Brain Farts from the Interwebz:

Timely musing of the upcomming second Civil War found on the Web recently.

Those who claim these deplatformings and bannings are not censorship "because private corporations" are being disingenuous. A corporation is not an actual person, it is a government entity that is deemed "a juristic person" by the government. Corporations are not people, they have no unalienable rights, and it is long past time for the people to begin reining them in.

Governments won't let you leave Big Tech, and create your own spaces. The solutions to "hate speech," "missinformation," "fake news," all require Big Tech to stay big because only the very largest companies can afford to implement the systems these laws demand.

Establishment Republicans. They are like the Washington Generals. They are patsies for the Harlem Globetrotters.

Leftist elites and their minions are going to find out Trump wasn’t protecting us from them. It was protecting them from us. And their escalating the repressive measures and getting the potted plant to declare us thought criminals is only going make things worse.

What is the point of trying to maintain the Union with people who wish to "re-educate" you?

Facebook Suspends Ron Paul Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship: By suspending Ron Paul, it becomes clear that ‘safety’ may not be Big Tech’s primary goal.

We can all agree that because Congressman Steve Scalise's attempted assassin was radicalized by the teachings of Rachel Maddow, Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi, they and their followers should be banned.

I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.

The, "If you don't like it go make your own" idea is now dead. The elites have now said, "What, we didn't mean for you to actuall make your own. You can't do that, you have to use what we control."

The formation ofthe USA, with the first words of our constitution "We the People" was a slap in the face to the our ruling betters. Since then they have been trying to wipe out the idea that you should have the liberty to determine how you should live. They can't (and obviously won't) allow true indipendent people to be elected. It's now to the point they can, and have, rigged the election results and expect you to accept them.

When the alleged victor is scared enough to want to silence everyone else? It’s bad. They’re scared. They are also nearly invincibly stupid.

The First Amendment protects against government censorship. But in 2020, most political debate happens on large social-media platforms. Facebook and Twitter are the modern public square. Thus, if our society’s commitment to free speech is to have any meaning, our government must constrain large social-media companies from censoring Americans’ lawful speech.

Poland protects freedom of speech better than the USA. Their Justice Minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, announced last month that the Polish government would enact a law constraining Big Tech from censoring their citizens. Polish users who are victims of censorship can go to a new Polish court, get an injunction forcing the company to restore their account and their content, on penalty of a fine of as much as 1.8 million euros.

The destruction of the freedom of speech in America today is being carried out by the Leftist establishment that dominates the political sphere, the social media giants, the establishment media, the educational system. The Left is using the Capitol riot of January 6 as its Reichstag Fire moment to criminalize, silence, and destroy utterly not just President Trump, but all Americans who still dare to oppose its sinister woke totalitarianism.

The Establishment has decided to address the grievances of people who feel disenfranchised, silenced, and subjected to double standards with much more disenfranchisement, silencing, and double standards.

Prepare Yourself, Civil War II is Coming

by Tom Rhodes, 8/16/2020

Elitists Left are using BLM to undo the creation of the Middle class that started when those uppity colonialists dared to think they could rule themselves. I’ve written before that the very idea that the common man had the idea he could self-govern was a Slap in the Face to elitists who have been trying to squash that idea and put the masses back in their place. Where the common man got the idea that all men to be treated equal with no special considerations to rich or poor or whatever must be squashed.

It all started with that upstart Martin Luther, not MLK Jr. the original he and his daddy were named after, and that Gutenberg guy making it affordable for those outside the ruling elite to obtain a copy of and read for himself the Word of God. This resulted in the church breaking apart and the Protestant Reformation and an era called “the Age of Enlightenment,” look it up.

You’ll note that the Age of Enlightenment coincides with them uppity colonialists spanking there betters and letting them know that they'll take care of themselves. Like I've said, the elites took this as a slap in the face. The big problem is they not only could, but did and in an historically short time became the most powerful nation in the world with fewer people in poverty than ever in history, outlawing slavery and creating a culture so generous they helped other poor nations. Embarrassing to all those who think the masses should be ruled. Rational elites recognized the reality of the common man rejecting the need of elites to rule them, and that putting Christianity into practice created modern “Western Civilization.” To put the common man back in his place, and take back their rule, they concluded that the root and foundations of this must be destroyed. That is what both the elites of the world, and those cultures that don’t embrace Christianity want, to “Fundamentally Change” the USA.

To hide the fact that it is an attack on Christianity, they started by reframing the debate. The call it Bourgeois culture not Christianity. Look at what BLM is attacking, they are openly calling the values and beliefs of bourgeois culture racist. Saying openly that the American Dream is racist. The Atlantic says the American Dream is a Nightmare. The reality is minority races have more freedom, a better standard of living, and more opportunity in the USA than anywhere in the world, because of, not despite the values of modern western civilization, aka bourgeois culture, or more properly Protestant Christianity.

Two prominent economists (both black) don’t use the term bourgeois culture, or Christianity, or protestant work ethic. But they clearly note that those of all races who embrace the behaviors and values and expectations “white” bourgeois culture, the chances of being poor are slim.

No one can blame a person if he starts out in life poor, because how one starts out is not his fault.

If he stays poor, he is to blame because it is his fault. Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay married. Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage. And finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior. It turns out that a married couple, each earning the minimum wage, would earn an annual combined income of $30,000(ed. twice the poverty level at the time it was written)..

To be clear, attacks by BLM attacks from Hollywood, are attacks on Christianity from both the top and the bottom. They are attacks on the middle class, which was created by embracing The Christ and humbly living by the words of Jesus and his disciples. Christianity calls for the people to takes care of the widows and orphans (the truly needy) but it also teaches that he who won’t work shall not eat. They not only don’t don’t understand Christian Middle Class culture they hate it. The top doesn’t what to have to voluntarily give their riches to take care of others who they believe should serve them, much less share in their moral values. Much of the bottom believes that it is chance, luck, or spite, not the ability, drive, and behavior of people that makes people prosperous or not. Both the top and the bottom don’t want to have to be held to bourgeois values, as they embrace not only the protestant work ethic, but expectations of charity, and morality.

Embracing the American Dream includes embracing traditional middle class values and beliefs. Not all cultures accept these beliefs, and not having traditional protestant values does not bean a people or culture cannot be Christian, or good, or moral, or is better or inferior, different cultures are just that, different. What it does mean, as history has repeatedly shown, is that you cannot live in peace within a different culture that expects you to share those values.

God separated man by tribe and language creating a very diverse humanity. He created nations of people who were different. Never in all of history have tribes (nations) been able to live together in peace. That’s probably one of the reasons why He separated them. You and I are confused and don’t understand how other cultures can believe and value what they believe and value (hence the meaning of the word babel). The white protestants who settled the USA, could not and did not adopt Native American Culture. In fact we crushed that culture and tried to change the Indian tribes to adopt our culture. Now only a fraction of it exists today. 300+ years of Native American and northern white Europeans living together has not created a single culture, it never will. It was hubris and sinful for Christian men to try and unify what God separated. Globalists today ignore all of human history and continue to try and undo God’s work, with similar results. Invading masses of people migrating to other places never adopt the native culture, they crush it, and force it to comply with theirs.

