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		<title>The GOP Is Not My Religion</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>A mentor once told me, speaking of the Republican Party, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a religion for me. I&#8217;m a Republican because it&#8217;s the party that I believe is best suited to promote my values and my vision. If it stops being that party, I&#8217;ll find another one.&#8221; The abandonment of Dede Scozzafava by the conservative voters in her district is that threat put into action. If the Republican Party has moved so far away from its conservative base that it has turned to promoting liberals like Scozzafava over real conservatives, simply because they think they have a better chance of winning an election, then it is time for a change.</p>
<p><a href="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/NastRepublicanElephant1.jpg"   ><img style=' float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;'  class="alignright size-full wp-image-619" title="NastRepublicanElephant" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/NastRepublicanElephant1.jpg" alt="NastRepublicanElephant" width="311" height="207" /></a>One of the fundamental issues that I have with today&#8217;s Republican Party is that we allow ourselves to be defined by liberals and the liberal press rather than defining ourselves. As a former county party chairman, I had to live with county and state by-laws that forbade party officials from endorsing candidates in the primaries. It never happened in my county, but the fact that I might have one day been forced to officially support a liberal candidate always festered in the back of my mind.</p>
<p>The problem is that the National Republican Party, together with state and local parties, spend more time, money and effort trying to include everyone in the &#8220;big tent&#8221; than they do standing by the core conservative values that should be guiding them. I can understand how easy it is to fall into the trap of believing the goal is to elect people with R&#8217;s at the end of their names. Obviously, without enough R&#8217;s the party loses majority control of government, but this ignores the reality that control by Republicans isn&#8217;t the real goal. The real goal is holding our nation true to the conservative principles by which it was created.</p>
<p>Talk Radio personality Andrew Wilkow likes to say, &#8220;Individual Patriot first. Conservative second. Republican third.&#8221; What he means is that it is our first duty to be individuals who support our country, that we can do that best by living and promoting our conservative principles, and that the Republican Party is the currently the best tool that we have to do it with. If the Republican Party ceases to be the best tool for that job, then we are left with a couple choices. We can throw out the tool and get a new one, or we can refurbish our current tool and make it work how it&#8217;s supposed to.</p>
<p>Throwing out the tool would mean abandoning the Republican Party altogether and forming or joining a third party. This is a difficult course to follow, but it isn&#8217;t unheard of. There have been several ruling political parties throughout our history including Democrat-Republicans (one party, not the same as todays), Federalists, Whigs, Democrats, Republicans and dozens of smaller parties that exist in smaller numbers around the nation. It might be rare in our national history for a new party to come out of obscurity and take power at the federal level, and it is a difficult proposition, but it&#8217;s not impossible.</p>
<p>Refurbishing the current tool is the more likely scenario and would mean bringing the Republican Party back into line with its historical conservative principles.  In order to forward those principles, we need to elect conservative Republicans. Not liberal Republicans. Not moderate Republicans. Conservative Republicans. Conservatives must retake control of the Party at all levels &#8212; from local precincts, to the statewide parties, to the National Republican Party. To succeed, we will have to make a stand against mediocrity, and so called moderates, and refuse to vote for or fund candidates that don&#8217;t truly represent us, regardless of whether or not they registered as Republicans.  The first battle we face is to get conservative candidates nominated in the primaries, and only then can we carry those candidates through to victory in the general elections. We have to make our voices be heard loud and clear, and not allow the biased liberal press agencies decide which candidates are going to win our support.</p>
<p>I think that conservatives will benefit most by using third parties to force change in the Republican Party. By selectively abandoning the Republican Party, conservatives can bring about enough pressure on party leaders to force them to rethink which candidates they will endorse and support in the future. By supporting independent and third party candidates that more accurately represent our conservative values and principles, as the people of New York&#8217;s 23rd Congressional district have done, we can send the GOP a message about what kind of candidates we will accept. Give us a real conservative candidate to support, and we will. Send us a wishy-washy liberal like Dede Scozzafava? We&#8217;re gone. If we do it consistently, each and every time, the Republican Party will figure out that they should only send us candidates that share our values. Anything else will be a waste of our time, their money, and an erosion of their power base.</p>
<p>By regaining control of our party, and only supporting candidates that we want to support, we can define the Republican Party ourselves instead of letting the liberals and the liberal press define it for us. If the Republican Party continues to allow the likes of Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe to carry our endorsement, then there is no reason for us to continue to be Republicans. We can throw our support behind a third party like New York&#8217;s State Conservative Party, or start a new one. If the Republican Party can retool, however, and show us that they can send us honest-to-goodness, conservative candidates, then we can continue to be part of the Grand Old Party. If we lose a few races in order to cement that position, then so be it. I would rather have a Democrat in office that we can challenge straight up in the next election than a sponge like Arlen Specter who sucks the party coffers dry, while voting with the Democrats anyway, and keeping the party from endorsing a real conservative candidate.</p>
<p>Conservatives are going to regain control of this country&#8217;s future and hold our country true to its conservative roots, regardless of the tools we use. The Republican Party just needs to decide whether it&#8217;s going to be the best tool for that job, or just a tool.</p>
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		<title>Augereocracy &#8212; Selling the Farm for a Vote</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>I was having a cordial political discussion with some people today and, as is often the case, someone made the comment that there will be new elections in 2010, and we will be able to take back America. This is a democracy after all. But is it? Is what we live in really a democracy? Sure, we all get to vote, but how are we casting our votes? For who? And why?</p>
<p>A democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives, and as such, it is the common people who are considered as the primary source of political power. A democracy also assumes the existence and practice of the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.</p>
<p>Does that accurately describe the country we live in now? Have you ever looked at the people around you at work &#8212; who are complaining about overtime and wondering if the boss will figure out that they weren&#8217;t really sick on Friday &#8212; and told yourself, &#8220;These people, together with myself, rule this country,&#8221; without laughing at yourself afterword? Have you ever spent a moment at the local saloon &#8212; where the &#8220;common people&#8221; are hanging out, drinking, laughing, groping each other and spilling beer on their shoes &#8212; and thought solemnly, &#8220;Right here, in this room, is where the primary source of political power in our nation grows from,&#8221; and kept a straight face? Have you ever just looked in the mirror and said, &#8220;This is my country. I am a respected individual, and this nation recognizes my social equality,&#8221; and didn&#8217;t fall over on the floor laughing uncontrollably? I didn&#8217;t think so.</p>
<p>So, what happened? If the founding fathers were so careful to set up a government that would always represent &#8220;We the people,&#8221; how did it all go so wrong? Simple. We sold the farm.</p>
<p>Picture this:</p>
<p><em><img style=' float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;'  class="alignright size-full wp-image-549" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/obamafarmerinchief.jpeg1.jpg" alt="obamafarmerinchief.jpeg" width="286" height="320" />Farmer George Augere has been tilling his fields for 50 years. The Augere Farm usually made enough money to support his immediate family, and he also provided jobs for many of his extended family members. On the day of his retirement, the farm supported George, his wife, three of their five children, six of their eleven grandchildren, two siblings, two cousins, three nephews, an uncle, and Mr. Davis, who had worked for George since he was young. </em></p>
