Hardly Forgotten

Today marks the eighteenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, which has scarred America forever. While we were not defeated, far from it, without question the country has never been the same since the attacks.

A great article in Conservative Review notes the following: "The purpose of American conservatism is to conserve freedom and justice for the good and happiness of all of us. Its purpose is to defend liberty from hatred and evil that seek to destroy. That is what we must remember on September 11, and on every day. We must never forget that."

I am extremely proud to be an American. I have a clear vision of the evil who attacked us on the that horrific day and in no way shape or form have I considered forgetting.
















Given the state of our nation today, in a constant battle to prove either or Aldous Huxley or George Orwell was more accurate, attacking itself and drowning in an ocean of political correctness it appears we may have already lost the battle.

The following was noted in an intriguing article presented by Ammo.com, which concludes: "Unless the United States is clear about who its enemy is and the price it is willing to pay to defeat it, we are destined for an endless war with ever-growing encroachments on American liberties. If this is the path America chooses, then there can be no doubt that we have already lost the war."

In fact, the same evil continues to threaten us to this very day. Enemies within are using the laws of freedom in our nation against us. We MUST stay vigilant, holding our principles dear as we maintain our strength and resolve to remain the powerful beacon of freedom in the world we were divinely inspired to be.

NEVER FORGET and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Truth

Freedom Fight A Larger Scope

EVIL x POWER x DECEIT = ORWELLIAN by The Burning Platform

Orwell Brilliance On Exhibit

Monument Madness

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Sea Sick

As art is appearing to imitate life, this outstanding piece engages in compare and contrast examination of Huxley's "Brave New World" and Orwell's "1984," a fascinating topic we relish investigation of.

The brilliance of both cannot be overstated; however, we have ever so slightly sided with Huxley in being most accurate, simply based on his contention the citizenry would be intoxicated on a sea of irrelevance.

More people appear to know the daily schedule of the Kardashians than the name of their Congressman; a painful truth to absorb.

Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley’s “Brave New World” vs. Orwell’s “1984”

Accomplices

Rubio Right On Obama

Marco Rubio is getting rocked for being "robotic" and having canned commentary. The news media, even FOX News, the establishment and other candidates are trashing Rubio. Fine, but it is Senator Rubio who is correct; Obama is gleefully orchestrating the destruction of America as founded.

Nobody seems willing to attack Obama, but there is little problem going after Rubio.

An intellectual elite with a big time chip on his shoulder, through his successful efforts, President Obama is bringing his ideas on wealth transformation, open borders and social justice while diminishing America, who he deems an oppressor, down to the level of the rest of the world.

Upon completion of his term, we conclude he will seek the position of UN Secretary General, because his talents cannot be only limited to the shores of our fruited plain.  He will effort, in his mind boggling arrogance, seek to rule the world.

He is achieving many of his goals here in America.  It is most distressful to note that, like we are reading from the pages of George Orwell's Animal Farm, it appears we are actually living on the Animal Farm.  We continuously send representatives to Washington with one simple task; stop Obama.

They fail, miserably, over and over again.

Note comments made by Rush Limbaugh noting a quote he learned of from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  "The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, has just said there will be no stopping Obama's agenda, because to criticize Obama makes us look bad. What the hell is this campaign gonna be about if not that?"

With folks like this slime ball McConnell in the GOP, is it any wonder our nation is in such disrepair.

GOP front runner Donald Trump has often labeled Obama incompetent, but that is naive and stupid; also quite incorrect.  But why are Rubio, and Sen. Ted Cruz, the only candidates that will accurately portray Obama for the anti-American president he so arrogantly is?

Rush Limbaugh, The Truth Detector, knows.

Rush Limbaugh accurately stated “Rubio’s point is that “Obama’s not incompetent, he’s not inexperienced, he’s doing exactly what he wants to do and none of these Republican moderates will go there. You want to know why? You want to know why? You want to know why they cannot agree that Obama is doing this on purpose? It’s very simple. They cannot agree that Obama is doing it on purpose, they do not dare say that Obama is doing it on purpose, because they have all worked with Barack Obama.”

BAM! Take it to the bank, or in this case, the voting booth!!!

Rush Limbaugh, The Truth Detector

The Real Question: Why Won't Anyone But Rubio and Cruz Say Obama Is Destroying the Country on Purpose?

