Saturday, October 31, 2009

AMERICA'S GREAT SHAKING

For some time now, I have written about a great shaking that is coming, has come, and is now upon US. In previous write-ups I dated this great shaking to six months within former President Bush's second term, when the United States forced the Nation-State of Israel to relinquish land it had captured during its war with Egypt years before when the latter invaded Israel along with five other Arab nations; land which according to Biblical injunction was given to Abraham and his descendants through Isaac as part of a legal and eternal binding contract (Covenant) which was made between G-d and Abraham and his descendants forever; long before the nations of the Western democracies ever existed and its lands occupied by its current populations. I have stated previously that no leader of any nation has the authority or right to dictate to Israel its rights to its land and its disposition; the current president of the United States - Barak Hussein Obama - included.

He has in recent times attempted to do this by criticizing Israel's development of settlements within the borders of the lands it has by the right of divine contract been given by G-d. Any and all leaders and nations who attempt to do this, or to force even a single Jew from his land, face divine judgment and retribution, and such has been and is the case with this great shaking. When the United States compelled Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister at the time, to forcibly vacate Israelis from the Gaza Strip in 2005, it entered into the eye of G-d's divine judgment.

Almost immediately the great shaking began. The two leaders who evicted by force law-abiding Israeli citizens from their homes, places of work, and land - where they had staked out a new life for themselves paid dearly for their affront. Despite acrimonious assaults by the media and partisans for four years, in spite of his successes in keeping America safe from terrorism for eight years, and enjoying the greatest economic recovery in twenty years during his first term; President Bush's legacy vaporized during the last months of his presidency with the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke, and remains a vegetable to this day, hanging between life and death.

But the great shaking didn't end with these two leaders, it started almost immediately after the last Israeli exited Gaza with natural disasters the likes of which have never been witnessed in history, and it has culminated in the great economic meltdown of our times - this Great Recession, which is really a Depression - but for psychological and political reasons, it is not being acknowledged as such by the elites. who are either like ostriches with their heads in the sand, or are willfully deceiving the American public, especially with news of recovery when the job market continues its descent into a seeming endless abyss.

Some religious leaders, like Rev. Pat Robertson of the 700 Club, several Christian Evangelical speakers, and Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn spiritual leader and pastor the congregation at the Jerusalem Center in Wayne, New Jersey (of which this writer is a member), date this great shaking back to Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, when America's hedge of protection was partially removed, and the worst terrorist attack in history occurred in one day where three thousand souls perished in a single day, and America's financial (World Trade Center), military (Pentagon), and political (Washington, D.C.) became targets of Islamist terror. This sparked the wars in Afghanistan in Iraq, and it leads US to examine current news on the topic of Afghanistan and the lack of leadership and resolve from the Oval Office as America begins its retreat from leadership and responsibility across the planet.

As American service personnel suffer shortage of men and materiel in Afghanistan, President Obama, who remains conflicted with regards to the War on Terror which he claims ended with his administration, continues to "dither" between listening to his commanding officer in the field, General Stanley McChrystal, the NATO Commander in Afghanistan, and the administration's civilian members sitting safely inside their warm homes far from the field. It is nothing short of amazing the lack of leadership this man has displayed, and the disconnect he has to a war that is raging, but whose reality he has yet to come to grips with.

Of course, Obama's indecision on this war is not lost on Al Qaeda and the Taliban, whom have made inroads in Afghanistan, and on Muslim enemies of pro-American Muslim governments in Kabul, Baghdad, and Islamabad. It is amazing also that instead of exploiting the renewed attacks on civilians that terrorists have made by pointing out the fact that such acts show Al Qaeda and the Taliban as not just enemies of the West, but enemies of the Muslim people - of all people; of the human race; this administration does nothing with this reality.

And as part of this disconnect, this cognitive dissonance; this administration continues pall mall in its goal of releasing the world's most dangerous terrorists from the Marine Prison Compound at Camp X Ray at the Guantanamo Naval Base (GITMO) into the continental United States. Ladies and gentlemen, this is criminal and the members of congress on both sides of the isle should call the president on this, and demand that he abandon this immediately. This is not in the interests of the American people, but is a promise Obama made to Move.Org, Code Pink, and other radical elements which came out to vote for him last year. This is political, nothing more, and it is ideological because Obama is a conflicted soul with regards to Islam and the war being waged with a very large segment of its population which is committed enemies of the West in general and the United States in particular.

To understand Obama's dithering indecision one must understand the fundamentals behind it which we have explained above. But, while he remains shackled and bound to promises made and conflicted feelings about fighting and killing Muslim radicals (soldiers in the international war of national liberation - also a Marxist concept), Americans and American Muslim allies - human beings - are dying daily. The other night President Obama visited the families of 18 dead service men whose remains had arrived from Afghanistan at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this week, and one can almost appreciate, but not fully know how presidents in wartime cope with the losses war brings to our home front. President Bush said he lived with it every day of his life when he was in the Oval Office. Yet in the face of mounting casualties, it strikes many as not only irresponsible, but intolerable that the nation's Commander in Chief of its armed forces would delay the deployment of additional troops when such deployment, in the assessment of the leading commander in the theatre and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including General Patraeus, are critically needed not only to stabilize the region, but to turn the war in to a victory. President Obama did well to visit the families of the fallen 18 dead service personnel, but he would do much better were he to listen to the requests of his military experts' conducting this war's request for an additional forty thousand troops. If he wishes to truly honor the fallen and those still serving, he should immediately honor his general's request post haste. Every minute that he delays his decision is additional time given to America's enemies in the field, and emboldens them to openly defy America with increased brazen terrorist attacks on our men and women in uniform and our allies. His ambivalence is threatening the success of this war, and putting more American and Afghan lives in danger.

Add to this Obama's naked and bold addition to the War's Appropriation's Bill of Hate Crimes Legislation, and he continues to show himself for the radical politician he is, and how he breaks promises he made when those promises run against the interests that put him in the Oval Office. Last year he promised that he would never sign into law any legislation or appropriation bill containing additional unrelated pieces of legislation attached. Well, he has done just that, because he cynically knew that the Republicans who oppose the unnecessary Hate Crimes Law (our Constitution provides equal protection to every citizen), will be forced to support this legislation in order to get necessary funding for supplies for our troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Weeks ago, he spoke before his gay and lesbian supporters, and promised that he would sign into law hate crimes bill the Democrat controlled congress recently approved. What he and they either fail to understand or simply are ideologically committed to not understanding is the reality that the concept of hate crimes legislation imposes a presupposition that an otherwise crime which the books already condemns and punishes, is by its nature to be classified a hate crime under special conditions as enforced by the federal government for specific groups, which they believe our laws do not protect from crime apparently. Again, there is a disconnect here between reality and ideology, and the nation suffers for it with stupid and arcane legislation intended to promote hidden agendas in social experimentation which Obama and those who think like him wish to impose on the rest of US. It will not do a thing to deter crime, only criminalize the freedom of expression if that expression is interpreted as being a "hate crime." Thus, religious expressions of Scriptural injunctions on life styles and behavior fall under the radar of such legislation if it is interpreted as "hate crime." Bad, very bad, but it is so false on its premise that it is apparent to any rational thinking human being.

On the home front, incidents of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Christian rhetoric around the country is increasing. The recent plans of home grown Muslim radicals to bomb a synagogue in NYC and a shooting at an LA synagogue, are just recent examples of trends which must be monitored closely. The Anti-Christian secular humanist Left continues to lambast America's Protestant Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, and they are finding their expressions on television programs and in movies. This is not a good trend folks. There was a time when Hollywood made movies which respected men and women of faith and even extolled their lives as examples to emulate. Today, such men and women are ridiculed and belittled, and this is partly due to the self-serving materialistic faith and prosperity televangelists and their lavish untaxed lifestyles.

On the home front, the plight of the homeless, poor, indigent, and those who've lost their jobs, homes, and every earthly possession due to this depression is something which charities, churches, synagogues, religious groups, and mosques should not allow to continue in their communities. It is unconscionable for many such institutions which can marshal their resources together through collections and donations to continue ignoring the plight of these suffering people, while they continue to languish and die all around US. There are some exceptions to the rule, such as CBN's Operation Blessing and Beth Israel Messianic Center's Compassion Projects which do reach out to those hurting and suffering need. But there is something intrinsically wrong with televangelists spending the better part of more than one hour preaching on seedtime and harvest, asking for thousands of donors to give one thousand dollars each for "the Gospel," while they continue to fleece G-d's flock without any financial or personal accountability, while totally ignoring the poor in America all around them all in the name of Christ of course. It is not by accident that Jesus warned about such people, and said to them that the day will come most assuredly when they will stand before the Judge of All Creation and give an account for their misdeeds to the poor, where He will say to them, "To the extent that you did not do it to the least of these My brethren, you have not done it unto Me. Depart from Me, for I never knew you." It is time for American Evangelical Christians to wake up and take account of who the phonies are, and to mark them, because judgment begins with G-d's house and amongst G-d's people. For Jesus Himself said, "Not every one who calls Me, 'Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven," and, "You will know them by their fruits." The problem with too many Christians is that they're Biblically illiterate and they are quick to believe every charlatan who shouts, "Lord, Lord to Jesus," and claims to be anointed servants of His. Religion is a great business, but G-d will have the last laugh some day with these phonies.

Now also on the home front, another related story is the one of the unemployed and underemployed. As the nation suffers, the media, the government, and Wall Street are telling US that we are in recovery, yet eighteen per cent of eligible workers are unemployed, with the national average at around 9.8 per cent. Some states are in double digits at around 15 per cent, yet the actual figure, as just quoted, when tallying those whom have fallen off of the radar and whose unemployment benefits have ended, are at between 15 and 18 per cent of the nation's labor force.

