An Army of None

As the Congress of the United States considers the revocation of the “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell” policy regarding gays in the military let us consider what “gays” are. To begin to answer this we must first define what gays are not.

Gays are not Darwinists. The relentlessly unproven theory of Darwinism maintains that all species evolve over time by constantly refining and improving certain attributes through natural selection designed to perpetuate their species exclusively. Gays, who obviously do not have the natural ability to reproduce with each other, are therefore polar opposites of Darwinists. Gays do share at least one thing in common with Darwinists they to do not have a “missing link”, a Homo Flaccidus, which could connect them with the natural world as it really exists.

Gays are not Muslims. Islam, unlike Christianity, would put all gays to the sword. After all Iran, as publicly stated by its leader, and other Islamic dominated countries do not have gays.

Gays are not pro-life or pro-family. On its face gays oppose procreation because it is an impossibility for the committed. A gay who masquerades or actually gives into parental instincts is by definition not a gay and is in fact a hypocrite or a fifth columnist working against traditional families consisting of a male and female parent joined by a marriage.

Gays are not civil rights victims. Lifestyle choice has no claim to civil rights because it is a choice and not a mandate by nature. Whether that choice is serial killer, drug user, pedophile, jihadist, hermit, or hippie, in a civilized society lifestyle is important only in its end results: Does it encourage or discourage anti-social or criminal behavior?

Gays, unless they repent, are not Christians. Christianity specifically denotes gays as being sinful. Christianity recognizes that gays have chosen a sinful path by their own God given free will. The only way to leave this path is by freely accepting Jesus Christ. In contrast to Islam and by no means an easy task this does seem preferable to being immediately put to the sword. Although by becoming a Christian this might be only a slight improvement from the perspective of Islam. Therefore as long as a gay chooses to remain a gay, the jury is still out regarding the sincerity of any who profess to be Christians.

One thing gays certainly are is confused if not calculating. Young people are constantly being recruited into the lifestyle. Gay life style advocates, like street gang and cult leaders, know young people have often not established allegiances to a cause and can be easily persuaded to join.

Calculating by its very nature this recruiting of confused individuals validates the fact that being gay is a choice. The ironic thing is gays use much of the tried and true techniques to sign up new recruits as are used by the military recruiters they despise. Unlike military recruiters however, gay lifestyle recruiters are given totally free access to college campuses.

There are those who have treatable medical conditions such as hormonal imbalance who are not “gays” and should never be considered as being such. Gays choose an alternative lifestyle contrary to all natural and societal laws and rules. By giving them the benefit of being confused instead of calculating allows for a resolution of their confusion by rejection of the gay lifestyle through therapy, acceptance of Christianity, or through means other than military service. A choice made about such a basic thing as gender identity that is driven by confusion has no place in military combat as it casts doubt on commitment to a country overwhelming aligned to an opposing morality and ethic. The end result is that whatever is in a man’s heart can only be divined by God, not by hate crimes advocates or through the questioning of a military or lifestyle recruiter.

Slippery Slope vs. Heavy Hand

To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This paraphrase of an old Japanese saying can be used as a lead in to describe the viewpoint of government held by both ends of the political spectrum. The viewpoint of the left and the right immediately begin to diverge as each word of this phrase is parsed.

Take the word “hammer”. Both left and right know this word signifies government. The difference is the right always calls a hammer a hammer where the left only sometimes calls government a hammer. When government opposes leftist beliefs it is called “the slippery slope”, hammer, or much worse. Somehow when this same government aligns itself with leftist ideas it is transformed into a paternal Great White Father looking out for us, ready to catch us if we fall, and after dusting us off sending us on our merry way to a “better life” of its own exclusive defining. The reservation is not just for Native Americans. Gulags also serve to keep people where they can be protected and watched.

