R.S.F. America

I was privileged to attend one of the more than 700 Tea Parties held across America yesterday and, to paraphrase the acting president’s wife, “For the first time since November 4th I was proud to be an American!”

We heard speakers from 14 year old kids with mortgaged futures to the obligatory gaggle of politicians promising the usual “if elected” miracles. However, the speakers that moved me most were two naturalized American citizens: One who immigrated from the former Soviet Union and the other who escaped from Cuba. Both warned of the signs of impending tyranny we are witnessing from Washington and expressed fear of having “To go through it all again”. They moved me to the edge of tears, as I was later so moved while surrounded by an estimated 1500 fellow patriots singing, “God Bless America”. I don’t usually sing and guys from my generation don’t usually cry.

This was a local event, not one of the colossal affairs in New York, Chicago or Atlanta but I think very typical of the genuine grass roots movement that is so clearly confounding backers of the taxes and tyranny coming out of Washington. Masquerading as news media, the government’s public relations arm took first place gold in the “Rude and Crude” category and a silver in “I don’t get it”. Just watch this moronic, medal-winning performance by a member of the Communist News Network (CNN).

A few things are abundantly clear from these gatherings:

1. People are both frightened and angry — a powerful combination. It seems more people understand what’s really going on than I thought
2. The numbers of attendees at these Tea Parties are being underestimated and the events are being under-reported
3. While promoted as anti-tax/anti-spending events, the losses of freedom and incursions of big government into our lives are of, at least, equal concern
4. If ‘Bama-Socialist supporters don’t get it and provide a rapid change of direction in D.C., they’re on a fast track to a rapid exit of the current Congress in 2010, just for openers
5. These were gatherings of ALL perspectives, Left, Right, Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Independent — pick a label. The common thread was the overwhelming desire to keep America uniquely American and prosperous — and the feeling that we’re being driven down the wrong road

As one of the immigrant speakers astutely observed, “Communism or Socialism, it’s the same thing — because when you have one, the other always follows”. Taking into account drastic changes to our economy, destruction of the free market system, gigantic government growth and creation of elements like a militant National Security Force, the handwriting is on the wall for transition into a Totalitarian, Socialist State. Sorry ‘Bama, it’s not the change people wanted but you are unifying many of us, as you promised.

This is not Cuba, France, Russia or Germany. Americans will not sit idly by and watch our nation turned into a banana republic or see our rights disintegrate before our very eyes. How ever these Tea Parties are perceived, how ever they are reported, the importance of what actually happened yesterday can be found in the huge number of citizens rising up to stand against oppression; the silent majority is awakening to the call of freedom! You had to be there!

R.S.F.

Tuesday November 4, 2008 may well be the darkest day in the history of our great nation. The impossible happened: The blind and the ignorant joined forces with the deaf and the dopey to defeat liberty and freedom in America.

It wasn’t even close, which goes to show you how little attention most people paid to the realities that were everywhere but inside their mushy little craniums. The T.V. and tabloids did get one thing right…this was an historic event. Not since Germany in the late 1930s have so many, given up so much, so easily.

After singing a few choruses of the new president-elect’s praises, one commentator remarked, “We don’t actually know who he really is!” The other replied, “Ya. I guess we’ll have to wait ’til after January 20th to find out; we just don’t know that much about him.” Yes you do. You simply chose to look the other way like all the other sheep. What a terrific way to elect the most powerful man in the world! Sour grapes? You bet! I love this country; she has treated me well.

How interesting to read about the unbridled joy of so many foreign countries over the results of today’s election. Our close, warm, personal friends in Russia, Iran, Syria, et al cheer at our weakness. Meanwhile France, Germany, England, and so many others are ready to welcome us into their sheared Socialist flock with open arms. I have just one question: We’ve sort of made a career out of being the big dog on the farm. When the wolves start pawing at the sand in front of their gate, who’s going to save their butts this time…a listless America that lives in the same barnyard?

God bless us all. We’re going to need it. I’m going to bed.

R.S.F.

