New Names Don't Change Old Evils

ISIL / ISIS
Al Qaeda
Hamas
Taliban
Hezbollah
Syrian Rebels
The Muslim Brotherhood
Boko Haram

Shi’a this or Sunni that, bla, bla, bla. There is a different name for every local group in every corner of the world where muslims have become a large enough segment of the population to start feeling their oats. The same people adopt new names whenever their numbers grow large enough or there is new leadership or they think it benefits their cause to do so.

How many of these so-called “tiny minorities”, that naïve and willfully blind apologist emphatically insist “do not represent islam”, have to kill how many millions of people in the name of islam for how many centuries as commanded by the koran before people stop believing they are a tiny minority that doesn’t speak for islam?

Islam has been slaughtering, subjugating, and enslaving people ever since Mohammed fled Mecca where he was driven out by the pagans there to become a warlord in Medina. He changed from a peaceful lunatic to a murdering warlord in the late 7th century and his followers have been doing the same thing as commanded by his personal journal the koran in the name of allah ever since.

It doesn’t matter what new name you call it. They are the same people following the same murderous cult. So long as the Western world keeps falling all over itself in a politically correct stupor to blindly insist that this or that name is the real problem and not Mohammed’s murderous cult as a whole, the deadly cancer will continue to metastasize until it viciously kills everyone around it that doesn’t match its own evil DNA.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” – Sun Tzu

Past the Point of No Return

America has passed the point of no return. Yes, people can change and God does still do miracles, but American culture, our famous freedom, great wealth, and traditional morality are broken beyond repair. It would take at least a generation or two for our society to relearn, understand, and properly defend the basic natural rights and moral culture that formed America. Think that is a bit too harsh a judgment? Consider the following.


Our culture has been systematically compromised and redirected by a century of socialist and even flat out communist indoctrination. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D Roosevelt to Lyndon B Johnson to Jimmy Carter to Barrack Obama, Americans have come to expect government to provide more and more and the individual to be responsible for less and less. Worse, for decades our founding principles have not been defended with the same reasoning that gave them birth. Progressive, government-loving, liberty-hating attackers push out lies and straw-man arguments and the general public either swallows them hook line and sinker or they compromise and make tangent excuses for violating what once were solid principles. Every time, we move farther away from natural rights and personal responsibility to that of appeasement and entrapment. The candy we did not need was free at first. Then it cost a little liberty and a little money that we rationed away as minor inconvenience but it tasted good. Now, we think we can’t live without it, can’t afford it, and have enslaved ourselves to keep getting it.


Morality today is practically non-existent. Pop culture doesn’t allow it. It is so bad now that if you have any personal standards at all you are called intolerant and hateful. If you dare to expect that others who do business with you maintain even the most basic of moral standards that our culture has held since its inception, you are sued, and forced to comply with the demands of those who have no moral standards at all. If your display of traditional morality is picked up by the news media, God help you. You will be slandered and lied about on national television, boycotted, and financially ruined.


Speaking of being forced to comply: Why even have a congress or state legislature to represent the public and create laws for the people when everybody today cowers in fear and obedience just because a single unelected judge “rules” from his own opinion instead of adjudicating the laws as written? Why bother with laws when mayors, governors, and presidents just dictate what you can and can’t do with the stroke of a pen? Our society has become lawless. We live now at the whim of a judge or a mayor or governor or a president who each tell their personal shock troops to deploy their own set of decrees and regulations; laws and rights be damned.


Forget that our founding fathers warned about political parties for a minute. The people are too blind dumb and easily led around by the nose by lying politicians to recognize the differences. Those who actually stand for constitutional liberty and republic law are castigated as nut jobs by the two main parties and their lickspittles in the media. Half of Republicans are really Democrats and half of Democrats are really Communists. Why else would so many Republicans continue to betray their constituents and always compromise to the benefit of the Democrats? The official Communist party of the USA actually tried to sue the Democrat party for stealing its party platform (the goals of which have mostly already been met). All of this is made possible by American voters who have popularly elected a Marxist twice in a row now because more than half are just that far gone and the rest vote for politicians like they root for their favorite sports team. It doesn’t matter to them what the candidate is like as long as their team wins. This is how governments grow and liberty dies.


For decades, there has been an unchecked invasion of millions of illegal aliens who care nothing about our culture or our laws and have no desire to become Americans at all. They don’t have the first clue what a natural right is or what the responsibilities of freedom are. If they did, they would have fought for their rights in their own countries instead of fleeing from the corrupt lawless places they came from to bring that same caste-like helpless acceptance of permanent subjugation here. The US government allows them in to water down the American population’s cultural memory of resistance to tyranny and the public enables them for cheap labor. If it were only poor Latin Americans just bleeding off our wealth to send money back to their foreign homes that we had to worry about that would be bad enough. Muslims are now streaming in here like never before. We are letting people inside the castle now who hate us, do not want to be Americans, and will smile at you one minute and slit your throat the next. Our American culture and very way of life will be snuffed out by the hoards of non-Americans who hate us and are breeding like rats here in our own country while we aren’t even teaching the one or two kids we do have in divorced or single parent homes what it means to be an American.


