Euphoric Blissful Ignorance−Enablers of Great American Tragedies


Getwinn

Getwinn comes from the Anglo-Saxon word, which means “that which is divided.” Such a strange term seems rather apropos when describing the current state of America. And yet, strangely enough still, is the so called silent majority rising from their couches and going to the voting booth. Will it matter? A subject for some debate.

Middle America has been hard at work, taking care of their families and paying their taxes. They have been relatively content with incomes, food in their bellies, cars in the garage, and golf and football on their minds. In the meantime, the rest of their brethren are working hard to change America into a multicultural, secular, socialist state. Many in America were awakened to that fact and rose up to do something about it. And yet, millions remain in limbo.

I have acquaintances who are well educated, hardworking people. I have asked them relatively simple questions about the issues to which they don’t know the answers. They seem not to watch TV, read the paper, or follow the issues. One fellow who came to my house to repair my computer, who I would take to be about 30, is well dressed, very intelligent, and a nice guy. It was voting day, and I asked him if he were going to make it to the voting booth. He told me that he does not vote because he does not keep up with the issues. It was both an honest and intelligent decision on his part. If one does not know the issues or what the candidates stand for, one should not vote. But the question is: Why does he not know the issues and why do my educated acquaintances not know many of them either, while at the same time thousands of the semi-literate are being herded to the voting booths to elect people and engage issues that are decidedly un-American?

I submit to you that much of Middle America is still apathetic. They seem not to care, or they believe it is beyond them to do anything about it as America slips away from them. This feeling of apathy or helplessness is not uncommon. History is rife with such sentiment. People submit to what they feel they have no power to subvert or change. What is happening with the TSA is as much an example of that as the people of Germany who succumbed to participating in the horrors of Nazism. Now gays in the military can flaunt their sexual preference, and the discrimination lawsuits will escalate. The psychologist who killed 31 people on base worked with returning vets who supposedly had PTSD. To help overcome their problems, he gave them copies of the Qu’ran. The man tried to indoctrinate our soldiers with such garbage for 7 years without the military doing anything about it, even though they knew what he was doing. Heaven forbid that they single him out and break one of the enemy’s most useful tools: America’s love affair with political correctness. Now gays will and are exploiting that as well.

Although one might not see the similarity to the TSA, the basic mindset is the same. Those running it have been given the power to do as they wish. Those employed to carry it out have found themselves in the position of being dehumanized in order to feed themselves and their families. They actively participate in the affront, the indignity, and the humiliation of those wishing to board a plane. And with the millions of people being subjected to such outrageous stripping of their privacy, not a single terrorist has been either revealed or apprehended by the TSA.

And yet, America does not rebel. Some feel this outrageous affront to their privacy is more than called for in these frightening times. They are willing to sacrifice their freedom for security. And if the founders of our great nation had felt the same …what then? But many go along because they are in a hurry or simply feel impotent to do anything about it. The beast is just too large to confront.

We are being bullied by political correctness. Even those in the military find themselves beholding to a sissy state. Understanding the issues is tiresome and seen as irrelevant by many.

As well, one has to ask: Where are the clergy of American Christianity? This same mindset has haltered them as well. With 87 percent of the US being Christian, they still allow political correctness to bind them in a cloth of cowardly behavior, sacrificing public faith, culture, and the traditional icons that make us Americans. Will book burnings and the cathartic extraction of religion be next? Why not, much of our history has been excised from elementary, middle, and high school texts while our universities are filled with liberal professors that refuse to teach traditional and conservative values.

See what this Austrian MP says on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRmgI_WXff0. Political correctness prevents Americans from taking this Austrian Member of Parliament’s stand. Oddly enough, speaking about the Koran in most European countries will get you arrested.

Most don’t have any real understanding of the Constitution and its amendments. Nor will they really care until their bellies are empty.

The Left is extremely nervous about those who carry and advocate guns. Such conservative groups as the Oath Keepers scare the hell out of them, and are seen as the enemy, not only traitors but terrorists. Yet, they only swear to uphold the Constitution.

And then there is our culture of entitlements.

To make the math easier, let’s assume there are 300 million people in the US. Let’s further assume that half of them are either too young, too old, or too infirm to work. The leaves 150 million people who could be working. If the unemployed is 10 percent, the means that 15 million of America’s working force is sitting idle, depending on the other 135 million to support them. But do those15 million people want to work? It is a fact that a young, single women with 3 children has as much disposable income if she works one week a month as man with a family of 3 children making $60,000 a year who works 50 weeks a year. This is purely a matter of entitlements given to the poor that the average family does not have available. But those who do not work a week a month are running out of unemployment checks. Once their belly is empty, once there seems no hope, they will do anything to survive. Crime increases because those who in normal times would be leading decent, law abiding lives, are now faced with just surviving.

Many experts say that we heading down the slippery slope to economic collapse. Buy gold they say. But they don’t say how the masses can do so or how gold will be used in such a situation as economic collapse. All this appears to be above the average American’s head. And it is this confusion and feeling of complete powerlessness that induces apathy for both the average working stiff and the clergy as well.

One can also make a case that public apathy has led to some the major tragedies seen in America or to Americans. An interesting treatise on this theme can be found at http://www.defraudingamerica.com/public_apathy.html. It also gives some pointers of how you can help. The photo above was taken from their site. Will I be sued? Another American pastime.

Of the six things below that confronts the US, in my humble opinion, and that are leading to our downfall, both culturally and economically, I have looked at the first three. I will look at the Jewish involvement in all this next time.

Again: Denial has no survival value.

1. The pouring of significant numbers of illegal aliens across our southern border.
2. The infiltration of Islam and its credo to change all governments to Shari'a law.
3. The apathy of Americans and the failure of the clergy to rebel
4. The Jewish intellectual, entrepreneur, and media
5. The Obama administration and the liberal progressives behind them
6. The ignorance of the bulk of the American people. That is: Obama is the prince of fools.

Taqiyya


Does anyone find it strange that people leave behind what is a life of poverty and oppression for the good life in America, and the minute they get here begin efforts to impose on us the same political and religious beliefs that made the country they left the way it was? Seems like human nature doesn’t it. But it is not as simple as that or as kindly unintentional.

For example, it is believed that by the year 2050, Europe will be a Muslim state. Westerners are reproducing their kind at a level below sustenance, while both Hispanics and Muslims are reproducing much above sustenance. Is it just the way they are, or is the effort intentional? To understand that, one must understand Islam and Shari’a law. In my opinion, it is the next higher level of threat to America above that of mass migration across our southern border. Why would that be the case when 1.9 million Muslims comprise less that 1% of the population? That question is as intriguing as the impact that small group is having on our textbooks, school curriculum, and the growth of American born terrorists. A recent study revealed that Islam is now mentioned twice as often in our children’s textbooks as Christianity.

Mohammad considered himself a prophet. (Strangely enough, a lot of people consider themselves prophets as well.) During the first 13 years of his life he took his show on the road. He was a kindly gent, having a mild but persuasive personality. All was good, but he was disappointed that after 13 years he had only managed to convert 150 souls for his efforts. Something had to change, and it did. He turned to violence. He and his followers were treated harshly by the Meccan tribes. After 8 years of warring with the Meccans, he had united many of the tribes and his following had swollen to 10,000. Within the next 2 years, he had 150,000 converts. Violence worked! By the time of his death in 632, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam, and he had united the tribes of Arabia into a single Muslim religious polity. How was he able to do that? What, exactly, does the term “violence” mean?

Unlike the bible that is a compilation of the works of several authors over several centuries, the Koran (Qur’an) was written by one man. Though its compilation was many years in the making, several portions were lost. It is strange that in its manner of poetry and peace in the very early writings, it became very un-poetic, long winded, and commanding of policy, law, and position in the later writings. Much of this is due to his angst against both the Jews and Christians who refused his proposals that he was the new prophet, and they need only look at their books to know it. Since no such words were recorded there, he announced that both Jews and Christians were Islamic, but had intentionally thrown the words of him from their books. His attitude for Jews and Christians took a hate filled turn.

