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Cap and Trade Dementia
The Obama-backed, House-passed bill is economically suicidal and scientifically grossly irresponsible. Its only justification is as a Democrat, left-liberal power grab.
Barack Obama called for House passage of the cap and trade tax bill last Friday by calling it a jobs bill. The bill is designed to raise the price of energy in the U.S. so much that it will reduce the use of fossil fuels by 17% by 2020 and by 83% by 2050. Sentencing the U.S. economy to high cost energy is not a particularly good strategy for creating jobs. The Charles River Associates, a Harvard based economics consulting firm, estimates a net loss of jobs from the bill of about 2.5 million each year.
This is surely a gross underestimate of the net job losses from a bill designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels to the level in 1907. All those soccer moms better get used to riding their horses to the grocery store and back. And their husbands better get used to working the farms again, by hand, as high cost energy will chase remaining American manufacturing out of the country to India and China, which do not suffer from Al Gore’s delusions about supposed global warming.
Yet Barack Obama calls it a jobs bill. This reflects a by now well-established pattern of deceptive, misdirection rhetoric, raising broadly appealing ideals in promotion of policies that would do just the opposite. For example, Obama is also trying to sell us a new health care entitlement, larger than any of our already grossly overgrown entitlements we can’t finance, with the argument that it will actually reduce costs, even while CBO estimates that it will increase Federal spending by $1.6 trillion (woefully underestimated).
Earlier this year, Obama released his budget with great fanfare about how it would supposedly reduce the federal deficit in half in five years. Hidden in the fine print was the awful truth that his budget, now passed by the overwhelmingly Democrat Congress, explodes this year’s deficit to a record busting $1.8 trillion, four times bigger than Bush’s largest deficit, and seven times bigger than Reagan’s largest, which caused so much caterwauling among liberals. The deficit in the last budget passed by a Republican controlled Congress was $162 billion, less than 10% as much.
Last year, Obama campaigned on proposals to raise the top two income tax rates by over 10%, the capital gains tax rate by 33%, and the tax rate on dividends by 33%, while restoring a permanent death tax rate of 45%, and raising taxes on corporations that already pay virtually the highest tax rates in the industrialized world, all the while focusing on his promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. That tax cut turned out to be a puny $400 per worker tax credit that is phased out after next year, when his tax increases will become effective to sink the still sputtering economy.
During the campaign, Obama also pledged that he would never raise taxes in any form on Americans making less than $250,000 per year. But his cap and trade tax is estimated to cost American families almost $2,000 a year when it becomes effective, growing to almost $7,000 a year for a family of four by 2035. That will be paid through higher prices for electricity, oil, gasoline, natural gas, home heating oil, coal, food, and every product that is produced or transported using energy. Remember: when the first President Bush violated his oft-repeated campaign pledge not to raise taxes, voters booted him out in the next election.
Democrats have suggested that the legislation would cost American families only $175 a year, or as little as $80. But fossil fuel use is not going to be reduced by 17%, growing to 83%, through added costs of $80 to $175 per year.
The rationale for this bill is to counter global warming by sharply reducing greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide. But even if the bill works exactly as envisioned, the most radical environmentalists admit that it will only slow temperature increases by 2050 by a ridiculous 9/100th of one degree Fahrenheit! Even after all the costs of reducing the use of fossil fuels by 83%, that is all that would result.
That is because all humans across the planet produce less than 5% of all carbon dioxide emissions. So slashing U.S. emissions won’t have much effect in any event. Moreover, don’t expect other nations to follow us in this foolhardy policy. Even the Europeans never really enforced their own cap and trade regulations, so their carbon dioxide emissions have actually increased more than ours over the last 10 years. Now nations from France to Poland, Japan, the Czech Republic, Australia, New Zealand and others are turning away from cap and trade policies, and souring on the whole notion of global warming. China, now the world’s number one carbon dioxide producer, India, Russia, Africa, and South America have shown no interest in the suicidal economics of global warming fantasy. But the left-wing extremists now running America are too close-minded and religiously dogmatic to even consider an alternative course.
As the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) recently asked:
Does it really make sense to eliminate between 2.3 million and 2.7 million jobs each year, and force families, farmers, and drivers to pay higher power bills, higher heating and cooling bills, higher food and goods prices, and higher gasoline and diesel prices, all for the promise of slowing temperature increases by merely hundredths of a single degree Fahrenheit by 2050?
The Global Warming Hoax
Worst of all, the science behind global warming is now collapsing. The most reliable satellite weather data shows that global atmospheric temperatures have declined over the last 11 years, with the trend downward accelerating. Even global warming advocates are now conceding that this trend may continue for decades.
Moreover, the latest and best science shows that the temperature patterns of the 20th century correlate with natural causes, not global warming theory. Temperatures did not increase steadily throughout the last century, even though carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases did. Temperatures in the U.S., which has the most thorough and consistent temperature record and historically the most CO2 emissions, were stable until 1920, increased some in the 1920s, and then soared to produce the hottest decade of the century during the 1930s (before the later, more rapid increases in greenhouse gas emissions). The climate then cooled during most of the period from 1940 until about 1977. Temperatures climbed upward from 1977 until 1998, except for a sharp downturn from about 1988 until about 1995. Temperatures are down again over the past decade.
This record is more consistent with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a long-term pattern of ocean currents that turns from cold to warm back to cold every 20 to 30 years, and with variations in solar activity, particularly sunspots. Indeed, our current accelerating temperature decline correlates with an extended trend of slowing sunspot activity, which may portend another Little Ice Age, as happened from the early 1400s to the late 1800s. Indeed, a full-blown ice age is now overdue based on historical patterns.
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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Big J| 7.1.09 @ 6:44AM
"Yet Barack Obama calls it a jobs bill. This reflects a by now well-established pattern of deceptive, misdirection rhetoric, raising broadly appealing ideals in promotion of policies that would do just the opposite. "
Exactly.
Pissing on us, all the while claiming it's raining.
The lib's in Congress and the white house love it because it increases their power, raises taxes and effectively reduces consumption of fossil fuels (less filling, tastes great).
I believe the ultra lib's outside of government love it because they have bought into this ridiculous religion. Also, they believe that they aren't going to be affected. Boy are they in for a surprise!
Liberals won't be happy until we are all living in caves, clubbing our dinner and trying to re-invent fire and the wheel.
