No Fighting Chance

"Are the citizens called on to march out to war? They pay soldiers for the purpose, and remain at home. Are they summoned to council? They nominate deputies, and stay at home. And then, in consequence of idleness and money, they have soldiers to enslave their country, and representatives to sell it."

--Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, circa 1762, Chapter 15, "Of Deputies Or Representatives".

1762. Rousseau's book was part of American predator elitism's understanding, cultural shaping, social engineering -- from the beginning. Predator elites have known since Republican Rome that professional armies have helped slime-bag politicians end free societies and maximize wealth. Every freedom reduces predatory wealth and is the enemy.

Consul Marius formed the first Roman professional army about 110 BCE -- taking their allegiance for himself and away from the Senate, People, and Constitution of Rome. The Republic was all downhill from there, hitting the wall at Caesar's murder on the Ides of March, 44 BCE.

American draft gone, we've lost our citizen army. The civilian population has a much smaller fraction of military-trained individuals. Work-places have fewer duty-driven workers with military-based self-disipline, practiced "tone of command" verbal skills, can-do attitudes, and the belief that active military should defend and be loyal to the Constitution -- as their military oath demanded of them -- instead of giving away allegiance to the slime-bag politicians -- as professional soldiers are conditioned to do. And there are fewer who stand fast when given an illegal order, threatening to undo whatever evil they're facing. Professional soldiers are not allowed to distinguish between legal and illegal orders.

We've lost what Rome lost when their professional armies took over. We've lost another clump of principle-driven population who worked to protect ordinary Americans against fascist corporatism and predator elitism. We need to re-think the draft. It was a solid contribution to our national well-being.

Additionally, cashing in on some chunk of their own nation has been a primary road to wealth for slime-bag politicians since pre-modern societies.

In the US, post-WW1, 1919 to 1929, SCOTUS anchored the Republican party's assault on social justice, caging women and children in sweatshops without relief. The three Repub presidential administrations of the 1920s were the Repub anti-social-justice spearhead. "The business of government is business", chirped predator elitist Cal Coolidge.

Global fascist corporatism -- the competition-crushing combination of government and superrich oorporations -- learned from German industrialists, primarily Krupp, how to move money undetected through corporate mazes to feed the rearming of Germany and themselves. Fascist corporatists also began wiring down the safety valves that might allow for change in American politics and the newly birthed and unconstitutional monetary system fronted by the Federal Reserve.

The first generation of predator elites, Hamilton and his gang, had closed off many avenues of possible change with their propaganda and sophistry bible, The Federalist Papers. But the Realpolitic (policy based on power rather than on ideals) of the 1920s Republican party hacks moved far beyond the quaint sophistries of Hamilton, while publically making Hamilton their hero and idol.

Aside from the global depression in the early 1930s, and the subsequent FDR-called time-out from 1933 to 1945, ordinary Americans have had no break from, no fighting chance against, fascist corporatism. And now, with the Bush Usurpation, a blatantly criminal presidency -- in which every act taken under color of law has been null and void from its inception -- the predators seem to have closed off every remaining avenue of possible change, from criminal Congress and criminal SCOTUS, to elections defrauded by computer hacking, to co-opting the Democratic party hierarchy.

Stupidly, the predators keep raising the heat on their no-safety-valve pressure cooker. Illegal and unconstitutional war rages on. Felony violations of citizen and POW rights go unpunished. The Department of Justice obstructs justice for anyone aiding the Criminal Usurpation. There's wholesale rape of the public treasury for the benefit of the superrich. Super-VooDoo economics (after war expenses, we have no money left for all these nuisance entitlements) cuts off monies to needy ordinary Americans.

Whatever the pressure cooker will bear makes great profits and power for the predator elites. But, with a hot fire and no safety volve, the pressure cooker can only blow up. This could get ugly.

And now we come to Election 2008. Safety-valve for change? Don't be ridiculous. The slime-bag politicians have privatized elections into the Great Sham Diebold Selection. You know, the superrich's 49-51 percent flip of any recorded votes, in any race, in any state. It's billionaire happiness through glitchy-kludge-hackable, vote-counting software that no ordinary American is allowed to review or monitor. The Great Sham Diebold Selection will name our next president, no matter your stupid beliefs in how elections should work. You still can't get "from the ought to the is" (Spinoza's well-turned phrase). And the do-nothing American people haven't done jack-spit to take away the billionaires' Diebold selection machine.

Catching the spirit, here? We've stuck with stupidity, in stupidity, on stupidity. It's like the late 1920s all over again, after a decade of zero social justice and predator fascism's gouge-money-out-of-everything.

The Republicans all around Hoover didn't get the Great Depression. From the stock-market crash of October 1929 to FDR's take-over in March 1933, Repubs refused to change anything, while the murderous hardships spiraled ordinary Americans into their living hell. When FDR labeled his 1932 reform proposals the "New Deal for the forgotten man", the Repubs immediately and passionately accused him of playing the demagogue. After FDR's 57 to 40 percent win, November 1932, Hoover had the remarkable stupidity to invite him to an international conference at which he, FDR, was to renounce about 90 percent of the reforms he'd promised in the run-up to election. Repubs just didn't get it.

Repubs haven't changed. They don't get the coming depression that the subprime mortgage market has kicked off. They don't get how their wealth- and power-grabbing moves for the past seven years have weakened country and resolve. They don't get how their version of "free markets" is so transparently a make-over of their pre-1933 laissez faire failures. They don't get how throwing out the anti-depression controls of the Glass-Steagal Act of 1933, and replacing it with the no-controls of the Gramm-Leach Financial Modernization Act of 1999 put us out over the abyss without a safety net. And they still won't get it as the spin-down from subprime promises to crush even the big banks.

Roughly 5,000 banks were crushed before Election 1932. Glass had bank-saving devices. Gramm does not. The Repubs don't get it. When their private monies can't save their asses in the subprime-begun avalanche, they'll start grabbing public monies.

Temporary power and profits they get. The arrogance of power and the retrenchment of hereditary elites they get. However, they don't get -- as R.H. Tawney so humanly argued -- equality, its base of equal education, and its culture of civilized dignity; needed by everyone, no matter how humble, no matter whether they rise or not.

Repubs just don't get it.

And now, of course, the superrich have bolstered the Repubs with amazing numbers of psychopathic-personality-impaired Vichy Democrats who also don't get it.

The 3-branch fascist despotism pretending to be a US national govt keeps us ignorant of many things. To mention a few, there's (1) the amount in circulation of their unconstitutional and ever-increasing money supply, (2) the ownership by other countries of our staggering national debt (forget the smoke and mirrors of annual deficit), and (3) the wide spectrum of earthquake data at the Yellowstone and Long Valley calderas -- data that could prepare us for the worst.

To mention another few, there's a remarkable lack of truthful data concerning (4) our international military deployments, (5) the unconscionable amount of public money pumped into the back doors of corporate welfare (e.g., the Veterans Health Admin's research divisions and teaching hospitals to benefit the medical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare products industries with gobs of public money while veterans' healthcare stands still and slides backwards, fabricated and distorted metrics to the contrary), and (6) fascist corporatism's surge to the secret and deep planning for the North American Union and its currency conversion to the Amero, obviously designed to financially, socially, and politically rape all three North American nations in one fell swoop.

We do know exactly how much preparation our fascist despotism has created to safeguard our population in the event of a supereruption from either of our western states' supervolcano calderas -- ZERO. True, a supereruption might not happen for another thousand years. But also true, it might happen today. Those things are volcanoes.

FEMA tells us to tune in to an emergency radio station and follow the order to evacuate. Right. Evacuate to where?

'Evacuate' would be all the preparation needed, if we could instantaneously transport to central Europe.

Inside the 600-mile kill radius of a minimal supereruption, about 20 million unprepared Americans could be dead in the first few days. A thousand miles away, ash fall -- tiny shards of volcanic glass, electrically conductive and very heavy when wet -- could be at the six-foot depth in a few more days, fatally burying more tens of millions of Americans. The follow-on volcanic winter could be five to ten years long, shutting off sunlight to the surface, transporting radiation and more mundane toxins around the world, and killing off most everything that can't get underground -- song birds, rhubarb, kelp, and more Americans included.

