MARCH 1, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 36/29; '33 FASCIST PLOT
THE BUSINESS PLOT TO OVERTHROW ROOSEVELT
In the summer of 1933, shortly after Roosevelt's "First 100 Days,"
America's richest businessmen were in a panic. It was clear that Roosevelt
intended to conduct a massive redistribution of wealth from the rich to
the poor. Roosevelt had to be stopped at all costs.
The answer was a military coup. It was to be secretly financed and
organized by leading officers of the Morgan and Du Pont empires. This included
some of America's richest and most famous names of the time:
Irene Du Pont - Right-wing chemical industrialist and founder of
the American Liberty League, the organization assigned to execute the plot.
Grayson Murphy - Director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel and a group
of J.P. Morgan banks.
William Doyle - Former state commander of the American Legion and
a central plotter of the coup.
John Davis - Former Democratic presidential candidate and a senior
attorney for J.P. Morgan.
Al Smith - Roosevelt's bitter political foe from New York. Smith
was a former governor of New York and a codirector of the American Liberty
League.
John J. Raskob - A high-ranking Du Pont officer and a former chairman
of the Democratic Party. In later decades, Raskob would become a "Knight
of Malta," a Roman Catholic Religious Order with a high percentage of CIA
spies, including CIA Directors William Casey, William Colby and John
McCone.
Robert Clark - One of Wall Street's richest bankers and
stockbrokers.
Gerald MacGuire - Bond salesman for Clark, and a former commander
of the Connecticut American Legion. MacGuire was the key recruiter to General
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The plotters attempted to recruit General Smedley Butler to lead the
coup. They selected him because he was a war hero who was popular with
the troops. The plotters felt his good reputation was important to make
the troops feel confident that they were doing the right thing by overthrowing
a democratically elected president. However, this was a mistake: Butler
was popular with the troops because he identified with them. That is, he
was a man of the people, not the elite. When the plotters approached General
Butler with their proposal to lead the coup, he pretended to go along with
the plan at first, secretly deciding to betray it to Congress at the right
moment.
What the businessmen proposed was dramatic: they wanted General Butler
to deliver an ultimatum to Roosevelt. Roosevelt would pretend to become
sick and incapacitated from his polio, and allow a newly created cabinet
officer, a "Secretary of General Affairs," to run things in his stead.
The secretary, of course, would be carrying out the orders of Wall Street.
If Roosevelt refused, then General Butler would force him out with an army
of 500,000 war veterans from the American Legion. But MacGuire assured
Butler the cover story would work:
"You know the American people will swallow that. We have got the
newspapers. We will start a campaign that the President's health is failing.
Everyone can tell that by looking at him, and the dumb American people
will fall for it in a second" |
The businessmen also promised that money was no object: Clark told Butler
that he would spend half his $60 million fortune to save the other half.
And what type of government would replace Roosevelt's New Deal? MacGuire
was perfectly candid to Paul French, a reporter friend of General
Butler's:
"We need a fascist government in this country to save the nation
from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have
built in America. The only men who have the patriotism to do it are the
soldiers, and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million
men overnight." |
Indeed, it turns out that MacGuire travelled to Italy to study Mussolini's
fascist state, and came away mightily impressed. He wrote glowing reports
back to his boss, Robert Clark, suggesting that they implement the same
thing.
If this sounds too fantastic to believe, we should remember that
by 1933, the crimes of fascism were still mostly in the future, and its
dangers were largely unknown, even to its supporters. But in the early
days, many businessmen openly admired Mussolini because he had used a strong
hand to deal with labor unions, put out social unrest, and get the economy
working again, if only at the point of a gun. Americans today would be
appalled to learn of the many famous millionaires back then who initially
admired Hitler and Mussolini: Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, John and
Allen Dulles (who, besides being millionaires, would later become Eisenhower's
Secretary of State and CIA Director, respectively), and, of course, everyone
on the above list. They disavowed Hitler and Mussolini only after their
atrocities grew to indefensible levels.
