Neglected Truth

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       M. Richard Maxson

 "The truth will not be denied. The truth always wins. To the extent that we align ourselves with it, we thrive. To the extent that we deny it, we suffer."- Unknown


      Does the truth matter? We live in an age of unprecedented challenges to the truth. It is under siege. All of us can point to examples: Politicians who manipulate the truth or withhold it, the re-evaluation and re-writing of history, or the meaning of our Constitution. I was just thinking the other day about these and other events and current discussions with other knowledgeable Americans. Here is some random information for your collective consciousness.*

• Demanding that Americans hide their religious beliefs. Banning dissenting views on the climate change scam. Slandering people with charges of the kind of racism pioneered and perfected by the Democrat party. Anyone who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them — instead of answering their arguments.

• Ronald Reagan had it right when he said, "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

•  It is the only way we can move forward with ideas that help everyone. Because, at present, if those ideas don’t emanate from the left, they will not be allowed to be heard by the left.
  

• “Muslims account for only about 1 percent of the U.S. population but account for about half of terrorist attacks since 9/11. That means Muslims in the United States are about 5,000 percent more likely to commit terrorist attacks than non-Muslims.” 

• I saw a 1950s photo of high school girls at an indoor shooting range. The photo caption states: "Back in the 1950s and even later, many high schools had shooting ranges. Students even brought their own rifles to school." It asks, "What changed in society that we could trust such activities then, but not now?"

•  Today individual rights are being stripped away in an effort to appease the god of social liberals in the ruling elite, the government.
  

• Progress is the degree to which human beings can achieve their individual potential in peace and without coercion. Progress is the degree to which the average human being, regardless of gender or race can live in peace and freedom.
  

• Many liberal activists like her, suffer from factophobia. They will throw out any false accusations to advance an agenda. I realize this is an inherent aspect of politics, but the Left has mastered the art of BS (bogus stuff).

•   It is very disturbing to think that some of the people that we may be interacting with on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are actually paid government agents that are purposely trying to feed us propaganda.
  

• Why have a national debt ceiling if it doesn't really put a ceiling on the national debt? What the national debt ceiling does is allow Democrats to gain votes by spending the government's money -- and then force Republicans to share responsibility for raising the national debt ceiling, under threat of being blamed for shutting down the government if they don't.
  

•  Hollywood has never been opposed to propaganda. When Hollywood's self-declared auteurs and artistes denounce propaganda as the enemy of art, almost invariably what they really mean is "propaganda we don't like."
  

• Households with a conservative at the helm gave an average of 30 percent more money to charity in 2000 than liberal households (a difference of $1,600 to $1,227). The difference isn't explained by income differential—in fact, liberal households make about 6 percent more per year. Poor, rich, and middle class conservatives all gave more than their liberal counterparts.

• The information age is actually a media age. We have war by media; censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by media - a surreal assembly line of obedient clichés and false assumptions.

 *This is the first in a series inspired by Thomas Sowell

The Timeless Wisdom of Ronald Reagan in the 21st Century

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       M. Richard Maxson



      The last great president of the United States was undoubtedly Ronald Reagan. His patriotism and wisdom can be seen as right up there with Benjamin Franklin and the other Founding Fathers. We have stitched together his observations on our country as it approached the end of the twentieth century and the guidance and warnings of the future that are not to be seen on today's political landscape. If he were alive today he would be repulsed at our country's condition. Here, in his own words..........



      "Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated our values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that, too, through the mid-sixties. But now... some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom-freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection."

      "Informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?  We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important-why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual."



      "I have seen the rise of Fascism and Communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail" -  Ronald Reagan - Beijing, China, April 27, 1984

       "I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as "the masses." This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government" -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy."
 

      "I think we're for telling our senior citizens that no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds. "One of the traditional methods of imposing Socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project...But I think

we're against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program, especially when we have such examples, as was announced last week, when France admitted that their Medicare program is now bankrupt. They've come to the end of the road. If you don't(stop it), this program I promise you will pass...and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known...until, one day...we will awake to find that we have Socialism."

     James Madison in 1788... said ... "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations"... Ronald Reagan - 1961

     

      "As a former Democrat, I can tell you the Socialist candidate, Norman Thomas isn't the only man who has drawn this parallel to Socialism with the present administration, because back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his Democratic Party was taking the Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. And he walked away from his Party, and he never returned til the day he died -- because to this day, the leadership of that Party has been taking that

Party, that honorable Party, down the road in the image of the labor Socialist Party of England  Now it doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed to the -- or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? And such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is                                                          at this moment."   

      "Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of

the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution.... They call their policy "accommodation." All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers (or racists). They (Democratic Socialists) say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right...not the flavor of the month.

Otherwise, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free."

Is the United States Providing ISIS with Arms and Supplies?

