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THE INEVITABLE
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). |
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