The Roman

21st Century Americans

2010-01-07T19:25:00.000-08:00

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world that HAS been handed them rather than to embrace the power within themselves to create a new world or get the old one back – the one we see in the vision of our past.

Impossible is NOT a fact…

…it is an option.

…Something is only impossible because you think it is in a moment in time, an instant that you can move through and beyond all the way to the possible because you willed it so.

Impossible is the opportunity inside a problem or a crisis. It’s what’s behind door # 3.

To achieve the impossible can mean the difference between life and death, success and failure, and sometimes begins with something as simple as deciding – making a choice to put one foot in front of the other toward a common goal – in this case that most uncommon state of affairs in the society of men: Liberty.

Which moment will you live in?

Someday you will realize that the only hallowed ground there is is the little piece of earth you’re standing on right here– that one small portion of earth that is free because you are on it and by you being there today, unwilling to be moved, have already liberated those who will stand here tomorrow.

No one will remember who stole life and liberty from us if we lose it – infamy has a way of receding back into the darkness whence it came. But if we lose this today, if it falls to us, today’s guardians of the nation's character, to be holding the torch when the flame of freedom sputters and dies out, we will be remembered for that and we will be despised through all eternity..

What do YOU want?

…and What is this place?

What was it yesterday and the day before that or a hundred years or two hundred years ago?

What have we earned but the responsibility to pass this nation down to the next generation? And what will you pass down– what are you willing to let be your legacy? Change? Change what?

What got you here wasn’t change…it was constancy and faith and yes, even that most uncommon of virtues, common sense. The gift of freedom is yours by right but only because freemen before you made it so - it does not fall to us to default on the debt we owe both to our past and to the generations of the future.

WHO ARE YOU TO GIVE THAT AWAY?

This is our time, today…at the moment this is still a time for ideas and discussion; it may not be so for much longer. What is the right thing for us to do today?

This is our epic moment and mere good intentions will not be enough to see us through. Courage, boldness, creativity, and the will to win through every problem and setback based on our experience as a free nation is what is expected of us.

This is not a time for arrogance. That is what we expect from the corrupt who have sought to contaminate our legacy. It is for us now a time to prepare for difficulties.

Unfortunately, we have things to relearn in our adversity and we will rediscover in ourselves those who came before us, whose deeds shine forth a ten-fold beacon in the night: the path of Duty, Honor, Country - the by word of every American Soldier.

In these recent months we in the new movement for America have discovered our capacity to form positive alliances of spirit and leadership and the strength of a shared vision for this country.

Pessimism and doubt, the enemy of every soldier and statesman, magnify the discomfort of uncertainties and inhibit advancement especially when we see that the threat comes as much from within as from without.

However, we share an important, worthy goal, and that is the survival of a great idea put into practical application so many years ago in long winters of deprivation and setback, a time when hope seemed itself forlorn and might have been the end of America before it really had a beginning but for the spark that refused to die out. In small victories hard won through nothing more than determination and perseverance, intelligence and the passion to remain free, the mercenary, the professional soldier, not even the traitors in our midst were no match for the citizen soldier who saw beyond himself to a day when he had to be free or he had to die trying.

AND THEY WOULD NOT BE DENIED.

The approbation of future generations is the only acceptable goal for us today. That, or history will prove us despicable for losing.

Will it be duty fulfilled or duty abandoned? Ask the people of Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos that question – when we abandoned that battlefield to the darkness. That is the face of duty unfulfilled, not, however by the soldiers, sailors, airman, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines who fought and died there for freedom, for Viet Nam, and for each other. No, it was men of an entirely different character who abandoned their duty - and their honor, who were responsible for that.

To overcome today precisely because we will face what is necessary today and not give up our fundamental values but instead rededicate ourselves to them - that is the lesson we must pass to our own Posterity. Let it be said of us.

Substitute teaching

2009-09-25T21:15:00.000-07:00

After substitue teaching in 38 schools over a 4 1/2 month period in Connecticut, I quit. I had taught pre-K, grammar, middle school, high school, Job Corp, magnet schools, alternative schools, English as a Second Language, and special education classes.

The experience gave me a unique perspective - an inside view of the public school system and not connected to any school district or to the oppressive teacher’s union. I found it a dysfunctional system that dedicated teachers, new buildings, massive budgets, and busing can’t save. In this era of mega budgets that taxpayers are expected to accept without whining, it surprised me to learn that teachers spend money out of their own pockets for their classrooms or on individual students.

It seems that every manner of new program is employed and discarded and replaced by an improved program. Whatever has been tried fails, so they move to a different solution. There’s always a new plan. In one city, for instance, reading and math programs together with their textbooks and ‘supplemental’ material are changed almost with the seasons. The costs associated with inconsistent curriculum planning are both material and human. What are all of these highly paid ‘administrators’ doing to earn their wages?

Kids are given laptops, counseling, in-classroom support and lots of face time but fall short anyway. I’ve been in some classrooms that had three teachers and two para-professionals for 16 kids. How much of this expensive support do you need?

Ultimately, school budgets are approved by taxpayers…or not: With each passing generation Americans seem increasingly distanced from their own past. School critics, with justification, often lay responsibility for not teaching what it means to be an American or that our citizenship, unique in the world, is disappearing in the collective hive.

Our form of citizenship identifies us as sovereign: citizens who are above the government but not above the law. Such a citizenry could say “NO” to government, whether on policy or budget matters (the two are often linked) and expect the government, whom we elect and appoint, to conform to our wishes and not the other way around. But to teach that concept, which is the foundation of American liberty, is incompatible with and contradicts current schema of public education which is to reengineer American society away from individualism into one of groupthink.

In 1993, I formed the a Parent Commission in my home town. We were an informed and influential group or parents – and a few teachers – who exerted pressure where it was needed: The school superintendent’s contract was not renewed and one principal got his walking papers. We warned parents that a new system of education was being placed in our schools, one that strangely favored emotions over academics and relationships over fact-based learning. We got rid of the superintendent but the system stayed.

That system, schemata that teaches children to accept change and to welcome it without question, has been in place now for 14 years. This generation just elected a president.
The academic results: our kids rank lower in academic comparisons to many other industrialized nations (from 1st to 14th). We tried to warn our neighbors that our kids were getting, not ‘school,’ but a management system based on international educational standards that use financial and other incentives to prepare students for “Mastery Learning” and to become multicultural persons open to all beliefs and lifestyles but where accuracy, literacy, and our own history fade in this process of standardizing ‘human capital’ - your kids.

One third of Hartford’s kids don’t graduate. A significant number of the girls leave pregnant, without a husband or man around to help with the new baby. And the poverty and crime cycle is held up to society as a threat: You’d better fix this or else you’ll pay me welfare for the next 30 years and you might be my next crime victim. Such reasoning eliminates the reasonable expectation of society for personal responsibility. To accept it is an admission of failure and impotence.

It isn’t the school’s responsibility to fix everything that’s wrong in a student’s life and it’s a cop-out to advocate that every problem facing youth, wherever they live, has a school-based solution. The disaster in education begins inside the home where it fails because parents will not hold their kids responsible for their own behavior or for their performance in the classroom.

Forty years ago, America was number one in the world for producing high school graduates. Today we are eighteenth. Between 1994 and 2005, math and reading skills declined sharply.

Fifty years ago, hard work and education were considered the only practical means to achievement. Today, many entering the workforce believe that achievement is a matter of, not earned merit, but luck and who you know. When hard work and education is not considered practical, luck and who you know may indeed determine what you get and when you don’t get what you want you can always blame somebody in today’s America.

Measuring achievement disparities between whites and minorities in Connecticut has produced alarming observations: We are now 50th out of the 50 states in producing black and Hispanic high school graduates on a per capita ratio in comparison to whites. Only 20% of minorities in Connecticut graduate with the proficiencies necessary to go to college and one must ask, is this racial or cultural phenomenon? To ask that question is to open one to criticism. To not ask that question, and expect an answer, is irresponsible.

Hartford, Connecticut, which is more than 90% ‘minority,’ has a proficiency level of under 50% in measurements of math performance when the state average is 80%. What do teachers do? The kids don’t have the skills so they begin to teach to the test, the CMT’s to be exact. But testing is only a measurement of what is deficient. When your strategy is to teach to the test, an effort that takes from September to March in Connecticut, you begin to measure only what is left to learn rather than prepare students to expect they will be required to demonstrate how much they know.

In order to make these assessments teachers spend much of their time data gathering instead of teaching. In the end, they are often forced to make loaded assessments so the schools will pass even if the kids cannot.

Proficiency, a measure of competence, is retreating. Standards that were expected to be attained not long ago are only hoped for goals today. 50% of American freshmen entering college need to take remedial courses in math and English just to be able to perform at the university level. Employers face the same issue when they hire college graduates because new hires can’t do basic math, can’t spell, and can’t write competently. Employers spend enormous amounts of money on curative programs to raise employees’ basic skills.

Of Connecticut eighth graders, only 35% are proficient at math, 37% are proficient in reading, and 33% are proficient in science. When they get to high school these students can’t do the work and they slow everyone else down.

In comparisons between Connecticut cities, which are overwhelmingly minority, and the suburbs, which are overwhelmingly white, graduation ratios are profoundly clear. The cities on average graduate about 20% of their freshmen and the suburbs graduate about 80%.

Forty years ago, Connecticut had one of the highest technologically proficient workforces in the world. As that workforce ages and begins natural attrition, which is right now, there aren’t enough graduates with the competencies needed to replace them.

The Quiet and Orderly Classroom.
The first order of government is to provide for the public safety. In the schools, it is the administration that is the government. The breakdown in public educations’ approach to classroom discipline is quite simple and can be summed up in one word: abandonment.

Overpaid administrators in general fail to address discipline issues, just ask the teachers who shuffle from class to class the petty tyrants that plague them all day long because ‘the office’ won’t take them and you can’t any longer get rid of them through suspensions or expulsions.

Dealing with discipline is expensive. Not dealing with discipline issues is more expensive. Not dealing with discipline issues is also dangerous because teachers are placed in untenable and sometimes vulnerable positions: The kids know that there are no real consequences to what they do and as a result, some kids, often the same ones, disrupt classrooms beyond recovery. Everyone’s academic performance suffers when refractory and antisocial delinquents are allowed to steal class time with impunity.

When kids have never had serious limitations placed upon their behavior they learn that they can live with the consequences. Worse, they learn that there are no consequences. Teachers cannot and should not be expected to deal with these problems and students who want to learn are robbed, literally, of opportunity as much by school policies as by delinquency in the classroom.

Retired or moonlighting police and corrections officers patrol hallways with uniformed security guards that carry walkie-talkies. It is an act of surrender to accept this chaos as it is practiced in too many schools. Yes, students have a choice: sit down, shut, up, pay attention, and do the work. Or get out.

I am well experienced dealing with diverse cultures and a wide variety of human conditions. At one time, I spoke ten languages, two dialects, and of the ten languages four are aboriginal languages learned from native speakers on four continents. I taught ESL at Boston University. While I was a substitute teacher I overheard many conversations between students who were unaware that I spoke Spanish.

In Iraq in 2004-2005, I taught tactics and some English to Iraqi’s that served on my counter terrorist teams. Part of my training and experience is in the area of threat assessment. I believe that there is an underclass in the school systems that pose a threat to American society. This underclass will augment in the coming years as greater and greater numbers refuse to avail themselves of educational opportunities.

Personal experiences.

I arrived one day at a middle school to begin a substitute assignment in an 8th grade class. As I walked to my classroom two female teachers were in the hallway yelling at a kid to stop running and return to where they were standing. “F_ _ _ you,” said the runner, and she disappeared around the corner at the end of the hallway. This student was known to the teachers. I asked them if they needed any help and they meekly replied, “No, this is normal around here.”

The students in my classroom - a ‘bridge class’ of mostly Spanish to English speakers - were completely out of control when I walked in. A para-professional in the room was perfectly at ease with the pandemonium, cheerful, buoyant, and smiling even as she pointed to the only four students who were doing the assignment she handed out. The others, in a class of more than twenty, were shouting, wandering around, chatting, and some were mock-fighting. I was told by this paraprofessional that all was well, this class was just, “noisy.”

The kids who were sitting quietly and working seemed bewildered. I asked them if they thought the room was noisy and one said, through a smile, “It’s always like this.” I asked her if she wished it were quieter. She looked at me as though I suggested I could part the ocean. “Okay, Mister, if you can do it,” she said in a thick Spanish accent. And then it began.

I threw two students out immediately – something they did not expect. One refused to leave. I called the office to have someone come and remove him. I could go on with a litany of things that happened next, but why bother - use your imagination.

As I lined up my class to leave the cafeteria after lunch, a student nearly knocked me over by slamming into me from behind saying he “just bumped into me” and told me I was standing in the wrong place, anyway. He disappeared before I could get another teacher to watch my kids while I took him to the office.

While in the lunch line, a girl told a male teacher who was standing next to me that if he did or did not do something that she would have to ‘smack him.’ He politely told her, “Now, I know you are just kidding, but you really can’t say those things and blah, blah, blah…” That was a pretty weak response to the most egregious disrespect you can give an authority figure…the implied threat of physical violence. I met three male teachers at that school each of whom seemed to have the same medical condition: no backbone.

As we were lining up for lunch, a girl tried to embrace me in what I perceived as an attempt to compromise my reputation. The implications of such behavior, if it had culminated in any sort of contact which it did not – are nightmarish.

Other male students hugged female teachers and some kids kept trying to shake my hand and ‘high five’ me. That kind of ‘familiarity’ between staff and students sends the wrong message – discipline erodes and it makes some students feel that they have something that others, who do not seek that kind of ‘friendly’ relationship, do not have.

After lunchtime, and in the hallway as we were returning to the classroom, one of my students mockingly wriggled her hands into my face and laughed. The Vice Principal, a man obviously well known to these students, was standing right there next to me.

This girl must have known she could get away with anything. He didn’t say anything until I made her get out of the line and tried to send her to the office. I asked him if he knew where the office was…he only then identified himself as the vice-principal and suggested to this girl that she “knows that’s not nice and what do you say to this man…”

I asked him, “Who did you say you are?” and he told me again. I said, “I am the Vice Principal.” “OK,” I said, “Then you take her to the office because I don’t want her back in my classroom until she makes a trip to the office.”

He then suggested to me, in the hallway and within earshot of everyone, “Wait a minute - I think you have got the wrong idea of what we are trying to do here. These are just children and the kids are the reason we are all here. You need to take your edge off.”

The kids just smiled. They had won. At that point I said to him, “You know, I do not need to be here. I feel that I am at risk here and I am leaving.” I asked him to escort me to the office.” I had been there less than 2 hours.

I felt very much at risk in this environment. When the one student blindsided me and nearly knocked me off my feet it was an act of physical aggression. The attempt at physical contact by the girl was, I felt, a deliberate device employed to compromise me.

The administration was completely under water, drowning in a sea of its own making and taking the teaching staff with it. The children cannot benefit from such a lack of management.

Notwithstanding all of this, Mr. Liam O’Reilly was boastful of his school, “We have a better attendance record here than they do in Avon because, for many of our kids, we are a refuge from what they find at home – if they have a home.”

That’s sad, but you don’t have to run an asylum while you are providing asylum to some kids who may be at risk and schooling – an education – to everyone else who shows up thinking that an education is what they’ll get when they cross the threshold.

Somewhere between a Dickensian nightmare and Star Trek lies the answer to teaching in the 21st Century. After the experience at that Middle School it seems that the best they are trying for is to attain the beautiful hell.

Death by Cause in the USA

2009-07-26T12:07:00.000-07:00

Death by Cause in USA ANNUALLY:

1. Smoking 435,000 deaths.
2. Overweight / Obesity 365,000.
3. In-hospital medical errors, 195,000.
4. Alcohol 85,000 deaths.
5. Infectious diseases 75,000 deaths.
6. Toxins 55,000 deaths.
7. Motor vehicle collisions 43,000 deaths.
8. Firearms deaths (accident, homicide, suicide, in that order) 12,000 deaths.
9. Errors in prescribed medications 7,000 deaths (1.5 million preventable medication errors annually).

Top Ten Myths of American Health Care SEE: Sally Pipes, author of “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.” Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

THE “UNINSURED” IN AMERICA:

10 million are NON-citizens

18 million earn over $50,000, with 10 million of those earning over $75,000 so they can afford something in the way of Health Care Insurance.

14 million are already eligible for some form of Medicare, Medicaid or SCHIP…they just have not signed up for it…this figure includes the roughly 6 million children you hear about.

Some of the above figures overlap each other…but the bottom line is that there are no where near the number of people who are uninsured because they cannot afford it. That smaller figure…about 5 – 10 million are the ones who need an assist with obtaining health coverage…

• Why should we cover the NON-citizen?
• Why should we cover the above average wage earners who refuse to plan smartly?
• Why should we cover the ones who are already eligible, yet fail to avail themselves of help…where dollars are already allocated for them?

The Census Bureau states that “insurance coverage may be significantly higher” than their own report indicates because people underreport coverage for a variety of reasons.

Smokers can quit, the morbidly obese could benefit from eating less and exercising more, alcoholics can take the cure along with the drug addicts, and if they don’t they can take the consequences for their behavior and the government should not force me to do so.

July 4, 2009 Speech, Norwich, Connecticut

2009-05-24T08:04:00.000-07:00

Public Address, July 4, 2009, Norwich, CT Town Green:

I read this the other day: Top 10 Best States for Personal Freedom; published in Human Events, 06/30/2009

The freest state is New Hampshire, followed by Colorado, South Dakota, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona, and North Dakota. New York is the least free, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland.

….CONNECTICUT IS NEAR THE BOTTOM…

I am from Hartford, Connecticut, one of the original 13 colonies. Connecticut’s colonial and revolutionary history was well known to me even as a boy. I lived in Hartford’s South End which was only a short bike ride to where a backwater of the ‘long tidal river’ (the Connecticut River) forms the cove at Old Wethersfield - Connecticut’s oldest town. There are 300 landmark historic houses in Wethersfield, 50 of them built before the American Revolution.

As a boy I knew that George Washington and the French General Rochambeau planned the Yorktown Campaign at the Joseph Webb house in Wethersfield. Webb’s home was General Washington’s Headquarters for a while.

Silas Deane, Joseph Webb, and Isaac Stevens, all Wethersfield men whose names were as familiar to me as friends and I was a recurrent visitor to their Colonial homes, which were open to the public.

I visited these and other sites maintained by the Colonial Dames and the Wethersfield Historical Society, places kept as living museums, many furnished with Colonial Era antiques and in some cases with possessions owned by the families.

Nathan Hale, from Coventry, Connecticut, rode with Tom Knowlton’s Rangers while under the command of Connecticut General Israel Putnam.

In college I lived less than a mile from the Hale Homestead and had already been to the Hale residence many times before then.

General Putnam was an original member of the legendary Roger’s Rangers, named for Major Robert Rogers, Father of the American Ranger and author of ‘Roger’s Standing Orders.’

The point: Those who once inhabited these places where America was born were not abstractions to me - the boy who wandered in and out of their kitchens, sitting rooms, hallways, and barns.

That boy felt kinship and attachment to their lives as well as to their passion for and commitment to American liberty, a devotion that I was to make my own precisely because of their example which was both close and distant.

The rich colonial history of Connecticut and the independent, hard working, innovative spirit of the Connecticut Yankee was as much a part of my cultural heritage as my European ethnicity.

Connecticut is called the Constitution State because the ‘Fundamental Orders of Connecticut’ was the first written document to create a system of self-governance – ANYWHERE.

The Fundamental Orders established local (State’s) rights, preserved individual rights as the foundation of a just government by consent and under God, and put limitations on government in 1639…

…150 YEARS BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Connecticut was known as the Provisions State because Connecticut supplied most of the food and cannons for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war.

In fact, the Stanton-Davis Farm of Stonington, right down the road there, was a Revolutionary War Provisioner. It is still in operation today and has not missed a harvest since 1654!

It was Connecticut beef and corn that kept Washington’s Army from starvation at Valley Forge.

And Connecticut has been known as the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ for the many firearms and munitions manufacturers that have called Connecticut home.

In Viet Nam I carried an M-16 rifle and a Colt .45 automatic pistol manufactured by Colt’s in Hartford, shotguns and ammunition made by Remington Arms, of Bridgeport, and a machete manufactured by the Collins Company of Collinsville.

I might have been 10,000 miles away from home but the people of Connecticut, their sweat, their toil, and all of their skill was with me in things I could hold, use, and depend on to keep me alive. I knew that then, I remember it now.

It was my honor as much as it was my duty to serve my State and my nation in the jungles of Viet Nam…and 34 Years later again, in the deserts of Iraq…

BUT IT WAS NOT MY RIGHT TO DO SO.

It was and remains a privilege to serve in the armed forces, the privilege of military service a concept handed down in the ancient Code of Chivalry that the man at arms serves only at the pleasure of God and King.

Does anyone remember when police were called ‘Peace Officers?’

A Peace officer focused on keeping the public peace, the people’s well being was the focus.

Now we have ‘Law Enforcement Officer’s whose focus is on enforcement of the law; “Force” being the operative concept…

TODAY we have a ‘Brother’ in the white house alright – ‘Big Brother,’ and Barrak Hussein Obama is absolutely Orwellian in every measure of the word.

In Obama…

• We have a President who can’t find his Birth Certificate but the Government of Kenya has established his birthplace there as a national monument.
• We witnessed the inauguration of a President where the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court omitted key words.
• We have a President who believes in and is an outspoken advocate of late term Abortion.
• We have a President who Bowed To the Saudi King.
• Obama dishonored the Flag and refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in a public place.
• He dare not speak without a teleprompter.
• He has Communists for friends and supporters.
• His preacher for more than 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, hates America.
• And Barrack Hussein Obama is a friend to Bill Ayers and Ayers’ wife, Bernadine Dohrn – SDS terrorists who allied themselves to the NVA during the Viet Nam War.

I WAN’T TO ASK YOU,

Do we have a Communist in the White house or just a run-of-the-mill Socialist? Maybe you can tell the difference – I can’t. To me one is just in more of a hurry than the other…

Here are some quotes from Marx and Lenin, appropriate for THIS 4th of July, 2009, in Norwich, CT.

• “Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded." Karl Marx (Was talking about the NEA?)

• “Democracy is indispensable to socialism.” V.I. Lenin

• “Democracy is the road to socialism.” Karl Marx

• “The goal of socialism is communism.” V.I. Lenin

REMINDER : WE DO NOT LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES FOR US A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN ARTICLE IV, SECTION 4.

So who were Obama’s supporters’s during the Campaign: Here is a partial List:

President of Iran – Mahmud Ahmadinejad
Bill Ayers
Fidel Castro
Raul Castro
Hugo Chavez
Communist Party of Illinois
Communist Party USA
Scads of SDS terrorists like Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted for over a decade.

Jane Fonda – you remember her – Hanoi Jane?

NARAL (Abortion Lobby: you know them: Save the Whales, Kill the Babies…)
Planned Parenthood (the largest single Abortion Provider in the country and heavily funded with your tax dollars.)

NEA and all of the little ‘EA’s: among the greatest consumers of government largesse with so little to show for it. Remember Hillary’s, “IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD?” Well, I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said: “IT TAKES A SCHOOL TO BANKRUPT A VILLAGE.” Our kids rank lower on comparative scales with the rest of the developed world and because of what they do not learn in school they are increasingly disconnected with their own heritage.

Black Panther Party (New)
ACORN
NORMAL (Marijuana legalization lobby) – ‘Potheads for Obama,’
Cora Weiss, (Collaborator with the NVA and Hanoi Politburo; Director of the Committee of Liaison – tried to force families of POW’s to make propaganda in exchange for contact with their POW family members held by Hanoi. No POW family accepted her tainted offer.)

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Progressive Caucus (US House of Representatives; socialist; linked to the DSA)
Daniel Ortega, (Sandinista), Communist President of Nicaragua and friend of Chris Dodd
Moamar Qadhafi - Libyan Dictator and terrorist mastermind.
Socialist Party USA; Socialist Party of Connecticut
Young Communist League
Muslim American Society: Originally, ‘Muslim Brotherhood,’ they endorse suicide bombings as "martyr operations…not suicide.”

Speaking of suicide bombers, do you know Code Pink Founder, Jodie Evans - Obama met with Jodie Evans, at his $5 million Hollywood fundraiser and was photographed with her there. Evans supported the terrorists in Iraq and said in an interview that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had a "valid argument" for attacking America on Sept. 11, 2001. Yep – another friend of B.O.

I know what’s right with America. I don’t have any trouble talking about what is right with America; what concerns me is what is WRONG with America TODAY:

How far is New London from Norwich? 20 miles? Do You Remember The Little Pink House in Norwich? Kelo v. City of New London? Suzette Kelo? Norwich took her house and gave it to another person to sell for a profit…And the Supreme Court is ok with that…

In America today the police can drag a mother from her car for not wearing a seatbelt, handcuff her, take her kids out of their car seats and put them into state custody as they haul mommy off to jail, and the Supreme Court is ok with that, too.

Our armies are all over the world and we are in a weakened state right here at home and cannot protect our own borders - but what does that matter when politicians on their own initiative create ‘sanctuary’ cities like New Haven and Hartford, and welcome illegal immigrants with access to social services that we as taxpayers pay for? (Pause)

We are in an Orwellian state of PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE.

BTW: More Americans were murdered in California than have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in 5 years

And speaking of the Americans in uniform who risk everything for this country – THEIR country - Remember when Janet Napolitano of the DHS said this:

"The possible passage of new laws relaxing restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergency of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.”

DON’T YOU LOVE THEIR WAY WITH WORDS?

…I don’t know about you, but a politician who won’t trust me with a gun I don’t trust with my vote…

AND - Who said this?

Barrack Hussein Obama:

“A Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is the President of the United States…

"THIS IS A WATERSHED ELECTION WHICH CHANGES THE FATE OF THE WORLD. The world now becomes very much less safe for all of us as a result.

"Those of us who have looked on appalled during this most frightening of American presidential elections – at the suspension of reason and its replacement by thuggery -- can only hope that the way this man governs will be very different from the profile provided by his influences, associations and record to date.

"It’s a faint hope – THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA, FREEDOM AND ALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION WILL CERTAINLY BE REJOICING TODAY.”
(The Spectator.co.uk; Melanie Phillips, 4 and 5 November 2008. http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips)

Why is Bill Ayers, that REVOLUTIONARY, TERRORIST, AMERICA-HATING toad from Chicago, even worth mentioning?

Because he is what he is and he is a friend and mentor of Barrack Hussein Obama and THIS is what Bill Ayers, the Professor of Children’s Education, wrote in his book, Prairie Fire:

"Our final goal is the...the seizure of power, and the creation of socialism."

Ayres' Book, Prairie Fire, is dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan – convicted killer of Robert F. Kennedy.

Obama launched his political career in Bill Ayer’s living room. On that day, Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn welcomed the Obama’s and members of the media into their living room where they had a copy of the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted’ book displayed on their coffee table, OPEN TO THE PAGE OF Ayer’s wife, Bernadine Dohrn who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for 10 years.

Under an Obama presidency the links to our brilliant American Past, let us hope, is only interrupted. The uniquely American character of opportunity, innovation, and optimism has been replaced by uncertainty as the Obama socialist agenda wraps our future in its web and injects the heart and soul of America with its venom.

A vote for Obama was a vote for the ACLU, the National Lawyer’s Guild, and the parasitic Socialist International, known in Congress as the ‘Congressional Progressive Caucus.’ Look it up – they are all Democrats.

We have lived under a one-party system since at least the administration of Woodrow Wilson - one party with one idea: Separate you from your wealth with oppressive taxation and use the money to strip you of your rights.

One party with two factions – Democrat and Republican:

• Under the veil of compromise the Democrat and Republican Party delivers conspiracy.

• The Democrat and Republican Party promises reform but delivers revolution.

• And the Democrat and Republican Party at every level profanes the sacred institutions of this nation as it dismantles our past for a collectivist future.

The Democrat and Republican Party has for decades pursued an agenda that has brought America to the edge of extinction, encumbered our liberties with chains, and daily subjects us to the arrogance and effrontery of office-holders who have nothing but contempt for the American people and for our country.

THEY DON’T BELONG HERE ANYMORE.

My last words to you on this 4th of July of 2009 come to us from a long ago time, when the future of America was also in doubt:

I quote:

“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own (Suzette Kelo, are you listening?); whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, UNDER GOD, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.” GEORGE WASHINGTON, [address to the Continental Army before the battle of Long Island, Aug. 27, 1776]

AND

“We should never despair. Our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Efforts and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Major General Philip Schuyler, Jul. 15, 1777

Washington’s light shines to us through the ages, driving out the darkness pledged by Barack Hussein Obama and his legion of conspirators. He is not alone in this conspiracy.
We must survive the next four years…

…AND SEND SOMEONE TO CONGRESS WHO KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN.