Those on the right see “the heavy hand of government” as a hammer because they know that, while necessary in certain circumstances, government has a way of growing. They know that enablers such as legislatures, judiciaries, and executives are always originating or being plied with ideas to make government larger. They cringe at the mention of “There ought to be a law”. They know the hammer wants to grow.

Bureaucrats love to pass new regulations and impose new rules. Big government apparatchiks propose seductive sounding policy to right perceived wrongs and raise additional money through fines and levies for use in “doing good”. For each measure of doing good someone loses more of the ability to freely choose. This fundamental right in a republic is granted to each citizen. It is the republics implementation of free will, free will granted to men not by men but by God.

The “nail” in the old saying is of course anyone who opposes or is to be directly impacted by the hammer of government. The left sees the hammer as a means of inflicting blunt force trauma to anyone who has the temerity to oppose socialist ideology. The right sees the impact of such a hammer and also sees the nail in much broader terms as representing victims of any authoritarian government seeking only to expand its power at the expense of its citizens.

So the right has not only the charge of reducing the size of the hammer of government but also to wrest it from the heavy hand of the left. The battle has been such for many years here in America. So the battle continues today.

The New Three R's

When public school teachers are permitted by their labor union handlers and school administrators to spend time in the classroom actually teaching K – 12 students they teach under a new set of rules that have evolved over the last 40 to 50 years. This set of rules can be said to be “The New Three R’s”:

Relativism

Racism

Revisionism

These rules build upon each other in the order shown. First there is relativism. Relativism is the underpinning to the other two rules. It is the eraser that removes all sense of individuality, uniqueness, and morality. Relativism masquerades as equality. However, relativism, rather than being about all men being created equal is instead the emasculation of equality. Relativism divides humanity into two classes: overseers and slaves.

Overseers, as if by magic, appear on this Earth having with them the birthright of controlling the slaves. Slaves, as manifested by today’s typical public student, are to be kept fat and dumb. While slaves may not achieve the third part of the fat, dumb and happy trifecta two out of three is not bad especially under the relativist scorecard. Just give Timmy his ribbon for finishing seventh, pat him on the head while telling him how great he is and send him on his way.

Racism, along with its stepchild sexism, is the straw that stirs the slaves keeping them divided and perpetually victims. Without direction much less hope the slaves remain a mindless rabble and therefore can be more easily controlled. This is a tried and true tactic used by overseers past and present as they all share one common viewpoint, that humanity has the common interests and intelligence of pack animals needing occasional feeding, watering, and through the judicious use of race and sex baiting, corralling.

This is extremely useful to the overseer. In public schools this is manifested as multiculturalism. In multiculturalism all cultures, with the exception of “white male” have equal relativistic value. Democracy as practiced in the United States is therefore not an ideal so much as a perpetual struggle or revolution against a white male dominated cabal.

With the first two rules in place it is but a short step to revisionism. If relativism and racism/sexism are the basis for all that is known about the past or present then it is the duty of the teacher to mold the soft clay of history and current affairs to reflect this point of view. And thus the equally malleable young minds in the classroom are also molded to accept revisionism as the only valid point of view.

So public school students are prepared for hardcore indoctrination in American colleges and universities. Public schools have become quite adept at preparing students for this further indoctrination aspect of their higher education experience. As to preparing students to do well in academics it is relative. Those of the proper racial/sexual profile can play the victim card, be admitted to the college or university of their choice and fail in serious academics or get a worthless degree in some coursework touted as soft “science”. Those not making the profile cut spend time in purgatory learning what they should have learned in high school before they can truly enter the intellectual hell of a course of learning not leading to a degree in hard science, mathematics, engineering, or business.

Those not choosing to take the easy way out find what serious students before them came to know. There is no easy way to gain real knowledge. Obsequious teachers, professors, and administrators cannot prepare the student for their future life as an adult. The disciplines of Newton, Pascal, and Einstein require intense discipline and precise thinking uncluttered by feel good irrationality. In the real world there are in fact two different classes of people. They are called winners and losers. And by constantly playing the victim you only put yourself in the latter category.

