They Live We Sleep

INTRODUCTION

2008-01-17T19:17:00.010-05:00

by David Michael Beachwood
Suppose we went to a football game for the first time. Instead of watching the game, what if we just watched a few, very select, people in the crowd and the stands? We might then come away with an incomplete idea of what we thought the sport was about. The sometimes crazy antics of some fans, throwing beer, yelling obscenities, and disrespecting families; clouds the image, idea and understanding of the sport. To make matters worse there are other things, terrible things, that also have nothing to do with the game of football, but mostly have to do with the extremist fans enthusiasms that actually taint the sport. These are the things, such as, when fans overturn cars, set fires, break windows, and sometimes even kill other people. Coincidentally the same tainting occurs to the concept of faith and the sometime crazy antics of the religious faithful, as we will see in an upcoming chapter. Now, however, returning to our first time viewers of football, if they were to say to themselves, “There has to be more to it than this,” then their healthy skepticism may lead to a reward. A football game can be enjoyable, but for those extremist in sports or religion, is there any hope?

Most of the time being a skeptic isn’t fun, yet in these troubled times, it is often necessary. It can mean going against the grain of main stream thinking to look for truth. This can be rough on anyone because some truths are not so pleasant. We are all inundated with news reports telling us about problems with our systems of education, health, government, law enforcement, commerce, immigration and sorts of other corruptions. This all occurs in a world where we supposedly already have rules in place to protect us.

Yes we have rules in place. If we put this idea in perspective we might gain some insight. Picture a world where there are no limits on behavior. Let’s say one of your neighbors decides he wants to raise killer bees in his backyard. Or consider the self made chemical expert that wants to experiment with explosives or chemical materials in the apartment next to yours. I believe most of us would agree that a certain amount of control is necessary, and even welcomed in our lives. Perhaps you might even agree that we should have a little more enforcement of some of these controls, based on all that corruption we hear about. Civilization requires rules in order to exist and prosper.

Religious faith has often been said to be a key reason that civilization began to progress. It can be argued that our country’s faith was, at one time, helpful to us in this regard. Helping to establish basic codes which led to the, standards, statues, and laws our founders set in motion back in 1776. These basic Moral codes grew out of Christian ideals and helped secure our freedoms.[1] However, for a long time now I have witnessed our country’s standards, laws and freedoms being increasingly manipulated to the point that these original ideals have been eroding for decades. To make things worse religion, as a whole, has been complicit in these changes.[2]

It all to often seems that our newer ideals and lifestyles very often still retain the Christian label despite their departure from the values. Thus tainting the old, seemingly lost, idea of what it is to be Christian. We have witnessed many changes taking place over the last several decades. Restrictions removed, protections taken away and laws changed to make illegal actions legal, things such as these are behind a good number of those news reports about many of our problems. Remember those problems with education, health care, government, and the other issues I mentioned above? Our rules and laws have been altered by inside and outside forces well beyond a reasonable limit. If the pattern continues the challenges for future generations, who stand for justice, may be insurmountable.

Who is it that is structuring our lives seemingly without our consent? In trying to make sense of things analogies sometimes come in handy. As I considered what has been happening around us an interesting comparison struck me. It came in the form of an old movie called ‘THEY LIVE.’[3] Perhaps others who have watched this movie have had similar thoughts to the ones I am about to present.

In this movie, aliens, whom of course no one could see, were invading the earth and causing these problems. Actually one could see them if they had a pair of special glasses. I feel that, in a way, one has to wear a pair of these special glasses to make sense of what has been happening to us. We need to look more deeply at what is going on to make sense of it. So with this in mind I would like to give you this Special Set of Glasses, figuratively, for you to view our surroundings. I will try, within the bindings of this book, to convince you that THEY really do exist and are here walking among us. The one condition I ask, is that you wear the special glasses; that is, keep an open mind. In the movie the main character has a heck of a time trying to convince his friend that he should wear the special glasses. I hope you’re not that hard to convince.

Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy to handle the truth. Yet, the alternative is to substitute our “Special Glasses” for a set of rose color glasses, which help us to pretend everything is beautiful and no one is taking excessive advantage of anyone. Than there are those who do not want to upset the cart, so they deny there is a problem. I believe that too many of us have done these things for far too long. While at times I am tempted, my fear of the consequences prevents me from doing so now. Believe me, I wish I could have written the rose colored story the majority of us wish for here. Perhaps if we don our hypothetical “Special Glasses” we can still give this story a happy ending.

While it is not necessary for the reader of this book to have seen the movie THEY LIVE I would like to encourage you to do so, but be mindful as it does have some adult content. I understand that viewing the movie may not always be possible, so I offer a brief review of the movies basic premise, in order to construct a frame of understanding for you. In the movie, aliens from another planet are subtly taking over the earth. What is more, they have been doing this right in front of everyone and for some time. Yet, few people are even aware that their plans are in place. THEY are able to broadcast a signal, which controls how humans see them. The broadcast signal also includes subliminal messages which aid in the control of our populations. Anyone looking at them would see them as if they where a regular human being and also receive hidden suggestions on how to behave. The aliens have allowed a small number of humans to work for them because they needed help to control the rest of our population. It seems THEY first had to infiltrate the main sources of political power all over the world. THEY were able to subvert our social elite, using them to control the media and government leaders. The bulk of the elite lacked the moral fortitude to resist. They, instead, opted for self-preservation of their money, power, and life. With this accomplished the aliens were able to control the masses. Basically, most of our social elite sold out the rest of mankind. The story suggests that by controlling the elite, THEY were able to control the media, governmental leaders, law enforcement, military personnel and thereby most of us. Does any of this sound familiar? Fortunately, there were also a few decent people who figured out that the aliens were here on earth. These people had devised special glasses, but only a few, which allowed humans to see the aliens for what THEY really were, and THEY were not pretty. These citizens had also figured out that these beings were not working in mankind’s best interest, but for their own self-interest. The heroes of the story needed to find a way to disrupt the broadcast signal so that the people of earth could see these aliens even if they didn’t have the special glasses. The idea was that if every one could know THEM for what THEY really were, the people of earth would start to fight for their freedom.

Of course this is just a story, right? While the likely hood of aliens being involved in taking over the world seems remote, I still believe the story has some merit in making sense of certain events happening today. Is it possible that a group of well-organized elites could be using a similar script to reach similar ends? If so they most certainly would need our help. Perhaps we will not have to look far to find THEM?

A fellow worker of mine once told me something that gave me some cause for concern. One morning shortly after we arrived at work and were preparing for the day’s activities, he said to me. “Can you imagine there are people out there, who, just like us, got up this morning, but instead of thinking about who they are going out to help first, they think about which house they are going out to rob first”. While I had thought about this before, somehow hearing someone else express this made it feel more real. The concern I had was further amplified by a frightening idea that came to me. If there are people who plan their days on doing harm to others on this small scale, what is the probability there are those who plan their days around much larger forms of deceit? I am speaking of forms of deceits, which involve hundreds, thousands, millions or even billions of people at a time. If you don’t believe plans of this scale could exist, I ask you to keep an open mind as you read on.

I understand that our world is a very complicated place. So please allow me this disclaimer of sorts. I do not claim that all of the ideas presented here are complete and final. It must be noted that as sovereign citizens we do not always have all the facts surrounding events to make proper conclusions as to what has happened, let alone proper decisions in coming to solutions. As humans we understand there are variables, which are constantly changing our problems, and thus, our solutions to these problems.

If THEY really existed would it be possible for us to know it? Would they let us know their plans? Surprisingly the answer to both of these questions is YES. This is because those mysterious conspiracy stories really are not so mysterious. In fact, for the most part, many of us are working with and/or for them, so we have to know at least part of the plan. In fact those Conspiracy Theories make for good cover and sometimes end up allowing some of us to blame others for our short comings on those occasions that we knowingly participate in these plans. Those that participate tell themselves that they really are not the principle players in the game and since they really do not understand the ultimate goals they feel no guilt. Some of you will not understand this, as you may not even be aware of any part of their schemes. Many, perhaps most of us, are only occasionally involved in the schemes and at that only on a peripheral basis and have not put all the pieces together yet. Finally some of you are actively involved and have schemes, either in progress or on the drawing board which will affect mankind negatively. These people are the ones we like to call ‘THEY.’ Of course we are not privy to THEIR entire plan, yet THEY, these schemers, cannot carry out any plans of action without taking those actions. For example, if trade agreements, or pension plans, or immigration laws need to be changed we see THEIR lobbyist work to change them. One does not have to be a rocket scientist to understand this. These plans seemingly are all up in front for us to see and we have been able to see the evidence of many of these actions for some time now. These plans often have alternative goals which are not so evident. People just like me have reported on them for a very long time. I personally first started to hear these so called conspiracy stories of covert plans back in the 1970’s. Most of these stories should be more accurately described as plans of fraud and corruption. Since then I have watched many parts of those stories mature into factual actions and scandals. Many other parts of these plans are well underway and are not being resisted. Of course we are consoled by the Media that those people telling some of these conspiracy stories are crazy, and that we shouldn’t pay attention to any of them. In other words, don’t worry; our government will take care of us. Unfortunately for us the government has not been doing their job. While we don’t have all the pieces to THEIR plan we have seen a great deal of them already put in to play, at least, enough of those pieces so that we can draw some of them together. The following are some basic conclusions most of us can agree upon as a starting point for what we do know:

1. We know that the number of people in control of the main stream media has shrunk considerably over the last several years.[4]
2. We recognize that some, if not most of our news, is filtered through people who know where their bread is buttered. That is to say, they realize that news, which may anger a sponsor or donor, would be better glossed over, minimized or even avoided completely.
3. We know that our Government is set up on a system that allows campaign contributions.[5]
4. We know that these contributions, for a large part, get spent on the media. (Bread and butter).
5. We know that the typical citizen contributes very little money toward political candidates.
6. We know that under the current system you get what you give.
7. We know that with this system the people who contribute monetarily will get the favors.
8. We know that the people who contribute will help write the policies and those who do not contribute will end up paying the lions share of the taxes.
9. We know that scandals will appear now and again costing taxpayers trillions. (Savings and Loan, Corporate Fraud, Mortgage Fraud, 12 Billion Dollars of IRAQ Aid missing, 2.3 Trillion Dollars of military industrial funds unaccounted for, the Wall Street bailout plan, and more to come.)[6]10. We know that the campaign finance system is corrupt, for Senators and Congressmen have admitted it individually, but fail to do so collectively.[7]
11. We know that the cost of major political campaigns prohibit the entry of common citizens into the fray.
12. We know that Democrats and Republicans put this system in place.
13. We know that voting for Democrats and Republicans has not fixed the problem. (Though almost every election, like clock work, they promise to fix it, their measures always turn out to be impudent)
14. We know they have not fixed it, because it is not in their best interest. (Money for their war chest and their next job opportunity -that is lobbyist)15. We know that the current plan for globalization is flawed. (One of its creators has come forward to admit it) [8]
16. We know NAFTA does not appear to benefit the majority of people, not only in this country, but in Mexico and Canada as well. (Most of the Benefits seem go to wealthy investors and large business, but it’s not so rosy for the majority of citizens)[9]
17. We know that the North American Union is the next step.(They say we have no say in this)[10]
18. We know that some religions have supported business beyond reason and to the detriment of the nation, effectively aiding in the changes now underway. (Namely through the lowering of wages via support for illegal immigration, and the pillaging of social programs by businesses and illegal foreign nationals and even the lowering of morals through their acceptance of those who openly break the laws.)
19. We know that we are the largest debtor nation in the history of the world.[11]
20. We know some corporate leaders cannot be trusted, just how many, we are not sure, but we already have some examples. (Enron, World Com -now called MCI, AIG and the many Excessive Corporate CEO compensations)[12]

I am sure you can think of a few more things that we know, but for now lets just say these are enough to allow me the license to proceed with my analysis despite the things we do not know. If a few of the points above don’t make sense to you now I hope they will by the time you finish this book.

Regarding the possible solutions offered in this book, I hope they can contribute to solutions already underway. One other point, I will be the first to tell you, these ideas are not new, but come from many concerned citizens. I acknowledge that over my lifetime, a great multitude of people have shown me many things. I have merely assembled some of these things in a fashion that makes sense to me. I feel that if we are honest about it, there is seldom anything original in most of our ideas. We are the culmination of those that have come before and to not give any credit to these sources is selfish and vain. These ideas were, and are, offered in the hope that they will benefit the greatest number of us. Oddly enough when things benefit the masses they also end up benefiting, guess who, our friends we need the glasses to see. However, this is the way it should be, everyone benefits not just a few.

Now the United States, despite all the past scandals, is still a great nation and like a large corporation does not fade from sight over night. Just as ENRON and World Com/MCI are still with us, despite the pillaging and mismanagement they experienced, our country still goes on.[13] The damages being done to our nation, both past and present, is a great impairment for what could have been done, had such travesty not occurred. If we could add together all of the reported occurrences of fraud, that we have been subjected to over the last hundred years, what might we have had today? That is if we had that money to spend. Perhaps we could have used the money to extend our educational system to include college. We may have been able to provide a structural system of hospitals to be used as common property for the good of all. Possibly we would never have had an income tax, because we didn’t a hundred years ago. It might have been likely that all of this and more were possible. Instead, these lost funds went to fatten the bank accounts of certain elite perpetrators. Yet not all elite are bad, so if my anger seems to come out, it is against those who have and still do continue to damage our nation. They are the culprits.

So as you read though the following pages keep an open mind, and where it is appropriate, when you see the word ‘they’ substitute the connotation for THEY, that I told you about earlier. You know the THEY LIVE characters. I will continue to color code a few of them for you as a reminder. Viewing the ideas this way puts a face on those mysterious forces that we have to contend with. I hope it will add a little humor to an otherwise depressing topic. It is likely, that if you believe any part of these so called conspiracy stories, as THEY like to call them, you will be labeled as “Paranoid” and your credibility will be questioned. While we all may be a little bit crazy, after all we put up with THEM; I would prefer to call myself responsible.

Chapter 1 - The Social System

2008-01-17T19:11:00.002-05:00

by David Michael Beachwood
Social Signs
No one person has enough knowledge, skill, or stamina to provide all of the social amenities in this world on their own. Only through teaming up with others, can we enjoy the benefits that a social civilization can afford. As a team mankind has excelled like nothing else on earth. Individually we are weak, but together we have become the dominant force on the planet. By working as a collective body, we have been able to follow in the footsteps of those who have come before. By using their shoulders to stand on, we have seen things they had only dreamed of, thus expanding our knowledge and then recording it for future generations. Unfortunately, there are those among us who contrive to subvert society so that it works for their favor more so than for the whole body of citizens. You might call them tapeworms because they feed off the body zapping its strength for their own benefit.[1] They, it seems, want to stand on everyone’s shoulders, both past and present, and claim that they did it all, with out the help of anyone else. When they do this, it disrupts our collective goals and thereby slows the progress which may have otherwise been possible. They employ tactics of misinformation, fear, discrimination and other control mechanisms to glean out undeserved profits. This is why their greed is foolish, as these tactics diminish the teamwork that makes mankind superior. The signs of greed that we have all witnessed in our life times have suffered our educational system, our health care systems, and our governmental systems. It is leading to the decline of our civilization. We need to wake up and understand that if we continue to allow the current greed schemes to continue our very existence could be compromised. Their greed seems to have no limits. Greed such as this allows us to determine two things: who they really are, and what they are capable of. I will propose some possible plans these parasites on civilization might have, but before I do this, let me present one possible outcome of this greed, in the form of a short story:

As I look up at the night sky and think back. It has been many years since Our World had been invaded. I ponder why we gave up without a fight. Perhaps because the Aliens first came in small waves but before we knew it they had taken over most of our world. Maybe it was because they looked so much like us. In any event I guess it doesn’t matter, they are now the dominant force. It has been a struggle to learn their language and ways; however, those of us who are left are trying hard. The cultural differences and their shear numbers have had a great impact on the way we now live our lives. Our society has changed beyond any ones expectations. On the bright side I always wanted to learn another language, the only thing is, which languages should I learn; it seems Spanish will not be enough. The year is 2050.

Could this be the story of our future? Could the American Indians, both North and South American, have had similar thoughts when they looked back on the time of their conquest? One thing the American Indians were right about was that Mother earth didn’t belong to them and it doesn’t belong to us either. We all belong to it.

To be honest, the majority of our new population is Hispanic. Many of these new people have settled in various small cities and towns and have grown to outnumber the indigenous populations in some of those locations. The growth has been so rapid in some areas that they are tending not to assimilate into our culture. In other parts of the world where huge populations swell over boarders and reside in neighboring countries the term refugee camps are used. We have not established these camps rather we have allowed these new people complete access to our cities and towns. Even to the point, that some communities, here in the USA, have conducted government business in languages other than English. This is causing divisions in our culture. These divisions cost taxpayers a tremendous amount of money. The expense of having multiple languages in police forces, schools, hospitals or wherever they are needed, is an eroding factor. The cost of doing business has also increased due to additional cost for additional employees who speak these languages as well and the cost of printing literature in multiple languages. Businesses traditionally pass these costs on to the consumers and we have no reason to believe they wouldn’t even though their reduced labor cost should more than make up for it. In any event these are unnecessary costs which were rarely necessary in the past, and when they occurred, were short lived. These for mentioned issues concern many people, because our culture has been slowly eroding over the last few decades. The culture is eroding not only because of these extra expenses, but because of the division that multiple languages and cultures bring to any society. Our society is particularly hard hit, because of the size of the influx. Some estimates of the size of our illegal populations here in the USA exceed 32 million.[2] To put this in prospective, if this is true, we are trying to absorb a population equal to that of Canada.[3] One news poll taken in South and Central America in 2006 reported that an additional 80 to 100 million people still wanted to come here that year, if they could. This brings about a question that many of our citizens have had regarding illegal immigration. Where do we draw the line? It is not my intent to demean any common person, but I ask those invaders this question; what if millions of illegal immigrants were coming over to your country would you just sit by and let it happen or would you ask yourself, why?

It seems that illegal immigrants come from repressive countries where they felt they had no chance to succeed in life. They have been almost pushed here by their country’s leaders and drawn in like a magnet and protected by our country’s leaders. However, if we look at this from the point of view of the actual people involved in the invasion, the common people, we might gain some clarity. Many, if not most illegal immigrants, would much rather get a good paying job in their own country instead of coming here. By the same token our own citizens would also like to get a good paying job here, but sadly, more and more have had to look for work outside their home state or even their own country to do this. If most of us haven’t asked for these forced migrations, than who has? Who is behind these re-locations that have divided families and friends? They that want excessive or super wealth are eager, not to give away their wealth, but to give away the wealth of the America's namely the wealth of lower and middle classes. They have enlisted, it seems, our governments to assist them. However these two groups are not the only ones working against our common citizens, there are others. If you’re starting to see the pattern here then you might be starting to agree that all of what is happening is not by chance, but rather by certain people sitting down and collaborating on the changes they want to achieve. I mean they get up in the morning and say to themselves, how can I make myself more powerful today? Unfortunately these plans usually mean someone has to go through some pain and suffering, but they don’t care as long as it isn’t them.

Their plans are multifaceted, so could there be another reason for these migrations? Might it be for the purpose of changing our cultures? Here in the United States I could understand this, because our form of government hampers their progress. The Declaration of Independence and Constitution has certainly been a roadblock to many of their goals. Bringing in a new population that isn’t concerned with the importance of these documents would certainly make it easier to change them, or even to do away with them. This governmental change would help open the door to a one-world system, of course run by the very people this book is about.

Remarkably, earth has had a long history of culture destruction which we humans tend to ignore, at least collectively. If we really had paid attention, these wrongful doings would never have continued to this day. Wrongful seems too weak a word for the destructive pattern we find in history. The histories of both North and South America are histories of indigenous displacements, that being of the American Indians. Most of us are probably aware of these stories so we can relate at least somewhat to the underdogs. Perhaps, just maybe if you focus on the history of your lifetime you may recall times when you personally witnessed these “wrongful doings” in their elementary form. Think back to those good old school days, well they probably were not always all that good, as there were most likely times when someone with power used it to take unfair advantage of others. That ‘someone’ with power was perhaps first observed in grade school. You knew them as the bullies, male or female. Many people believe that all these so called bullies learned that their wrongful behavior led to punishment, thus as they grew older they gave up their evil ways. I wish this was the case, while many give up bullying, unfortunately some learned to be more covert in their bullying skills. In history this behavior has been behind many, if not most, wars. This sounds like a strong accusation to make but examine this; most wars tend to uproot whole populations to create wealth for a much smaller segment of another population. Many if not most of the world’s dictators have, to varying degrees, run their countries for personnel benefit, Idi Amin Dada, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-il and the like. These leaders were obvious in there approach to wealth redistribution. Today generally our leaders, even at the local level, are more covert. Here our greed problem is a little more subtle, that is if you’re not paying attention. The following is an example of the pattern:

In many cities in our country illegal aliens gather at corners, they are called day laborers. The city’s government mostly turns a blind eye to the law, which prohibits the hiring of illegal aliens. Greed for laborers, who can work for less than a living wage, is tolerated. The individuals who are using this labor for their own gain have sold out their friends, neighbors, and yes even their families; some without even knowing it. They may be saying to themselves right now, “How have I sold them out?” Well this is how:

First, they have sold out their Friends because much of the money made by the illegal workers goes out of the country. The reason why many illegal workers can work for less here is that if they take this money back to their country, they can live a greatly improved life style. If they spend the money here it defeats their purpose. Economically this loss of money not spent in our country hurts our economy.

Second, they have sold out their Neighbors because the citizens of the community still have to pay for the social programs which benefit these illegal workers, while the illegal worker pays only when they work here, and possibly not even then. Expenses for schools, roads, food stamps, and various other services are mostly left to the citizens who live here all year round to pay for. The taxes on these benefits continue on the citizens for the rest of their lives, while many of the illegal workers have retired to their homeland.

Third, they have sold out their Families because when family members grow up and try to make lives for themselves they find depressed wages forced on them. This is because of the illegal workers they now have to compete with. Since family members that live in the USA are subject to the higher cost of living, working for less than a living wage is not a good option.

Finally, individuals who hire illegal workers hurt themselves ultimately, because as the standard of living goes down, their surroundings begin to decay, their health care cost rise, and the long-term benefits they had thought would be here are threatened.

So why do they do this? One reason is that sometimes greed blinds many of us to the effect it has on others. Every one wants a deal, but once the true cost is known the deal perhaps wasn’t what we thought. The illegal worker, relative to the standard of living in their county, takes advantage of the citizens of the USA. The business owner or even the individual who hires the illegal worker takes advantage of their fellow citizens. Sometimes illegal immigrants even exploit other illegal immigrant. When you see this, you see them only on the bottom wrung of the ladder.

What is resulting from all of this illegal immigration is that the over all standards of living in the USA have been falling. The culture of the USA is changing and the value of a human life is becoming less important to a growing number of people. We value human life so little that many cities openly break the law to allow the hiring of illegal immigrants. Ironically, illegal workers who come here don’t realize that they are helping to create the very same conditions here that they have back in their own country.

The evidence is building that THEY mean what they say; we have been led into this situation, on the global scale, by a group of individuals, global leaders that have learned to be very covert with their bullying skills. They are so skillful that many people who work for them do not even realize they are helping them. They, when it fits their plan, employ lawyers, newspaper reporters, judges, armed forces service men and woman, congressmen, senators, and on and on. These ruthless leaders have a business plan that conducts strategies over the entire World. What the press calls conspiracies they call business strategies. We might see some of these strategies unfold in our daily life in such mundane things as the latest self serving corporate plan to boost production. Typically, these plans range from themes like, sell our service, become the most efficient, work smarter, to the not-so-well-known covert plans, such as the manipulation of foreign governments.

While their numbers are large, in proportion to the masses of people they are a very small minority. However, when they are in positions of power they can do an awful lot of damage. These individuals could, if placed within various corporations or organizations, help carry out their plans. They have been talked about for years and have been called Social elitist, Illuminati [4], and Bilderbergs [5], and I think you might know a few more names for them. For most people these names tend to generate a negative belief in their existence due to the effective media disinformation front. The Illuminati or Bilderberg are really just people anyway and to mystify them is to glorify them. They are important only in that they are in positions of power to control certain outcomes. Remember, I mentioned those people who could manipulate the lives of millions even billions of people at a time, well these are the ones. They are not up front and honest about what their ultimate goals are. They tried for years to keep secret their annual meetings. While these meetings are seldom reported in the main stream press, they have had some coverage. On occasions they have even tried to be up front about the meetings. This was rather hard to do because it placed them in a difficult position to defend. This is because the press is not allowed to report on the meeting, but only to participate if invited. They say the reason for this is that the Press would stifle their discussions. The biggest objection most people have with these elitists is that they are not a governmental commissioned group chosen to represent the entire population. Because of these issues, the Bilderberg meetings have for the most part been shrouded in secrecy. The fact that secrecy is necessary should cause us great concern as to what goes on in them; after all we are directly affected. From what I understand, they meet to discuss ways in which they might influence the world to better benefit them. Of course these ideas have to be sold as being beneficial to us. So the ideas from these meetings get disseminated to various think tanks all over the world and in turn are spun to shape the views of our political leaders, both current and future. Our leaders are supposed to hear our voices, but because of the extent of their lobbying we are drowned out. The Bilderberg have self-appointed themselves to be our voices and through the twisted salesmanship of their schemes end up making themselves richer.

The Bilderberg have a great deal of control over much of the major industries around the world. They run many of the corporations that have so aggressively lobbied for policies which are not generally in the best interest of the common person. In short, they cannot be trusted to give anyone a fair shake except themselves. The case for their corrupt greed is made, in part, by looking at the CEO compensation packages. Who else, other than the mentally disturbed, feelings of grandeur, would think they deserve that treatment? This also is why they have no shame in speaking for you, because your value is so much less than theirs. Why should your voice matter? Some people have said they tend to look at us common folks as if we were equivalent to cows or sheep. Judging from what has been happening in our lifetimes, I wouldn’t discount that thought. Greed is a great motivator for this kind of behavior.

I need to define what I feel greed is, for just like beauty, the eye of the beholder, far too often decides it. I view greed as something most of us have. While it is not something to be proud of, and should be checked when it excessively occurs to the detriment of others, our greed does not compare to the greed they possess. However, our greed does have an impact on our situation, for when we slip and go along with them; we allow them to operate smoothly. Our greed is usually limited to material things while theirs is extended to include POWER. It isn’t so surprising then to find most of them in positions of power. Most of us are taught early on in life that greed is not a good thing when taken to excess. Greed thus can be viewed as excess, but excess alone does not necessarily make greed bad. When power or material objects are gained by taking unjust or unfair and excessive advantage of others most of us come to realize this is not appropriate behavior. This is the kind of greed we do not want. Are, our laws being changed to allow this kind of behavior? Without laws, which are tempered by moral values, justice for the masses diminishes and disappears. Today too many of our lawyers see their jobs as spinning the laws to fit their client’s needs and often without regard for others. Because of their greed for material things lawyers sell out fellow members of their community, and some of their clients are counting on that. These lawyers see their job task as; how can I take this illegal action of my client and turn it around to make it legal? When greedy lawyers meet greedy corporations we all suffer.

