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Former Senator Slams Washington As Corrupt "Sewer", Calls For Outraged Young Americans To Revolt
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service our nation’s young people could provide is to lead an army of outraged young Americans armed with brooms on a crusade to sweep out the rascals and rid our capital of the money changers, rent seekers, revolving door dancers, and special interest deal makers and power brokers and send them back home to make an honest living, that is, if they still remember how to do so.
Our ancestors did not depart Europe and elsewhere to seek freedom and self-government alone. They came to these shores to escape social and political systems that were corrosive and corrupt. Two and a quarter centuries later, we are returning to those European practices. We are in danger of becoming a different kind of nation, one our founders would not recognize and would deplore.
In addition to the rise of the national security state, and the concentration of wealth and power in America, no development in modern times sets us apart more from the nation originally bequeathed to us than the rise of the special interest state. There is a Gresham’s law related to the republican ideal. Bad politics drives out good politics. Legalized corruption drives men and women of stature, honor, and dignity out of the halls of government. Self-respecting individuals cannot long tolerate a system of election and reelection so dependent on cultivating the favor of those known to expect access in return. Such a system is corrosive to the soul.
– From the Gary Hart article, Gary Hart: America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption
A former senator from Colorado, Gary Hart, has written an extremely powerful and accurate critique of the unfathomably corrupt and crony state of the U.S. government in 2015. It covers several very important angles, including how appalled and disgusted our founders would be at the current state of affairs. How a once great republic has devolved into a thieving oligarchy in which the pursuit of money at power at the expense of the public good has been elevated into something that’s not just tolerated, but actually celebrated and encouraged amongst an ethics deprived status quo.
Don’t take it from me though, here are several of my favorite excerpts:
By that standard, can anyone seriously doubt that our republic, our government, is corrupt? There have been Teapot Domes and financial scandals of one kind or another throughout our nation’s history. There has never been a time, however, when the government of the United States was so perversely and systematically dedicated to special interests, earmarks, side deals, log-rolling, vote-trading, and sweetheart deals of one kind or another.
What brought us to this? A sinister system combining staggering campaign costs, political contributions, political action committees, special interest payments for access, and, most of all, the rise of the lobbying class.
Worst of all, the army of lobbyists that started relatively small in the mid-twentieth century has now grown to big battalions of law firms and lobbying firms of the right, left, and an amalgam of both. And that gargantuan, if not reptilian, industry now takes on board former members of the House and the Senate and their personal and committee staffs. And they are all getting fabulously rich.
Frustrated, irate discussions of this legalized corruption are met in the Washington media with a shrug. So what? Didn’t we just have dinner with that lobbyist for the banking industry, or the teachers’ union, or the airline industry at that well-known journalist’s house only two nights ago? Fine lady, and she used to be the chairman of one of those powerful committees. I gather she is using her Rolodex rather skillfully on behalf of her new clients. Illegal? Not at all. Just smart . . . and so charming.
There is little wonder that Americans of the right and many in the middle are apoplectic at their government and absolutely, and rightly, convinced that the game of government is rigged in favor of the elite and the powerful. Occupiers see even more wealth rising to the top at the expense of the poor and the middle class. And Tea Partiers believe their tax dollars are going to well-organized welfare parasites and government bureaucrats.
Never forget this Venn diagram:
The advent of legalized corruption launched by the Supreme Court empowers the superrich to fund their own presidential and congressional campaigns as pet projects, to foster pet policies, and to represent pet political enclaves. You have a billion, or even several hundred million, then purchase a candidate from the endless reserve bench of minor politicians and make him or her a star, a mouthpiece for any cause or purpose however questionable, and that candidate will mouth your script in endless political debates and through as many television spots as you are willing to pay for. All legal now.
To compound the political felony, much, if not most, campaign financing is now carried out in secret, so that everyday citizens have a decreasing ability to determine to whom their elected officials are beholden and to whom they must now give special access. As recently as the 2014 election, the facts documented this government of influence by secrecy: “More than half of the general election advertising aired by outside groups in the battle for control of Congress,” according to the New York Times, “has come from organizations that disclose little or nothing about their donors, a flood of secret money that is now at the center of a debate over the line between free speech and corruption.”
Of this handful, the largest by far is WPP (originally called Wire and Plastic Products; is there a metaphor here?), which has its headquarters in London and more than 150,000 employees in 2,500 offices spread around 107 countries. It, together with one or two conglomerating competitors, represents a fourth branch of government, vacuuming up former senators and House members and their spouses and families, key committee staff, former senior administration officials of both parties and several administrations, and ambassadors, diplomats, and retired senior military officers.
WPP has swallowed giant public relations, advertising, and lobbying outfits such as Hill & Knowlton and BursonMarsteller, along with dozens of smaller members of the highly lucrative special interest and influence-manipulation world. Close behind WPP is the Orwellian-named Omnicom Group and another converger vaguely called the Interpublic Group of Companies. According to Mr. Edsall, WPP had billings last year of $72.3 billion, larger than the budgets of quite a number of countries.
I’m not sure exactly where this number came from, as I’ve seen numbers around $15 billion thrown around, but not $72 billion.
