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In the clip I posted the other day of John and Yoko, John Lennon made a passing reference to a Chinese book Yoko turned him onto about war. In it he paraphrased that “if your castle is being attacked, lock all your doors but one, that way you know where your enemies will enter”. I thought this was a fantastic piece wisdom especially in how Lennon was using it as the reason for wearing his hair long.

I have turned this sage advice over and over in my head for the past few days and, in light of this, I’ve come upon at least one application of our present circumstances that I can’t help feel a bit uneasy about.

If you venture with me in so far as to make the fairly extensible stretch that our government has successfully been taken over by a well articulated conspiracy of the few where the goal is to bankrupt the people for the ends of a greater mechanism of control and deeper reservoir of invasive protocol through the implementation of a well considered single party system existing under the auspice of a two party struggle, than wouldn’t Sarah Palin be the finest door to leave open in this our present battles?

I mean if we’re being honest we can see that the McCain agenda varies only slightly from the Obama concerns. Neither is calling for peace in our modern world (and frankly, as an aside, I’m very comfortable with that… but let’s continue with our War Games here), both were strongly in favor of the greatest socialist effort in human history with the government bail outs, both are outspoken about their interests in nuclear energy and coastal drilling, both are in support and have been in support of continued invasion of U.S. citizen’s privacy. And both, unflinchingly, are working to trump up Russia’s roll in it’s ongoing - and many would argue, justified - struggle with Georgia.

So many Obama supporters - of which, outside of this scenario, I now firmly and enthusiastically count myself among - are projecting so much of their liberal idealism on the guy that they can’t seem to notice that, ultimately, an Obama presidency will change very little about how our government conducts itself financially and militarily, at home and abroad.

If I was running a theoretical oligarchical conspiracy I could see a candidate like Obama being just the note I needed to play at this time. As national support for my military campaigns continue to decelerate into one of the most unpopular presidencies in history a candidate so completely anti-thetical to everything the current rogue administration has put forward - so seemingly young, new, intelligent and compassionate, so able to galvanize the American people into a fury of elated support on the “Anything But” ticket - is just what the doctor ordered. For an inky underworld shadow-government of a proud, rich few, Barack Obama could be the ideal candidate.

And, as anyone who has read any good super hero tomes or religious screeds will know; a great hero needs an even greater enemy. And, let there be no words minced about this cunt Sarah Palin is the greatest enemy our country’s presidential races has ever grown. She is the Moriarity to Obama’s Holmes, the Joker to Obama’s Batman (eww, sorry Joker), the Satan to Obama’s Christ, the mean spirited Lucy to Obama’s very earnest Charlie Brown.

So as we see the nationalization of our banks and the federal government taking control over our economic system and as we continue to extend ourselves militarily to a point of both depleting our national resource of military and foreign relations, as we see state’s unemployment rates sky-rocketing and running out of money of employment programs, as we see a country and a world spiraling farther and farther out of control leaving the theatrics of the solution to the dim scripting of simply softening the fall for only the wealthiest involved, perhaps it is time we begin looking at this entire scenario as a war against humanity by a conspiracy of the few. And perhaps we should start looking at what is happening under the terms of war strategies and how those strategies are being used against us to further a rather telegraphed agenda. And perhaps, as we look at our national and planetary narrative unfold in an increasingly predictable, frustrating, and destructive fashion, we should keep our eyes a little more keenly pried for where the open door may be. And practice caution before haste as we trip over our future to run right through it.