The United States Isn't a Country — It's a Corporation!
by Lisa Guliani
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." — Preamble of the original "organic" Constitution
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." — Excerpted from the Declaration of Independence of the original thirteen united states of America, July 4, 1776
Fourth of July 2002 has come and gone, and Americans honored the holiday with a renewed patriotic fervor that reminded me of the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976. As is customary, traditional fireworks displays took center stage and scores of people turned out to witness the dazzling show in the summer sky. With mixed feelings, I sat with friends on a crowded Pennsylvania sidewalk beneath a glittering, mesmerizing explosion of color, pondering the keen sense of sadness and betrayal that overwhelmed my spirit. Looking around at the huge crowds gathered for the annual events, I thought silently, "We are not free." In truth, we have not been a free people for a very long time.
We celebrate this day in honor of our "independence". We call ourselves a free people in a land of liberty. Our anthems proudly sing the praises of this nation, and we raise our voices, wave our flags and join in song — but how many Americans realize they are not free? This is a myth perpetuated by the powers-that-be in order to avoid any major civil unrest, and to keep us all living under the thumb of a militaristic corporate Big Brother within the illusions that have been created for us. The truth of the matter is this: what freedom has not been stolen from us, we have surrendered willingly through our silence and ignorance. As Americans, most of us have no idea how our freedoms are maintained — or lost. Apparently, our ancestors didn't have a good grasp of this either. It is sad, but it is also very true.
Don't point to that beloved parchment, the Constitution, as a symbol of your enduring freedom. It is representative of a form of government which seemingly no longer exists in this country today. The Constitution has been thrown out the window, the Republic shoved aside and replaced with a democracy. The thing is; most people in this country remain unaware that this is so because they simply do not know the truth — what lies beyond the myths. Your so-called government is not going to tell you, either.
To even begin to understand what has happened to the Republic, we must look backward in time to the period following the Civil War. We must go back to the year 1871, which was the beginning of the decline of the Republic. When we examine what happened during that time in our history, we begin to piece together this troubling, perplexing puzzle that is "America" — only then should we answer as to whether we are indeed a "free" people or not.
So, let's roll backward into the past for a moment. It is time we learned what they didn't teach us in school. It is far more interesting than what they DID tell us. I think you'll stay awake for this lesson.
The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. I refer you to the "Acts of the Forty-First Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act titled: "An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia." This is also known as the "Act of 1871." What does this mean? Well, it means that Congress, under no constitutional authority to do so, created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, which is a ten mile square parcel of land.
What??? How could they do that? Moreover, WHY would they do that? To explain, let's look at the circumstances of those days. The Act of 1871 was passed at a vulnerable time in America. Our nation was essentially bankrupt — weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Civil War itself was nothing more than a calculated "front" for some pretty fancy footwork by corporate backroom players. It was a strategic maneuver by European interests (the international bankers) who were intent upon gaining a stranglehold on the neck (and the coffers) of America.
The Congress realized our country was in dire financial straits, so they cut a deal with the international bankers — (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone's pie) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers. If we think about banks, we know they do not just lend us money out of the goodness of their hearts. A bank will not do anything for you unless it is entirely in their best interest to do so. There has to be some sort of collateral or some string attached which puts you and me (the borrower) into a subservient position. This was true back in 1871 as well. The conniving international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States (a prize they had coveted for some time, but had been unable to grasp thanks to our Founding Fathers, who despised them and held them in check), and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed.
In essence, this Act formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Note the capitalization, because it is important. This corporation, owned by foreign interests, moved right in and shoved the original "organic" version of the Constitution into a dusty corner. With the "Act of 1871," our Constitution was defaced in the sense that the title was block-capitalized and the word "for" was changed to the word "of" in the title. The original Constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers, was written in this manner:
"The Constitution for the united states of America".
The altered version reads: "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA". It is the corporate constitution. It is NOT the same document you might think it is. The corporate constitution operates in an economic capacity and has been used to fool the People into thinking it is the same parchment that governs the Republic. It absolutely is not.
Capitalization — an insignificant change? Not when one is referring to the context of a legal document, it isn't. Such minor alterations have had major impacts on each subsequent generation born in this country. What the Congress did with the passage of the Act of 1871 was create an entirely new document, a constitution for the government of the District of Columbia. The kind of government THEY created was a corporation. The new, altered Constitution serves as the constitution of the corporation, and not that of America. Think about that for a moment.
Incidentally, this corporate constitution does not benefit the Republic. It serves only to benefit the corporation. It does nothing good for you or me — and it operates outside of the original Constitution. Instead of absolute rights guaranteed under the "organic" Constitution, we now have "relative" rights or privileges. One example of this is the Sovereign's right to travel, which has been transformed under corporate government policy into a "privilege" which we must be licensed to engage in. This operates outside of the original Constitution.
So, Congress committed TREASON against the People, who were considered Sovereign under the Declaration of Independence and the organic Constitution. When we consider the word "Sovereign," we must think about what the word means.
According to Webster's Dictionary, "sovereign" is defined as: 1. chief or highest; supreme. 2. Supreme in power, superior in position to all others. 3. Independent of, and unlimited by, any other, possessing or entitled to, original and independent authority or jurisdiction.
In other words, our government was created by and for "sovereigns" — the free citizens who were deemed the highest authority. Only the People can be sovereign — remember that. Government cannot be sovereign. We can also look to the Declaration of Independence, where we read: "government is subject to the consent of the governed" — that's supposed to be us, the sovereigns. Do you feel like a sovereign nowadays? I don't.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a constitutional historian to figure out that this is not what is happening in our country today. Government in these times is NOT subject to the consent of the governed. Rather, the governed are subject to the whim and greed of the corporation, which has stretched its tentacles beyond the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia — encroaching into every state of the Republic. Mind you, the corporation has NO jurisdiction outside of the District of Columbia. THEY just want you to think it does.
You see, you are presumed to know the law. This is ironic because as a people, we are taught basically nothing about the law in school. We are made to memorize obscure factoids and paragraphs here and there, such as the Preamble, and they gloss over the Bill of Rights. But we are not told about the law. Nor do our corporate government schools delve into the Constitution in any great depth. After all, they were put into place to indoctrinate and dumb down the masses — not to teach us anything. We were not told that we were sold-out to foreign interests and made beneficiaries of the debt incurred by Congress to the international bankers. For generations, American citizens have had the bulk of their earnings confiscated to pay on a massive debt that they, as a People, did not incur. There are many, many things the People have not been told. How do you feel about being made a beneficiary of somebody else's massive debt without your knowledge or consent? Are we gonna keep going along with this??
When you hear some individuals say that the Constitution is null and void, think about how our government has transformed over time from a municipal or service-oriented entity to a corporate or profit-oriented entity. We are living under the myth that this is lawful, but it is not. We are being ruled by a "de facto," or unlawful, form of government — the corporate body of the death-mongers — The Controllers.
With the passage of the Act of 1871, a series of subtle and overt deceptions were set in motion — all in conjunction and collusion with the Congress, who knowingly and deliberately sold the People down the river. Did they tell you this in government school? I doubt it. They were too busy drumming the fictional version of history into your brain — and mine. By failing to disclose what THEY did to the American People, the people became ignorant of what was happening. Over time, the Republic took it on the chin to the point of a knockdown. With the surrender of their gold in 1933, the People essentially surrendered their law. I don't suppose you were taught THAT in school either. That's because our REAL history is hidden from us. This is the way Roman Civil Law works — and our form of governance today is based upon Roman Civil Law and Admiralty/Maritime Law — better known as the "Divine Right of Kings" and "Law of the Seas", respectively. This explains a lot. Roman Civil Law was fully established in the original colonies even before our nation began and is also known as private international law.
The government which was created for the District of Columbia via the Act of 1871 operates under Private International Law, and not Common Law, which was the law of the Constitutional Republic. This is very important to note since it impacts all Americans in concrete ways. You must recognize that private international law is only applicable within the District of Columbia and NOT in the other states of the Union. The various arms of the corporation are known as "departments" such as the Judiciary, Justice and Treasury. You recognize those names? Yes, you do! But they are not what you assume them to be. These "departments" all belong to the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. They do NOT belong to you and me under the corporate constitution and its various amendments that operate outside of the Constitutional Republic.
I refer you to the UNITED STATES CODE (note the capitalization, indicating the corporation, not the Republic) Title 28 3002 (15) (A) (B) (C). It is stated unequivocally that the UNITED STATES is a corporation. Realize, too, that the corporation is not a separate and distinct entity from the government. It IS the government. YOUR government. This is extremely important. I refer to this as the "corporate empire of the UNITED STATES," which operates under Roman Civil Law outside of the Constitution. How do you like being ruled by a cheesy, sleazy corporation? You'll ask your Congressperson about this, you say? HA!!
Congress is fully aware of this deception. You must be made aware that the members of Congress do NOT work for you and me. Rather, they work for the Corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Is this really any surprise to you? This is why we can't get them to do anything on our behalf or to answer to us — as in the case with the illegal income tax — among many other things. Contrary to popular belief, they are NOT our civil servants. They do NOT work for us. They are the servants of the corporate government and carry out its bidding. Period.
The great number of committees and sub-committees that the Congress has created all work together like a multi-headed monster to oversee the various corporate "departments." And, you should know that every single one of these that operates outside the District of Columbia is in violation of the law. The corporate government of the UNITED STATES has no jurisdiction or authority in ANY state of the Republic beyond the District of Columbia. Let this sink into your brain for a minute. Ask yourself, "Could this deception REALLY have occurred without the full knowledge and complicity of the Congress?" Do you think it happened by accident? You are deceiving yourself if you do. There are no accidents or coincidences. It is time to confront the truth and awaken from ignorance.
Your legislators will not apprise you of this information. You are presumed to know the law. THEY know you don't know the law, or your history for that matter, because this information has not been taught to you. No concerted effort has been made to inform you. As a Sovereign, you are entitled to full disclosure of the facts. As a slave, you are entitled to nothing other than what the corporation decides to "give" you — at a price. Be wary of accepting so-called "benefits" of the corporation of the UNITED STATES. Aren't you enslaved enough already?
I said (above) that you are presumed to know the law. Still, it matters not if you don't in the eyes of the corporation. Ignorance of the law is not considered an excuse. It is your responsibility and your obligation as an American to learn about the law and how it applies to you. THEY count on the fact that most people are too uninterested or distracted or lazy to do so. The People have been mentally conditioned to allow the alleged government to do their thinking for them. We need to turn that around if we are to save our Republic before it is too late.
