Dear Member of Congress,

This came to me as an anonymous letter.  It’s good, and I added a few touches of my own.

Dear Member of Congress,

From the time I was able to vote I voted Democrat. About 8 years ago I changed my affiliation to RepubIican because the Democrat party had become something I didn’t want to be a part of, and they had put forth a mystery man to be president.  I am 82 years old, and have a great deal of respect and influence with hundreds of seniors, many of whom are veterans,  who also network with thousands of others around the country.

            I received your questionnaire and request for money and strongly agree with every question, as I have since Obama was elected. Unfortunately the one question that was missing is: “What have the Republicans done for the American people?” We gave you a majority in the House and Senate, yet you never listened to us. Now you want our money.   You should be more concerned about our votes, not our money. You are the establishment, which means all you want is to save your jobs and line your pockets… Well, guess what? It’s not going to happen. You shake in your boots when I tell you we’re giving our support to TRUMP and he hasn’t asked for a dime.

You might think we are fools because you feel Trump is on a self destruction course, but you need to look beyond Washington and listen to the masses. Nobody has achieved what he has, especially in the liberal state of New York.    You clearly don’t understand why the Trump movement is so strong, so I’d like to share with you an analogy to help explain the Trump phenomenon. By the way, it’s not just the Republicans who feel ignored and disrespected, there are plenty of Democrats and Independents who also feel let down by the Washington elite. You seem to have  forgotten about “We The People” and who hired you to represent us.

So here it is, the best analogy I could come up with. Here is the reason so many Americans have boarded the Trump Train, and why your pleas to come back to the party who deserted us, is falling on deaf ears:  Imagine you’ve been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately…You call the city and four different exterminators, but nobody could handle the job. There is this one guy however, who guarantees you he will get rid of them, so you hire him. You don’t care if the guy smells, you don’t care if the guy swears, you don’t care how many times he’s been married, you don’t care if he was friends with liberals, you don’t care if he has plumber’s crack…you simply want those raccoons gone! You want your problem fixed! He’s the guy. He’s the best. Period.

Here’s why we want Trump: Yes he’s a bit of an ass, yes he’s an egomaniac, but we don’t care. The country is a mess because politicians have become too self-serving. The Republican Party is two-faced & gutless. Illegal aliens have been allowed to invade our nation. We want it all fixed! We don’t care that Trump is crude, we don’t care that he insults people, we don’t care that he had been friendly with Hillary, we don’t care that he has changed positions, we don’t care that he’s been married three times, we don’t care that he fights with Megan Kelly and Rosie O’Donnell, we don’t care that he doesn’t know the name of some Muslim terrorist.

This country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegal aliens and bringing tens of thousands of Muslim refugees to America, while leaving Christians behind to be persecuted. We are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Hasid is part of a special group with special rights, to the point where we don’t even recognize the country we were born and raised in; “AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED” and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.

We’re sick of politicians. We’re sick of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. We just want this thing fixed. Trump may not be a saint, but he isn’t beholden to lobbyist money and he doesn’t have political correctness restraining him. All we know is that he has been very successful, he’s an excellent negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he’s also not a politician. He’s definitely not a cowardly politician. When he says he’ll fix it, we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.

Oh yeah…I forgot…we don’t care if the guy has bad hair either.   We just want those raccoons gone. Out of our house, the People’s House. NOW!

IS EVIL REAL?

IS EVIL REAL?

            In the second Ghostbusters film there is a scene where it looks like all sorts of bad things are being drawn into a building.  One of the Ghostbusters says something to the effect that it looks like Evil Central.   That got me to thinking…is evil real?   What would qualify as evil?   In one of the Austin Powers movies there’s a Dr. Evil, and his sidekick, Mini-Me, but they’re more comical than evil.  So, what exactly is evil then?

