Chapter 1

How We Got Here

If you look back at our countries history it will help you see how to move into the future with confidence and determination. In this chapter I will help take you back in time and show you how some recent decisions by our elected leaders, and other events, got us into the trouble we are in today. However, before we look back lets review a few of our more serious current troubles:

• A fast growing $12+ trillion dollar federal debt
• Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
• A fast growing wealth gap between the top 1% and everyone else
• Rising health care cost and more uninsured
• Rising college education cost
• High unemployment and under-employment
• Huge trade deficits
• A corrupt political campaign finance system
• Politicians and government appointees going to work for the companies they regulated
• A shift from high paying manufacturing jobs to low paying retail jobs
• A shift from a progressive tax system to a regressive tax system
• Corporate scandals and financial bailouts
• Global climate de-stabilization threat
• Illegal drug, illegal immigration, and organized crime
• Looming insolvency in the Medicare and Social Security programs
• Higher numbers of people with cancers and heart disease

How Did We Get Into This Mess?

The extremely troubling problems I just listed did not all start with President Barack Obama, or George W. Bush, however, there is an indisputable correlation between the two political parties and almost all our past and current problems.

Obama Has Failed Us

The Obama administration has proven that the Democrats are just as willing to lie about their policy promises as the Republicans did during the Bush administration. Obama promised to move America in a new direction, but he has continued the Republican's bad policies with the full support of the Democrats in Congress.

The Two Parties Are The Same

It is based on recent history that I have concluded the Democrats are not much different than the Republicans. Both parties are equally corrupt and both need to be removed from power. The American people have the power to make that happen, and they are the only ones who can make it happen. If we don't fight it won't happen and the problems I listed will continue and expand.

Lets take a look at some recent history, in chronological order, and see if we can get a clearer picture in our minds of how we got to where we are today, and who is responsible for creating all the current problems I listed at the beginning of this chapter.

President John F. Kennedy Assassinated In Dallas

All this horrible political corruption in America did not just begin recently but can be seen as far back as November 22, 1963 when our very popular elected president, John F. Kennedy, was murdered in Dallas and his assassination was covered up by right-wing forces working inside our government and in the Dallas police department.

The evidence of this conspiracy and cover-up is in the people who were picked to investigate the assassination, including Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA, who JFK had fired. Also, eyewitness testimony placed one of the assassins behind the picket fence and photographic evidence places Oswald standing at the front door of the School Book Depository at the time of the shooting. Jack Ruby, a Mafia figure with close ties to the Dallas Police Department, killed Oswald and thereby sealed the case for the Dallas DA and turned anyone who disagreed with the Warren Commission's conclusions into a conspiracy nut.

Also, a letter from the FBI said "George Bush of the CIA" was investigating some of the possible criminal links.

Vietnam War

After JFK was murdered a Texan moved into the White House and the war in Vietnam was started. This war was started based on a lie, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, it was fought based on a series of lies that the Pentagon Papers exposed, and it ended as it should have with the immoral side getting its ass kicked at a cost of over 55,000 American soldier's lives and $200+ billion dollars.

In retrospect, it looks like our political leaders never wanted or expected a victory in Vietnam, but the war was just a scam to kick off a power shift and wealth concentration plan dreamed up by some very rich and immoral southerners, probably based out of Texas.

Stopping the spread of communism was just the excuse for going to war in Vietnam. If our leaders really believed communism was so evil why is communist China America's biggest trading partner today?

The reality is we have had fascist running our government since JFK was assassinated, including both Bush's, and China has a fascist running their government, Hu Jintao.

The parallels between the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq are uncanny, and thus the outcome in Iraq is also predictable. Instead of our leaders telling us we are fighting communism they are telling us we are fighting terrorism. I can't wait to hear their next excuse for killing thousands of innocent people and wasting hundreds of billions of our tax dollars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and maybe Iran.

Nixon's Sickness

President Nixon was the typical Republican politician. He was corrupt, immoral, compassionless, paranoid, power hungry, vengeful, a liar, a thief, a sycophant, and a murderous tyrant. His shining media moment was his visit to Communist China, and America's current huge trade deficit with China is that visit's legacy. Watergate was only the tip of the iceberg that exposed Nixon's psychopathic mental illness and the American people will forever pay for his misdeeds.

