| Government is perceived by increasing numbers | | | | Somehow we good, honest folk have got to deal |
| of people to be sliding into a dark in which the final | | | | with this and develop some effective solidarity, |
| vestiges of our democracy are abandoned. Bodies | | | | some firm agreement, because we are at this |
| such as Congress are considered to have become | | | | very moment getting trampled on yet again. |
| rubber stamps to laws that are passed over our | | | | We see this phenomenon hard at work in our |
| heads in service of a ruling oligarchy of corporate | | | | modern world. The Bad Guys, because they do |
| moguls. | | | | not care about others and have no scruples, are |
| More and more people are becoming aware that | | | | uninhibited in their actions. They do not mind, for |
| this or something like it are actually happening and | | | | instance, if half the Third World starves to death, |
| that we are, as once-free people, in serious | | | | so long as they have slave labour hard at work |
| trouble. | | | | making them rich. They do not care if the planet |
| There are those among us who would argue that | | | | chokes to death on their pollution as long as it |
| in fact we have never really HAD a democracy, | | | | happens to a future generation and not them. |
| merely a con-game masquerading as democracy, | | | | They do not care if little kids die because they |
| and that the ruling oligarchy has become confident | | | | produced dishonest research, so long as they can |
| enough in its power to drop the pretence. One | | | | make a few million out of their new drug. While |
| cannot even say that democracy has failed; only | | | | the rest of us are being rightly nice to one |
| that it has never been sincerely tried. | | | | another, checking our facts, being fair and |
| There are those of us (well, me, actually) who | | | | considerate in our actions and trying not to |
| are amazed that anyone is even surprised by any | | | | murder or rip off our fellows, these birds have |
| of this, given the history of this planet and the | | | | basically taken over the planet! |
| liking of the criminals among its inhabitants for | | | | Evil is a highly centralized power with vast |
| infiltrating the creations we erect so as to order | | | | corporate and banking might at its disposal. |
| our affairs and then suborning them for their own | | | | Against this highly centralized power are ranged |
| selfish ends. | | | | innumerable groups all seeking to do right by their |
| How did we not see this coming? Did we think | | | | fellows and improve the world. |
| the criminals would let our democracies with their | | | | But each group of Good Guys acts without |
| rich pickings off the hook because we were so | | | | co-ordination with the others and alone. In |
| nice? | | | | essence then each small group faces alone the |
| Be that as it may, watching the mood and | | | | entire combined might of oppressive power on |
| opinions on the internet one perceives a growing | | | | the planet. And there is a likelihood, should any of |
| groundswell of alarm and then anger at the | | | | them threaten to make any headway, of their |
| conduct of Congress and other high crime areas. | | | | getting stepped on like a bug. |
| There is talk - that is already receiving a surprising | | | | The problem is: how do we unite the Good Guys |
| amount of support - of abandoning Congress and | | | | before people get really rattled and we have |
| switching to a direct democracy and so forth. | | | | outright civil unrest on our hands? Can we have |
| I perceive too a growing frustration and anger at | | | | any effect at all on the might of a government |
| the increasingly brazen criminality in the executive | | | | gone criminal and its corporate puppet masters? |
| and legislative branches as the mores, customs | | | | Can we, for instance, bring Congress and its |
| and beliefs of the people are treated with | | | | law-making machinery back under OUR control? |
| contempt so that some faceless fat cats can | | | | Is there anything upon which millions of people |
| further line pockets already awash with filthy | | | | CAN agree without being coerced into it? Is there |
| lucre. | | | | anything around which they can unite without |
| One of the dangers of the situation we now face | | | | abandoning their own ideals and the right to |
| is that the people will be provoked into anger. | | | | campaign and argue for them? |
| When people are angry they tend to abandon | | | | Yes there is. There are two things I can think of. |
| reason and lash out (the White House, after all, | | | | There may be more. |
