How to take back America from the ENEMY WITHIN: A long-range four-element plan

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How to take back America from the ENEMY WITHIN:

A long-range four-element plan to restore our Constitution's America

to America

 

By Dan Ruuska Version Nov-28-2004 danruuska

 

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Summary

 

Most Americans can't see the ENEMY WITHIN and can't sense

the danger. But it's not their fault. Around 1980 our mass media began

to alter its patriotism and values as it switched to a new client:

from being more-or-less honest to protect and serve America, to

becoming deceptive, biased, and manipulative to protect and serve the

consolidated wealth-and-power that's taking over our country and

government.

 

Today all forms of big media disguise the ENEMY WITHIN into

our friend, hide its wrongdoing, spin its misdeeds and bad character

into goodness (and vice versa against its opponents), and they do

whatever else it takes to shape and slant the message to their

client's liking. Under this onslaught of dangerous " perception

management, " our public mind -- and our country -- don't stand a chance.

 

Today in America, truth about America is not allowed or

tolerated in our press, radio, television, film. Or in our schools

either. We cannot know what we cannot know.

 

An example. Thomas Paine's publication of Common Sense in

January 1776, a wildly popular vigorous war-cry of dissent against

England's abuse of power, pushed Colonial America toward the

Declaration of Independence and American Revolution and birth of our

nation. However a modern-day version of Common Sense -- that spells

out how today's ENEMY WITHIN is worse in moral character and more

unjust and harmful than the Enemy of 1776, and how perhaps the only

solution is for We the People to rise up and revolt again, this time

with legal backing from our Constitution -- would be spun into treason

by today's media and the author vilified, or warped into paranoid

conspiracy theory and the author railed into a fool.

 

Another example. Out of fear of reprisal from today's right

wing, journalists and teachers dare not present these old basics of

civics and history: America is not in any sense founded as a Christian

nation (1797 Treaty of Tripoli); " God and Country " is illegal (God and

Country); the religion of the Christian Right, born-again Christian

Zionism, is an inhumane brand of Christianity that emerged a century

after 1776 and was not the religion of our nation's founders (5-part

series on Christian Zionism).

 

The ENEMY WITHIN -- the illegal consolidation of

executive/legislative/judicial federal power, wealth-corporate power,

Christian-Right religious power, and mass-media power into a

right-wing state power that's rapidly growing more strong and

irresponsible and harmful -- is America's dangerous Homeland Enemy.

 

Peel off its facial mask of patriotism, moral virtue, and

piety to reveal the character hidden beneath: the ENEMY WITHIN is more

unjust than the enemy of 1776, more lawless than the worst criminals

we execute, more deadly to America than terrorism.

 

Merely by exercising the good citizenship called for in our

Constitution, We the People can unite and cooperate to defend America

against the ENEMY WITHIN. And to heal the many deep wounds they inflict.

 

This revolt of mass good citizenship is required and

legalized by the first sentence of our Constitution: " We, the People "

as the government of America and supreme power in America " provide for

the common defence " of America including against all enemies from within.

 

On 11/2 America's voter majority, expressing desire for

homeland/family/moral/Christian values, re-elected the President back

into office and thus condoned his righteous accomplishments. Such as

the killing of 100,000 Iraqi civilians and the wounding and maiming of

many thousands more including by indiscriminate cluster-bombing, such

as the poisoning of Iraqi cities with radioactive dust from tons of

depleted-uranium munitions that will cause radiation sickness and

birth deformities, all during the premeditated armed heist of Iraq's

natural resources and state assets (SUMMARY). Those violations of the

UN Charter, Nuremberg Charter, Geneva Conventions, Preamble and

Articles 1 and 6 of our Constitution, and US War Crimes Act (SUMMARY)

-- deplored abroad and well documented by independent journalists --

are falsely packaged and sold by our White House and mass media as

defending America and bestowing democracy on Iraq. Did everyone in

that majority see only the packaging and not the contents? Hardly.

Many in the President's base really like lawless-and-inhumane

exploitation and domination: merely listen to America's hate radio.

11/2 shocked the world.

 

So it is wise to begin this New American Revolution soon.

This ebook shows how. It paints the big picture including our past and

present and future, and explains the whole problem and provides the

full solution. Just like our Declaration of Independence.

 

The usual methods of civic action in the public interest --

such as writing to your Congressman and Senators, supporting

common-good causes, engaging in principled dissent -- barely work

anymore. Divide-and-conquer schemes -- that pit conservatives against

liberals, the religious against seculars, and so on -- keep us

polarized and divisive, and prevent us from uniting and cooperating in

a common " American " cause against the ENEMY WITHIN. Therefore to plan

and execute a nationwide revolt of good citizenship to carry out

Elements 1-4, our country may need to create a national civic-action

congress that represents the full range of citizens, including true

conservatives and true liberals, who all in common cherish " America. "

This citizen congress would organize our population into a united,

cooperative, effective political force -- that is, into a real We the

People again. The congress would start small and steadily grow in

supreme power. It would operate outside of our current illegal

government Of, By, and For Wealth and Power and would function like

our Continental Congress during the American Revolution. This time to

restore " America " to our nation. Including to reform our media back

into to serving us.

 

A possible spin-off from the congress? A new major political

party, perhaps a new " American Party, " devoted to carrying out our

Constitution and serving We the People. Such a party could

resoundingly defeat our current political monopoly: the de facto

Republican-Democratic Party that hugely violates our Constitution and

serves Wealth and Power.

 

To launch this revolt of good citizenship and new hope for

America -- where " We, the People... provide for the common defence "

against our common worst enemy: the ENEMY WITHIN and its media allies

-- we need a modern day Paul-Revere ride of many patriots,

conservatives and liberals alike, to warn citizens how the enemy is

subverting and hurting America (think of it as a Red Alert about the

Homeland Enemy) and to inform citizens how to defend America against

this consolidated power that's gone lawlessly and immorally berserk.

 

An easy way to take part? Email links to these webpages --

Promote the patriotic CURE for America's political cancer

(http://seattleairgear.com/thecure.htm) and How to take back America

from the ENEMY WITHIN (http://seattleairgear.com/civics.htm) -- to all

the civic-minded people and groups you know.

 

During the past quarter century, the relentless corrosion of

our nation's civic-and-moral character by the Homeland Enemy and its

mass-media team has damaged our American values and core wisdom and

humanity. Including by what they did to public education and by

setting bad examples (The right-wing attack on America). Including by

the hate broadcasting that arose after their FCC partner, in the

1980s, removed the Fairness Doctrine and other civic-responsibility

requirements from America's broadcasting.

 

If America's humanity is still partially intact after this

more-than-generation-long assault on our civic-and-moral abilities,

then a Full Red Alert about the Homeland Enemy will ignite nationwide

moral outrage and a long-overdue civic revolt.

 

Moral outrage and strong cooperation, in natural response to

unfairness and maltreatment, created America. Just do it again to fix

America.

 

It should be easy. Because liberals and their families, and

conservatives and their families, suffer equally under the right-wing

ENEMY WITHIN. Because the core of the ENEMY WITHIN is small and the

200-million-strong group being hurt by that core is huge.

 

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" Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty " -- Thomas Jefferson.

Today we pay the price for not being vigilant.

 

We the People dropped our guard and stopped being vigilant.

Mankind's old nemesis, Wealth and Power, spotted that weakness and

rapidly took advantage. An ENEMY WITHIN flared up, took control of our

media, took control of our public schools, took control of our public

mind, damaged our core wisdom and humanity, nearly erased American

values and American democracy from our national consciousness, took

control of our government, violate our Constitution and international

law, exploit and hurt our country and the world, and neutered the

ability of many Americans to sense this illegality and danger and

harm. Exactly as Thomas Jefferson feared.

 

Besides causing 9/11, besides mistreating the world

including by killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians so far during their

premeditated armed heist of Iraq which fuels even more backlash at

America, the ENEMY WITHIN directly hurts America. They destroy our

democracy, justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans,

national security, general welfare, and liberty. They imprison more

citizens per capita than any other country in the world; mostly they

incarcerate minorities and the poor and the powerless who commit

relatively minor offenses, while the well-off and well-connected who

commit far more serious crimes get off scot-free. They kill at least

50,000 of us each year, far more than terrorists do. They Reverse

Robin Hood America: cleverly and stealthily, they rob the poor and

middle class and give it to corporations and the wealthy, including by

looting Social-Security and Medicare and Veterans trust funds to pay

for those trickle-up subsidies and tax cuts and tax refunds, and

through 'legal' tax cheating by the elite that costs the rest of us an

extra $300 billion per year in taxes to make up the difference. And so

on. What the ENEMY WITHIN is doing to us -- and to other nations such

as Iraq -- is vastly more immoral than the mistreatment from Corporate

England that inspired our Declaration of Independence and ignited our

American Revolution.

 

They, and their mass-media partners, hide all these misdeeds

and spin them into illusions of moral goodness. They cooperate as a

team to prevent us from being vigilant. For example, they hide the

President's signed approval of torture and his pre-war blueprint for

Iraq's plunder. They dupe us so expertly that on 11/2 our electorate

majority, citing how they voted for moral values, chose to support the

ENEMY WITHIN's deep immorality: massive domestic-and-international

lawbreaking, and remorseless hurting of people here and abroad. The

vote -- an abnormal ethical response to wrongdoing and harm, a

survival-incorrect response to being mistreated -- stunned the world.

Such is the power and tragedy of irresponsible modern persuasion.

 

On November 9, 2004, PBS Frontline's The Persuaders

described how America's advertising, PR, and biased journalism are

hurting our democracy: The Persuaders, PBS Frontline Nov-9-2004.

 

Excerpts from an interview with Mark Crispin Miller,

media critic and professor in the Department of Culture and

Communication at New York University:

 

" It's tempting to spread the blame for this great

civic breakdown and say that we're all at fault; we're all decadent .

.. . we don't care about the truth, and we don't care about this

nation's founding ideals. "

 

" [but the public is] not stupid. [T]he subjects of

every tyranny in modern history have known only what those at the top

have wanted them to know. They could not know what they could not

know, so that when you start to tell somebody . . . 'this happened,

this happened' . . . it sounds impossibly radical; it sounds

earth-shatteringly bizarre. So you're accused of paranoia or

conspiracy theorizing when all you're doing is reporting what the

citizens of the world's other countries know just from reading the

paper. [P]eople can't be blamed if all they know is [what America's

journalism fed them]. "

 

" [O]ver the last three decades . . . a significant

sector of American journalism has become totally politicized. The

right has been smart enough and rich enough to create what are

ostensibly news organs that basically do nothing but deliver

Republican Party talking points, right-wing propaganda of various

kinds. [T]hese highly biased sources, Fox and so on, are the ones that

accuse all other journalists of being biased in the liberal direction.

Well, there is no liberal bias. [F]or millions of Americans, their

daily intake of news is basically a daily intake of right-wing

fantasy. [T]he news is custom-made now to fit a certain ideological

point of view . . . Our media is wholly compromised -- I would say

corrupt beyond redemption . . . It has absolutely failed to fulfill

its constitutional obligation to inform us. That's what the First

Amendment is about. The First Amendment has to do with our right to

know what's going on. . . . The real purpose of the First Amendment is

to allow the press to keep us abreast of what our government is doing.

They don't do that at all. "

 

From the broadcast's transcript: " Instead of being

Americans, we're sliced into 70 demographic groups . . . [and] into

hundreds of subcategories under that. And then the worry is that we

don't share anything as a people. " " The result is [that we're now]

living in a society where people, rather than having an idea of the

common good, increasingly see their own personal well-being . . . as

the essential issue of democracy. "

 

Also on The Persuaders. How America's advertising and

PR and journalism, now combined and taught together as " communication "

by America's universities, can alter reality into false perceptions

opposite of reality -- such as dangerous into safe, misdeeds into acts

of goodness, bad character into integrity, and vice versa -- as

required by the client. How they reduced citizens into consumers and

our democracy into the selling and buying of falsely-advertised

political products, which unlike most other products are not regulated

by truth-in-advertising law and enforcement.

 

Around 200 million conservative and liberal citizens are

victims. So are millions of other people around the world.

 

Until We the People unite and act like real Americans again,

it will grow worse. Fast.

 

In April-2002 and August-2004, citizens of Venezuela fought

off attacks on their democracy by consolidated wealth-and-power backed

by dishonest media. Those overthrow attempts were assisted by our

ENEMY WITHIN, including by our National Endowment for Democracy and

Department of Justice, who so far have spent millions of US tax

dollars trying to subvert Venezuela's 1999 Constitution and crush its

democracy. If the citizens of Venezuela can succeed, so can We the People.

 

To fight off our ENEMY WITHIN and to bring democracy and

well-being to their nation, Iraq in December-2003 created their

National Foundation Congress which represents the full range of Iraqi

citizens. If Iraq can form a national civic-action that's similar to

our American-Revolution Continental Congress, so can We the People.

 

Odds of winning this revolt? The ENEMY WITHIN's

wealth-corporate base -- whose out-of-control wealth and power already

destroyed our representative government and democratic processes -- is

only 0.1% of our population. Their Christian-Right base -- whose

born-again Christian Zionism hurts and costs us dearly (that inhumane

brand of Christianity emerged a century after 1776 and thus was not

the religion of our nation's founders) -- is just 10% of our population.

 

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The bad news -- and good news -- in brief.

 

America's most dangerous threat, a Homeland Enemy foreseen

by our nation's founders and so feared they wrote defensive

protections into our Constitution to nip-it-in-the-bud (separation of

powers, separation of church and state, trial by jury where We the

People judge the law itself as a direct citizen check on unjust and

dangerous power), began to materialize around 1980: in massive

disregard for our Constitution, America's wealth and power --

executive/legislative/judicial federal power, wealth-corporate power,

Christian-Right religious power, mass-media power -- consolidated into

an unbridled right-wing power, morphed our government of, by, and for

We the People into a government of, by, and for Wealth and Power, and

went berserk. They break the Law of our Land, and inflict harm here

and abroad, with no one to restrain them. Here are just five of myriad

deep wounds they inflicted so far: 9/11, Iraq, wealth-corporate tax

cheating costing the rest of us $300 billion a year (our poor and

middle-class pay an extra 15% more in federal taxes to make up the

difference), federal support of Christian Zionism costing US taxpayers

$100 billion a year, and unnecessary death of at least 50,000 US

citizens a year. That consolidated, unchecked, rampaging, heartless

wealth-and-power is the Homeland Enemy the Framers foresaw and feared.

That ENEMY WITHIN subverts our Constitution's America into an

unprincipled Amerika. Their media machine spins and hides it, their

attack machine crushes dissent and true " Americans " who stand in their

way. Learn how We the People can defend and win against that illegal

anti-American force.

 

The ENEMY WITHIN runs America now, not We the People

anymore. They violate every USA goal and responsibility listed in the

first sentence of our Constitution (Preamble) as well as Article 1,

Article 2, Article 6, Amendment 12, separation of powers, separation

of church and state (SUMMARY); their violations of our Bill of Rights

are minor infractions in comparison. They violate international law:

UN Charter, Geneva Conventions, Nuremberg Charter. They inflict

several types of harm on America and the world. By manipulating the

public to support and assist those efforts with United-We-Stand

American Pride, they turn citizens into lawbreakers also. Including

every American involved with the war on Iraq: premeditation that began

in 1992, authorization and planning and command, bombing and invasion,

destruction and killing and maiming, depleted-uranium-weapon

radioactive poisoning, control and domination, profiteering and

plundering (SUMMARY of the lawbreaking). Many in America celebrate

those lawbreakers and their horrific misdeeds. The ENEMY WITHIN turned

America into lawless and hurtful nation. Although the world out there

sees all this, our worst enemy makes sure that Americans can't. Learn

how to fix this entire problem.

 

What is American democracy? Few citizens know anymore. Our

schools no longer teach it. Our press, radio, TV, and films never

promote it. Our Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court -- who more

and more represent and serve wealth-corporate clients and

Christian-Right clients instead of We the People -- demonstrate

contempt for American democracy and set un-American examples for

adults and our young to follow. The Homeland Enemy took control of our

government, media, schools, and erased our special democracy from

America. Learn how to use our Constitution, and the supreme power of

citizens, to restore it.

 

America's news media should be sounding alarms. Our

journalists should be watchdogs of democracy. Instead, they protect

and serve the ENEMY WITHIN. They even help the enemy put on their

disguises: Patriots With Wholesome Values; Righteous Guardians

Citizens Can Trust; Leaders Who Keep America Safe. Learn how to turn

the media back into our voice of freedom.

 

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Genetic roots of American Revolution.

 

Moral outrage and cooperation are embedded in our DNA

(REFERENCES). Over millions of years those primal drives evolved, and

we still need them today, for our well-being and survival.

 

Act on those deep natural urgings. Like Americans did so

well in 1776.

 

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Just do it.

 

In natural response to injustice by Corporate England,

Colonial America revolted. And created our nation and our Constitution.

 

18th-century Colonial Americans taxed themselves -- to

benefit themselves. One of the injustices that sparked revolution? The

tea tax to England that helped to subsidize the East India Company, a

monopoly owned by the British royalty and wealthy. The East India

Company received tax exemptions and tax refunds from England so that

it could engage in cutthroat rigged global trade against the Colonies.

Which triggered the Boston Tea Party (The Boston Tea Party). Those

taxes paid to England -- were used to hurt Colonial Americans.

 

To a large extent the American Revolution was a revolt

against that monopolistic, government-subsidized, harmful corporate power.

 

Today in America an illegal union of wealth and power is

reverting our federal tax system back toward that pre-Revolution

unfairness. More and more we pay taxes to fund tax cuts, tax

exemptions, and tax refunds to corporations -- who then hurt us in return.

 

That fusion of wealth and power -- the consolidation of

federal power, corporate power, the power of wealth, religious power,

and media power into a single united power during the past quarter

century -- took governing power away from " We, the People " and is

rolling back several types of citizen well-being that our nation

accomplished since 1776. That ENEMY WITHIN is pushing America backward

toward levels of citizen mistreatment that ignited the American

Revolution.

 

Signs of mistreatment? America has the most unfair taxation

of all civilized nations, and plans are afoot to make our taxes even

more unfair such as to eliminate taxes on non-wage non-salary income.

American citizens are being Reverse Robin Hooded; regressive taxes,

laws, and policies transfer wealth from the poor and middle class to

the well-off who don't need it. The advertised " trickle down " is

actually " trickle up. " America's higher education, inexpensive forty

years ago, is growing so costly it is more and more out of reach of

the middle class and poor. America's financial industry, which borrows

from the US Treasury at 2% and loans it out as high as 400% for payday

loans, is dragging down millions of citizens and families into a

quagmire of never-ending high interest payments and debt. America has

the most expensive healthcare and prescription drugs in the world,

unaffordable to more and more citizens. America has the highest

infant-mortality rate, and the highest teenage-pregnancy rate, in the

developed world. Americans no longer grow taller from generation to

generation and may be slowly losing height, a stark indicator of

declining healthcare and nutrition, as Europeans and the British, who

are now considerably taller than us, steadily gain height. 1/8 of our

population, and 1/4 of all working adults, live in poverty and those

numbers are rising. Our concentrated wealth-and-power is influencing

America to kill fellow Americans at a far higher rate than Saddam

killed Iraqis (SUMMARY). America has the highest incarceration rate,

percent of total population in jail and prison, in the entire world;

most of our inmates are poor and powerless while the well-off and

well-connected, who commit far more serious crimes, get off scot-free

(SUMMARY). And so on.

 

That out-of-control wealth and power treats other nations,

and their people, even more abusively. On 9/11 we experienced some

backlash.

 

Our public schools today, controlled by that wealth and

power, are not allowed to teach the above American history. Or the

above current events. Or the core principles of United States

government either.

 

Our mass media, controlled by that same wealth and power,

spins and hides all of this.

 

What happened? A well-disguised Homeland Enemy stealthily

overthrew our Constitution's " American " government despite the

Framers' best efforts to prevent it, and skillfully replaced it with a

government of, by, and for an ENEMY WITHIN that hurts America and the

world. Although most Americans can't quite see this overall picture

yet, many certainly feel it happening.

 

The ENEMY WITHIN is worse in character than the enemy of 1776.

 

Not to worry. Moral outrage, which comes naturally and

drives citizens to cooperate and restore fairness to government, works

wonders: it created America, and it can save America. The New American

Revolution proposed herein would be a long-overdue major maintenance

and tune-up of our democracy. The legal authorization for this revolt

is found in the first sentence of our Constitution: " We, the People, "

as the government of America and supreme power in America, " provide

for the common defence " of our country including against dangerous

enemies within no matter how prominent or high up they are. The major

enemies of America are surprisingly few in number, and they are

vulnerable.

 

This democracy manual resurrects long-forgotten core human

history, principles, and wisdom that the founders of our nation wove

deeply into our Constitution after they dissented at the Boston Tea

Party and then fought and won the American Revolution. As you read

this ebook, dream up methods to carry out Elements 1-4 of the

long-range plan herein. Spread this plan around to help educate the

public. Do everything you can to fire up citizens nationwide,

especially the many separate public-interest groups and independent

media, to all unite and cooperate to restore our Constitution's

" America " to America. If enough citizens and organizations join in, it

would pressure the mainstream media to join in also and become our

voice of freedom again.

 

The ENEMY WITHIN, a Homeland Enemy that began to flare up

around 1980, violates our Constitution: every US goal and social

responsibility listed in the Preamble, Article 1, Article 2, Article

6, Amendment 12, separation of powers, separation of church and state

(SUMMARY). Their violations of our Bill of Rights are minor

infractions in comparison. They disregard and break international law

as arrogantly and dangerously. The human toll? They hurt and take from

America, and they hurt and take from weaker nations, on a

mind-boggling scale with no one to restrain them.

 

The Homeland Enemy, as explained herein, is overturning and

destroying what we fought for and won in the American Revolution.

Already we lost our representative government and democratic processes

including democratic informing of the electorate and democratic

elections. We continue to lose our justice, national unity and

cooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, and

liberty for ourselves and our posterity. None of this would be

happening if our Constitution was lived up to.

 

Tragically, most Americans don't know about any of this.

Because America's mass media -- print, radio, television, film, both

news and entertainment -- today protect and serve their new client,

the ENEMY WITHIN, not " American " democracy anymore. Using the same

American-invented advertising and public-relations techniques that

were employed by Hitler to shape the public mind of Nazi Germany, they

control our perceptions and herd our thinking. So that we cannot spot

or question their client's lawbreaking and harming and betrayal, and

to manipulate our minds to believe that it's wacko and wrong for any

citizen to do so.

 

They also manipulate us to turn from a united and

cooperative citizenry, into a polarized and divisive citizenry that

competes and fights with itself so much we can't see the patriotic

" American " common ground written in our Constitution, in order to

divide and conquer us (which violates America's #2 goal listed in the

first sentence of our Constitution).

 

This is why so many Americans today are unaware of what's

happening. Why we momentarily fixate on each top story of the hour fed

to us, instead of staying focused on the string of serious

Constitutional crimes committed by the trusted leaders we elected. Why

we're so concerned about the wrongness of lies, rather than about the

wrongness of the specific Constitutional crimes committed with those

weapons of deception. Why we don't see the patriotism, or the value,

of citizen dissent against misdeeds in high places that hurt America

and the world. Why we unwittingly support the Homeland Enemy's

horrific wrongdoing often with United-We-Stand American Pride. Why we

believe that leaders who violate our Constitution and do terrible harm

to people have sterling moral character and therefore deserve our

allegiance and votes. Why we agree to be ruled by the consolidated

wealth-and-power hurting us instead of wanting to wisely-and-humanely

govern ourselves like our Constitution tells us to. Why " We, the

People " are no longer in charge of our own nation. Why the Homeland

Enemy was able to overthrow our government of, by, and for the People

without America even knowing it. Why America now has an illegal and

unjust government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN.

 

Perhaps the most frightening mind-bending success of the

ENEMY WITHIN is how they cripple and warp citizen humanity. For

example they neuter and misdirect moral outrage about mistreatment of

people, and they neuter and misdirect cooperation toward the common

good, to achieve their un-American purposes: They skillfully neuter

those two natural human forces -- primal forces that created and

maintain America -- to make us unable to feel moral anger about

horrific wrongdoing, unable to unite and cooperate to stop that

wrongdoing and administer justice, and therefore unable to undertake

the civic action necessary to protect and preserve America. They also

skillfully misdirect them -- into weapons against America -- such as

by manipulating the masses to direct anger and punishment at

dissenters trying to stop the Homeland Enemy's harming of our nation.

 

Equally scary and dangerous is how the Homeland Enemy

doesn't let our schools teach core principles of American government

or core American values to our new generations anymore. Which is why

so many Americans today don't know the meaning of our Constitution or

Flag anymore. The whole point.

 

The goal? Restore " America " to America like our Constitution

directs us to. Like the souls of America's founders, and humankind

worldwide, sure hope us to.

 

Superior candidates -- who live and breathe American values

domestically and would do so internationally, who exalt " American "

democracy, who would foster our public interest and national interest

-- are not yet allowed to seek office. Whenever they try, the ENEMY

WITHIN's attack machine and mass-media allies gang up and finish them

off. Play ball with wealth-and-power. Or else.

 

Likewise, America has no " pro-America " political party yet

either. Republicans and Democrats both curry votes from the Christian

Right, and money from corporations and the wealthy, and in return

lavishly serve those two groups to stay in power (for example: federal

spending that furthers the Christian-Zionist agenda of the Christian

Right totals at least $2 trillion so far, an unnecessary 30% of our

federal debt, and the interest expense on that portion of debt is $100

billion a year; in addition to their generous tax cuts, corporations

and the wealthy enjoy tax evasion and tax cheating worth $300 billion

a year as the White House and Congress look the other way, forcing the

rest of us to pay 15% more in federal taxes every year to make up the

difference; annual taxpayer cost of those two gifts, $400 billion a

year, is just some of our money that Republicans and Democrats take

from us behind our backs to stay in power). How deeply are Republicans

and Democrats both in bed with corporations and the wealthy, how

totally does our mass media cover it up, and how dangerous is that to

our democracy? Read these PBS transcripts: PBS NOW Aug-20-2004, PBS

NOW Aug-27-2004, PBS NOW Sep-3-2004, which include a prominent

wealthy-and-powerful conservative calling the

Republican/Democratic/corporate/wealthy/media-collusion traitorous and

treasonous. From 1979 through 1986, Republicans and Democrats both

voted to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build up the proxy

military weapon that a few years later aimed and fired itself at

America on 9/11 (SUMMARY). Republican and Democratic leaders both

favor the war on Iraq and the war on Venezuela's democracy, both for

the same reason: to plunder their oil wealth. In actual practice today

a single Right Wing Party, with two inner factions, now controls our

government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN: the

rapacious-and-heartless Republican-Party majority, and the

somewhat-more-humane Democratic-Party minority. America's political

advertising and biased media coverage create a false illusion of huge

differences between the two parties. That single de facto political

party, in collaboration with our mass media, maintain and enforce the

Homeland Enemy's political monopoly that strangles " American " democracy.

 

So. All the media-publicized choices for voters today --

political candidates, political parties -- are strongly ENEMY-WITHIN

flavored, a sure sign we no longer have a democracy. This is only one

of today's many barriers to " American " democracy, all erected by the

Homeland Enemy, that " We, the People " must breach and demolish during

a New American Revolution.

 

How? Consult the long-range plan herein, especially the

Element 4 that Elements 1-2-3 build up to: create a new political

party that would appeal to true conservatives and true liberals alike,

a " pro-America " party that could win against the Republican Party and

Democratic Party -- overwhelmingly. The necessary moral outrage and

cooperation by a 200-million-strong " We, the People " could be aroused

and unleashed like in 1776.

 

Today's Minutemen, the NRA rank-and-file who like most

citizens today are being hurt in several ways by the Homeland Enemy,

could be persuaded to enlist.

 

As a Senator said in a Seattle-Times news article many years

ago, " If the American public knew what's really going on, they'd revolt. "

 

The ENEMY WITHIN's religious core -- based on born-again

Christian Zionism: a radical, pessimistic, inhumane brand of

Christianity that emerged a century after 1776 (and thus was not the

religion of America's founders) and today dangerously acts against our

Constitution and national security -- has about 25 million followers,

only 10% of our population.

 

The ENEMY WITHIN's wealth-corporate core -- whose large

campaign contributions purchase the unjust-and-harmful laws, leeway,

and largesse they want from the White House and Congress -- has about

300,000 individuals, only 0.1% of our population.

 

" We, the People " are huge in comparison. And can therefore

just do it.

 

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Connect the dots.

 

Connect the confusion of disheartening dots into the clear

and hopeful big picture.

 

It is easy for true " Americans " -- the millions who have the

core " American " values, knowledge, and skills to do it:

 

True " Americans " espouse the core " American values, " the

values written into our Constitution: justice, national security, the

general welfare, liberty, representative government, democratic

processes, separation of powers, separation of church and state, our

national unity and cooperation as " Americans " ( " domestic Tranquility " )

required to make all of this happen, and respect for the innate

capacity of " We, the People " to supply all this goodness and

well-being to ourselves and our posterity (America's goodness springs

from We the People). America's overriding moral value? To willingly

and generously cooperate toward the common good, toward common

well-being, and to treat people in other nations the very same way.

This is a primordial human value that predates Abrahamic monotheism

(Judaism, Christianity, Islam). All these values, all in our

Constitution, are the true " public interest " -- the true " national

interest " -- common to all true " Americans. " We -- as conservative or

liberal individuals, as secular or religious groups, as societies or

corporations -- live and breathe these " American values " as we conduct

our domestic policy and foreign policy. This is the " American spirit, "

the true " Spirit of America. "

 

True " Americans " share the bright Buddhist-like view of

Human Nature the founders infused into our Constitution: people are

naturally good, and innately capable of governing themselves well and

treating others well. As our Constitution clearly specifies, " We, the

People " -- not elite rulers, not God and the Bible (neither are

mentioned in the Constitution) -- establish, provide, insure, promote,

secure, and carry out all the above types of human goodness and

well-being we Declared Independence and fought the American Revolution

for.

