Republicans must speak out for Impeachment: Ron Paul for President

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2006

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The murmurs began in the halls of Congress even before legislators and their staffs packed up and left, marking the end of this Congress and the beginning of the holiday season. Those offices will be quiet for the moment; politicians considering how they can benefit from coming out on impeachment or confronting their now receding fears have time to caucus their home districts. The murmurs come in many different cadences and tones. They are marked with anger and elation, ambition and calculation.

Democrats are beginning to listen to the tenor of the country, slowly letting themselves realize just how many Americans view this administration, perhaps more than they did themselves, as a criminal enterprise. Impeachment is becoming a word that speaks not of sleaze and cigars but the promise of a new beginning and, perhaps more important to many of them, political positioning that could take a career all the way to the White House.

Real Republicans, those who watched the NeoCon Nazis smash every tenet on which the Republican Party was founded, also have time to think. Those invested in career quests for power will consider first how they are now viewed. Those Republicans who believe in the principles that made them Republicans must confront another issue. Their party was hijacked, its moral capital used to accrue profits for Bush and his corporate sponsors. In so doing, all Americans lost, some, their lives, others our wealth, and all of as us a sense of trust. Rhetoric replaced truth as the principles long associated with being a Republican were smashed beyond recognition. Small government, individual rights, Constitutional integrity, low taxes, local control, the principles of the Republican Party that those of us who believed the message of Barry Goldwater, stand in stark contrast to how this administration eviscerated the rights and honor with which it was entrusted.

Torture, deceit, spying on Americans, lies told to profit megacorporations and oil interests; before this Congress decamped, they took time to vote in ten billion in incentives for oil companies; nothing for veterans. There was seemingly no limit to what Bush and company would do to line their pockets and live out their fantasies. Sometimes doing the right thing forces us to confront our own souls. It should never have happened. It did. Now America needs justice so that healing can begin. You can bank of the fact that the NeoCons rely on spinning this as a partisan battle. That, Republicans must not allow.

This Republican says that time is now. While the murmurs continue advising that the now ham stringed administration be allowed to sputter into history this Republican says impeach and then indict.

America needs justice like a drowning man needs air. For that justice to be real we need to send a message to anyone who comes after that even for the president there will be absolute accountability. Without that there may be a pause in the growth of power that has taken America into the chilling realm of fascism but it will continue.

Republicans who care about the principles that made them Republicans need to shoot their own dog. That is what real men do. Rumor has it that mixed in with those murmurs in the halls of Congress were the voices of Republican Senators and Congressmen who are considering how the public now views the Republican Party. That this has been a public relations disaster is true; but that is a minor issue. Real men and women do the right thing even when it does not provide better political positioning. In the last two years the Republican Party has lost registrants, respect, credibility, and now teeters on the edge of oblivion. That was just, people were speaking with their hearts and feet. It would be better that the Republican Party cease to exist than that it remain the tool it became. Political parties are the tools we use to move our country towards freedom and justice. They should not be used to steal. Political parties are just tools.

The point of the American Experiment is that people, understanding that their rights come not from government but from God, come together to govern themselves from their own communities.

Republicans must therefore shoot their own dog. It was not a Democrat who delivered the message to Richard Nixon, it was the man that both sides of the Aisle knew would tell the truth. That man was Barry Goldwater. But what Nixon did was a cigar to what Bush has done. This message must come with the hard truth that resigning is not enough. This time we need real, systemic change so that never again will the simple tools of government be used to anoint would-be dictators.

That process must begin with unified efforts from both sides of the aisle.

This impeachment must not be tainted with politics. It is about the survival of America and the vision of possibility that summoned a nation of free people into being.

Cheney must be impeached and replaced with a man of unquestionable integrity, respected by both Republicans and Democrats. That man is Congressman Ron Paul.

Congressman Paul is a man who had the moral integrity to do the right thing when the days were darkest. Paul has withstood the attempts by NeoCons to unseat him many times by redistricting, through Tom Delay, and by funding his opposition. But his constituents know he is to be trusted and have returned the family doctor to office over and over again. He refused to be silenced.

Democrats who have followed the machinations of the NeoCons know Ron Paul is a man who stood up against the War in Iraq, against the Patriot Act, and against torture.

The names championed by the Democrats speak partisanship; none of them spoke out in those darkest days. Paul has demonstrated an ability to work with anyone who is working for the rights of Americans. He understands the Constitution and no one deceived him when the cries of necessity went up after 9/11.