Mohammed used various ways to control the tribes in Arabia, particularly among women. Women did not abide war and violence. Since he was being successful through both, he abrogated women to that of property. They were not to leave the house without escort, were made to cover all but parts of their face and hands and had no say in matters of importance. It was the husband’s right to beat his wife for the most mundane of infractions. Mohammed also took a girl of nine to be his bride. Since it was ok for him, it is obviously ok for anyone, and the practice of adult males marrying girls of nine is common place. In fact, girls older than nine are all married. The Koran teaches that a girl should not still be at home by the time she reaches puberty.

The International Center for Research on Women estimates that there are 51 million child brides now living on planet earth and almost all in Muslim countries.Twenty-nine percent of these child brides are regularly beaten and molested by their husbands in Egypt ; twenty six percent receive similar abuse in Jordan .Every year, three million Muslim girls are subjected to genital mutilation, according to UNICEF. This practice has not been outlawed in many parts of America .

Though many of the Shari’a (translation: path) laws are barbaric by Western standards, they are the least of the immediate threats to the West and to America.

There are more than 50 items about Islam that no Westerner or American would consider much above the level of barbarism, stemming from the 5rd century. But let’s concentrate on just the most repugnant.

From the documentary by White Roses:

That Islam has been hijacked is what non-Muslims naturally assume, because they assume all religions are the same. The reason non-Muslims are so easily confused is that most of us don’t realize the difference between the Qur’an and every other religious book we are familiar with.The Christian Bible is a collection of writings from various authors written sometimes hundreds of years apart, with parables, advice and dreams, all collected together into one book. Same with the Jewish Torah.

Even those of us in the West who are neither Christians nor Jews are still familiar enough with these religions to know this much, and therefore we assume the same is true for the Qur’an.But the Qur’an is only one book, written by one man in his own lifetime. It is meant to be taken literally, and it is not full of symbolism or vague analogies. It is mostly direct commands. Of course the Qur’an contains contradictory statements, just like other religious books, but the Qur’an itself provides the reader with a way to know what to do with the contradictions.It is explained in the Qur’an that if you have two passages that contradict each other, the one written later supersedes the one written earlier.

Most Westerners are unaware that the peaceful, tolerant passages were written early in Mohammad’s prophetic career. According to the Qur’an those passages have been abrogated by later, more violent and less tolerant passages.So when most Westerners hear Jihadists quoting violent passages from the Qur’an, and then peaceful Muslims quoting peaceful passages, they interpret that the way they would if someone was quoting the Bible or the Torah. They think to themselves, “Oh, there must be many different and contradictory passages, like there are in other religious books, so Muslims can pick and choose what they like, and justify whatever actions they want to take”. But the Qur’an is nothing like that. There is no picking and choosing. It says very explicitly and in no uncertain terms that a Muslim must not alter or ignore any part of its very clear and direct message, or they will burn in a fiery torment forever.

There is no separation between the religious and the political in Islam; rather Islam and Shari’a constitute a totalitarian means of ordering society at every level, including ritual worship, transactions and contracts, morals and manners, beliefs and punishments.In the Qur’an Allah makes it clear that man-made governments (such as a democracy) and free speech (such as criticizing the Qur’an) are abominations and must be eliminated.

The modern expression, “creeping Shari’a” is used to describe the slow, deliberate and methodical advance of Islamic law in non-Muslim countries.Official Shari’a courts already operate in the UK, handling cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to domestic violence. Attempts to introduce Shari’a in the legal system in Germany, Sweden and other European countries are ongoing. While Shari’a already has a foot in our door in the matter of minor disputes like inheritance and domestic violence, it should concern you that Shari’a:

• Commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped;

• Allows husbands to hit their wives;

• Allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge – literally an eye for an eye;

• Commands that a thief must have a hand cut off;

• Commands that homosexuals must be executed;

• Orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death;

• Orders death for both Muslim and non-Muslim critics of Mohammad, the Qur’an and even Shari’a itself;• Orders apostates to be killed;

• Commands offensive, aggressive and unjust Jihad.

Communism has been defeated, at least for the moment; Islamism has not, and unless a reformed, tolerant, liberal kind of Islam emerges soon, perhaps the final battle will be between Islam and Western democracy. And these former Muslims, to echo Koestler's words, on the side of Western democracy are the only ones who know what it's all about, and we would do well to listen to their Cassandra cries.

"Apostasy was a crime as well as a sin, and the apostate was damned both in this world and the next. His crime was treason — desertion and betrayal of the community to which he belonged, and to which he owed loyalty; his life and property were forfeit. He was a dead limb to be excised." Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out

Muslims are allowed to deceive non-Muslims if it helps Islam.For non-Muslims this principle, called Taqiyya, is another surprising concept of Islam. While most other religions speak highly of truthfulness the Qur’an instructs Muslims to lie to non-Muslims about their beliefs and their political ambitions to protect and spread Islam.There are many examples of today’s Islamic leaders saying one thing in English for the Western press, and then saying something entirely different to their own followers in Arabic a few days later.

Deceiving the enemy is always useful in war, and Islam is at war with the non-Islamic world until the whole world follows Shari’a law. All non-Muslims living in non-Islamic states are therefore enemies. So deceiving Westerners is totally acceptable — even encouraged — if it can forward the goals of the spread of Islam.

As a recent example, the Islamic American Relief Agency were seemingly raising money for orphans, but in fact giving the money to terrorists. They deceived good-hearted Western infidels into giving money to organizations that were actively killing Western infidels.

Do the research yourself; this is not an isolated case.

"Islam as a religion of peace.Muslim organizations worldwide often declare that Islam is a religion of peace, but what does that really mean? It seems easy for a Muslim to quote a peaceful verse from the early parts of the Qur’an while, by following the principle of Taqiyya, neglecting to mention the fact that it has been officially abrogated by later, more violent verses.According to the Qur’an the world will be at peace only when Islam and Shari’a reign in every country — and never until then. This is why every Muslim can truthfully say that Islam is a religion of peace."

If any of these points took you by surprise — then there is surely much more you still don’t know.This subject WILL affect you in the near future, so take the chance to inform yourself now, before it does.

http://www.citizenwarrior.com

Are these simply racist scare tactics hammered out by right wing hate mongers? Does it not seem reasonable to find out? Reading the Qur’an and noting that America is at war with Jihadist terrorists throughout the world might make one wonder. Apparently, some states take the problem seriously as they are taking preemptive actions against Shari’a.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4342-states-take-preemptive-strike-against-shariah

One thing is for certain, denial has no survival value.

Of the 6 threats I see against our American way of life, we have covered two. Let’s turn our attention to number 3: The apathy of Americans and the failure of the clergy to rebel. And remember that each is more immediately destructive than the one before it.

1. The pouring of significant numbers of illegal aliens across our southern border.

2. The infiltration of Islam and its credo to change all governments to Shari'a law.

3. The apathy of Americans and the failure of the clergy to rebel

4. The Jewish intellectual, entrepreneur, and media

5. The Obama administration and the liberal progressives behind them

6. The ignorance of the bulk of the American people. That is: Obama is the prince of fools.

America, A Muslim Nation?


“There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists; we don’t need homicide bombers. The 50+ million Muslims (in Europe) will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.” Muammar al-Gaddafi

Former President Bill Clinton has told an Arab-American audience of 1,000 people that the U.S. is no longer just a black-white country, nor a country that is dominated by Christians and a powerful Jewish minority.

In a speech to the group on Saturday, Clinton said that given the growing numbers of Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups here, Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president.

Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage and that in an interdependent world "this is a very positive thing."


