Lawrence Stratton and I learned over the years that we prepared our book on how the law was lost. This account of the persecution of the Hammonds is the way government behaves when government has broken free of the rule of law.
I can attest with full confidence that the United States no longer has a rule of law. The USA is a lawless country. By that I do not mean what conservative Republicans mean, which is, if I understand them, that racial minorities violate law with something close to impunity.
What I mean is that only the mega-banks and the One Percent have legal protection, and that is because these people control the government. For everyone else law is a weapon in the hands of the government to be used against the American people.
The fact that the shield of law no longer exists for American citizens is why, according to US Department of Justice statistics, only 4 percent of federal felonies ever go to trial. Almost the entirety of federal felonies are settled by coerced plea bargains that force defendants to admit to crimes that they did not commit in order to avoid “expanded indictments” that, if presented to the typical stupid, trusting, gullible American “jury of their peers,” would lock them away for hundreds of years.
American justice is a joke. It does not exist. You can see this in the American prison population. “Freedom and Democracy” America not only has the largest percentage of its population in prison than any country on the planet, but also the largest number of prisoners.

If you consider that “authoritarian” China has four times the population of the United States but fewer prisoners, you understand that “authoritarian” China has a more protective rule of law than the United States.
Compared to “freedom and democracy America,” Russia has hardly anyone in prison. Yet, Washington and its media whores have defined the President of Russia as “the new Hitler.”
The only thing we can conclude from the facts is that the United States Government and those ignorant fools who worship it are evil incarnate.
Out of evil comes dictatorship. The White House Fool, at best a two-bit punk, has decided that he doesn’t like the Second Amendment to the US Constitution any more than he likes any of the other constitutional protections of US citizens. He is looking for dictatorial methods, that is, unlegislated executive orders, to overturn the Second Amendment. He has the corrupt US Department of Justice, a criminal organization, looking for ways for the dictator to overturn both Congressional legislation and Supreme Court rulings.
The media whores have fallen in line with the would-be dictator. All we hear is “gun violence.” If only Karl Marx were still with us. He would ridicule those who turn inanimate objects into purposeful actors. It is extraordinary that the American left-wing thinks that guns, not people, kill people.
The position of the “progressive left-wing” in the United States is perplexing. Here are Americans, immersed into a police state, as are the Hammonds, and the progressive left-wing wants to disarm the population.
Whatever this “progressive left-wing opposition” is, it has nothing in common with revolutionaries. The American left-wing is totally irrevelant, a defeated force that sold out and no longer represents the people or the truth.
Even more astonishing, judging by comments on RT’s report on the situation and the readers comments, all RT and American blacks want to know is where is the National Guard in Oregon? Why isn’t it called out against the White militia protests as it was called out against the Black Ferguson protests?
https://www.rt.com/usa/327809-bundy-militia-oregon-reaction/ 
If protesting the murder of a young black American by Ferguson police is not legitimate and the protesters are “terrorists,” why aren’t the Oregon protestors terrorists for trying to protect jailbirds from their “lawful sentence”? This is the wrong question.
It really is discouraging that the American black community is unable to understand that if any American can be dispossessed, all Americans can be dispossessed.
It is also discouraging that RT decided to play the race card instead of comprehending that law is no longer a shield of the American people but is a weapon in the hands of Washington.
Why doesn’t RT at least listen to the President of Russia, who states repeatedly that America and the West are lawless.
Putin is correct. America and its vassals are lawless. No one is safe from the government.

The original source of this article is Paul Craig Roberts

Copyright © Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts, 2016

Prophetic Pillars on St. John the Divine Cathedral?

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Prophetic Pillars on St. John the Divine Cathedral?

