

                               BADD And WERSE

                              A Modern Parable

   Years ago, BADD and WERSE, two intelligent friends without spiritual
   development, had nothing constructive to offer mankind so they spent
   their time dreaming up, conspiring, massaging and organizing ways to
   control their fellow man, making him a virtual slave without his
   conscious knowledge.

   Their goal was to create an environment where they exercised total
   control over his creativity, productivity, finances, relationships,
   travels, thoughts, health and liberties. To accomplish this required
   hours of discussion and carefully thought out and slowly implemented
   plans, plus a great deal of creativity and the time to bring it all
   together. They knew that in order to fool everyone they had to
   convince them that things were wrong, and then provide solutions for
   the problems.

   BADD and WERSE had a major hurdle however. They wanted control of the
   most productive and free country ever known, America, and they had to
   somehow get around a well thought out Constitution controlling
   America's government.

   The upside of these two was the fact that Americans were good honest
   people, believing that everyone else was the same. Granted, a fine
   quality, but it left them vulnerable. Since the vast majority of
   Americans are busy trying to survive, be happy, productive and "free"
   they probably won't believe that the following conversations ever took
   place, so I'll leave it up to you: Is this fact or fiction?

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   BADD: Well, WERSE my friend, we have a major task, where should we
   start?

   WERSE: As I see it we must get control of their money, food and
   health. While we're doing that we have to lower their education level
   and stifle their ability to apply common sense or reality to what's
   going on around them.

   BADD: Let's start with money. First we get control of the money away
   from government by creating an entity to take that burden off of
   Congress. We can convince them that by letting us manage this task
   privately, they can personally become rich and the sleeping American
   public won't know what happened. We can make our system an
   interest-bearing debt system, take control of the gold, and ultimately
   the country will go bankrupt trying to pay whenever we want. They'll
   give it to us for the cost of ink and paper and then we'll loan it
   back to them with interest so they can run their country.

   WERSE: Do you really think that Congress and especially the American
   people are really naive enough to fall for this?

   BADD: Sure, they believed the Civil War was about slavery, they'll
   believe this. Let's give our new brainchild a catchy name. How about
   the Federal Reserve System? The American folks will believe it's part
   of their government since it's Federal. They'll rest comfortably
   knowing the country has a Reserve and they'll think the System is
   theirs for monetary control, not ours for people control.

   WERSE: Sounds pretty far-fetched to me, but go on. How can we get the
   Ameri-can people to think they're responsible for this debt?

   BADD: About the time America declares bankruptcy, which I estimate to
   be in the 1930s, and puts itself in our hands as receivers, we will
   create two taxes and sell them as necessities for management of their
   beloved America. First, believe it or not, a tax on their labors where
   everything they do to create, live, and better themselves will be
   taxed, and we can make it graduated so that the harder they work and
   the more they produce, the higher the tax. We can get away with this
   by teaching them that all men are created equal means that all men end
   up with the same amount of money, regardless of how hard he works.

   Secondly, another tax disguised as a fund set up to support them in
   their old age. We can stick both of these taxes to them because they
   love their country and they'll believe that the tax on their labor
   will support their great and free nation. They'll also believe that a
   trust fund for their retirement years will benefit everyone. Let's
   name the first income tax and the second, Social Security. We can
   issue everyone a social-surveillance number to tie them to these two
   taxes.

   WERSE: Income tax will probably be OK, all we have to do is get a few
   attorneys to write six- or seven thousand pages of statutes so
   convoluted, contradictory and full of vague misrepresentations that
   the mere thought of comprehension will send people to our trained
   experts to help them comply.

   BADD: Right, and we can fool honest accountants into becoming
   certified by us and instead of keeping records for their clients,
   they'll keep records about their clients that we can use against them
   and then, listen carefully, their clients will pay them for it. And as
   long as we give the illusion that we're helping them prepare for later
   years, they won't bother to do the arithmetic associated with
   investing 10 or 15 percent of their wages during their lifetime.

   WERSE: Sounds good, but since these people are sovereign citizens and
   their government has no power to lay such taxes, how can we fool them
   and make this happen?

   BADD: We have to assign them numbers and papers that will create the
   illusion that they are sovereign and feel that they owe it to their
   country to support our system. Let's start at birth, we can issue them
   a certificate that proves they were born.

   WERSE: Hold on, do you really believe that someone holding a brand new
   baby will believe they have to get a piece of paper to prove the
   event?

