Guest guest Posted November 28, 2004 Report Share Posted November 28, 2004 Go to the site, this article has many, many imbedded links to read. http://www.seattleairgear.com/civics.htm#civics83 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 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 Internet Explorer, allow page to download more and retry. Then switch to Mozilla Firefox. 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. 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 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. TOP CONTENTS 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. 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, 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. 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 -- 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. TOP CONTENTS 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? 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, 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. 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 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? 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 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: + 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. + 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. + 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. + 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. + 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. + 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? TOP 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? TOP CONTENTS 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 Snip: Article truncated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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