Historical Note--French Revolution

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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Household Bailout Stimulus

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

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
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Exorcising Election 2008 Demons

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

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 since the end of WW2.

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.

Of course, we do know how close we are to having a national healthcare 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 and malpractice with premium price-tags.


ELECTION 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Repubs just don't get it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It can be done. We have the technology.

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

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

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

© 2008 by Stephen Neitzke
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