{"id":451,"date":"2002-09-02T20:59:58","date_gmt":"2002-09-02T23:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=451"},"modified":"2002-09-02T20:59:58","modified_gmt":"2002-09-02T23:59:58","slug":"message-from-astaroth-supreme-ruler-of-anarchtica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/message-from-astaroth-supreme-ruler-of-anarchtica\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from Astaroth, Supreme Ruler of Anarchtica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/eyez.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"137\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Your absolute ruler, Astaroth...FEAR HIM!!!\" \/><\/div>\n<p><i>(Transmitted from the near future &#8211; 2068 AD)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My loyal subjects&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom this day forth, you are hereby ORDERED to ignore the dangerous rantings of the one known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrael.org\" target=\"offsite\">Ezrael<\/a>. He has been deemed a threat to our society, and his words dare to challenge our way of life here in our dark realm.<\/p>\n<p>Surely you remember him as the mortal prophet known as <b>Matt Rossi<\/b>.  Six decades ago, he had written a rant entitled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrael.org\/archives\/001495.html#001495\" target=\"offsite\">America, you will be rounded up and shot<\/a>. You wisely ignored his words back then.<\/p>\n<p>Your broken and terrified people gladly surrendered your useless freedoms in exchange for a government given carte blanche to overrun the world as they saw fit.  They played on your fears and issued the false promise that you would one day have those so-called &#8220;freedoms&#8221; back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MORTAL FOOLS!!!!<br \/>\nThat is the time I, and my hellish demonic army of trolls, began to plan our conquering of your world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>World War Three, and the devastation that followed, was a great source of amusement to us.  You thought you knew suffering then&#8230; you knew nothing!!! We threw your entire world in chains after that&#8230; and now you finally know happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Because we have told you it is so.<\/p>\n<p>What good has ever come out of liberty anyway?  Various global changes like your American Revolution?  The end of Apartheid in South Africa? The end of a divided Germany where an attempt to cross a wall meant death at the hands of your captors?  What manner of foolishness is this anyway?  You gave it all up when you surrendered to your fears.  Now you are safely wrapped in my iron fist&#8230; where none dare to challenge me.<\/p>\n<p>You brought this on to yourselves, foolish mortals&#8230;<br \/>\nIgnore the foolish rantings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrael.org\/\" target=\"offsite\">false prophet Ezrael<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nOur plans have already been set to motion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is no hope.<br \/>\nThere is no future.<br \/>\nThere is only the glory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/about.php\" target=\"offsite\">Anarchtica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your Supreme Ruler.<br \/>\nA S T A R O T H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Transmitted from the near future &#8211; 2068 AD)<\/p>\n<p>My loyal subjects&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom this day forth, you are hereby ORDERED to ignore the dangerous rant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-enemy-of-the-state","category-old-stuff","category-political-cannon-fodder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Message from Astaroth, Supreme Ruler of Anarchtica - WHUZZUP!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/message-from-astaroth-supreme-ruler-of-anarchtica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Message from Astaroth, Supreme Ruler of Anarchtica - WHUZZUP!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Transmitted from the near future - 2068 AD) My loyal subjects... 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