It was a subset of Europeans that came to the USA and in reality didn’t form one homogeneous nation and culture. If you grew up and your family was many generations in New England, the people, language, values, and culture visiting Alabama feels foreign to you. People from NYC openly state those from fly over country are “un-cultured,” when reality is because they can’t understand other cultures, they look down on cultures other than their own. The USA started as 6 nations (13 states) held together by a common resistance to the Crown and being controlled by elites. All of which were held together by a common religion, protestant Christianity. The First Amendment exists because no single denomination of Christianity, could or would, be accepted by all the states. Quakers wouldn’t accept Methodism, etc. You know the reason they left England for the new world in the first place. Over time this federation adopted some other nations and is now around 11 nations and is starting to breaking up. Tribes (nations) have never long been able to live together under one rule unless forced, and even then it doesn’t last. Woodard mapped out the regions in his 2012 book "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America."

Because the bourgeois culture of the American Middle Class is Christian, and the reality that the USA is not one nation with shared language, culture and beliefs, the chances of the USA remaining one country are precisely zero. The white Christian middle has repeatedly turned the other cheek for over half a century, and the current elites and those who don’t embrace the protestant work ethic, are thinking this is weakness, and that they can impose their will on the Christian American Middle Class. Guess what, they are wrong. The Christian American Middle Class is prudent and disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed, but make no mistake We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

God help those ruling elite, BLM, and other leftists aligned against middle America. If they push much more, We the People will withdrawn our consent to their anti-Christian, destructive rule. As it becomes obvious that they are abusing and usurping authority in what appears to be both the pursuit and objective of reducing our government to absolute despotism. We the People will take our Duty seriously and exercise our right to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for our future security. . The patience and suffering of the Christian Middle Class, can only be pushed so far, and others should be afraid if (when) we determine that it is a necessity to alter our current system of government.

We are in the middle of a religious war, Satan has effectively taken control of the elites, the desperation by the exposure of their malfeasance is evident. Openly calling for the confiscation of middle class property and giving it to others who didn’t earn it, is evidence that they will not live in peace with Christian Middle Class America. Because Satan will not quit, the non-Christian elite and poor will not quit, and because We will not reject our God, and because we will not go gently into the night, there will be another Civil War, and it will be even more bloody than the last. It will not be in some distant future, it’s already started in anti-Christian strong holds, aka leftist controlled cities.

Prepare yourself!

Deepstate is Lying, in the Long Battle to End the Very Idea of the USA

Ask yourself why civics, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are no longer taught in our schools, and fight against both private and homeschooling?

Right now the Deepstate News is working double time to keep you afraid, they are canceling any writer or reporter or editor or comedian or ... that doesn't support the Deepstate and leftist thought.

They are using Covid-19 to gain power. Recognize that the Deepstate, and leftist groups talk about power, "empowering," etc. not about liberty or freedom, and seek to cancel those promoting liberty, especially the liberty to fail and responsibility to not force others to support your failure.

Covid-19 is about keeping you afraid, the Deepstate Media Complex is trying to keep you afraid so they can control you. They are lying to do so. They can't (although they want to) control all the news and information from you. If they could you wouldn't be able to see these stories. The reason the Deepstate wants to control the media, censor youtube, and all non-main stream media, is because they can't control the narrative. The Deepstate is using corporate cronies, like google and FB to censor and try to silence ideas they don't want the masses to see.

Long time suffer of Alzheimer's death with no evidence as Covid (My guess is because hospital makes more than 2X's as much when death is Covid related).

Death caused by motorcycle crash labeled Covid


Labs report 100% Positive for Covid

The reason civics isn't taught is because it takes away power and control from the ruling elite. The First Three Words of the constitution starts off with a slap in the face to ruling elite, who want you to accept that others know best how you should live your life. "We The People.." The Declaration of Independence is worse as far as the Deepstate is concerned. The DOI rightly acknowledges that government is instituted to protect the "unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of "We The People", Clearly stating that "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, ... it is it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." The Deepstate doesn't want our children to know that they have not only a right, but a duty, to throw off the rule of their betters.

Any group, party, company, that is talking about power not liberty and freedom, is your enemy. The USA was founded on the idea that we are given unalienable rights by our Creator. Those seeking to tear it down or fundamentally change it are doing so because they are against the Creator. They worship the destroyer. The Left-Right ideological struggle is not real. Even the Nationalist-Globalist conflict is essentially a proxy for the real war, which is spiritual; between the servants of the Creator God and the servants of the god of this world.

This war began wen Adam first sinned, Western Civilization was founded on Christian ideas, it's success in creating a better life for more people than any other system of rule, who have been trying to end the very idea that "We The People" should not be ruled by our betters. The USA is a Christian Nation. We are fighting the barbarians who want not only to destroy Western Civilization, but return to tribalism. Lying about Covid to keep you afraid, is just another tactic used by evil to battle in the endless war against God's people. The Idea of the USA, is that the USA is a distinct Christian Nation with a government created to protect the unalienable rights of it's people and their progeny, not an ATM for the world, not the world's police, not a nation to rule the world, but a Nation, one of many, that God created for His purpose. The Nation God created, he can and will tear apart and disperse the people as he has done throughout history when man rejects Him.

Let’s not forget that John Stewart Mills in his treatise, On Liberty, said:

"A civilization that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy [barbarism] must first have become so degenerate, that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it. If this be so, the sooner such a civilization receives notice to quit, the better. It can only go on from bad to worse, until destroyed and regenerated (like the Western Empire) by energetic barbarians."

What is the goal?

Tom Rhodes 1/8/2019

To control their herds of animals farmers control the quantity and temperament of the sex of the animals they raise.

Chicken farmers sex chicks and keep only a few roosters for hundreds of hens, they don't want to waste time and energy controlling unruly roosters that don't lay eggs. Roosters fight all the time, having only a few (or 1) is more controllable.

How many ungelded boars does a pig farmer keep compared to fertile sows?

How many bulls compared to gelded steers, and fertile cows does a cattle rancher keep? Why do farmers disarm (cut the horns off) their herd? On a dairy farm what's the male/female cow ratio?  On a meat ranch what's the bull to cow and steer ratio?

Basic animal husbandry and observation is that the male of the species are unruly and harder to control than the female or gelded males. If you are raising sheep or cattle, you want to be the one who is in charge of the herd – so you castrate most of the males.

The rise is single mother lead households seems more like design than unintended consequence. By incentivizing the destruction of the nuclear family, it promotes women's natural urge to seek security for herself and her kids, and thus promotes for government to provide for them, because there isn't a male there to do so, nor a model of a strong man to do so to be observed.

Look at how the ruling elite choose to live, the vast overwhelming majority of the successful who are and become the elite, are a traditional man and woman married couple with kids, and their lives follow traditional family values. Yet they call for the masses to accept the gelding of men through shame, drugs, financial incentives, etc.

Men in media are generally treated like either brutes, or idiots, again to discourage the idea that a man heading the home is good. Current welfare rules, reward single mothers, and punish them if there is both a man and woman in the house.