A Horrifying Agenda

BARACK OBAMA TO BECOME LEADER OF THE WORLD!

Although the rhetoric is often ambiguous, bordering on Orwellian doublespeak, behind the scenes the actions undertaken by President Obama, which are most successfully masked by the mainstream media, allow it reasonable to conclude "Obama wants to destroy traditional America which he sees as evil, paternalistic, imperialistic, bullying and unfair. His goal is to rebuild the country as a socialist state, a utopia where all [globally] receive the same outcomes regardless of merit and effort".

"Obama wants to destroy traditional America which he sees as evil, paternalistic, imperialistic, bullying and unfair. His goal is to rebuild the country as a socialist state, a utopia where all receive the same outcomes regardless of merit and effort".

As we have previously noted, Obama will fit right in as UN Secretary General following his horrendous presidency. In fact, since we originally posted about this, stories have speculating about this have now made the national media.

As we wrote in June, "Against the will of the people, in a cloud of secrecy, another attempt to pass Obamatrade, by both parties, is coming. Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R:AL) is warning America, as a significant loss of her sovereignty will occur should Obamatrade pass. It is a "living agreement" with global governance, which means America would adhere to rules from partner nations as they, not us, see fit.

Can you envision Obama as UN Chief in a few years further diminishing the power and status in the world and transferring the wealth of America to nations he deems in need?

Sadly, I sure can.

Obama is poised to lead the UN, who has just adopted Agenda 2030, a blueprint for global socialism and governance which attacks America as founded.  With Obama having signed away much of Uncle Sam's sovereignty through treaty, citizens of America will be forced to conform as freedoms of our citizenry become governed by unelected global bureaucrats who aim to expanded control through central planning for the greater good.

"In addition to addressing climate change, it also sets ambitious goals for areas such as economics, health, energy, education, agriculture, gender equality and a whole host of other issues. As you will see below, this global initiative is being billed as a “new universal Agenda” for humanity. If you are anything like me, alarm bells are going off in your head right about now" said Michael Snyder of End of the American Dream blog.

Please review the 17 as presented by Michael Snyder:

The heart of the 2030 Agenda is a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals…

Goal 1

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

 Goal 3

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 4

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

 Goal 5

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 7

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

 Goal 9 

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Goal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries

 Goal 11

 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

 Goal 12

 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

 Goal 13

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

 Goal 14 

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Goal 15

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

 Goal 16

Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

 Goal 17

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development 

On the surface, some of this stuff sounds great.  Who doesn't seek to end poverty and hunger? That is, until you find an progressive elitist seeking to govern your behavior. Recall the arrogance in Michael Bloomberg, who is no doubt looking out for you, seeking to limit the size of your Big Gulp?

Bloomberg, and progressives all, are of the school of thought that it is their responsibility to control though the citizenry by nudging behavior, limiting consumer choice and molding society into their Fabian socialist hearts content.

In actuality, this is really alarming stuff.  It is nothing short of theft of your individualism and freedom.

While you follow the email saga of Hillary Clinton, Globalists, of which she is one, are planning to significantly restrict your liberty and freedom, and American sovereignty, in an evil advertised effort to end poverty through owning economic and social production and activities through regulation. Every alarm bell you have should be ringing loudly, because your liberty and freedom is under direct attack.

Picture Obama as head of the UN post POTUS, using laws he illegally altered and treaties severing sovereignty he placed the US in adherence to, to have United Nations govern over the US.

As we have previously noted, Orwell's 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.

It must never be forgotten, as Ronald Reagan said, "Man is not free unless government is limited".

The horrifying agendas Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are working on with the United Nations, without question, place significant reductions on your freedom and liberty.

New Normal of Newspeak

Orwell's "newspeak" is alive and well.

Perhaps defined as an orchestrated manipulation of language, thought, action and perception for the advancement of an agenda with punitive damages inclusive of public ridicule for those in opposition, political correctness is destroying our nation.

Those who champion political correctness proclaim tolerance for everything, while aiming to discredit and diminish the traditional principles, morality and prosperity of our nation.

While our society is welcoming and forgiving in nature, our nation cannot allow avenues of political correctness to supersede our guaranteed rights. The new normal of "newspeak" must be reversed.

