JDs Bunker

I had an interesting and enlightening conversation. It was with a man knowledgeable in all things concerning information technology and in whom I place much trust. The cyber world is his profession. The realm in which he spends most of his days.

We discussed the latest revelations from the Snowden NSA whistleblowing incident. We discussed privacy as it is now in America and the cyber world. He made relevant points.

What is inside your house is private. No one has a right, uninvited, to look in unless with a proper warrant based on probable cause that a crime might have been committed. I agreed. However, what you toss out into the yard is there to see for anyone who passes by. In the same sense, whatever resides on your personal computer is private. No one, including our benevolent government, has a legal right to snoop around in there without probable cause and a duly issued warrant. However, there is a however. Whatever you toss into the cyber yard – all of it – from the social media traps to comment posting to internet searches is available for whoever happens by whether inadvertently or purposely. Once something (property or information) leaves your private domain and lands in the yard, either the grassy one or the cyber one, you forfeit privacy. You can protect property, but you cannot prevent someone else from viewing it once you place it in public view. Like words cut loose from your mouth before you engage your brain. Everyone in ear shot hears. Once out there, you cannot recall those words.

For our country to remain alert and secure, we must have a sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus. We have surveillance systems that can zero in on individuals or groups or locations. Anyone who does not understand that is naïve. We live in a world driven by information. Whoever has the best will drive the rest.

During the Patriot Act debates, I recall writing that we should be more concerned with what Google knows about us rather than what the government knows. Google and other similar companies, even some you have never heard about, collect data for business purposes. They sell collected data because it is valuable. They also use it steer you, intelligently, toward products and services. Google probably knows more facts about you than you can remember about yourself. Information gathered from your cluttered cyber yard. From your Internet browsing to those little key chain cards that you scan at the store. They know where you shop, what you buy, what you read, what interests you, you name it. And they did not gather one piece of it from snooping around inside your personal computer. If this information, placed freely into growing data bases by us, is used for legitimate business purposes what is the harm in a free market society? None, I contend. However, when the collected data is sold to those with other purposes in mind like political steering then there are problems. The big problem in all of this, for me, is that people readily sell my information to mostly any purchaser – like I am owned. That is unsettling, but we did it to ourselves. Simply put, privacy in the sense of our Constitution is still intact. When we offer it up for grabs by placing it into the public sphere, it is we the people who forfeit it.

Electronic intelligence gathering is much like fishing. Sometimes, to find a specific target a large net is cast. When the net is hauled in and its contents surveyed, the fisherman pulls out the fish he was after and chucks the remainder back into the ocean. In theory at least. The methods of gathering this information must not be made public. For when it is, the real targets to our peril may be able to avoid detection.

On the other hand, the fishermen must be responsible. If an unscrupulous, potentially tyrannical government gathers and uses information on American citizens for purposes other than national security, the bounds of trust and freedom are breached. Such government and its officials must be held to account. There must be iron clad protections for citizens and to violate them must result in severe, unwavering punishment.

© 2013

Have you ever smelled a honeysuckle in full bloom? Nothing quite like it. The world’s greatest perfumers would be challenged to duplicate the scent. It surrounds me here with its welcomed fragrance and beautiful vine. The deep green leafs and bright white blooms beautify the landscape.

If, in the middle of the vine, a weed makes it way to the top, it blights the beauty. Wary of the snake that may be cooling in the shade beneath the vine, but not fearing it, we wade into the middle and rip that weed out by its roots. Ensuring its total destruction and returning the honeysuckle to its unmolested beauty.

Victorious, considering the job done, we walk away only to notice the weed creeping across the lawn. The one we carefully mowed to precisely three inches. Watered, fertilized, and turned to a deep luscious green. It is our often feeble and vain attempt to beautify and improve on nature’s carpet. That sickly looking yellowish-green weed strives to detract from the beauty of the lawn we worked so hard to build and maintain.

