Agitprop President

For the longest time I've been raging at our President, Obama.  He lies regularly.  He will say anything and all the people I know have tuned him out.  What is going on?

Yesterday I was talking to an American citizen who migrated here from Russia.  While there, he worked as an artist creating agitprop art for the communist regime.  (It was a ho-hum job since the moral fervor for communism was long dead.)  That's when it occurred to me that Obama is not speaking to be believed.  He's speaking to create agitprop.

One thing everyone grants to Obama is that he's purposeful.  He works hard.  But, ironically, his purpose does not jive with one appropriate to a president looking out for his country.  In fact, quite the opposite.  So maybe this isn't his country.   

Race relations is one example.  Race has been a sensitive issue in America for a long time.  Actually in our day, I don't sense it is much of an issue - except that now it is purposely being aroused by the racebaiters - Sharpton, Jackson, and now other followers of their lead such as Oprah - and we are seeing that a new unsureness about what people of the other race are thinking.  Where before, we just got busy building trust between individuals, now we wait to see where they are first.  Do issues of skin color affect them?  Obviously it does us if we are waiting on a signal regarding that issue.  All of this uncertainty is being generated at will.

In the face of this, Obama (and Holder) have a tremendous opportunity to come down on the side of all people regardless of the color of their skin.  Except they don't.  Holder's handling of the Black Panthers threating voters in Philadelphia right after the 2008 election put whites on guard.  Whoa!  This is not a government for all the people.  He, nor Obama, has redeemed himself from that slap against America.

Why is this happening when it so easily could be used for statement of an opposite inclusive position like Martin Luther King's rather than letting divisive haters like Reverend Wright and Louis Farrakhan run wild.  It is interesting that under Obama a statue of MLK was placed on the Washington Mall that doesn't even look like him.  Rather it looks like a Chinese communist kind of sculpture, representing King not as the sensitive impassioned visionary leader that he was but as a hard, rigid leader that he wasn't.  The statue, in my opinion, is a disgrace to MLK and his American character.

All of this lets me know that something else is going on.  We don't have a black American president.  Rather we have a black Foreigner president.  For us that judge our leaders related to the values of this country and its forming, Obama is a pariah.  So what is going on?
   
Consider agitprop.  What is agitprop?  The word is a combination of two words - agitation and propaganda.  It is used by leaders to dislodge a people from their old way of thinking by agitating them and then coming from and spreading the propaganda of whatever ideology they want to install on the population.

We expect Obama to be on our side.  We expect him to tell us the truth as he works to guide our country.  Instead we find that he cares not a whit about the truth.  You can find any number of videos that show you blatant opposite statements with no explanation of why that is the case.

I'm now thinking that the charge of lying makes no difference with him because he's not coming from a frame of reference where lying is a detriment.  He comes from a different frame of reference.  He's able to get up every morning and continue speaking as if everything is fine when it is anything but fine - with us, that is.  That's because his work is to install a new ideology on the American people.  And what better way to do that than not speak to their values.  Rather, just keep coming from what he says we are now - a socialist/communist state.  Just keep coming from an ancient political view - an elite ruling class and the peons who work and labor so the elite can vacation at horrendous cost on the backs of the peons.  This is Obama and Michelle.  They are not American.  They are the people that the American idea got rid of.  They are the people that all of us have no chance at a life of our own.  We will only have the life they decree for us.    

I assume you have noticed that he's taking over the entire health care industry with Obamacare and yesterday announced that he will be taking over the higher education industry by judging and evaluating them.  Of course the next step will be to root out any of the intellectuals who are independent thinkers that might come up with theories that go against socialism/communism.  All profs are now property of the state. 

Start looking at what is going on from the position of agitprop rather than conversations that surround the attainment of America's values.

Obama likes and supports the Muslim Brotherhood.  He sends them money and weapons.  If you look into the history of the Muslim Brotherhood, you will learn that they were formed in 1928 and it wasn't long until they were cavorting with Hitler.  Hitler went to the Middle East to support them and they went to Germany to march with him.  In common they wanted to destroy the Jew.  Now, on their way to getting that job done by destroying Israel, they need to destroy the Christians first - which they are doing in Egypt.  Is Obama speaking out against this?  No.  Obama is a Muslim - plain and simple - and he supports radical Muslim power.  I don't think there is any exception to this.

What he is doing does not set with many Americans and I can't believe that it would be American policy except under Obama who is greasing the skids for radical Muslim power.  One thing Obama does is hang back so that the interpreters can color his actions.  While all of this is madly going on in the Middle East, he goes on vacation and we see some silly, cheerleader-like pics coming from Martha's Vineyard.  If we grant Obama his just due, we are supposed to see him having well-deserved light-hearted fun.  Given that "Crystalnacht" is happening against Coptic Christians in Egypt and he says nothing, our minds reel and boggle all the while we get more agitated.

Ahem (clearing my throat), this is the purpose of agitprop.  He thinks he's doing just fine.      

Seattle City Government Embraces Maoism

Mao began the idea of politically correct speaking. Seattle is the latest proponent and is throwing their lot in with the communists - you know, those people who murdered millions of "citizens" (oops, that's one of the bad words in Seattle).  There can be no liberty if one cannot freely speak.  Just because some person may find a phrase offensive is not a reason to annihilate free speech.  Seattle ought to be very, very ashamed.  There is NOTHING admirable about making the word "citizen" and "brown bag" off limits in Seattle.  What a bunch of idiots.