Jill Boneson | 10.22.09 @ 6:17PM
I just think that something particualarily important is being overlooked about this bill. The potential ideology? This bill could change the way we energize America? The penalities are meant to be incentives. Better technology could send America off in a new direction competitvely. The freedom from fossil fuels does yes only minutely change environmental factors, but evolving and modernizing our country/world is really the focus of this bill. I am not a proponet of liberalism, but I do look around my world and see a people who are afraid of change and desperately refuse to make any provision for it. What are your thoughts on this?
Siegfried X| 7.1.09 @ 6:51AM
McCain is a strong supporter of cap & trade, and campaigned on it.
Rocco| 7.1.09 @ 6:53AM
I am not so sure the American people do "get it," after all, it was a majority of idiots who put this fraud in the White House. But, the proof of the pudding will be the 2010 elections. And of course, the big question is, where are the Republicans in all of this. Granted, the media, such as it is, is for all intents and purposes, the Obama press office. But there are enough alternative outlets to get the message out. Their silence is truly deafening. And then, there are the eight Repub poodles who rolled over and went with the money and supposed promises rather than represent their constituents' wishes. As for Newt, he does have good ideas, but my impression is, he is talking to an echo chamber. There seems to be NO visibility, so our bread-and-circuses obsessed "vulgus" gets the idea that Dumbo's programs are inevitable and the wave of the future. Where in heaven's name is the American spirit of even 60 years ago?? Even the Hondurans had the cojones to chuck out a president who repeatedly violated their constitution. God bless their military; I don't think ours would follow in the same footsteps. Not with the kind of bootlicking, a--kissing senior officers leading it these days.
Darin| 7.1.09 @ 7:03AM
"How dumb does Obama think the American people are?"
Dumb enough to vote for him.
Dumb enough not to realize he had zero executive experience.
Dumb enough not to realize he has a long history of saying one thing and doing another (that used to be called lying).
Yes, we're a country populated by dunderheads, and they vote themselves goodies at the expense of those who actually earn them.
When the majority of the population comes to realize they can vote themselves the possessions of the minority, democracy has transitioned to tyranny.
Rocco| 7.1.09 @ 7:07AM
Darin, precisely!
You paraphrase Ben Franklin's prophetic quote: "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic."
Trackback| 7.1.09 @ 7:14AM
The American Spectator : Cap and Trade Dementia, on PunditKix, links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Dave Lincoln| 7.1.09 @ 7:19AM
"McCain is a strong supporter of cap & trade, and campaigned on it. "
So, what's your point, Sigfried? Conservatives don't like him either.
Melvin| 7.1.09 @ 7:32AM
Congress openly admitted last Friday that Cap and Trade was a hoax.
Al Gore and the consensus crowd screamed bloody hell that if we didn't act right now humans were going to drown, Polar Bears were going to be extinct, and the earth would turned to dust.
We had to enact this and we had to enact it right damn now.
Well, if that was indeed the case and the science was real then why was Nancy Pelosi allowed to horse-trade votes to pass this bill in the House?
I was under the impression that Global Warming is non-negotiable. If we don't enact it right now we die.
So watering this bill down to the point that she was able to garner enough votes proves that Cap and Trade is really Cap and Tax.
This bill is a complete and new massive revenue stream for the government.
The government pretty much maxed itself out on taxes and fee and needed a whole new concept of increasing the money that flows into government.
I have to admit this new tax concept is genius. Have Americans willingly pay a tax and future increases with smiles on their faces because they have been conned into the belief that by paying a carbon tax their saving the earth, pure brilliance.
Who said government was stupid, it has conned billions of people all over the world into something that doesn't exist, so who is the stupid ones?
WR Tolkas| 7.1.09 @ 8:33AM
Gentlemen,
This is a jobs bill. When all the industry is driven from this country and the cost of energy is beyond the reach of most people, the jobs will be in cutting wood for fires to keep warm and to eat replacing farming equipment with people power.
Just one more thought, one of the forces that brought about the destruction of slavery was cheap energy. And I mean slavery in every aspect of that word. Wouldn't it be ironic that a black man directed this country back to those times?
Have a happy 4th,
WR Tolkas
Curly Smith| 7.1.09 @ 8:40AM
Don't let anybody tell you any different, it is a jobs bill. In a few short years we'll have millions of people working for the WPA and CCC. And they won't be just temporary hamburger flipping jobs, which would be outlawed by the new National Health Act anyway, they'll be lifetime employment with unlimited free Health Care up to a fairness level of 2 aspirins per 14 months.
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The Cap and Trade Thread - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 34 - City-Data For links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Tenn Slim| 7.1.09 @ 8:50AM
ALL
The entire quote listed here says it clearly.
"Yet Barack Obama calls it a jobs bill. This reflects a by now well-established pattern of deceptive, misdirection rhetoric, raising broadly appealing ideals in promotion of policies that would do just the opposite" IE: A WELL DIRECTED PATTERN OF....
Now. The pattern is the agenda, the details are the issues, as laid out in the article.
The OBNA Goal, clearly stated, is to effect the demise of the CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM, then TO IMPOSE HIS Vision of a Socialistic system. One pillar of socialistics system impositions is to destroy the existing model, resurrect the new. We are watching and witnessing the process. It is facisnating to observe the utter lack of the USA Electorate's concern and comments generally. We on this and other similar sites continually scream " AWAKEN OH YEA USA Electorates," and continue to get nada. A sad state of affairs, but near as I can discern true.
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Semper Fi
Tenn Slim| 7.1.09 @ 8:59AM
WR ....
"This is a jobs bill. When all the industry is driven from this country and the cost of energy is beyond the reach of most people, the jobs will be in cutting wood for fires to keep warm and to eat replacing farming equipment with people power.
Could not close w/o a comment on this end result statement.
1. I agree, the end result, in the not too distant future will be the demise of the cities as we know them, the return to sod huts, firewood, et al.
2. WPA, CCC camps will be, indeed,the major job effort. Repair, restructure, rebuild, all under the Orwellian control of OBNA is the end product.
3. We, the USA Electorate, have opened a Pandoras box, complete with Aesopian language, outright and blatant deception, with nary a thought to the ethics of the released evil.
Folks, as we watch, comment and observe the process, in a facisnated manner, it is like the snake and the mongoose. The snake loses, not being quick enough and utterly mesmerized with the mongoose' quick and deadly moves.
I wish there was a better analogy, but this comes to mind.
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Rudy| 7.1.09 @ 9:16AM
The dimwitted elite sycophants think that they have the keys to operating our lives--they don't. The free market is the only efficient way to allocate resources and time(our labor). Unfortunately folks have no faith in the economic system that has brought the greatest comfort and wealth to millions--even as the utter failure of the grand social experiment (Marx/Lenin) is clearly obvious.