But wait, there’s more. We also have an exploding 17 trillion dollar debt (world’s largest debt) that can never be repaid which makes every single one of us a slave to the federal government that is responsible for it. When you and I don’t pay the car loan or the house mortgage, the bank sends a tow truck to take the car away and the sheriff to evict us from our homes. The US government doesn’t just owe us our own money. They owe other countries and the Federal Reserve is actually a private bank that is floating the biggest blank check in the world. What do you think will happen when the 17 trillion dollar house of cards comes crashing down and the government can’t pay its bills?


Forget for a moment that wars are fought over money. 47 million food stamp recipients (double just a few years ago) will go hungry and millions more welfare check takers will be desperate pretty darn quick. The rapidly expanding number of retired baby boomers will stop getting the social security checks they were promised and those who are still working will see their paychecks evaporate as inflation and taxes take every penny they have. There is no “lock box” with your name on it full of the money you paid in over your lifetime. Current Social Security payments come from current tax payers. The current smaller generation is already supporting the larger last generation, the bums their own age who aren’t working, and the next generation who is being trained to accept handouts like candy on Halloween.


These are not problems that can be fixed by a president or a governor or a new law or a judge’s ruling. The nation has fundamentally changed. (one promise Obama actually delivered on) Flyover country is now run and ruined by completely corrupt East and West coasts and major cities along the way and is being invaded by millions of Americans fleeing the economic failures of more progressive states. If you are reading this and contemplating a move from North to South or from coast to interior, for the love of God, please don’t spread the cancer. Leave your progressive culture killing ways behind you.


The only solution for this level of cultural decay is to relearn what we have forgotten and teach a new generation by example what not to do. Maybe one day our children or grandchildren will be able to look back and write text books about us on just how important it is not to abandon basic morality to embrace depravity. Maybe someday their history books will again teach why it is so important not to give up a little freedom for a little security and take a hand out when you can get up off your butt and do things yourself.
 

The WWJD Argument for Immigration Reform

The WWJD Argument for Immigration Reform

 

The other day I was in a business meeting where the moderator of the discussion tried to relate to or impress someone on the other end of a phone conference by mentioning an article on immigration he liked. Then he made it a point to say that there were some “Tea Party people” in the room that needed to read it. I guess I wasn’t paying that much attention. I didn’t realize I had just been condescendingly insulted by a holier than thou “What would Jesus do?” attack.

Upon getting back to my desk I found an email from the moderator. It was the article that myself and a couple of other “Tea Party people” needed to read and learn from. It was entitled, “The Time for Immigration  Reform is Now” http://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/time-immigration-reform-now and it is chock full of PC friendly buzz words and catch phrases and appeals to authority all aimed at ignoring completely that the US has had immigration laws in place for a very long time that already invites foreigners to become Americans lawfully. It also completely ignores that our immigration laws are supposed to guard against admitting criminals, those with disease, the general degradation of our society, and people who never wanted to become Americans in the first place. Worse, it couples a dishonest political policy with misapplied quotes from scripture for justification and self sanctification. The bottom line of the article is, if you are a Christian, you should agree with them because God loves immigrants, He put the president in office, and they even used bible verses to tie it all together and make it sound like God’s divine will.

The immigration system is not broken. It is not outdated. It is not unjust or uncompassionate. The problem is that millions of people (including the federal government) have ignored and defied the law for so long that there are a government-estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens in the country who never went through the process of naturalization. This lawlessness has eroded our standard of living, endangered our citizens to violence and disease, and contributed to political and professional corruption as politicians and businessmen via for votes and new employees from a lawless group of people who are not even supposed to be here to vote or draw a paycheck in the first place. This whole mess is a result of the just and compassionate law not being followed in the first place.

We use to have a name for the place where foreigners could go to become citizens. It was called Immigration and Naturalizations Services. Today the place where that happens has been combined with Customs and is called Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We removed the word “naturalization” from the title and dropped the “enforcement”. Is it any wonder there are millions of illegal aliens who don’t respect the law, don’t speak our language, and don’t even want to be Americans?

So, what would Jesus do? It’s a great question and one we should all reflect on when making important decisions of moral and spiritual significance. Very often Christians rightly site the teachings and actions of Jesus as reason and recipe for how we should treat other people. In Luke 6, Jesus told us to treat other people the way we want to be treated ourselves. It doesn’t get any more simple and straight forward than that. If everybody lived like that the world would be a lot better place to live.

In that world without sin there would be no need for border security guards or fences. There would be no need for locks on doors, or walls and gates around communities. In a perfect world, there would be no need for laws to protect the innocent from the criminal. Trouble is we don’t live in that perfect world. Until Jesus returns to set things right, there will always be a need for basic law and order in any society.

