Date Published: 2006-08-08
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Cosmic Laws by
Triaka
Cosmic Laws are powerful energies of unknown quantity
perceived byhumans through direct observation, meditation/contemplation, or
revelation. While the Law of Gravity is dense, measureable, and readily
understood, by contrast the great Law of Love is subtle and in a broad sense
surpasses all understanding. In any case, the Laws of the cosmos provide a
guidance system for an optimum human experience. There are several things to be
aware of about the cosmos and its Laws;
Energy is the basis of all
existence and is knowing of all things in the universe.
Energy includes
portions that are experiencing different levels or dimensions of consciousness.
All portions of consciousness are in continuous interaction in the
oneness of energy.
The "soul" is a portion that chooses to experience the
density of human embodiment.
Soul consciousness often encounters
difficulty in shifting the human intellect from its primary focus on the five
survival senses of physical life in order to integrate its wisdom.
Once
integrated by the soul, human consciousness recognizes how energy in the form of
Cosmic Laws works to create "Heaven on Earth".
Awakened humans
understand their energy connectedness with all things,material and non-material,
animate and inanimate, and the desireabilityof being in harmony with all life.
It's the wisdom of their soul.
The bottom line is, human institutions,
as well as individuals, will betruly effective in a positive way only when they
are in harmony with the Cosmic Laws. It is for this reason an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION is being brought forward for awakened government.
To
read the Cosmic Laws, click on links below:
Attraction
Balance
Cause and Effect
Emotion
Godlikeness
Guidance
Individuality
Light
Living Truth
Love
Mind Over Matter
Morality
Petition
Principle
Soul Mind
Soul Rights
Unity and Diversity
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Cosmic Law -
Attraction
This Law is a primary tool for the Soul to master
physical life on the Earth plane. It ensures that all conditions and situations
that the Soul desires for eventually mastering material reality are drawn to the
attention of the human intellect by virtue of the oneness of universe energy.
The Law of Attraction is not understood by a five-sensory intellect
unintegrated by the wisdom of the Soul, and this has been reflected in
shortcomings in the principles, policies and practices of human institutions
such as government, slowing the evolution of human consciousness and
achievement.
Experiences perceived as "bad" by the survival-focused
intellect are viewed by the multi-dimensional Soul Mind as "lessons to be
learned". While the unintegrated intellect believes humans are "victims" of
negative situations in the material world, the Soul knows that humans are co
creators of material reality and negative situations fuel positive
solutions.
Human government attempts to "rescue" those who, at the Soul
level of awareness, understand the negative-positive lessons of worldly
existence under Cosmic Laws and would choose not to be interfered with. A
stubborn intellect may require exceptionally negative and repeated lessons to
break onto positive levels to overcome self-defeat. This has been witnessed
particularly in "miraculous" recoveries from some physical disorders.
It's a major lesson to understand that putting a negative, rather than a
positive interpretation on any situation, causes disorders in the physical body.
Just as a blood clot can block the flow of the vital fluid and cause a heart
attack, so can a blockage of negative thought cause disorder in muscles,
tissues, and cells. Energy needs to flow freely. Whether a situation is
personal, local, regional, national, worldwide or extraterrestrial, negative
interpretation can cause a physical disruption of energy in some way.
Such is the Law of Attraction to the power of mind energy. A decision to
let go of negativity and "let God" is a handy release valve until one accepts
personal responsibility for the co-creating of conditions, and knows that in the
long term, "every experience is positive".
What is true of the microcosm,
is true of the macrocosm. Negative interpretation of any event can cause
physical disorders from personalto planetary, and beyond. Potency of the Law of
Attraction throughout the universe energy is such that all life is
affected.
An unintegrated intellect will attract repeated lessons until
it understands that the material brain is to integrate the universal mind of the
Soul for an optimum human experience. It's the Law.
Mastering the power
of co-creating material reality for positive ends means consciously utilizing
the Soul Mind to influence matter, and the Law produces sometimes harsh lessons
needed to accomplish the feat. Souls that experience impairment or loss of the
human body, for example, have attracted to the human intellect the lesson of
overcoming such conditions with what is simply termed "mind over matter". It may
require more than one lifetime, but the power to influence all material things,
even Earth changes and weather conditions, has always been available.
By
the Law of Attraction, the human intellect eventually listens to the wisdom of
the Soul and, hence, everything from physical wellness and abundance, to
planetary harmony and Heaven on Earth is mastered.
The bottom line is,
Cosmic Law is the supreme law of the universe, and a government absent of this
Soul wisdom attracts lessons as evidenced here by the advancement of an
AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe,
and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals.
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Cosmic Law - Balance
This Law suggests that the
historic human government structure based on superior-inferior classes of people
will ultimately fail as a result of its imbalance, and as individuals awaken to
the timeless wisdom of their soul;
"Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of
bondage are to disappear."
As shown in other Cosmic Laws, the call of the
soul is freedom, but at the start of the 21st century, enslavement to a ruling
class of money controllers and manipulators by means of government force was
common everywhere. In both democratic majority and oligarchical or otherwise
minority governments, economic enslavement occured as most people remained
uninformed about how money and central banking worked. The result was unbalanced
some-win-and-some-lose government.
Cosmic Law suggests that government is
to provide a system for balance in which the individual differences of free
souls may be adjudicated fairly and equally, not for just the "greatest good",
which is yet another ruling class, but for the "highest good of ALL".
Importantly, the Law of Balance also suggests that all individuals share
equally in the lawmaking process of government;
"Truly civilized
government is that which is balanced by individual franchise."
Each
person is thus a legislator, and the government is a balanced direct democracy.
The fact that some people may not be well informed on proposed
legislation is not a disqualifier under Cosmic Law. At the founding of the U.S.,
Thomas Jefferson touched on the matter of informing the people
at-large;
"...if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control
with a wholesome direction, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to
inform their discretion."
The bottom line is, unbalanced governing power
has historically spelled dissent and rebellion, and an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in
harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, will bring true equity,
and provide full information.
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Cosmic Law -
Cause & Effect
The most important lesson involving human
conduct and interaction, from individuals to governments, is seen in the Cosmic
Law of Cause & Effect, or karma. Knowing how the Law works helps to
understand the means to achieve inner and outer peace, and why governments need
to be "reconstituted".
The lesson begins with the understanding that the
universe is a SEA OF ENERGY that can be either calm or stormy, depending on how
it's used. And science has shown how this field of energy works;
"For
every action there is equal and opposite reaction."
It's the law, and it
was expressed in spiritual teachings long ago;
"Be as wise as serpents
and harmless as doves."
A modern addendum is "don't get even, get smart".
Governments have continued from antiquity the practice of initiating
physical force to control people, contrary to timeless wisdom;
"You must
not seek to promugate truth nor to establish righteousness by the power of civil
governments or by the enaction of secular laws. You must always labor to
PERSUADE human minds but you must never dare to compel them."
For
government, the Cosmic Law of Cause & Effect, or karma, means whatsoever the
collective group would have others do to them, the group should do to others,
commonly known as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". The Cause
of Initiating physical force produces in-kind Effects, or karma, at some point
in time. It could be immediate or far in the future.
Every human thought,
word and deed is a Cause that sets off a wave of energy throughout the universe,
creating calm and desireable, or stormy and undesireable Effects. Every Cause,
whether individual or collectively by government, results in an Effect, from the
microcosm to the macrocosm.
In the 1997 edition of his book "Rising Out
of Chaos", spiritual leader Simon Peter Fuller emphasized the importance of
living in harmony with the Law;
"We are totally responsible for our every
thought, word and deed while on Earth, and karma, both positive and negative,
ensures that we re- balance all the energy or matter (so- called sin) we have
ever disturbed."
Deepak Chopra, a leader in mind-body medicine,
identified the issue in his 1993 book "The Seven Spiritual Laws of
Success";
"...no debt in the universe ever goes unpaid. There is a
perfect accounting system in this universe, and everything is a constant `to and
fro' exchange of energy."
It's the Law for all human action in
government, business, labor, education, etc., as well as individually.
Pain may be the Effect of a Cause and a karmic lesson to learn.
Undesireable Effects are karmic reminders that at some time and some place,
there was a thought, word or deed that Caused a wave of undesireable energy. To
re-balance and calm the energy requires thoughts, words and deeds of a positive
nature, the most powerful of which are unconditional love, forgiveness and
compassion.
The Cosmic Law of Cause & Effect requires that
governments holding to the karmically-incorrect practice of initiating physical
force, or violence of any kind, be RECONSTITUTED with positive principles,
policies and practices in harmony with the higher Law, a new way of looking at
government. Important among them is "voluntary subscripton" to government
services, an essential aspect for peace on Earth.
Being consciously
unaware of having Caused negative energies that must be re-balanced, humans
generally regard themselves as "victims" of some undesireable Effect, but
somewhere in the individual or collective history there was a Cause, possibly
during past incarnations. This may be better understood by reversing the words
of the Law;
"For every Effect, there is a Cause."
There are only
Effects of Causes and Causes with Effects.
Karmic debt does not die when
the physical body expires. The eternal soul learns from its short human
experience and seeks further opportunity to return in accordance with the Cosmic
Law of Reincarnation, revealed in the restored text of Revelation
III;
"All will come upon the earth a hundred, hundred times, and still
will the spirit be raised by the Father." (Ch.6:11)
The text had been
eliminated from Christian teachings several centuries after Jesus' time, but
reappeared with other hidden revelations in 1990, and was later published in
Simon Peter Fuller's book.
Learning the Causes of negative Effects may
require examining experiences of prior times. The soul knows of these times and
can bring them forward to human consciousness when the five-sensory intellect
allows integration by the soul. However, many individuals intellectually block
the process, and some even deny the soul's existence. An egocentric attitude
seriously slows human progress.
Humans discover that consciously, or
unconsiously, they have been the Cause of their own negative Effects, but as the
karmic debt is paid with positive thoughts, words and deeds, and the disturbed
universe energy field is calmed, the world stage is set for the ultimate
experience - Heaven on Earth,
With regard to government, the bottom line
is every thought to be projected in government Principles, every word to be
carried out in government Policies, and every deed to be carried out in
government Practices, must be assessed for its karmic implications. And this
requires an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of
the universe.
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Cosmic Law -
Emotion
While the mind is the engine for creating reality, its
fuel is emotion-energy.
As the mind becomes focused on an objective,
emotion is the energy that gets it there at a speed determined by its strength.
Low intensity emotion brings slower and unrefined results, while high intensity
emotion produces quicker and more definitive results. It's the Law.
It's
an important Law in terms of awakening people and changing earthly institutions
such as government, which has been the physical force behind wars, genocide,
torture, tyranny, and hundreds of other negative scenarios over many centuries
for a literal hell on Earth for hundreds-of-millions of people.
Emotion
is that part of the physiological makeup of humans that involves feeling or
sensibility. If an emotion is negative, such as anger, hate, or revenge, it
manifests in physical disturbances internally to the body and externally to the
environment through the oneness of all life in the Universe Energy Field.
Conversely, positive emotion-energy is healing to all.
Offering
unconditional love, compassion, and forgiveness intellectually, with an absence
of emotional fuel to drive it as if only mouthing the words, has little effect,
but genuinely strong emotion for such feelings, can quickly transform the
external world, as well as an individuals internal world.
Governments
rise and fall on emotion-energy. Wars have been won or lost on the basis of how
much emotional fuel either side could gather. The materially inferior force of
North Vietnam, for example, overcame the world's nuclear giant in the 1970's as
American emotional energy ebbed like an ocean tide.
National anthems,
pledges of allegiance, patriotic speeches, flags, parades, and various other
techniques have been used historically by governments to stir emotional support
for even destructive policies, but now with the focus of millions of positive
minds united by new technology, as well as by nonmaterial means, strong
emotion-energy facilitates dramatic governmental changes in the new
millennium.
The bottom line is, enlightened government has strong and
long-lasting emotional support by standing on High Moral Values and Democratic
Ideals, and it is for these reasons that an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony
with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe is being advanced.
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Cosmic Law - Godlikeness
Divine Presence and
Power indwells all humans in the form of the spirit-born soul, and human
institutions such as government are to reflect this reality.
Godlikeness
has been told in countless sacred teachings of both East and West, with the
Bible among the most prominent;
"And God created man in his own image."
(Genesis 1:27)
"The kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21)
"I
said you are gods." (John 10:34)
"There is one body and one Spirit... one
God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all." (Ephesians
4:4-6)
"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;
and greater works than these shall he do..." (John 14:12)
"You therefore
shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)
Human Godlikeness calls for integration of a survival-dominated
intellect with the universe wisdom of the soul. The integrated intellect then
balances its five-sensory information with the multi dimensional "knowing" of
the soul.
An unfailing evolutionary unveiling process guarantees that
humans "shall be perfect" in this manner. An immediate benefit is in giving
unconditional love, forgiveness and compassion for all life which is then
returned in-kind under the Cosmic Law of Cause & Effect, or karma.
The bottom line is, the Law of Godlikeness suggests individual
empowerment in terms of external government by means of an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION.
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Cosmic Law - Guidance
Throughout recorded history, most humans have been focused on the
material world, developing means of mass physical comfort on one hand, and mass
physical destruction on the other. These objectives, of course, produced
governmental, educational, social and even religious institutions that enhanced,
or at least acquiesced to the mass consciousness.
The learned lessons of
external world history are now helping to fuel a balance with the eternal
"knowing" of the internal world. In other words, human maturity is occuring as
the materially-focused intellect is being integrated by the wisdom of the
multi-dimensional Spirit-born soul.
Unification of the nonmaterial soul
and material body finally creates a "whole" human being, and this, in turn,
leads to establishing holistic institutions, including government, that move
beyond the darkness of the past. The new consciousness sees truth in a sacred
teaching; (Humans) "cannot live by bread alone."
The human intellect,
without sustenance and wisdom from the soul, is devoid of purpose aside from a
mundane world of material existence that ends in "death".
As the
shifting material world consciousnes is infused with nonmaterial reality, the
maturing intellect becomes aware of Cosmic Laws and reflects "cosmic
consciousness". Primarily, this is the realization that the soul-incarnate is
immortal with Godlike powers in the endless "Frontier of Infinity".
In
the soul's journey into the density of the human experience, the Cosmic Law of
Guidance is followed to reach its goal of creating "Heaven on Earth", utilizing
some empowering resources;
Meditation - contact with the Source-Of
All-That-Is can be instantaneous, with relaxed focus determining receptivity and
understanding.
Prayer - assistance from Angelic realms, Spirit Beings of
Light, Ascended Masters, and the Source-Of-All-That-Is may be requested (see Law
of Petition).
Heart - the love center where conscience, the faculty of
determining right and wrong, are connected to all things for
direction.
Intuition - being aware of immediate cognition, or "knowing"
without rational processes, that includes soul wisdom and all levels of universe
consciousness.
The bottom line is, harmony with the Cosmic Law of
Guidance makes feasible peace and goodwill on Earth, and an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION for government helps facilitate it.
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Cosmic Law - Individuality
The collective whole of
humanity is comprised of individuals distinct from one another by such obvious
and easily measured characteristics as fingerprints and voiceprints. Each
presents something unique to earthly society, and the whole of creation, by
virtue of the oneness of universe energy.
Springing from the Cosmic Law
of Individuality is the important Philosophy of Individuality with its timeless
wisdom;
"The original Spirit endowment of individual minds, souls and
bodies is to be fully recognized and upheld."
The Philosophy holds that
each soul has its own rational mind purpose for being in the human body and, as
such, has "inherent rights of individualized expression" in relation to external
human governing principles, policies, programs and practices.
Attempts to
force diverse souls into act-alike restrictive human government molds,
standardized and dogmatized, including socialism, communism, fascism and
capitalism, is contrary to the Law. Individuals may freely choose to adhere to
groupings of their liking, but to impose act-alike systems on unwilling subjects
is to enslave and deprive the soul of its individual uniqueness and free choice.
For a system to be stable over the long term it must accomodate
individuality, including even the right to be a non-participant. Laws of
"protective/reactive" force replace "initiation" of force, leaving those
participating in the collective system still intact.
Individual "thought
prints" are denied in existing top-down governental molds, resulting in ongoing
dissension, confrontation and struggle for material emergence, self-expression,
and power. Throughout recorded history, individuality has slowly gained a degree
of constitutional expression in the form of "unalienable rights" and "bill of
rights", but even "representative" governments still lack in fully honoring
individual thought prints, and such governments will either experience
evolutionary change of some kind or collapse. It's the Law.
Unalienable
rights honoring the Cosmic Law of Individuality extend beyond any currently
practiced;
The right to vote on all matters governing oneself,
The
right to designate one's tax percentage to specific programs. This translates to
(1) individuals voting directly on the laws of a government, and (2) individuals
determining government programs they choose to support with their taxes. The end
product is a "service form of government", from bottom up, in harmony with the
Cosmic Law.
The Philosophy of Individuality recognizes that an individual
"owns" oneself, and may do to or for oneself what one chooses, so long as it
does not infringe on the equal rights of others. By extension, an individual
owns that which has been justly acquired, with timeless wisdom setting forth the
means of determining what is "just";
"The prime purpose of government is
the fair balancing and adjudicating of individual
differences."
Government's role in a cosmically-correct society is not to
forcefully impose the will of either a majority or minority of people, but to
provide equal justice for all.
Ultimately, the Philosophy of
Individuality suggests the unveiling of one's "I AM" presence, and becoming
self-governing;
"He who rules his own Self is greater than he who
captures a city. Self-mastery is the measure of an individuals moral nature and
the indicator of his spiritual development."
The bottom line is,
individuals are empowered by the Cosmic Law of Individuality to be singularly
important, and an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION is to help manifest this reality.
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Cosmic Law - Light
Space is not
empty. The universe provides crucial Light particles from the sun, a real
substance with weight and pressure, for the growth of living things. But Light
is also much more. Light energy provides humans with the means of eliminating
all "darkness in the world" by way of the oneness of the Universe Energy Field.
Light will always defeat darkness by revealing information not
previously seen, and it's this force that empowers humans. It's the
Law.
What is known as the Technology of Light is the intentional and
strong focus of this powerful energy to specific targets. It may be directed
anywhere that a negative situation is perceived to advance enLIGHTenment. The
Light of information may be focused on "dark" minds in important positions of
earthly power who may then "change" their minds. The technology is often used to
assist open minds for personal wellness and other benefits. Application of Light
can infuse all consciousness for change.
Timeless wisdom provides
background;
"Darkness is a lack of information that results in
enslavement to fear, and fear manifests in disharmony in the physical
world."
In terms of human government, fearful uninformed minds are
dependent and sometimes even addicted to earthly power, while minds in harmony
with the information revealed by Light, such as the Cosmic Laws, are
self-empowered, self-sufficient, and self-governing. Illumination "frees the
slaves".
The fear of "dark forces" and "evil" spirits has led many into
personal disempowerment, but the restored text of Revelation III, the Third Book
of the Apocalypse, sheds the Light of logic on the subject;
"If you know
not the darkness, how can you understand the light? If there was only light, how
could you choose that which is sacred, for only in the darkness can you see the
sacred light."
The information contained in Chapter 3, Verses 9-10, was
brought to Light in "Rising Out of Chaos" (1997) by Simon Peter Fuller.
With such information, and understanding the human power contained in
the Technology of Light under Cosmic Law, fear is baseless.
The bottom
line is, as surely as the dark of night is followed by the Light of day, so the
darkness of past ages will be succeeded by the beauty of enLIGHTened ages, and
governments on the planet will work with the Technology of Light for peace. It's
for these reasons that an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION, in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, is being advanced.
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Cosmic Law - Living Truth
Truth is defined in the
dictionary as "conformity to fact", but earth-bound science continually changes
its old facts upon discovery of new ones. Further complicating scientific
"truth", dictionary editors refer to a "kind of drift in language that produces
new forms and new meangings", so the fact of a word definition may be changed
over time, eliminating the previous "fact". Only "change" seems to remain a fact
and, therefore, a "living" truth.
Facts are gathered by the intellect to
gain at least limited knowledge, while truth is a living experience which
transcends time and material levels. Timeless wisdom explains the
distinction;
"Knowledge deals with temporary facts, truth deals with
reality values."
Just as scientific "truth" changed when the microscope
and telescope were developed, so the five-sensory intellectual "truth" changes
when it discovers its Spirit-born soul and allows integration with the soul's
multi-dimensional wisdom. From the moment of soul unification, the path is made
clear;
"The Spirit of truth guides you into all truth, surviving all
challenges along the way."