The parallels between Richard Nixon and George W. Bush are frightening similar. I have no doubt that Bush's mental illness is every bit as severe as Nixon's was. I suspect the horrible decisions of both of these men, even only the decisions the public knows about, are probably enough to rekindle the fires of hell many times over.

Regardless of the afterlife consequences for these two sick political puppets their immoral and illicit decisions should motivate all of us to fight back against the Republican Party with very ounce of energy we can possibly muster, and the Democratic Party is complicit and must also be removed from power.

Reagan's Conservative Revolution

President Reagan's legislation proved that he was also no friend of the middle class. His tax legislation shifted the tax burden onto middle class families and off the very wealthy while massively increasing the federal debt. His domestic legislation cut benefits for workers, homeowners, and the elderly while opening the flood gates to the rich with deregulations that resulted in corruption and government bailouts for the corrupt.

Reagan's budgets added almost $2 trillion dollars to the federal debt in eight years despite his 1980 campaign pledge to be a fiscally conservative leader. His corrupt Savings & Loan deregulation scam alone cost taxpayers over $500 billion dollars while lining the pockets of wealthy land owners and developers in Texas, Colorado, California, Arizona, and a few other states, as well as a couple of President Bush's brothers. His domestic legislation sent crime, poverty, and homelessness way up. The people working in his administration were constantly being exposed as criminals and corrupt liars.

Republican politicians and right-wing media personalities constantly lavish great praise on Reagan's legacy, but that is only because he was the perfect corrupt right-wing fascist. His Iran/Contra criminal actions is the model for corrupt dictatorial power in the White House, and it appears that President George W. Bush embraced that model whole heartedly by taking American to a war in Iraq while doing nothing about the corrupt country on our southern border.

Reagan's presidency exposed how the wealthy right-wing uses puppets (actors) to get our government to give them what they want, and what they want is more gold and power, and less risk and liability. It is a highly profitable game for a few but a costly one for everyone else.

The George H.W. Bush (senior) Years

President H.W. Bush got Reagan and his co-conspirators off the hook for their Iran/Contra crimes when he pardoned key players in 1989. He also followed in Reagan's budget footsteps by adding over $1 trillion dollars to the federal debt in just four years.

H.W.'s horrible leadership motivated a Texas billionaire, Ross Perot, to get into the race in 1992 to make sure H.W. did not win reelection. Ross campaigned on the need for responsible fiscal management in our government. Ross said: "Our first priority is to balance the budget. The United States government must pay its way. There are only two ways to do it: reduce spending and generate revenues. It's that simple.".

And it is that simple but these corrupt politicians want us to be confused, in fear, and complacent while they rob our government of $100 trillion in assets that really belong to all the American people.

An interesting footnote to H.W.'s history came from an FBI memo that identified H.W. Bush as a CIA agent at the time of the JFK assassination, a fact which H.W. refutes. He claims that he did not work for the CIA until he became Director of the CIA in 1976. This should make you wonder what other dirty skeletons lurk in his closet, and in the CIA's closet, and how many other lies he told us.

The Clinton Years

The first thing President Clinton did after taking office was pass legislation that raised taxes on the top 2%, and he did so without one vote from any of the Republicans. The next year the Republicans won control of the Congress and Clinton was forced into a position as a lame duck unable to move any significant legislation until 1997 when he passed the GOP's capital gains tax cut, NAFTA, and banking deregulations.

During Clinton's entire term he was under constant attack from the right-wing's operatives for things that where mostly just made up to make him look bad but that never materialized into any crimes. However, Clinton's 1993 tax increases helped to eliminate the huge budget deficits and they created the largest surpluses in our country's history.

President Clinton's sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, and his lies about this affair, added creditability to all the mud throwing the GOP had been doing. This sexual indiscretion badly tarnished his image and legacy. This entire matter exposed that the Democrats can be just as stupid, corrupt, and immoral as the Republicans. President Clinton is a brilliant man but he showed some extremely bad judgment; but to error is human so we can forgive him for a minor sexual indiscretion, but not for supporting bad right-wing legislation.

The George W. Bush (jr.) Years

George W. Bush, on the other hand, does not deserve our forgiveness yet because he has not yet paid for his numerous and costly errors.

