by Jim Marrs
“Fannie Mae was established in 1938. They’ve had 71 years to get it right. It is broke. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. They’ve had 39 years to get it right. It is broke. Together Fannie and Freddie have now led the entire world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
“The War on Poverty was started in 1964. They’ve had 45 years to get it right. One trillion dollars of our hard earned money is confiscated each year and transferred to ‘the poor’. It hasn’t worked.
“AMTRAK was established in 1970. They’ve had 39 years to get it right. [In 2008, the government] bailed it out as it continues to run at a loss!
“Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. They’ve had 44 years to get it right. They are both broke. And now our government [the Obama administration] dares to mention them as models for all US health care…. This is the government at work and they now want to run the most complex economic program they have ever tackled—our health care system.”
The secret here is that the government is not the problem. Nor is the Constitution on which it’s founded. The problem lies in the people who control the government—the New World Order global fascists who now have a chokehold on the government. Their corporate money controls all three branches of government while their associates are appointed to cabinet-level positions of authority. Recall that the Obama administration is top-heavy with members of the Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, and Bilderberg group.
The states do not have to follow the schemes and dictates of these plutocratic globalists. Nor does the general public. The path to independence from government control does not need violence. The people of India did not gain independence by battling the British army in the field. African Americans did not gain freedom by waging violent war against the government. In both instances, they simply practiced nonviolent noncompliance.
Though it is not often mentioned in the corporate mass media, the more literate citizens are opting out of the New World Order control box. There is a widespread but underreported antitax movement, with millions of American simply refusing to “voluntarily” pay taxes for purposes they can’t support. Naturally, the number of these resisters are rarely, if ever, given in the mass media, which nevertheless routinely reports on IRS crackdowns, usually about tax time. Convicted tax cheats garner major headlines while victories over the IRS get scant coverage if any at all.
Yet small victories over the New World Order are taking place all the time. Citizens in both big cities and small towns are growing neighborhood gardens, supplementing fast food with organic and healthy vegetables and fruits. Most religious institutions today stock large pantries where food can be distributed to the poor, relieving strain on the welfare system. Those concerned about the environment are serving as examples to others in ways to lessen human impact—recycling trash, riding bicycles, supporting mass transit, and driving the new hybrid or totally electric cars. Their demand for nonpolluting, energy-efficient vehicles is now being met by customer-seeking corporations. Everyone can make a difference. If one person stops to pick up some trash on the street and places it in a receptacle, others notice and some will be prompted to action.
THIRTY-SIX REMEDIES FOR A BROKEN SOCIETY
FOLLOWING IS A LIST of recommendations and suggestions, compiled from various sources, for bringing a zombie nation back to being a free and functioning democratic republic. Some of the recommendations are self-evident, others perhaps wistful, but all should be given consideration:
The Federal Reserve System, a collection of privately owned banks, should be audited immediately. Privatization of U.S. money is unconstitutional, because the Constitution states that only Congress shall coin and regulate money. Now, privatization has led to economic disaster. The printing of the dollar should be approved through Congress and issued through the U.S. Treasury as U.S. Treasury notes. Notes should be distributed gradually so as not to significantly inflate the worth of the currency in circulation. U.S. debt through fractional reserve lending has been created by sleight of hand; it can be abolished by sleight of hand.
Only those who pay into Social Security should be able to benefit from the system. Placing Congress under the Social Security plan that the remainder of the nation must live under would swiftly bring needed repairs. The members of Congress have exempted themselves from Social Security as well as from any future mandatory health-care plan. Their current and generous private congressional retirement program should be ended.
The National Security Act of 1947 should be reviewed and perhaps rescinded. Currently, the law allows the president and his National Security Council handlers to bypass the elected representatives in Congress, the media and the public in serious policy-making decisions involving war, technology, and even issues of outer space.
Executive Order #13233, which allows the incumbent president to classify and keep from the public the libraries and documents of his predecessors, should be rescinded.
No U.S. intelligence employee, whether civilian or military, who has attained the status of “officer” should be allowed to run for or serve as president of the United States. Years of intelligence work expose a person to the seamy world of lies, deceit, and misdirection. For some instances of national defense, this may be necessary, but such work leaves a person in public office open to blackmail and control from former superiors and their loyalty oaths.
Unlike the current system where sometimes a dozen or more lobbyists can seek communication with legislators, all corporations should be allowed to have only one lobbyist per congressman. They should also have to visit that congressman with a public advocate who can argue on the side of the people. Fact-finding junkets and entertainment for Congress members should come solely from closely monitored public expenses.
