<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="159285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <B>      </B><B>  </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" "><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>  </B><B> |  </B><A HREF="mailto: ofpathicsandevil@roadrunner.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: ofpathicsandevil@roadrunner.com"><U><B>Contact us</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="158d2c00dkelyh.png"> <bR> <div> <B>Of Pathics and Evil</B></div> <div> <B>[An Audio-V</B><B>isual Experience]</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.myspace.com/ofpathicsandevil" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.myspace.com/ofpathicsandevil"><U><B>www.myspace.com/</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.myspace.com/ofpathicsandevil" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.myspace.com/ofpathicsandevil"><U><B>ofpathicsandevil</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>_________________</B></div> <div> <A HREF="index_m.htm#pub" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE=" "><U><B>BOOK PURCHASE INFORMATION</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>_________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>IMAGES / PORTR</B><B>AI</B><B>TS OF PATHICS AND EVIL</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0f365730.jpg" border=0 width="101" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Here take this, and may it do you harm.</B> </div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0f5dfb20.jpg" border=0 width="223" height="178" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Come into my office; I have an offer you can't refuse.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0f7acb10.gif" border=0 width="172" height="177" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Thought you knew me, didn't you.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12f9ebf0.jpg" border=0 width="158" height="191" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>O </B><B>H</B><B>ow I do love me above all else!</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0fb57440.jpg" border=0 width="87" height="68" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Here's to you, buddy.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0fd51510.jpg" border=0 width="81" height="81" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>So long, little one.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0cea58a0.jpg" border=0 width="165" height="138" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Guess Who!</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0379e9b0.jpg" border=0 width="158" height="155" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Why are you trembling, my dear?</B> </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1025a760.jpg" border=0 width="90" height="118" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>I swear I will annhilate you all!</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12a72a10.jpg" border=0 width="114" height="161" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>How well I sleep at night with blood on my mind.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1057c7b0.jpg" border=0 width="124" height="123" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Kill! Kill! Kill! Hail to you my fellow countrymen!</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1065e850.jpg" border=0 width="94" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Yes, I have the arcane answer to </B><I><B>nothing </B></I><B>though you see </B><I><B>everything </B></I><B>through my pseudo gaze! </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12c71710.jpg" border=0 width="113" height="113" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>You will do my dire bidding as I mesmerize your fractured psyche.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10785870.jpg" border=0 width="133" height="135" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Black as night is my soul.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10880650.jpg" border=0 width="128" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>I have a present for you that will surely do you in.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1185a780.jpg" border=0 width="90" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>I see you're a little perturbed at my gaze. </B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="11982700.jpg" border=0 width="130" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Aren't I pretty to the eyes? ...Now look again, if you dare.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="11a5a780.jpg" border=0 width="90" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Are you feeling quite out of sorts as I mesmerize you into my glare?</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="11374740.jpg" border=0 width="116" height="116" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Yes, my love, you may be at my beck and call.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="114708e0.jpg" border=0 width="112" height="142" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>I'm just a pretty little imp that will bite where it hurts the most.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1164e820.jpg" border=0 width="78" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Temptress! Temptress! Depart from me! I'm losing my soul.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="11774740.jpg" border=0 width="116" height="116" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>May my reign of duplicity undermine your naivte.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10b82590.jpg" border=0 width="130" height="89" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The horror! The horror! at what I commit.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10c94820.jpg" border=0 width="148" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>May death do you part.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10d75820.jpg" border=0 width="117" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Strange as it may seem, I like you.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="12d40560.jpg" border=0 width="64" height="86" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Would you like me to scratch your back.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1105e850.jpg" border=0 width="94" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Good to see you. Come on in.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12354760.jpg" border=0 width="84" height="118" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Hi! May I have a word against you.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10f6ea10.jpg" border=0 width="110" height="161" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>May strife and gore reign among men and women on earth.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="121745b0.jpg" border=0 width="116" height="91" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>You're despicable!...and so am I, playing the clown; when all I am is rage and rampage.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1227a7d0.jpg" border=0 width="122" height="125" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Hi everyone! Want a laugh - my kind of laugh, that is.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12474720.jpg" border=0 width="116" height="114" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Don't get cuddly with me, buster, or you'll be more than sorry.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1257c7c0.jpg" border=0 width="124" height="124" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>To tear you to shreds is my vicious intent.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1279fa40.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Aghast be thee at my visage!</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12846880.jpg" border=0 width="70" height="136" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>So you think me all soft and cuddly, do you.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>__________________________________</B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="13ac1220.png" border=0 width="193" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <A NAME="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#_of_pathics_and_evil_ends_on_a_high" TITLE=" "><U><B>*</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" ><B>THE BOOK THAT STRIKES AT THE ROOT OF EVIL'S MALICE  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Written by the People for the People</div> <div>  with Related Chapters by the Author</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>BACK COVER</B></div> <div> <B>JOSEPH SGUIGNA </B>researched the subject of evil in relation to psychopathy for sixteen</div> <div> years, and his book Of Pathics and Evil: A Philosophy Against Malice, is the culmination</div> <div> of that research. Mr. Sguigna's insightful approach to the subject of psychopathy differs</div> <div> from all other books on the subject from four standpoints: (1) it is a compilation of per-<B>           </B></div> <div> sonal accounts from psychopaths themselves and from their victims; (2) he has cleared</div> <div> up the frustrating problem of distinguishing the differences between the psychopath, the</div> <div> sociopath, the narcissist, and the psychotic; (3) he has consolidated these four terms un-</div> <div> der the inclusive term, "pathics"; (4) he has brought to the foreground an awareness of</div> <div> pathic behavior in both women and children, which has been mostly in the background</div> <div> of (psycho)pathic studies; and (5) he explores the phenomenon of the pathic character</div> <div> in relation to human evil through an extensive compilation of quotations by eminent </div> <div> persons on the subject of evil as inherent to human nature.</div> <div> It is a fascinating, wrenching study of both evil and pathics as it weaves in and out of the</div> <div> variations of pathic behavior. He saves the reader from sinking into despair on reading</div> <div> these graphic accounts by offering a philosophy against malice derived from personal</div> <div> experience, extensive study, and intuitive insight.</div> <div> Readers will emerge from this book the wiser for it, with a deep and incisive understand-</div> <div> ingof both evil and pathic behavior that will assist them in recognizing, and protecting</div> <div> themselves from, the predators that invade their lives. The author's philosophy against</div> <div> malice inherent in the book, serves as a clarion call to all readers that there must be an</div> <div> ascendancy of justice and wisdom to replace injustice and ignorance. For truly has Of</div> <div> Pathics and Evil highlighted Thoreau's statement, "For every thousand people hacking</div> <div> at the branches of evil, there is one person striking at its root."</div> <div> <B>Joseph Sguigna </B>is a writer of philosophic wisdom and co-creator with his wife, Sharon,</div> <div> of a successful critical-creative thinking curriculum, Studies in Meaning. He was edu-</div> <div> cated in philosophy at UCLA and CAL State University and lives in Redondo Beach,</div> <div> California, with his family.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _____________________________________________________________</div> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>FIRST TWO REVIEWS</B></div> <bR> <div> From </div> <div> Workplace Bullying Institute:  http://www.workplacebullying.org/2009/06/01/barbaric/ </div> <div> <B>1. </B>    Charles Page says: </div> <div> June 2, 2009 at 8:02 pm</div> <div> I found the book, OF PATHICS AND EVIL, http://www.ofpathicsandevil.net to be a great and enjoyable resource for understanding the kinds of bullying behaviors I've had to endure. You'll find there the general categories of pathics: NARCIPATHS - do evil (deliberate harm)primarily for the sake of self-aggrandizement, SOCIOPATHS - do evil primarily for the sake of dominance over others, and PSYCHOPATHS-do evil primarily for the sake of malice, the pleasure derived from inflicting suffering upon others. All the bullies and abusers I've had the misfortune to know, and all of the bully enablers and apologists have epitomized these kinds of pathic behaviors.</div> <bR> <div> <B>2.  </B> garynamie says: </div> <div> June 3, 2009 at 10:26 am</div> <div> I like the typology, drawing fine distinctions within the general class of evil acts. Good resource.</div> <div>       Gary Namie  [Ph.D., Social Psychology, author, and co-founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute]</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="12bc4d90.jpg" border=0 width="196" height="217" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <bR> <div> "Beware of the false teachers, who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are wolves and will tear you apart"</div> <div> - New Testament, Matthew, xiii, 57</div> <bR> <div> <B>OF PATHICS AND EVIL</B></div> <div> <B>A Philosophy Against Malice</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  Compiled, Edited and Written </div> <div> By</div> <div> Joseph Sguigna</div> <div> with</div> <div>  Sharon Sguigna</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="488" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 70 WIDTH="476"><div> <B>Abridged Edition</B></div> <div>   The following abridged edition comprises one, two, or a few passages of each chapter of the book.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The individual has manifold shadows, all of which resemble him, and from </div> <div> time to time have equal claim to be the man himself.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                                                                                                    <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >- Kierkegaard</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Introduction</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>HAS THERE BEEN A </B><I><B>PATHIC </B></I><B>IN YOUR LIFE? </B></div> <div> <B>IS THERE ONE NOW?</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="640" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 153 ><NOBR><div> <B> </B>A<B> Pathic</B>: Someone who charms you at first then harms you at last. </div> <div>  A<B> Pathic</B>: Someone who breaks down your self- respect, your self-worth, your self-identity. </div> <div> <B> </B>A<B> Pathic</B>: Someone who continuously abuses you verbally, emotionally, physically. </div> <div> <B> </B>A<B> Pathic</B>: Someone who continuously lies, cheats and harms to get what they want. </div> <div>  A <B>Pathic</B>: Someone who would kill if it came to that. </div> <div>  A <B>Pathic</B>: Someone who is primarily either a psychopath, a sociopath, or a narcipath</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> If so, you can do something significant about it. You can free yourself from their present and past oppressions.</div> <div> For this freedom to come about, (1) You must be able to distinguish the differences between the psychopath, the sociopath, and the narcipath. (2) You must come to understand, not only pathics, but yourself in relation to them; an understanding which happens through reading, reflecting, and discussing. (3) You must come to realize that, as humans, we all have our own dark side, more or less; and that in contrast to your dark side you also have your light side -- your transcendence. </div> <div> Armed with this understanding, you will then be in a strategic position to free yourself from them permanently, and to recognize them for what they are, and to free yourself personally from them.   </div> <div> We can offer this understanding, this wisdom, this freedom, through two avenues found on this website, and related to this desktop published book: (1) an e-mail interchange for public discussion, (2) our AIM [AOL instant messenger] setup for personal discussion, and (3) our myspace for  and oral and visual experience of pathics:</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri" ><A HREF="http://www.myspace.com/ofpathicsandevil" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.myspace.com/ofpathicsandevil"><U><B>www.myspace.com/ofpathicsandevil</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> For many years, both my wife and I have studied thoroughly this corrosive pathic phenomenon psychologically, philosophically, and spiritually; and accordingly, we have compiled into this distinctive book, <I>Of Pathics and Evil</I>, real life accounts from victims; as well as revelations from the predators themselves; and have analyzed these pathic persons in relation to human evil and good.</div> <div> This book ends on a high note of optimism and freedom through the projection of an ideal to reach for; namely, <B>that justice and wisdom will one day take the ascendancy over injustice and ignorance</B>. See our related website:</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.theconscioustransformation.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.theconscioustransformation.ne"><U><B>http://www.theconscioustransformation.net</B></U></A></div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> The contents of this book will surely provide an awakening awareness of the mindset and behavior of these pathics as how they intertwine their lives into our lives.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> <B>Contents</B></div> <bR> <div>                                         </div> <div> <A HREF="#_preface_1" TITLE=" "><U><B>Preface </B></U></A><A HREF="#_preface_1" TITLE=" "><U><B>    </B></U></A><B> </B>                                                  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PART ONE: Perspectives of Human Evil</B></div> <div> <A HREF="#c1" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 1</U></A>   A Preliminary 1</div> <div> <A HREF="#c2" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 2</U></A>   The Pathics  9                                      </div> <div> <A HREF="#c3" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 3</U></A>  The Evil in Human Nature  16</div> <div> <A HREF="#c4" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 4</U></A>   Pathics As Evil  82                                                           </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PART TWO: Profiles of the Pathic Individual</B></div> <div> <A HREF="#c5" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 5</U></A>   The Pathics: In Their Own Words  90             </div> <div> <A HREF="#c6" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 6</U></A>   The Victims: Descriptions of Pathics  109               </div> <div> <A HREF="#c7" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 7</U></A>  The Authorities: An Overview of Pathics  122     </div> <div> <A HREF="#c8" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 8</U></A><A HREF="#c8" TITLE=" "><U> </U></A>  Nature and/or Nurture    152</div> <div>                                  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PART THREE: Pathics In Relationships</B></div> <div> <A HREF="#c9" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 9</U></A>    Gender and Age Distinctions   166          </div> <div> <A HREF="#c10" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 10</U></A>  Codependents  241   </div> <div> <A HREF="#c11" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 11</U></A>  Sex   257</div> <div> <A HREF="#c12" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 12</U></A>   Religion  290                                        </div> <div> <A HREF="#c13" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 13</U></A>  In the Workplace   301</div> <div> <A HREF="#c14" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 14</U></A>  Traumatic Effects on Pathics' Victims   346       </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PART FOUR: Against Evil </B></div> <div> <A HREF="#c15" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 15</U></A> Against Evil in General   382       </div> <div> <A HREF="#c16" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 16</U></A>  Against Pathics in Particular 395                         </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PART FIVE: Toward the Ascendancy of Justice and Wisdom </B></div> <div> <A HREF="#c17" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 17</U></A>   A Philosophy against Malice: Auroralism   410          </div> <div> <A HREF="#c18" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 18</U></A>   Hard Natures in Contrast to Soft Natures  413                                                        </div> <div> <A HREF="#c19" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 19</U></A>  That Good May Prevail over Evil  428    </div> <div> <A HREF="#c20" TITLE=" "><U>Chapter 20</U></A><A HREF="#c20" TITLE=" "><U> </U></A> The Play's the Thing  443</div> <div> <A HREF="#ep" TITLE=" "><U>EPILOGUE</U></A>    461</div> <div> <A HREF="#appendix" TITLE=" "><U>APPENDIX</U></A></div> <div>                           </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="preface_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><B>PREFACE</B></div> <bR> <div>      My purpose in composing this book is twofold: (1) for it to serve as an introductory manifesto for those individuals who aspire to do good for others, or for mankind, and (2) to serve as an introductory guide for those who aspire to be good to themselves by preserving their self-identity and personal integrity.</div> <div>      So this book is the natural companion  to my accompanying book, <I>Human-Transcendence: A Love-Wisdom</I>. The former book is the dark in/of us, the latter book, the light in/of us.</div> <div>     The personal accounts of these passages are mainly from internet forums; and I am endlessly grateful for each person’s story, which, without these forums, this book could not have been compiled. These individuals have contributed immeasurably to the ongoing understanding of the pathic personality.</div> <div>     To keep the authenticity of the personal accounts in this book, I have  retained each person’s natural way of writing with their often nonstandard words, spellings and usages – for example: “gonna,” “for the helluvit,” “sooooo seductive,” etc.; as well as, idiosyncratic words, such as “creepazoids” I retained their use of capital letters for emphasis, since their accounts on these internet forums were written in plain text, which, do not include bolding, italics, underlining, and the like (HTML). Also, since many of these accounts are from England, I retained their standard spellings of such words as, “behaviour” (behavior), “cant” (can’t), “favour” (favor) “realise” (realize), etc. I do change punctuation marks, so that their sentence arrangement make sense.</div> <bR> <div> The following abbreviations are used by the personal accounts in this book.</div> <bR> <div> N - Narcissist</div> <div> S - sociopath</div> <div> P - Psychopath</div> <div> NP - Narcissistic Psychopath</div> <div> NS – Narcissistic supply</div> <div> NPD - Narcissistic Personality Disorder</div> <div> PA - Passive Aggressive</div> <div> NS - Narcissistic Supply (attention, admiration, etc.)</div> <div> APD - Antisocial Personality Disorder</div> <div> BPD - Borderline Personality Disorder</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> "To defeat them, first we must understand them"</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >                                                                                 </FONT> - Elie Wiesel</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> "The world is all the richer for having a devil in it; so long as we keep our foot upon his neck." </div> <div>                                                                                                                                                        <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" > - William James</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="244" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 42 ><NOBR><div> <B>PART ONE</B></div> <div>  Perspectives of Human Evil</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 1</B><B> <A NAME="c1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> A PRELIMINARY</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>The Psychopath</B></div> <div> [Those who use and abuse others primarily for the sake of harming them<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >]</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>1</B>.  “It's heart-sickening how ignorant most therapists are when it comes to psychopathy. Excuse me. Antisocial Personality Disorder. Let's be politically correct, here. </div> <div>     “The last therapist I saw with my psychopath husband did not see ASPD at all in him. He dropped out of the `therapy' after he had thoroughly conned her. This therapist knew he had beaten me, threatened my life, slept with my friends, had affairs with teenagers, peeped, exposed, lied, stolen, abused his positions, turned my community against me; he had admitted to all of this. She also knew he had been accused by some children of molesting them, which he had not denied. He had told her if he did it, he didn't remember. She also knew he probably had molested his own children. She said to me, 'You think he has ASPD. I don't see that.'</div> <div>     “I said, 'Why not?'</div> <div>     “She said, 'Where is the antisocial behavior? What crimes has he committed?'</div> <div>     “I guess she meant he had no criminal record. Therefore he didn't have ASPD. Most people, including most therapists have a cardboard insightless image of a psychopath. They wouldn't know a psychopath if one hit them over the head with a two-by-four. ... </div> <bR> <div> <B>... [1 more entry ]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> __________________</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Sociopath</B></div> <div> [Those who use and abuse others primarily to their advantage through manipulative control]</div> <bR> <div> 1.  In my case [my] husband of 12 years, is not exactly malicious. He doesn't set out to hurt me just for kicks, in my opinion. He hurts me as little or as much as it takes to achieve his goal: to make me dependant on him in as many ways, obey him, give him all the [attention, admiration, etc.]. He demands that I abdicate control. So, while his primary goal isn't to hurt me, it becomes a goal if that's what it takes to get [attention, admiration, etc.] out of me. ...” </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________</div> <div> <B>... [1 more entry ]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" ><B>The Narcipath</B></FONT><B> </B>(a variation of 'narcissist')</div> <div> [Those who use and abuse others primarily to their advantage for the sake of self-aggrandizement] </div> <bR> <div> 1.  “My ex girlfriend said I was perfect. She made me feel so special and I tried so hard to make her feel loved. After the first year, nothing was ever good enough. On every holiday, she found a way to cheapen the experience and say it was my fault. It was like looking into the abyss. She did the most horrible things to me to make me feel like garbage. When she left me, she just acted like everything I did was nothing to her. It was my fault because she wants a man who will give her 80% of their time to nurture her needs while giving 20% in return, because she said she deserves it, and intends to have it. Her lies were unnecessary and she never seemed to be able to have an in-depth  conversation about much of anything. I miss the person she claimed to be. The facade was ...</div> <div> <B>... [passage 2]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>_____________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 2</B><B> <A NAME="c2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>THE PATHICS</B></div> <div> [by the Author]</div> <bR> <div> Psychopaths do us harm. Sociopaths also do us harm. Narcissists, too, do us harm. Each harms according to his/her own propensities. Psychopaths will do us harm primarily for the sake of harm. Sociopaths will do us harm primarily for the sake of manipulative-dominance. Narcissists will do us harm primarily for the sake of self-aggrandizement. However they may differ in their approach to harming others, they will do so both covertly and overtly. </div> <div> The terms, psychopath, sociopath, and narcissist are commonly interchanged, and so can be confusing as to the degree and fashion [type] of harm perpetrated by these individuals. Accordingly, in order to resolve this confusion, we have coined a comprehensive term that includes all three terms. The term “pathic” is this comprehensive term that includes the sociopath, the psychopath, and the narcissist. This word `narcissist' will be modified to narcipath – I modify the term, “narcissist” to “narcipath” so that the suffix, “path,” is consistent with the other two terms, as well as to avoid the various connotations, favorable and otherwise, of the term “narcissist.” </div> <div> One other term included with these three, is what I term “psychoticpath” which refers to the abnormality of blood-lust as an habitual frame of mind. Because of its rarity in human behavior, it will not be discussed overall, but will have its own chapter.</div> <div> The term “pathic” is derived from the suffix, path, signifying 'disease-producing,' 'suffering'. It is this etymological root of the term `pathic' which gives these three types of harmful individuals, each in his own way, their commonality: that they cause disease (the breaking down of physical and/or psychological health) and suffering. The common term, 'narcissist', therefore, will simply be renamed `narcipath' so that they all belong to the same.</div> <div> <B>... [8 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>_______________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 3</B><B> <A NAME="c3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>THE EVIL IN HUMAN NATURE</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Introductory Notes</B></div> <bR> <div> Since the doings of pathics are universally destructive to the well-being of others; and since evil is considered a destructive force, it is understood that pathic behavior is considered a form of evil. Malice is the overall term that applies to this form of human evil. So, we can say of a pathic (person) that he or she is evil in general, and malicious in particular.  </div> <div>     It is not very likely that a good person could ever be a malicious person; but he might very well act maliciously under extreme circumstances, such as revenge or self-defense or self-preserva- tion or jealousy (“the green-eyed monster”). In which case, malice, or evil, is inherent to even the good or moral, person. Which extreme causes this evil in a basically good or moral person, depends on the person and his particular physical and psychological threshold of pain ensuing from fear, anxiety, terror, rejection, abuse, starvation, imprisonment, and the like.</div> <div>     Furthermore, if we consider human nature from an ethical perspective, we could classify people as either basically moral (concerned with what is right and good), or basically immoral (opposed to what is right and good)  or basically amoral (indifferent to what is right or good). And, as mentioned, if even a good, moral, person could act maliciously in the extreme, then certainly, even moreso, could the amoral and immoral person.</div> <div>     From this brief analysis, it is pretty much a foregone conclusion that evil is an inherent human trait relative to a person's individual nature, or temperament, or constitution, however buried in his/her unconscious “id” of human nature.</div> <div>     To support this view, I offer a wide selection of quotations from eminent persons from all times and all places. My threefold purpose in including these quotations is (1) as I mentioned, to support the view that evil, relatively speaking, is as much a part of our common human nature as is good; and (2) to better prepare the reader's understanding and open-mindedness to not judge the pathics in these readings as an anomaly, or “sickness” of human nature; but to view them as an opposition to human welfare and well-being; and so, accordingly, to protect ourselves from them the best we can; and (3) to understand more fully the nature of human evil in general, and the pathics as evil in particular.</div> <div>     The following quotation from a contemporary theater critic, Charles McNulty,  places the inevitability of strife, for good and for evil, in human affairs simply by an innate propensity to dominate, or be dominated: “The urge to dominate is fundamental to our territorial natures. We know we're not safe, and our canine vigilance readies us to attack and defend.”</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div> <B>A Contemporary Perspective</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EVIL</B></div> <div> Devils, Demons, and the Daimonic</div> <bR> <div> <B>Selection from Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity, Stephen A. Diamond, Ph. D. </B></div> <div> Hostility, hatred, and violence are the greatest evils we have to contend with today. Evil is now – ever has been, and ever will be – an existential reality, an inescapable fact with which we mortals must reckon. In virtually every culture there has existed some word for evil, a universal, linguistic acknowledgment of the archetypal presence of “something that brings sorrow, distress, or calamity...; the fact of suffering, misfortune, and wrongdoing.” Yet another of Webster's traditional definitions links the English word evil with all that is “angry… wrathful...[and] malignant.” The term evil has always been closely associated with anger, rage, and, of course, violence. But today we seem uncomfortable with this antiquated concept. Our discomfort resides largely in the religious and theological implications of evil, based on values, ethics, and morals that many today find judgmental, dogmatic, and passé. In a secular society like ours, we Americans have tended to avoid biblical characterizations such as “sin,” “wickedness," “iniquity,” and “evil.” Nevertheless, as Jungian analyst Liliane Frey-Rohn rightly remarks: “Evil is a phenomenon that exists and has always existed only in the human world. Animals ...</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <div> <B>An Historical Perspective</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>LITERARY AUTHORS</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Churton Collins</B></div> <div> We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seed plot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.</div> <div> <B>D.H. Lawrence</B></div> <div> 1. Intellectual appreciation does not amount to so much, it's what you thrill to. And if murder, suicide, rape is what you thrill to, and nothing else, then it's your destiny – you can't change it mentally. You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it. Still, for all that, it's a perverse courage which makes the man accept the slow suicide of inertia and sterility: the perverseness of a perverse child. – It's amazing how men are like that.</div> <div> 2. This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.</div> <div> <B>George Bernard Shaw </B></div> <div> 1. When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. </div> <div> 2. It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. </div> <div> <B>Somerset Maugham</B></div> <div> There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.</div> <div> <B>... [27 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>POETS</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Byron</B></div> <div> Oh, man! thou feeble tenant of an hour, </div> <div> Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power,</div> <div> Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, </div> <div> Degraded mass of animated dust!</div> <div> Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,</div> <div> Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit!</div> <div> By nature vile, ennobled but by name,</div> <div> Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame.</div> <div> <B>Pope</B></div> <div> Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix,</div> <div> Of crooked counsels and dark politics.</div> <div> Destroy his fib, or sophistry – in vain!</div> <div> The creature's at his dirty work again.</div> <div> <B>Shakespeare</B> </div> <div> 1.      The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.</div> <div>          An evil soul producing holy witness</div> <div>          Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,</div> <div>          A goodly apple rotten at the heart.</div> <div>          O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.</div> <div> <B>... [6 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Dante</B></div> <div> She has a nature so malign and evil that she never sates her greedy will, and after food is hungrier than before.</div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PHILOSOPHERS / SAGES</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Cicero</B></div> <div> 1. The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.</div> <div> 2. Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.</div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <div> <B>Schopenhauer</B></div> <div> Man is at bottom a wild and terrible animal. We know him only as what we call civilization has tamed and trained him; hence we are alarmed by the occasional breaking out of his true nature. But whenever the locks and chains of law and order are cast off, and anarchy comes in, he shows himself for what he really is.</div> <div> <B>Santyana</B></div> <div> 1. To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions. To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood. To fight for a reason and in a calculating spirit is something your true warrior despises.</div> <div> 2. All men are born with a sufficient violent liking for domination, wealth, and pleasure, and with a strong taste for idleness; consequently, ....</div> <div> <B>... [32 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PSYCHOLOGISTS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jung</B></div> <div> 1.  It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster's body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost. Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature. Blindly he strives ...</div> <div> <B>Freud</B></div> <div> <B>1</B>. I will say nothing of how you may appear in your own eyes, but have you met with so much goodwill in your superiors and rivals, so much chivalry in your enemies and so little envy amongst your acquaintances, that you feel it incumbent on you to protest against the idea of the part played by egoistic baseness in human nature? Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? Or are you ignorant of the fact that all the excesses and aberrations of which we dream at night are crimes actually committed every day by men who are wide awake? What does psychoanalysis do in this connection but confirm the old saying of Plato that the good are those who content themselves with dreaming of what others, the wicked, actually do...</div> <div> <B>... [6 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 3</div> <bR> <div> <B>From THE BIBLE</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> INTRODUCTORY NOTE</div> <div>    For those who the Bible is the first and last word of our humanity and spirituuality, will find in the following passages that not only has God created the world, “and saw that it was good”; but has included human evil in that process – “I make peace, and create evil.” It is not the work of Satan, or some Evil force or alien entity, or whatever else; unless these concepts serve as metaphors that apply meaning and myth to what we cannot understand about the nature of evil. So, according to the Bible and God, it looks like we are stuck with evil regardless of the endlessly vast chaos and suffering it engenders in and against life.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>From THE OLD TESTAMENT</B></div> <div> from <B>Lamentations 3:38</B></div> <div> 1. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7, KJV) Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? (Amos 3:6, KJV) Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?  </div> <div> 2. Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? (Lamentations 3:38, NIV) Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth? (Lamentations 3:38, NASB) </div> <div> <B> Isaiah 5:20-21</B></div> <div> 1. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight!</div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <bR> <div> from<B> THE NEW TESTAMENT</B></div> <div> 1. “Beware of false teachers who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are wolves and will tear you apart. You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You need never confuse grapevines with thorn bushes or figs with thistles. Different kinds of fruit trees can quickly be identified by examining their fruit. A variety that produces delicious fruit never produces an inedible kind. And a tree producing an inedible kind can't produce what is good. So the trees having the inedible fruit are chopped down and thrown on the fire. Yes, the way to identify a tree or a person is by the kind of fruit produced.'” (Matthew 7:15-23) </div> <div> ...</div> <div> <B>Jesus</B></div> <div>  3. “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” (Mark 7:20-23)</div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <div> <B>St. Paul </B></div> <div> And if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth, you, then, that teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You that forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples? You that boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? </div> <div> <B>... </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 4</div> <div> <B>Variations of Evil</B></div> <bR> <div> The following sections: “The Aesthetics of Evil,” “The Degradation of Evil,”  “The Culture of Evil, “The Egoism of Evil,” “The Politics of Evil,” present evil in its various aspects besides its obvious destructiveness in human affairs .</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE AESTHETICS OF EVIL</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jean Genet</B></div> <div> 1. Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. </div> <div> 2. Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. </div> <div> 3. We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent – or they themselves – was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.</div> <div> <B> ... [26 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE DEGRADATION OF EVIL</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>De Sade</B></div> <div> 1. Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, ...</div> <div> 2. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness ...</div> <div> 3. All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the ...foremost </div> <div> <B>... [17 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE CULTURE OF EVIL</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Octavio Paz</B></div> <div> 1. One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. The bloody Christs in our village churches, the macabre humor in some of our newspaper headlines, our wakes, the custom of eating skull-shaped cakes and candies on the Day of the Dead, are habits inherited from the Indians and the Spaniards and are now an inseparable part of our being. Our cult of death is also a cult of life, in the same way that love is a hunger for life and a longing for death. Our fondness for self-destruction derives not only from our masochistic tendencies but also from a certain variety of religious emotion.</div> <div> …</div> <div> We are nihilists - except that our nihilism is not intellectual but instinctive, and therefore irrefutable. … We believe that sin and death constitute the ultimate basis of human nature.</div> <div> 2. The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas, are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives.</div> <div>     A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature. This sort of conspiracy cannot help but provoke ...</div> <div> <B>... [7 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE POLITICS OF EVIL</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Niccolo Machiavelli</B></div> <div> 1. Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. </div> <div> <B>... [21 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE EGOISM OF EVIL</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>La Rochefoucauld </B></div> <div> 1. We behave politely to be treated politely, and to be considered polite. </div> <div> 2. Pity is often a way of feeling our own misfortunes in those of other people; it is a clever foretaste of....</div> <div> 3. We make promises to the extent that we hope, and keep them to the extent that we fear. </div> <div> <B>... [61 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>__________________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 4</B><B> <A NAME="c4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>PATHICS AS EVIL</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div> <B>From Personal Accounts</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>               INTRODUCTORY NOTES</B></div> <bR> <div> From the following personal accounts it is clear that pathics are emissaries of evil; who are wired neurologically, chemically, and psychologically to op- pose, offset, upset, agitate in the extreme, the moral and social order that prevails in any given situation; yet perhaps not so clear that without such pathics, our humanity would fall into a debilitating stagnation of listless automatism.  </div> <div>     And you might protest: “But these pathics cause so much unjustifiable suffering to countless innocent victims. Wouldn't life be so much better without them; and would why would such a life be a debilitating stagnation of our humanity?” And I reply, Theoretically, ideally, life would be much better without them; but then, there would remain only the good and loving with no opposition whatsoever: a utopian world. All would be well and good. But, all would not – could not – be well and good simply from the living realities of pain and pleasure, wants and needs, self-consciousness; or of sexual selection that spawn rivalry, jealousy, lust, etc.; or of physical and mental variations that spawn competition, aggression, moods, etc.; or of fatigue, of disease and aging that spawn fear of our mortality and the situations goes on and on. </div> <div>     All these living realities that we are faced with, are inescapably part and parcel of our human condition. Hence there can be no one-sided perspective of human nature. Strife comes with love; that is to say ... </div> <div>     So the ever-repeating mantras of “peace on earth,” and “universal brotherhood,” are no less than illusions – often becoming a delusions – so long as ... .”</div> <div>     Hence, the fight, the struggle, one against the other goes on without stop; yet what could very well change for the better is for the good (justice and wisdom) to one day take the ascendancy over the bad (injustice and ignorance).  Then we will have a “brave new world” to look forward to; for then we will have fought the good fight. </div> <bR> <div> 1. “And the reptilian stare of those eyes. You cannot escape the uniqueness of that stare, no matter what the color. Once you've seen it, you'll never forget it. ... how they drill into you, draw you in and capture you.”</div> <div> 2.  “Also what I have observed is the truly evil end of the spectrum both in human and animal is always displayed in those deep dark hole for eyes. Can that be the easiest clue to tune into?”</div> <div> 3. “This evil seeks and finds anything and everything that is sacred, special, or cherished and seeks not only to destroy it; but to do so in the most agonizing, never-ending, worst way imaginable.</div> <div> <B>... [41 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>____________________________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="297" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 51 ><NOBR><div> <B>PART TWO</B></div> <div>  Profiles of the Pathic Character</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 5</B><B> <A NAME="c5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>THE PATHICS: IN THEIR OWN WORDS</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>The Narcipath</B></I></div> <bR> <div>   1. “I'm right back at the center of attention – where I belong!”