Expanding Isolationists

Kleptocracies regularly seek expansion: of population, of territories (the two traditionally being related: big armies beat small armies, or, they used to). But kleptocracies function by isolating those they've stolen from. Crazy Horse was put in jail, not given a soapbox in DC. Sutter wandered the halls of Congress but only when he didn't have a pot to piss in, was effectively helpless.

The US let me out of jail after fifteen months of arrest, joke trials, and confinement beginning and ending in solitary: but by then they'd destroyed my resources, replaced them with subsistence support with which I can't repair the computer system they destroyed, can't update my software ... can't republish my testimonies: against the kleptocracy.

It's no different from Herod killing John, then sabotaging Jesus. (Wait: was John killed after Jesus was crucified?)

A few stories get told about John and Jesus, but few true ones about Sutter, and no true ones that I hear about pk.

"Freedom" as Control

Alexander talked big about freedom while he was conquering Persia: and onward to the east. Modern kleptocracies likewise talk about freedom, promise it: promise it big time. Further, modern kleptocracies compel attendance at school where all are told (by state robots called "teachers") that freedom is not only imminent, but here: the kleptocracy has delivered freedom to all those who gamble that nonresistance will keep them out of jail.

(Note the time delay: not unlike John's, Jesus', promise that the kingdom of God was at hand.)

Funny: all I see the kleptocracy delivering is control.

Oh, not real control. I don't believe that anything non-cybernetic, not even God, has that. No, no: attempts at control.

Top-down, hierarchically imposed, centralized controls: centralized for management: of us the "free" "people."