While doing some research in an attempt to get a better grasp on the Sedition Act of 1798, I ran across this gem of an article. Perhaps many here have already read it before. I may have as well, but I believe it is worthy of a second read.
The Shadow Government
Secret Rule
It is becoming increasingly apparent to American citizens that government is no longer being conducted in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, or, within states, according to state constitutions. While people have recognized for more than 150 years that the rich and powerful often corrupt individual officials, or exert undue influence to get legislation passed that favors their interests, most Americans still cling to the naive belief that such corruption is exceptional, and that most of the institutions of society, the courts, the press, and law enforcement agencies, still largely comply with the Constitution and the law in important matters. They expect that these corrupting forces are disunited and in competition with one another, so that they tend to balance one another.
Mounting evidence makes it clear that the situation is far worse than most people think, that during the last several decades the U.S. Constitution has been effectively overthrown, and that it is now observed only as a façade to deceive and placate the masses. What has replaced it is what many call the Shadow Government. It still, for the most part, operates in secret, because its control is not secure. The exposure of this regime and its operations must now become a primary duty of citizens who still believe in the Rule of Law and in the freedoms which this country is supposed to represent.
much more at the link:
www.constitution.org/shad4816.htm
I think this excerpt explains what we are seeing now as so many government agencies act in outright rebellion against a sitting president. I think it also ties in with a new book entitled The Administrative Threat by Philip Hamburger (reviewed here freebeacon.com/culture/dangerous-book/ I just ordered the book so I can’t say for sure.
Shadow control therefore consists largely of the placement of shadow agents in key positions in all of the institutions that are to be controlled. Since they cannot reveal their true role, they are also somewhat constrained in the actions they can take. What they do has to fit their jobs and not conflict in an obvious way with the mission of the organization, even if they head it. Some of the main targeted institutions are the following:
(1) Top and key lower positions in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Key judges, especially presiding judges who assign cases.
(2) Staff positions under the top positions, such as the congressional staff members who really run Congress.
(3) Intelligence agencies. The CIA<7>, NSA and various military intelligence divisions. Among their functions are death squads that eliminate troublesome persons, although they usually avoid doing that to more prominent ones. They also have developed mind control techniques that can be used to mess up the minds of people they want to discredit or disable.<8> Actually, almost every department of government has an intelligence function, and that function is the Shadow Government’s main point of control of the department.
(4) Military organizations, law enforcement, and taxing agencies, especially the IRS. Not only federal, but also state and local, at least in the major cities. The IRS and other agencies are used to harass persons considered troublesome, and sometimes to prosecute them on trumped up charges, in which evidence is planted or manufactured and government witnesses perjure themselves.
(5) Major banks, insurance companies, pension funds, holding companies, utilities, public authorities, contractors, manufacturers, distributors, transport firms, security services, credit reporting services. Forbidden by law from maintaining dossiers on citizens not the subject of criminal investigation, the agencies get around the restriction by using contractors to maintain the data for them, and have amazingly detailed data on almost everyone. When you hire one of the major security services, you are turning over the keys to your premises to the shadow government.
(6) Major media. Newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations. Together, they control the National Election Service, which in turn controls the outcome of computerized elections.<9> They suppress coverage of certain subjects, and are the channel for the Shadow Government’s propaganda and disinformation campaigns. A major part of the budget of the CIA is for film and video production. They aren’t making training films.
(7) Communications networks. Telephone, telegraph, cable and satellite. The Shadow Government can bug any communication they wish, without bothering with a court order, and they regularly monitor dissidents and other key figures. Major holes in their control here are the Internet and public-key encryption, which the Shadow Government is trying to suppress. Although the Internet can be monitored, it cannot be effectively controlled, and it is emerging as a major threat to Shadow control.
(8) Organized crime. Despite occasional convictions, they are now mostly treated as a profit center and as the executors of the dirty jobs. They are also the providers of vices for the corrupt members of government, which vices are also used to blackmail and control people.
(9) Education. Universities and public education. Universities are the least effectively controlled components, but still important, largely for recruitment. Main aim here is to divert student activists into unproductive channels, or to get students so involved in careerism that they ignore the important issues.
(10) Civic, political, and labor organizations. The two major political parties. Political action committees. League of Women Voters. Trade and professional associations, such as the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association. Labor unions.
(11) International organizations. The United Nations, NATO, the IMF. Multinational corporations.
(12) Governmental and nongovernmental institutions of other countries. We are doing many of the same things there that are being done in the United States, especially in the more advanced countries.
www.constitution.org/shad4816.htm
h/t Daniel Higdon
About 10 years ago I stumbled onto a Y-Tube video of a Represenative Larry McDonald being interviewed by a young Pat Buchanan in 1983.McDonald was just elected the second President of the John Birch Society and he stated that NOT only was he going to fight the Commies but also the Internationalist who are eroding American Sovernty. It sounded pretty crazy for 1983. Makes sense now!
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About 3 months latter he got on flight KAL 007 to go to a military/political celebration of the 50 aniversity of the Korean war. The plane divert significantly into Soviet Airspace over a top secrete Soviet testing site while they were testing military hardware. After numerous attempts by the Soviets to intercept the plane it was shot down with almost 300 people. Was he set up by the Agency? All the other Congressmen supposedly cancelled out. McDonald also had access to ALL of NAZI General Gehlen’s(SP) top secrete German documents which supposedly explained much of Operation Odessa and the establishment of the NWO.
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As a side note when researching this I also found enough evidence to make one wonder if the John Birch Society was NOT established by Rockefeller to keep track of the right wing of the RePug Party. They used it in the 1964 Election to erode support from Goldwater when THEY stated Eisenhower was a commie. Once again, Controlled Opposition. Those who DO NOT play end up DEAD if not just destroyed!