Posted by Restore America on 03/23/09

Here is a short 5-minute documentary myself and Luke Stenger made about our local town of Fairfield, Iowa fighting the construction of a cell phone tower in the middle of our town. It presents the potential health risks and violation of our liberties.

Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/3790860

Posted by Restore America on 02/23/09
Last updated 02/23/09

Fellow Patriots:

There is a new freedom pamphlet sweeping across America.

It has been endorsed by Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, Restore the Republic and Republic Magazine, Freedom Law School, Restoring the Heart of America, and many other liberty organizations.

I'm talking about COMMON SENSE; Revisited.

In January 1776, it seemed unlikely that the 13 American colonies would declare independence from England. Even as George Washington was leading the Colonial Army against the British in Boston, most of the delegates wanted to patch things up with King George.

The advocates of Freedom, led by John Adams, asked for a non-binding survey to see where they stood. The results were disheartening. Less than a third voted to declare independence.

What happened between January and July that led to our Declaration of Independence?

COMMON SENSE, written by Thomas Paine, was published late in the month of January. COMMON SENSE presented arguments to to refute the divine birthright of kings. Paine made the case for individual sovereignty, declaring all powers of government are derived from the individuals that created the government.

The first printing of 50,000 copies sold out in one day. The second printing also sold out in one day. An estimated 500,000 copies were printed and circulated over the next few months. At the time, the population of the colonies was only 3 million. The vast majority of the population had read Paine's pamphlet.

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"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
-- Thomas Paine

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Posted by Restore America on 02/03/09

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It should be clear to anyone with common sense that the notion "freedom doesn't work so we need more government intervention" is totally absurd. As we have seen from our review of the Communist Manifesto (see American Crisis Part 2) that we have been moving toward a government/banking cartel-controlled country for over 100 years. We have had every single plank of the Communist Manifesto fully or partially implemented now for many decades. Most of our so called freedoms are really an illusion and that illusion is perpetuated by the media and educational system.

The influence of the banking cartel over the decades has directly or indirectly influenced every major decision our government has made for 95 years. It should be clear to anyone who is watching recent events that the ruling elite in Washington and the central bankers control our established political parties and our media. The one good thing about the recent bailout battle is that it showed how the leadership of both parties worked together, for their masters at the FED, to defeat the will of the people using intimidation, coercion, threats, and outright bribery to get their bill passed.

Over time, social reformers and power seekers have pushed through legislation that has reshaped America into a so-called Socialist Democracy, which is really an oligarchy or a Fascist Dictatorship. Political, economic and personal decisions are made for us by self-appointed elite through regulations and Executive Orders and by our neighbors through majority vote. Individual self-rule is almost gone.

We supposedly "won" a 44-year-long "Cold War" with Soviet Communism, one of the world's most severe authoritarian regimes. We're told that "Democracy defeated Communism." Yet, as we have seen (see American Crisis Part 2), we have pretty much fulfilled the Manifesto. Marx and Engels would be delighted to know that their Manifesto has been embraced by the hated capitalists. Actually, we have more "Marxism" than Marx called for. His Manifesto said nothing about Social Security, SSI, Medicare, federal light bulb laws, discrimination, sexual harassment, disabilities, family leave, affirmative action rules, or gun registration.

According to Marx and Engels:

"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible. Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production."

The result of their theory is that when all their so called class destruction is completed:

"In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

I don't think that the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, East Germans, etc. who have lived under these oppressive regimes would agree with that conclusion. One would think that the failed experiments of communism and all forms of socialism everywhere would be enough to make people realize that collectivism, in all its forms, does not work.

The real problem is that these absurd theories are created by people who have never been a member of the proletariat. In preparing this article I listened to an interesting talk by Gary North, called "The Marx Nobody Knows". Both Marx and Engels were from wealthy families.
Neither Marx nor Engels every experienced the life of a member of the proletariat. They were theorists and philosophers. Marx was especially was a critic. He criticized everyone and everything but never really offered anything constructive. I am sure I learned more about working class people in one day, working construction in the steel mills of south Chicago, than Marx or Engels learned in their entire academically oriented lives.

