Deceit and Excess in America

Deception is eating out soul. It corrupts and debases us. Whatever moral good we have stood for has been eroded by this disease. Its legacy is our resort to torture in our misapplied war on terrorism exhumed out of the ruins of 9/11... Our economic and financial meltdown is a direct result of excesses and wild speculation by Wall Street ... the tentacles of deceit reach into our institutions both public and private. We have government by deception deception in business ... even war by deception. We are a people that have been propagandized by those interests that control the reins of power. America was not always this way. There have always been moneyed interests in this country who exploited and used their means ... and by virtue of that wealth they always have had influence on the government but they did not control all the reins of power as they do today. America has been usurped by the moneyed interests whose power is derived from the influence that money bestows upon them. It is all of one piece not formally connected but intertwined with tentacles that reach everywhere in a headlong pursuit to acquire as much money and power through the use of any methods and schemes whether it is done ruthlessly or through public relations ... marketed through high powered lobbying or simple direct corruption with no concern for any principle other than the pursuits of money and power and the public interests be damned in the process. We must embrace the idea of our elected officials being accountable to the people. The Constitution of the United States starts with We the people... not the President not the Congress not the Supreme Court but We the people. As Franklin warned ... a Republic if we can keep it.