As our founders noted, free speech and freedom of thought must be protected at all costs, for the survival of our nation is at stake.

Please see the follwong piece written by Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute: Political Correctness Is About Control, Not Etiquette

Winston Smith Lives

Winston Smith/1984

Recognize the guy pictured on the left?

If not, you may want to familiarize yourself with him in prompt fashion.

This is Winston Smith, the fictional character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a must read for everyone. Winston, shown at left in the film presentation, was the protagonist in the all too real story of governmental control and surveillance of the citizenry.

In the novel, at his desk, Smith worked as a clerk in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his primary responsibility was to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line.

Changing our history.  Does that sound familiar?

 

Moving into a different place indeed this nation is.

Enter the Smithsonian.  Through their Smart News website, they wish to keep you current.

Smart News reported, snuggled nicely around the Thanksgiving holiday, that The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman.

There is a very mixed message here, but the timely appearance of the story by the main stream media is not by accident of happenstance.  It NEVER is.

Given the immigration issue, in particular the refugees entering our country without any level of proper vetting, the media want to put a smiley face on the illegal immigrants entering our country; attempting to dictate your position on the issue.

The refugees are being placed with diversity in mind, which will assist the government in their social engineering efforts to change the ethnic, economic and class makeup of neighborhoods. The radical transformation of America continues, and the media want those orchestrating the transformation to have your support!

“Is the Statue of Liberty a Muslim woman? No, she’s not a Muslim woman,” Glenn Beck said on The Glenn Beck Radio Program. “Did it start with an Egyptian woman — a different statue? Yes.”

As reported accurately by Beck:

The Smithsonian’s claim arose from statue designer Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s initial design. Originally, after visiting Egypt in 1855, Bartholdi sought to create a statue of an Egyptian woman — who has been assumed Muslim — for the African country. 

The monument, tentatively named “Egypt Bringing Light to Asia,” was planned to be an 86-foot tall veiled and robed statue of a woman perched at the entrance of the Suez Canal, according to Smithsonian magazine. 

However, when Bartholdi was unsuccessful in pitching the sale to Egyptian leaders, who thought it was too expensive, he turned to the United States. Ultimately, Bartholdi scrapped his original idea in favor of designing a similar statue of a woman personifying liberty. 

Bartholdi worked with structural designer Alexandre-Gustav Eiffel on the new endeavor, which they named “Liberty Enlightening the World.” The Statue of Liberty, as it is known today, was intended to be a beacon for immigrants in search of the United States. 

 The iconic statue was gifted by France to the United States and officially unveiled Oct. 28, 1886, by then-President Grover Cleveland.

So, while it sounds half sort of accurate that Lady Liberty was Muslim when you say it fast, it actually is not.

But, for those hoping to transform our nation to, from than a nation that welcomes legal immigrants who seek a better life in America to an open society nation without borders allowing anyone and everyone to enter freely and reap all the entitlements available presented by a nation free falling into debt while engaged in suicide, it really helps to have your support.

And if you only  heard this story in passing, you might have just fallen for the mainstream media distortion of the facts.

All in a days work for Winston Smith, no doubt a hero to those in our government who seek the transformation of our nation, and that begins with you know who.

Yep, the anti-American with the big ears.

Directing The Masses

Donald J. Trump

It is really astonishing if you think about it with any level of curiosity.

As outlined by GOP front runner Donald Trump, with all the terrorism acts being committed around the globe, the despicable and barbaric acts being engaged upon by Planned Parenthood and the corrupt actions and blatant disregard for the law being exhibited by the Obama administration and complicit members of Congress from both sides, the media feels compelled to scold Trump on his tone.

Can you imagine?

On the surface, you might conclude the news media is so stupid they would not know a story of legitimate impact on the citizenry if it took place in the lobby of their corporate office building.  But no, nobody is that idiotic.

The mainstream news media is in full command of the facts. The stories they provide and the issues they cover are all part of an agenda to lead the American people in a direction they, in the arrogance of their intellectual elitism, determines is best determined to serve the ruling class.

Fans of dystopian writers George Orwell and Aldous Huxley often engage in debate who was more correct. Orwell considered the government would conceal information from the citizenry, and engage in rewriting the history the public was able to consume. Huxley imagined a world where the citizenry would be bombarded with voluminous information that would allow such consumption which would result in the citizenry being drunk on a sea of irrelevance.