The present sentiment for impeachment could tear America apart – or it could bring us together to start again. America's President is both the CEO of the executive branch and a symbol of forward direction. Ron Paul as President sends a message no one will misunderstand. When he is in office, let Paul choose Dennis Kucinich as his Vice-President.

Impeach Cheney and then Bush and then let Congress put a man in the Oval Office who said yes to honor and truth when doing so made him so often stand alone. It is alone we enter life and alone we die. Those who stand alone when others are silent through fear have passed through a tempering that burns out doubt. We need an individual who has passed through that fire.

Send a message America, and the world, will really hear.

Ronald Reagan - An Ugly Truth

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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2007

Ronald Reagan was a wonderful, warm man. He made you love him by small acts of kindness and beautiful gestures. Raspberry Gumballs and the President.

But what America needed was the simple truth and a champion for individual rights and the Constitution; That Ronnie did not have to give. Today we need that individual even more desperately. We have that in Congressman Ron Paul.

United Republicans of California ("UROC") was founded on April 22, 1963, by then State Senator Joe Shell (see footnote) and Assemblyman Bruce Reagan to promote the candidacy of Senator Barry Goldwater for President of the United States. Many Republicans were disgusted with the corporate agenda adopted by the Rockefeller, big-money brokers who had controlled the Republican Party for so long. UROC's agenda was a real grass-roots campaign that took the ideas of Barry Goldwater directly into the homes and minds of Americans.

The method they adopted was shoe-leather activism. In San Marino alone, 15 groups of UROC members committed to going door to door for a registration drive that changed the make-up of the Republican Party. They went armed with Goldwater literature, two books: "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" by John Stormer and "A Choice Not An Echo" by Phyllis Schafly, and were prepared to talk about ideas. By this means, something like 2 million copies of “None Dare Call It Treason" were sold or given away by Goldwater activists.

UROC did not spend piles of money to enact change. Their activism, however, successfully changed the demographics of the Republican Party, awakening Americans to the ideas Americans had hungered for and encountered through several difference sources.

One of these sources,“Conscience of a Conservative,” by Barry Goldwater, was published in 1960. At that time, the then-rapidly-growing freedom – conservative movement was also fired with enthusiasm for the works of Ayn Rand and science-fiction master Robert Heinlein as well as the works of Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Patterson.

Other organizations, such as the LA-based Foundation for Economic Education, established in 1946 by Leonard E. Read, and the John Birch Society, founded by "Taft Republican" Robert Welch in1958, promoted the benefits of free-markets and less government. These organizations continue to promote the same ideas today based on the foundations of freedom outlined in America's Founding documents.

Those ideas found fertile ground in the 60s, evoking a shift that continues today.

The ideas enunciated by UROC stood in stark contrast to the big government – corporate assumptions that had become institutional to American politics. America had undergone a take-over by corporate elites, led by Nelson Rockefeller, not yet recognized as such but the awareness that something was very wrong with America's direction resulted in an exploration of ideas that would eventually lead to the present.

The term Goldwater Republican became a badge of honor. The ideas that became the Conservative mantra defined what it meant to be a Conservative Republican. Those ideas were specific and reasoned. Today, being a Conservative means something entirely different.

The re-structuring of the term "Conservative" was accomplished by the reinterpretation of terms and issues using a carefully-orchestrated collation of faux history, misdirection, and political and personal coercion. Those who were, and are primarily, responsible for carrying this out were the interests, mostly corporate, who employed the NeoConservatives for just this purpose.

Unfortunately, the covert campaign to steal the term, 'conservative,' succeeded in grabbing it and the power of that movement from those in the Republican Party by the time of the Nixon presidency. Nixon was not a conservative but knew well he could not be elected unless he disingenuously assumed that mantle because Republicans had demonstrated a hunger for the rhetoric of freedom.

Ironically, it was Richard Nixon who fractured the Republican Party, driving out the Libertarian wing with his announcement of Wage and Price Controls on August 15, 1971. The Libertarian Party was officially founded on December 11, 1971, by David Nolan and a small group of former Republicans in the living room of activist Luke Zell in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

David Nolan had been an officer of three organizations at MIT which were working for the candidacy of Barry Goldwater. The three separate groups operating at MIT in 1963-64 were Young Republicans, Young Americans for Freedom ("YAF"), and Youth for Goldwater. The officers overlapped, making it possible for them to have more presence on the campus. Nolan came to the ideas on individual freedom, economics, and the Constitution from Barry Goldwater, Robert Heinlein, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,” and other fiction, and Ayn Rand's “Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”

Soon after this, the first wave of eager and ambitious Trotskyites, soon to re-label themselves as Neo-Conservatives ("NeoCons"), left the Democratic Party to become Republicans. The first of these were Irving Kristol, his wife and son, William Kristol. These were soon followed by the cadre that, at present, still comprises the main intellectual end of the NeoCon cabal.