New Zealanders know that it only takes about 3-4 inches of wet, super-heavy volcanic ash to collapse residential roofs and structures. In fact, if we could have the preparedness discussion, New Zealand experience with volcanoes would be invaluable.

But we've by God got the American economy cranking out heavily-doctored reports of growth, progress, and max profits to keep the market's confidence up. We take damn good care of the billionaires so they'll be comfortable in their off-shore bunkers and offshore corporate production facilities. Every penny held by ordinary Americans actually belongs to the global billionaire cult, and the middleman commoner is mighty damned inconvienent.

In the meantime, the fascist despotism hides caldera earthquake data from us so that we cannot even have a discussion of the nearness of the inevitable, unstoppable supereruptions. Discussion and development of a prioritized list of preparedness objectives? Oh, hell no. They've got their hearts and shoe fashions set on Katrina-New-Orleans times millions.

Of course, we do know how close we are to having a national health care system to rival every other industrialized nation on the planet. We're about a million miles away, wasting our human resources and precious human life to insufficient healthcare. Hillary Clinton's compulsory healthcare INSURANCE might give her a win in the Great Sham Diebold Selection of 2008 -- it's a horrendous piece of corporate welfare that will out-do the AARP's and Repubs' Medicare Part D racket -- and it won't ruffle one feather of the American Medical Industry's death grip on the American society and economy.

Still, Hillary's scam cannot rise to the level of the responsible and comprehensive national healthcare systems recently done in Germnay and Taiwan.

We'd have to shut down the Great Sham Diebold Selection, but -- as we had in 1932 in FDR -- we do have one social justice champion in the field of candidates for 2008. Ralph Nader has been a social justice champion for ordinary Americans all his life. He's now that most precious of American inventions, the genuine candidate. Every other candidate is little more than a cookie-cutter copy of Usurper George Nazi Bush. Not a one of them gives a hang about the rule of law, the Constitution, or the hallowed principles of the Declaration Of Independence. Every damned one of them wants little else than to be above the law with little Georgie.

As things stand, can Ralph Nader be elected? Oh, hell no. If he were elected, could he reform anything in the massively corrupt environment of Congress, the Courts, and the out-of-control, lawless, and extremely powerful executive agencies? Oh, hell no.

If you think he might have a chance by reshaping the executive agencies against the corporations who now own them, you just haven't read and understood the footnotes in James Bamford's 1982 book, The Puzzle Palace. Those footnotes should be put into a separate volume and titled, How Jimmy Carter's Presidency Was Lost.

We can't get back to 1932 or the self-correcting mechanisms that saved us then. Ordinary Americans don't have a fighting chance. Well -- not as long as they stay inside the corruption box.

Want a fighting chance? Tens of millions of you will have to get outside the system's corruption box. You'll have to take Ralph Nader with you -- and I'm not sure he's willing. You'll have to ban political parties and make top-to-bottom, non-partisan government fit into direct democracy's citizen lawmaking. It's an All-American legacy packed into the early 20th Century's Reform Era -- with the added fillip of Nebraska's 1935 non-partisan legislature.

It can be done. We have the technology.

Nahhh. The do-nothing American people don't get it. They just don't get it.

No fighting chance. Grin real big for the bosses. Shrivel up and die.

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Last Revised Thu 15 May 2008, about 7:40pm CDT

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Revolution's Time-Warp

Obama's pastor, the Rev Jeremiah Wright, might be one of the most inflammatory rhetoricians among church leaders, but he is far from being alone in that august group in his pro-nation and anti-govt stances.

I never forget that it was church leadership that seemed to tilt the balance from compromise and patience with England in the 1770s to the fiery brimstone of American Revolution -- before the Declaration Of Independence, but with sermons that breathed the fire of everything that Thomas Jefferson would pack into the DOI.

The Most Reverend Wright has stepped out of the time-warp, fully fleshed.

We need a revolution -- peaceful if possible, but a revolution nonetheless.

Now, as then, only predator elitists and the blinded servile object to pronouncements of the gross immorality and illegality of the Regime. Then, it was far-away and insane King George. Now, it's up-close, insane, and utterly fascist Usurper George.

I take Rev Wright's thundering as a good sign, pointing into the American future.

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Published in the Blog on the Populist Party site as "Rev. Wright: Breathing the Fire of Freedom".

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Telecom Immunity--Barebones Congressional Felony

The Constitution says, "No ex post facto law ... shall be passed".

No matter the blizzard of bullshit from the 3-branch fascist depotism masquerading as our national govt, there is no such thing as legal retroactive immunity for crimes already committed. No matter the blizzard of bullshit from the corporate media, there is no such thing as legal retroactive immunity for crimes already committed. No matter the blizzard of bullshit from the elite channels of discourse -- political party bosses, law school professors, CEOs, and sundry dignitaries -- there is no such thing as legal retroactive immunity for crimes already committed.

The Constitution does not say, "We don't like ex post facto law, but Congress can go ahead and pass it, and then let the courts sort things out." The Constitution says, "No ex post facto law ... shall be passed".

Any and all retroactive immunity for crimes already committed would require ex post facto law. And ex post facto law is unconstitutional, anti-Constitutional, and blatantly illegal. No ifs, ands, or buts. Got it? No politics tap-dancing around the good ol' boys. Got it? Purely anti-Constitutional and illegal. Got it?

So much for telecom immunity.

Its too late on that one for the fascist slime bags -- from Bush to ever widening circles of other nazis -- who socially engineer the society's cross-pressures so that the fascist predators can keep on butchering ordinary people for profits and power with only a few of us stepping out of the matrix to shout about it.

It's too late for the chief fascist slime bag, Bush, to use telecom immunity to cover his own ass in the illegal wiretapping that he ordered long before the 9/11 attacks -- attacks in which he still appears to be one of the co-villans.

Oh, yeah, right -- the Constitution is just a GD piece of paper. The fascist slime bags -- in all their corporate and govt glory -- are the deciders. They decide who is accountable and who is not. They decide who lives above the law and who does not. They decide what laws apply to them and what laws do not.

But, just for a few minutes here, let's suppose that somebody hands us back our Constitution on a silver platter. You know, somebody who does all the work for us, so that we don't have to miss an evening of Drivel With The Stars.

Now we've got ex post facto law right out the window, where it belongs.

Next thing you know -- even with our Constitution ready for justice again -- our Criminal Congress cranks up to pass an ex post facto law to cover the chief fascist thug's ass AND to keep the criminal telecoms from being ripped to financial shreds by an outraged citizenry.

What happens in the legal arena when the criminal rat-bastards and rat-bitches of Congress pass that ex post facto law?

Ah, it's simplicity its very own self. Because of the Constitutional provision, "No ex post facto law ... shall be passed", the people have a Constitutional right to be governed by law that is not ex post facto.

The moment that Congress passes an ex post facto law, every Member and Senator voting AYE has committed a felony. Felony forfeits legislative immunity, as in the Constitutional provision, "... They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest. ..."

The felony they've committed is defined in the federal statute, Title 18, US Code, Section 241 -- conspiracy against rights. It's a short, tough law. 18 USC 241 reads --

"If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or -- If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -- They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death."

This law defines a statute conspiracy against rights. The law's specified imprisonment of up to ten years for a non-death incident makes the violation of this law a serious crime -- that is, violation of this law is a felony.

So the Criminal Congress passes the ex post facto law, seemingly to make legal fat-cat-cherished telecom immunity. Presidential Usurper Bush signs the unconstitutional bill, striking another blow for anti-law jurisprudence and his high crimes legacy.

Now we have a felony conspiracy against rights, in violation of 18 USC 241, done by a majority of the United States Congress and the leader of the free world -- fascist slug that he is. But here comes the newly regained Constitution. The whole pack of fascist thugs are criminally prosecuted, convicted, fined 10 years of salary, and imprisoned for ten years.

Ah, Constitutional realities as pipe dreams.

Why are the anti-Constitutional illegalities of ex post facto and criminal conspiracy against Constitutional rights so difficult for the the do-nothing American people to grasp?

Oh, horrors, if we confront the massive illegality, we'd have to stop giving away our political responsibilities to the politician liars and criminals. No more "let Mikey do it". We'd have to start doing political things on our own, even orgainize with other people outside political party politics. What a bring down.

