In the Metal Gear video games, the Patriots, A.K.A. The La-li-lu-le-lo (or La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo), is a fictional Illuminati-like organization that controls the United States of America, and is also dedicated to creating a new world order. Although its precise plans and goals are not entirely known, the Patriots appear to be the primary antagonist in the series, due to their acts of blackmail and manipulation. They were originally the American arm of the Philosophers (revealed in Snake Eater), before they splintered off and renamed themselves. For the original video game titled Metal Gear, see Metal Gear (video game). ... The Illuminati is the name of many groups, modern and historical, real and fictitious, verified and alleged. ... The term new world order has been used to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power. ... The antagonist is the character (or group of characters, or, sometimes an institution) of a story who represents the opposition against which the heroes and/or protagonists must contend. ... Blackmail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The Patriots. ... Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (commonly abbreviated MGS3) is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima, developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. ...

The organization's first appearance in the series was Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (although its existence was implied earlier in Metal Gear Solid by Colonel Campbell) and its origin was further enhanced in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Through its main secret agent, Revolver Ocelot, the Patriots are often times implied in the storyline to be the cause of almost all the trials faced by the main protagonists of the Metal Gear Solid series (Solid Snake, Raiden, and Naked Snake), presenting it as the ultimate antagonist of the series. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (commonly abbreviated MGS2) is a stealth-based game that was developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in 2001. ... Metal Gear Solid Packaging Artwork Metal Gear Solid, (Japanese:メタルギアソリッド ) commonly abbreviated as MGS, is a stealth-based game developed by Hideo Kojima and first published for the PlayStation video game console in 1998. ... Spoiler warning: // Solid Snake Main article: Solid Snake Big Boss Main article: Big Boss Raiden Raiden (real name Jack) is the protagonist of the Plant Chapter, the main portion of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ... Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (commonly abbreviated MGS3) is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima, developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. ... Revolver Ocelot (born June 6, 1944 also referred to as Shalashaska, Шалашаска in Russian, Adamska, and simply Ocelot during his younger days) is a fictional character and recurring villain in the Metal Gear Solid video game series. ... Solid Snake (Japanese: ソリッド・スネーク Soriddo Sunêku) is the main character in the Metal Gear video game series. ... This is a list of fictional characters appearing only in the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ... This is a list of characters appearing in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. ...

The Wisemen's Committee, as they were depicted in Metal Gear Solid 2.

The actual members of the Patriots, whose personalities are unknown, are presided over by a council of twelve individuals called the "Wisemen's Committee". There is no further information regarding the organization's depth apart from this in terms of structure and hierarchy. However, the Patriots employ numerous spies and agents spread throughout the government agencies of the U.S.A. It should be noted that typically when one refers to the Patriots, they are referring to the core 12 members of the Wisemen's Committee. Image File history File links The_Patriots. ... Image File history File links The_Patriots. ... A council is a group of people who usually possess some powers of governance. ...

The President of the United States himself is subordinate to the Patriots. To become President, one must first pledge allegiance to the Patriots, which was revealed between a CODEC conversation between Raiden and the President. The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Scott Dolph, knew of their existence, having referred to them as the "La-li-lu-le-lo". A man named "Richard Ames," identified as a former colonel, Secret Service agent, and a member of the DIA, was an agent of the Patriots before his death. Revolver Ocelot has been an agent of the Patriots since childhood. The presidential seal was used by president Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... The Commandant of the United States Marine Corps is the highest ranking officer of the United States Marine Corps, who is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and reports to the Secretary of the Navy but not to the Chief of Naval Operations. ... USSS redirects here. ... DIA seal The Defense Intelligence Agency is a major producer and manager of intelligence for the United States Department of Defense. ... Revolver Ocelot (born June 6, 1944 also referred to as Shalashaska, Шалашаска in Russian, Adamska, and simply Ocelot during his younger days) is a fictional character and recurring villain in the Metal Gear Solid video game series. ...