A while back corrupt corporate America had found themselves in trouble when the people of our country had nearly achieved zero population growth [6]. Profits were still possible then, but just not large enough or easy enough for those greedy power seekers. Believe it or not zero population was clearly happening not so long along. This might have led to a better standard of living for the majority of people in the USA. However, some unscrupulous people were not satisfied paying a wage based on the supply and demand of that period, as this meant they would have to pay more, so they spun a story of deception. Of course any good deception has to be based on some truth they just twisted it to meet their needs. They wanted cheap labor and growth. These elitist began to spin reports to newspapers that the work force in the USA was too small to handle the expected demand of corporate America. We were told that there would not be enough workers for the expected labor needs of the near future. Lobbyist petitioned for more immigrant workers to enter on work visas. These lobbyists worked to raise the number of immigrants allowed into our country and lawmakers, it seems, were asked to look the other way on illegal workers, allowing these workers to flow into the labor pool. Think tanks in Washington began their lecture series to promote the shortage of labor issues that their clients wanted to correct. These actions wiped out the progress made by zero population achievements. The think tanks and lobbyist helped to create a cheap labor source for their benefactors. Having great success at securing cheap labor, corporations then went about to wiggle out of their commitments to their existing work force, promoting industries to relocate out of the country, thus further reducing jobs and increasing the labor pool. Yes, they started moving all the industries that they said they needed all that labor force for, out of the country.

Cheap labor now abounds for the greedy, yet they are not satisfied. Corrupt corporations have for a long time taken the disparity between low and high living standards in various countries to their advantage. These corporations lobbied for and were allowed a further advantage known as outsourcing. They have set up trade agreements that have hurt not just the common people of America, but America herself. The only thing that seems to matter to them is that they get what they want. I’d say this sounds like a bully. Remember the North America Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, our leaders told us that this was going to raise “their standard of living.” The general public thought that our leaders were talking about the Mexicans when they said “their standard of living,” but we eventually found out it was more about raising the corrupt corporate world’s standard of living.

Corporations, are they bad? I do not believe one could say all corporations are bad. In my opinion, the movers and shakers of greed mislead much of corporate America. Since these movers and shakers extend over the face of the earth, many of the world’s nations are experiencing roughly the same situation as America. Europe, to a large degree, faces cultural shock and swelling immigrant populations. Australia and Canada also are affected by the plans, but in different ways. We are facing the corrupt corporate new world order business plan. This plan does not seem to account for damage to the environment or human suffering. It seeks to widen the disparity between rich and poor.

Are they solely to blame? No, some of the blame goes to all of us. Let me begin first, with the poor, because the poor continue to produce the very thing that the greedy need, which is cheap labor. Like any factory which over produces a product, the product gets cheap, cheaper and cheaper still. The option is to hold back on production. Unless, of course, these people have excessive lust or are greedy for more children then they can afford. If they are they may not be doing their children a favor. One has only to visit any country where excess populations live and you will find human suffering, sometimes beyond belief. You will find life is often less valuable and abused more often. The conditions for life there are extremely difficult and promote child labor, prostitution and other destructive life choices. An effort to slow our population growth now would improve our world; after all, do we all have to be on earth at once? Wouldn’t it be better to spread our population out over time; instead of trying to fit everyone in at the same space and time? If slowing down the pace of population growth allows life to be viewed, as it should be viewed, as precious, than we are all better off. Even the greedy corporate leaders would be better off, because while they may only have $50 million instead of $500 million, they will have a world, in which they can go out and enjoy themselves in. When these leaders travel, they may not have to look at those blighted living conditions in those third world countries they visit. They will be less likely to need security to protect themselves. They will be able to go to far more interesting places and meet, I think some very interesting people. They will see a world that is cleaner, stronger, and has room for our wild kingdom. This is the world both rich and poor need to build. If we start now perhaps the generations that follow us will also be able to enjoy it, if we don’t, then those generations, if they exist, will inherit our mess. If we love, really love them, we should work together to assure that future generations will have happiness.

In the last few years I have witnessed a tremendous stock piling of wealth amongst the upper 10% of our society. In particular most of us are aware of those hefty CEO salaries that reach into the millions. One CEO whose performance was not that great was recently asked to retire and received a $210 million severance payment [7]. Could you imagine what he would have asked for if his performance was above expectations? The idea that these people actually think they need that much money worries me. Do they know something about the future money supply that causes their greed to be so immense? You see, it is things like these that make me ask more questions, but I think you will agree that the questions should be asked. Questions like; why do we have immigration laws to begin with if our leaders think its okay to ignore them anyway? Here is another question, why did we ask economist to calculate how many new immigrants our economy would be able to support, if we never intended to use this information? How about this one, are our leaders trying to trash the Constitution and move us toward a world government system? It seems to me that borders are not so important if you’re already thinking World Government. ‘One World, while it sounds noble, appears to be more of a clandestine project. If it were so noble why is it being developed in their back rooms? The North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA, are both examples of fast track projects where our voices were reduced to the point of not being heard. Increasingly our voices seem to be heard less and less. Even when we vote on an issue, and the majority of the people approve the measure, our leaders find ways to stop the will of the people from occurring. In Michigan, voters in November 2006 passed a proposition to discontinue the affirmative action process that has been going on for over 40 years. [8] Voters agreed that the process should stop, however the will of the people was challenged, and frankly the voters do not know if it will ever be invoked. The supreme court in a separate legal decision had ruled that the University of Michigan's law school would be allowed to continue a "tailored use" of affirmative action. They went on further to add that they the United States Supreme Court expected that in 25 years the use of racial preference will no longer be necessary. If this isn’t enough to cause people to be apathetic toward voting, I don’t know what is. Unfortunately, the main reason behind all of these issues appears to be GREED. Political, social, educational, and business or economical factors cause this greed. This book hopes to address these greed factors.

If the common citizens of the world would step back and think about where the greed in various business plans are taking our countries, I believe we could control the outcome. In the US, we must first look at how the loose immigration polices have damaged our social conditions on all fronts. These policies have caused damages to the point that several States do not have the resources to provide many services at the same levels which were available not long ago. For the last several years, State governments have been looking for ways to cut cost, cut benefits, and cut services. Recently, some states have been looking into the possibility of selling their highway system to private operators. This allows some State leaders to cut the cost of road improvements from the budgets. The new owners of the highway will pay for the upkeep by charging a toll. For those of you who are not paying attention, these state leaders will look like they’re doing something positive, even though they would be selling a resource that you paid for. In reality, it is more likely that instead of traveling that highway system and paying the toll, you will be using the other roads. Now some business leaders realize this, and this is one main reason for them wanting your state leaders to sell the highways. The highways will be less congested, which will be more productive for them. Oh, and don’t think that these business leaders will be paying the toll for their trucks using those roads, no; they will just add the cost to the products they sell us. That’s right we will still be paying for the roads, just not using them. It is not only our highway system that is up for sale, it’s our shipping ports, airports, naval bases, or any asset that our leaders can think of. The reason for the sale is that our governmental leaders have been borrowing a tremendous amount of money from more countries than I would like to count. These countries, or bankers, I believe, want something more than just promises of repayment and interest, they want assets. They may be afraid that we have borrowed too much from too many, and that we are no longer a good credit risk. Have our leaders really done this to us? I understand that as of March 2, 2007 our U.S. National Debt was about 8.7 trillion dollars and the U.S. Gross Domestic Product was 13.3 trillion dollars. That means we are financing about 65% of what we made last year [9]. If your income was 13 thousand dollars a year and your debt was 8 thousand dollars what would your credit debt look like after a few years? Would you really want to carry that debt even at a low interest rate? Would your bank ask for collateral? Our, political leaders appear to be making themselves rich by not thinking or caring about the damage they are doing to our country. These leaders are being pushed by an army of lobbyist, who have fallen to greed and have sold out our country. Possibly, these lobbyists haven’t paid attention to the wrong they are doing, and because there are so many of them doing it, they think its okay. Our politicians have also been doing this for so long that some can’t see the errors of their way; it has always been done this way in their lifetime. Though it never was perfect, to these politicians it is the way government works. To those movers and shakers of our world, who really are behind all of this, I fear that I don’t have an excuse for them. As many of us continue to sleep, their evil shows no compassion. I can only submit to them this old joke that somehow seems to fit. If to them the rest of us are considered to be nothing, then they will be the bosses over nothing. I can’t understand the power in that.

I would bet THEY started the expression of “whoever told you it has to be fair?” Of course society has a house for people who do not wish to be fair. For those of you who want to say there is no such thing as bad, wrong, or evil, I think this house might wake you up. It is called a house of corrections, or prison. The inmates have been sent there for various crimes against society. They are the proof that there are such things as bad, wrong, or evil. Unfortunately it is true that you will also find some wrongly accused citizens, because our system of justice somehow seems to admit more innocent victims than it should. Prisons are where our ‘THEY LIVE’ friends would not wish to end up at, because they would not be able to have the luxuries they feel they deserve. This is because they won’t have the extended resources, ‘us’, to take excess advantage of. They would be more or less alone here or at least limited to working their ways on just the other inmates.

No they, nor any of us, have enough knowledge, skill, or stamina to make it in this world on our own and still enjoy the benefits that a community can afford. Collectively mankind excels. Excess greed is foolish because it diminishes the very things that make mankind superior, the people from all walks of life that are necessary for the survival of our civilization. These are the people that provide the comforts and services we all would like to enjoy, but not at their expense, but at a fair and at least a living wage appropriate for their skills and/or hard work. The excess greed that we have all witnessed in our lifetimes has suffered our educational system, our health care systems, and our governmental systems. It is leading to the decline of our middle class and therefore to our civilization. Social elites and commoners need to wake up and understand that if we allow the current greed scheme to continue our very existence could be compromised.

Chapter 2 -The Politcal System

2008-01-17T19:04:00.008-05:00

Identifying and Picking the THEY LIVE Players
by David Michael Beachwood

“Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else.” Author Unknown

Most of us have had occasions where our egos have been pumped up. Then we recover and humble ourselves because we understand that in the grand schemes of time no one is really that important. The humbling also keeps us from taking advantage of others. There are those who truly feel that they are so much better than everyone else and that they deserve more than they have been honestly given, so they deceitfully find ways to obtain more. They feel they are unique and therefore deserve it. Their goal is to take advantage of others and often they don’t care who those others are. Saddam Hussein, for example, has been said to have murdered his own family members. For most of us our comfort level for taking advantage of others is not so close to home, it extends much further out into the community and we would not entertain the taking of a life. While we may not consider the idea of taking advantage of family members and friends the further out into the community we go, our concerns decrease. When it comes to those faceless individuals we have never met, it gets easier for us to take advantage of them. Societies with high morals are taught to remember that these faceless people are also faced with the same handicap that we have, that is, they do not know us either. This thought helps us extend our compassion well beyond just the people we know and by doing so, many things are achieved. First, we make efforts to control greed and to work toward a fair level of compensation for others, the rule being, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'' [1] The extension of socialization as such brings our civilization great accomplishments. Instead of having small, fractionated groups of people existing in turmoil with reduced productivity, we have larger groups working together to increase productivity. This is the cultural idea our forefathers wanted to establish and maintain for us. Of course we all know it is much more likely that we will accomplish more by working together than by fighting. During war we possibly destroy valuable members of society who might have added value to our culture. By pooling our resources we have made significant advancements in science, medicine, and technology. Many businesses have come to agree that employees, who are working together, as opposed to individually, accomplish not only more, but they also accomplish it faster. Even during times of war, armies are expected to work together to be effective. Most people would agree that we are better off working together than working against each other. With all this praise for team work I do not wish to exclude the fact that individuals have often contributed greatly to our society. These citizens need to be rewarded appropriately. Before I continue let me admit that there is room in our society for people of great wealth, in fact, that is part of our American Dream and I am very much for it. I am simply against ill gotten gain gathered by deceit rather than by hard work and honest creativity. There are those, who for reasons of greed, seek to divide and separate us by a variety of means. Their deceit often impedes the progress that might have otherwise been gained by working together in a more uniform measure. The main way they hurt civilization is by setting up self-serving teams to carry out carefully designed plans to break-up, disrupt, and confuse the common good. In doing these things they can redirect money in their direction, instead of to more efficient endeavors that would serve the nation as a whole. I am referring to stories you may have heard the ones which detail the misuse of public lands and resources. In order to carry out their plan, they first need to assemble their teams. Their teams, of course, will be loyal toward their ideas and plans, rather than the plans for the greater good. The process as to how they pick their players is interesting, because it is done right in front of us, and somehow nobody questions it. Our special glasses will help, if we are willing to put them on.

The Council on Foreign Relations
There is actually a training school, of sorts, called “The Council on Foreign Relations.”[2] This organization plays a key role in developing US foreign policy. The Council’s name sounds like it’s might be some sort of government agency, but it is not. Remember the government is supposed to be “we the people” meaning the mass of people. This group aims to support the ideas of specific special interest groups, namely corporate or business groups. To be sure, there are similar councils in existence in other countries as well, and yes, they have the same ideas. The way this works is that the council has meetings where the topics of discussion typically are those ideas and goals that our main characters want to achieve. Members are, of course, students in the sense that they learn the ideas and goals by going to these meetings. The agendas are carefully crafted to be sure to fit in with the approved plans and goals. Speakers select and impart discussion of these topics and learning occurs. Guest speakers who do not impart these doctrines tend to go unnoticed by the benefactors of these events. Those speakers who do impart the goals are watched carefully by the ones who walk among us, and if they do well they are rewarded with job opportunities. If they learn and adhere to the goals they are often selected to run for political office. Sometimes potential members of the council get selected because they have a family history of membership. You would be surprised to find that many of the politicians you know have been members of this group. Once again, this council does not champion the goals of the common citizen, but of the special interest sector; you know our main characters. Typically, they champion global free trade, reduced oversight of businesses, open boarders, basically one world order type of ideas. Once the council finds those candidates who are willing to carry their flag, and it’s not the flag of any nation, they encourage them to run for office. This way the business interests have their man or women in place. The People’s Almanac #3 by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace gives a brief summary of this group, which I am sure you will find very enlightening. The Almanac’s report is from 1981, yet this organization is still going strong. For a short Video on the CFR visit: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6601323462503D0B

The Trilateral Commission
You can presumably learn all about this organization from their web site.[3] However, it is important to note that their members are not common citizens, but are comprised of corporate leaders, members of the elite, politicians or political staffers. Amongst conspiracy theorist, members of this organization rank high on the “THEY” suspect list. The important thing to remember is that these are self appointed spokesman for us. We had no say in their appointment, nor do we have a say in their actions. They are not a government agency, but a private organization. Yet what they do affects us greatly.

Think Tanks
Another breeding ground for their candidates is think tanks. This is a good opportunity for aspiring agents to show their mettle, and if those in charge like what they see, the person moves up. The pay is well above the minimum wage and they have a chance to spread the plan to the larger community. Think tanks are funded by many different special interest groups and for a variety of reasons. There are a whole host of them, but to name just a few, at random, there are The Cato Institute, The Brookings Institution, and the American Enterprise Institute.[4] Think tanks are charged with writing the reports that many of our political leaders use to decide various issues. Their influence on elected officials is an important means of steering opinions in the direction of their benefactors. I am not aware of any Middle Class Institute writing directly on our behalf, so if you read any of these reports make sure you wear your special glasses. I recommend that everyone should take some time to listen to C-SPAN when they can.[5] These Cable Media Channels, which perhaps should be socially supported and broadcast as well, will interview representatives from many of these groups. C-SPAN also covers some of the think tank’s sponsored programs of discussions. I think you will find yourself agreeing with most of what they are saying, but then there is usually something that seems to make the whole discussion sour. This often rests on the question as to who are they serving, the common good or special interest. Far too often it is the special interest, but understandably so, because they do want to continue to get a paycheck. Think tanks, I believe, are a good idea but they need to be impartial and publicly supported to make, and keep them, that way. These think tanks should be comprised of a broader spectrum of political views, not primarily from the two main parties. There are large quantities of useful ideas that third party candidates have generated. To limit these people from participation in think tanks, I believe, is a detrimental loss to the common good.

Born Into It
Another way they, those who wish to control, pick their team is by choosing members of their very own families. It often doesn’t matter what background they have or even if they are qualified, as long as they have been indoctrinated with the goals. Of course, living amongst them, one has a hard time not knowing what those goals are. These lifestyles quickly lead a person astray and visions of royalty seem to dance in their heads. As I understand it, our founding fathers dreaded the idea of royalty. They envisioned the leadership of the country being spread across society with frequent changes to involve as many people as possible. Today we often see the same families continually running for office almost as if it were an inherited position. Have you ever wondered why we see the same old faces and family names over and over again? In a nation of over 300 million people one would think there would be more competition.

The ceremonies surrounding these leaders are all too pompous to suit my taste. Don’t get me wrong, I believe we should be able to honor our leaders befitting of their position. However, the spectacles are becoming so magnanimous that it is a close rival to the royalty of Great Britain. Is there really a man or a woman who truly deserves such treatment? I believe our leaders have let some ambitious caterers exceed appropriate limits. Our founders would not have wanted this in my opinion. I believe the founders were fed up with it and found it excessive. Somehow our current leaders seem to be very comfortable with being treated this way. It is unfortunate because they tend to forget that they are supposed to be servants of the people, not the other way around. Their high minded opinions of themselves conjure up images of Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, with their hands in the till calmly saying “because I can.”[6] These sorts of delusional dreams are preposterous and expensive to the taxpayers that have to pay the credit card billings. However, these sort of tell tale events give us insight as to the true nature of our main characters, remember them. Such lavish self-centered attention could only be the finger print of these evil overseers. Humility is not one of their strong points.

Lobbyists
Lobbyists generally come from within their, the people we need our glasses for, system. Many are former political leaders or staffers that have their second careers in what could be called ‘controlled damage,’ as opposed to steeling everything at once. Lately it doesn’t seem as though there is any control of their damage to our society. Lobbyists can also come from other sources, such as think tanks, the Council on Foreign Relations, private colleges, and family members. Outside of these, your chances of being a lobbyist used to be very limited. Today the tremendous growth in lobbyist allows for easier entry into the club. Basically, it seems you just have to be predisposed to selling out your country, should your client ask. I know this sounds harsh, believe me, I do not like to bash people like this, however, one only has only to look at the trade deficits to see that these lobbyist are far more effective for their clients, than they are for their own country. The damage that lobbyists have done to our country is, in my opinion, a leading cause of our demise. Sure the economy is going great for the upper 10% of our nation, but the trade deficits and national debt tell me that the rest of our population is not in such a great position, especially when lobbyists continue to ask for tax breaks for their 10% crowd, that is the elite. This means that it is the other 90% who will be paying that enormous credit card debt they have used to make their economy so great. Lobbyists are pretty diabolical, at least from some of the things I have heard about them. They have proposed many schemes to pervert honest business practices, which have resulted in such things as the Savings and Loan scandal, Enron, Mortgage frauds, and many greater and lesser ills, which we are left to pick up after. They have done this mostly through lobbying for the relaxation of oversight laws.

The CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, ARTICLE 1 Section 9
……… and no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

It has been reported that currently there are a large number of criminal action suits pending against members of our government in Washington DC.[7] This number is likely to rise. Many of these proceedings involve the inappropriate acceptance of lobbyist gifts. The extent of the lobbyist influence is so bad that I am waiting for the lobbyists to push forward a reform proposal that does away with our state and federal representatives. In the representatives place the lobbyists might select representatives from each of the largest companies in the world. In this way there would be a great economy of savings. First, the lobbyist’s clients would save through the elimination of the expense for political favors or payoffs to our elected officials. Secondly, from the termination of their redundant staffs since the lobbyists can and do write many of the bills anyway. Their thinking, eliminate the middle man eliminate the politicians. While I try to jest here, I am afraid that such things might well occur if lobbyist, and their clients, could have their way. Some of our government leaders need to stop feathering their nest and start taking care to protect our Constitution. If these governmental leaders think that they will have enough money to make themselves safe after they complete their deals, they need to think it through. These leaders are allowing world conditions to deteriorate to the point that possibly no place on earth will be safe, including their bunkers.[8] They have not only increased nuclear tensions in many countries in the world, but they may have also hastened the death of the earth itself. This death would be due to their global growth strategies, which have promoted populations to grow through out the world. It appears that these strategies, if not now, would eventually exasperate a possible global warming condition. So if the nukes don’t get them, then earth’s climate might. It is not nice to fool with nature. Then, on top of all of this, there is a measured weakening of the magnetic poles and a possible pole shift that may bring unknown challenges for mankind. All of these conditions have the potential to destroy our populations to the point where civilization, as we know it, would be thrown hundreds of years backward. The very resource they exploited, which is other humans, in order to maintain their lifestyles, might no longer be here to meet their every need. They should rethink their goals and make sure the earth they leave for their children and grand children is as safe and secure as possible. There are balances in nature and they should work toward those balances not away from them, remembering also, that humans are part of that nature. We are all in the same boat, in the ocean of space, as it has been said.

Socialism vs. Elitism
To be sure some members of the Elite will spend a lot of money supporting think tanks which show the errors of people based Socialism. However, they will never really explain Elitism. I certainly agree that most forms of Socialism are measurable failures. One reason is because most forms of socialism usually end up looking like Elitism-type systems, where 10% of the people are garnering the overwhelming percentage of the wealth. These systems usually end up spending a huge amount of the economy on military expenses. The force is required to retain control. There is an argument that our very system of government is Socialism. If we view the way our social programs are distributed we see that the money is generally filtered through some corporation or organization which often ends up making them abundantly wealthy. This is part of what many call Corporate Welfare a form of socialism. Many of us, who sleep, may not know that our government grants tax breaks and incentives to many different organizations and corporations. The new congress of 2007 recently has reduced some of the breaks our government had given or allowed to the oil industry a few years ago.[9] Yet this, I understand, represents a small part of the corporate welfare. Strangely, oil rates went up not to long afterward. Was this just a coincidence? In any event, we can say; ‘so much for governmental control.’

The economic system I will propose in the chapter on Economy will likely be painted as a socialist or communist system. I strongly disagree that it is. I believe it is the capitalistic system that our founders had in mind when they started this nation. True, it would benefit more of society than our current system, but is that really so bad? To our elite handlers any system which threatens their control needs to be smeared. If my proposal really was to be considered, the think tank process would begin. They would paint anything good for the majority as bad for the economy. The News organizations would present these negative views over and over until we learn that they are right, but are they? To protect their greed filled system all methods of control will be unleashed. If need be, a sane person will be painted as an insane person to discredit or humiliate them. Since all of us do stupid things at times it would be easy to make people question our sanity or just humiliate us. Think of the picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue, I hope you all have seen it, if some of our elite wanted to discredit him this is the sort of thing that they might employ. We have all seen the political ads, which take moments of a candidate’s life and present them in an unflattering way. We should, by now, understand that our only defense against this type of campaigning, or tactic, is being forewarned to look for it. We need to understand it for what it is an attempt to humiliate another person. I suppose you may wonder why I should care if Democrats and Republicans humiliate themselves, since many represent unscrupulous corporate interest anyway. We should all care, because this kind of thing lowers our standards of behavior. As I have said, if you have the money, you could make anyone look bad, even the good ones. We should have the will to mark any candidate that employs this technique and reject them outright. Reject them by not voting for them. If we did, we would all be better off.

Chapter 3-Economic System

2008-01-17T17:30:00.012-05:00

by David Michael Beachwood
Small Town even here THEY LIVE
Sometimes greed could have a subtle beginning, without one even thinking about it somehow it appears. Some insight might be garnered though looking at Small Town USA. Let us say this town has a population of 5000 people mostly employed by the area’s small family farmers of one sort or another. One day, a mining company announced that it planned a mining operation south of the town. Soon after, a developer came to town to announce plans to build a subdivision just north of town. The mayor announced that the town might have to make some improvements, in order to support the subdivision and the mining company. He said that he would most likely have to raise taxes on the existing citizens in the town to make the necessary improvements. Now he thought to himself, growth is good, right, I have been taught this all of my life, and it has to be the right thing to do. Besides, if there are additional homes, there will be additional taxes coming into the town to pay for future growth so that we can always grow. Therefore, he encouraged city council to change the zoning on the farmland, where the subdivision and mine were being planned. Some citizens were not too happy about these zoning changes, because the land involved was some of the best farmland in the county. However, there were other farms in the area, so they agreed. They then found out that the old mud roads leading to the proposed subdivision and mine would need to be upgraded to a paved highway code. In addition, the water treatment plant needed enlarging. The highway also needed a newer and larger sewer system, which would also have to be paid for. It happened that most of the city council members were business owners as well. They agreed with the Mayor that, from their point of view, growth is good. So on behalf of the citizens most of them tentatively agreed to raise taxes to make these improvements. However, the local real estate dealer who was selling the farmland to the subdivision developer had to meet with one last reluctant city council member to remind her how growth is good for the community. This council member was thinking that the bulk of citizens that were paying for the improvements were getting the short end of the stick. She claimed that the farmland that the real estate developer had purchased was now being sold for several times what it was worth, yet the real restate developer would only be paying a small contribution toward the improvements. She claimed that he, the real estate broker, was also doing the same. She also said that the business owners, who were just a minority of the citizens in the town, would stand to gain far more from this growth than the rest of the citizens. She stressed that, politically, the taxes from the additional homes would give the mayor and council more power, and this was another reason why they, the mayor and the council, favored the improvement taxes. This power would be in terms of control over more people and over more money. The realtor argued that growth meant employment opportunities for the sons and daughters of the town’s citizens. Their children might work at the new mine and live in the new subdivision. This seemed to make sense, so the councilwoman reluctantly agreed to approve the request. The roads were widened and paved, the water treatment plant enlarged, and the sewer lines extended out of town to both locations. This was all done at great cost to the citizens, far greater than almost anyone had imagined, because most of the workers for the improvements came from outside the community. Then when the mine opened, a good part of its work force was brought in from outside the county. The company stated that it needed skilled workers, but what it really wanted was to reduce wages. The excessive abuse of H-1B visas workers and illegal workers over the last thirty years had already lowered wages below a living wage scale. Most of the local people with the skills would not work for such reduced wages, but the imported H-1B workers and illegal labor could. The companies position, on the surface, seemed to be validated as it could not find many local workers, because of this the company asked the federal government for and was granted work visas for a number of employees. [1] Now the mining company had already talked the city officials into giving them a tax break for the next 25 years and it was too late to stop this. Some of the new mine workers were able to purchase homes in the new subdivision, but high loan payments, high property taxes and low wages caused a few to lose their home to the bank. To make matters worse, some of the lots sat vacant not collecting a house tax for the city. Those workers that did purchase a house had little money to pay for other things so they tended to use the local social aid programs. The cities social aid services became stressed, too many people asking for help and not enough resources. While the real estate agent, the developer, and the businesses of the town did better because of the growth, the majority of the citizens lost. They lost in terms of higher taxes, jobs for their families and in terms of quality of life due to the loss of farmland, reduced social programs, reduced resources, and a more stressful environment due to the additional congestion brought about by the growth.

While this scenario might be playing out across America every day, I do not mean to suggest that every business owner is one of them, our enemy. On the contrary small businesses provide very valuable services in our community and they deserve to make profits. My complaint is that when a business prospers by manipulating others into paying their share of the expense, then this becomes excessive greed on their part. In my view economic systems such as these ultimately end up looking something like the following: See Figure 1

Unfettered Capitalism based on The Population Growth Scheme

Figure 1
Is this where our current form of capitalism is taking us, and could it even be worse than this?