   BADD: They have bought into everything else so far, let's give it a
   try. Now the beauty of this thing is that when a baby is born we have
   the opportunity to create a brand new corporate entity on paper. We do
   this by capitalizing all the letters on this document the same as the
   baby's name. When John is born we create a certificate for JOHN, and
   as long as we can deceive John into believing he is JOHN he will make
   himself responsible for all the statutes we can think of for JOHN.
   John will get a social surveillance number for JOHN. John will get a
   driver's license for JOHN and a business license and any other thing
   we can dream up to get John's wealth. In fact, John will even appear
   and plead for JOHN to our newly created victimless crime statutes
   en-forced in our Admiralty courts and we can put John in jail if JOHN
   gets out of line, another benefit for us for having bankrupted
   America. All we have to do is make sure that John converts all of his
   God-given rights to JOHN'S government-given privileges and pays a fee,
   and also, sovereign citizen John must never realize that he is not the
   slave JOHN.

   WERSE: It will take quite a while for John to wake up to JOHN, which
   gives us plenty of time to get control of the major media and convince
   people that what we tell them is truth. And even though there will be
   a few Johns that wake up and try to expose their JOHNS we can simply
   make up some new ad words to label him with. Besides, if John tries to
   tell the truth about JOHN it will be so unbelievable that people will
   think he's nuts anyway. Regardless, let's pick a few good words and
   have our media turn them bad. I would suggest patriot, sovereign
   citizen, anti-government, extremist, supremist, separatist, right-wing
   conservative, racist, militia and let's be sure we fully destroy John
   by passing a few laws that would make him a terrorist, because after
   all if he were to reveal JOHN to the masses we would be exposed to
   terror.

   BADD: That media control thing is great, we can use it not only to
   cover up the truth but to sell new lies as we think them up. As time
   goes on, I believe we will be able to get a-way even with murder in
   all forms, we can shoot innocent families, bomb buildings, crash
   airplanes, maybe even burn a church if they don't agree with us, and
   then use the media to blame it on the victims and John, who found out
   he wasn't JOHN.

   WERSE: This is all fine, but we have to create many more ways to
   subdue the consciousness, empty the pockets, and maintain control of
   these Americans while at the same time making them believe they are
   free.

   BADD: We'll alter one thing at a time, by identifying what is now
   prosperous to Americans and turn them to our favor. Here's a simple
   one, seeds. A farmer now saves part of his harvest for seeds to start
   next year's crop. Suppose we alter the seeds so they they won't
   reproduce themselves. We could call them hybrid seeds and farmers
   would then have to buy new seeds every year from a corporation that we
   will form and BINGO! We have a new industry plus whenever we feel like
   it we could shut off the seed supply and food production. Another
   little bonus would be that the food produced from these hybrid seeds
   won't be as nutritious and people will experience more illness, making
   our medical corporations more profitable.

   WERSE: Speaking of farmers, they're making a profit right now growing
   hemp and inexpensively producing paper, cloth and fuel oil from just
   this one crop. Suppose we use our media to associate hemp with its
   sister plant marijuana, declare marijuana a horrible, addictive,
   society-corrupting drug, outlaw it, and hemp farming too. This will
   open an opportunity to create new industries our way, make America
   dependent on petroleum products, give us a control of energy, and
   create synthetic fabrics at a higher cost. Later on we can introduce
   more addictive drugs to America, creating a new problem, and then
   offer the solution of a war on these drugs, fought by new agencies we
   will create. Over time, Americans will forget that hemp grows like a
   weed and offers an endless non-polluting supply of inexpensive
   products.

   BADD: Let's work on medicine and doctors. We know that the body will
   heal itself if properly nourished, so let's teach Amer-icans to eat
   lots of junk to clog their arteries and eliminate essential elements
   the body needs to maintain itself. As we progress we can introduce all
   kinds of toxins into their food and water. We can get dentists to back
   us up when we poison their water with fluoride, and since there's no
   money in safe water treatments, we'll lace it with chlorine from our
   chemical companies. We can put all kinds of stuff in their food and
   call them preservatives. After they drink our water and eat our food
   for a few years, they'll be sufficiently full of our poison to cause
   all kinds of diseases that the body can't cope with, then we turn them
   over to doctors that have been taught in our controlled medical
   schools to treat the symptoms with our overpriced manufactured drugs
   rather than treating the disease itself with inexpensive alternatives
   allowing the body to heal.

