9/11 And the Moral Compass

I have no inside information, no express experience with the State Department, and at this point we only have a small piece of the puzzle regarding the elongated wait for a decision from the White House about troop strength and overall strategy in Afghanistan. Further, as my readers/followers know, I seldom cover/comment on evolving sub-stories, leaving these “distractions” to the political pundits. I’m no journalist -which you can probably tell by my writing style and all the syntactic mistakes I make- and I have no formal training in journalistic research.
What I do have is the experience of a wide-ranging life behind me. I studied Political Science and Constitutional Law in college. I’ve followed politics and social trends for decades, and I’ve been a proud, patriotic member of the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Army (currently awaiting NG orders to Afghanistan) over three decades. It is with that experience I bring you my first-ever writing in that I suggest, in my humble opinion, I smell a rat!
Informally, the word sneaked out last July that the new Obama Generals in Afghanistan were going to ask for 40,000 troops and that rumor was confirmed in August with a circulating formal request with the same number. But here we are nearing November and still no answer to that request. Further, if we piece together the words and actions of President Obama regarding the importance of the war in Afghanistan, we get a 3D image of confusion heading the war in opposite directions, meeting the enemy head-on in battle while at the same time, retreating.
In mid-February, a scant 30 days after taking office, President Obama sent an additional 17,000 combat troops to Afghanistan characterizing the buildup as an “interim step” to battling the resurging Taliban, Since then Mr. Obama has called for in “increased footprint” in Afghanistan with his March plan adding 4,000 more to the, again stated, “interim” build-up. Meanwhile we’ve heard rhetoric from the Democrat side against nation building even while one of the voiced criteria for supporting the Afghan war required knowledge of who was going to emerge as the Afghan leader. I thought the whole purpose of being over in the Afghan region was to find Osama Ben Laden. But apparently the Democrat controlled Congress and the Obama-led White House seems to be set on knowing what regime they will be working with before they decide what to do with this inconvenient war. It’s no wonder that I (and the general public) am a bit confused. But Mathew Hoh? Well, no, he apparently isn’t confused, I think.
From what I gather, Mr. Hoh is a former Marine officer who served as such in Iraq and became a diplomat serving in Afghanistan, voluntarily I might add. Then just days ago, after months of waiting (as we all have been) for an Executive policy on the direction in which the Afghanistan war is going to go, he resigns. But he doesn’t just resign; he decides to take the high road with his resignation, using it to promote a specific direction in the war.
Mr. Hoh wrote in his resignation letter, “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan." He went on stating, "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”
President Obama’s rhetoric from last December set the war in Iraq as the bad war and the war in Afghanistan as the good war. And, from the very beginning, the “good” war was aimed at finding Osama Bin Laden; have we forgotten 9/11? Has Mr. Hoh forgotten? Or is there more to it? Does he have the inside story as to what direction President Obama is going to take this war? Haven’t we been hearing about raids conducted against the Taliban with U.S. troops in concert with Afghanistan troops? And didn’t we hear a report about a week ago that the United Nations came to a consensus on wining the war in Afghanistan?
Mr. Hoh, again, a former volunteer active duty U.S. Marine, apparently suspects President Obama is going to escalate the amount of troops and Hoh wants nothing to do with it. But does he really suspect that strategy?
Hoh told reporters he wants you and me to know stabilizing the Afghanistan government does not equal defeating al Qaeda (Taliban?). He spoke of un-kept promises; that American families can no longer be reassured their dead ones were dying for a higher purpose. And, as if a former Marine officer would have to say this, he stated, “I’m not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love.” I have to wonder if he read my article, “Why Obama Cannot Make Timely Decisions,” [ http://tiny.cc/kVRoS ] in which I make the case that President Obama is a follower and supporter of Reinhold Niebuhr, a kind of beatnik, love-and-let-love, hippiefied moral relativist philosopher who believes love can solve all of society’s problems. Is this a coincidence?
Mr. Hoh wants us out of Afghanistan because he says the Afghan people want us out. Really? Do we care?, aren’t we there to oust the Taliban and find Osama Bin Laden?
With all the underhanded strategies and dangerous games we are experiencing here at home on the political front, I cannot help but think the worst: publicly Mr. Obama is being portrayed as a supporter of the Afghanistan war, but what about privately? Could Mr. Hoh’s admonitions be an opening for a surprise announcement of reversing our public desire to find Osama Bin Laden? And why are the Democrats expressing their need to know what regime will be in charge in Afghanistan once we begin to leave? Does this need mean we are nation building and not still focused on removing the Taliban and finding Bin Laden?
Obviously there is a lot of politics going on with this peace effort, but I have not forgotten the reason for being in that region with troops in harms way. And I am hoping our President will find his moral compass and allow the Generals to fight the good war. I’m hoping so much, that I am requesting to be a part of that finality. If we leave Afghanistan without Ben Laden the world of radical Islam will celebrate a victory. Thus, if we look forward to a peaceful world, we must stay the course, with force and moral direction.
This is my plea to President Obama.

Outfoxing the FOX with Truth, Maybe?

(Mr. Joe Klein is a very important man at Time Magazine and his email information has to be kept secret from the general public; he covers some very controversial subjects and we all know about all those dangerous, terroristic, teabagging, right-wing protesting loons out there. Mr Klein must be protected "for the cause." Thus, I sent the following to Time Magazine's Editor asking politely for it to be redirected to Mr. Klein. Oh how I hope he gets it because I want to hear the details of Fox News' "seditious" actions and all those lies!
But mostly, I just want the Truth.==)

Mr. Klein- I read your recent article, OutFoxed, which raises concerns about the quality and correctness of the news being "reported" on Fox News. I'm concerned, as you are, that Fox News is misleading the general public. However, your article, though well written and filled with inspiration, was void of specificity -perhaps due to space constraints.
I would like to suggest a series of articles from your very able "hand:" Why not do a series of articles entitled "Fox Watch 2012" in which you specifically, and with focus, point out the details in which Fox acts "seditiously?" You are in a wonderful position with all the vast resources of Time Magazine to research and report on correcting the record for us average folks. This will give you the opportunity to bring facts and details and "meat" to your well-presented accusations towards a seemingly partisan news network, who -according to you- has a problem with the truth.
Please, I want to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

A reader and concerned citizen- bruce hedrick

end of email==

If Mr. Klein is a real reporter, he will jump at the chance to back up his accusations and save the public from all the lies of Fox News. I am looking forward to his first series' article and will check the news stand regularly. -bruceH

Rant #45 to Congressman Herger

To The Honorable Mr. Herger,
I am finding more and more people who are reading the Constitution, learning/seeking questions about the 17 enumerated powers, Bill of Rights, expressing curiosity about what a republican form of government is, looking into the affects of federalism and how it works relative to state's rights. More and more people are learning what the federal government should and should not be involved in, Sir.
Further, in spite of the Media spotlighting so many HC details and describing it as some sort of national crisis, the people are more and more focused on an even graver, bigger picture, the expansion of Big Brother. As you know, constitutionally, HC reform belongs at the state level and the details of any HC bill at the federal level are not in the proper venue. The Media are acting as cohorts with the Democrat Party, not only by furthering their statist agenda, but by providing cover and concealment during this revolutionary takeover we are currently experiencing, and I am waiting to hear you say as much.
In an odd way, I am glad we have Mr. Obama in the Oval Office; he is waking up the Sleeping Giant, and we need honest conservative leadership leading us back to liberty within our republic. Special freedoms under a rogue system of plundered entitlements will only ensure continued erosions of moral and spiritual virtues.
The concept of Sovereignty puts the people above government, not below it; rights, privileges and authorities flow through Man then to state, then to federal government as per the enumerated powers, checked by the 9th and 10th Amendments. I believe in federalism, not nationalism; I believe in our constitutional republic, not some judicially created socialized democracy. I believe in state’s rights, not nationally created freedoms.
This, Sir, is the message I hope to hear from you in the future.

Respectfully, Bruce A. Hedrick

WHY OBAMA CANNOT MAKE TIMELY DECISIONS

(Originally posted December 2008)
WHO IS PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA? Obama revealed in 2007 that his favorite philosopher is Reinhold Niebuhr, a specialist in separating accountability from responsibility, who sees all individual actions as an outgrowth of a flawed society. Niebuhr believes a criminal act is not intended to be as consequential as it often is; that evil can be traced to collective behavior rather than the individual; that the spirit of love supersedes justice; and that the (g)od revealed in nature cannot be a moral God. He actually is not a philosopher, but a theologian -- with some very contradictive concepts in great contrast to common theology (including Black Theology). If Obama was being truthful with this pick as his favorite philosopher, I have to conclude he is far from concluding a decisive thought process/philosophy, and/or he is in the midst of creating his own mix-and-match, succotash style of thinking.