The UNITED STATES government is basically a corporate instrument of the international bankers. This means YOU are owned by the corporation from birth to death. The corporate UNITED STATES also holds ownership of all your assets, your property, and even your children. Does this sound untrue? Think long and hard about all those bills you pay, all those various taxes and fines and licenses you must pay for. Yes, they've got you by the pockets. Actually, they've had you by the ass for as long as you've been alive. In your heart, you know it's true. Don't believe any of this? Read up on the 14th Amendment. Check out how "free" you really are.
With the Act of 1871 and subsequent legislation such as the purportedly ratified 14th Amendment, our once-great nation of Sovereigns has been subverted from a Republic to a democracy. As is the case under Roman Civil Law, our ignorance of the facts has led to our silence. Our silence has been construed as our consent to become beneficiaries of a debt we did not incur. The Sovereign People have been deceived for hundreds of years into thinking they remain free and independent, when in actuality we continue to be slaves and servants of the corporation.
Treason was committed against the People in 1871 by the Congress. This could have been corrected through the decades by some honest men (assuming there were some), but it was not, mainly due to lust for money and power. Nothing new there. Are we to forgive and justify this crime against the People? You have lost more freedom than you may realize due to corporate infiltration of the so-called government. We will lose more unless we turn away from a democracy that is the direct road to disaster — and restore our Constitutional Republic.
In an upcoming article, we'll take a closer look at the purportedly ratified 14th Amendment and how we became "property" of the corporation and enslaved by our silence.
I am saddened to think about the brave men and women who were killed in all the wars and conflicts instigated by the Controllers. These courageous souls fought for the preservation of ideals they believed to be true — not for the likes of a corporation. Do you believe that any one of the individuals who have been killed as a result of war would have willingly fought if they knew the full truth? Do you think one person would have laid down his life for a corporation? I think not. If the People had known long ago to what extent their trust had been betrayed, I wonder how long it would have taken for another Revolution. What we need is a Revolution in THOUGHT. We change our thinking and we change our world.
Will we ever restore the Republic? That is a question I cannot answer yet. I hope, and most of all — pray — that WE, the Sovereign People, will work together in a spirit of cooperation to make it happen in this lifetime. I know I will give it my best shot — come what may. Our children deserve their rightful legacy — the liberty our ancestors fought so hard to give to us. Will we remain silent telling ourselves we are free, and perpetuate the MYTH? Or, do we stand as One Sovereign People, and take back what has been stolen from the house of our Republic?
Something to think about — it's called freedom.
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The United States of America vs. THE UNITED STATESBy Dhane Blue4/5/07The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act titled: "An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia." This is also known as the "Act of 1871." In essence, this Act formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. The government which was created for the District of Columbia via the Act of 1871 operates under Private International Law, and not Common Law, which was the law of the Constitutional Republic. The UNITED STATES government is basically a corporate instrument of the international bankers. This means YOU are owned by the corporation from birth to death. The corporate UNITED STATES also holds ownership of all your assets, your property, and even your children. With the Act of 1871 and subsequent legislation such as the purportedly ratified 14th Amendment, our once-great nation of Sovereigns has been subverted from a Republic to a democracy. The Sovereign People have been deceived for hundreds of years into thinking they remain free and independent, when in actuality we continue to be slaves and servants of the corporation. The United States Isn't a Country - It's a Corporation by Lisa Guliana (www.serendipity.li)IntroductionThe United States of America was once described as the perfect example of a free society, or at least the 'seed' of one. Yet, not all of the world's peoples would agree with this statement at present. Many of THE UNITED STATES' flag-waving super-patriots would be surprised to learn that their behavior, seen from a perspective outside of their own 'blinkered' vision, is considered delusional at best and genocidal at worst. In fact, THE UNITED STATES is a crypto-fascist state with a secret government hidden from the People of the United States of America. This 'secret' government is a pathological corporate entity that has defrauded American people of their natural birth rights in the same way that European colonialists once robbed the original inhabitants of America of their very lives. A nation born in and drenched in the blood of a genocide enforced upon a 'truly' democratic native society deserves no better. What do THE UNITED STATES' super-patriots believe?The greatest of all illusions is the idea that a patriot exists to defend his Country. Whoever defines the word 'Country' can easily usurp the power of a patriot's dedicated loyalty and turn them to ends that a true patriot would cry out against in horror. Note the attitude of many in America during times of war, or during the present post-9/11 silliness. Many are willing to lend their life energies to the genocide THE UNITED STATES has been perpetrating in the Middle East for the past 15 years simply because the shared mental image of 'Country' has been perceived to be attacked. Even worse, we are ready to do the same harm to ourselves once the opportunistic rulers give the command to do so. A true patriot defends the country in which he immediately lives and works in. This country is spelled with a little "c", as in countryside. Taking care of one's friends, families, and neighbors, as well as the land they all share that supports them, is the highest of all patriot duties. If the land area that you live on is free, happy and prosperous, then you have done your duty to the world, and no more is required of you. True Patriots by Patrick Mooney (www.unlearning.org)If the land area that you live on is free, happy and prosperous, then you have done your duty to the world, and no more is required of you. I find fault even with this definition of 'patriot'. Someone is still using words to define property rights - I disagree. The planet Earth belongs to ALL the People living here. It is the ONLY resource we ALL share. No one individual of the world's population or any 'elitist group' of the world's population has the right to more than an equal share of this finite resource. It is in the idea that someone does - in the idea of survival of the fittest and a Darwinian paradigm -- that people become delusional. They buy into the idea that our planet has scarce resources and that they should be fought over. The planet Earth is about COOPERATION - this is the law of survival here! THE UNITED STATES is The Big Lie sold to the people of America who believe THEIR survival is dependent on the Darwinian delusion of reality. How do people discover this planet's Truth and become free of The Big Lie? Well, that's what we're ALL here for, to learn 'cooperation' instead of 'competition'.Truth and FreedomFreedom is a natural state of being for humanity. It has been part of life on this planet from the beginning of time. The force of freedom and liberty is part and parcel of life itself. It does not require a law to protect it nor a piece of paper to prove it. It is self-evident to people who experience it in their hearts and minds. If we burn a piece of paper that espouses freedom, does the experience of freedom disappear? Unfortunately, freedom of mind has become a rare quantity in THE UNITED STATES - it already has excised the human heart from its corporate body. What good is 'freedom of speech' when 'freedom of thought' is no longer exercised in American society? What has this society become? I would hypothesize it is nothing more than a corporate mind-controlled zombie - a modern day Frankenstein.When society is itself the tyrant -- society collectively over the separate individuals who compose it -- its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs (to be) protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development and, if possible, prevent the formation of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (www.serendipity.li)Many people believe that the idea of freedom was a new thought until recently. They believe it slowly grew over time, and was secured with pieces of paper, contracts between people who agreed to be bound by their rules and principles. People point to these contracts as proof of freedom in the world - the Magna Carta of 1215, the Declaration of Independence of 1776, the U.S. Constitution of 1789, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 that guides the doctrine of the United Nations. We should note that all the contracts were written by white people under heavy Masonic influence. These are the people who created the United States of America as an experiment in social engineering. They used the words of Orwellian 'double-speak' to hypnotize the masses of the emergent American society into accepting a contract that is null and void in Common Law. The people of the United States of America are still in a system of servitude and don't even recognize it. This 'servitude' is a virtual Hell on Earth. The people of the United States of America were once Sovereign. Now, by their acceptance of The Big Lie -- the 'behavior' they have been indoctrinated into - they have lost the experience of freedom to governmental mind control.As a people we will never taste liberation, or live in a genuinely democratic society, until we free our minds (from governmental mind control). The open mind is not a conditioned (brainwashed) one. So long as we believe in the conditioning supplied to us by the institutions of our day, we will never achieve our full potential as human beings. That vast potential is no less than genius. As a species we use less than 10% of our mental capacities, and perhaps even less of our spiritual abilities, because of the faulty, culturally imposed beliefs we teach our children to revere. Our felt lack is learned (Pavlovian) behavior Restoring Power to the People by Matthew Webb (www.eoni.com/~visionquest)If the fraudulent contracts of THE UNITED STATES and the words constituting them are to be taken seriously, we, the People of the United States of America need to burn them. The paper and ink they are made of are worthless except as toilet paper because they don't represent true self-government by the People. How can we, the People of the United States of America, let ourselves be reduced to something less than the Sovereigns we once were? In the same fashion, THE UNITED STATES is simply a legal fiction, a corporation - NOT a living being - put in place to control American society. How can we, the People of the United States of America, consent to partnership with such a a life-denying artifice, The Big Lie, that has taken over our society? The People of the United States of America need de-programmers to awaken from the cultural trance they've been placed into by The Big Lie. This is an internal revolution -- an implosion. For those People awakened to this Truth, they only need to learn to live in freedom without governmental controllers. A return to self-governance at the local level of family and community means a return to communion within a 'collective human soul'. It is an organic re-Constitution of a sane society.The First ScamDuring the era of feudalism throughout Europe there were three recognized 'elites' - the church hierarchy, the landed aristocracy or nobility, and the royal families. Society was run by these three 'elitist' powers, with competition amongst themselves, but there was never any illusion of democracy or freedom. For those 'elitists', freedom meant 'Empire'. They considered it their natural right to play at the game of 'Empire-building'. War was the sport of kings. The common people of that era, the serfs, had no say whatsoever over how their lives were governed. As feudalism ended, a fourth 'elitist' power slowly arose in European society - wealthy business people. They were interested in freedom for commercialism -- freedom from the interference and control of the other three 'elitist' powers. By the time that Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, the common people were being sold the potential for a partnership with this fourth 'elitist' power.Common Sense created in the popular Western mind, for the first time, perhaps, since the early Roman republic, the notion that government arises from the consent of the governed - that the People are the state. Paine was popularizing - and expanding the scope of - some of the radical ideas that had been developed by Enlightenment thinkers generally. He was concerned with promoting personal freedom, popular sovereignty, and - most particularly - creating an ironclad case for the legitimacy of a government based on the will of the People rather than on divine right or inherited dominion America and the New World Order by Richard K. Moore (www.cyberjournal.org)Of course, the first scam is the idea that the People need government to have freedom. Even the emerging business elites were scammed --- they saw republics (contractual government) as a better environment for capitalism. It was their new promise of freedom to play at Empire-building. Was their contract for freedom a play at being the Devil's advocate - a dialectic with the Catholic Church? The American Revolution was their grab for power as these new elites offered the People a partnership in a new regime. The People were the manpower for the apparent overthrow of the old elites and were led on by the promises of liberty, equality, and a fraternity with the new elites. Thus, the American War of Independence was fought for the goal of Freedom - but, this word had two different shades of meaning - one for each class of people. The common populace thought it meant, primarily, personal freedom and popular democratic sovereignty. The business elites thought it meant commercial freedom to pursue capital investment uncontrolled by royal or divine authority. And, at the first Continental Congress of 1774, the business elites acted on that thought - as the members of this