An excerpt from a letter of J. Sisson that he requested be posted;
"Have you ever had a really rude awakening? I mean really rude. Like falling face down off a top bunk, or someone throwing water on you as a prank?
Well my rude awakening was no joke or accident. I was a 17 year old soldier my first year in. My head was full of John Wayne movies and Audie Murphy heros. I was patriotic and full of the "American" ideal of truth, justice, and the American way. By age 19 I was fully aware of the facade. I had had my "rude awakening." Not only was the patriotic mumbo jumbo meant as fodder for the masses, but I learned that all patriotism was based on fictitious history.
The bottom line was always finance. Money. Budgets, and how to get more of it.
And so as my vista of understandiong widened, I began to see that laws, politics, social change, religion, morals,..all were tied somehow to that bottom line. I can no longer look at my world in the sugar coated way of a 17 year old. The more I was able to see, the more I understood, the more I saw.
Politicians, judges, preachers, generals, salesmen, housewives, they all boil it down to the bottom dollar. If you don't see that the Supreme Court is there to help stabilize the economy more than the law, you are just missing the whole point. Senators, Congressmen, even the President. The bottom line is the monster that controls our lives. The bottom line has been traded for truth justice, and the American way."
by Jerry Sisson 3-6-06