A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation.

The new proposals could transform American education, replacing the patchwork of standards ranging from mediocre to world-class that have been written by local educators in every state.

Under the proposed standards for English, for example, fifth graders would be expected to explain the differences between drama and prose, and to identify elements of drama like characters, dialogue and stage directions. Seventh graders would study, among other math concepts, proportional relationships, operations with rational numbers and solving linear equations.

The new standards are likely to touch off a vast effort to rewrite textbooks, train teachers, and produce appropriate tests, if a critical mass of states adopts them in coming months, as seems likely. But there could be opposition in some states, like Massachusetts, which already has high standards that advocates may want to keep.

“I’d say this is one of the most important events of the last several years in American education,” said Chester E. Finn Jr., a former assistant secretary of education who has been an advocate for national standards for nearly two decades. “Now we have the possibility that, for the first time, states could come together around new standards and high school graduation requirements that are ambitious and coherent. This is a big deal.”

In recent years, many states had moved in the opposite direction, lowering standards to make it easier for students to pass tests and for schools to avoid penalties under the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

After educators, business executives and others criticized the corrosive impact of this race to the bottom, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers set the common-standards initiative in motion last year. They convened panels of English and math experts from the College Board, A.C.T., and from Achieve Inc., a group with years of experience working to upgrade high school graduation standards.

Alaska and Texas are the only states that declined to participate in the standards-writing effort. In keeping his state out of the effort, Gov. Rick Perry argued that only Texans should decide what children there learn.

But the Obama administration quickly endorsed the effort. Under the Department of Education’s Race to the Top initiative, in which states are competing for a share of $4 billion in school improvement money, states can earn 40 points of the possible 500 for participating in the common effort and adopting the new standards.

The standards are open for public comment through April 2, before final versions are published later this spring.

Kentucky, working with a draft, last month became the first state to formally adopt the standards. The state said it would train teachers to the standards this summer and begin teaching them this fall. Officials in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina and other states have begun laying the groundwork for adoption, said Dane Linn, the education division director at the National Governors Association.

The adoption process varies greatly from state to state. In some, the state schools superintendent has considerable power to move forward in as little as three months. But other states, including California, have complicated procedures, involving the state board of education and other bodies that could prolong the process for a year or more, Mr. Linn said.

Educators and officials involved in the writing process pointed to what they considered to be strengths in the proposed standards, including that they are concise.

“Many states have too many expectations in their academic standards that force teachers to cover too much in a superficial way,” said Gene Wilhoit, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. “We said, ‘Let’s keep these very understandable and at a number that is manageable. Let’s not put on teachers more requirements than they can deliver.’”

Another improvement over current state benchmarks, people involved in the initiative said, is that the proposed standards are what educators call vertically aligned, meaning that material students are to learn in early years builds a foundation for what is to come in the next grade.

“Students are asked to do progressively more challenging things, and although that may sound obvious, it’s a real breakthrough,” said Michael Cohen, an Education Department official in the Clinton administration who is president of Achieve.

But not everyone was so enthusiastic.

“We’re not at all satisfied,” said Jim Stergios, executive director of the Pioneer Institute, a Boston nonprofit group that helped Massachusetts revise its state benchmarks in the 1990s. “Ours in Massachusetts are much higher, so why should we adopt these?” Mr. Stergios also criticized the three-week public comment period.

“When was the last time you saw a national effort that was rammed through in three weeks?” he asked.

The United States Chamber of Commerce, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Association of State Boards of Education, and a string of other business and education groups immediately endorsed the draft standards. The Council of the Great City Schools, which represents the nation’s largest urban public school systems, called the standards “high quality grade-by-grade standards that the nation can be proud of.”

They outline concepts to be learned, but do not lay down a specific curriculum.

In English, for instance, they do not prescribe individual works of literature, but instead suggest texts illustrating the quality and complexity of student reading appropriate for various grades. The middle school list includes “Little Women” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” as well as works of nonfiction like “Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad,” by Ann Petry. The 11th-grade nonfiction list includes Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” and http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/abraham_lincoln/index.html?inline=nyt-per’s Gettysburg Address.

Since the late 1980s, many educators and policymakers have considered the current system of state standards a weak link in American education. Because the standards vary so widely, standardized tests keyed to them are not comparable from state to state, nor to national tests. Eighty-seven percent of Tennessee students scored at or above the proficiency level in math on state tests in 2005, for instance, while 21 percent did so on the federal math test.

Efforts to draft voluntary national standards during the first Bush and Clinton administrations foundered after conservatives attacked them as federal meddling in classroom teaching. Because of that tumultuous history, leaders of the latest effort have defended its state-led nature, despite frequent endorsements of it by the Obama administration.

Also, they enlisted considerable help from education groups, including the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and others.

Writers who participated said they sought to build on the best of what is already in some states’ standards, while clarifying and simplifying.

“We tried to clean house a bit, keeping only what is most important and most critical,” said Susan Pimentel, a consultant in New Hampshire who helped write the proposed English standards.

March 10, 2010 by Sam Dillon for the New York Times

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“The world is a dangerous place to live ….. not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein

That’s right.  It’s over.  Their guns are bigger.  They control all the money.  They control the energy.  They control the land.  They control the food and they control the water.  Soon they will control our health care, down to the last detail on our electronic health care records being stored in a giant computer in Washington DC, from which they can determine if we are worthy of receiving health care.  The older we get, the less worthy we become.

Just like the guy standing on the beach witnessing in horror, the onrushing tsunami wave and has no place to run, we might just as well bend over and kiss our behinds goodbye.  Freedom and liberty are gone.  The constitution and bill of rights are just so much toilet paper and American sovereignty is but a fading memory of a bunch of dead guys who thought they could create individual liberty and have it last.

This didn’t happen overnight, you know.  It’s been coming on for about a hundred to a hundred and twenty years.  First, the civil war gave us the 14th Amendment, and we now let illegal aliens born in the U. S., become U. S. Citizens, thus creating a magnet for millions more to come.

Then a cadre of real smart guys from Harvard around the 1880s (the Dean and Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes) decided that we shouldn’t be bothered by the strict interpretation of the U. S. Constitution, we need to use court precedences to guide our adjudication of laws and legislation, court precedences that reflect the changing social nature of our society.  (Socialism by any other name)  They called this new paradigm of legal jurisprudence, Positivism.  A collective shudder must have rattled the souls of the Founding Fathers and a deep groan could be heard emanating from their graves.  Cracks started forming in our Constitution.

First dictator of America and Constitution hater, President Woodrow Wilson
Then came the first dictator of America and Constitution hater, President Woodrow Wilson, who did everything in his power to open the cracks in the Constitution even wider, by forming the League of Corrupt Nations, presiding over the 16th Amendment and the creation of the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service, which legalized taxes on Americans that were never authorized by the Constitution.  The government, with this new found source of revenue, began to grow and grow and gain immense power.

But the constitutional corruption didn’t stop with President Wilson. The second dictator of America, FDR, used a crow bar to pry the cracks in our Constitution so far that it became literally unrecognizable.  He did it by using the emergency of the Great Depression as his rationale to fundamentally transform America.  The opposition to FDR was fierce, but the great savior and orator convinced the weak among us (voters), that the only answer to this unprecedented and worsening crisis had to come at the expense of their freedom and liberty.  In the fog of our pending destruction of the 1930s, unions, socialists, Nazis, communists and the Technocrats all rose in prominence to “feed” the hungry souls of the weak and troubled within our ranks.  Many were forever converted, and the cracks in the Constitution got wider still.

