Thoughts Aloud

I have spent much of my adulthood learning as much as I can about history and about the American systems of government and economics. While I make no claim of true expertise, I think I have come to better understand our current national situation and how we came to be in it. This understanding is causing me to rethink my attitude about individual freedom.

I make no secret of the fact that I have long been convinced that universal individual freedom is the most important thing in life. I now begin to understand that what I really meant was “the most important thing in MY life”, and that many of my fellow citizens take a different view. For instance, many of them seem to put a higher priority on material excess and on momentary entertainment than on individual freedom, universal or otherwise. Others seem more focused on controlling their fellow humans while yet others pursue the irrational notion of universal equality.

This leads me to my central question… do most humans really want to be free?

Note that when I say “really want”, I am attempting to distinguish between what I will term “idle wants” — things we would take if they were available at no effort to ourselves and “real wants” — things we are willing to take risks and expend effort trying to obtain/achieve. For instance, if asked if I want a million dollars, my response would be an easy YES. There are a lot of neat things I could do with an extra million. However, if asked if I am willing to accept the risks, commitment and labor needed to attempt to acquire this million dollars, my answer is a just-as-easy NO because I am totally unwilling to give up my current lifestyle to pursue the million. So, in my manner of thinking, I don’t “really want” that million dollars after all.

The more I ponder the current state of things in our nation, the more I am convinced that most Americans do not really want to be free because they are not willing to take the risks, make the commitments, assume the responsibility and expend the effort that being free demands. Yes, most are willing to let others do all this for them, just as I am willing to accept the gift of a million dollars earned by someone else. But the comparison ends there. If someone gives me a million, I actually have it. But no one can give me my freedom. Others can make it possible but they cannot make me free without risk, effort, commitment and responsibility on my part. Furthermore, these are all continuing demands, and will continue for all the time I wish to remain free.

Our founders understood this. That is why they created a Republic based on a written Constitution. Otherwise, all that would have been needed was to win the Revolutionary War then have us all live happily ever after. (Please note that, even during the Revolution, a large percentage of our population preferred to stay under royal domination and do nothing to achieve their own freedom.)

It is true that there was a time when a person could enjoy a certain type of freedom by simply fleeing beyond the existing frontier and living a subsistence lifestyle. That is to say, by living much like a wild animal. Today, there are virtually no suitable frontiers to flee beyond and, at any rate, we humans are social animals who (supposedly) possess the skills and intelligence to live in mutually-dependent groups, retaining the freedom we require while enjoying those things that can only come with civilization, interdependence and cooperation.

Now, I sense that, at least in the industrialized West, we are forgetting how to be free. We are falling into the trap of thinking that our freedom can be provided for us by others, specifically by those who presume to govern us. Indeed, an ever increasing number of us seem to think that those who govern can provide for all our needs, even to the point of doing our thinking for us.

Surprisingly, such a thing can actually work. With my own eyes, I have watched the working of an enterprise where a large number of residents were totally taken care of, their every need seen to. They had all the nutritious food and clean water they needed. They were given prompt medical attention when required, as well as vaccinations to prevent the spread of disease. And in return, they were not asked to learn a thing, were not asked to take any responsibility whatever and were not even asked to labor in any way – other than to engage in sexual activity and to deliver offspring – offspring they were not even required to raise.

I guess to some this would describe Utopia but what I have actually described is a cattle breeding business. Yet, this seems to be the ambition of a frightening number of Americans. To be human cattle on the government ranch!

Cattle put up with their condition because they are incapable of understanding their situation – until it is too late, and incapable of redesigning it even if they did understand. But, cattle can be excused for this because, for now at least, they are also incapable of mental improvement. Not so with people. As we well know, people are capable of learning, of improving their situation. And, most still do. Yet, as a nation, we have sat calmly by an watched more and more of our fellow citizens being turned into human cattle — because they lack the will to be free — until it now may very well be too late to change the situation. And ALL of us could be dragged into the same pit, whether or not we did the things that freedom demands.