We fear terrorists. We fear that they will strike America again. It is only a matter of time. But do they need to do so to accomplish their mission to spread Islam throughout the world? Not so if Gaddafi is correct. Is President Obama correct when he says that we are not a Christian nation, that we are not a Jewish nation? While one suspects that he made such statements to woo the Arab world, does he know something we don’t? Does he foresee the future and is trying to make it easier on us? Is Bill Clinton correct?

The fact is, not just Obama and Clinton are saying this. The entire Muslim world and their clerics are saying it. And it sounds as though two of America’s presidents are willing to bow to such insanity.

Almost every country in the world is producing below the sustenance level required to keep their people from becoming extinct. Muslim Demographics It is so bad, in fact, that in many countries the trend is irreversible. Europe, for example, is increasing in population but not because of the birth rate of its indigenous people. It is increasing because of immigration, primarily that of Muslims whose birth rate is far above the 2.2 minimum number of children required per family to sustain and regenerate an indigenous people. When family size falls below that, a people and their culture begin to die. In less than 50 years, the European Union will be a Muslim state, and Europe, for all intents and purposes, will cease to exist. According to Clinton, it will happen here in just 41 years. If you just had a child, both he or she and your grandchild will live in a Muslim dominated nation. Will women be allowed to drive, teach, have jobs? Will they be required to wear burkhas? Will they have to die if their family sees something they perceive as dishonoring them? Will you see stonings in the streets? Will you see people with severed hands because they stole something? Will you see a rise in legal polygamy?

The Spanish have acquiesced to the Muslims by allowing polygamist marriages, something they previously saw as immoral and uncivilized. Paris has 200,000 polygamists. This and other trends such as honor killings have taken hold in many European countries with such intensity that they cannot be rid of them. There are now more Mosques in parts of Europe than there are Christian churches. And while Muslims work tirelessly to convert people to Islam, there are dire consequences for Muslims who convert to Christianity.

What is sustaining the American population? Immigration from Mexico of course. The Muslims believe they can overtake and dominate the world through immigration, procreation, population, and infiltration. It is interesting to note that many Mexican American leaders believe they can overtake and dominate America the same way. It is frightening to realize that when they do, America will be just like Mexico and the Middle East. In the throes of poverty, illiteracy, and fraught with drug cartels and militant radicalism, they will take civilization back to the 5th century.

Americans, Canadians, and Europeans are occupied with self. They want the good life, a bigger house, a better neighborhood, the BMW, the swimming pool, and 30 day vacations to Bermuda. They also want personal autonomy and less personal responsibility. One way to achieve that is to have less or no children. And besides, it is good for society to ration resources to maximize the longevity of the quality of life. If the population of America begins to match that of China and India, those resources that provide us the good life will become scarce.

Entitlements, welfare, union pensions, and a spiraling trade deficit have America in dire straits that many do not see or fully understand.

America has seen a paradigm shift in the past fifty years. The divorce rate is beginning to exceed the marriage rate. Single parenting and abortion are on the rise. A disregard and even disdain for our public faith and icons continues to grow. In my travels in many parts of the world, I can say that America has the fattest people in the world. There seems to be a lack of national pride and even self pride. Where did it go?

“The erection of a new government, whatever care or wisdom may distinguish the work, cannot fail to originate questions of intricacy and nicety: and these may, in a particular manner be expected to flow from the establishment of a constitution founded upon the total or partial incorporation of a number of distinct sovereignties. ‘Tis time only that can mature and perfect so compound a system, can liquidate the meaning of all the parts, and can adjust them to each other in a harmonious and constituent whole.” Publius

Several years ago doctors told patients with allergies that it would help their condition to move to Phoenix, Arizona. And it did. But as the years went by, Phoenix became a haven of pollens that now cause some of the worst allergies in the country. Why? Because those people with allergies who followed their doctor’s advise and moved to Phoenix brought their baggage, namely their pet plants, with them.

Another such similar thing happens when people from the west and east coasts, eager to shed themselves of the city and its fast paced and stressful life style, move to the beautiful and tranquil rural towns of the Rocky Mountains. They suddenly realize that the conveniences, such as unlimited amounts of water and electricity, they had previously enjoyed are either not there or are frequently disrupted. They bring themselves angrily to the town meetings, demanding that the services they were accustomed to be provided. Unhappily they find that small towns don’t have the funds for them to resume their cushy live styles.

And so it has become with much of America. People from other countries come here because some (apparently) seek prosperity, some seek liberty, and some seek relief from an oppressive and tyrannical government. Some seek violence against America. They did so in many other Western countries as well, to wit, England, France, and Denmark to name a few. But they brought their baggage with them and with it the demise of what they sought. Some refuse to assimilate, learn and speak English, abide by our laws, and expect what they have not earned. They expect America to change her ways to what they left behind. And with it they change America into what they, supposedly, wished to escape. Their baggage is full of pollens: Fundamental and radical religious practices that are oppressive and demeaning, cultural differences that are counter productive to life in America, and the idea that America should change to suit them. And now, with a vocal liberal faction and administration, the promise is being made that Americans will do just that.

The dictionary carries several definitions for the term Diaspora. The most common definition being the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel from the sixth century B.C, when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time. Another definition is the dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture. Americans fought for and built a language and a culture that saw them through 200 years of prosperity, unity, economic stability, and a fierce pride that made it the most wealthy and powerful nation on earth. It was dedicated to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It was dedicated to allowing individuals to pursue their dreams. It did so partly by demanding personal responsibility of its citizens. One is rewarded by one’s efforts. At least we all hope for and believe in such a society, even if it is often run by corrupt leaders.

That is changing, just as our new president stated so many times during his campaign speeches. His administration caters to those who envision big government being the panacea to all their ills, where everyone is equal regardless of one’s efforts or one’s idea of personal responsibility.

Chaos is an attribute of human nature. The founders of this country understood that and tried with foresight and eloquence to enact rules that would, through the ages, hold chaos to a minimum. Morality cannot prevail without a certain respect for human nature. Understanding that utopia is not possible renders us secure. To dilute our culture, to make that which helps us maintain an upper hand available to our enemies, to try to appease them with obsequious gestures, to denigrate the military and those who continue to believe strongly in the ideals and values provided by our public faith will surely put an end to what we were and what we are.

A reverse or imploding diaspora may be an apt description of America today. Instead of being sent “out of”, we are being dispersed from within.

The Taliban have imposed their harsh brand of Islamic law in the Afghanistan under their control. The Taliban say their version of Islam is a pure one that follows a literal interpretation of the Muslim holy book, The Koran.

Under Taliban laws, murderers are publicly executed by the relatives of their victims. Adulterers are stoned to death and the limbs of thieves are amputated. Lesser crimes are punished by public beatings.

Yes, you say, but such abuses and barbaric practices are not a part of our culture. No? There were approximately 5000 honor killings in America over the past few years. Do Muslims believe in such brutality?

“An Egyptian Arab Muslim father in Dallas, Texas allegedly shot his two beautiful teenage daughters to death because he disapproved of their American-style ways. Their names were Amina and Sarah Said and their father’s name was Abdul Said. The girls looked sassy and full of life; they looked like Dallas teenagers. They were 17 and 18 years old and their friends considered them “geniuses.” Abdul was a taxi driver. (In parts of Europe, taxi drivers are known to aid and abet honor murders).
“Perhaps how Amina and Sarah dressed, and how they thought, shamed their father Abdul. He was no longer in control of his women—a mark of shame which provoked his need to kill them. Perhaps their flowering sexuality enraged him because it made him desire them—and from this he concluded that other men might desire them too and if he could not have them, no man could.”

“In the CBC documentary, a clear distinction was made verbally: "honor killing" is not an Islamic practice. One of the women interviewed also mentioned this. This is a cultural one. It was even mentioned there are Jews and Christians in Jordan who engage in this sick practice.”

But if you believe that, read what the second woman pictured at the top of this blog says about it in the second link below.