By VC | April 13th, 2011 | Category: Sinister Sites | 138 comments
One of the first articles published on this site was Sinister Sites – St. John the Divine Cathedral, where I’ve described the building’s occult symbolism and its role in the United Nations’ efforts to push a single world religion. Probably the most shocking part of that article was the pictures of the columns, conceived in 1997,  depicting the destruction of New York city (including the Twin Towers). The Church was named after St. John the Divine, the author of the Book of Revelation.
The original article showed only two of these columns (the others were not visible at the time I took the pics). Since then however, the other pillars are visible and their symbolism is as esoteric and mysterious as those originally posted. Here they are (in no particular order).

The columns are placed next to the Cathedral’s entrance, under saintly figures.

Posted in the original article on St. John the Divine, this pillar depicts an apocalyptic New York city being engulfed by enormous waves.

Also posted in the original article, this column depicts the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Underneath is the New York stock market and people trading goods. Is this a reference to the Babylon of the Revelation?

Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

A scene depicting a birth from some kind of flower, surrounded by mummies and above a lamb with its legs tied. Who is being born? Is the Anti-Christ who is said by the Book of Revelation to the beast “coming up out of the earth; and had two horns like a lamb“? Underneath is a spiral vortex (symbolizing change of consciousness?) and people apparently praising or worshipping the figure.

Pillar symbolizing death with the “wheel within a wheel, full of eyes all around” from the vision in the beginning of the book of Ezekiel.

Pillar with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The Book of Revelation is said to be encoded with Kabbalistic numerology to reveal its esoteric meaning.

The man above the Tree of Life is also uncharacteristic for a Cathedral. It is one-eyed (see the Eye of Horus) and wears a huge clear quartz amulet, which is said to have magical and metaphysical properties.

Little to no documentation exists about the meaning of the pillars and the rest of the Cathedral contains a lot of art with strange symbolism alluding to catastrophe and a new era. Strange place.

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THE TYRANNY OF “WHAT ALREADY EXISTS” by Jon Rappoport

