Introduction

No matter how much effort local news media puts into creating and maintaining the delusion that there is nothing wrong in America, the American people know that there is something seriously wrong. Daily news headlines scream of the horror that unfolds by the hour, from political corruption at the highest levels, to murder and mayhem on the streets of the nation. It is all so demanding and intense that the average individual cannot help but "burn out" on all the input. It doesn't take long to have a "circuit overload," after which information goes through the mind without any penetration; this is its purpose. The barrage of information is designed to distract the individual away from the real causes of dissatisfaction in life.

It does not take too long once cognizance sets in -- after childhood -- to realize that there are expectations impressed upon one as part of "adult life." It is easy to assume that because others are doing what they are told, that we should do so as well, and in this mindless vacuum, most people live out their entire existence. They work at jobs they hate, they live in neighborhoods they dislike, and they are entertained by the exploits of actors who portray fictional characters with active lives, whom everyone can live through vicariously. Everything is geared to a safe routine that cannot be altered in even the slightest way without discomfort coming to the millions of people who have ordered their lives this way, but more significantly, without financial loss to business interests that suffer every time there is CHANGE.

Americans do not understand how much around them is not the product of happy accidents and coincidence, but is actually planned and executed with deadly precision by institutions that have them in their target-sites. Every day actions that seem innocuous, actually make it possible for particular institutions to take advantage not only of ourselves, but of our own children too. We in fact open the door wide and hand our children over to them, knowing that our children may end up dead on some foreign battlefront, or worse, the battlefront that now exists on every street of the country due to the folly of the institutions.

The institutions are reminiscent of the French Jacobin Club, and its morbid obsession with power, death and glory. "It is better that ten thousand men should perish, than an ideal." It is better that the whole American people perish, that the president, the congress and the courts survive... Unfortunately, many American people hold this opinion, and they are almost suicidal in their willingness to sacrifice themselves, without attempting to evaluate how well these institutions serve the American people.

The most important form of prudence in the modern Age of Information is the ability to discern accurate from false information; as well as the underlying motivation of the source providing it. Where once the news offered by mass sources was governed by the standards of such decent men as Edward R. Murrows, whereby it earned the bias-neutral term of "media," today reporters and journalists openly (and not so openly), side with the grid of institutional interests, always giving the benefit of the doubt to institutional agencies. It is impossible to count how many innocent people have gone to jail and prison because they were railroaded by the DA and the police, and the media just went along with it and accepted the charges at face value, as proof of guilt. There is more wrong with the system than that kids in street gangs just won't behave.

It would be wrong to imply that there is some kind of conspiracy going on to suspend the freedom of the American people. It would be wrong because it is far beyond the conspiracy stage. The American people have been intentionally lied to by their teachers in school, by reporters and editors in all the modes of media (newspapers, TV and radio), and by their political leaders. These interests have collectively misrepresented the real motivations and intentions of the Federal, state and local governments. However, when confronted with the real facts, they defend themselves with weak explanations about how the American people are not prepared for the truth. The truth that they are not prepared for, however, is that they have been systematically LIED to.

Amidst all the talk about a "Recovery," America is becoming a killing field. Every time a new act of violence exceeds the level of barbarity of the last, the institutional order refuses to address the root causes of the violence, because the root cause was that first violation of the individual, by the institutional order. The reality is that there is a civil war raging in the streets of America, an actual war, but the media does not want to portray it that way, because then they would have to actually address the reasons for the war. As in other war-torn countries, common sense would seem to indicate that the parties should "talk." In America, there is no talk, because the institutional order has the nation by a death-grip, and it is prosecuting many campaigns that actually victimize Americans, which the media has dignified with such terms as a "war on drugs," and the "war on crime."

The average American is gripped with a sense of hopelessness. Random acts of violence now seem to pervade our entire social fabric, from rural towns to the biggest cities, and the solutions the politicians get behind always fail. Based on the information provided by the media, and the politicians in their narrow debates, there would appear to be no solution. This is because they know that they are the problem, and the solution involves removing them. When people experience hopelessness, it is not because they cannot envision solutions; it is because their attempts to find solutions are deliberately thwarted and frustrated by powers they have no control over. What is causing America's dissolution is the social system provided for by the republic, a kind of proprietary civic membership that has been dominated by the rich without regard to quality of life. It has had the effect of turning city governments into little more than chambers of commerce with police powers. Without saying so much in statutes, those who have little or no property are disenfranchised. The principal reason for this is that poor people are second class citizens: The poor receive a lower class of legal defense when accused of crimes, than do the rich; the poor receive a lower class of health care when they become sick, or have accidents, than do the rich; and the poor receive a lower class of police protection, than do the rich. (This is most evident when the police arrest someone, and bail has to be posted, for which the Government will only accept cash). All of these add up to a secondary class of citizenship, which is clear to those involved by certain hallmarks. (Because any reference to an American caste system is taboo, the hallmarks of this are acknowledged in winks, nods and assumptions, much in the same way racism survived the abolition of slavery because those who harbor racism deny the racist epithets they entertain behind closed doors).

The so-called "middle class" is a demographic creation of the rich, as the bulwark of the republic. However, it is important to distinguish the poor from the rich in order to define the Middle Class, because there are millionaires who are upper middle class, who became millionaires because they were of service to the rich, but who remain essentially in the poor class because they never actually acquire the power associated with the rich (because the "monied class" has a minimum threshold in the billions, at modern values for the dollar). In real terms, the middle class is part of the poor class because any individual who acts up in any way so as to disturb the delicate business machinery owned by the monied class, is stripped of all the benefits of middle class membership (e.g., their home mortgage is called in; their lines of credit are cut; they are fired from their job, or suspended without pay; their "friends" shun them; their children are ridiculed at school; etc.)

The hopelessness of the population derives of the sense of the invincible power of the Federal Government, a power children in school are told will only be used for good. The reality that faces these children when they grow up is so gruesome that they decide to hide it from themselves, because the Federal Government kills people who defy it. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Pentagon and the Congress went on as if everything was still the same, building billion-dollar high-tech war devices. The enemy, however, was the same enemy all along, the one enemy with the power to change things if that enemy became informed about what the Generals and Politicians were really up to. And that enemy is the American people. When Oliver North engineered the embezzlement of US funds by selling US arms to Iran, in order to use the proceeds to finance the Contra warriors in central America, members of Congress knew about it, the White House knew about it; the only people who did not know about it were the American people. When JFK sent "advisors" into Vietnam, they were much more than mere advisors, and again, everyone knew this but the American people.

Additionally, the partisans of the right and the left have taken hold of all instruments of mass persuasion, and they refuse to address anyone who stands above the right-versus-left framework. Every journalist is either avowedly left or right, even though they affect the pretense of being neutral. The first line of defense of the partisan press is to not comment on a transcendent opinion at all. When this is done by an editor of a prestigious publication, it can make it appear that the transcendent opinion does not exist at all, or that it is not to be taken seriously, and that all viable solutions may only be found in the left vs. right ideological construct. (Of course, the very accurateness of a transcendent opinion is what makes it relevant, so ultimately it must be taken seriously, and the failure of the editors to recognize it when it appeared marks them as incompetent).

The partisans are not defending ideals, they are defending institutions. The Democratic Party does not stand for a liberal democracy, and the Republican Party does not stand for a conservative republic. Both parties stand for the preservation of Federal power over the individual; they stand for keeping everything as it is, except for the changes that they define as they go along, that always seem to benefit interests that pay them off. The bureaucrats make up the rules as they go along; the politicians make up the rules as they go along; and then they convince the population that it must go by the rules, even though they are changed every time someone who is not politically connected tries to improve the human condition. The bureaucrats and the politicians are sitting on top of vast wealth, while homeless Americans die on the street from starvation, exposure and drug addiction, people who not so long ago were normal, average hard working, tax paying people. When loving communities would be building shelters and food banks, and schools, the Federal and state governments have gone on a building spree, to construct a record number of prisons. Where a loving nation would hire teachers, the republic is hiring police and prison guards, with bi-partisan enthusiasm.

The homeless problem is not just a little problem that can be cured by the virtual "recovery" that only seems to happen on the stock market and never on the street. The homeless crisis is not a contained issue, that the Federal Government has handled. It is a massively out-of-control crisis, that the corrupt government and non-profit services are fully incapable of handling with any real effectiveness. While the non-profits put on a good horse-and-pony show for the television news, and are rewarded with billions of dollars in donations, most of that money is siphoned off into the salaries, benefits packages, and pension plans of the paid staffs. The result is that they have no real motivation to get at the underlying causes for the poverty of the masses, often holding the poor in a form of patronizing contempt, as though being poor was a sign of sin. The homeless crisis, however, is a real hemorrhage. It is symptomatic of the grasping opportunistic brand of greed that holds the political class captive, who fill their pockets with public treasure, and steal the fixtures from the sinking ship of state; a ship they steered onto the rocks.

Everything in America that is supposed to be communal in nature -- that is, above the venality of the commerce-driven sector -- is colored by a sycophantic adoration of the Puritan Work Ethic. Individual responsibility is defined by the willingness of the individual to work: That which is good correlates to a general willingness to work, while that which is bad correlates to an unwillingness to work. Finer distinctions are discouraged, because they may lead to unpleasant thoughts, such as the formula bankers use to calculate interest, so that the average homebuyer will pay the sales price of his home THREE TIMES before he owns anything at all. By contemplating the Work Ethic, one comes up against the hard fact that the interests of those families the Federal Government was set up to serve and protect, were hardly acquired through any devotion to the Work Ethic, but instead were the product of political power, passed from one generation to the other by inheritance.

America is in a very sorry state, and finding a solution will not come about from finger-pointing. That does not mean, however, that the principals causing the dissolution of American society are free of blame, or that they can be allowed to continue doing those things that are causing the destabilization of the social fabric. The confusion generated by the media must be dispensed with in favor of a firm resolve that rises above partisan colors, to the benefit of the nation as a whole. Without wallowing in defeatism, or becoming obsessed with bitterness that derives from being manipulated, the American people must find the inner strength to "grow" a new unified nation. This organic process derives from encouraging positive ideals that manifest the definitive virtues of humanitarian principles. The discovery that America has been dominated by an ugly group of leaders is not only a moment of disenchantment, it is a moment of resolve, a determination that the future will be better than that! Responsibility for one's country is more than just working harder for the boss, and paying taxes. Responsibility includes accepting responsibility for the quality of life in one's own community, and becoming active in shaping that community. We live with the product of our own involvement. If we are powerless, it is because we have allowed ourselves be talked into accepting this passive role in our nation.

