Time to Say a Resounding 'No' to Government

No More Second Chances...

Courtesy: Veterans Today

(CINCINNATI) - The “Tea Party” has spoken, using their congressional bludgeon. America’s working class has to pick up the bill for decades of waste, corruption, illegal wars, payoffs to Israel and massive tax cuts to the richest 1%.

When we are done, the average retiree will receive benefits, frozen for years due to rigging COLA (Cost of Living Allowance), Social Security for less than 2 years before dying.

What the president and congress put on the table during this first attack, few know of. Military pay, veterans benefits, pensions, medical care, all are classified now as “entitlements.” What didn’t disappear this time will eventually go. It is only a matter of time.

Let’s add more things to the list, see if we can push the savings even further. It’s time we got serious about debt, time we stopped screwing around.

We have 4 chronically underperforming bureaucracies that, not only waste money but threaten our freedoms.  These are:

• The Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.  I would say more about Janet, the worst decision President Obama or any president ever made if it weren’t for Tom Ridge, DHS director from 2003 to 2005, perhaps as bad a public servant as former Attorney General John Ashcroft.  DHS has to go, dismantled, gone, no more, we can keep the Coast Guard and shitcan the rest.  Comparing them to the Gestapo is an insult to Himmler.
• ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement:  Does it get any worse than this?  If the states can’t handle it themselves, it will never be handled at all.
• Department of Justice:  Years ago, Karl Rove restructured the Justice Department to mimic the Capone organization in Chicago.  Those who refuse to pay for protection, political donations and “favors,” are subject to millions of pages of obscure laws and regulations.  Monkey’s with machineguns would be better at delivering justice.

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• Department of Veterans Affairs:  250,000 employees spend endless billions of dollars on obfuscation, abuse, denial and open cruelty.  Turn the whole thing over to the Irish Catholic Church.  If vets are going to be screwed, it might as well be in a good cause.

We are currently in two wars, a decade or more old, Iraq really started in 1991 and 2003 was simply a “flareup.”

We thank Wikileaks and Congressman Ron Paul for proving the first Gulf War was in response to the invasion of Kuwait, an attack approved by the White House.  Read the cable here.

Despite the fact that we have continual claims that Al Qaeda, the mythical terror organization is plotting against poor innocent Gaddafi, I think the BBC made their point very well:

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We can go further than that.  Osama bin Laden was an innocent man who worked for the CIA until the day of his death in 2001.  We can prove it, that and so much more.  For an outline on some of that case, enough to discredit those peddling Al Qaeda scares and bin Laden fairy tales, go here:

With no Al Qaeda, responsibility for 9/11 entirely with Bush and Cheney, no enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq, it isn’t about bringing the boys and girls home or bringing the dead back to life, it’s time we asked for our money back.

Take a moment and watch this video by Anthony Lawson:

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There has been a general refusal on the part of the United States military establishment to accept that the Cold War is over.  Now that we can prove the war on Saddam and the subsequent military operations that made use of the army built to fight the Soviet Union in Europe were orchestrated by treasonous acts by two Bush presidents, we no longer have any excuse for keeping this capability alive anymore.  This is where we start:

• Close all overseas bases, “mothballing” critical ones like Aviano, Ramstein and Spangdahlem.  Leave Diego Garcia to the British and move everything out, in total.  Remove all forces from the Gulf and leave the defense of that region to the UAE, Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia.  Iran?  Yes, get real.  They have been begging for the chance to get on our good side for years.  How do I know this?  After all, if you read Jonathan Kay, I am an Iranian spy as are all at Veterans Today.  This also means we should pull out of Korea and Japan, especially Okinawa.  Korea is a powerful nation and Japan, despite setbacks recently, nearly conquered half the world not that long ago.  I think they can manage, with China to help.  There is no “return on investment” for further American involvement in the region.  It has all been smoke and mirrors.
• Mothball the nuclear submarine force.  Russia, China, India and Israel, those who currently possess nuclear armed submarines, should agree to the same.  Russia is ready to agree as is China.  If India and that other country make noises, cut off their welfare checks.
• End all foreign aid.  Israel uses theirs to bribe congress.  Other nations steal it all or spend it on fighting their neighbors.  We need it ourselves.
• Cut congressional pay by 70%, eliminate ALL congressional pensions and health care.  Staffers can all be volunteers.  Congress can work for home, meet over skype and members of congress can make ends meet by getting second jobs like real Americans.
• Bring the Army home and close the friggin’ borders totally, “shoot to kill” totally.
• Freeze all assets held by Federal Reserve banks.  If any (almost all) those banks are found to be foreign owned, declare all relationships with them to be inconsistent with our constitution.  America will no longer pay banks, particularly foreign owned, to profit on our debt, sell us our own money and do so in direct violation of our laws.
• Declare all debt and all currency worthless until those holding it can explain why they have it.  Got a billion dollars?  Tell me where you got it, prove it?  Tell me you are holding a trillion dollars in treasury bills?  Prove to me where it came from.  America will no longer recognize currency or debt instruments that can’t be shown to have originated legally.  70% of the national debt will turn to mist in seconds.