With a budget so astronomical, think how much good WPP can do in the campaign finance arena, especially since the Citizens United decision. The possibilities are almost limitless. Why pay for a senator or congresswoman here or there when you can buy an entire committee? Think of the banks that can be bailed out, the range of elaborate weapons systems that can be sold to the government, the protection from congressional scrutiny that can be paid for, the economic policies that can be manipulated.
The lobbying business is no longer about votes up or down on particular measures that may emerge in Congress or policies made in the White House. It is about setting agendas, deciding what should and should not be brought up for hearings and legislation. We have gone way beyond mere vote buying now. The converging Influence World represents nothing less than an unofficial but enormously powerful fourth branch of government.
America’s founders knew one thing: The republics of history all died when narrow interests overwhelmed the common good and the interests of the commonwealth.
What would our founders make of this nightmare of corruption? We only know, in Thomas Jefferson’s case, for example, that his distrust of central government had to do with the well-founded and prescient suspicion that its largesse would go to powerful and influential interests, especially financiers, who knew how to manipulate both the government and the financial markets. In particular, Jefferson envisioned sophisticated bankers speculating in public-debt issues with some if not all the interest incurred going into their pockets.
The scope and scale of this genuine scandal (as distinguished from vastly more mundane behavior that passes for scandal in the media) is the single greatest threat to our form of government. It is absolutely incompatible with the principles and ideals upon which America was founded. At the very least, we Americans cannot hold ourselves up to the world as the beacon of democracy so long as we permit, as long as we acquiesce in, corruption so far beyond the standards of the true republic that our government cannot be proclaimed an ideal for other aspiring nations.
On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service our nation’s young people could provide is to lead an army of outraged young Americans armed with brooms on a crusade to sweep out the rascals and rid our capital of the money changers, rent seekers, revolving door dancers, and special interest deal makers and power brokers and send them back home to make an honest living, that is, if they still remember how to do so.
When a former senator accurately notes that the best thing young Americans can do is instigate a successful rebellion against the incredibly corrupt and powerful monied interests running the county into the ground, you know things are very bleak.
A harsh judgment? Indeed. But it is impossible to claim to love one’s country and not be outraged at how corrupt it has become. For former senators and representatives to trade a title given them by the voters of their respective states and districts for cash is beyond shameful. It is outrageous.
“I tremble for my country when I contemplate that God is just.” Those words of Thomas Jefferson, enshrined on the walls of his memorial, referred to the institution of slavery. Today he might readily render the same judgment about corruption in and of the American Republic.
It is an error of serious proportion to dismiss corruption in twenty-first-century American democracy on the grounds that this has all been going on from the beginning, that boys will be boys, that politicians are always on the take. Past incidents of the violation of public ethics provide no argument fozr accepting the systemic and cancerous commercialization of modern American politics.
Our ancestors did not depart Europe and elsewhere to seek freedom and self-government alone. They came to these shores to escape social and political systems that were corrosive and corrupt. Two and a quarter centuries later, we are returning to those European practices. We are in danger of becoming a different kind of nation, one our founders would not recognize and would deplore.
Even as politicians and pundits alike pummel the fiscal deficit, we are developing an integrity deficit of mounting proportions. And one is not disconnected from the other. Because of the erosion of the integrity of our governing system, and the principles and ideals underlying it, the fiscal deficit increases. The government spending so many conservatives claim to abhor includes not only the social safety net of Roosevelt and Johnson, but also the war-making excursions of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. It is all government spending. And it includes favorite pork-barrel projects of every member of both houses of Congress of both political parties, and every one of those most loudly condemning “wasteful government spending.” Those projects are produced by the lobbying interests that raise money for those members of Congress in direct proportion to their effectiveness at bringing government-financed projects to their states and districts. By definition, if it is a project in my state or district, it is not wasteful.
We were not created to be like other nations. We were created as an alternative to monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, and corrupt political systems. The more we follow the easy path, the one paved for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful, the more we stray from our originally intended purpose and the more we lose our unique purpose for existence.
In addition to the rise of the national security state, and the concentration of wealth and power in America, no development in modern times sets us apart more from the nation originally bequeathed to us than the rise of the special interest state. There is a Gresham’s law related to the republican ideal. Bad politics drives out good politics. Legalized corruption drives men and women of stature, honor, and dignity out of the halls of government. Self-respecting individuals cannot long tolerate a system of election and reelection so dependent on cultivating the favor of those known to expect access in return. Such a system is corrosive to the soul.
As bad as things are, the fact a former senator is not only aware of the problem, but is willing to publicly write a scathing article condemning it, is ultimately a very good thing.
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Unless you're an old man like me, you won't remember Gary Hart and Monkey Business. I don't hold that against him, Donna was hot, but I don't like the way these sociopaths try to set themselves up as so-called "leaders." Yes, the young need to help vote out ALL incumbents when they can, so we can have a majority of non-sociopaths in Congress. They just don't need sociopaths (as described in Snakes In Suits) to lead them from the frying pan into the fire.
Only you can be free
To The Honorable Senator Hart:
Thank you.
p.s. many of us know you were taken down expressly for your decency & integrity. some of us know by whom. your cause is not forgotten. the crimes against you were abominable. great to know you're still a Good American.
Godspeed, Senator Hart.
