Another Prominent Journalist Walks Away from the Democrat Party

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      Journalist Bari Weiss, a Jewish liberal who was hired to supposedly broaden their views 

after they miscalculated the election of 2016. She was told that centrist and conservative 

views would now be part of the publication. They lied. She was constantly berated for her

 opinions from colleagues who deemed many of her ideas “wrongthink.” 

      She stated that her forays into this supposed “wrongthink” have made her the subject of 

constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. “They have called me a Nazi 

and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m ‘writing about the 

Jews again,” she said. In 2020. she quit the New York Times over its far left radical 

agenda and it’s anti-Antisemitism.

        This week, she posted a her walkaway statement about the Democrat party. Another

 former left-of-center in media personality has the revaluation of truth and reality. 
 

Her statement: 

     “As a Democrat who has been left homeless, who is now definitely in the center but 

probably leaning increasingly right, I am left yet again with an appreciation, despite 

the messenger, of the message of the Trump administration because what those guys 

did was pretty incredible in hindsight”

      “So much of the work that happened in that [Trump] administration turns out to have

 been right. And that’s what is so frustrating for me. The work on the border wall?

 We didn't like the messenger, so we killed the message. Turned out it was right. 

Issuing long-term debt to refinance when rates were at zero? We didn’t like the messenger,

so we killed the message. A structural peace in the Middle East? We didn't like the 

messenger, so we killed the message.”

      “When are we gonna stop shooting ourselves in the foot? And when are we going to 

actually see and take the time to look past who is saying things and actually listen to

 them word for word?”

    “If it's clear that the last two weeks have been a wake-up call, the next question is: 

                                                                   Why?”

      “Part of the answer is the sheer depravity of Hamas’s terrorism. That depravity 

has made the justification and celebration of their acts by those who police pronouns

 that much starker. The contradictions and moral bankruptcy of a worldview that spends 

years worrying about microaggressions and tone policing, but can’t decide what side 

it is on after the beheading of babies, aren't exactly difficult to spot”

      “To put it another way: when Black Lives Matter organizations are lionizing 

Islamist terrorists by posting a paraglider logo, you'd be a fool not to reassess things.”

      “The events of the last week have shattered the illusion that wokeness is about 

protecting victims and standing up for persecuted minorities. This ideology is and has

 always been about the one thing many of us have told you it is about for years: power.
  
      “And after the last two weeks, there can be no doubt about how these people 

will use any power they seize: they will seek to destroy, in any way they can, those 

who disagree.”

                                                               

Declaration of Colonial Rights

by

        M. Richard Maxson

 

      Today in history on October 20, 1774, my birthday, the First Continental Congress adopted the Continental Association. This agreement put teeth into the Declaration of Colonial Rights the Congress adopted a week earlier by formalizing a coordinated economic embargo on British goods.

       The Association was the third significant step taken by the Continental Congress in response to the “Coercive Acts,” and represented one of the first formal shows of unity among the colonies. Today, it’s considered by many historians to be one of the four major founding documents, along with the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution for the United States.

       The Coercive Acts were a series of laws passed by Parliament in early 1774 to punish the colonies — particularly Massachusetts — after the Boston Tea Party. These acts included the Boston Port Act closing the Boston Port, the Massachusetts Government act stripping virtually all authority from the colonial government, the Administration of Justice Act stripping authority from local courts and authorizing trials to be held in Great Britain instead of Massachusetts, and the Quartering Act allowing British troops to take over private buildings.

       Local Committees of Correspondence kicked off resistance by passing resolutions opposing the Coercive Acts. The best-known was the Suffolk Resolves, adopted on Sept. 9 by delegates at the  Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Convention of the Committees of Correspondence. This local protest against the “Coercive Acts” called for non-cooperation with British authorities and for direct action to oppose what it condemned as illegitimate and unconstitutional acts by Parliament.

      In one of its first actions, the First Continental Congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves on Sept. 17 as a show of solidarity with the people of Boston. This laid the groundwork for the Continental Congress’ own Declaration and Resolves just one month later.