The one thing I learned from my experience of many years of working with, what Marx would call the proletariat, is that they want one thing, a chance for them, and especially their children, for upward mobility. And history teaches us that there is only one thing that provides the opportunity for upward mobility and that is maximum freedom with a bottom up structure of governance versus the controlled environment of a top down model of government. That is why for centuries people wanted to come to America for the opportunity to be free and to improve their family's lives.

The Communist regimes never had a problem with illegal immigration! They had a difficult time keeping people in their countries. That one glaring difference should be enough for any reasonable human being to realize that collectivism does not work and that freedom does work.

I want to share an amazing quote with you. This is an astounding prediction by one of Marx and Engels' contemporaries on what would happen if their ideas were ever put into practice. I put two key sentences in bold type. I put the last sentence in bold type and underlined it. You are going to have to read this a couple of times to fully appreciate how incredibly perceptive this prediction is. He describes today's America in 1869!

Michael Bakunin, the revolutionary anarchist and rival of
Marx in their battle for control over the International Workingmen's Association, accurately prophesied in 1869 what would be the legacy of Marx's theory of Communism: statism.

Bakunin's Warning

"The reasoning of Marx ends in absolute contradiction. Taking into account only the economic question, he insists that only the most advanced countries, those in which capitalist production has attained greatest development, are the most capable of making social revolution. These civilized countries, to the exclusion of all others, are the only ones destined to initiate and carry through this revolution. This revolution will expropriate either by peaceful, gradual, or by violent means, the present property owners and capitalists. They appropriate all the landed property and capital, and to carry out its extensive economic and political programs, the revolutionary State will have to be very powerful and highly centralized. The State will administer and direct the cultivation of the land, by means of its salaried officials commanding armies of rural workers organized and disciplined for this purpose. At the same time, on the ruins of the existing banks, it will establish a single state bank which will finance all labor and national commerce. It is readily apparent how such a seemingly simple plan of organization can excite the imagination of the workers, who are as eager for justice as they are for freedom; and who foolishly imagine that the one can exist without the other; as if, in order to conquer and consolidate justice and equality, one could depend on the efforts of others, particularly on governments, regardless of how they may be elected or controlled, to speak and act for the people! For the proletariat this will, in reality, be nothing but a barracks: a regime, where regimented workingmen and women will sleep, wake, work, and live to the beat of a drum; where the shrewd and educated will be granted government privileges; and where the mercenary minded, attracted by the immensity of the international speculations of the state bank, will find a vast field for lucrative, underhanded dealings."

I believe that Bakunin was shrewd enough to see that the result of Marx and Engels' vision would be exactly what we have in America today. The "mercenary minded" private bankers, and their cronies in the major securities firms and other major corporations, have taken over our institutions with an intellectual, business, and political elite to do their bidding. The proletariat have the illusion of freedom and prosperity, but, as we have recently seen, these "mercenary minded" individuals can manipulate the monetary system at their whim to create bubbles and busts which create opportunities for them to reap enormous profits.

The middle class gets most of their life savings wiped out and what is left of their life savings devalued through even more government/FED money creation, while at the same time they continue to lose personal freedoms. With every war and with every created financial crisis the bankers increase their own power and control. The final goal of these mercenary minded families is to destroy the one country in the world where the founding documents give the individual control of their government and monetary system, the United States of America! Once that is accomplished they can have an all powerful world government, with a world bank in total control of the financial and banking system. Life under such a system will be exactly as Bakunin described in the above quote.
I guess you can never have enough power and money. Please wake up your friends, family, and neighbors. We have to take back our country now.

I will leave you with one more quote from Gary North on Marx:

"Karl Marx, like Lenin, served as an inspired prophet, not of proletarian victory, which never took place, but of bourgeois victory cleverly masquerading as a proletarian victory. He served as a sort of nineteenth century intellectual rag peddler, selling proletarian designer jeans for the costume parties of the alienated middle class. To add authenticity before they are shipped to fashion-conscious buyers, Marx-Engels' designer jeans are bleached. So are the bones of a hundred million of their victims."