Why unfettered growth is not all it’s cracked up to be.
If we use a little common sense and think about this issue we can understand who really benefits from the current “Growth Policies” of our country. To do this we need to break growth down to its basic level. Let us say that a family has one child and now learns that they are about to have twins. While you might feel blessed for having more children, your next thought, if you’re a responsible person, would be to figure out how you are going to pay for this blessing. From the wealthy individual’s point of view, this, of course, is not an issue. However, let us say you are a member of a much larger group in our society, that of the lower wage earner. You work at a fast food restaurant as a counter worker. Your wife is already working a part time job at one of the larger discount chains. This growth in your family means you need to; one, find a better job; two, work a second job; or three, win the lottery. If we view growth as a responsible person views it we are much more cautious and we would prefer to plan ahead for how we are going to pay for it. It is also wise to understand how it will impact our lives and those that follow. Will the existing child have to do with less? Will all the children be able to find work when they grow up, if they do not have a college education? Will they have to go on some form of welfare? Will welfare even be available in the future? These are just some of their concerns. In this example the family secured a second job in order to make ends meet. But the growth here, for this family, was not the great economic benefit that the growth promoters want us to think it is. They, the entire family, had to work harder and sacrifice more to accommodate it.

The current growth policies, it seems, are not really designed to benefit the common man, they are designed to benefit the wealthier individual in our nation. While wealthier people are supposed to pay higher taxes, these taxes are not substantial enough to pay for the increased strain; they created, on our social programs. The strain they bring they ignored due to their desire for the growth in cheap labor that their businesses use. Existing social programs such as Schools, hospitals, penal institutions, police, waste disposal, water treatment, roads and on and on all require additional taxpayer support to accommodate the larger populations. Unfortunately the social programs end up trying to use the same limited funds to handle more people. The wealthier people exploiting this loop hole tend to be the large and medium size business owners who are looking for lots of cheap labor. While there are several methods a business employs to improve profits, they have keyed heavily on lowering the wage of their workers. Gross Domestic Product has gone up in the favor of these wealthier people. The Gross Domestic Pay of the average worker has gone down, because benefits have been reduced or eliminated and social costs have risen. Because the nation’s Growth Policies add millions of poorer workers to our country, there is a need for our social programs to grow. Where is the money to pay for it? While far too many businesses are busy skimming the wages from their workers they are not looking at the damage they are doing to our country’s economic stability. The new low paid workers are not in a position to pay enough taxes to make the system work and the businesses are not offering to make up the difference.

Think about this, if the trend for cheap labor continues, the bulk of workers in the United States will become peons, no disrespect intended, because the wage level in the United States will fall to that of Mexico. Businesses here will have to sell their products to a nation of poor people. I think this will mean some downsizing for all businesses; this is something that you business owners should think about.

I don’t believe I have ever seen a beautiful poor city, I think that you have to agree, money helps make life better. In order for wealthier people to enjoy living here, in this country, they need to think about what they are creating. What they are going to witness as they travel within this country? Will it be as unsafe as some places in South America?[2] Will it be as poor as Mexico? Or will our citizens become illegal immigrants trying to get into some other country? Growth! Should we think about stepping on the brakes, at least a little bit?

If we created 2 million jobs a year in the US how does it help if 2 million illegal people a year enter the US? [3] I’m not saying these are the figures, but I am saying that when our government gives the jobs reports, we should be subtracting those jobs lost to illegal workers to get a better picture of the growth scheme. We should also be aware that many of the jobs are in the building sector, if building stops, those people that are here illegally will help add to our possible third world condition. Basically, when viewed this way the growth system is a kind of chain letter scheme, where the people already entrenched at the top are the recipients of the bulk of the rewards. Of course these people will do all that they can to keep this system going. Their scheme works better on Cheap Labor. Growth is not an answer, at least when it promotes excessive populations. If Growth is the answer, why then do so many corporations downsize?[4] More employees on payroll certainly must be better?

Yet our leaders want growth. They say they do not want urban sprawl, but rather that we should live in high-rise buildings. This is a good way to pack in a cheap labor force. Funny thing however, urban sprawl is truly growth of the most lucrative form. It generates the need for roads, water lines, telephone facilities, electric facilities, sewer lines, and real estate sales. While some up-front costs are absorbed by the interested parties, a major portion of the cost is placed on taxpayers. Since there are numerous projects, these projects combine to create a great expense to middle class America. Working-class citizens are told that they have to contribute taxes to “the cause.” Increasingly, “the cause” makes a much smaller number of citizens richer and provides fewer benefits to the majority. Apartments and condominiums are less lucrative for the lucky few who benefit from growth, but none-the-less still windfalls. Apartments and condominiums seem like a good solution for the landlords and developers, but are a poor solution for the average citizen. Even if the middle class could expand and continue to afford “Growth”, we still need to ask ourselves the following question; what do you do when there is no more space to grow? After you run the grow scenario through to the end, you can see far more problems than you started with. These problems will not make the lucky few proud of themselves. Yet I do not wish to demonize these people, because most of them haven’t taken the time to think about the consequences, and besides, they have always been thought of as doing a noble job, at least by most of us. Unless we all wake up to what is really happening right in front of us, we are leaving a terrible legacy to our children and our grandchildren. We are leaving them to deal with issues such as social security, health care, clean water, clean air, nuclear waste, overpopulation, and energy resources to name a few. Growth, by the way is causing these problems. Growth is only a short-term economic answer, which currently favors some citizens in this country at the expense of the balance of the population over the long run. We should look to an economic solution which benefits the whole country and the majority of its citizens. Let’s find a solution which limits the impact on our country or tries to improve it. Managing our country’s resources more wisely is one way to do this. Parks, farmland, clean water and open spaces are what our grandchildren would really like, not parking lots, superhighways, rows of buildings, and infinite apartments or condominiums. They do not want a dwindling land resource, nor do they want to witness the growth in lines of the unemployed. Imagine the dismay of finding out that you were one of the humans being created for a cheap source of labor.

Recent news of global warming or pollution may convince all of us that we need to change.[5] If this news is substantiated through further evidence, we will have more cause for concern. These potential problems are so alarming that we may now be faced with an ultimatum which could be, ‘Give up on this kind of growth or the entire planet will suffer the consequences.’ No, growth as we know it is not the answer. One thing for sure is that the forces for growth will certainly want to argue that global warming is not real, as it would kill their scheme in a hurry. This will bite into their bank accounts and take away the easy money. Of course advocates of the environment will certainly want to enhance global warming effects. This might certainly increase the value of any conservationist- type holdings they may have. Each side has their own reasons to push these issues. We should realize that there is another side, not only to this issue but many other issues. This side is that of the common citizens of the United States of America. This side, in my opinion, overrides all. Not because the common citizen is any better but because what secures their future also secures a brighter future for our country and our future generations.

The Economy is improving
When ever I hear our national leaders say our economy is improving I cringe, mostly because this is true. But like many truths, you have to think about whose truth it is. For corporate America the economy is improving, but for the middle class American it is not. For example, there have been many news reports of companies planning layoffs to slash costs.[6] There have also been reports of companies making agreements with the trades unions to reduce the company’s health care costs. These cost reductions run into the billions and this is a direct loss to the middle class laborer. Most of us can recall the numerous headline news stories, which deal with downsizing, plant closings, health care benefits being reduced, or pension plans reduced or terminated.[7] We are also aware of the fact that while most of these companies are lowering labor cost for their general employees, the wages for the executives have been going up and up. This is why the economy is improving. At least it is improving for these folks. The Democrats and Republicans, during their tours in office, have each reported that the economy has improved, so I guess we are in for more of the same. Many of us continue to deny that these two parties, in the end, serve their benefactors. Now I ask you, how much did you send in, or better yet, if you where downsized, how much did you contribute to these groups? Under the campaign finance system that these two parties have in place, it should be getting more and more obvious to us that the system isn’t working for us. To our disappearing living-wage earners who cannot compete with business groups who are better able to contribute to this corrupt system, it should be getting even more obvious. Middle class wage earners continue to see their wages eroded and more and more of them fall off into the living wage sector. In turn the living wage earners see their wages eroded and more and more fall off into the minimum wage earner sector. Meanwhile, executive wages are up and where did that money come from? Next time you hear that the economy is improving you will know; it’s true although it may not be a truth for you.

The demise of the common citizen has been occurring for some time now. It is kind of like a story that your Science teacher may have told you about back in Grade School. Remember the one about slowly boiling a living frog? The frog doesn’t realize it is boiling until it is too late. The process has been slow, but none the less it is happening to more and more of us. It doesn’t seem like it is life threatening, but then the frog thought so too. I believe we should take steps now to correct the problems, because coming out of these problems will take some time to achieve. The longer we delay, the harder it will be to recover. The delay would also lengthen the pain and suffering involved.

It seems our politicians only have two weapons in their arsenal when in comes to solving problems. One, raise taxes and two, grow the economy. They are both inferior solutions. Of course, these are the easiest ideas to come up with. I child could do this. It seems most of them are not in politics to work, but only to fatten their bank accounts. There are other ways to address our problems, they are not as easy and will not be popular with the current elites in charge. However, in the end, a greater amount of people would be better served with the results, and our founders, I believe, would approve.

Back to Basics Capitalism
Consider a system based more on the ideas that our founding fathers had in mind. While we cannot read their minds, from what I have read and heard about them I believe they favored a different kind of Capitalism. This system I think would look something like the following: See Figure 2

Capitalism with Moral Restrictions
This model allows for a greater number of individuals to be elite and reduces the number of people living at or below the living wage. It encourages the American Dream instead of destroying it. Our goals should be to try to add as many elite citizens as we can, and at the same time reduce the number of poor citizens.

Figure 2
This model, in my view, is based on concepts our founders encouraged. It is something we should work toward and improve upon if possible.

Strangely, this chart looks like the Washington Monument and appropriately so, because I think George Washington and the other founders would have wished for as many citizens as possible to share in the wealth of our nation. This model would require efforts from all sectors of society. It would require a new understanding of the impact of overpopulation on our standard of living. Somehow, most people think that adding more population will make our standard of living better. The more the merrier, while this is a nice concept to work toward, we should not work toward it blindly. The evidence of overpopulation’s detrimental effect on society needs to be explained before we continue making our conditions worse without most of us understanding how.[8] If after most of us understand where overpopulation is leading us, and we agree that we are okay with living under such conditions; then we should proceed, but not before we understand the impact. My hope is that we would come down on the side which plans on a better life for future generations.

We are born naked, wet, and hungry get slapped on our bottom, and then things get worse. Author Unknown

Of course this is just a joke and things do not have to get worse. Remember, we are supposed to be the smartest creatures on the planet, right? If we start using some common sense, most all of our problems can be answered. Many of our problems come from those that want to live off our hard work, but not just live a pleasant standard of living; they want to live like kings and queens. This means someone has to suffer. The schemes developed to ensnare us are there for all to see, if we just wear the glasses of the skeptic. If we would just choose not to vote for the candidate they pick. If we would just choose not to sell out our family or our neighbors, we would help ourselves in the end. This is because in doing so we save ourselves in two ways; first, by restoring our moral convictions; and second, by restoring our self respect. Instead of implementing growth projects, let’s work on renewal projects. Without special interest lobbyists to prevent them we could start projects which will benefit the masses. For example mass transit systems are long overdue. Alternate energy systems have not been given proper attention; we need to make sure they are addressed with the support they deserve.

Access to our Market
Our nation, as a market place, has value. Those who want to sell their goods for their own profit should be paying a fee to have access. Of course, we should pay a fee if we want to sell our goods in foreign markets. The purchasing power of our market place needs to be considered as a national resource. On a small scale this compares to a small business located on a rural corner, verses a small business located at a major shopping mall. The small businessman at the shopping mall would expect to pay more for rent on his store than the rural businessman would; this is because he is paying for location. There are many more customers with money to purchase his products so he expects to make a good profit. The free trade agreements seem to ignore that our market has value. These agreements appear to give our market value away free, without the forethought that this is going to deplete our economic resources. This national resource is being drained to other parts of the world. Since wealthy business owners helped to create these agreements, I would guess they don’t really care, because they are making a bundle selling cheap foreign merchandise. These businessmen are using our national resource, which belongs to us all, to make their selves wealthy. In the process, the middle class of America is suffering, but more importantly America is suffering.

Illegal Immigration is part of the Globalization agenda
Illegal immigration is often referred to as simply ‘migration’ by some globalization representatives in an attempt to turn the nature of the issue into a benign discussion. Each South American country has two main reasons for wanting to have mass migration. Both reasons have to do with money because by decreasing their populations, they improve their economies. First of all, by reducing demand on their social structures at home they improve their economy. Second, many of their citizens who work in the United States send money back home to their families which further bolster their economies. Some rough estimated figures say that 3 billion dollars leaves our country for El Salvador and 5 billion dollars leaves for Mexico each year.[9] I am not sure as to the extent of the other country’s take, but it all hurts our middle class United States citizens. This money is leaving the United States and thus is not here to be spent in our economy. One might call it an economic rape, except our leaders seem to have given their consent. Globalization groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the many lobbyist groups have helped create the conditions which make this possible. Lobbying however is the cornerstone of how campaigns are financed. Lobbying allows for the best government money can buy. Put another way, it allows for our government to be bought.

Chapter 4 -We Sleep-Methods to Control

2008-01-17T15:01:00.003-05:00

by David Michael Beachwood
Relativity Speak
One game in politics is based on the idea of relativity, because you see, relativity allows a somewhat truthful answer to almost any question one could be asked. For example, if a reporter were to ask a Senator if NAFTA has been a good treaty he or she can honestly say yes. This is because, for the congressman and the lobbyist, he or she is representing, it is a good treaty. It doesn’t matter that for most people the treaty has not been a benefit. Of course, the typical reporter knows not to ask about that. If he of she does and does this too often, getting another interview may become difficult or he or she may have to sit in the back of the press room. Since most of these interviews are subjected to these kinds of relativity type questions and answers, to the unaware spectator, the representative is perceived as if he or she is doing a great job. Heck, they probably will vote for him or her. I hope you will be wearing those special-glasses next time you watch one of those, interviews.

Campaign Finance
The Senate and the House have become insensitive to common citizens. Most citizens are only asking that the best interest of the Nation, as a whole, be placed first. Instead, it is obvious that the best interests of some lobbyist are being placed first. The Nation’s health will continue to slowly deteriorate with the system of campaign finance currently in place. Since many incumbent leaders do not have the incentive to change the system, voting for them seems useless. Strangely however, we tend to see the representatives, as speaking on our behalf, because we have always believed that was what they were supposed to do. Campaign finance laws have changed all that and because we did not contribute to his or her campaign we are not the ones he or she is painting such a good picture for, ‘relatively speaking.’ For anyone, who has been following the campaign finance story you will know that a lack of middle class representation has been going on for a very long time. It has been going on right in front of us all, just like it is prim and proper, kind of like in the movie THEY LIVE. Of Course the reason why the campaign finance laws were changed, long ago, was simply for; you guessed it, THEM. The way campaigns are financed today is disgraceful and for our leaders to feel that this system is tolerable speaks volumes for their lack of integrity.[1] The system allows an almost exclusive ownership of our representative by lobbyist. This, campaign finance system, might be the most effective form of control they have.

Globalization and the WTO
The World Trade Organization or WTO has ministers but they are not necessarily followers of God.[2] The biggest complaint about this organization is that it is more or less a special interest sponsored group. The sponsors of the WTO, our THEY LIVE characters, have elected themselves to speak for us, the common citizen, through the WTO. The almighty dollar and some personal fortunes seems to be what is important there not the sense of what is good for the world. As for our United States Senators and Representatives they appear to have allowed big business to have what they want. Many if not most seem to have turned their backs on The United States of America completely. It is apparent that a very small segment of our county has managed to gain nearly complete control of our so-called representatives. They appear to have convinced them, our political leaders, to give over some of their oversight duties to the World Trade Organization. Could this be a violation of our Constitution? Have you ever wondered why when the WTO, has a major meeting that the demonstrations against it have been so strong? Often the police and additional forces have to be brought in from outside to control the crowds. This suggests, loudly to me, that there is strong opposition to this organization all around the world. If it were such a great benefit to the world why then is there such animosity toward it? Perhaps because some poorer countries have been forced to default on repayment due to strict conditions set by globalist who reportedly want control of food, water, and other basic supplies in these countries. Many countries are said to have been given conditions, along with the money they receive that sets them up for failure. Most of us have been told that the WTO is an organization which is supposed to help unite the world. Most countries, one would think, would like to see a world united with all countries coexisting in peace, each with their own independent governments. Governments, which provide a means for, like minded peoples to continue their cultures without major outside intervention. What we have now however, in this globalization process, is culture clash. Much can be said for a New World order, however if it is based on giving up our country’s common culture, values and freedoms the cost is too high.

Career Politicians
Let us say, that tomorrow, we were to find out that the following situation or story was confirmed. That the suspicion our country was being run by a huge criminal element was fully uncovered. All the major players had been arrested and a new temporary government was in place. If this were to happen than all laws and trade treatise that the criminal government had signed on behalf of the USA should be made void. This is because they where completed under false pretense. We wouldn’t have understood their meanings, because they were presented to us fraudulently. The long term members, or career politicians, would need to be held more accountable for their criminal behavior only because they have been carrying it on so much longer. Once a scandal, such as this, unfolds and society restores itself, a great effort should be made to secure all lost or stolen properties that have been diverted from our social systems and sent to their, greedy little hands. Since they would have also subverted the legal codes so that they could claim they have not broken any laws we will have to roll back those laws and trial them by the laws, which were in place before the scam(s), began. Based on this story, the question I have to ask is, ‘do we really want career politicians running our country?’ Power corrupts, even if we do not like to admit it. It seems that over time even the best of us seem to succumb to temptations. It would be better to have representatives serve short-terms. Hopefully, the representatives would be ordinary citizens with good honest character, rather than a well-trained politician, who is self-serving. Of course these citizens would need to meet some qualifying standards. Today politicians look out for themselves more than they look out for the general public. As a result, not much gets accomplished for the good of the nation, but a whole lot gets done for their financial backers who arrange to keep them in power. It seems that these politicians have created a legal system so complicated that it makes the tax code seem simple.[3] I guess this is what you get when so many of these so call politicians are really lawyers themselves. They have convinced us that good old common sense needs to be replaced by volumes of loopholes for their clients. Whatever happened to that “Keep It Short & Simple” KISS concept? When it comes to our laws I guess everyone wants to pretend that they understand all this confusion. Perhaps they are afraid to admit that it might have gotten out of control. More likely the lack of control is purposely designed. That old line “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” seems to sum it all up.[4]

Divide and Conquer
The Constitution of the United States, Article. IV, Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;……..

Have our leaders failed us here on two counts, regarding our republic and protection from invasion? To many people today, the words Democrat and Republican seem to bring out the worst in them. Just what is liberal and what is conservative? One side verbally beats up the other. There are a growing number of people that say we have drifted far from being a republic. Has democracy over powered the republic? Issues such as these have caused a riff in America. Are these issues by design, a design of confusion? This confusion could make sense because that is a technique used to divide and conquer people. We are conditioned to view the two political parties as if they are separate teams. Each side has a few issues, mostly peripheral, in nature, which they have elected to champion, sort of, but only when it fits in with their best interest. Of course these issues sometimes become sticking points for many voters. This is good because when this happens both teams can occupy hours, days, and sometimes weeks diverting themselves from important issues that really need to be addressed. This benefits many of our leaders, because they were not planing to address those important issues anyway, but needed to fill in time. The issues here would be the issues of middle class America and their clients don’t want our leaders to address these. Issues like Education, illegal immigration, trade deficits, national debt, lost manufacturing jobs, and others. If any issues are addressed it is because the benefactors, of these leaders, need something, say like they need the national debt limit to be raised, now this they can do.[5] These leaders typically blame each other for anything, which goes wrong. Unfortunately these could be the few times you will see them tell the truth. The Democrats blame the Republicans for the war, but both of them voted for it. Thus the good guy vs. bad guy routine is hollow. They quarrel back and forth with no relief for middle class America. The middle class is the segment of America that doesn’t have a party to represent them and hasn’t had one for years. This is easier to spot, if you view the trumped up conservatives’ and liberals’ peripheral squabbles, as a means for the politicians to control the masses. They have created a team atmosphere centered on two parties. Strategists have encouraged all of us to take one of the two sides. What is more, to take part with all the voracity of a college team event. Think of them, for example, as if they were the University of Michigan and Ohio State. I used these schools only because they both have great team spirit. Yet there are other teams or parties that rival them. The ‘two party system’ simply ignores those other parties because they are not the Top 2, in their minds, and two is all they want. Honestly though many others parties fit the profile of the Republic type of leadership our Constitution is talking about. In fact some would argue they fit the profile better than the Republican and Democrat Parties which have the exclusive franchise. The two party system works for them because it limits the amounts of political influence they need to spread around, if you know what I mean, it reduces their cost. If you take those costs down to the local city levels I think you will understand why they only want two parties. It is much easier to control the out comes of any issues they may have.

If we just think about it, most of us are at times conservative and at other times liberal. It is pretty cleaver for these politicians to take advantage of that. You may not want to over spend your budget so you’re a bit conservative. However you might want to join a union so you’re a bit liberal. Many of us have voted both Democrat and Republican at times, and even party members themselves have switched sides. It gets more confusing when the conservatives spend more than the liberals do, and the liberals stop the hand outs. This is evidence that the parties are one in the same when special interest command. The parties work in unison when they want something for themselves or their benefactors, but if it is something important, for the middle class, there is division and it usually fails. Oh, and they blame it on each other for not getting the job done. By keeping the ‘two party system’ going and preventing other parties from getting a foot hold they, the politicians, have created a system where only their benefactors have power. The politicians have power to continue with the same old ideas which benefit ultimately the corporations or other benefactors that own the two parties. These ideas also pay the campaign bills that keep these people in power. The loop is never ending. This is one reason why the middle class is hurting so badly. It is the reason why our children will be paying the corporate share of our government’s giant credit card bill if they, our children, are lucky enough to have a job.
They stifle the collective genius of human kind to secure their fortunes. They divide us to use us through various means. Though carefully crafted actions they interject divisions amongst us. They raise issues to cause controversy between blacks and whites, Hispanics and Caucasians, males and females, liberals and conservative, rich and poor, Christians and Muslims and any way possible to help achieve their end. However they are rarely divided. Their lot comes from all of the above mentioned groups and while you might think them noble, to be able to all get along, remember what unites them is that they get along at your expense in excessive and inappropriate degrees.

Affirmative Actions Effects on Culture
Affirmative action penalizes innocent people and sometimes rewards inappropriate cultural behaviors. These are the behaviors that foster a mentality that condones a lack of effort. I am referring to efforts such as, to study, to work hard, or to follow orders. Those who support affirmative action also lack the sympathy for those who suffer under its imposition. While there are many things in the United States of America to be proud of there are things, I believe the average citizen is not proud of. Most of us, today, would never promote a concept that one race of people should be given an unfair advantage over another. There are however, as in any society, certain groups, which promote racism and elitism. In our country, our government happens to be one of those groups. Of course, in their story they are hero’s and champions of the under privileged. In vying for the American vote politically correct positions are necessary even if more people get hurt then are helped. At least, that is the way it seems our politicians see it, especially if they get reelected. By putting a political spin on this issue they have taken rights away from one group and subverted another. They say they are fighting fire with fire so it must be okay, right? Their policies however do not punish those who should be punished. Their idea of punishment was carefully crafted to give the appearance of being fair, its effects where not.

I, like many “white males” in this country, am a second generation American. Our Grandfathers came here in the early 1900’s. Many of our first generation fathers worked menial jobs along side black workers during and after the depression era. Or they stood in the same handout line together. My father worked in the sewers at the Ford Motor Company shortly after the great depression he hardly had a leg up on anyone, never the less he was happy to have a job. Our family never owned any slaves in fact some of my ancestors where indentured servants themselves in Europe. While our government said that affirmative action was designed to even up the playing field it ignored the fact that many whites had also experienced a similar economic depravity as the blacks had. From my point of view there seems to have been a group of mostly white people who took advantage of both poor whites and blacks. Could it be our government leaders being in need of money chose not to punish this mostly white elite group directly? This wealthy group after all provides economic support to political campaigns. In my view they, this wealthy group, and our politicians devised a plan, which punished whites, just not the ones that should have been punished. Under the plan blacks would see whites held back and see progress. Most whites accepted the plan; after all if you’re white you might have gotten your job because you were white. Perhaps for some this was probably true. A win win situation for the politicians. Black and white votes for doing a perceived noble thing. While I firmly believe all people, rich or poor, should be held to the same standard, all men being created equal, my government, it seems, does not.

Affirmative Action was created and justified by some of our countries, so-called, top thinkers. Funny it didn’t seem to affect them. It has endured for over forty years. A generation of people, many of them innocent, has experienced this plan. Personally my life was altered many times along the way because of affirmative action. I will never know just how much for sure. With my working days over I now have to witness this policy applied to my children and that is what troubles me. For me the end doesn’t justify the means. This is because in the end it is still unfair discrimination and it doesn’t feel good no matter what color you are. To make matters worse I believe the affirmative action process has been used as a divide and conquer tactic. It is a tactic that they, the economic elitist, have used to strengthen their scheme and weaken us, the common American citizen.