Capitalism REQUIRES individuals of strong moral character working for their self interest. The above mentioned elites are seeing to it that ALL institutions and values to produce these individuals are utterly destroyed.
Bill| 7.1.09 @ 9:26AM
The free healthcare will come in handy since most of us will be unemployed and unable to afford it. any longer.
The US Federal government, not market forces (i.e. individual decision makers), is now the official driver of what and who succeeds in America. This means if you want to succeed in America hard work and ingenuity are not going to get it done. What will get it done is having powerful friends in Washington.
Just watch the numbers of CEOs who are filing in and out of Washington these days: auto sxecutives, banking executives, Google's CEO, GE's CEO, power companies, venture capital companies, healthcare companies, etc, etc., etc.
Who gets left out of the mix? That's right, the small entrepreneur who has no influence. Small businessmen are not getting bailed out. Small businessmen are not getting subsidies.
The rich will be entrenched in there wealth with no concern for looking over their shoulder at which young upstart may be coming up behind them to make their product obsolete. Like Europe, the will be a ruling class and there will be the subjects.
These are not the principles upon which this nation was founded. But this is what must happen if the Government is to be empowered to push us around and control us in every aspect of our lives. Big business and government are no friends of free markets -- never have been.
JT in SC| 7.1.09 @ 10:03AM
Thank You So Much "mainstream media" and our public school system, for turning America into a country where the moronic, misinformed, nut jobs can vote in high enough numbers to put these liberal, America hating dip-shits into power.
100% Serious: a new Conservative / Libertarian Republic needs to form...and gain independence by peaceful means before we see a second civil war in our nation. Freedom & Liberty are being murdered by a spectre named Tyrannical Statism.
sick freak | 7.1.09 @ 10:22AM
What a charming bit of luck for Speaker Nan that a certain pop star is dominating the news while the house just raised the price of EVERYTHING! And isn't it ironic, don't ya think, we basically have a pop star in the white house! Moonwalk us to socialism, Mr. President!
MikeF| 7.1.09 @ 10:52AM
JT. Not a civil war, but another War of Independence (Revolutionary War for those in Rio Linda). I was re-reading the Declaration of Independence this morning and, under the list of grievances and reasons for separation, you could substitute today's President and Congress for England's king and parliament in just about all of them and have an up-to-date document to use.
It is obvious that this President and Congress will not listen to the will of the people, so it is time to throw them all out and start over. The place to start is 2010. Attend the next Tea Party near you.
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The staggering economic costs of cap and trade — in Obama’s own words | Beacon Street links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Jay| 7.1.09 @ 11:07AM
Cap and Trade is nothing more than Wage and Price Controls, with higher taxes to boot. It didn't work when Nixon tried it in the 1970's and it won't work now. Since when did so-called "smart people" (Tom Friedman in today's NYT) believe that setting the price of anything was good for the economy? Or sustainable as policy? Wake up! The fairy dust President Obama has sprinkled in his supporters eyes has an expiration date on it!
Michael Tomlinson| 7.1.09 @ 11:25AM
The polar bear population has increased by 30%, the ice caps aren't melting and Obama Democrats are doing everything they can to destroy America. If only blue states were effected by Democrat policies I'd cheer and hope they'd get more of what they voted for (higher unemployment, taxes, crime and a declining lifestyle), but sadly even the patriotic and sensible red states are hurt by Democrat BS.
Time to start calling a spade a spade. The Obama Depression is on a roll and things can only get worse with Democrats in control of Congress and the White House. Happy Days are here again if your insane or just stupid (i.e., a Democrat or Obama voter).
Tony in Central PA| 7.1.09 @ 11:46AM
One of the most infuriating things about all of this BS is the lack of media coverage. I suppose when the average Obama voter tunes into the " news " to find out what the celebrities are doing and thinks the government is now going to pay for their mortgage and gas, its to be expected.
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 12:06PM
Thanks everyone
I can't add a thing, but to again ask each of you to find a tea party.......and take your cameras!!!!!
We are going to need PROOF that we were there there...THIS TIME!
Down town Houston had some 9 to 10 thousand show up. People filled a solid city block and we were reported as..."a few hundred old white grumblers."
Anneke| 7.1.09 @ 12:07PM
I hear a lot of complaints from the Left and/or the Right that Christian Fundamentalists (social conservatives) or Islamists are trying to impose their religion on the U.S., indeed on the entire world. These are red herrings. Our fears have been misplaced. The church of Gaia has now taken control of your government and you will be paying a steep tithe and bowing down before her altar soon.
Marc Jeric| 7.1.09 @ 12:20PM
1) There was first in the 1970's the globaloney cooling scam (see e.g. Newsweek April 28 1975 on the internet); the government-paid scientists (90% of them are rejects of private enterprise) recommended to fight the new ice age by sending our war planes to cover the polar ice with soot in order to increase solar heat and prevent crushing of New York skyscrapers by the new glaciers;
2) When that did not work we had the globaloney warming hoax in the 1990's, proclaimed by mainly the same government-paid scientists (Dr. Hansen of the NOAA, for example); to prevent the massive heating, fires, flooding of coastal cities, disappearance of Florida, California, and Caribbean islands, massive hurricanes, global famine, and other catastrophic events we should nationalize oil and gas and coal and electricity companies;
3) after 11 years of considerable cooling we are now faced with the climate change flimflam where whatever happens with our climate we should nationalize oil and gas and coal and electricity companies; and why not our banks, car companies while we are at it. To prevent this catastrophe the best vehicle presumably is international agreements enforced by the United Nations world government.
As for the influence of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas: on a normal day the atmosphere contains 10,000 ppm (parts per million) of water vapor and about 300 ppm of carbon dioxide. The government-paid scientists say that an increase of 100 ppm of CO2 over the next 50 years will result in a catastrophic warming. The thermal absorptivity of water vapor is 4 times larger than that of carbon dioxide; it follows that the CO2 increase will increase the overall thermal absorptivity of the mixture by about 1/4 of one percent. The production of methane from livestock and the swamps (or as the enviro-nazis call those "wetlands") vastly surpasses the influence of CO2.
There is the Global Warming Petition Project (see Internet) where 31,478 US independent scientists declared that there is no anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming; of these 9,029 are scientists with PhD degrees. Our enviro-nazis tried to sabotage this effort by submiiting phony names with phoney degrees - and then claimed the whole effort by the Petition scientists was a fraud. It took us 3 years and a lot of private money to verify the credentials of all the signatories and clean up the Petition of those saboteurs. See also Manhattan Declaration with more such signatories, plus a large number of scientific groups from other countries who state the same.
