- Most Americans today feel overwhelmed, even if they won't
admit it or don't recognize it.
- There are frightening things being mentioned in the press
all the time, concerning health, crime, the possibility of home-schooling
parents losing custody of their children, or the chances of the nation
going bankrupt.
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- Even some of today's developments in science or technology
that may be positive come across as overwhelming, as we know we haven't
had time to think about their possible long-term consequences. Do we
really want genetically modified food, robot soldiers, a dearth of bees
to pollinate crops, puberty at the age of nine, webcams on every street?
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- I myself am overwhelmed by various things (the weather!
depleted uranium! hypnosis!) However, as readers of my book "Prosecution
for Treason" know, I am not in any kind of panic about the misbehavior
of our government in Washington, D.C.. This is only partly because I consider
it easy to punish treason. (Trust me, it's a cinch, if citizens call for
it.)
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- It is also because I am old enough (b. 1947) to remember
when the 535 members of Congress had, amongst them, some outstanding persons.
These men and women, usually men, were fully tuned in to the job of representing
the citizens' interests, and honoring the Constitution. This made them
impressive and authoritative, and -- as anyone with half an eyeball can
see -- young replacements for them are abounding in our population.
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- There is another reason why I am not worried. It is because,
very late in my education, and with thanks almost entirely to the Internet,
I got a load of who the real bosses are. Their quiet takeover must have
started a century ago, but you can easily see how it intensified around
the late 1970s. (Some say its public debut was at Dallas in 1963.)
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- It all makes sense to me that a small cabal is able to
do so many weird things. A world government wanting to knock ol' strong
America down would need, first of all, to do various things to our culture.
This they brilliantly did, mainly through TV and schools.
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- Second, they would need to pervert the federal government.
The trick was to carry this out gradually, incrementally. Consider 20
behaviors of our government that have come to seem unremarkable today --
but which look mighty odd to members of my generation:
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- 1. Congress passes laws that are unconstitutional insofar
as Congress does not have a grant-of-power to legislate, in such state-responsibility
areas as education and health.
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- 2. State governors fail to resist Congress's encroachment
on the state's sovereign power.
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- 3. On voting day, everyone is at the mercy of 'software'
that can alter the vote count.
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- 4. It's up to the 50 Secretaries of State to count the
vote properly but they run for cover.
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- 5. Congress does not object when a president sends troops
abroad in undeclared wars.
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- 6. Congress expressly enables such unconstitutional
delegation of its war power, e.g., by passing resolutions saying that "Lebanon
is a threat." (Lebanon a threat. Embarrassing.)
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- 7. Congress makes laws that violate the Bill of Rights
(and they do it righteously!)
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- 8. The executive runs the Bureau of the Budget, which
should be in Congress's hands.
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- 9. Congress does not object when the president announces
unconstitutional entities such as Special Operations Groups (death squads)
within the military.
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- 10. Congress engages in deficit spending to an extreme
degree. (We're talkin' $14 tril.)
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- 11. Congress does not act to repeal the unconstitutional
Federal Reserve Act of 1913 (well named "the creature from Jekyll
Island").
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- 12. The Senate confirms presidents' nominations of bad
candidates for Cabinet posts.
- (One might wish to review the last ten Attorneys General.)
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- 13. Congress often declines to conduct investigative
hearings demanded by citizens. (I resolutely pass over any mention of 9/11
here. Resolutely. Very, very resolutely.)
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- 14. Congress allows Homeland Security to let foreigners
enter the US against the law. (This occurs simply by foot over the Mexican
border, but also within secret military jets.)
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- 15. Congress does not diligently oversee such statutory
bodies as FDA, FCC, CDC, or FAA.
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- 16. Staffs of congressional committees are unelected
and not accountable to the public.
- (I have heard it said that House Ways and Means Committee
staff members are very 'powerful.' Make ya wunda. Are they exercising that
power over the Congresspersons?)
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- 17. The president has his 'spokesman' answer questions
at White House press conferences. (Did you not find Ari Fleischman's answers
positively jaw-dropping?)
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- 18. The president allows private corporations to have
their offices in the Pentagon.
- (Yes, as in lock, stock, and barrel.)
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- 19. The Supreme Court does not act to protect the separation
of powers. (It even has the gall to say it must not do so!)
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- 20. Congress does not jealously guard its prerogative
of declaring martial law. (See? the legislative branch is so hush-hush
on that topic that you did not even know it was in their Article I bailiwick.)
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- As indicated earlier, I find it quite reassuring to be
able to identify these 20 perversions as coming from outside our system
(i.e., from the cabal). It means that there is no particular internal
problem making such behaviors inevitable. Such things are not intrinsic
either to human nature or to the structure of our Constitution.
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- Thus identified, they are not at all overwhelming. The
only persons who stand to feel overwhelmed now are the miscreants, whose
backsides are scheduled for a good hiding.
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- Mary W Maxwell, PhD, can be reached at CredosBooks.com.
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