The whole idea that there are more than 2 genders, is just part of a larger plan to geld the men of the west. The rise in "T" of LBGT politics, and the labeling of masculinity as toxic, and the labeling and drugging of boys who are "A D D" etc. is all part of the ruling elite wanting to control the masses. If you emasculate men, shame them for acting like men, in essence eliminate or geld them, the masses are easier to control.

If your goal is to have a compliant society of dependent serfs, you need to geld ("detoxify") the males or make them irrelevant. A father in each family protects his own and works hard so his offspring can thrive. A society made of strong families, led by armed men, can thwart the designs of would-be rulers.

We Live in a Neo-Fuedal Society

By Tom Rhodes, 1/23/2019

We Live in a Neo-Fuedal Society, where the ruling class is urban elites. Urban elites somehow believe that the fact that they are rich, live in a big city, that they know best how others should live. They refer to people not in the big cities and rubes, hillbillies, deplorables, etc., and rather than listen to what the people say are the problems, and have to deal with them voting, the new elite class in DC/NY/Paris/Berlin/Brussels/other big city, want to dictate to the masses how they must live, and what they are allowed to learn/own/do.

The idea that Brits would vote to leave the EU, or that the USA would elect Trump, or the people would revolt in Paris over their taxes, all indicate to them that the problem is that the masses don't recognize their "clearly superior understanding of what's best." Because not recognizing the elites superiority is unfathomable, they conclude that the masses are too dumb, ignorant, religious, uneducated, or whatever, to be allowed decisions in how they are governed.

Neo-feudalists are easy to identify, by their smug certainty that they know better what ought to be done with and for you than you yourself do. And they are accountable to nobody, and are guided by nothing except their doctrinaire beliefs in what might charitably be called academic Marxism, and might more aptly be called simple totalitarianism. They are globalists, and don't believe local people at the city, state, or even national level should be allowed to govern themselves.

Angela Merkel being a prime example, saying that sovereign nation states must not listen to the will of their citizens when it comes to questions of immigration, borders, or even sovereignty. The her, and elitists everywhere, shock and dismay, the people booted her, and suddenly the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was a significant force. Her citizens chose the “wrong” answer, and the elitist international press was quick to scold the masses. The neo-feudal state at work.

The ruling class is openly attacking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and especially the USA's right to keep and bear arms, because those liberties severely restrict neo-feudal ability it impose there will on the masses.

The neo-feudal state, is globalist. Rather than the unified body politic of the liberal republic, the neo-feudal state slices and dices its residents into discrete subsets, each with its own unique rights and responsibilities. Solid economic and social divisions were a key part of feudal society, and they also play a role in present-day neo-feudalism.

Neo-feudalism is the contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy, and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies, such as unequal rights and different legal protections for common people then for nobility. It is clear to see, Hillary can and has gotten away with breaking the law concerning handling of state secrets. Comey, then head of the FBI, noted that she broke the law but would not be arrested, but woe to any not of the ruling elite, you would be jailed if you did the same thing. They are open about the fact that the laws apply to you not them. In 2013 demographer Joel Kotkin defined the neo-feudal classes as: the oligarchs (the super-wealthy, especially in tech and finance), the clerisy (government regulators, the media elite, and the academy), the yeomanry (the middle class and small-business owners), and the serfs (the working poor and government dependents).

Elites made a degree the passport to success, then raised college prices to keep out the riffraff. The reason is power, it appears planned. Now only the rich elite can afford to go, and if you go and are not part of the elite, you will have crushing debt for the rest of your life, so you can be more easily controlled. Neo-Fuedalism at work. I don't buy into a big conspiracy, the reality is neo-feudalism as reality but clearly there is no single cabal working to impose a new feudal regime. Neo-feudalism is a result of the confluence of a number of forces: technological advances, a large welfare state, financialization, offshoring, and an influx of illegal laborers. Much of what drives neo-feudalism is unintentional, but the new-elite are taking advantage of it.

Today's ruling elite, want neo-feudalism as the way of the future but call it "democratic socialism." Where the ruling elite dictate who gets what, and controls everything. They seek to control bureaucracies and NGO's without having to go through the mess of winning elections. They have privatized governance to multi-national companies like Capital-one, Alphabet, FB, Twitter, etc, as the means to control the people by limiting speech and ideas that reduce their ability to govern. Banks now dictate how you can spend your money, restricting you from using your debit or credit cards for arms. The elite through banks want the ability to dictate who can't and cannot use banking services and what people who use debit or credit cards are allowed to purchase. No laws, just get your fellow elites on wall street stop them.

You don't get to vote for how the bank is run, you must use a bank, as your employer pays you with a check or direct deposit, the laws won't let you have meaningful amounts of cash, and you it's almost impossible to trading in any exchange medium not controlled by the banks. The ruling elite don't want you to have the ability to purchase anything without them knowing (and controlling) what you spend your money on. They are going after Bitcoin and other ways people can do business outside the control of our neo-feudal masters. We live by the golden rule, "those who control the gold control the rules."

The only solution, is unfortunately the same one our founding fathers had to take to end feudalism in 1776. There will be war.


Post Script: One way to beat the banking elite and revenuer: Buy old "junk silver coins" and use them as legal tender as a purchase, but trade on their value. Take 50 silver dollars (minted before 1965, with 90% silver content), and offer them to you local gun shop, for a new Springfield 1911 pistol (list price over $800 but sells for less). Legal tender valued at $50 but worth over $700 for it's silver content. Depending on model of pistol a fair trade. As legal tender the licensed gun dealer could agree to the sale, and take a loss on his taxes, only collect sales tax on $50, then take $50 of petty cash from the till and go buy pizza's for his employees weekly pizza party. Nothing illegal about paying for the pizza with paper bank notes or his personal "debit card" instead of the exact currency taken from petty cash (the $50 in silver coins in his pocket). All nice and legal.

The Left Abandon’s Modern Civilization and Embrace Tyranny

By Tom Rhodes, 12/12/2017

Leftist’s crucifixion of their own, is further objective evidence they support tyranny and neither justice nor rule of law. The Democrats have strung up and destroyed Senator Al Franken, for gross creepy conduct without any due process whatsoever nor based on any rule of law. If Senator Al Franken’s behavior is so atrocious he should be brought up on charges, and allowed to defend himself and question his accusers before a jury. He should have been assumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law following all due process.

The treatment of the Minnesota Senator is evidence that leftists do not want or support the concepts of rule of law, and innocent until proven guilty. One can conclude two things from the left’s treatment of Franken: 1) He’s a knowing sacrificial lamb, to try and pressure the GOP to destroy their own, like Moore, without due process or even credible accusers; 2) They don’t believe that men should be allowed due process in general, and those who don’t bow to the supremacy of women will be crucified. Franken’s confession of bad conduct is evidence he is either guilty of gross creepy criminal behavior or has knowingly sacrificed himself for the good of leftists gaining tyrannical control, probably both.

Some of the things that made the USA special, was the Rule of Law, Trial by Jury, and the concept of Innocent Until Proven Guilty. The idea that nobody, is above the law and all laws apply to all people, government official or street urchin, alike. The idea that you are innocent until proven guilty before a jury of your peers and have the right to confront your accuser and bring witnesses before a verdict is rendered or punishment is extracted. Abandonment of these doctrines, is a repeated historic path to tyranny. When the elite can ignore the law, and people can be punished without due process, the law has no meaning and the people will ignore it and general lawlessness will ensue.

