This is an addendum to my recent full-length article on American Warlordism and Neo-Feudalism {See also: Le Chevalier & Peace-Keepers for more historical context}…
Recently, whiling away the hours at my shop, I spotted a classified ad in the Baltimore City paper which caught my eye:
BODYGUARDS - COUNTER ASSAULT TEAMS Needed/USA and overseas. $119 - $220K/year. Bodyguards $250 - $750 a day. 18 or older. 1-615-885-8960 x942 www.InternationalExecutives.net (AAN CAN)
InternationExecutives.net seems to be a training program for security & protection professionals, and links to several other affiliated websites: www.counterassaultusa.net,www.federalrangers.com , and http://www.myspace.com/bodyguardtrainingusa. It also features this classy animated GIF of an IED/car-bomb (no, not the delicious delicious drink!):
We are a company that is dedicated to helping you achieve a career in a professional position as a close protection specialist and special opps overseas agent. We feel this program is fit for goal orientated people who strive to move further in a career.
Good Luck!!
The occupation of a Close Protection Agent (Bodyguard) is an extremely varied one. It is sometimes exciting, sometimes boring, and upon occasion can be deadly. It is most definitely challenging all the time. Whether you are arranging for Lear jets in the Brazil, working a yacht in the Caribbean, or guarding a ranch in Columbia you can be assured of interesting work at a very attractive pay scale.
“Guarding a ranch in Columbia” (unless they mean the suburb in Maryland by the same name) sounds like a euphemism for being a hired gun for South American druglords - although you certainly don’t have to go that far afield to do that kind of work, I’m sure.
Snarky comments aside though, it is most certainly an interesting business. Especially in light of recent events in Mumbai, in which ten “commandos” - likely British trained - carried out a coordinated series of terrorist attacks.
What I’m wondering is where exactly is the overlap between what a “counter-assault” professional does, what a mercenary does, and what a terrorist does? It seems to me like maybe the only real difference is a matter of where the paycheck comes from… But maybe that’s just me being naive in the face of complex world affairs of which I know precious little about.
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Yea,
I’ve often wondered about the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist myself.
One kills the innocent and calls it collateral damage to cover their apparent guilt, the other kills the innocent without guilt.
I guess it just depends on what side of the fence you are on at the time.
That strikes me as a strange thing for you to say. What is that which you are fully qualified to comment on? Has it stopped you before?
Are you worried these guys are gonna hunt you down if you dis them?
Anyway, I think there is some kind of logical fallacy here at work that equates police and military with the dominant warlords. A genetic fallacy maybe. I have fallen into this trap as well.
Basically what I am trying to say is that if police and miltary in a free democratic society evolved from warlords that doesn’t mean that IS what they are.
No more than we ARE knuckle walking apes. You see what I am saying? Its like human societies have to be composed of something, probably it all hearkens back to tribal societies, but once they become something else, than that is what they ARE NOW.
Rich people walling themselves off into private enclves and hiring private security, is a step down from what we have had here in Amereica. Its a devolution.
From a certian cynical perspective its been like that all along, but really there is much that has been positive in the history of the United States. “To Protect and serve” is really the truth if enough people believe it, especially if enough police believe it.
Why do you always flip out when I make a coy tongue-in-cheek statement, Ted? Freakin relax dude!
What the hell does this mean? I know you just sit around sifting through my verbiage for something to criticize!
No, I don’t. I’m not going to be one of these people that constantly compliments you though, (for example the types that will probably soon be tempted co-sign your frustrated comments to me here)
Reality as we know it is composed of the tensions between various polarities. So, I hardly ever find it interesting to agree with you, even if I do. Nothing creative will come of it.
My intention is to occasionally create a dialectic. But if you think I am simply a pest than obviously there is a miscommunication.
As you know I am interested in this topic and think you are on track for the most part. It is kind of funny though that I struck a nerve. Because you are worried about speaking out against these types and it does annoy me.
I guess why I read your blog is that its good to get confirmation of ideas that are “outside the mythos.”
But anyway, I am very direct and honest and don’t have a hidden agenda. So here is what I really think of you:
I think you have no problem with creativity. I think you have an excess of original creative ideas, you would do well to do some more pruning and shaping of them and work towards a more tangible goal with it. Like for example you are into communication now, previously you have been into other things like altternative currency. You just kind of get all excited about it and compile and compile and compile stuff and then move on to something else and al your research just sits there in your archives.
You need to be in some type of Mastermind group. Anyway, I am really interested in discovering a Primal human language and would like to compare notes. But I fear by the time I write it all down and send it to you, you will have moved onto something else.
And this is supposed to be bad?
I don’t know what its supposed to be. Is the goal for some one else to come along and use it for something?
