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Gentle Reminders I have sworn on the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson
There's class warfare alright. But its my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. Warren Buffett
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process. ...As we peer into society's future, we, you and I and our government must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of out grandchildren without risking also the loss of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow...During the long (road) of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate and be instead a proud confederat ion of mutual trust and respect. Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Speech, 1961.
"These United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history. It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift*, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed income elderly alike. It threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people. Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, human misery and personal indignity...For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means but for only a limited period of time. Why then should we think that collectively as a Nation we are not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow...The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. In this present crisis government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." - President Reagan, Inaugural Address, 1981 * editors note: "Penalizing thrift" is a nifty way of saying that low interest rates on passbook savings lead people to spend more when they should be saving and/or to enter into exotic investment schemes that they do not truly understand. President Eisenhower correctly described the problem in his farewell address, but no-one, least not his fellow Republicans, took heed. A generation later President Reagan's Inaugural Address pretty much said the same thing yet during his eight years our economic situation continued to deteriorate. Another generation has been wasted and things are far worse. The pages you are viewing contain the seeds of our renewal. A Revolution, violent or otherwise, WILL eliminate our ever increasing burden of debt and give us a new birth of freedom, a clean slate on which to write a RATIONAL economic future, as our Founding Fathers envisioned. Jeffersonian Capitalism, or Main Street, is one of our Traditional National Values. It was supplanted by Wall Street beginning in the 1830s when the modern Corporate State was legislated into existence. This is where our problems began as this allowed the accumulation of wealth into a very few hands who translated this centralized wealth into political and undemocratic (read unAmerican) power. Even Congress and the State Legislatures at the time mistrusted this new Corporate State and its minions: Part of the legislation that created the Corporate State included a very STRICT separation between the functions of the Ownership (shareholders) and the management of the company. The OWNERS were forbidden by law from participating in the day to day operations of the company, which was the exclusive job of the management, and the management was forbidden by law from owning ANY stock in the company. This wise law was broken down over the years by the corporations to, in effect, bribe the management team and the owners to become indistinguishable from one another and give management an actual stake in the company and by eliminating this "wall of separation" between ownership and management, to destroy the very basis of the sacred social contract that allowed the Corporate State in the first place. Furthermore, this sudden concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few Corporate denizens began the breakdown our our traditional democratic values as espoused by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman in that the newly created super-wealthy class believed its members were better than the typical working American and who then turned its back on America, American Culture and the American People and identified instead with the aristocracy of Europe, especially of Britain, our former enemy and oppressor. This new Corporate Class not only identified with the European aristocracy but it traveled there and brought back old treasures and greedy ideas and fashioned a new American aristocracy based on the values of old Europe and ignored and opposed the values of New America. They even got richer by joining with the British ruling class to war profiteer on the misery of our Civil War. Over the years this new anti-American Class just got richer and more powerful and now exhibits (evinces a design) a loyalty NOT to America and American Values, but to the values of this new international corporate class it had built. They ally themselves with the wealthy elites of all Nations, and bribe the best and the brightest of those places to abandon their own Peoples and cultures in order to serve this "New World Order." Our job, as Revolutionaries, is to dismantle this new class and "order" and bring back OUR traditional democratic-capitalist culture and ELIMINATE the "middlemen" of Wall Street who do nothing but suck out the lifeblood from OUR economy to aid the economies of such "fellow travelers" as the blood drenched dictators of China and the blood splattered kleptocrats of Mexico. The liars and hypocrites in the propaganda department of the Corporate State have convinced many honest Americans that the Constitution must be only considered in its ORIGINAL form and allow no changes for new circumstance that arise over time. Yet these "originalists" totally ignore the fact that the original Constitution mandated that the Federal government was to be financed by TARIFFS, but because this tariff system stands in the way of the internationalist corporate class and its efforts to redistribute the wealth of American's middle class from America to the new financial centers in Asia that now sneer at us (behind closed, diplomatic doors, of course,) that "beggars can't be choosers." These "originalists" also ignore the very words in the Constitution, in the Preamble, that say the duty of the government is to "provide for the common welfare" and choose to interpret "the common welfare" to mean that of the corporate state. Its secret slogan must be: "of the international corporate state, by the international corporate state and for the international corporate state. This anti-Americanism is what our Revolution must destroy and replace with our traditional economic values of thrift and a common sense that says "if it looks like an unAmerican enemy, if it walks like and unAmerican enemy and if it quacks like an unAmerican enemy" it HAS evinced a design to reduce us under its despotism and We the People have EVERY Right to Revolt, to kill the enemy and to re-assert our proper place is God's scheme of things. The Solution is Revolution. Too bad the current President did not take a page from the speeches of Eisenhower and Reagan and point out that "Unrestrained international corporate capitalism is not the answer to our problems, unrestrained international corporate capitalism IS our problem."
And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought, are still at issue around the globe, a belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans...proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. John Kennedy
...It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality...Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual...The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges...We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality...Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York... I Have a Dream Martin Luther King 1963
As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labor fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy. John Locke
God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion...What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gardual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden insurpation. James Madison
When economic power becomes concentrated in a few hands, then political powers flows to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny. John Adams
I prefer dangerous liberty to quiet servitude. Thomas Jefferson
A patriot must always be willing to defend a country against its government. Edward Abbey.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard ever his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. Michael McFaul
REPUBLIC or OLIGARCHY? I can conceive of a National Destiny which meets with the responsibilities of today and measures up to the possibilities of tomorrow. Behold a Republic, resting securely upon the mountain of eternal truth, a Republic applying in practice and proclaiming to the World the self evident proposition that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with inalienable Rights, that governments are instituted among men to secure these Rights, and that government derives their just powers from the consent of the governed. Behold a Republic in which civil and religious liberty stimulate all to earnest endeavor and in which the law restrains every hand uplifted for a neighbor's injury. A Republic in which every citizen is a sovereign but in which no one cares to wear a crown. Behold a Republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armament. A Republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. Behold a Republic increasing in population, in wealth and strength and in influence solving the problems of civilization and hastening the coming of a universal Brotherhood. A Republic which shakes thrones and dissolves aristocracies by its silent example and gives light and inspiration to those who sit in darkness. Behold a Republic gradually but surely becoming a supreme moral factor in the World's progress and the accepted arbiter of the World's disputes. A Republic, whose History, like the path of the Just, is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. William Jennings Bryan THE MILLS OF THE GODS GRIND SLOWLY, BUT THEY GRIND EXTREMELY SMALL. |