Respectfully,
janus publicus
Stop voting, don't finance college, don't finance a house, don't finance a car, stay completely out of debt, cancel your cable subscription, learn how to survive with little, and starve this fucking beast until it's dead.
What brought us to this? A sinister system combining staggering campaign costs, political contributions, political action committees, special interest payments for access, and, most of all, the rise of the lobbying class.
I could add the pedo debauchery that has the entire establishment by the short hairs.
He might want to be mindful about his proximity to planes, trains, automobiles, hot tubs & nailguns.
What brought us to this? Giving women the vote. Our founding fathers created the sort of country that men would want to live in. The suffragettes and progressives set about changing it into a country that women want to live in. All the rest is detail.
I'm running for President at GoFundMe. Joseph Maloy
Unplug from the matrix and it slowly dies. It's the only way. They own everything, including the voting system. Pay off your debt, be your own source for food, and find like-minded people with whom to trade and barter. You could kill all the reptiles without firing one shot.
Since it'll never happen I'll turn on MSNBC now and see what the TV tells me to be angry about today.
You almost had me for a moment!!! ;)
... "send them home to make an honest living ... "
I wonder what percentage of politicians have ever made an honest living in the private sector. They seem to be takers, not makers, which is why lawyers are so overrepresented in Congress and state houses. If they were sent home, they'd become lobbyists, not entrepreneurs. That's all they know.
We need to start again.
Lets come up with some qualities needed and a point system to determine the best candidates:
1. Plus One point for every year worked in the private sector or at home raising a family.
2. Minus One point for every year in academe, any government job or the military.
3. Minus One point for every year spent as a lawyer.
4. Plus Three points for every year starting a new business.
5. Etc.
3. Minus FIFTY points for every year spent as a lawyer.
fixed it for ya.......
"Listen.......
your friends have been broken.
They tell us of your poison,
now we know.
Kill them!
give them as they give us.
Slay them!
burn their children's laughter,
On to hell!
- The Gates of Delirium, Yes (1974)
May the Fish rest in peace.
yea, but most of them are either all doped up, trying to survive, too obese or way too dumb down to make any reistant. The 1% that is, is either painted as terrorists, trolls or part of the elite who dun give a shit.
So, put simply its a farking basket case. They know the Fed is PRIVATE, they know their government creates false flags like 9/11, they know their shadow government kills their most American President JFK and what do they do? NOTHING.
Hell, they even know they create all the terror groups and protect NAZIS. But nothing happens becoz the shadow govt using Bernay's methods are doing a farking good job!
One of the first things you can do is stop buying into this bullshit good buy, bad guy paradigm and calling people you don't like "NAZIS"....get over it, they lost the war.
Well, I do not live in la la land and I do not state that I'm describing a Hegelian scenario (you need to study more). Its simply a fact of observation.
Plus you state they lost the war, I see them all over Washington. I dun think they lost anything considering their masters still rein in the Western world.
"FORMER" Senator.... Where the fuck was all this when you were in office? Oh, that's right... you were too busy collecting a check and doing jack shit all day.
"Armed with brooms"??? LMAO I don't know if you noticed but our federal government has military equipped mine-resistant vehicles at their disposal for domestic use... They could give a fuck about a damn broom.
Ain't nothing changing in 'Murica until they repeal the 17th Amendment and restore state representation in the Senate. Remember, back in the good old days... when US Senators got the hook if they ran afoul of their home state assemblies? This is the only way to force out the centralized K Street lobbying business in this country. Force them back into the fifty state capitols where they started when they were lobbying for the railroads. This was the only real reason the 17th got passed. Screw all that nonsense about Senate elections, that was just a crisis that "didn't go to waste".
Now get out there and VOTE to fix this!!!!
The Federal government is not just corrupt, but evil.
If a League of Shadows did exist, they would burn it to the ground.
There is no Batman.
The BIBLE has told us all of this in a "matter of fact" way because it is the source of truth for godly living and salvation.
change your twitter icon.
revolt.
Youth revolt against Washington, DC? What a laugh. Its Washington, DC that's giving out the monetary heroin that's buying the mindless hipster vote. Never mind the $18 trillion in debt and the 4-5 times that amount in spending promises for future entitlements. And never mind the $1 trillion or so in student loan debt much of which is for useless degrees or degrees stuffed with courses bloated with politically correct propaganda. Or the pension funds underfunded by $ trillions mainly because the promises for pensioners were for decades astoundingly excessive, with anyone speaking the truth about them, for these decades, being shouted down by earlier generations of hipsters. (And this is the short list.)
Those that can think realize that even a single 'trillion' unfathomable, at the very least by the youthful mind. Any of these youths that do begin to understand numbers and can think critically would be less a hipster and very simply...worried.
