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America Needs a Shadow Government
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Timothy V. Gatto
Information Clearing House
September 18, 2008
I think I can speak for many Americans when I say that our government has been less than responsive as far as ending militarism and holding our civil liberties sacrosanct. In fact, less than responsive is being generous, as we have seen this nation totally scrap the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, station troops in bases world-wide in over 130 different nations, and wage aggressive war on three nations, become complicit with another nation to wage war (Georgia) and institute trade sanctions (another Act of War by International law) on Iran.
During the past two terms of this Presidency we have learned in-depth about signing statements, the “Unitary Presidency”, numerous Executive Orders that remain secret from the Congress, extraordinary “rendition”, and torture to include inflicting injuries on another human being “to the point of, but not exceeding organ failure”. We know of places such as Abu Graib, and Guantanamo and watched as our Army dropped white Phosphorus on innocent civilians in a city called Fallujah where photographs of women and children showed burned blackened corpses while the clothes and blankets they were wrapped in weren’t even singed. We learned about depleted uranium and exposed our soldiers and Iraqi citizens to ionizing radiation that causes cancers, leukemia, and birth defect among other things. Radiation that we brought to Iraq and Afghanistan has a half-life of eight billion years.
We watched as Congress enabled the President to commit vast sums of money on an aggressive war in the Middle-East, taking money away from the taxpayer that could have been used to build schools, hospitals and to fix crumbling infrastructure in this country. We could have offered every American student tuition free higher education instead of dumping it into Iraq in the quest for global resources like oil. We could have taken the trillion dollars that we spent on these wars and used it to promote alternate energy resources. Instead of looking out for the taxpayers, the Congress, controlled by BOTH major corporate political parties, squandered our nation’s wealth on war and weapons of war for a global empire nobody voted on and nobody wants save those that are now in government.
Congress voted for The Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act, The John Warner Defense Bill (The re-vamped Insurrection Act), the enhanced FISA Bill that gave the telecom companies retroactive immunity for illegally wiretapping American citizens for the Executive Branch which was against the law. Congress ignored Articles of Impeachment against the President and Vice-President time and time again. Congressional subpoenas have been ignored by members of the Executive Branch and Congress does not impose inherent contempt charges on these individual and send Capitol Police to arrest them for willfully disobeying Congress. The checks and balances that were built into our Constitution are broken from neglect and disuse. Congress has allowed the Executive Branch to supersede those powers that were expressly given to Congress by our Constitution.
We are now facing an election in which the nominees were presented to us by a compliant corporate led media. Before a single vote had been cast, two of the Democratic nominees had been barred from taking part in the Primary Debates. We saw, according to The Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org), corporate money in bundles campaign donations go to two Democrats almost exclusively before a vote was cast in the primaries. The two major party nominees both support more war and more military spending, while ignoring the fact that we have lost a majority of our civil liberties that were stated in the Bill of Rights.
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Meanwhile the media is controlled by the same interests that now control our elected officials from the two major parties, and tout only two candidates, the Democrat and the Republican. To illustrate that there is hardly a difference between them, they must rely on “straw man” arguments such as gay rights, abortion, taxes and education. These are the same issues that are brought up time after time, election after election, yet most of these issues should be settled by the States, not the Federal Government. They fail to bring up the loss of our constitutional rights like freedom of speech and the press, unrestricted search and seizures without a warrant. Non-lethal force such as tasers, rubber bullets and riot gas being used on demonstrators in violation of their free speech rights, as they are rounded up from “free speech” zones. The candidates neglect to bring up the fact that the Unites States of America spends 48% of the entire world’s spending on the military. The candidates threaten Russia as we encircle them with nuclear –tipped missiles and American military bases. We demonize Venezuela and Hugo Chavez while we interfere in the internal affairs of Bolivia against the democratically elected government of Evo Morales by giving five provinces rich in natural gas, hundreds of thousands of dollars to succeed from Bolivia.