And while we are thinking of Black Theology, if you do a little research on this subject you will find it to be far more politically/power-based rather than religious-based. Why do I reach that conclusion- because Black Theology cannot be construed to be religious-dominate due to its fundamental belief that if the black race is not granted "freedom and racial dominance" by God, then God has to move out of the way – this core belief puts physicality and humanism ultimately above spirituality and the power of God. I might humbly suggest- if a god’s desires keep a (any) race of people subordinate to another race, that god is no god at all, but a figment of a self-imposed underclass’ imagination.

When we put all of this together: Black theology and Niebuhrism, including Mr. Obama’s stated political concepts regarding our flawed Constitution, we have a very complicated, very confused, very dangerous leader of the (formerly?) free world. I could so appreciate someone who is filled with all of these conflicting precepts of philosophy and religion, who is still sitting on the side lines working through his or her own particular answers to life, as a senior in high school. I would love to sit down and discuss a variety of issues and philosophical concepts with someone as open and diverse as this person must be. But a leader of America?

Further, it is also clear this person has yet to come to any conclusive concepts and would be totally vulnerable to their immediate environment, completely unable to morally defend themselves –or justify any substantive conclusions. Thus, in simple terms, a fence sitter; a fence sitting, socialist-leaning, race-dominate flower-child looking at love as the answer to a very volatile, dangerous, teetering world.

If the world was made up of one race, and we all were utopian-minded, love drunk hippies, Mr. Obama would probably fit the role he is in. But we aren’t, and he doesn’t. I fear he will hesitate when the 800 lbs. gorilla knocks down our front door. I fear he will collect a sizable following of love-deprived immature radicals, dissatisfied with their life, looking for Utopia, ala. jiminy cricket syndrome, and he will neuter America. No doubt, the socialist/fascist leaders of the world will wine-and-dine him – lull him into a comfort zone – then pounce with their thirst for cancerous, destructive power.

(Update: I wrote the above and posted it on this blog (see below)last December. Now, in light of what you've now seen from Mr. Obama, has the above writing found justification?)

An Email from my friend Lloyd Marcus

I am so sick of the Left being allowed to make the rules. Imagine the absurdity of a competition in which one side is allowed to set the rules against their opponent ( http://tiny.cc/5pKy1 ). The Left tells us what is racist. The Left tells us what we can and cannot say. The Left published a cartoon depicting former black Secretary of State Condolezza Rice as an Aunt Jemima; another depicted Rice as a huge-lipped parrot for her Massa Bush. Neither were considered racist by their creators or publishers, or even widely condemned on the Left.

In opposition to black Republican Michael Steele's campaign to run for U.S. Senate, a liberal blogger published a doctored photo of Steele in black face and big red lips made to look like a minstrel. The caption read, "Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house". Not one Democrat denounced these racist portrayals of black conservatives.

And yet, a sign seen at a tea party depicting Obama as a witch doctor is considered by the Left to be beyond the pale and obviously racist. Why is the Left, given their track record of bias, granted final authority to determine the intent of the sign? Why do we conservatives so quickly and easily allow ourselves to be put on the defensive?

The rules set by the Left are extremely clear. Racist images of black conservatives and negative images of Bush are fair game. Even a play about murdering President Bush was called "harmless art". Meanwhile, all unflattering images of Obama are racist, and constitute dangerous, potentially violent hate speech.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called Congressman Joe Wilson a racist for saying, "You lie" to president Obama. Using her psychic powers, Dowd said Wilson was really saying in his mind, "You lie, BOY!" And yet, liberal commentator Julianne Malveaux, saying she hopes black conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' wife "feeds him a lot of fatty foods so he will die early from heart disease like many black men", was not considered racist. I am a black conservative singer, songwriter, entertainer and columnist. Liberals have posted comments all over YouTube and C-SPAN freely using and calling me the "N" word. Because they are libs and I am an uppity, off the liberal plantation, run-away black, all tactics to restore me to my owners are acceptable.

Here is another example of the Left setting the rules. "Take Back America!" is now on their list of racist terms we protesters are not allowed to use. Again using their psychic powers, the Left claims the protesters are really saying, "Because the president is black, lets take America back"! This is totally absurd. "Take Back America" refers to the hijacking of our freedoms, liberty and culture by an out of control administration.

I was asked to perform at a tea party event. The organizer informed me, "I want to get away from calling the rally a "Tea Party" because the liberal media have made the term negative". I said, "Does this mean you do not want me to sing my "American Tea Party Anthem"? Then, why am I here?" Politeness to my host prevented me from saying, "News flash, pal! The media is going to trash us regardless of what we call our rallies. It's what they do. They are not on our side. Should we keep changing what we call the rallies in hope of finding a name which will cause the media to give us fair coverage"? A million people showed up in Washington DC for the September 12th Taxpayers Rally. The media reported 70,000.

I was interviewed on CNN. During the pre-interview by the young black producer over the phone, he asked me, "Is there any part of Obama's health care plan you like"? I replied, "No". He was stunned. With great shock and disbelief in his voice, the producer repeated my reply with a loud "NO?". Then he abruptly said, "I'll call you back".

News1News posted my CNN interview on YouTube with the following caption, "African American Right Wing (Obama Hating) Singing Tea Bagger, Lloyd Marcus". Folks, I am a Christian and hate no one. But, this is what the media does to those who disagree. All who oppose Obama's agenda are either racist, redneck or stupid.

The stakes are far too high to allow the Left to continue setting the rules of engagement. The far Left and Obama administration have a vision for America different than our Constitution. As patriots, it is our duty to just say, NO!

My black 82 year old dad told me he has seen the reports on TV how a lot of people at the rallies want Obama dead. I said, "I bet you saw that on CNN". Dad said, "Yes". It infuriates me that CNN is selling the lie that the Tea Party Movement is all about racism and hatred for a black president. While my dad never said anything out loud, I thought, "What must he think of me? Why is his first born siding with these evil white folks against a fine fellow black man?" I replied, "Dad, try watching Fox".

Lloyd Marcus, Black Un-hyphenated American!
American Thinker Columnist
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A WAKEUP CALL FOR ALL HYPHENATED-AMERICANS

It is time for Hyphenated-Americans to become, American. Throw off the proverbial chains that bind your self-worth. Stand up, be that which you know you can be- equal to anyone no matter their race, religion, or nationality. STOP allowing leftist liberals to make a claim of your inferiority and your (perceived) need for special assistance.

Pride exuding from a healthy ego does not come from inaction, but from an action. It isn’t your birth that shines of pride; pride comes from demonstrative action, not from an act of nature. But nor should a lack of pride come from your birth; you are equal in birth to any other member of the human race, men and women fully in possession of all rights naturally endowed by Nature and Nature’s God with an equal ability to pursue life, to pursue liberty, and to pursue happiness.

Throw off your chains rebuking all those who may try to speak for you – speak for yourself as a worthy sovereign member of OUR American community. Embrace Americanism as a position of respect and equality among all the nations of this earth.

Do not allow naysayers to suck you into their whimsical political desires to use your emotions for their political or monetary advantage. Stand up and be proud of your worthiness as a productive, responsible citizen. Renounce those who try to put you into a convenient political box. You are an American man, who happens to be black, or brown, or whatever; you are an American woman, who happens to be black, or brown, or whatever. Put the adjective where it belongs, behind you, the real you.

Our souls have no color, no hierarchy. There are no dynasties or place of special birthing in the one true constitutional America. By nature – by our proclaimed natural law, from which our republic flows, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that YOU are endowed by YOUR creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are the pursuit of Life, the pursuit of Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, to the degree that fulfills your desires.

If we fail to take the next true step in our racial relations, liberalism shall take us all down. The philosophical changes, as voiced by President Obama and happening right now, fostered and fueled by para-intellectual, leftist, atheistic political desires, now threatens to destroy our -yours and mine- birthright to liberty.

Nationalistic and statist desires are playing on your fears. They are using you and your fears to destroy the greatest concept in governance ever devised on this earth. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country; your self-made entitlements are awaiting your participation within our republic. Rebuke extraordinary desirous privileges granted by special favor through a bloated, self-consuming socialist regime, privileges that only lead to the plundering and raping of your fellow American brethren, stealing from our collective sweat and our blood. Demand "The Rule of Law" under federalism, not "The Rule of Man" under nationalism.