We do not stand for it. We have zero tolerance for destructive weeds. We commence pulling, raking and even resorting to all out chemical warfare to obliterate the threat. After which we routinely survey, remaining ever vigilant for the return of any menace.

In our lives are weeds. They may be moral weeds. Ethical weeds. Greed weeds. Self-worshiping weeds. All types of poison weeds. Left alone they detract from and ultimately destroy what we are meant to be. We work hard at maintaining the beauty of the landscape. On that, some of us focus passionately. Or we intensely focus on our outward appearance and most assuredly these days too much on the appearance of others. We do that while our personal weeds threaten our inner-beauty – threatens to forever darken our souls.

God blessed each of us with life in America. A great country founded on His simple precepts, all of them included in one word. Freedom. America is the first place where people, in founding and governing documents, were guaranteed the preservation of the freedom and individual liberty gifted to them by God. Because of that, and for no other foundational reason, we were richly blessed. America remains the last true place for freedom in this world and is the lone beacon of hope for the world’s un-free.

Sadly, America has a plague of destructive weeds. Just as they destroy souls, a landscape, or choke the life from food crops they will suffocate the essence of life from a free, God-fearing nation.

We must remove our national weeds with vigor. It is clear that some wish America, the last free place, to end. They hope to replace God as the giver of freedom. If freedom originates with government, government can take it away. They believe that an all consuming government choking the life from its people is better than the individual freedom that has made us the greatest nation in the history of the world.

Freedom cannot be taken from us. We can only lose it if we give it away. America’s beauty and her freedom, like the souls of people, once lost will never return.

© 2013

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.” — General George S. Patton Jr.

Take this time to explain to your children the significance of this day dedicated to the Americans who died in our nation’s wars so that all Americans might remain free. May God bless their souls.

Our God and soldiers we alike adore,
Ev’n at the brink of danger; not before;
After deliverance, both alike requited,
Our God’s forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. – Frances Quarles, 1632

Psalm 91

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty
2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”

3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”

In Flanders Fields

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, 1872-1918

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies blow
In Flanders fields.

The President is outraged over the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, which is only one of the triad. When he directed some presumed anger at the problem he amazingly just found out about, Congress dutifully welled up with anger. Tax mooch Democrat Charlie Rangel was beside himself. Republicans tried to out-anger the vocal Democrats. Probably some great future campaign footage shot during the hearings. After all, is that not what most things in Washington are about these days? Who will this help or hurt politically? Who cares about America? This is all about me and my stature in the party.

In lockstep with our progressive government and Congress, the progressive and sycophantic news media fell in line and became similarly outraged.

Just as they decided which war was worth fighting and which was not, this collection of people decided for all Americans which scandal most needed attention. Attention from the people who brought it to us in the first place.

Benghazi, having barely made it to the front part of the news, quickly dropped below the fold or disappeared altogether. Relegated back to citizen Internet blogs – America’s only hope for truthful journalism.

If this was a made for television movie, I would have long ago switched channels. Maybe to the food channel. If something is going to give me terminal indigestion it should at least be palatable. The unbelievable story line? A scandal was about to break open so horrible that most Americans if knowing the whole truth would not only demand resignations of many, they would also demand lengthy prison terms or worse. Just in the nick of time, a planted question brings about an unsolicited apology for the fascist operation that the IRS has become. The President shares his outrage with the nation, directing us toward the real scandal we should be concerned with – the one that can be easily laid at the feet of “rogue” underlings. Underlings, who will admit guilt, resign apologetically with full government pensions and never be heard from again. All designed to distract from the scandal tied directly to the Whitehouse – the one where Americans died – the one they want us to forget about. The one where there is growing evidence of a gun running operation. Was it an operation supplying weapons through Libya to the Syrian “rebels” who are looking remarkably like Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and Al-Qaida terrorists?

