Significant
Emotional Event
Deborah Venable
02/14/03
Focus
in America is so scattered that saving the ideal of America is becoming almost
impossible. Too many seem unconcerned
with saving America, the ideal, the culture, the dream of freedom and opportunity. We have real problems just trying to save
our history from those that would pollute it with inaccuracy, tell it with
shame, and condemn it to irrelevance.
We can’t even seem to define our philosophies in terms that can be
readily understood and adhered to. The
problem is a lack of focus complicated by an unbelievable lack of commitment to
do whatever it takes to restore America’s original greatness. The problem is typical American behavior.
The
masses have been deliberately mis-educated, to put it nicely, and brainwashed,
to tell the truth about it. Many have
awakened or are awakening to this fact and to much of the truth from the
results of it, but focus is still hard to manage when it comes to verbalizing a
game plan for how to fix this damage. I
believe that we now have a very willing audience to learn the truth about
America’s problems and for any number of proposals for action to fix them, but
I have yet to hear anyone in the arena of political or religious ideas
articulate the full extent of the damage we have sustained or the tangible
reality of what it will take to repair it.
Many have gotten quite close, but to my knowledge at least, none have
pegged it dead on.
There
has never been an action by our government representatives that has garnered
such immediate negative attention from those with their eyes open as the so
called Patriot Act passed by Congress and signed by the president last
year. No wonder! For all intent and purpose, this thing was
the hand that finally ripped the last remaining shreds of the Constitution from
its page in our history book! I
challenge ANYONE who put his or her vote and name on the passage of this
legislation to look me in the eye and tell me he or she read it and understood
it! If that were true, the lot of them
should be impeached! These people all
swear an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. This misnamed Patriot Act does everything but that! Now, since that campaign to destroy America
was so successful, they are proposing still a second part – a Patriot Act II,
if you will. Anyone doubting whether or
not that will pass eventually is dreaming!
There
have been many landmarks of our destruction in the past that have done much
more harm perhaps, but passage of the Patriot Act is the first time in my
memory when you had people from all over the political map so condemning of a
single act. Their reasons for opposing
it were just as scattered. Some would
have been perfectly happy if Clinton or any other Democrat had been in the
executive office when this abortion of Constitutional law was signed, but since
the Republicans were “in charge” that was enough to label it an “illegal
abortion.” Anyway you look at it,
folks, it was still an abortion! If you
happen to be one who is cringing at my choice of words to describe it –
good! Think about it for a while.
Those
of us in the conservative and constitutionalist camps were immediately alerted
to this abortion of the Constitution for obvious reasons. Ironically, many stood by and let the
liberal “defenders of civil liberties” make the most noise in opposing this
questionable law, while still others began to resort to elaborate conspiracy
theories that the left hadn’t even formulated about the Republican controlled
administration and Congress trying to install a dictatorship within the
government. Everyone, to a person,
ignored the obvious. This is America
and we DO still have a Constitution.
Within that unique document we have the means to replace the government
on a regular basis, impeach every last treasonous soul who attempts to infringe
on our God given rights – anytime – and fix every single flaw in the process of
law and government that has been imposed on the American people since the
country was founded. If the
Constitution has truly been aborted, each and every one of us was an attending
abortionist.
One
argument I have had with those who share many of my conservative views is that
of whether or not to vote for the “lesser of the evils.” Many, who have become disillusioned with the
Republican Party especially, claim that a vote for the lesser of the evil is
still a vote for evil. That is very
common rhetoric for the defeatist attitude that seems to prevail in today’s
constitutionalist and conservative community.
Very prominent people are leading the call to stay home from the polls
and just not vote. Yep, Buddy! That’ll show ‘em, won’t it? This truly makes no logical sense to
me. That is precisely what our
opponents count on and they don’t care how high and mighty or noble your reason
is for refusing to vote. Add to that
the majority of the qualified voters who can’t be bothered to vote and wouldn’t
know the first thing about making an intelligent choice anyway, and you have
the government being chosen by a minority of the people, many of whom who could
care less if the Constitution is on the chopping block or not! But go ahead and stay home and wring your
hands about freedom in this country being lost.
It
is somewhat remarkable that instead of taking advantage of an opportunity to
focus attention on the importance of certain government infringements and
garner support from various ideologies to fight corrupt government on a purely
Constitutional basis, many self proclaimed constitutionalists have resorted to
attacking individual personalities and assigning those personalities to a party
view or traditional philosophical view.
Remarkable and destructive.