The bankrupting of America is taking place right now. It is both a physical, financial bankrupting, as the bureaucracy pilfers the national treasure, as well as a moral and spiritual bankruptcy, as America sinks in an ocean of violence, and the authority of the republic is impotent and unable to stop the decline. There is a genuine coldness, a chill, that pervades the land, as people are scared to death by the media generated information sphere that envelopes us all. We are scared of crime, even while we subsidize criminals; but the criminals are not those being charged with crimes. It is those who charge them, who are cramming the jails and prisons full, and who only ask for shortened processes, with no safeguards. The state Attorneys General would have us actually imprison people solely upon their charging them with wrongdoing; but ten thousand years of custom dictate that that would be unfair and unjust, and so they have to go on, painfully arm-twisting the judiciary, hamstringing them with mandatory sentencing guidelines and unenforceable constitutions. The republic cannot go on. It has lost the faith of the people, but this is never reflected by the media, who always portray every social crisis as a mere accident; or the fault of an agency, often euphemized as a mechanical device that simply needs adjusting. The fact that the republic has been built on a bed of lies only serves to further the environment of complete confusion that prevails, and that makes it possible for the politicians to keep going on their tortuous path to glory. The real cost in terms of human lives is not as captivating to the journalists, bureaucrats or politicians, because all have taken sides, and all that matters is that your side wins!

The politicians think that they have the American people cornered, and the American people believe this. By indoctrinating Americans with the idea that the republic is the best system of government in the world, when its corruption makes it unbearable, what can one turn to as an alternative? In order for the assertion to stand, however, that the U.S. Government is the best system of government in the world, all the centuries of human wisdom that contradict this theory have to be disregarded, revised, and distorted. Republics have always been venal, unstable and commerce-driven; the intrigues of the medieval city-states in Italy give plenty of evidence of this. Anyone who needs more historic evidence, need only turn to the Swiss Republic, or the Dutch Republic. They are also prone to war, which is best illustrated by the city-state republics of the Classic Greeks. It was not by accident that the Founding Fathers selected the Athenian model of "democracy," the Athenians having built an aggressive misogynistic empire, supported by slaves, atop a displaced and suppressed native element.

Yet there is hope, real hope. Not the kind of hope that comes from the promises of politicians. Not the kind of hope that comes from bureaucrats, who always talk out of both sides of their mouths. It is the kind of hope that derives from the hearts of the American people. It is the hope that comes from the love they have for their country. It is the hope that comes when after fighting all night long, exhausted, one rises up again to fight at dawn, energized by a second wind. It is the positive hope that comes from tens of millions of women, bringing up their children with values of love, honor and peace, children who will become adults with those values driving their lives. It is the hope that derives of the genuine vitality of the American Nation, the people of America, outside of any institutional framework or agenda. It is the pure, raw native talent, that wants to do right and that is blinded by false information. And herein you have true information. And I implore you, use it!

WE HAVE BEEN MISLED

American people are among some of the kindest, gentlest, most compassionate people on the Earth. When the Iranians were holding American hostages in Teheran, they very carefully and deliberately clarified that they were not angry with the American people; they were angry with the American government. In one incident after another this same sentiment came to light with such universality it was almost uncanny. American people, after all, spearheaded international initiatives to protect human rights, and American technological advances have changed the way people will live forever, and as a result of the generosity of the American people, her former enemies have been rebuilt into formidable industrial giants. These are all new innovations that are directly attributable to American civilization. However, there is no immutable relationship between the American people and the United States Government.

The United States Government, sometimes also called the Federal Government, is an actual organization that has an existence separate and distinct from the American people. While the Federal Government is an actual single organization, the American people are not a monolithic unitary body. The American people are a vast, loose-knit network of various ethnic communities that share a common territory, and a common appreciation for the Anglo-American principles of law. Aside from that common ground, there are Americans who descend from African, German, French, English, Irish, Scottish, Arabic, Semitic, native American, Hispanic, Asian and Polynesian ancestors. In short, every ethnic society on Earth is represented somewhere in the United States, making it one of the most sophisticated and complex multi-ethnic societies on Earth. The Federal Government, far from assisting in the melting pot process of assimilation, generates its influence by pitting these various ethnic societies against one another. This is the very essence of the United States Government, as distinguished from the people of the United States, two separate and distinct entities that were deliberately confused by the Founding Fathers when they set up the Federal Government.

Any careful reader of the Constitution of 1787 will note that its focus is on enumerating the characteristics of the three principal institutions of the Federal Government. The only place where the word "people" is used, is in the pre-amble, where it has no force of law. This was not by accident. Throughout the Constitution the idea of the United States is used in two forms, interchangeably. In the first form, the term United States is used to refer to the organization set up in the Constitution, the Federal Government; in the second form, it refers to the states collectively, and by inference, to the people of the United States. The intent, however, is to manipulate the reader to associate the two, so as to have the end effect of merging the two in the mind of the individual.

The Founding Fathers were not sympathetic with democratic ideals of any kind. They were, in fact, openly hostile to democratic principles. The monument they left to posterity as a demonstration of their hostility towards egalitarian values is the Electoral College, which alone has the authority to elect the President of the United States. George Washington was opposed to the Bill of Rights in principle, because it was restrictive in nature. It proved to be no obstacle to him when later, as president, he established the precedent of Executive Privilege. This Privilege, however, was not an instrument for the president to further the interests of the American people; it was, rather, an instrument to enable the president to conceal information from the American people. And it underscored the basic hostile relationship that has always existed between the Federal Government and the American people.

The U.S. Government has its roots in institutions like the Sons of Liberty, (which accomplished its goals through what today would be called terrorism, vandalism and vigilantism), and the Committees of Correspondence, which spearheaded extralegal mass campaigns of hatred and violence directed against those who did not agree with their war agenda against England. (This example was what the Ku Klux Klan was following, when a century later the change of economic conditions made slavery unprofitable and undesirable, and racism unnecessary to the state). The regularization of this "system" of mob rule culminated in the form of the provincial congresses, and the Continental Congress, which met for the first time in September, 1774. On October 20th, the Founding Fathers organized the Continental Association, which was not charged with any operations opposed to the British, but with organizing a coercive apparatus able to control the compliance of the AMERICAN population with the rules the Congress adopted forbidding Americans from importing English goods. The real target for this new power structure was not the British, but Americans.

It is important to understand that the American Revolution was actually a civil war. Like any civil war, it constituted fratricide, which means brother killing brother. There is a change of perspective that is genuinely necessary for average Americans to undergo, if there is to be any real hope for the future; a paradigm shift. It involves a genuine review of historic events outside of the biases that have been entrained on the body politic as gospel truth by the network of institutions that now hold America by the throat. Institutions that have skewed information so as to convince vast numbers to believe that to question their version of history is the same as an act of disloyalty to the country.

Individuals are told that they must simply believe that the Federal Government has their best interests at heart, even while it presides over the despoilment of their patrimony. It is an article of faith that America is a free country, and in order to sustain that pretense all information to the contrary is actively suppressed. Not by any actual order, or legal proceeding, but by the more insidious insider signalling that is more akin to fraternity brothers in a poker game. The whole American practice of politics amounts to a facade based on denying the obvious.

Most of what passes as "history" and "social studies" in American schools was devised after-the-fact, as a means of lionizing the founders of the institutional order. The development of U.S. presidents as icons enabled the poor class to embrace the state that had been designed to serve the plantation owners. Instead of the petty, venal men the founders actually were, with the help of sycophantic "scholars," they were elevated to the Sublime.

One of the first dramatic devices used by storytellers since the beginning of time to emphasize the heroic nature of the protagonist, was to juxtapose good against absolute evil. This creates the dramatic tension necessary to lure in the reader, to become involved in the outcome of the story. This is especially vital to institutions that rely on this kind of story to attract new recruits, to keep the institution alive and vital from one generation to the next. There are institutions that exist in nature, and that don't require stories to exist; but the basic urban model usually is dependent on elaborate artifices and legal theories, and explanatory stories, that justify the establishment of a power structure at a particular moment in time.

In 1776 there was no such thing as an American. The word America was nothing other than a geographical expression. The colonials were fighting for their rights as Englishmen, which were defined by customs since "time immemorial." The characterization of the Revolution as a conflict between Americans and Englishman is fraudulent. The vast majority of the population was conservative and law-abiding, as is the vast majority at any given time in any country, which means that they were content with the kingdom. Modern Americans take it for granted that the republic is the only institution of government that has existed on the soil of the New World, which is not true. (Canada today is a kingdom, and the stablest government in Latin America was the Empire of Brazil, a stability no Latin republic has come anywhere near matching).

The American kingdom evolved from the earliest settlements of Europeans on the Eastern Seaboard, and it had to do with their appreciation of the principles of English law. The allegiance of the colonials to the English king of America had as much to do with the protections this afforded them, as it did with any formal obligation to obey legal authority. There is a trace of this still in the American tradition of voluntary compliance with law, but the republic never actually substituted for the monarchy, which had its origins in the ancient tribal unity of the people, when kings were chieftains. The republic was actually a police state, defined by the function of protecting the property of the plantation owners, specifically against encroachments by the poor, or especially, the slaves. This was an intrinsic division of interests which was obfuscated by the deliberate confusing of the boundaries between the Federal Government and the American Nation.

The republic enabled the plantation aristocracy, supplemented by a substantial merchant class, to dispense with many of the old common laws that were protective of the rights of individuals, by providing a process for doing so. This was how it was possible, a century later, for industrial corporations to pollute waterways with impunity, a felony under the common law. The Constitution of 1787 became a law unto itself, starting a form of fundamentalism that rivals that of Islam. With the same fanatic fervor that characterizes the jihad, modern America is torn apart by arguments over the meanings of the various clauses of the Constitution, none of which give any rights to American citizens. Every word of the Constitution focuses on the powers that shall be vested in the three branches of the U.S. government: the Presidency, the Congress, and the Courts.

It is important if American people have any hope of overcoming the obstacles to a social peace, to establish common definitions. As a result of the formation of the political structure of the republic as a permanent two party state, (meaning two institutionalized parties that dominate the political system), there have evolved two sets of meanings for the same words, so that, as an example, the word "liberty" does not mean the same thing to a Democrat as it does to a Republican. As a result, the order of the day is dissension and argument. However, it is important to understand that to the partisan, this difference in meanings is what distinguishes a Democrat from a Republican; although the differences are superficial, they are the fuel for the arguments and debates that enliven an otherwise bored and overworked nation.

The political parties have a middle class appeal that prefers a certain politeness in disagreement. Nothing is so important that one should have to sacrifice anything personal for it. The best illustration of this was the presidential candidate who railed against Americans buying foreign cars, when parked in his own garage was a Mercedes Benz. The contrast, of course, between a middle class conflict and a dispute on the street, is that on the street no one is polite or delicate, or pretending to be nice. In a middle class conflict, the established interests always prevail because middle class sensibilities cannot stand confrontation. The most widespread sentiment among the middle class is the myth that the best way to change a system is "from inside," which means coming to terms with the presence of amoral, dehumanizing institutions.

