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No wonder the Obamessiah and his Progressive central planners are in the process of chasing General Motors completely out of the country. They are still holding a grudge:

The other 15 pages of this old tribute to Hayek can be found here. Why does it feel like we white redneck Patriots are being set up for the roll depicted on page 12? ◄Dave►

Yeah, you are where you thought you were going. I was becoming depressed watching this (so far) bloodless coup the Progressives are so rapidly perpetrating on our country. As a distraction, I decided to try designing my own theme for my blog. I enjoy such creative endeavors, and it has been a welcome break from politics. I am sure I will be tweaking it forever now that I can; but I have been wanting to widen the article column for quite some time, and so far I am pleased with the results. Critical comments welcome. ◄Dave►

Good for her. This young lady is going places. Regardless what one thinks of the marriage issue, she is absolutely right that this PC agenda to squelch free speech shouldn’t be happening in America, and it is about time to start defending our Constitution. I give Trump an A+ for pointing out that her position was identical to Obama’s, too. ◄Dave►

The June 2001 issue of American Rifleman magazine carried an article by Stephen Halbrook entitled, “Registration: The Nazi Paradigm,” which is worth a reread:

New research into Adolf Hitler’s use of firearms registration lists to confiscate guns and the execution of their owners teaches a forceful lesson — one that reveals why the American people and Congress have rejected registering honest firearm owners.

It would be instructive at this time to recall why the American citizenry and Congress have historically opposed the registration of firearms. The reason is plain. Registration makes it easy for a tyrannical government to confiscate firearms and to make prey of its subjects. Denying this historical fact is no more justified than denying that the Holocaust occurred or that the Nazis murdered millions of unarmed people.

I am writing a book on Nazi policies and practices which sought to repress civilian gun ownership and to eradicate gun owners in Germany and in occupied Europe. The following sampling of my findings should give pause to the suggestion that draconian punishment of citizens for keeping firearms necessarily is a social good.

What follows is a fairly succinct history lesson on how the Nazis disarmed civilian populations across Europe. Included is a much older 1942 American Rifleman report:

From Berlin on January 6th the German official radio broadcast–”The German military commander for Belgium and Northern France announced yesterday that the population would be given a last opportunity to surrender firearms without penalty up to January 20th and after that date anyone found in possession of arms would be executed.”

So the Nazi invaders set a deadline similar to that announced months ago in Czecho-Slovakia, in Poland, in Norway, in Romania, in Yugo-Slavia, in Greece.

How often have we read the familiar dispatches “Gestapo agents accompanied by Nazi troopers swooped down on shops and homes and confiscated all privately-owned firearms!”

What an aid and comfort to the invaders and to their Fifth Column cohorts have been the convenient registration lists of privately owned firearms–lists readily available for the copying or stealing at the Town Hall in most European cities.

What a constant worry and danger to the Hun and his Quislings have been the privately owned firearms in the homes of those few citizens who have “neglected” to register their guns!

Hopefully we have more than a few “neglectful” gun owners. One wonders how many of them will allow their arsenals to be confiscated, as I discussed in my “Gun Collecting” essay last summer. Something tells me we don’t have long before we find out. Think, people; if you don’t think it could happen here, you haven’t been paying attention lately. ◄Dave►

Here is a blast from the past. A political cartoon from the Chicago Tribune in 1934 entitled, “Planned Economy or Planned Destruction”:

Study it carefully; particularly the “Plan of Action.” History repeats itself; and the Progressives accuse the conservatives of having tired outdated ideas! I just loved the “Young Pinkies from Columbia and Harvard.”  ◄Dave►

I keep saying that this story will not go away. Here is the latest twist:

AMERICAN GRAND JURY HANDS DOWN INDICTMENT OF FRAUD AND TREASON AGAINST OBAMA:

“AMERICAN GRAND JURY HANDS DOWN INDICTMENT OF FRAUD AND TREASON AGAINST OBAMA”

(United States of America) – May 9th 2009 – At 2 P.M, ET American Grand Jury convened a final hearing to vote on criminal charges against Barack Obama.

The following criminal allegations and complaints were voted upon:

COUNT ONE:

That Obama is NOT eligible under the laws of the Constitution of the United States as provided for in Article II, Section 1.

Said Article II, Section 1 states:

“No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

Wherefore, Obama is not a “natural born Citizen” for the following reasons:

1) Obama was NOT born of mother and father who were BOTH US Citizens.

