Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
No doubt about it.
The coup d’etat has been successful.
The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state a.k.a. the military industrial complex—has taken over.
The American system of representative government has been overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic corporate state bent on total control and global domination through the imposition of martial law here at home and by fomenting wars abroad.
When in doubt, follow the money trail.
It always points the way.
Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought—lock, stock and barrel—and made to dance to the tune of the Deep State.
Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC.
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Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump has paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.
Just recently, for instance, Trump agreed to sell Saudi Arabia more than $110 billion in military weapons and “tanks and helicopters for border security, ships for coastal security, intelligence-gathering aircraft, a missile-defense radar system, and cybersecurity tools.”
This is how you keep the Deep State in power.
The rich will get richer, the military will get more militaristic, America’s endless wars will get more endless, and the prospect of peace will grow ever dimmer.
As for the terrorists, they will keep on being played for pawns as long as Saudi Arabia remains their breeding ground and America remains the source of their weapons, training and know-how (15 of the 19 terrorists—including Osama bin Laden—who carried out the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia).
Follow the money. It always points the way.
As Bertram Gross noted in Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America, “evil now wears a friendlier face than ever before in American history.”
Writing in 1980, Gross predicted a future in which he saw:
…a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades. In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion…
We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started going downhill, but we’re certainly on that downward trajectory now, and things are moving fast.
The “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has perished.
It will not be revived or restored without a true revolution of values and a people’s rebellion the likes of which we may not see for a very long time.
America is a profitable business interest for a very select few, and war—wars waged abroad against shadowy enemies and wars waged at home against the American people—has become the Deep State’s primary means of income.
After all, war is big business.
In order to maintain a profit margin when there are no more wars to be fought abroad, one would either have to find new enemies abroad or focus on fighting a war at home, against the American people, and that’s exactly what we’re dealing with today.
Wars waged abroad to the tune of trillions of dollars since 9/11.
Military equipment sold to foreign enemies.
Local police transformed into a standing army in the American homeland through millions of dollars’ worth of grants to local police agencies for military weapons, vehicles, training and assistance.
The public acclimated to the sights and sounds of martial law through urban training exercises and domestic military training drills timed and formulated to coincide with or portend actual crises.
The citizenry taught to fear and distrust each other and to welcome the trappings of the police state.
Had the government tried to ram such a state of affairs down our throats suddenly, it might have had a rebellion on its hands. Instead, the American people have been given the boiling frog treatment, immersed in water that slowly is heated up—degree by degree—so that they’ve fail to notice that they’re being trapped and cooked and killed.
“We the people” are in hot water now.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the Constitution doesn’t stand a chance against a federalized, globalized standing army protected by legislative, judicial and executive branches that are all on the same side, no matter what political views they subscribe to: suffice it to say, they are not on our side or the side of freedom.
From Clinton to Bush, then Obama and now Trump, it’s as if we’ve been caught in a time loop, forced to re-live the same thing over and over again: the same assaults on our freedoms, the same disregard for the rule of law, the same subservience to the Deep State, and the same corrupt, self-serving government that exists only to amass power, enrich its shareholders and ensure its continued domination.
The republic has fallen to fascism with a smile.
Elections will not save us.
Learn the treacherous lessons of 2008 and 2016: presidential elections have made a mockery of our constitutional system of government, suggesting that our votes can make a difference when, in fact, they merely serve to maintain the status quo.
Don’t delay.
Start now—in your own communities, in your schools, at your city council meetings, in newspaper editorials, at protests—by pushing back against laws that are unjust, police departments that overreach, politicians that don’t listen to their constituents, and a system of government that grows more tyrannical by the day.
If you wait until 2020 to rescue our republic from the clutches of the Deep State, it will be too late.
R E Lee in a letter to Lord Acton in 1866:
“whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”
SECEDE!
I may be kicking a hornets nest, but here goes.
First, I accept that since Eisenhower, we have been in the arms racket business since before I was born (only by a few years). The prosperity I grew up in and the America that was at least from the 50’s, was probably based on enriching the military industrial complex; who made profits and maintained a workforce that equated to prosperity.
The direction that is damaging to America is when we offer the blood of our young men and women fighting for a false cause for the sake of war profits; either at home or abroad. But selling arms to a foreign country seems a benefit to our economy and as long as our blood is not in the contract, a benefit to us.
Having said that I realize maybe the two cannot be separated, maybe ultimately American lives eventually become part of the deal. So, I’m not sure but will end with a question; can arms be sold to Saudi Arabia without including our military intervention, or in the end, sooner or later the cost will include American lives?
NO!
Regardless of the body count. The money (our tax money) that goes into the MIC is pissed away. It does not generate wealth growth as it would if that money was kept by its rightful owners (We, the taxpayers).
Just to follow your thought, are you saying the funds we give other countries are the funds they use to purchase our military equipment? I’m following you on that one, but still the money goes to purchasing equipment we build with our technology by our workers. Some may be pissed away, but some does indeed benefit the economy. Thanks for your reply.
For every roughly $10000 in weapons sold to any middle eastern country, it is safe to assume that you are creating roughly one refugee or one extremist. For every 10000 of these you create, one will enter the west and kill an average of one westerner. If this general math holds true, then this arms deal will cost 1000 westerners their lives (at home, not in the middle east). It is a disgusting system of capitalized death, completely satanic. The sickest part of it is that westerners pay for this through higher taxes, or higher health care costs or tuition or wherever the hell this newly created money ends up going. It is just one thing on a very long list of things that I truly do not understand why people tolerate.
The coup was accomplished on September 11, 2001 as the twin towers and buildings 3,4,5, and 6 were turned into dust:
The coup took place Dec. 23, 1913.
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Yes indeed. 1913 was a good year for “Them”. The Fed, Income tax, and the little understood but equally important 17th Amendment, direct elections of the Senate. This removed the last remaining impediment to eliminating states rights. The Senators now had to subject themselves to the madness of the crowds which is direct democracy, easily influenced by outside money. Before that every county government had at least some say in who that states Senators would be which bound said Senators to the states. Without this it’s unlikely we would have entered WWI and a whole lot of other messes.
Fleabaggs.
“The coup took place Dec. 23, 1913.”
If that were true, then there would have been no need of “A New Pearl Harbor” as was demonstrated on September 11, 2001. Up until then there was, at least, a premise of good will. After that they just began thumbing their noses at us because they had finally consolidated their power.
What’s worse….in some ways…is that our children and children’s children won’t see or understand they are in a pot of boiling water. They will be so indoctrinated to believe in the “state” that they won’t understand what freedom even means and will be ready to kill or criminalize anyone who thinks differently. What I could say on a corner 20 years ago, I no longer can…the “tolerance” for anything that allows for the individual above the group is gone. When only the chosen are allowed to succeed and all others only allowed to serve….we live in a Corporatocracy. Very soon there will be too many people consuming too many resources as compared to the required workforce to serve… a culling will be required to allow the few to continue their Capitol of Panem lifestyle. If a dramatic turning doesn’t cause upheaval within the next 20 years, I fear that there will no one left with the ideology in any significant number to topple the ruling class.
Oute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite
– Joseph de Maistre
Every nation gets the government it deserves.