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley
photo/OpenCulture.com

Both are accurate.

Truthful information is being concealed (gun running in Benghazi), and rewritten (see unemployment rate) as Orwell imagined and the country is ever increasingly engulfed by guilty pleasures (UFC fighting) and issues and individuals of non importance (the Kardashians) as Huxley forecasted.

Meanwhile, the freedoms we hold dear are being methodically taken from us though the orchestration of evil organizations, elected officials and social justice engineers of the ruling class.  And of course, the mainstream media.

The Truth Be Told?

Have you heard of Arthur Melvin Okun?

I had to rattle my brain something bad awful to jog memory of this chap, but the outstanding website Zero Hedge not only recalled him, but put his economic theory to the test.  You see, Okun identified a correlation between GDP and the unemployment rate, and in doing so offered proof of data manipulation.

This thorough and illuminating piece is well worth your time and can be accessed at Zero Hedge.

THE REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HAS LONG BEEN OVER 12%!

All our readers should understand the information presented in this article. Shortly after election in 2009, Obama brought the Census Bureau under the direction of the White House. While most know about the efforts to reclassify voting districts to benefit Democrats, few are aware the Census, under contract from the Labor Department, conducts the household survey used to tabulate the unemployment rate.

Okun's Law Unemployment Rate/Zero Hedge

The government has been manipulating data and lying to the citizenry since the first jump in effort to pump up a recovery that does not exist. Imagine what else they lie about!

And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested."

---George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Shine On

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell.

There is an escalating amount of deceitful action taking place in the political arena in recent years.

Propaganda from elected officials, buoyed by their political strategists and a complicit news media, remains hidden from a public drowning in a sea of irrelevance, enabling the government to clandestinely seize additional power over the citizenry.

As Winston Churchill once said, socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.  That eerily encapsulates the mindset of the majority of protesters we see wreaking havoc on our streets.

Those who seek to divide our nation through race and class war, fueling suffering and violence, with no respect for the rule of law, will get their comeuppance.

Instant Karma going to get you, hit you right in the head.

 

Remembering the brilliance of the great John Lennon, lost 34 years ago this evening to a gunman in front of his home in NYC.  Shine on!

Under Control

Another presentation of excellence from Michael Ramirez of Investors.com.

Michael Ramirez/Investors Business Daily

64% of Americans think things in America are out of control. They are right.

However, things are under control for President Obama.

Obama did run guns, seemingly in hopes of an event which would sway the American public opinion with respect to the second amendment.  Can you think of any logical reasoning to arm those engaging in conflict with our border patrol agents on the southern border?

Richard Nixon dreamed of targeting political enemies, and had articles of impeachment filed for attempting to use the IRS to do so.  Obama did utilize the IRS to target, not only individual political opponents, but political groups and non profits political organizations across America.  In the aftermath, the administration has dodged and deflected Congressional inquires all the way home. These are impeachable offenses.

Perhaps the most despicable actions of the Obama administration, completely inclusive of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was the actions undertaken in Benghazi.  As if sacrificing patriots charged in the defense of our nation  is not deplorable enough, both President Obama and Sec. Clinton lied to the American people, and the families of the fallen, about their deaths, floating propaganda about a video causing all the disturbance leading to the death causing conflict.  It was gun running.

Obamacare is nothing short of a governmental takeover of private industry.  Democrat operatives have spoken aloud, even if ignored by the mainstream media, that the objective is to put private insurance companies out of business.  And no, you cannot keep your doctor and no, your premiums are not decreasing.  It was, and is, all a lie, right down to the death panels.

The border rush of all those youngsters on tricycles entering our nation through the southern border was not a 21st century rebirth of the gumball rally.  No, it was a vehicle in the effort to transfer the wealth to those in nations the United States supposedly oppressed as we built our prosperity through free market enterprise and entrepreneur ship.

An opponent of our allies and a friend to our enemies, the release of five of the worst terrorists we held captive for a servicemen who by most accounting went AWOL is beyond criminal.  Listening to Private Bergdahl's father speak in code to our opponents, an orchestrated slap in the face to America by Obama, was really hard to swallow.  This is high treason. Of course, if you have been following along, Obama is not on the same team as Uncle Sam, and I, are on.