I hope the reader of this article will read Common Sense Revisited and share it with as many people as possible. This pamphlet was written to create the paradigm shift to freedom that we so desperately need in America right now.

Thanks again to Don Hull for his article on the Communist Manifesto which he wrote eight years ago called "Communist Manifesto, Alive and Well in America."

For freedom, and to create a paradigm shift from surrogate power to indigenous power.

Posted by Restore America on 01/31/09

By Clyde Cleveland

In American Crisis part 1 we discussed how the bail-outs and other government solutions to our current economic problems are precisely the opposite of what we need at this time. The government/Fed is simply creating more dollars to bail out companies that should be allowed to fail, which keeps the market from functioning normally to take care of all the malinvestment. It punishes all of us as well because our money will become worth less as trillions of dollars are pumped into the economy. It also punishes competitors of the failed companies because the failed entities now have money from the government (the taxpayer) to help them out while the companies who were doing things responsibly have to compete with no hand outs! When you add to this mess the fact that wealthy insiders will reap huge rewards from the bail out money it becomes a truly revolting situation.

As we see the proponents of big government rationalize this irrational behavior we hear over and over again that government/FED interventions are necessary because "the free market doesn't work." I hope that this letter will help to illustrate that the problem is not freedom; the problem is a lack of freedom. In fact we have not had free markets in this country for over 100 years. The first and most important step to destroy the free market occurred in 1913 when our congress defied the constitution and improperly delegated their responsibility to implement and monitor the monetary and credit system of our country to a private cartel of extraordinarily powerful private bankers.

When our congress took this action they implemented plank five of the Communist Manifesto. Plank five is the most important step in the process of destroying the individual sovereignty of the people and strengthening the power of the state and private bankers who control the state. They could not have accomplished plank five without the progress they had already made with plank six, control of the means of communication.

The banking families had already, by 1913, purchased significant interests in the most influential newspapers on the east coast. This media influence helped them get Woodrow Wilson elected. Wilson had already agreed to back their plan for a central bank. They also used their influence with the media to get the Federal Reserve bill passed in congress. See "The Creature from Jekyll Island, A Second Look at the Federal Reserve" By Edward Griffin.

Plank two, a progressive income tax was also passed in 1913 and signed into law by Wilson. Let's take a look at all ten planks, which are basically a game plan for the destruction of individual sovereignty and the growth of institutional power. What we call indigenous power versus surrogate power. I borrowed heavily here from the research of Don Hull.

Here are the ten planks and a brief synopsis of the degree of implementation:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes: Heavily implemented. The implementation of onerous property taxes and property tax assessment methods is one of the most visible signs of our loss of property rights, but there are many additional ways that this most precious sovereign right has been destroyed.

Although private property is not "outlawed," per se, it is heavily regulated by, and can be seized for, nonviolent behavior such as; violations of zoning laws, environmental and endangered species laws, licensing laws, tax laws, gun laws and drug laws.

The Uniform Building code guidelines, followed by most City governments, actually state that every alteration on one's own home "requires a permit unless specifically exempted." This is the old 19th Century Prussian philosophy that "anything not expressly permitted is forbidden." The 3 largest categories of property we own-a business, house, or car, even your bank account-can be seized for mere paperwork "crimes."