An unintegrated intellect may believe it can
know static "absolute" truth, but the wisdom of the soul says that all truth is
changeable by the power of the Source-Of-All-That-Is and, therefore, there is
Lliving Truth subject to the Source. Change is thus a spiritual as well as
scientific Law of the cosmos.
Over time, Living Truth may render written
words and final conclusions invalid, since they are frozen in the time of
offering. Even if later translations and retranslations are free of
misinterpretation and other human error, to say nothing of deliberate
distortion, they may not stand.
Christ Jesus wisely taught that nothing
which human nature touched can be assumed to be infallible, and He left nothing
for the written record - not even creeds or theological laws. Instead, He urged
people to each receive the Spirit of Truth from within themselves, and therein
discover the "kingdom of heaven" with unadulterated truth.
Living Truth
is a dynamic individual experience, forever unfolding, always growing,
expanding, and being differently perceived by each intellect. To command it, a
person need only "call up the universe"; "The truth will make you free."
What is revealed and discovered will be the Living Truth as best
individuals can understand at the time. In any case, harmony with this and all
other Cosmic Laws is important in human affairs, particularly the foundation
documents of major institutions which are to be open to new understandings.
The bottom line is, an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the unverse, accomodates change through initiatve by the
people at-large.
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Cosmic Law -
Love
Love is the greatest of all human powers. Originating from
the Source-Of-All-That-Is and flowing through the heart, the energy of Love
produces both internal and external harmony for physical healing and growth for
all forms of life. Focused Love power is to manifest peace and goodwill on Earth
facilitated by enlightened government. It's the Law.
As the opposite of
hate, which is negative and destructive of life forms, Love is the magnetic
force that attracts and reproduces life, and the "glue" that holds together
couple's, families, friends, communities, nation's and humanity. All life forms
respond positively to Love at their own level of consciousness. even predators,
human and animal. It's the greatest reservoir of power to unite all
things.
Love is most often"felt" in the heart for something close, which
is to include oneself, but it also is to be projected throughout the world by
directing the energy in specific thought forms. Like all other thought, it is
most effective when driven by a strong desire, or emotion, enhanced by
affirmation and prayer.
"Practicing unconditional Love for all life is
the pinnacle of human power, purpose and performance."
Love is also the
Chief Liberator of humans, freeing them of their chief enslaver, fear. U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once cautioned the nation against
fear;
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
A mirror of
insecurity, the negativity of fear contains no hope for the future, manifesting
itself in self-defeating ways. Recorded history bears witness to fearful thought
dominating the mass consciousness, creating fear-based governments, and causing
wars and other disharmony.
The nature of Love is such that an immature
child may experience fear when it hears orgasmic screams of loving adults, but
grows to understand and appreciate them. Similarly, without understanding,
adults may experience fear when nature forces produce volcanic eruptions,
earthquakes and powerful storms in the interaction of creative energies. Comets
smashing into Earth and "black holes" in space may be feared by immature humans
who lack understanding of the cosmic order of things, much less a greater or
divine order, beyond limited human science. But scienee has demonsrated it
eventually discovers order, if not faith.
As humans mature, they
recognize the Cosmic Laws that give guidance for the earthly experience with the
Law of Love providing the highest positive vibration, or creative frequency, the
ancestor of all goodness that the world has expienced. It was the foremost Law
taught by Christ Jesus who said after God, humans are to love themselves, their
neighbors, and even their "enemies". Love can disarm warring opponents.
Hate, anger and revenge reflect immaturity and ignorance of not only the
Cosmic Law of Love, but the Law of Cause & Effect, or karma. In sharp
contrast, Love is the supreme human relationship and the basic building block
for Heaven on Earth.
The bottom line is, institutions such as government
that reflect Love in their principles, policies and programs attract in-kind
responses and voluntary support. For these reasons and more, An AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe is being
proposed to further empower such results.
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Mind
Over Matter
To understand this Law and its relationship to human
activities such as government, one should know that the Earth experience is an
outgrowth of events in the nonmaterial realms, and in a particular order of
occurrence;
Spirit origin, Mind faculty, Soul identity, Body vehicle.
Spirit energy, the vital or animating force of all life in the universe, gives
birth to the universe mind faculty, which then creates soul identity to
incarnate in a material body.
The Mind born of Spirit, as distinguished
from the body's survival-oriented material brain, is without bounds, possesses
all knowledge in the universe, and dominates all matter universally. Its
empowering value to humans is known to the soul;
"When humans wish to
modify material reality, they succeed tothe extent that they discover the ways
and means of directing energy."
Such an event only awaits the human
intellect to accept the even greater Spirit reality of Mind;
"Whatsoever
humans can conceive and believe, they can achieve."
For eons, people who
witnessed healers and others exercising the power of Mind over matter thought
they were seeing "miracles", but as the 20th century came to an end, many
scientists, including five astrophysicists from different universities, agreed
that they were on the brink of proving that consciousness effects matter,
supporting mathematical findings in the subtle energy field research of quantum
physics.
Barriers to the reality of universe powers erected by the
limited five-sensory brain-based human intellect are subject to fall one way or
another. The Cosmic Law that Mind is always dominant over matter, and that
Spirit is ever correlated with its own creations throughout the Universe Energy
Field, permeates all levels of consciousness, if not awareness, sooner or later.
Technically, mind controls energy through manipulation of the
metamorphic potentials inherent in the mathematical level of the Causes &
Effects of material things. With Spirit directive, Mind co-ordinate, and
material subordinate, humans can co-create Heaven on Earth.
The bottom
line is, an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION authorizes government programs that apply
this powerful Law in material ways, as well as in facilitating peace and
goodwill throughout the world.
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Cosmic Law -
Morality
This Law guarantees that supreme virtues will
ultimately prevail for Heaven on Earth.
Defined as the standard of
"rightness or wrongness of an action", morality is reflected through the human
conscience. Conscience is the inner reservoir into which the Soul pours timeless
wisdom born of Spirit, whether or not the intellect is aware of it.
An
individuals conscience recognizes the difference between right and wrong with
regard to one's conduct, coupled with a sense that one should act accordingly.
It is an important inner sense for human survival and advancement beyond the
five physical senses.
When individuals and governments fall short of
conscience-based interaction, it's usually the consequence of intellectual
considerations over-ruling conscience in favor of practical, observable results.
The unintegrated intellect may argue that "the end justifies the means", and it
is by such misbased reasoning that wars, genocide, dictatorships, and all other
forms of physical force and violence, are often defended although doomed to fail
under Cosmic Laws.
When honoring one's own conscience, the sense of right
comes clear for universal application;
"Moral means to moral
ends."
In the book "Ends and Means", author Aldous Huxley noted that
wrong means tend to become a part of, and corrupt good intentions;
"The
end cannot justify the means for the simple reason that the means employed
determine the nature of the ends produced."
Doing wrong to try to correct
wrongdoing only compounds the problem in trying to achieve moral ends as the
hypocrisy conflicts with the principle of moral means. Might never made
"right".
Moral human laws are enacted to provide a foundation for
justice, not to try to force moral conduct. Timeless wisdom explains that the
initiation of force by government will never achieve righteous goals, desireable
as they may be, because it goes against several Cosmic Laws besides Morality,
including Cause & Effect, or karma;
"Morality can never be advanced
by law or by force. Always labor to persuade minds, but never dare to compel
them."
Human laws cannot advance morality since the unintegrated
intellect schemes to avoid them. By contrast, persuasion power is effective
through personal contact and example that touches the heart. "Love and let love"
is a means in full harmony with the Law of Morality and all others as
well.
Despite cyclical setbacks, humans forever evolve to more virtuous
choices as incarnated Souls, with multi-dimensional wisdom, integrate the
five-sensory survival-focused intellect. Barbarism gives way to less primitive
practices, enslavement gives way to equality, cruelty gives way to more humane
treatment.
Conscience works against killing as the non-combat status of
"Conscientious objector" is honored in times of war, less violent means of
applying the death penalty for crimes are sought, and the penalty itself is
challenged by moral reasoning;
"Why do we kill people who kill people to
show that killing people is wrong?"
Under Cosmic Laws, elimination of a
Soul's physical body by force creates a new wave of negative karma for those
involved in the act, and creates a debt that sooner or later must be
settled.
In the context of the Law of Morality, "sin" is a deliberate
violation, and "evil" is an unconscious violation by the unintegrated intellect.
The idea of "original sin" was a controlling and manipulative teaching with no
basis in Cosmic Law, tending to dismiss an individuals inner powers, including
conscience, to rise above it . But self-empowering acts of displaying
unconditional love, compassion and forgiveness, and efforts to anchor supreme
values in the foundation of human endeavors, slowly triumph with time over their
opposites.
Outstanding institutional moral progress has been seen
throughout recorded history in such things as England's Magna Carta and
America's Bill of Rights, as well as great humanitarian efforts undertaken by
various private organizations, and growth of spiritual awareness around the
world. Of special importance was a message from Spirit on October 20, 1996 to
all Souls in human embodiment;
"Do not give support to that which is
evil or sinful."
As with earlier "commandments", the admonishment was a
reminder that causing death, injury or pain to others was not only a moral issue
for the individual conscience, but the collective conscience as well in relation
to government. Immoral policies and actions by government would lose funding as
taxpayers claimed the right of conscience to direct their money according to the
"golden rule" of morality;
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you."
A most blatant and common contradiction of the Law of Morality by
government is the initiation of physical force to achieve control over people
who threaten no physical harm to others. Humans appropriately enact laws against
using it amongst themselves, but governments have been permitted to initiate
unlimited force, even to nuclear devastation. The Soul rebels at a human "lawful
order" that conflicts with its wisdom.
History and economics Professor
Kenneth Schoolland made the moral point in his book "The Adventures of Jonathan
Gullible" (1995);
"The initiation of force to take life is murder, to
take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether
these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a
few, or even by officials with fine hats."
What is "wrong" for an
individual is also wrong for a collection of individuals calling themselves the
"government". Involuntary payment of money to an institution, like involuntary
payment to robbers, is not a policy born of the Law of Morality, but rather the
"law of the jungle".
Under Cosmic Laws, groups identified as syndicates,
mobs and gangs are appropriately held responsible for wrongful acts. The forced
association of many people under government does not relieve them, karmically
speaking, of the same responsibility.
The bottom line is, an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, replaces negative coercive,
forceful ways of government with moral means to moral ends, positive persuasion
and voluntary support.
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Cosmic Law -
Petition
The first thing to understand under this Law is that
energy, which is the basis of all existence, is manipulated by thought. Thought
in the form of a solemn request, or prayer, influences energy and is "received"
throughout the universe, reaching all entities as well as the
Source-Of-All-That-Is.
Ascended Masters, Spirit Beings of Light,
Archangels, Angelic Hosts, personal Guides, and nature spirits, are among the
unseen entities that one may petition. Author Joseph J. Weed, in his book
"Wisdom of the Mystic Masters" (1988), said it's wise to focus a petition where
it's most beneficial;
"...when we turn our attention to entities of a
higher vibratory rate, we receive energy."
Positive petitioning to higher
vibrations of "Light" consciousness is commonly known as prayer, or reverent
request for assistance all the way to the Source, and results in positive
benefits as told in sacred writings;
"Ask and you shall receive, seek and
you shall find."
The focus and intensity of a petition may make a
difference in the measure of its benefits, but it should be understood that even
the request that a person believes has "not been answered" has been answered by
the fact of "no response". Higher consciousness of Light does not give
assistance which is inappropriate.
An individuals trust in "faith"
undergoes a major test here, since the process of receiving assistance may also
involve a delay in time, or it may come in some form other than what was
requested or anticipated. A petition for material assistance may be answered
with information.
Meditation, or quieting the intellect, is the most
direct means of "hearing" the answer to a petition, but it may also come through
a "knowing", if it doesn't appear in a very obvious material way.
The
bottom line is, assistance from the highest realms of Light awaits humanity's
solemn request to manifest Heaven on Earth. And one of the most important
aspects of this effort is establishing an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with
all Cosmic Laws.
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Cosmic Law -
Principle
This is the Law that gives humans the perception of
basic rules of the cosmos. For example, all life forms are commonly observed
protecting themselves against harm, the principle of inherent self-preservation.
Humans regard the principle as a "moral value" defining right from wrong for
themselves at least, and they in turn make "murder" illegal. Such is a measure
of integration of the five-sensory intellect by the wisdom of the soul, and the
conscience it supplies.
Similarly, the Law of Principle has seen humanity
rule out the initiation of physical force by one human on another, as in rape
and robbery, but the collective group known as "government" was still not held
to the same moral value by the end of the 20th century. Such was the slowness of
soul integration.
Governmental systems still rested on using coercion
backed by physical force for their creation and survival, little different in
principle from practices of organized crime to achieve goals. The essential
difference was that one was called robbery, while the other was called
involuntary taxation.
Cosmic Laws work together to overcome the idea that
wrong action is acceptable so long as there are good results. U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis once warned against government violating even earthly
laws in pursuit of "good" ends;
"If the government becomes a lawbreaker,
it breeds contempt for the law."
Beyond this, government not reflecting
the highest principles is faced with a situation of far greater magnitude,
according to the wisdom of the soul;
"If government is in disharmony with
Cosmic Laws, it breeds its own collapse."
The idea that moral ends
justify forceful means, a pragmatic approach, is an ill-fated position of
five-sensory intellects unintegrated by the principled wisdom of the soul, but
the evolution of human consciousness, and conscience, guarantees
change.
The bottom line is, the Law of Principle ensures moral means to
moral ends, a voluntary association in governing practices, and an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION is being advanced to this end.
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Cosmic Law - Soul Mind
The immortal Soul, which is
a body of energy located just above the crown chakra, literally has a mind of
its own. This is the Higher Consciousness, or Self, that the human intellect is
to integrate for greater understanding of Spirit reality.
The Soul mind
knows of the natural subtle Cosmic Laws of the universe and the oneness of all
things, as well as the great diversity of Creation. It's what makes human beings
a co-creative part of All-That-Is and the Source.
Just as a human being
is an individualized aspect of Earth parents, the Soul is an individualized
aspect of the Source-Of-All That-Is, a "child of God". While a human being gains
knowledge of material reality on Earth through the five physical senses, the
Soul mind has "knowing" of nonmaterial reality by means of its oneness with what
may be termed the Cosmic Consciousness. Humans have described this awareness as
"intuition" , or the knowing of something without rational processes, but in any
case it is wisdom. Attunement with it is made through focused desire and
meditation.
The overall purpose of the Soul that incarnates with a
physical body is to ground its wisdom on the planet and thereby create Heaven on
Earth, which is "peace and goodwill" springing from the truth of the unity of
all diversity.
The Souls who wrote the U.S. Constitution in the late
1700's were an important part of this process, especially in terms of the Bill
of Rights which was their best effort toward attunement with Cosmic Laws. But
the Soul knows much more is to be done.
The bottom line is, with the
electronic age, the opportunity is at hand to upgrade ALL institutions and bring
them into FULL harmony with the Higher Laws. For these reasons, an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, is being advanced.
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Cosmic Law - Soul Rights
This powerful
Law is constantly at work in behalf of the Soul to be self-governing in the
physical body. In striving to fulfill its Spirit-born purpose in the human
experience, Soul wisdom with autonomy is "Heaven on Earth".
The author of
all Rights is the Source-Of-All That-Is, which resides within humans as the
Soul-Self. Writers of the U.S. Constitution identified some of these Rights and
set them forth in the first ten Amendments that demonstrated in its Preamble
concern over governments' intended beneficent ends;
"...further
declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added."
Human government
was a long history of abusive power by fear-based intellects focused on the five
survival senses, unintegrated by the multidimensional wisdom of the Soul, and
without application of the superior Laws of the cosmos. Fear-based
survival-driven government did not allow the Soul Rights of even Christ Jesus or
Mahatma Gandhi. To the extent that at least limited justice and morality was
enumerated in the U.S. Bill of Rights, some progress was noted in principle, if
not always in practice.
The Soul-integrated intellect pursues clarity in
all human laws to enhance harmony with Cosmic Laws. Rights of the Soul in human
embodiment are to be specific, and include basic protective and mobility
considerations;
The Right to govern one's personal body.
The
Right to defend against personal harm.
The Right to freely travel and
associate with others.
The Right to speak freely.
Soul Rights
also extend to the collective whole of human government in specific
ways;
The Right to participate directly and equally in
lawmaking.
The Right to designate one's percentage of taxes to specific
programs.
The Right to require "Karmic Impact Statements" for others'
proposed actions.
The Right to exercise peaceful self-governance.
Discerning Soul Rights is a process of Individuals freely negotiating with each
other for mutual agreement, in contrast to past history as viewed by timeless
wisdom;
"There is no greater error than the self-deception which leads
intelligent beings to crave the exercise of power over other beings for the
purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. Fairness cries
out against all such fraud, unfairness, selfishness and
unrighteousness."
Moreover, the Law of Rights works in harmony with other
Cosmic Laws to free all people from the yoke of those who employ any kind of
control, manipulation or enslavement. The Soul seeks to be free, and no Soul is
free as long as it is governed by others against its free choice. The Law may be
subtle and slow, but it's immutable.
In no sense is Soul autonomy
anarchistic or chaotic. No political disorder or confusion exists as one's
Soul-integrated intellect abides by the Laws of the cosmos.
The bottom
line is, an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of
the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, ensures
that Soul Rights are fully honored.This powerful Law is constantly at work in
behalf of the Soul to be self governing in the physical body. In striving to
fulfill its Spirit-born purpose in the human experience, Soul wisdom with
autonomy is "Heaven on Earth".
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Cosmic Law -
Unity & Diversity
Humanity, for all its claims of material
progress, has created a jigsaw puzzle world of fear-based armed camps, for
internal as well as external control, that denies true political freedom by
physical force, in violation of this Cosmic Law;
"The whole of creation
is made up of its individual parts."
In the human picture puzzle, the
individual pieces fit in particular places and no amount of force can make them
fit elsewhere to make the picture whole. For Unity, Diversity must be honored.
The diversity of humanity is ignored in governmental structures of
top-down power. A dictatorship is obvious rejection of diversity, but even a
"representative" form of government does not fully honor and empower its
individual parts. It produces a structure in which there are "winners" and
"losers".
Opposing factions in constant confrontation for control of a
government to forcefully impose their own programs on the whole, in disrespect
for diverse or opposite ideas, is not a government in harmony with the Law of
Unity and Diversity. Rather, it is a government that relies on the initiation of
physical force to maintain its hold on power, with people facing guns and jails
for not giving their tax support and allegiance to it.
Involuntary
submission to the holders of government power does not produce a peaceful
win-win society, and even acquiesance to such power causes subtle unrest for its
lack of harmony with the natural cosmic reality.
Where diverse choices
are denied, freedom is denied, and where freedom is denied, disharmonious
energies are set off that reverberate throughout the world, as shown in the
Cosmic Law of Cause & Effect, or karma.
The bottom line is, full
Unity of the Diversity of humanity is achieved with government policies and
programs that attract voluntary individual "subscription", and an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, creates
such "bottom up" government without force.
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Fifty Six
Grieviences : http://www.globalvisions.org/cl/swn/grievances/index.html
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56 Grievances by Triaka
1. Imbalance
2. Secret
Government
3. Domination
4. Espionage
5. Aggression
6.
Imperialism
7. Lawlessness
8. Militarism
9. Warmanship
10.
Warmaking
11. Illegal Power
12. Subversion
13. Misrule
14.
Subjugation
15. Deception
16. Defeasances
17. Torture
18.
Concealment
19. Extortion
20. Lying
21. Brain Control
22.
Brainwashing
23. Propaganda
24. Coverup
25. Dictatorship
26.
Disempowerment
27. Abuse
28. Harassment
29. Spying
30. Land
Confiscation
31. Intrusion
32. Collusion
33. Unequal Treatment
34.
Killing
35. Health Threats
36. Vote Fraud
37. Controlling
38.
Oppression
39. Criminalizing
40. Intimidation
41. Tampering
42.
Injustice
43. Indebtedness
44. Manipulaton
45. Debasing Money
46.
Power Peddling
47. Corruption
48. Forfeiture
49.
Unresponsiveness
50. Diminishing Truth
51. Bureaucracy
52.
Mismanagement
53. Welfarism
54. Competence
55. Immorality
56.
Disarming
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56 Grievances by Triaka
Grievance 1 - Imbalance
The U.S.
Constitution established a form of government that gave direct governing power
to a small minority over the American people at-large. Power was structured from
top-down, as opposed to the taxpayers who financed it from the bottom-up, an
oligarchical system that favored influential money interests and leaned toward
elitism.