The question that some nether want asked or answered? Was what happened in Benghazi a battle for control of the weapons provided by agents of our government? That possibility is not too hard to believe considering that we own the Arab spring movement that did as many warned usher in Muslim Brotherhood control. We are providing advanced fighter aircraft and the world’s most advanced main battle tank to them now. These are weapons that will ultimately be turned toward Israel and Americans.

But there is another twist to the story line that will make it much more interesting. It is truth that evil cannot exist in the light, which is why my daily prayers include a request that God’s light of truth shine brightly across our land. While the light is momentarily dimmed over Benghazi, it is shining brightly on the fascist tactics used by arguably our most powerful government agency in that it can destroy at will most any American or entity and under current leadership stands ready to do that to promote a political ideology. With that, consider the telephone records of AP journalists taken by the most political and corrupt Department of Justice in history.

At its core, these two scandals point directly to elements of the government using the power of government to destroy political opposition and attack free speech and the free press. The Benghazi scandal, when back in the light, will show a government willing to arm the people who attacked us and still want to destroy us – all to advance a failed political ideology and who are spurred on by the members of the Muslim Brotherhood working at the highest levels of our government. Traitorous.

The good end to this story? The light of truth is shining brightly on the dangers of placing big government in the hands of people who are willing to use it as the weapon of choice to destroy our country and its freedom. The first step toward healing? Resignations and long prison terms. The second step? Repeal of the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution, abolish the IRS and implement a simple flat tax rate for all Americans to pay. After that, we can abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Department of Education…..

©2013

Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama

Dereliction of duty.

What greater duty does a President have than the protection of American citizens? Most especially those performing the government’s work in a foreign land.

To neglect that most important duty and then blatantly lie about it to the American people is disgraceful. I do not know how any American serving in danger can feel confident that government leadership will be there when most needed. Lying politicians are not a new phenomenon. Bold liars however, can only be so when they believe they will never be found out.

They become bold liars when they believe the big media voices will sing from whatever sheet music they are provided. Sadly, most have. But there seems to be a tiny hole in that dyke. Random acts of journalism are turning up in places other than Fox news, citizen blogs and talk radio. Either they will successfully lie their way out of Benghazi or that dyke is going to break. When it breaks, Watergate will no longer be the reference point for government scandals and cover-ups. Covering up burglary or covering up murder? You decide. People will go to prison.

Much of the American media is scurrilous at best and only supporting of whatever agenda fits its ideology. Such people lack character. They lack honor. When the going gets ugly, they are loyal only to self. They will rather quickly abandon the sinking ship of state rather than help plug the leaks. They will quickly join the circling sharks for a feeding frenzy. As the administration sacrificially tosses people overboard, they media will gleefully rip them into shreds. Hope you have a life vest Hillary. Those in the crippled vessel hope the sacrifices will satisfy the hunger. They will not. The perseverance of the dying media will have nothing to do with getting to the ugly truth. It will be about trying to regain some measure of credibility with the American people. This is what the administration fears most. Otherwise, why would the most transparent administration ever hold a closed, off the record meeting with “news” reporters?

There are people out there who can put this whole business to rest, but they need to do an honor check. Calling General (Retired) David Petraues. It is your legacy General. It can be one of courage and doing the right thing or it can be one of self-preservation. History will tell the truth later or you can do it now.

There is something else the media is not talking about – yet. The coming battle royal between the Clinton machine and the Obama machine. Get the popcorn. This one is going to be a doozie sports fans.

Abuse of power.

Remember the days of the Patriot Act? All of the apologists were out there asking, “If you don’t have anything to hide, what’s your problem?”

Abuse of power. That is the problem.

How about the Internal Revenue Service going after conservative organizations. Singling them out for scrutiny. Do you really believe that it was “low level” IRS employees that took it upon themselves to do that? If so, you are pretty doggoned gullible. In this case, we can eliminate any abuse of power. We can change the tax code to a flat rate for everyone and close the IRS. Dear Congress, please do not let this crisis go to waste.

