9/11 8 Years Later.

Today, I remember 9/11/01. This was another day that should "live in infamy".

Unfortunately, there are those amongst our midst who don't want us to remember, because these people don't want us to be proud about being Americans. But, I refuse to honor their wish for this country.

It is my true belief that we must never forget that day. Ever!

I think that all of us will never will forget where we that day, or how we felt.

We were for that moment, one nation. No left, no right. No Republican. No Democrat. No Independant. No Libertarian. No Classical Liberal. Just Americans!

It is really sad that 8 years later we are a nation divided. Are the enemies of us winning?

I Have Decided To Be A Liberal

That's right. You heard me correctly. I am no longer a conservative, I am from this day forward, a liberal. Liberalism is the political ideology that best describes my political views. I thought for a long time that Conservatism was the camp that I best fit in but, I have recently discovered that "liberal" is a better political ideological label for me.

For those who know me, or those who have read my blog, you might be scratching your head right now wondering what could have caused me to change from right wing conservativism to liberalism. Obviously, I some explaining to do.

Perhaps it would be better to start by stating that I am a "Classical Liberal". That wasn't what people who hold to this political view were called originally but, it seems that the progressive/socialists from the left have been allowed to highjack the term "liberal" and use it as the moniker for their political ideaology. After all, it takes guts to admit that one is a socialist or a communist. It sounds so much more pleasant to use the term "liberal". Ok. So be it. It's not right, but it is what it is. Besides, for me, the addition of the term "classical" isn't that bad of a thing.

But some might ask, what is the "Classical Liberal" position? Simply put, it the political views of this nation's Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison etc. Suffice to say, that if the Democrat-Republican Party ever resurfaced, I would be a registered member in a heart beat!

Like Thomas Jefferson, and the rest of the Founding Fathers, I believe:

1. That the peoples' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights given by Nature's God and not by any government.

Progressive leftists sacrifice the individual's rights to the collective and try to subvert these rights under the power of the government to assign. This is nothing more than tyranny dressed up to falsely look like compassion and concern for "every one". Hillary Clinton's famous line: "It takes a village..." is an example of this nonsense.

2. Government is a necessary evil. The best government is the one that governs least. The Federal Government should be small in scope and power, restricted to only those roles spelled out for it by The Constitution.

The modern American Federal Government is unconstitutional in its size and scope.

3. I believe in The States' rights.

Beginning with The Civil War, The Constitution's original recognition of The States' rights has been slowly but surely been usurped. We have Abraham Lincoln to thank for that with his new definition of The Republic.

4. I believe in the individual's responsibility for their own welfare.

With the exception of those citizens who are truely disabled, all are responsible for their lot in life. It is not right to take money from the hard labor of other citizen's and redistribute to those unwilling to work and sacrifice hard enough to raise themselves up economically. Also, it would be wise to pay heed to President Gerald Ford's admonishment that: "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take away everything you have."

5. The belief that the nation's money should be backed by a tangible treasure like gold.

This does two things: First, it makes money have a real tangible worth rather than a nefarious, Stock Market's ever changing value. Second, it would limit the government's ability to waste it and run into such great, irresponsible debt. Oh, and while we are on the topic of national debt, I agree with Thomas Jefferson that it is a sin for one generation to pass it's debt onto the following generation. Which, is what we are now guilty of thanks to George W. Bush's original TARP and Barack Obama's continuation of it and beyond.

6. Belief in free market captialism.

America would never have become the technological innovator that it is without comptetion on the open market. Captialism takes negative traits such as greed, and tempers it with competition in the market place, effectively necessatating innovative genius.

7. Belief in free trade with other nations but no entanglement in foreign alliances or wars unless there is no other way to protect our nation's direct safety and sovereignty.

Just a simple look at Western Europe's jealousy and hatred for this nation demonstrates that our brave men and womens' actions in WWI and WWII in rescuing them from tyranny, by their blood and sacrifice of life has not been appreciated. I'm not trying to degrade what these American heroes did, but what have we gained by it?