by Robert Scott Bell

www.nomorefakenews.com OCTOBER 24, 2012.
We want to know what exists.  We want to know it at the bottom of the sea and out in the stars and within our own minds and in realms outside the normal channels of perception.  Of course we want to journey to those places and find out what’s there.
We search for design and pattern and structure and system, in order to reach the highest kind of knowledge about existence.
We need to add a different platform.
Design, structure, system, and shape are not the end of the voyage.  They are objectives that serve lesser goals.  They are real and very useful and fine and good—but they are limited.
People who are obsessed with What Exists don’t see that.  They think the structure and system are the grandest end-points.
This obsession is a deep part of human programming.  When operating at full-bore, it obscures the farther shore.
It absorbs people with magnetic force.
It limits power.
When the goal of discovering-what-exists takes over to the point of obsession, it forms a mesh of reality that surrounds us.
It is the meta-program that allows the matrix to have strength.
It is the input that keeps the whole matrix humming.
It’s interesting to reflect on those three famous Matrix films, and how they disintegrate step by step, from the discovery of the reality-prison—and the rush of adrenaline which ensues—on to the mindless war—as if that kind of struggle will actually free anyone.
The collapse of the storyline mirrors what happens when the impulse to see through to the Final Structure tries to continue past that point: there is nowhere to go.
Why?  Because the heroes are really only armed with the all-consuming desire to uncover What Exists.  Beyond that, they are clueless.
There is something about that voyage that degrades like an element with a very short half-life.  It sputters out.  The heroes revert back to older, more basic programming.  Fight, conquer territory, defend, attack.
One: the thrill of profound discovery.  Two: then the feeling of vacuum and confusion.  Three: then the reversion back to primitive hatreds.  With that sequence—now you are talking about the real Matrix.
In the arena of genetic research, there is the hope that, someday, we will find a gene which will somehow “wake up” all the dormant circuits in the brain—and then we will gain back fantastic insight and power.  But based on what scientists have so far unearthed, is there any reason to believe this?  Or is it just one more illusion which propels us forward on the voyage of discovery?
Literature, plays, films, and television are littered with stories that contain a mystery—and at the end comes the payoff, when the mystery is solved, when we find out What Exists.
For a moment, the audience is absorbed, and then there is the let down.
It’s as if a voyage through a rich forest suddenly ended in a vacuum, in a Nothing.
As long as the secret and the mystery can be prolonged, as long as What Exists can be postponed, you have the audience with you.  But when the solution is revealed, all you have is the thirst for another mystery.  “Tell us more!  Tell us another one!  Give us another puzzle!”
An ancient manuscript, an unexplored cave, a probe sent to a distant planet…there is a powerful desire to come to the punch line…and then…boredom edges in.
I once had a conversation with a modern guru in the field of self-improvement.  He is a very successful author and lecturer.  At one point, he said, essentially: You know, I have nothing left.  I’ve written these books, I’ve told my audiences what they need to know.  They keep wanting more.  The next book, the next lecture.  I’m tired.  I don’t have any more secrets.  They don’t really want to know what works in their lives.  They want stories.  They want the thrill of the hunt for the next big thing.  But when they get it, I can see them go over the edge into depression…
It’s a paradox.  People want to massage a secret, they want it to be solved and yet, when it’s solved, they don’t care anymore.  But if you give them a real secret, one that doesn’t resolve, one that challenges them in a different way, they throw up their hands and give up.  They claim they “don’t understand.”
Several years ago, I went to the Vatican, to the Sistine Chapel, to see the Michelangelo fresco.  I sat in the room with several hundred other visitors.  We all craned our necks, looking at the famous ceiling.  I’m sure that for many of those people, it was the fulfillment of a dream: to finally witness the greatness of one of the most famous works of art on the planet.
Afterwards, outside in the corridor, I watched them leave.  What I saw on their faces was a neutrality tinged with boredom.
The mystery was solved.  They had seen the thing in person, finally.  They had found out What Exists.  It was the end.
I’m sketching here the anatomy of The Voyage to Discover What Exists.
It is one of the great enduring passions.  But it has a vast and gaping downside.  The payoff melts into a sagging passivity.  “Well, that’s over.  What’s next?”
Remember the Mike Nichols film, The Graduate?  In that middle-class drama, the young Benjamin goes to extreme lengths to win Elaine, the daughter of Mrs. Robinson.  He storms into Elaine’s wedding; she deserts her fiancee.  Outside the church, Ben and Elaine catch a bus and take their seats in the back.  As the film ends, Ben just sits there.  He has captured the prize.  He stares vaguely at nothing.  No joy.  Only a blank.
Here is a statement attributed to Nobel Laureate Albert Szent- Gyorgyi (1937 Prize for Physiology and Medicine): “In my search for the secret of life, I ended up with atoms and electrons, which have no life at all.  Somewhere along the line, life has run out through my fingers.  So, in my old age, I am now retracing my steps…”
Something that appears so right and so real and so entrancing, the attempt to nail down What Exists, has such a strange result.
What is going on?