Politics on our own would clearly be in conflict with the social engineering of the matrix. We might have to go jobless, homeless, give up our raves and music collections, forfeit our children's educations, watch the Joneses get way ahead of us, be chased around by the FBI. No, no -- we can't go around giving up our whole lifes.

But we sure as hell can sit idly by and watch our nation's life be taken away by the Congressional rat-bastards and rat-bitches, by fascist thugs in the Bush Regime and in the federal judiciary, by CEOs in the fascist corporations, and by the presidential candidates vetted by the superrich for Election 2008.

All hail the electronic vote-counting corruption machine, the central banking mega corruption machine, the Iran war, the North American Union, and the Amero. Blow echo taps for justice, freedom, rights, and democracy.

Do-nothing Americans UNITE. Get out the vote for the Diebold selection of Election 2008. Whoop up how you're the great-great-grandson of a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. Smile about how Republican economics has given you a big up-scale house here and retirement property in the mountain meadows of Panama.

Ignore the felony conspiracy against our soldiers' rights that makes every soldier's death in Iraq a felony murder. Ignore that the co-conspirators in those felony murders include Senators McCain and Clinton. Write endless commentary on felon-in-waiting McCain's POW patriotism, and on felon-in-waiting Clinton's sisterhood prancing, and on wannabe-felon-in-waiting Obama's great black hope, and on wannabe-felon-in-waiting Ron Paul's great libertarian hope. Put down Ralph Nader again. Really get into the details of this super-great Diebold selection. Get real smug about how we're the only nation that's got democracy right.

Snuggle into those matrix cocoons with all the cognative dissonance you can gather up.

What in the hell is wrong with you people? Are you crazy?

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Update -- Thu 13 Mar 2008

TELECOM IMMUNITY LAW AS EX POST FACTO

My recent piece, "Telecom Immunity--Barebones Congressional Felony", has been widely criticized as not allowing for laws of pardon, amnesty, or the repeal of earlier criminal law. Some critics have insisted that I am ignorant of the technical meanings of ex post facto, as given by Justice Chase in the long standing SCOTUS decision in Calder v. Bull, 1798.

However, my critics apparently have not considered the nature of 'immunity'. (I've no reason yet to alter any of my positions in "Barebones".)

Immunity is quite different from pardon or amnesty. Webster gives the legal senses of 'immunity' as --

1. Exemption from any natural or usual liability; 2. exemption from obligation, service, duty, or liability to taxation, jurisdiction, etc., 3. special privilege.

The law that would establish retroactive and on-going immunity from the crimes committed by the telecom corporations in the past or in the future, in their illegal wiretaps, would not repeal or lessen the laws that make unwarranted wiretaps illegal. And the immunity law would certainly not be able to mollify the many facets of Constitutional law on which unwarranted wiretaps become illegal. No federal statute law can alter the Constitution.

What telecom immunity law would do is to establish special privilege for the telecom corporations. It would set them above the law. And that would be unjust and oppressive, as are all ex post facto laws.

No one is above the law -- not King John of Magna Carta times, not GW Bush, and not the telecom giants who broke our laws pertaining to wiretaps.

In Calder v Bull, Justice Chase gives four categories of law as the meaning of ex post facto. Retroactive telecom immunity does not fit into any of those four categories. However, retroactive telecom immunity is caught by Justice Chase's caveat to the four categories -- "All these, and similar cases, are manifestly unjust and oppressive".

Any law creating retroactive and ongoing special privilege above the law for telecom corporations would have to be included in Justice Chase's galaxy of unjust and oppressive laws.

And so I hold to my basic positions as given in "Barebones".

"There is no such thing as legal retroactive immunity for crimes already committed."

"Any and all retroactive immunity for crimes already committed would require ex post facto law. And ex post facto law is unconstitutional, anti-Constitutional, and blatantly illegal. No ifs, ands, or buts."

"Because of the Constitutional provision, "No ex post facto law ... shall be passed", the people have a Constitutional right to be governed by law that is not ex post facto."

"The moment that Congress passes an ex post facto law, every Member and Senator voting AYE has committed a felony. Felony forfeits legislative immunity, as in the Constitutional provision, "... They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest. ..."

"The felony they've committed is defined in the federal statute, Title 18, US Code, Section 241 -- conspiracy against rights. It's a short, tough law."

"Now we have a felony conspiracy against rights, in violation of 18 USC 241, done by a majority of the United States Congress and the leader of the free world -- fascist slug that he is. But here comes the newly regained Constitution. The whole pack of fascist thugs are criminally prosecuted, convicted, fined 10 years of salary, and imprisoned for ten years."

"Ah, Constitutional realities as pipe dreams."

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VA Service-Connected Disability

American Legion -- Justice for our sick and disabled veterans has always been, and must forever be, the first concern of The American Legion -- To uphold and defend the Constitution of the USA; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a 100-percent Americanism; to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state, and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and goodwill on Earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy; to consecrate and sanctify our deviotion to mutual helpfulness.

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My medical problems have caught up with me again. There's new urgency in my Reiter's syndrome.

Reiter's is an inflammation, autoimmune, bone degeneration, and tendon-bone connection degeneration disease. Its variable inflammation is systemic and interferes with just about every little thing that's healthy.

Although Reiter's adversely affects many of my organs -- eyes, heart, pancreas, kidneys, liver, and prostate -- its DJD (degenerative joint disease), the eating away of bone in the joints, is overmatched by its spiny new bone growth in the joints. Recent X-rays, and Dr. Roush's expert interpretation, have been a while perking out of the back brain, but they're up front now.

The new and fragile bone growth sets up easy fractures. The spine's vertebrae display "hypertrophic disease" (widening of gaps between the vertebrae) as well as "posterior osteophytes" (bone spurs on the inside of the spine, a threat to wedge into the gaps between vertebrae and grow on to penetrate the spinal cord). The amount of vertebrae degeneration is also a threat. Spontaneous collapse is possible.

No lifting. No driving. No falling down.

Needless to say, the spinal vertebrae problems open the possibility of living life mostly on a motorized wheelchair.

Not thrilled with that possibility, I'm now in some sort of gruesome race to get my Reiter's approved as a "VA service-connected disability" so that I can get to the back surgery that will prevent me from becoming a paraplegic or quadraplegic.

Aarrrgggg. Hoping for quick back surgery. I've lived a long adult life thinking that nobody with half a brain or more ever hopes for back surgery. The world upside down.

Three times across my life, I've tested positive for Reiter's genetic marker, HLA B-27. I've had a "genetic predisposition" to Reiter's since birth. But the predisposition is not the disease.

The disease is caused by strong infection, typically by one of two groups of infections. First are sexually transmitted diseases. To the best of my knowledge, I've never had a sexually transmitted disease. Second is the group of infectuous dysenteries.

In the military mess halls of the late 1950s and early 1960s, dysentery was a common affliction. An episode in basic training, at Lackland AFB, wrecked my entire training flight, about 70 men, in about twenty minutes. I was victim to at least one more very bad episode of dysentery in the first year at my permanent-party SAC base.

I had intermittent spinal pain problems -- a signature of Reiter's -- throughout my USAF enlistment. At the exit physical, the doctor wanted to fuse vertebrae in the middle of my back. (Service connected disability established.) Naturally, I refused.

It's all right there in my official medical records. Well -- if the medical records survived the National Records Center fire of 1973. 16 to 18 million Army and USAF records sets were lost in the flames.

The USAF records destruction dates were "discharge" dates from September 1947 to January 1964. My date of honorable discharge was in June 1965.

Should be good to go. Unless, that is, the term "discharge" date has been misused and the archivists really mean "release from active duty" date. If so, then my release from active duty in June 1963 probably puts my records six months deep into the fire and me in deep doo-doo.

I've given you the tip of the iceberg here. My online application for service-connected disability was received by the VA on 31 January 2008. The application is complicated. The application process is a bear. As in "some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you". Expect denials. Never give up.

I'm looking to the American Legion to provide me with a knowledgeable "service officer" to represent me with the VA. Miles to go before I sleep.

