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Crony America and The Bill of Rights (with artwork by WilliamBanzai7)
Crony America and The Bill of Rights
Written by Cognitive Dissonance
Artwork by WilliamBanzai7
(Please note that WilliamBanzai7 will post a separate article containing all the artwork created for this article, including many pieces not used here. Additionally, WB7 contributed creatively and editorially to this article and his collaboration was instrumental and much appreciated. Thank you WB7.)
I could make a coherent and convincing argument that the “Great American Experiment” was precisely that, an experiment to test a new business model on a nationwide basis. The plan was designed to create an entirely new economic and social control system and it was implemented with the full backing and active participation of key American and European financial elite. This experimental social order was constructed to achieve higher levels of business exploitation and productivity that revolved around using the definitive natural resource (the common slave, indentured servant and agricultural working class man) in new and creative ways.
The creation of an independent America Incorporated was at its fundamental core a collective high risk business decision. And the founding documents acted as Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, basically the working business plan, to generate more profits through business friendly nation building. The primary goal was to promote increased productivity and thus profitability by eliminating the non productive middle man, in this case the King of England, leaving the business partners, officers and principals as the primary beneficiaries. The results were successful beyond imagination and over the following two hundred plus years this basic business plan propelled Crony America to the lofty world leadership position from which it now plummets to its inevitable demise.
We must always remember that as far back as we wish to look into recorded history, political and social order has always been constructed and organized to enrich and empower the elite to the detriment of everyone else. For decades leading up to the creation of Crony America, the world’s elites were slowly convinced (some might say forced by centuries of peasant uprisings to believe) that by sharing some of the bounty with those who were actually producing and productive (aka the peasants) a positive feedback loop could be created that would drive profits through the roof. This is turn would propel the business partners, the nation and by extension the individual workers to unmatched levels of personal, social and national prosperity, well beyond that achieved by any other social control system ever created.
This new business model, called The United States of America on the planning documents, was a revolutionary change from tried and true profitable business practices. While profit was still the ultimate goal, the process used was now radically different. Even though technology was slowly ramping up profits, slave labor and indentured servants were profitable principally because of lower operating costs that sprang from the lack of paid wages and the scarcity of replacement labor, particularly in the south. But these lower labor costs were largely offset by the expense of their keep, thus the enslaved and repressed man was becoming more productive on the whole because of the improved machines, not because of the man himself. An uninspired and oppressed man is not a very efficient human being.
The revolutionary idea was that America Inc. promised to change fundamental business practices forever. Now businessmen could control the overall labor force well beyond the farm or factory borders while spreading the development costs over the entire nation. By handing a small portion of profits back to the worker and the business friendly government, those taxes and wages could be leveraged far beyond anything the businessmen could individually manage. The state and the worker would be responsible for many of the expenses the businessmen previously paid out of their own pockets.
But among the richest and most powerful, the senior partners of Crony America if you will, it was always understood that sharing the wealth with the lower class was simply a means to an end and would cease when it was no longer profitable to do so. Only those in deep denial cannot see that we have reached that point today. The American Constitution and the attached Bill of Rights were an integral part of the experiment and both should be seen for what they are; as business planning documents and contracts rather than the basis for a romantic love story about personal freedom and national identity.
Unfortunately, shaking off this self indulgent myth can be extremely difficult after a life time of drinking the patriotic propaganda that’s served up daily. Buried deep within this profitable mythology is the fundamental business plan; the desire by the business owners to create a self motivated but pliable work force that cared for itself. The promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was, and still is, a powerful narcotic even when measured by today’s high standard of wage slave management techniques. When Crony America is viewed as a working plantation and “we the people” as willing wage slaves, America Inc’s founding documents take on a dramatically different perspective.
Essentially these business contracts were used to rally a disparate and ideologically divided nation, convincing many to put some skin in the game with the promise of a fair return on the back side if successful. Obviously the most important buy-in was required of the established elites and this explains why the wealthy led the business “revolution”. But equally important was the promise that there would be enforced laws and regulations to protect the weak from the more powerful, in theory creating a more even playing field.
With this guarantee stated in writing, even the poorest of the free men were enticed to buy into the game and put their backs to the wheel. Though in practice they had little choice in the matter and like today just went with the flow. In a brilliant example of early public relations management, the myth of wise and sage state leaders gathered in Philadelphia effectively humanized extremely rich and powerful business men. After the fighting started, they were further rebranded as righteous (profit) patriots and freedom fighters.
This concept bears repeating. Today’s for-profit Crony America had its start as a revolutionary business decision by a group of wealthy and disgruntled elite who objected to paying more and more of their profits to an absentee landlord and his band of merry legislators. As much as we love to tell each other glorious stories of imperial tyranny and grass roots rebellion, America Incorporated was the result of a hostile takeover, emphasis on hostile.
