An Open Letter to the Government of the United States of America
I've been paying close attention to all of the things that have been occurring in this nation for the past several years -- things like the centralization of government power, the growth of an authoritarian Executive branch which assumes among its powers the nullification of Constitutional Rights, the mass confiscation of the wealth of the People through the hidden tax called inflation, the militarism that goes on under the rubric of "national defense," and the general lack of vigilance that has allowed us to stray so far from the great Constitutional Republic we once were -- and here is my response to you, our government, and to all of those Americans who approve of and choose to stand by you:
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We [the undersigned] hold these 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 to 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, where evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-- Such has been the patient sufferance of these United States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The recent history of the present Government of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in the direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
It has refused its Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
It has, through unconstitutional Legislation, ceded the power of the issuance, circulation, and regulation of the currency to a most unscrupulous private entity.
It has colluded with this entity in instituting the Supreme Instrument of Usury, transferring the wealth of the great Mass of People to the hands of a select and secret few.
It has passed laws not for the protection of the Public from the the Supreme Instrument of Usury, but for the protection of the Usuror from the Public.
It has imposed a fraudulent law on the People, assuming the unconstitutional power to levvy a direct unapportioned tax on their labor.
It has knowingly and deceitfully generated unlawful revenue from an insidious, hidden tax called inflation.
It has used this revenue to expand the size and scope of its power far beyond its proper constitutional limits.
It has participated in unlawful military adventurism, repeatedly sending the honorable men and women of the Armed Services into battle in faraway lands, without the proper consent of the People.
It has abused the People's First Amendment Rights to Free Speech and Free Assembly, putting up so-called "free speech zones" around perimeters occupied by our servants in Government.
It has abused the People's Second Amendment Rights to bear Arms, confiscating the fire-arms of the People of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
It has abused the People's Fourth Amendment Rights to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unlawful searches and seizures, through several unlawful provisions in the so-called "USA PATRIOT Act," and through the institution of warrantless wiretaps and surveillance of American citizens.
It has abused the People's Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment Rights against unlawful detention, cruel and unusual punishment, and the Right to a speedy trial, through several unlawful provisions in the so-called "Military Commissions Act."
It has abused the People's Tenth Amendment Rights not to have the government overstep its constitutional bounds, through all of the above listed injuries and usurpations.
And to those citizens of these United States who do not wish to pledge with me this Declaration, my response to you is this:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams
What is it that Gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me:
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH! -- Patrick Henry, March 1775
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Comments: 37
It really isn't any wonder. The governing class doesn't want the general public to read the Constitution. Notice during the presidential "debates" (I think of them as the battle of the 30 second soundbite), you do not hear the Constitution mentioned even ONCE by any of the so-called "mainstream" candidates. They know that if the people were familiar with the Constitution, and became knowlegable about the way the government really functions, well as Henry Ford put it; "there would be a revolt by sunrise."
The reason our Presidential debates are 30 second soundbites is because our stupid mainstream media insists on it. The candidates would all love to ramble on. Mostly, that's all they do anyways.
If you think Don H. would vote for Hillary, I think you have sometihing in common with him: Baseless Hillary Hate.
Rush TOLD them to hate her - and since he does all their thinking FOR them, they HAVE to obey.
Have you contacted Gather? Maybe they could straighten it out.
I always tell people, when the press goes out of their way to do this, then you know that THIS IS YOUR MAN.
If everyone voted for him, and they turned around an nominated someone else, there would be a physical revolt.
" A Chicken In Every Pot"
Michael, how can the CFR be an "extreme leftist organization" if its members include republicans AND democrats? Believe it or not, there are elements far beyond the divisive world of partisan politics that are governing this nation and other powerful nations of the world. It has nothing to do with left/right, per say, but much to do with oligarchy.
The "left/right" paradigm has been severely distorted and over-played, but when you get down to it, the goals of the CFR and CFR-offshoots like the PNAC, are actually quite leftist in the Soviet/Marxist sense of the word. They believe in and openly advocate omnipotent centralized government, the diluting of individual liberty for the perceived "security" of the collective, an imperial foreign policy (traditionally the domain of "liberals"), and it was largely members of the CFR who orchetrated and even wrote the legislation that conceived the central banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve (a national central bank [central economic planning] in collusion with central government is a major plank in Marx's Communist Manifesto).
Here is a really good essay that I think does a good job of breaking down the "left/right" paradigm. It's from a website (Freedom Force International) that I think you might enjoy and hopefully learn from it as much as I have. I hope you decide to join, too, Clark. These people truly are devoted to helping to save this nation and restore our great constitutional republic. Left vs. Right: The Illusion of Opposites.
