There are always many issues that each generation faces on the political landscape that they live through.  Many are mundane orders of business that are a natural progression of an evolving, growing society, yet others stand out as hallmark issues that offer significant change one way or another.  At times these issues are so resoundingly clear, that their importance cannot be overlooked.  Other times the impact of these issues does not become clear until well after the decisions have been made and it is too late to undo what had been done.

The hallmark issues of yesterday are always easy to identify.  Those defining moments when a nation changed forever are easy to spot through the crystal clear view that we are fortunate to posses of history.  There is no doubt that the rejection of tyranny, taxation and violation of personal and property rights that spurned simple farmers, tailors and smiths to take arms against their distant masters was one of the most defining moments in not only American, but in world history as well.  Another clear hallmark in our own history was the abolition of slavery.  This forever changed the course of this nation and of an entire people in ways that could scarcely be imagined at the time.  Were you to tell a civil war soldier, even one fighting for the North, that we would eventually see black people in all walks of life, even holding the office of Commander In Chief, he might have not believed you.  In the years leading up to the Civil War, as the states in the North began to forbid slavery and reject the appeals of the South to return slaves, it might have just seemed like a simple State’s rights issue to them.  These states may not have even realized the impact that their decisions would have, bringing a nation to its knees on the brink of destruction, yet freeing an enslaved people forever.  However, looking back it is easy to see what an impact on this nation was made by their decisions. 

Some hallmarks in this nations history were clearly defined by others.  When the peaceful morning worship of Pacific island residents was shattered by explosions at Pearl Harbor or as an entire nation stood still, holding their breath, watching its people jump to their death rather than be burned alive from two stricken and doomed buildings, we changed as a people.  Other hallmarks were defined sometimes by the death of a single individual.  In a single decade, two great men fell to the shots of assassins.  One man’s legacy drove an entire species to reach beyond their planetary bounds and set foot upon another world, while the legacy of the other forced people to face the hatred and racism that still plagued this nation from a conflict that was over a hundred years old.  The deaths of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were hallmark moments in the history of this nation that forever changed us as a nation and a people.

These clearly definable moments in history are easy to see and to recognize the effects they had upon this nation.  The ones not so easily defined are the one of which I wish to turn your thoughts today.  For starters, let us take one of the more contentious issues we face today, 2nd Amendment rights and gun control.  Can you tell me at what point in our history did it all of a sudden become illegal for a law abiding citizen to carry a firearm?  Can you tell me what the hallmark issue was that gave the government the right to tell you when, how and what type of gun you may buy, own or carry?  Probably not.  At the inception of our nation, carrying a firearm was not a privilege, licensed or otherwise. It was a fact, a way of life.  Fast forward a hundred years to the expansion of our nation into the West.  Again, no one ever would have challenged a citizen’s right to own or carry a gun.  Leap forward another hundred years, to just a few decades ago and now things have changed drastically.  At that time you couldn’t openly carry a sidearm, but long rifles and shotguns were still seen hanging from the racks of the pickup trucks that teenagers drove to school.  Now examin this today.  You may only carry a firearm under certain circumstances, with a license issued by a state that will allow the carrying of weapons and with a ton of restrictions upon that RIGHT.  Not upon the privilege, but upon the right to bear arms.  Now when did this happen?  What was the catalyst to cause such a drastic departure from the will our founding fathers?  What gave the government the ability to suppress your right as a citizen of this nation to carry a firearm.  Two hundred years ago if you walked into a local store, attended a political rally or just walked down the street with a weapon slung across your back no one would have paid you any mind.  Do so today and you are sure to be visited by the police and quite possibly told you cannot do that which is your basic fundamental right under the Constitution of the United States of America, bear arms.

The problem is that this did not happen in one critical defining moment in our history.  It happened slowly and deliberately over time.  Many years ago, laws began to surface that restricted where you could openly carry a weapon.  First it was in saloons, then churches, then entire communities, then states.  Finally, the Federal government stepped in and began to tell you what kinds of guns you could own, how many bullets they could hold and what type of attachments and accessories they could have.  Oddly enough, we just simply accepted these changes.  We sat back and justified our complacency with statements of how is was sensible for no one to have a gun in a saloon, or for that matter a church.  This just made sense, there was no need for a gun there.   Ah, well I guess if that city/county/state does not want people to carry guns then it is their business.  Surely we could not argue that anyone needed this certain banned type of weapon to hunt with, or that it was in anyway practical to have a clip that held more than ten bullets.  Slowly, in small steps and stages, we agreed to these restrictions and we allowed our view of what the 2nd Amendment meant to be twisted and warped into someone else’s vision, not that of the founders.  We forgot that this Amendment was never about self-protection, property protection or the ability to hunt.  Our forefathers would have seen no need to make an Amendment to convey such things as they were simply an absolute necessity and an understood way of life for them.  We have forgotten that the 2nd Amendment was designed to protect the freedom of the States against the biggest threat to life, liberty and personal property that the founders could see: the very government that they just created.  Therefore, we have allowed our rights to be stripped from us, not in one clarion moment as in the examples above, but through our apathy, complacency and willful acceptance that our government knows best.  I find it ironic that we have allowed the very entity that our founders saw as the biggest threat to our freedom, to strip away our only means of securing that freedom.

