On Politics. When I started this blog, I began hesitantly to post my real conservative leanings and particularly my beliefs about our soon to be new democrat president. I was at the time convinced it would be Hillary, whom I considered to be an unabashed Marxist based on her early writings and studies of Saul Alinsky and others. Her dream of socialized health care is just one example of those beliefs in action, but it was enough to make me very afraid of her. I still am because it turns out Hillary is the worse kind of Marxist, a pragmatic Marxist. She is willing to do whatever to be in power even if that means working for the man who defeated or staying married to the man who repeatedly cheated on her.
However, I am taken back daily by the brazenness of our new president who is a Marxist also and a pragmatist and a liar. (Hillary is a liar, most politicians are.) But Obama is the kind of liar who actually believes his own lies, I have decided. He gave a speech of April 15, tax day, in which he unflinchingly stated that he had already given a tax break to 95 percent of American workers. (Whoever they are.) If he is referring to the 13 dollars people are getting back in payroll taxes, I have to think that all those people at the Tea Parties yesterday do not see that as a tax break. If they happen to still smoke, they use up that break in about four days or so. (I am pulling numbers out of the air, too. Practicing for my government job.)
All of that is scary and maddening enough, but the frosting on the proverbial cake, is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report defining "right-wing extremists." It turns out I am one. I am a vet, although not a Iraq or Afghan vet; I am opposed to government interference in my life, and yours too. I am oppose to abortion and gun control; I think the government needs to back off and that state and local governments should take back their rightful powers. Lastly, and maybe most subversively, I believe the Constitution as it was written and intended by the founder is the Supreme Law of the Land, not the courts or politicians. It is not a "living" documents. It is a written, fixed statement of our freedoms and it should be interpreted as such. (Also I listen to a lot of talk radio which he will try to silence.)
So what does all this mean for my future? Well, having been a student of the communist oppression in Europe and the USSR, I have to think that at some point the government will come after people like me who oppose them and say so. I am a small fish in this pond, but even the smallest fish can spread the message if left unchecked so I do not expect that they will leave anyone "unchecked." How long will it take? Not long, I expect. Obama has been in office less than three months and there is already a report circulating defining "right-wing extremist." How long can it take before some action is taken against this perceived threat? Not long. This is not a president who is going to roll along and take action as the situation allows; rather, this is a man determined to take action quickly and decisively to create situations that produce the kind of country he wants. That country is a Marxist country where the reigns of power are in the hands of the government not the people. The government is "them" not "we the people" as put forth in the Constitution.
Hold on to your hats; we are in for a wild and dangerous ride, but I intend to keep writing here as long as we still are allowed to exercise our right to free speech.
On Books. Mark R. Levin's Liberty and Tyranny is a must read to understand what is happening with this presidency. Levin takes the argument back to the Constitution and the founders to show how our country is being destroyed by the Statists as he names them, people who want to control every aspect of American life through the power of the State.