These idea-mongers had found a flush living re-packaging the strategies of Leo Strauss for use on Republicans and Libertarians. These included posh weekend-seminars that helped them identify potential academics and intellectuals who could accept their ideas with a straight face, keeping a clear eye on the potential for self profit.

Soon, the need to suborn and redirect the nascent Libertarian Movement and Party would be turned over to Edward H. Crane, III, and other profit-minded people.

Just a few years earlier, the same corporate interests had finished their capture of the Conservative Movement through the man who would become their first NeoCon President, Ronald Reagan.

UROC had encountered Ronald Reagan while it was still a shiny new organization still working on registration drives for Barry Goldwater. Ronnie had injected himself into Republican politics by giving the famous speech at the 1964 nominating convention that the corporate interests had been unable to stop directly.

Joe Shell said that during his campaign swings across California in 1962 his plane was sabotaged. It was an observant pilot who noticed, before the second leg of the flight, that the still-full second tank had been laced with barium. That observation saved them both.

According to Connie Ruffley, State Co-Chairman of UROC, Joe Shell had paid to have a speech written for Barry Goldwater who was to deliver it the 1964 Republican Convention. Nancy Reagan called Joe Shell and pleaded with him several times to allow Ronnie to read it. Nancy's tears and pleadings to allow Ronnie to read the speech over-came Joe and he reluctantly allowed Ronnie to deliver it instead of Barry. This speech gave Reagan a position as a Conservative and his courtship with UROC and the Conservative base in California. Joe Shell later remarked to Marion Hurley, State Co-Chairman of UROC, that he would regret to his dying day that he allowed Reagan to deliver that speech.

Ronnie then began to identify himself as a conservative. Until as late as 1960, however, he had been a leading member of United World Federalists (whose purpose was to merge America into a world government) and a charter member of Americans for Democratic Action. In addition to these far-left groups, Ronnie was a member of the National Advisory Council of the American Veterans Committee, which, according to a California Senate Committee report, was "under communist influence."

Reagan's interest in politics was sparked further when he was solicited to take a role by a group of wealthy men in Los Angeles, many with links to the University of Southern California ("USC"). This group provided funding and an infrastructure that allowed them to use The Great Communicator as their front man who sold himself as a 'conservative' using rhetoric that, after Reagan's election to office, was then refuted by their policies and appointments.

The change in what Conservative meant lasted until Reagan had obtained UROC's assistance in becoming governor of California in 1966. UROC, as it had done for Barry Goldwater for President, got behind Ronald Reagan for Governor. After the election of Reagan as Governor, UROC gave Reagan a list of reliable and qualified conservatives who would make outstanding candidates for California department heads, etc.

When Reagan's appointments as Governor began, none of those individuals UROC had recommended were named. His appointments were looked upon, first, as 'inexperienced.' The leadership of UROC spent a year researching and monitoring Reagan and his appointments and uncovered the fact that all of those named had been dedicated to vote for Nelson Rockefeller at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

It was a bad day for freedom, individual rights, and the U.S. Constitution. The Reagan Governorship in California left real Conservatives in shock, creating the raw material for injecting the NeoConservativism that would soon follow.

In 1963, UROC issued statement of principles which they stand by today. These principles define the operating principles of the larger Freedom Movement.

On May, 19, 2007, UROC endorsed Ron Paul for President because Dr. Paul's principles mirror those of UROC. Real Conservativism, Libertarianism and the U.S. Constitution have a champion. Americans hear Ron Paul and find new hope in a man who has lived his principles instead of speaking the emptiness of unfulfilled rhetoric.

The truth can be hard to face but only the truth heals and only the truth can set us free.

1975 UROC Resolution begs Americans not to vote for Ronnie if he runs for President or Vice-President.

Footnote: Joseph Shell had been the Republican gubernatorial candidate for the Republican nomination in California in 1962 who lost to the Rockefeller forces. Shell believed he had been lucky to escape with his life. He told me about this over lunch while I was working on the White Campaign for 20th State Senate in 1990.

Joe said that during his campaign swings across the state before the primary his plane was sabotaged. It was an observant pilot who noticed, before the send leg of the flight, that the still-full second tank had been laced with barium. That observation saved them both.

The Fantasy Life of NeoCons: Alito and his clones keep coming, and coming.....

