Former Congressman Jim Traficant came home to freedom on September 2 after serving seven years in prison for crimes he did not commit. More than a thousand of his friends and admirers bought tickets to a banquet being held in his honor in Boardman, Ohio in his former congressional district surrounding Youngstown.

Although the major media is still smearing Traficant as a “crook,” those who know Traficant know his prison sentence was “a railroad job” from the beginning. The fact is that although there are probably dozens of members of Congress who could be indicted and convicted for major criminal offenses involving high-stakes bribery and influence peddling that is often quite open and never prosecuted, the Justice Department spent many years coming up with a handful of dubious charges against Traficant.

Ask anyone who knows how it works in official Washington and they’ll privately admit that the real reason Traficant was indicted on criminal charges was simply the fact that “the powers that be” didn’t like Traficant: he was just too honest and too outspoken.

Right up front, let’s lay it out. Here were some of Traficant’s real “crimes” in the eyes of the elite who railroaded him into federal prison in 2002:

That’s right. It’s over. Their guns are bigger. They control all the money. They control the energy. They control the land. They control the food and they control the water. Soon they will control our health care, down to the last detail on our electronic health care records being stored in a giant computer in Washington DC, from which they can determine if we are worthy of receiving health care. The older we get, the less worthy we become.

Just like the guy standing on the beach witnessing in horror, the onrushing tsunami wave and has no place to run, we might just as well bend over and kiss our behinds goodbye. Freedom and liberty are gone. The constitution and bill of rights are just so much toilet paper and American sovereignty is but a fading memory of a bunch of dead guys who thought they could create individual liberty and have it last.

This didn’t happen overnight, you know. It’s been coming on for about a hundred to a hundred and twenty years. First, the civil war gave us the 14th Amendment, and we now let illegal aliens born in the U. S., become U. S. Citizens, thus creating a magnet for millions more to come.

The NC LS Winter Conference last Saturday entitled “The Myth of the Conservative Republican Party” drew an enthusiastic audience of members and guests to the Allred Banquet Room in Burlington, North Carolina. A succession of speakers took aim at the topic with League of the South National Board member Michael C. Tuggle’s talk, “Mad About Sarah,” leading the way.

Tuggle asked the question “does anyone believe that Sara Palin is a “fighter for small government and a States’ Rights advocate like Ronald Reagan? Reagan was none of these things” Tuggle said. He further questioned her viability as a presidential candidate with “changing the name tag of the puppet in charge wont change a thing,” and that once in power, “they become the opposite of what they claim to be as a candidate.” On the topic of neo-con control of the Republican party, he asserted that the neo-cons have changed the meaning of conservatism from representing small and limited government, to a belief that big government is necessary to advance conservative goals.”

The idea of too big to fail will persist even after any deflationary collapse. Nothing will change unless the elitists want it to change – the concept is at the base of power in the financial world. This finance bubble can only be disrupted by the failure of national economies. There are 19 in that position presently, and what it boils down to is whether and when these elitists want to pull the plug on liquidity and seriously want to enter a deflationary era. For the time being, over the next 18 months, inflation and perhaps hyperinflation will prevail. Politicians are 90% in the pockets of these people, so unless we can unseat more than half of the incumbents in Congress, the elitist grip on our society will prevail. In the meantime it is inflation and or hyperinflation followed by deflation this year and next year.

The collapse of currencies and nations won’t happen overnight, because their demise has been planned, and a subtle collapse is in process. Our guess is that next year is when the collapse will finally take place followed by one of the greatest deflationary depressions of all time. During the last 2-1/2 years all the toxic investments have been and will continue to be transferred from the Illuminist banks, brokerage houses, insurance companies and transnational conglomerates to the public. The Federal Reserve is the repository for this junk, which includes Treasuries and Agencies. That means the public foots the bill. Every government and bank in the world will be affected. This magical game of 3-card-Monte will never work and the Illuminists know it won’t work. That is why they have war on demand to distract the public and to escape punishment for the devastating thing they have brought upon mankind.

Continental Congress 2009 was convened in St. Charles, Illinois, between November 11 and 22, 2009, to discuss fourteen violations of the Constitution for The United States of America, the Government’s refusal to listen or respond to the People’s First Amendment Petitions to Redress those Grievances for the past fourteen years, and to recommend a non-violent course of action for the Free People to put an end to those violations.