The plot fell apart when Butler went public. The general revealed
the details of the coup before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, which
would later become the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee.
(In the 50s, this committee would destroy the lives of hundreds of innocent
Americans with its communist witch hunts.) The Committee heard the testimony
of Butler and French, but failed to call in any of the coup plotters for
questioning, other than MacGuire. In fact, the Committee whitewashed the
public version of its final report, deleting the names of powerful businessmen
whose reputations they sought to protect. The most likely reason for this
response is that Wall Street had undue influence in Congress also. Even
more alarming, the elite-controlled media failed to pick up on the story,
and even today the incident remains little known. The elite managed to
spin the story as nothing more than the rumors and hearsay of Butler and
French, even though Butler was a Quaker of unimpeachable honesty and integrity.
Butler, appalled by the cover-up, went on national radio to denounce it,
but with little success.
Butler was not vindicated until 1967, when journalist John Spivak
uncovered the Committee's internal, secret report. It clearly confirmed
Butler's story:
In the last few weeks of the committee's life it received evidence
showing that certain persons had attempted to establish a fascist organization
in this ountry.
There is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned
and might have been placed in execution if the financial backers deemed
it expedient.
MacGuire denied [Butler's] allegations under oath, but your committee
was able to verify all the pertinent statements made to General Butler,
with the exception of the direct statement suggesting the creation of the
organization. This, however, was corroborated in the correspondence of
MacGuire with his principle, Robert Sterling Clark, of New York City, while
MacGuire was abroad studying the various form of veterans' organizations
of Fascist character. |
Needless to say, the survival of America's democracy is not an automatic
or sure thing. Americans need to remain vigilant against all enemies...
both foreign and domestic.
Sources: Jonathon Vankin and John Whalen, The 60 Greatest Conspiracies
of All Time (Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1997)
Jules Archer, The Plot to Seize the White House (New York: Hawthorne
Books, 1973)
George Seldes, Even the Gods Can't Change History (Secaucus, N.J.:
Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1976)
John Spivak, A Man in His Time (New York: Horizon Press, 1967)
VERBATIM FROM: '33 FASCIST PLOT
SECONDARY REFERENCE: Historic Films
"The Plot to Overthrow FDR"
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MARCH 2, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 37/30; CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
A few thoughts on yesterday's mailing, '33 FASCIST PLOT.
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"The general revealed the details of the coup before the McCormack-Dickstein
Committee, which would later become the notorious House Un-American Activities
Committee. ... The Committee heard the testimony of Butler and French,
but failed to call in any of the coup plotters for questioning, other than
MacGuire. ... the elite-controlled media failed to pick up on the story,
and even today the incident remains little known. ... The elite managed
to spin the story ... " |
IF IT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE FASCIST AGENDA IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
A MEDIA CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
"MacGuire assured Butler ... :
'You know the American people will swallow that. We have got the
newspapers. ... ' " |
THE MEDIA ARE FASCIST AGENDA PROPAGANDISTS.
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All caps text above this line was written as part of this message;
lower case text was extracted from yesterday's '33 FASCIST PLOT daily mailing.
All of the following text, both upper and lower case, was written as part
of today's mailing.
The so-called opinion was "en banc"; i.e., joined in, was the unanimous
decision of the court. The decision is unlawful on its face. If an entire
Supreme Court of a state is "dirty", is that not newsworthy?
IF IT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE FASCIST AGENDA IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
A MEDIA CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
Why did minnesota (LCD) create a second supreme court only a
few years after the so-called opinion came down?
There is an instance in which an entire Supreme Court did "go down",
the Nebraska Supreme Court circa 1939. How did the media cover that
incident?
As I recall, the Nebraska justices took bribes in a tax matter. Not
exactly a threat-to-the-elite issue, is it!
IF IT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE FASCIST AGENDA IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
A MEDIA CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
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MARCH 3, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 38/31; THANK YOU DANTE
DANTE
The hottest place in hell is reserved for those
who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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MARCH 4, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 39/32; STRONG WORDS
Have I used strong words to characterize the establishment?
