Should We Kill The Politicians Before They Kill Us?
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” William Shakespeare,
Henry the Sixth
That was four hundred years ago, long before lawyers would come to hold most
elected offices. 41% of the current congress are lawyers, six times the rate of
the general population. The greatest concentration of lawyers is in Washington,
D.C., and that is turning out to be a very bad thing.
This could well be the most sinister article I have ever written. We are
sitting ducks. Easy prey. We are naive and easy to manipulate.
Groggy and sloggy on high fructose corn syrup. Corpulent and congested by
pink slime beef and other toxins marketed as food, we ain’t gonna put up much of
a fight.
Even if we could, they are ready and waiting for us. With their LRAD noise
cannons, drones, armored vehicles, chemical weapons, Active Denial Systems and
all of the right stuff to start offing citizens in large numbers.
To illustrate, I found this in Top 10 Future Law Enforcement Technologies by
Amy Miller. As you read this, remember that this was three years ago.
“Has a chicken breast ever gone into a microwave oven without an absolute
massacre being the end result? The ADS system (Active Denial System) aims to do
the same thing to pesky rioters, high risk threats, and otherwise heavily
shielded and protected targets.
High frequency targeted microwaves are projected at an offender sparking a
reaction in the water carrying molecules and fatty tissues, causing the target
to heat up from the inside out. Immediately, the target is unable to continue in
the same fashion as before, they are in immense pain, and too uncomfortable to
continue as a threat. It provides a biological reaction in the body,
incapacitating the target and rendering them effectively useless for a longer
period of time than other non-lethal methods.”
Non-lethal? Maybe, but the first degree burns it produces make it the modern
day equivalent of pouring burning oil on them. Does hell have a special place
for people who think this stuff up? A chicken breast in a microwave? That’s all
we are to them.
I guess the Occupy movement is cooked.
But wait, there’s more…..
Homeland Security just bought 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition.
That is not a typo—450 million rounds. That is enough to shoot every American
1.5 times. These, we are told, are to protect us from a very large, well
organized threat for which no plausible evidence exists.
Further, due to the destructive force of the expansion of the bullet,
hollow-points are prohibited in international warfare, so they can only be used
on us.
There are just us and them…and a few Middle Eastern crazies, straight from
central casting, that they trot out from time to time to try to make us believe
that all of this is for our own good.
The truth is that the only well-armed organized terrorists preparing to come
into our communities will be sent by our politicians. If this is how they plan
to handle unemployment and poverty domestically, it is hard to envision a time
when any sort of even modest global accord could be achieved. Peace on earth?
Yeah, good luck with that.
Meanwhile, they’ve been fine tuning the Constitution more to their liking by
eliminating the first, fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments with the
argument that times have changed and surely our founding fathers would want us
to bring this quaint, pre-terrorism list of suggestions up to date.
I think that the only thing our founding fathers might have wanted is for us
to have fought harder. Now it might be too late.
On New Year’s Eve, while nobody was looking, the president signed into law
the National Defense Authorization Act, which for the first time in American
history, makes legal the practice of apprehending and detaining, without writ or
warrant, any American citizen, indefinitely, without trial.
It is based on a relatively new concept in law that all that is needed is the
mere suspicion that an individual is thinking about breaking the law in order to
arrest and detain them. I recently heard a government official defend it by
asking the rhetorical question, “Well, if we think a crime is about to be
committed, you would want us to prevent it?”
Never mind the Constitution, the presumption of innocence, or the right to
due process.
As more and more Americans are discovering, if you try to stand up against
the system in even a civil matter, you can wind up being jailed.
Except for a handful of brave judges, the vast majority of the judiciary has
sold out. They, too, go on to great paying jobs with the law firms they favor in
their rulings.
So, if one of those 450 million DHS hollow points doesn’t find you, than you
might be one of those intended for a FEMA camp or a jail cell.
Meet the prison industrial complex; possibly the greatest single benefactor
of our trumped up war of terror. Just ask Wells Fargo, a major investor. They
know a sure thing when they see it.
Politicians keep telling us that crime is down, so who are they putting in
all these prisons?
In 1980, there were two hundred and twenty people incarcerated for every
hundred thousand Americans; by 2010, the number had more than tripled, to seven
hundred and thirty-one. No other country even approaches that. In the past two
decades, the money that states spend on prisons has risen at six times the rate
of spending on higher education.
Remember the old saying, “You get what you pay for”? The education a child
gets determines their fate. If we spend way more on prisons than we do on
education, the results are predictable and the results speak for themselves. We
are “Prison Nation”.
The US has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the worlds incarcerated.
Either we are some seriously bad-ass, mother-fuckers or something is very, very
wrong. Ironically, the US also has 66% of the world’s lawyers serving 5% of the
world’s population. I’m not sure what that suggests.
The prison business approaches a community desperate for jobs and commerce,
and offers to build and operate a prison with local resources; but, there’s just
one little catch—the community has to keep the prison full.
