9-11, Katrina and Rita, the Latest Nitwit Nostrums Concerning Security, and You Still Believe? You Should Be Eating Hay - You're a Jackass.

Before reading what follows, it might be appropriate for the reader to remind himself that the picture here is that of a wound inflicted by a federal hireling sniper on a man without criminal record, one never so much as indicted or questioned regarding any crime, and a retired veteran of long service to his community and country. The wound was inflicted in an effort to prevent my doing what I do here - tell the truth about the criminal conpiracy that rules here in the Land of the Fee.

This will be pretty short, because I'm rapidly losing my ability to believe that the public here in the Land of the Fee is capable of persuasion. You have to have a a mind sufficiently unfettered for that, and that's evidently no longer the case. In fact, it would mean that the most massive campaign ever mounted for the purpose of shaping and controlling public opinion - that's propaganda - has failed. And that a nation who has watched the utter fecklessness of FEMA, the federal government, and the White House in the face of Katrina and Rita's devastation while continuing to expect better in the face of what's coming from all the foreign enemies those same people have made is decisive where I'm concerned. You're too far gone to help with advice or proof. I wonder if, even when the we have been dealt the blow we've been begging for, it will changed minds turned to stone by behaviorist-designed controls.

Recently, a congressional think-tank investigation gave marks that normally - not that our schools are "normal," anymore - get a high school kid sent to remedial education to our presidentially vaunted Homeland Security Agency. No, I thought. Gee - really? Two borders literally thousands of miles long are so wide open that old ladies walk across. Our ports and harbors are not only more wide open than that, the clown in the White House has decided to hire Arabs to guard them. Arabs! That - in case you have somehow (somehow: with the left wing's 'celebrate diversity' tripe and the like, he says "somehow?") the same people who are daily screaming for our blood. If that alone doesn't shake you up, nothing I could say will.

The Whiz-Kids of the White House solution to it all is to ignore the Constitution and join our enemies in savaging our civil and human rights.

But New Orleans - and all those other people along the Gulf Coast nobody ever seems to consider - ought to be enough. You really think that when an army of wised-up terrorists decides to REALLY (you think a couple of buildings knocked down is a WAR?) bow their necks, the KeyStone Kops menagerie in Washington, D.C. will do better than their demonstrated FUBAR response? People who didn't know what a Force Four Hurricane would do to New Orleans and its levees will handle smoothly a biochemical or nuclear attack?

That's religion. And religion is the reason all those devout Moslems blow themselves to bits, expecting to merit thereby seventy-two virgins. Is that what George VII, our own Mohammed, means to you? I hope so, because this is one lesson you may learn by being dead - splattered dead.

My friends and I are hoping to find a way to emigrate to Chile or Cuba. If anyone who reads this can and is willing to offer assistance, or if we can be of mutual assistance (we speak Spanish, for instance, and I am a survivalist of proven skill), please contact me via e-mail. Time grows short. More, I am not willing to be part of U.S. "foreign policy" that has become a euphemism for war crimes like "collateral damage" to innocents, torture of prisoners, and mass murder in general. This is not the United States of American I once served; it is a nation that permits government by criminal conspiracy to spit on its traditions and the memory of its heroes, repudiates the very concept of its founding, and tolerates torture and murder in the name of its security. Even when this same cabal of criminals deliberately sought to destroy me, breaking up my marriages and attacking my family, I stayed. Even in the face of attepts at cold-blooded murder, I stayed.

But this is too much. Then, I could keep my honor. No longer, if I stay. Enough is enough.

The King is Naked, But There are Few with the Courage to Say So.

The rampant and raging destruction of the United States of America and the dream of its forefathers by a society who sees it as nothing more than a sow to be suckled from continues relentlessly. The people asking what they can do for their country have long since been supplanted by those who only demand that their country provide for them. While people so unaware and desperate to share in the dying dream pour into the country across borders neglected by traitorously self-serving and self- aggrandizing government watchdog, those grown rich on the dream while it lasted seek refuge and protection for their wealth elsewhere.

Daily now, people who have grown familiar with my story and are being forced to realization about its veracity, ask, "Why do you stay? You know what's happened, you know what's happening, and you know what will happen. Why do you stay?"

WHY DOES HAL LUEBBERT STAY HERE? The fact is, I've been planning to leave for some time now. Friends and I have designed a a boat, and searched the sources for boats we could buy, suitable for moving ourselves, our families and friends. The process goes on. I get up every morning, moreover, to the sound of the news on NPR, expecting to hear the grim news I know is coming. It won't be long now. Yesterday, I took from the trunk of my only recently (as I've related here, I lived in the wilderness without such niceties for almost a decade) my survivalist back-pack, to wash, recondition, and replenish it. Things like medicines, Cyalume tubes, and fire-starting gear, for instance, deteriorate with age and have to be replaced.