I am one of these signatories, MS and PhD degrees from UCLA, with majors in thermodynamics and heat & mass transfer.
I think to fight this communist attempt to secure a permanent hold on power should not be fought on the narrow grounds of more taxes - that is the losing proposition; where about 50% of the population is on some kind of welfare we will always be outvoted. The battle should be fought and won on the firm scientific basis.
SCAM - HOAX - FLIMFLAM!!!
Krista| 7.1.09 @ 12:24PM
It has been said, the only thing the founders of our constitution had in common was a distrust of central government. This bill as well as Obama's heath care bill are violating the constitution by taking away our freedoms. They are taking away our freedoms to earn what we keep, to not be taxed out of existence, and to be left alone by the government to pursue our dreams. The government has turned into exactly what the founders of the constitution feared. Anyone read 1984 lately?? They have gone far beyond the powers originally granted to them in the constitution. It is time to put a stop to all this. People need to wake up and start getting angry about what is being done. This bill does nothing but shut down industry in this country. It is wrong and it is sickening.
Mike| 7.1.09 @ 12:34PM
All I can think to say is....Wow!
"They were to follow him blindly, as if he possessed a divine judgment..."
- The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, William Shirer
Grzmlyk| 7.1.09 @ 1:00PM
Hmm. I wonder where the estimable (in his own mind) SL Toddard (aka "the turd") is. On these kinds of topics he usually suffers from logorrhea, excreting meaningless straw men, practicing sleight-of-hand by parsing words and transforming reality into a distorted, high school debate-team abstraction. And when you try to point him in the direction of the causal universe, he tells you facts are "irrelevant."
Perhaps he's still assembling his arguments by culling propaganda from the Huffington Post and googling obscure left-wing think tanks.
Or maybe he's taken his head out of the sand and realized that, in the real world, actions have consequences, and, however meager his librarian's wage, he'll pay for Obama's brave new world just like the rest of us.
Quick, somebody, flush a toilet. I miss old SL.
chandler| 7.1.09 @ 1:05PM
Obama is simply a very poor Forrest Gump!
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 1:05PM
OK, Spectator Writers:
Those of us who try to remain informed have pretty much gotten the picture of the "Shock and AWE" campaign being orchestrated by Obama and Soros and crew.
So which one of you really good writers is going to step out there with a checklist...OF WHAT WE FOLKS WITHOUT A PODIUM ...CAN DO...TO REVERSE ALL THIS CRAP?
Pretty much it is time to quit spectating and begin expectorating.
Thank you
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 1:08PM
Grzmlk
He doesn't need to come here any more. SorosObama have bought his mama a new basement for his "service to the cause" and his blue shirt. (GRIN)
Grzmlyk| 7.1.09 @ 1:27PM
Hey, Old Texican:
Yeah, he's either True Believer to the End or else a beneficiary of the New Nazi party.
It's not so much him - after all, he's a dime a dozen. It's that strain of thinking that flabbergasts me; these pseudo intellectuals do not care one bit about how the policies they advocate affect real human beings; they care about argument for its own sake, and, by their willingness to subjugate people's lives to their own egos, they are traitors.
God save us from false prophets and ersatz intellectuals. :-)
Louis Jenkins| 7.1.09 @ 2:06PM
“This is surely a gross underestimate of the net job losses from a bill designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels to the level in 1907. All those soccer moms better get used to riding their horses to the grocery store and back. And their husbands better get used to working the farms again, by hand….”
But that’s what these criminals want! They want the common American family working their backsides off to redistribute the wealth (to be read ‘your earnings’). That want us digging in the dirt, dying from government managed healthcare by the age of 60, living in unheated and non-cooled houses without adequate lighting, and subsisting on the meager crumbs that fall from their leftist elite tables. How dare you work for the good life and keep what you earn! The very sweat of your brow doesn’t belong to you, it must be given to Socialist programs! Gotta save the planet from climate change and keep the entitlement agenda alive. Then we can all join hands and sign, “I’m proud to be an American, where at least I work for free, and I’ll gladly thank Obama, who made a third worlder outta me.”
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 2:50PM
Louis Jenkins
NOPE!
What they want and what I SHALL do are two entirely separate universes.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 7.1.09 @ 2:57PM
Old Texican, what’s this garbage I heard this morning that Houston law enforcement is conducting illegal searches and seizures in order to confiscate lawfully owned guns from law-abiding Texans? Maybe obumassiah is afraid that we’ll pull a Honduras on his trashing of our Constitution. I am viewing such an action more and more favorably every day. With frankenberry now in the senate, thanks to the criminal mini-soda supreme court, I am about ready to abandon my original dream of a Martin Luther King Gandhi-like shutdown. It just might be time to follow the example of the original Minute Men. Thanks to a recent birthday, I no longer worry about dying before I’m 60. However, the way obumassiah is shackling this country with his despair and chains, I will probably be all too happy to be patriotic and die before I’m 61. I just liquidated my electric company stock thanks to the appointment of frankenberry which gives obumassiah a filibuster proof 60 senate votes. I plan to use these funds to buy plenty of metal -gold, silver, lead.
John II| 7.1.09 @ 3:04PM
Louis has it right in his exclamatory opener. Crime, by definition, is any activity "unjust and senseless" (American Heritage Dictionary). Forget all the nonsense about honest differences of opinion. We're past all that, God help us. This country is now being run by criminals. Not rascals. Not dunderheads. Not nitwits. (Those are just the enablers: the people who elect lefty politicians and the pathetic "moderates" who put up a limp-wristed pretense of resistance.
Criminals.
Grzmlyk| 7.1.09 @ 3:11PM
I think John and Louis are right on the money:
It's a thugocracy pure and simple. It's criminals who are running this country now and it's the nitwits, dunderheads and rascals who have put them there.
O brave new world indeed. Words alone will not take this country back.
Al Adab| 7.1.09 @ 3:13PM
Old Texican. Houston will be a mighty unconfortable place without electricity. The terms of Cap and Trade will make it so expensive (or the EMP scenario) y'all would have to give up the Galletria. What about the cattle growers and the cow tax? Catr tax is also included. That is one way to force everyone to buy the new Govt approved GM cars. Then of course the provisions making houses unsaleable. This bill forces America back to pre-industrial levels of life. Is that in fact their vision of the future? Maybe we better learn Chineese.
