Thee Great American Illusion (Sub titled) The Freedom You Never Had & Freedoms You Lost By RW GLESS Introduction I was asked by several people why I was writing a book about the negative points of America from its conception. My response was, and is, because most Americans don’t realize that a lot of what America has become today is a direct result of what was done from the beginning to circumvent the Constitution. Being a Former one term Elected Official in California I also have had the unpleasant honor of seeing how the government treat the citizens, and how many of the people have no real idea how government really works or really should work and really no idea how it has worked. Did you know that politicians are sent on “Information Seminars” i.e. training junkets that basically teach the new politicians how to dupe the public? I was jokingly once told it is better to be the duper than the dupee, which at the time I got a real laugh out of. My laugh was because of the absolute truth in that statement. That is exactly how most people think anymore and my laugh was one of hilarious disgust. I was also laughing because I knew a lot of people think they are the Duper when in reality they are really the Duped. My assumptions about the taxpayer paid junkets had been confirmed, and I decided I wasn’t going to waste the taxpayer’s money going to a junket to be taught how to control the very people I was supposed to be representing. I already knew the government was no longer really out to protect us but to control us, and they needed to teach those in power how to accomplish that. I was once told by the city’s police chief that elected official come and go but the city staff will still be there long after I was gone. What he basically was telling me is I wasn’t going to change anything because it really was the staff and public employees that call the shots. I may not have really changed the waste and corruption I saw, but I gave them hell on the floor. It has been 20 years since I first stepped into the political arena as an elected official. I told the people the truth about what was really going on in their government, but I soon found out they didn’t want to hear it. No, they wanted to hear warm and fuzzy bedtime stories, they didn’t really want to hear the ugly truth, and still don’t. Apparently the majority of the people can’t handle the truth. They only want to see the positive and not the negative. But without seeing the negative, there can never be any positive, only a sleepy illusion that one day they will have to confront. I am hoping the people are starting to wake-up and see the same thing I see; I firmly believe all freedom in this country will soon come to an end, if this Country doesn’t get back to its intended limited republic form of government. But I am not alone in this belief; one of our founding fathers seemed to believe the same thing 216 years ago. At the close of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin left the hall in Philadelphia, he was asked, “What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?” He replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” From what I can deduce by his statement, there must have been ranker and discord amongst those who wanted more of a Democratic Democracy and those who wanted a strong Democratic Republic. What most people are not aware of is that there were independents like Franklin, Washington (though Washington leaned Federalist) Jefferson and Madison that weren’t part of a political party in the beginning, and then there were the Federalists, like Hamilton and Adams which believed in strong government powers. Both sides however saw the down-side to a Democratic Democracy and the rest is history. John Adams who was a Federalist had said; “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. - John Adams” Article 4, Section 4 of the United States Constitution shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence. James Madison, who has been called the Father of the Constitution had this to say; “Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths… A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” I am going to try and make this as short winded as possible since I myself don’t like long drawn out books. I guess I have a short attention span… unless I find something very interesting, and then I will try and get as much information about it as I can. The events and quotes are from documented facts and statements recorded down in time so they are as factual as anyone can get today or as factual as those who recorded history wanted people to believe. I say this because as many of you know; ‘To the victors go the spoils’ and how history is to be written. I will also have my opinionated conservative constitutionalist libertarian commentary strewn between the facts and comments and true stories about the corruption and waste I have uncovered in local politics. – RW Gless
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 06:38:39 +0000
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