Authority James Bauhaus

Watching it brag about itself on television is always nauseating to me. They like to tell their adoring audiences stories about "wolves" and "sheep". Apparently there is a part of their training that plants this wolf fantasy in their heads. Either it is in their psyche to begin with, they are taught this analogy in their official training, or the older ones teach it to the younger ones in their locker rooms. For a long time, I thought that this “me wolf; you sheep" balderdash was just a bunch of childish crap that Hollywood and TV producers forced into their productions, on the expectation that it would help attract and hold the attention of their target audience.

Years of research indicate that this wolf fantasy is not just cooked-up media drama. Whenever authority drops its guard, and we get an inadvertent peek under its mask, we see authority exhibit this wolf/sheep dualism. And it is not the good kind, either; not the kind that stretches the definition of wolf to mean the absurd "protector of sheep". No. In authority-world, wolves still eat sheep. On facebook recently, in one of the most peaceful and "Howdy, neighbor" places I've ever been, (Albuquerque) the wolves were caught celebrating their wolfhood with thousands of want-to-be-wolf lackies. A fabulous good time was had by all until they got caught murdering a fellow wolf who had let his shiny wolf coat catch a bit of the mange. Soon as they got caught, further scrutiny showed that these wolves had increased the sheep's violent-death-by-wolf rate from one a year to fourteen per year in just one year. Now that one lawyer is paid to get a look at the wolves' facebook carnival of carnivores, all the fans who lived to be wolves through cheering them on are no longer trying to instigate and encourage the violence that they crave. No. Now they are desperately trying to erase their electronic pawprints and pretend to be sheep, hiding deep within the herd that they so recently fed from.

The most recent incarnation of this "Cult of the Wolf" appeared last week on a cheap media production on "body language". On it, a cop described his world view of wolves versus sheep in the context of his presence evoking various sheep behaviors in potential criminals (citizens) who he "tests" by glaring and scowling at them. Sheep who have nothing to hide will quickly avert their faces from his wolf-like staring contest. Others may nervously smile first. Both types will then swiftly exit themselves from the wolf's sight. A 3rd type, he does not describe, probably because so few of them exist. This 3rd type is the male, adult stranger-citizen who boldly strides up to the heavily armed and armored cop and requests service from this supposed public servant. Many cops passionately hate this behavior in sheep, because it scares them; a mere citizen, unarmed and defenseless, having the gall to risk sudden violent, painful death, just to ask disrespectful questions of he who usually only demands answers. A Texas cop amazed me by broadcasting this mentality during a call-in radio show. He was disgusted and alarmed by the unmitigated gall of citizens who would boldly walk up to him and ask for directions or pose other questions. Such a forced role reversal must send this type of cop's world spinning: no wonder that almost every cop of this type tries to become a secret cop.

The wolf's scowl works best when it wears its wolf-suit, since it's often difficult to be scary all by yourself. Take away the guns, beatsticks, chains, chemical warfare sprays and wolf-clothes, and a menacing scowl turns into just another angry face looking for undeserved attention. The wolf goes on to inform us that his crazy wolf-scowl causes criminals to nervously pluck at their shirts, as if someone thinks a gun in a waistband may be showing through the thin cloth. Cops, we are told, are taught to call this behavior "rounding". He goes on to tell his TV viewers that his scowl also causes "thumb twitch", in the people he stalks, explaining that this indicates the sheep rehearsing a quick draw of a weapon, equivalent to the Louis L'Amor type of "slap leather" descriptions in his many western novels. The cop goes on to mention that his scowl also will make presumed criminals to "plank". What cops are (apparently) taught is that "planking" (and "swiping") are involuntary movements of the sheep's hand that "feels" for the gun that cops assume is in their waistband, and another type of rehearsal of a quick draw.

We should be glad that we are given this brief glimpse of wolf-think, as it illustrates how authority teaches itself paranoia as a way to force safety consciousness, much the same way that novice prison guards are taught to force ridiculous policies as a way of giving them confidence to give orders. Once guards see how timid and compliant the inmates are, even to the point of performing patently senseless acts simply because "security" wills it, the attendant sense of power that washes over them stays with guards the rest of their lives. Teaching newbie cops to presume that everyone is a criminal with a gun in every pocket has worked wonders for the safety of cops. Due to this trained-in paranoia, more cops commit suicide per year (about 60) or kill themselves in fleet-chases of speeding criminals, (also about 60) than are killed by criminals with firearms (about 30).

What works great for cops' safety is not so great for citizens' safety. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, when accurate statistics begin being kept, of citizens are violently killed by these paranoid cops every year. So many citizens are murdered by cops every year that recently they have had to invent a new category to cover some of them, because the term "accidental" obviously no longer fit them all. The new category, introduced to the gullible public many years ago by Diane Sawyer, is called "suicide by cop". This concept, invented by cops, is used to cover anyone and everyone of the sheep who are too drunk, too high, too emotionally incensed, too distracted, too stubborn or too retarded to realize that now the cops can and will empty their high capacity weapons into your head and torso to deliberately murder you even when there is no credible threat to their safety, merely for noncompliance with their shrieked demands. Nationwide video proof of this came decades ago when the Capitol police shot a disabled protester to death that they kept harassing as he slept in the park. They kicked him awake so many times during his legitimate, peaceful protest that he duct-taped a "knife" to his hand. The Capitol police emptied their guns into him from 30 feet away on national television despite the fact that there was no possibility of them being harmed.