Recently, Corrections Corporation of America offered to buy and operate
existing state prisons. Their offer requires the states to guarantee 90 percent
occupancy.
Now, anyone and everyone is a potential customer for the local gray bar
motel.
Within the last year, four different people I know were arrested and jailed
while appearing in court on civil matters—not criminal, but civil.
Last year 40,000 new laws were passed in the US. Can you list them all? See
how ridiculous it is becoming? That’s what you get when you have two thirds of
the world’s lawyers.
FEMA camps, for real or paranoid lunatic nonsense?
All that I can verify is that the “emergency camps” have been put out to
contractors for bid.
On February 24, 2012, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) posted
the final draft solicitation for what they are calling a National
Responder Support Camp (NRSC).
You can read it for yourself. My general impression is that particulars of
the camps, as defined in the request for bid, are intended to have two separate
groups residing at the camps for a long period of time. Ten percent of the group
will live in additional secured quarters and receive better amenities than the
other ninety percent of residents.
That scenario would suggest more of a prison environment than a short-term
aid facility operated by members of the community. The camps would need to be
operational in 72 hours. Though the request for bids suggest staffing with local
labor, it concedes that under such short notice, local residents might not be
able to respond so staff would be brought from other areas. They’ll be the ones
in the crisp, brown shirts.
The locations of the camps have already been picked. Awesome! It appears that
our ever forward-looking leaders already know where the next big disasters will
be. Comforting, very comforting.
Meanwhile, a devastating disaster is already upon us and no one is responding
to that.
For people who lost their homes to crooked banking schemes or a natural
disaster, the result is the same.
This, despite the fact we spend a fortune on Governments who do little more
than act as a conduit for the syphoning off of middle class prosperity.
They submit a budget, and then they overspend it.
Given unrestricted ability to do whatever they want without any interference
from citizens or fiscal restraints you would think they must be doing a great
job for us, but exactly the opposite is the case.
They suck. They are absolutely terrible at what they do. There must be a
requirement to work in the government that you have absolutely no common sense
whatsoever.
Take a look.
In the years since 9/11, we have learned that the attacks might have been
prevented if US “intelligence” agencies had shared information.
Experts had issued urgent warnings about the levees protecting New Orleans
years before Katrina.
The very name Katrina has become synonomous with “cluster-fuck”, because of
the incompetence of FEMA’s response, and the fact that little has improved in
New Orleans since.
The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have been grim reminders of why we
should not go to war.
Marked by general implementation failures by U.S. agencies and evidence of
massive corruption, Iraq and Afghanistan will be this generations Vietnam, right
down to the lingering social costs including drug abuse and homelessness.
Military procurement systems are, according to retired military leaders, so
broken that they now jeopardize national security. According to them, the U.S.
is buying armaments that are overpriced, unneeded, and technically
defective.
What about the economy? How has lowering taxes and eliminating or failing to
enforce regulations benefited the economy? Well, the rich got way richer and the
middle class got wiped out.
Let’s take a moment to evaluate and grade the performance of some important
agencies.
- 1. The Government Services Administration,
GSA
Since they are currently in the news, I thought why not start with them. The
GSA is an important agency because it is the procurement arm for the entire
Federal Government except the military. They buy stuff; lots of stuff.
Everything you could imagine and some stuff you couldn’t.
Obviously, there is a potential for relationships to develop between vendors
and buyers. Budda-bing, budda-bang, budda-boom, if you get my drift.
Why, heck, if you didn’t have the right people in this agency they could be
buying $900 toilet seats, taking kickbacks, and wasting the tax payer’s money on
themselves in a manor so lavish and arrogant that it would create corruption in
all directions.
So, when news surfaced of the GSAs Caligula like event in Vegas, it struck me
as rather ironic that these are the people responsible for booking all
government travel, so this goes to the very core of what they do.
GSA Grade: F
- 2. The Food and Drug Administration,
FDA
When it comes to public health and safety, no agency is more vital than the
agency responsible for protecting Americans from the potential dangers of bad
drugs and poisonous food. Everyone eats food, and in this country, almost
everyone takes prescribed medication.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that contaminated food products
are so common that Americans suffer 76 million illnesses, 325,000
hospitalizations, and 5000 deaths every year. That frightening number means that
one of every four Americans will suffer a food-related illness in the next 12
months.
Do not put that in your mouth. Salmonella in the sushi, E-coli in
the chicken, pink slime beef.
The agency did not require any testing of Genetically Modified Organisms GMOs
before approving their sale to the American public.
Irradiation is now a common method of extending shelf-life. It destroys a
large proportion of the nutrients in food, a problem that is compounded as food
sits out its increased shelf-life. Cooking escalates the problem further still.
The end result is empty-calorie food that could actually increase nutritional
deficiencies. No wonder everybody is fat and hungry.
