as you may have noticed i'm of the opinion that the empire is a criminal enterprise, and this writer will easily highlight many of the salient aspects of that;


In early 1776 an unknown writer published a pamphlet called Common Sense that went on to become the most widely read document in American history. It made a stirring cry for independence for America from Great Britain. 

At the depths of the American Revolution in late 1776 the now-known Thomas Paine began a series of pamphlets called The Crisis. Some of the most moving words in US history began the first. 

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

Perhaps the time is due for a revision to Paine's work to bring it up to date for the 21st Century to call for a movement to break the chains of slavery ensnaring Americans today caught between the rocks of Scylla and Charybdis.

On the one hand we have a military machine determined to spend the treasury dry competing with the banking and financial industry intent on stealing all the money from the treasury first. Let there be no question. The American people have been put into the chains of slavery by the actions of the military and of the banking system to bankrupt the country. 

This is not some idle threat that the country might go bankrupt at some point in the future. The country is bankrupt today. Americans will pay a steep and long lasting price for their stupidity and lack of oversight.

Some Americans will remember back to the Farewell Address of President Eisenhower in 1961 where he warned about undue influence by the Military Industrial Cartel. He said, "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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."..........read more..........