Giving themselves license to murder makes cop-gangs much more dangerous than the criminals that they were hired to police. A simple criminal gang only wants to steal from you, while cop gangs are out to hurt, kidnap, torture and even mercilessly kill merely for the pleasure of torturing and killing. They are much more sinister than any wolf fantasies they may imagine for themselves. They are more like cats that claw and gnaw on the injured mouse until it finally dies, then gleefully play with its gruesome corpse until its master gets disgusted, takes it away and secrets it into the garbage.

Authority that works for the people and the common good is authority that is prevented from escaping the feedback loops that provide real punishment for corruption. In all of history, the tendency is for authority to continually award itself more privilege and immunity to its own laws. The only difference between one authority and another in this process is the rate at which it occurs. The process is seen in America everywhere authority is scrutinized. Wholesale corruption in big city police departments is commonplace, routine and continuing. Like a circular string of perpetually falling dominoes, Chicago cops got caught framing so many innocent citizens with death sentences that their privilege of awarding legal death sentences was temporarily revoked. The legal system that assisted these hordes of crooked cops in their corruptions was never fixed. The problem just went further underground. The Los Angeles police department got so corrupt that they expelled the more honest cops. Two hundred of them had to sue for their jobs back after the corrupt cops finally got so corrupt and murderous that virtually no one was fooled. New Orleans cops get caught at everything from dope dealing, robbery and even killing each other, desertion during disasters and looting, yet the problem is merely noted, then ignored. Even their pretend-fix is an obvious farce that fools no one. New York authority has been the epitome of corruption from its inception. When science used DNA to prove wholesale corruption by authority, authority responded to this credibility disaster by increasing its credibility: legislators put together a DNA Act that threw millions of dollars at the prosecutors who presided over the massive corruption, in effect, rewarding them for their assembly-line corruption. Then legislators threw more millions at state authorities so that they could erect their own evidence-manufacturing factories. This diluted the flow of corruption from the main FBI "lab", distributing it among hundreds of state and city "labs", where it would be much more easily concealed, and much more costly and time-consuming to uncover.

The march of ever-increasing corruption in authority reached a peak during the reign of Sonny Bush, with his protection of the many corporate megathefts, (traced to 68% of congress), his oil price-jacking, his flagrant lying us into the destruction and occupation of Iraq, and his participation and enabling of the second world-wide financial robbery, to name just the highest points of his cabal's "successes".

The worst parts of authority's inroads is not how much it can steal for itself, or even the number of starvations or mass-murders it causes, it is the precedents it sets in the minds of its enabler-citizens. E. g, Reagan was able to brazenly sell cocaine and aid terrorists to finance his illegal military attacks on Nicaragua and elsewhere. From his mockery of the constitution, we got the term "plausible deniability" as a motto for authority. The Bush/ Cheney cabal took his legitimization of lawlessness for authority and ran with it far beyond Reagan's goal posts. Bush/Cheney hired lawyers to climb over Reagans back and make despicable torture an honorable pastime for the govt's privileged elite to enjoy. Even worse, his law lords concocted a legal excuse for committing brobdingnagian crimes against humanity in addition to wholesale torture. Thanks to the Bush regime, many citizens have it in their heads that it is perfectly moral for authority to simply surprize-attack, without the slightest provocation, by merely proclaiming, after the fact, that a secret threat was perceived.. "Pre-emptive attack" is now an accepted excuse for authority to use in justification of future crimes the like of which this world has never before seen or even imagined.

There is no way to stop it. Corruption is simply too entrenched. We have become the evil empire of Reagan's child-like, senile mind. The only cure is our own demise by outsiders after our elite have finished riding us into the ground.

We can slow this inevitable process only by replacing the feedback loops that we allowed authority to escape. There has to be real limits and legal consequences for authority when it turns to crime. There certainly needs to be backlash when authority turns rabid. Unfortunately, by the time authority turns rabid, it is far too entrenched and powerful to be affected by mere public opinion and polite protest. One would think that, seeing this history repeat the same, exact process over and over, men would be able to invent a method of preventing authority from killing itself, and us, with its overreaching desire for ever more privilege and immunity for itself.

The first step in the cure is universal education, as thinking men are much more difficult to subjugate than the ignorant. The second step is a free media, not one that self-censors itself in return for year-end largesse from the authority that it serves. Third, authority's privileges and immunities must be stripped from it. Authority can not be above the law any more. It was a bad idea for us to ever let authority connive us into the mindset that it needs to be above its own laws to govern. We should no be fooled in this again.