            William Hirstein, Ph.D., is  a Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elmhurst College, and has this to say about psychopaths, and it sounds to me like they are evil people…”First a bit of terminological history, to clear up any confusion about the meanings of “sociopath,” “psychopath,” and related terms. In the early 1800s, doctors who worked with mental patients began to notice that some of their patients who appeared outwardly normal had what they termed a “moral depravity” or “moral insanity,” in that they seemed to possess no sense of ethics or of the rights of other people. The term “psychopath” was first applied to these people around 1900. The term was changed to “sociopath” in the 1930s to emphasize the damage they do to society. Currently researchers have returned to using the term “psychopath.” Some of them use that term to refer to a more serious disorder, linked to genetic traits, producing more dangerous individuals, while continuing to use “sociopath” to refer to less dangerous people who are seen more as products of their environment, including their upbringing. Other researchers make a distinction between “primary psychopaths,” who are thought to be genetically caused, and “secondary psychopaths,” seen as more a product of their environments.   The Psychopathy Checklist, or PCL, describes psychopaths as being callous and showing a lack of empathy.”

            Richard Speck, in 1966 tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses, so he certainly fits into that category.   Ted Bundy assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier, and that qualifies him, I believe.

There are other people that would certainly be titled as mass murderers, and for that they can be called evil.  How many did Stalin order killed on his way to the top?   Although he didn’t execute them all personally, he was responsible for many thousands, and may have, in fact, killed some of them himself.   The Nazi soldiers who shot unarmed civilians, and tried to get out of it by claiming they were following orders, they could be called evil, and so could the ones that gave them the orders.   Pol Pot, was a Cambodian revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997 and, under his “leadership” an estimated 1 to 3 million people (out of a population of slightly over 8 million) died.  

            Some may claim that any American President that orders men into battle could be called mass murderers, but I’d have to dispute that.   Every one of them, even the feckless one that’s in the White House now, had at least a moment’s pause to think of the consequences of his actions…and they knew that what they were doing was right.

American armed forces have never gone into battle to exterminate the people they were fighting…we defeated them, we worked with them and we helped them.   That is not the actions of a psychopathic government.   We think we know evil when we see it, and, of late, in our own country, it has become more and more visible.   Evil isn’t just in mass murderers.   Evil shows up in a person who, for whatever twisted reasoning they’re using, thinks they have to settle a grudge, or make a name for themselves, and they go out and do something evil.   Evil can start at any age.  Children that do bad things to dogs and cats will very likely grow up to do bad things to people.  I believe that’s evil.   People that live by a code of violence and revel in heinous crimes, I believe they are evil.

            To be sure, evil will always be with us…but we don’t have to allow it to metastasize beyond controllable limits.   We have to make sure that “good” will always triumph over evil and that isn’t to say that we all have to begin to be “bible-thumpers”.

Over in the muddled Middle East we have ISIS and they are pure evil in my book…a malignancy that has to be excised from the body of humanity.   You kill the cancer, the evil, before it kills you.  Sometimes, as the saying goes, you have to fight fire with fire, and if you’re a firefighter you will understand that right away.  When you’re fighting evil you do what must be done to eradicate and extinguish the fire.   Brutality on the part of ISIS cannot be met with brutality on our part…that would be just as evil, in my estimation.  However, beating the enemy definitively, to the point where he can never again pose a threat, that’s not just permissible, it’s the only way.

            This is from Haile Selassie, the great Ethiopian leader, “Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” 

HEY, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?

HEY, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?

            Governor Brown of California has made it possible for illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses.  In many places a driver’s license is all that’s necessary to prove you are who you are…and that means you could probably vote.  Extrapolating that it means that thousands, maybe millions, of illegal aliens will be voting in the next election for President of the United States.   They will consider who made it possible and vote for that person’s party…in other words many, if not all, those illegal aliens will be voting Democrat.  That would automatically negate every single vote cast in the state of California, unless and until they come up with a foolproof method of discerning who is and who is not legal.

            As with any estimate of how many illegal aliens there are in this country now, the guess for California is about 3 million…which is a pretty good block of voters by itself, and then when you add in the Democrats already registered there, it presents a very sizable chunk of pre-determined votes.   It could be that these illegals are not permitted to vote in a national election, but I’m not sure that any serious effort would be made to eliminate them.   To the best of my knowledge, no other country allows non-citizens to vote in their elections…so why do we?  The answer is simple, it’s a strategy to build the Democrat base.  A simple-but-effective strategy.