Congress were chosen from the ablest and wealthiest Americans, the upper class. These people definitely believed that the People who owned the country should govern it. Of course, everyone wants to own planet Earth - don't they? But, who shall the ultimate 'stewards' be?The American Revolution was a 'kind of revolution' (NOT a true revolution from the bottom up). Although there was some of the 'rabble' effect of the common people, as in the English Civil War, the American Revolution was obviously a revolt of American elites, as shown by the names that signed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution giving full citizens' rights to white, land-owning men, and the fact that the oligarchy tried managing the 'rabble' from the beginnings of the American Revolution, and quickly took over the American political system. American Empire by Wade Frazier (www.ahealedplanet.net)America's small farmers and artisans - the common people -- resisted this vision of a 'commercial empire' dreamed up by the business elites. They had a taste of freedom and didn't want to lose it. The common people's vision of government was based upon their encounters with America's original inhabitants - native Indians. A very rare minority of these common people were the brave pioneers who went 'native' and were exterminated by the 'corporate' European colonists for their choice. From 1781 to 1789, the United States of America was governed by the Congress delineated in the original Articles of Confederation. It was a government modeled after the Iroquois Great Law of Peace and the Iroquois Confederation. This Native American confederation was more democratic than any political system ever devised by the West (or the East). A decentralized system of government, it made decisions by consensus and very little power was ever invested in any one individual. The original Congress of the United States of America was the only branch of government. There was no separate Senate, no Supreme Court, and no President. There was no way to coerce individual states into agreement with the business elites nor was there a way to use force to put down rebellions - not hardly a prescription for play at Empire-building. American history, ever since this early period, has been a 'see-saw' battle for control between the common people and the business elites - both just pawns on a larger playing board. It didn't take long for the business elites to serve a so-called 'higher authority' and implement The Big Lie. The big question here is who or what did they serve? The country's first president, George Washington, was one of U.S. history's most successful criminals. While school children are still led to believe the silly story about a youthful George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, and proclaiming -- I cannot tell a lie. I did it. -- his entire career as President was a blatant negation of this familiar cultural myth. In 1782, as the dust was settling on America's successful elite revolt (although the poor were drafted to fight in it); Washington presented a plan to the Continental Congress to defraud the Native Americans. It was a blueprint for theft and genocide. His plan was to compel Native Americans to sell their land by treaty. Then, (as apparently with ALL of THE UNITED STATES' treaties since then) the treaty was not worth the paper it was printed on, and the tribes would be coerced to 'sell' their treaty-provided land and be forced ever westward. Of more than 370 treaties forced onto the native tribes by the United States during the succeeding century, historians cannot find even one that the United States honored. Washington was the architect of America's Final Solution to the Indian Problem. Hitler later was deceived into adopting a similar German Final Solution to the Jewish Problem, partly, because he admired the American model.Is it possible for a class which exterminates the native peoples of the Americas, replaces them by raping Africa for humans it then denigrates and dehumanizes as slaves, while cheapening and degrading its own working class - is it possible for such a class to create democracy, equality, and to advance the cause of human 'freedom'? The implicit answer is, No. Of course not. Towards an American Revolution by Jerry Fresia (www.cyberjournal.org)The truth is that America's Founding Fathers were racist slave owners who committed genocide upon America's original inhabitants to expand their 'commercial empire'. They had been sold the freedom of playing at Empire-building and were the 'new kids on the block'. Did they stop to read the fine print in their contract with the Devil? Is it any surprise that they defrauded we, the People, of the United States of America, at the first opportunity they had - the Constitutional Convention of 1789? The so-called original Constitution of the U.S.A. had no Bill of Rights. We, the People, had to fight the business elites for it. This elite-drafted Constitution was NOT written with the full blessings of we, the People. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1789 had agreed to secrecy because the majority of American people were against this new Constitution - they still identified with the original Articles of Confederation. They had no idea that the Constitutional Convention of 1789 meant to completely restructure their local form of self-government. There was wide agreement among the lower and middle classes that political power should be as close to the local level as possible. The original Congress established by the Articles of Confederation was only meant to settle disputes between states, where true local government was located. However, the business elites had decided to take over the government and make it serve their interests, not the People's. The business elites were dependent on interstate and international markets. The game of 'Empire-building' was their freedom - NOT the freedom of family and community values opposed to their deal with the Devil of 'Money as God Mammon'. The 'Mammon worshipers' wanted a strong military to force others to act in their - the business elites' - interests. The Constitutional Convention of 1789 was the business elites' first opportunity to stab the American people in the back. The business elites thought people of humble origins with parochial interests - family, faith and community - had too much power. These people had even used their local form of self-government to curb the business elites' economic power and further expansion of their commercial empire. With the restructuring of the government by the business elites, they now had the power to rule over we, the People, of the United States of America. It was The First Scam.Ours is a government which rests on the assumption that 'the People', especially when they become politically excited, interested, and alive, are thought of as subversive. But, we seem to prefer to protect our moral high-mindedness by permitting elites, virtually at every chance they get, to persist in the (Big) lie that it is 'we the People' and not 'we the largest property owners' who govern this country. Ideological managers would have us forget that the phrase 'we the People' borrowed from the Iroquois by the Framers (of the U.S. Constitution), and exploited, ('We, the People, to form a union, to establish peace, equity and order ...'), was taken from the Iroquois Treaty of 1520. (The greatest irony is that the Framers of the Constitution were committing genocide upon these same people, the Iroquois). Towards an American Revolution by Jerry Fresia (www.cyberjournal.org)The Second ScamIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the U.S.A. was bankrupt. With the assassination of Lincoln and the eradication of his government-printed money, the 'would-be' new royalist elites in the form of the international bankers moved in. These elites wanted to gain a stranglehold on America's neck and institute their newest scam on we, the People, of the United States of America. It was their turn - the international bankers, this time --- to take over the government. Congress had borrowed money from these international bankers - the Rothschilds -- but had no collateral for the loan. So, they made a deal with the Devil of 'Money', literally selling the collective soul of America in exchange for relative continued wealth and power for members of this treasonous Congress. This was achieved in the Act of 1871 that formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Owned by foreign interests, it was limited to the confines of the District of Columbia. This corporation acts in an economic capacity and its constitution, or legal definition of itself, was an entirely new document for the government of the District of Columbia. It has no authority except in private international law, not applicable in the states of America. How this new federal government stripped the states of America of their Sovereign powers is another essay. It is sufficient to surmise that The Second Scam succeeded. Members of Congress from that time onwards have worked for this corporation. They are NOT, we, the People's, civil servants. All departments of this government outside of the District of Columbia are violating Common Law, the law of we, the People, of the United States of America. This scam, or fraud, has been given legs because there has been no full disclosure of facts to American citizens. The constitution of this corporation doesn't benefit the United States of America as it operates outside of their original Constitution. It has taken the idea of government to a whole new level - that of the corporation as state. Instead of absolute rights of Sovereigns stipulated in the original Constitution, we, the People, of today, have been given relative rights and privileges if we want to participate in the pathological mindset of the corporate state. Our government, now a corporation, is no longer subject to the consent of the governed populace. How did the elites achieve this Act of 1871 without disclosure of the facts? Well, their contract was with the Devil of 'Money', not the People of the United States of America.(We, the People) are presumed to know the law (of the Pharisees). (But), as a people, we are taught basically nothing about the law in school. Nor do our corporate government schools delve into the Constitution in any great depth. (We, the People) were not told that we were sold out to foreign interests and made beneficiaries of the debt incurred by Congress to the international bankers. For generations, American citizens have had the bulk of their earnings confiscated to pay on a massive debt that they, as a People, did not incur. The United States Isn't a Country - It's a Corporation by Lisa Guliani (www.serendipity.li)In the United States, we, the People, have let ourselves become ruled by a 'de facto' unlawful form of government, a corporate body that 'exists' only in private international law. Despite the rhetoric and propaganda, a ruthless and authoritarian federal government has come to trample on the natural rights of the People, and many citizens, especially those that do not belong to the racial majority or do not fit into the corporate-capitalist model of society, are imprisoned for victim-less 'crimes' and lose both liberty and property. Far from being a model for the world of a government of a free people, the government of THE UNITED STATES is in effect a fascist dictatorship, such as the world has not seen openly since the 1930's.Ironically, it is the average American today who would denounce revolutionary patriotism as radical and dangerous. It is the average American who now doesn't wish to be bothered by activism or talk of freedom, civil liberties or justice, because they are too busy making or maintaining their own empire of money. Most of our 'patriotic' citizens only value their own personal business, far more than they do such 'radical' causes as revolution or civil rights. These things they say, are better left to those 'fringe' and psychotic groups or individuals, who deserve to be arrested and imprisoned for threatening the safety of the status quo (American society's Devil of 'Money' worshipers). Who truly cares about these issues today? Almost no one. Why? Because we no longer value, as a culture, the qualities of freedom and sovereignty which literally defined our nation. Let's face it, the issues and values of the (We, the People, of the United States of America), just don't compete with those of greedy consumerism and egotism, which fully permeate the modern world. What could be more important, after all, then making that next car payment or getting that new credit card? As a people we have become programmed to 'consume', obey and accept sheepishly, rather than to be bothered by independent thought or action. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Matthew Webb (www.ahealedplanet.net)Modern America believes that the people exist to obey and serve government. This attitude is due to the efforts of corporate propaganda and pseudo-education, based upon the elites' desire for profit and mass-control. It is a symptom of greedy corruption based in anti-democracy. The fact of the matter is, government exists as an extension of the will of the People. When it does otherwise, it is no longer a government that should remain in place, for it has proven itself unworthy to represent we, the People, of the United States of America. In essence, America has exchanged the tyranny of kings for the tyranny of corporate C.E.O.'s. The faces and titles have changed, but not the same old issues of inequality and non-representation. As a matter of fact, there are extremely few people who would not literally jump at the chance to change places with the rich, even if this meant betraying family, friends and the cause of civil liberties to do so. From corporate president to peasant farmer or cashier, American society has become permeated with the rot of materialistic values, over and above those of freedom and human excellence. Until these values of worshiping Money as God (Devil) are changed, THE UNITED STATES' citizens will remain the very oppressors and con artists for hire, whom were fought against by the Native Americans in the 18th century.Rebirth of the United States of America The author of this essay has become a spiritual anarchist and is an American ex-patriate. This essay only addresses two of the many scams perpetrated upon the American People. I don't want to belittle American culture and write about a 'strike three' for America. Even if it were to be so, that would only be an 'out' for one player on the American team. I no longer consider myself as a 'pawn' upon the playing board of the 'Empire-builders'. For those readers interested in learning more about the eternal struggle for freedom, this author reminds them that the 'Kingdom of Heaven' lies within - remember that implosion and not the explosions of 9-11.
