DeFacto Dictatorship....

The Constitutional crises of 2006
Geov Parrish WorkingForChange.com 12.28.05

De facto dictatorship looms if America doesn't act now

"The disease is the escalating inability of American democracy to follow the Constitution and to respect the rights and honor the participation of ordinary American citizens. The disease is a political process that cannot solve serious problems because it is wholly owned by enormous corporate and political interests, with power concentrated in a relative handful of men (and occasionally women) who owe their power to those interests -- plus, at the top, a lying, murderous president who is claiming the right to break any law..."

In America today, the measure of your freedom is the measure of your wallet. The more money you have the more freedom you have, and conversely.

Americans have become weak and stupid, and I certainly count myself among them, by our riches, or at lease the promise of our riches. WE have allowed a cabal of unmitigated thieves and murders to inhabit our bastions of power. Executive, Legislative, Judicial, they are all well stocked with power bloated hypocrites who sustain and maintain a rigid class division between the wealthy and the rest of us. Their dedicated job is to maintain the historical grip on power the wealthy elite have had in this country from the begining.

In Howard Zinn's, A People's History of the United States, he quotes Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution:

"Inasmuch as the primary object of government, beyond the mere repression of physical violence, is the making of the rules which determine the property relations of members of society, the dominant classes whose rights are thus to be determined must perforce obtain from the government such rules as are consonant with the larger interests necessary to the continuance of their economic processes, or they must themselves control the organ of government." (p.90)

The wealthy must dictate not only the laws created by Government, but must insure the enforcement of these laws so that they are the major beneficiary. It is no accident that the Constitution of the United States refers to "life, liberty, or property" which is a change from the Declaration of Independence which states, "life, liberty and the persuit of happiness" (Zinn, p.98). The Constitution is a codification of the laws that govern this country, the Declaration is a political means of seperation from England, both serve very different purposes. Of the two, the Constitution may have more meaningful impact on how this country is actually run.

We, the people, are actually nothing more than a conduit by which the wealthy pass money to other wealthy. Further, the Constitution of the United States, rather than being a document of Democracy, is really an arbitor of economic interests and power.

James Madison, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, declared in The Federalist Papers, "...A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particualar member of it." (Zinn, p.97). In other words, the adaption of Democracy and the creation of a large republic, 13 states, is necessary to maintain the economic control of the wealthy over the average American. The whole point of the establisment of Democracy in this country was to ensure that the power of the elite was maintained over the 'rabble'. Additionally, the creation of individual 'States', was to divide the populace so that a rebellion in one area could not spread to another, as each 'state' had its own interests and perspective.

Really, very clever indeed. The more I read about the real history of America, and not the manufactured swill the Government publishes in school textbooks, the more I have come to realize the genuine nature of this country. This is a nation founded as a means for the wealthy elite to maintain power, and to disrupt any form of popular rebellion that may arise in revolt to this unequal distribution of wealth and power. In creating the fiction of Democracy, the founders had more interest in creation of legal shackles for the populace than they ever did in genuine freedom.

In reading the history of this country from its inception, it is clear that little has changed. In the present, we are a people shackled not by iron bars and restraints, but by economic slavery. Look at who represents us in our Government: Wealthy caucasion people from the priviledged class. Look at who ran for President in 2004: A wealthy white guy from an elite family, with an elite education, member of a secret society just for the elite, against another wealthy white guy from an elite family, with an elite education, who happened to be a member of the very same secret society for the elite. Coincidence?

So, here we are, basically a decent people trapped in an economic and political system that gives little or no real power to the people, yet rewards us with a lifestyle impregnated with scores of consumer products that have left us fat, lazy, susceptible to diabetis and heart disease, and blinded by a plethora of propaganda to convince us we are the best nation on earth. The envy of all other civilizations.

George W. Bush, in one of his many justifications for killing innocent people, stated that 'Terrorists hate us for our freedoms". Maybe these 'terrorists' are fighting to avoid enslavement by a hostile and cruel political system that would destroy their way of life unless they fight back. I am not excusing the 911 attack, I am stating that there is far more to the truth of this situation than the jingoistic press and political propaganda would have us believe.

America isn't the white knight in shining armor, come to liberate the world, rather we may be engaged in a war of dominion, in which the wealthy elite of America, seek to expand their rapacious grasp over other people and cultures. America is not the bastion of freedom as much as it is a well designed political system for maintaining the priviledged elite in power and to generate wealth for a select few.