I think one reason we have done this is because we have not made freedom our highest priority. We have forgotten (or never knew) that the marvelous lifestyle most of us have been privileged to enjoy is the product of freedom – not of government.

In other words (my words), this is happening to us because too few of us REALLY WANT freedom. Instead, too many of us have been too willing to be “governed” by letting, even forcing our government to grow, to take over tasks and responsibilities that are rightly ours as individuals. Have we become so illiterate that we don’t realize that “govern” is a synonym for “control”? Do we now actually want to be controlled in every aspect of our lives? I can only conclude that many of us do want exactly that. Too many of us have apparently become willing to accept dictatorship, holding out only the hope that our dictators will be of the benevolent variety.

I have written elsewhere in this blog how, rather than being a condition, freedom is actually an ongoing process. One that requires the active participation of all those who would be free. I have also repeatedly offered the opinion that real education — being taught the basics of information gathering and critical thinking — is the only thing that could ever bring humanity to universal freedom. While I still believe this is true, I have now seen and learned enough to know that there is no way this going to happen, at least not for many generations to come. I take this position not because of the sorry state of our education system, but rather because a huge percentage of our population simply does not care to be educated, does not care to be burdened with informing themselves, with critical thinking or with responsibility in general.

Yes, our education system is a disgrace that needs to be fixed. But the history of learned humans far out dates the American education system, so that can’t be the underlying reason. When all else fails, those who really want to be educated can educate themselves, just as I did, just as millions have done.

What is missing in America is not the systems, it is the will. And, I think the will is missing because of a failure to comprehend the underlying necessity. This is partly rooted in the insane belief that freedom, prosperity or any other blessing of civilization can continue based solely on the efforts of others, not your own.

What I am leading up to, in my own rambling fashion, is the new-found understanding that universal freedom is simply not about to happen and that pretending that it is does nothing but cause problems for those who truly want to be free. Today we are actually heading in the opposite direction, toward universal control. Therefore the new question I attempt to raise is this… how can we devise a system that allows freedom for those who would strive for it while allowing the masses to be herded about by the shepherds of government? A system that allows the responsible to keep what they have fairly earned, allows them to freely establish trade and contracts among themselves, without being plundered by either the herd or its shepherds?

In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s fictional hero John Galt created “Galt’s Gulch” where the productive could gather and prosper unmolested and unseen. While that seems so very desirable, it is, after all, fiction. In the real world, there is no perpetual motion machine to generate endless power and there is no shield that will render us invisible to the herd. Besides, I doubt we really want to be that invisible anyway. Being plundered by the herd is a bad thing but supplying them, via their shepherds, for a fair profit, could be a very desirable thing. Besides, with proper supervision, some of the herd could be applied to productive tasks.

While I do not yet have any answers — in fact, do not even have many good ideas, my instinct tells me a new approach based on some combination of the British system of nobility and the Indian caste system might be a start toward the nation I seek (that is, protecting the productive from the plunderers through creation of an “official” privileged class). For sure, no position in such a society could be made hereditary and there would have to be very achievable mobility between social strata so that one could move through the strata based on one’s own efforts.

As I have often stressed, one absolutely mandatory change must be to stop those who live on government handouts from having the voting privilege. It has been truly said that a people get the government they deserve but I’m quite tired of getting the government a bunch of deadbeats deserve. And, I am even more tired of being plundered. There must be an answer and it cannot depend on the deadbeats changing their ways.

In other words, I seek a system where individual freedom – and the rewards it brings– is readily available to those who really want to be free but with no illusions about freedom, or its rewards, being free to the unwilling.

I would love to hear ideas from others — maybe from you??

Troy L Robinson

It is incredibly easy to discredit legitimate inquiry into incongruous political stories, by labeling questioners as hate-filled “conspiracy nuts.” Then, to cement the deal, all one needs do is manufacture some patently false evidence that purports to support the “conspiracy theory,” and when the inquirers take the bait, expose it as false and blame the “nutters” for manufacturing it.