I'll be away from the political project for a while. No big deal, of course. I won't be missed. The do-nothing American people are still insisting on giving away their political responsibilities to players in the politics and culture of lying, anti-Constitutional governance, and zero accountability that has been masquerading as our national govt since Bush's usurpation of the presidency, 20 January 2000.

Election 2008 may go down in US politics as one of the great misdirections of the American people. Everybody voting ignores the fact that we've had nothing resembling fair elections since 2002, with the Diebold electronic vote-counting corruptions held firmly in place and expanded wherever possible by our politicians. The fascist 3-branch despotism that our national govt has become operates behind the smoke and mirrors of Election 2008 to betray more of our justice, freedom, and democracy for the benefit of themselves and the superrich. And most Americans just don't get it.

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Open Letter To Gary North

Subprime Crashes Into Criminal Monetary System

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"Central banking is perhaps the most brilliant scam ever perpetrated, and the U.S. Federal Reserve stands as the most successful of all central banks in history. The Fed is able to transfer wealth away from the people who earned it, and into the hands of the Federal Government and member banks, relentlessly, stealthily, year after year, and all the while maintaining the preposterous claim of social benefit in the form of "managing the economy." The method of this theft is sophisticated and disguised enough as to escape the attention of most, and when combined with propaganda, leads most people to the conclusion that we'd be in trouble without it. Yet I wish to show here that central banking can be well understood by most people for exactly what it is: ­ the fraudulent theft of trillions of dollars via the monopolization of money."

-- Johnny Silver Bear

"The Fed", 15 Jul 2004

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Gary North --

Just finished reading your piece, "Will The Big Banks Collapse?", 29 Dec 2007, on the Populist Party site. Enjoyed your thorough description of the continuing subprime meltdown and central banking's role.

Some few of us are doing what we can to shift the national discussion from hand-wringing and clothes-clutching to the hard-biting, effective remedies and solutions available in the legal arena. As it was for Nixon, so it should be for Bush. Most Americans, of course, are lost in clothes-clutching, pie-in-the-sky daydreams of striking back with an electoral system that died of pathogenic electronic voting corruption in 2002, and sundry reform strategies that play to predator elitism's corruption machines and cannot possibly succeed.

While you're not one who is talking effective remedies and solutions, you are a blazing, citizen expert on central banking. We could use your expertise.

Little help, please.

Brief subprime/central-banking recap first, then the legal landscape, then your unfortunate parroting of predator elitism's pooh-poohing of legalities (which, by the way, has the appearance of being your self-serving contribution to holding together our massively failed political-economic system of fascist elites über alles -- how do you make your money?), then questions for you at the bottom.


Subprime Recap

As you've said, subprime is one of the all-time horrific banking errors. It was created almost single-handedly by greed-players within the global central banking system, with the major players being within or tied to our very own unconstitutional and federally illegal central bank, the Federal Reserve.

Subprime is now a global trainwreck. It has crashed into most of the national top-tier central banks -- ironically the trainwreck's creators -- with the damages running into probably-untold hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's clear that subprime is not a self-limiting crash.

Contrariwise, it seems to be an open-ended collision that will go on colliding with banking services, money, and credit -- for the ordinary-people victims of the subprime frauds -- for a very long time. As you quote lawyer Sean Olender (from his "Mortgage Meltdown: Interest Rate 'Freeze'--The Real Story Is Fraud", 09 December 2007, San Francisco Chronicle), "... The problem isn't just subprime loans. It is the entire mortgage market. As home prices fall, defaults will rise sharply -- period. ..."

You also quote Olender on the matter of greed-player lawyers jumping in to sue the banks for the investors who were clearly defrauded with bad paper. The lawyers will seek to force the banks to buy back the bad paper at face value, regardless of current near-worthlessness. "... The loans at issue dwarf the capital available at the largest U.S. banks combined, and investor lawsuits would ... cause even the largest U.S. banks to fail. ..." Investor lawsuits, legally proper and greed-driven, can only add dimensions and depth to the crisis.

Clearly, this ongoing subprime crash has all the earmarks of an uncontrollable, worldwide, Great Depression II.


The Legal Landscape

The unconstitutional passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, on the vehicle of inferior statute law, has always been an unconstitutional "anti-law regime".

From the Constittuion Society's essay, "Law and Anti-Law", sub-section, "Two Bodies of Jurisprudence" --

"Since the statutes and official acts not based on the Constitution are null and void from inception, and in conflict with the real law, which is based on the Constitution, we may call this body of jurisprudence antilaw. ...

"Almost any effort to enforce such antilaw infringes on the civil rights of persons, and is therefore itself a crime, specifically, violation of 18 USC 241, Conspiracy Against Rights, or 242, Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law. ..."

The Federal Reserve's continuation has always involved felonies and felony conspiracies, including its usurous "fractional reserve banking", which is more properly "fractional lending ad infinitum". Whatever, the steadily increasing money supply caused by "fractional reserve banking", has ruined the dollar with its underhanded, under-the-table inflation. In the Fed's case, the felonies have been perpetrated minute-by-minute, every minute, since 1913. That's a lot of felonies.

Per the Constitution, the American people have a right to debt-free currency issued and valued by Congress.

Debt-based currency, issued and valued by a federal-statute-defined monopoly of private corporations (the Federal Reserve) violates 18 USC 241 -- felony conspiracy against citizen rights -- as well as both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution.

The "letter" of Constitutional law is violated by the Fed's conflict with Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 6 -- "The Congress shall have the power ... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures".

The "spirit" of Constitutional law is violated by the Fed's conflict with the 1935 SCOTUS decision in Schechter Poultry, 295 US 495, which barred Congress from delegating any of the core powers assigned to it in the Constitution.

The American people pay compound interest on every dollar of the Fed's debt-based currency, which is created out of thin air in a variety of usurious ways and at many physical locations. Every act that creates any amount of that "fiat currency" marks a new felony under 18 USC 241. Every payment of compound interest on that "fiat currency" marks a new felony under 18 USC 241.

Every govt act under color of law that supports the Federal Reserve is another violation of 18 USC 241, another felony conspiracy against citizen rights. When Bush nominated Ben Bernanke to be Fed Chairman on 22 October 2005, he joined the chairman-replacement felony conspiracy, adding to his mantle as the Criminal President. When the Senate confirmed Bernanke by voice vote on 31 January 2006, it joined the felony conspiracy, adding to its mantle as the Criminal US Senate.

Per the Constitution, felony forfeits legislative immunity. "... They shall in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest...". There is no absolute legislative immunity.

Between seeking Bernanke as Fed Chairman and his Senate confirmation, several govt hierarchies became principals or accessories-after-the-fact in the felony conspiracy.

That is, there are hundreds of felons-in-waiting and accessories-after-the-fact, in and out of govt, who need to go to prison for Federal-Reserve-related crimes -- right now, before the fascist thugs in central banking, the govt, and powerful corporations spring the North American Union and its dollar-dumping MEXCANUS Amero on us.

Getting to those criminal prosecutions, of course, will not be easy. But they are the effective remedies, I'm convinced, that the American people need to get to. And we do have options that can force the issue.


Predator Elitism's Vacuous Argument
For Non-Prosecution Of Its Own Criminals

In your otherwise-excellent article, you unfortunately parrot predator elitism's vacuous argument for not prosecuting those guilty of subprime fraud and Federal-Reserve-related crimes. You write --

"... There appears to have been fraud at every level. But this, it seems to my judicially untrained eye, is the very loophole the banks need. If everyone knew, as seems likely, and nobody blew the whistle, which is clear in retrospect, then these practices were common. If they were common, then they were not criminal. The government knew, and the government did nothing. Ditto for the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, and every other regulatory agency - Federal, state, and local.

"When a criminal conspiracy acts in a criminal fashion, it can be prosecuted. But when a criminal conspiracy has been licensed by the government, and has de facto run the government of every major nation for a century, it will be difficult to get a conviction. None dare call it criminal."

There's lots of logical fallacy squirming around in this vacuous argument. Briefly, the argument is -- if everyone knew ... and nobody hollered 'fraud' ... then its all unprosecutable 'common practices'.

This is a revolutionary view of law. It would give govt and corporate predators whatever the hell they want, whenever. Laws would never impose limits on predator behavior. Collusions would be automatic and mutually understood. "Everybody knew", therefore nothing criminal happened.