Another of these slow, creeping abrogation of rights is found in our system of taxation.  While the passing of the 16th Amendment is certainly a hallmark moment for this issue, it alone is not what has stripped us of our rights.  Can anyone tell me the percentage of taxation that prompted the colonist to throw tea into the Boston Harbor?  Was it a 30-40% tax like most of us face on our personal income?  Was it even an 8.25% tax like most here in Texas pay as a sales tax for all products?  Nope.  This nation practically started a blood war for independence over a meager 25% tax on one single item, which amounted to a tax burden of a bout 1.5% adjusted to the average earnings of a family at the time.  Now we face taxes levied on what we earn, what we purchase and even what we out right own.  This has not come in one large stroke, but again in small steps over time that have burdened us and made us beholden to the government that we are forced to surrender our personal labor to.  We are indentured servants, whether we want to admit it or not.  I hold that ANY tax on personal property is a direct violation of individual liberties and an assault on personal freedoms.  No one has the right to force you to work for free, we abolished that more than 130 years ago just to have it return in a government sanctioned method supported by an Amendment to our Constitution making it legal.  We are slaves.  Your labor is not income nor is the wage that you barter your labor for.  You have traded one hour of your labor, your personal property, for a amount of compensation that you agreed to with another party.  Taxation of this amount is a taxation of personal property and liberty.  No one has the right, other than the government, to forcibly take the money you have earned for you labor.  Should an individual walk up to you and force you to surrender 30% of the money that you made this week, threatening your very freedom if you do not surrender, you would call him a robber and you would have the right to resist him with deadly force.  When the government does this it is called taxation and you have no right to resist at all.  The same is directly true of property taxes.  If you are taxed upon the property that you own, under penalty of law and the potential loss of that property, then in reality, you own nothing.  You are merely renting that property from the government, by payment of said taxes.  Again these are direct violations of personal liberty.

So, now what are the issues that our generation faces that bear the weight of these mistakes of the past?  If healthcare is not immediately upon your tongue, then I pray for you and your children.  How people cannot understand that this is the clarion issue of our time, is beyond me.  We have already surrendered so much of our rights, piece by piece, to the control of our government, how could we ever consider giving them the control of our health and well being.  Just as many of the laws passed in our history must have seemed benevolent and wise, do not be fooled by those who tell you that they can act in your best interest far better than you can.  When a people surrender themselves to a government so wholly as to allow it to do for them what they can and should do for themselves, they become beholden to its will.  This is not a new thing upon this Earth.  It has been repeated many a time throughout history and has always ended in disaster for those who surrender their freedom so willingly.  This is the defining issue of our time.  The one that will pave the way of our future.  Will it be a future where my health or my very life is dependent on the will of a government for which I have no control or recourse?  Will it be one where the decisions of my children’s well being are taken out of my hands and made the domain of some distant, disconnected bureaucrat?  Will it become one where the decision to let my child live or die is one made by a budgetary committee that must weigh the value of my child’s life against the cost of the procedure needed?  No, it must not!  It cannot!  This must never come to pass, else the 234 year struggle for liberty dies with a pitiful whimper as we willingly surrender one of our last vestiges of freedom to the very entity that our founders new we would need to be armed to protect ourselves and our liberty from.

We must end this now.

It is a well know fact that once elected politicians almost immediately forget the very promises that got them elected in the first place.  This administration has been no different.  Of course they have kept some of the promises that they made, but those are only the ones that serve their purposes and drive their agendas. 

What promises have they kept?  Well that is easy, we were promised justice for those held in Guantanamo Bay, they have certainly delivered on that.  In fact those who are now held at Gitmo can rest assured that they will have far more legal rights then the very soldiers that captured them on a foreign battlefield.  You see the Obama administration promised them justice and they shall have it in the form of the American civil legal system, something actually denied our brave men and women who serve and die for this nation.  No, military tribunals or courts martial was not good enough for the illegal enemy combatants who fought our soldiers overseas.  They must have far superior legal rights, attorneys paid for by the American tax payer and access to all the case law, precedence and jurisprudence afforded each and every American citizen.  Who cares that our brave servicemen and women do not get this luxury, those terrorist suspects certainly deserve it.  You see when you become a soldier, airman, sailor or marine in service to this nation, you not only pledge your life to the defense of this nation and her Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, you also waive your right to the very guarantees provided by the document that your are duty bound to protect.  You swear to surrender your rights and be governed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).  However, now those who fight against American troops on the field of battle do not have to worry about such details.  Now they can have the same rights as any other American criminal, including the right for some sleaze ball attorney to find a legal loop hole to let them go free, because some bureaucratic bookworm did not fill out some piece of paperwork in triplicate or some soldier was insensitive to the cultural needs of a detainee.  Not to mention the fact that in their utmost lack of wisdom, the Federal government has decided to try some of these terrorist just miles from the scene of the ‘crime’.  I be New Yorkers will welcome any verdict that comes out of these trials that they will be forced to host, even if it is an innocent one, so long as the rights of these terrorist who killed 3,000 innocent New York citizen were not violated in even the slightest way.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is one promise that the Obama administration has kept: Far superior legal rights and proceedings for terrorist suspects than is afforded our very own soldiers, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.

You want an American trial for these jihadist?  Well, I agree.  Here is my idea.  Dress them in bright pink jumpsuits, pick a day and time to release them in Hoboken or Queens, broadcast the location and time of release to everyone in the Tri-State area, then let them go.  If they can make it out of the city alive, they are free to go.  It is a hell of a better fate than the three thousand innocent civilians that burned to death or were buried alive in the rubble so many years ago.

What other promises have they kept?  Ah, yes, healthcare.  They told us they would ram a Federally controlled healthcare plan down our throats whether we liked it or not.  Almost a year later they are close to succeeding, but here is where some of the broken promises come in.  Now I am not talking about the one we would have plainly been fools to believe, like that he would not have any activist or lobbyist as his advisors or that he would not sign any bill with a single piece of pork attached to it.  No, I am talking about those that he repeated over and over again that gave all the naive liberal votes hope that we would see the shining light of democracy from the unprecedented transparency promised by the Obama administration.  You see he knew this healthcare thing was poisonous.  He knew that the American people would not willingly sacrifice their choices, their rights and their control over their medical decisions if they really knew what was being planned.  No secrecy would be key to the success of this agenda.  The American people could not really find out what what in this healthcare bill or they would resist, but if he promised us that we would get to see each and every deliberation about this  live on CSPAN it sounded awfully good for the campaign.  Complete transparency, it seems, is just a bit more opaque than we thought.  Where has this CSPAN coverage been?  Why now that people are demanding that he live up to his promises is he hemming and hawing about allowing his bumbling press secretary to blurt out one half-witted excuse after another?  It is funny how those promises that you never meant to keep, come around and bite you in the ass, Mr. President.