When I think about abuse of power nowadays, a lot comes to mind that is downright frightening. What about drones? They are already flying about. When you turn on your GPS, the satellite does such a swell job of pinpointing where you are that the speed limits change right where the sign posts sit. Do you think the government does not have the ability to use that technology to pinpoint you for the drone that might fire a hell fire missile up your tail pipe? They can do that with your cell phone too. Hmmm? Makes you ponder the simpler life does it not? Think about all of the cameras watching your every move. Your phone calls being recorded. The family tree and lists of “friends” you built on Facebook. Your emails being captured because in one of them you dropped one of those words…..

All of you big government fans need to think clearly about the powers given to government. Times have proven that the people exercising those powers are not always scrupulous nor do they always have America’s best interest at heart.

©2013

My sweetheart and I had relatively similar starts in life. Hers began in a rural South Korean farming village where at the time both drivable roads and electricity were in short supply. Mine started in a West Virginia coal mining camp. Yesterday, we celebrated forty years of marriage. Our friends sent us a card pointing out the many changes that have taken place over forty years. Cell phones, Internet, cable television, etc… Improvements? I often wonder. Still, the card caused me to ponder.

Forty years ago, Jimmy Carter declared that we must become energy independent.

Forty years ago, the Vietnam War was winding down leaving our nation a generation of practically forgotten and unappreciated heroes. The Vietnam War was lost first in the marbled hallways and paneled offices of Washington, DC. While war is but an extension of national politics, politicians demonstrated for Americans and also our enemies that they are not very good at war fighting. Political polling is not a good battlefield strategy. Ironic, is it not, that again in our history inept politicians are unnecessarily putting a generation of our young men and women through hell because they try to extrapolate party politics and ideology to battlefields half way around the world?

Vietnam was also lost in the streets and on college campuses across the nation. Draft dodgers were still taking refuge in Canada, only later to be granted amnesty by President Carter along with upgraded discharges for deserters one of whom almost became our President. Another draft dodger who famously stated that he loved his country, but loathed the military pretended to be in ROTC just long enough to get deferred. He became our President. His less than impeccable character always on display.

Young and liberal kids, two things that invariably go together until life’s realities smack them in the face, were led down the path of protest by wealthy, spoiled brats who never in their protected lives had to face a scintilla of hardship. Never had to provide for themselves or lift a tool in labor. The most famous of them is Jane Fonda. She once told University of Michigan Students, “If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become Communist.” Since communism is atheistic, I wondered to whom Jane suggests that we fall on our knees and pray. Just further proof that when everything in life is handed to you and you are surrounded with sycophants seeing to your every need somehow inside your feeble mind you believe that communist utopia will provide the same for everyone.

There was also the future Secretary of State John Kerry. Aided by the likes of liberal politician Ted Kennedy, he and his phonies lied to America about the conduct of our Soldiers in Vietnam. The same tripe he continued when he proclaimed that American Soldiers were terrorizing Iraqi women and children in their homes.

There were other Vietnam protest elements of the time. The Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary organization, for example. Certainly, by now you know of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. They are terrorists. Ayers likes having his picture taken standing on the American flag. He bombed police stations, the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon. He enjoys freedom in America. In his living room began the political career of the current President of the Unites States of America. Ayers has and continues to influence education in our country, recently declaring in a speech to college students that America is over.

It was during Vietnam, when the American media discovered their enormous power to sway public opinion by what was reported and what was not. The American media, in those days there was no alternative, so misreported the war that one of their icons Walter Cronkite declared to America that the war was lost during his reporting on the Tet Offensive of 1968. Just for the record, America’s Soldiers never lost a battle in Vietnam and Tet was a devastating defeat for the North. Sadly, Americans believed what was reported by the “most trusted name in news” and his colleagues. Today’s so-called mainstream media learned from their elders and are now little more than communist ideologues – useful idiots. Someday, Americans will hold them accountable for the damage done to our country through their abuse of one of our most important freedoms – a free press.