Fill us all in though if you can. Is Texas ( the Lone Star Republic) seriously studying alternatives to participation in this future nightmare? If so I might be coming. I hear the hill country is nice.
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 3:29PM
Gill O'teen
You are so droll! ((lmao)
...precious metals...gold, silver............lead!
LMAO
Please see my comments on the darkness at noon article today (the EMP article)
Gold is sorta' hard to cook and eat in the field. (heh)
I don't know the whole story yet about illegal searches here.
BUT!
I have quietly suggested here that NEW arms buys are painting a target on your back.
Instead...go buy a gun/s from an older relative. Oil it up...and buy birdshot. (superglue the shot). The old rusty .22 rifle in your dad's closet is a better weapon than an 03 that our Marines invaded Guadacanal with...successfully.
Probably.........probably.........weapons bought more than 10 years ago.......the records got lost, or rotted. (When the national "registration" begins, those records are maybe maybe.)
(God, we are going to be a unimpressive lot. heh)
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INCONVENIENT TRUTH: not only is Cap & Trade based on bad science, it’s a tax nightmar links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Pointer| 7.1.09 @ 3:31PM
Our nation's primary competitors in the world - i.e. China and India - know how best to knock America off the world stage. It's by allowing us to increase the Democrat majorities in Congress so cap and trade and other job killing bills can be passed into law.
JJ| 7.1.09 @ 3:39PM
If Obama keeps going we will all be living out in the woods, building a fire, hunting for rabbits -- unable to afford cable TV and therefore, missing his wonderful speeches and news conferences. Then what?
stmichrick| 7.1.09 @ 4:05PM
So we now have a President who builds major policy on a HOAX. Supported by people who called his predecessor STUPID because he wasn't buying their agenda-based science. And the best most of the guys on our side can do is accept it as political REALITY.
I've got my torch and pitchfork. Where's yours?
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 4:08PM
JJ
Excellent question..."then what?"
...first, take a gallon of lard to the woods. You can starve eating rabbits and squirrel. (no fats there).
When you see some soldiers in the woods...give them some fresh fo0d.
If you see a politician in the woods...shoot him/her and render the fat. (grin)
If you see Obama in those woods...and think naughty thoughts...please remember who his succesors are...Biden?...Pelosi?
Capture him...and let him spout off. Or simply starve him to death. (heh)
James Raider | 7.1.09 @ 4:55PM
CAP and TRADE Will Create Companies TOO BIG TO FAIL
So what’s the real scoop? Ignore the proselytizers and find out from those who “shaped” the Bill.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2009/07/dear-mr-president-thanks-again-for-cap.html
Tony in Central PA| 7.1.09 @ 5:27PM
Some failures concerning the Cap and Trade came up on another site I visited. I wish I could make a flow chart:
- manufacturing and other activity that results in CO2 emissions will be shifted from the US to countries without such laws.
- this will result in lost jobs and closed businesses here in the US.
-this will place more people of public assistance and erode tax revenue.
- this, in turn, will worsen our debt problem.
- the amount of CO2 emitted from activities now shifted outside our borders may actually be an increase over what would have occurred within our own because these nations have less stringent environmental laws and goods must be increasingly shipped to the US.
I expect little or no media interest in this debate compared to, say, Michael Jackson.
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 7:04PM
Tony...duh!
Please get past all of that!
Think for yourself...guy.
Cap and trade is just another building block in the wall to kill you and yours.
Get over it!
Stand or bow...right these days...or get THE CHOP!
Phoenix Arise| 7.1.09 @ 7:44PM
Lets get past all the cap and trade, Health care, Tarp, and everything else being ramrodded down out throats. It's all designed to bring about the subjugation of the working class as in all other socialist, communist, fascist, statist States.
The Tea parties are a start, but we don't need a few hndred or a few thousand attending. We need millions on the streets at one time. We need to lay what's left of our dollars at the doors of the airports, train statins, bus terminals and gas stations and arise and put 50, million in Washington at one time. Who above has the guts to take the sacred vacation or sick days and take two days off in the week to travel, shout for the birth certificate and not leave until produced.
If millions of Iranians, who have a lot more to fear from their military than we, can do it, then we have no excuse.
Everything that he has passed it unconstitutional. Everything. Fact is until proven otherwise he is too.
If you all don't have the balls to do that on July 4th, in your states, and then a colletive march on Washington, then your no better than all the talking heads on FOX who look pretty and collect there big salaries thanks to pretty boy giving them something to talk about.
Sick Freak... He's not only moonwalking us to socialism he flat out Mooning us.
Right on Rudy.
Phoenix Arise| 7.1.09 @ 7:44PM
Lets get past all the cap and trade, Health care, Tarp, and everything else being ramrodded down out throats. It's all designed to bring about the subjugation of the working class as in all other socialist, communist, fascist, statist States.
The Tea parties are a start, but we don't need a few hndred or a few thousand attending. We need millions on the streets at one time. We need to lay what's left of our dollars at the doors of the airports, train statins, bus terminals and gas stations and arise and put 50, million in Washington at one time. Who above has the guts to take the sacred vacation or sick days and take two days off in the week to travel, shout for the birth certificate and not leave until produced.
If millions of Iranians, who have a lot more to fear from their military than we, can do it, then we have no excuse.
Everything that he has passed it unconstitutional. Everything. Fact is until proven otherwise he is too.
If you all don't have the balls to do that on July 4th, in your states, and then a colletive march on Washington, then your no better than all the talking heads on FOX who look pretty and collect there big salaries thanks to pretty boy giving them something to talk about.
Sick Freak... He's not only moonwalking us to socialism he flat out Mooning us.
Right on Rudy.
Old Texican| 7.1.09 @ 7:54PM
Phoenix
Welcome to the "list" I am on for disappearing or shot.
My questions exactly!
I will be there July 3rd...and 4th.
Houston... with a Texas flag draped over my shoulder...(flagstaffs not allowed).
So far, I am a law abiding citizen.
Phoenix Arise| 7.1.09 @ 8:02PM
Lets get past all the discussions about crap and tax, Stealth snare, Trap(tarp), and everything else being ramrodded down out throats. They're nothing but smokescreens a tools. It's all designed to bring about the subjugation of the working class as in all other socialist, communist, fascist, statist States.
The Tea parties are a start, but we don't need a few hndred or a few thousand attending. We need millions on the streets at one time. We need to lay what's left of our dollars at the doors of the airports, train statins, bus terminals and gas stations and arise and put 50, million in Washington at one time. Who above has the guts to take the sacred vacation or sick days and take two days off in the week to travel, shout for the birth certificate and not leave until produced.