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The NeoCon Fantasy becomes Reality: Alito and his clones are coming, coming, coming......until Bush's Moving Day

As the shrill voices of various factions line up across the country urging a filibuster to stop this Bush pick for the Supreme Court, Samuel Alito Jr., one of the most damaging effects of the NeoCon strategy evidences itself, ignored by activists from all factions.

As could be expected, the Left focuses on the likelihood that with this man empaneled, individual choices in life style and the right to abortion for women will be under fire immediately. Libertarians and conscience aware Republicans are beginning to realize that Alito's attitude on presidential authority, enunciated perfectly by Harvey Silverglate in his opinion piece published yesterday morning in the Boston Phoenix, will provide the means for increasing the attacks on those checks and balances still remaining to us.

Both sides make the mistake of ignoring the back story. While they recognize that this looming event has distracted most of us from the use of presidential prerogatives to listen in on our conversations, they continue to put the strategic significance of that on the back burner. Using new issues to distract is a well used NeoCon ploy. We are in the last few acts of a play that started when Vietnam was still being fought; then cooperation existed among opponents of the war, right and left. Today it is different. The lack of effective communication between the Left and Right did not come about accidentally. That disconnect was intentionally encouraged and deepened by the NeoCons. As long as Left and Right do not talk changing America's direction is impossible.

Dividing us was one of their strategies. Just one of them. War has been made on Americans and on freedom and few noticed. Complacency and wallowing in your own limited assumptions can be deadly.

The French were complacent just before Rommel flanked the Maginot Line, buoyed up by what they thought they knew. They were wrong. They did not realize that because of the oil shortages in Germany Rommel had constructed the blitzkrieg to minimize his use of petroleum products; they assumed that there were absolute defenses from attack; that they knew enough to be safe. They were wrong.

Active cooperation, right and left is an essential tool to countering the NeoCon threats to all of us. Together, we know enough and can take effective action.

Bush, Rove and their minions have been planned this scenario in detailed, loving contingencies for many years. Each component and element has been thought out, discussed, and alternatives, seven deep are provided for.

Alito has five more understudies, all whom will do the same job for the NeoCons. When the focus on any other issue gets too hot for those in power yet another threat like Alito will be trotted oout to dissipate the heat. While we filibuster we must focus on the larger game and be grateful for the advantages remaining to us.

Not one of those numbering themselves as NeoCons has even a shred of the real innovative genius possessed by Rommel, Patton or Mitchell. They have used the same strategies over and over again. Recognizing those strategies allows you to be prepared.

Those we know today as NeoCons have a lot in common. Each began with a deep wish, grounded in their own individual emotional inadequacies, to exercise power over others. Each feels that they are entitled to a place in an aristocracy. From that and the impulse of greed they have worked tirelessly to own us and the world. It would be funny if they were still on the school playground; but instead it is a fantasy that may well kill us.

This story really begins nearly 40 years ago with the successful take over of the environmental movement. Bush Senior orchestrated that with two of his old time oil buddies, O. R. Anderson and Maurice Strong using contacts they had made during the early years of the United Nations. Their manipulation of the rules, individuals and the organizations became one of the sources for the strategies Rove would soon be using.

Those early environmental activists who would be displaced by the Bush-Strong take over clustered around Margret Mead; they were inspiring people, determined to do the right thing. But they were also credulous and easily manipulated. They refused to believe that such a take over could happen, and by people who they knew to be venal and self-serving. But it did.

Using just a few hundred thousand bucks Bush and his buddies, working through hired minions, erected a phony movement in front of the leadership of the real one thus ensuring that solar energy would be marginalized as an alternative and their profits would continue to pump. It worked. The possible attrition on the demand for petroleum was forestalled. Many solar patents, then coming on the market, were bought up by the same companies; the oil companies sat on them.

If you celebrate Earth Day in April you were among the majority that were conned by the Bush front group.

Bush Senior soon hired a pimple faced young guy named Karl Rove because he had proven so capable of cheating his way into power in the Young Republicans. Bush Senior recognized the right stuff when he saw it. Rove studied the job done on the environmental movement with excitement and respect. He made copious notes and used them.

At nearly the same time a tiny group of hyper-intellectual guys, able to use obscure intellectual and economic arguments to justify anything that profited them – or their friends – joined the Republican Party and came to the attention of the group around Bush Senior. The senior partner in this 'family business' was Irving Kristol. This is the group that provides us with the appellation, NeoConservative that now applies to the group as a whole.

This group used the bizarre and esoteric blatherings of Leo Strauss to create the justifications for consciously transitioning America from a Republic comprised of states to a centrally organized federal state they could control in perpetuity.