Shira law has found its way into England and Denmark. There are hints of following suit in this country, and of allowing schools to be disrupted 5 times a day for prayer to Allah, for atheists and Buddists to decry America’s public faith, for America’s melting pot to become more like oil and vinegar, for liberal ideals to convict conservative values as radical extremism, for allowing the vote by convicted felons, and for convicting those with any common sense who think one ought to be responsible for one’s actions.

And now, if you believe as your founding fathers did, we are labeled racists, radical extremists, and a danger to American society.

http://www.sullivan-county.com/wcva/index0.htm
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id4/honor_killings.htm

In the next blog, we will take a close look at Mohammad, the Koran, Sharia Law and how Muslims the world over are expected to follow its barbaric practices. We needn’t look at radical Islam. The moderate position is fearsome enough to American culture and values.

De Oppresso Liber


“The Statue of Liberty (originally called Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La Liberté éclairant le monde)) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of American independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States.” Wikipedia.

I am ex-Special Forces, better known to some as Green Berets. They have a motto that appears on most of the insignia they wear: De Oppresso Liber. It means: Free the Oppressed. It is an expression of the American psyche of wanting freedom for all, and in the case of the military, fighting for it.

Many would write: We are a nation of immigrants and the children of immigrants. We welcomed the world’s tired, poor, and huddled masses for decades. It inspired a Frenchman to design and build the prominent reminder in the most conspicuous place in our nation, New York Harbor, to pay tribute to that noble attribute of our character.

Statue of Liberty National Monument
Emma Lazarus’ Famous Poem
A poem by Emma Lazarus is graven on a tablet
within the pedestal on which the statue stands.

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

But that is entirely backwards!

Emma’s poem did, in fact, reinvent the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world as a result of a woman who was inexhaustible in petitioning to have the Emma’s poem immortalized some 17 years after the completion and dedication of the statue. While the statue’s intention was one of international republicanism and liberty, it became one of mass immigration.

The term ”immigrant” is often used incorrectly. For Americans to say that we are all immigrants or the children of immigrants is wrong. The original colonies were “settlers.” Immigrants were later inhabitants that were expected to conform to the institutions set up by the original settlers, our founding fathers. I am the great, great grandson of a man from Denmark. My relatives have left the Danish language far behind, and I know no one among them who now speaks it.

In the beginning, immigrants were primarily of European descent. But that has changed considerably over the decades (Specifically, since 1965). Now those from the Middle East, Asia, South America, Mexico and other countries make up the majority of immigrants.

In every country that I am aware of, immigration is a law enforced undertaking for myriad reasons. And immigration without respect for or not obeying the law is illegal by definition. But the legality of immigration is only a small part, and I venture to say, the least significant part, of what has become an increasingly grave problem. It is not simply a matter of the law in many cases.

A nation remains strong by its adherence to unity, cohesiveness, its shared values, and goals. E Pluribus Unum is not a fickle logo on our coins. Nor is “One Nation Under God.” While “From many, one” denoted the original 13 states answering to one government, it has come to mean far more. They are expressions of our exceptionalism. We have one language that facilitates not only our communication with one another, but binds us together as a holistic entity, with a common government binding us all. If one is a citizen, one needs to communicate in English. To not do so is an affront to one’s citizenship and to the American goal of our national unity and sovereignty: We-The-People.

Thus, one attribute of the problem appears to be assimilation. But is it not a symptom of something more sinister? Most ethnic groups immigrating to America are simply not assimilating, nor do they appear to have any intention of doing so. That tends to move us toward a growing factional ethnic diversity that pulls the nation’s cohesive structure apart. The result is a continual weakening of our country. Is that weakening intentional? And is it from within?

One has to wonder why the rush to become American or to migrate here. Of course, we think we know the answer. They have a three fold motive. Because the pickings are better here than where they came from, which begs a second part of that motive in the form of a question: Why do we have something that other, more depressed, countries don’t have? The second motive is illegal drugs. Because we buy them, they will do anything to sell them to us. Anything! The last motive is because they wish to infiltrate out country to do violence. But again, is this a matter of appearance and perception or something else? Why does our government refuse to do anything about it, to protect its own?

This rush to cross the border based on motive has increased on what was once a linear scale. But now, they are flooding the gates like a dam that has broken. We fund this invasion through our own tax dollars and a sympathetic shoulder as those who employ them feed off the slavery of oppressed souls.

The great majority of these people are not only oppressed but for the most part illiterate. But with help they can fill out a ballot. They are told how and for whom. They represent a huge potential voting block that will vote because they understand what it means to have an empty belly, cognizant of what it means to be oppressed, and they like the promises that are made to them. Unlike many Americans, they are certainly not apathetic, bathing in the fruits of some half forgotten laurel, riding the waves of their fortune in a bright, new BMW. They know that voting and radical activism will bring them closer to that same car. But … is that the real reason?

They are also aware (suspect) that America is soft if not cowardly. They know (believe) that America will not stand up for herself. Like a high school kid who arrogantly uses profanity to his teacher because he knows (discerns) there is no longer any accountability, Mexican nationals in this country defiantly parade the Mexican flag while burning the American flag. While they willing accept and use our tax dollars, they show a blatant disregard of us, for our laws, for our nation. Their disdain for us is more than apparent. A great many of them believe America owes them reparation, in fact, almost the entire south and west coast all the way to Oregon.

The flood is reaching epic proportions. There are basic considerations here. Are you willing to sacrifice your children for the good of those unfortunates from across the border? Helping the oppressed can be a noble undertaking. But is it noble to endanger and oppress your own family and fellow citizens in the process? And what is that danger? The quality of life of our youth is marginalized. Danger lurks with gangs, drugs, kidnapping, rape, murder, competition for jobs, and liberal concepts that weaken America. Will we allow them to take over the country in some desperate and miss begotten idea of De Oppresso Liber?

The flood of people from across the border is also undoubtedly an intentional act of both the Mexican and American governments. Revenue for the US as well as Mexico, both of whom need the income, continues the flow of the often illiterate and poor. This is advantageous for both governments. Because of this it emboldens those who live near the border to encroach on the US for various reasons, much of which is not only illegal but violent. While at the same time it dilutes our own hard earned standard of social and civilized quality of life. And the cost to the tax payers is tremendous.

While our government is willing to send hundreds of thousands of military troops half way round the world to fight in countries that are far from our borders, we allow our southern border to be overrun. Why is that? Are you getting it? Let’s use the trick of being obtuse to provide clarity.

One might ask the question “Do we exist?” A first year analytical problem for students of philosophy. We might confuse, by oversimplification, the issue by suggesting simply that we perceive things by sensory data, the argument resulting in the belief that we do, indeed, exist. But we know that things to do not exist in exacting forms. For example, a banana is yellow in the light but black or very dark yellow in the dark. Our perception of the banana changes. Without sensory perception, does the banana exist? The man who is color blind perceives the world around him differently from the man who perceives what he believes to be color. We are energy, yet energy is not matter. We are atoms and molecules between which is space. Regardless of the outcome of our fruitless analysis, we do perceive fright, anger, and danger and hope to react accordingly. Our perception of data is sometimes intentionally manufactured by external forces. Media, for example, purposely manipulates both the data input to our brains and the way in which we perceive it.

Perceptions of social issues can be applied by the intelligentsia in much the same manner, giving us the idea that things are not as we see them. We apply analogies, clichés, and such platitudes as “Eating the elephant one bite at a time until the elephant is gone.” In much the same manner, we believe we perceive what we cannot prove and, as well, believe it in some indescribable form.

Our own government is adept at manipulating what we perceive. The progressive left is as well. And the two have melded together. Of the six threats against the USA, much is allowed by altering our perception of reality. And that is an intentional key to our own demise.

We are told by the Republican Party and conservatives to leave social issues alone until we have changed the guard and gotten a handle on the economy. But in the meantime we allow another several years of other threats to dig in deeper and impose their will on our society.

