What is the essence of the human being? I have struggled with this question my whole life. This is true, at least, from the age of 12 to the present, including 35 plus years as a civil trial lawyer and owner of my own firm for over 20 years employing trial lawyers and paralegals. My cases have included, but limiting to, suing AIG Insurance Company in Federal Court regarding a 15 million dollar Officers and Directors policy, to representing the largest insurance companies, defending and suing all types of licensed professionals under their Errors and Omissions policies, defending and suing individuals and/or corporate entities in motor vehicle collisions and doing Pro Bono work for people, including prisoners at San Quentin and Vacaville Prison as well as prisoners in the city and county jails of the San Francisco Bay Area. From that experience, the essence of the human being, myself included, boils down to fear or laziness. To me it seems, ultimately, the essence of the human being is fear. Human fear manifests in basically two forms: material well being or, more precisely, monetary fear and physical fear, which is the fear of death. The American Empire was created on, exists on and will only continue to consistent on the God of Money. The god of money is the most powerful of all the gods. You and I struggle against it; we fight to deny it. You doubt it? Look in the mirror. What do you see? Look all around you. What do you see? Does money make right? Money makes what is ... in sight. Feel free to take it as a slight. Principles and values can make might. You, however, must be willing to fight. Not with words you speak or write. Only fighting and dying, regrettably, are true. What you say, think, write, feel believe means nothing, or next to nothing; the only consequence is what you do. The God of Money ensues you have a roof over your head, have food on the table and have health insurance for cancer treatment at the hospital. The human beings fear for material well being is the prime directive. The human beings fear of death whether from internal bodily functions or from external perceived enemies … so-called “American Indians, The British or Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya or Syria” cause human beings to accept, if not agree with, the threats. The word and theology of “propaganda” amounts to, on close examination, nothing more than words, gibberish. Whether killing American Indians, The British, Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Libyans, Al-Qaeda or The Branch Dravidians or Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, all the U. S. Government needs to tell people “we” are under attack, physically or as to “our” way of life and that protesters or non-supporters are traitors, or, at least, apologists for Hitler, Stalin, Ho Chi Min, Saddam Hussein, or Mu'ammar Al-Qadhdhāfī. Human beings will more than happy to kill, rape and pillage. Why? They perceive the material well being is under attack. They perceive the fear of death. Whether these human perceptions, these human fears are well grounded is not the issue. Understanding how, why, what or by whom this fear is created does not address the cause, at best, it highlights the symptoms or process. Simply, it is not substantive, merely style. I respect people like Noam Chomsky or Ralph Nader. I submit, however, they and people like them are merely the controlled opposition. Why am I wrong? dennis hanna