Fastest concession in the west

I wasn’t planning to stay up super late following the election results, and it turns out I didn’t have to.  I started checking various web sites as soon as the polls closed in my state, and within a couple hours, Obama racked up over 300 projected electoral votes and McCain congratulated him on his victory.  The fastest concession in the West.

Here’s what we have to look forward to under an Obama presidency, especially one in which the same party also has a majority in the House and Senate.  It ain’t a pretty sight.  Obama’s pick for Chief of Staff isn’t too encouraging either.  This is true for all those Obama worshipers as well.  Don’t think you’ll get off easy just because you voted for him, adored him and called him your messiah.

On the other hand, there is an awakening in America that will turn out to be stronger than the darkness that is poised to envelop us all.  It is called Freedom, and when freedom takes hold in people’s hearts, what can stand against it?  Take a look at the video and you will see that there truly is hope for America, and no, I’m not talking about Obama.

If you voted for Obama, if you supported him during his campaign, don’t be shy about joining the peaceful movement for Freedom.  It won’t be long before you find out that the “change you can believe in” is something you could never support, the “hope for America” has turned to despair, and your so-called messiah has turned out to be an antichrist.  These things happen; people make mistakes, and in any case, the election was rigged.  The important thing is to work to preserve our country’s freedom, our country’s sovereignty, and to return our country to true Constitutional government and sound money.  Obama will be a huge obstacle to these goals, but McCain would have been as well, Bush definitely was (if it hadn’t been for actions taken by Bush, Obama wouldn’t be such a frightening prospect), and leaders before Bush have been obstacles as well. 

The other thing to remember is that Obama is not president until the electors cast their votes on December 15 and those votes are counted on January 6.  There is a lot brewing and there could be some surprises between now and then.  Obama too has obstacles in his path.  He may skate by; those set on destroying our nation have already paved the way.  On the other hand, miracles still happen.  What I do know is that there will be no time for a huge sigh of relief and going back to your regular life with your head in the sand.  The price of freedom is constant vigilance, and we all need to be vigilant.  This would be true even if the absolute best, highest quality candidate became president.  It’s especially true now that it’s looking like what we’ll get instead is the bottom of the heap in terms of quality and principle.  I researched each third party candidate on the Colorado ballot and believe me, they are all head and shoulders–no, a full body length–above Obama.  We couldn’t have gotten a worse candidate to be president if we’d tried.  And, as the long list of election fraud shows, we’ll never know who our real choice was.

But if we get working on the cause of freedom starting now, we can and will get back to the point where our vote will count, where we will have real choices in the candidates running, and where once again our government will be limited to the powers specifically granted it by the Constitution.  Evil is strong, but good is even stronger.  We the People under God can be the greatest obstacle in the path of evil if we so choose.

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What if it’s Obama?

While it’s been a couple days since I’ve listened to the talk shows, I am positive the fear of Obama winning this election is still palpable among those opposed to him.  Some of the stuff he says sure sounds scary to me too, and I’m not particularly looking forward to waking up Wednesday morning to the prospects of an Obama presidency. 

I’ve learned that the best way to face up to fear is to imagine the worst possible situation and come up with an initial plan for dealing with it.  If an Obama presidency is that worst case scenario–and it is for many–than that’s what we need to be talking about.

I recently got a rather lengthy “prophecy” through email about how the American people are on the verge of electing the most ungodly president in history and how that was an awful thing.  I definitely would prefer a God-fearing man or woman in the White House.  But after reading the email, I couldn’t help but be hit over the head with the fact that there is one reason why an ungodly president is such a frightening prospect.  The reason is because now the president has way more power than he’s ever had and way more power than the Constitution gave him.  The Founding Fathers understood that people are fallible, even at times downright evil, and they wanted to protect the nation from being taken down by such a person.  So they instituted the system of limited government with checks and balances.  Were the Constitution being followed today, it would still be problematic that someone as extreme as Obama was a serious contender, but the damage he could do would be limited.  Now, I think a huge part of the fear of an Obama presidency is that we really don’t know just how far he’ll be able to go.  There’s a sense that once he’s elected, we’re going to be turning him loose with all this power and few limits.  A Godly president might handle that situation just fine, at least for a time, but someone like Obama?  Who knows what he’s going to do?  His statements and his record aren’t all that encouraging–he comes across as the type who’ll stop at nothing to get his way.

There’s also the issue of his citizenship.  We’ve beaten the birth certificate issue to death here, and it’s clear that no one in government who might have any remote responsibility with verifying this has any interest in doing the right thing.  But beyond that, there’s the whole Indonesia side and the very real question of whether Obama attending school in Indonesia meant that his American citizenship was renounced as it would have had to have been for anyone else attending school at the time.  We are facing the prospect of having a president who is not even an American citizen, and for some strange reason, the people who should care don’t want to be bothered.  Court after court throws the case out, basically saying regular citizens have no right to question a candidate’s right to be on the ballot.  It turns out it’s not really the states’ jobs to verify the eligibility of the candidate, and the party running a candidate is apparently under no obligation to properly vet that candidate either.  And the voters have nothing to say on the matter.  More suits are being planned, and this no doubt will continue well after tomorrow.

But it’s looking more and more likely that Obama will skate right through all the court mess and get innaugurated as our president, citizen or not, and if we don’t like it, well that’s just too darn bad.

