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THE PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION
By Lynn Stuter
February 5, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
Our elected representatives are so elected to carry out the business of the
people of the United States within the construct of their oath of office: to
uphold the Constitution of the United States. The United States Constitution is
a short but well-written document enumerating the powers and responsibilities
of the three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial,
establishing the God-given rights of the people as the masters of the elected,
not as the servants of the government.
Yet what we, the people, have watched happen is our elected representatives in
Washington DC overstep their power and responsibilities. No better example
exists of this than the Bush Administration’s illegal invasion of Iraq with the
consent of Congress yet without the required constitutional declaration of war
required by the United States Constitution.
A recent report tells us that the Bush Administration precipitated and
perpetuated a multitude of lies leading up to and following the illegal
invasion of Iraq; lies specifically intended to justify the illegal invasion of
Iraq.
At the time of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Bush Administration promised a
short and sweet action costing a few million at the most. Now, five years
later, the cost is in the trillions with no end to the illegal occupation in
sight; with the United States building the largest embassy compound in the
world in the Green Zone in Baghdad; fortuitous of establishing a presence in
Iraq for years to come.
Time and again, as graft and corruption have colored the illegal Iraqi invasion
playing field, costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars in cost-plus
contracts with companies known to be part of the military industrial complex;
companies such as Halliburton, Blackwater, CACI International Inc, Titan, and
Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR); with the Bush Administration and Congress
taking no meaningful action to stop either the graft or the corruption.
Our young men and women come home from Iraq and commit suicide on an average of
22 personnel per week, with the United States government mouthing platitudes
intended to assuage the grief of parents, wives and family and the anguish of a
nation while doing nothing of significance to help these young men and women.
Our young men and women come home from Iraq wounded, disfigured, disabled, and
sometimes totally incapacitated with the United States government doing nothing
to help these young men and women; writing them off as a cost of doing
business, of conducting a war that is illegal from the outset.
The Bush Administration claims to be conducting the business of the people yet
Bush’s approval rating says he represents, at most, 1 of 3 Americans.
The United States Congress has put their stamp of approval on one free trade
agreement after the next, selling out the American economy and American workers
to foreign imports with the direct result of sliding wages for American workers
as the American economy slides into third world economic status.
At a time when American companies are increasingly closing up shop, laying off
American workers, and taking operations to countries where labor is cheap and
the profit margin far greater because labor is cheap and benefits are
non-existent, while the selling price of the product remains consistent with
what it would be if made in the United States, the American people are watching
the American economy slide into third world status while their paycheck won’t
pay the bills. The result is a mortgage meltdown as more and more homes go into
foreclosure; as the money to buy those expensive new cars, toys, even the
necessities of life, dries up.
Our Constitutional Republic has been turned into a tyrannical dictatorship by
the Bush Administration with the full consent and participation of the United
States Congress.
The presidents of the United States, Mexico and Canada hold secret meetings
intended specifically to merge the economies of the three countries into the
North American Union, all the while the presidents of the three countries lying
to their respective citizens, claiming they are doing no such thing, even
though the people know and have proven they are.
While the Bush Administration claims the American economy is growing, the
people know different, know that our economy is stagnating, shrinking, dying.
The result will be the collapse of the American economy, the resulting
depression (not recession) will make the Great Depression look like child’s
play. This, it seems, is the goal of the Bush Administration and Congress who
have sold out America and the American people repeatedly in what can only be
termed acts of treason.
Gross mismanagement of public funds, collected through taxation, earmarked to
pay for maintaining infrastructure, have been funneled, in a “rob Peter to pay
Paul†move, to fund social programs with no definitive price tag and no
accountability. To hide that gross mismanagement, government officials now tell
us they must sell to foreign interests’ public lands owned by the American
people.
Taxation has become a
tool of robbing the working people of the United States; the money spent
frivolously and with little to no accountability by a burgeoning bureaucracy
that cannot and will not live within its means. Once a means of taxation is
established, it is never abandoned or decreased. The tax burden on the working
people of America continues to climb unabated while the bureaucracy spends with
the abandon of an obese spoiled child. In Washington DC, billions of dollars
are earmarked annually for pet projects while Americans cannot afford a roof
over their head, food on their tables, needed healthcare, a vehicle to get them
to and from a job. The same is true of the money that has been funneled into
foreign aide, maintaining troops on foreign soil, and American intervention in
foreign countries.
Fiscal responsibility is a concept long lost on the American bureaucracy, both
state and federal.
