I’ve blogged about the destruction of Venezuela numerous times but here’s the sad tale of that country’s demise nicely summed up in a 5 minute video ~
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Socialism ~ How to ruin a perfectly good country ~ Brazil – same continent; same story #SocialismSucks
Death count rises in Venezuelan protests
Update 8-29-17:
Latest on Tropical Storm Harvey ~ The Steam has regular updates as rain/flooding continues
Heroes You Should Know: Brave Texas Teens Save Over 50 People In Small Fishing Boat ~ Inspiring to see so many great folks stepping up!
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May God bless, comfort and keep safe all those who have lost so much in Hurricane Harvey – and the ongoing aftermath! Please pray for them, and for all those selfless heroes who are rushing to their aid. In the face of such an overwhelming disaster, it’s awesome to see that Americans still have such big hearts, not hesitating to reach out and help neighbors in need!
If you want to donate to what will no doubt be a massive relief effort, I recommend Samaritan’s Purse. And if you’re nearby, and so moved, they’re looking for thousands of volunteers as well ~
Samaritan’s Purse Will Send Five Disaster Relief Units to Texas ~
Two Samaritan’s Purse disaster relief units are now in Texas to help residents as they continue to struggle with rain, flooding, and destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey. Soon we will have a total of five of these tractor trailers in the state, setting up volunteer bases around Victoria, Rockport/Portland, Galveston/Santa Fe, and two in Houston.
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Life Outreach International ~ James Robison’s organization is also asking for support in their relief efforts
Observations on Hurricane Harvey ~ A resident of West Harris County, TX shares his experience and advice
Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Why Were the Antifa a No-Show at Phoenix Trump Rally? ~ Here’s Matt Barber’s theory ~
I, personally, would like to think that it’s because the Leftist’s Militant Antifa knew that they were risking their own lives if they descended en masse into the largest Red City in a large Red State with Constitutional Gun Carrying laws, Phoenix PD, Secret Service and 1000 Bikers guarding the door.
9th Circuit claims praying coach preyed on players Speaking of prohibiting prayer at school ~ The “9th Circus” out on the Left Coast is at it again ~
A (Washington State) high school football coach and his attorneys are considering their next legal steps after a federal court upheld his firing for praying after games.
“Banning all coaches from praying individually in public, just because they can be seen, is wrong,” (Coach Joe Kennedy’s attorney Jeremy) Dys insists. “That is not the America contemplated by our Constitution.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center Is the Most Dangerous Hate Group in America ~ The SPLC (a once-useful non-profit, now gone rogue) has set themselves up as totalitarian thought police; either you and your organization agree with the progressive world-view or you’re labeled a “hater.” Here’s their twisted logic ~
(Y)ou are “anti-LGBT” if you believe that it’s best for kids to have a mom and dad or that marriage should be limited to the union of one man and one woman or that homosexual practice is sinful or that gays can change or that Bruce Jenner is not a woman or that a 15-year-old boy should not be able to play on the girls’ sports teams and share their locker rooms and showers.
And since you are “anti-LGBT,” according to the SPLC, you are a hater. And if your organization or ministry is known for such views, you belong on their hate list side by side with the KKK, neo-Nazis, Black Supremacists, and Islamic radicals.
Leftists use the same deceitful tactic on all fronts, misusing words until they’re meaningless ~ Dirty Deeds: How the ‘Green’ Energy Cult Stole the English Language ~
(Climate alarmists) have fudged the surface temperature data, used meaningless climate models, argued that human emissions of carbon dioxide will warm the planet despite the strong evidence to the contrary, and so on, but their greatest perversion is of the English language.
They have branded CO2 as a pollutant and claimed that reducing it is necessary to make the world “clean.”
Poland Refuses to Take Any Muslim Migrants After Latest Terror Attacks ~ One of the few remaining European countries that still has an instinct for self-preservation
“We are convinced by the latest attacks that there is a natural base for terrorists where a large number of poorly integrated Muslims live,” (Paweł Soloch, head of the Polish National Security Office) said according to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung.
“I see a growing number of Muslim refugees and a surge of terrorism,” Soloch said and added that there was evidence of a potential migrant wave headed for Poland.
