Son of a gun! One of the bridges over the Mississippi in the Twin Cities has fallen into the river. Did anybody who watches the news other than the tabloid, who’s doing whom in show biz have any doubt about what we’d hear next?

I digress momentarily to report that a woman on television is saying that a high percentage of men over fifty years of age “have prostate issues.” Honey, men of all ages have issues from their prostates. It’s called sperm.

Hard behind the lady who knows about prostate “issues” is a FoxNews expert analyst, a lieutenant colonel discussing the ignorance of Barak Obama concerning Pakistan and Afghanistan who says John Kennedy won the Medal of Honor in World War Two.

Oh, and HEY – I’m a war hero! That’s according to Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, and a couple more of our nation’s genius pundits, who say that anybody who wears our military uniform and goes to war is a hero. I’ll be damned. All these years of being treated like a bastard cat, and now I’m a f------- hero. What’s with THAT?!

The bridge, the bridge. Hell, I’m tired of saying “I told you so.” Every now and again between the relentless commercials, however, the several news networks “newscasts” come back to tell us all that “authorities” knew the Interstate 35W bridge was unsafe for at least seventeen years. Anybody remember how many years before the levees in New Orleans failed engineers were saying they would? How about how many years before 9-11 I wrote to tell the nation about what would happen when a big airplane hit a skyscraper . . . ???????

Every now and then between commercials . . . Anybody see a clue there? Possibly some indication why the nation has continued to ignore the obvious concerning one of several thousand decrepit and sagging old bridges? Why the nation has been pretending it doesn’t know about its crumbling infrastructure – thirteen percent of its bridges, just for instance, that are unsafe, and have been known to be unsafe for as many as forty years?

And pundits, officials, and all the great minds say we “don’t know where the money is going to come from? Has anybody heard anyone say that about the war in Iraq? Hmmmmmmm?

Come on, people - you don’t see a parallel where our broken borders with Mexico are concerned? The air traffic control system? National security (the World Trade Center debacle)? National health care? Our schools? Internal Revenue Service and our idiotic tax system? The U.S. Congress (fifty-six thousand lobbyists? The presidency and the broken system that delivered us to into the hands of George W. Bush and the military industrial corporations?

Oh, never mind . . . Any society that builds and drives over bridges that fall down isn’t likely to listen to anything rational, anyway. Res ipse loquitur. To borrow from another of your geniuses, one who thinks that fire can’t melt steel (I wonder what Rosie O’Donnell will have to say about this), “google it.”

But if you want to know what will happen with terrorism, illegal immigration, the health care system, education, taxation, and all that stuff secondary in importance to Britney Spears prat-falling, Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, Lindsay Lohan’s whatever, and all that, need only look to the Interstate 35W bridge. That’ll tell you what to expect, as well as what will be said and done in the aftermath. You’ve seen it again and again.

When the catastrophic effects of carbon dioxide pollution become noticeably catastrophic, you’ll know everything you need to know. Hell, you may be able to profit by writing the script for the “experts” and “analysts” like those I mentioned at the top here.

Maybe not – they only have to fill in the blanks in the “boilerplate” script they read from after each succeeding disaster.

One thing sure – it won’t interrupt the commercials. If that doesn’t tell you something, nothing will.

If you watch the evening news, you probably know that Jack McClellan is a pedophile. He is the guy in California (where else?), who not only admits stalking children, but posts an Internet website in which – to quote a lawsuit by Santa Clarita, California parents for an injunction preventing his activities – “The activities of McClellan are undertaken for the purpose of promoting, advocating and undertaking lewd and lascivious conduct with non-consenting minor children, ranging from arousal by virtue of so-called legal 'cuddling' and 'touching' to inter-generational sexual contact for the purpose of McClellan's sexual gratification and the sexual gratification of those engaging in similar practices."

McClellan provides other pedophiles with data intended to help them share in his odious pursuit and activities.

The police, however, are powerless to do anything about McClellan. According to Santa Clarita Police Captain Joe Gutierrez, "We have no active criminal investigation involving Mr. McClellan. I can only say we are aware of his Web site. We have visited his Web site and determined it does not rise to the level of a crime."

Of course, many who read this will share the sentiments of Richard Patterson, one of the attorneys representing the Santa Clarita parents:

"Here's the problem from my perspective," said Patterson, who has five daughters and three granddaughters. "With impunity, this guy lets you take his picture, put it on the front page and tells people 'I'm coming to take a picture of your little girl and I'm going to put that picture on a Web site and I'm going to let other sick people look at it.'

"My primary concern here is that we have: A. a person who is psychotic and, B. he's a drug user and, C. he's acting out his prurient fantasies," Patterson said. "It doesn't take much of a psychology degree to know what happens next - that what he assumes is harmless action usually, quickly, escalates to physical action."

I predict nothing will come of the civil suit. This is California, let’s not forget, home of the functionally demented Ninth Circuit Court and others like it – “others” including a socially-paralyzing segment of the society. It is in California where the U.S. flag had been, and is being, flown upside down under that of Mexico, and where Mexican criminals parade brazenly in public. California – the San Joaquin Valley - is also the home and base of operations of columnist Ruben Navarette, the columnist who wants not only to leave the border open to his people from Mexico, but to legalize illegal immigration.

