Chapter 5 - Signs of Their Plans

by David Michael Beachwood
It appears that the ocean near Los Angeles is polluted with chemicals, which may be causing male fish to produce eggs.[1] This is the jest of the story that was reported on back in November of 2005. I guess I should be accustomed to this type of reporting by now, you know stories which shun pointing the finger at the root cause. By focusing on chemicals and not people it becomes a tactful way of avoiding the fundamental issue of overpopulation. Reporters that tell the reader that growth is bad do not go over well with their boss; he knows that many of his sponsors will not want to see that in writing. It is okay to say, ‘the water is polluted,’ but not to say, ‘it is because of overpopulation,’ that would be bad for business. Our politicians don’t like to hear it either. Business has paid them very well, to beat the drums of, GROWTH. After all cheap labor is making them prosper and all they have to do is blame it on the chemicals and minimize populations’ impact.
Furthermore, rapid population growth is a primary reason why there is a high price for medical care, gasoline, and education. It is also a reason there is a high cost or lack of just about anything. Like it or not all of these things have an underlying population link. If we were able to manage our population taking care to avoid its excessive apportionment, America would be better off in the long run. If we manage population with the view of our unscrupulous business leaders, who want cheap labor, than a much smaller segment of the country will prosper, namely them. Additionally if those business leaders have their way our country will continue toward a growing population of lower paid citizens. These citizens, because of the rapid increase in our population, may not be able to melt into the traditional American culture. They will more likely become a number of cultures, each vying for control. The United States of America’s long term health is FOR SALE; and our elected leaders, it seems, need to sell it to remain in power. For those who might object, our diluted and diverse population will make it harder to garner enough support to stop this situation. We need to face it to fix it.

King George III vs. Our current system

The Declaration of Independence listed a number of repeated injuries directed toward the original 13 States by King George III of England.[2] He is said to have established absolute Tyranny over the States. I find it interesting that parts of many of these grievances have similar life today. Particularly when stacked up against our Presidents and or our governmental leaders in general, both recent past and present. I will leave it to you to decide if you also see the comparisons by running a few of them by you now. Regarding King George III’s government the Declaration says:

· He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
· He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
· He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant form the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
· He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
· He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
· He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

Bits and pieces of some of these grievances, in my view, echo some meaningful comparisons to today’s political events. They serve to indicate that perhaps things never change. As a living document The Declaration of Independence still has meaning to this very day. It attests that our founding fathers had tremendous foresight regarding the nature of man and politics. They understood the human corruption that ensues over time and set in place precautions to stifle these problems. Safeguards were built into the documents they generated. The division of powers was one mechanism they used to try to prevent our political decay. While the layers of security they, our founders, set up did help to slow THEM, current headlines seem to indicate they have made a great deal of headway. The current list of criminally indited Washington Political leaders is far too long to make me feel comfortable. I am afraid that they may be only the tip of an iceberg that runs very deep. Yet, by the fact that they are being convicted sparks hope that there are still some good citizens watching over The United States of America. We need to assist them by keeping our ‘Special Glasses’ on and by avoiding being compromised by greed schemes that end up helping them destroy our country and possibly ourselves.