The conclusion of the work of Continental Congress 2009 is the sixty-one page, fourteen-article Document called ‘‘Articles of Freedom.’’

The detailed, factual record of the violations and the Government’s refusal to listen or respond to the People’s prior Petitions to Redress those violations is included in the Articles of Freedom. Also included are detailed, specific Instructions to the federal Government, and to each of the several states, designed to end the violations. Also included are recommendations for civic action by the People to ensure compliance with their Instructions.

Below is a summary of the contents of each of the fourteen articles of the ‘‘Articles of Freedom.’’

The pork lawsuit appeal will be argued in the Appellate Division in Albany on April 26th at 1pm.

There will be a tea party rally against corporate welfare at noon at the Capitol.

Save the date and stay tuned for details.

I expect to have another caravan from Depew leave at about 5:30am. This time, even larger.

This case involves $3,000,000,000.00 in illegal grants to corporations each year.

BTW, just so you know how important this governor’s race is–guess who appoints every appellate judge in the state?

More to the point, if Massa had been acting like a Blue Dog despite representing some liberal or at least safe Democratic district in which Democrats might replace him with a suitably loyal substitute, that would make sense in terms of expressing ire about his defections. But Massa won--barely and after two attempts--in a traditionally Republican district that is likely to flip back to the GOP now.

That said, and given that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer knew about Massa's odd behavior at least as early as the second week of February--and, presumably and by extension, so too did both Hoyer's boss Nancy Pelosi and Hoyer's former House leadership colleague Emanuel--it's not unreasonable to conclude that House Democrats and the White House (a) realized Massa could present a political problem for them later; and thus (b) wanted him out as soon as possible. In fact, the person who best understands the potential political-electoral implications of a ticking Massa timebomb exploding in autumn is none other than Emanuel; as Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair in 2006, he benefited most from the Foley story going national that September and has since been lionized as the man who delivered Democrats to the majority promise land.

Before the story began to unravel on him, Massa said he was resigning because he learned he had cancer. The fact is, he was fast becoming a cancer--or at least a potential electoral cancer for Democrats if he stayed in office and the story broke in the closing weeks of the autumn campaign.

The March 2nd Republican primary in Texas is now history. The showcase event was the gubernatorial contest, where Globalist par excellence and Israeli lobby asset, Rick Perry, otherwise known as Mr. NAFTA Superhighway, defeated fellow central banking icon Kay Bailey Hutchison. Populist, paleo insurgent Debra Medina received 18% of the ballots cast, cause for crowing among the remnant of the shrinking Paul-Buchanan wing of the GOP in the Lone Star State.

Two salient facts continue to underscore the ongoing ideological bankruptcy of the Republican Party in Texas, as well as nationally. First, Medina’s vote totals remind the perceptive that 82% of “conservatives“ in the Texas gubernatorial race placed their imprimatur on two candidates symbolizing the Neo-Conservative hijacking of the electoral process in the GOP. The Bush family, the Carlyle Group, and AIPAC are surely smiling in concert.

But more importantly, the 18% who voted for Debra Medina, are in many cases largely clueless as to who and what is really behind the demise of their country, and their Party.

This cluelessness apparently includes Mrs. Medina herself. Like 2008 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul, Mrs. Medina attempted to finesse the 911 Truth Movement question posed to her by Glenn Beck on Fox News, and to avoid an aggressive attack upon the Israel First Neo-Conservatives who have hijacked the Republican Party.

The word "communist" doesn't carry the same psychological impact it used to, so the war hawk smear squad has come up with a new one, "Anti-Semite." Like "Communist", "Anti-Semite" is used to ruin the lives of people who have not actually done anything wrong other than to challenge the war profiteers. It is a new word for an old trick, and I am amazed that they are still playing the same old game, but I guess the FBI can always find some dumb-assed idiot to fall for it and do their dirty work of wrecking a career for them.

Of course, it really isn't that new a word. Oddly enough, Charles Lindbergh the famous aviator commented in a speech in Des Moines in 1941...

Our theaters soon became filled with plays portraying the glory of war. Newsreels lost all semblance of objectivity. Newspapers and magazines began to lose advertising if they carried anti-war articles. A smear campaign was instituted against individuals who opposed intervention. The terms "fifth columnist," "traitor," "Nazi," "anti-Semitic" were thrown ceaselessly at any one who dared to suggest that it was not to the best interests of the United States to enter the war. Men lost their jobs if they were frankly anti-war. Many others dared no longer speak.