8. This Constitutional Republic hinges on the participation of it's citizens in religion and morality.

If the people continue down the irreligious, moral relative, corrupt, debacherous immoral path that is has been sliding down for quite some time, this nation will collapse into ruin. History provides examples of this, most notably the Fall of The Roman Empire. But it is not the place of the Federal Government to dictate religion or morality. That would be a deceptive back door into tyranny. As a lover of liberty, I am unwilling to pursure or support any paths that might lead eventually back to tyranny.

Obviously, this post isn't meant to capture all of what entails the "Classical Liberal" position. You can learn more on the Internet and local library about this political idealogy.

It is my strong belief that our nation has lost its way. Our Founding Fathers gave us the best form of government man has ever known to preserve our liberty. But, we have failed them. Look at both of the controlling political parties: The Republican and Democrat parties. In many respects, they are both really just the same. They both lobby and work towards a more bloated Federal Government. They just have different agendas for this ever growing giant Federal Government.

I am through wasting my vote on the Republican Party. I am re-registering as an Independant. I will from now on, cast my vote for the candidates at the Federal, State and Local level of government who sound more like Thomas Jefferson than, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, George HW Bush, George W. Bush, and John McCain.

Where Have All The Statesmen Gone?

Apart from reading "The 5,000 Year Leap" and reading Mark Levin's new book, "Liberty & Tyranny", I have been reading on Wikipedia about our Presidents and other Founders. (Wikipedia is admittedly not necessarily a perfect research tool, but a start, nonetheless) We desparately need a John Adams or a Thomas Jefferson today. We don't have statesmen in this country anymore, all we have are just greedy, power-hungry politicians.

Is there really any real difference between the Democrat Party and the Republican Party with respect to huge government and respect for the Constitution?

I say, no. I personally, am about to abandon the Republican Party and register Independant.

I am convinced that as a Conservative/"Classical Liberal" that unless we return to our roots and the values and principles that our Founding Fathers expoused, we are headed toward doom and tyranny.

We aren't at a state of tyranny yet, but Obama and the progressive Democrat Party, with the help of the Republicans, are pushing us in that general direction.

I say "with the help of the Republicans" because what have they ever done to reverse the size of the Federal Government back to it's Constitutional limits? Moderate Republicans and Liberal Republicans are really no different than Democrats anyway.

Both parties want bloated Federal Government. Just for different aims. I say enough! The Constitution clearly set the limits for the size and scope of the Federal Government's power. Our Federal Government, thanks to both parties, is now unconstitutional in both it's size and scope.

If we don't get States Rights established again,(starting with the Civil War, this country plummeted down the slippery slope of the loss of States Rights and the encroachment of an ever growing, bloated Federal Government), and reduce the Federal Government back down to its proper size - the great experiment in the American Democratic-Republican form of government that our brilliant Founding Fathers gave us is over, and we will crumble under the weight of either socialism or communism, both tyrannies that have been proven by history to NOT work.

Happy Memorial Day

I hope that we Americans have spent, at least some time today, reflecting on the huge sacrifices that have bee made from 1776 to the present- to ensure that we can have and enjoy the freedoms that we have as Americans. How do you show your appreciation for the ultimate sacrifice that a fallen son or daughter has made to guarantee your freedom to his or her lost mother? Father? Brother? Sister?

The Founding Fathers were right: Freedom isn't free. It is paid for in blood and honor and sometimes the ultimate sacrifice: the giving of one's life for his or her country and it's citizens.

Thank God for the countless men and women in our country's history that loved freedom enough that they were willing to lay their lives down for it.

Far left loons like: Move On.org, ACLU, Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan owe their freedom to spew their anti-American screeds to those men and women in our past and present who died to give them their freedom of speech along with the rest of their freedoms.

I recognize my debt to these military heroes in our past and today for my freedoms and the awesome priviledge to be able to call myself an American.