On to other promises, how about that unemployment rate?  Hey, I know this one personally.  Both my wife and I had good productive jobs to start off 2009.  Nine months later neither of us did.  So what was this about if we passed the TARP bill, or was it the Omnibus, that we would not go over 8% unemployment?  What about the transparency promised with all of these bailout an stimulus programs?  Oh, sure there was a website created and job loss numbers spewed about, but then we find out that those numbers were complete bullshit.  They included thousands of jobs that had not even started yet and did you know that almost one billion dollars, that is right $920 million of your dollars cannot be adequately accounted for from the funds that were spent in the first six months.  Oh and did you also know that much of this money did not even go to create jobs?  Well that is of the money that has actually been spent of the staggering amounts allocated for these travesties that were voted into law.  That is another thing that apparently was just a flat out lie or just something that this administration does not care much about.  You see, for weeks we were told that we had to act now to avert a crisis.  We had to infuse the economy with these staggering trillions of immediately of face collapse.  Funny, that, because as of today only about 20% of the funds for first $890 billion so called stimulus packages has been spent with another 20% or so in process to be spent within the next six months.  That does not sound like a shot in the arm, but more like a long term prescription plan.  So why the rush if we are going to sit on more than $600 billion dollars until well into 2010?  Why did we have to pass this massive bill in its entirety right then?  Could we not have slowed down and voted to spend the roughly $160 billion dollars that we have so far, then taken our time on the rest?  Hell, now there is even talk of another stimulus package, because the first one was ineffective and the economy has not recovered.  Well no shit, Sherlock.  If $890 billion dollars in funds immediately injected into the American economy was the real answer, then spending $160 billion over six months won’t have the same effect.  That is the difference between a shot and a slow drip IV, not anywhere close to the same thing.

You know there is a question that I always hear thrown around at election time.  Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  It seems that is how we are to judge the effectiveness of our leaders, most pointedly the President.  Well, Mr. President, I am not better off that I was four years ago, nor even two for that matter.  Two years ago, my wife an I both had very profitable jobs in solid industries, hers in the middle of a growing boom.  We were making significant salaries, had good future prospects, good health insurance, large life insurance policies, a healthy stock portfolio and plenty of money in the savings.  Yeah, uhm, we don’t have any of that anymore.  My wife has spent the last nine months unemployed because her industry freaked out about Cap and Trade and I joined her for two months as the economy wore into my job as well.  Hell I even worked for a government contract regulatory lab.  People HAVE to have done what we did, but it still cut into our business enough that I am not even sure my former company will survive after being in business since it was founded in 1976.  No, Mr. President I am far, far worse off now than I was before you were elected and there are many Americans who are right there with me.  You have had a year and all your policies have done is make worse an already bad situation.  You have three years left.  The clock is ticking.

Since I am in an analogy mood, this evening I will give you another one.   Let’s say you take your car into a mechanic and he charges you $890 dollars to fix your engine.  A week later you have to take it back to him for the very same problem.  This is when you discover that he only spend $160 dollars to fix your car the last time, hides the invoice when you try to look at it, can’t explain to you what some of it was spent on and tells you that it should be running better because the flux capacitor is now in synch with the primary phase coil, but he promises that if you will give him another $1,000 he will make sure it runs right.  Now, ask yourself, how likely would you be to let this man work on your car again, provided you do not punch him out straight away and take your money back forcibly.  Now ask yourself how likely would you be to let him recommend a doctor for you and your family, or decide what medical procedure you need or do not need?  Scary thought isn’t it?

How this nation is not in full fledged revolt at this stage in the game is a mystery to me. Maybe it stems from the apathy permeating our culture or perhaps it is the feelings of complete detachment and helplessness that many people feel about our political process. We are currently faced with one of the most serious threats to life and liberty that we have ever seen in this nation and we are still allowing these people to stand behind their podiums and lie through their teeth.

President Obama was finally publicly called out for lying to the American people about one aspect of this healthcare reform yesterday, when the AARP denied any endorsement or support of any healthcare proposal. During a completely phony town hall meeting stuffed with Obama supporters and strategic plants, he commented that the AARP had endorsed this reform. He further stated that the AARP would not be on board if they thought that this legislation would reduce MediCare benefits to the elderly. Almost immediately, the 40 million member strong AARP organization denied the endorsement or support of any healthcare reform. Although they did admit to agreeing with President Obama that they did not see any threat to benefits from the reduction in MediCare, they strongly denied any endorsement such as President Obama had claimed. Of course the excuse from the Whitehouse was that the President simply misspoke. Really? Has he been simply misspeaking all this time? This is not a new claim. This has been repeated for months now.

Maybe AARP is feeling the wrath of its members. How this organization could even consider supporting this legislation is far beyond my comprehension and that of many of its members that I know. Most of the seniors that I know are deathly afraid of what this legislation means for their future care and do not support it at all. The AARP is playing politics with the lives of its members and they are starting to react.

