Reply #403: OR ALEC Un-Elected Writing US Leg Koch-Influ/Direction in Many States Costly 'Hidden-Tunnel' Sep 1 [View All]

I clearly recall one remark shared with us by an old hand, well- experienced and grown wealthy at the game: " What you seek to build is a tunnel right to their desk --hidden but always there."

What's currently surfacing NOW -- in national reports rife on the Internet-- is the plain brutal fact that certain Republican legislators figured out a way to "organize" this inflow of influence and power for corporate and private interests as early as 1973. (break) they invented a not-so-hidden tunnel leading right to the minds and sign-off/hands of far too many state level legislators around this nation.

Both the system and the tunnel have become much too much a monopoly for Republican interests alone, including specifically those now promulgated and assiduously promoted by the distorted, perverted political gangsters who have pirated that once-respected Party.

What they invented --and have built semi-secretly, silently and very seriously ever since 1973 !-- is an effective process to open up new state-and-national law development to outside influence, in defiance of our long-in-place, tested American system of elected-representative/legislator function, which is the foundation of every legislature.

These ever/ready private interests have learned via continuing success in manipulation via convenient easy-use "draft supply" and ready/rapid, persuasive "consultation" precisely how to get what they want built into state law, thus permeating --perhaps irrevocably-- the ongoing massive flow of American law, starting at the obviously-vulnerable state level. Experience since '73 shows irrefutably, unimaginably, and without question that this sophisticated system, wrapped in protocol and very "professional" trappings, can and has produced in depth and detail, time after time, year after year.

Now it may be nearly impossible to know from whence huge masses of state law really originated...and renewed study may and is revealing extremely serious unintentional and dangerous consequences -- of which those state legislators participating may or may not have been aware.

The ALEC-mechanism provides a working system --primarily under the aegis of ongoing GOPster-gang control and direction, not only for the drafts involved but for the areas covered, the issues engaged, and the answers written into operational law.

What "they" do NOW is carried out through an intriguing mechanism --intriguingly known as the American Exchange Legislative Council -"ALEC"-- providing depth, detail and shaping language, issue-relationships, and broad closed-door participation in precisely the key parts of the whole process involved in making our American laws.