Deadly destruction of American freedom has carried us to this day of Obama
The slow, deadly destruction of American freedom has carried us to this day of Obama, who is trying to repeat, in spades, what FDR did, in fundamentally transforming America into a utopian socialist society, once again exploiting the weak among us and using the strategy of class warfare to dupe the naive into supporting this constitutional treason.

Johnson and Carter took us deeper into the abyss of socialism and the weakening of American power in the world.  Obama, Pelosi and Reid are attempting to tip America over the edge from which there will be no return and they are on the verge of completing the job …… if they get their way.

The fact is, the American people, the so-called Consent of the Governed, went to sleep for a hundred years and have allowed what we face today to happen.  If there is anyone to blame, we can only blame ourselves.  We had the mechanisms to stop these traitors from tearing the fabric of freedom asunder, but we abandoned our roots of freedom, obtained at great sacrifice, in favor of comfort and security.  We couldn’t be bothered.

Still, there are indications that the Obamas in America have awakened a sleeping giant and have run headlong into a center-right brick wall.  Some have said that the progressives are beginning to unravel.  As evidence of their unraveling, attacks on conservatives grow by the day.  They fear us, and they worry we might be successful in ruining their diabolical plans for America.  They just might be right, but that depends entirely on the level of conservative commitment to defend freedom.

We are in a war for the very survival of individual liberty and for the last 100 years, we have been losing that war.  History is on the ragged edge of repeating itself, once again.  It is evident that serfs they want us to be and serfs we will become …… unless tens of millions of Americans have the b…..lls to stop them, with whatever it takes.  If we are divided and fragmented in our prosecution of this war, we most surely will lose.  But losing is not an option if freedom and liberty are to be preserved for present and future generations.

~ The Author ~
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On March 6, 2010, an opinion piece was published in the San Jose Mercury News by columnist Dan Waters, entitled Did governor snooker Legislature? In the article, Waters writes,

“Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, singled out California as he pressed states to adopt reforms that unions dislike, such as increasing charter schools and using student test data for teacher evaluations.”

Duncan addressed these two items in a speech before the NEA on July 2, 2009, and  in a press release dated December 10, 2009 in which he called “on state legislators to lift barriers to reform.”

In his speech before the NEA, Duncan stated, among other things …

“Now, let’s talk about data. I understand that word can make people nervous, but I see data first and foremost as a barometer. It tells us what is happening. Used properly, it can help teachers better understand the needs of their students. Too often, teachers don’t have good data to inform instruction and help raise student achievement.

“Data can also help identify and support teachers who are struggling. And it can help evaluate them. The problem is that some states prohibit linking student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

“I understand that tests are far from perfect and that it is unfair to reduce the complex, nuanced work of teaching to a simple multiple choice exam. Test scores alone should never drive evaluation, compensation, or tenure decisions. That would never make sense. But to remove student achievement entirely from evaluation is illogical and indefensible.

Data is, at once, both the most important aspect and the greatest weakness of systems education.  The gathering and analysis of data from various sources, including assessment, is crucial to keeping the system of education in balance, of determining who or what, human or system, needs to be changed to achieve the ultimate goal of systems education: to achieve and maintain the sustainable global environment of the “created future.”

In this pursuit, the school seeks to become a repository of information on every child, his/her siblings and adults in his/her life.  This is why parents are being pressured by schools to give out personal information that parents too often find intrusive.  The SPEEDE/ExPRESS document, put out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) outlines page after page of information sought by schools to include medical, dental and mental health information, religion, family logistics (two mommies, two daddies, single parent, significant other or married couple of the opposite sex), number of children, ages of children, ages of parents, income level of parents, education level of parents, etc.  Analysis of all this information helps the school to best determine what needs to occur to bring the child to the wanted behavior.

As laid out in Teachers were warned, assessments — because they are subjective and not objective, because the same answer can be scored differently by two different scorers, because they are so easy to manipulate to assuage the political climate of the moment — are neither valid nor reliable.

Just as data is crucial to keeping the education system in balance to attain the wanted behaviors deemed necessary to achieve and maintain the sustainable global environment, a dearth of data or bad data will cause the system to be out of balance; if not corrected, causing eventual implosion.  Data is used to leverage the system, or component parts of the system (i.e., the child, the teacher, the administrator) to keep the system in balance.

The system is, above and beyond all else, the priority.  In the words of one world futurist, in unpublished papers, people are but atoms in a molecule and radical atoms must be exterminated for the greater good of the collective whole.  In other words, those who refuse to conform, refuse to inculcate the wanted behaviors, must be isolated or exterminated for the good of the system.

The first experiments in systems philosophy were, believe it or not, the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany.  In both, dissidents were incarcerated or exterminated for the greater good of the collective whole.  All really does mean all, and all must conform.  While education reform advocates disparaged the traditional education system as “homogenous”, homogenous is truly a goal of systems education.

Both the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany failed, theorists believe, because of the lack of data and the means to analyze it.  These same theorists also believed that by the year 2000, technology would be far enough advanced and be fast enough to process large volumes of data accurately in a short period of time.  The fallacy, of course, is that technology is the outreach of the fallible human mind.

A parent contacted me one time.  Her daughter was having nightmares, something that had never occurred before.  I suggested the mother find out what the child was being exposed to in the classroom.  The mother did and was shocked to discover her daughter was being subjected to morbid, sordid, sadistic stories intended, specifically, to unfreeze, change and refreeze the child’s existing belief system.  When the mother confronted the teacher, the teacher’s response to her was, “Well, I hope you aren’t trying to force your morals, standards and values on your daughter.“  The teacher was the wife of a pastor.  The family subsequently pulled all their children from the public schools and placed them in private schools.

Parents don’t want to believe this type of thing is going on in their child’s classroom but it is happening in classrooms nation-wide under systems education.  Remember, the goal is homogenous children who all display the behaviors deemed necessary to achieve and maintain the sustainable global environment of the “created future.”

What is this type of curriculum intended to achieve?  A critical thinker.  What is a critical thinker?  In the words of one critical thinking guru, schools don’t want a Naïve Nancy or a Selfish Sam, schools want a Fairminded Fran, someone who thinks right and wrong are situational; what is right today maybe be wrong tomorrow in a different situation; truth is always “in flux” with no absolutes.  A Fairminded Fran is a dialectic thinker; someone who truly believes that perception is reality; who runs on feelings rather than cognition.

The dialectic thinker is at the opposite end of the spectrum from a didactic thinker who runs on facts, who believes in absolutes, who believes right and wrong are static, not situational.  A dialectic thinker is easily manipulated while a didactic thinker is not; therefore not given to abandoning individual principles for the group principles derived by consensus.

While education reform advocates scoff at the claim that schools are brainwashing children, that is exactly what they are doing.  These are the same tactics that Edward Hunter describes in his book, Brainwashing, published in 1958, about the “men who endured and defied the most diabolical red torture” at the hands of Marxists.  What is happening in America has a name; it’s called transformational Marxism, the quiet atrophy (as opposed to violent overthrow), via gradualism, to the Marxist state.  As already apparent in the growing chaos of America, transformational Marxism is the pipe dream of dialectic thinkers.