      The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress laid out colonial objections to the Coercive Acts, listed their grievances, and outlined a list of colonial rights. The document set the stage for further colonial action resisting the British by expressing the colonists’ resolve “to enter into a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation agreement or association.”

       The Continental Association put the boycott resolution into effect, establishing a formal agreement between the 12 colonies represented in the Congress. (Georgia did not send delegates.)

       Richard Henry Lee of Virginia suggested the document, which was based on the Virginia Association adopted in 1769 in response to the Townshend Acts.

       The Virginians agreed that they would “not at any Time hereafter, directly or indirectly import, or cause to be imported, any Manner of Goods, Merchandize, or Manufactures, which are, or shall hereafter be taxed by Act of Parliament, for the Purpose of raising a Revenue in America.”

       The Continental Association started with an affirmation of loyalty to the king, but quickly pivoted to reasserting the colonies’ grievances previously stated in the Resolves, declaring that the “unhappy Situation of our Affairs is occasioned by a ruinous System of Colony Administration, adopted by the British Ministry about the Year 1763.”

       The document went on to establish a series of economic sanctions against the British, including an immediate ban on the importation of British tea. Beginning on December 1, the colonies agreed to stop importing or consuming any goods from Great Britain, Ireland, or the British West Indies.

“We will not import into British America, from Great Britain or Ireland, any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise whatsoever, or from any other Place, any such Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, as shall have been exported from Great Britain or Ireland; nor will we, after that Day, import any East India Tea from any Part of the World, nor any Molosses, Syrups, Paneles, Coffee, or Pimenta, from the British Plantations, or from Dominica, nor Wines from Madeira, or the Western Islands, nor foreign Indigo.”

       The Association also threatened an export ban if Parliament didn’t repeal the Coercive Acts by Sept. 10, 1775.

       The agreement included a commitment by the colonists to not raise prices.

“That all Manufactures of [this country be sold at reason]able Prices, so that no undue Advantage [be taken of a future scarcity of] Goods.”

       The adoption of the Continental Association was a significant step in colonial resistance to Parliament. It demonstrated the colonies’ willingness and ability to work together in a coordinated way.

       It also drew a concrete line in the sand letting the British know that the colonies were not just going to protest – they were willing to take concrete actions to resist unconstitutional and tyrannical actions.

They Did Not Foresee

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      Given the nature of humans, factions are inevitable. As long as men hold different opinions, have different amounts of wealth, and own different amounts of property, they will continue to fraternize with those people who are most similar to them. Men of greater ability and education tend to possess more property than those of lesser ability. Humanity is not equal. And never will be. Property is divided unequally due to many circumstances and, in addition, there are many different kinds of property. People have different interests depending upon the kind of property they own. For example, the interests of landowners differ from those of business owners. Governments must not only protect the conflicting interests of property owners but also must successfully regulate the conflicts between those with and without property.

      There are only two ways to control a faction: to remove its causes and to control its effects. There are only two ways to remove the causes of a faction: destroy liberty or give every citizen the same opinions, passions, and interests. That, unless you agree with Progressives, is impossible and destroying liberty is, as President Madison stated, "a cure worse then the disease itself." The causes of factions are thus part of the nature of man, so we must accept their existence and deal with their effects. The government created by the Constitution controls the damage caused by such factions.

      It was historical that the Founders established a constitutional republic because pure or direct democracies cannot possibly control factious conflicts. This is because the strongest and largest faction dominates and there is no way to protect weak factions against the actions of an obnoxious individual or a strong majority. Tyranny of the majority, under the banner of democracy, is something the Founding Fathers DID NOT WANT. Direct democracies cannot effectively protect personal and property rights as the constitution does and have always been characterized by conflict.

      We, the people, should be involved in our government for it is the people that hold the power. This ideal plan of government, when it was adopted, was done with the hope that the men elected to office will be wise and good men,­ the best of America. Theoretically, those who govern should be the least likely to sacrifice the public good for temporary conditions, but the opposite could happen and has. Men who are members of particular factions or who have prejudices or evil motives, might by intrigue or corruption, win elections and then betray the interests of the people. 

