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 contemporary Americans to have a full understanding of the Federal Government, so that they can become resolved to winding up its affairs, and legally concluding its existence. This is because it cannot be "fixed" or "reformed." Americans have to become reconciled with the fact that they have been deceived about the functions and aims of the Federal and state governments, and that any nostalgia over them is seriously misplaced loyalty. These institutions are cold-blooded, and they have no use for the American people except as cannon fodder. More importantly, any reluctance on the part of individual Americans to viewing other members of the American public as human beings, is due to the propaganda efforts of the political system, which empowers politicians through a form of institutionalized finger-pointing. The system's effectiveness is in its ability to induce the varied interest groups to compete for the national treasure the Government is empowered to "protect;" by pitting the haves against the have-nots, the politicians can actually appear above the fray as power-brokers, as they sell off national property at a profit to themselves.

The bottom line is that the only way the American people stand a chance of ever breaking the yoke placed upon them by the Federal Government, is if they become unified as a genuine nation. While this sounds simple on the face of it, it is important to understand that there are serious obstacles to the cultural and social unification of American society, and chief among them is the American political system, and the mass media. The republic has existed for over two centuries by virtue of the divisions in American society, and the mass media has made a mountain of money from glamorizing the divisions. These interests see America in the same light as a trademark or a brand label; something they "own" which they can make money on. It is unfathomable to these interests to consider any kind of patriotism that doesn't include financial remuneration because these two institutions, the republic and the media, view the world through venal eyeglasses, in which everything has its price. Anyone who questions this is instantly invalidated by ridicule, because, after all, who would do anything for the Federal Government for free? It is not possible under the current scheme of things to consider for a moment a world in which the Federal Government no longer exists. Or, the evolution of an American Nation in which people comply with the rules of civility, and are not constantly at each other's throats.

It is the conception of that world that is the task ahead of us. Once that conception has been devised it cannot help but materialize because it will be the only alternative available. Yet while it is fairly easy to describe the obstacles to American national unity, it is a far more difficult job to offer remedies. Anyone who offers remedies for social problems is always bound by cultural baggage, involving culpability. Responsible parties that are enriched by a continuation of the status-quo do not welcome any trends towards a popular nationalist movement, because their fortunes have been made on the institutional division of the American people. Their activities thus intensify when anyone starts a dialogue that could lead to a permanent synthesis of the various ethnic communities of American society, into an actual national union.

The urban, hierarchical structure of authority that prevails under the republic is so unnatural, that American society in general is alien to traditional norms that prevail globally. It is the lack of traditional institutions that has led to a breakdown of the American society as a civilization. The superficiality of the republic can be seen in the failure of its supporters to appreciate the fact that the only alternative to the republic -- the American kingdom -- is not just a political system imposed on the nation which can be repudiated through some legal device. The kingdom is the actual society as it exists in nature and the republic is just a veneer, a thin overlay, a political system that exists in a vacuum, separate from the rest of the society. Human society is fundamentally tribal in nature, and no amount of fancy polish will cover the basic drives that make human beings mortal. The very mortality of humanity makes it impossible to realistically separate what is spiritual from what is political, and the very idea of a "secular republic" is a repudiation of everything valid under the principles of law.

A new version of an old idea needs to be re-introduced to the American mind in order to revive traditional society, and save the American people from the looming civil war. It is the idea of "Deliberate Community." The most influential drive that exists in the human race is the need for companionship; this driving force in human relations manifests as a deep, genuine need for love. Many of the psychopathic atrocities that have occurred are the results of efforts to manipulate people by withholding love. This is of the essence because if there is any hope of addressing the core problems facing American society, to save the country from dissolution, it will be as a result of deep introspection in order to do an inventory of the "skeletons" in our closet. This inventory of the conscience is necessary if we are to seek a social peace. Only an honest review of the past will enable us to come to terms with what is going on in the present, which cannot happen in the mass media, because it continues to deny the obvious about American history. The fact is that when the people start to build bridges that help them form a more perfect Union, it is the factotums of the state and Federal governments that aggressively interfere, stirring up antagonisms from thin blue air, aided and abetted by their colleagues in the press.

While people will never live in any place that is completely conflict free, we can create a society where conflicts are addressed in a responsible, legal and mature process that guarantees the freedom of the individual. Individual freedom is a traditional value, which can be verified in all tribal cultures; but its polar opposite is also a traditional value, the recognized human need for community, companionship. It is a deep drive of human beings to form societies. And these societies are not neat cut and dry, black and white societies; they are riddled with all the contradictions that are essential to human, and even animal, life. The living society is the society that embraces polar opposites, and creates a pluralism that enables living things to flourish. It symbolizes a form of democracy that transcends the mere structure of the government, to become integral to the body politic, as the very heart and soul of the nation.

America has expended so much of its resource destroying that which is traditional and ancient, that it can scarcely recognize a traditional family when it sees one. The popular media routinely refers to the so-called "nuclear family" of parents and offspring as a "traditional" American family. This flies in the face of thousands of years of documented traditions that prove beyond a doubt that the traditional family has three generations, not two. The very idea that parents should "throw the young from the nest" is completely alien to traditional cultures, where the young always return to live with the parents upon marriage, based upon local rules of reckoning descent. In tribal culture life is precious above all else, so the parents actually want to know their children and grandchildren as they mature and become members of the adult community. This is in stark contrast to urban life, where the average family is split up when the children turn 18 years of age -- partially as a result of economic pressures -- and are in effect forced out on their own, to be compliant laborer/consumers. (Pressures, it is important to remember, that are deliberately imposed as a part of a larger scheme of market politics).

The natural generation gap that exists between generations is further aggravated when it is appreciated that urban-industrial society has no formal procedure for introducing the youth into membership into adult life. There is no community that the youth are inducted into as a point of pride. In the republic, social solidarity is undermined by apprehension stirred up by the political system, in its constant quest for parties to blame for the bad things its institutions do. One of those groups it blames for its own faults are the street gangs, which represent the desperate need of the youth for community as it might be constituted without adult supervision. This is important, because it is as vital to the older people as it is to the youth: when society was driven by tradition much of the energy of the older people was employed in the process of initiating the youth into the communal life. This vital link is part of what makes a tribal body alive, and when it is absent, the most important cultural values are not going to be transmitted to succeeding generations.

The idea of deliberate community is to reconstitute the lost links that once bound American society together. It is important that Americans come to terms with each other, so that they can stop the war that rages in their streets, before it turns America into a wasteland. The oppression of the police-state-republic, especially intellectually, has created such a powerful reaction on the street, that there is absolutely no hope that it will survive. It is what replaces it that must be addressed, with the kind of honesty that puts the national interest first.

The American Nation needs a symbol of national unity to rally around, but it cannot be a dead letter, it has to be a living symbol. In traditional society the tribe rallied around the leadership of the chief. In European society chiefs were called kings, who were elected from certain families because of their moral standing in the community, which gave the office prestige based on moral force. This is something desperately needed by the various American ethnicities, who do not trust the institutions of the republic. The republic, of course, cannot be involved in the decision-making process of selecting the chief, because the republic has spent its whole existence destroying traditional values, and cannot be trusted to serve the national interest.

The traditional office of king is also desperately needed to anchor a constitutional state that will be above the partisan infighting that belittles the identity of being an American. The king and his family are neutral, representing the ideal of an American Nation that never challenges the loyalty of its own people. While free elections can guarantee that there are ample checks and balances on the governmental process, the establishment of a royal family creates a long-term interest in the state that transcends short-term aims. It is integral to understand that the office of the monarch is central to the system of government that is native to the unwritten British constitution which still prevails in the United States (as the actual matrix that forms the functional inner core of the judicial system). There has evolved a parallel unwritten American constitution, that is shaped by American experience and American values, which is the true source of law over the United States. The written Constitution of 1787 is actually only an operational charter for the Federal Government, attempting to take the place of a legal, royal government; but the list of unwritten customs that protect the rights of individuals are so long and exhaustive, going back so many centuries, their protection could never compare with the paltry "protection" provided by the Constitution of 1787.

The reconstitution of legal authority by way of restoration of the ancient institution of the throne would have the end effect of establishing an American kingdom, which would result in the retirement of the republic. What this reflects is the little known fact that the only true alternative to a republic is a kingdom. An opposition that does not represent a real difference in the way the state is to be constituted, is not an opposition at all. This reveals the superficiality underlying the "opposition" of the Democrats to the Republicans: Both parties are perfectly happy running the government under the current scheme, which they have been responsible for running for about 135 years, into the ground.

The idea of an American kingdom reaches out to the whole American people of every ethnic origin, to deliberately celebrate America as the homeland. Whereas the republic reaches out only to "voters" -- the only Americans politicians under the republic respect -- the Kingdom reaches out to all American nationals. Where the republic is defined by partisanship; the American kingdom is defined by nationalism. The dearth of local civic life, the commercialization of civic existence, has destroyed the communal heart of America, and the only way to revitalize it is by going to the root of American cultural traditions. The kingdom comes into being by energizing and catalyzing the individual to take part in the civic life of the nation, and to participate as a defining member of the national body. (The republic, on the other hand, neutralizes individual participation by limiting it to voting and paying taxes). The king -- the tribal chief -- is the archetypal national hero who embodies the virtues of self-sacrifice for the sake of the nation, but he does not own the nation in any proprietary sense; every individual "owns" the nation in his or her heart, transcending the notion that any individual could "own" any nation. Man can no sooner own a piece of the sky, than a nation; mortal men even borrow their own bodies from God, who takes them back. It is true nonsense for states to be formed and lives lost, that some men should be propped up in the foolishness that they can "own" property in nature. However, this is not to be construed as an argument against the conventions of private property, but merely as a reminder that the forces that constitute human life do not respect the imaginary boundary lines that we draw around our "stuff," which we guard so jealously.

The restoration of the kingdom is a cultural enterprise, which has no transaction value; it is in fact priceless, in the same way moments spent with a loved one are priceless. When time marches on, how much was that moment worth, "stolen" with Grandpa. Even the very idea that one could "steal" time, illustrates how far we have drifted from traditional values. The fact that modern Americans attribute traditional values to the Puritans who landed at Plymouth has more to do with Madison Avenue-types of gimmicks, than it does to any real source of American standards from the early colonials. The final product of the republic is a dysfunctional society, wherein every natural self-defense mechanism has been short-circuited in some misguided effort to gain short-term financial benefits.

There are two sides to national identity. There is a positive side, which is an expression of what it means to be a member of a particular, unique nation; and then there is a negative side, which is the defining of characteristics that are not tolerated by the cultural norms of a people. These two sides are composed of competing forces that are constantly embattled, and often when a nation's very existence is at stake these forces prefer to fight each other than find any common ground, even long enough to actually save the nation. The role of a leader is to recapture the attention of the constituents of these forces, and help them to re-dedicate themselves to the national, public interest. A role that is impossible to fulfill under the rules that control the U.S. Presidency, as laid out in the written Constitution of 1787. This is why a new kind of government has to be constituted, that answers to a different set of criteria than the republic is designed to answer to.

Any new government would have to be strictly legal, and it must eliminate the kinds of loopholes the Constitution of 1787 is full of, which support the American caste system. No immunities, no privileges. The kingdom must be "ritually clean," which is to say, pure and uncontaminated. Only the restoration of legal authority that has integrity will make it possible for American society to renew the inter-generational bonds that enable civilization to survive. Long-winded documentaries make so much about the literacy of modern populations ignoring its mediocrity, as well as the complete breakdown of inter-generational institutions. The fact that over half of all Americans have an 8th grade reading level signifies that they are not prepared to do much more than read the instructions on a can of soup, at a time when society is spending more money supporting a massive and monolithic educational bureaucracy than has ever been spent in the history of mankind. This relates to the lack of integrity of the current political system, a system that has given priority to its own survival over and above the survival of the American people.

In order to prepare American society for a civil peace, it is important for Americans to come to grips with the ways in which they have been misinformed so that they could be used by demagogic politicians. The first thing to understand is that the mob dynamic is the real underlying force employed by the officials of the republic. In the early days, this amounted to men actually inciting crowds to riot from atop literal soapboxes; but as the politicians evolved mechanisms from the lessons of those early mobs, so as to construct a state that harnessed the power of the mob, the more sophisticated mechanisms of social control came into being that we are acquainted with in the 20th century. The first necessity that is incumbent upon a politician is to define something to be opposed to. It is best if this is something menacing, but that isn't altogether necessary in the age of mass media, because they have mastered the art of character assassination, and even benign things have become the focus of mass campaigns, propelled by hatred and contempt.

The most powerful tool of the republic is its ability to charge people with having committed crimes. To the media it's very convincing when a District Attorney lays out a theoretical case as to how someone committed a particular crime, especially if any evidence that disproves the DA's theory is suppressed. Using the power to charge people with criminal wrongdoing, the republic has pursued what it enjoys calling a "war on crime," which is little more than a publicity stunt for ambitious politicians. The reality is that the crime taking place is retaliatory in nature, by the victims and descendants of victims of the Federal and state governments. Americans are cheated of justice every day and no one knows about it because the republic has carefully locked in control over the mass media, such as through licensing of the broadcasting industry, and through the systematic reduction of news organizations as a result of corporate mergers. (Even before the advent of the broadcast media, the press had the habit of siding with the government, the image of the investigative reporter having more substance in the movies than in real life). This is extremely vital because anyone who wants to try to organize any kind of opposition is going to be up against a powerful consortium of interests that not only will not give wide coverage to a resistance movement, but would actually deny that there is any coordination between institutions that might resemble a conspiracy. (One recent "scholar" on PBS even went so far as to compare Oliver Stone to Richard Nixon, because both men believed that there was a "system," which the interviewee scoffed at).

There is widespread intellectual dishonesty that pervades the academic establishment of the United States, which has led to the development of a college and university system that is only able to produce "yes-men" for government and industry. The levels of self-deception are so tremendous that even as the nation literally crumbles, the intellectual elite deny that any of the principal institutions of the republic have any liability for the fallen state of American civilization. Even while the Federal Government hunts Americans down under myriads of new ordinances, the average American is being lulled into a false sense of security by the pre-occupation of television with the personal lives of celebrities. And of course, the average American is so exhausted at the end of a day's labor, that he or she does not want to be bothered by any serious issues, especially if they have to actually do any amount of critical thinking. They have been lied to about the functions of government, they have been lied to about the privileges of business, and they have been deliberately over-worked in a system that suppresses alternatives that might actually offer relief to the American people.

American people today are divided by such issues as whether or not women should have civil rights, and whether or not America has problems with racism. The institutions of the republic have enabled politicians and bureaucrats to incite the worst fears within the people, dividing them by race, age, creed, gender, political party and economic background. As long as the American people cannot unite, they cannot defend themselves from a republic that has been defined by its rapaciousness. During the early years of the republic the public's fears were incited by slogans which were recognized early on as the best way to get ideas across to large bodies of people. The Revolutionary era represented a period when the skill for communicating ideas to a mass audience was invented on the scale we know of today. This took place with symbols and slogans, which became a kind of shorthand for in-depth speculation. "Remember the Maine" was not only a political catch-phrase, it became a symbol of caution against the overzealousness of the military establishment to deliberately sacrifice American lives to incite American public opinion to involve the country in foreign wars. As a police state, the military constitutes the core institution of the republic, which is why so many "civilian" officials are referred to with military titles, like the Attorney General and the Surgeon General.

In the modern press these efforts at sloganizing led to the development of stereotypes, or broad generalizations. This ultimately amounts to a kind of coded language, which at first is not something that most people are comfortable acknowledging. Consider, however, if one was a visitor from an alien planet and one was transplanted into an American city where one had to read an ordinary newspaper without any preparation or explanation, such terms as "the Secretary of State," or "the president," would have no meaning. One has to be told that the "president" is the chief magistrate under the republic, that was set up under rules set out in the Constitution of 1787, otherwise there is no context. We forget about the role our early schooling played in preparing us for being able to read a newspaper and make sense out of it, which is actually the principal purpose of an education under the republic. (Education is not here to help people be individuals, it is here to enable the people to become useful to the economy which is dominated by the cartels of the Billionaire Class, which own the mass media as subsidiaries.)

To get a real feel for just how mean-spirited the institutions of the republic are, we have to recognize that many widespread notions are based upon faulty information that was put into circulation by mass media sources. One is the idea that foreign nationals are taking jobs away from Americans, because of the way the frontier is managed between the United States and Mexico. The underlying tension here is racism, because there are many many illegal Canadians in the United States, but no one wants to build walls or trenches to separate the United States from Canada. There is also a powerful clash of religious cultures involved, as the Protestant white culture of north America conflicts with the Catholic aztec (Indian) culture of Latin America. The truth is that there is no evidence supporting the notion that foreign workers are "stealing" American jobs, a notion that works to generate popular support for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which is the most ardently racist agency in the United States outside of the KKK. In fact, in much the same way that Ferdinand and Isabella's expulsion of the Jews from Spain led to an economic depression, any effort to expel foreign laborers today would have a devastating impact on the American economy, which is heavily reliant on the hard-working, reliable Latinos, who do jobs for wages that no white person would accept.