Rental property inspection laws have been passed in local communities nation-wide giving city government even more power and authority to regulate private property.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax: Fully implemented since 1913. Forty three States have since added their own. The total weight of income taxes today approaches 40%-even more than extracted from serfs in the Middle Ages. The typical American household now pays more in taxes than for food, clothing, and shelter COMBINED. In the history of the world there has never been a more debilitating or destructive tax than the income tax. It penalizes hard work, motivation, investment, and capital formation. It creates a huge industry of tax preparation and avoidance mechanisms that is totally non-productive. It also encourages cheating, black markets, and disrespect for the law.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance: Fully implemented. The "right" has been abolished, but the "amount" remains variable. If the "amount" is small enough, the heirs can keep it all. But at certain levels, death taxes kick-in which lets the state take as much as 55%, even though the estate may consist entirely of after-tax monies. Thousands of heirs each year are forced to sell their inheritance to satisfy the tax collector.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels: Heavily implemented. Wealthy Americans who "emigrate" to foreign tax havens or who acquire foreign passports are subject to special plunder. "Rebels" include people who resist compliance with intrusive government paperwork such as licenses and permits, drug laws, gun registration, currency reporting laws, income taxes and more. The USA is the earth's only government that taxes its citizens' income earned outside its borders.

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. Fully implemented by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Today, banks are agents of the state/Fed monopoly who co-operate freely with orders or commands from government agencies to freeze or seize your bank account-from the IRS to the child support grabbers at Social Services. Interest rates are dictated and controlled by the Federal Reserve Board. Woodrow Wilson, realizing the enormous mistake he had made, explains this better than anyone:

"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit has been concentrated. The growth of the nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world-no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men."

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state: Heavily implemented: The consolidation of media companies has occurred at an increasingly rapid pace over the last twenty years. This consolidation has not been challenged by government because the people who are doing the consolidating own the government. A review of directors and senior management of these companies will indicate a very high percentage of people who are directly or indirectly related to the power elite centered around the owners of the FED. See Common Sense; Revisited chapters on "What happened to bottom up government" and "Global Government, the ultimate surrogate".

Of course a private entrepreneur without "connections" cannot create, buy, or sell a TV/radio station without first getting permission from the FCC. The FCC and ICC, have given control of telephone, telegraph, TV, and radio to the government while maintaining the fiction of "private" ownership.

"Transport"-airlines, trucking, buses, taxis, deliveries-is "permit-ed," supervised, monitored, and taxed by the DOT, NHTSA, ATC, FAA, EPA, DOE, DMV, FEMA, DEA, OSHA, and Labor Departments, among others. Government is continually trying to increase its power in this area by regulating and/or taxing the Internet.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan: Heavily implemented. American governments at all levels-federal, state and municipal-are heavily involved in theownership, production, management and delivery of goods and services to consumers, all of which compete with private industries. Some are protected monopolies, with competitors outlawed altogether. (Lotteries, water and power companies, and everyone's favorite example of incompetence and inefficiency...the Post Office.)

Government is involved in Power Generation (TVA, nuclear and electric plants), Retailing (military PXs and Commissaries), Construction (roads and bridges),Entertainment (national parks, convention centers, athletic stadiums, USO), Broadcasting (NPR radio, PBS-TV, USIA, cable), Transportation (Amtrak, airports, air traffic control, buses), Medical Care (hospitals, ambulance services, clinics, Medicare, Medicaid, HFCA) Security Services (CIA, FBI, police and fire departments), Food Service (school lunches), Agriculture and Forestry (grazing lands, water, timber), Education (K-12 schools, colleges, universities, libraries),Communications (post office, publishing), Charity (welfare, social services), Housing (public housing projects), Insurance (FEMA, Social Security, SSI, USDA),Book-making and Gambling (lotteries and casinos).

Worst of all, Government is involved in Organized Crime. The IRS, FTB, and Board of Equalization take money from wage earners by force. If citizens resist, the IRS, et al, are authorized to use even MORE force to collect EVEN MORE money.

The bringing into cultivation of waste lands and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan: Partially implemented. Since only 2% of our population raises enough food for all of us and still has 30% left over for export, it appears that America's agricultural policies are a resounding success. Yet American farms are heavily monitored and supervised by government Central Planners.

Farmers are told how many acres of each crop to plant. Soil conservation methods are dictated and, most peculiar of all, farmers get paid NOT to grow SOME crops or are subsidized to grow OTHERS. The USDA is paying farmers NOT to grow ANYTHING on over 50 million acres of cropland-greater than the land area of the state of Wisconsin.