      This is why a well informed active citizenry is essential to maintain liberty. This the Founding Fathers knew. This is not the case today. They did not foresee the many factions being united for a temporary fix to their grievances. They did not foresee men with great wealth funding factions, whose agenda is placed above their country, to unite under the political theory of Socialist Communism. They did not foresee others with great wealth take over and control all information in the nation allowing only “their truth” to be seen. They warned, but did not foresee, a political party that subverts and distorts the original meaning of the constitution to fit their personal wants and only respects our past by waving it in the air as a prop while screaming YOU are a threat to THEIR democracy. If allowed to continue, this will be a sad end to our constitutional republic.

 

 

Turn In Your Fellow Citizen - U.N.

 

By

        Zeno Potas

       Last year the United Nations declared war on conspiracy

theories, describing the rise of conspiracy thinking as “worrying and dangerous”, and to report anybody who dares to suggest that world governments are anything but completely honest, upstanding and transparent. They also stated that George Soros, the Rothschilds and others must not be linked to any “alleged conspiracies.” It’s to be noted who they called by name and found it necessary or mandatory that hey do so.

      The UN wants you to know that events are NOT “secretly manipulated behind the scenes by powerful forces with negative intent” and if you encounter anybody who thinks the global elite are conspiring to consolidate power and dictate global events, you must take action!

      According to UNESCO, “if you are certain you have encountered a conspiracy theory” on the internet then you must “react” immediately post a relevant link to a “fact-checking website.” Perhaps the ones funded by the Soros Foundation or the other untrained and unqualified hacks performing “fact checks” from the comfort of their bedroom in between posting far-left political content on personal blogs and getting high.

 

      Should a team of unqualified, avowedly liberal bloggers in California, who operate in a company with no checks and measures or standardized quality control, be given the power to decide what constitutes “real news” that will be allowed on Facebook timelines? Snopes are no more trusted than most of the sites they disagree with politically and loftily claim to debunk.

      UNESCO also provide advice for anyone who encounters a real live conspiracy theorist in the flesh. According to the UN agency, you must not under any circumstances be lured into an argument with the conspiracy theorist. “Any argument may be taken as proof that you are part of the conspiracy and reinforce that belief.” Instead you must show “empathy“, avoid “ridiculing them“, and if you are a journalist you must “report” them to social media and “contact your local/national press council or press ombudsman.” In other words? TURN IN YOUR FELLOW CITIZEN.

      Remarkably, hidden in the fine print, UNESCO admit that conspiracy theories do exist. Under the heading “What is a real conspiracy?” the United Nations bureaucrats explain that “real conspiracies large and small DO exist.” There is just one problem with the UN’s definition of a “real” conspiracy theory. The media has been fully bought and paid for by the elite. And it’s the elite who are conspiring against the masses. And they will decide, through their ‘fact-checkers,” what your truth will be.

 

Note: Within days of this being published,Google joined the U.N. 

https://www.planet-today.com/2023/08/google-announces-worldwide-ban-on.html

The Deep State is in Control

by

        M. Richard Maxson

 

• This is the final in a 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.

      President Donald Trump spearheaded the release of thousands of documents surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The contents of these papers have ignited flames of speculation, revealing a tangled web of intrigue that reaches deep into the core of the U.S. government. This article unravels the complex narrative, investigating the links between the JFK files, Trump, and the ominous shadow of the Deep state.

      The timing of the release of more JFK assassination documents was no coincidence, as Trump found himself under relentless attack at that time from the Deep State, a term that has gained currency in recent years to refer to the clandestine network of power brokers within the government. For Trump, the release of the JFK files was a strategic counteroffensive, a bold gambit to expose the Deep State’s influence and manipulation over decades of American history.

 

     

 

 

 JFK’s assassination was the Deep State’s first overt manifestation, a brutal assertion of its existence. The look on LBJ’s face when being sworn in shows concern, not as much as the assassination but, for himself as he was told that the same fate awaited him if he did not do as he was told, the very thing President Kennedy did not want, send  troops to Vietnam.

Link:

   Things You May Not Know About the Warren Commission

                                                           

                                                              Johnson 

       An anti-Communist and wanting to survive, he began the entry into Vietnam. At the height, the CIA via Air America, had the largest drug running operation in the world. Running drugs from Southeast Asia to be sold to cartels to raise funds, outside of Congress, to finance their world-wide clandestine activities. The drugs made their way into a country that could afford a lot of them, the United States. A totally broken man with a conscious, refused to run again. He died soon after.