People wonder why we have kids taking guns to school and killing teachers and other students when, for years, guns hung on gun racks in unlocked pickups in school parking lots with no problem.  When a young man walked into Frontier Junior High in Moses Lake, Washington on February 2, 1996, and shot a teacher and two students to death, and injured a third before being subdued by another teacher, I told Washington State legislators then that it was only the beginning.   You cannot put children through such a heinous, mind-twisting, unnatural process without a few going off the deep end.  It is of note that the Moses Lake School District was one of the schools that participated in the first round of the Schools for the 21st Century pilot project in Washington State.

In Nazi Germany and in the U.S.S.R., under systems education, the same characteristics began to appear in children that are appearing in American children today.  It seems we haven’t learned much from history.  And the awful truth is that left to his own devices, absent God, mankind will self-destruct every time.

Why is Secretary of Education Arne Duncan promoting charters?  It has been the intent, since the inception of systems education, that all schools would eventually be charter schools tied to industry.  In this capacity, industry would be able to start preparing workers for their industry from the time the child entered the charter school, even before if parents worked in the industry and the child attended industry-sponsored daycare.

While many parents think charter schools are a viable alternative to what they object to in public schools, charter schools are public schools and are required to meet the same behavioral objectives as public schools.  There are, however, a few key differences that are not in the best interests of parents or taxpayers.  Charter schools …

1. …are run by private non-profit corporations.  This could be a local, state, national, or foreign corporation registered as a non-profit under the Uniform Tax Code of the United States.  There is at least one foreign corporation establishing charter schools in the United States.  This could also be a business or a consortium of businesses that establish an entity with non-profit status.

2. …are run using taxpayer dollars.  Coupled with the fact that these schools will be exempted from most state laws and regulations that govern other schools amounts to the use of tax dollars without accountability to the taxpayers.  In many states, problems have already surfaced with regard to how the money the charters are receiving is being spent.

3. …comingle public money with private money in a public/private partnership that is not accountable to taxpayers.

4. …are run by private boards of directors.  Public schools were established with an elected board of directors to make them accountable to the taxpayers.  Private boards of directors are not elected and they are not accountable to the taxpayers.

5. …are exempt from most state statutes and regulations that govern other public schools.  This exempts them from public disclosure laws; laws and regulations that give parents control over what their child is taught in the classroom; laws that give parents access to curriculums, supplemental teaching materials and surveys that their child could be exposed to in the classroom; laws that give parents access to their child’s school records; and laws that give parents access to the classroom.

Charter schools are the epitome of what Joseph C Fields envisioned when he wrote Total Quality for Schools; A Suggestion for American Education (ASQC Quality Press, 1993),

“Parents supply a resource to which educators apply a variety of processes.  These processes include a thirteen-year sequence of assessment to match quality standards to develop a graduate that meets customer requirements.”  (p 14-15)

“Parents learn that they must provide the best ready-to-learn student possible.” (p 22)

“Consider too the parent as ‘vendor’ of a precious resource, the child.  In the internal customer concept, the parent is serving the teacher.  Teachers could identify reasonable specifications for parents relative to the home learning environment and certify parents who will cooperate.  Guardians and agencies would be included in the assurance of a well-prepared student to inquire, acquire, and require.”  (page 53)

“Citizens would no more be allowed to put obstacles in the way of public educators than to interfere with public medical, police, or fire protection personnel who are doing their duty. (page 53)

Arne Duncan

Is it any wonder that Secretary of Education Duncan is pushing charter schools?

Duncan’s remarks were made in support of the “Race to the Top” agenda of the occupier of the White House, usurper of the Oval Office.  That agenda, however, is not about producing well-educated, intelligent children able to reach for the star or stars of their choice; the agenda is about the deliberate dumbing down of America to the “higher standards” of third world countries.

In order for the United States to coalesce other nations in pursuit of the sustainable global environment, the middle class must be exterminated, leaving the two classes characterizing all third world nations:  the elitists who rule with a heavy hand, and the poor who live in squalor with no hope of anything better.

This is the feudal system of the Dark Ages, when ignorance and lack of education kept people repressed, when witchcraft, paganism and Gnosticism permeated the culture just as it is today.

March 9, 2010

© 2010 Lynn M Stuter – All Rights Reserved.

Submitted for publication to the Federal Observer by the author.

~ About the Author ~
Mother and wife, Lynn M. Stuter has spent the past ten years researching systems theory with a particular emphasis on education. She home schooled two daughters, now grown and on their own. She has worked with legislators, both state and federal, on issues pertaining to systems governance and education reform. She networks nation-wide with other researchers and citizens concerned with the transformation of our nation. She has traveled the United States and lived overseas. Visit her WEB SITE.

Politicians, bureaucrats, & the rest of the government establishment—are you arrogant, ignorant, stupid, opportunists, or just buffoons?

A case can be made for all of the above.

The responsibility for all the above rests with foolish voters not paying attention and purposely academically challenged, compliments of the government school system, formerly known as public schools, the one that teaches our kids to cheat, i.e. grade inflation instigated by administrators instructing the teachers to ease up on course work, in addition to a boatload of citizen naïveté.

The whole of the U.S. is in Intensive Care, no evidence to support recovery from its economic depression—no, not recession.

Thousands of Arkansas citizens have lost or are losing their jobs, struggling to hold the family unit together, many holding down multiple jobs, while so-called “public servants” squander and steal taxpayer dollars cavalierly in multiple nefarious ways.

One monumental concern: elective officials and government employees being awarded pay raises, especially in times of economic crisis, when in reality government should be reduced across the board by at least 50%. (Most are nonessential and unconstitutional)The audacity of those with government involvements now giving and getting raises and benefits, while stealing from the producers who generate the funds necessary to keep the criminal government behemoth afloat.

The above raises, in conjunction with government unions, i.e. teachers, postal, etc. juxtaposed with non-elective boards, commissions, fact-finders, etc. all unduly influence unconstitutional legislation, rules, and regulations on all fronts.  Government unions and commissions must be abolished.  Elected officials should be doing any legitimate work done by commissions to assure oversight.  There could be some exceptions.

Example: The Fort Smith city government awarded a 2.5 % pay raise to its bloated workforce, while campaigning for new taxes and city government expansion via federal programs implemented by the American & City Planning Commission.  There are hundreds of these type commissions with nebulous sounding names that are dedicated to stealing citizens’ rights and properties.  “Quality of Place” is just one example that the Fort Smith city government has embarked upon. Planning Commissions are unelected, hugely powerful, feed off taxpayer money, virtually no oversight and are embarked upon a goal to destroy sovereignty, all under the aegis of Agenda 21, the umbrella for all the nice sounding “Green City Compacts”, the most common one, “Sustainable Development”.

The above are examples of political/bureaucratic arrogance, ignorance, stupidity, opportunism and/or buffoonery:

Crawford County: hiring new employees on the say so of some judge campaigning for reelection while giving raises to 10 county employees. Obscene.

The 70 Percenter, Governor Mike Beebe (alleged 70% approval rating) has hired (vote buying?) over 2,500 new government slugs during his gubernatorial term (2 ½ yrs).

Turn attention to the Arkansas state legislature. 18 state representatives and 2 state senators spent in excess of $1 million on frivolous trips, many outright vacations, 9 of the 20 have government employment backgrounds…can you say government schools?  All told the state’s 135 legislators collected a grand total of $5.4 million in travel expenses and extras in 2009.  These numbers  keep skyrocketing year after year.

