This is an updated version of a diary I wrote back in 2003. It took very little updating, something i find rather sad. It's much like 2003 now but worse with more of the same. I hope this causes a few people to think, look for more information, perhaps even to revise their ideas of what constitutes "conspiracy theory" - a very handy and deadly label the government and its shills use to push people away from what they would rather we didn't pay any attention to. Time is running out, though. I get the feeling that the first time there is a major abridgment of Constitutional rights and there's no reaction, that will trigger the rollout of a military takeover under martial law - under color of false authority. The President is NOT a king; his appointees are not ministers, and NO ONE has absolute authority over Americans! No one has the powers this president claims, and if the Constitution is suspended, the basis of all authority and law is suspended with it and the ONLY law remaining is martial law - Rule by the Military - or whoever has the most firepower appropriate to the theater. Please read this and THINK. Please. Then prepare as well as you can.
Back when I was just a pup, there were times when I’d be refused permission by one parent to do something I really wanted to do, so of course I’d get permission from the other; naturally, I didn’t see any reason to mention the first, failed, effort. Unfortunately, my parents communicated fairly well and frequently with each other, and I always got caught. Both times (I learned fairly quickly). Much like Bush early on in his presidency in the former, totally unlike regarding the latter. Like Bush, I learned not to ask, and to cover the evidence of things I did that I knew or suspected they wouldn’t approve of, and got caught less frequently. When I was caught, I would try to reframe or rename the action; that never worked. It seems that my parents were smarter than Congress. It also turns out that raising a young country is not so different from raising a child: you must BE there, with clear rules, with clear ethics.
Saying, “I didn’t pull the cat’s tail, I just held on – he pulled!” didn’t work: torturing animals was forbidden, however it was redefined or explained, period. Congress however, seems willing to accept endless delays, classification and ‘interpretation’ of everything this administration does and a lot of historical stuff it didn’t – in fact, they’ve pretty much declared everything they can get their hands on “classified”. Wading through it just gives them more time.
When you listen to and allow the legitimacy of what are clearly excuses and attempts to obfuscate, you end up raising a monster of a child who cares only for what he wants, and cares nothing at all for the truth, as it is obviously malleable. It seems that this country works the same way these days, but you end up with a monster of an administration that lies, steals, poisons and condones poisoning, that destroys and murders, and the victims are only pebbles on the road to power, not people, and those on the road have to step on something. The Bush Administration’s lies, thefts, cronyism, corporate favoritism to the point of allowing corporations to write laws that plow citizens under in their rush for windfall profits, their total disregard of what used to be “unalienable rights” in what used to be a government of, by and for The People - and clearly is so no longer – all of the illegal, immoral and unethical twisting of the Rule of Law has turned us into a justly mistrusted, feared and hated rogue state in the world whose people are held hostage to the depredations of our own government, people who swore to represent and protect us. President Obama has copied and continued all of Bush’s policies, extended them, and has added more of his own in the same vein and often in other areas as well. He is a war criminal no less than Bush, Cheney et al.
George Walker Bush took an oath on his sacred honor, he made a promise dedicating a portion of his life to two hundred and fifty MILLION Americans, and he used a twisted interpretation of that promise and a national tragedy he allowed or caused to happen in order to put us in a cage, sometimes literally, to keep us in the dark, to keep us ignorant in the so-called “information age” of what is supposed to be an open society, and then he said, “See – you’re protected!” As though just saying the words is enough to make it true, he kept repeating that, along with, “You don’t need to know – trust me!”. He said it as he classified everything he could, as he passed illegal laws and Executive Orders by hook or by crook that took away ever more of our rights – rights that a great many died to preserve, sacrifices that also meant nothing to him, as he appointed cronies to vital posts they were not qualified for, posts meant to protect We the People and were instead used to exploit us and the Commons – called so because we own them in common, together. In fact, even as our troops are dying on his and now Obama’s illegal orders, they are still being shorted on equipment they need to accomplish as much as possible of the mission they were given (though few believe the official mission has anything to do with the truth anymore), equipment that would have kept hundreds of them alive or at least whole. Their benefits both for active duty and veterans are cut, the military tries to cut their pay when their families, already in danger of losing them in the name of Halliburton profits that run into BILLIONS that no one is held accountable for, must stand in charity lines in order to feed themselves, to feed their children! The lower ranks are scapegoats, taking years, even decades off of their lives while they languish in prison for following the orders the President has given their superior officers, who get off scott free. He allows the secret poisoning of our food, our medications, our air, our water and our wildernesses in the name of short-term, unprecedented profits that ordinary people will never see. He takes away or permits the removal of the means by which we take care of the unfortunates in society who are now almost uniformly victims of the Oligarchy that rules our government including the Administration and the SCOTUS, leaving them, leaving disabled veterans – leaving us – homeless, starving, without needed medical care or other basic necessities, or even the right to any.
Now the President, or the government if you prefer, is creating a huge class of working poor, though they are soon to be simply “the poor”, as jobs are becoming more and more scarce in America as they are shipped elsewhere, and they are making sure that the American dream belongs only to the fabulously wealthy and their heirs. They spent unknown amounts of money on a useless, deadly dangerous “Gun Walker” scheme to provide an excuse to take firearms away from legitimate owners who have the right under the Second Amendment to have them – another false flag op – which has cost more lives when the money could have gone to the needy that THEY HELPED TO CREATE through neglect and deliberately misleading legislation, leaving us less safe than we were before. We have no right to the information we need to make good decisions for our own lives as well as for our own country, or to keep our own information to ourselves if we choose. Laws have been passed in secret that we are not allowed to read, BUT THAT NONETHELESS BIND US!