Student Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding
2015:Q1: 1,360.4304 Billions of Dollars (+ see more)
Quarterly, End of Period, Not Seasonally Adjusted, SLOAS,
Federal government; consumer credit, student loans; asset, Level
2015:Q1: 881,813 Millions of Dollars (+ see more)
Quarterly, Not Seasonally Adjusted, FGCCSAQ027S,
Total Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized, Outstanding
2015-04: 3,384.4667 Billions of Dollars (+ see more)
Monthly, End of Period, Seasonally Adjusted, TOTALSL,
Total Revolving Credit Owned and Securitized, Outstanding
2015-04: 899.4709 Billions of Dollars (+ see more)
Monthly, End of Period, Seasonally Adjusted, REVOLSL,
Motor Vehicle Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding
2015:Q1: 971.8286 Billions of Dollars (+ see more)
Quarterly, End of Period, Not Seasonally Adjusted, MVLOAS,
Mortgage Debt Outstanding by Type of Holder: Federal and Related Agencies: Federal National Mortgage Association
2015:Q1: 3,008,127.00 Millions of Dollars (+ see more)
Quarterly, End of Period, Not Seasonally Adjusted, MDOTHFRAFNMA,
Monetary interest paid: Households and nonprofit institutions
2013: 615.9 Billions of Dollars (This one should be fun to watch)
Annual, Not Seasonally Adjusted, W291RC1A027NBEA,
Who do we owe all this to?
Much as it warms my heart to think of our young people rioting over the corruption in Washington and perversion of capitalism that is New York -- not to mention the incestuous relationship between the two -- our young people have been properly conditioned to accept all of this without question. You can blame our education system which purports to teach critical thinking skills but does quite the opposite. Our young people have been taught to simply memorize social agenda under the guise of education; they couldn't critically think their way out of a paper bag.
The only hope is to teach your children right from wrong, teach them to question, and try to undo the indoctrination they are spoon-fed on a daily basis. Most of us can't quit our jobs to homeschool, much less pay for private school.
It is interesting to me the parallels between America in 2015 and Hitler's rise to power: our young people are being similarly indoctrinated to hate a segment of the population: those horrible intolerant Bible-thumpers. The word "intolerant" is akin to "Jew" in that bygone era.
Fight the power however you can.
The average American has been dumbed down by flouridated water, a poisoned food supply, injected with dozens of magik potions ((vaccines) 2.5x the rate of when I was a kid), and a cocktail of meds that most of them are walking around in a daze - well before their brain has had a chance of developing.
What attention span they have left is glued to the phone or following whatever moronic sportsball or TV distraction is shoved in their faces.
There is no way in hell young America is going to revolt, destitute or not.
Good point on the lack of attention span; this seems very much by design, as is the poor education system. Unfortunately it's not just our young people who lack attention -- although it is practically epidemic with their generation -- but I am amazed at the lack of attention among my generation who are glued to their phones, etc.
I really notice this with movies: I have tried to watch old '80s movies with my kids -- the ones that are classics to me -- and they are so slow-moving by current standards. Yet the plot is often richer than that of today's movies.
The ability to focus and sustain attention will be in short supply in the future; hedge accordingly.
Gary Hart, save some typing, please. When a single word suffices, just use it: Fascism.
Well there is the fact that Gay "Marriage" is now legal. Not moral, not sensible, but completely ridciulous, laughable and absurd which has apparently been the will of the majority for about a year now.
The people have spent a lot of time fighting this battle to have the queers join the ranks of the once hitched. There is that.
Which version of marraige do you believe in? The biblical version where women are regarded as property?
A man could marry (literally "become the master of the woman") as often as he desired. In Genesis 4:19, Lamech became the first known polygamist when he took two wives. Subsequent men who took multiple wives included: Esau with 3 wives; Jacob: 2; Ashur: 2; Gideon: many; Elkanah: 2; David: many; Solomon: 700 wives of royal birth; Rehaboam: 3; Abijah: 14. Jehoram, Joash, Ahab, Jeholachin and Belshazzar also had multiple wives.
Leviticus 21:13 "'The woman he marries must be a virgin."
Deuteronomy 22:13-21
20 "If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you."
I never see you on here crying about how high divorce rates are in the US. 'Till death do we part' ring a bell? Where's your outrage over that desanctification of marraige?
I sure hope you have bigger problems then being constantly hung up on queers getting married?? The only reason I can see why it bothers you so much is you're probably gay yourself and can't stand it.
No version, I am unmarried, and wish to remain so. My GFF feels the same way, having been the products of failed marriages, and befuddled why ANYONE wants to get married.
re: your last paragraph. I am a male lesbian. Where are my rights protected??
And here you have gays joining the institution with most losses in history. Brilliant.
Constantly hung up on queers getting married does not accurately describe me or my attention to society.
Nothing would please me more than if EVERYONE just put their sexual lives back in the closet, stop all this distraction, voyeurism and preoccupation with bullshit, and direct it to where they belong and let's unite against the lobbyists throwing big parties to which yours and my politicians are invited in order to create vehicles to further enrich the top 10%.
Bigger problems do exist so Brucie should be ignored, queers wanting to enter in matrimony, a failed institution, should be ignored, and slavery was over 200 yrs ago. As was the holocaust, and the Crusades.
Comte d'herblay: Well there is the fact that Gay "Marriage" is now legal. Not moral, not sensible, but completely ridciulous, laughable and absurd which has apparently been the will of the majority for about a year now.
Why should government have any say at all in who or what gets married? WTF business is it of theirs? Why do you need permission? A license?? really?
Seriously. take a walk off the plantation, ok?
Would you read your own post??
The Federal Government just, thru the Supremes, DID have a say at all in who...
U agree with me and don't realize it.
That does not excuse the absurd notion of gays 'marrying', one of the biggest wastes of time in history by a government body.
