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"POWER" --
PAST AND PRESENT
We live in a country whose government
continues (despite its transformation of our constitution) to fabricate a world wide
illusion, that we are now and forever will be "totally free of repressive
controls." Simultaneous with such proclamations, our government feigns revulsion of
countries that refuse to adhere to fundamental human rights. Nevertheless, our government
actively fosters the desire of American corporations to conduct business with them.
Therefore, it would seem, on the one hand (strictly for political correctness) our leaders
exhibit revulsion for our benefit. On the other hand (secretly for corporate’s
benefit) they not only look the other way ... they intensify the wrong. Is there any
question, when corporate wants it corporate prevails? Does this advance the principals of
our American society or does it unmistakably advance the "schemes of power"? Our
brazen government claims the latter is the way of the future.
"Power" bombards us with a
very effective form of advertising -- a well established brain washing technique ...
"repetition of a lie." What are they attempting to sell us? Simply put ...
"their abominable agenda." Are we to believe -- the more we embrace their free
trade world (that does not exist) and accept the evaporation of our industrial base ...
the better off we will be? They claim, one day our exports will balance and their fabled
service society will endow us with everything we could possibly hope for.
So! we ship manufacturing and our
jobs elsewhere, import all our everyday needed products, become low wage data-enterers ...
and life will be better than ever. Can that make sense to everybody? To date, there has
been no concrete evidence that our exported jobs and industries will be replaced by
something better. All we have received is glorified rhetoric. For now it’s their best
attempt to placate and subdue our anger. Time is on their side.
The United States of America, was
born, defended, and energized, because there was a consolidated will to be free of
destructive, fraudulent rulers. It was done -- and that bold accomplishment sparked an
endless river of emigration to America.
Our country, our society, our
aspirations, developed in an atmosphere that didn’t exist anywhere else in the world.
It was a remarkable opportunity that produced a proud result. Government then, was not
concentrating on fanatical regulation of the people. Government was doing every thing
possible to expand our borders by supporting entrepreneurial adventurers. The paths to
everyone’s economic improvement were endless.
Today -- gathering numbers of
society, cringe, and display total disenchantment with "power’s behavior"
and are waiting for valid, believable explanations. In plain English, they want to know
... "what’s going on?" Explanations from those on high, never coming to the
point, center around one euphemism in particular ... "democracy is a far from perfect
system, but it is better than the rest." For the stream of immigrants still flowing
into America, they must certainly agree with those words. That it is better than the rest,
for those just coming here is not the issue. The glaring irritant in that statement
"it is better than the rest" is that it doesn’t apply to the past
generations of a born in America society ... a society in the process of being parted from
its deserved dreams. A society that has already paid its dues and helped make America
great. They are not concerned with better than the rest, They are concerned that it keep
on being ... "better than yesterday."
Today’s generation, more than
ever, is stymied by an elusive authority they can’t put a finger on. They are
struggling to come to grips with economic and social alterations that have no relationship
to anything they were primed for, embraced, and prepared to prosper in.
Societies’ questions are
rational ... "Power’s" answers are not. The answers are intentionally
designed to "splinter, confuse, and misdirect." As a result we have lost our
ability to "predict, plan, and pursue."
How did less educated parents of
yesterday fare better? How could a laborer then, own a house with less effort than a
college educated family of today? How was it possible just a generation ago, for dad to
work as sole provider, mom to maintain the roll of raising family, families supporting
children through college and still put something away for their golden years?
"Why" ... having done what’s expected, is this generation the poorer for
it?
It is truly a time of frustration,
bewilderment and growing hostility. Our captured government has become more involved
dodging cover-up charges, than doing our will. The inevitable result permeates society --
creating a festering undercurrent of suspicion -- a simmering odor of revolt, and an
inevitable desire to bring back to life the intent of our founding fathers.
Groups who will no longer be ignored
are exploding with civil demonstrations and unmistakable violent inclinations. Our ego
ridden leaders hastily attempt to defend themselves with explanations and solutions ...
"We The People" no longer believe in. Example! -- a recent demand that
government be investigated for drug trafficking in Los Angeles, is being led by a fearless
congresswomen from that district. It hit the front pages and the air waves. So what -- it
is now just about gone from our view. "Power?"
