Get Ovet It Already!

Folks,

Why are so many of you playing right into the politicians' hands? The AIG bonus "scandal" is nothing more than a gimmick to distract us from the real issues and to take the heat off the real culprits -- the very politicians who are now crying foul and feigning righteous indignation. Ever seen a magician? How do the great ones perform seemingly incredible feats? They have mastered the skill of misdirection. They get you to focus on one hand so you don't notice what the other hand is doing. Today we are seeing POLITICAL misdirection on an ever increasing scale.

The fact of the matter is, like them or not, the AIG bonuses are part of valid contracts. So are contracts now no longer going to be valid just because a bunch of people don't like the terms of the contract? That is an absolutely absurd notion. Do you not see the abuse of the Constitution for Congress to arbitrarily change the terms of valid contracts for political purposes or to pass laws that affect 70-some AMERICANS again for purely political purposes (including retroactive taxation)? If they do it for one group, then they can come for YOU next -- don't you understand that? Do you not see the incredibly dangerous road which that would lead us down?

Keep in mind as well that the very politicians drumming up public outrage are the very ones who knew about and agreed to the bonuses beforehand! Chris Dodd even inserted specific language to allow the very bonuses he's so "outraged" about now. You are playing right into their game by loosing sight of the actual target. The politicians (both Dem and Rep) want you fired up about AIG and not paying any attention to them. These "protests" are EXACTLY what they want you doing since it means you are no longer watching them!

They are doing this for two reasons: 1) Take the heat off of them since they are the ones who have caused the mess we're in AND have done nothing meaningful to fix it; 2) Even more dangerous, they want you screaming about AIG and "Wall Street greed" so you are no longer paying attention to socialist policies quietly being snuck in either through executive order or as riders to other bills.

Granted, it doesn't make a lot of sense for a company to pay bonuses to people in failing departments. HOWEVER, those are the terms of their contracts -- sounds to me like a company that should have been allowed to fail in the first place, but that's another story. The contracts are valid and EVERYONE knew about them beforehand. It's only become an "issue" now that they're being paid out. GET THE HELL OVER IT and get yourself refocused back on the real fight.

If we're too busy screaming about this and that and fighting against each other, then we are not paying attention to everything else that's really happening. Only two months into it, it is clear nothing in this administration is what it seems, everything has an ulterior motive -- don't loose sight of that! Damn it, get over the AIG bonuses and get your eye back on the ball before really bad things happen!

WE are the Enemy? -- Follow Up

Taking the lead from my blog (see entry below for 16 Mar 09), the Constitution Party today issued the statement below regarding the outrageous Missouri Information Analysis Center report characterizing law abiding American citizens who support the Constitution and the principles and values upon which our nation was founded as "dangerous" "potential domestic terrorists" and "militia" members. The fact that ANY government agency would characterize people who have the crazy notion that we should follow the Constitution as enemies of the state is simply despicable. As you can see in the release below, the Southern Poverty Law Center has jumped on the bandwagon to start calling anyone who opposes Barack Obama a "racist" -- of course non-support of Obama couldn't possible have anything to do with opposition to socialist policies.

Secret Report Targets Americans

Police Told Which Political Beliefs to Consider “Dangerous”

Lancaster, PA: A secret police report targets millions of Americans as potential “domestic terrorists” if they support the Constitution, oppose unlawful taxation, supported 2008 presidential candidates Republican Ron Paul, Libertarian Bob Barr or Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin (Seen here on Lou Dobbs program ), or if they are opposed to abortion, are against unconstitutional gun control, if they display pro-Constitution bumper stickers or own copies of certain books and documentaries.

The report is part of an ongoing attempt by a number of organizations (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/intrep.jsp) and movements to characterize law-abiding citizens as “white supremacists”, members of “hate groups” or, more recently as “terrorists”.

The report was generated by the Missouri Information Analysis Center

The Center is described as “the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities to be evaluated and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within the state of Missouri. MIAC will also function as a vehicle for two-way communication between federal, state and local law enforcement community within our region.”

The secret report, distributed to Missouri law enforcement, lists as dangerous legitimate organizations including those who follow a Constitutionally-based ideology in regard to states’ rights, firearm ownership, free speech and sanctity of life.

The Constitution Party , the fastest- growing third party, subscribes to the Constitutionally- based, limited role of the federal government and calls on members of all political ideologies to voice strong opposition to smear campaigns that demonize Americans because of their political beliefs.

The Constitution Party made numerous calls to MIAC and was told an “officer” would respond to questions regarding this report.

No one at MIAC returned our calls.