THANK YOU…

The Roman

Big Brother Knows You Are What You Eat

2009-05-23T08:14:00.000-07:00

Codex Alimentarius (World Food Code) - Summarized in 7 Points

HealthFreedomUSA.org, the website of the Natural Solutions Foundation, is beholden to no one: our only interest is health freedom.

Rima E. Laibow, MD, successful natural medicine physician since the 1970s, has studied 16,000 pages of Codex documentation. Her conclusion is that people who say that Codex is “consumer protection”, “voluntary”, or “harmless” are, at best, seriously mistaken.

see: Codex in Depth: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=161

Codex Alimentarius

1) Started in 1962 by UN, Imposed by WTO Sanctions

Codex Alimentarius was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN to control the international trade of food. Its initial intentions may have been altruistic but it has been taken over by corporate interests, most notably the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotechnology and chemical industries.

Codex Alimentarius is backed up by the crippling trade sanctions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Any non Codex-compliant nation would face huge economic punishment since they would automatically lose in any food-trade dispute with a Codex compliant country.

2) “Nutrients are Toxins” Is Junk Science

Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition.
One of them, the “Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses” (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the “top-guy” for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that
“nutrition is not relevant to health”.

As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared nutrients to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements! It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus happens to own the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on this issue. This company makes money when its toxicology services are used for the “assessment” of nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call that a “conflict of interest”.

Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients.

While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.

Nutrients are not toxins - they are essential for life.

No matter what Codex Alimentarius officials say to convince you that Risk Assessment is a “science-based” approach to nutrients, it is not.
And it is worth repeating that Dr. Grossklaus, the head of Codex Alimentarius, owns the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on the “benefit” of using Risk Assessment to assess nutrients.

3) Not Consumer Protection - That’s Propaganda

Contrary to the propaganda, Codex Alimentarius has nothing to do with consumer protection. Nothing! Codex is about the economic ambitions of multi-national corporations, in particular, the pharmaceutical industry.

Using their multi billion-dollar marketing budgets, these industries have launched a massive media propaganda campaign to paint Codex Alimentarius as a benevolent tool of “consumer protection”, as well as to negatively taint the image of natural health options and mislead people to fear them as “dangerous”, so they will take drugs (which really are dangerous). Natural health products and options have an amazing safety record and are remarkably effective, especially when compared to pharmaceutical drugs.

Unfortunately, one-time defenders of health freedom such as National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have joined the propaganda bandwagon and are spreading false information saying that Codex Alimentarius is either “harmless” or benevolent “consumer protection”.

Neither is true.

The membership of these one-time defenders of health freedom has become permeated by people from the pharmaceutical industry (for example, CRN counts as its members corporations such as Monsanto® and Bayer®).

4) Codex: Serious Threat to Health and Health Freedom

If Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America, therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals (and all other nutrients soon to follow) will become unavailable because they will literally become illegal.

Here’s how it would work, in a nut-shell:

Due to the junk science use of Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess supposedly toxic nutrients, a false belief is being engineered saying that “nutritional supplements are dangerous to people’s health”.

Using this false belief generates calls to “protect” people from these “toxic” nutrients. After the calls come the bills to set ultra low permissible dosages (remember, nutrients are deemed “dangerous toxins” under this false belief). If enough of us and our Congressional delegates buy this nonsense, we and Congress would blindly comply with Codex Alimentarius’ VMG. And blind compliance is what the industries behind Codex Alimentarius intend.

Blind compliance goes hand-in-hand with lack of activism. This lack of activism allows our protective laws, classifying nutrients as foods with no upper limits (such as DSHEA), to be easily repealed and replaced with draconian laws to classify nutrients as toxins. And “harmonization” with the pro-illness, pro-pharmaceutical industry Vitamin and Mineral Guideline is there to fill the void.

Only intentionally ineffective, ultra low dose supplements would be legal, with or without a prescription, on the VMG list. If enough people do not take action, we can expect to watch nutritional supplement manufacturers and, thus health food stores, to go out of business, in a domino effect.
The only player left standing would be Big Pharma.

Therapeutic grade vitamins, minerals, and amino acids would be eliminated from the marketplace (although a few low-dose supplements would be allowed by Codex, as a symbolic measure to avoid suspicion about their ulterior motive).

Natural health professionals would lose the tools of their trade (nutritional supplements) and health conscious people would be unable to choose natural health options for health promotion and disease treatment.

And that is, in a nutshell, how Codex Alimentarius is poised to make Natural and Nutritional Medicine (NNM) disappear from the legal health world and go underground. Who benefits? Big Pharma.

It would take a few years for the above scenarios to be feasible (Codex Alimentarius is meant to go into full global effect by 2010). The slower the process takes, the less alarmed people will be. That’s probably the logic of the architects of Codex Alimentarius.

5) Serves Economic Interests of Sickness Industries Through WTO and Napoleonic Code
More and more people are turning to natural health products globally. The “wellness” trend is a major trend in today’s society. The more natural health products people use, the fewer drugs they buy. The pharmaceutical industry, which is part of the “Sickness Industry”, fears the inevitable shift toward natural health care.

Instead of accepting the will of the people and rethinking the future of the pharmaceutical industry, the industry has decided upon an unethical course of action: the use of deception and deceit to eliminate natural health products completely.

Codex Alimentarius is a shrewd vehicle for protecting the pharmaceutical industry from the loss of income it stands to suffer due to the inevitable growth of natural healthcare.

Codex Alimentarius is the resistance of the dinosaurs to inevitability: the burgeoning desire of humanity for a healthier, saner, and more sustainable way of life.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) intends to force Codex Alimentarius upon the nations of the world, including the U.S. This would be done under the threat of massive economic sanctions if WTO-countries do not comply with Codex Alimentarius.

Furthermore, Codex is based in the Napoleonic Code, not Common Law. That means that under Codex Alimentarius, anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden. Under Common Law, we hold that anything not explicitly forbidden is permitted. The difference is the difference between health freedom and health tyranny. Codex Alimentarius would be able to ban supplements by default.

6) DSHEA Protects America From Codex Alimentarius

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA, 1994), an American law classifying our supplements and herbs as foods (which can have no upper limit set on their use), was passed by unanimous Congressional consent following massive grass-roots support organized by health food stores. Millions of American activists told Congress, in no uncertain terms:
“Protect nutritional supplements as foods or we will remove you from office”.
Congress listened and carried out the will of the people.

DSHEA appropriately classifies nutritional supplements as foods which can have no upper limits set on their use. DSHEA recognizes that people use nutrients safely to deal with their individually differing needs for nutrients. The concept of biochemical individuality means that people have different needs for nutrients at different times. Are nutrients toxins? No, they are not toxins. They are substances essential to prevent, treat and cure any chronic condition, in differing doses at different times in different people.

DSHEA protects the US from Codex Alimentarius’ deadly Vitamin and Mineral Guideline. We must reach our Congressional members, educate them about the facts on Codex Alimentarius and direct them to vote against anything that would threaten DSHEA.

Congress holds the keys to our health freedom. And it is their job to listen to us. Let’s not allow cynicism to tell us otherwise. We did it for DSHEA in 1994. We can do it again this year.
7) Your Action is Needed Now!

DSHEA is under significant legislative attack right now. Your letter-writing is crucial: if the members of Congress know that voting against health freedom means losing their jobs come election time, they will listen. Our job is to make sure they get the message loud and clear. Take action via our 3 easy steps and send personalized emails to Congress right now.

After taking action on HealthFreedomUSA.org, consider getting together with others in your area and visit your Congressional members in their home offices. If we wait, we lose our health freedoms. Once we “HARMonize” with Codex, by the way, we no longer have the right, while we belong to the WTO, to repeal or change that “HARMonization”!

Conclusion

The objective of the pro-Codex Alimentarius multi nationals is to “boil the frog slowly” so that we do not wake up to it in time to avoid Codex.

Once we have “HARMonize” to Codex Alimentarius, as long as we are in the WTO, we cannot amend or change what we’ve been “HARMonize” to.

Codex Alimentarius will go into global implementation by December 31, 2009, unless We, the People, avert it. We must act now because right now, with $758 Million spent on declared Congressional lobbying by Big Pharma last year, there are members of Congress who are trying to overturn DSHEA and allow Pharma-friendly free reign for Codex.

If protective laws like DSHEA are destroyed, the sanctioning power of the autocratic WTO kicks in, and it will be impossible to get out from under Codex Alimentarius. We can protect our access to high potency nutrients and stave off an adulterated food supply only by putting pressure on Congress.

If you would like more in-depth information about Codex Alimentarius before taking action, please click here.

DID YOU KNOW:

The Natural Solutions Foundation developed the "Codex Two Step Process", a protective legal mechanism by which any country can protect itself from any standard or guideline promulgated by Codex without fear of World Trade Organization (WTO) sanctions and embodied that process in the seminal "Codex Two Step Book" and videos to provide critical information and increase self-funding.

Get Involved - Talk about health freedom and Codex to everyone you know.

Start (or join in) a discussion forum about health freedom and Codex Alimentarius on Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups. Tell your friends about Codex. If you maintain an online journal or web log, publish about Codex Alimentarius and link to this website.

Join the fight to PROTECT HEALTH FREEDOM.

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Pakistan: A THird World Nation, No Water to Drink But Nuclear Weaponized

2009-01-22T15:47:00.000-08:00

Pakistan, an impoverished and underdeveloped country, has suffered from decades of internal political disputes and a costly, ongoing confrontation with neighboring India. Pakistan, a nation in Southern Asia, borders the Arabian Sea and lies between India on the east, Iran and Afghanistan on the west, and China in the north.

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world and dating back at least 5,000 years, spread over much of what is presently Pakistan.

During the second millennium B.C., remnants of this culture fused with the migrating Indo-Aryan peoples. The area underwent successive invasions in subsequent centuries from the Persians, Greeks, Scythians, Arabs (who brought Islam), Afghans, and Turks.

The Mughal Empire flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries; the British came to dominate the region in the 18th century.

The separation in 1947 of British India into the Muslim state of Pakistan (with West and East sections) and largely Hindu India was never satisfactorily resolved, and India and Pakistan fought two wars - in 1947-48 and 1965 - over the disputed Kashmir territory.

A third war between these countries in 1971 - in which India capitalized on Islamabad's marginalization of Bengalis in Pakistani politics - resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh.

In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan conducted its own tests in 1998.

The dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and confidence-building measures have led to decreased tensions since 2002.
Mounting public dissatisfaction with President MUSHARRAF, coupled with the assassination of the prominent and popular political leader, Benazir BHUTTO, in late 2007, and MUSHARRAF’s resignation in August 2008, led to the September presidential election of Asif ZARDARI, BHUTTO’s widower.

Pakistani government and military leaders are struggling to control Islamist militants, many of whom are located in the tribal areas adjacent to the border with Afghanistan. The Pakistani government is also faced with a deteriorating economy as foreign exchange reserves decline, the currency depreciates, and the current account deficit widens.

Poverty levels have decreased by 10% since 2001, and Islamabad has steadily raised development spending in recent years, including a 52% real increase in the budget allocation for development in FY07.

In 2007 the fiscal deficit - a result of chronically low tax collection and increased spending - exceeded Islamabad's target of 4% of GDP.

Inflation remains the top concern among the public, jumping from 7.7% in 2007 to more than 11% during the first few months of 2008, primarily because of rising world commodity prices.

The Pakistani rupee has depreciated since the proclamation of emergency rule in November

Per Capita Income: $2,400 (2007 est.)

Literacy: Less than half the nation can read and write and only one third of the females are literate.

Pakistani Labor Force: 48.23 million work in a population of 176 million in a nation roughly twice the size of California. Pakistan experiences extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor as of 2008 is high.

The US is Pakistan’s largest export trading partner: US 18%, UAE 10.4%, Afghanistan 8.4%, China 5.2%, UK 4.7% (2007)

Pakistan is a significant transit area for Afghan drugs, including heroin, opium, morphine, and hashish.

Question: How did this desert nation with few resources, a largely illiterate population where most of the people do not even have access to potable water, develop nuclear weapons?

China's Economy - State Run and Paid for with Capital from Western Investment and trade

2008-12-10T20:31:00.000-08:00

Bernake’s monetary policy and the Fed’s bailout plan has and will continue to flatten economic growth like a cow pie drying in the sun.

China’s growth will slow but nowhere near U.S. levels, so China has pulled the “thanks, but no thanks” to U.S. stocks because it knows that the U.S. stock market won’t rebound for some time. They know that layoffs in the U.S. manufacturing jobs will result in new hires in their country, and foreign investors are fleeing U.S. markets.

Projection: China’s growth will hit 8% in 2009 compared with the U.S. growth of 2%

The Chinese banking system is dominated by four big state-owned banks that can write a whenever the party – and the Army – tells them to, and to whom, and with $1.4 trillion in cash there’s no liquidity crisis in China.

China is using its capital to build more infrastructure: roads, bridges and cities at record pace.

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that:

“In 20 years, China’s cities will have added 350 million people—more than the entire population of the United States today.”

“By 2025, China will have 221 cities with more than one million inhabitants—compared with 35 in Europe today—and 24 cities with more than five million people.”

“By 2030, 1 billion people will live in China’s cities…170 mass-transit systems could be built…40 billion of square meters of floor space will be built in five million buildings—50,000 of which could be skyscrapers.”

By the year 2025 China will have 221 cities with more than one million people living in them, you can only imagine the kind of money that is going to be made, as China’s newfound consumer class enters the marketplace and replaces the American consumer as the supreme driver of world growth.

..And we paid them to do it…while dumbed down Americans remain blinded by the daily news about petty issues and the ups and downs in the Dow…

Feed Lot Diet

2008-12-10T19:46:00.000-08:00

CARBOHYDRATES CAUSE DISEASE

By Kent Rieske

Carbohydrates cause nearly all age-related diseases because of the many popular myths and distortions about nutrition – especially low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets. Age-related diseases could best be described as Excessive Carbohydrate Consumption Syndrome, which leads to diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

The scientific evidence is clear. Carbohydrates are a sinister, sly food category that has powerful allies in the food industry that grows, manufactures and markets thousands of carbohydrate products made from fruit, grains and starchy-vegetables. The supermarket floor space allotted to these manufactured carbohydrate foods is about 80 percent of the store, and yet

The scientific minimum requirement for carbohydrates in the diet is ZERO.

Carbohydrates are not an essential element for health. In fact, optimal health lies in keeping the amount of carbohydrates in the diet to a minimum.

The supermarket departments that contain the healthy essential proteins and essential fats are the fresh meats, fresh fish and seafood, dairy and non-starchy vegetables.

Carbohydrates:

turn to glucose in the liver
hype the metabolism and
trigger the release of disease-causing hormones like

insulin
cortisol
adrenaline.

A low metabolism is ideal for long life and good health. A high metabolism excites hormones in the body that eventually cause age-related diseases.

The pathogenic effects of carbohydrates are slow but sure.

The "20-year rule" was coined to describe the length of time between the start of the high-carbohydrate diet and the onset of disease.

The number of diseases, severity and time to develop are directly related to the percentage of carbohydrates in the diet. In the advanced stage many diseases are prevalent in the sufferer before death occurs.

Carbohydrates displace essential protein and essential fats in the diet to cause a double health reversal. The carbohydrates themselves cause disease, and the deficiency of protein and fats contribute or cause other diseases.

The consumption of carbohydrates generally begins showing the disease effects in either one of two directions.

Body fat accumulation leads to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, gallbladder disease, degenerative bone diseases and many others.

Damage to the intestinal tract leads to leaky gut syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases and a medical textbook listing of autoimmune diseases. These illnesses generally make the sufferer underweight and deficient in vitamins and minerals caused by poor digestion.

The primary high-carbohydrate foods to avoid:
Sugars
Honey
Flour
Grains
Legumes
Fruit
Milk
Starchy-vegetables

Whole grains cause disease in both humans and animals. Whole grain breads and bagels are not the healthy food as people are lead to believe.

All grains have a very high level of omega-6 fatty acids, which are pro-inflammatory.

Grains are a poor source of protein. Grains are the most allergenic of all foods. Multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are rare in populations where no grain products are consumed such as the Paleolithic (hunter-gatherer) diet.

The Awful Truth About Eating Grains

Grain fed to feedlot steers makes them fat and causes intestinal diseases. Want to put on the pounds and fatten up like a steer?

The feedlot diet given to steers is almost identical to the USDA Food Guide Pyramid!

Both diets are very high in grains. The feedlot operator is deliberately making the steers fat. Fatty beef is given higher grading, receives the best price and has the best ‘flavor’ - so eat THE MEAT instead of the Grain-based diet that made it so tasty.

The time in the feedlot is short and the steer is sent to slaughter prior to developing any serious health problem.

People get fat and develop disease for the very same reasons. Grains are worse for humans because we are omnivores. Steers are herbivores, but the grains still make them fat and give them diseases.

Primitive cultures that primarily ate meat from the hunt lived in relative good health. Those people who switched to a grain-based diet obtained from the cultivation of grains suffered poor health, diseases and a smaller stature.

Fruit is Not as Healthy as Many Claim

Fruit is not the healthy food many claim. Fruit is mostly fructose sugar with some vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Those vitamins and nutrients are easily obtained from meat and non-starchy vegetables without the fructose.

The body processes fructose from fruit in the same way as it processes fructose from soft drinks. There is no difference.

Fructose is fructose and fructose is sugar no matter what the source. Fructose causes insulin resistance. Fructose is highly addictive and most people simply refuse to give up fruit no matter how sick they become. This is identical to lung cancer patients who continue to smoke cigarettes. See links below for more information:

Fructose, weight gain, and the insulin resistance syndrome.

Tissue-specific impairment of insulin signaling in fructose-fed rats.

Carbohydrates Trigger Disease-Causing Hormones

Hormones involved in the carbohydrate disease loop are metabolism hormones.

The process starts when carbohydrates are eaten in the form of sugars such as sucrose, fructose, lactose and others.

Simple carbohydrates are molecules made by chains of glucose that are short. Longer glucose chains form carbohydrates that are classified as complex. The body breaks the chains apart until individual molecules of glucose are released into the blood stream.

Then the problems start. The body is very sensitive to the amount of glucose in the blood, commonly called blood sugar. A small part of the brain called the midbrain that is about 1 inch (25 mm) long and red blood cells require glucose as they lack mitochondria (powerhouse of the cell) and cannot use fatty acids for fuel.

The lack of glucose (hypoglycemia) as energy for the brain can cause symptoms ranging from headache, mild confusion and abnormal behavior, to loss of consciousness, seizure, coma and death. The body can maintain an ideal level of glucose by creating it in the liver from amino acids derived from protein and/or from triglyceride fatty acids in a process called gluconeogenesis.

The low-carbohydrate diet results in a perfectly controlled and stable blood glucose level in this way. On the other hand, the high-carbohydrate diet results in the body's constant attempt to prevent blood glucose swings both to the low-side (hypoglycemia) or the high-side (hyperglycemia). This control is regulated by the hormone insulin to reduce the glucose level and the hormone adrenaline to act as an emergency method of raising the glucose level.

Hypoglycemia is the train whistle signaling the diabetes train is coming down the track.

The diabetes engine is powered by carbohydrates and gaining speed. Nibbling complex carbohydrates throughout the day to control the blood sugar swings will do nothing more than slow the train a year or two.

The diabetes train can be stopped dead on the tracks only by avoiding all carbohydrates.

The condition of uncontrolled blood sugar swings is called diabetes mellitus, or type 2 diabetes, and has become epidemic in all English-speaking countries.

It will soon become a catastrophe. (Experts: World Facing Diabetes Catastrophe.)

Younger people appear to handle carbohydrates without a problem because the cells of the younger body readily accept the glucose with a small insulin response and turn the glucose into energy, which they burn with their characteristic high energy.

However, cells get resistant to this constant bombardment of glucose and increasing levels of insulin are necessary to maintain a normal blood glucose level.

As the cells become resistant, the insulin assists in the conversion of the extra glucose into triglycerides, which raise the triglyceride level in the blood and are deposited as body fat.

Insulin is a Disease-Causing Hormone

Insulin is a hormone made by the beta cells in the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. Body cells require insulin in order to use blood glucose.

A high level of blood insulin causes many unhealthy body reactions, which eventually lead to diseases of all types.

Glucose derived from carbohydrate consumption is turned to body fat by insulin and is deposited in arteries and organs causing arterial diseases, heart disease, strokes, blood clots and other diseases.

High blood glucose signals increasing insulin production until the pancreas becomes fatigued after many years, making the disease seem age-related. Glucose rises uncontrollably when insulin production drops. The result causes diseases of the eyes, kidneys, blood vessels and nerves.

Carbohydrates drive insulin production and insulin levels, therefore, contribute to cardiovascular heart disease (CHD).

Heart attack patients are surprised to learn that they are also diabetic, usually in the hospital emergency room where they are being treated for a heart attack. Rarely are patients be told about the close relationship between their two conditions.

Blood insulin reaches high levels and remains high as one moves in stages from hypoglycemia to Type II diabetes - where insulin production collapses.

Insulin is a very strong anabolic hormone. It pushes blood glucose into cells. It turns blood glucose into triglycerides and stores them as body fat. This sudden appearance of heart disease has been described by the author as the "Instant Atherosclerosis Cycle" (IAC).

Insulin also pushes small dense LDL molecules into the artery wall which starts the atherosclerosis process. Animal research with insulin proved many years ago that the artery will plug with atherosclerosis just downstream from the point of injection.

Carbohydrates cause the LDL molecules to be the unhealthy small, dense variety.

High high-fat, low-carbohydrates diet causes the LDL molecules to the safe large fluffy light density variety.

Higher LDL blood levels on the low-carbohydrate diet do not present the same CHD risk as do LDL levels on the USDA Food Guide Pyramid diet of 60 percent carbohydrates.

High-Insulin (Hyperinsulinemia) Increases Cancer Risks

High-Carbohydrate Diet Is Implicated in Pancreatic Cancer
Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Diets Contribute to Hyperinsulinemia and Hypertriglyceridemia
Diet and Colorectal Cancer: The Possible Role of Insulin Resistance
Fasting Insulin and Outcome of Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Diet, Lifestyle, and Colorectal Cancer:

Hyperinsulin – emia: the Missing Link? Carbohydrates drive blood insulin production that causes cancer.

There are strong associations between a high-carbohydrate diet and many diseases that present a secondary cancer risk. Cancer risks are greatly increased with diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and many other unhealthy conditions caused by the high-blood glucose and high-blood insulin levels.

High-Insulin (Hyperinsulinemia) Increases Cardiovascular Disease Risks

Insulin Resistance is an Important Determinant of Left Ventricular Mass in the Obese.
Insulin Resistance Syndrome Predicts the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke.
Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Risk: Plasma Insulin Level Is a More Sensitive Marker Than Hypertension or Abnormal Glucose Tolerance.
Hyperinsulinemia as an Independent Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease.

The only way to prevent diseases caused by insulin spikes and plunges is to eat a low-carbohydrate diet.

‘Primitive’ societies that live with very few carbohydrates in the diet and have proven diabetes and all the diseases of consequence do not exist. A great example is the Eskimos of the far north prior to the introduction of white-man food.

The bad effects of insulin do not end here. High insulin spikes signal the body to release cortisol and adrenaline hormones, which also contribute to disease.

Cortisol is a Disease-Causing Hormone

Cortisol is the major stress hormone of the natural glucocorticoid family, which regulates metabolism and provides resistance to stress. Glucocorticoids are made in the outside portion (the cortex) of the adrenal gland and are chemically classified as steroids. Glucocorticoids increase the rate at which proteins are catabolized (broken down) and amino acids are removed from cells, primarily muscle fiber, and transported to the liver.

Glucocorticoids cause amino acids to be synthesized into new proteins, such as enzymes.

They also raise blood pressure by constricting vessels, which is a benefit in case of injury. They are also anti-inflammatory. All of this is well and good in a healthy individual with normal glucose and insulin levels. Unfortunately, high cortisol levels cause many unhealthy reactions.

Understanding Adrenal Function

"An excessive ratio of carbohydrates to protein results in excess secretion of insulin, which often leads to intervals of hypoglycemia. The body, in an attempt to normalize blood sugar, initiates a counter-regulatory process during which the adrenals are stimulated to secrete increased levels of cortisol and adrenalin. It follows that an excessive intake of carbohydrates often leads to excessive secretion of cortisol."

Excess cortisol:

Diminishes cellular utilization of glucose
Increases blood sugar levels
Decreases protein synthesis
Increases protein breakdown that can lead to muscle wasting
Causes demineralization of bone that can lead to osteoporosis
Interferes with skin regeneration and healing
Causes shrinking of lymphatic tissue
Diminishes lymphocyte numbers and functions
Lessens SIgA (secretory antibody productions). This immune system suppression may lead to increased susceptibility to allergies, infections, and degenerative disease
High-cortisol levels caused by excessive carbohydrate consumption and high-insulin levels cause
the body to extract high-tensile strength collagen protein fibers from bones, remove the mineral matrix by demineralization and weaken connective tissue at the joints.

The protein loss is accelerated by a low-protein diet, and the bone minerals are lost in the urine.

One is literally peeing his/her bones away. The result is a rapid and shocking diagnosis of osteoporosis and degenerative disk disease where the spine can lose as much as one inch (25 mm) in height in as little as one year. Bones fracture more easily, and the dreaded hip fracture is much more likely to occur.

Women are told to drink lots of milk and eat plenty of yogurt to get additional calcium with the promise it will prevent bone loss, but the advice is based on faulty logic:

The additional lactose in the milk and yogurt plus the additional sugar and fruit added to yogurt only serve to increase the dietary carbohydrate load. The net result is harmful to the bones - as many women are discovering.

All of this can be prevented by eating a high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet.

Adrenaline is a Disease-Causing Hormone

Adrenaline (epinephrine) is the "fight-or-flight" stress hormone. Epinephrine is a neurotransmitter secreted by the adrenal gland that is associated with sympathetic nervous system activity. It prolongs and intensifies the following effects of the sympathetic nervous system.

Causes the pupils of the eyes to dilate
Increases the heart rate, force of contraction, and blood pressure
Constricts the blood vessels of nonessential organs such as the skin
Dilates blood vessels to increase blood flow to organs involved in exercise or fighting off danger, skeletal muscles, cardiac muscle, liver, and adipose tissue
Increases the rate and depth of breathing and dilates the bronchioles to allow faster movement of air in and out of the lungs
Raises blood sugar as the liver glycogen is converted to glucose
Slows down or even stops processes that are not essential for meeting the stress situation, such as muscular movements of the gastrointestinal tract and digestive secretions

All of these effects are great if one is being chased by a lion or attacked by an intruder into the home. However, these effects are unhealthy to a person sitting in an office, watching a football game or simply going about his everyday life.

The last item on the above list is very disruptive to the intestinal tract and leads to intestinal diseases. People are advised to eat more high-fiber whole grains and high-fiber fruit to overcome the constipation resulting from this slow down of the intestinal system, but this advice is backward. These are very high-carbohydrate foods, which cause a surge in insulin and adrenaline that shut down the digestive processes!!!

Bowel Diseases and Candida Infections

High-insulin and hypoglycemia (low-blood sugar) cause adrenaline to increase when no fight-or-flight stress situation exists and thereby causes unhealthy body changes.

The helpful body responses to adrenaline become a health hazard when adrenaline is elevated over a period of time. The long-term elevation of adrenaline is very unhealthy and leads to many diseases.

These changes include effects to the cardiovascular system that increase the risk of coronary heart disease.

The low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet as recommended by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid is disease causing because it promotes hypoglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, hypertriglyceridemia and hyperadrenalemia. Prolonged elevated adrenaline has the following effects on the cardiovascular system:

Increases in the production of blood cholesterol, especially the undesirable LDL
Decreases the body's ability to remove cholesterol
Increases the blood's tendency to clot
Increases the deposits of plaque on the walls of the arteries
Adrenaline addiction is very common. Type-A personalities become addicted to their excessive activity by the stimulation and arousal of adrenaline. People who are constantly angry, fearful, guilty, or worrisome arouse their adrenaline hormone even though they may sit around doing nothing else. People who are excessive in their participation in jogging, exercise, bodybuilding, aerobics, sports, skiing, mountain climbing, car racing or flying aerobic airplanes become addicted because of the adrenaline rush from their activity. They describe the "rush" they get from their activity and feel depressed when they can't participate for some unexpected reason.

Jim Fixx was addicted to running and wrote the famous jogger's book, The Complete Book of Running.

He was a marathon runner and vegetarian on a diet of high-carbohydrates and low-protein - a perfect setup to arouse and maintain a high level of adrenaline, and he died of a massive heart attack on his daily run…

Curiously, Fixx wrote that his own research showed that the athletes from his university alumni had a shorter life span than the "couch potato" students.

