Gun Violence, The Solution is Found in the Facts.
Opinion April 29, 2019
Gun Violence, The Solution is Found in the Facts.
Another shooting at a Synagog, this time in San Diego, in the Socialist State of California.
The radical Democrat party, determined to erase the 2nd Amendment from our US Constitution, promotes attacks against anything culturally significant as American, especially if it’s Jewish. A disarmed America is a safe America…for them. Total population control cannot be achieved so long as one free citizen remains armed. Because somebody shot back, an off duty Border Patrol officer in fact, that disrupted the killer, look for more armed parishioners in the pews.
With every shooting crime, the Democrats go nuts blaming conservatives and the NRA. It almost ranks up there disgustingly with Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics for dastardly deaths. The history of self-defense gun use in America, is long and reflective of human nature. Just plain ol’ violence with or without guns, has left a not too proud trail of corpses in its wake, not as much as the Democrat abortion clinics I think, but enough to make ‘em squeamish. But, let’s look at the historical record.
In 1865 a Democrat radical shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln. In 1881 a Democrat radical shot President James Garfield who later died as a result of his injuries. In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed President John F. Kennedy. In 1975 a Democrat left wing radical fired shots at President Gerald Ford.
In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan. In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant. In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office. In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office. In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen, TX. In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory. In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service. In 2001 a radical left wing Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill President George W. Bush. In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin manufacturing plant. In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung – Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.
More? In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others. In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, shot up a movie theater killing12 people. In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, another disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis. In 2013 a crazy registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a school in Newtown, CT. In 2013, Sept., an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard in Wash. DC.
Do we see a pattern here? Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns. Statistically, the long and tawdry list of attackers and murderers does not included one NRA, Tea Party member or conservative Republican, as involved in any of these shootings and ghastly murders. The medias rhetoric constantly favors the radical Democrats claims about the desperate need for “gun control” and, every time they open their mouths to moan and whine about gun violence, gun sales rise, new range facilities are opened and proper instruction in gun safety, firearms handling and good marksmanship is offered. Gun Control is a stable platform.
The media purposely never reports on the many, near daily incidents, where people have successfully defended themselves or their families from attackers using firearms. More violence however, comes in different packages, like automobiles, baseball bats and knives than by firearms. Nearly every assault using firearm in America has been at the hands of Progressive, Liberals or radicalized haters of America. The facts speak for themselves.
But, Democrats focus on “gun” violence” and their solution is to completely disarm all Americans, (except their body guards) and punish any who disobey. Clearly, what is the fastest solution to solving Gun Violence? It’s apparent: It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns!
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em!
The Failed “Putsch”
Opinion April 29, 2019
The Failed “Putsch”
The Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and the DoJ’s “Putsch” against President Trump, under Obama’s leadership, has failed! Mueller, after squandering $25 million dollars, more or less, and two plus years of valuable time, couldn’t close the deal for the Progressives that President Trump criminally conspired with the Russians to deny Hillary Clinton her rightful place as President. Because It never happened!
America has had only one political traitor who remains in the history books, Benedict Arnold. But, I think when the smoke clears after this tawdry Mueller business, the wreckage of the Deep State will be complete and a few more pages will be added to the history books on American traitors.
An hidden organization like a “Deep State” only works because people don’t want to be involved. They rely on their elected representatives to legislate, while obeying the Constitution in doing so. But, many low level functionaries in government, syncopates to Socialism, who occupy positions that make the machine work for the elites, are there to do their masters bidding or, do mischief if necessary.
Compliancy sets in, laws are ignored, illegal standards become rote and before you know it, Americans have gotten used to the slow changes that have overtaken their lives. Then came Trump, determined to Make America Great Again. The protected class, in their panic, couldn’t allow that and the leaders felt it their duty to put a quick end to the obstructionist. And they couldn’t! So, with the final conclusion of the Mueller investigation, a new door opens. Americans will be shock with the revelations that are coming.
When a “Putsch” fails and the players are exposed for their treachery, then their former victim(s), Trumps administration, are entitled to use that very apparatus of government, and the very law that the traitors employed, to set about to repair the damage by ripping out the bitter weed of Socialism by its very roots.
The focus now is on outraged judges of the FISA Court. They now know the FBI lied to them and that is the starting point for Trumps swamp draining exercise. We haven’t heard much from that quarter yet, but believe me, a whole bunch of Judges are so outraged and betrayed by former FBI Director Comey, CIA Director Brennan, DoJ’s Sally Yates, McCabe, et.al. that, figuratively, heads will roll. The misuse of the FISA court was central to Obama’s governmental abuse of power. To weaponized his governments intelligence and law enforcement agencies to go after domestic political enemies, is the “Putsch. “ That it was done by a political party that is all-in for Marxism, reveals how close to disaster America actually ventured. In the end, the machinations of the plotters was so clumsy, so inept, that one must step back in awe and wonder if any of the legitimate work they may have done to protect America from foreign spy’s, was effective.
Obama’s DoJ and FBI, were the biggest abusers of power I’ve seen in my lifetimes. If the highest levels of government felt free to trample over the process by which presidents are elected, think what it could do to us deplorable’s..It has already affected Carter Page and Paul Manafort. If a newly elected President can be hounded by unelected elites from within the government, then we’re not safe at all, none of us, This is Orwell’s world of Big Brother, the world Hillary Clinton would have reveled in if she was president.
We now hear silly comments about ‘apologies.’ Nonsense! It’s too late for Apologies. Any given should be ignored by the President, and indeed, I suspect if he could, the perpetrators would be headed for a firing squad. That is the only remedy left to stop the Progressives cold in their scurrilous plans to fundamentally change America. The sure fear of execution for treason is a neutralizer for future politicos who think the American system is out of date and should be changed, by them.
Over two years of orchestrated defamatory allegations against Trump were based on lies, deceit, fake news, anonymous sources and leaks, and should not endear apologies. Two things are clear. The fourth estate, the media, complicate in this ordeal, is corrupt and its leadership also needs to be purged; and our systems of higher education, controlled by socialist unions, needs to be cleansed.
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way, so, let’s go do something about it.
Just Cut it Out
Opinion April 22, 2019
“Just Cut it Out”
I was flabbergasted when I read a comment, by a CNN reporter of all people, who wrote: “the Mueller report looks bad for Obama.” It was an opposing opinion (Op-Ed) by Scott Jennings, who I presume may soon be looking for a new situation.
