I have been researching and writing about politics for the past twenty years and this book, "FIGHT", contains the collective wisdom of all those years of work. The title of this book, "FIGHT", is actually my conclusion and recommendation to my fellow American citizens.

I believe we must fight the Washington D.C. establishment and I will explain why throughout this book. The bold font, capital letters, and red, white and blue coloring of my book's title express my belief that we need to fight with bold actions, urgently, and with patriotism in mind.

I was a finance and accounting major in college and I have worked in the accounting departments of huge fortune 200 corporations and small CPA accounting firms. In writing this book I used my education and experience to examine the budgets and tax policies leading up to the current banking bailout crisis and the ongoing federal budget deficit problem. I have attempted to share my financial examinations and political ideas in simple terms and graphic forms that any lay person should be able to understand.

In this book I will show you what previous administrations have done to cause the current problems, what will happen in the future if we allow our politicians to continue their current reckless stewardship of our government, and what changes needed to be made to our laws and government to keep the corruption out, the budgets balanced, and the ladders of opportunity and upward mobility open to everyone. Finally, if all else fails I have included a survival guide in the appendix.

Fight The Two Corrupt Political Party System

I firmly believe that if we don't fight the entrenched powers in Washington D.C. as ruthlessly as our founding fathers fought King George III and the British army during the Revolutionary War our country will be lost to a new cut-throat group of wealth based monarchs who will take away our rights, improvise us, and even kill us. The truth is they are already doing all these things to us and we cannot allow it to continue, and nothing will change unless we fight back.

Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

April 18, 1775 agents of the Sons of Liberty observed the British Army stationed in Boston begin their move across the Charles River towards Lexington to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams and seize the militia's weapons stored in Concord. Paul Revere was instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren to ride to Lexington to warn Hancock and Adams that the British were coming.

Revere was successful in spreading the word to other patriots along his ride and in notifying Hancock and Adams of the British military's movements. Thanks to Paul Revere's midnight ride the militia was able to mount gorilla ambushes against the British army and fortify key defensive positions that helped the revolutionaries win some initial battles, and eventually win the war.

This book, "FIGHT", and my ten year old website "The Political Report Card", are my Paul Revere warning calls that the fascist are coming. Both of these non-fiction literary works are full of my research and recommendations on what has happened and what we need to do to defeat the fascist who are currently in control of our economy and government.

Time For A New Modern Militia     

Paul Revere was not alone during his midnight ride. William Dawes was also dispatched to ride a different route with the same message just in case Revere was captured. I consider myself a modern day Paul Revere, but I'm only one person sounding the warning call and other patriots are needed.

We need to spread the word that our country is under attack, and then join together to fight the fascist controlled two party system of government. Will you join me in warning other citizens? Will you help me fight against the organized criminals who have infiltrated our government and are robbing our country of its wealth, and our fellow citizens of their rights?

Wake Up and Unite

It is our constitutional duty as American citizens to hold our elected officials accountable for their words, actions, and inactions. We must chose where to draw the line and what to do if that line is crossed. We must decide when enough is enough and then use our constitutional rights to force change.

I have had enough and I'm not going to take it any more. It's time to start fighting back, and after you read this book I think you will agree.

Why Fight?

I will go into greater detail later in this book about the reasons we must fight the two party system of government, but following is a summary list of those reasons:

• In three decades our elected officials have added $12+ trillion dollars to the federal debt, and interest on this debt is now over $1 billion per day.
• During the past twenty years the our national trade deficit has skyrocketed, and during the past ten years has been averaging around $700+ billion dollars per year.
• Our elected officials have started unnecessary and unjustified wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan.
• The U.S. government issues annual reports critical of human rights abuses in other countries, but the governments in the U.S. and Israel are guilty of ongoing crimes against humanity that are horrific and criminal.
• In three decades over 20 million immigrants have entered America illegally, and most are still here.
• For three decades the wages of middle class Americans have not risen while the wealth of the top 1% has been growing exponentially.
• Starting with the Reagan administration a series of tax law changes have shifted the tax burden from the richest people to the middle class people.
• America is the only industrialized nation without a national health care system.
• Deregulations created two real estate bubbles that resulted in government bailouts, $500 billion in 1989 and $700 billion in 2008.
• Paperless voting computers have replaced punch card machines and paper ballots despite a stolen election in 2000 that was decided by a partisan Supreme Court vote that stopped a recount of the paper ballots.
• Our elected leaders have looted every penny from the Social Security trust fund surpluses, which is over $2 trillion dollars since 1980.
• Our elected leaders allowed energy companies, like Enron, to rob the state of California by deregulating the energy market.
• Our elected leaders turned their backs on Enron's shareholders and employees and allowed the executives to rob the company.
• Our elected leaders illegally spied on American citizens and avoided accountability by doing nothing to enforce the law, and then passed the Patriot Act to make such illegal acts legal.
• Our elected leaders illegally detained, tortured, and murdered people in Iraq using military personnel and unaccountable private contractors.
• Our elected leaders rolled back cronyism rules allowing lobbyist greater access to our lawmakers.
• Our elected leaders awarded big no-bid contracts to Halliburton despite catching them cheating and stealing money from their government contracts.
• Our elected leaders awarded a big government contract for Homeland Security computer services to the Bermuda based Accenture corporation. Accenture is based in Bermuda to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
• Our elected leaders continue to give big government contracts to Blackwater corporation despite their killing of innocent civilians in Iraq.
• Our elected leaders give Israel billions of dollars every year while Israel steals land and commits horrific international genocidal war crimes against the Palestinian people.
• Our elected leaders slaughtered 85 American citizens at the Branch Davidian's religious compound in Waco, Texas, including 17 children under the age of twelve.
• Our elected leaders shot and killed innocent people at Ruby Ridge after the FBI's psychological warfare against Randy Weaver and his family failed.
• Our elected leaders supported murderous right-wing dictators throughout the world so that American corporate interest could exploit their people and resources.
• Our elected leaders ignored warnings from Richard Clarke that terrorist were going to attack the U.S. possibly using high-jacked planes just prior to 9/11/2001.
• Our elected leaders used the 9/11 attack as an excuse to start a costly and bloody war in Iraq even through there was no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with the 9/11 attack, and no WMD's were found.
• Our elected leaders failed to stop the massive accounting scams at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and Arthur Anderson despite the fact these are publically held companies under the watchful eye of the SEC.
• Our elected leaders allowed Bernie Madoff to steal over a billion dollars from investors despite having been told years before that he was running ponzi scheme. Before his scheme collapsed in 2008 several investigations by the SEC starting in 1992 never found anything improper. 
• Our elected leaders did nothing to stop the gas companies from price gouging consumers in 2007 when they were making huge record breaking profits.
• Our elected leaders have successfully keep third party candidates out of the presidential debates since Perot almost caused an upset in the 1992 election costing George H.W. Bush re-election.
• Our elected leaders passed unfair tax cuts for the very rich during the Reagan and Bush Jr. administrations despite huge and growing federal debts.
• Our elected leaders passed a bankruptcy bill in 2005, that was apparently written by the credit card companies and banks, that makes it much harder for people to get debt relief no matter what the reason.
• Our elected leaders passed an expensive Medicare bill that prevents the government for negotiating for the lowest price on bulk purchases.
• Our elected leaders passed environmental bills allowing energy companies to add more pollution to our environment, and pass the cost of toxic clean ups to the taxpayers.
• Our elected leaders have allowed the bailed out banks to continue paying their executives huge bonuses using taxpayer money while passing the cost to consumers.
• Our elected leaders placed no restrictions on how the bailed out banks could use the government bailout money, and Bank of America used some of their money to buy a bank in China.
• Our elected leaders are using continuous war as a reason to increase the military budgets to around $1 trillion dollars per year despite historically high federal budget deficits and no real threat to our nation.
• Our elected officials are only representing their super rich campaign contributors and no one else.
• Our elected officials have been consistently voting themselves annual pay raises making themselves some of the most highly paid people in our society despite the fact they only work around 150 days a year.
• The Forbes list of the "Richest People" is fiction. The richest Americans hide their identities from us.
• The richest Americans are using Machiavellian mind tricks and the mainstream media to distract and mislead us while they rob our government of its vast assets.
• Rich Americans and big corporations are using off-shore tax shelters to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
• Obama and the Democrats passed a weak health care reform bill that enriches the insurance, drug, and hospital companies, and does little to protect consumers.

If these are not enough reasons to fight against the two party system in America I have more.

Both Parties Must Go 

Both parties did all these things therefore both parties must be rejected and replaced. We must join together to fight both political parties because together they are destroying our democracy, robbing our government, rolling back our legal system, undermining our rights and freedoms, starting unpopular wars, and manipulating us and playing us for fools.

An American naturalist once wrote: "A patriot must be willing to defend his country against its government.". That quote was never more applicable than it is today.

Therefore, It is time for the American people to stand up and perform their constitutional patriotic duties to defend this great country by fighting both political parties, and the wealthy families they represent. Otherwise, we will need to teach our children and grandchildren how to live on their knees in silence, and how to be good whores for the inheritance rich fascist leaders of America's new Mafiaocracy New World Order government.

We Have The Tools To Fight Back

Our founding fathers gave us the rights in the U.S. Constitution to fight against a corrupt government. We can use those legal rights as tools that can be used to fight back in the following ways:

• vote
• boycotts (See Appendix B: "Boycott List"),
• protests
• strikes
• badgering
• letter writing
• lawsuits
• lobbying
• civil disobedience
• asymmetrical warfare

Each of these tools will be explained in much greater detail later in this book. (See Chapter 3: "How To Fight Back".)

We should use all these tools continually and at an increasing rate of aggression until we win, or until we are forced to surrender.  Each of these tools carries a cost that might hurt the average citizen, but the cost of not fighting is going to be astronomically higher.