A trained-to-be-color-blind society is a doomed society. We need to acknowledge and revel in our differences, to accept our variations, not ignore them or deny them. You’re not “marked” as a hyphenated-person, unless you make that mark; we are marked by what we do, by our actions, our heart and character, individually.

BE NOT MARKED FOR THE CAUSE OF THE FALL OF THE GREATEST NATION EVER TO GRACE THIS EARTH. Learn what it means to be an American. Learn the differences between a national government and a federal government. Learn the importance of states rights and limited government. Learn why individual sovereignty is vital to our future, and why all of these concepts brought America from obscurity to greatness in record time. America is a young nation, and yet we are the leader in the world in all categories of human and natural rights. Why? Because our renowned classic philosophy of limited, "of by and for the people" concept delineating privileges to government flows FROM the individual, and not TO the individual. Governments do not bequeath rights; rights flow from Nature and Nature’s God while mere superficial privileges come from Man.

This is your choice – it is now your burden, as the fate of America rests in your decision. You must now step up and decide: are you inferior and in need of special privileges, and/or, by birth, superior and entitled to special favor at the expense of another race? Or, shall you consciously accept your place among society as a productive, engaged, willing, competitive patriotic American wholly capable and desirous of finding your own way --your own place-- in life as a proudly responsible, adult American.

How can you justify creating modern serfdom – modern legalized slavery; is this the legacy you choose? It is your choice. In the medium term you too will feel the heavy hand of totalitarianism, and the loss of your own soul. Don’t let the socializing agenda of the first self-proclaimed Black President be your contributory legacy to America.

I choose liberty and the stewardship of Uncle Sam, not the heavy handed control of Big Brother. I believe you are my equal, don’t you? I believe my thoughts and my soul answers only to my Creator; this too I hope for you, as a competent and equal human being – a member of my race; the human race.

From My Heart of Hearts, To The Depth of Your Soul, I Sincerely Proclaim The Above:: Bruce Hedrick, a man who just happens to be, American.

THE CHARGE OF THE LIBERTY BRIGADE

Oh great thirst for power and glory,
The yearning blind trust in royalty.
Empires rise, kill, then fall.
Is there not an end to it all?

Aspirations of freedom arise,
But sovereign thoughts compromise.
Loyalty to another, no surprise,
What can one surmise?

We think, sweat, and struggle,
Of freedom and loyalty we juggle.
Oh home of the Hallowed Halls,
Isn’t their finally wisdom on your walls?

There’s been republics past,
Whose philanthropy didn’t last.
And Greek democracies of old,
Whose binders were forced to fold.

Oh those forms of gov’ment in antiquity,
Proved in time, shadows of impostured liberty.
Dangerous policies of mortal coercion,
Became great moral lessons in cohesion.

These lessons opened our hearts and minds,
There must be a glue that ties and binds.
Greek democracies and Roman republics, filled with despotism,
Promised scant hope and protection against allures of socialism.

But remembering the past, as our forefather’s did in procession,
They knew what came before guaranteed disastrous regression.
It taught them, man’s institutions, impious and futile,
Could only serve those who sought to be brutal.

Respect the opinions of others, view with careful scrutiny.
Receive with caution the teachings of creeds with mutiny.
Liberty of the first German republics looked to be so pure.
Their promised freedoms, greed and power filled with allure.

The promise of liberty, we’ve learned, changes to libertinism.
This feeds the sorrowful soul, soon to evolve into fascism.
So what do we interject here to maintain liberty in perpetuity?
A republic in spirit, rejuvenating life, liberty and ingenuity.

No privileged class, no royalty or predestined authority,
Should be allowed to rule absolute, not even the majority.
And for this, a new element of vitality was integrated,
Of Nature! and Nature’s God! inalienable rights incorporated.

The prize was distinction throughout the world,
A new kind of republic, unfurled.
Reverence to the Creator is the key to good government.
Let’s put it right here for perpetual acknowledgement.

Thus, a republic, under God, one nation indivisible,
For putting Man in charge was totally impermissible.
“A government of laws and not of Men,” said John.
This New Republic, they finally agreed on!

NO THANK YOU MR. AXELROD; I'M NOT FOR SALE

(MANY OF YOU PROBABLY RECENTLY RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM MR. AXELROD, THE PRESIDENT'S SENIOR ADVISOR. THE EMAIL WAS AN IDEOLOGICAL, PARTISAN ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE ME TO SUPPORT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE PLAN. BELOW IS MY ANSWER, SENT TO AXELROD VIA "REPLY," AND I ALSO SENT IT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA VIA < http://www.emailthepresident.com/ > IF YOU DID NOT RECEIVE THE ORIGINAL EMAIL AND WANT TO SEE IT, LET ME KNOW.)


Mr. Axelrod,

I'm not buying it - not for a minute. While I am convinced health care is too expensive and not as "available" as it should be, the reason why is national government involvement. Even more importantly, my greatest concern is the usurped, extra-constitutional authority our (now national) federal government has exercised, not just with the current Administration, but since the advent of the New Deal.

Americans have been a most giving and compassionate people since its beginnings; yes. we’ve had our faults (even massive ones like slavery) but notwithstanding, there’s no country in the world --no “philosophy” that better conditioned the soul-- ever, that matched our sense of brotherly love and public (at large) servitude.

Then, Roosevelt and his cronies began mandating the servitude of future generations by indebting those not yet born; the wagon wheel affect of “the more you get the more you need” was introduced into our collective social conscience. As time passed and the tentacles of Big Brother gained momentum and size and unbridled power, litigation and other forms of cancerous deterrents “taught” folks to just back off and let “the system” work its magic.

We, the people, tolerated such encroachments for decades, watching and tolerating the social experiment, all the while hoping only the best for those in need. What we didn’t see was the unintended consequences of spiritual disarmament and the sudden growth of an entitlement mentality; this is where I see the socio/politico “war” began as all concerned forces set out to fix the unintended consequences: conservatives wanted to put the breaks on the growth of federal powers; liberals wanted to rapidly expand those same powers in an effort to stay ahead of the negative affects. Both sides have been at odds and in turmoil ever since: one side talking up democracy and ingratiating its subjects; the other steaming about the decaying condition of our constitutionally guaranteed republic and the loss of its patriots.

Both sides have made strides in influence and gained in numbers and smoothed out their sales pitches. But more recently, rather than smoothing, there’s been a lot of smothering, and stuffing of negative results under the rug as conspiratorial back-room dealing became the norm rather than the exception. Freedoms and privileges abound while Liberty and unalienable rights wane.

And now, with President Obama, we have liberalism on steroids. The people know instinctively, and by years of watching so many people languish in the economic trap of welfare, that hand-outs have more long-term negative results than positive gains. We’ve learned that our founders weren’t so off base when they explained the importance of state’s rights to help minimize Federalism growing into Nationalism; that respecting our republic was more productive than feeding a carnivorous democracy. We’ve learned that when we look the other way, government cannot help but grow itself; we know it is the nature of unbridled government to enlarge its plundering. And, it’s become very clear to us the psychological effect on our cultural mores is, simply, immoral. We want a return to the literal meaning of our Constitution and a more docile Uncle Sam rather than an intrusive entitlement-bearing Big Brother.

All those whom your administration has branded as bullies, loud mouths, mobs, and other not-so-nice names, may not be able to articulate the above problem, but I believe it does sum up much of the opposition your administration is feeling. The media is helping you guys by dividing all the individual issues -economic woes, entitlement desires, racial disparities, discounted cars, health care reforms, etc.- and is hammering away at these issues as if they are disjointed. As Al Gore put it, “They are playing on our fears!”

Not all of us see the depth or the breadth of what is now being enlarged. Not all of us see the long term consequences of stuffing our republic in the back closet. Not all of us see the unraveling of The Rule of Law as The Rule of Man is paraded in, and few of us understand the difference or the consequence. But we know these issues have one commonality: nationalism, statism, fascism, Marxism, serfdom -- take your pick. We instinctively know there is something amiss in the land of the brave, home of the Free.

I am probably wasting my time still writing this response as you probably tossed it in the email trash after the first couple sentences. However. I would be remiss to not wrap up with saying: Sir, your Leader’s office was created under and by our Constitution, and it stands to reason said office cannot enlarge itself beyond the seventeen enumerated powers given to the federal government by that venerable document. President Obama’s substantial move to end one “philosophy” and replace it with another was way too much way too soon and way too aggressive to allow for the people’s continued back-turning. We are saying, “Our liberty is not for sale.”