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       Philip Todd

      From the mid-east to the far-east there are documented reports that the United States is not really trying to fight ISIS, rather the contrary, it is supplying them with weapons supplies, and logistics. This bombshell story is being kept out of the news reports, especially in North America but is a fact in most of the eastern societies this is no secret. Has anyone here even seen these headlines yet.

• The US is supplying high-tech anti-aircraft weapons to ISIS
  
• A Recent Confession From ISIS Leaders
  
• Iraqi Forces Blast US
  
• China condemns US for supplying weapons to ISIS
  

       After failing to achieve their goals in Ukraine the US is now fighting a back-door proxy war against Russia. The cover story that is in place is that Russia is our true enemy that is backed up by the massive wave of anti-Russian propaganda in the US press.(ex. Yahoo news recently, on the same day, ran 7 of 9 lead stories about the so-called Russian threat) Just this week our European allies have chastised the administration for what they called "holding back" on our efforts against ISIS. Here is a brief rundown on just these four stories:

• The US is supplying high-tech anti-aircraft weapons to ISIS.
  

       ” The reality of US policy is to support the government of Iraq, but not Syria, against ISIS. But one reason that group has been able to grow so strong in Iraq is that it can draw on its resources and fighters in Syria.” ”By continuing these contradictory policies in two countries, the US has ensured that ISIS can reinforce its fighters in Iraq from Syria and vice versa. So far, Washington has been successful in escaping blame for the rise of ISIS by putting all the blame on the Iraqi government. In fact, it has created a situation in which ISIS can survive and may well flourish. The sharp increase in the strength and reach of jihadist organizations in Syria and Iraq has generally been unacknowledged until recently by politicians and media in the West.”

• A Recent Confession From ISIS Leaders
  

       A spokesman for Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah popular forces Jafar al-Hosseini has disclosed to Fars News Agency that ISIS leaders captured in Iraq have acknowledged that they have been receiving logistical backup and intelligence support from the US. “As the ISIL commanders captured in Iraqi popular forces’ recent military operations have confessed, the US supports for the terrorist groups are not limited to the dispatch of logistical support,” Al-Hosseini relayed to FNA. He went on to tell the agency that the US has given ISIL information regarding the positions and targets of Iraqi forces. “ISIL commanders trusted the US officials who had assured them that the Iraqi forces would not attack Fallujah because the US had urged the Iraqi government to prevent the popular forces from entering Fallujah and raid Beiji instead; hence the terrorists left Fallujah for Beiji to stay on the alert in there.” Coordinator of Iraqi popular forces Jafar al-Jaberi told FNA that US airplanes have been airdropping beneficial products and goods to ISIL terrorists as a means to further support Takfiri terrorists in Iraq. He said, “The US planes have dropped weapons for the ISIL terrorists in the areas under ISIL control.

       The confession is supported with the help of eyewitnesses in Al-Havijeh of Kirkuk province who say that they watched US airplanes dispense these

packages from their airplanes in the province.  Furthermore, two British planes have been shot down by Iraq’s army in Al-Anbar, where it was revealed that they were harboring weapons for ISIL terrorists. “The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL,” senior Iraqi lawmaker Hakem al-Zameli unveiled, who says that their parliament has reached out to London for answers on the matter.

• Iraqi Forces Blast US
  

      An Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting terrorists in Iraq, revealing that the US airplanes still continue to airdrop weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL terrorists. The senior Iraqi legislator further unveiled that the government in Baghdad is receiving daily reports from people and security forces in al-Anbar province on numerous flights by the US-led coalition planes that airdrop weapons and supplies for ISIL in terrorist-held areas. The Iraqi lawmaker further noted the cause of such western aids to the terrorist group, and explained that the US prefers a chaotic situation in Anbar Province which is near the cities of Karbala and Baghdad as it does not want the ISIL crisis to come to an end. 

       The Iraqi popular forces who shot down a US

helicopter carrying weapons for the ISIL forces in Al-Baqdadi region released the photos of the shot down chopper through the Internet. Last week, Head of the Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee Hakem al-Zameli announced that the helicopters of the US-led anti-ISIL coalition were dropping weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL terrorists in the Southern parts of Tikrit. He underscored that he had documents and photos showing that the US Apache helicopters airdropped foodstuff and weapons for the ISIL.

      

• China condemns US for supplying weapons to ISIS
  

       The Chinese government issued a report stating that what is ridiculous now is the story of the loss of US advanced weapons to ISIS. Judging by the released photos of the weapons left by Iraqi troops to ISIS in Ramadi, the weapons seemed to be given to ISIS on purpose. ISIS retreated from Ramadi on purpose to enable Iraqi troops to send US weapons into the City. When the weapons were ready for ISIS to take, Iraqi troops retreated to let ISIS take the weapons. That was in fact a fake battle.
The London-based organization Conflict Armament Research previously reported that ISIS fighters are using “significant quantities” of arms including M16 assault rifles marked “property of the US government.” “What is important is that the US sends these weapons to only those that cooperate with the Pentagon and this indicates that the US plays a role in arming the ISIL.”
     