George is another great example of how the right-wing picks, polishes, and promotes their political puppets. George is a made man from start to finish; notice that I did not say "self-made". He was an alcoholic, probably a cocaine addict, and a failure as a businessman, but he was the son of a former president and that gave him the right name to have friends, raise money, and win office. So the right-wing groomed him, made him a multi-millionaire, made him governor of Texas, and did everything in their power to make him President of the United States.

George was a good puppet because he followed orders, stayed on script, and didn't try to think for himself. However, his incompetence, arrogance, and immorality have shown through his carefully choreographed act and the American people were able to see the real George W. Bush and it was an ugly sight to behold.

George is considered by most people as the worst president ever, including many successful and thoughtful writers, and they are right. If you ignore everything except his lies there were enough examples to make a solid case for impeachment. But when you add in all his horrible legislation, the war in Iraq, crony filled administration, Enron connections, Abramoff scandal, budget deficits, etc, your have a picture of a terribly corrupt and immoral leader who should be spending the rest of his life behind bars.

Fraudulent Elections In 2000 and 2004

The election in 2000 was a joke, and George's appointment by the Supreme Court was a travesty. The first thing George did after taking office was to reverse Clinton's tax increases on the rich and passed several new tax cuts for the very rich, including the repeal of the estate tax. As a result of these policies the federal budget projections have swung $10 trillion dollars in the wrong direction and added $5.5 trillion dollars in new debt in 8 years. George continued to claim that everything was going great during his term, but we now know better.

We should have been able to hold George accountable with our votes in the election 2004, but it was another cruel joke. The paperless voting computers have the wealthy supporters of the GOP laughing all the way to the White House with their puppet, George, riding on their coattails. These new paperless voting computers are built by large corporations that have histories of giving financial support to both parties, but mostly to the Republican Party. The president of Diebold even promised to help Republicans win in Ohio, which coincidentally was the state that swung the election for George in 2004.

These new voting computer don't generate a paper audit trail and therefore there is no way to recount the votes if a election is close, or if an election is called into question for some other reason. With these type of fraudulent election computers in place it should be no surprise to anyone why George and the Republicans in Congress act so fearlessly and shamelessly like they currently do. They have no fear of voters. These bogus computers have muted public opinion and given our government permanently to a small group of fascist, including Obama and the Democrats.

We must steal our government back from this group using the same extreme methods they used to steal it from us.

Fascist Control

I believe the fascist have been in control of our government since JFK was assassinated. This absolute uncheck power has been used time and time again to help the rich and powerful, and to ignore or hurt everyone else. All this concentrated power might be tolerated if they policed themselves but they refuse to hold their own people accountable for everything, ever. The people who pay for their misdeeds are the middle class and the poor.

During Bush Jr. eight years in office the dirty fascist did the following misdeeds:

• They rolled back environment laws, labor laws, progressive tax laws, tort laws, international treaties and laws, habeas corpus laws, civil rights laws, and cronyism rules.
• They passed legislation that opens public lands to exploitation.
• They robbed the Medicare trust fund and gave that money to the insurance and drug companies.
• They made it much harder for people to use bankruptcy courts to get out of debts.
• They showered the very rich with tax benefits at the expense of the government's budgets and the middle class.
• They refused to take action when a few big energy companies were cheating the state of California.
• They tried to give Enron money through a retroactive corporate tax bill while Enron was robbing its employees and shareholders.
• They allowed gas companies to price gouging the American people while making record profits.
• They allowed our soldiers to get slaughtered in Iraq based on a lie of WMD's so that their rich friends could have more wealth for themselves.

And these are just a few examples of the GOP's fascist ideology and corrupt political immorality during the Bush Jr. years.

Lord Acton was right when he said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". The Republicans try hard to stay within the boundaries of the letter of the law but they are clearly violating the spirit of the law. The Republican's abuse of their power is not acceptable and we must fight back to stop them and hold them accountable before it's too late.

9/11

The "terrorist" attack on September 11, 2001, that killed 2,986 Americans, gave the Bush administration the excuse they had been looking for to take our country to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, to increase military spending, to roll back our civil liberties, and to balloon the federal deficit.

Just after the attack Bush's poll numbers, which had been dropping like a rock, suddenly shot way up. I even dropped my opposition to the Bush administration for a short period of time.