Judicial activism, shady backroom dealings between congressional reps, continued usurpations and legalized plunderings, all have taken their toll on our collective patience. All the race baiting, the divisiveness of progressive taxes (causing class warfare concerns), the in-your-face attitude of “I know what’s best for you,” and the turned up noses to our beloved Constitution, has culminated into what you are now witnessing across America at local churches, selected government buildings, parks, and other strategic public areas; real working class people coming together to say enough is enough.

I don’t care how wonderful you may think your proposed health care is, Sir. IF there is to be any sort of institutional health care, it should be discussed and planned and presented to the people from their respective state governments, not from a singular, intrusive, elitist-led national government.

I’ve said my piece, but don’t think I’m done. As you and your ilk continue running roughshod over the document that created your office, the louder and more ferocious my actions shall become. I am confident states rights and our republic will win out over your nationalized social democracy. The only question is how long it will take and what more unintended consequences will we suffer.

I would love to receive a comprehensive answer to this communication. But please, include your authorities, which must state that part of the Constitution which justifies such actions.

A Concerned Patriot- bruce hedrick

No Apologies This Time, Mr. Obama

(Though I haven't posted all my messages to the Whitehouse here, this is my latest one. I implore you to send your daily disgust to the President via snail mail and/or via whitehouse.gov. I abdicate the disclaimer on my previous message below.)

Mr. Obama;

“I don’t mind cleaning up after them but don’t do a lot of talking.” “Get out of the way” ??

Are those words from an American President? A patriotic American? You embarrass and disgust me, Mr. Presidente.

I presume you are equating us “mobsters” as part of those who, as you stated it, “created the mess.” Is this really the simple world you see? You actually see all of us who adamantly oppose your agenda of socializing America as a part of the previous administration(s)? (I strongly oppose the collegiate concept of linear politics.)
You are dangerously wrong, Sir, just as your political desire for America is dangerous.
Have you read and studied Tocqueville’s, “America,” and Ayn Rand’s, “Atlas Shrugged” and Plato’s, “Myth of The Cave?” (not to mention, Bradford’s Manuscript, the Federalist Papers, our Declaration, and our Constitution.) Are you so filled with progressivism and Marxism and The Rule of Man, AND of yourself, that you are unable to see the reality of what you are actually doing? Can you not see that you’ve enlarged your pose beyond the very document which created your office?
The world is a better, safer place today because of the philosophies you are trying to bring to an end, Sir. When the “yin” goes, the “yang” shall prevail and we will all be subjects to the Rule of Man- is that your desire? I fear it to be so. I will not submit.
You are able for now to continue your agenda because of the people’s immediate concern for their economic condition; middle America is currently consumed by staying on track with supporting their families and paying their bills. Once that concern diminishes to an acceptable level, either by the economy smoothing out or by its collapse, you will then feel the wrath of what you are now undertaking.
AND, I also think you understand that conundrum, which is why you and your cronies are periodically making moves that keep the economy/market in turmoil. Fact is, the will of the market to “live” is surprising you, and it is throwing a monkey wrench in your plans. You go ahead and just keep playing with it; each time you guys make a shrinking-economy move more and more people are waking up to what you are trying to do.
I pray you are successful, at exposing the dangerous concept of socialism/statism, for that one accomplishment will reinvigorate a respect for our founder’s ideas of republicanism and federalism.
States rights shall prevail.

Signed- bruceH

I Apologize To All Former Presidents For My Tone

(Sent to White House via whitehouse.gov website on Aug, 1, 2009.)

Mr. Obama- Bills passed and not read is clearly taxation w/o representation, but so is extra-curricular, Executive plundering of the tax base. Usurped powers will be your achilles heel, Sir.
Carter gave us Reagan; I hope you shall give us another Andrew Jackson.
So how is the philosophy of Niebuhr working for you?
Yup, you're right- I'm not a happy camper as you plunder our possessions and trample on our constitutionally guaranteed republic. How long the millions like me sit along the sidelines should be of great concern to you; when I go bankrupt the one last thing I will have to fight for is Liberty.
I am sure I needn't go into the details of your excessive, usurped actions, from stealing from the Chrysler bond holders, to running roughshod over state's rights; you, being a lawyer and professor of constitutionalism, cannot deny its illegalities, nor its immorality.
I plead for you to admit your mistakes in judgment and philosophy turn away from nationalism, and give us our country back; the most powerful public figure in our constitutional republic should be the local sheriff, and not a Wash. DC tyrant.
Your self-identified blackness, along with your socialist desires, will greatly hinder the possibilities of another Black president in the near future; this also bothers me because Alan Keyes has been my pick for president for many years.
There are hundreds of questions I could ask you, and are running through my mind as I write, like: what part of the Constitution allows you, and/or your patsy Congress, to use my tax dollars to help a free-loader buy a new car?? Wasting my time, right?
I oh so wish I could be more respectful. But you, Sir, have overwhelmed the otherwise sacred office you now disrespect. May Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan, and all those who came before you, forgive me.
Here's to hoping you are a complete failure- bruceH

Who Is At fault For The Racial Divide?

Subtitle: Who Is Responsible For Keeping The Black Man Down?

UPDATE: Elie (see next story below) responded with what read with a worrisome tone. No doubt, she is sure anyone who is supporting the actions of Sgt. Crowley is a racist. I am sure the opposite is true. Unfortunately, there are no words in a nice little wrapper that will change the minds of people like Elie. People like Casey Gane-McCalla:

http://huffingtonpost.com/casey-ganemccalla/what-do-you-call-a-black_b_242397.html

Casey is a perfect example of a para-intellectual. I’ve known and had long quality talks with, several first-generation ACTUAL African-Americans. I’ve met them out here on the road, on college campuses, and yes, even in prison- from all walks in life. The majority of them do not understand the “black” thing. They don’t understand the mindset of the so-called black communities other than to guess the problem has to do with collective self-image. I agree.
Casey, on the other hand, has chosen to jump into that same limiting mindset with both feet. Part of his blinder problem is that he was educated here in America in a politically correct university, and he’s fallen victim to the liberal-slanted, enabling, para-intellectual approach to making excuses for minority- dominated poverty and despair.
Why is it that there are many Blacks living happily ever after in non-poverty, primarily white, communities who have never been arrested. And, for arguments sake, if these “happy” Blacks are “sellouts” how would a passing officer know that and decide to not bother/arrest them?
It is the easy way out for a Black Man to blame his “blackness” rather than to search within for the real answer to his problems. Further, why is it that whites tend to (according to leftist enablers) be apprehensive around a gaggle of Blacks? What gave them the impression that they (the whites) should pay more attention to their purses and other personal effects? Who’s in greater danger here: a Black man walking down the street in a white dominant neighborhood; or a White man walking down the street in a black dominant neighborhood? What about downtown areas that are dominated by one specific race – which neighborhood is the safest? Truth be told, a Black man is safer in the white dominant area also.
The problem is not with the white community; it is deeply embedded inside the hearts and minds of Blacks. Any Black man who tries to bring this problem up is quickly labeled as a “sellout” or an “Uncle Tom” elitist. Any white guy, like me, is an immediate racist, AND bodily harm (for someone) is often imminent if the circumstances are in their favor. Yes, I’ve found that most Blacks, even young ones with their pants down around their ankles, can speak calmly and rationally, often admitting outright the problem is in the Black communities. But if such a discussion is held with one white guy and three or four or more Blacks, the conversation always quickly deteriorates. Sports figures come into the conversation and an attempt is made to establish superiority based on blackness. Mike Tyson is likely to be mentioned, then boxing generally, and then it gets personal.
Elitist -white and black- journalists, and enabling self-appointed leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and the wanna-be leader Casey Gane-McCalla, will continue with their cushy lives, living off the degradation and violence and separatist hopes of the so-called Black community.
The real answer is not in any action I can do, but in the hands of those who insist on being called African-American and/or Black-(something). I hope to see the day when a Black Man can eventually see himself as a Man who just happens to be black. Unfortunately, I thought we were closer a year ago than we are today; Obama’s socialist desires have re-fanned the flames of economic separation and black entitlement. Right now we are marching backwards.

