Life After The US Constitutional Coup

"A controversial documentary about Florida's voting problems during the 2000 presidential election stirred the emotions of those who saw it Sunday [13 October 2002] at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Charlotte. 'We need political reform. The government in this country is for sale,' Joan Karatzas said after watching 'Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election.' Other viewers said the 50-minute video reinforced their opinion that George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States, having won the office by questionable means.... In one memorable scene, Clayton Roberts, director of the Florida Division of Elections, removes his microphone and stalks out of an interview before investigative reporter Greg Palast can ask a single question."
'Unprecedented' Controversy Election Video Opens Old Wounds
Miami Sun Herald, 15 Oct, 2002

'Theft of the Presidency' - View Greg Palast material on this subject shown by the BBC - unique video footage - click here

"African Americans were kept away from the polls [in the 2000 Presidential election], they were intimidated at the polls. I write about this in my book, about how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush, the year before, hired a private firm to go through the rolls to try to take as many African-American names as possible off the voter rolls in Florida. It is an outrageous, disgusting story that you should read about if you haven’t read about it elsewhere already. It will sicken you. People died for this right to vote and they have so abused it. To me at this point, anybody who would so knowingly, illegitimately take control of our White House, what else are they capable of?....."
Michael Moore, Author of America's No1 best selling book spring 2001, 'Stupid White Men'
Speech 4 March 2002 at the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California

"The television audience could not see it, but every so often, as his Democratic opponent attacked him for being untrustworthy, Jeb Bush’s right foot twitched.... this race [for Governor of Florida in October 2002 is seen] as a trial run for President Bush in 2004, and a replay of 2000, where accusations of electoral theft still reverberate across Florida’s swamps and cities..."
Bush rattled as brother battles for Florida
London Times, 25 October 2002

"....much of what we just witnessed [in the US 2000 Presidential election] not only matches historical examples from the CIA's past history of election rigging and outright overthrows, but can be found in a respected coup 'manual' authored by a one-time advisor to President Reagan... Although he was conspicuously absent throughout the entire campaign, it goes without saying that GW's secret patrone was one of the best in the biz: his father, George Herbert Walker Bush.... Most importantly in our context, GHW Bush has a documented history of using former and active-duty CIA agents in election campaigns... the most important one [during the 1980 Presidential election campaign] is still remembered today as 'The October Surprise'....It was a covert operation by the Reagan-Bush campaign that secretly forged a deal with the Iranian radicals [in Tehran] .... In exchange for holding the [American] hostages until after the election, the Reagan-Bush team offered the Iranians millions of dollars in arms, material, and other considerations. Sure enough, the hostages were held until minutes after Reagan's inauguration, then 'suddenly' released.... the Reagan-Bush team undercut President Carter's own secret efforts to free the hostages and thereby stole the White House. It was, in fact, a coup d'etat."
COUP 2K by JOHN DEE
Published in Lumpen, Jan. 2001

What was the 1980 'October Surprise' and why is it still a live issue? - click here

"The sad thing about the United States today is the American people are informed only on a few issues. .... The public has no idea about what's going on. It's the press. They stick together and circle around one subject. You go to a press conference at the White House and there'll be 55 questions. All but one or two will be on the same subject..."
Interview with Sarah McClendon, longest serving White House correspondent
Mother Jones, May/June 1996

"I have not the least idea whether the bomb in Bali was the work of al-Qaeda but of this I am sure.... We ourselves, we in the West, are creating an icon. Osama bin Laden and his legacy are becoming a legend, and soon it will not matter if he exists, or ever existed, because he will be a symbol to millions .... Osama bin Laden is becoming the new Che Guevara. Al-Qaeda is cool..... Against George Bush and, to a lesser extent, Tony Blair should be levelled a grave charge: they are glamorising 'Terror'... All over the Third World there are now Osama T-shirts on sale in street markets.....We are constructing an enemy. We are inventing a focus.... America hankers for an enemy. She and her friends are talking this up."
If we didn't have al-Qaeda, we would have to invent it
London Times, 28 Oct 2002

"Major press organizations are now acknowledging what FTW has been saying for months. The Bush objective [for invading Iraq] is to drive the price of oil down and simultaneously drive a stake through OPEC, forestalling a further and perhaps catastrophic crash in the U.S. economy... Coming cataclysmic global oil and natural gas shortages are about to become very real, certainly within the next two years, to everyone on the planet. Those countries that have access to what oil remains will survive and dominate and those that do not will atrophy and disintegrate. This is a deadly game of musical chairs. It is the kind of unspoken crisis that would compel the U.S. Congress to worship Caligula's horse, forget the Constitution and international law, and sell out completely....."
Securing What's Left of the Planet's Oil Is and Has Always Been the Bottom Line
From The Wilderness Publications, 18 Oct 2002

"Dwindling domestic supplies and surging demand could lead to a severe gas shortage within three years, the Department of Trade and Industry warned British consumers yesterday."
Gas shortage in Britain 'due within three years'
London Times, 26 June 2002

"...The United States remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma..... the American people continue to demand plentiful and cheap energy without sacrifice or inconvenience... [with the] energy sector in critical condition, a crisis could erupt at any time..."
Bush Administration strategy document produced April 2001
Sunday Herald, 6 October 2002 ('The West's Battle For Oil')

