This item continues the theme of
revealing truths that progressive liberals/Democrats prefer remain
suppressed. We all need to insist that the lies end and be replaced by
truth. Give each and every item you choose to read its due. In this
specific note it is my hope that you read them all. If you do not
believe some of what you read do your own research. Nothing here is
contrived. The facts stand on their own. Check them out to either
confirm or refute. Included are shameful revelations and relevant
discussion pieces. I do not make this stuff up and would not share this
content if it were not true or void of meaningful content.
I have on occasion shared
background on the history and negative impacts progressivism has had on
our country and many of our fellow citizens. This is a good synopsis of
an upcoming book, Illiberal Reformers, by Princeton University professor, Dr.
Thomas C. Leonard, due to be released by Princeton University Press
next February. Contents of the linked review suggests that all of us
should read it. Quote: "Leonard
introduces many of the guiding lights, particularly among economists of
the Progressive Era from 1877-1917, when “a crusade to reform and
remake American government” was largely accomplished by the end of
Woodrow Wilson’s first Presidential term. By then, the foundation for “a
new regulating edifice” was complete upon which was built the “fourth
branch of government.” Construction followed the “twin principles at
Progressivism’s core”: (1) government guided by science, not politics;
and (2) an industrialized economy directed by “the visible hand of a
modern administrative state.” The
historical events described in the book are well known. What is not
well known is the litany of multiple, unfortunate, social consequences
of progressivism that Leonard describes as he enters territory that may
unsettle those who look back on the birth of the modern administrative
state through rose-colored glasses. Much of it isn’t pretty – some of it
is ugly." And, "Near the end of his book, Leonard concludes that “Illiberal Reformers
has shown that progressives dismissed not just economic liberties but
also the most basic civil liberties, threatening individual rights to
person, to bodily integrity, to marriage, and to reproduction, all in
the name of protecting society. In proposing an American nation, making
the United States singular rather than plural, the progressives turned
illiberal.” Hence the title of his book." http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/illiberal_reformers_the_racist_sexist_and_elitist_roots_of_progressivism.html
This is a good follow-up to the
previous item. It provides the source, history and the damage being
done by rampant political correctness, a creation of progressive
thought. This is a quote the author lifted from a Jeff Crouere
article: "America
today is replete with cowards who are afraid to "tell it like it is."
Fortunately, one of the rare truth tellers is running for President.
Let's see if the American people want the truth or if they want to
maintain their belief in fiction, supported only by politically correct
lies. Today, our problems are
so severe, it is time for not only tough talk, but, more importantly,
strong action. Political correctness is a very serious affliction that
has done incredible damage to our country. It will eventually destroy
America if it is not pulled up by the roots and finally eradicated.” The
link's author reacts to Crouere's observation: "Are
you one of those cowards who are so timid to think about, much less,
discuss the origins of the “PC” doctrine? Progressive academia is a
sewer of tribal censorship. The stakes cannot be higher. The very
survival of our society is being shattered by allowing the “PC”
proponents from going unchallenged." http://www.batr.org/totalitariancollectivism/082515.html This is another take on the same subject. http://humanevents.com/2015/12/10/national-security-profiling-is-a-no-brainer/?