Those people of the 60s and 70s are running our country these days. Nary a Washington politician and most assuredly not the news media will call them what they are – communists. For a Washington politician, the most feared label after racist is McCarthy-ite. The media belongs to the communists. Spineless politicians cower to it. Are made or broken by it.

Our country is led by men and women who are communist in their ideology. Their few vocal political challengers are marginalized by the most watched and read media sources. Their misdeeds that cost American lives are covered up and never fully reported. Since the communist minded have formed an unholy alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, we are at war with an enemy that we cannot speak of. America’s – and freedom’s – real enemy is that unholy alliance. It is focused on one thing. It is the same goal as had the pot heads, communist collaborators and terrorist bombers from forty years ago – the destruction of America.

I pray that history will show that this is the time when Americans declared enough!

©2013

Bill Ayers: Weather Underground Bombings Nothing Like Boston Attack

We have reached a time in history, for ourselves, our country and the world where each of us will have to choose a way forward. Before doing that, we must all understand what we value and on what our personal and national foundations rest.

A few days ago, I was driving on a two lane country road around 5 AM. Country roads here in Wild and Wonderful are dark so any natural light makes a big difference on the landscape. In my view ahead was a full moon, appearing much larger than usual. It felt like I was driving right into it – a head on collision imminent. Oddly, as I was admiring the view, John Fogarty’s tune Bad Moon Rising popped into my head. No, there was no proud Mary burning just in case you are wondering.

I see a bad moon a-rising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earth quakes and lightnin’.
I see bad times today.
Don’t go ’round tonight
It’s bound and take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise

Some who read this I know personally, others by Internet acquaintance and the remainder maybe not at all. I do not know on what anyone’s foundation is built or from what their values derive. I do know that too many Americans display values that are not derived from enduring principles. Principles come from natural law and therefore are firm. They are always there. They are unchanging. They endure. When values oppose principles, the outcome can be at worst catastrophic and at best a life’s lesson worth remembering. Individuals, businesses and even nations who set their paths against enduring principles always fail.

Our country was founded on enduring principles tied to “laws of nature and of nature’s God.” These principles acknowledge that by the grace of God, all people are free. Tied to that enduring principle, our Constitution was written to ensure that our government cannot abridge certain unalienable rights that are inherent in and whose purpose is to ensure the preservation of the freedom that we have through the laws of nature and from nature’s God. Freedom that is ours from the time we are conceived.

For decades, people who consider their ideology progressive or the unspoken communist have been telling us that our Constitution is not suitable for the world today. It is outdated. It needs re-writing to reflect our new American values. Values are influenced by any number of things. Wealth, popular culture, or just one’s lot in life. Principles do not change. To actively steer a nation away from the enduring principles that has guided it throughout its history is a formula for destruction or as some call it a fundamental transformation. Whatever it is dubbed, be assured that it is catastrophic for all of the nation’s people – save those few who are running it. Adolph Hitler and his NAZI party stood in firm opposition to the laws of nature and nature’s God. Not all Germans wanted Hitler, but all Germans suffered immensely because of him.

Our national leadership has embraced many positions that diametrically oppose the principles of natural law on which our nation was founded. It has worked at a feverish pace to restrict Constitutional rights that are necessary for us to stand as guardians of the freedom God gave us.

I do not know if you have been following the Kermit Gosnell murder trial. If you rely on “mainstream” print or broadcast media, you have heard little of it. Even in view of Gosnell’s butchery, our president appeared before a Planned Parenthood gathering. This organization, founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, is by far our nation’s largest abortion provider. They get a lot of tax dollars so we share the shame. The President finished his speech with “God bless you.” The leader of our country asked God to bless the killing of unborn children. I do not know what else to say about that, except that wagging your finger in the face of God is usually a bad idea.