Posted by Jason Miller at 12:42 PM
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
The Big Lie
The United States of America vs. THE UNITED STATESBy Dhane Blue4/5/07The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act titled: "An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia." This is also known as the "Act of 1871." In essence, this Act formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. The government which was created for the District of Columbia via the Act of 1871 operates under Private International Law, and not Common Law, which was the law of the Constitutional Republic. The UNITED STATES government is basically a corporate instrument of the international bankers. This means YOU are owned by the corporation from birth to death. The corporate UNITED STATES also holds ownership of all your assets, your property, and even your children. With the Act of 1871 and subsequent legislation such as the purportedly ratified 14th Amendment, our once-great nation of Sovereigns has been subverted from a Republic to a democracy. The Sovereign People have been deceived for hundreds of years into thinking they remain free and independent, when in actuality we continue to be slaves and servants of the corporation. The United States Isn't a Country - It's a Corporation by Lisa Guliana (www.serendipity.li)IntroductionThe United States of America was once described as the perfect example of a free society, or at least the 'seed' of one. Yet, not all of the world's peoples would agree with this statement at present. Many of THE UNITED STATES' flag-waving super-patriots would be surprised to learn that their behavior, seen from a perspective outside of their own 'blinkered' vision, is considered delusional at best and genocidal at worst. In fact, THE UNITED STATES is a crypto-fascist state with a secret government hidden from the People of the United States of America. This 'secret' government is a pathological corporate entity that has defrauded American people of their natural birth rights in the same way that European colonialists once robbed the original inhabitants of America of their very lives. A nation born in and drenched in the blood of a genocide enforced upon a 'truly' democratic native society deserves no better. What do THE UNITED STATES' super-patriots believe?The greatest of all illusions is the idea that a patriot exists to defend his Country. Whoever defines the word 'Country' can easily usurp the power of a patriot's dedicated loyalty and turn them to ends that a true patriot would cry out against in horror. Note the attitude of many in America during times of war, or during the present post-9/11 silliness. Many are willing to lend their life energies to the genocide THE UNITED STATES has been perpetrating in the Middle East for the past 15 years simply because the shared mental image of 'Country' has been perceived to be attacked. Even worse, we are ready to do the same harm to ourselves once the opportunistic rulers give the command to do so. A true patriot defends the country in which he immediately lives and works in. This country is spelled with a little "c", as in countryside. Taking care of one's friends, families, and neighbors, as well as the land they all share that supports them, is the highest of all patriot duties. If the land area that you live on is free, happy and prosperous, then you have done your duty to the world, and no more is required of you. True Patriots by Patrick Mooney (www.unlearning.org)If the land area that you live on is free, happy and prosperous, then you have done your duty to the world, and no more is required of you. I find fault even with this definition of 'patriot'. Someone is still using words to define property rights - I disagree. The planet Earth belongs to ALL the People living here. It is the ONLY resource we ALL share. No one individual of the world's population or any 'elitist group' of the world's population has the right to more than an equal share of this finite resource. It is in the idea that someone does - in the idea of survival of the fittest and a Darwinian paradigm -- that people become delusional. They buy into the idea that our planet has scarce resources and that they should be fought over. The planet Earth is about COOPERATION - this is the law of survival here! THE UNITED STATES is The Big Lie sold to the people of America who believe THEIR survival is dependent on the Darwinian delusion of reality. How do people discover this planet's Truth and become free of The Big Lie? Well, that's what we're ALL here for, to learn 'cooperation' instead of 'competition'.Truth and FreedomFreedom is a natural state of being for humanity. It has been part of life on this planet from the beginning of time. The force of freedom and liberty is part and parcel of life itself. It does not require a law to protect it nor a piece of paper to prove it. It is self-evident to people who experience it in their hearts and minds. If we burn a piece of paper that espouses freedom, does the experience of freedom disappear? Unfortunately, freedom of mind has become a rare quantity in THE UNITED STATES - it already has excised the human heart from its corporate body. What good is 'freedom of speech' when 'freedom of thought' is no longer exercised in American society? What has this society become? I would hypothesize it is nothing more than a corporate mind-controlled zombie - a modern day Frankenstein.When society is itself the tyrant -- society collectively over the separate individuals who compose it -- its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs (to be) protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development and, if possible, prevent the formation of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (www.serendipity.li)Many people believe that the idea of freedom was a new thought until recently. They believe it slowly grew over time, and was secured with pieces of paper, contracts between people who agreed to be bound by their rules and principles. People point to these contracts as proof of freedom in the world - the Magna Carta of 1215, the Declaration of Independence of 1776, the U.S. Constitution of 1789, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 that guides the doctrine of the United Nations. We should note that all the contracts were written by white people under heavy Masonic influence. These are the people who created the United States of America as an experiment in social engineering. They used the words of Orwellian 'double-speak' to hypnotize the masses of the emergent American society into accepting a contract that is null and void in Common Law. The people of the United States of America are still in a system of servitude and don't even recognize it. This 'servitude' is a virtual Hell on Earth. The people of the United States of America were once Sovereign. Now, by their acceptance of The Big Lie -- the 'behavior' they have been indoctrinated into - they have lost the experience of freedom to governmental mind control.As a people we will never taste liberation, or live in a genuinely democratic society, until we free our minds (from governmental mind control). The open mind is not a conditioned (brainwashed) one. So long as we believe in the conditioning supplied to us by the institutions of our day, we will never achieve our full potential as human beings. That vast potential is no less than genius. As a species we use less than 10% of our mental capacities, and perhaps even less of our spiritual abilities, because of the faulty, culturally imposed beliefs we teach our children to revere. Our felt lack is learned (Pavlovian) behavior Restoring Power to the People by Matthew Webb (www.eoni.com/~visionquest)If the fraudulent contracts of THE UNITED STATES and the words constituting them are to be taken seriously, we, the People of the United States of America need to burn them. The paper and ink they are made of are worthless except as toilet paper because they don't represent true self-government by the People. How can we, the People of the United States of America, let ourselves be reduced to something less than the Sovereigns we once were? In the same fashion, THE UNITED STATES is simply a legal fiction, a corporation - NOT a living being - put in place to control American society. How can we, the People of the United States of America, consent to partnership with such a a life-denying artifice, The Big Lie, that has taken over our society? The People of the United States of America need de-programmers to awaken from the cultural trance they've been placed into by The Big Lie. This is an internal revolution -- an implosion. For those People awakened to this Truth, they only need to learn to live in freedom without governmental controllers. A return to self-governance at the local level of family and community means a return to communion within a 'collective human soul'. It is an organic re-Constitution of a sane society.The First ScamDuring the era of feudalism throughout Europe there were three recognized 'elites' - the church hierarchy, the landed aristocracy or nobility, and the royal families. Society was run by these three 'elitist' powers, with competition amongst themselves, but there was never any illusion of democracy or freedom. For those 'elitists', freedom meant 'Empire'. They considered it their natural right to play at the game of 'Empire-building'. War was the sport of kings. The common people of that era, the serfs, had no say whatsoever over how their lives were governed. As feudalism ended, a fourth 'elitist' power slowly arose in European society - wealthy business people. They were interested in freedom for commercialism -- freedom from the interference and control of the other three 'elitist' powers. By the time that Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, the common people were being sold the potential for a partnership with this fourth 'elitist' power.Common Sense created in the popular Western mind, for the first time, perhaps, since the early Roman republic, the notion that government arises from the consent of the governed - that the People are the state. Paine was popularizing - and expanding the scope of - some of the radical ideas that had been developed by Enlightenment thinkers generally. He was concerned with promoting personal freedom, popular sovereignty, and - most particularly - creating an ironclad case for the legitimacy of a government based on the will of the People rather than on divine right or inherited dominion America and the New World Order by Richard K. Moore (www.cyberjournal.org)Of course, the first scam is the idea that the People need government to have freedom. Even the emerging business elites were scammed --- they saw republics (contractual government) as a better environment for capitalism. It was their new promise of freedom to play at Empire-building. Was their contract for freedom a play at being the Devil's advocate - a dialectic with the Catholic Church? The American Revolution was their grab for power as these new elites offered the People a partnership in a new regime. The People were the manpower for the apparent overthrow of the old elites and were led on by the promises of liberty, equality, and a fraternity with the new elites. Thus, the American War of Independence was fought for the goal of Freedom - but, this word had two different shades of meaning - one for each class of people. The common populace thought it meant, primarily, personal freedom and popular democratic sovereignty. The business elites thought it meant commercial freedom to pursue capital investment uncontrolled by royal or divine authority. And, at the first Continental Congress of 1774, the business elites acted on that thought - as the members of this Congress were chosen from the ablest and wealthiest Americans, the upper class. These people definitely believed that the People who owned the country should govern it. Of course, everyone wants to own planet Earth - don't they? But, who shall the ultimate 'stewards' be?The American Revolution was a 'kind of revolution' (NOT a true revolution from the bottom up). Although there was some of the 'rabble' effect of the common people, as in the English Civil War, the American Revolution was obviously a revolt of American elites, as shown by the names that signed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution giving full citizens' rights to white, land-owning men, and the fact that the oligarchy tried managing the 'rabble' from the beginnings of the American Revolution, and quickly took over the American political system. American Empire by Wade Frazier (www.ahealedplanet.net)America's small farmers and artisans - the common people -- resisted this vision of a 'commercial empire' dreamed up by the business elites. They had a taste of freedom and didn't want to lose it. The common people's vision of government was based upon their encounters with America's original inhabitants - native Indians. A very rare minority of these common people were the brave pioneers who went 'native' and were exterminated by the 'corporate' European colonists for their choice. From 1781 to 1789, the United States of America was governed by the Congress delineated in the original Articles of Confederation. It was a government modeled after the Iroquois Great Law of Peace and the Iroquois Confederation. This Native American confederation was more democratic than any political system ever devised by the West (or the East). A decentralized system of government, it made decisions by consensus and very little power was ever invested in any one individual. The original Congress of the United States of America was the only branch of government. There was no separate Senate, no Supreme Court, and no President. There was no way to coerce individual states into agreement with the business elites nor was there a way to use force to put down rebellions - not hardly a prescription for play at Empire-building. American history, ever since this early period, has been a 'see-saw' battle for control between the common people and the business elites - both just pawns on a larger playing board. It didn't take long for the business elites to serve a so-called 'higher authority' and implement The Big