                                                                Nixon

       Nixon won on an anti-war platform. He would end the Vietnam war. Four years later, it was still going on. Why? He was an anti-Communist and fit right in with what the Deep State was doing. It was only after the next election and massive pressure that he began to withdraw. Curiously, he had no knowledge of the Watergate break-in until after the fact. Two other facts: half of the “plumbers” were CIA and when they were caught it was the forth time they had entered without doing anything. Did they WANT to be caught to get rid of Nixon and get another stooge in?

                                                                 Ford

      Senior member of the Warren Commission and was all in on fighting Communism and keeping America upright, he did dastardly things that kept Americans in the dark. While serving as a leading member of the Warren Commission, future U.S. President Gerald Ford also acted as an inside informant for J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Among Ford’s many leaks was the revelation that two unnamed members of the Commission—most likely Richard Russell and Hale Boggs—remained unconvinced by FBI evidence that the kill shot had been fired from the Texas School Book Depository.

                                                                Carter

       A perfect choice as an obscure governor with a Christian demeanor meant he would do as told. He was a cream-puff. His presidency was one of the worst in history. America held hostage – remember?

                                                              Reagan 

      Ronald Reagan was as anti-communist as they came. He was more than happy to help the Deep State. They got sloppy and got caught. Iran/Contra – Deep State officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. they were willing to pay a much higher price for them from whoever. The CIA was taking the profits and buying small arms and munitions to give to the Nicaraguan Contras. Congress had forbidden this. The is the first realization by some that there was a government within the government who would NOT heed Congress.

                                                           Bush Sr.

       Ex-head of the CIA, He serve a purpose. He allowed the state to continue unobstructed to do as they wished. He didn’t want to continue so he deliberately contradicted his campaign promise of “No new taxes” and raised them knowing what the outcome would be. He was a stepping stone president.

                                                         Clinton 

      Their next attempt at a puppet in the presidency. Another obscure governor from a rural state. His wife, Hillary was their real choice but maybe later. His sending the military in to eastern Europe much to the dismay of the world including many of our allies was another Deep State operation. Bill Clinton’s extra-marital affairs came back to strangle his power while in office. The Republicans had taken control of Congress so he had to move his policies more to the center. The upside for the Deep State after Iran/Contra was that no one was watching what they were doing again.

                                                      

                                                        Bush II 

      Son of the head of the CIA he was all in. They need a new conflict to sell arms and Bush Jr. was their man. Blatant lies about Iraq were put into the world press by Deep State sympathizers. Many of our European allies were not buying it but, as with Clinton in eastern Europe, full war ahead. 2000 was the first year the new millennium and we saw the first look at hard election interference. Electronic voting machines that tabulated votes and then sent them outside the U.S. for tabulation. This was supposed to show that there was no fraud. The company that tabulated the votes had an ominous shareholder – George Soros. Joseph Stalin said "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."

                                                      Obama

      Finally, a perfect puppet. He came out of nowhere with little experience. John McCain was a choice but the Deep State had decided to move on from his type they had been using. They wanted to make sure, in an age of surveillance, that they would never be caught again. They wanted to change America. The media, which the Deep State had controlled for decades pushed race as the factor using white guilt to turn the lightly informed left-leaning Caucasians towards Mr. Obama. Rumors to who and what he really is continue to this day.

                                                     Trump

      Hillary Clinton will win. There is no doubt. A monkey wrench, the Electoral Collage, swung the votes to Trump. The Deep State was appalled. People cried and some went into therapy. It was all planned. They never thought the Founding Fathers would come out of their graves to stop them. Within hours of the finally tally, behind closed doors assassination was being discussed. How to get Hillary Clinton in. If they assassinate Trump before he could be inaugurated….no, they still would not have the control they needed. DAMN THAT CONSTITUTION. It was decided an all front full attack on him, his associates, and his family. Impeachment was being readied within twenty-four hours of the final tally.