What we have going on right now is a major Constitutional crisis.  The Constitution has been steadily eroded for years and this election could deal it another serious blow–this one could even be fatal.  It is important to realize that the reasons for this crisis are true regardless of who wins the election tomorrow.  McCain as president will have lots of unconstitutional powers just like Obama will.  McCain does seem to be a more decent person than Obama, so if he wins, the people who voted for him will figure they have reprieve from any serious problems for the next four years again.  Then when the next presidential election rolls around, there will be the same kind of fear there is now because what if the really evil guy (who will certainly be even worse than Obama) wins?  This is a very insecure position to be in.  I would much rather we went back to a governmental system where it would be embarrassing if a bad president got in, but not damaging.  We could all survive four years of bad Obama jokes, but can we survive four years of bad Obama policy?  With all the extra powers he’ll get as president, we really don’t know.

Given that we have good reason to worry, here is a reason that we should relax about the election outcome, at least for a few days.  My own study has convinced me that there is a shadow government and a secret agenda at work in this country.  The shadow government consists of the powerful financiers who use their great wealth to manipulate political events to benefit them.  The agenda is to bring the whole world into a one world government where they get to be kings and the rest of us get to be serfs or prisoners.  These people use their power to manipulate nations (including ours) into getting involved in wars.  They use their power to engineer financial crises such as the one we are currently in.  They use their power to make sure they stay in power and that only their own handpicked people get to be leaders.  They rig and manipulate our elections.  For those who want to verify what I just said, ample information can be found at such web sites as Freedom Force, InfoWars, Prison Planet, and News with Views, to name but a few.

With that in mind, it is my belief that this current election has been rigged and the winner has been decided months ago by the shadow government.  I very much believe in voting and I did vote, but I’m under no illusion that my vote actually means anything to anyone but me.  Here is a partial list of the numerous vote fraud incidents covering everything from registration fraud to outright hacking of the voting machines.  Without actually reading a single article listed, you should get a good sense of the magnitude of the problem just by the miniscule size of the scroll bar.  Even if it’s all just random fraud, there is enough of it to distort the actual poll results to the point where we have no way of knowing what the will of the people truly is.  I happen to believe underneath all that fraud is a plan to rig the elections to yield a certain outcome.

I can think of three possible scenarios for a rigged election.  1.  McCain is the pick and Obama is the useful idiot running against him, meaning that no matter how people vote and no matter what the newspaper polls say, McCain is going to win this election.  2.  Obama is the pick and McCain is the useful idiot running against him, and Obama will win no matter how people vote.  3.  Both Obama and McCain are good Globalist team players and it honestly doesn’t matter to the power brokers which one it is as long as it’s one of the two, meaning that the voters will have some say in the outcome by how they vote but that say is going to be diluted by the evident fraud that is still present and it wasn’t a real choice anyway.  Since the election has already been decided, it’s going to play out according to plan and while you should definitely vote on the principle of the matter, there’s no use in worrying about the outcome.

So what should we do if that outcome is Obama?  Well, I would say the same things you should do if the outcome happens to be McCain.  The issues that got our country to this critical point are true no matter which of the two it is.  We need to work hard to take back the power we have through our vote.  We need to do our part to end the massive fraud going on.  My suggestion is to persuade all counties and states to go back to paper ballots where real people count each and every ballot under the watchful eyes of whoever wants to be there for the count.  I don’t have a problem with scanning ballots to get initial results, but the results aren’t official until the ballots are handcounted, preferably more than once.  The other thing we need to focus our efforts on is restoring the rule of the Constitution.  We need to hold our elected officials accountable to evaluating legislation based on its constitutionality.  If it’s not permitted by the Constitution, they need to vote no on it no matter how good the intentions behind the legislation are.  We need to educate ourselves on the Constitution, what it says, what it means, and what the Founding Fathers intended.  Apparently, James Madison took notes of the various meetings where people were discussing the wording of the Constitution.  Any doubts as to the intent of a particular passage can be found in those notes.  We need to work hard to educate our fellow citizens about the Constitution and what a government that operates within its Constitutional limits would look like.  These are some foundational issues which need to be addressed quickly if our country is to survive as a sovereign nation and if we will continue as a free people.  The beauty of these issues is that because they are so basic, they are hardly partisan, and people can accept that they are important no matter who they voted for.  So, anyone who is aware that our country needs to go back to basics can help the cause.

Once we have our vote back and everything unconstitutional is eliminated, we will be well on our way to resolving the myriad other issues that plague us and which the politicians harp on but can’t seem to find solutions for.  The solutions are actually in our hands and we need to implement them.  The things that are broken about our nation are broken no matter who wins the sham election tomorrow.  For this reason, it’s time to quit worrying about who will win and get to work with what we can do.  Although wresting control of our nation and our destiny from the Globalists is not going to be easy, especially since they are so close to achieving their goals, it is still possible.  After this election, I am going to take a bit of a breather from politics while I contemplate where I can best use my talents to help in the cause of freedom.  Then I will get started on my part.  I would encourage you to do the same.  When you’re ready, check out both Freedom Force and Campaign for Liberty to get ideas and contacts to help you get started.

We can take this country back if we all do our part… even if it is Obama.

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Ron Paul, 9/11 Truth and other associations that could blow your credibility… or get you killed.

In the time leading up to the 2004 presidential election, my husband and I spent some time on the Little Green Footballs web site.  Many of the LGF members would post comments as they were watching the various conventions, debates, and then the election results coverage itself.  The comments were often quite funny, irreverent, and sometimes (we thought) right on the money.  We considered ourselves conservative Republicans and let’s just say we didn’t want Kerry to win that one.