The reason he said it is not because it was a revealed secret or a passed over comment found in some obscure document, but because it stemmed from a comment that fell from the lips of former President Obama himself, that seals the deal. When Obama learned the Russian’s were really hacking or trying to hack into American internet systems, and was asked about it in a public news conference, passed the issue off by acknowledging he knew about it and told Russia’s Premier Putin: “to just cut it out.” And that was the end of that, until the Mueller Report came out this week concluding an investigation that began in 2014.
That so called investigation of 2014 was, in fact, the first action pre-emptive assault to protect Obama’s legacy from Republican attacks, like a “frogmen” sneaking up on a beach before an attack to lay traps and collect information. Mueller’s appointment, after Trump became President, was akin to the noisy beach landings of a full force attack on the enemy. As it turns out the enemy is us, or at least those designated to protect us, the FBI, DoJ, DCI and the IRS.
This all happened on Obama’s watch. He cannot deny it and the press won’t report it, but Scott Jennings did and he pulled the scab off the wound. If Hillary had won, It wouldn’t have made any difference, but she didn’t, and now it’s the SHTF moment and it’s fun watching the rats scurrying for cover. DC is the place now for a good lawyer to sharpen his spurs. $$$$!
Apart from the Mueller Report exonerating our President from accusations of colluding with the Russians and interfering with a criminal investigation (obstructing justice), just what have we learned? Well, Obama’s incompetence as a President for a start. His inept posture toward Russia’s Putin, driven by his criminal behavior in his nuclear negotiations with Iran, even to bribing them with billions in ransom money under the guise of repayment of their own impressed funds, a deal that was a singularly disastrous foreign policy act which President Trump recognized immediately as inimical to the best interests of America and ended. So was Obama’s Arab Spring nonsense, his Libyan disaster, his Fast & Furious debacle and Obamacare, among others.
People are going to prison. Bet on it! In their earnest efforts to find, or create a crime which they could hang on Trump to impeach him, the FBI and the DoJ exposed themselves to be as equally inept as criminals as Obama was a president. Their very acts over two years doubtless must fall within the definition of a “conspiracy to commit treason.” Who can deny it, yet, the feckless Democrats, as all villains are want to do when they lose, attack the messenger.
AG, Bill Barr didn’t investigate Trump or his campaign, Mueller did! FBI Dir. Comey, conspiring with his henchmen, McCabe, Strzok, Lynch, Page, Brennen, Clapper, & et.al., launched the coup attack against Trump as a full fledged assault to disallow the vote of the American people. That was criminal. Even at this very minute Democrat dumbass, Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, continues to insist that Trump colluded with the enemy and he had proof. Where is it and what was this whole exercise really about, anyway? There is no proof. It was an exercise in hiding Obama’s incompetence and his administration’s failures. So, to you Democrats, I say: “just cut it out!”
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em!
Biden and Son
Opinion April 10, 2019
BIDEN AND SON
Traditionally the United States, in an effort to stabilize countries with warring factions, has long since adopted the habit of funding terror, the idea being that we pick the “lessor of two evils” and try to push out the worst evil by supporting its’ opposition.
The funding of any and all terrorist groups should stop. At the very least, the US should be more prudent of whom it is funding. Our investment in Afghanistan vs. the Russians seemed to initially pay off, but later gave us a sucker punch in the form of 9/11/2001.
That being said, another group the US has funded are the rebels in Ukraine. There is a separatist movement in eastern Ukraine that has gained and lost momentum. This group is in an ongoing conflict with the Ukrainian government.
The most ironic thing about our funding of these rebels is coincidental hiccup with Burisma Holdings Ltd, a natural gas company tied to ousted Ukrainian president, Victor Yanukovych.
Paul Manafort and Richard Gates worked in the Ukraine as unregistered agents for Victor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions, during which time they accrued millions of dollars which they moved around in various ways to avoid paying taxes. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yanukovych-manafort-indictment-trump_n_59f72e5ae4b03cd20b82fe20
A former Ukrainian Parliamentary lawmaker, Nikolai Zolochevsky, previously a member of Yanukovych’s Party of Regions and his minister of environmental resources, minister of ecology and natural resources, as well as the deputy secretary of the Ukrainian National Defense Counsel, until Yanukovych was ousted, has control of Burisma Holdings Ltd.
Interestingly, Hunter, the son of Joe Biden, former vice president, and Devon Archer, college roommate of Christopher Heinz, the stepson of John Kerry joined the board of Burisma Holdings Ltd. Both Biden and Archer are employees of Rosemount Seneca Partners, a U.S. investment company tied to Rosemont Capital, a private investment firm that Archer and Heinz founded.
This isn’t the first or the worst of this misalliance of the children of public figures.
Their firm struck a one billion dollar investment deal called Bo Hai with the Bank of China.
Ironically, the Bank of China is literally funding a business co-owned by the sons of two powerful politicians in the United States. https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/a
The Bank of China is unlike American banks as China has ownership of the bank. A deal with this bank is a direct connection to Communist China.
Of course, Hunter Biden et al, are private citizens and can accept employment wherever they find opportunity. It seems that being highly connected often brings a great deal of opportunity sometimes. It certainly appears to be a plus, even though there has been some question of an extreme conflict of interest.
The sale of natural gas is a source of conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The Ukrainians purchase the bulk of their natural gas from the Russian government majority owned gas company, Gazprom. They feel that the prices were raised to Ukraine as a punishment for wanting a closer association with the European Union.
Vice President Biden visited the Ukraine in April of 2014 to offer U.S. expertise in expanding their natural gas production. Did he register as a foreign agent or did he use his position as Vice President to exert influence on the Ukrainian country?
Is he any different than Paul Manafort? That remains to be seen, but it is possible that this man, who is now steeped in controversy about his handsy ways with women and young girls, could be the leading Democratic nominee for President?
It is a disturbing thought.
Beware The Serpent Selling Apples
Opinion April 8, 2019
Beware The Serpent Selling Apples
No matter how the package is wrapped, how sweet and sensible sounding the charming words that fall from candidates lips are, always keep in mind the end goal of the Democrat party is to destroy America’s representative government, its constitution and its values, to create in its place another failed Communist empire but, on a world wide scale. The Democrat party is now totally Socialist and moving rapidly further to the left as more radicals infiltrate its ranks.
