The Deep State Launches It's First Coup

By

  M. Richard Maxson


This series of articles continues to examine what the shadow government and the deep state are and how they have gained so much control over the U.S. government and society in general.

      During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world today. They continued the OSS policy of attempting to overthrow the government of our foe. The difference was that now we were not at war. The fear of Communism and the ideal that 'the end justifies the means, regardless of international law, the Constitution, or the elected government of the United States. In doing so they created the 'Deep State,” an underlying force that drove U.S. foreign policy clandestinly to what “the brothers believed “was in the best interests of the country. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America and how through their actions they shaped the modern history of the United States and the world.

      John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Emboldened by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries such as Cuba and Iran.

      The first serious foray into regime change was in the 1948 Italian election. The decision to interfere with the general election was greatly influenced by the Cold War that was starting between the United States and the Soviet Union. The National Security Act of 1947, that made foreign covert operations possible, had been signed into law about six months earlier by President Truman. The fear of Communism spreading was initiated earlier and after Czechoslovakia it became the justification to use any means to prevent that from happening. The CIA, by its own admission, gave $1 million to Italian "center parties". They also publishing forged letters in order to discredit the leaders of the Italian Communist Party. They made numerous short-wave radio broadcasts and funded the publishing of books and articles, all of which warned the Italians of what was believed to be the consequences of a Communist victory. The elections were eventually won with a comfortable margin by the Christian Democracy party that defeated the left-wing coalition of the Popular Democratic Front that comprised the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party. 
 
      Awash with optimism and confidence they turned their attention to the mid-east and Syria. The CIA began its active meddling in Syria in 1949—barely a year after the agency’s creation. In March of 1949, Syria’s democratically elected president, Shukri-al-Kuwaiti, hesitated to approve the Trans Arabian Pipeline, an American project intended to connect the oil fields of Saudi Arabia to the ports of Lebanon via Syria, but there was another proposal on the table. Oil from the fields of Iran via Iraq. To Syria's president this was a much more acceptable plan as it involved other Arab states without the infidel U.S. 

 
     Here, is the point in history where the “Deep State” and the “Shadow Government” joined forces for politics and profit. The “men in the shadows” realized that it could use the deep state to remove obstacles that prevented future massive profits and the deep state realized that it could use the backing of industry to finance it's political objectives – an American empire.

      The CIA engineered a coup, the first post WWII coup

in the middle east and it happened without a shot being fired. Replacing al-Kuwaiti with the CIA’s handpicked dictator, a convicted swindler named Husni al-Za’im. Al-Za’im barely had time to dissolve parliament and approve the American pipeline before his countrymen deposed him, 14 weeks into his regime as a puppet of the United States.

       The 'men in the shadows' found out that the handling of these desert tribesmen was not as easy as predicted. This was the first of many, many mis-calculations of the agency through the years. Today, Syria is one of multiple countries currently standing that has not been completely destroyed and transformed by the United States and almost 70 years later, the U.S. still has troops in the country. It was then the cross-hairs turned towards Syria's ally, Iran, who had stood behind the Arab version of the pipeline. Money was there to be made and obsticles were to be overcome, one way - or another.

Is the FISA Court Constitutional?

By

 M. Richard Maxson

      As with the old Soviet Union the United States has a secret judicial body that dispenses it's own form of justice without oversight from any citizen or legislator. It has been given sweeping authority to do as it chooses in issuing warrants for surveilance on everyone clandestinely using national security as it's justification. The thought process that invented this court and continues it's operations to this day and a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment requires judicially issued warrants for all government searches and seizures, and it mandates that those search warrants be based on probable cause of wrongdoing on the part of the person whom the government wishes to surveil and that the warrants themselves specifically describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized.

