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This is a great video with a great message.  Most members of Peacockwatch didn’t fall for candidate Obama’s scam, false promises, and hidden socialist agenda, but this video speaks to the truth of what has happened to our republic and what is going to happen to Democratic polititians who have screwed us over by attempting to kill capitalism and seize control of every facet of our lives.

PeacockWatch believes that, one way or the other, we are in the last few years of the American Republic of our founding fathers.

The progressives under the determined leadership of President Obama and his gang of mostly Marxist czars are doggedly pursuing socialism. Liberals, who aren’t necessarily progressives or Marxists, are following the leadership of the Democratic Party toward socialism. This includes:

• the takeover of the banking and automobile industries,
• the control of the health industry which is 1/6th of the American economy,
• wage control of certain industries,
• environmental reforms which will create economic havoc guaranteed to give the government additional excuses to take over industries sure to fail because of resultant energy cost increases.

Conservatives under what amounts to no central point of leadership at all are not fighting like they should to preserve, protect and defend the basic values of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. There is not a concerted deafening roar of indignation at the loss of individual liberties being suffered as a result of these federal government actions. There is no outrage over the collusion between the executive and legislative branches of government. There is no calling out of the judicial branch for overstepping of its authority by creating rather than enforcing law. No conservative legislator is pointing out with sufficient voice and indignation the abuse of the fourth estate; the ownership of the fourth estate by conglomerates entangled financially and incestuously with elected government officials getting rich on the relationship.

We may have only two official political parties in the United States. But, in reality, we have at least four broad divisions of political opinion. However, the two political parties that are in charge don’t want to give up their stranglehold on the political structure. Giving up this stranglehold would decrease their power over the American public and provide too much opportunity for more diverse opinions.

It is clear that there has long been a shadow political party in place for at least 70 years; perhaps as long as 100 years. This is the Progressive Party that has adherents in both the Republican and Democratic ranks. This Progressive Party is really an American Socialist Party and should come out of the shadows, clearly publish their political platform and openly and publicly state their beliefs. President Obama, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and several others are leaders of this Progressive or American Socialist Party.

A newer party is in the process of forming. Its popular name is the Tea Party and its members are essentially believers in Jeffersonian Democracy and the principals of our founding fathers. It is perhaps too early to say what form or name this “Tea Party” group will take on but it is clear that there is significant coherence in their beliefs. Perhaps more coherence than there is within either the Democratic or Republican Parties but not necessarily the Progressives.

The 100 year old Progressive Movement is tired of taking its time to bring Socialism and redistribution of wealth to the United States and the world. It has upped the ante and under the Obama administration has greatly accelerated its efforts. Through closed door negotiations and high stakes deals it is pushing its agenda through at a record pace. The formation of the Tea Party is part of the response to that acceleration and secrecy.

The effect is that the Progressive Party’s stirring of our American melting pot is more like the results of using a centrifuge to separate a solution into its constituent parts. Our nation is fractionalizing under the effects of that centrifuge and it is going to take a massive leadership effort to turn us into a single team again.

Liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans have lost their way. In the process we the people will lose our American Republic if we don’t take control of our government in 2010.

We have reached a tipping point where one of perhaps four things is almost sure to happen.

One is that there will be a violent revolution which all but a few whackos don’t want. The violent revolution will only take place if the government continues to act in secrecy and with hubris like it is in charge of the Republic instead of serving the Republic – the Republic being the American people who are the bosses of the government. Read the tea leaves. Why are Americans buying weapons at an unheard of rate? Why aren’t ammunition sales keeping up with demand? It is because Americans have become afraid of their government. And it isn’t in our melting pot, freedom loving character to stay afraid of our government for long. It is in our genes.

The second of the three things is that Americans will buckle under to Socialism which is what the progressives are pushing for. The Marxist progressives are counting on us, like the conservatives in the legislature, to be sheep and quietly move with them toward Socialism. The Obama-led Socialists have every reason to believe this will happen because we have been gradually letting it happen for at least 70 years. They are now accelerating that effort intending to complete the transition within this Presidential administration filled with declared Marxists.