A whole world of legal concepts would be in the toilet. "Statute conspiracy", which took hundreds of years to develop into its modern form, and which underpins 18 USC 241 (felony conspiracy against rights) would never apply -- could never apply.

But here's the first hammer --everybody did not know. The subprime victims did not know that they were being victimized -- and most of the Federal Reserve victims still do not know that they are victims of the IRS personal income tax based on wages, which is the Fed's private money-pump, the criminal and unconstitutional mechanism for the redistribution of American wealth into the hands of central banking's private corporations. See especially, Aaron Russo's video, America: Freedom To Fascism".

Therefore, because the victims did not know, the criminal conspiracies -- subprime and Federal Reserve -- were and are acting in a criminal fashion.

That's just a touch of semi-rigorous logical examination of predator elitism's "everybody knew" gibberish. I could rant on through many other counter-examples, starting with the post-WW2 prosecutions of German, Italian, and Japanese war criminals -- cases in which all perps and all victims knew exactly what the 'common practices' were. Common practices did not preclude criminality. The common practices were criminal. Prosecutions happened. Convictions happened. Sentences were carried out.

There's no escape from criminality in the nonsense of 'common practices'. Well-- there is, historically proven, if you're a member-in-good-standing in a govt/corporate fascism such as Hitler Germany or the Bush-led 3-branch despotism.

I could rant on, but I think you're smart enough not to need such hammering.

We've got to get back to the the old notion, dura lex, sed lex -- the law is harsh, but it is the law. There are hundreds of felons-in-waiting and accessories-after-the-fact who need to go to federal prison very soon.


Questions For You

I'm nowhere near the expert you are on central banking. But it's clear to me that effective remedies and soltuions for our central banking abominations involve making it right with the law.

In my world, making central banking right with the law means repealing the Federal Reserve Act and generally obliterating central banking as we know it. I think you agree.

Yes, reasons for JFK's murder undoubtedly included his moves toward a debt-free currency and abolishing the Fed. But that's a story for another day.

My first order of business is to describe an institution that can replace the Federal Reserve, starting us with the issuance of debt-free currency.

Do you have any starting places to recommend? Can you recommend a biblio of thinkers and works dedicated to replacing the Fed? Have you engaged this topic yourself, and, if so, where can I read your discussion of it? Would you venture out now to engage the topic in new discussions?

Clearly, we can't go on with this national discussion of hand-wringing and clothes-clutching. We're running out of time. Americans will not continue to take the abuse and lies so typified by the byzantine subprime financial instruments, the consequent housing market crash, and the zero accountability for those who commit such abuses against the people. With the safety-valves into change blocked by the governing and corporate elites, and with many industries carpet-bombing the middle-class, the next stop could easily be bloody revolution.

Thanks for any consideration you can give -- toward a peaceful revolution.

Stephen Neitzke
http://ddrevival.blogspot.com

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Update, Sat 12 Jan 2008 --
Email Response from Gary North:

"My first order of business is to describe an institution that can replace the Federal Reserve, starting us with the issuance of debt-free currency."

There should be no such institution. There should be 2 laws:

1. No fractional reserve transactions: 100% reserve banking.

2. No legal tender laws.

Then get out of the way. The market will create the institution.

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Stephen's commentary: I was hoping for something a bit more chatty, a bit less cryptic. In any event, given the serious complexity of replacing the Fed and displacing its raw corruption powers, setting the laws that eliminate debt-based currency and then letting the market sort things out might seem to be an option.

There are certainly many Americans who will believe this to be an effective option. It is not. It plays to predator elitism's corruption machines, and it cannot possibly succeed.

Unfortunately, it only seems an option because of the propaganda that has propped up the fiction of free markets for the past three decades plus.

There's simply no such thing as free markets. Why would we let market forces -- a morass of demonstrated legal, financial, and trade corruptions -- sort out and create anything?

Mr. North's first law has obvious merit. Barring fractional reserve lending, the source of currency devaluation through inflated money supply, seems necessary no matter what else we do.

However, Mr. North's second law conflicts too broadly with the Constitution: "The Congress shall have the power ... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, ...". That is a legal tender law of the highest order. It says that at least some of our money will be coined and valued by Congress, and, by implication, that such money will be accepted for payment of debt. Congressionally coined and valued money might be only the core of our eventual debt-free monetary system, but it is a Constitutional reality. For now, I'm convinced that the Constitution's authors were right about this matter and that we need such a core currency for the sake of our uniquely American federalism.

Untangling our criminal monetary system cannot be a one-dimensional fix trusted to the elites who have been responsible for its constant criminality for the past 95 years.

Mr. North's two laws do not repeal the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act of 1913 or the Fed's money-pump, the unconstitutional personal income tax on wages. Even if we enacted Mr. North's two laws, the unconstitutional fragments of the Fed and the personal income tax on wages would still be available to the predator elitists of our now-entrenched, fascist, govt/corporate despotism.

Many individuals in all three branches of our national fascist govt, along with many of their fascist corporate clients, need to be criminally prosecuted and convicted before we can have a healing process for our Constitution and our rule of law. Our governance of, by, and for the financial and governing elites has revolved too widely around the "anti-law regimes" of unconstitutional statute law -- such as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the personal income tax on wages (illegally redistributing wealth upward since the fraudulent non-ratification of the non-defining 16th Amendment, also in 1913). We as a nation owe too many debts to those who have been terribly wronged by the anti-law governance done by the elites. We cannot approach being the nation of our Declaration of Independence principles until those criminal prosecutions have cleared away the wrongs.

All of that must be a part of untangling our criminal monetary system. And until all of that is understood as the class warfare that it has been at least since 1913, we're doomed to live in realities that are twisted, distorted, and rejected by the cognative dissonance of our politically naive belief systems.

There are better, more comprehensive remedies to the starting place questions.

More analysis to come.

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Last modified Sun 13 Jan 2008, about 7:30 am CST

© 2007-2008 by Stephen Neitzke

Happy Christmas Year Round--Except To The Evil Ones

"A Christmas candle
Is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While quite unselfish,
It grows small."

- Eva K. Logue

"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays -– let them overtake me unexpectedly -– waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself:  'Why, this is Christmas Day!'"

-- Ray Stannard Baker, muckraker and national hero, early 1900s Reform Era

"I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month."

-- Harlan Miller

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?"

--Dr. Seuss

"Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"And in despair I bow'd my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

"God is creation, love, and reason in all the seasons of humankind. She never forgives evil, and neither do I."

-- Nemesis Griffon

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-- by Stephen Neitzke

AAIGMBTY

CIA Destruction of Torture Tapes--The CSW Op

On the 2005 Porter Goss watch, the CIA destroyed the torture video tapes of at least two detainees. Destruction of evidence is a felony in every jurisdiction of the nation. The perp or criminal conspiracy's co-conspirators should be indicted, criminally prosecuted in a fair trial, convicted, and imprisoned. But we the people know that the Fascist United States 3-branch despotism does not bring any of its criminals to justice. There'll be a few whipping boys -- maybe. In the meantime, we can only sit and watch the multi-branch CSW operation (coverup, stonewall, and whitewash) as it unfolds in the govt's seemingly confused, but highly practiced synchopation.

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FUS Congress and FDOJ Sharks Shine Conflicted

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Powerful members of the Fascist United States Congress clash with the Republinazi legal sharks of the Fascist Department for the Obstruction of Justice

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The messages are clear. Govt cannot identify or control its own criminals. Clear-cut crime is not prosecuted, it is talked away. Be very afraid. Where there is no justice for govt criminals, there is no justice for wronged John Q.

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In their on-going series of fictional clashes -- known to be social engineering designed to off-foot the American people and keep politicians and bureaucrats safe from lynchings -- the FUS Congress and the FDOJ are hammering each other to see who gets to run the CSW op for numbing-down the American people over the CIA's destruction of evidence.

Coverup, stonewall, and whitewash operations are the lifeblood of the Bush-led, 3-branch, anti-Constitutional despotism. CSW ops are one of a short list of things between the fascist thugs of govt and about 250 million Americans going ballistic. (The other 50 million are citizen fascists and raptured-out crazies whose beliefs-driven cognative dissonance fouls up reality beyond all recognition.)

