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Property Rights Under Attack in Oregon

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Property rights are under attack again in Oregon this year by the State Constitution and by the Oregon Legislature! State Legislators refused again to give my Foreclosure Reform Bill (Senate Bill 929) a hearing for the second straight year! This fifteen year old Bill, first written and drafted as Oregon House Bill 3453, in the 1995 Legislative Session, was allowed to die in committee again, in Salem this year! There was just not a lot of support for the Bill. Apparently there are a lot more important things for our State Legislators to do in Salem, than to make sure that our Oregon State Constitution conforms to the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights! For the benefit of all of our Oregon legislators, who have never read it, the ‘Takings Clause’ of the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which is a part of the Bill of Rights, reads as follows, “Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” For the rest of this story read on.

Once upon a time there was a little boy and girl, who lived happily together with their parents, in a little house in Oregon, out in the country. Time passed, and as the years went by, the children grew up, their parents died, the house grew old, and so did the little boy and girl. A little community sprang up all around them, but the two siblings, who never married, never left home either. Then one day, along came a big bad wolf in disguise, actually it was two big bad wolves, Lane County and the City of Eugene, and together they huffed and they puffed, and while they didn’t actually blow the house down, it’s still there today with some alterations, they did blow Jack and Betty Neely right out of their home, the only home they’d ever known! Homelessness, followed by a heart attack and the untimely death of her brother, broke Betty Neely’s heart and she quietly left Oregon several years later! What we have here is a deplorable situation and a very horrible law, ORS 223.525, that violates the US Constitution and needs to be changed in this year’s session of the Oregon Legislature!   Read on:

 

Retrospective: Eugene Oregon, 1995
Foreclosure Reform Bill, HB 3453 passes Oregon House 43-7 but companion bill languishes in Senate

     In 1995 after a protracted dispute over a sewer assessment lien, the City of Eugene foreclosed on the childhood home of Jack and Betty Neely at 1600 Horn Lane, Eugene Oregon. Then Lane County evicted the elderly siblings, Jack age 76 and Betty age 66, and sold their home at a public sale at the county courthouse to the lone bidders, Marilyn Goss and Leroy Bench of Eugene for $7,411, the exact amount of the lien against it! The Neely home had been last appraised at $63,710. That forfeiture was quite a boondoggle for Goss and Bench!

Except for the sewer assessment lien, the property was owned free and clear by the Neely’s, and there were no other recorded liens against the deed.  The difference between the appraised value and the amount that the property sold for at foreclosure was $56,299.  This was the equity that Jack and Betty Neely had in their home.  It was their life savings!  It was effectively stolen from them by the City of Eugene and Lane County in order to perfect a $5000 sewer lien and then handed over to Marilyn Goss and Leroy Bench, currently of 2128 W 28th St., Eugene Oregon.  They bought the Neely house for $7,411and sold it 5 years later in 1999 for $100,650 and meanwhile they purchased a much nicer  house in the South Eugene Hills for $158,000, with the equity that rightfully belonged to Jack and Betty Neely!

Following the foreclosure on their house and their subsequent eviction, Jack Neely died homeless, one month later of a heart attack, and Betty Neely was forced to go into Public assistance housing.  She got an apartment at Yapoah Terrace.  I’m sure they couldn’t believe that their country would actually do this to them. Jack died broken hearted.  In 2005 Betty Neely left Oregon and moved south to California where she still lives with family members today.   It was a tragic story and an often forgotten one in the history of Eugene, and in the struggle between “Big Development”  and the residents of Lane County.

