THE FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE APOCOLYPSE

(AS IT PERTAINS TO THE PROPERTY TAX CRISIS)

BY

JOSE H. VALLADARES, MD

JULY 2007

CONFUSION

War is waged in modern society initially in the form of confusion.

News reaches us after the fact, is incomplete, altered, fractioned and without continuity. It thus achieves its real purpose: confusion.

Freedom of the press has always passed itself as one of America’s most sacred of cows. However this “free media” is owned by the economic elite and as such unmanipulated news has ceased to exist. Those who control the information, control opinions and thus have control over the people.

In the case of newspapers, dissemination of selected information is done with only one point of view to publish. The elite do not require nor want more than one newspaper per city.

The media is of the utmost importance in reinforcing public approval using opinion polls. Once that an embarrassing fact has been made public, these opinion polls result in the persuasion of people who have not yet made up their minds.

APATHY

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations survival length time goes in years as they advance from spiritual faith to courage and liberty. This progresses into abundance, apathy, dependence and back into bondage. In our country today, 50% of the voters are apathetic and ignorant of politics to where they are eventually losing all of there freedoms going from apathy to governmental dependence.

This leads to learned helplessness: when one has come to believe that one has no control over one’s situation and that whatever one does is futile.

FEAR

Fear is being instilled upon us because on the other side of fear is freedom. By stopping people from making up there minds using fear they are refusing themselves knowing what must be done in order to know and analyze the causes of what is happening. The July 13, 2007 edition of the Miami Herald unveiled an ominous prognosis when it published an article announcing the cutting of jobs, weakening public safety, canceling social-cultural services, stopping building and public works, reduce public transportation, lessening public health, human services and housing and significantly reduce parks and recreation.

ANGER

Once confusion, fear and apathy have been established, we can really reach acceptance. Anger is a response to a perceived threat which includes injustice, negligence, humiliation and betrayal. The person either lashes out verbally or physically or becomes passive by means of silence, a passive aggressive behavior such as hostility with tension. Anger is more intense if analysis reveals to the individual that the inflicted pain was intentional and or deliberate. This adds resentment.

CONCLUSION

This anger-energy must be shifted from the negative into the positive through active participation in institutions such as the Coalition which is not Democratic or Republican, for blacks or whites, for Anglos or Hispanics, immigrants or citizens, rich or poor but rather for all those who live in the county whether it be that they rent, own or work on a property of their own.

Unless the middle class rejects the dominance of the elite becoming a docile multitude accepting societal rape they will become extinct, impoverished and exiled from their own hard earned and worked possessions. This will followed by the subsequent implicit family dissolution.

Unity alone will bring the strength necessary to resist, fight and thus win this present war that we have been living for years and now has become a present reality with real devastation to society.