Brad Friedman at Mother Jones has posted a two part article based on secretly recorded audio tapes from the June 11 secret Koch Cabal held in Vail, Colorado. The Kochs hosted a meeting of approximately 300 Far Right politicians, media figures, corporate CEOs and presidents, and wealthy donors. This is one of the two fundraising and strategy sessions that the Kochs hold every year. In the audio, you can hear the plans that are secretly being formulated for the 2012 election, which Charles Koch declares will be "the mother of all wars."
Those of us in New Jersey (actually, anywhere in the US) will be especially interested in the Keynote A dress. It was delivered by a meteoric GOP star, none other than our state's own Governor, Chris Christie.
This hidden Koch cabal is a covert group of furtive men, who intend to destroy America as we have known it in order to rule over the people and the commonwealth. These conspirators have disguised their true intentions with the language of patriotism, all the while financing and plotting ways to steer more and more of the control of the government from the people to their own for-profit enterprises. If they were honest, they wouldn't do it in secret - they would be open about their goals. But since their goals are only to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense, they will never be honest about what they want. They know thatthe people would rise up and stop them.
What the Koch cabalists see, however, is that their goal of achieving ultimate power is at last within their grasp. As long as they can keep Democrats distracted, the unemployment rate high, the economy in the tank, and their followers in thrall, they believe they will win this war. They will hold all the reins of power. They will be able to completely dismantle the New Deal, all business regulation, all consumer protection, all voting rights, and all social programs. They will be able to remake the tax code to keep themselves and their heirs perpetually wealthy. They will be able to fight endless wars against non-state actors (such as Al Qaeda and Mexican drug cartels, which will provide not only more wealth, but also an excuse for tightening the domestic security noose.
After listening to these tapes, it become apparent why today's GOP has become a "cult, as former Republican Operative Mike Lofgren has called it. (If you haven't read his long analysis "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult, " head over to Truth Out and have your worst suspicions confirmed.) The GOP today is a political version of Scientology. Just like Scientology, the main purpose of the organization is to enrich the top rank of participants. Just like Scientology, Conservatism promises a complete insight into the way the world works - one that is based not so much on facts or science, but on belief in a storybook narrative. The constant emphasis in every GOP setting is the donation of money, which is supposed to be used to further the organization's good works. It is instead, of course, used to enrich the leaders. Rank and file members of the Republican Party are encouraged to avoid contact with all members of their community who are not "believers." Yet. at the same time, they are not privy to the actual inner mysteries of their organization. Those can only be discovered when sufficient millions of dollars have been donated or raised,
Of course, the hidden truth of Scientology is the story of Zenu The hidden mystery of the Republican Party is that it is a working to replace Democracy with a New Aristocracy. The Uber-Wealthy will own all of the nation, from its former public spaces and services, to its former citizens, who will essentially be serfs. All avenues for reestablishing a commonwealth will be destroyed, as voting rights are abolished, and the surveillance state removes all vestiges of privacy.
Read about the secret Koch cabal. The info is there. These guys and their 300 fellow travelers have been conducting a secret conspiracy to take control of the US government. If they were honest, they wouldn't do it in secret - they would be honest about their goals. But since their goals are only to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense, they will never be honest about what they want.
Today's article covers Christie's keynote address - and has the complete audio.You want to know what Christie plans to do in NJ? You can find out all the details. Christie's speech lasts almost an hour, and he is extremely blunt about his plans for the State of New Jersey - and, later, for the entire country.
He openly mocks New Jersey Democrats. He is determined to get rid of the state teachers' union so that he and the Plutocrats can mold the children of New Jersey: "we need to decide who is determining our children's future, who is running this place. Them or us? I say it's us."
Before long, seminar attendees were roaring with laughter as Christie regaled them over dessert, telling them how, in his first weeks in office, he'd exercised extraordinary executive powers to impound billions of dollars in planned spending. ("The good news for all of you and for me," he said, "is that the governorship in New Jersey is the most powerful constitutional governorship in America.")
Christie went on to explain how he'd convinced the state's Democratic majority leaders, against the wishes of most of their caucus, to help him slash public-sector pensions and benefits. And he drew a bead on his next major target: public-school teachers and their union. "That's where we head next," Christie said. "We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all, and
He presented his accomplishments in New Jersey as a model for curing the nation's ills: "We know the answers. They're painful answers. We're going to have to reduce Medicare benefits. We're going to have to reduce Medicaid benefits. We're going to have to raise the Social Security age. We're going to have to do these things. We're going to have to cut all types of other government programs that some people in this room might like."
The speech was classic Christie, but the governor expressed his views to the Koch crowd with a candor that politicians-especially those with a reputation for having mainstream appeal-usually reserve for very select audiences: He called New Jersey Democratic legislators "stupid" for pushing for a tax on the wealthy that he'd previously rejected. He mimicked the voice of his predecessor, Gov. Jon Corzine. And he boldly proclaimed that he'd been elected because "their ideas are wrong and our ideas are right."At the Koch gathering, Christie preached an inspirational tone. "Everybody who's here for this weekend is here because they know that the opportunity that was presented to us as Americans is one of the most special gifts that will ever, ever be given," he said. "We want that same thing for our children and for our grandchildren," he added. "And we're here because we know that it is no longer a sure thing if it ever was....In fact, under this administration, it is at greater risk than it has been in my lifetime."
During the Q&A, one of the questioners wondered what Christie had learned in New Jersey that might be applied to the nation. His answer was direct: "This is not hard. We spend too much. We borrow too much. We tax too much. It is time to turn those three things around."
"Now, pain will be inflicted when we change that," he went on. "People are going to do with less. People who are used to having entitlement at a certain level will not have them at that level anymore. That's the story." Christie cited Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's "courageous" and "thoughtful plan" to "fix those systems" by replacing Medicare with a voucher program.
Christie is the favorite of the Koch Cabal because the man is autocratically imposing a Far Right vision of benefits for the wealthy, first and foremost, onto his state. Since New Jersey has a Constitution that gives the Governor great power, Christie is in a perfect position to demonstrate what a American Executive with tyrannical power can achieve. Christie, like Perry, Walker and Scott, is the model for the Republican Commander in Chief.
Here you have it, guys - the wealthiest Far Right movers and shakers in America, plotting to destroy America as we know it, and laughing at everyone who is up against them. They think that the Democrats are too broke and disorganized to ever put up an effective defense. After all, the Democrats haven't even been able to figure out that there is a conspiracy that's been going on right under their nose, for close to 30 years!
By the time the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has achieved its goal, the American middle class, once the most fiscally egalitarian, largest repository of wealth ever assembled by Man, will have given over all its prosperity to a New Aristocracy. Voting rights will have been so curtailed that only those of a certain income and property level will have the right to vote. The police state will have so pervaded and militarized our country that actual physical revolt will be almost impossible. The great mass of the people will be so poor, ill, underfed and hopeless that they will have been effectively crushed.
America will resemble its former great nemesis Russia: a country of Mobster Oligarchs of great wealth, a tiny minority that floats like cream on the great mass of the populace, who, broken and confused, have no solace but alcohol and muttering about "how it used to be."