It may be wise for us not to forget that Washington’s illegal, undemocratic and highly immoral leadership goes well beyond the blatantly illegal and violent misuse it has made, especially post-W.W. II, of the US military forces - combined with the sneaky CIA, DIA spooks helping to degrade both our professional and ‘citizen’ soldiers. Greedy , cowardly leadership goes right down into our beloved FBI, DEA, and lower federal and state police agencies (example is my old NYC Police, as misused by Mayor Rudolf Giuliani as a stepping stone back to DC) - as all have been politicized for economic reasons via the ultimate Law Enforcement controllers at the Justice Department.

It is this totality which is de facto destroying the US COMMONWEALTH, debasing our now mere de jure democracy, while concurrently defrauding ever more rights away from the people. So that the transnational Corporate legal ‘persons’ operating Offshore can be given total de facto power not only over the Third World resources and feudal or slave labor they rape (now nearly accomplished) but as well over America’s real domestic wealth : the majority of the blue collar, hard 'working stiffs’ in the US - that truly silent majority middle class, still sleeping through the media rubbish filling their ears and placating their already low disposable incomes by the flagrant expansion of their $6 trillion plus personal plastic debt.

This summarizes what corporate PACs are all about, what Washington’s essential operation is mostly about : bottom line and de facto economic control of America by about 5-10 % of our elite citizens. When these white collar criminals finish with us, when the present Wall Street bubble bursts, the stinking pigs of greed will come home to roost - in most of the remaining 90% kitchens in America.

And that’s when the our elite bosses will call in the military and SWAT teams they have recently formed in EVERY major city, accompanied, if necessary, by National Guard and other military troopers. Called in NOT against terrorists or foreign threats, as they have propagandized us, but as "National Security" forces to be used against their own marginalized silent majority of people uneasily watching their 'miracle' booming of Wall Street paper economics.

Let’s hope there are enough truly loyal American citizens within these above military and police forces who will, like the many grunts in Vietnam, became enlightened about the lies fed them. Soldiers and police who will not want to serve the elite version of de jure 'democracy' but who will protect and serve their own working class. Who will refuse to serve the existing elite corporate Plutocracy now macro managing Washington and micromanaging most State capitols.

Maybe I am wrong in this analysis, though. Would much appreciate any solid opinion or proof to the contrary.

richard manning