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Is There No Bottom to This Pit of Lies and Corruption?

by Doug on September 23, 2009 · 0 comments

in Barak Obama, Cowardice, Obama Administration, Official Lies, Politics, Socialism, The Constitution

politicalmavens.com published an article entitled “Dems will stoop to any depth to tar Obama critics”  By Mark Davis

In the article, the author brilliantly illuminates the pusillanimous effrontery of the slanderous attacks by leftist politicians, commentators and media on critics of the policies of the Obama administration. Mr. Davis skillfully develops the theme voiced by Thomas Jefferson when he said, “Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”

…sometimes losing in the political arena brings out the lowest depths of behavior. This sad fact is on display now in the form of the slanderous mischaracterization of President Barack Obama’s critics.

Even before his election, there was speculation of how much negative reaction there might be to his ascendancy – and how much might be based on bigotry. Fair enough. It remains an intriguing question: What effect will a black president have on racism, and what effect will racism have on a black president?

But as soon as the Obama agenda met opposition, presumptions arose about racist motives.

Let’s stipulate that among Obama’s detractors are some folks who just don’t like black people. That’s self-evident. But it is a reckless leap to assert that his skin color is a major driving force behind the political challenges he faces.

I first heard this from black scholars and activists with an obvious agenda of painting America as far more racist than it is. ~~~

Guilt-ridden whites on the left soon joined the chorus, realizing this was a handy device to discredit conservatism as racially tinged.

When the president’s health care plan met strong opposition from town halls to tea parties, its advocates stooped first to insulting denial, asserting that the outpouring was not mainstream passion but some peculiar product of fringe paranoia. And that was only the beginning.

As it became clear that the number of Americans objecting not just to Obamacare but to other Democratic big-government urges was growing, guardians of that agenda brought out the big guns: It’s because he’s black.

The falseness of this ploy is exceeded only by its gutlessness. The last debate tactic of the scoundrel is to falsely wave off the opponent as unworthy of engagement. Tar the opposition as racists, and they don’t even deserve a place at the table of rational debate.

Jimmy Carter famously gave in to that temptation, joined by pundits like Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, who invented from thin air a racial motive for Rep. Joe Wilson’s infamous outburst as she sought to dismiss anti-Obama sentiment as bigotry-driven.

Anyone stupid enough to buy that argument is saddled with the belief that the Americans who have recoiled from the notions of socialized medicine, government-run banks and auto companies and trillion-dollar debt would have embraced such outrages if only they had come from a white president.

In a nation where black America loves Ted Kennedy and white conservatives love Clarence Thomas, it has long been clear that politics dwarfed race long ago.

Perhaps sensing that the race-baiting was not succeeding, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now seeks to ramp up the calumny with her forlorn recollections of the 1978 killings of Harvey Milk and George Moscone in San Francisco, seeing a similarly murderous flavor in the tone of opposition to Obama.

Shame on her and anyone engaging in this contemptible behavior. Whether it is exaggerating the prevalence of racism to explain the president’s troubles or using a few admittedly unhinged critics to smear the opposition as assassins-in-waiting, these are the tactics of desperate souls.

It’s curious, considering the one-party rule they currently enjoy. Even when these people are on top, nothing is beneath them.

It is very disorienting to discover that our government cannot be trusted.  I have, in times past, questioned the competency of our government, but never its intentions or motives.  It has become apparent that we are now governed by politicians who cannot be trusted to adhere to their oaths, and who share dark agendas that violate our Constitution and threaten our liberties.  Our country is now in the hands of those with no respect for the values upon  which it was founded and made us the greatest nation on the planet earth.  This realization, not the color of Mr. Obama’s skin, is what motivates the widespread dissent from the policies of this administration.

Please read Mr. Davis’ entire article at:
Dems will stoop to any depth to tar Obama critic

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Just give ‘em the grass!

by Doug on September 11, 2009 · 0 comments

in Barak Obama, Big Government, Communism, Economics, Freedom, Liberty, Obama Administration, Politics, Radicalism, Redistribution of Wealth, Socialism, Taxes

It seems that a pillar of the Obamagenda is the redistribution of wealth. To be fair, I admit he warned us of this during his campaign. However, as one who has worked all his life to earn a living, I find this concept abhorrent.  I consider myself to be in good company in this matter.  Thomas Jefferson himself observed:  “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”  That my friends is just common sense.

