You can't trust any proposed or active national leader who would agree to the invasion a foreign nation without a constitutional declaration of war.
To all the Ron Paul haters: if you are so-called conservative, how, in the name of God Almighty, do you stand by the illegal use of our armed services? You, who say an illegal alien should be deported - you strain at gnats, for that is proportionally what any one illegal alien would be to our 350 million population - would you swallow the camels of illegal foreign wars?
REPENT!!!
THIS is the leading GOP conservative hypocrisy. While indeed illegal aliens should be held accountable for their criminality, it is high treason for a President to invade a foreign country illegally: without a constitutional declaration of war.
I now have a son in the USMC, and one more headed in that direction. I'll be very active to make sure our government does NOT act in violation of the constitution, using the armed services illegally.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
That has me pissed off
A campaign photo for a GOP Presidential contender pairs Ron Paul with the President of Iran, as if running mates - and that has me pissed off:
Pairing Ron Paul in a photo with a known tyrant is just more idiotic scoffing against the clearly responsible position that we must obey our constitutional laws and declare wars through congress before invading foreign countries: SCOFFING IS NOT THE SAME THING AS PRESENTING A CREDIBLE ARGUMENT IN A PRINCIPLED DEBATE.
You place a photo like this forward as a reason for supporting your favorite candidate, and wonder why there is a problem with our national discourse? Obviously Ron Paul would have a difficult time with rallying you to a general election push against the Obama Administration incumbency in the fall - but that's up to you.
I oppose liberal WARFARE programs as well as liberal welfare programs - but perhaps you believe the hype for war, that our path to national redemption lies through the streets of Tehran. Who in YOUR family is going to fight this? I have one son in the breech. Soon I'll have two there.
You think I support Ron Paul because Iran President "Ibeenanutjob" would like him? Or it's a joke: scoffing. Because as a lapsed conservative bought off by the shock and awe of cool wars overseas, you WANT more liberal WARFARE programs: obviously not giving a God DAMN about whose sons are going to pay the ultimate price for it.
If there is proof that Iran is on the brink of wielding a nuclear bomb against us, then present that information to the U.S. Congress, and ask for a declaration of war - OTHERWISE, SHUT THE SHIT HOLE UP.
Take this to heart: patriots fight when our cause is JUST - then conquer we must: and this be our motto, IN GOD IS OUR TRUST - note, that's not the same thing as a GOD DAMNED lie to manipulate a wag-the-dog invasion for oil robber barons and to cover up the U.S./West German stockpiling of chemical weapons in Iraq.
Pairing Ron Paul in a photo with a known tyrant is just more idiotic scoffing against the clearly responsible position that we must obey our constitutional laws and declare wars through congress before invading foreign countries: SCOFFING IS NOT THE SAME THING AS PRESENTING A CREDIBLE ARGUMENT IN A PRINCIPLED DEBATE.
You place a photo like this forward as a reason for supporting your favorite candidate, and wonder why there is a problem with our national discourse? Obviously Ron Paul would have a difficult time with rallying you to a general election push against the Obama Administration incumbency in the fall - but that's up to you.
I oppose liberal WARFARE programs as well as liberal welfare programs - but perhaps you believe the hype for war, that our path to national redemption lies through the streets of Tehran. Who in YOUR family is going to fight this? I have one son in the breech. Soon I'll have two there.
You think I support Ron Paul because Iran President "Ibeenanutjob" would like him? Or it's a joke: scoffing. Because as a lapsed conservative bought off by the shock and awe of cool wars overseas, you WANT more liberal WARFARE programs: obviously not giving a God DAMN about whose sons are going to pay the ultimate price for it.
If there is proof that Iran is on the brink of wielding a nuclear bomb against us, then present that information to the U.S. Congress, and ask for a declaration of war - OTHERWISE, SHUT THE SHIT HOLE UP.
