Vol I THE JOSHUA REPORT No. #10
[DID YOU KNOW...]
AMERICA'S SOVEREIGNTY
HANGS ON THE OUTCOME of the
IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS?
"IMAGINE a BOOT STAMPING
on YOUR FACE...FOREVER"
PART II
ARE YOU YOU ALREADY
UNDER SOCIALIST RULE?
"While THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THE GLOBAL ELITE IS A WORLD SOCIALIST
GOVERNMENT resulting from a dialectical process, currently what
we are experiencing
is perhaps best characterized as 'MULTINATIONAL CORPORATISM.'
Not yet SOCIALISM
(where government owns at least key industries such as rails,
utilities, banking, etc.),
and not quite FASCISM (where government controls at least key
industries via
regulations, etc.), 'multinational corporatism' is where large
multi-national corporations
(e.g., Archer-Daniels-Midland) contribute to key politicians
(e.g., Bob Dole), who ram
through legislative bodies (e.g., Congress) such things as GATT
even though polls show
about 80% of the public oppose it." [1]
Although Dr. Dennis Cuddy is one of my heroes, in this case I
strongly disagree
with the above statement. Granted, it may have been true at the
time he wrote this, but I
also think it possible that Dr. Cuddy may have become so immersed
in his very thorough
research and extremely authoritative writings on education, that
he has not investigated
the list of EXECUTIVE ORDERS that have been issued so prolifically
throughout this
administration [these are no longer restricted to the President
- or even the executive
branch. Today, any agency can do this, the mandates of the US
Constitution
notwithstanding!]. Do I REALLY believe this is a Fascist and
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
administration? You bet! Let's take a closer look at it:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton is not just co-President of the United
States - SHE'S THE
REAL POWER IN WASHINGTON, D.C..." So, who is our "REAL" President?
Just three
months after her husband took the oath of office [she DIDN'T],
she accepted an interview
with PARADE magazine, in which she was asked to discuss the people
in her life who
inspired her the most. After a bit, she was asked about her favorite
writers. Her answer
tells us volumes not only about her, but also her agenda for
AMERICA: In the article, she
claimed to be "fascinated" by Aldous Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD
and George Orwell's
1984! In case you are unfamiliar with these two books, they both
describe in terrifying
detail a world enslaved by a totalitarian government, consisting
of a handful of
tyrannical super-wealthy elitists. Terrorism, torture, mandatory
drugs, mind-control and a
government taboo on any acknowledgement of GOD are their hallmarks.
In both cases,
everybody works for the government [i.e., the elite], except
a small criminal element,
who are permitted to live "free" in a ghetto on the outskirts
of town, because they
provide certain "services" to the state. Hillary admits that
these are the books which
"MOST INFLUENCED HER POLITICAL THINKING!" [2] We are going to
get back to this
little lady - along with her First Man and her cabinet in a future
column!
"In essence, the masses are deprived of the individual liberties
afforded them by
capitalism...[while being] subject to all of the ravages of early
industrial era capitalism
such as the huge industrial monopolies, the aggregation of capital
in the hands of a
small group of the elite, as well as the low pay and squalid
working conditions
described in Charles Dickens' writings. These must also endure
the oppressive,
brainwashing, all-seeing 'BIG BROTHER' of George Orwell's 1984.
It is a new paradigm,
cloaked in the garments of a 'centrist' and a 'moderate,' proclaiming
the glories of the
coming millennium, while CONCEALING THE HEART AND INTENT OF A
BLOOD-THIRSTY
BEAST OF PREY." [3] Mercy! Sounds like modern-day America, doesn't
it?
"The DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (DSA) is the largest socialist
organization in the United States, and THE PRINCIPAL U.S. AFFILIATE
OF THE
SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL. DSA's members are building progressive
movements for
social change while ESTABLISHING AN OPENLY SOCIALIST PRESENCE
IN AMERICAN
COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS...DSA is working with the Congressional
Progressive
Caucus...The Progressive Caucus of the US House of Representatives
is made up of 58
members of the House..." [4]
"DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (DSA), for the first time since
the First
World War brought together the various splinters of left opinion
in America: former
SOCIALISTS and COMMUNISTS, former OLD LEFTISTS and NEW LEFTISTS,
and many
who had never been leftists at all. The decades of disunion had
taken their toll. The
hundreds of thousands of Debs's day had dwindled to mere thousands.