2) Obama was a British citizen ‘at birth.’

COUNT TWO:

The charge of “Treason” against Obama is before the people of the United States of America. That such complaint is CRIMINAL, of high crimes, and extremely damaging against the people.

Said complaint was formally brought by a Military Officer (retired) of the United States of America. All United States Military Officers are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and such complaint is valid, explicit and proper; when an Officer is aware of such malfeasance of Treason by an offender it is that Officer’s SWORN duty to come forward and present such accusation and complaint;

The Military Officer who filed the complaint is Lt. Commander Walter Fitzpatrick, III, retired, United States Navy and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy;

Lt. Commander Fitzpatrick on March 17, 2009 did hereby make such criminal accusation and complaint against Obama and presented said complaint before the U.S Attorney Russell Dedrick, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Schmutzer, Eastern District, Tennessee;

An original photocopy of said complaint was submitted to the Grand Jury as evidence for immediate investigation;

Said original photocopy of the complete criminal complaint is attached as Exhibit “A” hereto and made a part hereof;

Lt. Commander Fitzpatrick was sworn under oath before the Grand Jury to testify as to the true nature and details regarding said criminal complaint filed against Obama;

Said criminal complaint by Lt. Commander Fitzpatrick and his “accusation of Treason” is quoted in the excerpts below:

Now you [Obama] have broken in and entered the White House by force of contrivance, concealment, conceit, dissembling, and deceit. Posing as an impostor president and commander in chief you have stripped civilian command and control over the military establishment. Known military criminal actors-command racketeers-are now free in the exercise of military government intent upon destruction of America’s constitutional government.

We come now to this reckoning. I accuse you and your military-political criminal assistants of TREASON. I name you and your military criminal associates as traitors. Your criminal ascension manifests a clear and present danger. You fundamentally changed our form of government. The Constitution no longer works.

Confident holding your silent agreement and admission, I identify you as a foreign born domestic enemy.

My sworn duty Mr. Obama is to stand against what you stand for. You are not my president. You are not my commander in chief.

After reviewing the evidence and voting, the 25 member American Grand Jury handed down the presentment(s) recommending that person(s) known as Barack Obama, aka: Barack Obama, Jr., aka: Barack Hussein Obama, aka: Barry Soetoro; aka: Barry Obama; aka: Barack H. Obama, aka: Barack Obama II, presumed President of the United States, be tried in Criminal Court for charges of fraud (eligibility) and treason.

Said Grand Jury was convened under the power and authority vested with the people as guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States of America, Amendent 5 of the Bill of Rights.

The American Grand Jury was served by people from different States within the Union, said people being citizens as were sworn under Oath as to Eligibility for and Service in behalf of the Grand Jury.

The above excerpts from the formal presentments of the May 9th American Grand Jury hearing are hereby released to the public as a PRESS RELEASE. All other details of the Grand Jury hearing, specifically, the jury membership, sworn affidavits of service, testimony, evidence, hearing minutes and records have been sealed as required by law.

This Grand Jury hearing of May 9th is in addition to the formal presentments, (charges of Fraud and Treason) which were handed down against Barack Obama last week, known as the American Grand Jury hearing of April 29th, 2009. The April 29th presentments are already making their way into the court systems across the United States.

Please contact American Grand Jury through this website or contact our National Spokesperson below for further information or requests:

Sam Sewell,
National Spokesperson for American Grand Jury

http://americangrandjury.org/

Email: writerpromo@comcast.net
Fax (239) 591-1987
Phone: Clinic Office – (239) 591-4565
Ask for Dr. Sam

This ought to create a little heartburn among the oligarchy. It sure would if someone would just report on it. I wonder if Glenn Beck has the stones to do so. There are some intriguing looking articles on this AmericanGrandJury.org website that beg to be read. I look forward to doing so. ◄Dave►

This is an edited down clip from a PBS program that will air later this year. Well done, Tim. ◄Dave►

If all else fails to persuade, just say you are doing it for the children. This one takes the cake. “Federal Govn’t. To Regulate The Internet & Social Networking“:

Congress will soon debate a bill that could lead to regulating the Internet in the name of protecting the children.

Representative Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and 12 other lawmakers have signed onto a bill being considered by the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee Congress which may seriously threaten the First Amendment rights of every American who uses the Internet, blogs online, uses Twitter, Facebook and other social media.