One such serpent is the former mayor of South Bend Ind. Greg Buttigeig, a sweet talking, sensible sounding, young politician, with administrative accomplishments in his resume’. But, he’s still a gay Democrat! Unlike the rest of their cast of characters who presume to be Presidential material and firmly linked to the radical philosophy of the Democrat party, Buttigeig is not and that makes him dangerous. Like the snake dispensing forbidden apples, he could win!
The other Democrat candidates lining up for their party’s primary approval are exposed as rotten apples having already employed the party’s pernicious techniques of spreading lies, falsehoods and innuendo’s against anyone and everyone who does not tow their ‘politically correct’ line, whether they be bloggers on internet sites, network news readers, entertainers, other politicians or simply folks who write their concerns to their local newspaper editor.
Among the more visible Nimrod’s with presidential aspirations are the three B’s of political fantasy: Beto, the Irish Mexican, Biden the Elder of the free hands, and long past his shelf life due date, and Bernie, the house hoarding socialist. All are open to examination.
Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, aka: Roberto Francisco O’Rouke will, like a single candle in the wind, soon be puffed out because he say’s idiotic things. But one must wonder, by what measure of competence did he manage to snatch six plus million dollars out of the ether on the first day of his announcement? How about George Soros? It simply cannot be true that the multitude of “deplorable’s” in fly over country, all at once, ponied up that much cash, in a single day, to start his campaign for president. Something’s amiss here, for sure and it ain’t apples.
The rapidity of amassing a campaign chest of that magnitude from individual donations, is clearly not in the cards. Unquestionably the stipends came in the form of gracious endowments by progressive billionaires who see in ‘Beto’ the best bet of a Democrat replacing Donald Trump. I don’t think they really believe it can happen though, until 2024, so this is preparation only, a test run as it were, like polishing up that ol’ apple.
Improbably, should “Beto’ win the Democrat Primary, I can hardly wait for the first debate. One wonders what nickname Trump will permanently affix to Beto’s persona, ya know, like he did to “Little Mario,” and “Low Energy Jeb,” that sort of thing? But, Beto is perceived as popular and he ran a near race against Ted Cruz (a legitimate Latino), for Texas Senator, losing by three points. Should we hold a contest for a best nick name for “Beto?”
A quiet hush fell the other day, news wise, after an honest Reuters journalist revealed that years ago, Beto harbored a deep pathological problem about killing little children playing in the street with his car. A pre-campaign revelation of this nature should crush poor Beto like an order of refried beans in a taco shell. It was also revealed he was a member of a youthful gang of intellectual “hackers” who did much damage. So, we can presume I suppose, he has a good technological mind even if it does involve running down little children on the street with his car.
Remember freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way, Now, go get ‘em!
Social Engineering America to Death
Opinion April 3, 2019
Social Engineering America to Death
Social engineering schemes, such as the Progressive followers of Saul Alinsky (Democrats), keep applying by following his Rules for Radicals, constitute the deliberate and illegal attempt to change our society and our culture to meet societal norms that lay far outside the guidelines of the US Constitution. Indeed, Progressives firmly believe America is the center of all the world’s evils and the US Constitution that supports it, stands as an impediment to world social justice and must be done away with, one amendment at at time, if necessary.
Case in point, the constant progressive attack against the 2nd Amendment. It is the one defense Americans possess that can prevent the radical takeover of America. We also see a vigorous attack on our 1st Amendment rights coming from several fronts. Look at the first line”: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” That’s it, yet Progressives scream government(s) cannot recognize prayer, posting of the Ten Commandments or support Christian based activities because of some non-existent “Separation of Church and State” nonsense that’s not in there. As often as I have read that sentence, I’m still unable to lay my finger on any word that prohibits government from supporting or participating in any religious activity, not monetarily of course, but morally. Yet the “Left” persists on insisting that the ‘separation of church and state’ is a point of law not to be violated and we believe ‘em!
What the 1st amendment does state, unequivocally, is that Government shall not establish an official state church, a reaction to the religious turmoil that plunged Great Britain into bloody conflict for generations. That will become a mute point of course, when adherents of Islam start rising as elected government officials to the point they will, by their sheer numbers alone, out number and out vote non-muslims (infidels) and replace the Constitution with Sharia Law.
Free speech is also under attack, not so subtly, by the media, Facebook and Twitter crowd simply by not posting conservative opinions. The radical take over of many colleges and universities forbid Conservative speakers on campus. They will assault conservative students dispensing Trump hats, etc., and are encouraged by school administrations to do so. The Radicals have so scared college administrations with the threat of violence, most officials, if not already radicalized, dare not complain. If Conservatives assemble peaceably, they are attacked by radical goon squads (antifa’s, BLM) and even made to look like the conservatives started it.
Presently, Congressional Democrats adamantly refuse to protect our borders from invasion by the hoards of peons from Mexico and Central America, schooled to ask for ‘asylum.’ Suborning this invasion is to support social engineering designed to increase Progressives voter rolls. Now, the southern invasion is overwhelming the CBP’s efforts to stem the tide, another Alinsky rule, they will soon overwhelm our financial ability to support ‘em as well. Asylum requests should only be heard at US Embassy’s and Consulates, not at borders.
Why do we need to accept them? Because Democrats insisted “it was the thing to do, it’s who we are,” drawing on our sympathies as Americans who are always ready to help the poor and destitute, while they gun down, rape and murder our own citizens. That day, I believe, is soon coming to an end. We cannot afford to support other countries citizens. That doesn’t matter to Democrats. They’ll simply say take the funds from Defense and, you’re racist if you don’t! Trump will not do that, but he’ll take the funds from those countries we are already supporting.
Our banking laws are a hinderance to the control of unwanted foreign populations demanding to stay here because they’re already here. All foreigners here should be required to establish American banking accounts. No money sent abroad without an American bank account.
For example, If an American retires to Mexico, the retiree(s) cannot continue to maintain their American bank accounts. They must open a Mexican bank account. Why don’t we do that? Why can we not forbid the telegraphing of cash money orders via Wester Union to foreign countries, without going first through American Banks? Control the money and you control the population.
If we stopped financial support to them when they do get here, the monetary draw to come would cease. Those already here illegally, should be advised they have three months to sell their property, keep the receipts and return to their home countries or, the American government will do it for them and keep the proceeds to help defray the cost of their evacuation.
