Y2K will reveal whether the United States Republic was fatally flawed from the very beginning. Y2K will reveal whether the stress of chaos, combined with the lethargy of the people, the corruption of the elite and the generalized "squalor of our age" as the liberal Anthony Lewis put it, will be enough. Enough to end the grand experiment in liberty. Enough to end the journey towards liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Enough to extinguish the lighthouse of liberty and replace it with the energizer bunny battery powered version. Read Larry Sanger's excellent editorial "Y2K in our Decadent Age" for some insight into why Y2K has the potential to take our whole social system down. I believe it was the Frenchman Alex de Toquettle? "Democracy in America" that makes the claim-paraphrasing here-If things get bad, the Americans will tear themselves apart.

The founding father's understood that government was not the benevolent nanny of our modern age-Big Mommy instead of Big Brother. They sought to base a government upon the self discipline, moral character and local control of the people. They sought to base the economy upon the time honored truths of gold and silver backed currency. They specifically forbid a standing, professional military, excessive foreign entanglements, a central bank and a large centralized federal government. In other words, the exact opposite of what the United States enters Y2K with. For all intents and purposes, the United States has suffered a constitutional coup de etat and the populace is too ignorant to understand what happened.

What happened is that the founding fathers failed to take into account human nature, original sin and the natural attraction of politics to the sleaze bags. Sleaze bags are attracted to politics the same way a moth is to the light. It's not that good people go into politics and become bad; it's that only bad people-those that desire power over other people-are truly interested in politics. These power mad moths then use the inherent economic, political and military power of the system to increase their own power. This is the lesson of history.

The founding fathers failed to take adequate defensive measures to protect the constitution from being perverted from within. They failed to enact a balanced budget amendment and thus prevent the use of unlimited money creation, deficit spending and economic shenanigans by the incumbent politicians. Of course, the founding fathers expressively charged Congress with protection of the money and would be appalled to find that the temple guardians had become fiat money whores. This leads to the second fatal flaw of the founding fathers; namely, failure to enact term limits on the power mad moths. In my opinion this is really why the United States is the way it is now. Over the decades these political hacks have been growing like some pig at the trough who escapes the slaughterhouse. Term limits ensures they will have a trip to pork chop hill in due time. In conjunction with the banking cabal, the Senate, Congress, President, media, corporate and educational elite have executed a stunningly effective constitutional coup de tat. This coup de tat has been going on for decades and is approaching its logical climax, Y2K.

So when people talk about martial law being declared there are two points to consider. First, who says they will declare it and not, as NIKE says, "Just do It." The second is, in many respects, the United States is already a corporate banking dictatorship. Any serious threat to the global banking cabal will be crushed, as the Darth Vader wannabes showed up in Seattle against the WTO protesters. If there actually was a serious, credible threat to the Imperial Banking Lords global rule the iron fist would appear instantly. The Reichstag Riots of Seattle showed that there will no organized effective opposition to the New World Order. Ineffective opposition will be allowed, but if you have unified environmental, labor and student groups that are actually effective in shutting the WTO down; well, then you have to send in your own people to start trouble. The only riot in Seattle was the police and the reason the police were rioting was to discredit the surprisingly effective opposition to the WTO. The bankers saw they were losing and picked up the phone. Just like the web site showing FBI agents planning to start a riot in New York's Times Square on Y2K suddenly disappeared last week. Y2K will provide the totalitarian shadow banking cabal in control of the United States government a priceless opportunity to implement its plans.

These plans include SIS. SIS stands for Surveillance, Identification Society. Stop and think about it for a minute, isn't this really what they want: people constantly under scrutiny, either photography, satellite, or computer data based and people constantly identifying themselves. Welcome to the New World Order, we will watch you constantly and identify yourself at all times. It really is only a small step to biochips and the "mark of the beast." In terms of economics, they hate cash because you can't track it. And they hate gold and silver even worse because it's outside their system. And that really enrages them. Gold bugs are like mice running around the feet of the fiat money elephant. So little and yet causing so much terror among the Imperial Banking Lords.

Several years back one of the Clintonnistas was quoted as saying something like" Rule by degree, cool." Must have graduated from an Ivy League college and wear those detestable bow ties, or maybe he is just a fool. As the United States heads into the final Y2k countdown, with talk of martial law, dictatorship, power grid collapses and global chaos, now routine on the Internet and even the corporate whore press, I've noticed something interesting. The Clintonnistas, who have used Presidential Executive Orders, and recess appointments with increasing abandon, have obviously concluded they can use the military to bail them out. The interesting thing about this is they have no military experience, no understanding of the feelings, emotions or intentions of the military personnel. They despise the military, its traditions, institutions and culture; they never served, always felt they were better than anyone stupid enough to be in the military and in general, have a deep seated contempt for the military lifestyle. Yet, the Clintonistas intend to use the military to impose control in Y2K? I think not. I think the military may obey at first, but then will follow its own path. This, after all, is why the founding fathers mistrusted a standing professional military. In certain of the more extreme Y2K scenarios, President Clinton will find himself facing a firing squad while a populist military dictator takes over. Far fetched? Maybe, but then again maybe not. The National Security Agency is now working hand in hand with the FBI. If Clinton becomes a political liability, a quick bullet, blamed on the right wing, and presto a new "salvation" government takes over during extended Y2K chaos. President Louie Freech for life.

Before you conclude I've gone off the deep end, these are merely possibilities. My next essay will cover overseas some more, where the news is unbelievably grim. Sorry, there is no other word. The issue is what will the domestic United States impact be? Will that impact be enough to destabilize the Republic? What domestic political forces will try and take advantage of the destabilization for their own purposes? These are the kind of political questions Y2K forces one to ask. As for FBI director Louie Freech assuming the mantle of dictator, this is merely my personal opinion based upon my study of the man. He is what we used to call a narc. He infiltrated a Mafia group, became trusted and then used that trust to destroy them. In other words, Mr. Freech is a professional deceiver, a man who showcases Machaevelli's dictum, "to deceive without appearing to be deceptive." He is a man who gladly gave the Clinton administration 900 sensitive FBI files on potential Clinton enemies without so much as even a whimper. He is a man who promoted the butcher of Ruby Ridge and then was surprised when people protested. He is a man who oversaw the lies about the FBI role at the Waco massacre. Mr. Freech is a man schooled in deception, comfortable with lies and the greatest Y2K threat the United States faces in the political sphere. When I read Newsweek saying that the National Security Agency plans to join the FBI, along with the CIA no doubt, I fear for what's left of the Republic. History is full of secret police chiefs who use chaos to seize power. And that's what Mr. Freech really is, our American secret police chief.

The next few months will show the true character of all our political, economic, military and media leaders. The only reason I don't include religious leaders is that they are irrelevant in modern American life. We will find out why the founding fathers wisely mistrusted centralized economic, military and political power in the hands of a few people. The only question is will it be too late?