For those of you who think senior citizens have nothing to fear from this lead into single payer socialized medicine, allow me to introduce you to Barbara Wagner of Springfield, OR. Wagner has the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) as single payer system put in place several years ago in Oregon. She also has lung cancer. When she found this out, her doctor suggested a new form of aggressive chemotherapy that has shown very promising results in treating the disease, even in someone of her age. Unfortunately for this senior citizen, the bureaucrats at the OHP did not agree with her doctor since the treatment cost $4,000/mo. They denied the treatment and offered to pay for hospice care or medically assisted suicide. How nice of the government to tell this woman that she was not worth saving, but she was worth being allowed to die slowly in her home or they were more than willing to pay to have her kill herself right now. Can you imagine a government behaving this way? Well you better start. By the way, there is good news on this front. The greedy pharmaceutical company that produces this incredibly expensive drug has contacted Barbara Wagner and will be giving her the medication for free so that the State of Oregon does not decide to kill her off. How nice of them.

Move on to more of these town hall meetings. Let us examine the other lies and falsifications pouring out of these dishonest charlatans from Washington. For starters, we will look at the town hall conference hosted by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee in Houston, TX yesterday. This Democrat embarrassment to the State of Texas had the unfettered gall to get on a cell phone while a woman stood and asked her a question about the healthcare legislation. Her pathetic excuse that she was actually trying to get information to answer the woman’s concerns and that they are taught to multi-task in Congress was a pitiful example of her ignorance and detachment. She did not give the woman the common courtesy of her undivided attention at least long enough for her to ask her question and she proves that she has no clue about this legislation and was horribly unprepared to answer her constituents.

To top off this disgraceful behavior, how about the doctor who stood up in support of this legislation? She originally identified herself as a pediatric primary care physician, but with a little research it was discovered that she was actually Roxana Mayer, an Obama delegate for the State of Texas and a campaign volunteer. Let’s make this clear. She was a plant. A dishonest plant who misrepresented herself as a physician (read as she lied through her teeth) to give her comments a false sense of weight in an effort to spread disinformation to the public on behalf of the Obama healthcare initiative.

Lies! Lies from the President, lies from our Congressional members, lies from the mainstream media and even lies from civilian plants placed inside these town hall meetings. You my friends are being lied to on a scale far more massive than you have ever seen before. It is time to wake up and fight back. As I have stated so many times in the past, this is not a debate or a discussion. This is a fight for your life. This is a battle to control your life and death.

Enough. When you can read through the Declaration of Independence and directly pick out offenses in that document that could easily be applied to the Federal government today, it is time that we act and take back this government of the people, for the people and most importantly by the people.

I have reached a new low in my mindset towards the future. I believe as much as the next person that we need to stand up and make a difference. We truly do, and someday we will be glad we did. But in the face of so much horrible news coming at you so fast how can ones spirit not ache? As a patriot, an idealist, and a servant of the Lord I truly hurt for America, and for humanity.

History repeats itself. This is because as a species we have failed miserably at learning from our mistakes. We continue to do so daily. But the beast is looking us right in the face and we still pretend it isn’t there. Have any of you been paying attention to what the end game of all this is? Do you think that the objective here is a clean environment? Are we really just trying to make sure people have insurance or health care? Sure the average citizen probably does think just this, but the average citizen is incredibly ignorant and it runs very deep in the United States. Remember ignorant isn’t the same as stupid. It means uninformed, but its apathy that causes it to run so deep in America. We have lived such amazing lives for so long we can’t remember what it’s like to be without. Critics will immediately shout, “No of course thousands of Americans know what poverty is like! What about single mothers in poor neighborhoods etc…” The standard of living in America for our homeless is better than it is for people in many nations. I hate to be cliché but starving children in Sudan don’t get to go to shelters for a hot meal and free room and board. We are losing our edge.

The endgame is not the environment, it’s not even some secret communist agenda. There is no conspiracy, nobody is pulling the strings. But as fate would have it history is again repeating. Elitist individuals from various walks of life have worked their way to the positions of power in this country, some by chance, others by the will of corrupt men with money. But the themes of these people have been revealed over the past several years by those with the will to see it. Look no further than the Czars of America. In this collection of people, the most powerful man in the world surrounds himself with Eugenicists, Nationalists, Socialists, and Secularists. These aren’t titles to be tossed around with abandon and they aren’t labels from the ravings of a lunatic fringe nut. They are however accurate descriptions of men and women who believe that killing a two year old human child is acceptable because they aren’t human yet. They are accurate descriptors of people who want to sterilize the water supply and automatically abort any child with a defect. They describe someone who believes religion has no place in modern society and that existentialism is the ultimate form of morality. They describe people who ultimately think the government should be the most important thing in your life. Government should control your life because you simply can’t do it yourself.

The worst part is, Americans are proving them correct! People who look to government to solve their problems, folks who bury their heads in the sand, and people who simply don’t care are essentially screaming at the top of their lungs that they simply can’t do it themselves. While those of us who do care stand by, and are drowned out by the millions who don’t. We have seen all this before. During a depression people with the same beliefs of Nationalism, Secularism, Socialism, and Eugenics formed a party. A National Socialist Party, a party for the people. A party that wants to take care of you, because you can’t do it. This party was responsible for some of the greatest acts of terror and evil the world has ever seen. What did they do? They cried for people to have hope, to believe in themselves and to trust the government. They provided a measure of relief for the people by putting them back to work with government jobs building tanks and planes. They built infrastructure to make their country more efficient. Finally they registered all the firearms in the country, took them from the people, and created one of the most tyrannical forms of government in history.

There is no conspiracy, there is no plot to destroy people, but there are misguided individuals making all the most important decisions for America. Out of shear ignorance, these people are taking us down the same road traveled by our brothers and sisters across the sea. We can stop this if we stand up for what we believe in, replace the fools in DC with honest hard working men and women. But even if this is carried through the fallout of what’s already been done will be felt for decades if not longer. But despite knowing there is hope there is also a fear of defeat. We saw a spark of the American spirit flicker and die after 9/11 when we rose up as a nation and showed what makes us great. But how quickly that died. It may take even more to wake us up, if we are not past waking already.