The two words/phrases were stricken from the vocabulary by fiat in order to protect some people's feelings.  When law is made for non-objective feelings rather than for objective damage, it will get carried out by feelings.  Just remember, Seattle, lynch mobs happen because of feelings.  That's exactly the kind of governance, in principle, that Seattle is an example for.  Whoa!  Wake up!

You can get the flavor of Communist China under this kind of law in Confessions:  An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo.

Political Liberty at war with "Freedom"

Political liberty is now seen as being stingy. Anyone who speaks for liberty is seen as excluding people from the bounty of government - benefits. It is Obamacare, according to Pelosi, that will give people the "freedom" to play the guitar and pursue other interests in one's life. This is "freedom" in the upside-down world of the Progressive. So now we have political liberty set against "freedom."

But it is worse than this. Obamacare has to be paid for. And it is not just paid for by big business. It's paid for by every federal tax on every business and every employee and every other individual. And all of these taxes are not voluntary. They are extracted at the point of the government's gun. So surprise! "Freedom" = slavery. Only a slave is forced to act against his will when he has not committed a crime.

The United States has entered the netherworld realm of the totalitarian state - a world without anything approaching clean, fully breathable oxygen. We've been on this course, headed this way for a hundred years and now we are here. We see explicitly, democracy reduced to nothing more than window dressing for a President who does what he wants all the while lying that he's limited by the Constitution and Congress.

And none of this is going to get better for now, at least. We will know liberty has a chance when we see that the place and role of private property rises in importance in the course of human events - both personally and socially. In a society of individual men, private property is the way for agreements and the law to be objective. Without it, it's the hopeless struggle for power by increasingly ruthless men.

The more our leaders thrive on the backs of the "collective", a concept comprised of "non-people," we will continue to slide into the "no standards - this is how I feel about it now" abyss. The Presidency of hope has earned what he came for - no hope.

Aren't contradictions wonderful?

In Twelve Short Years

Compare how an emergency gets handled in a free state by independent individuals and a police state by every individual seen as a potential criminal.

First we have independent boat owners lifting people off the southern tip of Manhattan Island on 9/11.  Second we have the police searching for a bomber. The situations are different. How does the second imply snipers and tanks?

How the Community Organizer Works (To Transform America to a Collectivist State)

Many Americans by now are getting the drift. We have a man in the White House who is causing one dissension after another and imposing his will on the people of this land. He doesn’t do it like a regular dictator. He does it by creating massive opposing sides (dissension) where there were none and where the people had no need of solutions. To satisfy the outcry, he brings into existence solutions which his agenda demands. All of these solutions are collectivist solutions and what we end up with is not the United States of America, conceived in liberty and justice for all, but a stratified state where there are the elite who run it and the rest of us who, with the choice of slaves, pay for it.

For example, there was no demand for a public health system, and yet, he brought it into existence. There was no demand for gun control, yet he is working to bring it into existence. There was no demand by the workers for General Motors’ investors money, yet he stole their money and gave it to the unions. There was no general outcry for a green economy and the intellectual backing for it is quite suspect, yet we have thousands of regulations placed on industry and business. On and on, there was no demand, and yet we have solutions.

There has been a demand to get the government’s spending under control so that it doesn’t upend the United States. No solution. There has been a demand for jobs and healthy economy. No solution. There has been a demand for justice in the application of laws. No solution and in fact, there is more favoritism in the application of laws than ever before. One of the salient characteristics of Obama’s passing Obamacare was that he had to excuse a lot of companies from it. Now what kind of unjust mess is that?  He has destroyed “equal under the law” in favor of special treatments, special interests and inequality under the law. Obama is the anti-government.  This isn’t capitalism where private property reigns supreme. Not even close.  It’s fascism* pure and unadulterated.  It is corruption run amok. 

And look what Feinstein wants to do on gun control.  Here.

On and on this goes. We, the country, is under the spell of a master manipulator – a manipulator who can manipulate whole societies and impose his will. The art of this kind of a manipulator is known as “community organizing.”

There is something that sounds wholesome about a community organizer – like his work is going to help a community. But that is wholly false. What is true is that he uses the motive energy that is latent in a community.  He brings it to the surface when he speaks or causes some injustice to some people. Then he uses that energy for his ends – not the community’s ends. He rides that energy like the wind, obtaining political power.  But when all is said and done, the community lies in tatters and the end was nothing more than the destruction of the community itself. All of the injustice from the favoritism to the hatred that had to be created to mobilize voters wrecks community. The ostensible end matters not and is not accomplished.

An example I am thinking of is when Barack Obama worked up a South Chicago community that had a high crime rate over policemen patrolling their neighborhoods. He said the police were racists and that was why they were stopping their black teenage boys when they were looking like they were up to no good. So after he got the community to cry out, he got the cops stopped.  Once they went away, guess what happened? That’s right, the community suffered an even higher crime rate. So, Obama used that community to get his name out there and make his political point, namely that he was a man to be reckoned with, and left the people worse off by his working with them. This is typical.

We can expect to see a more stratified society because Obama is creating those who are with him – who get the money he lays his hands on by being President – and those who are against him. Obama does not listen to the American people to solve real problems. He listens to them as a battle of energies that he is causing. God knows what he was trying to do with Fast and Furious. Or Benghazi. He listens for when he has the backing to make his move for HIS agenda. And, just as in the Obamacare bill, when the time is right, he will do anything to get the result he wants. He will violate the law. (Courts are beginning to rule against him now.)  He will get a toady into Congress. (Al Franken?  Are you kidding?  By hook and by crook he got there and then cast the 60th vote in the Senate which gave Obama his healthcare program.)  He exempts people from the dratted bill if their opposition could hurt his campaign.  He will keep people up all night.  Miss Christmas.  Anything. That’s how important his agenda and unimportant the people’s will is to him.  When you have gall stones removed in an operating room at your local post office, it will hit you that you are not important.  (OK, I hope I'm exaggerating on that one.)  