Our Federal government has allowed unchecked predatory capitalism to thrive in this country, offering mortgages to people with suspect credit, knowing full well that these people would never be able to pay the ballooning mortgages in the future in order to make a quick buck. Our economy is going belly-up by these “lassie faire” practices that have raped the taxpayers while the government bails out the banks and brokers with “corporate welfare”. The top 10% of the wealthiest people in this nation own 71% of its wealth! This gives the remaining 90% of us 21% to share together.
I have written about all of this before. There are examples that for sake of brevity I have not mentioned instances which are just as egregious as those mentioned above like the Federal assistance after Katrina and the saber-rattling towards Iran. I needed to restate all of these things to illustrate that our federal government is totally out of control, and is not concerned about the well-being of the American taxpayer. The simple fact is that after this election, with the two candidates they are running and the third parties shut out of participating in an honest election because of impediments set up by the two-party duopoly, we will have no change in the foreseeable future. Others besides me have predicted that we will have more of the status quo if McCain or Obama are elected. Unless this nation comes to an epiphany and all at once gets behind Nader or McKinney which is very doubtful, our votes will not win this election. This election will be decided by the mass media’s coverage of the two corporate candidates that are both more of the same, and the general public that has been dumbed-down by the same media and the lack of honest news.
So what can we do? I propose a “Shadow Government” that be made up of all the third parties and the disaffected Republicans and Democrats that are tired of the American Empire and the squandering of our nation’s wealth on wars while our civil liberties are being taken from us. It can be formed at a conference much like the one last week-end at Andover, Mass. We are looking at a police state that operates outside the rule of law that we have operated on for over two hundred years. This shadow government will be divided up much like the Federal Government. Instead of individuals holding office however, there will be committees that will monitor every action by every part of every branch of this government to insure that they are following the laws, and not operating outside the rule of law which is US code and the Constitution.
These committees will have not power but to seek indictments against those in the federal government that break US law. They can seek relief in local, State and Federal Courts. Every move that this corporate government makes will be followed closely by this shadow government to insure that the excesses that happened in the last decade are not allowed to continue. The shadow government can also lobby for campaign finance reform to get corporate money out of political elections. All other partisan issues will be left to political interests lest they take the focus off of what the shadow government was designed to do.
Drastic times call for drastic measures. This country is rapidly coming apart at the seams and our government continues as if this is what is expected of them. It’s time to tell them what is expected of them by banding together, left, right, liberal, conservative the old paradigms’ no longer matter. So for now it is not between left and right, only between right and wrong, and it’s about time.
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September 18th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
you MOM has a nice c---
September 18th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
LOL
How long before a shadow government for the shadow government is needed?
All we can do is limit the damage imperfect and corruptable people can do while they hold power.
It’s time to get back to the future.
Back to the Constitution
September 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Wow Drew. That was intelligent.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Yeah, that’s just what we need, more bureaucracy, bigger government…
September 18th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
“Drew”,
Now why do you have to go and post something juvenile like that! Can’t we all just stick to being somewhat serious here, considering that our country and the world is coming apart right now?! Thanks!
September 18th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I’m in, and I’ll bring a few hundred with me.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
drew. my mom says you got a small dick and next time she will give you a discount. hopefully when they start rounding up you will be first, oh but the government love me .take me to your safety camp please.
DIP s---.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Police State Treachery in Illinois.
http://www.pjstar.com/news/x85.....s-on-crowd
September 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Hell… We already have one.. and it has broken the back of a nation..
What we need is an ACCOUNTABLE Government… We could try that since the shadow GVt deal isn’t working…
September 18th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Interesting…
Personally I prefer an incentive system towards corporations to move towards the constitution and libertarian values, to join the side for liberty, than the ‘us’ vs ‘them’ version..
Briefly it goes like this: Think about it!
Everyone does 2 years military service, of which 1 year is in a police force — where they (i) don’t just get brainwashed, but learn from some radical JAG attorneys what military law is about, self defence, setting up militia’s etc (ii) in police they learn all about their rights, and about investigations, etc., etc.