Today we are seeing once again the heavy hand of the war profiteers trying to reshape the film industry into a tool to propagandize the public into a high war-fever such that they will gladly trade their own blood for gold to line the pockets of the defense establishment. And those individuals who have the courage to speak out are attacked, and once again they are smeared to silence them. In the 1940s it was "Communist", today it is "Anti-Semite", but aside from the particular label used, the methods, goals, and morality are little changed from the days of Joseph McCarthy.

My article last week profiling historian Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison was inspired by David Brooks’ column, The Power Elite [NYT, February 18, 2010]. Brooks outlined some of the problems caused by the replacement of Morison’s old Protestant Establishment by what Brooks calls a “meritocratic elite”—actually, as I pointed out, substantially Jewish—more interested in short-term profit-making in than long-term caretaking of the country.

One commenter on Brooks’ column, CTWood, filled in some missing background on the once-popular notion of noblesse oblige:

"Not too long ago elites lived the ethos that with great wealth and power came great responsibility. The ruthless climbers of the 19th and 20th centuries secured that wealth and/or power then spawned succeeding generations (Republican and Democrat alike) in which public service meant something: Taft, Rockefeller, Kennedy."

Another, Hugo Pirovano, made Brooks’ point far more explicitly:

"When the WASPS dominated, their best and brightest performed selflessly and honestly because they felt that in working for their country they were working for themselves. They were not ashamed to want America to win. They were advancing their patrimony."

"One of the disturbing facts of history is that so many civilizations collapse," warns anthropologist Jared Diamond in "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed." Many "civilizations share a sharp curve of decline. Indeed, a society's demise may begin only a decade or two after it reaches its peak population, wealth and power."

'Collapse of All Empires:' 5 stages repeating through the ages

Ferguson opens with a fascinating metaphor: "There is no better illustration of the life cycle of a great power than 'The Course of Empire,' a series of five paintings by Thomas Cole that hangs in the New York Historical Society. Cole was a founder of the Hudson River School and one of the pioneers of nineteenth-century American landscape painting; in 'The Course of Empire,' he beautifully captured a theory of imperial rise and fall to which most people remain in thrall to this day. Each of the five imagined scenes depicts the mouth of a great river beneath a rocky outcrop."

If you're unable to see them at the historical society, they're all reproduced in Foreign Affairs, underscoring Ferguson's warnings that the "American Empire on the precipice," near collapse.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE

1) Defend and secure the borders of the United States of America. Prevent the illegal creation of “sanctuary cities” and enforce immigration laws.

2) Uphold the second amendment and repeal unconstitutional gun laws.

3) End the Federal Reserve’s stranglehold over the American economy.

4) Reject and repeal all international treaties that supersede the U.S. Constitution and violate national sovereignty.

5) Uphold medical privacy and completely outlaw forcible injections.

6) End all invasive, unprovoked and unconstitutional foreign wars.

7) Peacefully take back control of the states from increasing federal encroachment via the 9th and 10th amendments.

8} End the federalization and militarization of law enforcement.

9) End unconstitutional land grabs, neo-feudalism and outlaw carbon taxes fraudulently promoted in the name of climate change.

10) End the unconstitutional use of the Patriot Act against U.S. citizens.

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In response to the brazen effort on behalf of Republicans and neo-conservatives to hijack the Tea Party, as well as the establishment’s attempt to promote the Obama front “Coffee Party” as a fraudulent alternative, we are announcing the creation of The Real Coffee Party, an organization committed not to partisan bickering, but to the basic principles outlined in the Constitution.

As we have constantly highlighted, the Tea Party began as an evolution of the End the Fed protests, which were founded and run by Ron Paul supporters in the latter half of 2007.

The original principles of the Tea Party were to provide an alternative to both the Republicans and Democrats, by emphasizing the need to abolish the Federal Reserve, reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and withdraw from unnecessary and unconstitutional foreign wars.

The Tea Party has since been hijacked and infiltrated by the likes of Fox News, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, establishment Republicans and neo-conservatives as an avenue through which to reclaim partisan political power. This self-evident transformation has allowed the establishment liberal media to demonize the Tea Party movement as nothing more than an attack dog of the right-wing.