Do we Americans still care to be free? ~ Alan Keyes is LOYAL TO LIBERTY

Friday, November 13, 2009

Do we Americans still care to be free?

Here is my latest article at WND.com. When you've perused it, feel free to come back here and leave a comment.

8 comments:

nail-in-the-wall said...: Some Call it Freedom,..

The struggle only sharpens the thirst for Justice. –Alan Keyes “Does America Have a Future”

The basic struggle,… today is not between individualism and collectivism, free enterprise and socialism, democracy and dictatorship(totalitarianism) . These are only the superficial manifestations of a deeper struggle which is moral and spiritual and involves above all else whether man shall exist…for the state, or the state for man, and whether freedom is of the spirit or a concession (compromise) of a materialized society. It has not been given to every age in history to see the issue as clearly as it has been given to our own, for we have a double incentive to work for peace and prosperity of the world: the first is the Gospel in its fullness, the second is the communism of the (Soviet) state. The first teaches us that happiness comes from living rightly and just; the second misery comes from acting wrong. [Preface end-Communism and the Conscience of the West-1948 - Fulton J. Sheen]

If you want peace, work for Justice.- P. Paul VI

Some call it Freedom,... some call it Equity,... some call it Justice,... we call it the Just Third Way.

A citizen ownership movement, of growth and prosperity.

Started with Homesteading,
Moved to Employee Stock Ownership,
Now, Own the Fed,.. with Capital Homesteading.
(Ron Paul say's End the Fed. We say Own the Fed- With 'Declaration of Monetary Justice')

Yours in Justice
Guy c.

Just a nail in the wall – Isaiah 22(be a nail for Justice)

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"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

"The basic moral problem that faces man as he moves into the age of automation, the age of accelerating conquest of nature, is whether he is really fit to live in an industrial society; whether his institutions will adjust rapidly enough; whether he will rivet himself with an absurd institution like full employment in the economic order when it is not only unnecessary but unadministratable in anything but a slave society; whether freed from the necessity to devote his brain and brawn to the production of goods and services, he can address himself to the work of civilization itself." (pursuit of virtue-Happiness)(Louis O. Kelso, 1964)

Alan L. Keyes is a friend of "Expanded Capital Ownership" and so am I.

CESJ.org; November 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Tammy said...: I care to be free. I care that my children grow up free. Free to make their own mistakes and learn from them. Free to pave their own way in the world. Free to live a private life...free of cameras monitoring their every movement.

Hell yes, I care.

What bothers me is that I see so many conservatives being worn down by national events. They are in overload...and while they care....they are burned out. They have turned the light off, changed the channel...checked out.

I am sure it part of the progressives plan....and for many it is working. Not working on me...or my family.

Freedom is not something to ignore or take for granted. You snooze...you lose.; November 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Dawg_em said...: The question has been put forth; "Do we still want freedom?" And who will step forth? Both very important questions. Unforunately, the collective mindset is to look to others to represent our wishes. The "others" being the professional pols. It is demonstrably a failure. Both wings of the bird of prey are owned and controlled by the global elitists.

While the tea party movement is encouraging to see, it must be remembered the technical infrastructure is compromised. Not only are there wolves (neocons) in sheeps (conservatives) clothing, attempting to co-opt the "peasants with pitchforks", but the voting machines are a major obstacle to realizing true change in DC. Both must be scrupulously observed and monitored.

What is sad is, regardless of those deficiencies, we are fast approaching our last, best chance at a peaceful resolution. And those who put their faith in the present regime in Congress will be dismayed at how the country has been sold out. Will it be too late? Will we see foreign troops on our soil? Or will China or some other power disrupt our power grid and force us into complete dependency? Will the police and military stand with us or betray their oathes?

Personally, I am at the point where I am ready for whatever must come to pass. I am fearful however, of the death and destruction which will be visited upon the defenseless and innocent, as is the case in all war.

Come on, America. Awake from your slumber. Lest the nightmare begin.; November 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM
chiu_chunling said...: Well, realistically speaking, we're already in nightmare land. I mean...five years ago, could you even imagine it being as bad as it is now? Could you even have imagined it a year ago?

Whether or not this is your last chance, or even a realistic chance at all, it probably isn't the best chance. The final remaining option is rarely the best in any way other than being the only one left.

By all means, let it be tried. But do not place all your hope in the survival of your nation. Be ready to face the unthinkable, because it is more than likely to come to pass. A good bit of it already has.; November 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM
IONU said...: Historically, republics and democracies have an average lifespan of little more than 200 years.

Whether or not the intentionally dumbed-down "sheeple" awaken won't matter. The current inertia of the masses is being overcome by the unstoppable momentum of communist tyranny, so it won't make any difference (in terms of outcome) if you succumb to state control willingly and enthusiastically, or go down fighting.