The bill (HR 1966) proposes up to two years in prison for those whose electronic speech is meant to “coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.” Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum the potential harm of this bill on our freedom of speech will be massive.

Good grief, I harass the Progressives and cause them emotional distress every day here; or at least I try to. These dizzy congress critters ought to read the Bill of Rights occasionally.

According the the proposed legislation, the US Congress found that:

(1) Four out of five of United States children aged 2 to 17 live in a home where either they or their parents access the Internet.

(2) Youth who create Internet content and use social networking sites are more likely to be targets of cyberbullying.

(3) Electronic communications provide anonymity to the perpetrator and the potential for widespread public distribution, potentially making them severely dangerous and cruel to youth.

(4) Online victimizations are associated with emotional distress and other psychological problems, including depression.

(5) Cyberbullying can cause psychological harm, including depression; negatively impact academic performance, safety, and the well-being of children in school; force children to change schools; and in some cases lead to extreme violent behavior, including murder and suicide.

(6) Sixty percent of mental health professionals who responded to the Survey of Internet Mental Health Issues report having treated at least one patient with a problematic Internet experience in the previous five years; 54 percent of these clients were 18 years of age or younger.

Section 881(a) reads: “Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

According to the Wired Magazine alert, Sanchez’s bill goes way beyond cyberbullying and “comes close to making it a federal offense to log onto the Internet or use the telephone.”

Oh, that is different… it is for the children. Sure it is… we become criminals more and more each day. When will we get fed up enough to hit the reset button on the Feds and just start over? ◄Dave►

At the corner, Victor Davis Hanson says it well:

Have You No Sense of Decency, Ms. Pelosi, at Long Last? Have You No Sense of Decency?

The news that Nancy Pelosi was, in fact, briefed on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques as early 2002 should have two repercussions. Her status as a legislative overseer involves more responsibility than was true of the legal advisors who offered opinions that could or could not have been accepted by the administration and those select few in Congress charged with monitoring CIA protocols.

Second, Pelosi has repeatedly misled the country about her exact role in such oversight and the degree to which she was briefed — quite unlike Yoo, Bybee, etc. who have not denied their briefs, but sought to argue they were legitimate options given the crises of the times and the nature of the killers involved. All of which leaves us in a quandary — will those who are on record demanding to indict, impeach, disbar, etc. lawyers who offered legal briefs (and have told the truth of their role in offering such opinions), now turn their animus to others who (1) had the legislative authority to stop cold what they knew was going on, but instead approved it, and (2) have not been at all truthful about such complicity?

What we are seeing is yet another chicken, albeit a large one, coming home to roost — especially when we were lectured throughout 2007-8 that what has now become the current Obama anti-terror protocols (e.g., rendition, wiretaps, email intercepts, Predator drone executions, staying the course in Iraq, etc) were once all proof of Bush’s trampling of the Constitution that had only empowered our enemies.

At some point, someone in the Obama media is going to have to come to their senses and admit, “Okay, enough is enough, this is getting shameless beyond belief.”

Indeed. The Botox is surely migrating inward and paralyzing her thinking muscle. Early retirement for this mental disability may be in order. I don’t know what to do about what ails the MSM, other than continue to ignore them. ◄Dave►

America as at an awkward stage. Its too late to work within the system, and too early to shoot the bastards. -Claire Wolfe

This is a classic internet surfing adventure. John shared the above quote in a comment here a couple of days ago. He couldn’t recall where he heard it, and I repeated it in another venue. I was informed there that it was from Claire Wolfe’s, “101 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution.”

Unfamiliar with the book or it’s author, I asked Google about them. One review called Claire “the Ayn Rand of the twenty-first century,” another said she was “America’s most eloquent anarchist.” It turns out the book was written in 1996, so perhaps it is no longer too early…

A seven year old book review pulled a very cogent quote from it:

If the government issued permits for free speech, would you get in line for one? If your state allowed you to hold a political meeting, but only if you obtained the proper license and consented to having your name entered in a government database, would you lay your money down? If you ask the government for a permit, you are admitting you don’t have a right.

Amen! I have refused CCW permits offered to me by two different Sheriffs, as unnecessary.