"We must not be prisoners of our own time. The horrific terrorist attack in Bali, the attack on the French tanker off Yemen the other week - these threats are coming at the world from all directions..... We have a way of life, a set of [energy] consumption patterns, that are going to have to change - all of us. We have to recognise that without a major shift in the whole way we organise ourselves, our pattern of life is simply not sustainable."
Peter Hain, UK minister for Europe (since moved to Welsh Office)
Mid-East oil 'too costly' for Europe
BBC Online, 17 Oct 2002

"President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains a destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US 'military intervention' is necessary. Vice-president Dick Cheney, who chairs the White House Energy Policy Development Group, commissioned a report [on which this policy was built] from the Baker Institute for Public Policy, a think-tank set up by James Baker, the former US secretary of state under George Bush Snr...."
Official: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis
Sunday Herald, 6 October 2002

"U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave lawyers representing Vice President Cheney until Nov. 5 [i.e not before the date of the 2002 US mid term elections, nlpwessex] to produce documents that detail the membership rolls and meeting schedules of the National Energy Policy Development Group, which Cheney chaired."
Cheney Lawyers to Ask Appeals Court to Keep Energy Task Force Records Secret
Washington Post, 18 October 2002

"A captured Al Qaida document reveals that US energy companies were secretly negotiating with the Taliban to build a pipeline. The document was obtained by the FBI but was not allowed to be shared with other agencies in order to protect Enron. Multiple sources confirm that American law enforcement agencies were deliberately kept in the dark and systematically prevented from connecting the dots before 9/11 in order to aid Enron’s secret and immoral Taliban negotiations.... in January 2001, Vice President Cheney allegedly reinstated the intelligence block and expanded it to effectively preclude any investigations whatsoever of Saudi-Taliban-Afghan oil connections. Former FBI counter-terrorism chief John O’Neil resigned from the FBI in disgust, stating that he was ordered not to investigate Saudi-Al Qaida connections because of the Enron pipeline deal. [Former Federal Prosecutor John Loftus] has confirmed that it was O’Neil who originally discovered the AL Qaida pipeline memo after the Embassy bombings in Africa."
What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11
John Loftus, Press Release, 31 May 2002

With the establishment of the headquarters of the Global Country of World Peace (GCWP) in Vedic City, USA, it can now be expected that the interest of the public and press will grow significantly in this unprecedented world-wide initiative, as yet understood by relatively few. The initiative comes at a time of extraordinary global crisis.

The term 'country' implies a sovereign region of the earth, or in this case more accurately, a global 'sphere' of sovereignty.

Is GCWP, therefore, a jurisdiction? Well, that rather depends on your perception of humanity and its relationship with the life on earth that supports it; but it is not a jurisdiction in the conventional sense of the term as applied to man-made law.

The sphere of influence of GCWP is described as a universal 'domain of consciousness'. Although recognised by some researchers at the frontiers of modern science in the field of quantum physics, such a domain is barely acknowledged yet in the field of political science - even though consciousness sits as the basis of all human behaviour. For the general body-politic a structure which claims sovereignty over something not considered to exist in the first place can only be - from this point of view - a structure which claims sovereignty over nothing at all.

What should the attitude of the general population be to such a structure? What, if any, are the implications for the 'real' world of government and politics?

GCWP does not seek to replace conventional political government and national constitutions. Commonly national constitutions implicitly or explicitly aim at securing the well-being of both individual citizens and of the entire country collectively. In the Algerian constitution, for example, the State 'ensures' the prevention of epidemics, whilst in Romania the protection of the health of citizens is constitutionally 'guaranteed'. In Slovakia every citizen has the constitutional right to 'an auspicious environment', whilst the constitution of South Korea even ambitiously aims at 'happiness for ourselves and our posterity forever'.

In reality, however, crime, injustice, sickness, war, insecurity and poverty still persist throughout the globe, including amongst the most privileged societies.

At this particular point in history even the very survival of humanity is threatened. Beyond the nation states the global institutions which are supposed to act as the 'glue' of humanity - IMF, World Bank, WTO, and the UN and its many subsidiary organisations - are increasingly seen as part of the problem, not part of the solution, in relation to many of the grave issues that increasingly have little regard to national boundaries. In this context GCWP represents the introduction of a new form of 'global glue'.

Whether it is climate change, poverty and trade, the spread of devastating diseases, or international terrorism, these crises are now truly global in nature and existing management mechanisms are failing. At the same time the sovereignty of the nation state is increasingly under threat as the will of one section of global society becomes imposed on another, typically for reasons of economic 'growth' and often in a way which merely favours those best positioned to seize it.

For all the failure in achieving their goals GCWP recognises and applauds the noble expressions and aspirations of national constitutions across the globe. It recognises at once the validity of those aspirations, but at the same time their fundamental inability to bring real and lasting satisfaction to their peoples. Whatever the specific polemics of the time, such weakness is the basic underlying reason why nations so frequently change government when citizens are given the opportunity to pass political judgement on those who aspire to take on national and international responsibilities on their behalf.

In the democratic world continuing a governmental tenure across two elections is often the most that an administration is able achieve before the people decide it is time to jump ship. Whilst 'a week may be a long time in politics', a single electoral term can be pitifully short when considering decisions and implementing action that may affect many generations to come.

From collapsing currencies and financial systems through to BSE and AIDS, crisis management has become a regular theme of modern government. But the problem is wider and deeper than that. There is hardly a nation in the world where the people do not feel constrained in the fulfilment of their aspirations by the inadequacies of their leaders, and where those leaders do not feel frustrated by the deficiencies of their people.