The
Republican Party is almost as hated by many conservatives and
constitutionalists as by the liberal Democrats. Granted, the actions of far too many representatives with an R
behind their names indicates that THEY do not support their own party’s
platform or that they are working to change that platform. Indeed the leaders of the party no longer
act with the high-minded integrity of Republican philosophy. These are individuals who have taken over
the party just as surely as ignorance has taken over the minds of the
masses. Know this: everything you see
and hear about erroneous philosophies governing America is a giant ruse to veil
the real facts – facts that simply indicate a deliberate attempt to sabotage
the separation of philosophical views that have always set the political stage
in our country.
One
is the belief in limited central powers in servitude to the people –
always! The other is the belief that
government exists to protect and provide for the public good – at all
costs! Now these are pretty simple
philosophies. Democrats come down on
the side of the latter view and Republicans on the former. Any melding of these ideas is mutually
exclusive and renders the philosophies weak at best and laughable in most
cases. In a few instances we have seen
representatives elected to office via membership in these offshoot parties, but
generally this only occurs because of the strength of support for the
individuals involved – not for support of their party platforms. Most voters still fall into the two main
categories of philosophical beliefs outlined above – Democrat or Republican.
The
Republicans have no doubt veered off course.
Democrats, on the other hand have remained close enough to their
philosophical base beliefs to be a much more credible force as a party. Granted, you still have the conservative,
moderate and liberal fine points within the party, but they are not as
divergent from their platform as those liberal and moderate Republicans tend to
be from theirs. That is why the
Republicans have lost, not only credibility, but also key support from many
Americans who could make a real difference in the salvation of America from the
tentacles of tyranny. The very folks
who should be able to make a real difference have thus lost focus.
In
discussing with conservatives and constitutionalists the major problems in
America that require immediate attention, two things will come up every time –
two things that have a direct impact on the monster oppressive government
animal that is consuming American ideals and freedoms. That animal has a voracious appetite for
money and financial control of each and every American citizen. Therefore, the informed American knows that
those two problems have to do with the FED and the IRS. These are the feeders of the animal and the
hands on the throat of America. Kill
one and the other won’t be far behind.
We
must choose the weaker of the two entities to attack and defeat first – the one
that offers us the most obvious vulnerable target for complete
destruction. In my opinion, the IRS
wins that one hands down. The whole
concept of income taxing is flawed and evil in its intent. Absolutely NO good comes from it and it is
the cancer that has been eating away at every vital part of America since its
beginning. Many good and loyal American
patriots have been brutalized, persecuted, prosecuted, imprisoned and even
murdered by the aforementioned animal in the protective clothing of IRS
enforcement. Many others have “checked
out” and chosen to live “underground” to avoid feeding the animal via the
IRS. Still others have taken a more
direct approach and have tried to carry on a legal battle against this
obviously lawless entity. Their valiant
efforts are practically doomed from the start, but they continue to gain
attention, (positive and negative), as time goes on. Here is the problem in a nutshell, though. These groups are ALL vastly outnumbered by
the majority of Americans who continue to empower the IRS, and thus the beast,
by allowing the continued intrusion, confiscation, intimidation, and regular
scrutiny for compliance with this infringement on everything America stands
for. We are a nation of individual and
collective wimps – pure and simple. We
allow our so-called representatives to argue in the hallowed halls of congress
and the grandly decorated rooms of the highest offices in our government over
such ridiculous terminology as “tax cuts” and “legal deductions” when they have
no right to determine any of it! They
DO NOT have a right to determine government compensation BEFORE the individuals
that are the source of that compensation even realize their own FULL compensation
for their individual efforts!
Government withholding of taxes is immoral, unconstitutional, (yes, I
mean the amendment itself), and destructive to the fabric of America. Invasion of our privacy is an unavoidable by
product of the IRS and tax system. That
point alone makes it unconstitutional, folks!
It is NOBODY’S business what my individual yearly compensation is for my
legally pursued efforts. Period.
Stay
focused, here, folks. Think for a
moment of this scenario. A new neighbor
moves into the house or apartment next door to you. He comes over and knocks on your door and starts asking you
questions:
What is your full name?
What is your SS number?
What is your spouse’s full name?
What is his/her SS number?
How many children do you have?
What are their SS numbers? (Required even of BABIES!)
Who do you and your spouse work for?
How much money did you make last
year?
Got any money invested in bank
accounts?
How about stock?
How much?
How much did you spend on health
care?
How much money did you spend on
clothes for your job?
Now – PROVE IT ALL!
Know his – I think you will lie to
me, so I can arrest you if you do.
Do
you get the picture yet? It gets much
worse if you try to take advantage of the so-called loopholes” in the tax code
so that you might avoid paying as much tax as you would without them. But, you might say, this is no strange new
neighbor – it is your beloved government and you owe “your fare share” after
all. You want them to protect you in
every way imaginable, and you want them to provide charity to the
underprivileged so you won’t have to think about personal charity. It all costs money and you know that. So you WILLINGLY allow agents in the private
and government sectors of society to trample all over your individual rights to
privacy each and every year via the bazaar ritual of reporting to the IRS. This is called, “filing” by the way. Stay focused here and think of every possible
meaning of the word, “filing” if you would.
Brings a whole new meaning to the effects of the ritual if you really
think about it.
Here’s
the point to all this, sports fans. You
might think that the government has every right to require income tax filing of
YOU. You might think that the tax code
is fair for YOU. You might not mind if
any number of folks knows everything there is to know about YOUR private life
via these tax forms. You might not have
enough sense to know that the whole process violates YOUR constitutional
rights. The only thing that matters in
all this is that YOU do not have a right to decide all these things for anybody
else.
Back
to the Patriot Act I and II now. The
glaring evil in these unconstitutional laws is the defiant way they render our
constitutional rights null and void and set us up for ungodly government
tyranny – heretofore unheard of in America!
Or is it “unheard of,” folks?
Hell no! We put up with the same
tyranny on a regular basis via the IRS!
Wake the hell up and get that through your heads! We gave away all those rights years ago. The point is, all you who would fight this
Patriot Act so valiantly, what about THOSE infringements on privacy? Does anyone still believe in ANY gun control
in America? If you do, your position is
self-defeating to say the least and dangerous in the stark reality of
truth! Does anyone still believe in any
reason for legal abortion to protect a woman’s privacy? If you do, you are an absolute hypocrite at
the least and mentally deranged to think murder of innocence justifies
protection of a privacy you have already lost to a greater extent. You don’t have ANY rights that government
wants to protect for you! It is high
time you realize that. The only rights
you have are those God-given rights that you are willing to fight for
yourself. Our Founding Fathers spelled
them all out and wrote documents that gave everyone the legal right to refuse
government infringement of them. We
continue to finance that infringement via the IRS and accept more and more
infringements such as the Patriot Acts.
It
should be pretty obvious by now that Americans need to undergo an immediate
change in behavior to salvage the American ideal and restore America to her
former glory. Many say that it will
never happen, that America is too far gone, that the system is broken and can
never be fixed, therefore, don’t vote any more. Let me try to hold onto my temper long enough to give you one
more piece of information that is imperative to understand. America is not a nation of wimps. NOT the America I know and love. We are still in possession of the territory
of an ideal that has never been equaled on the face of the earth. Our ancestors fought and died for this ideal
and it is not our right to allow it to be squandered for future generations of
Americans. We desperately need to
undergo this behavior change.
Anyone
who has studied the human psychological makeup agrees that behavior changes in
human beings are relatively easy to accomplish up until the age of ten years
old. After that, radical behavior
changes may still be accomplished through the use of a significant emotional
event. This can be proven if you do not
wish to take my word for it. As a quick
example, think about the effects of the so-called Scared Straight Program,
employed by many parents and educators to reach incorrigible teenagers, who
might otherwise be doomed to a life of crime etc. This is the utilization of the concept I am talking about – a
significant emotional event.
Make
no mistake; Americans WILL one day collectively undergo a significant emotional
event that has the potential to cause the needed positive behavior change. The events of September 11, 2001 had that
potential, and in some cases I’m sure, did in fact cause behavioral changes in
some Americans. For one thing, many
were turning their attentions toward God and their own mortality. That is a very good first step. However, it has been short-lived and there
were many negative consequences to this event also. The most startling of these has been an unreasonable willingness
to hand over freedom in return for NOTHING but imagined safety! Much more harm than good was the result of
this significant emotional event - perhaps because New York City is so far
removed from most of the rest of the country and perhaps because the event
itself, while undoubtedly horrible, was just not significant enough to cause
the positive effect. At any rate, there
will be another, and we had better be ready for it. Enough well-informed and clear minded folks must take this event
when it occurs and use it to literally scare America straight! If we do not, we may well not get another
chance.
In
the meantime, stop willingly feeding the beast, capitulating moral right, and
allowing your rights and others’ to be trampled. America is worth saving.
My conservative and constitutionalist friends must cooperate and focus
on the important pieces of this giant problem.
My liberal friends must realize that YOUR philosophy is not safe in a
world that does not recognize MY rights.
America worked before and it can work again. Love it, believe in it and live your beliefs. We must win this country back from the jaws
of tyranny. We are already in a war. It is high time we act like soldiers if we
want to win it. We have no friends that
understand us like we must strive to understand each other. We do not need to be preached to by the rest
of the world. Our ancestors and our God
wrote the sermon on freedom. We
instinctively know how to win this war.
Now, let’s get to it!