Poking around, I found the portal to archives of much of her prodigious writings. Under miscellaneous, I spotted a curious 2005 article entitled, “CRIMINALS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN THE POLICE (AND BE VERY GLAD THEY DO)” that was published in “S.W.A.T.” magazine, of all places. The cognitive dissonance of an anarchist, who had penned the above quotes, being published in a cop magazine, compelled me to download the PDF. Coming on the heels of my “Domestic Terrorists” post yesterday, I am glad I did. It begins:

The Founding Fathers, those sterling folk we’ve been taught to revere, were soft on crime. They were a bunch of liberal whiners who considered it more important to protect criminals than to give the police effective tools to fight crime.

This is the absolute truth. Why else, when they wrote the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution), did five of their 10 basic statements of liberty focus on protecting accused crooks?

Even more outrageous: The Founders believed criminal suspects have inborn rights, while government agencies merely have delegated powers. Powers that can be revoked by the people at any time and must always be strictly limited.

In the blind eyes of justice and the highest law of the land, criminal suspects and individual police officers have exactly the same rights, while police agencies have no rights at all. Yep, if the Founders were around today, they might be card-carrying (although also gun-toting) members of the ACLU.

And for that we should all be glad…

What follows is a very well written discussion of the importance of the Fourth Amendment and how we have been steadily losing its protections for the past forty years. It is well worth the read, and concludes:

In the Caballes decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that since a person can have no “legitimate” privacy right to contraband, then a dog-sniff that’s intended only to reveal the presence of contraband does not violate rights.

Stretch that opinion just a little further and you reach a point where any search that turns up something illegal automatically becomes a legal search.

Stevens’ position is closer to King George’s than to Madison’s, Jefferson’s, or Patrick Henry’s.

But King George didn’t know about database searches, drug-sniffing dogs, infra-red technology, satellite imaging, aerial cameras, chemical sniffing, microphones, phone taps, keystroke loggers, and a host of other modern search and surveillance technologies—all of which present both the ability and the profound temptation to search anybody and everybody—just in case they might be up to no good.

Down that road lies the police state. At the end of that road, we won’t find a crime-free society, though the prisons will be full. At the end of that road, we won’t find good citizens, working together with trusted and valued police officers, both committed to justice. At the end of that road, police won’t find themselves respected and valued for their role in protecting the rest of us.

We’ll find merely millions of cowed and resentful citizens who’ll consider police their oppressors and their enemies. And no one—not even the police—will benefit.

I couldn’t agree more. Download it and read it. Then perhaps we can discuss the Blackwater advertisement on the second page another day soon. Dressing like a jackbooted thug is bad enough; I have a real visceral issue with cops wearing masks in America. ◄Dave►

There is little doubt that at least one domestic terrorist has been active in Oxford, NC this year:

Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere – on the bed, on the floor, on the wall.

But according to the United States government, the tenth-grade home-schooler is being held on a criminal complaint that he made a bomb threat from his home on the night of Feb. 15.The family was at a church function that night, his mother, Annette Lundeby, said.

“Undoubtedly, they were given false information, or they would not have had 12 agents in my house with a widow and two children and three cats,” Lundeby said.

Around 10 p.m. on March 5, Lundeby said, armed FBI agents along with three local law enforcement officers stormed her home looking for her son. They handcuffed him and presented her with a search warrant.

“I was terrified,” Lundeby’s mother said. “There were guns, and I don’t allow guns around my children. I don’t believe in guns.”

…

Ashton now sits in a juvenile facility in South Bend, Ind. His mother has had little access to him since his arrest. She has gone to her state representatives as well as attorneys, seeking assistance, but, she said, there is nothing she can do.

Lundeby said the USA Patriot Act stripped her son of his due process rights.

“We have no rights under the Patriot Act to even defend them, because the Patriot Act basically supersedes the Constitution,” she said. “It wasn’t intended to drag your barely 16-year-old, 120-pound son out in the middle of the night on a charge that we can’t even defend.”

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Critics of the statute say it threatens the most basic of liberties.

“There’s nothing a matter of public record,” Boyce said “All those normal rights are just suspended in the air.”

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Because a federal judge issued a gag order in the case, the U.S. attorney in Indiana cannot comment on the case, nor can the FBI. The North Carolina Highway Patrol did confirm that officers assisted with the FBI operation at the Lundeby home on March 5.

“Never in my worst nightmare did I ever think that it would be my own government that I would have to protect my children from,” Lundeby said. “This is the United States, and I feel like I live in a third world country now.”