In short, again, Jack McClellan and his pedophile brethren and Ruben Navarette and his illegal alien brethren from Mexico are both thumbing their noses with impunity protected by the U.S. Constitution at the U.S. Government and the people of the United States.

Neither does the analogical and microcosmic comparison(s) stop there. In Washington, D.C., another safe harbor for those thumbing contemptuous noses as the rest of the nation, another group of sneering reprobates operates in like manner. These, of course, are the conspiracy of criminals who rule the United States, that being now as brazenly openly as the Jack McClellans and the Ruben Navarettes.

I remind the reader regarding the latter that to suborn or misprision a crime is a crime equal to the crime being suborned or misprisioned. Ruben Navarette is, therefore, a criminal.

Most archetypical of the ilk is none other than the un-impeached – the proper documents are absent, in other words – President of the United States, George W. Bush. The three elements and their archetypes have much in common. All hold in contempt and flaunt the law and the society it protects. McClellan, Navarette, and Bush – together with all those who support their evil activities – suborn and misprision criminal activity, crime against even the people who support them. Bush and Navarette encourage, support, and ignore illegal immigrants and the depredations of the latter against the citizenry of the U.S.

All of this is incontrovertible logically or legally. Yet, we the people of the United States, the victims of the people in question and their ilk, are told by court, lawyer, political pundit, and media expert that we can do nothing – except wait until the obviously inevitable happens. Then, we are told, the law will act.

Sure. We’ve seen the law “act” all over the @#$%& place. It’s the reason that a week or so ago, two men with criminal records as long as both your arms broke into a home, murdered three women and beat their husband and father nearly to death, before setting fire to the house. Operation of the law is the reason that that very sort of things happens again and again. Dru Sjodin (remember?) and literally hundreds like her were raped and murdered by rapists and murderers released from prison by the law. And on, and on, and on. Ad Nauseam. Ad fury.

That’s what the law will do when the inevitable where Jack McClellan is concerned happens. Will the law hold McClellan responsible when someone he has encouraged by way of his hideous website rapes and murders a little girl? What do you think (spend some time on the Internet or at the public library, read up on the history of such matters)?

While you’re thinking, ask yourself if the law will hold Ruben Navarette or George W. Bush responsible when one of the one hundred and twenty three hardened criminals arriving over the border from Mexico daily does his thing? Remind yourself, since it’s kidnapping, and the rape and murder of children and women we’re talking about, that Mexico is the breeding and nurturing ground of the worst crime rate on the planet having to do with that very sort of thing.

Shaking his head in what seemed to me to be bewilderment, the second attorney for the Santa Clarita parents said, “Someone’s go to do something.”

Hmmmmmm! How many times have we heard that one of late regarding illegal immigration? The hideous tactics and death toll in Iraq? A president who more than seven hundred times during his term of office has arrogated to himself the power to not only ignore the law but to publicly flaunt it?

As many as eighty percent of the public detests the president and his hatefully bellicose policies toward Islam and Iraq – to say nothing of the asinine tactics he has presided over in the latter. About the same number of people detest the president’s criminal policies concerning illegal immigrants and immigration. Co-incidentally, about the same number of Americans would imprison for life or execute those who rape and murder children.

Isn’t it weird, parenthetically, that as many as twenty percent of the public holds some kind of sympathy for pedophiles? You think I exaggerate? Have you considered the Northeast, where several states and their judges openly encourage pedophiles with light sentences and early release after conviction?

Perhaps pedophile Jack McClellan can be driven to one of those sanctuaries for the criminal pedophile. Now that I think of it, illegal aliens are also being given sanctuary in the Northeast . . . A judge in Pennsylvania, as I mentioned recently, has ruled in a manner encouraging illegal immigration – and all that it entails.

Judge James M. Munley, like Ruben Navarette, George W. Bush, and the U.S. Congress, knows full well that illegal immigration means immigration of tens of thousands of Mexican criminals.

“Somebody should do something.” When has that not been true - ever? Of course, somebody should do something! The parent of a child who is raped and murdered should damned well have done something. The father, brother, husband, fiancé or boy friend of a young woman like Dru Sjodin, who was taken by someone like Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr. (the fifty year old registered Level Three sex offender who had already raped one woman at knifepoint and pled guilty to the rape of another) should damned well have done something, too.

The people of the United States should have “done something” when it became clear that George W. Bush had deliberately and willfully lied in order to convince the people and their representatives to attack Iraq. Somebody should have done something before more than four thousand, four hundred and seventy of our soldiers, and more than six hundred, fifty thousand Iraqis were killed, and the nation of Iraq torn to pieces.

The Congress of the United States should have done something, too. They, like the American people, should have done something when atrocities being committed by Americans in the name of the American people and at the order or with the complicity of the president of the United States were discovered.

And, of course, it all goes on; and for the Congress to hold feckless hearings, for the media and its asinine analysts to hold forth with their absurd bloviating on the various “issues” in question, is not “doing something.”

If you’ve been reading my essays, you know what that “something” must be. Like I once was when the United States rewarded my long life of law-abiding civic responsibility – including military and clandestine special operations service – with treasonous treachere, you have been, and are being, HAD. The law – and morality - of the United States is now de facto law – that of the corporate mind. President Bush and his eminence gris, Dick Cheney, practice the new, corporate, version of law.