Yes, I have used strong words. My words pale in comparison
with what their own actions say about themselves!!! My words
are strong. Their actions are obscene!!!
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MARCH 5, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 40/33; 1-10
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the United States
compliance with its enforcement of the Constitution, on
actually being a constitutional democratic republic?
Do you agree that an argument exists that a great many
"Americans" are terrified by the prospect of this country
becoming a constitutional democratic republic?
What specific program can you think of that is designed,
intended, and calculated to make the United States more
democratic?
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MARCH 8, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 43/36; LETTER TO THE EDITOR
I have a bone to pick with the State of Minnesota.
The issue was created by the minnesota (lack of capitalization deliberate (LCD)) establishment.
Gov. Ventura ran as a Reform party candidate. I presume that means reform of government
as reflected by the establishment.
Numerous attempts were made to give Gov. Ventura an opportunity to keep the onus where it
belongs, on the establishment, by making the issue a transition issue.
I do not know whether those attempts were frustrated by members of the establishment who
have surrounded Gov. Ventura, or whether he is ducking the issue.
Numerous attempts have been made to call Gov. Ventura's attention to the issue since he
took office. Ditto frustrated/ducking.
The history of those attempts is set forth at the pi4c web sites and in numerous postings to
Switchboard.com Town Meeting Boards, including those for each of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Today is the 43rd day of "The PonyTail Hunger-Strike for Justice". A physician advised me
that "body shutdown" would commence after about the 7th day. Accordingly, I am more than
a month into body shutdown. My 60th. birthday would be later this summer.
If a person considers an issue important enough to lay their life on the line for it, in
minnesota (LCD), would that entitle the individual to the civility of a personal response
from the chief executive officer of the state?
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MARCH 9, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 44/37; Gap Widening
Webster's definitions of government include the following:
government:
3a: the office, authority, or function of governing;
5b: the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function
of government is carried out in a specific political unit;
As applied to the United States, I trust all would agree that "governing" would mean
according to the Constitution, all laws properly derived therefrom, and the common law not
specifically abrogated by such laws.
Similarly, "political unit" must necessarily mean the Constitutional Democratic Republic
known as the United States of America.
Standard political rhetoric characterizes elected officials as "public servants". Clearly
politicians want the general public to believe the purpose of government is to SERVE the people.
Equally clearly, politicians have discovered the word "govern" and its definitions, and
have found its terms and conditions far more suited to their natural inclinations. Again
from Webster:
govern: 2: to exercise authority.
We have a government which governs.
We do not have a government which serves the people.
Would anyone dispute that the exercise of arbitrary authority is anarchy? The exercise of
any and all authority which does not comport with the Constitution is arbitrary authority,
even if it be the will of 98% of the people. That is the difference between a majority
rule society and a society governed by a Constitution. Did not our founding fathers
specifically seek to provide the few with the same protection from a tyrannical
majority which the society as a whole sought from a tyrannical king?
Tri-partite system checks and balances theory tests date from as early as
February 1985 when the issue was presented to the legislative branch (letter dated Febr.
5, 1985 to Messrs. Rodino and Dargen); and to President Reagan (letter dated Febr. 7,
1985).
The PonyTail issue was put directly on the desk of the Attorney General of the United
States on: December 7, 1993.
The PonyTail issue was put directly on the desk of the Secretary of Treasury of the United
States on: December 13, 1993.
Terms of settlement were tendered to the office of the President of the United States in
December of1992 and The PonyTail Issue was put in the office of the Chief of Staff to the
President of the United States not later than: December 19, 1995.
Stonewalling.
If it isn't consistent with the ruling class agenda, it doesn't happen.
No matter how legitimate and urgent the issue is, if it is contrary to the ruling class
agenda, it doesn't happen.
Money talks. Those who have money regularly spend an evening in the Lincoln
bedroom.
This is not to quarrel with political sorts hob knobbing with those who have already made
political contributions, nor those who are good candidates for making such contributions.
Campaigns are expensive. Mere survival always has a special place, even in
politics.