What would Jesus do? Jesus forgave people. Don’t stop reading there though. He also told them to “go and sin no more”. Forgiveness comes through repentance. Show me the illegal alien who wants to become an American citizen by going through the naturalization process and I will show you the correct application of Romans 13 that was misapplied in that article the meeting moderator emailed me.  That illegal alien who genuinely wants to become a legitimate American should also be willing to get in line behind those honorable law abiding people who are already walking the “path to citizenship” that already exists.

What would Jesus do? Jesus rebuked the priests of his day who improperly used the law that was meant to free people to enslave them. Not unlike the politicians of today who call for reform of the very laws that they themselves have purposefully ignored to enable the creation of millions of illegal aliens who are held within view, but just out of reach of the American dream because they were never required to naturalize to our society.

Illegal aliens who are not criminals (other than defying our immigration laws), or diseased, and do not want to remake America in the image of their home country should be (already are) offered the same process of naturalization that other honest people have already undergone. This is not uncompassionate. It is not an undue burden. This is just and fair to those others who have done everything they were supposed to in the first place. If you want to become an American, become an American. If you don’t, leave.

How to Read

How to Read

With all of the progressive politicians, their propaganda media outlets, and useful idiots out there that are having such a hard time understanding the 2^nd Amendment lately, perhaps it’s time for people to go back to basics and learn how to read. Evidently they have forgotten how. Maybe they weren’t taught how to read properly way back in grade school in the first place. Whatever the reason, it is dumbfounding to watch people who actually swear to uphold and defend the Constitution for the United States trip all over themselves stretching for any possible way to deny that the 2^nd Amendment means what it actually says. It’s only one sentence for crying out loud! Seriously, how hard can it be?  If you’ve gotten this far in the paragraph, there is hope for you, but processing letters into words isn’t quite enough. So without further ado (that means “delay” for you illiterate gun grabbers), lets learn how to read. The key to reading is not only knowing the meaning of individual words, but the context of them within each sentence, paragraph, and work as a whole. Here we go.

The 2^nd Amendment is a part of the Bill of Rights. That is basically the “top ten” list of demands that the states required in order to ratify (that means accept or agree to for you gun grabbers) the Constitution for the United States. The Constitution provided the structure for a federal government. The Bill of Rights was the list of protections against it growing outside of that structure. You see, it was the states that authorized the constitution, not the other way around. Each state was sovereign (that means they each created and enforced their own laws independently). The Bill of Rights and therefore the 2^nd Amendment were put in place to contain the federal government and protect the states and the people from a repeat of what they had just gone through. For a quick refresher on that was, please research the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. I’ll bottom line it for the gun grabbers who may not have stayed awake in history class and likely will not put forth the effort now either. The King of England was a tyrant and the colonies weren’t going to take it anymore. They “Declared” their independence from the crown on the authority of God’s natural order and the King declared war on them. We won.

So with the context in mind of the 2^nd Amendment being demanded by the states as a means of defense against tyranny, we are ready to read that little sentence that has caused such consternation (that’s a feeling of alarm, confusion, or dismay for the dim witted libtards out there). Here is it. “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” There, was that so hard?

Contextual points of special note:

Because the 2^nd Amendment is a demand from the states not a structure of the federal government, the words “regulate” and “militia” are not directives or structures for the federal government to base laws upon. They are for the states and the people. Furthermore, the definition of the word “militia” is all able bodied people 18 years and older. The word “militia” is not the same as the word “military”. A military is conscripted, commanded, paid, trained, and equipped by government, not to mention specifically authorized in Article I of the Constitution. A military is an official structure within the federal government. A militia is not conscripted, not paid, and is not trained or equipped by the government. The militia is not commanded by the federal government; and not even by the states except in case of emergency when each state governor can call forth the militia as needed.

Since the militia is the people and they are not paid, trained, and most importantly not equipped by any government, it follows that the word “regulate” in the 2^nd Amendment is something the people must out of necessity do for themselves. That is why after that little comma in the sentence, the 2^nd Amendment states that the right is of “the people”. No one else does it for us. We must equip and train; we must regulate ourselves.

This “well regulated militia” is “necessary for the security of a free state”. The most important two words in that last phrase are “free state”. We don’t live in a police state. Well, we aren’t supposed to. Someone should tell that to the TSA. Anyway, the government secures your security in a police state. They are the ones with the guns and you are the helpless little prole. We live in a free state. In a free state you are responsible for your own security.

Because you are responsible for your own security, “the people” is the phrase that is used. It isn’t the military, or the local sheriff, or the weasels in Washington DC. It’s you, the people. Inside our borders, in each state, in our cities towns, and homes, we the people are supposed to provide for our own security.