The corporate form of law? You know it – you know it all too well. It must be familiar to all who have lived for a time in our country. That law is the is the Ford Pinto Rule. The Ford Pinto Rule says go ahead and do it, see if you can get away with it, then practice “damage control” if and when you don’t.

That, moreover, pedophile Jack McClellan practices a variant of that same law and morality demonstrates how prophetic were the words of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis when he said, “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

McClellan, Navarette, and Bush won’t stop until they are stopped, and there’s only one way – guerrilla law.

Suppose that the pedophile were to have a “vigilante” “tail” everywhere he went, that he residences and associates should come under relentless, twenty four/seven surveillance. Suppose that everyone and anyone who did any kind of business, or hired him were to suffer immediate downturn in business - picketing, even. Suppose that the mailman should one morning deliver to his house or hole tens of thousands of lawsuit papers? Fear, you know, is “injury,” and actionable. Suppose that his website, including his pictures – as many as possible – were to label him with his own statements a pedophile and spread everywhere on the Internet. Suppose his picture were published - not only on the World Wide Web, but in each and every newspaper edition in town – for as long as he persisted there?

Of course, the public is entitled to treat the same way judges and others who encourage the Jack McClellans of society. Judges and public officials – parole officers included – who are responsible for the realise or molly-coddling of known, admitted, and convicted crimes against society must be held responsible. Newspapers who publish the criminal writings of journalism’s Ruben Navarettes should be shunned. A Congress and the political parties who have stood by since March 20, 2003 while the President and the military industrial complex corporations he serves represents killed hundreds of thousands should be shunned – totally. A vote, for anybody in either major political party, is subornation and misprision of the crime being committed in Iraq

“Somebody should do something.”

The video tape cover for a 1984 movie says, “In our time, no foreign army has ever occupied American soil. Until now.” The movie is “Red Dawn,” and in it, Soviet & Cuban troops begin landing In Colorado, forcing a group of high school students to flee into the mountains before organizing guerrilla resistance and beginning to fight back.

Unfortunately, the macho minimalist movie is totally unrealistic, out of date. In the first place, a recent ruling by a federal judge would make the invading Soviet and Cuban troops in the movie only “undocumented aliens.” More, the court says that illegal immigration, whether by swimming or parachute, is a federal responsibility. The “Red Dawn” high school guerrillas would, therefore, be vigilantes.

There’s even more: the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection, the courts says, applies to all persons, not just citizens. The Soviet and Cuban invaders – oops, “undocumented workers” – would be, to quote federal judge James M. Munley, “not stripped immediately of all their rights because of this single illegal act.”

If an illegal alien Mexican shoots, stabs, rapes, burglarizes - or steps on your blue suede shoes, presumably – it’s a federal matter. Don’t call a cop – he has no authority. Diplomatic immunity these days, it seems, requires only that you get in the country without being caught.

Neither is that all of it. According to columnists, pundits, and apologists for illegal immigrants from Mexico – the apologists, of course, include the Mexican Government - the “Red Dawn” Soviet and Cuban troops injured in the parachute attack or by the teenage guerillas would be entitled to free, U.S. Taxpayer funded, medical care, workers compensation, and social security benefits. The teenage guerrillas, of course, being citizens – and vigilantes – would not.

And there you have it – all of it. Check this, from the New York Times:

“The presumption that the 14th Amendment can be set aside while immigrants are hunted down and punished is widespread but false. The judge wrote: ‘We cannot say clearly enough that persons who enter this country without legal authorization are not stripped immediately of all their rights because of this single illegal act.’”

“A federal judge has dealt what we can only hope is a decisive blow against a dangerous trend of freelance immigration policies by local governments,” said the Times. “Judge James M. Munley of the central Pennsylvania district, struck down ordinances in the town of Hazleton that sought to harshly punish undocumented immigrants for trying to live and work there, and employers and landlords for providing them with homes and jobs.

“The ruling was a well-earned embarrassment for Mayor Louis J. Barletta and his proclaimed goal of making Hazleton ‘one of the toughest places in the United States’ for illegal immigrants. In doing so, Judge Munley laid down basic truths that every American should remember.”

Listen, now - the Times, speaking from sedia gestitoria (the Pope, speaking from the Chair of Peter, is held by the Catholic Church to be infallible), pontificates further thusly:

“First, immigration is a federal responsibility. State and local governments have no right to usurp or upend a vast, ‘carefully drawn federal statutory scheme’ (Hal’s note: couldn’t have said it better myself – "scheme," I mean) that governs who enters the country and the conditions under which immigrants stay, study, work and naturalize. Congress may be botching the job, but it has not delegated it.”

“Botching?” Who’s kidding whom? This is as intentional as any scheming crook or anarchist ever got.

“It is not yet clear when or whether Hazleton’s vigilantism will finally be stifled. Mr. Barletta says he will appeal. He and others across the country can be expected to keep concocting ever-more-inventive strategies to deliver pain to immigrants.

“But that is a legal and moral dead end. As long as people like Mr. Barletta persist in misusing the law to serve their prejudices, they will make the immigration system an ever more incoherent muddle. They will thwart reasonable efforts to grapple with the opportunities and problems borne in with the influx of newcomers. And they will continue to dehumanize not only their victims, but themselves.”

“Incoherent muddle?” – a government ignoring and defying the law that it made is coherent?