However, if Mr. Obama would confiscate what I have earned to give to others of his choosing, I beseech him to refrain from the ruse of first running the seized funds through huge socialist, government-run programs.  There, of course, bureaucrats, legislators, politicians, insiders and just plain thieves each siphon off their chunk leaving the remainder to to be sifted through the inefficiencies inherent in any government run program.  The result is that the supposed beneficiaries of Mr. Obama’s generosity receive only the dross that dribbles out the other end and I am left wondering why I work so hard.

Skip the pitiful attempt to legitimize this armed robbery by forced taxation! Give them the grass Mr. President, not the horse crap that results when you process the grass through the government horse!

Why ruin the economy of a perfectly good nation and condemn it to the historical scrap heap of failed socialist states a few decades hence?

Just give ‘em the flippin’ grass!

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This Just In … Obama Is a Leftist!

by Doug on September 3, 2009 · 0 comments

in ACORN / COI Watch, Barak Obama, Big Government, Broken Promises, Czars - The President's Men, Freedom, Health Care, Liberty, Obama Administration, Politics

JewishWorldReview.com published the following article by Larry Elder, Author of the book “Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card–and Lose.” In the article he tells of a friend who wrote “Now I’m truly scared.” after she watched Fox News’ Glenn Beck’s series on the “alarming number of far-left radicals the President is surrounded by” — referring to some of the President’s special advisers and “czars.”

President Barack Obama, my friend tells me, is “a true left-winger.”

So, now she knows.

She didn’t know after the President signed the $800 billion so-called “stimulus program.” She didn’t know after government takeovers/bailouts of banks, insurance companies and auto companies.

She didn’t know after Obama campaigned in favor of protectionism by promising to unilaterally change free trade agreements, such as NAFTA, or after the inclusion of “Buy American” provisions in the “stimulus package.”

She didn’t know after Obama campaigned on government-run health care or after he said during the campaign that “if starting from scratch,” he’d implement the Canadian single-payer system.

She didn’t know after Obama stated his goal to impose job-killing and price-hiking “cap-and-trade” business taxes to fight “man-made global warming.” (Never mind the vigorous debate in the scientific community about the degree to which — or even whether — human activity is the cause and whether it makes more sense to deal with the effect of a slight warming than to undertake costly and likely ineffective measures to stop it.)

She didn’t know after Obama’s plans to “invest” to “create green jobs” of the future or after he moved oversight of the next census from the Department of Commerce to the White House (in order to increase the number of minorities so that government money can follow).

She didn’t know after Obama sided with black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and turned the professor’s altercation with Cambridge police into a microcosm of the alleged widespread problem of unlawful “racial profiling” against blacks; after Obama spent 20 years in a church led by a smoke-coming-out-of-the-nose, America-bashing “spiritual adviser”; after Obama’s selection of an attorney general who called America “cowardly” on matters of race; after the AG’s refusal to indict members of the New Black Panther Party for seemingly clear voter intimidation; or after Obama’s selection of a Supreme Court justice who many times claimed her gender and ethnicity make her superior to a “white male.”

She didn’t know after a proposal by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to cap executive pay — for both those businesses that receive taxpayer money and those that don’t; after Obama’s promise for a government-provided “world-class education” to all who want it; or after the Cash for Clunkers program, under which A helped pay for the purchase of a car for B.

She didn’t know after Obama promised to sit down “without preconditions” with enemies like the president of Iran and the head of North Korea; after Obama slammed Israel for building or expanding settlements, with nary a word about the daily rockets landing in Israel from the Gaza Strip; after proposals to reduce spending on missile shield defense; after the AG appointed a “special counsel” to determine whether workers at the CIA — during the Bush administration — should be prosecuted for using Justice Department-approved techniques to interrogate terrorists (despite a previously undertaken investigation by career prosecutors and over the objection of the current CIA head); or that the term “war on terror” would no longer be used.