Another notion is the idea that welfare recipients are receiving "free money," and that they are lazy. Recipients are drilled with questions like, "Why should society pay to feed your son?" Could anyone who holds down a regular job, where one is driven like an animal, to pay bills that do not reflect actual values, feel anything other than cheated when confronted with the stereotype of a lazy, aimless teenager, whose child is virtually parentless? The glee is visible in their eyes as proponents of ending all welfare suggest dumping these families on the street, as if any kind of work is better than no work. The very notion of the "Department of Jobs" of the Governor of Wisconsin escalates the trends towards the corporate state, the total state, THE FASCIST STATE. (The Department of Jobs is reminiscent of the make-work of prison inmates, as they break boulders down into gravel with hand-tools, and who are excluded from the Constitutional Amendment prohibiting slavery). One woman who was pushed into a job said that she felt that she now mattered; but this reflected more how she was treated by the welfare system, that made her feel that she did not matter as long as she was on the welfare rolls, than it did on her newfound role as an underling. The irony of it all is that the successful pursuit of a job ends in an arrangement that resembles slavery.

In Africa there is the saying, "It takes a whole village to raise a child." That reality couldn't be more apparent than in the United States, where the absence of community in the way children are raised has opened the door to an alienated youth, who are killing themselves in record numbers. This cannot end by raising the taxes and hiring more college educated policy wonks to compile studies. It is not an academic problem, it is not simply a problem of interpretation; it is a crisis of substance. Much of modern life is based on dividing people up, (so that they cannot share information among themselves), and luring them into consumer appetites, so that they put their own indulgence ahead of anyone else whose needs are in any way significant. The man who just has to own a new car is not going to contribute to a campaign to feed the poor, and he may even resent the suggestion that he should forego the car, to help anyone other than himself. This is the main source of the dysfunction in American families, because most of the possession-obsessed laborers would rather own another trinket than enjoy a healthy relationship with their parents or children.

Another example of the deliberate effort to distort the historic record are the newspaper accounts having to do with the way the Federal Government disposed of the native American population. In California, the state government put a bounty on the heads of natives, and one year the State of California paid out $1 million as rewards to the murderers of Indians. The native Americans were not savages, that the white people had any right to displace. The natives had an established, sophisticated tribal system with established boundaries that enabled all the tribes to co-exist; a balance that was completely destroyed by the duplicitous European settlers, who not only took the land using force, but then they even failed to distribute it evenly among themselves, making particular families tremendously powerful and rich, who pushed the poorer whites onto the frontier as a buffer between their landed estates and the native populations that were getting increasingly hostile as it dawned on them that the land-hungry Europeans were never satisfied.

In order to establish a peace among Americans now, it is important for Americans to face the real history of human relations in north America, the good and the bad, so that relations in the future will be governed by a basic common appreciation of each individual's humanity, outside of any considerations of race, creed, or political party. The human rights of human beings must be set ahead of all other considerations, so that the human community in north America can go about the business of creating a deliberate nation. This means that the survival of the nation has to be put ahead of old rivalries, and old prejudices. It means that individuals have to come to realize that their jealousies over what they think other people are entitled to, or are not entitled to, have been encouraged by larger interests, that have a financial stake in the outcome of these social controversies. The most significant rivalry that must be overcome for the near future, is the false choice between the so-called conservatives, and the so-called liberals. In modern politics all that divides a Democrat from a Republican is their stand on the Capital Gains Tax. The entire notion of a "right wing" versus a "left wing" came out of the Revolutionary era, when one side supported monarchy, and the other supported republicanism. Previously, everyone supported the nation as a whole. Political parties are necessary instruments for organizing popular support, and for giving the nation a voice in the operation of the government, but the permanent two party system that prevails in the United States was designed to limit popular involvement in the government, not enhance it. In contrast, under the Parliamentary system parties are easily formed, and the media is willing to actually give new ideas a chance to be heard, enabling the whole system to be more representative in general of the sentiments of the population.

The well-to-do must also recognize that they have a role to play in lessening the suffering of the poorest sectors of the nation, to relieve the pressure on the desperate. This is vital to the safety of the wealthy and the Middle Class, as well as to generating influences that can calm an excited body politic. The convention of private property is an important system that makes it possible for individuals to secure freedom for themselves in a practical sense, but the mischief of the past must be addressed, so that the disproportions of the past are rectified to some measure. The work of plantation slaves two centuries ago did not evaporate into thin air. It became the basis of family fortunes, some of which still survive. There is definitely some unfinished business that must be reconciled, which will have a powerful soothing effect on the entire American black community, that is accustomed to the American white community's abuse, and which would welcome any sincere attempt to establish a common ground for a social peace. This does not mean that every black person is entitled to a particular amount of money; it means that white society has to display the kind of remorse necessary to show that white Americans finally appreciate that a wrong was done upon black Americans. In the same spirit, white Americans have to recognize that they have been deceived about the depredations committed in their name on the native Americans, and that the only polite approach with the native Indian peoples is one of genuine regret and remorse for the sins of the past. (It is equally important for the non-white American population to appreciate the fact that the white leadership never confided in the average poor white about the level of persecution that was visited on the minorities).

Americans have to give the benefit of the doubt to other flesh and blood people, and learn to doubt the institutions that are levelling charges against them, and to look for the validity of any charges made against anyone by the republic. This is not to say that criminals should be allowed to go free; what we must do is make sure that people are not railroaded by a corrupt system, by disallowing any efforts by politicians and DAs to shorten the process by which facts are put on trial, to prove charges. If anything, the pursuit of truth should be the real object of all judicial proceedings, and every effort to suppress evidence or to sequester juries, or reduce the numbers needed to attain a conviction, should be recognized for what they are, efforts to slander innocent people, and to remove their ability to defend themselves.

Due to the machinations of the republic, we have such ridiculous crimes as statutory rape, which can occur with consent; we have public nuisances who feed the poor; and we have "lazy" welfare cheaters who work on the side. Whole new police organizations are roaming the land, looking to prosecute Americans for new categories of crime that the media has convinced us are absolutely essential to the well-being of the nation, many of them "victimless crimes," which amount to the republic protecting us from ourselves! The sheer absurdity of it is laughable, if the human costs were not so tremendous, as Americans begin to feel hunted by the police for everything from speeding tickets to driving without car insurance. The hysterical call for more prisons is highlighted by the luxuriant lifestyle of the politicians, who have no concern about the sentiments of the less affluent, who the prisons are designed to hold. There is a recognition that desperate people will go to desperate means to save themselves, or to feed their children. And there is a recognition that times are getting increasingly tough on families, most of whom descend from the indentured servants of the early colonials, or their slaves. But there is no willingness to have compassion for their suffering under the republic, which encourages the Middle Class to view the poor as lazy and irresponsible. The truth that the system is rigged to keep them working their whole lives, to return next to nothing, is not even admitted by the Middle Class to itself.

If the killing is going to stop in America it will not be under the current political system. The republic will not be able to build enough prisons to contain the rage of the American people, as they come to appreciate the magnitude of the deceit perpetrated upon them. The prisons, far from isolating dangerous people from the general population, enthrone them, giving them access to every angry young man in the country. The guards, instead of exposing the inmates to the real futility of lawlessness, expose them to the cruelty of their whims in a universe dominated by uniformed goose-stepping officers, who turn the other cheek when one of their own crosses the line, to become as savage as the criminals they are supposed to be guarding. By enraging the inmates with complete coldness, when the inmates are released back into the regular society they are all the more dangerous, because the guards failed to function professionally. Who suffers? The average American suffers, the first person suffers who the inmate encounters after his release; an innocent person who doesn't have a network of guards available to protect him, to make it possible for him to hurt others, while making it impossible for the victims to defend themselves. It is that built in unfairness that is the hallmark of the Federal Government. It victimizes the innocent, and then penalizes the victim for making any effort to defend himself; and then it paints the whole sleazy affair as some great benefit to humanity.

In a very practical sense, however, the very notion that America should have a new government is to go into uncharted territory. It is like Columbus sailing off into the unknown, thinking he would be landing in India at a time when the average European thought that the Earth was flat. Conventional wisdom of the time would have certainly viewed the trip as risky, if not foolish; but the willingness to risk failing made the discovery of the Americas a remarkable accomplishment. Admittedly, Columbus was no role model, and his decimation of the native population has earned him a reputation closely related to that of Adolf Hitler as a power-crazed megalomaniac who caused tremendous suffering; but the modern American culture is at a crossroads, and it will either completely break apart and disappear from history as a single country, or it will be revitalized by summoning the courage to face its inner demons.

A social unity is a much different beast than a political unity. A political unity is something a bunch of diplomats hammer out over lunch; it's a raw agreement between principals, with legal terms and conditions, and punitive recourse in the event that either side fails in keeping the terms. A social unity, on the other hand, derives of social intercourse; it derives of familiarity, and a sense of similarity, that makes it possible for individuals to empathize with each other, and therefore sympathize with each other. A man who sympathizes with another man, will not seek to dispossess him. He will also come to his defense when the other man is wronged, which is the true basis of a community: People standing by each other.

The very nature of government and politics under the republic propels the agents of the government to look upon the activities of the people and their families with suspicion. Like the Nazi occupation forces in France or Poland, where the senior Nazi officials nervously observed the most ordinary antics of the natives, certain that it was some disguise or cover for some sinister plot against them, Code Enforcement officers, Vice officers, Animal Control officers, IRS agents, FBI special agents, Secret Service agents, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents, all nervously observe the American people, certain that they are committing and concealing crimes. The very presence of this massive police infrastructure is a force perpetuating the divisions in American society, the oldest segments of Federal law enforcement retaining an institutional memory of the days when black people were property. If any kind of social peace is going to take place, it is going to have to occur outside the existing institutional infrastructure.

While some people imagine massive government bureaucracies as the only solution to centuries of prejudice the most obvious solution is usually ignored, which involves enabling adversaries to meet each other and establish direct personal bonds which contradict the stereotypes they rely upon to power their prejudiced opinions. This doesn't require anything other than a common appreciation of the common enemy, which cannot be defeated so long as the American people remain divided against themselves: THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC. This may seem too easy, however, because the agents of the republic have raised up double-dealing to an art form. They realize that it is not in their best interests if the American people actually come to know each other and compare notes, so they actively sow the seeds of distrust and suspicion that make it easy for average Americans to hide inside their homes, informed by nothing more than the mass media. The idea of a crime wave is terrifying to ordinary people, who feel grateful to have police for protection, especially when trouble hits. This is the real heart of the irony, because the law enforcement institutions also do a lot of good work, most of which goes unheralded because it's not as eye-catching as the 100 MPH car chase, or the 12 hour stand-off. There is a gigantic cadre of professional officers who do their job, who have compassion, and who are made furious by the so-called "bad cop." The only problem is that they are all rank and file, and it is their superiors who are the ones who are "politically connected," and it is they who give the directions for suppressing testimony, evidence, etc. Thus it cuts to the heart of the issue -- the core of power -- which must be served by the institutional muscle of the system.

It is where that muscle is applied that needs to be examined, because that will reveal who the system was set up to serve. Who do the police protect first? Where is the military sent, first? It doesn't take a college graduate to understand that police protection is far better in Beverly Hills, than in Watts. It also didn't take the so-called Gulf "War" to illustrate the pre-occupation of the Federal Government with protecting the property of the great industrial families. Average people go wanting while county governments speculate with public money, and even lose billions, without blinking an eye. The media, far from investigating on its own, stands by as a cheerleader, encouraging the public to forgive acts that if they had been done by private citizens, the same media would have demanded prison terms for.

The mass media is involved as an active participant in the defrauding of the American people. Although it enjoys certain protections -- which are really privileges -- it is culpable because its highest reporters and editors are political insiders, who dine and socialize with the most powerful people in the republic, and they openly benefit from the status their associations generate. They are not at all apologetic, and they even go to great lengths to distort the news, in such ways as to stretch credulity. The perpetuation of the system as a whole is perceived of as more significant than the fact that they are openly lying about the condition of the nation. They recognize that the American people are not able to perceive what is in their own best interests, but they do not take any blame for disinforming the public, therefore causing the state of mind that disables the general public from understanding its own status. They hide behind shields of economy and efficiency, so that every time a story is cut out or "changed," the reason why that comes down from above is: We are short of space. The truth, the fact that a story says too much, is never openly admitted except by the rookie reporters, who are mystified when the articles they write that get too close to the principals never get into print. (It's important to appreciate, also, that the media is not "liberal" in the sense of being left-leaning; it is actually pro-government, which the term "liberal" has become a euphemism for).

In Orange County, California, the county government lost $1.7 billion through speculative investments in the stock market. For years, the county was run like an old boys network, as a virtual dictatorship. People without political connections -- which were available to anyone with money -- were out of luck, their plans just went nowhere. Need a permit? You're out of luck, no permit, unless you've got some money... In the 1970's, the administrator of an Orange County hospital became a political kingmaker by inventing fake patients and billing Medi-cal, and diverting the funds into the political campaigns of politicians all over the State of California. When he was finally detected, he received a mere 31 months. The arrogance of the men who have had power in Orange County has been nothing other than ungodly. And not one of the principals accepts any responsibility for the bankruptcy the county had to declare in 1994, which was led up to by one of the most significant American cover-ups since Watergate. Yet, who were these wretched politicians hiding anything from? The American people, of course. The people who they defrauded, as schools closed, crime escalated, and social tensions soared. It is unconscionable that some Ivy League hacks can sit in their Ivory Towers and declare with absolute certainty, with the authority of God, that there is no "system" in the United States. That there is no Establishment, with a class consciousness based upon wealth. It is unconscionable because it is dishonest. They, themselves, have had dealings with the power structure -- being tenured professors -- and their hollow protestations only ring false to the great majority of Americans.

WHAT IS THE LAW?

One of the most important public dialogues of all time has been the discussion people carry on amongst each other as to what constitutes the law. Americans have been handicapped in this discussion (except for that minority who have gone to law school), because the emphasis on the written Constitution of 1787 has had its intended effect, of limiting the dialogue. The average person is brought up believing that law starts out as a bill in Congress, that must be voted on in each house, and then signed by the president. This is only partially correct, but left unchallenged it leaves the impression that the rules devised by Congress constitute the totality of the law. The truth is that even the ordinances of Congress are subject to scrutiny and must be consistent with the "principles of law," in order to be valid. The principles of law are those maxims that have evolved through thousands of years of custom and practice, originating in the primeval mists of northern Europe, and which have come down to us in the English "common law."

Americans are accustomed to being intimidated by the law, except for the Middle Class, and the rich class, because one of the few privileges of money in America is access to legal help. It becomes crystal clear to the observant child of the well-to-do that money can buy his way out of trouble, especially when he can see the example of so many people who do not have the benefit of money, who go to jail and prison for the same offenses. The republic was devised by lawyers who were in the majority at the secret Constitutional Convention of 1787, that drafted the Constitution. They very consciously and deliberately created a state that would enable their interests to be served as a priority of the republic, couching the entire affair in legal terms that would make it palatable to a society that had a long tradition of individual liberty. They created terms that guaranteed that lawyers would play a dominant role in the development of the government, which accounts for the high ratio of lawyers in Congress during the 20th century.

It is impossible for Americans to consider law as it was originally intended, as a pure pursuit of truth. From the start the law was used in the colonies-turned-states to keep the social castes differentiated, one of the most obvious examples being the laws against miscegenation. Once a social policy is cast as a law, the simple-minded always attach a moral content to it regardless of how misguided the policy is. This has divided generations in constant turmoil, as the body politic fights over arcane wording in laws of Congress. The reality that law is fundamentally based on custom since "time immemorial," which even the laws of Congress are subject to, goes right over the heads of most Americans, mainly because they have had no formal preparation for the idea whatsoever.

The society from which the customary and traditional law of the American people derived, thousands of years ago, was a democratic, tribal society. It was a far more democratic society than we live in today. It is an article of faith that tribal society was "nasty, brutish and short," because it cannot be supported by hard anthropological evidence. What is supported by evidence is that individual's were taken more seriously, they were allowed to express themselves and their opinions more easily, and they were allowed to spend most of their lives fulfilling their own purposes, because the system of authority that existed in tribal society could not dominate individuals, and commandeer their resources.

