Author’s note: I’m reprinting this for the benefit of readers young and old; and in honor of a lost loved one who wore a uniform…aj
How often have we witnessed advertising or political campaigns that profess to have fulfilled a previous promise between the speaker and the electorate?
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Until the campaign 2012 is a memory, we are going to be bombarded with pseudo-summaries in either political announcements or blurb formats from our news stations that any particular politician has once again denounced, corrected, deferred, adhered, obliged, acquiesced, whatever verb you want to put into this sentence… DON’T BE FOOLED. DO YOUR HOMEWORK.
Our country’s main media succumbed to editorializing years ago. Tass did not have the market on dog and pony showbiz. Khrushchev promised he would destroy us from within. Study the Sixties: the names, the movements, the pledges, the campaign rhetoric; apart from technology’s having inserted itself into our present day lingo, the message is the same. And it is normally FALSE, anti-free market, anti-capitalistic in its roots. Do you really know the meanings of Marxism, Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Totalitarianism…oh yes, and our America is a REPUBLIC, not a democracy….look that one up.
Read. Read. And Read again. Pick up that historical artifact, the newspaper; it is ALMOST a thing of the past…CHALLENGE what you read. The writers are no longer local; many of them are now syndicated, which means that one man’s voice now overcomes or trumps the local, grass root message. YOU are being courted by radio, TV, cable, magazines, newsprint…NONE of them are necessarily whole or accurate in their coverage on any one subject. Challenge all that you read. Fine print no longer means ANYTHING in this printer cartridge world.
Choose to gather AT LEAST three references on the same topic before erroneously adapting or adopting the group think. Remember what a dictionary is? Webster comes to mind; this was before Wikipedia for you under forty generations.
YOU are an American, born in one of the greater experiments of liberty and freedom in the world, or YOU are a naturalized citizen. Speak out, accent and all; we native born need to be reminded once in awhile that the world does NOT operate as we do; and that we are the leaders in liberty. UGLY AMERICANS EXIST; in countenance, in arrogance, in refusal to obey the rule of law. Point them out and shun them; more importantly, vote them OUT OF OFFICE.
RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL; just listen to our Attorney General and his arguments regarding our border’s security issues. Fifty plus years after the Civil Rights movement and Herman Cain was attacked. Did any of the Washington Elite really want to see a Black American with experience and education who achieved the American Dream challenge our present, Black American Community Organizer in Office? Get real. I don’t have to be Condi Rice to understand that losing friends in a Sunday school class targeted by bigots was pure hate. NOT THE AMERICA OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY FIGHT FOR.
Americans insisting on enforcing our sovereignty and its rules are methodically being attacked and defamed. Joe Arpaio comes to mind. Would the media and its political contingents really achieve their success if our electorate were better informed or educated? NOT ON YOUR LIFE.
The ballot box is our last vestige of hope. This means that all of us at the grass roots level must take an active involvement and support our county clerks in their promise and oath of office to make sure that our votes are collected and counted according to the due process of our American ballot system.
SPEAK UP! VOLUNTEER! TALK WITH AMERICANS WITH ACCENTS!!! They will know and recognize American systems and rules that are being torn asunder under political correctness and present day practices considered “routine”.
CALL. WRITE. BOMBARD them with letters. DON’T LET YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES TELL YOU THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO. PRESSURE THEM AND MAKE THEM SQUIRM until they understand they WORK FOR YOU, THE AMERICAN PUBLIC; and no public office is higher than its citizenry. When was the last time you heard a statesman? Why must we go to historic tapes to hear a voice that is focused on what is best for the country as opposed to what is best for the elected official?
Lastly, follow the money. Monitor present and past congressional leaders who now lobby for special interests…think they don’t know where the loopholes and power centers exist? And if you believe it is too late, then you don’t deserve any other kind of government than what you have supported; and you are committing your children and grandchildren to a future of serfdom.
Listen. Study. Act. Get involved. The country you save may be our own.