Over a year ago, I was labeled a hate-mongering racist for publicly pointing out that Obama was a Marxist. Yet, that conclusion would necessarily befall the least intuitive inquirer, who simply took the time, as I had, to read his own autobiography, “Dreams of my Father,” the literary hoax ghostwritten by his terrorist pal, Bill Ayers. How many serious thinkers would still argue with my observation, after the undeniable evidence of the past six months of Obama’s policy initiatives? Does that make me a “conspiracy nut?”

Glenn Beck, et al, are starting to put the pieces together and see an organized effort on a grand scale to fundamentally transform America into a glorious Marxist utopia. When one peels back the onion and looks closely at all the rabidly Marxist individuals, who have now ascended to the highest levels of our government – particularly Obama’s closest advisers and commissars – it becomes increasingly difficult not to see something akin to a conspiracy at play.

Who seriously doubts that Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright would now be among those sitting at the right hand of the Obamessiah today, had it not been necessary to throw them under the bus when the true Marxist nature of these very close associates was exposed during the campaign? Does it mark one as a “conspiracy nut” just to notice such things, or only when one has the audacity to speak publicly of them?

Not surprisingly, the latest purported Kenyon Birth Certificate is yet another forgery. The Obama supporter who forged it brags that he “punked” the “Birthers” with it. I might be offended at the label “Birther” were it not so laugh out loud funny that 35% of those bandying the term about, are convinced that George Bush personally ordered explosives to be placed in the World Trade Center and under the levies around New Orleans, to cause the 911 and Katrina disasters for political purposes.

I gladly return to my long-held assertion that the whole birth certificate issue is a canard – Obama is ineligible to serve as POTUS simply by definition of “Natural Born,” since his (reported) father was not an American citizen. Period. No conspiracy theory required. I have long conjectured that it is not necessarily the place of his birth that he is hiding, but the potential for embarrassment and discredit over the lies and distortions in his own books regarding his personal narrative.

Those of us old enough to be contemporaries of his mother, have no difficulty recalling the social paradigm that existed at the time of his birth. It is the height of politically incorrect speech to mention it today, but in 1961 any white teen-aged girl who slept around with Negroes (the polite term at the time), was definitely considered a slut by just about every segment of American society, including Black society. To get knocked-up by one, in those times before legal abortions were readily available, would constitute a social disaster – especially in Hawaii.

As any Vietnam era veteran can attest, the Asian cultures of Hawaii, Japan, Korea, et al, were even more prejudiced against the Negro race than the average southern American at the time. I can report from personal experience that even the brothels in these three places were segregated; and the prostitutes who serviced my Black buddies were routinely shunned by those who wouldn’t. The notion that Obama Sr. and his mother could have lived a normal married life in Hawaii, and nobody in their happy neighborhood even remembers them, is laughable.

They would have stuck out like a sore thumb anywhere on the island of Oahu, and been the subject of much “talk stink” about them. I lived on Oahu for eight years in the late ’80s and early ’90s and not much had changed even then. Even Whites are in the minority in Hawaii. Blacks were very rare on Oahu (less than 1% of the population) and almost all are in the military.

How and why this young authentic Black Muslim married this 17-year-old child is curious, considering he already had a wife back home. Perhaps the Dunham’s waived the dowry; but how did this poor exchange student plan to support a second family? I think it reasonable to assume that he didn’t; for within two weeks of Obama’s birth, his mother was living in Seattle and enrolled in college there, while Obama Sr. was still attending the University of Hawaii. She did not return to Hawaii until after he had left there to study at Harvard.

Jerome Corsi has documented this time-line, which puts the lie to the tale Obama told in “Dreams from My Father”:

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Were the MSM as interested in the integrity of politicians on the Left as they are in those on the Right, this report in itself would be a big story. The questions and conjecture Corsi posits are all valid.