This difference may have been caused by the difference in adrenaline between the two groups.

Hypoglycemia and stress are a deadly combination.

Viet Nam War in Poetry

2008-12-03T10:27:00.000-08:00

Viet Nam War in Poetry

An American Sonnet

If freedom is Heaven on Earth,
Then communism is Hell
If freedom is hope,
Then communism is despair
If freedom is man’s happiness,
Then communism his sufferings
If freedom is life,
Then communism is death.
The Vietnam Veteran Wall lives on
The Berlin Wall has perished
We, free citizens of the world,
Yearn to see Vietnam’s future cherished.

Let go of Uncle Ho’s oppression
Let God lead our liberty mission.

Linh Duy Vo
(The Boy in the Poem)
13 March 1999 ©

NVA In Laos, Cambodia, and Viet Nam: The United Battlefield

2008-12-01T08:06:00.001-08:00

NVA in Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia: Laos
© John Puzzo 29 November 2008

Sources:
I. Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.
II. http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/lima/laos1962.htm
III. http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/lima/laos1954.htm
IV. http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/2527/jhviet.html
V. http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0859186.html
VI. http://countrystudies.us/laos/
VII. http://countrystudies.us/laos/14.htm
VIII. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058717/Pathet-Lao
IX. Communist Party of Vietnam: http://www.cpv.org.vn/english/archives/details.asp?topic=14&subtopic=99&leader_topic=42&id=BT2750372918
X. Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe column, April 30, 2000
XI. No More Vietnam’s,” Richard Milhous Nixon, Arbor House;1985
XII. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992, by Jane Hamilton-Merritt; Indiana University Press; 1993.

The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party that now controls Laos is a Marxist-Leninist party patterned after the Vietnamese Communist Party and was strongly influenced by the Soviet Union and the USSR's Communist Party. It practices Marxism Leninism, as does Viet Nam. Since 1975, it has monopolized political power in Laos. The policy-making organs are the politburo and the central committee.

Ho Chi Minh was a hard-line Bolshevik Dictator. Communism and the Leninist principle that Communist nations should subordinate their interests to those of international Communism dictated Ho Chi Minh’s entire life and give the lie to the oft repeated but false claim that he was a nationalist first and a Communist second. Many years after his death, his party, the Communist Party, admitted the true nature of Ho Chi Minh:

“…from his youth to the last minute of his life, President Ho Chi Minh devoted his life to the revolutionary cause of our people and to the people of the world (emph. added). He … creatively applied Marxism-Leninism …for the Vietnamese revolution… to realize the lofty ideas of socialism and communism…To constantly enhance pure internationalist sentiments…and unity in the socialist camp…on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and make a contribution to the world revolution.”(Updated on 5/27/2003 at 20:15; citation date: 26 November 2008: Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper Citation Reference: http://www.cpv.org.vn/english/archives/details.asp?topic=14&subtopic=99&leader_topic=42&id=BT2750372918

Ho Chi Minh was a founding member of the French Communist Party (1920) and a member of the fourth (1922) and fifth (1923) Communist Internationals – the COMINTERN - and held rank and salary in the Soviet system (see: Le Van Tien, “The Disintegration of the Vietnamese Communist Movement and Its Consequences.” Thoi Su Magazine, February, March, and April, 1995).

The COMINTERN's priority was exporting the Revolution, specifically the export of subversion, terror, and the employment of murder and assassination against selected opponents and informers by paramilitary wings (terror networks), tactics that would destabilize target nations and make them vulnerable to takeover. The COMINTERN was thoroughly infused with secret informers and intelligence operatives working under the Party.

Cannibalistic:
By 1943, 133 out of 492 Comintern staff members became Party victims. Many were convinced to relocate to the Soviet Union where they were liquidated. During WW II, more than a thousand were betrayed by the International Socialists (Communists) to the National Socialists (Nazi’s). The leaders of the Indian, Korean, Mexican, Iranian and Turkish Communist parties were simply executed where they were.

COMINTERN member, Ho Chi Minh, on the cover of ‘Time’ magazine three times as ‘Man of the Year’ in 1954, 1965, and 1975, employed similar tactics and turned the whole of SE Asia into a cavern of slaughter: "Better 10 innocent deaths than one enemy survivor," was a both a philosophy and a means to an end for Ho Chi Minh and the Communist Party.

"Hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese were killed as 'class enemies' and 'counterrevolutionaries.' During Hanoi's brief occupation of Hue in 1968, Tet Offensive, thousands of citizens -- priests, doctors, bureaucrats -- were butchered.

“It was not to satisfy some imperial craving that America went to war in Vietnam.

“It went to save the South from murder."
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe columnist, April 30, 2000

After organizing his political cadre and network of couriers, organizers, agents and spies into the Indochina Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh commenced formation of a military apparatus throughout SE Asia in the 1930’s. Although not well known, the ICP played a significant role in the attempt to overthrow the Lao monarchy in 1932.

By February 1951 the ICP had formed separate revolutionary front parties for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, implementing Hanoi’s strategy of making revolution on "one battlefield."

Whether revolution is ‘war’ that is waged on a battlefield is arguable. Certainly ‘the Revolution’ waged in SE Asia began and continues with attacks on civilians by the Revolutionary parties and the military forces they field.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail, a clandestine supply route, extended from the Soviet Union and China through North Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia to service the communist terror network of increasingly conventional armed forces, which has never ceased their predations against civilians continuing today as they do against the Montagnard and Hmong.

As the NVA occupied more and more territory in these sovereign nations, terror and atrocity against the civilian populations became progressively more severe with locals pressed into service as laborers, soldiers, and sex slaves.

Communist-style terrorism as it was practiced by Ho Chi Minh and the NVA, like that of the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea before it, is the model and method of revolution and population control used by all modern totalitarian dictatorships.

This terror was practiced throughout SE Asia. Characteristically, statistics are more available for Viet Nam, but illustrative of what occurred in Laos and Cambodia as well as in Viet Nam, dominated first by the Indochina Communist Party and then by the NVA, proxy army for international Communism:

“From 1957 to 1973, the National Liberation Front death squads assassinated 36,725 South Vietnamese and abducted another 58,499 and focused on leaders at the village level and on anyone who improved the lives of the peasants such as medical personnel, social workers, and schoolteachers.”[See: Nixon] No More Vietnams by Richard Nixon]

New waves of Vietnamese Communist political and military agents infiltrated Laos between 1946 and 1947, beginning with 500-700 personnel. That figure grew to approximately 7,000 agents between 1950 and 1951. By 1953, 17,000 Vietnamese were in Laos, organizing the revolution even as the Geneva Accords were in the process of formulation.

By the closing months of WWII, the nucleus of one full division was in place and others were in service along the Vietnamese border with Laos. One full division, the 335th NVA, occupied portions of Laos in violation of international law.

By 1951, the NVA could field 5 full infantry divisions of between 10,000 - 15,000 soldiers each, with artillery, AA, and support units.

Two months after the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina, the North Vietnamese established ‘Group 100’ on the Laotian Border near the Thanh Hoa-Houaphan region of Ban Namèo. This unit provided arms, cadre, and war matériel to support pro-Hanoi Pathet Lao forces.

In a major diplomatic affront to Communism and affirmation of its sovereignty and liberty, Laos angered Communists in China and Hanoi by admitting diplomats from free Taipei and Saigon in the summer of 1958.

In retaliation, the North Vietnamese Army, armed and equipped by China and the Soviet Union, occupied the Xépôn District of Laos, an area strategically located near the DMZ between North and South Vietnam. Hanoi claimed the villages as Vietnamese territory and organized the Laotian Popular Front in the same way that they created the National Liberation Front – the Viet Cong, in South Viet Nam.

Laos immediately protested these intrigues and open belligerency. With no ability to match an experienced army that had invaded its territory, Laos hoped for a greater degree of United States support.

By July 1959 Laos ordered the arrest of Lao Popular Front insurgents and North Vietnamese regular army units immediately launched operations along the Laotian border. NVA forces led the attacks, crushed the inexperienced and poorly equipped Laotian army, and turned defeated areas over to Pathet Lao forces, which remained in place as the Vietnamese withdrew.

This tactic had the advantage of concealing Hanoi’s use of their army against a sovereign nation. Due to their characteristic brutality against civilians, mere rumors of North Vietnamese Army presence spread terror across the Laotian landscape.

War waged by Atrocity throughout SE Asia

In Viet Nam, Newsweek magazine for May 15, 1967 reported, "…over the past decade the Viet Cong have murdered, mutilated and otherwise brutalized tens of thousands of Vietnamese civilians. And far from attempting to conceal their atrocities, the guerrillas have performed them in the most ostentatious fashion possible."

In September 1959, North Vietnamese Army ‘Group 959’ began operations with a major effort to expand Pathet Lao forces. As Communist military planners widened the war and moved against the government of Laos, they created NVA ‘Group 959’ to move supplies to the Pathet Lao. North Vietnam and Lao Communist parties together established ‘Group 959,’ headquartered at Hanoi but with local command and support units stationed just inside the Laotian border.

‘Group 959’ "served the ‘(Lao) Military Commission’ and ‘Supreme Command of the Lao People's Liberation Army,’ distributed money and Vietnamese war matériel to fuel the Laotian revolution, and commanded Vietnamese personnel operating in Laos in violation of the 1954 Geneva Conference that prohibited interference in the internal affairs of Laos, specific language that had been written into the Geneva Accords as a result of Hanoi’s open belligerence against Laos.

In their long term strategy to dominate all of SE Asia, NVA planners outlined a role for Laotian communists and Pathet Lao forces as architects of the revolution in Laos and to support NVA operations against South Viet Nam.

Hanoi opened the first tracks of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in mid-1959 through the rugged mountain jungles of Xépôn district.

‘Group 559’ of the North Vietnamese Army was originally a transportation and logistical unit was established to move troops, weapons, and matériel to Vietcong and NVA units into northern and western South Vietnam. By 1960, the Soviet Union was openly airlifting supplies to the NVA and Pathet Lao in Laos.

By 1963, the force level of ‘Group 559’grew to 24,000 troops and included six motorized transport battalions plus engineering, anti-aircraft, and infantry units to provide security forces.

The Hanoi Regime went so far as to declare the trail system and its base areas inside Laos and Cambodia a North Vietnamese ‘Military Region,’ with staff reporting directly to the Military Affairs Party Committee and the General Staff of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Hanoi.

By 1965, not less than three subordinate commands were created for the supply corridors that ran through Laos. The NVA 316th Division was moved to Laos to shield their base areas and supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

As Giap and the central planners of Hanoi’s junta readied their forces for the 1972 Easter Offensive, they felt the need to protect their Western flank and sanctuaries in Laos which would play key roles in the massive but doomed offensive against South Viet Nam.

Accordingly, between December 1971 and April 1972, twenty North Vietnamese independent maneuver battalions engaged a much smaller force of 10,000 Hmong Special Guerrilla Units and Royal Lao Army defenders.

The Hmong SGU’s halted an attack of Soviet T-34 tanks against the airfield at Longtiang with well placed land mines and individual action, and together with Royal Lao Army forces, drove off a stunned NVA.

Both sides experienced heavy losses, but the NVA was startled by the tenacity of the Hmong and Royal Lao forces, a shock they would feel more acutely in the months ahead as the ARVN, with US Airpower, threw back 22 full NVA divisions back across the DMZ and to their sanctuaries in Laos and Cambodia. It remains the most significant defeat of the North Vietnamese Army in it’s entire history.

US POW’s in Laos.

Apart from their wanton use of atrocity against the innocent, no issue more describes the hubris, arrogance, illegitimacy, and dishonor of communist regimes than their treatment of POW’s, and this holds special significance for the US POW’s held in Laos, from which no US POW ever returned.

Under Chapter II, Article 5 of the Vientiane Agreement, the communists in control of Laos were obligated to repatriate all persons held captive, regardless of nationality.

The Pathet Lao held a number of United States citizens captured by them or the North Vietnamese in Laos, but they neither provided lists of those who had fallen into their hands nor adhered to international conventions on treatment of POWs. The US Department of Defense listed 555 Americans as unaccounted for, either as POWs, missing in action (MIA) or killed in action/body not recovered, in Laos.

Five days prior to the signing of the Vientiane Agreement, the Pathet Lao delegate in Vientiane told the editor of the Vientiane newspaper ‘Xat Lao’ (The Lao Nation) that the Pathet Lao leadership had a detailed accounting of United States prisoners and the locations where they were being held and that they would be released after the cease-fire. He added: "If they were captured in Laos, they will be returned in Laos."

On the day the Vientiane Agreement was signed, the United States obtained confirmation of those statements and requested further details but was informed that the release of eight prisoners in Hanoi, whose names had previously been given to the US by the North Vietnamese in Paris, had been held in North Vietnam for some time, not Laos.

Later the Pathet Lao told the United States embassy that this fulfilled their POW release obligations. The North Vietnamese did not respond to requests for clarification of the discrepancy between the number of POWs and MIAs carried by the Department of Defense and the small number of POWs released.

Official Department of Defense figures list 13 American POW’s captured by Pathet Lao as having been turned over to the NVA and released in 1973. http://www.miafacts.org/laos.htm#captured%20in%20laos

The Vientiane Agreement was signed on September 14, 1973. The only United States citizen released by the Pathet Lao in Laos in accordance with these provisions was a civilian pilot captured after the cease-fire. In the ensuing years, the Communists would calmly inform visiting United States officials and families of POW/MIAs that they knew nothing about the fate of United States POWs and MIAs in Laos.

The end of Laos as a free nation.

For fifteen years the Hmong Special Guerilla Units of General Vang Pao conducted successful operations against the NVA and punished Hanoi and its proxy army, the Pathet Lao. But on March 27, 1975, North Vietnamese-Pathet Lao forces launched a strong attack against Vang Pao's Hmong defenders and this time there would be no support. The Hmong were being abandoned and the Pathet Lao vowed to "wipe them out.”

Vang Pao requested evacuation for his soldiers and their families to safe haven in Thailand but the CIA offered to evacuate only the families of key officers. Vang Pao requested an airlift for 5,000.
Facing an ultimatum, Vang Pao and twelve Hmong leaders signed a treaty on May 10 reminding the United States of the pledges made to them and agreed to leave Laos and never return. In the next days a motley collection of planes piloted by United States volunteers, Hmong, and Lao flew out a few hundred Hmong. With great sadness, Vang Pao left on May 14, 1975.

His people still in Laos are hunted yet by the Communists. Other Lao remained to be judged by communist ideologues now in power in Laos, and the familiar gulag was called up out of the darkness to throw its shadow over Laos and its people.

Prisoners were force to build their own prison camps – ‘Seminar Camps,’ similar to the re-education camps of the Vietnamese. “Reactionaries,” “Saboteurs,” and “Subversives,” described the inmates, some of whom survived 15 years of depravation. Even the Buddhist monks were spied on and intimidated.

How bad would it get? “As 1975 drew to a close, 11 year old Xiong Pao Xe, who, six months earlier had been taken by the Pathet Lao to be trained, received a real gun and an assignment. “The P.L. gave each of us a gun-something like a Soviet-made machine gun-and ordered us back to our villages to kill our parents…” (Quoted in Tragic Mountains; Hamilton-Merritt, p. 376. (Note: The boy used the AK-47 instead against the Pathet Lao)

A worse fate: Hunted Like animals:

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2008
Hmong: After the War, The Killing
Review of "HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS,” a Documentary by REBECCA SOMMER

Question: What do you call it when a war is over but the killing goes on?
Answer: Communism

The advent of Communism has ushered in things the world had never seen before the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917 and instituted the 'Soviet.' Since then, the bloodletting has not ceased.

Hitler is a piker when compared to Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro...all Communists and purveyors of the greatest violence the world has seen.

Nazism passed away at the end of WWII. Communism, the other side of the socialist coin, persists, its brutality undiminished, its thirst for blood unquenched, its march toward world revolution refueled, replenished, and strengthened by integration with the world’s economies and therefore remains unopposed to devour its new victims.

Socialist Fascism/Nazism took a fraction of the lives that Socialist Communism has consumed and continues to swallow (see: 'Death By Government,' by Rudy Hummel, U. of Hawaii, and, 'The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression,' authored by several scholars and edited by Stéphane Courtois.).
This documentary by Rebecca Sommer is witness to the ongoing reality of Communism. It provides details of a largely unknown war against civilians, a genocidal war waged against the Hmong Lao by Communist Laotian and Vietnamese military forces. These forest dwelling Hmong live their entire lives running and hiding from the Communists in the remote mountains of Laos.

Every day since 1975, Communist forces have carried out their aggressions against this largely unarmed, defenseless, simple, and abjectly poor people who remain in the forests because to venture out is to invite rape, murder, and death by execution, torture, and dismemberment, the typical tools of Communist repression. Once employed against the host population, this parasitic form of government relies on the calculus of fear inspired by such atrocities to do whatever it wants.

Many Hmong fought the communists during the Viet Nam War and retreated back into the inaccessible mountains of Laos after the U.S. pulled out of SE Asia in 1975, the war supposedly over with a Communist victory.

With no one left to fight, the Communists only promised - and delivered- a bloodbath and the 'peace of the cell, the shackle, and the grave’ to those whom they defeated: the people of SE Asia. Communism demands human sacrifice.

The Hmong became targets of persecution and retaliation by Communist forces because they fought against them. Whether or not they had sided with America is almost irrelevant, as the North Vietnamese Army, on its relentless (by 1975) 30 year march to revolution and the domination of all Indochina, would have swallowed them up anyway. The NVA, proxy army of Communism, meant to have Laos, and Cambodia, and Viet Nam and deliver the populations of those countries into the Revolutionary furnace.

While most Lao-Hmong were re-integrated into their country after 1975, many other Hmong faced the Vietnamese and Laotian gulag of persecution, enslavement, and execution after they surrendered. Those who remained in the jungle with well justified fears are forced to starve and bring children into a terrifying, uncertain world.

Transgressions against the Hmong by the Lao Communist authorities and Vietnamese soldiers have persisted over a span of more than thirty years since 1975. So have the reports of such abuse, only to fall on deaf ears. Where is the UN?

A generation after the Viet Nam War supposedly ended the only free Laotians – the Hmong, hide from their own government and from the NVA who had turned Laos into their sanctuary and supply depot during the war. These little groups of families are attacked with military weapons - aircraft, artillery, chemical weapons, and by ground forces that shoot them and place land mines around their meager food sources.

The Hmong are chased through the jungles like wild animals and killed when caught by Laotian and Vietnamese soldiers. The women, even very young girls, are raped and often mutilated and killed when the soldiers are done with them.
The Hmong understand that those who surrender face an uncertain fate. Therefore, with no options and mostly for their children only the most desperate drizzle out of the jungle. Knowing the fate of others who have been lured by false promises, the desperation must be very great for them to leave their jungle hiding places, many never to be seen again after surrendering to Communist forces and bureaucrats.

The Hmong are also used as targets by communist forces in SE Asia who train their armies and air force by conducting military exercises against them. Facing this genocide, many try to escape to neighboring Thailand as refugees, but the Thai have begun forcibly returning them to a hostile Communist government where their fate is much at question.

This documentary by Rebecca Sommer is a story of human rights violations on a scale and intensity that is hard to imagine for those who live comfortable, secure lives. But it must be told, and "HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS” tells it, in the words of the victims themselves.

Even the 'Diary of Anne Frank' was not told with more poignancy, sadness, and fear.

Where is the UN? Where are the Jews, who say, "Never again?"

Filmmaker Rebecca Sommer traveled in 2005 and 2006 to the Hmong refugee camp of Ban Huay Nam Khao, Petchabun, in Thailand, where she focused on the Hmong Lao who fled military aggressions against them in their beloved homeland, the beautiful Laotian mountains.

The testimony of these Hmong refugees, with footage filmed by the Hmong themselves who carried digital camcorders back to the danger zones inside of Laos reveals the human face of contemporary genocide.

These 'human rights violations' occur daily in the remote mountains of Laos, where the gentle Hmong, marked for extinction by the Communists who hate them, are ‘Hunted like Animals.’

Never again?

For more information and to obtain copies of the film, contact:
sommerfilms@gmail.com

LABELS: COMMUNISM, GENOCIDE, HMONG, HO CHI MINH, HO CHI MINH TRAIL, LAOS, NVA, PATHET LAO, VIET NAM WAR

WARNING
Nom Chomsky, a presenter on one of the videos, is a bifurcated, anti-American, twisted intellectual who never seems to offer criticisms against communists, communism, or socialism. He is brilliant, dangerous to liberty, and to be regarded with highest suspicion.

See: ‘Hmong’ on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJnUaH6_-cc&feature=related
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Hunted like animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xngfvVN6k&feature=related
Evicted from Thailand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfdYWL0yd1M&feature=related
Profaned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-nrE2mcJI&feature=related
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The 5,000 Year Leap

2008-12-01T07:53:00.000-08:00

28 fundamental beliefs of the Founding Fathers which they said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desired peace, prosperity, and freedom:

These beliefs have made possible more progress in 200 years than was made previously in over 5,000 years.

Thus the title of the book, "The 5,000 Year Leap."

As you read through these principles, aske yourselves, what happened?

The following is a brief overview of the principles found in The 5,000 Year Leap, and one chapter is devoted to each of these 28 principles.

Principle 1 -
The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is Natural Law.
Natural law is God's law. There are certain laws which govern the entire universe, and just as Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence, there are laws which govern in the affairs of men which are "the laws of nature and of nature's God."

Principle 2
- A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Benjamin Franklin

Principle 3
- The most promising method of securing a virtuous people is to elect virtuous leaders.

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who ... will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." - Samuel Adams

Principle 4
- Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained.

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." - George Washington

Principle 5
- All things were created by God, therefore upon him all mankind are equally dependent, and to him they are equally responsible .

The American Founding Fathers considered the existence of the Creator as the most fundamental premise underlying all self-evident truth. They felt a person who boasted he or she was an atheist had just simply failed to apply his or her divine capacity for reason and observation.

Principle 6
- All mankind were created equal.

The Founders knew that in these three ways, all mankind are theoretically treated as:

Equal before God.

Equal before the law.

Equal in their rights.

Principle 7
- The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
The Founders recognized that the people cannot delegate to their government any power except that which they have the lawful right to exercise themselves.

Principle 8
- Mankind are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights.

"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal [or state] laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislation has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner [of the right] shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture." - William Blackstone

Principle 9
- To protect human rights, God has revealed a code of divine law.

"The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the Holy Scriptures. These precepts, when revealed, are found by comparison to be really a part of the original law of nature, as they tend in all their consequences to man's felicity." - William Blackstone

Principle 10
- The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.

"The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority." - Alexander Hamilton

Principle 11
- The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ... but when a long train of abuses and usurpations ... evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
- Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

Principle 12
- The United States of America shall be a republic.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the republic for which it stands...."

Principle 13
- A Constitution should protect the people from the frailties of their rulers.
"If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.... [But lacking these] you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." - James Madison

Principle 14
- Life and liberty are secure only so long as the rights of property are secure.

John Locke reasoned that God gave the earth and everything in it to the whole human family as a gift. Therefore the land, the sea, the acorns in the forest, the deer feeding in the meadow belong to everyone "in common."

However, the moment someone takes the trouble to change something from its original state of nature, that person has added his ingenuity or labor to make that change. Herein lies the secret to the origin of "property rights."

Principle 15
- The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.

Prosperity depends upon a climate of wholesome stimulation with four basic freedoms in operation:

The Freedom to try.

The Freedom to buy.

The Freedom to sell.

The Freedom to fail.

Principle 16
- The government should be separated into three branches .

"I call you to witness that I was the first member of the Congress who ventured to come out in public, as I did in January 1776, in my Thoughts on Government ... in favor of a government with three branches and an independent judiciary. This pamphlet, you know, was very unpopular. No man appeared in public to support it but yourself." - John Adams

Principle 17
- A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power by the different branches of government.

"It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it." - James Madison

Principle 18
- The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written Constitution.

The structure of the American system is set forth in the Constitution of the United States and the only weaknesses which have appeared are those which were allowed to creep in despite the Constitution.

Principle 19
- Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to government, all others being retained by the people.

The Tenth Amendment is the most widely violated provision of the bill of rights. If it had been respected and enforced America would be an amazingly different country than it is today. This amendment provides:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Principle 20
- Efficiency and dispatch require that the government operate according to the will of the majority, but constitutional provisions must be made to protect the rights of the minority.

"Every man, by consenting with others to make one body politic under one government, puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded [bound] by it." - John Locke

Principle 21
- Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.

"The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent [to perform best]. - Thomas Jefferson

Principle 22
- A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence of others, which cannot be where there is no law." - John Locke

Principle 23
- A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.

"They made an early provision by law that every town consisting of so many families should be always furnished with a grammar school. They made it a crime for such a town to be destitute of a grammar schoolmaster for a few months, and subjected it to a heavy penalty.

So that the education of all ranks of people was made the care and expense of the public, in a manner that I believe has been unknown to any other people, ancient or modern. The consequences of these establishments we see and feel every day [written in 1765]. A native of America who cannot read and write is as rare ... as a comet or an earthquake." John Adams

Principle 24
- A free people will not survive unless they stay strong.

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - George Washington

Principle 25
- "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."- Thomas Jefferson, given in his first inaugural address.

Principle 26
- The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore the government should foster and protect its integrity.

"There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated." Alexis de Tocqueville

Principle 27
- The burden of debt is as destructive to human freedom as subjugation by conquest.

"We are bound to defray expenses [of the war] within our own time, and are unauthorized to burden posterity with them.... We shall all consider ourselves morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within the life [expectancy] of the majority." - Thomas Jefferson

Principle 28
- The United States has a manifest destiny to eventually become a glorious example of God's law under a restored Constitution that will inspire the entire human race.

The Founders sensed from the very beginning that they were on a divine mission. Their great disappointment was that it didn't all come to pass in their day, but they knew that someday it would. John Adams wrote:

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

Obama and the New Cold War

2008-11-28T19:29:00.000-08:00

America's Greatest Generation made the world safe for Communism, ushered in the Cold War, and started shooting wars in places like Korea and Viet Nam where they had no intention of winning.

Only eight days after Truman removed him from command of US Forces there, General MacArthur had this to say about Korea:

"The tragedy of Korea is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air bombardment while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation. Of the nations of the world, Korea alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism." Farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress (1951-04-19) (MPEG audio)

Less than a generation later, the question of 'the enemy's sanctuaries' condemned another nation...Viet Nam, with sanctuaries in Laos and Cambodia that gave the Communist all that he could hope for to refit, replenish, and reanimate himself for new depradations against the population of South Viet Nam.

What will repeat itself next?

In 1963 and after much preparation, Nikita "We will bury you" Khrushchev tested President Kennedy with 'the Cuban Missile Crisis' and brought the world close to a nuclear war. To coin a phrase, 'Obama is no Kennedy' and his ability to create an administration worthy of the United States of America is questionable - across the board.

Putin and Medvedev will put everything on the line and waste no time doing so. Putin is a chess master and his opening moves at chess are characteristically strong.

So he sent Medvedev to trash the Monroe Doctrine last week. Before giving Venezuela's Chavez the tour on a Russian nuclear warship (November 2008) Russian 'president' Medvedev met with Chavez's leftist allies, including 'presidents' Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Rafael Correa of Ecuador. He met with Castro in Cuba the next day...Cozy. All of the tablecloths were red...

This is not mere posturing.

Putin, like most serious Americans, doubts '57 -State" Obama's abilities and like most of us it is likely that he holds Obama in utter contempt. Putin is gonna Bitch-slap Barrack Obama 'til he owns him like a ho. That'd be fine with me except that there are 20,000 Russian nuclear warheads pointed at us, not to mention the proxy states of North Korea, and Cuba, China, Venezuela, and Vietnam...not exactly our friends.

By the way, where are all of those Russian Submarines at the moment?

And what wasn't on the jumbo screen in 1963 is radical, fundamentalist Islam, hater of al things American. Except for the leftist bombings that killed Americans in the 60's (250 bombs set between September 1969 and May 1979, and they allied themeselves to a foriegn power (North Viet Nam.) and 70's, only Islam has practised more deliberate death and destruction against America.

We have no equal and we have no friends.

What we have is a Commander in Chief who is duck out of the water.

Hmong: After the War, The Killing

2008-11-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

Hmong in Laos: After the War, The Killing

Review of "HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS,” a Documentary by REBECCA SOMMER
JANUARY 2008:

Question: What do you call it when a war is over but the killing goes on?
Answer: Communism

The advent of Communism has ushered in things the world had never seen before the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917 and instituted the 'Soviet.'

Since then, the bloodletting has not ceased.

Hitler is a piker when compared to Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro...all Communists and purveyors of the greatest violence the world has seen.