      In the pre-Revolutionary era, British courts in London secretly issued general warrants to British government agents in America. The warrants were not based on any

probable cause of crime or individual articulable suspicion; they did not name the person or thing to

be seized or identify the place to be searched. They authorized agents to search where they wished and seize what they found. The use of general warrants was so offensive to our Colonial ancestors that it whipped up more serious opposition to British rule and support for the revolutionaries than the "no taxation without representation" argument did. So when it came time for Americans to write the Constitution, they prohibited general warrants in the Fourth Amendment, the whole purpose of which was to guarantee the right to be left alone by forcing the government to focus on bad guys and prohibit it from engaging in fishing expeditions.

      If it weren't for Edward Snowden the average American citizen would have never known that there is a special court of federal judges which meets in secret to authorize the government to gather and review millions and millions of phone and internet records. This court, called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court), allows government lawyers to come before them in secret, with no representatives of the public or press or defense counsel allowed, to argue unopposed for more and more surveillance. This is the court which, in just one of its thousands of rulings that the public was not aware of, authorized the handing over of all call data created by Verizon within the US and between the US and abroad to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

     The powers that be are given carde blanche to do what ever they want out of view as nearly all of the thousands of decisions of the FISA court have been classified as top secret. The public is not allowed to know what the decisions are, but public records do show how many times the government asked for surveillance authorization and how many times they were denied. These show that in the last three years, the government asked for authorization nearly 5000 times and they were never denied and in its entire history, the FISA court has denied just 11 of 34,000 requests for surveillance.

      FISA was written in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, which involved illegal domestic spying. The purpose of FISA was to insert the judiciary between the NSA and its targets so as to ensure that there would be a consistent legal basis for the spying. What was that basis? The Supreme Court has long characterized domestic spying as surveillance, and it has characterized surveillance as either a “search” or a “seizure” of communications.

      What the NSA does not tell the FISA court is that its requests for approvals are a sham. That’s because the NSA relies on vague language in a 35-year-old executive order, known as EO 12333, as authority to conduct mass surveillance. The targets today are not just ordinary Americans, it is surveillance of everyone and that includes justices on the Supreme Court, military brass in the Pentagon, agents in the FBI, local police in cities and towns, and the man in the Oval Office. It captures the content of every telephone conversation, as well as every keystroke on every computer and all fiber-optic data generated everywhere within, coming to and going from the United States. This is not only profoundly unlawful but also profoundly deceptive. It is unlawful because it violates the Fourth Amendment. It is deceptive because Congress and the courts and the American people, perhaps even the president, think that the FISA court has been serving as a buffer for the voracious appetite of the NSA.

      In our misguided efforts to keep the country safe, we

have neglected to keep it free. We have enabled a deep state to become powerful enough to control a powerful president. We have placed so much data and so much power in the hands of unelected, unaccountable, opaque spies that they can use it as they see fit even to the point of committing federal felonies. Some members of the deep state have boasted that they can manipulate and thus control the president of the United States by selectively revealing and concealing what they know about anyone, including the president himself.

      This is a perilous state of affairs, brought about by the maniacal passion for surveillance spawned under George W. Bush and perfected under Barack Obama -- all with utter indifference to the constitutional violations and permanent destruction of personal liberties. This is not the government the Founders gave us. It is one far more dangerous to human freedom than perhaps anything that we have ever faced as a Republic.

Our Founding Fathers on the Second Amendment

By

 M. Richard Maxson

      The Founding Fathers were quite clear on their views of the second amendment. With all the “debate” that forces in the shadows continues to disarm America we need to revisit their views.

• "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
  - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

• "The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
  

                                                                                                – Samuel Adams

• "…arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside… Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them….”

                                                                                                 –Thomas Paine

 

• "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…”

                                - Richard Henry Lee

• "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”

                                                                                                   – George Washington

• "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

                                                                                                 – Thomas Jefferson

• "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

                                                                                                – Thomas Jefferson

• "I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”

                                                                                               – George Mason

• "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …”

                                                                                               – Richard Henry Lee

• "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.”
  

                                                                                              - Zachariah Johnson

• "The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” .