Make “Lockdown” the Norm

There are those who say they are against the death penalty and instead advocate tough imprisonment for murders, rapists, and pedophiles. These people either have no idea how permissive prisons in several states really are. Or they do know and are comfortable in the knowledge that these states will do everything they can to make a prisoners stay if not as short as easy as possible.

This philosophy of short and easy prison terms is a choice made by each state and in particular by each states penal apparatus. A short excerpt from the Cornell University Law School supports this:

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/prisoners_rights

“State prisoners have no rights to particular classifications under state law. Courts are extremely reluctant to limit the discretion of state prison officials to classify prisoners. (Classification, as it is used here is meant to describe the custodial classification of a prisoner once he or she is convicted -- i.e.: maximum vs. minimum security, solitary confinement, etc.).
Congress has given federal prison officials full discretion to control prisoner classification as affecting conditions of confinement. Generally, such matters are left to the control of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Courts tend to give deference to prison officials regarding prisoners' rights. So long as the conditions or degree of a prisoner's confinement are within the sentence and not otherwise violative of the Constitution, the due process clause does not require judicial oversight. For prison regulations that do impinge on inmates' constitutional rights, the strict scrutiny test does not apply. Rather, the rational relationship test is used (the lowest level of judicial scrutiny -- the test is whether there is a rational relation to a legitimate state interest).”

The inmates know which penal systems are easy as evidenced by gangs taking advantage of the California penal system in particular. Gang leaders have for decades been able to effectively continue to run their affairs with little if any interference by the California Department of Corrections. In California and other states law enforcement finally is beginning to realize this and work with Federal to get repeat gang offenders charged with federal crimes and sent to federal jails where gangs are not a problem. They are not a problem in federal jails because the rules of engagement are different and lean more to strict incarceration. Federal prisoners are confined to their cells and are not given the outrageous “rights” their counterparts are given in state run institutions.

Penal system experts talk of keeping those who refuse to join gangs in 23x1 (twenty-three hours in cell, one hour out of cell) protective custody. Prison management institutes lockdowns after riots. You want an orderly system? Why not keep all inmates kept in lockdown all the time? It's called PRISON for a reason.

Keeper of the Castle

What seems a long time ago there were positive messages sent from not just American leaders but also entertainers. One of those positive messages came in the 1972 song "Keeper of the Castle" as performed by the Four Tops:

Live it down
There's a lot of us been pushed around
Red, yellow, black, white and brown
With a tear of their own
Can't you see
While you're pickin' on society
That the leaves on your family tree
Are callin' you to come home.

You're the keeper of the castle
So be a father to your children
The provider of all their daily needs
Like a sovereign lord protector
Be their destiny's director
And they'll do well to follow where you lead.

In your head
You don't believe what the good book said
You're gonna strike out now instead
'Cause the world's been unkind
Through thick and thin
Whatever shape your heart is in
You only have one next of kin
Better keep 'em in mind.

You're the keeper of the castle
So be a good man to your lady
The creator of the sunshine in her day
'Tend the garden that you seeded
Be a friend when a friend is needed
And you won't have to look the other way.

No one has much in the way of positive to say about the 70's what with the humiliation of America in Vietnam, Watergate, stagflation, gas lines, and on and on. Despite of all the turmoil of the time the message in "Keeper of the Castle" rings as true today as it did back when it was first performed. No matter how much time passes it serves as a reminder that faith and a strong sense of individual responsibility trump race and gender politics, grand socialist inspired government programs, feel-good pop psychology, and moral relativism.