But a new
beginning now seems possible in the 1990s..." [5]
"Our military budget can be reduced substantially and permanently...I
believe
that tepid cuts in military spending will produce the worst of
all economic worlds -
reduced job opportunities in the current economy and no drive
to pull the economy
through to the other end. We must plan a bold change, as dramatic
as the changed
world circumstances that now provide us with this clear-cut opportunity...
"We have an opportunity that we have not had since the end of
World War II to
REORDER COMPLETELY OUR NATIONAL PRIORITIES, redefine our foreign
policy
paradigm, convert our economy and restructure our armed forces...This
change will not
come easily, but the opportunity will never be as great as it
is today." [6]
"...Most on welfare lack the education, job training, child care,
and health care
that their middle class brethren also strive to acquire and maintain.
Three-quarters of
adults on welfare will leave it for full-time employment within
the next two years, albeit
for jobs at suppressed minimum wages and limited supply, thanks
to monetary policies
designed to maintain unemployment just as the right wing proposes
time limits on
welfare eligibility.
"Racism, sexism, and homophobia are not the only forms of oppression
that both
predate capitalism and are continually transformed by it...Discrimination
occurs in a
myriad of forms, and a SOCIALIST society must eradicate all of
them.
"Ending environmental degradation and building a sustainable world
- meeting
the needs of the present without jeopardizing future generations
- require new ways of
thinking about SOCIALISM as well. The depletion of non-renewable
resources such as
fossil fuels and the pollution of our air and water argue for
REGULATORY
"PROTECTION"
AND MARKET INCENTIVES TO REVERSE CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR.
Furthermore, the victims of pollution are most often people of
color and lower income
communities. Environmental protection and environmental justice
must be part of a
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST agenda.
"Social movements have helped DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS to shape a
broader
perspective of SOCIALISM - one that recognizes that economic
change is a necessary,
but not sufficient condition for justice...The leading characteristic
of the emerging global
capitalist economy is that the controlling economic institutions
- the transnational
corporations - have integrated financing, production, distribution
and consumption on a
global scale. They now have the capacity to function as 'STATE'
institutions,
INDEPENDENT OF ANY PARTICULAR NATIONAL ECONOMY...
"...The internationalization of national economies impedes any
governmental
efforts to control capital. The implications for the development
and consolidation of an
INTERNATIONAL WORKING CLASS are profound. The great majority
of wage and
income earners in the advanced capitalist nations will experience
a long-term leveling
down of wages and living conditions - tantamount to A GRADUAL
IMPOVERISHMENT of
this vast working class. In other less-developed capitalist nations,
most workers will
notice little change because their wages and living conditions
have never been much
above mere subsistence. Thus, 20% of the population rises in
affluence, and the rest
suffer gradual or abrupt erosion of their living standards.
"The decline, however, does not translate directly into a new
class
consciousness. To the contrary, the foundations of traditional
working class political
culture are disintegrating. THROUGH GLOBALIZATION, CAPITAL ELUDES
THE
REGULATIONS OF NATION STATES AND THUS WEAKENS THE RIGHTS OF WORKING
PEOPLE AND ERODES THEIR STANDARD OF LIVING. The movement of capital
across
borders, unlike the movement of labor, is all but unrestricted.
Indeed, UNDER THE
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION [WTO] and the NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE
AGREEMENT [NAFTA], LAWS PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS CAN
BE
DEEMED
A BARRIER TO FREE TRADE.
"Yet, the dominance of trans-national corporations cannot survive
alone.