Examples of parasitic arrogance include House Education Committee Chairman, Bill Abernathy (D. Mena), a retired school teacher. He logged in at $56,592 in 2009 while complaining “in the end it’s not that financially rewarding to serve”.

The biggest parasite of all is Senator Jimmy Jeffress (D. Crossett), a retired school teacher. Jeffress spent $60,092 in 2009.  Jeffress stated “he’s never really checked whether it would be cheaper for him to fly or drive his vehicle”.  “What if I did check it out to see, I’m still going to drive, no matter what”.

Jeffress also said “I would like for my wife to go with me and we take some of our grandchildren with us because they have these wonderful programs”.

Brother Senator Gene Jeffress (D. Louann), a retired school teacher, was number 7 on the dirty 20 list.  Sen. Gene blew $53,949 on travel.

The dirty 20 should write a new “Gulliver’s Travels” book.  The lack of integrity or remorse is stunning.

Now to the biggest criminal enterprise, the already alluded to government school system .  Comes word from Superintendent Benny Gooden that Fort Smith needs a new high school.  Gooden declares “since 2001 there has been a 150 student per year increase”.  No word on the demographics, i.e. who are these students?  Can it not be concluded that third world Mexicans and other Hispanics make up the vast majority of Gooden’s projections, if so, why aren’t they deported?  As you may recall, Gooden made the statement some years ago “we’ll take all we can get”, referring to illegals and children of illegals; conclusion, more government expansion, i.e. more money.  Observe the social, educational, correctional, health, and economic mess, including proliferation of gangs and the drug culture

The 150 student per year proliferation appears to be an out of control illegal immigration invasion, coupled with corrupt elected and appointed officials.

Inquire of elected officials why they are awarding pay raises to government types and personally enriching themselves.  It will indeed be interesting to see if the Fort Smith school board awards Superintendent Gooden with another obscene salary increase, if so it would be even more interesting to hear their explanation.

Example of the top-down destruction of our republic by all governments is the treatment of the citizen Tea Party movement, i.e. disregarded, vilified, exploited, and co-opted.   Case in point, Grover Norquist, the darling of “conservatives”, on the board of CPAC is actively campaigning for amnesty for 25-35 million illegal Mexicans & OTM’s, accompanied by another counterfeit “conservative” Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.).

The government genocidal bulldozer churns on, unabated.

Published March 7, 2010 and written by Joe McCutchen for ArkansasFreedom. Submitted to the Federal Observer by the author for republication.

Dennis Patrick, who made a career out of playing oily types, portrayed Bill Compton, a wealthy businessman who was trying to bring his wayward daughter, Melissa, played by Susan Sarandon, home. He confronted her drug dealing boy friend, Frank Russo, played by Patrick McDermott and they got into a fight. Patrick slammed him repeatedly against a wall, finally killing him in, what is for me, one of the best murder scenes in movie history. You empathize with Compton.

Compton, dazed by what he had done, then wanders around and into a bar, sits down while Joe, a few stools away, rants about ‘the f—-ng n—-rs (blacks)’, the hippies, the wealthy and just about anyone else that he had a gripe against. When he blurts out that he’d like to kill one of them, Compton says, “I just did.” The story goes on from there.

Joe was an uneducated boor and just one year later, Norman Lear would present another bigoted boor on television, Archie Bunker in ‘All in the Family.’. But while Archie Bunker was a racist, he was ultimately a harmless teddy bear. Joe Curran had no redeeming qualities. While Bunker was steeped in stereotypes of minorities, he’d be horrified at the Ku Klux Klan. Joe Curran might be a member.

Joe Curran and Archie Bunker satisfied liberal Hollywood’s need to marginalize anyone of a what could be called a conservative slant at the time. The New York Times could trot out its warnings about ‘night riders of the right’ as it did with James Buckley’s senatorial campaign to portray naysayers as rabid race baiters. All conservatives are uneducated racist boors was the take home message. It was all very convenient and serves the Left’s purpose to this very day.

And so it has gone decades. The liberal educated elite could bask in their smug self assurance that those who opposed them were Archie Bunkers and Joe Currans not far under the surface.

Liberaldom was always concerned with Hollywood’s portrayal of blacks. In high school, our teachers often would underscore it. Blacks, to their dismay, were always servants or in menial jobs.

There was Eddie Anderson who played Jack Benny’s valet, Rochester and Stepin Fetchit who became synonymous with a slow witted, servile fool and never forget Little Black Sambo who used his guile to save himself from threatening tigers. Suddenly, such portrayals became anathema and disappeared but the Joe Curran and Archie Bunker persisted. The irony must never have occurred to Liberaldom.

Fast forward to 2008. In about the most infamous encounter of the campaign, in Ohio, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher asked Sen. Barack Obama about how his proposed tax changes would affect him. Wurzelbacher was considering buying a plumbing company with revenues in the $250,000 to $280,000 range.

Obama’s response reeked of the Marxism that lies in his heart. It was his stated goal that he would take more of any money that Wurzelbacher’s company would make above $250,000 to make sure that those making less had a chance at success. In other words, he would confiscate it to give it to others. That simple encounter set off a firestorm.

With his shaven head, muscular physique and mode of dress, Wurzelbacher looked to be the very epitome of the blue collar worker that liberals despise. The kind of a guy who had learned a lot in The School of Hard Knocks. This was the most symbolic encounter and even shootout that anyone could ever envision.

By contrast, Barack Obama had been the Left’s very idea of cool. Why he had even attended Columbia and Harvard Universities! How dare a commoner challenge so worthy an intellectual, especially one who agreed with them. Barack Obama was their next great chance to return intellectual liberalism to the corridors of White House power. Why he might even be the next (dare we even say it?) John F. Kennedy!

They gave him the nickname Joe the Plumber but he was no racism spouting boor. Instead, he was measured and articulate in his questioning. He had to be stamped out. He could be to ordinary Americans what William F. Buckley had been to intellectualdom, the anomaly that had to be destroyed. Liberaldom kicked into high gear.

A state worker in Columbus, Helen Jones-Kelley, did a data base search on Wurzelbacher to try to dig up embarrassing information on him. She later resigned. Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on behalf of Joe the Plumber against Jones-Kelley and two other members of Ohio’s Department of Job and Family Services in a civil torts action. Finally, the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police admitted that a contractor used state files to try to ferret out deleterious information.

These things should raise the concerns of all libertarians, civil and otherwise, about the harassment of dissidents and what it means for our society for the future. It is perfectly in keeping with Marx’s agenda to use all the powers of the state against rebels, up to and including confiscation.

But the ultimate shocker for liberals & Nanny Staters arose with the revelation that, (gasp, clutch your chests, horrors, egads), Joe the Plumber wasn’t licensed in Ohio. Why this struck at the most cherished of collectivist presumptions. Can you imagine the arrogance of anyone thinking he can do a job without government approval or, worse yet, that the people can decide for themselves who can do it? Such audacity! Why no ordinary person could be intelligent enough to make such determinations!

The latest is Andrew Joseph Stack, Joe Stack, the frustrated soft ware engineer who flew his Piper PA28 into an Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas killing himself and Vernon Hunter, a 68 year old employee and veteran of the Viet-Nam War. The new immediately spoke about a manifesto that Stack posted on his website. It can be found in its entirety with just a routine web search. There are an abundance of comments, pro and con, at both Business Insider and The Week.