Lie. The big question here is who or what did they serve? The country's first president, George Washington, was one of U.S. history's most successful criminals. While school children are still led to believe the silly story about a youthful George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, and proclaiming -- I cannot tell a lie. I did it. -- his entire career as President was a blatant negation of this familiar cultural myth. In 1782, as the dust was settling on America's successful elite revolt (although the poor were drafted to fight in it); Washington presented a plan to the Continental Congress to defraud the Native Americans. It was a blueprint for theft and genocide. His plan was to compel Native Americans to sell their land by treaty. Then, (as apparently with ALL of THE UNITED STATES' treaties since then) the treaty was not worth the paper it was printed on, and the tribes would be coerced to 'sell' their treaty-provided land and be forced ever westward. Of more than 370 treaties forced onto the native tribes by the United States during the succeeding century, historians cannot find even one that the United States honored. Washington was the architect of America's Final Solution to the Indian Problem. Hitler later was deceived into adopting a similar German Final Solution to the Jewish Problem, partly, because he admired the American model.Is it possible for a class which exterminates the native peoples of the Americas, replaces them by raping Africa for humans it then denigrates and dehumanizes as slaves, while cheapening and degrading its own working class - is it possible for such a class to create democracy, equality, and to advance the cause of human 'freedom'? The implicit answer is, No. Of course not. Towards an American Revolution by Jerry Fresia (www.cyberjournal.org)The truth is that America's Founding Fathers were racist slave owners who committed genocide upon America's original inhabitants to expand their 'commercial empire'. They had been sold the freedom of playing at Empire-building and were the 'new kids on the block'. Did they stop to read the fine print in their contract with the Devil? Is it any surprise that they defrauded we, the People, of the United States of America, at the first opportunity they had - the Constitutional Convention of 1789? The so-called original Constitution of the U.S.A. had no Bill of Rights. We, the People, had to fight the business elites for it. This elite-drafted Constitution was NOT written with the full blessings of we, the People. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1789 had agreed to secrecy because the majority of American people were against this new Constitution - they still identified with the original Articles of Confederation. They had no idea that the Constitutional Convention of 1789 meant to completely restructure their local form of self-government. There was wide agreement among the lower and middle classes that political power should be as close to the local level as possible. The original Congress established by the Articles of Confederation was only meant to settle disputes between states, where true local government was located. However, the business elites had decided to take over the government and make it serve their interests, not the People's. The business elites were dependent on interstate and international markets. The game of 'Empire-building' was their freedom - NOT the freedom of family and community values opposed to their deal with the Devil of 'Money as God Mammon'. The 'Mammon worshipers' wanted a strong military to force others to act in their - the business elites' - interests. The Constitutional Convention of 1789 was the business elites' first opportunity to stab the American people in the back. The business elites thought people of humble origins with parochial interests - family, faith and community - had too much power. These people had even used their local form of self-government to curb the business elites' economic power and further expansion of their commercial empire. With the restructuring of the government by the business elites, they now had the power to rule over we, the People, of the United States of America. It was The First Scam.Ours is a government which rests on the assumption that 'the People', especially when they become politically excited, interested, and alive, are thought of as subversive. But, we seem to prefer to protect our moral high-mindedness by permitting elites, virtually at every chance they get, to persist in the (Big) lie that it is 'we the People' and not 'we the largest property owners' who govern this country. Ideological managers would have us forget that the phrase 'we the People' borrowed from the Iroquois by the Framers (of the U.S. Constitution), and exploited, ('We, the People, to form a union, to establish peace, equity and order ...'), was taken from the Iroquois Treaty of 1520. (The greatest irony is that the Framers of the Constitution were committing genocide upon these same people, the Iroquois). Towards an American Revolution by Jerry Fresia (www.cyberjournal.org)The Second ScamIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the U.S.A. was bankrupt. With the assassination of Lincoln and the eradication of his government-printed money, the 'would-be' new royalist elites in the form of the international bankers moved in. These elites wanted to gain a stranglehold on America's neck and institute their newest scam on we, the People, of the United States of America. It was their turn - the international bankers, this time --- to take over the government. Congress had borrowed money from these international bankers - the Rothschilds -- but had no collateral for the loan. So, they made a deal with the Devil of 'Money', literally selling the collective soul of America in exchange for relative continued wealth and power for members of this treasonous Congress. This was achieved in the Act of 1871 that formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Owned by foreign interests, it was limited to the confines of the District of Columbia. This corporation acts in an economic capacity and its constitution, or legal definition of itself, was an entirely new document for the government of the District of Columbia. It has no authority except in private international law, not applicable in the states of America. How this new federal government stripped the states of America of their Sovereign powers is another essay. It is sufficient to surmise that The Second Scam succeeded. Members of Congress from that time onwards have worked for this corporation. They are NOT, we, the People's, civil servants. All departments of this government outside of the District of Columbia are violating Common Law, the law of we, the People, of the United States of America. This scam, or fraud, has been given legs because there has been no full disclosure of facts to American citizens. The constitution of this corporation doesn't benefit the United States of America as it operates outside of their original Constitution. It has taken the idea of government to a whole new level - that of the corporation as state. Instead of absolute rights of Sovereigns stipulated in the original Constitution, we, the People, of today, have been given relative rights and privileges if we want to participate in the pathological mindset of the corporate state. Our government, now a corporation, is no longer subject to the consent of the governed populace. How did the elites achieve this Act of 1871 without disclosure of the facts? Well, their contract was with the Devil of 'Money', not the People of the United States of America.(We, the People) are presumed to know the law (of the Pharisees). (But), as a people, we are taught basically nothing about the law in school. Nor do our corporate government schools delve into the Constitution in any great depth. (We, the People) were not told that we were sold out to foreign interests and made beneficiaries of the debt incurred by Congress to the international bankers. For generations, American citizens have had the bulk of their earnings confiscated to pay on a massive debt that they, as a People, did not incur. The United States Isn't a Country - It's a Corporation by Lisa Guliani (www.serendipity.li)In the United States, we, the People, have let ourselves become ruled by a 'de facto' unlawful form of government, a corporate body that 'exists' only in private international law. Despite the rhetoric and propaganda, a ruthless and authoritarian federal government has come to trample on the natural rights of the People, and many citizens, especially those that do not belong to the racial majority or do not fit into the corporate-capitalist model of society, are imprisoned for victim-less 'crimes' and lose both liberty and property. Far from being a model for the world of a government of a free people, the government of THE UNITED STATES is in effect a fascist dictatorship, such as the world has not seen openly since the 1930's.Ironically, it is the average American today who would denounce revolutionary patriotism as radical and dangerous. It is the average American who now doesn't wish to be bothered by activism or talk of freedom, civil liberties or justice, because they are too busy making or maintaining their own empire of money. Most of our 'patriotic' citizens only value their own personal business, far more than they do such 'radical' causes as revolution or civil rights. These things they say, are better left to those 'fringe' and psychotic groups or individuals, who deserve to be arrested and imprisoned for threatening the safety of the status quo (American society's Devil of 'Money' worshipers). Who truly cares about these issues today? Almost no one. Why? Because we no longer value, as a culture, the qualities of freedom and sovereignty which literally defined our nation. Let's face it, the issues and values of the (We, the People, of the United States of America), just don't compete with those of greedy consumerism and egotism, which fully permeate the modern world. What could be more important, after all, then making that next car payment or getting that new credit card? As a people we have become programmed to 'consume', obey and accept sheepishly, rather than to be bothered by independent thought or action. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Matthew Webb (www.ahealedplanet.net)Modern America believes that the people exist to obey and serve government. This attitude is due to the efforts of corporate propaganda and pseudo-education, based upon the elites' desire for profit and mass-control. It is a symptom of greedy corruption based in anti-democracy. The fact of the matter is, government exists as an extension of the will of the People. When it does otherwise, it is no longer a government that should remain in place, for it has proven itself unworthy to represent we, the People, of the United States of America. In essence, America has exchanged the tyranny of kings for the tyranny of corporate C.E.O.'s. The faces and titles have changed, but not the same old issues of inequality and non-representation. As a matter of fact, there are extremely few people who would not literally jump at the chance to change places with the rich, even if this meant betraying family, friends and the cause of civil liberties to do so. From corporate president to peasant farmer or cashier, American society has become permeated with the rot of materialistic values, over and above those of freedom and human excellence. Until these values of worshiping Money as God (Devil) are changed, THE UNITED STATES' citizens will remain the very oppressors and con artists for hire, whom were fought against by the Native Americans in the 18th century.Rebirth of the United States of America The author of this essay has become a spiritual anarchist and is an American ex-patriate. This essay only addresses two of the many scams perpetrated upon the American People. I don't want to belittle American culture and write about a 'strike three' for America. Even if it were to be so, that would only be an 'out' for one player on the American team. I no longer consider myself as a 'pawn' upon the playing board of the 'Empire-builders'. For those readers interested in learning more about the eternal struggle for freedom, this author reminds them that the 'Kingdom of Heaven' lies within - remember that implosion and not the explosions of 9-11.
Posted by Jason Miller at 12:42 PM
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The Hidden Government
As you know far too well, a government that is not watched and checked by the powers given it by the people in the Constitution, that goes unchecked and unguarded, can evolve into a runaway train of power that can prove to be very difficult to slow down, much less to stop. The Constitution, a copy of which I keep on my desk for quick reference, has arranged for a system of checks and balances of all branches of government, but when the judicial and legislative branches kowtow to the executive branch, giving the executive branch a free pass, going unchecked, unlimited powers can become institutionalized in the executive branch, given to the executive branch by itself. A case in point follows:
George W. Bush Signs Law Which May Impose Martial Law
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As you remember, President Reagan's health was beginning to fail him while he was in office and George Bush, Sr. took on more and more power within the executive branch of government, far more than any other sitting vice-president. It seemed at the time to many people during the Iran-Contra scandal that a Lieutenant-Colonel by the name of Oliver North could hold so much power all by himself-controlling the flow of arms and large sums of maoney to the contra rebels in Nicuragua, without the knowledge of someone higher up. Later it came out that Oliver North acted directly under the control of the White House, and since President Reagan was (let us say-not himself), the Vice- President, George Bush called many of the shots. He has after all run the CIA for many years and set up all sorts of dummy organizations and corporations in order to carry out the Administrations goals around the world.