With all the evidence to the contrary, I’m amazed that some people still think we are voting between two candidates on Tuesday.  Make no mistake about it, we are choosing between two ideologies.  In truth, it will be a referendum on America’s desire for freedom.  Tuesday will be a commentary about whether the millions of Americans, who spilled their blood on battlefields and gave their lives for our liberty, wasted this precious gift on an ungrateful nation or if we will protect and defend the fruits of their sacrifice.

Just as I began working on what I hoped would be a particularly insightful article, I read a piece in Newsmax by Michael Reagan that expressed my thoughts precisely and with clear context.  I thought you should read it:

Obama’s ‘Change’ Is Socialism
By: Michael Reagan

The other day, I went to a Hollywood luncheon crammed with producers, directors, writers, and other film industry notables.

One of them, Larry Gelbart of “MASH” fame, spoke telling the group that since capitalism has failed, why don’t we try socialism?

Try socialism? Take a sip of it and see how it tastes? It doesn’t work that way.

There’s an old saying that you can’t be half-socialist any more than you can be half-pregnant; get knocked up with a socialist fetus and you’ll have to deliver a full-born Marxist. There’s nothing in between. Try it, you’ll like it; and if you don’t, as the lads in the Gestapo used to tell people, they had ways to make them like it.

Larry Gelbart gorged himself at the capitalist table and came away with untold millions, now safely banked, and continues to collect even more millions from never-ending reruns of the “MASH” sitcom. Having made his bundle from our capitalist free-enterprise system, he seems to be telling us now that the rest of us should get in the socialist bread line and eat crumbs while he feasts on caviar.

One of the realities of this age is that the great mass of the American people haven’t traveled abroad to see how the rest of the world lives, a lot of it under dreary socialist regimes with stalled economies and no real chance for advancement for the ordinary citizen.

Moreover, our shoddy educational curriculum that has left most younger Americans so deficient in the study of history that vast numbers of them think George Washington was a Civil War general, or a lumberman who chopped down cherry trees. They have no real understanding of the economic system that allowed us to become the wealthiest and most powerful nation since the Roman Empire ruled most of the known world 2,000 years ago.

Given that mournful reality, the moment the economic Rolls Royce engine that drove this nation to the top of the hill stalls, instead of installing new spark plugs to get it going again, they go looking for an alternative mode of transportation.

In the present case, Obama and the Democrats are directing them to Larry Gelbart’s used-economic system lot where he shows them a jalopy with a fancy paint job on the outside and a one-cylinder motor inside that goes chug-chug.

Listening to the advice of a man who made his name and his money on a show about America’s military at war — yet told the same audience that our armed forces are nothing but “mercenaries” — doesn’t seem the smartest thing to do.

We are now a few days away from an election in which one of the presidential candidates is trying to sell that jalopy on Larry Gelbart’s lot and convince us that it is really a luxury limo that will get hundreds of miles to the gallon and carry us off to the promised land, where the rich will be impoverished and the middle class enriched and everybody will be deliriously happy.

Call Barack Obama’s program socialism, however, and he’ll swear on a stack of Qurans it isn’t. He calls it change. He says it’s fairness, not Marxism.

Oh?

How does he explain the proven fact that he has been wallowing in a sty surrounded by fervent socialists and sharing in their swill for most of his life?

According to Fox’s Bill Sammon, his messiahship recalled that when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles “to avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” he wrote in “Dreams From My Father,” his memoir. “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” And that was his milieu for all his years in Chicago.

To anyone familiar with socialism, Obama’s programs fit comfortably within the pages of Karl Marx’s playbook, the root of which is the redistribution of the wealth, the key to the entire Obamian vault.

What’s mine is yours, and he’s the middle man.

It’s socialism lite, and it can only evolve into socialism heavy. Remember, you can’t be half-socialist, and Barack Obama knows it.

The only questions I have are:  What the heck is a “Structural Feminist”?  Is this some kind of woman built out of an erector set or one who just looks that way?  The other, more serious question, has to do with Obama’s “careful choice of friends”.  As he tries desperately to distance himself from Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, Resco, Farrakhan, the Acorn group and the all the rest, is there any reason to believe he has recently stopped being as careful as he used to be with his choices?

On Election Day, will you cast your vote for America or for Obama’s Socialist tyranny?

R.S.F.