Many members of Eugene’s political establishment were around back then and they are still around today, as well as the same horrible law, ORS 223.525 that did the Neely’s in!  Mayor Kitty Piercy was then a freshman assemblywoman representing River Road and Santa Clara who only reluctantly agreed to sponsor the reform bill,  HB 3453.  Floyd Prozanski was a state assemblyman from South Eugene in 1995 but he was officially excused from voting on the bill. Peter Sorenson was a state senator from Eugene who was not at all helpful in supporting the bill. In 2009, I asked then state senator Floyd Prozanski to sponsor a new version of HB 3453. It did not even receive a hearing that year in the Democrat controlled legislature.  Floyd told me that they were very busy that year in Salem. Commissioner Peter Sorenson said he would work to bring some kind of reforms at the County level but then he never got back to me!

     The horrible law which allowed the Neely’s to loose everything and even cost Jack Neely his life, is still on the books today. The danger is still there!  ORS 223.525 is a deplorable law! It requires that a property in foreclosure be sold for no more than the actual amount of the lien against it! That’s correct, you could lose your home in a government foreclosure for the exact amount of an unpaid lien! This violates the “Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation” Clause of the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution commonly referred to as the “Takings Clause.” In 1995 I wrote Oregon HB 3453 to correct his inequity. If it had passed, it would have prohibited the government, when foreclosing on private property, from selling it for the exact amount of a lien. Instead it would have required the government to sell the property for not less than 80% of its fair market value and return to the judgment debtor, the balance of the sale price after the lien and interest, and all costs associated with conducting the sale were deducted. At least that would be just compensation! It passed the Oregon House 43-7, but a companion bill SB 572 died in the Senate.
   
Editors Note:   One aspect of what Eugene did in forcing the residents of River Road and Santa Clara to hook up to the Eugene Municipal Sewer System without jurisdiction and without actually even representing them was later declared to be illegal, in the Oregon Appellate Court, in the City of Eugene v. Kashin/Nalven.

ANALYSIS:   So much for Jack and Betty Neely’s high principles!  Marilyn Goss and Leroy Bench of Eugene took $7,411 and paid off the Neely’s original sewer assessment lien of $5,000 plus interest, and then regardless of the Neely’s high principles, and with the assistance of the City of Eugene, Lane County and the State of Oregon, they converted that $5,000 bill for sewers (which was illegal) into a $158,000 house in Eugene’s Southwest hills for themselves! The law that allowed this horrible injustice to occur to the Neely’s is ORS 223.525. It must be repealed or amended to conform to the US Constitution! HB 3453 or SB 929 needs to be reintroduced in the legislature and passed in order to protect all private property owners in Oregon and in order to bring the Oregon State Constitution into compliance with the United States Constitution!

You can read more of Scott’s work at www.LessGovIsTheBestGov.com.

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Europeans Learn the Wrong History Lesson, and Some Americans Too

February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

War weary Europeans have learned the wrong lesson from their bloody history and from a long line of wars culminating in World Wars I and II. They have come to the rather naïve and incorrect conclusion, as some Americans have, that there is nothing ever again worth fighting for. The correct lessons that they should have learned are these. First, a little friendly competition among nations is good, but it should not be allowed to get so out of hand that it leads to hostilities. Second, little problems between rival nations should be solved quickly, before they grow to become bigger problems!

But to say that there is nothing ever worth fighting for, is to allow the next big bully who comes along on the world stage, to take over Europe, without so much as a single shot, even being fired in self defense! To say there is nothing worth fighting for is to lay down your freedom, along with your weapons, to whoever is strong enough or crazy enough to try to take them away from you! To say there is nothing worth fighting for, is to say that you’d rather live as a slave than die as a free man!

The Bible says, that a living dog is better than a dead lion. This is true. But is a living slave actually better than a dead free man? I don’t think so. Somehow it doesn’t have the same inspirational ring to it. I prefer to think upon such inspiring slogans as these:

“Give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry

“Live free or die.”
New Hampshire State Motto

“It is better to die on our feet than to live on our knees.”
F.D.R.

“We are willing to fight to maintain freedom.”
F.D.R.