It is getting that way mam. The question is, was there a single domestic terrorist on Feb. 15th, who is now confined as an enemy combatant; or were there a dozen of them on Mar. 5th in jackboots? Since the kid has been locked up for two months reportedly without access to legal council, I’d like to believe that he is guilty of something – even if just a foolish prank – for my own sanity. Yet, I just cannot comprehend how they can get away without explaining themselves to her elected Representatives, at the very least.

In any case, what has happened to our criminal justice system? I would bet good money that a single detective could have just knocked on this mom’s door in broad daylight, and explained the complaint. Undoubtedly, she would have called her son out to explain himself and made him tell the officer the truth. Failing that, they could have served the search warrant; but if it had already been three weeks since the alleged offense, there was absolutely no excuse for the late night raid, no matter what.

Conservatives who tended to defend the Patriot Act, because they defended Bush, need to rethink their knee-jerk position. Perhaps the line about it only giving law enforcement tools they already had for drug cases, wasn’t so persuasive after all, folks. Think! ◄Dave►

Edit: John below provides the link pointing out:

Turns out this kid is most likely just a snot nosed punk.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519570,00.html

Oh well, when the facts change, I change my opinion. He’s not being held under the Patriot Act. His mom lied to the news who ran with the story.

I have been having a nice chat with Gabe, one of the three (and soon to be only two) young Americans who labor diligently to fund my leisurely retirement lifestyle with their payroll taxes, in the comment section of my recent post about the demographic destiny of America. Technically, although I have been eligible for a couple of years, I have not bothered to apply for my SSI “benefit” / “entitlement” / “supplement” – pick an euphemism for Gabe’s hard earned cash. Understanding very well the nature of Ponzi schemes, since I got burned for a bottle of Scotch in a “Christmas Cheer” chain letter back in the ’60s, I honestly didn’t expect SSI to survive this long; so I never factored it into my retirement budget.

I have thus enjoyed a sense of occupying the moral high ground, in my frequent condemnation of America’s slide into socialism, by not being affixed to one of Washington’s teats. With apologies to Gabe, who is undoubtedly quite blameless for my chagrin, that is about to change out of retribution, if not necessity. When prices catch up to the near hyperinflation of our currency, which has the Treasury’s printing presses smoking 24 hours a day now, it will undoubtedly become a necessity; but for now I have cause enough for retribution.

I live the very simple, almost cloistered, lifestyle of a hermit. My needs are few, beyond my access to Google and the virtual world my mind inhabits, and my living expenses are minimal. My only non-digital indulgences are my caffeine and nicotine habits. My pursuit of happiness requires a steady supply of good Columbia Supremo coffee beans, and an occasional smoke. The cost of both has been steadily climbing of late, and I long ago had to adjust my budget for tobacco.

Like the erstwhile connoisseur turned wino, who no longer needs a corkscrew, because his palate has become accustomed to the fresher vintages found in screw capped bottles, my taste in tobacco has of necessity devolved. My first strategy, when ready made cigarettes became too expensive for my frugal sensibilities, was to purchase the making’s and start rolling my own. At first, beyond economy, this offered the benefit of using higher quality tobacco for added smoking pleasure, to offset the labor and hassle involved.

As the price steadily increased, my frugality forced my taste buds to accept lower and lower quality tobacco. Until recently, the cost of a pound of basic quality tobacco had risen to over $15 hereabouts. Outrageous, considering that it will only make about 2.5 cartons, and a ready made carton only cost 70¢ in the PX back in ’63, when the US Army got me hooked on these things. (Yes, they did; only the “real men” who were smokers got to take a smoke break. In my youthful naiveté, I thought I could fake it by not inhaling deeply.)

Now our Federal government has levied a new tax of $25 on a pound of tobacco. $25!! Most of the cost already was taxes, but this new Federal tax is adding an additional $1.00 tax to every pack I roll. That is an additional 5¢ Federal Tax every time I light up! Sorry, Gabe, that is a tax too far, and a retirement budget buster. It is time to sign up for my Federal teat, to recoup all the taxes these do-gooding bastards are extracting from my savings. Of course, inflation is the cruelest tax of all.

I do find it interesting that it is more difficult to establish one’s eligibility for SSI, than it is for the office of President. Even though I have had an account with these people for over 50 years, and they periodically send me pleasant letters telling me all they will do for me when I apply, they are requiring me to send for a copy of my birth certificate and my Army discharge papers. One would think they could just as easy acquire them themselves; but I guess they wouldn’t even do that for the Obamessiah, would they?