Finally, I want to know by what measure illegals are entitled to my Social Security money, my medicare benefits and our tax money for their education and housing. That was a Progressive Democrat idea, because “we’re good people and mean well.” Turn off the money spigot at all levels and the invasion(s) will cease. We owe these people nothing!
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em!
Witness To Evil
Opinion February 27, 2019
Witness To Evil
In the most shocking vote I’ve ever witnessed taken by the Congress, the Stalinists Democrat Party have thrown off any pretense of being civilized, caring, empathetic, loving or law abiding. They are the creepy zombies who kill anything they touch and if they can’t kill it themselves, they’ll make it happen by legislation. Do they have a mandate because they won the House?
They voted Monday evening to deny the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to live born infants under the Abortion Survivors Protection Act. That was despicable! Who are these Stalinists cretins who want to kill every living thing except condemned prisoners, that believe they have a mandate to govern and demand we accept the continued brutalization of society?
Only three Democrat Senators voted for Sen. Ben Sass’ s (R-Neb) infant protection act and I suspect because they face re-election or popularity problems, most certainly Doug Jones of Alabama, a fill in candidate embraced by the Never Trumpers to defeat Judge Roy Moore whose reputation was trashed by the RiNO’s collaboration with the Stalinists. They should beware because what goes around comes around. Sens. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), were the other two. Republicans absent were Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-ND.), Tim Scott (R-SC.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Ak), due to transportation problems.
Here are the words of Sen Sass’s simple act: The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would have required that “any health care practitioner present” at the time of a birth “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.” The bill, which exempted the mother involved in the birth from prosecution, also would have required practitioners to “ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.” It prescribed a possible term of imprisonment of up to five years for violations, not including penalties for first-degree murder that could have applied.
I always had a notion that the Hippocratic Oath meant something to medical practitioners, but apparently no longer, so long as the Stalinists demand otherwise. President Trump, in his straightforward way, commented on the vote: “Senate Democrats just voted against legislation to prevent the killing of newborn infant children. The Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies after birth,” he tweeted. “This will be remembered as one of the most shocking votes in the history of Congress. If there is one thing we should all agree on, it’s protecting the lives of innocent babies.”
The Stalinists claim walls are immoral but ripping the body parts out of a newborn infant isn’t? Our hope is, as Americans, that these peace loving politicians themselves should spend a part of their day, everyday, visiting the halls of Abortion Gulags to oversee their handiwork, infants being slaughtered around them and then asking “what have I done?”
Does the Stalinist Democrat Party, now out in the open and expose as the abetters of death they have become, really believe they have a hold on the future? Are newborns to be considered carbon-footprints and every third one killed? To whom are the fresh body parts sold, and why? Who suggested the motive for harvesting bits and pieces of infants? And, with this vote, sure to be vetoed, could Kermit Gosnell demand a retrial? Does this despicable act rise to the level of the now banned practice of clubbing to death baby seals? Just asking.
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em!
Ringworm and Green Education
Opinion February 26, 2019
Ringworm and Green Education
In another stupid comment showing her intolerance of and prejudice for us Southern folks, Ocasio-Cortez demands that everyone should be covered by medicare, “because children in Alabama, she say’s, have ringworm and no one there to treat them.” Whoa, I didn’t know!
She could as easily have said “that children in New York (upstate, of course) have ringworm and there’s no one up there to treat them,” couldn’t she? It’s not because she a gifted bartender, or a cute dancer or that she’s Puerto Rican that she says such intolerantly ignorant things. No, it’s because she was taught to believe these thing in the socialist brainwashing centers called US colleges and universities. My guess is she has never visited the South and probably never will except under protective guard. Oh darn, I forget.The Mason-Dixon line does put Maryland in the South, doesn’t it? That aside, she’ll only say, her comment was “taken out of context.” Naw!
I cannot tell you how unimpressed I am with the breed of new leaders emerging from their scholastic cocoon’s to impress us with how smart they think they are. But, I have to ask, why do educated illiterates like comrade AOC, think that ringworm is a contagion only in Alabama? Is it because she believes Alabama is in the South and Southerners are therefore, mostly ignorant bible thumping, gun toting white people prone to illness, scurvy, scabies, hate, malnutrition, rednecks and ringworm, end up in the KKK and haven’t made amends since the Civil War yet?
To understand the changes going on we must realize the political terminology has been changed and we didn’t see it coming. In today’s new society they are not communists, but environmentalists and the Green New Deal is their catechism. Environmentalism is the new Marxism and it demands that industry should move swiftly away from fossil fuels that pollute the earth, and causes ringworm in Alabama, and embrace their cockamamie ideas that cost more to install and run than simply scrubbing coal dust before it enters the atmosphere. Simple!
The unvarnished truth is socialism, even in the guise of environmentalism, always fails. For example, two highly touted environmentalist programs, initiated and operated at great costs, i.e.: the California high speed train to nowhere and the giant windmill eagle blenders polluting the visual as well as the natural habitat of America’s open spaces, are already becoming liabilities to the investors that installed them and the environmental who demanded them.
California’s white elephant, the train to no where, is just that. Gov. Gavin Newsom, of the Great Socialist State of California, after having left San Francisco, where he was mayor, in a feces filled, drug infested shambles, reckons he needs more funds to impose more socialist programs on all Californians, so he abandoned AOC’s dream, the High Speed train as a financial liability leaving all American tax payers to hold the bag. Or, maybe not. Donald Trump now demands the Federal Government’s investment, all of it, be returned to the US Treasury, forthwith. You know what? He’ll get it too because Gov. Newson is a stupid Socialist who clings to the “we meant well” and “it feels good” mantra all Socialists use when they fail.
The windmills, now polluting the western prairies where I go every season, cost more in power to keep ‘em from freezing in the bitter cold months of winter, than they produce in usable energy. Residents of Falmouth, Mass., conned into accepting the wind power scheme, are now turning them off for health reason as well as for inefficiency. Who’s going to pay to take ‘em down. The western plains are littered with this junk and the costs of inefficiency are passed down to the rate payers and eventually to all Americans. Loser should pay the clean up costs.
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em!