So much for the food, what about the drugs?
Vioxx, Bextra, Baycol, Zellnorm and 27 other drugs have been withdrawn since
1980 due to serious, often fatal side effects.
The abuse of prescription medication is America’s largest and among the most
costly of our health problems.
FDA Grade: FF
- 3. The Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA
Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air. The medications are now
showing up in ever increasing quantities in our drinking water.
On April 8th, the EPA rejected a petition to ban the sale of the
2,4-D pesticide, a major ingredient in the Vietnam-era defoliant 'Agent Orange'.
Dow Chemical, is hoping to receive approval to sell genetically modified corn
seeds that will dramatically increase the usage of 2,4-D.
In defending its decision, the EPA pointed to a study conducted by Dow.
That’s good enough for me.
The Center for Food Safety said this, "This novel corn will foster resistant
weeds that require more toxic pesticides to kill, followed by more resistance
and more pesticides - a chemical arms race in which the only winners are
pesticide/biotechnology firms."
So who is right? We need look no further than Monsanto’s GMO corn which is
experiencing massive crop failures and developing mutated and resistant insects
as a result of its widespread usage. Innocuous as this may seem, it is
irrefutable evidence of the potential for worldwide crop failure if we keep
tinkering with Mother Nature.
Meanwhile the FDA has become the primary foe of organic growers and natural
food co-ops.
And, you were worried about Al Qaeda.
EPA Grade: FFF
- 4. Agencies Policing the Financial Services
Industry
There are a host of agencies policing the financial services industry
including, but not limited to, the SEC, the OCC, the FTC, the IRS, the FBI and
the DOJ.
Under their watchful eyes, banks morphed into global money sucking machines
that vacuumed up every dollar they could while all of the above stood around and
said “duh.”
Not a single one of them sought to find out why Credit Default Swaps had
soared from nearly zero in 2000 to an estimated $60 trillion in 2008, or how
Derivatives, investments that have no value of their own, could grow to six
times the value of everything on the planet.
SEC, FBI and all the financial watchdog agencies are the Mr. Magoos of law
enforcement.
Grade: FFFF
- 5. The Department of Health and Human
Services
Our system for financing the costly federal health care system subsidizes the
overuse of advanced technologies while underfinancing highly effective and
lower-cost public health measures. Here again, the results speak for
themselves.
More money per person is spent on health care in the USA than in any other
nation in the world, and a greater percentage of total income is spent on health
care in the USA than in any United Nations member except for East Timor. Is
there a West Timor?
Yet, The Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of
health care among similar countries. The USA is the only wealthy, industrialized
nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that a record 50.7 million Americans—16.7% of
the population—were uninsured in 2009.
The consequences are real. We are 48th in life expectancy, below
most developed nations and some developing nations. The World Health
Organization (WHO) ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost,
37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health among 191
member nations included in the study.
A 2009 Harvard study estimated that 44,800 excess deaths occurred annually
due to lack of health insurance.
Fifty percent of all bankruptcies are due to medical expenses.
Department of Health and Human Services: Grade: FFFFF
- 6. Department of Energy
Some of the most profitable of all corrupt activities involve energy.
Remember Dick Cheney’s secret energy meetings? Those led directly to electricity
deregulation scams, corporate welfare for energy producers, fracking, the BP oil
spill, gas pipeline explosions, high gas prices, faulty nuclear reactors, and an
unreliable grid.
- 7. Department of Housing and Urban
Development
One word…Detroit.
More and more American cities are starting to look like Detroit.
This is what our money bought. Our infrastructure is in desperate condition.
Roads, bridges, rail, water, sewage systems, and many dams are in dangerous
disrepair around the country. Large sections of New Orleans remain wrecked and
highly vulnerable.
The DOJ sells guns to Mexican drug cartels, and launders their money while
aggressively pursuing the cartels competition.
What we have today is what they want us to have. So, we get prisons, not
schools. We get war, not peace. We get poverty, not prosperity. We get
genetically modified organisms, not food. We get wealth for a few and misery for
the masses. We get oppression, not freedom. Who did it? The politicians.
You can’t vote them out because they are fungible, and the system itself
prohibits most honest candidates from competing for funds. Podunk mayor and
council races generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign spending for
jobs that pay $12,000 a year.
Money now owns the system at every level.
It really is too late for voting. We still must vote or we send the message
that we just don’t care at all, but that won’t change anything.
We have seen the enemy and we see them arming for a fight and a post-fight
occupation.
Maybe you read the tea leaves differently. Maybe you think they have good
intentions but really poor execution.
I read 450 million hollow points for Homeland use, an explosion of prison
populations, a corrupted court system and poison everywhere as a potential
threat to my right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
When they see you as a chicken breast, you know your vote matters little and
your life even less.
George W. Mantor
The Real Estate Professor
Founder, American
Foreclosure Resistance Movement
http://www.realtown.com/gwmantor/blog
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