Al Franken is most likely a douchebag gamma who used his notoriety and power to take liberties with women who probably thought he was a creep and would have otherwise ignored him or slammed him with charges. For whatever reason those women chose to remain silent and not press charges, either for personal gain, or because although treated abhorrently the idea of having to deal with the cops and a trial and all that entails to have him punished wasn’t worth effort, or because they feared ending their career if they turned in the creep. In any case Al Franken should have been treated as innocent until proven guilty (or confessed).

In the USA it is, and has always been considered preferable, that a crook/creep/etc. go free rather than an innocent man be punished for a crime he didn’t commit. Yes that makes it harder to punish and deal with bad people, but the alternative is that innocent people be punished out of spite. Unproven allegations should not be used to judge anybody, even would be creepy despots like Al Franken.

That said, the massive amount of accusations of perverted actions by leftists in Hollywood, the MSM, and Government that are coming out of the woodwork are enough smoke that we should be looking for the fire. All credible accusations, especially against persons in power and prominence, should be vigorously and honestly investigated, but everyone accused of some malfeasance should be considered innocent until they confess or are charged, tried, and convicted in a court of law following all due process. Any other treatment or action is an abandonment of modern civilization and a return to Feudalism. Feudalism of the type where those in charge or their minions declare judgment without due process, and punish whom they want at their whim. Tyranny no matter how you look at it.

These were the actions of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Pinochet, etc. who trumped up charges to murder or send to the gulag, all who they felt impeded their despotic control of the masses. More people were killed by leftists purging those who disagreed with them in the 20th century than all wars in history combined. The leftists in the USA today are doing all they can to eliminate due process and the rule of law so that they too can purge those who impede their desire to control the lives of everybody. Social media is filled with leftists memes calling for the elimination of those who don’t believe as they.

There is a significant difference between Conyers, Franken, and Moore, and how they should be treated. Conyers and Franken confessed to their sick creepy actions and their accusers are credible and accusations aren’t from scores of years ago. Moore has always claimed innocence, and his accuser confessed to fabricating evidence. Because of Conyers’ and Franken’s confessions they should be treated like the creepy perverts they are, while Moore until and unless he either confesses or is charged, tried, and convicted in a court with all due process, should be treated as innocent. Conyers, Franken, and Moore are all statist totalitarians who should not be elected and should be replaced with a good libertarian who values the constitutional limits on government, but to treat them as anything other than innocent until proven guilty is tantamount to abandoning civilization and liberty and embracing tyranny.

How to Send the Left into Vituperative Sissy Fits

by Tom Rhodes, 7/10/2017

How to get push a statist into a tizzy is to be rational not emotional, even libertarian statists will exhibit vituperation, if you utter an obvious, objective, measurable truth, that supports the way things are, not the way they feel things should be, like uttering a historically observable fact like - The West is superior to the rest of the world in every significant way, and Western civilization is the height of human achievement and worth fighting and dying for. If the response to such a statement is angst and anger you are clearly communicating with a totalitarian control freak who wants the government to be their mommy and to take care of them when they screw up, they fear a life where they will be allowed to actually suffer the consequences of the choices they make, or their some utopian thinking bohemian who believes that without government we would all just "get along."

As an experiment, read the vituperative sissy fits that will be replied if you post the below truth/heresy to your favorite social media:

Not only is Western civilization the best and most advanced culture in the history of humanity, but the USA is its greatest manifestation.

Islam is Destroying Western Civilization

By Tom Rhodes, 5/26/2017

The mayor of Manchester just said, “The message that I would want to get over – and this is how the vast majority of people feel – this man was a terrorist, not a Muslim.” This is absurd. It is just as absurd as our government classifying the 2009 Islamic terrorist attack at Fort Hood as “workplace violence.” It is absurd and willful ignorance of the highest order, that political leaders are trying to disassociate the Manchester bombing from Islam.

The Manchester suicide bomber was a terrorist because of his Muslim faith. Until our leaders acknowledge they will not be able to combat terrorism. Current UN and globalist policy is worse than ignoring the Islamic root to the increase in worldwide terrorism but to force the West to accept massive numbers of Muslims, and accept the associated violence and wholesale change in Western Culture. The New Normal for Western Civilization.

The idea that's presented by globalism and leftists is, "Islam as a whole is not the source of our terrorism problem" The fact that the terrorists are overwhelmingly Muslims destroys that argument, because it's almost impossible to tell terrorists apart from Muslims who are not terrorists or terrorist sympathizers. The logic is clear; because it is impossible to distinguish the dangerous from the harmless, we are left with limited choices; allow massive numbers of Muslims to Invade and terrorize western nations until they are powerful enough to force Islamic rule on the West, or do as Japan does, regard all of them as dangerous and not allow them in.

If you don't believe the terrorists are "true" Muslims, then you are saying: neither Osama bin Laden nor any members of Al-Qaeda were (or are) "true" Muslims, nor member of the Taliban or Hamas (which stands for the “Islamic Resistance Movement”), nor Hezbollah (“The Party of Allah”) nor the Muslim Brotherhood are "true" Muslims. But then, you probably believe Elizabeth Warren's claims she's Native American, and that if you feel like your a guy, the fact you don't have a dick is irrelevant. The left believes that things are how they feel they should be, and that the truth is irrelevant.

Islam is trying to expand through imperialist mass migration. When enough Muslims are in a foreign society, they violently terrorize that society until it capitulates and they install an Islamic government. Just look at France, massive numbers of Muslims migrated there, they did not disperse and assimilate to France's culture, they segregated themselves, and are using violence to force Islamic rule where they have segregated, we call those places "No Go Zones."

Muslims have used this form of imperialism repeatedly for 1400 years. Until and unless they are driven out, Muslims will continue to invade (currently by unarmed mass migration), then terrorize until they are in power. The only solution to Islamic imperialism that has proven to work is Reconquista.

Western Civilization and the massive advances in liberty is rooted in libertarian philosophy. Libertarian ideas are totally incompatible with Islam, as Islam does not tolerate people being allowed to live as they choose. Everywhere Muslims rule there is violent oppression of infidels. The 1st Amendment of the US Constitution alone is a slap to the values of Muslims; name one Islamic Country that has freedom of religion, speech, the press, and assembly. Muslims when in power do not tolerate those freedoms. Islam offers Western Civilization 3 choices, Convert to Islam, become second class citizens with limited freedom and pay for the right to exist in Islam, or be killed.

Western Civilization must either resists the imperialist invaders or Western Civilization will die and be replace with Islamic Law. This isn't hard to understand, it is just a repeat of the historic method Islam has used it expand.

Embracing Barbarism: The Death of a Nation

By Tom Rhodes, 12/28/2016

Why should Modern Western Civilized Societies take barbarians, who don't value civilization, nor want to become civilized, who want what civilization produces, but reject what Modern Western Civilized Societies require? Why should barbarians be allowed to reap the benefits of Modern Western Civilized Societies , without conforming to the norms of that society?

