DD Revival

Historical Note--French Revolution

2009-01-10T05:46:00.004-06:00

The French Revolution killed about 40,000 predator elites in the name of Liberty, about 14 percent of the 27.7 million French population.

The killing of the predator elites happened after the ordinary people realized that (1) ordinary people were the nation's sole producers of real wealth, (2) the small number of predator elites had grabbed most of the wealth, (3) the predator elites gained wealth through cheating and corruption, and (4) the predator elites directed much of their corruption at destroying the French middle classes to gain obscene profits.

History is now repeating itself with regard to predator elites vs ordinary people. There's an historical echo in here.

If Americans kill about 400,000 elites, they will nearly equal the French's approximately 14 percent of the population. As with the French, the targets would be feckless and fascist politicians, corruption-minded corporate boards and CEOs, anti-Constitutional legislators, elites-favoring judges, greed-driven medicrats, usurious bankers and financiers, anti-Constitutional military chiefs, state-level govt officials of all anti-Constitutional stripes, etc., etc.

It can't happen here? The heat is on under the pressure cooker. The only safety valves are welded shut by the predator elites and their corruption machines, so that political-economic change cannot happen. The anti-Constitutional Federal Reserve, its out-of-thin-air money in return for real compound interest paid out of public monies to the Fed's private corporation ownership, and its bezerko "fractional reserve lending" probably cannot be ended in time to stop the North American Union and its superrich-happy currency, the Amero.

The anti-Constitutional Fed -- and its partner in crime, the anti-Constitutional personal income tax on wages -- have done their dirty work. Wealth has been relentlessly redistributed upward. The dollar is penniless. The bankers and politicians can crash it into the Amero at any moment they wish. Profits from the conversion will give the superrich more obscene profits. And the rights of the people to a Constitutional currency issued and valued by the people's representatives will be more remote from the people than ever. The heat on the rights and liberties of ordinary people has gone way up.

Over increasing heat, there's only one thing that happens to a pressure cooker with no safety valve.

A French-like American Revolution is not inevitable, but as corporations flee the USA and out-source our best jobs to their off-shore enclaves, the social engineering that once locked ordinary Americans into a milquetoast politics of what the superrich will tolerate erodes. Ordinary Americans have less and less to lose by defying the corporate structures, by standing on their own two feet, by devising sustainable economies of scale. Ordinary Americans have more and more to win by setting aside beliefs where they conflict with Constitutional and statute law facts.

Where liberties are facts in Constitutional and statute law, it is inappropriate for predator elites to believe that ordinary people should not have those liberties.

The in-coming President is one of 75 US Senators who violated the Constitution to originate and pass a bill for revenue in the Senate -- $700 billion to bail out financial criminals.

Constitution (Article 1, Section 7): "All Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives, ...".

The in-coming President's illegitimacy is huge and his stimulus package is a hodge-podge of unsustainable superrich money-makers. He has already grossly violated his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. With the $700 billion bailout law, he became, in fact, one of the Constitution's domestic enemies.

Felony forfeits all immunities -- legislative, administrative, and judicial.

Constitution (Article 1, Section 6): "... They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance ...".

Federal statute Title 18, US Code, Section 241: "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 ... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both."

The specification of ten years imprisonment makes violation of this statute a felony -- and -- the statute defines "felony conspiracy".

President-elect Obama is a co-conspirator in the felony conspiracy of the $700 billion bailout that violated the rights of Americans to be governed by law made in accord with the Constitution. The $700 billion bailout law is not law at all. It is unconstitutional and an anti-law regime. Every specific action taken under that anti-law is a separate violation of the Constitution and a separate felony conspiracy under 18 USC 241.

President-elect Obama's only rightful place is in federal prison, along with the 74 other US Senators who feloniously voted to originate the $700 billion bailout in the Senate. And by now, the list of co-conspirators and accessories-after-the-fact in the many unconstitutional applications of that anti-law regime is very long indeed.

Justice is required. If, in the doing or frustration of justice, ordinary Americans slip out of the corporate-govt social engineering that has imprisoned their political action for the eight years of the fascist, anti-Constitutional govt of Bush-Cheney, a French-like American Revolution seems a strong possibility.

What would the USA look like with 400,000 predator elites gone? In 1789, many Frenchmen would have been asking themselves a similar question.

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© 2009 by Stephen Neitzke
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Household Bailout Stimulus

2008-10-01T10:46:00.028-05:00

Snapshots Of The Devivatives Crash Upramp

PART ONE
Monday
29 September 2008

Millions of angry citizens shouted and screamed into Congressional staffer phones and emails. 228 of the House's Anti-Constitutional Criminals -- Republinazis and Demofascists -- splashed their lily-livered cowardice on the no-vote to use $700 BILLION of the citizens' money to bail out financial corporation criminals.

The Dow Jones plummeted 777 points -- a one-day all-time record -- amounting to a value loss of $1.2 TRILLION to investors. The plunge demonstrated the depth of fabrication masking the over-valued bear market.

The amazement that angry citizens still had any public-opinion power over the Anti-Constitutional Criminals of the US House was epidemic everywhere Americans gathered. The shock and surprise lasted into the wee hours of Tuesday.

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As usual, the 3-branch fascist despotism masquerading as our national govt has ordinary Americans looking at our big problems only from the govt's and the predator elitists' point of view.

We the sovereign people need to turn that around -- right now. We need to start seeing things from the ordinary people's point of view. Our survival in the very probable, near-future, derivatives crash and its consequent world-wide depression is at stake.

Thanks to the greed of the financial division of predator elitism, the global derivatives market is a monster of $677 TRILLION OUTSTANDING, jumping up and down on a annual gross world product of a mere $65 TRILLION. (Both totals are as of the end of 2007, according to the current quarterly report of the BIS -- Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland -- which is the top of the global central banking heap. See especially, "A dangerous bubble of derivitatives trading", Times of India, 29 September 2008.)

That is, 967 units of $700 BILLION each will fit inside the total of outstanding derivatives, the overwhelming majority of which are a house of obscene-profit cards already falling.

It is self-evident that the high risk derivatives market is crashing. Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros, and Merrill Lynch didn't slide away accidently. The US subprime mortgage derivatives and even-worse toxicities are laced through packages of other more-common and more-traditional derivatives sold all over the world. All such packages are now "toxic paper". Whoever holds those packages loses on the face value. And, because of the CYA complexities built into some toxic paper, it is even impossible to know the value of many of those packages.

It seems ridiculous to think or imply that a mere $700 BILLION put into the hands of the wrong people -- US-based criminal financial corporations and the unconstitutional, mega-felonious Federal Reserve -- will prevent the derivatives crash.

A $700 BILLION bailout for US-based criminal financial institutions won't save anything worth saving. We can't stop the corporate losses undoubtedly sweeping us into a world-wide depression. But we might be able to save what's worth saving -- ordinary families, ordinary people, and their ordinary homes.

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PART TWO
Tuesday
30 September 2008

Charging back, the repudiated, castigated, and castrated national political leadership hollered everywhere that not letting them have their way would freeze credit, collapse international markets, and end the American national economy. Fear sells. More fear sells anything.

However, the list of their fear facets is surprisingly short and thin.

You've got your need for speed. Leadership needs this bailout done immediately so that the country does not go into some really bad financial stuff before the wonderful people in leadership can persuade the public to do the bailout anyway.

The word, 'depression', is never used. The notion that a leadership breast-fed bailout is inevitable reverbs all over the place.

The longer we delay the $700 BILLION bailout, they say, the more bank failures will happen. We've got to get this bailout back on track -- immediately. It's really important to save criminal banking operations. We've got to help banks rid themselves of toxic paper -- immediately. We've got to unfreeze credit so that businesses can conduct normal ops -- immediately.

Wow. They really got that credit freeze up and running in a hurry, didn't they? It's leadership flashing the old "just saying a thing makes it so", double-whammy, fiction parading fiction.

Playing the social engeneering card, leadership and their brother elites warn that no rescue means job losses, personal financial security gone, no new school clothes next year, and really losing out to the Joneses.

Listen up, people. You're locked into a carefully crafted social engineering that the superrich have spent a lot of money on. You think those corporate payrolls come cheap? Don't go getting all uppity on us now. Where's your appreciation, your loyalty, your patriotism? Now, you just do what we say, and everything will be OK.

Here's what's on tap for the Wednesday Strategy. We'll get everything together for an evening vote in the August Leadership's Very Own Senate. Watch out. The big dawgs are gonna tell you like it is. The scruffy little lap-yappers over there at the House need some guidance.

Oh, no -- we're not going to start from scratch to do some silly household bailout stimulus. We're gonna super-tweak what the House bombed with and show you how its done.

We just need to add some little things so that the few votes that we were short over there come winging home, putting exactly what we want in the old law books.

These aren't your little baby half-step tweaks. These are big honkin' 18-wheeler tweaks. They're gonna make Senators salvinate all the way to the trough. We're gonna slap on an already-passed Senate bill that helps develop renewable energy -- you know, maybe in the next hundred years. That bill also shields lots of the right people from the Alternative Minimum Tax. And best of all, it extends a number of inconsequential tax cuts for families, as well as stupendous tax cuts for all the right people in business.

These tax incentives are wonderful stuff. Of course, the lap-yappers over at the House might have some trouble understanding, but, by Gawd, we'll show 'em how its done here in the Senate. They'll just have to keep up.

'Course, the two really big biggees were flown in special by party Poo-Bahs and Diebold Selection candidates McCain and Obama. Singing in unison in the Well, they demanded that all the Senators should vote that the FDIC protection cap on the superrich's bank deposits go up from $100,000 to $250,000 per account.

And then, in two-part harmony, the Bobbsey Twins demanded that accounting rules be liberalized for corporations holding toxic paper so that numbers can be massaged immediately, showing that global frauds are really not so bad afterall. Sure, 65 Reps and Senators demanded last week that SEC suspend the accounting rules indefinitely, so the Senators are used to thinking in those terms. And, sure, the SEC has already "clarified" the accounting rules' instructions, watering them down to way outside the letter and spirit of the law, but this is different. This is the big-dawg, by Gawd, Senate.

Why more rewards for the superrich, you ask? Dude. The taller FDIC cap means that the superrich can take all those piddling little $100,000 accounts, combine them into many $250,000 accounts, and get new loans based on the new equity. Never use your own money -- for anything. And when the superrich have the new loans, ordinary people from coast to coast will have the wonderful trickle-down.

Let's see. That old saw still works, doesn't it? Oh, yeah. There it is. The guy on Fox News just said it -- "trickle-down".

Now, the FDIC cap and accounting rules set-aside aren't the only growth items we've got working for Progress over here in the Senate. We'll also ratchet up the votes with provisions to suspend capital gains and reduce corporate income tax. Those are perennial vote-getters.

Demofascist Marcy Kaptur (OH) wants to set up an emergency financial crimes office. Haw-haw. Talk about your auto-marginalized bullshit. As if Justice would ever prosecute criminal acts perpetrated by the superrich and their bankers. That's rich. But it'll get us votes that the lap-yappers didn't get.

Check us out Wednesday night. We'll get this $700 BILLION baby passed and fire up the House for Thursday action.

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Getting it? The Senatorial tweaks -- and the votes of a few bought-out, sold-out fascist-thug Senators who routinely chop away chunks of the Constitution -- reflect how much public opinion really means in this country.

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PART THREE
Wednesday
01 October 2008

Richard C. Cook is a retired US govt analyst. Late of NASA, he blew the whistle on the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Today, The Market Oracle, a web site in the UK, published Cook's amazingly well-informed and commonsensical, "Bailout Bill Marks the End of America as We Know It?" (It follows that a piece that informative of the US economic direction would not, could not, be published in the US. The Bush-Cheney nazis would never allow it, and would severely punish any American mainstream publication with any connection to it.)

Cook writes, in his intro paragraph -- before unpacking the progression of facts, related truth statements, and sound arguments which end in credit being the last economic engine of the American economy, and that engine being doomed in recession ebbing into depression --

"The Senate took up the [bailout] bill in order to pressure House members who voted against it to change their positions when it returns to a vote on the House floor on Friday. This procedure may be unconstitutional, because revenue bills must originate in the House, but there is no time or political will for anyone to mount a challenge on constitutional grounds. ..."

Unconstitutional
Senate Origination Of
Bill For Raising Revenue

Constitution, Article 1 (Legislative Branch), Section 7, Paragraph 1: "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives ....".

On Wednesday evening the Senate voted 75-24 to originate and approve the raising of $700 BILLION for the derivatives toxic paper bailout of banks and other financial institutions. The vote was unconstitutional. Every Senator who voted in favor is in violation of his or her oath to uphold the Constitution -- and we can hold every one of them responsible for knowing it. Every Senator who voted for this unconstitutional legislation is a Constitutional Criminal.

Additionally, the vote was a felony against our laws. All American citizens have the right to be governed by law that is passed in accord with the Constitution. The Senate's unconstitutional vote Wednesday evening is a felony conspiracy in violation of federal statute 18 USC 241.

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18 USC 241: "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 ... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both ...".

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The ten-year sentence makes violation of this statute a felony. Felony forfeits all immunities -- legislative, executive, and judicial. Every Senator who voted aye on Wednesday evening can be arrested anywhere he/she is found -- in the Senate or anywhere else -- jailed, criminally prosecuted, convicted, fined, and imprisoned for up to ten years.

Constitution, Article 1 (Legislative Branch), Section 6, Paragraph 1: "... They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance ...".

Every one of those Senators is a co-conspirator in this felony conspiracy to force American citizens to live under law not passed in accord with the Constitution.

If our Constitution and rule of law were intact and functional, the felony conspiracy would be criminally prosecuted. Seventy-five US Senators, including the two Constitutional Criminals who are standing for election to the presidency next month, are felons-in-waiting, whose only proper place is in federal prison.

Of course, the 3-branch fascist despotism masquerading as our national govt has trashed the Constitution and our rule of law. They and all their superrich cronies are above the law. They've done those things in plain sight of all Americans. And they've gotten away with it. Not a single one of those Unamerican Anti-Constitutionalists has been arrested and criminally prosecuted. The American people are just too ignorant of their Republic's principles and history to be distracted from their sex, lies, and video tape.

So a bunch of guys died in WW2 fighting fascists. So what? Somebody get me another brewski.

Those of us who want our Constitutional Republic-Democracy back are in a pressure cooker. The 3-branch fascist despotism and the predator elites have taken away all the safety valves for change -- including elections. Some small committee of the superrich will say who will win the Diebold Selection of Presidential Usurper for 2008. Will it be Constitutional Criminal Obama or Constitutional Criminal McCain?

The fascist thugs of the 3-branch despotism and the other predator fascists continue to crank up the heat on this pressure cooker. It's the formula for pressure-cooker blowup. And the first ones to die will be the fascists' only real problem -- those of us inside the pressure-cooker. Dead men wreak no justice.

The fascist thugs of the 3-branch despotism know their Americans. Most just don't give a damn what the govt does. Most Americans are so ignorant of our Constitution and laws that they are fascists themselves, completely free of any beliefs that might put them in the pressure-cooker.

Bail out a bunch of fraud-perpetrating financial corporation crooks? No problem. Just let us get back to our rap music, raves, and crack cocaine.

When the nazis of the 3-branch fascist despotism crash the national economy into the three-pot-pie of the North American Union and its Canadian-US-Mexican "Amero" -- and open up the Halliburton concentration camps for American political criminals -- American fascists everywhere will be astounded.

Now the revenue bill, unconstitutionally originated in the Senate, goes off to the House of Representatives, where another pack of Constitutional Criminals will unconstitutionally vote on the unconstitutionally origianted bill. Every one of those "aye" House voters will become co-conspirators in the felony conspiracy directed at forcing American citizens to live under law not passed in accord with the Constitution. And, somewhere down the road, we'll put all of them in federal prison, too.

Most Americans protesting the passage of the bailout bill are too ignorant to know that it is purely unconstitutional. However, they do know that it is devoid of any direct help to ordinary American households. Protesters hit the House with sufficient threats of dis-election to cause the no-vote last Monday. There is a slight chance that the same millions of protesters can push the same buttons for the House's probable Friday night vote.

However, the reality of Diebold Selection at the polls also means that those Republinazi and Demofascist House reps who are in trouble in their home districts will be given promises of Diebold Selection in return for bailout-passing votes.

The bailout goes into the law books, I think, anti-law regime that it is.

The resulting law, after it's signed by the Presidential Usurper and Constitutional Criminal Bush, will be anti-law, an unconstitutional anti-law regime. Every action taken under color of that law will be another felony conspiracy in violation of 18 USC 241, denying the people's right to governance by law passed in accord with the Constitution.

When there's no one around to criminally prosecute a felony in the jungle, does the falling tree make any sound?

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PART FOUR
Friday
03 October 2008

Unconstitutional Passage
Of The $700 Billion Bailout,
263-171, By Felony Conspiracy
In The House of Representatives

No member of the House of Representatives can legitimately vote "aye" on any bill for revenue originated in the Senate. All such bills are absolutely unconstitutional. An "aye" vote on such a bill violates the member's oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. An "aye" vote also violates 18 USC 241, making the member a co-conspirator in the felony conspiracy to force Americans to live under law not passed in accord with the Constitution.

BAILOUT POST SCRIPT

This is the difference between national American leadership and Unamerican Fascist power-holders.

National American leadership works within the Constitution and under the rule of law for the benefit of the majority of citizens, across the lines of race, economic standing, and social class.

Unamerican fascist power-holders -- who use lies to falsely posture themselves as American leadership, see especially the presidential campaign materials and statements of the twin Senatorial constitutional criminals and felons-in-waiting McCain and Obama -- -- work outside the Constitution and above the rule of law for the benefit of those superrich whites in the highest economic standings and in the highest social classes. They wage class warfare to redistribute wealth from the middle classes and poor to the superrich -- with no conscience of how their actions harm the middle classes -- all the while lying through their fascist teeth about how their actions are the best thing for everybody.

We've had no American leadership since before Reagan. Even then, what little American leadership we had was so overwhelmed by fascists in and out of govt as to be completely ineffective.

GW Bush is the first blatantly fascist power-holder in the presidency. Not only is he a Constitutional Criminal, but he is also a co-conspirator in the felony murders of our soldiers fighting in his unconstitutional and felonious, aggressive war in Iraq. That is, he is clearly guilty of over 4,000 capital crimes -- and still wrecking the Constitution from the office of president.

In comparison, his role as co-conspirator in the felony conspiracy to pass the $700 BILLION bailout of criminal corporations seems a trite and minor crime. However, many Americans emotionally believe, or hold intellectual convictions, that the toxic paper bailout is a rear-guard action to keep the fascist superrich in place until the derivatives marketplace can completely crash.

The subsequent worldwide depression will give Bush and his cronies the excuse they need to activate the secretly and deeply planned North American Union, wipe out the CANUSMEX borders, lose the US Constitution, and make billions of dollars in the conversion from the US Dollar, Canadian Dollar, and Mexican Peso to the Amero. They will undoubtedly improve on the billions of dollars made by the European fascist elites in the conversion from various national currencies to the Euro.

There is no doubt that a derivatives crash capable of causing a world-wide depression is coming. The value that can be known of the outstanding derivatives, $677 TRILLION per the current quarterly report of the Bank of International Settlements, is about ten times the $65 TRILLION value of the current annual world product and 967 times the US $700 BILLION bailout.

Additionally, there are trillions of dollars in globally-held CDSs -- Credit Derivative Swaps, aka, default insurance -- that cannot be accurately valued by anyone. The loose concensus of a total is $54 TRILLION, but nobody really knows. The failure of the Swaps market may very well be the bomb that is already bringing down the whole flimsy house of cards.

While the CDS market is wholly unregulated by any govt anywhere in the world, its pretend-self-regulation -- a thing demanded and pretended at since the 1870s by all laissez-faire corporate fascists as a rationale for keeping govt out of corporate money matters -- is about to run up onto its own contract settlement dates.

The CDS contract settlement dates are going to sort out the bunches of lies that Bush and his crony criminals around the world have been hiding behind for a very long time. They are also going to show with dramatic clarity why the need for speed caused the whole Congressional branch of the US fascist despotism to rifle-shot through a bailout revenue bill unconstitutionally originated in the Senate.

The contract settlement dates are 10 October 2008 for the Lehman Bros CDS contracts (calculated to be valued at $350 billion to $400 billion) and 23 October 2008 for the Washington Mutual CDS contracts.

Those dates are when the "ripple effects" of Lehman and WaMu failures come alive.

"Ripple effects" is the sort of nazi wording favored by corporate fascists, where words can diminish the global avalanche that will sweep us into the Great Depression II.

The avalanche effects springing out of the contract settlement dates will more clearly delineate the magnitude of the crashing credit market (derivatives), crashing equities market (stocks), and crashing currency market (dollar, yen, euro, etc.).

So far, we've just seen a couple tips of the proverbial ice berg. We know that derivatives are bad. Fraudulent subprime mortgages laced into packages with other derivatives have crashed some of the biggest financial institutions to ever exist, in and out of the US. We know that stocks on the NYSE have tanked 1400 points in the first five trading days of October 2008. On Monday and Tuesday, 06 and 07 October, the Dow lost about 883 points. On Tuesday 07 October, about 2800 stocks lost value, while only about 400 gained value. So equities are bad. The sum total of currency market crashing across the two contract settlement dates will tell us approximately how bad the currency market is.

Between litigation from the defrauded, job losses and consequent credit losses, the glut of home foreclosures reducing all home values, and the raw write-offs of bad debt, there is no chance that the financial fascists -- foreign and domestic -- can stay ahead of the worldwide depression curve.

Our fascist power-holders in the Congressional branch of the 3-branch fascist despotism have unconstitutionally given away $700 BILLION of our money -- and wasted a bunch of our time -- to save things that cannot be saved. Further, the bailout action has deprived us of the national discussion of how best to prepare for the coming depression. In doing these things, the Unamerican fascist power-holders have further betrayed country and ordinary people.

The American people have been politically defrauded. Still, we've had warnings deluxe for decades. We've massively ignored those warnings -- arrogant to the end in our belief that we have the best democracy -- that fascism can't happen here.

The fascist elites were not ready for the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a class, they were hurt badly. Just the advent of the FDR administrations -- pro-democratic, anti-fascist -- hurt them badly.

This time, they've had 30-40 years to wreck FDR's New Deal and to computer model what will happen financially as they make their moves. They're obviously convinced that they know how they can come out of the coming worldwide depression with their social, economic, and political power intact. What is happening would not be happening otherwise.

Nothing of significance in financial matters happens by accident to the global fascist elites. They are ethical morons, but they are financial geniuses. Anyone who believes that the derivatives crash is blowback is too naive to be in this world.

Global fascist societies -- the "secret societies" of the pooh-poohed conspiracy theorists -- from the CFR (Council for Foreign Affairs), to the Trilateral Commission, to the Bilderberg Group, have surely spent big money on supercomputer modeling the results of the derivatives crash. As a class, the fascist superrich are obviously ready for this coming worldwide depression. Clearly, they have no fear of the results. Clearly, they are not concerned with the welfare or survival of ordinary people -- except perhaps as corporate zombies.

We've just been unconstitutionally forced into losing another $700 billion for the greater glory and benefit of a few financial criminals.

Welcome to Diebold Selection 2008, where thumb-suckers across the country will go the polls for one constitutional-criminal/felon or the other.

Don't vote.

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NOTE: CDS contract settlements -- aka, CDS auctions -- are widely ignored by the fascist corporate media. Clearly, Bush and cronies do not want the public to know about this out-of-control, depression-capable factor. CDS settlements have a huge potential for financial violence. The settlements, triggered by various kinds of corporate failures that consequently violate the CDS contracts, are a large part of the current credit crisis. Any financial institutions who are partiies to those contracts might be legally required to settle their monetary obligations in those contracts on the settlement date, or go into failure themselves. Because of the nature of the CDS contracts, corporations frequently do not know what their cash liability might be. Consequently, all corporations with such CDS contracts at failed corporations such as Lehman Bros and Washington Mutual must build and hoard cash -- not lend it -- in case they are required to pay. If CDS settlements causes other corporations to fail, more CDS settlements are triggered in the failed corporations, causing a cascade of ever-growing currency requirements. And because the CDS market is global, the potential for losses in tens of trillions of dollars across many currencies is very high.

For more info, see especially --

"Of October CDS Auctions and Helicopter Ben", by Stephen Hsu.

"Another Reason for Cash Hoarding: Big Credit Default Swaps Market Test Imminent", by Yives Smith.

"Behind the Turmoil", by Elizabeth MacDonald

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Last updated Mon 08 Oct 2008, at about 11:55am

© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke
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Shooter--A Film Review

2008-09-14T07:34:00.026-05:00

Art mimicks life. In Reform Era I -- late 1800s and early 1900s -- many works of art helped trigger the revolt of the ordinary people against the Robber Barons and their Gilded Age. We've come full circle to a new Gilded Age, to the need for Reform Era II. Will art play its role? At least one crew of film-makers thinks so.

Shooter

Yesterday was about Honor.
Today is about Justice.

Paramount 2007

Movie Database --
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/

The story opens in media res (in the middle of things), with USMC Force Recon sniper scout, Bob Lee Swagger, and his spotter, Donnie Fenn, covering the retreat of contractor-mercinaries. The mercenaries have just massacred a 400-person village in Ethiopia to drive through an oil pipeline. They're being pursued by Ethiopian military forces.

The two Marines are on loan-out and are ignorant of the reality in which they're participating. Donnie asks Bob Lee, "You sure this is a peace-keeping mission?"

The sniper team takes out one threat -- a vehicle carrying a heavy machine gun -- and starts to pack up for extraction. Suddenly a company-strength group of hostiles appears, with an armed helicopter overhead.

Fighting like tigers, the two Marines stop the ground forces about 600 yards out. Donnie fires his 40 mm grenade launcher into their midst, blowing up several.

Oops. Long-range 40mm grenades? According to Jane's, the M203 grenade launcher has a max range of 400 meters, with a max area range of 350 meters, and a max point range of 150 meters. The knowledgeable viewer is lost in HollywOOOd again. The accepting viewer, the one who has thoroughly suspended disbelief, fights on -- sticking himself into the sniper teams's military prowess.

The 600-yard M203 shot is just one of many tech/continuity errors in the film. Tear 'em down, laundry-list them, or ignore them. One way or another, you'll do some kind of work-arounds for a "Congressional Medal of Honor" (not "Congressional" for a very long time); the urban legend of a duct-taped 1-liter plastic pop bottle making an effective, multi-shot silencer for a rifle; 200-yard head-shot kills with a .22 rifle; Bob Lee calculating the shot on the Archbishop as being just beyond 1800 yards and then, later, asking the old man of the rifle if he knows who can make a 2200-yard cold-bore shot; after being a righty shooter all film long, you watch a glacier-top scene in which Bob Lee's left index finger curls around the trigger as he adjusts his scope for windage with his right hand, not only switching hands for film-maker's convenience but violating trigger-finger discipline before being ready to make a shot (an alien thing to a Marine sniper); and, in the AG's office, Bob Lee and Nick Memphis, despite training in the law of nations that their characters would've undergone, suddenly forget that the colonel can't be tried in the US for allegedly murdering 400 villagers in Ethiopia.

