If the average American knew what the “New Conservatives” (NeoCons) of the Republican party truly stood for and what their real objectives were, there is no way this clique of corporate schmoozers and phoney “Christians” could remain in power. In fact, I suspect the party would go extinct, just like the old Federalist party back in the early 1800s, which represented largely landed aristocrats of a stamp more appropriate to monarchic England than to the U.S. No, not ALL Republicans are corporazis. But the overwhelming majority in control of all three arms of the US government now are either planted corporazis (people who were hand-picked to run for office by corporate "sponsors" and basically rammed into Congress through a well-funded, well-scripted, deceitful campaign) or corporazi converts – naïve and/or self-interested, easily dazzled weaklings such as Susan Collins (who is supposed to represent working class, under-income Mainers, no less, whilst schmoozing with hand-picked corporazi at White House dinners), who are swept in by corporazi flattery or the glint of corporate gold. Some are intimidated into allegiance by the corporazi’s increasingly common strong-arm tactics. The GOP now even has its own “enforcer” organization for attacking and bringing to heel any Republican who strays from the corporazi “fold:”: its called the Club for Growth. The Club conducts "shaming" and smear campaigns against "dissident" Republicans such as Olympia Snow and George Voinovich (who failed to support the huge Bush tax cut/corporate giveaway). It also pours money into campaigns aimed at smearing and otherwise undermining rivals in the liberal camp. The more heavily supported by the Club a politican is, the more in the pocket of the corporazis they are.

. But the new “corporate reps” in the government represent one thing and one thing only, no matter how slick they may be at disquising it: Corporate interests. Consider this: Prior to the 1994 and 1996 elections, corporazi candidates for office were sent to special training camps to learn the approved sales pitch and how to manipulate the public. This crash course, called “Policy Boot Camp,” was hosted by the American Conservative Union and attended by about 50 national, state, and local conservative candidates. “Instructors” included reps from the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Club for Growth, the Cato Institute, and the Americans for Tax Reform – corporate front groups all.

There are also ongoing seminars and workshops offered to the ambitious rightwinger, like those at the so-called “Northbridge Training Institute.” Here’s a course description from their page:

Class: Engage Level I - Effective Communication For Activists
Instructor: David Rostcheck

“Our in-depth activist communication class teaches you the practical techniques to win over a neutral or difficult audience. Learn how to speak from personal experience, present an accessible image, managing and de-escalating confrontation, and get behind people's armor using sneaky techniques like cognitive dissonance. Learn the principles of diversity, and why it is so effective a tool in enacting political change, and how to use every resource you have to best effect. Understand your opponents thinking - learn the differences and similarities between progressive, liberal, conservative, and libertarian principles, and how to make an effective argument that appeals to your listener. Explains the cultural differences between the Greatest Generation, Boomers, Me Generation, Generation X, and Generation Y and what types of messages play well and poorly with each.”

(This outfit calls itself “Libertarian,” but is pure corporazi rightwing – playing Libertarian is the latest rightwing ruse, in fact. In reality, no real Libertarians I’ve ever known are into corporate-style politics – see below for case of the “phony Libertarian”).

The “pitch” being used by the corporazis to sell their bill of goods (which is, in reality, a political multilevel marketing scam of epic proportions) was crafted in large part by flimflam artist Newt Gingrich. The pitch calls for an end of the “welfare state,” the renewal of the inner cities, a return to more local control, the glorification and promotion of “freemarket enterprise,” and a vague call to “restoring moral values.” Of course, the fraudulence of this pitch has become totally obvious to the non-brainwashed. The welfare state has not ended – it was merely transferred away from the poor and to corporations, whose annual welfare payments now, when all is totaled up, exceed the federal deficit. Inner cities have not only lost real funding under the corporazi regime, they have grown desperate - with mayors now pleading for just enough money to maintain basic services, including police, while inner city schools are being threatened with extinction by loss of federal funding and by the spectre of the voucher system. With most private schools costing $5,000 per year and up, a $1,500 per year educational voucher's only real value is as a private school discount for the upper-middle-class and rich. Meanwhile, poor families, as ever, lose.

The “free market” has applied only to the largest corporations, while real competition and opportunities for small businesses (the real basis for a true free market) have been dramatically eroded in the past several years, with the corporazis upholding the right of corporations to maintain multinational monopolies unchallenged. As to restoring morals - the conflict of interest, fraud, and murderous deceit (trumping up evidence against Iraq in order to invade, causing the deaths of hundreds) of the corporazi regime is becoming infamous around the world.

So there is no doubt - America has been duped, just as surely as if they had been sold a “vacation paradise” in Florida, only to discover it was a polluted swamp next to a giant, leaking oil storage tank. But what we will now examine is just how they did it - and are continuing to sell their “vacation plots” to the unwitting.

The main tactic can be summarized in a single word: DECEIT.