If millions of Iranians, who have a lot more to fear from their military than we, can do it, then we have no excuse.
Everything that he has passed it unconstitutional. Everything. Fact is until proven otherwise he is too.
If you all don't have the balls to do that on July 4th, in your states, and then a colletive march on Washington, then your no better than all the talking heads on FOX who look pretty and collect there big salaries thanks to pretty boy giving them something to talk about.
Sick Freak... He's not only moonwalking us to socialism he flat out Mooning us.
Right on Rudy.
DaveS| 7.1.09 @ 8:18PM
...with Kool Aid and Obamajustice for all!!!!!!
Siegfried X| 7.1.09 @ 8:42PM
"So, what's your point, Sigfried?"
My point is that we need to clean up the Republican Party, not just complain about the Democrats.
Another example is that Sotomayor will probably get 20 Republican votes.
John II| 7.1.09 @ 8:54PM
And another thing, before I forget . . . well, I forgot.
Anyhow, I want to put in a word for George Bush. I remember, years and years ago, when I was in the Army stationed in a major command headquarters in (West) Germany, this poker-playing friend of mine in G2 (intelligence and security) told me that whenever the Soviets accused the West of something, the accusation was automatically taken to be a hint of what the Soviets themselves were up to. So, for example, if the Soviets were getting frisky in Africa, we got an early warning from the enemy himself because he would start spreading propaganda about the neo-colonial West getting frisky in Africa.
All this came back to me during the Bush administration, and now it's descended on me like a load of sand. If you want to know what the Obamanation is about, look back carefully to all the accusations hurled at the Bush people and the "neocons" (pathetic expression) for damn near eight years.
Woe to those who call good evil and evil good! (Isaiah 5:20).
But I still can't remember what I was going to say.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque| 7.1.09 @ 9:08PM
Friedman of the NY Times sez: "It sucks royally, but pass it anyway!"
Saint James| 7.1.09 @ 9:27PM
A MIRACLE has happened. All those pinko lefties who have been beating the dead horse of Socialism for years have brought it back to life.
Sue| 7.1.09 @ 10:23PM
Old Texican: I attended a Tea Party on April 15; and I am now sending the following books free to friends who just adore Obama: The 5,000 Year Leap, Glenn Beck's Common Sense, and Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny. I can take the horse to water, but cannot make him drink.
Hopefully, the friends will at least read the shortest book, Common Sense, because that is what they need the most.
Think about it. Do this for five people and maybe they will pass it on to five people and we may be able to "self-educate" the dolts who are mesmerized by a socialist!
At least this way they can't say no one ever told them!
John II| 7.1.09 @ 10:55PM
Sue: That old adage about the horse and water recalled to my vagrant memory Stan Laurel's characteristic (in their two-reeler short "Brats") mangling of the thought: "Remember: You can bring a horse to water, but a pencil must be le(a)d."
Allow me an extrapolation. If things continue as they are precipitately going (after the warm-up exercise that started roughly with the preposterous Kennedy administration--and the same acolyte press coverage we see with the Obamanation), Laurel and Hardy will be banned as assuredly as Fox News and Tom Clancy novels and conservative talk-radio. The middle ground has been ground to dust by the lefty inculturation of the past half-century. There are only two possibilities for the rather near future, and the worse possibility is quickly becoming reality.
Maybe all this ranting in the TAS commentary sections is the beginning of an underground.
Big J| 7.1.09 @ 11:08PM
Sue: Good job. I doled out 4 copies of L & T, but mostly to conservative friends / family. I know it's preaching to the choir, but have you found any liberals willing to actually read it? If they were interested in an opposing view, they probably wouldn't be liberal.
Anyway, Texican has it right. Go to the next Tea Party. This is our last hope for peacefully taking our country back (aside from the 2010 elections, if they are not rigged by ACORN and their ilk).
Apparently, calling our Rep's isn't working, or else this stupid tax bill wouldn't have passed.
Seigfreid, when are you going to wake up to the fact that it's not about R's or D's? It's about FREEDOM, baby. Party lines have nothing to do with it. If I'm not mistaken, there were no parties on July 4th, 1776 (tea maybe?). Just a bunch of freedom-hungry Americans that were fed up with tyranny. If you agree, why are you so argumentative on this site?
Our government has gotten too big for it's britches. When I was growing up, that attitude earned you a spanking. When it got really bad, I got a really "good" spanking. You know, the kind that seriously impaired your ability to sit down for a few days.
That's what MOST of our Representatives and Senators are "cruisin" for at the moment - a bruisin.
Tea first. Hopefully, there won't have to be a consideration for what comes next.
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Dave Lincoln| 7.1.09 @ 7:19AM
"McCain is a strong supporter of cap & trade, and campaigned on it. "
So, what's your point, Sigfried? Conservatives don't like him either.
In Response, yes John McCain is dead wrong for supporting the cap and trade suicide bill also - coming from a Conservative / Republican.
I think Senator, McCain would've been a better choice for President as he has vastly more experience than comrade President Obama.
Country Boy| 7.2.09 @ 2:29AM
If McCain were a true statesmen, at the first televised Presidential debate, he would have taken his long form birth certificate out of his pocket, shown it to the TV camera, and demanded that obama do the same at the next debate.
There's a lot of ex-POWs out there. They all have our respect, but that doesn't make them eligible for POTUS.
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Gail S | 7.2.09 @ 12:49PM
None of this is about global warming or jobs, it is about plundering the American economy and culture to make room for 3rd world nations, that Obama believes with all of his itty bitty heart are suffering solely becuase of evil Americans and evil America.
Best wishes to all,
Gail S
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USA Scorekeeper| 7.4.09 @ 10:13PM
Gail S, clueless. Thanks for trying.
anonymous| 7.6.09 @ 9:15PM
No, cap and trade does not raise the price of energy. It puts a price on emissions of greenhouse gases, which currently are unpriced despite the fact that humanity does indeed incur a cost because of them, and this cost is not paid just by the emitter, but by everyone who is effected by the emissions. In other words, the market has failed to accurately price greenhouse gas emissions, and cap-and-trade attempts to fix this failure.
anonymous| 7.6.09 @ 9:16PM
How dare the gommint try to enforce property rights.
Texas Dar| 7.8.09 @ 6:24PM
First Off.............. ThAre is no "R Party" & no "D Party" Goverment quit back in 1912.
I keep warnning people to watch these clips and you will know that its us agunist them. Please take the time, and you will understand.
