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Red, White & Republican
The latest on conservative personality disorders.
Lost in all the debt ceiling hubbub are a few stories which, at first glance seem odd but on further reflection are downright bizarre. One such of these was a report by researchers at Cornell University that purports to show that exposure to the American flag causes “voters of all political persuasions [to] shift toward conservative Republican attitudes and voting behavior… even for Democrats, being exposed to the flag a single time pushes them toward the opposite end of the ideology scale.”
Now, I usually don’t attach much credence to this sort of psychobabble, except that similar eggheads at Harvard have also been studying up on this most disturbing trend. They found that, “To the extent that there is a political congruence between the patriotism promoted on Fourth of July and Republican beliefs, celebrations in Republican dominated counties may be more politically biased occasions that socialize children into Republicans.” Great choice of words from the folks at the liberal headquarters of America.
Were one to accept the findings of these august members of the academic world, there would be cause for great rejoicing in conservative circles; particularly over the news about the grand old flag and the Grand Old Party. Alas, however, recent events have shown that it doesn’t seem to do much good hanging majestically in the House or Senate chamber.
What is intriguing though, is the motivation behind these studies. Because they expose the tremendous anxiety of liberals when confronted by American patriotism, they reveal more about the observers than the observed. Because, in the main, liberals are ashamed of our country and all that it has represented and all that represents it: mainly our military and our flag.
In a way, the flag symbolizes much of what the left hates about this nation. After all, each of the fifty stars on a single blue field represents both the sovereignty of the individual states and “E pluribus unum;” out of many, one. Noxious notions like this — especially when expressed in “dead” languages associated with dark religious forces — strike fear into the hearts of multi-culturalists everywhere.
Even the colors of the flag are cause for concern amongst those who despise what it stands for: purity, vigilance and valor. No, in modern America, liberal hearts do not beat true for the red, white and blue. As the boys from Harvard put it:
According to this literature, Fourth of July is a day that provides a context for the celebration of an American civil religion organized around flags, parades, and the Constitution.… [T]here is evidence that the political right has been more successful in appropriating American patriotism and its symbols during the 20th century.
But these absurd observations do not only emanate from ivy-covered walls. A quick internet search on “American flag symbolism” turns up gems like this from an avowed “secular humanist” who insists that our love for our flag is a “fetish”:
Some Americans’ fetishism for their flag is demonstrated by a near-obsessive, ritualistic manner in which they insist it be treated. Their behavior is more consistent with how people treat religious icons: obsessions about proper folding, never letting it touch the ground, not allowing it to fly after sunset, and so forth. When people treat common objects like this, we say that they suffer from a mental imbalance — obsessive-compulsive disorder, to be exact. When they treat religious objects like this, we simply say they are devout. What are we to say about someone to treats a flag this way? Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that those who insist on doing so are also often highly religious. Perhaps we are simply witnessing different manifestations of an underlying personality disorder.
So there you have it: love of the flag, which represents our cherished way of life, by those who also love and worship the God who granted us these blessings, is now considered a “personality disorder.” It’s not hard to imagine the next step in a country where sexual perversion is glorified while God’s name dare not be spoken in a public place. Those of us who espouse these views are called haters by liberals who fear the power of religion and patriotism, while those who died to defend it are labeled terrorists by our own government.
And so the need for these studies emphasizes the left’s continuing and growing trepidation that exposure to things American might spur voters on to act like, Americans. This cannot be tolerated by those who hold a virtual monopoly of the media and educational outlets in this country; the notion that a glimpse of Old Glory might awaken a deep love of country in the bosoms of so many sleeping patriots, is a nightmare of the most dire proportions.