As for corporations, there is no reason to tax them out of existence.  However, if corporations have “moved overseas” to avoid paying taxes, set up phony operations in the Cayman Islands or a dozen other safe havens, they either account for their activities there, bring those funds home and pay the taxes on them or say goodbye to America.  Fugitive warrants will make the lives of those who are now estimated to have moved over 65% of America’s former commerce “off the planet” more colourful and al fresco.

A few minor changes in government will be a good start. The “electoral college,” something no one understands has to go. Votes, from now on, are paper, counted on the spot and carefully registered, at gunpoint if necessary.

The “seniority system” in congress that has allowed crooked politicians from the most backward parts of the country to run everything, make rules, dictate to presidents, silence all opposition, crush reform, ends now.

Our legal system will have to be totally trashed, depoliticized, with courts eliminated, replaced by citizen arbitration panels and political control over law enforcement and the judicial system eliminated.

Laws have to be in plain English only.

We can no longer afford our legal system, it has to go.

Drugs have to be eliminated from America, stopped at the border totally and organizations like, for instance, Congress and the CIA that are involved in narcotics importation on a massive scale, Afghanistan, Columbia and Mexico have to be rooted out and the guilty punished, yes, by those same citizen arbitration panels.

The medical system doesn’t need to be publicly controlled. Nurses must be allowed to open medical practices and compete openly with doctors. If some choose to partner with doctors and drive down costs, compete with other businesses to deliver better services for less money, they should all be allowed to do that.

Our current system is an artificial monopoly that exalts the expensive and incompetent and stifles competition.

Many recent moves in the drug business, pushed by crooks in government, such as those that allow patents to be placed on simple and inexpensive medications once freely available, raising their prices a hundredfold, have to be recognized as the criminal fraud they are.

The mortgage and credit card systems in the United States have to be eliminated entirely, they have failed and nearly taken all of us down with them. Only medical thievery has done more damage than these to areas.

All lobbying organizations, political groups,”think tanks” and “not for profit” or “non profit” organizations, churches included, that involve themselves in politics or government regulations should be taxed.

The United States Supreme Court, as with most state supreme courts, should be elected, 4 year terms and include non-lawyers. Would any of you have Justice Clarence Thomas defend you on a speeding ticket? Nuf sed.

Senate terms would be 2 years and senators would be required to represent a minimum of 4 million people.

New senate districts, when redrawn, would be done so with straight lines only, no islands or convoluted snakes as with congressional districts.

Congressional districts will be redrawn to reflect contiguous geography and no longer be tortuously gerrymandered so as to deny “equal protection” as guaranteed by the constitution and ignored by the crooked as hell Supreme Court.

In the end, the new America would have 5% employed by the government and military, not 43% or more. Honest work would be rewarded by honest pay. The sick would be treated by honest professionals subject to the same accountability we expect from the people who clean our carpets and fix our cars.

Courts would no longer be run by judges selected in smoke filled rooms by local oligarchs while our lawyers, in many ways those who should have been the best and brightest, those most capable of contributing to the wealth of our communities, pour through endless pleadings based on legal concepts Napoleon or King John would no longer recognize.

This is simply what we have to do to save ourselves, save our country and save the future of our children.

We won’t be able to make this omelet without breaking a few eggs.

Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran. A 100% disabled vet. He has been a featured commentator on TV and radio including Al Jazeera and his articles have been carried by news services around the world. He has been a UN Diplomat, defense contractor and is a widely published expert on military and defense issues. Duff is Senior Editor at one of the most widely read Veterans Online publications Veterans Today

He is an outspoken advocate for veterans and his powerful words have brought about change. Gordon is a lifelong PTSD sufferer from his war experiences and he is empathetic to the plight of today's veterans also suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to feature Gordon's timely and critical reports on Salem-News.com, a news organization staffed by a number of veterans, particularly former U.S. Marines. You can send Gordon Duff an email at this address: Gpduf@aol.com

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COLLI August 1, 2011 9:03 pm (Pacific time)

Gordon: I have not agreed with many of your articles in the past but this article is absolutely spot-on! It is well written and in my opinion the best blueprint I have ever seen or heard on how to square out country away in the shortest time possible. Well done sir and thank you.

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