Tempus Fugit

 Tempus Fugit

       As we grow older we begin to notice that the passage of time seems to accelerate and holidays we once waited interminably for sneak up on us before we're really ready for them.   We put up a new calendar in January and before we know it twelve months have flown by and a new one must take it's place.

       Anniversaries come and go with regularity during our passage through time.   Some we remember easily while others have a tendency to elude us.  Various calendar dates we would like to remember somehow become bunched together like numbers in a hat that are pulled randomly.  Writing them down was one aid we used not so long ago.  However, the passage of time and advances of technology allow us to digitally store them in a variety of hand held devices that once only existed in science fiction media.

       In fact we have witnessed a rapid progression of technology in the past 50 years that have no match in any previous historical period.  In 1966 computers were still massive electronic devices that occupied air conditioned rooms that could well have held three or four large school classrooms.  Today a simple cellphone small enough to fit in a shirt pocket holds far more computing power (at least 12,000 times more powerful than ENIAC) than the mainframes of the 1950's and 1960's.

      In a landscape that was once filled with television antennas there are now satellite dishes, cell phone towers and miles and miles of coaxial cable all delivering entertainment, news, sports and personal communications the likes of which have never been seen before.  World events are just a mouse click or stylus touch away on the device of our choosing.   But, sadly, none of this has served to join the world in a universal unity but rather has served to separate and isolate us.  The personal touch; the face to face communication has rapidly deteriorated among many who demonstrate an overwhelming reliance on an electronic opiate.

      However, the progression of events has been quite tumultuous over those same 50 years rife with armed conflicts between nations and ideologies that never seem to come to an end.  Rather than making progress in international relations,  the world continues to be assaulted on many fronts by both religious and political philosophies that continually drive wedges in any contemplated world unity.   Far too many seek to keep others enslaved to their "one true philosophy" in order to maintain the political control with which they have waxed fat on the backs of those who toil in the fields, factories and shops.  

        What can any single individual do to combat such division and enslavement?   Currently there is a crisis among the elite and their allies everywhere over the choice made by the citizens of the UK to restore their nations sovereignty, and that is what lies at the heart of the referendum.  Many of the older generation have seen the control they've enjoyed for so long escaping their grip like a catfish that gets out of the hands of a fisherman who isn't careful enough to avoid it's dorsal fin and winds up being painfully stung.

       The citizens of the United States of America can well relearn that in unity there is strength.  Enough strength to send the liberals a message that they want to end their enslavement by entrenched liberal politicians, and world organizations that have dismal records of achievement; that they are not going to let their hopes and dreams be torn asunder any longer.  The choices faced by the electorate are not the optimal best but it's a choice between a further enslavement to socialism or a chance to forever destroy the corrupt foundation upon which the Washington establishment rests. 

       The vote is the power of the people, their sovereign franchise, to choose but it's up to them to choose wisely and not be swayed by political promises that everyone is entitled to a cornucopia of riches without having to pay for them.  There is no such thing as a free lunch and there never will be.  All one has to do is look South to the country of Venezuela to see that socialism (redistribution of wealth as some call it) does eventually collapse, depending on the greed and corruption of those who gain authority  The voters of the United States have an opportunity to remove all such individuals from public office.  It's up to them whether they take it, or not. 

The Goals of Communism

Source: Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35January 10, 1963 Current Communist GoalsEXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESThursday, January 10, 1963 Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

 

An Essay - Will Our Democratic Republic Survive

This will interrupt the regular sequence for a message of great importance.

Of late I have been participating in the opinion portions of Fox News and Op-Ed Pages seeking to gain a better understanding of the forces at play in what has become a great debate of what is and what isn’t constitutional in the minds of many and of the frustration they experience when their elected officials refuse to listen to the electorate who chose them as delegates to represent them. There is, indeed, an alarming trend of late on the part of the current administration and of the Congress itself to subjugate the wishes and desires of their constituents by forging ahead with a bill that it is quite plain the majority do not wish to be enacted. They, in their hubris, are blinded with the majority they now experience and are determined to do exactly what they complained about when the opposition had the upper hand. So the cycle continues holding the people themselves hostage to their machinations.

I have found, thus, that there is a shadow on the land –a dark and insidious specter whose sinewy fingers seek to insinuate its way into our collective consciousness and becloud it so that we may not see the tyranny that is plainly in front of us - a cloud whose epicenter is Washington City. A false cloud of hope that has been decades in the making and one that feeds on our own winters of discontent and seeks to cultivate us so that it can eventually marshal us like pawns in a great chess game. It will not hesitate to sacrifice any of those pawns when the occasion calls for it, like a great chess master. As the historian, Barbara Tuchman stated, “every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.” We have arrived, mes amis, to that transition point.

