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To: Space Patrol Hoppa; Kartographer
Great information from one who has lived it, and with no illusions. I've purchased Fernando's book, and it is well writeen despite his claimed challenges with English - there's a keen intelligence at work there.

Consider this quote: “It’s the collapsed country, a country that turns into 3rd world country like in pyramid five where there is almost no middle class to speak, one huge low, poor class , and a very small, very rich, top class.”

What that describes is the essence of an Asiaitic despotism: 5%-10% of al elite are propped up and supported by the rest in a form of slavery/serfdom. This is pretty much the way that most of the world operated for a very long time. Here's how Carroll Quigley describes it in an excerpt from his landmark Tragedy and Hope

We have already indicated the nature of Arabic despotism in connection with traditional China, the old Ottoman Empire, and czarist Russia. It goes back to the archaic Bronze Age empires, which first appeared in Mesopotamia, Egypt, The Indus Valley and northern China before 1000 BC. Basically, such an Asiatic despotism is a two-class society in which a lower class, consisting of at least nine-tenths of the population supports an upper, ruling-class consisting of several interlocking groups. These ruling groups are a governing bureaucracy of scribes and priests associated with army leaders, landlords and moneylenders. Such an upper class accumulated great quantities of wealth as taxes, rent, and interest on loans, fees for services or simply financial extortions. The social consequences were either progressive or reactionary, depending on whether this accumulated wealth in the possession of the ruling class was invested in more productive utilization of resources or was simply hoarded and wasted. The essential character of such an Asian despotism rests on the fact that the ruling class has legal claims on the working masses, and possesses the power (from its control of arms and the political structure) to enforce those claims. A modified Asiatic despotism is one aspect of the social structures all along the Pakistani-Peruvian axis.
If you think about it, this is the goal of those behind 0bama - a modified Asiatic/Arabic despotism with most of the world dead and the rest in chains.

There is no limit to what I would to prevent that from happening to me, my family and my country.

15 posted on 11/17/2011 4:20:58 PM PST by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: Noumenon; blam

blam, you are going to want to read this.


18 posted on 11/17/2011 5:31:21 PM PST by patton ("Je pense donc je suis," - My Horse.)
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