But the truth is I probably won't go. In a manner similar to what I did when the IRS and its militarist masters first attacked, I won't run. I just can't do that. I fight, I always fight. That started in boyhood, with bullies only intent upon humiliation and food for their crippled egos, and it fostered in me behavior that will not accept less where the bully is a nation's government by criminal cabal. I'll stay. Even if I leave long enough to see my friends to safety in Chile, Cuba, or elsewhere, I'll come back. When I die, it should be in a fight, and I should have the taste of the enemies blood in my mouth. Everything less seems to me to be dishonorable.

But, as I alluded on the Home Page here, the evidence and signs of demise where the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave are concerned are unmistakable. However apologists like Dr. Bruce Mick of the Useless Knowledge website protest - and his most recent writing is a classic example of the mental aberration causing it - the world outside has seen the truth about Weapons of Mass Destruction, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Hurricane Katrina, and the rest. It will begin to recall Gordon Kaul, Ruby Ridge, The MORE Compound, Waco and the Branch Davidians, San Luis, CO, and hundreds more the like. It may even remember me, and my own "war on terror" - US Federal Government terror.

But Dr. Mick and people like him as many and as powerful as the news media establishment will distort and dissimulate like that good, but probably hopelessly misguided gentleman does. We should ignore trivial matters like the accidental shooting the other day (to see how inconsistently bizarre that is, check the rest of his postings on UK). That's however the nearly impossible clumsiness and stupidity of such a thing reflects upon the nearly impossible clumsiness and stupidity of things like Afghanistan, Iraq, New Orleans, the World Trade Center, and more. No one else should notice that Mr. Cheney and his henchman George VII have also winged a number of our friends who are foreign nations and governments. A war with Islam not only is a misguided shot of colossal proportions, it will wound a lot of people. Would that when guys like this get off a stray round, it wound them in the foot, not others.

Faced with evil as Brobdingnagian in proportion and implication as this one, I look for an epitome, a microcosm or example that will tell it. For me, that was the agonizing footage revealing the extent of US torture of Arab prisoners on last weeks Galavisión broadcast. The Mexican media have never been fastidious or squeamish about such things. When the victim of an auto accident's head was torn off, or his body torn in half to strew its intestines about, the papers and TV blazon the literally gory details with close-ups and half page photos. This was like that: men burned with cigarettes, cigars, and whatever-have-you in the hands of the torturers, men beaten within an inch (and, both presumably and evidently, some right up to and including) their lives; men sexually humiliated as only Arab men can be humiliated, and men suffocated in the time honored fashion of crucifixion. Images of Belsen, Buchenwald, Sobibor, and the rest flashed before my mind's eye, and I literally sat cringing with shame and revulsion.

In case there are those who have not lived long enough, let me remind them that during my youth the news media of none other than the United States of America maintained a stead drumbeat of photos and headlines depicting the savage brutality of Nazi Germany. Their crimes were termed "crimes against humanity," and the people who committed them less than human. No one who committed torture was fit to live, much less be lived with. I cringed then under the barrage of indignation and contempt. I, after all, was German, too.

Now this. This is the method of Reinhard Heydrich, not George S. Patton, Nazi Germany and the Sicherheitdienst, not the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

But it's what we've become. Oh, that low form of life represented by torturers has always been among us. It's historically pretty certain that they're there in every society. But that protest and outcry are and have been what it has . . . Well, it says a great deal. Just as you cannot accept violation and desecration of the Constitution and its sacred Bill of Rights and remain an American, you cannot be a torturer and remain "American." The things are antithetical. When you do that, you become something else. The United States of American is the nation where the citizen has "certain unalienable rights," where he cannot, for instance, be covertly watched, covertly overheard, or invaded by government without rational, reasonable, and thereby legal warrant. For instance. When that can happen, the nation is no longer the United States of America, it is something other. You can't have it both ways.

So there we are. We have become something else. In an earlier writing, I noted that we have too long worshipped the Bitch Goddess Success, with the squalid cash interpretation put upon the word; that's true, but it makes no difference. WHY you are a rapist, a murderer, a torturer, or a bully means nothing to the victim. I know - I once faced down your kind again and again, and again. Neither does it make any difference where what you are is concerned. WE ARE ALWAYS, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, WHAT WE DO. Nothing else matters to our fellow human being and person.

