If you’re not a “reader” per se (and a lot of people are not), please feel free to read the lst, 2nd and l2th chapters of this book first. The lst and 2nd lay out the problems and the l2th establishes the solutions. The ten chapters in between are an explanation of concepts and history that support the positions put forth in this book which you can then peruse at your leisure. 
     The book’s early working subtitle was “Everything you need to know to take back America, your Freedom, and your Life." This book it is an effort to share with the reader just that. 
     America has already entered into the historical process of "revolution," and this book advocates "front-running" the revolution by taking over the Congress in the 2012 elections, to elect a Congress that will introduce, discuss, and pass, in an open and public forum, the 9-point legislative agenda that makes up the Contract With Americans: 2012 entailed in this book.
     By doing so, it advocates the complete overthrow of the federal government of the United States of America and the Wall Street it serves.
     The nexus of our freedom is contingent upon understanding the roll of the public forum in our Constitution, as the key which provides the means by which the public directs its power to the government that serves us.
     lf the public forum is removed from that process by which Congress performs its Constitutional Duties, that mechanism which directs the public will to rule our government has been reversed, and thus the people no longer rule, but are ruled. 
     This is the political model of tyranny, which—by nature an imperfect economic model—consumes a disproportionate amount of our nation’s wealth in order to operate and survive.
     This is the problem that now afflicts America, and the return of the public forum to Congress’s performance in their Constitutional Duties is the only way to correct the political and economic calamity that mires and oppresses all Americans and our nation. 
     The following introductions were written about two years apart. The Big Red Reset Button was written at the embarkation of this effort. The Big Red Reset Button: Revisited, reflects a more jaded author, having been pressed between ideas, forged by paper and pen.

     We all know something is wrong. Everyone in America does. And if we knew why, what, and how, we’d mash the Big Red Reset Button and make it all right in an instant.
     That is why this book was written.
     America’s immediate and most pressing problem is economic. Our government has placed our entire nation at risk of bankruptcy, which is the historic definition of a revolution. Our problem is systemic, meaning that our governing system has become systematically defective.
     I have spent nearly a lifetime studying our world from a little different angle than most people.
     I began my odyssey on June 5th, 1968, which was the cumulative peak of events that became the turning point in my perception of the world. Martin Luther King was gunned down on Memphis on April 4th. On June 5th, Robert Kennedy was murdered after winning the California Primary and undeniably the Democratic nomination for president, and after which, most likely the presidency. Now J FK’s murder in Dallas took on a whole new meaning.
     Vietnam, hippies, Time magazine’s “Is God Dead?” To me the lies were coming too fast and furious, at least to me . . . a freshly minted teenage American citizen.
     What my government, what the world, had been and was telling me had become an outright lie, overnight. At least to me it was a lie. And if all this was a lie, what else was a lie? To me, everything was a lie.
     There was no truth anymore. I was faced with the task of uncovering the truth or accepting the lies built upon lies. I found that unacceptable. 
     Fourteen years old, raised in a politically active Republican family, an avid but untrained reader, I loved history, America, the military, and sports. Events had shaped my world, and I was forced to become a rebel as were so many of my generation.
     My aim was to discover the truth as best I could. It wasn’t until a few years into college that I learned how to learn. Simultaneously, I discovered how to comprehensively read and write.
     From college, began my odyssey to see the truth hidden in the wreckage of lies. My technique would derive from Conan Doyle’s observation of deduction, that, once you strip away everything something is not, what you are left with is what it really is, the truth.
     It took awhile, but I later discovered the universal truth about lies. They never add up. Conversely, the truth always does. In history, the truth is linear in that it flows from one event to the next. Lies begin nowhere and mysteriously end.
     Finally, I began to see the age-old test of “follow the money” within the linear truth of time history, and this helped form and confirmed the truth that had emerged.
     This became my framework for the truth. Does this fact or observation support the whole? Does it fill a gap? Or is it a fragment, a lie, something that does not belong within our mosaic of life?
     My search would never really let me go and pushed me to see farther still.
     This book is the result of my examination of, as Descartes would say, the material world.