The whole Transgender, Gay marriage, confederate flag narrative today is taking inordinate space in our country beset by issues that affect all of us, and not some perverts who amount to 2% of the entire population.
And you buy it.
Meanwhile, Dick Fuld, Lord Blankfein, Angelo Mozillo, the entire jewish mafia in this country, England, and Singapore have taken over our government and a ridiculous concern of the Supremes is gay marriage.
You have to hand it to medis, able to set the agenda for the 10%.
You need to take your knuckles off the floor and realize that unnatural acts are of no benefit just a another slope that we have descended in the coarsening of our culture.
It's time for a New World Order. Revolt against tyranny.
Lead On!!!!!!!!!
We're b e h i n d you all the way.............
Sorry, but the 'system' is dealing with the threat of young people quite nicely. By placing them into debt, keeping them unemployed, filling their heads with socialist mush in schools, and making them dependent on the system -- the young will have not have any money to challenge that given by corporations and PACS, and their socialist leanings will help keep them voting for the politicians who give away other people's money!
You forgot the coming conscription plans.....
Criminal activity must be framed as criminal activity and therefore the solution has to be framed in how do we break the criminal stronghold and bring the criminals to Justice for their conspirator criminal activity and repudiating the criminal debt.
ZH should be examining how to prosecution the bankster fascist criminal cabal and review professors Black, Chossudovsky, Hudson and Gavin Marshall research into the criminal cabal activities.
I am a 71 year old student that has been following the maneuvers of the American bankster fascist most of my life. The EU was designed, financed and implemented by the criminal banksters and their shadow government of the Council on Foreign Relations. The banksters CFR activities are well documented over the last 60 odd years in plotting Treason against the USA and implementing the fascist New World Order. Selling debt as wealth is their weapon.
Do gold bugs really believe that the criminal banksters are going to lose control of the gold market in the USA? Today, the currency is fiat but the BRICS gold backed currency of tomorrow will set a new standard. The bankster criminals stole all the USA gold when we went off the Gold Standard. The criminals loot, pillage, burn bridges and destroy as they move forward. The bankster criminals via Emperor Obama decree will confiscate the gold in your teeth.
In my opinion, it will take a violent revolution to bring the criminals to Justice, until then, we are all victims.
Prepsite.org: The lost Republic of the USA http://www.prepsite.org/2015/02/the-lost-republic-of-usa.html?spref=tw
THIS IS WHY THE TEA PARTY - THE ONLY ORGANIZED OPPOSITION - HAD TO BE DESTROYED.
BY THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY OF THE IRS.
Nope. Just bought and paid for by the Koch brothers, from the beginning.
PleasedtoMeatYou: Nope. Just bought and paid for by the Koch brothers, from the beginning.
"From the beginning" No it was not. Look into it before you belch out some meaningless burps. The "original" new TP was non political and their slogan was "Stop the looting and start Prosecuting"...
And Rick Santelli didn't have anything to do with it either...
" Just bought and paid for by the Koch brothers"
It's publically available information. You go look it up.
Start anywhere among these:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/final-proof-the-tea-party_b_41...
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/david-koch-seeded-major-tea-part...
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-fenn/2011/02/02/tea-party-fund...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=0
http://theweek.com/articles/491590/billionaire-koch-brothers-tea-party-p...
Then, go STFU.
Prepsite.org: The lost Republic of the USA http://www.prepsite.org/2015/02/the-lost-republic-of-usa.html?spref=tw
"America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption"???
They have LONG been corrupted to the core, since 1913.
Americas founding principles are in danger of corruption? Really. You just now figured that out!
I hate to tell you good buddy, but those principles have been eviscerated decades and decades ago by politicians like yourself and the rest from pretty much the get go. Darn near every president, con-gress critter, Supreme JustUs Jerks and the Alphabet Agencies since the ratification of the constitution has crapped all over it.
Here's another shocker... Most Amerikans don't give a rats ass. A new Apple thingy every year and a new truck with boombox and hollow mufflers will satisfy most.
And most that came from Europe, and especially England were kangaroo court vagrants and sent to the colonies as slaves,,, indentured servants was the nice name. When that even proved insufficient the Dutch brought in the African slaves. Course these days the Dutch are whistle clean and deplore Amerika's racist ways. There's so damn much history re-written and flat out lied about,,, the truth hasn't a chance.
Just stop lying, already!
I can still remember when Admiral Hyman Rickover was drummed out of town for his campaign to rid military funding of graft. The CEO of General Dynamics, the guy who orchestrated his being run out, later admitted that Rickover was right. Those narrow profit margins that justified the massive cost over-runs were narrow because of all of the political pay-offs in DC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover
Nothing new. Corruption in Congress has been SOB since its inception. All we are debating is the scale of today's corruption.
You're expecting revolt from the same young people that have gone thru govt education camps, been feminized, and have never heard of restricted govt??
Come on, get serious. The only ones who understand are those of us over 50, so stop dreaming. It's done. Why the hell else would there be guillotines in the FEMA camps?
Gary Hart?? Seriously? Gary friggin' Hart!?!?!
Who paid that sonofabitch to feign a come-to-Jesus moment?