College Republican threatened after asking Muslims to decry terrorism ~ When the rubber meets the road, Islam isn’t too interested in coexisting. You want us to condemn violence? Don’t make us get violent!
One person calls First Nations tribute “offensive” — and Media Party calls it “news” ~ This is from Canada – but progressive propaganda knows no boundaries ~
Since 2003, a Ukrainian dance troupe has been performing a tribute to the many cultures of Canada, including that of the First Nations.
What could be more Canadian, more multicultural?
But one aboriginal woman has called the troupe’s use of powwow moves and headdresses “offensive,” and the Media Party is actually treating this as an important story.
It’s almost as outrageous as this ~ ESPN Removes Announcer Named Robert Lee From U. Virginia Football Game ~ If you’re on social media you couldn’t possibly have missed this most recent example of leftist lunacy – but just in case ~
A commentator named Robert Lee was scheduled to call a football game in Charlottesville, Virginia, but the coincidence that he shares a name with Confederate general Robert E. Lee caused ESPN to reverse course.
Lee was set to announce the University of Virginia’s game against William and Mary but was moved to Youngstown State at Pittsburgh
If Confederate Statues Must Fall, Black Nationalist Statues Must Fall ~ Daniel Greenfield points out the glaring hypocrisy of the ignorant, indignant Left ~
New York City, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles all have streets named after a supremacist and nationalist who palled around with Nazis. New York City has a statue of him. Washington D.C. has an art tribute to him. If we are going to take down Confederate memorials, there’s no way he can stay up […]
General Robert E. Lee never cheered the head of the American Nazi Party the way that Malcolm X did. Nor did he break bread with the Klan or defend the Nazis. If he must go, actual Klan and Nazi sympathizers like Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois should be tossed in the trash.
NFL Player Ben Watson Slams Margaret Sanger as the “Ultimate” Racist, “She Wanted to Exterminate Blacks” ~ The Baltimore Ravens tight end just happens to be black ~
(He) recently told Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center in San Diego that he believes abortion is “the ultimate form of racism.”
“I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of the abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood and [founder Margaret] Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks,” said Watson, an African American. “And it’s kind of ironic that it’s working.”
There Is No Such Thing As White Cultural Heritage. The West’s Legacy Is Open To All ~ Excellent defense of western civilization. It’s not skin pigmentation – it’s worldview. They’re not all equal ~
Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history […]
The achievements of European culture in art, literature, philosophy, government, and so on are inseparable from the roots of that culture. Remove the religion and philosophy, and the tapestry of Western culture falls apart, a few disparate threads fluttering to the floor amidst the dust. There is no unified “white” culture or heritage except for that of Western civilization, which is not defined by race and which always reaches beyond race.
So are you in favor of ~
• Higher rates of out-of-wedlock births?
• A major increase in sexually-transmitted diseases?
• Significantly lower SAT scores?
• Drug abuse?
• Broken marriages?
• More sexual abuse of children?
• Lower business productivity?
• More suicides?
• More dishonest politicians and corrupt government bureaucracies?
• Higher crime rates?
If you see all these changes as positive developments, then you should celebrate the fact that we banished prayer from public schools 55 years ago. That’s when all those trends started to mushroom – in what most would agree is definitely the wrong direction.
In his book “America – To Pray or Not to Pray” David Barton documented the startling trends in social pathologies that can be traced to an exact pivot point in American history ~
In decisions rendered on June 25, 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, and on June 17, 1963, in Murray v. Curlett and Abington v. Schempp, the Supreme Court forbade the inclusion of religious activities in major activities of daily student life by striking down school prayer and Bible reading.
Never before in the history of our nation had any branch of our government taken such a stand.
It may be a bit simplistic to point to a couple Supreme Court decisions in the 60’s as the cause for the decline, but there’s no denying the troubling trends since then.
When Barton originally published his book in 1988, our social ills were already on a disturbing negative trajectory. And any objective observer would agree that things have only gotten significantly worse in the last thirty years (Just think, school shootings were unheard of in ’88; Columbine didn’t occur until 1999). It’s just what happens when we you turn your back on God.