WITHOUT THE GLOBAL HEGEMONY OF THE UNITED STATES, GLOBAL CAPITALISM
WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE...So the United States underwrites the NEW
WORLD ORDER at
the risk of a tremendous imperial overreach that has already
undermined the strength of
our national economy...An emphasis on industrial agriculture
and cash crops has, for
example, resulted in the destruction of rain forests and in desertification
in some
regions. The loss of biodiversity is another critical consequence
of ill-conceived
development. SOCIALISTS must develop an environmental perspective
that recognizes
the importance of biodiversity
while accounting for the impact of protection efforts on people's
livelihoods...
"...we have almost reached the point at which the capacity of
any nation-state,
even a superpower like the United States, to guarantee peace
and stability is under
serious question. We are against the use of armed force for conquest
or self-defense.
There is no justification for an armed force of the classic type
in the world today.
Therefore, WE MUST LIMIT THIS ARMED FORCE TO A PURELY ENFORCEMENT
FUNCTION... Obviously, such an enforcement function must be directed
by a truly MULTI-
NATIONAL body [i.e., a WORLD COURT]. This means we need to approach
the question
of patriotism in a fundamentally new way...SUCH PEACEKEEPING
IS ONE IMPORTANT
FUNCTION THAT MUST BE STRENGTHENED WITHIN A NEW GLOBAL GOVERNANCE.
ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS is another. Treaties on
human rights,
international labor standards, women's rights, environmental
protection have all been
ratified by many nations (although generally not by the US).
Enforcement remains
problematic. And with the increasing trans-national nature of
corporations, new
INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY BODIES must be able to ensure that the
interests of all
the world's people are protected. Such agencies may also need
authority to tax
transnational corporations that are no longer subject to national
taxes [Are you ready to
give up your AMERICAN citizenship - along with the US CONSTITUTION,
BILL OF
RIGHTS
and the AMERICAN DREAM?]...
The fundamental task of DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS is to build ANTI-
CORPORATE
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS capable of winning reforms that empower people...SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS...WILL, AT TIMES, INTERVENE IN ELECTORAL POLITICS,
whether through
Democratic primaries, non-partisan local elections, or THIRD
PARTY EFFORTS. Our
electoral work aims at building majoritarian coalitions capable
of not only electing
public officials, but also of holding them accountable after
they are elected...Much of
progressive, independent political action will continue to occur
in Democratic Party
primaries in support of candidates who represent a broad progressive
coalition. In such
instances, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS will support such Rainbow Coalition-style
campaigns.
"But electoral tactics are only a means for DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS;
the
building of a powerful ANTI-CORPORATE COALITION is the end...THE
GOAL OF THE
SOCIALIST MOVEMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE ASSUMPTION OF OWNERSHIP
AND
CONTROL OF THE ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF SOCIETY. Only then can class
relations
be eliminated as a source of injustice and inequality. In the
historic period of national
capitalism as practiced in Europe, the strategy to achieve this
goal centered around the
political consolidation of wage and income earners through a
working class party to
gain state power, and, then, the use of the state to achieve
public ownership and control
over the economic resources of society. In the United States,
this strategy was
articulated as building a broad-based anti-corporate left, a
coalition of the major
progressive forces to address the needs of the majority of Americans
in opposition to the
system of private
enterprise. Moreover, the DEMOCRATIC PARTY was viewed as a key
arena because that
was where our natural allies were located. It was through control
of the state by the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, led by anti-corporate forces, that a progressive,
Keynesian
program could be realized.
"In this new period of global capitalism, CONTROL OF THE STATE,
WHETHER BY
CONSTITUTIONAL OR REVOLUTIONARY MEANS, CANNOT BE THE EXCLUSIVE
ROAD
TO THE SOCIALIST GOAL [but they certainly didn't rule either
of them out, did
they?]...the
road to the SOCIALIST goal must also include a transformation
of the institutions of civil
society - a long march through the institutions, with a concentration
on the economic
sphere in particular. This long march entails three programmatic
dimensions: on a local
level, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY; on an international level, GLOBAL
SOCIAL JUSTICE, on
a national level, SOCIAL REDISTRIBUTION...[Believe me, they are
not talking Robin
Hood: take from the rich to give to the poor - most of them are
rich - they are talking
about taking from the middle and working classes to give to the
third-world countries!]
