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Thus Spoke our Founding Fathers

There are some things I want you to know
These things I write are not just for show
This land we live on, full of beauty and space
Is a God given land of liberty for every race.

That all may earn, by hard work, personal responsibility and sweat
A place to call their own, where only God holds their debt.
A land where free commerce, family, worship, and charity
go unhindered nor dictated by those we place under authority.

A place where people gave their very lives with the determination to be free
A place where government was told "Don't Tread On Me!"
A place where the Governor, law maker, and average citizen
had to obey the laws given regardless of status or position.

A land where the people, the government must fear,
A land I truly still hold very dear.
A glorious republic, for all to live free.
Oh beautiful country!  What has happened to thee?

Where tyranny was once hated and feared for its guile,
Is now embraced for free handouts and a handsome smile.
Now a place where the "elite" tell you how to live,
And where the hard working and responsible to the slothful must give.

Our founding fathers were wise men who knew the histories of great nations, yea them all!
Who knew the successes and failures that caused their greatness and fall.

Monarchies, while a potential to be strong,
Had a great weakness if a tyrant came along.

Communism and Socialism, while seemingly good in their intent,
Misery, laziness, stagnation, and a government the people were left to resent.

Democracy!  Surely the people knew better!
Surely no, the individual is lost to the desire of the crowd.
No, democracy on its own, unrestrained, must not be allowed.

The individual with law and the government to fear
the very people who put them there.

Yes!  A Republic, the law, was the solution!
Checks and balances were placed to avoid pollution!

Yet here we stand, our government corrupt and bloated
Full of a clueless aristocracy and a budget overloaded.
Where a teleprompter rules and a press helps to cover up
The loss of liberty while you cheer it on and eat it up.

Keep you distracted is all they have to do,
Before you notice you have lost everything important to you.
Awake ye citizens!  Awake from your deep sleep!
How much of your future will you allow them to keep?

The deed is being done, there's no other to blame.
Our founding fathers would bow their heads in sorrowful shame.
Look at what you've done!  You've let it go!
The greatest and most successful nation the world would ever know.

Look at the world before this nation was here.
The poverty, the stagnation, the filthiness and bad health.
This nation pulled the whole world out of darkness and fear.
It brought innovation, technology, medicine and personal wealth.

Why would you ruin it, why tear it apart?
To history, this nation has been its very best part!
Peace we bring where there once was tyranny and oppression,
From 1812 and other wars, with tyrants, in like succession.

This nation saved the world as a whole,
And yet it is being flushed down the toilet bowl.
The Constitution is there a document from the divine,
Don't let it wither like rotten fruit on a vine.

That document is the key to success,
Be it business, commerce, liberty and happiness.
When man is left to himself without hindrance, regulation and government theft,
He can accomplish so much more than the collective liberal left.

Solve the problems of the world can he,
If only you give him his personal liberty.

-- SuperSparky
   http://supersparky.vox.com

Andrew McCarthy, a man with genuine BALLS.  A well respected former Federal Prosecutor by both parties, who served under two Presidential administrations (Clinton & Bush), received the Attorney General's Special Service award (by Janet Reno), author of "Willfull Blindness" (a book about his prosecution of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman the leader of the first World Trade Center attack), poignantly turns down an in invitation by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration to participate on the "roundtable" Presidential Task Force on Detention Policy for enemy combatants.

Mr. McCarthy says it plainly, cites law, and gives logical and intelligent reasons for his refusal.

Now if only we had Congressmen this willing to stand up for their country.  If anyone questions the Tea Party movement, we'd honestly say that this man should be leading it.  His sentiments and reasoning are exactly why there is a Tea Party movement.  We are sick and tired of a government running afoul of the highest law of the land, the U.S. Constitution.  It is the very document that gives them their authority, and yet they disregard it, thinking their newer laws trump it.  No, they are governed by it.  The pigs have broken into the garden and are gorging themselves.  They need to be put back in the pens where the Federal government belongs.

The Federal government answers to the US Constitution and the States.  It is clearly written down and is clearly the LAW.  A law the Congress and Administration clearly ignore.  That is incompetence and blatantly tyrannical.

The US Constitution is this country's Highest Law, not the Congress, not the President, and most certainly not any foreign law.  It is what made this country great.  It is not a "living" or "breathing" document.  It's just as valuable now as when it was conceived, and conceived by much more intelligent men than are in our society now.  It is what brought the world out of the dark ages.  It is what made our modern world possible.  It was the liberty that document guarantees.

Andrew McCarthy knows this better than many people, as the law is his specialty, and representing the people was his duty.  Duty to the people, a concept the current Federal government has no grasp or concept of.

Here is Mr. McCarthy's reply to that invitation:

Andrew McCarthy's Letter to Attorney General Holder

May 1, 2009

By email (to the Counterterrorism Division) and by regular mail:
 
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20530-0001
 
Dear Attorney General Holder:
 
This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline the invitation to participate in the May 4 roundtable meeting the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy is convening with current and former prosecutors involved in international terrorism cases.  An invitation was extended to me by trial lawyers from the Counterterrorism Section, who are members of the Task Force, which you are leading.
 
The invitation email (of April 14) indicates that the meeting is part of an ongoing effort to identify lawful policies on the detention and disposition of alien enemy combatants -- or what the Department now calls “individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations.”  I admire the lawyers of the Counterterrorism Division, and I do not question their good faith.  Nevertheless, it is quite clear -- most recently, from your provocative remarks on Wednesday in Germany -- that the Obama administration has already settled on a policy of releasing trained jihadists (including releasing some of them into the United States).  Whatever the good intentions of the organizers, the meeting will obviously be used by the administration to claim that its policy was arrived at in consultation with current and former government officials experienced in terrorism cases and national security issues.  I deeply disagree with this policy, which I believe is a violation of federal law and a betrayal of the president’s first obligation to protect the American people.  Under the circumstances, I think the better course is to register my dissent, rather than be used as a prop.