I detest with every cell in my body (it is three A.M. as I write this, because the disgust and revulsion of what I saw the other night on Galavisión has become bilious to the point that I simply MUST puke it up) what we are doing both at home and around the world. THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY! This is not what I took wounds, writhed in pain, and bled for. God damn you, George W. Bush and your toadying sycophant henchman sons of bitches, you have made of us a thing that will "live in infamy." I hope you die drowning in you own shit.

And as for the rest of you, if you do not throw these Reinhard Heydrich clone bastards out of the sacred halls of our government, where once walked and deliberated men like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and George Washington, if you dishonor our soldiers and military, men and women who now represent the heroes of Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima, Chosen Reservoir, and literally hundreds more, by permitting them to be used for oppression and shameless atrocity like what is going on publicly worldwide, if you stand by idly and cravenly while our Bill of Rights is used for ass-wipe, you are nothing! You are no more than the obese by a hundred pounds, Coke-swilling, face-stuffing, SUV-speeding slattern woman that has come to personify you for the rest of mankind.

THE TIME IS NOW, "AMERICA!" Live up to your heritage, or die like the syphilitic whore you have become.

Now or Never for the U.S.; We Govern Our Government or Die.

I've just survived another cyber-attack by the same government who says that's all for our good, and we should be grateful that it violates our god-given (I stress the "god" part in order to remind certain of us that our rights as human beings are not authored by government) are violated daily for our protection. In order to protect you from having you money stolen, the great and benevolent people in the White House will steal it. In order to assure that no one makes you a slave, they will enslave you. With friends like that, who needs enemies?

Anyway, the attack blew the monitor and discombobulated the hard drive, scrambled all my blog and website copy, put me out of action for a week. Plans are going forward for a counter-attack, and I'm learning to psycho-analyze, brainwash, fuck with, and otherwise torment the mind of the computers attacking me. Are they in for a helluva shock one of these days. Think about Omnibus Taxpayers Bill of Right one and two, guys - that should give you some idea. Start shooting again like last time, and I'll hunt you down and kill you. I'm just too damned old to give a damn any more, and fighting, after all, is what I do. My places are always configured and booby-trapped in the best possible way to deal with a S.W.A.T. assault, so most - or all of you - will die when you try that. Fair warning, huh?

Oh, and a note to the pee-ons they always send to do that kind of stuff (like the poor bastards being maimed and dying in Iraq for Halliburton and the rest of that kind): what will you be dying for? You know before you start that you're in the wrong. Orders? Orders serving what purpose? I've been here for 70 years, never done anything illegal - in this country, that's saying something - never been charged with anything, and as one judge observed been scrutinized by the most powerfully invasive government in human history without that same government - my enemy - having been able to come up with a single provable excuse for any kind of indictment or charge. The cleanest, most straight arrow SOB you'll ever hope to meet - in the parlance of many, a gentleman - whose only crime is that he's the little kid who sees the king is naked, and dares to say so. Find something else to do, something other than raid people you have utterly no reason to dislike. Remember, as Dr. King said, injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

So. We're past the State of the Union Address. You can believe the master liar or your eyes. A nation now more than 8.2 TRILLION dollars in debt is doing fine. We pause here to let that - the breath-taking, staggering, stupefying temerity of it - sink in. Eight point two TRILLION! $8,200,000,000,000. Everything is fine. The new budget . . .

There you are, again. Budget. Everything with this government has a new meaning. It's a Schroedinger's Cat world where things are both true and false, up and down are the same, rich and poor, and His Majuesty, the President is truthful no matter what he says. BUDGET? What the hell IS a budget? The last time I asked Ben Nighthorse Campbell, erstwhile U.S. Senator and friend, the budget when printed on 8"X10" sheets would make a stack seventy six feet high. That was years ago, when the budget was small change compared to now. Estimates of how long it would take a guy, even one as bright as Ben, to read the whole damned thing ran to something like 10 years.

A trillion. What IS a trillion? What does that mean? Well, yesterday serving as the "number-cruncher" for a local Destination Imagination competition, I filled in free time with exercises in math (that interspaced with trips down the hall to the gymnasium weights room, where I did dumbbell curls and machine pull-downs - 50 on the former, bodyweight on the lat machine). Here's some perspective on a trillion dollars - and the state of the union. Remind yourself that any numerical model for the shear mendacity - that's lying - of this administration (notice how every reality nowadays beggars the words you use to describe it?) if proportionate and indicative. First, I calculated how long it would take to actually count to a trillion:

To begin with there's the fact of having to say the words. That takes time, you know, and the numbers between one and one trillion get to be a real mouthful. I timed the pronunciation of nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine, and got about eight seconds. Some on the way to that one are worse (take longer). Try it. Say, 589,578,887,227 (five hundred eighty-nine billion, five hundred seventy-eight million, eight hundred eighty-seven thousand, two hundred twenty-seven). How long did that take you? Did you pronounce every syllable? How often did you stop to breathe? I did a little calculus to compute the rate changes involved, and came up with an average (the "derivative") of 6.4 seconds per number.