We don’t frequent LGF as much as we used to, but my husband still checks them out from time to time.  However, we’ve changed in the interrim, and perhaps the site has too.  Dh says it’s deteriorated in the sense that Charles Johnson, the site owner, now writes posts saying so-and-so is a complete scumbag, something he didn’t do before.

One time I was reading comments, and I noticed there was some debate about the validity of Jerome Corsi’s book Obama Nation because Corsi had been seen associating with Ron Paul.  Someone else mentioned that he was a “9/11 Troofer,” LGF’s insult for people who are part of the 9/11 Truth movement.  another commenter conceded that at least his book Unfit for Command kept “JF’nK” out of office.  Seeing as I was hoping Ron Paul would win the Republican nomination I found it disturbing that someone’s credibility might be called into question merely because he associated with Ron Paul or had something to do with the 9/11 Truth movement.

I’ve been following Attorney Phil Berg’s progress with his lawsuit against Obama which claims that in two separate ways Obama does not meet the presidential requirement of being a natural-born US citizen and therefore cannot legally be on this year’s ballot as a presidential candidate.  The latest is that the judge hearing the case dismissed it and Berg is taking it to the Supreme Court.

Members of LGF apparently were posting links pertaining to Obama’s birth certificate and Charles Johnson put a stop to that with a forceful message that anyone who continued to post such links would have their membership revoked.  He said that the whole affair wasn’t true because Factcheck.org said it wasn’t and that was that.  OK, fair enough.  Factcheck.org is supposed to check these things out and they came down saying Obama was born in the USA.

But the real clincher, the absolute proof that this whole lawsuit is frivolous posted yesterday.  Charles Johnson wrote: 

“Here’s one simple fact that should be enough to show you why we believe this story is complete, unmitigated hooey.

Philip Berg is a 9/11 Truther.”

So there you have it.  The mere fact that Berg is involved in the 9/11 Truth movement (apparently he filed some sort of case wanting to put Bush and Cheney on trial for their role in 9/11) automatically makes his current lawsuit against Obama “complete unmitigated hooey.”

I’ve checked out a few 9/11 Truth web sites and people involved in this movement run the gamut from folks who were present during the attacks and find some discrepancies between their experience and the official story which they would like to see addressed to those who believe Bush personally planted explosives in the Twin Towers, then guided each plane to its unfortunate destination.  It’s an extremely broad movement, and some of the people involved have demonstrated clear thinking, writing, and speaking in other matters.  It’s unfortunate that any involvement at all with this movement is considered by some to be a justification for completely writing someone off.

Today, Johnson posted that Ashley Todd, who pretended to be attacked by an Obama supporter, had worked on Ron Paul’s campaign earlier this year.  “McCain Volunteer in fake attack story was a Paulian,” his headline read, as if that explains everything.  To his credit, he did include part of the text of his source article which said she was asked to leave the Ron Paul grassroots organization due to her behavior.  The commenters had a field day, saying stuff like “figures,” and “too crazy for Ron Paul, ha!”  So now, if you support Ron Paul, you’re automatically a kook.  Great.

Charles Johnson has also attacked Creationists, again a very broad movement.  And there’s the usual fare of doing the same for Obama supporters and anyone who questions the War on Terror.  If I looked through more of his blog I may be able to find other groups or movements he’s summarily demonized.

Creationists, 9/11 Truth members, Ron Paul supporters, Obama supporters, objecters to the war… that’s getting to be a rather long list of groups to either dismiss or demonize.  Of course, demonization of groups of people is nothing new, but I am noticing it more.  The so-called conservative talk shows do it daily.  Their usual scapegoats are liberals, Democrats, environmentalists and feminists.

I have nothing against intelligent discourse where someone on the air or through a blog artfully tears apart the arguments of a person or ideology they disagree with.  I believe everyone can be strengthened through the arts of debate and persuasion, even if your format doesn’t allow an immediate answer.  I listened to a couple of third party debates last night, and one thing that was missing was any personal insult of any candidate, including Obama and McCain (who were not present).  People stated their platforms, answered questions, listened and learned from other candidates’ answers.  No groups of people were looked down on.  The general sentiment was that everyone had something positive to offer.

I believe demonization of entire groups of people is a dangerous trend.  If you start thinking of people in groups, then looking down on those groups, I think you can become primed for later condoning, or even participating in, atrocities against the people in those groups.  During Hitler’s regime, one of the first steps towards killing twelve million people was his propaganda campaign against the Jews.  He encouraged people to think of them all as one group and then to think poorly of the group as a whole.  First it was the Jews he demonized, then it was anyone who helped or sympathized with them.  Then it was other groups of people.

Of course, Hitler and his entourage carefully planned the propaganda campaigns, but the citizens of Germany internalized that propaganda and some of it may have resonated with them based on their own prejudices.  I’m not saying that Charles Johnson or anyone else who speaks or writes against groups of people is guilty of a planned propaganda campaign with the intent of leading to genocide.  I think people in general prefer to think in terms of black and white, good guys vs. bad guys, etc.–it’s just simpler and easier to see the world that way, and there certainly is a cosmic struggle between good and evil going on.  It’s easy to innocently fall into those false dichotomies.  That’s why it’s so dangerous, because it’s gradual and insidious and perfecly good people then wind up condoning mass murder and wondering how they got there.