This, despite the words of one of the nation's most quoted
founders, Thomas Jefferson; "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves." And further... "...if we think them not
enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome direction, the remedy is
not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." But the power to
enact or repeal the laws of American society was not vested in the people.
Rather, it was constitutionally reserved to powerholders, and secrecy in
government became commonplace for lack of specific constraint.
The
general population was disempowered from directly initiating and voting for
change in the Constitution by Article V, which placed the determination of
Amendments in the hands of federal and state politicians only; "The Congress,
whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of
two-thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing
Amendments." Neither could Americans at-large initiate a direct popular vote on
proposed laws. By contrast, Californians could directly initiate general voting
on statutes as well as their State Constitution; Section 8. (b) "An initiative
may be proposed to the Secretary of State that sets forth the text of the
proposed statute or amend- ment to the Constitution and is certified to have
been signed by electors..." Americans were further disempowered by having no
provision in the U.S. Constitution that provided for Congress to submit proposed
statutes to a vote of the people at-large as by referendums.
The
imbalance of national power resulted in an imbalance in U.S. principles,
policies and programs, domestic and international. Rather than reflecting the
majority of Americans at-large, they most frequently carried out the desires of
minority money interests, which often were not the popular will, as these
Grievances show to a candid world; "The chance of baking a good cake in a faulty
oven is slim." Dollars & cents held greater power than common sense.
Americans at-large had no direct voice in the U.S. liberal-conservative insiders
aliignment referred to in Bill Kauffman's book "America First" (1995);
"Henceforth, the armed forces...are to plant, with trowel and bayonet, the seeds
of capitalist democracy in all the countries of the world, even those whose
native customs are inimical to Western Democracy." Nor did Americans at-large
have a balance of power regarding such huge expenditures of their tax dollars as
$4.5 billion for a single nuclear-powered Navy aircraft carrier, that common
sense said had more to do with profiting defense industries than in defending
the nation.
By the end of the 20th century, lawmaking for 260 million
Americans, and influence over much of the world, was in the hands of 535
politicians in Congress, and defacto lawmaking, with powers of life and death
over much of the world, was in the hands of a single politician, the President.
All were easy centralized targets for controllers and manipulators of government
power through elections and lobbying.
Due to constitutional vagueness
and ambiguity, the power of the President slowly grew to the point where social
commentator Dr. Laura Schlessinger, reacting to sexual improprieties of Bill
Clinton, called for a role model in the office; "How naive not to imagine or
realize that the quality of a persons character is, in addition to his intellect
and exper- ience, necessary for the proper fulfill- ment for those tasks." A
federal judge found Clinton "in contempt of court for intentionally false"
testimony, but there was no constitutional means for the people at-large to
directly remove him short of a four-year term. There was no constitutional
provision for a "recall" election.
By extension of unbalanced power, the
U.S. government was instrumental in creating such powerful unelected bodies as
the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, non of which offered even a pretense of democratic processes in
decision-making.
Centralization of power in the U.S. government
represented the opposite philosophy of Individuality; "The truly civilized
government is that which is balanced by individual franchise." George Mason
University Professor and newspaper columnist Walter E. Williams noted a
practical consideration; "The bulk of knowledge and information to conduct our
lives is held locally among millions of individuals, not centrally among
bureaucrats." Top-down governing power by a relatively small number of
politicians and money interests was tantamount to bondage for everybody else,
and the Constitution locked out Americans at-large from correcting the injustice
directly.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic
Ideals, equal opportunity of all individuals to vote directly on U.S. government
principles, policies and programs is guaranteed for a balance of power.
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Grievance 2 -
Secret Government
The U.S. Constitution failed to prevent the
rise of a large and powerful secret government mechanism over which the people
at-large had no direct control, resulting in "taxation without representation",
the same grievance lodged by American revolutionaries in 1776.
Secret
Government is defined here as unelected persons holding powers of the United
States that directly or indirectly affected millions of people, and who operated
in ways intentionally kept hidden from the people paying for it. The mechanism
included a far-flung labyrinth of tens-of-thousands of secret people operating
in unknown numbers of secret places under many secret programs through numerous
cooperating secret agencies both domestic and foreign. It included the National
Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency,
National Reconnaissance Office, Naval Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence,
State Department Intelligence, and National Security Council in the U.S., with
cooperation from British Intelligence, Israeli Mossad, and Russian KGB "moles"
among others. Its power to control and manipulate conditions around the world
was fully documented.
Secret Government worked to extend, consolidate
and centralize economic, political and military power appropriate to a World
Empire of controllers and manipulators, as shown in this and other grievances to
a candid world.
The U.S. Congress funded Secret Government with a virtual
blank check, and could only estimate in the mid-1990's that American taxpayers
paid for it at the rate of about $1 trillion over 20 years. So far reaching and
free spending was it that the NSA gathered l,056 pages of information about
Britain's Princess Diana and refused to disclose why the information was
obtained, or why it was kept secret long after her death in a car crash in 1997.
The nearest thing to being a public figure representing Secret
Government in the Washington administration was the appointed "National Security
Adviser" to the President. But the position was more than advisory as observed
by Edward N. Luttwak, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in
a report October 11, 1998:
"President Clinton's national security
adviser, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, last week issued an utimatum to President
Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia by giving a background briefing to
reporters."
The President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and
Chairman of the Joint Military Chiefs of Staff normally followed plans provided
by Secret Government.
Secret Government operated outside the "rule of
law" of the United Nations Charter and international agreements. With
Presdential approval, missile "sneak attacks" were launched by the Navy
September 20, 1998, on what Secret Government alleged were "terrorist" sites in
the sovereign nations of Sudan and Afghanistan. Congress was caught by surprise,
and insiders said even most Chiefs of the armed forces were not
informed;
"The planning cell was very small."
The names of those
in the conspiratorial group were kept hidden from the American taxpayers, who
spent $1 million for each of the 75 missiles used in the military aggression.
What was learned about Secret Government and its army of operatives came
largely from "insider" leaks and some who resigned to become "whistleblowers".
Mainstream mass media, once claiming itself as a "watchdog" of government, grew
impotent as Secret Government held up a shield of "national security" to protect
itself from exposure. An important defense tactic of Secret Government was to
label its critics and challengers as "conspiracy kooks".
Major media
feared loss of advertising income if it probed too deeply into Secret Government
and was never creatively bold enough to develop alternative financial resources
such as listener sponsorship and advertisers opposed to the secrecy.
Vanderbilt University political science professor Harry Howe Ransom
wrote a classic understatement in his 1988 book "The Intelligence
Establishment";
"As a source of great influence, intelligence and covert
operational systems demand the close attention of students of government and
politics..."
Secret Government was the greatest challenge that Americans
ever had to their Constitution and "representative democracy".
Secret
Government was directly involved with most means of mass communication,
including broadcasters, reporters, newspapers, publishing houses, writers,
magazines, news services, think tanks, researchers, political activities, labor
unions, and financial and educational institutions. It infiltrated and subverted
groups exercising constitutional rights for peaceful change
In foreign
lands, Secret Government distributed false information, instigated unrest and
was involved in warmaking, all documented by former participants. It was
instrumental in dividing Korea and Vietnam into north-south warring nations. It
helped overthrow popularly-supported governments including Greece, Guatemala,
Nicaragua, Brazi, Uraguay, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, and supported
repressive military regimes in Indonesia, Turkey, Haiti, Kuwait, Morocco, Chad
and Zaire. It trained Afghanistan forces fighting Soviet communism and who later
turned against the U.S. Former Assistant Secretary of State and Council on
Foreign Relations member Richard Murphy acknowledged "we did spawn a monster in
Afghanistan".
American taxpayers paid over $200 billion to train, equip,
and subsidize over 200 million foreign troops and Secret Government "security"
forces in over 80 countries in the last half of the 20th century.
Congressional committees obtained minimal information about Secret
Governments' worldwide activities but made no challenge. In 1998, a secret memo
was declassified revealing that in 1975 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told
President Gerald Ford that the CIA was threatened by a "scandal" that was "just
the tip of the iceberg" and could wreck the agency.
Among the earliest
published insiders who quit after feeling remorse was Victor Marchetti who was
with the CIA for 14 years and rose to be Executive Assistant to the Deputy
Director. Together with John D. Marks, who was analyst and staff assistant to
the Intelligence Director of the State Department, they wrote "The CIA and the
Cult of Intelligence" which was published in 1974;
"The cult of
intelligence is a secret fraternity of the American political aristocracy...to
foster a world order in which America would reign supreme."
A World
Empire of controllers and manipulators could come into existence by means that
most people would regard as wrong, the authors said...
"...overthrowing
foreign governments, subverting elections, bribing officials, and waging
`secret' wars."
In reviewing the book, Walter Clemons of Newsweek
Magazine said it was "devastating", but Secret Government was never slowed. It
employed an array of control tactics that included "pre-emptive surgical
strikes" by military, paramilitary or special forces, terrorism,
assassination/murder, bombngs, riots, torture, robbery, abduction, and street
crime and violence, creating fear in the populace and setting the stage for
martial law.
Another former insider was Colonel Fletcher Prouty who had
worked in White House national security operations. Publishing "The Secret Team"
in 1973, Prouty pointed to the reality of its power;
"The CIA and its
allies (are) in control of the U.S. and the world."
The Secret
Government option of assassination was publicly advocated by some members of
Congress in 1998 expressing frustration with some uncooperative foreign leaders.
Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Slobodan Milosovic of Yugoslavia were mentioned, with
Senator Arlen Specter declaring Saddam had to be "eliminated...one way or
another we're going to have to topple him."
No public accounting of
Secret Governments estimated $50 billion in yearly expenditures was ever given,
although the Constitution required it;
Article 1, Section 9 - "No money
shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by
Law, and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and expenditures of all
public Money shall be published from time to time."
The lack of Secret
Government agency accountability suggested it was above the "law of the land"
and untouchable.
Newspaper columnist Anthony Lewis summed up the feeling
of constitutionalists;
"...the whole idea constructed at the Philadelphia
(constitutional) convention in 1787, rests on the premise of an informed
electorate, holding its rulers accountable and thus preventing the corruption of
power."
But the Constitution failed to provide automatic correction of
violators, and unelected, unresponsive and uncontrolled Secret Government did
whatever it decided. It far exceeded anything the Mafia, Cosa Nostra, or other
criminal-like organization ever did, and it did so on a worldwide scale, but no
U.S., U.N. or other authority challenged it.
Former Mossad insider Victor
Ostrovsky said in his 1995 book "By Way of Deception", that the organization,
which cooperated with U.S. Secret Government agencies, was "out of
control...(and) often ruthless". In order to finance some of its "frightening"
operations with the CIA, weapons were delivered to "friends" in Central America
and Afghanistan with drugs as payment in return. The Mossad operated with no
government oversight, a blank check budget, and even the name of its director
was secret.
Conspiracy by the CIA in drug smuggling was made public by
numerous reliable sources, including University of Wisconsin Professor Alfred
McCoy. His "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" published in 1972 was
followed by expanded research in 1991 titled "The Politics of Heroin---CIA
Complicity in the Global Drug Trade".
In 1993, former Navy and airline
pilot, and investigator for the Federal Aeronautics Administration, Rodney
Stich, added the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration to Secret Government
arms-for-drugs operations. In his book "Defrauding America", the author named
several DEA pilots who "acted under orders" to fly drugs from Latin America into
the U.S. where they were sold. Both arms and drugs served to destabilize society
for ultimate control and was a specialty of Secret Government.
While
Secret Government was running drugs, the public government declared a "war on
drugs", which served to divert public attention from the mounting evidence of
illegal activity.
Secret Government interfered with various
congressional investigators trying to probe alleged wrongdoing, including the
transfer of space technology from Hughes Electronic Corporation to China.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws
of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals,
taxpayers have the right to designate their percentage of taxation to specific
legal programs, cutting off tax funds from illegal government activities.
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Grievance
3 -Domination
The U.S. Constitution failed to provide
sufficient checks and balances by American taxpayers against government actions
that went beyond their wishes. Opinion polls of the people at-large consistently
indicated intrusive policies, including "policing the world", were not favored.
Nevertheless, the government expanded and extended both overt and covert
penetration and domination of other nations.
Among leading money-oriented
private groups working to advance U.S. domination of the world was the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. Senior Associate Robert Kaganis expressed
fear of losing control in the Washington Post;
"Perhaps the most profound
threat is that Americans will...forget just how important continued U.S.
domination is to the preservation of a reasonable level of international
security and prosperity."
But security for U.S. money interests did not
translate into security for the diversity of nations, nor did it reflect a
policy of respect for sovereignty. Instead, it demonstrated a policy fitting of
a World Empire of controllers and manipulators.
As the 20th century drew
to a close, the U.S. was the most dominating force in the world with 1,150
military installations in 144 of the 185 nations on the planet. With no hot or
cold war in 1992, U.S. active-duty military strength was 2,115,773, and six
years later in the Persian Gulf alone, there were 23 warships, 173 warplanes,
and 23,500 troops.
What was reported as a "historic shift" in U.S.
policy emerged in February,1997, at Charleston, South Carolina, as hundreds of
Army trucks, bulldozers and tankers were loaded aboard the first of 19 giant
Navy cargo ships to be moored around the world. While closing some military
bases on American soil to "save money", the government added to its military
budget for floating warehouses which could hold half of all traditionally
land-based Army equipment ready for launching from a nearby anchorage. The
change in policy from one of professed "defense" to obvious offense was given
little attention by major mass media, leaving most Americans uninformed.
In tonnage and firepower, the U.S. Navy was greater than all other
navies combined, surveilling every ocean and making port on every continent and
island of importance. There were 6,230 ballistic-missile nuclear warheads on
U.S. submarines and bombers capable of devastating every important target in the
world and causing massive death.
Chemical, biological and other weapons,
many secret, were also ready for use. Even without using maximum U.S. firepower
in the opening days of the six-weeks Gulf War in 1991, 100,000 Iraqi's, mostly
civilians, were killed.
Despite its own proliferation of nuclear
weapons, the U.S. warned communist North Korea in 1998 it would "not tolerate"
that nations development of such a weapon, and demanded the right to inspect
suspected underground development facilities.
By the late 1990's, the
U.S. was orbiting "hundreds" of military satellites around the planet providing
the means to obliterate most life on the Earth's surface with pinpoint accuracy.
Secret Government's National Reconnaissance Office planned to add another $1
billion spy satellite but it exploded shortly after launch. The Los Angeles
Times reported that China, as a defensive measure, could be developing an
anti-satellite laser weapon.
The U.S. government planned to spend $53
billion in fiscal 2000, $61 billion in 2001, and $75 billion by 2005 for added
military weapons, aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles, electronics, and other
hardware, and the major political parties fought over the amount of increases.
Democratic President Bill Clinton asked for an overall military budget increase
of $12 billion begnning in 1999, and an additional $112 billion over the
following five years while Republicans complained it was not enough.
U.S. military spending reached $1,000 per person per year in 1995.
Retired senior U.S. military officers with the Center for Defense Information in
Washington, D.C. declared their opposition;
"...there are no military
threats... (spending) is out of control...to the detriment of the average
American."
he CDI said the "military, industrial, intelligence complex"
sought to expand U.S. armed forces and spending for world
domination;
"They comprise perhaps the worlds most powerful special
interest group."
Retired Navy Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan came out of
retirement to become director of the Center;
"What is happening in
Washington today is truly frightening."
In an assessment based on
military capabilities and defense spending of 169 nations, London's
International Institute for Strategic Studies said in "The Military Balance
1997-98" that the U.S. was unchallenged militarily. U.S. spending was 17 times
greater than that of the combined spending of all potential threats, and
increasing faster than the rate of money inflation.
The U.S. assumed a
dominating role in expanding the 16-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization to
include some former East European communist nations, and moved troops into a
civil war in Bosnia that had been fought with weapons supplied by the U.S. and
Russia. It moved troops into Macedonia, Albania and Yugoslavia's Kosovo Province
after bombing the province and killing 2,000 inhabitants in a war alleged to be
"humanitarian" to end centuries of ethnic civil war.
Decisions to place
and keep military forces in sovereign nations were based on various claims, and
were often announced as temporary, but extensions and expansions were common. In
the World War II battleground of Okinawa, the local government wanted the 47,000
U.S. troops still occupying the land more than 50 years later to move out, but
the U.S. refused. U.S. troops likewise remained in Japan and Germany. In 1994,
U.S. troops entered Haiti to force a change in the government and control
Haitian resources, but four years and millions of tax dollars later said it
would remain there for "humanitarian" reasons. U.S. domination also took the
form of forcing foreign ships to stop on the open seas to seize cargo it
determined to be "illegal". It used its helicopters and troops from the
"Caribbean Regional Security Service" to invade the independent nations of
Trinidad, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and St. Vincent to destroy
marijuana plants, rejecting strong protests in the region. In Columbia, as in
Vietnam 35 years earlier, it trained government troops with U.S. weapons and
equipment to fight forces opposed to the prevailing rulers.
As chronicled
in other grievances, Secret Government, such as the CIA, used an estimated $50
billion per year of taxpayers funds to pay for an army of tens-of-thousands of
civilians worldwide to carry out covert operations that greatly assisted the
U.S. policy of domination.
Domination also came in subtle forms. The
government refused to discuss circumstances behind bringing Palestinian Mohammed
Rashid to the U.S. in 1998 on charges of planting a bomb aboard a jetliner 16
years earlier, charges on which he had been previously tried in
Greece.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic
Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals,
government is prohibited from uninvited domination of other
nations.
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Grievance
4 - Espionage
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit
government from conducting espionage in behalf of commercial interests on
taxpayers time and money.
The CIA, originally established as an
intelligence gathering agency for defense, conducted both covert and overt
operations to obtain information that would benefit favored businesses. The
agency ran an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal openly recruiting
business and professional people to serve as "non-official cover" officers
through a "front" agency;
"Direct your efforts to Selwyn, Bryant and
Brooke Associates, an international search firm representing clients who wish to
attract enthusiastic and ex- periencd professionals for positions around the
world."
The ad was handled for the CIA by Stackig, Inc., of McLean,
Virginia, where the secret agency's major operations were based.
One
espionage case was exposed in 1995 in France where an American woman was accused
of attempting to recruit and bribe French corporate and government officials to
give technology secrets to the CIA. The case involved communication switching
technology developed by France Telecom from which American Telephone &
Telegraph could benefit.
The CIA helped defense contractor Raytheon win a
major contract in Brazil after spying on a competitor, and other favored
commercial interests benefitted from similar assistance. Investors, both inside
and outside the agency, stood to profit by obtaining secret information
regarding company's that were to receive the agency's help. Competing companies
were at a major disadvantage in not having tax-supported agents working in their
behalf.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral values and Democratic
Ideals, espionage by government employees is prohibited.
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Grievance 5 -
Aggression
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit U.S.
military aggression against other nations, and was not specific in its language
that would require the people's elected representatives in Congress to authorize
the initiation of hostile military action. While it reserved to Congress the
power to "declare war", it failed to directly ban the President, as "Commander
in Chief" of the armed forces, or any other official, from initiating force
without such declaration.
There appeared a pattern of aggression that
seemed to be aimed at control or great influence over much of the world for
economic gain. Prior to World War II, the U.S. militarily invaded such sovereign
nations as Russia, China, Nicaragua, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, Hawai`i
and the Philippines. Aggression continued after World War II with troop
invasions and/or air attacks on the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cambodia,
Lebanon, Granada, Panama, Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Sudan, Afghanistan and
Yugoslavia.
Without direct formal congressional authorization, U.S.
officials announced in February 1999 a "war on terrorism" with a policy to
attack alleged terrorist facilities found anywhere in the world. Its first
missile assaults struck Sudan and Afghanistan, and the Sudan site was later
confirmed to have been wrongly targeted by the CIA. A month later, the
government went beyond terrorist targets and, under the banner of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, launched a "humanitarian" bombing and missile war
on Yugoslavia's Serbs who had been engaged in periodic civil war with ethnic
Albanians for centuries.
NATO, comprised of unelected ambassadors from
several mostly-European governments, circumvented its own Charter as a "defense"
organization, and violated the United Nations Charter as well in the aggression
on Yugoslavia. Casualty figures were estimated at 2,000 dead in less than six
weeks of the undeclared war. Historically, such aggression was popularly
regarded as the "law of the jungle".
The U.S. took military control of
Haiti with 20,000 troops in 1994. Five years and billions of taxpayer dollars
later, General Charles Wilhelm of the Southern Command recommended military
withdrawal due to failure to establish a permanent internal peace on the island,
but U.S. political figures rejected the idea. Some Haitian resources, natural
and human, were economically valuable.