Already over five hundred thousand Americans have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, with an average of seven thousand daily losing all of their lifeline benefits. It is estimated that by year's end, there will be over one million, six hundred thousand Americans whom have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, and whom have not been able to find work, because the jobs are simply not there. With an average of six jobs per job seeker, and with increased taxation on small businesses, especially if the looming health care bill is approved by congress and signed into law by President Obama, job prospects will continue to decline for the long term unemployed. It is interesting how the media is reporting this, because legislation in the Senate is being stalled by a disagreement between Democrats and Republicans on funding for HR 3548, a bill that will extend benefits to the hurting unemployed who are about to exhaust their benefits and especially those who have already exhausted theirs and are still looking for work, but unable to find it.

Democrats wish to continue funding the extension with a tax on small business, and Republicans want the money to come out of the TARP, which has seen only ten per cent of its 800 billion dollars put to use. Most of the media has focused on the Republicans as obstructionists in this, and to one extent they have been, but so have the Democrats, who could use some of the TARP to fund these extensions (the bill is an amendment to the president's stimulus signed earlier this year), yet do not want it used because it will eat into their base of sweetheart deals and other local projects they have on the books for next year when they face reelection. This is the reality, the political reality behind the current stall, and the unemployed are made pawns in this game.

They are hurting, do not have a means to pay their bills, put food on their tables, or to provide for the most basic of necessities, while the people whom they elected to look after their interests haggle and stall because of a disagreement on how to fund what both political parties know morally should have resolved weeks ago. This is unconscionable, and is another compelling reason why every single elected official in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate should have term limits on themselves imposed and should. be voted out of office.

For the past several months, they have been obsessed in passing and imposing on US a gargantuan government run socialized medical package they call Health Care Reform while literally ignoring every other business, because Barak Obama must get what he wants - Obama Care - what he calls Health Care and Insurance Reform - depending on what day of the week it is, and what mood he's in. If he wants to trash the medical profession, he and his House and Senate allies call it "Health Care Reform," but if on that particular day, he and they wish to trash the insurance industry, they call it "Health Insurance Reform." It just depends what day of the week and what mood you find them in. That's all. But make no mistake about it, it is the same socialized medicine scheme being imposed on every American, except of course, themselves. You see, the bills before congress will not provide the same coverage your elected officials have, and will keep regardless of what they pass; but it will be one which they will not impose on themselves because they know it is far inferior to what now exists, and to what they enjoy. Of course, this includes the president and his family. And if the way the Veteran's Administration and the H1N1 Vaccine are handled is any indication of how efficient the government can be expected to be, then Obama Care will be one lollapalooza.

People; see beyond this. We were told that we needed TARP so that the nation's largest financial institutions, banks, brokerage houses, and securities brokerage firms would not go under. Instead, the unheard of amount of eight hundred eighty seven billion dollars our government used became the largest money laundering scheme in the history with massive amounts of capital sent overseas to undisclosed parties. It did nothing for the average American whose lost his/her job and still must pay their bills. We were told that we needed Stimulus One, because it would provide shovel ready jobs; and keep unemployment below 8.5 per cent; it failed because unemployment stands currently at 9.8 per cent and is expected to reach 10 per cent by year's end. We were told we needed the Omnibus One and Omnibus Two because they would save jobs and create one million new ones; they too failed because no jobs were saved and no new jobs were created, but over 9 million jobs were lost. We were told that we needed bailouts of banks because they would open credit to small businesses and home buyers; it failed because banks have not freed up credit but have hoarded the money to invest in US Treasuries. We were told that we needed cash for clunkers, this too failed it has been disclosed that taxpayers paid an average of twenty-five thousand dollars per clunker. In most cases the clunkers traded in and the new vehicles were not even worth this amount of money. Shovel ready? The only shovel that will be ready will be the one we'll need to use to clean up the mess all of this is going to create.

Now we are being told that we need to replace our current health care system which works for over eighty five per cent of our population with an inferior one that will still not cover over twenty-five million Americans; cost more in new taxes, cut critical Medicare coverage for our elderly and disabled, cut Social Security to our seniors, disabled, and poor, when all that is needed is to provide credit for those Americans who do not have health insurance so that they may purchase in the open free market the coverage they need for themselves and their families like the rest of US. We are being told now that this will bring health care costs down, yet it is projected to cost over one trillion dollars, which translated means this program alone will cost over ten trillion dollars. This is not counting all of the others federal programs the US government pays for with your money. This most assuredly will bankrupt the United States of America and drive the nation further into Depression.

These people are not out for your good, but only to transform the United States into a government run socialist command economic state run by special interest groups who will continually reelect them into perpetuity. Nothing short of this will do, and they are out to do it any way they can. Of course, they and their media allies (especially MSNBC and the rest of the alphabet soup channels) promise you that this is for your good. There is nothing good in it, and they are committed to impose this on the American electorate, and pay off their cronies in the large labor and teachers' unions, as well as several special interest groups where they have their base of support. It is not reform these people are after, but the end of American free enterprise system, and it will bankrupt our nation. Our country will cease to exist as we have know it.

It may now be too late for the American people to understand this, to make any difference, because it is being imposed regardless of their will, and the people doing it would rather fall on their sword succeeding in pushing it through than winning reelection without first imposing this transformation on the rest of US. It is a matter of ideology and commitment to it, not what they are telling US, and not the good of the republic, but its economic dissolution. Why are they so adamant? Because with the election of the nation's first committed (but not declared) Marxist president, they have never come so close to succeeding, and may never get the chance again if the American electorate ever realizes what these partisan ideologues are up to.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WE ARE LOSING AND WHY

Dictatorships historically have one thing in common. Their champions do not like either promoting or protecting any of the following rights:

1.) The right to free speech
2.) The right to own firearms
3.) The right to worship according to one's faith
4.) The right to dissent from official government policies/politics
5.) The right to travel freely within and outside of country
6.) The right to assemble without government approval
7.) The right to conscience
8.) The right to own property
9.) The right to conduct business for profit
10.) The right to redress government abuse of power
11.) The right of presumption of innocence under the law
12.) The right to a jury of one's peers
13.) The ritght to succeed or fail without government obstruction or intrusion
14.) The right to elect officials to preserve such laws as based upon our national Constitution and to represent the interests of its citizens and the nation
15.) The right to repeal legislation - either through the courts or through our elected officials - which are deemed either un-Constitutional or inimical to those of our nation or to its citizens

Every Marxist and Fascist dictatorship in history has one thing in common with regards to the rights just enumerated: these fundamental rights have been abridged in one form or another. Even in this country, these rights have been abridged by local, state, and federal power to one extent or another, even though our Constitution and Bill of Rights were written to protect these rights which our Founding Fathers claimed were given to every human being by our Creator, G-d.

The same individuals whom many of US have elected to office to oversee these rights have been, and are, the very persons involved in abridging some or all of these rights inumerated above in one form or another through legislation and the courts, the very same institutions which our Founders created to oversee and protect such rights. What's more, many of our elected officials have and continue to promote and enforce poliices which have taken and are taking our Constitution apart piece by piece. It has been a slow and methodical journey in accomplishing this, but over more than eight decades, it has been done as America slept.

There are laws on our books which run completely against the intent and will of our Founding Fathers and our Constitution, but which the highest courts in the land and many of our elected officials and presidents have nonetheless promoted and enforced. International treaties, central banks, monetization of our currency, federal regulations, czars, a president dictating from the Oval Office how private business should run their affairs when such powers are not granted by Constitution to the Executive Branch of our government, and the successive progressive overtaxation of the citizenry; are all signs that the fascist state wheel has turned full circle. The United States has become a fascist state.

A large number of the politicians whom we have elected to public office all pay lip service to the protection of these rights, but every piece of legislation and cause they promote have in some way abridged such rights. The American people are awashed by federal regulation, over-taxation, colossal government spending beyond the means of the American people's ability to be able to support such spending. And every meaasure taken and imposed on all of US our elected officials claim are for our good.

Remember the lessons of history: every measure taken by governments which have resulted in tyranny began with a claim by that government that such measures were taken for the good of the people. Every reform proposed and imposed by every politician has resulted in tyranny and dictatorship. A government policy that is imposed is a government policy to be opposed, because it has left out the very right of the people to redress grievances with regards to policies which it considers would do harm to them and to their fellow citizens.

The current health care "reform" being promoted and being imposed on every citizen regardless of the growing opposition to this legislature is nothing but the tyranny of the federal powers usurped by ideologues within a political party to transform this nation into a fascist/Marxist federal consortium, and is dangerously close to passing. It is one of many measures being proposed by this president and by Marxists and Socialist Progressives posing as democrats within his political party in bringing about the effective transformation of the United States into a nation in which its national Constituion no longer protects its citizens of the rights inumerated above.

The purpose behind this transformation is in order to promote global transnationalism whereby which the United States will lose its sovereignty and be absorbed into a New World International Order through international treaty in commerce and government. The current promotion of the "Green" objectives in business, energy, taxes, and every other facet where laws are enacted to erode the ability of peoples and nations to remain independent of world government, is what is at play in the Green Revolution and Climate Change/Global Warming/Wind Power. Take note that its most ardent proponents in this country have done everything possible to stymy the development of nuclear power, clean coal energy, and the development of America's gigantic untapped natural gas and oil reserves. These alternatives aren't even under consideration though they were aluded to during the last presential elections by all the candidates. They're not, because they would make America completely independent of foreign energy. Remember, the powers that be do not want America independent, but interdependent of these and all things though the politicians make promises and claims to the contrary. They are all liars.

Remember this rule and you won't be fooled: oppose every politician regardless of party or presumed ideology, religious affiliation, or repution, who claims that the policy he or she is imposing on you without your consent is for your good, because there is no so-called reform, policy, legislation, action, or measure which does not possess within itself the abridgement (end) one or all of the following:

1.) Your rights.
2.) Your money.
3.) Your liberty.
4.) Your independence.
5.) Your nationhood.