If there’s any group of people who truly spans a broad range, it’s victims of propaganda, genocide, and everything in between.  It might start out as one group of people who you have nothing to do with and don’t care about.  But it doesn’t ever stop there.  It’s this insatiable hunger for ever more sacrifices.  One day, it could be the group you’re a part of.  It’s far better to nip these things in the bud.

Today it may be your credibility.  Tomorrow, it could be your life.

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Candidate worship

Today I caught a bit of the Glenn Beck radio show and he played one of apparently many over-the-top pro-Obama adds.  This particular one had people in the background singing the popular Christian chorus “Sanctuary” with a prominent quasi-traditional drum beat, and on the screen (Beck was reading that part out loud) were words saying things like:  “Take a few moments each day to… visualize Obama winning the election, visualize Obama taking the oath of office, visualize your heart filling with hope as Obama gets inaugurated…”  There were also adoring voices in the background repeating “President Barack Obama!”  This whole “Annointed One” theme is getting to be creepy.

So Obama worship is way obvious and over-the-top.  But I’ve noted some McCain (or at least Palin) worship going on as well.  It’s more subtle, but it’s there.  This recent 20/20 program shows some snapshots of the worship afforded McCain and Obama.

So when did electing our president become an extended worship service?  I first heard of it with the whole Greek columns theme of Obama’s convention speech.  Then when Palin gave her convention speech, the entire crowd was electrified.  I watched her speech and for a few moments I wanted nothing more than to vote for her (even if that meant I’d have to also vote for McCain).  That didn’t last long for me–I just can’t get past McCain-Feingold no matter how I might feel about Palin.

The real question is why all this candidate worship.  There was a time long ago when kings were considered gods and some notable Biblical heroes were cast into a fiery furnace for refusing to bow down to the king’s idol.  When our country was founded, it was clear to the Founding Fathers that the president was definitely not a god.  He was a citizen, a public servant, who was not above the law.  He would serve for a brief period of time and when his term was over, he’d go back to his former occupation and blend back into the fabric of society.

With Bush having spent his two terms giving the presidency as many extra powers as he could get past a rather sleepy Congress (which by the way included both McCain and Obama), the next president will be more like a king than before.  People are even starting to wonder if there will be elections in two years.  OK, it’s people worried about Obama saying this, but I see it equally possible with McCain.  Once a king, then I guess becoming a god isn’t too far out of reach, especially with adoring fans willing to bestow worship on you.  But why would people want to have a king or a god rule over them?

In the case of Obama, I think it’s pretty obvious.  He appeals more to the young amoral and areligious of our society.  Those would be the people raised in public school where you couldn’t pray or even have a school sanctioned moment of silence, where children learned the “Pledge of Allegiance” minus the “Under God” part, and where from kindergarten on they were indoctrinated with collectivist notions.  Then they went on to college where in between their decadent partying they took classes from professors who went out of their way to impugn any respect for traditional religion they might have had left in their souls.  So you have this large group of young people with no moral compass, no allegiance to God and with a huge void in their hearts and souls.  We humans have a part inside of us that longs to worship, and when we aren’t able to direct that worship to the One True God, we find something–or someone–else.  For many people right now, that’s Barack Obama.

The problem with Barack Obama for the other half of society, the half that still has values, still believes in God and still has some vague notion of what the Constitution is, is that he is a socialist, consorts with terrorists and other extremists, has a history of fraud with ACORN, is extremely pro-abortion, and to top it all off, may not even be elligible to run for President (not that I’ve heard much discussion of that last point).  In short, he’s scary.  When you listen to what he wants to do–redistribute the wealth of people like the now famous Joe the Plumber, curtail free speech and make gun ownership illegal, to give just a few examples–and you couple that with all the extra powers he’ll have as president thanks to Bush (not that I hear a word on that either from the so-called Conservative voices), it’s no wonder he has people terrified over what’s going to happen to the country should Obama win this election.

If the Obama supporters are looking for a Messiah, the McCain supporters are looking for a Savior.  There is essentially one overriding reason to vote for McCain, and that is to save the country from Obama.  Because McCain is the only candidate considered to have the chance to defeat Obama, his many faults must be overlooked because whatever McCain might do to further wreck the country, Obama will do so much more damage, and therefore he must be stopped at all costs, even the cost of principle.  The insane hope placed in McCain is made more palatable by the presence of Sarah Palin–after all, she’s someone Conservatives find they can get excited about–but it’s insane and it’s misplaced nonetheless.

The problem with voting for the lesser of two evils, worship and adoration aside, is that you are still voting for evil.  Just because evil is the only thing that has a chance to win is no reason to choose it.  If I got a dollar for everyone who says McCain and Obama are the only viable candidates I could single handedly finance a truly viable third party campaign.  This election let’s remember who our Real Savior is and vote our conscience.

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Global currency around the corner?

If this isn’t a good reason to boycott both McCain and Obama and vote for a third party candidate I don’t know what is.

In a nutshell, European leaders are calling for a global currency and President Bush is calling for summits to discuss the economic troubles and somehow save the free market by interfering with it to death.

Keep in mind that the European Union began as an economic arrangement.  If world leaders are openly coordinating economic activities and manage to institute a global currency, then a global government is coming next.  If you vote for McCain or Obama, you are voting to go along with this plan.  Please vote for one of the third party candidates who has publicly addressed the issue of globalism and has pledged to keep the US out of it.  Chuck Baldwin is probably the most outspoken candidate on that score but I don’t believe he is the only one to have taken a stand.

Folks, this is beyond the realm of conspiracy theories.  It’s just around the corner unless an overwhelming number of citizens suddenly wakes up.