</div> <div>   2. “It's all about me now. I don't care about you or what the kids want or what they need.” </div> <div>   3. “I don't care if you have been sitting in traffic all this time because of a wreck on the Interstate! I have been sitting here waiting for you for 2 hrs! You have no regard for ME!</div> <div> <B>... [34 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>The Sociopath</B></I></div> <bR> <div>   1. “I don't get mad, I get even. I am the Master Manipulator.”</div> <div>   2. “I'm a taker not a giver.”</div> <div>   3. “I tell you things on a need-to-know basis. If I think you need to know, I'll tell you</div> <div> <B>... [17 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Psychopaths</B></I></div> <bR> <div>   1. “I will kill you if it takes me 20 years. When you least expect it.”</div> <div>   2. “I'd like to beat the sh**t out of you!”</div> <div>   3. “I just have this sudden urge to punch you right in the face.” </div> <div>   4. “The BEST time to kick a man is WHEN he's down!”</div> <div>   5.  I asked why he was being so verbally abusive. His response was “Because I can!” Didn't that say it all?</div> <div>   6. “Do whatever you want to do to whomever you want to do it. Just don't leave any bruises.”</div> <div>   7. “I can only hurt you as much as you allow me to.”</div> <div>   8. He told me, “It is like when you put an animal in a cage, I like to poke at you, because I like to watch you get mad,”</div> <div> <B>... [26 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Psychoticpaths</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>MEN </B></div> <div> <B>Thomas Dillon </B> </div> <div> "Paxton was killed because of an irresistible compulsion that has taken over my life, I knew when I left my house that day that someone would die.... This compulsion started with just thoughts about murder and progressed from thoughts to action. I've thought about getting professional help but how can I ever approach a mental-health professional? I just can't blurt out in an interview that I've killed people (Paxton was not the only one). Technically I meet the definition of a serial killer (three or more victims with a cooling-off period in between) but I'm an average-looking person with a family, job, and home just like yourself."</div> <div> <B>Albert DeSalvo</B></div> <div> 1. "I did this not as a sex act...but out of hate for her. I don't mean out of hate for her in particular, really I mean out of hate for a woman."</div> <div> 2. "It wasn't as dark and scary as it sounds. I had a lot of fun...killing somebody's a funny experience."</div> <div> <B>... [33 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>WOMEN</B></div> <div> <B>Jane Toppan     </B></div> <div> 1. "That is my ambition, to have killed more people - more helpless people - than any man or woman who has ever lived."</div> <div> 2. "I carried it too far, that's for sure."</div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <div> <B>Aileen Wuornos</B></div> <div> 1. "They say it's the number of people I killed, I say it's the principle."</div> <div> 2. "To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out because of the circumstances of what I was doing."</div> <div> <B>... [4 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>_______________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 6</B><B> <A NAME="c6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>THE VICTIMS: PATHIC DESCRIPTIONS</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>INTRODUCTION</B></div> <bR> <div> The following quotation fragments are further indications as to whether who is being referred to is either a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath. Because of the current confusion between the three terms among people, these persons use the three terms indiscriminately because each category has shared traits, such as lack of conscience and remorse, lying, irresponsibility, etc. More information is needed to derive a full picture of which he or she is according to our grouping. Accordingly I will group these passages with this in mind.  In keeping with each writer's contribution, Narcissists are abbreviated as N; sociopaths are abbreviated as S; and psychopaths are` abbreviated as P</div> <bR> <div>   1. “You say your guy might actually be an NPD [narcissist personality disorder]. Sometimes I don't think there's a dime's worth of difference between the P and the N. So if he is violent, unpredictable  and a chronic liar he's more likely to be a P; more needy of admiration, more likely to be an N. In most other respects they are quite similar.”</div> <div>   2. “Of course, as normal human beings, we search inside ourselves for answers. That is precisely what the N never does. If he did, he would go for therapy forthwith. It is natural to wonder how we could be fooled so easily and so ruthlessly. Ever watch sleight of hand? Well, it is the same. You are fooled by the speed and skill of the 'magician' or the card sharp. But, and this is the 'but', it is only an illusion.” </div> <div> <B>... [105 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>THE ALLURE</B></div> <div> 74. “I am obsessed beyond normal...almost envious of their 'super powers'. How do I wean myself away from this evil fixation?”</div> <div> <B>... [4 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>_________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" ></FONT><B>Chapter 7</B><B> <A NAME="c7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>THE AUTHORITIES: </B></div> <div> <B>AN OVERVIEW OF PATHICS</B></div> <bR> <div> The three selections in this chapter professionally substantiate the insights, descriptions, and experiences of the nonprofessional  contributors (mostly victims of pathics) to this book. Section 1 includes Dr.  Robert Hare's noted 20-item checklist that is used extensively in psychopathic literature and therapy. Section 2, includes pertinent passages on psychopathic descriptions from Dr. Hervey Cleckley's seminal masterwork, The Mask of Sanity. Section 3 includes recent findings of psychopathy by Dr. Kent Kiehl, one of the world's leading younger investigators in psychopathy.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Hare's PCL-R 20-item Checklist</B></div> <bR> <div> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item checklist.</div> <div> <B>1</B>. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM – the tendency to be smooth, engaging, charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social conventions about taking turns in talking, for example. </div> <div> <B>... [18 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <div> <B>From Mask of Sanity</B></div> <div> by Hervey Cleckley </div> <bR> <div> More often than not, the typical psychopath will seem particularly agreeable and make a distinctly positive impression when he is first encountered. Alert and friendly in his attitude, he is easy to talk with and seems to have a good many genuine interests. There is nothing at all odd or queer about him, and in every respect he tends to embody the concept of a well-adjusted, happy person. Nor does he, on the other hand, seem to be artificially exerting himself like one who is covering up or who wants to sell you a bill of goods. He would seldom be confused with the professional back-slapper or someone who is trying to ingratiate himself for a concealed purpose. Signs of affectation or excessive  affability  are  not characteristic.  He looks like the real thing. ...</div> <div> <B>... [53 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 3</div> <bR> <div> <B>Selections from The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy. by John Seabrook, The New Yorker, November 10, 2008</B></div> <div>     At thirty-eight, [Dr. Kent] Kiehl, is one of the world's leading younger investigators in psychopathy, the condition of moral emptiness that affects between fifteen to twenty-five per cent of the North American prison population, and is believed by some psychologists to exist in one per cent of the general adult male population. (Female psychopaths are thought to be much rarer.) Psychopaths don't exhibit the manias, hysterias, and neuroses that are present in other types of mental illness. Their main defect, what psychologists call "severe emotional detachment" – a total lack of empathy and remorse – is concealed, and harder to describe than the symptoms of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This absence of easily readable signs has led to debate among mental-health practitioners about what qualifies as psychopathy and how to diagnose it. Psychopathy isn't identified as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association's canon; instead, a more general term, "antisocial personality disorder," known as A.P.D., covers the condition.</div> <div>     There is also little consensus among researchers about what causes psychopathy. Considerable evidence, including several large-scale studies of twins, points toward a genetic component. Yet psychopaths ...</div> <div> <B>... [25 more entries] </B>   </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>_____________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 8</B><B> <A NAME="c8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>NATURE AND/OR NURTURE</B> </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Introductory Remarks</B></div> <bR> <div> The following article precedes the nonprofessional perspectives on this controversial topic of nature-or-nurture-or-both. I include it here to set the stage, so to speak, so that the reader will better appreciate a layman's views. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>From</B>: The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatrist: by Dr Essi Viding, from the Medical Research Council's Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London</div> <bR> <div> PSYCHOPATHS are born anti-social, not corrupted by bad parenting, scientists reveal today. </div> <div>     A study of twins showed that anti-social behaviour was strongly inherited in children with psychopathic tendencies. In children without psychopathic traits, being anti-social was chiefly the result of environmental factors. </div> <div>     The findings support previous research indicating that children with psychopathic tendencies often ....</div> <div>     Twins are often used by researchers investigating inherited traits. Identical twins share the same genes, and, therefore, the same inherited influences, whereas non-identical twins do not. By comparing the two groups, it is possible to see if a trait is or is not carried in the genes. </div> <div>     In the new study, ...</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _______________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>A Man's Introduction</B></div> <div>     “Are these children just born bad? Environment alone cannot explain deranged behavior - too many abused and neglected children grow up to be law-abiding citizens. If there is a genetic explanation, it's a slippery, discreet mutation. We don't see entire families of serial killers. There is no such thing as a “kill gene”, but research is revealing some genetic tendencies to violent behavior. In other words, bad seeds blossom in bad environments.</div> <div> “The position I favor is that psychopathy emerges from a complex – and poorly understood – interplay between biological factors and social forces. It is based on evidence that genetic factors contribute to the biological bases of ... internal controls and conscience and for making emotional 'connections' with others is greatly reduced....</div> <bR> <div> <B>A Woman's Introduction</B></div> <div>     “Most parents will tell you that their children exhibit general behaviors very early in their development. Some may be stubborn, others happy, and still others may be grumpy. We see these general emotional responses in infants and can often see a trend by the time the child is only a few months old. Many of these parents will also assert that these responses, or temperaments, seem to continue throughout the child's development.</div> <div>    “The stubborn infant who cries when put down for a nap may become the stubborn adolescent who rebels against authority or resists society's norms. The happy and content infant may be the adult who finds friends easily and has a knack for seeing the good in others. When these temperaments are present shortly after birth and continue throughout a person's life, it is difficult to not see a biological connection.”</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>TOPIC TITLE: What Are Your Views that Psychopathy Can Be Inherited?</B></div> <bR> <div> 1.  “One article I read pointed out that a certain gene combined with a bad environment can bring out this behaviour. If so, how come other siblings with the same genetic makeup or biology and environment do not have the P's [psychopath's] traits? The other question is this then, why is it that some of these Ps come from really good homes?”</div> <div> <B>... [42 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _____________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="269" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 55 ><NOBR><div> <B>PART THREE</B></div> <div>  Pathics In Relationships</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B></B></I><B>Chapter 9</B><B> <A NAME="c9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>GENDER AND AGE DISTINCTIONS </B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>I: MEN</B> </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Narcipath</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>INTRODUCTORY SIGNPOSTS</B></div> <div> Red Flags / Clues of Narcissism:   </div> <div>     1) Catching them in lies or inconsistencies – yet we behave as if nothing happened, rather than questioning this behavior.  </div> <div>     2) When your date bowls you over with romantic novel-type conversation, telling you how incredibly special/wonderful/sexy/ etc. you are.... and leads up to making you feel like you are THE most magnificent person in the world - practically overnight ... without even really knowing you yet.  </div> <div>     3) When your date has horrible awful negative things to say about others – ex's/co-workers/friends/family etc., as if there is no grey zone about them – just black or white).</div> <div>     4) When you realize that your date takes no blame at all for any of his failed relationships or marriages. He/she was always the victim.  </div> <div>     5) When you realize his favorite topic is HIM. And when you veer from that topic, it always comes back to HIM. (or her). </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" > </FONT>  <B>... [16 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _____________________</div> <bR> <div> 1. “We met on the internet. When I read his profile I remember thinking 'Boy, is this guy a cocky bastard.' He was saying how handsome he was and that he would be a good catch basically. Well, he contacted me first - I almost didn't respond after reading his profile but I did. We talked for about a week on the phone and then ...</div> <div> <B>... [5 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>The Sociopath</B></I></div> <bR> <div> 1.  “In my case [my] husband of 12 years, is not exactly malicious. He doesn't set out to hurt me just for kicks, in my opinion. He hurts me as little or as much as it takes to achieve his goal: to make me dependant on him in as many ways, obey him, give him all the [attention, admiration, etc.] he demands, abdicate control. So, while his primary goal isn't to hurt me, it becomes a goal if that's what it takes to get [attention, admiration, etc.] out of me.”</div> <div> 2. “My father was violent, controlling, and childish at home, and a total charmer in public. He was a philanderer, a misogynist, a hater of children and anyone not directly under his control.”</div> <div> <B>... [8 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>The Psychopath</B></I></div> <bR> <div> 1. “My son is a psychopath. The doctors and psychologists and counselors he's seen since the age of 4 were never able to confirm the diagnosis until he turned 18 – and my research confirms it takes that long. He had been in and out of mental facilities and medicated for many years and when he turned 18 he quit his meds –which didn't work too well by that time. He would whisper to my daughter in her bed at night that he was going to kill her before morning. I took tough love classes and was finally able to put him out of our house – all the locks were changed – we'd been robbed blind and in fact he also broke in and robbed one of my dearest friends who lives on my street. That was over 10 years ago and to this day -- I have little or no contact with any of my neighbors. As time went on he continued to commit crimes but was always able to con his way out. He did do time in jail but always got out early. I always felt that my son wouldn't reach his 30th birthday before something really serious happened - he's soon to be 26.</div> <div> <B>... [12 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>II: WOMEN</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>INTRODUCTORY PASSAGES</B></div> <div> <B>A Woman</B></div> <div> “In reading some of the literature about psychopathy I've seen statistics that state how the percentage of male psychopaths is greater than that of females. I wonder how the studies were done to come up with that information. For example, did they study women prison populations like they did men?”</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _____________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Women Pathics In General</B></div> <bR> <div> 1.  “You should have met this woman. She was the epitome of mother earth tender-hearted gentle wisdom. I just could never understand why the things she said hurt me so much. She was SO sweet! (and she said these things sweetly, with an air of tender mother earth wisdom)”</div> <div>     “You can't evaluate what is going on by the impression people make. You have to look deeper.”</div> <div> <B>..</B><B>. [6</B><B> more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>WOMEN PATHICS IN PARTICULAR</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Narcipath</B></I></div> <bR> <div> 1.  “My ex girlfriend said I was perfect. She made me feel so special and I tried so hard to make her feel loved. After the first year, nothing was ever good enough. On every holiday, she found a way to cheapen the experience and say it was my fault. It was like looking into the abyss. She did the most horrible things to me to make me feel like garbage. ...</div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Calibri" ><B>... [5 more entries]</B></FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>The Sociopath</B></I></div> <bR> <div> 1. “My mother expects constant attention, admiration, my 'dropping everything' to visit her, have her over, etc. whenever she feels like it. When I had my own children, things came to a head because I couldn't take care of my children and her at the same time.” </div> <bR> <div> <B>... [12 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>The Psychopath</B></I></div> <bR> <div> 1.  “I married a psychopath and believe me it is not gender-specific. She kicked me repeatedly in the head with her boots on and otherwise displayed all the symptoms of psychopathy. I never touched her yet she assaulted me repeatedly. Yes it really happens. In 9 years of marriage she kissed me briefly 4 times and rarely had sex with me but did with others. I am ashamed to play the victim – I don't like it. This woman was cunning ruthless unfaithful, thieving and a pathological liar. I have a wonderful wife now who actually smiles, kisses me and acts like a human being. She snapped me out of the shocking dependency and gullibility and took me far away. Believe me psychopathic females are very capable of committing atrocities akin to brutal wife beating and spouse abuse. More men than women statistically are psychopathic (3% against 1% of women). Let's not make it a gender issue. Females are quite capable of having this severe mental illness.” </div> <div> <B>... [11 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>__________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>III: CHILDREN</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Introduction</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>BOYS</B></div> <div> 1. “Eddie only loves me when he wants to – on his own terms. Once I was stooping over the oven and he ran up behind me full tilt and threw his arms around my legs. He was great at wanting to hug me at very inconvenient times. Well, I practically shot right into the oven. I told my husband, 'This is like Hansel and Gretel and guess who I am! And I don't like the part of being a witch even a little bit!'”</div> <div> <B>... [25 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>GIRLS</B></div> <div> 27. “Laurie entered the room and immediately took control, but it was so subtle the doctor didn't recognize it. At first, she hung her head and acted frightened, so when he attempted to coax her out, she pretended to be resistant, bashful, and shy (which she isn't at all).</div> <div>     “Then, after a few minutes, she said that it was easy to talk to him: 'Much better than those doctors at school' While the doctor was taking this in, she commented on how pretty the designs on his tie were, and asked to sit on his lap. Then she proceeded to tell him what he wanted to hear, about how she had gotten into some trouble in school, but it was because no one understood her and how it felt real good to be with him…in fact, she asked him if he would be her new daddy! She said all her father ever did was yell at her.</div> <div>     “Afterward, the doctor told me that he had established a perfect rapport with Laurie and that she was a loving child who was just misunderstood! He said we should be giving her more love. I couldn't believe it. Our 8-year-old daughter had conned a psychiatrist. </div> <div>     “[Just three weeks before this `loving child' had poked another little girl's eye out with a pencil at school after she hadn't gotten her way.]” </div> <div> <B>... [25 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  ____________________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 10</B><B> <A NAME="c10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>CO-DEPENDENTS </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1. “There are some very few of us who actually seek out relationships with narcissists. We do this with the full knowledge that we are not wanted, despised even. We persist and pursue no matter the consequences, no matter the cost.</div> <div>     “I am an `inverted narcissist'. It is because as a child I was `imprinted/fixated' with a particular pattern involving relationships. I was engulfed so completely by my father's personality and repressed so severely by various other factors in my childhood that I simply didn't develop a recognizable personality. I existed purely as an extension of my father. I was his genius Wunderkind. He ignored my mother and poured all his energy and effort into me. I did not develop full-blown secondary narcissism…I developed into the perfect `other half' of the narcissists molding me. I became the perfect, eager co-dependent. And this is an imprint, a pattern in my psyche, a way of (not) relating to the world of relationships by only being able to truly relate to one person (my father) and then one kind of person – the narcissist.</div> <div>     “He is my perfect lover, my perfect mate, a fit that is so slick and smooth, so comfortable and effortless, so filled with meaning and actual feelings – that's the other thing. I cannot feel on my own. I am incomplete. I can only feel when I am engulfed by another (first it was my father) and now – well now it has to be a narcissist. Not just any narcissist either. He must be exceedingly smart, good looking, have adequate reproductive equipment and some knowledge on how to use it and that's about it.</div> <div>     “When I am engulfed by someone like this I feel completed, I can actually FEEL. I am whole again. I function as a sibyl, an oracle, an extension of the narcissist. His fiercest protector, his purveyor/procurer of [attention, admiration, etc.]; the secretary, organizer, manager, etc.. I think you get the picture and this gives me INTENSE PLEASURE.