Gary Knox’s column in the July 27th edition of the Yuma Sun was a real hoot. It was a joke, wasn’t it? He certainly couldn’t be serious about describing those of us on the right as mindless robots, mentally lazy ideologues, rabble rousers, full of hostility, not use a shred of evidence to back up his assertions, and then call our rhetoric “mean.”

He is right about one thing, “our political and economic systems are threatened,” but it’s not because we’re speaking out, it’s because we have been silent too long. And I didn’t need Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck to alert me to that. It’s a lifetime of learning. My father spoke out against big brother government in the thirties when FDR sent his henchmen to our farm to slaughter our cattle in order to protect the price of beef. My father quit farming when the government began paying farmers not to farm. He didn’t think it an honorable proposition.

I saw as a teacher what big government did to education. Federal dollars had to be spent before a certain date or the federal funds would be curtailed the next fiscal year. It didn’t matter much what we bought, just spend the money. I observed reading programs which were rated excellent by Title I just because the classroom was surrounded by computers and tens of thousands of dollars worth of computer programs lined the walls. It mattered not that the classroom teacher didn’t know how to use the computers and so taught reading the way we all learned, with the printed word. The Title I programs were rewarded simply because they looked good and the coordinator had spent a lot of money.

Rent control legislation in New York made the cost of housing skyrocket. Section 8 government aid caused the same bubble in Flagstaff. I built a duplex on some property there and rented the units for $250. But when a tenant couldn’t afford the rent I applied for Section 8 and discovered that all of the sudden my little two bedroom unit would rent for $650. When the taxpayers are paying the bill, the sky is the limit.

The biggest reason the cost of higher education has quadrupled, nay risen ten fold, is that Uncle Sam started paying the bills. If we worked and saved all summer we could squeak through a year of school on little more than $800. We had wardrobes of two skirts and five blouses and squeezed our toothpaste tubes until our fingers hurt, but we made it. Now colleges don’t bother to control costs. Raise the cost of tuition and then build monuments that show the world what a great educator you were. Why do college books cost $200 - $400 each? Because Uncle Sam is paying the bill. What caused the cost of health care to spiral out of control? The government began paying the bills.

Reagan said it best. Governments do not solve problems, they create them, but we knew that long ago. The government forced banks to make risky loans. Banks have to make money, so they found a way to profit in spite of government regulations.

Do you really think that the 2000 page health care and finance bills have broken “complex problems into easily understood component elements”? If we do not speak the truth, Mr. Knox, dispute our facts, but don’t call us mindless, lazy ideologues. That’s a lazy man’s style of rhetoric.

OathKeepers

If you follow the extremist blogs, you no doubt have heard of the threat of the Oath Keepers often called “crackheads” “hate groups” “extremist nimrods.” The Southern Poverty Law Center says they are a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival. What is especially egregious is the likes of David Neiwart who suggests many of them have graduated from “the Timothy McVeigh Finishing School." The left must thank God every day that they have the Timothy McVeigh brush with which they can paint every person who disagrees with them. Smear campaigns are their favorite, perhaps their only available rhetorical device.

These dangerous ex-soldiers and law enforcement officers vow that they will not obey an order that contradicts the constitutional rights of Americans. They will not disarm, detain, seize or search property of peaceful American citizens, nor will they put them in concentration camps. Remember the Trail of Tears? Remember Kent State? Remember Selma Alabama? These men have vowed never to participate in the ilk.

Who’s the real nimrod, Ariana?

Glenn Beck Lies

Glenn Beck is outrageous, silly, bonkers, but he’s also thought provoking. Some of my friends, yes you Debbie, are just appalled. They give him no credit. Assuming that I was being misled, I decided to google “Glen Beck Lies.” Following are what were considered his big whoppers. Now Glenn Beck has said some pretty outrageous things about members of our government, much of which I would like to see disputed. If these are the only whoppers his naysayers can find, I really am worried about our country.

1. He said no other country grants birthrights of citizenship.
Lies, lies. He should have said that no western democracy other than Canada. They do because they’re a huge country with only 50 million residents. .

2. John Holdren suggested forcing abortions by lacing the drinking water.
Big fat lie. John Holdren only said that SOME countries may have to resort to these methods.

3. He said no other network is going to show the video of the shot by Israelis regarding the boarding the relief ships.
Big Fat Lie. The other networks did play it.

4. He took John Edwards to task for saying the middle class was declining. Beck said the percentage of the poor has remained the same, so it stands to reason that the middle class must be shrinking because they were moving up, getting richer.
Big Whopper. Couldn’t be.

5. He said that 48% of the doctors will quit if the health care bill passed.
Big whopper. The report said that 48% might quit
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6. He said Van Jones got arrested during Rodney King riots.
Big whopper Jones was arrested but released in few hours

7. He said the winter Olympic cost BC a billion dollars.
Wrong The Olypics hadn’t started yet.
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8. He said Chicago had to close offices due to financial troubles
LIAR! They only closed their offices 3 days.