And while the American economy continues to slide at an ever increasing rate
into third world economic status, international corporations operating in the
United States are posting exorbitant profit margins and CEOs continue to reap
millions in pay per year. In the third quarter of 2008, Exxon posted a profit
of $11.7 billion while working Americans cannot afford the gas to get back and
forth to work; while energy prices soar. America is being raped by the big
international companies while the Bush Administration and Congress do nothing.
Big international corporations, through lobbyists paid for with profits made
off the American people, buy elected officials like whores on a street corner.
American children are not receiving an education that surpasses the education
of those who came before them. With each succeeding graduating class, the
American children are receiving less and less education. Yet with each
succeeding graduating class, the cost continues to climb. With no
constitutional mandate to in any way address education, the unconstitutional
U.S. Department of Education continues to interfere in the education of
American children; establishing national curriculum, national standards, and
national goals; forcing its agenda on states through discretionary grants that,
for pennies on the dollar, control what states do in the area of education;
insuring that all states coalesce the national agenda of turning facilities of
education into workforce development centers. While the Bush Administration
touts No Child Left Behind as a new direction in education, NCLB is nothing
more than a new strategic plan replacing the Clinton Administration strategic
plan known as the Improving America’s Schools Act; NCLB is nothing more than a
furtherance of an education system intended, specifically, to not educate
children whose parents put them in government schools.
While the Bush
Administration leaves no opportunity vacant to focus the attention of the
American people on the War on Terror, it becomes readily apparent that the War
on Terror is for the specific purposes of rending from the American people
their God-given rights. While the Bush Administration claims the events of
September 11, 2001 to be the work of 19 Arab terrorists with box cutters, the
borders of the United States, north and south, remain wide open to every
illegal alien and terrorist who chooses to cross them with the Bush
Administration and United States Congress doing absolutely nothing meaningful
to secure America’s borders. To the contrary, those border patrol agents who
have tried to defend America’s borders against criminal illegal aliens have
been prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice and thrown in jail.
While George W Bush was quick to commute the sentence of his good friend and political
accomplice, Lewis “Scooter†Libby, he is silent when border patrol agents are
unjustly accused, unjustly prosecuted and unjustly imprisoned.
In this same vein, the Bush Administration has illegally authorized the data
mining of bank records, e-mails and phone calls of American citizens in
violation of existing United States law; criminal acts which remain unaddressed
by the United States Justice Department or United States Congress.
The United States Congress, at the request of the Bush Administration, has
passed laws revoking habeas corpus, Posse Comitatus, and the 4th Amendment to
the Bill of Rights prohibiting illegal search and seizure. In this same vein,
and at the request of the Bush Administration, the United States Congress
passed a law that defines anyone speaking out against the criminal acts of the
United States government as a “domestic terrorist.â€
Congress also passed a law prohibiting anyone considered to have a mental
illness from owning a gun, including men coming home from war. Through the New
Freedom Commission on Mental Health, established by Bush, the push has been to
label every American as mentally defective, especially those who believe in the
United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. The American Psychiatric Association,
through the DSM-IV coding, established by a mere show of hands, has been most
obliging. Drug companies manufacturing anti-depressant drugs, while being
involved in the push to label every American as somehow mentally defective, are
raking in millions from prescribed anti-depressants; while those same
anti-depressant drugs send young people off the deep end, to suicide ideation
and violence, to taking guns to school and killing teachers and classmates. The
Second Amendment to the United States Constitution has been effectively
rendered impotent with the help of the National Rifle Association who presents
itself as defending the Second Amendment.
This labeling of every American as somehow mentally defective is no different
than the tactic used in the U.S.S.R. to label dissidents who refused to conform
to the social psychology of oppression practiced by the communists to control
the masses; the same social psychology now being forced on the American people.
This year the American people will supposedly choose a new president. But a
growing number of Americans know that, through vote fraud in the form of
electronic voting and electronic counting of paper ballots, the American people
will not choose a new leader; that a new leader will be chosen for them through
graft and corruption. Congress, well aware of this problem, has done nothing to
stop the use of electronic voting machines or electronic vote counting
machines, succumbing yet again to big money and special interests.
Mainstream media,
doing its part, has made its role in the selection of the new leader of America
for the people very apparent. The bias against the one true statesmen running
for president is so blatant and so arrogant that even the most acquiescent are
made uncomfortable by the fact of it. And the fact of what the one true
candidate stands for scares the powers that be beyond measure for what that one
true candidate stands for is truly a revolution that will carry on beyond the
general election in November 2008.
The great awakening
of the American people is in progress. It will not be stopped by other than
force of action and the letting of blood. The American people intend to take
back their country, return to their constitution, and reclaim American
sovereignty.
May God Bless the Ron Paul revolution! May God Bless American patriots!