Here’s an “autoposy” of a case that beautifully exemplifies the depths to which the corporazi routinely descend to hoodwink their “marks.”

The rightwingers squealed with glee when Michael Belliseles, author of “Arming America,” a history of guns in the United States, was accused of fudging some of his research. The Emory University professor’s book had been widely cited for a time by gun control advocates. However, Belliseles, as it turned out, could not support his claim that guns were not common early in US history. He swore he had the data but that the evidence had been destroyed in an office flood. Emory investigated the case, whereupon Bellesiles resigned and had a prize for his book revoked.

But the rightwingers’ triumph was shallow indeed. In reality, they were merely big fat pots calling a relatively modest kettle black. The case of John R. Lott, Jr., the author of “More Guns, Less Crime” makes Belliseles look a boy scout stealing thin mints from a Camp Fire Girl.

The only things for real about Lott are that his name is John R. Lott, Jr. (as far as I can otherwise determine, anyway!) and that he did, at the time of authoring his book, indeed appear to actually teach at Yale University Law School (this is appropriate, considering who Yale’s most “illustrious” alumnus is: G.W. Bush). Everything else is a fabrication. First, Lott claims to be a Libertarian. The Libertarians are an independent anti-big government, pro-individual freedom movement centered largely out West. Clint Eastwood is perhaps the most prominent honest example. However, because the Libertarians draw votes away from the GOP, the GOP has worked hard to try to suck this “renegade” party into its fold through various manipulations and ploys that typically focus on gun control issues (Libertarians are strongly anti-gun control). This is where we come to Lott. Lott is a corporazi, make no mistake. All of his writings have been, one way or the other, in support of the GOP “cause.”

So now we come to his book, "More Guns, Less Crime." This masterpiece of corporazi propaganda made far more sweeping and unsubstantiable claims than Bellesiles. For example, Lott makes the incredible statement that the more guns there are floating around out there, the less crime there will be. When Lott was asked to substantiate his claims, his excuse was far more feeble than Bellesiles: He claimed his data was lost in a hard drive crash. Of course, anyone who knows much about computers knows that it is a rare occasion indeed when material cannot, at a cost, be recovered from a hard-drive - even a crashed one. Then, to make the case even more of a stinker, it came to light that Lott's "research" was funded by none other than the Olin Corporation, the owner of Winchester, the largest ammunition manufacturer in the country. In addition, it turns out Lott had used a variety of deceitful manipulations for many of his statistics in order to show support - however phony - for his assertions.

Unlike Bellesiles, Lott had no remorse or shame for his transgressions. He refused to do the honorable thing and resign his professorship. Nor did Yale require him to – and this is a LAW SCHOOL professor? (Maybe they are just more honest about their law curriculum and actually have courses entitled “Fabricating Facts and Evidence 101”!). And, when Lott was later exposed for an even more outrageous act of fraud (see below), he did not resign his position at the American Enterprise Institute. And, the American Enterprise Institute, proving what I have said along (that they are a hub of deceit that exists primarily to peddle rightwing propaganda), did not ask for his resignation, nor did they investigate. Lying to the public is just fine by them!

This latest case of Lott fraud is summarized nicely in the April 18, 2003 issue of Science magazine in an editorial by Editor-in Chief Donald Kennedy. "As the debate over gun laws spilled over from the scholarly journals to the Internet, Lott was defended passionately by a persistent ally named Mary Rosh. She attacked Lott's academic critics, including John Donohue of Stanford Law School, claiming in one posting that Lott had been the "best professor I ever had." Alas for Lott and his case, Mary Rosh now turns out to be - John Lott! The American Enterprise Institute has not yet followed the example Emory set with Bellesiles." [ie., requiring resignation].

Mary Rosh was such a well-developed phony character that one wonders about Lott's mental health. "She posted literally hundreds of messages on the web in his defense, and she was quite articulate," writes Stephen Robert Allen in the article "Everyone Wants to Know: Who is Mary Rosh?" (http://www.whoismaryrosh.com/alibi.html). "Mary called John "one of the young stars in the profession." She wrote things like: "If a woman is being attacked by a 200-pound man, is she just supposed to wait until the police arrive? I am 114 lbs. and 5'6". What should I do in that situation?"

Lott even planted glowing reviews of his book written by himself at sites like Amazon.com!! (to their credit, Amazon pulled the review when complaints were made - see http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/summaries/reader/0,2061,556669,00.html). In a truly pitiful show of what sort of stuff Lott is made of, when confronted with the phony review, he tried to claim it was the work of his 13-year-old son.

But Lott is made of the same stuff as the rest of the corporate schemers in the NeoCon movement. He just happened to get caught. How many thousands of other phony creations are being pawned off on the public, aided and abetted by well-heeled corporate fronts like the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation? And now, with the billionaire brigade showering Bush and Co. with wheelbarrows full of cash in preparation for 2004, God only knows what sort of well-packaged bullshit we will have flung at us in coming months. These folks have enough cash to take a rotting sow’s ear and turn it into a convincing imitation of a silk purse – at least as long as you don’t get close enough to whiff the stench.

