In 1993, a syndicated television series, Babylon 5 by J. Michael Straczynski was broadcast on television stations through out the nation. As with any successful series, it was only after a number of seasons did we find out who the true villain was. Having enjoyed the series, I wonder, if Mr. Straczynski had a crystal ball and foresaw the future. Did he foresee what is currently happening with our Republic and the American way of life? Is there a shadow menace lurking in the background? Is this shadow quietly controlling the government? Some hints have been made, particularly by Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com and Quinn and Rose, www.warroom.com. I hope to show that this shadow menace is not only present, but like a giant octopus has its tentacles spreading through out the administration and the organizations that support it. As Thomas Jefferson said, “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

Unless one is a member of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), not many people have heard of it prior to 2003. In 2003, the SEIU endorsed Howard Dean for president. The SEIU sent thousands of “volunteers” to work in the states where early primaries were scheduled. After John Dean dropped out in 2004, and it was apparent that John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, would be the Democratic nominee, Andrew Stern, the president of SEIU played a major role in persuading Kerry in choosing the morally corrupt John Edwards as his running mate. But, what is the SEIU? Who is Andrew Stern? Why do they want to destroy the American way of life?

In 1986, SEIU had about 600,000 members and has since bucked a decades-long trend of declining membership. Currently it has about 1.8 million members across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and ranks among the largest and fastest-growing unions in North America. It has more than 300 local affiliates and 25 state councils. It is now the largest labor union in the AFL-CIO. The success of SEIU can be summarized in the fact that it targeted workers that were previously ignored by most unions—unskilled low-wage service workers like janitors and hospital aides. SEIU members work in four service industry "divisions":
Hospital Systems:As America's largest union of health care workers, SEIU represents more than 900,000 caregivers and hospital employees, including  some 110,000 nurses and 40,000 doctors in public, private, and non-profit medical institutions.
Long-Term Care: SEIU is the largest union of long-term care workers (including 350,000 home care workers and 150,000 nursing home employees) in the United States.
Public Services:The second largest union of public service employees, SEIU represents 850,000 local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers.
Property Services: SEIU is the largest property services union, with 225,000 workers who clean, maintain, and protect commercial and residential office buildings.

SEIU also holds the distinction of being one of America’s two largest government unions, the other being AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. The nightmare for such unions is not a weak economy, as it would be for private sector workers. Government workers get their money not from a free marketplace but from coerced taxes. Although many SEIU workers not employed directly by government are hospital and nursing home staffers paid indirectly by government dollars for Medicare, Medicaid and welfare patients. For this reason the government unions are the party of American socialism. (“How Socialist Unions Rule the Democratic Party, Lowell Ponte, www.frontpage.com ) It was because of this SEIU was determined to defeat Bush in 2004, by committing 65 million dollars to the campaign of Kerry and Edwards. This money was used to finance voter registration drives, voter "education" initiatives, get-out-the-vote campaigns, and the efforts of some 2,000 political organizers working full-time against President Bush in 17 key battleground states. Moreover, the Union pledged to supply 50,000 "volunteers" from its membership rolls just prior to, and on, election day. Does this sound familiar?

In 2004, the Republicans were public enemy number one to the SEIU because they (the Republicans) wanted to reduce the size and spending of government, and to contract out millions of existing government tasks to money-saving, non-unionized private companies. The wealth, power and future of this and AFSCME depend on replacing a Republican President with Democratic advocates of government expansion like the team of Kerry and Edwards. Another reason for the onslaught against the Republicans, not only in 2004, but continues to this day is SEIU’s call for "the redirecting of the nation's resources from inflated military spending to meeting the needs of working families for health care, education, a clean environment, housing and a decent standard of living.” Does this sound like the current regime’s plans for America?

To Be Continued

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