Opinion/Editorial
THE MAGIC DRAGON
By James Strauss
They are coming. They are coming in the dark. They are coming under cover of security, child safety, anti-terrorism, patriotism, and honor. They are meeting in places like St Moritz (Bilderbergs), Washington D.C. (Republicans), and Paris (Rothschilds) all the time over the issue of how to stop this wildly free communications system that has taken almost everyone by surprise. This magic dragon is commonly called the Internet.
Only summoning and using this dragon can a person who has no standing, no credentials, and possessed of no filter to go through, write, or say whatever he or she wants. That same person can take photos or make videos and post them using the internet. Nobody currently can stop them from doing so (although some damage control can be done by taking stuff down from selected ISPs).
Countries are falling like dominos because of this internet communications phenomenon. Across the Middle East, one despot after another is tottering, if not ejected out of office, because the population can be brought together to discuss the same things without any controls whatsoever being placed on the content of their communications. The reverse is also true, the despots and authoritarian monsters of the world (some in the USA) can use this dragon to lie, cheat, and kill.
Leadership from America and around the world, in every country, supposedly democratic and free or not, is quaking in fear. Where there was once inertial security to holding political or dictatorial power, there is a vacuum forming that can almost instantly suck any leader down, no matter what physical security they surround themselves with. The Middle East is a template for what may happen throughout the world unless the Internet is effectively shut down.
Leadership cannot suffer the truth. People like Assange using WikiLeaks must be stopped or the normal lies that diplomats and financiers tell each other (and us) will be trotted out and those leaders will fall. We cannot know that Bush, Cheney, Obama, and even Clinton have offshore accounts of significant size. We would not believe they were acting in our best interest if we knew that. We would believe them to be acting in their own best interest. Which is the truth we all suspect but don’t know for sure. Leadership survives on that one simple concept. We allow them to lead us because of a flawed belief system. We know it to be flawed but we ignore the tendrils of suspicion and rumor. Unless the truth is revealed. And then leadership changes. Rapidly. Even violently.
No, in the name of protecting our children, our way of life, and our very continued existence on this planet, the internet has to be reeled in, and controlled and all people communicating on it recorded and registered so they can be held accountable. That accountability will revolve around going after anybody or any entity that questions current leadership. All criminal judicial systems are established, funded, and run to protect leadership. Mythology has those bodies protecting the people, which the people believe until they encounter those bodies for themselves. Those judicial systems will be layered over new laws and rules to force this magic dragon of the internet back into its cave.
The main body of this article was written in 2014 when it was becoming evident that the Internet might become the grandest tool of freedom and knowledge ever to arise in this world, or it might become a place where trolls, low-life, and those wanting to control others at any cost would sit and enjoy the spoils of awful conduct and deceit filled communications. What’s happened has been a good deal of both. Nobody has yet to be required to register and identify themselves to use the Internet, but that is still likely in all of our futures. If you don’t believe that then you won’t believe that books are being banned across the land, even such books as the Bible. These are interesting times to live in, which would seem to be something to be enthusiastic about, except for that phrase being a curse in old Chinese literature.