Obama, it has been noted, is always campaigning.  His is a campaign for power - political power - wielded by him.  That is all it is and we are being used by him for that.  How many of us have noticed that we the individuals aren't important and even that we, the United States, is not important.  This is why.  

He’s gotten the political atmosphere so charged that if a person speaks against him, he is an automatic racist. In his political world, ideas are not only not necessary, they are a threat.  Ideas, are to be derided and not admitted into any conversation. Accusing someone of being a racist ends the conversation. He and his cohorts are one massive use of the Argument from Intimidation.**

He does this in many areas. If you are a Republican, you hate old people and women. You are always a threat to a woman’s sexual freedom and her ability to get contraception.  And, oh yes, you do hate gays and who knows what you would do to them. On and on it goes even though there is no truth in any of this as a generality.  Being on the libertarian/conservative side myself, I’ve been awed by the openness and rights-observing demeanor of my side. My opinion is that the racists – those who think of skin color first – are on the Left. They always point the finger away from themselves because they are the ones who are and rely on racism as intimidation. We have seen racism go from an unspoken dirty little secret to an open battle of political warfare. Those that think of it first and use it are the modern racists, bringing skin color to the front and center of every conversation.  The political payoff for those that claim you are racist against them is that they then claim being a victim of you.  "Oh, that poor victim.  Poor baby."  We have to get that war is going on here.

The thing that allows Obama to get away with his efforts is 1) he identifies with being black and people identify him with being black which plays into the racial dynamic of this country (this in spite of his working almost entirely with whites) (The racial dynamic revolves around blacks given the moral high ground because they were slaves.  This, by the way, if they are ever to hold themselves as equal, has to stop.  They are responsible for their actions, end of story.  The past is the past.  Forgedduboudit), 2) he has a way of keeping his voice and demeanor within the normal range such that people think he is the rational one in the room, 3) he lies and says whatever he has to in front of the audience he is addressing and lets the disarray be part of the general hubbub and dissension of the populace.***  Generally I’ve found the best way to predict what he will do is to know that it will be the opposite of what he says.  And 4) he has developed a constituency of the ignorant, the dependent, the guilty, the looters from the intellectual/big business class who profit directly from his policies, and those who want to see America, the very idea of liberty and justice for all, destroyed. We know the latter because they will not lift a finger or a syllable to the slavery that is still plentiful in Africa and the Middle East, and will make America wrong for originally admitting and then correcting the matter of slavery. These people are evil and up to no good.  The Reverend Wright is one of these people. 

Obama fooled us.  We thought he would come from the other side of the race matter and by his work, put race behind us.  Ha, ha, ho, ho, ho!

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*Fascism is when the title to property is held by the individual, but the use and disposal of the property is controlled by the government.  Fascism can easily lead to a totalitarian state because, after all, the state has created a problem with all of those people who still want to control the use of their property in order to live.  Fascism is a government set against human life.  People go on strike and withdraw because they cannot legally operate within the state to live.
**Argument from Intimidation
***Here's one way Obama causes dissension, making sure we are all at odds with each other. 
How Saul Alinsky Taught Obama to Say One Thing and Do the Opposite.

Guns Save Lives

We have got to hold the government and administrators of various kinds responsible for all the killing that is going on – especially in schools. Because these places are gun free zones often created by law or by well-intentioned but ignorant school officials, the victims of these shootings and those that would protect them are left defenseless.

This is a government/administration problem – not an ordinary citizen problem. Let’s put the blame where it belongs. Whoever prevents the presence of guns for protection in a public school or other gathering spot for the public is the real cause of the reach and extent of the violence that occurs in these places. We need to see Senator Feinstein and President Obama because of their advocacy and actions, as advocates of murder and mayhem. They are the ones preventing people from protecting themselves. Although they try to sound like our protectors, they are the opposite. They are our destroyers.

Slavery

The Democratic National Convention ran this ad this week:



Given that the government is FORCE, if you believe this or positively resonate with it in any way, you possess the slave mentality. The Democrats talk to you and respond to you as that mentality. What is the primary currency of that mentality? Being the victim.

I've recently run into people who are all worked up over race. You would think that Jim Crow was still in full force. Even though, as a product of the Civil Rights Movement of the late 50's and 60's, all the laws having anything to do with racial barriers were erased from the law books and even though blacks have now attained the highest office in the land, many still come from the slave mentality - the victim mentality. They stop themselves from advancing and would rather whine at their imagined barriers.

The jig is up on that one. It doesn't fly. And all that Critical Race Theory stuff is pure venal bullshit that only turns those who believe it or repeat it into racists themselves.

Frankly, I can barely listen to the Democrats and their leaders. I feel powerless supporting the people who fall for their conversation. Enslavement to being victim is screamed over and over. It's sad and depressing. It's no wonder that the only way for such a follower to respond is with hatred. The phenomenon that is going on with the Democrats right now is akin to the phenomenon that Hitler caused in Germany. He got his victim-minded people worked up to the point they put him in power. And then the lights went out.

Runaway, Slave!

Runaway Slave is a documentary screened in Kennesaw, Georgia. Depending on its reception it will be shown in many US cities. 

I liked this movie when it ended last night. 

This morning I REALLY like this movie. 