It is this that breaks my heart. I believe in America to my core and she is better than this. This country has more to offer than anywhere on the planet and it is because of our founding ideals that his is possible. But we have ventured so far from those things that make us great. Washington would weep at the sight of our nation today. After marveling at all our technological advances he would weep for us because we no longer see right from wrong. We have torn down God and replaced him with state because religion is for idiots, bigots, racists, homophobes, and fascists. I hope and pray we can rise to this current challenge without a catalyst of horror that it has taken in the past. May God bless America, may he save America, and may he have mercy on us for the acts we have committed against him.

Now that the veil has begun to lift and the public is opening its eyes to the massive assault on our healthcare industry that is occurring in Washington, it seems that a new movement has been spurned in the style of the TEA Parties. This past weekend at town hall meetings across this nation, common citizens shouted their dissent at politicians over the issue of nationalized healthcare. America is finally rising up and her citizens are demanding to be heard. The odor in the air that you smell if fear and it is coming from Washington, D.C.

Even the Democrats in Congress have started to feel the sting of public opinion, but they still fail to grasp the reality of this message. As if they were alcoholics in denial, they have begun to deny the validity of these protests, claiming they were staged by insurance companies who fear the passage of healthcare reform. They have gone so far as to accuse the people protesting of being paid plants, who were bused in and given instructions on how to appear that they were not together. They cannot come to grips with the reality that the American people do not want, need or trust the Federal government to control our healthcare.

In Austin, Texas this weekend, one of the embarrassments of our state, Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Tex) held a poor excuse for a town hall meeting in the parking lot of a supermarket. It quickly became clear that the citizens at the meeting were far better informed about the healthcare issue than Doggett himself was. When he was pressed with someone asking him if he would support this bill even if he found the majority of his constituents strongly opposed it, he admitted that yes he would. Suddenly a voice arose from one of the many protestors carrying signs opposing socialized medicine and this Obamacare initiative, yelling, “Just say no!” The cry quickly rose across the group turning the meeting into an ad hoc political protest.

This was not an isolated event. In Philadelphia this weekend both Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius were met with vociferous protests shouting “Read the bill!” Of course, the Democrats were not having it. Sebelius coyly chastised the crowd saying, “Excuse me… Excuse me! We can either stand here and shout at one another and then we can leave the stage, or we can have a conversation. It’s really up to you.” However, when the crowd engaged them in conversation, asking specific pointed questions about the bill, they were not impressed with their answers. When she talked about making sure Americans receive the best healthcare, they shouted “We already do!” When Specter spoke of the supporting Obama’s healthcare program he was quickly shouted and booed down. At one point a man shouted to Specter a simple question, “Will you sign up for it?” All Specter did was avert his gaze and continue prattling on about government run healthcare. At the mention of a single payer system, it almost seemed the crowd was about to set upon him. Shouts calling him a liar and demanding to know where the constitutional authority for this was could be heard among the continuous booing

Again, this was not an isolated incident. These happened everywhere, all around this nation. Yet, it seems that it is not enough to penetrate the stupidity and arrogance that permeates Washington, D.C. Today the Democrats are ignorantly claiming that all these events were staged. They seem to actually believe that the American people could not possibly be this passionate or have this much will to fight over the matter of healthcare.

I find this argument so odd coming from the Democrats, until you remember that this is not at all about healthcare, but about power over the individual. Most Democrats support a woman’s right to choose by claiming that it is her body and it should be her decision alone as to what to do with it and what medical procedures can be performed on it. Following that logic, it should be safe to assume that the right to decide what medical procedures can be done would extend to every American citizen, not just a woman attempting to use abortion as a form a birth control. However, with this plan that is not the case at all. Apparently, your right to choose is only important when you want to kill an unborn child, not when you want to determine which doctor you go to or what treatment you or your children receive to treat an illness. It seems that this warped form of logic makes perfect sense to Democrats, but it is completely lost on me.

As I have stated before this is a struggle for life and death and our ability to control both aspects personally. This is potentially one of the most threatening pieces of legislation that the American public and our individual liberties have ever faced. This must be defeated at all costs, or we lose the very ability to make decisions of a very personal nature.

I have not had much time to write over the past few days. Some changes are taking place in my personal life that have had me quite busy and I have been working on getting a project off the ground that has taken some of my time as well.

However, I have been keeping a close eye on this healthcare debate and it is scaring the hell out of me. I cannot believe that this is even under consideration, until I look at those pushing this agenda. There is so much subterfuge and deception surrounding this issue that it is almost impossible for the average American to get their minds around and understand what is really occurring. This administration and many in Congress are trying to shove this legislation down the throat of the American people, yet do so with coercion and deception.

Lie Number One – 47 Million Uninsured

For starters, the number of uninsured Americans in this country is greatly inflated. The 47 million that the President claims he is trying to cover is not as clear as you might think. Within that 47 million exist around 10 million illegal aliens, around 17 million that make well over the median income of $46,300 annually who could afford health insurance but choose not to have it and a small percentage of people who lacked health insurance for short periods of time only. Even if you just take number of illegal aliens and those who could afford insurance, but choose not to, you more than cut the 47 million figure in half, leaving only 20 million Americans uninsured, just 7% of the population. Some estimated put the number of critically uninsured as low as 8.2 million or 3% of the total.

Lie Number Two – The Government is the Solution

While I acknowledge that some healthcare reform is needed in this nation, I flatly reject the notion that it is the right, duty or business of the Federal government to mandate or control it. Constitutionally, not only does the Federal government lack any and all power over this issue, but it is explicitly barred from action on matters such as these via the 10th Amendment. Not to mention that what they are currently proposing will be drastically harmful to the healthcare industry in this nation. Just look at the example that the government provides in Social Security, Medicare and the Veterans Administration. All dismal examples of government waste, corruption and bureaucracy at one time or another. Now we are told that the government can reduce healthcare cost, improve quality and not reduce services. Even when the Congressional Budget Office releases report after report disagreeing with this claim and greatly expanding the projected cost of this program, it is just ignored. Even when the very sections of the bill that point out planned cuts to Medicaid and Medicare are pointed out, excuses are made and those calling foul are branded as cold hearted obstructionists. The plan currently in the House would create twelve additional government agencies just to deal with this massive undertaking, creating more inefficiency, waste and bureaucracy.

Lie Number Three – You Will Still Have a Choice

This is one of the most grievous fallacies of this entire fiasco. You will lose your ability to choose, period. For starters, the President has already made it clear that you will be forced to have health insurance whether you want it or not. No choice there. Now we hear that doctors will be rated and paid based on how well they treat an illness, not per patient or per procedure. Really? I want to know who in the hell decides by what benchmarks to gauge my doctor? What if I think my doctor has performed admirably, but some distant, detached bureaucratic moron in Washington, who has no clue about me or my doctor, decided that he is not as ‘efficient’ as they would like and decides not to pay him? How to I have a choice in that? When my personal physician that I have had for well on twenty years has to quit his practice because he cannot afford to function on his government allowance, where is my choice?

Now we discover the horrible truth about other aspects of this bill such as end of life care. After a certain age you will be compelled to meet with a ‘counselor’ every five years to discuss your future healthcare needs. Really? Discuss what about them? Why would I need a counselor at the age of 65 and beyond to discuss my healthcare requirements, unless you are planning on restricting the services available to me due to my age and failing health? You see once you pass the age of 65, you are not as good of an investment as when you are young and healthy. You have less time to live and you consume more resources via the healthcare system, therefore it only makes sense to a cold, calculating government bureaucracy that they not spend money on you. Sure they will offer to make you comfortable, but will not approve the procedure that might extend your life because the return on investment will not be enough.

Lie Number Four – Not a Single Payer System

While this statement may be true at this point, it will not be so for long. As Barney Frank openly admitted a few days earlier, this is a gateway to a single payer system.

“If we get a good public option it could lead to single payer,” Frank said. “The best way to get single payer — the only way — is to have a public option and demonstrate the strength of its power.”

You notice the words he chose there? Power. This is after all what this is really all about. Power. Power to control. Power to have millions depending on the government for their very health and survival.

The other part of this lie is that the private insurance companies can survive this ‘public option’ when it is more likely that it will cause the failure of most major insurance companies, costing this economy precious jobs and destroying the healthcare industry as we know it. The government option could be as much as 20% lower in cost for private business, since it will use taxpayer money to support the implementation of this program. How many businesses do you think would love to get a 20% reduction in the cost of benefits they provide to their employees? Suddenly, millions of people will be shoved onto this government program, taking critical market share away from the private insurance companies. Without the monthly premiums, these companies will not be able to provide for their remaining insured parties and will quickly fold, leaving even more people with nowhere else to turn but the government. Of course, that it the real objective of this, not healthcare at all.

Those are just four obvious ones. There are multitudes of more that I could expound upon, but these should be enough to wave us off of this destructive past. With the example of failures in the States where these single payer models have been tried such as Wisconsin and Massachusetts, we should be scare to death of even discussing any government run options at all. I sincerely hope that the governor of my great State meant what he said early last week. Governor Perry stated that if the Congress was foolish enough to pass this destructive legislation, Texas would assert her right under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and flatly refuse to conform or participate in any way. God bless that man and give him the strength to stand his ground should this disaster find its way into law. Should Texas refuse Federal interference and further usurpation of her citizens right by the Federal government, I believe that others would follow her lead.

This is a battle of life and death. Either you control your life or the government will control both it and your death.

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Allow me to post a an article titled Flipped Flag Signals Distress found in Weatherford Telegram, a smaller community oriented publication by its parent paper the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I am not exactly sure I approve of the tone that the very first sentence sets up for this article. To me it is no joking matter that one of the most patriotic people I have ever know has been pushed to the point that he feels it necessary to fly the flag upside down that he laid his life on the line for. It almost seems as if this poor attempt at humor is being made at this man’s expense. I sincerely hope that is not the case. I would hope that a serious reporter for the Star Telegram would be above making fun of a man whom this nation should be eternally grateful to.

Weatherford’s most profound patriot and staunchest supporter of the American flag has flipped (his flag).
 
Chuck Katlic, Battle of the Bulge survivor and American Legion Post 163 chaplain, is flying his flag upside down to draw attention to what he perceives as the USA’s distressed circumstances.
 
“Section 8 Article A of the United States Flag Code says to display the flag upside down when there is dire national distress,” Katlic said. “Our Congress and president are not obeying the Constitution. The first step was taking the gold standard off our money. Roosevelt started it, Johnson continued it and Nixon closed the door. Everyone who feels our nation is in dire distress should fly their flags upside down.”
 
Katlic said he believes that President Obama is imposing Marxist, Socialist rule on Americans.
 
“At the suggestion of Russia and China, Obama said he would consider one world currency,” he said. “They’re taking away states’ rights. They’ve made schools a government cabinet position, limiting what public schools (I call them government school, now) can teach.”
 
Katlic also believes that such people in Congress as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Representative Barney Frank and Senator Ted Kennedy want to “take away our guns.”
 
Admitting that “Nothing personally has been done to me,” Katlic said that “what’s being done to our citizens is that they’re being taxed to death, losing their homes. [Congress is] violating people’s Fourth Amendment rights, stopping them and searching their cars without warrants.”
 
Katlic said that he also fears that because the federal government allows abortions, “next they will be euthanizing older people. This is to reduce the population.”
 
Another concern Katlic expressed is that concentration camps are being built in Arizona “to put us in when we misbehave.”
 
Katlic said that every president after George Washington wanted to be a dictator, and that all politicians care about is power. His daily front-yard gesture is intended to raise awareness.
 
“I’ll fly my flag that this until Obama and Congress obey the Constitution, or they’re out, even if I have to do for the next four years,” he said. “I pledge my life, my fortune and my honor to do my part to turn our nation back to the founding fathers’ principles that have preserved our nation for 250 years. I call on all my fellow Parker County residents to fly their flags upside down, too.”

I know this man. I have gone to church with him since I was a child and my children adore him. He is not your normal run of the mill citizen of this nation. He is one of the few surviving young men that saw such horrors in Europe that we can scarcely imagine. He survived the frozen forests near Bastogne and held out through one of the toughest sieges our armed forces have ever faced. He is a patriot through and through, caring greatly for his God, his country, his fellow soldiers and his fellow citizens.

Some may try to dismiss him as a radical, right wing nut and I guess under this administration’s definition of such I would be one too. After all I believe in the rights of the State’s and the individual. I believe in the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the founding of this nation. I believe that the Constitution means exactly what it frakking says and needs no manipulation or interpretation. I believe that this is and always has been a nation founded on and rooted in Christian principles, so much so that our first President warned us against straying from this religious bedrock.

I believe that I will be following suit with Chuck and I encourage you all to do the same thing. This most definitely is a nation under duress and distress. What better way to show it that by following the lead of such a great patriot as Chuck Katlic and sending a clear message to our government. I will turn my flags this weekend. I hope that you will do the same.

Is no one getting tired of this crap yet?

Seriously, this man stands before this nation and lies through his teeth knowing full well that he cannot prove a single thing he says. At least when Clinton lied to the nation, he did so skillfully and made it so that you were never sure when he was shooting you straight or filling you full of bull shit. He was an artist when it came to dishonesty and misdirection. Obama simply does not care if what he says is true or not, much less who believes him.

Just days ago we were treated to a speech about how Americas was one of the largest Muslim nations in the world. Uhm, not true. If you take the latest CIA estimates of about 1.8 million Muslims in the country that would place us somewhere around 58th out of 60 ranked nations. I wonder how the 76.5% of Americans that identify themselves as Christian like to constantly hear that we are not a Christian nation. How do they feel when the President of this country tells us that the Muslim population in this country that is less than 1% of the whole makes us one of the biggest Muslim nations on the planet? How about the fact that we are the largest Christian nation on the planet? Or do we Christian simply not count anymore?

I have already covered the other lies in that speech in a previous article, so I will not dwell over the idiocy of expecting people to believe that Islam gave us modern printing, the compass, algebra or our base understanding of the spread of diseases and how to cure them. What I want to focus on today it the sheer arrogance that it takes to stand before the American people and promise to cut our non-defense based deficit in half on one hand, while you other hand spends this country into massive debt. Does he think we are that naive? Does he really believe that we are that stupid? Or does he even care?

Where is the recovery? Where is the stimulus? Where are the jobs that were supposed to be created by the trillions of dollars of our money that Congress has plundered from the already overdrawn coffers? Oh, I see. Those jobs have not been created, but they have been saved! All rejoice and hail the mighty one for he has saved however many jobs he claims he has.

How do you count a job as saved? This is pure conjecture. The economy either creates jobs or loses them. Since Obama has taken office millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Our unemployment rate has soared to 9.4% and is only beginning to show hopeful signs of slowing. I will consider jobs having been saved when the number of jobless claims stops increasing and the unemployment rate begins to decline. Only then will we be saving jobs by *gasp* actually creating them.

I can barely listen to this man speak anymore for knowledge that if his lips move, we should beware. While other nations raise their heads to test our will and resolve, he tours around countries that have teetered on the edge of hostility against this nation for decades apologizing for OUR behavior. He panders to regimes whose citizens cheered as the towers fell and thousands of innocent Americans perished. He wants to talk with nations who openly show their hatred of this nation and threaten everything that we stand for. He cowers at the feet of our enemies and hides in fear from his responsibilities to uphold the constitution of this nation.

I am through with this. I have never before even come close to thinking this before. I have often argued against this notion with good friends in the past, but it may be time for Texas to find its own path. I am sure that there are many other fine states that may like to join us. Maybe not, but for the first time in my life, I would actually consider it.

I have been watching a growing trend among the right for the past few months and it is absurd at its best. There seems to be a fragment within the right that fancies themselves conservatives, but continuously pulls the reigns of the Republican Party farther and farther towards the left. They seem to want to redefine conservatism and modernize it somehow. They are the ones to you will hear decrying the nostalgia of the Reagan revolution and the legacy it left. They us that the era of Regan is over and now it is time that we move on. These people may clad themselves in conservative mantles, but they are nowhere near the mark of a true conservative. No matter what they left may tell you, they are nothing more than a fringe element of the right who have moved so far away from the core principles of the founders that it makes them uncomfortable to face what they have become and with to bring the rest of the movement in line with their ideology.

If you were to reform or redefine conservatism by adapting it to modern, secular ideas, it would cease to become conservative at all. Instead it would be the Democrat Party of years past, thinking itself as progressive and evolving to a more utopian state. To hold true conservative principals is a difficult thing. It means that you acknowledge that there are a strict set of rules to which you must adhere. It forces you to accept personal responsibility for your own actions and understand that these actions bear consequences. Conservatism does not allow you to arbitrarily change the rules or redefine the playing field as you go. It does not provide for concepts such as equality of outcome or the presumption of rights that do not exist. It does not change to suit the whims of its followers. By its own right, it is the ideology that cautions against such arbitrary and whimsical change and forces us to live by the laws that society has established and not reinterpret those laws to suit our needs and desires.

Many times you hear people claim that the founding of this nation was so long ago that these men could never have envisioned the challenges that we face today. While this may be the case, it does not in any way invalidate the structure that they put in place to deal with such challenges and adapt to them. It does not mean that the warnings that so many of them gave in their letters, journals, speeches and addresses did not specifically warn us against the very actions our government has taken to make this nation into something wholly unrecognizable when compared to what it was at its birth. Furthermore, it does not in any way diminish the fact that if we were to apply the standards set forth in the Constitution of the United States as it was written and intended, to today’s political environment, that such an application would completely destroy the power that the Federal government has amassed. Even the adherence to one single amendment laid out in the Bill of Rights, if applied today, would massively diminish the scope and power of the Federal government.

No, I believe that the men who founded this nation were inspired and possessed a level of insight not often seen in the history of this world. I believe that each and every principal laid down in those documents or amended there too, would apply perfectly in our world today. I also believe that the application of these principles would threaten the scope, reach and power of the Federal government and many of the politicians who hold themselves entitled to their positions and above the will of the people. This is why they fear conservatism. This is why they want you to think that these ideologies are dead and antiquated. This is why they portray the conservative movement as comprised of backwards, fearful people clinging to their guns and religion. They live in fear of losing this power that they have amassed.

Conservatism is not dead. It does not need to be redefined. It is a threat to those who hold dear their power and consider themselves above the law and above the people. It is the only way to preserve a true free society that offers equal opportunity and liberty to all.

I wrote an article titled Liberalism Leads to Communism about a funny thing I noticed in a video game the other day. However, I think the concept is a sound one. So if Liberalism leads to Communism, it must follow that Conservatism leads to the antithesis of Communism: freedom, liberty and individual prosperity.

What have we come to? It is now clear that this government is drunk with its own power and intent on controlling every aspect of our lives, our economy and our freedoms. This is getting to a point where it is so Orwellian as to be extremely frightening.

For starters, stocks of General Motors plummeted this morning after the resignation of GM CEO Rick Wagoner. It appears that after a discussion with President Obama this weekend Wagoner was forced to resign or forfeit all government assistance to the faltering company. This is a scary turn of events when one man holds enough power to dictate to companies who their executives should and should not be. This is what you get when you make a deal with the devil, GM is now mostly owned by the Federal government and apparently the government has decided to use this massive power over this once private industry to decide who will be in charge. Some people may see this as fair since there is so much tax payer money tied up in the corporation, but I see it as dangerous and foolish. Even the Associated Press admits that Wagoner had been crucial in fine tuning GM since the auto manufacture started having difficulties. He had reduced their workforce, closed and consolidated plants, optimized their product lines and encouraged the development of more fuel efficient vehicle options. Not to mention that even the Center for Automotive Research claims that the dismissal of Wagoner by the government will likely have little or no effect on the direction or progress that GM is making because the newly selected CEO Fritz Henderson was the heir apparent to the position already and the direction Wagoner was taking the company is still the direction they need to go. This is why the Federal government should never be investing in private industry, they now have control over a major industry and they intend to use it. Where does it end? What if they do not like Henderson? What if they do not approve of the salary for Henderson? Will the government just stop listening to the will of GM’s board and appoint a government official to run the company? Socialism at its finest.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The federal government is now in negotiations for a treaty giving them unprecedented power over the privacy of individuals. They are attempting to sign an international copyright agreement that would give governments the power to examine your computer and audio player data without know permission of even knowledge in an effort to hunt for copyrighted material. Even under efforts to keep this very quiet, news of this endeavor is starting to surface and the outrage is starting to build. Jenn of the Jungle has a video clip posted on her site detail this program and the dangers involved therein. It is amazing how people in their own ignorance were revolted by the idea of the government sifting through millions of phone records looking for patterns that lead terrorist suspects. That was an activity that was perfectly legal and individuals have no expectation of privacy to those records since they do not own them, the phone companies do. Where is the outrage now, when the government is proposing that they have access to all your private information stored on your personal computers, without a warrant, your permission, your knowledge or any obligation to establish probable cause? What about when this new ability is turned to other aspects of your personal life? Of the government gains this power, it is nothing but a small step before it is used against political opponents or to oppress political speech. If the ability is there to access and copy any and all of the data on these systems, what prevents them from placing data on these systems? Will they place trackers on computers to identify those opposed to their agendas or to see who is reading the new media sites demanding this administration stop their wanton destruction of the American economy? This is outrageous and just more proof that this administration has no regard for the law or your constitutionally protected rights. This is far too much power for a government to obtain. These are the steps of fascists and dictators, not of the President of a supposedly free people.

The final thing I will mention today is the complete arrogance and ignorance by which the Democrat majority in Congress and the President as continuing to press forward on these horribly destructive fiscal policies which they have proposed. When nations around the world are now warning the American government of these reckless actions, they pay no heed and rush headlong into oblivion. When the Congressional Budget Office highlights the real cost of their plan, warns about the massive debt that this will incur and calls the projected spending completely unsustainable, the administration simply ignores the warnings and pushes on with plans that will saddle massive debts upon future generations.

Massive government control, massive government spending and an increased deficit that we can only begin to imagine, all these things lie ahead on the path we are on. Government control of wages, government control of the types of vehicles you may own, government control of the temperature of you home and massive government restrictions on your ability to arm and defend yourself all are future tenets of American society in Obama’s vision.

Welcome to the USSA.