UPDATE:  Here’s an article with more world leaders crying for a global currency.

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Obama ineligible for presidency?

I don’t want to fall into the partisan trap of going off on all Barack Obama’s faults and why he’d be a bad choice for US President, and I definitely am not a “we gotta vote for McCain just to stop Obama” groupie. 

The question of a presidential candidate’s US citizenship, though, goes beyond Barack Obama.  A well-respected life long Democrat attorney named Phil Berg has filed a lawsuit claiming Obama is not a US citizen and therefore is not eligible to even run for president, let alone hold the office.  He’s asking Obama to produce an original birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii instead of Kenya.  Berg is also making the claim that regardless of where Obama was born, he became a citizen of Indonesia as a child in order to attend school there and so would have needed to go through the naturalization process in order to regain US citizenship.  Naturalized citizens are not eligible to hold the Presidency.

In order to qualify for the presidency, a candidate has to be a native-born US citizen.  This means that he or she has to have been born in the United States or in one of its territories or on a US military base.  John McCain was born in Panama, but it was on a US military base, so he passes.  That is the law of the land right now and that is the law that any person with ambitions to become president needs to follow.

I understand there are those who say the law about being a native-born citizen is unfair, that it knocks out some great people such as the current Governor of California, that it shows what a racist, bigoted country we are.  Fine.  If you don’t like the law, then work to change it.  The Socialist Worker’s Party Candidate, Roger Calero, is ineligible to run, so he has a stand-in on the ballot, and his campaign director told me that should Calero’s stand-in be elected, he will immediately move to change the law.  Calero also wants to legalize undocumented workers.  I can respect that.

The problem I have is with people who simply ignore the law or act like it doesn’t apply to them.  If Obama doesn’t meet one of the qualifications for being president, he is welcome to introduce legislation to change the requirements.  He is a US Senator after all.  The citizenship requirement for a Senator is that the candidate is a US citizen for at least nine years at the time of election.  Assuming Obama went through the naturalization process upon his return from Indonesia, he’s cleared to be a Senator and as such can introduce new laws.  So he should do that; we will then have the opportunity to have a national debate to reevaluate our requirements for the US President.

What he should not do is pretend he meets the current requirements if he does not.  Where I come from that’s called deception.  If he truly is a native-born citizen, he should produce the necessary paperwork to prove it and be done with it.  The fact that he has so far refused makes one think he doesn’t have it.  In this case he needs to be taken off the ballot and all votes for him received thus far should be disregarded.  Someone should have caught this at the beginning, be it the DNC or the Federal Election Commission or some other bureaucratic entity.

I hope Berg’s lawsuit gets resolved within the next few weeks because as a voter I should not even have the option of voting for an illegitimate candidate.  By the time the candidates make it to the ballot there should be no question of their legal right to be there.  My job as a voter is to select the best candidate based on his or her character and campaign platform among a group of candidates who have passsed the basic eligibility screening.

But knowing the wheels of justice can turn slowly in this country, the more likely scenario is that the election procedes as is.  If Obama loses, then I think the defendants in Berg’s lawsuit breathe a sigh of relief, Federal money gets thrown at whatever Federal entity is supposed to screen candidates resulting in those who failed to catch Obama’s ineligibility all getting a promotion, and it’s all over.  Whew!

If Obama wins the election, and it’s determined that he indeed is not eligible to be President… That could get interesting and ugly.  Clearly he should not be permitted to take the Oath of Office, and if he already has it should be revoked.  There will undoubtedly be much outrage and accusations of racism from the Left and much glee from the Right.  My hope is that it will result in a brand new Presidential election where everyone gets to recast their ballot.  The Democrat Party may also need to hold a new primary, although it seemed pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was the second choice.

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Martial law and internet censorship

Was anyone else surprised and maybe a bit perturbed by the House of Representatives’ flip-flop on the Mega-Bailout bill?  In about four days it went from overwhelming defeat to overwhelming victory.

Well, apparently, several members of Congress were personally threatened with Martial Law upon the country should the bill fail.  A couple of them spoke out about this during the debates; evidently they believed the threats were real, and not the usual political posturing.  I’m sure the “If you vote no I’ll make sure you never get reelected” threat has been made and carried out often.  The Martial Law threat ups the ante substantially.

Hmmm, what to choose?  Paying off some irresponsible rich CEOs or sending the millitary into the streets?  How do you face your Constituents if your vote brought that on?

I was pretty angry with the House for their flop.  Although I still believe they should have voted Yes, then launched an all-out media campaign about the threats they received, I have a bit more compassion for them considering what they were faced with.

This is not exactly a reassuring moment for me in terns of faith in my government.  It gives me another piece of evidence that entities other than our elected officials actually run our country.

On a different but related note, I have within the last month learned of two instances of alledged or possible future internet censorship (see here and here).  This bothers me deeply because I get so much actual life impacting information from the internet, some of which is hard to find elsewhere.  Even more fundamentally, it’s a severe infringement on our First Amendment right to free speech, particularly if the censorship is government sanctioned.  It has been said that information is power.  If you control the gateways of information in a society, you can also control the people in that society.  Can someone give me a good reason why our government might want to control us?

While you are thinking about it, please take a few moments to inform yourself of the many third party candidates who are running for President this election.  It is my belief that a great way to nip this shadowy government business in the bud (OK, it’s a bit more advanced than the bud stage) is to get someone in office who is not beholden to the system.  That disqualifies both the Republican and Democrat candidates.