Im giving you 2 that sums it up. I have many-many more proof to back me up. I agree its time to ack. Talking about it only will slow us down.
Clip one...........................
http://editorialdigest.com/videos/obama-dec.html
Clip two...............................
http://www.aunetwork.tv/
The only way to stop them is to take them out. Voting wont work and you will see why in the clips.
Stop paying tax's will only in-part work. Employers have to take out so much, but that would help if we all kept as much as we can out of our pay-check.
Then not paying any more would send them a message.
BUT, The only thing that would work is if "EVERY-BODY VOTED" NEXT YEAR WITH A "Pink-Slip"....................... No Body tough the voteing machine.
My wife was told to clean out yr desk and go home. If you refuse we will start Legale Proseddings agunist you. You job has been elmitatied.
Were now just 2 pay checks away from losing our cabin. We put them thAre, we have the right to fire them too.
I will post the link to Fire Then All In 2010 site later. "PLEASE"..........."PLEASE"..........."PLEASE" TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THE CLIPS.
If you dont you are so lost and clue-less to whats about to happen. Tex !
Texas Dar| 7.8.09 @ 6:29PM
SORRY.......The AUN link you need to watch all 5 under You wount see this in the news.
If all of us handed them a pink slip and told them to clean out thier desk, they would for the first time be controled by We The People once again.
Texas Dar| 7.8.09 @ 10:14PM
Ponder This Thought for a Moment.................
There is One Type of Total Gun Ban that We Need, Jefferson Would Agree, and It’s the Key to Bringing Back 1776
Jeffrey Grupp
July 8, 2009
What I have to say in this article may deeply anger or enrage many who read it. But what I have to say is no more than a rewording of this miraculous passage from Thomas Jefferson:
“[E]very able-bodied freeman, between the ages of sixteen and fifty, is enrolled in the militia… The law requires every militia-man to provide himself with the arms usual in the regular service.”
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, Quivery IX
I think that very few Americans have thought deeply about this passage, what it’s really saying, and thus very few understand the ramifications of this passage—even those in the heart of the Truth Movement may not have thought about this passage deeply enough to really see that this passage may be the key to everything.
How is it the key to everything? You might think it is by the way this passage promotes Second Amendment issues. That is true, but that is not what I am getting at here. We already all know that. What this passage really involves is actually a far bigger issue, one that I think very few of us have noticed, amazingly.
Jefferson says that it is the ordinary citizens who are the militia. Jefferson does not say that it is certain government-VIP groups, or any other government groups, who are members of the militia. (These VIP groups are the police and military, which are “standing armies”, if armed or maybe even if unarmed, when they are amassed on US soil; and they are groups like the FDA or USGS or NSA. These are groups that are given elevated status over the level of citizen by big government. From what I can tell, this basic issue is anti-Jeffersonian and/or unconstitutional.) That is the key: it is the citizens, and definitely not any (unconstitutional) government-favored special groups, who are the militia: who are the real homeland security.
Jefferson’s passage at the start of this article clearly lays this out, and it requires that almost all of us rearrange our thinking in order to get back to a 1776 mental framework. I sense that even listeners of the Alex Jones Show may have this thesis I am presenting here hit them with a shock, like a ton of bricks, as if it’s a radical thesis. But that just shows us how far we’ve come from 1776, and how subtly we’re all still under the trickery of the New World Order, even if we think we are so enlightened since we are Alex Jones listeners, guns owners, and members of the Patriot movement. Ok, with the thesis laid out, now let’s see how this Jeffersonian vision works…
So, what does this all mean? What would it mean if we had a total weapon and total gun ban for on-duty police and for military and post-Constitutional government entities? What would really happen in such a scenario? Well, it must be something quite good for the people that happens, since governments worldwide fight against this sort of a scenario almost more than they fight against anything. But more specifically, it means that it is against the law, against the Founders, and against 1776, for on-duty police, military, and for the aforementioned post-Constitutional government entities (FDA, CIA, EPA, Dept. of Education, etc.) to possess firearms (including any projectile weapon, such as non-lethal weapons [tasers, etc.] or crossbows or longbows, microwave guns, etc.), since these big-government-favored groups are not part of the militia. That’s the key issue, and this is all very important; so let’s get this down pat in more detail.
How are on-duty police, military, and for the aforementioned post-Constitutional government entities (FDA, CIA, EPA, Dept. of Education, etc.) not part of the militia, in Jefferson’s philosophy? Here’s how:
These big-government-favored groups are elevated in power above the status of being an ordinary citizen, but Jefferson says it’s only those of the status of ordinary citizen who are part of the militia (who are gun owners), thus if you fall outside of this ordinary citizen group you are breaking the law if you own a weapon!
That is what Jefferson’s comments lead to, and if we explore the ramifications of this (as I am going to next), you will perhaps agree that this is Jefferson’s greatest, largest, and most critical issue for preservation of the Constitutional Republic. So let’s figure out why this issue—gun ban for on-duty police and for military and non-Constitutional government entities—is really the single issue we should focus on perhaps more than any other.
There are so many issues we members of the Truth and Patriot movements have to grapple with. If we want our country back, if we want back what Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Henry, and the rest of the Founders set up for us, where on earth do we start when we are in such an incredible quagmire today, where we have strayed so unimaginably far from the Founders’ Republic? We have to deal with pandemic hoaxes, GM food plagues, FEMA holocaust, secret government, false flag terror, government robot weapons, attempts by big government to destroy inalienable rights, vaccine holocausts, depleted uranium, and all the rest that infowars.com patriots are all too familiar with. It is perhaps a daunting task when we consider how much we have to deal with. But what if we could reduce all these issues down to one, single issue—an issue that’s power-source of all the others—wherein we could focus in on that one issue, obliterate it, and ipso facto, 1776 would be restored? That is precisely what is at stake in the aforementioned issue of pushing for a gun ban for on-duty police and for military and non-Constitutional government entities. This is a simple issue, a clearly definable issue, one that could easily get huge amounts of support since already 70 percent (or more) of Americans are pro-Second Amendment (and this is growing fast). So, let’s see why if we won that single battle of removing weaponry from government, military, and on-duty police, that all other things would fall into place.
Yes, that’s right, we need one type of gun control. We need gun control for on-duty police and any military and government officials who are on US soil (excluding Congress, the President, and perhaps the members of the Supreme Court, since they may be members of the militia, in Jefferson’s vision). This would include any group that even loosely resembled a standing army (such as privatized military forces like Blackwater) since they are unconstitutional, except for the one Constitutional standing army: the militia. In other words, on-duty police should banned from possessing guns, as should any government people in the military, FDA, CIA, and any of the other post-Constitutional monstrosities that we Americans have permitted to come into existence and control every aspect of us down to our consciousness. The way this would happen peacefully is if members of these big-government-favored groups deprogrammed from their brainwashing and voluntarily put down their arms in order to join this Second Amendment Jeffersonian revolution. I think getting this to happen is doable.