 

True " Americans " understand history's ancient key lesson of

community well-being and long-term survival, the vital lesson the

Framers wove deeply into our Constitution: always keep wealth and

power in careful check, otherwise wealth and power will consolidate

and take over and go berserk and then common well-being and community

security will suffer.

 

True " Americans " have the core citizenship skills reasonably

expected of citizens by America's founders: respect for others,

personal and social responsibility, cooperation toward the common

good, ability to think critically. These core wisdom-and-humanity

skills -- they are ancient survival skills of our species that

pre-date civilization by at least tens of millennia, were common to

our nation's founders, and are the roots of adult maturity and good

citizenship and good leadership today -- are needed to perceive

clearly and reason soundly, to sense far and hidden danger, and to

understand and carry out our Constitution.

 

Therefore true " Americans " can connect the dots into the big

picture, can clearly see the wealth-and-power disease infecting

America today, and can easily figure out how to fight it and heal our

nation.

 

True " Americans " respond in the normal human way to

violations of our Constitution by leaders we elect and trust, and to

the consequent mistreatment of citizens they are supposed to respect

and serve: with moral outrage, and with cooperative united civic

action toward the #1 American goal listed in the first sentence of our

Constitution. " Justice. "

 

Or do we or can we anymore.

 

The big picture, the connected dots, of what went wrong:

 

At least 200 million Americans -- conservatives and liberals

alike -- are victims of an ENEMY WITHIN: a well-disguised Homeland

Enemy that funded and grew terrorism, and exploits the mass fear to

expand their wealth and power (SUMMARY). Some of the harm they

inflicted so far? We lost justice, national unity and cooperation as

Americans, national security, general welfare, and liberty. We lost

our supreme power to govern America through representative government,

democratic processes, free speech and dissent, and right and duty as

members of a jury to judge the law and nullify law that's bad.

 

What happened? In a dangerous rerun of history the Framers

tried hard to prevent with a wisely-designed Constitution, an ENEMY

WITHIN -- a new strain of the ancient wealth-and-power disease --

flared up in the 1980s and took the governing of America away from

" We, the People. " Stealthily they overthrew our government " of, by,

and for the People " and replaced it with government of, by, and for

the ENEMY WITHIN. During the entire quarter-century-long process our

mass media, instead of warning us, participated in the overthrow and

cover it up to this day. They violate the Law of our Land hugely, and

hurt our nation deeply, as they take wealth and power and well-being

from " We, the People " and also from the weaker nations and weaker

people of the world. American citizens, once united and strong, today

seem powerless to restrain them.

 

The takeover and rampage is a classic example of humankind's

wealth-and-power disease. It lies dormant, then flares up out of

control as soon as citizens forget history's paramount lesson and drop

their guard.

 

How do they do it? The Homeland Enemy keeps us clueless

about " American " democracy, so they can subvert our democracy. They

remove " domestic Tranquility, " the #2 American goal listed in the

first sentence of our Constitution, and replace it with domestic

discord such as by using right-wing talk radio to incite many types of

hate and by using anti-cooperation media slant to fracture the public

into many separate competing selfish special interests -- which makes

us polarized, divisive, and unable to cooperate as united " Americans "

(the Framers foresaw this dangerous treat to national unity) -- to

divide and conquer us. Using American-developed propaganda techniques

employed and celebrated by Hitler -- such as fabricate and stoke mass

fear to control the masses to your liking -- they manipulate us to

support and cheer their misdeeds with " United We Stand " " American

Pride. " It works so well we even tolerate the many types of major harm

they inflict on us. By influencing what's taught in our schools and by

shaping what appears in our media, they prevent us from knowing all

this is happening.

 

See how the Homeland Enemy is worse than the enemy of 1776?

 

If we don't care it's happening then we are no longer

" Americans, " our country is no longer " America, " and our Declaration

of Independence and Constitution and Flag are just hollow fake symbols.

 

The big picture, the easily-connected dots, of how to stop

and correct all that wrong:

 

We need a New American Revolution. Soon.

 

Where's the legal authorization for " We, the People " to

unite, fight, and win this revolt -- a long-overdue major maintenance

and tune-up of our democracy: see the long-range four-element plan

herein -- that would neutralize the ENEMY WITHIN and turn the mass

media back into our voice of freedom? It's in the first sentence of

our Constitution: " We, the People ... provide for the common defence "

against the enemies of America.

 

Today's most dangerous enemy -- the Homeland Enemy --

violates all the goals of America listed in the Preamble of our

Constitution, and they violate Article 1, Article 2, Article 6,

Amendment 12, and the foundation principles of separation of powers

and separation of church and state (SUMMARY). Their violations of our

Bill of Rights are minor infractions in comparison. They break

American law and international law. They steal billions of dollars

daily from the people of America and other nations. From

Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia onward their military ventures to gain wealth

and power needlessly slaughtered millions of civilians worldwide, and

they never offered human-like compensation or apologies. On a daily

basis in America they kill more citizens per annum than the high rate

Saddam killed Iraqi citizens: more then ten-times the number of 9/11

victims year-after-year. Since World War 2 they clandestinely aided or

directed the overthrow of many of the world's democracies including in

Guatemala, Iran, Chile, and lately Haiti. Ever since Venezuela

approved their new American-like Constitution in 1999 which provides

social and economic well-being to common citizens, the Homeland Enemy

behind our backs and with our tax dollars works to destroy that

democracy also. This is a glimpse into what they hide with spin and lies.

 

Also according to the Law of our Land, " We, the People " have

supreme power. So why not just wield it.

 

Our " We, the People " justice, like during criminal cases of

violent armed robbery or high treason, would go much farther than

merely exposing and listing the many lies used to commit the crimes.

Our treatment to heal our democracy's terrible deep wounds would be

far more aggressive and complete than just applying Flag-illustrated

band-aids over them. A patriotic and fair initial step would be to

tell the whole public about the Republican Party's, Democratic

Party's, and mass media's deceptive and traitorous support of the

ENEMY WITHIN.

 

Our Constitution authorizes this New American Revolution,

and provides " We, the People " with the supreme power to execute it.

How's that for citizen hope and empowerment!

 

The founders of our nation, including those represented

forever by the red in our Flag, expected the future " We, the People "

to carry out this true " American " civic duty. Will we just do it? Or

shall we betray them and ourselves and our posterity?

 

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It's a matter of national defense. Against the Homeland Enemy.

 

Invisible to our national-defense radar, an ENEMY WITHIN --

the recent fusion, beginning around 1980, of

executive/legislative/judicial federal power, corporate power, the

power of wealth, Christian-Right religious power, and mass-media power

into a concentrated and unchecked right-wing state power -- took

governing power away from " We, the People " and subverted " America "

into an un-American " Amerika. " The members of the ENEMY WITHIN violate

our Constitution to its core (SUMMARY). We no longer have

representative government or democratic processes including democratic

informing of the electorate and democratic elections. We are fast

losing our justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans,

national security, general welfare, and liberty. They exploit and hurt

America, and the world, on a mind-boggling scale. They hide it all,

and turn it into illusions of patriotic goodness, with dishonest

" spin " blanketed nationwide by our press and radio and television who

are supposed to be watchdogs of " American " democracy but who now work

for the ENEMY WITHIN instead. That relentless deception, together with

their constant suppression of " pro-America " free speech and dissent,

helped neuter our original government " of, by, and for the People "

into today's government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN. They

overthrew our " American " government so stealthily, and messed up our

minds so skillfully and completely, only a few in our country seem to

notice or understand or care. This is exactly what America's founders

foresaw and feared and tried to prevent with our Constitution's

foundation of " separation of powers " and " separation of church and

state, " and also with " trial by jury " where " We, the People " judge the

law itself as a direct citizen check on unjust and dangerous power.

 

To pull off their overthrow of " American " government, the

ENEMY WITHIN keeps us ignorant of " American " government. As a small

example of how they keep us clueless, they prevent our schools from

teaching, and our mass media from revealing, these important truths.

TRUTH: Today's system of corporate law, that gives harmful power to

corporations, is rooted in a 1886 US Supreme Court decision that

supposedly granted " personhood " and resulting massive power to

corporations, a strange un-American legal concept that clashes head-on

with the anti-corporate-oppression spirit of the American Revolution.

But the granting of corporate personhood by the Supreme Court never

really happened, and could never legally happen. Thus our system of

unjust and harmful corporate law is a legal house-of-cards that " We,

the People " could blow down. TRUTH: America was not in any sense

founded as a Christian nation. Today's Christian-Right religion

wrongfully insists that America is based on God and the Bible,

preaches that " We, the People " are humans born into the world

naturally bad (but as embryos and fetuses we are pure and good) and

are not capable of governing and carrying out the goodness in our

Constitution without divine guidance or control (God must govern and

carry out good, not " We, the People " ), strives to combine church with

state, encourages our elected representatives and our judges to

violate the " no religious test " provision of Article 6 of our

Constitution, and has persuaded the White House and Congress to

implant Christian-Right theology into federal law (rights and

protection for the pre-born) and to spend vast amounts of taxpayer

money on Christian-Right religious causes (about $2 trillion so far,

30% of our national debt). That radical, pessimistic, inhumane brand

of Christianity surfaced a century after 1776, was not the religion of

our nation's founders, and today acts illegally and dangerously

against our Constitution and " American " democracy. TRUTH: Our US

Constitution grants supreme governing power not to corporations, not

to the wealthy, not to religion or God, not to the President, not to

Congress, not to the Supreme Court, but to " We, the People. "

 

What exactly can " We, the People " do about the illegal

overthrow of our government? Plenty. First, tell the whole public

about the ENEMY WITHIN -- our well-disguised Homeland Enemy -- and how

they violate our Constitution and hurt America and the world, and

about how " We, the People " can take back America. Be aware, of course,

that our mass media will do their utmost to kill this message and hurt

the messengers, so use alternative spread-the-word methods including

the family-and-friend grapevine. See the need for pirate broadcasting,

a network of low-wattage radio-and-TV " freedom channels " informing the

public over the airwaves that " We, the People " own? Second, slowly and

surely in the background, repair our nation's worst national-security

weaknesses. Fundamental wisdom and humanity that mankind needs for

survival and which US citizens need to be able to understand and carry

out our Constitution -- the bare-bones survival skills that wove their

way from the dawn of our species through ancient human history,

through our early American history, through our Declaration of

Independence and Constitution, and almost through our 20th century

until the current illegal flare-up of wealth-and-power, the ENEMY

WITHIN, pretty much wiped them out -- need to be resurrected and

instilled and applied today. So does the teaching and practice of real

" American " democracy, which the ENEMY WITHIN also substantially purged

from our schools and minds and governance. Those Elements 1 and 2, of

the suggested plan herein, lay the foundation of a New American

Revolution. Third and fourth? In Elements 3 and 4 of the long-range

plan, " We, the People " undertake the revolt and restore government

" of, by, and for the People " to America.

 

This Civics-101 democracy manual outlines education and

political strategies, and a long range four-element plan, to restore

" We, the People " to power and " America " to America. Odds of success?

" We, the People " are a thousand-fold larger than the Homeland Enemy's

wealth-and-power core of less than a half-million individuals. The

truth is on our side; they have to constantly lie to stay in power.

The Constitution is on our side; they oppose it -- as shown by their

contempt for " separation of powers, " contempt for " separation of

church and state, " contempt for the supreme power and well-being of

" We, the People, " and by how they hugely violate our Constitution.

Most Americans have no idea how hugely. One of the many benefits of

winning? We could cut federal spending -- and our taxes -- by at least

$500 billion a year, including the average $1500-a-year " de facto

Christian-Right religious tax " every IRS customer is currently forced

to pay. The ENEMY WITHIN -- the Homeland Enemy -- is an un-American,

anti-American political cancer that grows more dangerous every day.

Electing a safer President this November is a small but imperative

step toward the full cure.

 

To wield our supreme power again, we must unite and

cooperate as " We, the People " of " America " as in 1776. Conservatives

and liberals must join in and work together as a team against a common

enemy -- the ENEMY WITHIN that's sympathetic with, and worse than, the

enemy of 1776 -- a well-disguised enemy that's hurting conservatives

and liberals alike in several and major ways. We must wake up, rise

up, and " provide for the common defence " against the common enemy like

our Constitution tells us to.

 

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America's political cancer. The patriotic cure. Or is it too late.

 

America's political cancer: the right-wing ENEMY WITHIN.

 

The ENEMY WITHIN is the consolidation of the federal

executive branch including the White House, Secret Service, FBI, CIA,

Homeland Security, Defense, and Justice, the federal legislative

branch including Congress, the federal judicial branch including the

Supreme Court, Corporate America, the wealthy, Christian Right, and

mass media into a concentrated right-wing superpower the Framers of

our Constitution foresaw and feared and hoped to nip-in-the-bud with

" separation of powers, " " separation of church and state, " and " trial

by jury " where We the People judge the law itself as a direct citizen

check on unjust and dangerous power. Around 1980, all those separate

powers began to combine and grow dangerous to America and the world.

 

Exactly as unbridled wealth-and-power flared up and

misbehaved off and on for millennia, exactly as history warns, exactly

what the founders of our nation wanted to prevent with " separation of

powers " and " separation of church and state " (America's two foundation

protections), the ENEMY WITHIN arose and went berserk.

 

They are now on a classic rampage of

domestic-and-international plunder and harm. Which isn't all that

obvious to most Americans because though the

press/radio/television/film corporate mass media they control they

skillfully make sure that the public, including the rising number of

millions of victims, perceive the lawbreaking and harm as patriotism

and as security-and-goodness for our country.

 

They subverted our government " of, by, and for the People "

into a government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN. Instead of " We,

the People " being the government of America, the ENEMY WITHIN is now

the government of America. We no longer have representative government

or democratic processes including democratic informing of the

electorate and democratic elections -- although we are misled to think

we have both -- and we are fast losing our justice, national unity and

cooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, and

liberty for ourselves and our posterity. We no longer have principled

" American " democracy; it has been replaced with illegal " Amerikan "

democracy. Skillfully and stealthily, with help from our news and

entertainment media, the ENEMY WITHIN overthrew our government.

 

They violate our Constitution to its core. Their violations

of our Bill of Rights are minor infractions compared to their

violations of the Preamble, Articles, and foundation principles.

 

They exploit and hurt America, and the world, on a

mind-boggling scale. Perhaps the three most-horrific of their many

major offenses? 1) They systematically Reverse Robin Hood America --

transfer wealth from poor and middle-class to rich -- such as through

increasingly regressive taxation (low- and middle-income citizens now

pay a higher percentage of their income on taxes than corporations and

the wealthy do, a reversal from a half-century ago, and the trickle-up

grows more unjust; they plan to exempt all non-wage and non-salary

income from taxation, create a flat tax on income [that would tax only

a tiny portion of the income of the wealthy], boost excise/use taxes,

create a federal sales tax, all of which would rob the poor and

middle-class even more), financial-industry deregulation that buries

needy citizens in high-interest debt (some fee-and-interest rates are

as high as 400%APR, such as on payday loans, 400% earned from money

they borrow at 2% from our federal treasury [that corporations and the

wealthy contribute to less and less but poorer Americans more and

more]), and policies and laws that force wages and salaries low and

costs of energy, healthcare, and education high. 2) They

systematically drain wealth from weaker nations, and wealth from

America, through deregulation and rigged privatization and rigged

globalization some victims call " savage capitalism " (it's not at all

the nice " free market " capitalism they constantly advertise it to be).

3) From 1979 for seventeen years using our tax money they bred and

funded Islamic terrorism into their proxy military weapon abroad, lost

control of it, and now capitalize on the 9/11 horror and fear to

further their exploitation here and abroad (they successfully cloak

that reality with " Remember 9/11 " and " War on Terror " logos and banners).

 

They corrupted " America " into a lawless and dangerous rogue

" Amerika. "

 

Rule by the right-wing ENEMY WITHIN is similar to rule by

the right-wing enemy we declared independence from in 1776:

18th-century Corporate England's rule by the power of wealth and

privilege, rule by divine and corporate power, enforced by

police-state power in the homeland and by military power abroad.

 

True " conservatism " and true " liberalism " are rooted in the

spirit of 1776 and in our Constitution. And are thus " American. "

 

The ENEMY WITHIN is a " right-wing " force sympathetic with

the exploitation, oppression, and inequality our forebears suffered

under the enemy of 1776. The ENEMY WITHIN is dangerously " un-American. "

 

So how does the ENEMY WITHIN get away with being so

unlawful, so unjust, so unpatriotic, so un-American? They hide it, and

turn it into illusions of goodness, with skillful mass-media spin.

That deception, that spin, is willfully served up by a corporate

news-and-entertainment industry that became a partner -- and the voice

and protector -- of the ENEMY WITHIN.

 

The patriotic cure. This core-basic democracy manual

outlines education and political strategies, and a long range

four-element plan, to restore " We, the People " to power. And to

restore representative government, democratic processes, justice,

national unity and cooperation as Americans, national security, the

general welfare, and liberty to America.

 

Electing a safer President this November is a small but

imperative step toward the full cure.

 

To pull off the full cure, we need to rekindle core

patriotism the ENEMY WITHIN purged from our schools and public mind.

The spirit of the American Revolution: in 1776, we revolted against

the unjust right-wing power of Corporate England; today, we need a

bloodless revolt against the right-wing power of the ENEMY WITHIN

that's now oppressing America much like Corporate England did in 1776.

The spirit of " American " democracy: citizens provide governance and

common well-being, not rulers or religion, and always vigilant we

never let wealth-and-power or religion gain influence or control

because we know about the awful badness that happens if they do.

 

We should also reintroduce the concept of good citizenship.

Since " We, the People " are supposed to " provide for the common

defence " -- including against dangers from within -- and since our

duty is also to " establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, . . .

promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to

ourselves and our Posterity, " why not just unite and cooperate to STOP

the right wing's overthrow of our government and RESTORE " America " to

America! Of course we can do it. It's in our blood: remember 1776?

Taking back America from the ENEMY WITHIN is absolutely REQUIRED by

our Constitution. So why not do what's natural for real " Americans: be

patriotic by uniting and cooperating against the common enemy just

like in 1776.

 

Consider the favorable odds. The ENEMY WITHIN is tiny. " We,

the People " are a thousand-fold larger than the ENEMY WITHIN's donor

class: the wealth-corporate core the White House and Congress solicit

big contributions from, and enact special laws for and violate laws

for, all at the expense of the general welfare of most citizens.

 

If " We, the People " become the government of America again,

we would enjoy immense financial savings. By forcing our White House,

Congress, and press to represent and serve " We, the People " instead of

the ENEMY WITHIN -- the way our nation is supposed to operate -- we

could reduce federal spending by at least $500 billion annually

including no more legislated gifts from our US Treasury to

corporations and the wealthy. We could substantially cut taxes on

middle-income and poor citizens, including by eliminating the " de

facto Christian-Right religious tax " that today costs the average IRS

customer about $1500 a year. Those potential spending cuts, and tax

cuts, are about the size of our current defense budget.

 

The major task facing us? We must achieve what they fear and

work hard to prevent: " We, the People " must unite and cooperate as

" Americans " to fight the ENEMY WITHIN and restore our Constitution's

" America " to America, just like we fought the common enemy of 1776 to

create " America " in the first place. Groups and individuals,

journalists, educators, citizen-action and public-interest

organizations, responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, ordinary

citizens -- conservatives and liberals alike -- must unite and

cooperate in this common cause. Conservatives and liberals --

including NRA members and Greens -- and their families are all being

hurt by the ENEMY WITHIN. And therefore have just cause to just do

what their Constitution requires of them.

 

Or is it too late. Did the ancient wealth-and-power disease

the Framers feared -- flaring up today as the ENEMY WITHIN -- already

corrode and corrupt America into an un-American nation ignorant and

disdainful of true " American democracy " (which is very different from

generic democracy), and politically cripple us (see paragraph below),

so dangerously we're no longer able to carry out our Constitution to

care for ourselves?

 

America's news-and-entertainment industry skillfully hid the

ENEMY WITHIN's lawbreaking and wrongdoing and spun it into illusions

of patriotic-and-religious goodness -- plus the pervasive influence of

the ENEMY WITHIN pretty much erased core wisdom-and-humanity skills,

core human history, core American history, and core understanding of

" American " democracy from public education and American culture --

which shaped our minds into being supportive of the ENEMY WITHIN and

clueless about the massive subversion and too politically

weak-and-helpless to do anything about it. That is, they politically

crippled " We, the People " into being unable to govern ourselves,

unable to govern America. Will that major triumph permanently seal the

success of their overthrow?

 

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PROLOG: " We, the People " must cooperate to heal America.

Or accept the dire consequences (EPILOG).

 

" American " democracy is very different from the generic

" majority-is-right " democracy promoted by our mass media and practiced

by modern political science.

 

In " majority-is-right " democracy, political opponents

manipulate the public mind during competition to win the biggest

polling or electorate slice. Sometimes that majority is wrong. Such as

when the majority is manipulated to favor breaking domestic law and

inflicting harm on itself, and to favor breaking international law and

inflicting harm on the people of other nations which then backlashes

at America to hurt the majority, all of which happened on November 2,

2004. It is a competitive form of democracy without good sense and

without human principle.

 

" American " democracy is a special form of democracy. It is

cooperative democracy -- as hinted at by the word " United " in our

nation's name -- in accordance with the wise-and-humane goals, real

American values, personal and social responsibilities, principles, and

rules in our Constitution.

 

( " American " democracy is totally different from the illegal

and dangerous " Amerikan " democracy the ENEMY WITHIN has already

subverted our nation into: CLICK HERE.)

 

( " American " values are totally different from the moral

values promoted during the 2004 presidential campaign. Most of those

values, inhumane Christian-Right values, conflict dangerously with our

Constitution: CLICK HERE.)

 

Citizens who live and breathe our special form of democracy

are " true Americans " with " American values " and the " American spirit. "

 

THIS is the real " American " democracy in our Constitution:

 

" We, the People " are the government of America.

 

We " establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide

for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the

Blessings of Liberty " for " ourselves and our Posterity " (Preamble, US

Constitution). We control America, we operate America, we provide

several types of goodness and well-being to America, we protect and

preserve America, as we govern America.

 

America's goodness springs from " We, the People: " CLICK HERE.

 

We citizens do all this. Not presidential, congressional,

judicial, corporate, wealthy, or religious rulers.

 

" We, the People " rule. Wealth-and-power doesn't. We Declared

Independence, fought and won the American Revolution, and wrote and

ratified our Constitution so that citizens can rule. We did it to get

out from under Corporate England's wealth-and-power, and to curb

wealth-and-power in the future such as to prevent a Corporate America

from ever arising and taking over.

 

That's why " We, the People " act to prevent wealth-and-power

from ever consolidating and inflicting harm on our country and

citizens. We understand why the Framers wove two foundation principles

into our Constitution: separation of powers, separation of church and

state. We understand the need to keep corporate power in careful

check. We understand the national-security need to prevent " God " and

" Country " from ever combining into " God and Country. "

 

An important part of our citizen rule is to regulate

corporations. So that corporations always serve us, and never exploit

or hurt us.

 

When Americans claim, " I hate government and I hate taxes "

they actually claim, " I hate We the People. I hate that we establish

justice, insure national unity and cooperation as Americans, provide

for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the

blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. I hate that we

tax ourselves, to provide benefits to ourselves, like Colonial

Americans did long before they Declared Independence. " They probably

don't mean that.

 

If all Americans had been correctly taught this basic

essence of " American " government by our schools and leaders and media,

nobody would be saying " I hate government and I hate taxes. "

 

When Americans belittle and blame " the government " and

" taxes " they actually belittle and blame themselves for their lack of

good citizenship.

 

" We, the People " -- not a Christian God -- are the supreme

power in America. " [T]he government of the United States of America is

not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, " as documented in

the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli (Little-Known US Document Signed by

President Adams Proclaims America's Government Is Secular). During the

treaty's multi-review process by the White House and Congress, the

wording never raised the slightest concern. When the treaty was made

public in the press, there was no public complaint. This was clear

admission by the United States -- by the White House, by Congress, by

the public -- that America's government is not founded on

Christianity. The treaty's assertion of America's secularism, ten

years after our Constitution was written, clearly represented the

feelings of our nation's founders. Including about the need to enforce

separation of church and state as well as Article 6's " no religious

tests " for public office or during public duty, and to prevent

" God " and " Country " from combining into " God and Country " (God and

Country).

Our topmost hired help -- the President, Congress, Supreme

Court -- are not the supreme power either. " We, the People " are.

" We, the People " also have supreme say in America --

including about harmful corporate behavior and unjust laws passed by

Congress -- especially through our right of representation (our

elected representatives are supposed to actually represent us), our

right to dissent such as to demand that our Constitution actually be

followed, and our right and duty as members of a jury to judge the law

itself and to invalidate law that's bad: Forbidden truths about

" American " democracy.

We millions of ordinary citizens have supreme power -- and

supreme say -- because our government is of, by, and for " We, the

People, " not of, by, and for the White House, Congress, Judiciary, or

their current major clients: Corporate America, the wealthy, and

Christian Right.

Good citizenship and good leadership -- as taught by our

schools, pillars of the community, and mass media not so long ago --

means to cooperate as United Citizens of America to carry out

" America, " the wisdom and humanity and well-being called for by our

Constitution: representative government, democratic processes,

justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans, national

security, the general welfare, and liberty, for ourselves and our

posterity.

As true Americans " We, the People " foster American values,

the public interest, the national interest, the bright view of human

nature infused into our Constitution, history's key lesson of

community well-being and long-term survival that's woven into our

Constitution, and the core citizenship skills reasonably expected of

citizens by America's founders. We also teach our young how to quickly

spot danger to America from within, and how respond to harmful

leadership irresponsibility in the normal human way. ALL LIKE THIS.

As intended by our nation's founders, American citizens --

together with the representatives we select and hire to do our bidding

-- participate in " American " democracy: in partnership with an honest

mass media that serves as our voice of freedom, we all work together

to produce and maintain a special form of democracy in accordance with

the goals, principles, and rules in our Constitution. " American "

democracy, which is guided by wise and humane principles, is very

different from generic majority-is-right democracy which can lead to

the majority acting against domestic and world well-being. " We, the

People, " including our elected and appointed representatives and mass

media, carry out our foremost civic duty and common-ground

responsibilities -- and through vigilance and dissent we protect and

preserve our nation's two foundation principles to assure our long

term well-being and national survival -- all for the common good of

ourselves and our posterity.

If we don't, we lose " America. " We lose what we fought for

and won with our Declaration of Independence and American Revolution.

We lose what our Flag stands for. We lose the wisdom and humanity and

well-being spelled out in our Constitution. We lose our representative

government, democratic processes, justice, national unity and

cooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, and

liberty. We lose it for ourselves and our posterity. We violate our

Constitution and international law, and harm ourselves and the world

in the process. America turns " un-American: " into a lawless and

hurtful rogue nation. America turns into " Amerika. "

As you can tell from the news, we are beginning to lose

" America. "

Not reported is the full extent of our loss. Or the reason

why: increasingly, " We, the People " are being prevented from governing

America by an ENEMY WITHIN that is protected and served by our

news-and-entertainment mass media.

If our mass media served our country instead of their

ENEMY-WITHIN clients, these top stories -- a small sampling of truth

being withheld from the public -- would be headlined nationwide:

o

From 1979 for seventeen years, with strong backing

from the Christian Right, the executive and legislative branches of

our federal government funded and grew Islamic terrorism into a proxy

US-military weapon in Central Asia and the Balkans. (References)

o

In the 1980s our current Vice President (Dick Cheney),

National Security Advisor (Condoleezza Rice), Secretary of State

(Colin Powell), and Deputy Secretary of State (Richard Armitage) ran

the biggest clandestine operation ever: recruiting from throughout the

Muslim world, arming, and training Islamic mujahideen into a lethal

proxy weapon against the Soviets that America lured into Afghanistan.

They even supplied militant-Islam textbooks -- Made In USA with

taxpayer money -- to spur deadly resistance to the enemy, jihad fervor

that flowed into the worldwide Islamic community when Afghan veterans

returned home. Those public figures, and many other prominent

Americans, helped to create al-Qaeda and spread Islamic terrorism

around the world. (References)

o

Some of the camps used by al-Qaeda may have been

originally built by the Reagan administration. (References)

o

From 1986 to 1992 during Operation Cyclone, in

Pakistan the CIA trained 100,000 Islamic fighters in arts of terrorism

including future al-Qaeda and Taliban; they trained leaders at Camp

Perry in Virginia USA. The terrorism training was paid for by US

taxpayers. After 1992, the CIA's camps in Pakistan in essence migrated

and became al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. (References)

o

Washington lost control of Islamic-terrorism weapon

that US taxpayers unwittingly began purchasing 22 years earlier: on

9/11, America's lethal proxy weapon aimed and fired itself at America.

