Now An Attack on the First Amendment

by M. Richard Maxson


    The  Democratic Socialist Obama administration continuing attack on the Constitution continues by to be exposed bit by bit. It was not until the revelation that news organizations, specifically the AP, were being targeted did the press suddenly re-think it's love affair with it's "Progressive" friends.
     First, we discovered that the Justice Department had obtained two months’ worth of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a leak probe.  Now, The Washington Post reports that the Nation’s primary law enforcement agency has been tracking a Fox News reporter’s coming and goings from the State Department and has obtained a search warrant for the reporter’s personal emails.
     The FBI is reportedly making the unprecedented claim that the Fox journalist -- James Rosen -- broke the law by doing his job; namely, gathering information. No reporter has ever been prosecuted for soliciting information. The reaction from the news network was to the point, "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter. In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press." Brit Hume, a career and respected journalist was outraged and stated, "The Obama-Holder Justice Department is now prepared to treat the ordinary news gathering activities of reporters trying to seek information from government officials as a possible crime," he said.
    The administration’s moves against political reporters strike at the core of the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press.  The framers of the Bill of Rights put the rights of speech and press together with the rights “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” A citizen’s right to investigate, and even to criticize, the government is “the heart of what the First Amendment was meant to protect,” according to Justice Antonin Scalia.
    This, along with the administrations determined attack on whistle-blowers who expose the ileagality of their actions should strike horror into the souls of true Americans. The attempt to smear and destroy these Patriots reputations and careers has it's roots in Communist Socialism.
    A new report from the Office of Inspector General report showed that Dennis Burke -- the former chief of staff for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed as U.S. Attorney for Arizona by President Obama in September 2009 -- lied when asked if he leaked sensitive documents to the press meant to undermine the credibility of ATF whistle-blower John Dodson. The IG report also said Burke likely leaked the memo in retaliation for Dodson's whistle-blowing, and challenged the credibility of statements he made to congressional investigators.
    The report continues,  "We also concluded that Burke's disclosure of the Dodson memorandum was likely motivated by a desire to undermine Dodson's public criticisms of Operation Fast and Furious. Although Burke denied to congressional investigators that he had any retaliatory motive for his actions, we found substantial evidence to the contrary."
    So what did the Justice department do about the disclosure? A prominent Senator expressed it in chilling terms, "Instead of examining the allegations that came forward, the Justice Department almost immediately began to attack the credibility and good name of a dedicated federal agent upset with what he was ordered to do."
    This can only be the tip of the iceberg. Only a portion of what is going on under our noses and behind our backs. It will continue until the people wake up and stop electing Democratic Socialists to power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It may already be too late for America.
                                             

How to Hate America

by 

       M. Richard Maxson

    If you want lessons on hating America, college  might be a good start. Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. Moreover, it is largely indoctrination based on the same set of underlying and unexamined assumptions among teachers and institutions.

   The Progressives have dominated the educational system for decades. They clearly understood that a radical change in the role of government required a radical change in public opinion. For over 100 years, Progressives (today's liberals) have made it a stated goal to transform education - especially higher education - in America into something hostile to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The citizenry of this nation, for the most part, is the product of an education system that has brainwashed it students for several decades It started in Americans colleges where it's roots are now strong and indestructible. It spread down into the high schools and now, finally all the way down to kindergarten. Now, a student can go all the way from elementary school to a Ph.D. without encountering any fundamentally different vision of the world from that of the prevailing political correctness.

    What could possibly be wrong with what our young are taught? How about  "We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it" That's taught to University of Hawaii students by Professor Haunani-Kay Trask. Richard Falk, professor emeritus at Princeton University and the U.N. Human Rights Council's Palestine monitor, explained the Boston bombings by saying, "The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world." Professor Falk has also stated that President George W. Bush ordered the destruction of the twin towers.

    Or how about these:

     University of Southern California professor Darry Sragow preaches hate to his students in his regulation of elections and political finance class, recently telling them that Republicans are stupid, racist losers and that they are angry old white people. 

     Penn State University professor Matt Jordan compared supporters of the voter ID laws to the Ku Klux Klan. 

     University of Rhode Island history professor Erik Loomis stated that, "We can define NRA membership as dues contributing to a terrorist organization" 

     Then there's Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman, who explained our national problems by saying, "Our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions." 

    Those are some examples from the college ranks but how about in the high schools of our nation? A teacher at Lumberton High School in Texas encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing and instructed them to refer to the 9/11 hijackers not as terrorists but as "freedom fighters." They were also told to stop referring to the Holocaust as genocide. John Valastro, the superintendent of the Lumberton Independent School District, stated that the teacher did absolutely nothing wrong. The list can go on and on.

    Many schools around the country no longer require their students to take a class in American government, civics, or American history. Here's a question: Do you know what textbook is being used in the American history class down at your local high school? If you don't know, you should ask. What you find may be surprising. They are probably reading liberal revisionist history, not historical fact. Every American must understand that when Progressives (Democratic-Socialists) use words such as "liberty" and "equality," they mean something far different from what our nation's founders described in the Declaration of Independence.