Straussianism is the faith based philosophy on which their cadre depends for justification.
The NeoCons are determined to win no matter what. Strauss had a lot to offer them. He told them that, in a most circularly satisfying manner, that as the self-elected aristocracy of the Coming Age they could do anything needed to make that happen. So lying, cheating, and ignoring the Constitution were actions that were entirely justified. If your prophet ways it is OK then you do not let yourself be worried over the details. Therefore they lie with ease, only angry if called on it.

They know what they are doing and they are not going to stop.

Most people continue to assume that eventually they will be forced to play by the rules that most of us recognize as right. Don't make that mistake.

As is the case with Rove, many of them have been studying politics and applying the rules of strategy relating to war since they were literally in grade school. Karl Rove and John Fund, for instance, were collecting profiles of politicians when they were each around 12. These addicts to power are politically savvy and analyzed the unmistakable trends in voting populations going back to the 50s. They understood the chains of causality; they were prepared to reverse the flow of social progress then taking place.

Women had finally gotten the vote in 1921 and over time this was transforming America. There were problems stemming from the collectivist policies of Progressivism but most people, from all parties, were willing to change when they saw better solutions. Progress had been slow as women moved into the marketplace and continued to work for full emancipation; it was not until 1953 that a married woman in California had the right to her own paycheck. In the 50s the transforming message of Ayn Rand, Isabel Patterson, Rose Wilder Lane and the candidate who relit the beacon of individualism in the Republican Party, Barry Goldwater, excited a new generation to political activism. The message of Goldwater was one of real freedom for all of us. That message changed the Republican Party, bringing in many young people.

Times change, however. By the 70s Nixon's Wage and Price Controls had caused thousands of Republicans to leave the Republican Party, founding the Libertarian Party in December of 1971.
At nearly the same time Bush and his friends were considering how to ensure their profits, now protected for the time being by the hijacking of the environmental movement, kept flowing. They needed a political party.

They did not care which party they used. It was an accident of circumstance and the clever Kristols that made them Republicans.

The Democratic Party had erected draconian bylaws making it impossible to manipulate. At that point in time the two political parties both used privileges enacted through political means to ensure loyalty; both had come to use rhetoric to lie to their voters and to assume that was justified.

However, there were real functional differences. The Republican Party was far less sophisticated, having lived through less internecine warfare. They had suffered a loss in membership through the founding the the Libertarian Party, too. They were vulnerable. In the 1970s one of the reasons for their weakness was the fact that while they endorsed the passage of the ERA the structure of the Republican Party had functionally denied a role to women in their leadership.

It was probably Rove who did the in depth analysis, looking at the probable and possible voting blocks across the country and delivered the bad news. They could control the Republican Party but the cultural changes then transforming the country would make it impossible for them to continue to win elections. They had to replace women as a voting block.

They were nothing if not resourceful. A plan was formulated with both short range and long range goals.

First they had to stave off the changes then taking place and assume control of their chosen tool, the Republican Party. Then they had ensure that through that tool they could control the country. To do that they needed to subvert the checks and balances still in place while ensuring that the State continued its lock on the power of privilege.

In short order Rove and his minions had created out of the low end evangelical churches a cadre of voters who received their orders from the pulpit on Sunday and voted reliably on Tuesday and donated all the time for any of a short list of issues. This took advantage of the obvious appetite of this population of church members to credulously hand over heaps of money to preachers who were obviously corrupt. Most of them came from poor southern, white backgrounds. They continued in their belief that women should remain barefoot and pregnant when not chopping wood.

The Republican Party had championed the passage of voting rights for women in the 20s. As a result the largest, strongest and most powerful political tool ever produced had been forged. That was the National Federation of Republican Women. But times had changed. Younger women were not joining and their membership was aging because women in the Republican Party were treated as second class members with the exception of a few 'house girls' kept around as window dressing.

The NFRW had brought home the bacon for generations. In election after election it had provided the volunteers, grass roots support and a healthy chunk of the cash that put Republicans in office. But the best and brightest of them were growing restive, unwilling to continue their support without finally securing their own rights and the rights of their daughters. They had waited and worked for the passage of the ERA as their great-great grandmothers had worked for suffrage and for abolition.

But if women secured their rights through act of Constitution then the chink in the armor of the privileges provided through government would be breeched. That could not be tolerated and this the NeoCons understood.

