I have been doing some reading lately. What I am doing is re-reading a couple of books that I read years ago. One of them is “Death of a Nation” by John A. Stormer. He is also the one that wrote the book “None Dare Call it Treason.” In both of these books he shows how our government is turning into a communist government. I agree with most of what he says, but see more fascism in the works today than there probably was when he wrote the book in 1968. Many people still do not know how closely communism and fascism are.
The government is often referred to as a “Ship of State”, and thanks to national socialism, is flying the flag of piracy – socialist piracy. Contrary to popular belief, joining up with a sinking pirate ship does not repair it. But the government strenuously encourages us to “join the crew” and participate in “officer selection”, while ignoring the piracy, the gaping hole and the rising water level.
Why?
Once government gets your consent, it can always justify taking more and more. And when you “join the crew” and vote, you are definitely “sunk”.
It’s pretty common for people to have a standard answer they give when asked how they are. Mine is generally “I can’t complain.” I’ve come to realize that the normal response to that, “no one would listen if you did” is itself a subtle form of complaint.
There are at least a couple of reasons why I reply that way. For one, I’ve noticed during my career that everywhere I have worked, there has been at least one resident complainer. The most memorable of these was an otherwise intelligent curmudgeon whose retort to “good morning” was “what’s good about it?!” Tiring of his depressing answer, I shortened my greeting to simply “morning”, which he countered with a basic acknowledgment that I’d correctly identified the time of day. I eventually just greeted him by name, to which he could only answer with mine.
Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”
As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement”, now known as “OWS”, whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.”
“The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” – David Rockefeller, Memoirs
It is no secret that Goldman Sachs runs Wall Street. Even Ray Charles could see that that Goldman Sachs runs our government as evidenced by the former Goldman Sachs gangsters who have run our economy into the ground (e.g., Clinton’s Secretary of Treasury Goldman Sachs’ Rubin, Bush’s Secretary of Treasury Goldman Sachs’ “too big to fail” Paulson, etc.).
Goldman Sachs dominates the Federal Reserve. Goldman Sachs dominates the World Bank. Goldman Sachs dominates the IMF. And now Goldman Sachs is running the European financial system into the ground as another Goldman Sachs boy, “Super” Mario Monti, has taken over Italy to finish off what is left of the Italian financial system. Monti is also the head of the European Trilateral Commission as well as a Bilderberger. And yet another Goldman Sachs boy is finishing off the job in Greece.
Any assembly of people be it a family, club, fraternity, sorority, city, state or nation can not be any more noble than the individuals which comprise it. If we can come to believe this fundamental truism then we must also realize that the state we find our nation in these days is a direct result of the individuals that comprise it.
Sure, it is easy to lay blame. We continually fall witness to this ploy to shift the blame away from ourselves. “It’s the Masons,” one proclaims with certitude. Another cries. “I know it’s the Jews who are behind our woes.” While another shouts his blame shifting to the Vatican. While it is true that there are certain groups who have an active hand in bringing about the situation we currently find our nation state in, remember that groups are made up of individuals, so it is not the group that is to blame but individuals.
Most people are aware that certain states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and among them is Oregon. Back in 2009, President Obama stated that his policy toward these state laws would be to continue to detect and arrest illegal marijuana growers and dealers, but not those who had state-legal medical marijuana permits for personal use.
Oregon’s medical marijuana law does not provide for dispensaries, as does California, so medical marijuana patients in Oregon either have to grow their own marijuana, or have someone do it for them who is a registered grower. For example, many patients live in cramped apartments or in mobile home parks where there is no viable way of growing their own, so a number of local, legally-registered growers who had available land allowed those patients to grow their marijuana on that land.
Three significant historical events have been eclipsed by Obama: 1) Jimmy Carter will no longer be looked upon as the worst president in American history; 2) Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton will no longer be recognized as the greatest liars in presidential history; 3) Clinton’s stain on Monica’s dress, and what that did to the White House in general and the office of the president specifically, will forever pale in comparison to the stain and stench of Obama.
Its comfy to wallow in the mire of self pity or blame for everyone but our individual selves. But looking at it pragmatically, in black and white, we all took part in the terrible mess of the nation. When times were “good,” living with the delusions of the “wealth effect” of debt and credit, the far far greater majority took part wholeheartedly, because they liked it very much as it was. Maybe the smoke and mirrors was just too thick for most to see through.
After all, if one has no inkling of how Keynesian economic systems operate or understand that scores of new securities were made up and traded privately without any oversight using trillions in leverage and trillions more in other debt instruments, and that the day of reckoning would finally arrive…… then… one would naturally be very shocked. But who is there to blame for one’s preference of closing their eyes to more serious affairs, even if they are constantly distracted by the ubiquitous call of hedonism summoning the masses to the latest in celebrity or sport worship, or from being dulled by the use of licit or illicit drugs.