The MIAC report states “rightwing” militia movements “continuously exploit world events in order to increase participation in their movements. Due to the current economical and political situation, a lush environment for militia activity has been created.”

The terms “constitutionalist” and “white supremacist” are often used interchangeably.

Page 7 of the report warns law enforcement that “militia members most commonly associate with 3^rd party political groups. It is not uncommon for militia members to display Constitutional [sic] Party, Campaign for Liberty or Libertarian material. These members are usually supporters of former presidential candidate:[sic] Ron Paul Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr.”

Issues of concern to those listed by MIAC as reason for law enforcement to label them “terrorists” include: Opposition to illegal immigration, implementation of RFID (radio frequency identification) and the planned merger of the US, Canada and Mexico (North American Union). The so-called “militia movement” contains people who own copies of the late Aaron Russo’s anti-tax documentary America: Freedom to Fascism.

Members of a so-called “patriot movement” are described as being “dangerous” to police in a section of the report titled “You Are the Enemy” which states:

“The militia subscribes to an anti-government and NWO mindset, which creates a threat to law enforcement officers. They view the military, National Guard, and law enforcement as a force that will confiscate their firearms and place them in FEMA concentration camps.”

The MIAC report distributed to Missouri law enforcement is a more virulent version of a similar report compiled by the FBI in Phoenix, AZ during the Clinton administration (see page one and page two of the document). The Phoenix FBI document calls “defenders” of the Constitution “right-wing extremists.”

Constitution Party 2008 presidential and vice presidential candidates Chuck Baldwin and Darrell Castle, along with CP National Chairman Jim Clymer, are available to discuss this disturbing report and the severe limitations it seeks to impose on free speech.

Inquiries regarding this secret report may be made to: MIAC at 866 362 6422.

To see where citizens are encouraged to submit a report that someone could be a “terrorist” click HERE.

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Take Action Now!

1. Call the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce and say you will not be visiting Missouri out of concern of being PROFILED.

(314) 231-5555

2. Call the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission and tell them you won't visit Missouri because of "political profiling". (800) 325-7962

3. Call the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) and tell them their smear campaign is not acceptable.(866) 362-6422 and (573)-526-6115

My Public Apology

Here's one email I recently received:

PLEASE remove my address from your email listings. I am not interested in any of this and never signed up to be put on any political mail listings.
[Name Removed to Protect the Ignorant]

Mea cupla, mea cupla, mea maxiuma cupla. I feel so bad for clearly having offended at least a couple people out there. So, to make up for it, here is my public apology:

Dear [Insert Your Name Here if Appropriate]:

I humbly apologize and beg forgiveness for bothering you with trivial "political" issues such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill of Rights and the values and principles upon which our nation was founded and upon which the fate of our Republic rests. I am sorry to bother you with such petty things of which you have no interest (or don't happen to meet your party line).

I also want to sincerely and deeply thank you sending me your note. In the times we're facing, it's good to know exactly who understands it's not about Left and Right, but about RIGHT and WRONG. It's also a tremendous benefit to know not only who you can count on when the times get tough, but it's just as, if not more important to know who you CANNOT count on when the going gets tough. Thank you for letting me know ahead of time to which group you belong.

Finally, may you rest well in the knowledge that my fellow service men and women around the world are defending with their lives your right to "not be interested in any of this" or to blindly tow your party line.

Thank you and may God bless you and the United States of America.

Sincerely,

Steve

The Scapegoat is . . . YOU!

How could the nation change so much in just two months and the majority of Americans not care (or worse, support those changes and want more of the same)? You wanted change, well you got it all right! With the road we're headed down, change is also all you're going to have left in your pockets too.

How can we have such a wholesale abandonment of American principles and values and so few people care? Why did we allow ourselves to get to the point where we have "career" politicians who no longer understand THEY work for US? It's simply pathetic.

The latest tactic being employed by our "leaders" should scare the daylights out of anyone who knows history. Join me for a brief stroll down the pages of history. What happened when times got tough in Ancient Rome? Blame the Christians -- after all THEY were the real problem. How about in 1920s and 1930s Germany with all its economic problems? Blame the Jews -- after all THEY were the real problem. Finally pick any communist country you can think of and the problems every one of them has faced? Blame the "dissenters" (i.e. anyone speaking out for freedom and liberty) -- after all THEY were the real problem.

What do all those examples have in common? They were all totalitarian governments (pick your flavor: imperialist, fascist, socialist, communist -- at their heart they're all the same: tyrannical). Next, what happened in every case where there was a crisis in the nation that might make the government look bad or the government needed to distract the people? In every case, they found a convenient scapegoat; some group of citizens the government could easily point to and say, "See, they are the problem."

So that brings us to the United States today. In the past two months, have we not seen this tactic being employed on an ever increasing basis by our "leaders?" Attacks against Rush Limbaugh, the Missouri State Police report (see below) on "militia" members and, though most might not realize it, the Democrat leadership "outrage" over the AIG bonuses are just a few examples from recent weeks. Every single one of these is designed to scapegoat a group of people as a distraction.

This constant distraction serves two purposes. First, it keeps people's attention off the failure of our elected representatives; both in being accomplices to our current problems and their failure to actually tackle and solve our current problems. Second, and even more ominous, it keeps people's attention off the dangerous sprint towards socialism in which we're headed as a nation. If we're too busy complaining about AIG bonuses, then we don't have time to notice all the socialistic policies being slipped through the cracks, either via executive order or quietly slipped in as riders to various bills.

Why do I consider the AIG bonus issue a distraction? It doesn't matter if you think the bonuses are "outrageous" or not (in fact, I say God Bless America where we still have a nation in which you can become whatever you want if you just work hard enough). Let's look at the facts, which the President and Liberals, and by extension the media, don't want to mention. The people at AIG are not receiving bonuses as a "gift." Their bonuses are part of their contractual pay agreement with AIG. In fact, they receive a small base pay and the majority of their pay comes through a formula agreed to in their contract. This arrangement has never been a secret. EVERYONE knew about it -- the President, Congress, the Fed -- everyone. In fact, Democrats specifically inserted language into the "bailout bill" which specified that employment contracts signed before a certain date (which there were) would be honored.

Only now that the contractually agreed to bonuses, which everyone knew about, are being paid out does the President and Congress fain outrage and incite the American people that this is unacceptable. How can this be anything other than scapegoating? It's despicable that the President and Congress and the Fed knew about and agreed to these contracts beforehand, but are now attempting to incite rage among the American people in order to void the very contracts they deemed acceptable months ago.

Why do this? If AIG was engaging in unsustainable business practices through paying "outrageous" salaries and bonuses, then why not just let them fail or allow them to enter into Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization like any other company? The auto industry is hurting, yet the government is not demanding they arbitrarily void costly and bloated UAW contracts. To do that would cost them union votes. This is where I see the situation as nothing more than a distraction to hide the real agenda. These AIG employees make a perfect scapegoat for the left -- they represent the "evil, greedy" rich. Mark my words, the liberal leadership will use AIG as a poster child to introduce more socialist legislation and place more restrictions on capitalism. The President has people so fired up with "hating the rich," they are blinded to the real agenda, which is socialism and continued abandonment of the Constitution.

Folks, when we see this kind of scapegoating and the portrayal by the government of freedom loving Americans as dangerous "militia," we are headed down a very dark and dangerous path. I hope and pray I'm wrong, but I fear greatly that day by day, our options to peacefully take back on nation and reestablish its Constitutional basis are becoming more and more limited. This is NOT about Left and Right, this is about right and wrong. We need to come together NOW as an AMERICAN people to regain control of OUR government before its too late.

I don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Constitutionalist, or whatever. If you are a friend of the Constitution and the values and principles upon which our nation was founded, then you are my ally. Likewise, I don't care in which political party you claim membership, if your words or actions threaten the Constitution and our values and principles, then you are my enemy. Now is not the time to complacently sit on the sideline like so many have for so long. Now is the time to stand up and declare honestly if you are a friend or an enemy of the Constitution. What is your decision?

WE are the Enemy?

Are you familiar with the Missouri law enforcement report on the "modern militia movement" which recently came to public light? If not, a complete copy of the report can be found here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13271183/Missouri-Information-Analysis-Center-Strategic-Report-The-Modern-Malitia-Movement.

So, law enforcement are now being indoctrinated that informed citizens who actually understand and support the principles and values upon which our country was founded are "militia" members who hate the police? So, now the government is putting it in writing that WE are the enemy? Thankfully there are at least a few law enforcement members who "get it" as well, as that is how this report was brought to public attention.

There keeps being a debate about if the military would act against American citizens. My opinion is that the majority of today's troops come from our defunct public education system and have little to no understanding of the Constitution or the Oath of Office which they took (not to mention gang members who have infiltrated the military) and will simply follow whatever order they're given. I know there are a few of us who understand our Oath and its Constitutional implications, but I fear we're in an ever decreasing minority both in the military and in civilian society. Look at the fact that MILITARY troops were dispatched in the recent shooting in Alabama and the public at large didn't care and the troops blindly followed illegal orders.

I hope and pray that I'm wrong, but as more and more evidence stacks up every day, I fear I'm correct. Not only has our government completely abandoned the Constitution, those of us who stand up for the Constitution and American principles and values are starting to be portrayed by the powers that be as Public Enemy Number One.