This concept of social perception engineering will appear again and again as we look at the 6 threats against America. Political Correctness only touches the surface.

Johnson’s 1965 decision to sign the bill that eventually and inadvertently opened the flood gates to immigration is but one symptom of an underlying conspiracy to destroy traditional America. His bill actually was an effort to demonstrate America’s fairness. In fact, he specifically declared when signing the bill that the days of mass immigration were over. The bill was used by others to transform American society as we well see in another of the six threats.

The truth of the matter is that American opinion is severely manipulated.

Denial has no survival value.

Bling


It’s 2 am and I am at it again. Maybe it’s because I’m retired and the hours in the day aren’t as productive as they used to be. Maybe it’s because I’m obsessive compulsive. Whatever the case, my mind becomes fixated on things and begins to wander. Let me tell you what is on it this time … as if you cared,

It is on my grandchildren. Although to preface my remarks, I think the reason is a bit strange because most, if not all, will be adults when I am dead. Thus I seem to be caring about a future I will not be here to see. Maybe it is not so strange because I see the purpose of human life is to procreate, nurture, and provide for one’s own.

And that is precisely the reason I am up at 2 am. Alternatives keep rolling around in my head. But these alternatives only come to life by providing some background. So let me do that first.

One cannot deny that there are forces about that are hard at work trying to destroy the America I grew up in. And here I must confess the possibility of my naïveté. I see my life as one of immense freedom compared to that of citizens of other countries, of glorious potential for those who are willing to work hard for it, of common sense values and expression, of a haven of safety for me and mine. In a word, I am an exceptionalist. And I will also admit that I am of Anglo-Protestant stock. I am married to a Hispanic and have both Hispanic-Anglo and Korean-Anglo children. We all adopted one another, and we are all Americans.

I see us being under attack from several fronts. This attack is from without, but primarily from within. It is unrelenting, vicious, and will eventually be successful if the status quo of our defense is sustained. There is some evidence to believe that it will be successful even if it is not. The reason is simple: There are no real attempts at defense. In fact, just the opposite.

Which brings me, via a very circumferential route, to my point. I first became aware of a modern vernacular called Bling about 2 years ago. I had little idea what it meant, but after a time began to have a glimmer of its meaning by inference. It is window dressing. It is gaudy jewelry, flamboyant attire, façade.

I live and work in the south. Life here, for the most part, seems unaffected by what we hear on the news. Almost all the cars are new. Pickup trucks glimmer with expensive paint, little BMW and Mercedes cars have become common place. We have paved roads, concrete spiraling buildings, cafes, shops, malls, glitter. Nothing seems changed. It is affluent America as usual. It is bling.

Something is fermenting below the surface, hidden beneath the bling. Is it the illegal immigration problem that is costing America dearly? Is it the economy that is destroying lives elsewhere? Is it the tenuous market? Is it the myriad affronts on our Constitution? Is it the neo-progressive idealism of some utopian world order? Is it a government bent on becoming a behemoth that feeds on itself and all that it governs? Is it the underlying threat of Islam and its growing efforts to install Shari’a law? Is it the Jewish control of the media? Is the apathy of the Christian clergy to do nothing to rebel against the affronts upon it? Is it just a matter of the ignorance of people toward and about what is happening?

Below the surface there is decay. Let me use an analogy. Imagine a large concrete slab on ground. We walk on its surface and feel the solid stability of it under out feet. We feel secure. The surface is familiar and although not particularly attractive, it represents safety, something apart from the fickleness of mother earth. All is well. But unknown to us there is a void in the ground below the surface. Over time, the void begins to enlarge, bigger and deeper. The slab was designed to be supported by the ground upon which it sits. There comes a time when the slab cannot support our weight without the ground below it. Suddenly, and without warning, the slab fails under our feet, giving way suddenly, catastrophically. Bling. The slab was bling. It hid what was really going on. It hid the decay below its surface, an unseen menace.

How long does it take for the decay below the surface to result in failure? I have this feeling that my life will not change with catastrophic collapse. But I am afraid that my children and their children will be caught in a situation that they cannot control, that they cannot run from and cannot survive. For what we see on the streets and in the cafes and in the malls and all around us is bling, façade, surface tinsel, glittering with a relentless suggestion that all is well.

But some do see it, and some are doing what little they can about it. The question is whether or not it will have any affect. Let us, for just a moment, analyze the various and immediate alternatives. Let us, for simplicity sake, assume two opposing outcomes in the coming elections of 2010 and 2012. First, say the Democrats are able to retain control of congress and the administration, both of the nation and of the majority of the states. Second, let us assume the alternative, that is, that the Republicans win those seats, and in fact, conservatism is restored to the political arena.

The bywords of the struggle, such as Patriots, are good, but they do not represent reality. They represent hope. They are bling. Why?

Certainly, if the status quo of a Democratic majority run government retains power, this country becomes a socialistic state. It will spiral downward on a quickened pace. I think we all know that. Some like the idea. Some don’t understand it.

How much better is the situation if we are able to restore conservatism to the all the houses, both Federal and State? I will venture an educated guess: Almost none. Why? Because over the past 100 years the psyche of the American mind has been altered. We are not proactive in defending ourselves, but instead reactive. Because the American people have been made to be irrelevant. It no longer is an America of the people. Those in positions of power no longer listen to or care what the people want or think or object to. They are a club that listens to its peers, not its constituents.

I see 6 primary threats to our way of life and culture. I have ordered them as 1 being the least threat to 6 being the greatest … in my opinion. Some will disagree with the order. Some might add more. Unfortunately, a great many will not agree.

1. The pouring of significant numbers of illegal aliens across our southern border.
2. The infiltration of Islam and its credo to change all governments to Shari'a law.
3. The apathy of Americans and the failure of the clergy to rebel
4. The Jewish intellectual, entrepreneur, and media
5. The Obama administration and the liberal progressives behind them
6. The ignorance of the bulk of the American people. That is: Obama is the prince of fools.

Without resorting to the current set of buzz words, let us, in future, explore each in turn.

All Gave Something. Some Gave All.

I am writing this because I can’t get it out of my mind. Thing is, I don’t think you should get it out of yours either.

I was at a large hardware store picking up bolts to attach plywood over my windows, a somewhat futile attempt to keep the pending hurricane out of my living room. As I was standing there, I noticed a young man coming toward me with a cart full of 2x4’s, apparently supplying himself for some building project. He was maybe 25 years old, very good looking, about 5’-7” tall. His hair was cut short. He was wearing a black T-shirt and khaki shorts. He was a bit on the stocky side but not fat.

On his right leg he wore a prosthesis, a type I had not seen before. He walked without a limp. I watched for a moment, noting the concentration on his face as he pondered the hardware he was going to need.

I continued looking at him, wondering, but trying hard not to stare. He passed me, and as he did, I noticed writing on the back of his shirt. It was somewhat faded and difficult to read. Above it, however, I could barely make out the small picture of a soldier in camo, wearing a helmet, and holding a rifle. I began thinking that my suspicions might be correct.

I came up behind him and put my hand softly on his shoulder, just to the side of his neck. He stopped, turned, and looked at me.

“How did it happen?” I stupidly asked.

“How did what happen?” He replied.

I simply pointed to his prosthetic leg.

He smiled broadly, comfortably, without shame or displeasure or pride or self pity.

“A rocket in Baghdad. It’s funny. About 6 months earlier we got hit by an IED. It threw my head forward into the back end of the 50 cal and I split my lip. They gave me a Purple Heart for that. I felt kinda stupid. Then, during a firefight, a Rocket Propelled Grenade hit me in the ankle.” He pointed to where the ankle had been. They had removed his leg to the knee.

“What branch were you in?” I asked.

“The Army.”

“Me too”, I said, “Special Forces during Vietnam.”

“No kidding, I was in Delta.” He said, as a huge smile crossed his face. He was obviously delighted to be talking to a brother.

