Bad News

As explained in a previous Local Group article, George Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign woes include both foreign and domestic problems. Bush’s primary foreign problem consists of the protracted and costly War on Terrorism that, after years of fighting, has left the top three state supporters of terrorism intact: Iran, Sudan and Pakistan. Thus America remains vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Bush’s primary domestic problem consists of an enfeebled economy that is crippled by counterfeit-and-consume economics. By curtailing production and expanding consumption, America’s long-term outlook for prosperity is grim.

Bush senior fought the Gulf War and then lost the presidential election campaign in 1992. Do not be surprised to see a similar pattern happen to his son in 2004. If this happens, it would open the door for a Democratic Party candidate to takeover government and implement socialism while establishing a leviathan state. That is bad news for people who value the founding tenets of America: individualism, self-reliance, private property, limited government and free enterprise.

As explained in recent Local Group articles, there is a new candidate who is running for President of the United States in 2004. However, he is not running as a Democrat or Republican or Libertarian or Independent Party candidate. His platform is new, principled and firmly rooted in the nature of man. This means initiating force and fraud by government against citizens will be categorically prohibited no matter how noble the cause. No one since the time of Christ or before has lived in a society free of initiatory force and fraud by government.

From the days of Ancient Greece with Pericles’ manipulation of the populace to the days of Ancient Rome with Caesar’s manipulation of the populace to the rise of Christianity with the Pope’s manipulation of the populace to Louis XIV, Bismarck, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, Khomeini, Hussein, Clinton and Jong—nearly all political and religious leaders have resorted to coercion or fraud to survive. Why?

The long answer to this question can be found in philosophy. Various ideologies that are riddled with fallacies have been harnessed by political and religious leaders to justify their parasitical plundering of the masses. Oppression, confiscation and murder by political parasites against producers has been ongoing for centuries and justified by casuistries emanating from state-sponsored intellectuals.

The short answer to this question is that politicos can get away with theft and murder. It is that simple. Today, however, arises the nemesis of the political class that survives through theft and murder—grand-scale theft and murder that is artistically portrayed by Dostoyevsky.

The new, unnamed 2004 presidential candidate vows to separate economy and state to free the productive class. He is committed to removing government from money, banking, finance, interstate commerce and international commerce. By delimiting government to its proper function of protecting individual rights and by adhering to the original intent of the United States Constitution, he will free all citizens while protecting them from foreign and domestic threats.

A recent publication titled A New President contains this candidate’s political platform as well as pertinent information about him. His stance on each political issue adds up to one overarching goal: justice. This does not mean political justice or religious justice; it means objective justice based on the universal nature of man.

Ironically, many people in society do not want objective justice. They want a biased form of justice that benefits themselves, their business interests or their particular industry. Numerous people want government to dispense partial justice in their favor regardless of the increased costs placed upon other members of society. But most assuredly, people do not want objective justice. As evidence, this phrase is never used in political rhetoric; nor is it used in college classrooms. That is because objective justice is alien to earth’s civilization.

What does this mean? This means most people will not vote for the unnamed 2004 presidential candidate. In fact, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times newspapers will probably reject this candidate’s full-page ad due to its principled stance on liberty. Such a principled stance violates the editorial views of establishment newspapers. The sad truth is that the American public would rather vote Hitler or Hillary to power instead of voting a principled, laissez-faire capitalist to power.

Remember that FDR severed the gold standard yet he was praised and beloved. Also remember that JFK wanted to go back on the gold standard yet he was publicly assassinated. In all likelihood, the American citizenry is not ready for natural law and objective justice.

Throughout the twentieth century, Americans have been engaged in an orgy of dishonesty and political scheming. The ultimate goal of many Americans consists of grabbing the reigns of government to see who can cash-in the most. Honesty, justice and principles get swept under the carpet of pragmatism as each citizen attempts to leverage the power of the state for personal gain.

Thus the as-yet-unnamed 2004 presidential candidate will be silenced by the media and by the general public. Meanwhile, the misguided populace will be feeding off the rotting carcass of a once-great country. It is precisely those people who are busy consuming the economy and society that will leave this new 2004 presidential candidate in obscurity. That is the bad news.

Good News

It is important to have a realistic understanding of the world. And it is realistic to say that presidential candidates can get elected in today’s political climate by promising to sacrifice some members of society to other members of society. The presidential candidate that stands on principle by refusing to sacrifice some citizens to other citizens cannot compete in the current political climate.

