Thoughts from the asylum

Thoughts from the asylum

America The Last Bastion of Hope

And it is crumbling before our eyes

Jun 12, 2026
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Welcome, my dear readers, as we reach the end of this thread exploring the extra-governmental forces that seem to be affecting Western civilization. These are the forces that I believe started the 5th generational culture war that kicked off shortly after Obama took office, and the ones actively pushing us into a 4th generational war in America between the drones and those whose minds are dangerous in the fact that they are not captured by the system. Our nation, America, is truly the last line and is only so because of the structural mechanisms built into our founding that prevent it from being subverted from one seat of power. This is a distribution of power that Europe and most of the world either never had or gave up. While we have had some success in slowing the tide of globalist hegemony. We have lost much ground and are still under attack as forces within actively work to erode constitutional protections and destroy societal cohesion.

The truth is simple: all of Europe can fall to the globalist agenda, but if America still stands, they will lose on a global scale in the long run. It is equally true that if America were to fall, no matter its stage, the rest of the world would shortly follow. We are the linchpin in the plan, and I truly believe we have proven more difficult to subvert than those at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations (UN) who planned Agenda 2030 and Stakeholder Capitalism had anticipated. I think ultimately, so far, it has been a lack of understanding. Those who plot against us on a global scale have a European perspective and, as such, discount what it is to be an American. Europe, in general, has a peasant mindset and almost a genetic predisposition to compliance with authority. Historically, with few exceptions, the average European has based their identity on the government, be that Monarchs or later parliaments, they have seen themselves not as individuals but parts of a collective, and the good of the collective (whatever the government said) was best for them. This faith in authority led Europe to structure itself around monolithic, all-controlling central governments. That centralization nationally and then continentally with the European Union ( EU) ultimately worked against them, making them much easier to subvert than the American republican form of government. This resulted in countries collapsing before the people even realized it, leaving them with little avenue for recourse now that populations are waking up to the horror that has been inflicted upon them.

In Europe, the machinery was in place to criminalize opposition parties and political opposition, even if based on facts prior to the formation of that opposition. This has resulted in legitimate political opposition being outlawed, arrested, and prevented from representing the majority of people who support them. Almost assuredly sealing the fate of all trapped in the prison that Europe is becoming. America is different in that it was founded on rebellion and distrust of authority. Until very recently, that distrust was communicated from generation to generation through media and history classes, and our cultural roots were based on distrust of power. The shift away from this in the mainstream has been recent enough that I have seen it firsthand. The popular shows from my childhood, the ones Gen X cut their teeth on, were The A-Team, Knight Rider, Air Wolf, The Dukes of Hazzard, and more. In all of these shows, the heroes were the ones acting outside government power structures, often against them. These shows and others almost always portrayed the government as inept, evil, or corrupt. My History classes growing up highlighted events like the Battle of Athens, Tennessee, where citizens took up arms to overthrow a wicked local government, and the Appalachian Mine Wars, where blue-collar workers took up arms against government-backed big business to secure their rights. We learned that the Civil War had complex causes beyond slavery and that the primary driving force was a disagreement on tariffs, and export duties were used to control the Southern states’ sovereignty, essentially that slavery played a part but was not the defining cause, as is thought today. Every aspect of American Culture until the mid-1990s had undercurrents of rebellion and a clear distrust of authority, portraying central authority as either criminally inept at best or maliciously corrupt and evil at worst. Europe didn’t have that cultural heritage playing out as the entertainment backdrop of everyday life, reinforcing the spirit of independence that entered the American identity in 1776. This week, we will closely examine what parts of our infrastructure of freedom are still functioning, what parts are gone, how and why they failed, and finally, what we must do if we want to avoid being forced to try and save our Nation by the last resort bequeathed to us by our founders.

I am not sure our current crisis started here, but it is too coincidental not to mention it. George Herbert Walker Bush was CIA director from 1976 to 1977, the man who announced in February 1976 that the Agency would no longer maintain paid relationships with journalists. He was present at early World Economic Forum gatherings in the 1970s, as his relationship with Klaus Schwab developed, while serving as a CIA agent and working with organizations at Harvard as part of Kissinger’s intelligence circle. He was the 41st president of the United States and the father of the 43rd. He is the man who oversaw the spinning of the thread from the CIA’s information management apparatus through the WEF’s cabinet-penetration program to the legislative suite we are about to examine, running through his career at every relevant institutional juncture. Whether that represents deliberate design or simply the way power circulates among a small class of people who have always known each other is a question the reader can answer. The documented origin is not disputed, and I think it is indicative of an organized plan.

The story properly begins on September 11, 2001. We do not know the full truth of what happened that day. What we do know is that the official account has questions it has never satisfactorily answered. The 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission report documenting Saudi government connections to the hijackers were classified for fifteen years and released only in 2016 after sustained congressional pressure. The collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, which was not struck by any aircraft, has never been explained to the satisfaction of engineers and physicists who have examined the NIST report and found its conclusions inconsistent with the observed physics of the collapse. The August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Brief titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” was received, read, and acted upon without urgency. These are documented unanswered questions, not conspiracy theories. They are in the public record. And they matter for one reason that has nothing to do with who did what on that day.

The legislation that followed 9/11 had been tried and failed before it. The Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995, introduced by then-Senator Joe Biden on behalf of the Clinton administration, contained most of what would become the Patriot Act. Congress rejected it as unconstitutional. President Clinton had separately asked Congress for expanded wiretap authority and increased access to personal records in terrorism investigations. Congress refused. The surveillance powers that the American legislature repeatedly declined to grant in the 1990s on constitutional grounds were introduced less than a week after the September 11 attacks and signed into law forty-five days later. Attorney General John Ashcroft gave Congress one week to pass the bill without changes. The legislation ran to hundreds of pages. It amended at least fifteen existing statutes. No House, Senate, or conference report was produced. The bill that Congress had refused to pass because it violated the Constitution became the bill Congress passed in six weeks, because three thousand people died.

What followed was a legislative suite that would have been recognizable to anyone who had been watching the WEF’s governance architecture develop in parallel. The Patriot Act expanded surveillance and wiretapping authority beyond anything previously permitted. The Military Commissions Act authorized detention without trial and defined an enemy combatant in ways that could reach American citizens with no due process at all. The Homeland Security Act created the largest reorganization of the federal government since the National Security Act of 1947, consolidating twenty-two agencies under a single department. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act restructured the intelligence community under a Director of National Intelligence. The REAL ID Act established federal standards for state identification that constitute the functional foundation of a national ID system, which the American public had repeatedly declined to accept when proposed directly. Every one of these laws expanded the federal government’s surveillance and control capacity in ways that had been attempted but rejected in peacetime. Every one of them was passed in the window of fear that opened on September 11. The window is permanent. The laws remain. Their provisions have been renewed by every subsequent administration. The surveillance infrastructure created by the Patriot Act still exists today.

The program was advanced under Barack Obama. The Missouri v. Biden censorship apparatus was built on institutional relationships and practices that developed throughout the Obama years. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which legalized domestic propaganda that had been prohibited since 1948, was signed by Obama. The DARPA social media manipulation research programs were funded during the Obama administration. The expansion of FISA court authority, the normalization of surveillance as a governing tool, and the development of the algorithmic information management infrastructure all advanced on Obama’s watch with bipartisan congressional support.

But the most instructive Obama-era episode for understanding how the machine actually works was not a policy. It was the 2016 Democratic primary. What Donna Brazile documented in her book Hacks and what Elizabeth Warren confirmed publicly was that the Clinton campaign had taken over the DNC’s finances, hiring,

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