- A huge percentage of Americans are now considered to
be medically obese. But that does not begin to tell the story. Too many
of us are only concerned with outward appearances, with little or no emphasis
on "the shape of our mental abilities." If we were to devote
half as much time to keeping our minds sharp, and our awareness of the
world around us in perspective - then our politics wouldnât be in
the shape that weâve allowed our bodies to become.
After we lost our national innocence, somewhere around the end of the Second
World War - we began to cultivate the culture of the self http://www.rense.com/general48/endgame.htm
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- Since then each passing decade has seen Americans turn
in ever-greater numbers to commercial acquisitions to soothe their troubled
consciences.
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- In brief this nation and its goals have changed immeasurably
- and yet our electoral process has not been altered to meet any of the
changed conditions of national or daily life.
National elections are one of the most obvious anachronisms - a throwback
to a time of family farmers, and outspoken individuals who still had a
great deal in common with those who had chosen to live in the inner cities
of the young nation. Conversation was a staple of our lives - and responsibility
was part of all we did, whether we were city dwellers or country people.
Today, the nation is terrified of everything, and we seem to have lost
the ability to converse with others. But on the national stage, weâve
given away our personal responsibility for the destiny of the nation, and
for the success of our own dreams to strangers: it is no wonder we cannot
make sense of virtually anything that is happening now. "Lifeâs
a gift" and in our haste to surrender all our freedoms for a little
false-flag "protection: - we seem to have forgotten that.
The Responsibility for holding Presidential Elections
If the government were serious about wanting this nation to have the best
people elected to office - then congress would have done away with our
outmoded system of caucuses and primaries as well as the Electoral College.
For at least the last twenty years the Congress has been promising changes
in our election protocols for the American electorate. Every four years
Congress hears complaints about the unfairness of the process on several
fronts, and yet Congress has still not made any changes in the process.
For the Presidency, it begins with the stilted first two referendums on
the candidates. The Iowa caucuses come first followed by the New Hampshire
primary. If Congress were serious about giving the people the best possible
candidates, then it would have mandated four states, one in each quadrant
of the country, in which to hold these first contests. That way a true
cross-section of the nation and our national life might have a voice in
first opportunities to elevate or eliminate candidates. As it is now, by
the time the candidates get to the major population areas of the nation
the candidates have already been chosen or eliminated by Iowa and New Hampshire.
Thereâs nothing wrong with either state - itâs just that their
populations, and their own economic interests today are very different
from the rest of the country. And with this in mind, it is not surprising
that the candidates who end up as leaders of the major parties are not
necessarily the preferred choice of the people in the nation at large.
The second change needed is that the election for President should be held
on a holiday (Itâs at least important enough to be a holiday, once
every four years). That way the voter turnout could be maximized. Election
celebrations could be organized and virtually the whole country could turn
that day into a festival of national pride, electoral responsibility, and
voting. This hasnât happened because the congress wants the voting
population to remain as small as possible (similar to the fraudulent Florida
pre-selection - organized by Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary
of State and Bush Campaign Chair, when she removed voters from the Florida
rolls).
The third needed reform is that all the polls should close at the same
moment throughout the nation - so than the Western half of the nation isnât
informed of the Eastern outcome before the West can even vote. All of the
above suggestions should have been debated and voted on in congress - long,
long ago. So far Îthe electionsâ have been allowed to continue
to favor the elite insiders that they were designed to favor - and the
people have lost on every count.
A Question of Loyalty
Skull & Bones, a secret society at Yale University, has had a disproportionally
large influence on American politics over the years. "Skull and Bones
is so tiny. That's what makes this staggering. . .There are only 15 people
a year, which means there are about 800 living members at any one time."
Itâs very interesting that Prescott Bush, and Georgeâs father,
GWH Bush, were both members - as well as John Kerry. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml
Given the number of graduates who have sworn lifelong loyalty to Skull
& Bones,
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- how is it that so many of these people are now in government
at all levels? And what are the odds that any two of them would be in contention
for the office of the presidency at the same time? Maybe this is not an
election about the differences between parties after all - maybe this is
about passing a torch in such a way as to limit the amount of political
change, in order to merely continue the path weâre currently on?
Whatever the truth may be - the coincidence is too extreme for comfort.
Qualifications Matter!
Even ordinary citizens had no trouble seeing trough the lies surrounding
the invasion of Iraq coming from the Oval Office - so why was this so difficult
for John Kerry to discern? And since heâs been "representing
the people" for 35 years in congress - why are we now so impoverished
and so thoroughly under-represented on every single aspect of the national
agenda? Kerry is nothing new, heâs just a re-cycled, previously owned
politician with a belated political itch. This is not a man of vision,
and definitely not someone without a past.
In 2000 we failed miserably to even ask about the past of our AWOL dictator.
We did not question (through our congressional representatives) the choices
that Bush made, either about his staff, or about his unilateral opinions
on a world he had no idea even existed before he was sworn in.
Will we begin to do our homework this time and pick someone who can do
something about this mess that has been created by the Bushwhackers - or
will this just be business as usual in America - because if thatâs
all this election is about then weâve already lost.
Congress and the President both serve at the pleasure of the American people.
Most seem to have forgotten this critical fact. They work for us - not
the other way round. When we failed to charge Nixon, it was done because
his accusers, could have been vulnerable to investigation themselves -
hence the pardon. The same was true when it was Ronnieâs turn with
Iran-Contra. Too many had too much to lose, and so the investigations were
halted. Now, thanks to Bush Jr. the records of all those misdeeds (by both
Bush Senior and Reagan) are sealed in secrecy to the point of non-existence
- so weâll never know the truth.
Consequences?
There have to be consequences for these political intrigues, and for the
many others committed by the current administration. But that will mean
that we must all begin to speak out. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
is quoted by Gina Holland in an AP story of 1-30-04: "On important
issues, like the balance between liberty and security, if the public doesn't
care, then the security side is going to overweigh the other,"http://truthout.org/docs_04/013104B.shtml
A lot of us fail to realize how much we really do know about what is going
on and how much is not being done. Currently we are losing everything that
we say matters to us - our jobs, our way of life, our abilities to alter
circumstances, even our dreams are being stolen. We need to believe in
our own abilities again and to trust our own instincts about what is happening
in our names. This world is ours and we share it with the other 93.6% of
the worldâs population. It is way past time that we got back to being
a contributing part of the global community. But before we can do that
we need to thoroughly clean house here in America.
We need to get to the bottom of 9-11. We also need a whole host of investigations
conducted by people outside the administration, and we need to begin prosecuting
all the criminals both within the transnational corporations, and within
the government who have made all the fraud and criminality possible. Until
that time comes there will be no solutions only more of the same. The death
toll surrounding 9-11 is now in the millions when one factors in everyone
we've killed as well as those of our own who have died in this completely
false cause that we allowed the Bushwhackers to drag the world into - for
illicit gains and the fantasy of global Empire. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/iraq/1448.html
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- Bush says that the results of the "investigations"
will be made public next year. That's crap. He rushed us into a war within
six months. We can and should have this investigation finished in 90 days
- if anyone in congress or the country is at all serious about seeking
any truth at all. And this must happen BEFORE the coming elections, so
that the results will have a direct effect at the ballot box. If we fail
to reclaim the mental high ground now, then we will have become that ugly
and obese American that too many now see as the silent majority behind
the criminal actions of this administration worldwide.
kirwan
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