Many nations have a history of a variety of forms of government. Feudalism, dictatorship, monarchy, democracy - they have all had their turn or are still being exercised. Is democracy, or democracy in its current form, the final evolutionary stage of human social organisation? Democracy is generally regarded in the developed world as the most effective system of government for an 'advanced' society. But is democracy on its own enough to fulfil the aspirations of the founding fathers of those nations?

Clearly not, if we look at the condition and trends of the world as we find it today. In the region of four to five times as many people, for example, are killed every year on US soil in homicides committed by fellow Americans as were killed in the terrorists attacks on Washington and New York on 11 September 2001. To date Americans have been a far greater threat to Americans than any al-Qaeda or other terrorist group.

America is regarded as the world's greatest democracy. Yet the rights of freedom and justice bestowed by the American constitution on its people are at this very point in history being rapidly dismantled by an administration that came to rule supposedly by virtue of that constitution. In practice this man-made constitution is no longer proving to be self-sustaining; somehow it has allowed itself to become devoured by the very people who have been charged with its protection. This man-made constitution is not invincible. Its vulnerability is now exposed to view for all that have eyes open wide enough to see it.

Who is protecting this constitution? It is certainly not democracy, if by democracy we mean the people as a whole or even just the majority. It is certainly not being protected by the US government and legislature, both of which have taken to using words like 'patriotism' to disguise the malevolent introduction of measures which remove the freedom from 'the land of the free'.

The American dream is becoming the American nightmare. And not just for Americans. As the United Nations repeatedly teeters on the edge of either haphazard disintegration or paralysing impotence the effect ripples throughout all nations. The current American administration (if we accept the validity of the 2000 Presidential election) was voted in by 23% of the American electorate. Less than half the popular vote was gained by the 'winning' candidate, but only half of those eligible to vote did so.

A half of a half, is a quarter. This is how the mathematics of the Presidential election divides and rules the American nation. 154 million out of 200 million Americans of voting age did not vote for the President.

Meanwhile over 40 million Americans do not have the means to pay for health insurance in a 'civilised' country which does not have a national health programme - and yet at the same time is willing to spend over a billion dollars a day on its military. How does the American constitution protect the fundamental human aspiration of these people for good health? Clearly it does not.

Moreover, armed with the backing of less than a quarter of the electorate, and with the subsequent exploitation of politically managed collective fear, the United States of America has become 'a threat to world peace'. Those are the words of Nobel peace prize winner Nelson Mandela, a man now widely revered across the globe - but also a man once branded by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher as a 'terrorist'.

The most alarming product of this process of 'democracy' has been to create the first 'civilised' country in the post Nagasaki world which has openly stated that it is willing to make use of first-strike nuclear weapons against other nations in a pre-emptive fashion (a policy now also being contemplated by the United Kingdom).

Not even Iraq can be accused of an open policy of first-strike use of weapons of mass destruction.

Whilst George W. Bush was explicitly promoting a policy of humility in American foreign policy during the 2000 election, core members of his advisory team were at that very time actively producing a document - one only publicly discovered in September 2002 - setting out a destructive global strategy for exactly the opposite. That strategy is now being implemented in the guise of the so called 'War Against Terrorism'.

Not surprisingly, therefore, some people have begun to question the sincerity of modern democracy. Is it a fraud? Some have even gone so far as to describe the American Presidential election of 2000 as a coup d'etat. Certainly it has since been discovered that voters in Florida likely to have otherwise voted for the losing candidate were illegally removed from the electoral rolls. That action was perpetrated maliciously in an ultimately successful effort to ensure a favourable result in that all important state by supporters of the man who now claims to be President.

Few can be unaware of the general nature of this 'stolen' election fiasco, even if they are not aware of the detail. But how many are aware of the earlier circumstances surrounding the election of Ronald Reagan and his Vice Presidential candidate George Bush senior in 1980?

How many Americans are aware that members of the Reagan-Bush Presidential election team were reported to have been secretly negotiating with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran in order to postpone the release of the captured American hostages in Tehran until after the American Presidential election was over?

In addition to the testimony of witnesses from within America itself these are the claims coming from a former President of Iran, and from a post-cold war Russian Prime Minister when providing assistance to a US congressional task force in 1993 which promptly proceeded to bury his evidence - evidence since discovered "piled unceremoniously on the floor of a former Ladies Room off a congressional parking garage" by an investigative journalist. The reported goal of those alleged efforts was to ensure that incumbent President, Jimmy Carter (himself now a Nobel peace prize winner) did not benefit from the rise in popularity that he would undoubtedly have received had the hostages been released prior to polling day - his hoped for 'October Surprise'.

Besides the later Iran-Contra affair (to which it is considered to be related) how many Americans - indeed how many citizens of any country - are aware of the accusation that the people said to be involved in this exercise, negotiated such a deal in return for the promise of the secret and illegal supply of arms to Iran? Iran is, of course, the country that Bush Jnr now labels as part of an 'axis of evil' - a demonisation supported, and quite possibly invented, by a Vice President who covets American control of oil supplies throughout the Persian Gulf.

Although the matter has yet to be seriously confronted by the American people, even the BBC has produced reporting which unambiguously recognises that the 'Enron' culture of corrupt business is gradually being shown to be inextricably linked to a culture of corrupt 'democratic' politics.