<p><em>Sure, there had been rough times. The three years of drought back in the late nineties almost bankrupted them, but they survived. Then, when Aunt Irma got sick a few years back, they couldn&#8217;t afford a nursing home, but everyone chipped in and made her as comfortable as possible during her last months. Yes, George had been forced to borrow money sometimes to keep the farm going, but when he did he worked tirelessly to pay off the loans. </em></p>
<p><em>The days were long, and the work was hard, but like the generations of farmers before him, George was proud of the fact that he has been able to provide a future for his children and grandchildren, and given them the opportunity to build upon his success. He hoped that they would have the same chances to excel in their lives that his father and grandfather had given him.</em></p>
<p><em>When George decided to retire, he left it up to the family to decide who would inherit the reins of the Augere Farm. He left each family member an equal share of the farm with the only caveat being that every year a new election would be held to determine who would run the farm for the next 12 months. George&#8217;s nephew Barry was a great guy, and everyone liked him. He always knew just what to say, and he always knew just the right time to flash his pearly smile. He had the ability to make almost everyone in the family follow his lead, no matter where he thought to lead them, and it was no surprise when they voted to make him the new leader of the farm.</em></p>
<p><em>Right away he went to work making changes. He convinced them that they needed to trade in that old John Deere &#8212; it may have been twenty years old, but it had still run just fine &#8212; for a brand new Jinma tractor. Yes, it was $30,000 for a smaller tractor, but the new one was better for the environment, and of course Barry was good friends with the sales representative. He talked them into laying off Mr. Davis, who had worked for them for over thirty years, and replaced him with a couple of illegal immigrants, who worked for less money. Later, he switched to a hybrid seed stock. Sure, it was much more expensive, but Barry explained to the family that these new plants were better for the environment, and used less natural resources to grow.</em></p>
<p><em>Barry made all kinds of promises to his family as he led the farm into new directions. &#8220;We won&#8217;t have to work as hard for what we want,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Everyone who works on the farm should be equal,&#8221; he beamed. &#8220;Every family member and employee who works for this farm will make as much as he needs to live, but will only have to work as hard they are able,&#8221; he boomed!  Over the next few years, he promised and gave them more and more, and every year they re-elected him. Under Barry&#8217;s leadership, most of the family got new cars, and built new houses, and were able to go on vacations that they had only dreamed of before. He even convinced them to let the two illegal immigrants participate in future elections and gave them enough money to build new houses and buy new cars of their own. When Uncle Charlie, who was nearly 90 now, fell ill, Barry convinced the family to fund his stay in the best nursing home money could buy. Nothing was too good for a member of the farm. Barry&#8217;s family cheered him and told him that they wanted him to be in charge of the farm forever.</em></p>
<p><em>Barry&#8217;s cousin John, however, wasn&#8217;t as enamored with Barry as the rest of the family. John wasn&#8217;t as good as Barry at rallying the family behind him as Barry was, but he understood simple math. He eyed the family&#8217;s finances warily, and wondered how the family could afford such extravagance with the modest income of the Augere Farm. He asked, &#8220;Where is all this money coming from, Barry?&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Everyone knows that you have to spend money to make money,&#8221; Barry answered.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;But where is it all coming from,&#8221; John persisted.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Well, I took out a mortgage on the farm,&#8221; Barry told him, &#8220;but don&#8217;t worry, we won&#8217;t have to pay it off for decades.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>John asked fearfully, &#8220;How are we going to make payments on it?&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Easy,&#8221; Barry answered, &#8220;Uncle Bill, and Cousin Warren both work extra jobs and have a lot more money than the rest of the family. They are just going to have to chip in a little extra to pay the interest on the loan.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>John was beside himself. He went to the rest of the family and explained to them that Barry&#8217;s plan would bankrupt the Augere Farm. His protests fell on deaf ears however, and the rest of the family thought John was just a troublemaker. Even Bill and Warren thought that Barry was doing a great job, and wouldn&#8217;t hear of replacing him in the next election. &#8220;He&#8217;s so smart, and so caring,&#8221; they said, &#8220;we don&#8217;t mind paying a little extra.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>After a while though, as Barry spent more and more money keeping his family happy, and now the families of his immigrant workers, the size of the mortgage against the farm grew. Soon, Bill and Warren were told that they would have to work a little harder at their second jobs and contribute a little bit more to the family&#8217;s finances. Cousin Brad and Nephew Mike were also told that they would have to start working a little harder and contributing more. &#8220;From each according to their ability, guys,&#8221; Barry told them. &#8220;You have a responsibility to take care of your family.&#8221; Over time, more members of the family were asked to contribute a little bit more the benefit of the others. Brad and Mike were asked to contribute even more, and Bill and Warren were asked to give up almost all of their income from their second jobs to support the farm.</em></p>
<p><em>Later that year, hardly anyone noticed when when Uncle Bill stopped showing up for work at the farm. Barry noticed when Bill&#8217;s check didn&#8217;t get deposited in the bank that month, though, and went looking for him. He found Bill&#8217;s house empty and his car gone. After a little investigation he learned that Bill had quit his second job and moved out of the state where he had started his own farm with Mr. Davis as a partner. Then Warren lost his second job due to budget cuts and was no longer able to contribute extra money to the farm every month. Brad broke his leg in an accident and could no longer work at all. Mike was told that he would have to work even harder.</em></p>
<p><em>Over time, one by one, several more of the hardest working members of the family resigned and moved away. The Augere Farm began to suffer, and its income began to shrink.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;I told you,&#8221; John cried. &#8220;You can&#8217;t keep spending money like this and expect the farm to survive.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Nonsense,&#8221; Barry answered, &#8220;I&#8217;ll just borrow a little more money. We&#8217;ll get through this.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>And that&#8217;s what he did. He took out another mortgage on the farm, and took out loans against the homes his family had built during the last several years. &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry,&#8221; he told them, &#8220;we won&#8217;t have to pay these loans off for years to come.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>The next few years were a little tougher. More of the hardest working family members gave up and moved away, and with each one that left the farm produced less and less. The family who remained, though, demanded more and more from Barry. He sold off the harvester to pay the interest on the loans, and then borrowed a little more to buy a new car for his daughter. During the following fall harvest he had to rent a harvester, and sold the tractor in order to pay for it. It became a never ending downward spiral. Realizing that he was in trouble, Barry started looking for a solution.</em></p>
<p><em>He found that solution in Mr. Yen, who agreed to take on some of the Augere Farm&#8217;s debt in exchange for the land. &#8220;You can stay there and work the land,&#8221; he told Barry, &#8220;nothing will change, other than how the land is titled. Instead of paying all that interest on the loans, you&#8217;ll just have to pay rent. Besides, I&#8217;ll pay you a little under the table so you&#8217;ll have some money in your pocket when all is said and done.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;But what about my family?&#8221; Barry asked.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;I can&#8217;t give you enough to pay off all of their debts,&#8221; Mr. Yen told him, &#8220;and I can&#8217;t employ them all. I run a tight ship. But you&#8217;ll be taken care of, my friend.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Okay,&#8221; Barry relented, &#8220;let&#8217;s do it.&#8221;<br />
</em></p>
<p><em>And just like that, Barry sold the farm.</em></p>
<p>What happened to George&#8217;s farm is exactly what is happening to our country. The votes of our electorate are being bought with promises of extravagant benefits to the &#8220;common people.&#8221; The problem is of course, that all of these benefits have to be paid for someday, by someone. The crime wasn&#8217;t Barry selling the farm to Mr. Yen, the crime was committed when the family sold the farm to Barry for a few material promises and a pretty smile. The crime was selling out the future for a little extra stuff today.</p>
