This is a short piece I wrote that I wanted to share with everyone here who seems concerned.
So our Republic was officially stolen from us on Thursday, June 23rd, 2005. Remember that date. Most Americans who realize what this means are up in arms, and many of them are asking a single question. What now? What do we do when government fails us on such a basic level?
Well, I don?t propose to have the answers, but I do have a lot to say. This is long, but I hope you will read this and think.
I?ll start with a few historical quotes to ease into what I have to say:
quote:
"Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations."
--President Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
-- Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates Spafford, 17 Mar. 1817
"Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman."
--Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, during his 1912 election campaign
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, farewell address
"Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag- a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."
-- Adolph Hitler
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, being honest for once.
"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
-- Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war." -- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov 21, 1864
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate systematical job of reducing us to slaves."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it."
-- David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.
"Of course, I have as much power as the President has."
-- Bill Gates
Ok, enough of the contextual quotes. Now, where do we go from here?
To be honest folks, I really don't know what the best course of action is. My prerogative is just to make as much noise as I possibly can, being loud and bold, riling and educating as many Americans as I can along the way, and I don't care what ideology they are, as this affects us all. This is not a partisan issue, not about Republican versus Democrat, not about finger pointing or anything else; this is an issue that affects every single one of us, home "owners" and future home "owners" alike. Property rights are the keystone to our country, and all other rights are a derivative of this basic truth. This is a fight for our children's future against tyranny, which I'm sorry to say, appears what they have planned for us, and that is more important to me than anything else. I don't care if it?s Republicans or Democrats or anyone else who gets in our way; we have to push their rhetoric aside, watch their actions instead, and stick to our foundations.
As I said, I don?t know what the best course of action is, because I don't believe our voice counts much anymore. I have seen polls all over the Internet and in every case there were thousands upon thousands of votes and all of them were above 90% against, most in the high 90?s. The media, of course, would have you believe otherwise, and you will probably be told this is not as bad as it seems. You only have to stop and realize that the people who will tell you this are those who stand to gain from this.
While these numbers are not scientific per se, they are pretty indicative of the general opinion. I have been chatting with people from all over the spectra, and the attitude is rock solid against. Anyone I have spoken to that says they agree with this is easily converted when you educate them on what it means. They are usually just misinformed, which is quite normal today.
The point is that there have been instances, a lot of them in recent years, where our lawmakers totally disregard our input, on all levels. If you live in a city where you voted against a stadium, and yet they still built it using your tax dollars, or if you live in Texas where the overwhelming majority were against 6,000 miles of toll roads and transponders in your vehicles (which most other states are now considering as well), or you are one of those people enraged by the open borders and calls for amnesty to the illegal invasion, calling the Minutemen vigilantes, telling the border patrol to stand down while Mexican Zetas and other criminals invade our sovereignty in the South-West, the passage of a de facto national ID card (Real ID Act) under the guise of immigration reform, property tax increased to the point where people have lost their homes, confiscating land for ?nature conservation? and five years later when everyone has forgotten, selling it off to the highest bidder to build condos, $600 billion dollar trade deficits and climbing since the institution of NAFTA, with CAFTA in the works all the while Wal-Mart selling our nations manufacturers out the communist Chinese (not to mention the latest bids on both Maytag and Unocal by the Chinese), GM and Ford bonds considered junk and massive layoffs, pensions being revoked, proposal to raise the retirement age to sixty-nine, you know what I mean.
The list goes on and on with examples of our voice and our wishes being disregarded because they say they know what is "best for us." And the excuse, the "common good." Such scary and relative words, especially when coming from those in government. It is a mix of socialism and extremely corrupted globally integrated marketplaces that are no longer free, and that, my friends, is known as corporatism, just another word for a fascist state as Mussolini himself, the father of fascism, said. The worst form of tyranny always comes from those who feel morally justified in their actions for "the good of the people."
There is a point where we the people have to say enough is enough, we want our country back! If we don't stand up at some point, draw that line in the sand, we have already lost and might as well get on our knees and kiss the king's feet.
As I see it we have four "legal" options, and none of them, considering all this, are that bright, because we are working within the confines of an already corrupt and rigged system:
1) Court overturns ruling. (not likely, laughable)
2) Representatives bring impeachment charges, Congress convicts. (not likely, we might get the lower level Representatives to push it to the Senate with enough pressure, but I think it would die there. Think about it. Most of these people own tons of stock or are on the boards of directors for many corporations, why would they want to interrupt the status quo?)
3) Constitutional Amendment (not likely, and should not be needed.)
The reason things have gotten so bad is because we have already done this, look at the 14th Amendment, study it, and realize what it did. Not only did it give corporations the status of citizenship, but it made us all SUBJECT to the jurisdiction of the US, took away rights and gave us privileges in return. See: states rights, sovereignty. If you are a subject with privileges, are you a sovereign and free individual? There is a big difference between inalienable rights and privileges, and I choose the former. If you don?t understand the difference, then I suggest you learn.
Or the 16th Amendment which started the illegal operation known as the IRS to tax us without census or enumeration. Every try deciphering the tax code? What is taxable income? Ever get a straight answer. It is a fraud.