No dictatorship has ever existed that has not begun without first claiming that what it was doing was for everyone's good. Any attempt by the human race to re-erect the Tower of Babel - is nothing more than man's attempt to exclude G-d and the need to account to Him for one's actions. These attempts have plagued the human race since the beginning of time. They began with Cain's offering to G-d and the emergence of every empire that has ravaged the earth in every age. Today's Green, Progressive, Globalist, Secular Humanist, Gender Bender, and Marxist Movements are all a part of man's latest attempts at re-erecting the Tower of Babel unto himself. To this end, every one of these are mashalling the most impressive wealth and power every assembled to bring it to pass. A defiance of G-d is what is ultimately at play here, just as it has been with all of its previous incarnations.

Never believe politicians who make promises with your money, with your liberties, and with your rights, because if and when you do, you will most assuredly lose them. Politicians who make promises with your money (taxes), with your liberties (gun control, free speech, religious liberty,etc.), and with your rights (hate crime legislation, federal regulations, presidential executive orders) they are using as downpayments for the promises they're making. The abridgement of any of these rights is nothing more than tyranny no matter what promise is being made.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Traditional Americans?

From time to time, I often find myself reading a piece from someone who I know understands an issue and has sufficient grasp of the arguments to make a cogent interpretation in forming an intelligent opinion on that topic whatever it may be. Pat Buchanan is one of those individuals, though from time to time he lapses in his thinking and it finds its way into his writing. This is one of those times. I believe that in order to understand the root cause of those lapses one must understand the individual and examine that individual's accomplishments, and the company which that individual has kept during his/her professional career, what causes that individual has embraced, etc...

I agree with Pat Buchanan's basic premise in an article he has written for World Net Daily titled, Traditional Americans are losing their nation (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113463) in which he perhaps with his tongue firmly placed in his cheek, he connects American dicontent with Obama with white supremacy and racism. This plays into the mantra of the left and the racial hucksters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton whom have made a career enriching themselves off of this.

But you know what Pat's problem is? He's been an elitist (albeit like Newt Gengrich) conservative for too long. Pat Buchanan is not a mainline true conservative, but a moderate with conservative leanings on many issues, and liberal on others. He opposed vehemently the Iraq War Phase of the War on Terror and attributed it to oil, the issual screed one reads from the far left. That is one example and there arae many others, but I won't go into them in this post, it would require a much longer writeup involving an analysis and brief biography of the man, not something having to do with what we are examining here. I will only write briely on this and continue the focus of our discussion which has to do with the swelling of opposition across the nation to the policies of Barak Hussein Obama, and his and the media's reaction to it. Now briefly back to Mr. Buchanan.

He worked for Richard Nixon as an opposition researcher during his bid for the Oval Office, and when Nixon won the White House, he went to work for him as his and Spiro Agnew's speech writer. Nixon was a CFR member and insider, and Pat was not far behind. I've never trusted CFR (Council On Foreign Relations) types and never will. They're on the right and they're on the left, and they dominate both political parties, commerce, industry, education, and almost every enterprise where international trade, communications and relations, and government is involved.

Whether or not Pat Buchanan is a CFR Member in good standing, I do not for sure know. I do know that he worked in Nixon's White House as the president's speech writer, and that he gave a speech at the Council On Foreign Relations (for the entire speech go to this link: http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/read.freetrade.html), and the CFR does not often as far as I know, invite non-members to speak at their functions.

Having said all of this, it is not surprising for Pat's take on the various movements springing up across the nation who are opposed to the socialist agenda of the progressive far left (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113463). But, although I understand what he is doing with his article, which is nothing more than a reaction and poorly written rebuttal to another article which appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal written by Alan Maimon, about a group of ex-service men, law enforcement officials, and other professionals called the Oath Keepers whom have taken an oath not to carry out orders that in their opinion run against our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Mr. Maimon attempts to link them to white supremists and other far out fringe groups. I do not like how Mr Buchanan went about doing it (see the following link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/oath-keepers-pledges-to-prevent-dictatorship-in-united-states-64690232.html).

His comparison between the groundswell of American discontent to Obama's agenda with racism, even the very hint of it, is nothing more than feeding the false god of political correctnes that has run amuck in our culture and is now attempting to squelch disent and free speech.

I for one, do not like the policies of Barak Hussein Obama. His race has no bearing on my opposition to him. Had the moderate John McCain followed the same path to radicalization that President Obama has taken this nation on, I would oppose him as well. Race has nothing to do with it, ideas and policies do. To claim, as Obama's followers in his White House and the media do, that opposition to Obama is because of his race, is an insult to people like me, because it relegates the level intelect of those who oppose Obama's policies to those of the chimpazee. It is an insult to our intelligence.

Such a charge of racism is nothing more than a bold attempt to shut off and shut up all opposition, disent; nothing more. It ignores all discourse and intelligent argument, and replaces it with emotional invectives created to drive the argument to its conclusion without having had the opportunity to engage in it.

This is why no matter how often one hears Obama claim that he is open to discuss all matters with those who disagree with him, he never does. He actually takes it to the next level: he holds discussions behind closed rooms with only those who support his point of view, and then spends his time and our money campaigning across the country and the world promoting these causes. The only transparency that Obama shows is how badly he takes criticism to his policies. He is very thin-skinned. Perhaps this is why he and his allies in congress are trying to ram an unpopular health care bill down our throats while neglecting weightier matters such as rising unemployment, a deepening Great Recession/Depression, the War in Afghanistan, etc. But he doesn't end it there.

Obama takes it another notch by openly criticizing the only news organ with the courage to question (as it and all the news media should) policy measures that will prove antithetical to the interests of our nation and every tax paying American (see the following: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/white-house-escalates-war-words-fox-news/).

His campaign against Fox News and talk radio is unprecendent. Show me how a public figure reacts to criticism, and you will show me his soul; what he or she is all about, and whether or not they are true leaders or nothing more than media creations with very thin skins.

Obama is nothing more than a media creation with very, very thin skin. He does not take criticism very easily, and neither do any of the people he has around him. Compare this to Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bush Jr., who were pilloried by the news media almost daily, but who did not comport themselves as Obama has.

Obama craves praise and adoration, but does not take criticism and opposing points of view very well; the signs of a megalomaniac. He believes himself above criticism and when faceed with it, he doesn't quite know how to handle it, so he tries to squash it, make it go away instead of engaging it and attemptijng to rebut it. If you're so sure about what you believe then let's come out and discuss it, and afterwards let people form their own opinions about the matter, but don't try to kill the argument before it has a chance to get out.

This is also another sign of one who is not sure about his core beliefs because they're not based upon impiricle evidences and well thought out argumentations, but on emotional meanderings of ideas and concepts which do not hold up well when scrutinized, and which prove to be dismall and dangerous failers when put into practice as public policy.

This is not good for the rest of US, because when we elect a person to public office, part of the benefits which come with that office is great power; a great responsibility. History has shown that very few have done well with such power, and from what we can see thus far, Barak Hussein Obama is not holding up well with the office of the president of the United States in this category. Yet we do have some examples of leaders who faced great crisis and were given to lead their nations in that hour and led them well. One thinks of Winston Churchill, and in recent years, Ronald Reagan.

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1980, the nation was faced with double digit inflation, high unemployment, stagnation, double digit interest rates, and the loss of prestige overseas because of the Iran hostage situation the nation endured for 444 days up until the day he took the oath of office.

Over and against the daily dictates of the alphabet soup media and liberal politicians, President Reagan went about restoring America's place in the world community, establishing economic growth by scaling back government spending (not cutting it as the media and the politicians told US), cutting marginal income taxes on small businesses and the middle class, and ushered in the greatest economic boom in peacetime in this nation's history. His policies set the stage for welfare reform (workfare), and the country's first balanced budget in modern times, which the nation enjoyed when Newt Gingrich some years later led the new Republicans' Contract with America. Where have these people gone?

But one will remember well how Reagan was savaged daily by the monopoly alphabet soup news channels and the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, including the usual liberal rags of Time, Newsweek, and the rest.

He didn't take them on personally, and didn't call for other organs of the news and print media to take them on. Nor did he work behind the scenes to pull their licenses or audit them, or use members of congress to draft legislation unfavorable to them, because Ronald Reagan was a statesman, and he certainly did not hold himself above the rest of US as Barak Obama does.

History does show US the behavior of those who have had great power over their nation and have not taken criticism too well. Their names are forever etched on our psyche. Names such as Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, Quaddafi, Hussein, Khomeini, and the list goes on.

We do know how these men received criticism and what they did to their critics. That is no to say that Obama will resort to this, of course not. But it a most dangerous thing to see and hear him personally engage in verbal fisticuffs with an organ of the news media because it has the temirity to question his polilcies. That is very dangerous. I've lived a long time and I have never seen anything quite like it. Not in this country, and not by any elected official here.

What's more, I've lived a very long time, and I have never seen almost the entire news media wedded to a president and his agenda quite like what I am witnessing at this moment.

The news media is supposed to be impartial observers reporting news without bias, indeed presenting all sides to an issue and not becoming embroiled in it. So why are we witnessing the pimping of America's press? And why is Obama becoming their Mack Daddie? Why is he calling on them to take on Fox News and to take on all those who oppose his policies? Why? Oh, it has become a dangerous thing to ask WHY in recent months.

I began this post in focusing on Pat Buchanan's piece about the Oath Takers, and it has taken US to reexamining the current state of our news and print media. I will conclude by writing that Mr. Buchanan knows well the parameters of what he can and cannot write if he wishes to continue his employ with MSNBC, to which end explains his article on the Oath Takers.

It could have been better written, and he could have not played into the hands of the far left who see Neo-Nazis and White Supremicists under every bed, and scream, "Racist" , when faced with points of view they cannot address and have no rebuttal for.

But true to form, Mr. Buchanan instead has done what he has always been very adept at doing; replay from time to time the same kind of screed that the left is famous for. It helps US to understand when on occasion he writes something as baffling as the aforesaid article on the Oath Keepers.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Globalism & the Environmental Movment Behind Climate Change & Global Warming

Recently Lord Christopher Monckton, a Climate Change expert and Insider who's had access to Climate Change Agreements and legislation now before congress, gave a speech (at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlTagSZPm7o&feature=related), and in this speech he warned about what the loss of American sovereignty will mean to the world. It was most alarming.