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Preparing for a police state

Bush, in one of his oft-repeated “let’s destroy this country” moves, recently signed into law the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, a measure that will allow the Millitary to be used on US soil for police work–things like crowd control, traffic control, and other forms of control–in the event of natural or manmade disasters, emergencies and terrorist attacks.

So if/when the government overrules the will of the people and calls on the Federal Reserve to print money to rescue all those beleaguered banks, and that causes massive inflation and runs on the bank and the grocery stores and gas stations, you just might see the millitary in the streets keeping order.

The next time there’s some scare about a biological warfare attack, you just might bump into your friendly soldiers making sure you and your children get vaccinated, whether you want to or not.

And if you say the wrong thing or act a little too rowdy, you might get a bullet in your head.

This is the sort of thing the people who founded this country wanted to avoid when they wrote a quaint little document otherwise known as the Constitution, the memory of being forced to house and feed British soldiers still fresh in their minds.

This is also what governments do when they want to control their own people by force. They start turning the millitary agaisnt them. Our great country is preparing to become a police state. And what do you suppose the people in our government have planned, that they would need the millitary to make sure it happens? Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin has his suspicions, and he’s by no means the only one.

We’re probably not going to see great numbers of soldiers in the streets right away. However, if we don’t use this coming election to hold our elected leaders accountable to their Constitutional limits (and fire all the ones who have overstepped those limits), it won’t be long. 

From everything I can tell, both John McCain and Barack Obama are going to continue along the same vein.  I would encourage all voters to broaden their horizons beyond Republican and Democrat this Presidential election.

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Palintology

This may be my first presidential election where I vote for a candidate who is not running on either the Democrat or Republican ticket.  For a while I’ve swallowed the notion that even if I don’t particularly like the Republican candidate, if I didn’t vote for him, I’d be throwing my vote to the Democrat candidate and wouldn’t that be far worse?  That was certainly the case in the H.W. Bush vs. Clinton election and later in the Dole vs. Clinton election.  Then I actually did get excited about George W. Bush.  I wish I hadn’t.

Now it’s McCain vs. Obama and it’s the same thing.  Hold my nose and vote for McCain or throw my vote to Obama.  People like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would tell me that McCain, even with his record that has been anything but conservative, will at least save the country from the horrible damage that Barack Obama would do should he get in office.  I really don’t think so.  I’ve come to the conclusion that for the most part it doesn’t matter who the President is and which party is in power.  There are sinister types in Washington (and elsewhere) who really run the country and who are working hard to undermine our national sovereingty, decimate our economy and our resources, and bring us under a collectivist world government.  Whether a Republican or Democrat wins this election (or any of the other ones), it will be business as usual for these people.  In fact, to make sure their agenda isn’t hampered in any way, they make sure only candidates who will go along with this are even given a chance–perhaps a big reason why Ron Paul wasn’t given the time of day by either the mainstream media or the right wing talk show types (who think they are such agents of change–give me a break!) even though he often came out in the top five in state primary elections.

So this time I wasn’t going to hold my nose and vote for one of them.  I was planning to vote for Ron Paul and when he pulled out I started reading Bob Barr’s web site, then recently I learned that Chuck Baldwin is also running and he looks promising too.  Maybe I’ll vote for Baldwin; maybe I’ll write in Ron Paul.  I wasn’t even going to pay attention to anything said at either the Democrat or Republican National Conventions.

Then along came Sarah Palin.  My husband first told me she was McCain’s pick for VP.  Then I logged onto the WordPress site and came across some random left wing blog which said Palin was an extremist.  OK, she’s pro-life, attends an Assemblies of God church, believes in the right to keep and bear arms, wants to drill for oil in Alaska while also pursuing alternative energy sources.  Sounds pretty good to me.  I’m getting intrigued by this Governor of Alaska.  Then I heard about the totally vicious media attacks on her family–not directly, mind you, I refuse to watch the mainstream TV networks because they do stuff like that all the time.  I think the best thing we can do with that kind of shoddy journalism is ignore it.  More and more information started coming out about Sarah Palin, to the point where I decided to tune into the RNC and listen to what she had to say.

I pointed my web browser to ustream.tv to catch the Wednesday night speeches.  I don’t need “coverage” of the speeches, just the speeches.  I really only wanted to hear Palin’s speech but of course I didn’t know exactly when she’d come on, so I had to hear parts of the other speeches.  The governor of Hawaii’s speech was pretty cool, mainly  because she told us more about Sarah Palin.  The other speeches postulated about freedom, family values, our rights as Americans, and it all sounded pretty good.  If only people would actually pursue those goals in Washington rather than merely save it up for the convention speeches.  If only so many people didn’t fall for it every time.

Finally Sarah Palin came on and I think the entire convention, not to mention the thirty-eight million remote viewers, fell in love with her.  I was certainly heading in that direction.  She comes across as a real sweetheart–real pretty and feminine–with the clear message that she’s not someone to be messed with.  She’ll take on corrupt politicians and the big oil companies, and she won’t give up until she gets what she wants.  I just loved the part where she put the private jet on eBay.  I wish I could have seen the auction.

The only thing that kept me in check from totally losing my head over Palin was that she had to keep saying good things about McCain.  I couldn’t help but wince.  I know VP candidates are supposed to do that for their running mates.  It’s not like I wanted her to slam McCain.  I just wished she could have ignored him altogether.  Evidently other attendees wished the same thing–although she got applause even when she praised McCain, the applause was more subdued than at other times when she was either talking about herself, her family, or taking shots at Obama.

