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"Democracy"
is a Greek word meaning "rule of the people."
"A democracy relies on the consent of the governed,
not on any particular economic system." - Bob Harris
For a democracy to function correctly
common ordinary lower and middle
class Americans must have access to accurate
truthful information so that they may have adequate
knowledge and
understanding of actual
existing conditions that pertain to the
decisions being made by their elected representatives.
Rosy projections
derived from fanciful
imagined scenarios presented by
marketing specialists through
mass media negate the wisdom that Thomas
Paine spoke of which increased the fortune
of all for the common
good of the democratic society.
"Freedom of choice
is to choose from choices that are handed down on high from
marketing." - Norman Solomon
"Healthy democracies depend on
an educated populace. That's why democracies
have public education. I'll admit that the
system is not working. Let's fix it and
look at those few schools that are
working and figure out how other
schools can emulate them. Let's seek guidance
from the people who are the most educated
about education, the key players who are
systematically excluded from education
policymaking:
teachers." - Lanny Kaufer
"Democratic regimes may be described as those under
which the people are, from time to time, deluded into the
belief that they exercise sovereignty, while
all the time real sovereignty resides in and is exercised by other and
sometimes irresponsible and secret
forces." - Benito Mussolini
What secrets can a government have from its people in a
democracy, except maybe plans to end
that democracy?
"I have come to the conclusion we no longer have a
democracy; we have a demockery." - Ellen
Reich
Corporate and
government
institutions are inherently
amoral.
Corporate and
government
institutions can never do what is best
for human society.
Institutions can not because they lack a
conscience.
Institutions may profess high
ideals.
Institutions may claim that they are
good for humans.
How can they be?
They are not human.
How can they
know what a human needs or
feels?
They can not.
Some have the
opinion that
corporations and government
institutions are entirely independent
of one another.
Some have the opinion
that corporations should assume the
role of government or already have.
A corporate
institution has only one
purpose, a profit.
A government institution has only one
purpose, social
control.
Corporate and
government
institutions are constructs of the
human imagination designed
as a way to deal with
resource allocation.
Institutions can never be
perfect constructs, as
perfection is only an
idea originating in human conscious. Constructs of the
human imagination can never fully fulfil
human needs.
Since
corporate or
government
institutions do not have
souls
they are not constrained by
morals or ethics,
only by social law.
If the social law is not beneficial to the
corporate or
government
institution
then the
corporate or
government
institution will
work to invalidate the law.
The great
object of the new
Constitution,
James Madison wrote, was "to secure the
public good and
private
rights against the
of ... faction." By "faction," James
Madison meant "a number of citizens
actuated by some common interest
adverse to the rights of
other
citizens or to the interests of the
community."
A
corporation is a group of
citizens actuated by the
common interest of
profit.
A government institution is a group of
citizens actuated by the
common interest
of the excercise
of power for an ideal, ie. the execution of a body of
social law.
American aristocracy is
motivated to manipulate the social laws of the
American people for profit.
American aristocracy is willing to modify or ignore
the Constitution for personal and
familial gains.
In recent years Constitutional protections have broken down. Mammoth amounts
of corporate,
government and
union
money have been poured into the
political system purchasing privilege,
power and profit.
It is not an exaggeration to assert that the
American government
–
president, executive branch and Congress – has
been bought.
"America's
leaders have little use for us as
citizens, especially ornery
citizens who ask questions. Our
real worth to them is as consumers, preferably compliant
ones, our mouths too full of supersized meals to complain." - Patt
MorrisonThe principal
powers in the federal
government no longer represent the
individual
Americans that those powers pretend to represent. The principal
power in the federal
government is the power of American
aristocracies corporate
plutocracy.
Under the
deceptive cloak of
campaign contributions, access and
influence, votes and amendments
are bought and sold. Corporate and
government financing establishes priorities
of action, holds down federal revenues, revises federal legislation, shifts
income from middle class
Americans to the holders of
controlling shares of
corporate stock and the
beneficiaries of government decree, the
American aristocracy.
Freddie Mac,
a mortgage loan corporation
created by government decree, was fined $3.8 million for
illegal campaign contributions arranged by
Freddie Mac
lobbyists in April 2006. (Aside: Also in
April 2006 Freddie Mac agreed to
settle lawsuits stemming from a $5 billion profit reduction restatement of earnings in 2003.
Rampant corruption!)