   For instance, after some guy clogs his arteries with fat and has a
   heart attack, we will immediately sell him a bypass surgery, replacing
   several inches of arteries around his heart which we can rip from his
   own leg, fill him full of prescription drugs for the rest of his life
   (if any) and make him and his family responsible for payment of at
   least $60,000. We will only get in trouble if this guy thinks and asks
   questions; such as are there any alternatives? Then he learns that
   chelation therapy and a healthy diet will clean out all of the many
   miles of veins, capillaries and arteries in his body including the few
   inches the doctors wanted to re-place, he keeps the artery in his leg
   where it obviously belongs, and he does all of this for about $6,000.
   We can easily fight this scenario by having our controlled media deny
   that any alternatives exist and when a doctor does discover the truth
   we'll label him a quack and severely punish him financially, mentally
   and even physically. After all, if any of this gets out we would lose
   our gigantic money-making research foundations, societies and our
   hospitals and pharmaceutical companies would suffer. We can use many
   diseases in this manner to keep the healthy people donating out of
   fear, while the ill suffer and pay for treatments waiting for a cure
   that will never come. This will work for cancer, Alzheimer's and any
   other horrors out there that could have easily been prevented in the
   first place. We can even go a little further and manufacture some new
   diseases to replace these when people catch on.

   WERSE: Wow, this is getting pretty involved and I see us losing
   control unless we can instill a constant fear in these people to keep
   them in line. First let's make them responsible for knowing all the
   laws and then have all government entities from the federal to local
   level constantly make new laws on anything and everything. The result
   will be a mind boggling array of laws, ordinances, statutes and
   resolutions that they can't possibly understand let alone comply with.
   With these in place we can always find some sort of violation for
   those who get out of line and lock them up. I guarantee they will try
   to comply since they live with the fear that they can easily be put in
   jail. Another thing we can do is keep a large supply of mind-altering
   illegal drugs on the street for several reasons, first of all we make
   big bucks from the sales and it will create more crime by those
   addicted, making people fearful and we can use this problem to pass
   even more laws against their liberties.

   I have a vision of us being able to search their homes without
   warrants and take their personal property without charging them with a
   crime. Also, let's set up systems where their own neighbors can report
   on them and get paid for it regardless of whe-ther a crime exists or
   not. All of this should keep them nervous and on their toes. The
   stress generated from all this attempted compliance on their part will
   also benefit our medical industry. They must never realize that
   knowledge equals freedom.

   BADD: Another element necessary to what you just said is to change the
   role of America's police. Right now they're peace officers respected
   by the public, and as long as they are peace officers, America will be
   peaceful so let's change them into law enforcement officers and make
   their jobs such that the public will fear them. Coupled with the
   volumes of laws that we create, this respected profession will quickly
   change to that of a revenue producer and we can keep them busy
   enforcing whatever we hand down. We must nurture this friction between
   the public and the police in order to keep them fearful of each other.
   We will also create police agencies at all levels of federal state and
   local governments, and overwhelm the public with the knowledge that
   damn near anyone with a government job will put them in jail and/or
   take their property. Now we're getting somewhere, they not only fear
   criminals, we also have them fearing their government, our tax man,
   their police and their neighbors.

   WERSE: You know that we also have to take the control of their
   children away from them in order to insure each new generation is a
   little more ignorant than the one before. We can form a federal
   education bureaucracy and then offer each state money to comply with
   our programs. If we structure it right, we can extract huge amounts of
   money from the people in the states with an impressive array of
   programs and taxes, then give them back a small portion of their own
   money for their education systems. They will not only comply with our
   directives, they will also thank us for fleecing them. We are now in a
   position to dictate curriculum and behavior. For now, let's call our
   new program Ghouls 2000, we can always give it a more subtle name
   later. We must eliminate any reference to the intent of America's
   founding fathers, we can alter most events and call it revisionist
   history, never teach the Constitution and make it acceptable for the
   teachers to dwell on trivialities but never utter the words
   unalienable rights.

   We must teach the students that it is fine to not be able to read as
   long as they tried, and continue to exhibit prescribed group
   participation skills. They must never be given a clue about the
   existence of individuality or self-generated thoughts. We should also
   keep a government file on the child's progress, but never allow the
   parents to see it. This task will be easier for us as time goes on and
   both parents have to work in order to survive after paying all of our
   taxes and fees. Most will be too tired and without the time to realize
   what we are doing to their kids. We should also give the children the
   right to sue their parents and teacher so that discipline will not be
   an option at home or in school. We must pass laws against parents
   educating their own children, or we could lost this battle.