In secret operations, the US
participated in mercenary attacks in such places of rich resources as Angola,
Mozambique, East Timor, South Yemen, Western Sahara, Cambodia and Cuba. Fighting
in Angola took an estimated l.5 million lives.
Michael Kronenwetter,
author of "The Military Power of the President" (1988), said the U.S. was
involved in several hundred wars and other military operations up to the time he
published his book, and that only five had been declared "war" by
Congress.
Richard Shenkman, author of "I Love Paul Revere Whether He Rode
or Not" (1991), said the historical record showed Americans were sharply divided
or opposed to U.S. military actions;
"The War of 1812 was so
controversial that New Englanders seriously considered seceding from the Union
to avoid supporting it. The Mexican-American War aroused such passion that
Abraham Lincoln gave a stirring speech in Congress against it."
The
Spanish-American War provoked a national debate about imperialistic aggression,
and World War I in Europe divided the U.S. government to the extent that
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned his office in protect. Almost
as many people were opposed to the Korean War as ultimately condemned the
Vietnam War, forcing its end.
Foreign interventions took on the
appearance of imperialistic aggression by a government under control of its
manipulators rather than the American people at-large.
U.S. aggression
against North Vietnam became a major undeclared war on the basis of a "battle"
that never occurred, according to Medal of Honor winner Navy Admiral James B.
Stockdale. He stated in his book "In Love and War" that President Lyndon Johnson
ordered air strikes and troop buildup in 1964 after a false report was made that
U.S. ships were under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stockdale commanded a
squadron of Navy fighter planes from the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga in the
area of the alleged incident;
"No boats, no boat wakes, no ricochets off
boats, no torpedo wakes...nothing but black sea and American
firepower."
Stockdale was shot down a year later and spent more than
seven years as a prisoner in North Vietnam, while 55,000 American troops died in
losing the war. No congressional investigation was held to determine the source
of the Tonkin Gulf lie.
Within the war itself, aggression was so
ingrained in U.S. troops that they massacred 500 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai
before three of the troops stopped the slaughter by pointing their weapons at
their fellow Americans. Thirty three years later, the trio were officially
proclaimed Army heroes.
The same war saw additional U.S. aggression with
3,630 bombing missions on alleged Viet Cong bases in neutral Cambodia. This
helped swing Cambodian sentiment in favor of the fledgling Khmer Rouge movement
under Pol Pot, who soon sparked the murder of an estimated two-million of his
fellow Cambodians.
In 1989, U.S. troops were ordered by President George
Bush to invade Panama, again with no congressional declaration of war. Hundreds
of civilians were killed in addition to military defenders. Panama "strongman"
Manuel Noriega, who had boasted that he had Bush "by the balls" in connection
with CIA drug operations, was taken captive and convicted in a U.S. court for
alleged drug trafficking and drug money laundering. While an international court
of justice would have been an impartial setting, it would also serve to expose
Secret Government drug operations, and the U.S. strongly opposed such a
court.
On the excuse of defending tiny Kuwait against Iraqi aggression in
1991, the U.S. spearheaded the mobilization of a multi-national military force
of 200,000 that killed thousands of Iraqi's in the oil-rich region. It ended
with the U.S. taking control of northern and southern Iraqi air space and an
ongoing policy of air attacks on Iraqi air defense sites. U.S.-led trade
sanctions were also imposed on Iraq through the small but powerful U.N. Security
Council.
U.S. aggression was officially honored when President Bill
Clinton proclaimed as a "hero" an Air Force pilot who had been shot down after
violating Bosnian air space.
Throughout the years, the government rolled
out propaganda machinery, mobilized public relations forces, purchased
advertising, spread misinformation and disinformation, and took free television
and radio time to defend aggressive acts around the world, while secretly
plotting other possible actions, such as a nuclear attack on China's nuclear
test facilities in the 1960's.
With an Authentic Constitution in harmony
with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values
and Democratic Ideals, the act of "initiating" forceful or hostile action
against human beings is
prohibited.
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Grievance
6 - Imperialism
Expansion of U.S. power and influence around
the world was most evident beginning in the 1800's. At first, imperialistic
policies were declared to be the nation's "manifest destiny". Later, they were
explained as a matter of "national security", followed by a more open ended
claim of "national interest".
An important example of the U.S. extending
"back door" authority over an independent nation came with its military support
of the overthrow of the government of Hawai`i in 1893. President Grover
Cleveland, after looking into details of unauthorized U.S. military involvement,
told Congress several months later that it showed no regard for accepted
standards of behavior;
"As I look back upon the first steps in this
miserable business, and as I contemplate the means used to complete the outrage,
I am ashamed of the whole affair."
U.S. forces were landed in Honolulu
from the USS Boston in violation of diplomatic agreements between Hawai`i and
the U.S., giving support to a "provisional" government representing mostly
American economic and religious missionary interests that wanted to make the
islands a U.S. possession. At the same time, the military had interest in making
Pearl Harbor a permanent Navy base for influence throughout the Pacific Ocean
region.
The Hawaiian head of government, Queen Lili'uokalani, was held
prisoner for nine months, yielding what she hoped would be only temporary
authority;
"...Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps
the loss of life, I do, under this protest, and impelled by said force, yield my
authority until such time as the Govern- ment of the United States shall, upon
the facts presented to it, undo the action of its representatives..."
But
it wasn't until a century later that the U.S. officially apologized for the
action and, even then, refused to restore control of the islands to legal
authority.
In 1994, international law professors Francis Boyle, of the
University of Illinois, and Richard Falk, of Princeton University, said a
Hawaiian movement to restore the proper government would be justified, and would
take precedence over the Hawai`i vote for statehood which came 66 years after
the overthrow.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, all forms of imperialism and control over independence
movements are
prohibited.
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Grievance
7 - Lawlessness
The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically
prohibit and penalize the government for violating its international lawful
agreements.
On August 21, 1998, the U.S. launched bombing attacks on
alleged "terrorist" targets in Sudan and Afghanistan. Secretary of State
Madeline Albright said it was a "war on terrorism";
"This is
unfortunately the war of the future, and we have to understand the importance of
sustained operations here."
International law and courts of justice were
cast aside, along with the United Nations Charter which the U.S. had helped
write;
Chapter 1, Article 1 - "To maintain international peace and
security, and to that end, to take effective collective measures for the
prevention and removal of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to
bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice
and international law, adjustment or settlement of inter- national disputes or
situations which might lead to a breach of the peace..."
Without U.N.
sanction, military assaults, and the declared "war" itself, went against the
intent of the Charter to seek "peaceful settlement" of the terrorist
problem.
The attacks came less than two weeks after anti-U.S. bombings at
its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that the U.S. said were linked to a
millionaire sponsor in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden. The suspect had been known
to U.S. authorities six years earlier when he reportedly admitted bombing U.S.
troops in Yemen, but no effort was made to bring him to an international court
of justice in the manner of war-crimes suspects from Bosnia in the
1990's.
While the U.S. offered $2.2 million for Mexican fugitive Vasquez
Mendoza in a drug-related killing of a U.S. agent, and paid $1.9 million in
taxpayers money to the family of a teenager killed by a Marine while herding
goats, it offered no reward for the capture of Osama bin Laden in the years
following his alleged confession.
Sudan charged that President Bill
Clinton was a "war criminal" for the bombing attack on its sovereign territory,
and U.S. leaders seemed vulnerable under the U.N. Charter and world precedents,
but U.S. power and influence made an international trial almost impossible. At
the same time, the U.S. strongly opposed establishment of a "permanent"
international court of justice that was overwhelmingly approved by most other
nations in 1998.
In March, 1985, Secret Government (Grievance 2) hatched
a terrorist bomb plot that impacted the entire Islamic religion, detailed in the
book "Veil" by Bob Woodward. With help from a British agent and operatives from
Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, a bomb was exploded at the Imam Rida mosque in Beirut,
Lebanon that killed 80 people and wounded 256. Violent fringe elements called
for revenge, and three years later a Pan American passenger plane was blown out
of the sky over Scotland, killing 270, followed by bombing of the World Trade
Center in New York City in 1993, killing six and injuring hundreds.
U.S.
policies gave the appearance of the "law of the jungle", ensuring like-response
from violent fringe groups among elements protesting against intrusive and
dominating U.S. influences. Without a shift in policy to international peace
machinery and adjudication of differences, an endless cycle seemed guaranteed.
Ever-tightening security measures were leading to borderline
police-state conditions and potential marshal law, threatening basic American
freedoms.
Over many years preceding these events, Secret Government used
terrorist tactics in foreign countries, including guerrilla and paramilitary
operations directed by the CIA. Violent elimination of leaders of opposing
governments was successful in Chile, and attempted in Cuba, Libya, Jordan and
Afghanistan.
Prior to 1975, the U.S. had no prohibition against
terroristic murdering of foreign government leaders, and in 1998 it was openly
debating wheher to restore the practice and extend it to persons who were not
heads of state.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, killing humans by any other name is unlawful for government,
as well as for individuals.
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Grievance 8 - Militarism
The U.S. Constitution
failed to prohibit the government from extending its armed forces worldwide with
no threat of war on the nation. As the 20th century came to a close, there were
1,150 U.S. military installations around the world, and a fleet of warships and
floating warehouses on the seas.
Military academies, colleges, and bases
trained not only Americans, but foreigners in physical force and violence. The
idea of "peace academies" for training people in proven methods of conflict
resolution was diminished by the government's militaristic policy.
Each
year since 1946, some 2,000 foreign military personnel were brought to the
government's "School of the America's" at Fort Benning, Georgia, to train in
"low-intensity" combat, which was said to be a code word for brutalization and
terror. The Army admitted that some of its graduates abused their power. Critics
said it was a training ground for assassins, dictators, and their henchmen. Some
of its graduates were linked to the murder of six Jesuit priests and two women
in El Salvador. A congressional study found that 10 graduates had taken over
Latin American countries through military coups or other undemocratic means over
a 30-year period.
The U.S. ambassador to Indonesia said at the height of
that country's economic and political destabilization in 1998, in which 1,200
Indonesians were killed, a U.S.-trained secret military force was involved in
abducting and torturing political dissidents.
The government required
18-year olds to register for possible involuntary induction into military
service, and advertised enlistment with the slogan "Be all that you can be".
Training 6,000 individuals to operate a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, as an
example, raised a question whether this was all they could be.
The U.S.
"federalized" state National Guard troops in the early 1990's, bringing them
more directly under control of centralized power. Congress militarized many
law-enforcement agencies in giving the military an increased role in fighting
civilian crime.
Research and development of new weapons was ongoing with
no lid on spending. Besides nuclear, chemical and biological means of death and
destruction, the arsenal contained weapons for sound, color, symbolism,
psychological, and other methods of control and manipulation of people. The
military researched high-tech weapons to use on large populations, including
powerful transmitters, microwaves and infra-red radar.
The U.S. was a
one-stop supermarket for other nations to purchase miliary hardware, profiting
arms makers and their favored politicians each in their own way. The Defense
Security Assistance Agency sold $33 billion worth in 1993 alone. In 1998, 80 new
fighter planes were sold to the tiny United Arab Emirates for $7 billion, and
other major arms sales were made to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in the Middle East
"tinder box". The government sent $3.2 billion in "subsidized arms sales" to
Egypt in 1999. Technology to produce weapons was sold along with the weapons
themselves, resulting in many smaller nations producing a variety of modern
weapons and becoming new arms sellers.
The government encouraged South
Africa to develop a chemical and biological warfare program in the early 1980's
when that country's apartheid policy was being seriously
challenged.
Americans were surprised in the 1990's to see former "enemy"
troops in some parts of the country. Russian and East European forces wearing
United Nations emblems appeared for exercises with their own helicopters and
vehicles, raising questions regarding national sovereignty.
The U.S. was
itself an armed camp with satellite armed camps throughout the world, under an
unannounced and subtle program of world militarism at a high cost to American
taxpayers.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic
Ideals, an adequate defense is seen as far less expensive and imposing on the
world than
militarism.
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Grievance
9 - Warmanship
U.S. military spending was misleadingly termed
"defense" spending when, accurately, a very high percentage supported
"offensive" operations around the world, as these grievances document to a
candid world.
The War Department was renamed the Defense Department
following World War II, but military spending remained on an upward swing. The
Korea and Vietnam hot wars, and the Cold War with the Soviet bloc nations
provided temporary excuses for spiraling budgets, but spending in the years
following, in inflation-adjusted dollars, remained at the same level in the
mid-1990's, for example, as in the early 1980's.
By 1998, the 12-month
military budget ballooned to $270 billion of taxpayers funds, with a single
F-117 bomber of the type shot down over Yugoslavia in 1999, costing $45 million.
Costly research and development of secret weapons went unabated, and plans were
advanced for a "Star Wars" system of missile defense/offense.
The
government was a virtual automated war-spending machine. The House of
Representatives approved one year's entire military budget in 22 minutes, with
no "war" of any type, and no debate as to its need. Politicians of the major
political parties indicated the war machine was good for their political future,
and even added funds on top of military requests.
Large excess
inventories of military equipment and supplies were piled up. Some military
experts argued in vain that many weapons were not outmoded simply because of
age, and that their life could be extended for less money than what was being
spent on new equipment.
But the "military-industrial" complex, about
which President Dwight Eisenhower warned in his Farewell Address in 1961, held
immense power over the government as the war industry operators, investors, and
other money interests reaped great profits from the taxpaying people
at-large.
Retired Navy Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan said in 1995 that
military power, or warmanship, should not be the centerpiece of U.S. policy in
the world;
"Excessive reliance on military power undermines our world
influence, diverts attention from important economic and social issues, and
wastes our resources."
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, individuals have the right to designate their tax percentage
to programs of their choice.
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Grievance 10 -
Warmakin
g The U.S. Constitution failed to place specific
qualifications for mental fitness of a President, while giving him almost
unlimited authority of life or death over people everywhere.
Author/researcher Ferdinand Lundberg, in "The Rich and the Super Rich",
published in 1968, noted regrettably the President had unlimited constitutional
power to raise armies, domestic or foreign, and to wage war;
"He could
order an overnight assault against any country, thereby precipi- tating general
war. He could, in full constitutionality, order all of the armed forces into the
depths of the Congo and nobody coud legally halt the operation."
As if
to make Lundberg's findings an actual legislated fact, Congress approved The War
Powers Resolution of 1973 that said, in essence, that the President could engage
the armed forces in warmaking and delay informing Congress for 48 hours before
Congress could halt the action. Modern weapons, of course, could leave massive
death and destruction in a fraction of the time allotted.
Intelligence
researcher and author John Prados, in his 1986 book "Presidents' Secret Wars",
told of covert, clandestine, paramilitary, and special operations, all
euphemisms for secret warfare. The New York Times Book Review described the
information as "important", and the Washington Post Book World said it was
"worthy and informative", but Presidential warmaking powers remained in force.
A person could qualify for the office and powers of President more
easily than obtaining a drivers license. No examination was required for holding
this unprecedented power of a dictator, power that even top military chiefs who
had to pass qualifying examinations for lesser positions did not have. A
President had only to pass a popularity contest in votes.
With an
AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe,
and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, the powers of government
are decided by all individuals equally, and those who are given positions of
responsibility are examined first for their mental fitness.
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Grievance 11 -
Illegal Power
The U.S. Constitution failed to require the
government to initiate amendment procedures when it wanted to change fundamental
constitutional provisions.
A standout issue came to light in 1998 when
"national security" documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
revealed that certain military commanders had been given power to engage in
nuclear war without specific authority, or power of succession, in the
Constitution.
From the time of President Dwight Eisenhower in the
1950's, it was secret policy that some military commanders could become a
"stand-in President" if there was a nuclear attack on the U.S., and the
President, Vice President, and others in the constitutional line of succession
could not be reached. Under such circumstancs, the commanders could respond with
nuclear weapons on targets of their choice.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, constitutional provisions and
procedures for change are powers reserved to the people, inviolable, and
enforced.
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Grievance
12 - Subversion
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit the
government from subverting other countries for the purpose of control and
manipulation. Occurances of subversion took many forms in many lands as this and
other grievences show to a candid world.
In the 1994 Webster's II New
Riverside University Dictionary, the definition of "subvert" includes a quote
from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger;
"...economic
assistance...must subvert the existing...feudal or tribal
order."
Economic subversion took place under a policy of assistance to
"poor" nations. To do this, billions of American taxpayer dollars were given in
"loans", including through the International Monetary Fund, making those nations
subservient to economic manipulators with the power of debt write-off and
currency control.
U.S. and other government finance officials of the
Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations, plus Russia, met regularly to decide
on subserving actions throughout the world, including involving gold prices and
supplies. For all practical purposes, immense economic power was in the hands of
a World Empire of money controllers and manipulators.
In violation of the
United Nations Charter and international protocols, various sovereign nations
were subverted by U.S. Secret Government led by the CIA with violent intent.
Between 1960-65, there were eight conspiracies against Cuban President Fidel
Castro under U.S. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the latter
admitting to an aide, Leo Janos, that U.S. policy was deadly
subversive;
"We had been operating a damned Murder, Inc. in the
Caribbean."
President John F. Kennedy told Tad Szulc of the New York
Times in November 1961 that he rejected repeated suggestions to authorize the
murder of Castro. Some Secret Government operatives were upset with his refusal
to give the go-ahead and plans were put into motion anyway, one of which was
broken up in Havana by Cuban Intelligence.
Secret Government used
guerrilla tactics to subvert Cuba, smuggling men, arms, equipment, and money
onto the island by sea and air in numerous operations from U.S. bases. It also
had the lead role in the failed 1961 "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba from
American soil, another incident in which Kennedy refused to cooperate. Kennedy,
of course, was later assassinated and some alleged there was evidence of CIA
complicity and subversion within the U.S. government.
In the 1990's, the
U.S. committed American taxpayers to almost $100 million in one year to give
direct military aid to at least three factions in Iraq to try to oust President
Saddam Hussein. One plan called for the U.S. to train 10,000 Iraqi troops for a
war against Saddam. U.S. warplanes were already attacking "air defense" sites
inside Iraq in violaton of the UN Charter and international protocols.
In 1998, two U.S. "military advisers" were detained in Mexico's
rebellious Chiapas state and accused of being there illegally. The government of
Mexico said it disapproved of subversive "meddling" in its internal
affairs.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic
Ideals, subversion of other nations is
prohibited.
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Grievance
13 - Misrule
The U.S. Constitution failed to provide a true
balance in government power for all individuals equally. As a result,
oligarchical control and manipulation of the governent was made
possible.
President Dwight Eisenhower, in his Farewell Address in 1961,
warned of the conjunction of an "immense" military establishment and a large
arms industry that could cause a serious imbalance of government power. While
recognizing the need for an adequate defense, he said its potential was
dangerous;
"In the councils of government we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military- industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will persist."
As these grievances show to a candid
world, the rise of oligarchical power was evident as politicians approved huge
budgets for the military-industrial complex and billions more for Secret
Government, such as the CIA, creating what was eventually recognized by the
Center for Defense Information and others as a three-pronged power center
including "intelligence" agencies.
Ten years after Eisenhower's warning,
Senator William Proxmire concluded Congressional hearings into the
"military-industrial" aspect with a book, "Report from Wasteland", which was
followed by many books including "Pentagon Capitalism" by Melman, and "The
Military-Industrial Complex" by Koistenen, but the rise of misplaced power was
never rectified for lack of a balanced constitutional foundation.
As the
military-industrial-intelligence complex expanded its power and extended its
influence beyond the U.S. with tax revenues and investor funds, it became the
major player in creating an oligarchical World Empire .
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, government power is balanced
among all individuals equally by the right to vote on all principles, policies,
and practices of government, as in a "direct
democracy".
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Grievance
14 - Subjugation
The U.S. Constitution failed to protect the
American people at-large from being subservient, and potentially enslaved, by
international treaties;
Article VI - "This Constitution and the laws of
the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties
made, or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be
the supreme law of the land."
Former Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, in a speech before the American Bar Association in 1952, put it
plainly;
"Treaty law can override the Constitution ...and can cut across
the rights given the people by the constitutional Bill of
Rights."
Presidential treaty-making power, even with "advice and consent"
of a majority of the 100-member Senate, was disempowering of the people at-large
whose government policies and constitutional guarantees could be in question in
the hands of a little more than fifty individuals.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, the people at-large are
empowered to initiate and vote directly on all governmental questions, including
treaties that may impinge on the constitution.
