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The Subversion of American Democracy
"There can be
a valid democratic way of life only
if the people are correctly informed on the political, economic, and social
questions which the democracy, as sovereign, must decide." -
Jacques Ellul |
"Freedom of the press is not just important
to
democracy, it is democracy." -
Walter Cronkite
A democratic republic is a form
of government in which people elect
representatives to represent their best interests.
A fiduciary
relationship exists between the representative and the people.
For a
democratic republic to function correctly
Americans must have
access to accurate information pertaining to
decisions being made by their
elected representatives on their behalf so they may properly direct the
representative.
"Collective welfare demands empirically informed
collective action.
Relevant
science rarely generates a unique
solution to any policy
dispute.
Even after the basic facts have been established
judgments of value will vary across
citizens who hold competing understandings of the public good.
Unless
citizens and representatives possess empirically sound understandings of the
dangers they face and the likely effects of policies to abate them, they will
not even be able to identify, much less secure enactment of, policies that
advance their ends." - Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened
Self-Government, Dan M. Kahan, Erica Cantrell Dawson, Ellen Peters, Paul
Slovic
"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" present in the subconscious depths of
every human mind." - Aldous
Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
"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.
States institutionalize
techniques which are applied by
the dominant group.
A
corporation is an institutional system chartered to accomplish a
task.
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.
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
Corporations and agencies
are amoral and only constrained by
law.
Both 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 the objective of the Constitution was to enshrine liberty by
securing "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
"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
government power represents the money power of the boards of directors that
keep the moribund corporate system alive - the plutocracy.
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 is announced that Joe
Dunn is 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 desire to do anything while in office
that would offend any potential employer." - Robert Fellmeth of the Center
for Public Interest Law
March 3 Senate
homeland security and governmental affairs committee decides there is no need
for 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.
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new perspective with which to engage reality to which its author adheres. The
author feels that the falsification of reality outside personal experience has
forged a populace unable to discern
propaganda from reality and that this has been done purposefully by an
international corporate cartel through their agents who wish to foist a corrupt
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philosophy named The Truth of the Way of the Lumière Infinie - a
rational gnostic mystery religion based on reason which requires no leap of
faith, accepts no tithes, has no supreme leader, no church buildings and in
which each and every individual is encouraged to develop a personal relation
with the Creator and Sustainer through the pursuit of the knowledge of reality
in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the human
spirit. The tenets of The Truth of the Way of the Lumière Infinie are
spelled out in detail on this web site by the author. Violent acts against
individuals due to their religious beliefs in America is considered a "hate
crime."
This web site in no way condones violence. To the contrary the
intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the
international corporate cartels desire to control the human race. The
international corporate cartel already controls the world economic system,
corporate media worldwide, the global industrial military entertainment complex
and is responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of self-centered
behavior and the destruction of global ecosystems. Civilization is based on
coöperation. Coöperation does not occur at the point of a
gun.
American social mores and values have declined precipitously over
the last century as the corrupt international cartel has garnered more and more
power. This power rests in the ability to deceive the populace in general
through corporate media by pressing emotional buttons which have been
preprogrammed into the population through prior corporate media psychological
operations. The results have been the destruction of the family and the
destruction of social structures that do not adhere to the corrupt
international elites vision of a
perfect world. Through distraction and coercion the direction of thought of
the bulk of the population has been directed toward solutions proposed by the
corrupt international elite that further consolidates their power and which
further their purposes.
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