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Commonsense
Political Thinking
of a
Common Man,
Book VIII
Examiner Articles 2013
By
Gerald J. Furnkranz
Table of Contents
Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8)
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Examiner Essays 2013
1. December 30, 2012
Trust Requires Truth Page 1
Entering the New Year
2. January 1, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 1 Page 1
3. January 3, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 2 Page 3
4. January 5, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 3 Page 4
5. January 7, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 4 Page 5
6. January 9, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 5 Page 7
7. January 12, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 6 Page 8
8. January 14, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 7 of 13 Page 9
Doctor Phil Advising on Truth Telling, Or The Art of Lying
9. January 17, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 8 of 13 Page 11
10. January 20, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 9 of 13 Page 13
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11. January 23, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 10 of 13 Page 14
12. January 27, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 11 of 13 Page 15
13. January 30, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 12 of 13 Page 16
14. February 2, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 13 of 13 Page 18
15. February 5, 2013
Little Miss Piggy of politics Page 20
16. February 9, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 1 of 8: Following the dots Page 21
17. February 12, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 2 of 8. Obama’s Alinsky dots Page 23
18, February 15, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 3 of 8. More of Obama’s Alinsky dots Page 24
19. February 18, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 4 of 8. Obama’s Chicago dots Page 25
20. February 18, 2013
Bob Beckel gun control and apartheid Page 26
21. February 21, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 5 of 8. Obama’s Communist Party & Muslim
Brotherhood dots Page 27
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22. February 28, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 6 of 8. Obama’s personal dots Page 28
23. March 3, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 7 of 8. More of Obama’s personal dots Page 29
24. March 7, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 8 of 8. Summary outline President Obama’s dots
Page 31
25. March 11, 2013
Obama’s crisis management: Part 1. The Obama drama Page 32
26. March 15, 2013
Obama’s crisis management: Part 2. The little president who cries wolf! Page 34
27. March 21, 2013
The incredible shrinking dollar Part 1 of 2 Page 35
28. March 25, 2013
The incredible shrinking dollar Part 2 of 2 Page 36
29. March 30, 2013
Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 1 Page 37
30. April 5, 2013
Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 2 Page 38
31. April 9, 2013
Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty: Treachery of the Gang of 8 Part 1
Page 39
32. April 13, 2013
Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty: Treachery of the Gang of 8 Part 2
Page 40
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33. April 17, 2013
Guns: What has society wrought? Page 41
34. April 21, 2013
Guiding the mass murders to the youngest, the most vulnerable! Page 42
35. April 25, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 1; Aiming armies against Americans Page 43
36. April 29, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 2. Cuomo Too! an Interlude Page 45
37. May 5, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 3. Page 46
38. May 10, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 4. Collecting critical data on all Americans Page 51
39. May 14, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 5. Trampling the constitution Page 49
40. May 18, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 6a. Obama denounces capitalism Page 51
41. May 24, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 6b. Obama denounces capitalism Page 52
42. May 29, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 7a. Scandals Page 53
43. June 3, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 7b. Scandals growing Page 55
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44. June 10, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 8. Ties to tyranny! Page 56
45. June 18, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 9. Trained to lie! Page 57
46. June 25, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 10a; Summary Page 59
47. June 30, 2013
Obama Tyranny Part 10b; Summary Page 61
48. July 3, 2013
Intelligence community and deception Page 63
49. July 9, 2013
Rubio the Gaggle of 8’s rube! Part 1 Page 64
50. July 14, 2013
Rubio the Gaggle of 8’s rube! Part 2 Page 65
51. July 22, 2013
The “N” word and Paula Deen, Part 1 Page 66
52. July 22, 2013
The “N” word and Paula Deen, Part 2 Page 66
53. July 29, 2013
America Lies Part 1 Page 67
54. August 4, 2013
America Lies Part 2 Page 68
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55. August 11, 2013
Matt Damon defender of failing public education! Page 69
56. August 16, 2013
Matt Damon defender of failing public education! Part 2 Page 69
57. August 19, 2013
Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 1 of 6 Page 70
58. August 23, 2013
Chris Matthews: A holier than thou hater Part 2 of 6 Page 71
59. August 29, 2013
Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 3 of 6 Page 72
60. September 3, 2013
Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 4 of 6 Page 73
61. September 10, 2013
Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 5 of 6 Page 74
62. September 17, 2013
Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 6 of 6 Page 75
Educators sabotaging education, part 2 (5.0 – 8.0)
63. September 21, 2013
The Tom Reed luncheon part 1 Page 76
64. September 30, 2013
REED Luncheon Part 2 Page 77
65. October 9, 2013
School Committees Page 78
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66. October 16, 2013
Washington, the Hollywood for ugly people Page 78
67. October 25, 2013
Congress finds bipartisanship in corruption! Page 79
68. November 3, 2013
The Tea Party Science Page 80
69. November 13, 2013
Concerns of bullying: heart or hypocrisy? Page 81
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Number 1
December 30, 2012
Trust Requires Truth
Truth is the fertilizer that helps trust to grow. Trust is strongly dependent on being
nurtured with truth. Without truth, trust will wither and die. We see trust destroyed in
relationships laced with lies. Dishonesty and deception nurtures distrust and mistrust!
We see politicians and bureaucrats unable to understand why they are not trusted. Nancy
Pelosi could not understand why people did not want to see an incomplete healthcare bill
passed. She thought the people should trust them to fill in the blanks honestly. A history
of dishonesty does not allow most of the people to trust such behavior.
Bill Clinton pointed his finger accusingly at the nation saying, “I did not have sexual
relations with that woman!” He was outright lying with his denial, practicing a great
ability to deny and lie. Anthony Weiner tried the same game regarding his phone sex
gambits.
The politician lying, making campaign promises likely exists 99.999% among the breed.
Campaign lying is practically a reflex with politicians. I doubt if you asked an American
citizen if they could name an honest politician, only those that had politicians as family
members would answer yes, but likely not honestly.
Lying has become the fabric of our political system. These are the people that run
government, so dishonesty has become the foundation of our government. How much
good can be done by government when those within are corrupted to the point truth is
seldom if ever found.
Positive productivity toward goals beneficial to the people requires truth, trust and
honesty. How can the people trust a government that has proved itself untrustworthy
time and time again?
The week ahead: “Trust requires truth” is a concept essential to the series beginning in
“the week ahead”. January 1, 2013 begins an eleven part series on gun control. The
series “Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 1 – 11” will bring
forth many areas of the issues of mass shootings in our society, opening them for
discussion!
Number 2
January 1, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 1
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Introduction
The massacre of first graders in a Newtown Connecticut school is a heinous crime. The
killing of innocent children among the worst of crimes! The death of innocence always
an extremely sad event for our society! Twenty young children are dead and six adults.
Again guns are made the villain here! The deaths of these children are ruthlessly,
enthusiastically, almost joyously exploited for a political agenda!
Malkin Cuomo on guns
http://www.therightscoop.com/michelle-malkin-hammers-cuomo-for-wanting-to-
confiscate-guns-and-the-lefts-hypocrisy-on-gun-control/
Liberals seek to ban guns to ease their conscience. They say assault weapons, but it is
obvious from past behaviors (abortion) it is only the first step! Their agenda creep is
always on their minds. Each step is a firmer toe hold to achieving a sweeping goal! In
this case, they want the population of America to be disarmed. They want to insure the
fomenting tyranny in our government could encounter no resistance!
Federal Gove complicit in Conn shooting
http://grendelreport.posterous.com/the-federal-government-is-guilty-accomplice-i
Getting rid of the guns will not stop these mass killing by people with warped and
distorted minds. Likely we will never know what went on in the minds of these people
that felt the need to not only kill, but kill in mass, and kill the most innocent. Insane, evil,
sociopath behavior, it is the dark side of the human being and society!
Guns are not the problem! There is a flaw in our society that presents murder as a
solution to our problems! While our schools pretend to teach self-esteem, they are failing
there as in every other area of education. Perhaps their misusing of the educational
process to indoctrinate is a catalyst! Why does a boy, rejected by a girl kill her as a
solution! This is insanity! Why has he not learned enough self-respect to walk away
from someone who doesn’t want him, and search for someone who does?
Or beating a bum or a weaker child to death with a baseball bat! Where is the desire to
protect innocence and the helpless, the weak? How have we instilled in some in our
society to torture and kill those hapless human beings?
One might say the loss of conscience might very well be the problem. The example our
government reveals; selfish corruption, conscienceless ruling of the people to promote
themselves, politicians have given an example that communicates to the people a serious
lack of self-restrain and self-discipline. Perhaps here is where we can begin to track what
is going wrong with this dangerous behavior!
It’s not guns, but the mentality behind the guns. We’ve become nation where anything
goes. Where killing fetuses has evolved to abortion as a birth control method! Then
killing babies exiting the mother to killing babies outside the mother because they were
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supposed to be aborted inside the mother! The desensitizing to death and killing, the
devaluing of human life has been a systematic process in America.
This desensitizing along with metal health issues makes to many killing as a viable action
within the minds of some. Throwing into the mix the mythology and lies that have been
spread about such massacres and we have a far bigger mess than gun ownership. We
have a criminally negligent government that distorts the truth because it fears the people
are catching on to its intentionally practiced corruption. Tyranny!
Number 3
January 3, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 2
Debunking the myths of school massacres
Facts about mass killings
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund#
John Fund in his DECEMBER 16, 2012 article “The Facts about Mass Shootings , It’s
time to address mental health and gun-free zones” reports, “A few things you won’t hear
about from the saturation coverage of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre: Mass
shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the
impression given by the media.
“In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist
Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Incidents of mass murder in
the U.S. declined from 42 in the 1990s to 26 in the first decade of this century. The
chances of being killed in a mass shooting are about what they are for being struck by
lightning.”
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg joyously attacks for his gun control agenda before the
bodies of those innocent children are in their graves. He deceptively declares, “We are
the only industrialized country that has this problem.”
Rating countries violent crimes
http://www.therightscoop.com/what-piers-morgan-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-the-
britain-and-violent-crime/
John Fund points out, “Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings
ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.”
China has had numerous mass killings in schools. They weren’t carried out with guns
though. Little children were stabbed, hacked and pounded brutally with knives, cleavers
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and hammers. (See Wikipedia, School Attacks in China 2010 to 2012)! By Bloomberg’s
view he would ban knives, cleavers and hammers. Then bats, rocks and sticks would be
next.
Mass killings in China with knives, cleavers and hammers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010%E2%80%932012)
Bloomberg is certainly selective in creating his hysteria. He sensationalizes the issue to
aid his agenda of gun control. Why? Changing the rules, hi-jacking another term as
mayor and outlawing large drinks of soda, Bloomberg exhibits characteristics of the
tyrant gun ownership was designed by the Founding Fathers to offset! How dictatorial
would he become if he succeeded? For Bloomberg it is about power and control, not
protecting citizens!
Bloomberg
http://gothamist.com/2012/12/17/bloomberg_gun_violence_is_a_nationa.php
Fund goes on to argue, “Almost all of the public-policy discussion about Newtown has
focused on a debate over the need for more gun control. In reality, gun control in a
country that already has 200 million privately owned firearms is likely to do little to keep
weapons out of the hands of criminals. We would be better off debating two taboo
subjects — the laws that make it difficult to control people with mental illness and the
growing body of evidence that “gun-free” zones, which ban the carrying of firearms by
law-abiding individuals, don’t work.”
Number 4
January 5, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 3
The myth of Gun-free zones
Fund makes the case on both the mental health issue and Gun-free zones! The declaration
of Gun-free zones tends to the capacity of liberals to decree as though they have
addressed a problem without even looking at the real problem. These decrees are
implemented to propagandize their agendas, moving them forward without discussion or
research.
Fund Facts about mass killings
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund#
Declaring public schools Gun-free zones has been as effective as decreeing our school
buildings and yards Drug-free zones! The pusher knows where the market is and they
head for the schools. They even enlist students in the schools to start a little drug
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business. The schools hide, burying their heads in the sand, because they don’t want the
public to know there are drugs running rampant in our schools. They don’t want to
know! They want their statistics to show positive, clean, bright and shiny. A process
similar to manipulating rape statistics in our colleges!
7. Gun Free Zones
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/25/gun-free-zone-john-lott/1791085/
Yet, if those schools were free of drugs from the outside, they still could not be
considered drug free zones. Students are plied with drugs from the inside. Drugged to
make them easier to handle for parents and educators! This is excellent methodology for
tyrants with a fear of the people and a desire to control them to administer and normalize
drugging the population at an early age.
The drugging of the children is only one area that has made schools as Drug-free zones a
myth. Free or cheap healthcare for educators has made many of them frequent drug users
for every little problem. Cheap drugs with easy access has them imbibing in the crutch
that has been offered them! Schools are not drug free! They have become learning
institutions for the legal drug culture!
Schools with their illusion of free zones are the perfect place for these ideas to be abused.
These unbalanced assassins wielding guns and drugs are drawn to those signs, Gun-free
zone, like magnets to metals like iron. They present the perfect place for these crazed
killers to march in and do their dirty work. Liberals have highlighted these areas as
places to exploit the unprotected with false attempts at solving the problems.
Number 5
January 7, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 4
Drugging Children
One area to look at might very well be a program pushed by educators and their
government allies. The drugging of children to stop behavior that is normal in children.
Young children weren’t designed to sit still in a classroom for six hours a day, five days a
week. It just isn’t in the human DNA!
Elizabeth Root
http://www.wskg.org/episode/kids-caught-psychiatric-maelstrom
In Elizabeth E. Root’s book “Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom” subtitled “How
Pathological Labels and “Therapeutic” Drugs Hurt Children and Families”, she says,
“Super-energized, high spirited, exuberant, spontaneous, intelligent, and impulsive are
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Pro-child ways we might describe kids assigned the ADHD label. Pro-child advocates are
terribly concerned about treatments that emerge from the dominant assumption of the
neurobiological origins of ADHD. Indeed, many believe ADHD is merely a condition of
high energy that makes one need to be on the move. Children are particularly prone to
restlessness, and up until the mid-20th
century, it was considered normal; many people
still consider it normal.”
Root begins this Chapter 2 with a quote from Jonathan Leo which makes much sense.
Leo quotes, “Giving three-year-olds medications to help them be better nursery school
students is a giant leap across the ethical threshold that will have profound consequences
for our society! The responsibility, or … the irresponsibility, is enormous.”
While no expert on this issue as a newly elected school board member in 1997 I received
an anonymous phone call from an employee in another district. She voiced concern
about parents having their children put on Ritalin for ADD now I guess ADHD because
they received $1,000 a month from government and could sell the drugs. All in all it was
a profitable venture.
This sparked my curiosity about ADD and Ritalin. What I read in many sources
provoked great concern.
From: RxList The InternetDrug Index, Ritalin Side Effects Center Pharmacy Editor: Eni
Williams, PharmD, PhD.
Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a medication that belongs to the drug class called central
nervous system stimulants. Ritalin is available as a generic drug. Ritalin is prescribed
for treating narcolepsy (uncontrolled sleepiness) and attention-deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD). Common side effects are nervousness, agitation, anxiety, insomnia,
loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, palpitations, headache, increased heart rate,
increased blood pressure, and psychosis.
Reading numerous articles on Ritalin there are several points I gleaned. Ritalin is a
dangerous drug. Children should not be on the drug continuously. They need respites,
vacations from the drug or hallucinations and delusions may occur! Some parents and
educators are hesitant to take the child off the drug and again experience the perceived
miss behaviors, often caused by bad parenting. While the drug is not seen as dangerous
by some, what could be the ramifications of experiencing hallucinations and delusions do
to the mind, let alone the minds of young children whose brains are in the early formative
stages?
On must ask, is the mental health industry a way of salvation in these killings, or are they
accessories in these crimes?
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Number 6
January 9, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 5
Mental Health Myths
Mental health seems to have taken a major place on the stage of life in our society. It
establishes parameters to bestow great power to those of the “Mental Health, Psychiatric
Industry”. Conservatism has been designated as a mental problem by some liberal
industry members. Global warming doubters have also been assigned with mental
afflictions. Seems mental health has become a political weapon against contrary ideas.
When it comes to mass murders in schools, responsibility is assigned to guns, not the
brain behind the gun. It’s funny how those aiming the weapon of the “Mental Health
Industry” seem to use the diagnosis for opponents to their agenda, but not those they can
use to support their agenda. School shooters are among those that can be used to support
the liberal goal of gun control. So those being conservative or against the idea of man
made global warming are mental cases, but those going in schools and killing children
are not. The gun is at fault!
It’s quite funny, no really not funny, frightening how the mental health industry abuses
thought processes to come to conclusions. It seems a power they are quite willing to
corrupt to maintain and gain greater political power! Another industry like education,
communications (media) and government that are willing to sell their souls for lucrative
positions in the socialist society liberals are pioneering in America!
Emotional health screening
http://www.examiner.com/article/emotional-health-screening-or-institutionalized-
brainwashing
Emotional Health Screening seems to be a new healthcare initiative being pushed. Setting
up periodic sessions to pre-empt emotional pitfalls is the stated objective, saving people
from the pain and agony of life. Primarily aimed at children of school age from pre-
kindergarten to high school, this is aimed at possible emotional mental illnesses in
adolescence before their brains can run their full developmental course. Perhaps
monitoring the affects of zealous diagnosis of children and prescribing drugs for their
emotional well being is just what the children need? LOL!
In schools they are prescribing Ritalin for children tagged with ADD (Attention Deficit
Disorder) or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder). Drugging children, antsy
having to sit in class all day, with dangerous drugs to bring them under control has
become common place. The National Resource Center on AD/HD says, “Studies tell us
that play and exercise can stimulate brain growth in areas often underdeveloped in
children with ADHD.”
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Yet children are pulled from the playful formative years that some studies say nurture
creativity, curiosity and learning and are placed in the “regimented classroom settings”
earlier and earlier. Indoctrination replaces education. The stresses of mental
imprisonment bubbles and ferments in the brain! Could this bring on the mental and
emotional anguish psychiatrists and psychologists are exploiting? Are they sowing the
seeds of discontent and troubled minds to later profit from them perhaps creating killers?