I went with a black friend, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.  I wasn’t sure how he would take the movie and was interested to know what he thought.  He said he liked it – that he learned something.

This movie is about black culture, but it is not just about their culture.  It is about human culture down to and including one’s individual culture – the stories, the premises and feelings that give one his quality of life.  How do I know that?  I awoke focused on the primary reason I’m still a slave in my own life.  More on that later. 

The front and center question is “Why is it that since a black is free to do whatever he wants, he sees and comports himself as a victim – as a slave.  The color of his skin WILL NOT STOP him from working for and having anything he wants to have in this world.  Objectively he is free and yet he feels and acts as though he is trapped.  This is the slave mentality.  The movie exhorts all of us to run – to run away from that slave mentality and those that work to keep it in place.

This movie is about culture and politics, and it does not shy away from calling out who is advocating what; but the lead character, C. L. Bryant, does a great thing.  He visits various black groups to ask them why blacks are where they are at.  Unemployment is at 14%, one parent families are at 70%, black-on-black crime is out of sight, and more black babies are aborted than any other racial group even though blacks comprise just 13% of the population.  Everyone has a story, with reasons, for why things are the way they are and he lets them tell their story.  The movie never gets stuck on the “us vs. them” level – rather it has us consider the real question here.

There are lots of leads to stimulate thinking in this film.  One such lead is a man’s story about why he ended up committing crimes landing him in jail.  After putting himself through this, he realized he was furious with his mother.  He blamed her for his not having a father – for his being deprived of ever knowing his father.  She made money to live being eligible for welfare payments.  Her life choice required the father of her child to have abandoned the family.  At the point the man grasped the circumstances that led his mother to her plight; he realized that although she was responsible for what she did not knowing or thinking about the consequences of her choice, she chose what she saw as a way to survive.  At that point he went to her and apologized for being angry with her all these years.  With this massive justification for his actions gone, his life turned around.   

One of the interesting unstated but obvious things in the film is to hear the opposite side of the slave mentality - the master mentality.  This manifests itself as being completely justified in taking control and dominating the former master.  It was expressed in the anger and assigning cause outside the only one who can actually make a difference - oneself.  All of this ends when you give it up and simply live your life - seeking your own happiness, neither sacrificing yourself to others nor others to yourself.  Freedom is freedom, no more, no less. 

But freedom was not to be.  The institution of reverse force causing the ongoing problems traces back to the Johnson Administration when the welfare law, grounded on white guilt, was passed.  Because that law sounded good to many ears and given that no one wanted to be the cold, cruel jerk who says “NO” to a struggling mother's need, the bowl with the warm milk was set before her.  “Here kitty, kitty, kitty.”  Once she lapped the sweet milk set on the plantation steps, slavery and all of its consequences was the result.  Hence, the point of the film.

The message is powerful.  This morning I awoke thinking about my relationship to money.  I’ve never had a positive relationship to money – like it is a great thing and I ought to have plenty of it in order to do all the things I want to do in life.  Mostly I do what I do and sometimes I have money and sometimes I don’t.  I’m not unhappy if I have little money because there is so much in life that I find interesting.  I only get unhappy when I cannot take care of the things that I want to take of or need to take care of.  Then the matter of money impinges on me.  And yet, over the long run, those circumstances seem to make no difference in the way I conduct myself. 

With many talents and interests, I’m interested in the world no matter what.  In fact this led to some problems with money.  Each week I would get an allowance.  It was a quarter, as I remember.  I never saved my quarter because there were so many things that attracted me and that I wanted to have close to me.  So I bought them.  And, before long, my allowance was gone, a recurring condition which became a way of life. 

I’ve tried blaming other people, my mom, e.g., for my attitude about money.  She would get disgusted with me for running out of it and say something negative.  Never could I hear a possibility for saving money - only angry criticism when my pockets were empty.  I handled this by defusing the issue.  “Money is ‘ho-hum,’ and something I’m not going to get worked up about.”   

I’m in the process of closing my studio and moving to a more affordable place.  Money has been on my mind - not only for moving but for other things I want at this time.    The slave “conversation” of the film stimulated my “conversation” about money.  I realized I am a slave to my “conversation” about money.  Specifically, I am a slave to my way of handling the contention that surrounded me and money in my family.  It is my conversation that determines how I am with money - every time, all the time. 

Seeing this is the breakthrough.  The unrealized emotional enslavement to that conversation is broken.  I can’t think of money without realizing that old way doesn’t work.  Now I am propelled to create a new conversation about money.  My point here is that the “slave conversation” is powerful and applicable wherever human life exists.  Our behaviors are the product of our internal conversations and until we realize what they are, we live on their plantations.  They are our masters which we serve as would a slave.

I wholeheartedly recommend this film as it is so rich on the political and moral level.  If you open yourself to it, it will lead you to where you are stuck and indicate the way to freedom.  Runaway from that slave conversation, man.  Just run.  With everything that’s in you.    

Trailor:


Audience reaction after the opening:

And Now We Are Down to Basics

Here's an ad by Romney that gets right to the heart of America and what makes her great.

Let the RIP Begin

Last week in Roanoke, Virginia, Obama revealed the essence of the collectivist's world view: Individuals don't exist and don't get any credit for what they do. He went out of his way to point this out - in a snarky way, I might add. Why the snarkiness, Barack? Where does that come from?



To be fair to the context of this, this is the whole little segment of what he said:   (If you want to watch a longer video of the event, go here.)

I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something, there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.  If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.