Or the 17th Amendment, which moved us closer to ?democracy,? nothing more than mob rule, tyranny of the majority over the minority, and away from the Republic by having us elect Senators rather than our Senators being chose by OUR representatives, thus disrupting the natural flow of power. The Representatives are the most important part of our government, because they are supposed to be the People?s voice.
All of these should be repealed, as the first ten were plenty, and covered it all, we just had to follow and enforce them. The rest is sleight of hand to usurp the power from the people.
4) Get our states to protect us (possible, but only a short term solution to a much larger problem)
I guess I am a pessimist, but the reason I see most of these as not likely is because government has had more than a century of unchecked activity and our media conglomerates work against us. This fatal decision is already traveling down the old Orwellian memory hole as far as they are concerned. The day after this decision at the daily White House press briefing, how many questions were asked about this? One, uno! What did Scott McClellan have to say? "The president and I have not discussed that yet." Not discussed it!! Come on, this is the worst decision in most of our lifetimes, and they hadn't discussed it?! Perhaps the president was too busy taking in a National's game the night before, but I will tell you what, if I was supposedly pushing for a so-called ownership society, and something like this happened and I really cared, I would not be at a ballgame with the good ol' boys! I would be rallying Americans to the cause of freedom, true freedom. I guess the real question would be is WHO owns what?
All the rest were whether Karl Rove was going to apologize for his comments about liberals and other meaningless dribble that is not about REAL issues, but high-level entertainment, crafted to distract us from reality. They control public perception, and without them, all we have to go on is alternative media, internet, blogging, newsletters, activism, which to me are the closest thing to the people's voice there is. We have been asleep and content for far too long, and a sleeping populace has never in history ended up with anything else than what we have and the direction I believe we are quickly headed.
Who controls the airwaves? Government complicit with corporations.
Who controls the schools and determines curriculum for our children? Government, dumbing us down. Fools and conformists are easier to control than those who learn to think for themselves. It has been shown through history that a state run school is the complete blueprint for a totalitarian society.
Who controls the press? Multi-national corporations complicit with government.
Who controls the land? Government complicit with multi-national corporations. This is nothing new, it is just out in your face now.
Who controls the economy? Government complicit with corporations, private corporations all the way up to the Federal Reserve itself, a centralization of private power of the worst kind. The founder of the Rothschild dynasty, one of the biggest banking institutions of history, Mayer Amschel Bauer, told the secret of controlling the government of a nation over two-hundred years ago. He said, "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." Get the picture? If you don?t know a lot about the Federal Reserve and how fractional reserve banking works, I suggest you read up on that as well.
Who controls a lot of our water supplies, multi-national corporations invited in by government. My water company here in Pittsburgh and along a lot of the east-coast is owned by a German company named RWE Thames, the world?s third largest water corporation. Do you know who owns your water? Remember, water is life, we cannot live without it. Do you trust your life to greed and the bottom line?
Who controls a lot of the electronic voting that is going in all around the country? Corporations, which I have done some research on, actually had a copy of the voting software from Diebold, and being in computers all I can say is it is NOT secure, and open to all kinds of mischievous activity. I was able to hack the software in two minutes, access the database, change votes, clean up my trail, and exit, and I am not even a professional, just a mere web developer. Scary.
Who controls our very culture and holds a lot of direct responsibility for the degradation of our values and other things true conservatives care about. Corporations. Why has homosexuality, violence, abortion, rampant rape, murder and drug use, etc become so prevalent in our society? Because through media, they have normalized and desensitized us to these things. We can?t blame the people partaking in such as much as those who have thrust it into their lives and cultivated it. We don?t have culture anymore, mom?s apple pies are out the window, we have logos and billboards telling us to be good little consumers.
Think about it. After the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor, the nation was up in arms and the entire nation was mobilized behind a cause. What happened after 9/11, we were told to go out and buy buy buy.
They are the culprits, and they are all selling us out for the bottom line. That, my friends, is criminal, and I dare say there were some men a long time ago were chucking tea off a boat for a lot less. The amount of tyranny you live under is the exact amount that you will tolerate. How much more can you tolerate?
We have already lost in my opinion and the only way to get it back is to get the public backlash at a level where our Representatives must act or else.
If our elected Representatives do not or will not act, then perhaps we have a bigger problem than just the 5th amendment being burned.
While I would hate to see anything of a violent nature happen, as I have always been of the opinion we could take this back peacefully, they are getting in our face, the gloves are off now and they have exposed the true agenda. It has been said that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson, smart guy, knew his stuff, and grasped the concept of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our founding fathers, if you read their writings, all foresaw this, they wrote it all down, and our nation has been lulled to sleep, thus forgetting the lessons and teachings of history, which without, we are lost and doomed. Ask the average high-schooler to tell you about the Constitution or the founding of this Republic or the contradicting differences between democracy and a Constitutional Republic, and you?ll know what I am talking about.