Moreover, in light of public statements by both you and the President, it is dismayingly clear that, under your leadership, the Justice Department takes the position that a lawyer who in good faith offers legal advice to government policy makers—like the government lawyers who offered good faith advice on interrogation policy—may be subject to investigation and prosecution for the content of that advice, in addition to empty but professionally damaging accusations of ethical misconduct.  Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government.

Beyond that, as elucidated in my writing (including my proposal for a new national security court, which I understand the Task Force has perused), I believe alien enemy combatants should be detained at Guantanamo Bay (or a facility like it) until the conclusion of hostilities.  This national defense measure is deeply rooted in the venerable laws of war and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the 2004 Hamdi case.  Yet, as recently as Wednesday, you asserted that, in your considered judgment, such notions violate America’s “commitment to the rule of law.”  Indeed, you elaborated, “Nothing symbolizes our [administration’s] new course more than our decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay….  President Obama believes, and I strongly agree, that Guantanamo has come to represent a time and an approach that we want to put behind us: a disregard for our centuries-long respect for the rule of law[.]”  (Emphasis added.)

Given your policy of conducting ruinous criminal and ethics investigations of lawyers over the advice they offer the government, and your specific position that the wartime detention I would endorse is tantamount to a violation of law, it makes little sense for me to attend the Task Force meeting.  After all, my choice would be to remain silent or risk jeopardizing myself.

For what it may be worth, I will say this much.  For eight years, we have had a robust debate in the United States about how to handle alien terrorists captured during a defensive war authorized by Congress after nearly 3000 of our fellow Americans were annihilated.  Essentially, there have been two camps.  One calls for prosecution in the civilian criminal justice system, the strategy used throughout the 1990s.  The other calls for a military justice approach of combatant detention and war-crimes prosecutions by military commission.  Because each theory has its downsides, many commentators, myself included, have proposed a third way: a hybrid system, designed for the realities of modern international terrorism—a new system that would address the needs to protect our classified defense secrets and to assure Americans, as well as our allies, that we are detaining the right people.

There are differences in these various proposals.  But their proponents, and adherents to both the military and civilian justice approaches, have all agreed on at least one thing:  Foreign terrorists trained to execute mass-murder attacks cannot simply be released while the war ensues and Americans are still being targeted.  We have already released too many jihadists who, as night follows day, have resumed plotting to kill Americans.  Indeed, according to recent reports, a released Guantanamo detainee is now leading Taliban combat operations in Afghanistan, where President Obama has just sent additional American forces.

The Obama campaign smeared Guantanamo Bay as a human rights blight.  Consistent with that hyperbolic rhetoric, the President began his administration by promising to close the detention camp within a year.  The President did this even though he and you (a) agree Gitmo is a top-flight prison facility, (b) acknowledge that our nation is still at war, and (c) concede that many Gitmo detainees are extremely dangerous terrorists who cannot be tried under civilian court rules. Patently, the commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within a year was made without a plan for what to do with these detainees who cannot be tried.  Consequently, the Detention Policy Task Force is not an effort to arrive at the best policy.  It is an effort to justify a bad policy that has already been adopted: to wit, the Obama administration policy to release trained terrorists outright if that’s what it takes to close Gitmo by January.

Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities—like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance.  I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees.  According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training.  Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from theUnited States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law.

I am, in addition, powerless to stop the President, as he takes these reckless steps, from touting his Detention Policy Task Force as a demonstration of his national security seriousness.  But I can decline to participate in the charade.

Finally, let me repeat that I respect and admire the dedication of Justice Department lawyers, whom I have tirelessly defended since I retired in 2003 as a chief assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.  It was a unique honor to serve for nearly twenty years as a federal prosecutor, under administrations of both parties.  It was as proud a day as I have ever had when the trial team I led was awarded the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award in 1996, after we secured the convictions of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and his underlings for waging a terrorist war against the United States.  I particularly appreciated receiving the award from Attorney General Reno—as I recounted in Willful Blindness, my book about the case, without her steadfastness against opposition from short-sighted government officials who wanted to release him, the “blind sheikh” would never have been indicted, much less convicted and so deservedly sentenced to life-imprisonment.  In any event, I’ve always believed defending our nation is a duty of citizenship, not ideology.  Thus, my conservative political views aside, I’ve made myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to Democrats and Republicans, who’ve thought tapping my experience would be beneficial.  It pains me to decline your invitation, but the attendant circumstances leave no other option.

                                                                                    Very truly yours,

                                                                                    /S/      

                                                                                    Andrew C. McCarthy
cc:        Sylvia T. Kaser and John DePue
National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section

Way to go Andy!  You are a true American, not a Republican, not a Democrat, just a loyal American with honor and integrity.

The First Amendment to The U.S. Constitution

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble; and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The New School Prayer

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!

Amen

The Second Amendment to The U.S. Constitution

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The Wisdom of Those in History

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"Men trained in arms from their infancy, and animated by the love of liberty, will afford neither a cheap or easy conquest." -- From the Declaration of the First Continental Congress, 1775

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them" -- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

"Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." -- Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788

"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788

"The great object is, that every man be armed. [...] Every one who is able may have a gun." -- Patrick Henry, speech of June 14 1788

The Ten Commandments (or how to live a happy life)

Commandments Are Like The Kite String

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:  For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

-- Jehovah

A Very Famous Sermon

Sermon

And again, blessed are all they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

And blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost.

And blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

And blessed are all the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

And blessed are all the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

And blessed are all they who are persecuted for my name’s sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

And blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake; For ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad, for great shall be your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before you.

Liberty And The Old Soldier

[Note:  The painting on the right is called "The Title of Liberty" and was painted by Arnold Freiberg, the famous art director to Cecil B. DeMille's movie "Ten Commandments", staring Charleton Heston as Moses.  The following story inspired this famous painting.

The background to this story is a group of people called "Nephites" that had just come off a long war for freedom from the repression of their enemies.  The leader of their army was "Moroni" a simple and humble man, but determined to defend liberty to his very death.  The new nation had become prosperous and started taking their freedom and prosperity for granted.  An up and coming and handsome politician, Amalickiah, with rich friends begins to sweet talk the people and promise power to his supporters.  He wanted to be King, and he knew deception and bribery was an excellent way to do it  Moroni caught wind of what was happening and was seeing everything he and a lot of men fought for was about to be dismantled, especially religious freedom.]

Friberg's Title Of Liberty

...Yea, we see that Amalickiah, because he was a man of cunning device and a man of many flattering words, that he led away the hearts of many people to do wickedly; yea, and to seek to destroy the church of God, and to destroy the foundation of liberty which God had granted unto them, or which blessing God had sent upon the face of the land for the righteous’ sake.

And now it came to pass that when Moroni, who was the chief commander of the armies of the Nephites, had heard of these dissensions, he was angry with Amalickiah.

And it came to pass that he rent his coat (ripped it); and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.

And he fastened on his head-plate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land.

And when Moroni had said these words, he went forth among the people, waving the rent part of his garment in the air, that all might see the writing which he had written upon the rent part, and crying with a loud voice, saying:

"Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and enter into a covenant that they will maintain their rights, and their religion, that the Lord God may bless them."

And it came to pass that when Moroni had proclaimed these words, behold, the people came running together with their armor girded about their loins, rending their garments in token, or as a covenant, that they would not forsake the Lord their God; or, in other words, if they should transgress the commandments of God, or fall into transgression, and be ashamed to take upon them the name of Christ, the Lord should rend them even as they had rent their garments.

Now this was the covenant which they made, and they cast their garments at the feet of Moroni, saying: We covenant with our God, that we shall be destroyed... if we shall fall into transgression; yea, he may cast us at the feet of our enemies, even as we have cast our garments at thy feet to be trodden under foot, if we shall fall into transgression.

Moroni said unto them: "Behold... let us remember to keep the commandments of God, or our garments shall be rent by our brethren, and we be cast into prison, or be sold, or be slain.  Yea, let us preserve our liberty..."

And now it came to pass that when Moroni had said these words he went forth, and also sent forth in all the parts of the land where there were dissensions, and gathered together all the people who were desirous to maintain their liberty, to stand against Amalickiah and those who had dissented, who were called Amalickiahites.

And it came to pass that when Amalickiah saw that the people of Moroni were more numerous than the Amalickiahites—and he also saw that his people were doubtful concerning the justice of the cause in which they had undertaken—therefore, fearing that he should not gain the point, he took those of his people who would and departed into the land of [their enemies].

Now Moroni thought it was not expedient that the [their sworn enemies] should have any more strength; therefore he thought to cut off the people of Amalickiah, or to take them and bring them back, and put Amalickiah to death; yea, for he knew that he would stir up [their enemies] to anger against them, and cause them to come to battle against them; and this he knew that Amalickiah would do that he might obtain his purposes.

Therefore Moroni thought it was expedient that he should take his armies, who had gathered themselves together, and armed themselves, and entered into a covenant to keep the peace—and it came to pass that he took his army and marched out with his tents into the wilderness, to cut off the course of Amalickiah in the wilderness.

And it came to pass that he did according to his desires, and marched forth into the wilderness, and headed the armies of Amalickiah.

And it came to pass that Amalickiah fled with a small number of his men, and the remainder were delivered up into the hands of Moroni and were taken back into the [nation's capital city].

Now, Moroni being a man who was appointed by the chief judges and the voice of the people, therefore he had power according to his will with the armies of the Nephites, to establish and to exercise authority over them.

And it came to pass that whomsoever of the Amalickiahites that would not enter into a covenant to support the cause of freedom, that they might maintain a free government, he caused to be put to death; and there were but few who denied the covenant of freedom.

And it came to pass also, that he caused the title of liberty to be hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land, which was possessed by the Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the standard of liberty among the Nephites.

And they began to have peace again in the land...

Great Wisdom & Humor

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first" -- Ronald Reagan

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." -- Ronald Reagan

"Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole." -- Ann Coulter

"Teach the people correct principles, and they will govern themselves." -- Joseph Smith Jr.

Songs and Poems

Prayer

When your heart was full with anger,
Did you think to pray?
Did you plead for grace, my brother,
That you might forgive another
Who had crossed your way?

When sore trials came upon you,
Did you think to pray?
When your soul was full of sorrow,
Balm of Gilead did you borrow
At the gates of day?

Oh, how praying rests the weary!
Prayer will change the night to day.
So, when life gets dark and dreary,
Don't forget to pray.

-- Mary A. Pepper Kidder

Musings

Bail 'em Out?

Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it.  They failed and it closed.  Now we are trusting the economy of our country and our banking system to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whiskey.

U.S Lawmakers at work:

In 1999...

• 29 members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse.
• 7 have been arrested for fraud.
• 19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
• 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses.
• 3 have been arrested for assault.
• 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for a credit card.
• 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
• 8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
• 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
• And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.
  

Now in 2009, it's hard to find any Democrat, in Washington DC that has paid their taxes.  Many of them are in the Presidential cabinet.  Which is why it is so easy for them to raise your taxes and spend it as if it is theirs.

Today ... 75% of them can't pass a simple high-school level test on the Constitution, the organization and purposes of the three houses of the Federal Government, and (get this) Congressional ethics rules.

[The following was added in December 2009]

The Obama Administration continues to set records:

• The national debt has been increasing since the early 1900's.  Each President and the Congress has slowly increased it year after year.  George W. Bush, and the Democrat controlled Congress briefly held the record for being the largest increase in the national debt of any President and Congress.  However, Obama, not wanting to be outdone, in just four months quadrupled the national debt.  If you added up the amount of money from each President's increase in the National Debt since it's inception, from Washington to George W. Bush, Obama still beat them (all combined) in 4 months by four times that combined amount!!  Obama is in a league of his own.
  
  
• The lowest number of people in a Presidential administration without any real-world job experience (has had a job that hasn't been a government job or a job period) was previously held by the John F. Kennedy administration.  Once again, the Obama administration is in a league of its own with barely 7% having real world experience.  The other 93% are people that have NEVER held a public sector job EVER.  This means the inexperience doesn't end with Obama, he brought the idiots with him.  The catastrophe that is the Obama administration is exactly what the Ivy League eggheads think things should be.  It's not working out too well.
  
  
• The current estimates are, as specific numbers cannot be established yet, due to cover up, is that the Obama administration has more people loyal to Marxist and communist organizations and supporters than any other in history.  In fact, it appears the percentage of Marxist supporters to "other" is now at approximately 68%.  This is unprecedented since the nation was founded.
  
  
• The Obama administration holds the record for lowest first year approval rating of any President in history (since such polls were taken).  He also holds the record for lowest first year job approval for those who voted for him.
  
  

Fascists: Hitler & Mussolini

Those saying that Obama and his buddies are Socialists have vastly miscalculated this assumption.  What's really happening is Obama is fascist and not socialist.  Obama understands and knows the power that can come from a fascist state without the people really knowing what is going on.  After all, the fascists of the past knew what he knows, and frankly, what his mentors knew (Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, etc.).  For example, Adolf Hitler once said, "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one" and "what luck for rulers that men do not think".  Now I'm not saying Obama is a genocidal maniac, I am saying his political methods are similar.  Another fascist, Vladimire Lenin, once said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."  Now, politicians have never been known for their honesty, nevertheless, I have never seen such a large group of them openly and without effort to disguise, lie over and over and simply say what people want to hear at the time to make them feel good.  These lies have resulted in them becoming loved, almost adored, by those too ignorant or star struck to even bother to see the lies for what they are.

These star struck idiots would rather allow these fascists to take away their freedoms and rights just because their speeches make them feel good.  This reminds me of something Hitler once said, "A lie, told often enough, becomes the truth..."

You see, where Communist Socialism requires exclusive government control of all means of commerce and business, including wages and the control of private ownership, Fascist Socialism or "Fascism" achieves the same results without the overhead.  Instead of the government controlling everything like socialism requires, all fascism requires is to have government control of banks and the largest corporations.  This gives them indirect control over everything else through extortionary means.  If you own a company and need a loan, but don't want to run the business according to the government's ideas and sell the products they want you to sell, then you don't get the loan.  Don't need a loan?  Well, if you don't sell what they want you to, then they just raise your taxes so high that your only choice is to do what they say.

A fascist uses the art of distraction to gain power quickly.  What they do is create a crisis, either a real crisis, or just one they think up.  After this crisis becomes bad enough, they come forward offering to "fix" it and proceed to blame it on the rich and successful.  They use class envy as a weapon, and as such conveniently shift the focus of how the crisis really happened and thus a lie told often enough becomes the truth.  This works especially well with charismatic speaker that has the talen to charm the very stupid to the seemingly intelligent.

Once again, Adolf Hitler used this technique quite well.  His Nazi brown shirts would cause trouble and maheim, the legislature would give him more powers to "fix" the problem, he used this power to take over large companies and banks, he'd then give "inspiring and emotion grabbing" speeches thousands would attend.  He was called "the saviour of Germany", yet, most of the problems that were happening were a direct result of his actions and the actions of his brown shirts.  People loved him because he preached that he would take care of them.  He would punish those that were wealthy.  He would "fix" education.  What he did was indoctrinate children, not educate them.  People would cry, get goose bumps, act as if they were listening to their favorite movie star.  He would openly tell lies just to say what the people wanted to hear.  It didn't matter if it was a lie, the people, being star struck believed him.  It became "the truth" to them.

Pelosi & Reid

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Hitler intended for Germany to be torn apart.  This allowed him to build in his image of savior, which was actually quite successful for him.  This SAME techique is what Obama is doing, and like Germany of old, the legislature is willing to do his bidding, no matter what it is.  The "crisis" is the excuse.  The very congressmen that angirly shake their fists and fling spit all over the place are the very weasels that caused the crisis in the first place!  That doesn't matter to the Obama fan, because Obama is going to fix everything.  This is very dangerous.