Shame on the Media, and Elie

(Short of time but not of opinion: Got to get this off my chest real quick and I don’t think a full writing of all the lead-up details are needed as this case is all over the media. I received an email from Elie asking me why I haven’t posted my “white” comment on the Gates case. Ok Elie, here is my quick opinion.)
Professor Gates is a man who sees himself as a Black first and a Man second; an affliction that pervades throughout the so-called “Black” community AND in the elitist, leftist, statist community of neo-intellectual “whites.”
We, the public-at-large, were programmed from the very first news bites about this case to see this scenario as a case of excessive police insensitivity, perpetrated by an ignorant, undertrained white racist police officer. I read an initial reporting in the USA Today paper that Officer Crowley, according to a police chief in some obscure town in another state (no doubt a set up interview to sway the story the way the writer wanted it to be presented), was obviously undertrained.
Since that first story, all the primary papers have piled on with every trick they could muster to “prove” their initial point. But, reluctantly, they have had to slowly actually report the news, periodically included little bits here and there that, if looked at with a discriminating eye, clearly shows quite the opposite.
Officer Gates not only is highly trained in racial matters, he is a former academy teacher (for five years) of racial sensitivity. Further, he even had the opportunity to put his words to action, long before he was a teacher; he attempted to save a basketball player’s life (whom happened to be Black), Reggie Lewis, by administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Of that attempt, as reported in the Boston Herald, Officer Crowley stated, “I wasn’t working on Reggie Lewis the basketball star. I wasn’t working on a black man. I was working on another human being.” (Even then, as a college campus police officer, Crowley was lambasted for not doing enough. Why?, only because he is white and Reggie was black. If Reggie would have lived the race-baiting naysayers would have lambasted Crowley for all the bruises and other physically abusive marks he left on Reggie’s chest.)
When it comes to white-on-black, especially a white cop and an accused black, the “white” man can do no right and the black man can do no wrong. It doesn’t matter that the vast majority of black related crimes are black-on-black: 2007 stats show about 13% of America is comprised of Blacks, yet 43% of all murder victims in America were black and 93% of them were murdered by blacks. Other violent crimes have similar percentages. Did you get that?—13% of the population commits nearly have the total killings. Black communities reek with violent crime far and above that of so-called white communities, and we know why too (but to say it, even with undisputed facts, will bring the heavy hand of the racist enablers down on whoever even suggests “black” culpability.
I will say it: it is because of the welfare mentality and their inability to see and think past the leftist, statist “boxes” they have been programmed into over the past 40+ years; in that regard I suppose some of the blame does land on the “whites.”
All of us as humans often try to look for an easy way out. It is human nature to look outside to find blame for our inadequacies, our laziness and procrastinating desires. And our current social norm is to lend a helping hand to the racial dividers (enablers) who make their political and financial careers on the backs of our collective laziness and ensuing ignorance. When “Black” America stops allowing the enablers to set their low-level limit points, and becomes able INDIVIDUALLY to reset their own aiming stakes to a higher level, AND when they stop being Black- (insert adjective) anything, and become an American first, rejoining the human race, things will get better for all Americans.
I’ve written extensively on the need to reject collective thinking and return to the concept of individual accountability/responsibility; this is when all the hyphen-American crap will disappear and all our lives will improve.
In short, Professor Gates lives what he teaches- a separating ideology, trained by our elitist academia to respond as a victim-in-waiting. Meanwhile, this is THE problem of America’s 21st century, and it is leading us into socialism and modern slavery for all, equally.
So much for the “real quick” response, but I hope this fulfills Elie’s desires to continue hating me, the cold blooded racist white guy.

A WAKEUP CALL FOR ALL AMERICANS WHO HAPPEN TO BE BLACK

It is time for Black America to become, America. Throw off the proverbial chains that bind your self-worth. Stand up, be that which you know you can be- equal to anyone no matter their race, religion, or nationality. STOP allowing leftist liberals to make a claim of your inferiority and your (perceived) need for special assistance.

Pride exuding from a healthy ego does not come from an inaction, but from an action. It isn’t our birth that shines of pride; pride comes from demonstrative action, not from an act of nature. But nor should a lack of pride come from your birth; you are equal in birth to any other member of the human race, men and women fully in possession of all rights naturally endowed by Nature and Nature’s God with an equal ability to pursue life, to pursue liberty, and to pursue happiness.

Throw off your chains rebuking all those who may try to speak for you – speak for yourself as a worthy sovereign member of OUR American community. Embrace Americanism as a position of respect and equality among all the nations of this earth.

Do not allow naysayers to suck you into their whimsical political desires to use your emotions for their political or monetary advantage. Stand up and be proud of your worthiness as a productive, responsible citizen. Renounce those who try to put you into a convenient political box. You are a man, who happens to be black; you are a woman, who happens to be black. Put the adjective where it belongs, behind you, the real you.

Our souls have no color, no hierarchy. There are no dynasties or place of special birthing in the one true constitutional America. By nature – by our proclaimed natural law, from which our republic flows, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they YOU are endowed by YOUR creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are Life, Liberty, and Happiness.

If we fail to take the next true step in our racial relations, liberalism shall take us all down. The philosophy changes happening right now, fostered and fueled by leftist, atheistic political desires, now threatens to destroy our –yours and mine—birthright to liberty. Nationalistic and statist desires are playing on your fears. They are using you and your fears to destroy the greatest concept in government ever devised on this earth. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Your entitlements are awaiting your participation within our republic. Rebuke extraordinary desirous privileges, granted by special favor, through a bloated socialist regime that only leads to the plundering and rapping of your fellow American brethren, stealing from our sweat and our blood. Demand The Rule of Law under federalism, not The Rule of Man under nationalism.

A trained-to-be-colorblind society is a doomed society. We need to acknowledge and revel in our differences, to accept our variations, not ignore them or deny them. You’re not “marked” as a black person --just as I am not marked as a “white” person-- unless you "make" that mark; we are marked by what we do, by our actions, our heart and character, individually.

BE NOT MARKED FOR THE CAUSE OF THE FALL OF THE GREATEST NATION EVER TO GRACE THIS EARTH. Learn what it means to be an American. Learn the differences between a national government and a federal government. Learn the importance of states rights and limited government. Learn why individual sovereignty is vital to our future, and why all of these concepts brought America from obscurity to greatness in record time. America is a young nation, and yet we are the leader in the world in all categories of human and natural rights. Why? Because our renowned classic philosophy of limited, "of by and for the people" concept that delineated privileges to government flows FROM the individual, and not TO the individual. Governments do not bequeath rights; rights come from Nature and Nature’s God, privileges come from Man.

This is your choice – it is now your burden, as the fate of America rests in your decision. You must now step up and decide: are you inferior and in need of special privileges, and/or, by birth, superior and entitled to special favor at the expense of another race? Or, shall I consciously accept my place in society as a productive, engaged, willing, competative patriotic American wholly capable and desirous of finding my own way --my own place-- in life as a proud responsible adult American.

How can you justify creating modern serfdom – modern legalized slavery; is this the legacy you choose? It is your choice. In the medium term you too will feel the heavy hand of totalitarianism, and the loss of your own soul. Don’t let the socializing agenda of the first “Black” President be your "Black" contributory legacy to America.

I choose liberty and the leadership of Uncle Sam, not the heavy handed control of Big Brother. I believe you are my equal, don’t you? I believe my thoughts and my soul answers only to my Creator; this too I hope for you, as a competent and equal human being – a member of my race; the human race.
From My Heart of Hearts, To The Depth of Your Soul, I Sincerely Proclaim The Above:: Bruce Hedrick

So Now What Do We Do? Twitter And Twitter again?