When I first heard about the organizations and movements working towards world government during the late 70s, and considered it all a bunch of conspiracy theories back then. But as the years rolled on and continual politicians - both conservative and liberal - Republican and Democrat Administrations continued to surrender American sovereignty piecemeal every year to UN edicts and unelected international tribunals headed by shadowy individuals, I began to realize that we had a real type of Star Chamber at work, and that politicians within our own government were behind these projects.

I began to investigate the politicians behind this movement, and discovered that they had one thing in common; they were members of an organization named the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. To my dismay, I learned that President George H.W. Bush (the elder Bush; or Bush 41, as he has been called) was not only a member of both organizations, but that he had been a director of the Trilateral Commission. His son, George W. Bush is also a member of that organization, and I would recommend everyone to obtain a copy of the Glenn Ford motion picture titled, The Brother of the Bell. It is a story about a secret society called the Bell comprised of the powerful elites of our society. It is the only motion picture of its kind, and it is a rare gem.

It is this organization and many like it (the British variant of it is the Royal Institute for International Affairs), which have been the driving forces behind the surrender of American sovereignty by successive American presidents, and why even the so-called "conservative" ones have turned tail at one point in their political careers to promote globalism in the guise of international free trade. This is how time and time again we see people who on the surface appear to be at opposite ends of the political spectrum; like Newt Gingrich, a conservative Republican (but CFR Member in good standing), and Al Gore (also a CFR Member in good standing) both promoting climate change legislation, and other measures that would surrender American sovereignty to a global government and saddle hard working struggling Americans with a UN Climate Tax (Obama has pledged US to).

This is how large corporations headed by prominent CFR Members in business and finance are promoting the so-called "Green Revolution" - everyone falling into lockstep with the pied piper of the New World Order that the elder President Bush spoke about fresh on the heels of the success of Desert Storm. This is why GE, Ford, British Petroleum, and large multinational conglomerates are falling into place promoting this Green Revolution, including your local utility companies. They all stand to make incredible profits in this scam and have been promised by the Obama Administration to receive subsidies at tax payer expense as they will slam the hard working beleaguered tax payer with a double whammy of higher energy costs and Obama's higher taxes to offset the exponential growth in federal spending required to support these subsidies. The companies don't care, they'll be taken care of by this government

Ladies and gentlemen, unless the American people rise up and do something about this, the president that many of you supported, campaigned and voted for will surrender you country and mine to the coming Anti-Christ System of the Beast. It can be averted, it can be slowed down, and it can be stopped, but it is up to US; every last one of US. And please, do US all a favor, next year, vote every congressman and senator out of office. They do not represent your best interests or those of this nation. What's more, do yourself and all of US a favor; make sure that the next congress votes term limits for congressmen and senators. There are people who have been too long in the House of Representatives and in the United States Senate. They do not deserve your support because they do not look after your interests, but the interests of the large unions, interest groups, and lobbyists. Their allegiance is to their political party before nation and before their constituents. They do not deserve your vote. Don't vote for them. Get them out of there, but do it intelligently. Make sure that the person whom you are voting to be your representative is not worst than the one you are voting out. To do this, you will have to be aware of the issues and see beyond the mesmerizing rhetoric of this president and those allied to him in congress and in the media.

The totalitarian tendencies are evident before US. Dissent is squelched, and alternative opinions to those of this president are quickly dismissed as "right wing" and those expressing them are ridiculed, pilloried, personally attacked, and vilified by the members of the press, entertainment media, and even the White House itself. Stand up. Be heard. Make your opinions known. This is what our country is all about, not the "glorious conformity" that the White House and the press corpse are trying to impose on US. Free speech, and right of conscience, the right to assemble, and right to express oneself as one sees fit are all protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights that these people wish to overrun with international treaties and political measures, economic policies, and financial entanglements.

Literally, what we are seeing before US is the unraveling of our way of government, as this White House works feverishly to push legislation and treaties without the consent of those governed whose interests they should be looking out for, but are not. There are two overriding reasons why they have been successful thus far; Biblical illiteracy and moral depravity. One goes with the other and the two cannot be separated. When American abandoned G-d in the classroom and His Commandments was progressively stricken from our courthouses and public places, we changed. And we have been changing for forty years. It has been a slow and deliberate change, but a change nonetheless. And the change we are now seeing which we were promised, is the coming at US at the speed of a runaway locomotive. But if enough of US become informed on the issues, know why we support them, and elect public officials to represent US because they share our values, the runaway locomotive of the Obama Nation can be stopped and derailed from its tracks.

We must do it now while we still can. The future of our children and the free world is at stake. We dare not be asleep at the wheel, but must blow the trumpet because the walls are broken in and the enemy is in our camps. Use the power of the vote, the power of the pen, and the power of the free and open exchange of ideas and opinions to make the changes necessary that can conceivably bring a renaissance to our nation and spiritual revival to our land. G-d bless America, but more importantly, America must once again bless G-d.

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Obama Networks & the Myth of a Free Press

The right to free speech, freedom of expession, and free thought are enshrined and protected in our nation's Constitution and Bill of Rights, but progressives pretending to combat censorship, and promoting equal air time for "divergent points of view" have been chipping away at our Constitution through legislation and the courts and transforming the rights of free speech, expression, and freedom of conscience into a politically correct hodge podge of what is permitted and what is not permitted according to their interpretation of it is.

In forty-five years, they have morphed our national conscience through successive propaganda in the media, academia, and motion pictures, while politicians promoting their world view and view of America have all but taken over our congress and almost every level of our federal bureaucracy. Some have called it a conspiracy, I do not. Conspiracies are done in the dark, these people work through organizations out in the open, and have been working for a good many years. The problem is, most of America has been apathetic and asleep. They know this, and this is why so many of their number in the media have now come out into the open to support their causes which they see under assault by "right wing radio" as they call it, and "Fox News."

Interesting. I have followed politics and the media for almost thirty-three years, but I have never seen a situation where every organ of the news media turn on one of its own, that is, until Fox News came along. Before the advent of Fox News, the Internet, the Drudge Report, and Talk Radio, we very much got our news from the alphabet soup channels and from radio. They in turn, got their information from AP, Reuters, and other organs of international news, they still do as a matter of fact. I recall having to sit through day after day of unveiled media attacks on President Ronald Reagan's policies without rebuttals, and how even talk shows would showcase a disproportionate number of leftwing pundits. Occasionally some of these programs would feature a moderate conservative who would barely be allowed to express his or her opinions on the topics and issues of the day. But the liberal elites had a choke hold on the news, and if they sought to spike a story, the story wouldn't' get reported and that would be the end of that. No one would know about it, and the story would go away.

This went on and on, but America saw through it, and Ronald Reagan went on to win the largest electoral victory in this nation's history, even almost capturing all fifty states when he ran for reelection. Ronald Reagan's 1984 win over Walter Mondale was 525 to 13 in the electoral vote and 59 percent to 41 percent in popular votes, unquestionably a landslide. Regardless of what they were being told by the media pundits, academia and Hollywood, the American people spoke resoundly, and President Reagan won reelection, losing only one state by a hair, but winning all forty-nine others. I remember how I relished the reactions of the news anchors covering that election, as I channel surfed that night, just to see it. They all seemed to be acting as though a national tragedy had occurred, as though they had received the news of a lost loved one. They couldn't help themselves, and they did little to hide it. This was 1984, and talk radio began taking off, but there was no Internet yet, no personal computers, and no Windows operating system, or Linux, or any alternative to the monopoly the news and entertainment media had on information and data.

That changed, and when it did, the way people get information did also. For a good many years, the media has been slow to understand this as their ratings plummeted, and people began to get their news and information from cable news, and then the Internet, as well as talk radio. Talk radio took off, and so did cable news. The media moguls saw this, and sought to exploit it, seeing the mass migration from broadcast news and its limited format to 24 news coverage and live telecasts. The first to do this was Ted Turner with his creation of CNN. Others followed suit, but this would have incredible repercussions on information and how news is reported. Amazingly though, no one in the business ever took shots at each other and how they reported the news. They were all professionals and there was an unspoken etiquette that you do not trash one of your own even if you disagreed with their point of view or how they chose to report a story. Even liberal pundits put up a veneer of objectivity thin as it was, but still there was the pretense of it, and they were careful not to appear openly partisan, though they often were without saying so.

By 2000 things changed in a big way. It began earlier in the year. The Democrats and Republicans had by then made their choices who their respective candidate would be for president. The media began to show outright signs of open partisanship in its coverage of the issues and causes each of the candidates supported. By the elections in November, people new where the alphabet soup channels and their cable counterparts stood with regards to the elections. Interestingly though, no one organ of the media attacked another, nor did we see any politician doing the same, but the signs were there that things were beginning to change as news pundits began to take sides openly on the issues. Objectivity in reporting was now laid aside. Also with it the etiquette that so many news professionals had observed until then - you don't attack one of your own in order to advocate your partisan political points of view, especially when reporting news. This changed.

The 2004 presidential elections witnessed something that no one had anticipated would ever happen in this country; a brazen attempt by a presumably reputable news anchor of a major network news outlet fabricate documents to toss the election against that candidate in favor of the other the night before the election. This was CBS and the news anchor was Dan Rather. The New York Times and Washington Post had already made their attempts at this days before. The lessons learned from 2000 and those of this election was not lost on the Far Left, and they set themselves to work behind the scenes for the next elections.

As the 2006 off-year elections loomed on the horizon, the far Left went into action. It organized protests, took names down, canvassed neighborhoods, and all but did what one would expect of missionaries do when witnessing for Jesus Christ, except that many of these so-called churches were not reaching the world for Jesus Christ, they were campaigning for far left causes and candidates across the nation's inner cities in predominantly minority neighborhoods, while their rich elite counterparts were using the media airwaves to do the same in the guise of news reporting. In this environment, the radical leftist candidate Howard Dean took off, but imploded when its star candidate himself imploded in front of the media with his shriek which was heard around the world and was beamed across the Internet by YouTube. In this environment, a young politician who had worked the streets through one of these radical churches and far left organizations under the umbrella of ACORN with money from the Tides Foundation and others, began to prospect for a place within the Democrat Party of is district. The news media and the machinery were well organized and in place to help him do it. So were large donations from globalist billionaires such as George Soros and others.