The time for choosing is here. At some point, probably sooner rather than later, each of us will choose a path based on what we value. If what you value does not align with what is enduring, you are heading down the wrong path no matter how rosy the path is painted by those leading you down it. If you are an officer of the law or a serving member of the Armed Forces you may have to choose between fulfilling your oath to defend the Constitution or agreeing with the progressives that it is an old outdated document. Give your choice much deep thought and prayer.

May God bless the United States of America.

© 2013

Obama 12-Minute Speech to Planned Parenthood Time for 7.6 Abortions at Planned Parenthood

Gosnell gets last chance at defense

I am growing weary of flags flown at half-staff. Weary of politicians offering nothing but their “heartfelt” thoughts and prayers as payment for the incompetence and suicidal ideations that led us to the faux solidarity symbolized by lowering our national flag as if in a subservient bow. Then in the next breath, use those to whom we are supposedly showing respect as pawns to further the destructive agenda that brought us here. To a place where the symbol of our free nation spends too much time in a pretense of mourning rather than flying tall and forward toward the danger.

What brought us to this place? A place where citizens are told to shutter their doors and do not peek out unless a police officer knocks on your door. Citizens whom many want to disarm. The utopian road paved with moral relativism, world citizenry, hyphenated-Americanism, socialism, and multiculturalism and all neatly bundled with political correctness. Reads like a formula. It is the formula that brings death to great nations.

Who brought us to this place? Government meddling that turned our educational institutions into indoctrination centers that is now been given a steroidal injection with Common Core. Education steeped in ideology rather than reading, writing, arithmetic and an honest depiction of US history. Organizations actively fighting to completely remove God from our lives. Politicians who long ago forgot their charge replacing protect and defend the Constitution of the United States with protect and defend the party. A media cabal that is merely propaganda for the progressive-communist ideology, sharing with the public only that which enforces the ideology and never a thought or story that is counter to it. An American citizenry that has grown more willing each passing year to accept that government knows best and therefore should provide for their needs.

We are in a different place than the America most of us knew even a decade ago. I find myself conducting active surveillance of any crowd I find myself in – at the mall, in a restaurant, at the movie theatre and even in Church. In a dangerous world, I am expected to be an unarmed victim to the “lone wolves” so politicians can lay platitudes at my grave site and then lower the flag to half staff. Curious? How many lone wolves does it take before it is called a pack? How many of these must we endure?

Like others who have been labeled lone wolves, the Boston bombers regardless of when they came to America were raised inside a culture to abhor western culture, “the great Satan.” Their inculcation did not end just because they lived in America. Recent ones, who have failed in their attempts, did so out of incompetence rather than being caught or preempted. Anyone who believes this duo is the last is still walking down that utopian road of inclusiveness.

It is interesting to note the Muslim Brotherhood influence in our government. From the Whitehouse to the State Department where Madam Secretary’s right hand gal had family ties to the brotherhood, to Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. It should come and no surprise that Islamist is a forbidden word in our government. We are at war with an ideology. We cannot kill an ideology, but we better do something to protect ourselves from it rather than killing our citizens with political correctness.

Recently, an Army Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) named Jack Rich sent an email out to his subordinates. LTC Rich mentioned domestic hate groups, like the Family Research Council and the American Family Association Christian ministries that he declared do not share “our Army Values.”

“Just want to ensure everyone is somewhat educated on some of the groups out there that do not share our Army Values.”

As a Christian, I feel good being lumped in with Nazis, Skin heads and the KKK. That such would even come from the mind of an Army LTC, one who can directly influence an entire battalion of Soldiers is breath taking. LTC Rich I do not know of the values you write about, but it is rather clear that you, undoubtedly influenced by the leadership climate above you, do not see a place in the Army for Christians.

We can vilify Christians in this nation with no blow back. We will be labeled haters for calling out Islam for the murdering acts of its followers on a world-wide basis. I am curious whether LTC Rich provided his subordinates with all of the bombings, beheadings and murders committed by these domestic Christian hate groups. No, he labeled people who only exercise their religious freedom and hold to their beliefs as “haters.” What does that make him?