God bless America's fallen heroes of freedom. Without them, the amazingly brilliant Democratic Republic that our Founding Fathers gave to us would have evaporated before it even got started or wouldn't have lasted as long as it has.

Armed Forces Day

To all of the women and men of our Armed Forces, whether they are serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, or elsewhere, or back home providing back support; My hat is off to you and you have my deepest respect! Without your selfless dedication to duty to our great nation, we would not be free.

Liberty is everything! To say "thank you" is nowhere near enough. My prayers are with you all and your families. Thanks for all you do day in and day out. You aren't forgotten despite the American Media's silence.

Tea Party Wisdom

Tonight, I watched a re-run of Friday's Glen Beck show on the Fox News Network. Apart from the value of hearing from "real Americans", and apart from the media and politicians, I am pleased to share the following two tidbits.

There was a person on the show that is scheduled to be on Glen Beck's program on Monday night, (whose name escapes me, I apologize), who made the following statement:
This is the first time in my life that I have witnessed people like those in this audience who really understand the Founding Fathers' case. If, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were in the audience tonight, they would immediately recognize the people that were worth fighting for in the Revolutionary War. If they were also, allowed to witness our modern day media, they would instantly recognize in them, the very people they were fighting against. [this is a paraphrase of course.]

Later in the same program, Judge Neopalitano, quoted Thomas Jefferson, (another great moment which goes along the lines:) When the people are in fear of the government, that's tyranny. When the government is in fear of the people, that's liberty.

I find these two examples invigorating!

President Obama's First 100 Days

The whole, "First 100 Days" is a media creation. For me, it makes no sense. How can you possibly hold a newly elected President accountable for fixing every thing wrong within the country in only 100 days? Come on, there is the whole transition issue, and many more concerns.

However, be that as it may, Obama is an example of a President who has come out swinging for "change that we can believe in".

Except it is not at all "change that we can believe in", nor is it change that is good for this nation. Below, are some "changes" that Barrak Obama has instituted for this nation that aren't anything "that we can believe in", as Americans. At least not for Americans who believe in the Founding Fathers' vision for America.

In no particular order, here are the "changes" that Obama has in mind for America:

Administration choices:

Tim Geithner - Secretary of Treasury.

A "tax cheat" who is not only not qualified to run the IRS, but is hell bent on ensuring government intervention in, not only those private corporations that have accepted "bail out" money, but any, and all businesses who "might be on the verge of failure". A clear move to socialism, or better yet fascism! Goodbye, to the sucesses of capitalism and the free market and hello to the era of failed socialist/fascist economy.

Eric Holder - Attorney General.

A racist black man who is accusing white americans of not intermixing with the black populace on weekends. Who, by the way, segregate themselves naturally. What? Because black americans don't want to hang out with white people on weekends, it's somehow the white americans fault? Paleeeze!

Janet Napolitano - Secretary of Home Land Security.

This appointee has decided that Veterans, and any one who wants limited government, is conservative in their political views, and anyone who agrees with The Founding Fathers, is a terrorist threat to this nation. I am flabbergased by her thinking, and a tad bit worried. Are we heading toward a Fascist State?

Rahm Emanuel - Chief Of Staff.

Apart from his tendancy to mail dead fish wrapped in newspaper to his political opponents, he thinks that "there is no crisis that should be allowed to go to waste" because, it can be exploited to take advantage of to further his political aims.
That says all we need to no about this snake.

Foreign Policy:

Obama's "Apologize For America Tour" in Europe:

As President of The United States of America, Obama decided to call us "arrogant" and never once, defended our nation's noble role throughout the world particularly, Europe, in ensuring that those people were free and enjoyed human rights protection. I mean, come on! We all know that had America not intervened in WWII those very European nations that he was cowardly apologizing to would have been either lamp shades or speaking German. Where was his head?

Was Obama rewarded for his anti-American screed? No. In Great Britain, he was insulted from even their most liberal press, by them asking the question as to why a bore like Obama was still in their country".

Obama's representation of America in the "Americas Summit":

As if his performance in Europe wasn't bad enough, here he was embracing Raul Castro in Cuba, erroding America's policy with that pathetic communist country by suggesting that we relax certain foreign policies with them.

He didn't just stop there, he sat through Daniel Ortega's hate filled diatribe against America without registering, not even once, any defense of America's stance against him and his murderous philosophy.

Obama then moves on to Venezuela and allows that murderous thug, Chavez, to run shod all over him with a "photo opportunity" just to hand him an anti-American book, which Obama accepts without comment. Later we see Obama shaking Chavez's hand and yucking it up with him. This is traiterous and disgusting on Obama's part.

Iran:

Lastly, we see Obama cozying up to Iran's crazed, Holocaust denying, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As if this loser is really going to be able to be "sweet talked to".
What is Obama thinking? What is the left thinking? Does he and his like minded leftists really think they can talk our way out of the potential nuclear threat that a loose cannon like Ahmadinejad poses?

National Security:

Obama, in his infinte wisdom, has decided that the Guantamo Bay prison facility, where we are housing the terrorist captives that pose a very real threat to our security, needs to be shut down. Oh really? What does he propose we do with the vermin that is housed there? Bring them to the U.S. for trials conducted under laws that are meant for legal U.S. citizens? Locate them in prisons here in the U.S.? Set them free in America because they might be mistreated in their own countries? Only a wrong headed liberal could come up with such a disaterous plan.

Obama has decided that there is some sort of urgent need to reveal classified documents to the public, hence the whole world, hence our enemies, providing the details about our interrogation techniques. This is by far, the most dangerous of his foolish moves.

Now al Queida, and other terrorists organizations out there who hate us have all they need to know about what to expect from the U.S. if they are captured. Actually, now that they know what we were doing, and won't do any more. Talk about a recruiting tool for terrorists! Obama has just aided our enemies greatly. Now, they are laughing at us, and are most certainly emboldened more than they were before, under Bush's administration. Now, thanks to Obama, we look more like "the paper tiger" that Osama bin Laden thought we were prior to 9/11.

Of course, Obama is not even handed in all of this. The classifed documents that demonstrate the benefits we recieve from extended interrogation processes like, water boarding, will remain removed from the public view. I think any thinking American can readily recognize the scam in all of this.

Obama has decided, all on his own, that water boarding is somehow "torture" and is above the dignity of our country. Valuable intelligence gained from this practice, (which by the way, never once threatens the participants life at all, but only makes them think it does), and has definatley deliverd valuable intelligence which has kept us safe under Bush's watch will now be sacrificed for Obama's tendancy to want to appear nice to our enemies.

Of course, Obama arrogantly believes that we can achieve the same effect using "other methods", (of which methods he doesn't specify). But, of course, we are all just suppose to go along with this fantasy of his, regardless of the details. Of which there aren't any.

Fear Tactics:

I'm not saying for sure that Obama approved of this, but there is that whole "photo op" with the jet flying really low in New York City with two Air Force fighter jets flying towards it in apparent chase for the "photo op".

WTF? You have genuinely frighened New Yorkers, panicking for their lives, all for a photo op?

What about the thousands of tax payer dollars wasted in fuel for this bone-headed moment. Does Obama really think that the common tax payer is going to tolerate this obscene waste of tax payer money when they themselves are told to tighten their belts and make sacrifices?

What a tool Obama is.

He did mention in his "mock press confrence" last night before the nation his metaphor of the government being like a, what was it? Oh yeah, maybe a cruise liner ship. That is just perfect. Because it brings to mind the arrogantly designed, Titanic. If Obama's ultra-liberal vision for America and the Democrat Party dupes that go along with it are allowed to proceed, America is about to hit the mother of all icebergs, and sink.

I'm not saying that it is going to happen - only that it just MIGHT happen.

God help this once great nation!