Elizabeth Root
http://www.wskg.org/episode/kids-caught-psychiatric-maelstrom
It seems the “Psychiatry Industry” wants to cultivate a culture of therapy at a very young
age. It certainly would be an ingenious business model, aggressively and ruthlessly
sacrificing children for profit. They are nurturing children to become adults who are
weak and needy and need them, creating a population of patients to fill their couches.
This insures profit and power of their profession. It establishes position in the production
line of indoctrination in the nanny state. Liberals are already building their presence in
the “Education Industry” becoming ever expanding essential parts of our always growing
school districts. Even when the population of children in the schools is shrinking and the
results of education failing!
Number 7
January 12, 2013
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Mental Health Industry described by Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel
A book came out in 2005 warning of this drive. “One Nation Under Therapy” by
Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel uncovered selfish motivations in the
“Psychiatric Industry”.
One nation under therapy
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/186357-1
The book is described by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Research in the
following 2005 review.
“Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent
decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as
emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental
health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Being "in touch with one's feelings"
and freely expressing them have become paramount personal virtues. Today-with a book
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for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV
show for every conceivable problem-we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope
with life's challenges.”
“Drawing on established science and common sense, Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr.
Sally Satel reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to
pervade our lives. Help is offered everywhere under the presumption that we need it: in
children's classrooms, the workplace, churches, courtrooms, the media, the military. But
with all the "help" comes a host of troubling consequences, including:”
“The myth of stressed-out, homework-burdened, hyper-competitive, and depressed or
suicidal schoolchildren in need of therapy and medication”
“The loss of moral bearings in our approach to lying, crime, addiction, and other foibles
and vices”
“The unasked-for "grief counselors" who descend on bereaved families, schools, and
communities following a tragedy, offering dubious advice while billing plenty of money”
“The expansion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from an affliction of war veterans to
nearly everyone who has experienced a setback”
The institute goes on to describe the book, as “Intelligent, provocative, and wryly
amusing, “One Nation under Therapy” demonstrates that "talking about" problems is no
substitute for confronting them.”
Our mental health industry has the potential for being a powerful tool of nanny state
government. Manipulating people to accepting government tyranny that is both obvious
and dangerous! Emotional Health Screening and drugging children to make them docile
fits in so well with the nanny state government liberal, progressive, socialists are trying to
establish in America. A warped and self-interested psychiatric industry serves great
purpose in their fictionalized utopian environment.
They are prescribing not only should we be free of the burdens of work and
responsibility, but we should be free of the dips and downs of living life. Not learning,
strengthening and maturing from the trials and tribulations, but crying over them and
ignoring the lessons made available, becoming more dependent and weaker, creating
more fodder for their psychiatric industry to generate profit and power.
Number 8
January 14, 2013
Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 7 of 13
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The bloody tradition of banning guns
Societies where guns were ban saw massacres of the people in the millions! Nazi
Germany accounted for the murder of 15 to 31 million people, one million children under
the age of eighteen. (See “Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder” Chapter 1)
Nazi Germany Democide
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make is to allow the subject races to
possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to
carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed, I would go so far as to
say that the supply of arms to the underdog is a sin qua non for the over throw of any
sovereignty. So let’s not have any militia or native police. German troops alone will
bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the Russian
territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire
occupied country.” – Adolf Hitler
In an article “America In Chains, The Death of Freedom” subtitled “Forward to the Dawn
of Communism” dictators and gun control are discussed. “In 1929, the Soviet Union
established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents unable to defend
themselves were rounded up and exterminated. By 1987 that figure had risen to 61,
911,000.”
Gun Control Dictators
http://americainchains2009.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/dictators-and-gun-control/
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it
ourselves.” – Joseph Stallin
In the worlds recent history there has been a cavalcade of dictators following the method
of Hitler and Stallin. Benito Mussolini, Italy 1931, Mao Tze Tung, China 1938, Pol Pot
Cambodia, 1975, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Hugo Chavez of Venezuala
From an article, “Head in the Clouds: The Left and Disarming of America, July 22, 2012,
Spencer Wolf writes:
Here’s a quick rundown of what a less than benevolent government can do to its own
‘bothersome’ people:
-1926 The Soviet Union government disarmed its citizens. From 1929-1953, 20 million
Russian civilians killed.
-1935 Nationalist China disarmed its citizens. From 1927-1949, 10 million Chinese
citizens killed. 1949-1976, Red China, 20-35 million killed
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-1938 Nazi, Germany disarmed its citizens. From 1938-1945, 16 million Jews, Gypsies,
“critics”, and political opponents killed.
-1956 Cambodia disarmed its citizens. 1975-1979, 2 million citizens killed
-1964 Guatemala disarmed its citizens, 1964-1981, 100,000 to 200,000 Mayan Indians
and “political opponents” killed.
-1979 Rwanda disarmed its citizens, 1994, 800,000 Tutsi killed.
If liberals think the massacre of twenty six people trumps the kind of massacres that
leaders of countries have committed, killing tens of millions, against their people once
disarmed, their thinking is warped and distorted. Then the lefts push for gun control is
more about the motivation of dictators than the safety of the populations!
Gun Control Hall of Fame
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/fame.html
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January 17, 2013
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Our Founding Fathers view
Our Founding Fathers are often slandered, portraying them as villains, to discredit their
lives, their character and the Constitution of the United States. This is done by many who
fear a free people and wish for bigger and stronger government for the people to serve,
instead of limited government serving the people!
The Founding Fathers were wary of these kinds of governments and politicians. They
designed the Constitution and our government to combat this kind of power grab.
Separation of powers and checks and balances were designed into government to check
over reaching. The second amendment of the Constitution is one designed for this
purpose. Amendment II, A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a
free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
15. Wisdom of founding fathers
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52013?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_mediu
m=twitter
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The writers of the Constitution saw the dangers of people in government. The adage
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” They saw how governments
and those comprising them were easily susceptible to the tyrannies of such power and
how it then could be inflicted upon the people!
Guns in the hands of the people were one such way to discourage the corrupting
influences and the corruption of government. The rabid desire of liberals for gun control
and banning guns goes along with their philosophy of the people serving government
instead of government serving the people. It’s just one more step in usurping the
freedoms of the people and making them serfs to government.
If the purpose of the right to bear arms is keeping government honest, in this day and age
it doesn’t mean squirrel guns. It means arms government will fear enough to rule with
integrity, forgoing dishonest self-interest and subjugation of the people. It is the
infidelity of government toward the people that makes gun ownership, even what are
called assault weapons necessary.
Assuming the leaders we choose will stay on the straight and narrow path of honesty and
integrity in the great majority of cases would be a false premise. As we witness, even our
democratic republic, with a Constitution designed to protect the people, is in danger from
the tyranny of tyrants. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Many
of our politicians have a craving for power evolving to absolute power. Wolves drooling
over the idea of feasting on herds of defenseless sheep!
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January 20, 2013
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Founding fathers and other smart people on an armed population
From an article, “Head in the Clouds: The Left and Disarming of America, July 22, 2012,
Spencer Wolf writes:
Founding fathers on an armed population
“A free people ought to be armed.”
– George Washington
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to
retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against
tyranny in government”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
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“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force,
you are ruined…The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might
have a gun.”
- Patrick Henry
“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.”
- John Adams
“To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them.”
– George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other
countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.”
- James Madison, Federalist Paper #46
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants;
it is the creed of slaves.”
- William Pitt, Nov. 18, 1783
“The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole
body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.”
- Noah Webster, 1787
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of
democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
- George Orwell
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with
your own gun.”
- The Dalai Lama, May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if
we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render
voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on
possessing arms will be withdrawn.”
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Here is what Richard Henry Lee,
the initiator of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE said about guns:
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms,
and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”
- Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, Initiator of the
Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill
of Rights
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Number 11
January 23, 2013
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Planting the seeds of tyranny in America
A free nation and a free people need gun ownership as a deterrent against tyranny! As
previously pointed out nations where ownership of guns, by its citizens, was banned often
saw that government massacring its own people, not by tens and twenties but by the tens
of millions. While the hurt of those children killed in Newtown, Conn, fresh in our
minds is so pain filled, commonsense says we do not disarm a nation and risk tens of
millions, a large percentage of which will be children!
When Jefferson warning of a need for an armed citizenry is mentioned, many liberals
laugh it off as crazy. “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and
bear arms is, as a last resort to protect themselves against tyrannical government!” said
Thomas Jefferson!
Liberals project no possibility of our government becoming tyrannical. However, opening
ones eyes it becomes obvious tyranny is peeping its ugly head in America. It is creeping
a little at a time, ever increasing its foothold in America, stealing the freedoms of the
people with each step! Negating the value of the Constitution as they creep toward
tyrannies like socialism and beyond!
Oppressive Taxation – When overspending is the problem in government, putting the
nation in jeopardy of default, and increased taxation is the only solution leadership sees,
the purpose of taxation is far greater than supporting finances for what the country needs.
It is a methodology to subjugate and oppress the people. Making them dependent on the
government dole rather than the freedom to spend what they earn! This is tyranny!
Oppressive Laws – Putting so many laws on the books for every little issue, setting traps
for the people so they can be hauled before judges for practically anything they do, this is
oppression. Then saying “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” is useless here, because the
statutes have become so many, long, large and convoluted even the lawyers studying the
law can’t know them all. Legislators making the laws have no idea what is in them. This
is tyranny! (Example – Obama’s Healthcare Bill)
Tyranny can come in so many insidious and elusive ways. Our government and
politicians are practicing all of them!
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Number 12
January 27, 2013
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Obama’s Rejection of the Constitution and Capitalism
Obama’s rejection of the Constitution – In accusing Americans of “clinging to their
religion and their guns,” Barack Obama was in essence complaining those Americans are
clinging to their freedoms. They are clinging to the source of those freedoms, the
Constitution. He would cast some sort of negative connotation to Americans clinging to
their freedoms and the Constitution. His lust for power to push us to socialism and
beyond creates disdain for the checks and balances our founding fathers built into the
Constitution to restrain tyrants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNoJ0q6HrK8
Obama is demeaning people for desires they have, valued by our Founding Fathers. In
the First Amendment of our Constitution, it states “Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise there of…” The
Second Amendment states, “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
infringed.”
In Obama’s elitist intellectual mind, he and his ilk of intellectuals are better qualified to
control the lives of the American People than we are to control our own lives! This is the
polar opposite to the vision and confidence Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Madison
and the other founding fathers had for the American People.
This is tyranny!
Obama’s rejection of the Capitalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qmj4trja7w
President Barack Obama’s declaration capitalism has failed is just one more incident of
ignorant rhetoric of a socialist sympathizer. If anything has failed it is big government
socialism he wants introduced to the United States. Capitalism has served our country
well over 230 years, if you falsely blame the financial meltdown of 2007 on capitalism.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 employing the socialist government Obama seeks.
European countries economies are collapsing having implemented and extensively
practiced the socialism Obama wants for the United States. Their economies are
imploding one by one, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Yet Obama pushes the
United States in the direction of these failures. Who is ignoring the facts?
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Paragraph 4 who is ignoring the facts
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/04/02/did-obama-say-capitalism-doesn-
t-work
One has to ask, was the Great Depression a failure of capitalism or the implementation of
big government policies of Franklin Roosevelt that stretched a recession, which in our
history usually ran about a year, into a depression which continued for ten years. Jack
Cashill (Popes and Bankers), Thomes Sowell and Jim Powell (FDR’s Folly) all point out
the myth of FDR getting us out of the Great Depression! Even Roosevelt’s Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morganthau Jr. declared before congress FDR’s policies a failure.
Paragraph 6 was the great depression a failure of capitalism
Peter Schiff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlkyZr468o4&feature=related
Was it capitalism that failed in our most recent financial meltdown, or socialist policies
like Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac? It was years of liberal abuse of government spending
that caused the economic meltdown of 2007 and Obama’s massive socialist spending that
has made this recession much deeper? This is tyranny!
http://personalliberty.com/2012/04/06/milton-friedman-what-alinsky-never-told-obama/
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January 30, 2013
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Strategies to implement tyranny
There are numerous movements and events establishing tyranny in our government!
Obama’s desire for a “civilian national security force”! Then consider the rampant
corruption in government politicians and bureaucrats see as entitlements for their own
benefit. Strategies like the UN’s “Agenda 21” and a taught strategy in our military to
quell or neutralize the Tea Party! These are behaviors and plans that could easily be
precursors to tyranny!
Obama’s civilian national security force - Obama voiced his desire for a “civilian
national security force”, troops to patrol the streets of our communities as the British did
before the revolution in 1776. This force he wants will be as large and well equipped as
our armed forces. He mentioned this desire in his 2008 campaign and has begun its
execution in the Obamacare Bill.
This domestic army, similar to Hitler’s Brown Shirts would make the streets of our
country safer? Safer for whom! Safer for the tyrants that are transferring power from the
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people to themselves! This force “as well equipped as our army” would be armed well
beyond assault rifles. If the purpose of the second amendment is to confront tyranny in
our government as Jefferson said, some people better have assault rifles!
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47844
http://www.americanthinker.com/video/2012/11/flashback_obama_wants_civilian_nation
al_security_force.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYAPcoE4H0
http://conservativecorner-karen.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamas-civilian-national-security-
force.html
http://www.truthistreason.net/obamas-ready-reserve-corp-within-the-healthcare-bill-
explained
http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/04/23/napolitano-pushes-civilian-army-
conspiracy-theo/163707
Rampant corruption in our government seen as politician’s entitlements!
Fast and furious, Fannie and Freddie Failures, Benghazi, Stimulus Package, Bailouts,
Crony Capitalism, Quantitative Easing, GSA scandals, etc. and so much more festering
corruption in our government! In general the consistent acceptance of failures of our
government is tyranny! That government should perform at such a low and corrupt
quality because of waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence is rampant and is a form of
tyranny.
Mediocrity, lethargy and complacency in government performance are stealing from the
American people. Stealing both treasure and freedom for the politicians and bureaucrats
to skate along collecting the best of salaries and benefits for people performing less than
mediocre in their “service” to the people? One has to question are they engaged in
“Government Service” or “Self-Service” fraud at the highest level! Politicians see
corruption as their entitlement! This is tyranny!
John Fund in his article on Fannie and Freddie
UN’s Agenda 21 - Global sustainability, “sustainable development,” promoting
sustainable human settlement development will designate where people can live and
where they can go. Depopulation or more politically correct population control, similar
to Obamacares decision making panels being referred to as death panels, they will fit in
nicely with Agenda 21’s population control! This is tyranny!
Article The Blaze, “What is Agenda 21? After Watching this< You May Not Want to
Know” November 19, 2012 By Tiffany Gabbay
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
http://www.betterworldcampaign.org/news-room/web-articles/agenda-
21.html?gclid=CMDM24LsybQCFQqk4AodTiQAOA
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/what-is-agenda-21-after-watching-this-you-may-not-
want-to-know/
Military Plans Against the Tea Party
A scenario is being taught in our military for the quelling of insurrection. It is very
suggestive politically in its presentation. Described in an article, “U.S. Army to be used
against “Insurrectionist” Tea Party?” By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com, Tuesday
August 7, 2012. The Great Recession Lasts approaching twenty years, because the
Administrations following Obama’s did not spend at the levels he did. Definitely a
political statement! The insurrectionists are Tea Partiers, historically non-violent and not
Occupiers who have been historically violent. This strategy against America Citizens is
setting up particular people as the enemy well in advance using the same bias as the
media, disseminating its tyrannical propaganda. This is tyranny!
“U.S. Army to be used against “Insurrectionist” Tea Party?” By Paul Joseph Watson,
Infowars.com, Tuesday August 7, 2012
http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-to-be-used-against-insurrectionist-tea-party/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/11/15/how-the-u-s-military-would-crush-
a-tea-party-rebellion/
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last
resort to protect themselves against tyrannical government!” Thomas Jefferson
The tyranny we see coming from Washington is like the corruption. What we see is
merely the tip of the iceberg. 90% is beneath the surface, hidden to our eyes. There is a
festering ooze of infection beneath being seen as normal and justified by our political
elites, yet destroying our country from within.
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February 2, 2013
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Summary
It is obvious the focus coming out of these school shootings is Gun Control. It is not
about saving lives, because history has proved an armed population saves more lives,
more innocent lives, millions of times more.
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Government’s refusal to recognize this is because they desire the rule of tyranny. They
want a clear path to their governments that oppresses the people. Where they can
continue to nurture waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence as they please! Where
people can serve the government instead of government being held accountable for
serving the people!
Army corporal litter to Feinstein
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/unconstitutional-laws-arent-laws-marine-who-penned-
blistering-letter-to-sen-feinstein-over-gun-control-speaks-out/
Holder on Gun Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCQTzBzl1A
Then they discount the affects of the drugs they fed children to control them. The violent
natures caused in both children and adults by those drugs. Drugs it appears are often
being used to create a nation of sheep that can be fed on by the political wolves. It makes
one question the seriousness of the Federal Government’s “War on Drugs”! And how
serious a policy of gun control is about saving lives.
Drugs and school shootings
http://endfed.org/2012/12/all-major-shooting-incidents-occur-at-the-hands-of-big-
pharma-guinea-pigs/
http://greenfertility.blogspot.com/2008/02/psychiatric-drugs-and-school-shootings.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S-7aNPf33A
We have a government exploiting the populous in so many ways they are afraid of the
people finally standing up and taking notice. Politicians have victimized the people,
stealthily stealing their freedoms, they are truly afraid of an armed people! This is the
purpose of the Founding Fathers giving the right of the people to bear arms. Perhaps
corrupt politicians will see their way to integrity, if only because of that fear.
Chuck woolery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEg1VNfX3o&feature=youtu.be
http://thebrennerbrief.com/2013/01/22/another-example-of-background-checks-for-gun-
owners-targeting-mentally-ill-conservatives/
Chinese dissident
http://www.therightplanet.com/2013/01/what-this-chinese-dissident-has-to-say-about-
americas-second-amendment/
John Stossel Guns
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2012/12/john-stossel-exposes-myth-gun-control.html
It’s like the nation maintaining military strength to avoid war. An armed population
might well avoid the bloodshed of revolution because they are armed!
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The dangers on the gun issue from the mental health aspect are the same on both sides.