After her speech was done I started to feel really torn about my previous resolution to not vote for McCain (voting for Obama was never an option).  I still don’t want to vote for McCain, but I really want to vote for Palin.  If anyone can take on the establishment in Washington, Sarah Palin might be able to pull it off.  I started having fantasies about her going toe to toe with McCain on some of the issues I know they disagree with.  Maybe she’ll uncover major corruption in Washington and expose it–and unlike previous instances of such things, not relent until said corruption is brought to an end.  I can just see the movie they’ll make of this:  Sarah Barracuda goes to Washington.

The next day I listened to over an hour of both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity because I wanted to hear them slober all over themselves, and I wasn’t disappointed.  I swear these days, when I tune in to these guys, it’s purely for entertainment.  It’s actually been very interesting and disturbing to listen to these guys trying to fawn over McCain, who they used to sharply criticize for good reason.  It’s like thirty years of McCain’s unfavorable legislative record is all gone just because he’s running for President and Obama must be stopped at all costs.  But after Palin’s convention speech, they went completely over the edge.  McCain is now the beacon of conservatism and freedom and they can’t get enough of him.  McCain made a brilliant political move in choosing Palin as his running mate because unlike him, she is someone the conservative base can get excited about and rally around.  It’s already happened.  All those people won’t be voting for McCain; they’ll be voting for Palin.  But they’re both on the ticket, so McCain gets the votes, and the four years as President.  I think it’s over for Obama.  Palin’s appearance dealt a death blow to his campaign and he’s starting to figure out what hit him, and making panicked calls to Hillary Clinton for help.  But as my husband keeps reminding me, only time will tell for sure.

So McCain will most likely get the votes and the power.  Then what will happen to Palin?  This is where it could get ugly.  It’s a pretty interesting dilema she’s in.  The vice president of the US has to toe the line of the president–he or she is really there as insurance in case the president dies on the job.  That’s what Palin will have to do once she takes office.  In order to survive in Washington, she’s going to have to keep quiet about the very issues that are causing the conservative base to rally around her.  It would be far better for her if she were on the top of the ticket.  On the other hand, given the treatment Ron Paul received, McCain is a real ticket inside.  Palin could be set up nicely to run for president in four years and people will be more than happy to vote for her.  But what happens in between?

I realize that there is some controversy surrounding Palin’s performance in Alaska as both mayor and governor, as in she may not be as wonderful as she now appears.  I’m not going to get into that for now because I don’t think it will make much difference other than to make the almost inevitable soul selling easier on her if the accusations are true.  If, as some have accused, Palin has already been bought by the Republican establishment, then she can just check that off her Washington to do list.  In the mean time I’m going to hold onto the assumption that at this time she’s everything we conservatives have dreamed about.

If McCain wins the election, she will have to go to Washington and be his VP.  Many have said that Washington DC is a den of vipers.  These vipers have goals and dreams for merging the United States into a collectivist world government.  Bush has far advanced that agenda during his eight years in office through all these secret arrangements with Canada and Mexico designed to create a North American regional government.  He has also used the War in Iraq as a way to flood our economy with lots of fiat money that has caused inflation that we’ve paid for by a loss of our purchasing power and the dangerous decline of the dollar we are now seeing.  These things hurt our country, and as a result, our national sovereingty, making us more vulnerable to being coopted by a regional, or even world, unelected government.  Much has been written on this alarming trend on such web sites as Freedom Force, so I won’t say any more, except that McCain appears to be committed to continuing this trend.  He is, after all, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which is made up of people who believe this sort of thing is a good idea.  As Vice President, Palin is going to have to go along with this.

Now, I’d like to believe that Sarah Barracuda will figure this out and take it on, as in put her foot down and do all she can to expose this and not let it happen.  I believe she’s capable of taking on great powers and she’s certainly willing to put herself on the line for what she considers to be right.  But let’s face it, she’s only one person.  These Washington vipers are powerfully entrenched, have great resources, and are not going to be intimidated by a fresh new face just because she knows how to shoot a moose for dinner, or because she once took her basketball team to the state championship.  They’re not even going to blink that as governor she took on the British Petroleum oil company.  This is a totally different league of power and corruption.  These people don’t think twice about wrecking someone’s career, reputation or life and they don’t have a twinge of conscience about doing far worse.

I’d like to believe Sarah Barracuda can take this all on and come through unscathed, and if she does become VP, believe me, I will be hoping and praying she does just that.  I’m just not sure that’s a reasonable expectation to place on anyone, even someone as accomplished as Palin.  I’d actually prefer she and McCain lose the election this time so she can run in 2012 as the president where she can have some real power to do some good.  For the first time I’m actually tempted to vote for Obama just because I’d want to spare Palin all that, but I have to recognize that she made the decision to run with McCain and she has to deal with that.  Ron Paul made it clear that should he be asked to be McCain’s VP, or any cabinet position, he would refuse.  He’s been in Washington for a long time and knows what he’s up against.  It may be a rude awakening for Palin.

So, despite the fact that I fell in love with Palin this past Wednesday evening just like practically every other conservative American, I won’t be voting for the McCain-Palin ticket.  Palin or not, I can’t support what McCain has done and wants to continue to do.  Furthermore I don’t want to have any responsibility in having sent her powerless to that den of vipers they call Washington DC.  But no matter what happens I will be rooting for her, and hoping that I and others who have written similar sentiments (see here and here for examples) are dead wrong.