Limit senators to three terms and representatives to no more than six. Legislators who remain in office too long become political professionals, more concerned with getting reelected and maintaining their power than with the problems of the public. Most start their career with a genuine desire to serve the people. They should be turned out as this desire is turned to cynicism by the temptations of money and power.
A term limit of twelve years should be set for Supreme Court justices, to prevent old-age infirmities and experience based on life thirty years ago from occluding their judgment. Furthermore, all federal district judges should be elected by the public and limited to two terms of five years, to prevent the loading down of federal benches with political hacks who primarily vote party politics or the wishes of those who put them in power.
The Pledge of Allegiance should be said every day at school and every day in Congress to remind both young and old of the basic tenets of U.S. sovereign freedom and democracy.
Legislation should prohibit any person who has membership in any secretive organization—the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberger group, and so on—from holding public office. One cannot have dual allegiance. It is clear that individuals cannot support state sovereignty while supporting the globalist agenda of their fellow society members.
The classification process has gotten out of hand. Today, routine documents are classified, sometimes due to holdover policies of the cold war, sometimes just to cover up bungling or neglect. The current practice of classifying any nonclassified document if it can be connected to one that is classified must be stopped. Unless information clearly jeopardizes national security, it should remain open to public scrutiny. A citizen review board, composed of academics, journalists, and others—not just government insiders—should oversee this process to protect both security and the public’s right to know.
The PATRIOT Act should be rescinded. It was passed by a panicked Congress that was not given time to even read it and has led to infringements on the public’s civil liberties.
To prevent a repetition of the deficient Warren and 9/11 commissions, both of which in 2010 continued to draw criticism from a wide swath of the American public, any future invest
igation of a national tragedy should be formed from citizens representing a wide cross-section of regional, political, philosophical, and professional expertise. A 1991 Gallup poll showed almost 75 percent of the public disbelieved the Warren Commission’s lone-assassin theory of the JFK assassination. All major pieces of evidence against the accused Lee Harvey Oswald—his fingerprints on the rifle, neutron activation analysis of the bullet metal, and testimony taken at the time—have proven deficient or untrue. The entire JFK assassination case has been riddled with fabrication of evidence, suppression of evidence, alteration of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses (read Jim Marrs’s Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy for full details). By 2010, even top officials of the 9/11 commission, tasked with finding out what happened to America on September 11, 2001—including commission cochairman Lee Hamilton and senior counsel John Farmer—had publicly questioned the conclusions of their own commission. Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general, in his 2009 book The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11 even wrote, “In the course of our investigation into the national response to the attacks, the 9/11 Commission staff discovered that the official version of what had occurred [the morning of September 11, 2001]—that is, what government and military officials had told Congress, the Commission, the media, and the public about who knew what when—was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue…at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”
A committee composed equally of professionals and ordinary citizens from separate states should be formed to oversee government health agencies such as the FDA, the NIH, and the CDC, to ensure that decisions affecting the public, particularly those dealing with research and conflicts of interest concerning employees and contract personnel, are impartial.
No state law passed by popular vote should be superseded by any federal statute except for those found in the U.S. Constitution. No federal official should tell the people of a state to ignore their own laws, as happened in the case of new Tennessee firearms legislation. If a state law is bad, federal officials should simply work to see that law revised or rescinded.
Citizens should regularly request Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) from all school, local, county, and state offices, including federal agencies. This may be done by submitting Public Information Requests (PIRs). In this manner, citizens could see precisely how much money is being held and how it is being spent.
All regional and global trade agreements, pacts, and treaties, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), should be reviewed to determine if they violate the U.S. Constitution or the rights of Congress to regulate commerce and trade. Today, some trade agreements have been used to supersede U.S. laws. As a signatory nation, the United States has committed itself to conforming its laws and policies to WTO dictates and, as the WTO has exhibited strong enforcement of its policies, the mere threat of a WTO challenge usually results in changes of the national laws or policies. For example, in 2002, a WTO appellate panel ruled that U.S. tax rules exempting some corporate income earned overseas from taxation constituted an “illegal subsidy.” The tax rules were changed. According to Representative Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate, “Incredible as it seems to liberty-minded Americans, the WTO and the Europeans are now telling us our laws are illegal and must be changed. It’s hard to imagine a more blatant example of a loss of U.S. sovereignty. Yet there is no outcry or indignation in Congress at this naked demand that we change our laws to satisfy the rest of the world. I’ve yet to see one national politician or media outlet even suggest the obvious, namely that our domestic laws are simply none of the world’s business…. Congress may not object to being pushed around by the WTO, but the majority of Americans do.”
The Posse Comitatus Act, which prevents the military from policing the U.S. public, should be upheld by the executive branch of government.
