The U.S. Constitution failed to provide sufficient checks and balances
by American taxpayers against government actions that went beyond their
wishes. Opinion polls of the people at-large consistently indicated
intrusive policies, including "policing the world", were not favored.
Nevertheless, the government expanded and extended both overt and covert
penetration and domination of other nations.
Among leading money-oriented private groups working to advance U.S.
domination of the world was the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. Senior Associate Robert Kaganis expressed fear of losing control
in the Washington Post;
"Perhaps the most profound threat
is that Americans will...forget just how
important continued U.S. domination
is to the preservation of a reasonable
level of international security and
prosperity."
But security for U.S. money interests did not translate into security
for the diversity of nations, nor did it reflect a policy of respect for
sovereignty. Instead, it demonstrated a policy fitting of a World
Empire of controllers and manipulators.
As the 20th century drew to a close, the U.S. was the most dominating
force in the world with 1,150 military installations in 144 of the 185
nations on the planet. With no hot or cold war in 1992, U.S.
active-duty military strength was 2,115,773, and six years later in the
Persian Gulf alone, there were 23 warships, 173 warplanes, and 23,500
troops.
What was reported as a "historic shift" in U.S. policy emerged in
February,1997, at Charleston, South Carolina, as hundreds of Army
trucks, bulldozers and tankers were loaded aboard the first of 19 giant
Navy cargo ships to be moored around the world. While closing some
military bases on American soil to "save money", the government added to
its military budget for floating warehouses which could hold half of all
traditionally land-based Army equipment ready for launching from a
nearby anchorage. The change in policy from one of professed "defense"
to obvious offense was given little attention by major mass media,
leaving most Americans uninformed.
In tonnage and firepower, the U.S. Navy was greater than all other
navies combined, surveilling every ocean and making port on every
continent and island of importance. There were 6,230 ballistic-missile
nuclear warheads on U.S. submarines and bombers capable of devastating
every important target in the world and causing massive death.
Chemical, biological and other weapons, many secret, were also ready for
use. Even without using maximum U.S. firepower in the opening days of
the six-weeks Gulf War in 1991, 100,000 Iraqi's, mostly civilians, were
killed.
Despite its own proliferation of nuclear weapons, the U.S. warned
communist North Korea in 1998 it would "not tolerate" that nations
development of such a weapon, and demanded the right to inspect
suspected underground development facilities.
By the late 1990's, the U.S. was orbiting "hundreds" of military
satellites around the planet providing the means to obliterate most life
on the Earth's surface with pinpoint accuracy. Secret Government's
National Reconnaissance Office planned to add another $1 billion spy
satellite but it exploded shortly after launch. The Los Angeles Times
reported that China, as a defensive measure, could be developing an
anti-satellite laser weapon.
The U.S. government planned to spend $53 billion in fiscal 2000, $61
billion in 2001, and $75 billion by 2005 for added military weapons,
aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles, electronics, and other hardware,
and the major political parties fought over the amount of increases.
Democratic President Bill Clinton asked for an overall military budget
increase of $12 billion begnning in 1999, and an additional $112 billion
over the following five years while Republicans complained it was not
enough.
U.S. military spending reached $1,000 per person per year in 1995.
Retired senior U.S. military officers with the Center for Defense
Information in Washington, D.C. declared their opposition;
"...there are no military threats...
(spending) is out of control...to
the detriment of the average
American."
he CDI said the "military, industrial, intelligence complex" sought to
expand U.S. armed forces and spending for world domination;
"They comprise perhaps the worlds
most powerful special interest group."
Retired Navy Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan came out of retirement to
become director of the Center;
"What is happening in Washington
today is truly frightening."
In an assessment based on military capabilities and defense spending of
169 nations, London's International Institute for Strategic Studies said
in "The Military Balance 1997-98" that the U.S. was unchallenged
militarily. U.S. spending was 17 times greater than that of the
combined spending of all potential threats, and increasing faster than
the rate of money inflation.
The U.S. assumed a dominating role in expanding the 16-member North
Atlantic Treaty Organization to include some former East European
communist nations, and moved troops into a civil war in Bosnia that had
been fought with weapons supplied by the U.S. and Russia. It moved
troops into Macedonia, Albania and Yugoslavia's Kosovo Province after
bombing the province and killing 2,000 inhabitants in a war alleged to
be "humanitarian" to end centuries of ethnic civil war.
Decisions to place and keep military forces in sovereign nations were
based on various claims, and were often announced as temporary, but
extensions and expansions were common. In the World War II battleground
of Okinawa, the local government wanted the 47,000 U.S. troops still
occupying the land more than 50 years later to move out, but the U.S.
refused. U.S. troops likewise remained in Japan and Germany. In 1994,
U.S. troops entered Haiti to force a change in the government and
control Haitian resources, but four years and millions of tax dollars
later said it would remain there for "humanitarian" reasons.
U.S. domination also took the form of forcing foreign ships to stop on
the open seas to seize cargo it determined to be "illegal". It used its
helicopters and troops from the "Caribbean Regional Security Service" to
invade the independent nations of Trinidad, St. Kitts, St. Lucia,
Dominica, Antigua and St. Vincent to destroy marijuana plants, rejecting
strong protests in the region. In Columbia, as in Vietnam 35 years
earlier, it trained government troops with U.S. weapons and equipment to
fight forces opposed to the prevailing rulers.
As chronicled in other grievances, Secret Government, such as the CIA,
used an estimated $50 billion per year of taxpayers funds to pay for an
army of tens-of-thousands of civilians worldwide to carry out covert
operations that greatly assisted the U.S. policy of domination.
Domination also came in subtle forms. The government refused to discuss
circumstances behind bringing Palestinian Mohammed Rashid to the U.S. in
1998 on charges of planting a bomb aboard a jetliner 16 years earlier,
charges on which he had been previously tried in Greece.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, government is prohibited from uninvited domination
of other nations.
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