Rights, understood as enunciated by Thomas Jefferson, belong inherently to each of us, preceding government. Privileges are granted by government and can be rescinded at will. Ignoring the mandate of the original Revolution had put America into moral bankruptcy in 1799 with its failure to secure the rights of blacks and women. The continuing compromises and justifications had made America vulnerable to the just anger of those whose proper rights had been denied.

If the people understand that each of them brings to life absolute rights that cannot be modified by government then the system of selling privileges instead of rights cannot continue and the gravy train produced through the alliance of corporations and government is threatened. The oil companies understood.

Having secured the Republican Party as a tool their next steps took place within that Party. The ERA was stricken from the Republican platform and a long term contingency plan was put in motion to ensure Republicans could continue in power while work continued on other elements of the plan.

With a bolstering of votes from churches, careful manipulation of ideas, placed through a chain of outlets called, 'think tanks,' the use of individual pundits to recalibrate discourse and work as political operatives the plan began to take form. The media was studied and stock acquired to allow editorial pressure to be brought on formerly independent publications. In a later round Fox would be launched to further skew the popular market in news.

Most people involved with think tanks and policy did not see the big picture; they do not see it today. They can't afford to. They are firmly tied through the salaries that make their life styles possible. Think of this as the 401K Syndrome. Most people will turn down the volume on their conscience when their paychecks are on the line.

Phyllis Schlafly was chosen to persuade women that the ERA was bad for them; that rights would make them less 'womanly.' She defeated the ratification most assumed would be easy. Rove studied her campaign, too. Building specious arguments and using an organization to sell it through your personal contacts with many other organizations is a strategy also used by NeoCons today.

Women like her, living the life of privilege and comfort, had attempted to do this before the granting of voting rights to women as well, delaying the franchise for women for many years.
In the late 80s the Kristols, now well acquainted with Bush and Rove, began a quiet campaign to find the brightest minds willing to swallow the specious nonsense opined by Strauss, that a small self-identified aristocracy was destined to rule in perpetuity.

They took suggestions from men like Robert Novak, who in this way first hired and placed John Fund; first at Evans and Novak in 1983 and then almost immediately into the editorial staff of that other NeoCon tool, the Wall Street Journal. Being a NeoCon was the easy road to riches and fame.

Fund went on to play a significant role in identifying useful individuals within the then hardy Libertarian Party whose ambitions could be trusted to outrun their consciences. Many of these found careers in the NeoCon world.

It was Fund who pointed out how policies intended to increase the power of citizens could be recycled into NeoCon use. Privatization, outsourcing, deregulation, all became standard tools to increase the flow of money to both corporations and government agencies.

The rhetoric of freedom, spoken by Goldwater and then by Libertarians was converted into another NeoCon tool. Bush misuses it nearly every time he opens his mouth.

The political operatives, working in think tanks, as journalists, and as media personalities talked, recruited, wrote, and networked. Organizations were founded. The New World Order came into focus. The fantasy of power born in minds riddled with greed and self-doubt was coalescing.

One of the essential elements for making the plan work had been ensuring that rulings from all levels of federal benches could, with careful placement, bring about the cases that would provide the raw material for overturning the laws based on legislatively mandated privileges. The Federalist Society, one of the organizations birthed to carry out the work of the New American Century, continues today to provide both the arguments that remake law and the candidates to occupy those judicial seats. It provides the arguments in its seminars and uses the prominence of its members as further authority.

All human action listens to the success stories of power. Human action is all too human when privileges are mistaken for rights.

By the late 80s the Republican Party had became a place where the Religious Right, sticking in their toes and sniffing around, could be comfortable. Their welcome was founded in the need for their votes; the NeoCon leadership is, for the most part, agnostic. Prayer Breakfasts became the order of the day. This also worked well to burnish the authority of NeoCon spokesmen who could be tapped to conduct prayer breakfasts and then continue their work as political operatives.

Each issue, identified and used to change the shape and direction of social policy also provided cover and divided the people into smaller and smaller niches as privileges replaced rights. On top of this, through the carefully planned use of the tools provided originally by idealistic Libertarians, government programs and agencies were converted, in many cases, into profit centers. Today the Federal Government takes more money out of Yosemite than it puts in. It is a cash cow, maintained only through the volunteer efforts of organizations like the Yosemite Fund and the Yosemite Association. In ways sometimes too horrible to contemplate, the services our nation owes veterans are also limited. The list is seemingly endless.

The NeoCons had been busy and it is easy to find their work. Through layers of websites and nonprofit organizations the carefully orchestrated manipulation of the New World Order has been delivered. Rove learned the lesson of Earth Day well and it has been repeated countless times in every imaginable application.