She didn’t know after the public support of leaders in the Democratic Party — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former presidential candidate John Kerry — for the reinstatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” to provide ideological “balance” over the airwaves; or after Obama, while publicly opposing the reinstatement of the doctrine, appointed an FCC “diversity czar” to pursue the same objective: squelching conservative talk radio.

What does it take for some to wake up?

When Obama publicly asserts that some corporations, including “Big Oil” and medical insurance companies, make “obscene profits” (they don’t compared with many other industries) and that his “compensation czar” will look into executive compensation, what does that tell you? When he argues that medical insurance companies need a “public option” (before public opinion forced him to back away from it) to keep them “honest,” what does that say? When he arrogantly claims that fighting “global warming” and tackling the “health care crisis” are not just moral imperatives but also necessary to keep our economy robust (?!), what does that show?

Voters last year elected a left-wing former “community organizer” with one of the Senate’s most liberal voting records. He seeks to take the country — over the growing resistance of even those who voted for him — to an idealized world of government-guaranteed equality of outcomes. He wants a government-guaranteed “level playing field” of wealth redistribution via taxing those deemed to have too much.

Obama’s goals are open, blatant and confidently asserted, backed by a filibuster-proof, supermajority, Democratic-controlled Congress. There is no Big Secret, no subterfuge, no bait-and-switch.

This is who and what he is.

It is truly amazing what it takes to awaken some very intelligent people to the truth! The truth is that our U.S. government is riddled with leftist radicals, communists and socialists that are pursuing a central planning agenda and seem to be prepared to force it upon a nation of freedom loving Americans no matter what the cost.

Please read the entire article and other great material at its source:
This Just In … Obama Is a Leftist!

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Profoundly Immoral

by Doug on September 1, 2009 · 0 comments

in Barak Obama, Big Government, Broken Promises, Freedom, Government, Liberty, Obama Administration, Official Lies, Saving Our Country

jewishworldreview.com published this article by Thomas Sowell under the title “Suicide of the West?” In it, the author quotes Russian Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.”

He then explores how the Obama administration “epitomizes the ‘concessions and smiles’ approach to countries that are our implacable enemies.” He makes some great but frightening points:

Britain’s release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people — is galling enough in itself. But it is even more profoundly troubling as a sign of a larger mood that has been growing in the Western democracies in our time.

In ways large and small, domestically and internationally, the West is surrendering on the installment plan to Islamic extremists.

The late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put his finger on the problem when he said: “The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.”

He wrote this long before Barack Obama became President of the United States. But this administration epitomizes the “concessions and smiles” approach to countries that are our implacable enemies.

Western Europe has gone down that path before us but we now seem to be trying to catch up.

Still, the release of a mass-murdering terrorist, who went home to a hero’s welcome in Libya, shows that President Obama is not the only one who wants to move away from the idea of a “war on terror” — as if that will stop the terrorists’ war on us.

The ostensible reason for releasing al-Megrahi was compassion for a man terminally ill. It is ironic that this was said in Scotland, for exactly 250 years ago another Scotsman — Adam Smith — said, “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

That lesson seems to have been forgotten in America as well, where so many people seem to have been far more concerned about whether we have been nice enough to the mass-murdering terrorists in our custody than those critics have ever been about the innocent people beheaded or blown up by the terrorists themselves.

Tragically, those with this strange inversion of values include the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder. Although President Obama has said that he does not want to revisit the past, this is only the latest example of how his administration’s actions are the direct opposite of his lofty words.

It is not just a question of looking backward. The decision to second-guess CIA agents who extracted information to save American lives is even worse when you look forward.

Years from now, long after Barack Obama is gone, CIA agents dealing with hardened terrorists will have to worry about whether what they do to get information out of them to save American lives will make these agents themselves liable to prosecution that can destroy their careers and ruin their lives.

This is not simply an injustice to those who have tried to keep this country safe, it is a danger recklessly imposed on future Americans whose safety cannot always be guaranteed by sweet and gentle measures against hardened murderers.