The Libs have us by our bald wallets. My income has shrunk to near my financial breaking point. Between the planned economic downturn and the money I am being forced to spend for a lawyer (thanks to scam artist Rich Bellon: see http://fakesandfrauds.com ;search “Rich Bellon”), I am nearly tapped out at the end of the month – every month. If I take time off for a scheduled tea party or any other such activity, I will be filing bankruptcy and hitting the bread lines. However, as I think of what some of our Founders did and what they did without --what they sacrificed, I feel rather selfish thinking only of my personal inconvenience. On the other hand, this day 2009 is quite different than this day 1787.
Credit in circa 1787 hinged on your local reputation, often given and received via a promissory handshake. In 2009 we have worldwide credit brokers and often never see who holds our notes. In fact, those 2009 notes are often bought and sold a dozen or so times before they finally get paid off. Some in my family are in great need (and using) of our wonderful health care system and I gotta pay the piper. I’ve got property taxes, school taxes, insurance premiums for the home and cars, credit cards up the yingyang, an adult daughter in financial distress (living in my home), the IRS, the privately held government backed Fed, and … well, you get the picture.
But is all of this just an excuse? Am I too much of a weenie to stand up and fight? I’ve sent letters and emails on multiple occasions to my representatives. I’ve made phone calls to express my great concerns over the total makeover our country is now enduring. I spend a sizable portion of my week mulling over audio, print and web news outlets. I dream up articles and rants and figure the best ways I can to get the word out. I’ve even stood up in the middle of restaurants to yell out, “Who wants to talk politics?,” or “Who in here thinks I owe them a living?” I’ve been in several near-fights, mostly with black men, because I’m not afraid to loudly say, “Why? Why do you still think government owes you a living? That ‘government’ is me and I have nothing more to give!”
If this is reparations, hell, my Grandfather was 1/4 American Indian –and there’s family rumor we may have some black blood in us; anyone going to bail me out? No, probably not, because I look white, just like Obama looks black.
So what’s next? The leftists know they have us over a barrel. The media either ignores our gatherings, or they poke disgusting fun at them, i.e. “teabagging,” the talking heads spin everything we say, and the drones are simply sitting on fences, with their hands out, soaking in CNN and MSNBC; yea, zero liability citizens and all public fund sponges should not be able to vote.
It is the jiminy cricket voter -and a few enablers- who put this socialist Obama in the White House. Soon, we will be seeing a fast-growing economic divide and the mounting have-nots will be on their knees to the likes of George Soros, Michael Moore, Al Gore, and Barbara Streisand.
How much longer shall we “normal” white guys wait for black America to stop allowing the blackavists to speak for them collectively? Aren’t there enough examples of independent, capable, successful blacks to convince the masses they too are fully capable and equal AND responsible? I’m not buying the rhetoric that I am superior, which means I’m not going to be shamed into giving up my hard-earned money so you can buy more Colt-44 and Ripple and over-sized tires. Black America- this is the time for you to stand up and stop this crap. Stop looking for a handout. Stop blaming others for your self-imposed pain and wimpy suffering. Suck it up and be a Man; be a Woman—be responsible for your own life!
Meanwhile, we sit and tweet our twitters.
For full disclosure, I do see some “black” movements trying to lead this very movement. I have previously mentioned some of them, and here is another one: http://ragingelephants.org . Their goal should be one that hits 60 MPH and only slows when the “hayriders” begin jumping off and blending in as competent, independent members of the human race. The NAACP, the Black College Fund, Rainbow Push, and all the other “help-me-because-I-am-black” blackavist groups have to go down. These groups are exploiting your fears and giving you reason to feel inferior. STOP IT.
Come find me, shake my hand, give me a hug (I could really use one right now) and sit down to dinner in my home. I’m just a man just like you, struggling out in the cold, cold world, trying to feed my family and be my own person.
What does “proud to be black” mean? Did you do something to earn blackness? I’m proud I taught myself to like spinach; I’m proud I found cause within myself to go from derelict convict to the United States Marine Corps; I’m proud of 30 wonderful years with my wife. But why would I be proud of the length of my nose, or the color of my skin? Someone somewhere needs to get the message to “black” America that “man” and “woman” must come before “black.” I am a man who just happens to be white. And, it ain’t about how much I R-E-S-P-E-C-T you – it’s about how much you respect you. Let the bigots fall where they may, and a slammed door IS an opportunity across the hall.
Don’t you dare tell me I have no idea what it’s like to be a victim of racism; I’ve done time in four prisons –spent 3 months in Fulton County (Atlanta) jail when I was 17 and only saw three white guys (one was a guard) during that time period. The gloves are off already, thanks to the likes of Malcolm X, Mr. King Jr., and yes, even Mr. Jackson. But now the baggage must fall too. America was already a great country as it was, and to get back there we need to learn the best government is that which governs least. Local government is the answer to our desires for a responsive government. Local government is the answer for meeting any of our desires for social diversity. States rights must prevail.
Please untie Uncle Sam and send Big Brother back to China where he belongs.

P.S.- Is there any way we could kidnap Obama and replace him with Mr. Alan Keyes? Please??

And Still No Revolution

When are we going to finally accept reality; Obama does not care about your job. He is selling us a pile of poopoo as he continues doing all he can to destroy our economic system. He wants to permanently shrink our system and is using the recently printed paper bills to hire more and more government workers, but only slowly, as he is in part waiting for the right time to boost demo favorability ratings when the next election cycle comes around. What a piece of work this creep is!, taking advantage of his blackness image and our leftist-created embarrassment/guilt over racism and/or slavery and/or whatever else they can perpetrate along with the help of the alphabet news outlets. WE ARE ALL A BUNCH OF PANSIES – SHEEP! WAKE UP!
Napolitano is taking down even moderate border security systems; Sotomayor is lying through her teeth saying she “stands by her words” even while justifying earlier racial rant by saying she said “it” wrong (huh?), and she also eluded to full immunity for illegals (no surprise) along with their “rightful entitlements;” Congress passes a tax increase bill on the “rich” – an 1100 page bill printed yesterday and passed last night. You think anyone read it first? NOT! This is bill number three (that I am sure of) NOT read before voted on, which means TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, again.
Inflation is coming very soon. Inflation galore! How can our smartest ever president still stand and give speeches with a straight face, saying he is concerned about jobs. The worst thing is not him or the Congress, it is YOU, the idiot who voted for him and still supports him. You, the zero-liability voter.
I am sick with rage – disappointment, embarrassed by what this generation is going to leave (NOT) for the next. What a mess.

Racial Divide Driven by the Left

“(I)mpartial justice,” so stated by Ms. Sotomayor, is in fact leftist code talk as she will continue sifting through previous rulings to find the recent leftist inroads to socializing America. To her, impartial justice means anti-white and anti-individual responsibility/accountability, metered according to her ghetto-driven mentality.
Take it from a ghetto child –me—the ghetto mentality is still deeply routed in her. She sees life through the eyes of a government housing tenant filled with all the public documents, surrounded by “inadequate” entitlements, spiritual and mental inadequacies, and a despisement for what she perceives as the racist good-ole-boys-club. She sees this politico/socio ailment through ghetto-driven, racial and sex biased precepts.
(And yes, to date I have read 13 of her opinions, read countless articles in which she was quoted, and paid close attention to her interviews (I watch the eyes and the body squirms).
Ms. Sotomayor’s supporters in mainstream America overwhelmingly support her for the same reason they supported the Obama campaign; they perceive the Republican Party as racially motivated, if not outright racist, and are pushing her appointment because they want to seize this moment-in-time to put a non-white in a significant position. They see the Republican Party through the hazy-made eyes of our leftist media who has done yeoman’s work at vilifying anything conservative, ignoring the truth.
If you are open to the truth check this out:

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp

The consistencies I find make her a shoe-in for Obama’s agenda to bring down what they see as the white man’s kingdom.
You want more truth: For the average so-called white guy growing up in America, we (the white guys) see all around us a maze of “help” for all things non-white and non-male. Now think about this really hard- It is compassionate, appropriate, (and a self-evident need) to give a helping hand to the mentally and physically challenged. And, if all things non-white male, need help to become equalized, what are we then programmed to think?
This is what fuels today’s male-dominant white pride movements in all its perverted glory. Modern entitlement tools bring an unintended consequence of generating a field of pre-member, ripe for the picking, droned recruits for the Arian Brotherhood and a new generation of KKK-type upstarts. We are programmed –outside the home-- from childhood to see “others” as inferiors.
I, for one, refuse to apologize for supporting an open-arm society whose very hands are used to slap our own faces. Yea, some of us so-called white guys are angry for the right reasons. My proverbial and physical arms shall stay open because I have a full understanding of, and appreciation for, classic conservatism.

If You Understand, You're Not the Problem; If You Don't, You Are

In our COLLECTIVE pursuit to attain what naturally exists, we are ensuring it cannot INDIVIDUALLY be found: liberty, equality, happiness, self-worth, and purpose.

http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/9280/solns3.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=UXkJ0gvjS0AC&pg=PA787&lpg=PA787&dq=liberty+and+equality+exist+naturally&source=bl&ots=6_YyE4W_BA&sig=Lg9K3M-NUoLQ5FjCD05yk2xQNxU&hl=en&ei=VExbSq70EdD6tgecoo2aCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

If government pursues liberty for you, it only attains its own perverted form.

http://polycentricorder.blogspot.com/2009/03/liberty-or-equality-first-draft.html

Government's pursuit of equality can only be a shallow, physical equalness that denies its actual attainment. It is our political pursuit of equality that demands a powerful government, which in turn stifles internal individual growth, which empowers more government. This round-robin continues until no one has liberty, no one has parity, and no is able to attain their personal best. Then the soul dies; society waits on the fence to be taken.

http://books.google.com/books?id=bjIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=liberty+and+equality+exist+naturally&source=bl&ots=5UwQf33iRM&sig=V9SBhOgeMYY7GIXgKNuqk_yY8gw&hl=en&ei=VExbSq70EdD6tgecoo2aCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10

I believe this is why Thomas Jefferson created the Jefferson Bible: to show that Liberty only lies within the wisdom, and its understandings, of judeo/Christian philosophy.

http://books.google.com/books?id=tNTITwkbOtMC&dq=the+jefferson+Bible&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=UVZbSuaAI9yJtgfRroyaCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4

The core of our culture is under attack and we are doing great harm to the young. Our lack of a quality American education, born out of atheistic distress, is forcing us backward in time.