If you want to get an idea of just what sort of guy this darling of the NeoCons is, here’s a rundown of some of his “philosophical ideas”:

n The rich should be allowed to buy preferential treatment in the justice system (this, naturally, is in the interests of the corporazis) - ("Should the Wealthy Be Able to Buy Justice?" Journal of Political Economy, December 1987.)

n blacks and women should not be allowed on the police force - only armed, white male private citizens should be allowed to police America ("Subject to Debate," Police Executive Research Forum, May 1998)

n Lott supports the second amendment as a mandate for all citizens to walk around with concealed weapons, but, as with Hitler’s scheme, this is just a temporary means to an end: Arm your "bullies" just long enough to put down any future revolt by dissenters, then, once your corporate police state is in place, disarm the poor slobs who bought into your gun rights sales pitch.

But, alas, drawing on their bottomless pool of corporate dollars, the NeoCons can keep nearly any turd afloat. For example, after he was exposed as a fraud, Lott was handed a juicy book contract by Regnery Publising Co. for his latest truckload of horsepoop: The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong. Regnery is a “publishing company” widely rumored to be supported not by the proceeds from its line of viciously rightwing "literature," but by anonymous and not-so-anonymous donations from corporate sources.(The "Washington Times," by the way, is also not self-supporting from readership or advertisers. Instead, it has been kept afloat by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who has admitted using many millions of his own cash to keep the paper alive and being read with a straight face by deluded commentators on C-SPAN.).

All of the major front groups supporting the perpetration of fraud on America are tied together incestuously by the same people, the same sources of bucks. One of the pillars of the front group movement is Richard Scaife, whose billions come from the Mellon banking empire. Here’s a bit from the “Los Angeles Times”: “Scaife's money helped to build the Heritage Foundation (PROSOCS: Heritage Foundation), the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Washington Legal Foundation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and other influential right-leaning think tanks. He also has supported such academic centers as Stanford's Hoover Institution [both Rumsfeld and Condi Rice are fellows] and Pepperdine University's new Public Policy School.” Scaife is credited with personally funding the well-organized persecution of Clinton throughout the 1990s – is it a “coincidence” that Kenneth Starr, after leading the investigation of Monicagate became the head of the Pepperdine Public Policy School founded by Scaife? Hardly! http://savannahnow.com/stories/041398/OPEDthird.html

Even the rightwing "media watchdogs” (which are in reality phony operations dedicated to trashing their "enemies" through stealth attacks whilst posing as "real news”) are funded by rightwing foundations and corporations. Take the Media Research Center, which routinely lauds news that supports the corporazi cause while seeking to root out all things moderate and liberal from the American media landscape. Not only do Rush Limbaugh, Pete Dupont and Elliot Abrams sit on their advisory board, they are kept afloat by massive transfusions from the John M. Olin foundation (the deep-pocketed Winchester Gun/Ammunition empire), Castle Rock Foundation (the Coors Empire), and the Sarah Scaife Foundation (an arm of the Scaife empire). (see http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?203

All of these foundations also contribute to the Heritage Foundation and a list of other corporazi front groups, along with the other biggest funders to the cause : Amoco Foundation, Boeing, Chevron, Dow Chemical, Exxon Corp., Ford Motor Co. Fund, General Motors, IBM, Mobil Oil, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, General Electric, Procter & Gamble and Shell. (see this article by the well-respected and very under-funded Earth Island Institute:
http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=550&journalID=60)

In short, the major newspapers, foundations, publishing companies, writers, reviewers, fans, and legions of websites are all phony fronts, each a strand in a massive spider's web of a political Ponzi scheme. These strands are woven so tightly and are so inter-networked they have formed a strangulation knot, choking off the voices of any honest newspapers, foundations, publishing companies, writers, reviewers, fans and websites. When fraud is perpetrated, it is never revealed, except occasionally, then quickly shushed. And, the perpetrators are never held accountable. Even Kenneth Lay, the biggest fraud perpetrator in history, has remained unindicted for any crime.

John Lott review written by himself removed from Amazon.com site
http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/summaries/reader/0,2061,556669,00.html

Who is Mary Rosh?
http://www.whoismaryrosh.com/alibi.html

Relationship between Bush and Moon (Washington Times)
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/Binion022201/binion022201.html

articles about Scaife and his corporate-funded scourge of all things progressive:
http://www.politicalamazon.com/scaifearticles.html

GOP efforts to suck Libertarians into its “fold”
http://www.mainstreamlibs.com/gop.htm

Northbridge Training Institute propaganda seminar
http://www.northbridgetraining.com/confcall/