blindly handing over my bags to be searched, I finally

stopped to think about it the other day. I realized that

all the "security" cameras, metal detectors and guards were

merely used to gain power over the people by oppressing them

and forcing their submission; not to protect us. We are all

blind to this. We think it's for our own good, but it's all

Niccolo Machiavelli lived in Italy in the early

1500's. He thought that if one person, namely Lorenzo de'

Medici, could be the absolute ruler of all Italy, then order

could be restored. In an effort to gain favor with the

powerful Medice family, he wrote The Prince as an early

blueprint of a New World Order justifying the use of any

means, no matter how sinister, to gain and keep power.

Machiavellianism envisages: the seizure, maintenance, and

extension of absolute power by the nicely graduated use of

fraud, force and terror; control by the ruler of all

avenues of communication, thus facilitating the deliberate

for his popularity if the citizens loved him rather than

beliefs which didn't agree with the political leaders of the

censorship is assassination." The most notorious

if the prince secretly hired terrorists to create an

everything possible to send Rushdie to Hell." Khomeini and

that people won't get any revolutionary or rebellious ideas

do to get rid of individuality. This is why many schools

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini proclaimed upon pronouncing his

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