The Federal Government that most people don't know is the Federal Government that was funded until 1808 by the revenues generated from a tax on the trade in human slaves. After 1808, when the traffic in human beings was prohibited, the breeding of slaves came into its own, a chapter in U.S. history that is as vehemently denied by most average Americans, as the Nazi past is denied by modern Germans. Girls as young as 12 and 13 were forced to bear as many children as they could physically manage, many of them fathered by the slavemaster himself, who was free of all limits in the way he used and disposed of his slaves, who were nothing other than property, with the same status as cattle. The slavemasters even raped and fathered children with their own daughters, the girls they fathered with slaves, as if raping a slave could not be an act of incest too. Additionally, when slaves tried to escape to freedom, it was a serious crime often punishable by death. Most compellingly, in any district, if a man beat a slave to death for disobedience, the locals wouldn't raise an eyebrow because it was no one's business how a man treated his own property!

Yet anyone who is pre-disposed to dismiss this as ancient history should think twice, because the same institution that now is supposed to guarantee the freedom of the people, the republic, was required by the Constitution to return fugitive slaves to their owners. It is a purely police function that characterizes the very nature of the state established by the Founding Fathers. The bottom line is that police have no reason for being other than the protection of property, and slavery as an institution could only survive so long as the Federal Government guaranteed the possessor in his possession. It also guaranteed that the plantation owners could count on the assistance of the Government's force, should rioting poor people seek to dispossess the plantation owners, something that is not unknown in slave-owning societies. The most compelling popular sentiment during the early days of the republic was not some yearning for popular freedom, but a recurring dread of slave revolts. At the time, it was a crime for a slave to learn to read or write, and it was an even more serious crime for a free person to teach a slave to read or write. This is important, because this same basic suspicion of intelligence, and free opinions, still prevails today.

It is also important to recognize that a key feature of a "police state" is the way police are treated. The truth is that law enforcement has unchallenged power, and it is virtually impossible to go up against it, even when wholly in the right. When lying and evidence tampering fail, outright intimidation always succeeds, because no one wants to oppose an institution of professional fighting men. Additionally, they have formed an incestuous union with the various district attorneys, who vouch for police when they over-step their legal authority. Police are above the law, and are treated as a special class of bureaucracy, with particular perks that illustrate their special station in the scheme of the republic. The beneficiaries, (once the plantation owners, but now the Billionaire Class), happily rely on the physical prowess of the police to retain possession of their wealth, for which they readily bestow honorific gratitude, in the form of a special station and rank. (To some extent, this is also the source of the Middle Class, who are the educated managers the Billionaire Class requires, in order to operate their multi-national profit-making industrial corporations).

The beneficiaries of the republic are the most elusive group of Americans ever, if one's search for them were to take place in an American school-room. This is because the educational institution is invested in confusing American children as to who benefits from the configuration of institutions in the United States. The general welfare of the republic is relevant to the general welfare of the monolithic public school system of the United States, because they are institutionally tied to one another financially. As is the structure of corporations, utilities, churches, civic associations, etc. This institutional grid (or network) is so inter-connected, a primary value of the Middle Class beneficiaries of each separate institution is the survival of the grid itself, which gives it a "life" of its own. It becomes an interest by itself, separate and distinct from the interests of the American people, and at the core of this grid are the core industries, owned by private families. While all of America focuses on the political spectacle of presidents coming and going with pomp and circumstance, they all answer to the mighty rich, who own the equivalent of small countries on American soil, and whose power over that property is more absolute and dictatorial than any monarch at the height of the absolutist era.

There are only two true classes in the United States: the powerful and the powerless; the monied, who benefit from the police functions of the republic, and the poor. The monied have complete control of the apparatus of the state, because it is made up of ambitious poor people, who have used their skills and talents to make themselves valuable and useful to the monied class, who reward them by allowing them to become members of the Middle Class. The Middle Class is not a true class, but what could be called a "virtual class." By giving the Middle Class just enough to possess tiny amounts of property, they join in the defense of the police state because as "property owners," they now also need the services of the police.

The ironic fact about the monied class, however, is that they don't really have "money." What they have is raw wealth, such as land, oil, timber or industrial plant. The monied class are not mere millionaires. The monied class possess so much wealth that they don't actually know how much they own. (Anyone who can rattle off his net worth is not a member of the monied class). They also do not work. They do, however, instruct their children in the fine art of hiring, firing and managing servants, because their lives are heavily dependent upon the quality of servants they surround themselves with. While the Puritan Work Ethic seems appropriate for the help to teach their kids, so that they are realistic about their expectations, the kids of the Billionaire Class are raised with expectations of trust funds. Certainly, there is nothing wrong with a child inheriting the property of the father, but American intellectuals do need to acquire a stricter discipline when addressing issues of social realities.

The reality that is so unpleasant to the Billionaire Class is that they basically exploited resources that belonged to the American people, by using their control over the U.S. Government to secure possession of public property such as oil, minerals, timber, and real estate. Not one of the great industrial fortunes was made solely from hard work, and innovative ideas; each had a real boost from kick backs, bribes, black market double dealing, outright thuggery, and unsavory political intrigue. The biggest and most influential fortunes derived from the oil industry, profits reaped from essentially buying oil off of public lands at rock bottom prices, refining it, and selling it back to its original owners at a 1000% markup: the American people. Knowing that average people might get upset if this ever became general knowledge, the development of a Middle Class was an essential ballast, which required the minimum amount of attention on the part of the Billionaire Class, while guaranteeing continuity of the cash flow. Additionally, the Billionaire Class has been very intimate with the bureaucracy of the republic. A sign of just how grateful the Billionaire Class is -- for the services of the bureaucracy -- is indicated by the amount of money that has been socked away in pension plans for the civil service. The conservative estimate is that about $520 billion is now in special trust funds, to guarantee that all those public employees never have to suffer or sacrifice a thing. In fact, much of the National Debt politicians are so panicked over, that they feel is pressuring them to cut welfare payments to single mothers, is debt to their own pension funds. (The unfunded debt liability for the pension plan of the civil service is so huge, no one knows how much money is due).

When the Federal Government wants to appear impressive and moral, officials make declarations about how loyal it is to American nationals, yet Americans travel at the mercy of foreign governments and terrorist movements. But when an employee of the Federal Government is threatened, then the apparatus of the state jumps into high gear, and the juggernaut is in motion. Americans languish in captivity around the globe, but let some half-wit aim a pea-shooter at an oil refinery, and half a million troops are disembarking from aircraft carriers within hours. Americans may be at a disadvantage due to the incompetent and twisted propaganda indoctrination imposed on them by the public school system, which it chooses to call an education, but they are not stupid. They know when their sons are sent to a battlefront for no good reason; and they know when their sons are sent back in body-bags. They know when they see more impoverished people around them, eating out of garbage cans; and they know that they can complain until they are blue, because no one with authority is listening. It is this basic neglect that is the source of the social disintegration that is going on now in America. A neglect that is so structurally integral to the republic that any attempt to somehow re-shape or reform it to make it sensitive to the poor class, will completely destroy it.

The republic shows no signs of remorse. It makes no apologies for its legitimization of slavery; or for its police-state leanings. Its massive bureaucracies rifle through the most intimate secrets of American families, with no concern for the consequences. Individuals have actually died as a result of bureaucratic mix ups, and no one is ever individually responsible for anything. When it is beneficial to some power-monger, individuals are accused of some of the most heinous crimes, often without any genuine evidence; the prisons are full of people who were convicted on circumstantial evidence, and even flawed evidence, based on the legal tricks of a profession that takes no pride in moral causes. In what has to be a real sacrifice of academic standards, school children are taught to honor plantation owners as folk heros, and thus slave-masters are made into role models for citizens of a free society!

The end effect is kids who cannot read or write, or figure out good from evil. In the flush of youth, and in the clutches of professional "educators," loving children open to all the lessons life has to offer, graduate as obedient soldiers, ready to go to some foreign land and "kick butt." They make no attempt to determine for themselves the rationality underlying any decision about the nation's relations with foreign states. They accept with snap judgment whatever they are told by sources that took part in educating them, and that shamelessly profit from their support. These sources have propped up the power structure, or institutional grid, through the propagation of the "Civic Creed" of the republic, which is a litany that must be embraced as an article of faith, with no in-depth scrutiny. The civic creed is a body of fabrications that Americans are coerced into accepting, and which is transmitted when the people are the least able to resist it: IN CHILDHOOD. The teaching of the civic creed is the basic function of the school system, but because it is so narrow in focus, and riddled with fictions that do not relate to the real experiences of American life, the end result is that those who take it to heart are left culturally illiterate. This is because a story that is a lie about an American president in an attempt to illustrate his honesty, is still a lie. And no matter how convoluted American thought may become to validate the republic, Americans are worn out from the acrobatics they have to practice to remain loyal to it.

The fundamental mindset of the Federal Government is that it will be here forever. Even if every American has to go to jail, it doesn't intend to relinquish an iota of power. Its main arsenal is the threat of punishment, which underlies every pronouncement of rules and regulations that it makes. Whereas law evolved over the centuries as a benefit to mankind in defining the relations between people, and in creating a neutral set of terms that enabled people to pursue justice, fairness and equity, in the hands of the republic law became an offensive weapon to be used against the people. "STATE PROPERTY: KEEP OUT, trespassers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law..."

The psychology of control is always working, which is to maintain a general atmosphere that exudes the confidence of law enforcement to subdue anyone who would buck the status quo. It is the heart and soul of mind-control, (also known as psyche warfare), which is based on demoralizing the target into surrender; for it is as much a victory to persuade one's opponent not to defend himself, as it is to outright over-power him. In a society where the slave population once out-numbered the free, one can understand why a facility for mental manipulation would be prized. With the combination of the lure of financial reward, and the threat of punishment for a lack of obedience, the great majority never question their superiors, and even actively help their superiors punish those who cause discomfort by bringing up issues that highlight the captivity of the "herd." The brutality of the republic, however, is its undoing. The republic is the embodiment of everything petty in American life: every grievance, every envy, every mean-spirited malevolent ideology, finds expression in the republic; while everything noble and magnanimous is viewed with suspicion and hostility. No one serves the republic from a love of the country, every last bureaucrat and politician gets paid, handsomely. They have a jaded, cynical and opportunistic view of the body politic -- of the American people -- who they see as sheep they are entitled to shear.

