“The Founding Fathers of this great land had no difficulty whatsoever understanding the agenda of bankers, and they frequently referred to them and their kind as, quote, ˜friends of paper money. They hated the Bank of England, in particular, and felt that even were we successful in winning our independence from England and King George, we could never truly be a nation of freemen, unless we had an honest money system.” –Peter Kershaw, author of the 1994 booklet “Economic Solutions”

A reply to a listener who inquired as to whether I had heard the new K-Talk Host, the very articulate, libertarian Jake Shannon…

Howdy. Thanks for the email. Yeah. Jake. I took my first lengthy listen to him today, about 40 minutes worth. I see him as very competent but also quite committed to a premise, or on-air operating mode, which I honestly view as obsolesced. Jake clearly defined this orientation today. I would characterize his view as indistinguishable from what is, traditionally, called “the loyal opposition” … similar to the view a Republican might take when his party is in the minority, as when the Democrats hold a majority in the present system.

Of course, Jake’s politics are quite different, and much more American, than any Republican’s. Still, as I listened to his characterization of what constitutes responsible political activity, it was clearly based on the premise of an extant (not corporate) United States of America, of a function-ing, representative republic. And, he seems to abide by the idea that the present “government,” despite its flaws, is the product of a popular consensus. Doesn’t such a premise presuppose the existence of a free press and of a healthy elective process? Do you believe such exists here?

Those attending Sunday School class with me, 35-some-odd years ago, would have sworn such did exist. So would, maybe, all but one of the current K-Talk hosts. At S.L.C.’s AM630, America is still the home of the free… all indications to the contrary notwithstanding.

But, really. Are we not, at this late, likely lethal date in the history of the Revolution, able to at least question this thinking? How bad does it have to get? Neoconism, as well as Jake’s polite version of libertarianism, and everything in-between, requires a version of reality far removed from the fact that, in the present system, our individual votes are little but rubber-stamps for the dicta of the financial oligarchs, the real government. Our role, as neo-serfs, is to belly-up to the voting booth and validate the policies of transnational mega-corporations (and the banks + govt.s which cross-control them) as those institutions’ policies are processed into law through “legislation.”

The “election” of Representatives, and especially of Senators and Presidents, is a chimera. These people are preselected by corporate entities which also, literally, script the laws that are later passed by the respective houses of the government. The Regime, itself, is a corp-oration. These are not nitpicking criticisms or meaningless technical distinctions. These are realities which hundreds of millions may live and die by in the next two decades.

Knowing the difference between a republic and the thing whose heel we live under is critical to preserving a chance that our posterity might not have to live like we do: ever more subject to arrest and destruction on the basis of what the Continental Congress deemed the expression on inalienable rights.

This rather radical-sounding description of the political reality we live in may sound too improbable, too extreme to be taken seriously. But the radical sound likely has more to do with ears conditioned by decades of calming corporate media than with an issue of accuracy.

Recall that Jefferson emphatically warned that “law is often but the tyrant’s will.” Does anybody think that he really meant to add “except when it is enacted by a legislature?” We presently live under a tyranny which conforms more closely to the Founding Fathers’ definition of absolute than anything which existed in the 1770s. And, it is a tyranny born not of the people’s ignorance or stupidity regarding what they need. When we say tyranny, we mean tyranny: LACK OF REPRESENTATION.

The corporate matrix has an agenda. The line items of this agenda are not a secret to those who are willing to do a little digging. This agenda, if examined without the beclouding effect of its “lawful” implementation, is disdainful in the extreme of human dignity, even life itself.

As with the extant policies of our “elected representatives,” such as unrestrained immigration, profligate foreign aid and crippling taxation of the middle class, the people of this Country, the true, lawful but suppressed electorate, will not approve of the coming controls on food, water, access to medical care, to the unequal application of law based on race (Hate Crime) which constitute the armature of the Regime’s interim plan for ushering-in the New World Order. But, I guarantee that your elected “representatives,” as a whole — including Sen. Mike Lee — will.

-D.W.