Ask?

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
                                                                                              John F. Kennedy

President Kennedy would be very disappointed in his family and his party (which today he would almost be considered a conservative) for perverting his message. A message that inspired a generation to get involved and to volunteer. They volunteered for numerous organizations, but especially President Kennedy's own creations. Such as the Peace Corps, but they also joined his military creations of the Special Forces or "Green Berets" and the Navy SEALs. The volunteered for these groups to make their country and the world a better place.

Now the party he belonged to no longer promotes people to ask "how can I help?", but to ask "what's in it for me?" Our society no longer strives for the greater good of their community or even their family. They are too self-absorbed and worried over their own lives and happiness. These people that invokes JFK's name so regularly, would never dream of joining any of his creations. It may cause them to actually have to do some work and nothing to be in it for them except the satisfaction of achievement.

John Adams said, "our obligations to our country never cease, but with our lives." We must regain those ideals of sacrifice that both President Adams and President Kennedy spoke so eloquently of. No matter who you are or where you are from we must be willing to sacrifice our money, our ease, our honor, and our lives for the good of our nation. To right our present course and place us back on the path of greatness. It is our destiny, it is our duty.

So ask proudly, "what can I do for my country?"

A Dog's Tail

"How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
                                                                                                        Abraham Lincoln

Have you ever noticed how the progressives, past and present, disguise who they are and what they do by calling it something it isn't. Like when progressivism was flat out rejected by the American people in the early 20th century, instead of quitting and changing an unwanted platform, they simply changed their name. They called themselves liberals, but this tail trying to pass itself off as leg is nothing but progressive socialism.

Norman Thomas, an early Socialist leader and presidential candidate said, "the American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, the will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until America will one day be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened." These words were spoken almost 100 years ago. Do you think he ever thought his plan would be as successful as it is today?

It's not just their names either, they change the names of their actions and programs as well. Anything but calling it what it really is, because they know that the American people will reject it if they call a spade a spade. They call illegal aliens, undocumented workers. They call terrorists, freedom fighters. They call communists, freedom lovers. They have renamed our Republic (which it was referred to as until they came on the scene), a democracy. As a previous piece said, they call limiting ones choices, helping them make better choices. The list is endless and it is ridiculous, even going as far as President Obama calling his war in Libya, a kinetic military action (just what the heck is that, anyway?). Do you think the people on the receiving end of those bombs know the difference?

You can call these things all the high sounding words you want, but they are what they are. Like Lincoln said just calling it something else doesn't make it so. They are simply progressive socialists implementing their programs and redistributing other peoples wealth. It doesn't matter how well meaning the programs are. Ronald Reagan said, "these programs may have come from a good heart, but not a clear head. The costs have been staggering." Staggering both in wealth and in freedom.

Reagan and Lincoln both knew, that no matter how many times you call it a leg, if it is wagging it's a tail.

The American Madrase

"The blows that do the dramatic side of the work - the big sudden blows that come or seem to come from the outside - the ones you remember and blame things on and in moments of weakness tell your friends about, don't show their effects at once.  These is another sort of blow from within - that you don't feel until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.  The first sort of breakage seems to happen quickly - The second happens almost without your knowing it, but is realized suddenly indeed."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Americans have been led to believe that the threat of radical Islam only comes from overseas.  This couldn't be further from the truth.  Their is an ever growing threat that poses a clear and present danger to our country and our way of life and it comes in the form of our very own bastardized version of radical Islam.  It comes in the guise of the American Muslim community and their red-headed stepchildren of the Black Muslim Nationalists such as Nation of Islam, American Muslim Mission, and The Moorish Science Temple.  All of which have earned their stripes, claim their roots and their many converts in the halls of our state and Federal Prison Systems.  Their very own madrases spread throughout America.

Their ranks are exploding and they use their time in prison to radicalize further.  It is nothing less than their very own breeding ground for hate and homegrown terror.  It is also where they have managed a triple threat liken no other.  This tripartite past is between radical Islam, the gangbanger philosophy, and the illegal alien thrown in for good measure.  (Which is another story in itself.)

They actively seek out those with any kind of special knowledge.  The want to learn all they can from anyone they can, no matter their race.  If they have what they want they will use them.  They will look for special skills such as any military knowledge, martial arts, scuba, electronics, architecture, chemicals, weapons, medical, etc.  Anything that will help them.  If they can't find a convert or at least a willing teacher they will seek that knowledge in books.  They also take full advantage of useful trade schools offered inside like H.V.A.C., carpentry, electrician, etc.  If it will aid their goal they are trying to learn it.  What is that goal?  The same goal of all radical Islamist, "The Destruction of America And All She Stands For!"

Ironically, at the same time they are plotting the destruction of America they are taking full advantage of the very rights and freedoms they are trying to destroy.  Sadly our very culture and politically correct society has allowed these things to rise to the level we are at now.

Never believe for a second that these folks aren't dangerous, because they are Americans.  The President's friend William Ayres is an American.  Timothy McVeigh was an American.  The Times Square Bomber was American, al-walaki in Yemen is American.  They hate with as much vigor as their radical cousins in the Middle East.  It may be for different reasons, but the hate of America is the same.  Sure they may not be willing to die for their cause, but never doubt that they aren't willing to kill for it.  Nor would they find fault in helping or joining groups like The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and even Al Queda, or many of their front groups and supporters all over America.