The difference is the magnitude. This is the primary issue ignored. Teenagers and young
adults weaned on drugs from an early age, as young as three years old, while their brains
are in their early formative years could be warping even destroying minds. These actions
of administering drugs to babies may be the seeds planted cultivating school massacres.
How about those warped and distorted minds seeking absolute power over the people?
These are minds that can command great power over the people. Minds willing to throw
chains on the people to gain this power! Those willing to disarm the people so the power
of those political elite crazies will remain unchallenged! Political elite crazies like
dictators and tyrants, Hitler and Stallin!
Which of these groups do we have to fear more? As sad and as heinous as these school
massacres are they are no comparison to the tens of millions massacred by mental cases
who have attained absolute power over their people. As our government progresses
through time we see the personalities of our leaders warping in our own government.
Leaders that nurture waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence for their own ends!
The causes of the school massacres are many, most ignored, many even nurtured by our
government. That ignoring of the real problems by making guns the problem is
dangerous to our nation as John Fund pointed out. The mental health industry seemingly
allied in the agenda’s of government gone bad. The ignoring of the tyranny and genocide
of those nations with a history of banning guns! Tens of millions of people were
massacred, not twenty six!
Then we see the tyranny spreading in our country as our democratic republic is
dismantled. The seeds of tyranny planted by government! Then the weeds of tyranny
crowding out the productive plants that feed our freedom. Freedom choked out by
burdensome taxation and stupid laws oppressing the people! Trashing the Constitution
and it freedoms to institute socialism and dictatorial government!
It would probably take the psychiatric, psychology and sociology industries to figure this
out. Likely they among the bias liberal left would wither before the truth and not face the
realities they found! One cannot help but think their teachings have something to do with
this phenomenon, weakening people’s character, therefore their esteem, till such actions
become rational to them.
The tyranny we see coming from Washington is like the corruption. What we see is
merely the tip of the iceberg. 90% is beneath the surface, hidden to our eyes. If we keep
up along this path, as the old song says, “We are on the eve of destruction!
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Number 15
February 5, 2013
Little Miss Piggy of politics
U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D) Louisiana announced, echoing Obama’s attacks,
“Washington’s spending problem is only on Fox News.” Landrieu, always the southern
belle seems ignorant of the financial state of the country! “I am not going to keep cutting
the discretionary budget, which by the way is not out of control, despite what you hear on
Fox News,” said Landrieu.
The Louisiana Senator did say the entitlement spending is a major problem. “It is
mandatory spending that is rising rapidly, because the greatest generation that gave us the
greatest nation the world has ever seen is dying and they need hospice care, they need
Social Security, and they need hospitals.” Great Wire, 1-29-13
Certainly entitlement spending is the largest issue. However, Congress created the
problem with actions like robbing the Social Security Trust Fund to finance their always
increasing spending desires to expand government! Spending that Landrieu denies!
Mismanagement, waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence are what Congress has
financed to get us into this situation. The entitlement of government avarice, by the
elitist political class!
Like Landrieu, Congressmen have gotten so far out of touch they will designate some
spending as too small to make any difference in the National Debt or Deficit. Waste,
fraud, corruption and incompetence in the little things add up to the same behavior in the
big things. It is an attitude of acceptance of waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence
that is the problem. First a thousand dollars is insignificant then a million, then a billion
till it is no big deal to trash trillions of dollars. Pig at the trough behavior prevails!
Like Congress stealing the money from the Social Security Trust Fund. Then they name
Social Security an entitlement, as though they are giving it to the people. The people
paid for Social Security! It is theirs, not a gift from government! Yet government took
that money and squandered it in the same wasteful way they do the people’s taxes. They
have no respect for the people’s hard earned money! Government’s galloping gobbling
gluttony of the people’s treasure is bankrupting America!
Ms. Landrieu seems to be the southern belle diva unconscious of the people, her servants
as she and her government elitist peers see them. Landrieu is much like another diva
oblivious to others around them. The famous Miss Piggy, a selfish, self-centered
insensitive celebrity! My purpose is not to disparage Miss Piggy! She does no harm. She
is a character people enjoy! Landrieu, on the other hand does harm, unaware of how she
treats people, spending their money stupidly!
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It was appropriate this story broke on GH Day (Ground Hog Day) as this scenario
happens over and over again! Perhaps we should call it Government Hog Day! No,
that’s not right, that is April 15th
!
Number 16
February 9, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 1 of 8. Following the dots
Steven A. Smith of ESPN’s First Take (January 17, 2013) discussing the Manti Te’o
hoax came to a conclusion for himself, Te’o is lying. He says “When you follow the
dots,” that is the conclusion you must come to. He pointed out that is the job of the
journalist, to follow the dots. Te’o carrying on a love filled relationship for three years
when he has never seen the girl face to face, but has talked about looking into her eyes.
After a near fatal accident, on her deathbed from leukemia, and her funeral, and he never
went to see her. Following the dots, it certainly seems as though Te’o was involved in
the hoax!
Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey was aired about two days after the
Te’o Hoax was uncovered. One sports announcer compared the two, an unfair
comparison when looking at the childish stupidity of Te’o’s actions and the insidiousness
of those of Armstrong. But it is an accurate indicator of how television and celebrity
work!
Having only heard and seen a few portions and opinions from the Armstrong interview,
reports are he was very cold and calculating. He admitted to the charges he had denied
for over 14 years. Lying, about cheating, use of performance enhancing drugs and illegal
actions, perpetuating those lies each and every day for all those years!
Still, even in the interview, Armstrong could not shake his natural habit of lying. People
in the know are still urging him to come clean. Armstrong is a liar, a cheat, a law and
rule breaker of the highest magnitude, using and threatening people for his own nefarious
needs and deeds! Mike Greenberg of ESPN’s “Mike and Mike” (January 18, 2013)
admitted the dots weren’t followed in the Armstrong saga! The red flags raised were
ignored by the sports media.
Let’s call this sociopath like behavior “Lance Armstrong Syndrome”. It is a malady of an
individual, enabled by a compliant media, afraid of, or in awe of that individual. An
individual who will lie, cheat and steal to the very highest of magnitudes, and swear to it’
to attain and retain the power and adulation they crave.
It doesn’t matter who it hurts, they must win at all costs, even if it hurts the nation! This
syndrome includes media participation that sees the symptoms, but refuses to follow the
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dots of dishonesty and corruption. A media that fans the fires of fraud and corruption
handing greater power and glory to a dangerous sociopath!
Then I must ask why are not the dots being followed in the case of Barack Hussein
Obama? I would think this is the job hard news journalists should do. News media has
failed miserably during Obama’s appearance on the national scene! In fact, it seems
journalists have attempted to erase those dots and destroy the reputation of anyone trying
to follow them!
Number 17
February 12, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 2 of 8. Obama’s Alinsky dots
If the name of Saul Alinsky is mentioned in regard to Obama, the media immediately
circles the wagons and goes into a defensive mode. Bill Moyers describes Saul Alinsky a
seeker of social justice, elevating him to some sort of saint. Obama’s association with
Saul Alinsky’s philosophies is much a part of who he is. In fact, the media takes parts of
Alinsky’s writings to bolster Obama!
Political activist Saul Alinsky defined the “organizer” writing, “He does not have a fixed
truth – truth to him is relative and changing.” His organizer was turned into “community
organizer” by the media, giving it great credibility. At the same time Alinsky gave the
“community organizer” unlimited leeway with truth. His truth is allowed major and
constant fluctuations and inconsistencies depending upon the organizer’s mood.
Obama was constructed from Saul Alinsky’s book “Rule for Radicals” which was
dedicated to Lucifer who Alinsky describes as, “The first radical known to man who
rebelled against the establishment!” Obama the student, disciple then professor of the
Saul Alinsky philosophy uses “Rule for Radicals” as his playbook, his presidential
strategy!
Alinsky preached, “The organizer is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for
which a man can reach—to create, to be a “great creator,” to play God.” This is an image
the media took up, portraying Obama as a messiah like figure! An image Donna Brazile,
democrat strategist sought to fortify when comparing Governor Palin’s experience to
Obama’s lack of experience saying, “Pontius Pilot was a governor, Jesus Christ was a
community organizer.” Obama readily embraces, perhaps believes these deified
characterizations. The Reverend Martin Luther King would have winced at such
audacity!
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas June 2009 declared, “Reagan (at the 1984 D-Day
commemoration) was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, “We are
above that now. We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just
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provincial. We stand for something’ I mean in a way, Obama’s standing above his
country, above-above the world. He’s sort of God. He’s going to bring all different sides
together.” What happened to that? Obama turned out to be the “Great Divider” not the
“Great Uniter”!
Magazines played up this image placing holy like light around Obama’s head on the
covers of magazines. Don’t forget the Greek Columns reminiscent of Mt. Olympus used
during his first presidential campaign. Obama’s declaration of lowering the seas and
temperatures played into this god like image to which many have fallen prey (to pray).
“Community Organizer”, “Great Creator” all images created by Alinsky, promoted and
perpetuated by the media! The 2013 presidential inaugural week Newsweek Magazine
hailed Obama “The Second Coming”! Likening Obama to God has been fast and
furious!
Number 18
February 15, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 3 of 8. More of Obama’s Alinsky dots
Values “Alinsky organizers” are above include fidelity (loyalty); truth, at the organizer’s
mood; accountability, promises like truth are fleeting, whimsical. Honesty and integrity
are superfluous, by Alinsky standards. He maintains “Ethical standards must be elastic to
stretch with the times,” and “In the politics of human life, consistency is not virtue.”
Instead of delving into these philosophies, researching, questioning and following the
trail, the media enhanced some of the images Alinsky threw out to the public, but not
only avoided the main body of his philosophies, but threw them out never to be seen.
News people like Bill Moyers softened Saul Alinsky to make him a hero, not a dangerous
mind!
The media has assigned titles to his organizer, but failed to research what those titles
really mean. Organizer, cool, a great creator, God like, all given positive spin to the
Obama arrogance and tyranny! Media drooling over him, fawning, in print and over the
air waves, inflating Obama’s image, his head and his arrogance and tyranny!
Obama’s presidential strategy has been Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”, in which
Alinsky contends, “Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of “the organizer” is
contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance creating “mass ego.”
Obama’s message is one of crisis, chaos, despair and class warfare! Obama’s massive
egotism has him comparing himself to Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Reagan and even
God, and he gets media approval without performance, without question!
In converting people from despair to defiance people voted for Obama in spite of his
outlandish, incompetent and dishonest behavior and performance. Obama’s being voted
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to a second term as president was much like O. J. Simpson being acquitted of the murder
of his wife and Ron Goldman. It was a rebellious act of people in manipulated despair
being defiant. That is what Alinsky has taught Obama, to divide and conquer! To get
people to act out of emotion, anger, not common sense!
Obama is basking in the rays of his glorious self. He is more interested in ruling than
governing. In his mind he can do no wrong. He thinks his failed economic policies will
eventually work, just as FDR did with his “New Deal”. However, it really doesn’t matter
if they fail. Either outcome will serve the purpose for his agenda, taking America to
socialism and beyond!
Obama, “The Man Who Would Be King” or “The Man Who Sees Himself as God”, and
is encouraged by many to do so. Such a man threatens serfdom to a free people. This is
another symptom of the “Lance Armstrong Syndrome” complete focus on self, the people
be damned!
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February 18, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 4 of 8. Obama’s Chicago dots
Illinois Governor Kerner, a Democrat served from 1961 to 1968. He served as a judge on
the U.S. Court of Appeals. He was found guilty in 1973 of bribery, conspiracy, perjury
and related charges and was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000. He
took payoffs from Marge Lindheimer Everett, manager of Arlington Park and
Washington Park racetracks in exchange for choice racing dates and two expressway
exits to funnel fans to the horse races.
Bob Daughtery, AP wrote, “Lindheimer Everett theorized that bribery was an ordinary
and necessary business expense in Illinois.”
In Illinois political corruption is a hallmark. As Lindheimer Everett theorized it is
standard operating procedure. The Chicago Sun-Times documented in Sept. 7, 2006 at
least 79 current or former Illinois, Chicago or Cook County elected officials had been
found guilty of a crime by judges, juries or pleas since 1972.
Since 2006, there has been no let up of corruption from Illinois and Chicago politicians!
They have seen their leaders found guilty of crimes and corruption in droves! (Rod
Blagojevich in 2011, most recently this month former U.S. Representative Jessie Jackson
Jr. (D-Ill) and his wife a former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, using campaign funds
for personal use.)
Obama was marketed as a man of great intelligence. Being a Harvard Graduate was the
primary reason for his pedestal as an intellectual. His books added fuel to the façade of
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his skills. There are some that believe he didn’t write the book that has garnered him such
accolades. Some think William Ayers, homeland terrorist and bomber was the author.
Obama, the politician and president was constructed in Chicago, a reflection of the cities
corrupt nature!
Yet the media did not check into his background. Warning flags were raised, dots
appeared, but to attempt to connect the dots was met with Obamedia charges of extremist,
conspiracy theorist and racist. Little in terms of accomplishment ever made the media to
reveal any concrete actions or accomplishments. Obama was then and is now merely a
marketed mystery, an image of words, not actions. The epitome of the empty suit!
Obama’s connections to radical Chicago extremists and crooks like the Reverend
Jeramiah Wright, Father Pfleger, William Ayres, Rod Blagojevich and Tony Rezko were
ignored. Many Obama gaffs and negative connections were hidden by the media. The
dots erased! The majority liberal media became an arm of his political campaign
machine, building Obama up and tearing his opponents down. It is another symptom of
Lance Arstrong Syndrome! To destroy others to enhance oneself!
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February 18, 2013
Bob Beckel gun control and apartheid
It’s half time of the eight part series on Lance Armstrong Syndrome! Let’s take a break
to address comments Bob Beckel made on (The 5) Feberuary 16, and repeated on the
17th
.
Bob Beckel made a convoluted comparison having guns legally in America to apartheid
in South Africa, in an attempt to frame our gun control issue as racist! His peers on “The
5” appeared totally confused by what he was saying. However, if you could navigate
Beckel’s partisan ramblings, you’d discover he said something quite important!
In essence, I think he was saying allowing the so-called “good people” to have guns made
the so-called “bad people” subjugated to the so-called “good people”! Certainly a
government, whom Beckel defined as a false “good people” and the oppressed blacks
defined as the false “bad people” was an ugly oppressive situation! Beckel did
everything but make air quotation marks to make his point.
Bob Beckel’s bias misses the point in America’s case. “Good people” are legal gun
owners following the law! “Bad people” are criminals, attaining illegal guns to commit
crimes. This is distinctly different than when apartheid existed in South Africa!
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It is actually our government who fits Beckel’s comparison! Apartheid South African
white government wanted the blacks disarmed to make them easier to oppress and
suppress to keep them under control. Practicing tyranny against the people, government
saw such disarming to attain and retain their superior position! This was so similar to
Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China and a cavalcade of others who disarmed
their people setting them up for oppression and massacre!
Mr. Beckel, like so many other liberals works so hard to brand opponents racist on every
issue. He did the opposite. In making his case for racism in the “gun control” issue, he
made the case for the Founding Fathers and the 2nd
Amendment and the people’s right to
bear arms!
Let me be clear! Historically those leaders disarming their population have been the “bad
guys”! The truth is they have been leaders of tyranny with god like perceptions of
themselves. We have people in America’s government that fit this description!
In the world’s recent history there has been a cavalcade of dictators following the
methods of Hitler and Stalin, keeping guns away from those they seek to oppress and
massacre. Benito Mussolini, Italy 1931, Mao Tze Tung, China 1938, Pol Pot Cambodia,
1975, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and numerous other, especially in
Africa!
The infection of tyranny is poking its ugly head in America. The mounting pustule of
corrupt government controlling the people rather than government of the people, by the
people, and for the people that is in danger to parish from this earth! Many of our own
leaders are at the forefront of this evolutionary movement of the decay of our democracy!
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February 21, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 5 of 8. Obama’s Communist Party & Muslim
Brotherhood dots
Obama laughs at assertions he is a socialist. From one aspect I would agree. Obama
embraces socialist methodologies and philosophies as an introductory step beyond to
communism. That is really where he would go if he were allowed such a giant leap.
However he has taken us dangerous giant steps to socialism.
Communist Party Connections
Obama has associations with Sam Webb, National Chair of Communist Party USA and
also Manning Marable, the late Marxist academic! Frank Martial Davis, an American,
communist, journalist was Obama’s boyhood mentor. Other communist leaning
associates were Vernon Jarrett who worked in several Chicago communist organizations,
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Rev. Addie Wyatt a long time affiliate of the Chicago Communist Party, and Bea and
Frank Lumpkin members of Communist Party USA. Obama has received support from
many communist organizations over a long period of time!
Muslim Brotherhood Alliance
Obama has not only connections and support from the Muslim Brotherhood, but
members of his administrations have Muslim Brotherhood affiliations! Egytian “Rose
El-Youseff Magazine suggested six and names them!
Rashad Hussian - U.S. Special Envoy
Arif Alikhan – Assistant Sec of Homeland Security, founder of World Islamic
Organization which identifies the Muslim Brotherhood as a subsidiary
Mohammed Elibiary – a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
Salam al-Marayati – co-found Muslim Public affairs council MPAC
Imam Mohamed Magid – President Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Eboo Patel – A member of Obama’s Advisory council on faith based partnerships
Pamela Geller – Atlas Shrugs 65 posts categorized “Obama and The Muslim
Brotherhood” Thursday, January 03, 2013, subheading “Vindication: Egyptain Magazine
Exposes Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration of Obama Administration”
Egytain Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration IPT John
Rossomando, Jan. 3, 2013 “An Egytain Magazine claims that six American Islamic
activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives
who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy!”
Egytian “Rose El-Youseff Magazine suggested six names saying they (the six) turned
the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the
world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
As in the Chicago connections categories, Obama’s Communist and Muslim connections
run father and deeper! These mentioned are just scratching the surface, the obvious ones!
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February 28, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 6 of 8. Obama’s personal dots
Initially Obama hide his birth certificate! It took him several years to finally have it
revealed. When at last it came out, it had a rough and questionable look to it. Some said
it utilized many fonts which was unusual. Sheriff Joe Arpio had experts look it over.