One of the most interesting anecdotes having to do with tribal society is the one about American Indians, during the final wars of conquest when waves of American settlers pouring over treaty boundary-lines were followed by the U.S. Army. The most easily excited by these boundary violations of Indian land were the Indian youth, who would form impromptu war bands -- outside of the traditional authority of the chiefs -- to go out and attack those settlers who were violating the treaty. In desperation, white Generals would beg and plead with the Indian chiefs, to restrain their young braves; to which the Native American chiefs replied that it was not in their power to stop any of the people from doing anything. This is an intrinsic tribal value, which is universal.

It is hard to convey the real tension between a tribal society and what is called an "urban" society, because very often urban societies are camouflaged under terminologies that derive from tribal roots. A tribal society is an aboriginal society of human beings, before any outside influences have had any impact on it. An urban society is a tribal society set in an urban or city-based setting, which is very often the site where multiple tribal cultures meet and interact (which is the basis of the idea of a city being "cosmopolitan"). The most significant development of the modern age was the development of the use of gunpowder in cannons, which ended the feudal age in Europe. This had the direct effect of enabling European national states to form, which became the driving force behind colonialism. It was under the auspices of colonialism that the European urban model of power -- the model refined by ancient Rome (the mother of all cities) -- became the basic international standard in diplomatic law. This caused a universal dilemma whereby local tribal people were forced to form states in the European model, or face being annexed or conquered by a state that had.

The main difference between an urban state and a tribal state was the fact that authority under the urban model depended upon formal election procedures for the leadership. Under the tribal model leadership was awarded voluntarily by the followers, to those individuals with the best skills for keeping the peace. This represented an underlying difference because the most important thing in the urban state was the capture of power itself, where in tribal states the domestic peace was prized above possession of power. This reflected the nature of tribes as extensions of the family unit. Technically, a tribe is a collection of "clans," a clan being a group of families derived from a common ancestor. Tribal families, however, were not simply two generations, but three generations headed up by a grandfather or grandmother. While apologists like to concentrate on the irregular family feuds that disrupted tribal life, they usually fail to appreciate the fact that tribal society was not monetized, and did not apply the kinds of artificial pressures on its youth that urban society does, in order to coerce the youth to enter the labor market. The point of this, however, is to illustrate that the type of law that evolved from an urban society was qualitatively different from the kind of law that evolved from a tribal society, and it was the confusing of these that led to the aberrations of the United States republic.

It is vital to understand that law is not something vague, or mysterious, or alien. It is very precise as a scholastic discipline, and it is because it is governed by the dynamics of reason -- as any quest for truth must be -- that it has attained the high regard of billions of people throughout the English-speaking world. The American Revolution was a coup by the rich, who took control of the state by breaking the law of the established and constituted authorities: It was never legal to shoot at the troops that had been sent by the Mother Country, in the wake of attacks by the colonials on the legal government. As in all such situations, however, one lie leads to another, and here we are today, hostages of a literal web of lies. But to find truth we must uncover that original lie. The original lie was that the forefathers were somehow entitled to break the law, and begin dictating what the law should be thenceforward. It is true that they created an elaborate procedure for making law that roughly resembled the British constitution, with its House of Lords, House of Commons, and the Monarchy; except that the president of the United States was actually just a "mock monarch," regal enough to satisfy the tribal needs of the population without endowing the institution with the kind of traditional legal authority that could presumably interfere with the lust for commerce that dominated the early years of the republic. (True monarches usually take a genuine interest in the well-being of their people -- the rich as well as the poor -- in ways that can make doing business inconvenient, especially since business-based ethics always place human issues second to issues of profit-margins).

The only problem that ever faced the Founding Fathers was that some American national might wake up someday, to realize that the republic was a fraud. To avoid this, the whole mythos of the republic had to be devised, Greco-Roman architecture and all. The breach with the past, with tradition, had to be covered and smoothed over with appeals to an ancient past, which the average person had no real knowledge about. After the Revolutionary generation unseated the ancient order of government that had evolved over centuries through trial and error and civil war, they proceeded to produce an ad hoc republic thrown together by necessities of the moment. The most significant of these necessities was the pressing need to suppress slave revolts, which was a recurring theme through-out the period in the correspondence of the senior leadership, which they had no inclination to conceal. The direct financial advantage of revolution to the gentry of the colonies, which has very little play in the popular versions of U.S. history, was that they could unilaterally repudiate their creditors in London, whose extension of credit to Americans had made it possible for the Americans to buy land and slaves. Far from any noble aspiration to create a land of free Americans, the leaders of the U.S. revolution saw a profit in independence for themselves, which would depend on the continuance of slavery. This actually made it a crime for a particular class of human beings to seek freedom!

Once the Founding Fathers waged their little war to cut off the colonies from British rule, in order to establish their own rule over them, they began to pick and choose what laws would apply to them. Modern school-children are constantly drilled with the maxim that they cannot "pick and choose what laws they will obey," but that is exactly what the Founding Fathers did, without any permission or authority from the people of the United States. For thousands of years the ancient constitution recognized only one kind of executive, and even when that executive was defeated in war, its functionality led to its restoration in a revised form. But in America the Founding Fathers decided that they could set the law aside, and do as they pleased. They recognized that if they instituted the traditional form of government controlled by the ancient laws and customs of the kingdom, that the law would be supreme instead of them. They wanted to create a chief executive magistrate that they could control, who would be their creature. Never before in history had any such office ever been set up called "president." There were no constitutional restrictions in custom or tradition, other than those scribbled out in the Constitution of 1787, where the presidency was created. This made it possible for the early presidents to create all kinds of precedents, with no regard for any of the ancient safeguards that were built into the unwritten constitution.

There is an unwitting foolishness that takes place when scholars compare the American "written" constitution, against the British "unwritten" constitution, because in point of fact the unwritten British constitution still prevails in the United States, and is the real basis of the judicial establishment. All American law is only law so far as it is consistent with the rules of law devised in the British constitution, and this is so intrinsic to it, that it cannot be removed. This is not to imply that America remains British, in any colonial sense; it infers only that the legal environment in the United States is far more involved and complex than supporters of the republic might suggest. The written American constitution was designed to cut off the dialogue. Anyone who suggests reviving the ancient executive, the kingship, and thus the kingdom, is automatically cut off; stigmatized, silenced. It is then that we are introduced to the kind of force the slave-state was endowed with, to penalize Americans who support the ancient constitution.

The most fundamental difference between the American Constitution of 1787, and the British unwritten constitution, is in the values they embody. The American constitution is exclusive in nature: It is a basic enumeration of those powers that will be exclusively endowed into the Presidency, the Congress, and the courts; it includes the power to raise armies and navies, to tax the people, and to judge them. The British constitution, on the other hand, is inclusive in nature: It is not limited to the clauses of a single legal document, penned by lawyers. It is a vast, complex accumulation of the thoughts of every person who has ever considered the nature of law and liberty, and written them down. It includes the writings of scholars, autobiographies and biographies of statesmen, important ordinances and enactments, like the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and the Settlement Act; every article on constitutional issues written by every reporter in every serious newspaper, and every document generated by every governmental agency, and all legal agencies, including businesses. As a purely scholastic field constitutional law cuts across the whole spectrum of disciplines which define our culture. This is in stark contrast to the institutions of the republic, which are exemplified best by the two-party system, which for most of the history of the republic was dominated by "bosses," who ran the country through party "machines." (The modern development of open primaries compelled party regulars to secure tighter control over the media, by creating intimate relationships with star reporters).

In order to understand how tightly controlled the American society has been, consider for a moment the crime of practicing law without a license. This is called unauthorized practice of law, and it's so vague that no one is quite sure exactly what constitutes the unauthorized practice of law. When the general population revolted against the stranglehold the lawyers had on the court system (all judges are Bar members, as are most politicians in the legislatures, Governor's Mansions, Congress, etc.), they turned to the professional assistants of attorneys for relief, the "paralegal," experts at form preparation who initially were largely trained in law offices. Attorneys, themselves, rely on the professional expertise of paralegals; but when popular demand insisted on going direct to the paralegals, bypassing the lawyers and the high fees of lawyers, the establishment struck back by prosecuting the first paralegals who offered their services independently, for unauthorized practice of law. This backfired, however, because the lawyers misjudged popular sentiments. In the face of popular indignation over what was in essence the monopolistic control of the legal profession by the Bar Association, the lawyers reluctantly accepted the evolution of the paralegal as a legitimate adjunct to the legal profession. Not, however, before it came to light that the lawyers have created a special law to protect themselves, which essentially outlaws even the most trivial conversation, should it touch on the subject of law. At this time, if one American tells another American that he is free, and he makes any attempt to advise that person as to how to legally exploit that freedom, he is guilty of the crime of practicing law without a license.

The most important thing any individual can do is to remain impartial, which is very difficult when the main institutions of society condone a civic standard that insists that it doesn't matter what side you take, so long as you play the game. Every aspect of American life is designed to reduce the independence of individuals, in order to make them vulnerable to institutions. Even the individuals who espouse these views personally believe that there is no other way to design a society; and they believe that they are doing good because they are masters at self-deception. The police have not come to grips with their own institutional memory having to do with the poor, or black Americans; the social workers have not come to grips with their relations with the poor and needy; the teachers are not really aware of the menace within the message they teach daily to millions of defenseless children. Yet these tensions divide the society, and they are embraced in legal codes that seem to make the civil war that is raging on the streets of America inevitable. By skewing the law, which is what is accomplished through the device of the Constitution of 1787, the politicians are able to reduce the country into a crude auction house, where law is the outcome of a contest between combatants. Numbers of votes come to outweigh the value of valid arguments and learned discourse, because the balance is decided by influence peddlers and special interest bribes. The fact that this battling takes place between two camps of politicians, who are divided by the thinnest of platforms, (which gives way any time some remote emergency arises that threatens the stability of the whole house of cards), is supposed to placate anyone who compares the police state to bona fide fascism.

The American Constitution of 1787 was designed to combat the inclusivity of the unwritten British constitution, that prevailed in the United States as a matter of tradition. The written Constitution was designed to curtail the ancient constitution, while benefiting from it. The only problem is that the unwritten constitution, by its very nature, tended to swallow up the inflexible written Constitution of the Founders. The nature of the unwritten Anglo-American constitution, as something that had never been enacted, meant that it could not be repealed or rescinded. It also tended to continue on in force regardless of the declarations or enactments of institutions, meaning that the ancient constitution continues on in force today. The power of the ancient constitution to endure actually derives of the will of the people culturally to embrace it, and it is this populist will that even the powerful Federal Government is compelled to accept.

The American judicial system was deliberately short-circuited by its anchoring in the written constitutions. The written constitutions were enacted to displace the official legal royal governments, the authority of which most average people were willing to accept. By creating documents as founding charters it was intended that public attention would be focused on the procedures they called for, and away from ancient law. Initially, it was argued that these constitutions were an addition to ancient rights, in the spirit of the unwritten Anglo-American constitution; but later on, the courts the written constitutions gave authority to, came to regard the enactments as cutting the American body politic off from ancient customs, except as provided for by the institutions created in the written constitutions. This was a catch-22 situation that made it possible for the police state to come to full-flower, using the rhetoric of freedom as window dressing.

The law is the most important heritage of the American people, and it should never be overlooked; but then, it must also be understood that the best way to defend the law is with a well-developed mind. No amount of force or coercion will ever come to replace or be a substitute for a well-grounded argument based in facts. Truth is the two-edged sword that cuts both ways. It owes no loyalty; it betrays no one. The truth is a higher order of interest, the nationality of humanity as a race, a common kind, a commonwealth. It is defined by the common human experience, those events that take place only to human beings. This does not mean that people will not form separate and distinct societies; they always have, and they always will. What it means is that all people share a higher order of feelings, so that even divided into convenient enclaves, they remain united by bonds that transcend the ordinary.

It is vital that Americans come to reclaim the ancient constitution, so that they can become informed, active participants in American national life. Freedom means much more than voting, paying taxes, and performing jury duty. When freedom is reduced to a formalized routine, it is a clue that freedom is gone. No one needs to be punished to be free, but the entire rhetoric of the republic is threats of punishment, and dire consequences. It turns logic on its head, so that the best minds all come to agree that wet cement causes rain! When men play at being God then all the rules of creation are put asunder, and any wickedness can be practiced. When the most prominent and the most powerful all coerce and force the people into complicity with them, a pure form of lunacy takes hold of the people, such that men reverse what nature intended, by making white black and black white.

Only human beings are capable of these mental gymnastics because of the cerebral capacity for thought. The seeds of ruin are in the thoughts themselves, for as men come to recognize their own thoughts they also begin to invent ways to lie. They learn that there is the choice between good and evil, and they unwittingly allow themselves to cooperate with evil, lying to themselves that this is actually good. The first lies are benign enough, but they progress until there is no truth. The lies grow until they blot out the sun. This is the great "flaw" of human life, the encapsulation of spirit in flesh; the original sin. If the spirit does not realize that it is spirit and not flesh, it can never genuinely realize its potential; and as long as it lies to itself, that the flesh is its true self, it cannot help but conspire with evil.

The true law is derivative of human beings, so inevitably it answers to the human need to discover the source of human life in the spiritual universe. The true law is not creedal or divisive in nature; if anything, it has a tendency to cause people to come together, held by bonds of common experience. The natural laws of the universe prevail regardless of the puny laws of men, and they exist within the scientific structure of existence. They can be perceived and learned and taught, but they cannot be altered or amended or abolished in any neat procedure. This is why the terminology of the law is framed in concepts of discovery. The law is "found." Courts issue "findings." Lawsuits undergo a phase called "discovery," wherein legal theories are evaluated and developed, facts are marshalled, and the applicable principles of law are "found."

The law in a community is based on the consensus of the people who are local to it. This does not mean that local communities can do as they please, but it does mean that the law can go no further than their basic values and morals. This is part of the ancient constitution as it relates to the customs of validity which came to be embodied in the jury system. Modern writers enjoy according juries vast honors, not recognizing the very practical functions they serve almost as a utility. Juries have historically been known to act independently -- often against the interests of the power establishment -- based on popular principles that do not necessarily enjoy the status of enacted law. At a time when the law had been corrupted through the enactment of the written state and Federal constitutions, the jury system became the last bastion of justice for the common man.

In the American Nation's disgust at the corruption and incorrigible immorality of the politicians and bureaucrats of the republic, it is imperative that Americans appreciate that the republic is symptomatic of the violation of the principles of law, and that a restoration of those principles is the best hope the country has for any kind of recovery. It's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about social problems and their solutions, but it's entirely different when a nation with millions of lives at stake makes changes that have no roots in the accumulated wisdom and tradition of the culture. This is not to imply that some traditions are not in fact obsolete and need to be updated or transcended, but the wholesale abandonment of all things traditional which is the principal characteristic of the American citizen as a product of republican-society, is an extremist attitude that has nothing but detrimental effects on the body politic. A good example of this kind of "revolutionary" zeal was demonstrated during the French Revolution, in which thousands of people lost their lives (ultimately, throughout Europe, millions lost their lives). It had a levelling effect that destroyed everything that had existed before, not only in France but throughout the world. This is the interesting part of the history, because we think of the French Revolution as only having effects in France, but it was a powerful reaction in the center of European civilization which not only changed warfare and politics forever, but which also laid the groundwork for the great wars of the 20th century, World War I and World War II. The development of the French mass armies, through the levee en masse and the regularization of the mass army as the core institution of the mass state, created the infrastructure for the modern nation-state. (The pressures of the first masses-based nation-states led to the evolution of hybrid states, such as the German Empire, which was a mass state with the trappings of a traditional society.)

The main focus of the revolutionary nation-state has been the control of territory, which enabled the military establishments of modern countries to aspire to a special station. The revolutionary state is characterized as a militant command structure, which uses its captive population to exploit the natural resources within the geographical territory that is the ultimate reason for being of the modern state. This is more evident in the developing nations of the Third World, where the International Monetary Fund has tremendous power to dictate to ostensibly sovereign governments, how their domestic resources are to be exploited. But it also takes place in the developed nations of the so-called First World, where the people are raised from childhood to expect to be used, and which is deemed normal.

Yet it is a sorry spectacle as the youth submit to the crude efforts of the media to whip up anger at enemies that were tactically chosen in the cold-blooded efforts of the ruling establishment to create tensions. The law is used every day to create rivalries and jealousies, and to divide the people with allegations of wrongdoing. The American people respond like virgins, unable to encompass the idea that their own representatives in Congress, or their own fellow countrymen in the media, would cynically seek to prolong their suffering.