Nazism passed away at the end of WWII. Communism, the other side of the socialist coin, persists, its brutality undiminished, its thirst for blood unquenched, its march toward world revolution refueled, replenished, and strengthened by integration with the world’s economies and therefore remains unopposed to devour its new victims.

Socialist Fascism/Nazism took a fraction of the lives that Socialist Communism has consumed and continues to swallow (see: 'Death By Government,' by Rudy Hummel, U. of Hawaii, and, 'The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression,' authored by several scholars and edited by Stéphane Courtois.).

This documentary by Rebecca Sommers is witness to the ongoing reality of Communism. It provides details of a largely unknown war against civilians, a genocidal war waged against the Hmong Lao by Communist Laotian and Vietnamese military forces. These forest dwelling Hmong live their entire lives running and hiding from the Communists in the remote mountains of Laos.

Every day since 1975, Communist forces have carried out their aggressions against this largely unarmed, defenseless, simple, and abjectly poor people who remain in the forests because to venture out is to invite rape, murder, and death by execution, torture, and dismemberment, the typical tools of Communist repression. Once employed against the host population, this parasitic form of government can rely on the calculus of fear inspired by such atrocities to do whatever it wants.

Many Hmong fought the communists during the Viet Nam War and retreated back into the inaccessible mountains of Laos after the U.S. pulled out of SE Asia in 1975, the war supposedly over with a Communist victory.

Never ones to practice magnanimity towards vanquished foes, Communists only promise - and deliver- the bloodbath and the 'peace of the cell, the shackle, and the grave’ to those whom they defeat. Communism demands human sacrifice.

The Hmong became targets of persecution and retaliation by Communist forces because they fought as soldiers against them. Whether or not they sided with America is almost irrelevant, as the NVA, on its relentless, 30 year march (by 1975) to revolution and the domination of all IndoChina, would have swallowed them up anyway. The NVA, proxy army of Communism, meant to have Laos, and Cambodia, and Viet Nam and deliver the populations of those countries into the Revolutionary furnace.

While most Lao-Hmong were re-integrated into their country after 1975, many other Hmong faced the Vietnamese and Laotion gulag, of persecution, enslavement, and execution after they surrendered. Those who remained in the jungle with well justified fears are forced to starve and bring children into an uncertain world.

Transgressions against the Hmong by the Lao Communist authorities and Vietnamese soldiers have persisted over a span of more than thirty years since 1975. So have the reports of such abuse, only to fall on deaf ears.

A generation after the Viet Nam War supposedly ended the free Hmong hide from those who use every opportunity to attack their little groups of families with military weapons that include aircraft, artillery, chemical weapons, and ground forces.

They are chased like wild animals and killed when caught by Laotian and Vietnamese soldiers. The women, even very young girls, are raped and often mutilated and killed when the soldiers are done with them.

They understand that those who surrender face an uncertain fate. Therefore, with no options and mostly for their children, only the most desperate drizzle out of the jungle. Many simply disappear. Knowing the fate of those who have been lured by false promises, the desperation must be very great for them to leave their jungle hiding places...never to be seen again after surrendering to Communist forces and bureaucrats.

The Hmong are also used as targets by communist forces in SE Asia who train their armies by conducting military exercises against them.

Facing this genocide, many escape to neighboring Thailand as refugees.

This documentary by Rebecca Sommers is a story of human rights violations on a scale and intensity that is hard to imagine for those who live comfortable, secure lives. But it must be told, and "HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS” tells it, in the words of the victims themselves.

Even the 'Diary of Anne Frank' was not told with more poignancy, sadness, and fear.

Where are the Jews, who say, "Never again?"

Filmmaker Rebecca Sommers traveled in 2005 and 2006 to the Hmong refugee camp of Ban Huay Nam Khao, Petchabun, in Thailand, where she focused on the Hmong Lao who fled military aggressions against them in their beloved homeland, the beautiful Laotian mountains.

The testimony of these Hmong refugees, with footage filmed by the Hmong themselves who carried digital camcorders back to the danger zones inside of Laos, is woven into the documentary like a tapestry and reveals the human face of contemporary genocide.

These 'human rights violations' occur daily in the remote mountains of Laos, where the gentle Hmong, marked for extinction by the Communists who hate them, are Hunted like Animals. Where is the UN?

Never again?

For more information and to obtain copies of the film, contact:
sommerfilms@gmail.com

General Douglas A. MacArthur, Duty, Honor, C0untry

2008-11-25T09:26:00.000-08:00

General Westmoreland, General Grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the Corps!

As I was leaving the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, "Where are you bound for, General?" And when I replied, "West Point," he remarked, "Beautiful place. Have you ever been there before?"

No human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this [Thayer Award].

Coming from a profession I have served so long, and a people I have loved so well, it fills me with an emotion I cannot express.

But this award is not intended primarily to honor a personality, but to symbolize a great moral code -- the code of conduct and chivalry of those who guard this beloved land of culture and ancient descent.

That is the animation of this medallion.

For all eyes and for all time, it is an expression of the ethics of the American soldier. That I should be integrated in this way with so noble an ideal arouses a sense of pride and yet of humility which will be with me always.

"Duty, Honor, Country"

Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean.

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.

But these are some of the things they do.

They build your basic character.

They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense.

They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.

They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for actions, not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future yet never neglect the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. They create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and inspiration of life. They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman.

And what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? Are they reliable? Are they brave? Are they capable of victory?

Their story is known to all of you.

It is the story of the American man-at-arms.

My estimate of him was formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed.

I regarded him then as I regard him now -- as one of the world's noblest figures, not only as one of the finest military characters, but also as one of the most stainless. His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give.

He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast.

But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words.

He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom.

He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements.

In 20 campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other he has drained deep the chalice of courage.

As I listened to those songs [of the glee club], in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs, on many a weary march from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-shocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God.

I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory.

Always, for them: Duty, Honor, Country; always their blood and sweat and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth.

And 20 years after, on the other side of the globe, again the filth of murky foxholes, the stench of ghostly trenches, the slime of dripping dugouts; those boiling suns of relentless heat, those torrential rains of devastating storms; the loneliness and utter desolation of jungle trails; the bitterness of long separation from those they loved and cherished; the deadly pestilence of tropical disease; the horror of stricken areas of war; their resolute and determined defense, their swift and sure attack, their indomitable purpose, their complete and decisive victory -- always victory. Always through the bloody haze of their last reverberating shot, the vision of gaunt, ghastly men reverently following your password of:

"Duty, Honor, Country."

The code which those words perpetuate embraces the highest moral laws and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promulgated for the uplift of mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong.

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training: sacrifice.

In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when he created man in his own image.

No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the Divine help which alone can sustain him.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

You now face a new world -- a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite, spheres, and missiles mark the beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind. In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us it has taken to form the earth, in the three or more billion years of development of the human race, there has never been a more abrupt or staggering evolution. We deal now not with things of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier.

We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy; of making winds and tides work for us; of creating unheard synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; to purify sea water for our drink; of mining ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundreds of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of space ships to the moon; of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all time.

And through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars.

Everything else in your professional career is but corollary to this vital dedication.

All other public purposes, all other public projects, all other public needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishment.

But you are the ones who are trained to fight. Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory; that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed; that the very obsession of your public service must be:

"Duty, Honor, Country."

Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds; but serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation's war-guardian, as its lifeguard from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiator in the arena of battle.

For a century and a half you have defended, guarded, and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice.

Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government; whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing, indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and complete as they should be.

These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution.

Your guidepost stands out like a ten-fold beacon in the night:

"Duty, Honor, Country."

You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds.

The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words:

"Duty, Honor, Country."

This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers:

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here.

My days of old have vanished, tone and tint.

They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were.

Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday.

I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point.

Always there echoes and re-echoes:

"Duty, Honor, Country."

Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of

...The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps.

I bid you farewell.

Resist the Beautiful Hell

2008-11-24T21:14:00.000-08:00

Resist the Beautiful Hell

The Roman: In Omnia Paratus"...will not be filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own. I will retain the ancient traditions of my faith, race, and culture, my individuality and particulars, and try as any man whose reputation is to endure must, to make the world relevant to principles and ideals rather than to accept the vague and increasingly shallow values of this world."

Sardonic, terse, intense; in slow, simmering anger The Roman vows unceasing defiance to the makers of treason and revolution and sounds the tocsin that the nation must now accept that it lives on an intellectual battlefield from which there can be only one victor.

Through the control of information at all levels the world is imposing on American Society mind control, thought transfer, psychological torture, and brainwashing, procedures that authoritarian governments make use of in either open or closed societies.

Whether it is dark, grey, and authoritarian as described by George Orwell or voluntary and submissive as proscribed by Aldus Huxley, in the end, the choice is to live free or as slaves.For The Roman there is no choice.

The peace of the cell, the shackle, and the grave is no peace at all.

Therefore, the role of every individual American is to resist an increasingly oppressing society, the ‘prison in the open’ that crushes independent spirits slowly and insidiously with the help of relentless, propagandizing 'experts,' talking heads, educators and 'facilitators' who debase and continually subvert Christian populations to ever lower societal, moral, and cultural standards.

The more dumbed-down citizens become the more readily they believe every calculated misinformation.

Separate a people from their history and they are more easily turned. The bureaucrats and administrators in public education have done exactly that.

The candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama is a prime example of just how effective these methods have been. An informed electorate, in full possession of its identity as Americans could not have supported an individual whose core values are so far removed from the national character of America.

Today, adherence to the Principles of our Founders is both reactionary and counter-revolutionary.

The Revolution in America, as put forth by a handful of well placed subversives like William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn supported by a two party, one idea mockery of Republican government, has succeeded.

It remains to be seen what will ascend from the ashes. We will either caw with crows and shriek with buzzards for eternity, or we can bring back the eagles and songbirds.

Hidden microphones and intrusive cameras record activity and conversation and banks of computers store, monitor, and analyze everything according to what you buy, read, consume, and do or not do. Surveillance is constant. Big Brother is everywhere, even in your head.

Information is processed and produced for the masses but it is intended to be consumed by individuals. All of it is personal.

News and information appeals first to the individual’s emotions: Need, greed, status or non-status, by use of personal identifiers that define self-image and self-worth, motivate and shape personality and a once free people are filed, stamped, indexed, and numbered.

In an abundant society Greed comes before Need because everyone but the stupid or insane has food, shelter, and a place to procreate. Keep the dogs hungry and they will fight over the smallest bone.

Create classes of victims, preach resentment, and re-classify opportunity into opportunism and they will scrap and scrape and bow for crumbs.

Today, information of all types is language impoverished, increasingly devoid of complex ideas and deceptive of its true purposes - it is the socialist/utilitarian voice of revolution that hawks veiled euphemisms and existentialist nonsense in place of tried and true paradigms of rights AND responsibilities, right AND wrong, justice, and Biblical Truth vs the Lie of Satan.

Enslavement of the heart, mind, and soul will follow those who purchase these perversions and make them their own.

It is tempting to give in and settle for crumbs and a quiet life in the beautiful hell.Have none of it. Refuse to cooperate. Resist whenever possible.

When not possible to resist openly, retreat into anonymity, raise your families, find ways to prosper and live to fight another day.

But fight. Never quit and never cease to be vigilant against these forces that every minute of every day will try to own you and MORTGAGE your Posterity for eternity. We are witness today of 'bailout' stratagems that will ultimately separate your children and grandchildren from their national inheritance. Full of hubris, this is the blatant, arrogant application of Hegelian doctrine: those that caused the problems have the solutions to the very catastrophes they have created.

Escape the temptation accept it or to give in.

Work unceasingly to unmask the powers that run the 'Village' in this dramatic struggle, which is as old as man's deception in the Garden.Remember, Adam ate the forbidden fruit willingly, notwithstanding the fact that his trusted soul mate offered it to him after her own deception. Adam trusted fallible 'man' (Eve) forsaking infallible God the Father.

Learn to express yourself with clarity of thought. Be patient with ideas, balanced in your assessments, and suspect all forms of communication that do not operate in this way for deceivers are manipulators of all forms of communication: "By their fruit ye shall Know them…"

Take note of the inherent character of the players - the heroes, villains, and bystanders and in the full motivation of their actions. Then you will unmask them and know them for who and what they are.

Tell the truth.

Tell it, though the heavens may fall.

JUDE 1:24 -1:25

2008-11-24T21:08:00.000-08:00

JUDE 1:24 -1:25

1:24
Now unto him that is able to

Keep you from falling, and to present

You faultless before the presence of

His glory with exceeding joy,

1:25
To The only wise God our Saviour, be

Glory and majesty, dominion and

power, both now and ever.

Amen.

Viet Nam and The Other Side of Eternity

2008-11-24T20:58:00.000-08:00

“On the other side of eternity rest the fallen of Vietnam’s battlefield, forever ‘youthful and strong, loving and loyal,’ and there they look back on a nation that betrayed itself out of a generation of heroic influence and lost something of itself in the process.

“They didn’t return home to teach the finer and the ordinary points of life to the children they didn’t father and weren’t there to do so for the children they did.

They did not return to mature in their lives and take their places in the towns, farming communities, and cities they came from.

They didn’t live to bury their parents, see their children marry, coach little league, run for town council, or influence events they never saw.

For them, there were no parades, no 4th of July picnics, school plays, concerts, or recitals.

“They died ‘forever young,’ and forever in the heroic pose known to a choice few in the history of human events: as defenders of what is right and true and worth defending.

“For the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen, living and died who served there, Viet Nam was and will remain a moral triumph. What they did lives on as a privileged inheritance from those taught by long example that to achieve liberty is rare, to keep it, costly.

“The battlefield in Viet Nam was not lost. It was abandoned to the darkness, but not by those who fought and died there for freedom, for Viet Nam, and for each other.

John Puzzo

Enemy of the People: How can a totalitarian government declare anyone an 'Enemy of the people'

2008-11-24T20:45:00.000-08:00

Enemy of the people

See: ‘An Enemy of the People,’ a play by Henrik Ibsen.

The term enemy of the people is a fluid designation referring to political or class opponents of the group using the term, sometimes including former allies. Its usage is derogatory and meant to imply that the "enemies" have conspired against society as a whole.

The term "enemy of the people" has an extensive history. Its earliest use may have been by the Roman Empire, where the senate used the term to apply to the Emperor Nero as a pretext for his arrest (he committed suicide).

Since that time, many groups have used the phrase, including the Jacobins during the radical phase of the French Revolution (the Reign of Terror), and most notably and famously by the Soviet Union and other Communist countries.

Soviet Union
The Soviet Union made extensive use of the term (Russian language: враг народа, "vrag naroda"), as it fit in well with the idea that the people were in control.

Indeed, so great a number of people were labeled with the term that most modern connotations of the phrase associate it with communism. It was in official use under the Bolsheviks' rule after the October Revolution.

Other similar terms were in use as well:

enemy of the workers
enemy of the proletariat
class enemy.

The term "enemy of the workers" was formalized in the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code).

At various times these terms were applied, in particular, to the Romanov’s, all aristocrats, the bourgeoisie, clerics (and in Cambodia, anyone who wore glasses), the intelligentsia, business entrepreneurs, kulaks, monarchists, Mensheviks, Esers, Buddhists, Bundists, Christians, Trotskyists, Bukharinists, the "old Bolsheviks", the army and police, emigrants, immigrants, saboteurs, wreckers (?), "social parasites" "tuneyadtsy"), Kavezhedists (people who administered and serviced the ‘KVZhD’ (China Far East Railway), particularly the Russian population of Harbin, China), those considered bourgeois nationalists (notably Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian nationalists, Zionists, Basmachi), and members of certain ethnic groups (see Population transfer: Soviet Union), and anybody who loved freedom and liberty.

An enemy of the people could be imprisoned, expelled or executed, and his property could be confiscated. Close relatives of enemies of the people were branded "relatives of an enemy of the people," which effected restrictions of their rights.

Any family members of the victim still enjoying their freedom were not allowed to hold positions of importance, and only in exceptional cases would they be tolerated as members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the key to advancement in the Soviet hierarchy. Being a friend of an enemy of the people automatically placed the person under suspicion.

A significant fraction of the enemies of the people were given this label not because of their hostile actions against the workers' and peasants' state, but simply because of their social origin or actions before the revolution: those who used hired labor, high-ranking clergy, former policemen, merchants, etc.

They were commonly known as lishentsy, derived from Russian word ‘deprivation,’ because by the Soviet Constitution they were deprived of their rights of voting. This automatically translated into a deprivation of various social benefits, some of them, e.g., rationing, were at times critical for survival.

Since 1927, Article 20 of the Common Part of the penal code that listed possible "measures of social defence" had the following item 20a: "declaration to be an enemy of the workers with deprivation of the union republic citizenship and hence of the USSR citizenship, with obligatory expulsion from its territory". Nevertheless most "enemies of the people" suffered labor camps, rather than expulsion.

In 1927, the penal code of the Soviet Union was changed drastically. The update of the penal code turned the country into a police state, full of informants, who were derogatorily called stukach (literally "knocker").

According to Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), everyone was obligated to report all "anti-Soviet activity", including any expression of disagreement with the policy of the Party, even in casual jokes.

This policy resulted in significant growth of Gulag camp populations as those who failed to report their relatives or friends were often themselves reported on. State-sponsored propaganda and mandatory (officially voluntary) participation in the Pioneer Movement helped to indoctrinate Soviet youth to follow the example of Pavlik Morozov, a young boy who reported his own father, a kulak.

July 20, 1953 TIME magazine cover: "Lavrenty Beria: Enemy of the people.” One might wonder why there were so many enemies of workers left, seemingly contrary to the initial claims of Bolsheviks that the opponents of the proletariat were crushed as a class in the Soviet Union. This was handily explained by Stalinist doctrine, which included the "theory of the aggravation of class struggle under socialism".
The theory postulated that class struggle grows more intense during the dictatorship of the proletariat, thus requiring more extreme measures.

After 1937, the ranks of the "enemies of the people" were expanded to include those labeled as Traitor of Motherland Family Members. The extreme treatment of opponents is one of numerous reasons why the Soviet regime is often considered authoritarian or described as even totalitarian.

For further reading, see:
Nicolas Werth, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999, hardcover, 856 pages, ISBN 0674076087

F-14D Tomcat vs F-18 Super Hornet: When Progress is One step Forward and Two Steps Back

2008-11-24T19:07:00.000-08:00

F-14D Tomcat vs F/A18 E/F Super Hornet

analysis: (Rear Adm. Paul Gillcrist U.S. Navy (Ret.); Bob Kress, aeronautical engineer at Grumman and Engineering Manager for the original design and development of the F-14 Tomcat.)

Super Hornet isn't so Super?

An F/A-18A was used to “chase” an F-14D test flight.

The F-14D was carrying four 2,000-pound bombs, two 280-gallon drop tanks, two HARM missiles and two Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. The chase airplane was in a relatively “clean” configuration with only a centerline fuel tank. At the end of each test flight and with the chase F-18 at full thrust, the chase plane was several miles behind the test airplane when the chase airplane reached “bingo” fuel and had to return to base.

• An F/A-18E Super Hornet is tested using the same chase airplane, an earlier model Hornet, in the same configuration. The chase airplane does not need full thrust to stay with the test airplane.

• An F/A-18E/F in maximum afterburner thrust cannot exceed Mach 1.0 in level flight below 10,000 feet even when it is in the clean configuration (no external stores). At 10,000 feet, the F-14D can exceed Mach 1.6.

• A quote from a Hornet pilot is devastatingly frank: “The aircraft is slower than most fighters fielded since the early 1960s.”

• The most devastating comment came from a Hornet pilot who flew numerous side-by-side comparison flights with F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and says: “We outran them, we out-flew them and we ran them out of gas. I was embarrassed for them.”

By Bob Kress and Rear Adm. Paul Gillcrist, U.S. Navy (Ret.)…argue that the Super Hornet is not necessarily the airplane the Navy needs for the future, and their backgrounds lend weight to their arguments.

Rear Adm. Paul Gillcrist U.S. Navy (Ret.) spent 33 years as a fighter pilot and wing commander and was operations commander of all Pacific Fleet fighters. Bob Kress is an aeronautical engineer and, during his long career at Grumman, he was directly involved in the development of a wide range of fighters. He was the Engineering Manager for the original design and development of the F-14 Tomcat. Their analysis makes an interesting statement when placed against the background of the war on terrorism.

The requirements for a practical deep interdiction fighter/bomber have long been the subject of controversy within the naval aviation community, especially when it comes to the F-14 Tomcat versus the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Often, however, the definition of “deep interdiction” is changed to fit the aircraft under discussion, rather than taking into account the real-world theater of operations for which it is destined.

Events over Afghanistan, however, have forced us to formalize what is really needed if an aircraft is to strike an enemy deep within its country. Today, we know that the politics of surrounding countries can dictate mission distances that stretch the ability of current aircraft to their limits.

The U.S. relies on Navy aircraft carriers as bases. So, when putting fighter/ bombers over Afghan targets, which aircraft led the charge?—the tried-and-true F-14 Tomcat with the F/A-18 Hornet well behind.

This particular conflict motivated us to address what we see as a serious problem concerning Naval aviation assets and the realities of the fields over which we will fight.

As shown over Afghanistan, there are four basic requirements of any carrier strike force:

Reach the target.
Don't get shot down by SAMs, AAA, or enemy fighters.
Strike the target.
Return to the carrier before running out of gas.

Within these four seemingly simple rules are the needs for an airplane to have a long range while carrying sufficient munitions to hammer a target and still be able to fight its way through enemy aircraft and AAA threats.

“Third World countries all around the globe are purchasing the very latest operational Russian-built fighters that are also licensed for production in China. The Russian aerial threat still exists; what has changed is that the pilots aren't Russians.”

Because our government isn't telling us all of its secrets, we'll have to make some assumptions when using Afghanistan as an example. It is, however, obvious that reaching the target presents a great challenge.

To avoid Silkworm-class missiles, the carrier battle group probably would not want to venture north of a line joining Masqat, Oman and Ahmadabad, Pakistan.

Along this line, the group would be somewhat west of Karachi. Reaching Kabul would require a one-way flight of roughly 825 statute miles.

Assuming the use of S-3 tankers, an F-14 strike, refueling somewhere between Quetta and Sukkur, Pakistan, wouldn't have any trouble attacking targets in the northernmost parts of Afghanistan.

If, however, an F/A-18E/F refuels in the same spot, it will barely make it to Kabul.

The un-refueled radius of an F-14 carrying the normal strike load (four 2,000-pound LGBs, two HARM missiles and two Sidewinders plus 675 rounds of 20mm and two, 280-gallon external tanks) is at least 500 statute miles.

Accompanying E/F Super Hornets have only a 350-statute-mile radius carrying about half the bomb load. To complete the picture of mission distances, the S-3s would have to dash back to the CVs, hot-refuel and meet the raid coming out of Afghanistan, which would be much in need of JP-4 cocktails.

Afghan campaign an all-USAF show? NO. Carrier-fleet effectiveness proved more valuable than thought: map studies combined with knowledge of geopolitical restrictions showed that carrier assets, primarily the F-14, were just about the U.S.'s only option. This has clearly been substantiated by events.

Of course, the F-14s were not the first to hit targets in Afghanistan; B-2 stealth bombers each carried 16, 2,000-pound GPS-guided bombs. They flew from Whiteman AFB in Missouri—a 33-hour round trip. Further, big-time USAF strategic air assets—B-52s and B-1s—arrived shortly afterward.

It was soon apparent that USAF tactical aircraft were not being used in Afghanistan. We found that, even given unlimited in-flight tanker refueling, the USAF F-15 and F-16 could not be used without a Middle Eastern ground base.

Turkish bases were simply too far away and would require refueling over hostile areas. Only the use of tactical air bases in Turkmenistan and/or Uzbekistan would work, and this would allow only partial coverage of Afghanistan.

The big question becomes: does the Navy have the assets to be able to carry this kind of war into the future, and what kind of planning is in place? To cut to the chase, the discussion once again reverts to whether or not the new Super Hornet will really cut the mustard or the Navy has taken yet another wrong turn that will cost us dearly on the battlefield.

A History of Naval Aviation difficulties

The subject of the erosion of Naval aviation has nagged both of us ever since the cancellation of the A-12 program by the Secretary of Defense in the late '80s. It was a watershed for a number of reasons, not the least of which was a level of bad management that hadn't been seen in the Pentagon for decades!

We can look back on that day and clearly see that the unraveling of the fabric of Naval aviation would become a long-term trend. Neither of us contends that the A-12, as envisioned by Navy leaders, was the right airplane to develop at that point in history; in fact, it wasn't! That, however, is another story for another time.

We have put off writing this article simply because we know it is likely to ruffle many feathers in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, but events in Afghanistan again brought our main arguments into focus.

Is writing this kind of article worth it, we wondered; we might be seen to be “piling it on” when the Navy is in difficulty and clearly on a steep, downhill slide.

Well, we have listened, with no small restraint, to the pontifications that justify how well the Navy is doing with its favorite program, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—despite unimpeachable reports to the contrary from the guys in the fleet.

Comments made to us by young fleet pilots who have flown the airplane and describe it as “a dog” carry much more weight with us than statements from senior officers and civilians higher in the food chain.

But certain pontifications in a statement by a senior Naval officer who should have known better served as the last straw.

The pronouncement appeared along with a spate of triumphal announcements that celebrated the “successful” completion of the Super Hornet's first operational evaluation (OPEVAL).

In a publication called “Inside Washington,” the Navy's director of operational testing is quoted as saying that the Super Hornet was superior to its earlier models “… in every category but three: acceleration, maximum speed and sustained turning performance.”

This pronouncement boggled our minds because these are the very performance capabilities that determine a tactical airplane's survival. Then, as if to justify this “hand grenade,” the officer is quoted as stating that the Navy has sacrificed speed in the Super Hornet for other beneficial capabilities, and he asserts, “brute speed is no longer the discriminator it once was when the benchmark was the Soviet threat.”

It is clear to us that this Naval officer doesn't have a clue about aerial combat and the importance of total energy in the complex equations of energy maneuverability. Nor does he seem to understand that Third World countries all around the globe are purchasing the very latest operational Russian-built fighters that are also licensed for production in China. The Russian aerial threat still exists; what has changed is that the pilots aren't Russians.

As a nation, we have always had the means to protect our own global interests as well as those of other countries. Short of nuclear war, the carrier battle groups have been able to strike on very short notice. A President's first question in time of crisis is often, “Where are the carriers?”

F-14s carry a major punch:

This says a great deal about a carrier battle group's effectiveness. Remember that there are—or there can be—24 F-14s on a ship such as the John C. Stennis (CVN-71). Twenty four F-14s can deliver more weapons than the entire 16 aircraft B-2 fleet.

Unfortunately, the numbers of F-14s are dwindling, and they will be almost gone in another 10 years (retired from service in 2006) . What will be the replacement?

With a layered defense, including air assets, guided-missile cruisers and frigates and undersea backing, the carrier battle groups are pretty well invulnerable.

On the Nimitz-class carrier, the F-14 was a truly long-range fighter/bomber—plus lightweight F/A-18A fighter/bombers. The long-range A-6 bomber has gone forever, but its derivative, the EA-6B Electronic War-fare (EW) aircraft is in place and is in much demand by both the USN and the USAF.

This country's Desert Fox and Kosovo experiences have, at last—and correctly—shifted the focus away from stealth and toward electronic warfare.

We will have more to say on this important topic in a subsequent article. In short, at the moment, the deck complement looks adequate. The F-14 can pick up the A-6 role because it was designed to do so from scratch. Its performance in Kosovo as a very effective strike leader has more than borne out that fact.

With LANTIRN, night-vision devices and synthetic aperture A/G radar, the F-14 targeted not only its own four 2,000-pound weapons but also the ordnance of the F/A-18s, which don't have such capable sensors.

F/A-18s only have 36 percent of the F-14's payload/range capability.

The F/A-18E Super Hornet has been improved but still has, at best, 50 percent of the F-14's capability to deliver a fixed number of bombs (in pounds) on target.

This naturally means that the carrier radius of influence drops to 50 percent of what it would have been with the same number of F-14s. As a result, the area of influence (not radius) drops to 23 percent! No wonder the USN is working on “buddy tanker” versions of the Super Hornet.

By the way, now that the A-6 tanker has gone, how will the Hornets get to deep-interdiction targets?

Contrary to what we're officially told, a tanker variant of the Hornet is simply not the answer.

In an attempt to make it supersonic, the F-18E has been given a low aspect ratio, razor blade of a wing. This hurts subsonic drag and carrier takeoff payload when compared with a KA-6 tanker, which is an aerodynamically efficient solution.

Equally silly is the proposal for an EW version of the F-18E. The same aerodynamic reasons apply for this airplane, plus it has an external stores dilemma. To get sufficient range to support a deep-interdiction mission, the EF-18E would have to use up precious external store stations with fuel tanks rather than ECM pods as carried on the EA-6B.