“Mayor Barletta says he is angry at the federal failure to control immigration. Good for him; he should join the club. But he should realize that it was his side — his restrictionist (sic) soul mates in the United States Senate — that last month took the most ambitious attempt in a generation to restore lawfulness and order to immigration, loaded it with unworkable cruelties, then pushed it into a ditch. They celebrated their victory, but their shortsighted insistence on border enforcement above all else will leave places like Hazleton to grapple with a failed immigration policy for years to come.”

I’m reminded of Will Rogers, the famed “cowboy philosopher.” He said that all he did was report truthfully what Congress did every day, and the public died laughing. All one has to do these days is report what courts, the media and its totally bewildered pundits say, and anyone who has a brain better than a grape, dies laughing (or sits staring in disbelief).

What the hell, dear reader, is so hard to understand about learning that when your neighbors live like pigs (not fair, actually – pigs wouldn’t live the way many of the people I’m talking about do), act like wild animals, steal everything they can carry or haul away, lust after little children, and kill at the drop of a hat, they probably will behave the same way if they manage to break into your house and take up residence?

These are Mexicans, for Christ’s sake! Look at Mexico – what goes on there (or don’t you know?)? What has been the history of Mexico? Do you really want for these people to come to this country, breed and multiply, vote, and take over? Create an Aztlan, then force you to pay for what results? Do you really want to have a nation, for instance, where one of the largest industries is that of kidnapping for ransom? Or drug smuggling? Murderous drug cartel, gang, and civil warfare in several places at any given time? A “Sub-comandante Marcos?” Thousands – that’s literally – of women raped, killed like they were chickens, and thrown away like garbage? Tens of thousands of little girls raped and impregnated without media, societal, or governmental reaction? Do you want to live in a nation like that wherein the military justice system does not even recognize rape as a crime?

God damn it, before you run off at your supposedly humanist, liberal, rhetorical- reality-only mouth, learn the history and truth about the nation and people of whom you’re speaking. Read their newspapers and magazines. Learn their language and listen to them. Wake up or shut up!

I’ve been writing here about guerrilla law, methods to combat the cancer eating our nation from within, destroying it and our way of life; but I need to back up, and start with essentials, basics. I mean find out what the hell is going on! What is the problem? Who is the opposition?

That means read the history of Mexico, and Latin America. Read the Mexican, and Latin American newspapers. Read the history – and learn - of the Iran-Peru Axis, the connection between Arab-Islamic history and morality and that of Spain and Latin America. Try historian Carroll Quigley (Tragedy and Hope). Until you actually know something of the topic of discussion, in other words, have the maturity to refrain from crippling any discussion with emotionally irrelevant and immaterial nonsense.

Don’t be like the vast majority of supposed – and specious – pundits and commentators on today’s media, in other words.

And don’t be their victims. None of this is rocket science. It’s all subject and understandable to and with common sense. Searching my memory for a suitable example of the kind of nonsense data the biased media and apologists for illegal immigration promulgate as fact, I recall supposedly scientific surveys like those of late pontificating to us that men are different from women. No shit. REALLY! Well, hell – I knew that.

Teenagers don’t drive as well as adults. Well I’ll be damned.

Women are more emotional than men. Do tell. Remarkable.

We should be surprised that young citizens of this country, now in the military, do not perform well; that they even commit atrocities, torture prisoners, report sick due to “combat fatigue” and “post traumatic stress” disorder, and shoot one another a lot? Excuse me – but aren’t we talking about the same young people who are in the news continually for doing exactly the same sort of thing before becoming soldiers?

The drug culture continues to take drugs after joining the military? No!

People willing to pay good money for Hip-Hop watchamahcallit, caterwauling, howling, and bawling “music” are too stupid to graduate from even our chaotic schools or acquire even the most basic of military skills? Well, what do you make of THAT? My goodness!

People who are interested in our meretricious and tawdry “celebrities” - consumers who on account of the economic pressures their mindless consumption exerts upon the nation’s pandering media and journalism receive half the attention of the same media and journalism - don’t make much of a soldier? Employee, even?

Well, mirabile dictu! I’ll be damned.

When you send to Congress or the White House the most greedy, power-mad people you can find, they tax everything made by god, then steal or blunder and bungle away the tax money, or sell out to the highest-bidding lobbyist? NO! Really? Who would have imagined it?

Corporations “earning” millions off the labor of illegal aliens they are paying peanuts lobby Congress and the state legislatures to assure a steady supply of the same illegal aliens? People representing the interests of the corporations and the illegal aliens lobby congress for a minimum wage law that lets the aliens under-bid the corporations fellow citizens? You wouldn’t expect that? Now, that’s amazing! I don’t believe it!

I’ll tell you what else I don’t believe. I don’t believe any of the “they’re just people who want to work” people. I don’t believe judges like Judge Munley in Pennsylvania or the ACLU nutcase who appeared on CNN the other night to explain that cockamamie ruling are acting in accordance with the reasoning or logic of the law. Sorry. What I do believe is this: the nation now languishes under anarchy.