Reminds me of when former US Senators cobbled together a PAC for folks that opposed outrageous government deficits and debt - "The Concord Coalition". Shoulda been called "The Conquered Coalition". Senators run up the deficits to enrich and empower themselves and their cronies. Then, they retire and feed at the trough of well meaning dupes (like myself, in the day) "opposing" the same fiscal profligacy they championed in office. Man, they had to be laughing all the way to the bank.
Mr Hart overlooks that not everyone is, or should be, outraged. The FSA does not care that someone is skimming the take, as long as they get their share of other people's money.
At the risk of starting an obnoxious Ayn Rand flame war, I will observe that she was right about this - the only effective thing that you can do to put an end to this, is to go on strike. That is the only way that the beast can be starved. And yeah, in that scenario, everyone loses, but it works. That's what brought down the Roman Empire, and that's what brought down the Soviet Union.
(As for Gary Hart, he's just mad because he lost his place at the trough.)
The former senator forgets that he directly assisted what he now decries and protests.
Who isn't opposed to the powers of the NSA in this country? I say, fight fire with fire. What we ought to have in this country is a federal law enforcement unit not unlike the FBI but not under the thumb of any politicians like the FBI, DOJ, NSA and/or DEA. They would have oversight over all those elected to public office and their staff, but with extra powers of investigation allowing them obtain search warrants and wiretaps not unlike those obtained through 'secret courts' like the NSA does. Plenty of people will stray away from government but that's OK. They aren't the ones we want anyway.
First, let's not completely discount the message because the messenger is flawed.
Right it right.......no matter who states it.
That being said, anyone showing up for the revolt with a "broom" can just stay at home. Funny, isn't it? They all know what it wrong.....its so easy to see, but nobody wants to do what it takes to fix it. Another "thing" that's so easy to see. We "fixed" it once. Doubt we have the moral character, courage, and fortitude to do it again.
Everybody wants to do the right thing........when they are guaranteed a win. If the outcome is in doubt, somehow the "right thing" is clouded and gray.
Let me be clear, I am not calling for revolt, I am calling for the proper, elected authority to call for a revolt. Don't hold your breath.
Perhaps our elected officials could follow the lead of JPM mid-level banksters and either commit suicide, or be suicided.
^ This... could work.
Duplicate post - sorry
The most treasonous are those who currently control the government of the USA, and did so more and more, over a prolonged period of time, by applying the methods of organized crime to the political processes. The results were rather eloquently stated by Hart in the article above. However, there are NO "solutions" that I can see other than due to the decline and fall of civilization, resulting from that the monetary system has become like a totally metastasized cancer, inside of a society which has become terminally sick and insane. There are NO "practical" ways to overcome the established systems which are funding the political processes, due to the duration and increasing magnitude of the degree to which the funding of politics is extremely unbalanced and becoming even more so ...
Since money is like the mother's milk of politics, or that money is the oxygen for any political fires, the vicious spirals of an almost completely corrupted and crazy monetary system feeding back through its loops through the funding of the the political processes, have driven such extremely unbalanced relationships between the different participants in the political processes that there are no realistic and practical ways to fix those problems which have become It is easy to come up with idealized lists of things which could be possible "solutions," but no politically possibly ways to implement any of those, given the Catch 22 dilemmas.
Most of the bullshit "solutions" promoted within that article above, as well as by the most of the comments posted under it, would only add to the psychotic collapses into chaos, driven by the basic ways that the political economy has become based on enforced frauds, to degree that have become so extreme that there is nothing else that could actually stop that, except for its own mad self-destruction, after which, one would most reasonably expect the next cycle to get even worse than the previous cycle, due to the overall spiral of history having been backing up deceit with destruction, morphing into enforcing frauds.
THEORETICAL SOLUTIONS should be based upon perceiving that there is nothing else which exists than the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies, operating robberies. The established system of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which are crucially the ways that governments enforce frauds by privately controlled banks, have become extremely unbalanced, because of there being almost nothing but a core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition.
All of the publicly significant opposition is controlled by the same monetary system which is the root of the problem. I do not believe that there are any realistic or politically possible resolutions of the real problems, outside of the mad self-destruction of the established systems, due to their own inherent contradictions that being able to enforce frauds never stops those frauds from still being false. Those who already have the privilege of legally being able to create the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts for other people are so extremely advantaged thereby that they can relatively easily use that advantage to dominate the funding of all aspects of the political processes, including buy up effective control over any apparent "opposition" groups, especially since the vast majority of people are not now willing and able to perceive the degree to which that is already the case!
There is no doubt that civilization was built through the history of warfare, and that political economy was built inside of that overall context. therefore, governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, which become dominated by the best organized gangs of criminals. Since they are the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals, they get to call themselves the "government," and to legalize their own crimes. HOWEVER' at the same time, they have also been able to dominate the school systems and the mass media so much, for so long, that the vast majority of people are not able and willing to perceive more deeply the degree to which governments are necessarily the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, which failures to understand things more deeply continues to enable the controlled opposition groups to spout the same old bogus "solutions," which are based on the impossible ideals that will miraculously stop organized crime from being the underlying systems, instead of more realistically attempting to better balance the ways that is actually getting done now.