Take this to heart: patriots fight when our cause is JUST - then conquer we must: and this be our motto, IN GOD IS OUR TRUST - note, that's not the same thing as a GOD DAMNED lie to manipulate a wag-the-dog invasion for oil robber barons and to cover up the U.S./West German stockpiling of chemical weapons in Iraq.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Asleep on the right
Republicans are not waking up as they are asleep on the right
Too often Republicans don’t care what commerce is if it is not part of their own bottom line. To far too many of them, the path of national redemption leads by way of a new liberal WARFARE program through the streets of Tehran, and their bosses are the multi-national corporate CEOs who want to keep oil refineries and trade to themselves. They talk a good game on big picture matters but ignore the bits and pieces of compromise that corrupt the whole.
They believe themselves to be such paragon guardians of American virtues, but they compromise those virtues without much thought - like sleepwalking cereal rapists, abusing the constitution when it suits them - not waking up. They are asleep on the right.
America may never awaken to what true progressive values are: individual liberty and free enterprise unfettered by manipulative regulations, steep taxes and international entanglements that trade away our national sovereignty. Republicans don’t care enough about what real money is aside from the false federal reserve notes that poison true commerce. They are ready to compromise about government taking care of everyone's kids while taking ultimate control of them. They have morals completely unworthy of the bits and pieces that compromise gives them at the expense of their integrity and our national treasury.
Patriotic Americans should awaken grateful to God, but we're not. We should be thankful for our kids, ready for our jobs, and to plan our day around improving, empowering and making the most of every circumstance. Instead, there is compromise on core values, and we have forgotten how to listen. We all have been lusting after bits and pieces instead of truth.
As Americans, we have the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property and happiness. But we must awaken to the values that we have taken for granted in the past and have been abandoning for far to long now.
Too often Republicans don’t care what commerce is if it is not part of their own bottom line. To far too many of them, the path of national redemption leads by way of a new liberal WARFARE program through the streets of Tehran, and their bosses are the multi-national corporate CEOs who want to keep oil refineries and trade to themselves. They talk a good game on big picture matters but ignore the bits and pieces of compromise that corrupt the whole.
They believe themselves to be such paragon guardians of American virtues, but they compromise those virtues without much thought - like sleepwalking cereal rapists, abusing the constitution when it suits them - not waking up. They are asleep on the right.
America may never awaken to what true progressive values are: individual liberty and free enterprise unfettered by manipulative regulations, steep taxes and international entanglements that trade away our national sovereignty. Republicans don’t care enough about what real money is aside from the false federal reserve notes that poison true commerce. They are ready to compromise about government taking care of everyone's kids while taking ultimate control of them. They have morals completely unworthy of the bits and pieces that compromise gives them at the expense of their integrity and our national treasury.
Patriotic Americans should awaken grateful to God, but we're not. We should be thankful for our kids, ready for our jobs, and to plan our day around improving, empowering and making the most of every circumstance. Instead, there is compromise on core values, and we have forgotten how to listen. We all have been lusting after bits and pieces instead of truth.
As Americans, we have the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property and happiness. But we must awaken to the values that we have taken for granted in the past and have been abandoning for far to long now.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Imagine
Imagine, no utopia, no liberal diatribe,
Imagine no more empire - it's easy if you try . . .
Imagine world-wide competition for investment as the modern world is at last free to develop to it's true potential. Imagine: a repeal of regressive taxes, starting with ending the punishment of capital gains, and then comes the phasing out of the barbaric income tax. Imagine: an astounding infusion of cash as tens of trillions of dollars worth of investment is cut loose on the economy to fund its growth at an incredible and sustained pace that few but the truly visionary would have predicted. Imagine an economy so strong that excise taxes and the sale of federal lands would cover the needs of a greatly reduced federal government. Imagine, not only the full employment of all Americans who wanted to work, but the competition for millions - tens of millions - more through guest worker programs or sheltered indenture contracts. Imagine if we found that Mexico alone could not possibly supply enough labor for us.
This is the future-past for us, for it has happened before on a proportionally dramatic scale - when early generations blazed a path of thrift, productivity and wise investment as the industrial revolution took off and America grew - remember learning something about that? About - when progressive meant the bold and great experiment in personal liberty unfettered by despotic centralized imperial government management: back when European social conservatives said it could never work, it would never last?
Imagine - though socialist Democrats scream for their liberal welfare programs, bleating like drowning sheep about the suffering of the slothful if their subsidies are not funded through the lawless unconstitutional federal entitlements that they have made into their way of life.