Making The Choice To Fight

Life is a series of choices and the more information we have the more likely we are to make the right choices. We have no choice over the situation we are born into but once we are here it is largely the choices we make that determine the direction our lives will take. A wise and well educated mentor is a great source of help in making good choices. Good mentors can be parents, teachers, friends, family members, co-workers, and even books.

This book is written to be a mentor on an important political choice, and it is a source of factual information and motivation. This book seeks to confront the American people with the most important choice they will probably ever make in their lifetime. Their decision on this critical choice will effect this generation and countless future generations. The options to making this choice include the following:

1. Do you join the fight to take back the American government from the grossly corrupt and immoral people who are in control?

2. Do you join with the people in power to help them maintain their positions of power and thus help them achieve their extremist fascist agenda?

3. Do you just sit back while others fight on your behalf? 

Our country's founding fathers chose to fight King George III and the British army because they did not what their children to be bound by the monarchial chains that had bound them. They had a new vision of a government of, by, and for the people, and free of religious bigotry. They wanted opportunities for all the people and not just for a select few who were born into wealth and power, like the monarchs.

Not all the colonist agreed with this vision and many joined forces with the British troops to defeat the revolutionaries. However, thanks to military leaders like George Washington, Nathan Hale, and Ethan Allen and writers like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson most of the colonist united and fought the war that won our independence and gave birth to our democratic republic.

A famous economist once said: "People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.", and that description fits the character of the people we must fight if we want to save our system of government.

A War Against The Two Party System Is Necessary

Wars are never easy, swift, or fair. They are bloody, dirty, ugly, and drag on for months and years. This new war against the two political parties and their supporters will be no different. This war will take sacrifice, but that is a choice we must make and a price we must pay if we expect to continue living as free people in a country where the legal system treats everyone as equals. We must make this choice soon or our ability to effect change will be taken away by the people we should be fighting.

The cost of choosing not to fight this new war will be everything our founding fathers and forefathers fought and died for, including our rights and freedoms. We should honor their sacrifice by using these inherited rights to fight the people who are working to undermine those same rights. These cost are examined in much greater detail later in this book. (See Chapter 2: "Predicting The Future".)

Concentrated Wealth & Power

The wealth of our country is being concentrated into the hands of a few inheritance families who have no loyalty to America, no respect for our legal system (constitution), and no respect for our democratic system of government. Our forefathers passed highly progressive tax laws in 1915 to protect us and our system of government from this wealth concentration danger but recent Republican administrations have undone those laws with highly regressive tax law changes.

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me & the financial institutions (banks) at the rear, the latter is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless." - Abraham Lincoln - 1864 

Abraham Lincoln's words ring true today and point to the need for new progressive tax legislation and financial regulations to protect our republic from this political corruption and wealth concentration danger. If we fail to stop this wealth concentration we will need to adjust our life styles to survive under a new form of government. (See Appendix A: "Survival")

The Need for New Leadership

We need new leadership in Washington D.C. and new rules on how we elect and compensate our leaders. We need to get rid of the new paperless voting computers and return to a voting system that can be audited and has a paper record that can be recounted. We need to get rid of the current fundraising system, which is basically a quid pro quo system of bribery, and start public financing of all political campaigns. And we need a few other changes that will be talked about later in this book. (See Chapter 4: "Taking Back Our Democracy".)

Big Government Is Not The Problem

This book is not calling for the destruction of our government. We love our government because our government works for us; at least in theory based on constitutional law. This book is calling for a few minor changes that will strengthen our democracy and will increase opportunity for people to move up the economic ladder, just like the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution did in 1913. We also need the ability for average citizens to be able to take part in the government leadership and the legislative process and not just give up their power when they vote for someone to represent them.

Fighting Back Really Works

In April of 2006 the television news reports were full of images of young French people protesting the diminution of worker's rights. These protester's acts of civil disobedience were fearless and relentless. After several weeks of this rioting the French government gave in to the demands of these protesters and withdrew their anti-worker legislation.

This is a great example of people standing up for themselves to force change in a democracy. This is a model for demanding accountability that the American people should embrace and copy while we are still in a position to do so.

But the vast majority of the American people are like a deer frozen in the headlights of an oncoming automobile. They sense danger and they know they are being conned and manipulated by both political parties, but they are confused, afraid, and placated into inaction by personal possessions, television, jobs, technology, and low cost goods. Therefore, they do nothing in response to this political corruption and government looting. But the danger is real and it is moving closer and closer every second. If the American people don't wake up and start fighting back their fate will be the same as the fate of a deer stuck in the headlights of an oncoming automobile. Consider this book your wake up call.

Start Fighting Back Today

Fighting back can work and regardless of who is buying the elected leader's snake oil. The facts are facts and the time has come to draw the battle lines and begin the fight. It is time to take our government back from these liars and thieves before it's too late, and that is what this book is all about.

This book will show you how we got where we are today, what will happen if we do nothing, how to fight back, and what changes need to be made to our laws once we have succeeded in taking back our government. In summary, this book ask you to make the choice to FIGHT!, and then it shows you how to act to get results.