You want to change things? Get active. Make others aware, get them motivated and active. My talent, if you want to call it that, is writing, so I started a blog and stick to the issues that matter and affect us most. I also go around the Internet expressing my views to people of all ideologies, hoping to bring us closer together. If you are a decent writer and want a voice, use Blogger or something similar, or start your own.
If you have other talents, use them, but the most important thing is to learn the issue you want to speak on, and get that word out to as many people as you can.
Network with others who share your goals; join forces. United we stand, divided we fall is more than just words. If you have good organizational skills, something I sorely lack, arrange a protest in your home town advocating property rights; we must force them, both in government and media, to heed us. Don?t let up. If the outcry is loud enough, the corporate media must respond or risk being exposed as what they are, mouthpieces of either party and advertisement agencies. You will likely be demonized by them, but more and more people will see through it, and you will know deep down you are doing what is right, and you will make your founding fathers, who are likely rolling in their graves right now, proud once again, because as it stands, it is us, the People, who have failed.
In the meantime, read as much history as you can, not just one view, look at different views of history and decide for yourself. The good thing about history is you get a contextual view without the rhetoric. Read up on the history of banking and money, very important. Read the business section of the news. The mergers, the flow of money worldwide, who owns what, who is part of what, which elected representatives own stock in what, etc. because to me that is really where the news and policies are made, in boardrooms, not in Washington.
Use the Internet, you have all human knowledge at your fingertips, and all you have to do is learn to discern, using your God-given intelligence, between fact and fiction. Other resources are the US Congress and your state legislature websites where you can see all the proposed bills, and voice your opinion on them before the media covers them, which is usually shortly before, if not after, they are passed.
I was just a normal American until Thursday, but now I am a Patriot in a fight for my freedom. I have a cause and I will not stop until I have secured the future of this nation for coming generations. Nothing else really matters. People can laugh at me, call me names, try to distract me from the reality with fake-news, but I will not stop, even if I end up standing alone or dead. I have a conscience, and will not leave future generations to a life of servitude.
This country is not made up of Liberals and Conservatives, blacks and whites, gays and straights, but Americans, We the People, and we are all in the same boat when it comes to government intrusion and corruption such as this, and we all need to do the following:
Memorize to heart the Constitution and Bill of Rights and base all your decisions regarding your nation on those documents alone, no matter which party. That is the Law of the Land, and nothing should be above that original law, it is the foundation of everything, and without that foundation you are merely building a house of cards, destined to come crumbling down much like the Roman Empire collapsed from corruption within. These are not ?living documents? to be changed and interpreted as our lawmakers see fit for their agenda, but timeless documents, the blueprint for everything we cherish and value as real Americans. That is our banner, that is our rally point, and if we wish to be free and sovereign individuals, we must band together, putting petty differences of the day aside. We are so wrapped up in the terrorist threat from without, that we are failing to see the horrible and far more dangerous enemy within.
Realize the simple fact that left/right is an illusion, a set of parameters laid out for you, nothing more. It is a divide and conquer technique that has been used by governments all throughout history. Those are not the only two choices. Be a Patriot or Constitutionalist, as all great Americans who love their country should be, above all else. Realize that you should always love your country, but government is a ?dangerous servant and fearful master? and is NOT your friend, but the most dangerous enemy a population can have if left unchecked. It is our duty and obligation as sovereign individuals to realize this distinction.
For the Conservatives here, I am a Conservative, but I will not be caught with my pants down bickering about what Dick Durbin or Karl Rove has to say, or some tabloid book about Hillary, or any other non-news divisive plays while my country is ripped from under my very feet on the slide. I say NO, not while I am alive.
At some point in time we must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties, who play us as fools. The evidence is everywhere, just open your eyes and see.
The Republicans propose to be for free market and the ownership society, yet create laws left and right that routinely help corporations screw the American public, and leave the borders wide open to bring in cheap labor. The Democrats, on the other side, use the back door of the courts through reverse psychology, i.e. false liberalism, to do the same. The so-called Liberals are always on about the ?corporate welfare,? and now all of sudden they are for the biggest proponents of ?corporate welfare? ever conceived in this nation in one swift swoop. Unbelievable.
Seems like the ultimate end, when you combine both agendas, is to flood this country with people from the south for cheap labor, build lots of new businesses through this decision, and herd us all into modern plantations to be watched over by our corporate/government masters, not owners, but slaves. If I were thinking like a businessman with no value system but that of the almighty dollar, that would be my tactic to increase productivity and profit. Think about it. You may disagree with me, but I beg you to think about it.
I'll step down off the soapbox now. Some of you may not agree with everything I have said here, and that is great, because that is the American way, but I urge you all to act the best you know how, study the past, and I hope I have at least made you think, and perhaps planted a seed for tomorrow.
I am no leader, hardly, I don?t want to be one, and don?t propose to have all the answers or be right in all my observations, but together, united, perhaps we can find them. That is what self-government is all about and if we work together we can affect change, real change. For the future of our nation and our peoples. Time is running out.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to reprint this, unaltered of course, anywhere you like.
Ramasax
(Edited by Ramasax on 06-26-2005 21:56)
posted 06-26-2005 21:31