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Grievance 15 -
Deception
The U.S. Constitution failed to provide for
independent investigation and prosecution of government perpetrators of
wrongdoing. The chief "law enforcement officer", the Attorney General, was
appointed by the President and normally had close political ties to the same
partisan interests, who could ignore serious allegations against people in
government.
A prominent case of alleged government deception, with no
Attorney General probe at the time, arose in 1941. Officials in Washington, D.C.
were accused by two highly placed military leaders of withholding information
that could possibly have at least reduced the death and destruction in the
Japanese attack on U.S. military facilities in Hawai`i.
Admiral Husband
E. Kimmel, who was the commander at Pearl Harbor, learned that information known
in Washington prior to the assault, was not given to him until long after, and
he suggested a conspiracy behind it;
"To utilize the Pacific Fleet and
the Army forces of Pearl Harbor as a lure for a Japanese attack without advising
the Commander in Chief of the fleet and the commander of the Army base of
Hawai`i is something I am wholly unable to comprehend."
The attack was
the primary reason given by then-President Franklin Roosevelt for the U.S. to
also engage in World War II in Europe.
Admiral William F. Halsey, who
was in command of an aircraft carrier group returning at the time to Pearl
Harbor from Wake Island, supported Kimmel in a personal letter;
"I have
always felt that you were left holding the bag for something you did not know
and could not control... had we been in possession of the 'magic` messages...the
fleet would not have been in Pearl Harbor on that date."
The messages
referred to were Japanese code transmissions which had been intercepted, showing
that the Japanese military was being continually informed of U.S. warships in
the harbor, and that the Japanese were particularly interested in the date of
Sunday, December 7th, which was planned as the day of the attack.
More
than 3,500 individuals were killed in the attack, but the alleged deception by
government officials was never investigated for its legal implications by the
Attorney General, or brought into a court of justice where guilt or innocence
could be determined. Families of the deceased were powerless for
recourse.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic
Ideals, the U.S. Attorney General is elected, and removed, by a vote of the
people at-large, with power to investigate and prosecute all alleged federal law
violators inside as well as outside
government.
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Grievance 16 - Defeasances
The U.S. Constitution
failed to provide persons deprived of their legal rights with immediate and
automatic recourse. The 1st Amendment provision for "redress of grievances"
required a deprived party to "petition" the government that caused the
annulment, and even then a case could be ignored without penalty against the
individuals in government responsible for the action.
The most flagrant
case of U.S. citizens being stripped of all of their constitutional "Bill of
Rights" occured at the outset of World War II. About 120,000 Americans of
Japanese ancestry were arrested, taken from their homes and held under guard in
"concentration camps" for several years as alleged "security risks". The right
to a "speedy and public trial" was, in effect, nullified.
Almost 55
years after the war, it was learned that 2,200 Japanese citizens of Latin
American countries were similarly interned in the U.S. at taxpayers expense, but
the government never disclosed the reason for it.
American taxpayers were
held responsible for "reparations" to all of the invalidated prisoners. $20,000
was paid to each American internee and $5,000 to each of the foreign internees
who applied, for a total of $1.6 billion.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION
in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High
Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, individuals in government are held directly
liable for violating constitutional provisions, and complainants are guaranteed
immediate processing of grievances by the Judiciary
Branch.
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Grievance
17 - Torture
The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically
provide that the government abide by its official agreements and hold violators
in government legally responsible.
There were numerous violations of
treaties throughout U.S. history beginning with American Indians, but few people
were aware that their taxes paid for the torture of prisoners during World War
II. Government records uncovered after the war disclosed that prisoners were
tortured at a top secret facility in Byron Hot Springs, California, in violation
of an International Agreement against such acts.
Army Provost Major
General Allen W. Gullion, who had helped negotiate the treaty in 1929, protested
the torture, which included experimental drugs, sleep deprivation, denial of
medical treatment, and a swinging iron bar.
Under an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, cruel and inhumane treatment
of anybody is unlawful, and an elected U.S. Attorney General is designated to
investigate and prosecute alleged violators inside as well as outside
government.
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Grievance
18 - Concealment
The U.S. Constitution failed to require the
government to obtain an independent judicial order before concealing information
from the taxpaying public who paid for the salaries, the material and the time
of government employees.
Administrative secrecy became so widespread
that Congress approved the Freedom of Information Act to meet growing protests
in the 1960's. It allowed public access to some records, but still only "on
request" if applicants were fortunate enough to know exactly what they wanted to
uncover. The Attorney General at the time, Ramsey Clark, made clear the
challenge;
"If government is to be truly of, by and for the people, the
people must know in detail the activities of govern- ment. Nothing so diminishes
democracy as secrecy."
While Public Government information became
somewhat more accessible, Secret Government (Grievance 2) continued to hide ALL
information it desired behind such labels as "confidential", "sensitive",
"secret", "top secret" and "cosmic top secret", which had no clear definitions
by law and no time limitations.
Americans didn't learn until 34 years
after the fact that the government plotted a lawless bombing of China's nuclear
test facilities in 1964 to prevent China from becoming a nuclear power. Secret
Government's National Security Adviser to President Lyndon Johnson, McGeorge
Bundy, argued in favor of the attack, but other administration officials
successfully opposed it after considerable debate.
Henry Kissinger, while
holding the posts of National Security Adviser and Secretary of State at various
times in the 1970's, met secretly with Chinese officials to give strategic U.S.
intelligence information to China about military forces of the Soviet Union.
Public disclosure of it came in 1999 only after a request was filed for the
information, and long after the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
The
government withheld documents for 30 years showing the CIA provided the Tibetan
exile movement with $1.7 million yearly for operations against China, which had
taken control of Tibet more than a decade earlier. It included payment of
$180,000 for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, all at
taxpayers expense.
Many years after U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras were
reported involved in drug trafficking in the 1980's, CIA Inspector General I.
Britt Snider admitted the agency did not fully inform "oversight" committees of
Congress;
"...CIA did not inform Congress of all
allegations."
CIA complicity in drug trafficking, shown in other
grievances, has remained officially hidden from American taxpayers, and Congress
has not been required to review government withholding policies on an ongoing
basis.
A Presidential directive in 1995 to declassify many "old" secrets
exempted not only millions of documents withheld by Secret Government agencies,
but ALL Federal Bureau of Investigation files.
President Lyndon Johnson,
who succeeded the assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963, admitted later
that he never believed the Warren Commission report that Lee Harvey Oswald acted
alone in the killing, and in 1979, a House Select Committee on Assassinations
concluded that there were two gunmen, and a conspiracy was involved, but
concealment of much information continued.
Thirty years after the Kennedy
assassination, Congress created the Assassination Records Review Board to
identify and release documents that could provide more information. Four years
later, the Board disclosed new testimony that a second set of autopsy photos
existed that were never made public and still had not been located;
"One
of the main tragedies of the assassination...has been the in- completeness of
the autopsy record and the suspicion caused by the shroud of secrecy that has
surrounded the records that do exist."
The review panel said the
government had withheld "millions" of documents "needlessly and wastefully".
Suspicion remained that a CIA-Mafia alliance was involved in the killing, and
the Kennedy Library was still working 35 years after his death to have various
government agencies release Kennedy's own files on the Mafia.
A
half-century after World War II, Congress approved legislation to force open
tens of thousands of documents concerning U.S. government use of Nazi war
criminals in the Cold War against communism, but it was long after the American
people at-large could take informed action on it.
Such examples of
government concealment seemed far removed from ideals expressed by founders of
the U.S., such as John Adams, the nations second President
(1797-1801);
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge
among the people."
Government withholding of information is tantamount to
keeping the people who pay for it in ignorance.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
upholding High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, all government information is
public information unless qualified otherwise by an independent court of
justice.
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Grievance 19 - Extortion
The U.S. Constitution
failed to prohibit government from practicing extortion. While made illegal for
private individuals, extortion became government policy in 1913 with "taxes on
incomes" under the 16th Amendment..
Supreme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter described the resulting government threats and intimidation as
"enforced extortions".
The Constitution set no limit on how much the
politicians in Congress could extort from the people at-large.
With an
AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe,
and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, individuals act
collectively in setting non-coercive and non-discriminatory tax
policies.
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Grievance 20 - Lying
The U.S. Constitution
failed to prohibit and penalize people on the taxpayers government payroll for
lying.
Secret Government, such as the CIA, spent untold millions of
dollars in spreading lies through mass media to control and manipulate public
opnion and actions. Former CIA operatives disclosed that the agency paid money
to people in the broadcast and print media to tell untruths and half-truths, and
gave direct subsidies to certain magazine and book publishers to print them.
Forged documents were commonly used to convince unaware media people of
something Secret Government wanted the masses to believe.
In 1961, CIA
Deputy Director Richard Helms deliberately lied to Congress in denying that the
agency secretly supplied arms to Indonesia rebels who overthrew President
Sukarno in a bloody revolution. Victor Marchetti, Executive Assistant to the
Deputy Director, later quit the agency over such practices; "Helms' testimony
was released to the public with the approval of the CIA which was, in effect,
targeting a propaganda operation against the American people."
From the
founding of the U.S., there was evidence that numerous Presidents lied and
intentionally misled the people at-large, leaving them disempowered to the
extent of their deceptive statements. While providing impeachment "for treason,
bribery, or other high crimes", the Constitution did not specifically require
removal from office, censure, or other alternative penalty, for the damaging act
of lying.
Government powerholders used taxpayers funds to hire defense
attorneys and public relations aides, or "spin doctors", to help condition the
mass consciousness for an unopposing attitude to lies.
A government
attempt to make the 1950-53 north-south Korean war appear as a United Nations
"police action" faded only after historians viewed casualty figures of 53,000
Americans dead, and thousands more physically or psychologically wounded. A
"truce", but no peace treaty was signed which would admit to the conflict being
a "war", and this served also as an excuse to station tens-of- thousands of
American troops on the Korean peninsula indefinitely.
What was clearly
"hostile military action", "international aggression" and "killing" in the
U.S.-NATO air bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, was mislabeled by U.S. officials as
an "air campaign to end ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo Province. The lie was in the
avoidance of the term "war" to soften opposition.
Lies by government
authorities regarding the Vietnam War, including the alleged Tonkin Gulf
incident that was used as an excuse for U.S. aggression, are detailed elsewhere
in these grievances to a candid world.
With an Authentic Constititution
in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High
Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, people on the taxpayers payroll at all
levels of government are held legally responsible for lying regarding government
activities.
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Grievance
21 - Brain Control
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit
involuntary secret experiments to control and manipulate the human
brain.
Through leaked information, it was learned that Secret Government
experimented with brain control in top secret tests, including those known as
MK-Ultra, MK-Delta, and MK-Chaos. The CIA admitted using 35,000 individuals,
many unsuspecting, for hypnosis and trauma-based programming, drug alteration,
electronic inhibition, and other experiments. Participaing in conducting the
tests were former Nazi phsychiatrists who had worked in German concentration
camps during World War II and who were brought to the U.S. under the governments
Project Paper Clip.
The author of "Operation Mind Control", Walter
Boward, said trauma-based programming worked on individuals who experienced a
shock to the brain, and which could lead to abnormal behavior. A traumatized
compartmentalized brain was regarded in psychoanalysis as a
multiple-personality, or multiple disassociative disorder; "There are four
different levels of personality, each with its own codes and triggers. And each
level...can be assigned a different identity, such as smuggler, assassin, sex
slave, etc."
To create an assassin, a traumatied brain could be
programmed to act on command of a specific word, and then to forget the action.
Hence, programming assassinations of political and religious leaders was
possible, but verifying information regarding this was hidden behind "national
security" labels.
With taxpayers funds, the CIA paid prostitutes to slip
the psychoactive brain-altering drug LSD into drinks of their customers. Agents
watched "wild" hallucinations from behind two-way mirrors, and one agent jumped
to his death from a window after ingesting it.
Other brain control
exriements included the use of powerful sound waves that could affect all life
forms and whole populations at once.
With an Authentic Constitution in
harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral
Values and Democratic Ideals, individuals are protected from unwanted brain
control and
manipulation.
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Grievance
22 - Brainwashing
The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically
protect Americans from indoctrination in a fixed set of beliefs by governmental
agencies known as "public" schools and institutions.
The system produced
a nation knowing little or nothing about its true behavior, as this and other
grievances show to a candid world. As Michael Parenti noted in his book "Against
Empire; Democracy for the Few", the educational system was brainwashing at
worst, and a failure to develop an informed electorate at best;
"I
graduated with a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and was never
told what my country was doing in the world."
The educational system
lent itself to molding minds rather than opening them to the full spectrum of
human reality and assisting each individual to develop fully in the manner of
one's choosing. More emphasis was placed on the U.S. "wheel" than on the spokes
that empowered it, creating a one-sided view of the world.
Individuals
were denied the right to choose from diverse subjects most appropriate to their
natural diverse propensity, desires and needs, as may be decided by themselves,
or in free association with parents and advisers.
Curriculums were set
from the top-down by governing boards, with students required to study certain
subjects for "graduation", and only from textbooks written by authors approved
by system operators. Subject matter that was not within the range of "normal"
experience or scientifically explainable phenomena, was most often not a choice,
a subtle form of brainwashing.
Academic research, education exchange
programs, conferences and symposia were used for disinformation and
misinformation purposes by such Secret Government agencies as the CIA. Special
targets for covert education penetration included the National Student
Association, the Asia Foundation, and the East-West Center.
The extent to
which Secret Government pursued even indirect brainwashing tactics was evidenced
in the spending of taxpayers funds to make thousands of subscriptions to the New
York communist newspaper Daily Worker for several years in order to make it
appear stronger than it was in fact.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in
harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral
Values and Democratic Ideals, government is barred from brainwashing tactics and
individuals are empowered with free choice in
education.
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Grievance 23 - Propaganda
Following World War
II, the U.S. government deliberately set out to convince the people at-large
that Soviet communism posed a threat to take control of the world. At the same
time, it minimzed the fact that the communist system failed to provide the
people under its dictatorial control, and who would supposedly conquer for it,
with adequate food and other basic survival needs. The inaccurate and misleading
U.S. doctrine served money controllers and manipulators.
Propaganda
instilling fear was unrelenting in the 1950's, prompting many people to build
underground shelters. School children were rehearsed in hiding under their
desks, and the public practiced taking cover upon hearing monthly blasts of
attack-warning sirens. Soviet bombast added to the fear with statements like "we
will bury you", but went without basis in fact unless they wished to be buried
also.
The "cold war" launched between the "free" west and communist east
ensured large profits for war industries, the creation of a
military-industrial-intelligence complex, about which President Dwight
Eisenhower warned in his Farewell Address in 1961 as posing a great danger to
American freedom, and greater taxpayer indebtedness to bankers who collected
huge interest payments on loans for all the government spending.
Earlier, U.S. propaganda was clearly the concern of Army General Douglas
McArthur;
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept
us in a continual stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of a grave national
emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous
foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind
it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these
disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been
real."
Public Government propaganda was the opposite of fair and balanced
presentation of facts. Even when labeled as "public relations" and "public
information", it was intended to control and manipulate the people at-large in
favor of its doctrine.
Secret Government, such as the CIA, engaged in
disinformation and misinformation, a special type of propaganda requiring
conspiratorial cover-ups by those on the taxpayers payroll who originated and
disseminated false information through mainstream media.
One example was
at the height of the Cold War in 1961 when Americans were told that the Solviet
Union had many more missiles aimed at the U.S. than vice versa, only to learn
decades later that the actual count was 98 to 35 in favor of the
U.S.
Americans were propagandized by the government into believing Soviet
military ground forces were large and growing after World War II, when in fact
they were declining. Russian analyst Pavel Felgengauer said the Soviets focused
instead on tactical nuclear weapons;
"The great Red Army was a myth
created in the west.."
After communism failed in the Soviet and East
European states at the beginning of the 1990's, an attempt to resurrect a new
danger from Russia fell flat in 1995 when its ground forces were defeated by
Chechen independence fighters. Knight-Ridder News Service reported from the
Chechnya capitol of Grozny that dozens of Russian tanks were
destroyed;
"The myth of Russia's military invincibility died in that
catastrophic battle, weakened by internal dissent, poor morale, obsolete
equipment and a near total lack of pre- paredness."
U.S. propaganda was
ongoing to convince Americans of some new threat. Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran,
Cuba, North Korea and China became targets, despite having far less combined
military budgets than the U.S. and no aggressive alliance. Dire warnings that
the U.S. needed to prepare for possible war with North Korea were followed by
independent news reports that millions of North Koreans were dying of starvation
in a "full scale famine", an internal condition unsupportive of the idea that
its military forces would have the morale to fight for a fatally-flawed
communist regime that produced such disaster, even if it had an adequate supply
of food for itself, which was never shown.
Pushing "terrorist" propaganda
openly in the 1990's, the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense and
Secretary of State attempted to instill fear of widespread attacks, even
proclaiming a "war on terrorism" and launching missile attacks on alleged
targets in sovereign countries, such as Sudan and Afghanistan, with no attempt
to halt their alleged activities by lawful international procedures and
institutions of justice.
For the people at-large, propaganda-for-profit
was the true enemy.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, complete and objective reporting by government is a
requirement.
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Grievance 24 - Coverup
The U.S. Constitution
failed to prohibit government secrecy and thereby disempowering the people
at-large.
An unprecedented coverup began in 1947. Some Air Force officers
at Roswell, New Mexico, reported that a "flying saucer" had crashed and physical
evidence recovered. The story was reported by the United Press news service, but
within hours the officers were told by their superiors in Washington, D.C. to
say they had been mistaken, and that what they saw must have been something
else. This became a coverup theme applied to many thousands of other sightings
of unidentified flyng objects over ensuing years.
Behind the label of
government "top secret", a covert control group in Washington was said to be
managing the coverup of one of the world's most important and far-reaching
stories of all time.
Fifty years after Roswell, and after decades of
government investigations into personal experiences by responsible individuals
in all walks of life and all around the world, many government files on the
subject remained secret. Independent efforts to have them opened were blocked by
courts that ruled the information would "jeopardize national security", and the
U.S. Supreme Court refused to hold a hearing on the denial.
U.S. Senator
and reserve Air Force General Barry Goldwater attempted to verify reports that
remains of extraterrestrials from the Roswell case were being held in Hangar 18,
Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, but he was refused entry. Later, he said of the
coverup;
"It was a damned mistake then and it's a damned mistake
now."
U.S. warplanes were reported over the years to have encountered
UFO's and tried to attack them, but without success, while engineers at the
highly secret military "Area 51" in Nevada were reportedly engaged in
back-engineering of spacecraft somehow obtained from extraterrestrials.
Britain's former Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral of the Fleet Lord
Hill-Norton, wrote in the foreword to Timothy Good's 1988 book "Above Top
Secret" that the UFO coverup was real. He rejected the idea that all the
sightings and personal encounters with ET's around the world were paranoramal
experiences or attempts at publicity. If this was true, he said, why wouldn't
all government files be open? And he rejected the idea that the objects were
human creations;
"I am certain that were such technology in actual use
anywhere on earth it would have surfaced either in war, or perhaps more likely
in industry."
The Admiral said there was no reason why government would
not simply acknowledge the technology exists if it was of human
origin;
"There have been major investigations lasting thirty or forty
years by the governments of the USA, Russia and France for certain, and probably
Britain and other countries. At the end of it all today, we had no hard OFFICIAL
infor- mation to weigh against some hundreds of books on the subject by private
indi- viduals or groups of individuals. I claim the charge that there is a
coverup is thereby proved."
U.S. Army Command Sergeant-Major Robert Dean,
who had Cosmic Top Secret clearance and studied the UFO files of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization in the 1960's before retiring, reported the study
came to some basic conclusions;
1. UFO's are real. 2. UFO's come from
several highly advanced civilizations. 3. UFO's pose no threat.
A
well-respected medical doctor, Steven Greer, who headed the non-governmental
Committee for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, told government
leaders of several nations in 1998 that the group had made direct contact with
ET's, and he asked Congress to hold open hearings for testimony to show that
earth's visitors had only peaceful intentions, even regarding "abductions".
There were references to strange airborne objects dating back centuries.
In about 1710, the Flemish painter Aert de Gelder depicted a disc-shaped
airborne object emitting beams of light on a scene he titled "The Baptism of
Christ", a work still being displayed in 1993 at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in
Cambridge, England.
Some Christian Bible scholars interpreted the
Prophet Ezekiel as referring to extraterrestrials and spacecraft in his
writings;
"...and the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God...And
I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a
fire unfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst
thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also out of the
midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their
appearance; they had the likeness of a man."