The field on which the next round would be played out was ready. The privileges substituted for rights could now be challenged at the highest court in the land; and according to the game plan of the New World Order all rights are privileges.

As Bush, Junior said, the Constitution is just words.

Privileges can be revoked through the Courts even after they are passed by the people. Disappointed and frustrated, the women's movement had settled for privileges instead of rights, raising a generation of women who did not recognize the shell game that had been played right out in the open, under their very noses.

The next round, beginning in 1999, was predicated on ensuring that elections could be fixed in advance. All levels of elections were targeted. The make up of Congress needed to be reliably NeoCon in persuasion. As they knew when devising their plan, impeachment must be impossible.

For the next phase they needed some computer wonks. If you have a back door into the programming that is undetectable then you can control the voting as long as it takes place through computers and through a politically centralized system or registration and vote counting.

In 2002 Fund was released from direct work on the WSJ to take one of the 'recuperative leaves' mandated for those who have let the heady use of power lead them into public scrutiny and scandal – and to write a book on electoral fraud that due to unforeseen circumstances did not work out as well as the NeoCons hoped it would. In that book Fund proposes that people be able to check their vote on line; a double set of books, letting the voter see 'their vote' would have no relationship to the electoral outcome. When Fund planned his book in 2000 that was the reassurance the NeoCons believed would quiet the questions of the American people.

The final answers to what happened to our voting system lie in the identity of those who wrote the original code for the programs that shifted the world from the last century to this one. The deeper the back door the better. Someday we may know. For now we need to stop trying to fix something that contains fatal flaws.

Today with the nomination of Alito we face one problem with devastating ramifications. While fighting that battle we can not afford to overlook the much larger picture. Alito is a tiny shard of ice floating on the surface of a sea filled with ice burgs larger than those that sunk the Titanic.
We must establish new direction. Stopping this appointment is not enough. Defensive war is losing war. To win this war we need to renew the vision of freedom enunciated by Jefferson. We must come together as one people, abandoning our identification through political parties. This time the vision must become reality.

Most Americans ignore politics; it has proven to be a pointless sink for time and money. Most Americans spend their time making sure people are fed, that the Little League field is mowed; that those in need have shelter through the storms life brings.

The real solutions are created through local action. Our focus must be to take governance back directly to the people. Traditional reform will only substitute one group of grasping liarsfor another. We have allowed the divisions of right and left to divide us so that it has become impossible for us accomplish common goals, thanks again to the NeoCons. Our divisions have helped make the NeoCons fantasy a reality.

We need to create a common understanding of the facts as well as the problems; we must affirm individual rights for all and reject all assumptions of privilege for anyone. We need to fix our justice system; justice is, after all, a service lowering the cost of human conflict; it is not a religion; judges and attorneys are not barons but contractors providing a service.

People of good will from all parties need to start talking – and listening across those chasms of understanding and build bridges of trust founded in facts. We need to forge a common agenda and that agenda must include local control of voting and verifiable, paper ballots. We need to get off the grid of power, off the grid of petroleum, and back into our communities. Let politics as we know it today return to the playground.

Stop believing the simplistic stereotypes we all too often accept about the labels each of us carries around. Ideology, gender, race, ethnicity, religion; where they divide us they become problems; where they give us common understanding they affirm our essential, and shared, humanity. Unquestioned beliefs shackle the future we can leave to our children. All human tools have to be properly used to yield appropriate results. Always check your facts twice and make sure you know all sides of any question; remember what credulity has done to our electoral system.

If you are a Democrat go shake hands with a Republican. If you are a Republican hug a Democrat. If you are a libertarian or other faction hug them both.

The vision of America, equality, dignity and freedom is still waiting for us. Its time to make the dream real.

How the NeoCons make War on all of us

First Published on HowtheNeoConsstolefreedom.blogspot.com

TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2006

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Melanie Morgan, recovered gambling addict and San Francisco talk show host, announced two days ago that her new project, Censure Carter, will be launching a series of TV ads urging that Congress take up the issue of censuring Jimmy Carter for sympathizing with the Palestinians.
Morgan is in this way fulfilling her obligations as one in the string of political tools activated by John Fund to carry out the strategic disinformation campaigns for his NeoCon employers.

Morgan's lackluster career took off when she was recruited by Fund several years ago and since then she has found a new faith, NeoConism. A frequently hosted speaker at events put on by such front groups as Political Vanguard, Morgan is just another in a series of individuals to hook her hopes not to the truth but to doing the nasty work of this White House.