President Obama does not understand.

THINK WITH AN OPEN MIND ..

and heart. Reasonably and rationally, (lesson #17) one must consider the collective began somewhere, and with a “first.” One. Is not a single baby important? Why would a group of firemen risk their lives to rescue a single child -or for that matter- a single elderly man, from a collapsing, burning building? Because intuitively we understand we are only as important as the individual; that life first and foremost matters at the individual level. We intuitively understand life must be respected through and to the individual, or, collectively, we are .. less than we can be individually. This is the basis for Judeo/Christian values, and it is the core of conservatism.
Further, it's a no-brainer this concept is fundamental in reverse to its opposite; collectivism must use “boxes” and use general authority to destroy individualism (private property, sovereignty, inalienable rights, etc.) to sacrifice the Productive for the good of the UNproductive.
So, if we have such a fundamental link between Christianity and conservatism, one approach to fight conservatism is to attack its origins. If the leftist movement can make inroads into Christianity, it will simultaneously weaken conservatism. This is where we see the purpose for existence of church’s like the American Episcopalians. This also explains the oddball conundrums of this Church and their inconsistent, evolving philosophy.
Think with an open mind and do a little research into their evolving beliefs, comparing them to the fundamentals of Judeo/Christian values. Also compare their beliefs with that of a socialized, democratic statist.
This will help get you started:

First, be sure to keep to the American Episcopal Church for their philosophy is quite different than their European counterpart. Also keep in mind they use the Bible as the bases for their beliefs, and yet, seem to find things in between the lines just like an activist judge does with our Constitution.

While the history of the Episcopal Church is quite grand, its recent evolvement is rather confusing, so don’t focus so much on all the outcroppings and recent upstarts and mergers. It should suffice to review the concepts and philosophies of the American Episcopal Church through their current leader’s recent words:

https://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2009/July/Episcopalians-Weigh-Gay-Initiatives/
-- view the video of their Presiding Bishop, Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori. Gay views notwithstanding, notice the attempt to destroy individual salvation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Church_in_America

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1211587,00.html – a Times interview with Ms. Schori back in 2006.

http://ecusa.anglican.org/presiding-bishop.htm -- The Episcopal Church and The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori.

I believe this American Church exists in America because of its members/leader's political beliefs. Their religious concepts evolve to fit their political philosophies, giving it –like Mr. Obama’s home church— a philosophy based in political (physical) power and not on religious (spiritual) precepts.

The American Episcopal Church represents, in my opinion, the desperation of America’s leftist movement. It is one of many tools being used by atheists and other liberal, socialist democrats to derail the most complete and the most pure form of government humankind will ever invent and embrace: classic conservatism.

Think with an open mind, and don't be afraid to reach a conclusion, too. When you have consistency in values, there must be conclusions.

Please research THE CONCEPT OF LIFE

When I take a quick look on the internet with the search term "Concept of Life" I find many references to Islam, Budhism, Hinduism, and many (neo)intellectual writings about the future of genetics, bio-enginereeing, etc., but so little regarding good old-fashion western-style, judeo-christian, bibilcal values. I feel this issue is imparative to discuss and deeply aligned with classic, western/American constitutionalism, and apparently my next major project.
With that said, I challenge you to also research this subject, for it is of great importance to our republic -- yea, the one guaranteed in our Constitution. Modern, American liberalism, i.e statism, is abhord by the Concept of Life, as it puts human life on a plane above other animals; it actually demands that, if necesssary, one's singular life is expendable for a higher cause (as exemplified by giving one's life in battle to support the cause (the "cause" of liberty). While this concept is digestible for those of christianesk leanings, it is abhorant to a liberal atheist who figures this physical world is all there is to life. Statists fear their physical death more than they love or respect the continuation of life (examples would be the huge and growing national debt, their negative response to a standing army, and their desire to remove guns and other means' of "death," from society-at-large). The statist has no respect for those who believe, even those who believe in the possibility, in a spiritual side to life. Quite simply, not only do they fear those of us who suggest there IS a Concept of Life, they fear their own disbelief, which puts them on a very emotional tangent, in part, making today's volatile political climate understandable.
I beseech you to do some research on this subject and apply it to what we know about our Constitution. If your research takes you in the correct direction, our Constitution's reference to a republic, and the (proper) procedure of an Electoral College will make more sense to you.
AND! our liberty shall live happily ever after!
I will work on the story. Thanks for all your support.

For Some This Weekend Envokes Patriotism, But For Me ...

I am currently sitting on the edge of Canada, where I've been since yesterday, in north east New York waiting for my next load assignment. It ain't likely to come though, not till Monday. I've cleaned my truck out -literally-- as I cut a new rug for the floor. Fortunately, I didn't wait till now to start that project, as it rained through the night and most of the morning.
My fuel mileage percentage has been terrible over the last few days due to hauling heavy loads across some rough (and beautiful) terrain, so I'm trying to not idle my truck much which means I am down to bare bones self-entertainment: short walks, reading --lots of reading-- and yes, bird watching; mostly Sedge Wrens, something that looks like a Warbler, and lots of Seagulls, chirping Sparrows and other field birds. Then, though I was quite surprised, I swear I saw an Eagle; it was too large to be a Falcon, I thought. I jumped out of my truck and took a more advantageous position, and sure enough, the Eagle came soaring back, even loosing some altitude as if she knew I wanted a better look. Wow, she's a Bald Eagle!, and on July 4th weekend too.
In so many ways I am blessed. I was born in America with the genes of durability and independence; I am in love with my best friend and wife of 30 years, and born in a land destined to "house" the freest people this world is likely to ever produce. I thank Nature and Nature's God everyday.
However, I fear "progress" shall continue digging at our freedom, as the world's population continues to grow. Quality furtile ground is quickly falling into coorporate/government hands as private farms dissappear. But for the moment, this Independence Day weekend, I command my mind and heart to look to what was and what could be, and not at what is now and likely to be.
How do I define PATRIOTISM? Sorry, can't put it in a few sentences. I believe patriotism comes from a culmination of events/experiences, knowledge, and insightful spiritual Truth. That's right --of this I have no doubt; there has to be a profoundness of spiritual respect and acknowledgment within oneself of a Higher Power, a Designer.
Can an atheist appreciate the chance-life of being an American? Of course. But this alone, without the depth of spirituality, cannot constitute the patriotism I feel, nor the patriotism of those of renown.
Empathy- this is another element that's required for patriotism. One of my quirks is to look around when I see someone yawn. As I hold my hand over my mouth and yawn --because of seeing someone else yawn-- I have to look around to see if anyone else saw the yawn, and if they too are overcome with the urge to yawn. If they do see it, and don't yawn, I have to wonder what life would be like without, empathy, and without the ability to feel patriotism.
Notwithstanding, let's get back to what patriotism is to me; it is the ability to desire and pursue life's not-for-sale gifts, the luxury of knowing my country is empowered by delegated (not surrendered) rights, a profound respect for the good fight of our Founders, and the active acknowledgment that freedom has its evolving price. ..
All of this from seeing a bird in the sky .. It doesn't take much for me, as everyday is my independence day. Many years, perhaps pre-1980, I "discovered" an interesting man named Charles Eliot Norton, and I leave you this independence weekend with a few patriotic thoughts from his pen:
[Extracted from Letters of Charles Eliot Norton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913), Sara Norton and M.A. DeWolfe] --can be read online at < http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=1196402 >