</div> <div>     “So the answer to your question: 'Why would anyone want to be with someone who doesn't want them back?' The short answer is, `Because there is no one else remotely worth looking at.'”</div> <div> <B>... [20 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>__________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B></B></I><B>Chapter 11</B><B> <A NAME="c11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>SEX </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div> AN INTRODUCTORY PASSAGE</div> <div> “The psychopath is a vessel of hate masquerading as a vessel of love. Sex, to him, is a weapon of destruction, a hateful act, a means of penetrating to the victim's innermost being, and doing violence to her soul. </div> <div>     “The victim cannot protect herself because the very nature of sex is surrender, opening the self, and surrendering it to the other.”</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> __________________</div> <bR> <div> 1.  “All too soon I began to hear about all his past relationships with other women, especially his ex-wife. I never could quite measure up to her. I had to hear about their sex life and how great it was and how good she could cook and how wonderful her children (not his) were and on and on and on. The first really cruel thing he did to me was one afternoon he was going to bed (he worked odd hours) I thought I would slip in beside him thinking it would be nice time for intimacy. Just as I touched him he turned his back and snarled at me to leave him alone. That's pretty much how it was for ten years. He refused to have sex only when he wanted and that was far and few between.”</div> <div> <B>... [17 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>SEXUAL SELECTION</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> [<B>Good Guys vs. Bad Guys]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The passages in this chapter are responses on an internet forum which discuss the merits and demerits of the following article: </div> <bR> <div> <B>Bad Guys Really Do Get The Most Girls</B></div> <div> 18 June 2008, New Scientist.com news service, Mason Inman</div> <div> NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it: bad boys get the most girls. The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the "dark triad" persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs.</div> <div>     The traits are the self-obsession of narcissism; the impulsive, thrill-seeking and callous behaviour of psychopaths; and the deceitful and exploitative nature of Machiavellianism. At their extreme, these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies. People with these personalities risk being shunned by others and shut out of relationships, leaving them without a mate, hungry and vulnerable to predators.</div> <div>     But being just slightly evil could have an upside: a prolific sex life, says Peter Jonason at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. “We have some evidence that the three traits are really the same thing and may represent a successful evolutionary strategy.”</div> <div>     Jonason and his colleagues subjected 200 college students to personality tests designed to rank them for each of the dark triad traits. They also asked about their attitudes to sexual relationships and about their sex lives, including how many partners they'd had and whether they were seeking brief affairs.</div> <div>     “High `dark triad'” scorers are more likely to try to poach other people's partners for a brief  affair.”</div> <div>     The study found that those who scored higher on the dark triad personality traits tended to have more partners and more desire for short-term relationships, Jonason reported at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting in Kyoto, Japan, earlier this month. But the correlation only held in males. ...</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>    __________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Men's Views</B></div> <bR> <div> 1. “…It appears that, although you read the article, you haven't ploughed through the hundreds of contributions to this blog (understandably enough!).</div> <div>     “I am still checking out the hundred or so that have appeared on Sunday, but certainly if you HAD done so on Sat night you'd have found that all but one of the female contributors up 'til then were CONFIRMING this phenomenon of the attraction to bad boys. AND (consistently) coming up with the same rational explanation for it too.</div> <div>     “I fully agree with the rest of your post. But it seems likely that, in order to protect their 'honour' or reputation, most women would hotly deny all this stuff in any situation where they are identifiable (i.e.: in 'normal life').</div> <div>     “But it is very interesting (and instructive) that, when freed from that traditional social constraint by the anonymity of the web, the majority are much more open and honest about their REAL attitudes and motivations.</div> <div>     “Come to think of it, even the one dissenter yesterday wasn't entirely denying the existence of this behaviour; but, as she had posted a link to a blog-site, she may also have been restrained by being more readily 'identifiable' than the others!”</div> <div> <B>... [31 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Women's Views</B></div> <bR> <div> 1. “These types of men keep being born in the population obviously because they spread their seed more successfully. But also, I proffer, because their female partners, the women who fall for these men, are also passing on their genes in the process. Mating is a two-way street. I never cease to be exasperated at the stupidity and shallowness of women who are attracted to the 'bad boy' types.</div> <div>     “I also believe that this dark triad is a type of genetic parasitism. I had a flatmate once who fit this triad rather well, and he was an adopted child. He had a marauding, psychopathic and self-centered approach to women and he had no shortage of them. I knew one of his partners too, who was a wild type and very manipulative towards the decent people. Once I pondered what his off- spring would be like, probably without him even being around to see their birth, and how would their genes show through in their behaviour. He turned out the way he did despite being brought up in a decent family, which got me wondering about genetically-endowed behaviour. Then it dawned on me that his offspring would be just like him if they were male, and like his female 'partner' if they were female. And I realized that his parents must have been the same way too (hence him being given up for adoption by a single mother). He was already an offspring of this 'dark triad' lineage that had been going on for some time, probably for many generations.</div> <div>     “Since those days whenever I'm around a 'bad boy' type I try to find out about his parentage. Very often they come from a line of dark triad types.”</div> <div> <B>... [21 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _______________________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 12</B><B> <A NAME="c12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>RELIGION</B></div> <bR> <div> 2. “The pastor is ok, but at times I felt odd when I did Bible study with him. I can't explain it. I never told my ex about it because he would not have believed it. He thinks that his church and the pastor are perfect. The entire time that I attended his church (about 4 months) I felt strange. Maybe it is because I am Catholic. It's like they wanted me there but I did not have long hair and I wore makeup and pants. They did not. They tried to tell me that the Bible says women need to dress like them. My ex was always saying that I did not read the Bible right or go to church enough, etc. I think that he uses his strict religious beliefs to make him feel superior to others. He also would treat people mean, have sex with me, take items from work (supplies), and con people. That to me is not Christian. Reading the Bible is great, but if you're acting like an ass in your daily life, what's that about.” </div> <div> <B>... [18 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> ________________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 13</B><B> <A NAME="c13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>IN THE WORKPLACE</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The workplace is a hotbed for pathics to manipulate their way to the “top”.  All that is needed to secure their position “in the firm” is their particular expertise that contributes to profits. Once entrenched in their position, they can let loose their pathic ways over subordinates with practically full impunity. At bottom they are not so much concerned with the firm as they are with their own self-aggrandizement, with manipulating and dominating, with abuse. The emotional devastation they cause their victims is more than one can imagine.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>1</B>. “There are wolverines in organizations who are critical and negative about everything. But they are not in any way trying to improve the organization. Their motive is not even to advance some agenda for personal gain. Their only apparent motive is to destroy what others have/do/achieve.       </div> <div>      “They like to tear down, not build. They're more like organizational vandals than anything else. Whatever someone proposes, reports, or achieves, they pick it apart and torpedo it – sometimes very tactfully.”</div> <div>     “To an outsider it can look at first like the need for additional information in order to be convinced or a preliminary analysis prior to giving support. Or it may just seem like being picky about the details. That's the case with some people, but not wolverines. </div> <div>     “Wolverines always find fault, pick things apart, nay-say and criticize without finding anything positive or proposing an alternative. The game is that others hold up ideas, and they shoot them down. And the pattern never really changes. When you see that pattern, you know you're probably dealing with a wolverine.</div> <div>     “Such folks are largely guided by their own chronic envy. They deeply resent others' positive ideas and achievements because, in their pathological narcissism, they see those as assaults on their own fragile self-esteem. They gain stature in their own eyes only by reducing the stature of others. What they don't have, others can't either.” </div> <div> <B>... [31 more entries]</B></div> <div> <B>IN THE CLASSROOM</B></div> <div> <B>From PARENTS</B></div> <div> <B>34</B>. “My youngest son is very sensitive and he cannot cope at school at all, he is on Distant Education at the moment on psychological and medical grounds. It's not just when he is bullied and/or treated unfairly that is the problem, but also when other children are targeted – he cares so much. He found school so stressful and depressing, he became sick. He says that the teachers do nothing and many are psychological bullies especially to the students that they don't particularly like. There is a lot of favoritism and discrimination going on. Students with ADHD and the like are targeted as are those of certain ethnic backgrounds. Children like mine who stand up for themselves and publicly complain, even though they know that they will be victimized and bullied for it, and who cannot sit back and do nothing are also targeted. My children have been to 5 different schools and the younger one says that it isn't getting better - it is getting markedly worse.”</div> <div> <B>... [117 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 14</B><B> <A NAME="c14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> TRAUMATIC EFFECTS ON PATHICS' VICTIMS</div> <bR> <bR> <div> This chapter focuses in on the physical, mental, and emotional trauma that pathics cause their victims; which justify the stigma `pathic' applied to their type. They are like a deadly virus infecting everyone vulnerable to their influence. At their worst, they cause the disease that breaks down the homeostasis of the mind-body causing grave suffering to the victim.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div> <B>1</B>. “I lost myself and my purpose in life, and I became a victim, and eventually as sick as the abuser, by allowing myself to be pulled into an elaborate manipulation.”</div> <div> <B>... [31 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>TWO AUTHORS' TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES OF THE PATHIC CHARACTER</B></div> <bR> <div> The following two excerpts from published books are from the step-daughter of a famous movie actress, and from a famous 19th century playwright, Oscar Wilde. The former excerpt relates how a pathic mother violently distorted the life of her step-daughter; and the second excerpt relates how a pathic friend/lover pathetically destroyed Oscar Wilde's  life and career. </div> <div>      As a side note, the former excerpt highlights how all three pathic traits can run through one individual (self-aggrandizement, manipulative-control, and violent abuse); and the latter excerpt highlights how a sensitive soft-natured man of the highest caliber of intelligence and artistic genius can be so unremittingly captivated by another person despite knowing all the pitfalls - disastrous, as it turned out for him - involved in being with such a person.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>No Safe Place</B></I></div> <div> By</div> <div> Cristina Crawford (daughter of former movie actress Joan Crawford)</div> <div>  </div> <div>     No safe place. Nowhere to hide. No way to escape the terror. No one to tell. No one to go to for help. </div> <div>     Is this a war zone? A ghetto? A natural catastrophe? No, this is the violence of day-to-day family life in many American homes. It is how I myself lived as a child, a teenager, and even as a young adult. </div> <div>     I did not grow up in a poor or blighted environment. I was a blonde, white child, my adoptive parent was a placeHollywood movie star, and we lived in what many believed were luxurious surroundings. Still I carry deep and permanent scars from the violence of my childhood and developing years. </div> <div>     This was not violence from the outside world, from strangers or the streets, from gangs or muggers, but violence from those I, as a child, had been taught to love and trust, violence from those who were supposed to be safe and warm and filled with kindness but were not.  </div> <div> <B>... [44 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Oscar Wilde</B></div> <div> From <I>De Profundus </I>(selections from an epistle to Alfred Lord Dougles)</div> <bR> <div> <B>1  </B></div> <div> If I write to you now as I do it is because your own silence and conduct during my long imprisonment have made it necessary.</div> <div> <B>2</B></div> <div> I cannot reconstruct my letter, or rewrite it. You must take it as it stands, blotted in many places with tears, in some with the signs of passion or pain, and make it out as best you can, blots, corrections and all. As for the corrections and <I>errata, </I>I have made them in order that my words should be an absolute expression of my thoughts, and err neither through surplusage nor through being inadequate. Language requires to be tuned, like a violin: and just as too many or too few vibrations in the voice of the singer or the trembling of the string will make the note false, so too much or too little in words will spoil the message. As it stands, at any rate, my letter has its definite meaning behind every phrase. There is in it nothing of rhetoric. Wherever there is erasion or substitution, however slight, however elaborrate, it is because I am seeking to render my real impression, to find for my mood its exact equivalent. Whatever is first in feeling comes always last in form. </div> <div> I will admit that it is a severe letter. I have not spared you. Indeed you may say that, after admitting that to weigh you against the smallest of my sorrows, the meanest of my losses, would be really unfair to you, I have actually done so, and made scruple by scruple the most careful assay of your nature. That is true. But you must remember that you put yourself into the scales.</div> <div> <B>3</B></div> <div> I saw quite clearly that my position in the world of Art, the interest my personality had always excited, my money, the luxury in which I lived, the thousand and one things that went to make up a life so charmingly, so wonderfully improbable as mine was, were, each and all of them, elements that fascinated you and made you cling to me: yet besides all this there was something more, some strange attraction for you: you loved me far better than you loved anybody else.</div> <div> <B>4</B></div> <div> It did not occur to me…that you could have the supreme vice, shallowness.</div> <div> <B>... [15 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="273" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 57 ><NOBR><div> <B>PART FOUR</B></div> <div> <B>Against the Evil in Pathics</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 15</B><B> <A NAME="c15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> AGAINST EVIL IN GENERAL</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Yes, it is possible to surmount, to protect oneself from, the evils facing us in one way or another, but first we must un- derstand them, then have the courage to face and challenge them. The former chapters in this book have contributed to the understanding of evil in general and in particular (the pathics); this chapter encourages the reader to face and challenge them through the thoughts of eminent and perceptive persons.  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <div> 1</div> <div> <B>Eminent Persons</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) </B></div> <div> 1. Bring not every man into your house, for  many are the snares of the crafty one; though he seem like a bird confined in a cage, yet like a spy he will pick out the weak spots. </div> <div> 2. The talebearer turns good into evil; with a spark he sets many coals afire. </div> <div> 3. The evil man lies in wait for blood, and plots against your choicest possessions. </div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Shakspeare</B></div> <div> There is some soul of goodness in</div> <div>     things evil,</div> <div> Would men observingly distil it out.</div> <div> For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, </div> <div> Which is both healthful and good husbandry: </div> <div> Besides, they are our outward consciences,</div> <div> And preachers to us all, admonishing</div> <div> That we should dress us fairly for our end. </div> <div> Thus may we gather honey from the weed, </div> <div> And make a moral of the devil himself.</div> <div> <B>Alexander Solzhenitsyn</B></div> <div> If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart? </div> <div> <B>George Bernard Shaw</B></div> <div> If a man cannot look evil in the face without illusion, he will never know what it really is, or combat it effectually.</div> <div> <B>Albert Camus</B></div> <div> What's true of all the evils in the world is ... it helps men to rise above themselves.</div> <div> <B>William James</B></div> <div> 7. The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.</div> <div> <B>Schopenhauer</B></div> <div> 1. That a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked. </div> <div> <B>Nietzsche</B></div> <div> 1. Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Overman – a rope over an abyss.</div> <div> 2. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.</div> <div> <B>... [20 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PERCEPTIVE PERSONS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Helen Keller</B></div> <div> I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Martin Luther King, Jr.</B></div> <div> To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. </div> <div> <B>Anna Sewell</B></div> <div> My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.</div> <div> <B>Maíread Maguire</B></div> <div> We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.</div> <div> <B>... [62 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <div> <B>[In Particular: </B><B><U>Courage</U></B><B>]</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Eminent Persons</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ernest Hemingway</B></div> <div> Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. </div> <div> <B>C.S. Lewis</B></div> <div> Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. </div> <div> <B>Raymond Lindquist</B></div> <div> Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.</div> <div> <B>... [29 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Perceptive Persons</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Eleanor Roosevelt</B></div> <div> You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I've lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. </div> <div> <B>Diane de Poitiers</B></div> <div> Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. </div> <div> <B>Mary Tyler Moore</B></div> <div> Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. </div> <div> <B>... [14 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>_______________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 16</B><B> <A NAME="c16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> AGAINST PATHICS IN PARTICULAR</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> This chapter carries further the purpose set forth in Chapter 15 in facing and protecting oneself from evil; but the target here is the evil specific to pathics.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div> <B>Protective Suggestions Against Pathics in the Household</B></div> <bR> <div>  <B> 1</B>. “To anyone feeling emotional and vulnerable and self-reflective…call a close friend. Visit a loved one you haven't seen in years. Write heart-felt letters to anyone who means anything to you…but don't give in and show remorse or regret over a narcissist. You'll only leave the encounter still hurting and they'll have their NS-fix for the week.” </div> <div>   <B>2</B>. “I can only say to those with doubts, with ideas of 'fixing it' – just don't. Move away and try to cut your losses. Why sit down to the table again to be dealt another bum hand?”</div> <div> <B>  3</B>. “Then, fool that I was, I tried to become a crusading Pollyanna, armed with books, clinical data, case histories - I valiantly tried to cure him; [but it was just] magical thinking. I gave up. It's useless and a total waste of my time when I needed to concentrate on getting me better and getting on with my life.”</div> <div> <B>... [46 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <div> <B>Protective Suggestions Against Pathics in the Workplace</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1</B>. “I also had psychopaths for bosses. I was struck by three excellent suggestions for dealing with them.</div> <div> (1) Document, Document, Document! Find a way to use your PC to work for you so you don't get stuck doing double work. The witch I worked for tried to dump as much work as possible on me so  I'd  be too frazzled to contest her. I had the blessing of being </div> <div> trained in PC software and light programming and my home PC and laptop (never trust the PCs on the job!) were my workhorses. Keep the laptop or PDA that you are using a complete secret, even from your friends! Secure your workspace by keeping your desktop clear - lock your desk every time you leave it. Whenever I was distracted away from my desk, her stooge had the opportunity to ransack it so I bought one of those $1.00 plastic wrist coil key chains that made it possible to lock my desk in a hot minute. Remove ALL personal information from your desk. These creeps will search your desk after hours - managers DO have the right to search your desk, locker and PC! Get in the habit of maintaining some kind of daily journal that accounts for the jobs you're working on and the time you took to work on them - even if you're working for the best boss in the world.</div> <div> (2) Network – Enlist friends inside and outside your department. Friends outside your department aren't known by your psycho manager so they can help you store info in desks, lockers, etc. out of the reach of your spying saboteur of a boss. My working buddies let me use a desk on another floor to type my notes into my laptop on my lunch hour. They can keep you posted on job openings in other departments and serve as your eyes and ears. Your family and non-company friends can suggest and work on any legal avenues you may need in future. The suggestion to question your next employers about psychopaths is priceless! ...