                                                                                              – Noah Webster

       To those who claim that this amendment has outlived it's purpose because it was written in a different time or was somehow not meant to be what it says it is we say – NUTS!

PROGRESSIVISM  is the belief that all things in the past are obsolete and only the present and the future is relevant. We say "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." Human knowledge is accumulative. To ignore all of mankind's progress is a form of mental illness.

The Critical Thinking of Constitutional Patriots

By

        Zeno Potas

       It's time to let critical thinking* Constitutional Patriots recite truisms that cut through the propaganda of the Deep State and it's media minions. The truth is what this blog is about. It may not set you free but you won't be able to say that you didn't know.

• "The U.S. media’s approach to Russia is now virtually 100 percent propaganda, to even suggest that there is another side to the story makes you a ‘Putin apologist’ or ‘Kremlin stooge.” 

       - Robert Parry
 

• "There’s no reason why the American and the Russian people should be hostile to each other. There’s a history of friendship and working together." 

        - former US Secretary of Defense William Perry

• "One of the tragedies is that we can no longer trust our military, our intelligence services, our politicians. They will manufacture whatever narrative they need to justify an action that they deem to be politically expedient." 

       - Scott Ritter commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, 
         specializing in intelligence

• "I just had the greatest brainwashing anybody can get" from U.S. generals and diplomats. 

       - George Romney, explaining on a TV show why he was changing his position on
         the war in Vietnam.

• "There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” 

      – Senator Daniel K. Inouye
 
 

• "Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means… We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government… This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This group…is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”  

      – Senator William Jenner 
 

• "We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." 

      - JFK
 

• "As difficult as it was for me, I’ve come to an inescapable and profoundly disturbing conclusion. I believe that an elite group of people and the corporations they run have gained control over not just our energy, food supply, education, and healthcare, but over virtually every aspect of our lives; and they do it by controlling the world of finance. Not by creating more value, but by actually controlling the source of money.” 

      - Foster Gamble
 

• "Democracy is popular because of the illusion of
  
  choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which most people’s knowledge of the world extends as far as sports, sitcoms, reality shows, and celebrity gossip, democracy becomes a very dangerous idea. Until people are properly educated and informed, instead of indoctrinated to be ignorant mindless consumers. Democracy is nothing more than a clever tool used by the ruling class to subjugate the rest of of us.” 

      – Gavin Nascimento

• "Being patriotic doesn’t mean simply agreeing with your government. Supporting your government, attempting to defend their values, doesn’t mean simply saying yes, okay, whatever you say. In fact, I would argue that being willing to disagree, particularly in a risky manner, is actually what we need more of today. When we have this incredible, often fact-free environment, where politicians can simply make a claim and then it’s reported, without actual critical analysis of what that means or what that effect would be, how do we actually steer democracy, how do we actually guide the boat. But if we have facts, and if we have people who have actually worked with these capabilities who are also participating in their democracy, maybe we can do a little bit better here." 

      - Edward Snowden

 

* Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically. They are keenly aware of the inherently flawed nature of human thinking when left unchecked.   They strive to diminish the power of their egocentric and sociocentric tendencies. They use the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers – concepts and principles that enable them to analyze, assess, and improve thinking. They work diligently to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual integrity, intellectual humility, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and confidence in reason. They realize that no matter how skilled they are as thinkers, they can always improve their reasoning abilities and they will at times fall prey to mistakes in reasoning, human irrationality, prejudices, biases, distortions, uncritically accepted social rules and taboos, self-interest, and vested interest. They strive to improve the world in whatever ways they can and contribute to a more rational, civilized society while at the same time they recognize the complexities often inherent in doing so.   They avoid thinking simplistically about complicated issues and strive to appropriately consider the rights and needs of relevant others. They recognize the complexities in developing as thinkers, and commit themselves to life-long practice toward self-improvement. They embody the Socratic principle: The unexamined life is not worth living , because they realize that many unexamined lives together result in a chaotic dangerous world.