The PLO, PLA, SLA, Hagannah, Viet Minh, Muslim Brotherhood, NLF Red Army Faction, FALN, Fatah, PMOI, Shining Path, ISIS, ISIL, Al-Quaeda, and the list goes on and on and on.

  Group after group, place after place, year after year the beat and the death just keeps on going on.

  The Viet Mihn were called bandits and warlords at first, then they became the Viet Cong and the People’s Liberation Front, and suddenly they were “Freedom Fighters” in the eyes of many. The PLO highjacked airliners full of people and shot and killed many. They demanded ransom, and often blew the planes up when the TV cameras went dark. Today they are the “Leaders of Palestine”.

   In the American media the old saying holds true that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” As long as the Democrats held the White House the money flowed to Vietnam to fight the war started under Kennedy, and when Nixon took office it suddenly became “Nixon’s War” and congress and the media turned against it.

  We condemn the actions of the IS groups but we ignore groups just as bad elsewhere. Just where and why do we draw these lines?

   And let’s just for once be honest here, and I’m not talking to people on the ground in areas occupied or under attack by these groups, except for those do any of these groups REALLY scare you?  Do you really live in fear of ISIL?

   The attacks on 9/11 killed thousands. It was a day very much like December 7^th of 1941 in that regard in that it made Americans mad as Hell, but did it really scare YOU?

   When that bomb exploded in Oklahoma City what did you think? No vast conspiracy, no network of terrorists, just a couple of guys and a little bit of military training. Did that image of a lone nut case scare you?

   Want to know the easy way to overthrow a government?

   You don’t spend millions and kill all your own people in symbolic attacks on buildings that mean nothing to the average person. You do it from within with small attacks that are set to attract attention and at places where the average citizen might go on a regular basis.

  You strike and wait for the people to demand the government do something. Then you strike again somewhere far away from the first attack.

   The Government will do what they always do. Make some symbolic gesture and pass a few laws to restrict the daily life of the average person.

  Then you repeat the first step to show that what they did hasn’t stopped you. This will make the government look bad and the people will demand more action. Which will result in even more laws and even less freedom for many.

  The cycle repeats over and over with each step causing the government to become more and more restrictive and the people less and less free. And each strike will only serve to show that they have failed to stop you. And even better, at some point others will become so disgusted with the government restrictions that they will join your efforts.

   As your numbers grow the government will start to use military to look for you and the sight of soldiers on the streets will scare the people more than any of your attacks. Soldiers are not police and they are not trained to use stun guns and chase people on foot. People will die by military actions which will drive even more to your side.

   The country will explode from the inside as the people will rise up to get rid of what they now see as an oppressive government.

  Every night the media report every shooting as if it were a massacre of biblical proportions. And every citizen thinks that his values and freedoms are being taken from him. The major political parties have joined in by making it look like the primaries are a sham and that a select few have already decided who will be elected.

  What I have described is the Spiral of Oppression. A know tactic of subverting and overthrowing a government. The screw is turning and is being turned by the government, helped by the media, and loudly supported by groups funded by billionaires who stand to clean up after the fall. How far can they screw down the lid before it blows?

  This last should scare you more than any group listed at the top of the page.

   How much more before the society ruptures from the turning of the screw?