These kids seem to have it figured out [Hat-tip: CarolynD] ~
(Dec 22, 2015) ~ Enough is enough. It’s time to take a stand. Today, students at East Catholic High School rise up and declare that we’re more concerned with God than we are with being politically correct.
We encourage you to do the same. Please watch our video…then SHARE it with your friends and encourage THEM to SHARE it as well.
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days, and years ~ Genesis 1:14
Call me crazy (and you wouldn’t be the first!), but I believe Monday’s solar eclipse was more than just an infrequent cosmic occurrence. Viewed through crystal clear un-shaded lenses, our Republic is in serious trouble and that rare, astronomical phenomenon coincided with what seems to be a critical tipping point.
The ejection of Steve Bannon as the president’s chief strategist last Friday may have precipitated a bump in the stock market, but it really doesn’t bode well for Trump’s long-term prospects (Maybe that’s what Wall Street is banking on?). And it just feels like a pivotal moment. Because, more than anyone else, it was the former (and now present!) editor of Breitbart News who fueled the “Trump Train.” Take Bannon and his website out of the equation last year, and Hillary’s back at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. right now.
After the administration’s unprecedented staff shuffling in the last six months, Jonah Goldberg thinks Bannon’s dismissal may actually be “The Last Straw,” expressing his sense of unease in a rather colorful manner ~
Normally, when I’m out of town, and I can only follow the news or check in on Twitter intermittently, I feel like the security guard at a sewage-treatment plant doing his morning rounds amidst the vats and pools: Same sh*t, different day.
But this week feels different. The fecal content is higher. The curlicues of shimmering methane distorting the air above Washington seem thicker.
Taking this metaphor beyond all good sense and taste, when I look at the gauges and dials in the control room, all the needles are in the red, and the sewage-outflow pipes are all pointed at the industrial turbines.
Almost three months ago, David Stockman of the Contra Corner was predicting the imminent collapse of the Trump presidency ~ The Undrainable Swamp: Why The Donald Is Going Down. Answer, in a nutshell: the media opposes him, the D.C. establishment opposes him, and half the time he’s his own worst enemy.
Indeed, the mainstream media is no longer even in the news business; it’s conducting a grand witch hunt and venomous prosecution that will not be sated until the Donald vacates the Oval Office—one way or another, probably via a threatened invocation of the 25th Amendment by the GOP elders on Capitol Hill […]
(T)he Donald is exceedingly vulnerable because he is an insurgent outsider who will eventually end up alone in the Swamp in helpless isolation. At length, the hammer of fiscal crisis and a crashing stock market will break the tepid loyalty of the GOP elders as they smell the 2018 elections turning into a replay of the rout of 1974 […]
(T)he Donald is so undisciplined, naïve, out-of-touch, thin-skinned, unfocussed and megalomaniacal that he is making it far easier for the Swamp critters than they deserve. To a very considerable extent, in fact, he is filling out his own bill of indictment.
As anyone who was reading my blog last year knows, Donald Trump was pretty much my last choice in a too-wide field of GOP candidates. He was brash, uncouth, arrogant – and I hated how he treated Ted Cruz. Although he manages to downplay his worst tendencies most of the time, Trump is still that guy. As Goldberg opines ~
I have always believed that the Trump presidency would end badly because I believe character is destiny. There is no reasonable or morally sound definition of good character that Donald Trump can meet. That’s why we learned nothing new about Donald Trump this week. He can’t change. Some good, decent, and smart people couldn’t or wouldn’t see this. But every day, more people see this. The straw that breaks the camel’s back is a collective phenomenon, but like all collective phenomena it’s made up of a multitude of individual realizations.
Despite my serious reservations, and considering the unsavory alternative, I did vote for him. I sincerely hoped the office itself would have a sobering, maturing effect on the man – and to some extent I suppose it has. But the rotten GOP establishment – who have more in common with their fellow compatriots in the ruling class: the Democrats – want nothing to do with Trump’s agenda. And they never did. They’ve been undermining his presidency since it began.
Of course the mainstream media simply loathes the man and they’re given up any pretense of objective journalism. In their eyes nothing Trump does will be acceptable. And now they’re throwing kerosene on the country’s smoldering political discord with their non-stop “Trump must be a racist” drumbeat (Odd they somehow never discovered that during “The Apprentice” years isn’t it?).
On the other hand, the president’s loyal “Trump Train” will never dessert him. Whenever he feels besieged and needs an infusion of confidence he throws himself another pep rally like the one in Phoenix last night.
Last night in Phoenix I read the things from my statements on Charlottesville that the Fake News Media didn't cover fairly. People got it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2017
That’s pretty much true, the media refuses to cover anything he says or does objectively. But he can’t hold rallies every night of the week…
Unfortunately I think Goldberg and Stockman are on to something. I believe Bannon’s ouster occurring barely 48 hours before the eclipse was sign of a cosmic shift in America’s course. It’s too much of a coincidence to be other than a sign from God. An ominous sign.
“We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.”
~ John Adams
By the way, our second president was a staunch opponent of slavery, not that these young nihilists would know – or care.
“We recognize truth, but subordinate it to preference, because
we have sacrificed truth and clarity on the altar of human autonomy.”
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This is a great video! It pretty much captures everything that’s “upside-down and backwards” about today’s post-truth, reality-free culture. Then connecting the dots, it points to the solution. Enlightening! ~
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I don’t know who this Jason A is, but he’s produced a lot of very interesting videos…
Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
How Do We Know That Baby is Human? Maybe He Identifies as an Adult Lesbian Hippo ~ Refreshingly logical analysis from John Zmirak at The Stream, makes you wonder how far down the rabbit hole western society will really fall ~
The smarter leftists know that by championing these “victims,” they’re also promoting something else. Namely, highly dubious moral principles, which could and would lead to even crazier outcomes. If you gave us those principles baldly, most people would reject them. So their advocates wrap them in “human interest” sob stories that disarm our rational defenses.
Unlicensed Pet Sitters: The Latest Victim of New York’s Regulatory State ~ As an occasional, neighborhood dog-sitter I found this story of authoritarian bureaucrats rather alarming ~
The New York City Health Department wants to ensure that pet sitters are licensed, and has warned a popular internet-based pet sitter service that its users are in violation of the law […]
Potentially, there is no end in sight for this “solution” that seems to be looking to find a “problem.”
Antifa v. Alt-Right in Charlottesville — and America ~ A comprehensive review of last week’s deadly debacle from Patriot Post ~
“It is the manners and spirit of a people, which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” —Thomas Jefferson (1787)
Blinded by rage protesters desecrate ‘Peace Monument’ mistaken for Confederate memorial ~ Aren’t these little nihilists charming?
Atlanta – Apparently blinded by the need to attack something, the protesters climbed and spray-painted the 1911 sculpture of an angel standing above a Confederate soldier, guiding him to lay down his weapon…
Charlottesville Has Become a Pretext for Letting Antifa Run Wild ~ Here’s a short quiz to determine your understanding of the First Amendment as well as your critical thinking abilities ~
Anarchy protects nobody’s rights, except those of the strongest. Following your moral outrage to the point where you will use violence is a great way to turn the United States into Libya, Syria, or Venezuela. There nobody is protected.
Speaking of our South American neighbor ~ Desperate For Cash, Venezuela Gives Putin Control of Oil Assets ~ The government stole the oil industry from the productive, private sector, mismanaged the hell out of it and ruined Venezuela. Now they’re giving the country away to the Russians. #SocialismSucks
Missouri Democratic state senator says she hopes Trump is assassinated ~ If you don’t follow social media or listen to talk radio you probably missed this latest outrage from an unhinged, elected(!) leftist. Even Dems were calling on Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal to step down, but ~
“There is no way in hell that I’m resigning,” she said.
Sticker Shock: Iowa’s only ObamaCare insurer seeks 57 percent rate increase ~ Gotta love that Affordable Care Act ~
In one of the biggest 2018 premium hikes sought to date, Iowa’s only ObamaCare insurer is looking for a 57 percent rate increase – that’s 13 percent more than they asked for just two months earlier.
It’s a troubling trend that’s been spreading across the country as jittery insurers stay stuck in a holding pattern waiting on Congress and the Trump administration to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act.
It’s never going away folks.
Trump’s FDA Commissioner Transforms the Government’s Policy on E-Cigarettes Some welcome, common sense changes. (Never could figure out why progressives were so opposed to e-cigs anyway? And on the other hand, they’re pushing to legalize pot all over the country…) ~
On July 28, new Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced a bold shift in the way the FDA regulates tobacco, e-cigarettes, and nicotine. Dr. Gottlieb should be applauded for endorsing a scientific reality that has been well understood for decades but largely ignored by tobacco-control groups and U.S. policymakers: People smoke for the nicotine but die from the tar and carbon monoxide produced by combustion.[…]
Ensuring that adult smokers and former smokers have access to safer, non-combustible nicotine-delivery products will demonstrate that the FDA is serious about reducing the preventable deaths of almost half a million American smokers from lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, and stroke every year.
Case against Wasserman Schultz’ ex-IT aide expands with 4-count indictment ~ Well, well. Will be keeping an eye on this one… (You can bet the mainstream media won’t!)
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect Is a Disgrace to Its Namesake’s Memory ~ What a travesty. This deceitful organization is hijacking history to promote a Leftist agenda. Their Twitter feed purports to speak for a 15 year-old Jewish girl who died in a Nazi death camp ~
On immigration, she supports no ban, no walls, and no raids. On the stubborn issue of North Korea, she favors the Kim regime over the Trumps. She supports transgender soldiers in the U.S. military. She has declared the 2013 Supreme Court decision striking down key portions of the Voting Rights Act “one of the worst in history.” She thinks the Trump administration is waging “vicious wars” against “women, people of color, [and] LGBT people.” And she has bragged about “DESTROYING” (her capitalization, not mine) President Trump.
Of course, Anne Frank had never heard of the Kim regime or transgender soldiers as a schoolgirl in 1940s Amsterdam. Her most precious gift to the world was a deep optimism, summed up by her most famous line: “In spite of everything . . . people are really good at heart.”
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is an appalling sham.
Fleas test positive for the Plague in Coconino, Navajo Counties ~ Muchas gracias Obama, sanctuary cities and open borders. Soon we’ll be a third-world country ~
Arizona – According to Public Health officials with Navajo County, fleas collected in the area of Taylor, a town approximately 16 miles (25.75 km) north of Show Low, tested positive for Yersinia pestis, in tests conducted by the Center for Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University.
General Pershing, Pigs, Philippines and Islamic Terrorism ~ The media is calling Trump a liar over his comment about General Pershing’s method for burying Muslims killed in fighting. Guess who’s right? ~
“These Juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins.” ~ Gen. John J. Pershing
Sometimes the Good Guys Win ~ 🙂 The left is always shocked to learn that at least half of America doesn’t agree with it. Leftists tried and failed to prevent conservative author, radio show host – and occasional orchestra conductor – Dennis Prager, from conducting the Santa Monica Symphony last Wednesday night.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come
to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can
shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences
of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of
its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
~ Joseph Goebbels (Adolph Hitler’s minister of propaganda – and a fascist)
It’s becoming ever more apparent that the Left has adopted this strategy of Goebbels’ as part of their unofficial playbook; Truth is clearly their mortal enemy.
Watch this interesting discussion between Jamie Glazov and Dinesh D’Souza about D’Souza’s new book “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left”. Describing how the Left attempts to revise history to achieve their nefarious goal of total authoritarian control, D’Souza shows the parallels between their methods and those of the Nazis ~
Merriam-Webster defines “fascism” like this ~
In his book “Liberal Fascism” Jonah Goldberg elaborates on that ~
Fascism is a religion of the state […]
It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including he economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the “problem” and therefore defined as the enemy.
Increasingly, the Democrat party is embracing the twisted religion of fascism, its methods, its goals, its lies.
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O’Ministration Establishes Official Ministry of Propaganda
I wrote the post below almost two years ago. The September 27, 2015 lunar eclipse brought to mind the way the rule of law in this country was being eclipsed by lawlessness (- thanks mostly to an administration which seemed to have very little respect for our laws).
Next Monday we’ll be witnessing another heavenly eclipse – this time a solar one. Two years later, although we now have a Republican presidency, things have unfortunately deteriorated even further. We’re facing regular eruptions of anarchy (mob violence), surrounded by unequal applications of law enforcement, and a media that seems to support, even encourage, civil insurrection as a legitimate means of dissent.
We’re reaching a tipping point, and are definitely…
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[Oct. 7, 2015] 
The image of our moon being temporarily “disappeared” during last week’s lunar eclipse brought to mind a similar eclipse. While the moon was being obscured I was reminded of the way our rule of law – essentially the very foundation of modern western civilization – is currently being blotted out in much the same way. I suppose, like the lunar eclipse, the eclipse of the rule of law may also be temporary. But only if our definition of “temporary” includes several centuries of human strife, suffering and despair.
The thing is, when that foundational principle disappears, freedom disappears; government actions become arbitrary and expedient. When the rule of law is erased, people get erased. Frequently by the millions.
If you’ve been keeping track, you know that the Obama administration has been flouting the rule of law since the first day Barack took office. Just to give a few examples:
• Blatantly ignoring laws at whim (refusing to enforce various drug laws, welfare reform law, DOMA(Defense of Marriage Act) and immigration law
• Appointment of federal “czars” to thwart official confirmation process
• Illegal encroachment in private sector businesses (GM auto dealerships, Boeing factory shutdown, Delphi pension debacle)
• Illegal aliens – not only do we not deport them for being here illegally, when they break additional laws, our chief law enforcement officer releases them from jail
• Judicial activism – unconstitutional decisions on ObamaCare and same-sex “marriage”
• Using the IRS as a political weapon to silence opposition
• Executive orders (EPA, Immigration) that bypass the constitution process
• Recess appointments (NLRC)- when Congress wasn’t technically in recess
Over the last few years Senator Ted Cruz has been compiling a handy list of the administrations’ extralegal attempts to expand federal power. As Cruz states in the introduction to the document ~
Rule of law doesn’t simply mean that society has laws; dictatorships are often characterized by an abundance of laws. Rather, rule of law means that we are a nation ruled by laws, not men. No one – and especially not the president – is above the law. For that reason, the U.S. Constitution imposes on every president the express duty to “take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
At least that’s the way the founders intended things to work ~
I guess Obama didn’t get the memo.
Just to be clear though, while it’s the Democrats – and President Obama in particular – who are the ones obviously and deliberately circumventing our laws, Republicans are complicit. The GOP shares the blame because they’ve failed to rein in the executive branch as the Constitution not only empowers them to do, but requires them to do.
So it’s basically our entire ruling class that’s subverting the Republic.
This frontal assault on the rule of law is no trifling matter. Western civilization as we have known it for the last few centuries cannot sustain itself without a legal system that is blind and just.
Most of us haven’t bothered to (or simply don’t want to) consider the implications of an eclipse of the rule of law. I’ll leave it to Ann Barnhardt, in her usual unabashed manner, to enlighten us ~
[Note – Barnhardt’s post is in response to recent revelations that seem to indicate, shall we say, serious irregularities in the Catholic Church’s selection of the last pope. The church must subject itself to its own internal rule of law if indeed it wishes to maintain integrity – and legitimacy.]
If there is extensive law written that covers election fraud, but it is impossible to enforce, or if a sufficient number of people agree that So-and-So is the President or Pope despite the law, how does that not utterly, completely destroy the entire notion of the Rule of Law itself? As I have said for years with regards to Obama, if you can’t enforce Article II Section 1 Clause 5 of the Constitution (qualifications for president), what can you enforce? Can you enforce the border? Can you enforce citizenship? Equal protection? Search and seizure? Right to bear arms? Can you enforce the law against treason? Theft? Murder? Trafficking in body parts? Religious persecution? […]
Can the lawlessness get much worse?
I really want to drill this point home. If having the Church and the See of Peter usurped by the Enemies of Christ is NOT sufficient to warrant corrective action and enforcement of Canon Law with regards to not only papal election integrity, but also with regards to heresy, then logically, there is absolutely no circumstance that would warrant any sort of resistance to the schemes of Satan and his minions on earth with regards to the Papacy. None.