Portrayed as a screed against government and especially the IRS, it is anything but. In fact, it’s a coherent, fairly well organized personal history of how he came to his plight and solution.

Also coming in for his ire are labor unions, large corporations, big medicine, big pharma and just about anything else big, including a swipe at the Catholic Church. As a Catholic, I think my religion is correct but there can be no doubt that over the years it has had its share of corruption, think Martin Luther and his 95 theses, not to mention the Borgias.

Stack’s problems with the IRS began with his affiliation with the Universal Life Church. Founded in 1959, it just about handed out ordinations for a registration fee. It soared in membership when many tried to use their positions as ordained ministers to avoid military service and taxes.

In its fight against the tax dodge, the IRS got into the sticky business of defining what actually constituted a church and a religion. Interestingly, despite its oft asserted claim that it wants to protect religion from government, I remember no objections from ACLU about the IRS’ efforts. They must have been too busy suing to have fish removed from the flags of small towns and the Ten Commandments from Court Houses to notice that the government was defining religion.

Stack also poured out his wrath on GM, Arthur Andersen, Enron, George W. Bush and the bailouts.

Almost immediately, the establishment liberal media lined up to marginalize Stack. One article by some pyschobabbler called attention to the ‘narcissism’ that ran throughout the essay. But Stack’s Manifesto was his statement so what sentiment other than narcissism could anyone expect? Others called him a tea-bagger. My response, “And?”

The overwhelming impression that anyone can get from reading it is that Stack was telling the world that our government simply doesn’t care about nor will it listen to the little guy, the guy who gets up in the morning, trudges off to work to hump a living. The guy who has no union, no corporation and no organization talking for him.

Stack makes it clear that he thinks that the government wasn’t listening to anyone but those big boys and making violence the only solution. Such a warning was articulated by none other than John F. Kennedy.
I do not endorse violence as a solution to the problems that are sucking America into a quicksand pit but it seems to me that Stack’s Manifesto has the kernel of a clarion libertarian cry to the world. Should the establishment media and the government continue to ignore it, they run the risk of many Joe Stacks.

The problem is, I think they will ignore it. You see, anyone who disagrees with them are just ordinary worthless Joes.

~ About the Author ~
Dr. Roderick T. Beaman is a board certified family osteopathic physician who practices in Jacksonville, Florida. He is a published poet, has composed a blues song and is trying to have his first novel published. It deals with the dangers of big government. He offers anyone who wishes to dignify the trash he writes with a comment, to do so.

The same psychological patterns that take place in Domestic violence are present in the elections that take place in America.  The first steps to ending the abuse or violence is to first ACKNOWLEDGE it is happening.  “Denial” of the ABUSE is what keeps it happening.

Read the following taken from a Domestic Violence web page and notice how it applies in the case of Government (the abuser)  to the American voter (the victim):

“Domestic violence and abuse are used for one purpose and one purpose only: to gain and maintain total control over you. An abuser doesn’t “play fair.” Abusers use fear, guilt, shame, and intimidation to wear you down and keep you under their thumb. Your abuser may also threaten you, hurt you, or hurt those around you.“

Think of the scare tactics in use daily -  If you don’t give up this Freedom or Liberty you will allow TERRORISTS to do harm.  The only real TERRORISTS in America sit in this White House and Congress.  They have, for decades, eliminated under the false threats of danger, all of those FREEDOMS reiterated in the Bill of Rights.  They have passed every law - covertly - they can which has eliminated all our Freedoms and the People have accepted it with little more than a whimper.  They allow the OCCUPATION FORCES to force them into obtaining PERMISSION for everything including death.  There isn’t ONE thing that an American can do without obtaining some kind of permit, license, or permission from some government agent.  That is ABUSE!!

We have heard many times how an abusive mate will beat the victim to near death, then tell the victim it is the victims FAULT that the beating took place.  The Abuser tells the Victim that he/she really loves the victim and won’t do it again.  Victim takes Abuser back, thinking that maybe it is her/his fault that the beating took place.

It is that old *co-dependent* - *enabler* relationship.  It plays out between two people and between politicians and voters.

We have a whole bunch of ABUSERS (Politicians) who promise they love us and won’t do anything to harm us if we will just take them back and let them rule over us.  We have a bunch of VICTIMS (Voters) who once again fall for the lie and they dutifully cast their vote for the Abuser - AGAIN AND AGAIN.  This, in spite of the long list if ABUSES that are not secret abuses but well known abuses.  The *bruises* are plain for all to see yet the VICTIM will tell others that they fell or bumped into something - DENYING the ABUSER inflicted the harm.

What is it that makes the Victim (Voter) think that the prior beatings and abuses are not going to happen again and the next time it will be worse because the Abuser (Government) knows that the Victim hasn’t got the guts to stand up against the abuser.  The Abuser has sent out thousands of glossy, colored, ads telling everyone how wonderful he is and that it is the OTHER Abuser that is the bad guy.  Due to a public indoctrination program that has been HIGHLY successful for several decades (public schools) the Victim has been taught to FEEL rather than THINK and looks at the colored, glossy ads with the perfect photo’s and FEEL that that Politicians really does love them…..   again, in spite of years of terrible abuse of power.

Having had past experiences in my life with female friends who were in abusive relationships, I know how fruitless it is most of the time to get involved in helping them.  They come to you for help and then fall for the lies and go back to the abuser and you become the bad guy —  until the next time they get beat up.

People complained under Carter - Clinton - Bush (the previous abuses) and those all led us to today and Obama with his HOPE AND CHANGE.  The perfect picture of ABUSE - I’m sorry and I offer you HOPE and CHANGE (never saying WHAT that Hope and CHANGE will be - it is left to the IMAGINATION of the VICTIM).

I see the political relationship in America as that of the BATTERED VOTER SYNDROME.  The voter is upset over being abused but the minute the Abuser promises to not abuse again and to straighten things out (which they never do) the VICTIM (voter) goes running back into the arms of the ABUSER.

Look at the length of time so many politicians have been in office - living off of what they steal from us.  Public SERVICE was never intended to be a career.  It was never intended to be a position in which the SERVANT could increase their TAKE from the People, especially without any approval from the People.  Pensions were never a part of their compensation until THEY (abusive treatment) voted it in for themselves - the People had no say in that happening.  The Unconstitutional Spending for Unconstitutional agencies, actions, trips, Czars, aids, private airplanes, and all the other percs these thieves (ABUSERS) have taken from us for their comfort and pleasure are just more of the SYNDROME -  The People fail to realize that there are more of us than there are of the Abusers and we should STOP placating these domestic abusers.

It is long past time to kick them out in what ever manner it is that eliminates them from abusing us any longer.  Each and every time you cast a vote for any of them that have been in more than two House terms (4 years total) or one Senate term (6 years) then you are telling them loud and clear -  I like being ABUSED - hit me again -  do it until you kill me.

When you accept the lie that if you vote for Candidate C you are then putting Candidate A (or B) in office.  That is such an insane argument, IMHO, because my vote didn’t go to either thief - it goes to the one I want in office and the stupid statement that my voting for C puts A or B in office is not even kindergarten logic.  What puts A or B in office is the people who cast their votes FOR A or B.  I didn’t add to A or B vote totals in any way.