Thus the myth of a free and open society was proclaimed to have been embraced by all for the common good and the obvious contradictions of slavery, indentured servants, landless free men and women without voting rights etc. were pushed aside in the rush to profit from the national business experiment. In this way the King of England, which was seen as the domineering middle man in the business of colonial exploitation for profit, was forcibly expelled and cut out of the deal.
Over the next 200 years of slave labor and ugly lynching’s, civil and foreign war, genocide of indigenous populations, child labor, manifest destiny and westward expansion, wave after wave of immigration, social and political exploitation and repression, conditions slowly grew better for all classes of Americans, though most certainly not fairly or evenly. Still, despite these glaring disparities, the working classes were sustained and even emboldened to continue to toil away by the very real possibility of improved living conditions not only for their children but for themselves.
This was the genesis for the worker self motivation that was the initial source of the increased productivity required for Crony America to succeed and then thrive. Luckily for the business partners, increased prosperity on an individual basis is always a relative condition. As long as the myth can be sustained by some meager positive real world experience, even the most oppressed are willing to tolerate more than they should in exchange for a chance to improve their lot in life. This was the American dream that was born of the revolutionary American business experiment and this too has ended, though several hundred million wage slaves have yet to accept this fact.
With this essay’s premise now established, that Crony America’s founding documents are simply business tools and worker contracts we are born into, just as children of slaves are born into slavery, what follows is a closer look at one of these contracts, in this case the Bill of Rights. Essentially I look closer at one segment of the broader argument I made in a prior article (An American Coup D’état – First World Nation Style) that the Constitution and by extension the Bill of Rights were effectively subverted and overthrown by a business (aka political) Coup D’état on 09/11/2001 using the Continuity of Government mechanism long in the planning stage. Since this appears to be the case, it stands to reason the contracts are either null and void or radically changed.
I began considering how much of the Bill of Rights would still apply if I was correct about their initial intent and current violation. With the initial draft of my thoughts complete, I sent them to a friend and asked for some feedback. Among several constructive and well received suggestions was the thought that I might consider toning it down it bit so as not to upset the more sensitive and opinionated readers. After taking a few steps back and sleeping on it to gain a wider perspective I did as advised in a few select areas, though by no means completely.
However, I wasn’t so sure that the advice was entirely warranted. Was the heart of my essay, a revision of the original Bill of Rights, really over the top and totally unrealistic? Was the language I used truly inflammatory and thus useless from a message delivery point of view? Or was my perspective clouded by my limited life experience? These were all valid questions and ones that could be tested. After all, one can’t truly say they enjoy certain “rights” until they actually try to exercise them. Until then it’s all just philosophical musings.
After several hours on two different search engines plugging in words and phrases, I was astounded to find repeated and systemic examples of “rights” being abused or denied. And not just among the so called Guantanamo and Bagram AFB “terrorists” (sadly this was entirely expected) but in stories of abuse heaped upon upper, middle and lower class Jane’s and Joe’s. Every month in Crony America there are hundreds of incidences of warrantless home invasions and unauthorized wiretappings, planted evidence, framed defendants, prosecutorial misconduct, midnight abductions and months, even yearlong, detentions without access to consul or court. And this doesn’t include corporate espionage and other “for fun and profit” skullduggery.
I found numerous examples of repeated prosecutions for the same crime with slight changes to skirt the letter and spirit of the law. There were dozens of articles about judge and jury tampering, intimidation, payoffs and blatant miscarriages of justice. Even the government admits to the escalation of human rights violations as laid out in the Bill of Rights, though it’s often buried in official facts, figures and tables. And I had barely scratched the surface, never moving past page one of each search and without ever touching the Ponzi crimes. We seem to have become deaf, dumb or numb because these “business practices” have become normal and fade into the background noise, something to skip over on our way to the NFL.
The troubling conclusion I came to from my short investigation was that rather than being over the top and hysterical, my “Crony America and The Bill of Rights” thought exercise might actually not go far enough to reflect reality. Just because your home hasn’t been invaded or you haven’t yet been pulled over at gun point or you have not been subjected to abusive IRS audits doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. As I said earlier, you really don’t have any “rights” unless you can exercise them when you need them and based upon what I found, there are plenty of people out there that are being denied.
As this country spirals further down into the black abyss of economic collapse, our social contracts and the implicit understandings that support them will only grow weaker and more fragile. This means that you are just as susceptible to Bill of Rights violations at some point in your future as the present day victims are now. So do me a favor and push through my snarky tone and provocative language and see this essay for what it really is, closer to the truth than you care or dare think.
