Remembering 9-11-01

Listening to the Huckabee Report on 9-11-09, I heard him say, and I agree, that the best way to honor the heroes of 9-11-01 is to send a package to one of our servicemen serving in the Middle East. Amen. Then he said they were fighting to prevent another 9-11. They are, but no matter how hard nor effectively they fight, they are fighting an enemy today, not preventing others in the future. And they are fighting very far away. To prevent another 9-11 requires leadership, and our current an previous administrations have not provided such leadership. In fact, these current administrations have waited for another attack to capitalize upon to try to force their corrupt plans on an unwilling citizenry (The Patriot Act and Universal Health Care)as FDR tried to do in the years following Pearl Harbor. To quote Obama's chief advisor: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste..." So, no matter how hard our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines fight, without a plan to protect and win, we here at home are still vulnerable to enemy attack. When someone gives assistance to our enemies, say by disabling or not implementing necessary precautions, does that not make them an enemy too?

Eric Holder Strikes Again!

Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, is wasting no time trying to destroy the US intelligence network. He has appointed a veteran prosecutor to "review" CIA actions to gain important information from terrorists wanting to destroy the US. This is in contrast (or in conjunction with) Holder's past actions regarding terrorists. As Deputy Attorney General he recommended pardoning Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg who were serving life sentences for the murders of two police officers and a Brinks armoured guard in 1981. Remember the Weather Underground? Obama's mentor, William Ayers, was a founder and leader of the communist Weather Underground. Terrorists of FALN and Clinton donor and fugitive tax evader,Mark Rich, also received pardons due to Holder's efforts. Additionally, Holder does not believe in the Second Amendment and has worked hard against it. He supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington, DC and has repeatedly spoken out in favor of the so called "assault weapons ban". He has gone so far as to blame honest US citizens and our rights for the violence caused by drug criminals in Mexico. Both the criminals in the Mexican government and their rivals outside the government.
I hate to be trite, but the handwriting is on the wall.If you can't see that the Obama administration is trying to destroy America as we know it and as it was meant to be, you are blind or you simply can't read.

Very Interesting!

I found this and thought it would be of interest.

The Liberal Fear of Guns
Jacob Hornberger
Campaign For Liberty
Friday, August 28, 2009

Liberal columnist David Sirota is scared, and he believes that the First Amendment is intended to eliminate his fear. In a column entitled "Freedom from Fear -- and the Second Amendment," Sirota argues that because some people get scared when they see guns and think that the gun owner is going to shoot them if they say the wrong thing, the Second Amendment is a threat to the First Amendment.

The purpose of the Constitution was to call into existence the federal government and, at the same time, to protect us from that government through the grant of very limited powers to the government.

The original Constitution wasn't good enough for the American people, however, who had severe reservations about calling into existence a federal government, one that they were sure would threaten their rights and liberties. Thus, they demanded passage of the Bill of Rights, which was intended to be another express safeguard, on top of the Constitution, against the federal government.

Take a look at the First Amendment. Read it carefully. Does it say anything about gun owners' threat to free speech? About freedom from fear?

No. It says that Congress shall be prohibited from infringing free speech. Now, that's quite clear, isn't it? It's Congress that the First Amendment protects us from. Our American ancestors understood that the federal government, especially Congress, was the threat to people's right to exercise free speech.

And why Congress? Because our ancestors understood that historically government officials don't like people criticizing what they're doing. So, they enact laws to punish people for criticizing government officials.

Why did our American ancestors enact the Second Amendment? Because they understood that without the right to keep and bear arms, the First Amendment becomes worthless. Why? Because if government officials realize that people lack the means to resist tyranny with force, those government officials will simply ignore the constitutional prohibition against freedom of speech by enacting laws that criminalize the criticism of government.

Don't believe me? Take a look at what's happening in Iran and China. Government officials are jailing people for criticizing the government knowing that the risk of violent revolution is virtually nonexistent.

But when the citizenry is armed, government officials have to factor that in to their deliberations when deciding whether to violate the restrictions in the First Amendment.

This is what liberals hate. They place their total trust in democracy. They won't say so expressly but they absolutely hate the idea that people have the right of revolution, which is why they continue to pooh-pooh Jefferson's quotation about watering the tree of liberty. If they were honest, they would just come out and denounce that part of the Declaration of Independence in which Jefferson stated that whenever any government becomes destructive of the ends for which it was formed, it is the right to the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government.

What about Sirota's belief that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were intended to protect him from being scared. It's just plain nonsense. The notion originated during the Great Depression, when liberal icon President Franklin Roosevelt used it to implement his socialist and facist program known as the New Deal. Running roughshod over the federal judiciary, which was declaring much of his program unconstitutional, FDR argued that he was just protecting people's "freedom from fear."