Corporate financing restrains the
enforcement of laws written to protect Americans from the abuses of
wealth – laws
that mandate environmental
protection, antitrust
laws, laws to
protect the
consumer against
fraud, laws that safeguard the securities
market, and many more.
"Since 2000 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and
its advocacy branch, the Institute for Legal Reform, have spent more
than $200 million to influence
legislation and elections, most often at
the state and local levels and most often without revealing itself or its
donors to voters. The chamber's president, Thomas Donohue, talked about his
strategy for electing business friendly, anti liability lawsuit judges and
state attorneys general in a July 2003 Forbes magazine article: "We led. We
succeeded. Now the
money is rolling in from
drug companies, heavy manufacturers,
large retailers, insurance companies,
even banks. By spending
money through the chamber, donors are
getting around disclosure rules and
contribution limits." - Michael Cuddy The grotesque amounts of
money that are now pouring into the
political system and the disgusting and demeaning
way in which that
money is raised are testimony to mounting
corruption of politics and of government. Much of this
wealth is legally given by the
American aristocracy. But the
fact that one can wriggle through the loopholes
of badly drafted laws, laws drafted expressly for this
purpose, does not amount to a
moral justification or to a denial of
corruption.
"Everybody's worn out by this incessant
fund raising, the ceaseless dialing for
dollars. Everybody knows that it skews the
system. Who do we work for? The people pay our salary. But then we are
dependent on special interests to get elected." - Assemblywoman Loni Hancock
"The lengths elected officials will go to retain
power. That power,
in turn, depends on members of Congress having to raise huge sums of
money to pay for
billions of dollars of
political
advertising on
broadcast stations that get free
licenses from the public. Golf
trips and contractor bribes are just the symptoms. The disease is endemic to
the system." - Marty
Kaplan
It has become customary for our
derelict public
officials to recite the mantra,
"There was no quid pro quo" given to the
American aristocracy.
It is not only an
absurd response, it is a lie!
"They encourage those who are doing
evil so that not one turns away from their
sins."
- Jeremiah 23:14
"The problems of special-interest
influence in Washington can't be
resolved through selective spasms of morality
when a scandal erupts. Nor are tougher restrictions on
lobbying or
campaign contributions likely to eliminate
abuses. Money flows toward
power like a river to
the ocean; no dam can be built high enough to
permanently separate them. A century of often
valuable, but inevitably porous, political
reform makes that clear." - Ronald Brownstein Does anyone really
believe that hundreds of millions of dollars are being
poured
into political
campaigns out of an excess of
public spirited
zeal?
The reality is simply common sense: all the members of the
American aristocracy who give this
money are making an
investment - a business
investment. And the return on this
investment is huge. They cannot 'buy
a guaranteed result', except in cases like Randy
Cunnungham, Lawrence A. Franklin or Jack Abramoff and associates, but that is not typically what
they are purchasing.
American aristocracy
is investing in access and influence, in the
right to persuade or
coerce elected
officials and
government bureaucrats to their
point of view or to enlist the
officials or bureaucrats support in
disputes with the agencies of government.
"Is it any wonder that so many
Americans
mistrust our elected officials?" -
Sam Graham
(Aside: It seems a little disingenuous
of George W. Bush to be worried
about classified secrets getting out
since individuals in the George W. Bush
administration had no problem supplying Jack Abramoff
with classified secret information
so he could help his buddies out. The classified secret information supplied
helped Jack Abramoff in his campaign to oust Fred Black the
U.S. attorney for Guam and the
Northern Mariana Islands who was investigating
criminal activity by Jack Abramoff and associates.)
"We want to elect people who support the right kind of
policies." - Hank McKinnell, chairman of the
board of directors of Pfizer, a director
of ExxonMobil and Moody's
American aristocracy usually gets what it pays for:
influence over elected
officials who pass the
laws or control the
agencies, who, with a decree or regulation can open up opportunities or
foreclose them, and – most important –
influence
corporate
earnings.
For both sides to this
scandalous transaction there is a bottom
line.
For the politician it is measured
in votes purchased with campaign
advertisements or the
politician will cash in in the future by going
to work for industry lobbying associations or
industry.
"The influence of
lobbyists becomes more blatant and destructive to the
public interest every day. As
long as candidates must use private funding,
citizens will pay more than they
would pay for elections, because once in
office, those candidates must try to forget who their donors are when voting on
legislation that directly affects those donors. Can anything be a better recipe
for corruption?" - Tobi Dragert
For the
American aristocracy the bottom line is
profit and the protection of future earnings.