That the American people have such a low opinion of elected officials should not be surprising based upon their perception that most of these officials have turned their back on hope and spinelessly serve their own special interests while refusing to accept responsibility for their craven actions. Americans know the fix is in. They to a great extent feel powerless to do anything about it. Politicians speak about Americans in the third-person. It is as if they only exist in the abstract as objects from which more tax revenue is to be squeezed. More Americans than ever identify themselves as being independent. But is declaring oneself independent enough to make any difference when politicians pay attention to them only during elections then proceed to marginalize or ignore them at all other times?

How can one be a keeper of the castle when all messages sent by politicians, entertainers, and other so called trend setters say you don't matter and in fact we will do everything we can to forcibly take what you have and either keep it for ourselves or give it to someone else? The barbarians are at the gate urged on by those who care only about themselves and not about the American way of life. How long will the politicians push before Americans push back?

The Left Lied and Children Died

Whether at the hands of that classic redundancy the habitual pedophile, the proprietor of an abortion mill, or from the bite of a malaria-carrying mosquito untold millions of children around the world have suffered and died directly due to the acts and ideas of utopians, progressives, socialists, Marxist-Leninists or in short leftists. The devil as the ultimate expression of evil is also known by many names. But that is a statement of moral judgment and leftists do not make such judgments.

As such there is a common thread running through these leftist inspired actions is the dogma of moral equivalency or relativism. Relativism tells the leftist that humankind is of no greater significance or importance on this Earth than any other physical or biological phenomenon. Organic or inorganic, an object is but an object. Objects are created, acted upon, and destroyed by an uncaring and randomly evolving universe. Under such a system they are advised to enjoy the ride and grab everything for themselves that they can because there is no future beyond this life. Many, including children and viable fetuses have a very short ride indeed.

In a decades old tradition the ideologists of the left have bitterly clung to moral equivalency all the while lying about and providing justification and cover for all manner of scurrilous theories derived from relativism. Unfortunately many of these theories such as restorative justice, a woman’s right to unfettered abortion and hysteria driven hyperbolic environmentalism have become reality due to the action or inaction of like minded cowardly or dastardly world leaders. Throughout time citizens of large regions of the world have been reduced to the status of lab rats subject to overt or subtle orchestration of their lives when these leaders justify their actions based upon the faulty or nonexistent “logic” of the left.

This is of course at odds with a faith-based view of the universe. While relativists deny and do not admit that selfishness is their credo in life, people of faith will generally agree that humans are born selfish or with sin. Whether this sin is hardwired scientifically or is part of the human soul becomes a matter of faith. Relativists would try to attack people of faith based on science. They would seek to discount not only the existence of the human soul but also of any biological imperative causing evil to be present at birth because they do not believe in the existence of “evil”.

It has been an article of a faith-based culture to champion life whereas relativists find no purpose in life and so do not value it. It is therefore a short journey to travel from relativism to belief in the culture of death over the culture of life. In this way, relativists have much in common with unapologetic killers such as jihadists. One wears a three-piece suit while the other has a turban and flowing robes but what lies beneath is blind hatred of anyone who would oppose them. Only the methods used to increase the body count differ.

Party of Hope?

To me there can be no greater indicator of hope in the future by any individual than the conceiving and parenting of a child. A few years back a study conducted in Russia showed that due to generally poor societal conditions, including a systemically corrupt and onerous government, Russian women were choosing to have fewer children. The underlying conclusion of the study was that Russian women had less hope and because of this did not want to raise children.

While being systematically corrupt and onerous the Russian government, being post communist, was still open enough to allow such a study to be conducted and published unlike its communist predecessor. One can only guess how long Russian government will remain somewhat open.

Corrupt and onerous governments often enter into the area of population control as evidenced historically by Nazi Germany and currently by Communist China (one child mandate) and by public financing of Planned Parenthood (unfettered abortion) in the United States. Through its support of Planned Parenthood it is the de facto policy of the Government of the United States to promote abortions any time anywhere and under any circumstances. One cannot conclude otherwise.