Animal and Plant Dominion
The Bible says we have dominion over the plants and animals. We have the responsibility to manage them. We are the stewards of the earth.[3] Nature tells us all animals where created for a purpose. Sometimes, for some animals, we have a hard time understanding just what that purpose might be. None the less, if we look close enough we find it. We have learned that there is such a thing as a balance to nature. While humankind’s carbon footprint is getting larger, the wandering territory of many animals is getting smaller. Unfortunately, we conveniently fail to notice that we have encroached on the land allocated to them by nature. Many animals in the wild require miles of territory to live healthy productive lives. By their very nature many animals are “wild”. This is not something we can change nor should we want to. It is the essence of their lives and ours. Unfortunately, we take land away from the plants and animals on a daily basis because of our economic growth policies. In a repeated cycle of ‘controlled destruction’ some political conservationists call for territory reduction along with the thinning of the herd. Conveniently they forget that they had already downsized the land the animals were using. As pieces of the plant and animal territory get stripped away the above cycle is replayed again and again. Today, as our human populations grow, many people forget that we share this world in balance with the plants and animals. We need to take heed of the long reported stories of polluted waters and of the over fishing in the world’s oceans. As far as pollution many of the rivers around my part of the country cannot be used for swimming in, unless it is at our own risk, how about your area? Now, as to the over fishing think about this, man has one-fourth of the worlds surface the fish three-fourths yet, it is said, we over fish them.[4] As the various countries in the world follow the growth model of economics our plants and animals suffer. More and more people are coming to see the ‘Growth Scheme’ as a short-term model with consequence in the long term for not only the plants and animals but to us as well. We need to take heed of our stewardship and ask just what kind of a job, are we doing? We have had a long history of polluted waters and land and I do not see us out from under these existing problems any time soon. In fact a fast growing human population can only aggravate this. Here in the US, we have for decades built new subdivisions, condominiums, apartment complexes, shopping malls, and more on some to the best farmland in the world. In 2006 we briefly lost our title as, ‘the breadbasket of the world’ as we had imported more food than we exported. [5] In recent years we are back to increased exports, but this seems to be caused by the fall of our dollar and to destructive weather patterns in other parts of the world. While we are still a net exporter of food the reasons for this should not make us feel comfortable. Considering all of the above situations, one can only ask, should we really have been given dominion over the plants and animals to begin with? Yet, there are solutions and we can make the world a better place. The people who push the growth scheme need to consider the world they are shaping. It is nice to have money but if you don’t have a place to spend it, what does it really matter.

Pain and Suffering
While we could fit the entire population of the world within the land area of the state of Texas, should we assume that there is really plenty of room for growth?[6] If we look at this postulation a little more closely, we find that the picture is not all that rosy. Using the 2006 world population figure of 6.5 billion people, each person would be able to have an approximate space of less then 35 square feet to survive in. However, some would have to live in areas, which are too dry, too rocky or too wet to live in. Then there is the fact that there is no space allocated for things like, driveways, streets, highways, expressways, factories, churches, grocery stores, department stores, schools, water treatment plants, police departments, hospitals, forest, farms, zoo’s, and of course land which the local animal populations could have for themselves. I am sure you could come up with many more things that I have missed. The point is that once we add back in the room that is required for the world population to survive in, we are back to the situation we have today. We have pretty much already made use of all the livable land area of the world. In fact we have substantial populations living in flood zones, in deserts, and in areas of the world that are very harsh. Areas which flood, are prone to fires, have earthquakes, hurricanes, or tidal wave occurrences. Of course there are parks, national forest, farm lands, and still some fields that we could occupy and leave any animal inhabitants there to move to the less inhabitable areas. To some degree we already do have people living in those less inhabitable areas called swamps, mountains and yes even in the arctic though here not that many. In fact a substantial number of the world’s population lives on land that is below sea level.[7] Let us hope that climate change does not call for their relocation.