Perhaps the Navy should consider putting the EA-6B back into upgraded and modernized production and build some of them as tankers? Or more Super A-6s?

As this is being written, it is too early to comment in an informed manner on the war on terrorism in Afghanistan. The USAF heavy bomber raids are fully public. However, it is evident that USN carrier strike groups that consist of F-14s and F-18s are conducting the tactical raids.

A study of maps shows that CVN airborne S-3 tankers facilitate the conduct of these raids by refueling, probably over Pakistan. At this time, USAF tactical air assets do not have bases close enough to Afghanistan to allow airborne refueling over friendly nations. By the time this finds its way in-to print, that may have changed.

We should resurrect as many retired F-14s (of any configuration) as we can.

Second, combine these with fleet F-14As, the remaining F-14As and even the Iranian F-14 assets that might be obtainable (Iran took delivery of approximately 80 F-14s under the Shah; about 30 are still airworthy).

Third, design a program to upgrade all of these aircraft to F-14Ds. This may sound wild, but Grumman experience in restoring Malaysian A4D basket cases to mint condition in the '80s was very successful, and they were not even Grumman airplanes!

Similar success in restoring fleet A-6s at Grumman's St. Augustine, Florida, facility was achieved. It would be appropriate for the Navy or DoD to launch a study by a blue ribbon team under the aegis of NAVAIR. We estimate that about 200 additional F-14s could be brought back into the fleet.

The titanium box beams and bulkheads are nearly indestructible as well as repairable using electron-beam welding; but this is not yet a Tomcat II.

At the other end, the mission payload/range is greatly increased by flying unswept, as is air combat maneuvering. Why the latter? Because dedicated air combat occurs at below about Mach 0.8 because of high turning drag—an arena in which the F-14's 20-degree sweep is optimal. And, of course, the F-14 has been to Mach 2.51 with four Sparrows loaded at 68 degrees of wing sweep.

The F-14B/D have been flown to Mach 1.35 at 5,000 feet (813 knots IAS), at which point the throttle had to be retarded to avoid over-speed!

Re-engine the TOmcat II with F-119 or the F-120 engines: The F-119 has already been checked for fit. Upgrades of the GE F-110 might also be viable. The objective would be a 40,000-pound class turbofan (per engine).

Jeremiah and the Face of God

2008-11-23T21:23:00.000-08:00

God: "As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry of prayer on their behalf, do not plead with Me; for I will not listen to you"(7:16).

God, The Prophet Jeremiah, and Jerusalem (6th century BC): The prophetic vision that affirmed principles of absolute justice and morality emerged in the Jerusalem of the First Temple period.

Jerusalem had by this period evolved into a major city in the history of human civilization.
The prophets emphasized the concept of historical linearity, which maintains that the flawed present, with its rampant suffering and injustice, will ultimately undergo a radical metamorphosis, and that finally absolute justice, peace, harmony, and spiritual awareness will prevail.

It was in Jerusalem that people first lifted their eyes toward a more hopeful future.
The prophet Jeremiah was active in Jerusalem during the tragic period of the city's destruction by the Babylonians, a process that involved several stages.

Beginning in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah (626 BC), Jeremiah prophesied during the reigns of a number of kings: Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah, and during the brief rule of Gedaliah ben Ahikam, whose assassination in ca. 585 BC put a final end to the remnant of the Jewish community in Judah and Jerusalem and symbolized the conclusion of the First Temple period.

Jeremiah's prophecies of destruction spoke of an ineluctable, invertible disaster:

"Lo, I am bringing against you, O House of Israel, a nation from afar declares the Lord. It is an enduring nation... a nation whose language you do not know... Their quivers are like a yawning grave they are all mighty men. They will devour your harvest and food, they will devour your sons and daughters..." (Jeremiah 5:15-17).

And again: "As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry of prayer on their behalf, do not plead with Me; for I will not listen to you"(7:16).

The prophet launched his mission in his native village of Anathoth, northeast of Jerusalem. He was rejected by his fellow villagers and his prophecies would later be rejected in Jerusalem:
But God told Jeremiah:

"Assuredly, thus said the Lord of Hosts concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life and say, 'You must not prophesy any more in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand ...
'I am going to deal with them: the young men shall die by the sword, their boys and girls shall die by famine" (11:21-22).

Aware of the inevitability of a terrible punishment, Jeremiah felt disgust with his life (20:14-18).
The concept which had been successfully enunciated by the prophet Isaiah about a century earlier, holding that Jerusalem and the Temple possessed a spiritual inviolability, had become distorted by Jeremiah's time:

This divine protection, prophesied Jeremiah, was no longer bound up with the moral leadership of the nation, but rather the moral decay of the entire nation - its leadership and the people were likened to Sodom and Gomorrah by the prophet.

"Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: mend your ways and your actions, and I will let you dwell in this place. Don't put your trust in illusions and say, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord are these [buildings]. ... therefore I will do to the House which bears My name, on which you rely... just what I did to Shiloh" (7:3-4, 14). Jeremiah was placed outside the law during the reign of Zedekiah and placed in detention until the destruction of the city by Nebuchadnezzar (39:14).

International Terrorism and Domestic Enemies In the Streets, In the Courts, In the White House Inside Out:Infiltrated

2008-11-23T21:00:00.000-08:00

The Nanuet Mall near Nyack, N. Y., is 20 miles north of Manhattan. On October 20, 1981, a Brink's armored-truck driver was waiting for guards to transfer bags of money from the Nanuet National Bank to the truck when a red van wheeled up and three men wearing ski masks jumped out firing automatic M-16 rifles, killing one guard and wounding a second.

A sawed-off shotgun was fired at the truck's driver, wounding him, while a black man who had been standing nearby began firing a pistol. The robbers grabbed six bags containing $1.6 million, leaped back into their van and rode off.

In the wake of the Nyack killings the picture of a revolutionary alliance between black, white and Puerto Rican insurgents emerged. This conspiracy had operated in secrecy for over five years. They committed bank robberies, freed their comrades from prison, and supported like minded fugitives as part of a larger network. ‘The movement,’ which had obvious international implications, had moved to open rebellion.

The Soviet Union, the Cuban government, the North Vietnamese Army, and other terrorist organizations such as the PLO were now operating a violent subculture in America.

Between 1972 and 1981 this terrorist movement had planted or set off more than 150 bombs, assassinated policemen, and killed or injured scores of American citizens.

As the Nyack investigation deepened, police found a ‘hit list’ that profiled dozens of American corporation executives and contained the biographies, photos and daily schedules of top New York and New Jersey police officials. Floor plans of police precinct stations and photographs of police barracks revealed plots for bombings and ambush murders like the one that occurred a decade earlier, in August of 1971, when a woman cased the Ingleside police station in San Francisco minutes before a Black Liberation Army gang walked in, killed the desk sergeant, wounded a female clerk but bungled the detonation of a mammoth bomb.

Using Canadian telephone numbers for some Weather fugitives, Cuban intelligence agents provided a communications link to the underground cells while other DGI agents instructed Puerto Rican terrorists already inside the United States. According to FBI records filed in court, a PLO agent had wired money to a Weather Underground founder suspected of constructing a bomb that damaged the U.S. Capitol in March 1971 (William Ayers).

As these terrorists conducted their campaign of kidnapping, armed robbery, assassination, and bombing inside the United States, the nation’s counter-terrorist intelligence apparatus was being dismantled. Civil-liberty lawsuits filed by radical lawyers who “explode the Law instead of bombs,” had vitiated or destroyed effective police intelligence units across the country.

Between Watergate and the completion in March 1976 of public hearings by the Church Committee of the U.S. Senate, three anti-subversive initiatives and a congressional committee were eliminated:

1. The Internal Security Division of the Department of Justice, originally established to support the FBI and other agencies with responsibilities in the area of internal security, was abolished at the direction of then Attorney General, Ed Levi.

2. The Subversive Activities Control Board, created by the Internal Security Act of 1950, was disbanded.

3. The responsibility of the Attorney General to maintain a list, made available to the public, of organizations determined to be Communist or totalitarian, was cancelled, again at the direction of then Attorney General, Ed Levi.

4. In the U.S. House of Representatives, the long-standing Committee on Internal Security, formerly known as the House Committee on Un-American Activities, was eliminated.

America was now completely vulnerable to the subversive elements that had won the above victories. The Levi Guidelines and Church committee reforms of 1976 are directly responsible for the inability of US counterintelligence services to fulfill its obligation to protect the American people, a fact supported by more than 30 years of ineffective counterterrorism that culminated in the 9-11 attacks against the WTC.

US Attorney General, Ed Levi, Appointed by President Gerald R. Ford

In 1976, US Attorney General, Ed Levi, an appointee of Republican president Gerald Ford, imposed a series of directives on police and intelligence services that impaired their ability to conduct domestic undercover operations against our enemies. The ‘Levi Guidelines’ wiped out many domestic surveillance operations and prosecution on those cases came to a standstill. After Ed Levi, intelligence-gathering in the conduct of domestic security investigations in America was no longer possible.

Levi prosecuted those FBI agents who were most successful in bringing domestic terrorists to justice. He indicted FBI acting director L. Patrick Gray, former Chief of Counterintelligence Edward Miller, and former acting associate director W. Mark Felt on charges of "conspiring to injure and oppress citizens of the United States." The "citizens" in question were members of the Weather Underground.

Eventually, 140 FBI agents were brought to trial for their efforts to apprehend Weather Underground terrorists. All of these agents were prosecuted for actions taken in 1972-73 under guidelines created by Levi in 1976 — a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against ex post facto laws. This amounted to a judicial purge of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division.

Ed Levi was a ‘curious’ choice for Attorney General. He was a member of both the ACLU and the National Lawyer’s Guild.

“While the Guild is not officially communist or Marxist, its membership, leadership, past internal struggles, and adopted stances consistently point to an organization whose underlying convictions could best be described as such.” (FrontPageMagazine.com; Jesse Rigby; 25 April 2003.)

“The ‘Guild’ promoted "liberation" (i.e. Marxist) movements or groups overseas in the 1970s, including the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Viet Cong, the African National Congress, pro-Soviet Angolan and Mozambican factions, the Puerto Rican FALN, and the Philippine New People’s Army, "the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines."

In the years before the Nyack attack, the FBI's informants in political-terrorist groups had been cut from 1100 to fewer than 50. When a joint task force was set up to handle the Nyack case, the N.Y.P.D. and FBI were limited in their ability to move rapidly on the case – most of the old files were ordered destroyed to comply with ‘the Levi Guidelines.’

Abortion, Abortion, Murder, Murder

2008-11-22T20:34:00.000-08:00

Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

God said it, I believe it, that settles it:
A Biblical look, Chapter and Verse, at the crisis of abortion.

They Sacrificed Their Sons and Their Daughters Unto Demons
In Thy Skirts Is Found the Blood of the Souls of the Poor Innocents

Leviticus 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Deuteronomy 18:9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

2 Kings 3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

Amos 2:1 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.]

2 Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.

2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

2 Chronicles 28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:

2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Psalms 106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils [NKJV: demons],

38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.

5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.

27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

Jeremiah 2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

Jeremiah 19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 32:31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Ezekiel 16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

Ezekiel 16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezekiel 16:45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

Ezekiel 23:36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Beslan, Russia 2004 Islamic Terrorists and Shaira Law: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?

2008-11-22T08:49:00.000-08:00

Islamic Terrorists Commit Murder, Terrorism, and Sexual Homicide at a school in Beslan, Russia.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcM--GzNZmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1xlOHJ8dag&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxnFnSn4xk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPR169K_FU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyYYqDycAA&feature=related
(Live video at the scene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPR169K_FU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dADVJsHfiGo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IauACpJx7E&feature=related

Islamic Tribute to the Beslan Terrorists and their leader:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d00RRJMxKXA&feature=related
Citation Date for videos: 22 November 2008

Victims of Islamic Terror, Beslan, Russia, 2004

On September 1, 2004, 32 terrorist’s intent on establishing an Islamic Republic and Shaira law in Chechnya, Russia, walked into a school in the Christian town of Beslan, Russia. There they perpetrated one of the most heinous crimes in history in the name of a religion: Islam.

The predators, all Islamists, searching for the most innocent and unsuspecting victims to highlight publicity for their acts, found a school full of children and there they unleashed their appetite for unspeakable violence and perversion against the Christian world.

After the atrocity, Chechen Islamic Leader Samil Basayev claimed responsibility for the siege, saying his Riyadus-Salihiin "Martyr Battalion" had carried out the attack. He did not participate in the seizure of the school but claimed to have organized and financed it and boasted that it cost only 8,000 euros.

The siege unfolded as the terrorists disembarked from a truck in front of the school, entered the building and immediately killed all the men they could find because they wanted no resistance. Then they saw the helpless girls and took them. These offenders wanted to commit an example of terrorism that the world would notice. They had come to attack Christian children to send that message.

They began raping the girls. One by one, females were targeted. The sex killers looked for the perfect victims, and after zeroing in, they grabbed and disrobed the little girls in the middle of the gym. There were muffled cries as the girls were humiliated in front of everyone. They were stripped, raped, and sodomized by several men.

Not content to ‘simply’ rape, the terrorists used their guns and other objects to penetrate the little screaming victims while the other hostages were forced to watch. And the terrorists laughed. They laughed as they violated the children and made them bleed. Many of the girls died as a result of being raped with objects.

Yes, there were survivors and the survivors talked, but the main stream media did not report these details. For many of the rape victims the internal damage was so severe that without immediate medical attention, the girls bled to death. Those who managed to survive required extensive reconstructive surgery and painful recoveries. From the memories, they will never recover.

But raping the girls was not enough for the deviants who had entered the school. The terrorists raped the boys, too, and beat the other children. Beatings took place regularly, and the terrorists smiled and laughed as they abused (and dismembered some) the little ones. It was said by survivors that they would strike a child and then watch the child cringe. When the youngsters recoiled, their captors laughed, evidence that they enjoyed inflicting the suffering. They wanted their Christian victims to suffer. And they tortured their victims in other ways.

It was extremely hot outside, but the school had no working air conditioner and the hostages begged for water. At first, some was given but then the terrorists said no and drank in front of the hostages and mocked the children who were crying out for water.

They put water in front of the children who were desperately thirsty and told them if they reached for the water, they would be killed and forced the victims to drink their urine.

Raping, beating, torturing, and mocking were not enough. To further frighten the little victims, one terrorist stated that “we came here to die.” Russian Islamic terrorist, Tagirovich Khuchbarov, was called “Colonel” by the others.

When the children asked for water or to use the restroom, the ‘Colonel’ simply stated “I’m not your uncle, I’m a terrorist … I came here to kill."

Up until this point, the hostages most likely believed they could survive, but then…hearing these words…it meant to them that they were to die too. This surely would have made the victims scream in their minds. If they cried out loud, they risked being beaten or shot.

A crowd gathered outside the school where their children were being held. The terrorists goaded the townspeople and laughed as mothers and fathers cried for their children being held inside where shots rang out. Into the night this unimaginable horror continued as they threw the dead, naked bodies of the children out to the west yard of the school.

The Russian government did not want to negotiate with these offenders but did offer food but the terrorists refused because they feared poisoning. They had learned from the incident at Nord Ost and from other terrorist standoffs.

Nord Ost, otherwise known as the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, was the seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre on October 23, 2002 by about 40-50 armed Chechen Islamist terrorists. They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War. The siege was led by a 22 year old Chechen Islamist, Movsar Barayev.

After a two-and-a-half day standoff, Russian forces pumped an unknown chemical agent into the theatre’s ventilation system and then stormed inside. Officially, 39 of the terrorists were killed by Russian forces. At least 129 (and possibly many more) of the hostages who died during the siege were killed by the toxic substance pumped into the theatre.

Expecting that Russian forces would be called to Beslan, the terrorists made it clear that if gas was used or electricity shut off, they would kill all remaining hostages immediately. With this knowledge, the terrorists had brought amphetamines and other drugs with them to help stave off fatigue.

At one point the terrorists allowed some of the hostages to leave. They told some mothers to choose which of their children should live and which should die, that they could get out with their babies but leave behind their older children or they could stay and die with their children. To make such choices would obviously torment the mothers for the rest of their lives.

Russian forces did storm the school. 330 people died, including186 children.

For one source, See: Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, Ph.D. “Disturbed.” www.drdsk.com.

Illegal Immigration and Oath of Office, President and Vice President, and all Elective Offices

2008-11-22T05:40:00.000-08:00

Oaths of office are statements of loyalty as much as they are declarations of accepted responsibility to a constitution or other legal text - statutes - and it is treason or high crime to betray one's oath of office...

Failure to act upon the national security issue of illegal immigration or promoting the legitimizing of 11 million illegal aliens (and later their aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, cousins, children, grandchildren...), the operative word of course being 'illegal,' cannot rest in agreement with the Preaamble to the Constitution or any oath sworn to defend it:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The Constitution was created to:

Insure domestic Tranquility

Provide for the common defence

Promote the general Welfare

and

"Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."

Legitimizing 11 million illegal aliens does injury to, and makes war upon those very principles which introduce the Constitution, especially in reference to "...our Posterity..." (which the FOunders wrote with a capitalized "P").

The Founders of this nation and the Framers of the Constitution realized as their natural descendents those that are born here or who are naturalized legally. A horde of individuals criminally resident within the borders of America do inury to the "Posterity" defined in the Preamble to Constitution and cannot claim rightful inheritance to it.

Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution states, "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."

"Invasion" and "Domestic Violence" - not the kind that occurs in the home, but the 'domestic' viloence perpetrated by a 'domestic enemy' of the people of the United States are now parsed with the euphemisms, denials, and protestations of innocense by illegal aliens and their promoters.

Our republican principals are ignored, our borders daily trampled, our laws broken, our sovereignty violated, and our citizens are under violent attack on their persons and property from outside peoples and foreign nationals who commit 'domestic violence' and deny Americans their very Lives, Liberty and their Pursuit of Happiness as well as thier Safety.

Our borders are wide-open sieves. More Americans have been murdered by illegal aliens in the U.S. than all U.S. troops killed in Iraq in the years since the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003.

Thousands of Americans are murdered every year by illegal aliens whose very anonymity encourages crime. Thousands are killed by the negligent acts of illegals.

Illegal aliens are repeatedly arrested, re-arrested, released, and deported only to return.

29% of all those incarcerated in U.S. federal prisons are illegal aliens.

32% of all illegal aliens receive welfare.

50% of illegal aliens pay no income taxes.

Not counting the untold cost of crime, disease, and millions of displaced jobs, illegal aliens are costing middle-class Americans an estimated (for who can tell the true amount?) $70 Billion to $338 Billion in net losses (per year) by overburdening the courts, the schools, the hospitals, and the welfare system. The personal costs to those Americans who are the victims of crime, fraud, and negligence perpetrated by illegals is more difficult to calculate but no less severe.

And what about the oath of office?
The oath of office for the President of the United States is specified in the U.S. Constitution (Article II, Section 1):

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Notice that the phrase, "...against enemies, foreign and domestic..." is not in the Presidential oath. The oath for the Vice President does contain the phrase:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto: #5

2008-11-22T04:47:00.000-08:00

The 5th Plank:

THE CENTRALIZATION OF CREDIT IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE BY MEANS OF A NATIONAL BANK WITH STATE CAPITAL AND AN EXCLUSIVE MONOPOLY

This brings us straight to the Federal Reserve Banks. The basis of the Federal Reserve Note is debt. It is a promissorry note based on 'The full faith and credit of the United States,' and as such it lacks gold and silver backing. Gold and Silver Certificates, redeemable in coin or bullion, which were not notes nor are such certificates 'fiat' money, were eventually withdrawn from curculation.

The government 'borrows' these notes (they didn't borrow anything of value) merely by printing them to pass on the debt to the people and you will notice how huge the federal debt is. All for the cost of printing these paper notes.

In the Law of Moses and in the first 150 years of the United States of America, people used gold and silver coins which have intrinsic value.

The Federal Reserve Bank has a monopoly on issuing currency today, despite and in violation of Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution for the 50 United States of America:

"No State shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of Debts."

This is fiat paper currency tht is distributed through the local banks.

What Happened to the Gold?

The Gold Confiscation Of April 5, 1933: Forbidding the 'Hoarding' of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates..

"By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5(b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt…prohibit the hoarding gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations…the term 'hoarding" means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates...”

'Hoarding' was defined as anything over $100.00...

“All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except:

“Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order or these regulation or of any rule, regulation or license issued there under may be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person may be imprisoned for not more than ten years or both; and any officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in any such violation may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both.”

One must wonder what Americans thought of this measure, as they had for their entire lives, as had generations before them, held gold privately…

What happened to the Gold?

Words To Live By

2008-11-19T09:27:00.000-08:00

FIRST: Remember Who You Are

Pay off your debt, take advantage of employer sponsored/assisted plans, buy only the insurance you need to protect your assets against catastrophic loss – but buy all you can afford. Invest for the long term and diversify, have a 6 month cash reserve as soon as you can build one, and don’t live beyond your means.

Be ready

Experience Faith

Inspire someone

Perform Life

Dominate your setbacks – Influence Outcomes

Over – Achieve

Deal with Everything: Destroy Demons and slay one Dragon everyday

The opposition is overrated

Create High Expectations

Do something heroic today

Grow old gracefully – refuse to wither

Make yourself available.

Making money is art, and work is art and good business is the best art.

You can follow a path – or you can leave a trail…

Have an ideal.

Someday, your name and the reputation behind it will be all that is left of you.

Direction is more important than perfection…keep moving.

Hope is a foundation. People who have hope win. But remember that hope is a refuge. Don't live there, you've got to do something.

Believe in love at first sight.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

The Turtle only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

George Orwell Quotes

2008-11-19T09:06:00.000-08:00

Quotes by George Orwell
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

Big Brother is watching you - right now.

Communist Party: All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

In the end the party would announce that 2 plus 2 made 5, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim, sooner or later, the logic of their position demanded it. George Orwell, in 1984

Communist Party: The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solid geometry to pure wind.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

If you want to imagine the future [under socialism/communism], imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter.

They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it.

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

The new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed.

In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

He who controls the past controls the future.

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? An unscrupulous writer is the opposite.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The future is a boot smashing a human face forever.

When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.

By lack of understanding they remained insane.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped.

Sanity is not statistical.

..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable â€“ what then?

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

By the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable.

Every new political theory, by whatever name it called itself, led back to hierarchy and regimentation. And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years — imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations — not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

In the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.

With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.

Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed.

The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.” 1984

In a world in which everyone worked short hours. Had enough to eat. Lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared.

If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves. And when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. George Orwell 1984

The Revolution and the Party:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power is not a means, it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power.

Now you begin to understand. - George Orwell 1984

George Orwell: The Revolution and the Party

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The Revolution and the Party:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

The party is not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

The Party is different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

The Party is not like that.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means, it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.

The object of torture is torture.

The object of power is power.

Now you begin to understand. - George Orwell 1984

Quotations II(a)

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“Individual force is the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas. Make a difference. It's all up to you."

"Pray as though everything depends on God but work as though everything depends on you."

“Do not argue with an idiot, they will drag you down and beat you with experience. Do not argue with me, I will drag you down and beat you with a baseball bat.”

“I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look too good either.” "Are you still here?"

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity."
- Dale Carnegie

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
- Sophocles

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down..."

"You've been born into royalty…Now you just gotta be thankful and wear the crown."

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
- Josh Billings

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: One’s dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
- Abraham

"Complain to one who can help you."
- Yugoslav Proverb

"Pain is temporary, pride is forever."
- Anonymous

"Even God cannot change the past."
- Agathon (Discuss this)

"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
- Samuel Butler

"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."
- Aesop

"You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil until you achieve."
- Aesop

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."
- Henry Ford

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
- Henry Ford

"Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all."
- Henry Ford

"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
- Aesop

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser."
- Donald Trump

"It is easy to despise what you cannot get."
- Aesop

"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."
- Tom Stoppard

"Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm Forbes

"You're the groom, it's your wedding day and somebody else is the best man." Go figure.

"Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror."
- Aesop (maybe, but be sure to take a few of them out with you when you go...)

"You can't run a business or anything else on a theory."
- Harold Geneen (Discuss in terms of communism/socialism)

"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
- Rupert Murdoch

The entertainment industry:

"If you see a boob, it's rated R... if you shoot a boob, it's PG13."
- Hollywood Mogul

"Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat."
- Jim Davis

"He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great." (A lesson learned from the bible.)
- John Ruskin

"Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred."
- Henry Rollins

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
- David Russell

"A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later."
- General George S. Patton

"Women feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that because women are so judgmental, whereas the men are just grateful."

"Don't tell your problems to people: 80% don't care and the other 20% are glad you have them."
- Lou Holtz

"Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories."
- Polybius

"Did you know rat poison has an expiration date? When it expires it becomes delicious…here, try some." John Puzzo

"Failure is postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
- Herbert Kaufman

"I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out... Just my enemies."
- Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part II

"Heaven on Earth can be found in the pages of a book, on the back of a horse and between the breasts of a woman."
- Arabic Proverb

"It is easy to be brave from a distance."
- Aesop

"When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers."
- C.C. Barrett

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
- Voltaire

"A gentleman is a patient wolf."
- Henrietta Tiarks

"I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away."
- Richard Nixon

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."
- Lyman Beecher

"All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that 'luck' is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation."
- Unknown

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."
- Aesop

"When the candles are out, all women are fair." Plutarch

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away."
- Elvis Presley

"We often give to our enemies the means of our own destruction."
- Aesop

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
- E. Sitwell

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself, a leader is interested in the mission and the group."
- Russell H. Ewing

"Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold."
- Lord Chesterfield

"You have a choice. You can get laid or you can get screwed. Choose."
- John Puzzo

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."
- Aesop

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- Harper Lee

"Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."
- Henry Ford

"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice." James Callaghan

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
- Lord Acton

"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You know your business, I know mine. Your business is being an asshole; so, Asshole, you are leading Jack and Shit...and Jack just left town."

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
- Archibald Macleish

Leaders and Bosses

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Leaders and Bosses:

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself, a leader is interested in the mission and the group."
- Russell H. Ewing

How the Viet nam Veterans Against the War Morphed into the Viet Nam Veterans of America

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The Vietnam Veterans of America: the ‘VVA.’ – would never have survived without the help of Jane Fonda and, of all people, Bruce Springsteen:

John Kerry, co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America with Bobby Muller, the organization that has a wreath decorating Ho Chi Minh’s grave.

Below, See: Michael Kranish; kranish@globe.com;© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company:

“… Bobby Muller, the paraplegic Vietnam Vet…inspired the Bruce Springsteen hit, 'Born in the U.S.A.,’ is a close friend of John Kerry…

Rock star Bruce Springsteen helped save the fledgling VVA, which was struggling for cash because the organization never drew large numbers of Vietnam Vets to its membership. …In fact, Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda in many ways made possible the success of the Vietnam Veterans of America. The VVA was dying on the vine – Springsteen performed benefit concerts for the VVA, which, of course was originally called the Vietnam Veterans Against the War…

Bobby Muller, “My favorite Vietnam War movie is, ‘Platoon.’ [It's also Hanoi's favorite movie.]

“Both Kerry and Muller were presumed to be future stars when they became officers and served in Vietnam. Both returned with purple hearts and hero status and joined the antiwar movement…Their parallel lives continued as both went to law school -- Muller to Hofstra, Kerry to Boston College…in 1978, they co-founded (with two others) Vietnam Veterans of America...

“Like Kerry (Muller also went to Vietnam as a college graduate in 1968. Muller was 23 years old.), Muller became an outspoken opponent of the war, appearing at rallies and on national television shows, but with the added bona fide of being a paraplegic.

Muller also contributed a chapter to Kerry's 1971 antiwar trashing of the Vietnam War and the veteran, ''The New Soldier.'' ''As far as I'm concerned, Bobby Muller is one of the great heroes of the veterans' efforts in the country,'' Kerry says.

“But, In December 1981, a few months after Springsteen's benefit concert, Muller went to Hanoi as part of his campaign to get the United States to normalize relations with Vietnam.

Bobby Muller, with financial backing from Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen, was able to travel to Hanoi where he laid a wreath on [the VVA’s] behalf at the mausoleum of communist leader Ho Chi Minh. A card with said: ''With Respect, Vietnam Veterans of America.''

“The visit ''caused a firestorm back here in the States,'' recalled John Terzano, who was with Muller on the trip and is now vice president of the Vietnam Veterans Foundation. Some veterans called Muller a traitor who should be tried for treason.

But Muller thinks he was just ahead of his time; this was long before Kerry returned to Vietnam [and advocated the same thing] and 14 years before President Clinton normalized relations.