   BADD: While we are at it we better find a way to control what is
   taught in churches. If pastors, reverends, preachers and the like
   relate teachings in the Bible to our structured political control and
   money system, the people might wake up and realize what is happening
   to them. I would suggest that religion become disciplined and
   organized in a way acceptable to us. We can offer them a tax-exempt
   status in return for their adherence to our teaching guidelines,
   whereby congregations will be taught that the Bible is merely an
   entertaining story book. Any church that doesn't cooperate will be
   labeled as a cult by our controlled media and we will have our law
   enforcement officers work overtime to publicly reprimand and punish
   those who get out of line.

   WERSE: Let's be sure we take charge of John's responsibilities and
   relieve him of his pride and dignity. We can start by creating many
   different welfare and handout programs, make it appealing and easy for
   him to become dependent on us, and make him believe that we are doing
   him a favor as he relinquishes everything he has before realizing that
   it's almost impossible to escape our hold. It will help maintain his
   servitude to us since he knows we will always be there to help. We can
   rely on the emotional side of Americans to help share the upkeep for
   John, whether or not he's capable of taking care of himself.

   But I think we're getting ahead of ourselves, if we hope to pull this
   off we'll need some morally deficient people in public offices. My
   thought would be to only allow JOHN to register to vote and let John
   cast his ballot after being exposed to a barrage of our national
   polls, telling him who we think is best and making him be-lieve that
   he's voting for the right person along with the majority. We must also
   control the tally by not allowing any votes to be counted at precinct
   level, and while we're at it let's get ride of those telltale paper
   ballots. I don't think John will realize anything is wrong even though
   he'll have a hard time finding anyone who participated in our polls or
   voted for our winner. Besides that, all those who do wake up and the
   Johns who found out they aren't JOHNS won't vote anyway. We can put in
   who we want, when we want, where we want, and then everyone will think
   that their neighbors did it. Just for a real test of this scam, in the
   1990s let's find the most morally defunct dirt-bag candidate we can
   and see if he becomes president.

   BADD: Next big problem, guns! These Americans are armed and because of
   that America is very peaceful. We must change this, but very carefully
   because if too many Johns realize they have been duped they'll be a
   little bit upset. King George found out the hard way what happens when
   you anger a bunch of armed Freedom Lovers. Let's start by keeping our
   law enforcement officers busy collecting revenue from victimless
   crimes by JOHN while at the same time sensationalizing violent crimes
   with guns where innocent people are hurt, particularly children. We'll
   keep poking at John's emotions by telling him that his children are in
   jeopardy of being killed by a gun. We can distort and even make up all
   kinds of statistics to reinforce our position. We'll also popularize
   the notion that what their Second Amendment says isn't what it means.

   WERSE:Stop; you're way off on this one. We all know that guns don't
   kill people, people kill people. Do you expect to confiscate knives
   and rocks too? All the scholars I've checked with agree that the right
   of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed is in fact
   a complete sentence, and since it wasn't written by a bunch of
   lawyers, it only has one meaning.

   BADD: Knock off the logic crap! By the time we show up for their guns,
   they'll be so busy just trying to survive and so full of our media's
   anti-crime, anti-terrorist, anti-gun dribble that most of them will
   give up their weapons. Those who don't will get rounded up and put in
   detention centers that we'll have ready by then anyway. When the time
   comes, we'll have brainwashed our police and military into doing the
   dirty work and we can always supplement them with foreign troops.

   WERSE: This concerns me, BADD. After we pick up all the guns, these
   people are going to realize that they're defenseless and become very
   angry at us.

   BADD: What's your point, WERSE?

   WERSE: Yeah, you're right, duh!

   BADD: We had better concentrate on ways to keep these Americans from
   waking up while all of our plans are being put into action, because if
   they do they'll join together.

   WERSE: We'll simply keep them stirred up and at odds with each other
   by constantly bringing up argumentative situations and events that
   they can't possibly agree on, and some they won't even understand. We
   can toss around abortion, animal rights, gay rights, gun control,
   employee rights, women's rights, welfare rights, religious rights,
   criminal rights, drugs, the list is endless. That will drive a wedge
   between various groups. The bottom line is that with all the other
   stuff we've created the family unit will be weak, morality at an
   all-time low and spiritual growth will be replaced with organized
   religion. Hence, their intelligence level will be so foggy that they
   will waste their efforts fighting with each other instead of
   evaluating their position and noticing our evils.