2 Cor 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (KJV)

If you go into a restaurant and there are three bowls put in front of you to choose from.  One picture perfect appearing bowl contains rat poison, another delicious looking bowl contains embalming fluid, and the last one has a not particularly appetizing looking bowl is free of all polluted ingredients….  Which bowl will you choose?  You don’t know that two bowls contain poisons - all you get to see is the APPEARANCE. As history reveals - most choose APPEARANCE over substance.  Does anyone tell the *servers* to do a TASTE TEST in front of your eyes - which would expose the poisoned items?  Nope - Looks is what matters - not content.

Many Voters say they want to be free of the corruption but do they really?  If they do then why do they continue to soak in it?

2 Cor 6:17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, (KJV)

Now that the voters have brought forth Barabbas for the General Elections -  which UNCLEAN THING are you going to cast your vote for to rule over you?

I plan to vote but my vote will not go to those *choices* the Two Headed Snake places on the ballot for me to choose which poison I want to swallow.  My vote will be written in -  I will cast MY vote for the person of MY choice - not the choice of the Snake.

It isn’t who you are -  It is WHOSE you are ! ! ! !

~ The Author ~
Jackie Juntti (Granny) is a daily reader and frequent contributor to the Federal Observer. She can be reached for comment at idzrus@earthlink.net.

The subtext here is clear. We don’t need to create jobs because American men are suffering from unemployment and are finding it tough to provide security for their families. We need jobs so those abusers-waiting-to-happen don’t take out their frustrations on their wives by beating the crap out of them. If that’s the case, perhaps we should just divert VAWA funding to the jobs bill and kill two birds with one stone. Or is that expression too violent?

Thing is, of course, Reid is entirely out of line. Domestic violence is roughly a 50-50 proposition; a now well known fact that is commonly ignored for the sake of political expedience and bloated government programs. It’s a matter not so shocking in our political system. Politicians lie for money and votes, and we have come to expect as much without getting too troubled over it.

We do, however, expect their lies to have at least a vague resemblance to the truth. And when they don’t, we can usually expect the media to check things out and play gotcha for the sake of making their own money. We can expect them to do some truth mining on just about everything politicians say, from statements about the need for bailout money to the particulars of health care reform. Everything, that is, except in the realm of socio-sexual politics.

But the conduct of both politicians and the mainstream media following Reid’s gaffe are leave more questions than answers.

Like many concerned citizens, I contacted Reid’s Washington office and spoke with his press office about he statement. They would not discuss it over the phone but asked for my email address, and sure enough within a couple of minutes I got an email claiming that Reid was accurate, citing a 2006 study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on domestic violence.

The only problem is that the study didn’t support Reid’s claims at all. In fact, it contradicts him entirely. I had to run it down myself because the link they sent me went to a “page not found” message. I suppose that explains why they didn’t read it carefully, or perhaps they didn’t expect me to.

While the study confirms that financial stress (unemployment) is one variable in predictors of domestic violence, it doesn’t assert anywhere that the violence correlates any more in men than it does in women. It is a generic analysis of factors that exacerbate problems of violence in the home, but, don’t even mention gender, much less support Reid’s claims.

His press office is simply waving a piece of paper and saying “We have documentation!” And they do. Documentation of Reid’s unquestionable skills with smoke and mirrors.

Being the intrepid investigator that I am, I decided to go one giant step further than Reid’s office and actually look for some facts. What I found was that Reid has no support for his statement at all. The one study that comes closest is a 2004 report by the National Institute for Justice. They found that the risk of intimate partner violence goes up for women incrementally with each period of repeated unemployment by their male partners.

But in the politically rich environment of “justice” studies, there are other factors that elucidate matters more clearly than the study itself.
• The study didn’t purport to apply it’s findings to men in general.
• There was no investigation as to increased female violence in the same circumstances.
• There was no causal relationship established. None.

That last one is a matter of some significance. Unemployment is caused by a number of reasons other than a bad economy. Mental illness, alcoholism and drug abuse among others, all known to have an impact on the incidence of violence. Chronic unemployment, even in a bad economy, is usually indicative of other overarching difficulties. So attributing it to intimate partner violence without the consideration of other factors is like offering the following
• Almost all heroin addicts went to grade school.
• Therefore, grade school leads to heroin addiction.

That outlandish and myopic conclusion is, scientifically speaking, no less valid at all than Harry Reid’s statements. This is why the National Institute for Justice Study couldn’t, with any credibility, generalize their findings to men. It is the same reason Harry can’t either. Unless he is just trying to increase his chances for reelection and doesn’t care how he gets there.

Were Reed the only culprit, this would be a slam dunk for the truth. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. Elements on the media are now coordinating to help Reid spin the story away from what he said into a different dialogue.

CNN nationally televised proof of that when they broadcast a “fact check” on Reid’s comments, the night after he addressed the senate, and supported his claims. They did so by waving the same study by the CDC, which they, like Reid, either didn’t bother to read or didn’t mind that the study wasn’t supportive of his position. Apparently their research into the matter consisted of a phone call to Reid’s press office, and retrieving a shopworn rubber stamp from a correspondents desk drawer.

CNN offered a little extra help in the process. They switched the focus of the message, citing that financial stress did result in increased domestic violence, but they seamlessly pulled back from pinning that on men when drawing their conclusion. In doing so they validated Reid without even addressing what he said.

Players in the print media have followed suit as well. In a glaring example of playing fast and loose with headlines, The Las Vegas Sun, who has given Reid glowing editorial endorsement, announces that “Domestic Violence Workers Find Truth in Harry Reid’s Jobless Comments.”

The story under that headline was straight out of the CNN playbook, with some added refinement. And it appears that The Sun assumes readers won’t be any more interested in the content of their articles than the average CNN viewer is interested in the factual conclusions of a CDC study on domestic violence. For within the body of that article the truth starts to raise it’s inconvenient head, making the headline read, in retrospect, like the shameless snow job that it is.

First a telling quote for the paper from Reid himself. He says, in defense of his remarks, “I’m just telling you what two people working in the field say every day. There is no question that people being out of work causes more people to be involved in domestic violence.”

Aye, there’s the rub. So it’s people now who commit domestic violence. Heck, they don’t even commit it, they become involved in it. This is where Reid continues with what CNN started and begins to further remold the story himself. Caught with his political pants down, uttering a bald falsehood, he now joins the enlightened and informed intelligentsia, addressing domestic violence in oh so open minded gender neutral terms. Smart fella’, that Harry, unless you are paying attention.

The rest of The Sun Article reveals more.
Maria Outcalt, a spokesperson for SafeNet, a domestic violence outreach group, is quoted in the article as saying “People that are not abusive are not all of the sudden going to become abusive because they lose their job. Abusive behavior is not just because somebody is having a hard time.”

Another quote was provided by Sue Meuschke, the director of the Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence. “The economy doesn’t cause domestic violence, but certainly economic conditions can impact the circumstances.”

In all the quotes, including one that directly affirmed Reid’s remarks, all the language was sex neutral.

It has all the appearances of a massively organized spin machine. The focus is being taken off the sexist and unsupported remarks by Reid, and reframed into a sexless dialogue designed to diffuse reactions to what he actually said. Reid and the media are doing the two step together, and counting on the public not to notice that they changed the tune in the middle of the dance.

