Tuesday, May 24, 2005

We are a nation damned.

We are damned because we have forgotten that the government is the employee of the people, and that like any employee the government is required to obey orders, not to give them.


A Nation Damned


There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We are past being able to pretend otherwise, no matter what comfort might be found in the deception. The United States Government has openly admitted there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The United States Government has openly admitted there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. The United States Government has openly admitted there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and 9-11.

The United States has invaded and conquered a foreign nation under false pretexts.

President Bush and his cronies lied us all into a war.

But that is not why we are damned.

The culmination of decades of accumulated overspending by the government has created an aggregate debt for the United States federal and state governments of $14 trillion dollars. That’s fourteen million million dollars.

Or, to put it in a more personal scale, more than $48,000 for every single living human being in the United States, plus the accumulating interest.

The interest on that government debt now exceeds all the personal income tax collected by that government. That means that the government isn’t keeping up with the interest on the debt, let alone able to pay down the principle.

Even before the wars started with lies, the US Government was sinking deeper into debt by one third of a trillion dollars every year. With Bush’s war, the debt is increasing at another half trillion every year just at the Federal level. And because the federal Government, struggling with payments on past debts, is sending less money back to the states, the states are sinking deeper into debt as well.

But that is not why we are damned.

The national fiscal crisis is accelerating because of soaring unemployment, and the forced migration of workers from higher paying jobs to lower paying ones. This is occurring for two reasons. The first is that as tax revenues falter, the cash-strapped government raises tax rates.

This increases the cost of products and services inside the United States without increasing their quality or desirability. Indeed American companies, struggling to keep prices competitive, are forced to sacrifice quality.

As an inevitable result, American companies have either been driven out of business by foreign competition able to sell superior products at lower prices, or been forced to outsource their own operations to regions with lower tax burdens.

The US Government attempted to conceal this loss of manufacturing with the so-called “Service Economy”, the ludicrous notion that one can prosper a nation by doing each other’s laundry for a fee. But while the moving of cash back and forth for services created more opportunities for taxation, fewer and fewer products were being made within the United States for sales to foreign countries.

All the while, Americans were buying foreign-made products because they were of better quality and lower price than American products. Indeed many products needed for every day life are simply not made in the USA any more.

When Ampex invented the VCR, they did not even bother approaching American manufacturers but licensed directly to the Japanese.

When Seymour Cray was building his supercomputers, the chips he needed were only available from Japanese manufacturers.

Money is flowing out of the country at a billion and a half dollars per day. And as government debt drives taxes higher, the situation can only get worse.

But that is not why we are damned.

Despite the huge government debt, despite the loss of manufacturing over the last 30 years, despite soaring unemployment, despite American women and children sleeping in alleys and eating out of trash cans, the United States government hands out trillions of dollars as gifts to their friends (who used to be their enemies) and to make war on their enemies (who used to be their friends).

But that is not why we are damned.

Maybe the problem is the Congress. Congress is supposed to represent the people, but a body composed of millionaires and lawyers can hardly be expected to understand how to actually make things work.

Maybe Congress would better serve the people if it were made up of teachers, doctors, road engineers, factory workers, bakers, people who actually know how to make a nation function, build an infrastructure, and know what it is like to have to live paycheck to paycheck in a nation where the government makes more money off of your work than you do and is always asking for more.

But that is not why we are damned.

We are damned because we know all the above and do nothing. Like the Germans of 1930s Germany we see Der Fuhrer trying to distract the populace from the self-serving choices the government makes by creating a war with lies and deceptions, yet stay silent, less we be accused of being traitors to the national security. We voice our outrage when a rock star bares her breast at a sporting event, because rock stars cannot after all hurt us, raise our taxes, or conscript our children to be crippled or killed in wars.

But we remain silent, or at best speak in hushed tones with a trusted few of our concerns about the government, which does hurt us, which does raise our taxes, and which has and continues to conscript our children to be crippled or killed in wars.

We are damned by our silence. We are damned by our inaction. We are damned by our fear to speak out. We are damned by our weakness. We are damned by being sheep under a government of wolves.

We are damned unless and until you realize that your anger and outrage must be targeted where it is needed, not just where it is harmless. We are damned by our willingness to be angry with those who cannot affect our lives, while remaining too afraid to be angry with those who can.