There is a reason why thousands gave their lives willingly and freely in the Revolutionary war.  It was simply for the liberty and freedom to live their lives as THEY chose to live them, and not what a bunch of bloated bureaucrats in government dictates.  These idiots in Washington, including Obama, have never ever lived a life outside of the protective bubble of politics or a university.  Barney Frank has never ran a business, tried to keep a payroll and pay ridiculous taxes and still have something left for himself.  He doesn't know what it's like to earn a living, not have it given to you because some lobbyist made you a sweet deal for special consideration.  With a small few exceptions, none of these idiots in government have any clue how the economy works, how everything is connected.  They don't understand that liberty and entrepreneurism  is what made this nation great.  It's what raised the standard of living in the entire world and even this country.  Our "poor" have cell phones and TV's because of this as well.  This can be directly linked with the American system.

Obama is bound and determined to destroy the current economic system.  That is plain to see through all of his lies.  He intends to have a fascist oligarchy that answers to a world body and not to the people.  It's all about power to a small elite group, because you're too stupid to take care of yourself.

It's all a game, a grand illusion.  The march to fascism started with Woodrow Wilson, got a boost with FDR slowly but surely over the years it gained momentum, from Johnson to Carter and finally Obama.  When more an more people realize what is happening to their liberties and freedoms, they, hopefully, will finally wake up.

This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue.  This is an American issue.  The idea that Europe has a better way is a vastly flawed idea.  History has shown that the way Europe operates always ends with the loss of liberty and development.  Stagnation and frustration are the result.  Since when has a government lasted longer than 50 years in that region for the past 300 years?  Since when has that government shown progress and development for the human standard of living even remotely like the USA has done in 200+ years?

The "Republican" (not Republican party) form of government has the only historical evidence to show that it is the most successful, the best for the human spirit and lifestyle, and the best for the world around than any other form of government ever.  When Rome was a true Republic it was the most magnificent of societies.  When it started to deteriorate and they created "entitlements" for people (sound familiar?) people got lazy and started expecting more from the government.  It deteriorated into a (mob) democracy, which eventually needed a "saviour" to turn it into a oligarchy or dictatorship with the reign of the emperors.  That was the beginning of the end for Rome.  The people gave up their prosperity and freedom for handouts and "security".  They lost it all.

Socialism, for every country that has tried it, has shown to destroy inventiveness and the incentive to make things better.  The promise of "equality" in class is a lie.  It only succeeded in eliminating the rich and making everyone poor except party members.  Cuba is an exccellent example of this everyone is poor and there's no incentive to make things better.  What was once the largest producer of Sugar in the world suddenly became a nation that has a sugar shortage, and any sugar they produce (very little) is exported and not used by the people.

Socialism, much like the Europe of today, has shown much like Communism, it doesn't inspire entrpreneurship and the improvement of the nation as a whole.  Things stagnate because those with ideas get punished for them and anything they gain for their ideas is distributed to those too lazy to work for themselves.  After all, why work hard if the government is going to take care of you.  Because everyone starts to be content and lazy, the government remains as it is and their economy doesn't grow because of it.

• A benevolent monarchy that gave the rules of law and allowed the people to live in liberty and without interference.  This is very rare, because absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Having a good monarch does not guarantee the next will be, in fact it's usually the opposite to be the case.  Thus this is far too risky.
  
• A republic, which gives a set of laws and allows the people to live in liberty and without government interference.  There are just enough laws to hold back anharchy and to preserve the rights and property of the individual.  Yes, the INDIVIDUAL, not the group.  This is the form of government people died for.

The idea that government solves all problems is a dumb and misinformed idea.  A big government only brings misery and a loss of personal liberties.  Governement is only there to provide for a common defense, to only PROMOTE (not provide) the general welfare, in other words ENCOURAGE commerce, not stifle or regulate it.  Government is there to PRESERVE LIBERTY not only for us, but our children.  This is not what Obama and the Congress is doing.  They are violating our highest law, the Constitution, and with hypocrasy demand we obey theirs and trust them.

This march to fascism will be tested when enough people have come to the realization that they have lost their liberties to a bunch of tyrants that say what people want to hear.

The only problem our founding fathers did not address, was a provision in the Constitution for the government to fear the people, other than the second amendment.

Congratulations on your coup.  You have successfully convinced a bunch of idiots about how you are going to rescue them in their irresponsibility and stupidity, give them money they did not earn from those that worked hard for their money, and made promises you immediately broke in your first week of office.  It's amazing how charisma, charm, and articulate speech, which makes some liberal newscasters get tingling in their legs, got you, a Chicago sleaze-bag politician nobody, into the most powerful position in the world.

We all know you don't care that your cabinet selections all should be in jail for tax evasion, because of your example, they know they are better than the rest of us.  They have succeeded even where Al Capone failed.  Good work!

Now that you got the rest of your comrades with enough power to do whatever you tell them to do, you can now begin to form this country into something you, and your teachers (Bill Ayers, Saul Alinski, Reverend Wright, etc) taught you to do.  You've been following Saul's formula to the letter, and so far it has been successful.  Your plans of ruining the capitalist economy to force a global currency is well on its way.  The technique's that Saul taught you to convince people to allow you to turn over private ownership to the government looks to be succeeding as well.  We all know that in order for this to succeed, you have to get it done before everyone realizes what you are really doing; and that's socializing America.  After all, you know better than some primitive idiots back in the 1700's about how people should live and be allowed to live.  Everyone know that intellectuals that sit in Univerisities all their lives know more about the world than those that actually have to work in the system.