I look at it like this: A primal language and a Universal language would have symetry. You could look at it chronologically. The primal language was used by the first humans maybe in the first village, the universal language would be for the global village.
I think the massive diversity of language in the middle period is pretty much impossible to compile. Do you want to compile an exhaustive list of all communication? You would never complete it. It would be ongoing.
So, personally, I go for trying to reveal latent structures. Repeating patterns. Design.
So here are a couple questions:
What would be the purpose of a Universal global language? To communicate what?
“Have a coke and a smile?”
Also what if there was already a universal language ? As in literally, the UNIVERSE, the whole thing. A language that civilizations on the other sde of the Universe would use to communicate with us.
I think this has been going on. Its the biggest occult story of the 20th and 21st century and you seem to have overlooked it. Its a language based on gemoetry.
Ted, STFU! You don’t know how to communicate even with regular language, nevermind a universal language!
The ironic thing is I know quite a bit more than you think.
At some point I became just a pain in the ass to you. But I don’t think that was always the case. You obviously all the miscommunication is not on my end.
That’s funny, because you’re not showing it in your words or actions.
Well, that’s OK.
Its just a weird unpleasant dynamic that has formed here. Sorry. I piss you off now, so you won’t listen. Its not the amount of info that is important its which info should be given the most weight.
But anyway, Its not good to share serious wisdom in a hostile exchange. I know that sounds even more dickish but I do acknowledge its my fault you think I am just a pest.
So anyway, sorry for becoming a pest by posting on your blog too much it can happen.
Ted
No, you’re not being a pest by posting on my blog too much. You’re being a pest by acting like a dick and saying childish mean things to attack me and then when I call you on it you say that you’re “just trying to form a dialogue” and other similar bullshit. And you’re not getting away with it this time. Your speech and your communications are poisoned, full of bile and bitterness which spills over even when you don’t mean it, or aren’t aware of it. I’ve given you more than enough leeway in the past, have talked with you about it at a meta level so many times that I just don’t give a shit anymore. You’re a lost cause. Do and say whatever the fuck you want, but don’t expect me to listen, respond or give a shit. And I fully 100% put all the responsibility and blame for this on you.
Yeah, you are right.
Bitterness
Thanks for the wake up call. I have been working on it though. But yeah, you are right.
Ted
Ted, the article you posted really struck me. It’s a very close match to the situation between me and my brother. His mother mistreated him and he blames everyone he meets. Not that he had it easy, but you really can’t get close to him until you hear out and agree with his victim mythology.
Tim is your friend and the good thing is that it doesn’t come with strings attached. It’s not dependent on demographics, work, kids, just common interests. I like you too. But….
Friendship isn’t about making other people listen. And, listening and obeying are two different things.
I guess I’m one of the complementing, cosigners of complaints mentioned above so let me explain. I actually tend to agree with you quite a bit but you make it difficult. There’s a time and a place for everything.
My best friend is appallingly stupid about politics and world affairs but has raised her children to be good people. I don’t make our friendship about anything else but our friendship and the things we do have in common.
I think a borderline survivalist lifestyle (you) and a borderline hippie lifestyle (Tim) are both goofy choices. But, neither of you is waving a sign and asking to be proven wrong in your choices in life and my life is richer for having heard out the both of you. Really!
As this blog has changed over the years it seems to me that what constitutes an relevant/appropriate comment has changed. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it’s just change. Why not compliment someone who has made an effort?
I forgot to mention this…
We all have issues but if this is one of yours keep up the work. It’s not just that you end up alone. The real problem it that it eventually turns you into a liar. You’re far from being even halfway there yet so don’t take that personally.
My brother has to lie to everyone he meets about his life. His daughters barely speak to him because… His first marriage fell apart because… After a few years whatever the current lie is becomes reality for him. Then…disaster strikes. It’s not that his lies are discovered, its that the situation changes with time. All of the relationships he’s built on the lies start to come apart. He has to count years of his life as nothing. The good of those years goes out with the bad again and again. I guess there’s no other way to do that.
Now, he’s empty inside AGAIN and all of the good efforts he’s put into himself are gone. That’s not what he intended but that’s what happens. It’s very dangerous to a person, much more so than being alone. It leaves you open to any old thing that comes along. That’s why the aloneness is easy and not sad. You’re under less threat from others. You can be yourself alone but being with others in that state you may be transformed by them and you may not be entirely yourself afterwards. It’s emotions and you can’t defeat a raging ocean.
If something like this ever happens to you be very careful of enjoying the emptyness. It’s energizing and can seem like strengnth. Newness always feels good but if you’re not careful it can turn into a vicious cycle of making and breaking relationships. It can be addictive and like every addiction the addict is the one who gets broken. It’s a spiritual brokeness and I’m not sure it can be fixed, just patched. I believe in miracles but I haven’t seen one of these healed yet.
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