            Immigration is always a hot-button political issue, and no more so than in the months leading up to a presidential election. From sanctuary cities to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to birthright citizenship, what can and should be done to fix our current system is on the forefront of the minds of many politicians and voters.   . It has long been accepted by many people that the Constitution automatically bestows citizenship on anyone born on United States territory, even if the parents of that child are illegal immigrants. Scholars, however, have questioned whether this is so, and critics of birthright citizenship believe that it encourages foreigners to come to America, legally or illegally, so that their future children can become U.S. citizens, along with all the benefits that citizenship confers, simply by being born here.

The dispute has consequences, because if those who believe that the Constitution provides for birthright citizenship are correct, it would require a constitutional amendment to change it.   If they are wrong, then Congress could simply pass a statute declaring that the children of illegal immigrants who are born in this country are not citizens.   Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” There is no question that this section was meant to overturn the Supreme Court’s opprobrious and infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), in which a majority of the Court held that slaves were property and that black people (even those who were not slaves) and their children could never be citizens even if they were born in this country. After ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, citizenship would no longer be denied to someone because of his or her race or ethnicity.

The section makes no reference to the alien status of the parents of the child, and many believe that the Fourteenth Amendment enshrines the rule of citizenship defined by birthplace, rather than the rule of citizenship defined by blood; in other words, citizenship defined by the parents’ citizenship, which is still the rule in many countries. There is also the curious phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Some scholars argue that this language excludes the children of aliens from citizenship because they owe allegiance to another nation and are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, at least as that phrase was understood in 1868, a time when, unlike today, there were no restrictions on immigration. Supporters of birthright citizenship contend, on the other hand, that this phrase means only that such aliens be governed by American law when they are in this country, excluding only a small number of discrete categories of people such as the children of foreign diplomats and invading enemy soldiers who are in, but at war with, the United States.

In 1868, this list also included the children of Native Americans living on tribal lands who were considered semi-sovereign people, but in 1924, Congress passed a law granting them citizenship.   In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court held that a child of Chinese parents born in San Francisco was a citizen who could not be barred from re-entry into the United States under the xenophobic Chinese Exclusion Act. In that case, however, it was clear that the Chinese parents were lawful, permanent residents of the United States at the time their child was born.   Opponents of birthright citizenship claim that the parents in that case owed their complete allegiance to the United States, not China, but that the same would not be true for the children of parents who are not lawfully present in this country or who are only temporary visitors at the time of the birth.   Which side is right?   My friends, it’s past the time that this business about “anchor babies” is looked at again.

WELL, LOOKEE HERE…

WELL, LOOKEE HERE…

            I didn’t see anything about this in the American media, except in a Conservative blog, but it was covered in full by the Daily Mail, in the United Kingdom.

            Remember the blocked road in Arizona, the one that led to where Donald Trump was to give a speech?  It was blocked by people and vehicles and the TV helicopters were all over the place but you didn’t get the real story.  Oh sure, people have a right to dissent, to disagree, to hold signs and placards…but they don’t have a right to block a road.  When the law came in and started clearing the place they found one of the young ladies, a Jacinta Gonzalez, had tied herself to a door of a vehicle blocking the road.  Gonzalez, who is originally from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico was in protest against the anti-immigrant views that Trump has spoken out about while on the campaign trail.  It isn’t known, at least by me, if she is in the United States legally or not.  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that Gonzalez along with Michael Cassidy and Stephany Laughlin, who goes by the name of Ben, were arrested for a charge of blocking a public road.   As Cassidy and Laughlin were released around 1 AM on Sunday, Gonzalez claims that she was put on an ICE 'hold' instead of released on her own accord.   

Gonzalez is a 2011 recipient of the Soros Justice Fellowship and graduated from Wesleyan University.   Gonzalez, was a lead organizer of the Congress of Day Laborers with the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice.   In 2011 she was awarded the Soros Justice Fellowship, which grants between $58,000 to $110,000 to individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, catalyze change on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the US and spur debate.  The Wesleyan University graduate is a recipient of the New Voices Fellowship, and has also studied at the School of International Training in Durban, South Africa, and the Universidade Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, according to Open Society Foundations.   So here we have the long arm of George Soros inserting itself, once again, into a political situation.   Lookee here, folks, this is NOT how the First Amendment works, or is supposed to work.