     What America needs is a real history lesson. Public opinion is shaped by education - or lack thereof. Those who understand the principles of liberty and wish to preserve them - we must all work to live up to our heritage. That begins with our own education and that of our fellow citizens, before it's too late!

 
    


    

    

What’s Your Constitutional IQ?

By M. Richard Maxson


    As our country lurches to the left and Civics, Government, and the American Constitution are no longer a part of many school systems cirriculum. As truths of our founding fathers gave us becomes a speck in our rear view mirror we needed a way to re-educate our youth. Here is an arictcle by Becket Adams about a new board game that is starting to catch on among true Americans. Constitutionals want it, the rest need it.

 by Becket Adams

    Pam and Dave Barret have long been concerned with what they call “constitutional literacy.”
And with their extensive backgrounds in education, it was only a matter of time before they came up with Constitution Quest, an innovative twist on teaching people the fundamentals of the supreme law of the United States.
    “For years, we had been talking about what we would do in our retirement years, and we knew we would continue to implement our very successful experiences as educators, So our creative efforts went into high gear to produce a product with real value…and with the help of our very creative and brilliant children, we made a family project of it,” it adds.
    But they saw more than a want for their product. They saw a real need for it.
   “The average American’s lack of familiarity with the U.S. Constitution coincides with an existential threat to the continuance of government of, by and for the people. Literacy empowers self-government, but the challenge, as well as the opportunity, is that in many ways our society has been moving toward a post-literate culture,” the Barrets say, “where there’s an abundance of rhyme but less reason, and  sophisms, and sound bites rule.”
    “We believed we could offer something of substance that would capture and sustain the interest of a distracted generation by making it fun,” it adds.
    Armed with a stack of constitution-related questions dating back to 2010, the Barrets set out to design a game that would teach players the basics of the critical document. “What we came up with was a beautiful, functional, interactive piece of art: an educational board game that people actually think is fun,” they said.

Cognitive Square, INC.

  
     It wasn’t long that they launched Constitution Quest that Cognitive Square, INC. In May 21, 2012, roughly 1,022 games have been sold. “The Constitution Quest Game is selling successfully at the James Madison’s Montpelier Museum Store, the Nixon Library Museum Store, the Reagan Library Museum Store, and DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. (in addition to small ‘mom and pop’ shops around the country),” they said. “These stores have ordered and reordered multiple times!”

Cognitive Square, INC.

    They aren’t the only ones who are excited about the game. Sales have exceeding all expectations.
“Since it went into the shrink-wrap, we have sold nearly 5000 units across America — covering ALL 50 states, and are already halfway through the second production run!” they said.

    With an enthusiastic and growing customer base, the Barrets’ creation has become a small business success story. “We took an idea and ran with it — we were passionate about it and we made something happen. That’s what being an American entrepreneur is all about,” they said. “We wanted the game to be beautiful, and Constitution Quest had to be made in America.

The De-industrialization of America

Guest Column  
            By G. Sontag 
    
    The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing.
    
    It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution. It was America that showed the world how to mass produce everything from automobiles to televisions to airplanes. It was the great American manufacturing base that crushed Germany and Japan in World War II.
 

    Now we are witnessing the de-industrialization of America . Tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone. Millions upon millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the same time period. The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation. In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.


    The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little.  In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how many of
them were manufactured inside the United States ? Zero. Do you know what our biggest export is today? Waste paper. Yes, trash is the number one thing that we ship out to the rest of the world as we voraciously blow our money on whatever the rest of the world wants to sell to us.  In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.

    The United States has become bloated and spoiled and our economy is now just a shadow of what it once was. Once upon a time America could literally out produce the rest of the world combined. Today that is no longer true, but Americans sure do consume more than anyone else in the world.

    If the deindustrialization of America continues at this current pace, what possible kind of a future are we going to be leaving to our children? Any great nation throughout history has been great at making things. So if the United States continues to allow its manufacturing base to erode at a staggering pace how in the world can the U.S. continue to consider itself to be a great nation? 

    The deindustrialization of the United States should be a top concern for every man, woman and child in the country. But sadly, most Americans do not have any idea what is going on around them

    We have created the biggest debt bubble in the history of the world in an effort to maintain a very high standard of living, but the current state of affairs is not anywhere close to
sustainable. Every single month America goes into more debt and every single month America gets poorer.
    So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do something about it? How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?
 
    How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy? How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national economic suicide?

The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis. It needs to be treated like one.

Socialism Destroys

 Guest Column
          
           by Zeno Potas
  
    During the mid-20th century, Detroit was a vibrant city with a population of almost 2 million. Today, it

stands near ruin. The number of residents has now been estimated at just over 700,000. According to the Chicago Tribune, "The city has a crushing debt of $14 billion, and a budget deficit of as much as $327 million. The pay and benefit structure of public employees can't be sustained. ... The city could run out of cash in a matter of weeks." And yet the city's main courthouse reports having $280 million worth of uncollected fines and fees.
   