Now, we know that billions of people all ready live in poverty.[8] We know there are millions of homeless families. We see many starving children. We see millions of people leaving their homelands to look for work. Yes, we have to admit that to some extent there is mismanagement of resources in most countries, which make the human problems worst. The governments of these countries could do a better job, but to be realistic governments have typically not told their populations that they should control their birth rates. As in nature there are balances required for things to work well. More and more we see there are multitudes of people applying for work when just a few job openings exist. We should admit there is an unbalance. Supply and demand economics have begun to create a negative situation for our human populations. To ignore all of the above and pretend there is no unbalance is in my opinion cruel and inhumane. This kind of attitude only tends to make matters worse. Already people are being abused in terrible ways all around the world. Because of the lack of work, people’s lives have become cheap. The trafficking of humans for sweatshop labor, sex slave labor, and other indecent practices occur daily. Are these the kind of things we want to support? Yet, when we encourage larger and larger populations without first correcting the social issues which prey upon these unfortunate ones; we become the villains. We are the villains because we are building a world which promotes their pain and suffering. Worse it could even threaten all life on earth, as we know it.
The expression “This is a small World” has more to it then most people think.[9] These days we can travel to the World’s most distance points within a week or less, if you are wealthy perhaps in less then 24 hours. We all hear those stories that involve running into someone we know miles and miles from home. The world is made smaller because a great part of the earth is not inhabitable or at least not a place one would prefer to live in. This shrinks the size considerably. So much so that when they cut down sections of the rain forest the entire makeup of the world is affected.[10] We have to think of the Earth as the biosphere it is. Much of the so called, ‘vacant land’ needs to remain vacant, because it is required to produce the air we breathe. We are also supposed to be custodians of the Animals of the world. We are not here to exterminate them. We can share the earth in harmony just by reducing the speed at which we multiple. A world without animals and open spaces is a nightmare not a utopia. The planet was never meant for man to inhabit it solely. Without forest, which filter the water we drink and produce the air we breathe we cannot survive. Six and half billion people have already polluted the planet to the point we have witnessed so far. The pollution problems get worse as more and more of us improve our standard of living, if you will forgive the oxymoron of sorts. Many scientists are saying the earth is already telling us to stop. It does this by showing us the hole in the ozone layer over Australia.[11] As well as showings us that Australia’s coral reef is also dying.[12] Coral, which helps produce the food supply for a large part of the ocean’s fish. The earth has shown us acid rain and storms, which seem to be getting stronger. It shows us the glaciers and ice melting in Glacier National Park, Iceland, and at the North Pole.[13] The balance of nature includes the human population and we may be adding to forces in nature that are already underway. If global warming is occurring naturally than perhaps there is nothing we can do to stop it, but if we do have an impact than we should try to minimize it. There is money to be made on both sides of the global warming issue and I am afraid we will find that elements of our THEY LIVE characters are on both sides. Until we learn how to control our politics, our greed and our population our chances of improving the earth becomes less likely. Can we help, our earth, so that it will not slip into an environment in which our future generations will have a tough time being able to live in? Such an environment could be years away not in our lifetime but if you care about your future grandchildren you need to be responsible and consider these things. If there are solutions they start with at first acknowledging that there may be a problem. Most of our leaders are not even to this point yet. Their Growth scheme encourages population growth, so to control growth would not be good for their bank accounts. I believe we could still have economic growth without having to have excess population growth. True it will not be as easy for the elite to make a buck but the Earth and its inhabitants will suffer a lot less. We need to stop living like there is no tomorrow even if there is a chance that is true. No one knows when this Earth age will end and there may be many generations that would like to enjoy its wonders. It is time to be responsible and stop ignoring all the problems we are leaving for the next generation. The main characters of this book will not want to do this, but you have a choice. You can side with them or side with God’s creation, a creation that includes you.

Cultures of Population
Some issues, as much as we don’t like it, require tough solutions. Tough love in the end works to support true solutions. Instead of perpetuating the problems by trying to please everyone we need to face the problems head on. For example we are asked at times to view some refugee problems as if they are natural disasters instead of reproductive problems. Some of these problems are really overpopulation problems. They may even be culturally based problems. It would help our discussion to present a small-scale population problem. To be honest overpopulation can and does exist within individual families. If a husband and wife have a child without the means to support the child on their own they have created a population problem. Multiply this by the number of families making the same mistake and we see the crises unfold. They become families living on top of families without the economic resources to support their members. These people have made themselves poor their neighborhoods poor and their counties poor. However, they may not be solely to blame, because they might have been encouraged to multiple by their leaders. The major reasons why the leaders want this to occur are control, power, and money. Many nations use their populations for war. Some use it to extend their cultures. Still others exploit the cheap labor, which results from an imbalance of supply and demand, and favors the wealthy. This is why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer all over the world.