<p>The Obama administration is telling us that only the rich will have to pay more so everyone else can have free health care. Only the rich corporations will have to fund the new environmental revolution. He tells us that all of the common people deserve economic justice and equality. In short, the government is buying the votes of the American people, and it has destroyed our democracy. Our president, our congress, and our supreme court have all thrown their hats into the bidding circle, looking to buy the farm, and then sell it down the river.</p>
<p>These are lies that they tell us for one purpose, and one purpose only. To stay in power. And in order to keep that power, they are willing to buy our votes with our very own souls. In the end, all it will cost us is our freedom.</p>
<p>2010? Maybe we can take back our country, but I&#8217;m not optimistic. We still have too much wealth in this country for Obama and his lackeys to buy votes with. They&#8217;ll bankrupt us eventually, though. Even Vice President Biden said so. When that happens, maybe real democracy can make a comeback.</p>
<p>Until then, welcome to augereocracy, where control of the government goes to the highest bidder.</p>
<blockquote><p><big><big><big><big><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">augereocracy</span></big></big></big></big></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><big><big><strong>au·ger·e·oc·ra·cy</strong></big></big> [<em>aw-jeer-ee</em>-<strong>ok</strong>-<em>ruh-see</em>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><em><strong>-noun, plural -cies.</strong></em></span></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">a puppet republic where the members of the supposedly democratically elected government received the majority of the votes by promising the most benefits (ie. kickbacks, bribes) to the voters</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">a government that provides increasingly greater benefits to its electorate in order keep power.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">a state or society characterized by a formal relinquishing of rights in exchange for perceived financial benefits.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">political or social inequality resulting from class warfare and wealth redistribution.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">majority rule, where such majority is purchased through the promise of personal benefit.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">a system of government in which the power, which used to be vested in the people, who ruled either directly or through free elected representatives, is now solidly controlled by a select few who have purchased that power from the people by promising ever increasing benefits from the treasury.<br />
</span></li>
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<p>Origin:<br />
2009; [root: augere (Latin, present infinitive) - 1. increase, augment; 2. enlarge, spread; 3. lengthen; 4. exaggerate; 5. honor, enrich; 6. (figuratively) exalt, praise. - rel. auction]</p>
<p>Related words or phrases for : augereocracy<br />
socialism, communism, progressivism, voter auction, bribery, influence peddling</p>
<p>example: &#8220;The people in this country have forsaken their democracy and sold their votes and control of our government to the highest bidder in exchange for free healthcare and rent controlled housing. We are now an augereocracy.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>These are actual police mugshots. I bet the president is so proud of the people who support him! This is probably the kind of criminals that the One thinks is waiting in Gitmo for him to save. Can anyone remember ever seeing a mugshot of someone wearing a George W. Bush shirt? How about a Ronald Reagan shirt? Barry Goldwater? George H.W. Bush? Bob Dole?</p>
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		<title>FOXNews&gt;U.N. &#039;Climate Change&#039; Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>Ah, here it is. This is why I call it <a href="http://www.wisdomworld.com/2008/04/20/the-threat-of-socia-environmentalism/"   >Socia(Environmenta)lism</a>. It is not, and has never been about protection of the environment. It is, and has always been, about worldwide socialism, and the transfer of the world&#8217;s wealth to the control of an elite few through regulation and decree, rather than hard work. The United Nations stopped being a force for world peace decades ago, and is now infinitely more interested in world domination. Americans have fallen headlong into the trap as they have clamored for the punishment of our successful business leaders and supported Obama&#8217;s redistribution of wealth. America was built on the strength of individualism, by encouraging success, and by allowing those who succeed to reap the rewards. As Ayn Rand&#8217;s John Galt said in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876%3FSubscriptionId%3D02E5W5871AJF7PMMMS82%26tag%3Dwisdomworld%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0452011876"   ><em>Atlas Shrugged</em></a>: &#8220;I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.&#8221;</p>
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<h2 class="head"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510937,00.html"   >U.N. &#8216;Climate Change&#8217; Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy</a></h2>
<p class="date">Friday, March     27, 2009  					 						<img class="byline" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/foxnews_story.gif" alt="" /><br />
By George Russell</p>
<p><span id="intelliTXT"><strong> A United Nations document on &#8220;climate change&#8221; that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.</strong></span></p>
<p>Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations &#8220;information note&#8221; on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an &#8220;effective framework&#8221; for dealing with global warming.</p>
<p>The 16-page note, obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.</p>
<p>In the stultifying language that is normal for important U.N. conclaves, the negotiators are known as the &#8220;Ad Hoc Working Group On Further Commitments For Annex I Parties Under the Kyoto Protocol.&#8221; Yet the consequences of their negotiations, if enacted, would be nothing short of world-changing. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510937,00.html"   >[Read More...]</a></p></blockquote>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>Back on November 7, 2008, when President Obama was still President Elect Obama, the official website of his presidential transition was <a href="http://www.change.gov/"   >www.change.gov</a>. When the site was first posted, on the page labeled &#8220;America Serves,&#8221; Obama outlined his plan that would <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>require</strong></em></span> that students perform a certain number of hours of community service.</p>
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<div id="attachment_375" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 375px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-375" title="change.gov&gt;americaserves -- November 7, 2008" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/obamavolunteer-11.jpg" alt="change.gov&gt;americaserves -- November 7, 2008" width="365" height="329" /><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class="wp-caption-text">change.gov&gt;americaserves -- November 7, 2008</p></div></blockquote>
<p>Within hours of the website going live, the blogosphere was abuzz with reports of the suprising content of the page, such as aye chihuaha&#8217;s <a href="http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/11/07/obama-plans-to-require-volunteerism-reader-post/"   >post</a> on <a href="http://www.floppingaces.net/"   >Flopping Aces</a> (which is the source of the above screenshot). The official transition website stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>require</strong></em></span> 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.&#8221; (emphasis added)</p></blockquote>
<p>As the outrage rippled through the web, Obama&#8217;s transition team got wary of the impending backlash and within hours amended the site.</p>
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<div id="attachment_377" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 378px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-377" title="change.gov&gt;americaserves - March 17, 2009" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/the-obama-biden-transition-team_12372817842061.png" alt="change.gov&gt;americaserves - March 17, 2009" width="368" height="426" /><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class="wp-caption-text">change.gov&gt;americaserves - March 17, 2009</p></div></blockquote>
<p>The new language in question, still available on <a href="http://change.gov/americaserves/"   >the site</a>, now reads:</p>
<blockquote><p>Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><em>setting a goal</em></strong></span> that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>developing a plan</strong></em></span> so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free. (emphasis added)</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, this might seem innocuous, until you read <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1388:"   >House Bill 1388</a>, introduced on March 9, 2009, that &#8220;reauthorize(s) and reform(s) the national service laws&#8221; and creates a congressional committee that will analyze &#8220;whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>HR 1388 IH<br />