We now move to irrational ad
hominem attacks on those who do not buy the prevailing truth as given us
by the elite. This is a modern day problem due to the absence of the
ability of many to apply logic to refute prevailing/PC truths which are
most often misrepresentation of fact or totally false. Quote: "But how
can modern students really grasp the full impact of ad hominem, unless
they carry out logical research of their own, and contrast that
experience with simply making flip accusations against people they don't
agree with. In an atmosphere where ad hominem prevails, things don't
improve. They get worse. Eventually, the dominant groups adopt a few
stock attacks against everyone who doesn't adore them. Rolled out with
enough volume and ferocity, they can prevent a person with a different
point of view from being heard at all in their controlled "safe
space." So in support of "universal caring and the redress of
injustice," such dominant groups become totalitarian commissars." https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/the-loud-world-of-ad-hominem-attacks/
Think about this. While it is
not realistic to believe all blame rests on this one person it
is certainly true that Obama deserves a good bit of the blame and it
surely fits the progressive's political motif. Quote: "The political
left in this country has decided, in the name of constantly advancing
their agenda, to politicize everything. You are either with them or
against them. The left gives a pass to our actual enemies, and treats
their neighbor as the enemy because their neighbor can cast a vote, but
ISIS cannot. It used to not be so. But then Barack Obama stood up and
literally told people to start taking guns to knife fights. Now we are
dealing with the consequences." http://www.erickontheradio.com/2015/12/before-barack-obama-we-did-not-have-shootings-like-this/?
More than ever it is critical that all thinking people question
Obama's judgment which is as he has demonstrated repeatedly very,
very poor. Here is an example. He releases this "good" terrorist from
Guantanamo and wallah he is now back in business as a "bad" Al Qaeda
terrorist leader. http://www.erickontheradio.com/2015/12/ex-guantanamo-detainee-now-an-al-qaeda-leader/?
Do you believe President Obama
when he says he is confident intelligence agencies can successfully vet
Syrian refugees? I didn't think so. We have good reason not to.
Quote: "Now we have the ODNI, the broad agency that serves as an
umbrella for the intelligence community and advises the president,
verifying that indeed terrorists have tried to exploit Obama’s Syrian
refugee initiative. The ODNI is composed of more than a dozen spy
agencies, including Air Force, Army, Navy, Treasury and Coast Guard
intelligence as well as the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA). This week the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee,
Michael McCaul, released unclassified excerpts of
information provided to him by the ODNI regarding possible terrorist
exploitation of Syrian refugee flows. It’s scary but, unfortunately, not
surprising." http://www.libertynewsnow.com/your-worst-fear-about-syrian-refugees-has-been-confirmed/article2949
This strikes at the heart of
lies we are told that our friendly Muslim neighbors will help root out
the radicals within their religion. Best not to latch on too quickly to
that thought. Quote: "And herein lies the issue. Outside the Muslim
community, the idea of turning people into the police who are planning
crazy stuff is not unusual. It is against the law to not do so. There is
no requirement that the government provide you with resources. Pick up a
phone. If you don’t pick up the phone, like the friend of Charleston shooter Dylan Roof,
you end up in jail. Right now, the mother of the San Bernardino shooter
is still walking free despite the mathematical improbability of her
non-involvement. But when you have a tribal mentality, a calculated
sense of being apart from the nation of residence, then there is no
incentive to do so. In fact, just the opposite. Among US Muslims under
the age of 29 as many as 26% believe that suicide bombings are justified.
So if you are suspected of informing the police of a potential attack
you and your family could easily be targeted. When you read the La
Stampa interview of the San Bernardino shooter’s father, also named Syed
Farook, gives hints of a man who knows a lot more than he feels safe
revealing. The fact is that the US Muslim community has zero skin in
the game. And the way they keep it that way is by not cooperating with
authorities before the fact and paying lip service to cooperation after
the fact. Our pervasive political correctness has made inserting
informants into mosques and suspect organizations dangerous for the law
enforcement entity contemplating the action. Handling terrorist
sympathizers with kid gloves and the inability of our consular staffs in
suspect countries, like Pakistan, to competently carry out even menial
tasks… like verifying home addresses… indicates the federal government
has abjectly abrogated any pretense of trying to protect the nation
before a disaster strikes." http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/09/258648/?
Now, can you tell me with a
straight face that President Obama and his Democrat and
Republican co-conspirators are not lying to us about the truth of the
risks Syrian refugees bring into our midst?
There is much heartache and
suffering throughout the Middle East, both for Muslims and Christians.