History has shown us what happens when a government decides IT is the supreme power over the people and what happens when the government singles out a group of its own people as the "enemy."

Thoughts?

Insights of Thomas Jefferson

As I keep repeating over and over, want to learn what's wrong with our country today and how to fix it? Then just go back to the writings of our founders. Here is yet another spot-on insight that applies perfectly today from Thomas Jefferson:

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."

--Thomas Jefferson, autobiography, 1821

Tyranny

THIS is why we have the second amendment:

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."

--Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 10 October 1787

A Moral and Virtuous People

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -- John Adams

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea. -- James Madison

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

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While, on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves. -- Samuel Adams

We Surround Them

Do you believe the following nine points or at least seven out of the nine:

1) I believe America is a good place. We're not perfect, but we strive to be good. We've made missteps over the years, but we try to make amends and do the right thing. America is good, our founders were good and our founding documents are good. We've just strayed too far away from them.

2) I believe God exists. I may not go to the same church, synagogue or mosque as others, but I believe in God and He is the center of my life, and God does not tell people to behead others or to persecute others that see God in a different way.

3) I believe it is my responsibility to try to be a better and more honest person that I was yesterday. Sometimes I fail, I'll make mistakes, but it's my main mission to be a better person than I was yesterday.

4) The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority under God when it comes to my family. I raise my family, and that comes with a grave responsibility. If I fail, I answer to God.

5) If you break the law, you pay the price. Justice is blind.

6) I have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but that does not guarantee equal results.

7) I work hard for what I have, and I will share it with others that I choose, when I choose, if I choose. Government's role is not to force me to be charitable.

8) It is not un-American for anyone to disagree with my opinion, but my opinion or other's opinions may be anti-American, Anti-American rhetoric would be anything that is destructive to the Constitution and our country as our founders understood it.

9) The government works for me. The government answers to me. I do not answer to the government.

If you can agree with at least seven out of the nine, then go here: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/21018/

ParentalRights.org: Introducing the 10-and-2 Campaign

Dear Friend of Parental Rights,

As you have become aware, we are fighting a battle for the rights of parents in our country to direct the upbringing of their children. This foundational liberty of our American heritage has come under increasing attack from domestic courts and international law, forcing us to amend the Constitution, not to change the law, but to preserve fundamental parental rights as they have been honored in our courts since our nation’s inception.

At this time, ParentalRights.org is launching a major initiative to promote a ground-swell of citizen support, or even demand, for the passage of the Parental Rights Amendment. No doubt you have read articles that communicate the heart of our message. This initiative is its backbone.

While we have sponsors in both the House and Senate, we have no doubt that we will face opposition along the way. That is why this initiative – the "10-and-2" program – is so important. The success of our efforts to pass the Amendment depends upon this grassroots effort to recruit the citizen support we need to force an often-rebellious Congress to honor the will of the people on this major issue.

What do we need you to do?

Become a 10-and-2 PRO-Active Representative.

A 10-and-2 PRO-Active Representative is someone who, like you, cares deeply about protecting children by empowering parents, and who serves as a representative between ParentalRights.org and just ten (10) contacts of your choice.

Why do we need 10-and-2 PRO-Active Representatives?

Amending the United States Constitution is difficult by design. In more than 200 years, only twenty-seven (27) amendments have been made to this foundational document of our national government. Our plan to pass the twenty-eighth includes a need to secure 4.5 million signatures, or 10,000 from each congressional district. Our small office staff could never reach so many concerned Americans, but 10-and-2 PRO-Active Representatives can. Together, we can grow exponentially to reach a maximum number of people in a short time, with a minimum of effort by any one representative.

What will it cost me?

The only financial cost is postage: at a later date, we'll ask you to mail 30 postcards to Capitol Hill. The greater investment is your time, which we value highly. We estimate that the whole process will take about two to four (2-4) hours, generally just a few minutes at a time.

What do I need to do?

By following the simple step-by-step instructions in the 10-and-2 PRO-Active Representative packet, you can:

• Find ten (10) contacts to sign the petition and fill out some basic personal information,
• Ask each signer to donate one dollar, and you mail that in,
• Enter the necessary data at our website in a few minutes,
• Mail a few postcards to your Senator and Representatives (at a later date), and
• Recruit just two (2) more people to serve as 10-and-2 PRO-Active Representatives.

The plan is simple and straightforward – but it depends on the willingness of people from all walks of life, from every party, sect, and culture to work together to promote the Parental Rights Amendment. The time to act is now. The one to act is you.