What will be the net effect of this? It would have such tremendous ramifications that it would bring us right back to the America that the Founders established for us. Consider how this works.
If we had unarmed police and military, we would have police and military that would be no threat to any gun-owner (“one man with a gun can control a hundred without one”). I cannot underestimate the importance of this. Eventually the balance of power would shift to such a degree that government would be under the control of the gun owners (of the Jeffersonian militia). Why? Because anyone out there who is in any way fired up about the Second Amendment knows that the feeling of owning a gun, carrying a gun, is so safe, secure, and free, that the joy it brings just blossoms within you in such a way that you glue on to that feeling of freedom almost as tightly as you hug your child. So, in other words, the gun owners would thrive and unite in their euphoria of freedom and Constitutionalism, by the feelings they have inside from carrying the gun. I can see this in a lower-level form when I am at the shooting range, at the gun shop. I can see it in the eyes, feel it in the hearts, of my fellow pro-Second Amendment friends, and there are a lot of them. As Alex Jones has said, protecting our Second Amendment is the one thing that millions will lay down everything and fight for right now. This is because the gun owner knows, feels, how the peace-of-mind of holding the gun is the key to freedom, as Jefferson and many of the Founders did too. Jefferson describes the issue most clearly:
As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks. Never think of taking a book with you. The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk; but divert yourself by the objects surrounding you. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
It is the gun, the Second Amendment, that gives freedom. Without it we are slaves; with it we can be like Jefferson on his walks, with a mind clear and liberated, unworried and free to philosophize. The feelings of freedom that gun owners employ would overflow if there was a gun ban for on-duty police and for military and non-Constitutional government entities. This is because it would instantly be the case that
1. The citizens would not have a powerful military or police force to fall back on and be dependent upon, and thus they would have to assume those responsibilities for themselves, and they would become the police and military, they would assume those roles: fathers would become protectors instead of TV-watchers, grandfathers would again take their grandchildren to the range, women would again recognize the urgency to carry a pistol wherever they go, and women would walk through parking lots at night without a shred of fear (a woman empowered, without fear: a feminism the fake feminists will never know). Again, in the current state of TV-addicted-America, this sounds odd to many who think dialing 911 is the key to safety, but again, I am just rewording what Jefferson has already said when he told that what I am writing about in this article is real homeland security: “…our attention should be fixed on the safety of our country. For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia [citizens] is their best security.” –Jefferson, Eight Annual Message, Nov. 8, 1888.
2. Without the illusion of “security” from the big government police and military forces, the citizens would not have a powerful military or police force to fall back on and be dependent upon, and thus they would feel that they have no protection—as if they are “naked in the wilderness”—citizens would in this case do what people always do: they would seek out protection, and the best protection, they would find, is the gun. There is already so much pro-gun fervor in America, that quickly after a disarming of on-duty police and of military and non-Constitutional government entities, there would be an overpowering zeitgeist in the air that the best protection is the gun (this zeitgeist already exists in America at a lower level, as it it’s just waiting to overflow). Consequently, those who are gun owners would amplify their devotion to their art, and those who are not would become passionate gun owners by the millions. We would quickly change from a helpless nation to a nation empowered.
Now, what I have described so far in this article is a blueprint for how we completely disempower the government, and radically empower the citizenry. And this all occurred from one little issue: institute a gun ban for on-duty police and for military and non-Constitutional government entities.
Notice: this is a single issue, not many issues. This is one issue that can solve all other issues. This is not like trying to do many things: it is not trying to reign in GM food, vaccines, and the Fed all at once. It’s a much simpler task: you just do one thing, which is disarm the big-government-favored groups. And if we all focused our energy on this one issue, we could get it done, and the rest of the 1776 cards would fall into place.
And here’s why this issue of disarming the big-government-favored groups is the issue that allows everything else about the New World Order to fall away, from vaccines to draft, to carbon tax, to ID chip. Here’s what America would look like with disarmed big-government-favored groups:
A. On the one hand, there would be the armed, patriotic America, which would consist of a mass of wide-eyed, passionate, happy gun owners (sort of like a vaster version of what I already see at a much smaller scale at the shooting range every Saturday), with confidence, character, and inner peace (as Jefferson described in a passage above), which would number in the hundreds of millions
B. And then on the other hand, there would be a completely unarmed government, numbering only a tiny fraction of those described in a.
The power is with A. And what about B? Well… B is, well, rather pathetic, isn’t it. We are, at any moment, incredibly close to this sort of a scenario, since there is only one thing we need to do to put this sort of a world in place: disarm on-duty police, disarm military on US soil (or maybe all military, at least for a time), and any other big-government-favored groups.
Just from this disarmament, A and B fall into place. Do you see what happens then, if A and B are in place? Government has no authority; gun owners are authority—they are government!
What do you think would happen if B tried to tell A that they can’t have a garden because they might plant pot in it? Yeah, I am laughing too! What do you think would happen if B told A that there was a draft, or that there were mandatory vaccinations for swine flu, or that Congress is being lobbied to “pass” a “bill” that robs the citizens blind (“bank bailout”)? Yeah, it’s a pretty funny scenario; almost like a zebra herd walking up to the lion prides to tell the lions to please stop eating them–or, almost like an American in the current situation, where the current American tries to “write their Congressman”. Even non-gun-owning (i.e., non-Constitutional) members of America are not really citizens, in this scheme of this article, and of Jefferson’s lawmaking, and they are at the wretched, disempowered level of B, more than they are of A.
So, in summary, there are so many issues we have to fight for, and we need to get more and more aware of all that is going on, but amid everything else we Truthers and Patriots are doing, we may want to think about launching a campaign, with more energy and persistence and passion than anything we have ever done, to fight for this one single issue: a gun ban for on-duty police and for military and non-Constitutional government entities, in order to have the chain of events outlined in this Jeffersonian treatise carry out. This is a doable project, since it is a single project, a clear and easy-to-understand project that will make all people feel as empowered as one of the Patriots in the Revolutionary War. Looking at our plight with this issue above all others can give us a means to win this victory against the satanic New World Order, and can give us hope, inspiration, drive, and rebirth, resembling the Minutemen of the Republic.
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