My last article drew an unusual number of responses from readers, many of whom were appalled at the suggestion that the September 11th horror might have been planned by Americans with more realistic needs than Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda group.

I was called everything from unpatriotic, to a communist and a traitor. I was told to leave the country or to drop dead. But, why? Do all Americans wear white hats? Doesn't the United States have its share of bad guys?

I know everything is relative, but from the viewpoint of a working-class American, a knowledge of the republic's history reveals we have had more than our share of bad guys.

Until the end of World War II wealthy American employers publicly displayed their hostility towards working citizens, paying only sustenance wages, ignoring dangerous working conditions, and hiring thugs to violently break up union meetings, sometimes callously killing workers. Weren't those Americans the bad guys in the world of working Americans?

What about the men who were infuential in sending American troops to invade the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, and who authorized—or allowed—such brutal treatment of Filippino defenders that the troops, and their American concentration camps, have since been compared to Nazi operations during World War II. More than 4,000 Americans unnecessarily lost their lives in that little war, more than ten times the number killed in the Spanish-American war. Weren't those men bad guys?

What about the American industrialists who hired people to go around the country to promote U.S. entry into World War I, despite the presideent of the United States having been asked by Europeans belligerents to stay out of the war. More than 120,000 Americans were unnecessarily killed in that war. Weren't those industrialists bad guys?

How about the Americans who helped the Nazis during World War II and afterward helped their Nazi business associates—some of the worst war criminals that ever lived—to escape to Argentina or to the United States? Certainly, they were very bad guys!

How about the American businessmen who intimidated—or bribed—the men of Congress to keep American troops in Korea and Vietnam after WWII to give them an opportunity to secure much needed Asian raw materials and open Asian markets for their products? More than 75,000 Americans were unnecessarily killed in those conflicts and untold millions of innocent Asians. Weren't those businessmen the bad guys?

How about the high-level government people who during the Russian-Cuban episode suggested that American forces fake a bombing of an American city to scare Americans into approving a war with Cuba, and possibly with Russia? This didn't happen, because Congress didn't approve of it. Are not those very bad Americans?

Then what is so terrible, or illogical, about the suggestion that Americans consider the possibility the destruction of New York City's Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 could have been initiated by a group other than bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda?

Should I ignore the knowledge that Taliban leaders refused to allow the oil cartel to build a pipeline through Afghanistan so oil from Uzbekistan could profitably be moved to a seaport, and then around the world?

Should I ignore the knowledge that our unelected president and his gang are hip-deep in the oil business and that removing the Taliban from power has been in their best interests?

Am I supposed to ignore my human ability to think and to reason—just to appear patriotic—and not logically conclude that the loss of three thousand, or six thousand, or even ten thousand innocent lives wouldn't stop people such as these who are motivated solely by profit and power?

If you're getting the impression that this site sounds like "Johnny One-Note" with a single message-—'re partially correct. The website, however, has two messages, because it has a two-fold objective.

The first objective is to point out that there are bad Americans—as far as ordinary working-class Americans are concerned. There are people, and families, who have never wanted the republic to become a democracy; people who fear democracy will restrict their wealth and who have conducted a class war against working Americans for more than 200 years; people who are in the process of removing many of your freedoms and transforming the U.S. from a pseudo-democracy into a more restrictive type of government, not quite totalitarian, but much less democratic than in the past. This is the first message.

The second objective is to point out that representative democracy in the U.S. has failed for working Americans, and that there are other forms of government, which working Americans could, and should, look into. The second message is that Direct Democracy—also called "participatory" democracyif"—structured properly, is the only form that can produce a just society: a society to nourish the needs of all its citizens.

There are millions, if not billions, of people waiting for someone to offer them a more just form of governance.Thousands of people, the world over, are trying to introduce Direct Democracy into their countries.

The meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil this past January of the second annual World Social Forum attracted 50,000 people from all over the globe. This World Social Forum is the working citizen's answer to the business community's World Economic Forum, and the bleak future it holds for humanity. The attendees understood that "globalization" motivated by economics and not social concern is a step backward for humanity.

It's interesting to note that of 50,000 attendees, only 400 represented the U.S., which highlights the American people's enormous lack of interest in finding a social system better for them than the current American System. It also highlights the truth that American leaders—both political and corporate—offer little support for any form of popular government, and that they are really bad guys.