Now comes the important part: The eventual intention is to abolish taxes, not only for individuals but also corporations!! What corporation doesn’t want to LEGALLY AND PATRIOTICALLY NOT PAY TAX???????
So, here is how it goes; after you spent your ‘Patriotic Service’ (or whatever you wish to call it), you join the work force, and you are a member of a local militia. IF YOU AND YOUR CORPORATION REGISTER YOU AS BEING ON-CALL for say a maximum amount of one month or two months a year — whereby either the Police or Militia can call you out, to aide them, when they are low-staffed (remember we are attempting to reduce the size of the goverment, including Police and Military)….
So, the corporate tax system can work like this: A corporation has 20,000 employees, of which 40% are PATRIOTS (ie ‘ready and more importantly ABLE TO SERVE); then they get a 40% TAX DEDUCTION.
If a corporation has 100% employees who are ‘PATRIOTS’, THEY DON’T PAY ANY TAXES, BECAUSE THEIR EMPLOYEES ARE CAPABLE AND ABLE, AND WILLING TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS RUNNING POLICE DEPT (IN TIMES OF HIGH CRIME, OR WHEN EXTRA POLICE, ETC ARE NEEDED, SAME WITH MILITARY), BUT IN TIMES OF ALL IS FINE — THEY AREN’T NEEDED, SO THEY DON’T HAVE TO GO AND PRACTICE POLICE DISASTER CAPITALISM…
Call it a PATRIOT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN…..
It’s one of the points for my PRESIDENTIAL PLATFORM, WHAT DA YA THINK?
JMCSwan
September 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Shadow government, shadow schmovernment.
Yeah, right. MORE government.
No.
We need to toss out the current government – TRASH IT.
And then build a new one that doesn’t self-corrupt.
It actually is possible….!
September 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
saw a big square, purple light apearing in the sky and I heard God’s voice! God was angry on people who had turned their back to him and have given up faith and mad at those who were thinking that they had power. Then he said I’m going to send my angel of judgment to show to the world and those people that who is God. So that they will never forget that I’m God the Power.
I looked at the other side , and saw a white cloud , in shape of a woman with a pointed finger , traveling heading towards west. And that was the end of it.
This is what I saw in my dream last week and I just wanted to share it with you.
I just want you to know , that they are over. Their days are counted. God , our creator is going to open up more eyes and people are going to rise and topple down men who are fooling around with God’s children and his propety the earth.
God bless you all.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
If you wait around for “your god” then sorry to say nothing will get done. We need to stand up and take back what is ours! Faith: belief that is not based on proof, belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion….THAT’S THE BIGGEST SCAM OF ALL!! So we wait around for something and get enslaved in the meantime, yea no thanks. 9/11 was an inside job, their trying to eliminate the middle class. Money is just fancy paper, wake up folks. We are many they are few.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Just what we don’t need….more government and more stupid bible verses to explain it….Why don’t you bible thumpers go back to screwing your neighbor’s wives and molesting kids and let the people with BRAINS decide for once!!I think you bible thumpers have done enough damage,thank you!!I mean,wasn’t Mr.President a fine conservative MAN OF GOD 8 years ago???Oh,that didn’t go too well,did it??
September 18th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Savage I just shared my dream and I know that NWO is going to go down because it is EXPOSED now. What is happening now , is more that a dream come true. Even those who denied NWO , are going to see the facts. The world is on auction….
God has exposed them to the world. And now it is up to us the people to rise and bring these blood,gold,propety hungry elites to judgement. God is in us and with us, he is unlocking the hidden dorrs and opening eyes.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
listen f--- the fbi,f--- the cia, f--- em all this country is almost finished if people dont wake the hell up now we need people more than ever dont believe obama and macain their not gonna make this country anybetter
September 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
#11 JMC that “platform” sounds like Obama, (socialized public service for young people),
McCain, (tax breaks for the “right” corporations) with a little Hitler and Stalin mixed in.
