Three quotes speak directly to the foundations of our nation ...

1. We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.  (James Madison)

2. The people in America have now the best opportunity and the greatest trust in their hands that Providence ever committed to so small a number...if they betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of Heaven ... (John Adams, 1787)

3. Our consititution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other. (John Adams)

James Madison spoke to our form of government where the power flows from God to the people to the government as delineated by the Declaration of Independence, 1776.  He spoke to the biblical foundation of civil governance starting at the individual level, moving to the familial structure, and moving to the body politic from the local level to the national level.

John Adams spoke of the foundations of our nation and government and the trust placed in the people of America to keep their nation and their leaders close to God; and he spoke of what would happen if they betrayed that trust.

We have betrayed that trust ... we have failed to remain close and true to God, failed to maintain our Godly heritage, and in our failure, we have destroyed the very foundation of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

John Adams proferred that we would suffer as no other nation has before; we would suffer the indignation of Heaven.  We have betrayed God and God has turned his back on us.  We have seen, in the past two weeks, more heads bent in prayer, more call to prayer, than we have seen in ages.  But we, as a nation, although espousing our Christianity, deny our Christian heritage and responsibility.  God isn't going to save our nation when we continue to deny our responsbility and heritage.

George Washington, in his farewell address to the nation, warned against the alliance of America with any nation or nations, warned against American involvement in any altercations between nations.

But we have failed to heed his warning.  Instead we have interceded, become involved in, the altercations of other nations, and we have done so, not for the well-being of the American people, but for the self-interests of our government.

Our government has become a "bully" in the world.  The American people don't know what their government is doing inside their own borders, hence Waco and Ruby Ridge, let alone what their government is doing in other countries.

And our government is pushing the New World Order ... the global society in which all peoples are not more than a system among systems, interconnected and interdependent, leveraged to be kept in balance in the interests of maintaining and sustaining global balance.  It's called systems governance by many names, but most notably and most recently ... the Third Wave or Way.  It's what we are seeing in outcome-based education, performance based budgeting, the high performance work organization (total quality management).  It has infiltrated every facet of our society and governance structure.  Back in the 50's and 60's, it was known as planning programming budgeting systems (PPBS).  It was used to fight the Vietnam War.  It was the structure of Nazi Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).  It failed in all three.  Now, with computer technology, theoretic politicians and systems engineers believe they have the needed tool to leverage and keep systems in balance.  But it will fail again because no computer can make allowance for and accommodate spirituality and self-determinism inherent to human nature.  Those can only be dealt with through force which is why the structure always results, finally, in tyranny and oppression as the "radical atoms must be exterminated in the greater good of the collective whole."

Some religions have a real aversion to any breach of the sovereignty of their nation boundaries and their religious beliefs.  The Muslim religion is one of those.

The media spin has been to point up repeatedly that this terrorism is the work of religious fundamentalists.  And the media has hyped fundamentalism as the cause.  It is the cause as it is the foundation of the discontent.  And whether I like or approve of the religious beliefs of the Muslim religion or Muslim fundamentalists is of no difference, these people have a right to their religious beliefs.  Our government does not seem to believe they do.

But these people are beginning to see the threat that the global society poses for their religious beliefs as sytems governance cannot tolerate any religion other than that which it sanctions — the New Age religion of compromise (consensus) of good and evil which always results in evil predominate, loss of moral compass, and degradation of society.  Anyone taking notice of the unified ecumenical services being performed nation-wide during this time of "crisis"?

And these people are looking at the United States support for the global society, they know they have neither the resources nor the ability to take the United States on in a face-off confrontation, so they resort to terrorism.

Had America kept it's nose where it belonged, heeded the advice and warnings of George Washington; had America stayed close to its roots and foundations, none of this would have happened.

I do not pretend for one moment to approve of what these terrorists have done, but I do understand why they have done it, I do understand why they hate the United States.  And they, like so many Americans, equate the United States government with America.  They are not the same.  One is the government, the other is the people.  Under our Constitution and Bill of Rights, the people of this country are the government.  But that is not so under systems governance where the government is the master, the people mere human capital to be used, abused, and discarded at the whim of the government.

Second, the effect ...

Now I'm going to speak to the "flip side of the coin" — the effect of the actions of these terrorists.  They wanted to wake the American people up to what their government was doing in other countries, just as the Gulf War was intended to turn the Iraqi people against Saddam Hussein.  But it didn't work.  The immediate media hype was to turn the attention of the American people away from the real cause, taking it in a direction beneficial to the self-interests of the government.

The media has done it's job well.  People aren't looking at what their government has done in other countries, the American people are simply yelling, "united we stand ... take out the terrorists ... we support our government."  This gives our govenment the ability to go right on doing what it's been doing without fear of being held accountable by the American people.  Once again, the American people have swallowed the media spin hook, line and sinker.  They cheer their government on to retaliation without realizing that, in all of this, they are losing yet more freedom, more liberty.

Now we are hearing how we should give up our rights for security ... the talk is hot and heavy.  In the words of Cicero, 42 BC — those who give up their rights for security will, in the end, lose both.

We watched, in the days following September 11, 2001, as our country essentially shut down ... at the instruction of the government.  Anyone realize that Y2K just happened for real but the computers are still running?  Now we hear rumors that the US government knew about the terrorists and their intent long before September 11, 2001, but did nothing.  The question arises:  Why did they do nothing?  Was it a deliberate act, just as we now know that Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt knew Pearl Harbor was going to happen but did nothing?  Feeding into that is the question of why, given the time span between the planes hitting the World Trade Center towers and the plane hitting the Pentagon, given that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) communicated to the DOD (Department of Defense) that there was a third plane in the air headed for DC, did the DOD not take action?  And why didn't the DOD act on the fourth plane that was also headed in the direction of DC?

While such obviously was not their intent, the terrorists have, in reality, advanced the cause of the New World Order because the American people have not a clue what is really going on in their nation, they want to believe in their government, they want security, they want comfort and convenience and they will do anything, including nothing, to get it.

This quote, from Saul Alinsky, self-proclaimed Marxist, in Rules for Radicals, comes to mind:

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people.  They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Any one recognize that in what has happened in the last two weeks?

Lynn M Stuter
September 24, 2001