The established systems do not care about anything but continuing to enforce their frauds, or to continue to be able to back up their legalized lies with legalized violence. That is the context in which the laws against "TREASON AND SEDITION" manifest, and that then is also the context in which one can predict that circumstances will continue to become more psychotically out of touch with relatively objective facts, due to the contradictions that being able to be socially successful through enforcing frauds still never stops those frauds from being false.
In my view, we should be attempting to make the ideals of democracy operating through the rule of law become better realized. However, the overwhelming vast majority of citizens always behave like incompetent political idiots, because those were their personal adaptations, for generation after generation, to living inside of social pyramid systems based upon backing up lies with violence, which became the currently entrenched systems of enforced frauds, which are driving their own mad self-destruction, in paradoxical ways, since the more successfully those social systems are able to continue to enforce frauds, the more psychotic and criminally insane that civilization as a whole becomes overall. Inside of that context, I find the relatively superficial analysis, followed by superficial solutions, common in articles republished on Zero Hedge, to be disheartening. I also tend to even be more discouraged by the majority of the comments published under those articles, because those tend to penetrate into some deeper understanding, but nevertheless, continue to promote bogus "solutions."
It appears that the vast majority of We the People have become Zombie Sheeple, who do not understand the ways that the political economy is based on enforced frauds, because they have been conditioned to not want to understand, while the few people who do understand the established systems of enforced frauds, continue to still only superficially understand the reasons how and why the public "money" supply is being created out of nothing as debts by privately controlled banks, and therefore, around those banks, have grown up a wide variety of large corporations, which are all based on the triumphs of what are euphemistically admitted to be "legal fictions," which are actually systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, that have been developing at an exponential rate, due to their own reinforcrment feedback loops.
The exponential growth of systems based on enforced frauds is driving towards its own mad self-destruction at that exponential rate! However, there are no realistic or politically practical ways to prevent that from continuing to happen. As well, in my opinion, there are also no ways to become prepared enough for the magnitude of that kind of mad self-destruction. (Although I am not asserting that one should not attempt to become prepared, but only that the magnitudes of the madness are going to be amplified to such astronomical sizes that one can not actually become effectively prepared for that.)
Those who are relatively old and rich now may well not live to see the consequences of what they were really doing manifest in ways which become personally significant to them. However, the younger and poorer that you are, the more probable it becomes that you may suffer the consequences of being born into political systems based upon backing up lies with violence, or enforcing frauds, that will go through mad psychotic breakdowns, and crazy collapses into chaos, due to the inherent contradictions that backing up lies with violence, or enforcing frauds, always ends up making the underlying situation get worse, faster ...
The main thing that the established systems of organized crime, that dominate governments at the present time, are doing are the same old BACKING UP DEBT SLAVERY WITH WARS BASED ON DECEITS. The ruling classes are doing the same things that they have always been doing throughout human history, while those they ruled over have continued to adapt to that in the same ways that they also used to do throughout human history. Therefore, the entrenched debt slavery systems have generated numbers which are debt insanities, and those are set up to provoke death insanities. The only genuinely realistic solutions to those problems would have to be some survival through to the emergence of better death control systems, in the context of the opportunities arising from the runaway death insanities in the future.
The vast majority of articles and comments published on Zero Hedge are far, far superior to the content to be found in the most mass media. However, Zero Hedge content continues to primarily be ironically described by one of those whose material has been republished here:
"The absolute best controlled opposition is
one that doesn't know they are controlled."
-- Cognitive Dissonance
Virtually all of the content on Zero Hedge, and similarly elsewhere, is STILL controlled opposition, in the sense that Cognitive Dissonance stated, (including even him too.) The theoretical ways out of that depend upon enough people perceiving politics in radically different ways. However, there are no good reasons to believe that is politically possible. It is barely possible to get some people to agree upon some superficial analysis of the problems presented by central banks, however, it is NOT now possible to get enough people to agree upon any deeper analysis, and therefore, politically impossible to develop enough understanding and agreements regarding how to realistically resolve those real problems.
From any practical political point of view, it appears to be pointless to attempt to develop any genuine opposition, that could overcome the degree to which it was being controlled by the language that it uses, and the philosophical presumptions that it continues to take for granted. The overall dilemmas are that there is almost nothing but a core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition, both of which are as deliberately ignorant about themselves as they can possibly be, because both are dominated by their best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites.
MEANWHILE, the ruling classes continue to start more genocidal wars based on deceits, as well as prepare to impose democidal martial law. As the established systems become more blatantly based upon enforced frauds, which more obviously are backfiring badly, more people are perceiving the actual social facts to be as those always were, (as summarized in the article above.) However, since there is nothing which is publicly significant surrounding that core of organized crime, but various controlled opposition groups, I would predict that nothing can stop some martial law from continuing to manifest at an exponential rate, as the established systems based on enforcing frauds endeavour to continue to double down their ability to back up their legalized lies with legalized violence, with some limit cases being that they will attack those citizens who protest the entrenched runaway systems based upon enforcing frauds, by accusing them of being "TERRORISTS ENGAGED IN TREASON AND SEDITION," as the rational and justification for increasing the degree to which there manifests democidal martial law, which will NOT work to make things better, but rather continue to drive circumstances to continue to get worse, faster ...