       An honestly elected president would not be tolerated anymore. The media’s idol had lost. The commentary from government officials, especially Hillary Clinton and most of the top Democrats was he was illegitimate. The election was a fraud. THE SAME THING THEY ARE CHARGING PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH. We see, even now seven years later, continuing attacks on the Electoral Collage which is a pillar of the Constitution.

                                                           Biden

      A Fascist mouthpiece for the Deep State. The Deep State made sure this time “their man” would be in the White House. The voting in the 2020 election was massively fraud. There is huge amounts of proof from almost every state but with fingers in ears and a la,la,la….. In office it didn’t take long for the war machine to spring into action. President Trump, along with President Kennedy were the only two presidents in recent history that hated war. Look what the Deep State did to them.

      

 

 

      The assassination of President Kennedy was the coup that changed everything. War for profit, above and below the table has been the rule of thumb since. We have had a string of willing and unwilling lackeys in the executive branch bought and paid for by the Deep State. The second coup was in 2020 with the massive vote fraud, which is clearly documented, has left us adrift. Patriotism is falling. We are dividing into two camps. The people who search for truth and those who get it from their fantasy box each evening. Two sets of facts, two divided people. You need go no further to find the facts that this could only have happen through the Deep State.

 

       Do the people still control the government as the Constitution states? Recent history says not. They can’t make rational decisions based on lies and slanted facts coming at them from all their media. Which is why every citizen should read outside the western sphere of propaganda to find truth because there is very little here in this country. There are those who say the U.S. no longer exists as the Founders gave us. It exists only as an illusion wrapped in red, white, and blue. Technically, they are correct!

 

The Winds of a 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.

 

     In the 1950s, the Dulles brothers, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles were running U.S. foreign policy. They withheld much of what they were doing from President Eisenhower. He wasn't quite sure what was really going on but he knew something wasn't right. Across the globe the agencies were out of control. Because of his health problems and his commitment to a lifetime of military service he reluctantly went along with the vanilla reports and plans that were presented to him. They were presented as fact. That was not always the case. The brothers had a massive anti-communist agenda.

     After Fidel Castro's successful overthrow of the Cuban government, on March 17, 1960, the Eisenhower administration, at the insistence of the intelligence community, instructed the CIA to organize a paramilitary unit composed of Cuban exiles with the purpose of defeating the Fidel Castro regime without implicating the United States. It had to look like an uprising organized by Cuban dissidents. The incoming President Kennedy had inherited the this and other ongoing operations of the agencies. One that became famously known to history as “The Bay of Pigs”

      The agencies, knowing their plan was not viable as it stood, demanded the president provide U.S. Air cover for the attack. He declined stating that it had to look like an uprising organized by Cuban dissidents, not the U.S. invading. The last thing he wanted, he said, was “direct, overt” intervention by the American military in Cuba: The Soviets would likely see this as an act of war and might retaliate. However, CIA officers told him they could keep U.S. involvement in the invasion a secret and, if all went according to plan, the campaign would spark an anti-Castro uprising on the island. The attempted coup was a failure. The invaders surrendered on the afternoon of April 19. More than 200 people been killed; another 1,197 were taken captive. On April 20, Kennedy told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that the episode was Cubans fighting Cubans and that the U.S. had not been involved. President Kennedy did not like having to lie to the American public and the world.

     Kennedy had inherited this shaky operation and against his better judgment, not long after entering the White House, he gave it the green light the behest of a Washington security and intelligence establishment he would soon come to mistrust and disdain. He did so while refusing to commit US air support, a decision later held up by the plotters as key to the operation’s failure. It was an immediate failure. A few months later, the three responsible for planning the invasion — Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Allen Dulles, Deputy Director of Operations Richard Bissell, and Air Force General Charles Cabell— were fired.

      Allen Dulles had continuously tried to trick President Kennedy into sending U.S. forces, not only to rescue the group of invaders who had landed on the beach at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, in April 1961 with no chance of success, but also to Vietnam where their newest plan could be undertaken. More on that later.

     CIA director, Allen Dulles, had been offended when young President Kennedy had the audacity to ask in depth questions about their operations. When Kennedy made it clear he would NOT approve the use of U.S. combat forces, Dulles set out, with supreme confidence, to ambush the President politically. But Kennedy stuck to his guns and told a friend that he wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.” The outrage was very obviously mutual.