If there is a growing disillusionment with what democracy actually delivers in practice (the promotion of minority special interests at the expense of the majority) with what it is supposed to deliver in theory (the promotion of the maximum good for the maximum number of people) then this disillusionment is not confined to the citizens of world's 'greatest' democracy which in reality has become close to a two-headed one-party state.

This situation is being ruthlessly exploited by those with the means to do so. According to an on-line article entitled 'Buying an election' published 15 October by the BBC: "A lack of strong ideological divisions between the parties [in the US] means that the rich have donated freely to both Republicans and Democrats."

The article is disarmingly frank in its analysis of the absurdly deplorable situation. It informs its readers that:"Sitting senators and congressmen have become increasingly hard to unseat because they are usually able to outspend their opponents, raising money from rich patrons and companies who hope to gain influence in the Congress.... the influence of money is corrosive on politics.... It makes the voters cynical about the motives of their politicians and less likely to vote. And it makes the politicians more beholden to 'special interests'... [who] are particularly able to influence legislation as it goes through the committee stage, ensuring their own corporate interests are protected".

Put simply, in the US either you have a Republican administration financed by special interest groups, or you have a Democrat administration financed in a broadly similar way (and this is to say nothing of the formidable legal and procedural barriers that any third party is confronted with in a system which directly maintains the inertia of the two-headed political status quo).

Indeed, the same interests may finance both parties so that whoever wins an election, favour 'debts' have already been placed with the victors ready to be called in - or donations are placed afterwards if needs be. In the words of attorney Robert Bennett, who previously represented Bill Clinton and subsequently post-collapse Enron: "Donations of this type reflect certain political realities which are followed by all major corporations.'' Over the last decade 71 senators and 168 members of the House of Representatives have received donations from Enron alone according to the BBC.

The embellishment to the President's pledge of allegiance when he takes office - 'So help me God' - has in reality been transformed into 'So help me Chief (Executive)'. In the world's 'greatest democracy' research has shown that 90% of all election campaigns are won by the candidate who spends the most money.

The implications for the health of the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed is severe, as an article in the New York Times 20 October gloomily predicts: "The concentration of income at the top is a key reason that the United States, for all its economic achievements, has more poverty and lower life expectancy than any other major advanced nation. Above all, the growing concentration of wealth has reshaped our political system: it is at the root both of a general shift to the right and of an extreme polarization of our politics.... Even if the forms of democracy remain, they may become meaningless. It's all too easy to see how we may become a country in which the big rewards are reserved for people with the right connections; in which ordinary people see little hope of advancement; in which political involvement seems pointless, because in the end the interests of the elite always get served."

The current US administration has 52 political appointees with significant financial ties to the arms and energy industries. Needless to say the latter ties are not focused on the forward-looking sustainable alternative energy industries of the future that the country and the international community so desperately needs. Rather the ties are to 'big oil' and other major environmental polluters whose roots go deep into the past. The US's National Security Adviser - a former board member of Chevron - even has an oil tanker named after her.

The problem is longstanding and runs wide and deep. In his farewell Presidential address of 1961 Dwight Eisenhower was already warning of the military dimension to the scenario which has now emerged upon us: ".... we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes ....". Even a cursory examination of present circumstances clearly indicates that such a situation has now been reached.

Besides those within the current US government various members of the previous Bush administration have had or continue to have commercial links to the arms industry, including former President George Bush senior. Abuse of US government military spending has been so endemic that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was forced to admit earlier this year (as reported by CBS News) that the Pentagon is unable to account for $2.3 trillion (yes, trillion) of previous military transactions.

Currently the two primary industries to benefit financially from the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq (as proposed) are the 'defense' sector and the oil-gas sector. The US President and Vice President both have roots in these industries. Even the Vice President's wife sat on the board of Lockheed Martin until she was forced to stand down when her husband took office. The US government has since granted Lockheed Martin the biggest military equipment contract in history.

Meanwhile a company for whom the Vice President was previously Chief Executive has been one of the major beneficiaries of the post 11th September military mobilisation, as well as profiting handsomely from the US backed dismemberment of Yugoslavia that preceded it.

So a few years on, how much faith in bomb-induced democracy do the people of Yugoslavia (now reduced to the populations of Serbia and Montenegro) now have? On 14 October independent monitors were forced to conclude that Serbia would have to re-run its Presidential election because less than half the eligible population turned out to vote. Serbia's first presidential poll since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic (an event that the bombing was aimed to achieve) has failed. Prior to this Serbia was being held up by Western Europe as a model of political transition.

Serbian law requires that at least 50% of the electorate vote in order for the poll to be be valid. The BBC reports that heavy pressure to change the law is expected to come from - yes - 'the West'. But should this constitutional issue not be a matter for the Serbian people and for them alone? Or has the meaning of the word 'democracy' suddenly changed?

Meanwhile it is necessary to ask why a democracy so young should become an expression of such apathy. Could it be, perhaps, that the people of Serbia consider that whoever they vote for, in reality the country will be sold - however, unwillingly - to western powers ?

The main tools used by the United States for the creation of 'democracy' in that part of the world have been military aggression in contravention of man-made international law, the support of Islamic terrorists (as confirmed by the Dutch government) and covert military operations behind the back of the UN (as confirmed by a BBC report, which indicates that a further 15,000 dead and nearly 600,000 refugees were created by this one cynical aspect of US foreign policy alone).