The third of the three things is that the conservatives will finally rally around a leader and find the guts to express their indignation loudly and coherently. They will point out what the polls and the American people are really saying and demand that we get back to the principles of our founding fathers.

And perhaps there is a fourth path. This path is a peaceful, but forceful revolution of the American people. This path is to require a Constitutional Convention resulting in a non-violent dismissal of all elected members of our present government. The Constitutional Convention would turn our upside-down government right side up. It would, as required by our original Constitution, put the people in charge of the government instead of the government in charge of the people. It would result in the recall of everyone in our federal government and eventually the recall in everyone in governments at all levels. The dictatorial liberals and the weak kneed conservatives would all have to go home and find a way to make an honest living in the commercial sector they were either trying to destroy or failing to defend.

Our federal government may be destroying our Republic as created by our founding fathers and as defined by our Constitution. A total recall of all elected officials and a demand for a Constitutional Convention may be the only peaceful way to save our Republic.

PeacockWatch believes that this fourth path may be the only one our failing leaders are leaving available to us. The corruption in our government is too endemic in the system to be expunged. The disdain for the opinion of the citizen may be too inbred in our government leaders. It could be that any well-meaning “Mr. Smith” going to Washington doesn’t have a chance any more of surviving without kowtowing to the party leadership rather than listening to and obeying their constituents. The allure to our elected officials of the benefits of collusion with big money from lobbyists may be so corrupting that it is irresistible. There aren’t many poor Senators and Representatives.

We have sufficient infrastructure now in our nation to permit the formation of something closer to a true Democracy than was available in the days of our founding fathers. Americans, if they choose to do so, can directly make their voices heard on issues concerning individual bills. Bills can be written that are short and required to be devoid of any pork barrel additions. Favors of any kind from lobbyists can be made illegal. The tax code, by instituting a Fair Tax at the federal, state and local level can be made one page long and the IRS eliminated. Spending bills can be required to be published in draft and final form on the Internet as they are formulated. Government income and expense can be published just as they are in any corporate enterprise; they can be published daily on the Internet with running tallies by line item. Deficit spending can be outlawed. Fair tax levels and budget limits can be set by popular vote. No more hidden taxes of any kind. It can be made illegal for Congress to set their own salaries. It can be required, except for discussions of national security, that C-Span be present at all meetings conducted by the Congress and that they can be present at any other federal meeting that they want to attend.

To avoid chaos, it is probably necessary to permit members of Congress to continue to vote in the manner they believe is right rather than in accordance with the wishes of their constituents. However, their vote should be immediately published on the Internet and made public as soon as the vote is cast. Naturally, having C-Span available during any committee meetings or office huddles will make the reasons for the vote clear to all.

We are either headed toward Socialism or the recovery of our Republic and it will happen very, very soon. Perhaps in 2010.

The Obama administration and the Progressives in Congress are trying to take us toward Socialism as fast as they can and they are assuming the citizens will not oppose them because the citizens either agree or are sheep. The Conservatives are too fragmented, too weak kneed, too beholden to lobbyists or the prestige of their position to do what is necessary to properly represent the American public. Consequently, if the American public continues to act the way it has for a century we are in all probability moving from being a Republic to a Socialist state which will become increasingly Socialist as the decade and the century progress.

A Constitutional Convention and the creation of a new Republic may the only option we have available to preserve what our founding fathers fought for.

It seems that none of the news media is focusing on two related issues that are undermining democratic capitalism in America. Certainly PeacockWatch understands why MSNBC isn’t touching on these intertwined subjects. That network is too networked with the current Washington establishment to want to contaminate its rice bowl. The mystery is why all other news networks aren’t jumping all over this problem which is independent of whatever political party is in power. And “power” is one of the operative words here.

“Potentates exist at every level of government and feather their nest at our expense”

Our government leaders at all levels have set themselves up as potentates with great privileges. These privileges have increased dramatically over the decades but so subtly that they are deemed by government leaders to be their right and perceived by citizens to be normal. However, it is neither right nor normal for municipal, state and federal leaders to have magnificent offices and salaries far above the average of the population they supposedly “serve” while creating record levels of debt. These are levels of debt that are bankrupting one after another of our cities and states and now our federal government. The government leaders gleefully incur this debt because through that excess of expenditure they guarantee their position of privilege.

