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 By Hal von Luebbert Oct. 29, 2005 I suppose this amounts to a continuation of what I said in my letter to Ron Lewis the other day, but it bears repeating (and, as the letter in question makes clear, I am often a pretty repetitious guy). To begin, however, and except to point out that insults and insulting tone prove nothing in support of one’s argument (except, perhaps, the character of the guy who offers them), I will let Tom Keyes’ remarks concerning me and the rebuttal I offered concerning his “debunking” of the Beatitudes according to St. Matthew stand on their own merits. All of his contentions are easily researched on the internet, including which language Matthew was written in, the language “Jesus” spoke, and the like. I might note that even if the beatitudes were written in Greek (they weren’t), the biblical version of that language is understood by few, and agreed upon by even fewer. You can check that, too. Anyway, to return to my subject for today, a retired Army colonel who was chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke a few days ago at the New America Foundation (http://www.newamerica.net), and described the Bush White House from an insider’s point of view. He said: “I don't know what the case is today; I wish I did. But the case that I saw for four-plus years was a case that I have never seen in my studies of aberrations, bastardizations, perturbations, changes to the national security decision-making process. What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. And then, when the bureaucracy was presented with the decision to carry them out, it was presented in a such a disjointed, incredible way that the bureaucracy often didn't know what it was doing as it moved to carry them out.” The colonel also said “Cheney and Rumsfeld made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made" on critical issues. I guess it’s not necessary to add anything, except perhaps to point out that it fits with everything we’ve seen as a result. Neither is that my point here. I have long contended that today’s media amounts only to a Mutt and Jeff shouting match, one carefully crafted to further the ends of the military industrial complex and their allies, the corporate structure that rules despotically in the “Land of the Free.” Colonel Wilkinson’s address is yet another vindication, one in a long, long line of such. Here we have an insider from the highest offices of government making a disclosure of this magnitude, and none of the popular media so much as mentions it. That while the same media spends hour upon hour, for weeks on end, of several million dollar a minute television time on matters like the Natalee Holloway case. Clever, these buggers. While holding out the appearance of being the watchdog of freedom and thundering “tut-tut” charges and recriminations concerning the “outing” of a CIA agent, one Valerie Plame, it buries the revelations of a White House and Bush Administration insider who is “blowing the whistle.” Compare the gravity of the two stories. Why the one, but not the other? Why, we are supposed to believe that such tempests in a teapot speak of an ever-watchful media, one zealously guarding against corruption and malfeasance in government. Bull! We are also supposed to suppose that such puerile, yet dangerous, treachery as the Plame “outing” is exceptional in post World War Two Washington. Bull! Tell that to John Kennedy or his brother, Robert. Not that I consider the betrayal of one of our clandestine operatives a small matter. It isn’t. In fact, it’s another warning of the kind of people we now have in our highest offices. If they can’t be trusted by one another, how the hell can the common public peón expect faithfulness and accountability from federal government? It’s serious, all right. At the risk of another “killing tongue but quiet sword” attack by Tom Keyes, I’ll relate another personal experience. In 1961, shortly after John Kennedy took office and my return from Cuba, I was asked by a guy named Bill Harvey how I would “like to meet the president.” “Why?” I asked warily. “Well, Harvey said, “the great man (Harvey didn’t like the president, and the feeling, I’m told was mutual) “has been reading Casino Royale (the first of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels). He knows about your forays (his term, not mine) in East Germany and Hungary, and he wants to meet ‘our double oh seven’.” So stunned (and scared) that I had to sit down, I went swiftly from stupefied to madder than a hornet. Harvey was a man with a reputation for taking nothing from anybody (he packed a 1911 .45 even in the White House), but for the next few minutes, he was “read off” in a manner he probably never experienced before or since. Let us just say that I made it very clear how I felt about having my identity shared with anyone but the three people who were then privy to it (and we might remember that the government and its court would later use that same security device as a reason to quash my Freedom of Information Act suit for my records). To Harvey’s protest that this was “POTUS” (erstwhile acronym for “President of the United States),” I replied that I didn’t care if it was Michael the Archangel. I guess you know I didn’t “get to meet the president” (a guy named Landsdale, later a general and CIA fat cat, stood in for me). Yeah, that kind of betrayal is serious. It can cost you your life. But so can the kind of White House described by Colonel Wilkinson. In fact, it HAS cost the lives of 2,003 soldiers who are being used like Charmin by their Commander in Chief. It has cost the survivors of Katrina, Rita, and now Wilma, too. The hollow shell FEMA proved to be isn’t the only example of criminal malfeasance in the form of existing-only-on-paper army excuses to spend and steal billions that exists in Washington. One, more, time, I will ask the question: What in the hell do you think is the reason, and the purpose, of 34,781 lobbyists in Washington, D.C.? And that doesn’t count the tens of thousands more who infest our state capitols. Isn’t “lobbying” a veritable SYNONYM for treachery? Tell me how the hell you can continue to call a government like that the government of a republic. Look, for heaven’s – no, for your children and grandchildren’s sake – at where we are. Another of the sneaky, sleight-of-hand orchestrations being run by the “free press” media has to do with the latest Supreme Court nominations (I guess the last one has just thrown in the towel – never mind, there’ll be another shill on stage in a minute). While that Prestidigitators on the Potomac equivalent of the Holloway diversion is being run, the