The only mystery about UFO's
was why government continued to deny their existence unless, as some alleged,
there was collusion between some powerful human elements and some
extraterrestrials for mutual benefits involving control.
With an
AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe,
and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, government secrecy is
prohibited.
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Grievance 25 - Dictatorship
In early American
history, the power of the U.S. President and Executive Branch was viewed as
constitutionally balanced by legislative and judicial branches. As the
Constitution stated, for example, Congress had the power to "declare war" and
the President was "Commander in Chief" of the armed forces. Since the
Constitution did not specify that the President became Commander in Chief only
AFTER war was declared, it became evident the President could act independent of
the people's representatives in Congress in the manner of a dictatorship.
The President could even suspend the Constitution, impose martial law,
and effectively become an absolute ruler. During the Civil War, President
Abraham Lincoln assumed autocratic power to suspend the Constitution's Bill of
Rights and, backed by military force, curbed riots against military induction.
Articles 1 and 2 of the Constitution granted presidential power to "preserve,
protect, and defend the Constitution", and to see that the laws were "faithfully
executed", and it was on this implied authority that Lincoln
acted.
During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's early years in office,
autocratic "executive orders" were used to prevent private depositors from
withdrawing their money from banks to save the institutions from losses during
an economic depression. With dictatorial power he also suspended the
constitution to imprison Americans of Japanese descent and other foreigners
during World War II, denying them fair trial.
With prompting by "national
security advisers" who normally were connected with "Secret Government" (see
Grievance 2), various Presidents issued and published in the Federal Register
powers of a dictatorship for possible future use;
1. Takeover of
communications media. 2. Takeover of electric power, petroleum, gas, fuels and
minerals. 3. Takeover of food resources and farms. 4. Takeover of all modes of
transportation, highways, seaports, etc. 5. Mobilize civilians for work
brigades. 6. Takeover of health, education and welfare functions. 7.
Registration of all individuals by the Postmaster General. 8. Takeover of
airports and aircraft. 9. Relocation of populations. 10. Takeover of railroads,
inland waterways, and public storage facilities.
President Jimmy Carter
combined such powers in Executive Order 12148, under the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton issued a "Presidential
Decision Directive" that created an office of National Coordinator for Security,
Infrastructure and Counter-terrorism that was never clearly justified
constitutionally in view of Justice Department responsibilities of the Judiciary
Branch.
In the absence of specific constitutional prohibitions,
Presidential power was seldom questioned in Congress and rarely challenged at
the Supreme Court level.
With an Authentic Constitution in harmony with
the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, government Principles, Powers, Practices and Penalties are in
the hands of all individuals equally, working
collectively.
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Grievance 26 - Disempowerment
The U. S.
Constitution gave no power to the American people at-large to initiate
constitutional changes directly. Such power was reserved to federal and state
politicians under Article V; "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses
shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on
the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the States, shall call a
convention for proposing Amendments."
Nor could the people at-large
initiate and decide legislation, or vote by referendum on issues submitted to
them by Congress.
The people at-large were also disempowered by failure
of the Constitution to specifically limit the President's power to enact defacto
law by Executive Orders, Directives, and Sanctions, that usurped the
constitutional power of Congress as set forth in Article 1, Section
1;
"All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress
of the United States which shall consist of a Senate and House of
Representatives."
The people at-large had no constitutional power to
remove the President from office prior to expiration of a constitutionally
mandated four-year term. Such authority was reserved to politicians in Congress
"on impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes
and misdemeanors", but not for lack of confidence, trust, or other
considerations.
Powerful government positions were relatively insulated
from the people at-large by the length of elective terms; President & Vice
President - four years, Senator - six years, Representative - two years, with
office holders removable at mid-term only by a costly and cumbersome process of
"recall" elections. By contrast, the U.S. Supreme Court decided critical
constitutional issue in less time, and Criminal Court juries often spent less
time in deciding questions of life and death.
The Constitution further
disempowered the people at-large under Article II, whereby state-appointed
"presidential electors" could over-ride the popular vote and install somebody
else in the highest office in the land.
The "representative form" of
government favored an oligarchical element of power controllers and manipulators
and served to disempower the people at-large from the lawmaking and governing
process of government.
The percentage of voting-age Americans who cast
ballots for President fell from 69.3 percent in 1984 to 54.2 percent in 1998
when the vote-winning candidate assumed office with about 25 percent of the
eligible vote.
In 1992, fifty-six politicians quit Congress, prompting
Representative Vin Weber, of Minnesota, to observe;
"We are in a decaying
spiral of public confidence. The public does not trust the institutions, they do
not trust the political parties."
All Americans could be totally
disempowered by elimination of the Constitution altogether. Such a thing was
possible through a process involving a mere handful of politicians, including
the President and some Senators, under Article VI;
"...all Treaties made,
or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States shall be the
Supreme Law of the land..."
And under Article II Section 2;
(The
President) "shall have power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate,
to make Treaties provided two-thirds of the Senators present
concur..."
The American people at-large had no direct power to approve or
reject treaties that literally could eliminate what they had been led to believe
was a great democratic document protecting their "rights".
With an
Authentic Constitution in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe,
and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, all individuals are
empowered equally to vote on the Principles, Policies and Programs of their
government.
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Grievance
27 - Abuse
The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically require
government agencies to show cause in an independent Court of Justice for (1)
being armed, and (2) INITIATING physical force.
Among armed agencies
that had caused wrongful death, injury, destruction of property, violation of
civil rights, and confiscation of property, were the Internal Revenue Service,
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Bureau of
Alcohol. Tobacco and Firearms, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Government abuses were blamed on
mistaken identity, unreliable informants, overzealous agents, poor judgement and
training, and violation of administrative procedures, or of law.
In 1993,
the FBI mandate of investigative police work seemed to be surpassed when it
attacked with military-type tanks and other weapons the Branch Davidian
residential complex at Waco, Texas, killing all 85 men, women and children
inside.
The FBI assault came after the BATF had gone to the complex to
search for "illegal" weapons and began a shootout with the Davidians that killed
six of the residents and four agents. No attempt had been made to detain or
question Davidian leader David Koresh on his many walks to the food market prior
to the violence.
In 1992, the BATF accused anti-government activist Randy
Weaver, of Ruby Ridge, Idaho, of selling an illegal sawed-off shotgun, and when
he refused to answer a court summons, sent 100 agents to his cabin. His wife,
baby daughter, 14-year old son and a federal marshal were shot to death in an
ensuing seige that was later determined to be a wrongful act by the
agency.
Thirty years after the fact, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled
that the FBI wrongfully acted in a political manner when it tried to have
University of California-Berkeley President Clark Kerr fired during a rebellious
1960's student free-speech movement.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Hazel
O'Leary confirmed that government scientists exposed inmates of infirmaries to
long periods of radiation to test the effects. The government said it obtained
the victim's consent, but O'Leary admitted nearly all were mentally retarded,
illiterate, or aged and unable to grasp what was happening.
A Times/CNN
poll in the mid-1990's found 52 percent of Americans questioned were deeply
concerned about these and many other abuses of government power;
"The
federal government has become so powerful that it poses a threat to the rights
and freedoms of its citizens."
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony
with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values
and Democratic Ideals, all government employees, particularly armed agents, are
held personally responsible for conduct that violates the Principles, Policies
and Practices as the people at-large may set forth in
Law.
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Grievance 28 -
Harrassment
The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically
prohibit all government interference and direct involvement with non-violent
civilian political activity.
The First Amendment prohibited Congress
from making any "law" that would interfere with freedom of the people to speak
and assemble, but it did not preclude "administrative" actions by government
agencies that could interfere, nor did it stipulate that individuals in
government were to be held liable for acts contrary to it. Consequently,
government agencies were sometimes reprimanded for unconstitutional acts, but
individuals perpetrating them in most cases escaped criminal
prosecution.
The FBI admitted in 1967 that it had a counter intelligence
program known as "Cointelpro" designed to offensively halt political activism
for change, in apparent disregard for its mandate of investigative police work
involving interstate or federal crimes. The self-assigned political involvement
of Cointelpro was clear;
"...to disrupt, misdirect, isolate and
neutralize..."
There were numerous FBI targets, among which were such
non-violent groups as Earth First, an environmental organization. The agency
compiled the names, addresses, places of employment, physical descriptions and
political relationships of hundreds of people who had merely received phone
calls from the group.
In 1990, Earth First members Judi Bari and Daryl
Cherney were driving through Oakland, California, enroute to recruit people for
a campaign to save the Redwood Forests, when a pipe bomb exploded in their car,
inflicting serious injuries on them. FBI agents told police at the scene that
the couple was dangerous;
"...the types of people who would be involved
in carrying a bomb...these people in fact qualified as terrorists."
Bari
and Cherney claimed the bomb had been planted in their car. Just one month
before the incident, the FBI had conducted a "bomb school" for law enforcement
personnel on the forested land where Earth First members had earlier chained
themselves to trees. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous
ruling;
",,,the FBI agents intended to interfere with Bari and Cherney's
First Amendment rights to demonstate and communicate their message about the
environment."
But the physical injury and constitutional violation had
already occured, and there was no serious investigation by the FBI into the
origin of the bomb, or whether law enforcement agents were involved in planting
it. Compensation for damages is unlikely when law enforcement agencies don't
cooperate in gathering evidence of wrongdoing.
An AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION
in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High
Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, prohibits harassment or infringement of
non-violent civilian political activity, and provides for possible prosecution
and personal liability of violators inside government as well as outside.
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Grievance 29 -
Spying
The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically restrict
government agencies from unlawful activities, and to hold violators personally
responsible for their actions, as was the case in the private sector.
The
Federal Bureau of Investigation, established within the U.S. Justice Department
in 1924, was initially restricted to investigate violations of Federal Laws, but
in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt verbally authorized the FBI to spy on
political activitists who were within their legal rights. In the ensuing years,
it engaged in illegal wiretaps, mail openings, and break-ins, and infiltrated
numerous groups having opposing views from prevailing U.S. doctrine. Nobody in
the agency was ever brought to justice.
Maquette University history
professor Athan Theoharis stated in his 1978 book "Spying on Americans" that the
problem worsened after World War II with the start of the Cold
War;
"Obsessed over the possibility of foreign-directed espionage and
subversion, increasingly after 1945 congressional and public opinion leaders
accepted the expansion of the FBI's, CIA's and NSA's surveillance
role."
Internal memo's indicated illegal activites by the agencies, but
they were overlooked by the Presidentially-appointed head of the Justice
Department, the Attorney General, and more than one President used the agencies
for personal political gain. Reform was unlikely, and prosecution by the AG was
most remote.
Boston University historian Robert Dailek said President
Lyndon Johnson had the FBI wiretap his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, in 1968,
to obtain his private views on the Vietnam War.
Former FBI Associate
Director William Sullivan confessed upon reviewing the record in 1975 that
fundamental questions of right and wrong were never raised in regard to
spying;
"During the ten years I was on the (internal security) board,
never once did I hear anybody, including myself, raise the question `is this
course of action which we have agreed upon lawful, is it legal, is it ethical,
is it moral?"
In the 1990's, the FBI, like Secret Government agencies
before it, established operations in foreign countries, including Russia, in a
self-expanding role that fit into President George Bush's description of a "new
world order", and added another spy agency to the foundation of a World
Empire.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic
Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals,
government agents are prosecuted for illegal
activity.
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Grievance
30 - Land Confiscation
The U.S. Constitution provided no
automatic specific means to guarantee Americans equal treatment under the
law.
In communities across the country, various government agencies
forcefully took land from lawful owners and awarded its use to others for
"redevelopment", including residential and commercial property.
In some
instances, uncooperative residents were removed from their homes by armed
agents, and structures they had lived in for many years were demolished by
bulldozer.
In a typical commercial case, a government agency took legal
steps to force the owners of a small long-established cafe to sell to the agency
at a "fair price" in order that it, in turn, could sell to other interests for
construction of a pizza restaurant and gasoline station.
Playing on the
emotion of "civic pride" and promoted by media, redevelopment programs were a
boon to commercial interests that forced improvements for their own benefit
through the corrupted power of government agencies.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, all individuals are
guaranteed equal treatment under the laws enacted by the people at-large, and
government is barred from giving favor to one commercial interest over another.
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Grievance 31 -
Intrusion
The U.S. Constitution failed to secifically require
agents of government to show in a Court of Justice "Probable Cause" in stopping,
questioning, investigating, keeping records, or otherwise intruding on an
individuals personal behavior.
The right of an individual to control
one's own body was not specifically protected. Human laws of various kinds were
enacted that impinged on private conduct that in any case was governed by higher
laws, such as Cause & Effect, or karma. Without judgement as to right or
wrong, public laws against ingestion of substances deemed "harmful", suicide,
and mother-induced expulsion of a fetus from the womb (abortion), were intrusive
to personal actions affecting no separate individual.
Legally-required
wearing of seat belts and safety helmets to save public costs incurred by
possible injury, was a common intrusion into personal conduct that could be
covered by licensing fees.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony
with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values
and Democratic Ideals, individuals have an unalienable right to govern their own
bodies, so long as the rights of other individuals are not infringed.
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Grievance 32
- Collusion
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit government
agencies from joint operations and agreements that deceived the American
taxpayers of illegal activity, and to specifically protect disclosurers on the
inside.
While the government issued denials, numerous newspapers,
magazines and independent researchers reported on arms and drug operations that
involved both U.S. and Israeli agents. On December 14, 1987, the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette reported that a CIA pilot, Barry Seal, had used the Mena,
Arkansas airport as a drop-off point for drugs flown from Central America. The
newspaper said the Internal Revenue Service had seized Seal's assets after he
disclosed the truth, and that he was later found slain. The report said federal
officials interfered in local law enforcement investigation of the drug
operation. Six months later, the newspaper reported that a former military
investigator gave a sworn deposition claiming that he engaged in drug-smuggling
and gun-running with the consent of both the CIA and the Drug Enforcement
Administration.
In a 1994 book titled "Compromised; Clinton, Bush and the
CIA", Terry Reed gave an eye-witness account of the Mena operation.
On
October 18, 1994, the Wall Street Journal reported that an IRS investigator
documented drug profits and money "laundering" in Arkansas. The agent also said
the U.S. Justice Department wanted him to lie to a grand jury.
Time
Magazine reported that CIA facilities in Venezuela were used to store l,000
kilos of cocaine headed for the U.S., and Nation Magazine reported the CIA
helped put drug cartel leaders in power in Bolivia in 1980.
Former U.S.
Navy pilot, veteran commercial airline pilot, and Federal Aeronautics
Administration investigator, Rodney Stich, published a detailed expose' of
government collusion in "Defrauding America" in 1993. Former "deep cover" CIA
and DEA operatives came forward to Stich after he earlier published government
coverups that he had officially investigated involving airline crashes caused by
equipment failure, but blamed on "pilot error";
"Federal officials
covered up...serious violations of important federal air safety requirements by
(the airline) management, and the record-falsification associated with the
practice."
Stich detailed the "October surprise" coverup which altered
the 1980 Presidential election, the Iran-Contra arms for drugs deal, and
collusion with the Israeli Mossad.
Stich's attempts to bring documented
evidence of collusion to the attention of the judicial, executive and
legislative branches of government were rejected, often under mysterious
circumstances.
Government disclosurers, or "whistleblowers", often had
their lives, or the lives of their families threatened for making public
disclosure of wrongdoing.
In the 1992 Presidential election, Third Party
candidate Ross Perot promised not to use the drugs and arms smuggling issues in
his campaign against Clinton and Bush, forestalling complete nationwide
disclosure of the truth and any possible complicity. Clinton was Arkansas
Governor and Bush, a former CIA Director, was Vice President at the time of the
Mena drug operation.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, disclosurers of alleged collusion or other wrongdoing in
government are fully protected, and investigation and prosecution is
ongoing.
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Grievance
33 - Unequal Treatment
The U.S. Constitution failed to set down
in constitutional Law the principle of equal rights for all individuals. Even
the Declaration of Independence, as the forerunner to the Constitution, was
flawed; "We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created
equal..."
"Women" were, therefore, unequal. Moreover, the founding
Constitution was absent of guaranteeing the equality of females of all races,
and both males and females of the black race, which translated in common
practice to "ownership", or enslavement, by white men. American history books
were replete with details of much inhumanity, and the tribulation that finally
resulted in enactment of federal laws attempting to correct the constitutional
flaw.
Reverse inequality was later seen in governmental policies that
gave preferential, or unequal, treatment to racial groups that were still
discriminated against, but the reverse discrimination was an ongoing political
issue for lack of constitutional finality.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, the legal rights of all
individuals are protected equally.
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Grievance 34 -
Killing
The U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights set forth an
imprecise provision on the matter of the death penalty for
crimes;
Article VIII - "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted."
Punishment by death, then made legal by federal and some
state governments for certain crimes, was not regarded as excessive even to
religionists who, while declaring the nation's roots were in the Bible, evaded
the clear contradiction and violation of the precise Commandment "Thou shalt not
kill".
Great debates occurred over whether the threat of taking a
criminals life was a deterrent against crime by others, but it was never proven
statistically. Most often, the act of murder was an emotional outburst of the
moment, and many prominent people such as The Dalai Lama argued against
it;
",,,it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its
very finality, the death penalty contradicts this."
A fundamental
contradiction of the death penalty, the act of a collective group calling itself
"government" taking a human life, was that the same group made it illegal for an
individual to do so, even as punishment, which was an illogical double-standard
from the perspective of conscience.
Entering the 21st century, growing
numbers of people regarded killing of human beings under any circumstances as a
mark of an unsophisticated, revengeful, spiritually-dead and negative society,
with no hope for human correction and, therefore, unworthy of calling itself
civilized.
Historically, a government ban on the death penalty would
have saved such leaders as Jesus and Socrates, as well as many common
individuals over the centuries who were later found to be innocent of the crime
for which they were killed.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony
with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values
and Democratic Ideals, the life of all separately-functioning human beings is
protected, and criminals are confined until
corrected.
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Grievance
35 - Health Threats
The U.S. Constitution failed to provide
specific standards for clean air, water and soil to protect life. As a result,
the entire environment, from space to subsurface, deteriorated from widespread
government and private development and discharge of harmful
substances.
Tons of debris from various government space programs,
ranging in size fom a head of lettuce to refrigerators, orbited the planet in
whirling junkyards that threatened collision with space shuttles, satellites,
and other useful technology. Re-entry into Earth's atmosphere posed a problem to
the point space-trash pickup service was considered after just 40 years of
launchings.
Surface air pollution could be seen everywhere by orbiting
astronauts, and official studies found the worst was in Los Angeles, Mexico
City, Jakarta, Moscow, Beijing, Cairo and Sao Paulo. Surface air quality
worsened with rising levels of gases, mostly carbon dioxide, caused mainly from
burning fossil fuels such as oil and coal, but also including such things as
burning used rubber tires. CO2 was known to stay in the atmosphere from 50 to
200 years. U.S carbon dioxide emissions rose eight percent between 1989-95, and
more than 3 1/2 percent in 1996 alone. Industry that depended on traditional
energy sources waged expensive political battles against stronger emission
controls.
Health-damaging chemicals were in everyday use and entering the
human food chain through plants, animals, and water. While acknowledging that
food was contaminated with toxins that kill insects and can cause human
problems, government agencies argued that the economic well-being of farmers was
of equal concern. Farmers using antibiotics in chickens, cattle and fruit
orchards created drug-resistant germs that showed up in common foods.
Chemicals sprayed on farm crops remained trapped in the atmsphere,
posing a health threat to millions of people even miles away. The government
sprayed marijuana crops with chemicals intended to kill plants, and the airborne
toxins spread over wide areas on the wind affecting the health of unknown
numbers.
Dairy waste was illegally polluting water resources, gasoline
fuel additives poisoned drinking water and were blamed for cancer, and once
crystalline fishing waters harbored deadly PCB's, waste oils, and diesel-fuel
additives that contaminated sea food.
Navy sources spilled thousands of
gallons of fuel, lubricating oil, and other pollutants in American waters on the
average of every two days between 1990-97 while being exempt from restrictions
imposed on commercial vessels.
The advent of nuclear weapons and nuclear
power created new environmental hazards. Author Stephen I. Schwartz disclosed in
his 1998 book "Atomic Audit" that eleven U.S. nuclear bombs which could not be
retrieved after air crashes over 50 years posed a long-term danger of radiation
leaks.