In four years, the Left organized, especially after the 2008 elections, and civility went out the door and with it all other restraints news professionals had up until the 2000 elections observed. The news media had come of age, and the new pundits springing up across the landscape at that time were now open partisans. The old pundits were now also out in the open. The first of their number to openly come out was Dan Rather, but others followed. Tom Brokaw, the late Peter Jennings, as well as "America's most trusted voice" the late Walter Cronkite, all came out of the closet and embraced the Left.

As far left blogs began to spring up across cyber space, so did their counterparts on cable news. More and more organizations began to organize for left leaning progressive candidates and their media counterparts were all too eager to openly promote their causes on the air. The alphabet soup channels and their cable news counterparts now openly campaigned for the candidates of their choice; promoting causes over and against others, and by the 2008 elections, many of them like MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, and NBC became nothing more than adjuncts of the Obama Campaign after the Clinton Campaign imploded.

By the 2008 presidential elections, the same far Left organizations which had organized protests the previous eight years now went to work for the Democrat candidate of its choice after its party finished the nomination process and choice of who would run against the Republican's candidate, the moderate John McCain. For a time, it appeared that the candidate of choice would be Hillary Clinton. The Clintons, themselves part of the Left; what the media called "the new Democrats," had the largest and wealthiest and best organized network of support the Democrat Party had in place at the time, but this would change, as would also the media's support for her.

As the months wound down to November, it was obvious that she would not be the DNC's star candidate, that distinction would go to a almost unknown junior senator from Illinois, Barak Hussein Obama. With this change, the media began to realign its support behind the junior senator and turn on its once favorite candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton, who had the Oval Office in her sights, did not give up easy, and her concession speech was not really a concession speech at all, but almost a call to arms. This was a signal however, for those in the know, for the Left to rally behind Obama, and it did. The media followed suit. Overnight news outlets and papers across the nation began to rally behind the young junior senator from Illinois who fancied himself (and still does) another Abraham Lincoln. Cable news outlets such as MSNBC became open organs of the Obama for President Campaign, and they have not ceased being so ever since. The Washington Post admitted in its Sunday column by its Ombudsman following the elections that it had favored Senator Barak Obama in its reporting over Senator John McCain.

Amazingly however, no matter how well funded or well organized, or brazen this open campaigning had become, by election night of the forty-three per cent of Americans who still vote went out to the polls to cast their vote for the next president, the differences in numbers of votes between the two candidates were not that great. President-elect Barak Obama won 66,117,432 (52.6%) to Senator McCain's final numbers being 57,847,877 (46.1%). In spite of the incredible network of support he had received from Hollywood, the news media, academia, the large trade, auto, and teachers' unions, and the over two hundred fifty-seven organizations under ACORN's banner; Barak Hussein Obama won the presidency by a paltry 5.6% of the popular vote. President Elect Barak Hussein Obama won the Electoral College Votes by 152, and the Popular Vote by 8,869,755 votes, an impressive number, but a much more impressive number had been Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1936 election, where he defeated Alf Landon 523 to 8 in the electoral vote and 61 percent to 37 percent in the popular vote. But regardless of the outcome of the elections, by a 70% margin most Americans knew that the press favored Obama over McCain, as reported by the respected Pew Research Center (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey).

Of 56% of voting Americans turning out to vote on election night, Obama defeated McCain by securing approximately (see above) 66 million votes to McCain's (see above) 58 million. That means that the 46.1% who didn't vote for Obama and the 44% who sat it out, did not want the change Obama campaigned about. This translates into 90.1% of Americans do not want the changes Obama wants to bring to this nation. This explains the incredible numbers of people at the various T.E.A. Parties across the country the last several months protesting these changes, and the overwhelming reaction from voters against ObamaCare at town hall meetings that took place during the month of August. This would also explain why Obama and his media allies have gone into campaign mode to promote his vaunted attempt at socialized medicine which he and they call euphemistically, Health Care Reform, and Insurance Reform, but which is nothing more than a brazen attempt to completely federalize health care and secure an untapped source of revenue for the multi-billion dollar Abortion Industry, as well as create a new constituency entitlement depending voting block to secure more power. And the news media is right behind this. All except Fox News, which is has not become like MSNBC and the others, a referee for ObamaCare, but which has reported thus far from both sides of the issue.

This is why we are now seeing the phenomenon of the news media outlets everywhere eating one of its own; Fox News, because it will not fall into lockstep with the rest and join the Obama Caravan of Change They Believe In and want you to believe in too. And to this end, they have pulled out all of the stops. We are seeing in our day the most pervasive and extensive propaganda machine at work across every venue to promote political causes and politicians with Obama at its head, that we have ever seen in the history of broadcast and cable news, predominating every venue, with almost limitless and obscene amounts of money being spent at a time when most average Americans are suffering through the worst economic period since the Carter years in the 70s and the Great Depression of the 30s.

There is now in place a network of Far Left foundations, groups, organizations, media outlets, print, television and cable news, as well as academic, allied to this White House, and working to promote its agenda across the board over and against everyone and everything else it considers a political enemy or threat to that agenda and those candidates, and to Obama. We are seeing in our day, scurrilous attacks by the White House itself against a news outlet - Fox News - for having the courage and conviction to reporting all sides of the issues and being honest in its reporting, rather than becoming what the other news outlets have become; an appendage of the Obama White House Press Corps. We have already witnessed ABC News setting shop inside the White House and openly censoring any opposition to ObamaCare. We are continually seeing more and more the political lines being drawn on television, all favoring ObamaCare and Obama's type of change.

This network has crystallized and is the largest this nation has ever seen, but it is also being exposed by some intrepid people. One of them is Glenn Beck, others are Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Bob Grant, and many others on talk radio and on television. But of these, perhaps the best have been Accuracy in Media, the Media Research Group, and Andrew Breitbart whose articles at the following links have opened wide just how pervasive this vast network of leftists is. (See the following:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/15/leaked-memo-reveals-the-white-house-has-control-of-your-television-set/ and
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/10/15/part-ii-search-and-ye-shall-find-left-wing-advocacy/ and http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/10/15/obama-controls-your-television-set-part-iii-serve-gov-or-serf-dom/ and

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/10/15/list-of-organically-created-iparticipate-television-programs/

Make no mistake about it. As far as a free press in America is concerned, there is no such thing. A free press would report independently of and not in favor of any given issue. It would present the raw facts and allow the listener or viewer to decide for themselves. This is not what the press is doing, and because this is precisely what Fox News is doing, it has become not only the target of vicious attacks by the press corps., but also incredibly by the White House. Fascism has come to America, and its face is not pretty folks. When a sitting president of a nation (and his press corps) takes upon themselves to personally attack one (or any) news outlet because of its reporting, then that nation has become fascist. America is now a fascist nation with a fascist Leftwing leader in the highest office of the land, who will not tolerate dissent.

It does not matter whether or not we have a Constitution and Bill or Rights which protects US against such behavior, Obama and his allies will not tolerate it. Their behavior in recent weeks, are a harbinger of more to come. To this end, the vast network they have created and funded has been mobilized to blunt 90% of the rest of the nation, because they realize that if the other two thirds who either did not vote for Obama or sat the elections out combine their efforts, Obama's agenda will come to nothing (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html).

They know this, and this is why they have mobilized into full campaign mode. This is why Obama - the ACORN Candidate and ACORN President - is on every show, traveling to every corner, and being heard everywhere to promote his healthcare "reform." For the last several months since he's taken office, he has come to enjoy getting everything he's wanted, and the saying goes, "What Obama wants, Obama gets." But in spite of all the vast media help, the concerted and well organized and financed campaign to promote his policy objectives, the forces arrayed to his side realize that there are 90 per cent of US out there who do not buy into his plan to "change and radically transform" this country into the world's next Marxist Paradise. So stand up and be heard America. Stand up and be seen. Stand up and make history, because if you don't, your apathy will all but seal your fate as well as that of your posterity.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST

It appears that regardless of how bad it gets, we are being told by our politicians and members of the news media that "things are getting better, the DOW just broke 10K, and that there is light at the end of this tunnel." Before anyone begins believing this, let's get both our feet back in the ground, and look at the reality instead of what we are being told that reality is, because Wall Street is not Main Street, and the only reason Wall Street is doing so good right now is because the entire financial structure is being papered over by the federal Reserve, and bankrolled by the Chinese Communist Government in Beijing.

Another reason Wall Street is doing so good is because the largest technology corporations have cut back on hiring, moved their hiring overseas where they can obtain cheaper labor at half the overhead, and continue to shed more jobs here in the United States where the labor market continues to contract. This is not a recovery, this is another sign of what the economists were saying just weeks ago, and earlier this year; that they expected this "recession" to continue well into the next two years at best, and did not expect a recovery until at least 2012. What we are being told is a bold and callous lie.

About 18 per cent of our population are currently out of work. A good half of those have been out of work for more than a year, while many more have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits. Of those there are many more who are living off of public assistance in some way. Some have become homeless, others unable to pay the most common bills such as water, utilities, or even food. And because they are no longer looking for work, the government has written them off, and they no longer "exist," therefore they are not included when states such as New Jersey, California, Michigan, Connecticut, and Florida (who have the highest unemployment rates in the country) release their press glowing reports monthly.