The goal has been to weaken and fragment former Yugoslavia on the 'divide and rule' principle with humanitarian issues used as fig-leaf cover - a strategy of destroy the country and then make it beg for financial assistance for reconstruction (as is now the intention for Iraq). Beggars, after all, are no longer choosers and recovery assistance comes with strings attached. This is modern 'democracy' in the making and the Serbian people appear to be less than grateful.

The focus of GCWP is not the making of man-made laws generated in some debating chamber. Its focus is the recognition, understanding, experience and application of natural law, the only law which is immutable and inescapable. Law that can be neither created nor destroyed. Law that simply exists by virtue of existence itself.

It is a law of nature that if you put your hand in a fire it will burn. Equally it is a natural law - as recognised in the ancient traditions of many cultures whether of the west or the east - that 'as you sow so shall you reap'. Those that pursue the path of destruction, will eventually find destruction visited upon themselves. This has been the fate of every empire throughout history. Destructive means always eventually create destruction of the perpetrator. Where is the empire of Alexander the Great now, or that of the Romans? Where is the Third Reich or the Ottoman empire?

Democracy is not a protection against this inescapable natural law, from which there is no hiding. It was, after all, a democratic system which brought Adolf Hitler to power and now the Bush administration.

Democracy may be a fine aspiration but on its own it is not enough. Unless democracy is culturally underpinned by a bedrock of understanding and experience of natural law it will always be exposed to the inherent vulnerability of man-made law.

As competition for the world's natural resources rapidly increases as a result of the unsustainable living practices of the developed world - the generally regarded beacon of 'democracy' - the more such a world will be reduced to the gutter principle of 'dog eat dog' and to the abandonment of the noble aspirations of its man-made constitutions.

The cultures of the world's most ancient traditions record in their oral and written memories - often now reduced to the lowly status of mere myth - the characteristics of society established in natural law. From the native Americans of the pre 'New World' era to the millennia old Vedic civilisation of India, from which the basic conceptual model for GCWP is derived.

A man established in natural law understands the consequences of his actions for himself, his neighbour and the world that surrounds him. He knows that the well-being of all of these are inseparable, and that damage to one eventually causes damage to the others. In fact he does not simply know this reality, he lives that, he breaths that. Although his intellect may understand it, it is his being which instinctively expresses it.

Such a man is neither a problem to himself, his neighbour nor his environment. He is governed by his inner-self. No such man is in need of supervision by a President or a politburo. He is a self-governing individual, living in dignity and usurped by no one and no thing. Only a nation of such individuals is a nation which can be truly free.

Based on the promotion of the direct experience and understanding of the universal and inescapable rule of natural law GCWP is not concerned with influencing the nature of man-made sovereign constitutions, whatever form they may take. It is concerned with developing the full potential of every human being so that he becomes a self-governing citizen irrespective of whether the head of his nation state is a General Secretary, a Chairman, a Prime Minister, a President, a Colonel, a King or an Emperor (as is still the case in Japan).

In the past all these forms of rulership have had the responsibility of managing the problems faced by their society. Few in history, however, have had the widespread ability to prevent problems. Even today - especially today - mankind faces environmental, social and military hazards of unprecedented proportions. Such is much of the output of what is called modern 'civilisation'.

Yet the mythologies of numerous traditions which continue as the remnants of ancient cultures recount the existence of times when societies were not characterised by widespread violence and misfortune; where the governed were not a problem to those who governed, and neither the reverse.

For all the ceremony and tradition of formal government wherever it is and wherever it may have been, such 'mythical' coherent societies have been characterised by the maintenance of self-governing men and women. Literally. The rule of the 'self' in the purest sense of that word; the rule of being, the rule of essence, the rule of natural law within every man. Internal, not, external government. Self-generated, self-referral government.

To return to this condition for humanity is the aspiration of GCWP. But it is not simply an aspiration. It is a target constructed upon the basis of both objective scientific evidence and the tentative subjective experience of individuals in almost every country across the globe - upon a profound knowledge of natural law; knowledge recorded by ancient traditions but also knowledge supported by discoveries at the frontiers of modern science.

In some modern-day democracies it is compulsory by law to vote, even though democracy is supposed to be the very embodiment of personal freedom and choice. GCWP does not require or demand the participation of the peoples of the world, but it invites participation from all those who share its aspirations.

GCWP is not concerned with legislating the control of human behaviour through the debating chambers of political institutions. It is not concerned with dividing society into 'winners and other losers'. It is concerned with humanity helping itself through self-reliant knowledge, spontaneously resulting in creative and responsible individual citizens who (to borrow some words from the Swiss constitution) are "mindful of our responsibility towards creation... [living] our diversity in unity respecting one another.....[and] conscious of our common achievements and our responsibility towards future generations".

GCWP does not seek to influence the evolution of society through the futile and endless creation of new man-made laws; if they are the responsibility of anybody, then such laws are the responsibility of sovereign nation states and of the systems of civil administration which are most appropriate to their circumstances, traditions and preferences.

Rather GCWP seeks to prevent problems through voluntary and enlightened personal action. It is project based. Educational projects. Agricultural and poverty removal projects. Health projects. Regeneration and environmental projects. Criminal rehabilitation projects. Projects which are all based on the development of the full potential of every human being. Projects scientifically demonstrated to be capable of securing world peace.

Without the need to alter the existing system of administration of any nation, the fruits of these projects will be enjoyed directly by their participants and indirectly by the governments of every country wherever they are implemented. Each mayor of the world's three thousand largest cities is invited to support this uniquely catalytic initiative.