Those who are pushing for legal action against CIA agents may talk about “upholding the law” but they are doing no such thing. Neither the Constitution of the United States nor the Geneva Convention gives rights to terrorists who operate outside the law.

There was a time when everybody understood this. German soldiers who put on American military uniforms, in order to infiltrate American lines during the Battle of the Bulge were simply lined up against a wall and shot — and nobody wrung their hands over it. Nor did the U.S. Army try to conceal what they had done. The executions were filmed and the film has been shown on the History Channel.

So many “rights” have been conjured up out of thin air that many people seem unaware that rights and obligations derive from explicit laws, not from politically correct pieties. If you don’t meet the terms of the Geneva Convention, then the Geneva Convention doesn’t protect you. If you are not an American citizen, then the rights guaranteed to American citizens do not apply to you.

That should be especially obvious if you are part of an international network bent on killing Americans. But bending over backward to be nice to our enemies is one of the many self-indulgences of those who engage in moral preening.

But getting other people killed so that you can feel puffed up about yourself is profoundly immoral. So is betraying the country you took an oath to protect.

That seems to describe the current administrations approach to everything from foreign policy to health care reform, to relations with Israel, to communication with the American people: “profoundly immoral”. Combine that with a pandering congress and an opposition that is afraid to stand up for what is right and call these abominations what they are, and America is in real trouble! This time, as it was the first time in 1776, and in every crises since, it is up to ordinary Americans like you and me to step up and preserve our liberties and save our Republic.

Please read this article as well as other great material at its source:
Suicide of the West?

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Judge Andrew Napolitano: Everything the Government Runs is Bankrupt!

by Matt on August 28, 2009 · 0 comments

in Big Government, Freedom, Health Care

Judge Napolitano discusses the difference between government planning and private enterprise.

…and now they want to run health care.



You can track the healthcare bill here: H.R.3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

More Health care Coverage on Liberty’s Army

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In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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Thomas Woods: Lectures on Liberty

by Matt on August 27, 2009 · 0 comments

in Big Government, Economics, Federal Reserve, Freedom, Government, Liberty, National Debt, Official Lies, Revolution 2.0, Saving Our Country, Second Amendment, States' Rights, Taxes, Tea Party, Videos

Tom Woods addresses 1,000+ on August 15, 2009 in Galveston Texas at the “Lectures on Liberty” event.

Thomas Woods: Lectures on Liberty – Four-Part Video:

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Warnings From the Grave

by Doug on August 27, 2009 · 1 comment

in Big Government, Freedom, Government, Hope for America, Liberty, Politics, Saving Our Country, Second Amendment, States' Rights

The men we have come to revere as our founding fathers were strong, opinionated, ordinary men. They didn’t think of themselves as heroes, yet they saw what needed to be done and did it regardless of the personal risk and sacrifice involved.

They must have wondered on many of those long lonely nights away from their lovers and their children if their sacrifices would ultimately be worth while. Surely in those lonely moments of doubt, they must have imagined the challenges, we, their posterity would face. Would we have the courage and the wisdom to face them and prevail? Would we be willing to pay the same price they did to preserve liberty for ourselves and our posterity?

They had charged ahead to the point of no return to the status quo. They had become criminals in the eyes of the lawful government of the land. They were condemned to lives as a fugitives and soldiers when they were really farmers and tradesmen.

I find their ability to imagine our future and plan for it in the constitution they adopted amazing. Clearly they saw our day and recorded warnings and encouragement for us to see at the times we would need it most.

Here then are some timely warnings from our firebrand forebearers, revolutionaries and trouble makers all. I will let them speak for themselves, warnings from the grave:

First and foremost these men feared the potential for evil that government holds. They mistrusted government in general and encouraged the same of us Government was to play a very narrow, controlled role in our nation:

George Washington:

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments

John Adams:

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

And finally, Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least.

They also generally mistrusted those who would step forth and seek to govern, understanding that by its nature the very power vested in government would attract the wrong kind of person.

George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

John Adams

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Thomas Jefferson:

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.

There was no mistake in the minds of these men the role that the second amendment was to play in keeping us free. The purpose of an armed citizenry is to protect itself from the tyranny of its own government!

