Wake Up Call: Corporate Assault on Our Republic's Founding Principles
Guy T. Sturino
February 15, 2006
Elected in November 1932, three years into the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States in January 1933. Beginning with a nation of farmers and wage-earners permeated with a sense of hopelessness, he ended with a nation filled with hope. In twelve short years he transformed the political landscape, and in January of 1945 he proposed a ‘Second Bill of Rights’. This second bill of rights would ensure that everyone in the United States would share in the benefits provided by the vast resources and wealth of a great nation.
On April 12, 1945, he died. On that day an effort began on behalf of the moneyed interests in the United States, to undo each and every social program he introduced. It was an enormous task. The ideas which FDR presented in the Second Bill of Rights had taken hold, and much new legislation to achieve his goal was already in the planning stage.
In September of 1945 I started school. FDR was history on the day I began watching the hope for a real Second Bill of Rights dissipate, and the original Bill of Rights viciously attacked. It took the wealthy oligarches fifty-five years of working behind the scenes to prepare for the dismantling of a government dedicated to sharing the wealth of the country. On December 12, 2000, the battle was engaged in earnest.
On that day, the Supreme Court took it upon itself to interfere in the contested election of a President. As defined in Supreme Court opinion No.00-949, issued on December 12, 2000, the Court found for the plaintiff and stopped a recount in process. The concurring opinions all stressed the letter of vague Florida law, while the dissenting opinions stressed the intent of the law, and the right of the lower court oversee the process. To an outside non-lawyer, my interpretation was, and remains, that the judgement was predetermined and the law was searched for corroboration. The effect of this decision was that a candidate who did not win the popular vote, nor win the election according to exit polls, was placed in the office of President of the United States.
A review of the evidence which has been on full display in the public forum leaves is only one rational conclusion. The United States government and the American people have been, since January 20, 2001, under siege by a moneyed oligarchy fronted by a so-called Neo Conservative movement. Outrageous, you say! Yes, it most certainly is outrageous.
With phase one completed, that of acquiring the Presidency, the Neocons began to implement a series of moves intended to marginalize, if not fully decimate, the Legislative Branch of government. A somewhat Neocon Supreme Court had already begun the process of redefining some Congressional legislation and simply dismissing other pieces of legislation as ‘unconstitutional’. The result of these decisions minimizes the power of the Legislative Branch of the federal government by shifting power to the states.
In addition, President Bush’s use of “signing statements” at the time of signing bills into law, further marginalizes Congress in the eyes of the public. What good is a law if the ultimate enforcer, the President, can choose which parts of which laws he will or will not enforce? The result is that the Congress becomes a ‘weak sister’ instead of an equal partner in the government.
The Neocons know that an educated and aware public could do something about this situation at the polls. Therefore, it was necessary to keep the public ignorant of the truth, angry at Congress and, at the same time, otherwise engaged in purely emotional issues. Under these conditions it is easy to diminish the value of government in the eyes of the electorate.
There are a number of ways to do this, and the Neocons have used them all. Our once rich nation is now broke and in debt to our most formidable economic adversaries. How did it happen? First, the treasury was raided by a ‘tax return’ which gave a few pennies to the farmers and wage-earners while showering huge amounts of money on the already rich. Second, we were conned into a war which expended our military assets which then had to be replaced. Third, we were besieged by theft, graft, and corruption by the mercenary corporations hired to do the jobs our military should have done for itself. The result of all of this is an empty treasury and a national debt that generations of farmers and wage-earners will pay for in poor health care, low wages and no retirement.
To make matters worse for the nation and better for the hidden oligarchy, Hurricane Katrina presented a marvelous opportunity to further diminish the public’s faith in our government. By doing almost nothing, by performing badly when something was done, and by opening the flood gates to more graft, corruption and thievery, it was demonstrated to everyone that not only the Legislative Branch, but the Administrative Branch as well, is uncaring and incompetent.
Why, then, should anyone vote? Why, then, should anyone take the time to investigate candidates so a good choice can be made? If you think these thoughts, the Neocon process is working just fine.