I won't wait while you count, even if I figure you're a fast-talking son of a bitch like King George VII or a crony.

That's because it would take approximately 202,940 years to reach the number one trillion (when I got home, I repaired to the internet where I learned that another guy - this one a professional mathematician, mind you - has calculated it would take 190,259 years. I think he forgot to allow for breathing). To recapitulate the calculation, 6,400,000,000,000 seconds divided by 60 seconds per minute divided by 60 minutes per hour divided by 24 hours per day divided by 365 days per year = 202,940 years. I think the mathematics guy used an average time per number of six seconds. For the U.S. Congress, King George, and the Halliburton lobbyists who own them, the difference is small change. Hell, the cost of the technology necessary just to count what they spend is unaffordable for all by the super-rich.

One trillion SECONDS of ordinary clock time equals (60sec/min) x (60 min/hr) x (24 hr/day) x (365.25 days) = 3.16 x 10 to the seventh power seconds. That's 31,546 years. Six trillion seconds equals 189,276 years.

A trillion dollars! That's 12 zeroes to the left of the decimal point. A trillion is a million million dollars. The incontrovertibly insane U.S. government spends yearly far more than the entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Australia, China and Spain combined. If you laid one dollar bills end to end, you could make a chain that stretches from earth to the moon and back again 200 times before you ran out of bills! One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion one dollar bills.

A trillion dollars. The Bush League budget - only a Bush League accountant would call this a budget - is two point eight trillion.

So how much IS that? Let's look at the projected federal surplus. The population of the US is approximately 250 million. If we divide $2,800,000,000,000 by 250,000,000, we get $11,200. That's for each man, woman and child in the United States. If you figure there are 300 million of us, then the bill is $9,333 apiece.

THAT, PEOPLE, IS FOR JUST THE NEXT YEAR! What perhaps boggles my mind more than anything else is the fact that U.S. government "federal" (words again - remember what "federal" originally meant?) style is like disease - it grows, and exponentially. If U.S. Federal Government by Criminal Conspiracy continues to grow at the pace (calculus again) it's been on for the past forty years the federal government will have a $10 TRILLION BUDGET by the year 2010.

Now, I remind you again, the moron we have in the White House spoke in his State of the Union Address of the "strength of the economy." Which rubber room was he speaking from? Shouldn't he have to come out of the rabbit hole into the real world for a while? What kind of a Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts, or Mad Hatter nut case would call an economy wherein the total debt obligation exceeds 48 TRILLION DOLLARS strong? My god, people - that is utter nonsense!

Want more? American workers now net almost 33 percent less in real wages than they did in 1976. After taxes, two paychecks in a family barely equal the purchasing power one had thirty years ago. Where I once supported my homemaker, stayed at home without income wife, had a new car (paid $1500 cash for it), owned all the usual household appliances, and rented a single bedroom house on what amounted to starting wages at a factory ($1.41 an hour, then), a worker and his wife in the same situation today both work two jobs, the kids work, and so must the family dog. I wasn't in debt. Today - well, you know. Does anybody own anything?

THIS IS RIDICULOUS! That a president would dare stand in front of a national audience an talk nonsense like what we heard the other day is preposterous. The State of the Union is that the government is out of control. We take it back or we die. That's both as a nation and, as far as many, many are concerned, as individuals. Like the men and women sent to Iraq to serve criminal capitalism, we are being used like ammunition in a shooting gallery. LOOK AT NEW ORLEANS AND REST OF THE COSTAL COMMUNITIES BLASTED BY HURRICANE KATRINA. Obviously, in deeds thundering so loudly they drown out what he may say to the contrary, King George's concern is for Iraq. The citizens of Baghdad, in other words, rate higher than those of New Orleans.

But, we'll see. John Adams, second of our presidents, once observed, "The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable. They are no keepers at all. They can neither judge, act, think, or will as a political body." Still, a constitutional convention may be our only chance. That's provided several things:

First, that mature, honest and predictable persons be in charge. That, in itself, is a tall order. We are a nation too long worshipping "...the Bitch Goddess Success - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success..." How will we keep greed and the lust for power out of the process? Try to imagine finding today a group of men and women of the caliber of our Founding Fathers. Suffice it to say that no person currently in government at any level or in every way affiliated or related would qualify. They have demonstrated, by their desire to be in government, that they do not qualify.