Those charged in protecting the President are repeatedly dropping the ball.  Obama is a very bad guy, but we cannot have his security fail resulting in his injury or death.  In this country, we remove tyrants through a the legal process.  Keep in mind the enemies in foreign lands are really his friends, even Medvedev.

Ramirez ran out of room.

In addition, never in history has the government in this country so aggressively sought the observance of the citizenry as those under the command of Obama.  From the usage of the IRS to Common Core, it is so out of control the battle between dystopian authors George Orwell and Aldous Huxley over who was right is in vogue.  I'll go with Huxley, by the way.

You think Obama thinks he is losing grip by all the above items cited as out of control.  Yet Obama is an anti-colonialist, an opponent of the west and free markets.  Obama is working, very effectively, to give them the wealth, them being those who the United States supposedly oppressed to achieve our wealth.

None of the above referenced items would have gone the way they did if you were in charge.  Think about it.
Obama is not lacking in intelligence, or arrogance, and he has got things in complete control, as least as far as he see it.

The transformation of The United States of America.  Indeed, Obama has it under control.

The New Look

Privacy under the Obama administration is becoming extinct. 

It seems the citizenry does not much care, as many post daily activities on Facebook and Twitter accounts. Even private emails are game to become public.  It is all seemingly innocent, until someone thinks it is not, with the latest example involving the owner of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. The aftermath of such things is really getting out of hand.

Be careful. Big Brother Is Watching You. It's the new look.

Dry Run Fly By

Manipulation of the news has escalated to near boiling levels.

A classic conflict between futurist authors Aldous Huxley and George Orwell centers in that Orwell thought information would be withheld from the public while Huxley opined that the public would be drowned in a sea of irrelevant data, unable or unwilling to decipher pertinent information they require.

Score one for Huxley.

A new story came across the transom last week that I found most concerning, and it disappeared with a false explanation about as fast as it appeared.  NBC News was discredited, which is nothing new.

Los Angeles International Airport, LAX, was shut down for several hours, causing delays and cancellations backing up airline travel across the globe.  Among the busiest airports in the world, I would think such an issue would be major new.

Additionally, given the world we now live in, the cause for such an interruption in air traffic would seemingly be of paramount concern.

NBC News reported a "computer glitch" caused by a high flying US U2 Spy plane adjusting altitudes was the source of the problem, wreaking havoc on on flight command control and radar systems.  As is common with the once proud peacock network, the story was quickly discredited.

As reported by NBC News,  the U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but air traffic control computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it. The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other. The spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed. The U-2 spy plane is the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago and more recently Afghanistan.

U2 Spy planes have routinely operated at these altitudes for decades without issue, so what may have happened at LAX.

A theory I am given from consultation with insiders within the business informs me that data entry on the ERAM system was possibly a culprit. There are reported issues with ERAM, and there literally is no adequate backup system as there appears to be interface issues with the previous backup system which is quickly being phased out.  This leaves no adequate backup system, and therefore, for the first time in history, the FAA is flying without double redundancy.

The Air Force officially denied the U2, also known as the Dragon Lady, caused the issue, which seems obvious. It is assumed the Air Force knows what caused this troubling issue, but they have not made their findings public.The U2 has more problems landing than it does wreaking havoc on flight systems. 



US U2 Dragon Lady Spy Place and Chevrolet Camaro SS

Lack of knowledge leads to speculation, and some of the theories emerging are quite disturbing.

Actions in the Ukraine have seriously strained US relations with Russia, and Vladimir Putin has stepped up military action and mobilization across the globe.  Russian long range aircraft have been acknowledged along the California coast, as reported by SHTFPlan.com.

Gen. Herbert Carlisle, Commander of United States Air Forces in the Pacific, acknowledged a significant increase in the activities by Russian long-range strategic aircraft flying along the California coast. There was no comment about whether the aircraft were nuclear capable, but it has not been since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s that Russian patrols have skirted the West Coast and California.

Did the Russian aircraft test advanced technology, which may range from system jamming equipment, stealth technologies or perhaps a non-nuclear EMP weapon, in muscle flexing fashion?
Given the current US weakness, it would be the perfect time for Putin to seize the opportunity to test new military technology. 

Beyond revoking his NetFlix card, what might Obama do?  Putin is not afraid of hashtag rhetoric, and he is not happy with financial sanctions the Obama administration has imposed.