The problem is that the pillaging of the republic is now having a dramatic effect on the quality of life in America. It has always made life difficult for the average person, but America was able to grow despite the grasping opportunism of the political system. But now the nation is suffering from a lack of genuine national unity, that a republic is not able to provide. There is a stark lack of genuine living heros in the 20th century. There is no lack of false heros, icons of World War, larger than life leaders who in practice were ordinary petty insiders. What there is a lack of is real, patriotic virtuous selfless leaders who lead by the example of their lives, what in former generations were once called role-models. In the place of real role-models, we have George Washington, who led Americans in shoot-outs with authorities, and is an example that such a tactic can succeed, even though the end result was that once again, the sages are proven correct, that might does not make right. And we have Thomas Jefferson, who owned 150 slaves, and was a crafty lawyer who contradicted himself so many times that no one really knows what his real attitudes were. (We do know, however, that Jefferson was a racist who thought that black people were pre-disposed to theft!) We also have Abe Lincoln, the ex-railroad attorney-turned-president who freed slaves in areas he had no control over in his Emancipation Proclamation, and who threw his political opponents in jail without warrants or due process, because they dared to challenge his authority. It didn't matter that one million Americans would die in the Civil War, which Lincoln bluntly told everyone was not about ending slavery, but preserving the Union. A million Americans can die, but above all else, the Union must stand! No one makes light of the institution of slavery, but the establishment of the republic guaranteed its perpetuation, and even profited from it!

The World Wars of this century were generally started by the pressures that were created by the industrialization of western Europe and the United States, a process that the republic enabled because it limited the customary rights of individuals under ancient laws. It was under the republic that the notion of a corporation came into its own, a legal fiction invented by lawyers that has all the properties of a natural human being, but none of the liabilities. It is because the rights of a natural person are so strongly embedded in the culture, that corporations were designed to emulate the legal rights of a human being, without actually having to undergo the stress of being conceived, gestated or born into human life. A corporation is called a "legal person" to distinguish it from a "natural person," because it only has existence in the law; but, like a natural person, it can buy, hold, use and sell property, and it can enter into, perform on and enforce contracts. The only thing a corporation cannot do is go to jail for a crime, which is why so many industrialists were quick to form corporations. (After all, who would want to invest in a new technology that is going to pollute a river, or destroy a mountain range, without some guarantee that all the profits generated are not going to be siphoned off by the grievances of victims in the "path of progress"?)

Americans do not appreciate the many back-doors there are into the halls of power under the republic, specially designed for the Billionaire Class to access. When the Billionaire's son gets into mischief, the police don't embarrass the old man by booking him; he is given first class treatment, and then chauffeured back to the manor. But when a son of the poor class (including the Middle Class) gets into trouble, it's jail time; he's put on trial, and where the dirt poor go to jail and prison, because they are forced to rely on the "public defenders" who defend no one, the Middle Class often avoid further jail time because they can afford independent legal counsel. (One of the few actual benefits of Middle Class membership).

The Billionaire Class answer to another strata of law than do the ordinary folk, the common people of the poor class. The entire system of government caters to their needs, rarely bothering them with the details of how their vast interests are being protected. A good example would be the insurance industry, which has externalized all of its costs for detecting fraud, because the FBI pursues anyone who cheats the insurance industry. By having torts against corporations defined as "crimes," it enables companies to use the resources of law enforcement, even though law enforcement should have nothing distracting it away from pursuing crimes of violence.

The mass media employs stereotypes to communicate mass messages, and one of the most useful is the image of orphans and widows, whose trust funds are invested in the stock market. This is to assuage the feelings of that vast majority who are locked out of the profits of the rising stock market, because they don't have any money. That majority would be surprised to know that they actually are playing the stock market, they just aren't getting any of the profits. That is because the majority of players on the stock market are institutional investors, which gamble with our money every day: Banks, Cities, Counties, Special Districts, School Districts. It is precisely because these institutions are using our money at a profit, that they want to continue doing so, making it ever harder for individuals to keep any money for themselves. This is the reason why we have seen a quarter-century of prices creeping up, regardless of the official inflation rate. However, alongside such giants of Wall Street as IBM, GM, GE, AT&T, ITT, and Standard Oil, are dynastic families -- genuine tribal human families -- that remain low profile, who actually own so much land and wealth that bankers call them.

The typical reaction of an American to the idea of a king is to associate kingship with tyranny. Ironically, kingship is an institution rigidly governed by ancient laws, while tyranny is exactly the condition that prevails within the feudal domains of America's richest families. The very notion of private property isolates the activities that take place in the "family compounds" of the monied. We imagine such quaint sayings as, "A man's home is his castle," and we reflect back on our tract houses, never realizing what this would mean if your home was Hearst's Castle, on an estate half the size of Rhode Island. When the Billionaire buys his son his first car, and he writes the Porsche salesman a check for $120,000.00, he doesn't know if there is any money in that account, because he knows the banker will take it upon himself to just ENTER the money needed to cover the check.

It never dawned on the average person that the whole idea of private property could be turned on its head, to endow five percent of the population with over 85% of the resources. Under the pretense of private property rights, the "owner" has more absolute, autocratic and totalitarian authority than any traditional king has ever possessed at any time in history. American scholastic standards typically remove the tribal chief or king from the context they existed in, in order to portray them as arbitrary and capricious. This is in contrast to the seemingly orderly process by which a bill becomes a law, according to the clauses of the Constitution of 1787. Of course, this is the way the process is depicted in a book; in actuality, the auctioneering that goes on in Congress is anything but orderly. (The main restriction on a chief, that restrains his actions, is his human love for his fellow tribesmen; whereas the legislative process in Congress is a cold and calculated transaction, with a bottom line.)

Most modern people judge leaders around the contemporary examples they see demonstrated, not realizing that an ancient king was very different in nature from the president of a republic, which is the actual model from which the modern dictator of a fascist state evolved. The fascist dictator is an executive: His will is made known through orders, which are valid because of his official capacity. A good deal of a modern president's time is taken up with consideration of what orders should be issued in his name; kings, on the other hand, presided over a society of semi-independent tribesmen, each of whom had individual freedom of choice, all of which lightened the burden of the kings. The main duty most monarches were pre-occupied with was not the giving of orders, but the responsibility of sitting as a magistrate, deciding lawsuits. The popular image of kings running around like madmen ordering people's heads to be cut off is of modern origin, and was deliberately devised to frighten people away from the ancient and venerable institution of the monarchy. (For example, the French Republic beheaded many more Frenchmen than the French Monarchy, with the help of the guillotine, a device that made it possible for average citizens to be executed "democratically" in the way once reserved for the nobility).

It might appear that a state that is built on a bed of lies would have a limited life expectancy, and that is definitely true of the Federal Government. However, it has a demonstrated resiliency that has enabled the grid of institutions that it anchors to resist popular drives for social justice. By using massive unrestrained force and elaborate procedures for falsifying evidence, and framing innocent people, the Federal Government virtually invented the rules for operating a mass society using terror. But where once this was only fully understood by a tiny minority of Americans, who by coincidence were exposed to the inner workings of the republic, today its transgressions against civilized norms are being exposed to the entire population, which is appalled.

The most valuable smoke-screen of the Federal Government is the partisan gamesmanship of the Democratic and Republican Parties. By initiating arguments over obscure Federal and state regulations, the resulting intrigue draws the full force of the public's attention away from the high crimes that take place every day; by involving the "voters" in these artificial debates, it channels all that popular energy into the agendas of the mandarins. It creates the parameters for social issues, generating boundaries "respectable" people will refuse to cross. This is the very essence of the idea of "shaming," a throwback to the Puritan age whereby modern party leaders exert influence short of branding. It is also the way national agendas are localized, the local newspapers deferring to the larger media as the harbingers of tolerated public opinion. It is vital to understanding how the modern police-state-republic works, to appreciate that "public opinion" is not a free floating accumulation of the many opinions of the population. It is a deliberately engineered feedback from the population, who are prepared by their "education" to cooperate with what is essentially a deceit.

In order to appreciate the finely tuned mechanism that enables the leaders of the republic to control the "public opinion" that they respond to with a legislative agenda, it is important to understand the underlying structure of the state, by understanding how it perceives its own function. Initially, the Federal republic was a slave-state, and protecting the property men had in their slaves was such a high priority that it was put in the Constitution of 1787 itself. This lasted until 1864 when slavery was abolished, but up until that time enslaved human beings seeking freedom were actual criminals, and police were often busy pursuing fugitive slaves (this is the precursor of the relationship that black people enjoy with police today, and answers the question of why law enforcement institutions routinely treat black people so badly). After the Civil War and the Reconstruction, which amounted to a free-for-all, a new basic mandate slowly evolved answering the ultra-rigid call of the temperance movement to ban intoxicants. Intoxicants have always been a nuisance in slave-states, because people don't want to work as readily when they are under the influence. Normally, this might not be a problem, and most non-slave states have only minor restrictions on drugs; but when the basic function of the state is to keep the labor force laboring, the prospect of that labor force getting high and taking the day off is a nightmare. As wage-labor replaced slave-labor, the focus of the state shifted from returning fugitive slaves, to enforcing the Master and Servant laws which evolved as the anchor for the new labor force. This eventually included enforcing what came to be called Prohibition, which ostensibly was the result of a generation of women and clergy demanding that the republic prohibit all alcohol. This was a colossal error because a labor force that is being overworked mercilessly requires some kind of self-medication, to anesthetize the physical pain of a day's work. It became apparent that the vast majority of Americans simply ignored the new laws against alcohol, which threatened to undermine the entire scheme of the republic. This embarrassment forced the politicians to assume an accommodating stance relative to alcohol, and rescind Prohibition, but not before the Federal Government took on the shape of a Prohibition State, replacing alcohol with "illegal drugs."

The education of Americans under the public school regimen amounts to training the people to respond to prompts with certain lines, like actors on a stage following their "cues." A good example is: "America is what kind of country?" The answer, of course, is: "America is a free country!" Another example that reveals the more daring aspect of this is in the prompt: "What president of our country went to his father and said, 'I cannot tell a lie.'?" The respondent knows in advance that the correct answer is George Washington, even though this event never took place in history. Virtually every test in every school amounts to teachers quizzing students on answers that were provided in class, so that the student is not required to do any independent, critical thinking. Those who jump through the hoop are rewarded with good grades, another artifice for prompting approved behavior; and those who fail to jump through the hoop are punished with poor grades. Should the group as a whole appear at all defiant, or unwilling to cooperate with the teacher's effort to drum the Civic Creed into their heads, the entire class is punished as a unit, and certain key students are blamed, so that the dynamics of peer pressure will kick in. The public school system is a very crude and abrasive conditioning agent, bent on destroying the individual's will to resist the System. The system, of course, is the grid of institutions that dominate the society and which are bleeding it dry, which rely on the police of the republic for their stability.