They thought it looked fraudulent. With Obama’s proclivity for lying, this cannot be
ignored!
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Birther was the label used to discourage such questioning of President Obama. Birther
the word which was constructed to be synonymous with crazy, conspiracy theorist,
extremist or racist! The usual bullying by political correctness established to change
words to help the Obama propaganda.
Sealed college transcripts should also spur curiosity about the man and his beginnings.
Instead his actions seemed to send a message of hands off. Even to sage journalists like
Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose! Yet Romney was asked to show ten years of his tax
fillings and accused of not paying taxes for ten years by Senate Leader Harry Reid!
Throw into the mix the incidents of Obama’s czars. Then Obamacare behind closed
doors, Fast & Furious, Obama’s beating his chest on the Bin Laden killing, but hiding in
a hole on the Benghazi debacle, like Saddam in his hole! Oh yes, the “video” that was
blamed for Benghazi! Obama’s lie heard round the world! Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s response, “What difference does it make?”
The 2012 Presidential campaign tactics of Obama bears strong comparisons to Lance
Armstrong’s behaviors. Obama practicing Armstrong’s and Alinsky’s win at any cost,
lie, cheat and steal toward that end. Destroying an opponent’s character and reputation to
promote their own lies and deceit. Obama sowed lies about Romney like the farmer sows
seeds on his fields.
Obama’s cavalcade of professional liars hit the streets and air waves! Practiced and
perfected liars like Stephanie Cutter, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, Harry Reid and a host
of others spread their putrid lies like manure on the same fields! Destroying opponents to
win and the feeling of infallibility, and arrogance encouraged the audacity that anything
they did was OK. Media supported those dishonest actions every step of the way calling
Obama’s corrupt and dirty campaign brilliant!
The 2012 presidential campaign was dirty in so many ways, yet the media did nothing to
follow the dots. In fact, they again erased the dots, hailing the wonderful campaign
Obama ran.
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March 3, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 7 of 8. More of Obama’s personal dots
Before the 2008 election Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose had a discussion on Obama
being a mystery. That little was known about him. These two giants of media news
responsible for such research sat there mystified at the Obama ambiguity and did nothing
about it.
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It was almost like they marveled in it but had no curiosity to delve into it. Perhaps they
didn’t want to know, or they knew and didn’t want to reveal his suspicious ties to the
voting public. Obama was almost as unknown during the 2012 election as he was the
2008, after four years of being president because of the protection he received from the
media.
Chris Matthews declared Mitt Romney the unknown in the 2012 election to take attention
away from Obama’s shady character. He used Romney as a distraction to keep Obama’s
socialist nature and poor character hidden. Like Lance Armstrong destroying the
reputation of those exposing his dishonesty, Obama attacked Romney viciously, with
malice and deceit!
Romney was made out the liar when Obama showed a history of being a “Rapid Fire
Liar” during his first term! This was Alinsky’s methodology of destroying an opponent’s
reputation and character using lies and slander in order to preserve and enhance ones own
character. Like with Armstrong, the media was complicit in Obama’s lies and deceit!
They supported and promoted Obama’s dishonesty. The media was Obama’s partner in
the destruction of Romney’s reputation.
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton are both disciples of
Alinsky, like many others. Obama taught Alinsky’s philosophies as a college professor.
There is plenty of deceit inherent in the business of politics. These processes are even
documented for reproduction by such as Alinsky. Hitler’s “Big Lie” is one of the tools
Alinsky suggests and Obama and his liberal democrats use. This gives us a trust and
truth indicator of our liberal political elite.
Obama presses, pushes and cries crisis to get his agenda passed in a convenient,
convoluted, quick and covert manner. He would like to be king, but has long seen
himself as more. A disciple of Saul Alinsky and professor of the Alinsky philosophies,
Obama has been standing on a pedestal for a long time. He sees himself as deserving to
be there. Alinsky is the definer of the “community organizer, a Great Creator, God like”!
Obama fancies himself as such!
Finally we will go full circle, back to Steven A. Smith on January 30, 2013 ESPN’s First
Take. Discussing Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez again using PEDs (Performance
Enhancing Drugs) according to an article in the Miami New Times! Because of
Rodriguez’s past, Smith said, “There are reasons for suspicion! Suspicion is justified!”
However, the media, whose inactions were a major player in Lance Armstrong
Syndrome, complains they are being made puppets to the puppet master Obama. Such
allegations are ludicrous when you consider the Obamedia has been compliant puppets
for him since he came on the scene! They even made themselves prostrate before his god
like images! Such sycophants!
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Thus the cloak covering Barack Obama is revealed. What is under that cloak is still to be
discovered. My article, perhaps amateurish, yet applying common sense cites enough
incidents, dots, to warrant looking into! Michelle Malkin has written a very
comprehensive book, “Culture of Corruption” on the subject of Obama’s questionable,
often corrupt behaviors.
In regard to Obama, “There are many reasons for suspicion! Suspicion is justified!”
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March 7, 2013
Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 8 of 8. Summary outline President Obama’s dots
Just a few dots to follow (Outline)
Saul Alinsky dots
The Organizer
License to lie
No loyalties
Destroying opponents
Great Creator, God like
Chicago gangster politics dots
Criminal associations
Communists associations
Extremists associations
Muslim Connection dots
Chicago
White House
Middle and Far East
Obama’s personal dots
Birth certificate anomalies
Sealed college documents
Other omissions
Moving to socialism
World view background
Obama’s Presidential dots
Czars
Hidden decisions
Executive Orders
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Fast and Furious
Benghazi
Economy
Drone Killings
Election dots
ACORN
Lies about Romney
Precinct voting anomalies (Ohio, Philadelphia etc.)
Donation anomalies (At home & abroad)
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March 11, 2013
Obama’s crisis management: Part 1. The Obama drama
On the manufacturing production floor, I saw two managers up for the same promotion to
the next level. One I’ll call Bob, was scurrying around the plant, rubbing elbows, talking
to upper level managers, and regularly fighting emergencies on the production floor! The
second I’ll call Bill was quietly talking with his people, seldom if ever seen addressing an
emergency.
In short, Bob got the promotion because he was seen handling emergency after
emergency. Bill seemed rather lackluster in his daily performance. Bob running around
like a chicken with his head cut off because of addressing the crises he created was
observed as being the better performer. Bill communicating with his workers and
avoiding crisis was seen as weak and docile! Bob with his reactive approach appeared
more capable and dynamic! Bill with a proactive approach appeared bland, milk toast!
Never waste a good crisis
Our President Barack Obama adheres to the Rahm Emanuel approach of “never waste a
good crisis”! For such people the strategy of “never waste a good crisis” has evolved to
the corollary of “never waste the opportunity to create a good crisis”! This sums up
Barack Obama’s “Crisis Management Style!
Everything Barack Obama puts out before the nation is in crisis mode. If it is actually not
a crisis, he makes it into one. Some things actually a crisis if not important to his agenda
or could obstruct his agenda, are ignored. Obama’s Benghazi Affair is one such example!
Healthcare
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Healthcare was a “crisis”? It was some 2700 pages pushed through in the night with
about three hours left to our representatives to read it. Nancy Pelosi laughingly said we
need to pass it so we can know what’s in it. Years later and we still don’t know what is
in it. They laughed about Sara Palin insinuating “Death Panels” were part of this Bill few
if any who voted for it read! Now economist Paul Krugman expresses the need for “death
panels” which appear in Obamacare but certainly not under that name!
The Affordable Healthcare Bill was passed left with holes and dark cul-de-sacs to be
manipulated after the fact. Such that the cost for Obamacare has risen to two, three, now
four times what Obama projected! The shadiness and shadows in the Bill have no where
near been exposed! The numerous taxes, traps and pitfalls yet to snag the people!
Even when the can is kicked down the road, postponing the crisis, Obama does not meet
with his opponents to address the crisis. He waits again till the last minute crisis arises
again, manipulating his opponents and the people to get his own way. He just stands over
the pot and keeps stirring it, hoping his way will prevail. These are the actions of a piss
poor and incompetent leader! Or perhaps a spoiled child!
Obama is running around the country hysterical, like “Chicken Little” screaming “the sky
is falling.” Like a chicken with his head cut off, running directionless in circles! He is
sewing fear throughout the nation! Fear mongering is the way he pushes his agenda.
Obama (Chicken Little): The sky is falling, earth warming, ocean rising!
Obama crisis management
Employing constant propagandist demagoguery, Obama instills fear in the people,
employing the green eyed monster of jealousy and envy pitting one group against the
other in class warfare! Obama’s is a negative leadership taking America to negative
places, to socialism and beyond!
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Number 26
March 15, 2013
Obama’s crisis management: Part 2. The little president who cries wolf!
Obama’s crisis count
Obama traveling the nation crying wolf!
Obama, the wolf in sheeps clothing
Obama’s list of inflated crisis is long and constant. It started with TARP which began on
President Bush’s watch, but also approved by President Obama! This was the running
start afforded Obama in his crisis management tactic! The drastic action that was
supposedly to keep us from going over the cliff! Then there was the stimulus package
and the bailouts, which Obama tells us results would have been disastrous if he hadn’t
implemented those actions.
We are told by Obama things would have been much worse if he hadn’t taken the actions
he did. We have no concrete results of his actions? He like FDR has stretched a
financial depression far longer than is historically standard. Obama’s accomplishments
are only based on what is projected might have happened. Likely scenarios caused by
mismanagement, pumped up out of proportion to turn them into a crisis that could be
exploited for political purposes!
Obama’s crises are many! Starting with TARP, bank and auto industry bailouts and the
stimulus package of almost a trillion dollars that was squandered! Then came Obama’s
healthcare debacle! Next we went to Afganistan and the Arab Spring, turning sour on the
vine! As Obama became more emboldened he not only exploited crisis, he created them!
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Green energy like the stimulus that lost much government investment among them!
Benghazi, Obama’s lie heard round the world, that an obscure video caused the attack
that killed four American’s, the ambassador to Tripoli one of them. Most recently the
fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling! We are facing sequester, an Obama concoction for which
he is blaming others, and the debt ceiling again! We must not forget that creating crisis
and managing it to his own advantage and agenda is a major Obama tactic!
Obama’s crisis management to manipulate the people
Obama uses crisis to manage the people, frightening them into accepting his half baked,
foolish and destructive policies and executive orders! “Never waste a good crisis” and
whenever you can, “Create a good crisis” are not merely mottos Obama lives by, but
actions he takes even if it hurts America!
Obama is a crisis manager. Not one who manages crisis to a positive conclusion, or
manages situations so they pretty much avoid crisis in general. Obama turns everything
into a crisis! He inflates and exploits crisis that come along, using those emergencies to
manipulate people in the self-serving direction he wishes to go. Like the Newtown
Massacre, used to push his agenda of Gun Control, using the killing of twenty six second
graders for political purposes! His crisis management even goes to the point of creating
crisis to exploit. Creating those crises even if it hurts the people and the nation to get
where Obama wants to go, to socialism and beyond!
Obama is constantly muddying the water to hide his actions. Laying smoke screens to
disguise his strategies! Creating distractions and diversions to take attention away from
his Marxist intentions! Obama a master of deception, incompetent in his leadership of a
free nation!
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March 21, 2013
The incredible shrinking dollar Part 1 of 2
Many people don’t watch their money carefully. They use credit cards to manage their
finances, a very dangerous method! Like our government they spend without
consideration to what is coming in. All government has to do is raise taxes on the people
to make up for their wasteful spending. The people have to tighten their belts and reduce
spending, something government has never done.
Workers have seen their paychecks shrink because of an increase in the payroll tax.
Middle class Americans were told they would be spared tax increases if the rich were
punished with an income tax increase. This was false, using class warfare to punish the
rich. The workers see their smaller paychecks the fault of their employer, not a voracious
government!
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The European island nation of Cyprus has found another source for taxing the people
since their government has spent itself into insolvency. They are exploring taxing the
people’s savings accounts (bank deposits). Money people have already paid taxes on will
be re-taxed. Savings people are depending on will be significantly reduce from just over
6 percent to 16 percent. People are asking can this happen in America!
The truth is this is already happening in America! Middle class paychecks, in fact all
incomes to the American people, investment, social security, 401Ks, bank accounts and
interest has been diminished by the “Quantitative Easing” employed by Ben Bernanke
and the Federal Reserve. The printing of more money in mass has devalued every dollar,
diminishing the quantity of goods and services one can buy with a dollar. Printing more
money has driven prices higher, lessening the value of the money we get, have saved and
have invested.
In the last couple of years milk in the store I shop in has gone from $.99 to $1.49. All
groceries have escalated at some rate. The bird seed I buy has more than doubled from
$7.98 a 20lb. bag to $17.98. In the last couple of years so has bulk corn going from $6.00
a hundred lbs. to $15.00! Corn now used in fuel, lowering our gas mileage and
increasing the damage to our engines in cars, motorcycles, lawn mowers, snow blowers,
generators, etc.!
The surge in the price of corn is also starving people in third world countries!
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March 25, 2013
The incredible shrinking dollar Part 2 of 2
Quantitative Easing (QE) one and two didn’t pull the economy out of its funk. Talk was
about QE3, to extend the devaluation of out dollar. We find out the Federal Reserve
actually has us well beyond QE3 into QE4. The Federal Reserve may keep printing
money till the paper we hold is worthless. Since we have nothing backing our currency,
it holds its value by our trust in our government and economy. That trust being abused
by a tidal wave of lies from government is washing out rapidly!
Christmas passed and people purchased without notice the increase in price of toys from
China. Action figures have increase 30% to 70% depending upon the toy. At Christmas
people want the best for their children so they pay the prices necessary to do so. Even
dollar stores are indicators of this price creep due to printing more money! The quality
and quantity of the items we can purchase for a dollar are slipping too!
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Prices up, quality down, is also a description of our government, costs constantly rising,
effectiveness and efficiency continually lowered. This, the reason for devaluation of
every cent we own, except in precious metals. The shrinking dollar is continually
shrinking and squeezing our budgets! Our raises are eaten up by taxes and the shrinking
dollar!
Could it happen our Federal Government would confiscate our bank deposits through
taxation! They seem to have an insatiable appetite for taxing and an aversion to cutting
spending. There is rumor of confiscation of IRAs, 401Ks and retirement plans by
government for their socialist redistribution strategy. Money to supply the Social
Security System our politicians stole from to finance their waste, fraud, corruption and
incompetence, draining America and the people!
With government greed and gluttony out of control, when the time comes they’ll tax what
we have in the bank too! Unless they make it worthless with Quantitative Easing 5 - ∞!
Number 29
March 30, 2013
Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 1
Washington D.C.: The shinning city on a hill or lipstick on a pig!
John Stossel in his latest exposé of the failures of our federal government compared
Washington DC to Versailles France prior to the French revolution. Seems extreme and
I’m sure liberals would mock any such comparisons. However, the legendary Marie
Antonette “Let them eat cake” attitude emanates robustly from the Washington political
elite and their union and lobbyist cronies.
It used to be the richest cities in America were engaged in producing something.
Industrial cities producing the machinery powering this great nation ahead, steel and oil
producing cities! Or transportation centers that carried those goods around the nation and
around the world! Goods and services required to drive the industrial and trade engines
of America. Hustling and bustling cities driven by intelligence, strength and sweat, not
lard ass politicians and bureaucrats, bull shitting wind bags conning!
Washington DC has become the Kim Kardashian of cities! No real skills, no real
contribution to humanity but thriving on its outer beauty alone. There is nothing of
substance when you look beyond the beautiful exterior facades of the institutional
palaces. When you look at the grandiose interior decorations it proves to be ostentatious
decadence to hide the empty shells the ornate insides are holding! Sucking the treasure
from the nation for being a pretty face with loose morals and no more!
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I saw a clip of Kim Kardashian lamenting to her sister she would lose her house if she
didn’t stop shopping. Shopping for clothes she admitted she did not need. Again, how
like the government in Washington, fatally spending the nation over the fiscal cliff.
Spending on nonsense, cupcakes and sex lives of snails, to doom even though they can
see the disastrous consequences!
Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 2
Today Washington DC is the richest city in America. These days it is reported most of
the richest cities are seats or areas of government! Federal and state governments take the
money from the people, delivering it to themselves. Government’s political elites make
themselves the rich of the nation.
Stossel reported Washington DC did not experience a housing bubble. People I know
working in Washington along with FOX News say that city did not experience a
recession. Washington is a boom town while the nation is in a Jimmy Carter malaise.
Washington sucks the energy and strength from the rest of the nation, like a vampire,
leaving the country dying!
Washington is an ocean of money! The average wage of the government worker is
$126,000 a year according to FOX News. Money flowing in, the city, the government
complex, living the highlife while the rest of the nation is in the doldrums! The money
keeps getting sucked away from the people into the giant government vacuums! Robbing
from the people giving it to the politicians and their cronies, their lobbyists, friends,
families, partners in crime and corruption, with no conscience about what they are doing
to the people! Speaking of the elite Washington politicians Senator Tom Coburn of
Oklahoma said, “They don’t want to know where the waste is. If they did, they’d have to
do something about it!
Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-Dem) talked about the poor and middle class, as though
sympathetic, but wallows in his elitism like a pig in poop! Grayson says he has been in
communist countries and Americans don’t have burdens. If communism is his threshold,
the burdens of communism our destination!
Is Washington D.C. Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” or has it sunk to America’s “capital
of corruption”?
Number 30
April 5, 2013
Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 2
Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man
Book 8
39
Today Washington DC is the richest city in America. These days it is reported most of
the richest cities are seats or areas of government! Federal and state governments take the
money from the people, delivering it to themselves. Government’s political elites make
themselves the rich of the nation.
Stossel reported Washington DC did not experience a housing bubble. People I know
working in Washington along with FOX News say that city did not experience a
recession. Washington is a boom town while the nation is in a Jimmy Carter malaise.
Washington sucks the energy and strength from the rest of the nation, like a vampire,
leaving the country dying!
Washington is an ocean of money! The average wage of the government worker is
$126,000 a year according to FOX News. Money flowing in, the city, the government
complex, living the highlife while the rest of the nation is in the doldrums! The money
keeps getting sucked away from the people into the giant government vacuums! Robbing
from the people giving it to the politicians and their cronies, their lobbyists, friends,
families, partners in crime and corruption, with no conscience about what they are doing
to the people! Speaking of the elite Washington politicians Senator Tom Coburn of
Oklahoma said, “They don’t want to know where the waste is. If they did, they’d have to
do something about it!
Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-Dem) talked about the poor and middle class, as though
sympathetic, but wallows in his elitism like a pig in poop! Grayson says he has been in
communist countries and Americans don’t have burdens. If communism is his threshold,
the burdens of communism our destination!
Is Washington D.C. Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” or has it sunk to America’s “capital
of corruption”?
Number 31
April 9, 2013
Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty: Treachery of the Gang of 8 Part 1
Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty is again on the Federal Government
agenda. Like plans from the sixties, eighties and early 2000s another gang of eight is
scheming to slip a legalization of they say 12 million illegal immigrants into our
population.
The last attempt at this, under George W. Bush, also said 12 million. Others corrected
that figure with 21 million, yet today they are again pushing the 12 million number,
which is likely above the 21 million today! One of the problems with their so-called
“Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is our government can no longer be trusted.
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Commonsense Political Thinking Book 8 2013 examiner complete

  • 1. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man, Book VIII Examiner Articles 2013 By Gerald J. Furnkranz
  • 2. Table of Contents Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8) i Examiner Essays 2013 1. December 30, 2012 Trust Requires Truth Page 1 Entering the New Year 2. January 1, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 1 Page 1 3. January 3, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 2 Page 3 4. January 5, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 3 Page 4 5. January 7, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 4 Page 5 6. January 9, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 5 Page 7 7. January 12, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 6 Page 8 8. January 14, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 7 of 13 Page 9 Doctor Phil Advising on Truth Telling, Or The Art of Lying 9. January 17, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 8 of 13 Page 11 10. January 20, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 9 of 13 Page 13
  • 3. Table of Contents Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8) ii 11. January 23, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 10 of 13 Page 14 12. January 27, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 11 of 13 Page 15 13. January 30, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 12 of 13 Page 16 14. February 2, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 13 of 13 Page 18 15. February 5, 2013 Little Miss Piggy of politics Page 20 16. February 9, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 1 of 8: Following the dots Page 21 17. February 12, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 2 of 8. Obama’s Alinsky dots Page 23 18, February 15, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 3 of 8. More of Obama’s Alinsky dots Page 24 19. February 18, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 4 of 8. Obama’s Chicago dots Page 25 20. February 18, 2013 Bob Beckel gun control and apartheid Page 26 21. February 21, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 5 of 8. Obama’s Communist Party & Muslim Brotherhood dots Page 27
  • 4. Table of Contents Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8) iii 22. February 28, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 6 of 8. Obama’s personal dots Page 28 23. March 3, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 7 of 8. More of Obama’s personal dots Page 29 24. March 7, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 8 of 8. Summary outline President Obama’s dots Page 31 25. March 11, 2013 Obama’s crisis management: Part 1. The Obama drama Page 32 26. March 15, 2013 Obama’s crisis management: Part 2. The little president who cries wolf! Page 34 27. March 21, 2013 The incredible shrinking dollar Part 1 of 2 Page 35 28. March 25, 2013 The incredible shrinking dollar Part 2 of 2 Page 36 29. March 30, 2013 Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 1 Page 37 30. April 5, 2013 Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 2 Page 38 31. April 9, 2013 Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty: Treachery of the Gang of 8 Part 1 Page 39 32. April 13, 2013 Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty: Treachery of the Gang of 8 Part 2 Page 40
  • 5. Table of Contents Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8) iv 33. April 17, 2013 Guns: What has society wrought? Page 41 34. April 21, 2013 Guiding the mass murders to the youngest, the most vulnerable! Page 42 35. April 25, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 1; Aiming armies against Americans Page 43 36. April 29, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 2. Cuomo Too! an Interlude Page 45 37. May 5, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 3. Page 46 38. May 10, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 4. Collecting critical data on all Americans Page 51 39. May 14, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 5. Trampling the constitution Page 49 40. May 18, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 6a. Obama denounces capitalism Page 51 41. May 24, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 6b. Obama denounces capitalism Page 52 42. May 29, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 7a. Scandals Page 53 43. June 3, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 7b. Scandals growing Page 55
  • 6. Table of Contents Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8) v 44. June 10, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 8. Ties to tyranny! Page 56 45. June 18, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 9. Trained to lie! Page 57 46. June 25, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 10a; Summary Page 59 47. June 30, 2013 Obama Tyranny Part 10b; Summary Page 61 48. July 3, 2013 Intelligence community and deception Page 63 49. July 9, 2013 Rubio the Gaggle of 8’s rube! Part 1 Page 64 50. July 14, 2013 Rubio the Gaggle of 8’s rube! Part 2 Page 65 51. July 22, 2013 The “N” word and Paula Deen, Part 1 Page 66 52. July 22, 2013 The “N” word and Paula Deen, Part 2 Page 66 53. July 29, 2013 America Lies Part 1 Page 67 54. August 4, 2013 America Lies Part 2 Page 68
  • 7. Table of Contents Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8) vi 55. August 11, 2013 Matt Damon defender of failing public education! Page 69 56. August 16, 2013 Matt Damon defender of failing public education! Part 2 Page 69 57. August 19, 2013 Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 1 of 6 Page 70 58. August 23, 2013 Chris Matthews: A holier than thou hater Part 2 of 6 Page 71 59. August 29, 2013 Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 3 of 6 Page 72 60. September 3, 2013 Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 4 of 6 Page 73 61. September 10, 2013 Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 5 of 6 Page 74 62. September 17, 2013 Chris Matthews: the holier than thou hater Part 6 of 6 Page 75 Educators sabotaging education, part 2 (5.0 – 8.0) 63. September 21, 2013 The Tom Reed luncheon part 1 Page 76 64. September 30, 2013 REED Luncheon Part 2 Page 77 65. October 9, 2013 School Committees Page 78
  • 8. Table of Contents Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book 8) vii 66. October 16, 2013 Washington, the Hollywood for ugly people Page 78 67. October 25, 2013 Congress finds bipartisanship in corruption! Page 79 68. November 3, 2013 The Tea Party Science Page 80 69. November 13, 2013 Concerns of bullying: heart or hypocrisy? Page 81
  • 9. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 1 Number 1 December 30, 2012 Trust Requires Truth Truth is the fertilizer that helps trust to grow. Trust is strongly dependent on being nurtured with truth. Without truth, trust will wither and die. We see trust destroyed in relationships laced with lies. Dishonesty and deception nurtures distrust and mistrust! We see politicians and bureaucrats unable to understand why they are not trusted. Nancy Pelosi could not understand why people did not want to see an incomplete healthcare bill passed. She thought the people should trust them to fill in the blanks honestly. A history of dishonesty does not allow most of the people to trust such behavior. Bill Clinton pointed his finger accusingly at the nation saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman!” He was outright lying with his denial, practicing a great ability to deny and lie. Anthony Weiner tried the same game regarding his phone sex gambits. The politician lying, making campaign promises likely exists 99.999% among the breed. Campaign lying is practically a reflex with politicians. I doubt if you asked an American citizen if they could name an honest politician, only those that had politicians as family members would answer yes, but likely not honestly. Lying has become the fabric of our political system. These are the people that run government, so dishonesty has become the foundation of our government. How much good can be done by government when those within are corrupted to the point truth is seldom if ever found. Positive productivity toward goals beneficial to the people requires truth, trust and honesty. How can the people trust a government that has proved itself untrustworthy time and time again? The week ahead: “Trust requires truth” is a concept essential to the series beginning in “the week ahead”. January 1, 2013 begins an eleven part series on gun control. The series “Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 1 – 11” will bring forth many areas of the issues of mass shootings in our society, opening them for discussion! Number 2 January 1, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 1
  • 10. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 2 Introduction The massacre of first graders in a Newtown Connecticut school is a heinous crime. The killing of innocent children among the worst of crimes! The death of innocence always an extremely sad event for our society! Twenty young children are dead and six adults. Again guns are made the villain here! The deaths of these children are ruthlessly, enthusiastically, almost joyously exploited for a political agenda! Malkin Cuomo on guns http://www.therightscoop.com/michelle-malkin-hammers-cuomo-for-wanting-to- confiscate-guns-and-the-lefts-hypocrisy-on-gun-control/ Liberals seek to ban guns to ease their conscience. They say assault weapons, but it is obvious from past behaviors (abortion) it is only the first step! Their agenda creep is always on their minds. Each step is a firmer toe hold to achieving a sweeping goal! In this case, they want the population of America to be disarmed. They want to insure the fomenting tyranny in our government could encounter no resistance! Federal Gove complicit in Conn shooting http://grendelreport.posterous.com/the-federal-government-is-guilty-accomplice-i Getting rid of the guns will not stop these mass killing by people with warped and distorted minds. Likely we will never know what went on in the minds of these people that felt the need to not only kill, but kill in mass, and kill the most innocent. Insane, evil, sociopath behavior, it is the dark side of the human being and society! Guns are not the problem! There is a flaw in our society that presents murder as a solution to our problems! While our schools pretend to teach self-esteem, they are failing there as in every other area of education. Perhaps their misusing of the educational process to indoctrinate is a catalyst! Why does a boy, rejected by a girl kill her as a solution! This is insanity! Why has he not learned enough self-respect to walk away from someone who doesn’t want him, and search for someone who does? Or beating a bum or a weaker child to death with a baseball bat! Where is the desire to protect innocence and the helpless, the weak? How have we instilled in some in our society to torture and kill those hapless human beings? One might say the loss of conscience might very well be the problem. The example our government reveals; selfish corruption, conscienceless ruling of the people to promote themselves, politicians have given an example that communicates to the people a serious lack of self-restrain and self-discipline. Perhaps here is where we can begin to track what is going wrong with this dangerous behavior! It’s not guns, but the mentality behind the guns. We’ve become nation where anything goes. Where killing fetuses has evolved to abortion as a birth control method! Then killing babies exiting the mother to killing babies outside the mother because they were
  • 11. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 3 supposed to be aborted inside the mother! The desensitizing to death and killing, the devaluing of human life has been a systematic process in America. This desensitizing along with metal health issues makes to many killing as a viable action within the minds of some. Throwing into the mix the mythology and lies that have been spread about such massacres and we have a far bigger mess than gun ownership. We have a criminally negligent government that distorts the truth because it fears the people are catching on to its intentionally practiced corruption. Tyranny! Number 3 January 3, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 2 Debunking the myths of school massacres Facts about mass killings http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund# John Fund in his DECEMBER 16, 2012 article “The Facts about Mass Shootings , It’s time to address mental health and gun-free zones” reports, “A few things you won’t hear about from the saturation coverage of the Newtown, Conn., school massacre: Mass shootings are no more common than they have been in past decades, despite the impression given by the media. “In fact, the high point for mass killings in the U.S. was 1929, according to criminologist Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Incidents of mass murder in the U.S. declined from 42 in the 1990s to 26 in the first decade of this century. The chances of being killed in a mass shooting are about what they are for being struck by lightning.” NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg joyously attacks for his gun control agenda before the bodies of those innocent children are in their graves. He deceptively declares, “We are the only industrialized country that has this problem.” Rating countries violent crimes http://www.therightscoop.com/what-piers-morgan-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-the- britain-and-violent-crime/ John Fund points out, “Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.” China has had numerous mass killings in schools. They weren’t carried out with guns though. Little children were stabbed, hacked and pounded brutally with knives, cleavers
  • 12. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 4 and hammers. (See Wikipedia, School Attacks in China 2010 to 2012)! By Bloomberg’s view he would ban knives, cleavers and hammers. Then bats, rocks and sticks would be next. Mass killings in China with knives, cleavers and hammers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010%E2%80%932012) Bloomberg is certainly selective in creating his hysteria. He sensationalizes the issue to aid his agenda of gun control. Why? Changing the rules, hi-jacking another term as mayor and outlawing large drinks of soda, Bloomberg exhibits characteristics of the tyrant gun ownership was designed by the Founding Fathers to offset! How dictatorial would he become if he succeeded? For Bloomberg it is about power and control, not protecting citizens! Bloomberg http://gothamist.com/2012/12/17/bloomberg_gun_violence_is_a_nationa.php Fund goes on to argue, “Almost all of the public-policy discussion about Newtown has focused on a debate over the need for more gun control. In reality, gun control in a country that already has 200 million privately owned firearms is likely to do little to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals. We would be better off debating two taboo subjects — the laws that make it difficult to control people with mental illness and the growing body of evidence that “gun-free” zones, which ban the carrying of firearms by law-abiding individuals, don’t work.” Number 4 January 5, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 3 The myth of Gun-free zones Fund makes the case on both the mental health issue and Gun-free zones! The declaration of Gun-free zones tends to the capacity of liberals to decree as though they have addressed a problem without even looking at the real problem. These decrees are implemented to propagandize their agendas, moving them forward without discussion or research. Fund Facts about mass killings http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund# Declaring public schools Gun-free zones has been as effective as decreeing our school buildings and yards Drug-free zones! The pusher knows where the market is and they head for the schools. They even enlist students in the schools to start a little drug
  • 13. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 5 business. The schools hide, burying their heads in the sand, because they don’t want the public to know there are drugs running rampant in our schools. They don’t want to know! They want their statistics to show positive, clean, bright and shiny. A process similar to manipulating rape statistics in our colleges! 7. Gun Free Zones http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/25/gun-free-zone-john-lott/1791085/ Yet, if those schools were free of drugs from the outside, they still could not be considered drug free zones. Students are plied with drugs from the inside. Drugged to make them easier to handle for parents and educators! This is excellent methodology for tyrants with a fear of the people and a desire to control them to administer and normalize drugging the population at an early age. The drugging of the children is only one area that has made schools as Drug-free zones a myth. Free or cheap healthcare for educators has made many of them frequent drug users for every little problem. Cheap drugs with easy access has them imbibing in the crutch that has been offered them! Schools are not drug free! They have become learning institutions for the legal drug culture! Schools with their illusion of free zones are the perfect place for these ideas to be abused. These unbalanced assassins wielding guns and drugs are drawn to those signs, Gun-free zone, like magnets to metals like iron. They present the perfect place for these crazed killers to march in and do their dirty work. Liberals have highlighted these areas as places to exploit the unprotected with false attempts at solving the problems. Number 5 January 7, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 4 Drugging Children One area to look at might very well be a program pushed by educators and their government allies. The drugging of children to stop behavior that is normal in children. Young children weren’t designed to sit still in a classroom for six hours a day, five days a week. It just isn’t in the human DNA! Elizabeth Root http://www.wskg.org/episode/kids-caught-psychiatric-maelstrom In Elizabeth E. Root’s book “Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom” subtitled “How Pathological Labels and “Therapeutic” Drugs Hurt Children and Families”, she says, “Super-energized, high spirited, exuberant, spontaneous, intelligent, and impulsive are
  • 14. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 6 Pro-child ways we might describe kids assigned the ADHD label. Pro-child advocates are terribly concerned about treatments that emerge from the dominant assumption of the neurobiological origins of ADHD. Indeed, many believe ADHD is merely a condition of high energy that makes one need to be on the move. Children are particularly prone to restlessness, and up until the mid-20th century, it was considered normal; many people still consider it normal.” Root begins this Chapter 2 with a quote from Jonathan Leo which makes much sense. Leo quotes, “Giving three-year-olds medications to help them be better nursery school students is a giant leap across the ethical threshold that will have profound consequences for our society! The responsibility, or … the irresponsibility, is enormous.” While no expert on this issue as a newly elected school board member in 1997 I received an anonymous phone call from an employee in another district. She voiced concern about parents having their children put on Ritalin for ADD now I guess ADHD because they received $1,000 a month from government and could sell the drugs. All in all it was a profitable venture. This sparked my curiosity about ADD and Ritalin. What I read in many sources provoked great concern. From: RxList The InternetDrug Index, Ritalin Side Effects Center Pharmacy Editor: Eni Williams, PharmD, PhD. Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a medication that belongs to the drug class called central nervous system stimulants. Ritalin is available as a generic drug. Ritalin is prescribed for treating narcolepsy (uncontrolled sleepiness) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Common side effects are nervousness, agitation, anxiety, insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, palpitations, headache, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, and psychosis. Reading numerous articles on Ritalin there are several points I gleaned. Ritalin is a dangerous drug. Children should not be on the drug continuously. They need respites, vacations from the drug or hallucinations and delusions may occur! Some parents and educators are hesitant to take the child off the drug and again experience the perceived miss behaviors, often caused by bad parenting. While the drug is not seen as dangerous by some, what could be the ramifications of experiencing hallucinations and delusions do to the mind, let alone the minds of young children whose brains are in the early formative stages? On must ask, is the mental health industry a way of salvation in these killings, or are they accessories in these crimes?
  • 15. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 7 Number 6 January 9, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 5 Mental Health Myths Mental health seems to have taken a major place on the stage of life in our society. It establishes parameters to bestow great power to those of the “Mental Health, Psychiatric Industry”. Conservatism has been designated as a mental problem by some liberal industry members. Global warming doubters have also been assigned with mental afflictions. Seems mental health has become a political weapon against contrary ideas. When it comes to mass murders in schools, responsibility is assigned to guns, not the brain behind the gun. It’s funny how those aiming the weapon of the “Mental Health Industry” seem to use the diagnosis for opponents to their agenda, but not those they can use to support their agenda. School shooters are among those that can be used to support the liberal goal of gun control. So those being conservative or against the idea of man made global warming are mental cases, but those going in schools and killing children are not. The gun is at fault! It’s quite funny, no really not funny, frightening how the mental health industry abuses thought processes to come to conclusions. It seems a power they are quite willing to corrupt to maintain and gain greater political power! Another industry like education, communications (media) and government that are willing to sell their souls for lucrative positions in the socialist society liberals are pioneering in America! Emotional health screening http://www.examiner.com/article/emotional-health-screening-or-institutionalized- brainwashing Emotional Health Screening seems to be a new healthcare initiative being pushed. Setting up periodic sessions to pre-empt emotional pitfalls is the stated objective, saving people from the pain and agony of life. Primarily aimed at children of school age from pre- kindergarten to high school, this is aimed at possible emotional mental illnesses in adolescence before their brains can run their full developmental course. Perhaps monitoring the affects of zealous diagnosis of children and prescribing drugs for their emotional well being is just what the children need? LOL! In schools they are prescribing Ritalin for children tagged with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder). Drugging children, antsy having to sit in class all day, with dangerous drugs to bring them under control has become common place. The National Resource Center on AD/HD says, “Studies tell us that play and exercise can stimulate brain growth in areas often underdeveloped in children with ADHD.”