Second, that states call for the convention in order to deal solely with the issue of debt and the economy. Any convention open to any other matter will immediately devolve into crap like women's "issues," and a hundred more narrowly focused and ideology-related power grabs.

Third, that all constitutional law having to do with the convention be observed. The constitutional convention, for instance, does not have the power to actually change the U.S. Constitution (it can propose amendment and language).

Fourth, the convention's goal should be not only a balanced budget, but means to prevent breach of the budget. Taxation by inflation - i.e., simply spending, should be made illegal. The criminal conspiracy and tyranny known as Internal Revenue Service should be abolished, as should the infamously contrived Internal Revenue Code. There are, after all, numerous alternatives, including a flat tax, sales tax, and "value-added" tax. There are even FAIR taxes, such as that proposed some years ago by a Nobel Prize-winning economist.

If I digress momentarily in that regard, it is not without reason. There are, or course, a lot of factors which affect any honest analysis of revenue systems. One is fairness and equitableness for the people who pay taxes. They're what it's all about, in the first place. But there are also things to consider like cost of application, and how that will be accomplished. But the single most important factor is the role played by the collection agency. That an agency like the IRS should be so much as possible, much less exist, is un-American. It's an abomination, intolerable - the very antithesis of what Jeffersonian democracy is about.

If for no other reason that abolition of IRS, in fact, I would support a national retail sales tax. There are inequities there, to be sure - but opposed to the outrageous results of IRS and the present system, they are Lilliputian. A flat tax, on the other hand, is what our current system was derived from in the first place. It is an evil construct, designed to assure that the wealthy and powerful never have to contribute to the economy that makes them ascendant and powerful. To tax an individual's income is a cynical repudiation of everything we are supposed to be about, inasmuch as it punishes those who are members of Thomas Jefferson's "natural aristocracy" ("...the grounds of which are virtue and talent").

A National Retail Sales Tax would at least rid us of intrusive government influence on the taxpayer's life by getting rid of the vicious slavery by "income tax" concept. Analysis of personal income by a government agency would be a thing of the past.

As I've said, we do this or we die. The simple fact is that the US dollar and economy is facing an imminent collapse. More, the global economy will immediately suffer catastrophic result when the US dollar begins to be rejected as the currency for trade. We're forcing the world to rebel and to attack us, because the effect of our staggering inflation by fiat is taxation - taxation of any nation whose economy is tied to the dollar. Any day now, the nations will begin to establish a gold standard for currency, the only and best alternative for world trade.

This is inevitable because even the most powerful country in the world cannot repay loans amounting to many, many trillions of dollars. The word "trillion" may be just an incomprehensible word, but it is a real number, whose effect is realm catastrophically real. If they are not already (and I think they are), central banks worldwide will reduce their US dollar reserves and switch to other currencies. If we elect one more boob like George VII Bush, there will be an economic war. Gold will become the standard for international trade, and we will be driven to our knees economically. It is one thing to tax Americans in order to self-aggrandize and pay of political debts, it's another to tax the citizens of other countries.

Even gigantic world-wide corporations are offended by the cockamamie economic antics of the U.S. government, besides. They are effective players in the world market, too, and increasingly do not want to be "short changed" by a spend-thrift nitwit like Bush and the sycophant U.S. Congress he rules. Even their insistence on payments in alternative currencies such as the euro or payment in US dollars at Euro or other currency-equivalent value would cause a hell of a row. Even military, perhaps (having a military like that of the U.S. at his command has all but demented this clown).

So, it's time. We fish or cut bait, and NOW. However we do it, the government must be put in its place. That, or our children will piss on our graves. They may, anyway.

Still Another King George . . .

The photo should remind you about trusting government. The wound was inflicted by the Executive Branch of the federal government of the United States of America, without warrant, or even probably cause. It was inflicted because an individual or several individuals who were embarked on a holy crusade adjudged by them necessary to defend the nation acted entirely outside the law. I should think that would remind you of another federal official, this one President of the United States, who is doing the same thing. He pretends he is justified, asks us to "trust him." He's acting in the interests of our security. Sure. Hell, yes!

A guy named Glen in Missouri wants to know “what the hell you intend to do about it.” He means about The Bush league government’s assault on our Constitutional – that’s god-given and heretofore recognized by the law – rights.

