Dwight Eisenhower warned against the United States
becoming predominately dependent on military power
as a means for its security. The biggest change
in American democratic history came about as a
result of World War II and the introduction of the
nuclear bomb. From the mid 40's to the early 50's
two different directions became available for our
government to choose from.

One direction was for our government to embrace
the principles of the newly formed United Nations,
which was originally handed all the tools
necessary to civilize this world through a system
of International Law and Order based on the
establishment of an International Bill of Human
Rights.

After the devastation of World War II the world
came to realize future wars using nuclear weapons
could destroy this world and a new system for
providing a more peaceful and civilized existence
in this world was needed, thus the United Nations
was formed.

The other direction governments could take was to
pursue military expansionism with nuclear weapons
to ensure their defense.

Once one single country pursued this path others
were forced to follow and the overall purpose of
the United Nations was nullified.

Today the American people have become oppressed
slaves to their military power and have been
forced to give up their democratic rights and
freedoms for their security.

Ben Franklin stated, once you give up your liberty
and democratic rights for your security, you
deserve neither. The cost the American people have
had to pay for their military power is being a
constant target always having to defend itself
from those who wish not to be militarily dominated
by the U.S. government.

The American people and their democracy has been
oppressed and dominated by fear as a result of
their military power and expansionism.

The United States government is now the most
barbaric, brutal, and uncivilized country in the
world and has been responsible for more deaths
(approximately seven million people killed) then
any other country since the mid 1950's.

The strange thing is the American people act
shocked when someone attacks their country (911,
the USS Cole, etc) and can't understand why.

We have been conditioned to believe a strong
military is the best way to defend our country,
but when that military power jeopardizes our
security and safety because our leaders are
abusing it for purposes other then to defend our
country, we should not be surprised.


Being civilized and living in Peace is the
sacrifice we have made for military power.

They say when you live by the sword you die by the
sword and we now live totally by the sword.

There was a time when it was patriotic to defend
our country and democratic way of life, which was
back when our democracy was one that was by the
people, for the people, and of the people.

Today, our government is corporate controlled,
which means we have sacrificed our democratic
rights, freedoms, security, and safety to defend a
government, which is by the corporations, for the
corporations, and of the corporations.

This was not part of the original deal when our
democracy was formed. Nowhere in our
Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or Bill
of Rights does it mention the American people must
yield their democracy to the corporate powers.

The reason our democracy was formed was to be
self-governing and get away from totalitarian
rule. The first paragraph of the Declaration of
Independence states clearly the obligation to
preserve our democracy rest squarely with the
American people, yet the American people are so
oblivious to their democratic responsibilities
they have allowed their democracy to fail. A
democracy is only as strong as the people who
participate in it.

Thomas Jefferson stated; this democracy would only
last about two hundred and fifty years before the
people must decide to rebuild it or let it revert
back to totalitarian rule. We have been at it for
two hundred and thirty four years now, with
sixteen years left to decide.

If the American people are satisfied with being
oppressed by fear as a result of our their
military power, which is controlled by a corporate
run government then they should do nothing, but
they should understand it was they who failed
their democracy and they have no one to blame but
themselves.