The essential problem continues to be progress in physical science, without progress in political science. That is demonstrated by the ways that violent revolutions are now as absurd and insane as are violent wars, after the development of weapons of mass destruction. Theoretically speaking, any groups that were seriously interested in violent revolution and/or civil war within the USA would make it one of their priorities to seize control over some weapons of mass destruction. However, thinking about that drives one back to the central issue that backing up lies with violence, after the development of weapons of mass destruction, has become ways to commit collective suicide, rather than resolve problems through those means.
Basically, thousands of years of human history has become "bankrupt." It is not merely the combined money/murder systems that have become madly self-destructive, but also the controlled opposition groups that surround that madness which are also similarly madly self-destructive. Progress in physical science has enabled making and maintaining globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs, with the heart of that system being the USA, since it has had the world's global reserve currency, and has had the biggest budget for its globalized military to back that up. However, none of the current dominance of the American systems copes with its own increasing contradictions. Therefore, the USA is leading the ways towards psychotic breakdowns, and criminally insane self-destructions.
The ways that the established systems within the USA would protect themselves from TREASON AND SEDITION are themselves the most TREASONOUS AND SEDITIOUS phenomena. At the same time, there are matching bookends of paradoxes that the publicly significant controlled opposition groups continue to spout the same old-fashioned bullshit, which was originally promoted by the biggest bullies (which are now the best organized gangsters, the banksters).
Given that overall context, I see no practical ways to either prevent nor prepare for the ways that civilization is driving its own mad self-destruction, due to being based upon backing up lies with violence, or enforcing frauds, automatically becoming more psychotic and criminally insane, the more socially successful those doing that are able to become. Furthermore, I have always found that the more that I learned about that situation, the worse it got. Therefore, these days I no longer am able to maintain any reasonable hopes regarding the finite facts expected to transpire in the foreseeable future.
THEORETICALLY SPEAKING, the existence of electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs should motivate us to develop really radical, revolutionary political science. However, that barely exists at the present time, being at most a Fringe Cubed position. At present, it is at the fringe of the fringe of the fringe to think seriously about quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity, etc., regarding what those ideas should do to transform political science.
Instead, we continue to watch as progress in physical science is headed towards developing abilities to back up lies with violence which become quadrillions of times greater than the trillions of times which now already exist. We wait to see how much longer civilization can survive its contradictions, which are inherent in the ways that social success based on enforcing frauds never stops those frauds from being false, and therefore, that civilization necessarily becomes more psychotic and criminally insane every day ...
As far as I can tell, the ruling classes that dominate the USA have prepared for nothing else that to attempt to impose democidal martial law, while the controlled opposition that recognizes that continues to mostly stay with the same basic frame of reference, because of the degree to which they are controlled opposition, that does not recognize the degree to which they are being controlled by the ways that they think, and the language that they use, and the philosophical presumptions that they continue to take for granted.
There are growing Grand Canyon Chasms between progress in physical science, without progress in political science. Both the established systems of organized crime, as well as their controlled opposition groups, are driving those Chasms to get wider, to the degree that there appears to have already been generated situations of irreconcilable social polarization, which may well be trumped by irreparable destruction of the natural world, due to the ways that social success based upon enforcing frauds becomes more and more madly self-destructive, since it depends upon more and more evil deliberate ignorance and willful blindness, in order to keep itself going through each of its increments of doubling down on its ability to back up lies with violence, which automatically becomes crazier and crazier, since then the Chasms between those lies and the relatively objective facts become a wider and wider Grand Canyon.
At the present time, I am not able to believe in any other future being more probable than democidal martial, despite that that will end up making circumstances continue to get worse, faster ... If and only if the government was actually a democratic republic operating through the rule of law, would the laws against TREASON AND SEDITION make genuine sense and be able to legitimize. However, the degree to which the public "money" supply has become frauds by private banks, enforced by governments, is the degree to which there is NOT an actual democratic republic, operating through the rule of law. The actual social facts are that the degree to which the government is crazy and corrupted is demonstrated by the degree to which the public "money" supply has become legalized counterfeiting by privately controlled banks, which frauds are enforced by governments, which is roughly about 99%.
The government of the USA has reached the point where it is about 99% like the article above has described it to be: "the rise of the special interest state." That government is now practically nothing but a core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups. The degree to which the opposition is controlled is similarly something like more than 99%. The government of the USA, since it still has the global reserve currency, as well as the biggest military budget to back that up, is already about 99% psychotic and criminally insane, which is matched by the ways that all of the various controlled opposition groups which are publicly significant with the USA are similarly insane.
Tragically, given that the established and entrenched systems are now more than 99% based on madness, there are no practical and realistic ways to prevent that nor prepare for that automatically continuing to get worse, faster ... which includes that any kind of increase in the degree to which there is democidal martial law, along with a matching increase in the resistance to that, will only result in the overall situation becoming even madder.
When we went Federalist and concentrated the country's money and power in Washington DC, gutting state soveriegnty and personal soveriegnty by way of personal income tax, is anyone suprised at the rampant corruption?? In Washington and New York virtue, honor and integrity are laughed at. Tragic....
Young Americans are being prepared for cabal sacrifice
to join military , fight world war
in lieu for student loans
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Becuz...
TorahGodJehovah loves burnt flesh
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sprinkled blood.
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