No sensible
American aristocrat would deny himself such a
potentially profitable investment,
especially since experience demonstrates
that you get what you pay for.
For both sides to the
scandalous transaction there is also the
reward of a nourished ego – the
pride of being a 'high'
official coddled by the
titans of
industry, or of being intimate with one of
the purported guardians of democracy.
This scandalous transaction presents
a very comfortable arrangement in which American
aristocracy,
their flunkies in the media and
well connected government officials benefit.
"The corrupting
influence of
lobbyists must not be just phased out, it
must be stopped dead in its tracks if we to return to a
representative
democracy. It must become unlawful for a
member of Congress to accept, and lobbyists to offer, anything of
value directly or indirectly to the benefit of a
member of Congress - not a dime's worth. However, a member of Congress may
invite to his or her office - on the record - a
representative of any entity in
order for the congressperson to gain information that pertains to pending
legislation. A member of Congress must serve one and only one interest and that
is his/her constituency." - Bert Eifer (not the
corporations that provided campaign funding)
In California, in
the fall of 2006, 30 previously elected lawmakers went to
work as lobbyists. Former legislative staffers
populate all the top Sacramento lobbying
firms; four of the top fifteen lobbying
firms employ former legislators.
California state senator Joe Dunn
sided with the California Medical
Association, voting as requested on a controversial bill. Three months
later it was announced that Joe Dunn would be the new
executive director of the
California Medical
Association.
"My concern is these lawmakers are
thinking about where they are going to go
next, and they don't want to do anything while in office that would offend any
potential employer." - Robert Fellmeth of the Center for Public Interest
Law at the University of San Diego School of Law.
Corporations registered to
lobby on Capitol Hill increased from
1,498 in 1998 to 4,013 by mid-2005.
Many
politicains now hire
lobbyists to run their
fund raising
campaigns. In reality these politicains should be considered employees of the
corporation as these
politicains directly receive funds through
lobbyists who have 'secured'
campaign funds through a network of
corporate
lobbyists who have become, in
reality, the movers and shakers of the
law creation
process.
On March 3, 2006, after the latest eruption of
politicial corruption the Senate homeland security and
governmental affairs committee decided that politicians are honest enough to police themselves and do
not need an independent office of public integrity. Such an office was
considered unnecessary as the politicians
involved know deep in their
hearts that they are all
honest, trustworthy individuals that
only do what is best for their constituents. (Which is actually true since
their constituents are the corporations
that get them elected!)
"Members of Congress are the
ultimate role models for
American
citizens. If they can't own up to
their mistakes why should anyone else?" -
Bronwyn Schrecker Jamrok
Personally I
believe that they prefer to have no oversight
as the depth of corruption would immediately
become clear to the vast majority of
Americans.
America is experiencing political corruption on a scale of vast
proportion.
In 1910, Banker's Magazine exulted that due to
corporate financing of
politics, "the legislature and
executive powers of the government are compelled to listen to the
demands of organized corporate interests. That they are not entirely
controlled by these interests is due to the
fact that corporate organization has not yet
reached its full perfection."
In
America the perfection of the corporate organization has
appeared.
Common working
Americans must reject the grotesque excesses
of corporate and
government institutions if they hope to retain any voice in the social
culture of America.
Corporate
mouthpieces repeat endlessly the mantra "Liberals are destroying
America". The truth is that corporate marketing machines are to blame for
the race to the bottom of acceptable human social cultural
behavior.
Common working
Americans need to stimulate serious reform of
corporate and
government
institutions.
In the second
decade of the 20th century, the Progressive movement responded to the
conditions described by Banker's
Magazine with protest, legislation and even
a constitutional amendment requiring direct
elections of the
corrupt, bought and paid for,
Senate.
Tinkering with
campaign finance laws will not
solve the problem of money corrupting the legislative process.
Allowing corporate
board members and CEOs of corporate concerns to move from
government regulatory positions to
corporate positions and then back
to government regulatory positions, the
revolving door, destroys the
objectivity that is necessary for government
regulators to have when dealing with excessive
corporate
behavior. (see Unknown Unknowns)
Lobbying firms
that once specialized in gaining person-to-person access to key decision makers
have branched out.
The new lobbying game is to dominate the entire
intellectual environment in which government
officials make policy decisions.
This
means that corporations are funding
everything including: think tanks;
issue ads in all forms of media; phony grassroots
pressure groups; phone banks to generate calls to politicians; facilitating the placement of letters
to the editor with key newspapers.