(References)

o

9/11 was " Blowback. " (References)

o

The " War on Terror " -- the response to 9/11 -- is in

essence a war on the military weapon that the White House and Congress

urged on by the Christian Right, and Saudi Arabia's royalty and

Wahabiism (Wahabiism is Saudi Arabia's Islamic equivalent of America's

Christian Right), jointly developed a quarter-century ago, operated

for one-and-a-half decades, and funded with billions of US tax dollars

and with billions of Saudi petro-dollars that Americans gave at the

gas pump. (Reference)

o

Al-Qaeda, created in the 1980s by US/Saudi

wealth-and-power and fundamentalist-religion, is winning the " War on

Terror. " (Reference: Why al-Qaeda is winning)

o

The President, National Security, State Department,

Pentagon, CIA, and FBI all knew the danger of al-Qaeda and that a

terrorist strike was likely, including from hijacked-airliner weapons:

in the two years before 9/11, NORAD conducted air-defense drills

including to protect the World Trade Center; ten months before 9/11,

the Pentagon simulated a terrorist attack, a passenger plane crashing

into the Pentagon. (References: 9/11 Disaster Could Have Been

Prevented by Advance Responses, NORAD had drills of jets as weapons,

Pentagon Simulated a Scenario of an actual Terrorist Attack 10 months

before 9/11)

o

9/11 commission hid vast amounts of 9/11 truth. Such

as how many in the Bush administration, and in the Christian Right,

helped to breed Islamic terrorism. All the many Americans who helped

to cause 9/11, and to let it happen, escape responsibility and

accountability and justice (References: PBS NOW Jul-23-2004, Whitewash

as Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation)

o

Blowback tragedy exploited: our elected leaders, and

our news and entertainment, steadily implant " Remember-9/11 "

" War-on-Terror " fears to achieve wealth-corporate goals and

Christian-Right goals -- special-interest goals that subvert

US-Constitution goals.

o

The war on Afghanistan was decided and planned before

9/11. In July 2001, the Bush administration planned to strike the

Taliban before October 2001 because the Taliban didn't accept their

pipeline terms. 9/11 provided the perfect excuse for an even larger

assault. The pipeline project, that the Bush administration wanted, is

underway. (References)

o

Danger of terrorism is way overblown: Our switch from

cars-and-minivans to SUVs-and-pickups kills more than 3,000 Americans

every year -- more than terrorists did on 9/11. 43 million Americans

can't afford to buy health insurance, because its price is being

driven up like the price of higher education, causing about 18,000

deaths per year -- six-times more than 9/11. White House's failure to

enforce the 1977 Clean Air Act kills 30,000 Americans every year --

ten-times more than 9/11. And so on. Today's America kills fellow

Americans at a far higher average rate, more than 50,000 citizens per

year, than Saddam killed Iraqis. (References)

o

Homeland Security and our mass media routinely go soft

on far-right home-grown terrorism. No high-profile alerts about

White-Christian-American terrorists who threaten our nation, no

high-profile news about the known base of 700 White-Christian-American

hate groups and 250,000 sympathizers in our homeland and heartland.

Only Arabs and Muslims are targeted and persecuted. (Reference)

o

Iraq mainly about oil since 1972 -- when Iraq kicked

out US and UK oil companies for not playing fair, but allowed oil

companies from other nations to stay. (References)

o

A top priority of the Bush administration from the

very start was to roll out plans for Iraq's " privatization: " schemes

to transfer Iraq's wealth to outside corporations. (References)

o

During the first meeting of Bush's national-security

team, one day after the President took his oath of office in January

2001, the issue of invading Iraq was raised. (References)

o

CBS News 60 Minutes revealed a smoking gun: in the

center of millions of TV screens nationwide, a document drafted in the

early weeks of the Bush administration showed plans for the

post-invasion dispersal of Iraq's oil assets to US and other foreign

oil companies. (References)

o

In January-2002, more than a year before the war on

Iraq, the Department of Justice legal-weaseled around the Geneva

Conventions to enable secret detention and harsh interrogation of

prisoners abroad. In February-2002, President Bush wrote: " I accept

the legal conclusion of the attorney general and the department of

justice that I have the authority to suspend Geneva [conventions] as

between the US and Afghanistan. " " I reserve the right to exercise this

authority in this or future conflicts. " Since then, hardball

interrogation including homosexual rape and torture resulting in death

inflicted by US troops and US-paid contractors -- which are violations

of the Geneva Conventions and Article 6 of our Constitution and the

War Crimes Act by the commander-in-chief on down -- have become

standard practice throughout the US global gulag. (References: Bush

memos show stance on torture, PBS NOW May-21-2004, Jan-2002 Department

of Justice memos, This is the New Gulag, Abuse, Torture, and Rape

Reported at Unlisted US-run Prisons in Iraq, Torturing Children,

Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized, This is the New Gulag:

Bush has Created a Global Network of Extra-legal and Secret US Prisons

with Thousands of Inmates, Afghan gulag. Note: The memo showing intent

to commit torture, and subsequent commission of torture, constitute

clear proof of the President's violation of US Constitution Article 6

and US War Crimes Act.)

o

A month before the war on Iraq the White House issued

plans, " Moving the Iraqi Economy from Recovery to Sustainable Growth, "

for the mass privatization of Iraq including to: sell off its oil

fields, pipelines, and oil infrastructure to foreign corporations;

privatize about 200 state-owned enterprises into foreign ownership,

everything from water services, electric utilities, schools,

hospitals, television and newspapers, factories, farms,

telecommunications, publishing, transportation systems, to prisons;

take over the banking sector; turn what's left of Iraq into a rigged

free-market asset-looting and profit-looting paradise for foreign

corporations. The long-planned financial/economic conquest of Iraq is

similar to how the World Bank, IMF, multinational corporations, and

major powers sacked and harmed the Federation of Yugoslavia,

Argentina, and many other countries since World War 2; citizens in

Senegal, a victim nation, call it " savage capitalism. " (References:

Adventure Capitalism, The Economic Colonization of Iraq: Illegal and

Immoral, Other references)

o

The war on Iraq is a premeditated armed heist. The

planning began in 1992. (References: Summary of Iraq war)

o

Collateral damage during the armed heist? 100,000

Iraqi civilians killed including women and children mostly from air

strikes and artillery including cluster-bombing. Many thousands more

wounded and maimed. Future radiation sickness and birth deformities

caused by the toxic radioactive dust spewed from hundreds of tons of

our depleted-uranium weapons. (References)

o

American citizens are mentally herded by the ENEMY

WITHIN to approve and applaud that massive wrongdoing -- like

convincing bystanders to cheer on a brutal bank robbery instead of

calling the police -- or risk being branded anti-American or

pro-terrorism.

o

" We shot a man with his hands up, " said a US Marine.

" We even shot women and children. " Firing on civilians and securing

oil fields was not the duty he signed up for, he also said.

(Reference: Soldiers tell stories about Iraq)

o

US troops shot at an Iraqi mother running with two

children as she carried her youngest child. Bullets fractured the

mother's legs, knocking her to the ground, and our troops kept firing

and wounded her again, in her arm. They killed two of her children,

decapitating one. When kicked by a US soldier, the wounded mother

played dead and thus lived to tell her story to foreign media.

(Reference: 'US soldiers started to shoot us, one by one')

o

Secret American theft of Iraqi oil is well underway.

Watchdog agency: faults lack of Iraqi oil metering, cites paucity of

Coalition Provisional Authority data on production, outflow, prices,

sales. Iraqi citizens complain: US has imposed secrecy on oil deals,

exportation, and use of revenues; Iraq denied access to oil revenues;

US systematically milking Iraq of its oil in " daylight robbery. " Saudi

ambassador to UK/Ireland: " there were those in America who were

thinking in those terms of acquiring the natural resources of Iraq for

America. " (References)

o

Long after Iraq is declared " sovereign " and

" democratic " on June 30, Iraq's interim constitution -- written by US

government, approved by US-picked Iraqi Governing Council -- allows US

to retain military/economic control of Iraq, and allows US and other

foreign corporations to continue to plunder Iraq's wealth. (References)

o

Fourteen permanent US military bases are under

construction on Iraq's soil. (References)

o

UN Resolution 1546 signed June-8-2004 -- which

welcomes " end of occupation " on June-30-2004, and promises " full

sovereignty " -- is a sham. The new interim government was appointed by

the US and is not representative of Iraq. Iraqis: " The Americans are

transferring power, but only to their own agents. " Although the

resolution provides for a review of the US military presence after a

year and permits the new interim government to ask for US troops to

leave, it is not likely to do so: all of the new ministers are

supporters of the US invasion of Iraq and were carefully vetted by

Washington, they are disliked by the majority of Iraqis, and they are

completely dependent on the US military for their safety and survival.

The interim government has no veto over US military operations; US

forces will retain full powers to roam throughout Iraq searching homes

and detaining prisoners at will. The real center of political power in

Iraq is to be the US embassy, the largest in the world. Which will

rely on the bureaucratic apparatus established by a small army of US

advisers since the invasion and supervised by a series of US-appointed

monitoring bodies. Overall Iraq-government finances, including all oil

revenues, will continue to be vetted by a US-appointed committee

including US, World Bank, and IMF representatives. The interim

government will have to honor all contracts signed by the US-led

occupation authority. Thus US officials, backed by US-led troops, will

continue to dominate every aspect of Iraqi life -- and from US-embassy

headquarters the heist will continue: corporate clients will continue

to plunder the assets of Iraq as well as America's treasury for

occupation/security expenses and destroy-and-rebuild expenses -- after

" full sovereignty " and " end of occupation " are declared. (References)

o

America's economic colonization of Iraq is illegal

under international law. (References)

o

US " handover of power to Iraq, " " sovereignty for

Iraq, " and " democracy in Iraq " are media fictions designed to make

America feel good about itself, to believe all is well in Iraq, to

divert public attention away from Iraq, as America's consolidated

wealth-and-power continues to dominate and plunder Iraq under a

Disney-like veil of deception. (References)

o

Iraqi-citizen " rebels " and " insurgents " -- the same

words used by Corporate England to describe the guerrilla freedom

fighters their Redcoats encountered during the American Revolution --

more and more are successfully uniting and cooperating to stave off US

looting plans, and to kill off the armed robbers: our troops,

Pentagon-hired mercenaries, and the US proxy army. American citizens

on American soil -- especially the millions of members of the NRA who

have perhaps vastly more small-bore firepower than the entire US

military -- would do exactly the same to a destroying, killing and

maiming, plundering foreign power invading our land. And to the

traitors helping the invaders. (References)

o

October 2004: The Bush administration is scrambling to

build an Iraqi paramilitary force -- a proxy army in Iraq like past

US-proxy armies in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and

Afghanistan -- to serve under a US-puppet Iraq government.

(References: Iraq: Quicksand & Blood, Crimes in Freedom's Name: Dick

Cheney's El Salvador)

o

Similarly, the US is creating proxy armies in South

America. Covertly. Again. (Reference: US Militarizing Latin America)

o

September 2004: Quietly behind the scenes in Iraq, the

National Foundation Congress plans the democratic future of Iraq. A

secretariat of 25 representing all factions -- including Baathists,

Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, Christians -- meets twice a week. They operate

outside of the Allawi-led US-puppet government they don't trust and

consider harmful to Iraq. The National Foundation Congress is the

Iraqi equivalent of America's Continental Congress during the American

Revolution. (References: The Iraqi leader seeking a peaceful path to

liberation, Iraq's National Foundation Congress formed in December 2003)

o

US policy toward Iraq, and US media portrayal of

Iraqis, is arrogantly racist. Although Iraq was a cradle of

civilization, although during Europe's dark ages Iraq flourished with

an art/science/civic renaissance whose spirit still lives, the US

government and US media continuously mislead Americans to believe that

Arab-Muslim Iraqis are inferior to White-Christian Americans, are

unworthy of humanity, are not capable of properly governing

themselves, and do not deserve to keep their economic assets and

natural resources. (Reference: This War and Racism -- Media Denial in

Overdrive)

o

A just exit strategy, that would give complete

sovereignty and allow Iraq to democratically govern itself totally, is

not likely. Although we left Vietnam, we cannot leave Iraq because

we're there for its assets and oil. (References: An Exit Strategy

Based on Iraqi Nationalism, Getting Out: Give Iraqis Complete

Sovereignty, History is not on your side, Mr. Kerry)

o

War on Iraq is not a war on terror. It is a

premeditated aggressive war of theft and control -- with little

concern for collateral harm and destruction other than for corporate

clients of the White House, Pentagon, and Congress to handsomely

profit from the harm and destruction. (Reference 1, Reference 2,

Reference 3, Reference 4, Reference 5, Reference 6, Reference 7,

Reference 8, Reference 9)

o

Feedback from the Arab and Muslim world: " All Arab and

Muslim peoples are convinced that Bush is persecuting Muslims and

Arabs and is targeting only the Arab world. " " The whole Arab world

hates America and the Bush administration. " " Bush's main priority . .

.. was to invade Iraq, whether or not it possessed weapons of mass

destruction. " " Americans do not have any regret for what they did to

the Iraqi people. " (Reference: US Report on Iraqi Weapons Deepens Arab

Hostility Towards America)

o

October 2004: In response to the US war on Iraq that

is backed by Israel, in response to Israel's war on Palestinians that

is backed by the US, in response to threats of war by the US and

Israel on other Islamic nations -- violent and deadly Middle East

conflict that America's Christian Right yearns for (references, read

the several scary sections) -- an international Islamic high command

may be forming to organize retaliation against the US, Israel, and

their allies. (References: Shiite-Sunni Islamist 'high command' may be

forming, The eyes that cannot see beyond Jabaliya and Samarra)

o

September 2004: Most senior US military officers now

believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented

scale. " I don't think that you can kill the insurgency. " " We have a

growing, maturing insurgency group . . . We see larger and more

coordinated military attacks. They are getting better and they can

self-regenerate. The idea there are x number of insurgents, and that

when they're all dead we can get out is wrong. The insurgency has

shown an ability to regenerate itself because there are people willing

to fill the ranks of those who are killed. The political culture is

more hostile to the US presence. The longer we stay, the more they are

confirmed in that view. " " If you are a Muslim and the community is

under occupation by a non-Islamic power it becomes a religious

requirement to resist that occupation . . . Most Iraqis consider us

occupiers, not liberators. " " I see no exit . . . We've been down that

road before. It's called Vietnamisation. The idea that we're going to

have an Iraqi force trained to defeat an enemy we can't defeat

stretches the imagination. They will be tainted by their very

association with the foreign occupier. " " This is far graver than

Vietnam. " (Reference: Far graver than Vietnam)

o

September 2003: President Bush stated, " No, we've had

no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th. "

June 2004: 9/11 commission stated, " We have no credible evidence that

Iraq and al-Qa'ida co-operated on attacks against the United States. "

October 2004: CIA review finds no evidence that Saddam had ties to

Islamic terrorists. All this was known long before the March 2003

bombing and invasion of Iraq. (References: Bush Disavows Hussein-Sept.

11 Link, Official Verdict: White House Misled World Over Saddam, CIA

Review Finds No Evidence Saddam Had Ties to Islamic Terrorists, CIA

review finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists )

o

Despite opposite conclusions reached beforehand by the

9/11 Commission, CIA, and consensus of independent strategic analysts,

on 9/10/2004 the US House of Representatives -- by an overwhelming

bipartisan majority of 406-16 -- passed a resolution linking the Iraq

government and Saddam Hussein to the al-Qaeda attacks on the World

Trade Center and the Pentagon. (Reference: Both US parties link Iraq

to 9-11)

o

September 2004: Iraq had no WMDs, according to Iraq

Survey Group's final report. This was known long before the March 2003

shock-and-awe onslaught. (Reference: Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict)

o

Three classes of excuses for bombing, invading, and

occupying Iraq -- to help Iraq, to defend America, to make the world a

better and safer place -- are all bogus. Retired Air Force Colonel

identified 50 fake stories manufactured by White House to promote war

on Iraq. (Reference)

o

White House, Congress, and media cooperate as a team

to hide major legal truth: war on Iraq violates UN Charter, Geneva

Conventions, Nuremberg Charter, Articles 1 and 6 of US Constitution,

and US War Crimes Act. They deceive our troops into violating their

oath, into becoming war criminals in eyes of caring world. (Reference

1, Reference 2)

o

On September 15, 2004, the UN Secretary General

declared that the Iraq war is illegal and violates the UN charter.

(References: Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan,

The war was illegal)

o

The US military is becoming a lawless global

oil-conquest service and oil-protection service for US petroleum

companies. Our commander-in-chief, Pentagon, and troops now serve as

corporate mercenaries courtesy of US taxpayers. This escalating new

form of corporate welfare costs hundreds of billions of tax dollars a

year, and the international backlash harms our national security.

(References: " Support Our Troops " as they kill local civilians by the

thousands when serving Texas oil companies in Afghanistan and Iraq,

Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global

Oil-Protection Service)

o

American citizens are skillfully duped, by our leaders

and media, to condone massive lawbreaking and to celebrate America's

rogue lawlessness as acts of patriotism.

o

Our deluded troops are paid next to nothing. Those who

return home wounded or disabled, as well as military families, when in

desperate need of financial help are handed off by the Pentagon to

charities.

o

Privatized soldiers in Iraq, thousands of mercenaries

hired by war-support corporations under contract with the Pentagon,

are paid up to $1500 a day -- 30-times more than our troops. Our taxes

pay those high wages plus the exorbitant markup. We also pay heavily

for a variety of other war services furnished by corporations under

high-profit contracts, and for costly high-tech weapons and ordnance.

" Bomb it, then rebuild it " war is good business: US corporations

manufacture the missiles and bombs that destroy Iraq, then rebuild the

destruction their products cause. The longer and nastier the conflict

and the worse the destruction, the greater the profits. America's

growing corporate military -- inflated-price pre-war, war, post-war

materiel and services purchased from a tight group of corporate

friends of the White House, Pentagon, and Congress -- is a massive

federal-government overhead expense paid for by US taxpayers. For

Corporate America, the " War on Terror " and " Perpetual War " are gold

mines. (Reference 1, Reference 2, Reference 3)

o

Our new and growing multi-billion-dollar-a-year

homeland-security industry, like our defense industry, is government

overhead that burdens US taxpayers. Our nation's rigged international

trade practices, exploitive World Bank and IMF practices, oppressive

and extortive foreign policies, and belligerent overseas military

actions provoke revengeful hatred against America -- so effectively

it's as if all those practices are designed to produce blowback --

which generates demand for " War-on-Terror " homeland-security products

and services. Demand is also created by the manufacture of citizen

consent to lose rights and freedoms, and by the manufacture of citizen

fear. For Corporate America, the " Patriot Act " and " Homeland Security "

are gold mines.

o

Fear of Islamic terrorism is being bred and spread in

a massive collaborative propaganda effort by our federal government

and mass media: to falsely justify war on Iraq and perhaps on other

countries soon; to better obscure the ENEMY WITHIN's unjust trade,

economic, and social practices inflicted on other nations; to

deceptively mask and intensify the ENEMY WITHIN's War-on-America

that's robbing wealth and well-being from citizens.

o

US occupation of Iraq boosts Islamic-terrorist

recruitment worldwide. Escalating opium production and drug sales in

Afghanistan, where America " looks the other way " on its War on Drugs,

provide huge amounts of funding for terrorists (References). All in

all, a huge winner for the ENEMY WITHIN: The rise in fear alone is

good for our defense and homeland-security industries, especially how

more fear will release more funding for our missile-defense and

space-weapon and domestic-spying networks. The rise in drug use is

good for our prison industry, and good for our banking industry

(Reference: Size and Scope of Money Laundering by US Banks). It

inspires the Christian Right to crusade against Muslims more strongly,

boosting Islamic-terrorist recruitment even higher, and to yearn and

act for " end-times, " and its apocalyptic pain and suffering for

non-Christians worldwide, with more fervor (References: America's de

facto Christian-Right state religion).

o

To extract wealth and power from " We, the People "

through fear, the War on Terror proves far more successful than the

War on Communism.

o

America's government, elections, and media have become

heavily rigged to favor ½ million wealthy-and-powerful campaign donors

and the 25-million-strong Christian Right.

o

½ million well-off individuals in the " donor class "

supply the bulk of all campaign contributions. The White House and

Congress lavishly repay the favor including by: relaxing

environmental, workplace, and food and drug safety (which kills tens

of thousands of citizens a year); deregulating the investment and

energy industries (which cheats citizens out of billions of dollars

every year, trillions so far); legalizing tax cheating worth $300

billion a year for corporations and the wealthy (which forces our

middle class and poor to pay 15% more to the IRS every year). Average

return on campaign-contribution investment is at least 300-to-1.

(Reference)

o

The religion of the Christian Right -- born-again

Christian Zionism -- is an inhumane and pessimistic brand of

Christianity that emerged in the late 1800s, a century after 1776,

which believes God does not help people in need (only those with the

right kind of faith), values the pre-born over the born, discriminates

against classes of people and against other religions, corrupts

Good-Samaritan giving into trading favors, and yearns for the

Apocalypse so strongly it pressured our White House and Congress to

drain at least $2 trillion so far from our US Treasury to help ignite

the Apocalypse by oppressing Palestinians and by nurturing al-Qaeda in

the 1980s and by waging war on Afghanistan and Iraq. Today's religion

of the Christian Right was not the religion of America's founders.

(References, several chilling paragraphs with many links to sources)

(Note. The born-again Christian Zionism of the

Christian Right is radically different from mainstream evangelical

Christianity. Members of the Christian Right lack so much humanity

they aren't really " Christian, " and mainstream theologians are alarmed

by that inhumanity. So is the author of this ebook, who was an

evangelical-Christian alter boy when young.)

o

" Some evangelical Christians in the US follow the

doctrine of dispensationalism, which, among other things, stipulates

that the creation of Israel in Palestine in 1948 was a fulfillment of

Biblical prophecy and presages the second coming of Jesus Christ. "

" Some evangelist leaders have supported Israel's atrocities against

the Palestinians, such as the 1982 Sabra and Shatila refugee camp

slaughter as well as the Jenin refugee camp massacre in 2002 on the

grounds that such events ushered in the second coming of Jesus. "

" There are also evangelical doctrines teaching that a universal

apocalyptic war between good and evil, called Armageddon, will take

place in Palestine in which most Jews will be annihilated except some

40,000 who would accept Jesus and become Christians. " (Reference:

Evangelist warns Bush over Jerusalem -- support ridding Israel of

Palestinians, or lose Christian-Right votes in November 2004)

o

The Christian Right is seriously at odds with US

Constitution which states in first sentence, " We, the People . . .

promote the general Welfare . . . to ourselves and our Posterity. " To

fulfill the most-fervent Christian-Zionist hope -- triggering

Armageddon and " end times " -- would terminate our general welfare

along with ourselves and our posterity. (References)

o

Born-again Christian Zionists see gruesome human

tragedies in the Middle East -- in Israel, in Iraq which they believe

is the New Babylon -- as " necessary according to prophecy. " (References)

o

The latest Christian-Right " Left Behind " novel --

" Glorious Appearing " -- celebrates violent, bloody ethnic cleansing of

all non-Christians from the face of our planet as the height of piety.

(Reference)

o

Christian fundamentalists are driving US Middle East

policy. (Reference: Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the

heart of power)

o

Christian Zionists, who control America's foreign

policy in the Middle East, today push for fireworks that will dwarf

9/11 and Iraq -- including Israel-Iran military conflict -- as part of

a general " World War IV. " (References)

o

Christian Right supplies 25% of all votes (only 100

million US citizens bother to vote). To repay the favor, the White

House and Congress spend at least $200 billion a year on

Christian-Right religious causes, they codify Christian-Right theology

into federal law and perhaps soon into Constitutional Amendments, and

they appoint Christian-Right federal judges to uphold those laws.

(Reference 1, Reference 2)

o

Religious beliefs of the Christian Right -- " God

doesn't help people except for the born-again faithful, so why should

government " " End times are coming soon, so why bother to care about

our posterity " -- resonate well with the " donor class " that also

dislikes social spending, and also lacks concern for the well-being of

present and future common citizens. To repay those clients for the

millions of votes and billions of campaigning dollars they supply, the

White House and Congress incorporate their clients' inhumanity into

War-on-America domestic policy that subverts our Constitution. (Reference)

o

The ENEMY WITHIN is forcing a Christian-Right state

religion on America. Every taxpayer, on the average, already pays a de

facto $1500 religious tax every year. (Reference 1, Reference 2)

o

Every time the President or Congress use religious

consideration to qualify a judge or dispense funds or justify war or

write law, they violate a vital separation-of-church-and-state

provision in Article 6 of our Constitution. The Christian-Right judges

they appoint, and our mass media, ignore those subversions of our

Constitution and spin those high crimes into righteousness.

o

Washington, corporations and wealthy, Christian-Right,

and media team-up to Reverse Robin Hood America and steal from our

future generations. (Reference)

o

The ENEMY WITHIN's War-on-America is stunting the

average body-height of our population. Due to poor nutrition and

unavailability of health care, especially for millions being driven

into poverty by our nation's accelerating domestic inhumanity,

Americans no longer grow taller from generation to generation and may

be slowly losing height as Europeans and the British, who are now

considerably taller than us, steadily gain height. (Reference)

o

Other War-on-America casualties: USA has the highest

infant-mortality rate in the developed world, the highest

teenage-pregnancy rate in the industrialized world that's worse than

in many third-world countries including Rwanda, and the highest

incarceration rate -- percentage of total population in jail and

prison -- in the entire world. (References: The Myth of American

Health Care: The Lies that Are Killing Us, Joy of sex education, US

prison boom creates an Orwellian world)

o

Incarceration of racial/ethnic minorities and the poor

for committing minor offenses -- as white-and-rich offenders get off

scot-free even though they steal far more money and hurt-and-kill more

people -- fuels a burgeoning prison-industrial-complex that enriches

Corporate America. From the taxes that US citizens pay out to fund

this burgeoning government overhead. 1 out of every 75 American men

are in prison. 6.9 million Americans -- 3.2% of the US adult

population, the highest percentage of any country in the world -- are

in prison or on probation or parole. On a per capita basis the USA

imprisons more of its people than Russia, three times more than Iran,

four times more than Poland, five times more than Tanzania, and seven

times more than Germany and China. If Texas were a country, it would

top the list. (References: Report: 1 out of every 75 American men are

in prison, US criminal numbers hit new high, Texas leads US in

incarceration growth, US: record numbers in prison and on parole, The

Encyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime)

o

White House, Congress, and Supreme Court are

demolishing the " Foundation of America " -- separation of powers,

separation of church and state -- that the Framers wove into our

Constitution to prevent the ancient wealth-and-power disease from ever

flaring up and hurting our nation. That crime is vastly more dangerous

to America than treason or terrorism.

o

America's schools are no longer allowed to teach the

" Foundation of America. " Or the other core fundamentals of " American "

democracy either, including how the human spirit embodied in our

Constitution is far more Buddhist than Christian. (References:

Foundation of America, " American " democracy, Human spirit)

o

The ENEMY WITHIN is waging war on " American " democracy

-- converting it into " Amerikan " democracy that broadly and deeply

violates our Constitution -- starting by wounding public education so

badly that our schools and society can no longer provide the core

" American " knowledge or core human skills needed by all citizens to

govern our country well. (References: " American " democracy, " Amerikan "

democracy, The right-wing attack on public education)

o

The ENEMY WITHIN's stepped-up erasure of core human

skills is causing nationwide arrested development: stunted and

deformed wisdom-and-humanity that handicaps the ability of American

citizens to fathom our Constitution and carry out " America. "

(References: Core human skills, Arrested development, " America " )

o

America's rapid loss of mankind's ancient core

survival skills -- the bare-basic adulthood skills: ability to act

with respect, responsibility, cooperation, and straight thinking -- to

a large extent is caused 1) by the FCC, Hollywood, federal education

policies, 2) by dangerous and harmful examples of " un-American "

behavior being set by a corrupt White House, corrupt Congress, corrupt

Supreme Court, corrupt corporations and wealthy, corrupt Christian

Right, and 3) by a corrupt mass media that promotes those

unwise-and-inhumane policies and behaviors into becoming popular,

which degrades the character of American citizens and American culture

and endangers the survival of our nation. (References: FCC's assault

on democracy, Hollywood's attack on wisdom-and-humanity and good

citizenship, Destructive right-wing federal education policies)

o

Using news and entertainment as a steady intravenous

drip, the ENEMY WITHIN's massive immaturity trickles down deep into

the American population and directly into our children: our new

generations. (Reference: The right wing's massive trickle-down immaturity)

o

America's leaders and media increasingly teach a

warped and deviant sense of right-and-wrong: It's alright for America

to rob and hurt other countries with rigged economic and trade weapons

and with belligerent diplomatic and military force, but it's wrong for

other nations to do the same to America. It's alright for US troops to

storm a peaceful community meeting in Iraq and assassinate community

leaders with point-blank shots to the head, but it's wrong for foreign

soldiers to do that in America. It's alright for wealth-and-power to

steal billions of dollars from citizens -- such as the caper

California's new governor and his clients are pulling off -- but it's

wrong for the poor to cheat a little on their taxes. And so on.

(References: Pure deviance: It's OK for America to rob and hurt other

countries, Muqtada's Shi'ites pay with their lives, The right wing's

massive trickle-down immaturity, Arnold's quiet looting of California)

o

Trickle-down inhumanity from the ENEMY WITHIN at the

top turned US soldiers into sadistic torturers of male and female

Iraqi civilians; up to 90 percent of imprisoned Iraqis were innocent

civilians. US troops -- humanity-lobotomized by US popular culture,

and by US military training -- also were taught to have no moral

qualms about cluster-bombing Iraqi civilians including children, or

about sniper-shooting Iraqi women and children and elderly, or about

killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians so far and wounding and maiming

perhaps four-times more, or about preventing wounded Iraqi citizens

from reaching their hospitals, or about shooting Iraqi ambulances

transporting wounded civilians, or about stealing from and beating and

raping and killing Iraqi civilians in their homes, or about bulldozing

down Iraqi homes and their fruit-tree groves, or during the 1990-1991

Iraq war about incendiary-bombing and burning fields of Iraqi crops.

(References: Red Cross: Iraqi Abuse Widespread, Routine, American

Atrocity)

o

Our military tortured and sexually abused and killed

civilian and military prisoners, they even tortured children and

sodomized boys, all under January-2002 sanction from President Bush

and in secret under an American-propaganda veil of helping Iraq, which

is normalcy in the US global gulag including in the Afghanistan gulag.