Way back in 2011, Holland began to take serious notice of the changing face of the country.  A new integration bill, which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, 2011 reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society."   ."   The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress. More specifically, the government will impose a ban on face-covering Islamic burqas as of January 1, 2013.   Holland has done that whole liberal thing and realized - maybe too late - that creating a nation of tribes will kill the nation itself. Imagine that folks…they actually had to pass a bill to keep Dutch values.   Fast forward to August 4, 2015, in the American Thinker and what are you seeing?   Immigrants will be required to learn the Dutch language and no exceptions to obedience to Dutch law will be allowed for followers of sharia.  In addition, the government will stop subsidizing Muslims and making special criteria for their employment...and will ban the burqa: The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner, "it is not the government's job to integrate immigrants." The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress.  Has it gotten any better in Holland…Germany…or Sweden…or France…or Belgium, or anywhere in Europe?   The answer is no.  It has gotten worse, and will continue to get worse unless, and until, drastic measures are taken.

America is on the horizon for these barbarians.  Make no mistake about that.  Anyone who tells you otherwise is just blowing smoke into your nether regions, and for many Americans, that’s where their heads are.   You have to wake up to the facts, and even if you ignore the facts they are still facts.  One of those facts is that these savages have world domination as their goal and they will try to achieve it by any means necessary.   If that means “by the sword” or by stealth jihad, they are going to keep trying.   Another fact is that we, the United States, have to regain not only economic power, but also the prestige of a mighty Armed Forces.   No American should have to look over their shoulder all the time to see if someone is coming at them with an axe.

Lookee here…we have a chance to make it morning in America again, to be that shining city on the hill…but it’s going to take people with spines and testicles to do what is necessary.   Wake up America, your country needs you…desperately.

AMERICAN CLASSICS…

AMERICAN CLASSICS…

            I have attended many automobile shows over the years and have seen many different types of vehicles, some of which became American Classics, for whatever reason.  There was Deusenberg, Cord, Packard or LaSalle, just some of the names that conjured up dreams to dream.  Maybe it was the design, maybe it was the speed, maybe it was the mystique behind the name, but they had become American Classics.

            That term also applies to other fields as well.  People of my generation always recognize the music of Glenn Miller.   They don’t have to be told who it is…they know.

When Artie Shaw hits the licorice stick, they know who it is, as they know when Gene Krupa hits the skins.   American Classics include crooners like Bing Crosby, and for the comic sidekick, his sometimes foil, Bob Hope.  Mr. Hope was, all by himself, an American Classic for the seemingly endless work he and his troupes did for the troops.   Pairs of comedians like Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello…American Classics every one.

            We’ve had outstanding sports figures as well.  The Iron Man, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige…American Classics.   Then there were the cadets at the US Military Academy, Glenn Davis and Felix “Doc” Blanchard, known as Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside, respectively.   Arthur Ashe, as fine a tennis player and as nice a person as anyone could want to meet…American Classics, all of them.

            Even in politics, that evil, twisted game of power, there have been American Classics.   Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and yes, Gerald Ford.  They played the game, as TR might have said, and they played it well and because they did, at least in my mind they are American Classics.   Or how about Condaleeza Rice, Maya Angelou, and Leontyne Price…not only for being classics, but breaking another color barrier.

            We mustn’t forget the wonder-filled films that are American Classics either.  For as long as movies last, a trio of Humphrey Bogart films are American Classics; The African Queen, Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.   Gone With The Wind is a classic love story with a background of the Civil War and the burning of Atlanta.   The Godfather, with its penetrating look into the workings of the Mafia, certainly is one of the American Classics.   Patton, a near-to-true story of a great American general is one of several wartime classics, as is Twelve O’clock High and Bomber Command.   Jimmy Stewart was not only a movie star but a true American hero, along with literally dozens of Hollywood names that served our country.