There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

What Obama wants us to acknowledge is not his to compel.  Perhaps this is why he is snarky.  Far and away the primary piece of any accomplishment is the will of the man who does it.  And that, whether Obama likes it or not, is what he cannot compel.  No one can force a mind - not even his own.  Atlas Shrugged taught its readers one primary thing:  The ultimate power rests with the producer.  If he stops, all that depends on him stops.  No amount of government force can motivate a man to produce.  The ultimate trump card is not held by the government.  And besides, anyone who succeeds at something knows the people who were there for him and most are quick to acknowledge them.

What Obama reveals is his puny collectivist soul.  He needs people.  But he doesn't trust people to value him, so he has to rope them and draw them near even if they don't want to be there.  His means is to induce guilt - particularly in the individuals who have a mind of their own.  Those are the ones he directs his snarky "let me tell you something" remarks to.  Those who like him and his tactics cheer him. 

This is all revealed because he has to go out of his way to make a point of this.  Most people draw people to them because those people value who they are and what they say and/or do.  But not Obama.  He draws people to him by singling out some other people and driving them away.  He gets snarky with the "outside" people.  His supporters being of like mind, certainly don't want any individuals to think they are smart or work really hard.  Oh, my God no!  (This really is disgusting, isn't it?)

Poor little President.  He can't just be himself and know that people will come to him.  It is as though he insists there be no freedom from people - no freedom to have one's own life.  Is it that he doesn't trust people to value him unless he reminds them that they don't accomplish anything without other people - maybe even him?  Maybe that is why he insists we accept his food stamps. I don't know.  It's all so Mao. (And so evil.  Can you imagine him telling his daughters when they bring home a good grade,  "Just remember, you didn't do that.  Somebody else made that happen."  Wow.)

He apparently fears they will have a purpose which excludes him.  I remember the question Ellsworth Toohey, the collectivist intellectual of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, asked of Howard Roark, "What do you think of me?"

Roark replied, "But I don't think of you."

Could this be Barack's worst nightmare?  The existence of a person who could be as independent as Roark?

At any rate, Barack's disrespect of individual achievement has caught on and fueled a website called "You Didn't Build That."  Check it out.

The Fight For Liberty is Moving into The Moral Realm

Harry Binswanger, of the Ayn Rand Institute, is upping the moral outrage against government force. Thank God.* It’s about time someone let it rip.

People have been using economic arguments to upend our runaway government. They make no difference. THEY ARE NOT WORKING!

Why? They don’t strike at your core – the very reason why you would want to do anything. Striking at your core is to hit the pay dirt of your moral power - the source of your energy - your love of what you value that has life worth living. (Notice how every person who does tap into this moral power is immediately destroyed by the Leftist media. They know these people have a power they don't.) In South Carolina, Newt Gingrich, whether you like him or not, struck pay dirt one night and won the election by the next night. That is its power. It gets people off their ass and to the voting booth. Palin strikes there for many people.

As an aside, I've never thought Obama hit moral pay dirt - at least in any positive sense. His power has been to offer retribution for the victims. And I would have had to grant him something related to a victim to have voted for him last time. But you can't build a country on victims - morally or existentially. (The quick course on why Marxism fails.) So now that he's got the country in worse shape than he found it and prostituted himself as originally presented, he's given up this approach and is instead going for the dark blood of the jugular - hatred of value fueled by envy. Pit man against man. Black against white, poor against rich, illegal immigrant against immigrant, women against conservatives, etc., etc.

Now, I'm pissed, but not irrationally pissed. If I'm going to destroy anything, it's the length of Obama's term as President, not the country. I'm tired of sitting fallow - it's time to build.

The fight for freedom is getting more and more specific. The battle is in the use of words. Freedom = Absence of force. Right now the government has its gun in practically every aspect of our lives. (When you go to the doctor or your architect or your pharmacist or your massage therapist, there is an invisible man with a gun in the corner of the room.) This destroys human beings at their root – their ability to want to work for the things they want and make sense for them – not what the government tells them they want. (Binswanger gets into the area that interests me a lot – motivation and the desire to achieve value – and how one keeps it and reconstructs it if necessary. He doesn’t say it the way I would, but it amounts to the same thing.) Enjoy.

Binswanger’s interview starts about 1/8 to 1/7 of the way in and runs to about the halfway point of the program. Go here.  (Scroll down to 7/2, the 7:00am show.) 

(*Well, actually, Thank Harry!  I use the word God in the sense that the time is ripe for this.  And not ripe for raw anger which can be interpreted in many contexts, but an outrage in the context of what is possible and how wrong the current direction events are taking is.)

Well, He Did It

OBAMA KILLED AMERICA.  He, which I take to include his Administration and Congressional cohorts, did two things which have been upheld by the Supreme Court.  First, the Court ruled against Arizona, telling them in effect, they could not protect the citizens, i.e., the property of its citizens, of its own state.  As Justice Scalia said, Arizona cannot be referred to as a sovereign state, which means, it is a state without authority.  Second, the Court ruled against the US Citizen, giving the right of the Federal government complete dominion over every man and his body - and forcing him to pay for their dominion.  Americans are now going to learn what it is like to go to the doctor and realize the doc no longer works for him, but for someone else. All will be grounded on pretense, painfully clear when patients begin to grasp they are now a pain in the ass. This ends Individual Rights - fundamentally it ends the right to one's own life. Guess what? The government stole your body (labor and mental production) today. It stole the only real possession, fount of all others, you ever really had in this country.

So, the deed is done.  Everything is going to unwind from here.  What a sad last week for America and the world.  Nowhere on earth can a man go to be free BY RIGHT anymore.

