LIBERALISM = BRAINWASHED = THE DEMISE OF 1ST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS

Thomas Jefferson knew the danger of big government when he wrote this statement:  
"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. "


The last couple of weeks have been a circus for the news media.  We have seen on every major television network the replay over and over of Mitt Romney's statement about the "47%" that he says he knows will not vote for him.  Yes, that is an inaccurate statement, because as many have pointed out, much of the military falls into that 47%, and being a former military officer for twenty years, I believe that most of the military will probably vote for Romney regardless of what he says.  But the fact remains that we have seen repeatedly in various venues on the television networks Mitt's statement.  But have we seen much of the belated admission by people in the Administration that the terrorist attacks that killed our Ambassador and three other Americans in Libya was NOT a spontaneous outburst of indignation by Muslim extremists, but instead was actually a pre-planned attack by these extremists, planned for the anniversary date of the 9/11 attacks?  Not much, that is for sure (unless you are watching the FOX News network, which is only seen on cable).

It both saddens and infuriates me when I think about what this abandonment of the idea that journalists are NOT supposed to present the news in a biased fashion, but instead are to present the facts and let the public make up their own minds.  In the past, if the media wanted to inject an opinion segment into the news, they actually set up a separate segment and told everyone up front that this was an opinion segment so that we were forewarned.  Not today; the brainwashing and the bias are being disguised as news reporting, which is somewhat accurate, only very selectively reported if it goes against the liberal viewpoints, but repeated ad nauseam if makes the liberal point of view seem more appetizing.

I guess for those who want a liberal utopia, this abandonment of the intent of the First Amendment's protection of free speech provision is somehow justified.  But from my point of view, it is treasonous.  These liberals have forgotten how most of the despots and dictators of the last two-hundred years have come to power.  The first objective of an revolutionary army is to gain control of the press.  Hitler did it during his assent to power, and in Japan, there was no such thing as a free press until after they were defeated in World War II.  The press is still tightly controlled in most Communist countries like Cuba, China, North Korea, and Vietnam.  Dissenters are thrown into prison, put under house arrest, sent to re indoctrination camps until they are brainwashed into conforming with the government's ideology, or killed because they will not conform.  Most Middle-Eastern countries have a tightly controlled press.  Only with the advent of the Internet have some of the barriers to getting the "truth" been removed, and the spark of freedom ignited among those being repressed.  But even that spark of freedom is being squelched as quickly as these oppressive governments are able to figure ways of blocking the receipt of such news in their countries.

President Obama and his cronies are doing all they can to both oppress and limit free speech here in America.  Liberals have successfully passed such stupid laws as those labeling speaking out against homosexuality and abortion as "hate" speech.  Really!  They are doing everything in their power to break the Constitution's First Amendment protections against government intrusion into Religion with the Obamacare requirement for religious institutions to provide contraceptive and abortion drugs free of charge through their institution's insurance providers.  They are constantly trying to shut-down conservative talk radio through this law they keep trying to reenacted called the "Fairness" doctrine.  If that ever gets reinstated, goodbye freedom of speech period!  Hate speech laws are clearly nothing but efforts on the part of groups that violate the Christian principles upon which our Constitution was founded, and the Christian faith that was the faith of this nation when it was founded.  Christianity, as well as many other faiths, classify such acts as homosexuality as a grievous sin (the biblical word is "abomination") against God.  As such, when the homosexual movement started gaining favor among the Hollywood elite, and then spread from there into the favor of the general media, it gained a forum where anyone that stood against that lifestyle was berated and mocked as being "old-fashioned", "out-of-touch", and a bigot.  Christianity as a whole has been branded as a bigoted religion and dis-guarded by Hollywood and its television counterparts in favor of such earthly religions as Scientology, Reform Judism, The United Church of Christ, and some groups of the Episcopalian church which accept homosexuality.  Too bad those Christian faiths are ignoring God's warnings, because the Bible also says that nations that do not believe in God and do not honor God are doomed.  With the way America is going these days, it is easy to understand and see why we are tearing ourselves apart from the  inside.

Our founding fathers put the First Amendment's freedom of speech protections into the Constitution with one main purpose in mind, to protect American citizens against a repressive government that sought to squelch any criticism of that government.  That is exactly what these crazy so-called journalists that have decided they want a nanny-state government for the United States are doing; they are playing right into the hands of this oppressive government and are censoring what news they present to the American people.  They have squelched anything critical of Obama and have flooded the airwaves with anything critical of Romney.  These idiots are preparing the way for their own demise, because if the government can give them the right to censor the news, it can also take that right away, and someday, when the scales are dropped off of their eyes and they see what they have done, it will be too late.  They will have already surrendered their ability to take-back that freedom to criticize the government, and unless they fall in line with the new regime, they will be looking for jobs or will just fade away, like our freedoms are now doing.

George Santayana in 1863 first wrote this foreboding quote when he said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", and has since been repeated by numerous other wise individuals like Winston Churchill who modified it to say "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it!"  I fear that our liberal wing in America have forgotten this hard-taught lesson from less than a century ago.  Two World Wars, a failed Communist Revolution in Russia, Communism still in force in such places as North Korea and China, and the liberals here in America still have not learned that point that Jefferson was so emphatic about over two hundred years ago when he warned us of the dangers of putting our faiths in a large central government.  They just cannot see that as long as there is sin on this earth, a Utopian society cannot exist, and therefore any effort to create one is doomed from the beginning.  

Jefferson knew that only the people themselves were able to restrict and restrain government from growing to the point that it will do anything to sustain its existence and expansion, including depriving its citizens of the very rights that create the very government now intent on depriving them of their freedoms that government was supposed to protect.  Jefferson's views on government are very clearly expressed below:

• "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
• "Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties:
  
  
  1. Those that fear and distrust people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 
  2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist; and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves."-Letter to Henry Lee, August 10, 1824
• "I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." -Letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824 

Jefferson was a very wise individual.  Too bad he is not around today.  Maybe these liberals that think Obama is the Messiah would get the scales off their eyes, and we might start putting America back on the road to being that "shining light on the top of the hill" that we used to be.  Otherwise, that wise historian's prophesy regarding America's tenure as a democracy from the 19th century may well come to pass.  Alexander Tyler is most frequently credited with this statement which he supposedly wrote in 1887, calling it the obituary of democracy.  Regardless who said it, it is an accurate assessment going back to the days of the Athenian empire.
   "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.  A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasure.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasure, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about two hundred years.  During those two hundred years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance to complacency

From complacency to apathy

From apathy to dependence

From dependence back to bondage"

Regardless of who actually wrote or made the statement the truth of those words rings very true when we look at what is happening in America today.  If American's do not remove the scales from their eyes and see our government for what it is, it will not be long until this prophesy reaches it culmination as described above.  Sad...very sad.

REST IN PEACE, AMERICA!