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Bush-II, the national debt increased by over 65 percent to nearly $10 trillion! Now there’s talk among some of our creditors (like China, which as of November 2007 held $390 billion of our debt) about replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.78 But we keep right on spending money we don’t really have, to players who don’t deserve it. A Congressional Oversight Panel report early in 2009 said the Bush Administration had overpaid the banks by tens of billions for stocks and other assets in the bailout.79 Our economy has been captured by an alien power—not the Klingons, but the Kleptos. We can’t go on like this. A much worse disaster than we faced in 2008 is in the wind, without something real being done about this mess that the government-Wall Street conspiracy created.

Can we still heed the words of Andrew Jackson, when he said to a delegation of bankers in 1832: “Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the bread-stuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out....”

I’m ready to see a rout that restores our Republic to the principles of Jefferson and Jackson. How about you?

WHAT SHOULD WE DO NOW?

When the average American is on the edge of losing it all, at the same time the “fat cats” are getting even fatter, it’s time to call their bluff, folks. We need to realize first that we’ve become a corporatized state, one that our government is beholden to while the majority of us are held hostage by it. We should be demanding that President Obama put people in charge who weren’t part of the problem. We should be battering at the gates of Goldman Sachs and AIG, and the Federal Reserve too, letting the pillagers take the fall they deserve.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

THE SECRET PLANS TO END AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

THE INCIDENT: The two terms of George W. Bush saw passage of the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and other similar laws in the wake of 9/11. Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded, and detention centers for terrorists established.

THE OFFICIAL WORD: The erosion of civil liberties, including wiretapping and torture and suspending habeus corpus, is necessary in order to prevent the spread of terrorism on our shores.

MY TAKE: The federal government, and elements of the military, have used 9/11 as an excuse to put in place the means to impose martial law and lock up dissenters in “camps” if they deem it necessary. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights have never been in greater peril than now. The technology exists to further erode our democracy, and basically make slaves of those who won’t go along with the program.

“With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information.... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.”

—Henry Wallace, vice president of the United States, 1944

What transpired during the Bush-II years has been coming out in dribs and drabs, so as not to unduly alarm the populace. President Obama wants to look forward and put all that behind us, but when our own government has sanctioned torture and even murder in the name of “national security,” I don’t see how we can. We need accountability from our government, and if that means even a Cheney or Rumsfeld standing trial for war crimes, so be it.

The Senate Armed Services Committee came out with