   BADD: While we're at it, let's start separating the races in American
   by creating situations that will ignite hate, then turn around and
   condemn those who do hate and make them appear to be the majority of
   each race. We can easily make it appear to be a bad thing to be proud
   of race and culture, even though we know that's one of the things that
   made America strong. This can be a real hotbed of manufactured
   antagonism that will work daily to serve our purposes.

   WERSE: O.K., we've touched on many things and there's still more to go
   but we haven't decided how to handle a couple of major items that made
   America the great country it is. America has an abundance of natural
   resources, a free enterprise system beyond reproach, and a
   manufacturing and trade industry that is phenomenal.

   BADD: This too will be easy but it'll take some time. When all our
   regulations, laws, statutes and taxes are in place the small
   businessman will be squashed. Then we keep coming up with scary
   environmental issues to slow down whatever survivors there are. For
   example, I'll bet our spotted birdie will bring the timber industry to
   its knees. And finally, with our selected Congress and president,
   we'll make radical trade agreements with countries that have an
   abundance of slave labor to produce that which American workers are so
   proud of today. They won't know what hit them until it's all gone and
   millions of proud people are looking for work. We simply rob them,
   create a chaos and frustration that they'll vent towards each other.

   WERSE: American Spirit and Freedom be Damned.

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   Two or three generations after BADD and WERSE went to hell, we enter
   one of Amer-ica's fenced off human resource areas and find two more
   people secretly talking. Resource Unit No. 57, a female worker unit
   and Resource Unit No. 92, a male entertainment unit.

   UNIT 57: I know this isn't supposed to happen, but I've grown to trust
   you 92 and I have some distressing information that I must discuss. I
   know it's against the law to talk about these things and especially
   bad to display any morals, but I want you to promise to keep a secret
   until we can decide what to do.

   UNIT 92: You're acting very strange, but OK. I'll keep your secret.
   What have you done that is so awful?

   UNIT 57: This is really difficult to admit, but I've learned to read.

   UNIT 92: Oh no! How did it happen and does anyone else know?

   UNIT 57: You're the only one who knows. It all started when one of
   those dreadful patriot units from the 20th century managed to sneak in
   and deliver several boxes of information from someone he said was my
   grandfather, whatever that is, and suggested that I start looking this
   stuff over. There were some weird old books from a time when school
   was for everyone and they have taught me to read and realize what
   these people had before they screwed it up and what they could have
   done to keep it for us. By the way, did you know that an entertainment
   unit used to be a piece of furniture?

   UNIT 92: Very funny 57, to think you've gone off the deep end, look at
   what we have now. Our leader, Master 666, gives us a space to live in,
   food, medical treatments and all the TV we want. All we have to do is
   perform our assigned jobs.

   UNIT 57: Well 92, it just became obvious to me that you are a piece of
   furniture. Back in the 1900s people could read, they didn't. They had
   free speech, they kept quiet. They had unalienable rights, they gave
   them up. They could choose partners, they didn't cherish. They could
   have their own children, they didn't teach. They could travel freely,
   they traded for control. They could learn from ministry, they joined a
   controlled church. They had thousands of people warning them with the
   truth, they ignored them. They could vote, they didn't. They could be
   healthy, they went to Burger Wizard. They had a Constitution, they
   trashed it. They had wealth, they didn't protect it. They could change
   things, they waited for the other guy. They had guns, they laid them
   down. They had TV, they watched it.

   UNIT 92: Zzzzzzzzz!

   UNIT 57: Nothing's changed!

   THE END?

   I HOPE NOT!

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   A very special thanks goes out to all those freedom organizations,
   alternative newspapers, newsletters, authors, research-ers and true
   Americans who work daily to stop the misapplications of our
   Constitution, and defend our Unalienable Rights. I have learned much
   from these people and pray that every American will do the same. DO
   NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN BECOME HUMAN RESOURCES!
   May God Bless You and America
   Dennis

   Dennis Grover, of Reno, Nev., is author of Knowledge Equals Freedom,
   from which Chapter 1, A BADD and WERSE Plan? is excerpted here. The
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