Now of course there's the constant preaching of comrades to force the rich to pay more taxes and allow that money to be given to those that didn't earn that money.  It was a good idea to make them look like the bad guys, even though it's the rich that give jobs to others.  It's almost funny how they preach about this and yet don't pay taxes themselves.  Al Capone would be impressed!

You have succeeded in having been the first President to have more sleaze-bags and crooks in his administration than any previous, including the Clinton and Nixon administrations combined!  Well done!

However, what impresses me the most, is how you are paying off those that funded your campaign and carreer, by calling it a "Stimulus Package".  How masterful!  You have been able to put together a veritable Christmas bags worth of useless liberal gifts to organizations and other things that have absolutely nothing to do with stimulating the economy.  You have successfully put together a full pork package, without anything useful to hide that pork other than a name!  You have, with sweet talking, and emotion, been able to tell the citizens of the United States of America to go to Hell, and yet are making them look forward to the trip!  Genius!!

If the country is still around after your first term, I'm anxious to see what other methods you'll use to sieze power from the people.  Heck, Joseph Stalin did it, and the people cheered for him.  Adolf Hitler did it, and the people would cry at his speeches even get tingling up their legs when he spoke.  If you can keep this up, then surely you can sieze even more power and property to finally make this a socialized Utopia, and since the UN and world population depends so much on America, they'll fall right in, and then you'll finally be able to prove that socialism works, even after it has always failed previously.  The key here being there will not be a competing system to destroy it.  How clever!

I am also impressed at how you have, with your comrades, distracted the populace from religion by supplanting it with a false religion.  The religion of Global Warming and environmentalism.  A very clever way to gain control of private enterprise while distracting the populace with fear and lies.  I mean seriously, you've got them convinced that small cars and wind power will solve all problems.  I was impressed with your statements claiming people had to get rid of their gas guzzlers, turn the heating down to 68 degrees, use florescent bulbs, and use tire gages to combat the climate demons.  I love how you put yourself above everyone else by driving a brand new GM limo with super heavy metal plating and the largest gasoline engine GM makes that barely will get 6 miles to the gallon, then you crank up the heat in the oval office to 85 degrees because you're from Hawaii and as we all know, all Illinois politicians from Hawaii deserve special treatment and don't have to live the standards they preach.  I mean, you're the President and they are just the people clinging to their religion and guns.  They couldn't possibly think for themselves.  They need someone to tell them how to live and what to do.  It was Vladimire Lenin that said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth", and you have the news media in your pockets.  Well played!

I love how your minions are blind to the obvious truth and have chosen to unconditionally follow you to the ends of the Earth.  They have a knack for excusing criminal behavior in their fellow comrades and call it forgivable mistakes, yet when one opposes them on the radio, for example, they will try every means they can to shut them up and censor them.  We both know the truth must never be exposed.  After, one of your contemporaries of the past, Adolf Hitler, said, "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one. ... What luck for rulers that men do not think!"  Your friends in Hollywood have been quite successful at distracting the populace from thinking.

I may want to point out something though.  Americans have a reputation for not accepting authority forced upon them for a long period of time.  You see, unlike Europe, whos population, until recently, was used to a dictator or socialist oligarchy running their country for centuries.  They lost the will to fight it.  Americans, on the other hand, are famous for not putting up with such crap, at least not for long.  I predict to you, Mr. President, that if a peaceful and civil means is lost to the American people to fix this mess (that's being able to vote the change), that the revolutionary war of 1776 will be nothing compared to a second revolution to restore the Constitutional government as it was originally.  This, by no means is a personal threat, but is a result of historical observation and my opinion.  History tends to repeat itself.  The USA as it is today, has turned into the country those earlier revolutionists originally fought against.  It stands to reason that unless major changes are made to restore the country as it was originally, that a revolution will happen again.

John F. Kennedy, a predecessor of yours, did say that when a government removes the means for the people to change it peacefully, then an unpeaceful method is all that is left to emerge.  Let's hope your actions don't cause this to happen.

Sincerely,

SuperSparky
The Women Love Me

This is a rather unusual article today.  I spent a great many hours today reading the articles of other bloggers on the Internet, both professional and amateur.  The read the likes of Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Chuck Norris, etc. and of course many unknowns.  I even read the comment sections.  Usually with the pros the comments were only from the readers without response of the author.  This, usually, is a good thing, to isolate the author from the public, for the high profile authors.  However, I would like to see the occasional reply or debate from these professionals.  Such debates tend to be interesting and revealing.

Whaaaaambulance

I did, however, read many more of the amateur blogs and thought how interesting and different some were.  I could easily spot the ones completely living off of gossip and the FUD of the world, sucking up all of the available BS and propaganda as if it was gospel; obviously without any research whatsoever.  I also saw some carefully thought out and researched articles, some I didn't agree with, but I could certainly see and respect how they came to their conclusions.

One common thing I found interesting was the comments sections of the good articles tended to keep with the subject of the article itself.  The vague or bad articles, if they had comments, typically was full of flaming tirades having nothing to do with the topic at hand.  There were lots of "you suck!" or "Bush lied!" or other such well worn excuses to blather or jump to when you can't put together a coherrant and intelligent argument.  One even turned into a "yo mama's so fat" back and forth!  Oddly enough, more interesting than the article itself.

When I write an article, I know it's a good one based upon the type of comments I receive, if any.  It doesn't matter if those comments are an argument against my opinions or for them.  I find if the person is passionate and thoughtful about their response, I know I have done my job.  I've written articles along many topics so far, not all politically based, although I tend to lean in that direction.  Some had 100% positive comments full of "way to go!" and such, and others have been controversial enough to have well thought out debates and contrary opinions in the comments.  Both I consider successful.