</div> <bR> <div> <B> ... [5 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _______________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="325" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 80 WIDTH="313"><div> <B>PART FIVE</B></div> <div> <B>Toward the Ascendancy of Justice and wisdom</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 17</B><B> <A NAME="c17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> A PHILOSOPHY AGAINST MALICE: </div> <div> AURORALISM</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div> 1. Philosophy in its etymological root, means “love of wisdom.” </div> <div> 2. In which case, a philosophy against malice is “a love of wisdom” against malice; which in other words means the love of wisdom is for good to prevail over evil.</div> <div> <B>... [8 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <div> 11. This philosophy covers not only the dark side of our nature, but the light side as well; and it is the light side of our nature - our transcendence - that is our salvation, our hope, our redemption, our “resurrection,” so to speak, our glow. </div> <div> <B>... [5 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _____________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 18</B><B> <A NAME="c18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> HARD-NATURES IN CONTRAST TO SOFT-NATURES</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> “I have a spotted placeBengal cat who was named Muscle Man by my daughter when she </div> <div> was a toddler, because even as a kitten he looked like a professional wrestler. Grown now, </div> <div> he is much larger than most other domestic cats. His formidable claws resemble those of </div> <div> his Asian leopard-cat ancestors, but by temperament, he is gentle and peace-loving. My </div> <div> neighbor has a little calico who visits. Evidently the calico's predatory charisma is huge, and </div> <div> she is brilliant at directing the evil eye at other cats. Whenever she is within fifty feet, Muscle </div> <div> Man, all fifteen pounds of him to her seven, cringes and crouches in fear and feline deference. </div> <div> Muscle Man is a splendid cat. He is warm and loving, and he is close to my heart. Nonetheless, </div> <div> I would like to believe that some of his reactions are more primitive than mine. I hope I do </div> <div> not mistake fear for respect, because to do so would be to ensure my own victimization. Let </div> <div> us use our big human brains to overpower our animal tendency to bow to predators, so we </div> <div> can disentangle the reflexive confusion of anxiety and awe. In a perfect world, human respect </div> <div> would be an  automatic reaction only to  those who are strong, kind, and morally courageous. </div> <div> The person who profits from fright- ening you is not likely to be any of these.”</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> - Martha Stout, author of <I>The Sociopath Next Door</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> This chapter, and the last two chapters that follow, take a positive upswing to the good in men and women in opposition to pathic evil. This good is delineated through the concepts of love and wisdom, and descriptive of the type of persons who are receptive to the ways of these two concepts; namely, the soft-natured persons. Section 1 of this chapter explores, in outline mostly, this type of person in contrast to his opponent, the hard-natured individual. Section 2 explores the soft-natures exclusively; again, in outline mainly. Some of the remarks may seem as generalities without current scientific backing; but they are meant as exploratory, though meaningful, thoughts that others can debate, refute, or expand on.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 1</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>HARD</B></I><B>  AS DISTINGUISHED FROM </B><I><B>SOFT</B></I><B> NATURES</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1</B>. Two concepts that are crucial in understanding the pathic character, and especially one's own character, as well - which is the main purpose of this chapter – are “hard” and “soft” natures. I name them “natures” insofar as individuals, I believe, are born either predominantly hard or predominantly soft; it is their nature, their particular physiologi- calÛpsychological make-up (disposition, temperament) to be one or the other, and all the variations thereof. These distinctions are crucial in understanding human nature inasmuch as hard-natured persons are disposed to pathic, predatory behavior in the extreme; whereas soft-natured individuals are disposed to neurotic, victimized behavior, in the extreme. And since this book has so far emphasized understanding pathic-predatory behavior against the victim, it is the purpose of this chapter, and  the  two  other  chapters that  follow, to  emphasize  the victims' (as either potential or actual victim) perspective so as to understand and ward off predation.  </div> <div>      As for the nature vs. nurture distinction, I opt for nature being the predominate factor that determines an individual's natural temper- ament, much as is witnessed with the higher animals that we are familiar with, such as cats and dogs. There is no way, other than chemically, that a cat or a dog that is born aggressively mean-spirited (hard-natured) or passively-gentle-spirited (soft-natured) can be essentially modified to its opposite. Yes, it's true that by abusive force (environment) a naturally aggressive, mean-spirited dog can be forced into  submissive behavior; but it is his behavior that has been modified, not his nature; fear has modified the chemistry of his brain and glands so that he acts submissively under certain conditions. But fear cannot modify his genetic network that was invariably patterned upon conception. Similarly with a naturally soft-natured dog. It's hardly imaginable that under normal living conditions, that such a dog can be </div> <div>     One other point in the fixed nature of animals, ...</div> <div> 2. Put simply, a hard-natured person is less impressionable than a soft-natured person; which means that social values and rules, concern for other people's feelings and rights do not make much of an imprint upon him/her as they do for soft-natures.  Analogously, we might say that a soft-natured person is like warm wax in which a thumb impression goes deeply; whereas a hard-natured person is like cold wax in which little or no impression is possible. Of course, there are degrees of heat that make wax more or less impressionable; and the less heat applied to the wax the harder it is to make a thumb impression; in which case, we have t a hard-natured person in the extreme, as pathic; inasmuch as a narcipath  is not as hard-natured as a sociopath, nor a sociopath as hard- natured as a psychopath. ...</div> <div> <B>... [21 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <div> <B>SOFT NATURES IN PARTICULAR</B></div> <div> <B>1</B>.  Some basic inclinations - despite good or poor judgment - of the fairly balanced soft-natured person:  </div> <div> Is inclined toward moral idealism - right, goodness, integrity, and the like</div> <div> Is inclined to consider the better of people rather than the worst </div> <div> Is inclined to be more on the defensive than on the offensive</div> <div> ...</div> <div> <B>Soft-Natures And Conscience</B></div> <div> <B>2</B>.<B> </B><I>A guilty conscience</I>: – That we don't do right by another person or others, or ourselves. It preys on us; and because of it, hard-natures prey upon it.</div> <div> <B>2:1</B>  My mind tells me that something is wrong, and if I do it – or not do it – I will feel ashamed or remorseful, or guilty, or blameworthy. </div> <div> <B>2:2</B>      I prefer not to hurt another's feelings; but when I do because of my self-will gone astray, I try to make amends. </div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <div> <B>Soft-natures and Love</B></div> <div> <B>2:12</B> As soft-natured persons are deeply and intensely, impressionable to human feelings and relationships, it is understandable why they would be especially bonded to intimates (their spouses, lovers, children, parents, friends, extended family) as well as humanity as a whole. This bond can be considered the love that draws them to others; and so to do good for and by them, to alleviate their suffering, to embrace them. Love, then, in this human sense, can be considered <I>an affectionate bond of compassionate unity</I>. </div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Soft-natures and Neurosis </B>(a continued extension, from section 1)</div> <div> <B>3</B>. Neurosis: “any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria, arising from no apparent organic lesion and involving symptoms such as anxiety and depression.” (American Heritage Dictionary)</div> <div> <B>...</B></div> <div> <B>Basic Characteristics of Soft-natures </B></div> <div> <B>5</B>. The following catalogue is a spectrum of characteristics natural and habitual to soft-natures, on the whole. These characteristics are dia- metrically opposed to the characteristics of hard-natures as shown in chapter three. Let these be a stronghold against those.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="465" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 307 WIDTH="455"><div> accommodating - affable - affectionate - agreeable - amorous - amenable - amicable - bashful - benevolent - broad-minded - brotherly - candid - caring - charitable - cheerful - childlike - companionable - compassionate - conciliatory - congenial - conscionable - considerate -  convivial - courteous - decorous - devoted - docile - domestic - dutiful - easygoing - empathetic - fair-minded - faithful - forgiving - forthright - generous - gentle - genuine - good-hearted - good-natured - gracious - guileless - grateful - high-minded - honest - honorable - humble - impartial - incorruptible - ingenuous - just - kindhearted - loving - loyal - modest - moral - noble - nurturing - open-handed - openhearted - open-minded -  <A HREF="http://www.yourdictionary.com/optimistic" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.yourdictionary.com/optimistic"><U>optimistic</U></A> - patient - peaceful - polite - principled - high-principled - remorseful - reserved - respectful - responsible - right-minded - scrupulous - self-controlled - sensitive - sentimental - shy - softhearted - sympathetic - sweet - thankful - thoughtful - timid - transcendent - truthful - trustworthy - understanding - upfront - upright - virtuous - warm-hearted - wise</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> ______________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri" ></FONT><B>Chapter 19</B><B> <A NAME="c19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> THAT GOOD MAY PREVAIL OVER EVIL</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>INTRODUCTORY NOTES</B></div> <bR> <div> 1. Having read the previous chapter, the soft-natured reader is most likely more familiar with the range of his particular characteristics in contrast to those of the hard-natures. The next step is to apply that knowledge as a <I>wisdom</I> in defense of his psychological well-being when threatened by a pathic intrusion. A strategy is needed, a strategy in keeping with the integrity of one's character - soft-natured, in this case. Morality (doing the right, just, thing) must be part of this strategy; but not in a narrow sense of a situation being right or wrong, good or bad; but rather right <I>and</I> wrong, good <I>and</I> bad.</div> <div> <B>... [10 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THAT GOOD MAY PREVAIL OVER EVIL</B></div> <div> <B>A Fictional Dialogue  </B></div> <div> <B>By</B></div> <div> <B>The Author</B></div> <div> <I><B>Sharon</B></I>. Having read all your material on wisdom and love and meaning and self-freedom, and on your human-transcendent wisdom in particular, I still fail to see how it all can successfully and consistently combat evil; or how it will ever take the ascendancy over it, as you have so confidently asserted elsewhere. As I see it, the cards are too stacked up against you.</div> <div> <I><B>Joseph</B></I>. Maybe so, if it is just a matter of “combating” evil; but the wisdom of human-transcendence - that is, the balance between our transcendence and our humanness - is not about combating evil, but about surpassing it.</div> <div> <I><B>Sharon</B></I>. What do you mean by “surpassing” evil?</div> <div> <I><B>Joseph</B></I>. Human-transcendence leaves evil as it is; it simply goes beyond it; that is, it transcends, evil's limitations and propensities.</div> <div> <I><B>S</B></I>. And how does human-transcendence propose to do that? </div> <div> <I><B>J</B></I>. By beating evil at its own game, so to speak.</div> <div> <I><B>S</B></I>. You mean learn to be evil so that you can be more evil than the evil one himself? Like a game? A play?</div> <div> <I><B>J</B></I>. Not exactly; rather by good learning evil's ways; then disguising itself as evil intent – not evil in action – without suspicion, then infiltrating it; and finally flushing it out, exposing it, and having it slink away, tail between its legs, or eliminating it if necessary in the given situation. Good can no longer be on the defensive against evil if it is to surpass it; but has to take the offensive; but an offensive not obvious to evil.</div> <div> <I><B>S</B></I>. And how would good take this offensive? </div> <div> <I><B>J</B></I>. By being sly, in a word.</div> <div> <I><B>S</B></I>. But, normally we associate “sly” with evil – that is, undermining with unjust intent - rather than good.</div> <div> <I><B>J</B></I>. Right. And that's what I mean by playing and beating evil at its own game.</div> <div> <I><B>S</B></I>. Well that sounds all very well in theory; but I think a person would have to be fairly wise to be sly for the sake of good; and you know how rare a person that is.</div> <div> <I><B>...</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _______________________________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Chapter 20</B><B> <A NAME="c20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> THE PLAY'S THE THING</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 1</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>ASSERTIVE-PASSIVE RESISTANCE</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1</B>. Having determined that love (as the bond of unity) and wisdom (human-transcendence) are inclusive of a philosophy against malice (auroralism), we have next to apply this Love / wisdom paradigm to the practical affairs of dealing effectively and consistently with the pathic individual. Accordingly, we must employ a tactic, a course of action, that works in our favor instead of in theirs. </div> <div> <B>2</B>. This course of action requires that we relax our moral strictures that we normally live by so that good and justice prevail over pathics' abusive agenda.  In which case, we must feign sincerity, feign concern, feign moods - as they do; we must lie, fabricate, manipulate – as they do. Our prime intention and goal, however, is not to use or abuse pathics, but to thwart them from using and abusing us. Better they're hurt or harmed than we are, so long as it is a matter of either them or us with no other choice.</div> <div> <B>3</B>. This course of action against malice I call, <I>assertive-passive resistance</I>; that is: now resist passively, then assertively, or now resist assertively then  passively, depending upon  what the pathic and/or situation calls </div> <div> for. In either case, we are asserting our rights and our integrity.</div> <div> <B>... [12 more entries]</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The following notes start off in the usual advice-to-the-reader pattern, but then unexpectedly (for the author) veers off into the concept of <I>playacting</I>; which in hindsight, proves to be the perfect platform in opposition to the pathics, since they themselves are the consummate play-actors among us. In which case, we soft-natured individuals learn to <I>play</I> their own game, if not as well as them, then surely as protective of us.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> 2</div> <bR> <div> “Perhaps one never seems so much at ease as when one has to play a part.”</div> <div>                                              -Oscar Wilde</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE PLAY'S THE THING</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Assertive-Passive Resistance against the Pathic</B></div> <bR> <div> by the Author</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  1</B>. Be civil to them, but subtly remote.</div> <div> <B>  2</B>. Be polite to them, but in passing.</div> <div> <B>  3</B>. Be courteous to them, but busily.</div> <div> <B>  4</B>. No <I>looking</I> at them except momentarily to be civil, polite, or courteous.</div> <div> <B>  5</B>. No replies to them except what they want to hear.</div> <div> <B>  6</B>. No comments to them that reveal your true feelings, beliefs, or values.</div> <div> <B>  7</B>. Listen agreeably to what they say; like, “That's very interesting,” etc..</div> <div> <B>  8</B>. Act as though you're ignorant of the topic they're discussing; like: “I'm not sure I understand what you mean; can you explain it.” Etc..</div> <div> <B>  9</B>. Don't be concerned about being aloof – you're in your own thoughts; you're very busy, no time to talk… and the like.</div> <div> <B>10</B>. Hold your anger in check; they feed on it.</div> <div> <B>... [39 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 3</div> <bR> <div> <B>A SUBPLOT: THE PATHIC SIBLING IN THE FAMILY</B></div> <bR> <div> The following note-like, “stream of conscience,” thoughts fairly much answer my troubled concern for all the poor unfortunate soft-natured children who are subject to, victims of, their hard-natured siblings. That answer is mainly in the lap of parents: parents who fairly much understand the pathic character and their ways, and can articulate and deal with them in defense of both themselves and their other children.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> _________________________</div> <bR> <div> The pathic in your life is in your household; he's your child against his/her sibling. </div> <div> You live in the day-to-day proximity of his wretchedness.</div> <div> But now you know his ways and means of hurting, harming, and disrupting.</div> <div> Armed with this knowledge, how do you protect your child from his sibling out to hurt and harm him?</div> <div> Forget the family “blood is thicker than water” cliché with the hard-natured child. She certainly forgets it against you.</div> <div> Such hard-natures may be family in blood, but they certainly are not family in love. And love, in all its variant expressions, is everything, is it not? that holds people together, families together.</div> <div> No love comes from her except her love of hurting and harming and disrupting her sibling – Love to see you squirm! Love to see your feelings hurt! Love to see you cry! Love to see you caught!</div> <div> <I><B>... </B></I><B>[41 more entries]</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>________________________________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri" ><B></B></FONT><B>EPILOGUE</B><B> <A NAME="ep"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div>      In closing this bleakly disturbing, yet hopefully encouraging, book, I have these few forward-looking words to add. But first: Yes, the pathics are with us for good; and yes, there will always be their victims to exploit; and yes, they will always add to the pool of sorrow and suffering upon mankind, and always pollute and infect the innocent and unwary. So much, then, for the “bleakly, disturbing” side of the human condition – its dark side. What of the “hopefully, encouraging” side of the human condition – its bright side?</div> <div> <B>... </B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >   </FONT></div> <div>    </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <div> The underlying theme of this book: that justice and wisdom take the ascendancy over injustice and ignorance, serves as a preface to the conscious transformation occurring in our times and leading to the gradual ascendancy of justice and wisdom over injustice and ignorance. This conscious transformation is further explored and studied in my forthcoming book, <I>Human-Transcendence</I>: <I>Of Love and Wisdom</I>. </div> <div>      With the publication of these two related books, I will have completed my major contribution to this conscious transformation. What more is needed is to transfer words into action – into a movement, or more to the point: a <I>quest</I>, against injustice and ignorance.</div> <div>      Research it; it is all about us. Reflect upon it; it is within us. Let it happen; live your share. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <A NAME="appendix"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>APPENDIX</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Pathics in the Social & Political Spheres</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>I</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>PATHIC ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENT</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> 1</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Hitler</B></div> <div> 1.  "The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led." </div> <div> 2.  "The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one." </div> <div> 3.  "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it." </div> <div> 4.  "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." </div> <div> 5.  "A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth - that is what I am after... I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin for my young men."</div> <div> 6.  "If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the spilling of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin."</div> <div> 7.  "The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberal's concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood."</div> <div> 8.  "It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. .... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture.... We understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man."</div> <div> 9.  "The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe." </div> <div> 10.  "Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag -- a thing with a soul that could mirror my own." </div> <div> 11.  "A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow."</div> <div> 12.  "Great liars are also great magicians"</div> <div> 13.  "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."</div> <div> 14.  "Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."</div> <div> 15.  "The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew"</div> <div> 16.  "Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality"</div> <div> 17.  "The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom"</div> <div> 18.  "Only force rules. Force is the first law" </div> <div> 19.  "The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." </div> <div> 20.  "The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it." </div> <div> 21.  "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." </div> <div> 22.  "What good fortune for governments that the people do not think." </div> <div> 23.  "What luck for rulers, that men do not think." </div> <div> 24.  "I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few."</div> <div> 25.  "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."</div> <div> 26.  "The great masses of the people at the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously evil ... they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big."</div> <div> 27.  "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."</div> <div> 28. "The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."</div> <div> 29. "The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species."</div> <div> 30.  "Let us pray in this hour that nothing can divide us, and that God will help us against the Devil! Almighty Lord, bless our fight!"</div> <div> 31.  "Who says I am not under the special protection of God?" </div> <div> 32.  "Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Stalin</B></div> <div> 1.  With an Iron Fist, We Will Lead Humanity to Happiness!'" </div> <div> 2.  "I trust no one. Not even myself." </div> <div> 3.  "Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts."</div> <div> 4.  "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." </div> <div> 5.  "You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."</div> <div> 6.  "The only real power comes out of a long rifle." </div> <div> 7.  "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"</div> <div> 8.  "Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."</div> <div> 9.  "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"</div> <div> 10.  "The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do."</div> <div> 11. " Sincere diplomacy is not more possible than dry water or wooden iron." </div> <div> 12.  Stalin's advise to his interrogators on how best to obtain a confession. "Beat, beat, and beat again or `Beat, beat, and once again beat." </div> <div> <B>Lenin</B></div> <div> 1.  "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."</div> <div> 2.  "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."</div> <div> 3.  "One man with a gun can control 100 without one."</div> <div> 4.  "It is true that liberty is precious -- so precious that it must be rationed."</div> <div> 5.  "We need a real nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory."</div> <div> 6.  "No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses."</div> <div> 7.  "There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."</div> <div> 8.  "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."</div> <div> 9.  "Fascism is capitalism in decay."</div> <div> 10.  "To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities - that is not to be taken seriously in politics." </div> <div> 11.  The following is a telegram sent by Lenin to the communist authorities in Nizjnij-Novgord, 11 August 1918:</div> <div> "Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volost's must be suppressed without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this, because we have now before us our final decisive battle "with the kulaks." We need to set an example.</div> <div> 1) You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public sees) at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers.</div> <div> 2) Publish their names.</div> <div> 3) Take away all of their grain.</div> <div> 4) Execute the hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram.</div> <div> This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out: let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks.</div> <div> Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this. Yours, Lenin</div> <div> P.S. Use your toughest people for this."</div> <div> <B>Mao</B></div> <div> 1.  "He (Ch'in-Shih-huang, the first emperor of China) only buried alive 460 scholars, while we buried 46,000. In our suppression of the counterrevolutionaries, did we not kill some counterrevolutionary intellectuals? I once debated with the democratic people: You accuse us of acting like Ch'in-shih-huang, but you are wrong; we surpass him 100 times". </div> <div> 2.  "Do not be alarmed either if there should be war. It would merely mean getting people killed and we've seen people killed in war. Eliminating half of the population occurred several times in China's history. The 50 million population in the time of Emperor Wu in the Han Dynasty was reduced to 10 million by the time of the Three Kingdoms, the two Chin Dynasties and the North and South Dynasties. The war lasted for decades and intermittently for several hundred years, from the Three Kingdoms to the North and South Dynasties. The T'ang Dynasty began with a population of 20 million and did not reach 50 million until Emperor Hsuan. And Lu-shan staged a revolt and the country was divided into many states. It was not reunited until the Sung Dynasty, some 100 or 200 years later, with a population of just over 10 million.... Not very many people were killed in the two World Wars, 10 million in the first and 20 million in the second, but we had 40 million killed in one war. So, how destructive were the big swords! We have no experience in atomic war. So, how many will be killed cannot be known. The best outcome may be that only half of the population is left and the second best may be only one-third. When 900 million are left out of 2.9 billion, several five-year plans can be developed for the total elimination of capitalism and for permanent peace. It is not a bad thing". </div> <div> <B>Napoleon </B></div> <div> 1.  "There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless." </div> <div> 2.  "Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent...Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity". </div> <div> 3.  "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." </div> <div> 4.  "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." </div> <div> 5.  "I have come to realize that men are not born to be free." </div> <div> 6.  "Great men are never cruel without necessity." </div> <div> 7.  "Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine." </div> <div> 8.  "In war as in politics, no evil, even if it is permissible under the rules, is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime." </div> <div> 9.  "If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else."</div> <div> 10.  "Governments keep their promises only when they are forced or when it is to their advantage to do so." </div> <div> 11.  "They think I am stern, even hardhearted. So much the better-this makes it unnecessary for me to justify my reputation. My firmness is taken for callousness. I shall not complain, since this notion is responsible for the good order that is prevailing, so that there is nothing that needs to be repressed. I am not moved by the tears of a duchess, but the sufferings of the people touch me." </div> <div> 12.  "At home as abroad, I reign only through the fear I inspire."</div> <div> 13.  "Friendship is only a word, I care for nobody." </div> <div> 14.  "All being said, I like only those people who are useful to me, and only so long as they are useful." </div> <div> 15.  "Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest." </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 2</div> <bR> <div> 1.  " In feudal times, kings and lords held power through divine right. To challenge their authority was to oppose God, a heresy worthy of death. Now enlightened, we view such notions as foolish. Yet the divine right of yore has been replaced by a pantheon of free market verities whose lock on popular thought is so strong that heresy can be kept in check through ridicule."</div> <div> - Joel Bleifuss, In These Times magazine, September 2001</div> <div> 2.  "Rogue states that are internally free -- and the U.S. is at the outer limits in this respect -- must rely on the willingness of the educated classes to produce accolades and tolerate or deny terrible crimes."</div> <div> - Noam Chomsky, Rogue States</div> <div> 3.  "These sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered."</div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >- ibid</FONT></div> <div> 4.  If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. </div> <div>                                                               <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >- President G. W. Bush</FONT></div> <div> 5.  "Since 1945 this country … has sought not the delicate balance of power but a position of commanding superiority in weapons technology, in the regulation of the international economy, and in the manipulation of the internal politics of other countries."</div> <div> 6.  "... our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment ... People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers ... do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to."    </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" > </FONT>- William Blum, from the book <I>Rogue State</I></div> <div> 7.  "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." </div> <div> - President Bill Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993</div> <div> 8.  "We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." </div> <div> - John Swinton</div> <div> 9.  "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." </div> <div> - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels </div> <div> 10.  "We have a political system that awards office to the most ruthless, cunning, and selfish of mortals, then act surprised when those willing to do anything to win power are equally willing to do anything with it. "</div> <div> - Michael Rivero </div> <div> 11.  "The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan."</div> <div> - Lewis Lapham, journalist </div> <div> 12.  "We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both." </div> <div> - Louis Brandeis</div> <div> 13.  "Powerful people in the American ruling class fear democracy."</div> <div> -  Tim Robbins, actor and progressive activist, The Nation, August 6/13, 2001</div> <div> 14.  "Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces." </div> <div> - Jean Paul Marat, 18th Century French Visionary and revolutionary</div> <bR> <div> 15.  "I think the level of casualties is secondary. I mean, it may sound like an odd thing to say, but all the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war. . . . What we hate is not casualties but losing. And if the war goes well and if the American public has the conviction that we're being well-led and that our people are fighting well and that we're winning, I don't think casualties are going to be the issue. " </div> <div> - Michael Ledeen AEI Breakfast March 27, 2003 </div> <bR> <div> 16.  "We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world." </div> <div> - Chaim Weizmann</div> <bR> <div> 17.  "We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them." </div> <div> - Goldwin Smith, Jewish Professor of Modern History at Oxford University</div> <bR> <div> 18.  "I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it." </div> <div> - Ariel Sharon</div> <bR> <div> 19.  "The state.... must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge.... And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space."</div> <div> - Diary of Moshe Sharett," Israeli's first Foreign Minister from 1948-1956</div> <bR> <div> 20.  "To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization."</div> <div> - Jeremy Seabrook, Third World Network Features, Penang, Malaysia, May 1999</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 3</div> <bR> <div> <B>War</B></div> <bR> <div> 1.  "I think the level of casualties is secondary. I mean, it may sound like an odd thing to say, but all the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war. . . . What we hate is not casualties but losing. And if the war goes well and if the American public has the conviction that we're being well-led and that our people are fighting well and that we're winning, I don't think casualties are going to be the issue. " </div> <div> - Michael Ledeen AEI Breakfast March 27, 2003 </div> <bR> <div> 2.  "War is the public agenda for the hidden desires of a private elite" </div> <div>  - Bodazey </div> <bR> <div> 3.  "War is caused by elites acting in what they take to be their own interests, institutional violence promulgated by ruling groups for personal gain."</div> <div> - The Nation magazine, May 15, 2000</div> <bR> <div> 4.  "The history of war is the history of powerful individuals willing to sacrifice thousands upon thousands of other people's lives for personal gains. " </div> <div> - Michael Rivero</div> <bR> <div> 5.  "The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first...The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: `It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.'</div> <div>     "Then the few will shout even louder.... Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it...</div> <div>     "Next, the statesmen will invent cheap lies…and each man will be glad of these lies and will study them because they soothe his conscience; and thus he will bye and bye convince himself that the war is just and he will thank God for a better sleep he enjoys by his self-deception."</div> <div> - Mark Twain , novelist</div> <bR> <div> 6.  "America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number."</div> <div> - Arnold Toynbee, historian, 1961</div> <div> 7.  " Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn. "</div> <div> - John Stockwell, former CIA official and author</div> <bR> <div> 8.  "We need a common enemy to unite us." </div> <div> - Condoleeza Rice, March 2000</div> <bR> <div> 9.  "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary"</div> <div>   - H.L. Mencken</div> <bR> <div> 10.  "The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its' determination to continue to be a world power." </div> <div> - Henry Kissinger</div> <div>  </div> <div> 11.  "Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing "rogue states," opposing "Islamic fundamentalism," or containing China"</div> <div> - Walden Bello, sociologist and author, International Socialist Review, Aug/Sep 2001</div> <bR> <div> 12.  "If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs (surface-to-air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need." </div> <div> - U.S. Brig. General William Looney</div> <bR> <div> 13.  "It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture. "</div> <div> - Jerome Weisner, president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div> <bR> <div> 14.  "A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonels, captains, corporals, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart."</div> <div> - Henry David Thoreau, in his famous essay "Civil Disobedience"</div> <bR> <div> 15.  "Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."</div> <div> - Leading Nazi leader, Hermann Goering</div> <bR> <div> 16.  "Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." </div> <div> - Michael Rivero</div> <bR> <div> 17.  " Scare the hell out of the American people."</div> <div> - Senator Arthur Vandenburg, telling President Truman what the he needed to do in order to tax the American people to pay for the weapons and covert activities of the US National Security State that was being planned, to destroy the Russian Communist State.</div> <bR> <div> 18.  "Around the world, the messaage received is that, whoever wins [the U.S. election], expect only more of the same - national narcissism disguised as altruism, corporate appeasement, and the arbitrary use of U.S. military and economic might."</div> <div> - Greg Guma, Toward Freedom magazine, June / July 2000</div> <bR> <div> 19.  "We [the U.S.] have over 200 incidents in which we have put our troops into other countries to force them to our will."</div> <div> - John Stockwell, former CIA official and author</div> <bR> <div> 20.  "Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators."</div> <div> - Noam Chomsky (The Progressive magazine, September 1999)</div> <bR> <div> 21.  "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..."</div> <div> - General Douglas MacArthur, 1957</div> <bR> <div> 22.  "Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others."</div> <div> - Socialist and feminist Emma Goldman lecturing on patriotism</div> <bR> <div> 23.  "I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good...and it would spread a lively terror.... </div> <div> - Winston Churchill</div> <bR> <div> 24.  "There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its 'finger men" (to point out enemies), its "muscle men" (to destroy enemies), its "brain guys" (to plan war preparations), and a "Big Boss" (super nationalistic capitalism).</div> <div>     "It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to do so. I spent 33 years and four months in active military service as a member of our country's most agile military force -- the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent more of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.</div> <div>     "I suspected I was just a part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. Thus I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that the Standard Oil went its way unmolested.</div> <div>     "During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals and promotion. Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. I operated on three continents."</div> <div>    - General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant,1935</div> <bR> <div> 25.  "No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war." "In strict confidence ...I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one."</div> <div> - Theodore Roosevelt</div> <bR> <div> 26.  "If there has to be a blood-bath [of our own youth], let's get it over with."</div> <div>  - Ronald Reagan</div> <bR> <div> 27.  "The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."</div> <div> - Michael Parenti, political scientist and author</div> <bR> <div> 28.  "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." </div> <div> - Samuel Adams </div> <bR> <div> 29.  "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." </div> <div> - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon</div> <bR> <div> 30.  "Our strategic and security interests throughout the world will be best safeguarded by the establishment in suitable spots of 'Police Stations', fully equipped to deal with emergencies within a large radius. Kuwait is one such spot from which Iraq, South Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf could be controlled. It will be worthwhile to go to considerable trouble and expense to establish and man a 'Police Station' there." </div> <div> - British Foreign Office, policy memo, 1947 </div> <bR> <div> 31.  "We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its' population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." </div> <div> - George Kennan, former Head of the US State Department  </div> <div> Policy Planning Staff, Document PPS23, 24th February 1948 </div> <bR> <div> 32.  "You know the one thing that is wrong in this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."</div> <div> - President Bill Clinton</div> <div> 33.  " The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. "</div> <div> - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and foreign policy critic</div> <bR> <div> 34.  "He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but at least he's our son-of-a-bitch."</div> <div> - President Franklin Roosevelt -- justifying support for Nicaragua's dictator Anastasio Somoza:</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> 5</div> <bR> <div> <B>THE EVILS OF WARFARE: TERROR AND TORTURE</B></div> <bR> <div> 1.  "Strikes at population targets (per se) are likely not only to create a counterproductive wave of revulsion abroad and at home, but greatly to increase the risk of enlarging the war with China and the Soviet Union. Destruction of locks and dams, however - if handled right - might offer promise. It should be studied. Such destruction does not kill or drown people. By shallow-flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespread starvation (more than a million) unless food is provided - which we could offer to do 'at the conference table'." </div> <div> - John McNaughton, US State Department Vietnam policy</div> <bR> <div> 2.  "Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants. A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished." </div> <div> - Michael Rivero </div> <bR> <div> 3.  "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." </div> <div> - Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997</div> <bR> <div> 4.  " It isn't only Gestapo maniacs who do inhuman things to people. We [the CIA] are responsible for doing inhuman things on a massive scale to people all over the world."</div> <div> - John Stockwell, former CIA official</div> <bR> <div> 5.  "No one cared, as long as they were Communists, that they were being butchered. No one was getting very worked up about it."</div> <div> - Howard Federspiel, the Indonesia expert at the State Department's Bureau of  </div> <div> Intelligence and Research, describing the US supported overthrow of Sukarno </div> <div> in 1965 and the associated genocide of 500,000 - 1,000,000 Indonesians</div> <bR> <div> 7.  "It really was a big help to the army. They probably killed a lot of people, and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that's not all bad."</div> <div> - Robert Martens, former member of the US Embassy's political section in  </div> <div> Jakarta, in 1990, discussing the 1965 US-backed coup in Indonesia</div> <bR> <div> 8.  "I can teach you about torture, but sooner or later you'll have to get involved. You'll have to lay on your hands and try it yourselves ... The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect.''</div> <div> - Head of the US Office of Public Safety (OPS) mission  </div> <div>  in Uruguay in 1981, teaching classes in the art of torture</div> <bR> <div> Latin America -- quotes from survivors</div> <div> 9.  "For four months I was heavily tortured by the Army in Rio de Janeiro, and then in the Naval Information Center.... Near death, I was taken to the hospital for the sixth time. The beatings had been so severe that my body was one big bruise. The blood clotted under my skin and all the hair on my body fell out. They pulled out all my fingernails. They poked needles through my sexual organs and used a rope to drag me across the floor by my testicles. Right afterwards they hung me upside down. They hung me handcuffed from a grating, removed my artificial leg, and tied my penis so l could not urinate. They forced me to stand on my one leg for three days without food or drink. They gave me so many drugs that my eardrums burst and I am impotent. They nailed my penis to a table for 24 hours. They tied me up like a pig and threw me into a pool so that I nearly drowned. They put me in a completely dark cell where I remained for 30 days urinating and defecating in the same place where I had to sleep. They fed me only bread soaked in water. They put me in a rubber box and turned on a siren. For three days I neither ate nor slept and I nearly went mad...."</div> <div>  - Manuel de Conceicao, peasant leader in Brazil He was arrested in 1972 and  brought before Brazilian  security police who              had been schooled at US army bases in the latest methods of  counterinsurgency and interrogation. He was tortured by </div> <div> Brazilian army units -- trained and equipped by US military-aid progra<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >ms.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 10.  A young Salvadoran deserted the Salvadoran army and fled to Mexico. His story was published in The Other Side magazine, 1982 Part of his training by eight American Green Berets consisted of "teaching how to torture." He witnessed a boy of about fifteen, suspected of supporting the guerrillas, being subjected to a demonstration torture by the Green Berets They tore out the youth's fingernails, broke his elbows, gouged out his eyes, and then burned him alive. The author reports that the torture sessions continued into the next day and included a thirteen year-old girl. Another victim had various parts of his body burned and was then taken up in a helicopter while still alive and thrown out at 14,000 feet. The defector noted that "often the army goes and throws people out over the sea." </div> <div> -  (The editors of The Other Side withheld the Salvadoran informant's name "for obvious reasons" but claimed that "the basic outline of his story has been corroborated by independent sources which we believe to be reliable.")</div> <bR> <div> 11.  "They tell how the Chilean military - trained and financed by the United States -- tortured people with electric shock, particularly on the genitals; forced victims to witness the torture of friends and relatives (including children); raped women in the presence of other family members; burned sex organs with acid or scalding water; placed rats in women's vaginas and into the mouths of other prisoners; mutilated, punctured, and cut off various parts of the body, including genitalia, eyes, and tongue; injected air into women's breasts and into veins (causing slow, painful death); shoved bayonets and clubs into the vagina or anus, causing rupture and death."