The most important realization the American people must come to, with the most serious implications, is that the Constitution of 1787 is not and has never been a source of "rights" for the American people. The rights of the people existed before the Constitution was enacted. It does not protect freedom, and its enactment did not secure the rights of liberty for anyone. This is vital because it is on the basis that it protects American rights that people have defended it for generations, never reading it or coming to genuinely understand its terms. The truth is that the freedom of individuals comes down through the centuries in the form of unwritten customs that have stood as case law for millennia, which are the sole source of the freedom of the people. Thus it could be said that Americans are born free under ancient laws, and the real purpose of the written Constitution is to limit this freedom, by making it subject to the institutions set up in the Constitution.

There are alternatives in law to the corrupt and collapsing republic of the United States, but it means going outside of the allowed boundaries of the republic. The beneficiaries of the republic, those who are rewarded through its set-up, have very carefully and deliberately construed the major institutions of the republic as progressive, benign and charitable agencies, when in fact these institutions have destroyed whole civilizations, meddled in foreign nations through assassinations and high intrigue, set up puppet regimes at will, and openly manipulated the masses through the media. The worst transgressions are whitewashed in the press, or disappear altogether. There is no in-depth investigative reporting; no real scrutiny, the media seemingly loses all discretion when the institutions of the republic pursue the agendas of the powerful, without regard to any moral issues. The members of the media share the anxieties of the bureaucrats, as they come to realize that their common values and common practices give them common interests that they feel impelled to protect. A rough historic parallel can be drawn with the ancient Romans, when the Roman society was torn by civil war and the common people won the right to elect a couple of their own class to represent them in the patrician Roman Senate. Once ensconced in the Senate, the commoners ceased to be common, and they soon came to expect the same privileges that had been reserved for the patricians.

Americans like to pretend that there are no social classes in America, or distinctions. There is a superficial veneer in republican society that takes false pride in the "equality" of American life, which really only masks the mob dynamic, which is suspicious of anyone who behaves as if he or she is somehow "special." In the most ironic lie of all, individuality is undervalued as individual Americans seek to "fit in" by never taking any pride in whatever they excel in. This also works to undermine the credibility of anyone with intelligence who attempts to share the benefit of that intelligence, by inciting jealousy in those who might actually need it. It works to disable old-fashioned neighborliness, to encourage dependence by individuals on institutions rather than people. Where once people depended on the reputation of integrity of the people in the local community, increasingly they have come to rely on the formal signs of integrity, such as certification by regulatory institutions. This has only generated a more alienated society, wherein the people are all the more isolated from each other, leading to one of the most powerful issues facing contemporary civilization: the sheer loneliness of modern life.

The ultimate answers to modern social problems rest in the law, which plays no favorites with regards to the wealth of any person. One of the most important clauses of the Magna Carta declares "to no one shall we sell justice," a sentiment that is echoed nowhere in the Constitution of 1787. It is important for the wealthy to understand that the only real protection of their wealth is the development of an enlightened society, any other plan is foolsgold. Only an educated body politic can appreciate the value of law, and only a just society can progress. As American society disintegrates from the web of lies it can no longer support, the catharsis can begin which can heal the wounds exploited by the republic to enrich the politicians, and preserve the Billionaire Class. But only the truth will have the effect of ending the era of falsity that has enabled generations to be lost in confusion. The falsity that the republic is our friend, that it loves us, and seeks to help us be free. It is this false notion that makes us the willing puppets of the politicians, who retire in splendor as we go to work in the mines.

The study of law is an important, vital pursuit which contains in it the seeds of new hope. Even as the horrors accumulate that seem to signal the eclipse of the republic, the portents reveal a powerful new world evolving from principles that guarantee a social peace. The cronies of the republic hold onto power like the eunuch mandarins of the Forbidden City, sterile obstacles to progress, unable to give fertility to the land and unwilling to relinquish it to nature. But nature is a formidable adversary which will not be denied. There is a point and a principle to things that are true, and anytime there is no point, it is a sure sign that a deceit is in progress. It is important for Americans to enter a new era in the fulfillment of American destiny, that comes with the maturity of a people as a nation. It has to do with individual Americans coming to grips with their individual roles in creating America as a great nation, in order to take the country back from the ruthless powerbrokers who claim power under the auspices of the republic. This can only take place by each taking responsibility for him or her self, by pursuing self-improvement. This self-improvement, however, is not of anything so mundane as one's financial status, but speaks more intimately to the mind, and its power to comprehend. The ultimate patriotic act of service to the country is the pursuit of an accurate education, so that when all is said and done, the individual has the mental tools available to make a genuine contribution to the human community.

Additionally, the benefits of civilization awaken in us the realization that there is no reason for human beings to suffer anywhere, especially at the hands of other human beings. The desire to relieve suffering is one of the most powerful drives of modern civilization, as its most defining characteristic. However it is important to distinguish this from the sterile, academic idea of "civilization" as the product of urban power, in the value-free vacuum that only exists in textbooks. The textbook definition of civilization is passive as regards to whether a civilized society is progressive or not; while the living meaning of the Classic ideal of "civilization" implies an eternal beneficial quality that could only derive of a form of progressivity that is in its most fundamental sense humanitarian. A civilized society does not turn on its own people; a civilized society does not let people die because they are too poor, or too hungry. A civilized society does not leave a corrupt government in place, to embezzle the national wealth and enslave the population. Now we are faced with the question and dilemma of what kind of society the American society shall be in the future. It is a question of great import to the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs, who will lose their jobs, and their children, for whom there will be no jobs. It speaks to the very essence of what it shall mean to be an American. And it will require a magnitude of honesty that is completely alien to the average American brought up under the regime of the republic, who doesn't even fully realize that he or she is the victim of a hoax; that there is much more to American history than the litany of the Civic Creed that they were forced to memorize in high school.

A NEW BEGINNING

When the Founding Fathers set up the republic they knew that the traditional option was available to them, of electing a king whose prestige would have made it possible to heal the wounds of civil war. The Founders were men of wealth and education, and they knew that kings -- by their longevity and stability -- eventually tended to take seriously their role as protectors of the people, especially the vulnerable. This contradicts the popular notion of kingship which is circulated by the partisans of the republic, which portrays kings as desperate tyrants bent on bloodshed and violence for selfish purposes. This is to distract people from the genuinely selfish politicians under the republic, who cannot relate to the lack of desperation that typifies monarches, who enjoy life tenure. For thousands of years kings were the driving force in the unification of diverse peoples into what became nations; tribes that became so interlocked by marriage and tradition, that they ultimately lost their separate identities to become genuine cultural unions.

Americans who are critical of royalty usually fail to appreciate that it was not a king who deployed the only atomic weapons ever detonated in war, killing thousands of civilians. Or that it was not a king who developed the ghettos called "Indian Reservations," that the republic developed as concentration camps for the Native Americans, to remove them from the land that was rightfully and legally theirs. The institutions of the republic make it easy for average Americans to shrug off the involvement of the Federal Government in all kinds of nefarious and diabolical schemes. Yet the seeds of renewal for America rest in the ancient legal traditions the Founding Fathers jettisoned when they set up the republic.

The current scheme is designed to keep the poor working not only to profit from their labor but also to keep them busy. Busy people will not have the time to become involved in civic affairs, the affairs of the community. This leaves the management of communities safely in the hands of those with the financial resources to afford careers in politics, people whose opinions have already been safely tested. This is why most city councils and county governments are dominated by local merchants, who shamelessly use their positions and influence to improve their status. Their sole preoccupation is business and commerce, which are best served by the police-&-prison state; their motto is "Go Along to Get Along," and, "If it's good for business, then it's good for the community."

The advocates and supporters of the prison state do not fully realize how tenuous their grasp on power actually is. They have relied on the brute force of the police for so long, and the willingness of the press to prevaricate and equivocate, that they do not see any reason to admit blame for anything. Social dissent as evidenced by unrest will simply be suppressed by as much police force as is necessary, and the population will accept it because it will be explained away as a crackdown against crime. The only problem with this is that the American people have come to realize that the politicians and the bureaucrats have NO INTEGRITY, and they are increasingly receptive to new ideas about how to stop the civil war that now claims so many American lives.

The most important source of pure strength that America will have to draw upon will derive of individuals assuming responsibility for their own country. This is not to infer that individuals owe some ambiguous debt to the nation, but rather to suggest that the actual energy that will revitalize the civic life of the country will come from individuals seeking to set things right. This also does not mean that individuals should commit themselves to one or another institution, and assume that the business of the community has been handled. This is the basic flaw of the republic -- which is centered on limiting the involvement of citizens -- which has led to a stagnant, sterile and doomed sense of community, which can only be overcome by a true populist movement that is motivated by a positive agenda. The American people have got to see through the gloom of the political system to recognize that it is only a temporary obstacle, in order to appreciate the possibilities that are available in a post-republic America.

Americans need to consider what kind of a country they want to live in, and begin the process of making that dream a reality. While there are all kinds of ideological agendas that would seem to impair the pursuit of a focused vision for the future, when reduced to the basics of what it means to be a good people ideology becomes less impactful. What this comes down to is the fundamental dynamic that choosing to be good invokes the best in people. The individual has the conscious power to seek to be loved by others, or despised; by seeking to be loved, the individual assumes a responsive attitude towards other members of the human race which is empowering. Those people who either don't care about their impact on other people, or who actually seek to be disliked, actually disconnect themselves from society, to live out their lives in a solitary, isolated powerless state. (Much of what is called "anti-social behavior" is actually an attempt to reach out to other people, as it must take place through the mind of someone who was socialized in a dysfunctional environment).

The mass consumer society that exists in America is organized around a model consumer who practices unbridled self-indulgence, which has been redefined as a virtue, as the ultimate test of personal freedom. To lure people into joining the economic system (in which they shall work like slaves) they are exposed to all the neat things money can buy, which then take on more significance than the people in one's life. The way they are exposed to this lifestyle that is only available to them if they have money, is through "free TV" broadcasts that constantly barrage the individual with the mythic idea that because he is a part of the industrial economy, that he is better off even if he lives in a slum. In this way, the economic system encourages individuals to disregard other people, to become fully self-absorbed. It is this characteristic of the economic system that needs to be confronted, because it has made the average American a very poor neighbor. It also makes Americans particularly susceptible to rivalries, which divert the energy that is desperately needed away from the salvaging of the nation.

It is important for Americans to appreciate that what is needed is their individual attention focused on the unique needs of their own local communities, and that there are no pat answers; there are no magical incantations; there is no litany or creed or political platform with answers to all of America's problems. We have to stop and savor life, and not allow ourselves to be sidetracked from the pursuit of meaning in life. This is our chance, our opportunity to connect our values deliberately with our choices; we are the living generation, and all hope rests with us. If we fail to appreciate every moment of our mortal existence then we have no one to blame but ourselves. If our kids are killing each other, it means we have to stop and find out why instead of allowing the powerful to continue to hide their heads in the sand. It actually amounts to individuals developing the resolve necessary to institute change, each in his or her own backyard. Collectively, individuals acting locally in accordance to the real needs of the people around them will have a national impact, in ways that the republic refuses to countenance.

The most direct route to a social peace is an actual peace initiative, aimed at addressing the grievances of the various American ethnic groups. The American people have to completely understand that there is a war raging in the streets of the nation, despite the weak denials of law enforcement, and that the only way to stop it is to declare a truce and commence a dialogue. A new government will evolve naturally from this process as a new relationship is forged between the American people, that is not dominated by the traditional hostility of the republic. The basic suspicion of the prison state must be put behind us, so that the American people can press forward with the development of a FRIENDLY SOCIETY. It is imperative that 20th century people understand that not so long ago, black people, native American Indians, and the Hispanic people who lived in north America, did not think of themselves as "Americans." Americans were white people, who were at war with blacks, Indians and Mexicans; if there is going to be a peace, it will have to begin with the white people reaching out to the others, in gestures of genuine friendship.

The idea of "Deliberate Community" involves individuals deliberately making the choice to become active in the community, not from the standard vantage point of self-promotion, but instead out of the genuine desire to create a responsive community that makes life an enjoyable and pleasant experience for everyone. So much of the republic is designed to punish and coerce, that most Americans will find it hard to comprehend a system of government that has nothing to gain from causing social tensions. The deliberate community includes the deliberate choice of seeking to be "good." It involves the premise that life is too short to spend it quibbling over differences, and that life is meant to be shared. The highest value in life is to be found in true friends, not wealth or celebrity, for the currency of life is time. Once that time is spent, it can never be reclaimed. This is the key to happiness, because the way one spends one's time will determine the degree of happiness one shall experience in life.

The republic has spawned a divided society that thrives on conflict; the underlying traditional society -- the American kingdom -- on the other hand, derives all of its strength and vigor from the unification of the society, and the development of traditional institutions that will make it possible to link up people who today are preoccupied with taking advantage of each other. The republic has left America in chaos because it has forced the people to defend themselves from their own government. By putting commerce ahead of human needs and human conditions, the republic has caused untold suffering to enrich men who are bound by the same mortality as the rest of us, and who are disappointed to find that for all their riches, it doesn't make the quality of their lives better. A wealthy wretch will still live the life of a wretch, even if he is able to afford to express his wretchedness in splendor. But now every American can aspire to a greater future wherein the principal aim is to develop a community that gratifies the basic human drives for companionship and love. We have it in our grasp to regain hope and to cast out doubt, and make manifest a positive future. We must reject the hopelessness of the republic, which lives by virtue of a constant string of reasons why things must stay the same. In the end, there are no legitimate reasons. Existing interests are profiting from the status quo, and they simply refuse to take into account the national interest above their own private advantage.

Average people have to come to grips with the reality that all evidence of law-breaking on the part of the bureaucracy is proof that the passage of more legislation by Congress is no answer to the rampant corruption that permeates every corner of the American political system. Even during the midst of the very war that established American independence, the only characteristic that could be associated with the emerging new political order was corruption, the corruption associated with the provisioning of the Continental Army; the corruption that was associated with the revolutionary governments that usurped the legal authority of the king. The whole focus of the Federal state for 200 years has been to keep the American body politic divided so that it would be incapable of defending itself from the Federal state. The reality is that in order to accomplish a united condition, the American people are going to have to retire the Federal state.

The Federal state established by the Founding Fathers after 1787 was deliberately designed to be a total state, from the beginning. The operational charter of this state, the Constitution of 1787, carefully charts out the province of each institution, state and national, right down to a list of actual, precise "powers" that would be vested in the national government. The concept of the total state -- or totalitarian state -- became the basis of the Corporate State in the 20th century, the central thesis of the German Nazi state and the Italian Fascist state. Under the theme of the Corporate State there are no private enterprises, all associations, all businesses, all unions, everything is united into one corporate body, under the direction of the government. The United States is at the breaking point, in terms of consolidating any more of its society under the iron-fisted control of the republic in Washington, D.C. The kind of arbitrary and cruel violence we have seen in the last decade shall be vastly exceeded by the violent reaction we are about to see unleashed on the streets of America, as the mother of all crime waves starts to break on the shore. The inability of modern politicians to appreciate the pathological aspect to the current crime wave; their stubborn unwillingness to recognize the distinct characteristics of mental illness writ large over the landscape, betrays their cold selfishness in the face of human despair. There is no substitute for mercy; there is no alternative to subsistence. The ultimate sin is for the powerful to turn their backs on the weak.

Yet as uncouth as the past has actually been, there will be no chance for a positive future if everyone insists on carrying grudges into the present without a real desire to become reconciled. This does not mean that thoughtful individuals need to accept token forms of reconciliation, it means that individuals have to carry the intent forward of good-will towards other human beings. This is one of the purest and most significant manifestations of the characteristic we commonly refer to as love. When the characteristics of love and good-will are united with the third characteristic of honor, courage, a powerful combination takes effect that is self-reinforcing. The individual's dedication to love is expressed to the world in the form of good-will, the will to love, which is given a backbone by courage, which demands that the righteousness of love be observed by others. It is a delicate powerful balance and life becomes the process of finding that balance, like surfing on a wave. It reflects the ancient knowledge that life is not in the arriving, it's in the journey; it's not an end result, it's a process. (It's also a subtle reminder that the most patriotic thing anyone could do for their country is to fall in love, and to be guided in life by the intuition of love).

The way the laws of nature work, in order for any ideal to be realized it must be conceived. Nothing springs to life from nothing, everything grows in its season from a seed. Before the Federal Government can be retired Americans have to recognize that it is the main obstacle to social progress. Even the discussion of what kind of government America should have cannot commence until it is understood that the current government is flawed. It is this basic conclusion that the media industry is fighting with all its might. The media industry is going up against the currents of time and history, concocting a version of reality that fully contradicts real life. The version of life that exists on television is a virtual life. Is it life or is it Memorex? An amazing facsimile or the real thing?