[In an NPR interview, Muller said: “The process of normalization with Vietnam was dealt a tremendous setback by President Reagan in focusing on our war dead and casting in political terms the issue of accounting for the missing…”

In the same interview, Muller, speaking about Sen. John McCain, said,
“…(McCain) was the only person that I recommended (emphasis added) to the Vietnamse not be given a visa to visit their country. The reason I suggested he not be granted the visa was because he was so angry towards the Vietnamese because of his wartime experience.” So Booby Muller has some juice with the Hanoi Politburo...

…Senator McCain was a POW - in lengthy periods of solitary confinement - by the North Vietnamese Army, for 7 years. He was physically and psychologically tortured, and like other PO’s, kept on a starvation diet.

Bobby Muller, (friend of John Kerry and Jane Fonda)…apparently carried some weight with the Hanoi government. His statements indicate that Hanoi sought the VVA leader’s opinion on which Americans should and who shouldn’t be allowed to travel to that communist country.

Additional comments by Muller in this NPR interview:

[it was] “…the veterans that had gone into the villages and killed the women and children;” and,

“…Our organization grew out of the Vietnam veteran movement in the late 70’s…” (the VVAW).”
The VVA and its 1981 offshoot, the Vietnam Veterans Foundation, were more stable financially because of the Springsteen concert.

''Without Bruce Springsteen, there would be no Vietnam veteran’s movement,'' Muller often says. (Today Muller heads only the foundation, which is separate from the VVA.)

“Three-fourths of the foundation's $13 million budget comes from the US government.

[Muller today is concerned about the US involvement in Iraq – and Kerry is busy back-peddling on his Senate votes about the war.]

''This is Vietnam all over again,'' said Muller.”

Michael Kranish can be reached at kranish@globe.com;© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.

Curious “Facts” (but mostly untrue) reported in “Glossary of Vietnam War Terms, from the, “Vietnam Era Educational Center, a part of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation, an offshoot of the VVA:

VVA: Vietnam Veterans of America. … was founded in the late 1970s by Bobby Muller, Jim Pechin, and other former VVAW activists [John Kerry, not mentioned in the ‘glossary,’ is one of the VVA’s four founding officers.);

“the Vietnam Veterans of America has grown to become the nation's largest organization of Vietnam Veterans…

Fact: the VVA has never grown much above 30,000, and at least half of that are ‘honorary members’ who never served in Vietnam or even in the military…while the AMerican Legion and the VFW each had over half a million Viet Nam Vets.

VVAW -the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. This was an antiwar organization formed in the mid-1960s. Its membership peaked at approximately 20,000 members, including 2,500 on active duty in Vietnam, in 1971. Fact: A completely implausible number…

Kerry as Senator, and things Viet Nam: Atrocity by Parliamentary Procedure
Washington Times, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, December 6, 2002:

“Senator Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin, C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam — a not-so-odd coincidence.

“…in the ‘Inside Politics’ column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry's biography.

Hopefully, he'll include the senator's latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human Rights Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights would deteriorate as a result.

His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi that Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans fought and died.

“The State Department ranked Vietnam among the 10 regimes worldwide least tolerant of religious freedom. Recently, 354 churches of the Montagnards, a Christian ethnic minority, were forcibly disbanded, and by mid-October, more than 50 Christian pastors and elders had been arrested in Dak Lak province alone.

“On Oct. 29, the Vietnamese secret police executed three Montagnard’s by lethal injection simply for protesting religious repression. The communists are conducting a pogrom against the Montagnards, forcing Christians to drink a mixture of goat's blood and alcohol and renounce Christianity.

“Thousands have been killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States, and without them, there might be thousands more American ****s on that somber black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial.

“Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam. — An odd coincidence?

“Thousands have been killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States, and without them, there might be thousands more American ****s on that somber black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial. (by, Mike Benge) (http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/ker_beng_wt.htm

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On Labor Day weekend 1970, Kerry - then a rising star with Vietnam Veteran Against the War - teamed up with Janer Fonda as the two headlined an ugly anti-war in rally in Valley Forge, Pa., railing against U.S. policy in Southeast Asia from the back of the same flatbed truck.

The photo shows "Hanoi Jane" listening raptly as speakers denounced American soldiers for committing "genocide" in Vietnam and accusing the U.S. of "international racism."

Three rows behind 'Hanoi Jane" sits a man who bears a striking resemblance to the Democratic presidential front-runner. According to Corbis Images, which owns the image, the photo was taken at the same 1970 Valley Forge protest that turned Sen. Kerry into an anti-war star.

Douglas Brinkley's biography, "Tour of Duty" chronicles Kerry's exploits at Valley Forge, where he reportedly followed Fonda onto the back of that pick-up truck to deliver his own diatribe against the war in Vietnam.

"We are here because we above all others have earned the right to criticize the war on Southeast Asia," Kerry shouted into the microphone, as Fonda and the crowd cheered wildly.

"By the time [Kerry] hopped off that pick-up truck to thunderous applause," writes Brinkley, "he was the new leader of the VVAW by popular default."
The Massachusetts Democrat's speech also cemented his alliance with Fonda, and the two traveled to Detroit to organize a January 1971 event they called the "Winter Soldier Investigation."

At a Detroit motel, Kerry and Fonda assembled a myriad of disgruntled witnesses claiming to be Vietnam vets, each with his own story of American atrocities. According to Jug Burkett, whose landmark Vietnam war history "Stolen Valor" chronicles some of Kerry's anti-war misadventures, Fonda played a key role at the Detroit event.

"There's no doubt that Jane Fonda financed the Winter Soldier hearings," Burkett told NewsMax on Monday. He said that several of the witnesses who testified at the protest's "hearings" later turned out to be complete impostors.

The event prompted "Hanoi Jane" to "adopt" Kerry's group "as her leading cause," writes Brinkley.

True Love Blooms:

It was at Kerry's Winter Soldier protest that the anti-American actress met her future husband, Students for a Democratic Society radical Tom Hayden! The next year Fonda was off to Hanoi, where she mounted an anti-aircraft battery and pretended to shoot down American pilots.

Of Kerry, Burkett told NewsMax, "Any Vietnam veteran who knows what Kerry did after he came home from Vietnam is definitely not a fan of John Kerry."

Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004 1:04 PM EST - 'Hanoi Jane' Speaks Out for Kerry – Again

For the second time in a month, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda has stepped forward to defend Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, saying she had nothing to do with an April 1971 Vietnam war protest he organized in Washington, D.C. that made Kerry a nationally recognized leader of the anti-war movement.

"I think Kerry made a big effort not to have me invited to participate in that," Fonda told the New York Times this week, in quotes the paper published on Saturday. "I think he wanted the organization to distance itself from me, that I was too radical or something," she claimed.

Fonda did not explain why, if Kerry felt compromised by her role in his group, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, he allowed her to bankroll VVAW activities during the period he was organizing the Washington, D.C. protest.

Just four months before that event - which Kerry's group dubbed "Operation Dewey Canyon III" - Fonda had become the group's leading fundraiser.
According to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley, she had "adopted" the VVAW as "her leading cause."

Fonda and Kerry did collaborate on two previous events, the "Winter Soldier Investigation," held in Detroit two months before "Dewey Canyon," and "Operation RAW," a Sept. 1970 protest in Valley Forge, Penn., where both the anti-American actress and the Navy veteran were featured speakers.

After NewsMax.com published a photo of Kerry and Fonda sitting near each other at "Operation RAW," the controversial actress said she didn't remember meeting Kerry.

But after the Valley Forge event, the Fonda and Kerry shared leading roles organizing VVAW protests, with Fonda acting as the group's Honorary National Coordinator and Kerry holding the title of National Coordinator.

Biographer Brinkley has also cast doubt on Fonda's denials, telling WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg earlier this month that the two had indeed met at "Winter Soldier."

Kerry's spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter described Fonda and Kerry as “mere acquaintances” at the time, but declined to further detail their relationship.

While Fonda is nowhere to be seen in photos chronicling the April 1971 protest, one snapshot from the event captures Kerry onstage with an equally controversial character, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who would later follow Fonda to North Vietnam in a bid to undermine the U.S. war effort.

The Clark photo appears in Kerry's book, "The New Soldier," which all but disappeared from bookstores after a political opponent used it to defeat him in his first bid for Congress the next year.

Fonda sounded somewhat wounded by Kerry's decision not to include her in the Washington, D.C. protest, complaining to the Times,

"I went to North Vietnam in July of 1972, so it was not even 'Hanoi Jane' yet."

But she admitted that her anti-American image, even before she sided with America's enemy during wartime, could compromise Kerry's clean-cut image.

"I was still considered a lightning rod and radical," she said. "He knew that they had to get the attention of Congress, and he didn't want any unnecessary baggage to come with them."

Fonda blamed conservative Kerry opponents for ginning up new interest in her anti-war activities. (So sorry, Jane…you will have that VC flag tattooed on your forehead until it turns to dust with the rest of your rotting carcass.)
"These are wounds that take a long time to heal, and they're wounds that the right wing, in my opinion, doesn't really want to heal," she told the Times. She said attempts to tarnish Kerry by reporting on their relationship would have little impact.

"I think most of the people who are going to vote for Bush were never going to vote for Kerry anyway," she said. "And the other people aren't going to be affected by this, 'Oh, he was connected to Hanoi Jane.' "

Kerry's presidential campaign has declined to respond to NewsMax's requests for VVAW financial records from the time Fonda was the group's chief financial backer.

During his war protest days in the early 1970s, Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry once denounced the United States of America as "the real criminal" in the Vietnam War.

In comments first reported by the New York Times 33 years ago, Kerry condemned the entire country as "criminal" during a 1971 demonstration on Wall Street, a few weeks after the trial of Lt. William Calley.

"Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder, the verdict does not single out the real criminal ... the United States of America,"

railed the future Democratic presidential hopeful those many years ago. The damning comment was unearthed by the Baltimore Sun, which reprinted Kerry's outburst in its Saturday edition exactly as quoted above.

The Sun also revisited other anti-war comments by Kerry that have yet to receive significant exposure, including remarks Kerry uttered on NBC's "Meet the Press" a few weeks after the Wall Street protest.

"I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others," he told the network, "in that I shot in free-fire zones, fired .50-caliber machine bullets, used harass-and-interdiction fire, joined in search-and-destroy missions and burned villages."

(Though NBC has the Kerry interview on tape, it has so far declined to rebroadcast his revealing comments.)

The Sun also obtained reactions from two of Kerry's Swift Boat mates in Vietnam, who told the paper they were deeply disturbed by his anti-war activities. Kerry crewman James Wasser said he was "absolutely upset" over his former commanding officer's claims that the U.S. committed wartime atrocities as a matter of course.

Saying he recalled no such war crimes, Wasser said of Kerry, "I felt betrayed."

Shipmate Bill Zaladonis was also offended by Kerry's claims.

"I didn't like the idea [of Kerry condemning his fellow servicemen]," he told the Sun. "I certainly didn't believe that all Vietnam veterans were baby-killing women rapers. Most people I know agree with me - they didn't see it."

While Wasser and Zaladonis remain troubled by Kerry's anti-war past, they're split over whether they intend to support him for president. "I'm still studying it," Zaldonis told the Sun, while Wasser occasionally campaigns for the Massachusetts Democrat.

When Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry teamed up with 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda and actor Donald Sutherland for a September 1970 anti-Vietnam War protest at Valley Forge, Pa., he was joining the same cast that Fonda had assembled earlier that year for her "F*** the Army" tour – a kind of reverse USO tour designed to undermine the morale of U.S. soldiers fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

Kerry suggested that he had no idea how radical Fonda would eventually become, telling radio host Don Imus that he thought her decision to turn against her country by traveling to Hanoi 18 months after Valley Forge was "terrible."

But by the time Kerry agreed to follow the anti-American actress and Donald Sutherland onto the same stage 34 years ago, Fonda's anti-military road show was already well known to both soldiers stationed in Vietnam and those who had returned home.

In "Winter Soldier: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War," author Richard Stacewicz notes that when Fonda and Kerry addressed the Valley Forge rally – as depicted in the now infamous photo published by NewsMax on Monday – Fonda's military-bashing credentials were already well-established. So, Kerry lied when he said he “…had no idea…” how radical Fonda was.

"Fonda was becoming very well known at that point for her support of the GI movement. She and Donald Sutherland had been going around to GI bases for a while with the FTA show ["F *** the Army," a spoof of USO shows that was performed just outside bases]," writes Stacewicz.

Fonda's role is confirmed in the Vietnam veterans history "Stolen Valor," by B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley. "Fonda was involved in an organization called F.T.A., which we all knew stood for 'F--k the Army,'" Burkett, a Vietnam veteran himself, reports.

Though both Fonda and Kerry are now both claiming their contact was minimal at Valley Forge and afterward, in fact, while the Massachusetts Democrat served as the VVAW's leading spokesman under the title "National Coordinator," Fonda was named the group's "Honorary National Coordinator," according to two histories of the VVAW, Andrew Hunt's "The Turning" and Gerald Nicosia's "Home to War."

With her celebrity drawing power, Fonda became Kerry's leading fund-raiser at the VVAW, traveling the country to tout the group's mission to expose so-called U.S. war crimes in Vietnam.

The effort culminated in the next Kerry-Fonda collaboration, the "Winter Soldier Investigation," which Jane Fonda financed and where Kerry and other members of the VVAW tried to elicit the most gruesome testimony possible from combat veterans, many of whom later turned out to be complete impostors (the records of most of the others could not be verified).

Al Hubbard, VVAW's executive secretary, was also one of the principal organizers of the Winter Soldier event. His supposed combat heroism had earned him mythical status within the organization, writes author Hunt. He and Kerry would later go on to appear side-by side on NBC's "Meet the Press" to denounce the war.

But as "Stolen Valor" author Burkett explained to the Wall Street Journal last month, his research showed that Hubbard had grossly inflated his combat credentials. "Hubbard claimed to be an Air Force pilot who was wounded in Vietnam. Truth: Hubbard was never a pilot, never an officer, never wounded and never assigned to Vietnam," said Burkett.

Hubbard is also featured prominently in Kerry's 1971 book about the group's April 1971 Washington, D.C., protest, "The New Soldier," where he and Kerry appear in a photo together on the same stage as Ramsey Clark.

Socialism, Communism, and Genocide

2008-11-17T13:08:00.000-08:00

COMMUNISM AS DESTROYER

Communist Revolution and its totalitarian worship of the 'the Party' and demand for obediance or death is the greatest purveor of evil the world has known. In the early years of the Bolshevik revolution and consolodation of power in Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the attempt to establish it in Spain in the 1930's, the true nature of collectivism is shown whether it is called socialism or communism or under whatever misnomer, it is evil that rules 'the party' and inspires a bloddletting without comparison.

Everywhere they make first for the clergy which has claim to the belief patterns of the target nation and the intellectuals who can challenge them with thought and reason, for reason and common sense must be suspended for anyone to desire an arbitratry authority over themselves and their nation.

Of all revolutionary systems, which throughout human history have been devised for the destruction of our civilized values, Communism is without doubt the most perfected, most efficient and most merciless.

In fact it represents the most advanced epoch of the world revolution, in whose postulates it therefore not only acts to destroy a definite political, social, economic or moral institution, but also simultaneously to declare null and void the Church as well as all cultural and Christian manifestations which represent our civilization.

All revolutionary currents have attacked Christianity in its different aspects with particular one-mindedness.

Communism, spawned from this same revolutionary stream of thought, seeks to banish Christianity for the purpose of causing it to vanish from the face of the earth, without even the slightest trace remaining.

The destructive fury of this satanic striving, which brings before the eyes of the world the most terrible pictures of terror and destruction which are possible to imagine, can only be based on the essence of Nihilism as the prelude to revolution, the most evil, hate-filled rejection of everything hitherto existing.

For otherwise, one would not be able to understand the indescribable insanity of its criminal acts and the spirit of destruction, of annihilation, of insult, of contradiction and of resistance by its leading personalities against everything free, and the fundamental features not only of Christianity but of religion in general.

The purpose of Communism, as we have seen in Russia and in the other lands where it has been introduced, is to enslave the people in their economic, political, social, and spiritual sense in order to make possible a minority rule through violence. From an international aspect, the goal cannot be clearer:

“To attain through violence world domination by an insignificant minority, which destroys the rest of humanity by means of materialism, terror and, if necessary, by death, completely indifferent to whether in the process the enormous majority of the population must be murdered.”

The urge to murder, which has characterised the leading Soviet personages and their satellites, is known well throughout the world. There are few, who upon learning of the bloody purges, which have been undertaken by the Marxists in Russia, will not be seized by shudders of horror. One needs only to recall a few details to fill the most stout hearts with fear and alarm.

“In its beginnings the Red Terror strove above all to exterminate the Russian Intelligentsia.” As proof of this assertion S.P. Melgunow affirms the following, in which he refers to the “Special Committees”, which appeared in Russia in the first period of the Social revolution and in similar form in every other revolutionized nation:

“The special committees are not organs of law, but of merciless extermination according to the decisions of the Communist Central Committee. The special committee is neither a commission of investigation nor a court of justice, but itself determines its own powers. It is an instrument of battle, which acts on the internal front of the civil war. It does not pardon whoever stands on the other side of the barricades, but kills them.

“It is not difficult to form ideas of how in reality this extermination proceeds, when in place of the nullified legal code only the revolutionary experience and conscience command. This conscience is subjective and experience allows complete free play to the will, which always, according to the position of the judge, takes on more or less furious forms.”

“Let us not carry on war against individual persons” – wrote Latsis – “but let us exterminate the Bourgeoisie as a class. Do not investigate, through study of documents and proofs, what the accused has done in words and deeds against the Soviet authority. The first question to be placed before him runs as to what class he belongs to, what is his origin, his education, his training and his profession.” This is exactly what befell the Cambodians after the Khmer Rouge came to poewer.

During the bloody dictatorship of Lenin, the Committee of Investigation under Rohrberg (Rohrberg, C.), which after the capture of Kiev entered this city with the White volunteers in August 1919, reported the following:

“The entire concrete floor of the large garage (this was the place where the provincial Cheka of Kiev had carried out executions) was swimming in blood, which did not flow but formed a layer of several inches; it was a grisly mixture of blood with brain and skull fragments, as well as strands of hair and other human remains. The entire walls, holed by thousands of bullets, were spattered with blood, and fragments of brain as well as head skin adhered to them.

“A drain ditch of 25 cm width and 25 cm deep and about 10 m long ran from the middle of the garage to a nearby room, where there was a subterranean outlet pipe. This drain ditch was filled to the top with blood.

“Usually, immediately after the massacre, the corpses were removed in lorries or horse-drawn wagons from the city and buried in a mass grave.

In the corner of a garden we came upon an older mass grave, which contained about 80 corpses, in which we discovered signs of the most varied and unimaginable cruelties and mutilation.

There were corpses from which the entrails had been removed; others had different limbs amputated and others again were cut into pieces. Some had had the eyes poked out, while the head, the face, the neck and the torso were covered with deep wounds. Further on we found a corpse with an axe in the breast, while others had no tongues. In a corner of the mass grave we discovered many legs and arms severed from the trunk.”

The enormous number of corpses, which have already been laid to the account of Communist Socialism and which increase terrifyingly all the while, will perhaps never be exactly known, but it exceeds everything imaginable. It is not possible to learn the exact number of the victims. All estimates lie below the real figure.”

In the Edinburgh newspaper “The Scotsman” of 7th November, 1923, Professor Sarolea gave the following figures in detailed description of how pervasive this evil machine was in carrying out its directive. You must ask yourselves, what kind of human being would carry out these crimes in such large scale?:

“28 Bishops; 1,219 priests; 6,000 Professors and teachers; 9,000 doctors; 54,000 Officers; 260,000 soldiers; 70,000 Policemen; 12,950 estate owners; 355,250 intellectuals and of the free professions; 193,290 tradesman and 215,000 peasants.”

The Information Committee of Denikin on the Bolshevistic intrigue during the years 1918-1919 records in a treatise about the Red Terror in these two years “one million, seven hundred thousand victims.” In the “Roul” of 3rd August 1923, Kommin makes the following observation:

“During the winter of 1920 there existed in the USSR, 52 governments with 52 Special Committees (Chekas), 52 Special Departments and 52 revolutionary courts. Besides countless subsidiary Chekas, transport-networks, courts on the railways as well as troops for internal security, there were mobile courts, which were dispatched to enforce mass executions in the places concerned.”

To this list of courts of torture must be added the special departments, i.e., 16 army and divisional courts. All in all one must there existed 1000's of torture chambers in which individual victims met deviates of the worst order. If it is borne in mind that at that time district committees also existed in addition, then the number rises further. In addition the number of governments of the USSR increased. Siberia, the Crimea and the Far East were conquered. The number of Chekas grew in geometrical ratio.

According to Soviet data (in the year 1920 when the terror had still not ebbed and the reporting of news was not restricted) it is possible to establish an average figure for every court; the curve of executions rises from one to fifty (in the great cities) and up to one hundred in the regions recently conquered by the Red Army.

The crisis of terror was periodic and then ceased; in this manner one can daily estimate the (modest) figure of five victims..., which, multiplied with the thousand courts, gives a result of five thousand, and thus for the year roughly one and a half million.

We recall this indescribable slaughter, not because in its totality it was either the most numerous or the most merciless to arise from the special situation and inflamed passions consequent on the first victories of the Bolshevist revolution, but because today, many years after these mass executions took place, all this might otherwise be obliterated from the present Communist picture, even for the persons who were contemporaries of the events and who today, if still alive, have forgotten those tragedies with the ease with which people forget not only unpleasant events which do not directly concern them, but even those to which they fell victim.

Unhappily, time has shown a truly demonic excess of Communism in its murderous activity. The monstrous statistics are known to all and several of these cruel bloodbaths have taken place recently and even continue in the conquered nations of Laos, Cambodia, and Viet Nam where the hill tribesman, Montagnard, and remnants of free Lao hide in the jungles, hunted like animals. One may hear today the lament of the persecuted, the death-rattle of the dying, and the terrible and haunting complaint of the corpses.

It may suffice to recall the giant bloodbaths in Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Cuba as well as the earlier mass killings by Stalin, the forced starvation of 5 million Ukranians, and the annihilation of millions of Chinese through the Communist regime of Mao-Tse-Tung and the millions more in the so called, 'Cultural Revolution' strewn with corpses.

But also the Communist attempts at revolution, which failed to achieve lasting permanence, such as that of Bela Kun who occupied Hungary in such a brutal way in the middle of 1919; of Spain in 1936, where the Bolsheviks gained control of Madrid and parts of the Spanish provinces and murdered 12 Bishops and more than 16,000 priests, monks and nuns; further the happily unsuccessful attempt in Germany, and in the Red Republic of Bavaria in the year 1919. All these attempts were orgies of torture and death in the manner of 1918 and which had bloodletting and unrestrained bestiality perpetrated on innocent victims.

This Apocalyptic storm, which brings a flood of corpses, blood and tears, and finally the peace of the cell, the shackle, and the grave falls upon the world with the sole goal: to destroy not only the Church but the entire Christian civilisation.

Before this shattering picture the world asks itself with heavy heart: who can hate our Christian features in such a form and try to destroy them with such Godless fury? Who has become capable of instigating this bloody mechanics of annihilation? Who can with such insensitivity direct and order this monstrous criminal process? And reality answers us completely without doubt that the [Bolshevik] are those responsible...

They now add to their rank of haters of all things Western and Christian, the Islamic Jihad. Together, with one goal, destruction of America, they need not be allies in the traditional sense.

Obama's Supporters - The Ususal Suspects

2008-11-13T07:36:00.000-08:00

Obama's Grand List of Supporters

Obama: “A Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is now the President of the United States…this is a watershed election which changes the fate of the world…the world now becomes very much less safe for all of us as a result. Those of us who have looked on appalled during this most frightening of American presidential elections – at the suspension of reason -- can only hope that the way this man governs will be very different from the profile provided by his influences, associations and record to date. It’s a faint hope – the enemies of America, freedom and all of Western Civilization will certainly be rejoicing today.” (The Spectator.co.uk; Melanie Phillips, 4 and 5 November 2008. http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips)

From the Urban Dictionary

1. Obammunist: Devout followers of Senator Barack Hussein Obama, 2008 US Presidential candidate, usually characterized by screams, tears of joy and a desire for "change." Usually found at Obama rallies, Starbucks and college campuses.

2. Obammunist: A bizarre cult of the personality arising in the 3rd Millennium in the United States in which millions of people discarded all forms of rational thought and became mesmerized by the liquid delivery style of Senator Barack Obama. These people were led, Pied Piper like, into the swamps of despair upon discovering that Obama's far left philosophy didn't work any better than any of the other socialist experiments of the past century.

List of Supporters of Barack Huseein Obama

ABC
Affleck, Ben
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, President of Iran
Allen, Woody (who married his own daughter)
Anniston, Jennifer
Ayers, Bill
Bernhardt, Sarah (Homosexual comedienne)
Berry, Marion; Cocaine addict and convicted criminal Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Bishop, Dale Leo (Executed in prison for murder), last words were for Obama
Buffet, Warren
Byrd, Robert, former Dem. Senator and KKK Kleagle
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Castro, Raul
CBS
Center for Constitutional Rights
Chavez, Hugo
Clintons
Clooney, George
CNN
Colbert, Stephen
Communist Party, Illinois
Communist Party, USA
Daddy, Puff
Damon, Matt
Danson, Ted
Davidson, Carl, SDS
Degeneris, Ellen
DeNiro, Robert
Dog, Snoop,
Edwards, John
Evans, Jodie, Code Pink Founder
Fonda, Jane (age 71)
Farrakan, Louis
France (poll, 80% for Obama)
Galloway, Joe, British MP and friend of Hussein (Saddam, the late)
Garner, Jennifer
Gore, Al
HAMAS
Hanks, Tom
Hayden, Tom
Hollande, Francoise, France (Socialist Party)
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Jesse Jr.
Jackson, Samuel L.
John, Elton
Johnson,Magic
Kennedy, Caroline
Kennedy, Ethel
Kennedy, Patrick
Kennedy, Teddy
Kerry, John
Klonsky, Michael (SDS; Maoist Communist Party candidate)
Lehay, Patrick (SEN. D)
Maher, Bull

Marxists/Socialists/Communists, all for Obama (Under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat.")

MSM- Main Stream Media (i.e., David Gergen, the senior CNN commentator, who said, "Actually, Rev. Wright may love this country more than many of us ...”)

Russert, Tim: Meet the Press for Obama: David Brody, Maureen Dowd, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gwen Ifill, Ruth Marcus & Jon Meacham. Along with Russert, all these seven are Democratic Party operatives and committed Progressives (the politically correct term for socialists).

McGovern, George
Moore, Michael
MoveOn.org
MSNBC
Muslim Americans for Obama
Muslim American Society (Muslim Brotherhood)
NARAL (abortion lobby: Save the Whales, Kill the Babies)
NEA and all of the little ‘EA’s
Black Panther Party (new)
ACORN
NORMAL (Marijuana legalization lobby)
Obama Youth (Islamic)
New York Feminists for Peace - Far Left FemiNazi Wackos
Weiss, Cora (Collaborator with the NVA; Committee of Liasion)
Sarandon, Susan
Pelosi, Nancy, Speaker of the House
Reed, Harry, Majority Whip, U.S. Senate
Democratic Socialists of America
Progressive Caucus (US House of Reprehensibles)
Ortega, Daniel, Communist President of Nicaragua (Sandinista)
Glover, Danny
Progressives For Obama (PFO)
Project Islamic Hope
Qadhafi, Moamar, Libyan Dictator
Redford, Robert
Rezko, Tony
Wright, Reverend Jeremiah
Richardson, Bill (Governor)
Sanders, Bernie, Socialist (US Senator, D. Vermont)
Rockefeller, Jay
Sharpton, Al
Smith, Will (actor)
Socialist Party USA
Spector, Phil
Teamsters
Time Magazine
Hartford Courant
LA Times
Washington Post
Terrorists – Weathermen
Weathermen Terrorists (2008) - Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, Steve Tappis, and Mark Rudd.
Rudd, Mark
West, Cornell, radical Marxist professor, racist introduced Obama as "my comrade."
PBS
Portman, Natalie
Rock, Chris
Soros, George
Spielberg, Steven
Springsteen, Bruce
Steenburgen, Mary, wife if Ted Danson
Streisand, Babs
Warren, Rick - Saddleback Church; Christian Author of 'Purpose Driven Life.'
Winfrey, Oprah

Yee, James, West Point graduate; accused in 2003 of being part of a spy ring at the U.S. prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, held 76 days in solitary confinement but charges were dropped over "national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence," if the case had proceeded.
Young Communist League

New York Feminists for Peace:
An organization of more than 100 New York feminiNazis: Cora Weiss; Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation; Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times writer Margo Jefferson; Alice Kessler Harris and Linda Gordon; Barbara Weinstein, president of the American Historical Association, and Ellen P. Chapnick, Dean for Social Justice Initiatives at Columbia Law School. Susan Sarandon and Francis Fox Piven.

