Through our ignorance, thanks in a large part to our poor education system and our blind trust in the media, the majority of United States citizens have become like cattle on the American landscape.

The government ranchers, many of them our elected officials, the puppets of the “elite” cattle barons, have many Americans believing that “we the cattle” belong to the Democrat or Republican herd. “We the cattle” plod along, easily manipulated, on seemingly separate trails, mooing and snorting and kicking dirt and dung at each other. Meanwhile, both herds are being milked dry by taxes and the “elite”-owned Fed and grazing on the FDA-approved fields of drugs and the CIA-distributed illegal grasses. The “eminent domain” Supreme Court land thieves, the “sustainable development” environmental land swindlers and the “Homeland Security” hired guns are harnessing much of our property rights and our individual rights. “We the cattle” can’t see that both political trails are winding toward the slaughterhouse of our freedom.

Do cattle know when they are about to be butchered? Do American citizens understand how close they are to losing their freedom? The propaganda dust on the American trail is so thick that our vision of America is blurred and distorted. Like the insects heading into the bright light, we are disillusioned into believing that our television sets, radios and newspapers hold the truth about our government, the environment and our morality. Many citizens are fixated on their sports channels, reality shows, movie and television stars and video games. Their understanding of patriotism and the functions of this  government appear limited to our National Anthem. Most American citizens can’t see how the “elite” control the policies of this country through our socially engineered ignorance, the fear conveyed by their media, the manufactured division of the people and the resulting preconceived freedom-suppressing compromises and laws.

When the government ranchers and media cowhands start shouting at “we the cattle” about global warming or some other over-exaggerated environmental issue, or start shouting terrorist threats or some other frightening scenario like lightning in the sky, “we the cattle” start to stampede toward whatever freedom-suppressing programs the “elite” cattle barons have intended for us. Once again, “we the cattle,” using our well-educated ignorance, will follow the trail of least thought. Americans, the minority that understand the importance of our freedom, are being trampled or forced along into the freedom-suppressing programs that the majority cattle have accepted.

Will “we the cattle” allow the government ranchers to brand us with the “National ID Card,” allowing the “elite” cattle barons to track every movement we make within America? Will “we the cattle” allow the government ranchers to form a North American Union so that the “elite” cattle barons and their corporate cattle rustlers, with loyalties only to their bank accounts, will have their choice of the herd between the three nations of Mexico, Canada and the United States?

More than 17,000 scientists from around the world have signed a petition on the Heartland Institute Web site stating that global warming is a hoax. This Web site contains accurate information about many other warming and cooling trends from the past 3,000 years. The site explains the benefits of additional CO2 in the atmosphere and how it promotes vegetation growth and how the oceans are not going to rise because of a rise in temperature. Most of these scientists don’t have a job working for the “elite” controlled media, aren’t an environmental government scientist, aren’t working for the “elite” funded environmental organizations and aren’t taking grant money, the more than $2 billion a year the federal government sets aside for promoting the concept of global warming. These concerned scientists understand how the same environmental scare tactics have been used numerous times before. They understand how laws controlling the air, the energy and the resources can result in a total suppression of freedom.

In 1933, with the burning of the Reichstag, the German federal building, by supposed Communists (never confirmed), Hitler and the Nazis were granted the power to implement freedom-strangling security measures within Germany. It took Hitler six years to transform Germany into a controlling police state. Hitler said, “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”

“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”

“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”

We should be concerned about the environment and terrorism, but do not compromise our freedom. Be an American and educate yourself beyond our inept universal education system and the “elite” mouthpieces, understand how important your freedom is, understand history and our Constitution; hold our president and Congress accountable to their oath.

Are we cattle or are we Americans?

(Eggers lives in Napa.)