By dominating the intellectual environment with
manipulated information
lobbying firms create an intellectual environment that is closely
aligned with corporate interests.
Corporate contributions and funding
need to be removed from politics if the
American people are to have any say in
government.
"It's time to take the "for sale" sign off our
government." - Craig Dunkerley
Wealth derived from
corporate
profits should not be allowed to taint the
American political process.
The only
money that should be allowed to
finance campaigns should be
money that has been earned: earned
income.
Any individual
that has served as a lobbyist, been a
corporate
board member or has been in the upper
hierarchy of a corporation should be
disallowed public
service. Their
views are and will always be tainted toward
satisfying corporate needs - the
needs of American aristocracy.
Any
individual
appointed to a position in
government should be barred from returning
to work for any industry for which they had responsibility to
regulate.
Ever hear of
proprietary information?
Former
government regulatory personnel that return
to industry take with them
knowledge of government operations that compromises the
ability of future regulators to regulate industry.
In late spring of 2005
Philip Cooney, a onetime oil
industry lobbyist who edited
government reports on
climate change by questioning the
science and significance of studies and
projections as chief of staff for George
W. Bush's administrative Council on Environmental
Quality, returned to the private sector as an employee of
ExxonMobil.
Who exactly did Philip
Cooney represent in his executive,
official law
enforcement position?
Why is it
nearly impossible to
believe that Philip Cooney was only interested
in the well being of American
citizens?
To remove the revolving door of
corporate
service to
government
service to
corporate
service and to allow only earned
income as campaign contributions is the
only way that
true honesty will be brought back to
American government. American government for and of the
American people, not for that one percent of the
population,
American aristocracy that already
controls and manipulates most of the
resources.
To successfully return
control of America
back to the American
people will require an
American grass roots movement against the
corruption of American government by American aristocracy, outside the established and
throughly corrupt political parties determined to drive from office
all those who oppose reducing the
power of American
aristocracy over American
democracy.
"In spring
of 2005 president George W. Bush put
forward his new vision of spreading
democracy throughout the
Earth. George W. Bush's new
vision smells
suspiciously like another smoke and
mirrors show to further mesmerize the confused American public into believing George W. Bush genuinely cares about
freedom for the
common
man when it really is all about
corporate
imperialism." -Dianne
Walter
"Political
philosopher Hannah Arendt pointed out long
ago, systems of repression, once established,
operate according to their
own internal logic
rather than being instruments of policy, they
create their own demand. As the
American gulag system grows, its
population will expand beyond
supposed 'terrorism' suspects to
embrace those who have simply made
themselves inconvenient for American
corporate interests: labor
organizers, human rights
activists, environmentalists,
journalists and anyone else who has gotten
in the way of 'freedom on the march'." -Phillip M. Lohman
If you believe that
the current American
social structure and current
American government is acceptable then you prefer the
status quo.
If you prefer the staus quo and are not an
American aristocrat then you have been
deceived.
The actual possibilities of
social and cultural structure available to the ordinary
common American has not been thoroughly
vetted. If you are an American
aristocrat then it is quite apparent that you do not
believe that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
God with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. That to secure these
rights,
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed. That whenever any
form of
government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or
to abolish it, and to institute a new
government.
Will those of you who
feel that the current
plutocracy should
rule America
please go somewhere else to enslave
the populace and establish your kingdom.
"First
George W. Bush funnels untold
billions of
tax dollars to the
pharmaceutical
industry by way of his now-you-see-it,
now-you-don't prescription drug plan. Now
he expects us to sit still while he does the same with the rest of health care.
What is this, no special interest left behind? When are people going to wake up
to the fact that his goal is to
privatize the
whole country? The last time we were
set up that way, Americans were dying in the
streets and on farms of disease and starvation. His "ownership society" is nothing more than code for every man
(and woman and child) for himself. It will leave us with just two classes: the
very rich and the very poor." - Randall Snyder
definition of the inverse of
a patriot
"In the
beginning of a change, the Patriot is a
scarce man and brave, hated and scorned.
When his cause succeeds however, the timid join
him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." –
Mark Twain
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a
scoundrel." – Samuel Johnson
Patriot is defined as one who
loves and defends his or her country which just
happens to include the people that make up the populace of his or her country not just the elite
who control the country.
A
patriot is not defined as one who goes
on 'crusades'.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
supports corporate
monopolies.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
declares war on the
common
man.
A
patriot is not defined as one who takes
from the poor and gives to the rich.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
lusts for power.
A patriot is not defined as one
who declares war.