And to top it all off, there’s that awful song; you know, the one that glorifies jingoism, war-mongering and allegiance to a mere symbol of a disordered and dangerous religious fetish:
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust;”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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gearjammer| 8.4.11 @ 7:48AM
I live in a liberal area, near Brown University in Providence, R.I. On the fourth or any other day, you see next to zero flags flying, and not much at Christmas, though the light show has more cross over appeal. These people are progressives and if you talk and debate with them you find they are more rigid and stubborn than any right winger. It is sad to see how they raise their sons. That is if they even decide to have children. No roughneck, adventerous boyhoods allowed. I think some compensate later with kayaking in dangerous waters, rock climbing. A few play rugby. For most it is the arts. A few truly break away and go into the military or become bankers. Their parents often become perplexed-" he was such a creatve child", I have heard more than one lament. Most of these people are quite financially secure-not totally rich but they have money. Many have inherited some significant sum, enough to indulge their fantasy view of the world. Many work in bloated academia. They think they are bullet proof. You open up a small business in Providence, say a coffee shop and are slapped with a stiff inventory tax. You pay more in taxes on your coffee maked than Brown and RISD do on their masssive billion dollar art collections. Of course these non taxed places like Brown etc, with no taxes hire and pay alot of people who frquent the coffee shops. You point out that this is " supply side" economics and they bristle. What frauds.
Mike Hawk| 8.4.11 @ 8:07AM
Why are us so-called "right wingers" (a term I detest) called rigid and stubborn?? Is it for our belief in Liberty and a stubborn Patriotism??? Is it for our rigid belief in individual freedom and responsibility??... or is it for the rigid and stubborn belief that the Constitution is the foundation of a free people. Centers of Liberalism like Berzerkley and Providence are the bases of rigid and stubborn ideological hatred. Not main stream America where the "right wingers" reside and thrive.
gearjammer| 8.4.11 @ 6:16PM
Dear Mike stubborn and rigid is still insisting Engle and O'donnell were great senatorial candidates.
soljerblue| 8.4.11 @ 9:06PM
Engle sure gave Hawey Weed a run for his -- and the unions' -- money.
gearjammer| 8.5.11 @ 10:13AM
You'd have had Senator Tarkanian and Reid would be pruning his fig trees. Hey. you are a conservative absolutist-rather lose than be a little pragmatic. Imagine a Clinton-Obama supreme supreme court-bye bye America. But, you were true to your principles-your oh so sacred conservative principles, insane.
donserge| 8.4.11 @ 7:55AM
During the upcoming election season one may be challenged to find an American flag in the background when Obama or any Democrat is speaking. Either that or they may try replacing the "star field" with a capital D.
Mike Hawk| 8.4.11 @ 8:02AM
Remeber the last couple of Democrat conventions?? The American flags had to be retrieved from the trash.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 11:08AM
Gee, I must have missed that at the convention in Denver I attended as a delegate. Especially since I still have the American flags we waved from the floor.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.4.11 @ 12:35PM
RCV,
You are merely a liar, and a communist operative.
You're slick...but not slick enough.
You consider yourself one of the "nomenklatura".
You have obviously made a great living...screwing the American people.
There is not ONE thing you could say...or write... that would change that.
We that provide "goods and services" have FINALLY figured it out. (heh).
You are toast Sen'or. I look forward to seeing you over open sights....coward.
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 1:46PM
Gets tiresome doesn't it? We just cannot suffer these fools gladly.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 2:09PM
You, Ken, are an alcoholic joke.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.4.11 @ 3:49PM
I don't bother with silly questioning my patriotism as devout churchgoing Christian Constitutional expert lawyer delegating for the party in support of abortion and homosexuality and class warfare coveteousness and unequality under the law and redistribution of wealth and nonrepresentative mandatory regulations on c'mon guys at least I waved a silly American flag DURING the convention that led to so much national possibly irreparable damage and just being an all round snake so don't tread on me matters.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 4:23PM
Maybe you think American flags are silly, Mr. Vomitus. Not me.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.7.11 @ 2:54PM
I don't bother with silly sanctimonious American flag waving as I simultaneously foist upon the nation the one who radically transforms the nation into a socialist tyranny no patriotic American would ever remotely recognize on how many readers want my little silly flag shoved where all my brilliant insights emanate matters.
Lillith| 8.4.11 @ 10:52PM
RCV: People would take your thoughts more seriously if you used a little grammar. You know, commas, periods, that kind of thing. It looks like one random stream of unfocused thought. Do better.