On 9/11 just after Andy Card whispered into Bush's ear that a second plane had hit the second tower Bush sat quietly reading "My Pet Goat" to school children for several more minutes. Mean while, VP Dick Cheney was involved is some strange terrorist attack simulations involving airplanes and FEMA emergency response teams in the northeast. In response to this terrorist attack no fighter jets were sent out for almost a full hour, and it appears that the plane that hit the Pentagon had no wings.

It looks like Anthony Lake, President Clinton's first choice to head and reform the CIA, was right when he said: "Washington has gone haywire!".

Since the Republicans have been the primary beneficiaries of the attack on 9/11, it happened on their watch, and it was their people's intelligence failures it should make you wonder if there was some conclusion and conspiracy between the terrorist, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia, and the Bush administration. I have no proof that they were criminally involved but the facts are highly suspicious and I don't doubt it for a second as a right-wing false flag operation.

Anthrax Attacks

A week after the terrorist attack on 9/11 someone in New Jersey began mailing letters containing military grade anthrax to media companies in New York and Florida, and to two U.S. senators, Daschle and Leahy, both Democrats. Five people died and over $1 billion dollars was spent cleaning up and investigating but no one has been arrested. The notes in the letters indicate a Middle East terrorist was responsible but that was probably done to help justify the Bush administration's plan to go to war in Iraq.

We will probably never know who was actually responsible for this bio terrorist attack, but we do know that Dick Cheney's staff began taking Cipro, the anthrax antibiotic, a week before the first attack. And when President Bush was ask if he took Cipro he just said: "I don't have anthrax".

The GOP's Secret "Shadow Government"

Just after 9/11 the Bush administration implemented a plan from the 1950's to provide for the continuation of the U.S. government in case of a nuclear attack against Washington D.C.. This plan placed about 100 senior level government officials in two different secret underground locations somewhere on the East Coast. What is really interesting about this event is that none of the Democrats in Congress were told about it, and when they did find out about it they were outraged.

This secret GOP plan should make you wonder what other secrets the Republicans are keeping from the Democrats, and from the American people. Who were these un-elected people the Republicans picked to staff this shadow government? My guess is they were the children of the Republicans in Congress.

Perhaps what we really have in America is a "Shadow Government" running our country. Maybe our elected leaders are just stooges and puppets for the people are really running things. What if the real decisions are being made in some high-rise corporate boardroom by a bunch of greedy oil men, or in some rich person's non-profit foundation by a bunch of inheritance rich spoiled brats and their lawyers, bankers, and security personnel. If either of these scenarios is true it would help explain a lot about the awful decisions and immoral actions made by both political parties.  

The Death (Assassination) of Senator Wellstone

Was Senator Wellstone assassinated, or was he just the victim of an unfortunate airplane accident? Conspiracy theory professional James Fetzer Ph.D. has written a book about this plane crash that concludes the evidence is overwhelming that Senator Wellstone was in fact assassinated by people who were ideologically opposed to his politics and who did benefit by Wellstone's death.

The day before Wellstone's plane went down, killing his wife, his daughter, three members of his staff, and his two pilots, Wellstone voted not to give Bush the right to attack Iraq. Wellstone was also moving ahead of his opponent, Norm Coleman, in his race for reelection to the U.S. Senate that would have keep the Republicans in the minority. Wellstone opposed Bush's plan to privatize Social Security, he opposed Bush's tax cuts for the rich, he opposed Bush's positions on the Middle East, and he opposed just about every other Republican proposal. In other words, Wellstone was a thorn in the GOP's side and they wanted him gone.

On October 25, 2002 the GOP got their wish when Wellstone's plane crashed and burned in a wooded field in Minnesota just two days before the election. News reports attributed the crash to icy weather conditions or pilot error, but both of these causes are highly unlikely and probably just excuses the media used to avoid speculating on sinister conspiracy theories involving people in the right-wing of America's economic and political apparatus.

This plane crash makes me suspect that Senator Carnahan's and JFK Jr.'s plane crashes were also political murders committed by the right-wing's preemptive war making political machine.

It is highly unlikely that the public will ever know the truth about Wellstone's death, just like they still don't know the truth about the assassination of JFK, but we as a people must never allow these men's dreams of democracy, freedom, equality, justice, and social protections for the American people be destroyed by people on the extreme ideological right who's greed is only exceeded by their ruthlessness.