This terrible harm, inflicted with stealth or under guise of doing

good, is a perfect metaphor of how the America of today mistreats the

world and its own people and posterity. (References: Abuse, Torture,

and Rape Reported at Unlisted US-run Prisons in Iraq, Torturing

Children, Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized, This is the New

Gulag: Bush has Created a Global Network of Extra-legal and Secret US

Prisons with Thousands of Inmates, Afghan gulag)

o

In response to the torture scandals, the ENEMY WITHIN

came up with new damage-control spin. A war on moral outrage. As well

as a three-element public-relations script to play over and over

again: 1) focus on the lurid photos and horrid abuse to draw attention

away from the President Bush's decision in February-2002 for the

Pentagon to violate the Geneva Conventions, 2) blame it all on a few

bad apples who shamed America and must be punished, 3) portray the

Geneva Conventions as a web of hopelessly complicated legal

technicalities that no one can be expected to understand or fully

agree with. (References: The Coming Backlash Against Outrage, PBS NOW

May-21-2004, From the President: OK for America to violate Geneva

Conventions)

o

Radioactive debris spewed from hundreds of tons of our

depleted-uranium weapons since 1990 -- uranium in our bullets and

shells, bombs and missiles -- will poison Yugoslavians, Afghanis,

Iraqis, and US troops and their families for decades. They will suffer

from lingering radiation illnesses and premature death. The victimized

populations will suffer birth deformities for generations. Depleted

uranium, a component of toxic nuclear waste, besides radioactive

uranium contains radioactive plutonium and americium. Advantages of

such weapons? In addition to the superior destructive power -- uranium

is 67% heavier than lead and therefore packs 67% more wallop -- it's a

profitable way to dispose of nuclear waste. (References: Yugoslavia,

Iraq I, Afghanistan, Iraq II)

o

The wealth-and-power disease uses deception as a

weapon against their enemies and victims, including against We the

People of America and We the People of the world.

o

" Spin " -- and other skills of deception that inflict

harm -- are taught by our universities in advertising/marketing,

public relations, political science, and journalism/communication

programs.

o

In early 1980s, a PBS public-education documentary

concluded: " Unless we teach wisdom and humanity, we are doomed. "

o

In 2004, insightful British author of " Empire of the

Sun " observes America's growing immaturity and the harmful effects:

" As the nation infantilises itself, the point is finally reached where

the abandoned infant has nothing to do except break up its cot. " Such

as to trash its " American " democracy, part of the doom America's

educators warned about decades earlier. (Reference: In modern America,

no nightmare is forbidden)

o

Reading is a democratic activity. Theocracies

discourage it. Khomeini's Iran and the Soviet Union had similarly

degraded views of literature. Bush's America is heading the same way,

into a war on reading and on its human gift of deep understanding.

(Reference: The war on words)

o

To morph our government of, by, and for We the People

into a government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN -- so stealthily We

the People are not even aware of it -- our leaders employ the same

Madison-Avenue advertising and public-relations techniques, and at

times the same Madison-Avenue firms, that the Nazis celebrated and

utilized to shape the public mind of the Third Reich. Also like Nazi

Germany, our mass media became a key part of the state propaganda machine.

o

The ENEMY WITHIN is removing representative government

and democratic processes -- including democratic elections -- from

America. (Reference 1, Reference 2)

o

Justice For All is in peril, too: White House and

Congress are packing our federal-court system with judges who have

contempt for separation of powers, and contempt for separation of

church and state.

o

The pre-born are gaining rights. The born are losing

rights: representative government, democratic processes, justice,

national unity and cooperation as Americans, national security,

general welfare, and liberty.

o

America's steadily worsening wealth-and-power disease,

centered in Washington DC, has deposed 20 democracies worldwide since

World War 2 -- including in Iran, Guatemala, Iran, Chile, Haiti -- and

today attacks authentic democracy in Venezuela, Bolivia, and America.

o

America's mass media has steadily covered up

computer-voting fraud since 1970. (References)

o

Our free press suppresses pro-America pro-democracy

free speech that reveals truth and calls for solutions, such as from

war veteran Dr. Robert Bowman, USAF Ret and investigative journalist

Greg Palast.

o

America's news coverage is a skewed and selective

play-by-play of the here-and-now that's carefully engineered to favor

wealth-and-power, with not even a hint of big-picture connection with

the past or future or elsewhere -- or with our Constitution either.

From that terribly dishonest information source, gaining understanding

of what's really happening simply isn't possible. The whole point.

o

America's news-media corporations are willful partners

in massive international and domestic larceny. As they keep us fixated

on their top story of the day, they never mention the steady major

plundering behind the scenes and behind our backs: the ENEMY WITHIN's

theft of assets and resources from Iraq and from many other countries,

and their systematic Reverse-Robin-Hood looting of America. For each

of their many ongoing heists, think of our press as the lookout and

getaway car.

o

If you want truth about America, you have to read and

watch foreign news as well as investigative journalism that is banned

from America's media. (Reference: Muzzling Michael, Muzzling Me,

Palast DVD Bush Family Fortunes)

o

The wealth-and-power disease is like cancer: unless

treated, the ENEMY WITHIN will suck wealth and power out of American

citizens until our country dies.

o

America's war on the world -- and America's war on

itself -- are exactly what the Framers tried to prevent with

separation of powers and separation of church and state. But the White

House, Congress, Judiciary, Corporate America, the wealthy, Christian

Right, and mass media joined forces -- to form the ENEMY WITHIN -- and

steam-rollered right over those two vital principles that protect and

preserve " America. "

o

The members of the ENEMY WITHIN -- who around 1980

began to assemble into an unchecked concentrated power forbidden by

our Constitution -- today as a cohesive team freely overthrow our

government and slide America into fascism. The ENEMY WITHIN now

controls America, not We the People anymore. Their illegal subversion

of our Constitution is far more dangerous and harmful to our nation

and citizens -- and to the world -- than terrorism. Their news and

entertainment industries spin our minds into being supportive and

clueless. (Reference: America's unmistakable mindless slide into fascism)

o

In our press, and over our public-owned broadcasting

airwaves that are supposed to foster the well-being of our nation, the

ENEMY WITHIN keeps We the People politically weak and helpless by

neutering our will and ability to govern America. They make us unable

to believe that We-the-People citizens are supposed to -- and are able

to -- govern America, to believe instead that God made and runs

America so we must place our governance in the hands of pious leaders

and Christianity, and to believe that a shepherd must rule because a

flock can't. They nurture an American culture that makes us

competitive and combative against each other and fractious and

divisive, splintered apart and fragmented into narrow and selfish

interests, unable to believe that " conservatives " and " liberals " can

politically work together as a team, unable to unite and cooperate to

defend our nation against the internal wealth-and-power threat the

Framers foresaw and feared. See why it's so laughably easy for the

ENEMY WITHIN to divide and conquer?

o

Instead of fostering true patriotic spirit, the White

House, Congress, Judiciary, Corporate America, the wealthy, Christian

Right, and mass media destroyed it. From our schools and public mind

they purged the spirit of the American Revolution, the spirit of

" American " democracy, the spirit of foremost citizen duty, the spirit

of common-ground responsibility, the spirit of our nation's two

fundamental protections, the spirit of dissent.

o

The ENEMY WITHIN violates our Constitution to its

core, causing direct harm to America as well as indirect harm in the

form of retaliatory blowback from the world they hurt:

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Preamble. They prevent We the People from

governing America and from exercising our supreme power. They remove

our justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans, national

security, general welfare, and liberty. They hurt our posterity, such

as with massive deficit spending that puts America deeper and deeper

into federal debt; our future generations will have to pay it off

including steep interest payments.

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Articles 1 and 2. They prevent representative

government. They prevent democratic processes such as by preventing

the publishing and broadcasting of information our democracy needs, by

deceiving and manipulating the electorate, by preventing public

discourse of critical democratic issues, by preventing " pro-America "

political parties from forming, by blocking " pro-America " candidates

from reaching voters, by preventing dissent, by preventing democratic

elections. They wage war without Congress declaring war.

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Article 6. They violate international treaties

including the UN Charter, Geneva Conventions, and Nuremberg Charter;

treaties are supreme Law of the Land, so when they violate a treaty

they violate our Constitution. They use forbidden " religious tests "

when appointing judges, when making laws, when enacting regulations

and executive orders, when disbursing public funds, which violates our

Constitution.

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Amendment 12. In 2000 the Supreme Court and

Congress approved a vice president who clearly did not fulfill the

Amendment's separation-of-powers qualification to be a vice president:

candidates for president and vice president cannot reside in the same

state. After he registered to vote in Wyoming at the last minute, the

vice-presidential candidate's homestead status in Texas proved he was

a resident of Texas.

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Separation of powers, separation of church and

state. In several ways they violate these two foundation principles of

our Constitution. Which if followed would protect and preserve our

nation as the Framers intended, and would have prevented the Homeland

Enemy from ever arising, gaining power, and stealthily overthrowing

our " American " government.

+

In regard to their War on Terror which includes

their War on Iraq, here is how they violate the Preamble, Article 1,

Article 2, Article 6, Amendment 12, separation of powers, and

separation of church and state: CLICK HERE.

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Their violations of our Bill of Rights are minor

infractions in comparison.

o

Kept secret from America -- but well-known to the

world -- beginning around 1980 the ENEMY WITHIN overthrew of our

government and corrupted " America " into a lawless rogue " Amerika " that

exploits and hurts people by the millions here and abroad.

All those acts by the ENEMY WITHIN -- kept well-hidden or

spun into illusions of patriotism and goodness by our mass media --

are unfair, dangerous, and harmful.

Among humans -- and even among the chimpanzees we evolved

from -- the natural and normal reaction to unfairness, danger, and

harm is to cooperate to bring about justice and common well-being.

We must act upon our natural instincts to fight and

neutralize the ENEMY WITHIN that is hurting America. So that " We, the

People " can govern our nation again, and restore our Constitution's

" America " to America.

Our thirst for fairness and justice and well-being, and our

reservoir of cooperation, lie deep inside " We, the People. " In our

genes. In our history. In our Constitution.

On March-20-2003 one of our two daughters asked, " Dad, why

are we bombing Iraq? " She couldn't tell from the news and neither

could we. So we ferreted out hidden truth from the present and lost

truth from the past. We discovered how our 'primitive' forebears knew

the answer tens of thousands of years before civilizations began, how

that natural wisdom-and-humanity trickled-down through the ages, how

the Framers wrote much of it into our liberal Constitution including

how to protect and preserve America forever. Our quest for the full

answer to our daughter's question -- and for a way to prevent such war

and wrongdoing in the future -- grew into this Civics-101 democracy

manual, an ebook in progress.

To see the big picture, use this mental process: Gather four

ingredients: 1) Reports from independent journalists who serve the

public interest by revealing truth about lawbreaking and wrongdoing,

news that reaches very few in the public. 2) News from our mass media

that serve wealth-corporate and Christian-Right interests, news that

spins and hides truth about lawbreaking and wrongdoing, the news that

reaches nearly everyone in the public. 3) Understanding of our ancient

human past, including about the innate wisdom-and-humanity of our

species and about the critical need to keep wealth-and-power in

careful check otherwise community well-being and perhaps survival will

suffer. 4) Understanding of America's early past, including how in

1776 we revolted against mistreatment by wealth-and-power and how we

vowed to keep the power of corporations in careful check and how our

Constitution is based on fundamental wisdom-and-humanity that dates

back at least tens of millennia. Then ponder it all at once. All the

bits and pieces naturally merge into a clarifying synthesis. The big

picture you gradually see -- of the problem, of the solution -- simply

draws itself. Any citizen equipped with the core wisdom-and-humanity

skills of our species, and with basic understanding of human history

and American history, can do it. Because the mental process that draws

the moral lines of the picture seems to be genetic.

The big picture of the problem: We forgot key lessons of

history, we stopped heeding our Constitution, we lost our vigilance

and dropped our guard. Which created a window of opportunity for

mankind's old nemesis -- the wealth-and-power disease -- to flare up

and go berserk. That political sickness then decimated our

wisdom-and-humanity, our American values, and our understanding and

practice of American democracy -- as evidenced by today's severe

erosion of morality and good citizenship from the top on down.

The big picture of the solution: Resurrect the core

wisdom-and-humanity of our species, resurrect the American values and

American democracy in our Constitution, by teaching them in our public

schools and by arm-twisting our mass media to promote and popularize

them. Then wield that wisdom-and-humanity, and that good citizenship,

to beat down and hold down wealth-and-power like our Constitution

tells us to -- to fix America just like we created America.

The war on Iraq turns out to be just one symptom of the

political cancer deeply hurting us today. Another symptom? The belief

that " majority-is-right " democracy is real " American " democracy (a

belief that clashes directly with the first sentence of our

Constitution). Two other symptoms? The belief that humans are by

nature bad and need divine guidance to be good, the belief that

government and citizens are separate and adversarial (beliefs that

collide head-on with the essence of our Constitution).

As you read this ebook you will:

*

Learn how an ENEMY WITHIN has violated our Constitution --

Preamble, Article 1, Article 2, Article 6, Amendment 12, separation of

powers, separation of church and state (their violations of our Bill

of Rights are minor infractions in comparison) -- and is warping our

government Of, By, and For the People into a government Of, By, and

For the ENEMY WITHIN that is fast taking away our representative

government, democratic processes, justice, national unity and

cooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, and liberty.

*

Learn how We the People could nullify the Patriot Act. Learn

how we could reverse the escalating Reverse Robin Hooding of America.

Learn how we could replace the legalized bribery of the White House

and Congress with public-financed political campaigns at a cost of $50

per taxpayer a year, in part to eliminate at least $500 billion of

taxation a year now spent on things that hurt America and the world

including payoffs to wealthy and corporate donors who often earn

1000-to-1 and higher returns on their campaign-contribution

investments. Learn how diverse groups -- from Greens to the NRA,

non-believers and devout, gay to straight, left to right -- would all

share the same deep motivation to stop the unjustness: wanting to be

treated fairly, wanting justice, and cooperating to carry it out are

all imbedded in our genes, history, and Constitution.

*

Learn how We the People could rid America of our present

illegal and dangerous form of government that violates our

Constitution in many huge ways and hurts people by the millions here

and abroad -- " Amerikan " democracy: a blend of market-based

" Madison-Avenue " democracy (where you toss legal principles, moral

principles, and good sense out the window and adulate high poll

numbers instead; where lawbreaking and wrongdoing, including

endangering and harming yourself and others, are " right " and " good " if

manipulative advertising and PR make those misdeeds and

survival-incorrect behaviors acceptable and popular), " right-wing "

democracy (that strips away separation of powers, separation of church

and state, and slides our nation into fascism with a scary

Christian-Right state religion), and " kakistocratic plutocracy "

(government of, by, and for the least-principled few who hold the bulk

of wealth and power) -- and return to genuine " American " democracy.

*

Learn how the ENEMY WITHIN is tiny and vulnerable (their

wealth-corporate core is a mere 0.1% of our population), and if our

country wakes up and rises up how an " American " force to fight it

could grow to be 200-million-strong. Learn how we could have a

government Of, By, and For the People again by getting important news

and honest news out to the public (including by broadcasting what our

Constitution is really all about!), by healing the ENEMY WITHIN's deep

wounds to public education, and by forming a new major political party

with such mass appeal it would heavily draw votes away from Democrats

and Republicans in equal huge numbers. Learn how our Constitution

embodies vital wisdom and humanity from the dawn of our species and

from our non-human primate ancestors millions of years earlier, and

how it directs We the People to defend America against the ENEMY

WITHIN the Framers foresaw and feared.

Journalists, educators, citizen-action and public-interest

groups, responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, and all other

concerned groups and citizens -- conservatives and liberals alike --

have important parts to play.

True conservatives -- and true liberals -- stand on the same

" American " common ground and can work together.

As you read this evolving work-in-progress that we didn't

want to write but had to write, seek answers to this question and

share them with America: How can We the People organize and cooperate

to fight and neutralize the ENEMY WITHIN hurting America, so that We

the People can govern our nation again and restore our Constitution's

" America " to America, as effectively as Americans could have done so

in 1776?

Why do we ask? The ENEMY WITHIN breeds

hyper-competitiveness, combativeness, and selfishness into our

culture. Those social and emotional forces interfere with, and weaken,

our natural ability to be good to ourselves by cooperating as a united

team toward America's well-being.

What kind of goodness, what kind of cooperation, does our

Constitution call for? " We, the People . . . establish Justice, insure

domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the

general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and

our Posterity . . . "

To restore fairness and justice to America, " We, the People "

must tap into what makes us human:

We must act with maturity -- wisely and humanely -- for our

Constitution as conservative-and-liberal true " Americans " do.

Not with immaturity -- unwisely and inhumanely -- against

our Constitution as the " right wing " and ENEMY WITHIN do.

We must unleash the power of the ordinary human mind. To see

the wonder of our Constitution. To see through the usual " Political

Labels & Myths. " To see through the many other blindfolds the ENEMY

WITHIN pulls over our eyes.

Then, " We, the People " merely have to yield to our deep

genetic yearning for fairness and justice. The same yearning evident

in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Could this be the

real reason why people take to the streets and revolt?

Years ago, deep in a Seattle Times article about the gross

unfairness of the federal tax system, a Senator said, " If the American

public knew what's really going on, they'd revolt. "

We must tap into what makes us uniquely " American: "

We must carry out the legal directive in our Constitution:

" We, the People . . . provide for the common defence " against the

ENEMY WITHIN.

We must heed the wise-and-humane legal guidance in the

supreme Law of the Land: Our nation's two fundamental protections. Our

conservative-and-liberal common-ground responsibilities as true

" Americans. "

Our tools of democracy -- socially-responsible journalism,

socially-responsible mass media, civic education, civic activism, good

citizenship -- are being neutralized by an ENEMY WITHIN with such

guile and stealth few Americans are aware:

*

Our nation's journalism reports only a few mild symptoms and

often inaccurately, never the worst symptoms, and never the big

picture or patriotic solution: the ancient political disease that

began to flare up a quarter-century ago (the ENEMY WITHIN now hurting

America badly) and how and why our Constitution urges We the People to

rise up and unite and cure it.

*

Aided by our Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and by

Presidents and Congresses and federal judges who removed the Fairness

Doctrine and public-service requirements from broadcasting and who

gave the legal green light to hate radio and to biased information

monopolies and to corporate use of public airwaves to hurt America and

citizens, aided by giant news-and-entertainment conglomerates that

select-and-cloak and color-and-twist current events and history to

serve wealth and power instead of the public interest, aided by

universities that teach manipulation and deception skills for

marketing and communication, aided by press and radio and television

that assure we stay clueless about major international and US laws our

leaders and military break (such as the UN Charter, Nuremberg Charter,

and US Constitution), aided by routine news blackouts of alarming

threats to our well-being and democracy, aided by an information

machine that parrots and spreads the stories and spin issued by wealth

and power while it hides and distorts vital news our nation needs to

know about, aided by a mass-media machine that functions as an attack

machine especially in subliminal ways against the essence of " America "

and against good citizenship and against personalities and groups and

issues that promote the goals of our Constitution, the ENEMY WITHIN

molds and controls our public mind to their liking.

*

They force our K-12 schools to teach watered-down and skewed

versions of the civic knowledge and civic action required by our

Constitution, they force our schools to cut back the teaching of core

wisdom-and-humanity and core history that people need to be able to

understand and care about our Constitution and to be responsible good

citizens, and the news and entertainment media they own and control

inflict the same dangerous handicaps on the rest of our society. Thus

our citizenry is losing understanding of " American " democracy as well

as the mental ability and desire to carry it out (EXAMPLES). The ENEMY

WITHIN breeds this national-security weakness, and exploits it.

Already in our schools and society they are stealthily replacing our

" American " democracy with a dangerous illegal form of government:

" Amerikan " democracy. Already they have victimized millions of our

citizens to mistakenly perceive violations and violators of our

Constitution as righteous and patriotic, and to unwittingly

wave-the-Flag for law-breaking and law-breakers and their hurting of

people. Already they have victimized millions of citizens to believe

that it's wrong to warn the public about a President, Attorney

General, Senators, Congressmen, and federal judges all the way up to

the Supreme Court who serve God in a gruesome, expensive, illegal way

like this: A peek into the soul of the Christian Right [read four

paragraphs], $100 billion a year (25% of defense spending), $2

trillion so far (30% of our national debt), all to hurry up the

Book-of-Revelations Apocalypse [read two paragraphs]. (If you flare up

in response to this paragraph, or have difficulty understanding its

moral concepts, that's a sign you're a victim of the ENEMY WITHIN's

deep wounds to public education and the public mind. Don't let that

tragic harm be inflicted on the minds and hearts of your posterity. As

our Constitution authorizes and empowers you, be a true patriot and

defend America against the Homeland Enemy doing it.)

*

They have begun to use police-state force to violently crush

civic activism (EXAMPLE). They keep Americans unaware of the wondrous

true meaning of " America " that would inflame the passion and power of

civic activism. In classic divide-and-conquer fashion (picture Roman

generals on a hill observing the battle on the plain below), they sit

back and chuckle as the destructive cultural/social forces they

cultivated keep civic activism splintered into weak and often

fractious separate groups -- such as by keeping conservatives and

liberals, who could work together, at each other's throats -- each

group working alone on vital issues opposed by the same

media-protected block of wealth-and-power that fights every

public-interest issue. (To combat this, the trick is to wise up and

organize and cooperate. All public-interest and civic-action groups,

conservative and liberal, could unite into a giant " American " force

against that tiny " un-American " block of wealth-and-power. Picture 200

million concerned citizens also waking up, rising up, and joining in.)

*

They made an end-run around good citizenship and scored a

touchdown: reading and watching the news to keep informed, writing our

Senators and Congressman, and voting during elections barely work

anymore. Because America's news doesn't sufficiently inform and often

misinforms. Because America's Of the People representatives represent

big donors and not voters. Because America's elections are no longer

democratic in several dangerous ways.

The ENEMY WITHIN is rapidly altering our " American "

democracy into an illegal and dangerous form of government: " Amerikan "

democracy -- a blend of market-based " Madison-Avenue " democracy (where

you toss legal principles, moral principles, and good sense out the

window and adulate high poll numbers instead; where lawbreaking and

wrongdoing, including endangering and harming yourself and others, are

" right " and " good " if manipulative advertising and PR make those

misdeeds and survival-incorrect behaviors acceptable and popular),

" right-wing " democracy (that strips away separation of powers,

separation of church and state, and slides our nation into fascism

with a scary Christian-Right state religion), and " kakistocratic

plutocracy " (government of, by, and for the least-principled few who

hold the bulk of wealth and power).

The American public is caught and swept along in this

dangerous flow.

The distress and pain many citizens are beginning to see and

feel? The political disease the Framers feared is now rapidly

transforming our government Of, By, and For the People into a

government Of, By, and For the ENEMY WITHIN that is illegal under our

Constitution and is fast taking away our representative government

(SUMMARY), democratic processes (SUMMARY), justice (EXAMPLES),

national unity and cooperation as Americans (SUMMARY), national

security (EXAMPLE), general welfare (EXAMPLES), and liberty (EXAMPLE).

What can We the People do about it? The empowering secrets

lie in our genetic past, in the history of our species, in the early

history of our nation, and in our Constitution.

One of those ancient secrets? Use common sense. Clarify the

core problem to the public, promote the united solution to the public,

then rally the public to carry it out somewhat like in 1776.

Another? Cooperate. Cooperation toward the common good is a

major survival skill of humankind. Cooperation is imbedded in our

genes, history, and Constitution.

The complete solution (see the four-element plan herein)

would take some time. Journalists, educators, citizen-action and

public-interest groups, responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, and

all other concerned groups and citizens would have to organize and

cooperate as a united team to fix and heal America -- as effectively

as the ENEMY WITHIN organizes and cooperates to extract wealth and

well-being from America.

A superb initial move is to elect a better President this

November. Hopefully a genuine " education president " who would promote

the core basics of " America " -- our nation's two fundamental

protections and our common-ground responsibilities -- that millions

and millions of citizens need to learn about first before they can

cooperate to restore " America " to America.

Just think of how much more effective citizens would be if

they understood the empowerment of true " American " democracy!

Or is it too late. Did the ENEMY WITHIN already turn America

into an " un-American " nation, into a worsening " Amerika " that is now

beyond the point-of-no-return back to our Constitution? Are we no

longer able to cooperate to assure our rights, freedoms, and well-being?

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Table of Contents

" # " means " a highlight. "

00 Title & header

1a Summary

# What is the " War on Terror? "

1b " Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty " -- Thomas Jefferson.

Today we pay the price for not being vigilant.

1c The bad news -- and good news -- in brief.

02 Genetic roots of American Revolution.

03 Just do it.

04 Connect the dots.

# What are " American values? " Recently erased from our country by

wealth-and-power, we can restore them.

05 It's a matter of national defense. Against the Homeland Enemy.

06 America's political cancer. The patriotic cure. Or is it too late.

07 PROLOG: " We, the People " must cooperate to heal America. Or

accept the dire consequences (EPILOG).

# What is " American democracy? " Erased from America by the ENEMY

WITHIN, we can restore it.

# Serious misdeeds -- and critical danger alerts -- that America's

news will not print or broadcast.

08 A wake-up call, a dawn of hope.

# The " ENEMY WITHIN " in brief.

# The Reverse Robin Hooding of America.

# The FCC's assault on democracy.

09 Summary: the problem and solution.

# A long range four-element civic action plan.

# The slam-dunk odds of victory!

# How to fix our worst national-security weakness.

10 The new Enemy of 1776 and their Redcoats.

# $1500 annual tax to support Christian-Right religion.

11 Is it too late?

12 When wisdom sleeps, a beast awakes.

13 Already purged: our foremost civic duty.

# America's deadly WMD against itself.

14 Many symptoms, one problem, one solution.

# The right-wing assault on the general welfare.

# The right-wing assault on public education.

# Our emerging Christian-Right state religion.

# The usual activism barely works anymore.

# Tips for journalists and activists.

# " We, the People " must unite like the ENEMY does.

15 More dangerous than Communists within.

# 9/11: how America shot itself in the foot.

16 Our course: from " America " to " Amerika? "

# We spend $100 billion a year on Christian Zionism.

# The right-wing assault on human goodness.

# National-debt interest: 20% of federal revenue.

# " War-on-Terror " logo hides America's terrorism.

17 No longer taught: how to be a true " American. "

# America's two fundamental protections.

# The common ground of all true " Americans. "

# A primer on vigilance.

# God and Country: illegal when combined.

# War-on-Iraq summary. Should we wave the Flag?

18 Our choice: accept the disease or go for the cure.

19 " American " democracy: roots, uprooted, regrowth?

# Perils of " Madison-Avenue " democracy.

# Dangers of " right-wing " democracy. # America's descent

into fascism.

# The new illegal and dangerous " Amerikan " democracy.

# Real " American " democracy.

# The strong case for resurrecting core adulthood skills.

# Hollywood's assault on humanity and good citizenship.

# " Free-market " pillaging: " Privatization. " " Globalization. "

# The right-wing assault on representative government.

# The right-wing assault on democratic processes.

# Campaign contributions: ultra-dangerous 'free speech.'

# How to end the legalized bribery of our elected leaders.

# A fair way to instantly pay off our national debt.

# How to fire up the NRA for Minutemen duty -- today.

# Weep for Laos.

20 Our block-the-truth, spin-the-truth mass media.

21 Venezuela un-spun.

# Haiti un-spun.

22 The right-wing assault on the " Foundation of America. "

23 America's weapon of deception against " America. "

24 Wolves we don't see. The falls ahead we don't hear.

# The rain of events pooled into a flow.

25 How we turned immoral and lawless, even to ourselves.

26 The hijacking.

27 007's Spectre grows real, right under our noses.

28 Today's patriotism: dangerously " un-American. "

# Why we fought in 1776: to curb power of corporations.

# Corporate personhood: a huge legal-system lie.

# A patriotic duty of a jury: to judge the law itself.

29 Our media and FCC: in bed with the right wing.

30 Iraq war: 1992 inception, plans for plunder, deep deceit.

# USA's premeditated heist of a sovereign nation's assets.

# Collateral damage: 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed.

# Iraqi citizens are fighting off the enemy.

31 Our kakistocratic plutocracy.

# Computer-voting fraud: covered up since 1970.

32 Conclusion: a true " America " anyone?

# Wisdom from a Senator.

# NATO's looting of Yugoslavia.

# The ancient origin of our Constitution.

33 EPILOG: Have " We, the People " lost our natural ability to

cooperate toward common well-being?

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A wake-up call, a dawn of hope.

Our nation's core problem? The essence of " America " --

representative government, democratic processes, justice, national

unity and cooperation as Americans, national security, the general

welfare, liberty -- is under assault by an ENEMY WITHIN aided and

protected by the news-and-entertainment media they own and control.

One of the many symptoms? The fundamental understanding of

our Constitution that we need to function as government Of the People,

By the People, For the People has been substantially purged from our

schools and American culture. So have the basic mind-and-heart skills

that we need to understand and care about our Constitution. The ENEMY

WITHIN has thus created a national-security weakness that hurts America.

How come we don't know all this? Including how the ENEMY

WITHIN sowed the seeds of 9/11 two decades ago, conceived the Iraq war

a decade ago, spends $100 billion a year to help fulfill a radical and

scary Christian-Zionist biblical prophecy, ramped up their Reverse

Robin Hooding of America right after 9/11, and breaks international

law and US law in major ways? Because the ENEMY WITHIN, and its

news-and-entertainment media, constantly manipulate and deceive us. It

works like this. The mind-bending skills are taught by our

universities in marketing and communication programs. Graduates

employed by the ENEMY WITHIN then use those manipulation-and-deception

skills as weapons against our country. Like this: The Lie Factory.