The fulfilment of the concept underlying the creation of GCWP will be realised when every sovereign General Secretary, every Prime Minister, President, Colonel, King or tribal chief is a source of pride to the entirety of their populations and vice versa; when the legislatures of the world's assemblies have little need to generate more self-defeating administrative and legal complexity symptomatic of their national and international failings; and when the peoples of the world are united in Peace.

In the words of the founder of the Global Country of World Peace, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi :"It can happen at any time - it can happen overnight. It only depends upon how quickly people respond."

"The academic and extracurricular results of this school of 500 students [serving Vedic City] have astounded the state of Iowa. In state tests, the school scored 99 per cent consistently."
Vedic City: A city in the US follows building principles set in the Vedas
The Week, 9 September 2001

"...Two years ago [Maharishi Mahesh Yogi] established his own 'country,' a borderless state of mind called the Global Country of World Peace. It's promoting the creation of Third World agricultural collectives. Impoverished farmworkers would be paid in a new currency ['raam'] once the farms exported to world markets...... To get raams flowing, maybe he should hook up with Bono."
Queer as a three-raam bill
Forbes Magazine, 8 July 2002

"....For far too long the poor of our world have sighed under the regulations and arbitrariness of money lenders like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, who, directed by the capitalistic West, only invest in projects which by definition are not profitable for those who locally carry them out. 'It is a big hypocrisy' said Jacques Uijen, Vlodrop's spokesman for Maharishi's organisation. 'As it goes now, we lend hard American dollars for the purchase of expensive machines with which the dry fields of Africa and South-America can be tilled. Because of competition, we pay so little for the coffee and bananas harvested by the poor little farmers who are squeezed out by the large owners, that they never can pay back the loans they have taken. Our help is no help at all. The rich become richer and the poor become poorer'. The Raam, a new currency, is to end all this misery of development aid...."
Maharishi launches currency to close the gap between poor and rich
Dagblad De Limburger (Netherlands), 18 October 2002

"The RAAM NL is issued [as a security] under this prospectus in The Netherlands within the framework of a worldwide Programme, which has the goal of a) reducing poverty in the world through the cultivation of organic agriculture, b) building Peace Palaces in 3,000 cities of the world (as defined in chapter 2), c) training groups of peace-creating experts in these 3,000 cities, as well as one large group of 40,000 peace-creating experts in India and d) bringing together individual chambers of agriculture, industry and commerce in cities and countries throughout the world in a global chamber of commerce in order to increase unity through economic development... In the United States of America, the RAAM is not considered a security, but a private currency ... As a result, the RAAM issued under this prospectus may be offered as local currency to the public in the United States of America, except in Arkansas, Florida and Virginia..... Global Country of World Peace [is] a concept encompassing all the peace loving people and nations of the world, arising from the total knowledge of natural law discovered by the modern physical sciences and available in the ancient Vedic literature, the literature of the most ancient culture of the world..."
Global Development Currency: RAAM
Dutch Prospectus - 16 October 2002

"In an April interview with The Ithaca Journal at his family's Cayuga Heights home, Guckenheimer, 22, shared his experiences during Operation Anaconda. He was sent on March 6 in a company of more than 100 soldiers to participate in the largest U.S.-led ground engagement in Eastern Afghanistan. 'We were told there were no friendly forces,' said Guckenheimer, an assistant gunner with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum. 'If there was anybody there, they were the enemy. We were told specifically that if there were women and children to kill them.'..."
Fresh memories of war
Ithaca Journal, 25 May 2002

"Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief ... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250."
Gore Vidal claims 'Bush junta' complicit in 9/11
Observer (UK), 27 October 2002

"It is clear that global and domestic opposition to the invasion of Iraq is growing. But it is not a given that these developments have rendered the administration impotent or weakened its resolve. As FTW has been saying consistently since the administration took office -- and especially since 9-11 -- the degree of criminal, unconstitutional and aggressive behavior by the administration only serves to guarantee that its future moves will only be more illegal, more dangerous and more costly of human lives."
Wheels Come Off U.S. War Plans for Iraq
From the Wilderness Publications, 28 October 2002

An Invitation To All School Heads In The USA - click here

"It's very necessary that the knowledge of the unified field, the knowledge of consciousness, which has been discovered on both levels, theoretically on the level of intellect and practically on the level of unity consciousness, the supreme level of consciousness, be immediately applied in education. Otherwise, this country [America] can destroy a lot of the world. What is the religion in this country? What is the science in this country? What is the education in this country, that it would overthrow the whole of life? Consciousness-based education should be immediately applied. .....The total knowledge of natural law is available, and this natural law is completely recorded in the text of the Veda. Americans: wake up to knowledge! .... Life is different than money. Money should serve life; it should not be allowed to destroy life. Americans, you should wake up from this present experience; don't wait for another experience [like Sept 11]. This country can destroy the world; the President of America will destroy the world. Americans, where are you going? Whether you're fond of the President or not, take him out. Put some scientist at the head of the affairs of administration... America can't have national existence without the world... The President is a wild, ignorant, rash man... The self-referral unified field - once it's discovered, put it on all levels of education. Convey this to students. Dr. Hagelin is the one scientist in the world who has very profound knowledge of modern science and also of Vedic science. And he's American! He has national and international patriotism. Choose him to be the President. John Hagelin will not create a coup....."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Address to Consciousness Based Education Symposium, Iowa, 26 October 2001
(from participant transcript)