Government nuclear test explosions released deadly radiation both
above and below ground surface. There were 925 nuclear weapons tests by the U.S.
from the beginning of the nuclear age in the 1940's to 1990, including on
humans, and 204 were secret. Newsweek Magazine reported the testing in its
December 27, 1993 issue; "For years the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy
Commission were conducting all manner of secret tests--from releasing clouds of
radiation into the atmosphere in a determined attempt to build bigger and better
bombs, to irradiating the testicles of prison inmates in order to find out how
much would cause sterility."
Cleaning up nuclear sites was an additional
burden on taxpayers. For Oakridge, Tennessee alone, the estimate was up to $3
billion and many years.
While expressing concern about nuclear
proliferation, the U.S. hosted scientists from other nations at its development
facilities, including 814 from India and 30 from Pakistan between 1994-96, two
years before those countries began their own test explosions. Not all
governments in possession of nuclear weapons were willing to sign treaties
banning tests and proliferation.
The threat of nuclear radioactivity also
came from peaceful uses. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the
Soviet Union exploded sending at least eight tons of poison around the world on
the planetary jetstream, assuring illness, disfigurement and possible death for
unknown numbers of all life forms. The radiation was blamed for ill effects ten
years after the explosion, and fuel rods containing uranium were stolen from the
site posing an additional threat.
Impending meltdowns at hundreds of
nuclear power plants, and the dumping of tons of radioactive waste that could
contaminate food, water and air, was a constant health threat. Dangerous nuclear
waste piled up at the rate of 2,000 tons per year at 72 power plants in the
U.S., and the nuclear power industry sued the government for taxpayers funds to
pay for maintenance of their highly dangerous dumps.
Nuclear-powered
U.S. warships were dubbed "floating Chernobyl's" in the wake of several serious
accidents aboard some vessels.
Seventy two pounds of plutonium, the toxic
radioactive metal used as the nuclear explosive in warheads, was launched by the
U.S. aboard the Cassini space probe to Saturn in 1998. Medical research told of
plutoniums danger;
"Plutonium lives for 500,000 years and is so toxic
that one-millionth of a gram is carcinogenic."
More than 30 years after
plutonium from the government laboratory at Livermore, California, ended up in a
soil additive, health investigators tried to locate the hot spots. Soil given
away in 1967 to city parks and private property owners contained radioactive
sewage from the lab.
The birthplace of plutonium, a government facility
in Berkeley, California, drew strong opposition to its ongoing research. Among
the opposition leaders was Dale Nesbitt, who was employed as an engineer at the
governments Lawrence National Laboratory;
"Since we have created this
absolute monstrosity which can still destroy all life on this planet, Berkeley
also ought to be a place where we stop it."
Scientists tried to make
radioactive waste harmless by using nuclear accelerators to change the atom and,
thus, not have to "send it into space", or bury it five miles below the Earth's
surface with no relief from health threats or unending dumping costs.
The
U.S. operated an "Atoms for Peace" program in which some nations were provided
with highly enriched uranium, and their waste was brought back for storage in
the U.S. The shipments were highly secret.
Trash at the Hanford,
Washington city dump was found to be radioactive from contact with ants, flies,
gnats and rodents from the 560 square mile Hanford nuclear complex that produced
plutonium for 40 years. The complex became highly radioactive, requiring
billions of taxpayers dollars for cleanup.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION
in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High
Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, the people at-large vote on standards for
clean air, water and
soil.
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Grievance 36 -
Vote Fraud
The U.S, Constitution, while posing a "representative
form" of government, failed to establish specific procedures to ensure integrity
of the voting system and protect the nation against fraudulent
powerholders.
Charges of election-stealing were frequent throughout the
nation's history, including the first election in which Lyndon B. Johnson became
a member of Congress from Texas, a position that launched him on the road to the
Presidency. The contest was reported close enough for a recount, but the ballots
were allegedly destroyed in a deliberately set fire.
In 1996, the
non-governmental Virginia-based Voting Integrity Project investigated an
election in Louisiana in which the U.S. Senate seat was decided by a vote margin
of 5,788 out of 1.7 million cast;
"Probable cause exists to believe that
large scale violations of federal and state law have occured. The most serious
include the purchasing of votes, multiple voting, and the casting of fraudulent
votes."
The "losing" candidate was ahead by 95,000 votes outside New
Orleans when the polls closed, but 70 of the city's 474 voting precincts had not
reported their tallies even two hours after closing, When they finally reported,
they gave the opposing candidate 100,000 votes to win.
Under Louisiana
law, computer voting machines were to be opened later for election "observers"
and the totals verified, but the machines had been opened before they were
allowed to view them. Independent investigators learned that 1,380 votes were
cast by "residents" of a public housing project regarded officially as vacant.
U.S. law required states to allow people to sign as voters by mail or at
various unsupervised locations. An investigative reporter tested the system with
25 bogus voter applications containing false names, addresses and dates of
birth, to government registrars and 20 were accepted. A common complaint
everywhere was that deceased voters names were being used by imposters. With
introduction of computer voting machines, there were numerous challenges
regarding possible pre-programming for desired results.
In the heat of
politcally partisan elections and with great power to be gained, fraudulent
scenarios were reported throughout the nation from time to time. Enforcement of
federal laws against vote fraud was in the hands of partisan political
interests. The U.S. Attorney General and regional U.S. Attorneys who were
designated to prosecute federal law violations, were themselves appointed to the
posts by the winners of potentially fraudulent elections.
The integrity
of a voting system is paramount to the integrity of a government "of the people,
by the people, for the people". Essential backup for verification of computer
machines, for example, would include hand-ballots with fingerprints and
telephones with voiceprint technology. but none was in place as the 20th century
passed into history.
Under an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, specific procedures are set forth to ensure the integrity of
each persons vote on all governmental principles, policies and practices, and
prosecution of law violations is the responsibility of a verifiably elected U.S.
Attorney General.
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Grievance 37 - Controlling
The U.S. Constitution
failed to protect Americans from the government being controlled by "special
interests", a news media euphemism for forces that capitalized on the political
system to gain self-serving benefits. The forces became an oligarchy of
controllers and manipulators of government power in the U.S. and beyond.
The nation had a long history of domestic and foreign actions carrying
out primarily the desires of organized money and labor elements, that were
widely researched, documented and reported on almost a daily basis, and brought
forward among these Grievances to a candid world.
Most prominent among
the money elements in the 20th century was the Rockefeller family empire. From
its oil roots in the 1800's, it also mastered banking and finance, and placed
its representatives in influential government appointive positions, as well as
in elective offices.
The best illustration of the money element coming
together to control power was evidenced in New York banker David Rockefeller's
formation and funding in 1973 of the "Trilateral Commission". He selected some
200 financially powerful like-thinkers from North America, Western Europe and
Japan to solidify economic and political activities of the three regions,
setting precedent for a World Empire of controllers and
manipulators.
Among the first to be invited to join the Trilateral
organization were top executives of Exxon, Shell, Caterpillar Tractor, Texas
Instruments, Sony, Hitachi, Toyota and Fiat. Bankers included representatives
from Barclay's Bank, Harriman and Company, Bank of Tokyo, Continental Illinois
National Bank, and Bank of America. To support the money interests publicly,
media representatives were invited from the most powerful publications in the
U.S., the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles
Times, Chicago Sun-Times and Time Magazine.
Among the aims of some money
interests was elimination of democratic processes for international trade
agreements. They sought to get around normal Senate debate with "fast track"
lawmaking by Presidential directive. Such control, of course, would hand power
to a single person to profit political supporters and punish
enemies.
Also facilitating control by money interests internationally
were such treaties as the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was not
free trade in fact, but fixed trade for certain beneficiary's. Free trade,
whereby people buy and sell whatever, whenever and wherever they choose, is
absent of government authority or qualification in any way, a most natural
activity barred by government.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony
with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values
and Democratic Ideals, control of government is in the hands of all individuals
equally by the democratic process of one-person, one-vote on all policies and
programs.
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Grievance
38 - Oppression
The U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights failed to
clearly define boundaries for private property leading to charges of unjust use
of government power.
Besides grievances of personal privacy invasion
posted elsewhere to a candid world, emotional debate revolved around the U.S.
flag with demands that an Amendment to the Constitution be ratified that would
ban burning the emblem as a protest against the government. The question of
whether individuals had the right to destroy their private property on
privately-owned land was lost in the dispute over what the flag was intended to
represent.
Restaurant and bar owners complained that government banning
of smoking on their premises was another form of oppression, especially in those
cases where patrons had no complaint and even defied the ban.
At the
beginning of the 20th century, the Anti- Cigarette League of America lobbied
some city and state politicians to outlaw the private use of "coffin nails",
which became private property at purchase, and the laws were later repealed as
unworkable. Prohibition of liquor was likewise a failure, as noted elsewhere.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws
of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals,
individuals rights, including what comprises private property, are clearly
defined.
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Grievance
39 - Criminalizing
The U.S. Constitution failed to protect
Americans from government's criminalizing and discriminatory laws regarding
toxic products, and their freedom to ingest them, even if harmful.
The
government waged "war" against alcohol in the early part of the 20th century,
and then against marijuana after losing the first. Alcohol "prohibition"
beginning in 1920 resulted in a widespread illegal industry operated by people
who garnered huge profits by secretly manufacturing and selling alcohol products
to consumers who did not secretly produce their own. Many city streets became
unsafe as "gangs" battled for control of territory to sell it. When the ban was
repealed in 1933, there were self-made millionaires ready to do legitimate
business, and politicians came under their influence to decriminalize it.
A few years later, the government began a propaganda war against a
competitor of alcohol, marijuana. The government film "Reefer Madness" attacked
the smoking of the drug and it was made illegal with no evidence that it was
physically harmful or a danger to others. Alcohol, on the other hand, was known
to be harmful not only to users, but also to other people. It was a factor in 75
percent of personal abuse cases, and a contributor to high percentages in
incest, rape, murder, robbery and auto accidents.
By the 1980's, the "war
on drugs" included the use of military units in attacking marijuana fields,
sometimes with toxic sprays, and raids on methamphetamine laboratories in homes
and cars. Streets were again unsafe as gangs battled over territory to sell
drugs of all kinds at inflated blackmarket prices, and Secret Government
(Grievance 2) complicity in the multi-billion dollar illegal drug operations was
disclosed by CIA and other informers. Some drug users were lured into becoming
criminal suppliers in order to locate and arrest more suspects. $97 million of
taxpayers funds was paid to informers in 1993 alone.
A Cato Institute
study found that criminalized drug users with no prior record were sentenced to
one year longer in jail, on average, than violent criminals. A Federal Judicial
Center report in 1994 said 70 percent of prison population growth over the
previous nine years was attributable to lengthy drug sentences. Jails overflowed
and prison construction became a major taxpayers expense.
Repeat drunk
driving offenders, meantime, were still driving, as in the case of a five-time
loser who struck and killed a four year old child. A U.N. meeting on drugs in
1998, involving about 150 countries, was assessed by Ethan Nadelmann, director
of the Lindesmith Center, a private drug policy research institute;
"The
U.N. drug summit is perhaps the biggest pep rally ever in the failed war on
drugs."
Mike Gray, author of "Drug Crazy; How We Got Into This Mess and
How We Can Get Out", said the drug war resulted in trampling American
rights;
"To break up what is essentially a private transaction, they
inevitably have to resort to some subterfuge that will trample the Constitution,
whether it's turning your kid into a junkie or splintering your front door
without bothering to knock, or forcing you to the pavement because you happen to
be an African-American male."
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony
with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values
and Democratic Ideals, an individuals free choice is protected to ingest even
harmful products, while others have the right to protect themselves from all
offensive behavior.
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Grievance 40 - Intimidation
The U.S.
Constitution failed to specifically protect Americans from government operating
by secret, illegal or improper means, including to fund itself. Senate hearings
in 1997 revealed how the Internal Revenue Service intimidated and caused anguish
and injury to many Americans innocent of any criminal act, while operating on a
policy contrary to American jurisprudence that instilled widespread
fear.
Beginning in 1913, under Article XVI of the Constitution, that some
claim was never legally approved, the government imposed a small tax on personal
income that was raised over ensuing years to as much as 45 percent in some
cases, with the IRS designated as the collection agency. By 1996, the agency was
collecting $7.3 billion to finance itself for one year, plus $1.7 trillion for
the remainder of government, and abuse of taxpayers was common. Senate Finance
Committee Chairman William Roth said the system was not healthy;
"The
income tax is losing the confidence of the American people."
Roth noted
that even internal audits found serious fault with its operations;
"...a
stunning confession of the sins of the IRS."
The IRS Operators Manual, a
secret document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act in the 1970's,
was highly censored. The many deleted sections raised suspicion of tactics that
could bring strong criticism and force changes. In 1997 alone, the agency
admitted to 10,000 property seizures with one in four conducted improperly.
Income tax laws grew complicated with tax breaks, and IRS answers to
taxpayer inquiries were often inconsistent. Many taxpayers felt it necessary to
hire professional help out of fear that the agency would impose fines, plus
interest, even for honest errors.
Politicians added deception to the IRS
process. Through added fines and interest totalling $18.3 billion in 1996,
Congress avoided directly raising taxes on income for added revenue.
In
Senate hearings, IRS agent and "whistleblower" Jennifer Long disclosed some of
the internal operations;
"I have actually witnessed IRS manage- ment
manipulate income tax return figures just to increase their office or division
collection statistics...(they) extract unfairly assessed taxes from taxpayers,
literally ruining families, lives and businesses...all unnecessarily and
sometimes illegally."
Delaware construction contractor Tom Savage
testified that he paid $50,000 to the agency when it disputed his tax
payments;
"...when the resources of the government are unleashed on you,
you are in trouble no matter how good your case."
Savage paid $51,000 for
a defense attorney.
Low and middle income taxpayers with no money to
hire a professional tax filer or hire an attorney in disputes with the IRS, were
often targets for auditing while, at the same time, agents were told not to
audit friends of the agency's management.
Senate testimony revealed that
citizen complaints sent to the IRS' inspection division were routinely ignored,
and agency employees who reported internal problems became targets of
retaliation. Fear of the agency's power was widespread.
Abuse was
alleged by a small business couple who claimed they had been singled out because
they had become strong competitors of some influential business interests that
had political connections;
"The IRS seized our financial records and
placed a lien on our bank account for taxes we did not owe, preventing us from
using the records and money to defend ourselves. We think our com- petitors were
behind the agency's action."
The IRS operated on a policy opposite of the
standard of American jurisprudence that a person is "innocent until proven
guilty" until 1998, when the burden of proof was placed accordingly on the
agency.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic
Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals,
government services are provided through non-intimidating and non-intrusive
subscription and
enlistment.
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Grievance
41 - Tampering
Due to the lack of a penalty provision in the
U.S. Constitution, judicial court judges often failed to fully inform jurors of
their power to nullify the law in the case being heard. Instead, judges told
jurors that they must decide the case on the "facts" presented, a form of jury
tampering.
The freedom of jurors to ignore the facts and even disregard
the law was a safeguard against over-zealous government prosecutors,
politically-appointed judges, and bad law, which was the earlier experience in
England in the case of William Penn.
In 1789, the first Chief Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay;
"The jury has a right to judge both the
law as well as the fact in controversy."
In 1796, Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Chase;
"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the
facts."
In 1902, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes;
"The
jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and
fact."
In 1941, Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone;
"The
law itself is on trial as much as the cause which is to be decided."
With
an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the
universe, producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, judges are
automatically removed from office for failing to fully inform jurors of the
right to nullify laws in the case being
heard.
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Grievance
42 - Injustice
The U.S. Constitution was flawed in creating a
Judiciary Branch of government in which officers were selected by a political
process. The system resulted in frequent protests over alleged partisanship,
unfair and unequal treatment.
The Constitution authorized the President,
a person who was the product of partisan politics, to appoint friends and allies
to positions of exceptional power upon Senate confirmation;
Article II,
Section 2: ...(shall appoint) "Judges of the supreme Court. and all other
Officers of the United States..."
The nation's top politician could name
federal court judges, U.S. prosecuting attorneys in districts throughout the
country, the Attorney General as top federal law enforcement officer, the
Director of the FBI, and other law officers.
Democrat Presidents were
accused of "stacking" the system with appointees having a liberal bias, while
Republican Presidents were accused of naming people with a conservative bias.
The Supreme Court was itself judged by the media as being composed mostly of
people with leanings one way or the other, and it was a serious consideration
for many people in voting for President.
A showcase example of the
Constitution politicizing justice was the power of the President to pardon
persons accused or convicted of crimes, and to commute sentences
single-handedly. President Richard Nixon (1969-74), accused of "high crimes" in
office, escaped justice by appointing his personally- selected Vice President,
Gerald Ford, to succeed him as President, with Ford issuing a pardon.
The system invited political paybacks, tributes, partisanship and other
corrupt practices. One President named a person to a federal Appeals Court bench
where the individuals mother was also a sitting judge. People who charged
prejudicial treatment were caught in a web of politically-connected officers
with partisan considerations.
The federal politicized system was
mimicked in state constitutions. After 16 years of Republican governors,
California's 1,500 member judicial branch weighed heavily with former
prosecutors and business lawyers, but had little representation from consumer,
labor, environmental or low income backgrounds.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, selection of Judicial Branch
officers is based solely on
merit.
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Grievance
43 - Indebtedness
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit
politicians from placing the American people at-large into unlimited taxation
and debt ;
"Article 1 Section 8" - The Congress shall have power to lay
and collect taxes (including on income under Article XVI)....(and) to borrow
Money on the credit of the United States."
Congress set its own debt
ceiling and raised it periodically on a continuing upward swing, while also
determining tax levels in connection with government budgeting, with no
referendum required for submission to the taxpayers at-large.
In 1998,
while approving a $520 billion spending bill, the government claimed a $60
billion "surplus" which was strongly disputed by a number of economics
specialists, including Professor Walter E. Williams, of George Mason University,
who said it was a hoax;
"The federal government uses accounting practices
that, if used by private companies, would land the CEO and the board of trustees
in jail."
Williams said the government credited itself with a surplus by
including money that was actually committed to future payments in such trust
programs as Social Security, leaving a $200 billion budger deficit.
Over
the years, deficit spending threw American taxpayers into a debt of $5.42
trillion, with interest payments on the debt of $24 billion per month, and
heading toward $1 billion per day.
World-renowned political economist
David P. Calleo devoted his 1992 book "The Bankruptcy of America" to show how
government deficits lead to ruin;
"Debt has to be serviced. All other
things remaining equal, servicing a bigger debt means less income for public
needs in the future."
Calleo argued the debt problem cannot be cured by
spending less or even raising taxes. Among other things, wasteful and
unproductive spending must end, and ways must be found to improve American
productivity, the Gross National Product.
In the book "Common Cents" with
co-author Major Garrett, U.S. Representative Timothy Penny charged that there
was a conspiracy among his colleagues to protect the indebtedness system that
was sinking taxpayers into a bottomless pit;
"We will spend more on these
interest payments alone than we will spend on education, job training, social
services, law enforcement, science and technology, agriculture, foreign aid,
environmental protection, and veterans programs combined."
One proposed
solution to interest on borrowed money was for government to issue its own
interest-free money to pay its own bills, but entrenched powers opposed the
change.
American taxpayers were committed by politicians to pay $12
billion annually in "foreign aid", including $3 billion each to Israel and
Egypt, and were committed to additional billions for other governments around
the world which the International Monetary Fund and World Bank
controlled.
The Constitution also permitted politicians to grant relief
from private indebtedness. While politicians claimed a "good" economy in the
U.S., Americans were deep in unpaid personal credit card debt amounting to an
estimated $40 billion in 1997 alone when 1.4 million of them took relief through
bankruptcy laws. This represented a 300 percent increase in 17 years. Many
businesses encouraged personal indebtedness to balloon their "sales"
figures.
Failure to repay credit card debt under bankruptcy laws forced
higher consumer costs for goods and services. Likewise, hundreds of business
operators were granted legal escape from debt repayment every year, resulting in
creditors balancing the loss by increasing charges.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Law of the universe, and
producing High Moral Value and Democratic Ideals, individuals are free to choose
whether to be indebted to others, public or private, and are personally
responsible for "settlement" of
debt.
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Grievance 43
- Indebtedness
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit
politicians from placing the American people at-large into unlimited taxation
and debt ;
"Article 1 Section 8" - The Congress shall have power to lay
and collect taxes (including on income under Article XVI)....(and) to borrow
Money on the credit of the United States."
Congress set its own debt
ceiling and raised it periodically on a continuing upward swing, while also
determining tax levels in connection with government budgeting, with no
referendum required for submission to the taxpayers at-large.