I clasped his hand, and we both squeezed hard. His smile was broad and genuine with not a flicker of bitterness. His eyes gleamed with a pure love for life.

“At least it is over with now.” I said.

“No, I’m going back.”

I could not believe what I was hearing. “You mean they will allow you to go back?”

“Yeah. I will be leaving soon. Two tours under my belt and leaving for a third.”

I put my arms around this valiant young man and held on. He held me tightly as well, and we embraced for long moments there in the front aisle, neither of us caring what people thought. He owed no one. But all Americans owed him.

I asked him why not stay stateside. He had done enough, had given enough.

“I love my job, and I want to return to my buddies.” Again, that broad, handsome smile. He had beautiful brown eyes like my grandson’s that gleamed with happiness and a zest for life.

I looked down at his hands. They were sensitive and strong. I saw no ring.

“This thing is not a problem. I don’t mind it at all.” He said, quite unabashedly.

We turned and walked toward the checkout stand and the young lady waiting there.

“Are you from Corpus?” I asked.

“Yeah.”

“Try to stay safe. Promise me.” I said, wanting to ensure myself that he would be ok, that he would not lose other parts of his young self or his life. I wanted him not to go. I wanted no one to go. I didn’t want my grandson’s to follow him, to fight on foreign soil, to be hated by his countrymen like we were after coming home from Southeast Asia. I didn’t want the war to end and for those who we fought for and against to return to their tribal barbarism as they had for centuries and this man’s life to have been altered for nothing, for his comrades to have given their precious lives for nothing.

“I will.” He replied.

I passed him on my way out as he stood, waiting for the clerk to process his hardware and wood. And as I left, I heard him say behind me.

“Thanks for your service.”

I can’t get this gallant, beautiful young man out of my mind. As I have grown older, I find my behavior deplorable. I get angry at the traffic, the street lights, the long lines, the days of boredom, of technology that becomes obsolete every 6 months, of kids whose minds are unaware of their surroundings because of it. But I have my legs.

I am angry because our society seems to be devolving: Tattoos, rap music, gangbanger clothes, the endless, mindless reality shows on TV, the overpaid entertainers and ball players, the American people taking life for granted, expecting what they did not earn, a Commander in Chief who ravages our country with an ideology that is opposed to what America is. And yet, as our young sacrifice their lives and limbs for us, and as I find myself angry at all that is around me, this hero of our nation smiles and tells me:.

“Thanks for your service.”

All I could think was: If I ever had any shred of valor, it was stolen from this young man.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

George McGovern

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

General Douglas MacArthur

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

Older men declare war. But it's the youth who must fight and die!

Herbert Hoover

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All are silent, unheard clichés to this young warrior. He is an American soldier, and he had given his leg for us, no matter the right or the wrong of it, no matter the debates, no matter the talk of heads bobbing in unison on TV. He had given as they talked, and he would give more.

“Thanks for your service.” He said as I walked away. Can you believe that?

I can’t get this young man out of my mind.

Nor should you.

Squeezing Out the Heartland

America, as countries go, is a relatively young nation. It has been thought of as a last frontier, an expansive land grab, an Anglo/Protestant strong hold, and a nation of lasting liberty. Liberty is a strange word, one that takes not only getting used to but difficult to define. In many ways it is simply philosophical, in others it is pseudo-political. People see it differently, often depending on where they were born, where they live, their religious background, or what they do to sustain themselves and their families.

As the nation grew, more and more people gravitated to the cities. Both legal and illegal Immigrants head for or land in the city. The east and west coasts continued to grow, acting like magnets, drawing our youth into their clutches. People born there become dependent on and used to the asphalt trails, the concrete monoliths, the cutie pie parks and smart little places to eat, and, finally, they have no idea how to survive without them.

I was born in the country where people were farmers, ranchers, or those who serviced them. But farms and ranches can only sustain so many people. The youth are often forced out because the land can only be divided so many times until it can no longer provide enough income for families to survive. Some young people want to escape the land. It is either too difficult or too boring. The city offers excitement and opportunity.

When I was a young man, the growing, the caring for, the harvesting, the packaging, and the shipping of farm or ranching products took everyone in the community working together to be successful. Now, machines have taken over much of the work of several humans. The young have no work and no choices left to them but to move on. Small farmers are forced out as the more savvy entrepreneurs buy up their farms. They must move or spend their lives servicing the big guy for often less than minimum wage.

The Heartland is not just farmers and ranchers but welders and craftsmen and non-union labor and engineers and dentists and … and in a phrase, the nation’s most productive.

Many of the young from the interior of America see education as their salvation. That opinion is not without merit. As the country develops and keeps pace with society and their incessant demands for technology, military strength, material possessions, and services, people are drawn to the city, the universities, or end up sparring, sometimes savagely, to stay afloat within a wasteland of social misfortune.

In effect, the population of the interior of America shrinks as the cities grow. Those who live in the city begin to forget their origins and the frontier and the pioneer spirit that found America. And the education (system) they sought to better their lives leads not back to the Heartland but to the ideology of socialism, relativism, and the idea of some utopian fantasy world and away from the founding principles of our country.

In the last election for President of the United States, the winner’s votes came not from the Heartland, but from the city. They came not from the Anglo/Protestants, but from those who feel themselves disenfranchised by them. They came not from those who live off the land, but from the inner city minorities who cannot find work or who refuse to work. They came not from the land but from the interior of the universities whose professors have free reign to train our youth in the ideology of socialism, liberalism, and Marxism. They came not from those who toil to put bread and meat on our tables, but from those who entertain us with an ever increasing loss of moral direction. Some just wanted a change from the previous administration.

As corporations become larger, buying up or forcing out the little guy, the wealthy become more wealthy and the poor, poorer. Our new president offered a way out. He offered change. This change, as it turns out, is the redistribution of wealth. Of course the so called disenfranchised, the minorities, the labor unions, and the liberal left see this as the right, the virtuous, and the idealistic direction of change. And so they voted for him. And in doing so, they are effectively Squeezing Out the Heartland.

What is wrong with this logic? Is it fair, is it moral, is it not a disgrace to have the nation continue on a course of separation between the ever increasing depressed poor and the absurdly rich? And how can this be fixed? By bigger government, forced regulation, more powerful unions, increased taxation, and communist enclaves of course.

Squeezing out of the Heartland is also squeezing out not only our Christian heritage but Christianity itself. The move to secularism is accompanied by a move to less allegiance to our moral character. Our country is slipping away from us. Christians are suffering throughout the world simply because they are Christians. Africa south of the Sahara, Indonesia, parts of Pakistan, the whole of the Middle East, and many other countries are forcibly extricating or murdering Christians en masse. Our Christian brothers are becoming some of the most poverty stricken, depressed peoples on the planet. The depths of their faith mean certain death in many parts of the world, and yet, they refuse to deny their faith. As Jesus died on the cross, many find the strength to follow him.

How can we as Americans do less? But let’s be practical. History teaches us that the change the President pursues is not sustainable, efficient, or even prudent, to use a rather lame term. Humans, much less nations, do not thrive under either communism, secularism, theocracy, or the tyranny of forced regulation. Many call America the last great hope. They rely on us to not falter, to not give in, to not placate, to hold strong in the face of the absurdity of liberal platitudes that through the insidiousness of political correctness become law.

I wrote in a previous blog that the Tea Party movement is an “Old White People’s” movement. Does it not stand to reason why? Most of them are or were part of the Heartland; it is part of them, their character, their way of life, and most are Christians of strong faith. But this same spirit fills the hearts of most Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians as well. Most are Christians. Most are those who have worked hard for what they have. Unfortunately, people of different ethnic groups tend to their own. Thus, the forces against the administration and their actions do not seem as strong as they actually are.