But, that’s not all. Just neutering the U.S. government only takes care of a small portion of the worlds farmers and wage-earners. In order for the oligarchy controlling corporate interest to fully succeed, national borders have to be negated. Again this means overcoming an FDR initiative which came into being shortly after he died. In 1945 a meeting was held in San Francisco attended by representative of fifty countries. The UN charter was drafted. It was ratified on October 24,1945.
In recent years, Neocons have launched attacks on the United Nations at every opportunity. The fact that it was underfunded, limited by the veto power of the Security Council, and that some of its members, including the United States, were susceptible to corruption, helped a great deal. The Neocon effort to marginalize the U.N. is well under way.
In addition, our government either aided in, or choreographed the destruction of several neighboring democratic governments which were properly elected and led by advocates of the people. There isn’t room here to present the evidence, so I’ll leave it to the interested and concerned reader to do a little research.
Why did it take forty-five years to prepare for this onslaught? Simply because none of it could have been done from positions outside the governments which needed to be dispensed with. It took a lot of planning and organization to get enough Senators and Congresspersons elected who would be complicit in attaining their objectives. Attaining the Presidency in 2000 by any means possible was an absolute must. Placing Neocons on the Supreme Court and in positions of power in the U.N. have just about completed this phase of conquest. There is little left to do except to administer the Coup de Gras.
Many, maybe even most readers, will dismiss these words with ridicule. How could this be? Such a long drawn out conspiracy is unimaginable! It is unimaginable that people such as Senators, Congresspersons, Supreme Court Justices, and Ambassadors to the U.N. would participate in such a process! It’s lunacy!
I sincerely hope that those people are correct, and that my analysis of events is utterly wrong. I would even accept ‘Idiotic’. Unfortunately, everything I have seen and heard since I started paying attention in school sixty years ago, and especially everything I have seen and heard in the last six of those years, says I’m right.
If I’m right, we have no more than a few short years, as an enlightened and aware electorate, to excise the Neocon cancer from our government through the electoral process. After that it will be impossible. If I’m right, we may soon find ourselves in a world controlled by corporations which can ignore national governments, buy and sell natural resources and people at will, and even wage war with corporate armies. If I’m right, in a future of corporate governors, corporate laws, corporate police, and even corporate armies, the world of George Orwell’s 1984 may very well be dreamed of as paradise.
I don’t think it would be wise to simply hope that I am wrong.
On April 12, 1945, he died. On that day an effort began on behalf of the moneyed interests in the United States, to undo each and every social program he introduced. It was an enormous task. The ideas which FDR presented in the Second Bill of Rights had taken hold, and much new legislation to achieve his goal was already in the planning stage.
In September of 1945 I started school. FDR was history on the day I began watching the hope for a real Second Bill of Rights dissipate, and the original Bill of Rights viciously attacked. It took the wealthy oligarches fifty-five years of working behind the scenes to prepare for the dismantling of a government dedicated to sharing the wealth of the country. On December 12, 2000, the battle was engaged in earnest.
On that day, the Supreme Court took it upon itself to interfere in the contested election of a President. As defined in Supreme Court opinion No.00-949, issued on December 12, 2000, the Court found for the plaintiff and stopped a recount in process. The concurring opinions all stressed the letter of vague Florida law, while the dissenting opinions stressed the intent of the law, and the right of the lower court oversee the process. To an outside non-lawyer, my interpretation was, and remains, that the judgement was predetermined and the law was searched for corroboration. The effect of this decision was that a candidate who did not win the popular vote, nor win the election according to exit polls, was placed in the office of President of the United States.
A review of the evidence which has been on full display in the public forum leaves is only one rational conclusion. The United States government and the American people have been, since January 20, 2001, under siege by a moneyed oligarchy fronted by a so-called Neo Conservative movement. Outrageous, you say! Yes, it most certainly is outrageous.
With phase one completed, that of acquiring the Presidency, the Neocons began to implement a series of moves intended to marginalize, if not fully decimate, the Legislative Branch of government. A somewhat Neocon Supreme Court had already begun the process of redefining some Congressional legislation and simply dismissing other pieces of legislation as ‘unconstitutional’. The result of these decisions minimizes the power of the Legislative Branch of the federal government by shifting power to the states.