Next chapter?  Massive brain, entrepreneurial and capital drain.

So far, which I doubt will last long given the momentum of matters, we have the freedom to speak out and, yes, we do have our guns.  But with the right to our body cut away from us, isn't it meaningless?  Why the government can blithely call us into a doctor's office and have us take a shot (which, of course, is for our own good), make us pay for it and then justify our very unexpected and sad death via an official statement from one of the ubiquitous health panels.  Life is so easy under totalitarianism.
 
And, for all the good that some think Obama is up to, you really have to hand it to him.  His ideal - the collapsing socialist economies of Europe which he and others (I'm thinking Soros) may be hoping to mold under the aegis of the United Nations is about as rotten a state as one can hope for.  And his great agenda to fundamentally transform the United States of America has, to my way of seeing things, been accomplished. I can't help but think he really has to hate humanity to have pulled off this catastrophe.  With the failure of socialism manifest, either he's incredibly stupid to think that proper life devolves to taking care of and sacrificing for other people, or he's so blinded by his lust for power that he is unable to know anything other than that one thing.  Whatever this is, it is a nadir (hopefully) for America.

It will be hard to watch Obama dance on America's grave.

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Here is the first wave of the totalitarians.

 

To get a better grasp of the legal landscape of this Supreme Court decision and the botched decision it was, watch the following:

The upshot of the Supreme Court's decision:

 A philosopher's take on the Supreme Court's Obamacare decision.


A surgeon's take on the Supreme Court's Obamacare decision. Here.

The Real Robber Baron

Robber Baron was originally a “term derive[d] from medieval German lords who charged tolls on ships traversing the Rhine without adding anything of value.  In the 1930s during the great depression when envy as broadcast by FDR and many others ruled the roost, the term came to be applied to America’s most productive individuals of the 1890s – authentic big businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie, James J. Hill, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and a number of others.  Envy loves communism/socialism because it provides justification for the validity of envy. It tries the impossible - turning an evil motive into a good one.

Envy truly is a despicable motive, "hatred of the good for being the good." It hates value which motivates the intelligent and productive people of our world.  In the 1800s the intelligent and productive were the big businessmen who built America and gave it the means to grow into the giant it became.  Industries such as steel, finance, railroads, coal mining, sugar and water transport were all represented in this group of authentic, free-market, win/win traders.  This is to be contrasted with the envious harpy cry-babies who wanted to exist on the privilege of laws that protect their industries and make it difficult for their competition.  These are the worst of men who are quick to actually practice all the activities their yellow journalists write about while diverting attention to those who don’t. 

The faux Robber Barons are all but gone from America.  But today we have the real thing – literally and in every sense of the word.  Not only does the one I'm thinking of extract money from the taxpayer (the “robber” part), he sets up the means of using it so that we will likely never know that it provided value.  This in no way relates to the ignominious use of the term in the 30s because the businessmen referred to then did provide incredible value.  And further, they used their own profits to create such values as libraries throughout the small towns of the United States.  These men were incredibly value-oriented. 

Barack Obama is incredibly anti-value oriented.(Side comment: Such a person can only seek power for the sake of power to maintain a false self-esteem. He has no other choice and that is what we see being born out.)   I offer this – from an article published June 20, 2012 by World Net Daily.

According to a Statement of Work for the USAID/Kenya program-support initiative – which WND located through routine database research – the agency acknowledges the level of U.S.-financed Kenyan operations has outpaced Washington’s ability to adequately manage it.

“All levels of personnel ceilings are constrained by a limited U.S. government footprint in Kenya,” the SOW says. “In order to address these constraints, certain project development and program office functions … have been identified for delivery through external contracting.

“This group of functions will be contracted as one support activity to reduce the burden on mission staff,” the SOW continued.

USAID views with urgency its selection of a contractor, describing the procurement as a “high-priority requirement with high visibility” at the U.S. Mission.

The $480 million program at USAID/Kenya encompasses numerous assistance projects in general areas such as health, population and HIV/AIDS; basic education; youth; governing justly and democratically; and economic growth, environment and natural resources management.

The $480 million is specific to U.S. Department of State and USAID initiatives only. The amount comprises over half the U.S. government’s annual foreign-assistance budget for Kenya, the largest recipient of such aid in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Budgeted separately are Kenyan programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, Department of the Treasury, Export-Impact Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Peace Corps and Department of Defense.

The new USAID/Kenya program-support initiative will cost upwards of $23 million, which the agency will pay based on “task orders” individually awarded to the selected contractor. (This is the support structure required to pass the money out to the right areas?  SCB)

The contractor furthermore must launch an “Information Dissemination and Public Education services” component to the project, deploying a “full time Communications Advisor” to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi for the duration of the contract. (A propaganda program must be instituted to let the people of Kenya know that these “valuable” programs are going on – and, maybe, who the Barron really is?  I can’t imagine Obama passing up this opportunity, can you?  SCB)

Responsibilities for that position include press release- and speech-writing, developing and distributing newsletters and reports, and producing USAID/Kenya videos for distribution via YouTube and other digital and traditional outlets.

Obama is creating the vassal state of Kenya. 

vas·sal
1. A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance.