It is interesting, though, that our government thinks that only Muslims
are at risk. Our government does not consider the plight of Christians
to be a crisis, besides they have "rules to obey" and according to their
interpretation the rules exclude Christians - selective rule obeisance
endemic to this administration is on full display. Nonetheless, that is
the official progressive liberal/Democrat line. Quote: "America is
about to accept 9000 Syrian Muslims,
refugees of the brutal war between the Assad regime and its Sunni
opposition, which includes ISIS, Al Qaeda, and various other militias.
That number is predicted to increase each year. There are no Christian refugees that will be admitted.
Why? Because the Department of State is adhering with all the rigidity
of a Soviet era bureaucracy to the rule that only people at risk from
massacres launched by the regime qualify for refugee status. The rapes
of Christian women and the butchery of Christian children do not count.
No matter how moved Americans were this Christmas season by the plight
of their fellow Christ followers in Syria and Iraq, no matter how
horrific the visuals of beheadings, enslavement, and mass murder, the
Christians fleeing death do not engender the compassion of this
president." And who is it that is committing these atrocities against
the Christians? Muslims, the ones Obama is so desperate to help. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/228670-no-room-in-america-for-christian-refugees
You will not like what you read in this item. Obama and Hillary were in charge. http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/08/united-states-arming-isis-years/? We have since learned that the next item was at least in part triggered by activities covered in this item. Read on.
You will not like this either.
Another dirty deed committed by Obama and Hillary. More important than
accepting the Pentagon's declared readiness to act immediately in
support of Benghazi in 2012 (shortly before the presidential election
BTW), Obama/Hillary instead of giving them a "go" the Pentagon was "instead" told
to stand down. The two of them did not want to do anything that might
negatively impact Obama's reelection. So they denied it was a terrorist
attack and trotted out the lie that it was a spontaneous event in
response to a video. Adding insult to injury they further claimed the
military told them their assets were too far away to assist. Liars
both. http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/08/united-states-arming-isis-years/?
What a pair. These two are American traitors. Their claim that forces
were not able to assist was a deadly lie. Remember Hillary's angry
outburst during a congressional hearing when she did not like the
questioning: "What difference does it now make?" It made a whole lot of
difference to the families, friends of those who died and Americans
seeking the truth. Their blatant lies make a mockery of high ranking
government official's decency, honesty and accountability. Americans
deserve better. But, for Obama reelection was more important than
saving lives and for Hillary saving her political career was much, much
more important than the truth. Despite promises made to the nation and
especially the families who lost loved ones, to date no one has been
charged, captured or punished for the gruesome terrorist attack and the
deaths of four Americans even though both said they would not rest until
that happened. So much for their honesty, ethics, integrity and
accountability. If you need factual information to prove their lies read
this sent to the State Department from Benghazi a week
beforehand. Because of its contents of both cited links we now know that
both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey
and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lied to Congress during their
testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the disaster - I
don't know this but they probably did so on orders from Obama. Quote:
"The nations of Europe had all abandoned Benghazi in previous days,
proving that Libya was indeed the most dangerous spot in the world at
the time. Further, the Obama administration had received advanced
warning to the attack; over a week earlier they had been warned that al Qaeda linked terrorists were planning something in Benghazi." http://eaglerising.com/27362/newly-released-emails-prove-obama-administration-still-lying-about-benghazi/
Still believe what Obama, Hillary and others have repeatedly said in
the immediate aftermath and during congressional testimony?
Someone once requested I not
mention persecution/plight of Christians in notes I share. My
assumption is they either are anti-Christian for whatever reason, agree
we deserve the persecution and vitriol that comes our way, or challenge
the notion that no such persecution is happening. They are
reasonable assumptions given all the claims that Christians are haters,
have no compassion, want to deny others their rights and need to be
punished for their beliefs, etc., etc.. For a host of reasons these
accusations and official acts levied against Christians are unfounded.