Societies that don't value treat all people as equal in their laws and customs are not civilized. Modern Western Civilized Societies are based on the idea that all men are created in God's image, therefore by the basis of being an image bearer of God should be treated equally under the law, and be allowed all the same rights as any other person, regardless of race, class, sex, etc. etc. etc.

The result of not being willing to stand up against barbarian invasion is plainly evident in Europe. Violent crime, especially rape, is rising as the barbarians who’ve been allowed to enter unfettered, take what they want and not only refuse to conform to the norms of Modern Western Civilized Society, but demand that society conform to their barbarism.

Embracing barbarism, hedonism, and rejecting our Christian heritage, is bad enough. On a global scale this rejection and model for society is a direct way to the degradation and primitivization of culture. This has led to a demographic and moral crisis in the West.

Even Vladimir Putin has recognized, and observed this fact. In a recent speech he stated;

Without the moral values that are rooted in Christianity and other world religions, without rules and moral values which have formed, and been developed, over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity and become brutes. And we think it is right and natural to defend and preserve these Christian moral values.

One has to respect the right of every minority to self-determination, but at the same time there cannot and must not be any doubt about the rights of the majority.

“At the same time as this process plays out at a national level in the West, we observe on an international level the attempts to create a unipolar, unified model of the world, to relativise and remove institutions of international rights and national sovereignty. In such a unipolar, unified world there is no place for sovereign states. Such a world needs merely vassals.

From a historical perspective, such a unipolar world would mean the surrender of one's own identity and of God-created diversity.

It is sad indeed when Vladimir Putin better articulates the value of diversity, sovereignty, and liberty, than our own democratically elected leaders in the west. Modern Western Civilized Societies refusing to stand up and protect the norms of their culture, are doomed to lose their culture.

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” ~ Thomas Sowell

John Stuart Mill is often quoted by Libertarians. Mill's philosophical treatise, On Liberty, makes a very strong case for the radical permission of individuality. The problem is that libertarians skip and ignore other parts of that same treatise where he also makes strong claims for restrictions on barbarians. Even this permission of individuality had legal limits. In the first chapter of On Liberty, Mill recognized that barbaric peoples were to be placed under great restriction. Recognizing that radical liberty entrusted to barbarians is disastrous.

If Modern Western Civilized Societies are to confront the barbarian, even supposing that the civilization is in theory a liberal democratic republic, certain aspects of individuality must be condemned according to that nation's identity, with the majority acting for the whole. Whether these aspects are challenged by the state or by social means is dependent upon the circumstances, but reason and order demand that they cannot simply go unchallenged.

if America, as a Modern Western Civilized Society, is not wise nor strong enough to return to the God of her fathers, or to the Law which gave her liberty, then as her borders become meaningless, from both within and without those borders, will come forces she cannot oppose. They will come with smiling faces and murderous intents - to conquer not with the sword, but instead by pressing upon the hollow shell of a once civilized nation. The veneer that is our post-modern culture unsustained by its barbaric tenants, will give way. Then, like with Europe, our cities raped and pillaged and America's daughters will be at the mercy of the barbarian.

Let’s not forget that John Stewart Mills in his treatise, On Liberty, also said:

"A civilization that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy [barbarism] must first have become so degenerate, that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it. If this be so, the sooner such a civilization receives notice to quit, the better. It can only go on from bad to worse, until destroyed and regenerated (like the Western Empire) by energetic barbarians."

The Fall of America was Predicted in 1799

By Tom Rhodes, 4/6/2015

There is no question we are losing our liberty to a more tyrannical centralized government. We have more laws and regulations restricting us than any person can possibly know, much less observe. The sad fact is that this loss of liberty and freedom was observed in the past and predicted in the future. America was a Christian nation, the successful removal of our Christian roots from our culture has resulted as foretold in our loss of liberty and decline of our formerly great nation.

In 1799, Jedidiah Morse, most noted for inventing Morse Code and making the technology of the telegraph rampant, gave an “election sermon.” In that he clearly pointed out where we owed our civil freedom and how it could be lost, saying; “To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism. I hold this to be a truth confirmed by experience … If so, it follows, that all efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.”

It is clear that today as we see overt attacks on the pillars of Christianity, we are also seeing the blessings of our freedoms fall. There is an overt war on Christianity and the result is exactly as predicted by Morse. Actually exercising religious freedom is now a crime, the government wants to force people to act and do business against their faith. It’s taken over half a century but the sad fact is the war on Christianity has succeeded in destroying the very culture that made Liberty and Freedom a viable form of government and way to live. The overt attacks on the institutions and behavior have succeeded in destroying the fabric of society. Our society and culture was once faithful, civil, and virtuous society that made freedom and liberty possible. The traditional family is now a rarity. Consider 43% of our children are now born to unwed mothers, a mere %5 of our children were bastards just a half century ago. Worse yet we’ve murdered 56 million babies through abortion.

George Washington in his famous farewell address echoed Jedidiah Morse warning a burgeoning new nation, that religion and morality are “indispensible” to “political prosperity” and he cautioned against “the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”

“Freedom of Religion” is not “Freedom from Religion.” Christianity is unique in it is based on a voluntary acceptance of a gift from God. Our Bill of Rights is based on solid Christian principles, including the right to reject God if you desire. God is clear, you are free to reject Christ, but you will be allowed suffer the consequences of that choice. As a nation we are rejecting Christ, as we do so we are watching a great nation suffer the consequences, foremost is the loss of life, liberty, and ability to pursue happiness that accompanied a culture rooted in Christianity.

Our forefathers knew what would happen, and it is happening exactly as they predicted. The Facebook meme is rooted in truth. “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do study history are doomed to standby helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”

Is This Legit?

By Pete Blome, 4/5/2015

As a citizen, a veteran, and someone who has been interested in how our Republic is governed for my whole life, I have to ask a hard question. Is government, in general, losing its legitimacy in the USA?

Legitimacy is about trust. As a people, we trust that, overall, the government is acting in our best interest. Trust is hard to win and easy to lose.

Responsible leaders know the importance of maintaining legitimacy. Government by its nature is force, and when people see force at work in all its ugliness they need to know, at a gut level, that it is being used for good things. If it is used for bad things it gets very hard for the average, decent person to tolerate government. People refuse. Taxes don’t get paid. Sacred cows get gored. Responsible leaders are supposed to speak up when going-along to-get-along goes too far and leads to a lack of trust.

But are they? The key to legitimate government in America should still be about protecting individual rights, free markets and a limited government. It’s these qualities that made America worth living in. This country grew into an economic and military giant because they lead to prosperity. If legitimacy is now based on government buying people off, as the cynical would say, we are certainly headed for a crash. “You can’t buy permanent friends with free candy.”