Today, all politics is global. Either the NEW SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
is imbued
from the start with the spirit of international solidarity, or
it will be nothing at all.
Ironically, our new SOCIALIST project needs the global market
because the market
opens up the political space for economic democracy...the basis
of cooperation in the
movement for economic democracy is across borders, and must be
international from
the beginning. That is why ECONOMIC NATIONALISM AND OTHER FORMS
OF
TRADITIONAL PATRIOTISM ARE AN IMPEDIMENT TO THE NEW SOCIALIST
PROJECT.
Today, international solidarity must be founded on an equality
among the SOCIALIST
movements of each nation engaged in the same struggle against
transnational capital.
This is not support work, and not solidarity work. It is work
in common against a
common foe - the transnational corporations.
"At the same time, the international institutions that now exist
and serve
primarily the interests of transnational capital are important
arenas of struggle for a
global social and environmental agenda. These include efforts
to advance social
charters in free trade agreements; to propose alternative investment
strategies for the
WORLD BANK and the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND; to strengthen
the
enforcement
of existing treaties on the environment, labor standards, social
policies etc.; and to
promote international standards that put social justice before
corporate profit...The net
effect of these campaigns and actions should be A PROGRAM OF
LEVELING UP...
"SOCIAL REDISTRIBUTION will be the focus of a movement, AIMED
PRIMARILY
AT THE US GOVERNMENT, that will push for:
(1) MASSIVE REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOMEmassive redistribution of
income from
the top 20% and the corporations to the bottom 80%...and
(2) A MASSIVE SHIFT OF PUBLIC RESOURCES FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN
USES, the main source of existing discretionary, tax-based funds...Income
redistribution
and provision of social programs becomes more central to the
interests of not only poor
people but the great majority of working people. The strategy
of the transnational
corporations, in conjunction with the reactionary Right, starting
with Reagan and
accelerating with the ascent of the Contract on America, has
been the dismantling of the
LIBERAL WELFARE STATE. Defense of government programs that promote
social
justice,
environmental protection and guarantee basic levels of income
and well-being is an
absolute requirement for the next Left..." [7] [All of this comes
straight out of the
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO]
Make no mistake about it: "DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS" - Hitler's party
in Nazi
Germany - is nothing more than a euphamism for FASCISTS [a form
of Communism].
This party is anti-CHRISTIAN, anti-AMERICAN and anti-SOVEREIGN.
Keep these thoughts
in mind as we go now and meet YOUR NEW RED LEADERS [Note how
many of these
names are now sitting on the Judiciary Committee]:
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Representative Bernard Sanders (VT-AL), Chair
Representative Cynthia A. McKinney (GA-04), Co-Chair
Representative Peter A. DeFazio (OR-04), Co-Chair
Representative Maurice Hinchey (NY-26), Co-Chair
Representative Major Owens (NY-11), Co-Chair
Representative Nydia M. Velazquez (NY-12)
Representative Lane Evans (IL-17)
Representative Maxine Waters (CA-35)
STAFF COORDINATOR
Bill Goold
THE FULL MEMBERSHIP
ABERCROMBIE, Representative Neil (HI-01)
BECERRA, Representative Xavier (CA-30)
BONIOR, Representative David (MI-10)
BROWN, Representative Corrine (FL-03)
BROWN, Representative George E. (CA-42)
BROWN, Representative Sherrod (OH-13)