But then the strafing helicopter swings around for another pass and Donnie is killed. Bob Lee shoots out the rotor and the chopper goes down with -- fade to black, long pause, and then back to bright with the low-center title, "36 Months Later".

And so it goes. Throughout the film, the first-time viewer is pointed off the plot and sub-plots by action scenes. Plot and sub-plots are pieced together -- laboriously, if at all -- with short backward glances provided by dialog in later scenes.

Strangely, this SOP almost works. It's art mimicking life. It's how you would have to figure things out on the fly if you were personally involved -- if such a plot and sub-plots were being hidden from you-the-Bob-Lee-like-protagonist. However, the antagonists acting out their side of the story do not give the viewer sufficient help. Their main story-line job is to carry the action, not to develop the plot. Plot development scenes too ofter happen with only tenuous connection to the story.

Again, the film's apologists win. Plot and sub-plots in this one are not auto-marginalized -- with unmentioned problems or anything else. The real-world corruption machines of the American and global empires of fascist corporatism (govt plus corporations), fraudulently using tax-dollar-paid private armies of mercenaries to grab obscene profits and power are widely suspected, if not fully-documented reality. The issue cannot be pushed off onto a margin because writers conveniently and intentionally omit relevant details. All relevant details are there. One way or another, the issue will have to be dealt with -- if justice, democracy, and freedom are to survive in America.

The plot is the fraudulent and murderous mis-use of contractor-mercenaries for the gaining of profits and power. The plot includes the wrongful death of Donnie Fenn, the recruitment of Bob Lee as an Oswald-like patsy for the assassination of the Archbishop of Ethiopia. The Archbishop is in the US to name names and other truths about the 400-person village massacre that resulted in the film's opening action. Such truths are worth a killing in the corruption machine's ethos.

Bob Lee is suckered in far enough to become the unwitting spotter for the operator of a computer-aided, remotely fired, large-caliber weapon system. Bob Lee, watching the wind going calmer on flags and streamers around the podium, tells the weapon system operator to shoot by telling the mercenary colonel and others that they have to nab the operator NOW.

A moment before the bullet lands on the Archbishop's head, a local cop, standing behind Bob Lee, shoots and wounds Bob Lee -- twice. Bob Lee is out the window, literally and figuratively. As he escapes down the street against all odds, the antagonists act out little backward glances into plot development.

They've stolen Bob Lee's rifle from his mountain home. They set up the rifle to create a crime scene, complete with one piece of fired brass -- an empty cartridge. Now Bob Lee is on the run as a murder suspect. Bleeding badly, the antagonists expect him to bleed out and die before he can become a real problem. But, of course, he doesn't, and he does become a real problem.

He embroils greenhorn FBI Special Agent Nick Memphis into training up as his new spotter. We're off to the rock and the hard place, with stops at the old man of the rifle's Tennessee home and the Virginia farm of a former brutal sniper who could have made the shot on the Archbishop. The brutal former sniper is wolf-bait wired to a tree, and the farm is a mercenary trap that turns into a wild shoot-em-up. But, as the trap is closing, Bob Lee secretly tapes the former sniper's testimony concerning the village massacre that the Archbishop's murder covers up.

The tape recording propels the plot to its ending in gun-barrel justice.

SUB-PLOT ONE -- the connection between
human expert and computer-aided machine

The colonel from nowhere with many names recruits Bob Lee to set up a US Presidential assassination scenario so that the assassination can be understood and stopped. The assassination, according to intercepts that the colonel holds, will be done with a shot taken from beyond a mile. He doesn't say that the real target is the Archbishop.

Bob Lee to the colonel: "You know what it takes to make a shot at that range? Everything comes into play that far -- humidity, elevation, temperature, winds, spin-drift. The six to ten second flight time? You have to shoot where the target is GOING to be. Even the coriolis effect, the spin of the earth, comes into play. The President will be wearing body armor? That means a head shot. At over a mile? You believe there's a shooter involved capable of making that shot?"

Tough assignment for a human shooter. Child's play for a computer-guided rifle system.

"Then you got a real problem. You need to find the shooter."

Of course, the colonel has already found the shooter. He's the contractor-mercenary under the colonel's command who will press the button to remotely fire a computer-aided, large-caliber, rifle system. What the colonel needs is a highly motivated, expert spotter, like Bob-Lee -- watching for windage corrections near the podium -- to be shot down like a patsy dog when the job is done.

After much suspicious stuff of conspiracy flies together at the FBI field office and is ignored by those agents sold out to the FBI's dominant cultures, greenhorn FBI guy, Nick Memphis, runs his own investigation. He finds tripod-feet holes in a steeple's wood flooring. He goes to an free-Wi-Fi coffee shop, gets into a firearms-related chat room and finds a weapons expert.

Nick chats live -- What weapons system requires a tripod with leg dimension's of 43" x 43" x 29"?

Too easy (the chat comes back). M-3. Supports a wide variety of weapons up to a 50 cal machine gun.

Why would you run a 100 meter cable approx 1/4" to such a system?

Try this -- http://www.precisionremotes.com

Nick clicks on the hot link and gets a page titled, "Trap T-250 Tactical Remote System". A brief video shows a big, large-caliber, machine-like rifle fired twice by remote control.

Nick recoils with the epiphany.

Needless to say, the viewer has to work for this info. The director's SOP of point 'em off with action is at work throughout the coffee shop scene. The tiny live chat lines at the bottom of Nick's laptop go by quickly, with distractions.

This is an action flick first, a message flick second.

Still, you don't know that the contractor-mercenaries are watching Nick's chat until some disconnected time later. But you do know that good-hearted FBI admin secretary, super-foxy Rhona Mitra, helps greenhorn Nick past many obstacles. The good-guy crew has a chance of winning this one.

SUB-PLOT TWO -- Justice
I don't think you understand.
These boys killed my dog.

Here's the beef. This is what it should cost predators in positions of trust who viciously and maliciously turn American patriots into murderers for oil and empire -- for greed-driven profits and corruption-driven power -- just before tossing the patriots into yesterday's stinky garbage. This is what should happen to dissembling predators whose corruption machines and cooperative cronies put them above the law while removing any possibility of their being criminally prosecuted for their heinous crimes against our Constitution and laws.

They should be brought to justice, by hook or by crook.

After the opening action in Ethiopia, and after our briefly reviewing Bob Lee's lifestyle 36 months later, the contractor-mercenary colonel is given a briefing on Bob Lee at Langley. Some high suit intros Bob Lee Swagger as "the best there is" -- a sort of White Feather hyperbole. (Several hundred world-class, long-range shooters chuckle and chat among themselves.)

Some low suit says, "His last assignment? Went wrong. Went into unfriendly territory on a loan-out and was left as expendable. ... The agency asset that left him to die? Suddenly removed from the face of the earth two weeks after. They never laid it at Bob Lee's feet. He retired a week later."

In case-hardened arrogance and short-sighted dismissiveness, the colonel from nowhere remarks that Bob Lee probably didn't agree that he was expendable.

No consideration of deep-core vigilante justice. No consideration of proscription in lieu of justice. Just chalk it up to surface revenge and trite indignation.

This from the colonel who flashes penetrating people-reading all over Bob Lee's character to explain why Bob-Lee is the perfect patriot patsy needed for the Archbishop's murder. The people-reading omits that patriot Bob Lee has a penchant for justice. It omits that, when the dust is down, all patriots have a penchant for justice.

But then, the mercenary arrogance includes the conviction that Bob Lee will be killed along with the Archbishop. Dead men wreak no justice.

Fast forward past the Archbishop's murder; Bob Lee's exciting escape; Donnie's super-foxy widow, Sara, medically saving Bob Lee's life and her help sucking Nick Memphis into Bob Lee's orbit; Bob Lee's cold-blooded come-back; greenhorn Nick Memphis' growth into a stand-up spotter and partner; and a glacier-top, gut-wrenching meeting with the colonel and his boss, the six-term Senator from Montana.

On the glacier, it's all about the insanities of money. Democracy, freedom, and justice -- all in the toilet.

The evidence against Bob Lee is his rifle -- supposedly used to kill the Archbishop. It's been in FBI custody since the Archbishop's murder.

In a post-glacier meeting in the US Attorney General's office, stand-up Nick Memphis slips Bob Lee a live round for his rifle, which is set up on a table. Bob Lee admits that it's his rifle, slips the live round into the chamber, points it at the colonel, and pulls the trigger.

Snap. No shot.

Bob Lee explains that before he left his mountain home, he switched out all of the firing pins in all of his rifles. It's his SOP. The wrong firing pins look like they'd do their jobs, but they won't. They're too short.

Bob Lee's innocence established, the colonel rants and raves his way out of the meeting. There's no evidence that can be used to charge and hold him.

The AG commiserates with Bob Lee and Nick Memphis. "But this is the world we live in. And justice does not always prevail. This is not the wild west, where you can clean up the streets with a gun -- even though sometimes that's exactly what's needed."

Obviously, the AG is making his speech to the wrong guy. Bob Lee, already the vigilante with advanced Force Recon skills, is exactly the man to clean up the streets with a gun.

Fade to the Montana Senator's mountain retreat. Senator and colonel booze back, admiring their work. A dead body drops from the second-story balcony, the colonel stands and takes two in the chest, a mercenary machine-gunning the floor is shot, the Senator's bean-pusher is shot, and then the Senator is shot.

Bob Lee lays the pistol that killed the Senator on the colonel's dead chest, unslings an M4 carbine to butt-stoke a natural gas pipe connection open and walks into the night as the posh hideaway blows up.

Donnie's widow, Sara, is waiting in a running-warm sedan, just down the snowy road.

Forensics will undoubtedly find a mercenaries attack on the Senator somehow gone wrong. Nothing to lay at Bob Lee's feet.

Gun-barrel justice. Overkill? Naaah.

The corruption machines are still up and running -- in the fiction's afterglow and in reality. Until the corruption machines are minimized, human weakness and greed will be like one hard-hearted Hannah right after another.

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They say an hour spent with Hannah
Gazin' deep in your eyes,
Is like sittin' on the South Pole
For tellin' lies.
That's hard-hearted Hannah ...

They say an hour spent with Hanna
Nibblin on your neck,
Is like takin' green water
On the very top deck.
That's hard-hearted Hannah ...

They say an hour spent with Hannah
Hangin' on your arm,
Is like divin' under sea ice
To get warm.
That's hard-hearted Hannah ...

They say an hour spent with Hannah
Snugglin' on your chest,
Is like climbin' stark naked
On Mt. Everest.
That's hard hearted Hannah ...

They say an hour spent with Hannah
Sittin' on your lap,
Is like back-strokin' to Iceland
Without a map.
That's hard-hearted Hannah ...

They say an hour spent with Hannah
Clingin' real tight,
Is like losin' your ears
To frost bite.
That's hard-hearted Hannah ...

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© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke
AAIGMBTY

Exorcising Election 2008 Demons

2008-05-18T22:51:00.142-05:00

Author's Note -- This is an expanded version of "No Fighting Chance" (DD Revival, 14 May 2008 -- Populist Party, 16 May 2008).
Against the backdrop of our privatized and gutted electoral system -- now little more than a superrich-controlled selection based on (1) the HAVA-invoked, politician-protected, and easily-hacked vote-counting software from Diebold, ES&S, and similar fascist corporatism thugs, and (2) the Republican-party mass squelching of opposition voters, using many criminal tactics at the states level -- Election 2008 will be a criminal sham several orders of magniture greater than the criminal sham of Election 2004.
The horrendous lawlessness and criminality of the Bush Regime, Congress, and the federal bench -- principal violators and accessories-after-the-fact of unconstitutional acts, anti-law felony conspiracies (i.e., passage of unconstitutional statute laws), blatant felonies against standing laws, and obstruction of justice -- will go unprosecuted. Clearly, none of the 2008 candidates of either major party has any intention of altering the govt's lawlessness and criminality.

The American Constitutional republic/democracy is ended. We need it back. Details count.

Part 1 -- Soldiers and Politicians

"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".

From the beginning, Rousseau's 1762 book was part of American predator elitism's understanding, cultural shaping, and social engineering.

Yes, the American elites of the 1770s to 1790s studied political history intensly -- to make sure that they would forever control the American people. They were true to their class, not to the new nation's Declaration Of Independence principles. Since ancient Rome, every freedom held by ordinary people has reduced the profits and power available to the predator elites. In political history, Rousseau's 1762 book is another outline of how predators can defeat freedoms -- while telling the lies that point off and sucker in the ordinary people.

Predator elites have understood the distinction between citizen and professional armies since ancient Rome. Citizen armies, owing their allegiance to the nation's constitution, help keep the politicians tied to the nation's freedoms. Professional armies, owing their allegiance to the generals who are commanded by the politicians -- and to the politicians themselves -- are simply co-opted to become morally blind, wealth-building tools.

Roman Consul and General, Marius, formed the first Roman professional army about 110 BCE. He took their allegiance for himself and away from the Senate, People, and Constitution of Rome. The Republic was all downhill from there, ending in the professional armies loyal to Ceasar. On the Ides of March, 44 BCE, Republic-loving senators murdered Caesar. The Republic hit the wall. Anti-Republic Roman elites, with the world's best professional armies out front, took over everything -- ending citizen lawmaking as a part of any nation's politics for about 1200 years.

(Citizen lawmaking's comeback in the 1200s happened in the tiny alpine confederation of Switzerland. Non-predator elites and ordinary people leaders brought together mountain-bound remnants of three nations. The Swiss were egalitarian citizens and fearless citizen soldiers when being those things was a universal death sentence. In their common cause against predator elites all around, they confederated across ancestral divisions to incorporate speakers of four different languages. The Swiss have been under steadily increasing economic, sophistry, and propaganda attacks by predator elites around the world for 800 years. Discrediting Swiss democracy and the Swiss people is a part-time job for every locus of predator elitism. Predator elites know that they cannot afford to have Swiss democracy spread to even one more nation. Under these attacks, the Swiss might have lost a step, they might seem discredited, but they are still a force of nature in the citizen lawmaking that benefits ordinary people. They are among the best of those few nations that are both socially and economically successful -- a very difficult tandem to achieve. In any fair comparison-contrast of social and ecoomic success, they make the US look mentally ill. Start with national healthcare -- NOT national health INSURANCE, but straight-up national healthcare. Go to CBR warfare (chemical-biological-radiological) and natural disaster preparedness -- in which every Swiss resident has an underground shelter -- all 7.5 million of them. Continue on through a very long list. We're not the ones who have democracy right. They are.)

American draft gone, we've lost our citizen army. The civilian population has a much smaller fraction now of military-trained individuals who retain their truth-seeking moral compass. Work-places have fewer duty-driven workers with military-based self-discipline, practiced "tone of command" verbal skills, illegal-order handling skills, and can-do attitudes -- co-existing in those same men and women with the belief that active and ex-military should defend and be loyal to the Constitution and the laws, no matter what illegalities the slime-bag politicians, generals, and admirals demand.

Across the society, there are now fewer who stand fast when given an illegal order, threatening to undo whatever evil they're facing. It is one of the rudders that citizen veterans give to their society. Professional soldiers are not trained to distinguish between legal and illegal orders, and so the professional veteran does not stand fast against the evil of those who give illegal orders.

We've lost what Rome lost when their professional armies took over. We've lost a principle-driven population within civilian society. Long after their military service, citizen veterans work to protect ordinary Americans and our principles against fascist corporatism and predator elitism.

We need to re-think the draft. It was, and could be again, a multidimensional contribution to our national well-being.

Supporting combat soldiers does not mean agreeing with the lies told by politician and predator elites. More harshly, it does not mean aggreeing with the soldiers' own misinformed and delusional rationales for being at war.

Our professional army is knee-jerk locked to all the lies that got us into the Iraq war. Their generals and admirals, repeating the lies ad nauseum, give our professional soldiers little choice.

Like the USMC sniper team of Bob Lee Swagger and Donnie Fenn in the opening action of the film, Shooter (Paramount, 2007, with Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger), our Iraq War For Oil combat veterans have little or no understanding of the financial, political, and anti-Constitutional realities in which they participate. Their patriotic beliefs have been used against them to sucker them into allowing the global predator elites to grab obscene profits and power over the dead bodies of US soldiers and the anguish of their families and friends.

Kissinger to Nixon, 1973: "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." (See the Woodward and Bernstein 1976 book, The Final Days.) Kissinger has been a Bush war advisor from the beginning in Afghanistan. Success aainst the Taliban allowed Bush's big oil buddies to immediately begin work on the $4 billion, 950-mile-long, "Baku-Ceyhan", Caspian Sea Oil Pipline, which the Taliban had been blocking for years. That pipeline today delivers crude to a conglomerate's station that fills up ships on the Mediterranean and delivers obscene profits.

Supporting combat soldiers means honoring their sacrifices to protect friends under fire. It means seeing inside and emphathizing with 'kill or be killed'. It means understanding and aiding battlefield skills that help keep them alive, both while their are in combat and after they return to civilian life. It means wishing and praying for their individual safety, honoring their wounds seen and unseen, and not accusing them of being policy-makers in aggressive war. It means admiring their personal courage and getting them out of war before they've made and seen too many corpses for the human mind to bear. It can include demanding exit from Iraq and and Afghanistan. It can mean criminal prosecution of the co-conspirators in the unconstitutional and felonious murders of our dead soldiers.

Support of our combat soldiers and a simultaneous demand for justice under our laws is all a seamless spectrum of citizen patriotism to the nation, its rule of law, and its people. The nation is all the people -- not just the anti-Constitutional fascist three-branch despotism posing as our national govt -- not just the anti-Constitutional and fascist corporations -- not just the anti-Constitutinal and fascist superrich-controlled Federal Reserve, Business Roundtable, and global secret societies.

We are not taking care of our nation. We are not taking care of our own. We are taking care of our lying politicians and our corrupting superrich.

Bush Regime propaganda continually compares our professional soldiers to the citizen soldiers of WW2, who justly overthrew the murderous aggressors of Hitler Germany, Mussulini Italy, and Hirohito Japan. In reality, away from the Bush Regime propaganda, our professional army is a murderous aggressor army under the command of Constitutional-violating generals.

Our professional soldiers are blocked from understanding the Iraq war's illegitimacy under national and international law. They're blocked from the legal reasoning that makes every soldier's death in Iraq a felony murder. Those felony murders, now over 4000, are a massive US govt and military leadership felony conspiracy against citizen rights.

Our soldiers were deprived of the right to be sent to war only after a declaration of war by Congress, in accord with the Constitution. The unconstitutional declaration of war by Bush is a blatant violation of Title 18, USC, Section 241. Bush is a felon-in-waiting.

Under the Constitution -- and clarified by the famous 1935 SCOTUS decision in Schechter Poultry, 295 US 495, in which Congress is barred from delegating any of its core powers -- no president has, or can ever have, the authority to declare war. Under the Constitution, war powers are purely a legislative function.

Presidential declaration of war is unconstitutional and automatically part of a felony conspiracy against soldiers' rights in violation of 18 USC 241.

With the first invasion-related death of an American soldier -- a felony murder under 18 USC 241 and punishable by life imprisonment or death -- Usurper Bush and all of his co-conspirators in the executive branch, Congress, and the federal bench became subject to indictment and criminal prosecution for capital crimes.

It makes no difference that Usurper Bush is a sitting president. Felony forfeits all immunities -- executive, legislative, and judicial. We can't bring civil suit against him while he's in office, but criminal prosecution for a felony or felony conspiracy is a whole 'nuther deal. Felony prosceutions are to go forward immeiately after the felony, no matter what the elected status of the suspect. And -- there is no statute of limitations for any co-conspirator in felony murder, no matter what his/her station in life.

We have the all the law we need. The criminal Bush Regime, criminal Congress, and criminal federal bench cannot obliterate the law. What we don't have is justice. The criminal Bush Regime, criminal Congress, and criminal federal bench do, in fact, obliterate justice every day, 24-7-365.

Criminal Congress. Our professional soldiers are blocked from understanding that this horrendous felony conspiracy to commit aggressive war in Iraq began in the illegal October 2002 votes of 373 members and senators in Congress. Those votes unconstitutionally and illegally gave Usurper Bush his very own war powers. All 373 are unindicted co-conspirators in the felony murders of all soldiers killed in Iraq. Felony forfeits all immunities -- executive, legislative, and judicial. If convicted, all 373, under the specification given in 18 USC 241, can be sentenced to life imprisonment or death. At best, their only proper place is in federal prison, stripped of their political, economic, and social power.

Pushing away the problems of publicly debating and justifying the declaration of a war of aggression, Congress dredged up the unconstitutional war powers given to Nixon. They said, see, this is old-hat stuff -- we're just doing again what's already been done -- as if two unconstitutinalities could equal something right and proper.

Usurper George Nazi Bush and his professional generals and admirals were off to the sure-thing fight of Gulf 2.

Oh my God, it is so perfect to spend other people's money and other people's lives to get power and profits for yourself. It's the natural law of getting and holding wealth that out-ranks all constitutions. It's the natural law of the right people surviving under Social Darwinism. It's the neocon law.

'The reservation' is the bedrock of our Constitution and laws.

Our professional army is off the reservation. Most soldiers don't know or understand.

The 3-branch fascist despotism masquerading as our national govt is off the reservation. Most politicians down through county level and most judges up through SCOTUS know and understand.

The demons will still be off the reservation, November 2008. We need to bring them in and send them off to their own hell.

Clearly, it can't be done with the computer fraud of Election 2008. With Diebold fraud and a fascist govt, voting cannot change anything.

We need an exorcism. We need the Mayan-predicted apocalypse of 2012 or something similar. We need something like the subtle wisdom of, for, and by the ordinary people that's due in the Mayan 5th Sun.

Any lesser exorcism is postponed on account of elites-driven social engineering and elites-driven cognative dissonance. What would we do without our fascist corporations to employ us and our major political parties to glue us together in the one true heaven of progress and economic growth? What would we do without our medieval belief systems to distort the facts of our anti-Constitutional realities?

We'll just have to wait for the excorcism.

With all the safety valves for change shut off by the elites, and with the heat cranked up to maximize middle-class destruction in the shortest possible time, there's only one thing that can happen to this pressure cooker. It will blow up -- 2012 apocalypse or no.

($700 billion pubic-money bailout of criminal financial corpoations for defrauding American families and the world with sub-prime deriviatives? There are approximately 112,000 American households. We could give every American household a million dollars for a total expenditure of less than $115 billion. This would bail out the Americans who have been victimized by the criminal financial corporations, as well as providing a solid stimulus to the national economy. Then the criminal financial corporations would be held closer to responsibility for their actions, held closer to court-room accountability for their legal wrongs, and more directly suffer the admonishments of a revitalized market place. Additionally, they will not be given hundreds of billions of dollars to play with any which way they please -- including one of their obvious goals in crashing derivitives into everybody, the killing of competition. Hello? Lights are on. Anybody home?)

Never forget. GW Bush is not a president. He is a presidential usurper. He was appointed by five fascist corporatism thugs masquerading as SCOTUS judges while they perpetrated one of the most heinous felonies against citizen rights in American history -- the appointment of a president not elected in accord with the Constitution. In addition to being a Constitutional usurpation, Bush's presidency is also a felony conspiracy as defined in federal statute 18 USC 241. As with all usurpations, Bush's presidency is, under age-old constitutional law principles, null and void from the moment of inception. Every action that he and his representatives have taken under color of law is null and void as well as criminal. Shut it down, delete everything since 20 January 2001, and begin the criminal prosecutions.

We've all the excorcism ingredients for figuratively killing off the predator demons in an American version of the French Revolution -- without the bloodshed and without having to make up the law as we go along. We can just strip the fascist corporatism rat bastards and rat bitches of their social, economic, and political power, giving them their due places in American history and American federal prisons.

Welcome to the coming exorcism.

Part 2 -- Social Justice Needed

ECHOING NO SOCIAL JUSTICE

In the US, post-WW1, 1919 to 1929, the three Republican presidential administrations -- Harding, Coolidge, Hoover -- were the Repub anti-social-justice spearhead. "The business of government is business", chirped predator elitist Cal Coolidge. The criminal Congress violated constitutional citizen rights wholesale. SCOTUS anchored the Repubs' assault on social justice, caging women and children in sweatshops without relief to set the paradigm of rich against poor. The superrich got richer and the poor got the proverbial nothing.

Throughout the 1920s, homegrown US fascist corporatism -- the competition-crushing combination of government and superrich oorporations -- learned from German industrialists, chiefly Krupp, how to secretly move money through international corporate mazes. The German industrialists' impulse to re-arm Germany for a bigger and better WW2 was matched by the US predators' greed for cash.

Fascist corporatists, in and out of the Republican-controlled US govt, began wiring down safety valves and the traditional self-correcting mechanisms. They held power and no panty-waist liberals need apply. Hate-hate-hate. Changes in American politics were verbotten.

Throughout the period's Repub literature, there's the scary assertion that not changing anything will allow "trickle-down" from the superrich to benefit those who are suffering. In reality, then and now, 'trickle-sown' is just another lame subterfuge thrown up by the greedy, by the greedy's parasites, by those who don't get it. Still, seeing the absurd 'trickle-down theory' appear in early 1930s writings is erie. Over and over, the historical failures of greed teach no lessons to the greedy.

Despite the horrendous suffering and anguish of millions of Americans, 1920s Repubs would hold the system rock-solid against change for three years into the Depression of the 1930s.

The first generation of predator elites, Hamilton and his gang, had closed off many avenues of possible change in the predator-controlled rep-govt-only system with their propaganda and sophistry bible, The Federalist Papers. But the Realpolitic (policy based on power and greed rather than on egalitarian ideals) of the 1920s Repubs moved far beyond the quaint sophistries of Hamilton. No changes allowed.

Now, with the resurgance of Repub Realpolitic, and with SCOTUS re-packed to 1920s wholesale criminality, every freedom and 14th Amendment right that reduces superrich profits and power teeters on the brink. Many freedoms and rights -- hallowed in the Constitution -- have already disappeared. Private property rights disappeared into New London, and no state law can overturn SCOTUS' federal law precedent, despite slime-bag politicians' revolution-quelling lies to the contrary. The superrich can have anybody's private property they want. Medical privacy is daad and gone along with communications privacy -- victims of govt convenience and outright wiretap criminality. The war on drugs has obliterated medical marijuana, keeping the pharmaceutical death industry's profits and power up. Aggressive war is SCOTUS-protected and can be used anywhere that will bring the Empire sufficient profits, regardless of squandered soldiers and squandered public monies. And on and on.

The long list of freedoms lost to superrich profits and power is nauseating. We need sweeping changes that result in a large injection of social justice.

CRASH

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, The murderous hardships spiraled tens of millions of ordinary Americans into their living hell. The Repubs still didn't get it.

When FDR labeled his 1932 reform proposals the "New Deal for the forgotten man", the Repubs didn't get it. They 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 FDR to an international conference at which he, FDR, could renounce about 90 percent of the reforms he'd promised in the run-up to election. The Repubs just didn't get it.

Repubs were irrational about the Great Depression from the beginning, and they became more irrational as FDR's try-anything practical politics improved the American situation. Repub descriptions of what FDR was doing were as disconnected from reality and as loaded with irrational hatred as any insanity has ever been.

Repubs haven't changed. They don't have enough imagination to change. They bring new cunning to cover their deeds, but they just keep echoing and re-running the same old greed tactics to financially rape everyone -- decade after decade after decade.