It is interesting to note that planks 7, 8, and 9 all mention agriculture. It was of supreme importance to Marx and Engels that agriculture be totally controlled by the government. They could not have anticipated, in 1848, the outstanding opportunity that genetically engineered foods would present for gaining total control of the food supply. By controlling the companies that are patenting the GMO seeds, and the herbicides that kill everything in the soil but the GMO seeds, a few companies can eventually control the entire food supply. Our chapter on GMO foods in "Restoring the heart of America" provides a good summary how the bio-tech companies and government agencies are working together to bring this plan to reality.

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Although the U.S. welfare state pays people for NOT working, the concept that the STATE OWNS OUR LABOR is fully implemented with minimum wage laws, living wage ordinances, licensing and permit laws, discrimination and sexual harassment, health and safety and child labor laws, income taxes, forced contributions to Social Security, Medicare, and more.

Even seatbelt laws, helmet laws, airbag laws, mandatory car insurance, anti-smoking/drinking laws, truancy laws, and drug laws tell us that the state considers that it owns our bodies and therefore has the right to tell us how to behave.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country: Heavily implemented through "public/private partnerships" between government and industry. Government subsidizes agricultural and industrial products that it thinks are good for us. "Marketing orders" of fruit and dairy products, subsidies for sugar, and even tobacco farmers, and manufacture of electric cars, are examples.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.: Fully implemented:

Since 1918, every K-12 kid in America has been expected to attend a "free" government school. Refusal to accept this marvelous gift from the social engineers can result in fines and jail time. For both the kids and parents. The chapter on Education and Indigenous power in Common Sense; Revisited summarize the impact of federal involvement in our educational system. Child factory labor has been mostly abolished with restrictions on teenage hiring. Now the opposite has happened. Ambitious teens find it difficult to get jobs unless their parents own the business. Famous mega-achievers of the past, such as Thomas Edison, Eddie Rickenbacker, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie-who began their working lives as young teens-would find success more difficult to achieve today.

The "combination of education with industrial production" concept is fulfilled by the School-to-Work program which puts children on a career track in the early grades. Fortunately, many alert parents perceive its true objectives-indoctrination into the socio-economic class chosen by the social engineers-and have rejected it.Please stay tuned for our concluding comments on the Communist Manifesto in the next American Crisis newsletter.

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Posted by Restore America on 01/31/09

By Clyde Cleveland

At the end of 1776 Thomas Paine wrote a series of articles entitled "American Crisis." This series played a critical role in saving the Revolutionary war against the British. Most of the British officers returned home for the winter thinking that the war was over. It was a very bleak time for the colonial army after their humiliating loss in New York. Most of the troops went home for the winter, and those that stayed were freezing and starving. Many defected to the British. Paine's first letter in the American Crisis series shifted the public awareness, and troops enlisted and people donated essential materials. Paine articles had made a major impact. The fist letter began with this incredibly powerful statement:

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

It would appear from watching the election news, and all that we hear from the media, that the collectivists have won the battle for the hearts of American's citizens. After all aren't we poised to elect a President who has stated publicly that he believes in the Marxist motto "From each according to his ability to each according to his need?" For those who believe in freedom it seems to be a dark time, just like it did for those who believed in the fight for liberty in December of 1776. I urge you to realize that many very good things have happened in the past weeks, and in spite of the country seeming to take a turn toward collectivism. I want to bring your attention to one of the major historic turning points in the fight for liberty, the fight over the "bail out bill".

Many people, from different parties, varying points of view, and different economic backgrounds, all worked very hard to defeat the outrageous bail-out bill. Not only did the government eventually pass it, but they added another 150 billion in outrageous spending to the original 700 billion (this will actually end up being countless trillions with much of it going to foreign banks). On the Monday following the final vote the markets crashed and the people showed what they thought of the dreaded bail-out bill!