Louis Jenkins| 8.4.11 @ 8:16AM
No small wonder American flags are getting harder to find. All of them are made in China these days. And yes, they are being eschewed in the public forums and at government level functions.
Career Soldier| 8.4.11 @ 8:45AM
Oh baloney! Many, many US flags are made right here at home, by pride filled Americans! And many, many, many of them are on display across the midwest and the central US, where we live our values. Thanks be to GOD!
maximumrandb| 8.4.11 @ 9:44AM
You're right, CS, they are made right here in Verona, New Jersey at the Annin Flag company on Bloomfield Ave.
Skippy| 8.5.11 @ 6:19PM
I must have missed Verona.
The blazing neon lights of West Caldwell blinded me temporarily...
Essex Co.!
soljerblue| 8.4.11 @ 9:09PM
AND the South, CS. Always the South.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 8.4.11 @ 8:27AM
The Left in general aren't very Patriotic!! They hate the Flag, and what it stands for, or at least they're highly embarrassed by it!! They probably hate Apple Pie and Baseball too (and most likely puppy dogs). That's one of the reasons why I think that Liberals hate the Military in general. The Military promotes Patriotism, and attracts Americans who are very Patriotic. Which is the main reason the Democrats don't care if Military votes aren't counted or not in Elections, because they know those votes won't go their way anyway. Now don't get me wrong here, not "all" Democrats are un-Patriotic, because I serve with plenty of them, and these ones bleed Red, White and Blue (but I think they're just the leftover types from days gone by, the ones that used to hate the Commies back in the day). The Democrats that "are" un-Patriotic are those leftover 60's radicals (now running Washington), and their deaf, dumb, and blind minions. These ones that are dragging us down the road to Socialism, and the Flag represents our Republic, and they're trying their best to undermine and replace our Constitution, and the Flag represents all of that. So call me a true believer if you will, but I start my day saluting the Flag, and I think it one of the best traditions the Military has. When I'm done serving, I intend to continue to start my day the same way, just like my Dad does now, by raising the Flag first thing every morning. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree (the same type of apple, by the way, that makes up a good Ole American Apple Pie)?
It's also the reason why the Left hates the Tea Party too, they just can't stand it when Patriots get together to defend such silly old notions like the Constitution, and the American Flag. It drive them crazy!! And they don't know how to stop it!!
Psst!! You can't!!
Michael L. Hauschild| 8.4.11 @ 9:00AM
The words "Tea Party" did not appear in the article, I might have missed it but I read it twice. How strange, if one want to see American Flags go to a Tea Party event.
Ohiolad| 8.4.11 @ 11:19AM
Basically, those on the progressive left do not think that the country is worth defending. If, God forbid, we ever were to be attacked they act as if they would be ready to either flee the country to save their sorry as**s or capitulate and go over to the other side.
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 2:41PM
The country is suffering an invasion- from our southern border- and the federal government responds by suing the states attempting to stop it. What became of the federal enumerated power to protect the states from invasion? Remember when Pancho Villa invaded and what the response was then? And that was Woodrow Wilson.
Petronius| 8.4.11 @ 8:33AM
Rush has this one pegged. Liberals are the establishment now. Ergo, social recognition and any type of validation comes from them. Doing it yourself is an affront to their cultural hegemony.
JimP| 8.4.11 @ 8:38AM
So the political right appropriated patriotism in the 20th century, eh? These brainiacs sure don't know history. All those WWII vets with their parades, fireworks and reverence for the flag voted Democrat in the majority. Has Harvard ever heard of LBJ? The kids of those WWII vets voted Dem too in the majority, until Jimmy Carter came along and then in 1980 they started to switch..... The stupidity of the Ivy League 'elites' is so great that it is laughable.
Mimi| 8.4.11 @ 9:11AM
I was fortunate to be given a Huge FLAG at my veteran husbands funeral. It stayed in the triangle folded state until....September 11, 2001.
Minutes after the second plane hit the World Towers.......I hung the flag across the front of my house high on a hill outside of a small town in N.Y.
I used it again when my grandson returned home to his base after serving in the Iraq war! Since 9/11 a flag is in front of any place I live.