The way the political leaders are able to control "public opinion" is through their institutional ties with the mass media. First, a group of politicians decide that something needs to be done. They evolve an agenda that meets their needs, which usually are driven by their obsession with getting elected and re-elected. This means that they have to cater and pander to the monied, institutional interests, yet have it appear that this pandering is really in the best interests of the general public. A good example is the drug issue, the drug industry being outpaced in profits only by the medical industry (which allows Americans to die every day of the week because they don't have the money to afford adequate, state of the art medical care). The starting point for the politicians is the need of pharmaceutical giants (like Eli Lilly, etc.) to eliminate any kinds of substances individuals may use for medicinal purposes, which do not need to be synthesized in a laboratory. This is very important because if the individual is able to relax using an herb he grew in his garden virtually for free, why would he need to buy valium, which he must rely on a pharmaceutical firm to SELL him? The thing to remember is that individuals collectively are mass markets, and in order to create a mass market the behavior of individuals must be controlled. Everything in America under the republic is purposefully integrated into the market.

The process of inventing the drug issue is to introduce it subtly, by having individuals with associated interests -- high ranking doctors and surgeons, for example, at a government-financed hospital -- make public statements, alluding to the targeted substances as public health hazards, without ever relating the fact that the topic was selected in secretive phone calls, and behind the scenes collaboration. This was one of the core functions of the Surgeon General's office, the association of a medical position with a military title not being by accident. Even a general must answer to his commanding officer, and the combination of a doctor or surgeon with a military rank infers that this officer will always serve the higher loyalty he owes to his superiors in rank. By inferring that certain substances are health hazards these professionals have created a pretext for the legal community to create "laws," to address the "issue." Columnists who go to dinner with key members of Congress, and members of the President's Cabinet, are particularly vulnerable to being used to drum up popular indignation at the newly discovered "health risks." Better yet, when the next unstable individual is caught after having a psychotic episode, a few well placed words by the officer-in-charge at the crime scene can have the electrifying effect of attributing some atrocity to the "killer drug," even if the attribution is completely unfounded. (The media works exceptionally well circulating rumors).

Americans are ridiculed by the press who infer that there is any behind the scenes planning by any of the members of the Federal Government, as if the person who would think up such a scenario is a paranoid. The truth, however, is that as a single organization that was launched at a particular moment in time by actual individuals, and which is still operated by particular individuals with names and faces, who must operate in concert in order to keep it going, it is a deceit to imply that the agendas of the Federal or state bureaucracies evolve from accidents, or public demand. In the world of the bureaucracy, the people are put there for its purposes. The only condition limiting the bureaucracy is the fact that the population is sincerely convinced that the bureaucracy is there to serve them, the American people. The bureaucrats realize that as long as that fiction is sustained, the bureaucracy can get away with almost anything. That is why political candidates talk about the People; and it is why DA's refer to themselves as The People. And elections must, above all, express the will of The People, even though in real terms, the ballots have no legal effect because they are secret, and no agency can be constituted in law when the principals are unknown and unidentifiable. Additionally, the People are fundamentally illiterate as a result of the deliberate efforts of the so-called "school system," so that morally the People are being abused in ways that are nothing short of diabolical.

THE CORRUPTION: YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW BAD IT REALLY IS...

In April, 1995, the United States was rocked by one of the most significant acts of terrorism in American history. What was purported to be a car bomb blew up and took with it 169 people, and the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In the aftermath, journalists pondered whether or not there was more than a single bomb blast. Journalists also speculated as to who was responsible, and before the hour was up reports were being broadcast with somber seriousness, to be on the look-out for dark-skinned suspects driving a pick-up truck. The inference was that these dark-skinned suspects were not Americans, but instead the agents of a foreign power intent on doing America harm. It was a tremendous shock for the establishment to realize that it had been the victim of an American national.

As the tragedy unfolded, all kinds of weapons were found, including a rocket launcher, which one man verified with such absolute certainty as a first hand witness, that it caused the interviewer to ask if perhaps it had been a part of the arms cache of one of the Federal agencies that had been housed in the Murrah Federal Building. The question went unanswered, and the rocket launcher disappeared from the news. That night, martial law was declared, and troops were moved in to avoid "looting." What were the Federal authorities worried about being looted? The files that had been stored in the Federal Building, which contained sensitive information on Americans the Federal agencies had targeted for investigation, files that were classified as secret because they revealed the genuine extent of surveillance Americans are typically put under by the U.S. Government. There was, of course, more than one bomb blast, but those secondary blasts were the product of the car bomb igniting them; that is because every Federal building in America that houses para-military Federal agencies, like the INS, the SS, the IRS, and the BATF, also serve as arms depots for those agencies.

Unlike ordinary crimes wherein the perpetrators escape scot-free, the alleged perpetrator of the biggest terrorist bombing in U.S. history was already in custody of police when the shock set in that the blast was not an act of a foreign enemy. The idea that it could be an act of resistance by American people against the Federal Government appeared to be unimaginable to the television reporters and news anchors: America is a worker's wonderland, where everyone is happy, happy, happy! The Government was careful to sidestep any questions of heavy-handedness on its part, which might have caused the anger that resulted in the blast as some form of retaliation. The Government never says it is sorry, because it is not sorry. It was the victim of insane, lunatic bombers, who were out to hurt innocent children! The absurdity of this was revealed the minute more information started to come out, indicating that there was some unreported "minor" incident that MIGHT have caused it, two years prior, in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Or perhaps, the media speculated, the mad bomber was motivated by some "crazy" desire for revenge as a result of the Federal Government's vicious military assault on the cult in Waco, Texas, in which children were mercilessly slaughtered right before the eyes of a horrified public.

These two incidents became the focus of Congressional hearings which mass circulation papers like the Los Angeles Times dismissed because they would only re-hash "well-known facts." The problem for the Los Angeles Times, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the entire broadcast news industry, was that new information did surface through the hearings, and people who relied on the editorials of the media -- who didn't have the time during business hours to watch the hearings for themselves -- never came to know the vital information that was revealed. Information that revealed that the FBI did in fact know that the cannisters of gas it was tossing into the confined, kerosene-lighted buildings where David Koresh was holed up, would in fact cause death to the children. Information Sonny Bono was able to unearth with two staffers in a couple of hours... If Sonny Bono was able to locate solid information, you can be sure the FBI had those identical reports, and you can be certain that the Attorney General of the United States was aware that children would die when she ordered the final assaults at Waco, Texas.

Information also started to surface about a violent military-style attack the Federal Government launched against ex-Special Forces vet Randy Weaver, up on Ruby Ridge, Idaho. A violent assault that resulted in three deaths, that the Federal Government fully intended to cover up; even promoting the field commanders who engineered the whole scandal, with complete disregard to "public opinion". In a nightmare scenario, the FBI framed Weaver when he refused to become an informant, by entrapping him into a weapons violation; and then went to arrest him when he predictably failed to report to court because he knew it was a trap. U.S. Marshals from as far away as Boston, Mass. were flown in, and all kinds of military equipment was requisitioned, when a few confrontations degenerated into shoot-outs, in which Federal agents murdered Weaver's teenage son and unarmed wife. In the course of the trials that followed, it became clear that the FBI changed the rules of engagement during the course of the attack, with the ultimate order: "Shoot on site, to kill." It is important for Americans to understand that this is an illegal order, and in the same way that Nazi war criminals were not excused from their crimes against humanity because they carried out illegal orders, the employees and agents of the republic give illegal orders every day, and they are carried out, and the only way anyone is informed about it is when some act of sabotage takes place that disrupts the establishment enough that it cannot be hidden. There is reason to doubt that we would have ever found out about Ruby Ridge and the gross violations of the Weaver family by the FBI, from the mass media. It took the destruction of a Federal Building to force the issue.

The mass media is doing everything it can to avoid the biggest single issue now dominating American civic life, because to address this issue would be to admit to the complicity and collaboration that has made the whole carrot-and-stick economic system function. That single pivotal issue is the fact that the republic is engaged in a war against the American people. The prisons being built in record numbers are not being provided to punish foreign nationals; these detention centers are being built to hold Americans. The crimes they are putting on the books every day -- such as the new Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Act of 1995, which makes shooting up a stop sign an act of terrorism -- are deliberately intended to extend the reach of the Federal Government, into the private lives of individual Americans. In fact, many homeless Americans became homeless because they were sent to jail for some misdemeanor infraction -- such as a violation of the Vehicle Code -- during which they lost their jobs and their homes, and in many cases, everything they owned in the world.

No one with a sound mind can argue that there is no need for law and order, or that there is no function for a government of law; but it stands to reason that if the society is collapsing, the cause of that collapse is in the absence of a legitimate government. Government is the moral backbone of a nation, and the nation is the cultural totality of a people ethnically. One of the biggest problems facing the American people is a lack of synthesis between the various American ethnicities, not so much racially as much as socially. While there is a common appreciation of the ancient English principles of law and the dynamics of reason, there is a failure of individuals to relate to the humanity of "the other." This is what the republic has relied upon to enable its politicians to wheel and deal with the national treasure. Any actual nationalist drive to create a united country is looked upon with ridicule and suspicion, because it would necessarily upset the whole corrupt system of pork barrel influence peddling. By generating rivalries and competition between the various special interest groups seeking their support, the politicians do a windfall business selling themselves like common whores. Under the republic, it is not unthinkable to be a whore, if you are paid well. That is the conventional wisdom on the street...

As in every society the leading values enshrine particular people as the trend-setters, and the society in general begins to reflect those values locally. The reality of America is that unless you're born a Rockefeller, you are going to have to work in order to make a living. This is hammered home when the innocent American is about nine years old, and the pressure begins to force the individual to give up all freedom and voluntarily join the workforce. All the well-meaning elders around the defenseless child suggest different career goals, and trigger inner mechanisms by asking the child such questions as: "What are you gonna be when you grow up?" By asking the question, the unformed mind of the child is intrigued by this challenge, and before you know it, the entire wiring is in place that will enable the child to respond to prompts with the "correct" answers. Boys, of course, are asked if they will be doctors or lawyers, or policemen, or firemen; while girls are asked if they will be nurses or housewives.

No one spares the children the raw impact of the economic system, which only delivers to those who have the money to pay. The pain of those who don't have enough money to pay is either hidden, (such as in media reports about advances in cardiac treatment that don't address the fact that the vast majority of heart attack patients will never benefit from state of the art treatment because they have no insurance, or no money); or given token aid that is blown out of proportion, and made to appear as a complete solution. Under the guise of a loving and benevolent economic system with every appearance of fairness, young children are taught to surrender their independent aspirations, in favor of a pragmatic vocational goal that promises future financial security. The reality that it is a harsh and unyielding system, run on the epitome of rules derivative of a jungle, and that all promises of future security are illusory at best, does not come "home" until the bloom is off the rose. It is at that point that loyal Americans are dumped by the wayside, as refuse. The homeless...

