A Plague on Both Your Houses!

I am hurt.
A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothing?
--Mercutio (Romeo and Juliette)

A change of dominant party will change absolutely nothing with respect to the underlying problem confronting our nation. If the underlying problem is not solved, nothing will be solved and we will surely perish as a nation.

Neither party intends to take bold moves to extricate us from Iraq. This is because Congress cannot accomplish this. Even if a substantial number of senators could be influenced to demand a withdrawal, they would be overridden by vested interests who would theaten them with lack of support or worse. Otherwise, another catastrophe would be created by our Shadow Government, and we would be the worse for it.

Everything in this country--absolutely everything--is controlled. You have only to start a new idea or movement and to see what happens to prove this point to yourselves.

Congress is controlled. Ayn Rand said it best when she said, "The purpose of the Democratic Party was to smuggle us into welfare statism; the purpose of the Republican Party was to retard that process." The powers that be (PTB) have only to withdraw the party that does the dirty work so that the other party can take the blame. Subsequently, the Republican Party will be able to continue to advance the agenda of the PTB--which is nothing more nor less than those corporate interests whose influence can be seen all around us. This is why Bush gave no support to Republican swing districts by witholding announcement of Rumsfeld's demise as SecDef: with a barely dominant Senate and a House that is Democratic, the Democrats will lose credibility and the Republicans will probably win in 2008 or definitely win in 2012. By that time, federal law will be ammended, and Arnold Schwartznegger will be the first President of a truly Nazi state, supported by the very people who put Hitler into power--the Bush family. Any good backgammon player knows that it is better to have control (of the doubling cube) by midgame. (Ask someone who plays backgammon.)


All press is controlled. Every news source is controlled by three major companies. Recent action by the FCC Chairman Michael Powell, the corrupt son of Gen Colin Powell has indicated that he will curtail free public access, which has been one the mainstays of our system. In a similar fashion, the internet will be controlled by allowing carriers to charge differing rates and to refuse to carry content additionally. Last year, Bush renegged on a prior promise to share control of the existing internet mainframes with Europe.

Outspoken people are controlled by becoming the victims of trumped-up or created charges and then imprisoned with draconian sentences for interminable periods of time. In a short period of time the internet will be controlled; and this will be followed by a Dark Age which will make the previous ones look like dalliances.

The problem is made much worse by the facts that 1) the educational system is controlled and dumbed-down, 2) all private property is subject to taxation and confiscation for the purpose of increasing tax revenues, 3) voting is controlled by computer software manipulation, 4) the legal profession is notoriously corrupt at worst and impotent at best, 5) corporate dominance keeps people in constant flux both psychologically and physically, by making continued demands and by effecting constant change in housing locations, thus discouraging any stable grass-roots movement from springing up.

There are only two ways that we can do anything to survive the current state affairs: grassroots campaigning for Jail4judges and comparable efforts, and home schooling.

The Jail4judges initiative was defeated in South Dakota as a result of intense campaigning by the legal profession. It was passed off as a cheap and quick way for disgruntled parties to law suits to attack the judicial profession. Of course this was nonsense. Judges are beholden to the identical standards as any other profession, except for the fact that they aren't: The initiative properly called for a special Grand Jury for judicial complaints, thus giving the identical due process rights to judges. Currently there is no way to hold judges accountable. As the matter now stands they have virtually unlimited power and are legally entitled to police themselves with no attendant higher authority with control. The only system that compares to this is the Correctional systems of the country, organizations which have virtual unimpeaded control and absolutely no direct oversight. The results are the same--injustice, performed legally and with no exposure.

The rise of Nazi Germany started in an identical fashion as events are proceeding in our country. Initially, the German judges upheld blatantly unconstitutional legislation. Later, they passed unconscionable judgements on innocent people. This is occurring in our country right now, and this will worsen unquestionably as a consequence of the "Patriot Act" so-called and the "Military Tribunals Commission." For ominous parallels, read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," by William Shirer.

The other, nuclear area of change is one that is the most definitive and ultimately the only enduring one, but it requires time and sustained committment: home schooling.

An enlightened public and one capable of critical thinking is the most powerful and effective antidote to--and innoculation against--totalitarianism. This can only be accomplished if education is taken out of the hands of the State. When home schooling is attacked, we may not see a civilization comparable to our own for a long, long time. In such a case, we--you and I--will not see it; but I pray that our children will.