Rather than hiding it under a vale of political correctness, it is time to call the threat what it is. Our flag should not be at half-staff. It should be flying battle forward and we should be pointing out radical Islam wherever it is found inside the borders of our country. Maybe we should use at least half as much energy as we do demeaning Christians. Otherwise, Boston is just a beginning.

© 2013

I never thought life’s turns would make a hostage of me. Not in free America. When you are young and doing what you love to do, the future is not of much concern. During my Army years, I saw the promise of a meager Army pension as a bit of earned security. In the event of hard times, it was something that would always be there for my family. For service rendered, my country guaranteed it. It was viewed as money to replace what we could never save while raising a family on enlisted pay and moving lock stock a barrel across the country or around the world every couple of years. I have simply lost trust in our current governing body and the electorate that put them and keep them in power to fulfill that promise or any.

From the time I was a teenager, I invested my money into Social Security and Medicare. Thinking rather naively that the Washington ruling classes, those who rather than serving feel they should be served, would protect my investment. It was logical to believe that since I was forced into a scheme that given other options I may not have picked.

Sadly, money properly belonging to millions of Americans was squandered through crony capitalism, self-admiring monuments, and the funding of government and social institutions that provide no value to freedom or prosperity. Rather, they hinder both. That and dumping it into failed governments and failed societies that hate us to the core. Countries in which we somehow believed through our benevolence and superior intellect a cultural change toward a free society might be orchestrated. They gladly take our cash and then spit in our faces. Thousands year old cultures are as ingrained, if not more, than freedom is in the hearts of God fearing Americans.

So in the twilight, here I sit having spent my life believing I was doing what was honorable and good and expecting only good things to come of that. It is a sad realization when one moves from serving a government to becoming a hostage of it. Some see that as progress. I see it as smothering. Sucking the last breath of freedom away from a person and changing the country people loved into a divided and hate filled cesspool. Wow. What an achievement.

America is the place where people have allowed themselves to be trapped into government dependence. Trapped because of misplaced trust in men and women that view themselves as a superior ruling class and whose professed life’s purpose is to care for the little people. That vaunted American middle class – the American backbone – from which too few of them hail and to which the remainder view as the ignorant unwashed masses. Once these pretenders ride their tidal wave of hollow promises to Washington, the little people and their problems are quickly forgotten. They are replaced by sycophantic rear end kissers who know how to endear themselves to narcissists and egomaniacs. Their constituencies become lobbyists and whichever media has kind things to write or speak about them. It is certainly a Faustian arrangement.

Military retirees are only a tiny percentage of the American population. Veterans disabled from their service, another small percentage. Those dependent solely on Social Security and Medicare is larger and growing. Are these people important to their Washington overseers? Sadly, only as a political weapon. A bludgeon for their political opponents and a voting block to frighten into falling for more false promises. Promises America on her current track can never fulfill.

As far back as I can recall, the left has lamented the cost or the military retired pay system. The Department of Defense has cried to the high heavens that meeting a national obligation to a finite number of people is simply breaking the bank. Health care for retirees was the first hit. It simply cannot be afforded they cried. Some of those crony deals for defense contractors could be at stake. Military retirees do not complain much and they are a small voting bloc. Any system can undergo some reform and modernization, but military retirement is an enticement for professional people to spend a lifetime in service while those who used “a little blow whenever they could get it” become politicians and go to Washington. The military retirement system in any recognizable form cannot survive these people.

Seniors on Social Security and Medicare are threatened every election cycle. No cost of living raises and now Medicare covered patients being turned away from cancer clinics because Medicare does not sufficiently cover the cost of that care. Can you say death panel? Here is a news flash, Medicare does not cover the costs of lots of things and the advent of Obamacare will reduce it even further. These programs that Americans were forced to contribute to must be reformed, but if it was a working sustainable system a powerful political weapon would be gone – and the politicians know that. So they hold our senior citizens hostage while the possibility of fulfilling the promise to them grows smaller each passing day.