    The initial response to all of this sad news was denial. Some tried to change the subject by playing the race card. The majority of those who live in Detroit are African American. Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder, is white, as are a majority of the state's residents. But crime, corruption, malfeasance and misfeasance are not exclusive to a single race. Ask New Jersey. The problem for Detroit is something no one wants to address: one-party rule. And that would be the Democratic Party.
   
   While the road to Hell may be paved with good intentions, the road to corruption and municipal failure seems to have been paved by Detroit's Democratic monopoly. Political monopolies invite bribes, kickbacks, misuse of funds, cronyism and a sense of entitlement.

    Many businesses have fled Detroit for the usual reasons, including crime. In 2009, Time Magazine reported the city's functional literacy rate was near 50 percent and its unsolved murder rate was nearly 70 percent.

    Michigan law provides for an emergency manager with the authority to prevent local elected officials from making financial decisions. That person also would be granted the power to alter labor contracts, shut or privatize departments and, reports The New York Times, "
 
    Altering labor contracts caused quite the controversy in neighboring Wisconsin, but it had to be done. Democrats there (and in Detroit) had given away too much of the store in exchange for votes.
Shrinking government and encouraging personal responsibility can be a win-win and not only for Detroit.
   

    "We can't go on like this," is starting, however slowly, to become clear to more and more people.

     Some years back, Detroit leaders announced a "Renaissance" for the city. There's a hotel there by that name, but that's about it. Detroit needs more than a Renaissance. It needs a revival, but that is not likely to happen as long as Democrats maintain their political stranglehold.

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The Rise of Bolshevik America?

By 

       M. Richard Maxson

    Tell me where have you heard this in America's press? In his recent presidential directives President Obama has ordered that  doctors, and other health care providers be forced to ask questions regarding gun ownership of patients. What could possibly be the motive behind such an order? It reeks of the same system of informants the KGB used. If health care providers are required to ask invasive questions, other federal employees in different spheres certainly will be asked to.
    The KGB employed informants and quotas to counter anti-revolutionary measures. The American government is already preparing itself for revolution, with CDC concentration camps and the ability to create martial law, and removing constitutional laws enabling the American people to change their form of government if they so choose. This new network of required informants is yet another step in the direction of repressive regimes reminiscent of the former Soviet Union. How far is America from asking students about their parents activities at home?
   The news media in America has been almost completely taken over by people who share Communist/Socialist ideals. Everything in my lifetime has turned 180 degrees. First you  have to understand propaganda comes in two forms- political and cultural. There are those in the news media that have an agenda - they want to see a certain world-view. The entertainment media are more powerful than the political media today.  The political propaganda comes from the news media. 

 Look at some of the comments from Americans in Russian newspapers:

•    "I must confess, the irony of history. I was born in 1958. I remember the Soviet Union, I remember reading the Gulag Archipelago. Oh how things have changed. Here we have people leaving the west for Russia. Just 30 years ago Russians fled to the US for freedom.  I used to read Pravda for laughs. I used to listen to Radio Moscow for kicks. Now I turn to Pravda for a voice of freedom. Well done Russia, well done, you have proven that freedom will never die." - Philip Rauschert · Wheaton College

•  USA television networks are all owned by 6 liberal  families who have Bolshevik sympathies so clueless uninformed USA voters voted in a Bolshevik who is wrecking USA. Even President Putin recently warned Obama he is following a failed Soviet strategy that led to an economic collapse. - John Richard Walsh

• I often wondered the same thing: who really owns America? That's right the media must be owned by someone who directs the thoughts and beliefs of clueless Americans who just eat it up thats how Obama got re-elected, by adoring sheeple who love their free stuff that he promises them! Where are they going with this?? They already are taking our guns away, freedom of religion is going next. I am afraid of what is coming next. The constituion is being ripped to shreds. Remember that a lot of Americans did not vote for BHO and are not buying his bull. - Joanne Albrecht

•   What is happening in America today is the beginning of what liberal democrats have planned since the 60's and earlier. They are much more patient in "transforming" america than we conseravtives are at restoring it. The republican establishment is on board with this transformation...only they are stealthier today about it. Our nation is being purposefully destroyed by a small group of people but they are supported by a large group or people. They will remake america into a socialist, marxist, communist state the likes of which has no been seen in human history. The answer to this problem does not lie in emailing, writing calling elected representatives or protesting and marching. The answer has been given to us by the founders. The answer has been shown to us by history. The answer...the ONLY answer is all out armed civil war. Like it or not! - Mark Greene

     There is also the cultural propaganda that comes from the entertainment media. The entertainment media ultimately are more powerful than the political media because so many more people watch it. You have those in the entertainment media who have an agenda- they want to see a certain world-view. Ask Michael Moore. He’s just the most blatant of them all, but just about everyone in Hollywood these days has an leftist agenda- they have a mission. If you expose' Constitutionalism, you may be out of work.