"The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by
surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is
being examined. Their homes can be invaded."
- Vance Packard, American journalist, social critic and author
Daily Caller is reporting that the FCC appears to be building an "enemy list." The site reports: "The Federal Communications Commission is planning a broad probe of political speech across media platforms, an unprecedented move that raises serious First Amendment concerns.
The FCC’s proposed “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” which is set to begin a field test in a single market with an eye toward a comprehensive study in 2014, would collect a remarkably wide range of information on demographics, point of view, topic selection, management style and other factors in news organizations both in and out of the FCC’s traditional purview.
The airwaves regulator would also subject news producers in all media to invasive questioning about their work and content." See more
here.
Father Charles Arminjon, in his book entitled 'The End of the Present World,"
explains that, "..the Antichrist will be lord of the world" and that, "It is
abundantly clear that the effect of all the events of the present time is to
prepare the social setting in which the dominance of the man of sin will be
exercised...any
careful observer [this would rule out the vast majority
today] of the events of the present time cannot escape the conviction
that everything is being done to bring about a social environment where
the man of sin, by combining in his person all the depravity and every false
doctrine of his age, will be produced spontaneously and effortlessly, like the
parasitical tapeworm that breeds naturally in gangrenous flesh and
organs.."
Men, crippled by their atheistic humanism, are today
forging their own net of despotism which will be encompassed by the walls of new
concentration camps. Already citizens find themselves being monitored by
a
surveillance society which is merely a preparation for the fish-tank men
will find themselves within when the Man of Sin assumes power. "Man," Father
Vincent Miceli, S.J., explains, in attempting to be both an atheist and his own
God, "has only succeeded in establishing an inhuman humanism, a political and
religiously perverted atheism which violently forces him..into total bondage to
the father of lies and the unnatural perversions that lead to nihilism.
Idol-perverted through the worship of itself, atheistic humanism practices the
licentious liturgy of feeding its Man-God on man-god victims, a sort of
divine-human cannibalism. The adventure of atheism is seen, in the last
analysis, to be that unfathomable iniquity which attacks the very roots of
reality, divorcing things, persons, societies from God and organizing them into
a militant Kingdom of hate that ceaselessly and sacrilegiously assaults the
sanctity of God and the dignity of men."
Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas once commented on the way that oppression can subtly arise in our midst:
"
As nightfall does not come at once,
neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything
remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of
change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the
darkness."
Readers of this Blog know that I have been
warning of the encroaching darkness for some time. Some have dismissed my
warnings as "alarmist." Many Americans have been desensitized to the darkness
and have come to accept new values without even realizing it. Such people
believe that we still live in a democracy. But we do not.
In his
Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II reminded us
that:
"
Authentic democracy is possible only in a State ruled
by law, and on the basis of a correct conception of the human
person. It requires that the necessary conditions be present for
the advancement both of the individual through education and formation in true
ideals, and of the "subjectivity" of society through the creation of structures
of participation and shared responsibility. Nowadays there is a tendency to
claim that agnosticism and sceptical relativism are the philosophy and the basic
attitude which correspond to democratic forms of political life. Those who are
convinced that they know the truth and firmly adhere to it are considered
unreliable from a democratic point of view, since they do not accept that truth
is determined by the majority, or that it is subject to variation according to
different political trends. It must be observed in this regard that if there is
no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and
convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.
As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily
turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.
Nor
does the Church close her eyes to the danger of fanaticism or fundamentalism
among those who, in the name of an ideology which purports to be scientific or
religious, claim the right to impose on others their own concept of what is true
and good. Christian truth is not of this kind. Since it is not an ideology, the
Christian faith does not presume to imprison changing socio-political realities
in a rigid schema, and it recognizes that human life is realized in history in
conditions that are diverse and imperfect. Furthermore, in constantly
reaffirming the transcendent dignity of the person, the Church's method is
always that of respect for freedom.
But
freedom attains its full
development only by accepting the truth. In a world without truth, freedom loses
its foundation and man is exposed to the violence of passion and to
manipulation, both open and hidden. The Christian upholds freedom and
serves it, constantly offering to others the truth which he has known (cf. Jn
8:31-32), in accordance with the missionary nature of his vocation. While paying
heed to every fragment of truth which he encounters in the life experience and
in the culture of individuals and of nations, he will not fail to affirm in
dialogue with others all that his faith and the correct use of reason have
enabled him to understand." (No. 46).
The English psychiatrist
William Sargent explained that, "It is not the mentally ill but ordinary normal
people who are most susceptible to 'brainwashing.'" And in her book The Nazis
and the Occult, Dusty Sklar notes how, "Hitler's early speeches were so
mesmerizing that even people who were repelled by his ideas felt themselves
being swept along. The playwright Eugene Ionesco mentions in his autobiography
that he received the inspiration for Rhinoceros when he felt himself pulled into
the Nazi orbit at a mass rally and had to struggle to keep from developing
'rhinoceritis.'
We 'catch' ideas, too, because we want to be like others,
particularly when we want not to be our despised selves. If we're satisfied, we
don't need to conform, but if we're not, we imitate people whom we admire for
having greater judgment, taste, or good fortune than we do....Through
conformity, the person who feels inferior is in no danger of being exposed. He's
indistinguishable from the others. No one can single him out and examine his
unique being. Conformity, in turn, sets him up to be further canceled out as an
individual, to have no life apart from his collective purpose. This gives a
movement tremendous power over the individual. Even intelligent people are
not immune from the desire to conform. Heinrich Hildebrandt, a schoolteacher who
was anxious to hide his liberal past, joined the Nazi party, and to his own
disgust, found himself 'proud to be wearing the insignia. It showed I belonged,
and the pleasure of belonging, so soon after feeling excluded, isolated, is very
great...I belonged to the new nobility..'" (The Nazis and the Occult, pp. 157,
158).
The desire to conform and not to be perceived as being "different"
or "countercultural," can be a very powerful force. Many Catholics (and other
Christians) voted for President Barack Obama knowing full well that he supports
abortion through all nine months of pregnancy right up to so-called
partial-birth abortion - which is actually infanticide - as well as his support
for Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) and the radical homosexual agenda.
A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised
totalitarianism. Prophetic words indeed. It's twilight. Darkness is falling.
Will we pray and work to turn back the darkness? Or will we give into it?
