No wonder you drink! 

Seriously, the reason they hate you is your footnoting everything you say so extensively 1/3 of your book is footnotes and references.  Anyone who wishes can look up your sources and find out who is lying:  You or the bureaucrats.  Place yer bets!

Thanks, Powell.   This is the first book I have written with NO FOOTNOTES.  I think it will read much more smoothly as a result. But there is enough "Helltown" in there to prevent it from being accused of being high-toned.

Lots of people say or write, "the American experiment," referring to the self-governing ideas that start with the United States Constitution. And they are right to consider it such. Obviously, it has worked to some extent. However, we see, now, the very important things that it lacks.

We are on the verge of a civil war in America - if the banking system doesn't collapse first. This war won't be between the States. It will be between people who want freedom from Government, vs. the people who think that Government is the freedom they want. Basically, it will be between law enforcement/military and everyone else.

The avoidance of the civil war depends on ONE great thing - if we keep the Constitutional form of Government, that is. It depends on Government officials obeying their oaths of office, right from the garbage truck second-man, to the President - this President taking his second-term oath of office with his hand on the Quran.

There are two ways to solidify the Great American Experiment into something that will work. They are either:

1. An non-repealable, non-circumventable Amendment to the Constitution that spells out the punishments to be applied to Government officials who act against the Constitution and their Oath. These punishments should include: a) a few monetary punishments (fines); b) a lot of public whippings and floggings; c) a reasonable number of executions.

or:

2. A formal transfer of the Constitution principles, including the Bill of Rights, to all the State Constitutions in State Amendment form, followed by a disbanding of the Federal Government, except that it may possibly remain in some form of advisory capacity ONLY. The disbanding would include the disbanding of all treaties, and Federal Government corporations, agencies, and other organizations wholly owned by the Federal Government.