A system of favoritism toward a particular group is what has almost destroyed us already.
In the U.S. now if you are a Freemason you are above the law. Others are passed
over while you get the choice positions because you are in the favored group.
It STINKS! That “favored group” has looted, lied and betrayed the American people
until we’re near finished as a 1st World nation. You want an example of a near-
perfect Presidential platform? Use the Constitution!
GOD HELP OUR BLOOD-BOUGHT FREE AMERICAN REPUBLIC!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
#15 Southernraven OBVIOUSLY DICK CHENEY s--- YOU INTO EXISTENCE, IT WAS’NT YOUR MOTHER!!! YOU ARE TRULY A SORRY MOTHER f---ER WITH LITTLE EXISTENCE IN THIS COUNTRY, GO f--- YOUR SELF LOOSER!!!!!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
wake up the troops and police, let them know whats going on. Dont assume they all know and dont assume they are all Bad.
Wake em up.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
A New Continental Congress!
September 18th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
#20 Gunslinger…don’t get mad at me cuz voting for Bush blew up in your face.How was it that Dick Cheney s--- me out when I never voted for him?I know your NWO ass get’s paid for blogging,and I would gladly f--- myself before I would ever talk to you in public,as you are a little bitch,and a child molester.The truth hits home with you,that’s why your so mad.Your the loser.thanx for voting for Bush.I bet you have wet dreams over McSame getting in office,don’t you?
September 18th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
shadow gov’t is a good idea, only on temporary basis. Our power will come from all citizens being armed and aware of true intentions of the current shadow gov’t run by int’l bankers
drew is a distraction…
September 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
I do believe we need a way to hold our government employees accountable for their actions. But just having some committees that can indict is not enough. As #2 implied, it wouldn’t be long before these committees are penetrated and become useless.
It is fairly easy to hold local governments accountable. But, state and federal governments are harder. We need a PEOPLE’S COURT that is over the local, state and federal governments, and will have the power to investigate ALL RECORDS of all of the governments, and imprison the officials for high crimes and misdemeanors. No government secrets or black ops programs will be hidden from these courts. This court will only be used to investigate and prosecute cases against the government officials that the people do not believe have been judicially reviewed and fairly prosectued by the government’s themselves. There should be a PEOPLE’S COURT for all governments, local, state and federal. These courts are elected by the people, and removed by the people. All cases will be trial by jury. Convictions will be enforced by the police of each branch, who will be answerable to these courts. All courts will be televised and fully open to the PEOPLE.
I don’t know how else to hold our governments accountable. Our representatives are no longer answerable to us, except by election. They say congress only has a 9% approval rating. Yet, time after time, the same people keep getting re-elected. We have congressmen and senators who we know are taking bribes from corporations, yet nothing can be done. We have watchdog organizations such as Judicial Watch, who report these abuses and crimes. Still nothing gets done. We have a federal court system that tells the people; Yes, you have a right to redress of grievances under the first amendment, but the government doesn’t have to listen to you. This happened with We The People Lawsuit.
The People need a direct way to hold their government’s accountable, and that can be enforced. This article has suggested one method, only enforcement wasn’t mentioned. I have suggested another method. Who else has any other ideas?
September 18th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Hey Alex ! The frenetic, moving ads on the margins are a real distraction when trying to read your
usually excellent articles. They persuade me to not even consider if the products have any merit.
Do you think maybe we could possibly…
September 19th, 2008 at 1:23 am
How about a shadow government for the whole of North America? the NAUSG!
September 19th, 2008 at 8:02 am
That’s a pretty foolish idea…create a “shadow” government (which sounds as bad as the one we’ve got) run by even more people that don’t speak for you or me!