It is going to be fun to abandon my frugal nature for a change. I intend to spend Gabe’s cash like the Monopoly money that it is. With a pound of tobacco starting at $40, I might as well spend a few more for the best. Perhaps a daily cigar is in order; it sure looks like it won’t be long before good Cubans will be legal again. Then, I might as well pack an artery with a juicy T-bone occasionally…

The possibilities for indulging myself in life’s little pleasures are endless, while the kids tighten their belts trying to survive this depression. There sure isn’t any point in trying to save or invest any of it; the Progressives would just confiscate most of the earnings while I live, and the rest of it in death taxes when I am gone. I am going to change my will to state, “Being of sound mind, I spent it all.”

Truth be told, it probably isn’t even Gabe’s cash that I will be squandering; but his grandchildren’s. What a country; isn’t “democracy” grand! Now that the Baby Boomers are retiring, we will be such a dominant constituency for pandering, that we should be able to vote ourselves just about any “benefit” our narcissistic hearts desire, and send the bill to unborn generations. Wheeeee… ◄Dave►

CBS recently published a poll breaking the Obamessiah’s approval rating down by race. They claimed that among blacks it was 97 – 0. Apparently not quite:

His logic regarding Souter’s motive for retiring escapes me, since he admits that he was with the majority on the 6 – 3 split. I thought his point on the Hawaii hospitals was more persuasive. ◄Dave►

One of the Ning.com websites I have been frequenting seems to have an unusual number of “leaders” full of enthusiasm and grand plans for turning Glen Beck’s 9/12 Project into a nationwide political advocacy organization. Alarm bells are sounding in the intuitive and skeptical corners of my mind for several reasons I won’t go into yet; but their agenda bears watching. Meanwhile, in an attempt to cool the passion for these recently awakened Patriots to “take action,” before they have learned enough to understand what action needs to be taken, I posted the following thoughts, which are probably worth sharing with my readers:

An important discussion was taking another thread off topic, so I decided to start it anew here. I had disparaged the notion of mounting a grand coordinated nationwide protest campaign against media bias, in favor of spontaneous individual efforts on a local level. Good ideas, which any individual could execute effectively at will, were being requested to be held in abeyance until the HQ of the “organization” that started this website “approved” of them. I objected on the grounds that the 9/12 Project is supposed to be a grass roots effort to empower the individual with the knowledge that he is not alone in his dismay over the swiftly vanishing American dream; not a disciplined top down political advocacy organization.

Glenn Beck’s mission was not to spawn protests; he even initially objected to its being associated with the Tea Parties, as coming too early in the process he envisioned. His purpose was to educate people regarding the nature of our Constitutional Republic, and the awesome power of “we the people,” if we just understand the concept of individual Liberty, the rule of law, and the fallacy that we live in a democracy. He suggests that the oligarchy who is trying to enslave us in their Marxist Utopia is tiny and feckless by comparison, and that we decidedly surround them. He beseeches his listeners and viewers to study American history to learn our founding principles, how we were tricked into abandoning them by the Progressive movement, and the value to us of returning to our uniquely American roots. Only then, will we know the best action to take to restore our Constitution and the rule of law, to save us from the fate of the failing European democracies that have been devastated by socialism.

I concur completely with his assessment, and have been on a personal jihad for years, bending ears and writing on the subject. I eagerly joined several of the many 9/12 Project themed social networking websites spontaneously appearing all over the web, to assist in that awakening any way I can. Mostly, I try to offer cogent comments in discussions to steer the often confused thinking of awakening Patriots in the right direction. I frequently offer links to some of my own articles and essays, when they might elucidate or make my point; but there is no advertising on my website, and my motives are pure. I only wish to create more Patriots who understand our founding principles and documents, and try to free minds from the trap of the Left/Right duopoly, which the Incumbrepublocrats use to keep sheeple at each other’s throats, instead of theirs.

I have no particular objection to political action and protest. I fully understand the urge, when one has finally had enough, to stand up on one’s hind legs and bellow in rage at the injustice of it all. Many of us are veterans of protests, letter writing campaigns, and repeated phone calls to our purported “representatives.” Eventually, it dawns on one that the oligarchy could care less about what we think or want, outside of a very narrow window during election season. They are masters at the “rope-a-dope” strategy of pretending to share our concerns, promising us the world, and then just regrouping and repackaging their agenda, or carefully concealing it buried deep inside an “omnibus” bill.