2. A bondman; a slave.

3. A subordinate or dependent.
(Heritage Dictionary)

vassal [ˈvæs^əl]  n

1. (Historical Terms) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a lord to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief. A great vassal was in vassalage to a king and a rear vassal to a great vassal

2.  a.  a person, nation, etc., in a subordinate, suppliant, or dependent position relative to another

     b.  (as modifier) vassal status
(Collins Dictionary)

And so, the man who supposedly was spoon-fed hatred of the Colonial Powers, which America never was in the way Obama’s ancestors were related to Great Britain, (until it turned away from the American ideal of liberty which began with the Progressives in the early part of the 20^th century and if Dinesh D’Souza’s book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, provides any light on Obama’s motivation) is setting up the enslavement, the dependency, of an entire African state.  In other words, Obama is colonizing Kenya in the modern way.  (Isn’t it interesting how the master/slave moral code justifies the master as the answer for the slave.)   

Enslavement can be begun by force.  But it also can be begun by holding out a plate of milk and repeating “Kitty, kitty, kitty.”  Either way, the slave becomes dependent and suffers a loss of moral power.  (Taking on debt inside creating a value is another matter entirely.)  (Although I won’t go into this point here, this is the great error and evil of the liberal - especially the “mommy was a democrat” liberal who, being a woman is deluded by the unalloyed good of nurturing - who is so anxious to be compassionate and helpful that he immorally takes taxpayers’ money and then ruins and makes it harder for the people who become dependent on his largess.)     

We often say such things as “he threw the money down a rat hole” meaning that it was wasted.  But here, notice that a “rat hole” would be an improvement.  At least it is structured and would keep the money contained.  Further it isn’t bottomless.  Barack’s throwing money at Kenya is both – formless and bottomless.  Do we need any more proof that we have reached the absolute “zero” in our culture and in American leaders?    

Obama is to the Economy as a Doctor is to Cancer. Kill the Growth!

Obama Fights the Cancer of Economic Growth 

Published: 10:50 AM 06/14/2012  at the Daily Caller  

By David Cohen
Former Deputy Assistant Sec. of the Interior

I have to admit, I had never understood President Obama’s economic policies. If he had wanted to promote economic growth, why would he oppose the Keystone pipeline project? Why would he discourage job-creating investment by vowing to raise taxes on those who invest? Why would he burden employers with excessive new regulation that makes it costly to hire workers? Why would he create a massive healthcare bureaucracy with thousands of new regulations in the pipeline, leaving employers with no way of knowing of how much each new worker hired will eventually cost them? Why would his proudest achievement, Obamacare (which, due to his excessive modesty, he rarely mentions these days), include a massive financial disincentive for small businesses to grow beyond 50 employees? Why would he hire environmental regulators whose “philosophy” is to “crucify” companies that provide affordable energy just to make examples of them? Why would he ignore his own commission’s recommendations for pro-growth tax reform?

In short, why would he consistently do the exact opposite of what is needed to promote economic growth? While we would normally be experiencing robust growth coming out of a recession, our private sector grew at a rate of 1.2 percent last year — a rate that would have to improve dramatically just to become worthy of the adjective “anemic.” But Obama, through his policies, acts as if he’s achieving this rate of growth on purpose. And through his comments (“the private sector is doing fine”), he acts as if he’s proud of the results.

No, I had never understood President Obama’s economic policies. Until now. At the Netroots Conference in Rhode Island this past weekend, a gathering of President Obama’s most fervent core supporters discussed the concept of economic growth. One such Obama supporter, featured panelist Colin Mulcher, shed light on the subject: “I think currently the goal seems to be, like, the unstated assumption is that the goal is growth, for the sake of growth. It’s like, we have to grow, and grow, and grow, and grow, and grow. Why? I don’t know, we just have to grow. The only thing that I know about [where] the definition is out-of-control growth, is cancer. Like, literally … the definition of out-of-control growth is cancer.”

A light went off in my head. All this time, I had just blindly assumed that economic growth was a good thing. I had just accepted everything that “The Man” was trying to spoon-feed into my brain, without ever questioning the underlying assumptions. If economic growth were a good thing, then President Obama’s policies would make no sense. But why would someone as intelligent as President Obama pursue policies that make no sense? But if economic growth is like cancer, then the president’s polices make perfect sense. It’s like he’s fighting cancer. And what kind of ignorant jerks would stop someone from fighting cancer? “The Party of No,” that’s who.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is peddling policies that would promote economic growth. These policies include reforming the tax code to make it “fairer, flatter and simpler”; reducing our corporate tax rate, which is the highest in the world; streamlining regulation; and removing barriers to developing our energy resources.

Romney will tell you that his policies will spur the private sector to create jobs, and hence help those who are struggling the most in this economy. He’ll tell you that by promoting economic growth, his policies will help poor and working people. But here’s what he won’t tell you: In addition to helping the poor and working people, there is a very real and significant danger that Romney’s policies will also benefit people who are not poor. And to anyone concerned about “fairness” in our society, the risk of such collateral damage is as bad as, well, cancer.

So there you have it. While President Obama is fighting the moral equivalent of cancer, Mitt Romney is pursuing his nefarious scheme to grow the economy. It’s not too late to stop Romney before he drowns us in a sea of jobs and economic growth. It’s not too late to help President Obama move us “forward” with a recession that’s “built to last.” Yes, we can!

David B. Cohen served in the administration of President George W. Bush as U.S. Representative to the Pacific Community, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and as a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He is the author of Left-Hearted, Right-Minded: Why Conservative Policies Are The Best Way To Achieve Liberal Ideals.

No Such Thing as a Crony Capitalist

Think about this.  There is no such thing as a crony capitalist.  Why?  The minute there is a tie between the government and a business such that the business is protected from the free market in some way, then it is no longer capitalist.

Capitalism is "a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned."  (Rand, Capitalism the Unknown Ideal, 1966) To own is to have the right to the use and disposal of property.

