Empire: How to Dragon-Speak Like The Beast with Lamblike Horns. part 2.
- Mar 17, 2024
- 4 min read
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his - Gen. George S. Patton.
Chapter 1: The Military - Industrial Complex
John F Kennedy had just been elected president. In his farewell address to the nation in January 1961, president Dwight David Eisenhower presented his heartfelt warnings to the country against what he termed "the military-industrial complex". Ike, as he was known, had been an army man for many years. Well, that's an understatement. He was the supreme allied commander during the Second World War, meaning he commanded all the US, UK and Commonwealth forces in the gigantic effort to bring down Hitler's Nazi-German colossus. Over 15 million men and women under his command. If anybody knew what the M-I-C was, it surely was Ike. So what is it?
The M-I-C as the name suggests, is the unholy union between big industry and the military establishment where individuals from these two sectors unite to control and direct the foreign policies of the nation as a means of making profit out of war. Nothing best signals that a nation has emerged empire than the creation and solidification of an M-I-C and nothing best illustrates this for America than does the Norden Bombsight.
Norden Bombsight
Believe it or not, the most expensive weapon program during World War 2 was not the Atomic bomb. Oppenheimer's nuclear project was bested by the research and development for the most sophisticated aircraft the world had ever yet seen. The result was an aircraft that could fly 9,000 km and back, deliver 10 tones of bombs with almost pinpoint accuracy (we'll circle back on that) fully decked out with remote controlled machine guns for defensive action against enemy fighters. This piece of engineering was a marvel to see being the final product of a relatively new military dogma called Strategic Destruction.
Strategic destruction was the brain child of several influential officers in London and Washington often referred to as 'the Bomber Mafia'. Men who had witnessed the horror of static trench warfare in world war one and were convinced that only by the use of overwhelming air strike power against the industrial capabilities of an enemy could a war be swiftly and completely brought to an end. It was this pursuit for the perfect bomber that had military contractors investing huge sums in technical training of staff and expansive production facilities
The most important part of a bomber however was the sight used by the bombardier to aim at targets below before releasing his bombs. Bombing accurately is not easy from 8 kilometers up in the sky. One would need an optical-mechanical device capable of various calculations. The race for a fitting bombsight had been going on for years though, and rather cunningly won by Carl Norden, a Dutch engineer émigré to the United States. Norden had contrived with one of the Bomber mafia men to falsify data on test runs performed with his bomb sight. Not only so, but as a stroke of marketing genius, Carl went ahead and instilled a strange sense of secrecy at his factory. This gave the illusion that he was developing a super secret weapon which increased the value of his not-so-accurate-as-marketed bomb sight. In the end, the department of war ate it all up hook, line and sinker.
Why is this important? Because the officer who colluded with Norden to help him win the contract went ahead to retire after the war and rather suspiciously received a plum executive job in Norden's company. The revolving door had begun revolving.
Chapter 2- The Lamblike Horns Shaved off
The Bible describes the second beast of Revelation 13 as having lamb-like horns. This beast/political power has been identified as the united States of America, judging by contextual analysis of the prophecy [if anyone needs qualifications on this kindly contact me]. The lamb is a Biblical symbol of Jesus Christ and horns are symbolic of power. The two lamblike horns therefore refer to principles in the governing system of the United States that find agreement in the word and gospel of Jesus Christ; these being Republicanism and Protestantism. The latter is a Church without a Pope (religious king) the former is a state without a (secular) King. These principles are what make separation of Church and State truly real and are the foundation of America's strength and power.
All this is clear from her founding. Under the pseudonym Publius, American founding father Alexander Hamilton wrote in what became the Federalist papers of the dangers that a standing army posed to a republic
But in a country, where the perpetual menacings of danger oblige the government to be always prepared to repel it, her armies must be numerous enough for instant defence. The continual necessity for his services enhances the importance of the soldier, and proportionably degrades the condition of the citizen. The military state becomes elevated above the civil. The inhabitants of territories often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subjected to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of those rights; and by degrees, the people are brought to consider the soldiery not only as their protectors, but as their superiors. - Publius, Federalist No. 9
I have previously briefly written of how the establishment of a standing army led to the eventual demise of the Roman republic, find it here: https://biblicalresearchtr.wixsite.com/book/single-post/chapter-glimpses-how-a-republic-dies
It should be obvious however that the establishment of a standing army is the first step and the emergence of a military industrial complex is surely an advanced final step in the process of shaving off the lamblike horn of Republicanism. As always, our civil rights are guardian to our religious freedoms, thus Protestantism will eventually follow in the fate of Republicanism. With the end of the 2nd world war America would go on to speak as a dragon, first to the rights and liberties of other nations, and finally when ready to those of individuals. The history of the post-war world bears me witness.
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