111th CONGRESS<br />
1st Session<br />
H. R. 1388<br />
To reauthorize and reform the national service laws.<br />
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES<br />
March 9, 2009<br />
Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York (for herself, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. SESTAK, Mr. HARE, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. TONKO, Mr. POLIS of Colorado, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. HINOJOSA, and Mr. COURTNEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor<br />
A BILL<br />
To reauthorize and reform the national service laws.<br />
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,<br />
…<br />
TITLE VI&#8211;CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION ON CIVIC SERVICE<br />
…<br />
SEC. 6104. DUTIES<br />
…<br />
(b) Specific Topics- In carrying out its general purpose under subsection (a), the Commission shall address and analyze the following specific topics:<br />
…<br />
(6) Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>mandatory service requirement</strong></em></span> for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds. (emphasis added)(truncated)</p></blockquote>
<p>It is clear now, that the Obama Administration, together with the Democrat controlled congress, intends to institute a sort of civil service &#8220;draft&#8221; that would force America&#8217;s youth into compulsive community service. It is also a clear violation of the United States Constitution, which reads:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Amendment 13 &#8211; Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865.</strong></p>
<p>1. Neither slavery <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>nor involuntary servitude</strong></em></span>, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.<br />
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. (emphasis added)</p></blockquote>
<p>There is no doubt anymore as to the direction President Obama wants to take our country. He has quite effectively taken Saul Alinsky&#8217;s rules for radicals and applied them to running (ruining?) our country. His administration has broken all traditions and attacked the previous administration at every turn. In addition, his guard dogs have publicly and systematically attacked every commentator that has dared challenge his agenda. Together with the far left wing of the Democratic Party, he has used the current &#8220;economic crisis&#8221; as a launching pad to take control of our country and justify an expansion of the federal government that is unmatched in history.</p>
<p>In the name of protecting our economy, he has spent our nation into a deficit that is twice as large as any in the history of our country and threatened the very tenets of the economic system that allowed our country to become the superpower that it is today. This plan to further radicalize our youth by forcing them into involuntary servitude is just another stake in the heart of our nations freedom, and it cannot be allowed!</p>
<p>The main stream media is completely ignoring the direction that the underlying current of Obama&#8217;s administration is taking our country in, while at the same time ballyhooing his every individual action, and then spending countless hours on the television, on the radio, and in the print lionizing, idolizing, and exalting President Obama in ways that are eerily reminiscent of the fervent, compulsory praise given to previous and existing leaders such as Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Chavez, Pol Pot, and Castro. It is ironic that in the past incarnations of this obviously socialist leaning economic direction, which our main stream press seemingly wants and supports, one of the first sacrifices of individual rights that are made in the name of that economic &#8220;good&#8221; is the freedom of speech. At the same time that so called journalists are heralding the destruction of free market principles, and personal economic freedom, they are also beating the death knell of their own beloved freedom of the press.</p>
<p>Very soon, sooner than we might think, the people of this nation are going to have to choose between continuing down an almost irreversible path to Marxist socialism, and standing up for the country that we know and love, and turn the tide against the mutiny in our political system that threatens to hijack the American way of life we know. Obama&#8217;s view of socioeconomics is so startlingly similar to those of freedom&#8217;s greatest enemies that it makes me cringe, and he is using their lessons to mold our country into a new socialist mecca! He will systematically dismantle our current form of government and economic system and replace them with his own warped vision of a new United Socialist States of America.</p>
<p>And how will he enforce these new policies and agendas?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we&#8217;ve set. We&#8217;ve got to have a civilian national security force that&#8217;s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded. -Barack Obama</p></blockquote>
<p>It all starts with the youth. It begins by rallying them to an innocuous common cause and then using the bonds created in the pursuit of that cause to hold them together, and bind them into a malleable force. Then, when they have become a large, powerful force, they can be pointed in any direction and pushed. Then, with very little effort, the energy of that force can expound into a terrible tsunami that can destroy anything in its path!</p>
<p>This is scary beyond belief, and hearkens back to the Nazi Party&#8217;s &#8220;Hitler-Jugend.&#8221; As every youth in Nazi Germany was required to join &#8220;Hitler-Jugend&#8221; (Hitler Youth), soon, every youth in America will be required to join &#8220;Obama Ujana&#8221; (Obama Youth), where he will be able to rally, bind, mold and aim them into a social weapon that conservative America will be powerless to defend against.</p>
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<div id="attachment_378" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 366px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center;"><img class="size-large wp-image-378" title="hitler_jugend" src="http://www.wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hitler_jugend-732x1024.jpg" alt="[Hitler Youth recruitment poster. The wording translates to: &quot;Youth serves the leader. All ten year-olds into the Hitler Youth.&quot;]" width="356" height="500" /><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class="wp-caption-text">Hitler Youth recruitment poster. The wording translates to: &quot;Youth serves the leader. All ten year-olds into the Hitler Youth.&quot;</p></div></blockquote>
<p>Not only is this a thinly veiled attempt to indoctrinate our youth into a left-wing dominated mindset, it is a carefully conceived plan to galvanize Obama&#8217;s permanent campaign and cement him as an enduring iconic power in American life.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. We are rotten to the marrow. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there any finer ones in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world. This is the heroic stage of youth. Out of it will come the creative man, the man-god.</p>
<p>&#8220;When an opponent declares, &#8216;I will not come over to your side,&#8217; I say calmly, &#8216;Your child belongs to us already&#8230;What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community&#8217;.&#8221; &#8211; Adolf Hitler</p></blockquote>
<p>Look very closely at your children. Picture them, standing at attention in their one piece powder blue uniform wearing a navy blue beret and red armband adorned with the now universally known symbol of the permanent Obama campaign, chanting in cadence:</p>
<p><img style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  class="size-full wp-image-399 alignleft" title="obama_o_resized" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/obama_o_resized1.jpg" alt="obama_o_resized" width="180" height="180" />Obama Ujana!</p>
<p>Obama Ujana!</p>
<p>Obama Ujana!</p>
<p>Obama Ujana!</p>
<p>Obama Ujana!</p>
<p>Obama Ujana!</p>
<p>If this idea sickens and scares you as much as it does me, start contacting your Representatives and Senators now! Call them, write them, and don&#8217;t stop there. Tell them that our children are not their social labor force, and they are not fodder to promote their radical social agendas. Contact President Obama and tell him that your children are YOUR children, and that you will not allow them to be indoctrinated into his civilian national security force and become his own &#8220;Obama-Jugend&#8221;.</p>
<p>-Wisdom</p>
<p><em>Isn&#8217;t our leader in great company?<br />