The flag is AMERICA as hard as the NEW WORLD ORDER and Liberalism tries they cannot erase the intrinsic nature of LOVE of COUNTRY!
Maddox| 8.4.11 @ 10:34AM
Thank you for sharing that with us Mimi. You are and inspiration in trying times!
Skippy| 8.5.11 @ 6:23PM
I broke the seal on my uncle's burial flag last month. The box had never been opened.
It had been mailed to his parents after he was interred in Italy in 1945.
It was made in America too.
Gary B| 8.4.11 @ 9:20AM
Mr. Fabrizio said, "[T]here is evidence that the political right has been more successful in appropriating American patriotism and its symbols during the 20th century."
Maybe so, but the political left has been more successful in appropriating the services of the press and the judiciary.
simon templar| 8.4.11 @ 9:56AM
Something struck me while reading this brillaint article. I felt as if a line was crossed, a point of no return. I think some of you know what I mean. This is a bit difficult to articulate.
Most of us have lived through a significant part of the twentieth century and have witnessed the various attacks on this country and the slow and insidious attacks on our liberties, our way of live, and our institutions by a segment of our own society. To a great extent, we have tolerated a large amount of this self hatred for country and the narratives that this segment has struggled to tell under the idea that free speech and the toleration of all sorts of opinions needed to be protected. What do we have here? The very same segment that is now attempting to brand the most basic of expressions and the very heart of expression of love for ones nation, its ideals, and its very existence as a personality disorder.
That's is it. I think I have had enough..what about you? The moment has arrived. The line crossed. I will no longer tolerate but forcefully and consistently respond to this attack on patriotism and all its forms, hereafter. It will not go unnoticed nor will it be ignored. The vileness and traitorous aspects of this will be challenged and exposed.
YeloStalyn| 8.4.11 @ 12:15PM
Abraham Kuyper (an old PM of the Netherlands) once said:
"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, battle is your calling and peace is become sin."
I don't agree with everything he stood for, but he understood that accomodation, pacification, and toleration where the traits of those without conviction.
InLineFour| 8.4.11 @ 2:19PM
G. K. Chesterton: "Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."
Great minds think alike, Yelo, and you are evidently blessed with one.
YeloStalyn| 8.4.11 @ 3:24PM
I LOVE Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday". My favorite book of all time. In fact... the only book I've read more than twice. And I'm by no means an avid reader.
POST American| 8.4.11 @ 10:19AM
" The Republican pimps, Mitch Mc-CON--ALLLL
and John Boehner make me even sicker than
Obama. They make me want to throw up."
-ALEX JONES
(yesterday)
-----------WHY Alex Jones is now the press.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 8.4.11 @ 11:24AM
Umm, I think you might be Alex Jones' only viewer!! I've never heard of him, is he on CurrentTV? That would explain why I've never heard of him before, my cable box doesn't go that high.
C Smith| 8.4.11 @ 10:26AM
And to top it all off, there's that awful final stanza that "Christian" schools would never consider singing at a football game. Yet they gutlessly wine and cry about not being able to pray in the schools. Christian schools have forgotten the Lord:
"I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust" (Psalms 91:2).
"In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me" (Psalms 56:4).
"Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God" (Psalms 20:7).
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 12:11PM
I have always found the fourth verse to be my favorite. It expresses so well the meaning of sacrifice and of courage as well as pointing out from whence comes our strength. Is this still "the home of the brave"?
Gary| 8.4.11 @ 11:02AM
I wonder if these yahoos studied the "civil religion" of tree huggers who worship at the altar of the enviornment and now are shoving all their beliefs down the throats of school children. Of course THEIR beliefs are fine, only patriots are deranged.
OldSeabee| 8.4.11 @ 11:39AM
If love of country and the Flag is being labeled a "mental disorder", then I am a crazy old man who votes. After Obama became president, I saw a group of motorcyclists who were proudly flying the flag of...the Soviet Union! I know which group is mentally deranged, and Obama is their leader. I can't wait for Nov. 8, 2012 to arrive so I can listen to his concession speech.
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 12:09PM
Why does the administration and its handlers keep Mrs. Obama so quiet? Is it because she was honest enough to admit she had never been proud of her country?