Injustice Personified
Opinion December 14, 2018
I’m dumbstruck when I consider all the money authorized and wasted by the Republican
controlled congress over the past two years, on the baseless Trump-Russia collusion fallacy
when the low hanging fruit of the Clinton’s RICO reeking cabal that is Bill and Hillary’s self
sustaining charitable foundation offers such low hanging fruit so ripe for the picking that even
the most incompetent federal prosecutor, even one with a mail order degree, could win.
The avowed criminal, former FBI Director James Comey, by his own admission, is one of those
low hanging fruits ready for easy harvesting. He should be a “slam-dunk” for prosecution. So is
Andy McCabe and Peter Strzok, Bruce Orr and the several previously disgraced attorneys
serving on Mueller’s team of Trump hating investigators. (Sen Stevens R-AK)
Now that Pelosi and her stable of mindless idiot socialists are soon to take over the House, the
GOP has finally decided, in its last three weeks of existence, to consider the crimes of the
Clinton Foundation ignored by the DoJ, and investigate ‘em themselves. It’s all Nonsense!
Pushed for time the GOP has now decided they had better look like they are doing something to
appease the base. But remember, most of these people are still part of the “uni-party’ that is the
deep state, many of them still hate Donald Trump.
Taking down the Clintons should be easy via her foundation. Hillary, the driving force of her
foundation’s corruption, unfortunately, lacks the people skills that should keep the little people
under her, the now mass of whistleblowers coming forward, from turning “states evidence” and
dropping a dime. Many have physical evidence proving her corruption and now we learn that
one whistleblower has been the recipient of a late night FBI search warrant. Why was that? He
already gave them everything he had. It was to shut him and other whistleblowers up.
The mafia does that for their own security except they don’t take chances; the whistleblower is
usually killed publicly, for all to see so that other witnesses will readjust their commitment to law
and order. Right now, a bunch of former Clinton employees, State Dept. employees and others,
who Hillary held in contempt as simply “little people,” servants beneath her dignity, are ready to
dump on her. So, let’s get it going.
The former senior executive levels of the FBI, Director James Comey, and his associates,
considered themselves sacrosanct when it comes to enforcing the law of the United States,
except when the law interferes with their own needs. At the moment, they want Trump out of
office before they lose everything and, hiding behind the facade of counterintelligence, they set
about fabricating a case against Donald Trump, because he won and their favorite, Hillary
Clinton, didn’t. That is injustice personified and corruption at its most apparent.
One of their early targets was Trumps National Security advisor, Lt. Gen. Flynn, former Director
of the DIA, with a distinguished thirty-year army career. Through ruse and subterfuge, they
tricked the general into making statements, not under Miranda warning, that they claimed were
lies. Lying to the FBI constitutes a serious crime if nothing else can be proven. It now appears
the Federal judge involved in the Flynn case has serious doubts about the FBI’s handling of the
Flynn case. Flynn pled ‘guilty’ just to avoid bankruptcy but, none the less, he was left near
destitute, in penury. That’s injustice personified. What do we learn from this tawdry business?
Stay out of politics? Perhaps! Trust the judiciary to do the right thing or absolutely never, ever
speak to or trust the FBI? All apply.
Remember, Liberty is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (13Dec18)
Who Controls the Press Corps?
Opinion November 9, 2018
Clearly, daily White House press corps gatherings are losing their allure and their effectiveness.
Thrill seekers disguised as reporters or worse, journalists, primarily of the Liberal-Progressive
bent, are intent on making themselves the news by challenging the press secretary’s every
comment including her weight, size, candor and/or her intelligence, not to mention the President
himself, not by asking questions pertinent to current issues but by taking irresolute stands
contrary to the facts and demanding answers even when told to sit down and shut up. Their
obnoxiousness is mind numbing and the whole business should be abandoned.
The White House controls the news briefings not Jim Acosta or the other Liberal creatures
dedicated to the Presidents destruction. These people are functionally illiterate, solely dedicated
to challenging the administration at any and every level of the daily news cycle, intent only on
becoming famous themselves.
Perhaps this daily event should no longer be televised, just audio recorded. Perhaps a bulletin
board could be erected on the street where daily items of interest can be posted by a WH press
staffer. Many even a chap with a bell, at noon, crying “hear ye, hear ye,” I don’t know, but this
crazed media frenzy has gotten out of hand and needs to be returned to civility or abandoned.
So, what is the news? Thousands of immigrants in a caravan, declaring their intentions to seek
amnesty in America, do constitute an invasion. The Liberal press spends their face time on such
trivial matters challenging the president directly as to his definition of what’s an invasion. I know
what one looks like, don’t you? While America faces challenges from winning Democrats,
determined to make America Socialist, the silence that falls from the normally boastful democrat
side is ignored. What do they know that we don’t? Something big is going on out there and it’s
being ignored for who defines what constitutes illegal immigrants.
These WH press people, in the face of more news of mass shootings by one deranged person,
will challenge gun laws as ineffective while ignoring the deranged person. They don’t want a
solution, they want an issue to thrash the president with and gun laws don’t do it anymore.
Other interesting happenings all but ignored by the WH press corps was AG Jeff Sessions
departure, his temporary replacement, who is to be the new US Ambassador to the UN, who’s
the new WH lawyer? what’s the view on the potential inditement’s soon to flow against the multi-
level layers of Obama’s hangers-on still in government who have, and still are, actively engaged
against the government?
The post-election news cycle revealed, but isn’t discussed, the fact that every candidate
Trump stumped for won their election because the candidate threw in with a successful
president; and every candidate Obama stumped for, lost. Everyone! That should be newsworthy
. It might explain why the Democrats aren’t boasting as they usually do.
Speaking of which, Nancy Pelosi faces imminent danger. First, she entering a realm of extreme
dementia as her performance at press conferences demonstrate. Coherent thought, recall of
people, places and things turn into babble and she faces a hostile democrat cacuse of young
leftists determined to replace her before she sinks the little hope remaining for survival the
Democrats achieved in their retaking the house. The 2020 presidential re-election campaign has
commenced. The media failed in bringing Trump down in his first two years. What’s next”
Stayed tuned. Remember, freedom is the goal the constitution is the way. Go, get ‘em (8Nov18)
Birth Rights, To Be or Not To Be?
Opinion November 1, 2018
The Democrat tergiversation of their once rock-solid position on illegal immigration and how to
protect our country from it is so shameful that it shocks the very foundations of our long and
respected adherence to republican constitutionalism. The shame! The Left isn’t shamed!
