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The Subversion of American Democracy
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in
democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society
constitute an invisible government
which is the true ruling power." - Edward
Louis Bernays
"Freedom of the press is not
just important to
democracy, it is democracy." - Walter Cronkite
Democracy is a control form of
government by the common people, exercised either directly or through elected
representatives, that holds to the
principle of social equality and respect for the individual.
For a
democracy of the common people to function correctly
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 corporate media negate the wisdom that
Thomas Paine spoke of which increased
the fortune of all for the common good of the democratic
society.
"The survival of democracy depends on the ability
of large numbers of people to make
realistic choices in the light of
adequate information. A dictatorship maintains itself by censoring or
distorting the facts, and by appealing, not to reason, not to
enlightened self-interest,
but to passion and prejudice, to the
powerful "hidden forces," as Hitler called them, present in
the unconscious depths of every
human mind." - Aldous Huxley, Brave
New World Revisited
"In this sham democracy,
the ruling oligarchy, taking upon itself
the duty to constitutionalize a specific deleterious economic system, is
chiefly responsible for America's ills. The legal system is unjust, domestic
violence is prevalent, liberty is constrained, general welfare has been
replaced by widespread adversity, and providing for the common defense has been
reduced to providing for a
military-industrial corporate complex." - John Kozy
"Democracy, a system ideally designed to challenge
the status quo, has been
corrupted and tamed to slavishly serve the
status quo. We have undergone a coup
d'état in slow motion. The coup
is over. We lost." -
Christopher Hedges
Institutions designed for the application of
technique are inherently amoral.
Systems of technique,
conceptual constructs, can not have a
conscience.
A government is an institutional system applied by
the dominant group to govern a community.
A corporation is an institutional
system chartered by the government to engage in business within the governed
body.
A corporate institution has
only one purpose = profit.
A
government institution has only one purpose = social control.
Both corporate and
government institutions are conceptual
constructs designed to deal with the
containment of
the animal spirit while allowing
resource allocation and mutual
prosperity for institution members.
Constructs of the human
imagination can never fully fullfil human
needs.
"Without the State,
the Corporation is nothing. The
state's power has not been reduced. It has been redistributed, more tightly
connected to the needs and interests of corporations and less so to the
public interest." - Joe
Balkan
Corporate or government institutions are not constrained by
morals or ethics,
whispers of conscience of the
soul, only by laws devised
by men.
If the existing law is not beneficial to the corporate or
government institution then the corporate or government institution will work
to invalidate the law.
Both corporate or
government institutions are in the business of social engineering simply due to
the fact that systems of dealing with the public must be
streamlined.
"Complex issues are reduced to
black and
white terms and
oversimplified in the context of winners and losers and how they will affect
the next election." - Scott McClellan,
White House Press
Secretary
James Madison wrote
that the main objective of the Constitution was to enshrine liberty by
securing "the public good and private rights against the danger 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."
"Problems of
special-interest influence in
Washington won't be resolved through selective spasms of morality when a
scandal erupts." - Ron Brown
A corporation is a group of citizens
actuated by the common interest of profit.
A government institution is
a group of citizens actuated by a common interest assigned with the execution
of a body of law (regulation).
Transnational elite,
a group motivated to manipulate the law
of the American people for personal profit, is willing to modify or ignore
the Constitution for personal and
familial gains.
"Everybody's worn
out by this ceaseless dialing for dollars. We are dependent on special
interests to get elected." - Assemblywoman Loni Hancock
Constitutional protections are
being ignored by the corporate sector.
Federal government
power no longer represents the American people.
"Since 2000 the
US 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. " - Michael Cuddy
Federal governmnet power represents the money
power of the boards of directors that keep the moribund corporate system alive
- the plutocracy.
Corporate contributions and funding need to be
removed from politics if the American people are to have any say in
government.
2005
Corporations registered to lobby on Capitol Hill increase from 1,498 in 1998 to
4,013 by mid-2005.
2006 In California 30
previously elected lawmakers go to work as lobbyists.
California state
senator Joe Dunn sides 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
March
2 2006 - Rep. Slaughter Addresses Special Rules Committee Hearing on Ethics in
Congress
On March 3, 2006, after the latest eruption of political
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.
2008 Recipients of
TARP bailout funds spend more
than $22 million lobbying against executive pay limits and tougher financial
regulations.
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 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 Talmudwood,
producing such movies as Red Scorpion, an anti-communist film made
in 1988 just after his term with the College Republicans ended.
Jack Abramoff: 'The whole system' is
corrupt
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, v ...". 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 US 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'.
"The reason there are tens of thousands of
lobbyists is because the ever-expanding US government creates ever-increasing
opportunities for abuse. The more the US government does, the more lobbyists
there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common
interest.
You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a
hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a
fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra
and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and all the same
interactions with that congressman." -
Jack Abramoff
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.
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