It’s funny, we hear about the elites, we read about them and their paid whores (corporate media, local, state, and federal governments, the police and military, etc.) here and on other “alternate” media sites…and the same people bitching and screaming about the elite and there terrible system of control want to replace it with their own sick little system, and of course, it will be based on the Constitution and the “U.S. Code”…We’ll f--- you Mr.Gatto!
I’m a free man living within a system I never approved of, voted on, contracted, with ,etc., etc., and I will not submit to another “government” ushered in by, again, a few “elites”. And that is what people with power become, corrupt elites consumed with power and a need to control the lives of other people.
Do you people want a fair and just solution? Or would you rather talk about this s--- until you can’t? And trust me, there will come a day, and it may be coming much faster then any of us ever thought, when we will not have the means to communicate en mass, to talk or complain about these evil bastards.
We need to band together, arm ourselves and practice civil disobedience, stop funding and taking part in their system. The cities are the elite’s strongholds, so it logically follows that we should move out of the cities and create our own communities and our own form of commerce and trade.
Our survival depends on collective security. We must learn to actually love our neighbor as we love ourselves. If the jack-booted thugs show up with ten men, then we meet them with 50 armed men and women. We need to actually sacrifice something if we truly want to be free. There is plenty of land, good land, left in the U.S., and we need to organize and buy up large tracts of land so we can set up our own communities, free from foreign or evil intrusions, backed up by our collective power.
When we hear about other people being destroyed by this evil government we need to band together and meet the thugs with force, in order to restore the freedom they are taking from us. This doesn’t mean preemptive force, just defensive action.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:58 am
bravo big man #28, FINALLY someone with some good ideas. I’ve also been saying these things for some time.
-Get out of the cities
-Get to know your neighbour and make a bond with them (city folk who don’t even know your name will not save your ass when the time comes – contrary to what Warner Bros would like you to think)
-Learn the law
-Get armed and learn to use it
-Grow your own food
-Acquire a fresh water supply
People think “this guy is mad. He want’s us to live in the woods!” To them I say: do you think things are going to get any better? Do you think the crooks in government are, all of a sudden, going to have a change of heart and say, ‘oh let’s take it easy on the people and stop ripping them off and creating false flag events in order to go to war’? No, I didn’t think so.
Do these things while you can.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:25 am
#25 Seabee, what good would a peoples court do without an armed force to enforce the decisions of the court. Imagine yourself being charged for a crime, going to court, the jury convicting you and the judge sentencing you to jail. Then you turn to the judge and tell him/her to go to hel and try to walk out of the court. What do you think would happen to you?
So. it’s quite obvious that citizens need to form an armed force of their own. That was the EXACT reasoning behind the founding fathers reason for the 2nd amendment. The right to form militias. And you shouldn’t need a piece of paper (the Consitution) to tell you this. If someone is raping/pilaging/stealing/murdering you or your family you have the INHERENT right to blow their brains out. Forget the constitution for a second and think like a person with blood flowing through their veins.
Now, if you were part of a militia, would you need to use the court much? No, you would not. Why? Think about it. How many times have Russia and the US went to court over either/or invading their space? Not much except over the last few months. And the court was the mass global media. When you are big enough, armed enough and ready enough, the govt will not f--- with you and your possessions, for fear of the militia walking in and blowing them all to smithereens.
Form the militias first. Then if/when the need arises, form the courts. If you’re well armed, you can form the courts on YOUR terms and YOUR laws. Not theirs.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Until I’m told by the mainstream propaganda ministry that our government is now a government “of corporate interests, by corporate interests, for corporate interests,” I’m holding on to the “Republic if we can keep it,” idea. Timothy V. Gatto doesn’t seem to understand that there already is a “shadow government” which is far from what his article proposes.
The capitol market problem is a symptom of a far more GINORMOUS problem. Who is the enemy, and who allows the practice of banks to gouge their small business customers because they need the interest for earnings, and they know that firms of modest size have nowhere else to go? If you suspect that it’s the NWO then you are beginning to wake up. Their footprints are traceable by the “red ink.”
God bless the awakening!