In Metal Gear Solid 3, it was revealed that the Patriots are an offshoot of a larger international group known as the Philosophers. The Philosophers consisted of the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. After the end of World War I, they formed a secret pact for unknown reasons, thus creating the Philosophers. By the time World War II had broken out, all of the original members were dead and the organization ran out of control, focusing on creating a new world order. During World War II, they agreed to pool together their respective countries' financial and military resources in order to defeat the Axis Powers. At the end of the war, a new order would be established with themselves in control. Atomic testing and its subsequent weaponry, rocket technology, and the Cobra unit were the results of this pact. The father of the villain of Metal Gear Solid 3, Colonel Volgin, was assigned to the money-laundering activities of the group, and during the war, stole the money they had amassed. In 1964, the events of Metal Gear Solid 3 explain how the U.S. branch of the Philosophers retrieves the money from Volgin. Upon finally acquiring all the funds from the various banks throughout the world in 1970, the U.S. branch of the Philosophers split from the international group and became the Patriots. With all of the power of the original group now in the USA, the Chinese and Russian branches seemingly faded over the years. Although Metal Gear Solid 3 explained the names on the disc that Otacon and Solid Snake had at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, it still left the identity or identities of the Patriots at the time of Metal Gear Solid 2 a mystery. However, Metal Gear Solid 3 established that Ocelot was a Patriot spy during that game, and that he was reporting to the Director of Central Intelligence of the United States. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The Patriots. ... Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead:5 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:8 million Military dead:4 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:7 million The First World... Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Cobra unit, also called the Cobras, is a fictional special forces unit in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. ... This is a list of characters appearing in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. ... Dr. Hal Emmerich, nicknamed Otacon, is a fictional character in the Metal Gear Solid video game series. ... Solid Snake (Japanese: ソリッド・スネーク Soriddo Sunêku) is the main character in the Metal Gear video game series. ... In the United States, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) serves as the head of both the Intelligence Community and the Central Intelligence Agency. ...

What are the Patriots?

There have been numerous theories about their origin before the release of Metal Gear Solid 3, as the only piece of information available occurs at the ending of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, when they converse with Raiden through his CODEC radio. The Patriots insinuate that they are not quite "human." They appear to have all the characteristics of a disembodied computer AI, but claim to have existed for 200 years as a consciousness developed in the "primordial soup" of the White House. Near the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, they appear as a skull-like visage that briefly flashes on and off in the middle of a codec conversation. One of the strongest theories, backed up by the declaration of the themes for each game by creator Hideo Kojima during the E³ 2004, is that they are beings born out of information, and are therefore memes. This is reinforced by a conversation the player has at the end of the game: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (commonly abbreviated MGS2) is a stealth-based game that was developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in 2001. ... Hondas intelligent humanoid robot AI redirects here. ... The primordial sea, or primordial ocean, is a term applied collectively to the oceans of the earth at a time early in its history. ... Hideo Kojima Hideo Kojima (小島秀夫 Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer at Konami. ... E3 logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo (or Exposition), commonly known as E3, is the worlds largest annual trade show and the third largest gaming convention for the computer and video games industry. ... The term meme (IPA: ), a theoretical concept introduced in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, refers to any unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice, idea or concept, which one mind transmits (verbally or by demonstration) to another mind. ...

There is no real reason to believe anything the Patriots say, because they consistently deceive everyone they deal with -- including their own agents, such as Revolver Ocelot. It is entirely possible their origin is simply a myth created to mislead the main characters, and dissuade them from pursuing the idea that the Patriots are real men who can be found and killed.

A clue is given in the third installment of the MGS series. At the end of the game, Ocelot manages to retrieve the Philosopher's Legacy so that "the Philosophers can finally be revived" (quoted from the last telephone conversation Ocelot has with the CIA Director). It's impossible to know what Ocelot means by "revived," but if the Patriots are telling the truth and they are no longer human, this means that someone (most likely the CIA) managed to bring the American branch of the Wisemen's Committee back to life, or at least their memories or consciousness in a physical manifestation or digital form (supporting this is also this line, said by the JFK AI Rose on top of Federal Hall at the end of MGS2: "We started with genetic engineering, and in the end, we succeeded in digitizing life itself"). This is still pure speculation. A digital form seems most likely, as the entities that Raiden communicates with look like Colonel Campbell and Rosemary. Though the images of these two people are created by Raiden himself, not the AI. Otacon even suggests that the "Colonel Campbell" speaking to Raiden is most likely a combined form of computer AI and Raiden's own expectations. This supports the idea that the Patriots could also be a memetic of some kind, or they are indeed born out of information. It could also suggest that the Patriots are being metaphorical in an attempt to sound immortal and all powerful, as they are talking about the ideas behind the group and not the actual members. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The Philosophers. ... The CIAs seal features an eagle atop a sixteen-point compass. ...