Words such as Fiefdom, Crown, Robes,
have been popping up in descriptions of our government. These words were supposedly
eliminated from our concerns long ago. They are words we fought and died to erase forever
in the United States of America. Government counters with its advantageously created words
and illusions such as -- the information highway, the road to the 21st. century, the
global market. Those undefined illusions are being rejected and deemed responsible for our
social and economic disarray. As we complain, we are being counterattacked and
reprimanded.
If we can agree there is a
"power takeover" well under way in America, we must also agree to rid ourselves
of it. We did so once before and ... "we can do it again."
We should not be confused by those
who refuse to concede they are undermining our past accomplishments. They only add fuel to
the fire, and are enhancing today’s conflicts. Reaching much further back in recorded
history to understand the politics of power, we begin to see, "power never
changes," it only changes its garments.
Back in time, when absolute monarchy
had to maintain equilibrium between itself (the land owner), and the bourgeoisie (business
class), it was a constant balancing act. "Prime power" (the monarchy) needed
that class to manage and promote industry and commerce, and cleverly developed techniques
to control it.
The monarchy created standing armies,
an indebted subservient bureaucracy, national taxation, codified law ... and the
beginnings of a unified market place. Serfdom in metamorphous (labor as we now refer to
that class), was continually searching for ways to better itself. The system then, and in
too many places still existing throughout the world, continues to keep them in place ...
"by the billions." This persistent pestilence is gnawing its way back into our
society, our America. our country, our way of accomplishment ... is being dismantled.
Getting back to history -- industry,
such as iron, paper, textiles ... grew substantially. Movable type and three masted ships
enhanced commerce and the accompanying capability for information flow. Society was
spreading its wings, intent on creating more wealth ... no different an ambition of today.
Today, "ultimate power" still concludes it has to remain feudal-like in order to
sustain its goals. History displays how often that method of social control disintegrated
into chaos and ruin ... yet the lessons of failure are still not accepted. Has
"Power" come upon a new tool for control?
Law, assembled from Roman origin; Its
original purpose was reconstructed in a manner to insure that courts developed by royalty
would serve to increase the power of Royalty. In other words, the foremost function of law
was to enhance the effectiveness of a flourishing bureaucracy which was still captive to
the discretionary alternatives of a "reigning ruler" ... "the power."
Nobility (power) back then was a
landowning network whose primary profession was waging war. The object of rule was to
increase territory, an immobile cumbersome asset. In time, the advance to controlling
commodities resulting from trade growth provided needed transferable assets. In other
words, controlling products and trade created fluid wealth. It was a natural progression.
Along with the expansion of fluid wealth, accurate information (more quickly accessible
than ever before) became a weapon of choice.
As the mechanics of wide spread
manipulation grew (better and faster information), so did the administration of assets
improve. The need for increased bureaucratic management (public offices) kept increasing.
Back then, the method of gaining a position in the bureaucracy was to buy it outright with
one’s own funds. It was guaranteed to be profitable. Now to attain that position one
buys it with "Power’s" funds, investments deceitfully referred to as
contributions. The guarantee of profit is still inherent in this new arrangement. We
question the process. Those involved in the process question it. It’s being debated
to death in and out of the halls of power. Left to their own devices, those within the
halls of power, will constrain the echoes of our outrage only to let it reverberate and
die in chambers.
Diplomacy -- an invention of the
fifteenth century, was another clever tool created by the ruling class. It was devised as
a method to gain time while probing another state’s weak points or dangers. It was
never meant to permanently resolve the inevitable ... "conquest." Diplomacy
could stall aggression, bully another, create time to gain advantage and, most important
of all, become a preliminary arena to test each others strengths. More often than not,
diplomacy ended in war -- a fundamental apparatus for the protection of aristocratic
property ... and the "continuation of power." Though titles and garments have
changed, the tactics have not. Kuate -- its oil -- its owners -- modern diplomacy --
behold the end result ... "War." Has there been any change in tactics? You bet!
Greater armies are consolidating. An emerging greater power needs greater forces.
Accordingly it follows ... "power is consolidating."
