In 1956, The Elks Magazine published an article in which appeared the following quote by the Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, “The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”

In the early part of the Cold War the spread of communism was a major concern in this country, and it was in regards to that threat that Hoover’s comments are attributed.

That may be true, but I often find myself asking, is it possible that Hoover may have been thinking about something else, something more ominous and diabolical?

“I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands as clean, as they are empty.” – Thomas Jefferson

What has happened to America and our beloved Constitutional Republic?  What catalyst or disease transformed politicians into men and women who have become devoid of honor?  No, not all of them, but way too many.  Why have the principles of freedom and liberty become passé, out-of-date, or just plain irrelevant?  How is it we have morphed into the false loyalty of ”my party, right or wrong, my party.”  That’s Nazi stuff, not American.  What on earth possessed us to “spit” on the foundation of our liberties, in favor of what …… Security? Comfort? Enslavement?  Have we lost our collective minds?