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<blockquote><p><em>“You say, away with you Communists; we say, away with you imperialists.” &#8211; Mao Zedong</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.&#8221; &#8211; Pol Pot</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.&#8221; &#8211; Hugo Chavez</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.&#8221; &#8211; Fidel Castro</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.&#8221; &#8211; Joseph Stalin</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Revolutionary Social-Democracy has always included the struggle for reforms as part of its activities. But it utilises “economic” agitation for the purpose of presenting to the government, not only demands for all sorts of measures, but also (and primarily) the demand that it cease to be an autocratic government.&#8221; &#8211; Lenin</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.&#8221; &#8211; Adolf Hitler</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don&#8217;t think.&#8221; &#8211; Adolf Hitler</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren&#8217;t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.&#8221; &#8211; Barack Obama </em></p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to President Obama&#8217;s 2010 budget blueprint, the Federal Deficit for the 2009 fiscal year will increase to $1.75 TRILLION! Written out, that&#8217;s $1,750,000,000,000. 175 with TEN ZEROES behind it!...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><div id="attachment_357" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 277px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; float: right;"><a href="http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama.html"   ><img class="size-full wp-image-357" title="Surplus/Deficit" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/spending1.gif" alt="From MikesAmerica.com" width="267" height="181" /></a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class="wp-caption-text">Graph by MikesAmerica</p></div>
<p>According to President Obama&#8217;s 2010 <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/budgetblueprint02262009.pdf"   >budget blueprint</a>, the Federal Deficit for the 2009 fiscal year will increase to $1.75 TRILLION! Written out, that&#8217;s $1,750,000,000,000. 175 with TEN ZEROES behind it!</p>
<p>A quick look at the graph will show that during the Bush administration, deficits had increased in the war time years directly after the 9/11 attacks, but steadily decreased during 2005, 2006, and 2007. In  fiscal 2008, however, the first fiscal year to begin after the Democrats took over both houses of congress in 2007, you can see a marked increase in deficit spending. In fact, 2008 was the largest deficit in U.S. history. This year&#8217;s deficit projection of $1.75 Trillion is more than double that!</p>
<p>To put that in perspective, with that money the federal government could purchase 9,716,824 homes at the <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/12/real_estate/Latest_median_prices/"   >median home value</a> level from the fourth quarter of 2008. Since home values are dropping fast, it is safe to project that by the end of this year, our deficit spending could buy 10 MILLION homes!</p>
<p>Another way of looking at it is that the deficit could pay the <a href="http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/012528.html"   >annual wages</a> of 34,836,657 Americans! Now say that to yourself out loud &#8212; the annual wages of thirty-four million, eight hundred and thirty-six thousand, six hundred and fifty-seven Americans! That is almost a quarter of the American workforce!</p>
<p>The spending bills that are coming out of Congress like ticker tape amount to a threat to the security and stability of the United States of America the likes of which we have never seen. Now we have a president who not only won&#8217;t try to curb congress&#8217;s outrageous spending, we now have a president who won&#8217;t miss an opportunity to add to it.</p>
<p>On January 23, 1996, President Bill Clinton announced to our country, &#8220;The era of big government is over.&#8221; With Obama&#8217;s budget blueprint,  that he calls, <em>“A New Era of Responsibility”,</em> what he is actually saying is, &#8220;The era of big government is back!&#8221;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>The court systems would sure have a lot more time if we could all just investigate and clear ourselves! Apparently, &#8220;The Obama&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have to worry about the trifling opinions of unimportant organizations like the FBI, and the Illinois State Legislature.</p>
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<h1>Internal Obama probe absolves his team in Blago mess</h1>
<p class="byline">BY MICHAEL McAULIFF and KENNETH R. BAZINET<br />
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU</p>
<p class="datestamp">Tuesday, December 23rd 2008,  5:47 PM</p>
<p>WASHINGTON</a> &#8211; Team Obama cleared itself Tuesday of any role in Rod Blagojevich&#8217;s alleged bid to barter the President-elect&#8217;s Senate seat &#8211; and offered no evidence the Illinois governor sought to sell the slot.</p>
<p>An internal review found Obama&#8217;s incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, talked with Blagojevich and the governor&#8217;s top aide to discuss replacements &#8211; but that was it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American voters have cast their ballots, and the decision has been made. Barack Obama is our new President Elect. First of all, let me be gracious in defeat. I would...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p><a href="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2008_election_reults_county_by_county.png"   ><img style=' float: right; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 2px 7px;'  class="alignright size-medium wp-image-778" title="2008_election_reults_county_by_county" src="http://wisdomworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2008_election_reults_county_by_county-300x194.png" alt="" width="300" height="194" /></a>The American voters have cast their ballots, and the decision has been made. Barack Obama is our new President Elect.</p>
<p>First of all, let me be gracious in defeat. I would like to congratulate Senator Obama for attaining the highest office in our nation. Senator Obama ran a superb campaign, and the final vote tallies show just how excellent of a campaign it was. While I definitely did not support his candidacy, I will support him as my President.</p>
<p>Secondly, I want to say, while I will support him as my President, I will be watching him closely over the next four years. While I believe that he should be given the chance to shape policy in the direction which he believes is best for the nation, that policy must stay within the bounds of our Constitution, and I will not tolerate any divergence to the same. I have been an outspoken opponent of what I believe to be Obama&#8217;s vision for this nation, but I hope I have been wrong. I have also been very unforgiving about Obama&#8217;s past associations, and very suspicious of his economic and political beliefs. I have been very vocal in my suspicion that he is both a Marxist, and a reparationist. There is a chance I have been wrong. There is a chance that he is just another politician, and he may even turn out to be a good President. This is one of those few times that I hope I was wrong in the past. I doubt it, but I am hopeful. Either way, I will be watching.</p>
<p>Thirdly, I have to say, I am proud to be from one the few Red States left in our country. Wyoming voted overwhelmingly Republican, and we sent two great Republican Senators, Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, back to Washington, and picked Cynthia Lummis, a long serving Republican Stateswoman, to replace Barbara Cubin as our sole voice in the House of Representatives. We are one of the few strongholds of conservatism left in the nation, and I wouldn&#8217;t think about living anywhere else.</p>
<p>Finally, I have to answer comments that I have heard that the Republican Party is broken, and that we have to remake ourselves in order to come back to the good graces of the voting public. Balderdash. The Republican Party does not have to remake itself, or become more like the Democratic Party, or have a &#8216;bigger tent&#8217; or become more tolerant, or any of that foolishness. The Republican Party needs to do seven things in order to retake its place as the leaders of our nation.</p>
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<li>We need to self police and purge our Party of the corruption that seeped into the ranks during our years of power. From the halls of Congress, to the living rooms where local Party officials meet, the people who have used political power to advance personal prosperity, illegally and unethically, need to be stripped from their positions of leadership, and censured or prosecuted as the situations dictate. Sarah Palin set a standard for us in how she hit hard against entrenched corruption in Alaska, and we would do well to heed her example.</li>
<li>We need to go back to the basics of what makes our Party great. We need to embrace the foundations of our party&#8217;s history, such as constitutional constructionism, federalism, individual responsibility, and conservative fiscal policy. We need cast off this idea that it is our job to include all points of view in our Party, and instead set a steadfast standard that others can look up to and join with as they see and understand the superiority of the Conservative Republican Platform.</li>
<li>We need to learn from the success of the Democratic Party and use their methods to teach conservative values from the bottom up. We need to become &#8216;community organizers&#8217; in our own right, and work hard to make sure that our values are taught in our preschools, in our grade schools, our middle schools, our high schools, and ultimately in our colleges and our universities. We need to create our own educational programs to counter the liberal programs that have become entrenched in the liberal controlled education systems. We need to promote and support conservative community programs and charities, and take advantage of any chance to promote conservative social efforts wherever we see them.</li>
