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Our elected leaders have
sold us out. They "raped" our citizens
financially by putting into place laws that resulted in the
great transfer of wealth from the weakest members of our
society to the wealthiest. They refuse to prosecute
those who commit fraud, and they won't hold the real perpetrators
accountable. The
responsibility for protecting our well-being and sovereignty
lies with our elected representatives. We entrusted that
job to them and they betrayed that trust. We actually no
longer know who runs our government... who pulls the
strings... who sets the agenda.
Instead of the honorable
execution of their duties, they instigate wars and other
projects designed to steal the resources that belong to other peoples, and when those people
resist, our
leaders perpetrate acts of violence against them resulting in
the death, dismemberment, and dislocation of large segments
of their populations in addition to the destruction of their
property, their infrastructure, and civil society. In
the process, our crimes now include crimes against peace, war
crimes, and crimes against humanity, leaving behind poisoned
land, unfathomable destruction, crimes against the unborn who
now come into the world with horrendous birth defects resulting from
our illegal use of
depleted uranium munitions. They have mutilated the rule of law
itself in our name. We are a nation in disgrace... and in
denial.
The United States government
holds itself above the law, both here and abroad. In
political discourse we often talk about preserving the rule of
law, but in reality, the rule of law is near death, in a coma,
having been
water-boarded to the point of drowning in the bathtub of
ideological and criminal lunacy. Whether or not future
generations will ever live under the rule of law again will depend on
whether or not we can create it out of the rubble of what is
left of our republic after years of deceit foisted upon us by
our major political parties and those who pull their strings.
All this is not to say that we
no longer have the trappings of law in the United States.
We still have police officers who apprehend criminals and
courts that prosecute them. We have courts that settle
legal disputes between parties with some degree of
equanimity… but these trappings of law are only legitimate
to the extent that those who rule our country do not have a
vested interest in the outcome. For when they do, the
arm of lady justice, which holds the scales of justice, are
painfully twisted to tilt strongly in their direction even as
her blindfold is ripped from her face. And so even what
appears legitimate has become illegitimate, for the law of the
land is no longer uniform, or equally executed. Officers
of the court are little more than accomplices to a looming
tyranny.
Many who are innocent are
imprisoned without legal process, those who are guilty are
protected and enriched. Justice is a tortured memory.
The Bill of Rights are just words on a piece of paper.
These are my conclusions after
much research. Information supporting these conclusions
are available at my web site
and in the public record for those who have the desire, time,
and the skill to review such information.
Any new political candidate who
runs for office and takes office will have to face this
lawless enterprise, while a large portion of the electorate,
occupying the full spectrum of political leanings from left to
right, unwittingly collude with and support the lawless
culture our government has erected with the help of
corporate media, which now facilitates the illusion that we
are a country that still has a
legitimate government.
Greed, ignorance, poverty, and
despair all contributed to our nation's downfall.
Whether or not our highest ideals can be resurrected from the
ashes that remain will depend on the wisdom,
honor, courage, love and integrity of every citizen who is now
willing to strive for freedom, peace and dignity here on Spaceship Earth. Now
it will be our national education system and our culture that
will take a final exam. And our final grade will be our
testament to nobility or bitterness.
“Liberty
lies in the hearts and minds of men and women;
when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save
it;
no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to
help it…”
—Judge Learned Hand
"By three methods we
may learn wisdom;
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third, by experience, which is bitterest."
-- Confusius
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