It is to quarrel with making it a virtual condition of access to the bureaucracy.
Granted, giving the PonyTail access means settlement of the issue which in turn means
funds will become available for facilitating change, change which would seek to level
the playing field.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand their reluctance to create a forum for
the issue.
In a Constitutional Democratic Republic, reluctance wouldn't have a damn thing to do with
it.
In this society, it has everything to do with it.
I trust all remember the mal feasance, mis feasance, non feasance message. Arbitrarily
WITHHOLDING a service from a citizen, be that citizen wildly popular or the most
villified citizen of the society, is anarchy.
When there is a pattern of government arbitariness over a long period of time which serves
to disproportionately benefit the elite of a society, the society is a fascist
society ala the "uber alles", "the master race", "euthanasia" daily message.
Do the numbers not consistently show the gap widening!
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MARCH 10, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 45/38; Thank you Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
--Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable
on certain occasions that I wish it to be always
kept alive.
--Thomas Jefferson
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MARCH 11, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 46/39; DEEP DOO DOO 4 SURE
Occasionally these daily messages are specifically directed to one or more members of the
various lists to which the messages are sent. Today's is directed to the members of
the class which has been defined as the "stonewallers":
Look, guys and guysettes, you make me miss St. Paddy's day, and
it's going to take more than a Constitutional amendment to get this thing straightened
out!!!
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
--Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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MARCH 12, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 47/40; DYNA
DYNA
Do you not agree that a systematic, methodical and calculated subversion of the
Constitution, by any official sworn by oath to uphold the Constitution, would be
impeachable conduct?
Do you not agree that if someone responsible for the impeachment process: a) was aware of
the possible existence of such conduct; and, b) failed to ascertain whether or not it in
fact existed, that such party joined in the behavior and thereby created
a conspiracy to subvert the Constitution?
Do you not agree that if significant numbers of the general population are aware of the
conduct, yet do nothing, they thereby embrace the conduct?
Do you not agree that if the foregoing is true, that any such society has no constitution?
Such a society has only anarchy.
Do you not agree that, in judging a public servant's conduct, subversion of the
Constitution is far more grievous than sexual misconduct?
COPYRIGHT 1998
PonyTail Institute for Change
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MARCH 15, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 50/43; STAT
A recurring theme of the daily message has been the elitist nature
of this society.
Today's message was essentially completed on Saturday, and was
envisioned as a one or two
sentence food for thought message. Today's email included a stat
which can not be
ignored.
THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
Does anyone doubt that were a member of the elite to put an issue
directly on the desk of
two cabinet officers and in the office of the President's chief of
staff, that the issue
would be given a hearing?
In a heartbeat the elitist's issue would be given a hearing!
THE STAT:
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WASHINGTON - The United States will soon be the world's largest
jailer, surpassing
Russia as the country with the highest rate of incarceration, a
Justice Department
report said Sunday. The number of American adults imprisoned has
more than doubled over
the past 12 years, reaching its highest level ever in 1998, with
an estimated 1.8 million
people. At the end of 1985, the figure was 744,208.
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THE LINK: ANARCHY
Anarchy has also been a daily message recurring theme.
Establishment anarchy!
Establishment anarchy breeds citizen anarchy. Will government
accept its responsibility
for its contribution to the above stat?
Has government accepted its responsibility for its contribution for
such matters as the
Oklahoma City bombing?
Your attention is called to the March 9th. Daily Message which
included the following:
"We do not have a government which serves the people.
Would anyone dispute that the exercise of arbitrary authority is
anarchy? The exercise
of any and all authority which does not comport with the
Constitution is arbitrary
authority, even if it be the will of 98% of the people. That is
the difference between a
majority rule society and a society governed by a Constitution.
Did not our founding
fathers specifically seek to provide the few with the same
protection from a tyrannical
majority which the society as a whole sought from a tyrannical
king?