<li>We have to find strong, honest, charismatic, conservative leaders to take control of the current Republican Caucus in Congress. We cannot afford to have congressional leaders who cannot relate to the national constituency. The chosen leaders have to be able to articulate our congressional objectives, and communicate their importance to the American people. A Democratic majority can stonewall a Republican minority, but they cannot stand against a resolute American public that demands results. When the inevitable political infighting begins in the now too powerful Democratic Party, a calm, steadfast Republican minority can show America what leadership should look like.</li>
<li>We have to recruit, promote, and support good conservative leaders at all levels of local and statewide government. The first, and most important, place we can do this is on school boards nationwide. If we can shift the political balance of our education system, we can begin to take the control of our classrooms out of the hands of the far left.</li>
<li>We have to recruit, promote, support good conservative candidates to challenge the Democrats for control of Congress in 2010. The Democrats have two years ahead where they will have control of the White House and both houses of Congress, and we can take advantage of those two years to recruit candidates and build successful campaigns. The political infighting of the Democratic Party is inevitable, and a unified Republican Party can take advantage of that to make huge gains in congressional seats.</li>
<li>We have to find a great, young, ambitious, charismatic, conservative leader, who has a bulletproof past, who has a grand vision for our nation, to lead our party to victory in the 2012 Presidential race. I know this is asking a lot, but our Party needs a young Ronald Reagan &#8212; male, female, black, white, latino &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t make a difference. If we put forth anything less, then we will be trying again in 2016.</li>
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<p>That&#8217;s it. My seven steps to reclaim conservative values in America. Will it happen? I don&#8217;t know. If the Republican Party can find the right leadership, then I think it can happen. If they want me to come do it for them in Washington, they can always give me a call. Otherwise, I&#8217;ll be here in Wyoming working on it at the local level.</p>
<p>Until then&#8230;.</p>
<p>-Wisdom</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political hate mongering is getting worse. In addition to this there have been violent threats and attacks against Republicans, conservatives, and McCain supporters all over the country. This is...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>The political hate mongering is getting worse. In addition to this there have been violent threats and attacks against Republicans, conservatives, and McCain supporters all over the country. This is what happens when you run a campaign based on class warfare. If this is what Obama supporters are willing to do during the campaign, what can we expect if he is elected. Are conservatives going to have to go to ground? Will we have to go into hiding? Lead secret lives? Is it so far fetched to envision a society not long from now where thousands of obamatons march the streets, with red arm bands sporting an &#8220;O&#8221; on them, looking for closet conservatives to beat down?</p>
<p>Better be stocking up on those soon to be illegal weapons!</p>
<p>-Wisdom</p>
<blockquote><p>Republican HQ Managers Home Shot Up Over McCain Signs</p>
<p>Democrats Far More Aggressive in Seminole County, Victim Says</p>
<p>POSTED: 11:26 pm EDT October 22, 2008</p>
<p>UPDATED: 10:45 am EDT October 23, 2008</p>
<p>LONGWOOD, Fla. &#8212; The home of a Central Florida Republican headquarters manager was shot up and damaged over his support of Sen. John McCain, the man told police.</p>
<p>IMAGES: Home Shot Up</p>
<p>Rog Coverely said several pellets pierced his Longwood home. Coverely showed several spiderwebbed-holes in the front windows of his home.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.local6.com/politics/17784129/detail.html"   >Republican HQ Managers Home Shot Up Over McCain Signs &#8211; Politics News Story &#8211; WKMG Orlando</a>.</p></blockquote>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='wb_fb_top'><div style="float:right;"></div></div><p>written by <span class="mh-hyperlinked"><a href='http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01XuqZMTyd8LLQjwpTOAHnJw==&c=Bgs5lby75zQaE3fvbYTYxYHgTerJgcBDOD6CvWKlOhk=' onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01XuqZMTyd8LLQjwpTOAHnJw==&amp;c=Bgs5lby75zQaE3fvbYTYxYHgTerJgcBDOD6CvWKlOhk=', '', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=500,height=300'); return false;">Larry Abraham</a></span></p>
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<p><em>I urge all of my readers to make copies of this report and send them to your friends and relatives. The information is too critical to be overlooked in the madness of this election year.</em></p>
<p><em>Part I of this essay was written in January before the Democrat Party primaries settled anything and before the occupation of Iraq took a turn for the worse. However, it is now more obvious that what I wrote about the nature of the Third Great Jihad is all too true. The political picture has deteriorated in Europe and the U.S .to a great degree since then so Part II takes these developments into consideration. Again, I urge all of you to distribute this essay as far and wide as possible without any concern for copyright violation. Our fellow citizens need to know the true nature of what we all face. LHA</em></p>
<p>As we watch and listen to all the Democrat Party candidates running for the nomination of their party, it is tantamount to enduring the Chinese water torture. The blah, blah, blah goes on and nothing of value comes out except the pain of listening to the same nothingness over and over again. I won&#8217;t take the time or space to repeat what you have heard so many, mind numbing times over the past months but what you have not heard is crucial.</p>
<p>I must also fault President Bush and the administration spokesmen for not telling the American people what they really need to know about this &#8220;war&#8221;. If they don&#8217;t do that sometime between now and November it may cost them the election.</p>
<p>It Did Not Start on 9/11</p>
<p>The war we are now facing did not begin on September 11, 2001, nor will it end with the peaceful transition to civilian authorities in Iraq, whenever that may be. In fact, Iraq is but a footnote in the bigger context of this encounter, but an important one none the less.</p>
<p>This war is what the Jihadists themselves are calling the &#8221; Third Great Jihad&#8221; and are doing so within the framework of a time line which reaches back to the very creation of Islam in the Seventh century and their attempts to recreate the dynamics which gave rise to the religion in the first two hundred years of its existence.</p>
<p>No religion in history grew as fast, in its infancy, than did Islam and the reasons for this growth are not hard to explain when you understand what the world was like at the time of Muhammad&#8217;s death in 632 AD. The Western Roman Empire was in ruins and the Eastern Empire was based in Constantinople and trying desperately to keep the power of its early grandeur while transitioning to Christianity as a de facto state religion. The costs to the average person were unbearable as he was being required to meet the constantly rising taxes levied from the state along with the tithes coerced by the Church. What Islam offered was the &#8220;carrot or the sword&#8221;.</p>
<p>If you became a convert, your taxes were immediately eliminated, as was your tithe. If you didn&#8217;t, you faced death. The choice was not hard for most to make, unless you were a very devoted martyr in the making. At the beginning, even the theology was not too hard for most to swallow, considering that both Jewry and Christianity were given their due by the Prophet. There is but one God-Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet, as was Jesus, and the pre-Christian Jewish prophets of the Torah (old testament). Both were called &#8220;children of the book&#8221;, the book being the Koran, which replaced both the Old and New testaments for Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>With this practical approach to spreading the &#8220;word&#8221; Islam grew like wild fire, reaching out from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula in all directions. This early growth is what the Muslims call the &#8220;first&#8221; great Jihad and it met with little resistance until Charles Martel of France, the father of Charlemagne, stopped them in the battle of Tours in France, after they had firmly established the religion on the Iberian peninsula. This first onslaught against the West continued in various forms and at various times until Islam was finally driven out of Spain in 1492 at the battle of Granada.</p>
