Power & Money - 1/2

The game of politics has kept me entralled since I was 17 years old, when Robert Muldoon was presented as the miracle money-man - billed as the answer to New Zealand’s economic woes. Oh how cruel it was when his spin got unspun a year or so into his reign, and his marketing machine “let its slip show”.

Or how about the conscience votes in some political parties, when (blow me down) previously disparate opinions all seem to have “like minds” at the right time and vote the way she the General wants them to. It reminds me of another General - of the Rambukka variety - and the way he ran the show too - a conscience vote means that everyone knew what his conscience said and towed the party line!

They say that you can get cynical in your old age, but what else can you do when you see the way things really work. I’m not really old yet (I don’t think) but I sure am a lot more cynical than I used to be. After watching as many people lie, steal cheat and rip you off as often as I have, its really just getting a grip of reality. Power corrupts and money makes the world go round. That’s just the way it is.

I’ve always known that the American political system is corrupt and that their leaders are as crooked as. I don’t know where I got this from, but I’ve now see way more than enough to understand the depth of this corruption. Knowing for example that Bill and Hillary Clinton are highly positioned in the occult world, that both Bush presidents are deeply into the same Skull and Bones hocus-pocus, that the media, big business and all politics are tarred with the same brush of influence from the hidden rulers is just the beginning.

The classic whistleblower book Trance Formation of America by Cathy O’Brien helped me to stitch together the details in just one aspect of how power corrupts and how corrupt the people in high places have to be in order to survive in that environment. I found Trance Formation to be a gross and difficult book to read, yet important and mesmerising. It is definitely not common knowledge what sexual activities occurs behind closed doors at the top, although it should be required reading for all voters. Her later work Access Denied, also brought me a greater understanding of how people in power achieve control through fear, intimidation and bribery.

In New Zealand I started to see the signs of the influence of big business on politics, politicians and society in my late teens. I have watched as the media constantly play games with the truth to work with and for people with power. I’ve seen the other side of media stars, and senior politicians (sure - usually second hand, and sometimes third-hand, but usually from people I respect and trust).

One of my clients went through a horrendous experience with Kevin Milne of Fair Go infamy fame and was mortified that he got trashed all in the name of a good story. The fact that the story was a beat-up and proven to be so later, yet still no apology forthcoming is just “par for the course” really. It doesn’t endear me to the guy, but I know what happens when you get power, and we’re all sucsceptible to it.

Paul Holmes had a mild ego on the small screen that got him places, but I understand that off-screen it was even worse. Dear Helen, I have been reliably informed, has been involved in things that will never be made public. An indication of her interests and values can be seen by the company she has kept, the number and type of people appointed to high places under her watch, and the social legislation that has slipped into being under her watch are no accident. They were planned decades ago, and implemented to perfection, by her loyal troops.

If you’ve got the power, you don’t have to apologise and say you got it wrong - nobody can do anything about it, certainly on the face of it. If you’ve got the power, you will use it. That’s just the way it is.

It’s interesting though, that the guy who had ultimate power, didn’t abuse it. Jesus. The bible says that He had it and used it the right way:

When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. “
Matthew 28:17-18

Now a lot of the things He did, and more often than not didn’t do, just goes against the grain. It puzzled the Romans, the religious leaders and a lot of others in His day, but biblical wisdom is that using power and authority for self is a dumb way to live - leading ultimately to destruction.

Jesus taught us that by using the power and authority that we have for God’s purposes is a far more healthy way to live. That sounds mighty like the VICTUS IN AMBITUS way to me.