“It is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a sheep.”
Old Italian Saying

“Peace will come soon, and come to stay, and come so as to be worth keeping. Then it will be proved that among free men, there is no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet…”
Abraham Lincoln

“There is a time for everything and for every purpose under Heaven … a time of war and a time of peace.”
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
Thomas Jefferson

Over the years, I have seen more than one anti war demonstrator holding up signs that read “War is not the answer” or “War doesn’t solve anything.” They certainly have short memories don’t they? War certainly stopped Adolph Hitler, and it was the only thing that could have stopped him! It ended the Nazi death camps and it stopped the genocide of the Jewish people! It also stopped the Nazi war machine in its tracks and liberated an entire continent from tyranny! War was the only realistic answer that we could have given back to the threat posed by the Nazi juggernaut!

War also put an end to fascism in Spain and Italy by stopping Franco and Mussolini. The resounding declaration of war by our own Congress in 1941, certainly stopped the Japanese Imperial aggression against China, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, and most of the rest of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, not to mention our own westernmost states of Hawaii and Alaska! War between the North and the South, the Civil War, freed the slaves in our own country! And as if I should even need to remind you of the fact that war, the Revolutionary War, led to the very founding of our republic!

Without war, we would still be a colony of England! Without war, there would still be slaves in America! Without war, there would probably be no Jews left in the world, and the people in China, Korea, and the Philippines would probably all be speaking Japanese today! So you see, war sometimes is the answer. Sometimes it is the only answer!

To say that war is never the answer is a rather naïve and simplistic view, that will lead to the ultimate defeat and to the eventual disappearance of all those who have such a world view. If they would say that war is only the answer of last resort, then I would wholeheartedly agree, because NO ONE LIKES WAR, no matter what side of the political issues of war and peace they are on!

As William Tecomseh Sherman said in 1879, “War is hell.”

But as we should all ask ourselves today in 2011, “Peace at what price?”

You can read more of Scott’s work at www.lessgovisthebestgov.com.

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Post 9-11 – World of Fear – Living on Edge!

February 3, 2012 By 1 Comment

A little rag tag group of not more than nineteen airplane hijackers, directed by one evil mastermind  from a remote cave in north eastern Afghanistan, terrorized America on September 11, 2001 and literally sent shock waves through the world community that reverberated all the way from New York to Bombay and back! These shock waves set off a scare that hijacked the whole world, and has held us all  hostage ever since!  9-11 was more than ten years ago, and even though all of the hijackers are surely dead, and Osama bin Laden is supposedly dead too, nevertheless we are all acting like we are living in fear, and we are allowing our government to keep us in this continuous state of fear, so much so that the Patriot Act is still thought by many to be necessary today, –  ten years after Muslim terrorists brought down the World Trade Center in New York!

But if that isn’t bad enough, our Congress and our President are looking for even more ways to take away our precious personal freedom, under the benevolent pretext of “keeping America safe.”  ( I’m sorry, I mean they are managing our freedoms.  They aren’t actually taking our freedoms away. They are just managing them.)  On December 31st 2011, Congress passed and the President signed into law, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  This is just the latest in a string of offences against our precious Bill of Rights, and it is also the newest example of the Federal government abusing its power!  The National Defense Authorization Act allows individual Americans to be rounded up by our military, in our own country, and in our own homes, and summarily thrown into a military prison, without habeas corpus, or due process, and to be held indefinitely on a mere accusation, with no proof  of guilt!   Enough already!  Aren’t you getting tired of all of this?  Aren’t you just about fed up with all of the scare tactics, the fear mongering, and the over reaction?  It’s been ten years since 9-11.