            We’ve had business people who were American Classics.   Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, George Westinghouse, just to name a few.   Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla were inventors, and Buffalo Bill Cody sort of tamed the Wild West, while Barney Oldfield burned up the early automobile racetracks.  There was David Sarnoff and Allen Dumont, both played a huge part in our television viewing.  In front of the TV cameras were Lucille Ball, George Burns and Rod Serling and so many…it’s difficult to name all of them.

            While not exactly people to be emulated, we had some pretty well-known figures in gangsters as well.   Al Capone comes to mind, as does Machine-gun Kelly, Babyface Nelson and from way back, Jesse James.   You may not think of them as American Classics, but they are.  Anyone, and anything, that is pure American and sticks out in our memory…well, that’s an American Classic to me.  For me, I have a personal American Classic…my father.   Dropped out of school in the third grade, grew up before and during the depression, had a family and, for a guy that wasn’t book-smart he could do the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.  That’s a classic to me.

            You might not think of a comic book hero as an American Classic, but they were.

Superman and Batman came along at a time when this country desperately needed a hero even if it was fictional.   The battle of the Alamo provided us with heroes like Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and William Travis along with many others.   America has produced so many classics in so many fields…to name them all would take volumes.

            Who are your American Classics?   Surely there must be some that have come along during your lifetime.  Think about it…maybe shape your lives like that of your heroes.   If they’re the right kind, it could be the best thing you ever did for yourself.

I have been reminded that many people of my age are classics as well.  We have seen and done things that our children and grandchildren will never experience…and that is a shame.   The world changes, but American Classics go on.     

AMERICAN CLASSICS…

            I have attended many automobile shows over the years and have seen many different types of vehicles, some of which became American Classics, for whatever reason.  There was Deusenberg, Cord, Packard or LaSalle, just some of the names that conjured up dreams to dream.  Maybe it was the design, maybe it was the speed, maybe it was the mystique behind the name, but they had become American Classics.

            That term also applies to other fields as well.  People of my generation always recognize the music of Glenn Miller.   They don’t have to be told who it is…they know.

When Artie Shaw hits the licorice stick, they know who it is, as they know when Gene Krupa hits the skins.   American Classics include crooners like Bing Crosby, and for the comic sidekick, his sometimes foil, Bob Hope.  Mr. Hope was, all by himself, an American Classic for the seemingly endless work he and his troupes did for the troops.   Pairs of comedians like Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello…American Classics every one.

            We’ve had outstanding sports figures as well.  The Iron Man, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige…American Classics.   Then there were the cadets at the US Military Academy, Glenn Davis and Felix “Doc” Blanchard, known as Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside, respectively.   Arthur Ashe, as fine a tennis player and as nice a person as anyone could want to meet…American Classics, all of them.

            Even in politics, that evil, twisted game of power, there have been American Classics.   Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and yes, Gerald Ford.  They played the game, as TR might have said, and they played it well and because they did, at least in my mind they are American Classics.   Or how about Condaleeza Rice, Maya Angelou, and Leontyne Price…not only for being classics, but breaking another color barrier.

            We mustn’t forget the wonder-filled films that are American Classics either.  For as long as movies last, a trio of Humphrey Bogart films are American Classics; The African Queen, Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.   Gone With The Wind is a classic love story with a background of the Civil War and the burning of Atlanta.   The Godfather, with its penetrating look into the workings of the Mafia, certainly is one of the American Classics.   Patton, a near-to-true story of a great American general is one of several wartime classics, as is Twelve O’clock High and Bomber Command.   Jimmy Stewart was not only a movie star but a true American hero, along with literally dozens of Hollywood names that served our country.

            We’ve had business people who were American Classics.   Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, George Westinghouse, just to name a few.   Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla were inventors, and Buffalo Bill Cody sort of tamed the Wild West, while Barney Oldfield burned up the early automobile racetracks.  There was David Sarnoff and Allen Dumont, both played a huge part in our television viewing.  In front of the TV cameras were Lucille Ball, George Burns and Rod Serling and so many…it’s difficult to name all of them.

