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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 11
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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CODE WORD FOR CLASS WAR
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As the gap between rich and poor widens, with consequent
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disappearance of the middle class, the name of the game grows
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clearer. Now we can see the circa 1980s "getting tough on crime"
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as code for "keeping the poor under control." Keeping the poor
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"under control" covertly means "preventing them from organizing
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to wrest material wealth from you, the middle class."
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But now, with over 1 million of the poor "under control" here in
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the United States, it is found that the cost of doing so in
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itself takes money from the pockets of the disappearing middle
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class.
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So the next big push may be to reduce the cost of keeping the
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poor imprisoned, with possible code words "don't 'mollycoddle'
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criminals." Or look for "privatization" promoted as the way to
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reduce loss of wealth from those who pay to keep a portion of the
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have nots "under control."
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(Another code word has been "welfare reform," with some appeal to
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a declining middle class anxious to hang onto what little it's
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got left. So, using the code word "welfare reform" as "getting
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tough on crime" had been used earlier, class is pitted against
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class -- to the primary benefit of guess who?)
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Working against the trend of keeping the poor "under control" is
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the disappearance of the middle class, with most of them moving
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into the poor class. So the poor class is asked to pay to keep
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others of their class "under control." Hence "tough on crime"
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code words no longer appeal to as many as before: we're all
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increasingly poor, so who cares if some poor are kept "under
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control" so as to protect the wealth of those few who still have
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it?
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Thus "tough on crime" is less appealing as a disguise to keep the
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lowest class under control. How will those on the rich side of
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the fence protect their wealth now from the growing hordes on the
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other side?
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Their main hope is to let loose with *some* of their wealth, so
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as to shore up the middle class bulwark which protects them from
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the poor. For now, we see them re-thinking if "downsizing" was
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such a good idea. They are "re-thinking" because they see
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*their* high position threatened; not because they've suddenly
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acquired a conscience or anything like that.
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Other than shoring up the middle class by letting loose with a
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few crumbs from their table, the elite class might fall back on
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their old standby, a foreign war which has the effect of greatly
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diminishing the numbers of the poorest class. Maybe they will be
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so "kind" as to offer amnesty to certain prisoners provided they
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go overseas and shiver in foxholes -- all for some "noble
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purpose" which some chimpanzee somewhere will type out on a
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typewriter. Or the very wealthy may just resort to genocide,
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perhaps with help from "kindly doctors" or foreign mercenaries
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(now already on U.S. soil?) But if they totally eliminate the
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poorest class, who will they then enslave to produce more wealth
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for them? How can they eliminate the slave (i.e., servant, from
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the Latin *servus*, meaning "slave") class? Who will be their
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waiters and waitresses? Who will mow their lawns and haul away
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the garbage?
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A tricky dilemma for the super-wealthy ruling class. They can
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hire intellectual servants to compile "statistics" and churn out
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mathematical formulae, but all the tricks in the world won't make
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2 + 2 = 3.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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