One does not expect honor from those operating in a illegal system. And let's face it, if our Constitution is supposed to be the "law of the land," the federal government we have now must be the most successful illegal operation in the history of this nation.

The U.S. Supreme Court has said many times that when we look for an explanation of what is meant (what was intended by the authors) in the Constitution, one should turn to The Federalist Papers as an expert source for guidance. That being so, we see that we now have a government greatly different that what was intended by the Founding Fathers. It is, therefore, not a Constitutional form of government.

Furthermore, to not admit that most people in government know perfectly well that they are operating something greatly different than the type of government authorized by the Constitution is like suddenly becoming deaf and blind in the face of aggression. They know they violate the Constitution every day. They just do not care to admit it.

It is not surprising, therefore, that many people like to stay in government simply because they can work the system for personal gain. Most of them enjoy the title, pomp and circumstance. Many also enjoy wielding as much power over others as they can get.

All that being said, it's also no surprise that the usurpers of liberty on Capitol Hill become totally upset when anyone rocks their boat a little by asking them to take an honorable position on a matter that could, conceivably, impact on their chance for reelection. These are, after all, people disposed to milking the system, not doing what is right. We have already determined they do not intend to do what is right because no more than a small handful of them ever demands a return to a Constitutional form of government.

Now comes a new book -- written by an outsider with considerable organized crime experience -- describing a part of both the corrupt system called the federal government and the complete lack of honor of those manipulating the system.

It's not that we didn't warn them, though. As far back as issue #79 (April 5, 1998), we informed our readers on Capitol hill:

"Now comes a criminal defense attorney named David Schippers. Rep. Hyde selected Schippers, a 68-year- old Chicago attorney, to lead the impeachment team as chief investigative counsel. Some old timers may still remember that name because, back in the 1960's, Schippers ran the Justice Department's busy organized crime and racketeering section in Chicago. Needless to say, Schippers knows a little about investigating obstruction and cover-up schemes. He's also a registered Democrat.

"Continuing on with what could easily become a very hard-hitting team, Hyde them tapped three Chicago investigators: Berle Littmann, a recently retired Internal Revenue Service investigator; another IRS investigator named Al Tracy; and Peter Wacks, a retired FBI Special Agent. Coincidentally, all three are long time associates of former Chicago federal prosecutor David Schippers.

"Apparently, Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde mean business. Hyde's new investigation team comes with over 100 years experience dealing with well organized hard- core sleaze. It should also be reiterated that they are all already retired. That is, they have no career to worry about, and hence, do not have to worry about what toes they may step on during this investigation. Between them, they know every dirty trick in the book."

Perhaps I should have added that David Schippers is no one to be fooling with. Once someone gets in his sights, he WILL nail them. He is not just crusty and hard hitting. Schippers can be relentless.

And so there came a time when the mob- prosecutor from Chicago was forced to deal within the constraints of the political chicanery on Capitol Hill. And, well . . . like oil and water, they didn't mix.

Schippers found deceit, treachery, and a couple hundred self-serving, egotistical politicians with absolutely no intention of doing what was right. That is, the Chicago organized crime prosecutor met a new type of perpetrator. But, this time, the dishonorable ones were making the rules. As David Schippers soon learned, the "law" as he practiced it for those many years, does not apply within the Beltway. The Washington elite do as they please.

Simply put, politicians, in any Capitol, will not allow outsiders to disturb their system -- no matter how correct that outsider may be. Try to rock their political boat -- their system -- and they will rally around, close ranks and protect their own. And, until that "us" against "them" mentality changes, the whole of our political system will continue as usual.

But David Schippers is a resourceful man. So be forewarned, Capitol Hill; we do not believe Schippers has given up quite yet. His new book, "Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment," may be but the probing volley of the assault to come.

We voters can help some, too. For starters, the vote against impeachment is an outward sign of corruption. Therefore, we should never reelect any politician opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton. We should also read and study David Schippers' new book as a chronicle describing at least one important part of what is wrong in Washington.

In a few days, there will be a meeting of a wide assortment of communists, socialists and third world officials from all kinds of little dictatorships. The meeting is being watched and encouraged by many multinational business and banking concerns, as well as most of the far-left non-government organizations.

The reason for the meeting, of course, is to amass more money and power over the people of the world. And, the people of the United States are one of the primary targets in their sights.

