All my life, I have dreamed about visiting Alaska. My longing stems from my perception that Alaska is America’s last frontier and last bastion of freedom, as freedom was known to the pioneers. As a teenager growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I believed the world was much too crowded. Please don’t get me wrong, I like people. When you talk to one, they become a person, and the experience is usually quite pleasant. On the other hand, how many people around do you need to be happy: ten, twenty, one hundred, five hundred? Whatever the number, everyone else is excess baggage that gets in your way at traffic lights, makes you wait for tables in restaurants, and detracts from your overall quality of life.
Someday, I want to get a bumper sticker that reads, People Are Pollution. True, they are and can be many other things, but after all is said and done, each person born makes a small but measurable contribution to an overcrowded and polluted world. Therefore, while the arrival of a new baby is a great joy to those with a personal attachment to it, it is a detriment to everyone else who must suffer the consequences of this new presence. I suppose this is why I didn’t get married for the first time until I was thirty-three years old and never cared much about having any children of my own.
This book is a travelogue of my trip to Alaska taken with my wife, Gayle, and our two Schnauzers, Scooter and Sally. I apologize for starting out with an editorial, but my comments set the backdrop for our journey.
I love the great outdoors and the solitude it offers. As far as America is concerned, outdoors and solitude are what Alaska is all about. Therefore, retired and at the ripe old age of fifty-eight, Gayle and I purchased a thirty-seven-foot motor home to make the journey in a grand and glorious style. What a beauty! She has all the latest technology, including two push-button slide-outs that turn our bus-like traveling quarters into a roomy country cottage. Motor homes have come a long way in the past several years, and those not familiar with the latest advances have no idea how spacious and comfortable they are.
What if our government had been overthrown at the start of this past century? Surely, this question is absurd! If our government had been overthrown, wouldn’t people know this? Furthermore, if people are not aware of an overthrow, how bad could it have been? This last question is not so absurd because not only do the vast majority of Americans have no clue our government was overthrown, but they also have no comprehension of the insane and exorbitant price we have paid as a result. Americans living today go about their lives oblivious to what has been done to us. They are content to live in denial because it is the easiest thing to do and because they prefer to feel good about our national government, irrespective of what it has done. To most Americans, the notion of our government having been overthrown is the fodder of conspiracy nuts or the province of people out of touch with reality.
This book will demonstrate that an overthrow of our government has occurred. It will also provide an accounting of the catastrophic consequences resulting from this overthrow. Among these are the senseless and needless squandering of trillions of dollars of money and resources, as well as destroying and ending the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Furthermore, the rule of law, justice under the law, and the inalienable rights of mankind are casualties of this overthrow. Indeed, the insanity that took control of our government in 1913 is presently enslaving the rest of the world. However, this is not the worst of it. The final result of what these amoral people have wrought is that life as we know it on this planet is at risk. Unless we wake up soon, the future is going to be a living hell for our progeny. We all share a measure of blame for this. Because of our ignorance and complacency, those who rule us are firmly entrenched within the power structures of the world. Thus, there is no end in sight to the waste, suffering, and madness they bring upon us.
Our government, the one we lost, was special and something to be proud of. For the first time in history, a group of men came together, put their personal interests aside, and established a new government designed to best serve and protect all those fortunate enough to live under it. The government created by the founders embodied the loftiest of governing principles, and because of these principles, the United States of America became the greatest nation in all of history. Not only did our citizens enjoy the highest standard of living in the world, but we also opened our doors to others and became a beacon for the oppressed and downtrodden of other nations. Our government exemplified an ideal, and it was for this ideal that so many Americans made the ultimate sacrifice. Unfortunately, to our shame and dishonor, these sacrifices were made in vain.
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