The homeless of America are not just a bunch of unfortunates who suffered decline because of personal flaws, much as the mass media and the United States Government would want you to think. The homeless are the victims of the hard-sell American Dream. There is only anecdotal evidence surfacing about hard-working people being laid off because of corporate "down-sizing" and "re-structuring," but they represent the new norm. As soon as an announcement is made that some gigantic enterprise is "laying off" tens of thousands of workers, some "expert" will start rationalizing by introducing unrelated macro-economic data that would seem to indicate that any concern about the laid-off laborers is misplaced. The economy is now "leaner and more efficient," or there are new jobs being created somewhere because of technological advances. It does not change the fact, however, that tens of thousands of specific individuals have lost their means of living, and many of them may never connect up with a new job, forcing them to join that growing group who fell through the cracks to be forgotten: the homeless.

The homeless crisis of the 1990s parallels the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the American cartel-based economy collapsed in 1929. Where in the past speculative booms went bust with only regional effects, the nationalization of the speculation in stocks and debt had a generally debilitating effect on commerce. This led to very odd circumstances, such as the evolution of tent cities next to foreclosed tracts of vacant homes. It represented the internal breakdown of the market system, which was paralyzed by the greed of the cartels that dominated the economy, that were owned by the Billionaire Class as the basis of their control of the republic.

It is vital for the average person to appreciate that between 1992 and 1995, 1.5 million Americans lost their jobs. At the same time, donations to charity have been at an all time low (largely due to the news coverage surrounding the homeless issue). The economy cannot shake a recession that sees the Dow soar, while millions of Americans are plunged into poverty. Additionally, the partisans want to cut programs that don't subsidize their constituents, so they attack the validity of giving aid to the needy. The needy are no longer portrayed as helpless innocents victimized by circumstance, but opportunistic and irresponsible dead-beats whose lack of loyalty to the Work Ethic is just short of suspicion of criminal wrongdoing. The reality that the entitlements to corporations dwarf all the human services entitlements, is never uttered in any mass media. A good example is the beverage company Coca Cola. Coca Cola is a private company that became a world beverage industry because General Eisenhower made a deal with Coca Cola that financed the construction of Coca Cola Bottling Plants everywhere American servicemen were stationed. All at public expense, at a cost of about $60 million. Has any of that money ever been repaid? Doesn't Coca Cola owe something to the American people? It is only the tip of the iceberg; but the media would rather debate the personality flaws of unwed, pregnant teenagers.

Charity is one of the most divisive issues in contemporary politics, which suits the interests of the welfare bureaucracy, which will continue to soak the country for billions of dollars that it not only will not spend on the welfare of the poor, but which it will pay itself in salaries and benefits. Every article in the popular press having to do with the welfare bureaucracy focuses on the hard-working welfare workers, whose "only intention" is to help all those helpless people; and if there are any "bad guys" in any piece, it's the welfare cheater who commits welfare "fraud," therefore spoiling it for all those deserving recipients. Those guilty of welfare "fraud" are universally portrayed as shifty and lazy, in disregard of the truth that most of those who commit fraud are not only NOT lazy, but are guilty of working on the side and failing to report it. Most people have not had the experience of walking into a welfare office, and as a result of the shoddy journalism practiced in the United States, they won't get a real feel for the experience through any of the reporting of the mass media. Needless to say, it is not a friendly encounter.

The first thing that greets your eye is the line of Americans waiting for help. This is only partially deliberate, because there is an increasing demand for the services of the welfare office by people who feel entitled to some assistance not because they are there with their hands out, but because they all worked for a living and they all paid taxes, and they thought at the time that they were paying those taxes that it included helping them someday, if the need arose. However, it would be wrong for anyone to infer that the welfare office is a service of any kind, because it is not. The clerks are not helpful or happy, or gracious. The applicant is forced to wait hours for appointments that are part of a deliberate effort to reduce the self-esteem of the applicant, who is made to feel grateful for whatever the agency gives.

On every surface there are sinister signs threatening the applicant with punishment if the applicant does not completely play by the rules devised by the agency, which are meant to remove any independence on the part of the applicant. These signs threaten the individual with prison and fines in sums that far exceed his net worth (which they know in advance, because they force the individual to disclose his financial status, which is met with suspicion and is a cause of delay in assistance until all the information is verified in triplicate). The applicant is a criminal until he proves that he is genuine in the eyes of the welfare bureaucracy. The social workers act hand in hand with law enforcement and the District Attorney's office, tightening the noose around the neck of the average man. The wholesale manufacturing of new and exotic crimes by a legislative industry has led to the development of a prison industry with its own lobbyists, all of which feed on the failures of the welfare bureaucracy, and the educational institutions.

The welfare bureaucracy's rules are designed to enable the social workers to play power-based mind games on the welfare recipients. The most common routine, which takes place on a regular basis, is a delayed check which the anxiety-ridden recipient discovers is due to a change in social workers; the new social worker cannot be reached by phone for days, and when finally reached, he cannot authorize a check until he has had a chance to look at the recipient's file. (As if the technician did not realize that the recipient was trying to reach him for days, and had not actually already familiarized himself with the recipient's case). When checks are finally sent and received, rents are late, evictions take place and children wind up on the street, all just to save the county (and the state) a few pennies. BUT THE REPORTERS NEVER GET AROUND TO WRITING ABOUT THESE STORIES... They only cover recipients with a social worker hovering in the background. A social worker who won't hesitate to punish the recipient if anything is disclosed about how they are really being treated.

There is a real need for services for the poor that ensure that no one is allowed to perish because they are too poor. But it is not a partisan issue, and it is not an issue of charity; it is an issue that goes right to the heart of the social collapse we are undergoing. It reaches to the core and essence of what it means to be a civilized nation. Civilized means cultivated, refined, learned, enlightened, moral. To live in a civilized society there must a social understanding or agreement that holds the society together, which individuals learn; and which the society must uphold as a standard. It is when individuals are forced by circumstances to unlearn this agreement, to abandon the standard, that the society comes unraveled. It goes back to the wild...

The best in American life has nothing whatsoever to do with American politics, or the republic. That which has made American civilization vital and powerful is the American people, often despite the best efforts of the republic to thwart the aspirations of the people. The republic has been instrumental in discrediting the traditional institutions of the American people, which derive from European roots, that have served as social ballasts for thousands of years, the absence of which is a primary source of the lack of stability in the American social fabric. American politicians are not entitled to re-write the laws of nature; the amassing of military might under the auspices of the republic has only made them so arrogant that they cannot see the writing on the wall, that they have worn out their welcome.

This is not to imply that America should stop electing politicians, or that it should curtail public discussions of important topics; to the contrary, Americans should simply be realistic about politicians, and insist on a system of government that has some inherent stability from tried and tested means, and which above all, is legal. It is the legal framework that restrains politicians, and it is when there are loopholes such as exist under the republic -- which enable politicians to have free reign with no accountability -- that we wind up with a massive national debt, a soaring crime rate, and an illiterate population. The potentialities for America spearheading a new renaissance are impelling, but the republic can only be an obstacle to the realization of this. The bureaucracy will act as a speed bump for any change that will not guarantee its survival, in ways that no one can imagine. It knows absolutely no limits, and it has access to the whole institutional infrastructure of the country. It is perfectly capable of manufacturing the worst evils, in appearance if not in substance, and attributing them to anything or anyone that it perceives of as opposed to it. It is the unwillingness of the bureaucracy to admit even the slightest shred of truth that enables it to hobble on, but more significantly, it is its ability to punish others for exposing it that is all the more revealing of its actual power over people's lives. Homes mysteriously burn to the ground; upstanding people suddenly are accused of crimes; witnesses disappear, and stay silent.

While the homeless crisis is symptomatic of a general cultural collapse there are other symptoms of inherent weakness that abound, which share a common source in the failures of the institutions of the republic. What is not widely understood is the marginal condition of the Middle Class. Most men who earn $100,000.00 a year, also owe more than $100,000.00, because "smart money" uses leverage, and the way credit is extended one is always encouraged to borrow more than one earns. In real terms, this means that hard times effect even the upper-Middle Class, who appear above it all. While they may not be out looking for food in dumpsters, they go without in their own way -- they economize -- in ways that subtly remind them of the recession that never goes away. At least half of the country is a couple of paychecks away from homelessness, because wages have never kept up with inflation. Worse yet, Americans don't even know the true inflation rate because the official rate is so "altered" for political reasons, that the only reliable barometer is the difference in price of key commodities from year to year, based on the most unscientific and anecdotal evidence at hand.

Many of the people one sees in a day will be homeless sometime in the near future, and we won't know it because they will seem to disappear from our lives. This "Disappearance Act" is part of the larger decline, the process of going back to the wild, whereby the individual suffers from humiliation and voluntarily isolates himself from all those he once knew or worked with. An accident, a job loss, even the death of a relative which forces one to become a care-giver to a loved one, all can begin the decline that ends with homelessness. Of course, the primary source of homelessness is the breakdown of the American family, but this did not begin with the Sexual Revolution in the 1960's, or the Counter-Culture, which was an attempt to come to grips with the Civic Creed and its fabric of lies. The breakdown of the traditional family came with the advent of a republic that bred human beings for slavery, and which thought nothing of separating a mother from her children because they were little more than assets on a spreadsheet. It came from institutionalized indentured servitude, which had no racist aspect to it and included white people as well. It came from men such as Thomas Jefferson, who penned legislation that disabled the family as a social or political entity by removing the ancient laws of primogeniture and en tail that made it possible for families to hold onto a family residence from one generation to the next. By making each and every individual answerable only to the republic instead of to the heads of the family, it undermined the authority of every family in America. In fact, the hereditary authority of the father and mother over the family was actually demonized as tyrannical and undemocratic, even though most people do not regard their parents as tyrants. By monetizing land as "real estate" and turning it into another market many millionaires were made, but people who could not afford it became homeless.

This represented an underlying drive on the part of the political system of the republic, to eliminate any vestiges of the ancient "commons." In post-Roman Britain, the villages were settled by Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and the Jutes. Every village had a council of elders and a headman, or village chief. Like all aboriginal people no one owned anything, everything was "owned by God," for lack of a better way to phrase it, and its use was allocated by the village chief among what were essentially his relatives. If a new family needed a home, the village came together and built them one. The real enemy was the elements, and everyone joined in the communal efforts that were designed at warding off the down-side of nature. Every village had an area that was for the use of the whole tribe in common, which became known as the commons. Even after the Norman Conquest and the allocation of the best estates to the new king's fighting men, the new French aristocracy came to honor these commons, allowing the villagers to forage in them for kindling and small game, something the "commoners" came to depend upon, especially in harsher times. Centuries passed when the descendants of the original manor lords saw private property in these community properties, which they proceeded to "enclose" with the permission of Parliament. With this one simple change what people had done to survive for generations was abruptly made into a crime, and where once a man was exercising his rights to wood and food, he now became a trespasser and a poacher under the statutes of Parliament. There was an innate injustice involved, and it is this same powerful sense of injustice that drives an equally powerful 20th century criminal underground in the United States, which is engaged in an all-out war against the republic.