It is true that some people who call themselves Christian are bad
apples. In such cases the individuals involved are unquestionably
Christians in name only. Can you name any group that is perfect with no
members misrepresenting their faith/belief system? This piece should
open the eyes of anyone who respects facts rather than those who want to
either eliminate or suppress the rights of Christians to life, liberty,
happiness and pursuit of their faith. Believe it or not Christians are
the most persecuted humans on the face of the earth. Quote: "A 2015
World Watch List report published by Open Doors found that: “Islamic
extremism is by far the most significant persecution engine” of
Christians in the world today and that “40 of the 50 countries on the
World Watch List are affected by this kind of persecution.” Williams
reported that Tajani said Islamists consider Christians: “…”crusaders”
of Europe and because of Islamic persecution in the Middle East more
than 70 percent of Christians have fled Iraq since 2003, with another
700 thousand Christians who have been forced to leave their home in
Syria since the outbreak of civil war. “Each month 200 churches and
places of worship in the world are attacked and destroyed. Every day and
in every region of the world, there are new cases of persecution
against Christians…” “No religious community is as subject to hatred,
violence and systematic aggression as the Christians,” Tajani
said." And, "... auxiliary bishop Jean Kockerols of Brussels said:
“…the idea that Christians are intruders in certain Muslim-dominated
countries must be debunked, since the Christian presence in the Middle
East and the Indian sub-continent “dates back to centuries before the
spread of the Koran.” This is not opinion. It is fact. For those who
subscribe to the notion that Christians are to be abhorred, ignored and
tossed aside as crazies, I invite you to do a serious investigation of
the tenants of the religion with a focus on the teachings of Jesus
Christ. You will learn that what you repeatedly hear from so called
leftist elites who believe they are experts in every subject under the
sun are not infrequently wildly off base because what they do
best is lie, twist the truth, promote themselves and their self assigned
wisdom and denigrate anyone who does not agree with them and admire
their sordid/meaningless beliefs and lifestyles. They direct their venom
at Christians - did you ever wonder why? An investigation into their
thinking and its basis might be revealing. http://www.libertynewsnow.com/christians-at-risk-of-genocide-at-hands-of-radical-islam/article2918
In our country President Obama is the most prominent critic of
Christians and is the strongest defender of Islam no matter what they do
or say. As you think the issue through consider his dishonesty and the
havoc he has brought to our country. What you will find is a shallow
egotistical individual with a hateful ideology/agenda and that he is
dead wrong or blatantly lying most if not all the time. He "claims" to
be a Christian but the truth is he falls into the category of "in name
only". A review of his most recent speech delivered from the White
House regarding the killings by two Muslims of at least 14 innocents is
but one of hundreds of examples of his un-Christian words and actions,
unethical behavior and blatant unChristian dishonesty. It was a total
farce. Even the hard left CNN agrees. http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/07/cnn-panelist-isis-will-laugh-at-this-speech/?
Mass shootings are big news
these days. Something interesting, however, is missing from
administration proclamations and mainstream media reports. Mass
shootings during Obama's time in office, because of his total lack of
leadership, already surpass all four of his predecessors
combined. Quote: "While the administration and the Democrat National Committee Chair have been throwing out overblown numbers regarding mass shootings, the reality, though still disturbing, is nothing like what they have been presenting. Using information compiled
via a database with incidents, fatalities and injuries from real mass
shootings in the united States, take a look at the real numbers under
Hussein versus our previous four presidents, and remember, unless
Congress does its duty and removes this guy from office, he still has
over one year left!" http://eaglerising.com/27344/under-obama-more-mass-shootings-than-under-the-4-previous-presidents-combined/
This is true and easily
verifiable using the government's own statistics. Quote: "When they talk
about the problem at all, liberal Democrats invariably say we need to
spend more money. But that’s not the answer. Like the problems of
education, transportation, medical care and lack of job opportunities,
the housing problems of the poor are largely the creation of bad
government policies. The cheapest, most efficient way to solve these
problems is to change the bad polices." http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2015/12/05/is-liberalism-good-for-poor-people-n2089135/page/full
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