Is It News or Propaganda?

by
     M. Richard Maxson

    The disgracefully slanted coverage of the trial of George Zimmerman, an EPA study that failed to link fracking with environmental contamination and a recent study by Justice Department concluding that gun control laws are ineffective in reducing gun violence is only the latest, prominent example of liberal media bias. Many Americans are experiencing despair over what we believe is the destruction of this nation from within led by the Liberal media. We see a rejection of the moral principles and system of government that have made this the greatest nation in the history of the world.

     Since the 2006 election, America’s national media hasn’t let up. It’s pushing harder on its pro-liberal Democrat, Socialist, anti-Constitutionalist Republican slant. They run stories that help Democrats hard and long. The media does not insist that Democratic politicians explain why they defy public opinion on extreme positions like late term abortion, partial birth abortion, or parental consent and stories that help Republicans, will be be ignored, or should be delivered quietly and, especially if they hurt the president.

     The Press today is based upon a manipulation of the truth, half-truths, a cynical representation of manipulated facts, screenshots, sound-bites video clips, and outright lies, to sway public opinion. The press doesn't listen and then ask questions about the results found, instead it asks questions and relentlessly quizes Republicans and Independants, eagerly hunting any gaffe that they can be discredited with. They attack the persons who have presented the creditable evidence that doesn't fit the liberal agenda.
   
      For most Americans, their entire informational and intellectual universe is shaped by the left -- from elementary school through graduate school, and of course, in the news media.  The non-political middle hears only stories shaped by the leftist media. They rarely, if ever, encounter non-left viewpoints. The media is nothing short of a corrupt PR arm for the Democratic/Socialist Party. The cynical, despicable thing about all this is that even though the public knows it’s being played by the liberals, the game still works.
      
     Average Americans might not trust the media, but the networks still set the agenda and control the subject. Sadder still is that few in the general public even seem to be taking notice of the loss of quality reporting across the state and nation. Walter Cronkite, the great news reporter, once remarked, “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy,”


     We are the first to live in a total mass-media-oriented world, and every night when we turn on the television and the news comes on, we see the almost unbelievable hypocrisy and deceit and even outright idiocy of our national leaders and the corruption and disintegration of all our institutions, from the police and courts to the White House itself, and we are told is is alright. This is the norm. This is the Leftist media.

     The media in the United States, while still not completely controlled by the government, is mostly under the direction of large Liberal contributors which dictate the content of the newspapers, magazines, and TV networks they own, so except for small independent efforts it is no longer really free. In a democracy, we need journalists to hold the government accountable.  An independent, experienced and competent press is vital to governmental transparency – and a check on unfettered government power.

     Friedrich Hayek noted in his book, The Constitution of Liberty, that democracy only makes sense if individuals are able to form an opinion independent of their government.  That is the reason behind first amendment rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but as a rare moderate Democrat recently stated "America has no functioning democracy at this moment," - Jimmy Carter
   
     

Islam - I'm Tired of the Lies

by

    M. Richard Maxson

     

      How many more 9/11’s do we need before we wake up? How many more Bali bombings? How many more attempted beheadings? When will we wake up and realize that Islam is in fact a political ideology cult which has always been spread by the edge of the sword?

      “When will we believe the words of Muhammad? When will we believe the Koran? When will we believe the hadith? When will we take them at their word when they tell us they intend to kill us? When will we understand that they want to see the entire world under submission to Islam and sharia law?”

      On this anniversary of our nations greatest loss, when thousands of Muslims are preparing to march on Washington because of their perceived anti-religious indignities, I am reprinting a post that is a truth, a fact, that is staring us all in the face but is yet unrecongnized by the Western masses.

                                                       Islam is not a religion.

                                                                        It is a cult

    What is a religion? All religions are basically the same; do these things -- pray, penance, repent, be good to others, etc -- and earn your salvation. Christianity says your salvation has already been given and will not be lost as long as you practice the aforementioned. 

