A LONG RED LINE
OF SUBVERSION AND DECEPTION
By: Dorothy Anne Seese
Published in the September 22, 2003 issue of Ether Zone

Yet since 1861 this nation has been under siege as a federal republic, a nation comprised of sovereign states, and with a government that was to serve under, not rule over the people. The "rule of law" was to be applied equally, and yet while this noble ideal was being taught and believed, under the surface of the land the vines of kudzu were germinating.
* Abraham Lincoln destroyed the idea of a union of sovereign states in favor of a singular union where a strong central government would hold the power over the states and the people. His "government of the people, by the people and for the people" was emotionally-stimulating window-dressing for his intent to forever end the concept of sovereignty at the state level. Worse, the issue of slavery as a cause for war has beclouded this issue for more than 140 years, denying the fact that certain of the northern states still held slavery as legal at the time the war was begun. The South was demonized for a fiction -- the evil slaveholders -- while the North justified and glorified itself as being a great liberator, not admitting its own equally evil sins including legal slavery.
* By 1991, along came NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and opened up new avenues for foreigners to lure American businesses to their nations to make greater profits off their slave-wage labor while exporting their excess labor to America (legally or illegally) to take advantage of America's egregious, mismanaged and victim-creating social programs. Not only did the American middle class begin to feel the outflow of jobs to foreign nations, but the influx of new victims to create an ever-decreasing middle class and a perpetually expanding victim class that the government could manipulate at will.
* Also in the 1990's direct thought and speech control began to spread another layer of strangling kudzu over our true First Amendment rights as some speech became freer than other speech, depending on who was speaking and what was intended or thought to be intended. This process is as ongoing as ever, thanks to a corrupt, politicized judiciary that hardly claims any independence from the political mindsets of the day by making the rule of law its sole rule for practice and opinion. The Ninth "Circus" Court of Appeals in San Francisco has been rendering absurd opinions for decades, but now it is the nationalized judicial system with the Supreme Court as the ruling junta on all law, even when it clearly wrests the Constitution in such a manner as to say what is not written.
Thus the Union overtook and overwhelmed the states, the monied interests overwhelmed the rights of the individuals under law and equity, the international bankers bought their politicians and manipulated the American economic structure, the military/industrial complex cashed in on wars fought by American soldiers and a supposed freedom defended by American blood. Further, the sociocratic establishment infiltrated academia from the university down to the kindergarten level to teach a revisionist history of America and alienate all allegiance to the republic.
Where once we had tolerance, we are now taught what tolerance we shall have or shall not have. Where once we felt free, we know we are oppressed and our rights are not inalienable but actually privileges granted at the pleasure of the ruling elite, including the judiciary. At times, this means especially the judiciary.
Freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof now depends on which religion is in favor and which is out of favor. Freedom of the press means the freedom to print whatever the government says is correct to print. Freedom to peaceably assemble means "peaceably" can be determined at any time by any court. Privacy in our homes and affairs is whatever the government says is privacy.