I present each “Right” as it was originally written followed by my revision and comments. Obviously no political or governmental body would write “Crony America - The Bill of Rights” to begin with since the objective is always to perpetuate the myth of fairness and even handedness. So hold your complaints that this thought exercise is a non starter. Forget that this document would never exist; it’s the understanding that these violations actually occur in today’s world that matters and the sole reason for the creation of this article.
[It’s the author’s premise that The Bill of Rights was a business tool that has slowly been degraded and undermined over decades until it was finally revoked and revised, along with the Constitution, on 09/11/2001 via the implementation of the Continuity of Government Coup D’état aka business martial law.
Each Revoked “Right” below is followed by the Enacted version and then the author’s italicized commentary. I strongly advise you to read the original “Right” as well as the revision to get a feel for where we are now. It ain’t pretty.]
The First 10 Amendments to the
Constitution as Ratified by the States, becoming effective on December 15, 1791
Preamble
Congress of The United Business States…begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. Revoked and revised on Tuesday, the Eleventh of September, Two Thousand and One in the City of New York and ratified by a compliant Congress on Friday, the Fourteenth of September, Two Thousand and One in the District of Columbia.
Original Revoked: THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.
Revision Enacted: THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the now suspended Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added and which have now been suspended, revoked or amended. And as extending the ground of public confidence in The Business State (BS), will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution and owners if the public would accept that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are now privileges to be doled out when, and only when, it benefits The Business State.
Original Revoked: RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:
Revision Enacted: RESOLVED by the compliant and puppet Senate and House of Representatives of The United Business States, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring under threat of publically declared martial law, on Friday 09/14/2001 that the following revised, suspended or revoked Articles be imposed upon the Legislatures, peasants, wage slaves and indentured servants of the several captured and corrupt States, as Amendments to the secretly suspended but still publicly supported Constitution to promote the public charade of a Constitutional form of The Business State, all or any of which revised, suspended or revoked Articles, having been unilaterally enacted by Imperial Army decree by the Shadow Central Banking Government, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said secretly suspended Constitution; viz.:
Original Revoked: ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
Revision Enacted: Revised, suspended, or revoked Articles in addition to, and Amendment of the secretly suspended Constitution of The United Business State, imposed by a compliant and puppet Congress on Friday 09/14/2001 and imposed upon the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the now suspended Constitution.
Amendment I - Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Revision Enacted: Congress cannot and will not make any laws without the consent of The United Business State (BS). Crony America has established the (inter)national religion of Crony Globalism and expressly prohibits the free exercise of any other economic system or belief under penalty of economic death or military invasion. America Inc. has abridged freedom of speech, the press and the right of the people to peaceably assemble unless permitted by The United Business State amended By-Laws. Consumers may petition the Government for redress of grievances only when permission is granted.
[We peons are welcome and even encouraged to worship whatever God we choose and pursue any beliefs of freedom we may wish as long as our beliefs don’t interfere with the Crony Globalism - National (Security) Business State – Central Banking Cabal ménage à trois. It is hereby declared that the one and only official Crony Globalism State religion is Keynesian (perversion 6.4) which was initially adopted on 12-23-1913 and fully implemented on 09/11/2001.
There is only one God and that almighty God is John Maynard Keynes, who luckily passed away (ascended if you listen to the Business Priests) long before he could see the abomination his teachings and beliefs had become in the hands of the business masters of the universe. By popular consent of the ruling class and financial elite, all peasants must bow to the all powerful and mighty economic Business God, whose words and meaning are interpreted by whatever compliant economic wizard or warlock is currently running the public face of the Ponzi.
It’s in everyone’s best interest to continue to believe that Crony America is a nation of free people who regularly speak out and are actively involved in the workings of their government. After all, we’re all encouraged to become Profit Patriots and join in the scrum. And the Ponzi will continue to promote this fantasy in the interest of maintaining ever higher wage slave productivity. This includes keeping the basic trappings of a bought and paid for representative republic, an increasingly Ponzi dependent judicial and administrative system and a fawning corporate press whose sole job is to lull the population into thinking the press is still independent, informative and vigilant.
But there should be no mistake or misperception. The Homeland is currently controlled and administered by a small group of bankers, the super rich and various corporate entities. The Business State (BS) business men are firming in control. And while they wish to maintain the illusion of normalcy for profit sake, any serious transgression will be dealt with swiftly and brutally. You’re being continuously watched and monitored. Don’t mistake a lack of intervention on the part of The Homeland regarding your seditious behavior as tact acceptance of it. When you’ve become a sufficiently large enough nuisance to The Business State to warrant attention, you’ll be swiftly dealt with. BS Bank on it.]
