I was born some seventy years ago of low middle class parents. We never had much money but we never seemed to want or need more money. My father worked in a factory and my mother worked during World War II in a factory. She worked on airplane wings and she would help rivet the wings in place. My father was a machinist and I do not know what he really did. He was deferred from military service because his eyesight was poor. His one eye was almost blind and he needed eyeglasses to see with the eyesight he had. My father was also very patriotic. He had a flagpole to put up the flag several times during the year, such as Flag Day, Independence Day, etc.

I went to a Catholic school where the sisters stressed patriotism. I grew up idealistic when it came to my country. I was indoctrinated on how great America was. We were a good, holy, and saintly country. We could do no wrong. My idealism stayed with me until I found the internet and I started to surf the internet. At first I was shocked to learn that America was not this good, holy, and saintly place. We really are the evil empire. For several years I tried not to speak ill of my country but it became more difficult because the preponderance of evidence of how evil we are just overwhelmed me.

Slowly, I started to have the courage to speak out against my country. I now believe that my country wants to place ninety percent of her people in indentured servitude, to make us slaves to the rich, to corporations, and to the military. I also believe that the Blackwater Mercenary Group will be given a license to kill any American dissenter of our government’s policies and practices. The School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia refines on a daily basis the art of killing and torturing human beings. We have in America lunatics running our asylums.

Thom Hartmann helped to open my eyes to what America has been doing since Nixon nominated Lewis Powell to the Supreme Court. Once he was appointed to the Supreme Court, the Powell Memo became public. This memo serves as a guide as to how the lunatics will control us. Ronald Reagan is the right winger’s god. He has orchestrated our slow death with corporations by not giving us salary increases and by the outsourcing of American jobs. You make the people beg for scraps of food and you can control these people.

The Roberts’ Court in a five to four decision has sealed our demise. Corporations are now persons and their influence in our daily lives and in our politics will have no limits. Diebold and their rigged electronic voting machines cannot be sued. In fact no corporations can be sued for our destruction. We are now slaves to the industrial-military complex.

Thom was reluctant to say it with more emphasis because a religion would have to be criticized and he might not want to enflame some people. I am not afraid to say it or to offer my perceptual opinion on the Roberts’ decision saying that corporations are persons. It was the Catholic Mafia of the Supreme Court who made this decision possible. As a Catholic I see these five members as the Catholic Mafia.

Please do not look upon these five Mafioso types as typical Catholics. They are not true Catholics because a true Catholic is a true Christian. A true Christian believes in Christianity. Christianity is a value system and a way of life. A true Christian values the words of Jesus and follows the words of Jesus. To be a true Christian a person must be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

I have tried to share with you some of my background, some of my beliefs, and some of my perceptual opinions.