Col. House and his soulless banker associates understood that without intervention by the US, Germany would have won the war on the strength of its U-Boats alone. By the time the US entered, 40,000 tons of British naval vessels were sent to the bottom of the English Channel every week; One out of every four ships that set sail from England did not return. If the Alliies were to lose the war, all of the loans they received from American financiers on Wall St. would have gone bad, and the fortunes of some of America's wealthiest bankers would have been lost.
The US intervention in WW I was the first of many times the US government would send young Americans to die on behalf of the banks and major corporations.
Give me American Idol or give me death.
Frustrating, isn't it?
The "power behind the throne," as an earlier comment pointed out, is global corporations. America is not an empire; America is just one more of the colonies of the Corporate Empire. I think we need to stop taking potshots at the patsies used as front, and focus our efforts on the real players: "follow the money."
Remember: it takes a lot of exploited to make one rich exploiter. Therefore, we outnumber them. Bypass the corporate economy: buy from local independent farmers, tailors, carpenters, etc. Bypass the corporate media: there's a wealth of information from alternative sources, at your fingertips. Bypass corporate society: create your own relationships, your own community.
Make your own life; don't buy one off the shelf. Corporate power goes belly-up without consumers.
Your conclusions and advice are admirable and correct; however our current economic stucture has been built so that in all actuality, the large corporations -- including especially the major banks -- do not really even need consumers. The Federal Reserve System acts as "lender of last resort" for all major banks and business institutions. The name of the game is bailout, and its been played over and over since the inception of the Federal Reserve in 1913. All large corporations are sustained by their credit from even larger banks. Whenever one of them gets into trouble, the banks extend even greater loans so as to ensure the interest payments will continue. when the corporation finds itself unable to service the greater interest payments on that loan, the loan is then "rolled over" once more, under the pretense that the corporation will then have funds to carry on its essential operations and still afford to service the interest on the new, greater loan. When, inevitably, the interest on the third and final loan proves too great a burden for the corporation to bear, the bank, the corporation, and representatives from the Federal Reserve Board approach Congress, where they explain that it cannot be allowed for said corporation to default on this loan, as the damage incurred on the bank combined with the loss of a large corporation would have such profoundly damaging consequences for the economy. Congress then guarantees payment of the loan -- principle and interest -- and then guess who gets footed with the bill? The American taxpayer, in the form of the hidden inflation tax incurred when the new money is printed to cover the expense. This game has been played over and over again, with the taxpayer unwittingly being forced to bail out such massive corporate entities as Lockheed, Penn Central (now known as "Amtrak"), Chrysler, First Pennsylvania Bank, Unity Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Detroit, Continental Illinois, and the entire city of New York in 1975.
We all certainly should follow the prescription you gave, but we need to demand our elected officials abolish the Federal Reserve System as well, as it is merely a cartel operating against the public interest.
This is excellent. You've outdone yourself. Given even the short list of names above re CFR membership, it's easy to see why they all feel free to ignore us -- and why we know in our guts that they are all the same, with the same agenda. They speak in 'Orwellian' tongues and every once in awhile they put on a dimwitted dog and pony show for us all, to keep us thinking we have great choices, and so that we don't ultimately 'think.' [Watching Bush 41 and Bill do their 'bipartisan' routine' for charity gives me the absolute creeps.] Ah, it's such fun being one of the huddled masses. . . .
Have a note or two to compare -- later.
Anyway, change is already occurring at the ballot box, and it will continue. Unfortunately, as is suggested above, there is not a great difference between the choices, for the reasons you have all cited, and because all politicians are basically being paid by the same special interests...
Having said this I do not believe this can occur in America and your complaints have been repeated across countless generations in countless times from the Alien and Sedition Acts to the Patriot Acts and the number of responses the Whiskey Rebellion the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions to the mothers and fathers screaming outside the capitol building to bring their sons home from Iraq. I do not like what has been occurring in this country and I haven't liked it for many many years. Although I do not know that I could expect any less from people driven by fear and a self-indulgent culture. This is a good article but less then 50% of this America will care because less then 50% even care to VOTE what do they care of the greater powers at be abusing some minor legislation if it is not affecting their lives negatively at the time. America is a short-sighted nation we can only see how it will affect us today and we close our eyes to tomorrow. I have one more quote from you that you will like it is from Ben Franklin,
"Those who are willing to sacrifice a little liberty to maintain a little security deserve neither and will lose both."
But oh boy, such topics must be like stinkbait for conspiracy theory wingnuts.
I'm with Anitra Raging Granny -- no matter what "them" you're talkin' about, we outnumber 'em! Anybody remember what the "U" in "USA" used to stand for?
This unfortunately is analogous to removing one of the great inclusions of the orginating fathers of this great country. The executive branch of government in the balance of power by the big three, congressional, judiciary and executive.
One can only imagine the great results of the US congress and the judiciary at the helm without the executive branch of government.
Lou Rountree
SHAZAM !