"Ladies and gentlemen, I come here today to speak as a father and veteran. I would not presume to speak for all veterans... I'm just one man who served in our most tragic conflict. I did nothing remarkable in Vietnam; I did my job and came home to build a life and be a good citizen..... And I am here to tell Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker and the rest of the Committee running this country -- and the corporations that own them (like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, TRW, and others) -- We know who you are, we know what you've done and how you did it, and -- if we have our way -- this is your last hurrah.... "
Keynote Speech at VoterMarch Rally San Francisco, May 19, 2001 by Ed Reiman
Veteran and member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
and one of the founding members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 144

"The cynical purpose of declaring war on terrorism, like the abortive 'war on drugs', is to silence such critics [of American support for terrorism] and harness emotion to the cause of policy. It puts reason in quarantine. We should therefore be aware how thin is the veneer of democratic culture."
Christians should not charge into 'holy war'
Simon Jenkins, London Times, 19 September 2001

"The president of the Florida Holocaust Museum said Saturday that George W. Bush's grandfather derived a portion of his personal fortune through his affiliation with a Nazi-controlled bank. John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department's Nazi War Crimes Unit, said his research found that Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a principal in the Union Banking Corp. in Manhattan in the late 1930s and the 1940s. Leading Nazi industrialists secretly owned the bank at that time, Loftus said, and were moving money into it through a second bank in Holland even after the United States declared war on Germany. The bank was liquidated in 1951, Loftus said, and Bush's grandfather and great-grandfather received $1.5 million from the bank as part of that dissolution. 'That's where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich,' Loftus made his remarks during a speech as part of the Sarasota Reading Festival.... [Loftus] said, it is important to understand these historical connections for what they tell us about politics today. The World War II experience points out how easy it was then -- and remains today -- to hide money in multinational funds. That money flows into American politics today, he said, from 'a series of multinational corporations behaving like pirates. They don't care about ideology; they care about money.'..."
Author links Bush family to Nazis
Herald Tribune Newscoast, 11 November 2000
(for more details of this history click here)

"The president is right about one thing, however. Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president."
Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School
Hartford Courant, September 22, 2002.

Extract from A Congressman's 'Prayer for America' - Full text click here

".....With the understanding that there is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. That implicate in the union of our country is the union of all people. That all people are essentially one. That the world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but interconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.

I offer this prayer for America.

Let us pray that our nation will remember that the unfolding of the promise of democracy in our nation paralleled the striving for civil rights. That is why we must challenge the rationale of the Patriot Act. We must ask why should America put aside guarantees of constitutional justice?

How can we justify in effect canceling the First Amendment and the right of free speech, the right to peaceably assemble?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Fourth Amendment, probable cause, the prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Fifth Amendment, nullifying due process, and allowing for indefinite incarceration without a trial?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Sixth Amendment, the right to prompt and public trial?
How can we justify in effect canceling the Eighth Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment?

We cannot justify widespread wiretaps and Internet surveillance without judicial supervision, let alone with it. We cannot justify secret searches without a warrant. We cannot justify giving the Attorney General the ability to designate domestic terror groups. We cannot justify giving the FBI total access to any type of data which may exist in any system anywhere such as medical records and financial records.

We cannot justify giving the CIA the ability to target people in this country for intelligence surveillance. We cannot justify a government which takes from the people our right to privacy and then assumes for its own operations a right to total secrecy. The Attorney General recently covered up a statue of Lady Justice showing her bosom as if to underscore there is no danger of justice exposing herself at this time, before this administration."

Extract from A Congressman's 'Prayer for America' - Full text click here

"The U.S. is in reality not a democracy. It is a plutocracy, governed by money, by an oligarchy of the plutocrats. In this sense it is not our government... Unless the nations of the world can be mobilized to stop the United States, or we, the people of the United States, act decisively, the lives of hundreds of millions -- or billions -- of people will continue being dehumanized and destroyed, and the biosphere itself -- the source of all
life -- will continue to be ravaged. "
Call to stop the U.S. government's drive for global domination
George Salzman, Prof Emeritus, Physics Dept, Univ of Massachusetts

"Little did the Russians know that not only did the [1980 US Presidential Election 'October Surprise'] House task force ignore the Stepashin report, but actually stuck it in a box that was piled unceremoniously on the floor of a former Ladies Room off a congressional parking garage."
Russia's Prime Minister and October Surprise
Online Journal 1999

Ingredients of the US 2000/2001 'Two Bite' Coup Click here for whole coup story in one web page (large file) or use individual menu links below to view elements (recommended)
1.Why You Hear Little About It In The Mainstream Press	8. Who's Really Running Post-Coup America?
2. What Are These People Capable Of? - 'Bite No 1' - Coup 2000	9. Behind The Scenes - The Baker-Bush Snr effect
3. Why Was A Second Bite At The Coup Necessary?	10. The 911 Coup Smokescreen
4. Forewarned Is Forearmed For 'Bite No 2' - Coup 2001	11. Accommodating 'The Future' With John Ashcroft
5. Bite No 2 - Cementing The Coup With The 911 Opportunity	12. Only Pretend Friends Left Now For The US
6. Election Defeat Cover-Up Not The Only Reason - A, B, C, D, E	13.Ground Prepared Back In The Reagan-Bush Era - The Iran Hostages Fix
7. Lies And Coups - 'Nothing New'	14. 911 Converts Coup Into Putsch
Time for a Genuinely Open Public Inquiry into 911 - click here 1991 - 2002: TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?