But the Constitution doesn't say anything about protecting people from their own internal fears, anxieties, depressions, or other psychological ailments. Those are things that people must conquer on their own. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect us from the federal government.

Finally, Sirota makes a false and fallacious assumption about gun control that is common to liberals. He assumes that because a law is passed prohibiting people from carrying guns, prospective murderers will respect it and obey it.

But as libertarians have long pointed out, that's just wishful nonsense. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, if a murderer isn't going to obey a law against murder, then he isn't going to obey a law against possessing a gun.

There is no better place for a murderer to do his dirty deed than in a place that he is sure is a gun-free zone. After all, compare the number of murders in public schools to those that are committed at gun shows.

The right to keep and bear arms protects us from both the federal government and private criminals. For the sake of our safety and our freedom, we can never permit those who live in fear to eviscerate this vitally important fundamental right.

Is The Alarm Sounding?

Once again the commentators are not quite hitting the mark. I am not even sure they are seeing the right target. One radio host states that the Obama administration and its supporters see government as the source of America's greatness and that to make America great requires more government. That is not the case. They do not care about America, other than to tear it down to third world status. This is nothing new, there have been "politicians" who have been working on this for decades. If you research The Congressional Record, Senators Strom Thurmond, Barry Goldwater, and others back in 1960 recognized the threat of subversive activity in the US. Remember, communism was advancing rapidly, with very little opposition because everyone was concentrating on, and fearful of, nuclear confrontation. While we were rightly building bomb shelters, we were ignoring the subversive elements in American society, who were working to unravel and bankrupt our free republic. These subversives began infiltrating every level of government and began to tie down our productivity and dismantle our security by legislation. We are now so overburdened that industry, jobs, and wealth have been driven out of the country. Sounds like a successful campaign according to Sun Tzu's Art of War, which is what Marx advocated. And the productive people in America did what we do, buckled down,adjusted, and worked that much harder. In having to increasingly work harder, we lost the time to pay attention to what was going on behind the scenes, and our country was disfigured and our Constitution mutilated. Our work ethic and our desire to be left alone in peace to pursue our work and lives is both an asset and a liability. We are now faced with a dilemma of freedom versus tyranny. July 4, 1776 is day of the Declaration of Independence, but the fight for independence began April 19,1775 and it took fifteen months of armed conflict to bring the American people to the realization that a fight was being thrust upon them. That has been the case with each conflict we have been drawn into. What is going to draw us next? Is the alarm sounding?

Obama and Ahmadinejad, the Leaders

Obama is not upset by the Iranian government's actions because Obama does not endorse freedom of thought, action, or election. He does not endorse the protests of the Iranian people nor condemn the violent actions of the Iranian government because he, too, would like to have the same power and authority. Obama would have used similar tactics against the TEA Party protesters had he been more solidly in power. Ahmadinejad has much that Obama envies: absolute power, total control of all media(Obama has not gained control of radio or the Internet, yet), total financial control(working on it), total military control(US military is hostile to his un-constitutional plans), total police and para military control, control of commerce, food supplies, and energy. Obama has made great strides in controlling many of these areas in the US. He has not objected to what the Iranians have done because he, like they, believes the state is all important and the state serves the leader. And Obama sees himself as The Leader.

Financial Problems

The Socialist Republic of Kalifornia is leading the way on the North American continent, again. Straight down the tubes. The spend and spend mentality of the legislature of Kalifornia has come home, yet again. The working poor in the state, which translates to any one still working, as the taxes in the state are prohibitive to working, are still being raped at gunpoint by 'their' government. The enlightened state which has given us needle exchanges for drug addicts, legalized marijuana for 'medicinal' purposes, and the 9th Circus Court is giving us the path to financial destruction. The Washington, D.C. crowd is blindly barrelling down the road at full speed. "If government spending has done so much for California, let's do it for the whole country." Need I say more? As the state laid off employees, productive workers, and cut the pay of others, it continues to pay welfare to the parasite class. People with alcoholism 'disability' still get their checks, and people whose behavior has caused them to contract horrible diseases still get their preferential treatment, in lieu of easing the tax burden of those who were prudent in their lives, wanting only to work and provide for their families. Since the parasite class was instrumental in putting Obama in office, we will not see any lowering of their 'benefits' until it directly affects him. If you hadn't noticed we are well on the path forewarned in Ayn Rand's book "Atlas Shrugged". If you haven't read it I suggest that you do. Once read, prepare yourself and your family for what is facing our country.

Wake Up America

This was sent to me by a reader, and I had to share it with you. Be advised, it is long, but worth the read.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Wake up America !!!
by Pam Geller

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demanded and then codified into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back? Why? We learned recently that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.

Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "We the People," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders… Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity… Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change...radical change Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming and when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission.

And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.

He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and...change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.

Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S.. presidency - it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around me.

Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. But, I do not think I am.

About the author via Google...

Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child, but remained involved in various projects including American Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School.