CARSON, Representative Julia (IN-10)
CONYERS, Representative John (MI-14)
COYNE, Representative William (PA-14)
DAVIS, Representative Danny (IL-07)
DEFAZIO, Representative Peter A. (OR-04)
DEGETTE, Representative Diane (CO-01)
DIXON, Representative Julian C. (CA-32)
EVANS, Representative Lane (IL-17)
FALEOMAVAEGA, Representative Eni (AS-AL)
FATTAH, Representative Chaka (PA-02)
FILNER, Representative Bob (CA-50)
FRANK, Representative Barney (MA-04)
FURSE, Representative Elizabeth (OR-01)
GUTIERREZ, Representative Luis (IL-04)
HASTINGS, Representative Alcee L. (FL-23)
HILLIARD, Representative Earl (AL-07)
HINCHEY, Representative Maurice (NY-26)
JACKSON, Representative Jesse (IL-02)
KAPTUR, Representative Marcy (OH-09)
KUCINICH, Representative Dennis (OH-10)
LAFALCE, Representative John (NY-29)
LEWIS, Representative John (GA-05)
MCDERMOTT, Representative James A (WA-07)
MCGOVERN, Representative Jim (MA-03)
MCKINNEY, Representative Cynthia A. (GA-04)
MEEK, Representative Carrie P. (FL-17)
MILLER, Representative George (CA-07)
MINK, Representative Patsy (HI-02)
NADLER, Representative Jerrold (NY-08)
NORTON, Representative Eleanor Holmes (DC-AL)
OLVER, Representative John (MA-01)
OWENS, Representative Major (NY-11)
PASTOR, Representative Ed (AZ-02)
PAYNE, Representative Donald (NJ-10)
PELOSI, Representative Nancy (CA-08)
RANGEL, Representative Charles (NY-15)
RIVERS, Representative Lynn N. (MI-13)
ROMERO-BARCELO, Representative Carlos A. (PR-AL)
SANDERS, Representative Bernard (VT-AL)
SCOTT, Representative Robert C. (VA-03)
SERRANO, Representative Jose E. (NY-16)
STARK, Representative Fortney "Pete" (CA-13)
STOKES, Representative Louis (OH-11)
THOMPSON, Representative Bennie G. (MS-02)
TIERNEY, Representative John (MA-06)
TORRES, Representative Esteban Edward (CA-34)
VELAZQUEZ, Representative Nydia M. (NY-12)
WATERS, Representative Maxine (CA-35)
WATT, Representative Melvin L. (NC-12)
WAXMAN, Representative Henry A. (CA-29)
WOOLSEY, Representative Lynn C (CA-06)
[8]
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free." -
Goethe
SOURCES
1] "INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM v. A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC" by D.L.
Cuddy,
Ph.D.
- The Florida Forum
2] BIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU by Texe Marrs - LivingTruth Publishers 1993
3] [http://www.TheWinds.org] [webmaster@thewinds.org]
4] SOCIALISTS IN CONGRESS by The Democratic Socialists of America
CNS Information
Services - The Democratic Socialists of America's Progressive
Caucus of the U.S. House
of Representatives - Internet web site of the Democratic Socialists
of America 11/11/98
5] A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT by Maurice Isserman [DSA]
[author of IF I
HAD A HAMMER: THE DEATH OF THE OLD LEFT AND BIRTH OF THE NEW
and co-author
of DOROTHY HEALEY REMEMBERS: A LIFE IN THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST
PARTY]
[http://www.dsausa.org/rl/Lit/history.html] - DSA Home Page [dsa@igc.org]
5] SOCIALISTS IN CONGRESS Id
6] "TOWARD A NEW FOREIGN POLICY: RE-ENVISIONING THE MILITARY"
by
Representative Ronald V. Dellums, U.S. Representative Ronald
V. Dellums, a Vice Chair
of the Democratic Socialists of America, represents the Ninth
District of California;
Ranking minority member of the House National Security Committee
- IN THESE TIMES -
DSA Home Page
7] "TOWARD A NEW DSA POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES STATEMENT" - Socialist
Forum
Number 24 9/95 [http://www.dsausa.org/rl/Lit/PolPersp.html] -
DSA Home Page
[dsa@igc.apc.org]
8] SOCIALISTS IN CONGRESS Id
[All emphasis throughout this article is mine.]
*THE DEADLINE IS STILL 2000A.D. CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!
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