The Fascist US 3-branch despotism does not bring any of its criminals to justice. If it did, Bush would have been arrested for usurpation of the presidency and violation of 18 USC 241 -- felony conspiracy against citizen rights (in this case, to have a president who is elected in accord with the Constitution) -- within minutes of his oath-taking on 20 January 2001. If it did, enforcement of our laws would have collapsed this fascist govt in its first year, soon after its obvious complicity in the 9-11 attacks.

If the 3-branch despotism did not protect its criminals, we would have criminally prosecuted Bush and a too-large number of his Regime for two conspiracies to commit mass felony murders. First, there was the felony conspiracy to violate 18 USC 241 and soldiers' rights with Bush's anti-Constitutional, executive-branch declaration of war in Iraq. Every soldier's death in Iraq is felony murder under 18 USC 241. Second, there were continual violations of 18 USC 2441 and prisoner of war rights with torture-murder, approved by Bush. Every death resulting from torture is felony murder under 18 USC 2441.

Writing for Haprer's Magazine, in the article, "The President’s Coming-Out Party", Scott Horton observes --

"This has been an important week in the torture debate in America. It has been the week of the President’s coming-out party. Up until this point, torture has been something that “a few rotten apples” do. When evidence of it erupted in the media, a few grunts were quickly rounded up and scapegoated. Never officers, mind you—after all, they generally knew where the orders came from, and if you prosecuted them, they might just tell.

"But this week [beginning Monday 10 December], a CIA agent, John Kiriakou, appeared, first on ABC News and then in an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, and explained just how the system works. When we want to torture someone (and it is torture he said, no one involved with these techniques would ever think anything different), we have to write it up. The team leader of the torture team proposes what torture techniques will be used and when. He sends it to the Deputy Chief of Operations at the CIA. And there it is reviewed by the hierarchy of the Company. Then the proposal is passed to the Justice Department to be reviewed, blessed, and it is passed to the National Security Council in the White House, to be reviewed and approved. The NSC is chaired, of course, by George W. Bush, whose personal authority is invoked for each and every instance of torture authorized. And, according to Kiriakou as well as others, Bush’s answer is never 'no.' "

Nobody will burn for the destruction of video tape evidence in the Bush torture-murder system. If such a thing were allowed, the federal bench would be brought too close to Bushco's felony murders in violation of 18 USC 2441. Usurper Bush and the criminal 3-branch despotism's institutional tactics by God guarantee immunity for the destruction of the torture tapes.

Open with a procedural wrangling op before going on to other syncopated criss-crosses.

"We're gonna by God look into this," says the FUS Congress.

"No-no", says the FDOJ's Bush-bowser AG Muck. "If you legislative branch jerks look into it, then the liberal jerks will use politics to distort the one true picture. We here at the FDOJ will do all the looking."

"No-no", says the FUS Congress, "If you do the looking, then the executive branch will judge itself and find itself innocent. We'll do as much oversight looking as we want."

The FUS Congress and the FDOJ should have worked together to bring the perp(s) to justice immediately after the tapes were destroyed in 2005, on Bush-bowser Porter Goss' watch. They should not be setting up a rear-guard wrangling op in late 2007.

Unrealistic, you say? The CIA is in the business of keeping secrets, you say? If the CIA or any other agency can keep a serious felony secret for years, then Congressional oversight and pure rep govt itself has failed massively. No exceptions. No excuses. Perps and accessories-after-the-fact need to go to prison.

The American people do not need another Congressional morality play about procedural wrangling, or about why not to prosecute. And we do not need another sizzle package from the Fascist Department for the Obstruction of Justice telling us what a great job they've done to arrive at no criminal prosecutions.

Felony destruction of evidence is felony destruction of evidence. In a rule of law, somebody would already have been badly burned.

Sure, we've not been a rule of law since the anti-Constitutional passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, and its minute-by-minute compounding of anti-law regime felonies ever since. But that's beside the point. The point is that we're still SUPPOSED TO BE a rule of law.

Sure, the rule of law is one of those busy fictions of the public facade, behind which the private and evil, political and economic realities of this pure rep govt churn through its corruption machines as they have for over two centuries. But that's beside the point, too. The point is that we're still SUPPOSED TO BE a rule of law.

No matter the realities, if the American people can't act on what their govt is SUPPOSED TO BE, then what the hell good are they?

Oh, right. The American people are powerless to act on anything. Some sovereign people. Do-nothing Americans UNITE. Go fall all over yourselves to give away your political responsibilities to some lying Democrat or criminal Republinazi. That'll fix everything.

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"CIA says taped interrogations were held
in secret prisons -- Destruction of tapes
doesn't violate court order because they
weren't at Guantanamo, papers say"

By Dan Eggen
THE WASHINGTON POST

Sunday, December 16, 2007

"The Bush administration has told a federal judge that its 2005 destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes did not violate a court order because the captives in question were being kept in secret prisons at the time, not at the military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

"In court papers, the government also asked U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. not to seek more information about the tapes, to avoid interfering with an inquiry by the Justice Department and the CIA's inspector general."

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Sure, the CIA's secret prisons and torture-murder system violate the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution. And sure, death resulting from torture -- there've been many -- are felony murders under 18 USC 2441, war crimes. But corporate media safely assumes that Americans are so numbed-down by the catalog of more recent govt crimes that hardly anyone remembers the Geneva Conventions or their place in the Constitution. And most Americans have probably never heard of 18 USC 2441.

A strong case can be made that the entire chain of command in torture decisions -- as specified by CIA agent John Kiriakou and others -- is guilty of conspiracy to commit felony murder. And that includes the President of the United States, George W. Bush. On conviction, any or all of them could be sentenced to death. But, of course, that possibility is used by Bush and his minions as a club against any opponent -- to prevent criminal prosecution.

Make a note. Bush is not alone. He has low friends in higher places than his.

Synchopated superrich criss-crosses running hot, zig-zaggy, and criminal. The torpedo spread will blow evidence-destruction and torture-murder accountability right out the window. There are trillions to be made in dumping the Dollar and conjuring the Amero of the North American Union. No amount of Bush, Republinazi, or Demofascist stupidity can deflect central bankers, corporate hierarchies, and the politicians themselves from that greed.

Got Swiss-like direct democracy and sovereign citizen lawmaking? Think anything less will save our nation?

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Modified Mon 17 Dec 2007, about 7:55 am CST

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

AAIGMBTY

Sacrificing Back To The Constitution

We the people are clueless. We're still trying to elect better Democrats, who will be one spit in the whole deep and wide ocean of anti-Constitutional corruption machines. Expecting significant change through political party politics is unreasonable and irresponsible. You can't give away your political responsibility to a corruption machine run by fascist thugs and expect Constitutional governance.

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Lyrics from "American Anthem":

All that we’ve been given
By those who came before,
The dream of a nation
Where freedom would endure.
The work and prayers of centuries
Have brought us to this day,
What shall be our legacy,
What will our children say?
Let them say of me,
I was one who believed in sharing
The blessings I received.
Let me know in my heart
When my days are through,
America, America, I gave my best to you.
America, America, I gave my best to you.

It was a Norah Jones haunting melody in the background of horrific battle scenes in Ken Burns' "The War". Most of those I asked later didn't remember having heard the song.

For me, dreams swirled through it for several nights. Not specific lyrical phrases one after the other, of course. But the lilt of Norah Jones' remarkable voice hitting the first 'America', humming through the second, and then tailing off into the haunting, "I gave my best to you".

Provacative words and music (all by Gene Scheer) to frame the film images of thousands of deaths, the American sacrifice of hundreds of thousands.

Usurper Bush's anti-Constitutional regime -- and the 3-branch fascist despotism that is our national govt -- mocks that American sacrifice.

Jones' haunting lilt was still on the screen as I realized that similar sacrifice -- massive, nearly unimaginable -- will be the necessary core of how we get our Constitution back from the fascists who now own it. The sacrifice might not be in deaths, but it will be potentially terrible.

The fascists are most of the nation's employers. They've been players in the decades-long social engineering of this economy and its restrictions on political change. They know what they're doing. They're not kidding around. For the corrupt and criminal realities behind their busy facade of political fictions, see especially Michael Parenti's 2007 8th edition of Democracy For The Few.