It is incredible. It's almost as if there are two realities in this country; the elected officials who are telling US that times are "tough" yet "things are looking up," and the rest of US who can't pay our bills, can barely afford our meals, stopped paying utilities months ago to pay our mortgages, and are late paying almost everything else. We read of incredible corruption at the highest levels of our society, from the halls of congress (Charles Rangel's [D.NY] misdeeds, the NEA (National Education Association) and AFT (American Federation of Teachers) connections to the White House, and ACORN's connections to this White House, also SEIU's connections to ACORN, to the TIDES FOUNDATION, and to this White House, and the manipulation of information and willful disinformation for political purposes going on between this White House, and all of these entities, as disclosed on Fox News, and such programs as the Glenn Beck Show, Sean Hannity Show, Bill O'Reilly, and on talk radio. Corruption indeed is in high places in America, and the American people are suffering because of it.

There is an old cliché' which is over-used but fits this situation, it is: If it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and smells like a duck, then it's a duck. Well, my fellow Americans, we have ducks in government at every level, and in the media at every level, and in almost every other place where information is dispensed to the public. We're being told one thing, and the reality just does not fit the rhetoric. We were promised by this government in the last days of the waning Bush Presidency that the multi-billion (almost a trillion dollars) of tax payer bailouts to the country's richest institutions owned by the country's wealthiest was necessary in order to prevent massive layoffs and a depression. What happened? We got exactly that. Now we have recently discovered that everything former Treasury Secretary Paulson and current Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke said were lies, and the entire bailout to the nation's wealthiest institutions owned by the richest was nothing more than history's greatest swindle - the largest money laundering operation in the history of not just this country, but in history. No one is going to jail folks, and no one is being investigated.

Why? Because many of the faces behind this, voted for the bill, and were themselves part of what caused the collapse of our economy in the first place. They are just too many, too powerful, and they control the key committees which would have investigatory powers over these affairs. They know how to protect themselves, and they know that there isn't a darn thing that anybody will or can do to stop them short of voting them out of office come the next two elections cycles, which they expect to win handily thanks to the work of their allies in the media, the unions, and the entrenched political machineries back home. Thus one hears the likes of a Barney Frank, a Christopher Dodd, a Charles Rangel, and Robert Menendez continue to tell US how they work for the common guy, for the little people, while their collective political careers point to the kind of government waste and corruption that created the situation we are in right now. Oh, but don't expect them to take responsibility for it; they're too busy telling US how they are on our side, how they voted for this project or that which would "help" our seniors, put food on the poor's table, and secure more growth in the creation of new jobs. They're on our side you know. Right. The standard of living you now have speaks more to the reality than all of their bombastic rhetoric to the contrary.

And since Chicago style politics has come to the White House, and the White House Chief of Staff is micro-managing every government activity with the aid of over 30 so-called unelected czars for the president, we are seeing now an unprecedented growth in both the level of federal activity and control over almost every facet of our personal affairs in our lifetime. The corruption, lying, cheating (almost every one of the president's cabinet level appointees are chronic tax cheats), and malfeasance in this government is eroding the very fabric of our country's moral infrastructure. But this is not new to this administration; we have been in this decline for quite some time. The office of the presidency has been tarnished for quite some time, and by several individuals who never should have been elected, let alone made it passed their respective party's primaries. But, what we have sown, we have also reaped. Our politicians are US, and we have hell to pay for our own actions.

Remember, during the last presidential elections Obama paid SEIU over a quarter of a million dollars http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/why-hasnt-acorn.html with money coming from billionaire Leftist George Soros into Obama's campaign war chest, this after candidate Obama had pledged not to accept private donations and go with the government campaign contributions which would have limited him from accepting limitless money from undisclosed sources had he kept his pledge which he didn't. This is how the agent of change was able to raise almost a billion dollars as more Americans became impoverished. He would have done better had he given each one of these impoverished Americans a million dollars each to start out, and still would have had more than his rival's contributions. But you see, Obama, like Rangel, like Menendez, like Frank, and like Dodd, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of big spenders like to be magnanimous with money and with programs for "the poor" but not with their own money, which they keep insulated from taxation and regulation, but with other people's money.

Thus, we hear about from media cheer leaders for Obama Care from the alphabet soup channels now brazenly allied to this White House, how "the people" are with this public option" and how "most Americans support Obama's plan" and how those who oppose it are nothing more than "plants of the big insurance companies," and "Republican agents" "Nazis," Racists, and angry gun totting white bigots. This is what it's come to America. If you disagree with certain elements of your government, your opinion is written off as rants and hate, and you are classified under Janet Napolitano's Homeland Security as a potential terrorist. This is the Obamanation. This is what where we have arrived just months after the elections. This is where you were warned we would be taken, and this is where we are. The very foundations of this republic and the world are being shaken to its very core, and the powers are trembling. Judgment is coming.

For the first time in our history, the National Day of Prayer was not observed by our nation's president. For the first time in our nation's history the Muslim month of Ramadan was observed at the White House by this president and his family. For the first time in this nation's history Holy Bibles sent to Afghanistan were confiscated and on orders from the president, burned. For the first time in this nation's history, Islam is being promoted in our nation's public schools through education plans fostered in the name of multiculturalism and inclusion, and homosexual and pedophilia are being taught to minors in the guise of sex education without their parents' consent. For the first time in our nation's history, the president of the United States has appointed an openly homosexual to head the U.S. Marshal's Office. For the first time in our nation's history a sitting president has ordered 900 million dollars to Hamas - a sworn enemy of the United States - over the objections of Israel, America's premier ally in the Middle East.

And while all of the above is happening right under our eye and without out consent; a health care proposal which will federally fund abortions on demand, as well as cut significant number of seniors and poor from getting help, and cut Medicare Advantage to seniors and Medicaid to the poor, as well as increase the cost of healthcare, raise taxes, and destroy competition by crowding it out in a government run monopoly; is being rammed down the throats of every citizen of this nation because what Obama wants, Obama gets; of course, all in the name of "helping the little guy." Oh, did I forget to mention, Obama Care is not what Obama, his family, and members of congress have for themselves, not by a long shot, and it they have no intention of swapping what they have for Obama and Congress' "public option," or anything they have before committee right now. It appears that what's good for the goose is not good for the gander when it comes to our elected officials. The rules they play by are not the rules they set out for everybody else.

And while they debate in out of committee this monstrosity of a health care bill (there are many being debated), the people who are hurting most, those unemployed, and especially those whose unemployment benefits were exhausted months ago, are being put aside to make way for Obama's obsession. We are seeing how the Senate is stalling, while over five hundred thousand Americans and a good many more who have fallen through the cracks find it impossible to pay for bare necessities while they compete with fifteen to twenty others for that "one job" while these senators continue living high on the six figure salaries, enjoying the healthcare coverage they deny to everyone else and won't even consider for all US Citizens as a birthright, especially those whom have served this nation. Welcome home America, the chickens have indeed come home to roost.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Another Look At the Changes We Are Supposed to Believe In

With the new administration in Washington and its control of congress, America is in the process of a paradigm shift towards its enemies and abandonment of its long time friends and allies in the Middle East and around the world; but particularly, Israel. In recent months, the Obama Administration approved $900 million dollars in aid to HAMAS in the Gaza Strip. (By the way just so you'll know, in the Spanish Language, HAMAS means, "never more.") That is your hard earned tax dollars have been given without your consent by this president to a terrorist organization that continually fires missiles into Israeli cities without provocation; murdering in cold blood innocent human beings - Jews, Arabs, and others (bombs don't discriminate and choose their targets).

What's more, we are seeing the Obama administration returning to the failed Clinton Policy of treating terrorism as a law enforcement matter, and has scaled back and is about to abandon the successful Bush Doctrine of Preemptive Action. We are already seeing that the new administration is going forward with closing GITMO's Camp Delta, where some of the world's most committed and dangerous terrorists are incarcerated, and will release some of these to the public, while providing them (at tax payer expense) Constitutional Rights which our Constitution does not mandate for enemy combatants and non-citizens captured in acts of sabotage and terrorism against this country. This will be the first time in the history of this nation that such an action has been taken by a sitting president on behalf of enemies of this nation.

While America's enemies see weakness, and are showing signs of increasing boldness in the face of her vacillation and retreat around the world, the new administration holds talks with nations that sponsor, train, arm, and deploy terrorists. Russian warships visit the ports of America's worst enemies, and Russian long range strategic nuclear capable bombers are poised to be stationed in this hemisphere in Cuba and Venezuela; something which another Democrat President (John F. Kennedy) considered intolerable. Indeed, it was the Soviet Union's intent and outright act of deploying nuclear strategic ICBMs in Cuba which precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis forty plus years ago, and almost triggered a thermo nuclear war. In the face of perceived weakness and introversion, America's enemies are becoming increasingly emboldened.

While America scales back its forces in Iraq, and this administration sets its sights with withdrawing all of its land forces from that country by next year (2010), Al Qaeda, which had been resoundly defeated by the Bush Administration's military policy last year, and was in retreat as Iraqi and American forces were overtaking it in every sector; is now scaling up its attacks against the Iraqi people, while Iran has been caught supplying and training the militant anti-American Mahdi Army of radical pro-Iranian Cleric, Muktada al Sadr, while it has deployed elements of its special forces - its vaunted Revolutionary Guards - through the Iraqi/Iranian border to shore up Sadr's retreating forces against Iraqi and American forces. Iran is waging a proxy war against Iraq and the United States, and is using Sadr's Mahdi Army in the process against their fellow Iraqis.

As this is happening, this administration is holding high level talks with Iran and Syria. There is no reciprocation on their part in these talks, because it is the Obama Administration which has reached forward to them without any demands or concessions on their part before such talks could be held. This administration is beginning to treat America's enemies better than its friends; harkening back to the days of the Carter and Clinton Administrations. The change promised is nothing more than a return to failed soft shoe policies which Carter and Clinton used as policy during their years at the White House. One can almost detect their breath blowing into the Oval Office and inhaled by its current occupants. Indeed, Obama's appointments to cabinet level positions and his choice of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State speaks volumes with regards to the direction he is taking the nation's foreign.

