Philip Palij

Graduate In Computer Science
Computer contractor UK
Live In NZ,

I Like Hiking, Travel, Art, Politics, writing

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Profile update 09/11/2009

After studying US politics through the US and Overseas media for years the conclusions I have reached are these:

1. For thousands of years, for all nations and peoples regardless of political regime, a tiny class of strong willed, ambitious, greedy and manipulative individuals will emerge. They obtain wealth and influence by exploiting weakness: political, economic, military, social system they find themselves in.

2. Historically, exploitation was mostly carried out within the legal and physical boundaries of a nation state, now international networks of greedy, unprincipled, amoral, violent, corrupt people exploit and promote the absence of international law, and its lack of enforcement where it does exist.

3. The aristocratic political, economic and military elites in all countries have an affinity for each other as individuals but not necessarily the systems they inhabit. They form informal networks of influence which are cultivated to circumvent the laws of any country which apply to them, but are inconvenient.

4. Political Influence is a commodity to be purchased, corruption is simply the cost of doing business;

5. The purpose and function of democratic elections has been degraded to the point where their use by the people to express their will is severely handicapped and can be considered little more than an opinion poll.

6. The progressive migration upward of political, economic, and military power into the hands of a single individual, king, tyrant, dictator, emperor, is an entirely natural process. Throughout the ages kingship, dictatorship, feudalism and government by elites seems to be the natural order to which political systems gravitate over time.

7. Elites are full time professionals in pursuit of power, wealth and influence. The plebs, peasants, serfs and poor simply wish to live in the best way they can with the means at their disposal and simply cannot organize in the same way.

8. Representatives of the poor, are quickly corrupted to the will if the national and international elites.

9. The poor will go along with it until the exploitation is too much to bear.

10. The trick for the elite in any age is to exploit the poor just enough so they won't turn on you and if they do turn to have the means at your disposal to eliminate the threat.

11. The elites don't think of strategy and tactics in terms of election to election, where they exist. They plan for generations ahead.

12. The Republican and Democrat parties are really the right and left hand of the American elite. The representatives, senators and presidents are chosen by the wealthy as candidates you will vote for at some point in the future. They might not get it right all the time but enough of "their" representatives and senators will exist at any given time to swing democracy their way eventually.

13. American politics and its system of government are rigged many years before elections ever take place. Progressive corruption of the American democratic system by wealthy, clever and determined individuals motivated by greed and power is the norm not the exception

14. The presidential system of government guarantees dictatorship eventually, it is one of the most corruptible forms of government. For this reason it was chosen by Mugabe of Zimbabwe as the Zimbabwean system. The political structure of the Roman Republic was chosen as the model for the American Republic:

* The House of representatives represented the Roman plebs

* The Senate represented the Roman aristocracy

* The two consuls - Who could assume the role of dictator in time of crisis.

The last Etruscan King was deposed in favour of Rome's first democratic Republic in 510 BC. It took the Romans about 483 years for democracy to degenerate into the dictatorship of Julius Caesar and to establish Octavian as emperor Augustus.

Octavian took great care to preserve the illusion that the institutions of republican Rome were intact, even while he weakened them, acquiring the power of dictator. The institutions of the Roman republic were systematically hollowed out to become a facade while true power was consolidated into Octavian's hands.

So it is with the American republic, the parallels are striking. Many commentators recognise the transfer of power to the executive branch of government at the expense of Congress, yet little is done to prevent it. Just as it was 2000 years ago, the same complacent inertia which existed in Roman human nature exists in American human nature today and is just as easily exploited. Power is being annexed by the political, economic and military aristocracy from the people, but they are careful to keep the illusion of democracy, and the rule of law going to keep the people quiet.

The constitution, laws and principles of the American Republic, the ideals for which it once stood, are being hollowed out by the aristocratic elite so that one day in the not to distant future it, the American Republic, will take its place in history. When the time comes to judge these things the Presidency of Bush and Cheney will be seen as the termination of the great democratic experiment and the advent of a new age of tyrants and despots, kings in all but name.

The US has been going for 233 years. 250 years to go to beat the Romans.... I don't think the American Republic is going to make it.

The emergence of a de facto king or emperor is inevitable, aided by the establishment of a Patrician elite to replace law and congress as the arbiters of right and wrong. What is just and what is not.

There will be no appeal.

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For a long time, since the late eighties I have been vaguely aware the stories which appear in the mainstream media are not completely true. I accepted that depending on which paper you read you were going to get a different view of the same subject and if you read enough you would form a reasoned objective opinion.

I noticed that some issues were simply not discussed or followed up, specifically about the strata of world society that holds wealth and power. Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough and my profound faith in the freedom of the press led me to believe that anything worth reporting or following up would be.

Like many others I simply accepted that this was how it was with a simple faith in the law to prosecute and rectify wrongdoing. Leave it to the system I thought. Then came 9/11 and the Invasion of IRAQ.

I supported Tony Blairs line and his support of the US. The arguments presented were logical and believable if you didn't delve too deeply and I didn't. I looked on anti-war protests at the time as a left wing knee jerk reaction. What were are those protestors on about?. I started to take an interest in the stories, surfacing in dribs and drabs, which opposed the line being presented by UK, US and pro war governments all over the world. Something was not right. In disbelief I began to absorb the enormity of the lies, deception and inhumanity of the thought processes behind it all.

How could this be? Have all my beliefs in democracy, freedom, equality of opportunity for all been debased. Well as it turns out yes.

I want to know the truth it is as simple as that.

My opinions are just that but perhaps they might provide just one insight or truth which helps others far more able than myself to rectify the damage done and restore law, justice, democracy and freedom for all