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Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:44 PM<br>Subject: Important Book, Review, Urge Your Attention (& Vote)<br>To: Robert Steele <<a href="mailto:Robert.David.Steele.Vivas@gmail.com">Robert.David.Steele.Vivas@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>I have published the following review that may be slightly modified over the next few days, but believe I have extracted the value and the relevance for the general good.</div><div><br></div><div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Peoples-Advocate-America%C2%92s-Fearless/dp/1619021722/ref=cm_rdp_product" target="_blank">The People's Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America’s Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer</a>
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<b><span>This review is from: </span>The People's Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America’s Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer (Hardcover)</b>
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<div>This book was tough going -- even eye-glazing. I
have never, in the thousands of books I have read, seen a starker
contrast between prodigal son brilliance and Nobel level performance
being presented, and the worst possible least useful presentation
format. The table of contents is devoid of information. 4 parts, 31
chapters titled (I do not make this stuff up) Chapter One through
Chapter Thirty One. I strongly recommend that the author find a new
publisher and immediately restructure the book into coherent segments
associated with the below highlights, add a timeline, photographs,
glossary, snap-shots of each key case including lessons learned and
future issues unresolved, snap-shots of key people, and a new epilogue
that connects the quarter century of path-finding by the author to the
quarter century of civil war in the USA that is now beginning, courtesy
of 9/11 (allowed to happen), Department of Homeland Security,
FEMA-Halliburton concentration camps and railway cars with shackles,
urban blimps, drones, and street corner camaras, and the two-party
tyranny (executive, legislative, and judiciary) that no longer
represents We the People in any manner. [My views on the alternative to
be fought for can be found online at We the People Reform Coaltion.]<br><br>I
hope that introduction got your blood boiling. This is a book for smart
people who care about the Constitution, the Republic, and America the
Beautiful -- the America of good people with big hearts and strong souls
who do the best they can while trapped amidst a complex of corrupt
systems that now include most labor unions, most non-profits, and most
religions -- all the safety nets are gone. It is not an easy read but it
could be the most important book you could read right now, as we
prepare for the 2014-2020 civil war between the 99% and the 1%. For a
sense of where I see Danny Sheehan in modern US history, see my review
of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983644608/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">Arsonist: The Most Dangerous Man in America</a>.
Danny Sheehan's is to the second American revolution as James Otis was
to the Founding Fathers. The 1% and their political bi-opoly (the best
of the servant class in the eyes of the 1%) are the target for a massive
apolitical cross-cultural uprising rooted in natural law, social
justice, and common sense.<br><br>The book cannot be fully appreciated
without first understanding that the author has been a major player in
every fundamental Constitutional case having to do with public agency --
the sovereignty of the public versus the assumption by the "government"
that it has inherent powers once reserved for kings, and that the
citizens "donate" (abdicate) their powers once they "elect" said
government. I highly recommend Wikipedia's biography on
Daniel_Sheehan_(attorney). This -- or the timeline below -- is what
should have opened the book in the first place. I take the trouble to do
this because the value of this book lies with the next generation, the
generation now in college and graduate school (or unemployed and
unOccupied), not in the generation that rose with Danny and failed to
beat down New York money, Texas energy, and the Nazi hydra combined with
elite embrace of drugs, money laundering, and pedophilia, among other
high crimes against the Republic.<br><br>Major Case Timeline<br><br>In re Pappas (First Amendment)<br>Eisenstadt v. Baird (reproductive freedom)<br><a href="tel:1970" value="+661970" target="_blank">1970</a> JD from Harvard Law School, Joined Cahill Gordon<br>
Branzburg v. Hayes<br>
U.S. v. Caldwell<br>Attica inmates, Committee of Observers<br>State v. Byrd (Black Panthers false accused of bombing conspiracy)<br>New York Times Co. v. U.S. (First Amendment, Pentagon Papers)<br><a href="tel:1972" value="+661972" target="_blank">1972</a> McGovern campaign, helped strike down voter registration laws<br>