I’ll submit two others. First, the forensic expert who first exposed as a forgery the initial COLB posted by the Obama campaign, revealed that there were artifacts left on it that show it was originally a COLB for his half-sister, who was clearly born in Indonesia. It should be a relatively simple matter to determine whether she does in fact have a COLB on file in Hawaii. If she does, it represents prima facia evidence that a COLB from Hawaii means nothing in determining the place of birth of its holder; as it is, or at least was, routinely used to skirt the necessity of dealing with the Federal Immigration authorities to straighten out the messy issues surrounding the birth of children of Hawaiian citizens on foreign soil.

Second, months ago I watched a clip of Ann Dunham’s best friend at Mercer Island High School being interviewed by a TV reporter very early on in Obama’s campaign, regarding her surprise visit back to Seattle when Barack was only a few days old. She was stunned that she was now a mother and apparently not very excited about it or competent at the task. Barack messed his diaper and Stanley thrust him at her to change, as if she were incapable of the unpleasant chore. This was being reported as a solo “vacation” visit, which made little sense for a young mother only a few days after childbirth. Somewhere, I saw conjecture at the time that she may in fact have been sent to Canada to complete her pregnancy, at one of the resident facilities they offered for such “embarrassing” events for young single mothers.

This resonated with me at the time; for if the child had been born in Seattle, there would be no reason to register his birth in Hawaii. Had he been born in a hospital in Hawaii, there likewise would have been no reason for the COLB registration procedure. The Kenya birth conjecture just never made sense to me, even though his grandmother swears she attended his birth there. Given what Corsi has documented here regarding her staying in Seattle for another year, without returning to Hawaii where her supposed husband and parents lived, this conjecture has renewed standing in my hopelessly curious mind.

One thing is certain. The narrative the Obamessiah tells about his Nativity is pure bunk. ◄Dave►

Orly Taitz, the attorney dogging the constitutional eligibility issue for the Obamessiah’s position, has turned up what appears to be his real birth certificate – from Kenya. If it is real, it is stunning. I have been saying forever that it doesn’t matter where he was actually born, and I assumed it was Hawaii, by definition he is NOT a “natural born citizen” because his father was not an American. If this is real, suddenly it cannot be shrugged off as a technicality by anyone.

As I have been saying, she is as serious as a heart attack, and she is ammending her lawsuits to include this document:

Taitz told WND that the document came from an anonymous source who doesn’t want his name known because “he’s afraid for his life.”

Taitz’s motion, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, requests the purported evidence of Obama’s birth – both the alleged birth certificate and foreign records not yet obtained – be preserved from destruction, asks for permission to legally request documents from Kenya and seeks a subpoena for deposition from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“I filed the motion with the court asking for expedited discovery, which would allow me to start subpoenas and depositions even before Obama and the government responds,” Taitz told WND. “I am asking the judge to give me the power to subpoena the documents from the Kenyan embassy and to require a deposition from Hillary Clinton so they will be forced to authenticate [the birth certificate].

“I’m forcing the issue, where Obama will have to respond,” she said.

“Before, they said, ‘You don’t have anything backing your claims,’” Taitz explained. “Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.”

Indeed! The article has blow-ups of the document so one can read the particulars of his birth in Mombasa. ◄Dave►

Chuck Baldwin’s son, Timothy Baldwin, Esq., Makes a powerful case for our responsibilities as individual Sovereigns in, “The American Revolution Revisited.” Here is how it ends:

However, the Federal government today does not recognize the Sovereignty in the people of the respective states; it does not recognizes the respective States’ jurisdiction over all matters not expressly delegated to the federal government; and it does not seem to acknowledge State Sovereignty under the 10th amendment of the US Constitution. Given their evident intent and purposes to continually grow in power and to continually oppress and suppress the sovereignty of we the people, against our respective states, the question becomes, how will they be made to understand this? It is of course up to the Sovereigns in each state to answer this question. And we see the answers arriving through State laws such as the Firearms Freedom Act.