They don't get the coming depression that the subprime mortgage frauds have kicked off. 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.

Roughly 5,000 banks were crushed before Election 1932. Glass of 1933 had bank-saving devices. Gramm of 1999 does not. The Repubs don't get it.

They seemingly don't get how their wealth- and power-grabbing for the past seven years has fatally weakened the country. Although, clearly, those powerful predators at the very top could easily consider the nation as colateral damage in their war against all for profits and power.

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 minimal and equal education, its rule of law, and its culture of civilized dignity.

It's the equality bedrock needed by everyone, no matter how humble, no matter how rich, no matter whether they rise or not. Every society's well-being depends on the equalty bedrock. Take away the equality bedrock, get catastrophe. History shows, there's no more elites-lethal power in the world than simple human dignity sufficiently violated over time. Can you say, "40,000 French elites killed by French commoners in the French Revolution"?

Repubs of the predator elitist stripe just don't get it. They insist that clever acquisition of economic, social, and political power equals 'superior' and even 'deeply intelligent'. Clever and corrupt acquistion of such powers certainly equals many things criminal, but nothing superior, and nothing deeply intelligent.

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

If you have a psychopathic personality, you have no conscinece, no concern for how your decisions harm others. Psychopathic personalities have found their way into the upper reaches of predator elitism since ancient times. Since WW1, they've been promoted by the worst of the predator superrich to fill corporate and govt hierarchies. For Election 2008, they're an army of demons -- soldiers for the superrich in the war against all for profits and power.

Give the psychopathic predator elites an inch and they will race a mile to crash and burn. Big echos from the early 1930s. It would be ironic and entertaining if it were not for the fact that the crashes of predator elitism tend to damage and anguish millions of innocent-bystander Americans. Who do we see about that?

Oh -- us?

BUSH USURPATION -- ECHO OF THE 1920s

And now, with the Bush Usurpation -- a blatantly criminal presidency that has been null and void from its inception 20 January 2001, because SCOTUS violated the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution -- the predators seem to have closed off every remaining avenue of possible change.

Most members of SCOTUS are unarrested, unindicted, and unprosecuted co-conspirators in violation of 18 USC 241, felony conspiracy against citizen rights. This includes especially Scalia, the mouthiest of the felonious five who illegally sat Usurper George Nazi Bush into his presidential usurpation with the felonious decsion in Bush v Gore. No, Scalia, we don't need to get used to your criminality, and we don't need to change the Constitution. You and most other SCOTUS judges are clearly guilty of multiple counts of felony conspiracy against citizen rights in violation of 18 USC 241. Felony forfeits all immunities -- legislative, executive, and judicial.

We have enough law in place to indict, prosecute, convict, and imprison you and your fellow judicial felons for a very long time. We need only the justice and rule of law denied to us by the Bush Regime, Congress, and SCOTUS. Are we clear?

From the one-eyed fascist corporatists of Congress and SCOTUS, to executive agencies blatantly owned by the fascist corporatism they're suppoed to control, to elections openly privatized by HAVA and defrauded by Diebold flip-flop programming and computer hacking, to the co-opting of the Democratic party "leadership" into the anti-law Bush Regime -- those safety valves for change, those traditional self-correcting mechanisms of rep govt, are lost to us.

Stupidly, as they did across the 1920s, the predators keep turning up the heat on their no-safety-valve pressure cooker.

Illegal and unconstitutional war rages on in Iraq. Felony violations of citizen and POW rights multiply expoentially and go unpunished. The Department of Justice obstructs justice for anyone aiding the Criminal Usurpation or gouging millions out of American society (see Ken Lay run around for years). There's wholesale rape of the public treasury every day for the benefit of the superrich (see the unconstitutional Federal Reserve and its usurous, fraudulent, felonious, and unconstitutional "fractional reserve lending"). Bush's super-voo-doo economics cuts off monies to needy ordinary Americans. It's Bush's amped up version of Reagan's milquetoast voo-doo economics. After war expenses, corproate tax breaks, refusal to enforce corporate taxes, and corporate welfare greater than Reagan's by several orders of magnitude (see especially the $700 billion public-money bailout of criminal financial institutions who've defrauded American families and the world with subprime swindles) we have no money left for needy, ordinary Americans.

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

Part 3 -- Demons vs. Americans

FACIST SECRECY, TWISTED RICHES, AND DEATH

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 great preparation, if we could instantaneously transport to central Europe.

One minimal supereruption -- from Yellowstone or Long Valley -- would gut and/or bury about two-thirds of the US.

Inside the 600-mile kill radius of a minimal supereruption from Yellowstone, about 20 million unprepared Americans could be dead in the first 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.

And now we come to Election 2008. Safety-valve for change? Don't be ridiculous. It's demons deluxe. The slime-bag politicians have used HAVA to privatize elections into the Great Sham Diebold Selection. That's the superrich's 49-51 percent flip of any recorded votes, in almost any race, in almost any state. It's billionaire happiness through glitchy-kludge-hackable, vote-counting software that no ordinary American is allowed to review or monitor. Its the safety valve of fair elections wired down and eliminated by greed-driven superrich predators, in and out of govt.

The Great Sham Diebold Selection will name our next president, no matter your stupid beliefs in how elections should work. Reality check on how govt actually works: Michael Parenti's 2077, eighth edition, of Democracy For The Few. How our system should work doesn't count anymore. You 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 toys, despite the very loud din of electoral chaos from 2002 to now.

Hillary Clinton's compulsory healthcare INSURANCE might give her a win in the Diebold Selection of 2008. It's a horrendous piece of corporate welfare that will out-do the 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 Germany and Taiwan.

Catching the spirit, here? We've stuck with stupidity, in stupidity, on stupidity -- and dancing with demons. After nearly a decade of near-zero social justice, it's like the late 1920s all over again. It's complete with predator fascism's gouge-money-out-of-everything, but without the electoral system safety-valve.

FDR ECHO--THE FIGHTING CHANCE

We'd have to shut down the Great Sham Diebold Selection for this to work, 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 -- with the possible exception of Ron Paul -- is little more than a cookie-cutter copy of Usurper George Nazi Bush. Other than possibly Ron Paul, not a one of them gives a hang about the rule of law, the Constitution, or the hallowed principles of the Declaration Of Independence. If they did, they'd be thundering for indictments and criminal prosecutions of all our govt's criminals. The other candidates don't want the standing laws applied. They want little else than to be above the law with little Georgie.

Ralph Nader is an FDR echo. He's a social justice advocate, and he apparently wants to do it all inside the rep-govt-only system, just as FDR did. Whether he would remain a status quo guy if elected President remains to be seen. He's certainly street-smart enough to know that the status quo has got to go.

Sorry, Nader, staying inside the system is a no-go. Everything in there is perfectly controlled by the predator elites. You can't be elected and we can't get our Constitution back from inside the status quo system. Any antiquated notion you might still hold of a 3rd-party candidate's value being in the coercing of the major parties to consider new options is too inappropriate, too auto-marginalized, for us to support. The national emergency forced onto us by the predators won't wait for such niceties.

If Nader or any other social justice champion were elected President and stayed inside the rep-govt-only system, 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 dug deeply enough into Jimmy Carter's crash against the agencies. The footnotes in James Bamford's 1982 book, The Puzzle Palace, tell the story. Those footnotes should be put into a separate volume and titled, How Jimmy Carter's Presidency Was Lost.

Want a fighting chance? Want justice and the rule of law back? Tens of millions of us will have to get outside the system's corruption box. We'll have to crush the Diebold Selection fraud. We'll have to take Ralph Nader or someone very much like him with us. We'll need Nader's understandings of how to eliminate greed-driven corporate power.

We need an updated system adapted from the corruption-fighting of the early 20th Century's Reform Era: direct democracy, marshalling the people into their rightful sovereign citizen lawmaking to correct the rep govt legislatures when they go wrong; protective, history-recording citizen institutions, paralleling those of the rep govt's legislatures; top-to-bottom non-partisan rep govt, with political parties barred from all govt matters, and with a regional-to-national presidential primaries system replacing the predators' presidential conventions and "electoral college" corruption machines.

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 (still a substantial success after 73 years). The legacy is buried in 24 state constitutions, covered over with about nine decades of myriad state govt felonies. But the legacy is there, legal, waiting.

It can be done. We have the technology.

Nahhh. The do-nothing American people don't get it. They just don't get it. Some are blinded servile, with political beliefs wrapped in reality-defeating cognative dissonance. Most love pop culture and their liesure time above everything. They see govt as boring, unimportant, and something one must not expect too much of. Others see govt through ancient religious belief systems, expecting that the out-rushing Constitution will be matched by an in-rushing end of days and Rapture, despite the endless historical failures of self-fullfilling prophecy. They cheer the death of the Constitution and rule of law.

Nahhh. There's no fighting chance. There's too little critical thinking. Grin real big for the bosses. Wrap your cognative dissonance around your inappropriate belief systems. Block out reality. Shrivel up and die to the really great beat of the really loud music.

Still, some of us remain principle-centered and reality-driven. We see that exorcising the demons can be done. We see millions of Americans grasping at American principles, freedoms, and rights ineffectually. We keep hope.

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Last revised Wed 24 Sep 2008, about 10;40am CDT

An earlier version was published on the DD Revival and Populist Party web sites as "No Fighting Chance".

© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke

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No Fighting Chance

2008-05-14T08:08:00.015-05:00

--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.

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.

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.

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

© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke
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Revolution's Time-Warp

2008-04-07T00:53:00.007-05:00

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".

© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke

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Telecom Immunity--Barebones Congressional Felony

2008-03-04T09:10:00.020-06:00

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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© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke

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VA Service-Connected Disability

2008-02-08T07:58:00.000-06:00

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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© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke

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Open Letter To Gary North

2007-12-30T12:00:00.000-06:00

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

2007-12-24T09:16:00.000-06:00

"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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CIA Destruction of Torture Tapes--The CSW Op

2007-12-15T07:25:00.000-06:00

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

2007-12-08T01:19:00.001-06:00

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

2007-12-07T02:53:00.000-06:00

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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© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

AAIGMBTY

Telecom Immunity--Orwellian Nightmare Continued

2007-11-21T04:05:00.000-06:00

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.

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 --

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

AAIGMBTY

Google Incompetence--Blogspot Blacklisted

2007-10-30T13:23:00.000-05:00

Web host HMS outraces Google incompetency to win stupidity crown.

My recently-hired web host for my Direct Democracy League site, and for the ddleague email address that I've had for nearly eight years, is stuck in stupid money-grubbing.

They installed a new "spam firewall" for outgoing email that deems any Blogspot address as spam and bounces it. Non-spam blogs on Blogspot are now painted with the same evil as are the spam blogs -- known as 'splogs' since about 2005. As near as I can determine, 2005 is when Google started playing footsie with the spammer hardware, software, and sub-humans that should be hunted down and killed -- figuratively speaking, of course.

It's an annoying, money-grubbing trend in computerdom. Until we pay extra for additional hardware or software, Microsoft is on the virus hacker's side, Symantec is on the root-kit hacker's side, and Google is on the spammer's side.

My web host gets it. All I have to do, the support tech said, is upgrade to a dedicated server, and all this blacklisted Blogspot problem goes away. It's pure extortion.

My signature block on the ddleague email account includes 'DD Revival' -- that is, this blog -- and its Blogspot URL. I refuse to delete 'Blogspot' from my signature block to accomodate the web host's inflexible stupidity and money-grubbing. I want my email readers to have hot-links to both my DDL site and to my blog site.

The web host, Delaware-based "Host-My-Site" (HMS), is now blanket-rejecting all of my outgoing email. It makes no difference that one glance at the suspect email shows that it is a world away from spam, that it is simply routine email. It makes no difference that every "firewall" has a rules structure that allows for setting exceptions.

From one of my web host's support techs (via email) -- "...there's nothing that I can do to help, since the domain [Blogspot] is listed in ORDBS, etc, and if we allow them [Blogspot] to pass through our system, our mail servers may be blocked resulting in hundreds of thousands of email customers being blocked."

Another pack of corporate nazis. THERE VILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS, UND YOU VILL ENJOY IT. UPGRADE TODAY.

Google's not fixing their spam blogs problem has now made their problem mine. I hate when that happens, especially when it smacks of extortion. But Google's incompetence doesn't excuse the inflexible stupidity and money-grubbing of HMS.

In a more perfect world, one in which this country functioned under its Constitution and Rule Of Law, we would unlimber the Ricco Act and clip each racketeering computer corporation by a few hundred million dollars for every count of societal extortion. But in this superrich-defined world of money-power first and ordinary people last, the Rule Of Law is long-dead and buried. Corporations, in this world of zero accountability for the money-grubbing, can be brazen criminals.

My relentless abuse of HMS' dogmatic stupidity -- and my threat to become their worst PR nightmare -- may result in their terminating my DDL account before I can find a new web host. Expect trouble with the DDL site. And please use my new gmail addy for the time being (sneitzke the-at-sign gmail-dot-com).

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Modified Fri 02 Nov 2007, at 6:25am CDT

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Universal Health Care--Myth and Truth

2007-10-27T08:03:00.000-05:00

Mired Political Debate

No other developed nation's citizens have to live with the political debate over universal health care, to say nothing of the greed-driven lies that are part of that debate here in the US.

Kings, priests, and politicians have used a special political rubric since the tribal up-ramp to organized states. The special rubric elevates the speaker-author just for mentioning lofty issues and problems. But then the rubric dives into the muck and mire, instructing ordinary people to give up rights and life so that the governing, religious, and financial elites can have social, economic, and political power.

For example, the Inquisition Derivation: We must do everything we can to save the heretics' souls for the greater glory of God. Torture them to death or burn them at the stake -- and then bring us their gold, silver, and estate lands.

The Bush Derivation: We must do everything we can to save Islamic souls for Democracy and the greater glory of God. Gun them down, blow them up, torture them to death. Bring me their stray billions in cash in Brenner's diplomatic bags. Have Brenner break all the flow meters on the Iraqi pipelines so that my oil cronies can steal all they want. Allow my global central banker buddies all the war profiteering they can suck out of the "coalition of the willing" governments -- giving first priority to the private-owner central bankers of our own treasonous Federal Reserve. Give no-bid contracts to Cheney's Haliburton and to our private armies of mercenaries so that we cover up their treason. We gotta get outta here with all the money before the Yellowstone and Long Valley supervolcanoes blow up most of the western US, bury the breadbasket and national economy under several yards of volcanic glass, and shut off the sunlight for about a decade of global volcanic winter.

The Hillary Derivation: We must save the health of every American with universal health care insurance for the greater glory of warm fuzzy-wuzzy stuff. Have the superrich create hundreds of new insurance corporations that can gouge-rape the middle class a hundred times more than the Bush Medicare prescription corporations did. And then bring me the Diebold election selection. I wanna be the Prez. Let the Republicans find some way to gang-rape the middle class more than I can, and then the superrich will make one of them the Prez.

Of course, both Bush and Hillary are co-conspirators in the felony murders of US soldiers in Iraq. They should have been criminally prosecuted for that crime in 2003.

Hillary is one of the 373 members and senators of Congress whose October 2002 votes began the felony conspiracy to violate the rights of our soldiers -- the right to be sent to war only on the expressed order of Congress -- thereby violating 18 USC 241 and the Constitution's separation of powers -- war powers are a legislative branch function, not an executive branch function. Hillary's vote in the Senate was also an act of treason against the US, in accord with the Constitution's definition of treason, Article 3, section 3; and in accord with the finding of treason against the 1860s secessionist state legislators. Hillary's vote violated her oath to uphold the Constitution and its citizen rights, and the vote led to a war in which the vote gave aid and comfort to the domestic enemies against which US soldiers fought for their lives -- Bush and his minions being those domestic enemies. See especially, "Criminal Conspiracy and the Laws of War--Iraq".

But here's Hillary, five years later, still protected by the anti-Constitutional and illegal collusions that our 3-branch fascist despotism uses to obstruct justice and to overthrow Constitutional checks and balances. She's still living above the law -- when she should be in a federal prison along with the 372 other treasonous Congressional criminals in this heinous felony murder conspiracy against our soldiers.

And now she's a presidential candidate, hitching her star to the superrich and corporate profit motives of "universal health care insurance" -- and to the inevitable "adverse selection", with which the insurance corporations will maximize their profits by excluding those who most need health care.

Adverse selection might be subdued in the beginnings of any real Hillary program, but -- until we renew our Constitution to regulate corporations -- the superrich rule, and their corporations always win.

We need single payer universal health care -- not multi-payer universal health care insurance.

Getting there means understanding and clearing away the myths that the superrich's spin-masters and other liars have created to block our way.

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"The Case For Single Payer,
Universal Health Care
For The United States"

Outline of a talk given by John R. Battista, MD,
and Justine McCabe, PhD, Moodus, CT, 04 June 1999

Used by permission of Dr. Battista

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1. Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care as a right of citizenship? The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship. 28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems, while 1 (Germany) has a multipayer universal health care system like President Clinton proposed for the United States.

2. Myth One: The United States has the best health care system in the world.

Fact One: The United States ranks 23rd in infant mortality, down from 12th in 1960 and 21st in 1990.

Fact Two: The United States ranks 20th in life expectancy for women down from 1st in 1945 and 13th in 1960.

Fact Three: The United States ranks 21st in life expectancy for men down from 1st in 1945 and 17th in 1960.

Fact Four: The United States ranks between 50th and 100th in immunizations depending on the immunization. Overall US is 67th, right behind Botswana.

Fact Five: Outcome studies on a variety of diseases, such as coronary artery disease and renal failure show the United States to rank below Canada and a wide variety of industrialized nations.

Conclusion: The United States ranks poorly relative to other industrialized nations in health care despite having the best trained health care providers and the best medical infrastructure of any industrialized nation.

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[SN Note -- Much of Facts Two, Three, and Five above are due to the American medical industry's suppression of EDTA chelation therapy, beginning in the mid 1960s. EDTA chelation is a primary preventive-curative therapy in many countries for atherosclerosis -- the sludging of the vascular system. EDTA chelation is an IV-infusion treatment that, in a sufficient series, results in a biochemical cleaning of the vascular system. Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of many deadly and debilitating diseases triggered by its restricted blood flow, which inhibits the body's natural healing mechanisms. The list includes such killers as heart disease, stroke, cancer, adult onset diabetes, gangrene, and kidney failure -- diseases from which the medical industry makes obscenely excessive profits.

Having received a 25-treatment series of EDTA chelation from an outside-the-VA doctor as a gift from a colleague, July 2005 to February 2006 -- at a time when atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease had me close to death -- I can testify to its success in the cleaning of the entire, head-to-toe vascular system. (Coronary artery disease is nothing more than system-wide atherosclerosis that especially effects the coronary artery in a particular patient.)

The balloon angioplasty offered to me by VA Medical would have opened only several inches of just the coronary artery near the heart. At the same time, it would have left all the systemic vascular sludge in place to continue blood-flow restrictions throughout the body and to cause other life-threatening diseases. Some few years later, sludge from the rest of the vascular system would have migrated into the ballooned and stinted coronary artery, re-sludging it, and repeating the need for balloon angioplasty or even on to open-heart surgery.

Without the suppression of the relatively inexpensive EDTA chelation, the medical-pharmaceutical industry would lose hundreds of billions of dollars every year from hospitalizations, surgeries, and prescriptions. Losses in health care insurance would be similarly catastrophic to those gouging corporations.

Suppression of EDTA chelation starts in the National Institutes of Health, Congress, and health insurance board rooms and carries down through medical school curriculums, hospitals, and county medical boards with the use of many tactics. Of course, the suppression is upheld by Medicare, Medicaid, and VA Medical.

The heart of the matter: the probable cost-effective adoption of EDTA chelation as a preventative-curative treatment for atherosclerosis is surely one of the leading reasons that the US does not have universal health care.

Artherosclerosis, and its spin-off diseases, costs us over one million needlessly early deaths every year. The disabling diseases and early deaths take loved ones and friends, causing wide circles of unnecessary anguish and grief. The hard medical science done from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s could have halted the unnecessary anguish and grief repeated among millions of Americans every day. However, hard science and medical ethics were eclipsed by the mid-1960s-development of the heart-lung machine and the advent of hugely expensive and unnecessary open-heart surgeries by the thousands every year.

Forget Lasagna's modern version of the Hippocratic Oath. Since the mid 1960s the American medical industry -- in league with the pharmaceutical industry, our fascist national government, and medical insurance corporations -- has not followed the prior work of eminent medical scientists. For all those years, the American medical industry has followed greed. This combination of industries and government has been a world-class evil, historically second only to the Nazi Death Camps. With over 30 million needlessly early American deaths since the mid 1960s, the medical industry's use of artherosclerosis for profit and power, while suppressing EDTA chelation, is the American Holocaust.

Happily, not all doctors are part of the medical industry.

There is a large, cogent literature that backs my claims here. See especially the biblio page, EDTA Chelation Therapy, on Dr. Elmer Cranton's web site. Health food stores with good book sections are good resources for print media and books on EDTA chelation.

Clearly, we need a single payer, universal health care system in which EDTA chelation is not corruptly and greedily suppressed, but is freely available. Universal health is not liberal, conservative, capitalist, socialist, or communist. Universal health does not have an ideological label. End, SN Note]

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3. Myth Two: Universal Health Care Would Be Too Expensive.

Fact One: The United States spends at least 40% more per capita on health care than any other industrialized country with universal health care.

Fact Two: Federal studies by the Congressional Budget Office and the General Accounting office show that single payer universal health care would save 100 to 200 Billion dollars per year despite covering all the uninsured and increasing health care benefits.

Fact Three: State studies by Massachusetts and Connecticut have shown that single payer universal health care would save 1 to 2 Billion dollars per year from the total medical expenses in those states despite covering all the uninsured and increasing health care benefits.

Fact Four: The costs of health care in Canada as a % of GNP, which were identical to the United States when Canada changed to a single payer, universal health care system in 1971, have increased at a rate much lower than the United States, despite the US economy being much stronger than Canada’s.

Conclusion: Single payer universal health care costs would be lower than the current US system due to lower administrative costs. The United States spends 50 to 100% more on administration than single payer systems. By lowering these administrative costs the United States would have the ability to provide universal health care, without managed care, increase benefits and still save money.

4. Myth Three: Universal Health Care Would Deprive Citizens of Needed Services.

Fact One: Studies reveal that citizens in universal health care systems have more doctor visits and more hospital days than in the US.

Fact Two: Around 30% of Americans have problem accessing health care due to payment problems or access to care, far more than any other industrialized country. About 17% of our population is without health insurance. About 75% of ill uninsured people have trouble accessing/paying for health care.

Fact Three: Comparisons of Difficulties Accessing Care Are Shown To Be Greater In The US Than Canada (see graph).

Fact Four: Access to health care is directly related to income and race in the United States. As a result the poor and minorities have poorer health than the wealthy and the whites.

Fact Five: There would be no lines under a universal health care system in the United States because we have about a 30% oversupply of medical equipment and surgeons, whereas demand would increase about 15%.

Conclusion: The US denies access to health care based on the ability to pay. Under a universal health care system all would access care. There would be no lines as in other industrialized countries due to the oversupply in our providers and infrastructure, and the willingness/ability of the United States to spend more on health care than other industrialized nations.

5. Myth Four: Universal Health Care Would Result In Government Control And Intrusion Into Health Care Resulting In Loss Of Freedom Of Choice.

Fact One: There would be free choice of health care providers under a single payer universal health care system, unlike our current managed care system in which people are forced to see providers on the insurer’s panel to obtain medical benefits.

Fact Two: There would be no management of care under a single payer, universal health care system unlike the current managed care system which mandates insurer preapproval for services thus undercutting patient confidentiality and taking health care decisions away from the health care provider and consumer.

Fact Three: Although health care providers fees would be set as they are currently in 90% of cases, providers would have a means of negotiating fees unlike the current managed care system in which they are set in corporate board rooms with profits, not patient care, in mind.

Fact Four: Taxes, fees and benefits would be decided by the insurer which would be under the control of a diverse board representing consumers, providers, business and government. It would not be a government controlled system, although the government would have to approve the taxes. The system would be run by a public trust, not the government.

Conclusion: Single payer, universal health care administered by a state public health system would be much more democratic and much less intrusive than our current system. Consumers and providers would have a voice in determining benefits, rates and taxes. Problems with free choice, confidentiality and medical decision making would be resolved.

6. Myth Five: Universal Health Care Is Socialized Medicine And Would Be Unacceptable To The Public

Fact One: Single payer universal health care is not socialized medicine. It is health care payment system, not a health care delivery system. Health care providers would be in fee for service practice, and would not be employees of the government, which would be socialized medicine. Single payer health care is not socialized medicine, any more than the public funding of education is socialized education, or the public funding of the defense industry is socialized defense.

Fact Two: Repeated national and state polls have shown that between 60 and 75% of Americans would like a universal health care system (see The Harris Poll #78, October 20, 2005).

Conclusion: Single payer, universal health care is not socialized medicine and would be preferred by the majority of the citizens of this country.

7. Myth Six: The Problems With The US Health Care System Are Being Solved and Are Best Solved By Private Corporate Managed Care Medicine Because They Are The Most Efficient

Fact One: Private for profit corporation are the lease efficient deliverer of health care. They spend between 20 and 30% of premiums on administration and profits. The public sector is the most efficient. Medicare spends 3% on administration.

Fact Two: The same procedure in the same hospital the year after conversion from not-for profit to for-profit costs in between 20 to 35% more.

Fact Three: Health care costs in the United States grew more in the United States under managed care in 1990 to 1996 than any other industrialized nation with single payer universal health care.

Fact Four: The quality of health care in the US has deteriorated under managed care. Access problems have increased. The number of uninsured has dramatically increased (increase of 10 million to 43.4 million from 1989 to 1996, increase of 2.4% from 1989 to 1996 -- 16% in 1996 and increasing each year).

Fact Five: The level of satisfaction with the US health care system is the lowest of any industrialized nation.

Fact Six: 80% of citizens and 71% of doctors believe that managed care has caused quality of care to be compromised.

Conclusion: For profit, managed care can not solve the US health care problems because health care is not a commodity that people shop for, and quality of care must always be compromised when the motivating factor for corporations is to save money through denial of care and decreasing provider costs. In addition, managed care has introduced problems of patient confidentiality and disrupted the continuity of care through having limited provider networks.

8. Overall Answer to the questions: (1) Why doesn’t the US have single payer universal health care when single payer universal health care is the most efficient, most democratic and most equitable means to deliver health care? (2) Why does the United States remain wedded to an inefficient, autocratic and immoral system that makes health care accessible to the wealthy and not the poor when a vast majority of citizens want it to be a right of citizenship?

Conclusion: Corporations are able to buy politicians through our campaign finance system and control the media to convince people that corporate health care is democratic, represents freedom, and is the most efficient system for delivering health care.

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Friends and Enemies of the Constitution

2007-10-03T08:15:00.000-05:00

There is a simple dignity in Constitutional perceptions. Hundreds of millions of Americans and out-landers engage in those perceptions. Tyrants throughout history have had to re-learn that there's nothing more lethal than simple dignity violated. In his insanity, Hitler rode the lethality of simple dignity violated all the way to his nation's Götterdämmerung. How insane is Bush? How insane will his appointed and Diebold-certified political descendants be? What are we buying into?