Rockefeller Commission (Police Department corruption, Frank Serpico testimony)<br>Joined F. Lee Bailey<br>Defended F. Lee Bailey<br>Watergate (leading to Nixon's impeachment & resignation)<br><a href="tel:1973" value="+661973" target="_blank">1973</a> Entered Harvard Divinity School focusing on Comparative Social Ethics<br>
<a href="tel:1974" value="+661974" target="_blank">1974</a> Leave of absence to help ACLU<br>Associated Student Body v. University of Wyoming (First Amendment, Last Tango in Paris)<br>In re Slaughterhouse Five (First Amendment)<br>
Morton v. Mancari (validated preferential hiring of Native Americans)<br>
<a href="tel:1973" value="+661973" target="_blank">1973</a> Wound Knee (all vindicated)<br>1974-1975 Returned to Divinity School<br>Potter Box model for ethical decision-making<br>Began synthesis on how world views make facts irrelevant in political discourse<br>
<a href="tel:1975" value="+661975" target="_blank">1975</a> Became Chief Counsel for Jesuits USA<br>
Daniel and Philip Berrigan<br>Dick Gergory<br>Benjamin Spock<br>David Abernathy (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)<br><a href="tel:1977" value="+661977" target="_blank">1977</a> Karen Silkwood (included CIA and Keen smuggling of nuclear materials to Israel)<br>
<a href="tel:1979" value="+661979" target="_blank">1979</a> Founded Christic Institute (rooted in Teilhard de Chardin)<br>
Three Mile Island<br>Greensboro Massacre (KKK)<br>American Sanctuary Movement (Catholic sanctuary of Salvadoran refugees)<br><a href="tel:1986" value="+661986" target="_blank">1986</a> Aviragan v. Hull (Iran-Contra) exposed CIA's "enterprise" for global unconstitutioinal activities<br>
Christic Institute shut down by combination of corrupt executive, corrupt judiciary, and corrupt legislature<br><a href="tel:1990" value="+661990" target="_blank">1990</a> Elected to lead Romero Institute<br>Col James A Sabow USMC murder by Mariines for CIA at El Toro<br>
<a href="tel:1994" value="+661994" target="_blank">1994</a> John E. Mack defense of academic freedom (extraterrestial encounters by humans)<br>
United States Library of Congress investigation into extraterrestials (and probably to the Catholic Church also)<br><a href="tel:1999" value="+661999" target="_blank">1999</a> Director New Paradigm Project State of the World Forum (Mikhail Gorbechev)<br>
2001 Disclosure Project (those with direct knowledge of UFOs)<br>
Developed talk on Philosophical and Theological Implications of the Human Discovery of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence<br>2005 Lakota People's Law Project (rescuew of 3,000 children seized)<br><br>And now to the book itself.<br>
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personal history is both necessary and revealing and truly provides
context for the entire book. It took me a full reading to appreciate the
page 3 statement that this is the story of a generation, the JFK
generation fighting the national security state mentality of the WWII
generation (good people) that allowed its government to be hijacked by
bad people. I totally share with the author the view that the
assassination of JFK closed the door on the socio-economic and
ideo-cultural reforms being advanced in the 1960's.<br><br>SIDENOTE: I
have reviewed most of the books on JFK and where I differ with Danny is
in not blaming the excathedra CIA "enterprise" for the assassination it
carried out, but rather the combination of Texas energy, New York money,
and Italian crime that came together to snuff out the greatest leader
of the conscious world. George Bush Senior was in Dallas, working for
the "enterprise," and I earnestly pray that he and Howard Hunt will one
day appear before a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. See among
others:<br><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439193886/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters</a><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097746573X/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">Someone Would Have Talked</a><br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q79WMM/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">Dark Legacy</a><br><br>Two
elements of the personal introduction I find riveting. First is his
account of how he discovered first hand the corruption of the average US
Senator, and the second his his quote, on page 60, of Henry Kissinger
telling his Harvard class that the US is "authorized to lie, cheat,
steal, and kill to gain access to the strategic raw materials that below
to other nations..." Kissinger never changed -- years later, while in
the White House, it is now known that he said, to general laughter, "the
illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."<br><br>The
author accomplished more by the time he was 30 than most do in a
lifetime. I note with interest that his first encounter with illegal
wiretapping by the US Government against US citizens occured when he was
26 years old.<br><br>Page 151 gets to the heart of the matter:
"emergency does not create power." The executive cannot be allowed to
claim inherent powers (Congress, not the executive, is "the government"
in a Republic), citizen rights are not "donated" or abdicated once an
election takes place, and the elite cannot violate the laws of the land.