Thus, the need to keep and bear arms. As simple as it may sound, some people still don’t get even this little phrase. To keep means not just to possess, but to own permanently. To bear means to hold in your hand and or carry on your person. You know, like in a holster on your hip or a sling over your back. You actually have a right to do that. Neat huh?

The word “right” is used to denote from whence said power is derived. It is a condition given by God not granted by government. The Declaration of Independence used the phrase “endowed by their Creator” for a reason. Rights come from God. The 2^nd Amendment is a right and you should not have to ask permission or exception to do something your Creator blessed you with at birth.

So there you have it. If you followed the flow of context from the Declaration of Independence, to the structure of the Constitution, to the Bill of Rights, and read all of the words in that little sentence in context, you now know what the 2^nd Amendment says and means.

Programmed People

Programmed People

 

Ever had a conversation (or tried to have one anyway) with someone who couldn’t focus on one main point if their lives depended on it? Chances are it isn’t just ADD. Too many people today react like Pavlov’s dog whenever important topics like politics or religion are brought up. Instead of an honest thoughtful exchange of ideas, so many people today regurgitate prepackaged responses to important questions like a Tourretes patient stuck on a spasm of talking points. Critical thinking and basic logic is a lost skill set.

It is nearly impossible to have an important two way conversation with someone like that because no matter what you say, it just isn’t registering with the gray matter between their ears. They aren’t thinking critically about what you said. What’s worse is that they aren’t just repeating words. Any one of a dozen push button topics will not only launch them instantly into insulting personal attacks, but they will believe the absolute worst about you without any evidence or further discussion.

Case in point: After the recent election, a friend and I were lightly joking about how stressful the night was for both sides until they brought up something their neighbor did that, in their words, “really pissed [them] off”. The next day after the election their neighbor had hung his American flag upside down to show his disapproval. My friend was incensed that someone would use that legitimate military signal for life threatening distress as a sign of their political opinion. They said they were angry because they had friends in the military that they felt would be highly offended by what they believed was a casual use of that vital signal of a life threatening situation.

Maybe there are some in the military that would be offended to see their sign of distress used for political posturing, but there are also some veterans who have done the exact same thing. There are many who believe that our country is at such a critical point that it isn’t just about the economy anymore, but about our core liberties, and yes even life threatening political policies that are destroying this country from the inside out. Try as I might I could not get them to see that. Being self-blinded to the serious liberty and life-threatening policy differences that do exist; my friend fell back on the baseless charge of racism to explain their neighbor’s behavior. My friend asserted that they knew I wasn’t a racist for my opposition to Obama, but that so many other people really only opposed Obama because of his race. My friend could see no other explanation for it.

Racism? Seriously? Nobody was charging liberals with racism when they called Bush a Nazi or a war criminal. Nobody was calling Jimmy Carter’s detractors racists back in the 1970’s when he employed some of the exact same policies that Obama has now. My friend had previously qualified the statement about their neighbor by saying he seemed nice. My friend made no mention of race or his neighbor’s thoughts about race previously. My friend said they had liked their neighbor before, but as baseless and insulting as it was, racism had to be the answer for why he turned his flag upside down.

Hearing the get-out-of-jail-free caveat that my friend just knew I was not a racist, I tried to offer my explanation for why their neighbor did what he did. I lowered my voice and considered my words carefully. Trying to both ease my friends concerns and relate to their situation, I first admitted that I too had turned my flag upside down for a brief amount of time when Obama won his first term in 2008 because of what I knew his policies would do to this country. My friend’s face collapsed. It was like a switch flipped in their heads and nothing I said next mattered. I was one of them.

Every example I cited of Obama’s direct involvement in the loss of our constitutional liberties was ignored and countered by unrelated or untrue accusations about Obama’s political adversaries. They just laughed when I cited Obama’s 6 trillion dollar increase in the deficit in only 4 years. My friend was stuck on the image of that flag being upside down and not why. “Yeah but Romney would not have changed that” was another repeated riposte. They even brought up Arizona’s immigration enforcement law and falsely asserted that it was somehow an example of racism that conservatives, like myself, allegedly tolerated as if it was a relevant counterpoint to the Obama TSA’s daily violation of the 4^th amendment. I even cited Supreme Court cases (which garnered nothing but glazed eyes). Finally I cited the chief example of why my friend was so upset about that flag being up-side down; Obama’s recent cover-up, lies, and abandonment of our people… even our Navy Seals in Benghazi, Libya whose calls for help went through to the White House situation room multiple times over hours. If they had been a part of a unit on a battlefield their flag would have been up-side down because they were cut off and dying. Their pleas for help were denied, they were murdered as the White House watched and then lied about it, and my friend refused to consider it as a valid reason why their neighbor might not be a racist just because he hung a flag upside down.

My friend, if they are still my friend, hasn’t said a word to me since. They are programmed. They are spring loaded to shoot off in a pre-planned spastic reaction to politics. Even when presented with undeniable, current, widely-reported facts, they can’t let go of the narrative. This is why people tread lightly around friends and family over politics and religion. Sad day. Guess, all I can do is pray for them now. Maybe they will listen to God.