A
patriot is not defined as one who grubs
after material
wealth.
A
patriot is not defined as one who makes
sure his buddies get good
government jobs.
A patriot is not
defined as one who makes sure his buddies corporations land no-bid
government contracts.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
fails to enforce laws
of his country that are inconvenient
to his buddies.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
allows his buddies to spoil the ‘commons' with
toxic waste.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
worships a patriarchal
image of god.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
'bends the rules' as the ends
justifies the means.
A
patriot is not defined as one who is in
inflexible because inflexibility is seen as a sign of
weakness.
A patriot is
not defined as one that has been born with a silver spoon in his
mouth.
A patriot is not defined
as one who works under cover of darkness
to hide his secrets.
A
patriot is not defined as one that uses
fear and
terror to increase his
political fortunes.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
expertly stages 'citizen' 'city hall' mettings.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
expertly stages 'mission accomplished' entrances.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
knows what is best for his
citizens.
A
patriot is not defined as one who
fears educated
citizens.
A patriot
is not defined as one prefers ‘pseudoscientific babble' to
real science.
A
patriot is not defined as one who uses
propaganda to further
political objectives. "It's a
curious characteristic of American
patriotism, in fact, that most of
us think we're more
patriotic than the next guy. In
surveys, Americans greatly exaggerate the "patriotism gap," dramatically
underestimating the proportion of their countrymen who say they're extremely
patriotic. In a recent Fox News/Opinion
Dynamics poll, two-thirds of us - and 80% of
Republicans - claim to be more
patriotic than the average
American. In short, we like to
think that
patriotism is a lot more
exceptional than it actually is." - Geoffrey Nunberg
"George W. Bush and cohorts are
concerned with scaring people and accusing those who criticize them as being
unpatriotic to gain votes. In reality, the
George W. Bush administration and those who support
it are the unpatriotic ones by creating a
war based on lies and spending
billons of dollars that could have
been used to protect us at home." - Amy A. Schwab
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his
country against his government.” - Edward
Abbey
"I would argue that an uncritical
love of country is far more
to our well-being than
any supposed patriotism deficit on
the part of liberals. After all it is
through adaptation to changing circumstances
that people and nations preserve their strength, and to
adapt you must be prepared to be critical, to
learn from criticism and ultimately to change your behavior. It is toward this
end that liberals propose a critical
patriotism that is certainly
founded on love of country but is
also prepared to find and correct errors in our
national behavior." - Chloe Pajerek "The
ideal of
patriotism is taught to
citizens of every nation as soon
as they enter kindergarten.
Being gradually reinforced all
through school, patriotism becomes
ingrained.
Most citizens
accept patriotism as they accept
grass being green - just a
natural aspect of their
lives.
But
patriotism isn't
natural, though it has ancient roots.
Few ever consider the shadowed caverns of the
mind those roots penetrate.
Albert Einstein, having
experienced Nazi Germany, called
patriotism "a loathsome nonsense."
Albert Einstein was lucidly
aware of how the
concept of
patriotism can all too easily be
misused by tyrants,
politicians, even
priests, who exploit the
media to manipulate the
multitudes' pride in their country, swaying their thoughts and feelings, turning the
majority into
puppets to do their bidding.
Such
mass manipulation is a
rather common practice on Earth,
and most
citizens of every nation are
susceptible to its sway.
Perceiving
deceit and falsehood behind political rhetoric is a necessary
discernment any person who wishes to
have a truly free mind must
cultivate. If you cannot separate your
feelings from the
source of stimuli and see the entire process as
objectively as possible, you are ripe for knee-jerk
patriotism.
Cultivating an
awareness of the negative
machinations of one's government isn't an
exercise confined to the political arena of
anti-establishment radicalism. Such awareness - has to do with
learning to
perceive
things with a well honed intelligence,
to see things as they are.
The ability to
perceive the distortions of
manipulative propaganda requires being
respectfully attentive to the
reality of Earth,
attentiveness of cultural differences in order
to understand others and in
reciprocal comparison, learn about
ourselves.
Understanding
patriotism demands being informed
beyond what standard schooling teaches and
mass media conveys." - Lew
Paz
"Patriotism runs counter to ordinary
human morality.
This
flagrant negation of humanity, which
constitutes the very essence of the
State, is from the point of view of the
latter the supreme duty and the greatest
virtue: it is called
patriotism and it constitutes a
morality of the
State beyond
human
comprehension.