Illegal Migration
If illegal migration was only a recent event it might be less of a burden however it has been going on well before any of us were born. The stream of illegal migrants, coming into this country has been a problem for a very long time. Only more recently, in the last few decades, the stream has become a flood. If one could total up all of the illegal migrants that have come here, over the years, one would then begin to understand why we are now paying more for health care, education, and everything else. The culmination of this problem has negatively affected all of our social systems. How anyone can sit back and watch without regard is troubling to me. For me it is like watching someone light a match to their beautiful ancestral house than sit by and watch it burn. Now this being said, illegal migration most certainly is not a problem for big business, because they have designs on what they want for us and for these newcomers. They, these unscrupulous businesses, will argue that America needs all of these workers on the one hand, than on the other hand, that we need to do away with our social programs, because there are too many of us and we cannot afford them. Some of our unfunded mandates and/or entitlements were sponsored by these very same people, in order to get their candidate into office. Yet, here they argue there isn't enough money to pay for our growing population which they have so strongly encouraged. It seems to me this is a problem they have designed. Is there really a shortage of labor or just a shortage of cheap labor? How cheap will the cost of labor go? It is true that a large segment of our population is getting older, but then look at all those old faces in Washington they are still employed. They still want to work if you can call it that? Many retired people still have a lot to offer, but working for less then a living wage is something most people do not want to do. Trust me, if those people in Washington were going to be paid a less then living wage they wouldn't be there long either. The same can be said for the youth. The business community is turning their backs on America in favor of importing the poor. Unfortunately, it is being done at the expense of the country. These illegal foreign nationals drain off resources which are needed to make the common living conditions of our society improve. Some business will be rewarded economically by taking advantage of these people but this will not go on forever. They need to look at the end result, which they are helping to bring about. Our house is slowly burning and they lit the fire.
Every country has their own economy, based on local, state or province codes, and or federal codes. Many of these codes require fees or taxes or both. These taxes and fees are used to make improvements within the local, state, or federal areas. They also may pay for social programs. Most citizens in the U.S.A. contribute to these taxes and fees. It is a fact that some countries have better living conditions than others. One reason for this is that their citizens have the ability and willingness to pay taxes. Often the citizens pay taxes on many levels some they may not even realize. In the U.S.A. taxes are paid on personal income, personal property, sales, and business transactions, additional taxes are levied on alcohol, tobacco, and gasoline. There are also taxes on our telephone bills for 911 emergency services and on our cable bill for franchise fees. I’m sure again you can think of a few I missed but you get my point, we pay an enormous amount. Well, while we may have complained that a lot of the money was not spent appropriately or wisely, it still has purchased a lot of social benefits for us all. To begin with, think of all the highways and roadways we have paid for over the years. Think of all the parks and recreational lands we have purchased and maintained. Then there are the forest systems and wetlands that we have paid for with our lives and money so they could be set aside. Think of all the cost in life and money in fighting forest fires. Think of the institutions that we have helped to finance. Our taxes have helped build everything from sports arenas to colleges. They have built police stations; schools, courthouses, libraries, prisons and again I think you might be able to add a few more ways our money has been spent. Third world countries were not able to build the social systems that most of us agreed needed to be built, so that our lives could be better. We sacrificed a lot in doing this, but we have also helped provide employment for many more of our citizens and these people in turn were also, than able to pay taxes, so that we could continue to maintain and build on our existing social systems. What is happening today is that business leaders have found a way to tap into the systems; we have all paid for, and use them to their advantage and at the same time to our detriment. The systems we have all been paying for are being threatened by the excessive use of people that they were never intended to be used by. These are illegal foreign nationals; what is more, the illegal migrants have not contributed substantially toward making them, are social systems, continue to be viable. This is because, and here is where the businesses have tapped our resources, business have used illegal workers and have paid them low wages which do not contribute sufficiently to our tax base. This is assuming the illegal workers are paying at least some tax. With an ever-growing illegal population the tax base grows smaller and the services continue to shrink. Business are tapping our embedded systems using them to provide health care, policing, commuter service, education and many others things, for their new illegal work force. Businesses have been using the citizens to pay for these services their illegal employees use.
The World Order they are trying to create calls for the border to be removed. Sounds good until you think about there being over 5 billion people on earth living below the poverty level. With our standard of living being higher, because we have paid to have it that way, we are now asked to open the door and allow every one to use our systems almost free of cost. Our country will become like a third world nation well before we hit the 1 billionth person in our population. We are told that we have to compete with countries that don’t spend hardly a dime on social programs because they paid little or no taxes. This is impossible to compete with while we still pay taxes and why would we not want to pay taxes? Granted I am not a fan of taxes, but some do have merit. Consider the social programs, which benefit the masses. Roads, bridges, Highways, hospitals and more things like these benefit all of us; I’m not so sure about sports stadiums though but that is another issue.
The elite, as a worse case scenario, might be planning their futures as living in ‘Green Zone Secure Areas’ kind of like the area around Baghdad, circa 2006, only nicer. Since they have shown no desire to pay taxes but rather have found multiple ways to avoid them, the future, without living wages, looks dim for the continuing of any social programs outside their Green Zones. The world may, at this point, almost be flat for about 90% of its population; the other 10% would live in the Green Zones. I say flat here, not because of it being the age of the computer, but because most of the world would not be able to afford to own and connect online.[6] This picture of the future is not the one I would like, if I were to become elite. Are we witnessing such a bleak future taking shape? Are they, the elite, really positioning themselves for survival in the Green Zone if necessary? It would certainly require a lot of money to maintain their security and they certainly are gathering it all in. I really do not think they would want such a world but if their plans go wrong, who knows?
So went you hear those elite spokesmen tell you that foreign workers are eager to work for pennies on the dollar and Americans should be ashamed of asking for a living wage, don’t believe it. The irony of all of this is that the some of these elite are most likely planing to run their tax and spend scheme on a whole new batch of people. This scheme would be a scaled down model because taxes will be limited. They will be telling these new people that they can improve their social condition by building roads, hospitals, etc. but don’t be surprised if most of the contractors building these things are those very same elites.

The Council on Foreign Relations
I was recently taken-back a little, when I received a request from The Council on Foreign Relations in the mail, asking me to contribute to their cause. While I may agree with a large part of what they say, there is also a large part, which threatens my existence as an American. In a sense I felt like I was being asked to commit economic suicide. In a way I felt like this; the best way to get someone to support you is to tell them ten things they want to hear, but don’t tell them the one thing they don’t want to hear, which is that they will be paying double for those ten things. Recently President Bill Clinton said something like this, and I paraphrase, ‘if you work hard and play by the rules you get rewarded.’ Statements like these have to be run through the Relativity Screen. Since he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations this has a double meaning.[7] Playing by their rules was certainly rewarding for him, as he was able to garner their favor. However, being one of the best speakers, I have ever heard, didn’t damage his political career either. Of course almost no one does anything for free. If I recollect properly, NAFTA happened during his tour in office and his Vice President ended up being a big supporter of this event as was the council.[8] Well since I covered the Council on Foreign Relations in the Chapter on Political Systems, I will leave it at that, except to say again that the council appears to be used by them to further their ends by helping to control us.

Think Tanks, Legal Rights Groups and the Law (Relatively Speaking)
How does the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, justify their argument that US Cities have no right to stop illegal migrants from renting and or working in their cities? Are they using laws imposed on us by the WTO or NAFTA agreements? Are they bending the Constitution to include illegal people along with citizens? I ask these questions because I have heard of a quagmire of international laws. These laws are so craftily woven, so as to deny our basic freedoms, even on down to a local level. It is very easy to understand why lawyers are so ill thought of, as they have created a mess of enormous proportions. They have made our lives so complicated that we don’t know how to react, at least for sure, to anything that happens around us. A burglar breaks into your house and hurts himself than is allowed to sue you. What good are laws when there are other laws that turn the situation around and make them void? Perhaps it is time to clear the enormous legal etch-a-sketch and start all over again? Laws have become meaningless especially if you have money. There is no limit to what, it seems, you can do with the law. So in reality it is like not having any law. Yet, there are still a couple of things that are keeping them from going hog wild. One is that someone else might have more money for more laws. The other is that you might loose if politics dictate you must. Other then that one could get away; it seems, with murder and all within the law. More and more, the laws seem to affect the fastest growing segment of our population the poor, those who cannot afford to pay for their law, or justice, if you could call it that?[9] If justice requires a team, a dream team, of lawyers in order to achieve it, how can the common citizen be assured they will get the same treatment? I think your answer is that a common person will most likely not have a team of lawyers. Yet, this is the system they have in place; I think we can do better.

The Four Dynasties
Any group who can control these four institutions has immense powers. So any plan, with the proportions we are talking about, would have to include these dynasties in their objectives:
1. The Education Dynasty
How do you think our Educational systems fare these days?[10] Many reports indicate these systems are on a sharp decline in many parts of the country but then those are the schools you or your children would be going to, if you’re in the middle class. The top private schools are not being affected, except positively, because they school the wealthier individuals in our country and the wealthy, are wealthier, these days. The schools, that our middle class would more likely go to, have been under attack from rising cost and lack of government involvement, in terms of over site and monetary support. They have, somehow, been increasingly transformed from educating the citizens of this country into educating the foreign students of other countries. This has happened on all levels kindergarten to doctorate.

If our educational system was truly serving our citizens they, those unscrupulous businesses, would not be able to claim they need H-1B Visas. H-1B’s are handed out for our business leaders who say they cannot secure American citizens with the skills they need. Whether this is the real reason is another subject. I suspect the hand of that elusive body, they, is at work here trying to strengthen the New World order. This is because H-1B Visa holders will not be supporting any American worker initiatives which might better the workers position against corporate America. Also, since H-1B holders do not have a vested interest, as a citizen they will not be here to stand with us to help correct our concerns. Added to this, they gain still more by the dumbing down of America as it strengthens their position by feeding the need for more H-1B Visas. But wait there is more as it is of course a lot easier to carry out their plans, if the people you carry them out on are less educated and less able to figure out what is going on. Confusion is a tool that increases the chances the plans will work.
Part of this education dynasty is our mainstream media. They, the media, provide the information we use to make sound decisions, or do they? There is very little investigative reporting going on these days, the corporate sponsors do not want to pay for it. If we choose to only view their news, we get a very narrow view of current events. In a way it is like, going to the store, and only being able to find products made in China. The news also seems to be made from one main view. Of course, if you ever have traveled you must have noticed that the local news down South, looks and feels a lot like the local news up North, almost down to the very same stories. If you can accept such narrow reporting you’re not wearing your special glasses. You may be aware that just eight companies own the majority of the main media journalism outlets.[11] With so few, controlling what they report is certainly a lot easier, if you have the will to do it. Of course the internet allows more reports to surface, but one also has to be very careful as to what is said on the internet. They are masters of confusion and they also put stories on the internet which need your scrutiny, just as much as when you read, view or listen to mainstream news reports. Fortunately, there are web sites that can be used to double-check those strange stories you might be reading, yet even here you need to investigate what these sites are saying.[12] Be aware that there is a lot written to mislead and keep you from finding answers.

2. The Political Dynasty
This institution has been under attack since day one. The progress toward its total control, by them, is very close at hand. Still there are some good people trying to make a difference, but they are thoroughly outnumbered. These good people need the help of a citizenry that is paying attention, is wearing the special glasses and yes are awake. Since I covered this dynasty under in the Chapter on Political Systems I will leave it at that.

3. The Economic Dynasty
The economy of war it is one great way to create wealth and power. Instigate nations to fight each other and then sell them weapons. In the USA the process allows for an easy way for corporations to get a return on their investments in the political lobbyist system. Wars are also easy ways to finalize lending and trade agreements with other countries. You might ask yourself what is the likelihood that say a country doesn’t really want to loan us money to keep our economy going? They, these countries, may want some assurance that they get their money back and that they get something more in return. A war would be a very good way to arrange that. For example, if the country lends the money they might get a contract to build some of the planes or make the ammunition. They may get contacts for support services. There is no doubt that our leaders are borrowing more money than any nation or even group of nations in the world.[13] With the promise that we taxpayers will pay it all back. As the middle class slowly slides down the economic scale the common citizen will be easier to control. However, this is not simply a loss for the middle class; it is a loss for the strength of America that is at stake. Our Leaders want to paint a picture of changing world conditions, as the reason for our middle class demise. This is not the complete or real truth, but merely an excuse to continue their ‘controlled damage policies’ to our economy. There are real solutions for a better economy here in the USA that we the people could implement. Yes, these solutions will not be easy and they will hurt all of us, in our country, in one way or another. But I believe the hurt will be much less than that of continuing on as we have. The plan they have for our country will not include any suffering on their part that is why they want to control things.

The economy of Credit not only controls us it prospers them. Our interest on the national debt was $406 billion in 2006 alone.[14] If we were really as wealthy, as they keep saying we are why do we even have to borrow to begin with? My definition of wealth is not owing anyone anything and having more money in savings than I have use for. If I am wrong than why do they have such large amounts of money in their savings accounts? Why don’t they borrow on the same scale with their personal accounts if being in debt is such a good thing?

Recently we have seen more deals where our countries assets are put up for sale. Some of the ports, airlines and oil fields have all been offered for sale. I believe that the countries that they are borrowing from are clearly concerned that we will not be able to repay the loans so these countries may want collateral. If our country was to default, and this might be part of the plan, they will not be affected as much because of the shear size of their amassed fortunes. Our economic collapse would be a buying opportunity for them. So you see by controlling the economic dynasty they control their future, at least for now.

What if there was corruption on such a large scale that it destroys our entire economy? How could this be covered up? Could the open boarder policies of our immigration laws both legal and illegal be a way to hide the real reason for the collapse? Do they plan to say that they didn’t think that the increased population would drive up the cost and end our social programs? Are they really planning to allow thousands of Middle Eastern refugees into our country after what they have done to them? Are there plans to give away our national assets to our debtors? One last question did anyone ever think that these kind of questions would ever have to be asked?

The Banking industry has long been considered as being directly involved in the covert plans we are talking about. The International Monetary Fund could easily be carrying out elements of the New World Order Plan. They certainly are in the position to do so. The stories of the beginnings of the Federal Reserve System are even clouded with secrecy. Bankers are said to have met on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia in 1908.[15] Of course the meeting was not open to the public yet this meeting is said to have led to the Federal Reserve Banks. Anyone hearing the words Federal Reserve System would think that this is a fully government controlled agency, but only the Board of Governors is presidentially-appointed. However, the people being appointed come from the banking community, and there is very little control or oversight that our government has over them. The 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks are owned by private member banks set up as corporations. The numerous member banks are also privately owned. Of course this all appears legal because the laws have been modified to accept this condition. The trouble is that they, the bankers, are treated as if they are a part of the government itself. I understand that one major complaint is that there is a lack of accountability and/or culture of secrecy within the Federal Reserve.[16] Their meetings should concern us because private banking industry leaders and the board members parlay the exclusive rights over our money supply in them. They do this without the level of oversight that most of us would require from our own financial advisor. In fact the oversight on these meetings is very limited.[17] The Banking industry certainly has a huge amount of control on the Economic Dynasty. As a nation we have put our wallets in the hands of a private bank system and ask them to handle it. As an individual would you do that and never fully audit them?

While the FED advises our leaders, and us, almost every year that we are in too much debt, they do not stop us from borrowing. On the contrary, they sit by and let our leaders raise the debt ceiling consistently. Like a credit card company raising your credit limit. Are we in a sea of debt? We have given the bank our complete trust. We have given them the right to print money and make loans with it, a windfall in it self, but that does not appear to be enough. Apparently they seem to want us to be their biggest credit customer as well. The interest on our debt is no small change. THEY certainly seem to LIVE amongst this group. Could it be that in collaboration with banking associates around the world the schemes of finance are conducted daily? Now, take note that while tremendous wrong can be carried out here there is also a fair amount of good the banking system does. The wrong I am talking about is the excessive usury, the world trade deals which always seem to drawn us deeper into debt instead of helping to pay off the national credit card. The wealth of our nation is being skimmed off and it appears that part of the banking industry is being used to carry this off.[18] Again not all bankers are bad, just as not all lawyers or all politicians are bad. The terrible people I am talking about are mixed in with the good and they can always point to the good things being done as examples of why they are needed. This is a catch twenty-two or sorts as they associate themselves with the good; others do, to further their evil schemes. Now there is so much more that one could write about the Banking System unfortunately much of it depressing news so I will leave that for you to investigate yourself. My intent is not to drown you with information but open you up, a little, so that you will not just accept whatever is told to you on the news.

The economy of oil also controls us and prospers them. Our government has allowed the oil industry to monopolize our important transportation sector. A monopoly based on the fuel used to power cars, trucks, and planes. This has gone on for decades. Our current president even sounds like an oil company’s advocate. Promises of agricultural fuels have been talked about for years. You might remember the problems back in 1973 with the OPEC oil embargo.[19] We said that we learned our lesson and that we where going to get out from under foreign control of oil. We set in place several measures to help us make progress toward this goal. Within a short time however, talk subsided and special interest groups pressured our government to slow the process. Since then it has basically been lip service, just enough to appease the few complaints. Our government has moved very slowly to start the weaning process from gasoline, just like they were told to, move slowly that is. The Oil interests still have control and our policies most likely will continue to favor the oil companies for the next several years. Thanks to our campaign finance rules.

Oil prices not only affect the transportation sector but the financial sectors as well. For example if the farmer has to pay higher fuel cost he will add this to this produce, if he can and food costs go up. If the retailer has to pay higher fuel cost for shipping and delivery his products go up. Some products require oil as an ingredient to produce, those things made of plastics, so likewise their cost rise. There are other examples of the influence that oil has on our society but I will not get into them, but simply to say they affect the cost we pay. The economic control that oil has on us is very unsafe for the USA. We have been placed in peril by special interest lobbyist. Our dependency on oil is an example of how their greed takes chances with our very own well being. I covered this economic dynasty to some degree in the Chapter on Economic Systems so again I will leave it at that.

4. The Religious Dynasty
It should be very obvious that they are not believers in God but that would not stop them from going to church, synagogue, or masque. America still has a large segment of its population that is Christian and they still need these votes. Our nation’s politics are rooted in Christian beginnings which made clear to our government that they cannot create a national religion and use it to control us. Rather they must allow citizens freedom of religion. This is the real meaning of separation of church and state. In doing so, our founders secured our religious freedoms. Being of faith, does not exclude a person from being in government. It does forbid that person from turning over the leadership to his earthly religious leader. Any person in government should however follow his or her own moral convictions when making laws. This is why we need people of good moral character or laws will suffer us. Extremist religions, which believe that their church leaders must also be their governmental leaders, violate the original intent of our founding fathers. The founders again believed that people should be allowed to follow God, or not follow, on their own free will without being forced. The points above have to be thought about, because often, they, those who practice to deceive, attack our Christian morals in order to weaken the framework of the nation’s unity of purpose, which is supposed to be to the common good. They do this by pitting gays against religious zealots, flag burners against veterans, blacks against whites, all to create diversions so we do not see or dwell on their real plans. They have corrupted the various religions of the world beyond belief. Like the magician lowing you into watching one hand while he does his trick with the other hand. The end effect of this is perhaps not sleeping, but the next best thing.

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you…..2 Peter 2:1

Religions have all been under attack from their very beginnings. Ancient spin-doctors as well as more recent text manipulators have twisted many ideas. Verses have often been corrupted to change their meanings. In the Christian faith has Passover been substituted with Easter?[20] Has the date of Christ’s conception been confused with the date of his birth? Was the Rapture theory developed in the eighteen hundreds well after the Bible was written? The stories behind these questions might surprise you. Strange religious ideas have creped into religions, all claiming to be the real meaning of the Word. Because of this, belief in God has suffered guilt by association. Many people have given up on learning about the bible’s lessons because they are embarrassed by the religious antics. If they have plans to divide and conquer, sowing seeds of doubt are a good place to start. It certainly keeps people from being of like mind and therefore less dangerous and easier to control. Are we spiritually impregnated with their ideology? I think there is a little bit of their ideology in all of us unfortunately. Our shortcomings give them their real power. I will try to address some of these religious quagmires in the up coming chapter on the religious analysis.

Voting
The credibility of the new electronic voting machines has been severely damaged by some very good investigative reporting. It should be noted that these reports are not coming, so much, from the main stream press. If these independent reports hold up, the new voting machines may make running for office a little easier for some candidates. That is if their goal is to change your vote to the vote they want. Then pandering to voting blocks such as seniors, gays, or church groups may no longer be necessary. The legitimacy of these machines is certainly a big question. Funny, the concern amongst most of our leaders doesn’t seem to match ours. There seems to be very few leaders, who have been raising concerns, certainly not enough to make me feel comfortable that the issues will truly be addressed.

Another question we should be asking, is why after spending hundreds of millions of dollars and trying to win the presidency, did two candidates, Gore and Carey, gave up so easily? The recount procedure in many peoples view was not exhausted. Their acceptance of theirs situations seemed a bit premature given the nature of the controversies, what was at stake, and again the enormous amount of money expended. I hate to say it but I felt they had a causal attitude in giving up their fight so easy after such a seemingly vigorous struggle. It was as if, they understood that it really didn’t matter who won, because they really where one in the same.

The Power of the White House
The White House has several control measures that it imposes on us all, like it or not. The President has the power to write Executive Orders that can be used for good as well as evil. Unfortunately we seem to hear of mostly the evil ones. Like the ones in which our Presidents have written to remove power and oversight from one qualified department and then give it to another possibly less capable department. There are other Executive Orders which, I understand, tend to strip away our freedoms should the President deem it necessary.[21] Then there are the Presidential pardons for convicted felons.[22] These seem to follow when a large sum of money ends up in the Party’s War Chest or some political favor is extended. Another power the President has is to appoint United States Attorneys.[23] These political appointments extend his reach of control out across the whole country. The United States Attorneys pick and choose which laws they want to champion and also those they do not want to touch. The illegal migration and border security problems might have been affected by some of these appointments. This needs to be investigated.[24] The office of the President also carries a huge influence. Especially over the actions that many important political players might take in their day to day governmental decisions. The reason why the moral character of our President is so important is that the abuse of just a few of these powers can change the direction of our country, and put all of us in harms way.
Create a Third World Nation and arming your enemy at the same time.
At this point, voting Democrat or Republican only seems good if you’re a large or medium size business. The benefit to small business and/or private citizens is clearly questionable, as I think I have pointed out. Until the system, which they promote, is scraped and a system, which gives all citizens a real voice, is set in place, the average citizen’s voice will continue getting weaker. This is because; both parties promote the ‘growth scheme’ as the only answer to all our issues. So our country will become more and more like a third world nation. As overpopulation helps create ‘Third World Nations.’ Most people do not want to face it, but it has already begun.

Are you happy with the cost of medical care, gasoline, heating your home, the traffic problems, and the power problems or are you happy with the environment? Is it easy to find a high paying job? By high paying I mean you’re able to support a family with all the cost associated with living in this country. Many areas of the country are facing drinking water issues. People are living in the Desert, on Fault lines, in Flood Zones, in mountainous regions with mudslide problems. If adequate livable land were available would this be necessary to the extent that it is?

And worst of all, our business leaders are helping a potential enemy profit without remorse. They secure cheap labor in China to make products and then sell these items here at a greatly inflated rate. The bulk of the savings never reach the common citizen but remains in the bank accounts, of those who are making themselves wealthy at our expense. Oh, and they do not care that China uses the money to buy weapons of war.[25]

Gun Control
There are generally two main arguments regarding this issue and it may well be they wrote them both. Both serve to divide us. One argument tells us that guns are necessary because our government plans to take over and we need them to prevent this. The other argument is that since the police have guns we citizens do not need them. All we need to do is call the police if we require help. Of course both arguments on the surface make some sense yet they both lack support for their premise. Their premise is that guns are the issue. Based on what they are saying they are both right. If I were planing to take over a country, I would most assuredly want to take away their weapons before attempting it. If citizens cannot defend themselves, the likely hood of my control would be greatly enhanced. Then, if I want to enforce strict taxes or travel laws or do away with any social freedoms, how would they stop me? This argument makes gun advocates look crazy to some people, you know like the government would do such a thing as force themselves on citizens. Of course the other side of the argument is just as crazy to think that all police departments can respond promptly to 911 calls. This is a wedge issue because it divides those who hate criminals with guns and those who just hate guns. If long ago the King of England had just outlawed guns in America to begin with we would never be having this discussion. Our forefathers would never have been able to defeat his tyranny or defend themselves from the unscrupulous people of that period in time. The United States, as we know it, would have never come into being, and we most likely, wouldn’t be here to argue this.

A war on guns will work about as well as the war on drugs or prohibition. Unfortunately, even if we could take guns away from everyone it probably wouldn’t help much. We should recall that some mass murders where committed with simple box cutters. What about train derailments, chemical releases or road side bombs? The real premise for our question should be can we stop people from going over the edge mentally? Gun issues such as these, while we are still in the flesh, have to be balanced, as both views contain good and bad elements. Unfortunately, Guns are required to fight evil. And until we all change into non-violent, peace loving souls that have no interest in taking advantage of others, guns will be necessary to protect innocents from tyrants. This is the unfortunate reality adults have to face. Arguing over guns distracts from the real issue and that is, we are failing in teaching good cultural values and by doing so we are creating the people who perpetrate these despicable acts.

Arbitration
Over the last several years corporations have been granted changes in the laws regarding customer complaints and law suits. While most people would agree that our legal system is terrible it still had provided for an opportunity for a persons day in court. Arbitration has diminished that chance. This might not have necessarily been a bad thing, if the Arbitration rules were not stacked in favor of corporations. In my opinion the rights of the average citizen were reduced substantially with these rules. This is because the parties are, for the most part, held to the terms of the arbitration, and class action lawsuits stand less of a chance of occurring.[26] Class action law suits had been one way that several people could band together to secure justice. Since most people do not have enough funds, of their own, to pay for lawyers their only recourse is the class action process, corporations now have been able to severely limit class action suits from occurring and thus to save millions of dollars. Now, this is just another example of how certain people have used their plans to stack things in their favor, of course it is legal, but is it right, unfortunately, they don’t care.

The North American Union[27]
I thought that part of the reason for joining THE United States of America, as a STATE, was to allow and control INTERSTATE commerce, have the rules changed? Can you be a state without joining the United States of America? It seems so, because North American Union members, Mexico and Canada, will not have to become a STATE or pay taxes to Washington. Should the citizens of any State in our Union be treated differently? Exactly what is a STATE? I’m afraid the legal answer to this will be what ever they want it to be, kind of like the meaning of “is” was to a former President.[28] One would think this union exceeds the limits of the trade deal they call NAFTA which they are using to push their plan. This fast track NAFTA scheme doesn’t seem proper to begin with. Could there simply be a covert business trick being employed here? That of bate them, talk fast get them to sign and than switch. Where is the debate about this issue? Why don’t our leaders talk to us about this openly? Could it be they do not wish to rouse us as it is easier for them if we sleep?

The Role of the Media
Newspapers, Television, Radio, and the Movies all influence our culture. If you think about it, the idea of advertising is to get your product fixed in the minds of potential buyers. Constant repetition influences thinking. Could the broadcast signal also include subliminal messages which aid in the control of our populations as they did in the movie THEY LIVE? It seems to me that if one fixates on an object he or she is more likely to obsess for that object. This should lead to the sale of the object. This also works for ideas. If someone wants to influence anything they merely have to fix their idea in the heads of others. This can be done by constantly reminding people of your product or idea. It has been said that the Democratic and Republican candidates for President this time around are expected to spend $500 Million each on their campaigns. This might be enough money to make many people think that concrete powder can make a good breakfast supplement. It certainly is enough to influence how people vote.

It is hard to deny that the movie industry provides hours of wonderful entertainment. For the most part they do a great job. Some elements of the movie industry however have had a negative influence on our society. This would be though their promotion of negative behaviors, such as excessively violence behaviors, poor sexual morals or causal drug use. You might disagree but think about what the themes of some of these movies are. I think you would agree that at least a good part of the movie industry is fixated on sex or drugs. Sex is an easy way to make money because it is something that most people have an interest in, but like anything it can be ill timed or over done and went it is there are consequences. We see evidence of these conditions in our culture. Do we really have to ask ourselves where do the young people of today get their ideas? I wish I could say that it was from the guidance of their parents, but than those parents have a hard time competing with a multi million dollar movie production which dignifies loose sex or drug use. The movie industry to a large degree can influence us in two ways or directions these being good or bad. Some of them in the industry really need to reexamine themselves and except their responsibility in shaping the world we live in. After all they have to live here as well. We also need to use our own common sense when dealing with these influences. The old computer saying of ‘Garbage in Garbage out’ seems to be relevant here as well, when applied to our minds. Those of them that are pushing the envelope of our culture and reducing the moral effectiveness of it need to consider their own families. They are hampering children from living in a healthy environment. They are encouraging deviant behaviors and not just for the kids but across the whole society. There are wholesome movies still being made. These are the kinds of films that build good character. Since the youth of today will be tomorrow’s leaders we should be careful with what we fill their heads with. The movie industry already has codes they just need to encourage those who keep pushing the envelope of negative ideas to stop.