Imagine - though pugnacious Republicans scream for their liberal WARFARE programs, bleating like drowning sheep about the nuclear winter that must come upon the world if their invasions are not funded through the lawless unconstitutional federal entanglements that they have made into their way of life.
And with your vote, chose to say that Ron Paul is right for America.
And -
Imagine all the people, creatively producing wealth,
You may say I'm a dreamer. Well, I'm not the only one . . .
Imagine no more empire - it's easy if you try . . .
Imagine world-wide competition for investment as the modern world is at last free to develop to it's true potential. Imagine: a repeal of regressive taxes, starting with ending the punishment of capital gains, and then comes the phasing out of the barbaric income tax. Imagine: an astounding infusion of cash as tens of trillions of dollars worth of investment is cut loose on the economy to fund its growth at an incredible and sustained pace that few but the truly visionary would have predicted. Imagine an economy so strong that excise taxes and the sale of federal lands would cover the needs of a greatly reduced federal government. Imagine, not only the full employment of all Americans who wanted to work, but the competition for millions - tens of millions - more through guest worker programs or sheltered indenture contracts. Imagine if we found that Mexico alone could not possibly supply enough labor for us.
This is the future-past for us, for it has happened before on a proportionally dramatic scale - when early generations blazed a path of thrift, productivity and wise investment as the industrial revolution took off and America grew - remember learning something about that? About - when progressive meant the bold and great experiment in personal liberty unfettered by despotic centralized imperial government management: back when European social conservatives said it could never work, it would never last?
Imagine - though socialist Democrats scream for their liberal welfare programs, bleating like drowning sheep about the suffering of the slothful if their subsidies are not funded through the lawless unconstitutional federal entitlements that they have made into their way of life.
Imagine - though pugnacious Republicans scream for their liberal WARFARE programs, bleating like drowning sheep about the nuclear winter that must come upon the world if their invasions are not funded through the lawless unconstitutional federal entanglements that they have made into their way of life.
And with your vote, chose to say that Ron Paul is right for America.
And -
Imagine all the people, creatively producing wealth,
You may say I'm a dreamer. Well, I'm not the only one . . .
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Keeping it real with Ron and Rand
We should be keeping it real with Ron and Rand, celebrating individual freedom as we do so
There is this truth that I would hope more and more reasonable people will embrace as the campaign season wears on in America: only one candidate is choice-grade right on the cause for restoring our constitutional government and leading where we need to take our nation moving forward: that candidate is Ron Paul.
Keeping it real with Ron Paul and his campaign - with Senator Rand Paul at his side - means keeping the rule of constitutional law real and vitally important in our national debate. It means keeping it real when we point out the liberal extremes of welfare and warfare programs, social entitlements and foreign entanglements.
It means we never allow a battle campaign in a foreign land in the name of America without a constitutional declaration of war!
It means we look at what our law describes and delineates is the function of federal government, and obey that description and delineation as the limit of federal power!
Keeping it real with Ron and Rand means speaking these truths in love, because they are rarely understood among even many of our friends and loved ones, our confidants and our own family members, let alone our neighbors: this restoration of our constitutionally limited federal government is going to take time. Restoring our founders' vision will take a multitude of patient sufferings at the hands of those who would mock and ridicule us despite the fact that they are sometimes closest to us.
Bottom line: this means sometimes suffering at the hands of our own: for me that might be my people, evangelical Christians.
I believe standing for the truth is one of life's great privileges, not just a right and responsibility. I feel this from the standpoint of being a believer in Christ:
One, I am admonished to do justly, love mercy and to walk humbly with my God, and that I am as an ambassador in a world full of nations that are not yet become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ. I am sent as a lamb among wolves, knowing that God's kingdom is not of this world, therefore I am not to fight by force of arms: the battle is spiritual, wrestling not against flesh and blood.
Two, I know that to "reclaim America for Christ" in the evangelical religious right political sense would be helping create nothing more than another worldly kingdom, worse, a theocracy that has stepped out in front of God's presence in body with an entourage ready to rule the politics of the world: namely Christ arriving in the clouds as lightning is seen from east to west, and all his holy angels with him.
