WHERE FAITH GIVES REASON FOR ACTION
by
Tom Hoefling
http://forfreedomsway.wordpress.com/
For freedom’s way the patriots bled,
The crosses mark our honored dead.
More clearly than mere words e’er may
That field lays out their final say:
No greater love, they gave it all,
In answer to man’s highest call.
But don’t forget that most returned.
To them we owe esteem they earned.
And last of all, remember this:
Our LORD betrayed by one mere kiss.
For from within true danger lies,
Though carefully as friend disguised.
So fight my friend, from where you stand,
For freedom rides on every man.
E pluribus unum
During my service as an Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State under President Reagan, a quiet but constant tug of war went on between the Reagan conservatives and the Bush Republicans, though supposedly all of us were pulling in the same direction. My brief as Assistant Secretary for International Organizations (IO- the bureau that, among other things, keeps track of the goings-on at the United Nations) included implementing Reagan's policy of withholding U.S. contributions to the UN until real management reforms were agreed upon and carried forward. I also got involved with issues that reflected Reagan's principled pro-life stands, and his strong commitment to defend Israel from the Arab inspired lynch mob more or less permanently on call throughout the UN system during those years.
Apparently one of the more polite terms of opprobrium the Bush forces used to pan conservatives like me was that we were excessively "ideological". To tell the truth, I always wore the intended slight as a badge of honor, since it signified their reaction to my consistent efforts to make sure my actions served the ideas and principles Reagan stood for.
Meanwhile whether in or out of power the leftists who control the Democrat party have had no qualms about being "excessively ideological." While the Bush Republicans obligingly kept real conservatives running in place throughout their years of pre-eminence (while sopping them periodically with rhetoric and phony gestures of support), the Democrats looked for ways to promote their agenda of abortion, state atheism, and the erosive destruction of the traditional family (It's the major obstacle to totalitarian government control of the society.) Now that the leftists are surging with confidence, Obama shows no qualms about promoting "excessively ideological" extremists like Chas Freeman and Kathleen Sebelius to positions of controlling authority in the areas where they can do the most harm (from a conservative point of view.) Instead of running in place, they're poised to rush forward, like a good running back exploiting the chink of daylight that signals the way to at least a first down and who knows what more beyond that.
When are conservatives going to wake up and ponder the fact that the acronym for Running In Place is- R.I.P.
Apparently most of the people in Congress who voted on the so-called stimulus package had no time to read it, even superficially. That might seem like fodder for a late night comedy routine, until it occurs to you to wonder who did read it? After all, if the elected representatives of the people are just rubber stamping legislation prepared for them by others, its drafters are the ones dictating the decision. Congress sinks into the role reserved for the People's Congresses in places like North Korea or the now defunct Soviet Union. How quickly the substance of constitutional self-government is being turned into the perfunctory sham characteristic of stolid party dictatorships ruled from the background by a handful of unaccountable little despots.
How many Americans wake up every day longing to live under party dictators, worshiping at the altar of a propagandized personality cult, in a world where party hacks offer the only hope of relief from bureaucratic tyranny? All in exchange for a surfeit of meaningless sex and the license to kill your unwanted offspring.
I used always to think of places under communist yoke as regions languishing under perpetually cloudy skies. Actually though, it wasn't the sun's light it cut off, but the light of true human personality. Would any sane people exchange even the worst risks of life in freedom for such soul stifling banality? Will we?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's not a thought likely to occur to anyone thinking about the banking system these days. It's broke alright. Insolvency is the word of the day, along with that other word, nationalization. Funny how so many people who think the nation state has effectively ceased to exist when it comes to borders and immigration suddenly rediscover its powers when it's time to take over the banks.
"But Alan," you protest "we badly need a solution." Which, I reply, is not a good reason to accept a bad one. In fact , if things have gotten as bad as they say, maybe we should step back so as to let our thinking leap forward.
True, If it ain't broke, you don't fix it. But if it's really broke, you don't fix it either, you throw it away and replace it with something that works better. Instead of taking the bad logic of a failed centralized banking system to its logical conclusion (total centralization), replace the logic with something more suited to the twenty-first century. The twentieth century was all about bigger, more regulated and extensive organization. The hallmark of the twenty-first is the network, the model work-in-progress of which is the internet. It depends on decentralized, individual units, that reach out and form communities based on direct interaction and mutual assessment, rather than a centrally determined distribution of information (like a central bank's fixing the interest rate.)
If the present banking system is failing- let it fail. That's the first step in preparing the way for the emergence of twenty-first century financial networks. Instead of pretending that bankrupt governments can magically save a bankrupt system, accept the fact that the financial Titanic is sinking. Get people out of it, and use what resources we have to construct and launch the fleet of lifeboats in which they can distance themselves from the vortex it causes as it goes down. What I think we'll discover is that the new system we need will emerge from the resulting fleet, as we use twenty-first century tools to turn it into a floating net that won't be susceptible to the cascading disasters of the obsolete vessel. This deserves longer thought, which I give it in the essay Real Change Step Two: Replacing the Federal Reserve.