THE TRUTH: The administration declared proxy war on Russia after pledging to avoid it. The elite are playing with fire. Putin is determined to eliminate the scourge of terrorism in Syria, and by implication perhaps regionally and beyond. That puts him on a collision course with Washington. According to the Journal,

“(i)n the past month of intensifying Russian airstrikes, the CIA and its partners have increased the flow of military supplies to rebels in northern Syria, including of US-made TOW antitank missiles, these officials said.” “Those supplies will continue to increase in coming weeks, replenishing stocks depleted by the expanded military offensive. Shoulder-launched, man-portable, surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) defense systems (Manpads) are being supplied. “Those weapons could help target Russian aircraft keeping Russian air power at bay,” said the Journal, citing unnamed US officials. The more heavily armed ISIS and other terrorist groups become, the harder Russian aircraft will likely target them. Expect the battle to liberate Syria to continue for as long as it takes to achieve. We may be witnessing the beginning of WWIII.



*Phillip Todd is the overseas correspondent for The American Constitutionalist.

How Democratic Socialism has Changed America

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       George Sontag

        The rich and powerful, those who walk the corridors of power, are getting fat and happy under the Obama economic agenda.  The top 1%, the

millionaires and billionaires who the president loves to demagogue, although on the left they are his backers, earn a higher share of our national income than any time since 1928. It is the great lie, told by the Democrats, that has been perpetuated their media that the rich are the enemy, when if fact many of the Leftist rich are their partners. They push Socialism under the banner of "Progressive" yet it is not the kind that is most well known, no, it is a "corporate socialism" that creates massive wealth for the very few while leaving the rest of us to wonder - what happened? It is an indisputable fact that the current so-called Democratic party of the United States is the most anti-Constitutional party in our history as the following frightening(to patriots) statistics show:

•  Fifty-six percent of those Democratic primary voters questioned said they felt positive about Socialism as a governing philosophy in this country, versus 29 percent who took a negative view. Sixty-nine percent of Sanders supporters see socialism in a positive light. Those supporting Hillary Clinton approve of Socialism - 52 percent to 32 percent. 63 percent of Democratic voters under the age of 30 rate it positively and African-Americans support Socialism by a ratio of 2 to 1.

•  More unsettling to supporters of constitutional checks and balances is the finding that 43% of Democrats believe the president should have the right to ignore the courts. 

•  Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Democrats think the president should take action alone if Congress does not approve his proposals.

      On controversial matters Democrats want to pick and choose when the law is followed depending on their current agenda. The disgraceful Department of (in)Justice is a glaring example of Fascism in our government. The law is to be enforced only when the dictator in the white house says so, but they also want a president who follows the law when they disapprove of any potentially disagreeable action he might take. They want it both ways to suit the moment.

      Contrary to our Founding Fathers decree, the Democrat Party declares that our rights are gifts from Government, not the creator. The Democrat Party’s changing composition makes it possible to be openly anti-God. It’s now made up of a very rich urban elite and the poor. The urban elite despises God. In the coming years, we will hear a lot about how progressive Europeans are leading the way in casting off the shackles of religion. Their ideology is just Socialism with a thin veneer of Jesus.

      Democrats, the left, Progressives have always been the party of permanent class status. Where would the Democrat’s be without the “exploited” worker? Where would they be without the “struggling” man? The Democrat left has exploited, plundered, and manipulated their way into power since they first justified laws that banned freed slaves from owning weapons for self-defense. They appeal to those who identify themselves as victims in the same way Socialists and Communists appealed to the oppressed masses of Europe and Russia. The truth is, their policies only promise the destruction of the powerful, not the empowerment of the oppressed. And thus, the “victims” will forever remain “victims” of urban violence, failing schools, deteriorating infrastructure and welfare dependency.

      The average citizen today is clueless as to what has happened in America. Our schools no longer teach our youth of our country's founding principals. They are slowly indoctrinated with anti-constituional propaganda that degrades our nation's past. We see our county's foundations being warped and molded into a new form of government that does not aspire to American tradition of selflessness when it comes to patriotism. It is quite the opposite. Democratic Socialists win because their narrative works on an emotional level -- us against them. Bad, selfish people -- known as Republicans or the right -- want to stop the good and the decent -- known as Democrats or the left -- from their right to health care, right to a job, right to a job with a "livable wage" and

the right to not only enjoy one's own lifestyle but to shut down freedom of expression by branding their critics as racists, sexists or homophobes. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini would be proud.