Many seek to hitch their wagons to the yoke of this new ‘savior’ in the hopes that he will lead them to the land of milk and honey, the Utopia of legend, the fabled Garden of Eden or the Elysian Fields. These converts parrot the tag lines and credos of ‘hope’ insisting it is their ‘god-given’ right and they are indeed ‘entitled’ to it. Obama is their Messiah and Pelosi, Reid and others are his prophets, spreading his theology throughout the land and forging proposed canons that require conformity from the flock or else stipulate punishment for the heretic, the non-believer and those who will not conform, and penance for the parishioners who have committed a mortal sin. This is tyranny be it religion or politics. Little force is needed to control anyone once they are hoodwinked.

They use the fertile ground of rebellion against the policies of the previous administration that engaged this nation in multiple armed conflicts which lead, inevitably, to the deaths of many in a unique guerilla warfare that is extremely difficult to combat, for there is no sharply defined front or battlefield. We are in truth not fighting a nation but an ideology that has no artificial boundaries – a religious philosophy whose adherents embrace death. We, in the west, embrace life, so there is very little common ground for the diplomacy others give credence to.

Then there are those whose minds are not clouded with the darkness, who seek to influence those who have fallen into the shadow and are often frustrated in their attempts. They seek a savior of their own, one who will march into the temple and cleanse it of the defilers who reside there. It is difficult to combat those who have a yearning for a life free of labor and worry and a world free of conflict and unnecessary death and destruction and the slave masters who are eager to give them the illusion of such. Spiritual religions rely on mystery, magic and miracle. Political religions rely on the promise of Eden and Utopia and there are many who will accept those promises and would sell their very souls for such a place. They seek not to labor in the field but to savor the luxury they so envy in others who have worked and sacrificed to achieve. They have yet to discover that there are still those who seek to control the minds of others and insist that their own beliefs be adhered to – feelings of inferiority run rampant in such and it can lead to a pandemic neurosis in others like them. Those who pretend to lead thusly invariably come from a socialist academia filled with theories of how humanity is supposed to live and coexist with one another, many of which have long since been disproved. We shall always have among us the ‘haves” and the “have-nots”.

The Democrats say “My Way”. The Republicans say, “My Way”. It’s akin to an epic battle of the Titans or the forces of darkness and light vying for supremacy. I say there is a third alternative – Neither Way. Why should any of us have to choose between two untenable positions? There are those who seek a New World Order – a single unifying government. It may indeed come one day, but only when the people themselves embrace it, on their own terms and not on the terms of those seeking to reign over the minds of others. A day that a world peace will be at hand and society will have learned to deal with those who threaten the survival of humanity with a solution of the most stringent measures necessary.

I present this for what it is, a brief essay, one that is but part of a much larger work now in progress. And to those detractors who say this is long winded and of no logical veracity I can only say, “There are more things in this universe than are contemplated in the limited plenum of your philosophies.”

TINSTAAFL - History and Moral Philosophy

There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

First and foremost it should be clearly understood that to a scientist a law is immutable, irrevocable, inviolable and mathematically invariable, each discipline based on a rigorous mathematical formula.

In the realm of human endeavor, however, so-called laws created by humanity are changed constantly, revoked repeatedly, violated veritably every second of every day and are subject to constant interpretation by jurists based on the prevailing moral and judicial (i.e. political) philosophy and have absolutely no mathematical rigor.

In the annals of humanity these “laws” have been enacted by medicine men, tribal chieftains, emperors, conquerors, kings, depots, parliaments, amphictionic councils, legislatures and congressional delegations to name just a few. To what end? Why has humanity had this all consuming need to create myriad rules and regulations to govern their everyday life to no end? The Roman Catholic Decalogue was precise and concise and was originally geared for a specific culture but in the ensuing ages has become the so-called foundation for a complicated litany of statutes, ordinances, resolutions, canons and many other rules and regulations known by a host of names yet all lumped together under the label of “laws”. Why?

First, let us examine the so-called ‘law of Moses’. The first five ‘books’ of the Old Testament tell of the travails of the Jewish nation, those who believed in one god and called him YWH. In the book of Deuteronomy there are enumerated a number of tribal laws that were purportedly handed down from YWH. These included dietary laws, laws dealing with marriage and personal intercourse. Of course there were also religious laws that dealt with how one was to worship YWH and even detailed what one was to wear and how one was to act. Religion thus controlled every facet of one’s life. Why?