  • 16. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 8 Yet children are pulled from the playful formative years that some studies say nurture creativity, curiosity and learning and are placed in the “regimented classroom settings” earlier and earlier. Indoctrination replaces education. The stresses of mental imprisonment bubbles and ferments in the brain! Could this bring on the mental and emotional anguish psychiatrists and psychologists are exploiting? Are they sowing the seeds of discontent and troubled minds to later profit from them perhaps creating killers? Elizabeth Root http://www.wskg.org/episode/kids-caught-psychiatric-maelstrom It seems the “Psychiatry Industry” wants to cultivate a culture of therapy at a very young age. It certainly would be an ingenious business model, aggressively and ruthlessly sacrificing children for profit. They are nurturing children to become adults who are weak and needy and need them, creating a population of patients to fill their couches. This insures profit and power of their profession. It establishes position in the production line of indoctrination in the nanny state. Liberals are already building their presence in the “Education Industry” becoming ever expanding essential parts of our always growing school districts. Even when the population of children in the schools is shrinking and the results of education failing! Number 7 January 12, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 6 Mental Health Industry described by Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel A book came out in 2005 warning of this drive. “One Nation Under Therapy” by Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel uncovered selfish motivations in the “Psychiatric Industry”. One nation under therapy http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/186357-1 The book is described by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Research in the following 2005 review. “Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades, however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and requiring the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Being "in touch with one's feelings" and freely expressing them have become paramount personal virtues. Today-with a book
  • 17. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 9 for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every conceivable problem-we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life's challenges.” “Drawing on established science and common sense, Christina Hoff Sommers and Dr. Sally Satel reveal how "therapism" and the burgeoning trauma industry have come to pervade our lives. Help is offered everywhere under the presumption that we need it: in children's classrooms, the workplace, churches, courtrooms, the media, the military. But with all the "help" comes a host of troubling consequences, including:” “The myth of stressed-out, homework-burdened, hyper-competitive, and depressed or suicidal schoolchildren in need of therapy and medication” “The loss of moral bearings in our approach to lying, crime, addiction, and other foibles and vices” “The unasked-for "grief counselors" who descend on bereaved families, schools, and communities following a tragedy, offering dubious advice while billing plenty of money” “The expansion of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from an affliction of war veterans to nearly everyone who has experienced a setback” The institute goes on to describe the book, as “Intelligent, provocative, and wryly amusing, “One Nation under Therapy” demonstrates that "talking about" problems is no substitute for confronting them.” Our mental health industry has the potential for being a powerful tool of nanny state government. Manipulating people to accepting government tyranny that is both obvious and dangerous! Emotional Health Screening and drugging children to make them docile fits in so well with the nanny state government liberal, progressive, socialists are trying to establish in America. A warped and self-interested psychiatric industry serves great purpose in their fictionalized utopian environment. They are prescribing not only should we be free of the burdens of work and responsibility, but we should be free of the dips and downs of living life. Not learning, strengthening and maturing from the trials and tribulations, but crying over them and ignoring the lessons made available, becoming more dependent and weaker, creating more fodder for their psychiatric industry to generate profit and power. Number 8 January 14, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 7 of 13
  • 18. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 10 The bloody tradition of banning guns Societies where guns were ban saw massacres of the people in the millions! Nazi Germany accounted for the murder of 15 to 31 million people, one million children under the age of eighteen. (See “Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder” Chapter 1) Nazi Germany Democide http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make is to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdog is a sin qua non for the over throw of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the Russian territories, and a system of military strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.” – Adolf Hitler In an article “America In Chains, The Death of Freedom” subtitled “Forward to the Dawn of Communism” dictators and gun control are discussed. “In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. By 1987 that figure had risen to 61, 911,000.” Gun Control Dictators http://americainchains2009.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/dictators-and-gun-control/ “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” – Joseph Stallin In the worlds recent history there has been a cavalcade of dictators following the method of Hitler and Stallin. Benito Mussolini, Italy 1931, Mao Tze Tung, China 1938, Pol Pot Cambodia, 1975, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Hugo Chavez of Venezuala From an article, “Head in the Clouds: The Left and Disarming of America, July 22, 2012, Spencer Wolf writes: Here’s a quick rundown of what a less than benevolent government can do to its own ‘bothersome’ people: -1926 The Soviet Union government disarmed its citizens. From 1929-1953, 20 million Russian civilians killed. -1935 Nationalist China disarmed its citizens. From 1927-1949, 10 million Chinese citizens killed. 1949-1976, Red China, 20-35 million killed
  • 19. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 11 -1938 Nazi, Germany disarmed its citizens. From 1938-1945, 16 million Jews, Gypsies, “critics”, and political opponents killed. -1956 Cambodia disarmed its citizens. 1975-1979, 2 million citizens killed -1964 Guatemala disarmed its citizens, 1964-1981, 100,000 to 200,000 Mayan Indians and “political opponents” killed. -1979 Rwanda disarmed its citizens, 1994, 800,000 Tutsi killed. If liberals think the massacre of twenty six people trumps the kind of massacres that leaders of countries have committed, killing tens of millions, against their people once disarmed, their thinking is warped and distorted. Then the lefts push for gun control is more about the motivation of dictators than the safety of the populations! Gun Control Hall of Fame http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/fame.html Number 9 January 17, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 8 of 13 Our Founding Fathers view Our Founding Fathers are often slandered, portraying them as villains, to discredit their lives, their character and the Constitution of the United States. This is done by many who fear a free people and wish for bigger and stronger government for the people to serve, instead of limited government serving the people! The Founding Fathers were wary of these kinds of governments and politicians. They designed the Constitution and our government to combat this kind of power grab. Separation of powers and checks and balances were designed into government to check over reaching. The second amendment of the Constitution is one designed for this purpose. Amendment II, A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 15. Wisdom of founding fathers http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52013?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_mediu m=twitter
  • 20. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 12 The writers of the Constitution saw the dangers of people in government. The adage “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” They saw how governments and those comprising them were easily susceptible to the tyrannies of such power and how it then could be inflicted upon the people! Guns in the hands of the people were one such way to discourage the corrupting influences and the corruption of government. The rabid desire of liberals for gun control and banning guns goes along with their philosophy of the people serving government instead of government serving the people. It’s just one more step in usurping the freedoms of the people and making them serfs to government. If the purpose of the right to bear arms is keeping government honest, in this day and age it doesn’t mean squirrel guns. It means arms government will fear enough to rule with integrity, forgoing dishonest self-interest and subjugation of the people. It is the infidelity of government toward the people that makes gun ownership, even what are called assault weapons necessary. Assuming the leaders we choose will stay on the straight and narrow path of honesty and integrity in the great majority of cases would be a false premise. As we witness, even our democratic republic, with a Constitution designed to protect the people, is in danger from the tyranny of tyrants. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Many of our politicians have a craving for power evolving to absolute power. Wolves drooling over the idea of feasting on herds of defenseless sheep! Number 10 January 20, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 9 of 13 Founding fathers and other smart people on an armed population From an article, “Head in the Clouds: The Left and Disarming of America, July 22, 2012, Spencer Wolf writes: Founding fathers on an armed population “A free people ought to be armed.” – George Washington “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government” – Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
  • 21. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 13 “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.” - Patrick Henry “Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.” - John Adams “To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380 “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” - James Madison, Federalist Paper #46 “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt, Nov. 18, 1783 “The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.” - Noah Webster, 1787 “That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” - George Orwell “If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” - The Dalai Lama, May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi Here is what Richard Henry Lee, the initiator of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE said about guns: “To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” - Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, Initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights
  • 22. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 14 Number 11 January 23, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 10 of 13 Planting the seeds of tyranny in America A free nation and a free people need gun ownership as a deterrent against tyranny! As previously pointed out nations where ownership of guns, by its citizens, was banned often saw that government massacring its own people, not by tens and twenties but by the tens of millions. While the hurt of those children killed in Newtown, Conn, fresh in our minds is so pain filled, commonsense says we do not disarm a nation and risk tens of millions, a large percentage of which will be children! When Jefferson warning of a need for an armed citizenry is mentioned, many liberals laugh it off as crazy. “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort to protect themselves against tyrannical government!” said Thomas Jefferson! Liberals project no possibility of our government becoming tyrannical. However, opening ones eyes it becomes obvious tyranny is peeping its ugly head in America. It is creeping a little at a time, ever increasing its foothold in America, stealing the freedoms of the people with each step! Negating the value of the Constitution as they creep toward tyrannies like socialism and beyond! Oppressive Taxation – When overspending is the problem in government, putting the nation in jeopardy of default, and increased taxation is the only solution leadership sees, the purpose of taxation is far greater than supporting finances for what the country needs. It is a methodology to subjugate and oppress the people. Making them dependent on the government dole rather than the freedom to spend what they earn! This is tyranny! Oppressive Laws – Putting so many laws on the books for every little issue, setting traps for the people so they can be hauled before judges for practically anything they do, this is oppression. Then saying “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” is useless here, because the statutes have become so many, long, large and convoluted even the lawyers studying the law can’t know them all. Legislators making the laws have no idea what is in them. This is tyranny! (Example – Obama’s Healthcare Bill) Tyranny can come in so many insidious and elusive ways. Our government and politicians are practicing all of them!
  • 23. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 15 Number 12 January 27, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 11 of 13 Obama’s Rejection of the Constitution and Capitalism Obama’s rejection of the Constitution – In accusing Americans of “clinging to their religion and their guns,” Barack Obama was in essence complaining those Americans are clinging to their freedoms. They are clinging to the source of those freedoms, the Constitution. He would cast some sort of negative connotation to Americans clinging to their freedoms and the Constitution. His lust for power to push us to socialism and beyond creates disdain for the checks and balances our founding fathers built into the Constitution to restrain tyrants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNoJ0q6HrK8 Obama is demeaning people for desires they have, valued by our Founding Fathers. In the First Amendment of our Constitution, it states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise there of…” The Second Amendment states, “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” In Obama’s elitist intellectual mind, he and his ilk of intellectuals are better qualified to control the lives of the American People than we are to control our own lives! This is the polar opposite to the vision and confidence Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Madison and the other founding fathers had for the American People. This is tyranny! Obama’s rejection of the Capitalism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qmj4trja7w President Barack Obama’s declaration capitalism has failed is just one more incident of ignorant rhetoric of a socialist sympathizer. If anything has failed it is big government socialism he wants introduced to the United States. Capitalism has served our country well over 230 years, if you falsely blame the financial meltdown of 2007 on capitalism. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 employing the socialist government Obama seeks. European countries economies are collapsing having implemented and extensively practiced the socialism Obama wants for the United States. Their economies are imploding one by one, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Yet Obama pushes the United States in the direction of these failures. Who is ignoring the facts?
  • 24. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 16 Paragraph 4 who is ignoring the facts http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/04/02/did-obama-say-capitalism-doesn- t-work One has to ask, was the Great Depression a failure of capitalism or the implementation of big government policies of Franklin Roosevelt that stretched a recession, which in our history usually ran about a year, into a depression which continued for ten years. Jack Cashill (Popes and Bankers), Thomes Sowell and Jim Powell (FDR’s Folly) all point out the myth of FDR getting us out of the Great Depression! Even Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morganthau Jr. declared before congress FDR’s policies a failure. Paragraph 6 was the great depression a failure of capitalism Peter Schiff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlkyZr468o4&feature=related Was it capitalism that failed in our most recent financial meltdown, or socialist policies like Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac? It was years of liberal abuse of government spending that caused the economic meltdown of 2007 and Obama’s massive socialist spending that has made this recession much deeper? This is tyranny! http://personalliberty.com/2012/04/06/milton-friedman-what-alinsky-never-told-obama/ Number 13 January 30, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 12 of 13 Strategies to implement tyranny There are numerous movements and events establishing tyranny in our government! Obama’s desire for a “civilian national security force”! Then consider the rampant corruption in government politicians and bureaucrats see as entitlements for their own benefit. Strategies like the UN’s “Agenda 21” and a taught strategy in our military to quell or neutralize the Tea Party! These are behaviors and plans that could easily be precursors to tyranny! Obama’s civilian national security force - Obama voiced his desire for a “civilian national security force”, troops to patrol the streets of our communities as the British did before the revolution in 1776. This force he wants will be as large and well equipped as our armed forces. He mentioned this desire in his 2008 campaign and has begun its execution in the Obamacare Bill. This domestic army, similar to Hitler’s Brown Shirts would make the streets of our country safer? Safer for whom! Safer for the tyrants that are transferring power from the
  • 25. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 17 people to themselves! This force “as well equipped as our army” would be armed well beyond assault rifles. If the purpose of the second amendment is to confront tyranny in our government as Jefferson said, some people better have assault rifles! http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47844 http://www.americanthinker.com/video/2012/11/flashback_obama_wants_civilian_nation al_security_force.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYAPcoE4H0 http://conservativecorner-karen.blogspot.com/2010/04/obamas-civilian-national-security- force.html http://www.truthistreason.net/obamas-ready-reserve-corp-within-the-healthcare-bill- explained http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/04/23/napolitano-pushes-civilian-army- conspiracy-theo/163707 Rampant corruption in our government seen as politician’s entitlements! Fast and furious, Fannie and Freddie Failures, Benghazi, Stimulus Package, Bailouts, Crony Capitalism, Quantitative Easing, GSA scandals, etc. and so much more festering corruption in our government! In general the consistent acceptance of failures of our government is tyranny! That government should perform at such a low and corrupt quality because of waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence is rampant and is a form of tyranny. Mediocrity, lethargy and complacency in government performance are stealing from the American people. Stealing both treasure and freedom for the politicians and bureaucrats to skate along collecting the best of salaries and benefits for people performing less than mediocre in their “service” to the people? One has to question are they engaged in “Government Service” or “Self-Service” fraud at the highest level! Politicians see corruption as their entitlement! This is tyranny! John Fund in his article on Fannie and Freddie UN’s Agenda 21 - Global sustainability, “sustainable development,” promoting sustainable human settlement development will designate where people can live and where they can go. Depopulation or more politically correct population control, similar to Obamacares decision making panels being referred to as death panels, they will fit in nicely with Agenda 21’s population control! This is tyranny! Article The Blaze, “What is Agenda 21? After Watching this< You May Not Want to Know” November 19, 2012 By Tiffany Gabbay http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/ http://www.betterworldcampaign.org/news-room/web-articles/agenda- 21.html?gclid=CMDM24LsybQCFQqk4AodTiQAOA
  • 26. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 18 http://www.theblaze.com/stories/what-is-agenda-21-after-watching-this-you-may-not- want-to-know/ Military Plans Against the Tea Party A scenario is being taught in our military for the quelling of insurrection. It is very suggestive politically in its presentation. Described in an article, “U.S. Army to be used against “Insurrectionist” Tea Party?” By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com, Tuesday August 7, 2012. The Great Recession Lasts approaching twenty years, because the Administrations following Obama’s did not spend at the levels he did. Definitely a political statement! The insurrectionists are Tea Partiers, historically non-violent and not Occupiers who have been historically violent. This strategy against America Citizens is setting up particular people as the enemy well in advance using the same bias as the media, disseminating its tyrannical propaganda. This is tyranny! “U.S. Army to be used against “Insurrectionist” Tea Party?” By Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com, Tuesday August 7, 2012 http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-to-be-used-against-insurrectionist-tea-party/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/11/15/how-the-u-s-military-would-crush- a-tea-party-rebellion/ “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort to protect themselves against tyrannical government!” Thomas Jefferson The tyranny we see coming from Washington is like the corruption. What we see is merely the tip of the iceberg. 90% is beneath the surface, hidden to our eyes. There is a festering ooze of infection beneath being seen as normal and justified by our political elites, yet destroying our country from within. Number 14 February 2, 2013 Gun Control or People Control, Losing the soul of America part 13 of 13 Summary It is obvious the focus coming out of these school shootings is Gun Control. It is not about saving lives, because history has proved an armed population saves more lives, more innocent lives, millions of times more.
  • 27. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 19 Government’s refusal to recognize this is because they desire the rule of tyranny. They want a clear path to their governments that oppresses the people. Where they can continue to nurture waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence as they please! Where people can serve the government instead of government being held accountable for serving the people! Army corporal litter to Feinstein http://www.theblaze.com/stories/unconstitutional-laws-arent-laws-marine-who-penned- blistering-letter-to-sen-feinstein-over-gun-control-speaks-out/ Holder on Gun Control http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCQTzBzl1A Then they discount the affects of the drugs they fed children to control them. The violent natures caused in both children and adults by those drugs. Drugs it appears are often being used to create a nation of sheep that can be fed on by the political wolves. It makes one question the seriousness of the Federal Government’s “War on Drugs”! And how serious a policy of gun control is about saving lives. Drugs and school shootings http://endfed.org/2012/12/all-major-shooting-incidents-occur-at-the-hands-of-big- pharma-guinea-pigs/ http://greenfertility.blogspot.com/2008/02/psychiatric-drugs-and-school-shootings.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S-7aNPf33A We have a government exploiting the populous in so many ways they are afraid of the people finally standing up and taking notice. Politicians have victimized the people, stealthily stealing their freedoms, they are truly afraid of an armed people! This is the purpose of the Founding Fathers giving the right of the people to bear arms. Perhaps corrupt politicians will see their way to integrity, if only because of that fear. Chuck woolery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEg1VNfX3o&feature=youtu.be http://thebrennerbrief.com/2013/01/22/another-example-of-background-checks-for-gun- owners-targeting-mentally-ill-conservatives/ Chinese dissident http://www.therightplanet.com/2013/01/what-this-chinese-dissident-has-to-say-about- americas-second-amendment/ John Stossel Guns http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2012/12/john-stossel-exposes-myth-gun-control.html It’s like the nation maintaining military strength to avoid war. An armed population might well avoid the bloodshed of revolution because they are armed!