"When I first met the President, he called me 'Pablo,'" Wellstone jokes. "That lasted a day or two. Then they started trying to figure out how they were going to get rid of me." - Paul Wellstone

The War In Iraq

The war in Iraq exposes how both parties are lying to us, cheating us, manipulating us with fear, looting our government, abusing our military power, using the poor as expendable pawns, and undermining our rights and democracy.

President Bush lied when he took us to war in Iraq based on WMD's. He lied when says Iraq was somehow connected to what happened on 9/11. He lied when he said Iraq was a terrorist state. He lied when he said he wanted to liberate the Iraqi people by giving them a democracy. He lied about the progress we were making in Iraq. He lied about how this war would be paid for. Bush was a liar.

President Bush's father did not go into Iraq after liberating Kuwait because he believed we would get stuck in a long-term bloody quagmire that would be very costly in dollars and lives, and he was right.

President Bush Jr. attempted to block the media from photographing the coffins of killed American soldiers being brought back home. He did not want the American public to see the real cost of this war in a way that might upset them emotionally and cause them to become critics of his pro war policies. If the public got to see all the 5,300+ coffins coming back from Iraq, and the  32,000+ wounded Bush and the members of Congress might be even more unpopular.

President Bush Jr. expressed concern about the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but then he threatened to veto a defense bill because it contained a provision to outlaw torture. It was later revealed that the CIA has secret torture prisons in different parts of the world and that they use renditions to ship prisoners to countries that allow brutal torture. Bush continued to lie to the American people about his torture policy despite a mountain of facts that expose him as a liar on this subject and many others.

President Bush Jr. sent our troops into Iraq without proper planning, needed equipment, necessary troop levels, and a honest exit strategy. As a result of these failures thousands of our soldiers are now dead, and tens of thousands have been wounded.

The U.S. government has wasted over $1 trillion dollars on the war in Iraq. The only apparent accomplishment is the capture of Saddam Hussain. We also managed to kill over 1 million Iraqi citizens, including tens of thousands of women and children.

At the same time we have been losing our soldiers in Iraq the government has been busy cutting veterans benefits, cutting overtime pay requirements, cutting taxes for the rich while running huge budget deficits, and cutting ties with our allies.

Don't you find it ironic that our soldiers are being ask to fight and die for a democracy in Iraq when they are losing their democracy back home?

Sadly, most of the Democrats voted with the Republicans for this war in Iraq, including Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman, both of whom continue to support the war in Iraq and have been saber rattling towards Iran.

This war in Iraq, that was lobbied for by a group of neoconservative chicken-hawks at PNAC, has been very costly in money and lives. Much of that money has gone to big corporations that were given no-bid contracts, like Halliburton which is Dick Cheney's old company that continues to pay him a deferred compensation. Also, much of that money cannot be accounted for by the Pentagon. Has this war really been about making rich people richer?

In addition to all that wasted money for the war in Iraq we are now funding our military budgets by over $1 trillion dollars a year, which is more than the military budgets of all the other countries of the world combined. President Eisenhower warned us about the growth of the military-industrial complex and we are now seeing what he was talking about.

Our war loving elected politicians are burying our democracy, government, middle class, rights, freedoms, and system of justice right next to our fallen soldiers.

Corporate Scandals

When the accounting scams where uncovered at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and Arthur Anderson the Republicans in Congress acted surprised and promised corrective legislation. However, they were the ones who blocked the Clinton administration from passing legislation designed to prevent these types of corporate frauds against investors. They were the ones who blocked legislation that would have prevented the use of off-shore accounts to avoid paying taxes and manipulate earnings. They were the ones who took huge campaign contributions from these companies.

These corporate crimes occurred on the Republican's watch and their corrective actions so far have been a slap on the wrist. This provides further evidence of the GOP's fascist ideology, incompetent leadership, and corrupt personnel.

John McCain & The 2004 Campaign

Senator John McCain is a self-proclaimed political moderate who loudly and emotionally condemns pork barrel spending and budget deficits. However, during the 2004 presidential campaign John McCain was out campaigning for George W. Bush, the worst violator of pork barrel spending and budget deficits ever. John McCain praised President Bush as real fiscal conservative and a great military leader. Give me a break, John McCain is full of shit.