Let me remind us all of something – the purpose for rule of law. As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in Olmstead v. the United States, “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”

In fact, it becomes anarchy, and that is what we have. What remains for the people, therefore and incontrovertibly, is to restore the rule of law. More, it is high time to serve notice upon those breaking the law that we will take over and enforce it. The tactic is that of guerrilla law, and it begins – as I said in an earlier essay - with notice. We must, in short, write letters, hundreds of thousands – millions, if need be – letters. The letters must tell the U.S. Government and the corporate lobbyists controlling it that we, the people, have had all we are going to take, and it must inform them that we consider a vote for either the Democrat or Republican Party treasonous.

We must also write letters to corporations and others employing illegal aliens, warning them that we intend to sue, and/or take other economic action to make their criminal conduct unprofitable. A portion of the letters must take the form of legal papers in the form of small claims court filings. All of it will require “networking,” and help otherwise, from all the people we can muster.

The invaders are here, their fifth column of journalists, judges, and lawyers like those of the ACLU are now operating openly, and we must be the “Wolverines” of “Red Dawn.”

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty."

Responding to the several persons who, having read my last essay, question it, I answer this:

First, anyone who has been paying attention knows that all the provisions and mechanism necessary for declaration and imposition of martial law in the United States are in place. The president has, in fact, issued an executive decree that arrogates to himself power that can only be called dictatorial, powers he may assume simply by his own declaration of national emergency. There is no denying that; it is a published fact.

Neither is there any doubt (I have visited several) that there exists in the U.S. a vast network of internment camps. Located across the length and breadth of the U.S., these camps stand waiting for anyone who might raise objections to whatever Reichstag Fire “emergency” our wannabe Fuehrer might (and almost certainly will) declare. None of this is made up on my part; it is all verifiable by way of research or simple reason.

To avoid any of it, especially the reasoning aspect, one must trust a man who has already demonstrated himself to have little respect for the truth – or the public trust. Consider his oath of office, and how he has fulfilled it.
Next consider the state to which the Operation Mockingbird media have reduced the public. Look around. Consider events of just the past several weeks. Tell me you see nothing of the mindless acceptance for authoritarian excesses of government – whether by the president or the congress – is all represents. You don’t see that? REALLY?
Obviously, you’ve neither read George Orwell or know anything of the old Soviet Union, or Nazi Germany.
Get a copy of Nazi Reichsminister Josef Goebbels’ writings and introduce yourself to your government’s Operation Mockingbird methods.

You might, too, ask yourself why you don’t recognize in today’s right-wing television, the tawdrily specious presidential “debates” and “campaigning” anything of Leni Riefenstahl production, Nuremburg Rallies, and Sieg-Heiling, the “cut and run, stay the course” speeches concerning Iraq. You might also ask yourself why, probably, you don’t recognize anything of what I just spoke. Look it up – your life; certainly those of your children and grandchildren - may depend on what you learn.

In 1946, a man – one of the most brilliant scientists in history – tried to argue to a judge at his citizenship hearing that what had happened to Germany could happen in the United States. Kurt Goedel had seen and been part of the dementing of the German people. He had seen military industrialists take over power by marginalizing religious leaders, encouraging and developing right-wing radio and entertainment in order to alienate and play off, one against the other, the nation’s ethnic groups. He, along with his countrymen, felt what happened when entertainment and news media played upon the right-leaning public’s feelings of powerlessness against the elitist liberal rich and powerful.

Read it. Read it, and you’ll see that all of it was rigged by the corporate capitalism of Germany at the time. Railing against the nation’s liberals, they divided a stultified and stupefied populace against itself, gave it nowhere to turn but a savior named Adolf Hitler.

It wasn’t as if no one knew what was coming. Adolf Hitler had warned Germany long before in his book Mein Kampf what he would do, were he to come to power. You don’t see that happening today? REALLY? Neo-conservative corporate capitalism has been preaching its dogma for literally decades, since having emerged as a supposed rejection of liberalism and what then newly created Operation Mockingbird media identified as “the New Left” counter-culture of the sixties. You recognize in this none of Soviet and German history?

Coallescing and un-masking itself during the Reagan and Bush administrations, it not only represented a total metamorphosis of the nation’s world view and geo-politics, it determined to complete its silent coup d’etat by ending democracy.

Ask yourself how it all could have happened without your knowing. You will not only share the surprise of Germans who were awakened one morning by the thunder of goose-stepping SS jack-boots when you do, you’ll look around to find your countrymen eagerly accepting it all. You’ll also have to admit that, like Germans of the time, most of the nation’s citizenry today have been trained from birth to adapt to and serve the military industrial corporate structure established immediately after World War Two. You’ll recognize, too, the way Americans, held in thrall by Mockingbird-corrupted mass media distraction, shun any kind of critical thinking or questioning.

I keep saying “read.” Therein lies another Shakespearean “rub.” The fact is that Americans have all but ceased to read. Think about THAT one, and ask why. Admit that what that means is that the public has no way to see, know, or understand the truth of anything I say here. “Whoever controls the public record, controls the people’s truth,” Vladimir Lenin preached to his followers.

Tell me that all but all of your information, including that concerning history relevant to our discussion, doesn’t comes to you through media controlled by the government. Of what does that remind you . . . ?

Of course, I again assume you know something of the history of the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany. It is highly unlikely, in the scheme of things today, in a nation of people who know so little of their own history that college students put the Battle of Yorktown in the Civil War, that you know anything at all of history critical to your recognition of our straits. Combine that fact with the fact that you seek no information outside that available without so much as the effort required to hold a book, then add the downright hostility toward any kind of personal introspection held by our people and it becomes evident that the present state of disaster has been building for a long time. And make, no mistake, it will get worse - much worse.