Rapprochement and vacillation are both viewed and correctly interpreted by America's enemies as weakness, while rude and ill advised policy initiatives against America's friends are also viewed as weakness and vacillation; because when a nation cannot distinguish between who its friends and who its enemies are, and proceeds in mistreating its friends while wooing its enemies, it will be seen by friend and foe alike as being lost at sea, and without any hope of nearing solid ground with regards to its foreign policy. Ambiguity in foreign policy is not a change anybody can believe in. I've recently written to many of you the following warning and why this administration is taking US in the direction it has in the last few weeks since January 20th of this year:

Everything I wrote about is being implemented, promoted, and enforced in just weeks after his inauguration! One thing about Obama; he is ambitious, and with almost complete control of the news media, congress, the unions, academia, and corporate America (TARP1, Stimulus 1, Omnibus 1, Stimulus 2 (proposed), Omnibus 2, the Federal Reserve 1trillion dollar buyout of securities (they will print one trillion dollars out of thin air for this, and devalue our dollar by a trillionth, see the following article, http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=20912321).

Barak Hussein Obama is the figurehead president of a cabal of a multi-national conglomerate whose sole purpose is to create a new world international order in finance, with them behind the scenes in control over every government (state) on this planet. It is not necessarily conspiratorial as some have suggested, it is being done right under our noses, and in recent years, its spokespersons have made its intentions known. Indeed, we are already seeing the demise of the dollar, one of its key objectives. A new global financial order cannot exist as long as the dolloar is strong. This is why the most brilliant minds in our government are messing up our economy, and continue to make "mistakes." They plan to devalue the dollar through uncontrolled spending and borrowing by the US government and the governments of Europe, then spending the country into bankruptcy and creating a New Great Depression - a manufactured new crisis - they will transfer the dollar into a new international currency called the Amero. The Amero will be worth much more than the valueless dollar, because it will be based upon a hard asset and the promise of the central banks under the Fed and the world's central banks to honor it as legal tender worldwide.

This administration with its 900 million (almost a billion dollars) giveaway to the terrorist Hamas. And their rapprochement of the terrorist Syria, and Iran in recent weeks, their dropping of the term "War on Terror," their policy reversal on missile defense, and their adoption of a new policy towards illegal/undocumented workers on this side of the border. They are also using the Mexican war on drug cartels, to promote new draconian anti-gun legislation in the guise of stemming the flow of arms into Mexico from the US.

In the next couple of weeks/months, they will enforce perhaps by Presidential Executive Order measures to shut down or curtail the sale of armaments to civilians, and eventually will use the courts and congress, to overturn the Second Amendment to our Constitution.

Also, keep a close watch on the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine, which will be used by this administration through its proxies in congress to promote censorship of conservative and Christian broadcasting. It will begin with strictly political, but will expand to religious broadcasting, and will use the topic of homosexuality and same sex marriage to promote its censorship of free speech and policies it disagrees with. By piecemeal, the American Constitution is being ripped to shreds, and with it, the only protection all minorities have - the rule of law over and against the mob rule of democracy and the tyranny of one man rule.

Already, Barak Hussein Obama has placed a radical into the California Court of Appeals and stands to fill every vacancy on that critical court. He is likely to make two, maybe three Supreme Court appointments. He will most assuredly appoint hard left of center activist judges (the recent Supreme Court nomination is one example), and this will continue to transform the laws of this country into the New World Order. Already activist Judges on the Supreme Court have broken precedent by including Internation Law in their interpretation of our National Constitution. Keep your eyes on these developments, and remember who warned you about them. They will happen with or without your consent.

Monday, October 5, 2009

THE LEGACY OF ABORTION ON DEMAND AND PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION - PART ONE

When human life was relegated by those who promote Darwinian Evolution to the status of mere animal, Western Civilization was well on its way to a sliding chasm of genocide, and eventual infanticide.
We witnessed the outcome; the atrocities committed to untold hundreds of millions of human beings in the former Soviet Union, Red China, Communist Viet Nam, Communist North Korea, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Communist Cambodia, Communist Zimbabwe, Communist Angola, Communist Nicaragua, Communist Cuba, Communist Venezuela; the list goes on, and continues to this day - the atrocities are myriad, and are nothing short of genocide on a global scale since it encompasses multitudes of population, crossing national, racial, ethnic, religious, and regional barriers.

This has been the fruit bitten from the tree of Darwinian Evolution and the cheapening of human life which it has produced.
What has followed has been the elevation of animal life to the level of and at times above human life.
When human life is cheapened to the point that animal life supercedes it, and disregarded to the point that it no longer holds value, but animal life holds the value that human life should hold; then those whose viewpoint stems from this, will by natural inclination, consider that human life does not begin at conception.
Indeed, such a person, having cheapened the value of human life and consigned it to nothing more than mere protoplasm, will not hesitate to dismember a human life at any stage of development.

This is the horrendous crime of abortion by demand in general, and partial birth abortion in particular.
There is no difference between such an action and killing in cold blood.
Both are an affront to life and life's Creator.
There are three premises which are the cornerstone of the multibillion dollar abortion industry and it supporters in the Senate and House; and these are the following. Let us now examine these one by one:

1.) A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
2.) A WOMAN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.
3.) A WOMAN'S RIGHT OVER HER OWN BODY.

A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE

1.) It is not a woman's right to choose that is at stake here, or even at question.
Such a question is rhetorical in nature, assuring that the answer be just one - a woman can do what she pleases with the living being inside her, even though she cannot do as she pleases once she has given birth to it, and that life is outside of her womb.
It is inconsistent to allow harm to be done to a living and developing life form in a woman's body during certain stages of its development, while proscribing it once it has come to term and been born. True choice is the choice to carry to term, not just one choice; therefore those who say they are for choice should consider that true choice is the choice also not to abort. The proponents of "choice" are not really for true choice at all - only so long as the choice is to abort.

A WOMAN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

2.) It is not reproductive rights that is at question here - as the people who support abortion on demand would claim, but human rights - the right of the infant to live.
Abortion is not a reproductive right, since it does not entail reproduction, but extinction.
To call it reproduction, and then give it the status of a right is to do a terrible disservice to the meaning of the word reproductive.
It is nothing less than doing human rights a injustice, since it elevates an action of killing above the life which is being killed, and the right of that life to exist.
Reproductive denotes the reproduction of an existing element or thing, not its extinction.
Abortion is not reproduction.
Abortion is extinction.
As such, it cannot be termed a right; much less a reproductive right, since it does not entail a reproduction, but a destruction of something which exists in the mother's womb; a human life.

A WOMAN'S RIGHT OVER HER OWN BODY

3.) The premise of such a statement is that one is defining the fetus in a woman's womb as an integral part of her body, which it is not at any time, but is essentially a separate entity living and developing inside the womb of its mother. As such a woman's right over her body is not at question here, since it is not the woman's body which is being ripped to shreds and dismembered out of the womb, but another body within the woman's body - the body of the life which was within her.
Therefore, for anyone to claim that the argument of Abortion Rights is one of a woman's right to choose, or a woman's reproductive to rights, or a woman's right over her own body; remind them that such rights are reserved when human life is being preserved (in every stage of development - conception - first, second, or third Trimester, throughout life, and in Old Age), not when the choice is one - death, or when the fetus (as they call the human being inside the womb) is being ripped apart and killed, or when the surgery being conducted on the woman entails ripping or sucking out by force the living being inside of her body.

AN OBSERVATION

Strange as it may sound, those who promote Abortion on demand will be the first to defend animal rights, but will blanch at defending an infant's right to live.
It is interesting to note that Pro-Abortion Advocates are often augmented by Animal Rights and Homosexual Rights Advocates.
One elevates an irresponsible behavior and its outcome over an infant's right to life, another elevates animal life over human life, and the last group elevates dysfunctional deviant behavior to the status of a right.

CONCLUSION

This is the posterity of those whom have embraced Darwinian Evolution, and with it the elevation of the beast over the human being.
This is what a great many of our elected officials have been funding with your tax dollars and mine to the tune of almost a billion dollars a year since the Supreme Court decision termed Roe v. Wade was made.
Abortion is not the right of choice, nor is it the right of a woman over her body, nor is it a reproductive right.
Abortion is the licensed murder of innocent human life, bought and paid for by your tax dollars and mine.
This is what I think of the misconception and oxymoron " a woman's right to choose," or "a woman's reproductive rights," or "a woman's right over her own body."

THE LEGACY OF ABORTION ON DEMAND AND PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION - PART TWO

AND WHAT ABOUT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION?

Government does not have the right to legislate the private lives of its citizenry, or to officiate over their private affairs.
Government should not allocate the tax of its citizenry towards funding abortion on demand.
Government should not legislate behavior.
It does reserve the right to punish misbehavior when such behavior endangers human life.
Government should not be involved at all; either for, or against abortion.
It should not fund it, outlaw it, or make it into law.
It should stay out of it all together.
This is a matter which should be settled privately by families, clergy, counselors, friends, and institutions whose professionals services can and should provide the services necessary to bring such matters to completion amicably, and humanely.
Keep government out of this.
A government which reserves for itself the right to legislate your private affairs has already taken your freedoms from you without firing a shot.
A government that legislates either for or against abortion has already taken our freedoms from us.
A government which can legislate your life has thus deprived you of your humanity.
Every service government provides, it provides at a cost.
Legislating either for or against abortion on demand (either way) is a price too high to pay as regards our most basic of human rights.
Why? Because it touches the most fundamental rights of human beings; the right to freedom of privacy.
Leave government out of our private affairs.
It has no right to pry into them.
That right is reserved only for our G-d, and those closest to us, and it should be preserved at all costs.
Government (federal) should only consign itself to Constitutional matters of national and international affairs.
Its' intrusion beyond this will border on tyranny.
It is not the role of the federal government to either support or outlaw abortion on demand. Our tax dollars should not go to fund a multi-billion dollar industry which is ethically suspect, morally bankrupt, and takes undue advantage of the dispossessed and disadvantaged.
This is a private matter, and not one which the government has not the Constitutional authority to legislate, or get itself involved in.