The whole situation was created in the first place by allowing our surrogate (government), in association with a cartel of private bankers (The Federal Reserve), to print money at their whim for almost a century. Now, of course, the situation is much worse. We have now given the government and bankers even more authority to print even more money out of thin air.

Here is an appropriate analogy: There has been a massive and incredibly destructive campaign of arson all over the country. Finally, after trillions of dollars of damage is done, they find the arsonist. He is then tried and found guilty with irrefutable evidence. It is then up to the people's elected representatives to make a decision of what the punishment will be. Next, the people let their representatives know emphatically what they think, and the people of course respond with common sense, and their responses are almost 95 to 1 in favor of stopping the arsonist from ever being able to repeat his crimes again.

So the punishment is decided upon by the elected representatives (our surrogates)........ And their decision is to provide the arsonist with 700 billion gallons of gasoline, 150 billion matches, and set him free!!

That is exactly what happened when this bill was passed. The government and FED have been printing money and creating massive debt for decades creating a horrendous monetary crisis, and they fixed the problem by giving the government (surrogate power) even more authority to do even more of the same thing! And they did it with over 95% of the people (indigenous power) telling them not to do it!

So what is positive about this situation? Where is the silver lining in this situation? The fact that so many people responded and told their representatives not to pass this bill is a huge victory for the forces of freedom, peace, and love. This was a massive outpouring of indigenous power in our country. And for the first time the true paradigm of power was glaringly apparent. The illusory paradigm is that we are split according to left and right or Republican and Democrat. The reality is quite different. The real paradigm is top down vs. bottom up, or indigenous power vs. surrogate power.

The primary victory for indigenous power in this episode is that the surrogates were clearly exposed and THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED BY PARTY. The assembled forces of the surrogates included the Republican and Democratic leadership of both houses, the Republican President, and the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates. They all worked together for their masters and against indigenous power, the people they were elected to represent. The masters of our surrogates, of course, are primarily the owners of the privately owned Federal Reserve, the money masters.

So lets look at what happened. Millions of Americans saw the true nature of surrogate power. Many Americans saw that they could make a difference with the first vote in the congress; this was a huge victory for indigenous power when the bill was defeated in the house. The surrogates had to use all their power of deceit, bribery (billions in pork), intimidation (threats of martial law), and media manipulation (owned by the power elite) to defeat this bill. So we lost the battle but won a huge victory by exposing the criminal conspiracy masquerading as our government.

The fact is that many more millions of people are aware that what ‘we the people' say does not make any difference. Finally America is starting to wake up to the fact that we are no longer a REPUBLIC or a DEMOCRACY. WE ARE IN FACT AN OLIGARCHY.

"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit has been concentrated. The growth of the nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled anddominated governments in the world - no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson, a few years after realizing his mistake in signing the Federal Reserve bill.

So where do we go now. First we have to educate every person we know, through whatever means we have at our disposal, that this is not a battle between left and right. That is just an illusion to keep us under control. It is called divide and conquer. We now know that this is a battle between the surrogates and their controllers versus the people. It is a clear battle between top down government and bottom up government. It is surrogate power aligned against indigenous power. The key to victory is making every person aware of the fact that the only legitimate source of power is indigenous power. Once enough people understand that the government is truly a servant and that we the people have the power to alter or abolish it, as is stated in our primary founding document the Declaration of Independence, then it will be over for the corrupt influences that currently control our servant government.

In the next newsletter, which will be the second installment of the New American Crisis series, we will look at what happened to bottom up government in this country. Specifically we will look at the Communist Manifesto, which was written by Karl Marx in 1848, as a guideline to usurp the power of the people inherent in a democracy or republic and replace it with total governmental (surrogate) power. We will see how well the forces of surrogate power have done in implementing the planks of the Manifesto in America.

We plan to have about five or six installments of the New American Crisis series. When finished hopefully all readers will be extremely inspired to join us in participating in a massive joint effort to provide solutions to every problem we have in our society. We want this to be a total "chaordic" process.

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