John McCain's words exposed the fact that he is a huge hypocrite and cannot be trusted. We should never again believe anything John McCain says because apparently it's all just an act. He has proven himself to be a liar on issues that are very important to the vast majority of the American people and for that reason alone we should make sure he leaves the Senate as soon as possible, and is never again elected to any public office. 

The GOP's Nuclear Threat

When the Republican controlled Senate realized that it did not have enough votes to approve President Bush's horrible right-wing extremist judicial nominees they began threatening to break Senate rules and approve these nominees anyway. This led to hours and days of heated rhetoric on the Senate floor between Republicans and Democrats. A compromise was finally reached without the need for the Republicans to use their "nuclear option" against the Democrats. Basically, the Democrats folded and approved the nominees Bush wanted.

This situation exposes the fact that the GOP doesn't play by the rules, they don't care about bipartisan cooperation, our elected leaders can be divided on the direction our government and legal system should be going. It also shows that the Democrats don't have the back-bone to stand their ground against the Republicans, and the Republicans are assholes who are attempting to staff government jobs with like-minded fascist.

Torture: Bush's First Veto Threat

Bush did finally threatened to veto a piece of legislation, but not because it was too costly or contained too much pork, but only because it contained a amendment to outlaw the use of torture. Nine other senators, all Republicans, voted with Bush and Cheney to allow torture and they include: Wayne Allard (CO), Kit Bond (MO), Tom Coburn (OK), Thad Cochran (MS), John Cornyn (TX), James Inhofe (OK), Pat Roberts (KS), Jeff Sessions (AL), and Ted Stevens (AK). It is important to know who the evil murdering fascist are in your government.

During the past five years of the Bush administration our government has tortured people in Abu Ghraib prison, which is the same prison where Saddam is accused of torturing his own people. And at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, and through rendition to other countries that conduct brutal tortures. Torture is not normally associated with democracies or moral leadership. Why more Americans are not outraged by these reports of torture is incomprehensible. Maybe if they were torturing dogs, cats, or children instead of adults there might be some level of outrage by the American people, but then again maybe not.

The Republican's "Deficit Reduction Act"

According to a recent poll the GOP's hypocrisy about being the fiscally responsible party is still not registering with many of the American people.

Skyrocketing Trade Deficits

The U.S. trade deficit is spiraling out of control averaging around $700+ billion per year over the past decade. Our largest trade deficit is with Communist China. The effect of our trade deficit is like taking gold bars out of Fort Knox and shipping them to China, and other net exporting countries around the world. The U.S. is becoming worth less and the exporting countries are becoming worth more. This is simple mercantilist economics and it is destroying America's middle class.

Our politicians are doing this because it is making the top 1% of Americans much richer and that is who they represent. The Republican Party has perverted the tax code so much so that if an American based manufacturer moves its operations overseas they get a tax break. Obama promised to fix this tax situation but he has yet to act.

Owners Vs. Labor

Organized labor has been experiencing a steady decline during the past fifty years, and ownership has seen the opposite during this same time period. This shift has had negative consequences for American workers as wages have not keep pace with inflation, hours worked have increased, and benefits have been slashed.

In addition, a flood of illegal immigrants, job outsourcing, off-shoring, factoring closings, pension corporate raiders, regressive tax law changes, and free trade deals have turned a wealth gap into a wealth grand canyon.

The largest employers in the U.S. use to be high wage manufacturing companies that employees could count on for life long employment with fair pay and good benefits. Today the largest employers in the U.S. are McDonalds and Wal-Mart, companies that offer low pay with few, or no, benefits and high employee turnover. This shift is pushing middle class families into the lower class and it is weakening our country's economy and national security.

This weakening of America does not bother the ownership class because they have gotten much wealthier and they have the ability to move their liquid wealth to any place on the globe in the blink of an eye. The Republican Party is clearly serving the interest of the ownership class as President Bush made clear when he announced his plan to create an "ownership society" in America. He implied greater wealth for all Americans but his policies expose the Freudian reality that his comments really mean "more wealth for the wealthy". 