This position of privilege is both figurative and literal. Walk into the city hall of most cities of a population of 30,000 or above. You will probably see carpeting, paneling, wallpaper and light fixtures far above what most of us can afford to put in our homes. Go into the council chambers of these cities and you will almost surely find raised daises behind which the mayors and council members look down on the population they are separating themselves from and which they “rule”. The effect is much more exaggerated at the state level and is carried to a ridiculous extreme at the federal government. Most notable is that as the chambers become more ostentatious (read expensive and paid for by the taxpayer) the more haughty the attitudes of the government leaders become. Walk into the offices of government leaders of medium to large cities, states and the federal government and you have a high probability of finding paneled offices, plush carpet, private offices for receptionists, marble, magnificent desks and a large staff all of which are paid for by a public that hasn’t been paying sufficient attention to this creeping transfer of control.

“Government leaders in privileged positions are guaranteeing their position and much above average office furnishings by acting as brokers of the redistribution of wealth…”

It is important to note that these government leaders in privileged positions are guaranteeing their position and much above average office furnishings by acting as brokers of the redistribution of wealth. These government leaders take a cut every time taxes are raised. And taxes go up on the average at a rate greater than our pay raise increase rates and faster than the rate of inflation! Why is that happening! Raising taxes is just a way for legislators to transfer wealth around. This is similar to the activities of brokers of stocks and bonds. Sometimes, as we have learned, brokers make larger commissions if they “push” certain equities. As the money involved in financial trades moves around each person who handles the money takes a cut. They get their cut no matter whether the transaction makes or loses money for the customer. By the same token government leaders get their cut in the form of increased salary and privileges every time they move tax money around. They also get their cut in the form of legal contributions as they pass laws that favor those making the contributions. These contributions may be to their reelection campaigns by ardent admirers who appreciate the elected official’s political position. However, one has to wonder if the contribution precedes or comes after that political position. The more tax money they move around the bigger their cut is because the more money there is available

The government leaders in the United States Congress push so much money around that they now feel they can pay themselves an average annual salary of over $170,000 per year; far above that of the average income of the taxpayer who pays their salaries. And that is just the salary for the legislator. Then there are the office expenses, the salaries of staffers, the expenses for their travel and all the benefits they receive. They also provide themselves with a great medical plan that, by a law they sponsored and passed over 50 years ago, is illegal for the rest of us to take part in. Not only do we taxpayers pay for their entire medical plan we also pay for medical professionals they have on staff for whatever they need to have taken care of. And we pay for major hospitalization for them at military hospitals. The more money they redistribute across our nation the more they feel like they can pay themselves, the bigger the cut they feel they can take, in the form of salary, benefits, privileges and staffers.

No wonder the government votes for bailouts of massive corporations and for a national health plan that is one-sixth of the nation’s economy. This gives them much more control over even more money. This is an even greater amount of wealth that they can redistribute in any manner they wish including to their own special interests who will then, in turn, contribute more to their campaigns. As they control even more massive amounts of wealth they will feel free to confer even more salary, luxury, staff and privilege on themselves.

As PeacockWatch has pointed out before, massive amounts of money become massive amounts of power in our society. Power corrupts and massive power corrupts massively. Power generates a desire for even more power. As citizens we have already made the mistake of ever so gradually betraying the desires of our founding fathers by transferring control from “we the people” to the government. Are we going to totally give up our power to the gluttony of the potentates in Washington by allowing them to pass a public option health plan that gives them control over one-sixth more of our economy and, in-effect, sends on the average over one-half of our hard-earned salaries to the government in the form of taxes and fees? The “health plan problem” can easily be solved by giving all Americans the same health plan that our legislators have. But, that isn’t what the legislators really want. Their desire isn’t to solve the “health plan problem”. Their desire is to get more power and control over more of our economy and take their cut. Their desire is to fully transfer power from “We the People” to the potentates by giving themselves more control over the economy and the redistribution of wealth.