I was at the mall today and while my wife shopped I went for my usual cup of coffee. As I passed a booth a young blonde woman stopped me. The following is the conversation that took place.

Me: Yes?

Salesgirl: Are you shopping for your wife?

Me: No, I’m going to get some coffee.

Salesgirl: Can I interest you in something for your wife?

It is my belief that an overwhelming majority of Americans do not have even a basic understanding of their nation’s Constitution. Yet these people vote based upon misguided beliefs as to what they believe their government is supposed to do. It would be easy to lay the blame schools for not providing our children with a proper education, yet the schools themselves are not entirely to blame.

The various departments of Education, from the Federal Government all the way down to the local school districts, play a large part in setting the curriculum which is then taught to our children. So, if our children are graduating from high school without understanding their government, then much of the blame should be laid upon the shoulders of those bureaucrats who determine what is, and what isn’t, taught to our kids.

If I had but one wish in this world, it would be that I was given the opportunity to outline the course requirements for civics. If I were granted that wish, our kids would graduate high school with a thorough understanding of our system of government…or they would not graduate at all.

The Palestinian Uprising or Intifada of 1987 remains the single most significant triumph of popular mobilization in Palestinian history.

The First Intifada, as it is commonly known, had, once and for all, placed the Palestinian people as a collective on the political map of a region that previously had room only for Israeli Merkava tanks and US ‘peace envoys’. The Arab body politic had been led by mostly powerless leaders, and Palestinian factions with multiple allegiances were led by men with numerous nom de guerres.

Not discounting the fact that some of the Palestinian factions had, in fact, contributed to the long and arduous struggle for Palestinian freedom, a chasm had long existed between the larger mass of the Palestinian people and those who claimed to represent them.

In his extraordinary book, “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”, the historian, Dr. Paul Kengor, stated in his introduction that “We now know that American Communists and their masters in Moscow were acutely aware that they could never gain the popular support they needed to enlist the support of a much wider coalition that could help them push their private agenda.”

Most threatening, however, was Dr. Kengor’s discovery that “it was nothing short of stunning to research this book during the presidential bid of Barack Obama and hear so many of the names in my research surface repeatedly in the background of the man who became president of the United States of America. The way in which so many names and themes from the Cold War past aligned and made their way into Obama’s orbit was chilling.”

Obama’s December 8th speech in Osawatomie, Kansas revealed to anyone paying any attention that the President is a Communist. Speaking of the nation’s economic system that has created the greatest wealth for the most people anywhere, Capitalism, Obama said, “It doesn’t work. It has never worked.”

“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.” – Alan Perlis

en·tan·gled
1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl.

2. To complicate; confuse.

Entanglement – “an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim.”

Ever since the dawn of American civilization, man continues to wrap himself up in complexity. This behavior has all the earmarks of a subconscious death wish. Government writes legislation that is over 2,000 pages (i.e. Obama Care, Dodd-Frank Bill, etc.) . In contrast, some of the largest novels ever written were only about 1,000 pages, single spaced. We have hundreds of bureaucracies, at all levels of government, writing hundreds, if not thousands of pages of rule, after rule, after rule ….. every day! The Constitution is only about 20 pages.

On the international front, we have entangled nation-to-nation Central Banks, the IMF, the WTO, NGO’s and thousands of treaties that further tie civilization up in knots. You can’t move sideways without running into a rule or a law, national or international. Most people are law breakers because of too many laws but they don’t even know it, much less care. These national and international entanglements are slowly obliterating American sovereignty and freedom, right under our noses.