UNITED STATES IS NOW 10 REGIONS
A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Thirty-Seven ... Number Sixteen ... August 10, 1990
THE "NEW SOCIALISM" IN THE UNITED STATES:
THE PLANNERS
TO REPLACE THE POLITICIANS
THE "TECHNOSTRUCTURE" AND THE MARKET SYSTEM
"There is undergoing within this Nation," wrote a Florida couple to their congressman, "a planned, systematic, organized effort to change our system of government. This new system of government is one that will be controlled by bureaucrats, not answerable to the people, free from the influence of election, referendum or recall."
Therein lies the key to the understanding of much of what is occurring politically and economically within the United States in this last half of the Twentieth Century. Those who are to rule over us in the future will not be those whom we elect, but those who are appointed. The election process will not be discontinued, but it will come to mean nothing more than it already means in totalitarian State: the nominees will be selected by the Central Party Presidium and we will be commanded to vote for or against the selected nominee (never a nominee of our own choice.)
Of course, it won't make any real difference who is elected anyway, because the whole election routine will be merely an exercise in "participatory democracy" to make the people feel that they still have some part in the formation of government (this feeling will engender loyalty when things are going well, and a sense of guilt when things are not going so good.) The elected officials in such a government will merely serve as mouthpieces, whipping boys, and rubber stamps (as the case dictates) for the appointed officials, who will really rule the Nation and its proletariat, on behalf of the Elite which will rule them, and the world.
Too far-fetched to be believable? Actually, such a situation already exists, but most people won't believe it because it has not yet been affirmed by The New York Times. But, how else can one explain the present predicament of elected officials, and the honor and glory and trust being accorded such appointed officials as Henry Kissinger, Elliot Richardson, Caspar Weinberger and Roy Ash, to name a few?
The current sequence of downgrading the politicians and their immediate staffs, and the consequent upgrading of all non-partisan appointees, began with the character assassination of all Democratic aspirants who had even the remotest chance of defeating Nixon in 1972, notably Henry Jackson and Edmund Muskie (Ted Kennedy knew better than to run in 1972, and they shot George Wallace.) The uncanny nomination of George McGovern was a model of professional intrigue and dirty-trickery, as was the 1,000 per cent backing given Tom Eagleton, only to be withdrawn at the time when it would do the politician-defamers the most good.
The Democratic politicians of presidential caliber thus having been defamed and disgraced, the next step would be to "go and do likewise" to the front-running Republican politicians. And Watergate did exactly that! Remember, the Watergate caper would serve no purpose whatsoever in defeating the Democratic candidates; they were already defeated long before any bugging began. But Watergate, hushed up until after the election, could serve a great purpose in downgrading Nixon and his "1,000-year Reichstaff," even as all the Democratic prototypes had already been politically drawn and quartered.
History shows that things much worse than Watergate have happened in previous campaigns and administrations. But never before had so much publicity and name-calling ever been permitted or encouraged. Nor have so many layers of evil ever been exposed to the public. Why?
We believe that the time had come for all partisan politicians and their henchmen to be denigrated, and for all planners and permanent bureaucrats to be exalted. Because this new system of government that was being installed called for non-partisan bureaucrats and planning specialists, rather than elected administrators and legislators.
How else can one explain the dilemma in which Mr. Clean (Spiro Agnew) finds himself? Having evaded and avoided all connection with and contamination from Watergate, the dirty tricksters went back into Agnew's personal history before he became a politician of national repute, and dug up allegations of payoffs for favors rendered to Baltimore builders and contractors. The facts of the case are not pertinent, whether Agnew is guilty or innocent is not important; the important thing is to smear the politician who is most likely to succeed. Politicians are fair game for the new era builders, because the time has come for a new system of government.