Perhaps the US accidentally caused the issue while testing technology?  If so, this is also troubling as this type of accidental error could have had devastating consequences.  Given our military remains the envy of the world, I really doubt we inadvertently made this error.

We are in real trouble, and are under attack.  The hacking of computers, from major retail to the military, has been an issue, there have documented attacks on our financial markets and there have been lightly reported attacks by unknown foes of power grids across the nation.  A airport flight control system seems a logical next step.

With the US at its weakest position in five decades thanks the policies of President Obama, those who wish America harm see the remaining years our his presidency as an optimal time to attack us.  Given our remaining military prowess, these attacks will not be with conventional weapon systems.

The weapons of choice will be strategic, through use of technology in hijacking, disabling or dismantling our computerized systems.  Even primitive actions like starting fires can become very costly weapons, through finance and manpower, to our infrastructure.

The facts of what happened at LAX remain elusive with very limted media coverage.  Was this a dry run of some sort?  Who knows?

While the news media routinely dismisses stories like these, bombarding you with useless stories of irrelevance and news item propaganda, you should keep promptly dismissed stories like this one ON YOUR RADAR!

Harsh Hope & Change

The level of arrogance in the oval office is reaching levels where comparisons in a probing of the memory banks find no rival.

 

Each day, as the envelope gets pushed farther and farther, more are beginning to recognize we have and imperial presidency, where our citizenry finds itself coming closer everyday to becoming full fledged members of the outer party, made famous in the 1949 George Orwell book 1984.

 

This level of arrogance presents a gold mine for late night hosts, who are not Obamabots, and those with sane mind, such as Micheal Ramirez, award winning editorial cartoonist for Investors Business Daily, who recognizes the great peril our country is in, with freedom and liberty escaping our grasp on seemingly a daily basis.

Michael Ramirez/Investors Business Daily
 

“That’s the good thing as a president, I can do whatever I want.” quipped President Barack Obama on February  10, 2014 while walking with French President Hollande prior to a meeting.  On a side note, can you imagine the French president having a political positioning to the right of our president.  Me neither.

 

Many are taking notice and wondering if the executive order actions taken by President Obama are indicative of the executive office acting without benefit of congressional backing or the will of the people.  You think?

 

Juan Williams of FOX News defends the President, noting that Obama has issued less of these than previous presidents.  However, in reality, even though Obama has a pen and phone, he rarely uses executive order on big things he cannot get congressional approval for.  He simply fails to adhere to laws, changes laws, or initiates governance through arms of the government, with an example being climate change legislation through the EPA.

 

This actions are simply lawlessness and in many ways a violation of our Constitution, and if placed on the other foot, those Obamabots would be literally setting the place on fire.  However, Few on the right seem fazed.

 

Dangerous precedent is being set,  but what is puzzling is that so many of the congressional members, from both parties, find this acceptable practice.  The congress enables itself to irrelevancy in effort to promote their progressive ideals.  This goes against the founders, who thought the separate powers would always work in their own best interest, a vehicle of protection of the separation of powers.

 

George Orwell

Victor Davis Hanson penned a recent column noting America has become an Orwellian nation of Obamathink.  In fact, it is a brave new world, where the pages of not only 1984 are coming to pass, but even Orwell's Animal Farm.   It really seems surreal to think such things, but sadly, evidence suggests our governance is leading us in this direction, the intellectual elite feeling it necessary to make our decisions for us
                                                                                          
The Democrats sent their folks in office to reverse the perceived evils they saw in George W. Bush only to have them magnified exponentially. This group consists of those who are Obamabots and opponents of our capitalist system or are drunk on irrelevance and fail to recognize it. 

 

Surveillance, the national debt and federal deficit, executive orders and transparency are only a few of the items where the Dems likely cannot tell the men from the animals.  I cannot either, but I can tell the intellectual elite progressives over the principled representatives of the citizenry and their liberty and freedom.

 

Nothing is real, and we are not strolling around Strawberry Fields. President Obama runs around "campaigning" against the results of action he himself has orchestrated.  It is in fact the Limbaugh Theorem.

 

This is quite simply unsustainable.  The lies will ultimately be exposed, the truths will emerge and reality of what has taken place in the last decade will be a bitter pill for most to swallow.  The damage to America, already taking shape, will be significant. 

