It's Just That Simple

Recently the election of Scott Brown in Massachu-setts sent a shock wave throughout the nation and the Democratic Party. But why was the outcome of that election not foreseen? Why did it come as such a surprise?

One reason--the prime reason--is that the news media is neglecting to do its whole job. The news media in their unchecked zeal to cover the president and promote his interests are failing to adequately cover the American people and their interests.

There are at least three sides to most political stories. 1) What the politicians are doing in Washington. 2) How the people back home are reacting to what they are doing. And 3) Why the people are reacting as they are. Our nation’s journalists, if they may be called that, are leaving out roughly two-thirds of every political story, which means they are concealing much more than they are revealing.

Take the health care legislation that recently passed through both houses of congress. Many of us have felt for quite some time that the nation as a whole was not supportive of those bills. Moreover, it seemed apparent that most Americans were unhappy with the unsavory tactics liberal politicians were employing to rush these unpopular pieces of legislation through. Had meaningful polls been taken by the news media, and their results truthfully and faithfully reported, I am fairly confident that the health care story would have played out much differently and the election of Scott Brown would not have been such a great surprise.

When the news media intentionally withholds part of a story, a crucial element of a story, it is guilty of misleading the public. And when that sort of insidious behavior becomes the norm rather than the exception, the news media ceases to be a news media and becomes a propaganda machine.

Can anyone doubt that a huge and vital portion of the health care story was the public’s overwhelmingly negative reaction to it. Why, then, do you suppose the news media chose to overlook it?

I believe the news media failed to tell that part of the story because it was in the best interest of their allies, the plotters and schemers in Washington, to do so. They simply didn’t want those who were adamantly opposed to this socialistic legislation to know that most of their neighbors also were adamantly opposed to it. That’s what it all came down to. They just didn’t want us to know what was going on. But isn’t faithfully reporting what is going on the true purpose of the news media?

Americans: It is time we realized that we are fighting a two-front war in this country. We not only are waging a deadly battle against political tyrants in high places but we also are locked in a desperate struggle with their dangerous and sociopathic collaborators in the news media.

If we are going to win this fight, we must work diligently together to soundly defeat those in Washington who are steadily undermining our way of life, and in so doing prove to their immoral accomplices in the news media that there is nothing to be gained by supporting crooked politicians and their schemes.

Governments intending to inflict harm and hardship upon their citizens need propaganda machines. Governments intending to do good don’t.

It’s just that simple.

A Consummate and Polished Liar

Never before in the history of our nation have Americans put a bolder liar into the White House. Never before have we had a president who better understood what Americans want to hear and yet has been ever willing to do the very opposite in carrying out his self-centered and destructive agenda.

Be assured that any man exhibiting these traits and characteristics is a dangerous man. History records that every tyrant who ever lured a free people into bondage was a consummate and polished liar.

From President Obama’s White House website come these patently misleading statements concerning openness and transparency in his administration.

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

“Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.

“Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.

“Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation.”

Now, my dear fellow citizens, contrast those glowing and inspiring words with the shameful manner in which our President and congressional Democrats currently are behaving as they underhandedly conduct the business of pushing through their widely unpopular health care reform package.

Am I incorrect or unfair in suggesting that our latest president is the boldest and most blatant liar ever to inhabit the White House?

Allow me to remind you once again that liars are dangerous people. Dishonesty and double-dealing are their stock-in-trade. If we hope to retain our precious freedoms much longer, we must waste no time in running these coarse degenerates out of Washington.

Someone once said that America will be the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Wherever you are in this great country of ours, begin making a courageous stand--now!

Bear in mind that liberty is far too valuable a commodity to be possessed by those who are unwilling to preserve and defend it. Surely it will slip from our hands if we don’t rally together in these critical times.

Brazen Political Hypocrisy

Everyone understands that times change. I think we all can accept that. But accommodat-ing new realities shouldn’t require a great and industrious people to give up their core values, the values that made them great. What I am saying is that it shouldn’t be necessary for Ameri-cans to dismantle and discard their one-of-a-kind Constitution and system of government in order to meet the challenges of a new era.

In a time when “preservation” has become a sacred byword, a religious chant, few politicians seem concerned about the steady erosion that is imperiling our special way of life. School children are daily taught, for example, that nothing should be permitted to threaten the existence of rain forests, polar ice sheets or the animals that inhabit those regions, yet they are not being candidly told how their own futures will be placed in serious jeopardy if we continue to encourage the ever increasing tangle of government regulations that already are smothering our precious freedoms. Innocent children all across America are being misled by a carefully crafted fairy tale, and we, their parents and grandparents, aren’t even putting forth a serious rebuttal to this shameless malarkey.

What happened to the Patrick Henrys of this world, the men and women who valued liberty more than life itself? I ask you, of what good will our lives be to us when we all become mere pawns in a vast, worldwide totalitarian system? We’ll never know whether Al Gore succeeded in saving the glaciers in Alaska or not because the propaganda ministry will be telling us not to worry, that all is well, that everything is under control. Just do as you’re told.

Come on, folks. We all know full well that creating a bigger and more meddlesome government isn’t the solution to our problems, the real ones or the make-believe ones. Why are we permitting these politicians to continue with this evil and dangerous deception? We all know deep inside that they are driven by an insatiable lust for power, not by a genuine desire to help their fellow human beings. Just look at them. What are they sacrificing to make the world better? They all are living like kings and queens, and behaving like them as well. Take the president, for example. If the nonstop burning of fossil fuels is endangering our planet, why didn’t he refrain from taking his family to Hawaii this Christmas? He could have made his decision not to travel there into an instructional opportunity. He could have told Americans that he and his family would be spending the holidays at the White House so Air Force One wouldn’t be spewing a noxious brown trail across the blue Pacific skies.

If there are problems to be solved, and there most certainly are, let us, as individual citizens, step forward and solve them. Let us become disciplined once again and begin making the voluntary individual choices and sacrifices necessary to set things straight.

Without question God gave each of us life and liberty. He gave us those gifts so we could pursue, and hopefully obtain, the things that have real and lasting value in this life, the things that bring genuine happiness to human beings.

Our current government, on the other hand, offers us only flimsy promises of a better life, promises that are neither real nor lasting.

We must without delay return to the government established by our Founders, the government that was willing to stand aside so men and women could make full use of God’s gifts, the government that was based upon individual initiative.

If we fail to do that, if we fail to wrestle power out of the hands of those who are misusing it, I can assure you that our children and grandchildren will be facing a future far more bleak and unpromising than the one currently faced by the world’s polar bears.