And it may be a desperate last move for Reid. For the first time since taking office, his senate seat is not secure. He is lagging in polls, and come the next election, he could be out of a job.

Perhaps his wife should contact a shelter and make her escape plan now.

Paul Elam is Editor-in-Chief for Men’s News Daily and the publisher of A Voice for Men.

~ Sources ~
CDC Report - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/ipv_factsheet.pdf
NIJ Report - http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=199709
Las Vegas Sun - http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/23/domestic-violence-workers-find-truth-harry-reids-j/
Fiebert Annotated Bibliography - http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

Well, the BIG Push is on to ram ObamaCare through the Congress and down the throats of the American people.

Obama is jetting around the country holding pep rallies to try to gin up support for the “Bill from Hell” — Socialized Medicine. You should know these rallies include ONLY Obama supporters and ObamaCare supporters. The wild enthusiasm is staged for your benefit to, hopefully, give you the impression that ObamaCare is supported by the majority of Americans. The truth is – it is NOT.

These rallies are all propaganda. It’s “The BIG LIE” told over and over again just as the Nazis in Germany did to convince the people of an entire country they truly desired the socialism of the Nazi Party. I must tell you Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, would be proud of the Democratic Party in America today. The Obama Regime has taken a page from the leftist Nazis of the last century on how to brainwash an entire nation into believing a lie — a lie that, once accepted, will spell the absolute doom of America.

The Democratic Party, by itself, simply does not give a damn! They are interested in two things and two things only — and that is to maintain their hold on the government of the US and to ensure their reelection. They simply have no sympathy for what the American people truly want. Plus, THEY DON’T CARE WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT! All that counts is what they, the Democrats, want.

It is called “Command and Control.” A strong central government in charge of a “command and control economy” is their dream — and it is their goal. They intend to reach that goal no matter what — even if it means shredding the US Constitution.

Those of us on the right vowing to throw the Socialists and Marxists, masquerading as Democrats, out of the Congress this November had better watch our backs. The dems are quietly lining up the resistance to our movement and between now and November the right will come under attack, intensifying each day as the election draws nearer and nearer.

They are quietly conspiring with the less literate democrat voters and those who, for generations, have depended on the government welfare dole for their existence. Their intention is to flood the polls in November of 2010 to offset and overwhelm the anti-ObamaCare. These “wards of the federal government” will be flooding the polling places, everywhere in America, to dilute the opposition to ObamaCare and defeat the efforts to save the constitutional republic we know as America. Their intent is to create, once and for all, a Socialist/Communist America. And they may very well succeed!

For years those of us who have had the foresight to see the Socialized Medicine Bill for what it is, even though it is wrapped in the pretty package of ObamaCare, have worked tirelessly to expose it as a true Socialized Medicine Bill anchored in Marxism and Communism.

There are times when this scribe feels as though he is standing in front of a wall shouting the warning at the top of my lungs only to have it bounce back onto myself with little, if any, effect on the people whom the Bible describes as a people who have “stopped their ears.”

I must admit to weariness and fatigue and frustration, as the realization sets in that the masses of ObamaCare advocates, like lemmings, have chosen to follow their own Pied Piper — this time straight over a cliff and into a Marxist/Communist hell-like oblivion.

During this fight, I have gained a better insight into Noah’s dilemma. He preached over and over the warning that a deadly flood was coming and would wipe out every man, woman, and child – but to no avail. As the story goes every one was killed except for the handful aboard Noah’s Ark.

America is on the verge of collapse. The final step ensuring that collapse is the passage of ObamaCare.

~ The Author ~
J. D. Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”.

He is a thirty-year veteran of the broadcasting business, as an “in the field” and “on-air” news reporter (contributing to radio, TV, and newspapers) and a conservative broadcast commentator.

Longstreet is a veteran of the US Army and US Army Reserve. He is a member of the American Legion and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.  A lifelong Christian, Longstreet subscribes to “old Lutheranism” to express and exercise his faith. Federal Observer contributing columnist, J. D. Longstreet blogs daily at INSIGHT on Freedom.

The Founding Fathers of America understood that a strong central government would never work in a republican form of government, the form of government they gave the American people. They knew that. They had just declared the independence of Americans from the “strong central government” of King George of Great Britain. They understood that for Americans to thrive and become a great nation of great people the government should provide one thing… freedom. They knew the American government should provide security from any and all enemies that presented a threat to the freedom of the American people so the American people could make the seeds of liberty grow and flourish.

Meeting in Philadelphia in 1776 they labored to create a constitution, the bedrock foundation of this nation, dedicated to the idea that the people would control their own destiny, not the government, that the people would make or break this experiment in democracy, not the government, that the labors of the people, known as business, would be free to create and manufacture, to sell, and to create wealth and keep that wealth or distribute it as they chose, not the government.

The constitution is as simple a governing document as has ever been written. It was drawn up to protect the people of this country from its government. Our Founding Fathers had just turned their backs on government, which had insinuated itself into the lives and businesses of its colonists to the point that those colonists rebelled and said: “No more!” With the constitution, the Founding Fathers put in writing the limits of the new American government.

For the past 234, or more, years the constitution has been a fly in the ointment to the political left everywhere on earth. When a people yearning to breath free, anywhere on the globe, look for a way, for a pattern, for directions on how to set up a non-repressive government, they turn to the US Constitution. There must be a reason. There is. Because it works!

Today, however, Americans themselves are ready to toss the constitution overboard and cling to a government, drunk on power and ready to do exactly the same thing King George did, insinuate itself into every aspect of the American people’s life. So bent on desecration of the constitution are they, that 52 % of the American voters cast their ballots for a man who declared his allegiance to creating a strong central government, which will take away the freedoms, the liberty, our forefathers fought, bled, and died to give us. They declared their overwhelming willingness to toss the democratic form of government in favor of a socialist form of government, which will guarantee cradle to the grave security. They voted “yes” to exchanging liberty for security. They voted to turn their backs on all the heroes of American history to follow in the footsteps of the Pied Piper of Socialism now President of the United States of America.

Again, let’s turn to Ronald Reagan for clarity. In 1964 Reagan said the following:

“It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, ‘We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government.‘

This idea? That government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. “

Reagan went on to say: “The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.”

About financial security, Reagan had this to say: “There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.”

Reagan wound up this jewel of a speech by saying the following: “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

The question I would ask today is… have we done all we could do? It seems to me the multi-billion dollar bailout of our financial markets should be filed under “Controlling the people by controlling the people’s economy.” National Healthcare (Socialized Medicine) is, unquestionably, controlling the people in every facet of their lives.

As I view the America the voters of this nation created in November of 2008, I am inclined to say that, indeed, we have, just as Reagan warned, sentenced our children to a thousand years of darkness.

~ The Author ~
Federal Observer contributing columnist, J. D. Longstreet blogs daily at INSIGHT on Freedom.

Albert Einstein once stated, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”

No better illustration of this quote can be gleaned than from last weeks “Unity Summit,” on health care, hosted by President Obama, in Washington D.C. Obama’s Chicago Community Organizing skills were on display for his sycophant media, as he tried to extort Congressional leaders with an arrogant, and disgusting diatribe of obfuscation against the will of the people … over and over again.

America is under siege by Marxist’s.
If this government can control health care, they can create a stranglehold on the people which we may never be able to reverse, without an all out revolution.

