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Who are we Now?

February 3,  2004

You can also view this article at America Held Hostile  and at Rense.com

After we lost our national innocence, somewhere around the end of the Second World War – we began to cultivate the culture of the self. http://www.rense.com/general48/endgame.htm

Since then each passing decade has seen Americans turn in ever-greater numbers to commercial acquisitions to soothe their troubled consciences.

In brief this nation and its goals have changed immeasurably – and yet our electoral process has not been altered to meet any of the changed conditions of national or daily life.

National elections are one of the most obvious anachronisms – a throwback to a time of family farmers, and outspoken individuals who still had a great deal in common with those who had chosen to live in the inner cities of the young nation. Conversation was a staple of our lives – and responsibility was part of all we did, whether we were city dwellers or country people.

Today, the nation is terrified of everything, and we seem to have lost the ability to converse with others. But on the national stage, we’ve given away our personal responsibility for the destiny of the nation, and for the success of our own dreams to strangers: it is no wonder we cannot make sense of virtually anything that is happening now. "Life’s a gift" and in our haste to surrender all our freedoms for a little false-flag "protection: - we seem to have forgotten that.

If the government were serious about wanting this nation to have the best people elected to office – then congress would have done away with our outmoded system of caucuses and primaries as well as the Electoral College.

For at least the last twenty years the Congress has been promising changes in our election protocols for the American electorate. Every four years Congress hears complaints about the unfairness of the process on several fronts, and yet Congress has still not made any changes in the process.

For the Presidency, it begins with the stilted first two referendums on the candidates. The Iowa caucuses come first followed by the New Hampshire primary. If Congress were serious about giving the people the best possible candidates, then it would have mandated four states, one in each quadrant of the country, in which to hold these first contests. That way a true cross-section of the nation and our national life might have a voice in first opportunities to elevate or eliminate candidates. As it is now, by the time the candidates get to the major population areas of the nation the candidates have already been chosen or eliminated by Iowa and New Hampshire.

There’s nothing wrong with either state - it’s just that their populations, and their own economic interests today are very different from the rest of the country. And with this in mind, it is not surprising that the candidates who end up as leaders of the major parties are not necessarily the preferred choice of the people in the nation at large.

The second change needed is that the election for President should be held on a holiday (It’s at least important enough to be a holiday, once every four years). That way the voter turnout could be maximized. Election celebrations could be organized and virtually the whole country could turn that day into a festival of national pride, electoral responsibility, and voting. This hasn’t happened because the congress wants the voting population to remain as small as possible (similar to the fraudulent Florida pre-selection – organized by Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State and Bush Campaign Chair, when she removed voters from the Florida rolls).

The third needed reform is that all the polls should close at the same moment throughout the nation – so than the Western half of the nation isn’t informed of the Eastern outcome before the West can even vote. All of the above suggestions should have been debated and voted on in congress – long, long ago. So far ‘the elections’ have been allowed to continue to favor the elite insiders that they were designed to favor – and the people have lost on every count.

Skull & Bones, a secret society at Yale University, has had a disproportionally large influence on American politics over the years. "Skull and Bones is so tiny. That's what makes this staggering. . .There are only 15 people a year, which means there are about 800 living members at any one time." It’s very interesting that Prescott Bush, and George’s father, GWH Bush, were both members – as well as John Kerry. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml

Given the number of graduates who have sworn lifelong loyalty to Skull & Bones,

how is it that so many of these people are now in government at all levels? And what are the odds that any two of them would be in contention for the office of the presidency at the same time? Maybe this is not an election about the differences between parties after all – maybe this is about passing a torch in such a way as to limit the amount of political change, in order to merely continue the path we’re currently on? Whatever the truth may be – the coincidence is too extreme for comfort.

Even ordinary citizens had no trouble seeing trough the lies surrounding the invasion of Iraq coming from the Oval Office – so why was this so difficult for John Kerry to discern? And since he’s been "representing the people" for 35 years in congress – why are we now so impoverished and so thoroughly under-represented on every single aspect of the national agenda? Kerry is nothing new, he’s just a re-cycled, previously owned politician with a belated political itch. This is not a man of vision, and definitely not someone without a past.

In 2000 we failed miserably to even ask about the past of our AWOL dictator. We did not question (through our congressional representatives) the choices that Bush made, either about his staff, or about his unilateral opinions on a world he had no idea even existed before he was sworn in.

Will we begin to do our homework this time and pick someone who can do something about this mess that has been created by the Bushwhackers – or will this just be business as usual in America – because if that’s all this election is about then we’ve already lost.

Congress and the President both serve at the pleasure of the American people. Most seem to have forgotten this critical fact. They work for us – not the other way round. When we failed to charge Nixon, it was done because his accusers, could have been vulnerable to investigation themselves – hence the pardon. The same was true when it was Ronnie’s turn with Iran-Contra. Too many had too much to lose, and so the investigations were halted. Now, thanks to Bush Jr. the records of all those misdeeds (by both Bush Senior and Reagan) are sealed in secrecy to the point of non-existence – so we’ll never know the truth.

There have to be consequences for these political intrigues, and for the many others committed by the current administration. But that will mean that we must all begin to speak out. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is quoted by Gina Holland in an AP story of 1-30-04: "On important issues, like the balance between liberty and security, if the public doesn't care, then the security side is going to overweigh the other". http://truthout.org/docs_04/013104B.shtml

A lot of us fail to realize how much we really do know about what is going on and how much is not being done. Currently we are losing everything that we say matters to us – our jobs, our way of life, our abilities to alter circumstances, even our dreams are being stolen. We need to believe in our own abilities again and to trust our own instincts about what is happening in our names. This world is ours and we share it with the other 93.6% of the world’s population. It is way past time that we got back to being a contributing part of the global community. But before we can do that we need to thoroughly clean house here in America.

We need to get to the bottom of 9-11. We also need a whole host of investigations conducted by people outside the administration, and we need to begin prosecuting all the criminals both within the transnational corporations, and within the government who have made all the fraud and criminality possible. Until that time comes there will be no solutions only more of the same. The death toll surrounding 9-11 is now in the millions when one factors in everyone we’ve killed as well as those of our own who have died in this completely false cause that we allowed the Bushwhackers to drag the world into – for illicit gains and the fantasy of global Empire. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/iraq/1448.html

Bush says that the results of the "investigations" will be made public next year. That’s crap. He rushed us into a war within six months. We can and should have this investigation finished in 90 days – if anyone in congress or the country is at all serious about seeking any truth at all. And this must happen BEFORE the coming elections, so that the results will have a direct effect at the ballot box. If we fail to reclaim the mental high ground now, then we will have become that ugly and obese American that too many now see as the silent majority behind the criminal actions of this administration worldwide.