Good ol’ Harry Reid, the hypocrite, when he was Senate Majority Leader, once spoke out
eloquently on the subject saying that America had a duty to protect its borders and should do so
by changing the law to forbid the idea of anchor babies as legitimate American citizens as the
14th amendment was then, and still is, interpreted. “If you grant citizenship to children of parents
who have no lawful right to be in the United States, you’ll get more would-be parents attempting
to enter the United States unlawfully.” Thousands are approaching our border right now.
Harry even wrote a law for consideration. Reid’s 1993 proposal was intended to try to change
the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment by an Act of Congress, i.e.: a law. The basis of
Reid’s proposal was to: “declare that any person born after the date of enactment of this title to
a mother who is neither a citizen of the United States nor admitted to the United States as a
lawful permanent resident, and which person is a national or citizen of another country of which
either of his or her natural parents is a national or citizen or is entitled upon application to
become a national or citizen of such country, shall be considered as born subject to the
jurisdiction of that foreign country and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States within
the meaning of section 1 of such Article and shall therefore not be a citizen of the United States
or of any State solely by reason of physical presence within the United States at the moment of
birth.” Well, obviously that didn’t catch hold but, if it had it would have then presented another
problem for the flip-flopping Democrats, how to get rid of it.
Senator, Barak Obama, once defended actions that would deny America birthrights to children
of illegal gate crashers. Then he signed DACA. How do you spell hypocrisy? Democrat?
Trump tossed out a signal that he would cease the practice of legalizing anchor babies born in
America to illegal mothers by executive order and, predictably, the left and its media went nuts
again. Trump is trolling them and they rise to his bait. There is an old saying that cautions:
“Never argue with an idiot because he’ll drag you down to his level and beat you to death with
his experience.” That might as well be said for Donald Trump. Don’t try to argue with him or
match him in the field of hardball argument. You’ll lose and look stupid doing it.
One of the arguments now rising asks how Trump’s Supreme Court would handle this issue if
the Congress actually passed a law forbidding the legitimation of birthright babies as US
citizens. It is suggested they would take their good time in serious debate and consideration and
probably find the law unconstitutional. In fact, an 1800’s era Supreme Court actually did so. But,
as constitutionalists, we know that can change because we also know that Roe vs. Wade is
unconstitutional and will, hopefully someday soon, find itself on the ash heap of liberal mistakes.
I mean, murder is murder, isn’t it? How does a potential real US citizen have the opportunity to
experience the constitutional guarantees of Life, Liberty and pursuit of happiness if they are
shredded in the womb before they even have the chance to find out? Just asking!
The Supreme Court cannot change the Constitution, only the laws that do not fit within its
construct. But, neither can they legislate. That’s not their job. This issue highlights the problem
of judicial activism that is the real danger to America. Maybe we can kill two birds with one
stone! Remember, freedom is the goal, the constitution is the way. No, go vote! (31Oct18)
NOBODY LIKES YOU
Opinion October 25, 2018
According to the news media, no one likes Trump. Women hate Trump, African
Americans hate Trump, Latinos and on and on it goes.
That is why it is strange when the news shows a Trump Rally.
The arena is packed cheek by jowl in supporters. All are waving signs like Women for Trump,
Blacks for Trump etc. Outside the administration has to put up big screens like at a rock concert
for the overflow of people who will not fit in the venue.
In fact, for the Cruz rally in Texas, President Trump had to move to a larger event center in order
to accommodate the “unprecedented demand for tickets.”
Of course, no one does size like Texas, but the rally filled the Toyota Center in Houston and had
a huge tailgate/picnic of followers outside watching the screens.
If it is as Rosie O’Donnell says and these people are paid to attend, that must get pretty pricey.
(I have attended one of his rallies. I didn’t get a dime. I did get harassed by the protestors of
which the police politely watched. Later, I listened to the evening news and learned that there
were copious quantities of protestors and very few attendees to the rally. I saw about 150
protestors and the venue was full in every seat, plus the open floor was crammed with people as
well.)
Those two who will not go away, the also-rans, Obama and Southern border have had less
success in drawing a crowd lately.
In September, even in liberal California, Obama was only able to draw seven hundred and fifty
people to his ant-Trump rally in Anaheim.
Yes, a long time ago, before the public realized that he was smooth talking, treacherous, empty
promises, bag of wind, Obama could also draw quite a few people. Actions, which always speak
louder than words, must have betrayed him and perhaps his base has fled to the new prosperity
that America is enjoying now.
Hillary never could fill a venue when she was running for president anyway. The photographers
had to push all the people into a corner at times to get a shot of a “crowd.”
The media is in constant denial of the obvious difference in the number of people who are drawn
to these rallies.
Last Tuesday, the day after a Trump rally, CNN was running a tape that read,” Trump tells lies
and spreads fear before the election.”
Trump was referring to a “caravan” of about 5000 or so people headed for out Southern border.
So far, the group has grown in size exponentially. They have crashed through the borders of
Guatemala and Mexico. The governments there seem unable to stop them.
Trump suggests that perhaps the Democrats and George Soros had something to do with the
funding of the mass of people. That is his supposed “lie.”
However, it gives all the appearance of being a true statement.
Has anyone heard the first word or peep from the Democrats against this invasion?
NOTHING, NOT ONE WORD!
It is not a caravan of poor immigrants, humbly seeking asylum in order to be free.
No, when a foreign body comes bearing the flag of their country, cursing the President saying
“f*** Trump” to reporters and demanding entrance, it is an INVASION!”
These people appear well fed, they are clean and well dressed. They are purchasing merchandise
like televisions and food along the way. They are being bussed and given transport.
Where is all the money coming from to finance this venture?
The President has said he will deport regular troops to the border if necessary to stop these
people from coming across our borders.
All the bleeding heart liberals are complaining and wanting to be compassionate. They say the
President doesn’t have the right to deploy troops in defense of the border.
This is incorrect!
In 1952, The Immigration and Nationality Act was passed by Congress, clause 2012 of this bill
gives the President the power to use US troops as necessary to keep foreigners out of the United
States.
It is the primary responsibility of the President to protect the citizens of the United States.
It is rumored that criminals and others with a nefarious agenda are numbered among the group
moving to the border.
If the Mexican government fails to stop this flow of people, President Trump will have no choice
but to stop it with force.
