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Who is responsible for the incredible mess the present-day generation ofAmericans find themselves in? In this book, I hope to show exactly how thishappened. A series of deadly, inexplicable decisions by our elected leadersand corporate executives have paved the way to the crisis we must deal withnow. Corruption has grown entrenched, like an inoperable disease, in nearlyevery organ of the establishment. We must heed the words of one of America__greatest statesmen, Thomas Jefferson: __ingle acts of tyranny may be ascribedto the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at adistinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change ofministers [administrations], too plainly proves a deliberate systematic planof reducing us to slavery._ The American people have been dealing with justsuch a __eries of oppressions_ now for well over a century, and there canbe little doubt that it is the result of a __eliberate systematic plan._ The bestword to describe it is conspiracy.