In a phrase, the Heartland is awakening and fighting back. They see the trend of increasing government and know instinctively that it is wrong. They see the adulteration of the free market system and understand it as coercion against human nature. They see an apologetic foreign policy and are stunned by its misunderstanding of fact. They see their country being run and regulated by people who they did not elect to represent them. They see the corruption of the money changers who produce nothing, extracting wealth from the Heartland with tiny bits of incomprehensible paper.

The people of the Heartland are angry.

They see the Heartland being squeezed out. And, rightly so, they have come to take America back.

They are beginning to understand that denial has no survival value, and that all that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

"..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."--Samuel Adams

Wind Turbines

Worse than Healthcare

In the last blog, I murdered the spelling of Pelosi with Peloci. I also called Hamilton’s article 33, article 13. Even my computer’s spelling editor caught the misspelling of the Senator from California’s name. One has to wonder how many such errors can be found within a bill that is approximately 2,000 pages long? And what sorts of new regulations on our individual rights can such a gargantuan document place?

People are understandably upset by such intrusions. But there are much more substantive and intrusive forces about. One of them is the new Green Doctrine. The economic, political, and philosophic ramifications of this hungry beast far outweigh the disastrous effects of Obamacare. It will, in fact, ruin our great nation, literally bringing it to its metaphorical knees.

While it is true that humans have an affect on the environment, and while there are many things we must do to protect it, the environmental activists and the political “elites” are only years away from destroying the greatest nation on earth. In their insanity, they have made a commitment to the world that we will phase ourselves out of coal and oil in favor of “clean energy.” The sound of that is glorious, self sacrificing, philanthropic almost, and certainly virtuous and socially moral. Isn’t it?

I often drive cross country and have for 50 years. The landscape is changing dramatically. It is almost other worldly, reminding me of some far out sci-fi movie. Wind turbines scar the land for miles. The port where I live has stacks of gigantic propellers, large columns to support them, and I often have to pass them on the road as their population continues to grow exponentially. By the year 2030, wind, solar, and biofuel projects will consume land equivalent to Minnesota to produce the energy we now get from oil, gas, and coal. The proposal to site wind turbines off shore to replace coal, oil, and gas would require 336,000, 3.25 MegaWatt behemoths off our coasts. From where will come the tons of concrete, steel, copper, and fiberglass to install the expensive, unreliable, subsidized monsters?

Gas fired power plants putting out 555 Megawatts consume just 15 acres in California while their 13,000 wind turbines impact 106,000 acres, destroy scenic vistas, providing expensive, tax-subsidized, intermittent, insufficient electricity. Billions of federal dollars are diverted to the renewable power industry every year, yet the industry still cannot come close to producing power anywhere near as economically as conventional fuel sources such as coal and gasoline.

The list goes on, particularly the efforts to reduce carbon emissions and the war on CO2. When alternative energy fails to provide continuous, economical, and reliable power, the nation will neglect the low cost energy resulting from coal, for example, until the lights go out and all industry migrates to Asia and our power bills will soar. It will then be too late to prevent great harm to our national economy, our jobs, and our lifestyle.

Credible scientific evidence has established that CO2 from mankind has little impact on temperature and none on public health. The net result of CO2 limitations will be a transfer of wealth and the ceding of more authority to the United Nations as a global government. This will bring control, tax, and bureaucratic meddling, telling us the kind of car to drive, our destination, and our food miles accrued in our choice of food.

Global warming has been shown to be a farce, the model shown to have used an incorrect model that did not correlate the new temperatures with the old. The studies now show that 1934 was the hottest year with 1998 and 1921 being second and third respectively. Eight of the 15 hottest years in the past century occurred before carbon dioxide began its recent rise.

Russia and China are, at the same time, increasing their production of coal. Thus, efforts to cut CO2 emissions are useless.

Thirty one thousand American Scientists signed a petition drafted by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine which stated: There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or the other green house gases is causing or will in the foreseeable future cause catastrophic heating of the Earth Atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.

Subsidies given to develop renewable energy sources such as wind power are a license to print money for their operators at the expense of the rest of us. Companies promote green products that may be little more than gimmicks, but can be very profitable.

The United States government budgets $6 billion a year for climate research, supporting a growing industry of scientists and university labs that specialize in the subject. It all adds up to a significant institutionalization of the impulse to treat carbon as a problem. This finances jobs, grants, conferences, international travel, and academic journals. It not only keeps a huge army of people in comfortable employment, but also fills them with self righteousness and moral superiority regardless of the fact that real science did not support it.

For example, commercials abound that picture the poor polar bear’s demise. Yet, polar bears are up from 8 to 10 thousand in 1960 to 20 to 25 thousand now. Still, the polar bear has been listed as a species threatened by global warming.

Most of what has been written thus far is not the work of the author of this blog, but that of Jay Lehr, Ph.D. and Science Director of the Heartland Institute. It was written for and presented to the Ohio Legislature. I assume it can be found on the web under his name, and I urge you to read it. My obligation was to put his words in quotes, but that became burdensome as I continued to quote and paraphrase his paper, the title of which is: SIGNIFCANT EVIDENCE THAT MANKIND HAS AN INSIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE CLIMATE OF PLANET EARTH.

His paper brings to light the kinds of money, bureaucracy, and hedemony being thrust upon us by our leaders in just one avenue of their efforts. Combine this with Obamacare, immigration reform, stimulus and bailouts, the takeover of large segments of our private and corporate industries, the new programs to help those whose mortgages are about to fail, the transportation incentives, tax increases, and a plethora of other ills on our nation spells disaster to anyone with a shred of common sense. But when did our liberal universities ever turn out graduates with such a thread?

And now, to top it off, the government is working on a plan to install RFID chip technology into the bodies of every American. This chip will carry all medical data and … Who will resist this intrusion? Who will accept it?

All this and more from the first President who refuses to sign the certificates of new Eagle Scouts or to serve as their honorary president since the BSA’s inception in 1916, an organization that has stood for the best of American virtue.

Denial has no survival value.

A Special Forces Medic treats tuberculous patients in Southeast Asia


But it is said that the laws of the Union are to be the supreme law of the land. But what inference can be drawn from this, or what would they amount to, if they were not to be supreme? It is evident they would amount to nothing. A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association. If individuals enter into a state of society, the laws of that society must be the supreme regulator of their conduct. If a number of political societies enter into a larger political society, the laws which the latter may enact, pursuant to the powers entrusted to it by its constitution, must necessarily be supreme over those societies, and the individuals of whom they are composed. It would otherwise be a mere treaty, dependent on the good faith of the parties, and not a government, which is only another word for POLITCAL POWER AND SUPREMACY. But it will not follow from this doctrine that acts of the larger society which are not pursuant to it constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residuary authorities of the smaller societies, will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such. Hence we perceive that the clause which declares the supremacy of the law of the Union, like the one we have just before considered, only declares a truth, which flow immediately and necessarily from the institution of a federal government. It will not, I presume, have escaped observation, that it expressly confines this supremacy to laws made pursuant to the Constitution; which I mention merely as an instance of caution in the convention; since that limitation would have been to be understood, though it had not been expressed. Publius, Article 13, Federalist Papers

USURPATION

The Federal and States Governments are the largest employers in the U.S. Pelosi has designated 111 new bureaucratic departments to run healthcare and its spinoffs. Each is estimated to require upwards of 6000 employees across the nation. That adds 666,000 new employees to the Federal Government’s roles. It will, as well, force the addition of more State’s employees.

Apart from that, a great many people are without jobs. America’s economic basis will now become incumbent on 30 percent of the rest of the nation to provide tax dollars through productive work to support the remaining 70 percent. That 30 percent will, of course, slowly begin to deteriorate. It is said that this cost will be transferred to our children and grandchildren. We know better. Our children will not be able to pay.

America will be comprised of three classes: the super rich, the impoverished, and the government. Since the government will not have the funds to continue operating, they will begin to nationalize the corporations. The super rich will relocate to escape this action and to remain alive. Some will find refuge amidst the American socialist oligarchy. The march toward total socialism will escalate.