It is important to understand that the process of creating a market involves eliminating non-market alternatives. What this means is that people have to be coerced to pay for everything, because they will be inclined towards anything where there are no monetary costs involved. In order to illustrate what this means sometimes we have to look back into history, to the early days of the market economy when the forces that constituted the market were less well polished, and less able to disguise the iron fist with a velvet glove. One of the first problems encountered by the first colonials in the New World was the inclination of the disenfranchised to escape to the nearby tribal settlements of the native American Indians. The Indians lived in settlements that were typical of tribal culture, which retained communal attributes comparable to the Anglo-Saxon commons. They were genuinely democratic in a particularly human way, which made the native American settlements uniquely inviting to the colonial poor, who were coerced into working to support debts they were forced to assume, and to the slaves, who had no zeal for work since their needs ranked with the horses in the barn. Interestingly enough, as time passed it became increasingly clear that whereas Indians who left the tribal society to join the European settlements, always eventually abandoned the European lifestyle to rejoin the tribal culture, those Europeans who adopted the native American way of life, never returned. As it became clear that tribal society was incompatible with the urban-type of society, because of the labor-emphasis of the urban model, it also became clear that in order for the slave-state to really take root in the New World, the tribal societies of the Indians would have to be totally eliminated. This became the strategic reason for the holy crusade the European colonies launched against the native culture, which was eventually penned in so effectively by the Federal Government that when South Africa established apartheid in the 20th century, it used the U.S. reservation system as its model. It became a true clash between the elective principles and the hereditary principles, which came to symbolize the more significant differences between tribal society and "European" society. The only problem that ever existed for the slavemasters was the natural instinct of the individual to rebel, and this has taken root as a massive criminal underground of proportions only intimated in the popular press.

It should not be thought that this criminal underground is some romanticized Robin Hood, with gangsters out to rob from the rich to serve the poor. That is absolutely not true. But it is also not true that the agents of the Federal and state governments are fighting organized crime so that average Americans can be free of crime riddled neighborhoods; it is fighting organized crime because those who are organized this way are defying their authority. The ground rule for the American capitalist system is that you can have what you can afford to pay for. After that ground rule, honorable people run into the snag that the only way to earn money is to get on the treadmill, refrain from making waves that might effect one's credit rating, and appear eager to serve anyone who has what you want. It never dawned on the institutional sources of this conditioning agent that smarter people might not wait to be rewarded by an openly corrupt and monopolistic economic system. It never crossed their minds that teaching children to worship money might backfire, when the less intelligent among them go out with a club or a handgun and rob people.

There is a powerful tide that operates, enveloping the whole American people, that encourages everyone to mind his place. It is roughly parallel to such conventions as labor grades which entitle the employees of one grade to 30 minute lunches, and the employees of another labor grade to 60 minute lunches (a difference that is jealously guarded by the beneficiaries of each). A person who is entitled to a 30 minute lunch, but who takes a 60 minute lunch, will be resented by his peers as much as by those who would ordinarily be entitled to 60 minute lunches, because he would appear to be acting up, pretending to be something "more" than he actually is. This is part of a larger structure of social taboos that are designed to keep the assembly lines rolling, which are completely dependent upon the voluntary compliance of a wage-based labor force. It is to keep this labor force operative that the carrot is dangled before its eyes, of the goodies money can buy; and it is in order to keep the workers working as long as possible, that measures are taken to protect rigged "retail price" structures, that guarantee that workers will pay the highest prices for everything from cars, jewelry, and furniture, to homes and real estate. Additionally, the income tax structure is basically designed to tax the individual for whatever surplus he might be able to produce, in order to prevent the individual from accumulating an independent fortune, because that would make the individual independent. Power in the institutional grid is based on dependency upon it. Anyone who is not tied to his job by way of a mortgage is a risk. The perpetuation of the whole system is so heavily dependent on the isolation of information, that it cannot risk any resources on anyone who is not connected.

It is the connections that complement Middle Class existence that make survival possible in the monetized economy, and which makes them so valuable. And the threat of the loss of those perks can be as powerful a device for manipulation and control as actual physical coercion. This is in sharp contrast to the lower rungs of the poor class, those who are dirt poor, whose lives take place in that metaphor for the modern urban jungle, the street. In the last decade of the 20th century a new culture has emerged that is defiant in nature as a criminal underground, and which is so pervasive that its symbols have become fashion statements for the youth. It is the culture of the street. The media has made feeble attempts to cover the emergence of this new culture, powered by the angst of the majority population of slave-like laborers; but its inability to cover anything that opposes the Federal Government with any neutrality, results in superficial coverage that more often than not focuses on the newly rich "stars" who ascend from the street culture, who become "safe" role-models by surrendering their actual radical ideas in favor of a radical-chic persona that sells well.

Nothing is ever allowed to rock the boat, because a lot of people are making a lot of money on the way things are. The entire retail pricing structure is a trade secret, because it is hiding the wholesale pricing structure that is protected by legislation. Few Americans comprehend the idea of "core industries," which are the heavy industries that make up the industrial backbone of corporate America. Fewer still understand the arcane information available only to the select, the VIPs, who don't pay the actual interest rates on loans we, average people pay. Few people understand that there are two standards in America, and one of them applies to the average people, the poor people, and the other applies to the mighty rich. Where an average man pays one interest rate, the Billionaire pays the Prime Rate.

We are also not privy to the reality that all the major corporations have more than one set of books; they all co-mingle funds; and they all play fast and loose with the rules, when its for the benefit of an insider. More than one loan has been made by more than one bank, to a member of the Board of Directors of the bank, or a family-member of a board member, which was never paid off and which no one involved expected to be repaid. Much of this came out when banks and savings-and-loans failed, and the inner workings of the failed institutions were subject to public scrutiny; but this goes on routinely in all banks, and because most of them are able to survive despite the bad loans made to board members, they never come to light. (The "free money" of this kind of white-collar crime rarely draws the attention in the press that poor women receive, who fail to report a couple of dollars to welfare).

The average person is laboring to pay off consumer credit card debts that are compounding daily at rates between 18% and 21%, annually! To illustrate how pernicious this is, at 20% the principal that is due will double in a mere five years. (Remember that in the Third World there are slaves who became slaves because a grandfather borrowed money at such a high interest rate, on terms that were unconscionable, that there was no way for the sum to ever be paid off). A free market is fine, if there was one, but there is none and few people have the courage to discuss it openly. Did Moses design the theory underlying the banking industry's computation methods for interest? This is even more seriously underscored when we address the issues relating to the financing of home-buying, where 30 year mortgages chain the average person to an agreement that forces the laborer to pay the principal amount of the purchase price three times, at an annual interest rate of 10%. This is vital to the idea of personal freedom, because at the end of that 30 years the individual will not be able to turn around and sell the property for the whole amount of money invested in it. The way principal and interest payments are configured at the present time, individuals wind up working their entire lives to pay for products, services and assets that are no where near worth the amounts of actual dollars that are paid out for their purchase.

The insurance industry has grown-up out of the real-time discrepancy between the actual value of consumer products and real estate, and "recommended retail prices." Automobiles are an excellent example of a rigged market structure, designed to prop up market values until an individual concludes a transaction to buy, and is willing to bear the burden of the propped up price. The car dealers buy the cars in large lots at wholesale prices from the manufacturers, whose financing is for raw materials. It's not by accident that the largest industrial corporation on the Earth is a manufacturer of automobiles, General Motors, nor is it by accident that they have their own financing institutions, that have independent criteria for financing car buyers. It is also not by accident that one of the conditions for securing financing is that the car be insured at its original sale price by the buyer, precisely because it is not actually worth the sale price at the time of the sale. Once a deal has been finalized a new car now becomes a USED CAR, without even being driven off the dealer's parking lot. Of course, used cars are subject to a whole separate set of price guidelines; which would not apply if the car was going to be traded in, or sold to a car dealer, because dealers buy used cars like six-packs of beer at car auctions.

It is important to appreciate the connected quality of Middle Class transactions, because what appears like a neat system to the beneficiaries -- the Middle Class -- appears like a conspiracy to the dirt poor. A conspiracy aimed at depriving them of any of the benefits of the industrial economy. This is the basic injustice that powers the street culture, which is characterized by poverty; poverty that makes it vulnerable to the black market, the underworld of organized crime and violence that caters to those habits and appetites that the republic has outlawed. It is vital to understand that the republic created the black market -- and the violence that prevails under its auspices -- and it relies upon it to generate the constant state of alert and emergency it needs to energize the public to support its policies.

The Prohibition State that grew out of the Slave State of the Founding Fathers, has its roots in the theocratic dictatorship of the Pilgrims. It is the public nanny, guarding everyone's Christian morals while its operators violate every one of the ten commandments, starting with Thou Shalt Not Kill. The irony of the Prohibition Age is that organized crime was not able to make a real foothold in America until the Federal Government tried to prohibit alcohol, at which time the official statistics seemed to indicate a shrinking number of alcoholics. The grim reality was that Americans were drinking up a storm, and the only people who didn't seem to know about it were in the Government. With one ill-conceived piece of legislation the black market took hold, and for the first time in American history, Americans were dying in drive-by shootings. Turf wars between gangs for market share. The one thing Prohibition did accomplish was to put a premium value on something anyone could make in his bathtub.

Scarcity and supply and demand are the cornerstones of market politics, and anything that can be readily made is going to be worth less than anything rare or exotic. This is the basic reality that would prevail, especially with regards to such drugs as marijuana, or methamphetamine, or cocaine, or even heroin. In a free market economy, these drugs would be valueless because they are commonly found in nature. It is their prohibition that makes them rare and risky to handle, that justifies their inflated black market prices. Prices that would collapse if the drug prohibition were repealed, which would lead to a collapse of the street gangs that have used the proceeds from the illegal trade in drugs to virtually take over whole neighborhoods.

While everyone's attention is focused on the so-called Drug Lords, few people realize that the prohibition places a premium on violence by rewarding it with enrichment. Illegal drugs being contraband, transactions that involve contraband cannot be reported to the police, especially when they go bad and someone gets violent. Armed robbery is an occupational hazard of Drug Dealers, who the anti-drug forces in the Government virtually invite third parties to murder, through the same de-humanizing strategies the Nazis used against the Jews, to prepare the German Nation for the Holocaust and the Final Solution. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that Drug Dealers keep large amounts of cash handy, and they won't go to the police for protection. So the stage is set for some kind of violent mischief, which takes place every day as people turn up dead in drug deals gone sour, and murderers are able to take possession of the drug-commodity with impunity, richer.