Amendment II – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law. Original Revoked: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. Revision Enacted: An unregulated Financial-Military-Industrial-Energy-Drug Complex being necessary to the continued profitability of Crony Globalism and The Business State, there is no right of the people to keep and bear Arms except when conscripted into Crony America’s Imperial Armed Forces either by hook, crook or economic necessity. America Inc. at any time has the right and might to remove any weapons privately held without prior notice and with extreme prejudice. [There’s room for only one armed bully on the block and that bully is the almighty corporate “business person” masquerading as The Business State, also known as “the mother lode” among co-conspirators. Crony America prefers to leave the passive consumer armed to further the illusion of freedom when in reality the only freedom remaining is the right to choose the color and model of the hamster wheel one labors on as long as he can make the payments. When the Imperial Wars require more storm troopers (aka uniformed economic hit men/enforcers) than are currently available through a so-called voluntary economic conscription model to support business expansion plans, America Inc. can and will impose a capricious and punitive military draft, aka forced conscription……..at gun point if necessary. There will be no deferments allowed except to those who are able to purchase “indulgences” or who are highly connected either politically or economically or who show promise as tools of the State. The Imperial Wars are the life blood of Crony Globalism, America Inc. and its controlling network of international central banks aka The Central Bankstas. One must always keep in mind that the Imperial Wars are the primary backing, the big stick if you will, of The Business State’s infinitely inflatable fiat “reserve” currency and nothing will stand in the way of Crony Globalism. The force is with them.]
Amendment III – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Revision Enacted: All United Business State Soldiers shall, in time of peace or war, be quartered in any house The Homeland chooses, repossessed or not, with or without the consent of the owner, in a manner to be prescribed by law, edict or whim.
[This of course assumes that the consumer (all citizens died decades ago in a mental Coup D’état) has sufficient means or value to be of interest to The Business State. If this is the case, The Homeland has no need to occupy or quarter troops in your 30 year old run down trailer or leased walk in closet.
However, if you own any housing “assets” (or more likely you owe more money than the housing “asset” is worth) Crony America and Banksta Kapitalism has the procedures needed to (re)posses your home in order to house all current and future Soldiers of the Imperial Army as well as any and all indentured servants and wage slaves as they work off their never ending debt (of gratitude) to the BS. This economic confiscation is subject to change at the whim of The Banking Kings and all other (self) appointed agents of the Mighty Ponzi God.]
Amendment IV – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Revision Enacted: Deleted with no replacement offered.
[Deleted in its entirety and replaced with The Business State’s prerogative to do as it pleases when it pleases in the manner it pleases. The owners of Crony America have decided it’s time to proceed with the liquidation sale before bankruptcy is declared and a new business model is implemented by decree. Since you paid for all your “assets” with Federal Reserve Notes, you have no clear title. The Federal Reserve in effect has a lien on your assets, leaving them subject to foreclosure at any time. Furthermore, the Imperial Business State determines what the law is and when it is enforced. All your personal security and privacy rights privileges are belong to us.]
Amendment V – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Revision Enacted: Deleted with no replacement offered.
[This Article was completely discarded as unnecessary because there are two sets of laws and regulations in Crony America, a fact that has always been true and is finally openly admitted. “Common Peasant Law” aka Commercial Law is what The Business State (BS) arbitrarily and capaciously enforces to maintain productivity and punish transgressors. The real purpose of these prosecutions is to distract and encumber the powerless while terrorizing the general population into submission. Occasionally Crony America will allow a wage slave to escape bondage to inspire the teaming masses left behind to double their efforts. It’s all about business productivity and profits.
Since the nation and consumer now labor under De facto business martial law, any former “rights” against double jeopardy, the talking of life, liberty or property without due process and so on may or may not be enforced at the sole discretion of the America Inc. At the time of business martial law enactment, these consumer “privileges” were essentially left intact to promote social calm and profits. The Business State will revoke these “privileges” at a time and place of its choosing. All consumers are considered enemies of Crony America and live and work at the pleasure of The Business State owners.
A second more exclusive and loosely defined set of laws is occasionally, or more accurately rarely, used to prosecute those who control wealth and power or who are particularly useful to The Homeland as political, corporate or social tools. In most cases, these laws are used as political or social weapons to extort wealth and power from other corporate persons or to subvert and/or undermine other political or social entities. In all cases, the requirements of the owners of Crony America out weight any perceived need for social justice. Any prosecutions of the rich and powerful are secondary to the wishes of the owners. Meaning prosecutions will rarely occur because the rich and powerful are the owners of America Inc.]
Amendment VI – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Revision Enacted: In all criminal and civil (aka terrorist) prosecutions that The Homeland chooses to pursue, the guilty shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial after a minimum of 8 to 10 years of solitary confinement and 186 water boarding sessions at Guantanamo or Bagram AFB, followed by a swift and merciful economic execution by Crony America agents.
The guilty will be charged with the crimes The Business State says were committed and the guilty will be informed of the nature of the charges within 5 minutes of entering the kangaroo court room. The guilty will never be confronted with the witnesses against him, will have essentially zero chance of obtaining witnesses in his favor and has the right to the Assistance of Counsel consisting of bought and paid for junior high school chemistry teachers.
[And this is assuming that the BS prosecutor is feeling generous, magnanimous and got laid last night. Crony America is omnipotent and will presume all enemies (aka consumers) to be guilty until The Homeland decides if it’s in the interest of The Business State to presume innocence. The guilty have no right to anything other than viewing the most recent episode of “Dancing with the Businessmen” before economic death is imposed. If The Homeland has presumed guilt, the only reason the BS might proceed with an open and fair trial is for the emotional comfort and plausible deniability of the various BS prosecutors, judges and court jesters.]
Amendment VII – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Revision Enacted: In suits at common peasant law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common peasant law.
[There was no need to modify this beyond the insertion of the word “peasant”. In fact, the entire BS judicial system is all a carefully crafted and maintained business charade. The very fact that the legal and judicial system still functions to some extent at the local and state level simply reinforces the false belief in the average peasant that there’s something called BS “justice” and that it can be found in America Inc.
This self delusion is necessary if The Business State is to maintain relatively inexpensive control over the passive and conditioned workers, most of who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. After hundreds of years of refining mind control techniques, and with the help of modern electronic methods, the BS ruling elite has proven that the average mentally castrated peasant will continue to work even when repressed and humiliated as long as the illusion of self control is maintained, however improbable that might actually be.
As well, if given the opportunity to believe they are free and unencumbered, said wage slaves will not only remain silent but will fight to suppress vocal dissident slaves in order to remain sedated and sated within Crony America. So shut up and learn to love your enslavement or we’ll take away your gruel. Actually we already did. Next on the list are the pot you piss in and the house that contains it.]
Amendment VIII – Revoked and revised on 09-11-2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Revision Enacted: Excessive bail shall always be required, excessive fines will be imposed and the use of cruel and unusual punishment techniques is encouraged of the BS jailors and torturers. The Homeland can and will declare you a domestic terrorist for any reason what-so-ever.
[Can you say Bagram AFB and Guantanamo? Keep your cute little hamster nose clean and The National Security State might not deem you a domestic terrorist and haul your ass off to any number of undocumented and unacknowledged hell holes where the art of modern torture is refined. At any time using any evidence The Homeland claims to have but doesn’t need to show you or any court in the world, they can whisk you away to some remote part of the world (usually stuffed in the airplane cargo hold between bundles of Afghan heroin) only to throw your weeping leaking ass into some 4’ by 6’ plywood box to shake and bake.
After our profitable and patriotic Security State (SS) business interrogation professionals grow tired of stomping your ass in between water boarding sessions, if you don’t “accidently” die, they might actually return you to your friends and family along with a substantial bill for services rendered during your business rehabilitation and reprogramming. Of course, the bill will be disguised as a BS IRS audit or a civil lawsuit based upon trumped up charges you’ll go bankrupt defending. So shut the hell up, keep your mind blank, your nose clean and follow the hamster in front of you.]
Amendment IX – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Revision Enacted: The enumeration in the suspended Constitution, of certain revoked rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage other revoked rights no longer retained by the peasants unless and until The Business State says otherwise in whole or in part.
[Crony America strongly advises all wage slaves and indentured servants to sit back and enjoy the BS ride. As long as you don’t fight it, you’ll be allowed to believe whatever it is you wish to believe. The few remaining critical thinking individuals will soon be permanently removed, stifled or terrorized into submission. There’s nothing wrong with your fantasy world that horse blinders and a 50’ LCD set with 5.1 surround sound can’t fix. Now shut up and watch “Mindless Consumerism 101” or you’re next on the water board. And did I forget to mention the mandatory consumption? We need to pump up the BS numbers for next quarter.]
Amendment X – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Revision Enacted: The powers not delegated to The United Business State by the suspended Constitution have now been seized by the implementation of Continuity of Government on 09/11/2001. No individual state may prohibit any law, edict or action by America Inc. under penalty of suspension of all state aid or outright invasion and confiscation of all state property. All inalienable rights are reserved to The Homeland and only those The Business State wishes to convey will be apportioned to the peasants based upon financial wealth and political influence.
[In so many ways, what’s happening today isn’t so much a change of conditions as it is a revealing of business and governmental practices corrupted by decades of fiat fractional reserve banking and Imperial adventurism. As The Business State’s fiat Ponzi begins to fly apart from centrifugal forces causes by the unsustainable economic, social and political spin, the only way to kick the can down the road is to feed humans into the maw to replace the rapidly depleting mass being flung from the edges at warp speed.