George Washington

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.

John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.

Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

We must listen to these men and heed their warnings. The nature of men and governments is unchanging. Our founders experienced oppression, felt the chains and were determined that we never would!

Our precious liberty was fought for and purchased with the blood of men and women whose names we may never hear. And as Jefferson predicted, the tree of our liberty has been nourished with the blood of heroes and tyrants from time to time since then.

The soils of Europe, the sands of Africa the atolls of the pacific, the jungles of Asia, and now the rugged terrain and desserts of the middle east are all stained with the blood of brave Americans who stood with our founders and shouted “the liberty of my fellow countrymen and our posterity is more important than my very life!”

God help us to see clearly and honor their sacrifice. Help us to stand up to any would be tyrants that threaten our liberty and disdain our constitution. Help us to successfully crush any who would rob our children of the great legacy that has been bequeathed to them through the blood and sacrifice of patriots throughout the existence of our great land. Help us not to be the weak link that breaks this divine chain of liberty, the last great hope of the world.

What are you doing to protect your posterity and to save our country? Tell us here.

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U.S. As Miss Congeniality?

by Ray on July 26, 2009 · 1 comment

in Media

Step aside, Sandra Bullock! Barack is coming atcha!

In what is likely to become regarded as President Obama’s crowning glory, the world press (including our own MSM) has widely reported that a recently released Pew Research Poll shows that the “World” loves us much more with Obama as President than it ever did before.

Woo-hoo!!! Let’s all run out and buy something Chinese to show the world our appreciation! Here are some sample headlines:

ABC News: “CONFIDENCE IN OBAMA LIFTS U.S. IMAGE AROUND THE WORLD.”
San Francisco Chronicle: “Poll: U.S. image abroad surges under Obama”
Dallas Morning News: “World opinion of U.S. improves since Obama’s election”
USA Today: “Obama’s ‘rock star’ persona boosts U.S.”

No shock there! What’s not to like about the America of Barack Obama’s dreams? With the exception of the Brits and the Israelis, we could expect most of the “world” to rub their collective hands together with glee and break into a rousing rendition of “It’s A Wonderful World” at our demise. France would gladly exhume and return the bodies of all Americans who died saving French derrières if, in so doing, they could be relieved of any future perceived obligation to say or even think anything nice about us. In spite of (and maybe even because of) our billions spent on foreign and humanitarian aid to the rest of the world, we are still much despised.

But you know all that already! It doesn’t surprise you in the least that what our “rock star” president has brought us (in addition to near double-digit unemployment; unprecedented assaults on our Constitution; record-setting debt and deficits; and a clear path to socialism–illuminated by the fires of Healthcare Hell) is a warm and fuzzy feeling from the rest of the world.

What you might not know and what might just surprise you, however, is that according to that same Pew Research Poll, the Muslim world now has more confidence in Barack Obama than they do in Osama Bin Laden. Interesting.

That, of course, begs the question: confidence that our president will do what? What was it they previously had confidence in Bin Laden to do? Do they view Barry and Bin as sharing the same goals and aspirations, but put Barry a step or two ahead of Bin along his career path?

For my part, though I hate to disrupt the pageantry of the moment, I wouldn’t trade one ounce of my children’s birthright and future as Americans for all the pounds of “world praise” that either BO or BL could heap on my plate.

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Libertarian with a Small “L”

by Doug on July 4, 2009 · 3 comments

in Action, Revolution 2.0

I hate to say this, but I have come to believe it. Those who object to America’s quantum leap to the left and the frightening ability our government has acquired to restrict or eliminate our liberties seem to be depending on the GOP to step up and save our country. If that is our plan we will likely fail.

A little recent history from the 40,000 ft. view: after eight years of the Clinton administration the Republicans were swept into power, controlling the white house and both houses of congress. They came in with a “move-over-we-are in-charge-now” arrogance that nearly wrecked our nation and eventually led to our current predicament. They fractured the Republican “contract with America” that had returned them to power in the 1994 congressional elections and assumed their rightful position at the career politician’s feeding trough. They behaved not as the Reagan “less-government-is-good-government” conservative saviors but more like Tax and Spend Liberals taking their turn at the trough and tossing around the pork.

