Ed & Elaine Brown Talk to the Media
June 18, 2007

"This Far ... And No Further."
by Chad Lilly

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur – what if it had been driven off or its tire spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If … if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more—we had no awareness of the real situation." - Solzhenitsyn

I used to wonder why the Jewish people did not band together, take up arms, and stand their ground to defend themselves against the Germans. I used to wonder why the Native Americans, after generations of hearing 'stories of white man's coming', didn't rush the shores to scalp them before their feet could touch the sand. I could not understand how, repeatedly through human history, a handful of men have been able to execute their will over the masses, without their consent.

Now I know.

In military terms it is called 'Divide and Conquer', and this tactic is being used against ALL of us through the media. The method is simple: Give them a choice, and each choice will divide them further into smaller groups, which are much easier to conquer. And everyone loves the freedom to choose, don't they?

See, one by one, human beings are easy to load on to trains. Individually, we are easy to taser, pepper spray, handcuff, arrest, and subject to whatever form of torture is prescribed by law.

Even in small groups, humans are easily managed like cattle. Ever seen 5000 protestors get beaten back by 250 storm troopers? Have a look for yourself. All the controllers have to do is taser and spray the first few 'insurgents' and the rest run the other way.

Apparently, no one wants to get shot with rubber bullets, or hit with lead laden batons, or shocked by 50,000 volts, or stand face first against an M1-A2 Abrams tank for that matter. I'm sure some of the Native Americans did rush the white men, and when they were shot in the head by a musket from 70 yards ... the other 92 million ran the other way.

After all, who really wants to get shot in the head?

I'm not suggesting that we get body armor and batons, .9 mils and glocs, sawed-off shot guns, and Molotov cocktails to meet our oppressors in the streets, not yet. But I am curious as to what would happen if 'the many' ever stood up and decided to resist 'the few'.

If the ALL the Jews would have said, 'this far ... and no further', would the holocaust have taken the lives of over 9 million? But they didn't, because the Nazis invaded them one by one, home by home, and since no one wants to get shot in the head, everyone minds their own business while their neighbors are loaded on to a train in the middle of the night. And everyone breathes a sigh of relief when they realize, 'phew, they have not come for us yet.' But when they finally do come for you ... you will be the only one left to stand against them. And they will win.

If 92 million Native Americans would have rushed the handful of Europeans getting off the boat, I'm sure the first few hundred of them would have been shot and killed, but while the Europeans were reloading, if the other 91,999,800 Native Americans would have been running toward them ... I wonder how that would have turned out?

But they didn't ... because no one wants to be shot in the head. Thus the 'divide and conquer' tactic has been successfully used by 'the few' to control 'the many' since the beginning of time.

But when the alternative is a slow starvation in Auschwitz, or a slow starvation on the rancid plains of South Dakota ... comparatively speaking, how bad is being shot in the head, really?

So fast forward to now. We've watched our friendly Federal Government slaughter a family on Ruby Ridge, burn hundreds of men, women, and children alive in Waco, TX, kill thousands on 9/11 in America, and hundreds of thousands in Iraq. And while we sit here thinking, "Phew, they have not come for us yet ..."

It looks like Ed and Elaine Brown may be next.

So where do we draw the line in the metaphorical sand that says, this far ... and no further?

When the masses have been so desensitized to violence that they can watch their own people being burned alive on LIVE TV, and cheer about it because of the propaganda that has been puked all over them, then there may be no lines left to draw. The war for decency may have already been lost by people who were too busy shopping, to fight against the divisions used to divide them.

Ed and Elaine Brown are asking a simple question: If you will show us a law that says we are liable to pay the tax you say we owe ... we will pay it.

If there is a law, why not show it? And if there is no law, then why are millions of us paying a tax on our own labor? Are we really too ignorant to know that 'income' is not 'profit'? Or has our attention been so 'divided and conquered' by where Britney Spears woke up this morning that we've forgotten our rights?

It's amazing to me that we find time to know the dietary habits of 'famous' people, every sport's statistic since the inception of each game, and the most personal details of the lives of celebrities, yet ... we don't know our own constitution.

It looks to me as if 'modern life' has been designed to produce just such effects. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

And as long as 'the many' remain divided, our common desire to live and be free will be at risk by 'the few' who seek to control us.

Chad Lilly is the author of A Day in the Mind and uncommon sense.