The current practice of outsourcing the production of military hardware to foreign countries must be stopped. Any arms and equipment, particularly computers vulnerable to hacking, being used by the U.S. military should be produced in the United States by American companies using American workers. Under present outsourcing policies, an enemy of the United States could gain intelligence, if not outright control, over our defense systems, particularly through third parties. One friendly country makes our weapons, then sells or trades the technology to an enemy nation. The benefits of such action should be self-evident, especially in view of the number of former friends who later turned enemy—for example, Saddam Hussein. The current system, of course, is compatible with the one-world plans of the globalists.
Nonimmigrant visas should be discouraged. Temporary foreigners, working for lower wages, take jobs from the U.S. labor pool, today plagued by rising unemployment.
The government should rescind all so-called hate crime legislation. Such laws cannot truly stop individuals from holding hateful beliefs. Furthermore, these laws contradict the Bill of Rights and can be abused to silence political dissidents and enemies. The mass media has been quite successful in changing prejudicial attitudes in the past. No laws, susceptible to misuse, need be made.
America’s prison systems should be overhauled so that nonviolent offenders are able to move through a series of increasingly lenient punishments (fines, community service, etc.) without going to jail. Career criminals and gang members should be separated and placed in supervised work projects outside the public.
The government must end the failed war on drugs and legalize marijuana, which has been proven less harmful than legal drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol. According to DrugWarFacts.org, “[T]here are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.” Furthermore, the National Commission on Marihuana [sic] in 1972, after making a study of pot smokers, concluded, “No significant physical, biochemical, or mental abnormalities could be attributed solely to their marihuana smoking…. Neither the marihuana user nor the drug itself can be said to constitute a danger to public safety…. [Marijuana’s] actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it.” President Richard Nixon, who appointed this commission, disavowed its findings and launched the first war on drugs. Like Prohibition before it, the current prohibition of many drugs has only promoted organized criminals and injustices by authorities. Surveys have shown that a large portion of the nation’s inmates are in prison because of drug-related offenses. By ending the prohibition of certain drugs, the overcrowding in U.S. prisons could immediately be relieved. This change, along with a tax on marijuana, should increase government income without the need for taxes to support more police and prisons.
At the very least, marijuana should be federally decriminalized. There should only be misdemeanor fines for abuse of the drug. Drug abuse should be seen for what it is—a health problem. The criminalization of drugs has only created a legacy of corruption and violence, just as Prohibition did before it. Industrial hemp, which has no psychoactive properties, should be legalized so that American farmers can once again make use of this profitable and exceptional rotational crop useful for making clothing, rope, biodegradable plastics, and paper. Hemp, which was a major crop in the United States until after World War II, must now be imported from other countries. The U.S. government cannot seem to distinguish between nonpsychoactive industrial hemp and marijuana.
The export of arms from the United States should be significantly curtailed. As the largest arms-exporting nation in the world today, the United States must take some responsibility for the armed violence wracking the planet.
Farmers who now collect payment for not planting crops, an attempt to keep crop surpluses down and prices up to protect the growers, instead should be allowed to plant whatever they desire. Any surplus should be purchased by the government and exported for pr
ofit under the reasoning that few nations will bite the hand that feeds them.
The government should not be allowed to confiscate private assets unless they are taken from someone who has been convicted and sentenced to have assets forfeited in a court of law. Under current asset forfeiture policies, discussed previously and which vary widely between jurisdictions, government agencies, including local police, can confiscate private property without charging anyone with a crime. Today, the asset forfeiture policies are increasingly unfair and being misused. Should a home be raided by police and any amount of drugs found, the house can be confiscated despite the objections of the owner who may have been absent or even renting the property. Yet if drugs are found in a corporate-owned facility such as a large hotel, the hotel is not forfeited. A nonprofit organization called Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR) claimed $7 billion has been forfeited to the federal government since 1985 and that 80 percent of the forfeited property during the past ten years was seized from owners who were never charged with a crime. Although asset forfeiture was initially tolerated by the public because it was attached to drug laws, today more than two hundred federal forfeiture laws are now applied to non-drug-related crimes.
Public school systems should allow students the freedom to gain experience outside the classroom. Experience is the greatest teacher in life. Students, as with most humans, tend to act more responsibly if treated like mature persons rather than as children or inmates. Public money now spent on massive football stadiums and Astroturf could be better spent on field trips to libraries and museums.
For most students, less attention should be given to becoming prepared for college and more emphasis should be placed on vocational training, which will prepare students to make a living in the real world. Such preparation would place a large number of graduates into a meaningful and profitable workforce of those with needed skills, such as auto mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, masons, welders, and others.