What signals the difference between a "socialist" and a "communist"? It's the gradual repression of political and civil liberty culminating in the open prosecution and suppression of dissident views. But this suppression cannot come about until a monopoly has been established over access to the seats of government executive and decision making power. The key manifestation of this monopoly is of course some form of party dictatorship.
Aside from all the evidence in his known background, associates, policy preferences and political actions one of the main reasons I make bold to call Obama a communist is his grab for unchecked partisan control over the conduct of the next census. Skillful manipulation of the census could make the decisive contribution to establishing an electorally unchallengeable party monopoly, which would then provide the basis for consolidating party dictatorship. If such dictatorship were not part of their agenda, the Obama faction would leave ultimate oversight of the census process where the Constitution places it, in the hands of the legislative branch. As it clearly is part of their agenda, only ignorance or willful stupidity blinds people to Obama's ambition to establish a better tailored version of Soviet-style government in the U.S.
Of course, there may be another name for what keeps some of the so-called Republicans from speaking out about it. Could it be cowardice?
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Everyone's fussing over whether the Alleged Usurper's stimulus plan will help or hurt the economy. Are they missing the point? Massive taxpayer resources are being pumped into Obama's powerbase. His cohorts grow stronger, while the larger economic impact of the plan makes everyone else weaker. Not much of a recovery plan, but a great strategy for securing power.
Then there are all those Hamas loving Palestinians he's using taxpayer money to bring to the U.S. After 9/11 the Palestinians danced in their streets. This time they won't have far to go to dance on our graves.
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I truly wish Alan Keyes is our President instead of BO. It's a shame John McCain ran instead.
Alan, please keep up your efforts.
When they get BO and his usurpers and supporters out of office, I pray you'll replace him as our President and appoint to replace all BO's fraudulent decisions.
God be with you and yours always.
Happy Labor Day to all.
Watched CBN news this morning - some people are saying parents are silly (the "White House" says this too) to be worried about the "president" speaking to children on their FIRST day of school. They say other presidents did that. Funny, but I went to school from four years old until I was 19. NEVER was I made to sit in a class and watch the president give a speech. NEVER. Not even in AP classes or once in college...
Excuse me, but in this day of ADD and ADHD, when is the last time you kept a third grader's attention for more than 37 seconds without an Ipod or touch phone used in the conversation??? Do children now have something they did not have when I was growing up - the knowledge to understand wisdom - even if it is EVIL wisdom (trickery) they are being forced to hear?
It is so funny to me that everything that the "government" cannot explain since they moved King Hussein into OUR White House (birth certificate, stimulus, czars, etc.) is labeled as silly or laughed at. There are only two cases where laughter is that acceptable - crazy as a loon or being a hyena...
I watched Dr. Keyes in this post and liked what I heard for the most part. I just think the government needs to keep their nose pretty much out of this. If they REALLY wanted to help, then they would set up protections for people that pay for years and then are denied help - like my dad was. Or have to wait for YEARS to get what they had paid tens of thousands of dollars for for many years - like my dad did. By then, the added stress of being denied or told to wait until you are worried you are going to lose your home can kill you - like it helped to kill my dad.
The government REFUSES to do the jobs specified in the Constitution, but ALWAYS comes up with NEW jobs to "keep them busy" and give them a platform. Yet, here we are in the middle of the biggest war in my lifetime, and we go on from day to day as if the biggest thing we have to worry about is "health care" (a ruse for monetary control & power) and our financial woes. If we do not win this war, and these people take over our government (which they already basically have with King Hussein in OUR White House) is all of this going to even matter? We will be riding camels and living in tents - those of us who make it through...
Does the mass majority of people in this country realize how close Iran is to having a nuclear bomb? Do the mass majority of Americans know that Iran could care less about our "health care" and financial woes when they decide to drop one and start a bigger war. Does the mass majority of Americans even stop to consider that these people have been waging war against us way before 9/11? Bleeding us dry and wearing us down...
"Health care" is just ANOTHER ruse to keep us in the dark and worried about things we cannot control as long as we sit idly by making speeches or writing letters so the "government" can pretend they are fighting a war that is obviously being lost. We do not even stand up for what is right in THIS country when it comes to the control that we have allowed the Muhammadans to wield. King Hussein PRAISED the accomplishments of Muhammadans in this country for Ramadan, but could not be heard on the National Day of Prayer - WHY???
You can freely read about "health care" in countries that worship Muhammad. They have abortion rights - it is called honor killing. Take the mother with the baby... it is even practiced over here in our "civil" society. Many other examples are out there to see how you receive top notch treatment in those countries...
If Americans that are ADULTS are so easily maneuvered and accept whatever TRASH we get as "leaders" (and we are and do) then what is going to happen to those weak minded children that are growing up in the age of Obama???????
I don't think we will have to worry about "health care..."
Dr. Keyes: Thank you for standing up courageously and consistently for the founding principles of our republic! As to Joe Wilson, the thought sneaked into my mind that it was rather appropriate - in an ironic sort of way - for a man from South Carolina to challenge the U. S. government. I seem to recall there was a little incident in 1861 . . . .
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