FBI, DEA, INS, CIA, NSA, & ATF

America spends over $100 billion dollars a year on our intelligence and national policing agencies and yet they are conspicuously absent from the problems listed above, and when you add the following shocking events you realize we have a major problem with these government agencies run by political appointees:

• Ruby Ridge - In 1992 the ATF attempted to entrap Randy Weaver, a white supremacist, using a confidential informant who claimed that Randy sawed-off the barrels of a shotgun shorter than the legal limit. This led to a 16 month undercover surveillance operation followed by a shootout with U.S. Marshals on Randy's property. After the shootout a 10 day stand-off began where the FBI used psychological warfare to harass the survivors in an extremely cruel way. The end result was the government paid Randy $3.1 million dollars for killing his wife, son, best friend, and dog as well as shooting him. Not only did a FBI sharpshooter shot and kill his unarmed wife while she was holding her baby but the U.S. Marshals shot his 14 year old son in the back and his dog up the rectum. After the shootout ended these government agents left Randy's dead dog laying on the road and they drove their half-tracks (military vehicles) over its body.
• The Branch Davidians & David Koresh - In 1993 the ATF raided the Branch Davidian's compound, Mount Carmel, claiming that there were illegal weapons inside. They did this despite the fact that there were innocent men, women, and children inside; despite the fact that they knew David Koresh had been tipped off about the raid and was heavily armed; and despite the fact they could have picked up David Koresh any number of times before the raid at the local hardware store. This unnecessary raid lead to a shootout followed by a 51 day standoff with FBI agents. During this standoff the FBI used psychological warfare to harass the people inside with methods can best be describe as "sick". The standoff ended when the FBI used military tanks to inject flammable gas through the compound's walls and a fire mysteriously started and quickly engulfing the entire building in flames. This fire killed 85 people, including 17 children under the age of twelve, and it destroyed all the evidence. Some of the Branch Davidians who tried to flee the burning building were shot at and some of them killed by FBI sharpshooters, according to the survivors. President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno claimed they were lied to and mislead by senior FBI and ATF officials. The bottom line is that our government and its agents slaughtered 85 of our fellow citizens most of whom were innocent men, women, and children.
• Oklahoma City Bombing - The government wants you to believe that on April 19, 1995 one fertilizer truck bomb parked in front of an eight story reinforced concrete building took out the entire front half of the building killing 168 people. There is no question that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were involved in the construction of the truck bomb, but what about the third person, an olive skin male, who was seen with McVeigh? What about reports of a second explosion that was recorded on seismographs and reported by eyewitnesses? What about reports of other explosive devices being removed from the building? Why were some government employees told not to go to work in the Murrah building that day, a building that was occupied by the FBI, ATF, and Secret Service?
• Illegal Drug - It is estimate that the American people consume 10 truck loads of marijuana everyday, and 1 truck load of cocaine everyday. This is happening despite the fact we have a number of very expensive federal agencies, including the DEA, FBI, and INS, that are suppose to be protecting us from these drug smuggling organized criminals. When President Clinton busted some of these Mexican organized criminals, during Operation Casablanca, he deliberately left these three federal agencies out of the loop and instead used Justice and Treasury Department agents to conduct the investigation and bust. I wonder why? Maybe it's because the Mafia and these government agencies are one in the same. Perhaps the GOP is really a Mafia front organization and the Republicans in Congress are providing cover and protection for these organized criminals. If the GOP does represent the Mafia, and it appears that they do, we had better learn how to fight back at a higher level of aggression and ruthlessness or they will destroy us. Robert F. Kennedy said: "If we do not attack organized crime with weapons and techniques as effective as their own they will destroy us.", and he was right.
• Illegal Immigration - It is estimated that we have over 20 million illegal immigrants living in America, and another 1 million sneaking in every year. How did they get here? Who do they work for? And why haven't our federal agencies been able to do anything about this ongoing criminal situation that is clearly a national security issue? This situation exposes the fact that America has a huge number of organized criminals operating inside our borders, and that some major American corporations and U.S. government agencies are working with these Mafia crime families to profit from this criminal activity. One of the biggest problems with these illegal immigrants is they have no respect for our laws. They violated our laws by sneaking across our border, by buying phony ID cards, by not paying taxes, and by working under false employment documents and therefore they don't take our legal system seriously. The other big problem with illegal immigrants is that American corporations are exploiting this poor, repressed, and unemployed Mexican labor and in the process they are depressing wages for American workers and encouraging organized crime. In my opinion, we should ship all 20 million illegal's back to their home countries and make them get in line for legal immigration into America under much tougher immigration standards. We should also crack down on these organized criminal operating inside America by rejecting the corporations that hire them, and by electing new leadership outside of the corrupt two parties.
• Support For Right-Wing Dictators - Our federal government, mainly the CIA, has a long history of supporting some of the most murderous corrupt political leaders imaginable. Leaders who have suppressed human rights, workers rights, democracies, and environmental protections, and who have murdered innocent people including left-wing political opposition. Following is a list of some of these brutal right-wing leaders the U.S. has supported with the help of the CIA: Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan; Saddam Hussein in Iraq; Pinochet in Chile; Marcos in the Philippines; Duvalier in Haiti; Noriega in Panama; Diem in Vietnam; Amin in Uganda; Banzer in Bolivia; Batista in Cuba; Cordova in Honduras; Pol Pot in Cambodia; Somoza in Nicaragua; Suharto in Indonesia; Trujillo in Argentina; and the list could go on and on. Just because someone does not pull the trigger themselves does not mean that they are not also guilty of murder. 