Consider the insidious nature of today’s Mockingbird media. “Divide and conquer” was a military and political tactic of Ancient Rome; but it is also a tactic essential to the propagandist who would control a nation and its people today. In keeping with the diabolical practice, we are taught on the one hand that passivity is for losers, especially economically. Yet, on the other hand, we find ourselves today nearly powerless before the military industrial corporation police state. Totally divided by cynical media pundits and “analysts” (my god – do you ever actually listen to these people?), we distractedly and mindlessly scream slogans at one another like parrots.

In this way, additionally distracted by tawdry and meretricious tabloid “celebrity” news, and lurid, rape of the week “national news;” we listen to fundamentalist Christian preachers rail on concerning Armageddon, play insanely nonsensical and violent video games, watch the empty spectacle of steroid-powered sports and their hype, digest appallingly primitive and nitwit “music” and lurid, sex-oriented advertisement, drug-induced fantasy, and other appeals to the most base of our human nature. In so doing, simply put, we serve our corporate masters, handing over to them control of congress and the government. And our lives.

And everywhere, the people express feelings of utter emptiness. Among our young, the word “boredom” has become a mantra. Anything, even mass murder, is sought in order to relieve the perceived ennui of a culture all but devoid of effort, discipline, or any kind of pursuit of virtue. Among adults, one finds more of the same, any kind of banal excitement or play, Sturm and Drang with which to penetrate the walls of the climate-controlled, hothouse world in which they languish unfulfilled.

All of it is all too familiar to sociologists and those who study people living under authoritarian rule. The climate-controlled hothouse is also a pressure-cooker prison. Psychologists have warned for years of people to be wary of people of, people who live with a feeling of inner emptiness. The thousand yard stare of the World War Two combat infantrymen is everywhere these days. Of course, those empty yearn to be filled – with sex and violence.

But with their hearts deadened by having watched relentless sex and violence, their minds sealed shut by Mockingbird behaviorist propaganda, their climate controlled prison nation has become deafeningly loud, thunderously stupid, and totalitarian vicious – indoctrinated, trained, and conditioned to worship power. In the words of H.L. Mencken, “The common people love a despot. They loved to be dictated to. The goose-step is their natural gait.”

And here were are, 2007. The public has become a tiger upon which the government and its corporate elite masters ride. What is needed is a feat of political legerdemain unlike none every accomplished since the banking industry and industrialists turned five hundred million turn of the century dollars debt into assets with the Federal Reserve Act and Sixteenth Amendment.

Now, having lived for more than a half century on credit, the house of cards built from cards like those that are the real estate market, jobs being taken by foreigners in both the form of businesses moved overseas and illegal aliens imported into the country, corporate and congressional corruption in staggering amounts (including presidential complicity therein to the tune of what seems likely to exceed a trillion dollars), and a public languishing on an income that leaves the individual a paycheck or two from ruin.

What it comes down to is the Second Law of Thermodynamics – “maximum entropy.” That’s confusion. Said another way, the shit is about to hit the fan.

Everything points to a declaration of martial law in the United States, and, as I said last time, the end of democracy. But you, the people once known as the Home of the Brave, won’t do a damned thing. You’ll do what you’ve always – during my lifetime, and having lost the honor and élan always referred to everywhere on the planet as the “Spirit of the Yankee” (hell, unread, unschooled, and uncaring as you are, you have no idea what I mean) – done. NOTHING!

You’ll pray. You’ll stick yellow ribbons to you car. You’ll declaim furiously over coffee at the coffee shop. Male, you’ll pontificate and bloviate masterfully as you watch pro football, and vicariously “hit” the opposing lineman or “sack” the opposing quarterback. Vicariously.

You’ll take vicarious minuteman part in the revolution your country needs so desperately. Needs in order to survive. You’ll run off at your f------ effeminate mouth.

And you’ll pray. God – I love that! I’m drowning – your country is drowning – and you pray. You’ll vote, in other words (in the United States today, government is god, and politics its religion . . . .)

Imagine that you are drowning. Imagine that your country is drowning. On shore, the typically effeminate “American” is striding back and forth, listening to your cries for help. What does he – this staunch patriot, this defender of women, of all things good and just - do?

Why, he talks. He prays to the good god – government (this is real, don’t forget). He calls nine one one. He calls the police, the fire department, the church. He calls every do-gooder he can think of. He calls.

And when you have drowned and are floating, he tells arriving police or fire department responders that he did everything he could do.

He wouldn’t want to become a vigilante.

“Now’s the time, and now’s the hour; see yon front o’ battle lour . . .”

A couple of weeks ago, I published my concern that the military industrial complex in power here would not relinquish the reins of government to a new administration. I’m apparently not alone in that, and I have a number of people of societal gravitas and credentials who share my worry. This is serious, people, and we, the citizenry had better wake the hell up: the alternative may be nothing less than our children and grandchildren in totalitarian slavery.

“All men,” said Abigail Adams, “would be tyrants if they could.” Damn – I’d have loved to know that woman!

Thomas Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies.

He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts -- a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan who has recently become known for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War -- by quoting the "strong words" which open Roberts' latest column: "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."

