“It is a mistake to suppose that, in a country where the usual evidences of civilization exist, the condition of a very large body of the inhabitants may not be as degraded as that of savages.” Thoreau may as well have been writing for the present conditions in America as he was about those over one hundred and fifty years ago. And when government becomes nothing but organized robbery and tyranny reducing so many millions to live degraded lives in the face of the usual evidences of civilization We the People have the right and the duty to rebel!

Our Federal Triune Dictatorship, the members of which live lives of luxury insulated from reality are treading a dangerous path by ignoring the growing number of those being forced into lives of degradation, being forced by circumstances to abandon any pretense of “honesty is the best policy” while living paycheck to paycheck, when they have a job at all; and it is no wonder so many are making the conscious choice of crime when our very leadership is preaching a doctrine of “honesty is for chumps.”

Few in Watts are shedding any tears about multi-million dollar mansions burning in Malibu while such ostentatious displays of the growing disparity between rich and poor in America are accelerating at a dangerous pace. Those wealthy ruling the MSM may be wringing their hands, deploring the loss of mansions, but they do so to the dangerous chant of “burn baby burn” a spectral reality of the many millions living lives of degraded savages throughout America where to try to live decently and honestly is only a paycheck away from disaster and there is no insurance to replace a “mansion.”

Since our government at every level, local, state, federal is hell-bent on making criminals of everyone who is not a dog feeding at Caesar’s table, who is not receiving a government paycheck at taxpayer expense exemplified by taxation without representation why don’t we all simply join the criminal class and have done with it? We already know for example that illegal drugs fund many world economies, that our own government opposes legalizing marijuana because of so much money going into the pockets of elected officials from this source. How else explain our open borders and Mexicans maintaining huge marijuana plantations right here in America?

It would be naïve to believe law enforcement officers at every level are not cooperating with the drug trade and human trafficking. After all, if the elected officials from the lowest to the highest and their cronies are living high on the hog and never held to account when caught breaking the law, sometimes pocketing millions of illegal dollars why be law-abiding yourself when honesty is the best policy is playing out everywhere a policy for chumps? And our own elected officials do not lack for “working girls” even at taxpayer expense while deploring prostitution. Hypocrisy abounds.

Pat Buchanan writes concerning Iran “If we are going to war, let us do it constitutionally, for once, and not leave it up solely to George W. Bush and Brother Cheney.”

Now I have always liked Pat, and even voted for him. I respect him as a man who speaks his mind and does not mince words. Agree or disagree you always know where he stands on the issues. For example I don’t believe he would approve the check I make out for The Israel Project, the money I send as a token of support for Israel’s right to defend itself. But his disapproval would be based on his pragmatism, not anti-Semitism. And it is Pat’s broad streak of pragmatism with which most take issue.

Pragmatically, if enough politicians and their corporate bosses are profiting from wars constitutionally or not then wars there will be. If enough people are being forced to live in America as degraded savages and crime is the only alternative then crime there will be. From childhood on I have known those environments where the poor suffer as politicians enriched themselves offering nothing but lip service to concerns about the poor, lying to get elected and lying to stay elected. While serving in Watts during the 60s I learned how the political game is played, a game intended to “keep those people in their place” while politicians pocketed the money from federal programs with no accountability. Then teachers like me were to tell our pupils “honesty is the best policy” all the while the evidence to the contrary abounded on every side.

One result of this hypocrisy of government is making jails and prisons growth industries while supplying full employment to lawyers of every description. One needn’t be a Bible thumper believing in End Times scenarios to understand where all this is headed. What I call “the circumstances of the immutable” is taking us there, and Pat Buchanan is one of the “prophets” preaching this doctrine.

But neither Pat nor I needed the gift of prophecy to understand once Bush had cast the gauntlet before Islam it would have to be a war fought to win, or it would mean defeat. What America, what the civilized world is facing now is the prospect of defeat unless an accommodation can be found that is satisfactory to our Muslim enemies. But it will also have to be an accommodation satisfactory to the economic masters that control the purse strings. Whether illegal aliens, drugs, prostitution, wars; follow the money.

Tragically for America the growing numbers of “savages” being forced into degraded living conditions to benefit the wealthy that do not suffer the constraints of either law or conscience are being forced to accept becoming criminals in order to survive. “Neither too rich nor too poor lest the righteous put forth his hand to steal” is a Biblical injunction that must be heeded by all leaders.

Even as I write I know too well that I only “own” my little cottage here so long as I can pay the property taxes. Even at that, there is the constant threat some lawyer can take away my place and give it to another. The most frivolous of lawsuits can ruin anyone without the insurance or deep pockets to fight litigation of whatever nature, and I have already faced one of those “professional litigants” that make a living of such lawsuits. It ought to be a crime for such creatures to do things like this, but since it is not those that try to live honestly pay the price for being “chumps.”

Well, our political “leadership” seems dedicated to making honest Americans a bunch of chumps. And if I were being forced by our leadership into a choice between abject poverty, of being on the street without a roof over my head I would soon be dealing drugs myself. My little cottage sits on nearly an acre, ideal for marijuana cultivation. It would also be ideal for supplying the valley with homegrown “produce.” And at my age, if I should be arrested a prison would at least guarantee a roof and being fed. And the way our leadership is operating such a choice looms before many millions of otherwise honest and law-abiding Americans.

Perhaps I’m just too old a dog to learn new tricks, but I’m still of the mind that to live honestly before God and men is the best policy. But this does not make me immune to recognizing realities of life; even when the realities are so ugly it forces the “righteous” to put forth their hands to steal (or grow marijuana).

It has long since lost any humor, the idea of renouncing American citizenship and becoming an illegal alien in order to receive welfare and medical services. And like dealing drugs, when such a thing is no longer humorous it becomes dangerous. If I had the ear of our elected officials this would be my warning to them: When government becomes nothing but organized robbery and tyranny We the People have the right and the duty to rebel!