This sitting Presidents' Administrations goals are not his own- they are but the next level of the re-ordering of society that the first Bush wanted to achieve with his idea of a "New World Order". Today, April 25, 2007, the blue chip industrials went over 13,000 on Wall Street for the first time in history. The course of the American economy was said to be on track to rise over 6% this year with durable goods gaining an unprecedented 3.2% and yet, the dollar, as stated by the Bush Administration lost ground to the Euro! Fascinating! All the economic projections for the year are solid and rising, yet the dollar is said to be losing goround to the Euro. This goes against all economic lessons I ever studied in college. When the economic picture for the economy is this strong, and the value of gold is remaining constant, the dollar should remain strong, unless, the Administration is trying to make a case for creating a currency to rival that of our European world neighbors, namely the Amero. I would not be surprised to see this President use the power he gave himself to instigate a crisis and call for "Martial Law" at some point in the final months of his term of office, thus relagating to himself the power of absolute dictator, or "KING", which he has said he wouldn't mind being at all. I am not trying to sound like some sort of conspiracy theorist, but those are the words that President Bush's own acting press secretary used today to describe the desires of the demacratic Congress and their desire to place some checks and balances on his unchecked grasp of power for the last six years with a republican led Congress, when she stated that what they are doing is looking for some conspiracy theory that doesn't exist. I quote the question and her response here, "Q Dana, continuing on the political discourse, Rahm Emanuel is going to have a speech today in which he's going to say that Bush is more corrupt than Nixon in Watergate, and that the government has become a step-child, his words, of the Republican Party.
MS. PERINO: That's really surprising, given the messenger, that this is the speech that he's going to be giving. I heard yesterday, too, that he's going to be calling it part of a grand conspiracy, which I think is the recurring nightmare. But the nightmare we thought we had woken up from is recurring. We thought that the vast right-wing conspiracy was over, and I think that some of the comments that, at least were described to me yesterday from a reporter who had seen the prepared remarks, it sounded a little more like something you would see in the National Enquirer, not at a prestigious American think tank.
And I do think that when you're 100-hour plan is faltering, maybe the best thing to fall back on is a conspiracy theory. But they're usually a little bit better than this one." Yet, the President's Attorney General couldn't seem to "recall" or remember anything that had transpired during the time that the congressional committee was asking him to describe. Also, the Congress is having to subpoena the Secretary of State to appear before them and explain her actions that led to this war. Unbelievable! The Secretary of State refusing to come before Congress when asked! This administration is not above the law and it is quite ironic that a woman named 'Monica' Goodling, now that she has immunity from prosecution which was given to her after she refused to testify before Congress without using her fifth ammendmant rights, could be instrumental in bringing down this corrupt administration and its' architect, Karl Rove; not unlike the previous president who was nearly brought down by his own actions involving another 'Monica'. Truth is often more ironic and strange than facts. I am writing this because I believe that we have the moral obligation to provide words that will prevail much longer than our mortal bodies will survive.
Charles V. White, III
George W. Bush Signs Law Which May Impose Martial Law
Capitol Hill Blue is a not-for-profit, non-commercial experiment in on-line journalism published as an information resource for our readers. All material is © 2006 Capitol Hill Blue. For more information, please check out our FAQ. We take your privacy seriously at Capitol Hill Blue.Home / The Rant / ReaderRantThe RantBush could seize absolute control of U.S. government DOUG THOMPSON Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue Jan. 13, 2006, 07:42 Email this article Printer friendly page President George W. Bush has signed executive orders giving him sole authority to impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus and ignore the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits deployment of U.S. troops on American streets. This would give him absolute dictatorial power over the government with no checks and balances. Bush discussed imposing martial law on American streets in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by activating “national security initiatives” put in place by Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These “national security initiatives," hatched in 1982 by controversial Marine Colonel Oliver North, later one of the key players in the Iran-Contra Scandal, charged the Federal Emergency Management Agency with administering executive orders that allowed suspension of the Constitution, implementation of martial law, establishment of internment camps, and the turning the government over to the President. John Brinkerhoff, deputy director of FEMA, developed the martial law implementation plan, following a template originally developed by former FEMA director Louis Guiffrida to battle a “national uprising of black militants.” Gifuffrida’s implementation of martial law called for jailing at least 21 million African Americans in “relocation camps.” Brinkerhoff later admitted in an interview with the Miami Herald that President Reagan signed off on the initiatives and they remained in place, dormant, until George W. Bush took office.Brinkerhoff moved on the Anser Institute for Homeland Security and, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, provided the Bush White House and the Pentagon with talking points supporting revised “national security initiatives” that would could allow imposition of martial law and suspension of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the law that is supposed to forbid use of troops for domestic law enforcement.Brinkerhoff wrote that intentions of Posse Comitatus are “misunderstood and misapplied” and that the U.S. has in times of national emergency the “full and absolute authority” to send troops into American streets to “enforce order and maintain the peace.” Bush used parts of the plan to send troops into the streets of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. In addition, FEMA hired former special forces personnel from the mercenary firm Blackwater USA to “enforce security.” Blackwater USA, in its promotional materials, describes itself as “the most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world,” adding that “we have established a global presence and provide training and operational solutions for the 21st century in support of security and peace, and freedom and democracy everywhere.” Blackwater is also a major U.S. contractor in Iraq and has a contract with the Bush White House to provide additional security work “on an as-needed basis.”The Department of Homeland Security established the “Northern Command for National Defense,” a wide-ranging program that includes FEMA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the National Security Agency. Executive orders already signed by Bush allow the Northern Command to send troops into American streets, seize control of radio and television stations and networks and impose martial law “in times of national emergency.”The authority to declare what is or is not a national emergency rests entirely with Bush who does not have to either consult or seek the approval of Congress for permission to assume absolute control over the government of the United States. The White House press office would neither confirm nor deny existence of Bush’s executive orders or the existence of the Northern Command for National Defense. Neither would the Department of Homeland Security.But my sources within the White House and DHS tell me the plans are in place, ready for implementation when the command comes from the man who keeps telling the American public that he is a “war time president” who will “do anything in my power” to impose his will on the people of the United States.And he has made sure that power will be absolute when he chooses to use it. © Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueWe welcome reader comments: Discuss this story or other issues in ReaderRant.
As you remember, President Reagan's health was beginning to fail him while he was in office and George Bush, Sr. took on more and more power within the executive branch of government, far more than any other sitting vice-president. It seemed at the time to many people during the Iran-Contra scandal that a Lieutenant-Colonel by the name of Oliver North could hold so much power all by himself-controlling the flow of arms and large sums of maoney to the contra rebels in Nicuragua, without the knowledge of someone higher up. Later it came out that Oliver North acted directly under the control of the White House, and since President Reagan was (let us say-not himself), the Vice- President, George Bush called many of the shots. He has after all run the CIA for many years and set up all sorts of dummy organizations and corporations in order to carry out the Administrations goals around the world.
This sitting Presidents' Administrations goals are not his own- they are but the next level of the re-ordering of society that the first Bush wanted to achieve with his idea of a "New World Order". Today, April 25, 2007, the blue chip industrials went over 13,000 on Wall Street for the first time in history. The course of the American economy was said to be on track to rise over 6% this year with durable goods gaining an unprecedented 3.2% and yet, the dollar, as stated by the Bush Administration lost ground to the Euro! Fascinating! All the economic projections for the year are solid and rising, yet the dollar is said to be losing goround to the Euro. This goes against all economic lessons I ever studied in college. When the economic picture for the economy is this strong, and the value of gold is remaining constant, the dollar should remain strong, unless, the Administration is trying to make a case for creating a currency to rival that of our European world neighbors, namely the Amero. I would not be surprised to see this President use the power he gave himself to instigate a crisis and call for "Martial Law" at some point in the final months of his term of office, thus relagating to himself the power of absolute dictator, or "KING", which he has said he wouldn't mind being at all. I am not trying to sound like some sort of conspiracy theorist, but those are the words that President Bush's own acting press secretary used today to describe the desires of the demacratic Congress and their desire to place some checks and balances on his unchecked grasp of power for the last six years with a republican led Congress, when she stated that what they are doing is looking for some conspiracy theory that doesn't exist. I quote the question and her response here, "Q Dana, continuing on the political discourse, Rahm Emanuel is going to have a speech today in which he's going to say that Bush is more corrupt than Nixon in Watergate, and that the government has become a step-child, his words, of the Republican Party.
MS. PERINO: That's really surprising, given the messenger, that this is the speech that he's going to be giving. I heard yesterday, too, that he's going to be calling it part of a grand conspiracy, which I think is the recurring nightmare. But the nightmare we thought we had woken up from is recurring. We thought that the vast right-wing conspiracy was over, and I think that some of the comments that, at least were described to me yesterday from a reporter who had seen the prepared remarks, it sounded a little more like something you would see in the National Enquirer, not at a prestigious American think tank.
And I do think that when you're 100-hour plan is faltering, maybe the best thing to fall back on is a conspiracy theory. But they're usually a little bit better than this one." Yet, the President's Attorney General couldn't seem to "recall" or remember anything that had transpired during the time that the congressional committee was asking him to describe. Also, the Congress is having to subpoena the Secretary of State to appear before them and explain her actions that led to this war. Unbelievable! The Secretary of State refusing to come before Congress when asked! This administration is not above the law and it is quite ironic that a woman named 'Monica' Goodling, now that she has immunity from prosecution which was given to her after she refused to testify before Congress without using her fifth ammendmant rights, could be instrumental in bringing down this corrupt administration and its' architect, Karl Rove; not unlike the previous president who was nearly brought down by his own actions involving another 'Monica'. Truth is often more ironic and strange than facts. I am writing this because I believe that we have the moral obligation to provide words that will prevail much longer than our mortal bodies will survive.
Charles V. White, III
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Home of the Watched
Home of the watched, land of the spied uponBy DOUG THOMPSONJun 23, 2006, 06:50
Email this article Printer friendly pageI live in the mountains - deep in the mountains - of Southwestern Virginia, far away from what most call civilization.
You've heard of the proverbial town with one stop light? Our county has only one stop light, one permanent one since a construction project on U.S. 221 added four temporary stoplights to two bridges that the Virginia Department of Transportation is resurfacing and cut down to one-lane.
Yet even in my little backwoods hick county, I'm under video surveillance many times a day.
It may start when I drive through that maze of stoplights at the two bridges 500 yards apart. Video cameras tape every car that passes through that construction project, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. These are videocams, not stoplight enforcement cameras.
If I stop at any one of my little town's three convenience mart/gas stations, I am photographed while filling my car with gas or while buying a cup of coffee. At least one convenience mart in town has a direct link to a Virginia State Police computer that inserts an image of my face into a facial recognition program to see if I'm wanted anywhere or might be a suspected terrorist. When I stop at the drive-through automatic teller machine (ATM) at the bank, another camera snaps my picture as I withdraw money from my checking account.
The monitoring doesn't end with cameras. When I slid my credit card into the reader on the gas pump at the Exxon station this morning a high-speed dataline sent my name and account number to Exxon's computers in Texas where they checked by balance before approving the purchase and then forwarded information on the purchase by another high-speed line to a bank of computers at 3701 Fairfax Drive in Arlington, home of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Terrorism Information Awareness Network (TIA).
The TIA computer matches my gas purchase against my last use of a credit card to see where I might have last purchased gas, an airline or train ticket or a motel stay. This provides Uncle Sam with my pattern of travel and that pattern is matched against any pattern which someone thinks might be suspicious or worthy of a second look. The information is also matched my other financial activity: bank account deposits and withdrawals or charge account activity. Then they match the records with National Security Agency monitoring of phone calls and email usage. If anything looks suspicious to them, a file is opened and I become a "person of interest." Friends in a position to know tell me I became a person of interest to these folks some years ago.
As Lisa Hoffman outlines in her excellent series on video surveillance published today on our web site, we are nation constantly being watched by those we do business with, by police, by government and by our bosses.
Uncle Sam knows what books you read, either through public library records or your purchases at the local borders. He knows how often you stop at Starbucks to get a latte or if you shack up at the local no-tell motel once a week with your mistress. He knows where you drive, when you drive there and how much gas you bought to make the trip. Odds are, he knows more about what you than your boss, your minister, your spouse or your significant other.
The question is whether or not anyone, in a so-called free society, needs to know all this information about anyone else. Government monitoring of its citizens has increased at an alarming rate since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and those who raise the question of whether or not it is excessive face the threat of being branded "soft on terrorism" or even anti-patriotic.
Yet vast reams of information are gathered daily on Americans whose only "crime" is using a credit card, passing through a video-monitored bank or making a phone call. And nobody is quite sure what happens to all this information since so much of it is kept secret by a Presidential administration that hides just about everything under the cloak of "national security" and thinks it has a God-given right to govern as it wishes without oversight or question.
Yes, Big Brother is watching…and listening…and monitoring…and compiling…and studying…and God knows what else.
So much for the land of the free.© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueWe welcome reader comments: Discuss this story or other issues in ReaderRant.
Email this article Printer friendly pageI live in the mountains - deep in the mountains - of Southwestern Virginia, far away from what most call civilization.
You've heard of the proverbial town with one stop light? Our county has only one stop light, one permanent one since a construction project on U.S. 221 added four temporary stoplights to two bridges that the Virginia Department of Transportation is resurfacing and cut down to one-lane.
Yet even in my little backwoods hick county, I'm under video surveillance many times a day.
It may start when I drive through that maze of stoplights at the two bridges 500 yards apart. Video cameras tape every car that passes through that construction project, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. These are videocams, not stoplight enforcement cameras.
If I stop at any one of my little town's three convenience mart/gas stations, I am photographed while filling my car with gas or while buying a cup of coffee. At least one convenience mart in town has a direct link to a Virginia State Police computer that inserts an image of my face into a facial recognition program to see if I'm wanted anywhere or might be a suspected terrorist. When I stop at the drive-through automatic teller machine (ATM) at the bank, another camera snaps my picture as I withdraw money from my checking account.
The monitoring doesn't end with cameras. When I slid my credit card into the reader on the gas pump at the Exxon station this morning a high-speed dataline sent my name and account number to Exxon's computers in Texas where they checked by balance before approving the purchase and then forwarded information on the purchase by another high-speed line to a bank of computers at 3701 Fairfax Drive in Arlington, home of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Terrorism Information Awareness Network (TIA).
The TIA computer matches my gas purchase against my last use of a credit card to see where I might have last purchased gas, an airline or train ticket or a motel stay. This provides Uncle Sam with my pattern of travel and that pattern is matched against any pattern which someone thinks might be suspicious or worthy of a second look. The information is also matched my other financial activity: bank account deposits and withdrawals or charge account activity. Then they match the records with National Security Agency monitoring of phone calls and email usage. If anything looks suspicious to them, a file is opened and I become a "person of interest." Friends in a position to know tell me I became a person of interest to these folks some years ago.
As Lisa Hoffman outlines in her excellent series on video surveillance published today on our web site, we are nation constantly being watched by those we do business with, by police, by government and by our bosses.
Uncle Sam knows what books you read, either through public library records or your purchases at the local borders. He knows how often you stop at Starbucks to get a latte or if you shack up at the local no-tell motel once a week with your mistress. He knows where you drive, when you drive there and how much gas you bought to make the trip. Odds are, he knows more about what you than your boss, your minister, your spouse or your significant other.
The question is whether or not anyone, in a so-called free society, needs to know all this information about anyone else. Government monitoring of its citizens has increased at an alarming rate since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and those who raise the question of whether or not it is excessive face the threat of being branded "soft on terrorism" or even anti-patriotic.
Yet vast reams of information are gathered daily on Americans whose only "crime" is using a credit card, passing through a video-monitored bank or making a phone call. And nobody is quite sure what happens to all this information since so much of it is kept secret by a Presidential administration that hides just about everything under the cloak of "national security" and thinks it has a God-given right to govern as it wishes without oversight or question.
Yes, Big Brother is watching…and listening…and monitoring…and compiling…and studying…and God knows what else.
So much for the land of the free.© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueWe welcome reader comments: Discuss this story or other issues in ReaderRant.
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The coup to overthrow the ConstitutionBy DOUG THOMPSONJun 27, 2006, 06:53
Email this article Printer friendly pageI fear, sadly, the United States of America moves closer and closer each day to a dictatorship, ruled by a megalomaniacal despot determined to destroy the Constitution, our basic freedoms and the checks and balances that have kept our government under control for more than two centuries.
The first rule in establishing a dictatorship is "control the flow of information." George W. Bush is close to doing that with the most secretive administration in American history. Now he and his right-wing co-conspirators have unleashed an all-out assault on freedom of the press - the last step on taking control of information and the media.
Bush Monday slammed The New York Times for publishing information about another of his secret spying programs - this one a covert monitoring of international financial transactions of Americans and banks. Administration officials tried to talk The Times out of publishing the story. The Times, to their credit, refused.
"The fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror," Bush said. That's the standard Bush excuse. Every time he's caught violating the Constitution he claims it makes him harder to win his so-called war on terror.
Bush wasn't the only Republican lackey out trying to fry the Times.
"The New York Times has now twice -- two separate occasions -- disclosed programs; both times they had been asked not to publish those stories by senior administration officials," Vice President Dick Cheney said in another speech Monday. "They went ahead anyway. The leaks to The New York Times and the publishing of those leaks is very damaging."
Damn right they were damaging - damaging to the constantly eroding credibility of the Bush Administration and damaging to their attempted coup to seize absolute control of the U.S. government.
In Congress, another rabid right-winger, GOP Rep. Peter King, launched an even stronger assault on the Times and freedom of the press, demanding the paper be charged with treason.
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," says King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
Thankfully, others do not share King's hysteria.
"On the basis of the newspaper article, I think it's premature to call for a prosecution of the New York Times, just like I think it's premature to say that the administration is entirely correct," says Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter.
But Congress is really not a factor in Bush's view of absolute power. As President, he's appended more than 750 "signing statements" to laws passed by Congress - saying he will ignore those laws if and when he chooses.
Again, this pisses off Specter.
"It's a challenge to the plain language of the Constitution," the committee's chairman, Specter said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm interested to hear from the administration just what research they've done to lead them to the conclusion that they can cherry-pick."
This whole affair has a Nixonian ring to it: Nixon tried to stop The Time from publishing The Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. That publication helped fuel the antiwar movement in the nation.© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueWe welcome reader comments: Discuss this story or other issues in ReaderRant.
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The coup to overthrow the ConstitutionBy DOUG THOMPSONJun 27, 2006, 06:53
Email this article Printer friendly pageI fear, sadly, the United States of America moves closer and closer each day to a dictatorship, ruled by a megalomaniacal despot determined to destroy the Constitution, our basic freedoms and the checks and balances that have kept our government under control for more than two centuries.
The first rule in establishing a dictatorship is "control the flow of information." George W. Bush is close to doing that with the most secretive administration in American history. Now he and his right-wing co-conspirators have unleashed an all-out assault on freedom of the press - the last step on taking control of information and the media.
Bush Monday slammed The New York Times for publishing information about another of his secret spying programs - this one a covert monitoring of international financial transactions of Americans and banks. Administration officials tried to talk The Times out of publishing the story. The Times, to their credit, refused.
"The fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror," Bush said. That's the standard Bush excuse. Every time he's caught violating the Constitution he claims it makes him harder to win his so-called war on terror.
Bush wasn't the only Republican lackey out trying to fry the Times.
"The New York Times has now twice -- two separate occasions -- disclosed programs; both times they had been asked not to publish those stories by senior administration officials," Vice President Dick Cheney said in another speech Monday. "They went ahead anyway. The leaks to The New York Times and the publishing of those leaks is very damaging."
Damn right they were damaging - damaging to the constantly eroding credibility of the Bush Administration and damaging to their attempted coup to seize absolute control of the U.S. government.
In Congress, another rabid right-winger, GOP Rep. Peter King, launched an even stronger assault on the Times and freedom of the press, demanding the paper be charged with treason.
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," says King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
Thankfully, others do not share King's hysteria.
"On the basis of the newspaper article, I think it's premature to call for a prosecution of the New York Times, just like I think it's premature to say that the administration is entirely correct," says Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter.
But Congress is really not a factor in Bush's view of absolute power. As President, he's appended more than 750 "signing statements" to laws passed by Congress - saying he will ignore those laws if and when he chooses.
Again, this pisses off Specter.
"It's a challenge to the plain language of the Constitution," the committee's chairman, Specter said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm interested to hear from the administration just what research they've done to lead them to the conclusion that they can cherry-pick."
This whole affair has a Nixonian ring to it: Nixon tried to stop The Time from publishing The Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. That publication helped fuel the antiwar movement in the nation.© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueWe welcome reader comments: Discuss this story or other issues in ReaderRant.