The same with the U.S. If having your government usurped and overthrown by an Indonesian National with a Kenyan musloid Marxist biological father and an Indonesian musloid Marxist adoptive father who, along with his Communist handlers, has openly declared his intention to destroy the country from the inside-out for decades, if the eligibility laws do not apply to this situation, then what possible, possible situation could they apply to?
The answer is: none. As I have said from the beginning of this long, strange trip, once you nullify the Rule of Law itself, you’re done. We see this in the U.S. wherein oligarchs and their favored associates commit capital crimes, crimes warranting execution, on a daily basis, and NOTHING is done to stop them, much less punish them.
Now what will eventually happen when America stops running on the inertia created long ago by our now-discarded Judeo-Christian values? When everyone realizes that laws no longer matter? Anarchy? Perhaps, for a while (Cloward-Piven collapse). More likely; totalitarianism. People will be begging for order and stability. And our soul-crushing, leviathan government will be more than happy to oblige, at the mere cost of all our freedom and liberty.
Again, Barnhardt’s primary focus is the Catholic Church, but the parallels with Washington D.C. are clear ~
We are now seeing this in the Church. The September 8th Motu Proprio has, by utterly abrogating the Rule of Law with regards to the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony by inverting the presumption to be that every marriage is, in fact, invalid and thus null, law which is the Word of Jesus Christ Himself, “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder“, opened the door to an interstitial anarchy, which will then be seized by the Marxist-Sodomites to impose, by pure thuggery, the ratification of adultery and sodomy.
Because remember, as we have discussed previously, anarchy is ALWAYS temporary. The biggest psycho thug mafia uses the engineered anarchy to become the new totalitarian regime. This is why the Peronist-Fascist Bergoglio immediately made his battle cry, “Hagan lio!” Make a mess! Raise hell! They NEED that period of anarchy in order to take total power.
The vacuum created when the rule of law has been completely eclipsed must be filled with some form of despotism – fascism, totalitarianism, call it what you will; a system under which where no personal freedom is possible.
Fear not. God still wins in the end. But it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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Related:
Judicial Watch – Corruption Chronicles ~ For more examples of government’s lawlessness
(Added: 8-17-17) ~ The Dissolution of the Civil Society
The radical Left – increasingly unhinged – is now attacking inanimate objects ~
• Fomenting Chaos: Durham, NC Radicals Destroy Confederate Monument
• Councilman formally calls for Baltimore’s Confederate monuments to be destroyed
• Lincoln memorial vandalized by illiterate goon (Some savage spray-painted “F**K Law” on one of the columns.).
• New Orleans Destroys Confederate Monuments—But Partners with Murderous Racist Regime
• Destroying Symbols: Where Does It End? ~
Once every Confederate monument in the country is down, what then? How is a statue of an ordinary rebel soldier in Durham, N.C., more offensive than a gorgeous building-sized tribute to slave-owning racist Thomas Jefferson on the Tidal Basin? We are reaching the point where, if the Washington Monument were to be blown up tomorrow, it would be anyone’s guess whether jihadists or the “anti-fascist” Left did it.[…]
If a statue that has been standing in your city for years suddenly sends you into paroxysms of destructive rage, you are really determined to create a problem for yourself, and you’ll create another problem when it’s gone.
These are the angry actions of ignorant, belligerent children, upset perhaps over their own misfortunes; bad luck or bad decisions. But lashing out at something that can’t possibly harm you is irrational to the point of being psychologically crippling. These folks aren’t even capable of rational thought, let alone able to govern themselves. Which of course has been the goal of the lawless left all along; push people over the edge, throw the country into chaos and create a new totalitarian state to govern with an iron fist.
Considering the recent, lamentable craziness in Charlottesville (initially triggered by the town’s plan to revise history by removing a statue of Robert E. Lee) here’s another excellent video from PragerU. Carol Swain shares some important facts from America’s political past, exposing the Left’s Republicans-are-racist myths ~
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Related:
Confederate revisionism
When the “content of a man’s character” counted
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