Individual rights are now considered secondary to other needs. Consider the Federal level alone. Instead of free speech, we have “free speech zones.” Political competition is restricted by laws that embed only two political parties in power. Congress wrote a law that forces everyone to buy medical insurance. President Bush actually advocated eliminating Habeas Corpus. President Obama proposed eliminating ammunition for the most popular type of rifle in private hands. The SCOTUS ruled way back in 1942 that the Federal government can control what a person legally makes, mines, or grows on his own property for his own use, even if no one else is involved. In order to use commercial travel, a person must get permission from the DHS first or they will not be allowed to go, no judge, jury or public evidence involved. The TSA routinely ignores the Fourth Amendment. Intelligence agencies are spying on us, and they have publicly apologized to lying about that in sworn testimony to Congress. Police departments can legally use civil confiscation to take property without charges or even evidence of guilt. When did we become a country where our rights are protected by the Constitution, but only if we don’t actually want to use them?

America is the land of the managed market. A free market is based on voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. The tax code, the creation of our dollars, Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the minimum wage, bank and corporate bailouts, business regulation, government control of education, utility and infrastructure monopolies, licenses, permits, zoning, affirmative action, agricultural subsidies, and the massive government bureaucracy all depend on the idea some citizens should have privileges over other citizens in the law. Besides being unjust, this idea makes for higher costs, less choice and poorer quality. Today, the invisible hand of the free market has been replaced by a very visible thumb on the market scales. As the Roman Senator Tacitus said, “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.”

Finally, it is hard to claim our government is limited in its power when both Presidents Bush and Obama have assassinated U.S. citizens abroad without a trial or even presentation of evidence. Our government actually authorized torture. This is such nonsense since they can no more authorize torture than they can authorize rape or slavery. No higher functionary in government, no matter how guilty, is going to jail.

These are more than ugly trends. They are a bad way to govern. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, they make people think “Why should I put up with this?”

When they finally answer that they won’t, that is when the real problems begin.

Pete Blome is a retired military officer, Chair of the Northwest Florida Libertarian Party, and At-Large Representative of the Libertarian Party of Florida

The Road to Barbarism

by Tom Rhodes, 1/29/2015

The road to barbarism is paved with good intentions. Let’s start with the definition so we’re on the same page. Barbarism being a barbarous or uncivilized state or condition. Sort of a circular definition so to be clear when saying something is barbarous, the meaning is clear. Barbarous means uncivilized; wild; savage; crude; savagely cruel or harsh: Modern western civilization is clearly reverting to barbarism, by opening its arms and letting inviting it to take over.

The following by most reasonable standards of western civilization are clearly barbaric acts; crucifixion, kidnapping girls and giving them away as wives or selling them into slavery, stoning for adultery, beheading people for religious beliefs, purging entire cities of people over religious beliefs, throwing acid on a woman’s face, slavery. These are all barbaric acts that happen in the news today.

Our acceptance of such barbarism is an indicator that we are becoming a barbaric not civilized culture. Our culture is rotting from within. The idea that is no moral difference between the Islamist barbarians waving hatchets at children in African orphanages run by Christian missionaries and American soldiers shooting armed terrorists in Iraq, you clearly are not civilized and embrace barbaric acts as equivalent to non-barbaric acts.

The idea that our government calls barbarians planning and acting out murderous deeds “workplace violence,” the logical conclusion is that the culture war is over and the barbarians have won. We no longer have civilized people writing our laws, prosecuting our criminals, and running our courts.

The source of this rot is easy to identify, multiculturalism. Rather than expecting immigrants to assimilate and change their culture to match where they move, we expect culture to adopt the ways of immigrants, or at least tolerate the invasion of cultures. When those immigrants are barbarians, civilized culture rots to barbarism.

From our entertainment to the actions of our president. As a society we are becoming barbaric. As entertainment we accept gory violence, rape, adultery, and a host of immoral and illegal acts as acceptable and “normal.” Society has unequivocally coarsened to savage standards. Liberty and freedom are dangerous, but for an uncivilized society much more dangerous. Our culture is rotting at its core. 30 years ago our president said “Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal,” that and his actions resulted in impeachment and being forced from office, and all he was guilty of was listening in on other politicians. Today the press, and political class praise the president for acting like a Warlord the way barbarian societies have done for eons. Our president openly defies the Constitution, and makes up laws at will, and clearly contradicts the laws as he sees fit, and the press and political elite justify it because the will of the people as expressed through their representatives won’t do as the warlord wants. That is an indicator of a society that is barbaric not civilized. The rule of law is gone.

Multiculturalism is the root of our cultural rot. Rather than having a culture that expects those who want to live within the benefits of that culture adopt the cultural norms, we’re destroying the culture by expecting society to accept barbaric and outlandish behavior. In essence multiculturalism asks majorities to abandon their culture.

Not all cultures are equal. Cultures that not only condone but call for barbaric acts as normative, are not equal to civilized cultures. Cultures that don’t believe in the rule of law, and believe laws should vary based on belief, birth, race, sex, etc. are not equal to civilized cultures that believe in both the rule of law and equality under the law. Such cultures are inferior and should be openly treated as such. Multiculturalism fatally handicaps a society. The idea that our culture is not superior to clearly barbaric cultures undermines our entire society, and is evidence of a society that is rotting from within.

Accepting people to live and be part of our society who reject the basic tenets on which our culture was established, is the seed that will destroy our society. If you reject the idea that all laws should apply to everybody equally, and that no person or group should have special rights, privileges, or punishments that differ from any other individual, you should not be allowed to enter our society.

Multiculturalism, the idea that you can have a society where people don’t have a shared set of values, and establishes governance on the idea that everybody’s values are equally valid, is not sustainable. Forcing multiculturalism on a society will not preserve the best of that society, it is observably destroying the fabric of the societies that embrace it.

The idea of multiculturalism, like many other utopian ideas, sounds like a nice concept. The intentions of those who promote multiculturalism are good. Those ideas ignore reality, not all cultures are equal, not all cultures are compatible, not all people have the same values. No amount of trying to force multiculturalism on a society will work anymore than trying to force people not to do drugs, or drink, or gamble is going to work. It assumes that all people are the same. They are not. Just as the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the road to barbarism is paved with multiculturalism.

Dept. of Education – Success Story

By Tom Rhodes, 6/25/2014

For years I’ve be lamenting and documenting the historic fact that as we increase central control of education actual student performance and observable student knowledge has dramatically decreased as evidence of the failure of the Dept. of Education. We’ve spent gazillions of dollars for not only no improvement but statistically less educated students, who can’t critically think and don’t understand even the basics of history, science, etc. I was wrong, the Dept. of Education and centralized government control of education is a success. It produced exactly the results the ruling elite wanted.

We now have a nation of individuals who are easy prey to government hucksters and quacks. Americans now are easy prey for big business charlatans of all stripes. The education establishment has succeeded in dumbing down the nation. In a similar observation Dr. Walter Williams notes that historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote in "The Disuniting of America": "History is to the nation ... as memory is to the individual. As an individual deprived of memory becomes disoriented and lost, not knowing where he has been or where he is going, so a nation denied a conception of its past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future."

The idea that the expression of some ideas that are not politically correct should be labeled as “hate speech” and outlawed, or the actual purpose of all 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights us unknown to most high school graduates. If we knew and understood the why and reasoning behind the Bill of Rights, and Declaration of independence, and the values that create the USA then special interest groups and politicians couldn't run roughshod over our liberties.