Drugs
Can anyone really deny that people on drugs are not being controlled? Even if you will only accept that they are controlled, to varying degrees, by their drug of choice itself. Addicts are often compelled to do many things they later regret. Drugs have a history of not just controlling individuals, but of controlling whole populations. As I understand it certain tribes, long ago, in the Americas may have impeded their cultural progress, because they practiced ritual use of certain drugs. Then there was its use in China long ago by those who wanted to subdue and influence the government of China around the time of the boxer rebellion.[29]

I find it strange that the limited forces of the Taliban were said to have been having great success in destroying the opium crops in Afghanistan. However, the seemingly stronger multinational forces now in charge have watched it grow back into a multi billion dollar business. Is there also a comparison or connection here to our existing open boarder policies in the United States? These open boarders sure are letting in most of the drugs that plague our society. This again is a multi billion dollar business going on, mostly on our southern boarder. The drug money leaving our country reduces the economic wealth of our nation. Perhaps even more damaging is that drugs make people complacent or cause them hardships, which draw them away from things. The social and political things which could be making their lives and ours better. In conjunction with our educational system drugs play into the dumbing down situation we find ourselves in today.[30] These conditions aid in the divide and conquer tactics they already employ to help prevent our population from waking up from their SLEEP. To regress a little bit you could probably think of a movie or two which has made drug activities seem more like an adventure rather than the terrible lost of humanity it really is. THEY LIVE to sell you drugs.

WE SLEEP
All of the above methods and plans go on without many serious objections as if most of us are asleep. Similar to the movie THEY LIVE. While it is possible for the masses to wake themselves it seems they will not be easily aroused. The depth of the sleep may even prevent them from awakening in time. Yet, their fate is in their own hands and this is, as I believe, not only as God intended but also as it should be. Our country is a country of freedoms and we are free to participate or sleep. Many others have tried to ring the bell of alarm and have not been successful the chances that this book will succeed are slim. However, I believe we should never give up and always hope for the best. The book, anyway, is more of a call for personal self-correction than a call for national economic security. I do however believe one follows the other.
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Chapter 5 - Signs of Their Plans

2008-01-17T14:54:00.004-05:00

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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Chapter 6 - Religious Analysis

2008-01-17T14:10:00.006-05:00

by David Michael Beachwood
For those of you who do not believe in God I ask your indulgence in reading this section. I understand the reasoning for believing we are here by chance, so look at this as an exercise in your moral tolerance.

We are often told not to talk religion and most of the time this is prudent, but other times it is meant to limit our discourse. So as not to limit our discussion, it is now time to talk religion. Quite frankly the only way I can demonstrate the connection ‘THEY’ have on religion is to open this can of worms. I do not claim to be an expert on religions. While I have spent a substantial amount of time in the study of religion, I have never, attended any advanced formal schools on the subject. I also do not claim to speak in behalf of any specific religion. Truthfully, I cannot say I particularly approve of many of the religious practices I have seen, yet I believe in God. Why do I believe? Before I try to explain this, I must first explain that I am not here to force my beliefs on anyone, that is, anymore then any other person that writes a book or the critic that writes reviews. I have already confessed that I certainly do not know everything. I am just presenting, to you, the way I see things. If I am like most of you I sometimes am wrong. You will have to decide for yourself what if anything I write here is something you might agree with.

You most likely had already perceived that I am a person of faith from my remarks in the Introduction chapter of this book. However, judging from some of the comments I have made about religion you might be questioning how I can say this. I hope the reason for my faith will become clearer as you read. However, my main task in this chapter and this book is to connect our main characters to religion not to explain myself. All of this being said, a little explanation of my background and thought process might help you understand where I am coming from.

I have more knowledge about the Christian Bible, than any of the other scriptures. Still I have found, like many others who have read it, that I have not been able to explain many of the things it says happened. Several things in the bible fall outside the scientific realm of reason and to believe them you require faith. Many people feel that you have to be a little crazy or at least a little silly, to have faith. There is a side to me that agrees very strongly with this. As anyone knows, if you choose to defend something it is better to understand it completely, otherwise you may end up looking very silly. Unfortunately parts of the bible are neither easily understandable nor defensible using logic and/or science. I cannot defend these texts because I lack the knowledge to do so. The current truth, as I understand it, is simply that no one has or is likely to prove the existence of God. The easiest thing to do is say he doesn’t exist and that the scriptures associated with him are nonsense. Somehow I am not personally comfortable with this path. I feel this way, because there are basic concepts in the scriptures which should not be cast away just because they are part of a difficult conundrum. Part of my faith is a belief that somewhere, out there, must be the knowledge we need to understand these deeper issues. Perhaps just beyond our current reasoning skills all these answer lay; if so these questions will find answers? Such knowledge might help to support the basic ideals of the bible. These basic truths in the scriptures teach a discipline or way of life which, in my opinion, is worth supporting and encouraging. The surrounding confusions both in the bible and in the ways people chose to live their lives have always clouded the issue of faith.

Faith might not always be such a crazy notion as even science itself uses a form of it as a means to further scientific discovery. Yes even science could be called a little silly at times, because the works of many scientists are based on a hypothesis. This means these scientists are hoping their scientific guess will carry their study further. To do this they have to treat the hypothesis as if it were real. In a sense they have faith in their hypothesis at least to the extent that they take the time to advance it. Of course if the hypothesis is proven to be wrong they can look for another answer and so they should. Noted this kind of faith pales in comparison to some of the extreme religious faiths, we have all witnessed much to our dismay, yet it is still faith. I say this, because it involves an allegiance with some thing to a point where confidence or belief is displayed. While this may seem like a petty point to make it weighs in on how we use our reasoning skills. Some people will resent the fact that I made an attempt to link science with faith. I am just trying to demonstrate that like it or not our reasoning skills are affected by our predispositions. No matter if these ideas are religious or scientific. In knowing this we can each open our minds, a little, and give each other a little tolerance.

In our world there are many things which fall outside the realm of our current reasoning skills that science does not have an answer for yet. The concept of God is only one mystery in science’s universe at present. There are many mysteries in the universe. Regardless of science’s inability to resolve these mysteries I confess a reasoned approach would seem like our best chance at success, based on a worldly view. Just as science currently lacks the ability to answer all questions I lack the ability to defend faith conclusively at this time. I can only offer to you the experience and understanding that I have gathered, or think I have gathered, so far. To begin with we know that this confusion over the existence of God started thousands of years ago, and we, still haven’t resolved it. Most of science, I think, will agree that someday we will be able to answer this question conclusively, if mankind lives long enough. The problem with religions, I think, from a scientific approach is that they appear to blindly accept God without proof. This then makes people with faith wrong automatically because of their flawed approach. Of course what if these people of faith have guessed right? What if their seemingly unscientific hypothesis is right and there is a God? If we rise above the arguments, we can see that we need more information or knowledge to make any real determination, at least from the scientific approach. In short we can expect that barring the actual appearance of God we may have to wait hundreds or thousands of more years to get this information. So, for now, this brings both sides back to where we started each side looking for answers using two different approaches. It is true that the bible contains stories and actions that are indefensible with the information provided, at least for me. However, the scriptures contain many more concepts that are gems of intelligence and are easily defensible with simple reason. It has been my experience that as I learn more about the bible some of those controversial stories and actions have started to become a little less confusing. Personally, enough of my questions have been answered to encourage me to try to understand more.

In all my study and attendance of various church services I have never had occasion where I was asked to go out and sacrifice an animal or to murder another person. Yet, some books in the bible tell stories of God directing these kinds of acts. It seems critics of the bible use these stories to imply this is what is being taught in Christian churches. The general idea of most of these kinds of stories in the bible end up demonstrating that by exercising proper moral convictions these kinds of negative acts could have been avoided. One other point, verses in the bible taken out of context will have the same negative effect as verses taken out of any book and uses despairingly. We need to look at the totality of the message. It seems many religions have not retained the core teachings, but have taken isolated parts of the teachings and have built up their own complete religion which dilutes the basic message. Some say we should take each word in the bible literally others say it is all symbolism still others a combination. The results have fractured the Word and have confused it. Is it possible that just the basic codes are all we really need to build a good life? After all God made a simple list of just ten.

The bible also has stories which if taken literally, using today’s English, sometimes don’t translate into the intended original meanings and cause moral conflicts. Many of these conflicts of morality can be explained if one truly wants to take the time to learn. Ultimately however there are some things which most of us will confess we cannot explain and do not understand, but I would not abandon the book as completely nonsense just because I cannot understand parts of it. Imagine going to school and dropping out of each class that you did not score 100% on your exams in. How far in life would you go? Often we find that some of the things in school that we didn’t understand, at that time, are explained in future classes or life experiences. Sometimes we even find that the instructions we received originally were not transmitted properly. I have found that when things do not add up it is sometimes best to lay the idea aside for another time. One does not need to understand everything to understand that the basic code being taught is for people to try and do ‘good.’

Unfortunately today in our churches mixed in with the teachings of good are some corrupt teachings. Again should we condemn the bible if the church has been tainted with corruption? I think most people, who have read the bible, would agree the bottom line of the bible is to teach positive ideas, so those churches that twist things to the negative side might be infected with you know who.

As far as other books that have influenced me, I believe they all have something to offer within their pages. Yes, some books can pervert your thinking so you have to be careful. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t necessarily read them. If you have a mature mind, use common sense, and most importantly keep your mind open, wear the ‘special glasses’, you can usually come away from any book will some knowledge. Now this being said, if there was a book that taught the truth, a common truth, about Evil would you not want you to read it? It is said the truth will set you free. The only book I know of that makes this promise is the bible. In fact you already have a connection to the bible simply by living in the USA or most any country in the world for that matter.

Christian USA
The bulk of the early colonists of the United States of America were composed of people who were raised with Christian views, from the countries inception and even before, starting with the Mayflower.[1] The basic religious principles of this country have in my view allowed us to grow into a powerful nation in the world. These principles include honest, hard working, and most importantly loving and caring people helping one another; as if they were all part of the same family. This is not to say that evil things did not happen, we all know they did, but the basic common person for the most part did not knowingly conspire at these things. It was a tough life and in order to survive people needed to count on each other.

During the last fifty to one hundred years our country has begun to change, inching toward less reliance on God and family. Most of our population still believes God is blessing our nation greatly, but we may be beginning to lose his favor? While some have touted the growing Gross National Product, the GNP, as a sign of economic strength, I am not convinced. This is because, I believe there is more to the story on economic strength. I have seen too many companies go out of business while they were expanding to believe growth is a cure all. Our extremely high trade deficits and the growing national debt are frightening to what now remains of the middle class American citizen. Some of our leaders have fostered laws, which erode the basic codes of God and family values. These leaders continue to ignore how those laws have affected middle class America. The wealth of the middle class has been weakened, but the wealth of upper class has gone up.[2] However, the overall wealth of America is arguably in decline. The value of the dollar is down.[3] The growth in the money supply and the growth in the population are not making the average citizen wealthier. A great deal of the wealth is being drained out of the nation to pay for Oil, other foreign product, and foreign labor. The recipients are countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and many others. The wealth resource this country has as a market place for foreign businesses is being sold to the special interest groups who lobby our leaders. Once this wealth resource is drained off our country runs the risk of looking like present day Mexico. Most of the middle class turned into peons, no disrespect intended. Could it be that too many of our leaders lack the moral values required to correct what is going on?

The basic Christian faith here in the United States is more than a religion it is a reality. After all, we all mark our days based on Christ’s birth. However, it is not just our calendar that gives it reality, it is its message that believers are suppose to live by everyday. This message can be summed up as ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ What is more, it is a reality for everyone not just Christians because this message and other values have been woven into the fabric of our laws, government and society.[4] Our very money contains the inscription “In God we Trust.” The reality is Christian ideas live today just as they did back in 1776, but only if people practice its concepts. Because the greater part of the Christian bible is the Hebrew bible we share a commonality with the Jewish community. We also share many common goals with other religions that have adopted moral codes, which are the same as professed in both Old and New Testament writings. The frightening side of this reality is that at the very least the Jewish and Christian faiths teach that our THEY LIVE friends live and that they are with us today.

Who THEY are:
The movie, THEY LIVE, points out that the Bible talks of these creatures. However, the movie did not go into detail as to where the bibles version of ‘THEY’ came from. I will try to briefly explain this. The bible says the, THEY LIVE; characters have been around for several thousands of years. They are identified in the bible by many names. They are called by such names as the Nephilim, the fallen, the Tares and many more.[5] There are plenty of references to them in the bible both old and new testaments but to be brief here are just three:
1) Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto Him, saying, “Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.” He answered and said unto them, “He That soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. Matthew 13:36-39
2) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44
3) Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from such turn away. II Timothy 3:4-5

It seems that for a long time main stream religions have not been teaching about where the sons of Satan come from, at least come from in part. For the last several years now a growing number of religious teachers have been reviving these teachings. This has caused a bit of a disturbance for some Christians. I am not here to say who is right or wrong about the teaching but merely to point out that this rediscovered line of thinking seems to help the bible make more sense. The two early churches which are said to have taught, who the sons of Cain are, were the church of Smyrna and the church of Philadelphia. They were praised for teaching about those “which say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan” Revelation: Chapter 2:8-9. This is a reference, at the least, to people who follow Satan as their leader, instead of God as their father. This information appears to have come from the Old Testament in Jeremiah chapter 35 and Chronicles chapter 2, in part. These chapters give an explanation of who the Rechabites and Kenites are and indicate they worshiped another god.[6] Through inference, at the very least, these chapters suggest they worshiped Satan as their father. Did Satan literally have offspring here on earth? This revived teaching says yes, and to explain this we have to begin back in Genesis where the Serpent was tempting Eve. First allow me to give a brief idea of what is often taught currently. Many common versions of this story teach that a snake tempted Eve into eating an apple from a tree, which was located in the Garden of Eden. And this caused the first sin, which was that of disobeying God’s command. His command was not to partake of the fruit from the tree in the midst of the garden. For those who teach the revived story this is said only to be a very watered down symbolic representation of the events. Perhaps the people who started telling the story this way felt that Christians could not handle the ‘R rated’ events, which are said to be reported, in the actual manuscripts. While the watered down version is fine for beginners it does not provide enough information to allow a person to grow in the understanding of the bible because it leaves out crucial information. We know the Serpent is a figure of speech for Satan, but he also symbolizes the tree in the midst of the garden. Much like someone might refer to a strong person as a lion, here the word Serpent expresses a negative impression of his character. When God created Satan he, at first, was an angel of light. In fact, God had made him the full pattern, as he is said to be beautiful, handsome even glorious. The symbol of partaking of his fruit or seed is also figurative for, listening to his twisting of the truth or his version of what is good and what is evil. Satan had previously caused problems for God, so God had a plan to repair things. God's plan called for a savior to be born through Eve but Satan had a scheme to disrupt God's plan. He planned to introduce his own seed into Eve to corrupt the line of decent. This is why God told both Adam and Eve not to eat, or partake, of the tree in the mist of the garden. Nor should they even touch it; or him. Because Eve made the mistake of listening to the Serpent, he was able to seduce her.[7] Eve then talked Adam into participating. Remember Eve had not born any children to this point in the story. It appears both may have had no knowledge of ever having sex before this time because afterward their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked. It is more likely the act of promiscuous sex would have caused them to be aware of being naked, more so, than eating an apple would. Now hear is where our friends THEY enter our world because Eve’s first son was Cain and he is said to be of the seed of Satan. The manuscripts are said to indicate that Eve continued on in labor and shortly after, Able was born. They were twins except Able was of the seed of Adam. Note that the bible reports that God said to the serpent “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed; It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.” Gen: 3:15

It is medically possible for twins to be born of separate fathers.[8] To further support this is the fact that there are two Genealogies listed in the bible one for Adam and one for Cain indicating two separate families. Cain’s offspring have names, which mirror very closely the names of Adam’s offspring. This is indicative of Satan’s confusing character being passed on to Cain and causes problems of confusion, sometimes while reading the bible, as it is hard to follow who is who if your not paying attention. In this teaching of events the Kenites are said to be the sons of Cain. Now back up to my biblical references above the ones numbered 1 and 2 are from Jesus. These let you know that it was commonly understood, even in Jesus’ day, that Satan’s offspring existed here on earth. There are other indications that this revived teaching is correct but this will be something you can look into, if you have the will. I also feel this version helps to explain some human behavior better than the old version. It is hard for me to understand how some people do the terrible things they do without the interjection of evil into the explanation of their actions. For many of us it is hard to deny they live.

Today, based on the above, it appears that they have compromised, in varying degrees, all peoples of the world. God’s plans for their removal, from within our populations, are yet to come, but all is explained in the Bible.[9] The Bible does have symbolism in it and because of this requires a little more thought than other reading material. To me, it is a book about one mans family. For the most part, it is the story of Adam and his descendants. What might strike a new reader as unusual about the book is that it is often called ‘The Good Book.’ Despite being filled with evil stories of lust, incest, greed and deception. It seems strange that anyone writing a story about their family would want to expose the dirt about them the way that this book does. Its stories are certainly not faltering to the family. They are stories most families would want to bury, instead of announce. After reading a few of these stories you begin to understand that the reason for these nasty events is that they are caused by our leading characters. The only good reason for telling the stories is to help others so they might not follow in those same steps. The stories often repeat certain themes or types that, it is believed God wants us to learn. The great strength of the book is that it offers a meaning and purpose to life here on earth. It gives hope, instead of chance and a great deal of insight on many of the issues we face today. It also leaves us in a position where we can only reason to believe if we have faith. What I mean here is that, I believe we should use scientific reason rather than rationalize. Faith isn’t usually considered scientific reason. There in lies the rub, as Shakespeare might have put it; but it is true. The book leaves it all up to you. You’re asked to give up something and believe its message. This something is a scientific reason or proof. This is where believers lose their credibility and rightfully so, by current scientific ideas. The Bible seems to make this a condition. This is one reason its faithful will be persecuted, but it is also the reason the Bible promises the faithful will over come.

I would like to point out that humans are, at least we think we are, the smartest entities on the planet. Yet, our bodies are still basically built structurally as flesh animals. How much can flesh know? Do we know enough to condemn faith-based hope? Science’s strange behavior at the quantum level ads some doubt that perhaps we are not as smart, as we think we are. Quantum theory like religion has concepts that we have a hard time getting our minds around. For example the concept of “Regeneration” occurs when electrons and protons of an atom are knocked out of their orbits, to some degree, yet they are able to find their way back to their original position on their own. This is a miraculous event in itself. Also the Uncertainty Principle, whereby making an observation the instrument doing so changes the position of what you observed, so that the next time you look for it you cannot know for sure exactly where you are going to find it. Than there are Electrons viewed as waves and than viewed as particles, are they waves or particles or both, a duality? Further, there is the concept of Entanglement, referred to as spooky actions at a distance. This concept seems to indicate a strange form of communication at speeds faster then light; is this possible? Well if it has been measured it appears as if something moves faster than light. Or perhaps this is an illusion of some sort. They say that if you ask ten, quantum scientist to define these things you will get seven different answers. Implying that, even the scientists have problems understanding them.[10] I suppose that my explanations may not fare any better. These are all concepts that we have a hard time making them fit in our view of the world. Ideas, which like some concepts in religion, push us to think beyond what we know. While I may have given a close representation of the concepts they need a lot more clarification to do them justice. If my clumsy attempt at relaying these concepts is any comparison of how some religious concepts get twisted then I guess I have proved a point. At the very minimum, quantum theory suggests, we have a lot more to learn.

Now, I need to back up a little to explain one other revived teaching. This second major concept needs a short mention, at the very least. The reason for this is that it has not been taught much in Christian churches. Well, we might say, it was only touched upon. It is the belief that there was an earth age before the one we now live in. God made us void, here in the second world age, of any remembrance from our previous experiences during the first world age.[11] During that earth age we did not have flesh bodies, but we did have bodies of a different substance and minds of our own. It was at this point that Satan started to sway us, Gods children, away from following God. It is said, that he tempted one third of Gods children into following him. They began to do evil things, terrible acts punishable by death. God did not want to kill his own children, so he set up a plan for them to have a chance to gain their lives back. This plan meant we had to be reborn, this time of flesh, and be tested. It seems we are here to experience those terrible acts mentioned above for ourselves. Those acts possibly, that Satan and his followers, perpetrated during the first earth age. So as not to leave us here without any help or guidance at all he inspired many people to write his letter to us and this letter is what we call the bible.

We start from scratch here in this second world age and as far as understanding our world, most people will agree, we have many more questions than answers. We know that over the last, say 50 years we have certainly gained a tremendous amount of new knowledge. If we were to continue at the same exponential rate of increase for the next 1000 years, imagine the potential. If our intelligence is measure by how much we now know, and we don’t know much, why are we so quick to dismiss certain ideas? As an example, say our current intelligence scale runs from 1 – 200 based on the knowledge of today. Think of what our intelligence scale might be ultimately; say its scale goes from 1 to 10000. In this scale than Albert Einstein might have only measured say at 200? If our ability to learn, could grow and our knowledge also grows, is there a limit for what is possible? What than is the likely hood that a person, with our limited intelligence, would be truly able to say, ‘there is no God’? On the contrary this person would be much wiser, knowing the full scale of things, to say, ‘it is possible’. With this in mind I ask you to return to the issues surrounding the founding of our nation.

Our country was certainly influenced by God in that our founding fathers found it best to include him in their deliberations about the task they were undertaking. The very documents, which make up the fabric of our original codes, acknowledge that many of these people had faith. The documents of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and The Constitution contain references to at least some belief in God.[12] Our founders were not perfect, for just like the characters in the bible their lives contain shameful events, as well. This does not discount the fact, that they still had beliefs. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were very scientific in nature still they seemed to have at least some faith. One can see that both Jefferson and Franklin were raised with Christian Values. Further study will bring one to conclude that they, being of a scientific nature, were not able to defend all of the supernatural events in the bible. Most of those events were not defensible using the science of their time. They would quickly be labeled as crazy, by people without belief, if they tried to explain these events. Yet, it is clear that they both did not completely abandon all of their Christian beliefs, but sought other ways to encourage these beliefs.[13] They both offered interesting views on religious virtues, yet both were men of science.

Science Religion and God
Many of us, who have looked up at the night sky far from the city lights, know the real meaning of star struck. To actually see the Milky Way for the first time is a life experience. The awe of the star filled sky is very powerful. For me it gave a sense of being very small and not as important as I might have once thought. It is a humbling experience. The mind reaches out to acknowledge as many of those glittering stars as it can, but falls far short of the task at hand. Some people come away from this experience with a strong belief. Without knowing for sure they believe that there are other worlds with life on them. They argue that the shear magnitude of the stars is reason to believe. They constructed a demonstration, a mathematical formula, which they say proves the odds are favorable. The desire to follow this idea is very strong. Some say that it is a theory, but run after it with all the strength of a religious zealot. As long as this belief has some merit it will have a following. Without proof we just have to tolerate such people. Sorry to turn the tables slightly on Science here, but I was just trying to make a point. We need to allow others to express themselves, because without responsible tolerance we might discourage others from studying these ideas. Of course this might lead to us never getting to the truth. I am not here to say I disagree with those who believe in life on other worlds; in fact I believe they are correct. Life does exist on other planets. When said like that it sounds too strong however. Just a few decades ago one might have lost his credentials for making such a statement. Much of the scientific community would have considered isolating itself from any person saying such a thing.

Reasonable and responsible tolerance is the key to progress. However, any zealous group which by force champions their idea, as the only truth needs to be controlled, because they can stifle freedom and knowledge. Religion has its zealots just as science does. One could very easily make an argument that religion is not all that great. Since religious zealots have dragged the concept of God into the mud so to speak. Science has also been damaged by its zealots who have experimented on innocent victims throughout history. The evils, that man does within the ranks of both Science and Religion is often unspeakable. Both Science and Religion are infected with our main characters and if we look closely, they do these things for their own self interest, not mankind in general. Science and Religion can argue together that these zealots do not represent them, yet there they are tainting the disciplines. They, science and religion, might both, be better off without these zealots. Science should consider that they may be allowing their zealots to exclude the study of certain ideas, namely those of God. Of course, religions also need to study and tolerate scientific ideas and not allow their zealots to prevent this. From what most of us have observed, science will most likely do a better job of tolerating ideas, than some of those religions. The study of Science and the study of God, I believe, can coexist without damage to the ultimate goal, truth. This is because God could be viewed by science as a theory or even a way of life based on an idea.

Like the mathematical formula, mentioned above, the words of the bible are much like the stars in the sky. They also, for the student, can awe and inspire a person. Who is God? He is said to have said the following when asked that question; “I am that I am.” Is it an accident or does his answer seem to be pointed at those who might believe that the Universe was create randomly by chance. That is, is he saying that if he wanted to he could randomly create Universes at his will. Could the idea of randomness really be just a factor of our limited thinking capacity? His answer "I am that I am" also suggest that he does not promote any specific religion or doctrine, as he did not say, I am the head of the Christians, Buddhist, Hebrews, Hindus, Jews, Muslims or any religion. It seems all faiths or religions want to selfishly declare that they each own the path to God’s grace. Perhaps if each religion followed God's codes instead of the teachings of men they could gain his grace? If our minds could accept that God is everything, everywhere, and always, we would not have to question his existence. This is a concept it seems both religion and science have not evolved enough to really begin to explore. So while the existence of God cannot be proven, the idea can still be studied. Faith in God, as I understand it, implies life is a test. We are all tested on an individual basis whether we reject the idea of faith or except it or lay it aside until we learn more, we each individually decide. Those who believe in Jesus, for example, can encourage others to believe as they do, however, Christians are taught not to force people as this would defeat God’s plan, which calls for each person to make their own choices. People of faith have to remember that they are not really in charge of God’s plan, he is. Those who choose to believe must try to follow God’s law as well as civil law. Those who do not choose to believe are bound by the laws of the community. This does not necessary make believers better, because most of the civil laws are rooted in religion anyway. What’s more, it is just as likely, that a person with good social morals would be comparable to today’s standard of a good Christian. That is, if we acknowledge those sinful type stories of the bible are still going on today and we are all part of them, needing to do better. Those who believe, find their belief is always being tested on many levels and they require constant study to strengthen their faith. Science is also like this, full of test, which strengthen our understanding.

Those people who like to take excessive advantage of others come from both groups the religious and non-religious. They come from science and religious backgrounds. The bible makes it pretty clear that we are all tempted, and we all fall short, from time to time. When we do wrong we very often are affecting the lives of others. Whether we realize it or not, we are hurting others, because we are creating a world, which is built, little by little, on deceit. Eventually the deceit will spill over onto those faceless people we thought we would never know, but than we discover they are our very neighbors, friends, and family. It is often the influences of our main characters that cause us to sin. So when this happens we become them even if only for a short time.

All of this being said, when we study science or religion we must employ moral standards. Thus the question becomes; “What is immoral and who gets to define it?” To keep it simple; do we allow the forces of good or the forces of evil to define it? Science and religion should not be in disagreement that evil is not the right choice. Both religion and science have on occasions demonstrated immoral actions. During the Roman Inquisition the church had their share of immoral actions and then during the Second World War science had their share.[14] The church burned, so called, witches at the stake and science experimented on prisoners of war and created the atomic bomb. Try as we may, to say the atom bomb was a good thing, we still live in fear that it may cause the destruction of the planet. This does not make many people feel good except possibly those extremist. As the study of science and religion goes forward, both scientist and religious leaders, need to agree that a standard of morality needs to be set by society and not by them. Some individuals on both sides will not like this solution, because often these individuals believe they know better than the masses. While this might be so, in some cases, we also know that many times people who think they know better have led us down the wrong path. Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin, Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, and Marshall Applewhite of Heaven’s Gate are examples of individuals who thought they knew better.[15] Some elitist in the judicial, legislative, and executive realms of our government have too often abused their positions by implementing their personal views rather than what society has set for a standard. Our leaders should constantly remind themselves that “We the People” have asked them to represent us and not themselves.