Which doesn't pose a moral dilemma because they, like so many citizens

today, more and more are victimized and handicapped by the ENEMY

WITHIN to lack social responsibility and obligation to " America " .

What can We the People do about it? This ebook explains.

Journalists, educators, citizen-action and public-interest groups,

responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, and all other concerned groups

and citizens have vital parts to play.

" We, the People " need to fight off the wealth-and-power

disease again. Like we did in 1776.

The Framers understood and feared this ancient disease. So

they wrote two core safeguards into our Constitution to prevent it:

separation of powers, separation of church and state. And trial by

jury where We the People judge the law itself as a direct citizen

check on unjust and dangerous power. And a directive for

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[Guest guest]

this is a health and healing list..can we keep political diatribe off this list and focus on the reasons for the list creation please????

 

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Walt

Monday, November 29, 2004 1:34 PM

How to take back America from the ENEMY WITHIN: A long-range four-element plan

Go to the site, this article has many, many imbedded links to read.http://www.seattleairgear.com/civics.htm#civics83How to take back America from the ENEMY WITHIN:A long-range four-element plan to restore our Constitution's Americato America By Dan Ruuska Version Nov-28-2004 danruuska CONTENTS How to see the Big Picture Political Labels / Political Myths How this ebook began. Freely circulate & use. Thanks to all who help. If a link fails due to the named-anchor flaw in Microsoft InternetExplorer, allow page to download more and retry. Then switch to Mozilla Firefox. Summary Most Americans can't see the ENEMY WITHIN and can't sensethe danger. But it's not their fault. Around 1980 our mass media beganto alter its patriotism and values as it switched to a new client:from being more-or-less honest to protect and serve America, tobecoming deceptive, biased, and manipulative to protect and serve theconsolidated wealth-and-power that's taking over our country andgovernment. Today all forms of big media disguise the ENEMY WITHIN intoour friend, hide its wrongdoing, spin its misdeeds and bad characterinto goodness (and vice versa against its opponents), and they dowhatever else it takes to shape and slant the message to theirclient's liking. Under this onslaught of dangerous "perceptionmanagement," our public mind -- and our country -- don't stand a chance. Today in America, truth about America is not allowed ortolerated in our press, radio, television, film. Or in our schoolseither. We cannot know what we cannot know. An example. Thomas Paine's publication of Common Sense inJanuary 1776, a wildly popular vigorous war-cry of dissent againstEngland's abuse of power, pushed Colonial America toward theDeclaration of Independence and American Revolution and birth of ournation. However a modern-day version of Common Sense -- that spellsout how today's ENEMY WITHIN is worse in moral character and moreunjust and harmful than the Enemy of 1776, and how perhaps the onlysolution is for We the People to rise up and revolt again, this timewith legal backing from our Constitution -- would be spun into treasonby today's media and the author vilified, or warped into paranoidconspiracy theory and the author railed into a fool. Another example. Out of fear of reprisal from today's rightwing, journalists and teachers dare not present these old basics ofcivics and history: America is not in any sense founded as a Christiannation (1797 Treaty of Tripoli); "God and Country" is illegal (God andCountry); the religion of the Christian Right, born-again ChristianZionism, is an inhumane brand of Christianity that emerged a centuryafter 1776 and was not the religion of our nation's founders (5-partseries on Christian Zionism). The ENEMY WITHIN -- the illegal consolidation ofexecutive/legislative/judicial federal power, wealth-corporate power,Christian-Right religious power, and mass-media power into aright-wing state power that's rapidly growing more strong andirresponsible and harmful -- is America's dangerous Homeland Enemy. Peel off its facial mask of patriotism, moral virtue, andpiety to reveal the character hidden beneath: the ENEMY WITHIN is moreunjust than the enemy of 1776, more lawless than the worst criminalswe execute, more deadly to America than terrorism. Merely by exercising the good citizenship called for in ourConstitution, We the People can unite and cooperate to defend Americaagainst the ENEMY WITHIN. And to heal the many deep wounds they inflict. This revolt of mass good citizenship is required andlegalized by the first sentence of our Constitution: "We, the People"as the government of America and supreme power in America "provide forthe common defence" of America including against all enemies from within. On 11/2 America's voter majority, expressing desire forhomeland/family/moral/Christian values, re-elected the President backinto office and thus condoned his righteous accomplishments. Such asthe killing of 100,000 Iraqi civilians and the wounding and maiming ofmany thousands more including by indiscriminate cluster-bombing, suchas the poisoning of Iraqi cities with radioactive dust from tons ofdepleted-uranium munitions that will cause radiation sickness andbirth deformities, all during the premeditated armed heist of Iraq'snatural resources and state assets (SUMMARY). Those violations of theUN Charter, Nuremberg Charter, Geneva Conventions, Preamble andArticles 1 and 6 of our Constitution, and US War Crimes Act (SUMMARY)-- deplored abroad and well documented by independent journalists --are falsely packaged and sold by our White House and mass media asdefending America and bestowing democracy on Iraq. Did everyone inthat majority see only the packaging and not the contents? Hardly.Many in the President's base really like lawless-and-inhumaneexploitation and domination: merely listen to America's hate radio.11/2 shocked the world. So it is wise to begin this New American Revolution soon.This ebook shows how. It paints the big picture including our past andpresent and future, and explains the whole problem and provides thefull solution. Just like our Declaration of Independence. The usual methods of civic action in the public interest --such as writing to your Congressman and Senators, supportingcommon-good causes, engaging in principled dissent -- barely workanymore. Divide-and-conquer schemes -- that pit conservatives againstliberals, the religious against seculars, and so on -- keep uspolarized and divisive, and prevent us from uniting and cooperating ina common "American" cause against the ENEMY WITHIN. Therefore to planand execute a nationwide revolt of good citizenship to carry outElements 1-4, our country may need to create a national civic-actioncongress that represents the full range of citizens, including trueconservatives and true liberals, who all in common cherish "America."This citizen congress would organize our population into a united,cooperative, effective political force -- that is, into a real We thePeople again. The congress would start small and steadily grow insupreme power. It would operate outside of our current illegalgovernment Of, By, and For Wealth and Power and would function likeour Continental Congress during the American Revolution. This time torestore "America" to our nation. Including to reform our media backinto to serving us. A possible spin-off from the congress? A new major politicalparty, perhaps a new "American Party," devoted to carrying out ourConstitution and serving We the People. Such a party couldresoundingly defeat our current political monopoly: the de factoRepublican-Democratic Party that hugely violates our Constitution andserves Wealth and Power. To launch this revolt of good citizenship and new hope forAmerica -- where "We, the People... provide for the common defence"against our common worst enemy: the ENEMY WITHIN and its media allies-- we need a modern day Paul-Revere ride of many patriots,conservatives and liberals alike, to warn citizens how the enemy issubverting and hurting America (think of it as a Red Alert about theHomeland Enemy) and to inform citizens how to defend America againstthis consolidated power that's gone lawlessly and immorally berserk. An easy way to take part? Email links to these webpages --Promote the patriotic CURE for America's political cancer(http://seattleairgear.com/thecure.htm) and How to take back Americafrom the ENEMY WITHIN (http://seattleairgear.com/civics.htm) -- to allthe civic-minded people and groups you know. During the past quarter century, the relentless corrosion ofour nation's civic-and-moral character by the Homeland Enemy and itsmass-media team has damaged our American values and core wisdom andhumanity. Including by what they did to public education and bysetting bad examples (The right-wing attack on America). Including bythe hate broadcasting that arose after their FCC partner, in the1980s, removed the Fairness Doctrine and other civic-responsibilityrequirements from America's broadcasting. If America's humanity is still partially intact after thismore-than-generation-long assault on our civic-and-moral abilities,then a Full Red Alert about the Homeland Enemy will ignite nationwidemoral outrage and a long-overdue civic revolt. Moral outrage and strong cooperation, in natural response tounfairness and maltreatment, created America. Just do it again to fixAmerica. It should be easy. Because liberals and their families, andconservatives and their families, suffer equally under the right-wingENEMY WITHIN. Because the core of the ENEMY WITHIN is small and the200-million-strong group being hurt by that core is huge. TOP CONTENTS "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" -- Thomas Jefferson. Today we pay the price for not being vigilant. We the People dropped our guard and stopped being vigilant.Mankind's old nemesis, Wealth and Power, spotted that weakness andrapidly took advantage. An ENEMY WITHIN flared up, took control of ourmedia, took control of our public schools, took control of our publicmind, damaged our core wisdom and humanity, nearly erased Americanvalues and American democracy from our national consciousness, tookcontrol of our government, violate our Constitution and internationallaw, exploit and hurt our country and the world, and neutered theability of many Americans to sense this illegality and danger andharm. Exactly as Thomas Jefferson feared. Besides causing 9/11, besides mistreating the worldincluding by killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians so far during theirpremeditated armed heist of Iraq which fuels even more backlash atAmerica, the ENEMY WITHIN directly hurts America. They destroy ourdemocracy, justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans,national security, general welfare, and liberty. They imprison morecitizens per capita than any other country in the world; mostly theyincarcerate minorities and the poor and the powerless who commitrelatively minor offenses, while the well-off and well-connected whocommit far more serious crimes get off scot-free. They kill at least50,000 of us each year, far more than terrorists do. They ReverseRobin Hood America: cleverly and stealthily, they rob the poor andmiddle class and give it to corporations and the wealthy, including bylooting Social-Security and Medicare and Veterans trust funds to payfor those trickle-up subsidies and tax cuts and tax refunds, andthrough 'legal' tax cheating by the elite that costs the rest of us anextra $300 billion per year in taxes to make up the difference. And soon. What the ENEMY WITHIN is doing to us -- and to other nations suchas Iraq -- is vastly more immoral than the mistreatment from CorporateEngland that inspired our Declaration of Independence and ignited ourAmerican Revolution. They, and their mass-media partners, hide all these misdeedsand spin them into illusions of moral goodness. They cooperate as ateam to prevent us from being vigilant. For example, they hide thePresident's signed approval of torture and his pre-war blueprint forIraq's plunder. They dupe us so expertly that on 11/2 our electoratemajority, citing how they voted for moral values, chose to support theENEMY WITHIN's deep immorality: massive domestic-and-internationallawbreaking, and remorseless hurting of people here and abroad. Thevote -- an abnormal ethical response to wrongdoing and harm, asurvival-incorrect response to being mistreated -- stunned the world.Such is the power and tragedy of irresponsible modern persuasion. On November 9, 2004, PBS Frontline's The Persuadersdescribed how America's advertising, PR, and biased journalism arehurting our democracy: The Persuaders, PBS Frontline Nov-9-2004. Excerpts from an interview with Mark Crispin Miller,media critic and professor in the Department of Culture andCommunication at New York University: "It's tempting to spread the blame for this greatcivic breakdown and say that we're all at fault; we're all decadent .. . we don't care about the truth, and we don't care about thisnation's founding ideals." "[but the public is] not stupid. [T]he subjects ofevery tyranny in modern history have known only what those at the tophave wanted them to know. They could not know what they could notknow, so that when you start to tell somebody . . . 'this happened,this happened' . . . it sounds impossibly radical; it soundsearth-shatteringly bizarre. So you're accused of paranoia orconspiracy theorizing when all you're doing is reporting what thecitizens of the world's other countries know just from reading thepaper. [P]eople can't be blamed if all they know is [what America'sjournalism fed them]." "[O]ver the last three decades . . . a significantsector of American journalism has become totally politicized. Theright has been smart enough and rich enough to create what areostensibly news organs that basically do nothing but deliverRepublican Party talking points, right-wing propaganda of variouskinds. [T]hese highly biased sources, Fox and so on, are the ones thataccuse all other journalists of being biased in the liberal direction.Well, there is no liberal bias. [F]or millions of Americans, theirdaily intake of news is basically a daily intake of right-wingfantasy. [T]he news is custom-made now to fit a certain ideologicalpoint of view . . . Our media is wholly compromised -- I would saycorrupt beyond redemption . . . It has absolutely failed to fulfillits constitutional obligation to inform us. That's what the FirstAmendment is about. The First Amendment has to do with our right toknow what's going on. . . . The real purpose of the First Amendment isto allow the press to keep us abreast of what our government is doing.They don't do that at all." From the broadcast's transcript: "Instead of beingAmericans, we're sliced into 70 demographic groups . . . [and] intohundreds of subcategories under that. And then the worry is that wedon't share anything as a people.The result is [that we're now]living in a society where people, rather than having an idea of thecommon good, increasingly see their own personal well-being . . . asthe essential issue of democracy." Also on The Persuaders. How America's advertising andPR and journalism, now combined and taught together as "communication"by America's universities, can alter reality into false perceptionsopposite of reality -- such as dangerous into safe, misdeeds into actsof goodness, bad character into integrity, and vice versa -- asrequired by the client. How they reduced citizens into consumers andour democracy into the selling and buying of falsely-advertisedpolitical products, which unlike most other products are not regulatedby truth-in-advertising law and enforcement. Around 200 million conservative and liberal citizens arevictims. So are millions of other people around the world. Until We the People unite and act like real Americans again,it will grow worse. Fast. In April-2002 and August-2004, citizens of Venezuela foughtoff attacks on their democracy by consolidated wealth-and-power backedby dishonest media. Those overthrow attempts were assisted by ourENEMY WITHIN, including by our National Endowment for Democracy andDepartment of Justice, who so far have spent millions of US taxdollars trying to subvert Venezuela's 1999 Constitution and crush itsdemocracy. If the citizens of Venezuela can succeed, so can We the People. To fight off our ENEMY WITHIN and to bring democracy andwell-being to their nation, Iraq in December-2003 created theirNational Foundation Congress which represents the full range of Iraqicitizens. If Iraq can form a national civic-action that's similar toour American-Revolution Continental Congress, so can We the People. Odds of winning this revolt? The ENEMY WITHIN'swealth-corporate base -- whose out-of-control wealth and power alreadydestroyed our representative government and democratic processes -- isonly 0.1% of our population. Their Christian-Right base -- whoseborn-again Christian Zionism hurts and costs us dearly (that inhumanebrand of Christianity emerged a century after 1776 and thus was notthe religion of our nation's founders) -- is just 10% of our population. TOP CONTENTS The bad news -- and good news -- in brief. America's most dangerous threat, a Homeland Enemy foreseenby our nation's founders and so feared they wrote defensiveprotections into our Constitution to nip-it-in-the-bud (separation ofpowers, separation of church and state, trial by jury where We thePeople judge the law itself as a direct citizen check on unjust anddangerous power), began to materialize around 1980: in massivedisregard for our Constitution, America's wealth and power --executive/legislative/judicial federal power, wealth-corporate power,Christian-Right religious power, mass-media power -- consolidated intoan unbridled right-wing power, morphed our government of, by, and forWe the People into a government of, by, and for Wealth and Power, andwent berserk. They break the Law of our Land, and inflict harm hereand abroad, with no one to restrain them. Here are just five of myriaddeep wounds they inflicted so far: 9/11, Iraq, wealth-corporate taxcheating costing the rest of us $300 billion a year (our poor andmiddle-class pay an extra 15% more in federal taxes to make up thedifference), federal support of Christian Zionism costing US taxpayers$100 billion a year, and unnecessary death of at least 50,000 UScitizens a year. That consolidated, unchecked, rampaging, heartlesswealth-and-power is the Homeland Enemy the Framers foresaw and feared.That ENEMY WITHIN subverts our Constitution's America into anunprincipled Amerika. Their media machine spins and hides it, theirattack machine crushes dissent and true "Americans" who stand in theirway. Learn how We the People can defend and win against that illegalanti-American force. The ENEMY WITHIN runs America now, not We the Peopleanymore. They violate every USA goal and responsibility listed in thefirst sentence of our Constitution (Preamble) as well as Article 1,Article 2, Article 6, Amendment 12, separation of powers, separationof church and state (SUMMARY); their violations of our Bill of Rightsare minor infractions in comparison. They violate international law:UN Charter, Geneva Conventions, Nuremberg Charter. They inflictseveral types of harm on America and the world. By manipulating thepublic to support and assist those efforts with United-We-StandAmerican Pride, they turn citizens into lawbreakers also. Includingevery American involved with the war on Iraq: premeditation that beganin 1992, authorization and planning and command, bombing and invasion,destruction and killing and maiming, depleted-uranium-weaponradioactive poisoning, control and domination, profiteering andplundering (SUMMARY of the lawbreaking). Many in America celebratethose lawbreakers and their horrific misdeeds. The ENEMY WITHIN turnedAmerica into lawless and hurtful nation. Although the world out theresees all this, our worst enemy makes sure that Americans can't. Learnhow to fix this entire problem. What is American democracy? Few citizens know anymore. Ourschools no longer teach it. Our press, radio, TV, and films neverpromote it. Our Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court -- who moreand more represent and serve wealth-corporate clients andChristian-Right clients instead of We the People -- demonstratecontempt for American democracy and set un-American examples foradults and our young to follow. The Homeland Enemy took control of ourgovernment, media, schools, and erased our special democracy fromAmerica. Learn how to use our Constitution, and the supreme power ofcitizens, to restore it. America's news media should be sounding alarms. Ourjournalists should be watchdogs of democracy. Instead, they protectand serve the ENEMY WITHIN. They even help the enemy put on theirdisguises: Patriots With Wholesome Values; Righteous GuardiansCitizens Can Trust; Leaders Who Keep America Safe. Learn how to turnthe media back into our voice of freedom. TOP CONTENTS Genetic roots of American Revolution. Moral outrage and cooperation are embedded in our DNA(REFERENCES). Over millions of years those primal drives evolved, andwe still need them today, for our well-being and survival. Act on those deep natural urgings. Like Americans did sowell in 1776. TOP CONTENTS Just do it. In natural response to injustice by Corporate England,Colonial America revolted. And created our nation and our Constitution. 18th-century Colonial Americans taxed themselves -- tobenefit themselves. One of the injustices that sparked revolution? Thetea tax to England that helped to subsidize the East India Company, amonopoly owned by the British royalty and wealthy. The East IndiaCompany received tax exemptions and tax refunds from England so thatit could engage in cutthroat rigged global trade against the Colonies.Which triggered the Boston Tea Party (The Boston Tea Party). Thosetaxes paid to England -- were used to hurt Colonial Americans. To a large extent the American Revolution was a revoltagainst that monopolistic, government-subsidized, harmful corporate power. Today in America an illegal union of wealth and power isreverting our federal tax system back toward that pre-Revolutionunfairness. More and more we pay taxes to fund tax cuts, taxexemptions, and tax refunds to corporations -- who then hurt us in return. That fusion of wealth and power -- the consolidation offederal power, corporate power, the power of wealth, religious power,and media power into a single united power during the past quartercentury -- took governing power away from "We, the People" and isrolling back several types of citizen well-being that our nationaccomplished since 1776. That ENEMY WITHIN is pushing America backwardtoward levels of citizen mistreatment that ignited the AmericanRevolution. Signs of mistreatment? America has the most unfair taxationof all civilized nations, and plans are afoot to make our taxes evenmore unfair such as to eliminate taxes on non-wage non-salary income.American citizens are being Reverse Robin Hooded; regressive taxes,laws, and policies transfer wealth from the poor and middle class tothe well-off who don't need it. The advertised "trickle down" isactually "trickle up." America's higher education, inexpensive fortyyears ago, is growing so costly it is more and more out of reach ofthe middle class and poor. America's financial industry, which borrowsfrom the US Treasury at 2% and loans it out as high as 400% for paydayloans, is dragging down millions of citizens and families into aquagmire of never-ending high interest payments and debt. America hasthe most expensive healthcare and prescription drugs in the world,unaffordable to more and more citizens. America has the highestinfant-mortality rate, and the highest teenage-pregnancy rate, in thedeveloped world. Americans no longer grow taller from generation togeneration and may be slowly losing height, a stark indicator ofdeclining healthcare and nutrition, as Europeans and the British, whoare now considerably taller than us, steadily gain height. 1/8 of ourpopulation, and 1/4 of all working adults, live in poverty and thosenumbers are rising. Our concentrated wealth-and-power is influencingAmerica to kill fellow Americans at a far higher rate than Saddamkilled Iraqis (SUMMARY). America has the highest incarceration rate,percent of total population in jail and prison, in the entire world;most of our inmates are poor and powerless while the well-off andwell-connected, who commit far more serious crimes, get off scot-free(SUMMARY). And so on. That out-of-control wealth and power treats other nations,and their people, even more abusively. On 9/11 we experienced somebacklash. Our public schools today, controlled by that wealth andpower, are not allowed to teach the above American history. Or theabove current events. Or the core principles of United Statesgovernment either. Our mass media, controlled by that same wealth and power,spins and hides all of this. What happened? A well-disguised Homeland Enemy stealthilyoverthrew our Constitution's "American" government despite theFramers' best efforts to prevent it, and skillfully replaced it with agovernment of, by, and for an ENEMY WITHIN that hurts America and theworld. Although most Americans can't quite see this overall pictureyet, many certainly feel it happening. The ENEMY WITHIN is worse in character than the enemy of 1776. Not to worry. Moral outrage, which comes naturally anddrives citizens to cooperate and restore fairness to government, workswonders: it created America, and it can save America. The New AmericanRevolution proposed herein would be a long-overdue major maintenanceand tune-up of our democracy. The legal authorization for this revoltis found in the first sentence of our Constitution: "We, the People,"as the government of America and supreme power in America, "providefor the common defence" of our country including against dangerousenemies within no matter how prominent or high up they are. The majorenemies of America are surprisingly few in number, and they arevulnerable. This democracy manual resurrects long-forgotten core humanhistory, principles, and wisdom that the founders of our nation wovedeeply into our Constitution after they dissented at the Boston TeaParty and then fought and won the American Revolution. As you readthis ebook, dream up methods to carry out Elements 1-4 of thelong-range plan herein. Spread this plan around to help educate thepublic. Do everything you can to fire up citizens nationwide,especially the many separate public-interest groups and independentmedia, to all unite and cooperate to restore our Constitution's"America" to America. If enough citizens and organizations join in, itwould pressure the mainstream media to join in also and become ourvoice of freedom again. The ENEMY WITHIN, a Homeland Enemy that began to flare uparound 1980, violates our Constitution: every US goal and socialresponsibility listed in the Preamble, Article 1, Article 2, Article6, Amendment 12, separation of powers, separation of church and state(SUMMARY). Their violations of our Bill of Rights are minorinfractions in comparison. They disregard and break international lawas arrogantly and dangerously. The human toll? They hurt and take fromAmerica, and they hurt and take from weaker nations, on amind-boggling scale with no one to restrain them. The Homeland Enemy, as explained herein, is overturning anddestroying what we fought for and won in the American Revolution.Already we lost our representative government and democratic processesincluding democratic informing of the electorate and democraticelections. We continue to lose our justice, national unity andcooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, andliberty for ourselves and our posterity. None of this would behappening if our Constitution was lived up to. Tragically, most Americans don't know about any of this.Because America's mass media -- print, radio, television, film, bothnews and entertainment -- today protect and serve their new client,the ENEMY WITHIN, not "American" democracy anymore. Using the sameAmerican-invented advertising and public-relations techniques thatwere employed by Hitler to shape the public mind of Nazi Germany, theycontrol our perceptions and herd our thinking. So that we cannot spotor question their client's lawbreaking and harming and betrayal, andto manipulate our minds to believe that it's wacko and wrong for anycitizen to do so. They also manipulate us to turn from a united andcooperative citizenry, into a polarized and divisive citizenry thatcompetes and fights with itself so much we can't see the patriotic"American" common ground written in our Constitution, in order todivide and conquer us (which violates America's #2 goal listed in thefirst sentence of our Constitution). This is why so many Americans today are unaware of what'shappening. Why we momentarily fixate on each top story of the hour fedto us, instead of staying focused on the string of seriousConstitutional crimes committed by the trusted leaders we elected. Whywe're so concerned about the wrongness of lies, rather than about thewrongness of the specific Constitutional crimes committed with thoseweapons of deception. Why we don't see the patriotism, or the value,of citizen dissent against misdeeds in high places that hurt Americaand the world. Why we unwittingly support the Homeland Enemy'shorrific wrongdoing often with United-We-Stand American Pride. Why webelieve that leaders who violate our Constitution and do terrible harmto people have sterling moral character and therefore deserve ourallegiance and votes. Why we agree to be ruled by the consolidatedwealth-and-power hurting us instead of wanting to wisely-and-humanelygovern ourselves like our Constitution tells us to. Why "We, thePeople" are no longer in charge of our own nation. Why the HomelandEnemy was able to overthrow our government of, by, and for the Peoplewithout America even knowing it. Why America now has an illegal andunjust government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN. Perhaps the most frightening mind-bending success of theENEMY WITHIN is how they cripple and warp citizen humanity. Forexample they neuter and misdirect moral outrage about mistreatment ofpeople, and they neuter and misdirect cooperation toward the commongood, to achieve their un-American purposes: They skillfully neuterthose two natural human forces -- primal forces that created andmaintain America -- to make us unable to feel moral anger abouthorrific wrongdoing, unable to unite and cooperate to stop thatwrongdoing and administer justice, and therefore unable to undertakethe civic action necessary to protect and preserve America. They alsoskillfully misdirect them -- into weapons against America -- such asby manipulating the masses to direct anger and punishment atdissenters trying to stop the Homeland Enemy's harming of our nation. Equally scary and dangerous is how the Homeland Enemydoesn't let our schools teach core principles of American governmentor core American values to our new generations anymore. Which is whyso many Americans today don't know the meaning of our Constitution orFlag anymore. The whole point. The goal? Restore "America" to America like our Constitutiondirects us to. Like the souls of America's founders, and humankindworldwide, sure hope us to. Superior candidates -- who live and breathe American valuesdomestically and would do so internationally, who exalt "American"democracy, who would foster our public interest and national interest-- are not yet allowed to seek office. Whenever they try, the ENEMYWITHIN's attack machine and mass-media allies gang up and finish themoff. Play ball with wealth-and-power. Or else. Likewise, America has no "pro-America" political party yeteither. Republicans and Democrats both curry votes from the ChristianRight, and money from corporations and the wealthy, and in returnlavishly serve those two groups to stay in power (for example: federalspending that furthers the Christian-Zionist agenda of the ChristianRight totals at least $2 trillion so far, an unnecessary 30% of ourfederal debt, and the interest expense on that portion of debt is $100billion a year; in addition to their generous tax cuts, corporationsand the wealthy enjoy tax evasion and tax cheating worth $300 billiona year as the White House and Congress look the other way, forcing therest of us to pay 15% more in federal taxes every year to make up thedifference; annual taxpayer cost of those two gifts, $400 billion ayear, is just some of our money that Republicans and Democrats takefrom us behind our backs to stay in power). How deeply are Republicansand Democrats both in bed with corporations and the wealthy, howtotally does our mass media cover it up, and how dangerous is that toour democracy? Read these PBS transcripts: PBS NOW Aug-20-2004, PBSNOW Aug-27-2004, PBS NOW Sep-3-2004, which include a prominentwealthy-and-powerful conservative calling theRepublican/Democratic/corporate/wealthy/media-collusion traitorous andtreasonous. From 1979 through 1986, Republicans and Democrats bothvoted to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build up the proxymilitary weapon that a few years later aimed and fired itself atAmerica on 9/11 (SUMMARY). Republican and Democratic leaders bothfavor the war on Iraq and the war on Venezuela's democracy, both forthe same reason: to plunder their oil wealth. In actual practice todaya single Right Wing Party, with two inner factions, now controls ourgovernment of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN: therapacious-and-heartless Republican-Party majority, and thesomewhat-more-humane Democratic-Party minority. America's politicaladvertising and biased media coverage create a false illusion of hugedifferences between the two parties. That single de facto politicalparty, in collaboration with our mass media, maintain and enforce theHomeland Enemy's political monopoly that strangles "American" democracy. So. All the media-publicized choices for voters today --political candidates, political parties -- are strongly ENEMY-WITHINflavored, a sure sign we no longer have a democracy. This is only oneof today's many barriers to "American" democracy, all erected by theHomeland Enemy, that "We, the People" must breach and demolish duringa New American Revolution. How? Consult the long-range plan herein, especially theElement 4 that Elements 1-2-3 build up to: create a new politicalparty that would appeal to true conservatives and true liberals alike,a "pro-America" party that could win against the Republican Party andDemocratic Party -- overwhelmingly. The necessary moral outrage andcooperation by a 200-million-strong "We, the People" could be arousedand unleashed like in 1776. Today's Minutemen, the NRA rank-and-file who like mostcitizens today are being hurt in several ways by the Homeland Enemy,could be persuaded to enlist. As a Senator said in a Seattle-Times news article many yearsago, "If the American public knew what's really going on, they'd revolt." The ENEMY WITHIN's religious core -- based on born-againChristian Zionism: a radical, pessimistic, inhumane brand ofChristianity that emerged a century after 1776 (and thus was not thereligion of America's founders) and today dangerously acts against ourConstitution and national security -- has about 25 million followers,only 10% of our population. The ENEMY WITHIN's wealth-corporate core -- whose largecampaign contributions purchase the unjust-and-harmful laws, leeway,and largesse they want from the White House and Congress -- has about300,000 individuals, only 0.1% of our population. "We, the People" are huge in comparison. And can thereforejust do it. TOP CONTENTS Connect the dots. Connect the confusion of disheartening dots into the clearand hopeful big picture. It is easy for true "Americans" -- the millions who have thecore "American" values, knowledge, and skills to do it: True "Americans" espouse the core "American values," thevalues written into our Constitution: justice, national security, thegeneral welfare, liberty, representative government, democraticprocesses, separation of powers, separation of church