We call it
a morality beyond
comprehension because ordinarily
it exceeding the usual limits of human
morality and justice, whether
private or common, and
thereby it often sets itself in sharp contradiction to them. Thus, for
instance, to offend, oppress,
rob, plunder, assassinate, or enslave one's fellow
man is, to the
ordinary morality of man, to commit a
serious crime.
In public
life, on the contrary, from the
point of view of
patriotism, when it is done for the
greater glory of the State in order to
conserve or to enlarge its
power, all that becomes a
duty and a virtue.
And this
duty, this virtue, are obligatory upon every patriotic
citizen.
Everyone is
expected to discharge those duties not only in
regard to strangers but in regard to his fellow
citizens, members and subjects of
the same State, whenever the welfare of the
State demands it from him.
The
morality of the
State then is the reversal of
human justice and
human morality.
This
anti-human
morality of the State requires the
corruption of men who are charged with carrying
on State functions.
The triumph of
human morality can be realized only
through the destruction of the
State." - Mikhail Bakunin
"Many people profess to be caring
patriots, but they don't care what's
going on until it affects them. Politics
affects everything: from your pay to the
quality of drinking water to whether the
country is at war. Sooner or later,
reality catches up. The
policies of the
neo-cons, with regard to
global warming and starting
illegitimate wars, has made it so
the majority of our friends in
other countries would rather do
business with China than us. The deficit and
the arrogance will cause problems, and
reality will catch up." - John Matthew
"Should
citizens in
democracies such as
America be measured for valuing
consumerism and unquestioned
patriotism over unlimited,
educated inquiry and participatory
citizenship? Is there ever a moral civilian defense for those
beliefs that justify
self-survival without weighing
justice at large?
Historical
hypocrisy is rooted in the sum total of
individuals' sublimation, blind
following and silence." - Crystal
Haidl
"The typical educated and informed
citizen of the 21st century no longer
sees his or her
representatives as having a
monopoly on knowledge or wisdom."- John G. Matsusaka, USC professor of
business and law.
Randall Harold Cunningham aka Randy or ‘Duke' Cunningham
was an F-4 Phantom Pilot, Navy Ace in Vietnam. As a California represenative
in the House of Congress he voted in 2003
for the "Can Spam Act," which legalized spam and invalidated California's tough
anti-spam law before it could go into effect.
Randall Harold Cunningham resigned from the House on November 28, 2005 after pleading
guilty to federal charges of
conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire
fraud, and
tax evasion.
Jack Abramoff graduated high school in Beverly Hills. Jack
Abramoff was elected chairman of the College
Republican National Committee. Jack
Abramoff spent ten years in Hollywood, producing such
movies as Red Scorpion, an
anti-communist film made in 1988 just
after his term with the College Republicans ended.
Congressman
Tom DeLay, former Majority Leader of the House
of Representatives, said during a New Year's trip to the
Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan in 1997,
"... one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff ...". After the trip,
Jack Abramoff helped Tom DeLay craft policy
that extended exemptions from federal immigration and labor
laws to Saipan industries, even though the
products were allowed to be
labelled 'Made in the USA' as part of the U.S. Commonwealth. Brian Ross at ABC
News for 20/20 on March 13, 1998 pointed out that factories in Saipan have
forced their
workers to have abortions in order to keep
their jobs.
Jack Abramoff later worked for
Tyco and was listed as
lobbying the
White House.
Tyco claimed in August 2005 that Jack
Abramoff had been paid $1.7 million for an 'astroturf
campaign' to create a 'grass roots
campaign' to oppose proposals to
penalize American
corporations registered abroad for
tax reasons. Timothy Flanigan,
Tyco general council, stated to the
Senate Judiciary Committee that Jack Abramoff bragged that he could help
Tyco avoid tax liability aimed at off-shore companies
because he "had good relationships with members of Congress."
January 3, 2006 Jack Abramoff pleaded
guilty to
fraud,
tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public
officials in a deal that requires him to provide evidence about members of
Congress.
Bob Ney, an Ohio congressman, pleaded quilty
to charges of bribery in October 2006. Bob Ney accepted several thousand
dollars worth of gifts from Jack Abramoff for legislative 'favors'.
Lawrence A. Franklin, formerly a colonel in the Air Force
reserve and former Iran desk
officer in the office of the secretary of defense was sentenced to 12 years for
turning classified documents over to
two lobbyists of the
American Israel Public Affairs
Committee.
See Social
Control
See Thomas
Jefferson
See American
aristocracy
See The Corruption of the American
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