Are we our brother’s keeper?
I think that many Christians would answer this as yes and no. Yes, to the extent that as your brother is healthy and happy you are healthy and happy. Helping him to find happiness will secure your happiness. The best way to improve things, normally, is to work together and help each other. Most religions try to do this in many different ways. Mostly religions tend to set limits on their member’s individual freedoms by setting moral codes and this is normally good, provided civil laws are not broken. Christianity teaches its followers to not force their faith on others, so in this regard Christians have to step back and realize there are limits to being our brother’s keeper. This is where the NO enters into the question of being our brother’s keeper as ultimately we are all responsible for ourselves individually. Ironically the bible teaches that sometimes by not helping them we end up helping them. This happens when and where tough love solutions are followed. The bible teaches that its followers should lead by example. Once the benefits of following the way are discovered by others, they than, on their own, will come to be of like mind.

In traditional American culture, basically each of us is free to determine our own outcomes. This freedom is extended to people tempered only by the limits of civilization. Actions, detrimental to civilization need to be checked for obvious reasons. Actions which would not harm civilization are free to be taken by those so inclined, so in this respect American culture allows us leeway to do our own thing. In this way our personal individuality is free to explore the world, within reason, as long as this individuality does not break the laws. I believe our original form of government was designed to prevent us from taking excessive advantages of each other, in the extremes I spoke of earlier. For example, the poor should not excessively prey upon the wealthy and the wealthy should not excessively prey upon the poor. It seems special interest groups existed even back during our nations founding. Could it be that our founders felt that special interest groups and the main population of our country must compromise so that the total population, that is the entire country, will benefit? Was this their idea, that being the idea of, all of us helping each other? At the risk of the oversimplification of the issues here, I offer the following statement. The wealthy and the poor must come to some kind of truth so that majority can be healthy and happy as well.

Truth
The truth can be viewed from differing points of view; at least to us it seems so. Truth, will we ever really know it? Are truths so malleable, ever changing, and evolving that we will never be able to find them? Some hope for success rest in turning the concept of “Relativity” to everyone’s favor. If we can agree on what is relative to the whole country, we can come to solutions. This is because when most of us see our problems from a common point of reference, we will be able to agree on them as a common truth. I know what you are thinking; sure like that is going to happen, right? Many religious beliefs suggest that we will not be able to come to this common truth in this lifetime. All this being said, the majority of religions still teach we should not give up in our efforts to look for truth. Besides, we really don’t need perfect agreement to improve our condition. And better yet, we just need to agree on some basic problems not all of them. Many faiths offers a great deal of hope that this can be done. Our founding fathers may not have been super religious, however they understood this hope and they based a form of government upon the core values of what they had learned from the Christian faith. They had no, certain knowledge of victory over King George III. However they knew enough to include God as they asked for his oversight. They had hope for his grace, hope for victory, and hope for a new nation.[16]
People of faith are sometimes accused of being gullible, in that they are said to believe anything they are told, such as, the miracle cures of the crippled, blind or possessed and of course the virgin birth. Could the truth be that most people of faith approach these questions differently? If someone tells you something they or you cannot prove or disprove, should you call them a liar or should you accept what they said, for now, until the truth can be determined. By remaining open minded, many people of faith are leaving open the door to understand how these miraculous events could have occurred. Of course people of faith do not believe everything they are told, they try to check it out. Those with faith seem to know that all of these miracles have meanings beyond what the critics want to comprehend. Faith comes from understanding and understanding comes only from a persons study and work. Two hundred years ago, if a person told another person, that in the future man would have the ability to bring someone back from the dead, they might have been told they were crazy. Yet, today in our hospitals, in a sense, people are brought back, and this occurs on a regular basis through the use of electrical cardioversion. Even a virgin birth, of sorts, is possible today. However, there are things which we now know to be false, and I paraphrase; ‘Read my lips no new taxes’, ‘I never had sex with that woman’, or ‘he has weapons of mass destruction, we were all asked to believe these things.’[17] That’s right, secular people and people of faith were asked to believe these things; does this make secular people gullible also? I think there really isn’t much differences between people of faith and secular people only perhaps our attitude as to why we are here on earth.

Words
There is a feeling associated with the words, Good and Evil or Right and Wrong. Just like there is a feeling associated with the words, Winning and Losing. The word Shame has often seemed to have two meanings. One of regret, as in, isn’t that a shame? The other of a feeling of wicked or wrong as in, you should be ashamed of yourself. For years now we have been told how damaging it is to a person to be taught shame. To a point I would have to agree but only when it is taught to excess. I believe there is a place to teach shame. Today those people who have grown up with the opposite condition, the condition of no shame at all, I think make my point. These shameless people push the envelope of our culture, in so doing; I believe they weaken its character. Many of today’s movies express shameless acts, which promote the loosening of cultural values. While we may laugh at these movies the message our culture receives from them is one of anything goes. This lowers our standards and weakens us. Each and every time we loosen our values our culture suffers. History has shown us how the moral decay of culture has lead to the loss of town, city, and country. Right about now I would bet there are a few of you saying, ‘aha this guy wants to impose strict rules on all of us’. I am not suggesting that. I do believe in a happy medium as my father used to call it. The bible on the whole expresses the idea that anything done to excess can be evil and that would have to include excessively strict religious teachings. However my intention here is simply to ask, is there a point in which we stop the excesses of the lack of shame or is there no limit? If there is no limit then we haven’t learned a thing from history. If after reading this you think I am a prude I would have to agree with you, at least based on today’s standards. However, if you just consider the condition of our education system, this is a core system, which is charged with giving us our future, recent reports show we are falling behind in many areas. Could part of the reason be that shame is not used appropriately? I believe a little bit of shame has value in that it can also teach someone to respect not only themselves, but also others. I would guess one main reason for the high drop out rate in our high schools is low self esteem put another way; lack of respect due to a lack of shame. The loss of respect for both our culture and ourselves certainly provides an easy way to divide and conquer us. In reaching for control this is something they would try for.

Ideas
I have been taught, and have come to believe, that there is nothing new under the sun, especially when applied to all of those human emotions we encounter from our social interactions.[18] It might be possible the bible meant this concept of nothing new under the sun to cover much more? I think when it comes to Ideas, generally they are really the connections of thoughts that others already had. While some would like to pump themselves up to believe they are creative geniuses they need to realize, they had lots of help. They had help, starting with their parents, family, friends, teachers and if not any of these than books. This is not to say, we shouldn’t feel proud of our accomplishments, because after all bridging thoughts together is not easy nor always correct. I have often found that what I thought was a fresh idea was thought of years ago by someone else. Ideas that are not brought out into the light sometimes become lost. Someone else in some other time then rediscovers them. Than there are the ideas which were ahead of their time, connections crucial to their development had not come about during their life time, so no one took them seriously. These thoughts might be the closest to qualify for genius. The people responsible for these ideas, which were ahead of their time, rarely get credit for them. This might be because they never realized what they had or perhaps shared it with the wrong person. Sometimes these thoughts float on down to a person that is able to see it, for what it is, and make use of it. In any event, those that have the ability to bring those thoughts into existence are to be commended, if for nothing else, as having the conviction to do so. There seems to be many more thinkers, rather than doers unfortunately.

Yet, the idea that there is nothing new under the sun seems crazy, especially in this day of technologies. Plasma Television Sets, Electronic Games, Cell Phones, Stealth Planes, and so much more. How on earth could anyone believe this idea? The answer may be in knowing that nothing is impossible if time allows. If not now, then how about in the future? Why are there so many paintings from the past, which seemingly depict unidentified flying objects, UFOs, in them? Technologies still beyond what we know of today.[19] Perhaps the idea of something new only applies to those who haven’t experienced the new idea yet. Traveling in space for example is something most of us have never experienced, yet we understand and accept others have. Paintings on cave walls beg us to consider, did early observers see these UFO technologies? These paintings seem to suggest that we must at least consider where, based on the expected rate of technology growth, we will be at, intellectually, in 1000 years. Will we be able to travel back in time and cause cavemen to paint our picture? Will we discover parallel dimensions that allow visitors from time to time? Or will the train of thoughts and ideas we have, lead us to some other explanation, this no one knows. Perhaps there really is nothing new under the sun? If we learn nothing else from this we should learn that ideas are the culmination of thoughts linked together to bring about what we understand to be new things.

Our leading characters often tend to corner the market on these ideas, as if no part of them was anything but theirs. One way they do this today is by having their employees sign away their rights to those ideas. Intellectual property rights is the term they use to make this legal. Employees often under duress are given an ultimatum, ‘sign away your rights or you may not be promoted or receive any bonus monies you might be due.’ For many new employees it is now a condition of employment that any idea they have belongs to their employer. This is again, another example of how THEY take from others and give to themselves.

Biblical views on population
Various civilizations have had their goddesses of fertility, going by such names as Ishtar, Inanna, Esther, and Eostre.[20] Eostre is believed, by some, to be responsible for giving rise to the name Easter. There are a number of stories regarding the origins of Easter. Some stories are what today we might call, politically correct versions, which make it seem like it was just a benign custom that was started long ago. Other stories are not as generous or polite toward its origins. The most troublesome are the stories of an annual holiday event where young maidens hid themselves out in the forest than the males would hunt for them for the purpose of having sex. Some of these stories included sexual orgies and festivals that would take place. It was all part of a pagan belief that we should reproduce as quickly as we could, on the order of rabbits, if that were possible. Many churches within the Christian faith have adopted a variance of these old pagan religious practices. Eggs have long been a symbol of fertility so now these are hunted instead of maidens. It is said, this may have been done, long ago, to draw in members from these pagan religions. It is a practice, which is no longer necessary and has no biblical justification. In fact, it tends to subvert the teachings. The word Easter only appears once in the King James Bible and this is in the New Testament. However, Easter here was found to be a mistranslation for the word Passover.[21] The bible does not call for families to practice Easter, even in such a watered down manor. The bibles description of family encourages strong bonds that demonstrate loving and caring virtues. It gives a good description of what a real family man is, in I Timothy chapter 3. Here the family man has control over all his children. In order to do this he has to make himself responsible for them and in doing so, he really has to know who they are. The old pagan religious practices could care less who the father was. The bible’s teachings do not promote this kind of behavior but instead promote accountability, for example in Philippians 4:5 it says “Let your moderation be known unto all men….” In regards to children, it tells its followers, to be responsible and to make sure we can support them in all their basic needs, I Timothy 5:8. As we are to be good stewards over the animals and land so that it can support our children. We are not supposed to knowingly conceive children if our current situation tells us they are going to suffer starvation, or be sent out to slaughter. To knowingly do this is an evil deed we should not be proud of.

Have THEY infiltrated religions?
Now, allow me to come forward with some views of religion that I believe are shared by many people. Perhaps some of these views might prove to be wrong, based on my or our ignorance of other religions, particularly the Islamic religion. Many of us have gained these views through our viewing of Newspaper, Radio, and Television reports here in the United States. However, regardless of their correctness, they are views, I believe, that are shared by many Americans. By knowing how we perceive things perhaps a better understanding between our cultures can come forward. I believe most Americans would feel very uncomfortable expressing these ideas. However, how can we ever improve things if we don’t express ourselves to each other? If some of the following remarks may offend some people, please understand I am not writing this to be mean, but in order to make progress it is necessary to discuss things. Progress can only be made, if we are honest in expressing, what we think we understand. If these views are incorrect perhaps future discourse from the parties involved with help correct them. From this, I hope that our cultures will come to a better understanding of each others true religious ideas.

Many religions teach that God’s plan has an ending. They, these religions, agree that we can’t really expect to change God’s over all plans; nor should we want to. This being said, each of us should still expect to be tested, as his plan accommodates us individually depending on our very own actions. Christians believe God allows each of his children free will. They also believe he is certainly capable of making them do anything, for example, he could make them love him, but he doesn’t, because this would not be true love. He wants each of his children to love him, on our own, without being forced. This is why many people have major questions about certain religions that try to force themselves on others.

Most people agree that War is bad. However there are religious extremist groups that seem to never tire of it. They seem to feed off violence. They have been at war so long that they are hardened to the killing and innocent life means nothing to them. Has religion been infiltrated by our cast of characters; THEY LIVE? Some extremist have claimed to be following a ‘certain prophet’ of God. For an outsider, those not of this religion, the actions of these extremist suggest that this prophet’s teachings must have been twisted to suit the extremist desire for murder. Outsiders feel these extremist have focused their faith possible on only one portion of this prophet’s words, if they are his words or did there meaning get twisted somehow? Their limited view, of the prophet’s words, could be the reason for the violence. They say this prophet ask his followers to act as vigilantes, cutting off the heads of God’s children. Worst, the extremist do this saying, ‘this is what God wants.’ Outsiders are often told that most followers of the main religious body, of this religion, are moderates and that they disagree with these radicals. American television, newspapers and radio does not seem to cover these moderate voices very often so it leads many people to believe there isn’t a difference between Muslims. Outsiders can only ask; does the Islamic religion really allow its followers to act as terrorist and perpetrate acts which most people think only Satan would be proud of? Most of us do not know a lot about this religion, we can only go by what we witness as their actions. As to why our American Media does not report on the many Muslim voices speaking out against the extremist only they know. We have been told on occasions that much of the extremist teachings, if we could exclude the murders, the treatment of women and children, and their political ideas, are basically good. We understand that a good part of the world would agree with much of the other parts of their teachings. However, that portion of the teaching that goes against God’s nature is a major problem. Is God’s plan allowing for this group to be used as an instrument by God’s enemy? One could agree these extremist have certainly caused some of the prophecies to come true. These are the prophecies of war, desolation, hunger, murder, torture, pain, suffering and more. Could it be they are unknowingly supporting the evil plans which our THEY LIVE characters have crafted? To be sure, many of the common citizens of the United States do not know much about this religion, but we do know that people have to be discerned not only by their words, but also by their actions. We know them by what they do. If we see someone murder an innocent person, we do not have to know his or her religion, or lack thereof, to know that this is wrong. Most of us are taught that we should strongly question our religion, if it is telling us to be a terrorist. However, we understand extremist Muslims can’t, because to strongly criticize could mean a death sentence. Most would agree that if a government adopts a policy that prevents questions and criticism than this government is not something we would want. Yet, many followers of this Muslim extremist form of the Islamic religion seem to see no problem. This action or inaction tells a great deal about the followers. To us it appears that by allowing their leaders to hold these views of God, which express him as evil, to remain unchallenged, they are supporting these views. They have handed over their individual right of self determination to their religious leaders. Is it not, the extremist followers belief that they will answer to God for their own actions?

We can ask ourselves has God only spoken to one man. Has God solely given to one prophet an exclusive right to write his book? Most religions agree there are many prophets who tell the story and when parts of the story do not make sense because they conflict with God’s true nature these conflicts need to be resolved. The majority of religions believe God allows each of his children to do “good” or to do “evil” on their own. Meaning he does not necessarily step in to stop us, as this is our test. Most religions seem to understand that he does not command anyone to do evil. All of his commandments are for us to do ‘good’. If we are suppose to be doing ‘good’ why than is there all this evil occurring, it seems, that THEY must have infiltrated religions.

Could it be that today’s terrorist is mostly a product of spiritual wickedness in leadership? Has a small sub culture of evil managed to wreak havoc on the world? These extremist claim to be religious and are doing what their religion wants them to do. Why they do these things is not clear to most of us. They paint a story that it is because we our evil and they are not. While it appears that some elements within the western and eastern worlds have done some terrible things, the terrorist solution to resolve these problems reveals them to be worst than their enemies. “Two wrongs do not make a right.” This is something our parents used to tell us as children. In fact a point can be made, that the terrorist are much worst than their enemy. While some of their enemy professes to have religion they are not using God’s name to murder God’s children.

God seems to have inspired man, many men, to write down his ideals. His inspiration is not found solely in any one religion. To think that God loves only Muslims or only Christians or more specifically only a sub set of a religion is plainly wrong. This is made clear in those many inspired writings. Have some parts of God’s Word been altered and changed? Most religious leaders will acknowledge that this has and is constantly happening. All religious writings have been affected. However, it is said a true student of God would know God’s nature. While some written changes might have occurred to the original manuscripts the greater portions of the writings appear to have not been altered. These writings reflect his love for his children. By the shear repetition of his values in his many inspired writings we are assured that he is the same God of yesterday, today and tomorrow and this is predominately a God of Love. This notion of God prompts most to agree that he would not blow up innocent people. He would have to be a sadistic god to do so. The bulk of the prophets confirm his love for his children. To do murder in his name does him no honor but supports evil. It is said that God’s plan calls for only God to be the judge of man. The bible tells its faithful that we should not try to weed out the evil ones as we could also do harm to his innocent children. Think of this as trying to get a wild bull out of the new born baby ward at the hospital, the collateral damage could be too high.

Terrorism might end up being part of what is called end time prophecy. However, we understand that God does not sanction terrorism. This being said, many people believe his plan will make use of evil people, to bring about the end. Could it be those, THEY LIVE characters have this role to play? Before then, God hopes most of us will have made our choice as to which side we will follow, good or evil. Based on the words written by the many prophets of God, it seems the leaders of the terrorist have misguided their followers and have corrupted God’s message. Their efforts are against what God wants for his children. Christians are taught that it is God’s desire that as many of his children, as possible, be saved.

Many religions teach that every living person is a child of God. Even Cain’s children are also God’s children. A man a woman, a boy or girl, each one has to be given a chance to choose right or wrong good or evil. For Christians to have eternal life they need to be as virgins, in the sense that they respect only the one true God, the God of Good, and they should not accept false gods, the gods of evil. Briefly said, Christianity is a way of life which asks its followers, to follow his laws and to not become criminals, that is to do evil deeds. Major religious teachings state that God allows all of us, freedom to choose between good and evil. These religions state that God hopes by showing his love for us we will love him in return. To force us to accept him would defeat his plan. An ideology that is based on the use of force is an ideology that should be questioned. Many religions believe that if God wanted to force us to do things his way he could have done this on day one. He doesn’t need man to do it for him. It is said he wants our true love, not fake love; just as we would. In Christianity God is our judge and no one even a religious leader has a right to judge innocent people to death.

If a murderer was running through a crowded street should the police open fire on him or her? Should they open up with automatic weapons and kill all that are nearby in an effort to kill him or her? Do we randomly lob bombs at targets without knowing who may be there? If, when we electrocute a murderer do we also grab the next person walking by and electrocuted that person as well, would that be right? For most people the answers are NO. Most feel that to knowingly kill innocent life while carrying out an execution on any human, guilty of a crime punishable by death, is murder. Yet there are some amongst us, leaders, which feel they should decide what is right and wrong. They, these leaders, say no one is innocent and by so doing, judge others as if they were God. On the question of innocent Life, God is mans Judge not man. If terrorist truly had faith in God they would understand that God doesn’t need their help in picking out the evil ones. He is fully capable of dealing with it himself. God only wants our love, which we demonstrate by observing his laws. He has given us laws and in any actions we take here, on earth, we must try to follow them. The victory of the faithful will be in following God not man. The evils of man in all countries can only be subdued if we fight them together. Terrorism no matter who perpetrates it is wrong. It can be stopped when we stop doing the bidding of corrupt men and start following the Commandments. Do you really think God wants us to blow each other up? Most of us don’t but we can think of a few men who do.

Aside from cutting people heads off and blowing up innocent bystanders Extremist Islam and America would also have problems coexisting in peace in other ways. Extremists want to remove the basic God given right of all humans, that of the right to choose for themselves. This is your right to chose how to pursue life, liberty and happiness. They also want to remove the right to freedom of speech. The right of choice is part of the Declaration of Independence, which points out our inalienable rights, and our Constitution confirms our freedom of speech. These documents don’t give us these rights as we already have them, as a grace from God. Our founding fathers were just reminding us of this.

In the Christian faith Jesus was more then just a prophet, yet many keep calling him just a prophet. In many religions it is said God ask his faithful to exercise tolerance toward non-believers. Extremist it seems might be taught to do just the opposite. Many religions believe there is no sin in having a drawing or representation of our religious loved ones, such as God, Jesus or Mary. Just as long as we do not worship the pictures or statues but simply use them as symbols, or reminders, of our faith. In a way these symbols, when we see them, remind us to thank him for his unconditional love. In this way we pray several times a day. The violent reaction of the extremist to the cartoon representations of Mohamed seemed to confuse most people here in the US. Many people here wondered how any religion could encourage followers to join if they promote such displays. While many Muslims may not have agreed with the violence that followed, many demonstrated a lack of will to take action to stop the violence. There is an appearance that at least part, of the main Islamic religion, has a social cultural bond with the extremist that puts the whole religion under a shroud of skepticism. Could it be that the extremist leaders have convinced their followers that they have to force their religion on others? Even to the point of killing God’s children. Their very ideology causes them to break the laws both of God and man. If the Extremist Muslim cultures are so good why do so many Muslims flee to other nations? It appears to outsiders that if truth were told the violent nature of these Extremist is giving all of Islam a terrible image.

Who in the religion of Islam has the courage to challenge these extremist? Normally when a religious group veers from the teachings of the main body of the religion some action is taken. The leader of the main religion steps forward to disassociate that group from their religion. Deviant religions are not accepted and receive no support from the main religious body. They are labeled to differentiate them so that they do not taint the main religion. If there are verses in the text of the religion which are interpreted differently a statement clarifying the churches position is made in writing. These counter mending statements and writings have not been reported on by the American Media at least often enough to reinforce that the main body of Muslims directly oppose these terrorist. Therefore it appears that while moderate Muslims do not like the tactics of the extremist Muslims they still take little action to weaken them. There doesn’t appear to be much of an attempt to clarify their religions position toward non-believers and this leaves not only Americans worried but most of the world. Where are the written discourses addressing the issues? Without anyone to take charge and correct this situation Islam presents a religion of two meanings one good and one bad. Under this situation a gang of thugs could say they have converted to Islam just so they can gain power? Though the use of Mohammad's negative verses, which are said to have references to the killing of non-believers, they could gain support from others who simply hate westerners or non-believers. They could than say all Muslims should practice these negative things. Further more any Muslim who objects would become a target. Without hearing any real forceful descent they then by default speak for all Muslims.

Is there anyone who is strong enough or brave enough to clarify what the religion really is saying? We ask this question because we do not know. We do know that some Muslims, who have tried to get answers, have had to go into hiding.[22] What pride can any religion take in setting conditions such as these?

An Open Letter to people of faith in God.
I believe Christians, Jews and possibly Muslims can agree that God is a loving father. This can, however only be true if the Muslim God is the same God as that of the Christians and Jews. We worship God and we believe that he is the one true God. We also believe that God loves us, if we follow his way. We have many teachers and prophets who have given us insights into what God’s ways are. The bulk of what they have said leads us to believe our God is a very understanding God. Most of what we are taught about him is that he values life and wants us to love him. This is his prime directive. Yet, each of our religions has a small amount of teachings which conflict with the prime directive of God’s word. This has happened because someone long ago or more recently deceitfully changed what was originally written or altered the interpretation. The motive of this is to divide and conquer Gods’ children. Most of us are taught that this is Satan’s plan. He provides counterfeit teachings to confuse us. If the bulk of God’s word portrays God as a loving father how could we allow a few verses of teachings to over ride it. Most of us understand the love of a parent. We see it demonstrated in many ways each day, or if we are blessed experience it ourselves. Parents sacrifice themselves to raise their children, working hard to earn a living, to protect them from harm, and often to teach them that God loves them. Most parents would commit the ultimate sacrifice by giving up their own lives to protect their children. This is God’s way. The people of the true faith believe that God is our father and that he loves us greatly. The teachings indicate that he would like all his children to come to love him. It is commonly understood that you cannot force someone to love you because this is not true love. If God wanted to force us he would have done this in the beginning. Just as he could have, in the beginning, put an end to our lives here in this earth age. He doesn’t need our help to kill his children, if that is what anyone may think. Most of those who believe in God’s way are taught that he wants each of his children to have a chance to decide for themselves, without forceful intervention from others. There is only one entity that would promote the killing of God’s children. He is the same entity that would mislead scribes and teachers so that they pull God’s children away from him. What better plan is there, than to have us murder each other? God’s letters to us, from the prophets, tells us that something like this will happen. We ultimately cannot stop it, but before then we seem to be presented with a choice. You can accept those false teachings and participate in the murders of innocent children or you can follow those many prophets, which agree with each other, that these murders in God’s name are not his way.

What is the reason for the Bible?
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Timothy 2:26

Many religions, even those written long before the Bible, have taught similar messages to those we find in the Bible. These are messages regarding the fight between good and evil. It seems many people have been inspired, if not from God than through witnessing or experiencing those awful actions of those who follow evil. It appears that at least some of these religions also wanted to avoid that evil path. Not surprisingly these old religions also were twisted by those who walked among them, wanting to divide and conquer and corrupt the world. In so doing they benefited themselves excessively causing the pain and suffering of others. These religions became examples of how not to please God. They demonstrated a need to return to the basic inspirations that God had already started to provide. Today many people continue to believe that if they have a set of guiding principles their path in life will be more stable. The bible is one such guide based on the principles of good. It’s a way of life, a plan of action, a reasoned defense from becoming a victim of evil. Followers of this guide should be aware that evil is capable of anything even infiltrating religion. In fact it must, because as you recall religion is a major dynasty. The words of the Bible contain the basic ideals of the plan for a healthy, happy and successful life and while to a degree these words have been tampered with their core inspirations are still valid for the most part. The basic core values of the book may seem hard to abide by but then nothing worthwhile is usually easy. History has shown us that when man intervenes, to teach, often the words get twisted and confused. This is because many men don’t like some of the core values; generally their reason is either lust or greed. There are a couple of ways to counter this corruption of the word. First read the book for your self and you should find that it is designed to encourage moderation, humility, compassion, and love primarily. This is not to say that when evil steps in to threaten, this way of life, that you are not suppose to defend yourself. To be even clearer if evil threatens, and you are not doing wrong, you have to defend yourself or things will only get worse. This brings us to the second counter measure, if you read something or are being told something that goes against these primarily teachings you can bet that there is something wrong with either your understanding or that persons teachings. Most of our problems are already spoken of in various stories in the bible. If you search the book you will generally find types of situations which are similar, these can be used to help reject of confirm the ideas in question. It is best to always find at least two locations within the bible to help you make a decision as to what is appropriate behavior. By doing these things you can defend against evil and protect you life. Thus your defense, in part, is in having a set code and value system, and not making one up as you go. Yes one could make up their own code but the bible has thousands of year’s worth of life experiences to draw on. The likelihood of any one person having more wisdom than the ancients in the matters of our core human emotions is remote. Those who have come before us have recorded the results of their experiences and most of these things are still common to us today. Has good and evil changed or have our values changed? These old writings have also had to deal with changes in values so again their experience should not be discarded easily.
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CHAPTER 7 - SOLUTIONS

2008-01-17T13:32:00.002-05:00

by David Michael Beachwood
A Better World

Problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created them. Albert Einstein

We are often told, it is easier to complain about problems then to provide the solutions to them. While this sometimes is true there are times that we, as citizens, talk about our problems with our friends and family and we often come up with answers. Solutions which seem simple to us, what is more we can easily agree on them. This is because we can see that they would benefit the majority of people. We ask ourselves why our government isn’t already doing these things. At the end of our discussions we say our Good-Byes and nothing more is done. In an effort to not let some of these ideas, of friends, family and others, be lost I have brought some of them forward here as a form of food for a different kind of growth. I refer to a growth that strengthens the majority of citizens, not just a few. The ideas here are offered in the hope that they might provide a starting point for future discourse. While these ideas are not final solutions and could be improved upon; they might just represent a new beginning.