"... it is fairly plain to many civil libertarians that 9/11 put paid not only to much of our fragile Bill of Rights but also to our once-envied system of government which had taken a mortal blow the previous year when the Supreme Court did a little dance in 5/4 time and replaced a popularly elected President with the oil and gas Bush-Cheney junta."
Gore Vidal claims 'Bush junta' complicit in 9/11
Observer (UK), 27 October 2002

"Consider this: An inarticulate, politically inexperienced man with family links to a previous national regime comes to provincial leadership. Subsequently he gains the highest national office without winning the popular vote. The election in which he was declared the victor is considered compromised by his brother's province. He appoints a chief law enforcement officer who has repeatedly called for constitutional revisions. Regulatory agencies are filled with those previously regulated. Soldiers patrol transportation centers. International treaties are abrogated. International legal organizations are shunned. Roles of police and military are blurred. Law enforcement agencies are centralized. Individual civil rights are reduced. A 'shadow' government is created. Domestic surveillance is increased. People are encouraged to spy on each other. Military budgets are increased. The military establishes a disinformation program. Media access to government is limited. Consultations with the legislative branch decline. Connections to corrupt corporate sponsors are disavowed. Efforts to further plunder natural resources for profit are initiated. Access to past administrations' documents is limited. A war mentality is established with imprecise enemies. Nebulous fear-inducing alerts are periodically released. National level profiling is introduced. People are imprisoned without public charges and unknown others are 'disappeared.' Does the word 'coup' come to mind?"
Analysis of Bush presidency suggests a nation overthrown
Bill Petz, Citzens-Times.com, 9 Aug 2002

Figure 2. Estimated mean daily level of a composite Peace/War Index for the Lebanon War for each of the seven experimental periods between June 1983 and August 1985. Time series intervention analysis indicates significant progress towards peace during each experimental period, and for all seven combined (p < 10^-19) (Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, in press).

'We have an important message for the people of the Middle East,' said Dr. John Hagelin, a quantum physicist and author, and recipient of the prestigious Kilby Award for scientific research.... 'This practical approach, known as Invincible Defense Technology, applies cutting-edge discoveries in quantum mechanics, neuroscience, and human consciousness to diffuse stress, effectively disarming aggressors,' he said. 'It targets the root cause of violence acute stress resulting from religious and ethnic tensions. Just as anger can spread through a population, so can calm. Humanity is connected at the deepest level of human interaction an abstract, quiet communication so that collective consciousness can be influenced in a tangible and measurable way. There is a proven correlation between meditation and reduced social stress,' he claimed, pointing to 19 published research studies."
Transcendental Meditation: The solution to terrorism?
Jerusalem Post, 1 July 2002

"It's not honourable for the most powerful nation to fly in a rage on little mosquitoes [like Iraq]. I would advise the President not to bother about the mosquitoes, but instead shoot the tiger of suffering, shoot the tiger of poverty, shoot the tiger of the weaknesses of human life. The mightiest power in the world should be a solace, a support, to life everywhere. It should help every other nation enjoy its own freedom and sovereignty. If America continues its policy of destruction in the world, then the country itself will be destroyed. It will be better if the nation rises to play the parental role for life on earth... Dr Hagelin can provide President Bush and the US government with the knowledge to bless the world with lasting peace. The US will rise to its parental role in the world family, and every nation will enjoy true freedom, sovereignty, and invincibility. It can happen at any time - it can happen overnight. It only depends upon how quickly people respond."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Global Country of World Peace, Press Release, 7 October 2002

"The world needs Presidents of States like John Hagelin... I love the phrase that Dr. Hagelin has expressed in his introductory remarks that Global Country is a country, a boundaryless country, it’s a home. What he said is so beautiful. It’s a home of all the peace-loving people. And where is the home of peace-loving people - in their own transcendental consciousness .... What I see today with the world press is that whatever is happening today may be the end of all struggle and strife for mankind. Whatever. Because the whole flow has been in terms of conflict, conflict, conflict. And time is now soon coming where the administration from the transcendental field of consciousness, the time of conflict will be over because of the knowledge coming to be realized that all differences have a common basis of unity. So the future of the world is so bright .... [the] time is coming now, that life will flow and blossom. It will flow in magnitudes of unbounded field. It will flow without conflict, without wars. That is the silent declaration of today’s press conference."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
International Press Conference, 23 October 2002
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WORLD PEACE RAAM BONDS
National Post, Canada, 31 Aug, 2002

Sharon Byrne, KCSB Radio Santa Barbara, CA
"On September 11, 2002, the Maharishi held a press conference via satellite broadcast to spread his message .....
Maharishi considers President Bush a 'rash man', in response to one reporter from AP [Associated Press],
who questioned how this approach was different from what is already being done by governments. Maharishi said,
'Imagination and wishful thinking will never do anything, Associated or disintegrated press, however it may be.
Wishful thinking belongs to this rash man, the president of the USA. Tell him that wishful thinking is useless. Practical
steps is what I am talking about to create a peaceful world. Your president thinks he can be a savior of the world
by destroying the world."

MAHARISHI DECLARES THAT HIS GLOBAL PEACE PLAN
WILL CREATE 'A MORE POSITIVE, HARMONIOUS WORLD
WITHIN SIX TO NINE MONTHS'
Global Country of World Peace Press Release 19 Sept 2002