    There are some violent passages in these "holy books" of religion but nowhere does it say to murder, rape, lie, and degrade our fellow human beings as it does in Islamic texts. It says what it means. To say that a believer can pick and choose what parts of the Koran to adhere to is folly.

     To understand Islam one must understand the prophet Mohammad himself. His words and deeds. Mosab Hassan is the author of "Son of Hamas". His father was one of the founders of Hamas. Hassan says, "In order to know what Islam is all about we need to study and learn the behavior of Mohammad, the same in Christianity we need to study who Jesus is.

     In Islam's early days, Mohammed spread the faith with the sword. He was a murderer, a rapist, and a pedophile who showed no mercy to anyone who opposed him. This is made quite clear in the five Islamic holy books which details Islam. (see Craig Winn (teawithterrorists.com) and his soon-to-be-released manuscript, Prophet of Doom.)

   In the translated versions of the Koran and the Hadith (books of Mohammed's teachings) show the manuscripts to be riddled with exhortations to commit violence and terror against those who don't follow their doctrine. Peaceful Muslims are only deluding themselves by believing Islam is a religion of peace. The fact is that "According to Allah the most vile of creatures is a peace-loving Muslim," said author and Islamic terror expert Craig Winn "Muslims are the victims of Islam"

   The basic message of these Muslim fundamentalists is to "slay the infidels wherever you find them," which includes Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims who don't believe in the Jihad. "I came to the conclusion that this so-called religion, Islam, is poison." Winn believes it is essential to fully comprehend doctrines such as the Koran in order to understand the roots of terrorism.

The big problem is that the public is widely misled about Islam, thinking that it is a peaceable religion that was hijacked by a small segment of fundamentalists, when it is actually based on violent teachings. Winn puts forth that the western world must own up to the fact that "Islam is at war with us."

   When will this happen? After a "nuclear dirty bomb" is detonated in New York, or Washington, or Los Angles is probably the correct answer. there is too much political correctness in this country to allow the truth to shine through.

     I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor", raping eight year old brides that do not survive the first night, of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari’a law tells them to.

     I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America and Canada , while no American nor Canadian group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

                                                                        I'm tired of the lies

The Powers of War

by M. Richard Maxson                                                              

     The president of the United States is also known as the Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy and has the powers to:
- Declare war, grant letters of marks and reprisal
- Call forth the Militia
- Provide and maintain a Navy
- Define and punish offenses against the law of nations
 - Raise and support armies
- Make rules for the government and regulation of [the armed forces]
- Make rules for captures on land and sea
- Define and punish piracies and felonies on the high seas
- Organize, arm and discipline the militia
- Exercise authority over building of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings.

    If you agree with the above then you are compeltly WRONG. These are the powers given to the Congress, but most Americans, believing many powers assigned to Congress belong to the president.  The Framers gave only the Congress the authority – and duty – to make such decisions. James Madison observed, “In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department.”

    Recent Presidents have advanced an interpretation of Art. II that gives the “commander in chief” power over any and all issues that can be tied to the defense of the nation. In these arguments, so many actions are defined as under the president’s  limit of authority that the executive branch becomes an unlimited and unstoppable force. However, this misunderstanding about whether the constitution could be amended through the making of treaties was denied in the case of Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957):  "This court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the constitution over a treaty" [Reid, at p. 17]. "No agreement with a foreign nation (no executive orders, no Presidential directives, no "accords" etc.) can confer power on Congress or any other branch of government, which is free from the restraints of the constitution" [Reid, supra].

      The current perversion of the Constitution is a lethal attack on our core value of divided government.  Constitutional powers are not subject to be “taken” from one branch by another. However Congress and the public now seem satisfied to let the president exercise this pilfered authority. The Framers intended that decisions regarding the use of military force were to be safely in the hands of Congress while the execution of those decisions were to be solely presidential. Today's Democratic Socialists have no regard for the Constitution or rule of law and have severely weakened it in many places, and as a result, our liberty, our prosperity and our very nation are in decline and in grave jeopardy.