9. He said you ou don’t know if H1N1 is going to cause neurological damage like it did in the 70’s.
Big fat lie. There were 800 cases of Guilain Barre, but there is no definite proof that it resulted from the vaccine.

10. Quite a few sites talked about his rant about the Cash for Clunkers web site was a lie, but I wasn’t moved to really research that.

11. One of the lies listed was “Of course, we all know about him being called out as a liar by Whoopi and Barbara Walters.” No we don’t all know. Some of us don’t watch the show. Really! We’re supposed to assume that Whoopi and Barbara are some kind of great truth detectors.

Independence Day 2010 Cont.

The Overton Window meets a KGB Agent
Independence Day 2010 (Continuied)



Yesterday I wrote that perhaps because of some cosmic convergence, wasmoved to pledge my allegiance to this perhaps once great nation. What converged? My reading of Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window and a Facebook link that led me to the confessions of an ex KGB agent.



A central theme of The Overton Window is government corruption. The powers that be have over the years reached their tentacles into every area of government and finance enacting a well thought out strategy designed to create a global disaster using the crisis as an opportunity for their stepping in and seizing power. A character in the book uses the metaphor of the tsunami to show demonstrate their plan. The collapse of Bear Sterns was the earthquake and all the bailouts that followed have added to the power of the wave gathering in the distance. When it breaks we, the great unwashed, will be buried alive. Another character expresses the central irony: “It’s a heist an inside job.” The very people who intentionally caused the disaster are being rewarded.


The founders of our country knew that governments go bad. "They knew that evil, like gravity, is a force of nature," that corruption will always raises it evil head. The purpose of those checks and balances they drew into the constitution was to keep the government in check. We have not been vigilant and have allowed the government to grow into a behemoth that is eating us alive.



One of the main characters of Beck’s book is a PR expert who knows that by planting news items and crafting clever stories, the public can be sold anything, the populous can be lead to believe the ridiculous and participate in the absurd. He uses the pet rock and all the fads that followed as an example. “We don’t change their minds. We change the truth.” A PR campaign can help pharmaceutical companies create unheard of diseases and get the public to buy drugs. He uses restless leg syndrome as an example. Talk about the problem and people think they have it and go out and buy the medication.



He takes pride in knowing that it was he who made heroes of criminals and got the public to wear t-shirts idolizing Chairman Mao and Che Gurerva. He takes pride in his enormously successful campaign for bottled water. The clever articles, the witty blurbs, the images of showing their idols all with water bottles in their hands insinuated themselves in our minds and got us all to pay dearly for water that flows free from any faucet in America . “Once convinced, you can show them the truth, read the label ‘contents drawn from municipal water supply’ and they will nod their sleepy heads and walk like zombies past the faucet to the vending machines…..Before we're done they’ll gladly pay a tax for the very air they breathe.” And isn’t that what we 're being led toward now?



After reading the thought provoking book, I visited my email and a variety of links led me to an interview of an ex KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDDBZuheQxs



At the turn of the 2oth century it became obvious that America would not turn willing to Marxism or Leninism, but they knew that if America couldn't be beat on the battle ground, they could win through ideological subversion, a process of changing the perception of reality. They knew from experience how the process worked.

There are four stages in the process, demoralization, destabalization, crisis and normalization. The first stage takes the longest, generally 50 years, because it's necessary to indoctrinate an entire generation. The key is to identify your team. Dissidents, professors, intellectuals, civil rights defenders, and the like suffer from self importance and serve the purpose of spreading disinformation. The irony, according to Yuri, is that once the country collapses, they will be the first to be assassinated. When the interviewer expressed disbelief, Yuri said, "Oh, yes. When the promise of new regime do not materialize, they will lead the opposition, so they must be destroyed. Your Jane Fondas will be squashed like a cockroaches."

According to Alexandrovich, the demoralization of America was especially effective thanks to the simultaneous disintigration of moral values, "far beyond our expectations." On thing that connected so completely with The Overton Window is that Alexandrovich said that once indoctradted, the condition is truly irreversible. True information doesn't matter any more. Shower them with facts, show them the evidence, you cannot change their minds. They will refuse to recognize the truth "until the boot is on their necks."

The second stage of the process, destabilization, Alexadrovich predicted would take from two to five years. That time period correllates with the financial meltdown we've experienced and we can see the power of the tsunami gathering in the distance. The massive wave will be the thrid stage, the crisis and a quick overthrow of the government and then the final stage, normalization. Beck's book suggests that it might be established by some of the globalist groups do exist, The Club of Rome, the Council for Foreign Relations. I think it might be those very wealthy socialists I mentioned in an earlier post, Soros and his Leninist cohorts Bing, Sandler, Blankfein, Janss, and Anagnos. They work openly and we refuse tp recognize the threat.Whatever the group, once successful, the truth will out. We will realize that all people are created equal, equal in poverty, ignorance, and misery. Abundance peace and prosperity are reserved for the fittest, the deserving, the most courageous, the visionaries.