  • 28. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 20 The dangers on the gun issue from the mental health aspect are the same on both sides. The difference is the magnitude. This is the primary issue ignored. Teenagers and young adults weaned on drugs from an early age, as young as three years old, while their brains are in their early formative years could be warping even destroying minds. These actions of administering drugs to babies may be the seeds planted cultivating school massacres. How about those warped and distorted minds seeking absolute power over the people? These are minds that can command great power over the people. Minds willing to throw chains on the people to gain this power! Those willing to disarm the people so the power of those political elite crazies will remain unchallenged! Political elite crazies like dictators and tyrants, Hitler and Stallin! Which of these groups do we have to fear more? As sad and as heinous as these school massacres are they are no comparison to the tens of millions massacred by mental cases who have attained absolute power over their people. As our government progresses through time we see the personalities of our leaders warping in our own government. Leaders that nurture waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence for their own ends! The causes of the school massacres are many, most ignored, many even nurtured by our government. That ignoring of the real problems by making guns the problem is dangerous to our nation as John Fund pointed out. The mental health industry seemingly allied in the agenda’s of government gone bad. The ignoring of the tyranny and genocide of those nations with a history of banning guns! Tens of millions of people were massacred, not twenty six! Then we see the tyranny spreading in our country as our democratic republic is dismantled. The seeds of tyranny planted by government! Then the weeds of tyranny crowding out the productive plants that feed our freedom. Freedom choked out by burdensome taxation and stupid laws oppressing the people! Trashing the Constitution and it freedoms to institute socialism and dictatorial government! It would probably take the psychiatric, psychology and sociology industries to figure this out. Likely they among the bias liberal left would wither before the truth and not face the realities they found! One cannot help but think their teachings have something to do with this phenomenon, weakening people’s character, therefore their esteem, till such actions become rational to them. The tyranny we see coming from Washington is like the corruption. What we see is merely the tip of the iceberg. 90% is beneath the surface, hidden to our eyes. If we keep up along this path, as the old song says, “We are on the eve of destruction!
  • 29. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 21 Number 15 February 5, 2013 Little Miss Piggy of politics U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D) Louisiana announced, echoing Obama’s attacks, “Washington’s spending problem is only on Fox News.” Landrieu, always the southern belle seems ignorant of the financial state of the country! “I am not going to keep cutting the discretionary budget, which by the way is not out of control, despite what you hear on Fox News,” said Landrieu. The Louisiana Senator did say the entitlement spending is a major problem. “It is mandatory spending that is rising rapidly, because the greatest generation that gave us the greatest nation the world has ever seen is dying and they need hospice care, they need Social Security, and they need hospitals.” Great Wire, 1-29-13 Certainly entitlement spending is the largest issue. However, Congress created the problem with actions like robbing the Social Security Trust Fund to finance their always increasing spending desires to expand government! Spending that Landrieu denies! Mismanagement, waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence are what Congress has financed to get us into this situation. The entitlement of government avarice, by the elitist political class! Like Landrieu, Congressmen have gotten so far out of touch they will designate some spending as too small to make any difference in the National Debt or Deficit. Waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence in the little things add up to the same behavior in the big things. It is an attitude of acceptance of waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence that is the problem. First a thousand dollars is insignificant then a million, then a billion till it is no big deal to trash trillions of dollars. Pig at the trough behavior prevails! Like Congress stealing the money from the Social Security Trust Fund. Then they name Social Security an entitlement, as though they are giving it to the people. The people paid for Social Security! It is theirs, not a gift from government! Yet government took that money and squandered it in the same wasteful way they do the people’s taxes. They have no respect for the people’s hard earned money! Government’s galloping gobbling gluttony of the people’s treasure is bankrupting America! Ms. Landrieu seems to be the southern belle diva unconscious of the people, her servants as she and her government elitist peers see them. Landrieu is much like another diva oblivious to others around them. The famous Miss Piggy, a selfish, self-centered insensitive celebrity! My purpose is not to disparage Miss Piggy! She does no harm. She is a character people enjoy! Landrieu, on the other hand does harm, unaware of how she treats people, spending their money stupidly!
  • 30. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 22 It was appropriate this story broke on GH Day (Ground Hog Day) as this scenario happens over and over again! Perhaps we should call it Government Hog Day! No, that’s not right, that is April 15th ! Number 16 February 9, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 1 of 8. Following the dots Steven A. Smith of ESPN’s First Take (January 17, 2013) discussing the Manti Te’o hoax came to a conclusion for himself, Te’o is lying. He says “When you follow the dots,” that is the conclusion you must come to. He pointed out that is the job of the journalist, to follow the dots. Te’o carrying on a love filled relationship for three years when he has never seen the girl face to face, but has talked about looking into her eyes. After a near fatal accident, on her deathbed from leukemia, and her funeral, and he never went to see her. Following the dots, it certainly seems as though Te’o was involved in the hoax! Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey was aired about two days after the Te’o Hoax was uncovered. One sports announcer compared the two, an unfair comparison when looking at the childish stupidity of Te’o’s actions and the insidiousness of those of Armstrong. But it is an accurate indicator of how television and celebrity work! Having only heard and seen a few portions and opinions from the Armstrong interview, reports are he was very cold and calculating. He admitted to the charges he had denied for over 14 years. Lying, about cheating, use of performance enhancing drugs and illegal actions, perpetuating those lies each and every day for all those years! Still, even in the interview, Armstrong could not shake his natural habit of lying. People in the know are still urging him to come clean. Armstrong is a liar, a cheat, a law and rule breaker of the highest magnitude, using and threatening people for his own nefarious needs and deeds! Mike Greenberg of ESPN’s “Mike and Mike” (January 18, 2013) admitted the dots weren’t followed in the Armstrong saga! The red flags raised were ignored by the sports media. Let’s call this sociopath like behavior “Lance Armstrong Syndrome”. It is a malady of an individual, enabled by a compliant media, afraid of, or in awe of that individual. An individual who will lie, cheat and steal to the very highest of magnitudes, and swear to it’ to attain and retain the power and adulation they crave. It doesn’t matter who it hurts, they must win at all costs, even if it hurts the nation! This syndrome includes media participation that sees the symptoms, but refuses to follow the
  • 31. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 23 dots of dishonesty and corruption. A media that fans the fires of fraud and corruption handing greater power and glory to a dangerous sociopath! Then I must ask why are not the dots being followed in the case of Barack Hussein Obama? I would think this is the job hard news journalists should do. News media has failed miserably during Obama’s appearance on the national scene! In fact, it seems journalists have attempted to erase those dots and destroy the reputation of anyone trying to follow them! Number 17 February 12, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 2 of 8. Obama’s Alinsky dots If the name of Saul Alinsky is mentioned in regard to Obama, the media immediately circles the wagons and goes into a defensive mode. Bill Moyers describes Saul Alinsky a seeker of social justice, elevating him to some sort of saint. Obama’s association with Saul Alinsky’s philosophies is much a part of who he is. In fact, the media takes parts of Alinsky’s writings to bolster Obama! Political activist Saul Alinsky defined the “organizer” writing, “He does not have a fixed truth – truth to him is relative and changing.” His organizer was turned into “community organizer” by the media, giving it great credibility. At the same time Alinsky gave the “community organizer” unlimited leeway with truth. His truth is allowed major and constant fluctuations and inconsistencies depending upon the organizer’s mood. Obama was constructed from Saul Alinsky’s book “Rule for Radicals” which was dedicated to Lucifer who Alinsky describes as, “The first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment!” Obama the student, disciple then professor of the Saul Alinsky philosophy uses “Rule for Radicals” as his playbook, his presidential strategy! Alinsky preached, “The organizer is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which a man can reach—to create, to be a “great creator,” to play God.” This is an image the media took up, portraying Obama as a messiah like figure! An image Donna Brazile, democrat strategist sought to fortify when comparing Governor Palin’s experience to Obama’s lack of experience saying, “Pontius Pilot was a governor, Jesus Christ was a community organizer.” Obama readily embraces, perhaps believes these deified characterizations. The Reverend Martin Luther King would have winced at such audacity! Newsweek’s Evan Thomas June 2009 declared, “Reagan (at the 1984 D-Day commemoration) was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, “We are above that now. We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just
  • 32. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 24 provincial. We stand for something’ I mean in a way, Obama’s standing above his country, above-above the world. He’s sort of God. He’s going to bring all different sides together.” What happened to that? Obama turned out to be the “Great Divider” not the “Great Uniter”! Magazines played up this image placing holy like light around Obama’s head on the covers of magazines. Don’t forget the Greek Columns reminiscent of Mt. Olympus used during his first presidential campaign. Obama’s declaration of lowering the seas and temperatures played into this god like image to which many have fallen prey (to pray). “Community Organizer”, “Great Creator” all images created by Alinsky, promoted and perpetuated by the media! The 2013 presidential inaugural week Newsweek Magazine hailed Obama “The Second Coming”! Likening Obama to God has been fast and furious! Number 18 February 15, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 3 of 8. More of Obama’s Alinsky dots Values “Alinsky organizers” are above include fidelity (loyalty); truth, at the organizer’s mood; accountability, promises like truth are fleeting, whimsical. Honesty and integrity are superfluous, by Alinsky standards. He maintains “Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times,” and “In the politics of human life, consistency is not virtue.” Instead of delving into these philosophies, researching, questioning and following the trail, the media enhanced some of the images Alinsky threw out to the public, but not only avoided the main body of his philosophies, but threw them out never to be seen. News people like Bill Moyers softened Saul Alinsky to make him a hero, not a dangerous mind! The media has assigned titles to his organizer, but failed to research what those titles really mean. Organizer, cool, a great creator, God like, all given positive spin to the Obama arrogance and tyranny! Media drooling over him, fawning, in print and over the air waves, inflating Obama’s image, his head and his arrogance and tyranny! Obama’s presidential strategy has been Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”, in which Alinsky contends, “Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of “the organizer” is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance creating “mass ego.” Obama’s message is one of crisis, chaos, despair and class warfare! Obama’s massive egotism has him comparing himself to Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Reagan and even God, and he gets media approval without performance, without question! In converting people from despair to defiance people voted for Obama in spite of his outlandish, incompetent and dishonest behavior and performance. Obama’s being voted
  • 33. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 25 to a second term as president was much like O. J. Simpson being acquitted of the murder of his wife and Ron Goldman. It was a rebellious act of people in manipulated despair being defiant. That is what Alinsky has taught Obama, to divide and conquer! To get people to act out of emotion, anger, not common sense! Obama is basking in the rays of his glorious self. He is more interested in ruling than governing. In his mind he can do no wrong. He thinks his failed economic policies will eventually work, just as FDR did with his “New Deal”. However, it really doesn’t matter if they fail. Either outcome will serve the purpose for his agenda, taking America to socialism and beyond! Obama, “The Man Who Would Be King” or “The Man Who Sees Himself as God”, and is encouraged by many to do so. Such a man threatens serfdom to a free people. This is another symptom of the “Lance Armstrong Syndrome” complete focus on self, the people be damned! Number 19 February 18, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 4 of 8. Obama’s Chicago dots Illinois Governor Kerner, a Democrat served from 1961 to 1968. He served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. He was found guilty in 1973 of bribery, conspiracy, perjury and related charges and was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000. He took payoffs from Marge Lindheimer Everett, manager of Arlington Park and Washington Park racetracks in exchange for choice racing dates and two expressway exits to funnel fans to the horse races. Bob Daughtery, AP wrote, “Lindheimer Everett theorized that bribery was an ordinary and necessary business expense in Illinois.” In Illinois political corruption is a hallmark. As Lindheimer Everett theorized it is standard operating procedure. The Chicago Sun-Times documented in Sept. 7, 2006 at least 79 current or former Illinois, Chicago or Cook County elected officials had been found guilty of a crime by judges, juries or pleas since 1972. Since 2006, there has been no let up of corruption from Illinois and Chicago politicians! They have seen their leaders found guilty of crimes and corruption in droves! (Rod Blagojevich in 2011, most recently this month former U.S. Representative Jessie Jackson Jr. (D-Ill) and his wife a former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, using campaign funds for personal use.) Obama was marketed as a man of great intelligence. Being a Harvard Graduate was the primary reason for his pedestal as an intellectual. His books added fuel to the façade of
  • 34. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 26 his skills. There are some that believe he didn’t write the book that has garnered him such accolades. Some think William Ayers, homeland terrorist and bomber was the author. Obama, the politician and president was constructed in Chicago, a reflection of the cities corrupt nature! Yet the media did not check into his background. Warning flags were raised, dots appeared, but to attempt to connect the dots was met with Obamedia charges of extremist, conspiracy theorist and racist. Little in terms of accomplishment ever made the media to reveal any concrete actions or accomplishments. Obama was then and is now merely a marketed mystery, an image of words, not actions. The epitome of the empty suit! Obama’s connections to radical Chicago extremists and crooks like the Reverend Jeramiah Wright, Father Pfleger, William Ayres, Rod Blagojevich and Tony Rezko were ignored. Many Obama gaffs and negative connections were hidden by the media. The dots erased! The majority liberal media became an arm of his political campaign machine, building Obama up and tearing his opponents down. It is another symptom of Lance Arstrong Syndrome! To destroy others to enhance oneself! Number 20 February 18, 2013 Bob Beckel gun control and apartheid It’s half time of the eight part series on Lance Armstrong Syndrome! Let’s take a break to address comments Bob Beckel made on (The 5) Feberuary 16, and repeated on the 17th . Bob Beckel made a convoluted comparison having guns legally in America to apartheid in South Africa, in an attempt to frame our gun control issue as racist! His peers on “The 5” appeared totally confused by what he was saying. However, if you could navigate Beckel’s partisan ramblings, you’d discover he said something quite important! In essence, I think he was saying allowing the so-called “good people” to have guns made the so-called “bad people” subjugated to the so-called “good people”! Certainly a government, whom Beckel defined as a false “good people” and the oppressed blacks defined as the false “bad people” was an ugly oppressive situation! Beckel did everything but make air quotation marks to make his point. Bob Beckel’s bias misses the point in America’s case. “Good people” are legal gun owners following the law! “Bad people” are criminals, attaining illegal guns to commit crimes. This is distinctly different than when apartheid existed in South Africa!
  • 35. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 27 It is actually our government who fits Beckel’s comparison! Apartheid South African white government wanted the blacks disarmed to make them easier to oppress and suppress to keep them under control. Practicing tyranny against the people, government saw such disarming to attain and retain their superior position! This was so similar to Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China and a cavalcade of others who disarmed their people setting them up for oppression and massacre! Mr. Beckel, like so many other liberals works so hard to brand opponents racist on every issue. He did the opposite. In making his case for racism in the “gun control” issue, he made the case for the Founding Fathers and the 2nd Amendment and the people’s right to bear arms! Let me be clear! Historically those leaders disarming their population have been the “bad guys”! The truth is they have been leaders of tyranny with god like perceptions of themselves. We have people in America’s government that fit this description! In the world’s recent history there has been a cavalcade of dictators following the methods of Hitler and Stalin, keeping guns away from those they seek to oppress and massacre. Benito Mussolini, Italy 1931, Mao Tze Tung, China 1938, Pol Pot Cambodia, 1975, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and numerous other, especially in Africa! The infection of tyranny is poking its ugly head in America. The mounting pustule of corrupt government controlling the people rather than government of the people, by the people, and for the people that is in danger to parish from this earth! Many of our own leaders are at the forefront of this evolutionary movement of the decay of our democracy! Number 21 February 21, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 5 of 8. Obama’s Communist Party & Muslim Brotherhood dots Obama laughs at assertions he is a socialist. From one aspect I would agree. Obama embraces socialist methodologies and philosophies as an introductory step beyond to communism. That is really where he would go if he were allowed such a giant leap. However he has taken us dangerous giant steps to socialism. Communist Party Connections Obama has associations with Sam Webb, National Chair of Communist Party USA and also Manning Marable, the late Marxist academic! Frank Martial Davis, an American, communist, journalist was Obama’s boyhood mentor. Other communist leaning associates were Vernon Jarrett who worked in several Chicago communist organizations,
  • 36. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 28 Rev. Addie Wyatt a long time affiliate of the Chicago Communist Party, and Bea and Frank Lumpkin members of Communist Party USA. Obama has received support from many communist organizations over a long period of time! Muslim Brotherhood Alliance Obama has not only connections and support from the Muslim Brotherhood, but members of his administrations have Muslim Brotherhood affiliations! Egytian “Rose El-Youseff Magazine suggested six and names them! Rashad Hussian - U.S. Special Envoy Arif Alikhan – Assistant Sec of Homeland Security, founder of World Islamic Organization which identifies the Muslim Brotherhood as a subsidiary Mohammed Elibiary – a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council Salam al-Marayati – co-found Muslim Public affairs council MPAC Imam Mohamed Magid – President Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Eboo Patel – A member of Obama’s Advisory council on faith based partnerships Pamela Geller – Atlas Shrugs 65 posts categorized “Obama and The Muslim Brotherhood” Thursday, January 03, 2013, subheading “Vindication: Egyptain Magazine Exposes Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration of Obama Administration” Egytain Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration IPT John Rossomando, Jan. 3, 2013 “An Egytain Magazine claims that six American Islamic activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy!” Egytian “Rose El-Youseff Magazine suggested six names saying they (the six) turned the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.” As in the Chicago connections categories, Obama’s Communist and Muslim connections run father and deeper! These mentioned are just scratching the surface, the obvious ones! Number 22 February 28, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 6 of 8. Obama’s personal dots Initially Obama hide his birth certificate! It took him several years to finally have it revealed. When at last it came out, it had a rough and questionable look to it. Some said it utilized many fonts which was unusual. Sheriff Joe Arpio had experts look it over. They thought it looked fraudulent. With Obama’s proclivity for lying, this cannot be ignored!
