(8/6/2007) In a true democracy the government should work for the people, but in America cash is king. We have lost our democracy and when we go to the polls in 2008 we will be voting for people who are the products of one of the two money corrupted political parties. The recent debates have shown that neither party has a presidential candidate who will be a fearless hero willing to fight to restore our democracy, but they did expose the fact that we still have two divisive political parties echoing the same half truths that their base group of voters expect to hear. The Republican candidates want to cut taxes for the rich, rebuild the military, end abortions, stop illegal immigration, and grow the economy. The Democratic candidates want to reduce the cost of a college education, require everyone to buy health insurance, toughen border security, threaten Iran, reduce the number of abortions, and grow the economy.

There are real ideological differences between the two parties but both parties have been corrupted by large campaign contributions and therefore neither party is going to sell us a candidate who will take the positions necessary to restore our democracy.

To restore democracy in America our elected leaders must be willing to tax the people with the highest concentrations of wealth at a level equal to or greater than the top marginal tax rates in 1960. Judge Louis D. Brandeis said: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Wealth in America has become extremely concentrated into the hands of the top 1% because of highly regressive tax law changes passed during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations, and because of pork barrel spending and other corrupt legislation. Now, the two political parties are financially dependent on these mega wealthy families and that is why I say "cash is king" and it is why I believe our great democracy has become a horrible plutocracy.

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question it's methods or throw light upon it's crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."  Abraham Lincoln

Some people believe that if we elect leaders who will enforce the Constitution we will have a stronger and safer country, but the sad reality is that the walls of our democracy have already been breached and the enemies of democracy have already shredded the Constitution. But all is not lost, our founding fathers gave us another document we can turn to in this time of tyranny, the Declaration of Independence. This document teaches us that freedom is not a gift that is bestowed but it is a condition that we must fight to achieve and a value that we must be eternally vigilant to preserve.

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..." Richard Henry Lee

It is time for the American people to join forces and declare their independence from the new king "cash". Not only do we have the Declaration of Independence to guide us but we have constitutional legal precedents in the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution. This amendment, passed in 1913, allowed Congress to create a highly progressive tax system that including an estate tax. These laws were created so that wealth could not become highly concentrated into the hands of a few successful capitalist. Unfortunately, these laws have been perverted and made regressive by greedy men who have taken advantage of a corrupt political system. If we cannot get our political leaders to restore the tax laws that the sixteenth amendment intended we may need to resort to the barbaric methods that are founding fathers used to win our independence from King George -- through the barrel of a gun -- .

"We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln

However, before we start killing people we need to prove our resolve and build a base of like minded people who will join the fight to win our independence from the new oppressive monarchs who are undermining our democracy, robbing our government, and manipulating the American people. We can do this with the following three actions:

Boycotts: Boycotts are a way we can start to fight back without having to stick our necks out. If we start boycotting the businesses and products that are owned or controlled by the people who fund the criminal political puppets in both parties our elected representatives will be forced to retreat from their extremist ideology, otherwise, their backers will be isolated and their businesses bankrupted. Following is a link to my list of boycott targets (see Boycott List). Please feel free to copy and distribute this boycott list.

Lobbying: We can start fighting back with the help of the U.S. military. Every American should read, print, sign (anonymously is ok), and then mail a letter to our top military leaders asking them to help us save America's democracy from the money corrupted right-wing extremist in both parties and the greedy Robber Barons who fund their campaigns (see Sample Letter).

Education: We can fight back by educating ourselves and others about what is really happening in our government, and what we can do to repair our government. Everyone should start getting ready to fight the organized criminals who are currently robbing our government, undermining our democracy, manipulating the American people, and wasting our soldier's lives in Iraq by reading my website articles and my free online book "FIGHT" (see "Fight Guide").

If these solutions don't work we can fight back using the same method our founding fathers won our independence from the powerful monarchs, through the barrel of a gun.

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin