Respect

For those who would be tempted to view our times within the context of the American Civil War, the BP Gulf oil spill would represent Fort Sumter. We currently find ourselves somewhere between Fort Sumter and Gettysburg. The oil spill was the first clear shot across the bow of America. It gave our president his first opportunity to clamp down on America’s jugular. Since then, the Left has managed to rack up an impressive string of victories. Even counting a significant number of electoral setbacks (during midterms), this seems to have had zero effect on the Left’s forward momentum. The economy is still in trouble and our position globally has become increasingly tenuous. It is clear that the American Left is hard at work toward seeing that America slips to second or third rung status among nations. So far, they are succeeding.

I have long predicted that something will happen that will forestall the 2012 elections and that Obama would remain in office. If this is correct, it would suggest the timeframe within which to expect Gettysburg. Gettysburg could be anything, foreign or domestic. Too many fuses are already lit; too much ordinance likely to detonate. When it does, there will either be chaos or the system will collapse into a shadow structure (already built and in place).

No one is willing to fully accept that any of this can happen – not in America. Those raising alarms are systematically silenced, crushed by ignorance, and by a general unwillingness to connect the dots and follow trend lines to their logical conclusion. Others, only semi-aware, place their hopes on 2012, our next chance to replace the leadership in Washington. They do not consider the possibility that we might never get there.

How to prepare? First off, know what you stand for. If you stand for liberty and the spirit of America, say so outright and without hesitation. Your worst move is to succumb to the bullying tactics of the Left, or to retaliate in kind. If you happen to be on the left, come out of hiding and state your intent plainly. Stealth will no longer serve you. Everybody must have a voice in determining where we want to end up. For the exercise to succeed, all cards must be put face-up on the table. Winner takes all.

Recognize too that your money is gone. It is being used as a weapon against you - to get you to do things you wouldn’t ordinarily consider doing. Write it off; start fresh. Hunger is another matter. But even hunger can be used as a weapon for a righteous cause. Anna Hazare moved the world recently by going on a hunger strike – so did Gandhi.

Know where you stand and adjust to doing without creature comforts. Obama’s threat to raise a billion dollars for his reelection campaign is meaningless. The money he intends on using has no value – and he knows it. It is a bluff to fend off adversaries. Doing without money will be easier than it seems. For one thing, you can no longer be bribed or corrupted by it. You will be free to pursue what’s right and true. And your reward will be far greater than anything money can ever hope to buy, among these: self-respect.

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Crushed

Bahukutumbi Raman has been in the forefront of raising deeply troubling issues about Pakistan as it exists today. Pakistan is considered to be an ally of the U.S. Indeed, even if it weren’t, it would almost have to have been invented. Pakistan is said to have an arsenal of nuclear arms. It is one of the primary bases from which we fight terrorism in Afghanistan.

Those who have studied Pakistan have been warning that Pakistan may not be all it’s been cracked up to be. For one thing, Pakistan is deeply divided. This division has fissures extending into every Pakistani heart. On one hand, Pakistanis are a proud people who wish to join the modern world and be respected within it. On the other, there are those who have not exactly embraced modernity. This too springs of pride; only, it is a ruthless, savage pride that seeks to dominate and oppress on a most basic level. Modern weapons have exceeded their usefulness in curbing such appetites.

As such, when we speak of Pakistan, we speak of separate factions, each with its own way of doing things. An agreement with one will fail to satisfy the other.

The primary victims of Pakistani chaos are the majority of its people who are people like any other. It is they who are caught between a rock and a hard place, and suffering. Second, it is a threat to India. Pakistan has never healed from the partition which Gandhi and Jinnah engineered in the interest of peaceful coexistence. Jinnah demanded a separate Muslim nation to which Gandhi acquiesced.

The only difference between India and Pakistan is their religions. India’s (by no means less intense) devotion to Hinduism nevertheless remains tolerant of other religions and has been able to move forward in important areas under the banner of a more or less secular approach. Pakistan (and the Middle East in general) has not.

As Pakistan fell further and further behind, the need to blame others became acute. It did not help for Western nations to exploit Pakistan’s despair. Now Pakistan has become a problem that threatens to plunge the world into all-out war. It’s primary ally is China. (America only pretends to be allied with Pakistan for media consumption.) China, too, will not be able to deal with the chaos that is Pakistan. It will continue to promote and use such as it is for its own purposes.

There are now many who are deeply entrenched inside Western camps who seek to destroy capitalism. Islam’s goal is the same. Pakistan (and Islam in general) is being used to undermine the West. It is only a tool (and tools can never exceed their specific function). In the end, Islam has no prayer of winning. When all is said and done; it, along with Western liberals (useful idiots), will be crushed.

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We Will Succeed

In a normal political climate the polls would mean something. Americans’ dissatisfaction with government would cause the leadership to moderate and reassess its policies. But just the opposite is happening. Democrats are doubling down.

“Every Action has an Equal and Opposite Reaction.” This is the third of Sir Issac Newton's laws of physics. Where’s the reaction in our political world? Only the Tea Parties at the moment. And we’re the ones that Bill Clinton calls insane, and Obamaites call racist. All these folks are going to needing our support if they want to continue in politics. Unless they know something we don’t. So, why do they talk that way?

Hillary is staying out of it. She may be the most dangerous of them all. She’s not talking because she’s stealth - like Obama was once upon a time. They all think they’ve got us by the short hairs; that we’ll heel - like obedient dogs. I don’t think so.

What makes them so arrogant? They don’t even try to hide their radicalism anymore. That’s because they think they’ve got the ‘Big Idea’; the momentum. Speed bumps no longer matter.

I think they’re wrong. I believe in Newton’s laws. I think there is a reaction that’s building - a wave. Our ‘Big Idea’ is AMERICA! There’s no bigger idea than that. I believe, the way they’re going, speed bumps are going top rip out the under carriage; their wheels will go flying.

I believe someone will step forward and focus our raw power against them. (I know some of you don’t like the idea of being led. That’s why I phrased it the way I did.) I’m really talking about leadership. Look at it in terms of liberation; rolling back all the myriad of oppressive laws, regs, and taxes; and getting our country to function again.

So far, all we’ve seen from our side is Lilliputians. This would include Palin among others. The person we’re looking for will be Gandhi-like, or Churchill. He hasn’t declared yet for strategic reasons. He’ll (and, yes, he’ll be a he) be the one who leads us out of this wilderness. Well all know it as soon as he declares. We’ll know it’s him by the deafening howls from the Left. They will know it too. They will know that they have lost.

I have my suspicions as to who he might be. I’ve alluded to it in previous posts. I won’t go any further at this time. He’ll choose his own moment.

All I can say is, we will defeat them - our Bolshevik tormentors. And we will restore our nation (and science) to it’s proper place. It’ll be a nail-biter, but we will succeed.

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Kanthapura

The hard Left is not only anti-American; they’ve now ratcheted up the stakes and revealed themselves as being anti-human as well: Anything non-human must be preserved and protected at the expense of individuals. To the Left, humans are evil interlopers on a near-perfect planet. It is no wonder that they support abortion, eugenics and land grabs.

There’s something sick in this and the sickness has now spilled over into our politics. Except, they think we’re sick as well. We are often all too quick to accept their premise, after which point they’ve already won the argument.

Environmentalism has become as potent as Islam. When one flies internationally these days, the screen on the back of the seat in front of you shows the aircraft’s progress across the oceans and over the landmasses. The maps fail to show borders. Often there’s a disclaimer, saying that the maps are non-political; that national borders are deliberately omitted. There are so many border disputes at the moment, the airlines thought it best to avoid the issue entirely. Instead, only the locations of towns are given. These then can be seen as city states while the land around them is a kind of no-man’s land - fly-over country - to be randomly allotted to service the cities as is deemed appropriate. Nations are no longer willing to defend national borders. And indeed, the whole concept of national borders is rapidly growing irrelevant.

What is growing in importance is ideology. And ideology knows no borders. It has long been a dream of the Left to erase all borders and become global. The promise is peace. Unfortunately, conflict will never disappear. There will always be killing. In fact, in the absence of borders, wars may become even more virulent and deadly - as in civil war; pitting neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, etc.

How does one fight such a war?

I have recently read “Kanthapura”, a novel by Raja Rao. In it he describes a winning strategy. He details how Gandhi’s influence on the grass roots built an invincible army against which the Crown could not win. The secret was peaceful resistance - with an emphasis on ‘peaceful’.

Most trouble in the world originates with ego. Take ego out of the equation, and one literally becomes invincible. This is a lesson the Tea Parties should take to heart, for the fight is drawing near. As the concept of borders crumbles and the emphasis shifts to ideology, the great armies that have so heroically defended us in the past become increasingly useless. We will need to depend largely on ourselves for survival. Rao’s Gandhi may have shown us the way.

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Do Not Let Them Do It!!!

Some years ago, I found myself sitting on a palm-fringed beach somewhere in Indonesia. A storm was developing out at sea. I watched it gathering; gaining strength. It was headed my way. The women that walked past me in groups at irregular intervals, with baskets or jars on their heads, increased their pace and headed for the thatched-roof huts that dotted the coast. I was too far away from anywhere. All I could do was hunker down, dig my fingers into the sand and await the onslaught.

I feel a little like that now. Oh, it’ll come alright. The Left has been playing us like violins. They’ve turned us into Pavlov’s dogs. First they got us to hate Bush; then they got us to elect Obama (no questions asked). Then they got us to swallow all the garbage this president has so carelessly thrown into the trough over the past year. Where is it going? When will it end?

The only reason I can think of for why this administration would inflict on us another contentious issue right on the heels of the health care debate is to get us even more upset. The strategy seems to be pay-back – for what? Being Americans? The plan is, I am convinced, to keep jabbing us until we snap. Already, Homeland Security has classified us as more dangerous than Islamic terrorists. Increasingly, state-controlled media is beginning to air mostly unsubstantiated reports of violent behavior. It appears coordinated and minutely calculated, so that when something happens, it’ll be blamed on us. Who threw that brick through the window of the Democrat headquarters in… wherever? Was it one of ours or was it one of theirs? The press will assume it was one of ours and run with it. Who shouted that slur (that, incidentally, nobody else heard) at the Democrat legislator? Who put that sign up along the highway?

With immigration reform in the offing, you can be sure that Obama himself will be out there flipping the race card. Things can only get worse.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT let them get their way! Do not resort to violence of any kind – ever! When you attend rallies, bring your cameras and cell phones. Should you witness a disturbance, film it; take pictures. Chances are good that any disturbance that erupts will have been started by them. With your pictures, we can prove it.

Gandhi and MLK proved that one can move political mountains with non-violent protest alone. Countless others have fallen on their swords trying to prove otherwise.

Passive Aggression

I agree with everyone that the job situation does not look good. Asians who have come here to work are returning back home where American 'outsourced' jobs are plentiful and gaining. Obviously, not one of Obama's policies does anything to help the economy. As I've stated many times before, Barack Hussein Obama is not stupid. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is a virus that has been deliberately introduced into the American body politic – Trojan horse style, if you wish – to infect it and to morph it into a neo-Marxist model.

The American people have also caught on. The entrepreneurs are keeping their powder dry. Small business is holding off expanding. Those who can afford it, are not working. Consumers are not buying. Yes, some of this is due to all the things we routinely mention: economic uncertainty, high taxes, government imposed regulation and crushing bureaucracy. I happen to believe that a lot of this is proactive on the part of Americans as well. They appear to have collectively decided that they will do nothing to help this current government succeed. They've resolved to sit on their hands and wait it out. They do not like where we’re being herded. They want this government to fail.

It goes way beyond the economy. The economy is just a convenient obvious measure by which administrations are commonly judged. Beyond that, most Americans abhor the political philosophy espoused by this administration. They mean to make their displeasure felt by not doing; holding back, by denying this government the tax money that is wantonly ripped away from them during every economic transaction.

We've become passive-aggressive. We see this as being the only thing we can do to get our country back. We understand that all the other (obvious) ways are booby-trapped. Marching (on Washington), for instance; tea parties; attempting to talk to elected representatives - all have resulted in being ignored, ridiculed, demonized and marginalized. Resorting to violence is the most dangerous course we could take. Americans know this instinctively. It would result in a clampdown followed by utter and complete chaos. Chaos would usher in the classic Marxist revolution. There is now considerable evidence that this may be the administration’s ultimate goal.

There is, however, a proven alternative: the Gandhian example: non-violence; passive resistance; not being a part of; not doing. This appears to be the strategy the American people have chosen. It is reflected in the economic numbers. It represents a sacrifice, to be sure; but if it serves to slow down this administrations ‘flat earth’ agenda, it may be well worth the effort.