As the body count piles up, and the only solution the police state can come up with is the reduction of the civil rights of the population, it should be clear to everyone that those prisons being built at break-neck speed are not going up to improve our quality of life. The entire structure of the Federal Government is designed to stifle dissent; it is as if it had no other purpose for being. When J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI the entire nation lived under a chill, that did not go away until Hoover died. Even after his death the FBI continued to break the law as if it was above the law, even while its leaders thundered like the righteous prophets of old long sermons on law and order. When actual victims (from the right or from the left) of the FBI went to the press, the press dismissed them as paranoids, and the general public knew nothing of the duplicity and complicity that took place when American political dissidents were ruthlessly suppressed, illegally. It was not until years after the fact when investigations of excesses took place that the genuine victims of the Federal Government were vindicated and proven correct. (Of course, there were no apologies from the press for the careers it helped to ruin).

The depredations of the republic have left the American society a skeleton of its real potential. By unloading the parasite off their backs, the American people can start to actually live and create a full-flower civilization. Yet even though the republic can be likened to a parasite, because its pork barrel system of dispensing resources is uneconomical and wasteful, the functions many government agencies perform are legitimate and would have to be performed in the future, whatever government comes to power. While criticizing the waste, it is important not to lump in all the hard-working rank and file government workers, who put in their time and expect a fair wage. It is absolutely essential not to demonize government employees, because in the end they are our countrymen (many of them are our neighbors right now). They deserve the same mercy that should be extended to the absolutely destitute, who should not be allowed to die from exposure because there is no warm place for them to go. American people must rise above the standards set by the republic in order to restore the civic life of the American Nation. Individuals will have to do some soul searching to find whatever loyalty they have to their country, to invoke that loyalty to move them into action. It must be generally understood that the old system of government has failed, and now each and every American is called into national service.

To capture the allegiance of the American people a new government must be constituted according to law, which can only take place if there is a tacit agreement to restore the ancient legal authority of the crown. No amount of arguing and debate or twisted logic can displace the law that has worked successfully for thousands of years. No battle, no war, can prove one idea superior over another. Experience dictates that the law of reason must conform to the traditions that gave it life, and to vary from these traditions is the death of reason. Americans are fond of rationalizing that republics are the same or better than monarchies, and that the only difference between a republic and a kingdom is the political system; but this only illustrates the truth that republics are only a veneer, because a kingdom is not just a political system, it is also a social system which is embedded with values from an age when the society had integrity, and there were no sharp distinctions between politics, economics and religion. The individual's spiritual sense of connectedness with nature and other human beings was the very source of the sense of community, which was the basis of the economic condition, and the political state. It was only the development of a commerce-driven society sustained by the institution of slavery as a fixture, that the need arose to divide politics, economics and religion into independent spheres of influence; that way, immoral conduct for the accomplishment of political or economic ends could be isolated and justified. Of course, this division of labor really did not take off until the United States republic was set up, without the moral restraints that did apply to the European monarchies.

The orientation of the republic towards criminalizing the activities of the American people, to control and punish them for the sustenance of the labor force, pre-disposed it to regular "crackdowns." And every time this happens, it widens the number of average people who feel betrayed by their own Government. The heavy-handed oppressive nature of the mechanism triggers a reaction in the population, like Napoleon's Revolutionary Army, which spurred the development of latent nationalism in every country it conquered. The Revolutionary Army was the first mass army: a juggernaut, unstoppable. Its recruits were drawn by the ideals of individual liberty, freedom, and brotherhood. Yet once the conquest and levelling were done, what it left behind was the legacy of the patrimony, the inheritance from the fathers, the ancestors. Once the shackles of the ancient system were destroyed, leaving people as they existed in nature -- free -- they then turned to their true loyalties, their families, their tribes, their nations. The French Empire was just a bureaucratic recruiting mechanism for the Revolutionary Army, which the newly annexed nationals resisted by forming the first nationalist movements of the modern era.

The rejection of the republic of the United States should be put in the context of the evolution of an alternative community infrastructure, which actually enjoys the sanction of the American public. The republic was devised by a colonial elite and imposed upon a divided, subject and servile population; the emerging kingdom is evolving from within the various ethnic communities that now constitute the American people. The republic is top-down, the kingdom is bottom-up. This represents a real difference in the way the society shall be constituted, because the republic was designed to encourage the exploitation of the public as a labor resource, whereas the kingdom fulfills the traditional function of acting as a neutral legal infrastructure that preserves the independence of choice of the individual. The option for the American people to choose between a republic or a kingdom has never been freely offered to Americans since 1776. The nervousness of the ruling class from the start encouraged the serious development of techniques to control the means by which the public could express itself, first by tampering with the right to vote itself, (the original franchise applied only to white men with property), and ultimately with institutions such as the Electoral College and "party discipline," which made it possible for the party regulars and their cronies to cut political deals in smoke-filled rooms, and count on the cooperation of the masses.

The ideal of deliberate community is to develop an actual physical community center, where local people can focus all their goodwill in a material way, enabling their positive drives to manifest as real benefits to the community. This is where the rubber hits the road. It is the deliberate, conscious decision to do good things for humanity, as that humanity exists right outside your own door, rather than watch life go by as a bystander. When the issues of life and death are localized, it takes on meaning to recognize that we are all on the same team. When this happens suddenly all those things happening to "other people" on the news are not happening to strangers, they are happening to us! This is the true essence of the future of government in America, for it is in the empathy and sympathy of the people to feel each other's pain and seek to soothe it instead of exploit it. If we cannot rise above what divides us, we shall continue on in the misery of servitude.

The drive to reconstruct American society by employing a plan of deliberate community emphasizes a re-birth of municipal life, whereby individuals are empowered to come out of their cocoons and flourish. The American people are free and they should celebrate their freedom. This, alone, will be one of the most frustrating phenomena for the Federal and state governments, because they see the "freedom of the people" in a strictly statutory sense. The bureaucrats understand the freedom of the American people to be that state of nature that ended once that freedom was used to choose the bureaucracy as their representatives, after which the people became subject to the bureaucracy in all things.

Americans have a deep drive to rediscover the soul of community life, which is much more than Chamber of Commerce meetings or City Council meetings, where all the serious issues have already been decided behind closed doors. The reduction of community participation into an institutional framework isolated individuals by converting the once-voluntary practices of community service into the paid work of salaried "professionals." This eliminated the "need" for the whole community to be involved in community decisions, which cut off the social aspects of community for the economic advantages the new class of bureaucrats could dispense to their friends and affiliates under the auspices of professionalism. This only increased the isolation of individuals, who not only lost the basic companionship that human life thrives on, but who also lost any real say in the way government would be conducted. The idea that a formal election can substitute for the day-to-day, personal influence once wielded by individuals under the traditional, democratic communal format, is a fraud. The Billionaire Class has dominated the politics of the republic outside of the official partisan system, since the enactment of the Constitution of 1787. Modern technologies just made the modern institutional framework more rigid, with television as powerful a sedative and mind-numbing agent as it is an informing (and disinforming) agent. The state of social dissolution parallels the level of self-delusion the society is kept in by the mass media industry. By developing an alternative community, a cohesive and comprehensive underground united by communications, civic life can be reborn. Americans don't even have to take the time to repudiate their old community centers, the old city halls; they are the relics of a bygone era, to be neglected and forgotten, disconnected like the old trolley lines.

Community life is being re-invented, but this does not mean that men have to rediscover the wheel, or fire. We know how to create a community based on the ancient principles of law that define us as a people because the knowledge to do this is as old as civilization itself. This is why the revolutionaries were so quick to discredit ancient traditions, because they were setting up a system of government that lacked a foundation in tradition. They, in fact, were very quick to discredit anything that might interfere with their profit-based slave-worked plantation economy. A defining institution of the traditional community was the council of elders, which was constituted of the oldest living people in a community. This was one of the first traditions that was jettisoned -- in Europe, before any colonials came to the Americas -- as communities came to be centered around official legal corporations instead of social organizations. The idea of honoring the oldest people was not an empty symbolic gesture, it showed deference to the natural principle that with time and experience, knowledge becomes the basis of wisdom. Modern professors are fond of pooh-poohing the notion that with age can come wisdom, because they are sensitive about protecting their status and tenure (the modern mind holding that wisdom derives of a formal education, rather than any spiritual or personal process of enlightenment). The idea that wisdom is a kind of refined knowledge that only comes with time, and even then not to all people, is a constant source of insecurity to college-educated bureaucrats who are barely literate. Wisdom is the great prize and jewel of human life, but it only has value when it is shared. The bona fide community has need of this wisdom, and every community should be organized around a council of elders as the principal legitimate communal agency. The mere formation of reconstituted councils of elders to mark the restoration of local communal civic life, is all by itself a powerful revolutionary act without an iota of violence.

The spirit of the community should be volunteerism, it should perpetuate the grace of a gift. There should be no trace of venality. As a whole the community should feel so confident in its own goodness, that it is moved by the spirit of hospitality and goodwill to extend a helping hand to those people who are distressed by needs. A civilized society does not turn its back on the suffering. It also does not enable suffering, or inflict suffering. An enlightened society deliberately upholds a common standard of decency, that defines man causing man to suffer as savage. The ideal is that mankind working together can lift men out of savagery, through the divine intervention of human love. We think of men domesticating animals and we forget that we had to domesticate ourselves, first. When we let each other down by letting one of us starve to death in the cold, we are creating the conditions that allow many of us to revert to the wild, which is dangerous for everyone!

To draw a line in the sand we must start a deliberate effort to save Americans from death by exposure or starvation because the republic turned its back on them. Every community should be driven by the humanitarian need to see to it that no one is compelled to "sleep on the street," because anyone allowed to sleep on the street is being allowed to die on the street. Long-term the only way the demographics will pan out for any amount of social peace, will be if a large amount of land is demonetized, and made available for subsistence-living to those large numbers of workers who are being laid-off, fired and "restructured" and "right-sized" out of jobs. The homeless are often greeted by the shouts of passersby, yelling "Get a job!" What is not sinking in to the average person who receives his news from the mass media, is that there ARE NO JOBS FOR ANYONE! The few jobs that remain of a shrinking base are either high-end or hard labor, menial labor, or the make-work of the bureaucracies. This has also made it harder for anyone to express any thoughts that represent political dissent and remain employed. There is always that "Free Choice" available to us of remaining silent, to go along and get along, or speak up and get punished. The whole beauty of the system is that everyone is controlled even while they fly "free." It could be thought of as dictatorship by remote control.

Automation is making most menial and hard labor jobs obsolete, so in the very near future, there will only be jobs for the most intelligent sectors of the population, doctors, lawyers, computer scientists, nuclear engineers, etc. Inevitably, a mass market is dependent upon masses having enough spending money to buy the products the economy produces, so the whole economic structure is in for some rocky times, when tens of millions of formerly employed Americans suddenly stop buying products they can no longer afford. The long-term trends point towards a post-market economy which will probably be a hybrid economic structure that will amount to a part-barter and part-capital economy, with much more flexibility than now exists. Individuals will become increasingly motivated to find radical alternatives to job loss, such as community cooperatives that combine their assets and credit, and develop entrepreneurial community industries to replace lost jobs, and increase local control. But these economic alternatives can only have temporary palliative effect if they are not joined with a new legal infrastructure that is not anchored in politics, like the republic is. The efforts of communities to reform and establish a minimum of stability in the nation on a local level, must be met by a national effort that supports the local communities. This can only happen through the evolution of a new constitutional state, that is structurally designed to encourage the national unity of the American people.

The most significant reform the new constitutional state could accomplish would be to cause a genuine peace to break out across the land. A peace that is undisturbed by rapes and robberies, murders or mayhem. A peace that gives Americans hope of prosperity, and survival with dignity. A peace that gives us all a respite from the frenetic chaotic emergency-filled world of the daily news, designed as it is to "motivate" the public to action. The most powerful improvement to life a legal government can bring is a return to a reasoned dialogue in the community, unadorned by tirades of slander. Legal liability means individuals have to take responsibility for what they say and do; and a legal system of government guarantees that legal standards shall at all times apply to everyone equally. The mob-privileges now enjoyed by the media will be replaced by the same strict rules that apply to everyone, which will have a powerful soothing effect on the whole body politic, as real nonsense is no longer tolerated as mass media fare. As a responsible journalistic standard comes into effect, that is not dominated by elitism, the press will become more sympathetic to the interests of average people, and less disposed to propaganda that distorts history and current events.

The only way a real advancement can be achieved now is if much of the artificial pressure brought to bear on ordinary people is withdrawn, so that individuals are allowed to find alternatives that fill their needs outside of the conventional market economy. Few people appreciate the pure political nature of 30 day billing cycles, of utilities bills or mortgage payments, and how the amounts we agree to pay are no where near real values. There are hidden costs such as the price for local zoning and land-use control which is paid by developers, or passed down through special assessments, the sales price, or covenants on the title. It is estimated that local planning departments routinely increase the cost of building a home by one-third in the permit process; which is exacerbated by the financing of real estate, which effectively doubles and even triples the amounts that will be paid out for a single purchase. Utilities, on the other hand, operate under their own state laws that make utilities semi-government installations. They operate like mini-fiefdoms under special laws that let their employees enter your property at any time, without permission. They charge what they are allowed to charge by state law, under lenient regulatory commissions staffed by their former employees. When individuals can't pay their utilities bills their connection with modern life is cut off, no tears please. They are ruthless, cold, unconcerned with the suffering of others. People die in fires regularly because they were trying to stay warm after the Edison Company turned off their electric power. Regularly... And it will only become more regular until a real change is made effective. (And remember, most of the private utilities' infrastructure was built with public money on public credit).

The nation will have to embark on a new course, a new direction, that will aim towards a genuine social peace; naturally, this should be called the PEACE INITIATIVE. To be effective, it would be mandatory that this initiative must END THE EXISTENCE OF THE BLACK MARKET. It would involve a renewed commitment by the American people to their own kind, to guarantee that no Americans are allowed to "fall through the cracks." A true peace would mean the reconstitution of the ties between the generations, so that the values of the American civilization can be consistently and systematically passed onto succeeding generations, and it would mean putting to rest the animosities that have kept the various American peoples from enjoying anything other than superficial unity. The republic has been a physical impediment to genuine unity, and the emergence of a new united America is of historic import. The reborn America must be a land of hope, where law enforcement institutions have no priority over or above stopping violent crimes, and no independence to pursue their own political agendas. The people MUST be able to trust and respect law enforcement under the American kingdom, so that they are able to get on with living their lives, and stop the cycles of violence that are typical of a society that lives under a cloud of fear and paranoia. The restoration of the kingdom guarantees that the war on the street will be over. Prohibition will be ended ingloriously, as it must be, and the street drugs will be worthless, as they actually are. Drug addicts and alcoholics would receive the medical attention they need to regain good health and rejoin society; average workers would no longer be worked like draft animals, to ease the main pressure that entices ordinary people to turn to drugs and alcohol for relief; and society will be saved from the bankrupting influences of the police state. Police would no longer be forced to spend vast resources catching every street walker, or to break into peaceful suburban residences, because the residents are playing unapproved parlor games. Crimes of violence against people would have first priority, and crimes against property would have secondary importance, and every person would be entitled to the protection of the due process of the law, which is the protection of the crown Anglo-Saxons have fought for, for over 2,000 years.

In an environment of peace-making the adults will be put on the line to reach out to the youth gangs to find solutions for the young people, who object strongly to their neglect by the adult community. Neglect of an eight year old is sad, but the 10 year old feels abandoned, and the 12 year old is mad. There is no explaining to the mind of a ten year old child, all the reasons why he has to be alone. Any pretense of a future that is better makes no sense to the child, who is in the most significant part of his life. Once the child has undergone his most formative stage, the die is cast and a future problem-child is born. This becomes a pathology by early adulthood, and a genuine source of menace to the society, as childhood angst transforms into antisocial behavior and crime. Society, of course, has to do better than schools (that are "minimum security detention centers,") and prisons.

The restoration of the integrity of government in America will cause a new era in social relations to begin, which will be guided by the friendly intent of individual Americans as they are informed by the principles of deliberate community. Communities that now have outside banking industries controlling all their pooled money, will develop credit unions and savings associations that will enable individuals to control the impact their money will have locally. Business decisions would no longer be based solely on the mechanics of political influence peddling and corruption. Opportunity would be opened up to any hard working individual, able to think straight, who is guided by a good conscience. Superficial and bigoted people would still exist, they just would not have the overpowering influence they have today, under the terrorist regime of the republic which makes every would-be dictator a participant with delusions of becoming president someday. Society would be geared more towards helping individuals to feel satisfied where they are, not in order to discourage people from aspiring for better things, but to help them find the inner strength they need in order to aspire. It is one thing to tell everyone that they are equal, when they are not; and it is one thing to tell people to dare to dream, without preparing them to understand what dreaming is all about. Only when people feel at home on the earth, and not like alien strangers always on the verge of dispossession by some landlord, will they be able to build a civilization that is genuinely progressive. The American people must be allowed to rest and find peace, the inner peace that is called peace of mind.