Sure, I don't get the readership I want, but those that do read deem it worth their time to offer their opinions in the comments section.  This is my ultimate goal, is to get people to think and talk about topics I find important enough to spend the time to write.

Laughing at You

Finally, I get to the sad part.  It's those bloggers who, even though it's their right, have no business wasting bandwidth and our time.  These are the complainers, the ones who just barf their FUD all over the place without any sort of research or even reality as their foundation or basis.  It's like reading a post by one of those people on the Tonight Show's "Jay Walking" shorts.  These are people who somehow floated through school but couldn't show you where they lived on a map, or tell you who the Vice President is, or even tell you how the government works (if writing about such a topic); but could certainly tell you who won and lost on American Idol or what happened on the lst episode of Lost.  It is those kind of posts where you have realized that you wish you could have that wasted experience sucked from your brain and that wasted time back.  It's like those people that say they voted for a candidate because they promised "change", but couldn't tell you what that change was.  You know the type.

Then there are the new bloggers, those are the ones I mainly thought about when writing the headline for this article.  It takes a lot of courage to write a blog and let people know your opinions.  There are people out there that are like ravenous wolves that can tear you to pieces, verbally, if you do not have a good foundation in what you write about. 

Typical Flamer

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If someone gives you a "wound", don't whine and moan about how you were deceived or tricked into getting it.  Learn from it and press on.  If you can't then perhaps you may want to try another hobby or form of expression.

You have a right to express your opinion, and your readers have every right to prove you're a moron / genius / visionary / idiot etc. if your foundation is poor.  Don't cry about it.  Show a little backbone you weenie!

I have learned early on in my life, that those of the past, and many of those that have lived longer than me can teach important lessons in life.  Experience and history is the worlds best teacher of what works and what does not.  Unfortunately, most of society, in its self-centered arrogance, tends to ignore history thinking they know better.  The fact that history has shown this to be a mistake over and over has no effect, because the arrogance of the current society makes them think they are special.  Call it culture, call it technology, call it so-called "enlightenment" it almost always ends up backfiring with their society just another part of history that hopefully the next will finally learn from.

I have assembled together a series of good and poignant quotations of those of the present and the past to best illustrate what everyone could use to better warn them, better live their life, better govern, and even enjoy a good laugh.

You may have noticed it has been a long time since I wrote an article here.  It's simply because I have been working long and hard on this one.  This one may not be Pulitzer material (thank God!), but it's something I feel good about writing, and I hope at least someone reading it can find help, advice, assistance, solace, comfort, or just simple knowledgeable enlightenment about the world around them.

All of those I quote here have some form of wisdom we can learn from.  Not all of them are benevolent, not all of them are someone I'd trust to be alone with my children (if I had any), and some may make my blood boil, however, they are experts in their field, some terrifyingly so.  Most, however, are people I would invite to dinner and would be quite comfortable to have around children.  These quotes fall into three categories, the wise, the ridiculous, and the ironic.  You'll soon see what I mean.

Also remember, wisdom can come from quotes of those far from being wise, and hence the quote becomes ironic or even ridiculous to give us wisdom.

I will go topic by topic, in what I think are important issues of current times, and what we can learn from these wise, and not so wise, people about them.

Let's get started.

Government Bailouts and New American Socialism

• "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson (one of the founders of the Democrat Party and our Nation)
• "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -- John Adams (One of the founders of our Nation and second President)
• "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams
• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (First Supreme Allied Commander Europe WWII and 34th President, Republican)
• "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- John F. Kennedy (35th President, Democrat)
• "That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." -- Abraham Lincoln (16th President, Republican)
  
• "The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one." -- Adolf Hitler (Charismatic and articulate political orator, German Chancellor, called by those that heard him speak "the Saviour of Germany", and responsible for the murder of millions in WWII)
• "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." -- George Orwell (Author)
• "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -- Ronald Reagan (Actor and 40th President)
• "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." -- Ronald Reagan
• "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan
  
• "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -- Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemins, Author)
• "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself." -- Thomas Jefferson
  
• "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis (Author)
• "Never spend your money before you have it." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "My Uncle was an American; but he was one of the lucky ones.  He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter Presidency." -- Hillary Flammond ("Top Secret" movie)
• "Already there are insidious influences working termite-like to destroy this basic principle of true democracy." -- David O. McKay
  

• "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
• "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." -- Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister during WWII)
• "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King Jr. (Civil Rights Leader)
• "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
  
• "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison (American Founding Father and 4th President, Democrat)
  
• "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -- Vladimir Lenin (First Soviet Premiere, and communist revolutionary)
• "To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office." -- Quintas Fabius Maximus (Roman General)
• "What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler
• "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -- John Adams
• "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy
• "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." -- Ronald Reagan
• "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
  

Media and the So-called "Fairness Doctrine"

• "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- Harry S. Truman (33rd President, Democrat)
• "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." -- Thomas Jefferson
  

Religion, Atheism, and Government

• "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." -- C.S. Lewis (Author)
• "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." -- John Adams
• "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." -- Carl Sagan
  
• "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." -- Ronald Reagan
• "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." -- Carl Sagan
• "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.  He hath loosed the fatefull lightnight of his terrible, swift sword; His ruth is marching on.  He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgement seat.  Oh be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant my feet!  Our God is marching on.  In the beauty of the lillies, Christ was born across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigured you and me.  As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free, while God is marching on.  Glory, glory, hallelujah!  Glory, glory hallelujah!  Glory, glory, hallelujah!  His truth is marching on." -- Julia Ward Howe

