Where I'm Coming From

Here’s where I'm "coming from." Dismiss me as you will, but not (I hope) without examination.

1. The country has been systematically sold out over decades by many (most?) of those of both parties who swore oaths "to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic." Often, as soon as they were sworn in, they became the very domestic enemies they swore to guard against, by taking actions specifically prohibited by the Constitution. Why? Because anyone who chooses to make a career as a politician soon realizes that re-election, not to mention rising to higher office, depends on keeping on the good side of those who provide the campaign funds, and who control the organs of publicity -- newspapers, magazines, radio and TV networks. "Ya gotta dance with them who brung ya."

Few aspiring politicians, even very decent people (just like the rest of us) are such lifelong saints that they would wish to have every last detail of their lives minutely examined in public. Take any officeholder, present or past, and with enough detail of some past error revealed (and magnified and repeated endlessly) in the press, on talk shows, and on the nightly news, and eventually a majority of the public would come to believe that the true essence of that person would be accurately represented by that amplified screw-up.

For example, JFK, a veteran, war hero, and much-beloved president at the time of his death, has come to be known best by the current generation, as a skirt-chasing horn-dog, and if not exactly deserving of assassination, at least marginalized to the extent, that the underlying motives to kill him are so little understood, that anyone who fails to accept the specious conclusions of the Warren Report, point blank, is dismissed as a nut.

So nobody gets to the point of being a viable candidate for high office without first being vetted by people who own the networks and major newspapers, nor without making the kinds of promises that can get them $bazillions to spend on the campaign. Those who can provide such funds and influence are deep insiders, heirs to centuries-old mega-fortunes. They own or control not only networks, newpapers, and magazines, but banks, munitions, drug, oil, and chemical companies, among others. They are able not only to profit from wars, regardless of who "wins," but to profit from bankrupting nations, then buying up the distressed assets on the cheap. They own entire governments.

We get to choose (at least major party-supported candidates) only from among people who have already mortgaged their future offices, if they haven’t sold their souls outright. I suspect that people without secret, well-documented, but inflammatory ("useful"), embarrassments in their pasts, don’t rise very far.

There is also a valid question whether votes, electronically tallied (in some cases, by machines with modems and internet connections) without a verifiable trace, necessarily represent the true vote of the citizens, especially in districts where dead people and illegal aliens vote.

2. I believe and contend, on the basis of the reading I have done, that America has been tricked and maneuvered into its wars (at least since the Revolution) for the purposes of enhancing the political control over her affairs of (not to mention further enriching) certain ultra-wealthy banking families. True, our military has risen gallantly to the challenges, and acquitted itself honorably -- even in those wars where obviously they have been prevented from winning, by the decisions and actions of the civilian authority. But clearly, some agenda, aside from the publicly asserted purposes, has been the true interest in the Korean and Vietnam wars. I count the present wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (not to mention the one they are trying to ignite in Iran) in that category.

You may accept the self-contradictory official stories of the 9-11 attack in New York and D.C. I don't. I have seen too many video clips of TV broadcasts taken that day, heard too much first-hand testimony from people who were present that day, seen too many reports of the physical evidence, and heard expert testimony from too many dissenting experts, to accept the government story as valid pretext for wars that were in the planning stages before the planes crashed. I believe some within the government participated knowledgeably, at a minimum, in a coverup of the truth, if not directly in the design and management of the exercise. "Your mileage may vary."

Further, I believe the purpose of dragging this nation into various wars has as much to do with completely reversing the Revolution, and bringing America completely to heel, by impoverishing us, while using the claimed security needs of each successive war to ratchet the enhanced anti-constitutional executive powers to such a level, that some future outrage will be used to spring on us the full array of police state mechanisms that have been in preparation since the 1970's. People behind razor wire and under machineguns, can yell all they want about their stolen liberties, until they run out of breath -- to no effect.

I think we’re on a similar track to national enslavement and destruction as Germany was after WWI.