Publisher’s Foreword
We Haven’t/We Aren’t
“A Republic if you can keep it.”
— Ben Franklin, when queried about our form of government, 1787.
The simple, straightforward fact is that we haven’t. Where it went and what happened are questions that snarl along the edges of our fettered complacency – while a profane oligarchy tugs us and our children along its turbulent path of economic efficiency, sacrificing quaint ideas of personal freedoms and liberties at the altar of “homeland” security, and “your papers, please.” Goodness, how did we get trapped in such a trite B-movie?
Daniel Estulin told some of the how and why in his best-selling book, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group. With Shadow Masters he shines a light on scurrilous activity happening behind the curtains, exposing the tactics being used to enthrall us, to divide us – to rule us.
It is sad, but true: the people no longer rule. Our republic of, by and for the people has morphed into a rampant empire run by corporate overseers using every means, some sinister, to increase their power, profit, and prestige .
Seeking to divorce us from our heritages, our institutions, our families and our faiths, sophisticated methods of propaganda and psychological warfare plus simple bald-faced lies have been deployed, ripping our social fabric into disparate factional futility. There is honesty within each camp which soon gets debased through rhetoric, creating cogs in the machinery of control – to be called up on cue.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
— Ben Franklin, 1755
As much as things change they stay the same. Here we are, in the formative years of the 21st century, almost 234 years since our country’s Declaration of Independence, and we are still fighting some of the same battles of liberty and freedom. Many of our fellow citizens do not seem to notice or care, unaware of our mutuality and the responsibilities that come entwined. As someone succinctly stated, “Perfect slaves think they are free.” Again, the simple, straightforward fact is negative, “we aren’t.” Our Republic has been subsumed by forces within and beyond, leaving a beholden mediocracy built upon misery, tragedy and poverty.
Daniel Estulin shows that the Shadow Masters, in their quest for total control, construct sleight-of-hand misdirections, attracting our attention here and there, while the underlying actions subvert nations, their people and their commonwealth. From crisis to crisis, from one “Hitler” to the next, we have all been strung along, led to choose sides, which then shape our roles in this “drama of history.”
The consolidation of the corporate press and its infiltration by intelligence agencies brings us a world where the frauds and fabrications of spooks become daily fare for us mere mortal fish-wrapper readers, leaving us susceptible to what they are selling.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
— Ben Franklin, 1757
They say knowledge is power; it is also said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Learning of the duplicity of the world, are we willing to step out of the comfortable cocoon of our reality when we find that the truth of the matter presents us with revelations beyond our ken and lays at our feet responsibilities we care not to fathom or shoulder? Lately, we have run away, diverted our eyes from what is done in our name. Tyrants and tyranny have always been with us. Will we stand up and do what needs doing, or succumb to the vulgarities of the age?
God helps them that help themselves.
— Ben Franklin, 1757
Shadow Masters shows us the tricks of the trade, how “they” will play the ends against the middle and back again. How the world stage is set to beguile our sensibilities, provoke the desired reaction and send us on our merry way. It isn’t whether you will be amazed, astonished, disgusted or whatever, but whether you will use these reactions to question authority, act in our own best interests and revitalize our Republic … and then see if we can keep it.
Onwards to the utmost of futures!
Peace,
Kris Millegan
Publisher
TrineDay
January 21, 2010