And, just when you thought your retirement was set, the little bit of cash you squirreled away in your retirement account? The President wants to decide for you how much is enough and when all of the wealthy folks move theirs to a place where the government cannot touch it, guess whose bank account is next little people?

Standing by for them to issue me my communist gray suit of clothes that looks like everyone else’s suit, my Kim Jung-un haircut, and my instructions on to which labor camp I must report. Or maybe concentration camp for us extremist Christians.

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We are losing our Christian culture. America the idea is being replaced by America the place. It is undergoing fundamental transformation into something totally alien to our founding principles. The antithesis of the shining light it set out to be. Having a conversation these days sometimes makes one feel like he just fell off the Tower of Babel.

We let them steal our language and with it our culture. They made the immoral and horrific sound inviting and not threatening. We let it pass until things that go against the grain of human nature and natural law became acceptable even desirable. And now if one tries to point out what we are truly discussing, he is attacked and labeled as a hater, a phobic of some sort, even an extremist. The popular culture driven by popular culture political correctness and downright vile indignations will unmercifully attack anyone who detracts from the group think and questions the destination of this new America.

In the language the opposite of pro life is pro choice. Not pro death, pro choice. If one thinks it is but a choice, then the graphic picture of someone violently and mercilessly ending the life of our most defenseless does not come to mind. Only the choice of a would- be mother. Nothing more than a choice like what to have for lunch. Interestingly, the same people who insist that choice is the opposite of life want to deprive others of choice in many areas. For people, it is easier to accept a choice than to accept the death of an unborn child. Not that I suggest such an act, but if you were to toss a puppy from your car window your heartless and atrocious act would be on the national news before the day was out. The mother who chose death, you paid for that with your tax dollars. You own part of the national guilt. It was just a choice.

I can recall in my lifetime when one might declare that he had a gay old time and mean that he had fun.

Gay meaning ‘homosexual’ became established in the 1960s as the term preferred by homosexual men to describe themselves. It is now the standard accepted term throughout the English-speaking world. As a result, the centuries-old other senses of gay meaning either ‘carefree’ or ‘bright and showy’ have more or less dropped out of natural use. The word gay cannot be readily used today in these older senses without arousing a sense of double entendre, despite concerted attempts by some to keep them alive. Gay in its modern sense typically refers to men (lesbian being the standard term for homosexual women) but in some contexts it can be used of both men and women. – Oxford Dictionaries

So, when gay is used to describe homosexuality the human mind does not conjure up an image of what happens when two men become sexually intimate.

Next, we will try to re-define marriage. Maybe the Oxford dictionaries will describe that as the day they removed family from the dictionary as well.

We are steadily redefining freedom as blessings from government rather than from God. Men and women across the land, whose ancestors endured the horrors of slavery, are willingly becoming slaves to a government who gives them and EBT card and a cell phone. Either of which the government can turn on or off at will in order to ensure obedience.

We are redefining other terms as well. Depending on where it occurred and act of Islamist terrorism can be no more than workplace violence. But, wait. Some also do not want to use the term Islamist any more. So much so that the term was removed from training materials used to train our people responsible for counter terrorism. I suggest we use soulless killers. The Army, that big olive drab family I spent a great deal of my life with has now listed Evangelical Christianity at the top of their extremist list. Of course it was disavowed as the act of an individual making a slide for an “Equal Opportunity” briefing. These are the types of mandatory briefings attended by all Soldiers at one time or another. This too is a load of baloney.

It is not desirable for us to refer to illegal immigrants as such. So what exactly should we call them? Invaders?

America is an idea. It is the first nation in human history that publicly placed its trust in God. Freedom is God’s domain and he chose America to be His shining light of freedom because America relied on Him. If America completes her turn away from God and America the place ends today, He will find another place on this earth from which to shine His light. The idea that the history of man knows as America, will never die. Because it is not a geographic location, it is written on the hearts of people.

©2013