This political cause to "reclaim America for Christ" is instead a theocracy without God! Well, let the Pagan Jihadist Islamic despots do that: look, see how it is their false prophet's calling on them in the unworthy name of Allah, a name dredged from the cesspool of Arab idolatry. Let not God's holy name be so defamed as to be drenched in the blood of oppressed victims!
A theocracy without God, or out in front of God's will, is a theocratic despotism! It is tyranny, folks.
Our founders in America instead raised up a Constitutional Republic where people of all beliefs could be invited to live in community together as citizens - a vehicle for bringing the true wealth of opportunity forward in the world through the free enterprise of an unfettered productive, creative people.
That is where evangelical Christians would be free to tell the good news of great joy: the gospel.
It should not be about finding a federal government agency to curtail gay marriages as illegal. It should be about sharing freely how the fleshly abandonment of the natural use of sex is a form of sexual abuse by the authority of scriptures, and Christ proves the power to conquer this abominable human depravity.
It should not be about a federal ban on abortion. It should be about keeping the laws against taking human life outside the due process of law a state mandate, with the product of human conception that we know to be biologically developing, therefore human and being, included in that equality of protection.
Keep it all real with Ron and Rand. And if you're an evangelical Christian, be thankful - even joyful - to God Almighty for the life in your lungs to do so.
There is this truth that I would hope more and more reasonable people will embrace as the campaign season wears on in America: only one candidate is choice-grade right on the cause for restoring our constitutional government and leading where we need to take our nation moving forward: that candidate is Ron Paul.
Keeping it real with Ron Paul and his campaign - with Senator Rand Paul at his side - means keeping the rule of constitutional law real and vitally important in our national debate. It means keeping it real when we point out the liberal extremes of welfare and warfare programs, social entitlements and foreign entanglements.
It means we never allow a battle campaign in a foreign land in the name of America without a constitutional declaration of war!
It means we look at what our law describes and delineates is the function of federal government, and obey that description and delineation as the limit of federal power!
Keeping it real with Ron and Rand means speaking these truths in love, because they are rarely understood among even many of our friends and loved ones, our confidants and our own family members, let alone our neighbors: this restoration of our constitutionally limited federal government is going to take time. Restoring our founders' vision will take a multitude of patient sufferings at the hands of those who would mock and ridicule us despite the fact that they are sometimes closest to us.
Bottom line: this means sometimes suffering at the hands of our own: for me that might be my people, evangelical Christians.
I believe standing for the truth is one of life's great privileges, not just a right and responsibility. I feel this from the standpoint of being a believer in Christ:
One, I am admonished to do justly, love mercy and to walk humbly with my God, and that I am as an ambassador in a world full of nations that are not yet become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ. I am sent as a lamb among wolves, knowing that God's kingdom is not of this world, therefore I am not to fight by force of arms: the battle is spiritual, wrestling not against flesh and blood.
Two, I know that to "reclaim America for Christ" in the evangelical religious right political sense would be helping create nothing more than another worldly kingdom, worse, a theocracy that has stepped out in front of God's presence in body with an entourage ready to rule the politics of the world: namely Christ arriving in the clouds as lightning is seen from east to west, and all his holy angels with him.
This political cause to "reclaim America for Christ" is instead a theocracy without God! Well, let the Pagan Jihadist Islamic despots do that: look, see how it is their false prophet's calling on them in the unworthy name of Allah, a name dredged from the cesspool of Arab idolatry. Let not God's holy name be so defamed as to be drenched in the blood of oppressed victims!
A theocracy without God, or out in front of God's will, is a theocratic despotism! It is tyranny, folks.
Our founders in America instead raised up a Constitutional Republic where people of all beliefs could be invited to live in community together as citizens - a vehicle for bringing the true wealth of opportunity forward in the world through the free enterprise of an unfettered productive, creative people.
That is where evangelical Christians would be free to tell the good news of great joy: the gospel.
It should not be about finding a federal government agency to curtail gay marriages as illegal. It should be about sharing freely how the fleshly abandonment of the natural use of sex is a form of sexual abuse by the authority of scriptures, and Christ proves the power to conquer this abominable human depravity.