</div> <div> - Victims and survivors of the fascist coup in Chile in 1973</div> <bR> <div> 12.  "My name is Rigoberta Menchu Tum. l am a representative of the "Vincente Menchu" [her father] Revolutionary Christians ... On 9 December 1979, my 16-year-old brother Patrocino was captured and tortured for several days and then taken with twenty other young men to the square in Chajul ... An officer of [President] Lucas Garcia's army of murderers ordered the prisoners to be paraded in a line. Then he started to insult and threaten the inhabitants of the village who were forced to come out of their houses to witness the event. I was with my mother, and we saw Patrocino; he had had his tongue cut out and his toes cut off. The officer jackal made a speech. Every time he paused the soldiers beat the Indian prisoners. When he finished his ranting, the bodies of my brother and the other prisoners were swollen bloody, unrecognizable. It was monstrous, but they were still alive. They were thrown on the ground and drenched with gasoline. The soldiers set fire to the wretched bodies with torches and the captain laughed like a hyena and forced the inhabitants of Chajul to watch. This was his objective-that they should be terrified and witness the punishment given to the "guerrillas".</div> <div> - Rigoberta Menchu Tum, awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize</div> <bR> <div> 13.  "Four men came in, bearing a cot with a sheet-covered figure. "Sit down," one ordered. "You're going to see a performance by a bad actor, an actor who has forgotten his part. Help him remember it." They uncovered a body entirely purple, missing a foot. "Come closer," another ordered. "Look at him. You'll know him." And she did. It was 27-year-old "El Gordo" Toledo, with whom she had been 20 days before. He could hardly speak, or scream, any more. When Elba maintained that she did not know him, they said, "Let's see"-they pulled out his nails, cut off his remaining ear, cut out his tongue, gouged out his eyes, and killed him slowly as she watched, thinking, "He could be my son." Then they brought another "actor," 26-year-old Eduard Munoz. It took them five hours to kill him, under her eyes. It was worse than any pain they could have inflicted on her, she said. Later she was forced to watch while her cellmates-aged 16, 17, and 40, nude and drugged, were directed to perform an erotic dance before they were raped. Another girl, back from a dreaded torture center, and pregnant, was so crazy that each time she awoke she screamed that her only desire was for her child to be born so she could kill it."</div> <div> - Elba Vergara, secretary to President Allende (himself murdered by the Chilean generals),</div> <bR> <div> 14.  "Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their testicles cut off, and their eyes poked out They were killed by slitting their throats and pulling the tongue out through the slit."</div> <div>  - A survivor of a raid by US-backed Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s</div> <bR> <div> 15.  "His forces executed or "disappeared" 3,197 people. Tens of thousands were tortured, hundreds of thousands were forced into exile. Pinochet destroyed the constitution, the parliament, the political parties, the trade unions, and the free universities. "</div> <div> - Saul Landau, author, about US-backed Augusto Pinochet's impact on Chile, The Progressive, May 2000, p24</div> <bR> <div> 16.  "Our men . . . have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of 10 up.... Our soldiers have pumped salt water into men to "make them talk," and have taken prisoners people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, and an hour later. . . stood them on a bridge and shot them down one by one, to drop into the water below and float down, as examples to those who found their bullet-loaded corpses."</div> <div> - Philadelphia Ledger newspaper, 1901 in a dispatch from its Manila [Philippines] </div> <div> correspondent during the US war with Spain</div> <bR> <div> 17.  "Tortures range from simple but brutal blows from a truncheon to electric shocks. Often the torture is more refined: the end of a reed is placed in the anus of a naked man hanging suspended downwards on the pau de arara [parrot's perch] and a piece of cotton soaked in petrol is lit at the other end of the reed. Pregnant women have been forced to watch their husbands being tortured. Other wives have been hung naked beside their husbands and given electric shocks on the sexual parts of their body, while subjected to the worst kind of obscenities. Children have been tortured before their parents and vice versa. The length of sessions depends upon the resistance capacity of the victims and have sometimes continued for days at a time."</div> <div> - Amnesty International, describing the torture suffered by Brazilians at the     </div> <div> hands of the military and the US-run Office of Public Safety (OPS) in the 1960s</div> <bR> <div> 18.  "People had been mercilessly tortured simply for being in possession of a leaflet criticizing the regime. Brutality and cruelty on one side, frustration and helplessness on the other. They were being tortured and there was nothing to be done. It was like listening to a friend who has cancer. What comfort, what wise reflection can someone who is comfortable give. Torture might last a short time, but the person will never be the same."</div> <div> - James Becket, American attorney, in Greece for Amnesty International,  </div> <div> describing  the torture suffered by Greeks under US-supported dictator </div> <div> Papdopoulos in the 1960s</div> <bR> <div> 19.  "You never hear of any disturbances in Northern Luzon [Philippines]... because there isn't anybody there to rebel. That country was marched over and cleared out.... The good lord in Heaven only knows the number of Filipinos that were put under the ground; our soldiers took no prisoners; they kept no records; they simply swept the country and wherever or however they could get hold of a Filipino they killed him."</div> <div> - A Republican member of Congress in an eyewitness report on the US invasion of the Philippines, 1899.</div> <bR> <div> 20.  "Many members of her family were killed. She personally saw children around the age of eight being raped, and then [the soldiers] would take their bayonets and make mincemeat out of them. With their guns they would shoot at their faces...." The Army would cut people up and put soap and coffee in their stomachs as a mocking, [the woman said]. They would slit the stomach of a pregnant woman and take the child out, as if they were taking eggs out of an iguana. That is what I saw."</div> <div> - Representative Barbara Mikulski (now a US Senator) relating the story of a </div> <div> peasant woman, a  victim of  the Mazote massacre in El Salvador in 1981, where a </div> <div> US trained elite battalion killed more than 1,000 people.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> =========================================================================================</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>II</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>PATHIC ASPECTS OF CORPORATE ECONOMICS</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1</div> <bR> <div> 1.  No one was thinking of war; they were all arming just in case, because rich people like to see iron walls around their money.</div> <div> - Hermann Hesse, literary author  </div> <bR> <div> 2.  "The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality."</div> <div> - Holly Sklar, from her book Trilateralism</div> <bR> <div> 3.  "... [T]he establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..."</div> <div> -- Edward Herman, economist and media analyst</div> <bR> <div> 4.  "The NSS [National Security State] represents and serves the interests of a tiny elite. Its economic policies of "trickling-up", enforced by the machine gun, are rationalized on the ground that growth in the long run will trickle down to the lower orders. This is a self-serving ideology designed mainly to allow the western public to think well of themselves and their own country."</div> <div> - Edward Herman, economist and media analyst</div> <bR> <div> 5.  "If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."</div> <div> - Howard Zinn, historian and author</div> <bR> <div> 6.  "There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives."</div> <div> - Edward S. Herman, economist, author, and US media and foreign policy critic</div> <bR> <div> 7.  "... the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights."</div> <div> - Edward S. Herman, economist, author, and US media and foreign policy critic</div> <bR> <div> 8.  "The United States supports right-wing dictatorships in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East ... because these are the rulers who have tied their personal political destiny to the fortunes of the American corporations in their countries... Revolutionary or nationalist leaders have radically different political constituencies and interests. For them creating "a good investment climate" for the United States and developing their own country are fundamentally conflicting goals. Therefore, the United States has a strong economic interest in keeping such men from coming to power or arranging for their removal if they do."</div> <div> - Richard Barnet, Intervention and Revolution</div> <bR> <div> 9.  "... [T]he media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."</div> <div> - Noam Chomsky</div> <bR> <div> 10.  "Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest."</div> <div> - Charles Derber, Corporation Nation, p250</div> <bR> <div> 11.  "The dream of the corporate empire builders is being realized. The global system is harmonizing standards across country after country - down toward the lowest common denominator. Although a few socially responsible businesses are standing against the tide with some limited success, theirs is not an easy struggle. We must not kid ourselves. Social responsibility is inefficient in a global free market, and the market will not long abide those who do not avail of the opportunities to shed the inefficient. And we must be clear as to the meaning of efficiency. To the global economy, people are not only increasingly unnecessary, but they and their demands for a living wage are a major source of economic inefficiency. Global corporations are acting to purge themselves of this unwanted burden. We are creating a system that has fewer places for people."</div> <div> - David Korten, economist and internationalist</div> <bR> <div> 13.  1.  "...[S]everal of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz."</div> <div>         2..  "The tycoons were linked by an ideology: the ideology of Business as Usual. Bound by identical reactionary ideas, the members sought a common future in fascist domination regardless of which world leader might further that ambition."</div> <div> - Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy, 1983</div> <bR> <div> 14.  "The Pentagon has a fantastic budget that enables it to dream of putting down the much-needed revolutions which will arise in Peru, in the Philippines, and in other benighted countries."</div> <div> -William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, 1969<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> 15.  "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."</div> <div> - Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice from 1916-1939</div> <bR> <div> 16.  "Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."</div> <div> - Abraham Lincoln, American president, 1861-1865</div> <bR> <div> 17.  "The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars."</div> <div> - William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion,</div> <bR> <div> 18.  " If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."</div> <div> - Woodrow Wilson, presidential candidate,1912 -The Nation magazine, July 3, 2000</div> <bR> <div> 19.  "The corporation is not a person and it does not live. It is a lifeless bundle of legally protected financial rights and relationships brilliantly designed to serve money and its imperatives. It is money that flows in its veins, not blood. The corporation has neither soul nor conscience."</div> <div> - David Korten, The Post-Corporate World</div> <bR> <div> 20.  "We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations."</div> <div> - Joel Bleifuss, In These Times magazine, September 2001</div> <bR> <div> 21.  "There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives."</div> <div> - Edward Herman, economist and media analyst</div> <bR> <div> 22.  "We no longer have senators and congressmen who represent our interests. The great project of America has been hijacked by big corporations and the super rich."</div> <div> - Doris "Granny D" Haddock</div> <bR> <div> 23.  "Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders."</div> <div> - John le Carre', The Nation magazine, April 9, 2001, p13</div> <bR> <div> 24.  "One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change."</div> <div> - David Barsamian, journalist and publisher</div> <bR> <div> 25.  "Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector."</div> <div> - Michael Lerner, from the book The Politics of Meaning, 1997</div> <bR> <div> 26. "As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society."</div> <div> - Robert McChesney, journalist and media critic</div> <bR> <div> 27.  "The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations' favor. The consequence is a `race to the bottom' in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate."</div> <div> - Jeremy Brecher, historian and author</div> <bR> <div> 28.  "Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. "</div> <div> - Neo-liberal economist Milton Friedman in his 1962 book Capitalism    </div> <div> and Freedom (Public Citizen's Health Research newsletter, </div> <div> December 1999, p12)</div> <bR> <div> 29.  "The purpose of commercial [media] is to induce mass sales. For mass sales there must be a mass norm ... By suppressing the individual, the unique, the industry ... assures itself a standard product for mass consumption."</div> <div> - John Whiting, KPFA/Pacifica Folio (North Bay), December 1999</div> <bR> <div> 30.  "Like blackbirds in flight, packs of reporters darken the sky, moving in swarms at the same speed and in predictable trajectory. When one lands, they all land. When one leaves, they all leave. The programmers and channel controllers from all the stations are part of the same well-paid elite, steeped in the same values, committed to the mission of maximizing audience share and profits. They are chosen for their ability to play the game and not challenge the audience with too many controversial ideas or critical perspectives. It's no surprise that they circulate easily within the commanding heights of media power, moving from company to company and job to job. A kind of group think corporate consensus, steeped in market logic and deeply inbred by an un-brave news culture, breeds conscience-free conformity and self-censorship. This makes frightening sense in a globalized economy where consumerism is more desired than active citizenship, where power is increasingly concentrated and the public is increasingly unwelcome in a public discourse defined by the powerful. If your goal is to numb people and drive them away from active participation, then TV as "weapon of mass distraction" and wall to wall entertainment makes sense. Shut up and shop is the now the message, one that makes sense to advertiser dominated media outlets... "</div> <div> - Danny Schechter, Dung on all their Houses, Toward Freedom magazine, December / January 2000</div> <bR> <div> 31.  "The power of money in elections, the increased concentration and conservative bias of the media, the resurgent strength and aggressiveness of capital and finance in a globalizing economy, and the weakening of labor, provide the structural background .. for the abandonment of the rudiments of social democracy [in America]."</div> <div> - Edward S. Herman, Z magazine, Nov 1999</div> <bR> <div> 32.  "The major media are large corporations, owned by and interlinked with even larger conglomerates. Like other corporations, they sell a product to a market. The market is advertisers - that is, other businesses. The product is audiences, [and] for the elite media, [they're] relatively privileged audiences. So we have major corporations selling fairly wealthy and privileged audiences to other businesses. Not surprisingly, the picture of the world presented reflects the narrow and biased interests and values of the sellers, the buyers and the product.</div> <div> - Noam Chomsky (from Take the Rich Off Welfare</div> <bR> <div> 33.  "When the IMF and the World Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, produce for export instead of their own people, and sell off public property to cronies for less than its value, that's called "economic reform."</div> <div> - Robert Naiman, Toward Freedom magazine, November 1999</div> <bR> <div> 34. "Imperialism today is taking place in the context of...the 'universalization' of capitalism. It is not now primarily a matter of territorial conquest or direct military or colonial control. It is not now a matter of capitalist powers invading non-capitalist powers in order to bleed them dry directly and by brute force. Now it is more a matter of ensuring that the forces of the capitalist market prevail in every corner of the world (even if this means marginalizing and impoverishing parts of it), and of manipulating those market forces to the advantage of the most powerful capitalist economies and the United States in particular." ... </div> <div> - Political scientist Ellen Meiksins-Wood, Z magazine Nov 1999</div> <bR> <div> 35.  "[T]here seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital.... In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the supporters of the new world order, tremendous police and military forces are being used to establish a doctrine of repression...."</div> <div> - Christian la Brie, Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris) May 1999, (Transatlantic Wheeling and Dealing)</div> <bR> <div> 36.  "The rules of the world economy serve the interests of the multinational companies; they do not serve the interests of the vast majority of the people on this planet."</div> <div> - The Progressive magazine, January 2000, p10</div> <bR> <div> 37.  "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas."</div> <div> - Thomas Friedman, NY Times columnist - RESIST newsletter, September 2000</div> <bR> <div> 38.  "As human rights conditions deteriorate, factors affecting the "climate of investment," like the tax laws and labor repression, improve from the viewpoint of the multinational corporation. This suggests an important line of causation -- military dictatorships tend to improve the investment climate.... The multinational corporate community and the U.S. government are very sensitive to this factor. Military dictators enter into a tacit joint venture arrangement with Free World leaders: They will keep the masses quiet, maintain an open door to multinational investment, and provide bases and otherwise serve as loyal clients. In exchange, they will be aided and protected against their own people, and allowed to loot public property.</div> <div> - Edward Herman, author</div> <bR> <div> 39.  "But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. US national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people."</div> <div> - Philip Agee, CIA Diary</div> <bR> <div> 40.  "The national interest is not to protect individual American firms but to preserve a system of business ... The American empire expresses its presence and exercises its influence through the capitalist mode of operation for which it keeps as much of the world "open" a possible."</div> <div> - Henry Pachter</div> <bR> <div> 41.  "In the absence of a coherent alternative, the transnational corporations carry on inexorably. Increasingly flagless and stateless, they weave global webs of production, commerce, culture and finance virtually unopposed. They expand, invest and grow, concentrating ever more wealth in a limited number of hands. They work in coalition to influence local, national and international institutions and laws. And together with the governments of their home countries in Europe, North America and Japan, as well as international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and increasingly, the United Nations, they are molding an international system in which they can trade and invest even more freely--a world where they are less and less accountable to the cultures, communities and nation-states in which they operate. Underpinning this effort is not the historical inevitability of an evolving, enlightened civilization, but rather the unavoidable reality of the overriding corporate purpose: the maximization of profits."</div> <div> - The Corporate Planet, Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization (Sierra Club Books, 1997)</div> <bR> <div> 42.  "We are entering a new phase in human history -- one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population."</div> <div> - Jeremy Rifkin, economist</div> <bR> <div> 43.  "The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment."</div> <div> - Michel Chossudovsky, economist</div> <bR> <div> 44.  "If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent."</div> <div> - Edward S. Herman, economist, author, and US media and foreign policy critic, Z magazine June, 1999</div> <bR> <div> 45.  "The corporations of America today effectively oversee the Congress, and the regulatory agencies and indeed the presidency itself."</div> <div> - E.L. Doctorow, The Nation magazine, August 7/14, 2000</div> <bR> <div> 46.  i.  "Corporations have taken over the government and turned it against its own people."</div> <div>        ii. "When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare,    </div> <div>              auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country."</div> <div> - Ralph Nader, The Nation magazine, July 17, 2000</div> <bR> <div> 47.  "We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories."</div> <div> - Cecil Rhodes, "founder" of Rhodesia</div> <bR> <div> 48.  "The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package -- the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity -- must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug."</div> <div> - Edward Herman, economist and media analyst</div> <bR> <div> 49.  "What would have happened if millions of American and British people, struggling with coupons and lines at the gas stations, had learned that in 1942 Standard Oil of New Jersey [part of the Rockefeller empire] managers shipped the enemy's fuel through neutral Switzerland and that the enemy was shipping Allied fuel? Suppose the public had discovered that the Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbor was doing millions of dollars' worth of business with the enemy with the full knowledge of the head office in Manhattan [the Rockefeller family among others?] Or that Ford trucks were being built for the German occupation troops in France with authorization from Dearborn, Michigan? Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head of the international American telephone conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to Madrid to Berne during the war to help improve Hitler's communications systems and improve the robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT built the FockeWulfs that dropped bombs on British and American troops? Or that crucial ball bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers in Latin America with the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production Board in partnership with Goering's cousin in Philadelphia when American forces were desperately short of them? Or that such arrangements were known about in Washington and either sanctioned or deliberately ignored?"</div> <div> - Charles Higham, researcher, about U.S.-Nazi collaboration during WWII</div> <bR> <div> 50.  "The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not."</div> <div> - William Dugger</div> <bR> <div> 51.  "...[T]he establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..."