Yet the entire war on drugs belies the genuine social tension that makes the United States the biggest market for illegal drugs in the world. Markets depend on demand, and the demand is there for drugs that any psychiatrist will tell you are symptomatic of a deep psychological need for escape. This contradicts the version of reality passed off by the news media, whose portrayal of a worker's paradise is rivaled by none other than Utopia. Why, on Earth, would anyone want to escape the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? The reluctance of the media to look at any of the underlying reasons for exhausted Americans to seek drug-induced escape, likewise has pre-disposed it to give superficial coverage to such a serious issue as teenage suicide, a true sign of genuine social dysfunction. Anyone who brings up the real sources of these problems finds himself up against a wall of silence, because the real source of these twisted forms of defiance is the institutional grid that dominates modern life, and which uses the feeling of being "cornered" as its primary force in coercing individuals to cooperate and comply with it. When the individual feels like a slave he comes to recognize that he does not own himself, and he will identify an act directed at destroying himself with an act directed at destroying the slave-master, much like sabotage of the boss's machinery. This is the very heart and soul of self-mutilation, substance abuse, suicide, and mental illness in general.

Drug addiction, alcoholism and suicide are serious issues that deserve immediate attention, however, they are health issues, not law enforcement issues. By addressing these social issues as crimes, and penalizing people with mental illness instead of giving them treatment, we are setting ourselves up for a future of complete dissolution. The primary source of the penal approach to social problems is the complete absence of compassion in the people running the Federal and state governments. The divided condition of the country validates the "I got mine" syndrome that permeates establishment institutions of both the private and public sectors, which has made it possible for the mainstream culture to turn its back on the homeless, the outcasts and untouchables of the American caste system. Labor unions are no longer fighting for social justice, they are now only there to fight for cost-of-living adjustments. Programs go on for decades, even when the people who need them perish from existence for failure of the programs.

The Federal Government would appear to be lost in its own web of lies, dragging the whole body of bureaucrats and politicians into a swamp of public contempt; but this is not exclusive to the Federal Republic. Every day politicians of all levels are being put on trial for corruption, along with scores of cronies inside and out of "public service," all actively milking the public cow. While soup kitchens for the poor are shut down, along with halfway houses and shelters, the establishment builds sports arenas and palatial offices for the agencies of the government. The State of California is in the midst of a building spree in the state capital of Sacramento. State agencies are being housed in garden-like pastoral settings that illustrate the imperial splendor the administrators of these agencies believe that they are entitled to. The Franchise Tax Board, the tax collector for the State of California, is now housed in a palace that rivals the Internal Revenue Service's edifice in Washington, D.C. And Californians, Americans, are dying on the street right around the corner from these public monuments, because they didn't have anywhere to go that was indoors.

It's not like the Federal Government doesn't already have all the homes already in its possession, to solve the homeless crisis overnight; after all, the Federal Government came into possession of houses, hotels and commercial centers all across America, in the wake of the collapse of the savings-and-loan industry. However, when anyone tried to get the RTC (the Resolution Trust Corporation, charged with handling the real estate foreclosures and liquidations related to the savings-and-loan closures), to cut loose with any of these properties, they made it clear that their job was to SELL real estate, not house American nationals. The RTC became a cover for a firesale to political favorites, who came out richer in every case. The only scandal that will ultimately outpace the savings-and-loan collapse, will be the exposure of the corruption that accompanied the sale of savings-and-loan assets, much of which could have been used to avert a crime wave that is about to begin that will completely change American life forever, as 40 million American children enter their "prime crime years" over the next decade, with little or no guidance from adults.

Americans are really not aware of the magnitude or ferocity of the war that is now raging in the streets of their nation. Biker gangs and street gangs are not just in a conflict with the republic, they are at war with it. And they have the entire street culture as foot soldiers in their war. The street culture exists in complete defiance to the police-state formation of the republic; the youth gangs are forming in direct defiance of the educational system, which is the level of government most youth are exposed to, and react to. The implicit message of the educational institution is "You can't run, and you can't hide, so it's in your best interests to cooperate..." A message the minority youth, in particular, react to violently, in the negative. (Because the minorities were excluded from civic participation for so long, and their participation was not deemed necessary, no efforts were made to disguise the exercise of raw power over them; and the legacy of unfairness, brutality and hypocrisy of the republic has never gone unnoticed by its victims, or their descendants).

The leading personalities on the street are those with the longest prison records, for the vilest crimes. This represents a major division among the poor class; it is the fundamental difference between the upper echelons of the poor, the so-called Middle Class, and the bottom echelons, or the impoverished. Thus, what compliant Middle Class Americans see as a blemish, the dirt poor perceive as a mark of distinction. This is very important, because it is like a mirror image, a reversal of values, and it represents a Grand Canyon of separation, dividing the Middle Class from their brethren in the poor class, the impoverished. There are hierarchies of authority in prisons, within and among the inmates, which the guards decline to observe. Some of these hierarchies run prison gangs with connections in the outside world that make some prison inmates very powerful figures outside the prison walls. (It's very hard to prove that a man caused a murder, when he is already confined to a penitentiary).

The people who populate prisons and jails in America are largely the product of the over-institutionalization of our society, who became socialized in institutions and never outgrew the dependency for an institutional environment to survive. This is why such a high percentage of inmates commit new crimes when they are released, because they have lost the ability to exist in the outside world. Prison is a sado-masochistic nightmare where the guards operate 24 hours on whatever whim strikes their fancies. They have no regard for fairness, or rewarding changed behavior, instead subjecting the inmates to their own caprices, in acts of abject torture. The genuine disregard of the guards for the humanity of the inmates creates a tension that shows up in the form of hatred for the entire system of government that builds prisons, and puts human beings in them. While the inmate may not have the skills to live in the outside world, he hates the world of the prison, and he in turn hates himself, because he cannot leave the prison behind. This matrix of emotions does not end at the prison gate, it accompanies the prisoners who serve their sentences and are allowed to leave, and return back to the world they knew and understood, the world of the street, where ex-convicts are folk heros.

In prison and jail the social hierarchy places murderers at the very top, as the most important figures in the "house." At the very bottom are the child molesters and the rapists. Those at the bottom are subject to the power-plays of those at the top, who are always in need of new ways to demonstrate their power to the general prison population. Penalties for misbehaving such as extended prison sentences, or solitary confinement, are taken in stride, rarely putting a dent in the occurrences of inmates murdering each other, or raping each other. Its animalistic territoriality is overpowering, and men who would never transgress such limits outside the prison walls, find themselves sucked into another dimension where new rules apply.

What the advocates of the prison state never seem able to appreciate, is the fact that they are creating a social monster that will ultimately destroy the nation. It's a ticking time bomb. By packing the prisons full, and building more at a record rate, it only reveals the real fear felt by the politicians for the American people. They will not feel safe until more Americans are behind bars... Right now, America has more of its own citizens behind bars than any other nation on the Earth. At the same time, when police are caught committing crimes the District Attorneys bend over backwards, in order to avoid charging them with crimes. Policemen have been caught murdering people, beating motorists nearly to death, setting people up for crimes they did not commit, raping people, burglarizing people, and there is open reluctance on the part of the District Attorneys to prosecute them. Americans were so horrified by the acquittal of the LAPD officers whose beating of Rodney King had been videotaped and broadcast everywhere, by Simi Valley jurors, that they went on a rampage for three days, during which the Government completely lost control of the streets. The proof that this early acquittal was inconsistent with law was the subsequent trial, where officers were in fact found guilty.

The prison state is running out of steam, and its passengers are getting nervous. The tormenters are recognizing the eventuality that they may have to live among their victims, which haunts their dreams. They live in fear of the consequences of their deeds. They cannot turn back, they cannot give up, and they cannot go on...

AMERICA AS ONE NATION

The main obstacle to peace in America is the divided condition of the American people, as well as the readiness of the Federal and state governments to exploit this division for their purposes. This is worsened by the complicity of the media, which has no compunction about distorting information in ways that soften the image of the institutions that now suffocate the American Nation.

The same politicians that bemoan the fragmentation of the American family sponsor new laws that increase the burden of the populace, and therefore the pressure on families which splits them apart. The centrality of money in American life has pitted more than one father against his son, over a disagreement of vocational opportunities. What is not taught in school is that the mass market can be likened to a herd of cattle who have to pass through a single gate. Great lengths are taken to close off all the other gates, so that the animals can be forced towards the only open gate. Those cows that stray are beaten until they get the message and follow the herd through the gate, to the desired pen. The defiant cows, who are brutalized, can be related to the criminal underclass, because they have independent wills. Independence is the enemy of the mass market.

Market politics are indeed, extremely Machiavellian. This is denied, but modern industrial economies require a tremendous amount of coordination and precision timing. When society in general was agrarian the nations judged time by the seasons; but when industrialization began, there was suddenly a need to know time in hours and minutes, which completely changed the entire focus of the society. It was this shift from an agricultural to an industrial economy that made slavery uneconomical, and that led to the development of a wage-based labor force, not any moral imperative. Europe outlawed slavery years before the United States; however, it is important to stress that slavery was never a wholesome institution, and the only people who turned it into an economic fixture was the European people. It takes a certain merciless temperament to enable such an institution to flourish, which it is not so easy to change even if the institution itself becomes obsolete. This is the living legacy of slavery that continues to plague Western civilization.

There is a collective responsibility in a society which is all the more impossible to bear when the society is divided by controversy. By dividing the people with suspicions, politicians are able to pursue their narrow agendas of self-enrichment, and the public interest is defenseless; it is the old rule of divide and conquer. In America, the oldest form of institutionalized hate is racism, which was introduced into the early colonies in order to put a wedge between the population of poor white people, and the black slaves. Colonial leaders were haunted by the threat of the poor combining with the slaves to form a numerical majority. They solved this by giving the poor whites token control over the slaves, as managers and overseers on behalf of the colonial elite. This was complemented by distorted passages from the Bible that made references to allegories about light and darkness, white and black, which a mean-spirited clergy did not hesitate to interpret as inferring that white people were superior to black people. This was known to be nonsense even in colonial times, as white people had been co-existing with black people since Classical antiquity, and were familiar enough to recognize that both were of the same human species, with an equal capacity for intelligence.

The slave-owning society that evolved in America was an institutionally divided society, which only became more permanent upon the founding of the republic. The republic also enabled the fudging of facts, so that posterity could take pride in a reprehensible institution. It is important for c