September 2009
Galena, Illinois

                             THE BIG RED BUTTON: REVISTED

     That scent of burning parchment you smell is the United States Constitution going up in flames. Everyone wants to return to the original tenets of our Constitution as the means to restore America’s bounty and greatness, but no one can state what we have to do in order to return the nation to a restored Constitution and the bounty of America.
     Here is the answer we all seek.
     The nexus of our freedom is contingent upon the roll of the “Public Forum" in our Constitution. For it is the public forum by which the people assert their power to the government that is supposed to serve us. Thus, the public forum is the foundation of our Constitution and liberty as conceived by our Founding Fathers.
     If, or whenever, the public forum is removed from the constitutional duties of Congress, that mechanism which directs the peoples’ will to rule over our government is also reversed; thus, the people no longer rule, but are instead, ruled.
     This is the distinction between, and definition of, both liberty and tyranny. And tyranny, by its nature a failed economic model, consumes a disproportionate amount of our nation’s wealth in order to operate and survive.
     By the usurpation of the public forum, that power has been reversed and is now directed by the “unprincipled men" President George Washington warned us of in his Farewell Address to the Nation, in 1796, and is now used against all the American people.
     Gone is the public forum from the duty of Congress over the nation’s 1) coin and regulation of money, 2) regulation of commerce, and 3) declaration of war (Article I); while Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Executive branches have destroyed our Bill of Rights by undermining the due process of law and habeas corpus (Amendments IV and V), while having usurped the constitutional rights of all 50 states (Amendment X).        
     The most egregious of these violations is having the regulation of coin and our money dictated to us by that private corporation, called the Federal Reserve Bank and the 2B2Fail banks that own it. It locks all Americans into a financial servitude that drains every American in order to maintain the organized and on-going theft of our nation’s riches. It is the means which has paid to steal our Bill of Rights and due process of law.
     Corporations have become "people too," by the immoral declaration of the Supreme Court, institutionalizing the continued usurpation of the public forum away from the American people. 
     Further, these unprincipled men and corporations are now above the law, having purchased the reins of government with their ill-gotten gain and are free from prosecution by our Executive branch of government, allowing them to continue their predations against all Americans. 
     This is the crime against all America, and it is treason.
     If you wonder why all Americans bleed from financial and moral drain, this is your answer. 
     And if America wants to change this, we must return that simple constitutional mechanism of the public forum, back into the constitutional duties of Congress.
     It is our only means and is our constitutional right.

This book is predicated first, upon the public forum. Secondly, it is predicated upon the historic definition of revolution, which is a governmental bankruptcy. 
     Clearly, our government is in bankruptcy as are nearly all governments of this world. This is why revolution is sweeping the world. Revolution has arrived and has crossed the threshold into America. The violence we see in the Middle East is the more advanced phase of revolution, which left unchecked, is destined to embroil America.
     Let no one delude themselves into thinking it cannot happen in America, for it has already happened here twice, first in 1776, and again in 1861, in the American Revolution and the American Civil War. 
     And the only means by which we Americans have to prevent this linear fact of historic destruction and violence from playing out, is to restore the mechanism of the public forum back into the constitutional duties of Congress as originally intended in word and deed, by the Founding Fathers who wrote our Constitution. 

That is the purpose of this book. To constitutionally, legally, and peacefully restore the United States Constitution to its original foundation and the means to maintain our liberty, by restoring the public forum back into the constitutional duties of Congress. 
     And the only means by which all Americans can accomplish this seemingly Herculean task, is to elect a new Congress which will commit each Representative and Senator to the Contract With Arnericansz 2012, as set forth is this book.
     The Contract With Americans: 2012 (CWA: 2012) is a 9-point legislative agenda devoted solely to restoring the public forum and removing the predations of Wall Street from America, thus restoring our nations bounty and greatness back to the benefit of all Americans. 
     lt is a necessary litmus test, devoid of the social issues our rulers use to divide us and keep us a conquered people, so that each American has a clear and common means to determine who serves the people, and who serves Wall Street when it comes time to vote for a new Congress on November 6th, 2012.
     For whether you believe our world is just a bad coincidence of unfortunate events strung together (it isn’t), or a world influenced by “unprincipled men” (it is), is immaterial. 
     lt is immaterial because the remedy of the excess is the same. The laws, regulations, deletions, and reformation necessary to correct the illegal excesses that have allowed a small group of privileged society—a kleptocratic ruling elite—to concentrate wealth and power unto themselves, to the unjust and immoral detriment of all Americans: Corrections are the same for a bad coincidence of unfortunate events strung together, as they are for a world influenced by unprincipled men.
     No matter the cause or question, their solution is the same. And the solution is defined in the Contract With Americans: 2012. 
     In order to unite all America, sometime this summer the website of this book, www.nar2012.com, will allow all Americans to check in to see who will be on the ballot for both the House and Senate, in their respective congressional district and state. It will also tell you who supports CWA: 2012, and who supports Wall Street.
     It will then leave the decision of who to vote for to the conscience of each American in whom I have unending faith, and thus anticipate a new Congress and the restoration of America, our Constitution, our Liberty, and the bounty of the nation to all Americans.

Galena, IL
October 2011