Death of a Republic

Death of a Republic

 

A republic is a form of government that is characterized by adherence to foundational law regardless of popular opinion. In a republic, there is a difference between democratic law that can change depending on the simple-majority mood of the people or even just a few politicians who decide to do whatever they want and foundational law that is based on a super-majority of widely held core beliefs.

In the United States of America, those core beliefs were instituted into the foundational law of the republic through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Constitution provided the basic structure for our system of government and the Bill of Rights provided guarantees to safeguard our liberties and limit the power and growth of government.

After the structure of the Constitution was drafted it was sent to the states for approval because each state was independent and sovereign. The Constitution was not imposed on the states; it was agreed to by the states. Before the states agreed to adopt the Constitution they demanded a top ten list of basic protections against tyranny. The Bill of Rights was that list and again was not imposed on the states, but was a list of demands from the states for agreeing to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights was specifically written to protect individual people from tyranny and the Tenth Amendment specifically was written to protect the sovereignty of the states. The states and the people came first, not the federal government. That was the foundation of our republic.

In keeping with the super-majority aspect of what was republic law, the requirement for adopting the Constitution for the United States and our very union required three fourths of the legislatures of the states to agree. Any future changes to that foundational republic law required not only the same three fourths ratification from the states, but two thirds of each branch of congress and or the states just to open up an official constitutional convention to even begin the process. That is how broad-based and widely accepted, and hard to change that our foundational republic law was.

In keeping with the simplicity of republic law, the entire Constitution was only about 8 pages (in a modern size 10 font) and some of the amendments in the Bill of Rights were only one or two sentences long. That was the elegant fundamental simplicity of basic God given rights and the reason why a republic form of government was superior to all others. Almost anyone could understand and agree to the old republic law.

That was then.

Today, politicians and their circus performers in the media appeal not to the old republic laws, but to simply-majority popularity to garner votes from a gullible public that has forgotten why our forefathers declared their independence in the first place. Today’s democratic laws are not vetted against the old republic laws and do not require the same standards of wide acceptance to become law. A simple majority of 51% is all it takes. As a result, it is much easier to pass new democratic laws. Today the government and it’s lickspittles in the media pump the public for support of what they want and pit once unified groups against each other. It is a brilliant way for the government to manipulate the people and get what they want while at the same time fooling the voting public into to thinking they have control over the government. A special benefit here and a crisis there provide all the excuse needed to hit the public up to vote for politicians who promise to “fix” things by way of more laws that result in more authority for the government and less freedom for the people.

Compare the old republic law to the new health care law for example. It is over 2000 pages (that is just one law folks). It is written in a language only lawyers understand. It did not originate in the House as all revenue-generating (tax) bills are constitutionally required. To top it off, all polls the entire year it was being rammed through congress showed that the overwhelming majority of people were opposed to it and more than half the states immediately sued the federal government to stop it. The public’s opposition came too late. The bill was passed in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve when congress was supposed to have already gone home, but was forced to remain in session to pass the bill before the newly elected congressman who opposed it could stop the foul thing. The difference between the old foundational republic law requiring a super-majority of support and that unconstitutional, politically-corrupt, simple-majority democratic law is the difference between a secured freedom and tyranny.

That is where we are today. Now, one bad law, even a blatantly unconstitutional one, doesn’t topple a healthy republic. There were many bad and plainly unconstitutional democratic laws over the years. This one though was the crowning achievement of politically-corrupt simple-majority democratic law over the old republic because even the Supreme Court abandoned the Constitution to place its official stamp of approval on that wicked law. There are no checks and balances any more. The federal government has totally abandoned republic law and the people voted for the politicians who made that happen believing all the while that they were in control.

What developed in the United States of America that sounded the death knell for the republic was apathy over what were considered minor inconveniences by a population whose standards of living were the highest in the world. No one cared when their liberties were infringed on minor levels, because they had so much excess of freedom and wealth that they barely noticed. Most people didn’t even realize they were losing their freedoms with every little encroachment. They bought into the lie of a benevolent government that only wanted to provide for their security or to help some poor soul who was down on his luck, or to make the world fair by taking more money from mean old rich people who didn’t need it anyway in their eyes. Worse, the people stopped teaching their children about the old republic laws and why those simple old beliefs were so important to the very fabric of society and their future as well. Instead, they let simple-majority democracy and an arrogant sense of entitlement sweep over the land and into law upon law upon unconstitutional law.

Here are just a few recent examples of the rise and triumph of simple-majority democratic laws over the old foundational republic laws.

2005 – Supreme Court case 545 U.S. 469 Kelo vs. New London, CT

Verdict: The government, even a small city government can condemn the land that has been in your family for generations, seize it, and doesn’t even have to pay you fair market value for it for no other reason than it wants the higher tax revenue it could get from it were zoned for commercial use. Nothing you own is safe from government seizure. The 5th amendment is now irrelevant.

2008/10 – Supreme Court case 554 U.S. ___ and 561 U.S. __ District of Columbia vs. Heller and McDonald vs. Chicago, IL.

Verdict: You have the right to own a gun to defend yourself… by a 5/4 margin. We are one judge away from losing the 2nd amendment.

2010 – Supreme Court case 558 U.S. ___ Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

Verdict: You have the right to buy advertising, publish a book, or just print a little political flyer to distribute even within 60 days of an election… by a 5/4 margin. We are one judge away from losing the first amendment.

2012 – Supreme Court case 567 U.S. ___ National Federation of Independent Businesses ET AL Petitioners vs. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, ET AL (and several other related cases)

Verdict: The government can force private individuals to buy a private product or service from a private business under penalty of IRS fines for non-compliance. The Chief Justice’ explanation for allowing this tyranny was to take it upon himself to change the wording of the law from penalty to tax. Your money is not your money and you have no choice in how it is spent if the government says so and simply calls a penalty a tax.

Ongoing: The TSA violates the 4^th amendment every day in cities all over the country by denying the right not to be unreasonably searched or have your property seized without a warrant.

Ongoing: The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 authorizes (unconstitutionally of course) the military to apprehend and detain any American citizen without charge, or access to legal counsel indefinitely. The claim of national security is the excuse that is used and we all want to get bad guys, but without requiring a warrant, criminal charge, access to legal counsel, or any limit on how long they can detain you, the government could literally come to your house and take you away in the night without any explanation and no one would know what happened to you. You have no expectation of freedom.

There are more examples, but the point is that at the highest levels of government, old republic laws that were based on wide acceptance and once even called divine rights from the Creator that had stood for over two centuries became irrelevant. Simple-majority democracy took over with each election cycle appealing to the smallest simple majority instead of the highest and the government took advantage of this by increasing its power and reducing individual freedoms on all fronts.

In 2008 America elected a person whose own books describe how he chose to study under and associate himself with Marxist professors. In 2008 America elected a man who chose to spend nearly 20 years attending a church where the political doctrine called Black Liberation Theology Marxism was taught by a man he publically called his “spiritual mentor”. In 2008 the American people elected a self proclaimed “community organizer” who taught his ACORN workers to emulate the communist political tactics from Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals”. Now, after 4 years of Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders, appointments of self proclaimed Socialist and even Communists, and unconstitutional laws that have chillingly Orwellian implications, the American public just re-elected him by a margin of 50.5% of the simple majority popular vote. If the old republic has not completely died, it is surely gasping for its last breaths.

We were warned about this in the early 1800’s by a French political historian who wrote a book called “Democracy in America”. Consider the quotes below from it. Consider reading it. The only solution now is to re-learn what we have forgotten and teach a new generation how to revive a dead republic.

“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.” - Alexis de Tocqueville

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexis de Tocqueville

May God have mercy on us all.

The Blind, The Naïve, and The Willfully Ignorant

The Blind, The Naïve, and The Willfully Ignorant

 

There is a potentially fatal flaw in the reasoning skills of most people. It’s called the Normalcy Bias. When something is too far outside of what is considered “normal” it is ignored. That’s a great automatic filter if what is being ignored is trivial or just flat wrong, but it can be deadly when there is an actual threat. The perfect example would be those who live on the slopes of an active volcano. From a distance, it’s easy to think those people are nuts. From their perspective though, the mountain just rumbles from time to time, but has never hurt anyone in their lifetime. Their normalcy bias prevents them from leaving even when the volcano erupts until it is too late.

The Blind: For some, this normalcy bias creates a sort of blindness. An example of that is the car driver who doesn’t see the motorcyclist. Even good car drivers who are usually very safe and alert will run over a motorcyclist in a second if they only look for other cars, because in their mind, no car on the road equals safe and safe equals go. So when they pull out into the oncoming traffic of the motorcyclist they always say they didn’t see him. The motorcycle was there. It was clearly visible. Their normalcy bias simply didn’t allow them to see it because they were looking for a car.

The Naïve: Some people just don’t know any better to start with. It’s one thing to try to always think the best of others. That is a noble sentiment. Expecting that common criminals will not harm you just because you yourself mean them no harm though is naïve. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Predators almost always go after the defenseless weaker looking target first. Whether the naïve think they are being high-minded or brave won’t matter a bit to their attacker.

The willfully ignorant: Some are stuck in denial out of fear of what they don’t want to accept. Some reject the truth in favor of their own hubris. They never learned that pride comes before a fall. Of course, some are just plain dumb as a stump too, but so many people consciously chose not to acknowledge danger even when they are presented with solid evidence. They are like the ostrich who sticks his head in the sand pretending the danger isn’t there. Willful ignorance doesn’t make a problem disappear. It just makes you totally unprepared to deal with it when it can no longer be ignored.

It is a sad, but there are people out there who just never will be convinced, understand the importance of, or care enough to act on important information even when it means their very survival. You can’t expect everyone to see things your way, but when that person is a close friend or family member and the issue is of vital importance, it’s just heart breaking to think of a loved one paying the price down the road for their refusal to heed today’s warnings.

That happened to me recently when a friend who generally avoids politics like the plague sent me a link to a website that monitors the US debt in real time and shows how much each person owes. Their email simply said “this is scary”. I replied advising them of just what those runaway near uncountable numbers mean and how important it is that they prepare themselves. I explained what happened during the Great Depression and told them to buy food and to be prepared to defend themselves. My friend glibly retorted that they were “not worried about food and bullets” and were “pretty much anti-gun”. They said, “When the end times come, they come, and it just means that looking to the next life, the one that lasts, is even more important.” I just shuddered when I thought about the prospects of his two little children paying the price for his ability to ignore the realities of this life to live in the next before he gets there.

Why did he bother emailing me about it in the first place? He has done this kind of thing before. Someone asks him a question he isn’t sure about or shows him something that alarms him and he asks me what I think, because he knows I pay attention to important things. Then his eyes glaze over when I try to explain, or like this time, he just totally ignores the warning like the level of seriousness tripped some kind of circuit breaker for his ability to cope.

Please folks. Be aware of more than what is normal. Question why. Think critically and prepare yourselves for what is coming. Jesus did go to prepare a place for us and he is coming back again to take us there, but an awful lot of nastiness is going to hit a gigantic fan before we shuffle off this mortal coil. People who are your friends and family are trying to help you see what is coming. Please prepare.

The Second Amendment

The Second Amendment

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The Second Amendment is a single sentence and a simple one at that. So, why are so many people and politicians unclear on what it says? A lot of politicians would rather you didn’t know and their useful idiot supporters are all too eager to spout off all kinds of nonsense to muddy the water. Perhaps some people really don’t know though so, here is a brief word by word breakdown of what the Second Amendment says and means.

Well Regulated: predictable, working, practiced, equipped, ready

Militia: volunteer unpaid civilians 18 year or older who equip and train themselves (not military, that is different and separately covered under article 1)

Necessary: required, something that you must have

Security: to guard, to keep safe from harm and to be ready to do so, to possess a state of being

Free State: a people not governed by force but by their own personal responsibility that is an integral part of liberty, not a police state

“,” : Very important! A comma in a sentence distinguishes two separate thoughts that are a part of a whole. In this case the comma separates the reason for the right from the declaration of the right and the protection provided for it.

Right: pre-existing condition bestowed by God

The People: everybody, not limited to police, or military, or even just the volunteer militia,

To Keep: to permanently posses, to own

Bear: to carry, to have with you on your person, to have in hand

Arms: any means of defense, Examples include but are not limited to guns, knives, swords, clubs, bows, spears, axes, etc.

Shall Not: legal imperative phrase commanding that no action be taken

Infringed: to impose upon, to violate boundary, to impair, or make difficult

Paraphrased right: Because we do not live in a police state but each have the personal responsibility to maintain our own liberty and care for ourselves and others independently, no-one is allowed to prevent us from owning, possessing, and carrying on our person any means necessary to remain alive and free.

The Second Amendment is not about hunting or any kind of sport or collectors hobby.  It is the lifeblood of liberty. Exercise your right today and keep freedom alive for tomorrow.

Self Governance

Self Governance

A little over two centuries ago, the founding fathers of the Unites States of America championed an ideal that founded the greatest nation on Earth. They dared to declare themselves not only independent from a king in a distant land, but to insist that the people would govern for themselves. The total corruption of all three branches of our government, it’s recent abandonment of our constitution, and complete lack of integrity our nation’s highest court have called that ideal back into question for some.

People absolutely are capable of self governance... within the framework of a constitutional republic which is rule by law and by a people who adhere to basic moral standards. John Adams, second president of the United States, was asked what kind of constitution we had. His reply was that, “the Constitution for the United States was written for a moral and upright people and is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other”. That is what makes self governance work. As a constitutional republic of “moral and upright people”, the United States was the world's most successful self governing nation for a couple of centuries. We managed to remain free, save large portions of the rest of the world from tyranny, achieve the highest standard of living in the world, the highest levels of technology, and we were the world’s lone economic and military superpower.

Anyone upset about the use of past tense in that last paragraph needs to stop and take a candid look around you. We are not the moral nation we once were and we are paying the price for abandoning our founding principles. The lie of democracy has taken root in the immorality of hedonism. “If it feels good do it” has translated into “if you want it vote for it” no matter whether it is wrong or unconstitutional or violates the very founding principles of our nation. That is the difference between a functioning constitutional republic and the free-for-all lawlessness of a democracy.

Under the lawlessness that is the mob mentality of a democracy, nothing long will stand. This ultimately immoral system of rule by influenced popular whims has now led to an oligarchy here. The imposing authorities push the buttons of useful idiots to sway popular opinions and thus gain excuse to impose any tyranny that the latest “crisis” is manufactured to obtain.

Economically, this has resulted in limitless government spending asked for and or allowed by a public that has traded its self sufficient heritage for dependent expectation on a government that simply isn’t capable of meeting its needs. We have witnessed an exponential explosion of debt that is 16 trillion and climbing. That is more than the annual GDP of the entire United States. Additionally, the strain to comply with the unconstitutional reach of government regulations in private business has resulted in an economic climate that is openly hostile to new businesses which are the life blood of our economy.

On the moral front, this means nothing less than the loss of our most cherished freedoms. Chaplains in the military are being barred from public prayer in violation of the first amendment’s protection against any such prohibition. Groups of people must gain approval and even pay for permission to exercise their first amendment right to “peaceably assemble to petition their government for a redress of grievances” in the nation’s capitol. Gun owners are vilified by the attorney general and his boss the Marxist in chief who both swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend not just the second amendment, but the entire Constitution for the United States. The TSA and DHS, America’s version of the Nazi Gestapo and SS, violate people’s fourth amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure and that without a warrant on a daily basis. The latest National Defense Authorization act contains a provision that violates rights to legal counsel, trial by jury, and excessive bail. Now, the government that used to be “of the people” is employing military grade drones to spy on us from the sky.

Freedom has quietly died.

To be self governing you first have to have and adhere to moral and upright principles. Sadly, most people just don’t have those any more. It isn’t the practice of self governance that has failed. It is the abandonment of the principles of that system that has failed.

Go back and read the history of how kings, dictators, and tyrants have subjugated whole nations of people and killed millions. Maybe you weren’t taught that kind of vitally important history in school. The government has stripped so much of what we once were from our education system. Do it on your own. No one else can learn it for you. Read again about the United States own humble beginnings, our Declaration of Independence based on the firm reliance on the divine providence of our Creator God, the Constitution for the United States, and the Bill of Rights. Read the Bible. Grow a spine and stand for what is right. It is the only way self governance works.

Happy Depend… “Independence” Day

Happy Depend… “Independence” Day

from the Department of Homeland Security

236 years ago right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., a few disloyal colonist declared their independence from the crown. It took a couple of centuries, but the people living in the land formerly known as the land of the free and the home of the brave are once again compliant subjects of distant, unelected, unlimited, unrepresentative authority!

Think I’m kidding? Read the government’s own report. Here is a PDF of a DHS study done just this year in January 2012. http://start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf

In case you don’t feel like downloading it right now, just take a few seconds to read a couple of quick quotes from the report here that detail who the DHS considers a suspected terrorist.

“Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism-United States report compiled by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism”

“Extreme Right-Wing: groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group), and believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”

The report also list definitions for “Extreme Left-Wing”, “Religious, Ethno-Nationalist/Separatists”, and “Single Issue” groups. Go check out the report if you think any of those might apply to you.

Here is the real kicker. Look back up at that quote above. The word they used to describe what that group does was “believe”. “Believe”, not “commit” or “act” or any other word that would convey action. A belief is just a thought! You don’t have to do anything now to be considered a terrorist. Bottom line is that the federal government sees you not as a citizen who is innocent until proven guilty, but as a potential terrorist and they treat you like that too. If you doubt that, just try taking a leisurely stroll through an airport terminal without submitting to having your 4th amendment right not to be searched or seized without reasonable cause violated. They don’t care about your constitutional rights.

Can you imagine Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or George Washington letting a TSA agent grab their crotch and demand that they sit there and take while they are searched without consent even though they did nothing wrong? Hell no! They were the DHS definition of “Extreme Right-Wing Terrorist”.

But wait there’s more! Last week the Supreme Court created an excuse for the federal government to force you to do anything they want and make you pay for it to boot. All they have to do is use the magic word “tax” when they really mean “mandate. So says the great and all powerful Chief Justice Judas Roberts. See my last post below for more on that bit of lawless tyranny.

Today, the federal government does not have to enforce or bother to even give feigning respect for your constitutional rights and they can force you to do pretty much anything they want you to do as long as they call it a “tax”. Are you a little overweight? A new gym tax could be in your future. Like a beer with you pizza? You may just qualify for a new HHS alcohol consumption tax. Want to exercise your first amendment right to freedom of religion or speech? TO BAD! Doing so makes you a suspected terrorist. Oh and smile when you look up next time, all that independent thinking just might require a surveillance drone to keep an eye on you.

This is not your grandpa’s America anymore. Just thinking it is makes you a suspected terrorist. Be careful today. Celebrating Independence Day by doing anything more than watching properly licensed fireworks from an officially regulated safe distance at a state sanctioned event is now a terrorist activity.

Happy Independence Day comrades.