Folks, there is value in the protests and Tea Parties, but it is not what you probably think. The greatest benefit from such demonstrations is to allow frustrated, disenfranchised, and concerned Americans to learn that they are not alone; and perhaps to coax others to come out of hiding and join us, so they too might have some scales removed from their eyes, and cobwebs from their minds. It is the PEOPLE who are in most need of reform in America, and blessedly, those that are productive taxpayers are mutable.

On the other hand, the academics, media types, politicians, judges, bureaucrats, and other sundry tax spenders are generally incorrigible, and their extra-constitutional, incumbency favoring, two-party political system is beyond reform. It must be destroyed and professional politicians must ALL be fired, if the rule of law in our Constitutional Republic is to ever be restored. Anything less is doomed to the historical ash heap of useless causes, yet it could be easily done in one election, if enough people could be convinced to NEVER vote again for ANY incumbent, no matter how much they like him.

Term limits – just one term – are ours for the taking, and we do not have to talk a single politician into the notion… only ourselves. By my lights, we would do more good writing ten cogent letters of protest to our somnolent neighbors for their complacency, than a hundred to the media or politicians for their treachery. I have more to offer in this vein; but this should be enough to get the conversation started. Any thoughts? ◄Dave►

The Spirit Lives! War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. — John Stuart Mill

What is the point of having a quad processor and 5 GB of memory if one doesn’t use them for some serious multitasking? I have NoScript and AdBlock plugins installed, so it costs me little to have multiple tabs open in Firefox. Thus, it is not unusual for me to have 20 or 30 tabs open at a time. I have developed the sloppy habit of right clicking on an interesting link as I am surfing and selecting “Open Link in New Tab.” With the configuration set to remain on the page I am reading, the new page opens in the background, and is waiting for me when I get around to it.

Alas, I do this too often, and there is never enough time to actually read them all. Sometimes, it will be two days before I get around to an open tab, and by then I have closed and forgotten the page where I saw the link that opened it. This recently happened, and I have no idea how I ended up on a site entitled, “…aztlan:!:destroyer...”

With that name and its size in the tag cloud, at first blush one would conclude that the site was focused on the illegal immigration issue. With a copyright bug dating back to ’06, it probably once was; but perusing the recent activity it is much more than that. There are some serious Patriots, with keen intellects, and at least one accomplished wordsmith lurking there.

E.g. The current top post is, “Resistance. The era of the free man may be at an end.“:

Beginning with amnesty and oligarchical theft under the Bush Administration and continuing with abhorrent happy faced fascism of the Obama administration, our nation is teetering on the cusp of intentional disintegration. It cannot be saved thru the playful theatrics of “voter” participation, as the people have no control over the candidates. Our window of opportunity for change within their given paradigm has passed. Now the only means for the survival of Liberty is to throw off the authority of this authoritarian oligarchy and declare that they do not govern us. To suffer their despotism is to declare the lives of those who left us in protection of Liberty as “curious waste.”

Revolution is change and our goal is to create a new nation with the Constitution of the United States as the rule of law. Rebellion only brings coin to the slave, not freedom from the chains of oligarchical servitude. This regime and it’s council of foreign relations is meaningless, it’s authority no longer applies to free men. One cannot truly be a practitioner of Liberty and accept authoritarian collectivism. Ignoring the 9 pound hammer of tyranny is the denial of ones own existence and to a greater extent, denial of the freedom of man. Liberty is awareness of ones own self, the knowledge of struggle against the unnatural forces which seek to confine mankind to caged spectacle of subjugation. Action is affirmation of life and self, the lifeblood of freedom.

While it is a graphic masterpiece, you can skip the video. It is a PDF type that has to download the player and could be problematical with your browser; but the two PDF documents are absolutely must reads:

Philosophical Declaration of Individualism: Right of Revolution

To Take Action. A guide for restoration, organizing pamphlet for Patriots.

Go ahead and download them [right-click], because you are going to want to print them. They beg to be shared with all Patriots.

The April 19th history lesson is awesome.

The February 18th entry offers several more documents. I haven’t read them all yet; but I intend to. The one I have read is excellent:

Know Your Enemy: A Citizens Guide To Collectivism

I sure wish I lived in these guys’ AO… and I would love to have coffee with the wordsmith reffered to as “chosen.” ◄Dave►