Other than Nancy Pelosi and some of her minions, most people want this surge stopped.
The United States cannot support the world or allow people who are either up to no good, or just
want a free ride to destroy our economy and nation.
“And, Here Comes Baraky! “
Opinion September 10, 2018
Sorry, but using Johnny Carson’s stage entry line as a metaphor in an essay may be a bit churlish but damn it, it fits. That cheap schmuck Barak Obama simply couldn’t stand it anymore and had to come clambering back onto the political stage like he was really wanted.
Trumps robust America, almost out of the starting gate, is more that any marxist should have to endure. Barak’s brand of economic and social Obamaism that we endured for eight long miserable years, produced nothing meaningful for American except to apologize for Americas needed role of world leadership, import Islam, throw open our borders to the worlds peasants (voters), destroy American culture and kill American production and freedom by high taxes and over regulation. In the end, all he created was a “Deep State” that is struggling for its very survival under Trumps incessant pounding. After all, the State must be preserved at all costs.
So here comes Barak, the slick tongued, greasy used car salesman and community organizer, trying to claim credit for Trumps instinctive economic triumphs. He no longer apologizes for Americans supposed failures, but denigrates Trumps robust economy as actually the result of his policies of onerous regulation and oppressive taxation. They would have come to full bloom if only he had had a few more months. He trashes Trumps foreign policy as dangerous and war-mongering but his own policies, leading from behind, proved more dangerous to a stable world.
Comparisons in leadership, which he promotes, cannot stand comparison.
So, as expected, Obama slithered out of his dark hole to protect his legacy. Yes, he has one but its a legacy of failure in social, economic, political and foreign policy. According to Obama’s calculations, Trumps robust economy, the low unemployment numbers, higher incomes and jobs for all, wasn’t really the product of that awful Donald Trump, but was an economy he had primed and ready to spring upon the world if he had had just one more term. Oh, really?
Obama still draws a crowd of college students, but they don’t scream and holler like Trumps crowds do. His admirers cling to the hope that only Obama’s brand of Socialism can possibly succeed for America. Yet, the democrat party is morphing right before our eyes into something potentially dangerous if Conservatives don’t take to the stage as well to kill the dragon.
The Democrat Party is caught between a rock and a hard spot because the old socialists that made up the party for decades and have run the party into the ground, still retain leadership despite the dementia we see creeping in. They are now being challenged by an even more radical left-wing brand of Marxists in the guise of ignorant young millennials heartened by Bernie Sanders near success at achieving the 2016 Democrat nomination. They bought into the ‘entitlement for all’ notions, are not taking kindly to the current elderly democrat leadership.
Their disappointment was when it was revealed that Sanders was beaten out of the nomination by the skullduggery of Hillary’s Democrat machine, and that will not be forgiven. The new Marxist even have their own “shock troops” in the guise of Antifa’s and BLM’s for street deployment. And their politicians, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, et. al, are there to stir the pudding of what was once gentlemanly political debate.
America faces a crisis. The Marxists can still count enough voters, even dead ones, to change the character of local politics if conservatives don’t stay prepared. We must get out and vote. We cannot drop our guard or our America can be snatched back into the jaws of growing tyranny. Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get’m! (09Sep18)
Justice Denied, Again?
Opinion August 31, 2018
The word is out there but for some inexplicable reason, it hasn't caught fire that Hillary & #39s hacked
email server caused the executions of all of America’s human assets (spies) in China. Perhaps
it’s because the Republican candidate for Florida’s governorship used the racist word “monkey”
and the deranged media went nuts again. The PoPO’s (Party of Perpetual Outrage i.e.:
Democrats) go nuts over just about anything if it advances their agenda, but Hillary must be
saved at all costs. Peter Strzok apparently knew about it! Is justice to be denied yet again?
The consequence of Hillary Clintons hacked illegal email server, crimes that still lie on fallow
ground for purposes of criminal justice cannot be denied. It now appears it wasn’t the Russians
as the PoPO’s staged, who hacked Hillary's server, but the ChiComs. Everybody else was
simply invited in to read DNC emails by John Podesta, the DNC Chairman who assumed control
after the feckless Debbie Wasserman Schultz opened the gates of the DNC website to the eyes
of the Jihadist world by hiring a family team of Pakistani IT experts, to run their site.
Accusations of collusion with those pesky Russians could better serve Hillary’s interests if it was
alleged that it was that awful Trump who collided with them, not Hillary. To this very minute,
Hillary’s totally debased and discredited scheme to destroy Donald Trump is still plodding its
way through a legal morass of lies, innuendos, and deceptions, all of which have exposed the
frightening depths of FBI and DoJ corruption, “not a smidgen” of evidence to implicate Trump.
But, back to Hillary. It is now reported that it was in fact, a Chinese firm, operating in Wash. DC,
that actually hacked Hillary’s unlisted, unauthorized and unsecured email server, reading every
word that passed between her and the State Department, her and Obama, and her and the
heads of the several US Intelligence agencies entwined in the web of her corrupt machine.
Consequently, US Spies in China were summarily rounded up and executed. Thank you, Hillary,
and Barak, Brennen, and Clapper for your good works protecting America whilst delivering our
human assets to the executioners of the Chinese state. I don’t know if a body count of deaths
directly attributed to Hillary Clinton can ever be tallied, let alone adjudicated in a court of law but
we don’t forget the things we did see, i.e.: the brutality of the deaths of the Benghazi four, the
poor young sot who was a DNC staffer murdered on his Washington DC door steps allegedly for
passing DNC emails to Wikileaks and now, a dozen or more US spies in China.
Yet, the attacks go on. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal had the audacity to insist that
Robert Mueller could mount a case against Trump for obstruction of justice after Trump
confirmed that White House counsel Don McGahn would be leaving the administration in the
fall. This came from a politician who claimed Vietnam wartime exploits he never achieved
because he was never there. To be fair, he was a Sgt. in the Marine Corps Reserve. That was it.
Hillary’s crimes are nearly an open book of treasonous activity easily provable in a court of law.
To the reasonable American citizen, one who could be empaneled as a juror say, the cries of
“treason” ring out loud and clear. Why does no one in the halls of justice seem to care? Why do
politicians, in both parties, not care. Why don’t we agree to execute spies? We used to. We
execute criminals, murder babies in the womb but we don’t kill spies. Why? There’s a nest of
them in Obama’s administration that, if properly investigated and tried, would find themselves
quickly standing on the hangman’s scaffold. Maybe we could hire a Chinese executioner who
has no compunction to doing his duty. Just saying!