This should not be construed as any exoneration of politicians. Generally speaking, politicians as a class have become so corrupt that they deserve whatever exposure they get. In the case of Richard Nixon, for example; not only has he fouled his own nests, but he has disgraced the Office of the Presidency by doing exactly as the Planners dictated, reversing his public stand on almost every principle on which he ever took a stand, from anti-Communism to anti-price and wage controls, and all points between. So that, every word of the following criticism of Richard Nixon, written by a correspondent whom we shall not identify, is well aimed and hits the target:
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September 8, 1973
Open Letter To:
President Richard Nixon
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Mr. President:
As a lawyer you must appreciate the irony of a litigant's building his case on a document he, himself, has ignored, circumvented and even lent the power of his position to its final destruction.
I refer, Mr. President, to our United States Constitution (the document) and you (the litigant) who invoked it to lend credence to your claim of Executive Privilege in your quarrel with Congress and the Courts anent Watergate.
Where in our Constitution (a compact between the States and the Federal Government) is there provision for the Chief Executive to abolish those States? Yet, you, by Executive Order 11647 set up ten Regions with a framework of appointees answerable to Federal regulations. Our Constitution states, Article 4, Section 3: "No new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of another State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as Congress." That legislative power you usurped. To all practical purposes there are no Sovereign States. Their elected officials are but expensive anachronisms to perpetuate the myth that we choose our representatives to govern us. Without the State-Federal compact our original Constitution is inoperative!
A second, more damning example (since this involves the destruction of our national sovereignty) of your contempt for our Constitution (whose protection you seek) lies in the Mutual Relations Pact you signed with Leonid Brezhnev May 19, 1972, in Moscow.
Article 6, paragraph 2 of that Pact reads: "The USA and USSR regard as the ultimate objective of their efforts the achievement of general and complete disarmament and the establishment of an effective system of international security in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
Where, in our Constitution, Mr. President, is the Chief Executive authorized to enter into an agreement with a foreign nation to disarm the United States of America and to trust the "security" of the American people to the jurisdiction of the United Nations?
Further, you have gone on record as favoring Atlantic Union, a supra-government of Atlantic Nations in which our Country would be but one of a Federation of States with common defense, taxation and economy.
You have recommended also Senate ratification of the UN Genocide Treaty which, in effect, would repeal the Connally Amendment and place your fellow Americans under the jurisdiction of the World Court, depriving us of the safeguards of our American Constitution -- that Constitution you, in your present extremity, have invoked.
Noting the destruction your Executive Orders and Agreements have wreaked, a court of law might well ask, "Does such a document as the original United States Constitution still exist to serve as a defense for American citizens -- including the President of these United States?"
Since you have abrogated the Constitution, on what do you base your claim of Executive Privilege?
Sincerely,
(name withheld)
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UNITED STATES IS NOW 10 REGIONS
Perhaps these crude, corrupt, criminal, and often asinine machinations can be more easily explained and understood if we first realize that there was one single, overriding purpose behind every dirty trick and Machiavellian maneuver; that purpose being to change our system of government. And to the change agents, the end justifies every means, including that of sacrificing their own leaders if such act seems propitious.
We quoted a Florida couple at the start of this letter. Their statement is pertinent, so permit us a further quote:
"Planning is the first step toward accomplishing any totalitarian government, for the people (Occidental people, that is) do not succumb to manipulation of their lives when it is done openly ... And so the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) has become a system covertly imposed. It is a totally inter-related management system wherein each sub-system is linked together. ... After PPBS was installed in every executive department of the Federal Government, the Budget Bureau was restructured and it became the Office of Management and Budget. The entire PPBS framework is now managed from the OMB.
"Next, plans were made and completed for dividing the Nation into Ten Regions. Each Region has its own capital (see above map for details-Ed.) ...
"Essential to implementation of PPBS will be Revenue Sharing and a State-imposed (but Federally-collected) Income Tax.
"The PPBS will not work effectively under our form of Government; but the Elite Planners are committed to the use of PPBS, because it is the best way yet discovered and put into practice whereby the Controlling Elite can totally manage society. Therefore, since the system cannot be changed, the form of government must be changed to fit the system."
Does this help to explain the otherwise unexplainable events that have taken place at Democratic Political Conventions, at the Watergate, on the Watergate Airplane?