| sits in wide open spaces at the head of very | | | | The first is that money should be real money and |
| broad avenues - easy to defend against a mob of | | | | made honestly. I think all of us can agree with |
| angry citizens!). And government, which is a | | | | that. Well, at this moment, if you care to spend a |
| machine incapable of reason, tends to lash out | | | | few hours looking it over, you will find that right |
| right backatchya. And it all gets very ugly. | | | | there we are all the victims of a scam and that |
| I noticed as soon as the "what do we do?" | | | | scam has put the Bad Guys in control virtually of |
| debate started up, the huge number of different | | | | all the money on the planet. If we can put an end |
| opinions expressed as to what "we" should do. | | | | to this scam, we will rob the Bad Guys right there |
| Some, for instance, want revolution; some want | | | | of ninety percent of their power. |
| evolution; some want direct democracy where | | | | A full discussion of this is beyond the scope of |
| every law is debated and voted on by every | | | | this article. I invite - nay, encourage - you to |
| citizen; some want a benign dictatorship; others | | | | explore this as a matter of urgency and have |
| want free expression for all; still others wanted it | | | | made available some FREE books that will assist |
| only for those who pay tax. Some want more | | | | you. An alliance of Good Guys around the purpose |
| tax, some want less tax, some want income tax, | | | | of simply exposing the great money scam and |
| some want a purchase tax, and some want no | | | | insisting upon a few simple reforms that will |
| tax at all. | | | | transform our economies and break the power of |
| Everybody has an opinion and they have a | | | | the Bad Guys, could bring a revitalization of our |
| perfect right to it. Certainly it is the action of | | | | culture and a removal of it from the hands of |
| sane, honest men to debate their opinions, | | | | criminals in a few years. Indeed this scam - |
| formulate a consensus and a plan of action and | | | | exposure of - is their Achilles Heel and the Good |
| then DO something. However, we don't have a | | | | Guys would be well advised to take full advantage |
| great deal of time and the internet lends itself to | | | | of it. Please check it out. |
| the fun of endless debate and the whole "free | | | | The second thing we can all agree on is that |
| speech" thing we have going, from government's | | | | people should be truthful. For our particular |
| perspective, is that it is perfectly fine for the | | | | purposes here, I think all of us can agree that |
| citizenry to chat away so long as they don't ACT. | | | | government and its officials should not lie. A |
| But how do we achieve a unity of action when | | | | powerful alliance of Good Guys around this single |
| everyone has a different idea of what to do? | | | | point of good conduct will put government back |
| Down through the millennia, the Good Guys have | | | | at our service because every point where we |
| had rings run around them by the Bad Guys | | | | lost our freedom is a point where someone lied or |
| because they were never as organized as the | | | | the truth was kept from us. |
| Bad Guys. The Bad Guys never minded putting a | | | | All we have to do is insist upon the truth, to |
| jackbooted army together and trampling anyone | | | | organize a grass-roots movement that will be able |
| who got in their way, shooting a few people, | | | | with a powerful voice to demand, root out and |
| torturing a few people, imposing their minority will | | | | make public the truth of any situation, detect and |
| on the many and so forth. The good guys on the | | | | expose the lies and sanction the liars. We do not |
| other hand tend to respect the rights of others | | | | need to abandon our institutions, overthrow |
| to have their own ideas and not be trampled on, | | | | government or do government's job for it - we |
| crushed under jackboots, forced to live a certain | | | | merely need to help make those institutions work |
| way etc. This is very fine and there is nothing | | | | for good by forcing them to be truthful and |
| wrong with it, except that it always gave the Bad | | | | refusing to tolerate lies. |
| Guys, with far fewer numbers and even fewer | | | | It is no mere platitude that the "truth shall set |
| scruples, a massive advantage in terms of getting | | | | you free" it is the....er, truth |
| their own way - even if what they built was | | | | Think about it! |
| without real value and tended to be very | | | | But don't think too long. |
| short-lived. | | | | |