America will no longer be the world’s superpower or the last great hope for the oppressed. The Constitution will be manipulated, overridden, and finally become mere dust in the archives of some forgotten, underground cave.

Greece will fall, once again, into ruin. The Israelis will be forced to bomb Iran, Socialist America will partner with Venezuela, Mexico will fail as a nation, Germany will once again go to war with the EU in an effort to protect their geographical vulnerability. The currency exchange will be foiled by China who will enslave us all. Russia and China will side with Iran to save their oil interests and eventually go to war over it. The tyrants in North Korea will bomb California and Alaska because they can. The Islamic fundamentalists will take advantage of world chaos.

Illegal immigrants will be provided with amnesty. Those 12 million will bring their families to the US, raising their numbers to 30 million. The ratio of the illiterate and uneducated will skyrocket. This will slowly ebb as they realize they can no longer plunder the wealth of a nation also in economic collapse, all while Obama throws worthless money at those who deserve it least.

The socialists and liberal progressives will wonder what happened. The super rich entertainers will lose their jobs and their fortunes, something that is already becoming apparent. The ridiculously overpaid athletes will scream as their fans realize food and shelter are more important than watching tattooed men kick or throw air entrained leather around.

In the midst of all this, the Tea Party movement will transform themselves into an underground organization planning revolution or giving up in defeat.

Governments will nationalize the food industry. America, the great consumer, will be forced from technology to agriculture to feed themselves.

Are these predictions as good as anyone else’s? If one reads STRATFOR and the international intelligence community’s analysis, one realizes they are not that far fetched.

If Obama can snub and insult the Prime Minister of Israel and Castro can laud the signing into law of Obamacare, how can any prediction be that far fetched?

Obamacare is taking from those that have and giving it to those who have not. Even the Senator from Montana calls this chasm “maldistribution.” Welcome to Marxism folks!

When Hamilton wrote Article 13 of the Federalist papers, did he have any inclination that Nancy Peloci, Harry Reid, and 220 of their comrades would so blatantly disregard every word?

Red Square - Moscow


All Red Cards

I have a strange addiction. I hate playing cards, but for some inexplicable reason when engineering calculations, writing, and watching the nation being destroyed puts my mind in gridlock, I double click Solitaire on my desk top. It is an effort to turn myself off for 5 minutes. I do this repeatedly. Over the years I have learned that when the cards are first dealt, I can’t tell if I am going to win, but I can tell that I am going to lose. For example, when the computer deals all red cards, it will be a losing battle.

It strikes me that our government, the Federal Reserve, and the bureaucrats have dealt us all red cards. Red. Does that strike a note?

I will again revert to Hegel and Kant, that reality is simply the construct one makes of it. Facts do not represent reality, so why not make of it what you will. While I agree that what we see, touch, feel, and hear do not represent reality but only what the mind makes of it, one should be pragmatic enough to prevent complete chaos within society. There were times when our leaders made a valiant attempt to curtail such chaos. If Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are left to their devices, that will come to an end, rather it is coming to an end. In other words, they are trying to change the US to suit their own construct. Many believe in Utopia, think it is possible, and hope for it. Many people understand that is not possible and every attempt to establish it has failed, even among the Mormons in the small town of Orderville, Utah. People are not equal in any respect with the exception of being of similar protoplasm. Thus, equality is a forced attempt against the nature of humanity. Yet, the attempt continues.

The Texas Board of Education (or some such) has inserted in our children's textbooks that we are a Republic. People are screaming about that and want it changed to read Democracy. This, I believe, is a result of two things: 1. Many people think we are a Democracy and have not the foggiest notion of a Republic, what it is, or that we are supposed to be one. 2. Taking up the banner that we are a Democracy plays into the hands of the Socialists and the New Left Revolutionary's construct. At least until people realize that Democracy, Liberalism, and Socialism are not synonymous terms.

If they can rid themselves of the concept of a Republic, we will no longer be governed by the rule of law and the Constitution but by the tyranny of their new construct for the US. We will be governed by the whims of the "elite." They can do this in part by denying funding to the states and to those who disagree with their regime, ridding the Supreme Court of Conservatives, and influencing the court’s decision making. They are no longer Community Organizers; they are States and Individual Organizers. It is apparent to them that the Constitution is simply a barrier to their construct. They want us to believe it continues to oppress the poor; depress the middle class, and benefit the wealthy. These are not an egalitarian concept. Thus, usurp them and the Constitution. But I have this notion that this is all a front. I don't believe that either Reid or Pelosi understands that. I think they are simply too stupid to really know what the end run of their efforts will be.

I think there is another construct brewing that we have not yet understood or come to grips with. There are several factors at work. Far from Democracy or the Rule of Law, it is becoming the Rule of the Minority. The religious are being replaced by the secularist, an inorganic state of flux and chaos. The Anglo majority is being replaced by the collective minority of Blacks, Middle Easterners, and Hispanics. Social norms are being replaced by the Left, Gays, Pro-Abortionists, Gun Control advocates, and etc.. Society is becoming a wasteland of discontent and disharmony. The fabric of the nation is beginning to rot and crumble. The Constitution is becoming simply a scrap of paper, and the nation may find itself at the heels of Communism.

Political Correctness paints a broad brush over any attempt to thwart them. The groundwork has been laid in our schools, an indoctrination so insidious that it is not noticed. While people labor to provide for their families, the progressives continue their assault through art, entertainment, education, and politics, adulterating our institutions as they go. Since the working man has not the time to understand the issues and what's happening, their liberty is being undermined. The police and the IRS have become authoritarians. Question them, even on a Constitutional point, and you find that such a confrontational attitude will be smacked in your face. Take it to court and your life's work will be destroyed. Thus people hide from such confrontation, or they are permissive out of a stupidity they see as good will.

A friend made the observation that: " He [Obama] is a New Left Revolutionary intent on destroying America as a representative republic and replacing it with an Orwellian worker's paradise Big Brother type utopia. His Star Chamber of Czars are a government in waiting. Obamacare, Cap and Trade, and his many other initiatives will transfer power from the Congress to the Czars, power to enforce and regulate. Power not authorized by the Constitution exercised by men not elected or confirmed by the Senate or the House. There will be no legal restraint on their actions and they will move with lightning speed to consolidate their authority and power before the ink has dried on the legislation. "

But is our government, the Obama’s, the Pelosi’s, and the Reid’s really controlling America? Is theirs the real hegemony depleting what little liberty you have left? It most certainly is not. Big time politicians come and go. But the FED and the bureaucracy not only stay but grow, controlling currency and the economy, and making laws and demands on the common citizen over which he has no control and even less knowledge of. Thousands of nonelected bureaucrats sit in their offices daily, working tirelessly to regulate, dictate, and punish the free market system and individual liberty in as many ways. The FED and Wall Street stuff their pockets with money they don’t earn. It is one thing to work hard and get rich in a free market system. It is quite another to do so by cheating the system without an ounce of productivity that enhances our economy or our integrity as a nation. The FED has locked us out of controlling them by taking us off the gold standard. And you think you are free? The Federal Register publishes 69,000 pages of regulations every year. The administration doesn’t have the time to read them, veto them, or regard them in any way. Their time is spent on TV, speeches, ridiculous committee meetings, trying to ram Obamacare, etc. down our throats, and apologizing for America’s past attempts to help the rest of the world’s oppressed.

Has anyone read the Federal Register? Could anyone understand if they did, could a team of lawyers? No damned way.

Our liberties were being bombarded, assaulted, restricted, and manipulated long before this Marxist regime took office.

Below is a couple of links you might enjoy. The first the Federal Register, the second is a great inspirational message, the third is about states making laws that do not allow the Federal ATF to interfere with their guns and ammo. Five states have passed this law, and many are following. And last, the groundswell.


http://bit.ly/FedReg15Days and http://bit.ly/FedReg2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE&feature=player_embedded


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=128035


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=937746