Under fire from all sides this White House desperately needs to create the appearance that Republicans are united behind George Bush. On the front page of Political Vanguard you learn to your amazement that George Bush has an approval rating of 40.5%. Doubtless these figures came directly from Karl Rove and reflect his immediate family members.

Faux websites, phoney organizations, constructed and populated, are a long time political weapon used in many ways by the NeoCons. During the last part of the 2004 Presidential Campaign a website, purporting to represent swift boat vets was launched to create the appearance that Kerry lacked support from other veterans. And this was most likely so, but the vehemence of the attacks from SwiftBoatVets.com can be traced to the NeoCons.

Sen. Zell Miller presented an award to the group at a banquet sponsored by the American Conservative Union. On their blog page two hard line NeoCon co-travelers are the first two authorities cited on “ the implications of John McCain’s preference for “clean government” over the First Amendment.” Those are George Will and Ed Crane of Cato.

Naturally, the event was covered favorably by Fox News. Miller is quoted there as saying, "The swift boat veterans performed an invaluable service to America," Miller said in a statement. "These veterans took a lot of undeserved criticism for daring to speak the truth." One wonders what they risked given the toothlessness of the liberal establishment.

Much of this is already known, though in the way of the flow of events, mostly forgotten. A quick read of the excellent article by Joe Conason, appearing on Salon.com shortly after the events, helps us see the connections that activated this particular attack.

Not that Kerry did not deserve to have his military service questioned; his brief hiatus in the combat zone cast no credit on him. He used it as a political tool himself, while still in the service and when he grabbed the Democratic nomination. Myself, lacking a candidate I could vote for chose to vote for someone who, if she was ever a politician is now a good one, namely Susan B. Anthony. Do not forget that still after over two centuries such as John Kerry still have failed to simply affirm in Constitutional law the inherent rights of women.

As I write another such attack in going on, still unnoticed except by those stalwart veterans who are feeling the impact, on the Veteran's Party. Philip Meskin, a Vietnam Vet has worked assiduously to start a party that would stand up for American's Veterans for years. In 2003 he succeeded. The bogus Veteran's Party has even claimed to be the original; impossible given their own charges. But doubtless Rove told them the big lie works.

Now, doubtless because that party threatens to bring attention to the plight of Veterans who return from service to slow deaths of neglect, suffering from diseases caused by their service, that voice must be stifled. Neither major party is to be trusted. The means in this case is a website that copies the information obtained on the Meskin site and launches claims of wrongdoing that are clearly bogus; these are debunked with letters from the agencies receiving the complaints.

These bogus sites usually look far more professional than do those that are genuine. The Morgan site is an exception; it went up after this correlation was noticed.

When asked what effect this had on his work to help veterans Meskin said, “This is destroying our ability to save veterans in every imaginable way.” Meskin has himself spent countless hours in this work both before and after he started the Veteran's party.

But the point here is the use of bogus organizations as political weapons to skew opinion at critical junctures as events unfold and also to understand the cadre of individual employed in that ugly work.

John Fund, Melanie Morgan and those named in the Conason article are only a few of the cadre of operatives whose livelihoods depend on destroying organizations and individuals trying to achieve positive change unfriendly to the NeoCon goals or who represent threats to NeoCons power.

You can expect that now that they are under fire for the first tile the NeoCons will be launching more similar attacks. Be warned.

The American people need to understand. They need to 'get' how the Constitution was meant to work and how the conversion that predates the NeoCons was orchestrated and by whom.
One step on that path is to understand what George Bush has actually done. His activities are not just politically destructive they have been criminal. What is needed is not impeachment but prosecution for criminal offenses.

Therefore the people will put George W. Bush on Trial in the Court of Conscience.

There are many reasons that those in positions of trust failed to act. They are, as are all of us, all too willing to overlook what is inconvenient. It is a fact of human nature that we can usually see and accept corruption when we see it elsewhere. But when we confront evidence that our own lives and jobs and egos are on the line the blinders go up.

When the corruption reached the highest level and those paid and trusted to do the right thing saw the end of their own perks on the horizon they were frozen in the headlights, vainly looking for any other way out. That is where they are now. The only exit is truth and that they cannot face.

This time,we the people, have to do it ourselves. The vision of America that is true, the one that whispers to us still that we are all equal and none are above the law, for that vision we must be prepared to act.

Get off the Grids, Organize locally, Build Coalition, Try George W. Bush for Racketeering.May God bless the journey that leads us to freedom.

The Justice Coalition, a long existing organization with a record for taking corrupt judges off the bench, has activated to provide for Americans a demonstration of how the justice system should work. Bush is the first example. To contact them e-mail: the.melinda@yahoo.com

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