Written by Patricia Gray   

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic to which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Does any part of this indoctrination you received at an early age have any validity? Or is it a form of mind control that we must strive to overcome because there is no truth in it? Is our nation a democracy? Do we have liberty and justice for all? Do you think the common people have control of the government of this nation? If you answer "yes" to these three questions, I fear that you will not be willing to take the time for the reconsideration that I request.

If, however, you have concerns about the corruption in the government of the United States, you may be willing to reconsider what we have been told by our government as being the truth. This is a very unpleasant undertaking. Most of us do not want to face the pain of the realization that much of what we believed to be true are lies. We now know that Columbus did not discover America, he invaded it. He had no right to claim that land for Spain. The English had no right to claim the land that they called "New England". God did not give the United States the right of manifest destiny to control all of the Americas. The Spanish did not sink the Battleship Maine". The Bay of Tonkin event never took place. A single crazed gunman did not kill either of the Kennedy brothers or Martin Luther King Jr. Bush II was never fairly elected,and there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Afghanistan had no involvement in the events of 9/11.

It is too late to do anything about most of these lies -- but not those of 9/11. There is a great deal of evidence that 9/11 was truly an 'inside job'. Top officials in our government , security forces and the Military may have been involved. We the people of this nation must demand an independent investigation of the events of that day. These people may be guilty of treason against our nation. They are still alive and prospering from their contribution to the murder of thousands of Americans and millions of Muslim people. The lie of this Muslim attack on our "homeland" has led to endless illegal wars of aggression and destruction in five Muslim nations in the Middle East. These wars are spreading over more nations and bankrupting our nation as we kill more innocent people and destroy their counties.

Our corrupt government is now threatening World War III against Russia and China. Our economy is in collapse. Our Constitution is what Bush said it was -- just a piece of paper. The value of the dollar is falling. Terrible damage to the ecosystems of the earth is being done by the rapacious greed of the most wealthy people on earth. This insane behavior must be stopped for our sake and for the sake of our children and the future of any life on our beautiful planet.

I hope you will agree that we must take on the difficult task of changing our government. We need to demand a Constitutional Convention to update our Constitution and create a system of direct democracy. We must establish regulations that mandate that our elected Representatives vote in our name as we instruct them to do. We need to roll back all the laws and regulations that have been passed since the coup of 1963 when President Kennedy was murdered. He was killed because he wanted to shut down the CIA, end the Federal Reserve private banking system, and end the war in Vietnam. We need to return to the path of peace set by President Kennedy to truly become a nation to which we could proudly pledge our allegiance.

We must end the empire and return all troops to the United States. They can be used to repair and maintain our infrastructure working within a renewed W.P.A.. Our nation must make restitution to all the nations we invaded, occupied or bombed in our "War on Terror". We can become a nation to be respected by the people of the world only by admitting our crimes against humanity and pledging to act with honor in the future.