New speak is an important part of the process, and The Overton Window demonstrates how it might work. The Patriot act will quickly become a license to hunt patriots. The Fairness Doctrine allows the government to manage "free speech." Net Neutrality will make it possible for the powers that be to neutralize their enemies.

According to Alexandrovich, the trend can be reversed. "You need to start a new program of re-education which takes 15 to 20 years." But that interview occurred many years ago. Is it too late? I am reminded of the image at the end of Ayn Rands The Fountainhead. The coins are deeply imbedded into the tarmac. We are imbedded much too deeply into the tarmac of the federal government. Can we extricate ourselves. I am not optimistic.

I pledge allegiance to the flag

July 4, 2010

It’s Independence Day and I, perhaps as a result of some cosmic convergence, am moved to pledge my allegiance to this perhaps once great nation. What converged? My reading of Glenn Beck’s The Overton Window and a Facebook link that led me to the confessions of an ex KGB agent.
First a little biography. I was perhaps a bit of a political junky from an early age. I remember fondly precious times with my father when we discussed political issues, his anger about FDR’s slaughtering our cows which supposedly helped drag the country out of the depression, his defiant shooting ducks out of season because they ravaged our wheat fields. His hunting deer out of season because that’s how he fed his family. Once, I was maybe 12 or 13 we were in the car alone, odd, because I had seven brothers and sisters that we should have time alone, but we had a bit of a political discussion. I thought I was a democrat and said people should vote for Adlai Stevenson. I don’t remember why, but one of the issues must have had to do with conservation, because I remember my father reminding me that if we’re interested in conservation issues, wouldn’t we vote Republicans. They were the conservative party after all.
I remember sitting on the front porch reading the local newspaper the bold headlines pronouncing the ending of the Korean War. I wept, I think mostly because I had expected more fanfare, perhaps a parade, even a national holiday. I thought it was a big deal.
My father was a proud hard working man. He supported his large family doing any job he could find, farming, well digging, sheep herding, house moving, renovation, carpentry. When one job petered out he could always find another. The only thing that was beneath him, that compromised his integrity was living on the dole, so when a job shut down and he was briefly unemployed, his friends would encourage him to take unemployment compensation. “It’s not welfare. You paid for it. It’s been deducted from your check every week.” My father refused. He wouldn’t stand in line for a hand out, no matter what.
I respected him for that, but when I sat in political science classes in college, or listened to the discussions in the teacher’s lounge after I graduated, I silently questioned his ethics. My best friends assured me that people should not be ashamed of having to accept charity, that redistribution of wealth was necessary, that we should be a compassionate country. I did stand firm on one issue. When my colleagues threw showers for pregnant unmarried students, I did not attend, unwilling to kind of glorify, and thus encourage promiscuity.
On most issues I joined the crowd. When the Department of Education was formed I felt proud to think that Education finally got the recognition it deserved. I didn’t recognize the tusk of the elephant that would soon fill the entire tent. When Goldwater insisted that Arizona should not accept federal funding for education, I mocked him saying he was like the boy in the Netherlands who stuck his finger in the dike thinking he was stemming the flow while a tsunami of water was rushing over the top of the dam. It didn’t take me long to recognize the folly, the colossal waste of the federal aid to education.
I had been voting democrat or independent in every major election until 1980. My husband and I had agreed to vote for the third party candidate, was it Anderson? as a kind of toothless inane political protest. As I poised my hand to punch the ballot, I felt, I kid you not, I felt an invisible hand take mine and punch the ballot for Reagan. I knew that was not what I intended to do, and I knew that I could ask for another ballot saying that I had spoiled mine, but the experience was so compelling, so profoundly moving, that, almost in a trance, I simply finished the ballot and turned it in. The Reagan presidency was pivotal for me, but I remained a timid, apprehensive voice for conservative values. I registered republican, but no republican administration, no republican house or senate ever impressed me, being never quite conservative enough. I realize that republicans were trapped. In order to get elected they had to join or at least support the move toward government largess. When Clinton was elected, I think it was Al Gore who held his hand to his ear and said, “I can hear the sound of gridlock breaking up,” and I cringed knowing that what we needed most in Washington was gridlock. But I remained pretty much silent. My rebellion amounted to quitting my support of the National Education Association.
On a pivotal day for me I expressed my disdain of all the brouhaha regarding the sexual harassment suits that arose out of the aviator’s tailgate convention. One of my colleagues said, “You must listen too much to Rush Limbaugh.” “Rush who?” I countered? And that was the day that I finally found a voice that expressed the views that I had so silently held for those many years. Because I worked, I could rarely listen to him, but when I did, I was renewed.
Rush led me to talk radio, and that led me to Glenn Beck, and this pivotal day, July 4, 2010, when The Overton Window met the ex KGB agent.