 

For the average American, the most likely form of this damage will be a reduction in the standard of living, far beyond what has already occurred under Obama, from a serious financial event.  Many are presently predicting such an event, coming sooner than later.

 

1984 was not supposed to be an instructional manual.  America had better wake up soon, or we may soon be living a life similar to the one Winston Smith did, which was one without freedom and hope for the future. 

That would be some harsh hope and change, wouldn't it.

Self Loathing

Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez has delivered yet another alarmingly illustrative metaphorical truth of unrivaled arrogance while collapse increasingly lurks about.

 

Michael Ramirez/Investors Business Daily

Taunting us, no doubt basking in the glow of his destructive accomplishments, Obama internally chuckles, knowing that with the help of a complicit media of propagandists, the majority of America, drowning in a sea of irrelevance, fails to see the real Obama.

Promises have turned to lies.  Transparency is cloaking in deception, and faith based principles are mired in a war with political correctness.  Legislation and executive orders are implemented to inflict short term pleasure sure to result in long term pain, a controlling mechanism.

Rule of law is escaping the hand of liberty, and lawlessness and chaos are seeping through weakened portals.  George Orwell thought society would be ruined by our fears.  Instead, the orchestrated collection of freebies through government forced redistribution for "have nots" aiming at exploitation of  the "haves" indicate it will be the desires Aldous Huxley warned us of that turn our land to ruin.

All the while Obama takes time to secure "The Selfie". 

Power of the States

As the winds of Autumn prepare to blow over the gridiron fields across the fruited plain, for those of us who seek freedom and limited government, a stiff, sometimes sharp and biting, political wind has been in our face seemingly for decades.

For 100 years, the Progressives have been working diligently to "fundamentally transform" America, molding it to their hearts content. Not withstanding the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the wheels of transformation have been turning, and we are now coming to grips with which direction the wind is blowing.

While the parallels to George Orwell's 1984 novel are quite clear, it really is beyond that. The falsities presented on a daily basis in the mainstream news cycle is illustrative that common sense is absent, and in a more troubling development, the presentation of events are dictated by political influences with specific agendas.

The progressives have done their homework, and have welcomed the utilization of the insights and tactics of Edward Bernays, Saul Alinsky and Cass Sunstein. Through executive orders, legislation and media elements, public behavior in being nudged into an inescapable position of oppression. These mechanisms have allowed the government to introduce the public to new normals that are unnecessary in their existence, manipulating choice in effort to control the citizenry.

Certainly, that paints a grim picture of the future, but the most ominous aspect of this transformation is the failure our elected officials to adhere to the law. Under the Obama administration, there are many examples that can be presented to illustrate the administration operating outside the law. It was first exhibited when the GM bondholders were eliminated from the contract order of repayment of their bond investment, present when the DOJ failed to prosecute obvious voter intimidation by the Black Panthers in Philadelphia to recently picking and choosing which parts of Obamacare, legislation voted into law which violates our Constitution, will be delayed in implementation.

Once you have our government doing as they please without adherence to our laws, you indeed have nothing short of a banana republic. At that point, and we are here, drastic measure must be taken to preserve the great experiment handed to us by our divinely inspired Founding Fathers.

The Great One, Mark Levin, a Constitutional scholar and radio talk show host, joined Sean Hannity on "Hannity" on The FOX News Channel to discuss a radical, yet legal and intelligent, avenue for the citizenry to wrestle back control of our arrogant and lawless officials, sadly from both parties, running Washington DC. Take a listen:



Embarked upon by Woodrow Wilson, the road we are traveling portrayed by Stuart Chase has been slowly traversed by progressives, and the destination is sadly in sight. This is a resort of socialism, ripe with decay and void of incentive, hope and dignity for those on the outside looking in, alarming portrayed in Orwells' 1984. Perhaps Friedrich Hayek gave us the blueprint, noting how a society travels "The Road to Serfdom".



It will take an innovative and all inclusive effort to retard the momentum the progressives now have, but in order to preserve our nation, the fight must be engaged promptly. The ideas Levin presented, recognizing the power of the states, have strong merit, and BAHL Revere is hoping to sound the alarm in the spirit of  Paul Revere.

The times are just as dire.