<p>The &#8220;second great jihad&#8221; came with the Ottoman Turks. This empire succeeded in bringing about the downfall of Constantinople as a Christian stronghold and an end to Roman hegemony in all of its forms. The Ottoman Empire was Islam&#8217;s most successful expansion of territory even though the religion itself had fractured into warring sects and bitter rivalries with each claiming the ultimate truths in &#8220;the ways of the Prophet&#8221;. By 1683 the Ottomans had suffered a series of defeats on both land and sea and the final and failed attempt to capture Vienna set the stage for the collapse of any further territorial ambitions and Islam shrunk into various sheikhdoms, emir dominated principalities, and roving tribes of nomads. However, by this time a growing anti-western sentiment, blaming its internal failures on anyone but themselves, was taking hold and setting the stage for a new revival know has Wahhabism which came into full bloom under the House of Saud on the Arabian peninsula shortly before the onset of WWI. It is this Wahhabi version of Islam which has infected the religion itself, now finding adherents in almost all branches and sects, especially the Shiites. What this sect calls for is the complete and total rejection of anything and everything which is not based in the original teachings of The Prophet and it finds its most glaring practice in the policies of the Afgani Taliban or the Shiite practices of the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. Its Ali Pasha (Field Marshall) is now known as Osama bin Laden, the leader of the &#8220;third Jihad&#8221;.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter sets the stage</p>
<p>The strategy for this &#8220;holy war&#8221; did not begin with the planning of the destruction of the World Trade Center. It began with the plans for toppling the Shah of Iran back in the early 1970&#8242;s and culminated with his exile in 1979. With his plans and programs to &#8220;westernize&#8221; his country, along with his close ties to the U.S. and subdued acceptance of the State of Israel, the Shah was the soft target.</p>
<p>Thanks, in large part to the hypocritical and disastrous policies of the Jimmy Carter State Department the revolution was set into motion, the Shah was deposed, his arm forces scattered or murdered and stage one was complete. The Third Jihad now had a base of operations and the oil wealth to support its grand design or what they call the &#8220;Great Caliphate&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Great Caliphate</p>
<p>What this design calls for is the replacement of all secular leadership in any country with Muslim majorities. This would include, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, all the Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and finally what they call the &#8220;occupied territory&#8221; Israel.</p>
<p>As a part of this strategy, forces of the jihad will infiltrate governments and the military as a prelude to taking control, once the secular leadership is ousted or assassinated. Such was the case in Lebanon leading to the Syrian occupation and what was attempted in Egypt with the murder of Anwar Sadat, along with the multiple attempts on the lives of Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak of Egypt and Musharraf in Pakistan. Pakistan is a particular prize because of its nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The long-range strategy of the Third Jihad counts on three strategic goals. 1. The U.S. withdrawing from the region just as it did in Southeast Asia, following Vietnam. 2. Taking control of the oil wealth in the Muslim countries, which would be upwards to 75% of known reserves, and 3. Using nuclear weapons or other WMDs to annihilate Israel. A further outcome of successfully achieving these objectives would be to place the United Nations as the sole arbiter in East/West negotiations.<br />
Evidence of the Bush Administration awareness of this plan is found in the facts that immediately following the 9/11 attack, their first move was to shore up Pakistan and Egypt, believing that these two would be the next targets for al Qaeda while Americans focused on the disaster in New York. The administration also knew that the most important objective was to send a loud and clear message that the U.S. was in the region to stay, not only to shore up our allies but to send a message to the Jihadists. The attack on Afghanistan was necessary to break-up a secure al Qaeda base of operations and put their leadership on the run or in prison.</p>
<p>Why Iraq?</p>
<p>The war on Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no one knew how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the master planners of the Third Jihad or his willingness to hand off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel. What was known, were serious indications of on-going collaboration, as Saddam funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis and others in Kuwait.</p>
<p>What the U.S. needed to establish was a significant base of operations smack dab in the middle of the Islamic world, in a location which effectively cut it in half. Iraq was the ideal target for this and a host of other strategic reasons.</p>
<p>Leadership of various anti-American groups both here and abroad understood the vital nature of the Bush initiative and thus launched their demonstrations, world-wide, to &#8220;Stop The War&#8221;. Failing this, they also laid plans to build a political campaign inside the country, with the War in Iraq as a plebiscite, using a little know politician as the thrust point; Howard Dean. This helps to explain how quickly the Radical Left moved into the Dean campaign with both people and money, creating what the clueless media called the &#8220;Dean Phenomenon&#8221;.</p>
<p>By building on the left-wing base in the Democrat party and the &#8220;Hate Bush&#8221; liberals, the campaign has already resulted in a consensus among the aspirants, minus Joe Lieberman, to withdraw the U.S. from Iraq and turn the operation over to the U.N. And, if past is prologue, i.e. Vietnam, once the U.S. leaves it will not go back under any circumstances, possibly even the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>Should George W. Bush be defeated in November and a new administration come to power we could expect to see the dominoes start to fall in the secular Islamic countries and The Clash of Civilizations would then become a life changing event in all of our lives.</p>
<p>What surprised the Jihadists following the 9/11 attack was how American sentiment mobilized around the president and a profound sense of patriotism spread across the country They were not expecting this reaction, based on what had happened in the past, nor were they expecting the determined resolve of the President himself. I believe that this is one of the reasons we have not had any further attacks within our borders. They are content to wait, just as one of their tactical mentors, V.I. Lenin admonished &#8220;two steps forward, one step back&#8221;.</p>
<p>A couple of additional events serve as valuable footnotes to the current circumstances we face: the destruction of the human assets factor of the CIA during the Carter presidency, presided over by the late Senator Frank Church and Carter&#8217;s CIA Director, Admiral Stansfield Turner. This fact has plagued our intelligence agencies right up to this very day with consequences which are now obvious. Jimmy Carter is the one man who must bear the bulk of the responsibility for setting the stage of the Third Jihad. Americans should find little comfort in how the Democrat contenders constantly seek the &#8220;advice and counsel&#8221; of this despicable little hypocrite who now prances around with his Nobel Prize, while attacking President Bush with almost as much venom as his fellow Nobel Laureate, Yassir Arafat.</p>
<p>Lastly, we should not expect to see any meaningful cooperation from Western Europe, especially the French.<br />
Since failing to protect their own interests in Algeria by turning the country over to the first of the Arab terrorists, Amid Ben Bella, the country itself is now occupied by Islamic immigrants totally twenty percent of the population.</p>
<p>We are in the battle of our lives which will go on for many years possibly even generations. If we fail to understand what we are facing or falter in the challenge of &#8220;knowing our enemy&#8221; the results will be catastrophic.</p>
<p>PART II (May 1, 2004)</p>
<p>Since writing the above, we have witnessed some frightening evidence in support of our hypothesis both internally and in other parts of the world.</p>
<p>The al Qaeda bombing in Madrid has emboldened our enemy into believing it can use terror as an instrument for democratic regime change. Based on what happened there, they may be right.</p>
<p>Kerry and bin Laden on the same page</p>
<p>John Kerry and other leaders of his party constantly refer to the United States as &#8220;acting unilaterally.&#8221; They give no credit whatsoever to countries like Great Britain, Poland, Italy, Australia or even tiny Honduras for putting their limited armed forces in harm&#8217;s way to support the U.S. led coalition in Iraq. It is little wonder that some are considering doing what Spain has done&#8221; pulling out. The leaders in these countries have spent considerable political capital in this effort, and have little to show for it as it relates to fostering good will with the American public. Couple that fact with Osama bin Ladin&#8217;s latest offer of withholding attacks on those who &#8220;quit&#8221; the coalition and you have all the elements for a Democrat party fostered &#8220;self-fulfilling prophecy&#8221; where the U.S. will be totally alone in the pacification of Iraq. John Kerry and the Bush critics persist in the &#8220;lie&#8221; of the U.S. going it &#8220;alone&#8221; in Iraq but Osama bin Laden knows differently and will use the Kerry rhetoric to help isolate the U.S. The terrorists now see themselves as political &#8220;king-makers&#8221;. They may be right.</p>