I for one would like it if someone (maybe RCV) would provide us a list of just what America (Amerika, AmeriKKKa) should be despised for.
YeloStalyn| 8.4.11 @ 12:21PM
We rejected government control over the individual.
... and all the good things that came of that.
It just really pisses liberals off that they weren't allowed to control other people.
Sadly... they get to do exactly that AND still bitch about the US. Go figure.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 2:50PM
America, Al Adab, is the greatest nation on earth and is not despised, but admired by people all around the world
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 3:44PM
But RCV, that's not what the President says.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.4.11 @ 5:15PM
Al Adab.............RCV is merely a liar hired to wage "lawfare" against Americans.
Be of good cheer, however. In the final analysis, he is a coward.
I look forward to making his kids' time at Haaaaarvard a nightmare....of reality.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 5:24PM
You look forward to a lot of things, Ken. All of them fantasies, which is what your life consists of ... and regret that that clown in Norway had the guts to act out your own fantasies, while all you do is sit and moan on a computer board.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 5:34PM
You're hitting that bottle pretty hard today, Ken. You might want to go and sleep it off.
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 6:44PM
After a day like this a nice bottle of 16 year old Scottish barley water might be just the thing. Perhaps Laguvulin or Laphroigh.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.4.11 @ 11:39PM
Al Adab,
I wish I had had a drink.
RCV...............
is simply a coward and a liar.
His kids will have to grow beans and such. (tee hee).
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 5:31PM
Al Adab, I must have missed that from the President, even though I get his daily e-messages.
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 6:47PM
Oh you remember during the campaign about how America had lost respect around the world and we needed to restore it. What do they think of us on the Arab street, etc. ? And of course what started this all off Mrs. Obama's "I've never been proud of my country before." Or whatever the exact words were.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 7:00PM
She's explained what she meant, Al Adab, and it made sense to me anyway. And we had lost a bit of respect around the world, and yes, I think it has been greatly restored. I think most people around the world see the US as on the side of liberty and against despotism.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.4.11 @ 3:53PM
I don't bother with silly incongruity of doing everything in my power to cease the nation's exceptionalism and admiration on the irony my devout churchgoing Christian Constitutional lawyer expert exceptionalism is universally anything but admirable matters.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 4:24PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Al Adab| 8.4.11 @ 4:47PM
RCV:
We do agree on the ZZZZ comment.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 5:32PM
Thanks. I hope that whoever it is who puts out that drivel realizes how universally annoying everyone finds his posts. Be well.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.7.11 @ 2:59PM
I don't bother with silly universal annoyance on abhorring conservatism of the tea party brand an ideology wholly lacking in intelligence and a shred of real Christian love and compassion that espouses know nothing policies dangerous and damaging and detrimental to our country matters.
Mike 3/505| 8.4.11 @ 12:41PM
I just recently moved. First thing that goes up...even before I put beer in the fridge...is a flag on the front porch.
Regards,
Mike
Ron| 8.4.11 @ 12:56PM
I fly a flag on the porch, year, round, and in inclement weather, I store it, properly folded in the neat triangle, blue field on top. But, I also have my country's flag handing in the dining room area, and always have.
The flag of the United States of America is a work of art, the most beautiful symbol of what our country once was, and G-D willing, what it will be again.
To those who do not feel the need to defend (as I did) our country, or denigrate it, then please, do us all a favour and leave. I do believe in the rights of free speech (which I vowed to defend), but really, if these United States have been so horrible to you and yours, then, please go. My wishes for your happiness elsewhere go with you, Mr. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Reid, Mr. Sharpton, Mssr. Jackson, Lady Kaka (excuse me, Gaga) et al.
Joe D.| 8.4.11 @ 12:59PM
I feel for these people. God said woo to anyone calling evil good and good evil. This explain a liberal/socialist to a tee.
DRed| 8.4.11 @ 2:18PM
I have a flag. One that flew over the Capitol, actually. Not that I have anywhere to fly it, but when I do, I will.
Nick| 8.4.11 @ 3:04PM
DRed,
You might have to sell it, thanks to the birthday present Wall Street is giving O'Bama today!