Education and Intellectuals

• "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." -- John Adams
• "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." -- C.S. Lewis
• "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." -- John F. Kennedy
• "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
• "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." -- George Washington (Revolutionary War General, First President)
• "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." -- Nikola Tesla
• "Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." -- John F. Kennedy
• "Congratulations, there is now a level zero." -- Master Shifu (Kung Fu Panda)
• On European Socialism... "I'm not European.  I don't plan on being European.  So who gives a crap if they're socialists?  They could be fascist anarchists, and it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car." -- Ferris Beuller
  

• "The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." -- Harold B. Lee
• "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner
• "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." -- King Edward VIII
• "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby
• "If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'" -- Jeff Foxworthy
• "I asked for a car, I got a computer.  How's that for being born under a bad sign?" -- Ferris Beuller
  

• "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." -- John Wayne
• "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
• "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." -- Patrick Henry
• "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." -- Alexander Hamilton
• "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." -- Sir Winston Churchill
• "Americans never quit" -- Douglas MacArthur
• "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." -- George Orwell
  
• "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -- Ronald Reagan
• "Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you." -- Harry S. Truman
• "In war there is no substitute for victory. " -- Douglas MacArthur
• "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." -- Thomas Jefferson
• "God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible." -- Ted Nugent
• "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell
• "Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!  America!  America!  God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.  Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern, impassioned stress a throughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness!  America!  America!  God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law.  Oh, beautiful for heros proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!  America!  America!  May God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine.  Oh, beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears!  America!  America!  God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotrherhood from sea to shining sea." -- Katherine Lee Bates
• "Everyone has this most precious of all life's endowments-the gift of free agency -- man's inherited and inalienable right." -- David O. McKay
• "We have peace in our time" -- Neville Chamberlain (shortly before World War II broke out).  Ask him how well appeasement foreign policy went.
  

Environmentalism and So-called "Global Warming"

• "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- Mark Twain
• "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." -- Carl Sagan
• "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." -- Nikola Tesla
• "The evidence in support of these predictions [of global cooling] has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it." -- Newsweek 1975
• "The debate is over" -- Albert Gore Jr. (There never was a debate, just a consensus of 2500 scientists in need of government funding, when 37500 other scientists with contrary opinions and findings offered to debate, the 2500 refused.)
• "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." -- Master Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)
• "The greatest loser in any argument is the one who's argument is so weak, that their only response is to attempt silence the opposition." -- SuperSparky

Believe it or not, I had to really shorten this list.  With wisdom, comes volumes of understanding and in just a few words.  Wisdom cuts to the bone.  It says it like it is and is not politically correct.  I found the wisdom of some, who'd you never expect, be the most profound.

We cannot forget the past if we hope to survive the future.  Remember, "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." -- John Wayne

I was somehow in the twilight zone and some how Star Wars then the Presidential election swirled together.  Then I snapped back to reality when I saw something in my mind that turned me cold.

Everything in Star Wars, and about the old republic and such can be likened to what is happening today.  First let's create some definitions:

Star Wars, then their Real Life Equivalent

• Old Republic -> United States of America (A Republic too).
• Young Anakin Skywalker -> The gullable, indoctrinated, "hope of the future" liberal youth.
  
• Obi Wan & Qui Gon Gin -> Sarah Palin and John McCain, respectively.  Also represent parents.
  
• Queen Amadala -> The ignorant and trusting populace in awe or in love with what they should be in fear of.
  
• Senator Palpatine -> Barack Hussein Obama.
• The Trade Organization's Seige of Naboo -> The current Fannie Mai and Freddie Mac so-called "bail out" fiasco.  All caused by Democratic socialist requirements for unreasonable loans to those that could not afford them.  You can only burn a candle at both ends for so long.
• Jar Jar Binks -> Joe Biden and Barney Frank (take your pick, they are both idiots, and no matter what they do general maheim is the result).

The story pretty much goes the same way.  Like Palpatine, Obama uses and exploits things happening in the republic that he secretly endorses and supports that makes him look like a messiah or hero.  When in fact, he's a Marxist wolf in sheep's (or messiah) clothing.  He makes sure everything is a nearly perfect storm to have the people WILLING and almost begging to give up the liberties and control they enjoyed for many years and previously faught hard and long for.  Like anyone hunting for absolute power, he uses those to reach his goals and then tosses them aside when the usefullness is over.  Obama, tosses aside his pastor, his Acorn group, his friends, his own family (brother, aunt, etc.) and sweet talks many people to join his side with promises of power.

He has the minorities and the poor swooning at his feet treating him like he is the messiah, yet it is the very socialist programs that keep them poor and in their condition.  Programs Obama fully endorses even to legalized theft of those not participating in social welfare programs.  In Star Wars Sanator Palpatine looked like their savior, he was going to make the republic safe.  He was going to bring "peace" to the galaxy.  What he did do was eliminate liberties, and brought "order" to the galaxy, but certainly not peace.  He even was granted emperorship.  This was the beginning of the end for Rome, once a republic as well.

I don't need to get more specific than that.  It's oddly similar in how fiction predicts current events.

It's easy to follow along.  Just was what and how the Old Republic in Star Wars was replaced and turned into a dictatorship or empire?  Look at what Obama and your Democrat party wants to do to our Republic all in the name of Marxism.  Nothing good can come of this.  Marxism and socialism always and will always fail.

"So, this is how liberty dies; to the sound of thunderous applause." - Queen Amidala