Go read the well written case for yourself. ◄Dave►

Naked truth doesn’t get any more hard hitting than JB Williams recent article in Canada Free Press. You absolutely must read the whole thing; but here are a few notable quotes:

Since the most powerful people in America fear the wrath of Obamanation, maybe you should too! They are indeed a dangerous bunch, after all…

Every member of the Supreme Court, every member of congress, every member of the Joint Chiefs, most members of the DOD, CIA, FBI, Secret Service and state run media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, Fox and print news, knows that Barack Hussein Obama does NOT meet Article II – Section I constitutional requirements for the office he holds. By his own biography, there is NO way he can pass the test. The hard evidence is so far beyond overwhelming, it is ridiculous.

But not ONE member of America’s most powerful people will dare confront Obama and his anti-American cabal on the subject. The Constitution does NOT stand. Do you think there is no reason for this?

and…

Choose your Battles

This is why all Obama supporters label all Obama opponents “racists.” In their limited imagination, they can’t fathom someone actually opposing his Marxist anti-American pro-Terrorist belief system and policies. In their minds, only “racists” would oppose a blatant Marxist rushing to destroy the most powerful nation on earth.

Don’t waste a minute trying to have a fact-based logical discussion with them. They do NOT care what the facts are and they have no foundation upon which to discern simple right and wrong. Though they use the term “fascist” all day long in an attempt to silence their opposition, they have no idea what the word actually means and they don’t care.

But rest easy, as they only account for some 25-28% of American voters and less than 20% of society. Too many, I agree, but fight the battles worth winning. Don’t waste your energy arguing with idiots who only seek access to your earnings. Their agenda trumps their understanding and respect for the truth…

and…

Peaceful Options Evaporate

I want to be VERY clear. I do NOT desire or promote any form of violence or any armed insurrection of the sort recently used to depose an illegal dictator in Honduras. Despite the reality that America is facing an historic Constitutional Crisis with an illegal dictator of its own, violent methods for saving a nation and a way of life, are “last resort” measures only.

However, in my opinion, we are fast approaching the point of “no peaceful resolution” when only extreme measures will remain. As American patriots who still know and still care about the Constitution lose all peaceful options for redress and are forced deeper into a socio-economic corner, the human desire to be free which fuels the urge to resort to violence, will grow.

Violence will grow in both camps, in the absence of any other viable alternatives. Since Obama refuses to respect the Constitution or the law, and congress and the courts opt to turn their collective heads, only extreme options will soon remain. This administration is running roughshod over the people and the states and sooner or later, the backlash is coming.

and…

One of two events will ignite the new battle for freedom in America.

Either Obama succeeds in fraudulently holding on to his power long enough to bankrupt the nation, or the people rise up and bankrupt the Fed before Obama can bankrupt every American.

Either way, the streets will burn!

Americans still hoping to avoid a confrontation with international leftists are hoping in vain. Whether Obama supporters tire of their false messiah’s lies and begin to take by force, that which Obama promised but could not deliver,—or true patriots rise up and put a stop to his rape and plundering of a great nation, leaving his supporters in worse condition than before his election, the near future looks the same.

Broad based economic strife, racial violence, government plunder or street gang plunder… no matter which way we go from here, the streets of America are going to burn. This has been a long time coming. There’s almost no chance of escaping it at this late hour.

International leftists did not spend billions and decades setting up the “silent coup” of the United States to simply walk away when busted. They went “all-in” in the last election. They were playing for keeps. They will not let go of their death grip on the United States without a blood bath…

and…

Do YOU Fear Obama?

You should, because it’s clear that the most powerful people in this country do.

Half of the people you expect to stop this insanity are quiet co-conspirators in the silent coup. The other half is paralyzed by fear, motivated only by political self-preservation.