The emphasis of the society must be placed on improving the educational infrastructure of knowledge, because too much effort has been spent spreading false information. The Civic Creed of the republic is a living lie, a forgery, a fraud, the protection of which has been construed to be a public benefit. The litany of the Founding Fathers, the Pilgrims, colonial subsistence, all defy the real events surrounding the founding of the nation, which are confused into a blurry mass of collective memory enshrining those institutions that are using them to dominate modern life. The only relief from ignorance comes from knowledge, but knowledge is not something two-dimensional, such as a theory one can read in a book. Knowledge is something experiental, tangible, that can be sensed using the five senses. Knowledge involves experiencing something mental in such a way that it becomes a reality. It becomes known.

Individuals must be encouraged to search for the fire of inquiry, to ignite within them the quest to know that gives life purpose. When this takes place, no four walls put in place by the mechanics of the republic will ever serve to contain or satisfy the individual, inflamed by the pure air of awe and wonder one is intoxicated by, upon the discovery of a universe that did not come alive until the individual WOKE UP from slumber. When one first comes to learn of this power -- to KNOW things -- it begins the process of coming to know life itself, which conveys the ultimate wisdom to those able to receive it.

The American kingdom embodies the very highest standard of law and justice known in history, and if the past has not been a high point of human chivalry, then it is in our power to create such a high point right now, for the future. We have to stop playing the game of the republic, which is to react to every diversion it can create. We must take heart and restore the context for humanity to live in that does not consign us to the role of servant or slave. Through education individuals can gain the independent tools they need to live free, and then a genuinely free society may blossom forth from the roots of the past. But the first step is to admit that where we are starting from is a police state, and the model for the future cannot meet the political criteria of the two-party system as it exists, without continuation of the civil war that is tearing America apart. Americans have to discover the courage to break the mold and stray from the path of conventional wisdom, which is governed by mind-numbing uniformity. We have to learn how the media is deceiving us, and what to do to get around it without it defeating our efforts at self-defense. This is the area that is so tricky, because it reflects the will to control that is typical of all slave-states. In the pursuit of this control any wrong may be committed for the greater good of control, which manifests in all kinds of treachery. Through the media and the prosecutorial powers of the state, the established interests are able to divide the people and set them against each other. Overcoming the basic hostility of the government to the people is the greatest obstacle to peace in America, and when the state recognizes that the people are organizing to retire and reformulate government, it will defend itself. The most significant aspects of the American kingdom will come into being in defense of the people, in favor of a lawful and traditional government that meets the needs of the American Nation.

Government does not represent information in a static or passive sense, such as universities represent knowledge. Government and politics represent values in motion, in practice. Under normal circumstances government or politics would be thought of as neutral ideas, but because we have lived under a corrupt republic wherein politics are supreme, government has a bad reputation. When shorn of all of its mystical and powerful connotations government is the means of control, and in nature every individual human person is an independent agency. It is the recognition of this natural state of freedom in the body of law of any people that distinguishes them as progressive, and it is its stark absence from modern codes and statutes that confirms the darker anxieties of the arbitrary power of the modern police state. We know that we have struck a nerve when the mere mention of a police "state" puts its leaders on edge. They have been working overtime to falsely calm people's fears that there is no Big Brother, no conspiracy, no civil war...

The society we must create in the aftermath of the republic should be governed by nothing more than the dynamics of friendship. In this, goodfaith and goodwill are the cornerstones. We should not repeat the mistakes of the Founding Fathers and try to invent a new moral system that legitimizes our appetites. We have to rise above our own expectations, and meet the challenge of the times and surprise ourselves. We have strengths that we haven't touched upon that are buried deep within the latent potentials of a great people. By restoring the ancient traditions the Founding Fathers abandoned, we stand a chance of restoring the stability of American society. By seeking to comply with the laws that have been in effect for millennia we may benefit from the law.

We must seek a new beginning, and from the start we must embrace the truth. We cannot build a vision for the future on lies. We must build bridges and seek to reinforce what is best in people. Our drive must be based on a positive appeal instead of the fear-mongering that typifies modern politics. The American kingdom gives voice to the desperate need of the masses for justice and peace. Each of us must take up that call and make it our own. We must reach out and embrace one another, and build a new understanding that can transport us to tomorrow. If we fail in this we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Every time the Republicans gleefully "stick it to" the Democrats, and every time the Democrats "stick it to" the Republicans, the interests of the nation as a whole are subverted. We must not join into this stupid game. In their petty struggles over power the party regulars have failed to detect the human suffering that stretches out from coast to coast, suffering that wears no partisan colors. In fact, the partisans resent any popular movements that they cannot steal the thunder of, because they only really excel at taking credit for the accomplishments of others. It is a challenge to be noble in an environment dominated by shark-like politicians, who have no intention of allowing one decent person from disturbing their gravy train. It is a powerful undertow which keeps the republic in place; a den of thieves that only survives because it keeps its victims divided. But now the victims are realizing their common cause. They are waking up to recognize the face of a common enemy. An enemy that is not humane, that is not fair, and that is not even human. It is a faceless enemy, the nameless enemy, the enemy in the dark of night that strikes with brutal directness. It is Leviathan; the Juggernaut; the Beast. It is our own personal worst nightmare, our innermost thoughts exploited against us, to control us. It is the institutional memory of a "them" that sacrifices its own most ardent servants, who become insignificant under the eternal marquee of the corporate identity. The individual dies that the institution shall LIVE!

The time has come for the people to intuitively defend their lives from a police state that is pre-occupied with building prisons. We must get in touch with the human feelings within us, so that we can learn to be tolerant of the humanity of other people. If we are serious about ending the war on the streets of America, we must dare to think great thoughts. We must meet the challenge of the republic and restore the ancient true constitution, so that our people have some hope of learning the benefits of peace. We must be able to envision a future where twelve year olds can actually imagine themselves living to old age. We must enable young people to grow into responsible, mature adults, without the coercion and deceit that are central to the modern educational regime. We have to learn to trust one another, instead of the doctor, lawyer, or policeman. We have to re-learn the basics of good citizenship, of good people, and good friends. We have lost the art of community, and we must re-discover it. It is in us because we are the social beings that constitute civilizations, we are human life.

The legacy of the republic is to cast out customs from the past, and just invent something new out of thin blue air. This is vehemently denied by the supporters of the republic, but there is no tangible reason why the American people should believe that the republic is based on any moral imperative. This is made most clear by the facts of history, which betray the willingness of the Founders to break any and all laws of king and country, for the base motivation of self-enrichment at the expense of their countrymen. Ultimately, if the American people intend to have progress, they are going to have to legally conclude and retire the Federal Government, and in its place establish a traditional, legal government. A legal government is not something that one person can impose on the rest, it is something a society can aspire to, but its very nature does not dispose it to the kind of manipulative and coercive habits that are typical under the republic. The development of this new government is actually already happening all on its own because the old government is falling apart. The functionality of government is being defined through the ordeals of the nation, so that what remains is a tight, efficient and noble institution

The new system of government that is coming into existence is developing from a grass-roots base in every community, from the desire of locals to "give something back" to their country. This non-profit social sector is constantly embattled with the political for-profit crowd, who are the local merchants wearing the hats of City Councilmen, who control all the resources of the community. In another day the politicians were the ones who sided with big business when laborers grew tired of abuses and tried to unionize, which the courts declared illegal as obstructions of trade, and which the police and military went to war against, reminiscent of the current "war on crime." We're so accustomed to being divided by arguments of right and left, that we have assumed those mantels ourselves, taking sides, when the real evils are done by men who could care a less about political parties or ideology. The Billionaire Class gives money to both political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans; and if there were a third party that looked like it could win an election, they would give money to it too. Money that would inevitably corrupt it. Every social movement that appeared as if it was about to gain the steam and momentum necessary to overcome the state, to force constitutional change, was subverted by its leaders directing the energies of the movement into electoral strategies. This defeated the union movement, this defeated the Populist movement, and it defeated the Flower Child movement of the 1960s. As was once said about England, America has become a nation of shopkeepers. The republic has no purpose for existence other than to enable the Billionaire Class to continue to make money. The republic has been and always will be a slave state, with the mentality of the slavemasters. It is simultaneously compelling and repelling to recognize the vain arrogance in the politicians and prosecutors, as they strut and pose, and make pronouncements of how much better off we all are that they are here to force us all to be better people. They never once admit to the great burden they heap upon the American people, as they lose billions in speculative scandals and steal billions in outright treason.

The real cement holding the republic together is not elections or patriotism, it is fear. Fear of police, fear of jail, fear of being branded a criminal or apathetic. The nation is paralyzed in fear. The news media will not concede to this fact because they are the central complicitors in creating the atmosphere of fear and anxiety that is more characteristic of a fascist state than it is of a democratic society. Americans pay their taxes out of fear, they obey the laws out of fear, and the conventional wisdom on the street is DON'T MAKE WAVES. In encounters with civilians the police will bluntly state that they only tolerate us in their town, because in the psychology of the police department it is THEIR town. Every historic effort to liberate the American society from the iron death-grip of the republic has been met with the kind of brutal force that today typifies the Federal Government, in massacres and gun fights that have largely been covered up in the media and school-book versions of American history. Yet all the force on earth cannot turn back reason, for the dynamics of reason are eternal and universal and they speak to us beyond the centuries in powerful terms that say DEMAND THE TRUTH.

The pharisees that operate the United States Government, full of self-righteousness and the bloat of self-importance, put forward the pretense that they act in the name of the American people, by their consent and permission. If this be true, then it is incumbent upon the American people to withdraw this consent, so that this band of opportunists may be disbanded. The ancient law is based on a very strict formulation, which the republic changed in such a fundamental way that it poisoned the law of the republic forever. The only anecdote, the only solution, is to purge the poison from the law and restore it in its pristine integrity. Only then will justice be secure. Only then will the foundation be set to build a civilization that can guarantee the cornerstones of life and liberty to all human beings in PEACE. Anyone who wants to preserve the Federal Government does not understand the reality it represents. They are deceiving themselves about its history, its intent, its power, and its structure. Its victims have been speaking out for years, but their voices are silenced by the roar and thunder of the Niagara Falls of the mass media, an avalanche of crap broadcast and printed day after day.

America is sinking fast in an ocean of violence, disconnected and random violence that is symptomatic of social dissolution rather than the personal weaknesses of individuals. The United States Government and its state-government appendages regard the American people in the same way the Inquisition regarded potential heretics in medieval Europe. There is no genuine connection between the people and their government, because the elections are more symbolic than substantial. Once elected politicians are free to sell their influence to the highest bidder, which they do regularly. The friction this causes when the outcome of this influence peddling takes effect, when the population is outraged by the obvious corruption, is suppressed by police action and imprisonment. Yet the pretense is that this is all lawful. Through the American kingdom and the development of a benevolent community, the American people can discover that "love" that focuses mainly on building prisons, is not love. By discovering morality -- the drive to preserve and protect and nurture life -- Americans can learn to reject the mockery of the republic, and begin a process of shutting it down gradually and systematically by starving it of support, and ultimately resources. The most important thing Americans can do is avoid the trap of associating the republic with progress. The very idea that the Federal Government could or would protect the common man from the caprices of big business defies the historic record.

By organizing a positive alternative to the republic Americans can withdraw their resources from it, and it will become less significant as the popular movement shifts its focus away from the politics of the republic to the community dialogue of the kingdom. In time the republic will be revealed as a mere mafioso-type of organized criminal gang which must be shut down. Stripped of the pretense of public good, the Federal Government would appear in its true guise as a public menace. However, this will only take place if it is challenged. When the republic makes it "illegal" to feed the poor (as it has, for example, in the City of Orange, California), then feeding the poor is a revolutionary act. This is the flaw of the police state, it gives power to its opponents. Every country the German Nazis conquered developed an underground resistance. The black market is the underground resistance in America, organized crime. The only way to bring an end to organized crime is to retire its arch-enemy, the Federal Government, and forcefully take control of the market by legalizing victimless "crimes." (If there are no damages, there is no crime).

Retiring the Federal Government is going to take a united effort on the part of the American people, which means that we will have to overcome the political obstacles that the Federal system has put in place to cause rivalries. A good example is the way the Billionaire Class has played off the blacks against the whites, first by using the poor whites as token managers over the slaves, and later by using the blacks as strikebreakers against the whites. The prosecutors and politicians of the republic not only know all the buzz-words that are hair-triggers designed to start popular arguments, they know how to create and design new buzz-words and hot buttons we have not experienced yet. They work hand in hand with the media and affiliated institutions to generate "public opinion" (read: mob action) against all their enemies. Without missing a beat the politicians and bureaucrats arrogantly tell the American people, "If we wanted your opinion, we would tell you what it is!"

The first step in retiring the Federal Government is in the embrace and acceptance of the traditional government of the United States that is based on the ancient constitution and the revival of the ancient executive, to establish the American kingdom. This is a pure and positive act which does not gain its vitality from opposing anything, but from being in support of something GOOD. The traditional and ancient role of the royal family -- the family of the king -- is to be the focus of goodwill in the community, as the heart and soul of the nation as a family. This is why royalty is so often seen at hospitals and orphanages, youth camps and sports events. They are not celebrities in the narrow sense of entertainers, they are a connection between the nation and its own traditions, forming a link with the ancient past. Americans are both attracted and repelled by the heavy ritualized existence that surrounds the ancient institution of the royal family, not realizing that this kind of constitutional restraint makes a mockery of such a thinly veiled system of restraint as exists in the Constitution of 1787, with its laughable separation of powers, and "checks and balances."

Once Americans have recognized that the American kingdom is the obvious alternative to the Federal republic, Americans must discover common cause in reorganizing society to better suit their needs to survive. By developing strategies and tactics for the delivery of urban services, it will undermine the cartel economy that now exists. To bring it to an end, a comprehensive national movement must constantly force the republic up against a wall of silence, so its plans persistently meet dead ends as its popular support evaporates. With a positive vision that the Federal Government and its factotums oppose, the kingdom will be the shining example of the future once the obstacle to all good things is removed. Without violence the kingdom can reconstitute the nation, revitalize the local communities, restore hope to the people, and as a final act, compel the republic to close down permanently. (This was once unimaginable, until the political parties became so quarrelsome that they shut down the Federal Government because they could not agree on a budget).

The most significant opposition the nationalist movement can expect to face shall come from that tiny minority of highly-publicized wanna-be intellectuals, who see every person who questions the modus operandi of the republic as a "yahoo." The ironic truth is that both the left and the right have backgrounds of extremism with revolutionary wings. This is part of the historic legacy of revolution that was embraced by the Founding Fathers. The underlying problem with embracing revolution (or violence) as a means for social change is the possibility that someone in the future may use violence, and justify it based on that first precedent. Thomas Jefferson was haunted by the words he used in the Declaration of Independence ("All men are created equal"), as well as his now famous statement that it was somehow healthy to undergo a revolution every twenty years. As president Jefferson went to great lengths to consolidate his control of the Federal Government, and he was faced with the influences he himself unleashed when he wrote the Virginia Resolution, a piece of legislation he authored before becoming president which upheld the notion that states could act to nullify Federal legislation. As an intellectually-gifted lawyer Jefferson was skilled at arguing from any position on any issue, and was easily able to change his position based on the changes in his own personal status. One of the great mysteries of modern life is how such a petty, vindictive, manipulative, and intrigue-driven man came to be renowned as a modern hero and renaissance man.

If the American people understood the way that they have been deceived about the origins and business of the republic, it would cause such a backlash that the society would be shaken to its roots. In a limited way this is happening as bits and pieces of information surface exposing the genuine magnitude of the corruption taking place under the programs of the republic. A powerful example of this was the amateur video of the Los Angeles Police Department savagely beating Rodney King almost to death. When the tape aired it became known that over 20 police officers were present at the beating; and yet only two officers faced any criminal punishment. The ensuing riot in which 50,000 Los Angeles residents expressed their displeasure at the republic, was the largest in the history of the United States. Since the riot the republic has built a whole host of new prisons...

We are experiencing what happens when Pandora's Box is opened and the entrenched interests discover that they cannot put the forces unleashed from that Box, back into it. The very blandness of the media, at a time when more is going on than ever before that is positive and full of hope, exposes its complicity with the establishment. What we have not been told is that the night Rodney King got beaten everything was business as usual at the LAPD. The only significant difference that night was that some innocent bystander with a video camera just happened to film the whole incident. If that had not of happened, the LAPD would still be beating people into submission with no actual restraints.

Americans have to become resolved that the police state must come to an end. The republic is a wildly out of control institution that has become a shield for some of the worst abuses of power in all of history. The very insistence of liberals and conservatives that the system itself must be saved betrays their narrow self-interest, and illustrates the symbiotic relationship of the left and the right, who have controlled the apparatus of the state in a coalition since the Civil War. They distrust the traditional American kingdom because of its appeal to all Americans, and because it will drastically limit the influence of political machines in the future. The idea that the happiness of the American people is a genuine goal of government is entirely alien to the partisans, who see every human need as just another opportunity to sell someone a new product.

The average American is not aware of the fact that in the eyes of the institutions, the individual has no existence outside of being a statistic. The subtle truth that the averaged information underlying statistics is flawed by the fact that no single person's life is consistent with the average standard that is applied to judge it, is conveniently sidetracked, because it would undermine the credibility of every institution of the republic. On the other hand the kingdom is not a trick, it doesn't have to convince anyone that it exists because it cannot be terminated. It is the very nest of laws and customs that survived the centuries, that make up the fabric of values that enable the society to exist. What the operating system is to the computer, the kingdom is to the individual. It is the womb of society, within the very body of Mother Nature. In the English common law, "the king never dies." In this way, even when the authority of the king is denied it continues on in force as a matter of ancient custom, above the ordinances of a republic that has no lawful right whatsoever. The legal authority of the king goes on in perpetuity in a constructive trust, for those who demand LEGALITY, who look forward to that day when a new legitimate king would revive the ancient crown. The Crown, in fact, has an almost mystical existence, because it comes into existence from the mists and shadows of the ancient unwritten customs of the English common law, practices that define the royal executive. Ancient laws that were never enacted, but which came into force because they had always been true.

The American crown had existence from the earliest time of European colonial settlement, up to the formation of the republic. It is the underlying original system of government, and only the restoration of the American monarchy will stand any chance of reviving the American Nation. The republic is so caught up in self-made delusions of its own grandeur that it will never be able to give any relief to the American people. From city councilmen to presidents, the republic operates in another land far, far away from the real life of ordinary Americans. While people suffer, politicians talk about spending billions and trillions of dollars, as if the world turns without them. It's time to recognize that as long as Americans turn to the republic, it will let them down. There is never a shortage of money to pay for more police, more guns, more trials, more prisons, more special agents. But there is always a shortage of food for the homeless, there is always a shortage of beds. There is always an abundance of dead bodies that are unceremoniously buried in pauper's graves, unannounced by the press, who are afraid to publish the number of homeless dead nightly in America. That is our future if we don't do something about it now.

THE NATIONALIST MANDATE

The Nationalist Movement came into being on 11 April, 1993, when the Nation of America was founded by the Cry of Stillwater Bay. The Nation of America, however, is not a typical organization. No one can join it. It has no meetings. It is not based on any enactment or resolution, or the formal filing of any document. The Nation of America is a traditional nation, and what gives it authority is the reconstituted American Crown, which has been painstakingly resurrected based on the ancient traditions of the common law. However, the ascendancy of the American republic necessitates the establishment of the Crown in the form of a Regency, which is a transition institution designed to carry the American Nation forward into a genuine restoration. Traditional society is by its very essence democratic, based around the organic independence of individuals. Traditional values are not at home with devices like artificial human beings (called corporations), created to avoid responsibility. The first priority of the American Nation is the American people, without whom the Nation would have no substance.

The traditional nation is not founded by the signing of some document. It must be formed consistent with custom, which is deemed superior in effect to any formal legal procedure. The traditional nation thus embodies a form of law that is fundamentally different from the laws of the republic, which instead is completely reliant on the written enactments of the institutions of the republic. The first law of the republic is an enactment, the Constitution of 1787; whereas the rules governing the American Crown can be traced back before 1066, and most of the significant laws of the Magna Carta of 1215 are actually in effect. The principal authority of a traditional nation is the chief, and that authority precedes the right to issue pronouncements of law. The chief, or king, is not someone who sets himself up to be obeyed; the chief is a leader who is honored voluntarily by the people, usually as a result of a hereditary relationship with past leaders, or because of a personal ability to lead (this is what makes politicians under the republic chafe, because they are all mediocrities, with no real personal skills, other than the ability to bluff voters into supporting them in elections). This is a very important point, because the traditional chief or king is someone who is loved by his people, which is in contrast to presidents who ascend to power through a contest, and who never represent that half of the country who voted against them.

The first concern of the reconstituted Regency of the United States is the full-fledged restoration of royal authority, and the restoration of the American kingdom. Towards that end the Regency issued the Nationalist Manifesto, which is the basis of the future government of the United States; it is the Nationalist program as put forward in a legally binding command. Unlike the platforms of political parties, it is a real legal document with specific legal terms and iron-clad guarantees, which define the transition process. The Manifesto sets out the terms by which the Kingdom of the United States of America shall be restored, consistent with the principles of law that have been in force for millennia. By creating a legal basis for transition, ordinary Americans can express their anger and disappointment with the American republic by putting their support behind the formation of the traditional kingdom. It enables the pressures building in the society as a result of inequities to be vented harmlessly as a new consensus is built which addresses the past honestly, and the future with compassion.

The Manifesto provides an orderly process for the transition which encourages patience, and inspires those with ability to step forward and come to the aid of their country. It provides for the reconstruction of the American Crown consistent with the principles of the ancient constitution, as well as the establishment of a parliamentary system of representative government which is by nature more flexible and representative of the population. Once the Constituent Assembly called for in the Manifesto has reconstituted the office of the monarch through acclamation, the Manifesto would take effect as the Charter of 1993, which would become the basis for establishing a constitutional monarchy governed on a day-to-day basis by a popularly elected prime minister or president. The monarch is unpolitical, above the fray of the embattled political parties, and therefore able to embody the virtues of national patriotism without wallowing in partisan infighting. The Charter guarantees amnesty to government employees in the spirit of the common bonds of nationalism, and it guarantees that the new Government of America of the King would audit the financial operations of the Federal Government, to reveal to the American people the real extent of the embezzlements going on under the republic.

The Charter of 1993 will govern the transfer of the armed forces from the control of Congress and the president, to the democratically elected constitutional Government of the King. It also addresses the desperate state of the nation, calling on all individual Americans to commit themselves to national service. It guarantees the human rights of all Americans, of all ethnic backgrounds and all orientations, and through the Charter the future of publicly financed education is guaranteed (although after a thorough housecleaning and re-organization). The welfare system, as well, will be re-organized pursuant to the principles enumerated in the Charter, which look upon the people of America as the primary investment of the Government. An investment it cannot afford to short-change.

In the interests of an orderly, positive and productive transition all existing laws would remain in effect until reviewed, so that the society would not come unraveled upon the ascendancy of the American kingdom. This is important, because the transition should be a friendly transfer, not a bloody revolution. The ideal is to secure the blessings of liberty for everyone without anyone having to pay the ultimate price. The legalistic orientation of Anglo-American culture predisposes it to reach for peaceful settlements before war. While the forces sustaining the American republic rely on war and conflict to retain power, the exhausted state of the American people puts the leaders of the republic on a collision course with the desperate need of the common man for immediate relief.

The Charter of 1993 lays out a complete governmental plan, right down to the provisions for a national abandonment of the income tax. The income tax was always a pretext for the politicians of the republic to audit the papers of private individuals, claiming that they were "cheating" on their taxes. The income tax only exposes the real audacity of the politicians, who look upon taxes as the fair burden of individuals, who now work from January to May to pay them. The Charter unilaterally abolishes the IRS, which would become an outlaw institution. This may sound rather simple, but it should be understood that the IRS is far more entrenched than the casual observer might perceive. It was recently reported that the IRS was not auditable; it is fundamentally operating without any effective oversight. No one knows what the IRS is spending. This is because the IRS is not only the most feared paramilitary organization to the American public, it is also the most feared group within the government itself. Right next to the IRS, is the CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, and the INS. All of these institutions must be reviewed from top to bottom by experts who do not have any interests in the outcomes of the investigations, and every single bureaucracy must be shut down and replaced with a new organization, with a new clear mandate, a new group of employees, with no institutional connections with the predecessor institutions.

Americans do not appreciate how mean-spirited the bureaucrats of the many agencies of the state and Federal governments actually are, because so much effort goes into covering it up. Every defense of every bloated agency never involves confronting the real evidence that surfaces about the out of control condition that prevails in institutional America. The powers-that-be think it is better not to undermine faith in institutions, so evidence of wrongdoing is routinely suppressed. To get a real appreciation for the self-serving nature of the Federal republic, consider for a moment the conduct of suppliers to the fighting men of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the two most significant wars of the republic. In both conflicts the fighting men had to put up with the corruption of a political system that sent men off to fight and die for their country with uniforms that fell apart in the rain, and food that was rotten upon its arrival. The commanding generals were more preoccupied with the politics of keeping their commands, than in actually engaging the enemy, which in both wars was not some alien foreign power but our own brothers. Ironically, in modern high-tech wars, the biggest source of casualties is not attack by foreign military personnel, but what is euphemistically called, "friendly fire."

The Regency of the United States is attempting to build a new American consensus based on a real cultural union among the various American ethnic groups that make up the American people. The guiding theme of the American kingdom is the deliberate creation of a friendly society. This means that all the ordinances of the republic that favor big business, or the Billionaire Class, would be put on hold, so that the entire society could take a breather and evaluate the most fair and equitable solutions for the inequities that haunt our civilization. Again, however, while the intent for goodwill must be present in all parties, the real focus will not be to unfairly strip the well-to-do of their property or to suddenly enrich the impoverished, who would only destroy themselves with such sudden windfalls. The ideal would be to focus on social solutions that will provide the kind of infrastructure support necessary to enable individuals to become independent and self-sufficient. The guiding principle is that strong independent individuals will make a strong and independent nation, and the real focus of the community must be to enable individuals to become strong and whole.

While a restoration of original values will have a healing effect on a torn and bleeding body politic, it should not be thought that monarchy is being put forward here as a panacea of all man's ills. Monarchy fulfills the ancient laws regarding the formation of the community, and it enables a responsible system of government to function, but like any human government it is also subject to the weaknesses of humans. It also requires the vigilance of the individual to guarantee that the ancient principles of law are always upheld by the government. It is easy for the powerful of any society at any time to lapse into sleep, and start raping the society without being fully conscious of what they are doing. However, the principles of a royal government includes safeguards, such as the life-interest in the stability of the state that exists in the royal family, who have an interest in upholding a standard of law that is fair and just, that never allows any class of men to exploit another class of men. The apologists of the republic never point this out, but many kings were moved to act fairly because they knew full well that by allowing injustice it created problems that would effect the safety of their sons and grandsons, who would inherit the folly of their father in the future when they, in turn, succeeded to the burdens of the crown.

The most impactful innovation the kingdom can offer Americans is the opportunity for individuals to go forward and introduce themselves to their neighbors, so that they can overcome their unfamiliarity, and therefore void the best means of dividing them against each other. It is the fact that most white people have never really socialized with black people except in narrowly defined contexts, that makes them vulnerable to be frightened by them. The fact that laws have had to be passed to keep black and white people apart proves the underlying magnetic appeal that exists between the two ethnic groups; and it further verifies the reality that racism is a device of colonialism, which has been used without reservation everywhere Europeans started colonies. It is the use of hate as a matter of state policy that must be renounced by all institutions, who must not be allowed to go into denial about what everyone knows is obvious. The roots of modern fascism live in the hate-mongering of ill-defined nationalism, that views national pride as a weapon to be deployed against the nationalism of other peoples. It views the entire living nation -- the people -- as a resource of the state. To the fascist state even money is insignificant, for it is nothing other than a means to power.

In America we are told that the Federal Government needs our consent to govern, and that it needs our tax money to operate. To win us over, we are told about all the menial functions it serves, like delivering the mail, processing the sewage, regulating traffic. We are never told that it has complete control over the money supply, and it really could go on forever, even if every American stopped paying taxes tomorrow. The buying habits of the Federal Government are the actual core market forces that make up the so-called "free market," which would collapse tomorrow if the Federal Government stopped buying and selling securities, or if it decided to sell all the real estate it deliberately keeps off the market, to sustain the artificial prices of the real estate market. The fact that millions of Americans have no homes does not phase the businessmen who run the republic. Government is business, and if you don't have the money to compete, your needs are not addressed.

A national union, on the other hand, actually takes into account the idea that Americans should stand by their countrymen, right or wrong, in the same spirit that a family stands by a wayward son. The very essence of institutionalized partisan politics, wherein every fight involves challenging the basic patriotism of the opposing party, undermines the sense that everyone is fighting for the same cause, the welfare of the Motherland. It cheapens the institutions of government making it impossible for them to govern. It makes conflict the basic driving force in electoral strategies, and it draws all the vitality of the nation into political campaigns that accomplish nothing but the squandering of rare resources (especially since the hallmark of the two-party system is a symbiotic kind of cooperation). It substitutes contrived staged debates for true free dialogues, and it puts a premium on deceit and pandering to nostalgia. The parliamentary system of the kingdom will focus political campaigns into a two month period, instead of the on-going never-ending process that has taken hold under the republic. Public debates will be hard-core policy discussions, rather than devious efforts to rally the public to support powerful politicians and their schemes. By introducing the concept of responsibility into the government it has the effect of forcing the politicians to become accountable in their intrigues, which is something completely alien to the republic with all the loopholes and immunities built into the Constitution of 1787 which protect the politicians and bureaucrats at the expense of the truth.

It needs to be stated, also, that simply because the American Crown has its traditional roots in the English Crown, it is in no way an English invention. The American Crown is a purely American form of the ancient institution, designed from the beginning with American sensibilities in mind. The fact that the American Crown was actually instituted in 1993 means that it will not be represented by medieval ceremonies, or gratuitous formalities. As a modern institution it will come to be shaped by the times it exists in, as it seeks to fulfill its mandate of providing a legal basis for the evolution of a constitutional state that is sensitive and firm about meeting the needs of the American Nation. Americans desperately need ceremony that is all-inclusive, much of which is provided for by the ceremonials of a royal court. Yet Americans will probably find more of worth in the Scandinavian monarchies to emulate than the British monarchy, because of their modesty and down-to-earth values. It is also vital to point out that the American kingdom is not an experimental system of government, whipped up by some strategists in a smoke-filled back room of the White House. The restoration of the kingdom embodies a return to the genuine values of Western civilization, which involve the invocation of laws that have been proven for thousands of years. The irony of history is that the republic the Founders developed on an ad hoc basis, as their little conflict with Britain accelerated and got out of hand, had no traditional roots but was invented by them as they went along, with only a trace of deference to traditional law.

Americans have been so thoroughly disinformed about the causes and effects of social disruption that they have almost no clear view as to what is going on around them. The most significant public condition is confusion. Confusion the media has no interest in clearing up. Thus the first priority of the American kingdom is the education of the American people. This education, however, can be had by anyone who goes to a public library. The information about the real conditions can usually be found in public places, providing it does not make the kinds of conclusions that might influence the individual to abandon the status quo. Therefore there is all kinds of information available that seems to float in a vacuum, which exposes the venal nature of the republic, but it is up to the individual to connect it all up to see the writing on the wall.

The doomed republic in its death throes is lashing out to save itself. It is therefore building prisons when it should be building shelters, and it is launching crusades against its enemies when it should be making peace. The republic politicalized the prosecution of crime, making crimes representative of the values of that partisan faction that possesses supreme power, and thus the prisons are full of what are actually political prisoners. Drug dealers are not actually menaces to the public, because if they were then so is the pharmacist, who sells drugs every day that cause far more deaths than all the illegal drugs combined. Today there are young men serving life sentences for selling drugs, AS THE GOVERNMENT RELEASES MURDERERS AND RAPISTS FROM PRISON. This will not be stopped by a mere reform of campaign financing laws, or the criminal codes. It will not stop until the government no longer has an interest in manipulating public opinion. An interest it possesses because of the structure of government laid out in the Constitution of 1787. The only solution -- THE ONLY SOLUTION -- is a revival of the system of government that worked well for thousands of years until the plantation owners 200 years ago decided to take us all on a wild ride, the results of which no one wants to take responsibility for.