and state, ournational unity and cooperation as "Americans" ("domestic Tranquility")required to make all of this happen, and respect for the innatecapacity of "We, the People" to supply all this goodness andwell-being to ourselves and our posterity (America's goodness springsfrom We the People). America's overriding moral value? To willinglyand generously cooperate toward the common good, toward commonwell-being, and to treat people in other nations the very same way.This is a primordial human value that predates Abrahamic monotheism(Judaism, Christianity, Islam). All these values, all in ourConstitution, are the true "public interest" -- the true "nationalinterest" -- common to all true "Americans." We -- as conservative orliberal individuals, as secular or religious groups, as societies orcorporations -- live and breathe these "American values" as we conductour domestic policy and foreign policy. This is the "American spirit,"the true "Spirit of America." True "Americans" share the bright Buddhist-like view ofHuman Nature the founders infused into our Constitution: people arenaturally good, and innately capable of governing themselves well andtreating others well. As our Constitution clearly specifies, "We, thePeople" -- not elite rulers, not God and the Bible (neither arementioned in the Constitution) -- establish, provide, insure, promote,secure, and carry out all the above types of human goodness andwell-being we Declared Independence and fought the American Revolutionfor. True "Americans" understand history's ancient key lesson ofcommunity well-being and long-term survival, the vital lesson theFramers wove deeply into our Constitution: always keep wealth andpower in careful check, otherwise wealth and power will consolidateand take over and go berserk and then common well-being and communitysecurity will suffer. True "Americans" have the core citizenship skills reasonablyexpected of citizens by America's founders: respect for others,personal and social responsibility, cooperation toward the commongood, ability to think critically. These core wisdom-and-humanityskills -- they are ancient survival skills of our species thatpre-date civilization by at least tens of millennia, were common toour nation's founders, and are the roots of adult maturity and goodcitizenship and good leadership today -- are needed to perceiveclearly and reason soundly, to sense far and hidden danger, and tounderstand and carry out our Constitution. Therefore true "Americans" can connect the dots into the bigpicture, can clearly see the wealth-and-power disease infectingAmerica today, and can easily figure out how to fight it and heal ournation. True "Americans" respond in the normal human way toviolations of our Constitution by leaders we elect and trust, and tothe consequent mistreatment of citizens they are supposed to respectand serve: with moral outrage, and with cooperative united civicaction toward the #1 American goal listed in the first sentence of ourConstitution. "Justice." Or do we or can we anymore. The big picture, the connected dots, of what went wrong: At least 200 million Americans -- conservatives and liberalsalike -- are victims of an ENEMY WITHIN: a well-disguised HomelandEnemy that funded and grew terrorism, and exploits the mass fear toexpand their wealth and power (SUMMARY). Some of the harm theyinflicted so far? We lost justice, national unity and cooperation asAmericans, national security, general welfare, and liberty. We lostour supreme power to govern America through representative government,democratic processes, free speech and dissent, and right and duty asmembers of a jury to judge the law and nullify law that's bad. What happened? In a dangerous rerun of history the Framerstried hard to prevent with a wisely-designed Constitution, an ENEMYWITHIN -- a new strain of the ancient wealth-and-power disease --flared up in the 1980s and took the governing of America away from"We, the People." Stealthily they overthrew our government "of, by,and for the People" and replaced it with government of, by, and forthe ENEMY WITHIN. During the entire quarter-century-long process ourmass media, instead of warning us, participated in the overthrow andcover it up to this day. They violate the Law of our Land hugely, andhurt our nation deeply, as they take wealth and power and well-beingfrom "We, the People" and also from the weaker nations and weakerpeople of the world. American citizens, once united and strong, todayseem powerless to restrain them. The takeover and rampage is a classic example of humankind'swealth-and-power disease. It lies dormant, then flares up out ofcontrol as soon as citizens forget history's paramount lesson and droptheir guard. How do they do it? The Homeland Enemy keeps us cluelessabout "American" democracy, so they can subvert our democracy. Theyremove "domestic Tranquility," the #2 American goal listed in thefirst sentence of our Constitution, and replace it with domesticdiscord such as by using right-wing talk radio to incite many types ofhate and by using anti-cooperation media slant to fracture the publicinto many separate competing selfish special interests -- which makesus polarized, divisive, and unable to cooperate as united "Americans"(the Framers foresaw this dangerous treat to national unity) -- todivide and conquer us. Using American-developed propaganda techniquesemployed and celebrated by Hitler -- such as fabricate and stoke massfear to control the masses to your liking -- they manipulate us tosupport and cheer their misdeeds with "United We StandAmericanPride." It works so well we even tolerate the many types of major harmthey inflict on us. By influencing what's taught in our schools and byshaping what appears in our media, they prevent us from knowing allthis is happening. See how the Homeland Enemy is worse than the enemy of 1776? If we don't care it's happening then we are no longer"Americans," our country is no longer "America," and our Declarationof Independence and Constitution and Flag are just hollow fake symbols. The big picture, the easily-connected dots, of how to stopand correct all that wrong: We need a New American Revolution. Soon. Where's the legal authorization for "We, the People" tounite, fight, and win this revolt -- a long-overdue major maintenanceand tune-up of our democracy: see the long-range four-element planherein -- that would neutralize the ENEMY WITHIN and turn the massmedia back into our voice of freedom? It's in the first sentence ofour Constitution: "We, the People ... provide for the common defence"against the enemies of America. Today's most dangerous enemy -- the Homeland Enemy --violates all the goals of America listed in the Preamble of ourConstitution, and they violate Article 1, Article 2, Article 6,Amendment 12, and the foundation principles of separation of powersand separation of church and state (SUMMARY). Their violations of ourBill of Rights are minor infractions in comparison. They breakAmerican law and international law. They steal billions of dollarsdaily from the people of America and other nations. FromVietnam/Laos/Cambodia onward their military ventures to gain wealthand power needlessly slaughtered millions of civilians worldwide, andthey never offered human-like compensation or apologies. On a dailybasis in America they kill more citizens per annum than the high rateSaddam killed Iraqi citizens: more then ten-times the number of 9/11victims year-after-year. Since World War 2 they clandestinely aided ordirected the overthrow of many of the world's democracies including inGuatemala, Iran, Chile, and lately Haiti. Ever since Venezuelaapproved their new American-like Constitution in 1999 which providessocial and economic well-being to common citizens, the Homeland Enemybehind our backs and with our tax dollars works to destroy thatdemocracy also. This is a glimpse into what they hide with spin and lies. Also according to the Law of our Land, "We, the People" havesupreme power. So why not just wield it. Our "We, the People" justice, like during criminal cases ofviolent armed robbery or high treason, would go much farther thanmerely exposing and listing the many lies used to commit the crimes.Our treatment to heal our democracy's terrible deep wounds would befar more aggressive and complete than just applying Flag-illustratedband-aids over them. A patriotic and fair initial step would be totell the whole public about the Republican Party's, DemocraticParty's, and mass media's deceptive and traitorous support of theENEMY WITHIN. Our Constitution authorizes this New American Revolution,and provides "We, the People" with the supreme power to execute it.How's that for citizen hope and empowerment! The founders of our nation, including those representedforever by the red in our Flag, expected the future "We, the People"to carry out this true "American" civic duty. Will we just do it? Orshall we betray them and ourselves and our posterity? TOP CONTENTS It's a matter of national defense. Against the Homeland Enemy. Invisible to our national-defense radar, an ENEMY WITHIN --the recent fusion, beginning around 1980, ofexecutive/legislative/judicial federal power, corporate power, thepower of wealth, Christian-Right religious power, and mass-media powerinto a concentrated and unchecked right-wing state power -- tookgoverning power away from "We, the People" and subverted "America"into an un-American "Amerika." The members of the ENEMY WITHIN violateour Constitution to its core (SUMMARY). We no longer haverepresentative government or democratic processes including democraticinforming of the electorate and democratic elections. We are fastlosing our justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans,national security, general welfare, and liberty. They exploit and hurtAmerica, and the world, on a mind-boggling scale. They hide it all,and turn it into illusions of patriotic goodness, with dishonest"spin" blanketed nationwide by our press and radio and television whoare supposed to be watchdogs of "American" democracy but who now workfor the ENEMY WITHIN instead. That relentless deception, together withtheir constant suppression of "pro-America" free speech and dissent,helped neuter our original government "of, by, and for the People"into today's government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN. Theyoverthrew our "American" government so stealthily, and messed up ourminds so skillfully and completely, only a few in our country seem tonotice or understand or care. This is exactly what America's foundersforesaw and feared and tried to prevent with our Constitution'sfoundation of "separation of powers" and "separation of church andstate," and also with "trial by jury" where "We, the People" judge thelaw itself as a direct citizen check on unjust and dangerous power. To pull off their overthrow of "American" government, theENEMY WITHIN keeps us ignorant of "American" government. As a smallexample of how they keep us clueless, they prevent our schools fromteaching, and our mass media from revealing, these important truths.TRUTH: Today's system of corporate law, that gives harmful power tocorporations, is rooted in a 1886 US Supreme Court decision thatsupposedly granted "personhood" and resulting massive power tocorporations, a strange un-American legal concept that clashes head-onwith the anti-corporate-oppression spirit of the American Revolution.But the granting of corporate personhood by the Supreme Court neverreally happened, and could never legally happen. Thus our system ofunjust and harmful corporate law is a legal house-of-cards that "We,the People" could blow down. TRUTH: America was not in any sensefounded as a Christian nation. Today's Christian-Right religionwrongfully insists that America is based on God and the Bible,preaches that "We, the People" are humans born into the worldnaturally bad (but as embryos and fetuses we are pure and good) andare not capable of governing and carrying out the goodness in ourConstitution without divine guidance or control (God must govern andcarry out good, not "We, the People"), strives to combine church withstate, encourages our elected representatives and our judges toviolate the "no religious test" provision of Article 6 of ourConstitution, and has persuaded the White House and Congress toimplant Christian-Right theology into federal law (rights andprotection for the pre-born) and to spend vast amounts of taxpayermoney on Christian-Right religious causes (about $2 trillion so far,30% of our national debt). That radical, pessimistic, inhumane brandof Christianity surfaced a century after 1776, was not the religion ofour nation's founders, and today acts illegally and dangerouslyagainst our Constitution and "American" democracy. TRUTH: Our USConstitution grants supreme governing power not to corporations, notto the wealthy, not to religion or God, not to the President, not toCongress, not to the Supreme Court, but to "We, the People." What exactly can "We, the People" do about the illegaloverthrow of our government? Plenty. First, tell the whole publicabout the ENEMY WITHIN -- our well-disguised Homeland Enemy -- and howthey violate our Constitution and hurt America and the world, andabout how "We, the People" can take back America. Be aware, of course,that our mass media will do their utmost to kill this message and hurtthe messengers, so use alternative spread-the-word methods includingthe family-and-friend grapevine. See the need for pirate broadcasting,a network of low-wattage radio-and-TV "freedom channels" informing thepublic over the airwaves that "We, the People" own? Second, slowly andsurely in the background, repair our nation's worst national-securityweaknesses. Fundamental wisdom and humanity that mankind needs forsurvival and which US citizens need to be able to understand and carryout our Constitution -- the bare-bones survival skills that wove theirway from the dawn of our species through ancient human history,through our early American history, through our Declaration ofIndependence and Constitution, and almost through our 20th centuryuntil the current illegal flare-up of wealth-and-power, the ENEMYWITHIN, pretty much wiped them out -- need to be resurrected andinstilled and applied today. So does the teaching and practice of real"American" democracy, which the ENEMY WITHIN also substantially purgedfrom our schools and minds and governance. Those Elements 1 and 2, ofthe suggested plan herein, lay the foundation of a New AmericanRevolution. Third and fourth? In Elements 3 and 4 of the long-rangeplan, "We, the People" undertake the revolt and restore government"of, by, and for the People" to America. This Civics-101 democracy manual outlines education andpolitical strategies, and a long range four-element plan, to restore"We, the People" to power and "America" to America. Odds of success?"We, the People" are a thousand-fold larger than the Homeland Enemy'swealth-and-power core of less than a half-million individuals. Thetruth is on our side; they have to constantly lie to stay in power.The Constitution is on our side; they oppose it -- as shown by theircontempt for "separation of powers," contempt for "separation ofchurch and state," contempt for the supreme power and well-being of"We, the People," and by how they hugely violate our Constitution.Most Americans have no idea how hugely. One of the many benefits ofwinning? We could cut federal spending -- and our taxes -- by at least$500 billion a year, including the average $1500-a-year "de factoChristian-Right religious tax" every IRS customer is currently forcedto pay. The ENEMY WITHIN -- the Homeland Enemy -- is an un-American,anti-American political cancer that grows more dangerous every day.Electing a safer President this November is a small but imperativestep toward the full cure. To wield our supreme power again, we must unite andcooperate as "We, the People" of "America" as in 1776. Conservativesand liberals must join in and work together as a team against a commonenemy -- the ENEMY WITHIN that's sympathetic with, and worse than, theenemy of 1776 -- a well-disguised enemy that's hurting conservativesand liberals alike in several and major ways. We must wake up, riseup, and "provide for the common defence" against the common enemy likeour Constitution tells us to. TOP CONTENTS America's political cancer. The patriotic cure. Or is it too late. America's political cancer: the right-wing ENEMY WITHIN. The ENEMY WITHIN is the consolidation of the federalexecutive branch including the White House, Secret Service, FBI, CIA,Homeland Security, Defense, and Justice, the federal legislativebranch including Congress, the federal judicial branch including theSupreme Court, Corporate America, the wealthy, Christian Right, andmass media into a concentrated right-wing superpower the Framers ofour Constitution foresaw and feared and hoped to nip-in-the-bud with"separation of powers,separation of church and state," and "trialby jury" where We the People judge the law itself as a direct citizencheck on unjust and dangerous power. Around 1980, all those separatepowers began to combine and grow dangerous to America and the world. Exactly as unbridled wealth-and-power flared up andmisbehaved off and on for millennia, exactly as history warns, exactlywhat the founders of our nation wanted to prevent with "separation ofpowers" and "separation of church and state" (America's two foundationprotections), the ENEMY WITHIN arose and went berserk. They are now on a classic rampage ofdomestic-and-international plunder and harm. Which isn't all thatobvious to most Americans because though thepress/radio/television/film corporate mass media they control theyskillfully make sure that the public, including the rising number ofmillions of victims, perceive the lawbreaking and harm as patriotismand as security-and-goodness for our country. They subverted our government "of, by, and for the People"into a government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN. Instead of "We,the People" being the government of America, the ENEMY WITHIN is nowthe government of America. We no longer have representative governmentor democratic processes including democratic informing of theelectorate and democratic elections -- although we are misled to thinkwe have both -- and we are fast losing our justice, national unity andcooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, andliberty for ourselves and our posterity. We no longer have principled"American" democracy; it has been replaced with illegal "Amerikan"democracy. Skillfully and stealthily, with help from our news andentertainment media, the ENEMY WITHIN overthrew our government. They violate our Constitution to its core. Their violationsof our Bill of Rights are minor infractions compared to theirviolations of the Preamble, Articles, and foundation principles. They exploit and hurt America, and the world, on amind-boggling scale. Perhaps the three most-horrific of their manymajor offenses? 1) They systematically Reverse Robin Hood America --transfer wealth from poor and middle-class to rich -- such as throughincreasingly regressive taxation (low- and middle-income citizens nowpay a higher percentage of their income on taxes than corporations andthe wealthy do, a reversal from a half-century ago, and the trickle-upgrows more unjust; they plan to exempt all non-wage and non-salaryincome from taxation, create a flat tax on income [that would tax onlya tiny portion of the income of the wealthy], boost excise/use taxes,create a federal sales tax, all of which would rob the poor andmiddle-class even more), financial-industry deregulation that buriesneedy citizens in high-interest debt (some fee-and-interest rates areas high as 400%APR, such as on payday loans, 400% earned from moneythey borrow at 2% from our federal treasury [that corporations and thewealthy contribute to less and less but poorer Americans more andmore]), and policies and laws that force wages and salaries low andcosts of energy, healthcare, and education high. 2) Theysystematically drain wealth from weaker nations, and wealth fromAmerica, through deregulation and rigged privatization and riggedglobalization some victims call "savage capitalism" (it's not at allthe nice "free market" capitalism they constantly advertise it to be).3) From 1979 for seventeen years using our tax money they bred andfunded Islamic terrorism into their proxy military weapon abroad, lostcontrol of it, and now capitalize on the 9/11 horror and fear tofurther their exploitation here and abroad (they successfully cloakthat reality with "Remember 9/11" and "War on Terror" logos and banners). They corrupted "America" into a lawless and dangerous rogue"Amerika." Rule by the right-wing ENEMY WITHIN is similar to rule bythe right-wing enemy we declared independence from in 1776:18th-century Corporate England's rule by the power of wealth andprivilege, rule by divine and corporate power, enforced bypolice-state power in the homeland and by military power abroad. True "conservatism" and true "liberalism" are rooted in thespirit of 1776 and in our Constitution. And are thus "American." The ENEMY WITHIN is a "right-wing" force sympathetic withthe exploitation, oppression, and inequality our forebears sufferedunder the enemy of 1776. The ENEMY WITHIN is dangerously "un-American." So how does the ENEMY WITHIN get away with being sounlawful, so unjust, so unpatriotic, so un-American? They hide it, andturn it into illusions of goodness, with skillful mass-media spin.That deception, that spin, is willfully served up by a corporatenews-and-entertainment industry that became a partner -- and the voiceand protector -- of the ENEMY WITHIN. The patriotic cure. This core-basic democracy manualoutlines education and political strategies, and a long rangefour-element plan, to restore "We, the People" to power. And torestore representative government, democratic processes, justice,national unity and cooperation as Americans, national security, thegeneral welfare, and liberty to America. Electing a safer President this November is a small butimperative step toward the full cure. To pull off the full cure, we need to rekindle corepatriotism the ENEMY WITHIN purged from our schools and public mind.The spirit of the American Revolution: in 1776, we revolted againstthe unjust right-wing power of Corporate England; today, we need abloodless revolt against the right-wing power of the ENEMY WITHINthat's now oppressing America much like Corporate England did in 1776.The spirit of "American" democracy: citizens provide governance andcommon well-being, not rulers or religion, and always vigilant wenever let wealth-and-power or religion gain influence or controlbecause we know about the awful badness that happens if they do. We should also reintroduce the concept of good citizenship.Since "We, the People" are supposed to "provide for the commondefence" -- including against dangers from within -- and since ourduty is also to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, . . .promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty toourselves and our Posterity," why not just unite and cooperate to STOPthe right wing's overthrow of our government and RESTORE "America" toAmerica! Of course we can do it. It's in our blood: remember 1776?Taking back America from the ENEMY WITHIN is absolutely REQUIRED byour Constitution. So why not do what's natural for real "Americans: bepatriotic by uniting and cooperating against the common enemy justlike in 1776. Consider the favorable odds. The ENEMY WITHIN is tiny. "We,the People" are a thousand-fold larger than the ENEMY WITHIN's donorclass: the wealth-corporate core the White House and Congress solicitbig contributions from, and enact special laws for and violate lawsfor, all at the expense of the general welfare of most citizens. If "We, the People" become the government of America again,we would enjoy immense financial savings. By forcing our White House,Congress, and press to represent and serve "We, the People" instead ofthe ENEMY WITHIN -- the way our nation is supposed to operate -- wecould reduce federal spending by at least $500 billion annuallyincluding no more legislated gifts from our US Treasury tocorporations and the wealthy. We could substantially cut taxes onmiddle-income and poor citizens, including by eliminating the "defacto Christian-Right religious tax" that today costs the average IRScustomer about $1500 a year. Those potential spending cuts, and taxcuts, are about the size of our current defense budget. The major task facing us? We must achieve what they fear andwork hard to prevent: "We, the People" must unite and cooperate as"Americans" to fight the ENEMY WITHIN and restore our Constitution's"America" to America, just like we fought the common enemy of 1776 tocreate "America" in the first place. Groups and individuals,journalists, educators, citizen-action and public-interestorganizations, responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, ordinarycitizens -- conservatives and liberals alike -- must unite andcooperate in this common cause. Conservatives and liberals --including NRA members and Greens -- and their families are all beinghurt by the ENEMY WITHIN. And therefore have just cause to just dowhat their Constitution requires of them. Or is it too late. Did the ancient wealth-and-power diseasethe Framers feared -- flaring up today as the ENEMY WITHIN -- alreadycorrode and corrupt America into an un-American nation ignorant anddisdainful of true "American democracy" (which is very different fromgeneric democracy), and politically cripple us (see paragraph below),so dangerously we're no longer able to carry out our Constitution tocare for ourselves? America's news-and-entertainment industry skillfully hid theENEMY WITHIN's lawbreaking and wrongdoing and spun it into illusionsof patriotic-and-religious goodness -- plus the pervasive influence ofthe ENEMY WITHIN pretty much erased core wisdom-and-humanity skills,core human history, core American history, and core understanding of"American" democracy from public education and American culture --which shaped our minds into being supportive of the ENEMY WITHIN andclueless about the massive subversion and too politicallyweak-and-helpless to do anything about it. That is, they politicallycrippled "We, the People" into being unable to govern ourselves,unable to govern America. Will that major triumph permanently seal thesuccess of their overthrow? TOP CONTENTS PROLOG: "We, the People" must cooperate to heal America. Or accept the dire consequences (EPILOG). "American" democracy is very different from the generic"majority-is-right" democracy promoted by our mass media and practicedby modern political science. In "majority-is-right" democracy, political opponentsmanipulate the public mind during competition to win the biggestpolling or electorate slice. Sometimes that majority is wrong. Such aswhen the majority is manipulated to favor breaking domestic law andinflicting harm on itself, and to favor breaking international law andinflicting harm on the people of other nations which then backlashesat America to hurt the majority, all of which happened on November 2,2004. It is a competitive form of democracy without good sense andwithout human principle. "American" democracy is a special form of democracy. It iscooperative democracy -- as hinted at by the word "United" in ournation's name -- in accordance with the wise-and-humane goals, realAmerican values, personal and social responsibilities, principles, andrules in our Constitution. ("American" democracy is totally different from the illegaland dangerous "Amerikan" democracy the ENEMY WITHIN has alreadysubverted our nation into: CLICK HERE.) ("American" values are totally different from the moralvalues promoted during the 2004 presidential campaign. Most of thosevalues, inhumane Christian-Right values, conflict dangerously with ourConstitution: CLICK HERE.) Citizens who live and breathe our special form of democracyare "true Americans" with "American values" and the "American spirit." THIS is the real "American" democracy in our Constitution: "We, the People" are the government of America. We "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, providefor the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure theBlessings of Liberty" for "ourselves and our Posterity" (Preamble, USConstitution). We control America, we operate America, we provideseveral types of goodness and well-being to America, we protect andpreserve America, as we govern America. America's goodness springs from "We, the People:" CLICK HERE. We citizens do all this. Not presidential, congressional,judicial, corporate, wealthy, or religious rulers. "We, the People" rule. Wealth-and-power doesn't. We DeclaredIndependence, fought and won the American Revolution, and wrote andratified our Constitution so that citizens can rule. We did it to getout from under Corporate England's wealth-and-power, and to curbwealth-and-power in the future such as to prevent a Corporate Americafrom ever arising and taking over. That's why "We, the People" act to prevent wealth-and-powerfrom ever consolidating and inflicting harm on our country andcitizens. We understand why the Framers wove two foundation principlesinto our Constitution: separation of powers, separation of church andstate. We understand the need to keep corporate power in carefulcheck. We understand the national-security need to prevent "God" and"Country" from ever combining into "God and Country." An important part of our citizen rule is to regulatecorporations. So that corporations always serve us, and never exploitor hurt us. When Americans claim, "I hate government and I hate taxes"they actually claim, "I hate We the People. I hate that we establishjustice, insure national unity and cooperation as Americans, providefor the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure theblessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. I hate that wetax ourselves, to provide benefits to ourselves, like ColonialAmericans did long before they Declared Independence." They probablydon't mean that. If all Americans had been correctly taught this basicessence of "American" government by our schools and leaders and media,nobody would be saying "I hate government and I hate taxes." When Americans belittle and blame "the government" and"taxes" they actually belittle and blame themselves for their lack ofgood citizenship. "We, the People" -- not a Christian God -- are the supremepower in America. "[T]he government of the United States of America isnot in any sense founded on the Christian religion," as documented inthe 1797 Treaty of Tripoli (Little-Known US Document Signed byPresident Adams Proclaims America's Government Is Secular). During thetreaty's multi-review process by the White House and Congress, thewording never raised the slightest concern. When the treaty was madepublic in the press, there was no public complaint. This was clearadmission by the United States -- by the White House, by Congress, bythe public -- that America's government is not founded onChristianity. The treaty's assertion of America's secularism, tenyears after our Constitution was written, clearly represented thefeelings of our nation's founders. Including about the need to enforceseparation of church and state as well as Article 6's "no religioustests" for public office or during public duty, and to prevent"God" and "Country" from combining into "God and Country" (God andCountry). Our topmost hired help -- the President, Congress, SupremeCourt -- are not the supreme power either. "We, the People" are. "We, the People" also have supreme say in America --including about harmful corporate behavior and unjust laws passed byCongress -- especially through our right of representation (ourelected representatives are supposed to actually represent us), ourright to dissent such as to demand that our Constitution actually befollowed, and our right and duty as members of a jury to judge the lawitself and to invalidate law that's bad: Forbidden truths about"American" democracy. We millions of ordinary citizens have supreme power -- andsupreme say -- because our government is of, by, and for "We, thePeople," not of, by, and for the White House, Congress, Judiciary, ortheir current major clients: Corporate America, the wealthy, andChristian Right. Good citizenship and good leadership -- as taught by ourschools, pillars of the community, and mass media not so long ago --means to cooperate as United Citizens of America to carry out"America," the wisdom and humanity and well-being called for by ourConstitution: representative government, democratic processes,justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans, nationalsecurity, the general welfare, and liberty, for ourselves and ourposterity. As true Americans "We, the People" foster American values,the public interest, the national interest, the bright view of humannature infused into our Constitution, history's key lesson ofcommunity well-being and long-term survival that's woven into ourConstitution, and the core citizenship skills reasonably expected ofcitizens by America's founders. We also teach our young how to quicklyspot danger to America from within, and how respond to harmfulleadership irresponsibility in the normal human way. ALL LIKE THIS. As intended by our nation's founders, American citizens --together with the representatives we select and hire to do our bidding-- participate in "American" democracy: in partnership with an honestmass media that serves as our voice of freedom, we all work togetherto produce and maintain a special form of democracy in accordance withthe goals, principles, and rules in our Constitution. "American"democracy, which is guided by wise and humane principles, is verydifferent from generic majority-is-right democracy which can lead tothe majority acting against domestic and world well-being. "We, thePeople," including our elected and appointed representatives and massmedia, carry out our foremost civic duty and common-groundresponsibilities -- and through vigilance and dissent we protect andpreserve our nation's two foundation principles to assure our longterm well-being and national survival -- all for the common good ofourselves and our posterity. If we don't, we lose "America." We lose what we fought forand won with our Declaration of Independence and American Revolution.We lose what our Flag stands for. We lose the wisdom and humanity andwell-being spelled out in our Constitution. We lose our representativegovernment, democratic processes, justice, national unity andcooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, andliberty. We lose it for ourselves and our posterity. We violate ourConstitution and international law, and harm ourselves and the worldin the process. America turns "un-American:" into a lawless andhurtful rogue nation. America turns into "Amerika." As you can tell from the news, we are beginning to lose"America." Not reported is the full extent of our loss. Or the reasonwhy: increasingly, "We, the People" are being prevented from governingAmerica by an ENEMY WITHIN that is protected and served by ournews-and-entertainment mass media. If our mass media served our country instead of theirENEMY-WITHIN clients, these top stories -- a small sampling of truthbeing withheld from the public -- would be headlined nationwide: o From 1979 for seventeen years, with strong backingfrom the Christian Right, the executive and legislative branches ofour federal government funded and grew Islamic terrorism into a proxyUS-military weapon in Central Asia and the Balkans. (References) o In the 1980s our current Vice President (Dick Cheney),National Security Advisor (Condoleezza Rice), Secretary of State(Colin Powell), and Deputy Secretary of State (Richard Armitage) ranthe biggest clandestine operation ever: recruiting from throughout theMuslim world, arming, and training Islamic mujahideen into a lethalproxy weapon against the Soviets that America lured into Afghanistan.They even supplied militant-Islam textbooks -- Made In USA withtaxpayer money -- to spur deadly resistance to the enemy, jihad fervorthat flowed into the worldwide Islamic community when Afghan veteransreturned home. Those public figures, and many other prominentAmericans, helped to create al-Qaeda and spread Islamic terrorismaround the world. (References) o Some of the camps used by al-Qaeda may have beenoriginally built by the Reagan administration. (References) o From 1986 to 1992 during Operation Cyclone, inPakistan the CIA trained 100,000 Islamic fighters in arts of terrorismincluding future al-Qaeda and Taliban; they trained leaders at CampPerry in Virginia USA. The terrorism training was paid for by UStaxpayers. After 1992, the CIA's camps in Pakistan in essence migratedand became al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. (References) o Washington lost control of Islamic-terrorism weaponthat US taxpayers unwittingly began purchasing 22 years earlier: on9/11, America's lethal proxy weapon aimed and fired itself at America.