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preamble by john little
First the old version:
" We the
people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America."
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more
perfect Union for the wealthy, establish tiered justice that protects the rich
and punishes the poor, insure corporate tranquility, provide for the common
defense of corporations, promote corporate welfare and secure the blessings of
liberty to the rich and their posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the rich of the United States of America."
A more perfect Union
for the wealthy
In just the past decade we have seen an increase in the use
of electronic voting machines such as Diebold and others that can easily be
tampered with. The poorer districts across America have been increasingly
punished with fewer machines per voter, machines that breakdown more often and
laws that punish the poor by asking for proof of identity and other measures
that disadvantage the less fortunate.
Recent Supreme Court decisions, such as the ruling in favor
of Citizen's United, have given corporations and rich donors carte blanche to
spend as much as possible to promote the candidate of their choice. As it
becomes increasingly costly to run for public office, it will also become
increasingly required that those elected perform the bidding of the donors who
paid for them to win said office. Few politicians today listen to their
constituents and their needs. They spend more and more time raising money for
their reelection which means more time with the rich donors who have the
necessary funds.
Establish tiered
justice that protects the rich and punishes the poor
What's worse, the bankers and superrich have plunged our
nation, and indeed most of the world, into a very dark economic turmoil. Even
though they have made many fraudulent loans, such as ninja loans, bypassed
financial regulation such as mortgage deed regulation, and continually manipulate
stock markets with their nanosecond stock transactions, not one single
participant in this horrific debacle has been accused in a court of law for his
or her actions. Trillions of taxpayer dollars have been secretly doled out to
the wealthiest members of society and the rest of us are supposed to tighten
our belts and accept this new burden of debt.
At the same time, our prisons fill with minorities and the
poor whose major crime is often nothing more than smoking a joint. The US has
more inmates than any country on Earth and the ratio of non-White minorities to
the White majority population demonstrates just how skewed our justice system
is in carrying out the letter of the law. According to Wikipedia, " The United States imprisons more of its
racial minorities than any other country in the world. In Washington D.C.,
three out of every four young black men are expected to serve some time in
prison." In some parts of the country people are rounded up because they
look illegal.
Insure corporate
tranquility
With increasing regularity we have seen how our government
has protected and promoted corporate endeavors even after serious problems have
been exposed with their effort. Unemployment has skyrocketed over the past
three years and many people are accepting wage reduction of 10%, 15% or more
after spending months or years out of work, yet CEO pay has soared by 27% over
just in 2010.
Provide for the
common defense of corporations
When Marine Major General Smedley Butler retired from active
duty he decided to write a book and toured the country promoting it. This
popular book's name was War is a Racket. In it, he describes in detail how he
had spent over thirty years in the military at the service of corporate
America. He wrote about his military incursions into other countries to protect
American companies there.
This procedure continued long after his service had come to
an end. For instance, in 1954 the US government had no qualms paying terrorists
from Honduras to invade Guatemala and overthrow the democratically elected
president, Jacobo Ãrbenz Guzmán, because the American business United Fruit
Company complained that his government was going to confiscate some unused land
owned by them.
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