Part of the fun of watching these pompous clowns is that many of them originate from very poor countries with terrible governments. Yet, instead of staying home and helping their own people, they join in with others to try to affect the people of countries that are doing well. Another humorous -- albeit, also alarming -- fact is that many American liberals actually treat these third world buffoons as equals and consider their demands.

Jealousy, we used to call that years ago. They covet our goods, life style and status. And, they mean to have some of it. Therefore, they are joining together to finalize a plan to take it.

Of course, they can't take very much from us without our noticing -- and protesting. So, they initially favor a system of taxing the very international business and banking concerns encouraging this action. The mercantile set doesn't seem to mind that too much because they can then deduct part of this tax as a cost of doing business and make up the rest by raising the prices we pay for goods and services. But, no matter how you cut and distribute that cake, it was originally all our cake, not theirs.

Anyway, when implemented, they will realize a net profit of tens of billions of dollars annually. In the beginning, that is. This first proposal is just to get their foot in the door -- the way our income and Social Security taxes started. <http://www.ceedweb.org/iirp>

They say they need that money to pay for their permanent army and world police force. They also need stable financing to pay for their international court system. And, they need money to pay for "proper" transportation and fat-cat expense accounts for their pompous clown commissioners. After all, these commissioners cannot be seen traveling with the great unwashed. They are the elite and must be recognized and pampered as such.

They are calling next month's meeting The Millennium Assembly of the United Nations. We shall call the meeting an un-American activity and recommend that it not be held. <http://www.un.org/millennium>

Already, the Clinton administration gave these pompous clowns status above all American citizens while they are here. That is, this assortment of communists, socialists and representatives of dictatorships will have complete immunity from our laws while meeting in New York to scheme against us.

Worse, three bills were recently submitted in the House that would sell us out by starting to limit our independence: H.R. 4453 would approve a United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force (also supported in H. CON. RES. 346). And, H. CON. RES. 301 would authorize the "Tobin taxes" the U.N. wants to spring on us.

So, it's time for action. And, act we can. There's nothing in the law saying that we Americans can't publicly yell, jeer, protest, call them names and generally make them know they are not welcome here. We should. If you are not near New York, use talk radio and letters to the editor. Contact the perpetrators directly, too. Their address is the United Nations building in New York City. <http://www.un.org>

Postcards are especially appropriate because everyone along the line can read them and they force the message to be short and to the point. But, telephone calls are also good because groups can flood their switchboards with little trouble. There are plenty of to-the-point messages that can be delivered which are short and perfectly legal. We DO still have freedom of political speech, after all. So, let's use it.

One point this United Nations group must be made to understand is that a very endearing rallying cry in our history was, "no taxation without representation." We won that war for independence, and few of us will agree to go backwards. Just the opposite, in fact. Many of us will be willing to fight again to insure our independence.

Some of these assorted communists, socialists and representatives of third-world dictatorships are calling their global governance scheme "democratic transnationalism." What it really is is the start of a one world government. The scheme is, of course, a direct assault on the sovereignty of the United States and a threat to the freedom of the American people. Therefore, the scheme must not be allowed to happen.

The only fix, therefore, is to force this United Nations fiasco out of this country and to demand that most treaties with them are canceled.

We already see a direct threat on our property rights through the UNESCO Man in the Biosphere silliness and all those dumb Heritage Sites. As Americans, we are best equipped to be the stewards of our land and resent the interference of third world buffoons. These programs must also be tossed out with the UN.

And last, as for their little army, court system and police force . . . well, they wouldn't last more them a week running around brandishing weapons in this country. It would not be tolerated.

But, we will not have to worry about any of that if we start now by telling them they are not welcome here for any reason.

In truth, I don't think of myself as being all that old yet. But it seems that a lot of editors seem to think I must be. Because, every time I get to reminiscing in an article about how the relationship between the people and their government was when I was young, I get a lot of requests for reprints.

Well, here's to tell you, I ain't yet decrepit. Stooped over a little, maybe. Starting to get gray hair, yeah. Forgetful about what I just came downstairs for . . . well, sometimes that too. But, that's why Post-It Notes are made to stick to the front of shirts, isn't it?

Anyway, it didn't take a whack across the head with a two-by-four for me to guess that many editors and readers enjoy reading about the freedom we "older" folks realized when we were growing up. And, I also see why: Much of our institutional memory about freedom is gone. Unfortunately, many people younger than me seem to actually expect that government will usurp their rights. They think that is the right of governments -- to regulate every little thing in our lives from womb to tomb and "crack down" on any loopholes.