The Nationalist Movement is not about starting witch hunts. Its real motivations are not grounded in hatred, but in the love of the American Nation. Every time pseudo-intellectuals predict the end of nationalism it reveals that they only see the forces of technology at work, instead of the forces of nature. Every person loves his own country, no matter where it is, in the same unconditional way the individual loves his parents or his children. The nation can be a positive part of an individual's identity, as part of membership in the human race and the human commonwealth. The only time the idea of the nation came to be a device of combat came about as a result of the Revolutionary Era, when it was used to build the Revolutionary Mass Army. Until the forces that sustain the mass state are cut off from material resources, the mass states will continue to expend them in endless wars, most of which are fought for no other reason than to catalyze public opinion to support the political leaders of the mass state. This is a serious catch-22 problem that the mass media is nowhere near addressing in even the remotest way. But the only hope for the survival of America rests in the honest acknowledgment of the past, and how that past has led up to our current condition.

Americans are raised to believe in so many half-truths and outright lies that they are left with no immunity for liars. They are like children left at the disposal of monsters. The truth of this can be seen by anyone who challenges a school teacher, who will defend the lies taught to school children, or the forms of cruel manipulation practiced upon them by the school districts. The teachers all know the truth, but they are dependent upon perpetuating the lies because it is the way they make their house payments. Many well-intentioned people are caught up in the web of lies and deceit, unable to find a way out because the system is designed to cut people off from alternatives. No one would voluntarily live in a society that uses people as slaves, so elaborate methods have been devised to justify the use of people as objects, as well as their punishment when they resist. This is the main function of the so-called "criminal justice system." The fact that the largest group of people in the "criminal justice system" are the children and grandchildren of former slaves should be no surprise. The only people who are surprised are those who practice self-deception, a practice the mass media has raised to an art form. The feelings people go through naturally, when they learn that they have been involved in a deceit against themselves, are very powerful and mind-shattering. To think that this will be effected in any way by prisons or punishment is the height of stupidity.

The most widespread popular sentiment at this time is anti-government. Yet on the nightly news all one can find are stories about political candidates seeking higher office, or ambitious lawmen fighting the war on crime. The only problem is that men cannot make war on "crime." Like drugs, crime is an inanimate object; men can only make war on men. This is the subtle truth that is missing in all the analyses of "experts" trying to exploit their fifteen minutes of fame. All these various domestic wars embody the ultimate war of the republic against the American people, the war in which generations of youth lost the promise of their lives. If we do not restore hope to the youth, they will tear this country apart. We have uprooted all the ancient institutions, and tried to endure while telling ourselves that our failures were in fact victories. The apex of the republic was reached at the height of its failure, when in the Cold War it controlled the whole planet through a global military establishment that was set up against an adversary that was nothing other than decrepit. By deliberately hiding the real condition of the enemy from the American people -- by keeping secrets that the Federal Government is entitled to keep from the people as a result of a clause in the Constitution of 1787 -- America was made subject to a police state that rivalled the German Nazi state it had vanquished in World War. The republic went so far as to incarcerate its own citizens in concentration camps, and execute others for treason.

The American kingdom is the promise of a genuine turn-around. It symbolizes the hope of truth to prevail, of the power of right to succeed over and above might. It draws its strength from a primordial memory of king and country that we feel inexorably drawn to, even as all the hacks of the republic wail like banshees. For all the evil the Federal Government is caught with its hands in, its apologists never say "shut it down," and anyone who does say that is never heard in the mass media. For all the self-congratulatory masturbation the mass media indulges in, patting itself on the back for being so open-minded and free, it is heavily pre-occupied with the hidden process of news selection, which goes on every hour of every day. There are personalities who are considered too radical, who will not be the subject of mass media reporting because they represent a threat to the status quo; these actual leaders see a vision of life beyond the Federal Government. The only problem is that the news industry right now exists as property which is protected by the police of the Federal Government.

It is the charisma and personal appeal of these local community leaders that makes them all the more dangerous to the Federal republic, because the politicians of the republic are all paper-flat personas given life by the mass media. Real leaders actually risk their lives to improve the lives of their countrymen, which usually puts them at odds with the local power establishment, which always strikes back. It is on the local level that the police state exists, and anyone who denies it only has to get involved in the cutting edge of social reform to find out why the law enforcement institutions are set up the way they are. The police are a self-conscious presence in every town and precinct, that has a distinct sense of its own role in social control. They do not comprehend their role of public service as any kind of employment in which the general public is entitled to inform them in any way as to what their duties are. They get their marching orders from the political structure of the republic, a corrupt network of opportunists who all owe their status to the Billionaire Class that does not want to be bothered with the messy business of law enforcement.

The first thing the republic did to create its police state was to shut-out the people from the community, to hand it over to politicians. And the first thing we must do to end the police state, to attempt to correct this fatal error, is to invite the people back into their community. The first thing that must be done to pursue this is the implementation of local councils of elders, made up of the oldest living people of an area. Being based on age instead of elected status this opens it up to everyone, and it rightfully puts forward the idea that a society should honor its elders. Because everyone is related to someone who is an elder, the families of the community will be personally integrated into the council through the family structure, thereby strengthening the role and power of the family. Council meetings should be open for everyone to be heard, and any final decision should be subject to a simple majority vote of the elders themselves. There doesn't have to be a fixed number of how many elders should sit in the council, but an age should be fixed on as the basis of being seated on the council; and of course, mental competence would be legal cause for some older people to be excluded from council membership. Above all, the council should be seen as an honorific institution, formed completely from voluntary association.

The council of elders' interactions with the community would naturally show deference to the family chief of every family, so that it never rivals the influence of a parent over a family. Sometimes this would be formal, and other times it would be personal, but the idea that parents have a sacred bond with their children would always be celebrated and reinforced throughout the American kingdom. By restoring the lost bonds between the generations we stand a chance of restoring the hope of American civilization to survive. But this cannot be done in superficial campaigns that when reduced to their nuts and bolts amount to running expensive ads on television exhorting people to obey the law.

It is important for Americans to revive the councils of elders because they are looking to restore particular qualities to their lives, instead of out of economic pressure or anger against the republic. While being a victim of the republic will motivate tens of millions of Americans to take part in the Nationalist movement, just to escape the grim reality of the republic, the more significant motivation is the personal fulfillment that can be achieved when individuals are allowed to control their own lives. A legal government that does not side with the Billionaire Class in its harnessing of the population as a cheap labor force, enables individuals to arrive at agreements which are actually mutually beneficial. By not playing with loaded dice, the game is fairer for everyone. Like the king who is the paramount chief of the kingdom, the councils of elders operate in a universe of law, which they are not allowed to deviate from. Law is the practice of reason, the dynamics of which are eternal.

The first order of business for the council must be to provide emergency beds for community members who fall on hard times, as a gesture of friendship, to reach out and offer hope. In the process the community can discover its own power and organize a bank or credit union, to pioneer new ways to extend credit that does not make repaying the money a lifetime burden. The people have to actually reach out and take hold of the assets that constitute the society, and work with them directly. And the first need that must be addressed is the neglect of the republic for the needs of the destitute. The kingdom by nature will reach out and give shelter to all Americans out of pure love. This is its compelling vision. It is this pure love that is its ultimate power.

The republic offers no solution for crime. The politicians of the republic have no other alternatives to offer. They are doing everything they can right now, and they are on the verge of bankruptcy. The creaking wreck on the Potomac lurches out at its enemies, but its glory days of power are over. The grim reality for the average American under the republic is a life in bondage. And anyone who doesn't like it can expect to live life in prison. The cold-blooded iron-fisted menace of the republic is carried forward with total determination, whether it is clearing land of Native inhabitants so that it can be sold at market, or shooting at striking women and children. Anyone who believes that this prison state is the best the American people can aspire to, has sold the American people short. Only a fool cannot hear it in the wind, as every molecule in existence whispers in our ears, t'is time to shut it down...

The focus, however, should not be on terminating the republic, it should be on building the kingdom. The kingdom is our human relations, the internet of the soul, and it actually makes the process of nation-building possible. If Americans concentrate all their energies on the positive aspects of creating the lost kingdom, the vitality of it will drain away the morale of the Federal republic, which would increasingly feel the results of the population's abandonment of it. The creation of a genuine American nation, as opposed to the Federal state infrastructure, will start a populist mass momentum that would eventually prevail and sweep the republic out of existence. This is the most important part of the call to shut down the Federal Government, because any effort to accomplish that goal that is not based on passive resistance, or civil disobedience, would be doomed from the start. Right now, misguided individuals are taking out their frustration by blowing up government buildings. While this reinforces everyone's sense that the republic is somehow an alien power imposed upon us which is meeting some kind of native resistance, it actually accomplishes little, innocent people are often harmed, and it enables the republic to re-entrench itself with hosts of new security laws, and waves of hysterical media broadcasts that terrify and terrorize the American people. The worst thing to fear is fear itself, and true power can be found in staying calm.

It is important for the new America to rise up clean, untainted by the deceit and violence that pervade the republic. The republic has always relied on dirty tricks to accomplish its ends. During the Boston Tea Party, the colonists dressed up as Indians, so that their acts of vandalism and theft could be blamed on the natives. More recently, the FBI framed the leaders of the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, and denied this vehemently even as their own agents came forward and admitted their complicity. Even more suggestive, was the attempt to set up De Lorean in the 1980s, the man who made enemies at General Motors, and then went on to set up an automobile factory in Northern Ireland. The extent to which the FBI was willing to go to get De Lorean illustrated the real reach of industrial conglomerates, considering a genuine attempt was made to entrap him. Americans forget very easily the recent past, such as Kent State, where students were gunned down for opposing the war policies of the Federal Government. The barrage of pseudo-information circulated by the mass media distracts us from the real meat and potatoes issues of power and politics, with juicy inside accounts of the sex habits of this week's showcased movie star. Anyone who reads newspapers will notice that some of the most important and relevant stories receive tiny space, set in the back of the paper, by the obituaries, while the most meaningless and irrelevant stories get front page space, often dominated by the opinionating of the reporter.

In formulating a deliberate answer to the police state we must be moved by a genuine desire for openness, and conduct ourselves according to honest principles which make concealment unnecessary. One of the most obvious aspects of the republic's lack of integrity, is the characteristic woven into it from the start of engaging in questionable activities, and keeping state secrets from the American people. By establishing the new American order of government as a community undertaking, openly and honestly and consistent with the principles of law, it will set it apart from the negative experiences we have all had with the republic, and for the first time American people will be able to feel that their government is truly representative of their morals and values. By being involved on a local level, individuals are able thereby to actually transmit their values and morals to the community, and to the nation. This is what the formation of the kingdom requires, not merely the creation of the kingship. The creation of the American Crown starts the process by engaging the nation in a national drama that combines the future of the nation with the future of an actual human family. It is then that this greater family, as an extended family -- the family of the nation -- must become conscious of its own existence, and seek to correct the imbalances that it was called into existence to address.

The Federal republic has never been associated with a single family, and therefore Americans have come to associate their government with the mechanical characteristics contained in the Constitution of 1787. Everything is very cold-blooded and calculated, because the republic is a constant progression of faces, all of which are at their political peak of power. The inclination of the republic to serve the market has turned government into a competition, with constant pressure on the power-brokers to deliver the loot. There is no room for soft hearts because they get carved up on the auction block. Weak men get swept aside by hard men, who are cheered in the countryside because the masses are encouraged to despise sentiment as a sign of incompetence. The pressure on ordinary people to condone the savage deals cut in Congress is overwhelming, as the establishment rationalizes its waste of human life and natural resources. Yet the most significant historic eras have been when the massive apparatus of the establishment has failed, such as when it took us to war in Vietnam, and the whole American people gradually woke up and grew so outraged that protests that started with a few hundred in the 1960s, grew to hundreds of thousands by the time the war ended.

The Nationalist Movement calls upon Americans to look within themselves, to find their own American identity. It obliges us to find that part of ourselves that is American which is independent of all the institutions of republican society, especially since the republic is destroying itself. We have to reformulate local community life, and search for the deeper meaning of life, so that we can share that vital and important information with the younger generation, before it consumes itself. The destructive power that we now feel coming from the youth, the disconnected youth, must be confronted honestly. It is within our power to restore America, but it means we have to take courage, and stop taking advice from the media, which is not impartial. We are facing an uphill battle, divided, angry, and ill-informed. Yet if we do not seek to do what is right, if we allow another day to go on accompanied by the unheralded deaths of innocent people blandly called "the homeless," if we fail to challenge the military police state of the republic as it builds palaces to its bureaucrats, and prisons for its people, then we are accomplices in our own destruction.

When Vietnam raged, and the stories of the innocent babies being torched by American forces trickled back, it was easy for Americans to stand up in protest, united by a common defiance of evil. But today the stories of atrocities are not making the rounds because the United States Government has control over the media through a conspiracy of silence, which conceals the real toll in terms of human lives lost on the homefront. Every day Americans are killed by police, or by gangs, or by family members, because America is collapsing. No one has been fooled by the litany, "with justice and liberty for all." The first people who recognize what a joke it is to believe that the republic is the land of the free, are the black people, for whom seeking freedom was once actually a crime! The republic has used all the American people of all races, pitting them against each other; hiding behind a thin blue line of police to escape the consequences. But the truth is none of us can escape the consequences, which is what we are living with today.

Only honesty will redeem us, and we must admit that the republic must be closed for business. For the millions of illiterate Americans who were brought up thinking that Washington could not tell a lie, or that Abe Lincoln actually walked a mile to return a penny, it will seem like a moral defeat to shut the republic down, but they will have to be dragged into the 21st century. In the end the misconceptions of the masses are not the real deciding factors, it is the truth that is the ultimate basis upon which the world turns. As loving people, we are obliged to share the truth with each other, and seek to relieve the suffering that accompanies lies, that cover the truth of why innocent victims are dying on the streets of our nation. We owe every weeping mother, standing over the grave of her teenage son, another victim of the war the government denies the existence of, the truth. And additionally, we owe it to the victims to guarantee that the conditions that led to their being victims are changed, so that no further victims are claimed.

The American Homeless Crisis is a very serious and threatening problem, looming in every American's backyard. Its real dimension and scope are not being conveyed by the mass media, or government agencies and non-profit groups responsible for handling the "homeless crisis." The homeless are dangerous and out-of-control because they have been allowed to go back to the wild, and individuals should absolutely not attempt to implement solutions for homeless people they encounter. It is equally important, however, for individuals to understand that the easiest way to gain control over the homeless crisis is through local community shelter projects, the costs of which, if shared by a whole community, amounts to pennies per person. The idea that the homeless should be put in jails or prisons is absolutely unworkable and should not be taken seriously.

The Mildred Rose Memorial Foundation, Inc., is the non-profit organization of the Nationalist movement, dedicated to finding a permanent solution to the homeless crisis. The Foundation is not only active developing conventional homeless shelters, but also advanced community cooperatives that can give people jobs and renewed control over their own lives. The Foundation is developing a national presence, and will work with locals to develop solutions to the homeless crisis. Donations are always needed and appreciated, and are tax-deductible.

MILDRED ROSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, INC.

Dedicated to Solving the Homeless Crisis in Our Lifetime

Post Office Box 7075

Laguna Niguel, CA 92607 (USA)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marc Eric Ely-Chaitlin was born 18 April, 1959, into a prominent California family. His maternal grandfather, Donovan S. Ely, built 52 churches in southern California, including the landmark Wayfarers Chapel at Portuguese Bend. His paternal grandfather, Henry Abraham Chaitlin, was a descendant of King David of Israel. Marc Eric was raised with a powerful appreciation of his obligations as a royal prince, a status that was only informally acknowledged, and formally suppressed by a republican society. This contradiction propelled Marc Eric to search for its intellectual basis, which inevitably led to the discoveries herein.

On 7 December, 1973, Prince Donovan Stedman Ely passed away, survived by his two daughters, two granddaughters, and one grandson, Prince Marc Eric, who succeeded to the ancient title of family chief of Ely. This was gradually acknowledged by family members, and on 27 December, 1975, the young prince declared himself of age, assuming full sovereign authority by the Proclamation of Sovereignty which formally instituted the Free Territory of Ely-Chatelaine (FTEC).

The American Nation was instituted by the Cry of Stillwater Bay on 11 April, 1993, at which time the chief of Ely assumed the style of King of the Americans, which His Majesty changed on 2 January, 1994, to Regent of the United States of America, which founded the Regency of the United States. The Regent has been in the forefront of the homeless crisis in Orange County, California, facing off with local governments and the media, which used under-handed tactics to undermine the shelters the Regent was able to open up in four cities in Orange County, acting alone. The Regent has personally spent over $100,000.00 of his own money and credit trying to find solutions. Each shelter was forced to close due to lack of money, and the local press refused to give the shelters any publicity, knowing that they would have to close. (The residents of the Regent's shelter in Santa Ana lived for three months without electricity and water, because the City of Santa Ana, and the Edison Company, were trying to starve it out; the last shelter closed in May, 1995).