It is difficult to struggle against Babylon. It is especially difficult to not participate in her wars. The following video is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's anti-war poem "The Man He Killed." It is a fitting introduction to part 4 of Pam Dewey's series on Big Brother. Those who did not want to fight in the especially useless war WWI were rounded up with no regard for law. Big Brother, or Babylon as the Bible calls it, is not a modern phenomenon. It goes back millennia. 



Here is the full poem if you want to contemplate it more, it deserves contemplation. 

The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy
Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.
I shot him dead because—
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although
He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like—just as I—
Was out of work—had sold his traps—
No other reason why.
Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.