It should not be about a federal ban on abortion. It should be about keeping the laws against taking human life outside the due process of law a state mandate, with the product of human conception that we know to be biologically developing, therefore human and being, included in that equality of protection.
Keep it all real with Ron and Rand. And if you're an evangelical Christian, be thankful - even joyful - to God Almighty for the life in your lungs to do so.
Monday, December 19, 2011
When dad gets home
Some conservatives are whining because a real Constitutionalist is in the race for GOP nominee: these naughty Republicans are acting like misbehaving children who feel the fear of when dad gets home
I acknowledge that there is a reluctance among many post-modern conservatives in America to quickly align themselves with a Ron Paul revolution to restore our Constitutional republic.
What I want to do is take a stab at explaining that reluctance.
These conservatives have been calling for restoring the Constitution's rule of law, wanting judges to interpret the Constitution according to original intent, and not to legislate from the bench.
These conservatives say they want lower spending and fiscal restraint. They say they want a strong military and that social causes like pro-life and true marriage are important to them.
Then an authoritative, Jeffersonian Constitutionalist runs for the Republican Party presidential nomination, and these conservatives are very slow, and somewhat reluctant to join his side.
I compare their difficulty with Ron Paul to children who, after crying for dad to come home, don't like to hear dad tell them that they really will have to clean their room, then they need a session with the family's board of education for their disobedience.
Yes, these conservatives need a spanking for their very liberal interpretations of the constitutional rule of law, their social engineering and manipulations that amount to unconstitutional excess.
There are among these conservatives those who screamed for a fight when the 9-11 attacks happened, and they supported the nation's responses regardless of the fact that they circumvented the rule of law that requires the president to seek a declaration of war through congress.
That rule of law requirement has been forgotten, and complaints about presidents abusing the concept of their war powers have been scoffed at, often by these very same hawkish conservatives.
And they argued for the Patriot Act heedless of the marshal law style despotism coded into it.
On the pro life front, these conservatives want the federal government to end abortions through the jack-booted thuggery of centralized, national enforcement.
Some get angry over the frustrating way that the pro-abortion cause has been manipulated through activist judges, and, as voiced by one of the other presidential nomination candidates, would like for a president to violate his limitations of authority and directly punish judges for their violations of judicial restraint.
You can almost hear the rancorous debate: THEY STARTED IT!!! DID NOT!!! I WANT MY POWER BACK!!! NO, GIVE IT TO ME!!!
Children, and they don't like to be corrected, now do they.
There is a problem in America because of liberal welfare programs. There is also a problem in America because of liberal warfare programs.
There are problems because of spending on social manipulation agendas, and also because of spending on corporate manipulation agendas. TARP to HUD, GATT to NAFTA, and a constellation of other Constitutionally lawless acts, need to be on the table for judgement.
But there are Republican Party conservatives who are ready to join the whiners when its their unconstitutional toys that are up for consequences.
These are the conservatives who need to grow up, and their emotional immaturity shows with their feeling of when dad gets home.
I acknowledge that there is a reluctance among many post-modern conservatives in America to quickly align themselves with a Ron Paul revolution to restore our Constitutional republic.
What I want to do is take a stab at explaining that reluctance.
These conservatives have been calling for restoring the Constitution's rule of law, wanting judges to interpret the Constitution according to original intent, and not to legislate from the bench.
These conservatives say they want lower spending and fiscal restraint. They say they want a strong military and that social causes like pro-life and true marriage are important to them.
Then an authoritative, Jeffersonian Constitutionalist runs for the Republican Party presidential nomination, and these conservatives are very slow, and somewhat reluctant to join his side.
I compare their difficulty with Ron Paul to children who, after crying for dad to come home, don't like to hear dad tell them that they really will have to clean their room, then they need a session with the family's board of education for their disobedience.
Yes, these conservatives need a spanking for their very liberal interpretations of the constitutional rule of law, their social engineering and manipulations that amount to unconstitutional excess.
There are among these conservatives those who screamed for a fight when the 9-11 attacks happened, and they supported the nation's responses regardless of the fact that they circumvented the rule of law that requires the president to seek a declaration of war through congress.
That rule of law requirement has been forgotten, and complaints about presidents abusing the concept of their war powers have been scoffed at, often by these very same hawkish conservatives.