To start with, we understand that most problems already have solutions, which we may or may not agree with. Generally if we see existing solutions as bad ideas, it is because they are not benefiting us. These solutions, most likely, were written to benefit a small minority of the population; this rarely is right and most often it is wrong. To really determine what is best we need to reestablish a national code, a set of rules, goals and guidelines that should be followed. Only then will we make progress on finding the proper solutions for our nation’s problems. If solutions are framed to meet our common objectives then our nation will be strengthened. Such a partial list of codes could be:
· Our solutions should, over all, improve the United States of America. (By practices which are as fair and just as a society based on good can create; I hope you don't think we are based on evil).
· Our solutions should follow our belief in a government of the people and for the people. (Which means those ideas must be beneficial to the majority of people not just to a select few).
· Our solutions should protect the equality of all of our citizens.(Our self-evident unalienable Rights)
· Our solutions should acknowledge that our founding fathers leaned toward a Controlled Capitalism as our chosen form of economy. (Currently our economy has been altered to make it overwhelmingly a vehicle for the self-interest of the few, we need to fix this).
· Our solutions should improve our belief in “The American Dream”. (A concept of an individual being able to achieve happiness, wealth and/or just live a great life here in the United States of America through his or her honest hard work and/or honest creative genius, or honestly secured funds).
· Our solutions should not take excessive advantage of any law abiding segment of our citizens.

I know this again is not a complete list but it gives you an idea that by going back to some basics we can right some wrongs that have crept in over the years.

As already noted many currently existing solutions to our problems seem mostly to have personal agendas attached to them, which benefit small groups. These kind of solutions rarely are in the best interest of the majority of the people. Once solutions are reviewed based on the bullet points noted above a just conclusion should come to the surface. We should understand that individuals of great wealth, honestly secured, did and can exist in a system of government, which is primarily based in the best interest of the masses. Indeed the ranks of these wealthy individuals should increase under the ideals our founding fathers voiced long ago. Our world is a very complicated place. So please recall my disclaimer of sorts. I do not claim that the ideas here are 100% correct and some may turn out to be unworkable. However, it must also be noted that as citizens we do not always have all the facts surrounding events to make proper decisions in coming to solutions. As humans we understand there are variables, which are constantly changing. However these ideas may, if we are lucky, just require some work to make them useful.

The role of the common citizen
United States Citizens, as a whole, have ELECTED to be treated unfairly. Through the support of a corrupted two party systems, of which the large businesses clearly have the ears of both parties, citizens have relegated their rights to the corporations. Further a great number of the citizens have acted as drones choosing to ignore what is clearly placed in front of them to view; or are they asleep? These citizens have no right to complain about educational problems, health care issues, wars, unemployment, immigration or any issue they seem to think they have a voice on. The fact is those rights have been purchased by the large business lobbyist. This condition is demonstrated by the lack of either party to correct campaign finance issues which lay at the root of the problem. They allow these corporate voices to perpetuate themselves to the detriment of the majority of the people.

Our government was originally set up as a constitutional republic, a republic, which wisely supported moral capitalists. The republic was to use the tool of democracy to help shape itself. Our federal government was set up to provide limited services and benefits. The state and local governments were meant to provide the greater part of necessary services and benefits to their citizens. The federal government was to be “of the people and for the people,” meaning the masses, and was designed to limit special interest control over the population. Its prime directive was and still could be to benefit the main body of the people. In other words this capitalist government has a primary responsibility to assure that the majority of the people in the society profit from the capitalism. Our Capitalism does not exist for the good of a few, but for the good of the country as a whole.

We, the people, need to subdue its corrupt nature and guide it toward a more humanistic behavior. Control over capitalism was and is imperative. Capitalism produces wealth and wealth too often promotes power and greed. History is lined with the examples of the nightmares that, individuals with power have caused. The fix was, and is, to make society, as a whole, and when appropriate, the primary beneficiary of capitalism’s virtues; and not a few greedy citizens. This control was and is meant to keep these few greedy individuals from pushing the masses into detrimental situations. Though the appropriate oversight of commerce, based on our national codes or objectives, these individual self-serving schemes would be minimized. The wealth than would be maintained within the nation. Prosperity on a national level could flourish by limiting the negative actions of individual greed. This would greatly reduce the negative economic effects imposed, on our nation, by individuals with get rich quick schemes that had potential to threaten the nation’s security. The effect of these actions was and is to temper the dark side of capitalism. We should understand that it is the hard work of the common majority that provides the infrastructure, which enables entrepreneurs to succeed and prosper. Most businesses rely on the stability of civilization to prosper. Through the use of government provided systems, and the people are the government, most businesses benefit exponentially. The building of the roads, hospitals, schools, police stations, fire departments and other services pave the way for entrepreneurs to become developers, doctors, educators, lawyers and more. It is the common citizen or the majority of the people, who build these systems and maintain them, that deserve priority considerations from the government. Not because they are any better or worse than any entrepreneur but in securing their future we secure the country. They are a support foundation that holds our country up.
Governmental decisions made on anyone’s behalf should be made to benefit the majority of the people. We need to do all of this while still adhering to the national goal of maintaining the American Dream. Individual business interests will have to be addressed on a merit system rather than a lobby system. Individuals would have to demonstrate that whatever they petition for will benefit the majority of the people, the nation. Any Capitalist venture, which request government assistance, should require special restrictions. This is to assure our country under our national goals would share any windfalls. The people, including both poor and wealthy, are the country. If the people help build the country they are the prime Capitalist and their business venture is The United States of America thus they should be one of the prime recipients of the wealth not solely individuals who use the countries infrastructure and institutions to benefit themselves excessively. While creative individuals and businesses should expect to benefit greatly from their work, the idea that common individuals had no role in their success needs to be corrected.

The Role of Corporations
Corporations currently are viewed, as if they were individuals, like you and I, when they approach our leaders, this privilege needs to be rescinded. They are already made up of individuals who already have a voice. Giving them too much of a voice leads to deals like NAFTA, G8, WTO, and ultimately to the end of our Constitution. They should not be allowed to drown out the voices of “We the People.” The corporate role should be to make the United States a country for the world to emulate. They should not be turning it over to a World Government to rule. The United Nations is already an example of how these ideas works or better how they do not work. Corporations need to adopt a new “Code of Conduct” stating a pledge of allegiance to the United States of America not to the New World order. There may be solutions however, which will favor the large corporations but not always to the extent that the current system does. It is possible that both large and small concerns can again be brought together to strengthen the United States of America. We can work together to nullify those who’s personal greed damages our country. We can reform our political parties so that they do not have to bow to those individual “greedy” demands. Sometimes old ideas do work better. We need to look for them and use them if we can.

Campaign Finance
Lobbyists have supported corporate leaders who look for every way they can to take from America and give to their own pockets. Many corporations seem to have little regard even for their own stockholders anymore.[1] The country’s strength is slowly being drained and our representatives don’t seem to care.[2] We need leaders who will look into the ideas of the public financing of elections, the use of some television and radio station airway time as a condition of lease, and expanded use of existing government access stations.[3] Yes the networks will lose those political commercials but with a strong economy other business will be able to buy some of the airtime lost by these actions. The stations stand to loose far more if they have to operate in a nation that becomes third world quality. They will also be better able to report on the issues with less fear of losing their paycheck since they will no longer be beholding to the political sponsors.

Political Parties
Our two party political systems, a duopoly as some have said, are corporate based. They support a corruptible system of political campaigns and they arranged to keep it that way. It is a system that assures power to those that “have” even if the country is destroyed in the process. We can address this by eliminating the lobbyist as one of the first steps in the reform of political campaigns. In addition, organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations should not be used to pick our representatives, unless they reform themselves. Furthermore, it is possible to make campaigns affordable so that many more citizens could potentially have an opportunity to serve our country. We need to open up the field of competition, why should we be limited to just two candidates, one Republican and one Democrat? If however, we do end up with two parties the process of candidate elimination should involve the American Public to a much greater degree. The original candidate field of choice should be larger and allow for public elimination of these candidates not corporate or party elimination. Cutting out the money reduces the corruption. This is America it should be our code to allow multiple candidates to debate. We can conduct an extensive debate series to thin out potential candidates. The public should own all the air waves and only lease them to public and private concerns. National resources not only belong to those currently living today but also those living tomorrow, therefore since future generation cannot vote on the sale of a resource the resource should always belong to the public. Leasing however could be considered if appropriate, such as with our public airwaves. However we should retain a block of time, and/or bandwidth in which we can conduct these debates. We should leave commercial television completely out of the political system. Then we should consider enforcing term limits across the board. This should include political staff personal as well, where appropriate.

Culture
Simply stated Christians and Jews are taught that on the sixth day God created all the races and he was pleased. While each race developed differently, depending on their location in the world, they are basically the same. Yet, while I can say that we are all unique in some way, saying we have our genetic differences might be received as taboo. In a form of “McCarthyism” the power of the political correctness movement wants to stifle such talk.[4] Science however, will not let us because many of us are medically predisposed to certain disease or effectively guarded from other conditions. Many races seem specially equipped with muscles, lungs, pigmentation, or other conditions, which helped them, survive in the areas of the world they came from. The human gene pool has mixed so much over the course of time that these benefits or detriments are getting less apparent but are still noticeable. It is not happenstance that there are more black athletes, than any other race in professional basketball. This doesn’t mean that all dark skinned people are better at basketball, only that the likelihood of finding a good basketball player is greater amongst this group. Each race on the whole has genetic benefits and/or detriments.
I am not trying to make a case here for or against genetic predisposition of “brains” to any given race. Christians and Jews are taught that all the people in the world are of God’s creation and he was pleased. I believe that the perceived differences in brains for the most part may have another cause other then genetics. In trying to explain our differences concerning the ability to learn it is my belief that we should look more to cultural rather that racial difference for answers. While none of us can explain why every student that fails, FAILS, most of us can picture in our mind the individual who is lest likely to succeed in school. You might agree these students:

Often come from broken or family deprived homes.
Often have trouble accepting authority.
Often have a need to engender threatening profiles.
Are more likely to be from low-income areas.

Of course many might want to put the blame on income alone. Money however will not necessarily correct the condition. There are too many examples of poor children succeeding and rich children failing. That being said we cannot deny that money could improve basic conditions and support success. There are some that would want to blame lack of learning ability on race but again there are too many examples of successful students in all races. While money and race may or may not contribute to an individual’s success I feel they are not the primary cause. I believe the root cause is culture. The list for success in school reads almost completely the opposite from the above and reading it is like reading attributes from a culture based on good. Students who succeed:

· Often have strong family ties.
· Understand the need for authority.
· Are secure in knowing they are loved and supported.
· Understand the importance of Education.

There is a culture here which fosters learning and teaches respect for others. It also nurtures an individual's self esteem, so they will not feel threatened and will not have to act out aggressively. It is a culture where no matter how many hours the parent(s) works they find a way for family involvement to make its mark. The more family involvement there is the greater amount of success. The optimum condition is when this family extends out to involve the entire community. A culture such as this affords a greater chance for individuals to learn. While money can ease the pain it is not the guarantee of success.

Denial
The first step to getting better is to first admit you have a problem. Bill Cosby has hit a sensitive nerve amongst a segment of our population.[5] There exists a relatively small sub-culture in the world, which represent the bad apples in the barrel. Each race has their share. These sub-cultures have infected the larger population with their sub par standards and ideals. For various flawed reasons, supported by our main characters, the larger segment of the population has protected them. Because of this the world has suffered. By allowing this sub culture to flourish the aspirations of millions of people are diminished.

When we see something that is wrong and repeatedly turn the other way without trying to correct it we only hurt ourselves. Let us suppose that there is a neighborhood where you look out the window and see you neighbor standing next to his car. You watch while car after car of people stop and your neighbor sells them, drugs. But instead of reporting the problem you say to yourself “well that man sure has a beautiful car.” You even defend him because you see him as an underdog who is making it. This protective behavior is self-defeating.[6] The neighborhood becomes depressed because most people would not choose to live there. You see, this sub par sub culture has a message of “anything goes” or “no limits” which sadly young people are easily drawn to and often for the better part of their youth. It promotes a lack of sexual morals and this is the first step toward a lack of respect for women. This sets up the next step, which is a lack of respect for people in general. The culture promotes drugs, which again disrespects people because drugs drag people down and often destroy them. The drug and sex behaviors lead to support of other negative behaviors after all, how do these victims, of poor culture, pay for the drugs and sex? While this problem is affecting the black race greatly there is not a single race which has not been affected. Young people of all races have been scarred by this sub culture. A few bad apples have caused a world of pain.

Fortunately there is hope because in proportion these sub-cultures are small and without the help and support of the larger population they will rot away on their own. Don’t support their culture. Understand they are not helping you but hurting you. They influence your children to do wrong. They affect your community by casting a negative light of it. They hold back the people of your community by stifling hopes for honest business opportunities, educational advancement and dreams for long lasting marriages. They “these small sub cultures” are the problem and to deny this is to protect a value system, which will only lead to more pain and suffering for you.

The Color of Our Skin
Do we hate a person simply because of the color of their skin? While I am sure there are some people who are so inclined fortunately most of us are not that shallow. The question should be. If we were all the same color would all of our difference go away? It has been said that in nature’s time, at some point in the distance future, all of our skin colors may be the same.[7] Let us say that gene therapy could make us all the same color today would that really solve the problems? I believe most of us know that would not be the case. I think the root causes of our differences are again our cultural values. While skin color can be viewed as a characteristic of difference it is mainly because it may help identify a culture. There is something to be said for wearing the same uniform in that it tends, right or wrong, to strengthen the ties. Gangs have picked up on this and use it to their advantage. This may be so, because it generally means there is a common goal or cultural value system that this group generally holds near and dear. Unfortunately these common goals are not always positive goals.
Even when we are taught to avoid stereotyping other people many people still use color cues to develop theories on behavior, at least initially. Skin color does help us rationalize a person’s behavior based on our understanding of cultural attitudes. This is where those sub cultures cause a great deal of damage. This is because some people sink to the worst thought at least on a first impression basis. While brown skin Arabs are not all-terrorist most terrorist have brown skin. At least initially color gives a person a means of trying to explain who another person might be. Color is a cue to cultural motives. Yet, we know there is no way we can know the person without more information. Whites in Iraq might suffer the same handicap when viewed by brown skin Arabs. The mind tends to run quick analyses of what we perceive. If we are smart we go to the next level before we make decisions on a person’s values. This normally happens if time permits.

Is it possible that someday we might also blend our cultural values as well as our skin color? What could unite us, are all the things we hold in common. First of all most of us interface on a daily basis with generally a good number of people. Of these people we tend to migrate toward people of generally the same cultural values. However if we judge solely by stereotyping we may find that there are only a few cultural similarities and these may not be enough cultural ties for friendship to grow. If we are culturally compatible friendship can grow. While on the whole most people practice cultural tolerance younger people are generally more tolerant. This tolerance is probably because they are more in a learning mode at a younger age, but ignorance and lies can be taught easily at this time. This isn’t good, as major cultural changes require teaching to be based on wisdom and truth not ignorance and lies. If children are taught to steal, hate or murder innocent people by adults, one can only surmise these adults are not wise. In these cases the children are being used for evil reasons. If children are taught to love and respect innocent people and kill only if necessary, that is to defend your self then they are being used for good reasons. Yes we are all being used, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. It can also be viewed as helping one another. What really matters is that the net effect of our help, or use, truly helps the other and doesn’t knowingly cause evil. Since we live in a world that is complex, we have to learn to respect each other. We should try to learn which attributes of each culture are good and which are bad. Then we should try to build a culture, which works to strengthen our good. The family, or country, with a good culture will normally be more prosperous. For example a farmer coming to a new country should seek out the best farmer in the area to get advice on how to plant his crops. If he seeks advice from the worst farmer he is less likely to succeed. We likewise should seek out the best cultural practices to learn from. Unfortunately there isn’t any one perfect culture to adopt. Though most of us might think the one we grew up in is the best. The greater truth is each culture has many good qualities but also some bad qualities. The USA is said to be a melting pot of cultures. This was a major means for our early success as a nation. One reason for this is that the early immigrants had similar cultures to begin with. This made it easier to assimilate the best practices. Also the flow of immigration was never large enough to overwhelm the existing primary cultural body. A body that had tried to chose the best of the best practices to live by. Some cultures have negative traits, which act like bad apples in the barrel. These traits can cause the whole barrel to spoil. Cultural traits such as these have to be acknowledged for what they are. They are detrimental to a healthy and successful family or nation. Countries, which are melting pots, all run the same risk of some groups not wanting to melt. These groups think they have the best culture and everyone else should change. This is the danger host countries face and is a reason to restrict the flow of these people. If newcomers truly wanted a better life they would simply take the advice of the farmer and adopt the best of the best practices instead of holding on to their failed culture. Cultures that merge and do not melt become fractional and suffer enormously, for example the Balkans. Remember that almost all cultures on earth have a basic code, which can be expressed many ways but end up sounding like our “do on to others as you would have them do to you.” We are not so different after all. If our cultural practices do not allow melting than we should not move into countries, which have other cultures. This is to say we should not force our ways on others. We should always respect the host nation as in the old expression “when in Rome do as the Romans do.” I would go a little further and change this expression to read; when in Rome do only the good the Romans do and show them the good you can do, in this way both prosper.

The act of Steeling
Sometimes the smallest things can make a difference, even steeling. The act of steeling even such small things as a pack of cigarettes or a pencil can produce a ripple effect. We know there are those among us who steel. When they do they are helping to create the world in which we all live in. Our culture changes a little on each occasion where someone steels something. As humans most of us have emotions such as love, hate, remorse, excitement, greed, lust, compassion, guilt, fear, and many more. In our minds we try to rationalize our actions. Basically I believe people steel for three main reasons, the excitement, the perceived necessity of it, and or to be hateful. I am not here to debate whether some steeling may be justified; perhaps there is a situation which may require it. However, for what ever reason we do, most of us need to justify our actions. We may tell ourselves this act is so minor a crime; whom am I really hurting? We minimize the consequences both on ourselves and the people who are being stolen from. Worst we may tell ourselves we deserve this because we are better than they are. The problem with all of this is that we are not alone here. Others in our society see and read about these thefts and experience them. For reasons of revenge, to fit in or whatever they copy them and the problem grows. For too many of us, it is easier to sink to a lower level than to try to reach for a higher height. Each time someone steels a pack of cigarettes, a snow blower, a set of tires, a car, or robs a bank our culture changes. It slips a little, then a little more. We get little snap shots of what our society is becoming at times of crisis. For example the looting and crimes after natural disasters mark the extent of how low the fabric of our society has sunk. We end up doing harm to ourselves by the values we chose and actions we take.

There are those among us who are covert in theft. These could be the corrupt lawmakers who help their friends prosper at the expense of others they do not know. The corrupt bankers who find a way for their friends to benefit at the expense of others they do not know. These individuals also are making the world we live in. When you steel you are hurting yourself as well as others because each of us help to make up the conditions we live in. As lawmakers we could avoid actions which hurt more people then they help. As bankers we could make sure we are fair and honest. As individual citizens we need to do all of this. If we do, the world will become a better place.

Code to Live By
Most businesses have a company statement and a code of conduct. These promote the positive goals that the company wants to achieve. Goals they want their employees to live by. It is an important part of the business as it also helps shape how customers view the company. The success of the company depends on how well the code is followed. In our personal lives we also should also have a code to live by. So the question becomes, by what code will you live by?

You might say our legal codes and while they are very important and should be adhered to, they are far to complicated for any one individual to master. Many court cases require teams of lawyers because of the volumes of laws that need to be studied. No one man can cover it all adequately, there is just too much to know. This may be by their design to add to our confusion but that is another story. An individual’s code has to be simpler than this. We need something that we could read and study for ourselves. Our code needs to be smaller or more condensed in order for us to even have a chance of understanding it. Perhaps some code of ethics or morals that are confined to one book could work. If we use this book to write a statement for ourselves we might do better. That is, as long as we can follow the code.

Most cultures have their own version of rules both secular and religious, which not surprisingly, seem to be quite similar around the world. Humans have been here long enough to test many systems. To our consternation many of them we try over and over again, knowing that they failed in the past. We all too often fail to learn from history. Idi Amin, Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Robert Mugabe, Joseph Stalin, Charles Taylor, and Pol Pot are examples of men who changed the code to match their individual version of ethics. In the next seventy-five years how many more new names could be added to this list? When will civilization learn that these individual based systems do not work? While mainstream religious systems do a better job of it, they also have failed. This failure seems to occur when a few individuals have been allowed to rewrite the religious and secular codes. Today we have the religious terrorist groups, which are retesting an old failed system of the rules. This is a system, which encourages people to blow themselves and others up when someone disagrees with their leader’s view. Of course win or lose these leaders are establishing an acceptable way of handling future disagreements they might have amongst themselves. They might like to think about that for a while. The tactic is not new and has been used by some of the above named characters we so loathsomely despise today. These like-minded people also encouraged others to murder innocent bystanders for their own personal agenda. This is not a good CODE to live by. All and all where common cultural basic codes have been practiced the social systems tend to do better. When the personal goals of a few shallow individuals are imposed the main body of society does poorly.

Most civilizations already know the right way to behave. They generally seem to have a very similar set of guiding principles. Principles based on a central rule, which usually is something like this, “Treat others, as you would like to be treated.” Many believe that God gave us this code. It is where individuals have stepped in and added their own personal idea’s that problems occur. The basic code then somehow becomes lost and greed and/or hate begin to grow. Whether you believe God gave us the golden rule or not the fact is, it exists. It seems like it was incorporated into most of our DNA’s. Some say it is like the inbred instinct for survival which nature has given us. It has been around for a long time and without it one would have to question what civilization would be like today. Would it look more like the “out world” of the movie “Road Warrior”? Civilization seems to always do better in an atmosphere that allows the basic values of the Golden Rule. What code do you want to live by? Better yet what world do you want to live in? Each of us helps to create it or destroy it.

Hong Kong in Mexico
This idea is a possible alternative to NAFTA. Our goal should be to help Mexico improve its labor situation, too many laborers and not enough jobs, and to help stem the flow of illegal workers to the United States. Perhaps Mexico could be encouraged to adopt a plan to lease a section of Land to the United States so that companies would be more willing to invest knowing that their investment is backed by US laws and security. It has long been said that there are about thirteen elite families in Mexico and it appears they do not want to invest in Mexico so perhaps a plan like this might make sense. One working example of this idea appears to have been Hong Kong.

Immigration
Our immigration laws appear to be the most liberal in the world. One third of all immigrants in the world come to the United States. We legally admit 2 million people per year. Fourteen percent of these come from Mexico alone. In addition we allow 400,000 H-1B visas and another 900,000 other employment visas each year. Then we hand out 660,000 Student visa’s each year. If this were not enough we also allow an additional 455,000 temporary employment transfers each year. More then 6 million people apply for legal residence each year. We receive so many request that our immigration offices cannot keep up. They currently have a backlog in processing over 3.5 million applications.[8] With 3 billion people in the world living on two dollars or less a day and another 2 billion not much better off we can expect these numbers to grow if no change is forthcoming in these depressed countries. Of course when our economy looks like many of our neighbors to the south this flow would most likely stop. At this point the population flow would likely reverse itself and head south because it is better to live in a nice warm climate, if you’re poor, then to freeze up here. They, those responsible for these migrations, would prefer to push this problem around the world because there is money to be made in doing so.

The world appears at times to enjoy seeing millions of people suffer. Suffer from droughts, food shortages, land shortages, and job shortages. Why? Because we seem to do everything we can to promote population growth. Without truly addressing the cause we feed starving and displaced peoples from overpopulated countries all in the name of being humanitarian. We are far too often just making matters worse. This is because the real reason for all of the above shortages is routinely not being talked about. I am not suggesting that we should not help but that we change the way we help. Our goal should be to create a future where children don’t grow up to face shortages of food, water, and housing and then be exploited for cheap labor.

The solution is for each of us to be able to have a job, housing, food, and water. If we set limits we can do this. First, on how fast we grow as a nation. Secondly, we should not accept the ‘anything goes’ attitudes on population. Countries who allow their population to have more children per family than their neighbors are more likely to be creating their own problems. However, I believe they should have the right to do this as long as they keep their populations within their own borders. Exporting their population excesses is not a good solution to their overpopulation problems. Of course these countries are the friends of those who want cheap labor. When countries encourage large populations they are not friends but enemies of mankind. Why, because they bring on more starvation, disease, and human torture. They are responsible for the miseries an over crowded labor market brings. These miseries start with the lack of employment opportunities and continue on to the lack of food, water, and shelter. And, if as this were not enough, the miseries of wars.
Immigration perhaps, should only occur between nations who have similar family size guidelines in place. And it should not be one way but balanced. Otherwise countries with large family sizes are merely exporting part of their problems to the host country that receives them. If one culture wants to carry high populations within their boarders then they have that right. However, they should not be spilling over into their neighbor’s country to begin causing their same desperate conditions to exist there as in their homeland. The ones who mainly want this are those who want cheap labor.

Welfare Principle
Welfare recipients in some states are expected to repay their welfare benefits if they come into say an inheritance, win the lottery, gain employment or other family members can start paying for their welfare.[9] If citizens are required to repay their debt than why shouldn’t the illegal workers? These illegal workers should be required to repay the “welfare like support this nation granted them.” This being the use of our school systems, highway systems, health systems, police, fire, etc. The average cost per citizen of each of these social programs can be determined. This cost multiplied by the number of years they were here illegally will determine their approximate welfare cost. They should be responsible for repayment of half of this debt. Their employer should be responsible for the other half of the debt. This debt would not be based not on the lower wage they received but on a living wage appropriate for the area of employment. If they cannot find the employer, than they will have to pay the employers share. If they agree to repay their welfare debt and square themselves of all cost the citizens of the United States absorbed for them while they where here illegally they should be allowed to apply to immigrate back in on an expedited status based on the greater number of years they were here. Of course as all potential citizens they should agree to give full allegiance to the United States. In other words they should put their loyalty for the United States over their country of origin. As this would require substantial cost on their part I do not believe many illegal workers will want to return, but if they do after all this they should be welcomed. Note this means no amnesty for business or private employers just as for illegal workers.