Which is of course what we have today with a national security state
that uses secrecy to commit treason on a daily basis.<br><br>Among the
many reasons this book is a 6 star book (in my top 10% -- see all my
reviews across 98 categories at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence
Blog) is perhaps the greatest possible accomplishment of all: a lawyer
representing justice with intelligence and integrity. I am fascinated by
the constant presence in this book of social justice and the author's
long-running reflections on utilitarianism versus intuitionism, and his
appreciation for the importance of Reverend Witherspoon of Princeton
University in shaping the morals of the Founding Fathers such that
natural law and the rights of man served as the foundation for the US
Constitution.<br><br>It was during the Silkwood case that the author
learned that there was a "private" national intelligence network, the
Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU), and that federal signals
intelligence and wiretapping capabilities were routinely deployed,
illegally, in support of private enterprise (e.g. the private nuclear
industry sneaking nuclear capabilities to Israel with CIA cover). I
concur with the author's conclusion that nuclear power should not be in
private hands, and would add to that my view that neither intelligence
nor the military should be staffed with contractors burdended with
massive conflicts of interest and lack of accountability even more
severe than the present lack of accountability that the US national
security "enterprise" enjoys.<br><br>I am stunned to learn that the
foundation for DHS and FEMA's venturing into domestic concentration
camps and hundreds if not thousands of rail cars pre-equipped with
shackles (these are my current facts, not the author's) can be found in
Ronald Reagan's tenure, at which time illegal immigrants were
deliberately conflated with "terrorists" and substantial funding and
planning earmarked for being able to round up 5,000 or more, overnight,
if needed.<br><br>I learn that aircraft running drugs into the USA for
the US Government have special call signs that place them off limits to
interception. Talk about impeachable crimes at the highest levels!<br><br>The
author's account of Iran Contra is focused mostly on Carl Jenkins and a
few others. As it happens I was in El Salvador in 1979-1980 and on the
Central American Task Force (CATF) with Alan Fiers in 1986, and am one
of the fortunate innocents who was not indicted -- I was working on the
legal side of CATF throughout. So I am fascinated with all of this, and I
have to disagree with the author when he names Ted Shackley as the head
of the "enterprise." Ted -- I met him once -- was a civil servant, not a
rogue elephant. What he did he did thinking he was serving a higher
master with authorization directly from the White House. At least that
is how I see it. My three reviews below offer more perspective, along
with the fourth book that I have avoided reading but have in the
line-up.<br><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574889222/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">Spymaster: My Life in the CIA</a><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671695258/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">BLOND GHOST</a><br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1888363932/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion</a><br>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616082844/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World</a><br><br>For my insider perspective search for < Search: Seven CIAs [Steele on the Record] >.<br>
<br>It
is in the aftermath of the Iran-Contra case that the author comes of
age. I am impressed by a direct account from the author of how Senator
John Kerry got bought off his investigation with a promise of the Vice
Presidential nomination in 2000 (in other words, the Republican or
heavy side of the two party criminal enterprise made a deal with the
Democratic or light side of the two party criminal enterprise so that
both could avoid making it clear to the average US citizen that the
government was in enemy hands)<br><br>QUOTE (485): "The lesson was
clear: accountability declines as the magnitude of ther crime and the
power of those charged increase."<br><br>The Iran-Contra investigations
that were suppressed from public revelation also disclosed the existence
of the Nazi hydra that collaborates with out of control elements of the
CIA and I believe also the FBI and DEA, to run drugs into the USA to
create off-budget wealth. See among other books I have reviewed:<br><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0930852435/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century</a><br>
<br>To
understand the the Nazi subversion of the US military in partnership
with the evangelicals, look for this online report from one of my
counterintelligence colleagues:<br><br>Mongoose: 20130309 Added
Transcripts for Mrs. Kay Griggs Interviews -- "German Disease" Across
USMC & US Army Special Operations + Treason RECAP<br><br>QUOTE (497) Joseph Burkholder Smith, CIA: "I hope that your generation can stop these bastards. Because ours never did."<br><br>QUOTE (511) Ross Perot: "You know, Dan, as long as these guys are in operation, no man can truly call himself president."<br>
<br>PRECISELY.