And they argued for the Patriot Act heedless of the marshal law style despotism coded into it.
On the pro life front, these conservatives want the federal government to end abortions through the jack-booted thuggery of centralized, national enforcement.
Some get angry over the frustrating way that the pro-abortion cause has been manipulated through activist judges, and, as voiced by one of the other presidential nomination candidates, would like for a president to violate his limitations of authority and directly punish judges for their violations of judicial restraint.
You can almost hear the rancorous debate: THEY STARTED IT!!! DID NOT!!! I WANT MY POWER BACK!!! NO, GIVE IT TO ME!!!
Children, and they don't like to be corrected, now do they.
There is a problem in America because of liberal welfare programs. There is also a problem in America because of liberal warfare programs.
There are problems because of spending on social manipulation agendas, and also because of spending on corporate manipulation agendas. TARP to HUD, GATT to NAFTA, and a constellation of other Constitutionally lawless acts, need to be on the table for judgement.
But there are Republican Party conservatives who are ready to join the whiners when its their unconstitutional toys that are up for consequences.
These are the conservatives who need to grow up, and their emotional immaturity shows with their feeling of when dad gets home.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
TEA Party Patriot organizers bungle straw poll survey
A straw poll of 23,000 conservative activists on Sunday went awry when organizers messed up the instructions for phone-in participants to follow for choosing who they want for GOP presidential nominee.
The polling of TEA Party Patriots listening to four of the seven lead contenders who participated with the phone-in forum were told that they would first vote for who they thought did the best in providing answers during the questioning period.
Instructions explained that then they would be given a chance to choose who of all the seven remaining top contenders they would support for Republican nominee, regardless of participation in the forum.
It was after the forum that the straw poll began, first with a choice of who listeners liked among the forum participants. Only the question was: who do you support from among these four to be the Republican nominee.
Then the instructions changed further, compounding the problem even more. When the second question came, asking whom of the other three candidates do you support, the rules also changed again: only the three, Ron Paul, John Huntsman and Richard Perry, were included for the choices of the second question.
To make matters worse, respondents were only just then informed that if they chose a candidate from among the first four, during the first question, then their response to the second question would not be counted.
This confusion led many to chose from the four forum participants first, then have no recourse to chose a favorite candidate if their favorite was among the second group.
The fact that the straw poll did not place all candidate choices together in a clear selection process with clear instructions that did not change negates the straw poll's credibility.
It is sad that the whole event was completely bungled. It was advertised as a means of gauging conservative TEA Party support for Republican presidential contenders without media manipulation.
Then with the confusion about the instructions, and how the instructions changed, the result was a bungled survey that can't be trusted.
The TEA Party Patriots website indicated the results of the bungled straw poll would be posted at 8 a.m., Monday - December 19.
The polling of TEA Party Patriots listening to four of the seven lead contenders who participated with the phone-in forum were told that they would first vote for who they thought did the best in providing answers during the questioning period.
Instructions explained that then they would be given a chance to choose who of all the seven remaining top contenders they would support for Republican nominee, regardless of participation in the forum.
It was after the forum that the straw poll began, first with a choice of who listeners liked among the forum participants. Only the question was: who do you support from among these four to be the Republican nominee.
Then the instructions changed further, compounding the problem even more. When the second question came, asking whom of the other three candidates do you support, the rules also changed again: only the three, Ron Paul, John Huntsman and Richard Perry, were included for the choices of the second question.
To make matters worse, respondents were only just then informed that if they chose a candidate from among the first four, during the first question, then their response to the second question would not be counted.
This confusion led many to chose from the four forum participants first, then have no recourse to chose a favorite candidate if their favorite was among the second group.
The fact that the straw poll did not place all candidate choices together in a clear selection process with clear instructions that did not change negates the straw poll's credibility.
It is sad that the whole event was completely bungled. It was advertised as a means of gauging conservative TEA Party support for Republican presidential contenders without media manipulation.
Then with the confusion about the instructions, and how the instructions changed, the result was a bungled survey that can't be trusted.
The TEA Party Patriots website indicated the results of the bungled straw poll would be posted at 8 a.m., Monday - December 19.
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