Sometimes they use our very own faiths against those of us who would want to slow the population growth. This makes us evil for even bringing up the idea. In the U.S.A. they twist religious ideas to fabricate lies, which cannot truly be supported by the bible. Without going into detail I know of nowhere in the bible where we are told to have more children then we can feed, cloth, and or shelter. In fact any excessive behavior is contrary to its teachings. The tough love here is on two fronts. First that of making people understand they are responsible to their own children. Second we need to correct those, self appointed "dogooders", who want to make everyone economically responsible for other people’s children, to an excessive degree. This second group of people might seldom if ever attack the cause of the problem but instead tries to assist the result of it, the children. They treat this as if it was really just a natural disaster of some sort. To make matters worse they want your help, to perpetuate the pain and suffering. By paying for the children this twisted culture cannot afford we allow these children to grow up and reproduce according to the culture they live in. This kind of culture seems to have no problem watching little children, or any one for that matter, starve to death. Helping bring children into this world and allowing them to starve should not be supported, but should be prosecuted. It is worse than abortion, because the children are much more aware of their pain and suffering as they perish. Does anyone really want to contribute to a cause, which ends up creating more of a problem? Some of these support agencies workers may simply be involved in it for employment and entertainment that is a vacation. If support agencies really want to help these children then they need to address the causes. Spend the money on teaching the parents and children that they will create the same pain and suffering for their children if they don’t correct their behavior. The cultures that do well, in the world, have chosen to control themselves or protect themselves from untimely births. Only when these cultures determine that they can provide for their children do they have them. If these responsible cultures can do it then so can third world nations. As a drug addict requires tough love so do many of these people. When we bail them out or give them money or food we enable them to continue their actions. Enable them so that they can continue to create the problem over and over again. Some of the relief groups should be ashamed of themselves for the pain and suffering they perpetuate. Unfortunately tough love in and of itself may not be enough to solve some of these problems, because governmental leaders and cultural issues could step in to disrupt progress. Both of these potential road blocks to progress can be addresses but in the end these people have to be left to decide for themselves the culture code they want to live by and what government they will tolerate. The scheme of making you and I feel guilty, for the lack of responsibility of certain cultures, is an evil deed. It is like telling us that someone is going to kill one person a day unless we send money. If we pay the ransom it may just make the situation worse. Yes, it is true that the innocent children are caught up in the middle of this, but if we grant their parents immunity from responsibility for their actions we will only grow the problem. If we assist criminal behavior and that is what this could be, than we become accomplices. If agencies can first address this as a crime and the parents agree to accept their responsibility to set up preventive measures than a path to help the children might be possible. Of course there are good agencies out there doing good works and they are to be commended. We need to use the special glasses to make sure we are supporting those worthwhile causes.

A World without the United States
Terrorist have been taught, ‘death to America.’ They want a world without the United States.[14] They, it appears, would prefer a government which cuts off peoples heads on national TV. Could it be they also would like to have a government that, ask mothers to send their little children out to blow themselves up. They seem to think children don’t need school, especially the girls. Nor should they learn new things, especially western things, unless of course it can be made into something to kill their leader’s enemies. Yet, these terrorist leaders are said to follow a prophet that is a notably good man. Why then is there so much killing going on? Could it be their religious leaders are not following the same prophet that they say they are?

It seems all countries in the world have some leadership problems. To be sure, even the United States has bad people and bad leaders, some who do despicable things. We can agree they should be stopped, but there are more appropriate ways to solve these leadership problems than resorting to the tactics used by terrorist. The central characters of this book are said to be manipulating the United States and the World. They have caused covert actions in countries all around the world. Actions, which instead of helping the populations of those countries have helped, cause these peoples to hate each other. Mostly, it is said, special interest groups have been behind these covert actions. Too often, some unscrupulous elite or some major corporation wants a competitive edge and the taxpayers or citizens, not only here, but around the world, have unknowingly supported these ventures. In most places in the world the citizens are not aware of the problem, but it is their leaders who allow these things to happen that are the problem. As an American I believe most of us see ourselves as good people that would not take excessive advantage of others. Our American Idealism of, ‘We are the Good Guys’ needs to be audited by a better-informed citizenry. If we allow our leaders to continue to do some of the things that they do, we can hardly call ourselves ‘The Good Guys.’ The dark side of some of our leaders appears to be mostly unknown to the American Public. As Americans our minds and hearts are filled with good intentions and we have numerous accomplishments to prove this. Because we have done so many good things we find it hard to believe some of our leaders would be doing things to the contrary. We have laid misguided trust in some of these leaders, at times, and many of us still have not realized this. We need to weed out the deceitful leaders and cause them to be responsible to the majority of the people, instead of to the few who hold their economic ears. These few, are leading us down some immoral pathways that the majority of Americans do not want to follow. The common American citizen, I believe, hates evil and would be a champion against it, if they truly understood the situation. All in all the United States does more good on behalf of the world than bad. However, this statement may be harder for us to defend in the future, if we don’t wake up soon. The average citizen of the United States is an ally of good in the world not an ally of evil. A world without the United States would ultimately aid evil and not good.
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