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Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. governmentBy DOUG THOMPSONPublisher, Capitol Hill BlueJan 13, 2006, 07:42
Email this article Printer friendly pagePresident George W. Bush has signed executive orders giving him sole authority to impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus and ignore the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits deployment of U.S. troops on American streets. This would give him absolute dictatorial power over the government with no checks and balances.Bush discussed imposing martial law on American streets in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by activating “national security initiatives” put in place by Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.These “national security initiatives," hatched in 1982 by controversial Marine Colonel Oliver North, later one of the key players in the Iran-Contra Scandal, charged the Federal Emergency Management Agency with administering executive orders that allowed suspension of the Constitution, implementation of martial law, establishment of internment camps, and the turning the government over to the President.John Brinkerhoff, deputy director of FEMA, developed the martial law implementation plan, following a template originally developed by former FEMA director Louis Guiffrida to battle a “national uprising of black militants.” Gifuffrida’s implementation of martial law called for jailing at least 21 million African Americans in “relocation camps.” Brinkerhoff later admitted in an interview with the Miami Herald that President Reagan signed off on the initiatives and they remained in place, dormant, until George W. Bush took office.Brinkerhoff moved on the Anser Institute for Homeland Security and, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, provided the Bush White House and the Pentagon with talking points supporting revised “national security initiatives” that would could allow imposition of martial law and suspension of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the law that is supposed to forbid use of troops for domestic law enforcement.Brinkerhoff wrote that intentions of Posse Comitatus are “misunderstood and misapplied” and that the U.S. has in times of national emergency the “full and absolute authority” to send troops into American streets to “enforce order and maintain the peace.”Bush used parts of the plan to send troops into the streets of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. In addition, FEMA hired former special forces personnel from the mercenary firm Blackwater USA to “enforce security.”Blackwater USA, in its promotional materials, describes itself as “the most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world,” adding that “we have established a global presence and provide training and operational solutions for the 21st century in support of security and peace, and freedom and democracy everywhere.”Blackwater is also a major U.S. contractor in Iraq and has a contract with the Bush White House to provide additional security work “on an as-needed basis.”The Department of Homeland Security established the “Northern Command for National Defense,” a wide-ranging program that includes FEMA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the National Security Agency. Executive orders already signed by Bush allow the Northern Command to send troops into American streets, seize control of radio and television stations and networks and impose martial law “in times of national emergency.”The authority to declare what is or is not a national emergency rests entirely with Bush who does not have to either consult or seek the approval of Congress for permission to assume absolute control over the government of the United States.The White House press office would neither confirm nor deny existence of Bush’s executive orders or the existence of the Northern Command for National Defense. Neither would the Department of Homeland Security.But my sources within the White House and DHS tell me the plans are in place, ready for implementation when the command comes from the man who keeps telling the American public that he is a “war time president” who will “do anything in my power” to impose his will on the people of the United States.And he has made sure that power will be absolute when he chooses to use it. © Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueWe welcome reader comments: Discuss this story or other issues in ReaderRant.
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Bush could seize absolute control of U.S. governmentBy DOUG THOMPSONPublisher, Capitol Hill BlueJan 13, 2006, 07:42
Email this article Printer friendly pagePresident George W. Bush has signed executive orders giving him sole authority to impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus and ignore the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits deployment of U.S. troops on American streets. This would give him absolute dictatorial power over the government with no checks and balances.Bush discussed imposing martial law on American streets in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by activating “national security initiatives” put in place by Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.These “national security initiatives," hatched in 1982 by controversial Marine Colonel Oliver North, later one of the key players in the Iran-Contra Scandal, charged the Federal Emergency Management Agency with administering executive orders that allowed suspension of the Constitution, implementation of martial law, establishment of internment camps, and the turning the government over to the President.John Brinkerhoff, deputy director of FEMA, developed the martial law implementation plan, following a template originally developed by former FEMA director Louis Guiffrida to battle a “national uprising of black militants.” Gifuffrida’s implementation of martial law called for jailing at least 21 million African Americans in “relocation camps.” Brinkerhoff later admitted in an interview with the Miami Herald that President Reagan signed off on the initiatives and they remained in place, dormant, until George W. Bush took office.Brinkerhoff moved on the Anser Institute for Homeland Security and, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, provided the Bush White House and the Pentagon with talking points supporting revised “national security initiatives” that would could allow imposition of martial law and suspension of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, the law that is supposed to forbid use of troops for domestic law enforcement.Brinkerhoff wrote that intentions of Posse Comitatus are “misunderstood and misapplied” and that the U.S. has in times of national emergency the “full and absolute authority” to send troops into American streets to “enforce order and maintain the peace.”Bush used parts of the plan to send troops into the streets of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. In addition, FEMA hired former special forces personnel from the mercenary firm Blackwater USA to “enforce security.”Blackwater USA, in its promotional materials, describes itself as “the most comprehensive professional military, law enforcement, security, peacekeeping, and stability operations company in the world,” adding that “we have established a global presence and provide training and operational solutions for the 21st century in support of security and peace, and freedom and democracy everywhere.”Blackwater is also a major U.S. contractor in Iraq and has a contract with the Bush White House to provide additional security work “on an as-needed basis.”The Department of Homeland Security established the “Northern Command for National Defense,” a wide-ranging program that includes FEMA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the National Security Agency. Executive orders already signed by Bush allow the Northern Command to send troops into American streets, seize control of radio and television stations and networks and impose martial law “in times of national emergency.”The authority to declare what is or is not a national emergency rests entirely with Bush who does not have to either consult or seek the approval of Congress for permission to assume absolute control over the government of the United States.The White House press office would neither confirm nor deny existence of Bush’s executive orders or the existence of the Northern Command for National Defense. Neither would the Department of Homeland Security.But my sources within the White House and DHS tell me the plans are in place, ready for implementation when the command comes from the man who keeps telling the American public that he is a “war time president” who will “do anything in my power” to impose his will on the people of the United States.And he has made sure that power will be absolute when he chooses to use it. © Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueWe welcome reader comments: Discuss this story or other issues in ReaderRant.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
North American Union-The True Sapps
While the North America Union is relatively unknown to the general public, and yet to be taken seriously by our congressional culture of corruption, it is nevertheless a premeditated border-less merger of Canada, the United States and Mexico by 2010.Historically, commencing with the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952, the NAU parallels the European Union and its Euro currency.Simultaneously, from regionalized to globalized trade control areas, the possibility exists of some 80 NAFTA superhighways which will, regrettably, be leased to foreign entities, such as Cintra of Spain, for control and toll collection, known as public-private partnerships. The secretive NAU involves elitists such as Condoleezza Rice, Michael Chertoff, Carlos Gutierrez and Robert Pastor of the Council on Foreign Relations.The emerging NAU is a result of a so-called Bush-Fox-Martin "summit" on March 23, 2005, at Crawford, Texas. This meeting yielded an initiative called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP or SAPP) and was neither a treaty nor a formal agreement, but a "dialogue."Such a constitutional travesty will result in some 300 NAFTA (SPP) regulations, enforcement by tribunals, a currency called the Amero and cheap labor by a "guest worker" amnesty program.
It is vital that any and all who have a voice contact their representative in Congress and tell them what they think about this end-run by the Bush Administration trying to dissolve the borders of the United States and create a North American Union based on the European Union, including getting rid of the U.S. Dollar (In God We Trust), and creating a new currency called the Amero.
There will be trucking companies from Mexico able to cross the border at any time without any problems or inspection and the drivers will be able to travel on any and all American roads and highways, despite not having slept for hours, as there are no regulations for time behind the wheel in Mexico. The safety of our country's roads is at stake, not to mention the American jobs lost to another country's trucking companies.
The elites and corporations and high government officials are pushing through this devolvement of the United States of America without any oversight by Congress and no vote by the American public under the auspices of NAFTA. This is just one more egregious, scurrilous behind the scenes action taken by this Administration which will cost even more middle-class jobs and which circumvents the Constitution in order to achieve the New World Order conceived of by Bush the First and whose policies were continued by NAFTA under the Clinton Administration and which continues unabated by Bush the Second. This is truly happening right now! This is not some whacked out conspiracy theory. America will no longer exist as we know it and our Congress is aware of what is happening and they are standing by, with the exception of only two members of the House of Representatives, and doing nothing. There is a lot of money at stake! The democrats want the Mexican vote and the Republicans want the Industry and access to oil and other mineable material available in both Mexico and Canada.
Not only will our money change; not only will jobs be lost; not only will the elites bypass laws and regulations in order to gain access to natural resources in Mexico and Canada, but these countries will also be able to mine natural resources in continental America and Alaska. All of us as members of the North American Union will be under new laws that transcend borders, including the more liberal laws which Canadians now abide by and we will be forced to accept as the New Order.
We have already seen Border Patrol Agents put in jail for messing with a Mexican drug trafficker and a Texas Sheriff was put in jail for trying to stop a van with two illegal immigrants in it who tried to run him over and not only that, but the two illegal immigrants were paid $100,00.00, when they sued for civil rights violations. Since when do illegal immigrants have access to civil rights in the United States? In each of these cases, phone calls were made to Washington D.C. from the Mexican government asking the United States to get involved with the cases through the United States Justice Department and place the onus of prosecution on our own Border Patrol Agents and a Texas Sheriff.
This is just the first glimpse of what the New Order is going to look like. Maybe we should listen to our president and "be scared, be very, very scared!"
Signed,
Charles V. White, III
It is vital that any and all who have a voice contact their representative in Congress and tell them what they think about this end-run by the Bush Administration trying to dissolve the borders of the United States and create a North American Union based on the European Union, including getting rid of the U.S. Dollar (In God We Trust), and creating a new currency called the Amero.
There will be trucking companies from Mexico able to cross the border at any time without any problems or inspection and the drivers will be able to travel on any and all American roads and highways, despite not having slept for hours, as there are no regulations for time behind the wheel in Mexico. The safety of our country's roads is at stake, not to mention the American jobs lost to another country's trucking companies.
The elites and corporations and high government officials are pushing through this devolvement of the United States of America without any oversight by Congress and no vote by the American public under the auspices of NAFTA. This is just one more egregious, scurrilous behind the scenes action taken by this Administration which will cost even more middle-class jobs and which circumvents the Constitution in order to achieve the New World Order conceived of by Bush the First and whose policies were continued by NAFTA under the Clinton Administration and which continues unabated by Bush the Second. This is truly happening right now! This is not some whacked out conspiracy theory. America will no longer exist as we know it and our Congress is aware of what is happening and they are standing by, with the exception of only two members of the House of Representatives, and doing nothing. There is a lot of money at stake! The democrats want the Mexican vote and the Republicans want the Industry and access to oil and other mineable material available in both Mexico and Canada.
Not only will our money change; not only will jobs be lost; not only will the elites bypass laws and regulations in order to gain access to natural resources in Mexico and Canada, but these countries will also be able to mine natural resources in continental America and Alaska. All of us as members of the North American Union will be under new laws that transcend borders, including the more liberal laws which Canadians now abide by and we will be forced to accept as the New Order.
We have already seen Border Patrol Agents put in jail for messing with a Mexican drug trafficker and a Texas Sheriff was put in jail for trying to stop a van with two illegal immigrants in it who tried to run him over and not only that, but the two illegal immigrants were paid $100,00.00, when they sued for civil rights violations. Since when do illegal immigrants have access to civil rights in the United States? In each of these cases, phone calls were made to Washington D.C. from the Mexican government asking the United States to get involved with the cases through the United States Justice Department and place the onus of prosecution on our own Border Patrol Agents and a Texas Sheriff.
This is just the first glimpse of what the New Order is going to look like. Maybe we should listen to our president and "be scared, be very, very scared!"
Signed,
Charles V. White, III
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