            While not exactly people to be emulated, we had some pretty well-known figures in gangsters as well.   Al Capone comes to mind, as does Machine-gun Kelly, Babyface Nelson and from way back, Jesse James.   You may not think of them as American Classics, but they are.  Anyone, and anything, that is pure American and sticks out in our memory…well, that’s an American Classic to me.  For me, I have a personal American Classic…my father.   Dropped out of school in the third grade, grew up before and during the depression, had a family and, for a guy that wasn’t book-smart he could do the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.  That’s a classic to me.

            You might not think of a comic book hero as an American Classic, but they were.

Superman and Batman came along at a time when this country desperately needed a hero even if it was fictional.   The battle of the Alamo provided us with heroes like Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and William Travis along with many others.   America has produced so many classics in so many fields…to name them all would take volumes.

            Who are your American Classics?   Surely there must be some that have come along during your lifetime.  Think about it…maybe shape your lives like that of your heroes.   If they’re the right kind, it could be the best thing you ever did for yourself.

I have been reminded that many people of my age are classics as well.  We have seen and done things that our children and grandchildren will never experience…and that is a shame.   The world changes, but American Classics go on.     

WHOSE CONSTITUTION IS IT?

WHOSE CONSTITUTION IS IT?

            We have, along with a Declaration of Independence, a set of laws in this country that our founding fathers laid out, knowing full well the consequences of their actions.  A handful of then-colonists dared to object to what rules and regulations were being enacted without any input from them…and their opponent was one of, if not THE, strongest nation on the face of the earth at the time.   Once independence was declared, it was necessary to defend that action, and the colonists did…and the United States was born.  It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t without bloodshed, and it wasn’t without some bickering among the signers of the documents…but it was done, and we’re here today and we are the recipients of those actions.

            There were those then, and we have some like them today, that want to return to some other form of government, rather than the republic we have.   They profess to want a democracy.   Do they understand what a democracy is?   According to Webster’s Dictionary a democracy is actions by majority rule.  Maybe this will make it somewhat clearer…three animals, two wolves and a sheep are deciding what to have for dinner.  Do you want to put any money on which way that vote will go?   Democracy has been likened to mob rule, but that may be a bit harsh, but nevertheless it is majority rule.

On the other hand, we are a republic, which is vastly different from a democracy.  

Here’s an explanation of  a republic…A  Republic, on the other hand, has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system, of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general. The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution--adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment--with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term "the people" means, of course, the electorate.  This excerpt is from The American Ideal of 1776: The Twelve Basic American Principles.

The United States has stumbled now and then, in its rise to the leadership of the free world.   Whatever mistakes we’ve made, have been acknowledged and corrected.  We fought a war between American citizens over the question of states rights and slavery, and eventually we corrected that.   We’ve fought two World Wars to defeat enemies that had ultimate slavery for the defeated in their plans.   Throughout all of it Americans depended on, quoted from, lived, the documents that the founding fathers put together.   All of that is now in question…why?

Islam, the cult of rape, murder and mayhem has been allowed to run rampant through the world.   The followers of the Moon God of 1400 years ago commit the most heinous of crimes in the belief that these acts are condoned.   The goal of every true believer in Islam is the submission of the entire world…and only then will there be peace, according to the Quran.   Muslims, true believers that is, can never be anything but Muslims, owing their allegiance to the Moon God and ONLY the Moon God.   In any country that they inhabit, in any sizable portion, it is desirable to return to the seventh century and because they love death more than we love life, they will gladly sacrifice themselves so that they can reach the paradise they are told is waiting for them.

Our United States Constitution is the highest law in our country.   There is no room for any foreign law.   There is no room for people who wish to fundamentally transform this country into something resembling a devolvement into a tribal land, with warlords holding sway over a little piece.   There is no room for people who truly believe that terror is a legitimate way of life.   There is no room for people who do not wish to assimilate into the mainstream of American life.   Immigrants have always been welcome, as indicated by the notion that America is a melting pot, but the system has to be upheld, and immigrants have to come here with the idea of becoming Americans.

There are those in this country now who wish to negate large parts of the United States Constitution and the amendments thereto.    This cannot be allowed to happen.