The idea that the Patriots are a particularly strong meme fits well with their self-description of not being human; the Patriots may have once been an organization with agents reporting to one another and to their leaders. However, over time, this formal organization may have deteriorated (or evolved) into an entity whose only central binding element was the original principals and ideals of the Wiseman's Committee. That is, the true nature of the Patriots is no longer that of an organization, but rather individuals who share the ideals, methods, and practices of the original Patriots; they are human, but not entirely, as there is no structured entity to report to.

Regardless of their true nature, the Patriots have a strong interest in controlling the development of human civilization and evolution by way of controlling the information humans accept as fact (in essence, telling them what version of history to believe). Their purpose to create Arsenal Gear is to test the S3 (Selection for Societal Sanity), a system to control and select memes that are supposed to be "good" for the human race, and that natural selection cannot happen in the current information flow in which every piece is kept. Metal Gear is the name for a series of fictional bipedal tanks in the Metal Gear series of video games. ... Spoiler warning: The Selection for Societal Sanity, or S3 program was a fictitious program from the Metal Gear series, and was a main plot point in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ... Natural Selection is the phrase Charles Darwin used in 1859 in his book The Origin of Species to name the natural process he proposed to be responsible for the origin of new species and the adaptation of organisms to their environments. ...

Another interesting theory is that the Patriots, in controlling the human race's development and culture, intend to maintain their own existence, which is the act of self-preservation common when considering memes and/or genes. Because the existence of the Patriots is bound to the society's, it would be in their interest to always spread their values (memes) throughout the society.

It is also theorized that they actually do not exist at all. In MGS2, during a CODEC conversation between Solid Snake and Otacon, Otacon says that he has the names of the Patriots, but that they all died about a hundred years before the plant chapter of MGS2. Some speculate that the Patriots were only an excuse from the government to let Ocelot carry out his own will.

Agents of the Patriots

• Revolver Ocelot - Highest-ranked known agent of the Patriots and a sleeper agent within various organizations. Ocelot was charged with supervising the S3 plan in Metal Gear Solid 2 (although he is fed false information, believing that the S3 is totally different from what it actually was) and is sent as a spy under the codename ADAM in Metal Gear Solid 3 where he eventually recovers the Legacy.
• Solidus Snake (George Sears) - Former President of the United States and a surviving offspring from the Les Enfants Terribles project. Attempts to fight the Patriots in Metal Gear Solid 2. Chosen for the S3 plan because his relationship with Raiden bears a resemblance to the relationship between Snake and Big Boss.
• Richard Ames - Ames was killed by his own nanomachines during the Big Shell incident as part of the S3 plan. His death also could have been orchestrated by the Patriots, due to the fact that he helped his wife Nastasha escape from them.
• Raiden (Jack) - Though he has no knowledge of it, the Patriots used Raiden to initiate the S3 plan.
• Rosemary - Assigned to spy on Raiden. Became romantically involved with him and was impregnated with his child.
• Jim Houseman - Secretary of Defense during the Shadow Moses Island Incident of MGS1. Committed suicide several days after failing to deploy a tactical nuclear warhead to cover up the situation. Probable foul play on the part of the Patriots.
• Olga Gurlukovich - Because the Patriots have her child, she is forced to cooperate with them. As part of the Patriots' plan, (S3 plan) so to speak, she is Mr. X and helps Raiden with his mission.
• Fatman - Placed by the Patriots to test Raiden's abilities before enacting the Patriots' true exercise. In Ocelot's words, Fatman "was a different story. He's one of our own people, a sort of examiner we hired to test the boy's progress before letting him tackle the exercise proper."

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Name origin

"La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" represents five syllables and/or characters absent from the Japanese language. There is discussion in Metal Gear Solid 2 contemplating the control of basic ideas through the manipulation of language. The fact that the Patriots are referred to as these 'absent' characters represents their unprecedented control over information, which they planned to solidify with Arsenal Gear.

It is theorized that some characters, who do not have codeword clearence as mentioned by the President in MGS2, cannot call the Patriots by that name, because their implanted nano machines force them to hear "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo" when they are referred to as the Patriots. This will lead people to believe that is their name, with their real name remaining unknown in their mind.