Some critics of this Unity Summit were correct in their analogy of this performance being that of a dog and pony show, but it also revealed the danger at hand as the true agenda of this administration was unfurled; Socialism, under a contemptuous dictator out to obliterate our free society.

When 82% of the people reject this unconstitutional legislation, and it keeps being forced upon us, this is not an indication of a Constitutional Republic, it is an indication that our government has been hijacked by a street gang.

We have evil men with either no sense of direction, or purposely trying to bust out our country for the sake of globalism, thrusting us back into the Feudal system.

The writing is on the wall, as Obama, and his henchmen czars, seize private industry, private property, and manipulate the economy. Insanity reigns as 140 banks went under in 2009, and another 16 as we started the new year, while this administrations reckless behavior of paying interest on borrowed money continues.

We can’t spend ourselves out of inflation, this creates inflation and devalues the dollar, so I would surmise that this president and his cronies are engineering a failed economy, just as they’ve trampled upon our rights, and diminished our military might, all indications of a bankrupt, third world country, not stolen by thieves in the night, but rather than because of dummies who have left their life savings laying out loose on the front seat of their new cash for clunker automobile.

Yes, American’s  ought to feel ashamed of themselves for ever being put into this position to begin with.

Thomas Jefferson warned us years ago,”the price of liberty was to be ever vigilant.”

Angry White Man and his Horse....

Well, no use wringing our hands now that the damage has been done… we have to start acting like American’s … again! With the elections coming up it’s time to clean house. Our first step should be to vote all of the incumbents out of office. They are useless to us now, and worthless to themselves, as we’ve witnessed by their neutered display of incompetence at the Unity Summit.

They are not the solution to our problems, they are the cause as they’ve sat around for years in breach of their oath, feeding their gluttonous appetite for greed from special interest groups out to compromise the will of the people.

It’s time to take the gloves off and fight on the side of Congressional leaders who will restore our government to it’s original intent.

I realize that voting all of the incumbents out might be a little wishful thinking on my part, so the next best solution is to send tried and true patriots to represent our interest.

We need to send men, not boys to represent our interest, so if you value your freedom and liberty, I recommend that you get involved with this years elections in order to reverse this Socialist course.

We have some extremely good candidates willing to run for office.

There are no better friends to the people, though some of these candidates may not be affiliated with either of the two globalist party’s who push the same One World Order Government.  Therefore, we will have to work extra hard to get them installed.

For American’s nothing is impossible if we set our sights on modifying the repulsive behavior of our corrupt government.

Robert Zadek, a naval veteran, and former Republican candidate, is now running as an independent for the United States Senate from Illinois. Zadek is running against Democrat, Alexi Giannoulias, a bankster whose bank does business with the Chicago Mob, and Republican Congressman, Mark Kirk, Obama’s preference for a bi- partisan looking government.

Kirk, an Obama stooge, voted for Cap and Trade, and holds a record of voting against Republican principles. He is the perfect example of a weasel whose loyalty lies with the global elite.

Zadek, a Constitutionalist who believes in the concept of illegal, being illegal, is an economist who has worked for Ronald Reagan, and negotiated government, and non government contracts, while instituting unique financial techniques in major  corporations. Zadek will be an asset in the United States Senate. www.robertzadek.com

Retired Marine Corps. Gunnery Sergeant, Randy Stufflebeam, is running for Illinois Governor on the Constitutional Party platform. Randy, a constitutional expert, is a firm believer in Ben Franklin’s quote, ” any society that would trade a little liberty to gain a little security, will deserve neither, and lose both.”

Stufflebeam is running against incumbent Democratic Governor, Pat Quinn, who was installed after former Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, was impeached and thrown out of office last year. Quinn is a typical tax and spend liberal in the same vain as Blagojevich, and there isn’t that much difference between Quinn and the Republican candidate, Bill Brady, a neo con whose 15 years of taking up space in the Illinois legislature, is proof that he is the problem, not the solution to better government.

Hopefully, longtime Democratic conservative, Ohio Congressman, James Traficant will get into the mix. Fresh out of prison after a seven year stint of being railroaded by our government, Jim states that he’s ready to roll again, but hasn’t officially announced.

Traficant was meant to be an object lesson to Congressmen who didn’t conform with our corrupt government, so Traficant has an axe to grind.

His judge, Leslie Wells, is guilty of miscarrage of justice, as she masturbated the rule of law, rather than recuse herself from the case, being that her husband employed some of the witnesses against Traficant, who was set up by Janet Reno and the Clinton administration over our governments complicity with operation “Squeeze Play.”

Traficant would like to pick up where he left off, and that was holding the government accountable.

Unfortunately, Minuteman founder, Chris Simcox, dropped out of the Arizona United States Senatorial race against the Manchurian candidate, John Mc Cain. He has thrown his support behind JD Hayworth. Personally, I would prefer Simcox taking down Mc Cain, but if Chris stands behind Hayworth that’s good enough for me, as long as we get rid of that traitor supporting the Mexican invasion, and globalism. www.info@jdforsenate.com

I couldn’t be more elated than to see the campaigns of these two hero’s, retired Army Lt. Colonel, Allen West, and Marine Corps. 1st. Lieutenant, Ilario Pantano.

Here are two guys who exemplify their oath to protect the people against all enemies, both foreign, and domestic… and we have been inundated by domestic enemies lately.

Both of these men have been victimized by the witless mad dogs in our government as they were brought up on charges, while obeying orders in combat zones during their service in Iraq. They have been exonerated and made better for it, they didn’t wilt like the little sissy’s who accussed them, or the sissy’s we have legislating us in Congress.

Colonel West, while being brought up on charges of assaulting an insurgent, stated to his accusers, “if it was for the protection of my men, I’d run through hell with a gasoline can.”

This is the attitude our present leaders lack, so it is imperative that we send Allen West to Congress to represent Florida’s 22nd District, and to teach these lemmings how to act. www.gowest@allenwestforcongress.com

No greater friend … Ilario Pantano, honorably served in the Marine Corps. as a Sergeant in the Balkan’s, and the Gulf War, than again as an officer after 9-11 compelled him to serve again in combat during the Iraqi War.

Pantano is currently a deputy sheriff in Wilmington, North Carolina, and is running for North Carolina’s 7th District, which hasn’t been won by a Republican since 1871… but this should be a cake walk for this Marine, with our support. www.pantanoforcongress.com

Are my picks politically correct enough? I hope not …let’s get real, we need a team of ass kickers to take back our government, it’s already been proven, anything less won’t do.

I’m reminded of a story about Lt. General, Louis B. “Chesty” Puller, one of the Marine Corps. beloved Commandant’s. Upon inspecting the troops with the Commanding General of Camp Pendleton one day, Puller said to the Commanding General, “the troops look fine General, now take me to the brig so I can see the Marines.”

That is the attitude it’s going to take to wrest this country back from the foam spewing dogs we have imbed ed in Congress, attacking our liberty over and over again.

It’s time for the people to strike back, and either house break Congress … or put them to sleep.

~ About the Author ~
Federal Observer contributing columnist Rick Biesada hosts Perspectives On Our Heritage - The Angry White Male Hour over Radio Station WJJG 1530 AM, Chicago’s Hometown station, Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Central Time, which can now be heard LIVE on the net at http://www.wjjgam1530.com. Rick is the co-founder of The Chicago Minuteman Project.

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