That is why I ran briefly for President, creating We the People Reform
Coalition, one possible combination of alliances and ideas that can
displace the two-party tyranny and reinstitute the rule of law in the
USA.<br><br>The author treats the Catholic Church with kid gloves, only
once venturing into the Knights of Malta and the long-standing secret
relations among the Catholic elite, the US national security state, and
certain other parties. I'm find with that. Apart from observing that
only the Quakers, Seventh Day Adventists, and Muslims do not represent a
religious counterintelligence threat in the USA, I would, as a lapsed
Colombian Jesuit altar boy who once knew the mass in Latin, be glad to
leverage the secret societies of the Catholic Church against the other
secret societies, as we begin what will be the most important chapter of
modern American history, the battle for the soul of the Republic.<br><br>Two more quotes that represent the SIX-STAR value of this book:<br><br>QUOTE
(562-563): "Walsh pointed out that the unlawful, unethical, and
unconstitutional conduct undertaken by CIA operatives and other covert
operations agencies in our executive branch in the name of
'anticommunism' between 1947-1977 (uncovered by congressional
investigators in the aftermath of the Watergate burglary) had been
repeated by the men who had created and operated the off-the-shelf
enterprise--but this time they had committed their acts in the name of
'antiterrorism.'"<br><br>QUOTE (563): "Walsh essentially warned that
these covert operations, and the zealots who ran them, constituted a
clear and present danger to the constitutional order of our democracy."<br><br>The
other reason this is a SIX-STAR book is because of its deeply ethical
nature (not an attribute often asssociated with lawyers trained and
employed in the USA). The author is still hung up on the left-right
political axis, but he makes a very important point when he calls out
the progressives and the left in general for failing to draw the line.<br><br>QUOTE
(593): Twenty two years after the end of the Cold War, the leadership
of the American liberal community still has not deigned to identify such
as set of ethical principles. Instead, they have virtually abandoned
the field now that the threat of communism has disappeared."<br><br>The
author goes on to fail John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama in
relation to the above. I certainly agree -- Kerry, Clinton, and Obama
have the ethics of a pimp in Tijuana and hardly qualify as presidential
material (but then the same is true of everyone on the right from Newt
Gingrich on).<br><br>America is about to enter into a civil war rooted
in the public abdication of its responsibility to be informed engaged
citizens. We cannot blame the rats that we allow to over-run the ship of
state. We must take ourselves in hand. This book is not only the
summatiion of the first half of Danny Sheehan's life. It is the window
into why and how he and others, including myself, will fight the second
half of the battle for the soul of the Republic.<br><br>Semper Fidelis,<br>Robert David STEELE Vivas<br>INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability (2012)<br><br>PS
Amazon allows me ten links. With a certain sense of humor, I refer the
reader to all my six star reviews at Phi Beta Iota the Public
Intelligene Blog but here is the last link: a good Catholic spy who did
what he was told to do, very very well, and now does this for Wall
Street. I would trust him to clean up CIA if and when we have an honest
government what *wants* an honest CIA.<br><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374130329/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story</a></div>
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