Right now if a college or university doesn’t assume people are guilty and deny them the right to defend themselves of certain crimes, the government is actually withholding funding. Think about that, government run universities are required to do away with the fourth and fifth amendments of the constitution in order to receive government funding. Imagine being charged with a crime, not allowed to cross examine witnesses, not allowed to have a lawyer, and not allowed to defend yourself, not allowed to face and question your accuser, and judged in closed court with secret proceedings. That is what Eric Holder and the Obama Justice department are demanding of universities. It is allowed because people don’t know our basic rights, much less the reason behind them. If you don't know what I'm talking about google the latest George Will articles.

Of course a full third of people surveyed when asked the origin of the statement "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" responded by saying it's from our Bill of Rights. If you don’t know it’s origins, you too are part of the problem.

The Dept. of Education has been successful. I just didn’t understand it’s goals. They were not to produce a more educated citizenry, but produce technically adept workers who have no understanding of how to think, of our history, or of the values that this country was founded. Making them easily manipulated and controlled. Obviously the system as designed does work.

What Difference Does it Make

By Tom Rhodes, 2/17/2014

By now Hillary’s infamous “What difference does it make!” line has been used and abused about a zillion times in the blogosphere and social networks. The problem is honesty and the rule of law make more of a difference than Hillary or Obama or progressives in general are willing to admit.

Consider Obamacare and what is fully acknowledged as one of the biggest lies in political history “if you liked your health care, you could keep it.” The problem isn’t that its foundational premise lie, liberals didn’t even blink when they found out it was a lie, much less be offended by the lie. The problem is that liberals, progressives, and statists of all sorts are offended that the lie was pointed out, exposed, and talked about.

They and all the American people now know that Obama purposefully lied in order that the government could gain control of 1/5^th of the American economy. The reason why Pelosi fought so hard to have the Democrat controlled House pass the law to see what was in it, why Obama reneged on his multiple transparency promises (specifically health care legislation), is that power not health care, power not liberty, power not security, are the goal. Their hubris at the idea that “we the people” should even question their promises, much less actions, show utter contempt for the average American.

America is different for the first couple centuries, even if we lost an election we knew we lost fair and square, and that were at least heard. We knew and believed in the rule of law and that all sides have a fair chance at being heard and then voting for what we believe, and win or lose accepted the results. But things have changed. “What difference it makes” is that rather than respect the limits we place on government as leaders in the past did, today’s liberals are personified by Obama, who routinely reject Checks and Balances, and the limits placed by “We the People.” What is plain is that even though 70% of us want to stop deficit spending we are ignored. What’s plain is that even though our losses
aren’t fair. And rather than listen to us we are told “What difference does it make”. Or when pointing out that the action is unconstitutional are told “Are You Kidding”.

We aren’t being listened too, the rules are bent or broken or ignored, that crucial legitimacy is gone. And then there are no rules to respect. The blatant destruction of our Constitution’s boundaries, is leading to actions our leaders won’t acknowledge. America is arming itself, the ammo shortages in the news aren’t manufactured, they are real, not because of some government plot but because of simple supply and demand. No longer is having a box or two of ammo “enough,” people routinely hoard 20+ boxes for each weapon they own, “just in case.”

Why such distrust of government? Let’s face were Americans and trusting Uncle Same has never been a strong point. But today we plainly see the rule of law is dead. The government cannot be trusted in any endeavor to do as it promises. Both parties work for nothing more than power. We see our police being issued tanks and battle vehicles, WTF. We see massive amounts of ammunition ordered and purchased by government agencies that we didn’t even know had guns. That ammo is hollow-point and although effective, its use violates the Geneva Convention so can’t be used by our military or against a foreign army so the government obviously fears domestic not foreign attack.

The experiment in freedom that is the USA is ending. The ruling elite have for over two centuries trying to put the genie back in the bottle. The ruling elite show open contempt for the average person, who they don’t believe can be trusted with the freedom to decide what to eat, where to live, what car to drive, what to teach their children. They monitor the travel of every citizen they can, monitor their phones and emails, totally disregarding the constitution limits on unreasonable searches. Secret courts, oaths of silence, and the like are the work of today’s US government. We The People forming a government with limited powers instituted to protect the right of mere citizens life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness was and is a slap in the fact to the ruling elite. So they ignore the Constitution.

To Hillary, Obama, Reid, Boehner, Crist, “the difference it makes” is that once We the People see you are ignoring the restrictions on the limited power we’ve given you, We will ignore you, your laws, and rules. Connecticut is not exactly a bastion of libertarianism, but . . . massive numbers of good law abiding citizens did ignore the law and refused to register their “assault weapons”; what is Connecticut going to do with 100,000+ new felons? Want some fun, google “Shoot Shovel and Shut-up.” Who anymore thinks cheating on your income taxes is morally wrong? Just try to get a conviction on pot possession in Philadelphia, We the People simply refuse to convict. Obamacare, We the People see that congress doesn’t have to abide by it, corporations don’t have to abide by it so We the People are ignoring it and not signing up.

Modern Western Civilization depended on the “rule of law” and on “equality under the law.” In as much as our ruling elite now blatantly ignore both, so too are We the People ignoring or actively disobeying the “law” as without the both the “rule of law” and on “equality under the law” laws are just dictates of a tyrannically few, and We the People have proven repeatedly that we will not suffer tyranny. It would be nice if our republic could remain united, but tyranny from ruling elite who refuse to live within their means and within the restrictions of power granted to them byWe the People, will spell the death of our republic and maybe Western Civilization. That is the difference.

Obama Ushers in the End of Modern Civilization

By Tom Rhodes, 2/14/2014

Obama claimed he wanted to fundamentally change America while running for office. His methodology and actions will not only fundamentally change America but will end modern western civilization. No it’s not hyperbole. As I’ve noted in many previous articles, Obama and the ruling elite have effectively ended the rule of law and returning us to the norm for all of mankind. Rule by a few elite with little or no options for the masses.

In the USA the rule of law is dead. The Obama Administration has just announced that it ‘s 18th unilateral and arbitrarily change to the Obamacare ignoring The Constitution and the Checks and Balances of having congress not the president create law. The American political system has been perverted by a White House that doesn’t feel bound by the rule of law. The Wall Street Journal agrees:

…the law increasingly means whatever President Obama says it does on any given day. His latest lawless rewrite arrived on Monday as the White House decided to delay the law’s employer mandate for another year and in some cases maybe forever. …last summer the Treasury offered a year-long delay until 2015 despite having no statutory authorization. …Now the new delay arrives amid a furious debate about jobs after a damning Congressional Budget Office report last week, only this time with liberals celebrating ObamaCare’s supposed benefits to the job market. …Oh, and the Treasury also notes that, “As these limited transition rules take effect, we will consider whether it is necessary to further extend any of them beyond 2015.” So the law may be suspended indefinitely if the White House feels like it. …The text of the Affordable Care Act specifically says when the mandate must take effect—”after December 31, 2013?—and does not give the White House the authority to change the terms. Changing an unambiguous statutory mandate requires the approval of Congress, but then this President has often decided the law is whatever he says it is.

If the President wants to change the law, he should propose legislation and send it to Congress – PERIOD! Anything else is illegal, unconstitutional, and carries no authority. Some enterprising individual should sue their company (of 50 to 100 employees) for not following the law, regardless of Obama’s claimed authority to delay the implementation beyond Congresses mandate. The reason Obama is avoiding having to deal with congress. The people elected congress and those representatives would force the White House to make concessions to get the changes it wants. It’s easier to ignore the Rule of Law and act like a two bit dictator.

The reason Obama can act like a two bit dictator and get away with it is simple. Political Correctness has perverted civilization. Political Correctness is the most telling feature of today's elite culture. The PC are consistently those who think of themselves as the best of people. Unlike the mere common persons, they believe that they have risen above xenophobic patriotism, racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and every other ism. They’re inclusive! Political correctness quite succinctly compliments the self-importance of elites. Their politically correct views are a signal of their moral right to rule.

Political correctness is a powerful tool used as a weapon with which to destroy competitors for power and status. If your view is traditional and not PC it is dismissed as economically naive, or as unable to recognize cultural differences, homophobic, etc. and are by definition unqualified to either rule or even have an opinion how those who are PC choose to rule. Anybody with a real education is in the know about these things! . . . not accepting PC means you’re an uneducated rube bitterly clinging to bourgeois ideas of the past.

The reason the ruling elite, like Obama, constantly work to enact laws to take your money, infringe on your constitutional rights, deny you your property, silence your dissent, and imprison or kill you if you try to resist, isn’t just believing that they know better than you how you should spend your time and your money, what you should eat, what car you should drive, what science you should believe and which sexual perversions you accept; they also hate you for not agreeing with them. Just as kings of old believed in their divine right to rule, you merely not accepting the ruling elites superiority is all the justification they need for marginalizing you, discriminating against you, blacklisting you or otherwise eliminate you.

This PC worldview allows the destruction of modern civilization. The very idea you a mere commoner, hold the ruling elite to the same laws you are subject is proof of your inferiority. Political Correctness allows the idea of democracy to overrun our republic. The difference is world view, a republic is ruled by law a democracy is ruled by opinion. Well we used to have a republic based on a Christian world view, today we have a tyranny based on worshiping the state. Statist leaders get angry that the people don’t just obey their tens of thousands of laws, they firmly believe that the ruling elite know better how everybody should live and reject the rule of law. Imagine if a congressman got caught doing drugs and was subjected to the same treatment as a 20 yr old black man. The Rule of Law is dead.

Obama’s White House is undermining the basic underpinnings of our system of governance to the point where we now live in a neo-feudal society not a Republic. The ruling elite are now unaccountable for the laws that they severely punish the rest of us. The major news outlets ignore Obama’s abuses of power, because they understand this and want to either be part of the ruling elite, or at least have the favor of the ruling elite. Obama arrogantly declaring he will ignore the Constitution goes unchallenged or are treated as a “gaffe” or “joke.” The absolute smoking gun that the IRS is targeting Obama’s detractors is not front page news because as Dinesh D’Souza can attest, pointing out the facts is dangerous. News this week that freedom of the press in the USA has deteriorated significantly is evidence. We are devolving to a neo-feudal society where an oligarchy rules, even the press. This is a collapse of civilization and reversion of society to warlord rule.

Consider the attack on what is generally regarded as civilized and good. Statists, specifically progressives routinely attack the underpinnings of modern western civilization. Civilized people generally recognize that for most people, having a married mother and father is a good thing; that being married to a member of the opposite sex, and raising a family, is a good thing; that celebrating the natural and innate differences between male and female, and allowing society to reap the respective strengths of each, is a good thing; parents are responsible for and not only have the duty but the right to raise their children with the values they believe; in essence the traditional family is a fundamental element to a civilized society. From a practical and moral and philosophic standpoint the traditional family is good. From a statist and liberal standpoint the traditional family must be destroyed, it undermines the idea that some others not related to you better understand what’s best for you and should have the right to dictate how you should live.

The elimination of the rule of law and destruction of the value of the traditional family are observably leading to the destruction of modern western civilization and a return to rule by the elite, the historic norm for mankind throughout history. Thus Obama is ushering in the end of modern western civilization, he, statists, progressives, etc. all think this is a good thing and is the “fundamental change” Obama promised and seeks.

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Related Intemperate thoughts:

Collapse of the rule of law leads to clearly illogical excuses for not enforcing laws. Answer this question: If we must give illegal immigrants amnesty because children should not suffer for the “mistakes” of their parents, does that mean that murders who have kids should not be prosecuted? Or because the evidence is clear that children suffer most when their parents’ divorce, does it mean that parents shouldn’t be allowed to divorce if they have children? There just isn’t logic behind using the suffering of a person’s child as the basis to absolve that person from their crimes or even mistakes. Arguing the consequence is a classic fallacy in logic.

In Connecticut somewhere between 50 and 300 thousand people ignored the law to register their weapons by Jan 1. Although the news isn’t covering it as such, this is civil disobedience on a massive scale. Is massive civil disobedience soon to be the norm? How will the ruling elite react when the people say “no”? Can Connecticut handle a couple hundred thousand new “felons” in their judicial system who refuse to obey the ruling elites dictates? When the people realize the ruling elite are under no obligation to obey the restrictions placed on them by the people, the people, rightly or not, reject the obligation to obey the ruling elite. Thus ends the rule of law.

The most productive part of society that produces the surplus that pays for government, entitlements, and our modern western lifestyles is working aged men. No longer respected nor even allowed to be the lord of his home and head of his family, in massive numbers this group is deciding to hold up in mom’s basement and play video games rather than participate in a society that is overtly hostile to them. This is “freeing” as young men are unleashed or untethered from employment and traditional male roles to allow them to pursue their dreams, like being a pirate in “Assassin's Creed.” Who’s going to take up the slack, sacrifice, and do the dirty dangerous jobs or stay at the office 80hrs a week to create that surplus that made entitlements, social security, and all of modern western civilization possible?

There isn’t a 50 yr old women with 30 years of experience out in this week’s snow storms climbing power poles and insuring the rest of us have electricity. Women not taking hard dangerous work isn’t the problem. We’re lucky right now there is an experienced man willing to climb a pole and work on energized 69,000 volt lines in a snow storm to keep the heat on, the problem is there isn’t a 20 yr old apprentice freezing his ass off trying to learn from that lineman, and there isn’t a 20 yr old girl both willing and able to take up a dangerous physically demanding job that when the weather gets nasty requires 80 hour work week in the snow, slush, and rain while taking her away from her children and mate, and do that job week-in and week-out non-stop for 30+ years. Rather than rewarding the man who is willing to make the physical and temporal sacrifices doing the jobs and producing the surplus that make civilization possible, society is telling him he’s the oppressor and un-fair and takes the fruit of his labor and sacrifice and gives it to others who did nothing to earn it. Society has such contempt for the man who works hard and sacrifices it tells him he doesn’t know best how the fruit of his labor should be used, so it take his labor an redistribute it as the ruling elite dictate. It’s no wonder young men aren’t in college, or working, or marrying, they see society as wanting them to take all the risks but give up all the rewards.