This practice of defaming elected officials and exalting appointed officials is nothing new in the history of modern so-called democratic governments. Back in 1908, the eminent British historian, science fiction writer and for a time leading Fabian Socialist, H. G. Wells, wrote a non-fiction book titled New Worlds For Old. In the book he told what the program was to be, and exposed the machinery by which it was to be developed. One thing he did not foresee: the perfecting of the Computer, which is essential to the working of the system. Otherwise, Wells was quite accurate when he wrote:
"It was left chiefly to the little group of English people who founded the Fabian Society to supply ... the amplifying conception of Socialism, to convert Revolutionary Socialism to Administrative Socialism .... Socialism ceased to be an open revolution, and became a plot. Functions were to be shifted, quietly, unostentatiously, from the representative to the official he appointed. ... Scientific reconstruction of our methods of government constitutes a necessary part of the Socialist scheme .... It supplies a Scientific Bureaucracy, appointed by representative bodies of diminishing importance and coming at last to be the working control of the Socialist State, the replacement of individual action by public organization."
In our day, the one person who is free to write about and propagandize for public acceptance of this new system of government is John Kenneth Galbraith, who seems to fancy himself to be the American counterpart of the late British Maynard Keynes, and who says that what we need in the United States is "a new kind of socialism," although what he describes is little more than the old Corporate Socialism (Fascism) that has been brought up-to-date through the use of computer banks and the application of that technoscientific control system which we know as PPBS.
In 1958 Galbraith wrote The Affluent Society in which he played on the theme that production for private profit caused public squalor. Nine years later (1967) his book titled The New Industrial State, explained why, in his opinion, our system produced "such an overabundance of dog food and such a shortage of decent housing, medical care," and general welfare.
Those two preliminary tomes paved the way for his latest, Economics and the Public Purpose, in which he conditions us for the end of what's left of free enterprise and prepares us for the coming of the managed society in the managed State.
Galbraith first makes it clear that government should be a matter of economics, not politics as we know the term, and "the growth of power in both public and private bureaucracies is now the decisive force in economic and political life."
Galbraith uses the term "technostructure," by which he means the lawyers, accountants, advertising men, engineers, and salesmen who run the great corporations. This technostructure is the real power center in the United States, and each giant corporation is like a government within itself.
Contrasting and competing with this technostructure is what's left of the free enterprise system, which Galbraith calls the "market system" and which he characterizes as the world of "the farmer, repairman, retailer, small manufacturer, plumber, television repairman, service-station operator, medical practitioner, artist, actress, photographer and pornographer -- the last refuge of the individual entrepreneur."
Then, speaking as a confirmed Fabian Socialist, Galbraith engages in a bit of semantics and changes terms in midstream. The technostructure becomes the "planning system" and he laments the fact that there is still a semblance of a "classical market" operating in this world of small business. Happily, however (for Galbraith and his ilk), the "planning system" is steadily accumulating ever greater power, and the dominant "planning system" is exploiting the weaker "market system."
Galbraith then points out that this accumulation of the power of a few hundred large corporations to exploit the rest of the United States economy is an extraordinary political accomplishment.
Since this "planning system" controls technology, finance, communications and markets, and since the mature corporations function like a government, the sensible thing for the Government itself to do is to become a gigantic "planning system" and function like the great corporations function.
Galbraith does not use the terms familiar to students of the "revolution" and the New Order which it is to produce, because he is writing for the general public. But what he would be saying if he were using accurate rather than semantic terms, is this:
The CFR, QED, 1313, Bilderbergers, and other representatives of the Corporate Structure are really running the country; so let's get with it and plan with the Planners, and create, in place of a government, a gigantic Federal Corporation, a "planning system" to handle all the things the private corporations can't handle monopolistically: health, education, welfare, control of rugged individualists and entrepreneurs, etc.
In other words, let us become, in truth, a New Industrial State (Galbraith's term), and convert our representative republic into a Federal Corporation.
This is the "New Kind of Socialism" which is being forced upon us through the establishment of Regions to replace States, Revenue Sharing to replace local control of governmental functions, PPBS which is government by regulation as opposed to government by law, and with appointed Planners replacing elected officials at every level of management.
And it is happening here!
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