"There are moments in every man's life, in the life of every nation, when, under the excitement of passion, the simple truths which in common times are the foundation upon which the right order and conduct of life depend are apt to be forgotten and disregarded. I shall venture tonight to recall to you some of these commonplace truths, which in these days of war need more than ever to be kept in mind.
There never was a land that better deserved the love of her people than America, for there never was a mother-country kinder to her children. She has given to them all that she could give. Her boundless resources have lain open to them, to use at their will. And the consequence has been that never in the history of man has there been so splendid a spectacle of widely diffused and steadily increasing material welfare as America has displayed during the last hundred years.
Millions upon millions of men have lived here with more comfort, with less fear, than any such numbers elsewhere in any age have lived. Countless multitudes, whose forefathers from the beginning of human life on earth have spent weary lives in unrewarded toil, in anxiety, in helplessness, in ignorance, have risen here, in the course of even a single generation, to the full and secure enjoyment of the fruits of their labor, to confident hope, to intelligent possession of their own faculties. Is not the land to be dearly loved in which this has been possible, in which this has been achieved?
But there is a deeper source of love of country than the material advantages and benefits it may afford. It is in the character of its people, in their moral life, in the type of civilization which they exhibit. The elements of human nature are indeed so fixed that favorable or unfavorable circumstances have little effect upon its essential constitution, but prosperity or the reverse brings different traits into prominence. The conditions which have prevailed in America have, if broadly considered, tended steadily and strongly to certain good results in the national character; not, indeed, to unmixed good, but to a preponderance of good.
The institutions established for self-government have been founded with intent to secure justice and independence for all. The social relations among the whole body of the people, are humane and simple. The general spirit of the people is liberal, is kindly, is considerate. The ideals for the realization of which in private and public conduct there is more or less steady and consistent effort, are as high and as worthy as any which men have pursued. Every genuine American holds to the ideal of justice for all men, of independence, including free speech and free action within the limits of law, of obedience to law, of universal education, of material well-being for all the well-behaving and industrious, of peace and good-will among men. These, however far short the nation may fall in expressing them in its actual life, are, no one will deny it, the ideals of our American democracy.
And it is because America represents these ideals that the deepest love for his country glows in the heart of the American, and inspires him with that patriotism which counts no cost, which esteems no sacrifice too great to maintain and to increase the influence of these principles which embody themselves in the fair shape of his native land, and have their expressive symbol in her flag. The spirit of his patriotism is not an intermittent impulse; it is an abiding principle; it is the strongest motive of his life; it is his religion.
And because it is so, and just in proportion to his love of the ideals for which his country stands, is his hatred of whatever is opposed to them in private conduct or public policy. Against injustice, against dishonesty, against lawlessness, against whatever may make for war instead of peace, the good citizen is always in arms.
No thoughtful American can have watched the course of affairs among us during the last thirty years without grave anxiety from the apparent decline in power to control the direction of public and private conduct, of the principles upon regard for which the permanent and progressive welfare of America depends; and especially the course of events during the last few months and the actual condition of the country today, should bring home to every man the question whether or not the nation is true to one of the chief of the ideals to which it has professed allegiance.
A generation has grown up that has known nothing of war. The blessings of peace have been poured out upon us. We have congratulated ourselves that we were free from the misery and the burdens that war and standing armies have brought upon the nations of the Old World. "Their fires" -- I cite a fine phrase of Sir Philip Sidney in a letter to Queen Elizabeth -- "Their fires have given us light to see our own quietness."
And now of a sudden, without cool deliberation, without prudent preparation, the nation is hurried into war, and America, she who more than any other land was pledged to peace and good-will on earth, unsheathes her sword, compels a weak and unwilling nation to a fight, rejecting without due consideration her earnest and repeated offers to meet every legitimate demand of the United States. It is a bitter disappointment to the lover of his country; it is a turning-back from the path of civilization to that of barbarism.
"There never was a good war," said Franklin. There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to defend the cause of justice, to die for it if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense; it is a national crime. And however right, however unavoidable a war may be, and those of us who are old enough to remember the war for the Union know that war may be right and unavoidable, yet, I repeat the words of Franklin, "There never was a good war."
It is evil in itself, it is evil in its never-ending train of consequences. No man has known the nature of war better than General Sherman, and in his immortal phrase he has condensed its description -- "War is hell." "From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day," said Edmund Burke, more than a hundred years ago, "the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all these species of artificial, learned and refined cruelty in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory."
And it is now, at the end of this century, the century in which beyond any other in history knowledge has increased and the arts of peace have advanced, that America has been brought by politicians and writers for the press, faithless to her noble ideals, against the will of every right-minded citizen, to resort to these cruel arts, these arts of violence, these arts which rouse the passions of the beast in man, before the resources of peace had been fairly tested and proved insufficient to secure the professed ends, which, however humane and desirable, afford no sufficient justification for resorting to the dread arbitrament of arms.
There are, indeed, many among us who find justification of the present war in the plea that its motive is to give independence to the people of Cuba, long burdened by the oppressive and corrupt rule of Spain, and especially to relieve the suffering of multitudes deprived of their homes and of means of subsistence by the cruel policy of the general who exercised for a time a practical dictatorship over the island. The plea so far as it is genuine deserves the respect due to every humane sentiment. But independence secured for Cuba by forcible overthrow of the Spanish rule means either practicalanarchy or the substitution of the authority of the United States for that of Spain. Either alternative might well give us pause. And as for the relief of suffering, surely it is a strange procedure to begin by inflicting worse suffering still. It is fighting the devil with his own arms. That the end justifies the means is a dangerous doctrine, and no wise man will advise doing evil for the sake of an uncertain good. But the plea that the better government of Cuba and the relief of the reconcentrados could only be secured by war is the plea either of ignorance or of hypocrisy.
But the war is declared; and on all hands we hear the cry that he is no patriot who fails to shout for it, and to urge the youth of the country to enlist, and to rejoice that they are called to the service of their native land. The sober counsels that were appropriate before the war was entered upon must give way to blind enthusiasm, and the voice of condemnation must be silenced by the thunders of the guns and the hurrahs of the crowd.
Stop! A declaration of war does not change the moral law. "The ten commandments will not budge" at a joint resolve of Congress. Was James Russell Lowell aught but a good patriot when during the Mexican war he sent the stinging shafts of his matchless satire at the heart of the monstrous iniquity, or when, years afterward, he declared, that he thought at the time and that he still thought the Mexican war was a national crime? Did John Bright ever render greater service to his country than when, during the Crimean war, he denounced the Administration which had plunged England into it, and employed his magnificent power of earnest and incisive speech in the endeavor to repress the evil spirit which it evoked in the heart of the nation?
No! the voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent, and spite of obloquy, misrepresentation and abuse, to insist on being heard, and with sober counsel to maintain the everlasting validity of the principles of the moral law.
So confused are men by false teaching in regard to national honor and the duty of the citizen that it is easy to fall into the error of holding a declaration of war, however brought about, as a sacred decision of the national will, and to fancy that a call to arms from the Administration has the force of a call from the lips of the country, of the America to whom all her sons are ready to pay the full measure of devotion. This is indeed a natural and for many a youth not a discreditable error. But if the nominal, though authorized, representatives of the country have brought us into a war that might and should have been avoided, and which consequently is an unrighteous war, then, so long as the safety of the State is not at risk, the duty of the good citizen is plain. He is to help to provide the Administration responsible for the conduct of the war with every means that may serve to bring it to the speediest end. He is to do this alike that the immediate evils of the war may be as brief and as few as possible, and also that its miserable train of after evils may be diminished and the vicious passions excited by it be the sooner allayed. Men, money, must be abundantly supplied. But must he himself enlist or quicken the ardent youth to enter service in such a cause? The need is not yet. The country is in no peril.
There is always in a vast population like ours an immense, a sufficient supply of material of a fighting order, often of a heroic courage, ready and eager for the excitement of battle, filled with the old notion that patriotism is best expressed in readiness to fight for our country, be she right or wrong. Better the paying of bounties to such men to fill the ranks than that they should be filled by those whose higher duty is to fit themselves for the service of their country in the patriotic labors of peace. We mourn the deaths of our noble youth fallen in the cause of their country when she stands for the right; but we may mourn with a deeper sadness for those who have fallen in a cause which their generous hearts mistook for one worthy of the last sacrifice.
My friends, America’s been compelled against the will of all her wisest and best to enter into a path of darkness and peril. Against their will she has been forced to turn back from the way of civilization to the way of barbarism, to renounce for the time her own ideals. With grief, with anxiety must the lover of his country regard the present aspect and the future prospect of the nation's life? With serious purpose, with utter self-devotion he should prepare himself for the untried and difficult service to which it is plain he is to be called in the quick-coming years.
Two months ago America stood at the parting of the ways. Her first step is irretrievable. It depends on the virtue, on the enlightened patriotism of her children whether her future steps shall be upward to the light or downward to the darkness." @@@@ end

Sometimes it is best to allow time to work its healing miracle, but then there comes a time for good men to act; wisdom is exercised when to know which is prudent.

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