  • 37. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 29 Birther was the label used to discourage such questioning of President Obama. Birther the word which was constructed to be synonymous with crazy, conspiracy theorist, extremist or racist! The usual bullying by political correctness established to change words to help the Obama propaganda. Sealed college transcripts should also spur curiosity about the man and his beginnings. Instead his actions seemed to send a message of hands off. Even to sage journalists like Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose! Yet Romney was asked to show ten years of his tax fillings and accused of not paying taxes for ten years by Senate Leader Harry Reid! Throw into the mix the incidents of Obama’s czars. Then Obamacare behind closed doors, Fast & Furious, Obama’s beating his chest on the Bin Laden killing, but hiding in a hole on the Benghazi debacle, like Saddam in his hole! Oh yes, the “video” that was blamed for Benghazi! Obama’s lie heard round the world! Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s response, “What difference does it make?” The 2012 Presidential campaign tactics of Obama bears strong comparisons to Lance Armstrong’s behaviors. Obama practicing Armstrong’s and Alinsky’s win at any cost, lie, cheat and steal toward that end. Destroying an opponent’s character and reputation to promote their own lies and deceit. Obama sowed lies about Romney like the farmer sows seeds on his fields. Obama’s cavalcade of professional liars hit the streets and air waves! Practiced and perfected liars like Stephanie Cutter, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, Harry Reid and a host of others spread their putrid lies like manure on the same fields! Destroying opponents to win and the feeling of infallibility, and arrogance encouraged the audacity that anything they did was OK. Media supported those dishonest actions every step of the way calling Obama’s corrupt and dirty campaign brilliant! The 2012 presidential campaign was dirty in so many ways, yet the media did nothing to follow the dots. In fact, they again erased the dots, hailing the wonderful campaign Obama ran. Number 23 March 3, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 7 of 8. More of Obama’s personal dots Before the 2008 election Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose had a discussion on Obama being a mystery. That little was known about him. These two giants of media news responsible for such research sat there mystified at the Obama ambiguity and did nothing about it.
  • 38. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 30 It was almost like they marveled in it but had no curiosity to delve into it. Perhaps they didn’t want to know, or they knew and didn’t want to reveal his suspicious ties to the voting public. Obama was almost as unknown during the 2012 election as he was the 2008, after four years of being president because of the protection he received from the media. Chris Matthews declared Mitt Romney the unknown in the 2012 election to take attention away from Obama’s shady character. He used Romney as a distraction to keep Obama’s socialist nature and poor character hidden. Like Lance Armstrong destroying the reputation of those exposing his dishonesty, Obama attacked Romney viciously, with malice and deceit! Romney was made out the liar when Obama showed a history of being a “Rapid Fire Liar” during his first term! This was Alinsky’s methodology of destroying an opponent’s reputation and character using lies and slander in order to preserve and enhance ones own character. Like with Armstrong, the media was complicit in Obama’s lies and deceit! They supported and promoted Obama’s dishonesty. The media was Obama’s partner in the destruction of Romney’s reputation. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton are both disciples of Alinsky, like many others. Obama taught Alinsky’s philosophies as a college professor. There is plenty of deceit inherent in the business of politics. These processes are even documented for reproduction by such as Alinsky. Hitler’s “Big Lie” is one of the tools Alinsky suggests and Obama and his liberal democrats use. This gives us a trust and truth indicator of our liberal political elite. Obama presses, pushes and cries crisis to get his agenda passed in a convenient, convoluted, quick and covert manner. He would like to be king, but has long seen himself as more. A disciple of Saul Alinsky and professor of the Alinsky philosophies, Obama has been standing on a pedestal for a long time. He sees himself as deserving to be there. Alinsky is the definer of the “community organizer, a Great Creator, God like”! Obama fancies himself as such! Finally we will go full circle, back to Steven A. Smith on January 30, 2013 ESPN’s First Take. Discussing Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez again using PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) according to an article in the Miami New Times! Because of Rodriguez’s past, Smith said, “There are reasons for suspicion! Suspicion is justified!” However, the media, whose inactions were a major player in Lance Armstrong Syndrome, complains they are being made puppets to the puppet master Obama. Such allegations are ludicrous when you consider the Obamedia has been compliant puppets for him since he came on the scene! They even made themselves prostrate before his god like images! Such sycophants!
  • 39. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 31 Thus the cloak covering Barack Obama is revealed. What is under that cloak is still to be discovered. My article, perhaps amateurish, yet applying common sense cites enough incidents, dots, to warrant looking into! Michelle Malkin has written a very comprehensive book, “Culture of Corruption” on the subject of Obama’s questionable, often corrupt behaviors. In regard to Obama, “There are many reasons for suspicion! Suspicion is justified!” Number 24 March 7, 2013 Lance Armstrong Syndrome; Part 8 of 8. Summary outline President Obama’s dots Just a few dots to follow (Outline) Saul Alinsky dots The Organizer License to lie No loyalties Destroying opponents Great Creator, God like Chicago gangster politics dots Criminal associations Communists associations Extremists associations Muslim Connection dots Chicago White House Middle and Far East Obama’s personal dots Birth certificate anomalies Sealed college documents Other omissions Moving to socialism World view background Obama’s Presidential dots Czars Hidden decisions Executive Orders
  • 40. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 32 Fast and Furious Benghazi Economy Drone Killings Election dots ACORN Lies about Romney Precinct voting anomalies (Ohio, Philadelphia etc.) Donation anomalies (At home & abroad) Number 25 March 11, 2013 Obama’s crisis management: Part 1. The Obama drama On the manufacturing production floor, I saw two managers up for the same promotion to the next level. One I’ll call Bob, was scurrying around the plant, rubbing elbows, talking to upper level managers, and regularly fighting emergencies on the production floor! The second I’ll call Bill was quietly talking with his people, seldom if ever seen addressing an emergency. In short, Bob got the promotion because he was seen handling emergency after emergency. Bill seemed rather lackluster in his daily performance. Bob running around like a chicken with his head cut off because of addressing the crises he created was observed as being the better performer. Bill communicating with his workers and avoiding crisis was seen as weak and docile! Bob with his reactive approach appeared more capable and dynamic! Bill with a proactive approach appeared bland, milk toast! Never waste a good crisis Our President Barack Obama adheres to the Rahm Emanuel approach of “never waste a good crisis”! For such people the strategy of “never waste a good crisis” has evolved to the corollary of “never waste the opportunity to create a good crisis”! This sums up Barack Obama’s “Crisis Management Style! Everything Barack Obama puts out before the nation is in crisis mode. If it is actually not a crisis, he makes it into one. Some things actually a crisis if not important to his agenda or could obstruct his agenda, are ignored. Obama’s Benghazi Affair is one such example! Healthcare
  • 41. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 33 Healthcare was a “crisis”? It was some 2700 pages pushed through in the night with about three hours left to our representatives to read it. Nancy Pelosi laughingly said we need to pass it so we can know what’s in it. Years later and we still don’t know what is in it. They laughed about Sara Palin insinuating “Death Panels” were part of this Bill few if any who voted for it read! Now economist Paul Krugman expresses the need for “death panels” which appear in Obamacare but certainly not under that name! The Affordable Healthcare Bill was passed left with holes and dark cul-de-sacs to be manipulated after the fact. Such that the cost for Obamacare has risen to two, three, now four times what Obama projected! The shadiness and shadows in the Bill have no where near been exposed! The numerous taxes, traps and pitfalls yet to snag the people! Even when the can is kicked down the road, postponing the crisis, Obama does not meet with his opponents to address the crisis. He waits again till the last minute crisis arises again, manipulating his opponents and the people to get his own way. He just stands over the pot and keeps stirring it, hoping his way will prevail. These are the actions of a piss poor and incompetent leader! Or perhaps a spoiled child! Obama is running around the country hysterical, like “Chicken Little” screaming “the sky is falling.” Like a chicken with his head cut off, running directionless in circles! He is sewing fear throughout the nation! Fear mongering is the way he pushes his agenda. Obama (Chicken Little): The sky is falling, earth warming, ocean rising! Obama crisis management Employing constant propagandist demagoguery, Obama instills fear in the people, employing the green eyed monster of jealousy and envy pitting one group against the other in class warfare! Obama’s is a negative leadership taking America to negative places, to socialism and beyond!
  • 42. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 34 Number 26 March 15, 2013 Obama’s crisis management: Part 2. The little president who cries wolf! Obama’s crisis count Obama traveling the nation crying wolf! Obama, the wolf in sheeps clothing Obama’s list of inflated crisis is long and constant. It started with TARP which began on President Bush’s watch, but also approved by President Obama! This was the running start afforded Obama in his crisis management tactic! The drastic action that was supposedly to keep us from going over the cliff! Then there was the stimulus package and the bailouts, which Obama tells us results would have been disastrous if he hadn’t implemented those actions. We are told by Obama things would have been much worse if he hadn’t taken the actions he did. We have no concrete results of his actions? He like FDR has stretched a financial depression far longer than is historically standard. Obama’s accomplishments are only based on what is projected might have happened. Likely scenarios caused by mismanagement, pumped up out of proportion to turn them into a crisis that could be exploited for political purposes! Obama’s crises are many! Starting with TARP, bank and auto industry bailouts and the stimulus package of almost a trillion dollars that was squandered! Then came Obama’s healthcare debacle! Next we went to Afganistan and the Arab Spring, turning sour on the vine! As Obama became more emboldened he not only exploited crisis, he created them!
  • 43. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 35 Green energy like the stimulus that lost much government investment among them! Benghazi, Obama’s lie heard round the world, that an obscure video caused the attack that killed four American’s, the ambassador to Tripoli one of them. Most recently the fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling! We are facing sequester, an Obama concoction for which he is blaming others, and the debt ceiling again! We must not forget that creating crisis and managing it to his own advantage and agenda is a major Obama tactic! Obama’s crisis management to manipulate the people Obama uses crisis to manage the people, frightening them into accepting his half baked, foolish and destructive policies and executive orders! “Never waste a good crisis” and whenever you can, “Create a good crisis” are not merely mottos Obama lives by, but actions he takes even if it hurts America! Obama is a crisis manager. Not one who manages crisis to a positive conclusion, or manages situations so they pretty much avoid crisis in general. Obama turns everything into a crisis! He inflates and exploits crisis that come along, using those emergencies to manipulate people in the self-serving direction he wishes to go. Like the Newtown Massacre, used to push his agenda of Gun Control, using the killing of twenty six second graders for political purposes! His crisis management even goes to the point of creating crisis to exploit. Creating those crises even if it hurts the people and the nation to get where Obama wants to go, to socialism and beyond! Obama is constantly muddying the water to hide his actions. Laying smoke screens to disguise his strategies! Creating distractions and diversions to take attention away from his Marxist intentions! Obama a master of deception, incompetent in his leadership of a free nation! Number 27 March 21, 2013 The incredible shrinking dollar Part 1 of 2 Many people don’t watch their money carefully. They use credit cards to manage their finances, a very dangerous method! Like our government they spend without consideration to what is coming in. All government has to do is raise taxes on the people to make up for their wasteful spending. The people have to tighten their belts and reduce spending, something government has never done. Workers have seen their paychecks shrink because of an increase in the payroll tax. Middle class Americans were told they would be spared tax increases if the rich were punished with an income tax increase. This was false, using class warfare to punish the rich. The workers see their smaller paychecks the fault of their employer, not a voracious government!
  • 44. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 36 The European island nation of Cyprus has found another source for taxing the people since their government has spent itself into insolvency. They are exploring taxing the people’s savings accounts (bank deposits). Money people have already paid taxes on will be re-taxed. Savings people are depending on will be significantly reduce from just over 6 percent to 16 percent. People are asking can this happen in America! The truth is this is already happening in America! Middle class paychecks, in fact all incomes to the American people, investment, social security, 401Ks, bank accounts and interest has been diminished by the “Quantitative Easing” employed by Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve. The printing of more money in mass has devalued every dollar, diminishing the quantity of goods and services one can buy with a dollar. Printing more money has driven prices higher, lessening the value of the money we get, have saved and have invested. In the last couple of years milk in the store I shop in has gone from $.99 to $1.49. All groceries have escalated at some rate. The bird seed I buy has more than doubled from $7.98 a 20lb. bag to $17.98. In the last couple of years so has bulk corn going from $6.00 a hundred lbs. to $15.00! Corn now used in fuel, lowering our gas mileage and increasing the damage to our engines in cars, motorcycles, lawn mowers, snow blowers, generators, etc.! The surge in the price of corn is also starving people in third world countries! Number 28 March 25, 2013 The incredible shrinking dollar Part 2 of 2 Quantitative Easing (QE) one and two didn’t pull the economy out of its funk. Talk was about QE3, to extend the devaluation of out dollar. We find out the Federal Reserve actually has us well beyond QE3 into QE4. The Federal Reserve may keep printing money till the paper we hold is worthless. Since we have nothing backing our currency, it holds its value by our trust in our government and economy. That trust being abused by a tidal wave of lies from government is washing out rapidly! Christmas passed and people purchased without notice the increase in price of toys from China. Action figures have increase 30% to 70% depending upon the toy. At Christmas people want the best for their children so they pay the prices necessary to do so. Even dollar stores are indicators of this price creep due to printing more money! The quality and quantity of the items we can purchase for a dollar are slipping too!
  • 45. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 37 Prices up, quality down, is also a description of our government, costs constantly rising, effectiveness and efficiency continually lowered. This, the reason for devaluation of every cent we own, except in precious metals. The shrinking dollar is continually shrinking and squeezing our budgets! Our raises are eaten up by taxes and the shrinking dollar! Could it happen our Federal Government would confiscate our bank deposits through taxation! They seem to have an insatiable appetite for taxing and an aversion to cutting spending. There is rumor of confiscation of IRAs, 401Ks and retirement plans by government for their socialist redistribution strategy. Money to supply the Social Security System our politicians stole from to finance their waste, fraud, corruption and incompetence, draining America and the people! With government greed and gluttony out of control, when the time comes they’ll tax what we have in the bank too! Unless they make it worthless with Quantitative Easing 5 - ∞! Number 29 March 30, 2013 Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 1 Washington D.C.: The shinning city on a hill or lipstick on a pig! John Stossel in his latest exposé of the failures of our federal government compared Washington DC to Versailles France prior to the French revolution. Seems extreme and I’m sure liberals would mock any such comparisons. However, the legendary Marie Antonette “Let them eat cake” attitude emanates robustly from the Washington political elite and their union and lobbyist cronies. It used to be the richest cities in America were engaged in producing something. Industrial cities producing the machinery powering this great nation ahead, steel and oil producing cities! Or transportation centers that carried those goods around the nation and around the world! Goods and services required to drive the industrial and trade engines of America. Hustling and bustling cities driven by intelligence, strength and sweat, not lard ass politicians and bureaucrats, bull shitting wind bags conning! Washington DC has become the Kim Kardashian of cities! No real skills, no real contribution to humanity but thriving on its outer beauty alone. There is nothing of substance when you look beyond the beautiful exterior facades of the institutional palaces. When you look at the grandiose interior decorations it proves to be ostentatious decadence to hide the empty shells the ornate insides are holding! Sucking the treasure from the nation for being a pretty face with loose morals and no more!
  • 46. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 38 I saw a clip of Kim Kardashian lamenting to her sister she would lose her house if she didn’t stop shopping. Shopping for clothes she admitted she did not need. Again, how like the government in Washington, fatally spending the nation over the fiscal cliff. Spending on nonsense, cupcakes and sex lives of snails, to doom even though they can see the disastrous consequences! Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 2 Today Washington DC is the richest city in America. These days it is reported most of the richest cities are seats or areas of government! Federal and state governments take the money from the people, delivering it to themselves. Government’s political elites make themselves the rich of the nation. Stossel reported Washington DC did not experience a housing bubble. People I know working in Washington along with FOX News say that city did not experience a recession. Washington is a boom town while the nation is in a Jimmy Carter malaise. Washington sucks the energy and strength from the rest of the nation, like a vampire, leaving the country dying! Washington is an ocean of money! The average wage of the government worker is $126,000 a year according to FOX News. Money flowing in, the city, the government complex, living the highlife while the rest of the nation is in the doldrums! The money keeps getting sucked away from the people into the giant government vacuums! Robbing from the people giving it to the politicians and their cronies, their lobbyists, friends, families, partners in crime and corruption, with no conscience about what they are doing to the people! Speaking of the elite Washington politicians Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said, “They don’t want to know where the waste is. If they did, they’d have to do something about it! Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-Dem) talked about the poor and middle class, as though sympathetic, but wallows in his elitism like a pig in poop! Grayson says he has been in communist countries and Americans don’t have burdens. If communism is his threshold, the burdens of communism our destination! Is Washington D.C. Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” or has it sunk to America’s “capital of corruption”? Number 30 April 5, 2013 Washington D.C.: The Kim Kardashian of cities! Part 2
  • 47. Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book 8 39 Today Washington DC is the richest city in America. These days it is reported most of the richest cities are seats or areas of government! Federal and state governments take the money from the people, delivering it to themselves. Government’s political elites make themselves the rich of the nation. Stossel reported Washington DC did not experience a housing bubble. People I know working in Washington along with FOX News say that city did not experience a recession. Washington is a boom town while the nation is in a Jimmy Carter malaise. Washington sucks the energy and strength from the rest of the nation, like a vampire, leaving the country dying! Washington is an ocean of money! The average wage of the government worker is $126,000 a year according to FOX News. Money flowing in, the city, the government complex, living the highlife while the rest of the nation is in the doldrums! The money keeps getting sucked away from the people into the giant government vacuums! Robbing from the people giving it to the politicians and their cronies, their lobbyists, friends, families, partners in crime and corruption, with no conscience about what they are doing to the people! Speaking of the elite Washington politicians Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said, “They don’t want to know where the waste is. If they did, they’d have to do something about it! Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-Dem) talked about the poor and middle class, as though sympathetic, but wallows in his elitism like a pig in poop! Grayson says he has been in communist countries and Americans don’t have burdens. If communism is his threshold, the burdens of communism our destination! Is Washington D.C. Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” or has it sunk to America’s “capital of corruption”? Number 31 April 9, 2013 Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty: Treachery of the Gang of 8 Part 1 Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty is again on the Federal Government agenda. Like plans from the sixties, eighties and early 2000s another gang of eight is scheming to slip a legalization of they say 12 million illegal immigrants into our population. The last attempt at this, under George W. Bush, also said 12 million. Others corrected that figure with 21 million, yet today they are again pushing the 12 million number, which is likely above the 21 million today! One of the problems with their so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is our government can no longer be trusted.