How the Grinch Stole Democracy
 

Each year there is a secret meeting of several hundred power brokers who come from the nations that belong to NATO. While the annual location of the meeting is different, their agenda is the same. They will discuss how best to further Western capitalism and their interests. Adopting their name from their first meeting place, the Bilderburg Group is funded by the Rockefellers. They control the world economy and are among those who are commonly referred to as "the powers that be". In 1991, they met in Evian, France. Despite strict security, a reporter managed to tape a statement by Henry Kissinger as he addressed the group.

Mr. Kissinger said, "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the "Unknown". When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."

Judging by how quickly Americans accepted the Patriot Act, which in effect abolished half of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights after 9-11, old Henry certainly knew what he was talking about. How has his prophesy been brought about?

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 and Congress wanted to see military budget cuts as the "peace benefit" after the end of the Cold War. The administration of the first George Bush, with Dick Cheney as Secretary of Defense, Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Paul Wolfowitz as undersecretary of Defense, were resistant to any cuts. They felt that with the Soviet Union dissolved, America was the world's only remaining superpower, and they wanted to retain that position to ensure that the changing world emerged in accordance with American interests. With this in mind they devised "the Plan", outlined in a paper called "Defense Planning Guidance of 1992". It proposed preventing any attempts to rival our role as the sole superpower, keeping any nation from dominating a strategic region, American global dominance, pre-emptive strikes, unilateral action, and use of overwhelming force, so as to "shock and awe" the opponent. Before it could be officially adopted and enacted, the election of 1992 found a new president, Bill Clinton entering the White House, and "the Plan" and its proponents were, temporarily, put aside.

Paul Wolfowitz went to college at the University of Chicago. While there he came under the influence of a philosophy professor named Leo Strauss. Strauss had immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1938. He believed democracy was a very weak form of government. Instead, he felt that only the superior elite were fit to rule the inferior masses. Deceit by the rulers was necessary because the masses had to be led with firmness and told only that which would guarantee their support of the agenda. He felt the founding fathers made a mistake in separating church and state. Religion was necessary for maintaining morality and law among the masses. He also believed in perpetual war, since peace broke down military discipline and led to decadence. Religion also served as a tool to encourage troops to sacrifice their lives with a promise of eternal reward. Personal freedoms were something to be avoided since they encouraged independent thought, individualism and liberalism which would lead to dissent. Strauss taught that unity was essential to a stable society, but men could only unite with other men against a common outside enemy. If none existed, then one had to be invented. Those theories became the foundation of the Neocon movement which eventually became a force within the Republican party.

In 1997 a Neocon think tank was established called Project For A New American Century (PNAC). Among the charter members who signed its Statement of Principles were Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, I. Lewis Libby, Elliot Abrams, Jeb Bush, Steve Forbes, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Bennet, and other senior officials, advisors and friends of this administration.

In Sept. 2000, the PNAC published a paper called "Rebuilding America's Defenses". This was an elaboration of the same principles and policies formulated in the "Defense Planning Guidance". That paper was rejected by both parties in 1992 when a draft was leaked to the N.Y. Times. Could Junior sell it?

"The Plan" had a new name, the Neocons had more clout with the backing of the GOP, and the same cast of characters were reassembled from the Bush 41 administration. With them behind the folksy character of George "Duby" as the front man, they managed to make it into the White House by a circuitous route despite a hotly contested election that had overtones of fraud.

"Rebuilding America's Defenses" has 4 "missions". The third mission states, "The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." It also states a tenet of Leo Strauss' philosophy, "...the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event--like a new Pearl Harbor."

Our new Pearl Harbor came on September 11, 2001. We are told it was an attack planned by an Arab Muslim fundamentalist named Osama binLadin and his followers, who had been involved in other acts of terror. Just as Leo Strauss predicted, with a common outside enemy, America was united as one against them.

When the Patriot Act was passed, just as Henry Kissinger predicted, the people willingly relinquished our precious rights and freedoms which had been secured for us with the blood of patriots. It’s ironic that what was won by patriots was lost through an act bearing the same name.

We embarked on a "War on Terror", and using the catastrophic and catalyzing event of 9-11 we attacked Afghanistan to seek out our common outside enemy, Osama binLaden. At least that's what we were told. However, three months before 9-11, an article dated June 26, 2001 in Newsinsight revealed: "India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action" against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime.

Diplomats say that the anti-Taliban move followed a meeting between US Secretary of State Colin Powel and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and later between Powell and Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh in Washington. Russia, Iran and India have also held a series of discussions and more diplomatic activity is expected."

When the Taliban was toppled, a US puppet, Hamid Karzai was installed and despite not having captured binLaden, George Bush switched to the next Neocon mission of providing the substantial American force presence in the Gulf. Our War on Terror now moved to Iraq, although that country had nothing to do with the terrorist attack on 9-11 or the group associated with it. Our support for the Iraq invasion was manipulated by fear with fabricated reports of WMD that posed an immediate threat, giving us a new common outside enemy. We followed "the Plan" with a pre-emptive strike and used the shock and awe of overwhelming force.

We have followed the script first laid out in the "Defense Planning Guidance" using the philosophy promoted by Leo Strauss and his Neocon followers word for word. If we continue following the script and bring about the other changes called for in the Neocon papers we will facilitate bringing about the New World Order and an end to that 228 year experiment in self government. To change that direction we must remove the current administration from power. Keeping the status quo is how the Grinch will steal Democracy.

9-11-04