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Grievance 2 - Secret Government
The U.S. Constitution failed to prevent the rise of a large and powerful
secret government mechanism over which the people at-large had no direct
control, resulting in "taxation without representation", the same
grievance lodged by American revolutionaries in 1776.
Secret Government is defined here as unelected persons holding powers of
the United States that directly or indirectly affected millions of
people, and who operated in ways intentionally kept hidden from the
people paying for it. The mechanism included a far-flung labyrinth of
tens-of-thousands of secret people operating in unknown numbers of
secret places under many secret programs through numerous cooperating
secret agencies both domestic and foreign. It included the National
Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence
Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, Naval Intelligence, Air Force
Intelligence, State Department
Intelligence, and National Security
Council in the U.S., with cooperation from British Intelligence, Israeli
Mossad, and Russian KGB "moles" among others. Its power to control and
manipulate conditions around the world was fully documented.
Secret Government worked to extend, consolidate and centralize economic,
political and military power appropriate to a World Empire of
controllers and manipulators, as shown in this and other grievances to a
candid world.
The U.S. Congress funded Secret Government with a virtual blank check,
and could only estimate in the mid-1990's that American taxpayers paid
for it at the rate of about $1 trillion over 20 years. So far reaching
and free spending was it that the NSA gathered l,056 pages of
information about Britain's Princess Diana and refused to disclose why
the information was obtained, or why it was kept secret long after her
death in a car crash in 1997.
The nearest thing to being a public figure representing Secret
Government in the Washington administration was the appointed "National
Security Adviser" to the President. But the position was more than
advisory as observed by Edward N. Luttwak, of the Center for Strategic
and International Studies, in a report October 11, 1998:
"President Clinton's national security
adviser, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger,
last week issued an utimatum to
President Slobodan Milosevic of
Yugoslavia by giving a background
briefing to reporters."
The President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and Chairman of
the Joint Military Chiefs of Staff normally followed plans provided by
Secret Government.
Secret Government operated outside the "rule of law" of the United
Nations Charter and international agreements. With Presdential
approval, missile "sneak attacks" were launched by the Navy September
20, 1998, on what Secret Government alleged were "terrorist" sites in
the sovereign nations of Sudan and Afghanistan. Congress was caught by
surprise, and insiders said even most Chiefs of the armed forces were
not informed;
"The planning cell was very small."
The names of those in the conspiratorial group were kept hidden from the
American taxpayers, who spent $1 million for each of the 75 missiles
used in the military aggression.
What was learned about Secret Government and its army of operatives came
largely from "insider" leaks and some who resigned to become
"whistleblowers". Mainstream mass media, once claiming itself as a
"watchdog" of government, grew impotent as Secret Government held up a
shield of "national security" to protect itself from exposure. An
important defense tactic of Secret Government was to label its critics
and challengers as "conspiracy kooks".
Major media feared loss of advertising income if it probed too deeply
into Secret Government and was never creatively bold enough to develop
alternative financial resources such as listener sponsorship and
advertisers opposed to the secrecy.
Vanderbilt University political science
professor Harry Howe Ransom
wrote a classic understatement in his 1988 book "The Intelligence
Establishment";
"As a source of great influence,
intelligence and covert operational
systems demand the close attention
of students of government and politics..."
Secret Government was the greatest challenge that Americans ever had to
their Constitution and "representative democracy".
Secret Government was directly involved with most means of mass
communication, including broadcasters, reporters, newspapers, publishing
houses, writers, magazines, news services, think tanks, researchers,
political activities, labor unions, and financial and educational
institutions. It infiltrated and subverted groups exercising
constitutional rights for peaceful change
In foreign lands, Secret Government distributed false information,
instigated unrest and was involved in warmaking, all documented by
former participants. It was instrumental in dividing Korea and Vietnam
into north-south warring nations. It helped overthrow
popularly-supported governments including Greece, Guatemala, Nicaragua,
Brazi, Uraguay, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, and supported repressive
military
regimes in Indonesia, Turkey, Haiti, Kuwait, Morocco, Chad and
Zaire. It trained Afghanistan forces fighting Soviet communism and who
later turned against the U.S. Former Assistant Secretary of State and
Council on Foreign Relations member Richard Murphy acknowledged "we did
spawn a monster in Afghanistan".
American taxpayers paid over $200 billion to train, equip, and subsidize
over 200 million foreign troops and Secret Government "security" forces
in over 80 countries in the last half of the 20th century.