In addition, President Bush’s use of “signing statements” at the time of signing bills into law, further marginalizes Congress in the eyes of the public. What good is a law if the ultimate enforcer, the President, can choose which parts of which laws he will or will not enforce? The result is that the Congress becomes a ‘weak sister’ instead of an equal partner in the government.
The Neocons know that an educated and aware public could do something about this situation at the polls. Therefore, it was necessary to keep the public ignorant of the truth, angry at Congress and, at the same time, otherwise engaged in purely emotional issues. Under these conditions it is easy to diminish the value of government in the eyes of the electorate.
There are a number of ways to do this, and the Neocons have used them all. Our once rich nation is now broke and in debt to our most formidable economic adversaries. How did it happen? First, the treasury was raided by a ‘tax return’ which gave a few pennies to the farmers and wage-earners while showering huge amounts of money on the already rich. Second, we were conned into a war which expended our military assets which then had to be replaced. Third, we were besieged by theft, graft, and corruption by the mercenary corporations hired to do the jobs our military should have done for itself. The result of all of this is an empty treasury and a national debt that generations of farmers and wage-earners will pay for in poor health care, low wages and no retirement.
To make matters worse for the nation and better for the hidden oligarchy, Hurricane Katrina presented a marvelous opportunity to further diminish the public’s faith in our government. By doing almost nothing, by performing badly when something was done, and by opening the flood gates to more graft, corruption and thievery, it was demonstrated to everyone that not only the Legislative Branch, but the Administrative Branch as well, is uncaring and incompetent.
Why, then, should anyone vote? Why, then, should anyone take the time to investigate candidates so a good choice can be made? If you think these thoughts, the Neocon process is working just fine.
But, that’s not all. Just neutering the U.S. government only takes care of a small portion of the worlds farmers and wage-earners. In order for the oligarchy controlling corporate interest to fully succeed, national borders have to be negated. Again this means overcoming an FDR initiative which came into being shortly after he died. In 1945 a meeting was held in San Francisco attended by representative of fifty countries. The UN charter was drafted. It was ratified on October 24,1945.
In recent years, Neocons have launched attacks on the United Nations at every opportunity. The fact that it was underfunded, limited by the veto power of the Security Council, and that some of its members, including the United States, were susceptible to corruption, helped a great deal. The Neocon effort to marginalize the U.N. is well under way.
In addition, our government either aided in, or choreographed the destruction of several neighboring democratic governments which were properly elected and led by advocates of the people. There isn’t room here to present the evidence, so I’ll leave it to the interested and concerned reader to do a little research.
Why did it take forty-five years to prepare for this onslaught? Simply because none of it could have been done from positions outside the governments which needed to be dispensed with. It took a lot of planning and organization to get enough Senators and Congresspersons elected who would be complicit in attaining their objectives. Attaining the Presidency in 2000 by any means possible was an absolute must. Placing Neocons on the Supreme Court and in positions of power in the U.N. have just about completed this phase of conquest. There is little left to do except to administer the Coup de Gras.
Many, maybe even most readers, will dismiss these words with ridicule. How could this be? Such a long drawn out conspiracy is unimaginable! It is unimaginable that people such as Senators, Congresspersons, Supreme Court Justices, and Ambassadors to the U.N. would participate in such a process! It’s lunacy!
I sincerely hope that those people are correct, and that my analysis of events is utterly wrong. I would even accept ‘Idiotic’. Unfortunately, everything I have seen and heard since I started paying attention in school sixty years ago, and especially everything I have seen and heard in the last six of those years, says I’m right.
If I’m right, we have no more than a few short years, as an enlightened and aware electorate, to excise the Neocon cancer from our government through the electoral process. After that it will be impossible. If I’m right, we may soon find ourselves in a world controlled by corporations which can ignore national governments, buy and sell natural resources and people at will, and even wage war with corporate armies. If I’m right, in a future of corporate governors, corporate laws, corporate police, and even corporate armies, the world of George Orwell’s 1984 may very well be dreamed of as paradise.
I don’t think it would be wise to simply hope that I am wrong.
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