Friends of the Constitution

US District Judges Victor Marrero of New York and Ann Aiken of Oregon, are two friends of the Constitution. They've recently struck down as unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act.

On 06 September 2007, Judge Marrero ruled that the FBI's use of the infamous "National Security Letters" violates 1st Amendment rights (primarily because of the secrecy involved) and the separation of powers (by giving judical functions to the FBI, an executive-branch agency).

Those are blatant violations of the Constitution. What the hell was Congress thinking? That no one would notice?

And it's not like Congress blundered into those blatant violations accidently. This is the second ruling Judge Marrero has issued, finding NSL use unconstitutional. The two rulings are very similar, as are the provisions struck down.

The first ruling was in 2004, in Doe v Gonzales. The judge's ruling was appealed to the 2nd Circuit by the mostly-criminal DOJ, who wouldn't know a blatant Constitutional violation from a baseball bat swat to the mouth. Refusing to take the judge's chastising lying down, our criminal Congress swept in behind the 2004 ruling, tweaking the NSL unconstitutionalities. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Judge Marrero to review Congress' re-work for constitutionality.

Second review. Second slap-down.

On 26 September 2007, Judge Aiken ruled on Mayfield v. USA. She found that sections 1804 and 1823 of the FISA (amendments installed by the Patriot Act) violated the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement and its guarantees against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The judge affirmed that no part of the Bill of Rights can be suspended for the convenience of the national government -- no mattter what Usurper Bush or any other part of the 3-branch fascist despotism says, including especially Congress.

Judge Aiken, along with millions of Americans, did not like the Patriot Act's blurring of foreign intelligence-gathering with criminal investigations of US citizens. She observed, "Now, for the first time in our Nation's history, the government can conduct surveillance to gather evidence for use in a criminal case without a traditional warrant, as long as it presents a non-reviewable assertion that it also has a significant interest in the targeted person for foreign intelligence purposes".

Well -- not after Judge Aiken wrapped up her ruling. She branded the two Patriot Act contributions to Bush-brand, Congressional-driven totalitarianism as unconstitutional. Their use is now forever banned.

Well -- until the fascist despotism can get her ruling into the hands of the SCOTUS thugs.

It's just a matter of time. We've had nearly seven years to see that the anti-Constitutional pushers of Bush-brand fascist power rule here, not friends of the Constitution.

Implications for the Protect America Act

Judge Aiken's ruling is huge. It reaches beyond the Patriot Act's gutting of FISA and slaps down both the warrantless wiretapping of the Protect America Act and Congress' passing of the PAA. Clearly, warrantless wiretapping violates the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement and its guarantees against unreasonable searches and seizures -- just as does the Patriot Act's end-run around FISA judicial oversight.

These are blatant unconstitutionalities -- on a par with the 2006 MCA's ex post facto immunity for torturerers. What the hell were the Congressional bozos thinking? That no one would notice?

Outing The Constitutional Criminals

Where do we find the ethical morons for Congress? Well sure, there are the zero-conscience psychopathic personalities promoted by elites since WW2 throughout business, government, the military, and the political parties. (See Hervey Milton Cleckley's book, The Mask of Sanity, the essential analysis of the well-masked psychopath, who doesn't give a tinker's damn how much he/she hurts you.)

Why don't we make moves to unhinge our criminal Congress from its many corruption machines? Hey. It can be done. We the people are the sovereign here.

All we have to do is to put reality above our belief-systems-controlled cognative dissonance, chew our way out of our socially engineered cocoons, find common ground across the hundred or so divisive issues socially engineered by the predator elites to keep us divided among ourselves -- so that we don't mess with them -- and then learn how to fight outside the box of our pure representative government, because the predators have everything inside the box, from Diebold elections to demonstrations, to anti-Constitutional governance, under control.

See? No problem.

There are unconstitutional laws on our books that date far into our past, giving the corruption machines life. See the 1913 origins of the treasonous Federal Reserve and its money pump for its private owners, the anti-Constitutional personal income tax. See especially, Aaron Russo's 2006 film on those origins, "America--Freedom To Fascism"

Why do we tolerate the continued unconstitutional use and the cover given to such hoary anti-law regimes masquerading as laws? Why do we tolerate their coverup, whitewash, and stonewalling by the fascist thugs of the federal bench? Well, sure there's our societial-wide anti-intellectualism, historical ignorance, and near-zero political sophistication.

(For candid remarks by Constitutional enemy US District Judge James Fox on anti-Constitutional law, see the section, "Reverse Propaganda--16th Amendment" in the essay, "Russo's 'Freedom To Fascism' ".)

Enemies of the Constitution

If you participated in the Bush usurpation of the presidency, then you are an enemy of the Constitution. That felony conspiracy usurpation, begun by five of the SCOTUS judges in the 12 December 1999 ruling in Bush v Gore, violated 18 USC 241 by violating the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution. That felony conspiracy includes, at a minimum, then-president Clinton and his DOJ hierarchy, as well as GW Bush, Dick Cheney, and their DOJ hierarchy. Felony forfeits all immunities. All of the co-conspirators are felons-in-waiting. We need to criminally prosecute, convict, and imprison all of them. Their only proper place is in federal prison.

The only proper thing to do with the Bush Usurpation is to rule all of its actions taken under color of law as null and void -- from 20 January 2000 to date. It's an ancient constitutional principle that usurpations are null and void from inception, regardless of when the usurpation becomes legally recognized.

Null and void findings, of course, do not obliterate criminal acts. The 3-branch felony conspiracy to violate the rights of our soldiers -- the right to be sent to war only at the expressed order of Congress -- means that every soldier's death in Iraq is a felony murder, per 18 USC 241. (See especially, "Criminal Conspiracy and the Laws of War--Iraq".)

The penalties given in 18 USC 241 for a death due to a rights violation conspiracy include life imprisonment or death. The penalties define the death as felony murder. There's no statute of limitations on felony murder.

This felony conspiracy begins with the 373 members and senators in Congress who voted to give Bush his very own war powers, violating the Constitution's separation of powers and the 1935 SCOTUS decision in Schechter Poultry, 295 US 495. The number of co-conspirators goes up from there.

A long period of null and void, pseudo-lawmaking has happened before. In ancient Rome, Pompey defeated Sulla in a civil war and then, with help from the Senate, ripped a decade of Sulla's despotic, anti-republic laws out of the Roman legal fabric, returning Rome to the republic that it had been for nearly 400 years.

If the American people can learn how to fight their fascist government, the null and void ruling will be a natural. Then the criminal prosecutions for the catalog of felony conspiracy rights violations can proceed. Then the ripping out of anti-Constitutional Bush law, and law benefiting only the superrich and their corporate predators, can proceed.

An all-too-large number of federal judges are enemies of the Constitution. Presidential usurper Bush is an enemy of the Constitution, as are most members of his Regime. Every neocon on the planet is an enemy of the Constitution. The vast majority of elected office holders in Congress are enemies of the Constitution. Many, perhaps most, of the state legislators are enemies of the Constitution. And the vast majority, perhaps all, of the Business Roundtable CEOs are enemies of the Constitution.

Learning How to Fight

Clearly, we cannot go on giving away our responsibility for political matters to lying politicians. Well -- we can, but then they'll have to kill us.

We can't fight corrupt and criminal government by electing some few better representatives. The corruption machines inside the box are too strong and will overwhelm any few newbies.

We can't fight corrupt and criminal government with demonstrations, even if we run in a million-person march every week. The power realities and zero accountability of our fascist despotism are, as in Hitler's day, far too strong to bend to public opinion.

We need to get outside the box of pure representative government. We need massive, crippling boycotts of the worst corporations. We need a nationally organized system of jury nullification to keep state and federal judges from making up the law as they go along -- favoring money-power. We need to instill The Fear in all elected and appointed office holders by reducing state legislatures from partisan bicamerals to non-partisan unicamerals, on the still-successful 1934 Nebraska model.

In addition to Nebraska, there are seventeen other states in which citizens have the constitutional amendment initiative petition process. The CAI is citizen power that's able to reduce bicameral legislatures to unicamerals. (See especially, "History of the Nebraska Unicameral", on the Unicameral's site.)

(1) All legislators are fired, in preparation for the nonpartisan elections that will vote in about one-third the number for the unicameral. If the citizens of ten states go to nonpartisan unicamerals, it will mean that about 1500 to 2500 politicians will be outside looking in, with only about 500 to 850 new jobs to be filled. (2) The smaller number of legislators means astounding cost savings combined with more efficient lawmaking. (3) No conference committee to "compromise" between House and Senate requirements behind closed doors means sharply reduced corruption. (4) No omnibus bills -- instead, bills having only a single, votable topic -- mean easy decisions for the civil society whether to veto the Unicameral's bill with a citizen referendum. (5) Constitutionally defined state senatorial districts and equal numbers of reps across the districts -- to keep small districts safe from large districts -- means zero gerrymandering for Congressional purposes. (6) Clean-money requirements for the nonpartisan elections will mean that corporations and the superrich have sharply reduced corruption leverage.

As the Nebraska experience has shown, the nonpartisan unicameral is a winner for civil society.

As a political fight tactic, reduction of the corrupt partisan bicamerals will instill The Fear in all corrupt politicians. They will understand that we are coming for them, one way or another.

Because of the citizen lawmaking that exists in all CAI states, the people can be the unicameral legislature's second house when needed -- speaking for themselves, instead of being spoken for by charlatans and liars.

We need to reform the details of our national governance and alter the Constitution in significant ways. We need to make members of all three branches much more accountable for their malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance. We need to take away their dual-system politics -- the out-front, busy facade of fictions backed by divisive policies and behind-the-scenes criminalities. (See especially Michael Parenti's book, Democracy For The Few, the paradigm analysis of our predator-run, dual-mode politics.)

The Constitution needs serious changes and improvements, but there's no doubt that we need to keep it.

The chief reason for keeping the Constitution is that it contains, uniquely defines, and promises improvements for over two centuries of American rights, freedoms, and liberties. Those have been hard-won against the predator elites. We must not give them up.

Perceptions of the Constitution-as-container -- and its rights, freedoms, and liberties contents -- is one of the major reasons that our combat veterans have sacrificed themselves for over two hundred years. Ultimately, perceptions of that container and its contents -- and the promise of improvements over time -- have held us together as a nation for these two-plus centuries.

Simple Dignity

There is a simple dignity in Constitutional perceptions. Hundreds of millions engage in those perceptions. And, as tyrants and fascists through history have discovered, there is nothing more lethal than simple dignity violated.

Bush and his three-branch fascist despotism are way deep into greed. The violations of the simple dignity of the Constitutional perceptions of Americans are stacking up like Iraq war body bags.

In his insanity, Hitler rode the lethality of simple dignity all the way to his nation's Götterdämmerung. How insane is Bush? How insane will his Diebold-certified political descendants be? What are we buying into by letting this 3-branch fascist despotism survive?

Slow to anger, a people's simple dignity finds a way. When the way is found by and for American dignity, enemies of the Constitution will perish, figuratively and literally.

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Modified Wed 03 Oct 2007, at 2:05pm CDT

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

VA Medical--Reckless Endangerment Whims

2007-09-13T11:25:00.000-05:00

Yesterday, 04 September 2007, day 7 of pneumonia symptoms and the first day after the long Labor Day weekend, I got to the Muskogee VA hospital Emergency Room. They expedited me through the blood-work labs, chest x-rays, and EKG. No doubt anywhere. This was a blazing case of pneumonia, with both lungs heavily involved. Combined with my insulin-dependent diabetes, hypertensive heart disease, and the chronic Reiter's syndrome atrial fibrillation, it represented a substantial threat to my 66-year-old life.

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Once upon a time, not too long ago, a VA-Medical-entitled veteran with pneumonia was immediately hospitalized -- for at least the days needed to settle on the best treatment for the individual case.

Pneumonia is, after all, a virulent bacterial infection to which most Americans have little or no immunity. Best to stick the sicko in a hospital bed, while the initial load of industrial-strength antibiotics reduces the risk of spread.

On Monday, 27 August, I traveled from my home in Tulsa to the OK City VA Medical Center (hospital) to receive the results of some important blood tests. There was something really complicated hiding in among my insulin-dependent diabetes, heart problems, chronic renal failure, runaway triglycerides (documented over 1700 several times), high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, and recurring iritis (inflammation of the eye). I'd tested positive for the genetic marker, HLA B-27, establishing chronic Reiter's syndrome, as strange an autoimmune disease-set as can be imagined.

In addition to the test results, I also received what might very well be the Perfect Pneumonia. This could not have been anything other than a hospital-groomed, antibiotic-resistant, "superbug" pneumonia.

This is my third go-round with pneumonia. From this one's first nonproductive coughing -- Wednesday, 29 August -- there was no doubt about its action. It went straight to the lungs, with a surprisingly high quantity of infected phlegm.

Yes, I might have caught it anywhere. But a very short incubation period squares with its super-strong symptoms and points to the hospital exposure of a superbug on 27 August.

Yesterday, 04 September, day 7 of symptoms and the first day after the long Labor Day weekend, I caught the VA shuttle bus to the Muskogee VA Medical Center (hospital) Emergency Room. They expedited me through the blood-work labs, chest x-rays, and EKG. No doubt anywhere. This was a blazing case of pneumonia, with both lungs heavily involved. All of my vital and critical readings were dangerously wrong. Immediate medications were required.

Then I was parked in a waiting room near the ER and left alone for over an hour -- with my frequently shrieking coughs ringing up and down the hall. The conversations that sang back from the other waiting rooms along the hall were light-weight medicine with heavy-weight social event content and laughter.

When the doctor did arrive, he was the right stuff. Dr. Craig Glenn gave the best, most graphical presentation of my complicated and interacting disease components that I've ever seen a VA doctor do. Better yet, it was done with soul and interpersonal communicating. He asked questions, listened, drew out details, and made sense of my personal medical history in ways that no other VA Medical rep has ever managed.

He showed me that day's chest xrays on the computer, pointing out how the top parts of my lungs were clear of infection, but how the infection was massed in the middle and lower parts of both lungs, and especially in the right lung's lower lobe.

Right there, my sleep-deprived brain failed me. I should have said, The lung tops are clear because at mid-day Saturday, 01 September, I learned how to use fingers and thumb to manipulate my windpipe, causing "venturi-effect" increased velocities for the coughs. Under my fingertips, I could feel long chains of phlegm chunks rising from the lungs as upper chunks were being coughed out. That went on more or less continually until ealy Tuesday morning, when my windpipe was suddenly too sore to touch.

I began compressing the windpipe right at the top of the breastbone. Results were not as good, but there was some cough production. And then, also early Tuesday, the junk being coughed out suddenly changed color. Big red flag.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda -- but I didn't say those things. Instead, I blathered on about why and how the right lung's lower lobe had been constantly infected since the 1999 pneumonia. No VA doctor had paid attention before this. The lower-lobe infection had caused night-long bouts of coughing every day or two ever since. In my sleep-deprived world, this was important.

In this 2007 pneumonia, brain had been made more than a little crazy with sleep deprivation. Unproductive coughing had replaced sleep on Thursday, 30 August. Most of the very short sleep periods -- 15 to 20 minutes -- came with me braced in an upright sitting position on the edge of my bed. Most wake-ups came from toppling over. And as soon as I was horizontal, the adhesive phlegm rolled onto the vocal chords, resulting in explosive, unproductive coughing.

Beginning Thursday or Friday, reality had been largely replaced by a secret algorithm that was translating the unproductive coughing into the continuing sagas of three or four different nightmares. The more coughing, the more story line. I needed those story lines, but, despite Herculean efforts, I could not locate the encrypted files on my computer. (???)

The sagas had replaced thinking, too. It wasn't until early Tuesday, 04 September, that the color shift of junk coughed up made me realize that I had to get to an Emergency Room.

By then, I'd lost all track of medications routinely taken for my core conditions. When Dr. Glenn told me Tuesday afternoon how bad my vitals and blood sugars were, the realization that I'd not been taking my meds was like a collision. WHAT? I always take my meds. My heart can't live without those meds.

My need for meds made no difference to the political hack in charge at Muskogee.

Dr. Glenn was prohibited from keeping me overnight. No overnight? WHAT did you say?

"Push the veteran out the door" is a constant game in VA Medical, but this was ridiculous. The serious bacterial infection skyrocketed my risk of death from the diabetes and heart-problem tandem. I needed somebody to watch for and handle emergencies. I had none of my own meds with me and needed them all -- stat. Any surprise exertion or other stress under these circumstances was likely to be deadly.

The prohibition of an overnight was laid on by some unseen VA medicrat who spews cost-cutting policy for the Regime. The Muskogee facility, he reportedly said, was under "Divert". No hospital beds were available. Period.

I asked how much of my death-risk was automatically deleted by the facility's "Divert" status. No answer from Dr. Glenn. Lots of pooh-poohing from the nurse.

Dr. Glenn went back to the political hack three times with new arguments. No budging. No exceptions. No hospital room. "I'm sorry," Dr. Glenn said on each return.

It quickly got worse. There was no way for me to rent a hospital room away from the working halls. The rental could not be done because I didn't have my meds with me. WHAT? Who's in charge of Catch 22 around here? There's no way to buy the evening and morning doses that I need? Does the VA hospital pharmacy close down rather than serve in an emergency?

Am I just to go out by some roadside and maybe survive the night?

The last shuttle bus for Tulsa is long gone. It left at 3pm. It's now 4:30pm.

Here's the deal. Injection of antibotics (Rocepin), a ten-day series of more antibiotics in tablet form (Amoxicillin), a small bottle of cough syrup, and out the door.

Meds for my now-extra-dangerous core conditions? Forget it. Anybody concerned about the 338 blood sugar? 223 points over normal -- sloshing around in an enlarged left ventricle and enlarged left atrium (established by echo cardiogram at Muskogee, April 2002), both short-circuited by Reiter's syndrome electical malfunctions between brain and heart and running in steady A-Fib? Forget it. Super-high mortality rate for men over 65, you know. Forget it. Out the door.

Diabetic visual problems mean that I've not driven anything since early 1999. Dr. Glenn picks up the phone and calls the front desk. The call is two minutes long, tops. Doctor hangs up and says I've got a ride home waiting at the front desk. His nurse whisks me off in a wheel chair.

My ride home is an independent driver volunteer who shows up at around closing time whenever his family business allows the boss to indulge himself -- three or four times a week, he recons. This could not have been a set-up just for me. Judging from his cell-phone traffic during the drive, his appearance at Muskogee VA that day had been chancy stuff. Luck of the draw.

So the nightmare continues. Three souls on board the volunteer's vehicle. Two of them don't know that they're riding with a Perfect Pneumonia in full bloom.

Home again. I wolf down my meds and inject the two different insulins, now roughly five hours later than what should have been done at Muskogee. Was it soon enough to avoid heart attack and/or stroke? Was the stress of delayed meds sufficient to trigger a heart attack or stroke at some additional stress a week or two in the future?

My experience with fast-acting and slow-acting insulins hammers the 318 blood sugar at 9:31pm Tuesday down to a 107 (normal) at 2:24am Wednesday.

I live alone. Nobody to watch over me. This should be a factor in VA Medical decisions. Clearly, it's not. Handle the emergencies your own self -- and get lucky -- or die.

VA patient safety is a feel-good fiction spewed by the political hacks for the worker bees. The reality is VA patient cost-cutting for the Regime -- where the seeming accidents of policy (e.g., "divert") and the judgment calls of political-hack medicrats can cover up the evidence.

Where the evidence can't be covered up, the VA computer-system "Progress Notes" for each patient are broadly used to diminish the patient's actual medical condition down to something that does not need urgent care. In my pneumonia case, the Musokgee "Progress Notes" are a collective effort of omit-anything-inconvenient, lie-your-butt-off, and purge Dr. Craig Glenn right out of existence.

There's more reckless endangerment of life just outside the VA hospital beds than there is in them. And the zero accountability of the political-hack players means that reckless endangerment will go on and on, no matter how many wrongful deaths it chalks up.

Well -- until we disappear the whole system.

VA Medical should have disappeared into universal health care decades ago. Low-income two-year-olds in the ghetto, barrio, or on the reservation are as much our human resources as are combat veterans. We owe them and ourselves their well-managed health.

But no, no, you can't go around doing something that capitalists can label 'socialist' or 'communist'.

No, no, first do no harm to the billionaires. Let Hillary's healthcare insurance schemes feed the billionaires with new corporations gouging everything the traffic will bear out of the middle class. That way the Democratic Party can privatize the rape of ordinary people even more than the Republican Party did with Bush Medicare prescriptions. Then the superrich will reward the Democrats with Diebold election selections -- until the Republican Party figures out an even bigger gouge-rape to feed the billionaires.

Sickenly, labels are still more important than universal health. Universal health is still comething "socialist" and evil. And we're still on the seemingly endless agenda of the superrich -- money-power first, ordinary people last. Sickenly, ordinary people are supporting that agenda in utter disregard of their own interests.

But watch your six, superrich. We're gaining on you. As Dr. Hunter Thompson started saying soon after the Election 2000 Bush usurpation, "Big dark come soon." Better brush up on your French Revolution, superrich. Such things happen quickly once the doors are open. And you've had the doors wide open for too long.

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Modified Sun 07 Oct 2007, at 8:15am CDT

Originally published as "VA Medical On The Cheap"
Retitled on 22 Sep 2007

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Outside The Corruption Box

2007-08-14T07:42:00.000-05:00

"If you're a politician inside the box of the mega-corrupt status quo, then you know what you're doing there, and it's not representing the people. You know that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 is starkly anti-Constitutional and you know that the 16th Amendment -- the seeming justification for the anti-Constitutional personal income tax (an unapportioned direct tax directly violating the Constitution) -- was not ratified in 1913 or anytime since. You know that the personal income tax is the money pump that pays the usury of compound interest attached to money made out of thin air by the Fed's private owners. You participate in the constant financial rape of ordinary Americans for the benefit of the superrich Federal Reserve private owners. ..."

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From its beginnings, DD Revival and I have been outside the massively failed status quo, outside the box of superrich and political party corruption machines, outside Michael Parenti's dual political system model of out-front fictions and behind-the-scenes evil realities. This country needs a serious time-out.

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Tags for DD Revival --

nonpartisan rep-govt/direct-democracy,
Declaration of Independence,
rights, freedoms, and liberties,
populist,
non-servile,
proactive citizen action groups,
aggressive citizen action programs,
constitutionalist,
constitutional reformist,
sovereign citizen lawmaking (fully independent, with constitutional amendment initiative, statute initiative, and statute veto petition processes,
online citizen institutions (with pre-referendum voting to amend proposed initiatives),
feasance violations (Constitutional amendment to define, and give punishments for malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance of the Constitution by elected office-holders and appointees, includingjudges),
criminal prosecution (of politicians and judges who violate the law),
clean money restriction (in all elections),
nonpartisan elections (in all three branches of govt),
political parties banned (in all elections and all govt matters),
presidential selection conventions banned (for all political parties),
presidential primaries system (area, regional, national)
nonpartisan unicameral Congress (with district recall),
three senators per state (in the unicameral Congress, protecting small states from large and eliminating gerrymandering corruption),
no omnibus bills (in Congress),
single-topic bills (in Congress),
federal bench nonpartisan elections (with the Court's jurisdiction, with jurisdictional and national citizen recall for any federal judge),
no electoral college,
direct-vote election of all representatives,
DOJ independent agency,
Attorney General election (nonpartisan, every four years, with president and vice president, all three vulnerable to national citizen recall),
anti-Republican-party,
anti-Democratic-party,
open government,
anti-sophistry,
anti-vacuous-argument,
anti-Madisonian-scholar,
anti-status-quo,
anti-establishment,
war on terror dissent,
Bush Usurpation dissent,
electronic voting dissent,
personal income tax dissent,
monetary system reformist
Federal Reserve dissent,
debt-based currency dissent,
fractional-reserve-lending dissent,
let the people decide.

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Most status quo system labels -- left, right, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican -- cannot describe DD Revival posts. They can, of course, describe my writings on an issue-by-issue basis.

I'm left on abortion, right on the 2nd Amendment, liberal on education, conservative on balancing the national checkbook and on not spending the Social Security trust funds for general fund anything.

Hrrmm, come to think of it, I don't have any positions that can be branded Democratic or Republican -- the labels are far too confused now anyway. I am against all Democratic party office-holders and candidates -- that would be Republican -- and vicey versy. Being against all Republicans would be Democratic, wouldn't it?

If you're a politician inside the box of the mega-corrupt status quo, then you know what you're doing there, and it's not representing the people. You know that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 is starkly anti-Constitutional and you know that the 16th Amendment -- the seeming justification for the anti-Constitutional personal income tax (an unapportioned direct tax directly violating the Constitution) -- was not ratified in 1913 or anytime since. You know that the personal income tax is the money pump that pays the usury of compound interest attached to money made out of thin air by the Fed's private owners. You participate in the constant financial rape of ordinary Americans for the benefit of the superrich Federal Reserve private owners. You participate in the pure rep govt culture of lying out front and working hidden machinations for profits and power behind the scenes. You are a part of the now-openly fascist attempts by the superrich to control and butcher ordinary Americans for profits and power, while moving our nation into a world govt that only they control.

Even though you as an individual office-holder or appointee might not be a part of the greed, corruption, and criminality of our pure rep govt, I will loathe you until you have proven that you are an honest person. Forget it. My remaining life will not be long enough for any of you politician rat-bastards to prove that you are honest persons.

I'm registered as an Independent, but Election 2006 saw the last of my voting until I'm assured that no US state uses any vote-counting software from Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia, or any other Diebold-Ilk electoral system violator. Additionally, civil society will have to have adopted an effective tough-love pledge system for all candidates -- throwing the rascals out with the recall as quickly as they do not live up to their written campaign promises -- before I return to voting.

I'm sick unto death of slimy-mouthed, ethical-moron politicians like Bill Clinton getting away with the breaking of every campaign promise that got him elected, as Clinton did in the first three months of 1993. Needless to say, Clinton's renegs are like a Sunday School picnic compared to fascist mutt Bush's.

Of course, the label, 'radical', applies to me and most of my writings, as well as do a large number of pejorative labels that blinded true believers inside the corruption box call outsiders like me. Proud to wear 'em.

Radicals have always defined the middle. Now, as in the authoritarian 1960s, the middle is politically ill with feet of clay. We need to make the presidential usurpation Bush Regime null and void as of 20 January 2000, as constitutional principles say that it is. We need to rip every one of its acts out of our legal fabric -- and cut the middle off at its knees.

With the recent surge of Constitutional criminality in all three branches of the national govt -- there's nothing not surging these days -- my anti-political-party and nonpartisan govt sentiments have increased exponentially. At the same time, I recognize that most Americans have political belief systems that are so strong that their cognative dissonance distorts and/or rejects any political reality that conflicts with their beliefs. It's simple human nature.

Our so-called liberals and progressives -- lib-progs -- have massive cognative dissonance problems. They read and write blog bits and alt media op-eds that engage in endless hand-wringing and clothes-clutching -- primarily in pre-situation sub-conclusions, rarely in issues of political reality. The hand-wringing and clothes clutching is sometimes expert destructive analysis and very useful. However, destructive analysis -- taking a thing apart to see what's wrong-- must find its way into constructive analysis -- putting the thing back together, with improvements. Unfortunately, most Americans have no time, patience, or acceptance for constructive analysis. We are, they think, the only nation that has democracy right. Beyond stupid.

Even those who do the most expert destructive analysis -- paradigm: William Greider -- cannot or will not lend their expertise to workable remedies. Greider's conclusions in Secrets of the Temple and Who Will Tell The People are nauseating milquetoast puddled in brilliant destructive analysis.

The lib-progs' hand-wringing and clothes-clutching allows them feel-good dissent, while they go right on being comfortable, do-nothing citizens. They give away their responsibility for the nation's political well-being to whatever criminals are telling the best-sounding lies today. Presto-jingo, nothing more to do but to get back to having a good time. Stay cocooned. Don't make yourself politically visible. Have a good time.

And if you can't escape the urge to make yourself politically visible, satisfy the urge with an auto-marginalized issue heaped in heavy sophistry, such as electing better Democrats. The sophistry is as old as rep govt itself. As with all sophistries, it is a plausible falsehood served on unethical intent. Accepting the stupid notion that lies told and crimes committed by politicians are matters that are all the fault of voters for not electing better politicians gets all criminal politicians off the accountability hook.

By heavily investing your time in the electing of better Democrats, you don't compromise your corporate job, the approval of your peers, your family's social standing, your children's education, or your retirement pension. You stick to the cultural shaping done by the elites throughout our national history to keep you from revolting. Everybody stays happy. Big smiles.

I will not waste my time on any third party until there are dramatic changes centering on the effective beginning of a mass democratic movement. Given the superrich's many corruption machines, there is no chance that a third party's politicians will be any different from the corrupt rat-bastards who populate the two major parties now.

The only possibly effective beginning of a mass democratic movement is in massive citizen organization and citizen action plans to hurt the anti-Constitutional elites in many dimensions. They'll have no reason to help with positive change until they know we can hurt them.

Next comes the shock and awe of (1) regionally organized jury nullification projects to keep elitist judges from making up the law as they go along (see especially, Aaron Russo's 2006 film AFTF, still free-per-view at Google Videos), (2) politicians and judges legally ejected and legally jailed for constitutional crimes by citizen action programs forcing genuine rule-of-law court rulings, (3) many corrupt bicameral state legislatures simplified to nonpartisan unicamerals on the still-successful 1934 Nebraska model, resulting in about a two-thirds reduction of legislator numbers in each respective state and resulting in proportional cost savings, and (4) boycott destruction of some of the worst of the global corporations.

Next comes some well-crafted Constitutional amedments, giving the people fully independent, sovereign citizen lawmaking and online citizen institutions; making all govt nonpartisan; allowing only clean money into election campaigns; overhauling the fascist-thug federal bench; instituting Congress as a nonpartisan unicameral, prohibited from passing bills with more than one votable topic; making the DOJ an independent agency and making the Attorney General an independently elected office-holder; and definitions of, and expressed penalties for, feasance violations -- malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance -- by politicians and judges.

Next ccomes the firing of all members of all three branches of govt in preparation for nonpartisan elections of their replacements.

Here it is, nine months after Election 2006, and the lib-progs are still arguing with Democrats about impeachment. Hey, MORONS, the Democrats are not going to impeach anybody. The Democrats are owned by the same superrich who are the puppetmasters of the Republinazis.

The superrich need this rack of evil politician resources for the many corruptions of the coming North American Union. Tons of profits from the currency conversion to the Amero will be pocketed by the superrich. No more borders between Mexico, the US, and Canada. Get the cheapest workers into the workplaces of the superrich, so that the superrich don't have to move the workplaces from country to country. No more rights, freedoms, or liberties to limit profits and power.

And when the ripe Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, no worries. It will kill tens of millions of unprepared Americans, gut half to two-thirds of the country, and collapse the national economy. No worries. The superrich and their politician parasites have posh underground disaster shelters all over the world to wait out the five- to ten-year volcanic winter. Then the superrich will just replace the burned-out and ash-buried US breadbasket with the Mexican and Canadian breadbaskets at low cost and high profits. Of course, no sunlight for five to ten years means none of the natural veggies will survive on earth's surface. Genetically modified apple, anyone?

Supervolcano prepration is the key for ordinary people. However, Democrats and Republicans don't want you to waste their time and money on preparation. They want you up to your neck in their economic growth and progress. They're committed to your shopping till you're dropping. It's how they and their class war captains will win the Battle of Yellowstone.

See especially, "Yellowstone Supereruption".

The superrich have their goosesteppers digitally flip elections 51-49 percent. We have Congressional hearing testimony and incontrovertible evidence on it. The superrich have tossed in a majority of Democrats just to keep the people in the socially engineered circle of deference and resignation that cancels out bloody revolution. Hey, IDIOTS, we've been culturally organized to not revolt for a couple hundred years. Grow up, get outside the massively failed status quo, or die.

The superrich buy and flip Congressional votes on legislation by whatever majority it takes to appear bi-partisan. They flip federal judges like hamburgers.

Catch Judge Robertson's flip between his defense of Hamdan's writ of habeus corpus in 2004 and Robertson's anti-Constitutional ruling that the anti-Constitutional ex-post-facto MCA obliterated Hamdan's writ of habeus corpus in 2006.

See especially, "New Nazi Judge Robertson Says Ex Post Facto MCA Is Good"..

3,723 American soldiers dead in Iraq as of this morning (24 Aug 2007). All of them are felony murders in a straightforward criminal conspiracy defined by and violating 18 USC 241. Our soldiers' rights to be sent to war only at the expressed order of Congress were massively violated. They were sent to war by fascist thugs to enable war profiteering by the superrich.

See especially, "Criminal Conspriacy and the Laws of War--Iraq".

All of our war dead in Iraq are due the national honor of having their felony murders criminally prosecuted in fair trials. Sent to war by domestic enemies of the Constitution who are office-holders and appointees in the Regime, Congress, and the Federal Courts, the felony conspiracy leading to the Iraq War felony murders of our soldiers is an act of treason, giving aid and comfort to those domestic enemies who thumped up the war.

Impeachment of those domestic enemies is purely inappropriate. Arrest them. Prosecute them. Convict them. Put many of them to death and imprison the rest of them for life. It is the best way, perhaps the only way, to honor our war dead.

Here it is, nine months after Election 2006, and the lib-progs are still arguing with the Democrats about impeachment. Beyond ridiculous. Beyond pathetic. Beyond ignorant. Beyond stupid.

I'd like to communicate with authors who share some of my views. Go over the above tags again. Drop a line. You guys are hard to locate. Anybody out there?

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Modified Fri 24 Aug 2007, at 6:15am CDT

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Protect America Act--Cheetah for Tyranny

2007-08-10T13:40:00.000-05:00

Congress' criminal majority has once again raped the Constitution, this time with the "Protect America Act". Personal privacy rights of US citizens -- massively violated by presidential usurper Bush's warrantless wiretaps since soon after the 9/11 attacks -- are just one facet of the Constitutional rape by Congressional thugs in the PAA. Under Reagan and Clinton, institutional tyranny quaintly crept along toward the superrich's objectives for global govt control. Under the Bush Usurpation, with its 3-branch fascist despotism, "tyranny runs like a cheetah".

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In a December 2005 essay for FindLaw's Writ, "Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils The Separation Of Powers", Edward Lazarus -- a former federal prosecutor and current law professor in Los Angeles -- wrote that warrantless wiretapping is a major threat to the Constitution's separation of powers. It is, Lazarus said, a sapping of legislative and judicial power into the executive.

1989 -- Congress decided to have the executive branch name a few members of the federal bench to the "US Sentencing Commission". Critics immediately jumped at Congress' decision based on separation of powers issues.

They were still angrily jumping after the bizzaro SCOTUS ruling in Mistretta v. US (488 US 361 -- 1989). The ruling approved Congress' anti-Constitutional move to meld judicial power into the executive's Sentencing Commission.

Lazarus writes -- "... the Constitution's separation of powers was the nation's primary defense against tyranny. And tyranny, [Yale law professor Stephen] Carter concluded in an oft quoted line, does not overwhelm a nation in an instant. No, he wrote, 'tyranny creeps".

Lazarus continues -- "Lately, though, tyranny runs like a cheetah."

Lazarus emphasizes Bush's efforts to push Congress and the Courts out the door, grabbing away their powers wholesale for himself. Lazarus spotlights Bush's bogus claims of "commander-in-chief" powers, his bogus claims that Gitmo detainees do not have the right of habeus corpus, and his bogus claims that he has the power to decide what citizen communications are to be intercepted in the name of national security.

Through all these scary 2005 parallels with 2006-2007 events, Lazarus rips at Bush's repeated attempts to neuter legislative and judicial oversight. Taking away Constitutional oversight -- cementing a permanent tyranny of executive power across the Constitutional separation-of-powers boundaries -- is how he and we will get to his absolute despotism.

The single largest anti-Constitutional contribution to the Regime by the PAA of 2007 is its effective cancellation of legislative and judicial oversight on warrantless wiretapping. Legislative and judicial power in the executive branch instantly grew by several orders of magnitude. The Constitution's separation-of-powers principle had its arms ripped off.

Thank you, Congress, for showing us this superior mode of despotic governance. Thank you, Democrats, for confirming that you are a pack of power-mongering fascists every bit the equal of our Republinazis.

You, John Q, better do a loose roundup in your mind of the despotic powers that the fascist mutt has already stockpiled -- unconstitutional and felonious executive orders, unconstitutional and felonious Congressional and federal bench contributions, and repeated violations of our Constitution and laws.

If you still think that this is just some big misunderstanding, if you still think that electing better representatives in the Democratic party will save us all, if you still think that the status quo is not massively failed, if you're still politically withdrawn, then you'd better change your evil ways.

Organize in citizen action groups outside the political party corruption machines. Adopt hard-biting citizen action programs -- corporation-killing boycotts, reduction of state legislatures to nonpartisan unicamerals on the successful 1934 Nebraska model, nationally organized jury nullification to block fascist thugs masquerading as judges who make up the law as they go along, and more.

Citizen action to hurt the anti-Constitutional elites, to force Constitutional governance onto them, is just the beginning.

We've a long way to go to making the Bush Usurpation null and void from 20 January 2000. We've a long way to go to ripping the 3-branch despotism's anti-law regimes out of our legal fabric. We've a long way to go to installing the well-crafted Constitutional amendments that will give the people the power to check and balance government and the power to prevent anything like the Bush Usurpation in the future.

Tyranny is running like a cheetah, headlong into absolute despotism. Nobody can stop it -- except you and a lot of your friends. If you're waiting for leaders, you're burning daylight.

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Modified Sat 11 Aug 2007, at 7:10am CDT

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Criminal Conspiracy andthe Laws of War--Iraq

2007-07-30T10:28:00.000-05:00

"...Nowhere in the Constitution is any branch except Congress given the power to declare war. For an individual in any other branch to do so is (1) unimaginable in the context of constitutional law, and (2) a violation of our Constitution's "separation of powers". The declaration of war is a legislative-branch function, not an executive-branch function. ..."

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The Code: Media mouthpieces are forbidden to bring legal fact to the Bush Usurpation. The legal realm must be suppressed. All emphasis must be placed on everything being politics-as-usual -- including uncontitutional, felonious, and treasonous acts such as the invasion of Iraq. American soldiers killed in Iraq are not felony murders for the money-power benefits of the superrich, they're only politics as usual. Stick to the Code.

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The short and tight federal statute 18 USC 241 -- criminal conspiracy against rights -- is a widely suppressed law.

It is a Pandora's Box for the governing elites, the military elites, the financial elites, the corporate predators, all lawyers who keep their mouths shut about the game, and those elite-class judges who are legal whores. Players in the dual-political-system game described by Michael Parenti (in his 2001 book, Democracy For The Few) don't want the public, out-front accountability that goes with their behind-the-scenes lawbreaking, but they still must rely on the use of criminal conspiracies against rights so that obscenely excessive profits and power can be had.

Profits and power would be unacceptably limited if the superrich, their lawyers and judges, their corporate guys in the trenches, their bought-and-paid-for politicians, and their adequately rewarded military guys in the posh command posts and on the ships had to honor the Constitution, laws, and citizen rights.

In fact, criminal conspiracies against rights are double-bit axes, chopping two ways. They violate rights to expand profits and power, and they prompt collusions among the players to obstruct justice -- especially the collusions between govt branches and govt agencies that cripple constitutional checks and balances -- so that very few players ever get caught up in accountability. An absurd ten-year prison sentence for taking the initiative to make a few million dollars can ruin your whole portfolio.

Here's the Pandora's Box that must be kept suppressed so that the American political-financial system as we know it can go on and on and on.

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Title 18, US Code, Section 241

"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."

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That last bit, life imprisonment or the death sentence, defines a death as a result of a 18 USC 241 violation as felony murder.

So far, the Pandora's Box of 18 USC 241 has been very cost-effective for the predators. The powerful cronies in all three branches of the national govt have been able to keep collusions against the rule of law, preventing any criminal prosecution for the many blatant crimes done by the players. There has been so much money and power made in the process of criminal conspiracies against rights that even if we prosecute and convict thousands of its felons-in-waiting, the 18 USC 241 violations will still have been extremely cost effective for the players.

Among the biggest money-power conspiracies against rights -- 'biggest' in terms of both money-power made and the raw numbers of co-conspirators involved -- is the unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous invasion of Iraq.

The scope here does not include the many national and international crimes that Bush-Cheney and their cronies have committed since the invasion. Those are covered by our federal statute called the War Crimes Act -- 18 USC 2441. Felony murder is a part of the 18 USC 2441 picture, too. No statute of limitations on felony murder. We can nail the co-conspirators any time in the future that circumstances allow us to mete out justice.

Here, we are concerned only with the unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous invasion of Iraq.

When war is involved, the failure to protect citizen rights under our Constitution and laws, by those sworn to uphold our Constitution, is treason. It's a precedent set by the prosecution and conviction of the secessionist state legislators for treaon in the aftermath of the Civil War. Their secession votes deprived their citizens of Constitutional rights that the state legislators were sworn to uphold, and the secession votes became part of a conspiracy that led to war. In violation of the Constitution's definition of treason (Art. 3, section 3), the indicted state legislators gave aid and comfort to the enemies of the US. The co-conspirators of the Iraq invasion gave aid and comfort to the nation's enemies, the co-conspirators themselves.

The unconstitutionality of the Iraq invasion is streaightforward. Nowhere in the Constitution is any branch except Congress given the power to declare war. For an individual in any other branch to do so is (1) unimaginable in the context of constitutional law, and (2) a violation of our Constitution's "separation of powers". The declaration of war is a legislative-branch function, not an executive-branch function. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution mandates that Congress "shall have the power to declare war."

Congress violated the "separation of powers" under the Constitution when they gave the war powers decision for Iraq to Bush. It was done in HJR 114, "Authorization For The Use Of Military Force In Iraq", October 2002, 2nd session, 107th Congress.

What Congress did here was not a declaration of war. They said to the president, "You decide when we should go to war, and keep us posted."

HJR 114 was an unconstitutional delegation of a power specifically given only to Congress in the Constitution. And it's not as if this issue has never been visited before. In 1935, SCOTUS established the "nondelegation doctrine" in its ruling on Schechter Poultry, 295 US 495. SCOTUS branded as unconstitutional any delegation of the core powers given to Congress in the Constitution.

Note that Schechter Poultry applies to both (1) the unconstitutional and illegal "Authorization For The Use Of Military Force In Iraq" resolution of 2002, and (2) the unconstitutional and illegal "War Powers" resolution of 1973, which unconstitutionally gave war powers to Nixon, and which Congress cited as justification for their unconstitutionally giving Iraq war powers to Bush.

In the prima facie case we're building here, all Members and Senators in Congress who voted to give Bush his very own war powers for Iraq -- all 373 of them -- are guilty of violating the Constitution and of violating his/her oath to uphold the Constitution. As already said, with future war a part of the unconstitutional action, the violation of the oath to protect Constitutional citizen rights is treason.

Additionally, the 373 Members and Senators are the beginning of the felony conspiracy against citizen rights to send our soldiers to war without a declaration of war by Congress. They are guilty of violating 18 USC 241. Felony forfeits all immunities -- legislative, judicial, and executive.

See House Roll Call Vote 455, 10 Octover 2002 -- which shows the names of the 296 approving Members.
See Senate Roll Call Vote 237, 11 October 2002 -- which shows the names of the 77 approving Senators.

HJR-114 is not a one-dimensional Congressional crime. When Bush signed it into law -- "contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, and, to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed" (quoted from all three of Nixon's articles of impeachment, July 1974) -- it became Public Law 107-243. It became an unconstitutional anti-law regime under the Constitution and a felony conspiracy under 18 USC 241.

The legislative history of Public Law 107-243 claims that it is based on Public Law 93-148, the War Powers Act of 1973, which gave war powers to another favorite son of corporate fascism, Richard Nixon. It is another trick of constitutional criminals in Congress -- use one unconstitutionality to justify another unconstitutionality. PL 93-148 is as unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous as is PL 107-243, for the same reasons. And they are both anti-law regimes, not law.

That is, Congress and this president used an unconstitutional federal statute -- Public Law 107-243 -- to violate and override the Constitution's supreme law of the land, so that a felony conspiracy to commit felony murder of US soldiers in Iraq, in violation of 18 USC 241, could be set in place.

Congress' "separation of powers" violation with HJR-114, and Bush signing it into law, were both significant, high crimes before the invasion. Together they are a felony conspiracy threatening to send soldiers to war without the Constitutional right of a direct order from Congress. By themselves, they are both criminally prosecutable and impeachable offenses.

However, Bush went far beyond impeachable offense by ordering the invasion of Iraq. He could have chosen not to commit felony murder under our laws. The moment that the first soldier was killed because of that order, the law locked felony murder into the felony conspiracy. At that moment, the only proportional response of the nation to the murderous co-conspirators became prosecute, convict, imprison, and/or put to death.

Under our rule of law, Bush can be criminally prosecuted today for his felony violation of 18 USC 241, and the thousands of felony murders involved, regardless of his being a sitting president.

And there is no statute of limitations on felony murder. We can prosecute, convict, and sentence him to death -- per 18 USC 241 -- at any time in the future. Of course, for now, as demonstrated by unconstitutional inter-agency and inter-branch collusions, Bush lives above the law.

US military officers take their loyalty oath to the Constitution -- not to the president, or even to Congress. We must hold those officers responsible for knowing that orders to invade Iraq in the 2002-2003 circumstances were unconstitutional.

Every officer who participated in giving the invasion orders is guilty of oath violation and of 18 USC 241 violation -- regardless of rank. All such officers are co-conspirators in the felony murders of thousands of US soldiers.

Nobody is excused from felony murder because he/she holds a high station in life. Delivering the co-conspirators into the legal realm is the best, perhaps the only, way in which we can honor our war dead.

All co-conspirators in this heinous crime are felons-in-waiting. Their only proper place is in federal prison, or the grave.

That's the law. Dura lex, sed lex -- the law is harsh, but it is the law. The Iraq War is not politics as usual, to be settled by the results of any election. The Iraq War is a set of law violations that belongs in the federal court system.

Of course, we need to reform the federal bench before taking legal action against these murderous co-conspirators. We need a Constitutional amendment that fires the entire federal bench in preparation for nonpartisan, clean-money-only, direct election by the people in each Court's jurisdiction. That amendment should also specify that any federal judge is vulnerable to citizen recall -- by the citizens of the Court's jurisdiction or by the national civil society. There's no other way to end the protection of those most-powerful representatives by a bigoted local majority.

The use of unconstitutional stature law to violate and override constitutions is older than our country. In our 200-plus year history, the violation of our Constitution by government officials and judges is our single largest political problem. Witness Bush's usurpation of the presidency, January 2001. Witness the "USA Patriot Act". Witness SCOTUS with its purely unconstitutional and felonious "eminent domain" decision in Kelo v. New London. And witness the unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous invasion of Iraq.

It's way past time for the national constitutional renewal that will bring these criminals to justice and establish the people as the final authority in this country. We must be careful of how we attempt the renewal. But it is do-able.

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© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Modified Thu 02 Aug 2007, at 3:30pm CDT

Americans Reinventing Themselves

2007-07-26T07:33:00.000-05:00

Shays' Rebellion, summer 1786 to spring 1787. Three years after the fighting ended, poor patriot farmers in western Massachusetts were being thrown into debtors prison, and their lands confiscated, for indebtedness that was beyond their control. They mounted an armed resistance, stopping the elites-favoring courts from making the heinous rulings. The financial elite hired mercenaries to violently end the resistance. Had the wider elites community been sincere about delivering the implied promises of extraordinary American rights given in the Declaration Of Independence, the poor Massachusetts citizens would have been peacefully accommodated. Instead, the predator elites did as they have always done -- money first, ordinary people last.

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First, American colonists reinvented themselves in revolutionary thought and war. They reinvented themselves into an independent nation. This is huge.

Americans fought their chaotic war against England, not just for the traditional rights of Englishmen, but for the extraordinary rights of Americans. Those rights, demanded by most Americans many years ahead of the fighting, were given voice by Thomas Jefferson in the second paragraph of the 1776 Declaration of Independence

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes.... But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

Most Americans, then and now, see those DOI statements as our founding principles. Initially, they were even more. They were the implied promises, by the governing elite to the sovereign people, of future American governance. Just win, baby, and this is what you get. The DOI was posted and read almost everywhere people would read or listen, throughout the War. Just win.

However, the American elites soon demonstrated that the implied promises of the DOI were nothing more than a deceitful Machiavellian "bait and switch". Bait the commoners with the implied promises of extraordinary American rights -- rights far beyond those held by the English. Get the commoners to fight a War for Independence for those rights. And then dump the commoners into an elitist-controlled popcorn machine of pure representative government, with none of the DOI's extraordinary rights.

The first American reinvention of themselves was doomed from the beginning.

English elites had made American elites into a second-class English elite, greatly reducing the Americans' profits and power. By the 1770s, American elites, entrenched in family arrogance for three to five generations, were at the end of their tether. Independence promised too much. American elitist greed for more than what the English elites allowed was too strong. For too many American elitists -- who lived the same unexamined life of bigoted, predatory elitism as lived by the English elites -- it was all about money and power.

Bait and switch. The seven fundamental governance rights easily derived from the DOI -- rights for which ordinary Americans fought, bled, died, hated, and sacrificed economic well-being -- do not appear in any of the elites-written constitutions.

The first generation of state constitutions should have warned the commoners. Although the DOI had not been written yet, all of its governance principles were being demanded by most of the people. As Jefferson frequently remarked, his voicing the principles only followed what the people had been demanding for years. After the DOI, none of its implied promises were put into the provisions of the nation's first constitution, the 1782 Articles of Confederation. And they do not appear in the nation's second constitution, the 1787 Constitution. Bait and switch, ad nauseum.

But the DOI did not die when it was shuffled aside by the elites. Too many had given up too much for its implied promises. It became the most hallowed living document of the American experience, and remains so today.

The seven fundamental governance rights derived from the DOI are --

Individual citizens have the fundamental right to be politically equal with all other citizens.
The sovereign people have the fundamental right to speak for themselves, in their voting majorities.
The sovereign people have the fundamental right to be their own sovereign masters, democratically and directly electing all of their public servant representatives.
The sovereign people have the fundamental right to remove any elected representative, for cause, without interference from government.
The sovereign people have the fundamental right to control the output of legislation by formulating their own, by vetoing law made by government, and by affirming existing law in such a way that government is barred from amending it -- at every jurisdictional level, without interference from government.
The sovereign people have the fundamental right to alter details of their governance, without interference from government.
The sovereign people have the fundamental right to protect themselves from themselves by establishing the powers within government to administratively, legislatively, and judicially prevent zealous majorities, greedy corporations, the corrupting superrich, and government itself from violating individual and minority citizen rights, as given in the constitution and laws.

Ejecting those rights from the American reality, dumping the commoners into an elitist-controlled pure rep govt, involved some stutter-stepping. The elites didn't get it right in the 1782 Articles.

The people believed what the elites had spoon-fed them out of the DOI during the War. The people interpreted the Articles broadly, grabbing democratic equality for themselves. The more popular among them grabbed incomes and powerful political positions that the elites saw as belonging only to elites.

Worse, the DOI's extraordinary rights had begun a firestorm over direct democracy. Most commoner Americans knew intuitively that the DOI's extraordinary rights required direct democracy. "Consent of the Governed" did not mean consent of the representatives. Whatever details were given to the representative government, direct democracy had to be in there.

In their lack of education, in their ignorance of Republican Rome's workings, American commoners misunderstood Roman citizen lawmaking. They knew that it had existed, but they did not know the historical details. Still, they reached into direct democracy with the demand that they, the sovereign people, had the right to instruct their state legislatures. Telling the legislature that a particular law must be passed, or that another must be vetoed, was citizen lawmaking enough.

From the elites' point of view, the rabble's right to instruct legislatures would have limited the world of the elites intolerably.

It became the new nation's first national debate. It was an eleven-year-long fight, 1776 to 1787, with arbitrary rulings by elitist judges holding the line against the steadily threatening sovereign people.

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For information on the 11-year debate, see especially, Gordon S. Wood's 1969 book for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, chapter 9, "The Sovereignty of the People", section 3, "The Disintegration of Representation", pp. 363-372.

Obviously, representation did not ever "disintegrate". Wood is extremely biased in favor of the elites. Exaggerating what might happen if the people ever had their way is a knee-jerk avocation for Wood. As with all "Madisonian scholars", distortions, omissions, and falsehoods are the only way for Wood to prop up the facade and incompetence of pure representative government (i.e., repocracy).

However, reading his text judiciously, and with some knowledge of Republican Rome's citizen lawmaking, the reader can get both information on the eleven-year debate, and, at the same time, a demonstration of the wide-spectrum dishonesty of the elites and their judges -- then and now. From Wood's text, pp. 370-371 (emphasis supplied) --

"Judge Alexander Hanson, emerging as the principal opponent of legislative instructions, repeated this same line of argument throughout the spring and summer of 1787. 'All power indeed flows from the people,' conceded Hanson; 'but the doctrine that the power, actually, at all times, resides in the people, is subversive of all government and law'.... This in effect, said Hanson, gave the people-at-large a lawmaking capacity outside of the legislature, making them literally 'masters; of their 'servants' in the legislature, an idea that was 'one of the most incongruous and absurd, that ever entered into a human brain'.

Not only did the Roman plebs have full-time citizen lawmaking and law vetoing powers, they also had tribunes, who recommended laws to the people for passage -- and who were free to wander anywhere, carrying with them the vetoing authority of the sovereign people.

"By a persistent enlargement of their original ius auxilii on behalf of oppressed plebeians, the tribunes of the fifth and fourth centuries [400s and 300s, BCE] had brought the actions of all the magistrates, the resolutions of the Senate and the bills submitted to the various popular assemblies within the scope of their veto. Nay more, they had established an unquestioned prescriptive right to exercise this veto at discretion. By simply pronouncing the magic word intercedo, any of the ten tribunes became legally entitled to hold up any business of state (save for a few specified exceptions)."