Americans keep asking what they can do because they see that none of their leaders are doing anything to stop the demise of their beloved country. It’s the right question, because those leaders are NOT going to stop this thing.

and…

The End Game

The clock is ticking… Which bomb explodes first?

Obama and Co. are rushing to force Americans into a corner where they will not be able to afford to fight back. Patriots are rushing to fight back before Obama removes the ability to fight back.

No matter which clock ticks down first, this thing is going to blow. There are patriots in this country who are prepared to fight and die for the Constitution and Freedom. But there are also many in this country who are equally ready to kill for Obama and his Marxist agenda. Neither side is going to walk away from the coming battle…

Freedom may be lost in America, but it won’t go down without a fight. Likewise, the left may be defeated, but they won’t walk away without a blood bath… They think they have the American people on their knees already. They won’t let up until forced to let up. They have made this very clear… If I post reader comments from this column, you will see what I see daily.

Marxists established control of academia, the press and the courts years before establishing filibuster-proof control of congress and unfettered control of the executive branch. Obama has appointed more unelected Czars in thirty days than the Soviet Union did in thirty years.

and…

There is only ONE End Game…

Obama and Pelosi have removed any possibility for peaceful resolution. The courts are the forum for peaceful resolution and the courts are missing in action on the matter. Congress is the place for peaceful resolution, but the left is not seeking any form of resolution, nor will they even allow the opposition a voice.

When no peaceful option is allowed, what options remains?

The time to stand and be counted is coming. The left will take no prisoners. American patriots are running out of options and out of time to act.

Internal conflict is a foregone conclusion now. The stage has been set, the battle lines drawn, the forces assembled. It just hasn’t reached a level of unbridled violence yet. The only thing that is not certain is what kind of America emerges from the conflict on the backside of the coming violence.

Will the anti-American left outnumber and overpower the American patriots, or will American patriots and freedom prevail?

The answer to this question will soon be written in history. The rest has already been written…

I pray for my country, my fellow patriots, for freedom and liberty and for justice. The time has come again, for all good men to come to the aid of their nation. Freedom has never been free and the bill has come due again…

I pray that enough American patriots remain, ready to do what must be done.

But it’s all just my opinion, and today, I’d love to be wrong!

I sure wish he was. I wonder how much time we have left before the civil war between the ghetto infested cities and Flyover Country? ◄Dave►

I have been saying forever that this wouldn’t go away and that eventually some judge will have to pay attention to all the challenges to Obama’s not being a Natural Born Citizen. Orly Taitz finally found one:

In what ultimately could prove to be a turning point in the legal challenges to Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president, a federal judge in California has planned a hearing on the merits of a federal court case raising those questions.

According to attorney Orly Taitz, who is working on multiple cases alleging Obama is a “usurper” because he doesn’t meet the constitutional requirement that only a “natural born citizen” can be president, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled in a hearing today that her case will move forward.

The hearing was on her motion for a default order against Obama, because although Taitz said she notified him of the action, Obama’s attorneys did not make an appearance.

Her complaint was filed against the president on Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration, over his actions before he became president.

Taitz has told WND if her motion for default is granted she immediately would request access to Obama’s birth records and other documentation that could determine his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.

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She told WND that at today’s hearing, the judge issued no orders, but promised that the case would be moved forward and he would address the merits of the dispute. He said there would be no dismissals based on “procedural issues.”

The judge said as a former Marine he recognizes the importance of having a constitutionally qualified president.

While no attorneys appeared on Obama’s behalf, several members of the U.S. Attorney’s office in California were in attendance, and sought to intervene on behalf of Obama over his actions before becoming president.

The judge ordered them to accept service of the lawsuit immediately and then continued the case to an unannounced date.

Taitz told WND, “For first time, we have a judge who’s listening.”

It is also on her website at: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/

In other news on the subject, check out the huge ad that was in the Washington Times today.  :) ◄Dave►

Well done…

…and I am still LMAO!