For many years Planned Parenthood has been feverishly killing babies because it offers no hope or no alternatives to clients. But more appealing to craven advocates of eugenics abortion, like the moralistically relative practice of plastic surgery, is profitable. And Planned Parenthood obviously likes profit. To make a profit off the misery of others to the extent practiced by Planned Parenthood makes greedy oil sheiks look like the Sisters of Mercy.

Senator Barak Obama has of late been promoting “traditional family values”. Realizing that words have no meaning to him other than to further his chances of election I would offer the following. If you are serious about family values then you Senator must call for the immediate cutoff of any federal funding to Planned Parenthood. You should also suggest that state and local governments might also consider doing the same.

It is undeniable that of the estimated 18 million abortions occurring since Rowe v. Wade, black babies have been casualties to a much greater extent than they are represented in society at large. This is more than Affirmative Action, it is genocide of a greater magnitude than what is now happening in Darfur.

It is commendable to call for black men to be responsible parents but at the same time it is irresponsible not to condemn killings beyond the imagination of Bloods, Crips, and Gangsta rappers. This is an issue that transcends traditional politics and Senator Obama should be a supporter. As to Senator McCain, he calls himself pro-life and is a Republican so such an appeal should not be necessary. He should already be advocating such a position.

Wake Up and Smell the Crude Oil

In the movie “The Formula” (1980) a characters representing Big Oil said:

"We're not in the oil business; we're in the oil shortage business!"

"The people will accept the 12 cents now because we can blame it on the Arabs!"

"You're missing the point: We *are* the Arabs."

This worldview can today be expanded and directly applied not to Big Oil but to members of the Democrat (aka Dangerous) Party and the eco-fascist zealots who pull their strings. The expansion of doctrinaire environmentalism extends to all forms of energy not deemed to be “earth friendly”.

The foreign watershed events that have led us to energy shortages and high prices can be easily traced to OPEC ascendancy through nationalizing oil supplies and its initial use of “the oil weapon” in the 1970’s. OPEC would not have anything near the impact it does today without what also originated in the 1970’s and has proven to be a much more damaging series of domestic events having a significant and transcending impact on Americas energy landscape.

The hysteria of one pantophobic President, Jimmy Carter, abetted by the usual suspects (Hollywood, the mainstream media, and “moderate” Republicans – EPA started under Bush The Elder) started the drumbeat for unprecedented regulation of not just the major portion of free market commerce in America but also of individual freedom of choice. Today with the complete cowing of almost all so called political leaders anyone can see how successful the environmental movement has become.

But whatever the environmental movement is today it does not remotely resemble what it was when it originated. Environmentalists such as Ansel Adams and Teddy Roosevelt have existed in America for decades. What has energized and transformed the environmental movement is the death of communism in the former Soviet empire. Is it a coincidence that the starting of the EPA and the end of Soviet Russia both occurred under the administration of George Herbert Walker Bush?

The fall of the evil empire showed once again how much of a failure is the doctrine of government as being the center of the universe and not the servant of the people. The implosion of the Soviet Union caused the left to become rebels without a cause. Like a hungry parasite looking for a new host, these disaffected communists overran the environmentalists and radicalized their message.

For all the rhetoric from the left hectoring “It’s the economy, stupid” as being interpreted as a call for strengthening the American economy the opposite is true. The left is quite aware of how powerful draconian environmental controls can be in wrecking any economy and especially, hope against hope, the American free market). These controls are just a variant of the infamous communist five-year plans whose repeated failures caused millions to starve to death in Russia. Current environmental controls have the legacy of restricting food supplies (ethanol subsidies) and driving up prices (corn and everything that feeds off of it) with the bonus of also curtailing energy supplies (nukes, shale oil, domestic drilling) and driving up energy prices (foreign oil).

Remarkably in spite of housing, energy, and other crises and in the face of relentless gloom and doom reporting inspired by the presence of a Republican in the White House the American economy continues to grow. But if the Dangerous Party takes over and the American free market economy implodes what will we replace it with?