Congressional committees obtained minimal information about Secret
Governments' worldwide activities but made no challenge. In 1998, a
secret memo was declassified revealing that in 1975 Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger told President Gerald Ford that the CIA was threatened
by a "scandal" that was "just the tip of the iceberg" and could wreck
the agency.
Among the earliest published insiders
who quit after feeling remorse was
Victor Marchetti who was with the CIA for 14 years and rose to be
Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director. Together with John D.
Marks, who was analyst and staff assistant to the Intelligence Director
of the State Department, they wrote "The CIA and the Cult of
Intelligence" which was published in 1974;
"The cult of intelligence is a secret
fraternity of the American political
aristocracy...to foster a world order
in which America would reign supreme."
A World Empire of controllers and manipulators could come into existence
by means that most people would regard as wrong, the authors said...
"...overthrowing foreign governments,
subverting elections, bribing officials,
and waging `secret' wars."
In reviewing the book, Walter Clemons of Newsweek Magazine said it was
"devastating", but Secret Government was never slowed. It employed an
array of control tactics that included "pre-emptive surgical strikes" by
military, paramilitary or special forces, terrorism, assassination/murder,
bombngs, riots, torture, robbery, abduction, and street crime and violence,
creating fear in the populace and setting the stage for martial law.
Another former insider was Colonel Fletcher Prouty who had worked in
White House national security operations. Publishing "The Secret Team"
in 1973, Prouty pointed to the reality of its power;
"The CIA and its allies (are) in
control of the U.S. and the world."
The Secret Government option of assassination was publicly advocated by
some members of Congress in 1998 expressing frustration with some
uncooperative foreign leaders. Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Slobodan
Milosovic of Yugoslavia were mentioned, with Senator Arlen Specter
declaring Saddam had to be "eliminated...one way or another we're going
to have to topple him."
No public accounting of Secret Governments estimated $50 billion in
yearly expenditures was ever given, although the Constitution required it;
Article 1, Section 9 - "No money shall
be drawn from the Treasury, but in
Consequence of Appropriations made
by Law, and a regular Statement and
Account of the Receipts and expenditures
of all public Money shall be published
from time to time."
The lack of Secret Government agency accountability suggested it was
above the "law of the land" and untouchable.
Newspaper columnist Anthony Lewis summed up the feeling of
constitutionalists;
"...the whole idea constructed at the
Philadelphia (constitutional) convention
in 1787, rests on the premise of an
informed electorate, holding its rulers
accountable and thus preventing the
corruption of power."
But the Constitution failed to provide automatic correction of
violators, and unelected, unresponsive and uncontrolled Secret
Government did whatever it decided. It far exceeded anything the Mafia,
Cosa Nostra, or other criminal-like organization ever did, and it did so
on a worldwide scale, but no U.S., U.N. or other authority challenged it.
Former Mossad insider Victor Ostrovsky said in his 1995 book "By Way of
Deception", that the organization, which cooperated with U.S. Secret
Government agencies, was "out of control...(and) often ruthless". In
order to finance some of its "frightening" operations with the CIA,
weapons were delivered to "friends" in Central America and Afghanistan
with drugs as payment in return. The Mossad operated with no government
oversight, a blank check budget, and even the name of its director was
secret.
Conspiracy by the CIA in drug smuggling was made public by
numerous
reliable sources, including University of Wisconsin Professor Alfred
McCoy. His "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" published in 1972
was followed by expanded research in 1991 titled "The Politics of
Heroin---CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade".
In 1993, former Navy and airline pilot, and investigator for the Federal
Aeronautics Administration, Rodney Stich, added the Federal Drug
Enforcement Administration to Secret Government arms-for-drugs
operations. In his book "Defrauding America", the author named several
DEA pilots who "acted under orders" to fly drugs from Latin America into
the U.S. where they were sold. Both arms and drugs served to
destabilize society for ultimate control and was a specialty of Secret
Government.
While Secret Government was running drugs, the public government
declared a "war on drugs", which served to divert public attention from
the mounting
evidence of illegal activity.
Secret Government interfered with various congressional investigators
trying to probe alleged wrongdoing, including the transfer of space
technology from Hughes Electronic Corporation to China.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, taxpayers have the right to designate their percentage of taxation
to specific legal programs, cutting off tax funds from illegal government
activities.