Our fascist-majority public servants have proven beyond doubt that there will never be a time, in the future of anyone alive today, when we will be able to trust political party politics or partisan rep govt with sovereignty over our Constitution and laws. Having even temporarily allowed Usurper Bush's self-defined dictatorial powers means badly skewed separation of powers relationships between the three branches in the long term. As things stand now, getting back to a pre-Bush separation of powers seems to require that we find his presidential usurpation null and void from 20 December 2001 and repeal all of the laws that he has signed.

For the near term, staying with political party politics is a titanium-clad guarantee of a thoroughly destroyed middle class, along with the total overthrow of any citizen rights that limit money-power.

The fascist thugs of govt and corporate hierarchies in Mexico, Canada, and the US are still secretly working on the deep planning of the anti-Constitutional North American Union. That regional-governance abomination will contain every rights-squashing provision of the European Union "Constitution" of 2005, as written by the European fascist thugs, and as voted down by the sovereign peoples of France and Holland in required national referendums. The MEXCANUS fascist thugs will get away with it here. There are no national referendums to stop them. They make the treaty between themselves, our Criminal Senate approves it, slam-bang, right into the Constitution as fundamental law.

We the people are clueless. We've no collective sense of the urgency needed to stop the NAU. We're still trying to elect better Democrats, who will be one spit in the whole deep and wide ocean of anti-Constitutional corruption machines. Expecting significant change through political party politics is unreasonable and irresponsible. You can't give away your political responsibility to a corruption machine run by fascist thugs and expect Constitutional governance.

Instead, we should be organizing into American recovery groups, outside political party politics. Our objectives should include forcing governance power sharing, with the people's lawmaking as sovereign over the public-servant govt.

We don't need to make every decision, but when we do make a decision, we should be able to write it straight into the Constitution, (1) where specific Constitutional provisions that define and provide penalties for rep govt malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance should be hovering, (2) where electronically fraudulent elections, a'la Diebold, are gone, (3) where the DOJ is an independent agency tied to citizen recall, (4) where the nonpartisan Attorney General is independent and elected along with the President and Vice President, and all three of them are tied to citizen recall, (5) where AG, President, and Vice President become national candidates through a nonpartisan system of local-to-regional-to-national, direct-vote primaries -- and political parties are banned from all govt activities, (6) where the Vice President has been removed from any connection with the legislative branch, and (7) where the entire federal bench is dependent on a system of nonpartisan election and recall by the citizens in the court's physical jurisdiction -- national for SCOTUS.

"Judicial independence" is a farce that was intended from the beginning to protect the predator elites and their pure rep govt from the people. Based in the chimeric vagueness of the Constitution, judicial independence is the protector of expedient, non-principled rulings that favor predation of the middle class. It was a trick that American elites of the 1770s-1780s learned from the patricians of Republican Rome and their first codification of law, the Twelve Tables, c. 351 BCE. Of course, the Roman plebs answered the patricians and their over-vague constitution with a direct democracy revolution, c. 349 BCE, that lasted the 400 years until Julius Caesar's murder in 44 BCE. So the American elites cobbled together a social engineering program -- a'la Niccolò Machiavelli's 1532 The Prince -- to anticipate and disable any move that the American people might make toward direct democracy. Their social engineering has been a continual work in progress and has become increasingly sophisticated, until today it has overwhelmed almost every possibility of political change.

However, they cannot take away our raw power of revolution. And by taking away all the safety valves, they are flirting with a broad-outline repetition of the French Revolution, which killed tens of thousands of French elites. The American elites have very stupidly closed off so many avenues of escape into change that strong sentiment has built in the streets that it's too late for peaceful solutions.

We need the discipline -- self-imposed rules and methods -- to keep our solutions peaceful. We'll lose too much in a bloody revolution and not gain anything over what we can get in a peaceful revolution.

We can learn how to handle misbehaving rep govt by simply studying the past hundred years of I&R state govt misbehavior against the sovereign people's Constitutional initiative, referendum, and recall powers. I&R state govt misbehavior has cost us too much, but now they have given us a clinic on how to deal with both state and national govt fascists.

As I've written many times, the American recovery groups can institute citizen programs that can rip away the fascist collusions that have obliterated our rule of law. Once that is done, once we've put The Fear into the fascist cowards who've robbed us of our Constitution, they will be all too happy to help us pass the two stand-alone Constitutional Amendments that will create power-sharing between the sovereign people and the soon-to-be-nonpartisan representative government.

And here's the heart of the matter's tag.

To honor American sacrifice that has been, to honor American sacrifice that must be, essays posted to my blog -- which relate to regaining the rights, freedoms, and liberties packed into the Constitution -- will carry the tag, "AAIGMBTY" (America, America, I gave my best to you). Please read it to the haunting lilt of Norah Jones' voice.

Hope you'll make that tag a quiet determination of yours too.

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© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

AAIGMBTY

Modified Sun 09 Dec 2007, about 6:35 pm CST

Specter's Ex Post Facto Telecom Compromise

Arlen Specter, pillar of the Republinazi community in the US Criminal Senate, has stepped forward with a brave new piece of predator elitism dogshit. It's soft and gooey, stinks to high heaven, and is loaded with dangerous political pathogens. The Republinazi community intends that the American people eat their big bowls of Specter dogshit.

Republinazis and Demofascists everywhere are, of course, trumpeting Specter's piece of dogshit as the Great Compromise in the telecom immunity controversy.

The fact that Specter's solution makes the US government the defendant in the telecom-related lawsuits means many courtroom advantages for the telecoms. But the primary advantage is that any fines and penalties adjudged by the courts will be paid in tax-payer dollars, not telecom dollars.

Here's your bowl, sucker. Eat up.

And don't forget that zero-accountability for corporate criminals is a big-money business for Congressional criminals. They must already have kick-back dollar signs spinning in their eye-ball sockets. This is war-chest farming writ large. And the telecom industry has very deep pockets.

Specter's Great Compromise is just a more-twisted ex post facto law. It does not ordain blanket immunity for the corporate criminals who conspired with the criminal Bush regime to violate the Constitution and felony conspiracy laws. However, Specter's solution would be ex post facto law nonetheless. It retroactively changes the legal status of facts and relationships that existed at the time of the felonious warrantless wiretapping. Pure ex post facto, baby.

There is no telecom immunity controversy. There is no such thing as legal retroactive immunity for crimes already committed. Any immunity for them is anti-Constitutional and felonious.

Those responsible for the telecoms' criminal violation of citizen personal privacy rights and 18 USC 241 -- Bush, Cheney, White House staff, DOJ staff, and NSA staff included -- should be criminally prosecuted, given a fair trial, convicted, and imprisoned for up to ten years -- as specified in 18 USC 241, felony conspiracy against citizen rights.

In the meantime, federal lawsuits should rip the telecoms apart financially and deliver their infrastructures into the hands of people who can be expected to conduct communications business in accord with our Constitution and laws. Clearly, the people now doing business through the telecom infrastructures cannot be trusted to change their evil ways.

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Telecom Immunity--Orwellian Nightmare Continued

Contrary to Congressional flacks and the irresponsible corporate media, there is no such thing as legal immunity for the illegal participation of the telecoms in the illegal warrantless wiretapping ordered by the presidential usurper, Bush, months before the 9-11 attacks in 2001.

There might be something further from Constitutional truth, but that one is a whopper. "No ex post facto law ... shall be passed." The Constitution says that. There is no such thing as legal retroactive immunity for crimes already committed.

The Constitution's bar against ex post facto law means that the people have the right to be governed by law that is not ex post facto. That right is protected in the statutes by 18 USC 241, felony conspiracy against rights.

The Criminal Congress wants you to think that they can pass any law they want, because they have legislative immunity. However, when a law they pass is clearly a felony conspiracy against rights, in clear violation of 18 USC 241, then their felony forfeits their legislative immunity. "... They shall in all cases," the Constitution says, "except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest...".

There is no get-out-of-felony-free card for political poobahs of any stripe.

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For weeks now, we've been force-fed the fiction that Congress can, if it wishes, grant legal immunity to the telecoms for the anti-Constitutional invasions of privacy that they've perpetrated for years.