Then, as now, "Power" had a
responsibility to gather treasure, promote trade, develop protectionism, and have an army
ready to protect those essentials. A most remarkable quote from [Duc de Choiseul] spoken
in the last decades of western autocratic rule -- "Upon the Navy depend the Colonies;
upon the Colonies commerce, upon commerce the capacity of a State to maintain numerous
armies, to increase its population and make possible the most glorious and useful
enterprises." Translated to present day words ... a "grab-bag for power."
During the past centuries, power did
not consistently reign supreme in its lofty towers. No western monarchy ever enjoyed
ongoing absolute power over its subjects, if it continually resorted to unconfined
repression. All were limited and eventually forced to bend, adapting to some constraints,
even at the height of their reign..
The necessary intercourse between
power and money from financial syndicates created difficult and sometimes disastrous
results. Rulers tumbled from power. States and their bureaucratic devices crumbled into
anonymity. Soon enough, the defeated (defeated because of weaknesses inherent in a grossly
authoritative regime) were nonetheless imitated by new owners of power ... and so it
proceeds today.
Countless books rest on the shelves
of libraries, detailing, dissecting, the brief references I have made about
"power’s ascendancy." Different cultures around the world gathered power in
many different ways. "As a Rose is a Rose is a Rose" -- so too is power ... the
smell remains the same.
Time passes, sophisticated
adjustments within a flourishing "Power Tower" keep forging coalitions of
purpose and additional techniques of sustainable control. To stay the course, appearances
must be constantly tweaked to maintain an illusion that the will of the masses is being
truly represented in the scheme of things. They must instill believability ... using any
means possible.
With the aid of the "Chip"
-- its awesome ability to gather, compile, and disseminate information ...
"Power" has gained confidence unparalleled. Need an example? Let’s look at
the presidential race of 1996. Polls were being gathered by the minute. The information
was being compiled, analyzed, distributed, and acted upon even faster. Reactive sound
bytes adjusted to coincide with the information, created with malice aforethought,
cluttered television. It flowed so fast, even the pundits had problems adjusting their act
in order to keep up.
The "Chip" has propelled
the art of deception to new heights. Deception, now a raging torrent, is about to overflow
its banks. Strewn along its path is a maddening array of spent contradictions. Let’s
review some social and economic convolutions we were expected to rejoice in.
Welfare, supposedly instituted as a
helpful bridge back into mainstream America, has been structured and restructured into
becoming a multigenerational trap of hopelessness. Here is a specific example of confining
rules forced on an already downtrodden family.
The young daughter of a welfare
recipient had been scrimping and saving for years, yearning for the possibility of going
to college. She had a bank account and was not trying to conceal it. One day a supervisor
in the welfare program learned of the young lady’s bank account. The mother was told
all welfare support would end. The youngster’s commendable efforts became a source of
panic. There was a solution proposed by the supervisor. If all the money in the account
were spent immediately, welfare benefits would continue. It was done. The frugal saver now
had more clothing, a VCR and other gadgets she had commendably forsaken for a greater
aspiration. The college money was gone. Is this the bridge to betterment government
zealots want us to line up and cross-over?
Inner cities are becoming death traps
for those forced to live in them. It is almost as if government would like to gather
together in one place a targeted social group, put them under wraps and make them
disappear. Only when the jungle they have had a hand in creating, stampedes, does
government bemoan the situation, and impersonate intentions of correction.
Who pays for this dismal charade,
this "machination of power"? "We pay" ... we, the misrepresented of
society. We began our country supporting a rebellion against taxation without
representation ... didn’t we? Why do we now surrender to that same old game played in
modern fashion? CEO’s budgets are being created to "suite power" and are
being reinforced by the "Chip." Any reason we should remain docile and
apathetic? Any reason we should surrender America now?
"Games" -- how many
versions can our government create to test our endurance? Vice President Dan Quail,
thought nothing of enacting the role of a modern day court jester. Speaking before the
country on national tv, he reproached the conduct of a fictional sitcom character
"Murphy Brown." She, a single women, had given birth out of wedlock. Though she
should have received approval for championing the pro-life wing of the Republican party --
his party ... she was shamelessly characterized as immoral. Every obedient authority
figure in media heralded his way with words ... as being his greatest moment.