       In the minds of some leaders in the [US] military and intelligence community Kennedy was…guilty of treason, a slanted point of view that does not hold up in law. He was supposedly guilty for not following through in the Bay of Pigs, dis-empowering the CIA and firing its leaders…concluding the atmospheric test ban treaty, planning to disengage from Vietnam, flirting with ending the Cold War, encouraging Third World nationalism, and, perhaps most damningly, accepting a negotiated settlement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

     Looking back 55 years later on JFK’s attempt to end the Cold War, we are compelled to consider how the world may have looked if he’d been spared and gone on to serve a second term. Sadly, for the generations that came after, Kennedy lost and the ‘deep state’ won.

 

 NOTE: U.S. assassination plots.

 

 

 

 

 

When Did We Loose Our Country?

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.

       When did we as citizens loose control of this nation? Some, like Ron Paul (L), has stated that it happened with the coup in 1963.* The assassination of our President by those in the CIA. Our research says that it happened earlier, in the mid 1950s and that they emphasized their control in 1963 by assassinating the President. It was meant as a clear warning to other officials in the future of what could happen to them if they got in the way of the Deep State.

*  Ron Paul Says The CIA Murdered JFK In A Successful ‘Coup’

       In our series from 2018 on the origins of the Deep State** we attempted, in a short series, to lay out what they were and how they operate. A short series turned into eight articles and they only covered 1946-1962. The massive amount of information we uncovered, just on activity in the 1950s, was staggering. We were told our conclusions on the assassination were dangerous and we ended the series. This was before the latest release of JFK files by President Trump showing the proof of the CIA’s involvement. Some Kennedy files are still being withheld. You can guess why.

    ** The Shadow Government and The Deep State

      In 1947 President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. The CIA is accountable to the president through the NSC — there is no democratic or congressional oversight. Its charter allows the CIA to "perform such other functions and duties… as the National Security Council may from time to time direct." This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.

      With this loophole the CIA creates a covert action wing, innocuously called the Office of Policy Coordination, led by Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti sabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." In other words, they will form into a covert government within the government.

Still directing operations at CNN

      Without supervision or accountability and with deniability this Deep State began interfering with other countries around the world for political reasons, known only to them, and/or profit. In order to cover-up and mislead not only the world but our own legitimate (at that time) government. To accomplish this Operation MOCKINGBIRD*** was launched and continues to this day. It is the planting of Deep State assets in EVERY media outlet and film producer in the country with the intent on shaping opinion to fit their narrative, not truth.

  ***Inside Operation Mockingbird — The CIA’s Plan To Infiltrate The Media

      With the world being gas-lighted, they began a massive assault on what they saw as targets around the world. These are just a few of the main ones partaken in the 1950s.

• Italy — The CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy, where Italian communists threaten to win the elections. The CIA buys votes, broadcasts propaganda, threatens and beats up opposition leaders, and infiltrates and disrupts their organizations. It works -- the communists are defeated.

• 1953 - Iran – CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.

• 1954 - Guatemala — CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.

• 1954-1958 - North Vietnam — CIA officer Edward Lansdale spends four years trying to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks. The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The CIA’s continuing failure results in escalating American intervention, culminating in the Vietnam War.

• 1957-1973 - Laos — The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Armee Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA’s army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.

       After the election in 1960 the outgoing President Eisenhower had made his concerns about the Deep State known to the world in his farewell address. He warned of a behind-the-scenes shift in Washington DC that had “grave implications” for America.. He spoke of a group of unelected insiders that threatened to take full control of the U.S. government. He revealed a shadow government that had already taken over. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist,” he stated. He relayed his fears of a rising force within the government that was taking over foreign policy to the incoming president and the U.S. government.

      What President Eisenhower failed to grasp is that it was already too late. We, at The American Constitutionalist, believe that the mid to late 1950s is when we, the people, lost control of our country without even knowing it. To this day many Americans don’t understand that they are living a fantasy wrapped in red, white, and blue. Can something be done? We will continue this discussion soon.