It's those of us who are a little bit older than the average citizen -- with a memory of freedom -- who need to start "telling it like it was." Because, how it "was" is how it is supposed to still be.

Back where we lived when I was a kid, many of us were about as poor as you could be and still have indoor plumbing. Yet, we didn't know that at the time. Still, we walked the couple miles to school to save the bus fare. We all, always, brown-bagged lunch -- usually a peanut butter or tuna fish sandwich and a piece of fruit. And, after we were about 12 years old, we all had part time jobs.

That was all of us, too. Boys, girls, black, white, yellow, red, brown, and in-between. Generally speaking, we all grew up about the same.

Two black boys I know went into working party stores. After a while, they bought one. When they retired, they sold out for millions. You see, they got into the business before the onslaught of all those forbidding regulations and retired a little early specifically because of all those stupid regulations.

Two brothers coming here from Italy had it a little harder. One pushed a large vegetable cart around the neighborhood for a few years. The other pumped a bicycle around with a huge grinding wheel to sharpen knives. They saved their money and finally bought a fruit market. That quickly grew, divided into three, and continued to grow. Those old guys are leaving their kids a multi-million dollar business.

Three other boys joined together, bought some old machining equipment, set it up in a garage and started producing small parts for machine shops. Today, they own a rather large machine shop.

A couple other guys started out by doing bump and paint work for used car lots in their back yard. They did good work and so prospered quickly. These guys always had more work than they could handle and so trained many teenage boys on the job -- until they got caught.

Some of us even went to college, but we were the exception. Nevertheless, most everyone from our "poor" neighborhood did quite well for themselves.

The problem is, out of the many I could name, only a small handful could come up through the ranks and bootstrap themselves to success that way today. Today's laws, rules and regulations would not allow it. Most communities would jail anyone doing bump and paint work, or running a machine shop, at home. Sharpening knives or selling vegetables on the street requires many licenses and permits. And few kids "work" without strict government intervention and/or permits. Forget trying to teach kids some trade without government permissions.

Much of that stopped when the Democrats gave us the "Great Society" programs and started regulating everything they could think of. Today's kids need "working permits," if they do any work at all and it seems like there no longer is any real training to become an adult. When you turn 18 years old, you are to be responsible, is today's way. And, for those who can't hack being responsible, government continues their allowance so they have food and lodging. No knowledge. Just food and lodging.

Whatever happened to freedom?

Did freedom suddenly go out of style? Today's kids don't even know about the Constitution. Evidently, their teachers don't, either. Nor do most politicians. And most of the media seem to actually want complete socialism here.

That leaves us. Therefore I call for a "Geezer Alert." We went to school when teachers taught American government as intended, without a strong socialist bent. Many of us have actually read the Constitution a couple times and have plenty of time to study it again. So, let's do it.

We do, after all -- the great majority of us, anyway -- want to leave our grandchildren and great- grandchildren living in a country as free as the one we grew up in. But no one is teaching them how things should be. So, we'll have to do it.

Adding insult to injury, Congress formed the "James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation" in 1986 to teach Americans the Constitution. Then, they ruined it by making the far-left Senator, Edward M. Kennedy, the chairman. <http://www.jamesmadison.com>

So, I say again: Geezer Alert! Write, yell, lecture, cajole, demand; whatever it takes. Teach about freedom, federalism, responsibility and the Constitutional form of government we should have.

Else, forget about freedom for the kids. We'll be leaving them something different.

We all know about Al Gore's fervent declaration at his nominating convention: "I am my own man!" Okay, there are a few things Naomi Wolfe and the other handlers have decided upon for the candidate. Most important, they must shed that awkward, self-conscious, dorky image he's always had and replace it with a more macho image. He is no longer Vice President Gore, he is now Fightin Al, the man of the people. Fightin Al is going to fight to save social security, fight to increase the welfare roles, fight for a controlling legal authority and fight for a full roll of toilet paper in every stall.

The problem is, there needs to be an opponent for Fightin Al. It's gotta be bigger than just one person, such as Dirty George, the Smirkin Texan. A proper opponent needs to be an idea or a class of people. And it will be impossible for Fightin Al to know who he is until he finds something that's good enough to hate.