And let me remind everyone here that e-mail eavesdropping isn’t the only example of what I’m talking about. The Constitution and its Bill of Rights have been under relentlessly continual assault by a government that has for decades tended more and more toward criminality. That, by the way, cannot be rationally or logically denied; the nation’s jurisprudential record makes that incontestable.

Neither can one be gainsaid when he says there is only one way for the individual to defend and protect his rights. Government in this state of its natural evolution – “Democracy never lasts long,” said John Adams - will not do that. That is a law of history, one akin to the Second Law of Thermodynamics in that government always grows more repressive rather than more liberal. All governments become tyrannies sooner or later.

What do I intend to do, Glen? I’ll tell you, but had you read my books (especially “Jonatha’s Truth,” which is the story of what one man does), you’d know.

I will counterattack, which means I will seek out, engage, and incapacitate or
destroy whatever and whomever has become my enemy. Any one who knows me, anyone who knows the story of my war with the federal criminality that is IRS knows that. The U.S. government knows that. That you don’t is due the fact that they don’t want you to know. If you knew that, others would, too – and some or all of them might do something like I will do.

As Talleyrand once observed, government would rather fight an army of lions led by a sheep than an army of sheep led by a lion.

Counterattack? Yes, and I’ve started. The federal data miner is here on my computer, and it is already isolated. That they are back to listening with more conventional methods (those are useless, too – I’ve been at this more than twenty-three years, now) proves that. But I’ve only started. I’m learning computers, and anyone who knows me well knows what that means.

They will remember that I once learned to speak, read, and write seven languages, including Latin, Icelandic, and Japanese. As my friend Jim Frazier in Colorado once reported and wrote, I taught myself higher mathematics to the level of being able to do first order calculus in my head. I invented the Mongoose Tactic that is now famed as S.W.A.T.

I will learn computer science and technology. When I have done so sufficiently – and only time constraints and death can prevent that - I will destroy the computer and computer system attacking my privacy and right to it. It’s that simple.

Why do I feel so strongly about this? Well, to begin with, who – what – I am. “There are no contracts between lions and men, and wolves and sheep have no accord.” That’s from Homer, who was right; and I am not a fucking sheep. Then there is my consideration of the argument that something makes the federal enemy who attacks me better than the foreign enemy who attacks me. Somehow, to the sheep mentality, the fear of bombs, violence, and terrorism is worse than being caged, treated like a pet.

Let me put it a bit differently. I have never had any great difficulty with any kind of criminal, “terrorist” or otherwise. The nation’s criminal element has never caused me much trouble. Judo, my street “smarts,” and the ability to produce a 1911 .45 swiftly have always handled that. What I have lost to professional and amateur criminals has been peanuts.

Not until the criminal element became government did crime cost me anything significant. When the criminal element of society governs, it’s a whole ‘nother thing.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis expressed that idea way back in 1890. Later, 1928, he was a Supreme Court justice when he wrote in dissent of the case of Olmstead v. US 277 438. That ruling upheld the right of the FBI’s Elliot Ness and his “Untouchables” to wiretap the telephone lines of bootleggers as long as it was done at a point between the defendants’ homes and their offices, and not within their homes proper. Sound familiar?

Judge Brandeis’ reasoning in his famous dissent is mine today. We argue that the rights of Americans and all human beings are inalienable, and that not even being reasonably suspected of criminal activity changes that. Justice Brandeis said that the right to privacy was the right to be left alone. I agree. Listen (he wrote better than I do):


“The makers of our Constitution understood the need to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness, and the protections guaranteed by this are much broader in scope, and include the right to life and an inviolate personality — the right to be left alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. The principle underlying the Fourth and Fifth Amendments is protection against invasions of the sanctities of a man’s home and privacies of life. This is a recognition of the significance of man’s spiritual nature, his feelings and his intellect. Every violation of the right to privacy must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Now, as time works, subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy will become available to the government. The progress of science in furnishing the government with the means of espionage is not likely to stop with wiretapping (emphasis is mine – Justice Brandeis was a far-sighted man).
“Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring beliefs, thoughts and emotions. It does not matter if the target of government intrusion is a confirmed criminal. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law (emphasis is mine again, because I couldn’t agree more).
“It is also immaterial where the physical connection of the wiretap takes place. No federal official is authorized to commit a crime on behalf of the government.”  Justices Holmes and Stone also dissented, agreeing with Justice Brandeis.

Every day, I hear some nitwit in his ignorance of history, saying as our president does that somehow danger from terrorists justifies destroying a part of the essence of what we are as a nation. Wait until they are the victim. Like me. I lived with George Orwell’s famous quote on my mind daily. It should be a warning, as should my story be, that once government turns criminal, it is like a dog that has tasted blood. “It was even conceivable,” Orwell wrote, “that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness every movement scrutinized.”

My case should warn that they don’t stop at listening and watching. The reason that Justice Brandeis argued “government may not itself break the law against suspected lawbreakers” is that once there is no respect for law, by either citizen or government, the result is a lawless society. Order obeys Newton’s Second Law of Thermodynamics to become chaos. An example of what I mean is the everywhere evident fact that no rational citizen of the United States can believe anything his government says. To hold of profess that a nation is a republic or democracy where the citizenry has no way to know what is going on is absurd. The lie by government is a cancer from which the national body cannot hope to recover, striking as it does at the very heart of our legal system and way of life. That means rule by dictatorship or chaos.

Lies. Yesterday, yet another repetition by a sycophant media shilling for the White House that the president and Attorney General hold that the Congress authorized King George to ignore the Bill of Rights when it supposedly granted him power to "use any force necessary to combat terror." First, to claim the power to violate the Constitution can be read into any such authorization is cynical nonsense. Who in their rational mind could claim such a thing? Even if the Congress had stated in plain English that that president was being given permission even enacted legislation - empowering him to violate the privacy of citizens without warrant, to claim such a thing legal is cynical falsehood. The Congress HAS no such power! What the Attorney General must know - where King George is concerned, who can tell; he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, you know - is that any such "authority" would require a Constitutional amendment. Even specious legislation like the War Powers Act (for instance, certainly not the only example), legislation seeking to amend the Constitution by mere enactment by the Congress is void and without legal force. Article Five of the US Constitution is written in very plain English:

"The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."  

READ THE CONSTITUTION! This NOT subject matter requiring a lawyer - not even legal training. The only possible way for a rational and literate person to interpret Article Five of the Constitution is that negation of the Bill of Rights may not be done by mere legislation. Can there be any doubt whatever, in light of what we're talking about, why the Founding Fathers provided for that? At the risk of stating the obvious, amendment of the Constitution is done by proposal of the Congress to amend the Constitution and ratification of the proposed amendment by the states. Not by legislation; certainly, NOT BY PERMISSION OF CONGRESS, oral or otherwise.

This is ridiculous, people. Let's suppose the king decides tomorrow that he wants to quarter troops in your house - maybe have your daughters provide entertainment for the boys. You know - "support the troops?" What's to stop him from claiming that the War on Terror (in his judgment, mind you) warrants that. What's to stop a lame-literate like King George from claiming that "use any force necessary to combat terror" authorizes that?

Yeah, I know - trust him. He's dedicated to our security and well-being. No thanks. Has anybody checked New Orleans lately, the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi?

Anybody who doesn’t see what's happening today must be brain dead.

The Patrician President Who Understands the "Concerns of the Common Man."

The president says he “understands the concerns” of common people. At the risk of using an already overworked term, it’s mind-boggling. In the face of megalomaniacal arrogance like that, even somebody as customarily facile with language as I am finds himself nonplussed. Speechless. Flat out of words.

But I’m a fighter (competition judo is my sport). I fight. This pisses me off so, I’ll try.

First, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anything as nonsensical or absurd as a man of the history and character of a George W. Bush standing before a presumably rational nation to say that he understands common people. How the hell would that be? Like a lap dog understands a pit bull? A canary a hawk? Maybe like Calamity Jane would understand Mother Teresa?

Mr. Bush, that’s not only bloviating bullshit demagoguery, it's an insult. There is no way on God’s green earth that a hothouse flower like you could ever have the faintest idea of how a thistle like me feels. You grew up (sort of – let’s just say aged) the scion of a wealthy and politically powerful family. A member of the nation’s royalty, you had unstinting and inexorable support at every step, during every day, and every trial. No one would dare stand in the way of anything you needed or wanted. You got the best of everything. You were not allowed to fail.

In fact, family money, prestige, and power got you out of scrape after scrape, picked you up after every pratfall. The same people who covered for you in school and business covered for you in the National Guard. You were ushered to the highest office in the land, where you now make pious pronouncements concerning character, patriotism, hard work and a grocery list more of things you have only literary and journalistic acquaintance with. Worse, perhaps, you now pontificate on geopolitical, military, and historical matters you have no way to understand except from the small amount of academic history you may have read.