"I don't actually think they're very strong," said Roberts of his words. "I get a lot of flak that they're understated and the situation is worse than I say. ... When Bush exercises this authority ... there's no check to it. It doesn't have to be ratified by Congress. The people who bear the brunt of these dictatorial police state actions have no recourse to the judiciary. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule. ... The American people don't really understand the danger that they face."

Roberts said that because of Bush's unpopularity, the Republicans face a total debacle in 2008, and this may be why "the Democrats have not brought a halt to Bush's follies or the war, because they expect his unpopular policies to provide them with a landslide victory in next year's election."

However, Roberts emphasized, "the problem with this reasoning is that it assumes that Cheney and Rove and the Republicans are ignorant of these facts, or it assumes that they are content for the Republican Party to be destroyed after Bush has his fling." Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.

"The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events," Roberts continued. "Chertoff has predicted them. ... The National Intelligence Estimate is saying that al Qaeda has regrouped. ... You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda's not going to do it, it's going to be orchestrated. ... The Republicans are praying for another 9/11."

Hartmann asked what we as the people can do if impeachment isn't about to happen. "If enough people were suspicious and alert, it would be harder for the administration to get away with it," Roberts replied. However, he added, "I don't think these wake-up calls are likely to be effective," pointing out the dominance of the mainstream media.

"Americans think their danger is terrorists," said Roberts. "They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that."

Roberts pointed out that it's old-line Republicans like himself, former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein, and Pat Buchanan (!) who are the diehards in warning of the danger. "It's so obvious to people like us who have long been associated in the corridors of power," he said. "There's no belief in the people or anything like that. They have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do anything."

The italics above are mine – what have I been saying? The current President of the U.S. and his cabal have literally (and I do not, ever, use that word incorrectly) made a mockery of law during the past six years. The Congress, owned as I’ve said lock, stock, and barrel by corporate America and the military industrial complex, has failed utterly to enforce the law. The White House and military industrial complex’s agent, none other than the U.S. Attorney General, has declared publicly that the U.S. Constitution is “an old document.”

What – you don’t understand what he means?!

I know these people. I have, as I noted yesterday, and have noted before (I wrote a book about it), faced these people down in the streets and at the door of my homes. In no instance of the literally scores of attacks on my constitutional rights as a citizen did the federal government or its emissaries show the slightest regard for the law. Their authority was that of power – muscle and guns – and beaten at their own game, they resorted to the tactics of every dictatorship in history – they attacked my family and friends.

One, more, time: WAKE THE HELL UP! You’re next.

Several people who have read my recent “blog” are apparently (experience has made me suspicious of Americans who profess ignorance or disbelief) nonplussed. Interested in the concept of guerrilla law, and desirous of doing everything they can to recover control of the country and destiny, they are so badly educated and informed that they know nothing of the history of law required. That’s not surprising, of course – it’s what government since time immemorial has endeavored to do. People knowledgeable about the laws by which they are governed are hard to abuse, and no intelligent person in his right mind can have any doubt about why our legal system has been brought by government and the corporations that control it to the status quo.

There are, as a matter of fact, a number of other people, among them wife Rita’s daughter and son-in-law, who are still unable to disabuse themselves of the idea that the Democratic Party – Republican Party rivalry remains real, and evidence that we still have a political process. That, of course, is evidently not true, with things like the unprecedented opening of the supposed political campaign this early an example of the Operation Mockingbird propaganda techniques now being used to “deceive, confuse, and bewilder” the public order to keep them in a controlled, Orwellian and only virtual reality.

As I’ve just observed, a president confident of the public’s feckless distraction and the congress’ co-option and sell-out to lobbyists commissioned and controlled by the nation’s profit-mad corporations, has, in fact, seized despotic power.

That there can be no doubt of that – he announces it publicly and continually – while the public persists in its Orwellian stupor attests, moreover, to the fact of an Operation Mockingbird media.

Frankly, even I am astonished, wondering what in the hell it will take to convince you, make you aware of what has happened?

Folks the so-called “debate” of night before last was nothing more than an operation designed to create a soap opera, a professional wrestling, television circus and electronic tabloid magazine by which to seize and hold the interest of the tabloid-reading, Britney Spear, Anna Nicole Smith, bimbo-of-the-week adulating public. Aware that events during the last two presidential administrations have uncovered the cesspool that is government, faced with the very real possibility of the rise of a real political party and what might be for all practical purpose total repudiation of the electoral process, the nation’s corporate masters are becoming nervous.

And dangerous.

Another case in point, that having to do with the insidious nature of law controlled only by government, and an example incontrovertibly probative thereof, is the federal tax code. Year after year, no tax authority has ever been able to interpret uniformly the literally scores of thousands of pages of convolute, nonsensical, and incomprehensible “law.” In witness of that fact, whole library rooms and buildings are required to contain all the volumes of record of court rulings which represent the effort to decide what the law means.

This of course, makes mockery of the concept of law. It makes mockery of the law because it means that only the government can say what the law means and is, and what the citizen is required to do. That courts may be called upon to interpret the law in no way changes that. The tax code is incontrovertibly unconstitutional as a creature of a legislature; and as a matter of contract between parties, it is unenforceable. No law or contract too vague to be uniformly interpreted by a court or other authority is constitutional and legal in the United States of America.