M. Carey, The History Of Rome. London: MacMillan, 2nd edition, 1967, p. 116, emphasis supplied.

All educated persons of the 1770s and 1780s -- including Judge Hanson -- can be held responsible for knowing about the 400 years of citizen lawmaking in Republican Rome. They can be held responsible for knowing that Rome's citizen lawmaking was a leading factor in the Republic's development of the eternally-surprising and majestic Greco-Roman culture.

The idea of sovereign citizen lawmaking mixed with rep govt, far from absurd, is historical fact yielding greater honors for humankind than pure rep govt centered in elites' greed and corruption has ever produced.

Citizen lawmaking limited the profits and power of the rich, but it advanced culture in many dimensions. And when Roman greed had collapsed the Republic and rampaged on for another five hundred years, the Empire perished in its own abyss between superrich and the very poor. It was the abyss that had once been firm ground for the vast middle classes. It was the abyss from which the dark ages monster of feudalism would drag its victims for hundreds of years.

Madisonian scholar Wood can be held responsible for repeating Judge Hanson's distortions and lies as if they were truth. Keeping the rabble down and the right people up is a full-time job for men like Wood -- in ancient Rome, new-nation US, or Nixon-Reagan-Bush Amerika.

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Finally, in September 1786, Hamilton and his ilk stumbled onto the notion of a "Federal Convention" -- a constitutional convention -- to correct the failings of the Articles. State governments agreed, and the convention's delegates were appointed -- of, for, and by the elites, of course.

The 11-year-long debate over the people's right to instruct legislatures would be snuffed in one fell swoop, in Philadelphia, May to September, 1787.

Some of the Federal Convention's delegates refused to show up for Hamilton's charade. (He was, after all, an unsavory character -- a Caribbean island bastard whose fawning financial views had got him access to the highest circles of the predator elites in American society. Covering all around him in a hypocrisy of moral self-righteousness, while lying about almost everything, he would later be gunned down by Burr for his unethical machinations.) Other delegates bolted the convention as soon as the predator elites majority showed that they were going to overstep their instructions and overthrow the Articles. Arguably, a few left the convention for family emergencies.

Sixty-four prominent leaders in their own right where chosen in the states as delegates to the federal convention. Nine refused to attend. Fifty-five delegates attended. Thirty-nine attendees signed the Constitution. Sixteen of the fifty-five attendees did not sign.

Of the total of sixty-four delegates appointed in the states, a total of twenty-five seasoned leaders did not sign. That's thirty-nine percent not signing. Still, a majority would be thirty-two plus one. And the predator elites had their majority -- thirty-nine.

So the predator elites usurped the Articles and ejected the DOI's extraordinary rights from the American political reality. In the vagueness tradition of the Roman "Twelve Tables" (Rome's first codification of law, circa 351 BCE) -- giving patrician judges the ambiguity they needed to arbitrarily rule in favor of the elites -- the Constitution's over-vague provisions opened the door wide for elitist judges. The Constitution's vagueness favored wealth- and class-driven corruption by elitist representatives and judges, while removing the people from approval or rejection of anything governmental. (Roman plebs had held the power to approve or reject anything governmental for the nearly 500 years of the Republic.)

And then, to top off their many deceits, the majority of the convention's delegates wrote-in the unconstitutional and illegal procedure by which the Constitution would be ratified as the nation's fundamental law. The procedure directly violated the Articles of Confederation, the USA's standing, inviolable constitution.

The Constitution's authors concocted the special ratifying conventions that would give them time and the best possibility of ratification. They needed time to convince the wider elites community that this government could control the rabble forever.

Provisions stating the inviolability and means of amending the Articles are found in that document's Article XIII. They're very clear.

... And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.

The Articles Of Confederation are available online at the Constitution Society's Liberty Library at http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm

On the day the predator majority of federal convention delegates completed and signed the Constitution, 17 September 1787, it was legally only a package of amendments to the Articles. Given the existence of the Articles, the Constitution could have no other legal standing.

However, the Articles were simply ignored. The Constitution's last article reads --

Article XII. The ratification of the conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the establishment of this constitution between the states ratifying the same.

The Constitution is online at the Constitution Society's Liberty Library at http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm.

The Constitution was unconstitutionally ratified by special conventions, which were isolated from Congress, the state legislatures, and the civil society. The special ratifying conventions were creatures of the elites. Ratifying convention delegates in all the states were swayed by the Constitution's implied promises of class exclusivity, corruption-fed wealth, and sustainable political power over the mob.

The majority of those delegates were guided by the sophistries, vacuous arguments, and historical falsehoods of their ratification bible -- The Federalist Papers. The ratification bible was another exercise in what William Greider has recently identified as "the elitist channels of discourse". Between the lines, the public bible was privately saying, Pay no attention to what's written here being wrong. This is the plan. If everyone sticks to the plan, we will win.

That is, 220 years ago, the gentlemen authors of the Constitution and the wider elites community proved that they would not be bound by any inviolable law that conflicted with their superiority over the rabble. The natural law of wealth and power trumps any man-made law -- then and now. Greed wins. Goddess Nemesis will have to wait.

The predator elites had consolidated their power. The Americans who had reinvented themselves from colonists to free men found that the bloodletting had merely exchanged one set of bigoted tyrants for another. The servile didn't care. The dissidents were branded "Anti-Federalists".

In today's complex systems theory, the American Revolution was a partially successful, partially failed microshift (Ervin Laszlo's term). It succeeded in gaining independence from England. It failed to gain the the DOI's extraordinary rights.

As we've seen, the Revolution's failure cannot be sustained. The extraordinary rights of Americans keep coming back around.

Another microshift loomed in the Civil War. Through Lincoln's waving off Biblical slavery with the Constitution's freedom from religion and overlaying the DOI's "all men are created equal", the Emancipation made the Civil War another partially successful microshift. It gained African-American equality for a fleeting moment.

However, it too became an elites-caused partial failure, when Northern elites allowed Southern elites to win the Reconstruction for the benefit of their mutual profits and power. A secret agreement between Republicans and Democrats -- a hidden part of the "Compromise of 1876" -- suppressed the 15th Amendment's federal enforcement. The secret accord allowed white supremacists to lynch uppity African-Americans for another fifty years and 12 presidential administrations before the 15th Amendment's first enforcement in the 1930s under the FDR administration. And, of course, the KKK-driven lynchings and "race-riots" went on long after that.

Constitutional rights of the rabble are nothing but excessive democracy and intolerable limits on profits and power to the men of money-power -- then and now.

And still another microshift loomed -- the Reform Era. A political system re-do was coming, again with the DOI's extraordinary rights as objectives. And, again, Americans would reinvent themselves. And, again, the microshift would partially succeed and partially fail in the anti-constitutional governance by predator elites.

Violation of our constitutions by public officials, judges, corporate predators, racial and religious bigots, and the superrich is the single largest political problem in our nation's history.

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© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Open Letter To Bruce--The Plan

2007-06-04T03:36:00.000-05:00

Email exchange -- only slightly edited.

Dear Stephen,

I just re-read much of your DDL site again, and back to read DD Revival too. You have so much info it staggers the mind. But I was unable to find "a plan".

... I have in front of me two documents of despair, of disillusionment with the American political system that allows this criminal war to continue. Andrew J. Bacevich in his Washington Post op-ed column and Cindy Sheehan in her ["retirement"] statement on her blog express despair over the failure of the Democrats placed in power by an antiwar electorate to take firm measures ...

The illusion must be squashed that present methods of governing represent the best interests of the people of the United States.

So, do we (YOU) have a plan? From your writing, we have the "Power to Petition" and I expect if we have a strong number we could get a referendum to amend the US Constitution to provide Initiative and Binding Referendum.

I would like to write Cindy and Andrew with a plan to accomplish this. I think they would support it.

Now, I need you to provide the plan.

Is it time? Could we do it?

Still hopeful, Bruce

Bruce --

The med problems have slowed my plan's presentation on the DDL site, but I'm in the process of a DDL site reorganization that should do the job. And, hopefully, you'll find the plan better-presented on DD Revival. But I'm reorganizing the sidebar there to point up "The Plan".

The plan is primarily in "Open Letter To Susan". It gives the"null & void" project outline, the smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan, and some standalone Constitutional amendments that we need to get passed.

Add a nationally organized "jury nullification" project to "Unity America" and we can hurt the predator elitists in many dimensions. Make no mistake, hurting them is absolutely necessary. Smash-mouth politics is absolutely necessary. We'll have no sensible, cogent reforms until we hurt them badly.

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without poughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning .... The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will." --Frederick Douglass (African-American slavery abolitionist).

Douglass had it right in the 1860s. In the study of comparative power structures, he still has it right. The "demand" must overmatch the power of whatever tyrants are at hand before they will concede anything.

Is it time? No, we're not there yet. The vast majority of Americans are still cocooned, still thinking the do-nothing politics of giving away their responsibilities to anybody, no matter how much of a criminal he-she-it is. But we're trending in the direction of good revolt. Keep the pressure on. Keep it on the politician criminals and on the do-nothing people.

Our do-nothing civil society is nothing new. If you go back to the history of Saul Alinski's wildly successful organizing , 1940s and on, you'll find that he and his troops faced the same do-nothing American people that we face today.

We've been taught for over two hundred years to give away our sovereign responsibility for political matters to elected representatives. We've been taught all that time that when anything goes wrong, it's because we failed to elect the right representatives.

It's one of the hugely successful sophistries in American politics. (Sophistry equals plausible falsehood based on unethical intent.) Not only are the politicians effectively unaccountable, but any lies they tell, any crime they do, is all the people's fault for not electing better.

And the sophism works. We've got about 50 million Democratic servile running around saying that we just must elect better representatives. They can't see that no representative can stand up to the corruption machines and vast majority of criminal politicians.

What a howler of ignorance, logical fallacy, and political stupidity. And now, the advocates of an Article 5 constitutional convention are running around saying we just must elect good delegates to the constitutional convention. The American people's ignorance of sophistry and power is just mind-boggling. The lack of critical thinking is just stunning.

The first law of life is that you always change a losing game. We've got about 100 million servile citizens, Repugs and Dems, who still can't grasp that their game is nothing but losing.

Aristotelian logic includes "induction". It is persuasion that results from a whole series of similar events from which the listener/reader can draw a single conclusion.

To the Cindy Sheehan and Andrew Bacevich induction series, you should add a spectacular quote from a recently deceased master of protest, Kurt Vonnegut. In a pre-Iraq-War warning to anti-Iraq-war protesters to go beyond what the Vietnam war protesters did, he said --

"We formed what might be described as a laser beam of protest, with everybody aimed in the same direction, focused and intense. This weapon proved to have the power of a banana-cream pie three feet in diameter when dropped from a stepladder five-feet high."

You can find the quote in context in Vonnegut's interview by Joel Bleifus, in "Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@" on the ITT site, at--

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/kurt_vonnegut_vs_the/

Did the anti-war movement listen to Vonnegut? Oh, hell no. Sheehan's comments about the anti-Iraq-war movement, in her "letter of resignation", tell us that there's no change in the dipso culture of demonstrations from Vonnegut's Vietnam to Sheehan's Iraq. It's still do-nothing politics -- powerless parading to impress the criminal reps to whom you gave away your responsibility.

1st Law of Life -- ALWAYS change a losing game. Way things are right now, the vast majority of our do-nothing Americans will go to their political deaths -- and probably tens of millions to their physical deaths, Yellowstone or terrorist WMDs -- without a clue that their game is nothing but losing.

As it was with the political ignorance of Romans at the end of the Republic, so it is with Americans today. Got republican principles? Whaddya say? Can't hear you over the music.

Yes, there are hopeful signs that change might come. But it's still a long way off. We're not even to the point yet of significant recognition that the Bush-Cheney Regime is a catalog of legal matters. Our servile still think it's just a bad variety of politics-as-usual. And the hundred million or so who are withdrawn from politics are in some nuther world of political indifference -- rave parties, the really good-looking slut-jump-and-prance-around, worshipful celebrity heaven, crack pipes, religious dogma, or getting their piece of the economic pie. Got republican principles? Whaddya say? Music's too loud.

Keep the pressure on.

For all practical purposes, the dollar has already collapsed. The international central bankers, anchored here in the treasonous Federal Reserve, are keeping the illusion of it alive so that their profits will be more immense when the North American Union and the Amero currency become reality. The superrich will make billions in the changeover from US Dollar, Canadian Dollar, and Mexican Peso to the Amero. They'll make even more than they made in the changeover from the various European currencies to the Euro. What a gut-wrencher that was.

And make no mistake, The NAU and its Amero will become reality very soon. There is no way for ordinary people to stop it. All we can do now is hope to organize for the smash-mouth politics that will get us the fully independent citizen lawmaking with which we can repeal and reverse the NAU.

Please read everything you can find on the organizing successes of Saul Alinski and his old "Industrial Areas Foundation". His "iron rule" very much applies today -- "Never do anything for anybody that they can do themselves -- never." Two of his other rules are still good -- "see the world the way it is" and "fix on the world you want to have".

We've got a long way to go.

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ADDENDUM --

Some of us hope that the people will take up their political responsibilities aainst the 3-branch fascist despotism -- and against the superrich's corruption machines of the Federal Reserve, IRS, Business Roundtable, and Council on Foreign Relations, to mention only a few of the worst corruption machines. However, against the evidence of the people's continuing avoidance of responsibility, hope is certainly dwindling.

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© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Executive Summary of Direct Democracy 4.0

2007-05-30T13:00:00.000-05:00

We the people are the sovereign here. We need the seven extraordinary rights from the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence instituted in our Constituion. We need our national govt to include the eight direct democracy governance components that express the seven extraordinary rights and that are already in place in some of our states -- so that we can exercise our sovereignty when necessary. Without the DD governance components, we are powerless to stop even the smallest tyranny. The staccato of the deeply planned and sweeping tyrannies perpetrated by the three-branch Bush-Cheney Regime prove beyond doubt that the omission of direct democracy from the Constitution was a systemic problem from the beginning.

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THE SEVEN GOVERNANCE RIGHTS

Our patriot founders fought the 1775-1783 Revolution for the extraordinary rights of Americans implied in the Declaration of Independence (DOI).

In our dual foundings -- first, the Revolution and War for Independence and, then, four years later, the Constitution -- our true founding fathers are the ordinary people of the Revolution and the War. They were revolutionaries in heart and mind before the fighting started, patriot warriors and their supporters during the fighting of the War. (This distinction between the American Revolution and the War is not new. John adams drew it at the time.)

The majority of the authors of the Constitution, touted ever since in sophistry and propaganda as our glorious and hallowed "founding fathers", were the Revolution-reversing predator elitists who unconstitutionally rewrote our inviolable constitution, the Articles of Confederation. Their illegal ratification of the Constitution proved from the beginning and for all time that the American elites, unchecked by the people, will not govern in accord with a legitimate constitution.

The 1780s elites gave themselves, their class, and their class' progeny zero effective accountability, a vague constitution from which their elitist judges could arbitrarily find in favor of any elitist corruption (a tradition of predator elitists since the vague Roman constitution, the Twelve Tables, about 351 BCE), and an effective bar on any direct democracy that would limit elitist greed.

Checks and balances held by the people had always been a limiting factor on elitist greed and their wealth-driven corruptions of government. The American elites, as with the English elites who were their models, would not tolerate limits from those who were below their class.

The American elites of the 1770s and 1780s were true to their class, not to their nation. They lived the unexamined life of bigoted predators. They needed the rabble as an army, but not as political equals. It was good form to take care of the incompetent commoners -- a carry-over from the noblisse oblige of the bigoted English aristocracy -- but it was not good form to share power with them. The American elites clearly and greedily wanted as much social, economic, and political power as they could make off the backs of ordinary Americans.

The Federalist Papers are rife with sophistry, historical falsehoods, vacuous arguments, and Machiavellian deceits. (Machiavelli's book, The Prince, was published about 1532. Machiavelli's work in the murderous and psyhopathic arts of deceit was widely known among the American elites.)

The English elites had worked around and subtly violated traditional English rights since the Magna Carta. To the English and European aristocracy, the natural law of getting and holding wealth and power trumped all of the rabble's rights. The American elites held the same view.

The American elites saw historical realities only in the prism of cognative dissonance. Their belief system of superiority caused them to psychologically distort or reject any evidence that contradicted their superiority. The overarching natural law of wealth and power was simply a part of their belief system. It still is.

The historical failures of greed teach no lessons to the greedy.

The Constitution provided no sovereign citizen lawmaking -- as republics for all time inherited from the ancient Roman Republic. Never mind that the ancient Roman historian Polybius praised sovereign citizen lawmaking for its ability to produce balanced governance. Polybius was widely studied by American elites in the 1770s and 1780s, but rejected.

The American elites demanded that elected representatives of the people were the nation's sovereign. The Constitution provided no sovereign civil society to check and balance the constitutional encroachments of the rich. Never mind that Aristotle had spotted the need for balancing the rich's destructive encroachments in the 300s BCE. Aristotle's Politics was widely studied by American elites in the 1770s and 1780s, but rejected.

The more perfect the admixture of the political elements, the more lasting will be the constitution. Many even of those who desire to form aristocratical governments make a mistake, not only in giving too much power to the rich, but in attempting to overreach the people. There comes a time when out of a false good there arises a true evil, since the encroachments of the rich are more destructive to the constitution than those of the people.

Aristotle, The Politics, Book IV, translated by W.D. Ross, quoted in The Portable Greek Reader, ed., W.H. Auden, New York, The Viking Press, 1948, tenth printing, 1963.

The false good propounded by the authors of the Constitution was that the class-race elites were the only ones who could govern successfully. True evil springs from that 1780s false good in the elevation of GW Bush to presidential usurper on 20 January 2001. The beginnings of the felony conspiracy against the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution -- defined in and violating Title 18, US Code, Section 241 -- are in the unconstitutional SCOTUS decision in Bush v. Gore, 12 December 2000.

Felony forfeits all immunity -- judicial, executive, and legislative. The co-conspirators have no protection from 18 USC 241, except in the criminal collusions between federal executive agencies, the federal bench, and Congress. The felony conspiracy for presidential usurpation includes, at a minimum, the five SCOTUS judges who decided Bush v. Gore, former president Clinton, former vice president Gore, Clinton's DOJ hierarchy, Bush, Cheney, and Bush's DOJ hierarchy. They are all felons-in-waiting. Their only proper place is in federal prison, impeached and removed or not.

A strong case can be made that this violation of 18 USC 241 is also an act of treason. The co-conspirators had all sworn to protect the Constitution and, with it, citizen rights. They knowingly violated their oaths of office and the citizen rights they were sworn to protect. In the 1860s, such behavior resulted in the seccessionist state legislators being convicted of treason.

Because new-nation Americans bought into the 1780s false good of being governed wholly by pure representative government, the sovereign people today have no national-level, direct democracy tools with which to end Bush's three-branch, anti-Constitutional despotism. We are powerless to end, or even to punish, any of the three-branch despotism's immense catalog of crimes against our Constitution, laws, and people.

Our rule of law has been drubbed and overthrown by criminal collusions between the three branches of government.

We have all the law we need to handle the despotism, but we have no justice. We have no direct, institutional power to cut through the criminal collusions among the co-conspirators themselves. The collusions bar us from justice.

"The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper."
--George W. Bush

From the false good, true evil.

If we can manage a peaceful revolution against the Bush-Cheney evil, we still face ripping their anti-Constitutional laws out of our legal fabric. Nothing new under the sun. In the 60s BCE, after a bloody civil war, Pompey ripped the anti-republican constitution and laws of the usurper king/dictator Sulla out of Rome's legal fabric.

In our War for Independence, the American predator elites were willing to use the Declaration of Independence to bait the people into fighting for extraordinary American rights -- rights far beyond traditional English rights. Throughout the war, the DOI was continually posted and read wherever ordinary people would read or listen -- from military formations to church doors to taverns to public squares.

We can derive seven fundamental governance rights from the first part of the DOI's second paragraph. Those seven fundamental governance rights are --

Individual citizens have the fundamental right to be politically equal with all other citizens.

The sovereign people have the fundamental right to speak for themselves, in their voting majorities.

The sovereign people have the fundamental right to be their own sovereign masters, democratically and directly electing all of their public servant representatives.

The sovereign people have the fundamental right to remove any elected representative, for cause, without interference from government.

The sovereign people have the fundamental right to control the output of legislation by formulating their own, by vetoing law made by government, and by affirming existing law in such a way that government is barred from amending it -- at every jurisdictional level, without interference from government.

The sovereign people have the fundamental right to alter details of their governance, without interference from government.

The sovereign people have the fundamental right to protect themselves from themselves by establishing the powers within government to administratively, legislatively, and judicially prevent zealous majorities, greedy corporations, the corrupting superrich, and government itself from violating individual and minority citizen rights, as given in the constitution and laws.

Although the implied promises of these fundamental rights are self-apparent in the DOI's second paragraph -- and although the elites knew that ordinary Americans had fought the War for those fundamental rights -- the authors of the Constitution rejected and omitted every one of them.

The seven fundamental governance rights do not square with the pure representative government of the Constitution.

National, pure representative government does not grant political equality to all citizens. Instead, it absurdly makes the public servants functionally superior to sovereign civil society. Of course, the absurdity results from taking the sovereign people's point of view on governance, which is exactly what the politically sophisticated Urban Progressives of the Reform Era did. If you take the predator's point of view, or the servile's, then upside down is the natural order of things. (Stop being good Democratic and good Republican servile. Start being good Americans.)
National, pure rep govt does not allow the sovereign people to speak for themselves in their voting majorities. Instead, rep govt's charlatans, demagogues, and psychopaths get to speak whatever lies please them, to and for sovereign civil society -- with zero effective accountability.
National, pure rep govt does not allow sovereign civil society to directly elect all of its representatives. Instead, it maintains arbitrary corruption grounds called "the Electoral College" and "the independent judiciary" so that individuals in the highest reaches of power are appointed by the elites.
National, pure rep govt does not allow the sovereign civil society to remove its employees for cause. Instead, a wholly arbitrary and pseudo-legal impeachment mechanism allows the pompous powerful within rep govt to save as many of its own from accountability as can be done without the public lynching the whole lying, greedy, useless pack of politician criminals. The predators have learned well that you don't need to fool all the people all the time. Fooling just some can keep you alive, in power, and obscenely wealthy.
National, pure rep govt does not allow the sovereign civil society direct access to lawmaking. Instead, it makes whatever unenforceable, loop-holed, and/or illegal laws best suit its culture of lying and corruption machines (e.g., the anti-law regime tandem of (1) the unconstitutional and treasonous, privately-owned, usurious, currency counterfeiting, and currency inflation system of the Federal Reserve, and (2) the unconstitutional and treasonous, wealth-redistribution system of IRS personal income tax on wages and labor used to pay the usurious interest charges on the fiat, counterfeit, debt-based currency issued by the private owners of the Federal Reserve.
National, pure rep govt does not allow sovereign civil society to freely alter details of their governance. Instead, it protects all of its elitist-favoring institutions and arbitrary lawmaking procedures to ensure the power of the greedy, psychopathic few over the sovereign, ordinary people.
National, pure rep govt does not prevent violations of citizen rights by zealous minorities, greedy corporations, the corrupting superrich, or government itself. Instead, it is the facilitator for rights violations by all of those factions so that elitist profits and power are maximized, and so that ordinary people remain divided among themselves over as many dividing lines as possible. (Any substantial degree of citizen unity across the dividing lines would automatically mean unity against the politicians' culture of lying and corruption machines. Elitist profits and power would be automatically limited.)

Our DOI-based fundamental governance rights cannot be achieved in a pure representative government. They can only be achieved in a government that is a mix of fully independent, sovereign citizen lawmaking and representative government.

The balance between sovereign civil society and rep govt in a DD/rep-govt mix is in rep govt's daily access to governing power and civil society's occasional application of ultimate power. The sovereign people do not have to make every decision.

Arguing against any of the people's fundamental governance rights is to argue that the American people are not sovereign. Such argument today is legally irresponsible. All power is held by the sovereign people and delegated with restrictions to the public servants, not the other way around.

There is nothing mysterious about rights, freedoms, and liberties. They are all made of the same stuff, the same powers. They are the freedom to be, the freedom to do, and the freedom from many human and political things involved with social, economic, and political fairness and equality. They are the discoveries and results of what it takes to defend those who are threatened or overwhelmed by aggressions against themselves and/or their society by powerful and unprincipled individuals and groups.

Once a fundamental human or political right is established, it lives forever. It might be suppressed by any government at any time. However, as long as it is recognized or rediscovered by any group of human individuals, it has its own life. Rights are humanly absolute, not politically relativistic.

From the rights established by 400 years in ancient Republican Rome, every civil society is the sovereign in its nation, whether the nation's laws recognize them as such or not. All political power flows from the people. The people are the nation.

Yes, we must live under our nation's laws. However, if and when we gain the opportunity to square those laws with the human and political rights that we know to be ours, the squaring is the right thing to do. Allowing predator elitists to deny us our rights, lawfully or unlawfully, so that they have increased opportunities to butcher us for profits and power, is clearly the wrong thing to do.

In the US, the people's sovereignty is not open to debate. There is no reason whatever that we the sovereign people must live with laws that suppress and violate our human and political rights. There is no reason whatever that we must allow predatory politicians to elevate themselves above our rule of law so that they can suppress and violate our rights for profits and power.

The public servants whom we elect and appoint to our governments are not the nation. They are not public masters. They are not the sovereign of the nation. They are public servants only. The only legal powers they have are the ones that we the sovereign people delegate to them.

Now, we are at a turning point. All three branches of our national government have used their powers to become a massively illegitimate tyranny. This is not politics as usual. This is an unique proto despotism, violating our Constitution and laws to an unimaginable, 1934-Nazi-Germany-like degree. Bush-Cheney is anti-Contitutional governance.

We the people are the sovereign here. We need the functional sovereignty, the raw power, of direct democracy governance components so that we can exercise our sovereignty when necessary. Without the DD governance components, we are powerless to stop even the smallest tyranny.

The shadowy, globalized fascist tyranny of the superrich world government has been enslaving our nation for nearly a hundred years. Those who control the international central banking cabal are the true masters of that shadowy world government -- and of our domestic and foreign policy. They're represented here in the treasonous Federal Reserve and its treasonous money-pump, the IRS personal income tax on work and wages. Their private, behind-the-scenes, shadow-government work is nearly done. We're far into police state realities and on the edge of the North American Union collapsing our sovereignty, rights, freedoms, and liberty. Grow up politically or politically perish in the world government of, by, and for the superrich. See Arron Russo's 2006 film, America: Freedom to Fascism, free-per-view online at Google Video.

Stop with the do-nothing hand-wringing and clothes-clutching. Start with the citizen action groups (CAGs) and citizen action plans. Take responsibility for the political realities. Grow up or die ignorant.

THE EIGHT DD GOVERNANCE COMPONENTS

Great strides were made during the Reform Era in the civil society's sovereignty. It was the greatest democracy movement in recorded history, with many tens of millions participating.

Reform Era citizens devised the greatest corruption-fighting package ever created, leaving that package in many state constitutions where corrupt politicians cannot meddle with it.