Tri-partite system checks and balances theory tests date from as
early as February 1985
when the issue was presented to the legislative branch (letter
dated Febr. 5, 1985 to
Messrs. Rodino and Dargen); and to President Reagan (letter dated
Febr. 7, 1985).
The PonyTail issue was put directly on the desk of the Attorney
General of the United
States on: December 7, 1993.
The PonyTail issue was put directly on the desk of the Secretary
of Treasury of the
United States on: December 13, 1993.
Terms of settlement were tendered to the office of the President
of the United States in
December of 1992 and The PonyTail Issue was put in the office of
the Chief of Staff to the
President of the United States not later than: December 19, 1995.
Stonewalling."
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Near the end of the Bush term, Barbara Bush took a high profile
stance that the problem of
the poor was their lack of education. The PonyTail wrote to her:
"Why don't you just
spit in their faces?" I believe that is a direct quote. The
letter also included a
statement to the effect that the far greater problem of the poor
was ala the THOSE WHO
ARE IN CONTROL Daily Message, those who control the society for
their own selfish
interests, fascists, I believe they were called. The elitists.
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MARCH 16, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 51/44; MEDIA PROPAGANDISTS
MEDIA PROPAGANDISTS
Today's message is a post in response to a Third Age Featured Member Letter by Bill Richmond prefaced by the statement:
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Today, I would like to talk about an issue near and dear to my admittedly biased heart--society's tendency to "kill the messenger."
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THE PonyTail RESPONSE POSTING
I've heard lawyers say that if they are allowed to define the issue, they win the debate by default. You prefaced your article by defining the messenger as the "legitimate news media". Your article made it clear you were talking about the grunts, the working stiffs, and to me this category includes the likes of Dan Rather, Barbara Walters and not just the lesser known. You singled out one individual, and that individual's journalism for fault.
Were that individual and that type of journalism the only fault of the media, I could heartily endorse your article. I can not. Your article totally ignores media at the institutional level. There are huge problems at that level. The evidence increasingly points to an institutional media which is first and foremost the propaganda arm of the elite who control this society. If a matter is inconsistent with the agenda of the elite, it is not "newsworthy". What is your explanation for the "conspiracy of silence" which has surrounded the PonyTail issue for twenty plus years? That agenda is not only inconsistent with the elitists agenda, it directly attacks the elitist agenda!
The PonyTail issue is not a complex issue. Anyone who can handle two sentences at the same time can understand it. Those two sentences are:
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"It is equally apparent that he suffers from severe emotional instability which seriously
impairs his professional judgment. Without the benefit of competent medical testimony
neither the referee nor this court is qualified to arrive at a diagnosis or prognosis concerning the respondent's mental health."
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Either the court could or could not make a diagnosis. It said it could not. Technically it did not because medically speaking there is no such thing as "emotional instability". That point is moot, however, because the action taken by the court, en banc, unanimously, is predicated entirely, 100%, on a gratuitous diagnosis by the court of "psychiatric problems". It is actually that ridiculous, bizarre, and self evident.
The issue has not been newsworthy. For twenty plus years it has not been newsworthy. The entire supreme court of a state is "dirty" and it is not newsworthy.
Readers can make a more informed judgment should they chose to by visiting a PonyTail Institute for Change website. Financial reasons have precluded a professional web site presentation of the issue, but more particulars are available at the following sites which I have personally constructed:
TEXT ONLY: "http://www.pi4c.com"
HTML & JAVA:
Site 1: "http://music.acmecity.com/radio/317"
Site 2: "http://www.erols.com/pi4ckbd"
The issue is basically and fundamentally a patriotic issue. The sites are admittedly bare knuckle, hardball. At this juncture there is no alternative.
Certainly there are good journalists, but where are the Charlton Hestons among the grunts, the working stiffs? (Another post re your letter cites the stand CH made against Time/Warner on the Ice-T cop killer rap issue.)
Until one of them summons the courage and integrity to stand up and take a stand, individual journalists in my mind are indistinguishable from institutional journalists.
Incidentally, the PonyTail has been generating a Daily Message for approximately six weeks the boiler plate closing of which is: "The Messenger is not the problem".