There might be something further from Constitutional truth, but that one is a whopper. "No ex post facto law ... shall be passed." The Constitution says that. There is no such thing as legal retroactive immunity for crimes already committed.

Just as the authors of the Constitution held future Congressional politicians responsible for being able to recognize ex post facto, so we can hold our current Congress responsible for recognizing ex post facto.

Well -- except that our current Congress is set in a 3-branch fascist despotism. Everybody there lives above the law, perpetrating any crime that the traffic will bear. As long as the traffic doesn't start lynching politicians, judges, and CEOs, they're all safe in their cronyism and collusions against the rule of law.

For the past some weeks, hundreds of writers, millions of citizens, and at least two federal judges have been pushing unconstitutional privacy rights violations up Congress' nose. By Nuclear Friday, 16 November 2007, parts of both Houses of our Criminal Congress had taken little baby half steps toward dropping telecom immunity, but were still rampant on warrantless wiretapping.

We should be convinced of two things. Congress' little baby half steps toward dropping telecom immunity are (1) temporary, and (2) all about doing the foxtrot with public opinion and nothing about honoring the law or their oaths to uphold the Constitution.

Dropping a policy that has focused the public wrath, and then bringing it back weeks or months later for a stealth sneak-through drive-by, has been a hallmark of the Bush Regime and its 3-branch fascist despotism. Many writers have dealt with that political hallmark. And, as usual, their write-ups are all hand-wringing and clothes-clutching, with everything hung in the politics-as-usual frame of reference.

Americans seem to have forgotten Nixon's criminal politics and the crucial move that we made from the political tap-dancing stage to the legal arena. Corporate media, of course, is all too happy to thump up emphasis for the Bush Regime's political tap-dancing. They do that thumping with increasing determination now because they seem to know that if Americans ever take the Bush Regime and its 3-branch despotism into the legal arena, weapons of mass incarceration will pop up all over the landscape.

Legal arena realities dealing with the Bush crimes will be Nixon times 10, perhaps times 100. Along with politicians, judges, and CEOs, the probable legal intensity might well sweep up prominent reporters, columnists, editors, and publishers in felony-conspiracy and felony accessory-after-the-fact charges. Importantly, the rewards of advertizing dollars and social inclusions, which have marked media cronyism with the corruption masters of govt and corporate elites since the 1972 Business Roundtable's pro-Nixon startup will become worthless to the working news media. Pushing past politics-as-usual, and into the legal arena, clearly means a serious sea change for the working press.

Most writers -- corporate media and alt media -- want to stay marginalized by writing up everything that this criminal, 3-branch despotism does as simply politics as usual. And no wonder. As Voltaire pointed out, "It's dangerous to be right, when your government is wrong." If the fascist govt doesn't get you, their parasitic thugs will.

However, govt criminality, in commission and omission, will not stop until it is stopped. It simply will not stop on its own.

One of laws that the 3-branch despotism lives above for now is the federal statute, 18 USC 241. It reads --

"If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or -- If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -- They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death."

This law defines a statute conspiracy against rights. The law's specified imprisonment of up to ten years for a non-death incident makes the minimum violation of this law a serious crime and a felony conspiracy.

The Criminal Congress wants you to think that they can pass any law they want, because they claim absolute legislative immunity. Wrong.

There is no such thing as absolute legislative immunity. Referring to senators and representatives, Article 1, section 6, of the Constitution says: "... They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace be priviledged from arrest ...".

When a law they pass is clearly a violation of 18 USC 241, then their felony conspiracy forfeits their legislative immunity.

If any of our govt's office holders or appointees perpetrate a felony on the job, all of the immunities that protect them are forfeit. Felony forfeits executive immunity. It forfeits judicial immunity. And it forfeits legislative immunity, no matter what smokescreen they pull out of the "Speech and Debate Clause".

There is no get-out-of-felony-free card for political poobahs of any stripe.

If we were on a level legal playing field, about 500 of the members and senators of our Criminal Congress would already be in federal prison, dating at least from the 18 USC 241 violation of soldiers' rights (to be sent to war only on the expressed order of Congress) in the October 2002, anti-Constitutional give-away of war-powers to Usurper Bush -- when the Constitution clearly says that declaration of war is purely a legislative branch function -- and when a 1935 SCOTUS decision (Schechter Poultry, 295 US 495) barred the Congress from giving away any of its core powers as specified in the Constitution.

When a rights violation under 18 USC 241 results in death, that death is felony murder. The penalties of life imprisonment or death, as specified in 18 USC 241, turn Iraq war deaths into felony murder. There's no statute of limitations on felony murder.

For an analysis of the wide and deep Iraq invasion felony conspiracy, and the guilt of the Congressional co-conspirators in the felony murder of every US soldier who has been killed in Iraq, see especially the essay, "Criminal Conspiracy and the Laws of War--Iraq".

We'll keep this short and skip the naming of the Congressional felons in the USA Patriot Act and several others.

The American people have the Constitutional right to be governed by law that is not ex post facto. For Senate felons, see the Senate roll call vote that passed the "Military Commissions Act of 2006", S3930, PL 109-366, with its multiple ex post facto provisions. For House felons, see the House roll call vote on the passage of S3930.

The American people have the Constitutional right to personal privacy. For Senate felons, see the Senate roll call vote that passed the "Protect America Act of 2007", S1927, PL 110-055, with its multiple privacy violating felonies. For House felons, see the House roll call vote on the passage of S1927.

The only thing saving those about-500 fascist criminals who masquerade as members and senators of Congress from being indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned are their cross-branch, felony conspiracy collusions with other Constitution-breaking criminals in the Department of Justice.

Not only do the Congressional felons have a lock on zero accountability, they also clearly have a deep contempt for the American people. These felony conspiracies just could not happen otherwise.

In purifying Usurper Bush's warrantless wiretaps with the PAA and RESTORE Act, and in cranking up for more ex post facto lawmaking with telecom immunity, the Congressional Wing of the 3-Branch Despotism knows that it will not be criminally prosecuted by the Executive Wing of the 3-Branch Despotism. And, even if criminal prosecution should happen -- because of bizzaro circumstances -- they know that the Judicial Wing of the 3-Branch Despotism will keep them safe from harm.

It's coverup in coverup on coverup. Congress uses the telecom immunity issue to coverup the PAA's warrantless wiretapping. Yeah. Usurper Bush and his DOJ cronies use the PAA to coverup the years of 18 USC 241 violations in anti-Constitutional NSA wiretaps. Yeah. The 3-branch fascist despotism wins. Yeah. The do-nothing American people do nothing. Yeah.

Until the do-nothing American people get their collective thumb out of their collective mouth, chew out of the cocoons socially engineered by the governing elites for the past decades, set aside their beliefs-driven cognitive dissonance in favor of political reality, and take responsibility for the political abortions that kill the Constitution's delivery of citizen rights, the nazis in the 3-branch despotism will go right on.

We need a peaceful revolution, not the lynchings. We can't get one iota more in a bloody revolution than in a peaceful one -- and we will lose too much in a bloody revolution.

At the risk of being the proverbial broken record, we need to organize for (1) massive boycotts, (2) a national system of jury nullification, and (3) the reduction of ten to fifteen partisan bicameral state legislatures to nonpartisan unicamerals on the still-successful 1934 Nebraska model -- with clean-money-only nonpartisan campaigns and zero gerrymandering added.

And we need to add whatever other tactics will help trigger THE FEAR in our criminal representatives so that we can force passage of at least two, stand-alone Constitutional amendments. To end the 3-branch fascist despotism, we need the sovereign people to gain a Swiss-like share of governance power. I've been working on my proposals for the two power-sharing amendments most of this month. In the end, of course, I'm just another proposer, and it's 'let the people decide'.

Are we clear? There's no help coming from the Republicratic Fascist Bund. Staying with political party politics only insures more political criminality.

Happy holidays.

God rest ye merry gentlemen,

Let nothing you dismay.

Remember Bush is goosestepping

Across the USA,

To kill the rights of all mankind,

And get you extra pay.

Oh, Republicrats for havoc and coin,

Havoc and coin,

Oh, Republicrats for havoc and coin.

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Modified Tue 04 Dec 2007, at 8:10 am CST

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

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