What signal was society supposed to
accept. Get an abortion and be declared a murderer. Don’t have an abortion and be
declared immoral. Have the baby and go on welfare. On and on went the resultant hot
debate. Finally --it became politically necessary for the "Jesters King,"
President Bush ... to show his face and cleverly orchestrate an excuse for the
inflammatory words of his fumbling Jester.
We now face a new forum for
discussion, and new code words delineating a hapless segment of society. From now on they
will be stigmatized and treated as ... that part of society lacking family morality.
Debate followed, the aim, to
influence the public and have them buy into tolerating a new definition of family and how
it pertains to single parents on welfare. Untill this day, notwithstanding numerous
passionate rebuttals from every group, not a single voice has managed one iota of even
handed, considered improvement. Failed programs are still being heaped upon failed
programs. Why? Why can’t we return to the originally instituted and confirmed format
"We The People" -- not -- "I The Government."
Government’s redefinition of
national purpose: abrupt alteration of social expectations, secret behind closed door
manipulations, dominance of propaganda dissemination, isolating us from participation in
the spending of our tax dollars, effectively preventing us from engaging in fair combat
... leaves us alone in our battle to have them adhere to the rule of law. What then is
available for us? Rioting, killing, pillaging (as history records) have inevitably been
the recourses the beaten have turned to. It is spontaneous -- it costs nothing at the
moment, it does gain immediate attention. Will the "Chip" and progressing global
amalgamation of "Power" (a New World Order) ignore this modern day upheaval ...
just confidently taking it in stride?
We are in the midst of witnessing
America changing from the world’s greatest industrial power, to a nebulous future as
a service economy. The undercover programmed conversion was never illuminated in the forum
of open debate ... the ability to withstand public opposition would not be tested. What
for? The backing to go forward had already been pocketed. We the people were never given
an opportunity to even reluctantly concede and have time to make contingency plans for our
future. This service concept has been forced upon us so suddenly and relentlessly, we
still haven’t been able to gather our wits and fully comprehend the future we are
being funneled into. We do know that America (the opportunities it allowed us to create
and continue to strive for) "is being dismantled."
Seventy percent of our work force is
now employed in service oriented jobs. This willfully forced upon us "road to the
future," has created a work force of stagnating or, more often than not, decreasing
economic stability for the masses. It is advancing the disintegration of our once revered
society. In conflict, those at the bottom of the ladder trying to climb up are tangling
with a middle-class sliding down. Unless serious attention and beneficially corrective
planning is begun now, the reality of what’s in store for America’s future ...
"is dark and dismal."
Can it be, "Power" is
completely blind to the consequences of the turmoil they are creating, or are they
convinced the ultimate tool for dominance the "Chip," will remain under their
control forever? It’s not a far fetched thought. Power’s purveyors of deceit,
"our own government," is already conferring and attempting to devise ways of
interfering and possibly controlling the Internet ... our surviving tool for
confrontation. How far might they get without massive and prompt resistance to that
notion? Put another way, the Internet is like a digitized phone line ... so, would we
allow our phone conversations to be tampered with, or regulated? Thinking that way, how
can our government even hint at administering style or use of the Internet? Are they being
influenced by power to disrupt our ability to effectively counter any further advances of
their agenda to capture America?
Do political parties in any way,
still represent a constituency akin to "We The People?" If we agree that running
for office today is implemented by huge sums of power’s money (very little in
comparison comes from the working constituency), we must agree control of our country has
shifted from "We The People." We must then agree those enormous sums have
strings attached to them. Are those strings being pulled for our benefit?
We are aware that the powerful do not
put their eggs in one basket. They supply campaign funds for both parties. They know the
choreographed image either party presents to the public is just a show. Whoever wins, they
have something in common ... they accepted, (more precisely) opened their hands for the
money they knew came with obligations. What is this all about? One word comes to mind ...
"corruption."
Gridlock, government’s front and
center euphemism, attempts to disguise intentional unwillingness to operate responsibly
for our good, on our behalf ... as a collective body engrossed in the preservation of
"We The People." The combative, unproductive scenario -- detested by the people,
and they know it ... nevertheless has not deterred them from new ways of getting nothing
done. This they must believe, will keep us in check.
