Arizona: Strangled By An Organized Minority
Arizona is run by a well-organized minority. They work to undermine and control representative democracy, elected boards and officials, public schools, environmental regulations, any law that limits the powers of corporations, and interference in their affairs by The People. They believe in the right to rape, rip and run for personal gain while demanding free and unregulated access to natural and national resources. They attack workers’ organizations, associations and unions, taxes on individual wealth, and laws that hold individuals responsible for activities that damage others, the planet, and a sustainable future.
This minority is not the first to believe they should be able to act for personal gain without being restrained. American history has experienced periods when powerful individuals were allowed to do any damn thing they wanted, regardless of the cost to others. History knows them as the Robber Barons, “…who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth. These practices included exerting control over natural resources, influencing high levels of government, paying subsistence wages, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors to create monopolies and raise prices…” Wikipedia.
In recent times, we have seen the rise of men who have been influenced by Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Their access to power is the role model for a powerful few who want to take away the rights of every American as guaranteed by the Constitution. Men like Fred Koch, who was deeply impressed by Hitler who could act solely on his own to displace people, take land, kill, build oil refineries, create environmental damage, strip mine, declare war, or in every way ignore the damage to the people under his thumb. Fred was impressed by Stalin who could destroy opposition to his ideas, murder millions, and create his own powerful one-man rule. Fred, and a few like him, imagined a world where they could do as they wanted without having any government interference to hold them accountable. He set out to create a hell on earth for everyone else.
Fred was a founder of the John Birch Society, a movement based on:The destruction of public education, the privatization (control) of prisons, racial inequality, and denial of workers’ rights to organize. He was able to inculcate two of his sons (Charles and David Koch) to believe that they are the rightful heirs of his mission and will determine the future of America.
When the John Birch Society gained disrepute, they dropped that name and formed dozens of subversive* organizations. The largest in the US and Arizona is the American Legislative Executive Council (ALEC). If your elected representative is a member of ALEC, be afraid and get them gone! Another is the Goldwater Institute. The corporate leadership of Arizona Public Service (APS) and its holding company, Pinnacle West Capital corporation, is deeply involved with the Koch-ALEC-Goldwater Institute politicians. One can not underestimate the subversive work of the Goldwater Institute (a false 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization) with a purely political agenda. Through its minions, the legislators and governors placed in office by the power of this minority, they were recently able to place a Goldwater Institute lawyer on the Supreme Court of Arizona. As an example of their reach, in 2015 the Goldwater Institute filed suit in far off Massachusetts to challengeArizona: Strangled By An Organized Minority | Dr. Edward F. Berger:
