A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear. —-Cicero Marcus Tullius
In the 2002 Florida State Election five amendments to the State Constitution appeared on the ballot. Included in these amendments was a mandated smaller class size in the public schools, legislation to protect pregnant pigs, and legislation on work place smoking. There was no debate on the merits of these Amendments and the consequence of their passage was not widely known. All of the five proposed amendments were voted into law.
At least two lessons can be gained from this:
1. The American electorate is uninformed, misinformed, and ignorant and if given the opportunity can create national chaos.
2. Changes to the Constitution should be difficult to obtain and never considered without lengthy and thorough debate and investigation into the implications of the changes.
It is significant that ordinary citizens are not invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Membership in this elite organization is by invitation only and is restricted to a group of individuals who have access to power through personal or corporate wealth or through innate intellectual gifts.
Conceived in the womb of The Royal Institute of International Affairs in England it was discussed by U. S. and British representatives at the Paris Peace Conference on May 30, 1919, and birthed in America in 1921 with financing provided by J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, Otto Kahn, Jacob Shiff and Paul Warburg.
For several decades the organization remained obscure but in recent months that policy has changed and “Council on Foreign Relations” can be seen prominently inscribed on the backdrop of many C-Span programs and its identified members are often interviewed on the Networks.
It lists its intentions as “disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.”
One of the current projects involves an attempt to change the Constitution of the United States to plug what is described as a “Hole in the Constitution”. With former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford as honorary co-chairs, the Continuity of Government Commission (CGC) is headed by Lloyd Cutler and former Senator Alan Simpson. It is peopled with well know CFR members. Sponsoring the effort are the “Conservative” American Enterprise Institute and the “Liberal” Brookings Institute.
The interplay between the CFR, several of the large Foundations, and the Press and Media creates great pressure on congress to pass legislation that is detrimental to the freedom and sovereignty of the Nation. Many of the major bills that come before our Congress are not written by members but are crafted by scholars and lobbyists through their affiliation with think tanks and foundations that are engaged in an attempt to influence the course of our Nation with their particular agenda. Since our closely held Media and Press has great influence over popular opinion and is controlled by members of these same organizations, legislators feel pressured to conform.
Included in the membership of the CGC are the following high placed or formerly high placed individuals: former House Speaker Tom Foley, Newt Gingrich, Donna Shalala, former Reagan Chief of Staff Kenneth Duberstein, former Bush Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin, American Enterprise Institute scholar Norman Ornstein, and Brookings Senior Fellow Thomas Mann. All are members of the CFR.
According to William Jasper writing in the New American, back in the ‘80s and ‘90s Lloyd Cutler was involved in founding and co-chairing the Committee on the Constitutional System which unsuccessfully tried to “radically amend our Constitution” in an effort to restructure our system of government.
In June of 2003 C-Span broadcast the press conference that initiated the CGC push for legislation that would provide for the appointment of congressional representatives by State Governors in the event large numbers were killed in an attack. The panel maintained it would take the states too long to hold elections.
With the anticipation of terrorist attacks, prudent men might consider this proposed legislation necessary. However, things are not always as they appear. Terrorist attacks can be staged, additions to an already overblown central power should be stopped, the possibility of opening the Constitution to further mutilation in furtherance of the global order should be considered; particularly so since the Constitution in Article 1 Section 2 and Section 4 already makes provision for this situation.
There is a common denominator to the course of world affairs. The Bilderberger gatherings, the meetings of the G-8 nations, the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, Skull and Bones, the Masonic Order, and the United Nations are all religiously humanistic, all arguments revolve around human opinion and all power emanates from human sources.
Four foundations, Carnegie, MacArthur, Hewlett, and Packard, are supporting the push for Constitutional change. Their assets total over $16 billion. In the description of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation are these words: “We do not accept proposals to benefit specific individuals or that serve religious purposes.”
The stated purpose of the CFR hides a haughty arrogance; “disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.” Those who frame the questions set the agenda.
“Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact.”