Progressives For Obama (PFO):
Established in March 2008 and co-founded by Tom Hayden, collaborator with North Vietnamese Communists during the Vietnam War and who organized riots at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in Grant Park, the same place Obama held his victory party 40 years later. PFO's members include Danny Glover, Barbara Ehrenreich, the Honorary Chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Bill Fletcher, Jr., a Maoist, current DSA leader and executive editor of ‘Black Commentator.’ Fletcher is co-founder of the Black Radical Congress which has close ties to the Communist Party USA. PFO Internet webmaster is Carl Davidson, a Marxist who is also a national steering committee member of United for Peace and Justice, a prominent member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, an admirer of Fidel Castro, and a former vice president of Students for a Democratic Society.

Senator Bernie Sanders is the only openly socialist member of the U.S. Senate.

Political scientist Andrew Hacker is the author of the 1992 book Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal).

Leslie Cagan is the pro-Castro co-chair of United For Peace and Justice.

Muslim American Society:
Originally, the Muslim Brotherhood. Called themselves the Muslim American Society after 1993. The Muslim Brotherhood is an international Islamist group that largely operates underground. The Brotherhood's goal is to spread the rule of Islamic law throughout the world and have endorsed violence as a means of doing so. MAS' magazine, March 2002 endorses suicide bombings as "martyr operations…not suicide.”

Code Pink Founder, Jodie Evans - Obama met with his terrorist supporting fundraiser, Jodie Evans, at a $5 million Hollywood fundraiser held last week at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion on Tuesday, June 24. Obama met with Evans and was photographed with her at the fundraiser. Evans is co-founder of the leftist anti-American group Code Pink. She and Code Pink have endorsed the terrorists in Iraq and have sent over $600,000 in cash and humanitarian aid to "the other side" in Fallujah. Evans said in an interview last month, on June 3, that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had a "valid argument" for attacking America on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Vote Hope 2008," the Obama supporters' 527 group, federal records show. The group is led by San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips, son-in-law of wealthy financier and Democratic political donor Herbert Sandler. "The 527s obviously are a challenge to the system, but the Supreme Court has said they're permitted, and there's no way to impose (donation) limits on them," said Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, and an expert on campaign finance law.

Purpose Driven Life Author
Rick Warren, who leads the 20,000-member Saddleback Valley Community Church, called Obama" an amazing man" in an interview with CNN’s Wolfe Blitzer and said he has the potential to be president of the United States because "he has good character." This is a curious endorsement in view of Obama’s pro-abortion stand.

General Patton On Leadership

2008-11-12T17:48:00.000-08:00

The greatest gift a general can have is a bad temper.

A bad temper gives you a sort of divine wrath and it is only by the use of a divine wrath that you can drive men beyond their physical ability in order to save their lives.

A man of diffident manner will never inspire confidence. A cold reserve cannot beget enthusiasm.
Leadership is the thing that wins battles. I have it, but I'll be damned if I can define it.

It probably consists of knowing what you want to do, and then doing it and getting mad as hell if anyone tries to get in your way.

Self confidence and leadership are twin brothers.

The most vital quality which a soldier can possess is self confidence; utter, complete, and bumptious. You can have doubts about your good looks, about your intelligence, or about your self control, but to win in war, you must have no doubt about your ability as a soldier.

Patton and MaCarthur

2008-11-12T17:30:00.000-08:00

The two greatest American military leaders of living memory, Generals George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur, knew positively that our nation faced serious threats from within…those “domestic enemies” referred to in our Constitution, and from whom our elected representatives swear oaths to protect us.

Their brilliance on the battlefield is legendary, both as individual soldiers with their own battlefield experiences, and as Field Grade, combat commanders who led by example, often from forward positions where the action was.

Neither man could stomach cowardice, malfeasance, or traitors.

Both men mistrusted their civilian leaders, and with good reason: They saw battlefield victories lost for unexplainable reasons, not the least of which were the questionable motives of certain civilians in positions above them or their own commanders who danced to the same music as the politicians.

Both men were feared by powerful subversive elements in the United States who were frightened of their mighty reputations as soldiers and for the fact that neither man could be bought or threatened into compliance with subverting the nation each loved so well.

These are some of their words. Learn them well, and let them speak to you, to the inside of your own heart, as Americans. This is your legacy. You are the Posterity that inspired them. Cherish their memory and hard won wisdom. Be ever ready to stand and defend what they stood for and defended: This nation, what it once was, what it may again be..

General George S, Patton:

“Americans do not surrender.”

“The only thing to do when a son of a bitch looks cross-eyed at you is to beat the hell out of him right then and there.”

“Politicians are the lowest form of life on the earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.”

“The whole damned world is going communist (1945).”

“There are all kinds of low class slime who are trying and will continue to try to wreck this country from the inside. Most of them don't know it, but they are actually working for the Russians. Some of them do know it, though. It doesn't matter whether they call themselves communists, socialists, or just plain liberals. That is what they are doing.”

“May God deliver us from our friends; we can handle the enemy.”

MacArthur:

DUTY HONOR COUNTRY

Duty, honor, country...those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you want to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and, I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.

But these are some of the things they build. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.

They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for action; not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness; the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

They give you a temperate will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, an appetite for adventure over love of ease.

And what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? Are they brave? Are they capable of victory?
Their story is known to all of you. It is the story of the American man at arms.

My estimate of him was formed on the battlefields many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then, as I regard him now, as one of the world's noblest figures; not only as one of the finest military characters, but also as one of the most stainless.

His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen.

In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me, or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast.

In 20 campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people.

From one end of the world to the other, he has drained deep the chalice of courage. As I listened to those songs, in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs, on many a weary march, from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle deep through mire of shell-pocked roads; to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God.

I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory.

Always for them: Duty, Honor, Country.

Always their blood, and sweat, and tears, as they saw the way and the light.

And 20 years after, on the other side of the globe, against the filth of dirty foxholes, the stench of ghostly trenches, the slime of dripping dugouts, those boiling suns of relentless heat, those torrential rains of devastating storm, the loneliness and utter desolation of jungle trails, the bitterness of long separation from those they loved and cherished, the deadly pestilence of tropic disease, the horror of stricken areas of war.

Their resolute and determined defense, their swift and sure attack, their indomitable purpose, their complete and decisive victory-always victory, always through the bloody haze of their last reverberating shot, the vision of gaunt, ghastly men, reverently following your password of Duty, Honor, Country.

...Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country.

...The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words - Duty, Honor, Country.

How To WIn At War

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The Old Ranger: How to Win at War:

“Thorough, Fierce, Courageous and Totally Dedicated; No quit in us; “Can’t” is not a word in our vocabulary. Leadership by example is based on merit, unquestioned devotion to Christian ethics and intolerance of misdeeds. Soldiers, families, and Militia must rely on mutual trust and accountability. Commanders at all levels are expected to have their troops ready for battle at all times, must constantly demonstrate loyalty to their subordinates as well as to their own commanders, and above all, lead to the mission: There is no substitute for victory.”

I. The STRATEGIST

1. Deception
2. Confidence
3. Exploitation of Strength (Your own) and Weakness (the Enemy’s)

II. The TACTICIAN

1. Action
2. Speed
3. 3Ambush

III. Psychology of Terror in Battle

1. Mystify
2. Mislead
3. Surprise

IV. Keep the enemy off balance

1. Distract and Dislocate

V. Fifth Column: the Spy and the Saboteur

1. Subvert: Beliefs, Values, Mores, At Home of Enemy

2. Undermine and Erode Confidence on the battlefield, in the camp of the enemy, and at his homefires.

VI. Emphasize maneuver, NOT Defense. Fight the enemy on his ground not yours.

VII. Use your opponents strength against him

VII. Emphasize the Goal, NOT the Victory.

Gay Agenda

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THE TRUE AGENDA OF THE ‘GAY’ MOVEMENT: A Discussion...

Biblical Exposition Against Homosexuality

· Adhere to the teachings of the Bible.
· Preach against all form of sin (e.g., fornication, adultery, sodomy).
· Insist that the doctrines of grace be taught.

These doctrines of grace were well summed up by John Calvin in his 5 points of Calvinism:

1. Total Depravity of Man WIthout Grace
2. Unconditional Election by God With Grace
3. Limited Atonement of Sins - Jesus Saving Grace Paid The Price
4. Irresistible Grace That is God Given
5. Perseverance of the Saints Through Grace

Although these doctrines are almost universally hated today, they were once loved and believed.

For example, these are just a few examples of people who have advanced these ideas: Augustine (one of the early Church fathers), Martin Luther (the founder of the Lutheran Church), John Knox (the founder of the Presbyterian Church), Augustus Toplady (hymnist and leader in the Episcopal Church), Charles Spurgeon (a well-known preacher), John Leland (who was partially responsible for our First Amendment in the United States), and Abraham Lincoln (raised in a tiny Old School Baptist church).

(Please see The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination by Jerom Zanchius and MEMO ON THE CHURCH.)

Most of the major Confessions of Faith throughout the history of the New Testament Church have also advanced these ideas.

So, even though the Arminian lies (see: Arminianism) that "God loves everyone" and "Jesus died for everyone" are being taught from nearly every pulpit in this generation, teaching this hasn't always been the case.

If your Church claims to believe the Bible and you are hearing these lies from the pulpit of your chirch then your church has apostatized.

Independent research on the history of the Church from Adam to now will benefit anyone interested in salvation.

Read the Bible.

SODOMY IS AN ABOMINABLE SIN, WORTHY OF DEATH.

"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." Leviticus 18:22.
See also Leviticus 20:13, Genesis 19, Romans 1:18-32, I Corinthians 6:9-11, I Timothy 1:10, and Jude 7.

GOD HATES ALL WORKERS OF INIQUITY.

"The foolish shall not stand in thy sight, thou hatest all workers of iniquity." Psalm 5:5.
See also Leviticus 20:23, Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 32:19, Psalm 5:6, Psalm 11:5, Malachi 1:3, Matthew 7:23, and Romans 9:13.

JESUS CHRIST DIED ONLY FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16.
See also John 13:1, John 17:9, Ephesians 5:25, etc.
“If you love me you will keep my commandments,” says Jesus to us today (John 14:15).

ONLY GOD'S ELECT HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO BELIEVE.

"Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them." John 12:39,40.
See also John 10:11,26, Matthew 11:25,26, Acts 13:48, Romans 9:19-24, etc.

SODOMITES ARE PROUD OF THEIR SIN ("GAY PRIDE"), AND IN THAT PRIDEFUL STATE THEY CANNOT REPENT - YOU CANNOT REPENT OF SOMETHING YOU'RE PROUD OF.

"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD." Jeremiah 6:15.
See also Jeremiah 13:23, Romans 1:24-32, Ezekiel 16:49-50, etc.

THE SODOMITES' ONLY HOPE IS TO HAVE THE UNAMBIGUOUS TRUTH PREACHED TO THEM, AND PERHAPS GOD WILL SOFTEN THEIR HEARTS AND GRANT THEM REPENTANCE TO DEPART FROM THEIR SIN AND NAME THE NAME OF CHRIST. NOT VERY LIKELY, THOUGH, SINCE GOD HAS GIVEN THEM UP.

"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal: The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity." II Timothy 2:19. "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness...unto vile affections...to a reprobate mind." Romans 1:24-28.

See also II Timothy 2:24-26, Psalm 5:5, I Corinthians 6:9-11, Acts 17:30, Jude 22,23, etc.

THERE IS A HELL WHERE ALL IMPENITENT SINNERS WILL RESIDE FOR ALL ETERNITY. THAT INCLUDES SODOMITES (CALLED "DOGS").

"And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh." Isaiah 66:24. "For without are dogs..." Revelation 22:15.
See also Mark 9:44, Luke 16:23, Revelation 20:15.

In summary, sodomites are wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly (Gen. 13:13),

are violent and doom nations (Gen. 19:1-25; Judges 19), are abominable to God (Lev. 18:22),

are worthy of death for their vile, depraved, unnatural sex practices (Lev. 20:13; Rom. 1:32),

are called dogs because they are filthy, impudent and libidinous (Deut. 23:17,18; Mat. 7:6; Phil. 3:2), produce by their very presence in society a kind of mass intoxication from their wine of gall which is produced from the vines of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah which poisons society's mores with the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps (Deut. 32:32,33),

declare their sin and shame on their countenance (Isa. 3:9),

are shameless and unable to blush (Jer. 6:15),

are workers of iniquity and hated by God (Psa. 5:5),

are liars and murderers (Jn. 8:44),

are filthy and lawless (2 Pet. 2:7,8),

are natural brute beasts (2 Pet. 2:12),

are dogs eating their own vomit and sows wallowing in their own feces (2 Pet. 2:22),

will proliferate at the end of the world bringing final judgment on mankind (Lk. 17:28-30),

have been finally given up by God to uncleanness dishonoring their own bodies among themselves, to vile affections, and to a reprobate mind such that they cannot think straight about anything (Rom. 1:23-28),

have wholly given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh (Jude 7), to be saved must be pulled as faggots from the fire (Jude 23),

and have no hope of Heaven unless they repent (Rev. 22:15),

which they can't do in their prideful state (Jer. 6:15).

They need to hear this truth if they are to have any hope of penitence, faith in Jesus Christ and salvation (I Timothy 4:2-4).

MANIFESTO OF THE ‘GAY’ MOVEMENT

The following was written by Michael Swift, a self-confessed "Gay Revolutionary," and appeared in the Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987.

REVOLUTION

"We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.

Women, you cry for freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy.

We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will instruct them; we will embrace them when they weep. Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of with men.

Then go and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too, and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand the depth and feeling, the mind and body of another man.
All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.

All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.

If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead, puny bodies.

We shall write poems of the love between men; we shall stage plays in which man openly caresses man; we shall make films about the love between heroic men which will replace the cheap, superficial, sentimental, insipid, juvenile, heterosexual infatuations presently dominating your cinema screens.

We shall sculpt statues of beautiful young men, of bold athletes which will be placed in your parks, your squares, your plazas. The museums of the world will be filled only with paintings of graceful, naked lads.

Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable and de rigueur, and we will succeed because we are adept at setting styles.

We will eliminate heterosexual liaisons through usage of the devices of wit and ridicule, devices which we are skilled in employing.

We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals.

You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be.

We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks. Be careful when you speak of homosexuals because we are always among you; we may be sitting across the desk from you; we may be sleeping in the same bed with you.

There will be no compromises. We are not middle-class weaklings. Highly intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats of the human race, and steely-minded aristocrats never settle for less. Those who oppose us will be exiled.

We shall raise vast private armies, as Mishima did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the world because warriors inspired by and banded together by homosexual love and honor are invincible as were the ancient Greek soldiers.

The family unit-spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence--will be abolished.

The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated.

Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory.

They will be bonded together in communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.

All churches who condemn us will be closed.

Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.

The exquisite society to emerge will be governed by an elite comprised of gay poets.

One of the major requirements for a position of power in the new society of homoeroticism will be indulgence in the Greek passion.

Any man contaminated with heterosexual lust will be automatically barred from a position of influence.

All males who insist on remaining stupidly heterosexual will be tried in homosexual courts of justice and will become invisible men.

We shall rewrite history, history filled and debased with your heterosexual lies and distortions.

We shall portray the homosexuality of the great leaders and thinkers who have shaped the world.

We will demonstrate that homosexuality and intelligence and imagination are inextricably linked, and that homosexuality is a requirement for true nobility, true beauty in a man.

We shall be victorious because we are fueled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages.

We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.
Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks."

The only true Nazis in this world are fags. They want to force you by law to support their filth, and they want to shut you up by law when they hate what you say. They would be perfectly happy to make it a crime to preach that "God hates fags" under the guise of "hate speech legislation."

Likewise, baby-killers support the genocide of millions of innocent babies, and then act indignant that Hitler killed a few million innocent Jews. See The Pink Swastika by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams.

Jesus died only for His sheep (John 10), His Church (Ephesians 5:25), and His elect (I Peter 1:2). If He died for everyone, everyone would go to heaven. All sins of all people would be forgiven. But obviously, all sins aren't forgiven, because people are burning in hell.

'Pink Swastika,'
Preface to the Fourth Edition:

"When Kevin Abrams and Scott Lively published the first edition of “Pink Swastika” in 1995, they knew that it would cause controversy, contradicting as it does the common portrayal of homosexuals as exclusively victims of the Nazi regime.

"For this reason they were scrupulous in our documentation of homosexuals as the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities.

They purposefully drew heavily upon homosexual writers and historians for their source material and used direct quotations from their own writings whenever possible. The remainder of their sources are primarily mainstream historians of the Nazi era. They chose to place their citations in the text rather than in endnotes to emphasize the reliability of our sources.

Few contemporary historians, however, have weighed in, either pro or con, on the claims of this book. With some notable exceptions, the voices have instead come from ideologues on either side of the “gay rights” issue.

Homosexuals and their allies (including some academics) denounce 'The Pink Swastika' as baseless and hateful.

Pro-family advocates praise it as authoritative and enlightened.

The issues raised in the book deserve broader public scrutiny and debate, especially in academia, and not silence.

This fourth edition represents a renewed effort to put these issues up for debate before the American public.

This edition is a dramatically expanded and strengthened volume with hundreds of additional hours invested in research and writing that is reflected in two new chapters and hundreds of additional citations that have been woven throughout the existing text.

Many helpful photographs and graphics have been added.

What remains is the struggle to persuade academics, church leaders, and cultural leaders to address this subject, which begs the question of why have they not yet done so.

One reason, perhaps, is that The Pink Swastika addresses an aspect of Nazi history unfamiliar to most people, historians included. Indeed, no one could have written The Pink Swastika who was not a student of both history and of the so-called “gay” movement.

The compilation of references to homosexuality from mainstream sources, while extensive, does not in and of itself provide a complete picture of the homosexuals’ role in the rise and rule of Nazism.

Only when that picture is overlaid with the work of “gay” scholars does the essential relationship between Nazism and the German “gay” movement become clear.

Ironically, a better explanation for why The Pink Swastika has been neglected is the dominance of “political correctness” in the academic realm, which is ironic because today’s “PC” code suppresses intellectual dissent to a degree not seen since the Third Reich or in the stiltifying dread of the Soviet.

Only today, the 'verboten' subject-matter is anything that reflects negatively on the “gay” movement.

This trend is not new.

In fact, one of the most remarkable facts uncovered in research for 'The Pink Swastika' is the near complete dearth of references to homosexuality in the Nazi Party in books published in the United States since the end of the 1960s.

Nearly all of mainstream U.S. sources (by American writers) pre-date the 1970s, when the “gay” movement became a political force in this country.

However, other resources, mostly German works translated into English, have continued to enlarge our knowledge of the homosexual/Nazi connection.

One important contributor is, of course, German academic Lothar Machtan, whose, 'Hidden Hitler (2001),' argues persuasively that Hitler’s secret “gay” life defined his career.

In the 1960s, Nazi homosexuality was so widely acknowledged in America (at least among the “social elites”) that the portrayal of Nazi thugs as homosexual was a frequent occurrence in Hollywood movies.

One of the best examples is in Exodus (United Artists, 1960), the film adaptation of the Leon Uris novel about the creation of the State of Israel after World War II.

In the film, actor Sal Mineo, playing a young man attempting to join the Irgun (the Jewish underground movement), fails to convince Irgun leaders that he is a genuine Nazi concentration camp survivor.

Finally they are convinced — only when he breaks down and confesses that the Nazi guards “used me as a woman.”

To the Irgun, this was definitive proof that he had been a Nazi prisoner.

Allen Ginsberg, the homosexual “beat” poet was asked by a Justice of the Supreme Court in 1966 (during an obscenity trial related to the book Naked Lunch, by William Borroughs) whether at “some time in the future there will be a political party, for instance, made up of homosexuals.”

Ginsberg replied, saying “this has already happened in a sense -- or of sex perverts -- and we can point to Hitler, Germany under Hitler” (The New York Times, August 10, 1997)."

These are but two examples which reveal the extent to which homosexuality was openly associated with Nazism in the past. There are many other examples in this book.
Yet today, the record has been almost entirely purged regarding the homosexual/Nazi connection.

This would be alarming enough if it were simply a trend in the popular culture and academia, but a similar whitewashing is also taking place in institutions responsible for keeping the record of the Holocaust.

Dr. Nathaniel Lehrman is a retired psychiatrist who read The Pink Swastika and was inspired to recommend it as a resource to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.. No political conservative, Dr. Lehrman has for many years contributed articles and editorials to liberal and humanist publications.

After a great deal of effort, including an exchange of correspondence in which he challenged the museum to at least research the claims of this book, he was rebuffed.

In a May 5th, 2000 editorial in the Intermountain Jewish News, Dr. Lehrman took issue with one of the frequent pro-homosexual events at the museum: “[F]or the conference to present a complete picture of gays in the Holocaust, it should also have included the key roles of Nazi homosexuals among its perpetrators. By failing to do so, the Museum fostered the myth of a “Gay Holocaust”....Why is the Holocaust Memorial Museum distorting the history of the Holocaust?”

Another individual, Mr. Zan Overall, donated two copies of The Pink Swastika to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the leading Holocaust museum on the West Coast.

He was later told by a staff member that the books had not been placed in the regular collection but in a “special collection” available only upon request by a patron.

Overall writes:
“Wondering how a library patron might become aware of the existence of The Pink Swastika, ensconced in “the special collection,” I asked if it were listed in the computer along with other books on the same general subject....She read off quite a number of titles listed there...and reported The Pink Swastika is not listed there (Overall: private letter).”

Knowing how thoroughly these institutions have been infiltrated by “gay” political activists, the authors of 'The Pink Swastika' were not surprised to learn that they had suppressed the evidence linking Nazism to homosexuality (see: “How American ‘Gays’ are Stealing the Holocaust,” in The Poisoned Stream, Founders Publishing Corporation, 1997).

The same whitewash may be taking place at the Shoah Foundation as it collects the video histories of the last remaining Holocaust survivors. Its founder Steven Spielberg is the business partner of billionaire homosexual activist David Geffin...

Unfortunately, the public perceives these institutions as the final authority on anything having to do with the Nazi era.

As this fourth edition of 'The Pink Swastika,' therefore, the authors are especially mindful that their important work represents perhaps the only significant attempt to counter a highly successful “gay”-sponsored revisionist campaign and endeavored to produce the most thorough and accurate document possible.

This document is by no means the first, but is by far the most complete, resource ever prepared on the thesis that homosexuals invented and ran the Nazi Party, a thesis that has been frequently restated since the 1930s with profound implications for our society, given the growing power of the “gay” movement.

Its significance is all the greater since most people in this country have probably never even heard it mentioned. Let the evidence speak for itself.

Fat Hogs

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"Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fat hogs ain't in luck." Uncle Remus.

Nerd, Geek, Dork and other Descriptors

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Official definitions for nerd, geek, and dork…and other human descriptors:

Each of the three above words use the words "inept" and "foolish."

Nerds have the added distinction of being "unattractive." Ouch.

Nerds are people of above-average intelligence who place little importance on their appearance. Nerds are often aware of their status, but they don't mind. In fact, many take pride in the putdown, as it means they're smart and not wrapped up in superficial worries.

Geek is a more specific term. Originally, say back in the day when imbecile, moron, and idiot were medical terms, "geek" referred to carnival performers whose act consisted of biting the heads off chickens and eating glass. Over time it came to be applied to anyone who got paid to do work considered odd or bizarre by mainstream society.

Today, the word ‘geek’ has a different connotation. Like nerds, geeks are smart, but they tend to focus more on technology. As Urban Dictionary explains, these are the people you make fun of in high school and later work for as an adult.

Being called a "dork" is the biggest insult of the three. There's no way you can spin it into something positive. After all, everyone knows ‘dorks’ are "stupid" but they don’t get it…dorks assume they're cool. Oh, and they smell, too, because they tend to not bathe or brush as often as they should.

Each could use a dose of ‘Valley Girl’ and all of them would benefit from assimilating a little ‘Greaser.’

So, to sum things up, the only way to be cool and successful is to be a little of all of the above. You see, all God’s chillun’ gets to sing in da choir.

Then you have ‘shithead,’ which is a narrow-minded or ignorant waste of food, water, and air. Modern day shitheads are usually shitheads for life – can’t teach ‘em nothing and they never learn how not to be a shithead. In the olden days, when man first started living in villages and towns that had houses with more than one story, the chamberpots would, somewhat uncouthly, be emptied out the windows onto the streets below. If you were unlucky and got nailed with some of the solid geometry you were called a "shithead."

The ultimate human descriptor all of us seem to know, and aptly used in great abundance, is ‘asshole.’

An Asshole is the worst kind of person, a disgusting, loathsome, vile, distasteful, wrathful, belligerent, agoraphobic mess of human fecal matter. They are the lowest of the low. They transcend all forms of immorality. To be called an asshole is to have your very soul ripped apart and shat on. It is the very worst of insults. The word "asshole" may be the worst cussword of the English language, almost as bad as cunt. I enjoy the feminists who talk with costumed envy about dicks and penises all day but wince when they hear the word, ‘cunt.’ Oh Boohoo. Life's a bitch with puppies.

Neutrality of the Church Is Anathema to a Free America

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Neutrality vs Defense of Rights

Today the church hides behind it's protective veil of the 5013(c) tax exemption. Unless you are Barrack Huseein Obama's Church. Then you can spill all manner of vile hate, ask you candidate to come in with his campaign literature which you allow him to peddle in the church lobby, and thumb you nose at the law.

Every other church should take note of that...

‘Abandonment Theology,’* is the "silence" of 3,000 pulpits on moral issues: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain a position of neutrality.” The Inferno, Dante.

"Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things..." 2 Timothy 4:2-5

The Rwandan massacre took place in only 100 days as a deliberate and widespread extermination of an ethnic group. See: "Sudan: The Hidden Holocaust," documentary video based on the book, ‘Faith Under Fire,’ by Dr. Peter Hammond, a Christian missionary who brings Bibles into the Sudan despite a serious threat against his life made by the United Nations. His website is www.frontline.org.za. Where was the Church? Where were the Jews who say, "Never Again?"

Speech, October 1998, Rev. Dr. Laurence L. White of Our Savior Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas:

"The damage people cause to the planet is the function of demographics. It is equal to the degree of development. One American burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshis…in order to stabilize the world population we must eliminate three hundred and fifty thousand people per day…” Jacque Cousteau, "The UNESCO Courier," November, 1991.

Such neutrality ultimately supports worldwide abortion, homosexuality, the AIDS epidemic, the attack upon the family, and overt and covert population control of every kind, including genocide.

“Hitler called together the most important preachers in the land. He gathered them there in the Reich’s chancellery to reassure them, to intimidate them if he could, to silence their criticism so that he could go on with his plans for the country.

“Hitler moved through the crowd that day, patting the preachers on the back, making them feel important, smiling and reassuring each their state subsidies would continue, their tax exemptions were secure, that the church had nothing to fear from a Nazi government.

“Finally, one brash, young preacher who was there, Martin Neimöller was his name, had had enough. Today we’d call him "politically incorrect." He was going to tell the truth, even when that truth was not popular.
“He pushed his way to the front of the room until he stood eye-to-eye with the German dictator, and he said,

"Heir Hitler, our concern is not for the church. Jesus Christ will take care of His church. Our concern is for the soul of our nation."

“Hitler, with a natural politician’s instinct, saw that reaction, and he understood exactly what it meant, and he smiled as he said to himself almost reflectively,

"The soul of Germany, you can leave that to me."

“And they did.

“They kept their religion and their politics strictly separate from one another, and as the innocent were slaughtered and the nation was lead down the path of destruction, the clergy looked the other way, minded their own business, and their country was destroyed.”

See: *(The Clergy and the Decline of American Christianity, published by AMERICA - A CALL TO GREATNESS, Inc., Winter Park, Florida, 1996. This book is available by calling 1-800-544-8927.)

Perform Life

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Be ready

Experience Faith

Inspire someone

Perform Life

Dominate your setbacks

Influence Outcomes

Overachieve

Deal with Everything

Slay one Dragon everyday

Create High Expectations

The opposition is overrated

Grow old gracefully – refuse to wither

Make yourself available

Have an ideal

Smile

Believe in love at first sight. Did I say that?

You can follow a path – or you can leave a trail…

Someday, your name and the reputation behind it will be all that is left of you.

Direction is more important than perfection…keep moving.

Hope is a foundation. People who have hope win.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

The Turtle only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

Do not argue with an idiot, they will drag you down and beat you with experience.

God sometimes puts us in the darkness so that we may see the light.

Sometimes you have to make yourself available to accident, opportunity, and ideas. So, make time for them.