When the government can tell you what to do with your property, then you are no longer the owner.  The government has the right to the use and disposal of it so it is the owner - no matter what your deed to the property says.  The government is happy for you to have the liabilities of owning the property without the benefits of owning it.  It likes deeds.  So much for justice.

When businesses are in bed with government - be it doctors who are licensed by the government so that the number of doctors is held down - or General Motors who is saved from bankruptcy and having to be accountable to those GM has obligated itself to, the principle is the same, those people and businesses are no longer willing or able to survive by the value they create.

A social/political system where value does not drive the system is a system for the government, not the people.  People cannot survive except by producing and trading value.  When the government controls that energy, that purpose, for its purpose, then to that degree, it deprives people of their energy for it.  This is some form of socialism.  They always say they are doing it for the people, but they are not willing to survive on that basis, so they lie.

The government loves to have some organizations look like businesses because that is part of how they maintain the lie.  The truth?  All of those would-be business are crony socialists.

The lesson to be taken away from this?  Never use the term crony capitalist again!  It's part of their lie.

Why Is This Happening, Mr. President?

These three graphs really tell the story. No recession need last more than two years. That’s how long it takes for the free market with millions of minds at work to determine the value of things and reorganize an economy. Economists have known this to be true since early in the last century as America accumulated a history of being a free economy.*  For the employment/unemployment figures to look this way takes an effort. Particularly, it takes a Government and Administration that insist on not allowing human reason and pursuit of value to do its job. This takes working to “kill off a garden that wants to grow” by depriving it of its simple and fundamental requirement to grow - liberty.

Why is this happening? Prior to the 70s under Carter and before the latter 80s when the Soviet Union collapsed and exposed the fraud it was, implementing these ideas could be attributed to innocently believing in a false ideal. With the collapse of the validity of that ideal, littered with somewhere around a hundred million dead bodies, to keep it in place now requires a sinister turn: the motives and consequences required to forcefully install a discredited ideal.  Reason cannot be used in this undertaking except to further the purpose requiring this means.  To support my "sinister" assertion, I offer as evidence the astonishing "thug" character of our current Administration along with the politicians and supporters (active and complicit) that coalesce around it.  (All those that constitute this mass have to do is say nothing to support civil behavior and not commit to guaranteeing every mans' right to his life and liberty in the face of people like Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan and the Black Panther Party; voter fraud; the open espousal of communism and Mao Zedong, mass murderer, by White House associates such as van Jones, Anita Dunn, and many others; the stealing of General Motors investors' money and transferring it to the Labor Unions; O's physical threat of bankers with "the pitchforks;" pats to the Russian leaders arm that he could be more flexible after the election; etc.)  To do this requires an amalgam of fear, desperation, intense desire to overcome the thing feared/hated (power lust) or simply a neurotic fear of free human life.  Nothing beautiful can be composed with this attitude.  Their bodiless ideal can only be fueled by an idea as to how they could make it happen while at the same time turning away from the millions upon millions of murdered men and women which is the history of these collectivist ideals.  It all has to become a matter of intention and it is fueled by the false philosophical ideas of postmodernism – that the truth is socially constructed.  In other words, "propaganda and appearances rule.  Let's get busy."

Could it be true that if the people just acquiesced to “control central,” everything would work? The answer is “no.” It is “no” because "control central’s" plans do not correspond to the requirements of life that are generated by individual lives. Every life is an individual life and to survive, a human life if it exerts any individuality at all has to apply reason to its life, i.e., its has to intelligently act in its self-interest.  Because this entire direction for society is anathema to "control central" and because it acts against the nature of life itself, “control central’s” actions can only become about retaining its power and by making that power more pervasive. From reason, the idea of a “control central” is now the pursuit of fools, rather like believing the idea that the earth is flat and acting according to that premise. Even the controllers cannot live within the idea – which is why they always declare themselves an exception to what they legislate for the masses - and lead lives that are 180 degrees from the rest of us.  The idea of government as now practiced is completely corrupt and cynical.

It is a very interesting time in history and I only hope that the great bulk of our society is not so divided that we can weather via our common values the upheaval that is bound to come.  It may mean extending yourself to know your neighbor.  It is now time to take responsibility for creating one's communities.  (See here for more on that subject.)

*"Economics and the Public Welfare:  A Financial and Economic History of the United States, 1914-1946" by Benjamin M. Anderson, Liberty Press, Indianapolis 1979 (Originally published in 1949)

The Fairy Tale Life of Barack Obama

Above is the promo for this hour long show on O, the Fairy Tale. Go here to see it. This hour long show is the Glenn Beck show in full. The Fairy Tale part of this program begins at 3:40.

Getting Back to Economic Liberty

Given that we are in a phase of increased state control over the economy - which leads to the stagnation and poverty of a society all to prevent the risk of failure - it is time to get real as to what it is going to take to free ourselves up. The Commanding Heights is a 3-part documentary of such a process and I post it here to have a one-stop record of what it takes to "come clean" from the "heroine" of state protection.

Part I - The Battle of Ideas
 

Part 2 - The Agony of Reform 
 

Part 3 - The New Rules 
 

Marxism

Here is a lecture that is absolutely clear - chapter and verse - as to what Marxism is.



My claim that we are in the grip of some extremely evil people is born out by this lecture. Only if we understand what is happening right now will we be able to save ourselves. Otherwise, ours is the way of the hideous societies that have instituted Marxism in the past: Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Cuba, Cambodia and others motivated by a profound hatred of the nature of man.