It really comes down to a simple fact of life. As long as “we the people” continue to demand “Someone should do something about this” rather than “I must do something about this” nothing will be done about this. Crony America has been wildly successful at simultaneously promoting two contrary notions in the mind of the average wage slave. That he or she will survive and even thrive during the coming implosion and that someone else will step up and save the day. This planted Cognitive Dissonance serves its intended purpose, to freeze the population in its tracks while it waits for the savior that never comes.
Mucho props to the business controllers for the greatest population pacification program ever successfully implemented in recorded history. Are you sufficiently pissed yet? If not, what exactly is it going to take? And how long can you remain in denial?]
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Thank you from WB7 and I for your high praise. We hope this will happen. If not this, then maybe WB7's YouTube video.
It was our intent to deliver exactly what we wound up with. But the road here was not straight and I'm still shaking my head in wonder that we sort of got exactly where we could have only arrived at. For me at least is was sort of heading east and winding up west, exactly where I was supposed to go but didn't know it. WB7 was the steady hand on the till.
There is no such thing as coincidences, just Karma.
"WB7 was the steady hand on the till."
Another euphemism for 'reach around'?
Elvis, and the CD haters and WBInfinity detesters have left the buidling!!!
"All the world's a stage." The whole concept of the Constitution/Bill of Rights being gamed from the start rather than perverted over time is a new angle, and very thought provoking. Disheartening, yet inspiring at the same time. In a way, it's motivational, which I hope makes sense. A lot of people seem to worship the founding fathers as one entity (or deity by some nowadays) through rose-colored glasses, when indeed, they were distinct, fallible individuals.
Mucho thanks to you and WB7 for your contributions and your refusal to keep your crayon work inside the box.
Of all the public myths we Americans love to roll around in (like dogs in shit) the one about our glorious and noble "founding fathers" is most violently defended. Which means that people are not seeing or thinking about it very clearly.
Time to break some good china.
yup, it is nearly impossible to discuss something like this with many, they instantly fly off the handle.
hell, what other "civilized" country requires all school children to recite a pledge of allegiance every day? then of course in the '50s we added God to the pledge and put "In God We Trust" on our FRB trinkets. If you aren't with us, you hate god.
This brainwashing is very effective, and I mysefl was not very questioning. Then I read the project for a new american century after 9/11 and made the connection with Pearl Harbor when the radar operators called in the planes and were told, no those are birds (and the carrier fleet just happened to be out).
This is an important tangent, I believe. As things continue to deteriorate, people will look willingly to authoritarian figures, and those in power will appeal to peoples' faith to further compliance against a common "enemy." Reminds me of a passage in Tom Clancy's "Sum of All Fears,"
If one were fighting for God Himself, then one could do nearly anything. One's enemies in such a war were also fighting against God, a hateful and damnable thing. To dispute the authority of Authority itself--well each soldier could see himself as God's own avenging sword. There could be no restraint. One's actions to chastise the enemy/sinner were sanctioned as thoroughly as anything could be. Rapine, plunder, slaughter, all the basest crimes of man would become something more than a right--made into a duty, a Holy Cause, not sins at all. Not just being paid to do terrible things, not just sinning because sin felt good, but being told that you could literally get away with anything, because God really was on your side.
There is a duality in the use of this in uniting people against perceived enemies externally and dividing and distracting us into arguing with each other internally. The end result of both is to weaken us.
Well done! Bravo.-- "An Economic Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution" Charles Beard 1917 ? was looking at this very thought. Milestones
Charles Beard 1913, according to my bookshelf.
Google Books
Daily revision of history is not permitted yet.
I'm standing here... reading the book. 1913 is correct.
Here's a weak backup link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Economic_Interpretation_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States
I wasn't aware of this and I searching for it now. Thank you.
The more I dig and paw at the dirt, the more convinced I become that I have not one original thought in my head. This is very comforting because it assures me that if I'm crazy, I'm not alone. :>)
The primary goal was to promote increased productivity and thus profitability by eliminating the non productive middle man, in this case the King of England, leaving the business partners, officers and principals as the primary beneficiaries.
WhoT! I knew that if youze guyze got together you'd have at it and this did not disappoint.
Whenever a "sovereign" can be subverted, or better eliminated all together from the equation the profit potential explodes while the loses are socialized upon the hapless sovereign and the society it supposedly represents or leads. The very essence of false philanthropy, legal plunder and controlled savagery all to create churn that has and now dominates. It is a shame that some cannot see how the process of counter-churning is enhanced by using the tools & energy made available by this very structure. There is most definitely alchemy getting instigated spontaneously and feedback loops are now forming and growing at the professional level. These processes are gathering mass & momentum in ways that are now beyond the control of the corporate C suite. Keep kickin' the hive guys. I stand amazed at how far things have come since Avalanches was first published Cog. Best to you both -
Cheers
Miles,
You may remember the first time your whispered in my ear the idea that the push back might come not from the weak and powerless but from the professional class. And you might remember that like a snake trying to swallow a pig, I couldn't at first grasp how this could be. I'm slowly digesting that huge meal you handed me.