Don’t look at the Problem, look at the solution.

Leadership:
Courage – Insight – Eloquence:

Charisma – Promotes Leadership,

Behavior IS Leadership: The ability to inspire, have an impact, and make a difference.

Communism, Democracry, Socialism, Communists

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COMMUNISM:

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded." Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. V.I. Lenin

Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin

"I am a Communist and, according to Marxist-Leninist theories, so long as imperialism persists in the world there will still be wars." (North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Duc Tho on January 23, 1973. (Awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, which he declined)

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time."(Lieutenant General Lewis B. USMC)

How to Win at War: The Old Ranger:

“Thorough, Fierce, Courageous and Totally Dedicated; No quit in us; “Can’t” is not a word in our vocabulary. Leadership by example is based on merit, unquestioned devotion to Christian ethics and intolerance of misdeeds. Soldiers, families, and Militia must rely on mutual trust and accountability. Commanders at all levels are expected to have their troops ready for battle at all times. Each officer must demonstrate loyalty to their subordinates as well as to their own commanders, and above all, lead to the mission: There is no substitute for victory.”

"Is this still the land of the free and home of the brave?"

2008-11-11T13:55:00.000-08:00

A Visitor from the Past
by Thelen Paulk

I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand. A figure walking through the mist, with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:

"We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave."

"The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave."

"You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun, Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money's spent."

"Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state. You read about the current news, in a regulated press. You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.

Your money is no longer made of Silver or of Gold. You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our Nation, turn from God in shame. You've taken Satan's number, and you've traded in your name."

"You've given up control to those who do you harm. So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm. They keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail."

"Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn. Your daughters visit doctors, so your grandchildren won't be born. To foreign shores your leaders ship artillery and guns, then they send your sons to slaughter, fighting the other people's wars."

"Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride? Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear as slaves?"

"People of this Republic, arise and take a stand! Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land! Preserve our Great Republic, and all our God-Given Rights! And pray to God to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!"

As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came.

His words were true. We are not free. We have ourselves to blame.

For even now the traitors trample each God-Given Right, while we just watch and tremble, scared to stand and fight.

If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you're asleep, And wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep, What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave:

"Is this still the land of the free and home of the brave?"

Socialism: Why We Must Fight

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Why we MUST Fight:

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."
Thomas Jefferson

"What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country's fate? Let the consequences be what they will ... No man can suffer too much ... in the defense of the liberties and constitution of his country."
(Daniel Webster)

"Governor, if I had foreseen the use these people desired to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox, no, sir, not by me. Had I seen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand."
General Robert E. Lee, CSA - as told to Texas ex-governor F. W. Stockdale.

"I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors."
General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA

"My shoes are gone; my clothes are almost gone. I'm weary, I'm sick, I'm hungry. My family have been killed or scattered. And I have suffered all this for my country. I love my country. But if this war is ever over, I'll be damned if I ever love another country."
Confederate Soldier During Retreat To Appomattox, 1865

"A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace."
James Madison, Federalist Papers # 46

"Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage"
Micah 2:2

"Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy forefathers have set.
"Proverbs 22:28

“The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 ushered in the beginning of absolute totalitarianism and mass genocide. It was the model or template that was used by other totalitarians to follow including Nazi Germany and the Communist Chinese.

But unlike other horrific historical periods, the Soviet genocide was covered up by Marxists in the West who embraced a new ideology to produce a new egalitarian state, one that used class as the defining criteria to put people to death.

Unfortunately, they are still very much in control of the socialist part of this agenda, and are as active as ever on campuses, the media, and in government, now they are in the White House.

This failed ideology is as pernicious and influential as it was over 100 years ago. Unlike National Socialism, egalitarian socialism maintains its presence in various forms in all Western nations…”

(from: Genocides Museum Tour: “Looking at Atrocities Around the Globe,” att.net/~genocides/tour.htm)

Green Berets Stem British Invasion

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Barry Sadler

Barry Sadler (November 1, 1940 – September 8, 1989) was a Green Beret medic who became a musical phenomenon in 1966 with his hit song "Ballad of the Green Berets."

Sadler joined the U.S. Air Force and after a few years, he joined the Army and was sent to Viet Nam where he was wounded on a patrol in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and medically evacuated in 1965.

Sadler recorded the "Ballad of the Green Berets," as a ballad/narrative. Robin Moore, author of the novel, ‘The Green Berets,’ wrote the lyrics to the song and encouraged Sadler to record it. Moore’s book became a successful movie starring John Wayne, even though the film was panned by critics. “Ballad of the Green Berets” was the title song of the movie. The score of the movie was finally released by Film Score Monthly in 2005.

The "Ballad of the Green Berets" was signed by RCA Records in early 1966 and became a fast-selling single, reaching #1 on the yearly single charts. It was the number one hit in the United States for five weeks in 1966 and was the number 21 song of 1960s. It has sold over nine million singles and albums and was the top single of the year in which the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, dominated the charts.

Sadler wrote the first books of the "Casca" series, centered on the title character, Casca Rufio Longinius. ‘Longinis’ is allegedly the Roman soldier who stabbed Christ during the crucifixion. He was cursed to forever remain a soldier until the Second Coming.

Sadler co-authored his autobiography (Macmillan, 1967).

Words to Live By 2

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Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

Make all your friends feel there is something in them.

Look at the sunny side of everything.

Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

...But remember you can't always be this nice.

Anyway

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(This only applies when you're not fighting a war or a counter-revolution. Then just be ruthless.)

"Anyway"

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. LOVE THEM ANYWAY.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. DO GOOD ANYWAY.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. SUCCEED ANYWAY.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. DO GOOD ANYWAY.

The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by thesmallest people with the smallest minds.THINK BIG ANYWAY.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. FIGHT FOR SOME UNDERDOGS ANYWAY.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. BUILD ANYWAY.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY.

Ammunition 5.56 NATO v .223 Remington

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5.56 NATO vs .223 Remington

NATO specification ammunition is generally not safe to fire in .223 Remington-chambered rifles (which are mainly civilian sporting rifles).

The chambers of weapons intended to take the NATO round are oversize relative to the civilian weapons to allow for greater variation in production (and hence reliability), and hotter loads containing more propellant.

By contrast, SAAMI-specification chambers are manufactured tighter (for accuracy), and 5.56 x 45 NATO ammunition, at the larger end of the manufacturers' tolerances, will be too tight and result in overpressure.

This can cause excessive wear, or even theoretically cause parts of the rifle to rupture. Conversely, civilian .223 ammunition is perfectly safe to use in military rifles.

The 5.56 NATO cartridge with the standard military ball bullet (NATO: SS109; U.S.: M855) will penetrate approximately 15 to 20 inches (380 to 500 mm) into soft tissue in ideal circumstances.
The NATO Ball round (U.S.: M855) can penetrate up to 3 mm of steel while the Armor-Piercing variant (U.S.: M995) can penetrate up to 6 mm.

As with all Spitzer shaped projectiles it is prone to yaw in soft tissue. However, at impact velocities above roughly 2,700 ft/s (820 m/s), it will yaw and then fragment at the cannelure.

The fragments disperse through the flesh causing much more internal injury. The effectiveness of fragmentation seems to impart much greater damage to tissue than bullet dimensions and velocities would suggest.

It should be noted that this fragmentation effect is highly dependent on velocity, and therefore barrel length: short-barreled rifles generate less muzzle velocity; rounds lose effectiveness at much shorter ranges than longer-barreled rifles.

During the 1970s, NATO members signed an agreement to select a second, smaller caliber cartridge to complement the 7.62 mm NATO. Of the cartridges tendered, the 5.56 mm was successful, but not the 5.56 mm loading as used by the U.S. at that time.

Instead, the Belgian FN SS109 loading was chosen for standardization. The SS109 used a heavier bullet at a lower muzzle velocity for better long-range performance.

The cartridge is 57 mm (approximately 2.25 inches) long and 9.7 mm (0.38 inches) in diameter. The bullet itself is 0.75 inches (20 mm) long and 0.224 inches (5.7 mm) in diameter.

The .223 Remington cartridge has the same dimensions as the 5.56 x 45 mm, but (generally) has a lower propelling charge, the NATO loading being the more powerful.

Chambering and firing a 5.56 x 45 mm round in a .223 rifle is possible, but not always wise. However, it is safe, if not always effective, to fire a .223 Remington round from firearms designed for the 5.56 mm.

The NATO standard M855/5.56 round is intended for use against light matériel targets and personnel, but not vehicles. Identified by a green tip, the 62 grain projectile is constructed of a lead alloy core topped by a steel penetrator, the whole contained within a gilding (copper alloy) metal jacket. The primer and case are waterproof. (See representative cartridge drawing.) Despite the round's penetration abilities, BATF has specifically exempted it from the AP ban.

The M856/5.56 incendiary, identified by an orange tip on its copper-plated steel jacket, is used for observation of fire, incendiary effects and signaling. As with all illuminated bullets (except the new Hornady rounds introduced in the mid-'90s), it is hollowed out at the base and a tracing compound appended. (See representative cartridge drawing.) The perceived requirement to stabilize this round caused the M16A2 to have a 1:7-inch rate of twist instead of the more desirable 1:9-inch. Much longer than the earlier M196 tracer bullets (55 grain), it is designed to trace out to 875 yards.

The M995/5.56 AP, identified by its black-tip, uses a shaped tungsten core in a jacketed envelope, and penetrates 12 mm armor plate of 300 HB at 100 meters. It began development in 1992 as part of the Soldier Enhancement Program, and its primary mission is to improve incapacitation capability against troops within lightly armored threat vehicles.

"5.56mm NATO Ball" describes a specific cartridge, not a class of cartridges.

The projectile is roughly 62 grains in weight and is projected at about 3100 fps at the muzzle. Manufactured in lots of varying dimensional and pressure standards, ‘5.56x45’ describes a class of cartridges which can be anything. U.S. M193 Ball is 5.56mm Ball, but it isn't "5.56mm NATO Ball."

There is a distinct difference between "5.56mm NATO Ball" and the commercial ".223 Remington."

The American Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute issued an advisory about this issue more than 20 years ago, when military 5.56mm ammo started showing up in sporting goods stores.

The "MK 262 Mod 0, 5.56MM 77 Grain LR Ammunition" is a different story in itself, and a currently evolving one. It is produced solely by an American munitions manufacturer on a sole-source basis for use by a Special Forces Group. It may or may not be shortly usurped by another evolving military cartridge, the 6.8 X 43mm.

The Mk 262 Mod 0 is the end product of several years of testing which began with the evaluation of 27 different commercial match projectiles. As early as 1999, the candidates were narrowed to three: Berger's 73-grain LTB (Length Tolerant Bullet), Powell River Laboratories' 87-grain powdered tungsten core projectile, and Sierra's 77-grain Match King.

Availability issues with the first two manufacturers resulted in the Sierra Match King being chosen. Production has since switched to the Mk 262 Mod 1, in which the primary change is the introduction of a projectile cannelure. The Mk 262 Mod 1 has been loaded with either the 77-grain Sierra Match King or the 77-grain Nosler Custom Competition (formerly, the J4 OTM). To date, Black Hills Ammunition is the sole source of the Mk 262 Mod 0 and Mod 1; however, there are indications that Lake City may begin loading the ammunition.

The Mk 262 cartridge was initially intended for use solely with the SPR (Special Purpose Receiver/Rifle), a designated marksman offshoot of the M4 SOPMOD Kit's Block 2 update. While it was originally intended for modified upper receivers to be procured as an off-the-shelf item, the recent "War on Terror" resulted in a number of SPR being assembled on an emergency basis by Navy (NSWC Crane) armorers for issue to SOCOM operators.

The upper receiver is a mix of military and commercial parts, including an 18" Douglas barrel, which is then mated to a M16A1 lower. (Less commonly seen is a SPR upper mounted to a M4A1 lower receiver complete with a collapsible stock.)

The Mk 12 Mod 0 SPR is used solely by Army Special Forces and is recognizable for its Precision Reflex, Inc (PRI) free-float forearm. The Mk 12 Mod 1, in use by other SF units, is equipped with a KAC free-float RAS forearm. The Mk 12 Mod 1 evolved from the earlier SPR/A and SPR/B, which varied primarily as to which Leupold Vari-X III scope was mounted (3.5-10x versus 2.5-8x, respectively). The current Mk 12 Mod 0 and Mod 1 reportedly use a Leupold 3-9x.

Similar rifles are being built by the Army and Marines for their individual services' designated marksman initiatives. These are known respectively as the Squad Designated Marksman (SDM) and Squad Advanced Marksman (SAM).

The USAMU is building both M16A4 and M4 SDM variants using fluted Douglas barrels (20" and 18" respectively) and Daniel Defense free-floating rail forearms. The USMC's SAM-R is also based on the M16A4, and is easily the heaviest of the lot due to its extra thick 20" Krieger barrel. Like the Mk 12 Mod 1, the SAM-R is equipped with KAC's free-float RAS forearm.

Economics, Faith, Law, Morality, Liberty

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Adam Smith
· Theory of Moral Sentiments
· Wealth of Nations

To the extent we are free the better conditions we make for ourselves. As our lives improve, the nation improves.

Use your money profitably: Pleasure and Fun are part of life: Have some fun.

Freiderich von Hayek – Key Concepts:

Markets versus planning: Market exchange works because people value thing differently. The planned economy rests on the unlikely assumption that everyone can agree what to produce, and how.

Importance of prices: The price system reflects the imbalance of demand and supply, and automatically steers resources to where they are most needed - without the need for planners to discover, understand, and correct the imbalance.

We're all planners. We all plan, and we do so on the basis of our own knowledge of local conditions. There is far more useful and current information in this dispersed knowledge bas than could ever be collected in a central planning agency.

Competition is dynamic. Competition is not a textbook 'given' but a dynamic process, in which people constantly search to discover the cheapest mix of resources to produce the most desired outputs.

Human action but not human design: The social order is like language. It is a product of human action, but not something that we have deliberately designed. It evolves and changes, but endures because it is useful to us.

Limits to our understanding: Just as language is built on complex rules of grammar that we follow with ease but cannot necessarily articulate, the social order is built on complex regularities in our behavior - common law, ethics, customs, manners - whose importance we only faintly understand.

The fatal conceit: The totalitarian disasters that have occurred when utopians attempt to redesign society according to their rational plan shows just how little we know about the workings of the complex system of rules on which the social order is based.

Books by Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
This work remains one of the all-time classics of 20th-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history.

Hayek argues that, while socialist ideals may be tempting, they cannot be accomplished except by means that few would approve of: The business end of a gun barrel, point of a bayonet, the cell, the shackle, and the grave.

Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. He reveals to the world that little can result from such ideas except oppression and tyranny. Today, more than 50 years on, Hayek's warnings are just as valid as when "The Road to Serfdom" was first published.

The Constitution of Liberty
In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle of political ideologies.

The Constitution of Liberty is a thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state.

First, the author analyzes the ethical foundations of a free society in which liberty is not merely a value but the very source and condition of all moral values. Next, he examines the institutions that Western societies have developed to secure individual liberty (note: These institutions have their origin in the Christian faith, the personal life of Christ, and the sense of personal responsibility that can only come from a desire to be free from Sin and therefore able to live in a free society. “Freedom” as personal liberty is found first in the Bible. John Puzzo

In the final section, the author discusses the relations between a free-enterprise system and a socialist one, giving a full account of the goals and methods of the present-day welfare state. Hayek ultimately tests the principles of freedom by applying them to contemporary economic and social issues.

Law, Legislation & Liberty
This volume represents the first section of Friedrich A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Rules and Order constructs the framework necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of the conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy.

The Fatal Conceit
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes.

Books about Hayek:
Hayek: His contribution to the political and economic thought of our time

Dr. Eamonn Butler gives an introduction to the great Austrian economist and political philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek. The book covers the themes of Hayek's work, which consists of more than 25 books and numerous articles. The topics include Hayek's understanding of the market process, his critique of socialism and the meaningless term of social justice, and Hayek's suggestions for the constitution of the liberal state.

The Fundamentals of Austrian Economics - A straightforward but comprehensive introduction to the economic approach of such names as Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Becker and Kirzner. In direct contrast to Keynes, their view is that economics is about millions of inter-related individual actions. Trying to predict things on the basis of supposed linkages between macroeconomic aggregates is therefore just plain wrong.

Soviet Spy, Lawyer, Government Official, Assassin's Council

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John Abt

John Abt was the primary lawyer of choice by accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (President John F. Kennedy) and convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan (Robert F. Kennedy), yet neither accused assassin knew Jonathan Abt…

John Abt was an American Radical Lawyer, public official, Soviet Spy, and traitor.

He was the Chief of Litigation, Agricultural Adjustment Administration from 1933 to 1935, assistant general counsel of the Works Progress Administration in 1935, chief counsel on Senator Robert La Follette, Jr.'s, ‘LaFollette Committee’ from 1936 to 1937 and special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938, in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1948 Abt worked with the Progressive Party of former Vice President Henry A. Wallace.

Ware Group
Abt was also a member of the Ware group, a group of American governmental employees in the 1930s who belonged to the Communist Party of the United States. After the group's founder, Harold Ware, was killed in an automobile collision in 1935, Abt married Jessica Smith, Ware's widow.

In late 1943 Jacob Golos, who headed the Communist Party's secret apparatus, was referred to a group of party members by General Secretary of the Communist Party, Earl Browder.

This group of government employees had been engaged for some time in espionage for Browder, who held rank and position in the Soviet Union espionage apparatus, and held regular clandestine meetings at Abt's apartment.

In early 1944, Golos sent Elizabeth Bentley to make contact with the group at Abt's apartment. In attendance were John Abt, Victor Perlo, Charles Kramer, Harry Magdoff and Edward Fitzgerald.

They discussed paying party dues to Bentley, the various types of information each would be able to deliver, and the type of information other members not in attendance would also be willing to deliver.

In late 1943, the FBI opened an investigation of Abt. Its surveillance showed frequent meetings in the early months of 1944 between Abt and a man then known as Alexander Stevens, one of the several pseudonyms used by Josef Peters, who at one time headed the party's secret apparatus but was still involved in clandestine activities.

Abt turned the Perlo group over to the KGB in 1944.

Abt is referenced in Venona decrypts #588 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944 and #687 KGB New York tp Moscow, 13 May 1944.

During Lee Harvey Oswald's interrogation by the Dallas Police on the evening of 22 November 1963, after his arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he requested the services of Mr. Abt:

"I want that attorney in New York, Mr. Abt. I don't know him personally but I know about a case that he handled some years ago, where he represented the people who had violated the Smith Act, [which made it illegal to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government] . . . I don't know him personally, but that is the attorney I want. . . . If I can't get him, then I may get the American Civil Liberties Union to send me an attorney."

Perlo group

The Perlo group is the name given to a group of people who provided information which was given to Soviet intelligence agencies; it was active during the World War II period, until the entire group was exposed to the FBI by the defection of Elizabeth Bentley.

It had sources on the War Production Board, the Senate La Follette Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; and in the United States Department of Treasury.

The Perlo group and Venona

Much useful addition information on the activities of the Perlo group was given by the Venona project. The first Venona transcript referencing the Perlo group gives the names of all the members in clear text, as code names had not yet been assigned (except in the case of Harold Glasser, who had already been assigned a code name because of previous engagements with Soviet espionage).

The Perlo group fits into the Venona project information when transcript # 687 of 13 May 1944 is examined.

Iskhak Akhmerov in New York City personally prepared a report to MGB headquarters in Moscow advising that some unspecified action had been taken regarding Elizabeth Bentley in accordance with instructions of Earl Browder. Akhmerov then made reference to winter and also to Harry Magdoff. This latter reference was then followed by a statement that in Bentley's opinion "they" are reliable. It was also mentioned that no one had interested himself in their possibilities.

The name Golovin was mentioned, and it was then reported that Victor Perlo, Charles Kramer, Edward Fitzgerald and Harry Magdoff would take turns coming to New York every two weeks. Akhmerov said Kramer and Fitzgerald knew Greg Silvermaster, whose cover name was later changed to "Robert".

Bentley advised that Jacob Golos informed her he had made contact with a group in Washington, D.C. through Earl Browder. After the death of Golos in 1943, two meetings were arranged with this group in 1944. The first meeting was arranged by Browder and was held in early 1944. The meetings were held in the apartment of John Abt in New York City and Bentley was introduced to four individuals identified as Victor Perlo, Charles Kramer, Harry Magdoff and Edward Fitzgerald.

KGB Archives
Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev in Haunted Wood, a book written from an examination of KGB Archives in Moscow, report the KGB credits the Perlo group members with having sent, among other items, the following 1945 U.S. Government documents to Moscow:

February

Contents of a War Production Board memo dealing with apportionment of aircraft to the USSR in the event of war on Japan:

WPB discussion of the production policy regarding war materials at an Executive Committee meeting.
Documents on future territorial planning for commodities in short supply.
Documents on a priority system for foreign orders for producing goods in the United States after the end of the war in Europe.
Documents on trade policy and trade controls after the war.
Documents on arms production in the United States in January 1945.

March

A WPB report on "Aluminum for the USSR and current political issues in the U.S. over aluminum supplies" (2/26/45);

April

Documents concerning the committee developing plans for the U.S. economy after the defeat of Germany.
Documents regarding war orders for the war against Japan.
Documents on the production of the B-29 bomber and the advanced B-32
Tactical characteristics of various U.S. bombers and fighters.
Materials on the United States using Saudi Arabian oil resources.

June

Data concerning U.S. war industry production in May from the WPB's secret report.
Data concerning plans for a 1945–1946 aircraft production from the WPB.
More data on specific aircraft's technical aspects.

August

Data concerning the new Export-Import Bank.
Data concerning supplies of American aircraft to the Allies in June 1945.
Data from the top secret WPB report on U.S. war industry production in June.

October

Detailed data concerning the industrial capacities of the Western occupation zones of Germany that could be brought out as reparations.
Information on views within the U.S. Army circles concerning the inevitability of war against the USSR as well as statements by an air force general supporting U.S. acquisition of advanced bases in Europe for the construction and deployment of missiles.

Perlo Group Members

Victor Perlo headed the Perlo group. Perlo was originally a member of the Ware group before World War II. The ring included a Senate staff director and supplied the Soviet Union with United States aircraft production figures.

Perlo infiltrated through the United States Department of Commerce in 1938 to gather data on basic economic decisions he presented to Harry Hopkins, Advisor to the President and Secretary of Commerce.
Perlo transferred to the Division of Monetary Research, and served under Harry Dexter White, followed by Frank Coe and Harold Glasser.
Perlo left the government in 1947.
Perlo also worked for the Brookings Institution and wrote a book critical of U.S. foreign policy, ‘American Imperialism.’
Perlo's code name in Soviet intelligence and in the Venona project is "Raider".

Victor Perlo was Chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; head of branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution

Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board

Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy

Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State

Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
Sol Leshinsky, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Harry Magdoff, Statistical Division of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce

George Perazich, Foreign Economic Administration; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Allen Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties; Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board

Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division

These highly placed individuals were spying against America during the Stalin Era, long after the atrocities of Stalin, characterized by the Soviet Gulag and the brutality and excesses of Soviet totalitarianism were known in the west.

References:
Venona 588 New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944, pg.1. Perlo group
Venona 588 New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944, pg.2. Perlo group
Venona 588 New York to Moscow, 29 April 1944, pg.3. Perlo group
Venona 687 New York to Moscow, 13 May 1944. Perlo group
Venona 769, 771 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 May 1944, part 1
Venona 769, 771 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 May 1944, part 2
Venona 769, 771 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 May 1944, part 3

Abortion: Save the Turtles Kill the Babies

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Abortion: Save the Turtles Kill the Babies

`Priests for Life' director inspires Connecticut
By Rita Reali News Editor
WETHERSFIELD, Connecticut

As he trod along the shore in Florida - having given a pro-life sermon at a church across the street - Father Frank A. Pavone noticed a large sign that warned beach-goers not to disturb the giant sea turtles or their eggs.

In Florida, giant sea turtles, and their eggs, are protected by local, state and federal law.

Unborn humans are not.

Father Pavone, national director of the New York City-based Priests For Life, pointed out the disparity in concern for the sanctity of life at Sacred Heart and Corpus Christi churches April 10 and 11.

"If in this country we don't have the right to choose to smash the egg of a sea turtle, why do we have the right to choose to smash a baby?" he asked, gazing out into a sea of faces. "Isn't there something wrong with this?"

Calling Christians "the people of life," Father Pavone urged an end to abortion. He said the so-called "safe and legal" procedure takes more lives each year than the total number of lives lost during every war in which the United States of America has ever been involved.

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In his speech Pro Cluentio, delivered in 66 BCE, Cicero refers to a case he had heard of in which a woman from Miletus was sentenced to death for having aborted her pregnancy, upon receiving bribes from those who stood to inherit her husband's estate if produced no heir. Cicero said that in doing so she had "destroyed the hope of the father, the memory of his name, the supply of his race, the heir of his family, a citizen intended for the use of the republic".

Those who defend paternal rights believe it is unfair that women are often given greater reproductive liberty: a woman can choose whether to abort a pregnancy, or carry it to term, and then whether to parent the child or place it for adoption.

All of these decisions, it is argued, can result in emotional, financial, and other consequences for the biological father, and yet the man's opinion in the matter is seldom consulted in the decision-making process or given weight in legal considerations.

If the man desires to be a father, the woman can still have an abortion, regardless of the deleterious effect to his mental health; if, on the other hand, he doesn't desire to raise a child, then the woman can give birth and he may still be liable to pay child support.

Some supporters of paternal rights seek to grant men social equality with women. Supporters, however, downplay the concept of men having the ability to impose their wishes in the abortion decision with any finality.

A term which is used by some is "equal choice," meaning that the masculine and feminine choices are of equal importance, if not identical in nature: it is asserted that the woman can choose whether or not to carry the pregnancy to term and the can man choose whether or not to assume financial responsibility for the child which might result. Their stance is that granting a man the ability to forego fatherhood and the requirements thereof does not diminish the "woman's right to choose."

Those who oppose paternal rights hold that, because it is the woman who must physically go through the nine months of pregnancy and risk its associated complications, her will in the matter should be conclusive.

In their opinion, permitting the man to opt out of any parental duty if the woman chooses motherhood is unacceptable, effectively allowing him influence or control over her ultimate decision, as she might not be able to financially support a child herself if she decides to carry to term.

They concede that the current situation in many nations is slanted in favour of women but claim that the physical responsibility placed upon women by pregnancy balances out the financial responsibility which a child places upon men.

A 4th-century BCE Greek writer from Alexandria, Egypt, Sopater, quoted the lawyer Lysias, who had referred to a trial in Athens in which a man named Antigene accused his wife of having deprived him of a son by having an abortion.

Abortion kills 4,400 babies each day in the United States - which translates to one every 20 seconds.

"There's no -crime, no disease, no natural disaster, no war that claims more lives than abortion does," he said.

He brings a positive message to the pulpit, starting by outlining the alternatives to abortion and urging reconciliation for women who have had abortions.

"There is a very strong emphasis on forgiveness for those who have been involved in this but who want to find healing and peace," he told The Catholic Transcript.

Many Catholics underestimate the effectiveness of the greatest tool in the pro-life arsenal.

"As Catholics, the best weapon is the Eucharist," he said.

Priests For Life was founded in 1990 by Father Lee Kaylor of San Francisco. Its founders set out to defend life, focusing mainly on abortion and euthanasia.

"These two issues are [the] flash points of the battle of the culture of death," Father Pavone said. He said Priests For Life defends life across the board.

"If human life is sacred under one set of circumstances, it's sacred under another as well," he said.

The group has 5,300 members in the United States and Canada, with offices in Dallas, Washington D.C., St. Paul, Milwaukee and Rome.

Father Pavone became national director of Priests For Life in 1993. He spends 90 percent of his time traveling as far as Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, India and the United Kingdom.

"I get enough invitations to be on the road 100 percent of the time if I wanted to," he said. Three other member priests also work full-time. "We get enough invitations to keep them busy, too. ... There is a real thirst for the pro-life message."

In late May a Connecticut superior court judge ruled that in Connecticut, a man charged with fatally stabbing a pregnant woman can be charged with murder. The baby, delivered by cesarean section after the mother's death, lived six weeks.

"Even [when states] formulate a law which would protect unborn children from circumstances like this, they would put an exception in there for abortion," he said, "some statement like, 'It is understood that this law does not apply in cases of abortion.'"

He said he wants to give people confidence that they can work together to end abortion.

"The message of Priests For Life ... is, 'Yes, we are making progress and there is something you can do about it,' " he said, "and we want to encourage people to have the sense that we are making progress."

For more information on Priests for Life, call (888) PFL-3448, write to P. 0. Box 141172, Staten Island, N.Y. 10314 or visit www.priestsforlife.org, their website.