Recently, a promised change in the
"welfare system" as we know it was put before congress ... pressured it seems,
by the Republican majority. A Democratic President signed the bill. Mission accomplished?
No way! Immediately after signing the document, Clinton vowed to alter it so that it more
closely resembled the ways that were.
In any event, both parties declared a
victory for their participation in the hoax. I call it maneuvered appeasement with
fraudulent intent. Unfortunately, more and more, this is becoming the wave of our future.
A shameful version of a crooked ... "shell game." By the time we shout foul, a
new game is waiting in the wings.
Perhaps, as this pandemonium
encompasses us we are unsuspectingly witnessing a chink in the armor of power. Perhaps the
more heavy handed they become in diminishing our dreams, the more susceptible they become
to a consolidated test of will. As their rampage continues, so does our determination to
denounce the actions of our government, to resist the agenda of power and to forcefully
restore order under the implications of the Declaration of Independence (reinforced by the
Constitution of The United States.)
Our desire to restore order must
never be misunderstood or misinterpreted. Society just wants to recapture and advance
along workable and proven to be beneficial paths ... with recognizable sign posts,
pointing the way to a better future. Is there a way to create an advocacy that will
represent the pulse of "main stream Americans" and champion their cause? The
prime targets would be few, and historically acceptable. We want a proliferation of
livable wages capable of keeping the family intact, "as was once within the reach of
all." We want the ability to achieve a life of value, "as was within our reach
before." We want to regain a feeling of accomplishment, respect, and belonging,
"as was happening before." We want to be a proud chauvinistic society in a way
that will be "greater than ever before."
Americans will never accept the
ongoing, threatening, lowered standards of life they are increasingly being subjected to.
Too many have already been decimated to a point of no return. Most of all, the detestable,
greed conceived. "Push Hamburger McDonalization of American society" must be
stopped and reversed. Whether "Power" will own up to it depends upon the extent
of their arrogance. They must be convinced, somewhere along "their revolutionary
path" ... they will force a revolution by the opposition.
Who might we be able to reason with,
in an endeavor to restore participatory realism to a government formed ... by and for,
"We The People"? More than ever, those we elect quickly become aloof and apart
from those they swore an oath to serve. I watched in utter disbelief as a member of the
house being interviewed on C-Span, had the temerity to lecture the viewing public about
how we don’t understand the workings of government. First he instructed us, "we
are not a democracy." He went on to explain that as an elected official "in a
republic" -- his job was to do what "he thought was best for us." The
alarming and crucial connotation was we the electorate are dummies ... and needed him to
run our lives. He! is proclaiming this to be his appointed duty. I don’t believe this
obviously tyrannical charachter ever read the documents our founding fathers ingeniously
drafted. He! was delivering a lesson about government, not as it was intended to be but
what is happening to it.
As this outrageous definition
continues to infect our government, and grows in intensity, the time has just about come
to go over their heads in our search for ways to recapture "our America." We
must reinforce the intent and true meaning of the documents that made us a country, and
once again have the freedom to dream great dreams.
Rioting has been tried over and over,
accomplishing nothing. Each time that tactic erupts it momentarily appears as a step
forward. It eventually proves to have been two steps back. Boycotts have been tried, but
never recoups the losses suffered by the activists. There was a movement to stop paying
taxes, the idea being if government didn’t receive our money so easily they would be
prone to listen to us. It was doomed to failure. Any attempt we make to reinsert ourselves
into a constitutionally intended and clearly defined process the door is slammed in our
face.
When American corporate money is
combined with and reinforced by money from abroad, with obvious purpose to alter our
countries purpose, our corrupted government is of no further value to us, and we begin to
understand the true foe. The next thought must be -- can we formulate an inspired format
that doesn’t threaten power, yet is a feasible negotiating tool that might restore
viability in America.
Has "Power" been conceded
the winner? If so, the pages of history must have been written in a dream. There has never
been an oppressive regime capable of staying on top eternally. About two hundred years is
the limit. Lets close this chapter with a thought. It should sound familiar.
"When in the course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political bounds which connect them to another,
that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to those ends, it is the right of
the people to alter, abolish it, and to institute new government." It’s from our
"Declaration of Independence."
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