I think about those e-mail conversations all the time and they always bring me back to center. When WB7 challenged my initial draft of the revised Bill of Rights, I though about how I would defend it. Your comments and thoughts immediately came to mind and those e-mails we exchanged were the genesis for the entire introduction, which became the rationalization for the revised Bill of Rights that was now moved to the second half of the article.
If you hadn't introduced me to your idea I wouldn't have studied it last year. That led me to read the original correspondence of several "founders". If I had not followed this path I wouldn't have been able to write about this today. So a belated Thank You.
There is much more to come. I can feel it in my bones.
http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/FOEA.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/10/20/us_founding_fathers_online/...
SWEET!! 411 catch of my day. Big coin to H-E.
There are few things an instigator likes to see more than a seed take root. Grow and develop these ideas wherever they may lead you. You do a far superior job with transforming these concepts into a language that can actually be understood than is within my present capacity (tho I do believe there has been improvement over this past year). Thank you for your willingness to listen, translate and bear with my own process of growth, development and maturation. A process made far better and richer by your efforts. Best as always dear friend. Peace pal
PS It's nice to know that some real stile is coming into being.
Hey Miles what do you think of the song choice on the clip? Lee Michaels, Barrel
Stupendeliciousness. I didn't know who that was. Thanx for cluing me in. Each day your work inspires, humors and reminds me of what this is all about. Communicating the epic nature of our times through art. Thanks so much!
Meanwhile ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOQ9jXC6iE
Excellent work. I shall be sending this to everyone I know and hoping that at least a couple of people will read it.
Tell them we only accept gold and silver ;-)
CD, any thoughts on Freemasons using the secrecy of the lodge to advance this agenda during the Revolutionary era? As I am sure you know, many of the founders were members....
Regardless of what people think about Freemasons, there is no denying many of the movers and shakers of the revolutionary war (on both sides) were members of the Freemasons. Which implies a coordinated effort, possibly crossing borders and "sides".
We tend to see the world through our own eyes. And those eyes are often planted in a specific country to which we are endeared and biased. So it's often difficult for the average Joe to see the world as a puppet master would, not from any one side but from all sides and with every side in play.
There is so much more at play then what is told to us via the official myth and the keepers of the myths.
i haven't done much research into them during this period, i am just familiar with how many of their symbols made it into our national symbols. something to look into for me.
I am a lawyer, we are taught the Constitution is the bedrock of the nation, and that interpretation of it is the only manner of examination, not to question its existence so much. We are then forced to swear allegiance to the constitution to be admitted to the bar.
I do think the constitution is largley about enforcing property rights, which tends to benefit (wait for it), property owners!
I believe the original draft said "life, liberty and property," not the pursuit of happiness....
Property rights are bad?
Don't we own the fruits of our own labor?
Property rights would sure help prevent and/or remedy problems like the BP spill. http://www.endofinnocence.com/2010/05/property-rights-solves-oil-leaks-better.html
There are some eye opening letters between the drafters of the Constitution concerning how to phrase it to appeal the the common man. As I said in my piece but only touched upon, this document was much more than what it appears to be and what is taught in school. It was a business document that was also a propaganda piece because it was intended to be widely distributed and inspirational. They were constructing far more than "just" a company. They were nation building a business friendly nation and they needed by-in from all classes.
The Cousins War by Kevin Phillips gives a detailed history of the English Civil War- 1648, the American Revolution-1776 and the US Civil War-1860 are all a continuation of the same dual-group conflict.
You're freakin awesome WB7.
Tnx and you have a very funny Id ;-)
Features of the Matrix
Noble Lie
Debt-based monetary system. It's paper stupid!
Uniform Commercial Code--goblin bankers' rules plus voluntary servitude.
Our airports are being closed by involuntary/voluntary search and detention based on sexual abuse techniques outline in the ticket purchase contract. If you dishonor the contract in the fondling/groping line, you are taken out for interrogation and a commercial charge is placed against your STRAWMAN credit account.
Just discharge the debt. And if these fu**cs fine you, make sure to send each person involved (from the airport, air line, and TSA presidents down to the groper on the line) individually and severally a 1099B and 1099OID (if they refuse to discharge the debt and securitize your default) for the full amount of the fine at tax time. Because credit income bumps up your income, but no taxes are due on credit income.
That about sums it up.
Ps You guys can jeer all you want, but lots of people are not watching Dancing with the Stars.