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WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN IN THIS REGARD BEFORE

Those who support abortion on demand; euphemistically called "the right to choose," and will not think twice, or even feel the slightest pang of guilt or remorse in advocating such an act, (even if there might be the slightest of possibilities---the slightest mind you---- that an innocent is being put to a terrible end---a human being mind you---, even before he/she has had the chance to live and enjoy that life----a life much like yours, and which we have been allowed by our parents, who thankfully respected and revered human life, yes even more than that of animals (PITA catch a breath!) to live and enjoy.
No. Abortion on demand is just a convenient way which gives the irresponsible, and immoral a license to escape and not be held accountable for their own indiscretions, as well as fleeing the responsibility of caring for a child he and she is bringing into this world, but do not wish to take responsibility for.
It is an easy way out of an inconvenience.
But who gives one the right to play God with human life; to decide who lives and who dies at a whim?
And who are we to decide what life is fit live amongst us, and what life is not?
Is this how far we've come?
Are we now no better than the Nazis, who advocated certain racial groups not fit to live among humankind?
Let us now get to the root cause of how some can support abortion on demand, without the slightest thought that they may be advocating the wholesale genocide of innocents (an multi-billion dollar government subsidized industry which has put to death hundreds of millions of babies since the decision Roe v. Wade was decided upon by the Supreme Court), while under the same breath advocate preserving animal life, the rain forest, and the environment.
The issue of abortion, like so many others used by the politicians; but this one particularly, is one which transcends political parties.
It is the evidence more of a fundamental difference on how one views human life than it is of political ideology, or political persuasion. Evidence of this is in the fact that political candidates from both parties have embraced both causes.
It all comes down to the adaptation of ideas.
Ideas and beliefs are powerful.
They have spawned empires, and mighty nations.
They have been the catalyst for conflict; look at the Middle East today.
Abraham Lincoln had an idea which gave enslaved Americans their freedom to live as men and women.
John Kennedy had an idea to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, and because this, our great nation accomplished it only six years later.
Martin Luther King had an idea which became a dream, and that dream became reality.
Ronald Reagan had a dream that America was shining city upon a hill, and once in office, set about to make that dream a reality.
Four years later, he had accomplished most of it; having restored America's respect abroad, restored our military, brought inflation down from 23% to 8%, reduced unemployment, and many more things which space and time do not allow me to recall here.
But suffice it to say that because of his dream; his idea, America in just under four years was brought back from the very brink of disaster.
There was still much to do, and many more reforms were still needed; but much of the work that needed to be done was done, all due to one man's courage to take on the special interests throughout the nation, and the entrenched beauracrocy in Washington which that monied aristocracy paid off in order to preserve the status quo.
The greatest idea originated from God Himself.
Having created humankind, having witnessed its downfall; He set immediately about to prepare the Way for its reconciliation with Him.
He called a man, who became a nation, and out for that nation, a tribe from which was born a Son, and that Son became the catalyst for reconciliation, regeneration, redemption, and resurrection.
The greatest idea ever to have existed.
Yes, as I've written before, it begins with a thought, which becomes an idea, which becomes a dream, which if put into action; turns into reality. Cause and effect.
What you think will most assuredly affect how you live.
Indeed, whatever goes through a person's mind will determine their actions or inactions to certain stimuli.
FOR AS A HE Thinks WITHIN HIMSELF, SO HE IS.
Prov. 23:7
In fact, ideas are so powerful that Christ has said they can move mountains.
"...if you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you."
Mt. 17:20b. See also Mt. 20:21, 22, Lk. 17:6.
So powerful that elsewhere He has stated that faith, which is an element of one's pure trust and belief in someone; can accomplish anything.
"All things are possible to him who believes."
Mk. 9:23.
So, we see that it all begins with an idea, a thought, a belief, and it turns into a cause.
Yes, you must believe strongly in something before it can grip you and cause you to take it up as your own cause; your passion, if you will.
But we can ask, and rightly so, "How does this explain how a person can advocate the defense of animals, and the environment, and yet support death by abortion?"
Values. A person's value system will determine what causes that person will, or will not take up.
Indeed, it comes down to values and beliefs.
How these values have shaped your thinking.
How these values have molded the way you view yourself, others, and the world around you.
If we believe that human life is precious, no matter how primitive; we are compelled to defend and preserve it at all costs.
However, if we have been taught to believe that humankind is but an advance community of animals with intellect; whose origins are found in one cell amoeba, and just a mass of protoplasm, carbon and water; then life is not quite as hallowed; and the natural progression of this is that fetal life, primitive as it is in "certain stages of development," is no life at all; after all, "It cannot subsist outside of its mother's womb." , as abortion advocates so have stated so many times.
But the argument is specious.
It begins with the faulty premise that just because the underdeveloped child cannot fend for itself outside of the mother's womb, it therefore cannot be a child, but a thing; and thus does not have any rights, much less the right to live.
We know that without the care of its parent, any baby will most assuredly die in time.
If I were to apply this argument to them in general, just as the advocates of abortion do to babies in the first (and the more rabid advocates, to the second trimester), and not just babies, but the elderly; I would be forced to conclude that they do not have a right to live simply on the grounds that they cannot fend for themselves.
Those who hold such views do not even realize that they are basing their estimation of what human life is very much as the Nazis did; by ways of degrees; and measured by abilities of self-preservation.
On the basis of whether an ear has been fully formed, or a person's ability to see, or even intelligence, and motor skills.
Anything that is not up to certain standards (whose, I don't know) must be conveniently done away with; after all it is a lesser life form, and not fit according to the norms mandated by the state to live among human beings.
Survival of the fittest.
You see where we are going with this?
You see the danger?
Again, it begins on where the person bases their own belief on the origin of human beings in general, and human life in particular. Advocates of Darwinian Evolution see life as having evolved from the lesser developed life forms to that of homosapiens.
They do not see human beings as anything unique among the creatures that roam this earth, but simply higher animals which, through selective evolution, have developed intellect.
And the earth in which these animals inhabit itself is equal to its human inhabitants in importance.
If one is to take this reasoning further, the animals which roam and share this great planet of ours are themselves our equal, and because of this, must be protected.
It thus falls to mankind to protect them, since we are the most intellectually developed.
It almost sounds good, doesn't it.
And one finds that one can almost be allured to believe it, and be carried away by the argument.
As a matter of fact, I used to believe it myself.
That is why I know exactly where secular humanists are coming from.
I was once one of them.
But there is something insidious hidden in the way it denies the existence of God.
It cheapens human life; misrepresenting it as nothing more than the result of random chance, and the combination of complex cells coming together through the eons, finally developing into more advance stages of primates.
The argument is taken even further by racists who claim that racial differences are just stages of evolution.
An argument which bigots have used against blacks in every corner of the globe.
But you understand how this progresses into the advocacy also of animal rights.
The argument which espouses the equality of animal and human life must first cheapen human life and elevate animal life in order for it to support its point of view.
But if one begins with a belief in the Biblical creation account we have preserved for us in the Scriptures, and hold to a fervent belief in a divine Creator, and are awed by the complexity of life itself..........how it even exists.
The complexity of all of creation.
How the earth rotates on its axis, and the slightest movement away from where it is stationed in the universe would wipe all life off in a moment....the mystery of what binds all of matter together, a phenomenon which science calls cohesion, which it cannot explain; just to say it exists...(the Scriptures call this force Jesus; it says all things were created by Him, and for Him, and are held by the Word of His power, and all things find their existence in Him)...........when one understands and views life from these fundamentals, it is clear that life; all life, but especially human life, which is made in the image of God, is special and above all other life forms which roam this planet.
That life human life in all of its stages of development; in all of its complexity is worth preserving; the exception being the criminally insane, who cannot live among others without causing them fatal harm.
As I've written before:
"Look, you're looking at a guy who breaks of animals, how much more for a living human being made in the image of our God?
If I won't harm a fly, how can I knowingly and in all good conscience support the funding of an industry which puts to unborn human beings to death?"
I say, keep the government off the backs of every American, male and female; and keep our tax dollars out of the abortion industry.
No sooner does tax money go into something, soon thereafter follows the beauracracy, and the regulatory agencies not sanctioned by our Constitution, and not empowered by the Congress, Senate, or Supreme Court of the land.
Soon, the agency takes on a life of its own, much the way the IRS has and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms have.
And before you know it, not only does it become a Frankenstein, but with its rise to power, so diminishes the freedoms of the people it was meant to serve.
To summarize this my stance on this issue, I cannot support the carnage which is so conveniently misnamed abortion (or even more euphemistically called "a woman's right to choose," making this crime seem even more innocuous).
I cannot, condone, much less support the premeditated slaughter of human life at any stage of development, because there is just that chance, that iota of a possibility that what medical science is snuffing so ruthlessly out, is the precious life of an indefensive innocent human being who has yet to live the life so many of us take for granted, which in itself is a gift from God.
And while that doubt remains, it is best to be on the side of caution and not be party to murder; particularly, of the murder of indefensive human life.
Heck, we do better with criminals.
Our laws give them the benefit of the doubt.
If there is just the slightest doubt in evidence that is brought against them, they are set free; regardless of the preponderance of evidence against them.
Our unborn deserve much better.
They have committed no wrong.
They deserve to live.
They deserve much better.
That this matter has been politicized and used by both political parties is reprehensible.
It transcends political parties, because it speaks of who we are as a nation, where we've come from as a people; and where we are headed.
It's easy to fall prey to clichés and political rhetoric from both sides, but we must all make decisions for ourselves on the issues, and not be carried away by the politicians who simply wish to use us as pawns to advance their own careers, and financial fortunes.
Accordingly, I implore everyone to do this.
Reexamine your beliefs, and honestly, objectively ask yourselves why it is you believe what you believe.
There must be a reassessment of our values, our beliefs, and our core mores.
This is my personal viewpoint on this issue, but politically I would advise that we should keep our government from getting involved in this either way. A government that can legislate one's private life, can also take those freedoms away at the drop of a hat. Keep government out, and keep our tax dollars out too.