September 19th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Speaking so much money that we don’t even have being spent on wars for oil. I never could figure that one out. We were paying about 1.20 at the pump for gas and now it’s about 4.00. If I was in the army right now I would be really pissed off for putting my life on the line for oil just to see the price increase in not only dollars but lives and ruined lives. I don’t know, but I suspect there is more to this than oil. But what is it? All just to line the pockets of the rich? That doesn’t make sense to me either because what will the rich buy with their dollars once the economy crashes not only in the U.S., but around the world?
September 19th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
are you ready for the obamanation of desolation? see daniel chapter 12
September 20th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Where is my comment I posted this morning ???????????????
Dose Alex have some Commies working to monitor peoples thoughts and comments. So now he has thought police telling us what we can say and cant say.
Dame these CONTROL FREEKS !!!!
September 20th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Now after I make a comment about my posting not being there, I see my post is up ( but do you see it ????
But it says …. Your comment is awaiting moderation.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Yeaaa bunch of crap………
September 20th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Now after I make a comment about my posting not being there, Then I submit it and refresh the page, I see my post is up, maybe for me to see only, but do youall see it ????
But it says …. Your comment is awaiting moderation.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Yeaaa bunch of crap………
September 20th, 2008 at 11:53 am
those of US who think that there is some sort of a master conspiracy at work are probably right but without the full-fledged support of many millions of government and quasi-government workers at all levels (ie city, state and federal) who stand ready to crush all forms of LOVE and PEACE and HOPE and JUSTICE, the NWO would be a mere wish.
from the bewilderness-thank you for coming
James Mansfield
PS: are you with US or with them?
September 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
The difference between Nato and the Nazi’s .
1) Nato is a group of countries aggressively invading the world
Nazi’s were two countries aggressively invading the world
2) Nato has almost complete control of all media in the western world (exeption being Alex and
the 911 truth movement)
Nazi’s had control of the media in Germany and Austria and not the world.
3) Nato has plans for a 100 year war of to promote Nwo controlled slavery and is being sold as
democracy.
Nazi’s also had prepared for a long war even stating they would invade the Usa in the 80’s and
they promoted fascism
4) Nato had public opinion on there side because they sold us the idea terrorists attacked us
and they were threatening our freedoms .
Nazi’s were using a policy called lebensraum or expansion of living space to promote there
beliefs that the state controls every aspect of your life . From the begginning they were viewed
as the aggressors to the world.
5) Nato is surrounding Russia.
The nazi’s signed a non aggression pact with Russia and split poland
6) The German economy in 1939 was strong and people were happy with there leadership.
Nato’s economies started crumbling on Sept 11 2001 and has only increased (when it comes to
leadership we dont follow politics because it is negative) American Idol , sporting events and
hollywood are important(even if were broke as long as we have cable)
7) Nato cannot control how media has made bush look like a weak moron
Nazi ’s made hitler look strong and next to god.
Nazi’s had complete censorship
9) Nato is slowly planning to invde the world.
Nazi’s used the term blitzkrieg or lightning attack.
10) Nato is anti family and allows the destruction of her empire internally by causing viruses,
poisoning us , abortion that has killed 50 million (North america) Gmo, cancer , chem trails
poison water (Flouride) and anti family policies like same sex marriage.
Nazi’s were pro family , gave rewards for child birth (kinder kurche kuche) ,anti abortion and
anti same sex marrige.
I belive Nato is far worse then the nazis and they plan on causing more destruction then The nazi party . At least Germany only attacked anyone who was against the regime, in the case of the Nato everyone is a potential target including The Elites.This is complete suicide for man kind
Ps , Totalitarianism always falls and truth prevails and thats Positive…
Post your comments on below link.
http://posmedprod.webs.com/criticalissues.htm
September 21st, 2008 at 10:20 am
What the amerikan government needs is people with loaded,cocked, fingers pulling the triggers on shotguns to every face of this government. Imagine a boot stomping a politicians face…..forever.