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get’m! (30Aug18).
Short Takes – American’s, Starved For Decency
Opinion July 2, 2018
American’s, Starved For Decency
“Live and let live” was once a cherished but un-codified phrase that kept us from punching each other’s headlights out over minor disagreements on any number of subjects. It has been swept away by the political philosophy of socialism that demands complete control over everything, the rule of laws be damned. At the local level it’s best seen in the rising incidents of road rage.
Democrats calling for “resistance” have shed all pretense of civility to “live and let live.” It’s to be their way or no way. A year and a half out, they still haven’t grasped the truth that they are no longer in charge of the federal government. All that’s left for them is to yap and snip at the heels of the real leader we now have in Donald Trump, and his supporters.
The politeness scenario that once guided our debates, has been swept away by hysterical
Democrats desperate to retain any claim on power. Three successive national elections have left Democrats stunned. Searching for other methods of maintaining relevance and with no more arguments left in their playbook except “Stop Trump”, they have turned to their chapter on anarchy and are actively encouraging attacks on conservatives through intimidating, in your face name calling, screaming spittle frothing epitaphs and character defamation screeds. When democrats wielded power they used the Dept. of Justice and the now corrupted FBI, not to mention the IRS, to eliminate their opponents. For Democrats, civility is gone, lies are commonplace and to ignore all ideas other than their Marxist scribblings, is expected.
That simple phrase, “live and let live,” encompassed principles that, along with an understanding of the ten commandments, guided us as citizens to live together in peace and harmony and accept the differences. We went together to the 4th of July parades and picnics, the evening fireworks, Veterans day events and all the pro-American programs that reflected American’s pride, and we did it without fighting one another. Americans are starved for decency.
The Socialist theories of economic control, that has taken over the whole of the Democrat Party, and has infiltrated GOP ranks, might explain why Republicans have long been accused of not fighting back, but going along to get along with the Socialists to the point of even agreeing that what the Democrat-Socialist party wanted was really good for America.
Our streets are on fire and it’s the Democrats doing. Alarmed American’s quickly organized under the Tea Party banner to figure out a way to do what the Republican weren’t doing, fighting back. But, Tea Party members didn’t run around attacking Democrats, destroying property or stealing campaign signs from supporters yards, or defacing bumper stickers.
When Republicans controlled only the House of Representatives, and the Tea Party was clearly considered a dissident group in danger of actually damaging the “Deep State”, liberal politicians, MSM journalists and “Moderate Republicans,” saw no need to be civil toward the Tea Partiers and the stage was set for where we are today, both parties in disarray, as they should be, and little can be done to remedy it. Nothing heals faster than open wounds, properly treated.
“Demands for civility almost always come from people who lost their own right to the respect they expect. The last resort of someone who has run out of good moral arguments is lies, innuendoes, falsehoods and now, resistance. Democrats have lost the stage on which to act out their identity as politicians and have turned into the anarchists they now are. They’re desperate Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (28Jun18)
Short Takes – A Return to the Draft? A Memorial Day Thought
Opinion May 30, 2018
Suggestions are swirling again about a return to the draft. For those born after the 1960’s, the draft was compulsory military service for two or more years. Throughout America’s history from the Civil War to Vietnam, different rules governed who was drafted, how one could get a deferment or a buy out, or get a political commission to work his time on a staff. That was all rife for abuse, and, it was abused.
Deferments were applied to account for medical reasons like, say flat feet and lung diseases, but a medical officer at the induction stations would make that decision. If you got your notice, you had to show up for induction and if you passed, your life changed forever.
Political deferments for celebrities, politicians and sons of politicians, like Ted Kennedy, were created while many others, stood up, begging their way into uniform. John Kennedy and his older brother did so. They weren’t famous then but their father had been US Ambassador to the UK. Hollywood stars flocked to the ranks during WW2 and did their duty as the government needed, including combat.
The draft was a numbers system, most draftees going into the army. With usable skills, one could be enrolled in a technical program for training as a mechanic, medic, or radio operator, otherwise, it was into one of the combat arms, Infantry sucking up the most. Only a few draftees ever went into the US Marine Corps or the Navy, because they filled their needed quota’s with volunteers. Many escaped the draft by school deferments and some when drafted, ran away to hide. During the Vietnam war, it was to Canada.
Many, eager to fight, volunteered to join a combat arm. That’s where the action was. For many, it wasn’t until they were covered with blood, sweat and the brains of their buddies, that they realized the awful truth about combat. It’ was then when a boy became a man and what he experienced would stay with him for the rest of his life. Every Memorial Day reveals more of these stories as the old Vet’s pass away.
Since 9/11, the military has had no problem filling its ranks with volunteers.These patriotic young people, with a few exceptions like Bowie Bergdahl, stay the course and remained loyal active members of their units. Many re-enlist to continue the fight and many comeback without limbs, emotionally traumatized or forever needing care. Some alas, never come back.
America celebrates these fighters twice a year, Memorial day and Veteran’s day when the sacrifices of our military men and women are recognized and honored. How many people do you see today stand to attention when the American flag passes in review? Veterans always do. It’s honor and sacrifice.
The problem with a return of the draft today is that most of our youths are not qualified. They have been subverted by an education system, its teaching ranks filled with the anti-war radicals from the 1960’s, like the Clintons. Our schools have failed to educate our young people about Americas traditional values and why we fight, or have lied about our history making it hateful. That’s a sad but true fact. The one great pool of true Americanism, the Boy Scouts, is being perverted into a potential pool for pedophiles.
Do we need a return to the military draft? I don’t think so! To recreate a program that expects its personal to perform, even to die on a battlefield, but turns many of them into deserters requiring efforts by the military to keep them, was never good for moral. Cowards in the ranks reveal themselves quickly and their whining can bring the moral of a whole unit down to their level of defeatism. Too, a new draft would now necessarily demand the inclusion of our daughters. Those that want to go, can do so now. Those that don’t, should stay home and tend the home fires. Today, on this Memorial Day, just be thankful Hillary Clinton’s not President. That’s worth cheering about.
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! Hug a soldier today and have a happy Memorial day event. (26May18)