Come with us now to the Watergate Hotel in our nation's capitol. We find the Gore handlers at the DNC in a state of desperation over their candidate's lack of identity. Harry Thomasson, James Carville and Gloria Alredd are looking over polling data.

ALREDD: Okay, guys, a nationwide average of white professional women twenty to thirty-five want a president that is decisive, manly, cooks and cleans and cries a lot.

CARVILLE: Jeez! You want Fightin Al to be Oprah Winfrey?

ALREDD (continuing): And 71 percent of professional white males, thirty to forty eight want a president who is honest, intelligent, brave, courageous and bold.

CARVILLE: What? That's Daniel Boone and Abe Lincoln! You got Fightin Al as Fess Parker combined with Raymond Massey. You want this from a man who can't fill out a resume?

THOMASSON: Jimmy, Sweetie, we got our work to do. If it were easy, they'd leave it to Hillary.

CARVILLE: Tell you what, you Hollywood pansy ... you call me sweetie once more and you'll be wearin that beard where it hits the chair!

ALREDD: Well, we gotta admit we've got a challenge here. Is it too late to dump the Fightin Al thing for Al the Dork? We could build the whole warm, fuzzy, tickle me Elmo thing around him. You know, the lovable loser gig. What do you think?

THOMASSON: Too late. After that thing in the lobby yesterday, we re committed.

ALREDD: What thing in the lobby?

CARVILLE: Donna Brazil thought that one up. We paid off some retired pro football player to stand in the bar and make some nasty comments about poor people. There were plenty of media people there because there were free drinks. Of course Fightin Al overheard him. He roughed the guy up and was going to throw him out in the street. The whole thing, see, was to show Fightin Al as some macho guy you don't mess with, and he fights for what he believes in, like poor people.

ALREDD: That sounds good. So how come it wasn't on the news?

THOMASSON: Donna didn't know the football player was there with his mother, so she wasn't in on it. The mother got Fightin Al in a full nelson and wouldn't let go until we paid her off, too.

CARVILLE: Harry here had to promise film clips of Bill and Barbara to keep the media off it. THOMASSON: That's not true! There's no proof I promised anything!

THE DOOR OPENS AND FIGHTIN AL ENTERS, DRESSED IN A BATHROBE.

ALREDD: Hi, Fightin Al!

THOMASSON: Hey, there he is!

CARVILLE: Here's the man!

FIGHTIN AL: Hey look, I really want to get dressed. But first I need to know who I am.

ALREDD: Don't worry about it, Fightin Al, we've got a focus working on it right now.

CARVILLE: Don't worry, big guy, when we know, you'll know.

FIGHTIN AL: Well I've got an idea, if that's okay.

ALL THREE SHAKE THEIR HEADS, AFRAID WHAT'S COMING NEXT.

THOMASSON: Well, I m not sure, Fightin Al, where's this going?

CARVILLE: Hey, we agreed, you don't have ideas, remember?

FIGHTIN AL: Well all this Fightin Al stuff, I'm not so sure about it.

ALREDD (HYSTERICALLY): What're you talking about, Fightin Al? It polled beautifully! Fighting for the people! What could possibly be wrong with that?

FIGHTIN AL: It hurts.

ALL: What?

FIGHTIN AL: I always get hurt when I fight. It scares me.

THOMASSON: That's why we've got Secret Service, to keep someone from beating you up.

CARVILLE: Well for cryin out loud, Fightin Al, after all we went through, building up Fightin Al, now what do you want us to call you?

FIGHTIN AL: Kissin Al.

ALL: Kissin Al?!

FIGHTIN AL: Yeah. That night when Tipsy planted that tonsil scrapper on me, all I could think of was WOW! My knees went wobbly and I almost forgot my speech.

CARVILLE: Yeah, so what? We're pumpin that kiss as hard as we can. We even got Rush Limbaugh talkin about it.

THOMASSON: Yeah, what's the point? We still don't know who or what you are.

FIGHTIN AL: Well I do. From now on, I'm Kissin Al, puckerin for the people!

ALREDD: What?

THOMASSON: This is insanity!

CARVILLE: We gonna git you to a shrink, boy!

FIGHTIN AL: Why? It was really fun! I'm gonna get Tipsy to do that every speech. Kissin Al, hot damn!

CARVILLE HEADS FOR THE DOOR

CARVILLE: That's it, I'm outta here! Kissin Al ... that's what got us in trouble with the last one!

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