State government elites have made a mockery of the constitutional amendments establishing the mix of sovereign citizen lawmaking and rep govt. They've passed unconstitutional statutes to override the hard=won constitutional provisions -- giving themselves the power to delay, alter, and/or reject any citizen-proposed law (I&R petiton) that is offensive to money-power -- before the people have the opportunity to vote the issue. The parallel would be executive agencies and/or judges barring a Senate committee from sending a bill for a floor vote. (See the essay, "2nd Look--State Govt Against Citizen-Proposed Law", on my weblog, DD Revival.)

Despite the 100 years of illegal abuses, the Reform Era's corruption-fighting package is still there, messed-over but not broken, safely stored in the state constitutions of the 23 active I&R states. It needs only a statute-law cleanup and some clearly written constitutional amendments. The cleanup requires only the organization of nonpartisan citizen action groups. We have plenty of individual talent to craft the needed laws and amendments.

The cleanup will result in fully independent, sovereign citizen lawmaking. It will give we the sovereign people the power to end the elites' state-level, first line of defense against national-level corruption, as well as to minimize their national-level power-profit greed.

The Reform Era legacy can be viewed as an affirmation of eight direct democracy governance components that have correlated components in ancient Greece and Rome. The modern, Reform Era versions are the functional expressions of the DOI's seven fundamental governance rights. They sort themselves into three categories --

Administrative functions:

(1) The people's direct election of representatives, suppossedly done in open, fair, and peer-reviewed referendums called 'elections'. Most Americans have been so dumbed-down into political ignorance that they do not recognize 'elections' as simple direct democracy referendums in which all the jurisdiction's eligible voters gather without officers to vote candidates up or down. Elections are done in all states, but only for state-level officials and members of the national Congress. President, Vice President, and federal bench judges -- the top-most powerfui of our political heap -- are selected, not elected, by the class-race elite, to whom they will be forever accountable. We need to eliminate selection by the elites and directly elect all of our representatives.

(2) The people's recall of the election of a public official who has violated the public trust or simply offended too many citizens is removal of the people's political employee for cause. It is done by petition process in 18 states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin). NOTE -- this is simply a modern and more civilized version of the ancient Greco-Roman citizens' vote to exile the offending person, barring his return, usually on pain of death.

Legislative functions
(Note that all of the legislative functions
are heavily and unconstitutionally interferred
with by state govts in all 23 active I&R states):

(3) The people's constitutional amendment initiative (CAI) is the proposal process for constitutional amendments, intended to function without government interference. It is the most powerful of the DD components. Where the CAI exists in the state constitution, it automatically establishes the people as the sovereign, because they can write fundamental law directly into the state's constitution, while the public servants cannot. The CAI is so powerful that it can do the work of all the other DD components. We need the CAI, fully independent from govt interference, in every jurisdiction -- local, state, and national -- with new online citizen institutions at the state and national levels to protect it. It is currently done by petition process in 18 states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois -- where it is very restricted, but still powerful -- Massachusetts -- where its constitutional provisions are unconstitutional relative to earlier, more universal constitutional provisions, so that the governing elites can arbitrarily stop any proposed citizen law that is offensive to money-power; big mess -- Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and South Dakota). NOTE -- In all of those states, the people are constitutionally the state and have constitutional political equality, regardless of how ignorant they are of, or how little they use, those powers.

(4) The people's statute law initiative is the proposal process for statute law, intended to occur without government interference. It is done by petition process in 21 states (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming).

(5) The people's statute law referendum is the proposal process for the veto of legislature-made law. The name should be changed from referendum to remand to minimize confusion with referendum-the-vote. It is done by petition process in 24 states (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky -- where it is so restricted that it has no practical application -- Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming).

(6) The people's statute law affirmation ("referendum on existing state law") is the proposal process to bar government from amending a law that the people do not want changed. It is done by petition process only in Nevada. It was used in 1990 to stop the legislature from overturning Roe v. Wade's personal privacy rights for Nevada women. Its successful 1990 use, carrying its "see us first" provision in the constitution, forever barred the Nevada legislature from amending or repealing the state's abortion laws. The legislature can recommend and refer amendments or repeal to the people, but only the people's direct-vote referendum can approve the legislature's recommendations. In 1990, it quieted what promised to be an explosive situation if the legislature had its anti-Constitutional way.

Consultative functions:

(7) The legislature's statute law referral to the people's referendum, done in 23 states, and

(8) the legislature's constitutional amendment referral to the people's referendum, done in 49 states (excepting only Delaware).

Our Urban Progressives of the Reform Era -- circa 1898 to 1918 -- crashed into the systemic problems and corruptions of pure representative government. Unlike today's hand-wringing, do-nothing, so-called progressives, who sit on their hands and wait for the inside-the-corruption-box, inside-the-culture-of-lying, Democratic Party to save us all, the Urban Progressives worked outside the box of the failed status quo. Their remedies and solutions centered on giving the people the power to check and balance the corruption- and collusion-prone branches of government. They acted by constitutionally increasing direct democracy, so that they could gain the representative government promised in the Constitution. All they wanted was the melding of direct democracy to representative government, so that they could have a proper representative government, with corruption minimized.

In the past nine decades, predator elites in the state govts have done whatever unconstitutionalities were needed to wreck and defame all citizen lawmaking and the recall, with special emphasis on wrecking the constitutional amendment initiative. With the state govt unconstitutonalities eliminated, direct democracy components will have a very improved look and feel.

The eight DD governance components, if installed at the national level, are all the power needed by the sovereign people to limit wealth- and class-driven corruptions, to re-define the over-vague Constitution, and to hold accountable the corrupt and criminal representatives and judges. We have a 3-branch fascist despotism to end, a national economy to save with sustainability, a fascist corporatism "North American Union" to wreck, and the Yellowstone supereruption to prepare for -- a disaster that could happen from tomorrow to many years from now, and that will kill tens of millions of Americans within a few weeks if we are no more prepared for it than we are now.

In the frame of complex systems theory, the Reform Era was a microshift that partially succeeded. Our Reform Era citizens succeeded in advancing us toward the objectives of political equality and independence from tyrannical elites. However, they failed to effectively alter elitist corruptions and control.

We the sovereign people are no closer to independence from tyrannical elitist control now than we were at Caesar's death and the fall of the Roman Republic. As with the ancient Romans, we've lost our Constitution to money-power tyrants.

However, the early 20th Century Reform Era carried us one giant legal step toward the objectives. If we will take the time to organize and learn the lessons of the Reform Era's failures, we can make the next microshift fully successful. For the lessons to learn, see "DD Reading List", on the DDL site.

Modified Wed 12 Jun 2007, at 5:15am CDT.

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Article 5 Constitutional Convention

2007-05-29T08:09:00.001-05:00

Straight talk about a deep trap.

Predator elitists, in all their sundry, anti-Constitutional stripes, are decades ahead of democracy advocates in both organization and in any topic that concerns the defense and advancement of corruption. In any remedy or solution to the corruption machines, we must be careful to see our strategy and tactics from the predator elitists' point of view, as well as from our own.

Some democracy advocates are showing considerable activity recently, advocating a 2nd NCC (national constitutional convention). We need to warn them off the effort. Hamilton and his 1787 Federalist predators saw us coming.

Article 5, as it came into the Constitution, was a sop to Randolph, Mason, and Gerry -- great democrats of the 1st NCC. In the convention's final days, they were refusing to sign the Constitution because the majority of delegates would not allow the document to be debated by state legislatures and the people and then sent into a second convention to be amended as needed.

Article 5 was one of several sophistic tricks attempted by the majority of delegates to persuade the three democrats to sign on. The predators knew that ratification of their corruption-maximizing Constitution was not a sure thing. They had exceeded their instructions to merely correct errors in the "inviolable" USA constitution, the Articles of Confederation. Their exaggerated criticisms of the Articles had been transparently false for many years. They'd watched as several elected delegates refused to even show up, because of convictions that Hamilton and his predators did not represent the nation. They'd watched as several more delegates bolted from the convention as soon as intentions to scrap the Articles were clear. The bad press had been steadily increasing. The Federalist predators had cobbled together an unconstitutional ratification procedure -- a straightforward violation of the Articles -- that depended on their getting strong support from the wider elite community. And here, three pillars of that wider elite community -- men who had worked tirelessly throughout the convention -- were saying "NO".

On 17 September, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington became two of the sophists who tried mightily to swing the three democrats back into the elitists' camp. Taken against the severe, systemic problems of the Constitution -- problems that handed us the criminal Bush-Cheney Usurpation and left us powerless to end its catalog of felonies and treasons -- the Franklin and Washington speeches that day are two of the best displays of how the 1780s American elites lived the unexamined life of bigoted elitism.

Washington especially, with his remark that the "... smallness of the proportion of Representatives had been considered by many members of the Convention an insufficient security for the rights & interests of the people", strikes a level of insincerity and hypocrisy that is intolerable. Not only does he mock the very reasonable Randolph-Mason-Gerry proposal, but he mocks the patriots who fought the War for the extraordinary rights promised in the Declaration of Independence, as well as the nation's demand that the national constitution include a bill of rights. At convention's end, there was no bill of rights. The Federalist predators would not willingly limit their profits and power with the rabble's rights.

In evaluating Article 5, we should notice the fact that Edmond Randolf, George Mason, and Elbridge Gerry were not persuaded that it could bring about the deep reform that they saw as necessary. None of the three signed the Constitution.

Desperate as they were, Hamilton and his Federalists did not give away the store. Article 5 gives Congress an ace in the hole: the choice of ratifying any amendment in either the state legislatures or the special ratifying conventions. Recent generations of predator elitists have been actively working toward superrich ownership of the state legislatures. "Soft money", with no limit and no accounting, floods perqs and the reelection campaigns at the state level. Ownership of the state legislatures by the superrich is obvious. Hamilton's Article 5 is a trap.

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Yes, a 2nd NCC (national constitutional convention) can be called by the states, going around the national government. And, yes, the sovereign people are the state in those 18 states in which the people have the constitutional amendment initiative (CAI) already established in the state constitutions.

That is, in the 34 states required to call an Article 5 convention, the people hold the ultimate legal power in 18. Good start.

And, yes, state-level statute law calling the convention could be crafted so that state delegation credentials, delegate recall, and non-binding referendums in the states to instruct the delegates could probably prevent the predator elites from taking over the convention's proposal-drafting powers.

However, the state legislatures are owned by the superrich. Congress -- also owned by the superrich -- can say constitutionally that the convention's proposals will be ratified by the state legislatures, not by the special ratifying conventions that are optional in Article 5.

From there, the possibilities are endless for the convention's proposed provisions to be fast-tracked through, where they are desired by money-power, and delayed, altered, and/or rejected, where they are offensive to money-power.

Those treatments have been routinely and unconstitutionally applied to citizen-proposed law (I&R petitions) in the 23 active I&R states for over 100 years. The civil society is still roundly ignorant of state government's unconstitutionalities, felonies, and treasons with citizen-proposed law. There's simply no reason for the predator elitists to change their winning game for a constitutional convention. See especially the essay, 2nd Look--State Govt Unconstitutionalites Against Citizen-Proposed Law".

We should not trust a national Article 5 constitutional convention, no matter who calls it. In this political culture of lying, where bribery money is SCOTUS-sanctified free speech, it will be a simple matter for the superrich to find sufficient sycophants among the convention's elected delegates. With the fawning parasites of the superrich crafting the convention's proposed provisions, and the superrich-owned state legislators voting ratification of the convention's proposals, citizen rights will be further limited and opportunities for predator greed greatly expanded.

I've shifted from advocating a 2nd NCC (national constitutional convention) based on Article 5 to advocating standalone constitutional amendments campaigned individually.

We can count on our amendments being willingly done by the politicians in Congress after they've gained THE FEAR from the continually escallating, smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan -- or anything similar. You can find that action plan outlined in "Open Letter To Susan" on DD Revival. Adding a nationally organized jury nullification program to fend off the corrupt state and federal judges will make "Unity America" even stronger.

The amendments should include (1) citizen lawmaking, fully independent of govt interference, with direct-vote referendum ratification dependent on a double majorities approval, (2) direct-vote, nonpartisan election of president, vice president, and attorney general, with the Department of Justice as an independent agency and all three officers subject to the people's recall, (3) all judges of the federal bench fired, pending direct-vote, nonpartisan election by all voting citizens in the individual Court's jurisdiction, with all federal judges being subject to the national electorate's recall, and (4) Congress reduced to a nonpartisan unicameral based on the still-successful 1934 Nebraska model, with three senators per state to protect small- from large-population states.

Note that approving "double majorities" are approval by a simple majority of all those voting nationally, plus a simple majority of states in which simple majorities voted for approval. This is how the Swiss give their national citizen lawmaking a legitimacy beyond question.

The only down-side to any effective citizen action plan to combat the Bush-Cheney Usurpation and fascist-corporatism-controlled political parties is getting Americans sufficiently organized to do anything. Americans have been divided against themselves and expertly driven into self-indulgent cocoons by predator elitists in and out of govt for decades. We are now a do-nothing civil society, primarily out of servility, indifference, anti-Constitutional religious dogma, and simple fear for our jobs, economic perqs, and children's education.

Do-nothing politics means giving away one's political responsibility to anybody, so that nothing more need be done. It has been a major factor in American elitist politics from the beginning.

We go right on practicing our do-nothing politics, despite our national government having been hijacked by a three-branch fascist despotism that has perpetrated a whole catalog of anti-Constitutional crimes, as well as another catalog of felony conspiracies against citizen rights, in violation of 18 USC 241. We go right on with our do-nothing politics despite the example of corruption and tyranny fighting in the Reform Era, circa 1898 to1918 -- the greatest democracy movement of history.

Activating and organizing Americans to take back our Constitution and citizen rights will require organizing innovations that have not been invented yet.

Saul Alinkski's old Industrial Areas Foundation, 1940s and on, may be our only coherent set of organizing clues. Never do anything for anyone that they can do themselves -- never. Understand the world as it is. Fix on the world as you want to have.

Or, perhaps zero preparedness for the coming Yellowstone supereruption, and the consequent deaths of tens of millions of Americans -- because the fascist despotism wants you to shop till you drop -- will do the trick. Perhaps then Americans will come out of their sub-surface cocoons to take back their constitutional republic.

If the 3-branch despotism gets the "Real ID" police state and the "North American Union" in place first, the post-Yellowstone impulse to organize might very well be too late. But, what the hell, ignorance and do-nothing politics are a lot of fun. Well -- until you and your family are broken on the wheel so that the superrich can have your money too.

Grow up or die.

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References:

For the Edmond Randolph motion to forward the first draft of the Constituton to the state legislatures, with supporting speeches by George Mason and Elbridge Gerry -- along with the follow-on attempts by other delegates to persuade Randolph, Mason, and Gerry to sign the Constitution anyway, see the James Madison Journal, 15 September 1787 and 17 September 1787, on the Constitution Society's Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics, document 91-1, "Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, James Madison".

For An annotated Article 5 of the Constitution see the Cornel Law site, "Legal Information Institute".

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Modified Wed 30 May 2007, at 10:10am.

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Are Democratic Party Politicians Carbon-Based Lifeforms?

2007-04-24T07:24:00.000-05:00

Recent revelations demonstrate that the Democratic Party politicians have acted in concert to ignore the Bush-Cheney Three-Branch Regime's catalog of anti-Constitutional felonies and treasons against citizen rights. Our intrepid reporter, Dudley Doright, has intercepted a top-secret RNC video that shows the early life of politician lifeforms, which are later separated into the Democratic and Republican parties.

The video clearly shows how American politicians for both national and state governments are spawned by silicon-based aliens into a carbon-based ooze. After developing compound eyes and mouth-parts, they are released into cesspools deep in vaults at the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, where they feed on animal feces for many years.

As they ascend the cessool's food-chain, they inculcate the felonious and treasonous usury that central bankers have camouflaged with corrupt national governments since 1694. When they reach a sufficiency of usury inculcation --indicated by the development of thoracic segments, two stout tails, and claws at the end of each of their six legs -- they are transferred to the many cesspools of the Federal Reserve system.

While continuing their training in the dank accounting vaults of Federal Reserve banks, they undergo decades of plastic surgery.

When they look almost human, they are released into the American political-party and electoral system. By this time, of course, they have demonstrated as a class that they will follow orders to defend the Federal Reserve's treasons, the sacred corruption machines of the superrich, and their fellow politician lifeforms to the death.

As Dudley's article continues, it becomes clear that the mature, silicon-based politician lifeform can be easily identified by its constant greed, its constant anti-Constitutional governance, and its constant willingness to butcher ordinary Americans for profit and power.

Dudley concludes that the superrich have recently surged the politician lifeform population after decades of astute preparation. Their growing of infectious and divisive belief systems has now almost completely cocooned the American people. The cocoon-resident insanity of cognative dissonance -- facts and related truth statements crashing and burning against reality-warping belief systems -- now means that the majority of Americans will remain paralytically cocooned forever.

The superrich have attained globalized nirvana. They owe it all to silicon-based politician lifeforms and American financial, political, and religious belief systems superfluous to political reality.

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Yellowstone Supereruption

2007-03-28T19:22:00.001-05:00

Let's call it Area One. It's the 600-mile radius around the Yellowstone Caldera. Bill McGuire, professor of geohazards at University College London, considers a 600-mile radius to be deadly space during even a minimal supereruption. "Within a thousand kilometers, virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows, and the sheer explosive force of the eruption."

Some geologists now define 'supereruption' to mean at least 240 cubic miles of ejected material, which is identical to Yellowstone's last supereruption -- Yellowstone 3, aka, Lava Creek -- and about 960 times the quarter-cubic-mile of material ejected by St. Helens in 1980.

A quick and dirty calculation of counties included in Area One's 600-mile radius shows a current population of 19.8 million (estimates by the federal Census Bureau dated 01 July 2005). Unprepared, the vast majority of those will likely be dead or dying in the first days of a Yellowstone supereruption.

By recent scientific calculations using seismic data, the volume of Yellowstone's 80 x 40 x 8 km magma chamber is about 20,000 to 25,000 cubic km -- about 4800 to 6000 cubic miles. If Yellowstone 4 blows out just a quarter of its magma, the 1200 cubic miles spewed will be the largest known supereruption. Yellowstone 1, aka Huckleberry Ridge, about 2 million years ago, was 600 cubic miles of ejecta. Sumatra's Toba, about 74,000 years ago, was 720 cubic miles of ejecta. 1200 cubic miles of ejecta would be 4800 times St. Helens' 1980 blast. And it could happen tomorrow.

The actual size and date of the next Yellowstone supereruption is beside the point. The point is that our politicians have intentionally kept ordinary people unprepared. They want us to shop till we drop. Zero preparation is the point. Unprepared, a Yellowstone supereruption tomorrow, or twenty years from now, will be the nonfeasant murder of tens of millions of ordinary Americans -- by politicians of both parties, done in the corruption kickbacks and greed that fuel the superrichs' obscenely excessive profits.

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Zero preparedness threatens everyone living within 600 miles of Yellowstone. However, that specified radius -- from an interview of several geologists for a February 2000 BBC program -- has apparently been branded "alarmist" by Monkeybrain's regime. The map showing the 600-mile-radius -- what I'm calling 'Area One' -- is credited to the US Geological Survey on the Discovery Channel's site, but no longer appears on the USGS site. What does appear on the USGS site is a lot of no-worries pap stacked wide and deep.

The USGS no-worries pap is clearly social engineering designed to maintain government and the global economy for the benefit of the superrich. No fair spending the public money for public civil defense. Public money is for corporate welfare and the superrich.

Civil defense, once a robust arm of civil society but eviscerated for decades by the bought and paid for majority of superrich-representing politicians, is now FEMA's job. FEMA is where Monkeybrain's fascist goosesteppers are doing a heck of a good job securing their wardrobes and careers -- and not saying or doing anything to offend the Business Roundtable, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, or the unconstitutional, privately-owned, and treasonous Federal Reserve.

Despite the BBC programs on supervolcanoes that aired February 2000 and April 2005 -- and the executive summary presented to the FEMA hierarchy by the BBC and the program's scientists after the 2005 program -- FEMA still does not publish any preparedness guidelines for a supereruption.

You can search FEMA far and wide. No mention of radioactive volcanic ash fall appears. Their advice of what to do during a volcanic eruption is infantile, relative to a supereruption from which (1) evacuation might very well be impossible, and (2) roof-crushing radioactive ash might fall in heavily acidic rain for weeks, as far away as Dallas and Chicago. Needless to say, the states' disaster planning amounts to the same no-worries bureaucratic shuffle around short-term emergencies.

Despite FEMA's blind eye, the Yellowstone supereruption will not go away if we ignore it long enough. It is going to happen.

We have three supervolcano caldera in the western US. All of them are due to past-due. The Yellowstone Caldera, the Long Valley Caldera (SE of Yosemite in California), and the Valles Caldera (just west of Los Alamos, NM). Although the Valles Caldera is not as restless as the other two (which are currently making about 3,000 earthquakes per year), they are all capable of equaling Yellowstone 3 (240 cubic miles of ejecta). Continent-covering ash fall would be a killer component of any of their supereruptions. If just one goes off, the unprepared US and the whole world is in deep doo-doo.

Sumatra's Lake Toba supereruption, 74,000 years ago, caused a volcanic winter that probably lasted about six years. The evidence appears in ice cores taken from Greenland. The following thousand-year cold snap took the planet into the Ice Age that ended only 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. One supereruption. 64,000-year hangover.

Another downside. Many imminent scientists are considering scenarios in which multiple natural disasters of cataclysmic proportion are triggered in chain reactions -- by a space rock or space-rock storm, or one of the events themselves. A Yellowstone supereruption, a Long Valley supereruption, the San Andreas lock-up NW of Los Angeles cutting loose, the Cascadia Subduction Zone lock-up cutting loose on the NW coast, and lahars (hot volcanic mudflows) from Mt. Rainier devastating the southern Puget Sound area (into Tacoma) without much warning and without signs of a conventional eruption stand out as one glaring possibility of multiples.

Such chain reactions seem very reasonable. A storm of space rocks 1 km to 1.5 km in diameter (the dinosaur killer at Chicxulub is estimated at about 10 km in diameter) could blow out craters deep enough to explosively open either or both Yellowstone and Long Valley calderas to the atmosphere, easily leading to the chain reaction.

However, multiples are beyond the scope I've set here. Planning for a Yellowstone supereruption seems a good starting point for multiples preparedness. If we know what to do with the Yellowstone Area One, we'll know what to do with a Long Valley Area One.

Unprepared, we face communications failure, health care overload and breakdown; food and water contamination and scarcity; livestock death; food processing plants breakdown; mass starvation; residential cave-ins from ash load; masses of desperate homeless refugees; long-term loss of road and air transport to ash-fall effects; loss of prescription meds distribution; loss of petro-fuel processing and distribution -- just to name some of the problems.

Unprepared, the death toll inside Yellowstone Area One will be 10 to 20 million. We should expect the short term death toll outside Area One to be more tens of millions.

Of course, the corporations and superrich are preparing their fascist global economy to endure with only minimal loss of profits. Production facilities and jobs are already safely and profitably scattered off-shore. The global marketplace has been diversified away from America and into many populous off-shore areas. Monkeybrain's North American Union will spread the American national economy north and south of the borders. The NAU will also finally eliminate the people's rights and liberties under the American Constitution -- always a disruptor of billionaire profits.

Point is, the superrich are not banking on Yellowstone 4 being thousands of years from now, or, alternatively, being such a tiny little insignificant eruption that it can't possibly disturb their profits. They're clearly banking on desertion of America to keep their profits as stable as possible after Yellowstone 4 guts about two-thirds of the continental US. They are elite corruption-machine profit-makers, not natural-disaster half-way houses for the benefit of the rabble.

Middle East war profiteering should give the superrich and their Swiss bank accounts the boost needed for them to make it through the tough times ahead.

Still glad you allowed you rights and liberties to be taken by fascist government so that they can make Nazi-like aggressive war forever, and so that you and your family can be safe?

Still glad about all the time you've spent rebuilding the Democratic Party so that it can grab power from the Republinazis, without bringing any of the treasonous constitutional criminals to justice? So that fascist government can continue its pro-superrich policy of zero preparation -- to kill you and your family?

Still glad you've cocooned yourself away from populist remedies that are outside the box of predator-controlled party politics? (See the "Unity America" action plan in Open Letter To Susan and add nationally organized jury nullification.) Citizen preparation for Yellowstone 4 has the power to bridge and break the social, financial, and psychological cocooning that has paralyzed effective American citizen action for the past three decades. Connect with others. Prepare or die. Liberty or death.

Preparation is the only way to save people and prevent national collapse.

Earthquakes in a caldera, many scientists agree, mean that increasing pressure is breaking brittle rocks around and over the magma chamber, as the magma moves closer to the surface. Heat rises. There have been thousands of Yellowstone earthquakes in the past decade. USGS recorded 113 earthquakes there in the month of February 2007. No worries, of course, say the pap-masters. This is just normal.

Despite the pap-loaded party line from Monkeybrain's goosesteppers and superrich-controled ivory-tower types -- who have explanations for everything except zero preparation -- some prominent scientists continually say that Yellowstone 4 could happen tomorrow.

The fascist regime's main argument for the supereruption still being hundreds or thousands of years off in the future is as childishly vacuous, and as non sequitur, as they come.

All of this restless volcanic activity at Yellowstone, the vacuous argument goes, has been happening for about ten thousand years. Yellowstone is a restless caldera. Uplift and subsidence. New hydrothermal activity from crustal water heated by the magma below. It's all old news. It's all just normal. Therefore, nothing will happen in the foreseeable future.

As if heat does not rise. As if magma does not rise to the surface. As if magma just loiters around in some underground honeycomb condo for ten thousand years.

As if ten thousand years of the Yellowstone magma rising to the surface is no precursor to a supereruption.

As if not being able to stop it means that preparation is futile.

As if preparing for it is something that nobody could have imagined.

Very similar to the Monkeybrain goosesteppers' claim that nobody could have imagined airliners as bombs for the 9/11 attacks. Very similar to the Monkeybrain goosesteppers' claim that nobody could have imagined the breakdown of levies at New Orleans. Are we clear? Monkeybrain's goosesteppers have no imagination and lie their asses off about everything.

As if preparation for the supereruption would not tap off the public and private spending that benefits corporate welfare, the superrich, and the central banking war profiteers most of all.

Cooking for the next supereruption has not been going on for 10,000 years. It has been going on for about 640,000 years. The source is a relentless "mantle plume" hot spot, continually feeding new magma upward.

When the cooking breaks through to the surface -- by earthquake, cap rock melted away until it's too thin and weak to hold the pressure from below, space rock impact, al Qeada suitcase nuc, or whatever -- about 1200 cubic miles of molten, explosive rhyolite could blow up in our faces.

For the past fourteen years at least -- since NASA infrared scanning discovered the true extent of the Yellowstone Caldera in 1993 (doff of cap to Lawrence Joseph in his excellent 2007 book, Apocalypse 2012) -- any responsible government representing all the people would have been prepping citizens to survive the coming supereruption.

Stockpiling safe and renewable sources of food, water, and medicines; building disaster-proof communications; defining self-sustaining communities, and building underground shelters for them that are under survivable above-ground structures (the Swiss style, in poured and reinforced concrete, with blast doors at least 8 feet thick); and providing incentives for relocation out of Area One's 600-mile radius would be just the tip of the preparation iceberg.

But, noooooo. We've got to have an unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous invasion of Iraq. We've got to have aggressive, internationally criminal warfare in the Middle East forever, so that the global billionaires can war-profiteer off the backs of dead and maimed US soldiers. We've got to bankrupt the US for war-profiteering so that low-income social programs can be tossed into the Reagan-Bush voodoo-economics toilet. No fair spending public money for the public. That money belongs to the billionaires.

Outside Area One's 600-mile blast-kill area -- the first ring of doom (with apologies to L. Joseph in A-2012) -- ash fall will be the second ring of doom. Well, if it's not overmatched by the radiation ring of doom. Radioactive minerals, such as uranium U-235, are a natural part of the Yellowstone's mantle plume heat. They're not likely to step aside so that the supereruption can go on without them.

We should expect 6-foot radioactive ash depths 1000 miles downwind from Yellowstone 4. An eruption at Bruno Jarbridge, in SW Idaho, about 10 million years ago -- fueled by the same hot spot that is now under Yellowstone -- buried hundreds of pre-historic animals in 6 feet of ash at present-day Orchard, Nebraska. Orchard is about 1000 miles away from the volcanic source.

(Relocation of the hot spot is no puzzle. The North American Plate moves southwest. The hot spot stays put. The 16- to 17-million-year geologic record of the hot spot's caldera and eruptions shows new caldera forming from southwest to northeast.)

According to the USGS site, a cubic meter of wet ash, stacked on top of another cubic meter of wet ash, could weigh up to 8,800 pounds -- over 4 tons. Deadly weight, for 6 feet of depth. Because it is electrically conductive glass, volcanic ash causes thunderstorms. Volcanic ash almost always falls in a rain. Figure on most of it being wet-weight.

Just the pyroclastic flows near Yellowstone 4 will be capable of killing thousands, tens of thousands, or millions. We've all seen images of the open-mouthed gasps frozen into the Roman corpses at Pompeii, buried in 20 feet of pumice and ash carried by a pyroclastic flow from Vesuvius, August 79 CE.

As with St. Helens, the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius was just a volcanic hiccup relative to the American supervolcanoes.

The no-worries-pap predictions are for Yellowstone 4's pyroclastic flows to take out a 100 km -- 60-mile -- radius. St. Helens' pyroclastic flows took out a 28-km -- 17.4-mile -- radius. It seems pretty dumb to say that a caldera producing 1000 to 4800 times St. Helens' ejecta will collapse into its own giant, miles-deep hole and blow out pyroclastic flows of less than 4 times those of St. Helens.

Seems prudent to me to expect much larger pyroclastic flows at the end of a Yellowstone supereruption. But then, Area One will be pretty much dead already.

Still, a 60-mile radius is 11,304 square miles (area = pi times radius squared). Pick it up to a 100-mile radius and you've got 31,400 square miles. Either is unimaginable to the kid who once cut corn out of half-mile bean rows for weekend work.

Then there's the volcanic winter. It'll last some years or decades, depending on how big the supereruption is and how long it lasts. The planet, scientists say, will be completely encircled with volcanic clouds within two weeks after a supereruption. All ecosystems will be adversely affected. The Asian monsoons will be disrupted, adding the loss of that world's breadbasket to the loss of the US breadbasket.

The staggering list of killer effects goes on and on. Zero preparation sucks.

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See especially:

BBC, Supervolcanoes, first aired 03 February 2000, transcript, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/
supervolcanoes_script.shtml

BBC, Supervolcano: The Truth About Yellowstone Part 1, first aired 14 April 2005, transcript, at http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1343737.htm

BBC, Supervolcano: The Truth About Yellowstone Part 2, first aired 21 April 2005, transcript, at http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1350403.htm

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Modified Wed 04 Apr 2007, at 3:45 p.m.

© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Supervolcano Politics

2007-03-28T19:17:00.001-05:00

A monster freak of nature, 40,000 years past due on its 600,000-year cycle, is about to bury the continental US. There's no negotiating with this monster. When it happens, it will destroy the US as we know it -- unless we somehow manage to get prepared for it.

"Of course, there's a fourth ring of doom -- zero preparedness. Katrina times a hundred million. It's the whole point here. We must hold our elites responsible for knowing that Yellowstone 4 is inevitable. Makes no difference whether it happens next week, three years from now, or twenty years from now. Zero preparation means a death toll in the tens of millions before any significant counter-measures can be taken. And, in an informed choice, zero preparation is exactly what Monkeybrain's government has chosen."

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I've been on a rambling sabbatical. From Christmas Week to the Ides of March, it was free-range politics -- politics without borders. It was about where we've been, what the hell are we doing, newly-discovered ambushes, and where to from here?

The sabbatical soft-centered on Lawrence Joseph's Gaia-oriented 2007 book, Apocalypse 2012. As entertaining a writer as Joseph is, I could learn to hate that book. From first reading, it's been like an evil ghoul in the night, most days.

One of the book's ghoulish faces is my dread that the hi-jacking of our government and the killing of our Constitution was done because the superrich class-race elites had the book's natural disaster information back when. Yellowstone's supervolcano would've kicked their money-grubbing motives into racing trim.

War profiteering is the superrich's ultimate, high-volume money-maker. With the pending destruction of the US national economy by the monster freak of nature lurking at Yellowstone, buying or coercing SCOTUS to create the 3-branch Bush-Cheney fascist despotism would have been cheap at twice the price -- whatever the price was.

If Yellowstone and its many related monsters were even part of the motives for hi-jacking our governments, then the financial and governerning elites have been murderers from the start -- premeditating murderers. And politics as usual is right out the window -- starting right now.

The Yellowstone Caldera (supervolcano) is a two-week, radiation and sulfuric acid loaded explosion ready to happen. Think huge thermonuclear explosion lasting for two weeks or more.

The Yellowstone magma chamber is about 125 miles deep. Its maw at the surface is about 70 km by 30 km -- about 44 by 19 miles. Per the USGS, there were 113 earthquakes in Yellowstone during February 2007. The caldera's surface has risen by 14 centimeters over the past 31 months.

Tectonic plates move at 1 millimeter per century. The magma chamber at Yellowstone lifted its lid by 140 millimeters in 31 months. I've seen the data a hundred times in black and white. It electrocutes me every time. Aaarrrrgggg. 14 centimeters uplift? Less than three years?

The cooking caldera could cook off just any time now. And scientists have no earthly idea how quickly a supervolcano goes from cooking to cooking off. Nonesuch has happened for 74,000 years. The geologic record is mute on warning time.

Will we have a St. Helens warning period? Yellowstone 4 -- there've been three previous Yellowstone supereruptions -- has so much more explosive gas in its magma than St. Helens did that its likely to give us no warning at all.

First venting to the atmosphere -- kaboom -- two weeks or more. Think pin-prick of an over-inflated balloon. There's no way to relieve the pressure building up inside the monster. Drilling to tap off the pressure equals pin-prick.

Scientists think that Yellowstone's magma chamber is still capped with 3.6 to 6 miles of earthen rock. But they don't really know. Or, if they do, they're not releasing the real-time data to the public. And, of course, the magma chamber is constantly heating and melting away the overhanging rock, working its way to the surface. Another ghoulish evil face in the dark.

Admittedly, the two-week-explosion measure is an estimation of Yellowstone 3, which happened 640,000 years ago. It was Yellowstone's medium supereruption. It blew out about 240 cubic miles of molten rock. About 960 times more than St. Helens' one-quarter cubic mile of molten rock in 1980.

Scientists estimate that Yellowstone 3's blast-kill radius was about 1000 KM -- 600 miles. Moonscape. Little or no life remaining above ground inside the radius.

We should hope that Yellowstone 4 is Yellowstone 3 or smaller.

Yellowstone 1 blew out 600 cubic miles of molten rock -- about 2400 times more than St. Helens in 1980. I can't go there often. And the stays are brief. Yellowstone 3 is hard enough to get my mind around.

It doesn't help that the Al Qaeda message that went along with the Madrid bombings (11 March 2004) mentioned the "black wind of death" that will blow over America. If Yellowstone 4 is a medium rip, its volcanic/nuclear winter will run six to ten years. And there seems to be many ways that an Al Qaeda nuc could be delivered to near-enough the Yellowstone magma chamber to start it blowing.

Joseph says in A-2012 that there are "three rings of doom" coming in Yellowstone 4.

First is the blast-kill radius. Live things above ground will be killed. If it's a medium rip, Denver is toast. LA might live, if the booming shocks from Yellowstone 4 don't trigger the San Andreas lock-up.

Second ring of doom is the radiation poisoning. The Yellowstone hotspot exists because it is home to the planet's largest deposit of uranium and other naturally radioactive minerals. It might be the only supervolcano on the planet whose cause is radioactive. Degree of radioactive blowout in its supereruption is an unknown ghoulish evil.

The third ring of doom is the ash fall. At a distance of 900 miles, Tulsa can expect -- I'm estimating from various scientific writings -- three to twenty feet of ash depth, depending on the winds.

In two weeks time, the jet stream(s) and associated winds wander all over the continental US. We should expect significant ash fall all across the country -- to water's edge on the Atlantic coast. The large supereruption 74,000 years ago -- Lake Toba, Sumatra, 600 cubic miles of extruded rock -- left over a foot of ash depth at a distance of 2600 miles. It's 1800-1900 jet-stream-assisted miles from Yellowstone to Philadelphia.

A cubic meter of wet volcanic ash can weigh up to 4,400 pounds. Our building codes for snow load is a tiny fraction of that. We should expect -- and be prepared for -- roof-crushing ash loads In Chicago and Detroit. Oh, yeah, we don't know much about ash removal.

Volcanic ash particles are tiny jagged pieces of glass. They can't be breathed without ripping up lung tissue. Dust masks and respirators are required.

Wet, volcanic ash is slipprier than ooze. It's electrically conductive. In the atmosphere, its conductivity causes T-storms. Ash fall is almost always in a rain. When the ash fall comes through the radiation and sulfuric acid droplets that will cloud downwind from Yellowstone's super-eruption, it will be wet, heavy, slippery, radioactive, and heavily acidic. The acid will attack anything metal. This could be ugly.

Of course, there's a fourth ring of doom -- zero preparedness. Katrina times a hundred million. It's the whole point of this essay. We must hold our elites responsible for knowing that Yellowstone 4 is inevitable. Makes no difference whether it happens next week, three years from now, or twenty years from now. Zero preparation means a death toll in the tens of millions before any significant counter-measures can be taken. And, in an informed choice, zero preparation is exactly what Monkeybrain's government has chosen.

Worse, Yellowstone 4 is just the paradigm -- just the single disaster-tip of the iceberg. Yellowstone could trigger, or help trigger, the Cascadia Subduction Zone lockup on the NW coast, the San Andreas lock-up near LA, the New Madrid (Missouri) Seismic Zone's fabled multiple 7.5 earthquakes along the Mississippi, the Long Valley supervolcano SE of Yosemite, and/or the Valles supervolcano just west of Los Alamos, NM. Both of those supervolcano calderas are somewhere between due and past due.

Combined natural disasters? Monkeybrain's government has chosen zero preparation.

Even if you reject Gaia concepts, you might be killed by explosion and impact chain reactions among the building and inevitable natural disasters.

We haven't even begun thinking about national preparation for the next space rock that slams home about every 60 to 65 million years. That cycle is hard-science documented. Did the dinosaurs die in vain 65 million years ago? You'll know the answer to that question when they announce the next space rock. We're somewhere between due and overdue right now. Schumacher-Levy 9 was soaked up by Jupiter. Had it lined up on us, we'd likely be space dust right now. However, prepared, some of us would survive the dinosaur-killer.

And we haven't even begun thinking about national preparation for the probable magnetic pole reversal process, which is already weakening our magnetic field protection against human-harmful solar flares and massive increases of ultraviolet. Now is a good time to start. As our Milky Way galaxy rushes toward its collision and merging with the much larger spiral galaxy, Andromena, it seems to be moving our solar system through a high-energy area of interstellar space. The sun is going crazy, shooting more and bigger flares in the recent years of its solar minimum than what it shot in recent solar maximums. We've already lucked-out once, with an earth-frying solar flare shooting away from us instead of at us.

The volcanic-spacerock-nuclear winter and solar-flare-earth-frying that we face in those ugly scenarios have underground prep work written all over them.

Downside. If we're unprepared, Yellowstone, by itself, will crush the national economy as we know it. But it won't get the offshore production facilities of the long-fled, US-fed corporations. It won't get the corporate Swiss bank accounts. And it probably won't get any of the superrich. (The unAmerican cowards need an attitude adjustment and other retribution.)

Big downside. Yellowstone's volcanic winter will last long enough that all plants and animals restricted to the earth's surface will die. Obviously, the less we're prepared, the more death, and the more difficult the national recovery.

GOING UNDERGROUND

When the Roman Empire broke up, much of the population survived by moving to country estates. The 'villa' was a self-supporting unit. It provided shelter, food production, water, community, and the Roman politics of elite control. Over time, elite control twisted into the feudalism of the Dark Ages, butchering ordinary people at the whim of elites for centuries.

We should be able to do better this time around. With nothing more complicated than a medium Yellowstone supereruption, Roman Empire breakdown parallels will be operative. Disruption of the Asian monsoons will make Yellowstone 4 a near-extinction event.

Survival in underground communities is just about the only national option we have. Happily we can still take most of our technology with us -- if preparation begins very soon, and if the Yellowstone monster stays quiet for a few years.

Above-ground power generating systems -- windmills, photovoltaics, and small hydroelectrical units -- will have to be stored until the worst is past. But, if we're quick, we can still create self-supporting fuel cells that run on hydrogen fuel produced by algae feedstock and mini-biorefineries. The fuel cells could supply the juice for grow-lights needed for the small algae farms.

The algae farms can also grow a different feedstock that would supply high-grade biodiesel. Before oil-crony Clinton shut down the research in the early 1990s, scientists had already established that we could replace 100 percent of our transport fuel needs with algae biodiesel. (See Michael Brigg's essay, "Widescale Biodiesel Production from Algae", at the Biodiesel Group site, University of New Hampshire.)

Food production will need a lot of fuel cell power, too. Hydroponic systems need water pumps and grow-lights. Shrimp aquaculture can go on in near darkness, but most livestock raised for food will need some light.

Some of the small scientific/engineering communities will have to take DNA and cloning technology underground with them. On the far side of volcanic winter, we'll have to be able to clone all the species of ducks. I love ducks. And trout. I love wild trout in a little mountain freestoner. And how important would survival be without the migration of Monarch butterflies or Bottlenose Dolphins?

Not that we'll duck out from under our volcanic winter and loose all those lovelies back into the world on the first summery day. The cold snap that followed the last volcanic winter led directly to a major ice age.

Of course, there'll be a plankton die-off in the lack of sunlight. The pelagic food-chain will starve from the bottom-up.

The Swiss can put every one of their 7.5 million citizens into underground shelters in a matter of minutes. Why that same level of preparedness is not available here can be laid on the superrich and their corruption of US government to gain their obscenely excessive profits.

CLEARING THE POLITICAL DEBRIS

The upside is that, with our bare-bones survival at stake, we have solid reasons to impeach, remove, criminally prosecute, and imprison any and all of the treasonous constitutional criminals who pervade our national and state governments.

The six-plus years of anti-Constitutional governance under Monkeybrain, the Congressional Republinazis and Demofascists, and the fascist thugs masquerading as SCOTUS judges must be ended short of the sovereignty-crushing North American Union. The deep planning and secrecy of the elites' NAU can now be seen as the intended despotism for the sovereign people's post-Yellowstone torturous future. We don't need another Romanesque Empire, with tomorrow's absolute despot butchering ordinary people for power, profit, and entertainment.

We purely do not need Monkeybrain's anti-Constitutional, 3-branch fascist despotism ruling our supervolcano catastrophe and non-recovery as it did our New Orleans catastrophe and non-recovery. We need a government that represents all the people, not just the white billionaires and their financial corruption machines.

We need to start smash-mouth politics with the constitutional criminals -- right now. As soon as we've cowed the criminals, we need Constitutional amendments that give us fully independent citizen lawmaking, nonpartisan government in all three branches, a corruption-minimizing unicameral Congress, an independently elected and recallable Attorney General, and an independently elected and recallable federal bench that is dependent on a majority of the citizens in each court's jurisdiction. All arguments against such reforms are vacuous.

The constitutional republic/democracy is still the best. But an indifferent, dumbed-down, and politically unsophisticated civil society is its certain death. And civil society just must have the fully independent tools to check and balance the corrupt collusions open to the bribery and coercion of the financial and governing elites.

We should expect the small underground communities to go many different directions with their politics. Most, I think, will opt for a combination of vertical hierarchy and horizontal direct democracy. It was how our first New England towns thrived. But we should also expect to see theocracies and elities-controlled pseudo-democracies. There are still a lot of American servile. We'll have a long time to sort it all out, after volcanic winter.

For now, as the truckers have been singing for decades -- we've got a long way to go and just a short time to get there.

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See especially:

BBC Supervolcano Links at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/

USGS, Volcanic Hazards Program at http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/

USGS, Volcanic Ash at http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/ash/

USGS, Yellowstone Volcano Observatory at http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/

ACPD, Initial Dispersal ... A Yellowstone Case Study, Timmreck and Graf, 22 Aug 2005, at http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/acp/acpd/5/7283/acpd-5-7283.pdf

The Geological Society, Super-eruptions: global effects and future threats, June 2005, at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/pdfs/Super%20Eruptions.pdf

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Supervolcano Politics was originally published Sun 18 Mar 2007. It was caught in a kludge-knot of Blogger kludge this date, 28 Mar 2007, and deleted, when there was no order to delete it.
Modified Wed 21 Mar 2007, at 9:30 a.m.
© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Ides of March

2007-03-15T18:45:00.000-05:00

2,051 years ago, Roman Senators committed dagger-intensive tyrannicide against Julius Caesar. The tyrant was guilty of hi-jacking Rome's republican government for the benefit of himself and his superrich clients. He became the model for tyrannical fascists forever.

There's no chance that any of our well-paid Senators will commit tyrannicide against the fascist usurper Bush, no matter how many more times he hi-jacks our republic's government.

Senators no longer center on republican principles. Money first, ordinary people last.

The do-nothing American people no longer center on republican principles. Social, economic, and psychological cocoons first, citizen action last.

Our republican principles, dead of neglect and ignorance, were gone long before the 3-branch Bush-Cheney fascists buried our Constitution and rule of law.

No more tyrannicides. Things are definitely better for treasonous fascists these days.

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Extracts from Homegrown American Fascism:

No waffling. As with German and Italian fascism in the early 20th Century, the Bush-Cheney Usurpation is pure fascism. It demonstrates a strong-man leader, extreme secrecy, controlled media, fraudulent elections, judicial rulings clearly violating the Constitution, negation of the rule of law by all three branches of government, obstruction of justice for political and corporate leaders, the making of ex post facto law to immunize political and corporate leaders from past crimes, redefinition of established law for corruption and ideological purposes, redefinition of commonly understood language terms to avoid legal retribution (e.g., 'torture' to mean only treatment resulting in severe organ damage or death, and 'terrorist surveillance' to mean the interception of any communication or bank activity done by US citizens), the making of unconstitutional law to limit rights, suppression of Constitutional rights for profits and power, misuse of policy and law for unstated intentions, cronyism and corruption, sham national security obsessions, warmaking for profits and power, supremacy of the military, sham nationalism for the masses while leadership creates policy to benefit the transnational and stateless superrich, hard science made politically relative, anti-intellectualism outside the political and corporate elites, suppression of critical thinking in public education, intermixing of government and religion, enemies and scapegoats obsessions, destruction of undesirable minority population and cultural centers (e.g., Warsaw ghetto and New Orleans), male chauvinism and suppression of women's rights, and corporation protection extremes including lassez faire economic policy and suppression of labor's rights and power.

Fascism is not only a form of absurd, predator elitism governance, it is a national trait. Just as there was something inherently fascist about significant numbers of early 20th Century Germans and Italians, so there is something inherently fascist about significant numbers of late 20th and early 21st Century Americans. History will damn the American people for their fascism and fascist war crimes just as it damns the German and Italian peoples for theirs.

With the Bush-Cheney Usurpation, the fascist thugs masquerading as public officials and judges have created treasonous, despotic governance wholly beyond the Constitution. ...

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Usurpation is the exercise of powers by an agent which have not been delegated to him by the principal. In a constitutional republic like the United States of America, acts by officials are legitimate only if they are consistent with and based on a constitution, a body of laws which are superior to all subsequent statutes and other acts of officials, which embodies all delegations of power, and which may recognize certain rights to further define the limits on the powers delegated. It is a fundamental principle that all acts of officials not derived from the delegated powers of the constitution are null and void from inception, not just from the point at which a court may find them unconstitutional.

--Constitution Society, "Abuses and Usurpations"

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© 2007 by Stephen Neitzke

Christmas and New Years Wishes

2006-12-22T09:08:00.000-06:00

May these special holidays bring you the reality or memory of loving and being loved in return.

May they bring us closer to the end of the species-juvenile governance under predator elitism's corruptions and butchery of ordinary people for profits and power.

May the rule of law triumph over the Republicrat evil of the Bush-Cheney Usurpation and its 3-branch, 1-party, fascist despotism.

May increasing numbers of ethically normal Americans recognize the high value of the direct democracy governance components won for us by the Reform Era citizens of a hundred years ago.

May ethically normal Americans become unified enough to rebuild their lost constitutional republic with the species-mature governance of fully independent, sovereign citizen lawmaking combined with a still-strong but heavily regulated representative government.

DOMINO, DOMINO, DOMINO. Keep unconditional love in your lives -- and let truth, liberty, the rule of law, and the Constitution's renewal and recovery begin.

New Nazi Judge Robertson Says Ex Post Facto MCA Is Good

2006-12-14T08:15:00.000-06:00

Somebody got to the zebra.

US District Court Judge James Robertson was still ethically normal in 2004, when he granted Hamdan's habeas corpus in the initial stage of Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld.

But he was pure Nazi yesterday, when he caved in to the demands of the Gonzales-Nazi's DOJ, ruling that the Constitutionally-barred ex post facto provisions of the Nazi Congress and Bush-Nazi Military Commissions Act of 2006 mean that Hamdan's habeas corpus is no longer valid.

What are we doing? Why are we allowing those Nazi mutts to plow our Constitution and laws into the ground with one constitutional criminality after another? With Nazi impunity? Are you so crazy with political stupidity and reality rejection that you think this is the last of it? That after this, everything will go back to normal?

It is not going to get better. It is going to get worse.

An unconstitutional anti-law regime -- e.g., the MCA -- posing as a statute, cannot overturn the fundamental law of Constitutional rights.

Robertson's ruling is not just unConstitutional -- it is anti-Constitutional. "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed", the Constitution says.

"Well, now, wait just one minute", says the Nazi Congress, the Bush-Nazi, and the Gonzales-Nazi, all in harmonious unison. "We've got this MCA law here that says different. And you can't go around overlaying a 217-year-old Constitution on a brand new law and saying ... no, no, you just can't do that".

Sorry, Nazis, this is not your Nazi-pretend-politics-as-usual. This is not your bobble-head Demofascists and media Nazis misdirecting everyone to the 2008 election that will be made meaningless by your Nazi North American Union in 2007. This is the law now. There is no judicial immunity for this felony against Constitutional rights in violation of 18 USC 241 and its associated treason. Felony forfeits all immunities -- judicial, legislative, and executive.

As with all of our government's Nazis, Robertson should be stripped of his social, economic, and political power. He should be promptly impeached, removed, criminally prosecuted for felony violation of 18 USC 241 and the treason perpetrated by his not protecting Hamdan's rights (in treasonous violation of the judge's oath of office, as was ruled for the treasonous secessionist state legislators in the 1860s).

The judge's conviction and imprisonment is legally necessary -- as is the Bush-Nazi's, the Congressional Nazis of the 109th, and the Gonzales-Nazi, et.al. Robertson clearly and blatantly violated our Constitution and laws. And to make sure that his conviction and imprisonment is accomplished, we need a new Constitutional amendment, reforming the federal bench so that it is dependent on the will of the people.

We've tried "judicial independence" for too long. In every era, it has proven that it is nothing more than a sop to the corruptions of money-power.

Robertson's ruling proves beyond doubt that the massively Nazi federal bench needs to be fired in toto in preparation for nonpartisan elections of judges by the citizens of the Court's jurisdiction.

We won't get that judicial reform Constitutional amendment by sitting on our hands waiting for the Democratic Party to save us. The next order of the people's business is smash-mouth politics. See the "Unity America" action plan in "Open Letter To Susan--Making Bush-Cheney Null & Void", 13 September 2006, on this blog.

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Update -- Fri 15 Dec 2006, at 8:05pm CST.

Outside Looking In

The worst components of the MCA -- the permanent dismissal of habeas and the retroactive protection of torture/murderers -- are ex post facto law, plain and simple.

The Constitution says that no ex post facto law shall be passed, period.

Our Nazi Congress perpetrated legislative felony and massive treason just passing the MCA. The Nazi mutt who usurped the presidency in January 2001 -- perpetrating felonies and treason then, and who has perpetrated a whole catalog of unconstitutionalities, felonies, and treasons since -- perpetrated another set of unconstitutionalities, felonies, and treasons when he signed the MCA into an unconstitutional anti-law regime, 17 October 2006.

But reading commentary on the first treasonous ruling applying the MCA's ex post facto provisions, you'd think that there simply is no such thing as an ex post facto law consideration here. The Nazis -- media, politicians, DOJ, Judge Robertson, and a bunch of Harvard law school profs who promptly filed an amicus brief -- all sidestep the legal reality of the MCA abomination being ex post facto law, passed in blatant violation of the Constitution. Mustn't talk about the elephant in the living room. Mustn't challenge the hallowed US government.

It is reality rejection writ large, across a broad spectrum of motivations; all of them protecting the massively failed status quo of the massively criminal Bush-Cheney regime; all of them treasonously unAmerican; all of them Nazi.

Mention of the ex post facto abomination that is the MCA is only taken up by some few of us who brand it as a Nazi-like overthrowing of our Constitution and established law, on a par with the 1933 Nazi Enabling Act. And, of course, we few who demand that the society deal with the anti-Constitution reality of the MCA as ex post facto abomination are branded as radicals too far over the top to warrant attention.

Those who judge us to be political radicals are still doing politics-as-usual, treating the superrich class-race elite's 3-branch, 1-party, fascist despotism as if it were a normal, legitimate, US national govt. It's not. And ex post facto law is not about politics. It's about Constitutional law.

The Bush-Cheney regime -- illegitimate, criminal, and treasonous from top to bottom, 24-7, since 20 January 2001 -- continues to chalk up the sort of abominations against its civil society that have engulfed lesser-principled nations in bloody revolutions throughout history.

We few who demand accountability for the fascist usurpers who are destroying our nation for the superrich are on the outside looking in. We're not allowed into the political or the legal discussion. But what is inside -- servile bolstered despotism -- is so unspeakably illegitimate and murderous as to be a dishonoring of every decent thing ever done by Americans. It's utterly depraved. There are no words sufficient to describe its vileness and evil.

Modified Sun 17 Dec 2006, at 7:10am CST.

© by Stephen Neitzke, 2006 -- 800 words