</div> <div> -- Edward S. Herman, economist, author, and US media and foreign policy critic</div> <bR> <div> 52.  "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. "</div> <div> - Gore Vidal, novelist and critic</div> <bR> <div> 53.  "It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place. "</div> <div> - Hazel Henderson, economist</div> <bR> <div> 54.  ".[S]o long as the media are in corporate hands, the task of social change will be vastly more difficult, if not impossible."</div> <div> - Robert McChesney, journalist and author</div> <bR> <div> 55.  "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."</div> <div> - Howard Scott</div> <bR> <div> 56.  "The so-called "defense" corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves."</div> <div> - John Stockwell, former CIA official and author</div> <bR> <div> 57.  "I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."</div> <div> - General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant,1935</div> <bR> <div> 58.  "... U. S. business wants a "favorable climate of investment" abroad, and ... military regimes that will crush labor unions and otherwise serve foreign business meet that demand."</div> <div> - Edward Herman, economist and media analyst</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>III</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> PATHIC ASPECTS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1.  "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."</div> <div> - Jawaharlal Nehru</div> <bR> <div> 2.  'In any society the dominant groups are the ones with the most to hide about the way society works."</div> <div> - Barrington Moore, 20th century philosopher</div> <bR> <div> 3.  "In a dictatorship, censorship in used; in a democracy, manipulation."</div> <div> - Ryszard Kapuscinski, journalist, Le Monde diplomatique (Paris), August 1999</div> <bR> <div> 4.  "The state is the executive committee of the ruling class."</div> <div> - Karl Marx</div> <bR> <div> 5.  1.  "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." </div> <div> - Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli of England, in 1844.</div> <bR> <div> 6.  On September 10, 1876, in Aylesbury, Disraeli said: "The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."</div> <bR> <div> 7.  On October 1, 1877, Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, said of the trouble in the Balkan States: "It is not emperors or kings, nor princes, that direct the course of affairs in the East, There is something else over them and behind them; and that thing is more powerful than them."</div> <bR> <div> 8..  In 1902, Pope Leo XIII wrote of this power: "It bends governments to its will sometimes by promises, sometimes by threats. It has found its way into every class of Society, and forms an invisible and irresponsible power, an independent government, as it were, within the body corporate of the lawful state." </div> <bR> <div> 9.  Walter Rathenau, head of German General Electric, said in 1909: "Three hundred men, all of-whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves."</div> <div> 10..  "I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire and I control the British money supply."</div> <div> - Nathan Rothschild [1777 - 1836]</div> <div> 11.  "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."</div> <div> - Woodrow Wilson </div> <div> 12.  "The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation."</div> <div> - Mayor (1918-1925) John F. Hylan of New York</div> <bR> <div> 13.  "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.  </div> <div> - Dwight D. Eisenhower President of U.S.: 1953 - 1961. Farewell Address to the Nation,   16th January, 1961</div> <bR> <div> 14.  "The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."  </div> <div> - J. Edgar Hoover</div> <bR> <div> 15.  "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." </div> <div> - Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" > </FONT></div> <div> 16.  "The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. " </div> <div> - British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876 </div> <div> 17.  "We know in the not too distant future, a half dozen corporations are going to control the media. We took this step (merger) to ensure we were one of them"</div> <div>  -Time Warner spokesperson</div> <div> 18.  "Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government - a bureaucratic elite."</div> <div> - Senator William Jenner, 1954 </div> <bR> <div> 19.  "Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure." </div> <div> - Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times</div> <bR> <div> 20.  "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." </div> <div>                                                                                                                   - General Douglas MacArthur </div> <div> 21.  "The high office of the president has been used to foment a plot to destroy America's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizens of this plight."</div> <div> - President John F. Kennedy, November 12, 1963</div> <div> 22.  "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."</div> <div> - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House </div> <bR> <div> 23.  "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent that their fathers conquered." </div> <div> - Thomas Jefferson</div> <div> 24.  "We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent." </div> <div> - Jewish Banker Paul Warburg, February 17, 1950, as he testified before the U.S. Senate</div> <bR> <div> 25.  "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. " </div> <div> - David Rockefeller </div> <bR> <div> 26.  "There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globlism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things." </div> <div> - Joel Skousen </div> <div> 27.  "There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."</div> <div> -  Senator Daniel K. Inouye - Iran Contra Hearings</div> <bR> <div> 28.  "The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise their power from behind the scenes."</div> <div> - Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court.</div> <bR> <div> 29.  "Today in America [is]... the development of a permanent war establishment by a privately incorporated economy inside a political vacuum. "</div> <div> - C. Wright Mills - The Power Elite</div> <bR> <div> 30.    "The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind. It financed </div> <div> Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism, Socialism. All of these are directed to making the United States a member of a World Government …" </div> <div> - American Mercury Magazine, December 1957</div> <bR> <div> 31.  "There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international...network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies...but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known." </div> <div> - Professor Carroll Quigley </div> <div> 32.  "The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups." </div> <div>  - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" > Ibid. Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966)</FONT></div> <div>  </div> <div> 33.  "The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties." </div> <div> - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922</div> <bR> <div> 34.  "For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support. "The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. "The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank." </div> <div>  - Curtis Dall,  FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book,  My Exploited Father-in-Law</div> <bR> <div> 35.  "In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press....They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. "An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." </div> <div>  - U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917</div> <div> 36.    "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries"</div> <div> - Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, in an article entitled "Rockefeller Bids Free Lands Unite: Calls at Harvard for  Drive to Build New World Order" - New York Times (February 1962) </div> <bR> <div> 37.  "The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able -- nor can it be able -- to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'" </div> <div> - David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991</div> <div>    </div> <div> 38.  "You see, if you amount to anything in Washington these days, it is because you have been plucked or handpicked from an Ivy League school -- Harvard, Yale, Kennedy School of Government -- you've shown an aptitude to be a good Ivy League type, and so you're plucked so-to-speak, and you are assigned success. You are assigned a certain role in government somewhere, and then your success is monitored and tracked, and</div> <div> you go where the pluckers and the handpickers can put you."</div> <div> - talk show host Rush Limbaugh, an outspoken critic of anyone claiming a push for global government, said on his February 7, 1995 program:</div> <bR> <div> 39.  "The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens." </div> <div> - Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D., former German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Werner</div> <bR> <div> 40.  "The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of a society which originated in England ... (and) ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established." </div> <div>  - Professor of History Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University, in his book "Tragedy and Hope". </div> <div> 41.  "[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions." </div> <div>          <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >  - Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel , April 19th 1994 </FONT></div> <div> 42.  "David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins"  </div> <div> - Bill Moyers </div> <bR> <div> 43.  "We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." </div> <div> - Statement made before the United States Senate on Feb. 7, 1950 by James Paul Warburg  ("Angel" to and active in the United World Federalists), son of Paul Moritz Warburg, nephew of Felix Warburg and of Jacob Schiff, both of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. which poured millions into the Russian Revolution through James' brother Max, banker to the German government </div> <bR> <div> 44.  "Gun registration is not enough"--"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal"</div> <div> - Attorney General Janet Reno--12-10-93--Associated Press</div> <bR> <div> 45.  "The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate  the four centers of power - Political, Monetary, Intellectual, and Ecclesiastical."</div> <div> - U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater from his 1964 book "No Apologies" </div> <div> 46.  "We operate here under directives which emulate (sic) from the White House ...The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States so that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union." </div> <div> - Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation, 1954</div> <div> 47.  "If instant world government, Charter review, and a greatly strengthened International Court do not provide the answers, what hope for progress is there? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems, but it comes down essentially to this: The hope for the foreseeable lies, not in building up a few ambitious central institutions of universal membership and general jurisdiction as was envisaged at the end of the last war, but rather in the much more decentralized, disorderly and pragmatic process of inventing or adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal with specific problems on a case-by-case basis ... In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." </div> <div> - Richard N. Gardner, in Foreign Affairs (April 1974)</div> <div>   </div> <div> 48.  "We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."</div> <div> - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs ) </div> <div> 49.  "The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship." </div> <div> - Former Congressman John Rarick 1971</div> <div>  </div> <div> 50.  "The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." </div> <div> - Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976</div> <bR> <div> 51. "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or *promulgated* [emphasis by original compiler], that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." </div> <div> - Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991</div> <div> 52.  "The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nationstates involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future." </div> <div> - U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies. </div> <div> 53.  "But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council." </div> <div> - Excerpt from A. M. Rosenthal, in The New York Times (January 1991</div> <bR> <div> 54.  "In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." </div> <div> - Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.</div> <div>  </div> <div> 55.  "A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities."  </div> <div> -<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Calibri" >Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General. </FONT></div> <div> 56.  "Our job is not to give people what they want but what we decide they ought to have."</div> <div> - Richard Salant, former president of CBS News. </div> <bR> <div> 57.  "The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. [...] [T]he capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."</div> <div> - Zbigniew Brzezinski Protegé of David Rockefeller, co-founder of  The  </div> <div> Trilateral Commission, and NSA to Jimmy Carter, from his 1971 book </div> <div> 'Between Two Ages'. (Brzezinski has been adviser to no less than five </div> <div> presidents) </div> <bR> <div> 58.  "If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realization that the New World Order, means we are all to be managed and not represented."</div> <div> - Tony Benn, British Labour Party member of Parliament</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>IV</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>SUGGESTED REMEDIES AGAINST POLITICAL / ECONOMIC PATHICS</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> 1.  "Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists."</div> <div> --Alex de Tocqueville</div> <bR> <div> 2.  1.  "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."</div> <div>      2.  " I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. "</div> <div> -- Abraham Lincoln, 1861</div> <bR> <div> 3.  "As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl"</div> <div> - author unknown</div> <div> 4.  1.  "There are in the world two powers -- the sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword." </div> <div>      2.  "Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit." </div> <div>      3.  "Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded great empires. But upon what did the creation of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded his empire upon love, and to this very day millions would die for him."</div> <div> - Napoleon</div> <div> 5.  "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of ... [Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."</div> <div> - Thomas Jefferson </div> <bR> <div> 6.  i.  "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. "</div> <div>      ii.  "Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. "</div> <div>      iii.  "One may well ask: How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."</div> <div>      iv.  "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. "</div> <div>     v.  "Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."</div> <div> - Martin Luther King, Jr.</div> <bR> <div> 7  "When small steps are taken by large numbers of people momentous things can happen."</div> <div> - Vandana Shiva, environmental activist</div> <bR> <div> 8.  "Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and "stuff". That acting out of passion and conviction "doesn't make a difference". But all history shows that it does."</div> <div> - Bernadine Dorn, Irish democracy activist</div> <bR> <div> 9.  "The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machine - and the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machine - the servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal."</div> <div> - William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion, 1969</div> <bR> <div> 10  "If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World."</div> <div> -  John Pilger, author</div> <bR> <div> 11.  "The time is past when good men can remain silent, when obedience can segregate men from public risk, when the poor can die without defense."</div> <div> - Catholic priest and human rights activist Daniel Berrigan</div> <bR> <div> 12  "True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress? I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization. "</div> <div> - Chief Luther Standing Bear, in his 1933 autobiography</div> <bR> <div> 13. 1.   "Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people."</div> <div>        2.   "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."</div> <div> - Eleanor Roosevelt (from her 1992 biography by Blance Wiesen Cook)</div> <bR> <div> 14.  "We may not be strong enough to stop wars when the powers that be want them, but at least we are wise and humane enough to take political and moral stands as publicly as possible. This is, after all, the foundation we must build from."</div> <div> - Leslie Cagan, anti-war activist</div> <bR> <div> 15.  "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."</div> <div> - Margaret Mead. anthropologist</div> <bR> <div> 16.  "Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault."</div> <div> - Jonathan Kozol, educator and author</div> <bR> <div> 17.  "An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate."</div> <div> - David Korten</div> <bR> <div> 18.  "Freedom of the Press belongs to the man who owns one"</div> <div> - A.J. Liebling</div> <bR> <div> 19.  "Society exists to serve the social needs of people, not the productivity needs of capital. Those two needs are in basic conflict - a conflict of class interest."</div> <div> - David Bacon, Z magazine January 2000</div> <bR> <div> 20.  "In my opinion we owe the present state of mankind to two mental disorders: the megalomania of technology and the megalomania of nationalism. It is they that have given the present-day world its face and its view of itself; they have given us two world wars and their aftermaths and before their frenzy is spent they will have other, similar consequences. Resistance to these two world diseases is today the most important task and justification of the human spirit. In this resistance my own life has played a part, a ripple in the stream. </div> <bR> <div>  21.  "It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."</div> <div> - Aung San Suu Kyi</div> <bR> <div> 22.  "If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."</div> <div> - Howard Zinn, historian and author</div> <bR> <div> 23.  "I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be the ones who will help the poor overthrow the rich, who will talk about land reform and education and health facilities for everyone, and that when the Red Cross or Amnesty International comes to count the bodies and take the testimony of women raped, that our side won't be the heavies."</div> <div> - Richard Cohen, columnist</div> <bR> <div> 24.  "Humans are complex creatures. We have a demonstrated capacity for hatred, violence, competition, and greed. We have as well a demonstrated capacity for love, tenderness, cooperation, and compassion. Healthy societies nurture the latter and in so doing create an abundance of those things that are most important to the quality of our living. Dysfunctional societies nurture the former and in so doing create scarcity and deprivation. A healthy society makes it easy to live in balance with the environment, whereas a dysfunctional society makes it nearly impossible. Whether we organize our societies for social and environmental health or for dysfunction is a choice that is ours to make."</div> <div> - David Korten, economist and internationalist</div> <bR> <div> 25.  "The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic."</div> <div>  - John Dewey, American philosopher and educator, 1859-1952</div> <bR> <div> 26.  "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.... There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."</div> <div> - William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice from 1939-1975</div> <bR> <div> 27.  " Resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. "</div> <bR> <div> 28.  "Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass."</div> <div> - Emma Goldman, American anarchist and feminist, 1869-1940</div> <bR> <div> 29.  "I find it incomprehensible why a country as rich as the U.S. can allow a whole generation of young people in the inner city to slide into despair in such a degree that they go out in the streets and burn down and loot their own neighborhoods."</div> <div> - Helmut Voss, German correspondent, commenting on the Los Angeles race riots in 1965 and 1992</div> <bR> <div> 30.  1.  "This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security."</div> <div>        2.  "It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. "</div> <div> - Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine</div> <bR> <div> 31.  "...[ T]he most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, ... the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power."</div> <div> - Howard Zinn in The Progressive magazine, January 2000, p20</div> <bR> <div> 32.  "The nation-state is not going to disappear anytime soon for the good reason that citizens need some way to assert control over multinational corporations and capital.</div> <div> - William Greider, One World Ready or Not</div> <bR> <div> 33.  "One result of U.S. political and economic leadership at the end of the millennium is a society of superfluous consumption that is reaching levels that seem not only immoral but absurd as well."</div> <div> - Lorenzo Meyer, journalist, Reforma (Mexico City), Aug 5, 1999</div> <bR> <div> 34.  "American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force - without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It's harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other."</div> <div> - Philip Agee, CIA Diary</div> <div> 35.  "Although the privileged of this world can accept the existence of poverty on a massive scale and not be overawed by it, problems begin when the causes of this poverty are pointed out to them. Once causes are determined, then there is talk of 'social injustice,' and the privileged begin to resist. This is especially true when to structural analysis there is added a concrete historical perspective in which personal responsibilities come to light. But it is the consientization and resultant organization of poor sectors that rouse the greatest fears and the strongest resistance."</div> <div> - Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation</div> <bR> <div> 36.  " Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."</div> <div> - Arthur Miller, playwright</div> <bR> <div> 37.  "Every human being is a unique individual. Any attempt to replace the personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism." </div> <div> - Hermann Hesse, Author </div> <bR> <div> 38.  "In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."</div> <div> - Albert Camus, French writer and thinker</div> <bR> <div> 39.  "Progress is measured in part by the courageous people who put their careers and often their lives at risk by challenging the parameters of what is acceptable in society, even though these parameters may be damaging to the quality of life. Heroes are created from ordinary people who are willing to take risks to their personal security and safety for the benefit of the larger community."</div> <div> - author unknown</div> <bR> <div> 40.  "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. 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