Alchemy of Political Repression

Repression can be defined as an act of using force in order to control someone or something. Enchanted by simplicity of this description many political “alchemists” hoped for gold- bearing mixture: coercion + thralldom= control. But did they found the elixir of eternal power, or just a false equation placing them a pseudo- philosophical – stone´s throw away from wrath of the “pawns”?

It is impossible to describe vast variety of strategies of political repression in few paragraphs; a short article can only give a hint of “Arcanum”.

Isolation can mean simply imprisonment, so judicial harassment and legal abuse become typical implements in a regime´s tool-box. In case of individuals, “solitary confinement” can be also imposed by intimidation of the target´s friends and employers. Stripped from emotional support and blacklisted for jobs, the maltreated dissident feels the impact of harassment and surveillance even harder.

 Groups considered “potentially reactive” are impoverished and marginalized in order to prevent them from taking part in political life and to suppress their freedom of expression. The rule of political repression is simple: Show me the vulnerable population, I will tell you who the pet-hates are. And by the way, in 2011, a survey https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-02-10-1Ahomelessvets10_ST_N.htm  determined that: “Military veterans are much more likely to be homeless than other Americans”. . .

While facing a kangaroo court, a “member” of the Leavenworth 10 http://www.l10freedomride.com/  Master Sergeant John E. Hatley observed: “What I do take issue with is being used as a pawn on a political chessboard or sacrificing my men or myself to provide assurances to a foreign country that we are at war with”. Mr.Hatley is still in prison.

While subjecting dissidents to discriminatory measures such as denial of opportunity or unfair treatment career-wise, the coercive manipulator prepares “favorable environment” for fiscal harassment. The victims are now “guilty of being impoverished”, gas-lighted and confused by false interpretation of arbitrary laws on tax exempt.

Fiscal harassment doesn´t happen only when tax-collectors are so hyperactive in your workplace that it cost you your job. The main difference between “collecting back payments” and harassment is the final objective: a solution allowing you to pay your debts versus permanent fiscal prison. The real goal is to condemn the opponent for perpetuity of debts through the interest rates and to permanently “reside” on his bank account denying him financial freedom.

A whistleblower could have his e-mails passed through the sieve of Sec Divert http://www.disabledveterans.org/2016/01/22/veterans-affairs-caught-spying-on-whistleblowers/ , or his computer mouse would be dragged by an invisible rat. Political repression is a weapon of cowards so threats made by “passers-by” have traditionally been “reserved” for women.

 When an individual is blacklisted for jobs, harassed by taxes, subjected to illegal surveillance and threatened by thugs – his country´s freedom is arrested by politicism.

If Ronald Reagan and John Paul the 2^nd are permanently viewed as emblematic figures in struggle for democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwQ3Z4dSxY  , it´s because they understood that “an individual is sacred, and if God himself respects human liberty so too must the state”.

Some “alchemists” still expect that President Trump does not get this message. Their “targets” hope that he does, and that he will responsibly rid the country of “attack dogs” which as he himself says: “have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible”.

Joanna Rosamond