More, the entire legal system of the U.S. is of similar character now. The government, and the corporations that own it, are the only ones who can say what it means – or even says. It is therefore axiomatic that, inasmuch as only those able to pay the staggering costs of legal counsel and court process necessary to know what the law is, no fairness under the law – fairness required by the U.S. Constitution – exists. More in that regard, law that punishes unequally is likewise unconstitutional; and law that fines the poor in the same amount as the rich is obviously unfair.

I could go on for pages and books, but my point is this. Only law that is very simple has meaning or use for the common man. That is law prescribed and settled by history. Basic. Even more to the point, law, in the final analysis, is what large groups of people decide. That, when you think of it, is how the government at all levels determines what the law is. “Government,” said George Washington, is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force.”

Law, in other words, is what the greatest force says it is; and when enough people have decided what the law is – too many to be put in jail or to let their fellows be put in jail – THAT is the law .

The greatest force – whether the government or a group too big for the government to punish - does, in fact, what it pleases regardless of what has been enacted and written in the law. “Law enforcement” – George Washington’s “force” - achieves its aims by using overwhelming numbers and the force of numbers to work its way. Might does not make – or mean – right; still, the nation’s law libraries, filled as they are with tens of thousands of instances in which government and law enforcement agencies have arbitrarily violated – as the government did in my own experience - the rights of citizens, attest to the fact that government is not concerned with justice or rule by constitutional law. Each infringement upon the Constitution and its Bill of Rights has result in a narrowing of personal freedoms supposedly guaranteed by that same Constitution. When the government has done what it obviously knows is obviously wrong, the citizens’ recourse is to the government’s courts – an absurd state of affairs now becoming more apparent to the public with every passing outrage.

“Rule of Law” has in the United States become nonsense. It is everywhere apparent that government owned by corporations and the super-rich has nothing but contempt for the rights of the people or the law designed to protect them from government.

That I continue piling up examples and evidence, I hope, speaks of my extreme concern.

The illegal immigration matter is yet another example, a supreme one, of corporate government contempt for the concept of law. In New Haven, Connecticut – the latest example of official malfeasance, misprision, and subornation of violation of immigration law – illegal aliens – criminal violators of the law – are to be protected by public officials sworn to uphold the law they now choose to use brute force to violate.

Daily, now, the public is left to stand in stupefied disbelief at such news. But how do we retaliate?

First, let’s recall something from long ago, July 4, 1776, to be exact:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

“A decent respect to the opinions of mankind . . .” I have stated several – certainly not all; the president’s contemptuous and public rejections of the law number in the hundreds – of the reasons we, the people, must regain political power. The public fact that the president repudiates the law, and the Congress suborns and misprisions his crime will do for “causes which impel.”

Then, too rebellion always means bloodshed. Everything in one’s power must be done to prevent that. Make no mistake, however - the government’s willingness to resort to violence at the drop of a hat is as thunderously apparent as forty thousand SWAT raids in the past few years, Ruby Ridge, Waco, and dozens like it can make it. You might, in weighing the U.S. government’s willingness to kill in slaughter-like proportions, consider the War in Iraq.

How to proceed: first, and most practicable for most people, start writing letters; not just to Congress, but to judges and police officials. These people have a duty to enforce the law - illegal immigration included. Judges have a duty to order it enforced (issue, that is, court orders called writs of mandemus or quo warranto).

Get a Nolo press, pro se (suit without lawyer) publication; learn the simple process to petition the court for the writ. It only takes a little research to learn more (and I'll be writing about it here). Places that help illegal aliens send money (obtained under false pretenses) back to Mexico are violating the law. They can be ordered by the courts to stop, and the police can be ordered to watch the places for illegal immigrants. Etc. This crap all goes on because we are too damned lazy to do our civic duty to our country.

Write to congressmen and senators, anyone in government, for that matter – including police officials. Be angry (you have damned good right to be), and say so. Write again and again (make a copy of your first letter, mail it every week). Organize everyone you can to do the same. Use, “network,” the internet. Write a letter (I’ll publish an example here, then do the same), then e-mail it as many times as possible.

Call public officials at all levels – as many and as often as possible – to inquire concerning how to calculate legal damages you are suffering at the hands of illegal immigration. You’ll be told by them that this is practice of law and they aren’t licensed to practice law. Don’t be deterred – it’s the message the phone call sends that is important.

Call clerks of courts and anyone else connected with the courts; ask how to obtain small claims forms necessary for filing suit against illegal aliens and those hiring and employing them. Be sure you include reference to illegal aliens and those hiring and employing them.

Start doing everything you can to learn how many illegal aliens reside in your city, town, or country, and who employs them. Call newspapers. Ask Hispanics you know or meet how many illegal aliens they know (in my next – this is becoming too long – essay here, I will include useful phrases in Spanish to use when inquiring). Remind them that to know of a crime being committed and to do nothing is a punishable crime in itself.

Get a bumper sticker that says, “Mexican, if I catch you in my country without proper documentation, you will be arrested – even if I have to do it myself (Mejicano, si le hallase a usted en mi país sin documentación, usted estaría detenido – aún cuando el que lo hace fui yo).

That will do for starters (as I said, this is already too long . . .) Next, we’ll have more, with necessary details. We take back our country now, or we lose it.

What is important now is for YOU to do something. Some of us have been carrying the ball too long, now.