We are damned because individuals who refuse to obey the law morally offend us, but we remain enablers of a government that refuses to obey the Constitution.

We are damned until WE THE PEOPLE remember that we ARE a people, and that this nation is US.

The President is not the nation. The media is not the nation. The selfish desires of a powerful few are not the nation. The Congress is not the nation.

This nation is 288 million teachers, doctors, bricklayers, road layers, bridging engineers, railroad workers, bakers, grocers, and thousands of others who actually make the nation work.

But we seem to have forgotten that simple truth, that wisdom conveyed in those first three words to the Preamble to the Constitution, “We The People”.

The Constitution makes it clear that the nation is the people, and the government only a temporary custodian of our national sovereignty that rules by and only by the leave of the people.

We are damned because we have forgotten that the government is the employee of the people, and that like any employee the government is required to obey orders, not to give them.

We are damned because we have forgotten that as the employers of the government, we have the right to decide what our employees can do and more importantly, what they cannot.

We are damned because we have forgotten who is really supposed to be in charge.

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Sharon Gets Hostile Reception in D.C.

by William Hughes

Email: liamhughes(at)comcast.net

May 2005 - Leave it to Israel’s Ariel Sharon to bring everyone together! His appearance in Washington, DC, on May 23, 2005, brought out hundreds of vocal demonstrators. The occasion was the annual conference of AIPAC, which is a part of the alien-based Zionist Cartel juggernaut. Ex-U.S. Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) said, “The Iraq War was for Israel.”

Are Sharon and the Zionist Cartel scheming a repeat performance for us with Iran and Syria?

Washington - I never thought of Israel’s Ariel Sharon as a guy who could bring people together. (1) I was wrong! Probably, the most loathed Zionist on the planet, he brought out hundreds of demonstrators from the D.C. area, at the annual AIPAC conference, (2) held at the D.C. Convention Center, on Monday, May 23, 2005.

They were all very vocal, too.

My first interview was with the highly-respected Rabbi, Yisroel Dovid Weiss. Standing in front of the Center, he said, “Ariel Sharon is not the representative of Judaism or the Jewish people...Judaism and Zionism are not one and the same. Sharon is the antithesis of what a good Jew should be," the Rabbi insisted. (3) Doug Eyde, an activist from D.C. told me, “I’m here to protest AIPAC, which directs our foreign policy and billions of our money to the Israeli war machine and to the occupation of Palestine.”

The reasons for the protest varied: Sharon’s past crimes; opposition to Israel’s Apartheid Wall and its brutal treatment of the Palestinian people; and, also its dubious disengagement plan were raised. Israel’s role, via the shifty Neocons, in instigating the Iraqi War and pushing, too, for a U.S.-led war with Iran and Syria were also on the agenda. (4) Of course, the Zionist schemers won’t see any need for Israeli troops to get their hands bloodied in any possible conflict with Iran or Syria.

Why should they? The Americans and Brits will do it for them, just as they are now doing it in Iraq. A recently retired U.S. Senator, Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC), said, “The Iraq War was for Israel.” (5)

David Kirshbaum of the D.C. Anti-War Network, (DAWN) was one of the first demonstrators to show up at the Center. He said: “We are here tonight to protest against AIPAC and Ariel Sharon. Israel practices Apartheid. It has been oppressing the Palestinians, exploiting their economy and destroying their ability to communicate with each other, especially because of the Apartheid Wall it is building.

It’s a form of ethnic cleansing.” A resident of Edgemere, MD, John Bailey, was another demonstrator. He said, “I don’t like AIPAC’s influence on the U.S. government. George Washington warned us about the evils of excessive foreign entanglements. I really think that sums it up. We’re letting the tail wag the dog. It’s obvious a lot of the congressmen are scared to death to oppose Israel’s Right Wing policies.”

Although, the rally didn’t begin until 6:00 PM, at Massachusetts at 7th St., NW, across the street from the Center, I arrived, via the MARC Line, from Baltimore, at about 4:00 PM. I knew this was going to be a really big deal. There were two (count them) two full page, very expensive ads, in the New York Times, on Sunday, May 22nd, welcoming Sharon to America.