How many seekers after the grand conspiracy behind all conspiracies become bogged down in their own journey, especially after they believe they have the answers to their ultimate questions?  How many travelers along this road decide their findings add up to a portrait of a hopeless locked-down future, from which no one can escape—and then give up the whole enterprise in disgust and disillusionment?
How many people will fall into a weary swamp after December 21, 2012 (the fabled end of the Mayan calendar), passes and the revelation, the secret they have been chasing, doesn’t yield up the kind of personal illumination they were counting on?
Many years ago, a friend told me about a UFO cult that had existed somewhere in the Midwest, in the 1920s.  The leader informed her followers that a great ship was coming to take them all away to a better place, a wonderful planet.  The date and time were set.  The leader had been receiving instructions from alien ET guides.
On this basis, all the members of the cult sold their houses and belongings (as if money would be useful on Planet X?).  On the appointed date, the group was sitting in room, waiting for the ship to arrive.  After several delays, the leader emerged from another room and said the UFO guides had just told her they weren’t coming after all, because the catastrophe that was supposed to decimate Earth had been sidetracked and avoided.
So there they were, sitting in a room, all dressed up with nowhere to go (and nowhere to live).
The result?  The effort at recruiting new members expanded, and the cult grew!  The leader told them a new story about what was coming in the wonderful years ahead—a new mystery was in progress.
THE OBSESSION TO DISCOVER WHAT EXISTS.
What Exists is, on a significant level, the greatest con game ever invented.
Everyone wants to chase down WHAT EXISTS and reveal it.
If Jesus really survived the crucifixion or was never hung on the cross, and escaped the Middle East, and if he married and had children, and if those children had children, and if that bloodline still exists…
Ten or 20 years after this “great secret is exposed”…how many of the millions of people who were originally galvanized by it still care or think about it….it’s old hat…we want another story…tell us another story….
Well, here is a different story:
The human being was placed in a universe that appeared to beg for discovery of its secrets.
The die was cast.  Humans would forever try to satisfy that hunger.
They would never suspect there was another way.  They would never graduate, through a fundamental shifting of gears, up on to another echelon.
They would never guess that you have to game the system that is rigged to defeat you.
You have to turn the con around.
If things (life) are designed to subvert you…BECOME A DESIGNER.
If What Exists proves to be an endless labyrinth, landing you, finally, back at the starting gate…INVENT WHAT EXISTS.
If reality is created to gobble you up in a voyage for answers and solutions…CREATE REALITY.
Turn the tables.
Move beyond only discovering What Exists, and recognize that voyage was the primary reason you kept yourself in the dark about your own creative power.
Understand, once and for all, that every system is another version of What Exists…they are murals you attach yourself to like barnacles on a ship.
Freedom is the platform from which imagination can spread out infinitely.
The universe is waiting for imagination to revolutionize it down to its core.
…I call them the SOB People.  In this case, SOB stands for State of Being.  You may recall that the verb “to be” and all its forms is labeled “the state of being” verb.  It expresses no action.
It’s about Is.  It’s about What Exists.
The SOB People love What Exists.  They pray at that altar every day.
The SOB People look at imagination as an activity like the re-arranging of deck chairs.  For them, nothing new ever occurs.  Invention merely puts together what is already known.  Invention takes ideas and images and fits them together in different ways.  The present is only a redistribution of the past.
They are married forever to What Exists.  They stake out their territory there.  “Nothing new under the sun.”  They take pride in this view.  They think it makes them very wise.
Actually it deteriorates their lives and energy one drop at a time.
In their graves and beyond, they keep mouthing, “What Already Exists, What Already Exists, What Already Exists.”
A conversation with an SOB Person can be like talking to a meat grinder.  When you emerge at the other end, you want to jump into a pool and drown.
Teachers in writing classes and seminars often tell their students, “Write about what you know.”  This pearl has stalled large numbers of aspiring authors.  I would tell them, “Write about anything you want to—especially what you don’t know.”
From the perspective of ordinary reality, imagination is all about what is impossible.  If that sounds like a koan, chew on it for a while.
Imagination is that faculty that can raise the dead.
Imagination can give rise to the spontaneous creation of what has never been before.
Imagination shifts the whole emphasis of living from the discovery of What Exists to the creation of something new, a new reality(ies).
Imagination decimates the entire library of human programming.
With imagination, you aren’t buying a story; you’re inventing countless numbers of stories.
But this invention isn’t just aimless ruminating—you create something new, you express something new, and you propel it into the world.
Without that, you float in a sea of gauze.
Of course, there is fear of the New.
People think something terrible might happen if they invent something new.  Their friends might ridicule them.  The whole universe might suddenly collapse.  Their minds might shred.
This is where human programming really bites hard.  This programming assumes and asserts that, with enough voyaging, with enough discovery, one can find the Ultimate, one can find “everything that needs to be found.”
Whereas the truth is: you can create infinitely.
AND WHAT YOU CREATE IS NEW.