Now the real patriots of America depend upon the party of Specter, Powell, Sanford and McCain to step up and save our liberty. There are some very good Americans that wear the Republican label, and truth be known there are many good Americans who wear the Democrat, Libertarian, and Independent labels also. Labels and party machines however will not save us.

Why are so many of these good Americans with the “correct labels” standing silently by when our constitution is being trampled and the government is positioning the power to place their boot upon our necks without further warning? (Police State U.S.A?) Where is the public outrage from these label wearers over the shameless pay-off to ACORN for fixing the 2008 elections? Pay-off from taxpayer funds, by the way that will make ACORN the fourth largest US government contractor in the nation at $9 BILLION (behind the big three defense companies, Boeing, Lockheed and Northrop). Where are the shaking fists at the pending adoption of a economically disastrous Cap and Trade policy aimed at what may well be a manufactured climate crisis created for personal gain? How about the absence of pointing fingers as an unprecedented increase in the M-1 money supply baffles economists who have no history upon which to project economic consequences? What about our country’s new willingness to throw our friend Israel under the bus and acceptance that Iranian nuclear capability is inevitable and none of our business, when we know exactly what those nuclear bombs are destined for? All this with no screams, just politics as usual.

We need people with the courage and selflessness to stand up uncompromisingly and SHOUT “THIS IS WRONG!” THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL! THIS IS UNAMERICAN! Most of all we need someone with the courage, credibility and vision to stand up and shout “FOLLOW ME! I WILL LEAD AMERICA BACK TO THE FUTURE. I UNDERSTAND AND REVERE OUR CONSTITUTION AND I WILL PRESERVE PROTECT AND ADHERE TO IT! WE ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE A FREE PEOPLE JUST AS IMAGINED BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS! FOLLOW ME AND TOGETHER WE WILL BRING AMERICA TO ITS REBIRTH AS THE BEACON OF LIBERTY TO THE WORLD!

Can any public figure who wears the self-awarded labels of “patriot”, “conservative” “Republican” or “Libertarian” who has remained silent, who has not screamed in outrage stand now and presume to lead us?

Recently I saw in a Bio statement (the author of which I am not able to properly credit) the following: I am a libertarian with a small l. Well that describes me too. I am not a member of the Libertarian party, although I agree with much of their platform, nor am I a member of the Republican Party or the Independent Party. The only labels I claim are that of Lover of America and liberty and an advocate of minimal government.

I am not unique in this. There are literally millions like me. There are enough of us to save the America we love for future generations yet unimagined. There are some big problems, however. We can’t seem to agree on anything beyond the basic principles. We know were we want to go but can’t begin to agree on how to get there. Too many of us are depending on some existing party organization to do the work for us. Too many of us look at self awarded labels and automatically trust the person hiding behind them.

If we want to save America we will have to do it the same way our Founding Fathers created it. We can’t do it sitting in our comfortable homes waiting for someone else to do the heavy lifting while we pontificate our individual philosophies.

Our Founding Fathers were willing to take any risk, endure any discomfort or inconvenience, and make any sacrifice. They actually made themselves into criminals fighting against the establishment. Many sacrificed their homes, families and even their lives.

Fortunately we are not to the point where we have to become criminals against the establishment….yet. Thanks to the wisdom of our founders we have legal options that they didn’t have. What we need now is unity and leaders. If we would save America and her liberties we need to find a leader with vision and courage to UNITE behind and do it FAST!

On this 233 birthday of America, join me in a commitment to see the America we love reborn. Let’s make it easy for the right leader to step forth. Let’s be sure we recognize him or her when they do. Yes, her. We may well leave our progeny talking about their Re-founding Mothers.

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Wolves, Bonfires, Vigilance, and Revolution

by Matt on June 18, 2009 · 4 comments

in Government, Hope for America

wolfpack2Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire. Consequently, travelers who found themselves away from cities developed the common practice of building a large bonfire and keeping it burning through the night. As long as the fire burned brightly, the wolves stayed away. But if it were allowed to burn out and die, the wolves would move in for an attack. Travelers understood that building and maintaining a roaring bonfire was not just a matter of convenience or comfort; it was a matter of survival.

The founding fathers understood human nature and they especially understood the nature of man with power. In a speech at the Constitutional Convention, James Madison said, “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”  Joseph Smith, a 19th century pioneer religious leader, once wrote:

“We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.”


Our Apathy is at the Heart of the Problem
So how do we citizens of the United States of America protect ourselves from the wolves that govern us? First, we need to recognize that we all bear responsibility for allowing the wolves to govern us.  thomas_jeffersonThomas Jefferson said:

“We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest — which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.”

Jefferson also said, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

We are a nation that enjoys prosperity and freedom.  However, we take these blessing for granted.  Many go so far as to feel entitled to them. Most of us are far removed from the day when all lives were touched by evil men.  Some spent their days fighting for freedom in the halls of government.  Many gave their lives fighting for freedom on battlegrounds.  Many fought for freedom in their homes teaching their children the true price of freedom.  Today we enjoy the freedom that was bought and paid for by great women and men.

The words of Samuel Adams should haunt every American of our generation:

“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them samuel_adamsagainst all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”

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However, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us, “Freedom is not free”.

The wolves are always lurking hungrily on the fringes of our liberty, impatiently waiting for us to fall asleep and let the fires of our vigilance burn low. Anxious to lull us into what promises to be a most fateful slumber, they make hollow promises as “evidence” of their good intent. What happens when the fires burn completely out? We are consumed by the wolves and the ashes of vigilance untended become cold comfort for generations to come.

Get Informed

After we recognize the problem and our part in it, we need to realize that we can and must be part of the solution.  So, what do we do to keep the bonfires burning and the wolves at bay?

Thomas Jefferson taught us to educate ourselves, our family, and each other. He said, “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Successful vigilance demands knowledge. As a minimum we should all read the documents that define our liberty: The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution and become familiar with how our republican form of government works. We can learn valuable lessons by studying the lives of those who led the way in our Revolution of 1776. To fulfill our duty as citizens, we must be learned enough to stoke the fires and defend our freedom.

What is your duty as a citizen?  To protect and maintain the freedom that you enjoy for future generations.  Thomas Jefferson taught that, “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”  We cannot let those bonfires go out.

kennedyIn his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy said, “my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”   It is important to remember that our country is NOT our government and that our government was created by the people that it governs. In his famous Gettysburg address, Abraham Lincoln said that our government is a “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”.

Patrick Henry teaches us a very important concept about our constitution which maps out our government. He said:

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

Discuss

As we become more informed it is then our responsibility to educate our children, and inform our family, friends and elected officials.  As informed citizens, we can be true patriots and keep our government in line.   Once again, Thomas Jefferson counseled, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

Most people feel that they can change nothing by themselves.  This is not true.  Jefferson said, “One man with courage is a majority.”  However, you’re not alone. There are many people who feel the same way that you do; people of all political persuasions.  Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, Conservatives, Liberals –all feel disenfranchised by their party and their government.  Most people sense that something is wrong with our government.

Meet with these folks.  Share your concerns, thoughts, and ideas with each other.  You will find that there is more that binds us than separates us.

Don’t start your discussions with issues that “divide” and remember that  disagreement is fine.  Debate is great. When dealing with stubborn people remember what these great quotes:

“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. — Thomas Jefferson

Be Vigilant With Elected Officials

Write your elected officials. Tell them what you think about the issues of the day. Let them know when they make mistakes or overstep their bounds. They are less likely to step out of bounds if they know that we are watching and they need to know that we are watching all the time, not just on election day.  Said Thomas Jefferson, “That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.”

Time For Revolution 2.0


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Protecting our liberties is not something that we can put off. President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
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Irish author Edmund Burke professed, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”



We must combine our efforts to protect our liberties and save our country for future generations.  Thomas Jefferson said,  “Every generation needs a new revolution.”

Our own Declaration of Independence declares:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Our first president, George Washington seemed to have been speaking to Americans of today when he warned, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”

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