America is, as Herbert Hoover said is , “… a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.”   Shall we abandon that premise and let the barbarians take over and wreak their particular kind of hellish terror on us?   The United States Constitution protects us, and we have to protect it…and all of its amendments.  We have choices to make, so wake up America…your country needs you…desperately.

I THINK OBAMA HAS A MEMORY PROBLEM.

I borrowed this because it’s written so very well.  Jimmy Terrell, writing in the Barrow County(GA) News, February 2, 2016, and he says… I THINK OBAMA HAS A MEMORY PROBLEM.

On one day he’ll say something specific to a subject and then a short time later he says the opposite. Take gun control for instance.   Obama has said on numerous occasions: “We must ban all assault weapons because federal background checks simply don’t work.”   Yet, when Obama was pressed about the number of Muslim refugees coming into this country, the President said, “Don’t worry about 100,000 Muslim refugees. They are all getting federal background checks,” indicating background checks work!   I think he missed something there since the same people do the background checks.

And just Monday, on national news, there was a story about a Mexican national who boarded a flight in Mexico to New York City. When the plane landed in New York, the Mexican national walked right through the airport without going through customs.

Do you see something wrong with this picture?   Our own Georgia Congressman Rob Woodall released a news item this week explaining that once again Obama was ignoring the law and doing as he pleased.   As a result of the terrorists attacks in Paris, Congress passed a bill, which the President signed into law, prohibiting people who are citizens of one of 38 Visa Waiver Program countries from participating in the program should they have dual citizenship or if they have visited in Iran, Syria, Sudan or Iraq.

The law is designed to reduce opportunities for ISIS sympathizers and others who want to do us harm from entering the country and taking advantage of our country’s good will.   After signing the law several weeks ago, just last week Obama decided to ignore the law and directed the State Department to create a special exemption for people who traveled to Iran for “legitimate business dealings” following the Obama/Iran nuclear deal.   To be honest, I’m not sure there are any legitimate business deals with Iran. And so goes life in the United States.

Obama seems to care less that we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights.   While we are on Washington and Obama, a federal judge has ordered the Obama Administration to provide evidence that has been requested in the “Fast and Furious” investigation. This one goes back several years when the Obama Administration allowed the ATF to sell guns illegally to outlaws in Mexico.   One of those weapons was used to murder a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The weapon was recovered and identified by serial number along with other forensic evidence.   The Judge has chastised Obama for not following his court order and giving Congress the evidence as requested. Obviously, Obama is above the law as are the other Democrats that ride his coattails.

Speaking of guns, a friend sent me an email about a lady named Trisha Bishop. Miss Bishop is a journalism graduate and writes on the editorial page of the Baltimore Sun.   She wants a national gun registry created with a public, on-line, searchable list of every person in America who owns a firearm. She is afraid of going to someone’s home who might have a firearm in the house.   Her fear was raised to another level during the Christmas holidays while driving through Georgia. She saw billboards recommending “A Glock for Christmas.” Glock is the name of a firearm and the firearm manufacturer is based in Smyrna.   She supposedly recently wrote: “I’m less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore, than I am by those permitted gun owners.” Thank goodness she safely made it out of the state back to her residence in Maryland.   Remember, however, there are others like her and they walk among us!

And, here’s one to think about this week.   We can’t pray in our schools, talk about the Bible, and, in some cases, salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance. Some schools have even banned t-shirts that show the American flag.  

However, school systems across the country have been encouraged to teach the Islamic Quran, dress in Syrian or other Mid-eastern clothing, learn Islamic prayers, and allow time for the Muslim prayers.   We were promised “change” when Obama was elected to office. No one had any idea what that promise involved. But change we have!

            Well, there you have it my friends…someone who isn’t looking at America through rose-colored glasses…someone who isn’t afraid to say what he means and mean what he says…someone who, obviously, is not a supporter of the status quo.   I welcome Mr. Terrell to the growing number of patriots who are raising their voices in opposition to the quiet surrender of our beloved country.  I would differ from Mr. Terrell’s great article in one respect.  He says Barack Hussein Obama has a bad memory, but I believe it’s not memory, it’s part of a gigantic plan to take over the United States.  Wake up America, your country needs you…desperately.