Pessimism - or historic realism?; November 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM
DixHistory-dot-com said...: If our government can make anyone buy health insurance, we are no longer a free country!; November 13, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Lloyd said...: after Israel wondered in the desert for forty years a generation of people crossed the Jordan River who were strong in the Lord and took the Promised Land. Then as we read later on a generation who did not see the miracles in the desert and started behaving like liberals and little by little lost the promised land and became slaves to the Philistines.
The corporations, the Federal Reserve, and the government have rocked we the people to sleep with cars, boats, mp3 players, cellphones,and jewelry, with the help of rock and roll, and hollywood. They will not give up this power they have gained without a fight, just as the Philistines didn't give up their Hebrew slaves without a fight.
All Obama had to do to get elected was to promise that he would bring back the good times. Now that the grim truth is taking hold most of his former supporters are abandoning ship. Most of the people I talk to say that they made a mistake voting for him and regret it.
We the people are like a bunch of spoiled children. If Obama could just manage to bring back prosperity his landslide in the next election would be insured. In short we the people have forgotten that with liberty comes responsibility. Mr Keyes you have hit the nail on the head by asking do we really want liberty, or maybe you should have asked do we really want liberty or just prosperity?; November 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM
chiu_chunling said...: Well, you know what they say.

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take...our FREEDOM!"

Unless, you know, they use necromantic powers to reanimate us as their undead minions. Fortunately, I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.

At least, not very much.; November 14, 2009 at 6:38 AM

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THOUGHTLET-The Enemy of my Enemy is ?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I've never been sure the old maxim made much sense. It gives your enemies rather too much control over the identification of your friends. What's more, it allows people who really aren't your friends to identify themselves as such just by opposing your enemies. Doesn't that make it easier for your enemies to plant agents in your midst with no more effort than it takes to stage a phony brawl?
Because they live in such a hostile media environment, conservatives are all too willing to embrace any media voice that seems to take on their left wing opponents. But this means that at critical moments (particularly when it comes to personnel choices) they will be susceptible to information provided by people who have only been fighting with their enemies in order to get into a better position to do in the people whose sincerity, ability and leadership offer conservatives the greatest promise of success.
In this regard I have observed that the most important information conservatives can get from Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel is silence: the things and people Fox positively ignores. You can be sure someone you know to be conservative is standing firm for what's right when you can't remember the last time you saw or heard anything positive about them on Fox News. Think of all the reporting they've done on the issue of Obama's eligibility for the Presidency.
Listen to the silence. Better yet, learn from it.

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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

THOUGHTLET "A little thought (that) goes a long way."

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.

THOUGHTLET

As I consider the reaction to my statement that Obama is a communist, I realize how thoroughly the Obama faction's media claque takes advantage of the ignorance even of those who are supposed to be educated and sophisticated spokespeople for conservative views. In this respect I am somewhat disadvantaged by my relatively small stake in this ignorance when it comes to political theory and ideology. For instance, people tend to associate the term "communist" with the violent takeover of government and society. Yet a thoroughly committed communist like Italy's Antonio Gramsci developed an understanding of the nature of political control, and therefore the path to power over a society, far more sophisticated than Marx's economic determinism. (Or was it in fact a more sophisticated understanding of economics?) It was therefore better suited to understanding and exploiting the "ideological" (i.e., spiritual and moral) vulnerabilities of the opponents of communism. In particular, his theories allowed for far greater use of cultural influences (the news and entertainment media, churches and other religious institutions, movements like "gay rights" that contribute to the destruction of moral institutions like the family, etc.) than some people associate with the term "communism". They helped later leftists to understand, explain and avoid (by learning from and adapting the enemy's tactics) defeats like those that fascism inflicted on mid-twentieth century communism in Italy and elsewhere.
Reading Gramsci, one senses that he is looking at the intellectual framework for the Obama faction's secret strategic plan. As Sherlock Holmes knew, there's sometimes no hiding place more secure than one that is in plain sight. Especially in an era when the leftist takeover of education produces fewer and fewer people in each generation who bother to read books, especially the ones without pictures in them. (There's a good summary of Gramsci's thinking at http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-gram.htm)

THOUGHTLET

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?

THOUGHTLET

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.

THOUGHTLET

I think it's not an accident that the American founders spoke of the people as a body (that is an organic whole), but the leftist proto-totalitarians that tutor socialists like Obama speak of them as "the masses." A mass is composed of conceptually identical parts, whereas the body is an organic whole in which each part is defined and differentiated by its individual purpose with respect to the whole.
Is this why there are so many examples of totalitarian regimes that treat people as if they are mounds of dirt to be shaped and repressed, used or discarded (killed) without respect for their individuality? This totalitarian mentality finds a counterpart in the approach that claims to deal with human affairs scientifically, on the assumption that people are no different than other merely physical things.

THOUGHTLET

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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THOUGHTLET

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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Friday, November 13, 2009