Let me draw a comparison. I had poliomyelitis at five, recovered only to be abandoned first by my father, then my mother, then my grandparents. Drafted (shanghaied is the traditional term for what occurred) at sixteen by the CIA and military, I did criminal missions in Germany, Hungary, and “Finland” (the Soviet Union, actually). In October, 1960, my wife died. So did my daughter. In 1961, a couple months after my wife’s funeral, I went to Cuba with orders to kill Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. I didn’t – once getting there, I learned that everything I had been told was a damned lie.

Returning to the U.S., I faced not only $17, 500 (it was 1961, don’t forget) in debt, but a U.S. government determined to do everything it could to take revenge for my actions in Cuba. I paid the debt, fought back against criminal government, and I survived. I lost my two children to vindictive maternal grandparents and biased law, remarried and started again. In 1977, the United States attacked again, destroying my business, breaking up my marriage and family, and taking steps to assure that I could not return to business or gainful employment.

I fought back, I won, and I recovered. In 1980, I married again, started another business, and paid all the indebtedness resulted from the first U.S. attack (lawyers then cost $75.00 an hour, while those common people you understand so well, Mr. Bush, earned from $3.50 to $15.00 and hour). As soon as I had done that, the United States attacked again. They destroyed my business again, broke my marriage, ruined my credit and began relentless effort to assure that I could not do business or be gainfully employed. This time, they drove my teenage son to three attempts at suicide.

Now I really fought back. I bugged federal offices across the country, and sent the results to senators, congressmen, and the media. Result? You know damned well the result. NOTHING! The government will govern itself? The king will put himself in jail? Sure – just like you “take responsibility.”

Actually, there was a result. From 1986 to 1998, I fought skirmishes and fled federal goons as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement intent upon harassment or killing me on account of directives and public records falsified for the purpose by federal officials. In order to survive the criminal conspiracy on the Potomac, I lived mostly in the wilderness and off the land. I sheltered in a tent or rude huts and wikiup-style buildings built myself, or in a 1971 Ford recreational vehicle given me by a friend. I ate hunted and caught fish, fowl, snakes, and animals big and small. I dug tubers like squaw root, ground nut, and the like. I did odd jobs, taught judo and shooting, coached and taught school on occasion, and fifty things you have never so much as imagined doing.

You understand the common people. You understand their concern when they hear that you are bugging their phones, reading their e-mail, and invading their privacy at every level. Sure you do. Then why don’t you tell them the rest of it?

Things like how a guy like me – I don’t know anybody in a foreign country, much less communicate with them – can be stopped more - it took a while before I started keeping tally - than 109 times on the nation’s streets and highways? That’s in fifteen years. If we have a right to privacy protected by a Fourth Amendment obeyed by the government it is supposed to control, how can one man be burglarized by federal government more – after they got good at it, it became harder and harder to detect, even for the listening and recording devices I was forced to live with - than 60 times?

How does a man with the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” get wounded three times by federal snipers, rammed in his car, on his bike, and as a pedestrian by federal vehicles, and fight street skirmish after skirmish with “pull-toy” federal operatives? How does a U.S. District Court rule that for him to have federal records concerning him, “would irreparably damage the tax system of the United States,” and threaten national security?

How does a man lose everything he had worked all his life for, including his family and friends, to income taxation? While you’re telling us how you understand the common people, tell us about that.

A “pull-toy” (and “wind-up toy”) operative, incidentally, is one of the tens of thousands of people government state and federal lets out of prison on the stipulation that they do its criminal dirty work.

Mr. President, you are a patrician who hasn’t enough chance to understand the common man to make you blink if you got it in your eye. What’s more, your rise to power is symptomatic of a nation dying because such a thing is possible. While I’m at it, let me assure you that this common man knows you are a murdering predator, one who hides his wolf’s “fire and forget” behavior behind the “I understand the common man’s concern “ sheep’s clothing. You put mindless drone aircraft over other countries – and, one can assure himself, your own – in order to fire missiles into villages like little one in Pakistan.

You call the dead – women and children – “collateral damage.” That is how much you understand the common man.

Like you, your “War on Terror” is a cynical fraud. Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, and Abu Musab al Zarqawi and “terrorists’ in general are in fact allies, your excuse to feed the Brobdingnagian greed of the military industrialists who own you.

Sir – only a rhetorical device, I assure you; even the fact that I address a man like you is demeaning to one like me – the common man is not so stupid that he doesn’t see the truth behind “national security” that includes open international borders more than a thousand miles long and open, blatant encouragement of illegal entry. The common man would know also what is going, were he to know that government had the time, money, and manpower to relentlessly pursue another common man, one like me, all over the nation for decades.

While you’re telling them how you understand them, and how you are so concerned for their security, why don’t you tell them that?