(References) o 9/11 was "Blowback." (References) o The "War on Terror" -- the response to 9/11 -- is inessence a war on the military weapon that the White House and Congressurged on by the Christian Right, and Saudi Arabia's royalty andWahabiism (Wahabiism is Saudi Arabia's Islamic equivalent of America'sChristian Right), jointly developed a quarter-century ago, operatedfor one-and-a-half decades, and funded with billions of US tax dollarsand with billions of Saudi petro-dollars that Americans gave at thegas pump. (Reference) o Al-Qaeda, created in the 1980s by US/Saudiwealth-and-power and fundamentalist-religion, is winning the "War onTerror." (Reference: Why al-Qaeda is winning) o The President, National Security, State Department,Pentagon, CIA, and FBI all knew the danger of al-Qaeda and that aterrorist strike was likely, including from hijacked-airliner weapons:in the two years before 9/11, NORAD conducted air-defense drillsincluding to protect the World Trade Center; ten months before 9/11,the Pentagon simulated a terrorist attack, a passenger plane crashinginto the Pentagon. (References: 9/11 Disaster Could Have BeenPrevented by Advance Responses, NORAD had drills of jets as weapons,Pentagon Simulated a Scenario of an actual Terrorist Attack 10 monthsbefore 9/11) o 9/11 commission hid vast amounts of 9/11 truth. Suchas how many in the Bush administration, and in the Christian Right,helped to breed Islamic terrorism. All the many Americans who helpedto cause 9/11, and to let it happen, escape responsibility andaccountability and justice (References: PBS NOW Jul-23-2004, Whitewashas Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation) o Blowback tragedy exploited: our elected leaders, andour news and entertainment, steadily implant "Remember-9/11""War-on-Terror" fears to achieve wealth-corporate goals andChristian-Right goals -- special-interest goals that subvertUS-Constitution goals. o The war on Afghanistan was decided and planned before9/11. In July 2001, the Bush administration planned to strike theTaliban before October 2001 because the Taliban didn't accept theirpipeline terms. 9/11 provided the perfect excuse for an even largerassault. The pipeline project, that the Bush administration wanted, isunderway. (References) o Danger of terrorism is way overblown: Our switch fromcars-and-minivans to SUVs-and-pickups kills more than 3,000 Americansevery year -- more than terrorists did on 9/11. 43 million Americanscan't afford to buy health insurance, because its price is beingdriven up like the price of higher education, causing about 18,000deaths per year -- six-times more than 9/11. White House's failure toenforce the 1977 Clean Air Act kills 30,000 Americans every year --ten-times more than 9/11. And so on. Today's America kills fellowAmericans at a far higher average rate, more than 50,000 citizens peryear, than Saddam killed Iraqis. (References) o Homeland Security and our mass media routinely go softon far-right home-grown terrorism. No high-profile alerts aboutWhite-Christian-American terrorists who threaten our nation, nohigh-profile news about the known base of 700 White-Christian-Americanhate groups and 250,000 sympathizers in our homeland and heartland.Only Arabs and Muslims are targeted and persecuted. (Reference) o Iraq mainly about oil since 1972 -- when Iraq kickedout US and UK oil companies for not playing fair, but allowed oilcompanies from other nations to stay. (References) o A top priority of the Bush administration from thevery start was to roll out plans for Iraq's "privatization:" schemesto transfer Iraq's wealth to outside corporations. (References) o During the first meeting of Bush's national-securityteam, one day after the President took his oath of office in January2001, the issue of invading Iraq was raised. (References) o CBS News 60 Minutes revealed a smoking gun: in thecenter of millions of TV screens nationwide, a document drafted in theearly weeks of the Bush administration showed plans for thepost-invasion dispersal of Iraq's oil assets to US and other foreignoil companies. (References) o In January-2002, more than a year before the war onIraq, the Department of Justice legal-weaseled around the GenevaConventions to enable secret detention and harsh interrogation ofprisoners abroad. In February-2002, President Bush wrote: "I acceptthe legal conclusion of the attorney general and the department ofjustice that I have the authority to suspend Geneva [conventions] asbetween the US and Afghanistan.I reserve the right to exercise thisauthority in this or future conflicts." Since then, hardballinterrogation including homosexual rape and torture resulting in deathinflicted by US troops and US-paid contractors -- which are violationsof the Geneva Conventions and Article 6 of our Constitution and theWar Crimes Act by the commander-in-chief on down -- have becomestandard practice throughout the US global gulag. (References: Bushmemos show stance on torture, PBS NOW May-21-2004, Jan-2002 Departmentof Justice memos, This is the New Gulag, Abuse, Torture, and RapeReported at Unlisted US-run Prisons in Iraq, Torturing Children,Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized, This is the New Gulag:Bush has Created a Global Network of Extra-legal and Secret US Prisonswith Thousands of Inmates, Afghan gulag. Note: The memo showing intentto commit torture, and subsequent commission of torture, constituteclear proof of the President's violation of US Constitution Article 6and US War Crimes Act.) o A month before the war on Iraq the White House issuedplans, "Moving the Iraqi Economy from Recovery to Sustainable Growth,"for the mass privatization of Iraq including to: sell off its oilfields, pipelines, and oil infrastructure to foreign corporations;privatize about 200 state-owned enterprises into foreign ownership,everything from water services, electric utilities, schools,hospitals, television and newspapers, factories, farms,telecommunications, publishing, transportation systems, to prisons;take over the banking sector; turn what's left of Iraq into a riggedfree-market asset-looting and profit-looting paradise for foreigncorporations. The long-planned financial/economic conquest of Iraq issimilar to how the World Bank, IMF, multinational corporations, andmajor powers sacked and harmed the Federation of Yugoslavia,Argentina, and many other countries since World War 2; citizens inSenegal, a victim nation, call it "savage capitalism." (References:Adventure Capitalism, The Economic Colonization of Iraq: Illegal andImmoral, Other references) o The war on Iraq is a premeditated armed heist. Theplanning began in 1992. (References: Summary of Iraq war) o Collateral damage during the armed heist? 100,000Iraqi civilians killed including women and children mostly from airstrikes and artillery including cluster-bombing. Many thousands morewounded and maimed. Future radiation sickness and birth deformitiescaused by the toxic radioactive dust spewed from hundreds of tons ofour depleted-uranium weapons. (References) o American citizens are mentally herded by the ENEMYWITHIN to approve and applaud that massive wrongdoing -- likeconvincing bystanders to cheer on a brutal bank robbery instead ofcalling the police -- or risk being branded anti-American orpro-terrorism. o "We shot a man with his hands up," said a US Marine."We even shot women and children." Firing on civilians and securingoil fields was not the duty he signed up for, he also said.(Reference: Soldiers tell stories about Iraq) o US troops shot at an Iraqi mother running with twochildren as she carried her youngest child. Bullets fractured themother's legs, knocking her to the ground, and our troops kept firingand wounded her again, in her arm. They killed two of her children,decapitating one. When kicked by a US soldier, the wounded motherplayed dead and thus lived to tell her story to foreign media.(Reference: 'US soldiers started to shoot us, one by one') o Secret American theft of Iraqi oil is well underway.Watchdog agency: faults lack of Iraqi oil metering, cites paucity ofCoalition Provisional Authority data on production, outflow, prices,sales. Iraqi citizens complain: US has imposed secrecy on oil deals,exportation, and use of revenues; Iraq denied access to oil revenues;US systematically milking Iraq of its oil in "daylight robbery." Saudiambassador to UK/Ireland: "there were those in America who werethinking in those terms of acquiring the natural resources of Iraq forAmerica." (References) o Long after Iraq is declared "sovereign" and"democratic" on June 30, Iraq's interim constitution -- written by USgovernment, approved by US-picked Iraqi Governing Council -- allows USto retain military/economic control of Iraq, and allows US and otherforeign corporations to continue to plunder Iraq's wealth. (References) o Fourteen permanent US military bases are underconstruction on Iraq's soil. (References) o UN Resolution 1546 signed June-8-2004 -- whichwelcomes "end of occupation" on June-30-2004, and promises "fullsovereignty" -- is a sham. The new interim government was appointed bythe US and is not representative of Iraq. Iraqis: "The Americans aretransferring power, but only to their own agents." Although theresolution provides for a review of the US military presence after ayear and permits the new interim government to ask for US troops toleave, it is not likely to do so: all of the new ministers aresupporters of the US invasion of Iraq and were carefully vetted byWashington, they are disliked by the majority of Iraqis, and they arecompletely dependent on the US military for their safety and survival.The interim government has no veto over US military operations; USforces will retain full powers to roam throughout Iraq searching homesand detaining prisoners at will. The real center of political power inIraq is to be the US embassy, the largest in the world. Which willrely on the bureaucratic apparatus established by a small army of USadvisers since the invasion and supervised by a series of US-appointedmonitoring bodies. Overall Iraq-government finances, including all oilrevenues, will continue to be vetted by a US-appointed committeeincluding US, World Bank, and IMF representatives. The interimgovernment will have to honor all contracts signed by the US-ledoccupation authority. Thus US officials, backed by US-led troops, willcontinue to dominate every aspect of Iraqi life -- and from US-embassyheadquarters the heist will continue: corporate clients will continueto plunder the assets of Iraq as well as America's treasury foroccupation/security expenses and destroy-and-rebuild expenses -- after"full sovereignty" and "end of occupation" are declared. (References) o America's economic colonization of Iraq is illegalunder international law. (References) o US "handover of power to Iraq,sovereignty forIraq," and "democracy in Iraq" are media fictions designed to makeAmerica feel good about itself, to believe all is well in Iraq, todivert public attention away from Iraq, as America's consolidatedwealth-and-power continues to dominate and plunder Iraq under aDisney-like veil of deception. (References) o Iraqi-citizen "rebels" and "insurgents" -- the samewords used by Corporate England to describe the guerrilla freedomfighters their Redcoats encountered during the American Revolution --more and more are successfully uniting and cooperating to stave off USlooting plans, and to kill off the armed robbers: our troops,Pentagon-hired mercenaries, and the US proxy army. American citizenson American soil -- especially the millions of members of the NRA whohave perhaps vastly more small-bore firepower than the entire USmilitary -- would do exactly the same to a destroying, killing andmaiming, plundering foreign power invading our land. And to thetraitors helping the invaders. (References) o October 2004: The Bush administration is scrambling tobuild an Iraqi paramilitary force -- a proxy army in Iraq like pastUS-proxy armies in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, andAfghanistan -- to serve under a US-puppet Iraq government.(References: Iraq: Quicksand & Blood, Crimes in Freedom's Name: DickCheney's El Salvador) o Similarly, the US is creating proxy armies in SouthAmerica. Covertly. Again. (Reference: US Militarizing Latin America) o September 2004: Quietly behind the scenes in Iraq, theNational Foundation Congress plans the democratic future of Iraq. Asecretariat of 25 representing all factions -- including Baathists,Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, Christians -- meets twice a week. They operateoutside of the Allawi-led US-puppet government they don't trust andconsider harmful to Iraq. The National Foundation Congress is theIraqi equivalent of America's Continental Congress during the AmericanRevolution. (References: The Iraqi leader seeking a peaceful path toliberation, Iraq's National Foundation Congress formed in December 2003) o US policy toward Iraq, and US media portrayal ofIraqis, is arrogantly racist. Although Iraq was a cradle ofcivilization, although during Europe's dark ages Iraq flourished withan art/science/civic renaissance whose spirit still lives, the USgovernment and US media continuously mislead Americans to believe thatArab-Muslim Iraqis are inferior to White-Christian Americans, areunworthy of humanity, are not capable of properly governingthemselves, and do not deserve to keep their economic assets andnatural resources. (Reference: This War and Racism -- Media Denial inOverdrive) o A just exit strategy, that would give completesovereignty and allow Iraq to democratically govern itself totally, isnot likely. Although we left Vietnam, we cannot leave Iraq becausewe're there for its assets and oil. (References: An Exit StrategyBased on Iraqi Nationalism, Getting Out: Give Iraqis CompleteSovereignty, History is not on your side, Mr. Kerry) o War on Iraq is not a war on terror. It is apremeditated aggressive war of theft and control -- with littleconcern for collateral harm and destruction other than for corporateclients of the White House, Pentagon, and Congress to handsomelyprofit from the harm and destruction. (Reference 1, Reference 2,Reference 3, Reference 4, Reference 5, Reference 6, Reference 7,Reference 8, Reference 9) o Feedback from the Arab and Muslim world: "All Arab andMuslim peoples are convinced that Bush is persecuting Muslims andArabs and is targeting only the Arab world.The whole Arab worldhates America and the Bush administration.Bush's main priority . .. was to invade Iraq, whether or not it possessed weapons of massdestruction.Americans do not have any regret for what they did tothe Iraqi people." (Reference: US Report on Iraqi Weapons Deepens ArabHostility Towards America) o October 2004: In response to the US war on Iraq thatis backed by Israel, in response to Israel's war on Palestinians thatis backed by the US, in response to threats of war by the US andIsrael on other Islamic nations -- violent and deadly Middle Eastconflict that America's Christian Right yearns for (references, readthe several scary sections) -- an international Islamic high commandmay be forming to organize retaliation against the US, Israel, andtheir allies. (References: Shiite-Sunni Islamist 'high command' may beforming, The eyes that cannot see beyond Jabaliya and Samarra) o September 2004: Most senior US military officers nowbelieve the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedentedscale. "I don't think that you can kill the insurgency.We have agrowing, maturing insurgency group . . . We see larger and morecoordinated military attacks. They are getting better and they canself-regenerate. The idea there are x number of insurgents, and thatwhen they're all dead we can get out is wrong. The insurgency hasshown an ability to regenerate itself because there are people willingto fill the ranks of those who are killed. The political culture ismore hostile to the US presence. The longer we stay, the more they areconfirmed in that view.If you are a Muslim and the community isunder occupation by a non-Islamic power it becomes a religiousrequirement to resist that occupation . . . Most Iraqis consider usoccupiers, not liberators.I see no exit . . . We've been down thatroad before. It's called Vietnamisation. The idea that we're going tohave an Iraqi force trained to defeat an enemy we can't defeatstretches the imagination. They will be tainted by their veryassociation with the foreign occupier.This is far graver thanVietnam." (Reference: Far graver than Vietnam) o September 2003: President Bush stated, "No, we've hadno evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th."June 2004: 9/11 commission stated, "We have no credible evidence thatIraq and al-Qa'ida co-operated on attacks against the United States."October 2004: CIA review finds no evidence that Saddam had ties toIslamic terrorists. All this was known long before the March 2003bombing and invasion of Iraq. (References: Bush Disavows Hussein-Sept.11 Link, Official Verdict: White House Misled World Over Saddam, CIAReview Finds No Evidence Saddam Had Ties to Islamic Terrorists, CIAreview finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists ) o Despite opposite conclusions reached beforehand by the9/11 Commission, CIA, and consensus of independent strategic analysts,on 9/10/2004 the US House of Representatives -- by an overwhelmingbipartisan majority of 406-16 -- passed a resolution linking the Iraqgovernment and Saddam Hussein to the al-Qaeda attacks on the WorldTrade Center and the Pentagon. (Reference: Both US parties link Iraqto 9-11) o September 2004: Iraq had no WMDs, according to IraqSurvey Group's final report. This was known long before the March 2003shock-and-awe onslaught. (Reference: Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict) o Three classes of excuses for bombing, invading, andoccupying Iraq -- to help Iraq, to defend America, to make the world abetter and safer place -- are all bogus. Retired Air Force Colonelidentified 50 fake stories manufactured by White House to promote waron Iraq. (Reference) o White House, Congress, and media cooperate as a teamto hide major legal truth: war on Iraq violates UN Charter, GenevaConventions, Nuremberg Charter, Articles 1 and 6 of US Constitution,and US War Crimes Act. They deceive our troops into violating theiroath, into becoming war criminals in eyes of caring world. (Reference1, Reference 2) o On September 15, 2004, the UN Secretary Generaldeclared that the Iraq war is illegal and violates the UN charter.(References: Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan,The war was illegal) o The US military is becoming a lawless globaloil-conquest service and oil-protection service for US petroleumcompanies. Our commander-in-chief, Pentagon, and troops now serve ascorporate mercenaries courtesy of US taxpayers. This escalating newform of corporate welfare costs hundreds of billions of tax dollars ayear, and the international backlash harms our national security.(References: "Support Our Troops" as they kill local civilians by thethousands when serving Texas oil companies in Afghanistan and Iraq,Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a GlobalOil-Protection Service) o American citizens are skillfully duped, by our leadersand media, to condone massive lawbreaking and to celebrate America'srogue lawlessness as acts of patriotism. o Our deluded troops are paid next to nothing. Those whoreturn home wounded or disabled, as well as military families, when indesperate need of financial help are handed off by the Pentagon tocharities. o Privatized soldiers in Iraq, thousands of mercenarieshired by war-support corporations under contract with the Pentagon,are paid up to $1500 a day -- 30-times more than our troops. Our taxespay those high wages plus the exorbitant markup. We also pay heavilyfor a variety of other war services furnished by corporations underhigh-profit contracts, and for costly high-tech weapons and ordnance."Bomb it, then rebuild it" war is good business: US corporationsmanufacture the missiles and bombs that destroy Iraq, then rebuild thedestruction their products cause. The longer and nastier the conflictand the worse the destruction, the greater the profits. America'sgrowing corporate military -- inflated-price pre-war, war, post-warmateriel and services purchased from a tight group of corporatefriends of the White House, Pentagon, and Congress -- is a massivefederal-government overhead expense paid for by US taxpayers. ForCorporate America, the "War on Terror" and "Perpetual War" are goldmines. (Reference 1, Reference 2, Reference 3) o Our new and growing multi-billion-dollar-a-yearhomeland-security industry, like our defense industry, is governmentoverhead that burdens US taxpayers. Our nation's rigged internationaltrade practices, exploitive World Bank and IMF practices, oppressiveand extortive foreign policies, and belligerent overseas militaryactions provoke revengeful hatred against America -- so effectivelyit's as if all those practices are designed to produce blowback --which generates demand for "War-on-Terror" homeland-security productsand services. Demand is also created by the manufacture of citizenconsent to lose rights and freedoms, and by the manufacture of citizenfear. For Corporate America, the "Patriot Act" and "Homeland Security"are gold mines. o Fear of Islamic terrorism is being bred and spread ina massive collaborative propaganda effort by our federal governmentand mass media: to falsely justify war on Iraq and perhaps on othercountries soon; to better obscure the ENEMY WITHIN's unjust trade,economic, and social practices inflicted on other nations; todeceptively mask and intensify the ENEMY WITHIN's War-on-Americathat's robbing wealth and well-being from citizens. o US occupation of Iraq boosts Islamic-terroristrecruitment worldwide. Escalating opium production and drug sales inAfghanistan, where America "looks the other way" on its War on Drugs,provide huge amounts of funding for terrorists (References). All inall, a huge winner for the ENEMY WITHIN: The rise in fear alone isgood for our defense and homeland-security industries, especially howmore fear will release more funding for our missile-defense andspace-weapon and domestic-spying networks. The rise in drug use isgood for our prison industry, and good for our banking industry(Reference: Size and Scope of Money Laundering by US Banks). Itinspires the Christian Right to crusade against Muslims more strongly,boosting Islamic-terrorist recruitment even higher, and to yearn andact for "end-times," and its apocalyptic pain and suffering fornon-Christians worldwide, with more fervor (References: America's defacto Christian-Right state religion). o To extract wealth and power from "We, the People"through fear, the War on Terror proves far more successful than theWar on Communism. o America's government, elections, and media have becomeheavily rigged to favor ½ million wealthy-and-powerful campaign donorsand the 25-million-strong Christian Right. o ½ million well-off individuals in the "donor class"supply the bulk of all campaign contributions. The White House andCongress lavishly repay the favor including by: relaxingenvironmental, workplace, and food and drug safety (which kills tensof thousands of citizens a year); deregulating the investment andenergy industries (which cheats citizens out of billions of dollarsevery year, trillions so far); legalizing tax cheating worth $300billion a year for corporations and the wealthy (which forces ourmiddle class and poor to pay 15% more to the IRS every year). Averagereturn on campaign-contribution investment is at least 300-to-1.(Reference) o The religion of the Christian Right -- born-againChristian Zionism -- is an inhumane and pessimistic brand ofChristianity that emerged in the late 1800s, a century after 1776,which believes God does not help people in need (only those with theright kind of faith), values the pre-born over the born, discriminatesagainst classes of people and against other religions, corruptsGood-Samaritan giving into trading favors, and yearns for theApocalypse so strongly it pressured our White House and Congress todrain at least $2 trillion so far from our US Treasury to help ignitethe Apocalypse by oppressing Palestinians and by nurturing al-Qaeda inthe 1980s and by waging war on Afghanistan and Iraq. Today's religionof the Christian Right was not the religion of America's founders.(References, several chilling paragraphs with many links to sources) (Note. The born-again Christian Zionism of theChristian Right is radically different from mainstream evangelicalChristianity. Members of the Christian Right lack so much humanitythey aren't really "Christian," and mainstream theologians are alarmedby that inhumanity. So is the author of this ebook, who was anevangelical-Christian alter boy when young.) o "Some evangelical Christians in the US follow thedoctrine of dispensationalism, which, among other things, stipulatesthat the creation of Israel in Palestine in 1948 was a fulfillment ofBiblical prophecy and presages the second coming of Jesus Christ.""Some evangelist leaders have supported Israel's atrocities againstthe Palestinians, such as the 1982 Sabra and Shatila refugee campslaughter as well as the Jenin refugee camp massacre in 2002 on thegrounds that such events ushered in the second coming of Jesus.""There are also evangelical doctrines teaching that a universalapocalyptic war between good and evil, called Armageddon, will takeplace in Palestine in which most Jews will be annihilated except some40,000 who would accept Jesus and become Christians." (Reference:Evangelist warns Bush over Jerusalem -- support ridding Israel ofPalestinians, or lose Christian-Right votes in November 2004) o The Christian Right is seriously at odds with USConstitution which states in first sentence, "We, the People . . .promote the general Welfare . . . to ourselves and our Posterity." Tofulfill the most-fervent Christian-Zionist hope -- triggeringArmageddon and "end times" -- would terminate our general welfarealong with ourselves and our posterity. (References) o Born-again Christian Zionists see gruesome humantragedies in the Middle East -- in Israel, in Iraq which they believeis the New Babylon -- as "necessary according to prophecy." (References) o The latest Christian-Right "Left Behind" novel --"Glorious Appearing" -- celebrates violent, bloody ethnic cleansing ofall non-Christians from the face of our planet as the height of piety.(Reference) o Christian fundamentalists are driving US Middle Eastpolicy. (Reference: Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at theheart of power) o Christian Zionists, who control America's foreignpolicy in the Middle East, today push for fireworks that will dwarf9/11 and Iraq -- including Israel-Iran military conflict -- as part ofa general "World War IV." (References) o Christian Right supplies 25% of all votes (only 100million US citizens bother to vote). To repay the favor, the WhiteHouse and Congress spend at least $200 billion a year onChristian-Right religious causes, they codify Christian-Right theologyinto federal law and perhaps soon into Constitutional Amendments, andthey appoint Christian-Right federal judges to uphold those laws.(Reference 1, Reference 2) o Religious beliefs of the Christian Right -- "Goddoesn't help people except for the born-again faithful, so why shouldgovernmentEnd times are coming soon, so why bother to care aboutour posterity" -- resonate well with the "donor class" that alsodislikes social spending, and also lacks concern for the well-being ofpresent and future common citizens. To repay those clients for themillions of votes and billions of campaigning dollars they supply, theWhite House and Congress incorporate their clients' inhumanity intoWar-on-America domestic policy that subverts our Constitution. (Reference) o The ENEMY WITHIN is forcing a Christian-Right statereligion on America. Every taxpayer, on the average, already pays a defacto $1500 religious tax every year. (Reference 1, Reference 2) o Every time the President or Congress use religiousconsideration to qualify a judge or dispense funds or justify war orwrite law, they violate a vital separation-of-church-and-stateprovision in Article 6 of our Constitution. The Christian-Right judgesthey appoint, and our mass media, ignore those subversions of ourConstitution and spin those high crimes into righteousness. o Washington, corporations and wealthy, Christian-Right,and media team-up to Reverse Robin Hood America and steal from ourfuture generations. (Reference) o The ENEMY WITHIN's War-on-America is stunting theaverage body-height of our population. Due to poor nutrition andunavailability of health care, especially for millions being driveninto poverty by our nation's accelerating domestic inhumanity,Americans no longer grow taller from generation to generation and maybe slowly losing height as Europeans and the British, who are nowconsiderably taller than us, steadily gain height. (Reference) o Other War-on-America casualties: USA has the highestinfant-mortality rate in the developed world, the highestteenage-pregnancy rate in the industrialized world that's worse thanin many third-world countries including Rwanda, and the highestincarceration rate -- percentage of total population in jail andprison -- in the entire world. (References: The Myth of AmericanHealth Care: The Lies that Are Killing Us, Joy of sex education, USprison boom creates an Orwellian world) o Incarceration of racial/ethnic minorities and the poorfor committing minor offenses -- as white-and-rich offenders get offscot-free even though they steal far more money and hurt-and-kill morepeople -- fuels a burgeoning prison-industrial-complex that enrichesCorporate America. From the taxes that US citizens pay out to fundthis burgeoning government overhead. 1 out of every 75 American menare in prison. 6.9 million Americans -- 3.2% of the US adultpopulation, the highest percentage of any country in the world -- arein prison or on probation or parole. On a per capita basis the USAimprisons more of its people than Russia, three times more than Iran,four times more than Poland, five times more than Tanzania, and seventimes more than Germany and China. If Texas were a country, it wouldtop the list. (References: Report: 1 out of every 75 American men arein prison, US criminal numbers hit new high, Texas leads US inincarceration growth, US: record numbers in prison and on parole, TheEncyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime) o White House, Congress, and Supreme Court aredemolishing the "Foundation of America" -- separation of powers,separation of church and state -- that the Framers wove into ourConstitution to prevent the ancient wealth-and-power disease from everflaring up and hurting our nation. That crime is vastly more dangerousto America than treason or terrorism. o America's schools are no longer allowed to teach the"Foundation of America." Or the other core fundamentals of "American"democracy either, including how the human spirit embodied in ourConstitution is far more Buddhist than Christian. (References:Foundation of America, "American" democracy, Human spirit) o The ENEMY WITHIN is waging war on "American" democracy-- converting it into "Amerikan" democracy that broadly and deeplyviolates our Constitution -- starting by wounding public education sobadly that our schools and society can no longer provide the core"American" knowledge or core human skills needed by all citizens togovern our country well. (References: "American" democracy, "Amerikan"democracy, The right-wing attack on public education) o The ENEMY WITHIN's stepped-up erasure of core humanskills is causing nationwide arrested development: stunted anddeformed wisdom-and-humanity that handicaps the ability of Americancitizens to fathom our Constitution and carry out "America."(References: Core human skills, Arrested development, "America") o America's rapid loss of mankind's ancient coresurvival skills -- the bare-basic adulthood skills: ability to actwith respect, responsibility, cooperation, and straight thinking -- toa large extent is caused 1) by the FCC, Hollywood, federal educationpolicies, 2) by dangerous and harmful examples of "un-American"behavior being set by a corrupt White House, corrupt Congress, corruptSupreme Court, corrupt corporations and wealthy, corrupt ChristianRight, and 3) by a corrupt mass media that promotes thoseunwise-and-inhumane policies and behaviors into becoming popular,which degrades the character of American citizens and American cultureand endangers the survival of our nation. (References: FCC's assaulton democracy, Hollywood's attack on wisdom-and-humanity and goodcitizenship, Destructive right-wing federal education policies) o Using news and entertainment as a steady intravenousdrip, the ENEMY WITHIN's massive immaturity trickles down deep intothe American population and directly into our children: our newgenerations. (Reference: The right wing's massive trickle-down immaturity) o America's leaders and media increasingly teach awarped and deviant sense of right-and-wrong: It's alright for Americato rob and hurt other countries with rigged economic and trade weaponsand with belligerent diplomatic and military force, but it's wrong forother nations to do the same to America. It's alright for US troops tostorm a peaceful community meeting in Iraq and assassinate communityleaders with point-blank shots to the head, but it's wrong for foreignsoldiers to do that in America. It's alright for wealth-and-power tosteal billions of dollars from citizens -- such as the caperCalifornia's new governor and his clients are pulling off -- but it'swrong for the poor to cheat a little on their taxes. And so on.(References: Pure deviance: It's OK for America to rob and hurt othercountries, Muqtada's Shi'ites pay with their lives, The right wing'smassive trickle-down immaturity, Arnold's quiet looting of California) o Trickle-down inhumanity from the ENEMY WITHIN at thetop turned US soldiers into sadistic torturers of male and femaleIraqi civilians; up to 90 percent of imprisoned Iraqis were innocentcivilians. US troops -- humanity-lobotomized by US popular culture,and by US military training -- also were taught to have no moralqualms about cluster-bombing Iraqi civilians including children, orabout sniper-shooting Iraqi women and children and elderly, or aboutkilling 100,000 Iraqi civilians so far and wounding and maimingperhaps four-times more, or about preventing wounded Iraqi citizensfrom reaching their hospitals, or about shooting Iraqi ambulancestransporting wounded civilians, or about stealing from and beating andraping and killing Iraqi civilians in their homes, or about bulldozingdown Iraqi homes and their fruit-tree groves, or during the 1990-1991Iraq war about incendiary-bombing and burning fields of Iraqi crops.