<p>Another aspect of the &#8220;anti-Bush&#8221; political axis is how both his political enemies and the main stream media take ghoulish delight in &#8220;the body count,&#8221; just as they did in the later days of Vietnam. Oh sure, they pay incidental homage to the memory of the young Americans who gave their lives in the greatest threat this country has ever faced, but they do so with all the sincerity of Madonna making a vow of chastity. As the body bags grow in number, they believe, so grows their political prospects. They may be right.</p>
<p>If the Bush administration is further weakened in the months leading up to the November elections, we will witness a heightened al Qaeda offensive in all parts of the world, including our own country, and especially in Iraq and nations surrounding it ,i.e., Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Events within the past few days in Jordan not only make this argument but also point to the possibility of &#8220;what happened to the WMDs.&#8221;<br />
Iran and Syria are daily growing more overt and bold in their support of insurgents within Iraq, believing that Bush has been so hurt by internal politics that he is powerless to act against them in any meaningful way. They may be right.</p>
<p>The Leftwing initiative, Political Correctness and Our Will to Win</p>
<p>Within our own country we are witnessing and almost insane application of &#8220;political correctness. &#8221; As the barbarism of radical Islam grows more apparent in the streets of the Middle East from Gaza to Basra, we see a cultural suicide taking place within our own schools and communities.</p>
<p>Our children are being taught from the Koran, our professors are preaching intifadah in their class rooms, and Muslim &#8220;call to prayer&#8221; loud speakers are blaring out from city halls. The more precarious our very existence becomes, the more our liberal brethren embrace their enemies. It is a Stockholm Syndrome which can only lead to the recruitment of young Muslims who will be willing to duplicate in the West what their co-religionists are doing in the streets of Israel and the market places of Baghdad. The liberal P.C. crowd say nothing about the silence of the Muslim religious leadership as it relates to the carnage of innocents but couldn&#8217;t speak out fast enough against the inspiration supplied to tens of millions of Christians by Mel Gibson&#8217;s The Passion of the Christ. They were put off by the movie&#8217;s &#8220;violence&#8221; and its alleged &#8220;fostering of anti-Semitism&#8221;. Movies must represent their &#8220;reality&#8221; as the real thing moves them not at all. Among liberal Jews in America, hatred of George W. Bush is only surpassed by their contempt for Ariel Sharon; Let them explain it, I am at a total loss to do so. Maybe they just miss seeing Bill Clinton smooching Yassir Arafat in the White House Rose Garden.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Jesse Jackson is now calling the U.S. &#8220;guilty of crimes against humanity&#8221; as he sets out to mobilize the non-Islamic Left. None of the Democrat leadership says a word in opposition to Jackson&#8217;s treason or Hillary&#8217;s attacks on the President and U.S. policy in an Arabic newspaper, while in London. You can bet that al Jezeera didn&#8217;t miss a beat in their reporting of both events.</p>
<p>The campaign takes its toll</p>
<p>The campaign is seriously hurting Mr. Bush&#8217;s leadership role in the War on Terror. While ducking every new book critical of his initiative or trying to counter the partisan nitpicking of the 9/11 Commission, he has persisted in the misbegotten insistence of &#8220;installing democracy&#8221; in Iraq. Our purpose for being in that beleaguered country should be restricted to one purpose and one purpose only, to stop the expansion of The Third Jihad and provide a base for doing same in the neighboring areas. This can be done by sealing the borders, attacking anything that moves in violation of same and by making it clear to Syria and Iran that any participation on their part will be considered an &#8220;act of war&#8221;. Let the country be governed by the local tribes, Shiite in the south, Sunni in the central and Kurds in the north with a U.S. pro consul overseeing the military. Oil revenues could be spilt by population allocation. How about installing a Republic; it worked pretty well here with diverse populations.</p>
<p>The very idea that we should spend our sons and daughters blood or our tax dollars on trying to building a &#8220;democracy&#8221; in the region which has neither a history nor a desire for such, is sheer nonsense. The very essence of Islamic teaching speaks directly against this principle. Continuing on the current path can only result in fostering greater hatred for the &#8220;Great Satan&#8221;. Force is the only thing which is respected in that part of the world and this force need not be tied to &#8220;reform&#8221;. I suggest Mr. Rumsfled acquaint himself with a copy of Julius Caesar&#8217;s Gallic Wars and Sun Tsu&#8217;s Art of War. All the tactics and strategies necessary to subdue the Iraqi insurgents can be found in those two military gems.</p>
<p>Please not the UN</p>
<p>Bringing the U.N. to the party will only compound the problem without adding any accountability. The U.N. has been accused of many things over the years, but being a &#8220;democratic&#8221; institution has never been one of them. Just the latest scandal of the &#8220;Oil for Food&#8221; program should provide any thinking person with all the evidence they need to keep the U.N. at bay. But this doesn&#8217;t seem to bother the likes of the John Kerry&#8217;s of the world who prattle on as if the scam doesn&#8217;t even exist.</p>
<p>Just one example will make my case; the UN mandate in Israel, which has been in place since 1948. One more salient point needs to be made on this subject. There is no such thing as &#8220;The International Community.&#8221; There are only individual countries, each with its own agenda which is always self serving. The myth of a higher level of &#8220;moral authority&#8221; coming out of the UN as been one of the greater lies of the past half century, but it is a lie which persists in spite of a bloody record of hypocrisy, graft, genocide and &#8220;perpetual war for perpetual peace.&#8221; I have a suggestion for the 9/11 Commission:.Why don&#8217;t they look into what the UN was doing before the attack on the World Trade Center? If they do, they will find that exactly one week before, the UN was holding a Conference on Racism in Durbin, South Africa where the delegates voted overwhelmingly to condemn Israel, as &#8220;racist and terrorist.&#8221; The U.S., Canadian and Israeli delegates walked out in disgust. Nary a word was uttered about Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda, or the Taliban, to say nothing of what was happening in Rwanda while they crunched caviar on toast and washed it down with vintage Champaign. Genocide does not qualify as &#8220;racism&#8221; according to the UN &#8220;morality.&#8221; Neither we nor the world needs the UN to muck up what is already a very delicate situation. If given proper leadership every Middle Eastern country named above will throw in with the Coalition, for if they don&#8217;t they will be the next targets of the Third Great Jihad and the Great Caliphate. Pakistan is already showing the leadership which others will follow. What do you think moved Kadahaffi to cozy up to the U.S. and Great Britain? He fears the Jihadist more than he hates us.</p>
<p>Evil Does Exist</p>
<p>Our current crises, in meeting the threat of the Third Jihad, is one more example of how most Americans simply refuse to believe there is evil in this world and are willing to grant moral equivalence on any human action. Unless the crime is personalized such as in the case of Lacy Peterson, we lose interest quickly and become bored or at least not involved.</p>
<p>To try and understand what we are facing, look into the eyes of your son or grandson and try to fathom a mind which would take pride in strapping a bomb to his body and sending him out to kill himself and countless innocent people. Or in the case of your daughter or grand daughter, try to imagine a religion which commands you to mutilate her vagina to destroy her sex drive or demands you to stone her to death if she has sexual relations with a man other than of your choosing.</p>
<p>If you can comprehend these facts both intellectually and emotionally, then you will start to understand what we are facing in the months and years ahead, both at home and abroad.</p>
<p>The radicals of Islam will stop at nothing to destroy us and all we stand for. They see this war as their &#8220;entry to paradise&#8221; and a release from the miserable existence they have built for themselves within the confines of an evil and perverse religion. The Jihadist are NOT like us, nor most of their fellow Muslims. But, like terrorists everywhere they have silenced any criticisms from fellow Muslims through threat and intimidation and have, with the help of the &#8220;useful idiots&#8221; in the West, &#8220;created the appearance of popular support&#8221;.</p>
<p>If we are incapable of understanding these realities and acting accordingly, within the life time of everyone who reads these words, we will see our cherished way of life cease to exist and chaos become our lot. The Clash of Civilizations is now reaching out and touching all of us. May God grant us the wisdom and the courage to meet the challenge.</p>
<p><em>I respectfully dedicate the above to the memory of Pat Tillman and his 872 comrades who by their courage and willing sacrifice set an example for every American. May we be worthy of their &#8220;greatest love&#8221;</em></p>
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