What is good about this? Not much unless the principled candidate holds a wildcard. Fortunately, the as-yet-unnamed 2004 presidential candidate does hold a wildcard. And that wildcard will do the trick no matter who becomes president in 2004. It does not matter if the public elects a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Socialist or Communist Party member. What is the wildcard?

The Wildcard

The wildcard consists of a special instrument. The 2004 presidential elections will act as a smokescreen for the wildcard. The most virulent parasites in society—predatory politicos and their beneficiaries—will have their collective eyes glued on the media elections and on the prosecutions of heroic value producers starting in January 2004. While the misguided public is busy deciding who will consume the last remnants of earned wealth and real savings, the wildcard will be refined and polished. Just when the political class feels confident that it has a winning hand, the wildcard will be revealed. From that point the tables will shift to natural law and objective justice as a result of the wildcard.

Importantly, the wildcard is not dependent on anyone. It will perform its function regardless who accepts it or who dismisses it. In fact, the wildcard is virtually indestructible because it exists not of atoms and molecules but of bits and bytes. And it will have a big byte!

What exactly is the wildcard? It is outlined in a Local Group publication titled Fingertip Riches. Due to propriety concerns, this information is being withheld from the general public. Certain precautions have to be taken before publicly releasing this information. But rest assured; the wildcard can deliver objective justice no matter who is elected President in 2004. People can attack honesty, undermine justice and evade principles, but they cannot escape the wildcard.

An Example

Take one example as a case in point: slavery. Everyone knows that slavery was abolished during the nineteenth century. Slavery is illegal in the developed world. Yet what people do not know is that a certain form of slavery exists in America. In fact, slavery must exist in today’s political climate.

The American federal government has departed from its original charter known as the Constitution. As such, it entangles itself in all aspects of human life—introducing the point of a gun into voluntary transactions among citizens. This enables the government to dictate its own terms. In a certain sense the government has become a “benevolent dictator” to guide citizens’ actions.

Using this technique, the government has created a vast parasite class whose survival is dependent upon the productive members of society. Unfortunately, the productive members of society have no choice in this matter. They are forced to support the growing parasite class. The government and its intellectual supporters have created a slave class to serve the parasite class.

The government has fabricated a kaleidoscope of non-objective laws, thereby weaving a vast web that ensnares unsuspecting value producers who simply mind their own business. Once caught in that web, innocent value producers are systematically put into forced labor modes. Value producers are snared under the alleged crime of using drugs or selling porn or evading taxes or monopolistic behavior or insider trading or hiring illegal workers or other non-objective crimes. The common denominator among them is that none have violated anyone’s individual rights.

Since the government strives to keep the populace benighted with its total control over education and media communications, few people grasp what is happening. Fewer people speak up. “As long as government leaves me alone…” is the tacit justification for people who remain silent. Of course, seventy years ago the populace held a similar view in Nazi Germany. Yet each citizen’s silence enabled Hitler to confiscate the life, liberty and property of millions of people.

In reality, the government has assembled a growing class of political pawns. It uses those pawns as slave labor without the public realizing what is happening. Thus for example, the government employs hoards of political prisoners to fight California wildfires while paying them $1 per hour—a wage that is far below the market rate.

Ironically, the government dictates to businesspeople the minimum wage that must be paid to workers. Today that wage is $5.15 per hour. Businesspeople that are caught paying workers less than this minimum wage face political prosecution. Yet the government pays its forced laborers $1 per hour and no one says anything. Most people do not even recognize this injustice. Instead citizens think, “Those damn pot smokers, monopolists and insider-trading criminals! Work them to death!”

As long as a rational, principled and honest statesman is kept out of the Oval Office, things will continue as usual. Political prisoners will continue feeling like something is wrong as they work in forced labor camps—never really understanding their crime or punishment. And if no one speaks up, they will work under the gun for years or until they perish.

This is precisely where the wildcard comes into play. While everyone pretends things are fine a la Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, the wildcard will be released—first to select individuals and then to a worldwide audience. That wildcard eventually will be bolstered by advanced technology and distributed networks until the entire parasite class becomes imperiled. At that point, professional parasitism will lose its illusory platform. When the populace finally recognizes the gross destruction caused by professional parasites, they will terminate the parasite class.

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