Constitution the nominees are sworn to protect is being used like the Charmin I mentioned a minute ago. Since 1950 and Harry Truman, presidents aided by a henchmen congress have been sent to war totally illegally. (I remind you that there are two ways to legally amend the constitution. The first is for a bill to pass both houses of Congress, by a two-thirds majority in each. Once the bill has passed both houses, it goes on to the states for ratification. There’s also Constitutional Convention. When’s the last time you heard of an amendment having followed either of these routes?) That’s hardly all. There are few legal scholars left who think the Ninth and Tenth Amendments are observed in anything but the breach. The Supreme Law of the land now somehow permits (to say nothing about how it comes to have anything whatever to do with) abortion, forbids mention of god (sometimes yes, sometimes no – you have to guess and wonder, something the Constitution clearly says is not constitutional), and mandates desegregated schools. That while the Grand Jury, like the Constitution, has been turned into a tool of the state used against the public, rather than its protector. The Petit Jury of Peers is now controlled by a judge paid by the state, and courts including the super one have ruled repeatedly that a citizen can neither resist illegal arrest nor protect himself against the government (check Bivins, and Justice Black’s dissent in Griswold v. Connecticut). The library of books known as the Internal Revenue Code is as obviously an unconstitutional law or contract as has ever been written. Despite the fact that it has been shown to be incapable of uniform interpretation time and time again – and that is a constitutional and legal requirement for both constitutionality and contractual enforceability – it remains the principle tool of federal government tyranny. Taxation in the United States, after all is about power, not revenue. The courts have recently ruled that innocence does not necessarily free anyone imprisoned for the offense he didn’t do. Apparently, that also means that execution can’t be stayed because of innocence. If that weren’t enough (and it’s plenty for this cowboy), the government’s propaganda arm, the media, tells us almost daily how the Constitution – and the government and Supreme Court – “grant” us rights. That’s eerily evil bullshit. The Constitution does not “grant,” nor does it list or limit the people’s rights. Rights come from god (of course, if there is no such thing, then there are no rights, either – are there?). They are not granted by anyone. They are protected and guaranteed by the Constitution, but they exist whether there is a Constitution or not. They exist whether there is a GOVERNMENT or not. That last demonstrates for me better than anything else the sorry shape (and I don’t mean blubberous) we find ourselves in. We no longer can know what the law is. The Constitution is in plain enough English; more, it says no law the people can’t understand is valid. Don’t forget, the Constitution is the people’s bit in the mouth of government. It lists the powers of government, outside which the government HAS NO POWERS. The PEOPLE enforce the Constitution, not the government and its patrician courts, but lawyers have now supplanted the people where interpreting the law is concerned. But where are we? Patrick Henry once said that where government fears the people, that is democracy; but where the people fear government, that is tyranny. What do YOU think we have? Legally, constitutionally, our young people, and our soldiers in general, are not to be killed in war, unless that war has been approved by the people through their representatives in Congress. There are 2,003 exceptions to that rule today, and each is a sure-as-hell crime. One last thing, that having to do with federal government malfeasance, intent, and state of mind. It also has to do with the state of reality we live in. How difficult is it to understand what the Constitution says where declaration of war is concerned? Why, then, would any law-abiding and honorable Chief Executive commit troops to combat without Congress’ declaration? Why not ask first? If an immediate response (per the unconstitutional War Powers Act) is so necessary, why no legal declaration afterward? Why would the Congress keep its mouth shut? Why would the troops go? How could a soldier who didn’t be LEGALLY tried? Can you say, “Military Industrial Complex?” Another of my parentheticals: Are any of you aware that many of us who fought in the Cold War, so called, still fear being tried in an international court for war crimes? It is against international law, you know, against every convention having to do with war, to kill citizens of another country without declaration of war. Many of the defendants at Nuremburg were charged with that very thing, in fact. That, you know, was the real reason we repudiated the 1998 Treaty of Rome creating an international criminal court. Several countries still hold warrants for the arrest of people like Henry Kissinger and Robert McNamara. So here we are. 2,003, and counting. That’s bad enough. But there’s something even worse. That’s what 2,003 sacrifices to the Great God Profit says about what we’ve become where our government is concerned. Tools. Commodities. Charmin. ------------ About the author: Hal von Luebbert is a retired soldier, private detective, bodyguard, and - recently - high school teacher. In 1978, the US government in its IRS avatar destroyed his business and family. In 1985, when he had recovered and remarried, they did it all again, this time driving a teenage son to three attempts at suicide. A war ensued, and when von Luebbert counterattacked federal murder attempts with electronic and personal surveillance proving massive governmental crime, a US District Court protected their federal empoyers by ruling his records exempted under the Freedom of Information Act by the national secrets exemption. US Senators and national media forwarded proof of federal crime like mayhem, murder, rape, and extortion to commit rape protected their masters by concealment of the evidence and personal silence. Protected still by evidence of federal crime, together with the fact of large numbers of remaining witnesses available for subpoena, von Luebbert lives mostly in the wild in Texas and states where concealed handgun laws make it possible for him to defend himself with lethal force. He is also a sixth degree black belt and three time national judo champion. His new website is www.judoknighterrant.com Email: judoknighterrant@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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