Illegal Worker
When a businessman hires an illegal worker for less than a living wage with little or no benefits he saves money. This means other ‘legal workers’ who make a living wage or better will have to pay the social cost that this ‘illegal worker’ imposes on society. Since, the businessman does not pay an adequate repayment to society for the drain he adds to it. These costs are in the nature of Hospitals, Roads, Waste disposal, Police, Parks, Water, Gasoline and much more. Because the illegal makes so little income even if taxes were paid they would get, much, if not most back. This is a winning situation for the businessman, but for the United States of America it is a loss. Soon social programs will not be able to continue. Next the infrastructure systems will begin to decay due to lack of funding. We already have to borrow billions of dollars to keeps basic services going. All while watching billions of US dollars leave the country in the form of cheap labor wages. This helps to weaken our country still further. It is time to stop giving a small percentage of citizens a break and start preserving the United States before our economics resembles that of Mexico.

Consider laws, which demand employers to pay workers at least a living wage for the location they are working in. This will allow citizens an opportunity to apply for these jobs and stop unscrupulous employers from taking advantage of both illegal workers and the citizens of the USA for their own selfish gains.

Cheap Workers
We all learn in school basic supply and demand rules. The more immigrants we have, legal or illegal, the more workers we have. It follows businesses need more people to have more workers so that their cost for labor will be reduced. While this saves them money it cost the rest of our citizens more. One example is health; cheap labor cannot afford to purchase health care. Yet, immigrants get sick or injured just like all of us, but their costs are indirectly added to our health care bills. Their employers pay little or nothing. There are other ways the United State citizens get left holding the bill for these employers who want cheap labor as all social programs are affected. We can stop the invasion of our country by stopping businesses from taking advantage of both these immigrants and United States Citizens. This would be the least expense and easiest way to correct the problem.

Impact study on the General American Public
There should be an impact study just how many illegal people are here and how the additional people are actually affecting our country.[10] The estimate might take into account the culmination of the last 50 years of open borders and include previous amnesty recipients and anchor babies from possibly every country in the world. Look at the impact on the education, social programs, health care, roads, gasoline consumption, land fills, how are they affected? The preliminary studies seemed to indicate cheap labor may be cheap for business, but end up being more expensive for the common American citizen.

Illegal health care and boarder patrol Solutions
Solutions come from exploring ideas. Many solutions require “Tough Love” especially for those who do not know the meaning of the word illegal. One solution for illegal persons using our Emergency Care facilities might be to bill their homeland. The Hospital would submit a bill to the US Government for the care. They will provide the name of the country of origin for the patient and the country they entered the US from. The US Government would pay the hospital and reduce the AID appropriation from both countries for the amount of the hospital fees. For example if the hospital cost were $500 then country #1 and #2’s aid would also be reduced by $500 each to encourage those countries to reduce illegal crossings. Since these cost do not cover the total expenses our taxpayers incur other policies will have to be in-acted as well. I am not so keen on Foreign AID to begin with because in the past it has been used to support some corrupt governmental systems. However there may be legitimate purposes for it. If it ends up in our hospital systems coffers then perhaps our health care cost may come down.
For border control cost, the US Government would again reduce the AID appropriation from both countries equal to the cost of the capture and return fees. For example if the cost were $500 then country #1 and #2’s AID would also be reduced by $500 each to encourage those countries to reduce illegal crossings. $1000 if they were the same country. Since these cost do not cover the total expenses our taxpayers incur other policies will have to be in-acted as well.
For a completely different approach perhaps, impose trade fees on any country, which exceeds the legal limit of immigrants. When excessive amounts of people choose to leave a country the leadership of the country should be held responsible as the cause at least in part. Even NAFTA has ways to protest excessive dumping.

Citizenship by birth in the USA
This right should be reserved only for Parents that are Legal Citizens of the USA. Illegal persons should have no such right, as they are in essence criminals. Our founders never meant that we should provide these kinds of benefits to the entire world. They knew we would never be able to pay for that. What is more to reward criminal behavior is not something they would have approve of. Our founders were clearly for the rule of law. Why would anyone reward someone for breaking the law? Could anyone think our founders were that stupid? Unfortunately there will be some who will say they were and we know who they are. They not only want to permit Anchor Babies for illegal immigrants, but also want to allow the Visa holders to bring their family members here to have their children. By doing this they use us to help pay the hospital fees and as their bonus or reward for this their child becomes a citizen. This clearly does not benefit the United States Taxpayers, and beyond this it is clearly wrong, because they are taking advantage of others and this is a form of steeling.

Laws on aiding and abetting criminals
Illegal persons disobey our laws by crossing without legal papers. Enforce existing laws with fines on businesses who violate our laws. These fines should be large enough to make someone trying to save themselves a buck, at the expenses of the rest of the nation, to think twice.

On another note, if Communism is our enemy why are we aiding and abetting it. We participate in deficit trade with Communist China, but than we put limits on Cuba? Is Communism our enemy or is someone making a buck and placing us at risk? Because of our deficit trade China has billions of US dollars to help our enemies. Would you consider this Aiding and Abetting? Why is our government doing this? Is this part of the FED scheme to keep our economy afloat? Do we really want to undertake this kind of risk?

Price adjustments on goods brought in from other counties
Explore living wage cost adjustments, to be calculated as part of the trade agreements, to offset the wrongful loss of our standard of living. Look into the savings that business has from wages and goods brought into our country. Perhaps these savings should go toward the elimination of taxes on private citizens and public improvement projects. As now it goes solely into the pockets of Corporations or Businesses. The benefit here is that this will help to a degree offset the lost USA jobs, which would have paid taxes. The down side to this is that it takes us closer to being a country like Mexico were fewer people can afford to pay taxes.

Crop Core
Consider establishing an organization, which will help provide an opportunity for USA citizens to pick crops. The benefits of this are three fold. One this would help provide the citizen work force needed to harvest the crops. Two it will help allow farmers the means to pay a living wage through this governmental assistance. And three the money earned by US citizens would be mostly spent in the USA. The farmer would be expected to provide their crops at a fair market price to the US citizens in return.

Fraud in Government Handouts
Or little known government handouts
These handouts should not be available to only the few who know how to navigate the government archives. If these handouts cannot pass the common knowledge test, and than be easily accessible by calling a central help line, they should not be offered. The citizen should not have to be a detective to discover programs that will assist them. While many programs might have merit the benefit system they are provided under is questionable. It is questionable, because it allows other not so appropriate handouts to exist. If we enlist the help of people like Matthew Lesko, the person who sells the secrets to government handouts, we could eliminate the programs that are questionable.[11] We don’t need secret programs. Hiring a person like him is kind of like hiring a hacker to close the security leak. If the program cannot pass our national code test it shouldn't exist.

Population Growth as the “Economic Solution”-Not so fast
If we create 1million jobs a year how does it help our citizens if we allow 3 million illegal and legal people a year to enter our country? If many of the jobs are in the building sector and fewer in the other sectors, what will happen went the building stops? This may be how third world nations are born. Larger populations create the need for more resources. That is, more food, more dumps, more roads, more gas, more schools, more power, and more jobs. Slowing population growth to a level below resource growth should improve conditions in the world. If we do not slow population growth than based on economic laws we face consequences. These being higher prices for food, water, land and building materials, waste disposal, roads, gasoline, education, electricity, and taxes. The only thing that should be cheaper should be labor cost. This isn’t good if you’re the labor.

Based on the above we have to ask ourselves who are the big winners in this “Population Growth Policy”? First, big business and or wealthy individuals to a very large degree, because they hire the most people. These employees include, factory workers, farm workers, domestic servants, maids, yard workers, nannies, etc. Secondly the small business to a lesser degree benefit, because they also hire people as well. Finally we have the ordinary citizens who feel they are winners in this, but in reality they are the biggest losers. While some occasionally employ workers directly this is not normally the case, but they might enjoy some of the second hand savings of the work forces from the first and second place winners, however these trickle down savings are minor.

Basically the system above is a kind of “Chain Letter Scheme” where the people already in trenched at the top are the recipients of the bulk of the rewards. Of course these people will do all that they can to keep this system going. It is a system that works off Cheap Labor and a disregard for the environment. Many of these people have a very different view of the world. It is a view that the world is very large and can handle anything we can dish out. The stresses they impose on the world are more than most people are comfortable with. For them the nature of the environment in your local area is not important. The dump, the nuclear plant, the shopping mall, or the chemical plant is going in your neighborhood and you have little to say about it, if business plans dictate. After all you need a job, right. These people seem to believe that the “Mother Nature” we know, at least in our neighborhood, isn't that nice anyway. So indirectly they are saying, ‘your idea of Nature is not important,’ they are in charge and they know better.

Granted these people are not stupid, however they seem to suffer from a common problem called Greed. It often, when excessive, seems to make us do things, which are detrimental to others. I truly believe that if the Gene for greed was discovered and a therapy was developed these ‘they live individuals’ would be sure to have everyone but themselves cured.

National Energy Plan
A National Energy Plan with a very modest goal of reaching a 90% reduction in foreign oil consumption over the next 10 years.
First we need to agree on some reasons to do so; here is a partial list:
1. A good part of oil money ends up in terrorist hands. It is then used to kill and maim our soldiers and innocent bystanders around the world.
2. The flow of money out of the United States has an economically damaging effect on our country. Less money flowing around in our economy lowers the standard of living for the majority of Americans. This is one reason labor wages have had to come down.
3. Oil products tend to pollute and efforts to find clean sources of energy will help our environment. This then will tend to help us lead healthier lives hopefully lowering our medical cost.
4. Storage facilities for oil products are potential terrorist targets.
5. Our countries economic security is in the hands of foreign governments and this causes unrest in our markets. In other words our dependency on foreign oil puts us in a position where our economy can suffer and cause wars.

These are just a few reasons, which should inspire us to achieve our goal. John F. Kennedy set a goal of landing a man on the moon within a decade. This should inspire us to believe that our goals with oil are possible. I believe that even the powers in control of oil money most likely have now laid plans to reduce their oil trade at some point and may be supportive of this plan. I have hope because we will need their redirection of effort.

Here are the Goals obtainable through research and hard work:
Expand and improve each of the following systems by a minimum of growth plus ½ of 1% per yr. for 10 years:
1. Wind power.
2. Coal power.
3. Bio-diesel.
4. Solar power.
5. Battery technology.
6. Geothermal technology.
7. Hydroelectric generators at dams. This can be achieved by upgrading the older generators to newer improved generators. We can also increase research on generators and waterpower generating systems. We can expand the use of hydroelectric power by developing systems that work on smaller rivers with low profile designs.
8. Rail systems to reduce truck traffic. Develop newer types of trains using alternate technologies. Expand rapid transit systems between urban centers; fares could include use of economical one or two passenger shuttle cars at the Destination City. Encourage use by making trains convenient, fast, easy to use, and productive.
9. The development of lighting systems, which require less power. LED seems promising.
10. The use of insulating material and new building codes to reduce consumption.
11. Research to develop power from the oceans such as wave, tidal, electrical variance, or other concepts, which I can’t imagine at this time.
12. Research into finding alternate products, other the oil, to make plastics.
13. The use and efficiency of gasohol via improvements to automobile engines.
14. Improve performance of hybrid cars.
Here are four points we need to return to:
15. Initiate a consumption goal on each individual to lower their use of energy though the use of newer light bulbs employing programmable thermostats or just by wearing warmer cloths at home and dialing down.
16. Manage our country’s growth so as to optimize its value. Today our growth means importing workers (work visas). This condition has negative effects on the majority of the country while only benefiting a small number of our citizens. These actions cause a need for more oil consumption and burden our social systems. That is, our schools, hospitals, penal systems, highway systems, and distribution systems, waste and pollution systems, and energy systems. This lowers our standards of life and is detrimental to the country as a whole over the long run. However if we managed our growth properly our oil needs would most certainly be reduced. Improving our own educational system would be a start to deceasing foreign workers.
17. We can lower our need for oil simply by reducing the influx of illegal people into our country. This will also help us because the illegal workers will not be sending US dollars out of our country. This will help support our middle class wage structure by keeping more money in our monitory system. As the living wage earner’s wealth declines our life style declines throughout the USA. I cannot believe that the wealthier business people who are currently benefiting by cheap labor want to create the economy of Mexico here in the land they have to live in.
18. Expand and improve our own oil production in the short run with a goal to limit its use in the future via use of other systems mentioned above.

These 18 points are not new ideas; we don’t lack ideas, however we lack a leader to champion a national energy plan, which will benefit not just a few but everyone.

At a modest growth plus .005% improvement each year in each of these 18 categories we would net a total reduction in foreign oil by 90% over the next 10 years. While some of these categories may be troublesome to achieve others could be easier. We should also know that this list of ideas is not all-inclusive and that others will be able to contribute ingenuity well beyond these points. Overall this improvement rate to me is a very modest goal. I believe that many of us have experienced at their place of employment similar request for improvement. Usually those requests are much higher. I seem to recall several years where I was asked to improve by 10%. Difficult as some may try to make this we must all remember going to the Moon wasn’t easy either.
Note that these improvements are all based on growth plus ½ of one percent. We can have a great deal of control on growth. So the better we do here the faster we will become self sufficient in energy.

Katrina
Suppose I told you that we knew a way to help prevent another human disaster in New Orleans from happening in the future. But before I give you the solution, which I think you already know, let us explore some of the reasons why this disaster happened.

l The area where these people are living has been known to be a flood zone.
l It appears most of the people who remained may not have had the money to leave.
l A small number of the people there should have been in mental health hospitals. Clearly they didn’t understand the danger in staying. Unfortunately our system of mental health care allows for these people to wander the streets.
l The rich and poor in this country have adopted a cultural acceptance of some behaviors that we know to be wrong or immoral. We know they are wrong but we look the other way when they occur. These negative behaviors help create some of the people who live off our social programs. The behaviors of drugs and inappropriate sex, which are not healthy for the person physically or emotionally. A small segment of those caught up here were part of this culture.

We need to ask ourselves and our leaders how did we as a nation, allow this to happen? Cheap labor advocates have called for the increase in size of our population. They know that by increasing the supply of human workers the cost of wages will continue to go down. They also know that more people mean more customers for their products. They do not care about what happens to others. Their actions create more and more low wage people and this causes the cost of social programs to grow. The expense of these social programs has grown faster as new people arrive. But tax revenue from low paying jobs is not enough to support these programs. If any city has a large number of people living on minimum wages then they have a problem. Minimum wages means minimum taxes, if any at all, and this is not enough to provide the social programs. Programs needed to supplement their lives at an acceptable level. Because of their income levels they have to live in areas such as flood zones. When social programs such as mental health are reduced, patients which should be supervised, are allowed to walk about as if they where as normal as healthy people. The very wealthy people might accept this cultural slip because it makes them money. The very poor might accept this culture slip because they feel this is their culture. Increasingly the poor, and most all of us, have become too tolerant of poor social morals. Thus we exasperate the problem and it loops back to affect all of us. Rich and poor we all have to mend our ways. If we continue our tolerance without change, we will get no change, and disasters like this will go on an on. While we cannot stop weather disasters from happening we can minimize human disaster by controlling overpopulation. Bringing in excess populations for low paying jobs is not a valid solution for our economic situation. In other parts of the world we call this condition a “Third World Nation.” Is this what we really want? If we control our greed we can control our population growth, as this is part of the answer to preventing human disasters.
Disaster Victims and Aid to Central & South America
Would it be possible and is it a good idea to offer the following option? For disaster victims only, should we offer any qualified low-income pension recipient a chance to relocate to any friendly South or Central American country with location and transportation assistance from the US government? In return income from these immigrants would raise the economic wealth for the host country. This could possibly better the standard of living on both sides. And if our citizens relocated near US facilities they might be able to use these services at reduced cost. This could all be verified via fingerprints or retinal scans or whatever method is appropriate.

Problems with similar solutions
Rolling Blackouts and high gasoline prices are caused because too many people are trying to use a limited amount of energy. Overcrowding on the highways, bridge repairs, damage to roads and pollution is tied to overpopulation problems. Loss of natural habitats and environmental pollution are again all growth problems. The cheap labor issue is also a population issue. Economics 101 teaches that supply and demand dictates price. For the average US citizen this means they have to work for less. For the businesses this means they can charge a higher price and lower employee wages. For example gasoline cost more because more people are trying to purchase it and thus the supply is reduced leading to higher prices. All of these problems can be addressed in the following way. Control the illegal population growth, remove incentives for having lots of children, and develop a new national energy policy based on our national code. Limit growth to actual available resources within our country. Prosecute and penalize parents who continue to produce children beyond a reasonable limit, a limit which the majority of citizens can agree on. I know this sounds harsh but it may have to come to this if the current corrupt growth scheme continues. This limit would be better than having them starve to death in the future. We have been conditioned to support full blown growth so this is going to be hard for most of us to except. We should run it through the national guiding principles that we establish to see that we do not take excessive advantage of our citizens both current and future. We will need to address limits to our immigration laws and work them into our own population growth planning guidelines. The goal is to avoid having to resort to a Chinese plan of one child per couple in the distance future, a worse case scenario.

Effects of Advertising
The obvious point of any commercial is to TEMPT you. Temptation is one reason for there existence, its one of there purposes. I know this makes them all sound evil but of course they are not all bad. Anyway they have other purposes and some are actually very good. However we need to understand we have a large responsibility in viewing them so that we do not become overwhelmed by them. As I mentioned earlier the tremendous effects that advertising has to influence people is often taken too lightly. We tend to think we have a handle on it and we don’t let it over take us. We are in charge not them. Well if this were so why do they continue to spend an enormous amount of money on advertising? Answer, it pays to advertise. Now know that you are influenced greatly regardless of what you say. It seems ironic that on the negative side, of advertising, THEY use all their power to get people to put themselves in debt than turn around and criticize the citizens for not putting money in saving accounts. They then use this as an excuse to borrow from other countries so that we can pay them interest, and they can affect conditions world wide.

Democrats and Republicans will spend hundreds of millions of dollars electing their candidate for president in November 2008.[12] I can tell you right now that the party leaders will not select the candidate that most of us would choose. Sure some might be amongst the early field of candidates but it is highly unlikely they will make it to the convention. At least if you are one of those people who think there are only two parties. Of course those other parties do not have millions of dollars of corporate money backing them so they will make it seem like they shouldn’t be counted as legitimate candidates. But take your favorite candidate and place him or her in this boat. Say he or she was in this third party, chances are that candidate in your eyes now would become illegitimate. What I am trying to say is just because your candidate does not have money to run doesn’t make him or her any less of a person. The fact they don’t have corporate backing might even be viewed as a plus in selecting him or her as your candidate. If corporate America doesn’t like this candidate than he or she most likely would be a candidate that will work for our country not just corporate America. I would really enjoy seeing America vote for one of these outside candidates. To see the duopoly spend all that money and loose would serve them right. They created the system that cost millions to enter so that they couldn’t lose. Wouldn’t it be a kick to see that happen? All we would have to do is simply not vote for them. That’s a pretty simple solution. It is their game but you can chose not to participate under their rules, which are vote for party A or party B only. Even if your candidate loses you win because as long as he or she would have been a champion for the Common America citizen you were doing the right thing. They would want you to choose between the worst of two evils. Of course they own them both.

What can be done to change THEM?
For whatever time we have left to us, we should all make an effort to live our lives appropriately. This requires running our country under the moral codes that our forefathers set in motion a long time ago. They sought the wisdom of God and so should we; this wisdom is simply a way of life which champions good over evil. One goal of this book is to try to strengthen your resolve not to participate in their schemes. Another goal is to give them an opportunity, should they happen to read this, to reconsider what they are doing. The bible does explain that even they have a chance. As far as most of us are concerned being aware of them is helpful as we can avoid their spin. Being aware of their nature and plans can help you to not get hurt by them. You in turn might help others from getting hurt. This book touched on some of the issues that I have run across in my life. I am sure you might have other useful ideas. Keeping the Golden Rule is a good place to start. Search out news sources that actually do research on what they report. Avoid news sources who simply read information off the wire. At school run your instructors through a prism of life to find out where they are coming from. Know where you should be coming from. What is it that you want? Don’t easily accept that what “THEY” are telling you, is for the good of us all. Be a skeptic.

Solutions
What normally happens these days when we try to resolve our issues is that we get a multitude of solutions. Each one represents an individual’s point of view. Because of all these views we have a difficult time agreeing on a solution, so we fail. One way to ease this problem is to focus on a central goal. Remember the national code I spoke of earlier; one of its bullet points was that our solutions should focus on benefiting the largest number of citizens. This is because the more citizens that benefit the more prosperous and stronger the entire nation becomes. Sharing in success is a great incentive to self-improvement. Not just in material wealth but in social wealth. If we have more unity our chances for success improve. Solutions with standards require families, friends, and neighbors to agree on them. They become our code of conduct in a sense, which fosters good. We tend to make decisions by asking ourselves “what’s in this for me?” I hope you now know that there is more to gain from choosing the high road then from choosing THEM. You could even say it this way. It is better for the nation, future generations, and even them that YOU LIVE.
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Epilogue

2008-01-17T13:16:00.001-05:00

by David Michael Beachwood
I hope that I have convinced you that these ‘THEY LIVE’ characters are mixed in with us throughout the whole world. I think you will have to agree that you have run into some of these characters, these tapeworms,[1] in your lifetime. Knowingly or not you have seen the results of their work. Evil can disguise itself very well yet when its greed exceeds our thresholds it makes its self known. Almost everyday our national news reports on events where a number of people have died. Sometimes there is no one to blame, but on occasion the end results of evil culminate in one or two individuals which are all too obvious for us to not focus on, as in campus shootings, drive by shootings, or other criminal activities. Perhaps instead of focusing on these individuals we should ask our selves what pushes them to do these things. What steps could we take to help prevent a person from reaching the point that they feel that they have to commit these acts of violence? Since evil isn’t always so easily identified; often we have a hard time figuring out who they, that do evil, are. They can and have caused many of us to help them and often, without our knowledge. Most of us do this, because we are not really paying attention; one could say we are asleep. However, if you are knowingly helping them than more than likely, you are one of THEM, or you might just see yourself without any other option. Yet, you do have options even if you are one of them. Socially you can try to curb your greed and learn to treat others better. Politically vote for candidates whose actions demonstrate they follow our American Constitution and who support the moral values and virtues that many of our founders stressed. Economically be fair about how you charge others for your labor, or pay labor for theirs. Finally know that many ancient writings have tried to pass on the wisdom that we should have already been doing these things. These ancient writings offer hope. The Bible teaches that even Satan’s seed can change their ways, because ultimately God is the father of all souls on Earth, and he allows each of us our own choice, to do good or to do evil. The wisdom of the bible is simply this; if we were all to followed its basic code, the path of good, our condition on earth would be greatly improved, because those evil acts would cease. The better we become at controlling evil the better our lives will become.

Critics of conspiracy stories
Now to address the critic’s who might be saying, ‘so what is the big concern?’ All of these conspiracy stories have been going on for a long time and the country still seems fine to me. The sky isn’t falling everything looks good to me. Allow me to respond to these thoughts. Years ago I was told by a fellow worker something that was meant to help reduce my concern regarding the corruption that goes on. He said don’t worry these guys in charge will never over do it and let the ship sink, so to speak, because if they did they wouldn’t have any way to continue their corruption. This was true for a very long time, but as their plans for Globalization get closer and closer their game plan appears to be changing. The importance of any one country in this scheme is reduced and their greed seems to be growing worse. We appear to be a healthy country, but we are a country with diminishing resources. We are in the process of selling many of these resources now. We are currently the largest debtor nation in the history of the planet. We are heading into the future with a growing population and many problems which need to be resolved. I have heard many economists over the last fifteen to twenty years explain how our economy would never be able to make it much further without some major collapse. Yet, the FED somehow has been able to push it along. This shouldn’t make anyone feel good, because we really do not know exactly how the FED has done it. Those top level meetings, if you recall, we are not allowed to see. We know the value of our money is sliding and a long time foe of our country, communist China, now holds a large part of our financial debts. While the British pound recently had been valued at twice that of the dollar they shouldn’t be to proud of that because our dollar is said, to really only to be worth four cents when compared to its value in 1913 before we turned our money supply over to the FED.[2] The dollar was worth a dollar and was backed by gold then. I have to agree I don’t see the sky falling; everything looks fine on the surface, as long as you just look at the surface. Even if the FED holds it together for another fifteen to twenty years what about the corrupt schemes that go on, a good part of the conspiracy stories deal with the corruption. Think about it this way, could we be the boiling frog?

Follow the leader
I have been very tough on the Muslim community. This is because a great number of them have supported leaders who are taking them down the wrong path. However, that being said even here at home we have some deceitful leaders whom are taking us on the wrong path. Many of my friends and neighbors, and I have followed them to our disappointments. The problem is that too many of the worlds citizens continue to blindly follow such leaders to this day. If we truly want a better world we will need to challenge ourselves to look into these things. We need to follow leaders who genuinely promote good and whose actions actually substantiate this, not once but in all their actions.

Population
I have also harped, a great deal, on our population problems. I want to say that I do not know the true extent of the problem. It may not be as bad as it seems. While we witness events, which point a finger at population as the root cause, we appear to have too few non biased studies that measure the direct influence of population on these events. Since most reporters have avoided this taboo topic we have a lot to learn. If I may have sounded a little irrational at times it is because of a condition I suffer from, that of being a human. The reason for bringing this topic to such importance is my concern that we are jeopardizing our population by not considering our very own impact. I feel many of us would rather put on our rose color glasses rather than face this very troubling issue. This is the time we need our special glasses on. To assure we do not damage the chances our offspring have to succeed. This is why I believe it is important not to sleep. We do need eyes to see and ears to hear but that mind in the middle must also be awake. Keeping it in the skeptic mode will help us stay out of trouble.

Positive thinking
The philosophy of positive thinking should not in my view be minimized. However, it is hard to maintain a positive view on anything if you believe you are here on earth by chance. I believe I have demonstrated that there was a lot of positive thinking going on during the founding of this country. Most of us have heard numerous stories of how positive thoughts have helped many people achieve their goals. I’m pretty sure you have also had some opportunities to see what negative thinking does. If we allow anyone to take away our hope then they stand a better chance to defeat us. This is why it is so important to have HOPE. Science may disagree, but to me the prerequisite to HOPE is TO BELIEVE. Unfortunately for us I think our THEY LIVE enemies have their hopes as well, I think they hope that WE SLEEP.
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Suggested Reference Media

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by David Michael Beachwood

Related Media to enhance political awareness and entertain.

Movies
Distinguished Gentleman – Comedy with Eddie Murphy
Gangs of New York – Exploitation of Labor and immigrants

Music
Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House or Sixpence None the Richer (This song had a new meaning to me after I wrote this book, perhaps after you have read the book, you will feel the same; give it a try= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwb0qqugANA THEY won't win.

Books which promote good cultural values
1984- by George Orwell
War on the Middle Class – by Lou Dobbs
The Seventeen Traditions – Ralph Nader
Consumed – Benjamin Barber

Web sites
About.com http://urbanlegends.about.com/
Alex Jones http://infowars.com/
American Free Press http://www.americanfreepress.net/
Billy Jack http://billyjack.com/
CNN News http://www.cnn.com/
C-SPAN http://www.c-span.org/
Catherine Austin Fitts http://www.solari.com/
Dr. Ron Paul http://ronpaul.org/
US Congress http://www.congress.org/
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
100777 http://100777.com/

Television
CSPAN 1 - Coverage of House of Representatives
CSPAN 2 - Coverage of the Senate & Public Interest Events
CSPAN 3 – Coverage of other Governmental issues
LINK TV - Coverage of world events

Free Speech TV - Coverage of world event

Proof of Global Warming:

NOTES

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