Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Published: January 2, 2000 Author:
By Thomas J. Piccone

Many people realize that something is wrong, but they
are unable to define it clearly. Recent events are
causing many people to wonder why certain things
are happening and whether there is a plan behind it all.

One common explanation is that there is an agenda
being promoted, with the goal of establishing a world
government. Although this is basically correct,
it is superficial. What is happening is more profound
than this, and we need to recognize the nature
of the government that is being promoted. To call it
socialism or communism or fascism is not sufficient.
It is something more than these, although it contains
elements of all of them.

A characteristic of governments, and of the
United States government in particular, is the
collection of information. Although this has been going
on for some time, it has been accelerated enormously by
advances in computer technology. With the increases in
speed and storage capacity, computers are being used
to compile databases containing all kinds of information
on every person. The public school system collects
and compiles data on children, including test results
to be used for psychological profiling and for
deciding the child's future employment. (School-to-Work)

Personal information for identification purposes is
also being collected rapidly, including digital
photographs, fingerprints, voice patterns, retina
scans, and DNA samples. Governments are also
involved in funding research on everything from the
smallest subatomic particles to the most remote
galaxies that we can detect. The research topics
range from the most useful and practical
scientific and engineering subjects to the
most useless trivia that cannot have any real
value to anyone. They also include experiments in
human genetics and psychological manipulation,
so that it can be known how to produce a
master race of humans and how to control thoughts.

A second characteristic of governments is the
creeping encroachment on personal privacy.
All kinds of surveillance methods are increasingly
being used, including telephone wiretaps, video
cameras, and satellite photography, to name a few.
Whenever we say or do anything, or go anywhere,
there is a possibility that we are being tracked
or watched or recorded, usually without our
knowledge or permission. The number of government
agencies involved in such activities has increased,
as has their intrusiveness into every aspect of
human life. Much of this information can
also be compiled in databases for future reference.

A third aspect of governments is the enormous
increase in the number and power of weapons.
The United States government has developed, produced,
and proliferated nuclear, biological, and chemical
weapons in sufficient numbers and with enough power
to destroy every living thing on the face of the earth
many times over. The same is true of the former
Soviet Union, and the governments of many other
nations have done the same on a smaller scale.
They are constantly working to develop newer and
more sophisticated weapons to target individuals
and population groups to incapacitate them and
eliminate the possibility of resistance. At the
same time, governments are trying to disarm the
citizens of even the smallest and least powerful
weapons, such as handguns. The threat of terrorism
using so-called weapons of mass destruction is the
newest excuse for rendering the individual and
the citizenry as a whole completely powerless and
helpless, thus curtailing or eliminating their freedom.

The three characteristics of governments outlined
above can be remembered quite easily when it is
recognized that they can be reduced to the words
omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.
These are three attributes of God.

Governments also want to know everything,
be everywhere, and possess overwhelming power.
The agenda, the plan, is for a level of government
control that goes far beyond anything ever
accomplished by the Nazis or the Communists.
The goal is dominion, the ability to play God,
not merely with minerals or plants or animals,
but with human beings and whole societies at
once. It is this, the push toward absolute dominion,
that is the peril we are facing and the ultimate
form of evil.