They were signed by the usual suspects. The ADL’s mega-windbag, Abraham Foxman, naturally, was one of the many endorsers. (I hope his Hell will include being forced to repeatedly watch Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” for all of eternity!) When I read the silly ad in a 36 point type, which stated: “WE STAND WITH ISRAEL, NOW AND FOREVER,” I had to shake my head and ask myself: “Whatever happened to loyalty to our Republic?”

The “official” endorsers of the Anti-AIPAC/Anti-Sharon protest action, also included one of my personal heroes, a very brave man, the whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu. (6) He dared to tell the truth about Israel’s stockpiling of nuclear weapons. As a result, he spent 18 years in prison in an Israeli hellhole, of which, 12 years were in solitary confinement.

Another man of conscience was on that endorsement list for the demonstration - former Rep. Paul Findley (R-IL). His political career, like so many others, was short-circuited by the Zionist Cartel, of which AIPAC, is only a small smart of an alien-based, well-financed and feared juggernaut.

Findley thought the U.S. attachment to Israel didn’t served our “national interest.” In fact, he saw it as a threat to the safety of our Republic. He was right on both counts. (7)

Nevertheless, Findley, like other truth-tellers before him, has been languishing in “Internal Exile” ever since. Meanwhile, Zionist lapdogs, such as the Speaker of the House, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL); Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN); and the ultra-hawkish Secretary of State, Condi Rice, were all inside the Center for the gig. The politicos were given “speaking parts,” which in Hollywood jargon made them “Day Players,” for the tightly-stage-managed, “I love ‘Little Israel’ Festival.”

Undoubtedly, if the past is prologue, they will be called on to praise Sharon/Israel shamelessly out of a hymn book that could easily be taken from the mad musings of that repulsive Zionist traitor - Jonathan Pollard! (8)

Oh, it is all just so predictable - and, oh, so sad.

Malachy Kilbride is another activist associated with DAWN. He said, “I’m here to protest AIPAC. Congress really follows the desires of that organization. I’m also opposed to the policies of the Israeli government and how they are treating the Palestinian people.” The three listed speakers at the rally: Huwaida Arraf, Ross Pourzal and Dr. E. Faye Williams, all did commendable jobs. Williams was particularly brilliant as she demanded “justice for the Palestinians,” and invoked the memory of her spiritual mentor and one of America’s greatest sons - Martin Luther King!

She is on the Board of Directors of the Council for the National Interest. Arraf is with the International Solidarity Movement and Pourzal is a representative of the Alliance of Progressive Iranians.

Ponder this: When a pushy Zionist lobbyist barks, “Jump!,” members of the U.S. Congress, or a bureaucrat, like Rice, with only a few exceptions, will respond, “How high?” (9) One day the American people will, finally, figure out that the horrific Enron scandal pales in comparison to how the Zionist intriguers have penetrated the inner sanctum of our governmental agencies and have used them for their own ends. (10)

When that happens, watch out! If you love America and revere the patriots of old, (11) you have to be in despair over this phony “Made-in-Tel-Aviv Show.” It reveals just how far our Republic has fallen! No wonder the survivors of the “USS Liberty” haven’t been able to get a full public hearing about what really happened to the ill-fated vessel. (12)

RACHEL CORRIE

Ditto, the parents of peace activist, Rachel Corrie, who are still looking for justice for their martyred daughter. (13) Philosophically speaking, however, even personal, political and cultural despair, can be positive, if they point the way forward to the rebirth of our Republic.

Notes:

1. http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon.html.

2.http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_israeli_spying.html.

3.http://homepage.mac.com/bhughes2/iMovieTheater97.html

4.http://greenvilleonline.com/news/opinion/2004/05/09/2004050930901.htm.

5. http://www.rescuemideastpolicy.com/
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6. http://www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk/.

7. http://wrmea.com/.

8.http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/pollard/11.html?sect=23.

9. http://wrmea.com./

10.http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May_2004/0405020.html.

11. “Encyclopedia of the American Revolution,” by Mark M. Boatner III.

12. http://www.ussliberty.org/.

13. http://www.rachelcorrie.org/.

© William Hughes 2005.

William Hughes is the author of “Saying ‘No’ to the War Party” (Iuniverse, Inc.). He can be reached at: liamhughes (at) comcast.net. - See also:
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