We have no right to a decent education, or to medical care, or to a decent, living wage for our labor, or to reasonable hours and working or living conditions. In fact, Congress is at this moment trying to redefine penalties for minor infractions on the Internet into Federal crimes requiring prison time in order to feed both the prison industry and the slave industry that is budding through the privatized prisons by loaning or renting prisoners for pennies an hour to the corporations. We have no right to collective bargaining, not for reasonable prices for medications, or fuel, or anything else. We have no right to debt relief after being victimized by the predatory lenders and other businesses who wrote the illegal, sneaky, lying laws that were rubber-stamped by the Congress and by him – though they and the wealthy have the right to such debt relief, nor are they bound by the laws they have passed to bind us. Those of us who are women don’t even have the right, as far as the Republican and their dupes, especially the foot-shooting Tea Party are concerned, to control their own bodies or to make major decisions regarding their own physical and financial health, or to be safe from the abuse of our superiors and comrades in arms in the military or the contractors in the countries we’ve illegally, immorally and clearly with evil and malice aforethought invaded. They condemn them all without compunction to lesser wages for equal work, to no benefits or to poor ones that are behind even Mexico and Swaziland, and condemns them and their children to lifelong poverty in a shortened life for being human, female, or the ‘wrong color’ or ‘class’ in this so-called ‘classless society’, and for not having the things (which the Radical Right will not allow them) that are, have been, that should be, their rights as human beings and as citizens.
“I know what’s best for you – trust me!” we’re told, keeping the truth from us in the name of National Security, which means they’ve broken the law again and haven’t had time to change that law yet so that our Rulers (as they see themselves) are immune to the Rule of Law.
We the People of the United States have the right to work for no benefits and whatever a company will pay without safety equipment, regulations and medical care, we have the right to remain ignorant of everything except what the Imperial President and the government he has stolen through demagoguery, bribery, outright lies and blackmail says we may know; we have the right to be fearful in perpetuity in this ‘safer America’ due to lies and manipulations of the press that the super-wealthy own, we have the right to vote for whoever they permit us to vote for no matter who we actually choose because two ‘elite’ brothers own the machines that count the votes as well as the judges who rule on the elections, and we have the right to fill prisons with ourselves, our loved ones and all the innocent souls they can railroad into them and to be used as slave labor, to starve to death or die for lack of medical care we can no longer afford due to more manipulations and lies, and we have the right to die when the government and the other wealthy have no other use for us. We have the right to worship as the lying, violently murderous and sociopathic Oligarchy thinks we should, or to at least behave as though we believed as they do (or as they say they do) – or else. We have the right to swallow the lies whole without asking illegal questions, and to pay the price for generations that they will never have to pay for the ignorance they prefer for themselves and require from us. That is the current, official version of the American Dream: no billionaire or corporation left behind.
Like my parents did long ago, Congress needs to say, “Enough of this bullshit! The law is clear, you knew about it, you are subject to the law like any other citizens, so do what you should do, what you swore to do, or face the immediate consequences – now!” If they don’t, we have the wrong people in Congress – it’s very clear that we have nothing but corporate parasites in the White House, and nothing but corporate-owned shills in every regulatory agency and the judiciary and Intel agencies - and it’s up to us to change that – now, before we lose everything and end up raising, end up BEING, a rogue, a monster, among countries. Our police have become militarized monsters who are ignorant of the Constitution, who murder innocent people in broad daylight in front of crowds and are still never called to account. The promise is clear: given the chance, those brown-shirt cloned thugs will be turned against us, against We the People, at the first opportunity that looks like it might succeed if We the People, the true owners and the true builders of this country and its wealth for two centuries, do not start paying attention and do the only thing left to us: We must remove our consent from what was once our government. No government, no king can rule without the consent of those they would rule. This must happen, and it must happen almost immediately if we are to survive as individuals, and if America is to have any hope whatsoever of surviving as a nation! Ultimately, it may be the saving of the world and all other nations in it; the sociopathic killers now in charge of the most powerful International institutions on earth are all a part of this generations-long attack on all that the rest of us love, and need, and desire for ourselves and our progeny. The creatures who occupy the seats of power, however, have no consciences, they have nothing but greed and hubris, believing themselves as superior to us as we are to the creatures of the animal kingdom.
Some of you will object to my use of the words “Sociopath,” “murderers” and others. If so, you haven’t been paying attention to what has been happening. The evidence is readily available; all you need do is look for it. Look for phrases and words like, “Human Medical Experimentation Without Consent by the U.S.”, “MK-ULTRA”, “Mind Control Patents”, “FDA Attacks Natural Food Producers to Protect Big Ag Profits”, FDA Funded by Big Pharma”, “Weaponized Diseases”, “AIDS and AIDS Cure Have U.S. Patent Numbers”, “Codex Alimentarius is Not a Consumer Protection Agency”, “U.S. West Coast Should Have Been Evacuated After Fukushima” … There are countless variations and countless articles, videos – if you choose to look for them.
If we allow these plans to be actuated and completed, what remains of humanity may well be little more than that when they’re done. Wake up, read, think, and then ACT!
Ian MacLeod
Oregon
March 5th, 2003
Updated: October 29th, 2006
Updated September 15, 2011