PonyTail
pi4ckbd@erols.com
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MARCH 17, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 52/45; ST PADDY'S
Today is St. Paddy's day, and today's message is that there is no message other than to repeat the March 11th message to the "stonewallers":
Look, guys and guysettes, you make me miss St.
Paddy's day, and it's going to take more than a
Constitutional amendment to get this thing straightened
out!!!
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The countdown has started. Tis now just a matter of hours at the longest til we know, unequivocally, whether or not the stonewallers are truly lost souls, persons without social redeeming worth.
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MARCH 18, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 53/46; ANNOUNCEMENT (DEFERRED POSTING)
Certain developments yesterday caused me to defer posting a Daily Message. Although that matter is still on-going, postings shall be resumed with this posting for yesterday,
Thursday Mar. 18th.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Ground has been broken at the PonyTail Institute for Change web site for the addition of a HALL of SHAME for the perpetrators of the injustices visited upon the PonyTail. The hall shall include a Federal Wing, and a minnesota Wing. A prominent feature of the hall shall be real-time stonewalling elapsed time clocks giving a running measure of stonewalling elapsed time for the various perpetrators.
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MARCH 19, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 54/47; THANK YOU MATTI GOLAN
Matti Golan, writing in the Israeli Globes newspaper about an Israeli politician:
... an individual who had the temerity to believe that, as of the day he became a public servant, the public should serve him and his economic needs.
He can still salvage some remnant of his human self-respect if he will but release Israeli society from his corrupt and corruptive public presence.
... realise that ... [the politician's party's] first duty is ... to Israeli society in general, and to its voters in particular. This duty obliges [the political party] ... to wash its hands, unequivocally and absolutely, of [the politician]
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Those sentiments are fine poetry to me.
Those sentiments as they apply to the PonyTail issue:
The perpetrators have the temerity to believe that, as of the day they became a public servant, the public should serve the perpetrators and the economic needs of the perpetrators, should serve their private agendas.
They can still salvage some remnant of their human self-respect, and some renmant of respect for this society, if they will but release the world society from their corrupt and corruptive public presence.
American society must realize that its first duty is to those who have given that last full measure for liberty, justice and all the priciples of democracy, not only in this country but throughout the world. This duty obliges American's to wash their hands, unequivocally and absolutely, of those who are in control of the society.
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Those who have followed the issue closely will know the sentiments resonate with me and perhaps even recall comments about the need for a Constitutional Amendment which would address this issue specifically. For those joining the Daily Message thread mid-stream, the Daily Message for February 1, 1999 proposes replacing the "elective" process for selecting public officials with a draft or lottery selection process as a mechanism for eliminating the sytem which allows powerful interests to control a supposedly democratic society.
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MARCH 22, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 57/50; LETTER 2 MICHAEL DOUGLAS
An open letter to Michael Douglas
I recently learned you had been named a "United Nations 'Peace Messenger'" in mid 1988.
An attempt was made to contact you through the agency which apparently represents you, Creative Artists Agency, but their web presence is apparently limited to a page which includes their logo, snail mail address, and telephone and fax numbers.
Congratulations on your award and my commendations of your actions which brought you the award.
Never before has this planet so urgently needed people with a highly developed social conscience, and with courage enough, to act upon that conscience.
Never before has this planet so urgently needed people with such a highly developed social conscience to maximize the effectiveness of their efforts.
I understand you have spoken out on a range of issues spanning nuclear arms to small arms. The former poses the greatest threat to this planet; the latter, has the greatest
immediate negative impact over which we have a reasonable degree of control. Both are good choices.
Both also have the same cause: species homo sapien.
Would you Mr. Douglas have time, energy and resources to support an entity which seeks to eliminate the cause of both of those evils.
That entity is the PonyTail Institute for Change.
Again, my congratulations and commendations!
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MARCH 23, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 58/51; MEDIA USA
On Saturday last the following mailing was made to a list of USA media:
TOPIC: MEDIA CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
The media constantly yaps about it's first amenment rights.
