And so I suspect that it is from the perspective of the “victims” and the oppressed where we have a more accurate picture of the history of Empires, and this comes from no less than the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures themselves. The Jewish people have experienced BOTH sides; oppressor and oppressed. The later stages of Old Testament history featured those “dissidents” who questioned the wisdom and the policies of the Jewish monarchs, and were often sent in to exile, or politically marginalized.

While it is no sure connection to God to take all as truth from the perspective of just any “victim”, it is the tendency of human history to move toward entrenchment of power by the wealthy interests, and to seek to protect those interests by stealth operation (under the radar of the public, even by circumventing the information process and releasing their own philosophies in “sheep’s clothing”.

Events in these past 4 years, and the responses of this government to trying afterath days of 9/11, has certainly awakened me to the dangers, and the pitfalls, and alerted me to the possibility of how evil can grow , and build up a system of justification to back it up and build public support, and actually drag the world toward and into the “darkness” that is so often witnessed in Scriptures, and against which the prophets announced: “The people who lived in darkness have seen a great light”.