In 1998,
while approving a $520 billion spending bill, the government claimed a $60
billion "surplus" which was strongly disputed by a number of economics
specialists, including Professor Walter E. Williams, of George Mason University,
who said it was a hoax;
"The federal government uses accounting practices
that, if used by private companies, would land the CEO and the board of trustees
in jail."
Williams said the government credited itself with a surplus by
including money that was actually committed to future payments in such trust
programs as Social Security, leaving a $200 billion budger deficit.
Over
the years, deficit spending threw American taxpayers into a debt of $5.42
trillion, with interest payments on the debt of $24 billion per month, and
heading toward $1 billion per day.
World-renowned political economist
David P. Calleo devoted his 1992 book "The Bankruptcy of America" to show how
government deficits lead to ruin;
"Debt has to be serviced. All other
things remaining equal, servicing a bigger debt means less income for public
needs in the future."
Calleo argued the debt problem cannot be cured by
spending less or even raising taxes. Among other things, wasteful and
unproductive spending must end, and ways must be found to improve American
productivity, the Gross National Product.
In the book "Common Cents" with
co-author Major Garrett, U.S. Representative Timothy Penny charged that there
was a conspiracy among his colleagues to protect the indebtedness system that
was sinking taxpayers into a bottomless pit;
"We will spend more on these
interest payments alone than we will spend on education, job training, social
services, law enforcement, science and technology, agriculture, foreign aid,
environmental protection, and veterans programs combined."
One proposed
solution to interest on borrowed money was for government to issue its own
interest-free money to pay its own bills, but entrenched powers opposed the
change.
American taxpayers were committed by politicians to pay $12
billion annually in "foreign aid", including $3 billion each to Israel and
Egypt, and were committed to additional billions for other governments around
the world which the International Monetary Fund and World Bank
controlled.
The Constitution also permitted politicians to grant relief
from private indebtedness. While politicians claimed a "good" economy in the
U.S., Americans were deep in unpaid personal credit card debt amounting to an
estimated $40 billion in 1997 alone when 1.4 million of them took relief through
bankruptcy laws. This represented a 300 percent increase in 17 years. Many
businesses encouraged personal indebtedness to balloon their "sales"
figures.
Failure to repay credit card debt under bankruptcy laws forced
higher consumer costs for goods and services. Likewise, hundreds of business
operators were granted legal escape from debt repayment every year, resulting in
creditors balancing the loss by increasing charges.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Law of the universe, and
producing High Moral Value and Democratic Ideals, individuals are free to choose
whether to be indebted to others, public or private, and are personally
responsible for "settlement" of
debt.
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Grievance 45
- Debasing Money
The U.S. Constitution allowed money interests
to take control of the nation's money supply and manipulate it, resulting in a
loss of purchasing power for Americans at-large.
John Maynard Keynes,
prominent British economist of the early 1900's, said there was a process by
which the forces of economic law could destroy a society, and few people were
informed enough to diagnose it; "There is no subtler, no surer way of
overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the
currency."
U.S. money was slowly corupted as if Keynes' idea was put into
practice against the better judgment of many prominent people, including
President Thomas Jefferson (1801-09);
"If the American people ever allow
the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, then by
de- flation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will de-
prive the people of all their property..."
But in 1913, the government
authorized some powerful banks under the Federal Reserve Act to "control the
issuance", and over time the nations paper currency was made non-redeemable in
silver, or "hard" money, as formerly guaranteed on the face of it. The words
"silver certificate" and "payable to the bearer on demand" were removed and,
instead, the valueless words "Federal Reserve Note" appeared.
"Inflation" became a matter of ongoing concern for the American people
as the purchasing power of one-dollar fell to about ten cents in the last half
of the 20th century.
Economists agreed that unsupported "note" value set
by mere fiat, or arbitrary decree, would be worthless if the economy collapsed,
forcing people to surrender all their property to holders of liens in payment of
their debts. There would be no backup of silver previously promised.
The
banking system itself is protested in greater detail in a separate grievance to
a candid world.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the
natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, money and barter systems are established by willing exchange
of a free people.
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Grievance 46 -
Power Peddling
The U.S. Constitution allowed the creation of an
immensely powerful central government that attracted influence-buyers from
throughout the nation and around the world. By 1994, there were an estimated
90,000 buyers, or "lobbyists", in what was regarded as the U.S. Capitol's most
powerful and unregulated free-for-all industry, with a long history of bribes,
kickbacks and payoffs involving the holders of power who could peddle it.
Influence-buyers spent $100 million every month in the mid-1990's to
sway in one way or another 535 politicians in Congress, plus officials in the
Executive Branch, bureaucrats, and other people with decision-making power. Some
politicians retired from office to become buyers of power themselves, including
for foreign governments, knowing the inside means to winning favors. Over a
period of 18 months, 304 poliicians and government officials became well-paid
lobbyists for industries they formerly oversaw.
"The Economist", a
British publication, described the U.S. picture this way; "America has the most
advanced influence-peddling industry in the world. Washington's culture of
influence-for-hire is uniquely open to all buyers, foreign and domestic... its
lawful ways of corrupting public policy remain unrivaled."
The
publication "Japan Economic Journal" was blunt in its assessment of the U.S.
Capitol;
"Influence n Washington is just like in Indonesia. It's for
sale.
"The American publication, "The New Republic", emphasized the legal
question;
"The real scandal in Washington is not what is done illegally,
but what is done legally."
Public policy was up for legal sale by
politicians who could benefit by campaign contributions. One example was the
founder of a company that sold information about individuals and who contributed
$100,000 to a political party to try to defeat right-to-privacy proposals.
At the height of a 1998 debate on raising ceilings on political campaign
financing, Senator John McCain predicted more people would go to jail for
violations of the limits already established;
"...there is probably some
scandal going on now as we speak, because the system has become so badly
corrupted."
Government investigators intercepted communications that
China planned to spend at least $2 million to influence U.S. elections in 1996
by channeling money through corporations into political campaigns, an illegal
act. A political party fundraiser said he received $300,000 from a high ranking
Chinese Army officer who was also an executive in that governments
rocket-manufacturing company.
Regardless of political party or
persuasion, influence buying and power peddling abounded throughout the system,
even to seemingly incidental levels. Researchers published books showing close
connections between prominent big business operators such as Democrat Edwin
Pauley, and Republicans George Bush, and brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles,
working together through such agencies as the CIA.
One study showed
corporations, trade groups and other influence buyers spent $6.4 million in one
year to provide free travel for members of Congress. Aspen Institute spent the
most money, $437,000 to pay for trips to various conferences. A Taiwan business
group provided free travel amounting to $328,000 and the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee paid for 58 trips to Israel.
Money spent to influence
lawmaking, legally or illegally, may be expected under any form of government,
but when all government power resides in the hands of a relative handful of
politicians representing tens of millions of people, such a system is unbalanced
and undemocratic at best, and unjust at the very least.
With an
AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe,
and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, power peddling is at its
lowest ebb, as lawmaking is in the hands of all individuals equally, a direct
democracy.
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Grievance
47 - Corruption
The U.S. Constitution created a political system
readily corruptible. The "representative form" of government invited crimes of
corruption, and many people were convicted both inside and outside government
from the time of its founding.
At any given moment, some kind of
corruption of governing power was reported at the federal, state or local level,
giving rise to widespread acquiesence and the attitude "it's just the way things
are". A poll by Time Magazine in 1992 showed that four out of five Americans
believed the government was corrupt.
Every level of elective office and
many government agencies, were constant targets of corrupting forces for special
favors, while some powerholders created their own corruption by offering favors
in return for money, gifts, and other benefits. A single investigation of
corruption surrounding the California Legislature resulted in convictions of 13
people.
But there was another form of corruption built into the
representative form of government, as George Mason University economics
Professor Walter Williams noted; "If Archer Daniels Midland's CEO used goons and
violence against competitors, he'd risk a jail sentence. He accomplishes the
same outcome by paying congressmen to pass re- strictive laws... (and) the
bottom line enforcement mechanism is the same; intimidation, threats and
coercion."
The power of a relatively small number of "represenatives" to
interfere with the naturally free and peaceful interaction of millions of
Americans was a jealously guarded power by politicians and the people who used
them. Business, labor, and professional people pumped money into political
candidates and parties who most likely would favor their own money interests.
Election costs increased steadily and campaign contrbutions often had the effect
of legalized bribery.
In 1994, U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, a Democrat
seeking re-election, received almost $1 million from banking, finance, real
estate and insurance money interests, while Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a
Republican, topped the figure by $143,000 from the same group of influence
buyers. Both were members of the powerful Senate Banking Committee which, like
all other legislative committees, could enact laws to favor money interests.
Seven months before the 1998 elections, U.S. Senate candidates had
already raised $140.3 million in campaign contributions. One Representative
raised $11 million trying to unseat an incumbent Senator. Several Senators were
themselves millionaires and had the advantage over political opponents of being
in the public eye, and outsider millionaires became more frequent in campaigning
for the insider seats of power. Nobody became a viable candidate for a
moderate-to-major office without an amount of money well beyond the average
persons holdings.
Ways to attempt to overcome the money influence in
politics, such as requiring taxpayers to finance candidates, were discussed, but
only diverted the public mind from dealing with the far more critical and
fundamental issue of where the "power" of government should reside; among an
elected few, or among all equally.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in
harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral
Values and Democratic Ideals, corrupting influence of the system is negligible
with each person qualified to vote on all government principles, policies and
programs.
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Grievance
48 - Forfeiture
The U.S. Constitution failed to require the
government to convict an American of a crime before seizing the citizens
property. Federal statutes allowed seizure of property without filing a charge,
and even when an individual was judged not guilty.
"Civil asset
forfeiture" became a common occurrence as law enforcement agencies sought to
crack down on crime. In a case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, a woman was
deprived of the car which she owned with her husband after he was convicted of
being in it with a prostitute. The Court ruled 5-4 that she could be deprived of
her part ownership even though she was innocent of any crime.
Most
forfeitures were not challenged in court because the owners felt the value of
the property was not worth a lawyer's fee to present the case.
After
years of injustice, politicians sought to correct the problem by enacting
legislation that should have been a part of the Constitution's Bill of Rights,
and by such definition that no court of justice could dismiss a rightful owners
part of legal property, no matter how small its dollar value.
With an
AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe,
and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, government is
constitutionally bound to prove "cause" for seizure of private property, instead
of owners to prove
innocence.
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Grievance
49 - Unresponsiveness
The U.S. Constitution created a government
that, while made possible by payment of taxes to it, disallowed the payees from
rightful claim to "surpluses", or any direct determination in what programs
their money would fund.
Unlike responsive businesses that refunded
customers who overcharged, government was not held to the same principle. With
no clear constitutional definition and respect for the source of revenue,
politicians spent surplus funds as they chose, including $70 billion in the
mid-1990's from a tax increase imposed in 1993. Pleas for a refund were
rejected.
While businesses survived on providing products and services
that customers voluntarily purchased, government was not constitutionally bound
to responsiveness, surviving on funds gained by the force of law, and dictating
what programs the money would purchase.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION
in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High
Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, individuals are empowered to direct their
percentage of taxes to programs of their choice, and are entitled to refunds for
overcharges.
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Grievance
50 - Diminishing Truth
The U.S. Constitution, in creating
Legislative, Executive and Judiciary branches of government, failed to provide
the American people with an independent investigative news agency with legal
authority and responsibility to expose and report continuously and thoroughly on
all activities of all the branches. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and
free, it expects something that cannot be."
The words of Thomas Jefferson
recognized that lack of information about the government was a serious threat to
freedom, but the Founders relied heavily on Private Enterprise and its
publications to fill the need. This placed the people at-large in a position of
dependence on government agencies to come forth voluntarily with information
about their operations, which were seldom self-critical, and on commercial media
that were seldom free from the influence of advertisers and profit pressures.
Media competition in the field of reporting Public Government was
energetic, but the same media largely steered away from probing Secret
Government and other powerful inside activities, as noted elsewhere in these
Grievances.
As the government grew larger, the American people were
increasingly less informed about its sprawling worldwide operations, even before
the government began assuming "cosmic top secret", "deep cover" and many other
ominus labels of diversion to avoid disclosing all information. The Constitution
failed to require the swearing of all people on the government payroll to tell
the "whole truth and nothing but the truth", holding them personally legally
responsible for all information.
Ignorance of the truth made a massive
mockery of the American claim to be a "free people", since the people at-large
could not know what hidden things the government was doing that could make them
unfree. At the very least, they were not free to gain the whole truth about
"their" government, whch became one of the greatest travesties of The American
Dream.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic
Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, an
independent Public News Agency is deemed essential: "Personnel selected by merit
examination shall investigate and report continually to the People at-large
regarding all proposed Laws, and all other governmental issues and activities,
via its own Mass Media facilities. Management Personnel shall be subject to
removal by a Vote of the People
at-large."
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Grievance
51 - Bureaucracy
The U.S. Constitution failed to prohibit
government from extending regulatory power in areas neither specifically
authorized by the "law of the land", nor justified by rational discourse with
the American people,
The freedom to freely choose dietary supplements,
for example, was denied by the Food and Drug Administration, a government bureau
in which there was no elected representation, and which set consumer choices
without limit of law. The bureau claimed authority over food from which natural
health products were derived, and could impose bans on supplements which, by its
own admission, were not shown to be harmful.
With an AUTHENTIC
CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and
producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, all policies and authority of
government agencies is set by laws enacted by the people, one-person one-vote.
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Grievance 52 -
Mismanagement
American taxpayers sent $1.6 trillion to the U.S.
government in 1997, and the government could not account for hundreds of
billions of dollars in property, equipment and supplies, nor accurately report
major portions of the net costs of operations. This was part of a finding of the
General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, the first time the federal
government ever prepared financial statements for independent audit. The GAO
said there was continuous waste and fraud in various operations of government,
Such findings in a private corporation would likely result in a loss of
stock value, the Federal Security and Exchange Commission would likely
investigate, corporate heads would likely face dismissal, and the story would be
major news, but government waste and fraud was so massive it was too much for
media to handle under its own time and money constraints.
The National
Medicare health program was conducted with virtually no control over fraud, and
saw a 500 percent increase from 1990-96 to $18 billion. The government screened
very few claims before paying bills.
The Department of Defense, operating
under the Executive Branch and independent of GAO oversight in contracting for
military equipment, came under criticism from its own Inspector General. Waste
included purchase of items at prices thousands of percent higher than normal
retail costs, including toilet seats at $640 each, 108 electrical bells at $714
each, 1,844 screw thread inserts at $5.41 each, 31.108 springs at $1.14 each and
187 setscrews for $75 each. The Inspector General blamed DOD errors for the
excessive costs;
"We found considerable evidence that the Department of
Defense had not yet learned how to be an astute buyer in the commercial
marketplace."
DOD spending was in the hands of military
officers.
Military waste included maintaining over 230 of its own golf
courses around the world, which experts said could be financially independent if
operated for combined military and public use.
Senator Chuck Grassley
said military waste cost taxpayers millions of dollars every year, inviting
fraud and embezzlement. Reform was always promised to Congress, which funded the
DOD but, he said, it never happened due to the military-industrial
complex;
"...the defense industry is constantly watering down the
reforms."
The independent Project on Government Oversight also criticized
the military's buying practices;
"...acquisitions reform was really a
deal for defense contractors and not for taxpayers."
Despite
mismanagement, the military said in 1998 it wanted yearly budget increases of
$10 billion which would greatly profit war industries.
Taxpayers also
spent some $12 billion in foreign aid every year for which there was no
accounting required as to whether it was going to peaceful and humane
purposes.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic
Ideals, the people at-large vote on the principles and policies of their
government, and individuals have the right to designate their percentage of
taxes to programs of their
choice.
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Grievance
53 - Welfarism
The U.S. Constitution, and the government that
grew up under it, failed to protect the financial resources of Americans from
political opportunists and greedy recipients, both corporate and individual.
Timeless wisdom made the point from a politicians perspective; "Spending other
peoples' money is easy."
Payment of funds to "for-profit" corporations,
including financial institutions, were a particularly heavy drain on taxpayers.
Subsidies and bail-outs became common as lawmakers stood to gain politically
from influential investors and powerful labor unions involved with them.
Consumer-advocate Ralph Nader's report on "Aid to Dependent
Corporations" of 1994, said taxpayers spent more than $100 billion yearly on
subsidies and tax breaks for influence-buyers. At the same time, taxpayers were
required to put out $75 billon in Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food
stamps, housing subsidies, and other welfare programs to 14.3 million people
identified as "low income", many with "dependency addiction".
Subsidies
to families included moving recipients into upper and middle-income homes at
one-tenth of the monthly mortgage payment. Under the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development program, home builders and bankers were assured of a
profitable return paid by taxpayers, even in cases of
over-building.
Fraud and waste were commonplace in all weflare programs.
One county in Calfornia reported a 45 percent fraud rate in 1995. State Health
and Welfare Secretary Sandra Smoley was outraged over its
implication;
"...it is beyond belief to think that $590 million in
taxpayer dollars that could have been spent on services for the truly needy went
to greedy people out to defraud the system."
Some people lied to obtain
welfare benefits, others lied to increase them. Penalties were seldom severe
enough to slow the fraud. An example was seen in the case of a 28 year old woman
and her 48 year old Mother who were convicted of claiming $11,000 in payments
for two children that never existed. The women were ordered to pay restitution
and the youngest was given 30 days in jail, but a newspaper editorial correctly
pinpointed a common travesty of justice in the courts;
"If $11,000 had
been embezzled from a bank or private business (she) would probably be behind
bars for much longer than a mere month. But isn't the offense really much worse
when the robbery victims are the taxpayers...?"
Unorganized taxpayers had
no direct control over any welfare programs, corporate or individual, or the
judicial process that pretended to administer justice in their
behalf.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic
Laws of the universe, and producuing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals,
government programs and penalties are established by the people at-large,
one-person one-vote, and taxpayers may designate their percentage of taxes to
specific
programs.
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Grievance
54 - Competence
The U.S. Constitution failed to set mental and
physical health standards for President that would avoid potential aberrant
behavior affecting the course of the nation and millions of
lives.
Requirements for many private and government jobs with relatively
minor authority included medical and drug-free examinations, but people were
elected President and "Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces", with enough
firepower to launch mass death and destruction, with no periodic examination for
mental health, or alcohol or other drug and chemical imbalance, that could pose
public danger.
An individual could become Chief Executive Officer of the
trillion dollar government while having mental disorders or even "temporary
insanity", with no checks and balances in law for stability in behavior.
There was no requirement that candidates for President make public their
medical records, or that the office-holder undergo regular medical examination
for brain tumors, heart ailments or other health threats, in order that the
American people would be informed of any problems that could result in
succession of the Vice President to the highest office in the land.
With
an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the
universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, individuals
selected to hold exceptional governing authority, are required to meet mental
and physical health standards determined by a vote of the people at-large.
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Grievance 55 -
Immorality
The U.S. Constitution gave unequal standing to
government policy makers and agencies which was contrary to commonly accepted
moral standards in society.
While it was popularly made illegal for
private individuals, corporations and gangs to threaten, intimidate, coerce and
extort from others, politicians could approve legislation empowering government
agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, to do so. Individuals in
government were not held legally responsible for these acts.
In another
double-standard, while holding a monopoly on coercive taxing power, government
prosecuted private business for having a monopoly in the free and voluntary
consumer marketplace.
Politicians determined their own salary, benefits,
and retirement income with no direct authorization for increases by the
taxpayers at-large, many of whom were coerced to provide the funding.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws
of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, commonly
accepted legal principles and policies apply to all individuals equally, inside
as well as outside government.
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Grievance 56 -
Disarming
The U.S. Constitution was absent of moral direction in
matters of weapons of death and destruction. It authorized the government to use
taxpayers funds for its own unlimited killing power, and was ambiguous in terms
of non-governmental ownership of deadly weapons.
The popular view at the
time of the American revolution was expressed by one of its leaders, George
Mason; "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave
them."
Writers of the Constitution's Bill of Rights sought to avoid such
a fate in Article II;
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the
security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall
not be infringed."
The dictionary definition of militia, "a military
force that is not part of a regular army and is subject to call for service in
an emergency", implied that a call for service would come from some agency of
State government, and that the weapons were intended for such use. This left
questions over private ownership of handguns, assault weapons and even hunting
rifles.
Domestic and street crimes committed with mostly handguns
produced heated public debate over "gun control", but this was a
misrepresentation of reality;
"Those who control the guns, control the
people, criminals and government included".
A forceful argument was made
for disarming all factions;
"Only when there is universal disarmament is
it safe for anybody to disarm."
An AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with
the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, establishes the principle of banning deadly weapons
universally, all governments included.
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