What an incompetent boob!
DRed| 8.4.11 @ 5:14PM
It seems the markets really didn't like your debt ceiling demands. Obama's fault, I'm sure.
RCV| 8.4.11 @ 5:33PM
The markets worldwide are reacting to the shaky state of European finances, which are near collapse.
Nick| 8.4.11 @ 11:38PM
DRed,
Yeah, what RCV said!
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 8.4.11 @ 6:34PM
Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been accused of attempting to suppress Democratic voter turnout in the Wisconsin Senate recall elections.
Patch.com reported that Charles Shultz, a Democrat who lives in the 10th Senate District, received an absentee ballot application form last week from AFP that contained incorrect information on it. The form instructed him to mail it back to the wrong location by Aug. 11 -- two days after the recall election in his district between Sen. Sheila Harsdorf (R) and Shelly Moore (D) is set to take place, on Aug. 9.
Politico obtained a copy of the AFP mailer, which was also distributed to voters in the 2nd District.
The Wisconsin Democratic Party filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the state's Government Accountability Board over the issue, accusing AFP of "falsely representing the time frame" for the upcoming August 9 recall election. Shultz filed his own complaint with the GAB on Saturday.
AFP may also be getting involved in the increasingly heated ad wars that have been leading up to the recall elections. According to One Wisconsin Now, AFP has reportedly purchased over $150,000 in television ad time in the Green Bay, Madison and Milwaukee areas.
Skippy| 8.5.11 @ 6:31PM
Great stunt!
I like it!
David| 8.4.11 @ 6:34PM
Bam Bam is very likely to be awarded a second term by the same folks gave him his first term. As someone else said, if most voters were dumb enough to give him a first term, why would a second surprise you? He has 15 whole months to bamboozle the American people with the help of the MSM. How many people will FEEL that they just can't turn out the first black prez after one term? More than any of us think.
PCP Smoker| 8.4.11 @ 7:47PM
To hell with Harvard and the usual RINOS at the American Spector. I'm rearing my children to be Reagan conservatives. No, no Ron Paul kooks and drug users. Free market, strong defense, respect for our institutions, and a sense of pride in America.
soljerblue| 8.4.11 @ 9:16PM
"[T]here is evidence that the political right has been more successful in appropriating American patriotism and its symbols during the 20th century."
Only because the left with its haters and hatred of anything American -- and especially the first symbol of America -- have abandoned all belief in the country that gave them birth, freedom, success, political power and riches. Conservatives understand what the Flag means, and the sacrifices that made the Nation it stands for. So, of course it reinforces our beliefs.
Liberals and the left stand for failure -- the failures of power, of godlessness, of selfishness, not to mention hatred of individual choice, fear
of economic freedom, and political expression they disagree with. This is why they hate the Flag -- because it symbolizes everything they are not, everything they despise, and every failure they stand for.
POST American| 8.5.11 @ 12:18AM
-------------------BOTTOM LINE--------------------
NOT going to change --IN FACT it's engineered
to be getting much, much, much worse as Globalist-RED China sellout and TREASON must hide the scandal of its plunder.
Keep NOT seeing what's happening kiddies!
Keep worshipping the rectrum of what is.
-------------O'Reilly's stale beer
------------------Playoffs n' porn
------------------------JUST KEEP A GOIN'!
Bill| 8.5.11 @ 9:25AM
JUST KEEP A-GOIN' WITH THE TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE!
POST American| 8.7.11 @ 11:46PM
--------------SUMMER VIEWING LIST---------------
John C. Coleman (Fmr MI6)
5 pt interview on Tavistock
(guess word's spreadin' like wildfire
---Youtube censored it becuase of
surging DEMAND)
ALAN WATT ---The LONG History of EUGENICS
and
'The Culture Creation Industry'
(Google Videos)
WILLIAM STILL 'The Money Masters'
(Google video)
Multiple viewing desirable
ENDGAME InfoWars
(Google videos)
esp. the second half
INVISIBLE EMPIRE Jason Bermas
(Google videos)
------THE TRUTH IS UNSTOPPABLE------