What had once been tribal custom was codified into the set of Judaic laws that prevail even today. The ban against eating pork, shellfish and other forbidden food products has a scientific basis that stems from the scientific principle of cause and effect. What causes illness and disease was to be avoided. One was not to place fish in a bowl that had been used for milk, or vice-versa. Why? The Hebrew’s were originally a nomadic people and the bowls they used were unfired crockery. They were quite porous. If one put milk into a bowl there would be residual traces of milk in the pores which if mingled with fish would case the fish to be tainted and food poisoning would result. With pork we know today that if its not cooked thoroughly there is the danger of trichinosis, from the trichina worm that is often found in the meat. The Hebrew’s, of course, did not have the facilities to cook pork properly, thus the ban.

So, we have an inkling as to why these ‘laws’ were enacted, and what better way to enforce them than to claim they were the ‘word of god’. Enforcement of ‘laws’ has always been a problem faced by rising cultures. That’s why enforcement was originally handled by the medicine man, shaman, or religious leaders. Yet, this practice eventually led to corruption of authority and led to many abuses.

When the American Colonies were established by differing religious groups it was not for religious freedom as the history books often claim. Rather, it was to establish their own religious dictatorships. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the colony of Massachusetts founded by the Pilgrims. They brooked no opposition to their teachings and punished severely or banished anyone who thought or acted otherwise. They even went so far as to believe in witches and developed quite unusual punishments to deal with those they perceived to be practitioners of the dark arts. It was such punishments as these that the Constitution addresses when it speaks of ‘cruel and unusual punishments’.

But we have still not addressed the reason why ‘laws’ were created. What is the basis for these rules and regulations? Let us be analytical and apply a bit of logic to determine the reason. Some would say ‘safety’ but that doesn’t account for a variety of factors. Safety of who – of the people, the family, the state, the nation or the world itself?

No, there is something even more basic than safety. Just what is it? What is the basic reason?

Let us look at humanity itself. What is the basic instinct of individuals? In fact, what is the only instinct of human beings? What is the basic motivation of humanity? In part two we will address this issue and demonstrate the fallacy of many human philosophies and how they adversely affected the history of humanity.

Let Freedom Ring Once more

My nom de guerre is Katherine Lee Jefferson and this is a declaration of war against all those who have usurped the delegated authority invested in them by the people and who have willfully violated their oaths of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Declaration of No Confidence

Inasmuch as it is never really necessary to rephrase a truism once it is stated I hereby restate the following from the Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

We, the people, find that this declaration has been subjugated by the present Congressional delegation to Washing City; that they no longer follow the will of the people who elected them to serve on their behalf and have, instead, elected to follow the wishes of their political party bosses and the dictates of the Chief Executive officer of these United States who himself has subjugated the will of the people to further his own self centered aims and desires.

They have re-interpreted the mandate of the last general election to force on the general populace programs that they do not desire and many tenets of which are against the underlying principles of the United States Constitution and the first ten amendments of same that are commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights.

They are not leading but pushing us toward a socialist framework that history has proven to be against the principles of a free and democratic society as laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution that relegates certain duties and responsibilities to the States that comprise the whole.

The current President has in effect consorted with the antagonists of this country and has been an aid and comfort to its enemies, compromised our national health and safety as well as its happiness.

He consults with individuals of dubious character who have historically showN that they are not in conformity with the best wishes of the majority of its citizenry.

He has placed the needs of his political party and certain monetarily influential groups above the needs and desires of its people.

He has interfered in the areas of State affairs that are not in the purview of Federal Authority.

He is not, in our considered assessment, a leader but a dictator who pushes his agenda with countless speeches filled with circumlocutions that, in effect, say nothing of any appreciable value but can be reinterpreted as the current administration sees fit to further their own agenda.

He has demonstrated by his actions that he is willing to interfere in the areas of everyday life that are not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and has set himself above the judgment of the citizenry, ignoring their legal and just appeals that he cease and desist in his courses of action that will result in harm to this country and its people.

The current Congressional delegation and the Chief Executive Officer have thus been marked by every act which may define a tyrant and thus are unfit to be the rulers of a free people.

We thus express a complete LACK OF CONFIDENCE in their current planed courses of action they profess to be taking on our behalf.

Therefore, I, the undersigned, being a legally authorized citizen and voter of the City of ________________, County/Parish of _________________, State of _______________ do hereby REVOKE any and all Powers of Attorney and Proxies that empower the current administration to act on my behalf in matters having to do with the happiness, health and well being of its people.

This done this ________ day of ___________, 2009.

(s) __________________________

Transmit same by United States Post, certified mail, to the attention of the President at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC and to your elected state Senators and representatives