As my piece mentions, they're watching "Dancing with the Businessmen".
If you are in the US right now, then you are watching "Dancing with the Businessmen."
You guys can jeer all you want, but lots of people are not watching Dancing with the Businessmen either.
Here in HK they go dancing with ladies in karaoke bars...then buy big apartments for them
Time to schedule my sex change.
Again???
First time!!!!!!!!!!!!
Humor in large and repeated doses is always recommended.
Ask WB7. He's an expert and I always listen to the experts. :>)
I think they are also reading this:
Damn, shes still frakable.
Sarah Palin is the un-sexiest woman alive.
hummm, two junks each, looks like the vote is split.
CD, I'm still at work so I hope to get a chance to digest your work this evening. "Animals lack a sense of abstract justice, or any sense of fairness. As a direct consequence we are unable to visit the depths of moral outrage." Glad I didn't read that short story in a old creaky house. Any idea if cougar was the author? It was a good story.
Oh, and good art work WB.
Cougar said he (she?) was the author. I thought it was very good writing. Very good.
But what do I know?
cognitive dissident + William the man = G R E A T N E S S
History, repeats, players are exchanged, schemes renewed/newly invented, yet, objective remains the same! Nothing will change, simply just evolve! There will always be masters and servants, nothing will ever be able to change that! Wars have been are still being fought to accomplish that and they did not, we the "slave" people will have to make sure, on an individual basis, that we will always remain "a going concern". The strong and "entitled" will kill/oppress the weak and "less/not connected" into lower levels of life, a little revolution won't change nothing and if, only for a brief time. I always advocated for myself and at least those friends willing to listen, use the system as good as you can and stay off the radar as much as you can, now its time to leave or DUCK, its du-able and success rate is high, one simply has to know how to do it! PMs Mania will end and the real PM-Rush will take place and it will be the smart who survives! Deflation, Inflation, Black Markets, RESET!
Very informative CD and WB7!
Like tony Soprano said after kneecapping one of the unfortunates for non-payment of loan..."nothing personal, it's just business"...
LOL
I actually considered quoting good old Tony ("it's bidness") but then decided that by doing so he might actually bring some credibility to the piece.
So I dropped the idea like a hot potato. :>)
Dear fellahs,
Nice work, I admire and appreciate the effort as always. My only question CD, if I can manage to distill it clearly, is along the lines of this... Are you suggesting that the constitution and its ammendments are somehow invalid as a basis for government on a libertarian or democratic ideal? Because I think your opening argument could certainly be interpreted that way. If the constitution was concieved and drafted in a cynical manner by business men who did not really hold the ideals which they were promulgating is it then invalid as a basis on which to build a resistance to the tyranny which is so rapidly dismantling it? This is a disturbing idea to me because it seems to me that if any american resistance is to take hold and somehow weld the fractured political, religious and economic viewpoints of the american people into a common platform for action then something as common, shared and clear as the constitution would have to form the foundation. What would you replace it with? I think that your idea of reinterpreting the constitution to reflect its true state in the face of COG is brilliant and Banzai's artwork really adds emotional impact to the message. The way you portray the document and its genesis, however, makes it sound like you are just chucking out the whole thing. I just wonder if this is good idea, purely from a pragmatic viewpoint. My own personal evolution of political thought has led me to the belief (at least for now) that distributed self government IE "anarchy" or sort of ultra libertarianism is the best hope for a truly free society. Even so, I would hesitate to toss the US constitution aside as an incremental approach to that ideal. Sorry to ramble so...must brew jaaavaaa. LOve your work guys :~)
On my way into the office and before I posted this piece, I was thinking about this subject. Meaning does the who kit and kaboodle need to be trashed. And I decided it probably needed to be discussed in another article.
Consider this for a moment. The Constitution as written has allowed this insanity to gestate. The Constitution was supposedly written to allow for wide interpretations in order to allow the country to grow and adapt to things the writers could never imagine. This wide language has given us the present insanity. With this in mind, do we still use it?
A few weeks back I saw a clip posted by a blogger (Michael Suede?) of a mainstream news/opinion show where the talking head du jour was floating the idea that the constitution was a "dead" document. Too old, too unrealistic etc. Assuming that the MSM is a pure propaganda tool I wonder if there isn't a danger of playing into the PTB's hand here. It seems to me that a strict, purist constitutional interpretation might be the only way to hold the oligarchy accountable for their actions while preventing a wholesale fragmentation of any american resistance. That said, I would look forward to reading your considered thoughts on the subject.
See my comment above.
No matter how well a constitution is written, if it isn't protected by those who stand the most to lose if it is not, then any well written constitution will eventually be subverted. This was what I meant. The constitution had wiggle room built into it. We the people didn't properly police that wiggle room. The constitution has now been wiggled away from us.