You hear their diatribes daily on just how bad this country is, while at the same time praising repressive regimes like Saudi Arabia, where they too would be considered an infidel for the way they act.  You hear them praising Shia Law and how even though they themselves couldn't live under it want to bring it to America.   You hear them praise the terrorist anc curse and condemn The American soldier that gives them the very right to do so.

Funny thing is, that no matter how much help they have, or how many books on Islam they read, they are still far too western, too American - hence looked down upon by the Islamists.  So if they ever get their wish and America falls to Islam, they will be purged just like the rest of us infidels.

Better Choices

"We are helping people make better choices," is the progressive mantra for all their little pet projects that end up taking something away. Most Americans think that they could never take this or that away until it is gone. This little line has become the the euphemism for anytime they want to restrict you from doing something. It is not helping you to make a better choice, it is preventing you from making them. They will do this by any means necessary, even coercion. So the next time you hear those harmless little words, you may want to check and see if you still have your wallet.

Do you think I am overreacting, being a little too harsh? If you do, just take a look at the choices they have helped us to make. They took away smoking, candy, salt, guns, trans fats, soda, and made us have a calorie counter at fast food joints using that argument. Heck they are now going after chocolate milk in schools. Really? Chocolate Milk is bad?

You say you agree with some of these; never fear they will eventually get to something you like, they always do. It started with smoking and most people agreed and they didn't stand up. This is called getting the camel's nose under the tent and if your not careful you find that big nasty SOB sharing your sleeping bag. They just keep right on going and sooner or later it will reach you.

Martin Niemoeller, a German Protestant theologian said, "first they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade-unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade-unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."

You think I have went to far comparing the progressives to NAZI's? Do you really think the NAZI's just started taking people away. Of course not, they built up to it. It is only a matter of time before they trade in the inanimate objects for the animate ones. When will we speak up?

End of Nationalism, End of Nation

"I have been told a hundred times, 'Pat, there is no turning back; it's gone too far; drop it!' I don't believe it. We can restore our country...for all our people. We can take our country back."

                                                                                                                 Patrick Buchanan

The rape of the American mind started at the turn of the twentieth century, but grew exponentially after World War II. This rapid decline started with the loss of our national history and culminated in the loss of our national identity. We lost sight of our glorious past that kept us so proud. Woodrow Wilson said, "a nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about." These words are awful ironic considering Mr. Wilson and his progressive partner Theodore Roosevelt are the founders of the progressive movement that has been the main cause of that destruction of our national history and identity. These things can be cured by simple down home nationalism, the same nationalism that has made this country great. The same nationalism that has made every nation of any stature great and when it is lost, just like in the Roman Empire, that nation is doomed.

Nationalism will make a nation strong, despite its faults, even corruption. That is why our progressive government now preaches multi-culturalism, diversity, and political correctness. Because a strong nation will not long stand corruption. Why? For it is corruption, not repression that causes revolution. The human being can take lots of vile things, especially if it is feed to them slowly, but they hate being cheated. Without the common ground or a shared identity that nationalism brings a revolution can never occur. The age old tactic of divide and conquer.

People from other nations and other cultures have fought tooth and nail, and even our wars, to get into this country and for the right and the privilege to call themselves Americans. Now through this progressive plague of multi-culturalism, diversity and political correctness people are now ashamed to call themselves Americans. These things have made us the laughing stock of our enemies and of the world. No Longer are we the strong, proud AMERICAN that has been envied, looked up to, and even feared throughout the world. We are not the caring and sensitive american, that is the worlds punch line. A bunch of politically correct pansies that would rather muzzle a clear majority, than to "offend" a minute minority, the tyranny of the minority. This is not the America that immigrants fought, bled and died to get to.

The only way to stop this decline and to once again make America strong, despite the corrupt and uncaring government we have, is for people to be unashamed at being an American. Have pride in your nation that has done some many great and wonderful things, and to once and for all let people know that we are not the cause of the worlds ills, we are often times the solution. Yes, good old fashioned nationalism will once again make us that "shining city on the hill" to be the example of freedom loving people the world over. A place where there are no such animals as african-americans, asian-americans, or hispanic-americans. We need to regain the America that people would not ever dream of affixing a hyphen to it, where all are proud Americans. A place where respect, courage, duty and honor actually mean something again, and are not just used as some hokey campaign slogan for some politician that does not even know their meaning.

Theodore Roosevelt said, "either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-American, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, and Italian-Americans each preserving its separate nationality."
These prophetic words were spoken over 100 years ago. Why did we not listen? Why did we not heed such a clear warning? We have allowed our nation to become that tangled web he warned of and beyond. It now falls to us, you and me, to untie that knot. One American president said, "in your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine will rest the final success or failure of our course." John F. Kennedy spoke these words and we should listen to them. It is up to us!

We must stop the brainwashing and indoctrination that starts as early as pre-school, by these progressives that preach the benefits of multi-culturalism, diversity, tolerance and political correctness and put our nation back firmly on the course to greatness. The American people once shared a common idea of right , of good, and of freedom that defined this nation better than any words could ever attempt to do. It is time to get that common identity, that common cause, that made us an uncommon people, back. It is time to once again state in a proud, bold voice, "I AM AN AMERICAN!!!"