Better get back to checking non-Republican and non-Democrat candidates.

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Viral discrimination

Christine Maggiore was by all counts an average professional woman going about her business until one fateful day when she took an HIV test sponsored by her company and it came back positive.

After a stint as an AIDS activist and the poster child for how AIDS will randomly strike just about anyone, even a healthy young woman in her prime, Ms. Maggiore began to question the death sentence she’d been handed.

The result of her questioning lead to her book, now in it’s fourth edition, titled What if Everything You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? and her Web site.  Both refute the belief that HIV causes AIDS and that the only way to cope with either is to get on some heavy duty drug cocktails.

I’m not about to say she’s 100% right about HIV not causing AIDS, but I do think her book is worth reading because it brings to light some very important issues surrounding the whole HIV/AIDS experience.

Most disturbing are the experiences of numerous people who have tested HIV positive that are recounted at the end of her book.  I had no idea how difficult it was for someone who tested HIV positive to get medical care for something as common as a sinus or ear infection.  Let’s suppose two people walk into a doctor’s office with the exact same symptoms.  The only difference between the two is that one patient is HIV negative and the other is HIV positive.  The HIV negative patient is given an antibiotic, advised to rest and drink fluids and wait it out.  This patient has a sinus infection–a disagreeable, but definitely survivable ailment.  The HIV positive patient is pushed to get on AZT or some other highly potent HIV cocktail.  After all, he suffers from AIDS.  This has happened to people complaining of flu, colds, pneumonia, and even excema.  If you are HIV negative, it’s the flu, a cold, pneumonia or excema.  If you are HIV positive, it’s AIDS.  As you can imagine, it is extremely difficult to get normal medical care if you are otherwise healthy, but happen to have tested HIV positive.  HIV positive people have reported going from doctor to doctor, and not being able to get any sort of proper care until they give up on doctors and try out some alternative healthcare.

The author herself had two children, but she ended up needing to go with midwives and home birth because the only way she’d be allowed to give birth in a hospital was to agree to take AZT throughout her pregnancy and schedule a C-section.  AZT is a known terratogen, so I can understand her reluctance to expose her unborn child to it.  C-section births can be lifesaving at times but they carry enough risk that it should only be a last resort.

When Ms. Maggiore suffered the tragic loss of her younger child, it was an ordeal to get the coroner to do an actual autopsy–he just automatically reported the child died of AIDS.  It turns out she died of a fatal anaphylactic reaction to amoxicillin, which she’d been prescribed for an ear infection.  This type of allergic reaction is more common than most people realize.

Another result of the HIV causes AIDS paradigm is that tremendous amounts of resources have been diverted away from fighting starvation, which by the way causes a lot of the AIDS-like symptoms, to treating HIV with drugs.  In many parts of the world where people are starving, we are sending enormous amounts of money over to get them not food, but pharmaceutical drugs.

It is a fact that at least 25 percent of the people who are diagnosed with AIDS do not test positive for HIV.  Those who do test positive for HIV don’t have much of it.  Yet the presence of that virus in their system justifies a huge amount of discrimination against them.  They are often denied jobs, insurance, and no one knows how to relate to them because they have this dreaded disease.  If you happen to be pregnant when you test positive for HIV, your birth options are severely curtailed and you are pressured into taking HIV medication while you are pregnant.  This has lead to a group of children who suffer from AZT-related deformities.  Parents who opt to not continue treating their children with AZT have been threatened with removal of custody.  Many people with HIV have opted to discontinue taking AZT because their AIDS symptoms start once they get on the drug, and often they stop as soon as they get off the drug.  In fact, AIDS symptoms are a known side effect of AZT, so there is doubt as to what is really cause AIDS here.

I bring all this up because it is important to know that people who test HIV positive are allowed to be treated differently than people who don’t.  This is a form of discrimination that we as a society allow.  It’s possible there may still be good reason for this discrimination, however it’s important that we acknowledge that it is discrimination.  It’s discrimination based on whether or not you carry a particular virus–one that at least 25 percent of the time is not even present in the patients who are sick with the disease it is supposed to cause.

This viral discrimination of HIV positive people has set us up as a society to accept other forms of viral discrimination.  As we keep hearing about diseases like SARS and bird flu, both hyped up as extremely dangerous, our fear of any person or animal caught carrying the virus that’s blamed for these ills increases–to the point where we’re willing to put up with them being treated badly in the name of our protection.

People have spoken to that effect.  Accroding to this article, in the wake of SARS, a public health policy maker has said:  “The need for public health law reform is urgent.  It should have provisions for surveillance, vaccination, treatment, isolation and quarantine in a way that gives decisive powers to health authorities while respecting the Constitution.  The need for effective state compulsory power is beyond doubt. But that’s not a given in our country, which is now so tied to the rhetoric of individual rights. It seems we’ve lost the tradition of the common good.” (emphasis mine)

Anyone who has studied or experienced the various totalitarian regimes which have risen and fallen during the last century know all too well what can happen with “effective state compulsory power.”  As a society we’re too enlightened and experienced to easily fall for wholesale persecution of people based on race, religion, disability or sexual preference.  Even the possibility of persecuting people of Middle Eastern origin in the wake of recent terrorism is pretty remote because there will be too many people calling it racism.

However, the possibility of persecuting people based on what kinds of viruses they test positive for is not only a possibility, it’s a reality.  And with the media talking about new scary diseases and their scapegoat viruses, it can easily get worse.

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