(References: Red Cross: Iraqi Abuse Widespread, Routine, AmericanAtrocity) o Our military tortured and sexually abused and killedcivilian and military prisoners, they even tortured children andsodomized boys, all under January-2002 sanction from President Bushand in secret under an American-propaganda veil of helping Iraq, whichis normalcy in the US global gulag including in the Afghanistan gulag.This terrible harm, inflicted with stealth or under guise of doinggood, is a perfect metaphor of how the America of today mistreats theworld and its own people and posterity. (References: Abuse, Torture,and Rape Reported at Unlisted US-run Prisons in Iraq, TorturingChildren, Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized, This is the NewGulag: Bush has Created a Global Network of Extra-legal and Secret USPrisons with Thousands of Inmates, Afghan gulag) o In response to the torture scandals, the ENEMY WITHINcame up with new damage-control spin. A war on moral outrage. As wellas a three-element public-relations script to play over and overagain: 1) focus on the lurid photos and horrid abuse to draw attentionaway from the President Bush's decision in February-2002 for thePentagon to violate the Geneva Conventions, 2) blame it all on a fewbad apples who shamed America and must be punished, 3) portray theGeneva Conventions as a web of hopelessly complicated legaltechnicalities that no one can be expected to understand or fullyagree with. (References: The Coming Backlash Against Outrage, PBS NOWMay-21-2004, From the President: OK for America to violate GenevaConventions) o Radioactive debris spewed from hundreds of tons of ourdepleted-uranium weapons since 1990 -- uranium in our bullets andshells, bombs and missiles -- will poison Yugoslavians, Afghanis,Iraqis, and US troops and their families for decades. They will sufferfrom lingering radiation illnesses and premature death. The victimizedpopulations will suffer birth deformities for generations. Depleteduranium, a component of toxic nuclear waste, besides radioactiveuranium contains radioactive plutonium and americium. Advantages ofsuch weapons? In addition to the superior destructive power -- uraniumis 67% heavier than lead and therefore packs 67% more wallop -- it's aprofitable way to dispose of nuclear waste. (References: Yugoslavia,Iraq I, Afghanistan, Iraq II) o The wealth-and-power disease uses deception as aweapon against their enemies and victims, including against We thePeople of America and We the People of the world. o "Spin" -- and other skills of deception that inflictharm -- are taught by our universities in advertising/marketing,public relations, political science, and journalism/communicationprograms. o In early 1980s, a PBS public-education documentaryconcluded: "Unless we teach wisdom and humanity, we are doomed." o In 2004, insightful British author of "Empire of theSun" observes America's growing immaturity and the harmful effects:"As the nation infantilises itself, the point is finally reached wherethe abandoned infant has nothing to do except break up its cot." Suchas to trash its "American" democracy, part of the doom America'seducators warned about decades earlier. (Reference: In modern America,no nightmare is forbidden) o Reading is a democratic activity. Theocraciesdiscourage it. Khomeini's Iran and the Soviet Union had similarlydegraded views of literature. Bush's America is heading the same way,into a war on reading and on its human gift of deep understanding.(Reference: The war on words) o To morph our government of, by, and for We the Peopleinto a government of, by, and for the ENEMY WITHIN -- so stealthily Wethe People are not even aware of it -- our leaders employ the sameMadison-Avenue advertising and public-relations techniques, and attimes the same Madison-Avenue firms, that the Nazis celebrated andutilized to shape the public mind of the Third Reich. Also like NaziGermany, our mass media became a key part of the state propaganda machine. o The ENEMY WITHIN is removing representative governmentand democratic processes -- including democratic elections -- fromAmerica. (Reference 1, Reference 2) o Justice For All is in peril, too: White House andCongress are packing our federal-court system with judges who havecontempt for separation of powers, and contempt for separation ofchurch and state. o The pre-born are gaining rights. The born are losingrights: representative government, democratic processes, justice,national unity and cooperation as Americans, national security,general welfare, and liberty. o America's steadily worsening wealth-and-power disease,centered in Washington DC, has deposed 20 democracies worldwide sinceWorld War 2 -- including in Iran, Guatemala, Iran, Chile, Haiti -- andtoday attacks authentic democracy in Venezuela, Bolivia, and America. o America's mass media has steadily covered upcomputer-voting fraud since 1970. (References) o Our free press suppresses pro-America pro-democracyfree speech that reveals truth and calls for solutions, such as fromwar veteran Dr. Robert Bowman, USAF Ret and investigative journalistGreg Palast. o America's news coverage is a skewed and selectiveplay-by-play of the here-and-now that's carefully engineered to favorwealth-and-power, with not even a hint of big-picture connection withthe past or future or elsewhere -- or with our Constitution either.From that terribly dishonest information source, gaining understandingof what's really happening simply isn't possible. The whole point. o America's news-media corporations are willful partnersin massive international and domestic larceny. As they keep us fixatedon their top story of the day, they never mention the steady majorplundering behind the scenes and behind our backs: the ENEMY WITHIN'stheft of assets and resources from Iraq and from many other countries,and their systematic Reverse-Robin-Hood looting of America. For eachof their many ongoing heists, think of our press as the lookout andgetaway car. o If you want truth about America, you have to read andwatch foreign news as well as investigative journalism that is bannedfrom America's media. (Reference: Muzzling Michael, Muzzling Me,Palast DVD Bush Family Fortunes) o The wealth-and-power disease is like cancer: unlesstreated, the ENEMY WITHIN will suck wealth and power out of Americancitizens until our country dies. o America's war on the world -- and America's war onitself -- are exactly what the Framers tried to prevent withseparation of powers and separation of church and state. But the WhiteHouse, Congress, Judiciary, Corporate America, the wealthy, ChristianRight, and mass media joined forces -- to form the ENEMY WITHIN -- andsteam-rollered right over those two vital principles that protect andpreserve "America." o The members of the ENEMY WITHIN -- who around 1980began to assemble into an unchecked concentrated power forbidden byour Constitution -- today as a cohesive team freely overthrow ourgovernment and slide America into fascism. The ENEMY WITHIN nowcontrols America, not We the People anymore. Their illegal subversionof our Constitution is far more dangerous and harmful to our nationand citizens -- and to the world -- than terrorism. Their news andentertainment industries spin our minds into being supportive andclueless. (Reference: America's unmistakable mindless slide into fascism) o In our press, and over our public-owned broadcastingairwaves that are supposed to foster the well-being of our nation, theENEMY WITHIN keeps We the People politically weak and helpless byneutering our will and ability to govern America. They make us unableto believe that We-the-People citizens are supposed to -- and are ableto -- govern America, to believe instead that God made and runsAmerica so we must place our governance in the hands of pious leadersand Christianity, and to believe that a shepherd must rule because aflock can't. They nurture an American culture that makes uscompetitive and combative against each other and fractious anddivisive, splintered apart and fragmented into narrow and selfishinterests, unable to believe that "conservatives" and "liberals" canpolitically work together as a team, unable to unite and cooperate todefend our nation against the internal wealth-and-power threat theFramers foresaw and feared. See why it's so laughably easy for theENEMY WITHIN to divide and conquer? o Instead of fostering true patriotic spirit, the WhiteHouse, Congress, Judiciary, Corporate America, the wealthy, ChristianRight, and mass media destroyed it. From our schools and public mindthey purged the spirit of the American Revolution, the spirit of"American" democracy, the spirit of foremost citizen duty, the spiritof common-ground responsibility, the spirit of our nation's twofundamental protections, the spirit of dissent. o The ENEMY WITHIN violates our Constitution to itscore, causing direct harm to America as well as indirect harm in theform of retaliatory blowback from the world they hurt: + Preamble. They prevent We the People fromgoverning America and from exercising our supreme power. They removeour justice, national unity and cooperation as Americans, nationalsecurity, general welfare, and liberty. They hurt our posterity, suchas with massive deficit spending that puts America deeper and deeperinto federal debt; our future generations will have to pay it offincluding steep interest payments. + Articles 1 and 2. They prevent representativegovernment. They prevent democratic processes such as by preventingthe publishing and broadcasting of information our democracy needs, bydeceiving and manipulating the electorate, by preventing publicdiscourse of critical democratic issues, by preventing "pro-America"political parties from forming, by blocking "pro-America" candidatesfrom reaching voters, by preventing dissent, by preventing democraticelections. They wage war without Congress declaring war. + Article 6. They violate international treatiesincluding the UN Charter, Geneva Conventions, and Nuremberg Charter;treaties are supreme Law of the Land, so when they violate a treatythey violate our Constitution. They use forbidden "religious tests"when appointing judges, when making laws, when enacting regulationsand executive orders, when disbursing public funds, which violates ourConstitution. + Amendment 12. In 2000 the Supreme Court andCongress approved a vice president who clearly did not fulfill theAmendment's separation-of-powers qualification to be a vice president:candidates for president and vice president cannot reside in the samestate. After he registered to vote in Wyoming at the last minute, thevice-presidential candidate's homestead status in Texas proved he wasa resident of Texas. + Separation of powers, separation of church andstate. In several ways they violate these two foundation principles ofour Constitution. Which if followed would protect and preserve ournation as the Framers intended, and would have prevented the HomelandEnemy from ever arising, gaining power, and stealthily overthrowingour "American" government. + In regard to their War on Terror which includestheir War on Iraq, here is how they violate the Preamble, Article 1,Article 2, Article 6, Amendment 12, separation of powers, andseparation of church and state: CLICK HERE. + Their violations of our Bill of Rights are minorinfractions in comparison. o Kept secret from America -- but well-known to theworld -- beginning around 1980 the ENEMY WITHIN overthrew of ourgovernment and corrupted "America" into a lawless rogue "Amerika" thatexploits and hurts people by the millions here and abroad. All those acts by the ENEMY WITHIN -- kept well-hidden orspun into illusions of patriotism and goodness by our mass media --are unfair, dangerous, and harmful. Among humans -- and even among the chimpanzees we evolvedfrom -- the natural and normal reaction to unfairness, danger, andharm is to cooperate to bring about justice and common well-being. We must act upon our natural instincts to fight andneutralize the ENEMY WITHIN that is hurting America. So that "We, thePeople" can govern our nation again, and restore our Constitution's"America" to America. Our thirst for fairness and justice and well-being, and ourreservoir of cooperation, lie deep inside "We, the People." In ourgenes. In our history. In our Constitution. On March-20-2003 one of our two daughters asked, "Dad, whyare we bombing Iraq?" She couldn't tell from the news and neithercould we. So we ferreted out hidden truth from the present and losttruth from the past. We discovered how our 'primitive' forebears knewthe answer tens of thousands of years before civilizations began, howthat natural wisdom-and-humanity trickled-down through the ages, howthe Framers wrote much of it into our liberal Constitution includinghow to protect and preserve America forever. Our quest for the fullanswer to our daughter's question -- and for a way to prevent such warand wrongdoing in the future -- grew into this Civics-101 democracymanual, an ebook in progress. To see the big picture, use this mental process: Gather fouringredients: 1) Reports from independent journalists who serve thepublic interest by revealing truth about lawbreaking and wrongdoing,news that reaches very few in the public. 2) News from our mass mediathat serve wealth-corporate and Christian-Right interests, news thatspins and hides truth about lawbreaking and wrongdoing, the news thatreaches nearly everyone in the public. 3) Understanding of our ancienthuman past, including about the innate wisdom-and-humanity of ourspecies and about the critical need to keep wealth-and-power incareful check otherwise community well-being and perhaps survival willsuffer. 4) Understanding of America's early past, including how in1776 we revolted against mistreatment by wealth-and-power and how wevowed to keep the power of corporations in careful check and how ourConstitution is based on fundamental wisdom-and-humanity that datesback at least tens of millennia. Then ponder it all at once. All thebits and pieces naturally merge into a clarifying synthesis. The bigpicture you gradually see -- of the problem, of the solution -- simplydraws itself. Any citizen equipped with the core wisdom-and-humanityskills of our species, and with basic understanding of human historyand American history, can do it. Because the mental process that drawsthe moral lines of the picture seems to be genetic. The big picture of the problem: We forgot key lessons ofhistory, we stopped heeding our Constitution, we lost our vigilanceand dropped our guard. Which created a window of opportunity formankind's old nemesis -- the wealth-and-power disease -- to flare upand go berserk. That political sickness then decimated ourwisdom-and-humanity, our American values, and our understanding andpractice of American democracy -- as evidenced by today's severeerosion of morality and good citizenship from the top on down. The big picture of the solution: Resurrect the corewisdom-and-humanity of our species, resurrect the American values andAmerican democracy in our Constitution, by teaching them in our publicschools and by arm-twisting our mass media to promote and popularizethem. Then wield that wisdom-and-humanity, and that good citizenship,to beat down and hold down wealth-and-power like our Constitutiontells us to -- to fix America just like we created America. The war on Iraq turns out to be just one symptom of thepolitical cancer deeply hurting us today. Another symptom? The beliefthat "majority-is-right" democracy is real "American" democracy (abelief that clashes directly with the first sentence of ourConstitution). Two other symptoms? The belief that humans are bynature bad and need divine guidance to be good, the belief thatgovernment and citizens are separate and adversarial (beliefs thatcollide head-on with the essence of our Constitution). As you read this ebook you will: * Learn how an ENEMY WITHIN has violated our Constitution --Preamble, Article 1, Article 2, Article 6, Amendment 12, separation ofpowers, separation of church and state (their violations of our Billof Rights are minor infractions in comparison) -- and is warping ourgovernment Of, By, and For the People into a government Of, By, andFor the ENEMY WITHIN that is fast taking away our representativegovernment, democratic processes, justice, national unity andcooperation as Americans, national security, general welfare, and liberty. * Learn how We the People could nullify the Patriot Act. Learnhow we could reverse the escalating Reverse Robin Hooding of America.Learn how we could replace the legalized bribery of the White Houseand Congress with public-financed political campaigns at a cost of $50per taxpayer a year, in part to eliminate at least $500 billion oftaxation a year now spent on things that hurt America and the worldincluding payoffs to wealthy and corporate donors who often earn1000-to-1 and higher returns on their campaign-contributioninvestments. Learn how diverse groups -- from Greens to the NRA,non-believers and devout, gay to straight, left to right -- would allshare the same deep motivation to stop the unjustness: wanting to betreated fairly, wanting justice, and cooperating to carry it out areall imbedded in our genes, history, and Constitution. * Learn how We the People could rid America of our presentillegal and dangerous form of government that violates ourConstitution in many huge ways and hurts people by the millions hereand abroad -- "Amerikan" democracy: a blend of market-based"Madison-Avenue" democracy (where you toss legal principles, moralprinciples, and good sense out the window and adulate high pollnumbers instead; where lawbreaking and wrongdoing, includingendangering and harming yourself and others, are "right" and "good" ifmanipulative advertising and PR make those misdeeds andsurvival-incorrect behaviors acceptable and popular), "right-wing"democracy (that strips away separation of powers, separation of churchand state, and slides our nation into fascism with a scaryChristian-Right state religion), and "kakistocratic plutocracy"(government of, by, and for the least-principled few who hold the bulkof wealth and power) -- and return to genuine "American" democracy. * Learn how the ENEMY WITHIN is tiny and vulnerable (theirwealth-corporate core is a mere 0.1% of our population), and if ourcountry wakes up and rises up how an "American" force to fight itcould grow to be 200-million-strong. Learn how we could have agovernment Of, By, and For the People again by getting important newsand honest news out to the public (including by broadcasting what ourConstitution is really all about!), by healing the ENEMY WITHIN's deepwounds to public education, and by forming a new major political partywith such mass appeal it would heavily draw votes away from Democratsand Republicans in equal huge numbers. Learn how our Constitutionembodies vital wisdom and humanity from the dawn of our species andfrom our non-human primate ancestors millions of years earlier, andhow it directs We the People to defend America against the ENEMYWITHIN the Framers foresaw and feared. Journalists, educators, citizen-action and public-interestgroups, responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, and all otherconcerned groups and citizens -- conservatives and liberals alike --have important parts to play. True conservatives -- and true liberals -- stand on the same"American" common ground and can work together. As you read this evolving work-in-progress that we didn'twant to write but had to write, seek answers to this question andshare them with America: How can We the People organize and cooperateto fight and neutralize the ENEMY WITHIN hurting America, so that Wethe People can govern our nation again and restore our Constitution's"America" to America, as effectively as Americans could have done soin 1776? Why do we ask? The ENEMY WITHIN breedshyper-competitiveness, combativeness, and selfishness into ourculture. Those social and emotional forces interfere with, and weaken,our natural ability to be good to ourselves by cooperating as a unitedteam toward America's well-being. What kind of goodness, what kind of cooperation, does ourConstitution call for? "We, the People . . . establish Justice, insuredomestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote thegeneral Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves andour Posterity . . ." To restore fairness and justice to America, "We, the People"must tap into what makes us human: We must act with maturity -- wisely and humanely -- for ourConstitution as conservative-and-liberal true "Americans" do. Not with immaturity -- unwisely and inhumanely -- againstour Constitution as the "right wing" and ENEMY WITHIN do. We must unleash the power of the ordinary human mind. To seethe wonder of our Constitution. To see through the usual "PoliticalLabels & Myths." To see through the many other blindfolds the ENEMYWITHIN pulls over our eyes. Then, "We, the People" merely have to yield to our deepgenetic yearning for fairness and justice. The same yearning evidentin our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Could this be thereal reason why people take to the streets and revolt? Years ago, deep in a Seattle Times article about the grossunfairness of the federal tax system, a Senator said, "If the Americanpublic knew what's really going on, they'd revolt." We must tap into what makes us uniquely "American:" We must carry out the legal directive in our Constitution:"We, the People . . . provide for the common defence" against theENEMY WITHIN. We must heed the wise-and-humane legal guidance in thesupreme Law of the Land: Our nation's two fundamental protections. Ourconservative-and-liberal common-ground responsibilities as true"Americans." Our tools of democracy -- socially-responsible journalism,socially-responsible mass media, civic education, civic activism, goodcitizenship -- are being neutralized by an ENEMY WITHIN with suchguile and stealth few Americans are aware: * Our nation's journalism reports only a few mild symptoms andoften inaccurately, never the worst symptoms, and never the bigpicture or patriotic solution: the ancient political disease thatbegan to flare up a quarter-century ago (the ENEMY WITHIN now hurtingAmerica badly) and how and why our Constitution urges We the People torise up and unite and cure it. * Aided by our Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and byPresidents and Congresses and federal judges who removed the FairnessDoctrine and public-service requirements from broadcasting and whogave the legal green light to hate radio and to biased informationmonopolies and to corporate use of public airwaves to hurt America andcitizens, aided by giant news-and-entertainment conglomerates thatselect-and-cloak and color-and-twist current events and history toserve wealth and power instead of the public interest, aided byuniversities that teach manipulation and deception skills formarketing and communication, aided by press and radio and televisionthat assure we stay clueless about major international and US laws ourleaders and military break (such as the UN Charter, Nuremberg Charter,and US Constitution), aided by routine news blackouts of alarmingthreats to our well-being and democracy, aided by an informationmachine that parrots and spreads the stories and spin issued by wealthand power while it hides and distorts vital news our nation needs toknow about, aided by a mass-media machine that functions as an attackmachine especially in subliminal ways against the essence of "America"and against good citizenship and against personalities and groups andissues that promote the goals of our Constitution, the ENEMY WITHINmolds and controls our public mind to their liking. * They force our K-12 schools to teach watered-down and skewedversions of the civic knowledge and civic action required by ourConstitution, they force our schools to cut back the teaching of corewisdom-and-humanity and core history that people need to be able tounderstand and care about our Constitution and to be responsible goodcitizens, and the news and entertainment media they own and controlinflict the same dangerous handicaps on the rest of our society. Thusour citizenry is losing understanding of "American" democracy as wellas the mental ability and desire to carry it out (EXAMPLES). The ENEMYWITHIN breeds this national-security weakness, and exploits it.Already in our schools and society they are stealthily replacing our"American" democracy with a dangerous illegal form of government:"Amerikan" democracy. Already they have victimized millions of ourcitizens to mistakenly perceive violations and violators of ourConstitution as righteous and patriotic, and to unwittinglywave-the-Flag for law-breaking and law-breakers and their hurting ofpeople. Already they have victimized millions of citizens to believethat it's wrong to warn the public about a President, AttorneyGeneral, Senators, Congressmen, and federal judges all the way up tothe Supreme Court who serve God in a gruesome, expensive, illegal waylike this: A peek into the soul of the Christian Right [read fourparagraphs], $100 billion a year (25% of defense spending), $2trillion so far (30% of our national debt), all to hurry up theBook-of-Revelations Apocalypse [read two paragraphs]. (If you flare upin response to this paragraph, or have difficulty understanding itsmoral concepts, that's a sign you're a victim of the ENEMY WITHIN'sdeep wounds to public education and the public mind. Don't let thattragic harm be inflicted on the minds and hearts of your posterity. Asour Constitution authorizes and empowers you, be a true patriot anddefend America against the Homeland Enemy doing it.) * They have begun to use police-state force to violently crushcivic activism (EXAMPLE). They keep Americans unaware of the wondroustrue meaning of "America" that would inflame the passion and power ofcivic activism. In classic divide-and-conquer fashion (picture Romangenerals on a hill observing the battle on the plain below), they sitback and chuckle as the destructive cultural/social forces theycultivated keep civic activism splintered into weak and oftenfractious separate groups -- such as by keeping conservatives andliberals, who could work together, at each other's throats -- eachgroup working alone on vital issues opposed by the samemedia-protected block of wealth-and-power that fights everypublic-interest issue. (To combat this, the trick is to wise up andorganize and cooperate. All public-interest and civic-action groups,conservative and liberal, could unite into a giant "American" forceagainst that tiny "un-American" block of wealth-and-power. Picture 200million concerned citizens also waking up, rising up, and joining in.) * They made an end-run around good citizenship and scored atouchdown: reading and watching the news to keep informed, writing ourSenators and Congressman, and voting during elections barely workanymore. Because America's news doesn't sufficiently inform and oftenmisinforms. Because America's Of the People representatives representbig donors and not voters. Because America's elections are no longerdemocratic in several dangerous ways. The ENEMY WITHIN is rapidly altering our "American"democracy into an illegal and dangerous form of government: "Amerikan"democracy -- a blend of market-based "Madison-Avenue" democracy (whereyou toss legal principles, moral principles, and good sense out thewindow and adulate high poll numbers instead; where lawbreaking andwrongdoing, including endangering and harming yourself and others, are"right" and "good" if manipulative advertising and PR make thosemisdeeds and survival-incorrect behaviors acceptable and popular),"right-wing" democracy (that strips away separation of powers,separation of church and state, and slides our nation into fascismwith a scary Christian-Right state religion), and "kakistocraticplutocracy" (government of, by, and for the least-principled few whohold the bulk of wealth and power). The American public is caught and swept along in thisdangerous flow. The distress and pain many citizens are beginning to see andfeel? The political disease the Framers feared is now rapidlytransforming our government Of, By, and For the People into agovernment Of, By, and For the ENEMY WITHIN that is illegal under ourConstitution and is fast taking away our representative government(SUMMARY), democratic processes (SUMMARY), justice (EXAMPLES),national unity and cooperation as Americans (SUMMARY), nationalsecurity (EXAMPLE), general welfare (EXAMPLES), and liberty (EXAMPLE). What can We the People do about it? The empowering secretslie in our genetic past, in the history of our species, in the earlyhistory of our nation, and in our Constitution. One of those ancient secrets? Use common sense. Clarify thecore problem to the public, promote the united solution to the public,then rally the public to carry it out somewhat like in 1776. Another? Cooperate. Cooperation toward the common good is amajor survival skill of humankind. Cooperation is imbedded in ourgenes, history, and Constitution. The complete solution (see the four-element plan herein)would take some time. Journalists, educators, citizen-action andpublic-interest groups, responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, andall other concerned groups and citizens would have to organize andcooperate as a united team to fix and heal America -- as effectivelyas the ENEMY WITHIN organizes and cooperates to extract wealth andwell-being from America. A superb initial move is to elect a better President thisNovember. Hopefully a genuine "education president" who would promotethe core basics of "America" -- our nation's two fundamentalprotections and our common-ground responsibilities -- that millionsand millions of citizens need to learn about first before they cancooperate to restore "America" to America. Just think of how much more effective citizens would be ifthey understood the empowerment of true "American" democracy! Or is it too late. Did the ENEMY WITHIN already turn Americainto an "un-American" nation, into a worsening "Amerika" that is nowbeyond the point-of-no-return back to our Constitution? Are we nolonger able to cooperate to assure our rights, freedoms, and well-being? TOPTable of Contents"#" means "a highlight."00 Title & header1a Summary # What is the "War on Terror?"1b "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" -- Thomas Jefferson.Today we pay the price for not being vigilant.1c The bad news -- and good news -- in brief.02 Genetic roots of American Revolution.03 Just do it.04 Connect the dots. # What are "American values?" Recently erased from our country bywealth-and-power, we can restore them.05 It's a matter of national defense. Against the Homeland Enemy.06 America's political cancer. The patriotic cure. Or is it too late.07 PROLOG: "We, the People" must cooperate to heal America. Oraccept the dire consequences (EPILOG).# What is "American democracy?" Erased from America by the ENEMYWITHIN, we can restore it.# Serious misdeeds -- and critical danger alerts -- that America'snews will not print or broadcast.08 A wake-up call, a dawn of hope. # The "ENEMY WITHIN" in brief. # The Reverse Robin Hooding of America. # The FCC's assault on democracy.09 Summary: the problem and solution. # A long range four-element civic action plan. # The slam-dunk odds of victory! # How to fix our worst national-security weakness.10 The new Enemy of 1776 and their Redcoats. # $1500 annual tax to support Christian-Right religion.11 Is it too late?12 When wisdom sleeps, a beast awakes.13 Already purged: our foremost civic duty. # America's deadly WMD against itself.14 Many symptoms, one problem, one solution. # The right-wing assault on the general welfare. # The right-wing assault on public education. # Our emerging Christian-Right state religion. # The usual activism barely works anymore. # Tips for journalists and activists. # "We, the People" must unite like the ENEMY does. 15 More dangerous than Communists within. # 9/11: how America shot itself in the foot.16 Our course: from "America" to "Amerika?" # We spend $100 billion a year on Christian Zionism. # The right-wing assault on human goodness. # National-debt interest: 20% of federal revenue. # "War-on-Terror" logo hides America's terrorism.17 No longer taught: how to be a true "American." # America's two fundamental protections. # The common ground of all true "Americans." # A primer on vigilance. # God and Country: illegal when combined. # War-on-Iraq summary. Should we wave the Flag?18 Our choice: accept the disease or go for the cure.19 "American" democracy: roots, uprooted, regrowth? # Perils of "Madison-Avenue" democracy. # Dangers of "right-wing" democracy. # America's descentinto fascism. # The new illegal and dangerous "Amerikan" democracy. # Real "American" democracy. # The strong case for resurrecting core adulthood skills. # Hollywood's assault on humanity and good citizenship. # "Free-market" pillaging: "Privatization.Globalization." # The right-wing assault on representative government. # The right-wing assault on democratic processes. # Campaign contributions: ultra-dangerous 'free speech.' # How to end the legalized bribery of our elected leaders. # A fair way to instantly pay off our national debt. # How to fire up the NRA for Minutemen duty -- today. # Weep for Laos.20 Our block-the-truth, spin-the-truth mass media.21 Venezuela un-spun. # Haiti un-spun.22 The right-wing assault on the "Foundation of America."23 America's weapon of deception against "America."24 Wolves we don't see. The falls ahead we don't hear. # The rain of events pooled into a flow.25 How we turned immoral and lawless, even to ourselves.26 The hijacking.27 007's Spectre grows real, right under our noses.28 Today's patriotism: dangerously "un-American." # Why we fought in 1776: to curb power of corporations. # Corporate personhood: a huge legal-system lie. # A patriotic duty of a jury: to judge the law itself.29 Our media and FCC: in bed with the right wing.30 Iraq war: 1992 inception, plans for plunder, deep deceit. # USA's premeditated heist of a sovereign nation's assets. # Collateral damage: 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed. # Iraqi citizens are fighting off the enemy.31 Our kakistocratic plutocracy. # Computer-voting fraud: covered up since 1970.32 Conclusion: a true "America" anyone? # Wisdom from a Senator. # NATO's looting of Yugoslavia. # The ancient origin of our Constitution.33 EPILOG: Have "We, the People" lost our natural ability tocooperate toward common well-being? TOP CONTENTS A wake-up call, a dawn of hope. Our nation's core problem? The essence of "America" --representative government, democratic processes, justice, nationalunity and cooperation as Americans, national security, the generalwelfare, liberty -- is under assault by an ENEMY WITHIN aided andprotected by the news-and-entertainment media they own and control. One of the many symptoms? The fundamental understanding ofour Constitution that we need to function as government Of the People,By the People, For the People has been substantially purged from ourschools and American culture. So have the basic mind-and-heart skillsthat we need to understand and care about our Constitution. The ENEMYWITHIN has thus created a national-security weakness that hurts America. How come we don't know all this? Including how the ENEMYWITHIN sowed the seeds of 9/11 two decades ago, conceived the Iraq wara decade ago, spends $100 billion a year to help fulfill a radical andscary Christian-Zionist biblical prophecy, ramped up their ReverseRobin Hooding of America right after 9/11, and breaks internationallaw and US law in major ways? Because the ENEMY WITHIN, and itsnews-and-entertainment media, constantly manipulate and deceive us. Itworks like this. The mind-bending skills are taught by ouruniversities in marketing and communication programs. Graduatesemployed by the ENEMY WITHIN then use those manipulation-and-deceptionskills as weapons against our country. Like this: The Lie Factory.Which doesn't pose a moral dilemma because they, like so many citizenstoday, more and more are victimized and handicapped by the ENEMYWITHIN to lack social responsibility and obligation to "America". What can We the People do about it? This ebook explains.Journalists, educators, citizen-action and public-interest groups,responsible leaders, mainstream clergy, and all other concerned groupsand citizens have vital parts to play. "We, the People" need to fight off the wealth-and-powerdisease again. Like we did in 1776. The Framers understood and feared this ancient disease. Sothey wrote two core safeguards into our Constitution to prevent it:separation of powers, separation of church and state. And trial byjury where We the People judge the law itself as a direct citizencheck on unjust and dangerous power. And a directive forSnip: Article truncated.«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§ - PULSE ON WORLD HEALTH CONSPIRACIES! §Subscribe:......... - To :.... - Any information here in is for educational purpose only, it may be news related, purely speculation or someone's opinion. 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