Unfortunately, these are just a few examples and are just the events the public knows about. Based on these horrible events you can just imagine the other horrible actions these government agencies have taken secretly.

It appears we have foxes with blood covered faces investigating the chicken coup killings. We have bloated federal bureaucracies that are run by political appointees who were picked by corrupt elected officials.

Elected officials, like John McCain, who point their fingers at themselves claiming "the system is corrupt". Elected officials, like Randy "Duke" Cummingham, who finally get caught after years of taking huge payoffs in exchange for legislation and government contracts. Elected officials, like George W. Bush, who lie and then when confronted with the indisputable facts lie again in the face of the truth. Elected officials, like Dick Cheney, who's former company, Halliburton, has been the biggest financial beneficiary of the war in Iraq. And this list could go on and on but these few examples expose a culture of corruption in our federal government that goes all the way to the top.

The bottom line is we must fight back because we are already their victims and this victimization will only get worse the longer we wait to perform our constitutional responsibilities by holding these corrupt elected officials accountable.

Obama's First Year In Office

Obama campaigned on the promise of change. Not only did I believe him but I voted for him in the primary, caucused for him, and voted for him in the general election. I gave my full support to the first black president because he was promising to move the country in a new direction, but instead I helped elect a weak puppet who has continued the fascist policies of his predecessor.

Obama has not done one God damned thing he promised to do. He has expanded the war in Afghanistan, he has done nothing about the highly regressive tax code, he staffed his administration with rich Wall Street criminals, he supports the Senate's weak version of health care reform, and he has grown the deficit to an astronomic $1.6 trillion dollars projected for 2010.

Yes, it is true that Obama inherited a huge plate full of shit from the Bush administration, including an economy in a near depression, a budget deep in the red, and a banking crisis that required a trillion dollar bailout, but those facts don't excuse the other things he has done. Based on recent polls Obama is almost sure to be a one term president, and he can count on me voting for the other guy.

Fascist State of the Union Speeches

Our fascist leaders continue delivering their nebulous annual speech about spreading freedom, growing the economy, helping the poor, educating our citizens, and investing in new technologies. This is the same old rhetoric full of empty promises and outright frauds. They obviously know that if they keep telling the same lies over and over again many people will believe them. Our choices seem clear: 1. Get angry and fight back, or 2. Get screwed into poverty and an early grave.

Chapter 1 Summary

The recent history of this country, and the problems listed at the beginning of this chapter, are connected and expose a hidden narrative of an unfolding criminal conspiracy that must be stopped.

The extreme right-wing fascist control over our government is endangering all of us, and the two party system of elected Democrats and Republicans is a big part of problem and these people will never be a part of the solution, no matter what populist ideas they espouse.

The solution to taking of country back for our corrupt government requires the American people to arm themselves with knowledge and weapons, and then to take action. Most of the knowledge you will need is in this book, and the actions you need to take are spelled out in chapters 3 and 4.

If enough people take the time to learn the lessons from the past and take the bold actions necessary it will greatly increase the probability of a better life for all future generations of Americans.