What about the media's OBLIGATIONS?
Does not the media have an obligation to report abuses of power by government?
One abuse of power which the media has REFUSED to report has existed for more than twenty plus years. Particulars are available at the following websites:
TEXT ONLY, LIMITED TO FIRST 50K: "http://www.pi4c.com"
HTML & JAVA:
Site #1: "http://music.acmecity.com/radio/317"
Site #2: "http://www.erols.com/pi4ckbd"
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Should you chose not to cover the issue, a coherent explanation would be appreciated.
END OF SATURDAY'S MAILING
Propagandists or objective presenters of the facts?
On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is totally propagandist and 10 is totally objective, a 3 is the absolute best I could give them.
What think you all?
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MARCH 25, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 60/53; HYPO
Let's see if a hypothetical won't jar our truculent bureaucratic friends (TBFs) loose.
For our hypothetical we shall assume a citizen living in a society with a tri-partite form of government, a society having three separate but equal branches of government for
the express purpose of serving as checks and balances against abuses of power in any one branch of government. Our hypothetical further assumes such a checks and balances theory was deemed essential because of a history of abuse of the citizenry from their former system of government, oh, let's say the government of a syphilitic tyrant king.
The hypothetical shall further assume the citizen was grievously injured by one branch of the government.
Would anyone argue that it would be other than proper for the citizen to seek redress of his grievances from the other two branches of government?
Of course, any and all TBFs are free to spare us all an exercise of the obvious by simply doing that which it is their obligation to do, upholding the Constitution, that
which they are sworn by oath to do.
Incidentally, today is the first day of the third calendar month of the PonyTail hunger-strike for justice.
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MARCH 26, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 61/54; BILL OF RIGHTS/PRIVILEGES
Article I of the "Bill of Rights", uno 1, the very first one, grants to citizens the RIGHT "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".
Let's limit our discussion at the moment to two such "petitions", the petition on the desk of the attorney general of the United States, Jane Reno, and the petition on the desk of the secretary of treasury of the United States, Robert Rubin.
As you may recall, the petitions got on those desks by invoking the "supervisory authority" of the individual behind those desks.
The supervisory authority of the attorney general was invoked on December 7, 1993.
The supervisory authority of the secretary of treasury was invoked on December 13, 1993.
The matter is life threatening. Increasingly life threatening.
They know it is life threatening. They know it is increasingly life threatening.
It has been life threatening on other occasions. They knew it was life threatening on those occasions.
No response. Zero, none, not any. Unless you chose to include "coincidental" misfortunes.
Does the express right to petition necessarily imply a right to a response?
Bill of Rights, or Bill of Privileges?
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MARCH 29, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 64/57; PERPETUITY
Our last message related to the 1st Amendment right to petition for redress of a grievance and the companion implied right of such a duly presented petition, namely the right to a response to the petition.
In other messages we have discussed the availability of
"access" to government by the elite.
A response to a petition for redress of grievances would be access, wouldn't it.
Without access, there are only privileges, not rights.
Unequivocally, government has obstinately refused the PonyTail access to government.
Would government grant anyone else who followed the same exact procedure access if the issue was at least fascist neutral? We can only speculate. The doubt raised is the real evil. Doubt is a cancer which erodes credibility.
And, it is not just the credibility of the US government which is attacked. It is the credibility of every Constitutional Democratic Republic, every government based on the US model.
No one would argue that granting access to the PonyTail would go a long ways towards erasing the damage which has been done. Would anyone argue that there is at least a possibility that if access is not granted before the hunger-strike runs its natural course, it may be impossible to ever erase the damage, that a credibility issue would last for perpetuity?
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MARCH 30, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 65/58; PRICE?
Just exactly what is the price of "free" speech?
Your life?
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MARCH 31, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 66/59; RESPECT
I have more respect for a society which claims to have a more perfect society and is openly intolerant of those who oppose that society, than one which claims to be a tolerant society but kills those of its citizens who are a threat to the defacto form of government of the society!
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