The only time in our nation’s history that American citizens were subjected to this kind of preemptory action by our own government was during the Civil War, and very briefly during World War II.  All of this is being done today in the name of fighting terror.  I’m starting to become more terrorized by my own Federal government than I am of any foreign threat!  What about you?  All this is being done under the pretense of fighting a “Global War on Terror” for which no actual Declaration of War has ever been issued!  This is what Ron Paul is trying to warn us about!  And he is not the only one who is sounding the alarm, – more than ten years after the original attacks on New York!  Are we ever going to be able to go back to a normal pre 9-11 existence, and a normal attitude with respect to individual liberty and the Bill of Rights?  If we don’t reverse this slippery slide into despotism right now, then I don’t think that there will be many of us left who can remember what “normal” was really like in America!  There are just too many young men and women alive today, who were born after 1990, who have grown up under the Patriot Act, who actually don’t know anything different. They think that strip searches at airports, pat downs, and a myriad of other more than just mere inconveniences are all perfectly normal!  That’s the real danger in all of this.  That soon, another generation of Americans will have grown up, who will never know what it was really like to be free!

Every year Congress considers close to forty thousand new laws!   Please read my article The Un-legislative Branch of Government.  How many of these laws are actually helping to destroy what’s left of our magnificent Bill of Rights?  Forty thousand new laws every year that just keep nibbling away at our fundamental protections in the Bill of Rights, those ten basic laws that keep Americans free from an overambitious and overreaching central government.  How much of the legislation that Congress passes each year, takes away more of our personal freedoms?  I would venture to say that a substantial amount of it does!

The biggest threat to America is not coming from Afghanistan!  It never was.  I’m not saying that Afghanistan was never a threat.  I said it was never the biggest threat!  The biggest threat to America is coming from forces at work right here in our own country, that are trying to destroy America, and take away what’s left of our freedom.  I believe 9-11 happened pretty much the way we are told, and that our attackers were all Muslim terrorists. There is no question about it!  But since then, I believe that the effort to apprehend the bad guys has been infiltrated, taken over, re-directed and used by even worse guys, to destroy the concept of individual nations and national sovereignty, and to eliminate freedom and individual liberty all across the world!   Remember the famous quote from Barack Obama’s personal friend and chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, “Don’t let a good crisis go to waste!”

The greatest threat to America today, is coming from forces at work right here in our own country, forces that are sacking our Federal treasury, and loading us up with a mountain of debt!  These forces are devaluing our currency in order to help American corporations sell their products overseas, while at the same time making most Americans poorer by the very same currency manipulation!   And they are also at work insidiously trying to circumvent our Constitution, and destroy what’s left of our Bill of Rights, in order to render us subservient to the State, and reduce us to something less than a free people.  I say enough!  ENOUGH OF ALL OF IT!

That little conspiracy to attack America, which was planned from a cave in Afghanistan, has spread across the world like wild fire, and it has morphed into something much different than what it originally was!  It has spread across the entire planet, and leaders in government everywhere like Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama, are using this crisis to advance their own interests, and the interests of those they serve. Everywhere in the world, people in their respective countries are losing whatever rights to freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of movement that they originally had, in order to supposedly “protect” them!  Frankly we have more to fear from our own governments!

It’s been over ten years since 9-11, and two foreign wars later, and there hasn’t been another major terrorist attack in America!  It’s time to repeal The Patriot Act and return to some semblance of normalcy, before we forget what normal really is!  And it’s not too late to revoke certain parts of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act too!  We need to be protected more from our own government in Washington, than we do from Afghan terrorists!  We need more protection from Washington than we do from any foreign threat, including Iran and China.  And people all across the world likewise need to be protected from their own governments, which are effectively returning them to servitude and economic slavery!

Terrorist acts in our own country are miniscule compared to the garden variety of crime that occurs every day on our streets, such as burglary, rape, murder, assault and battery, drug dealing and possession of illegal drugs.  Terrorism in America doesn’t even account for 1/100th of one percent of all of the prisoners in our Federal prison system, not to mention all of the inmates in our State and County jails!

Last year the Patriot Act was set to expire, and Congress had the opportunity to just let it quietly fade away into history, as an anomaly, that was unfortunately necessary to deal with what most of us believed ten years ago, was a serious threat to our country.  But rather than allowing it to lapse, Congress renewed The Patriot Act instead, which continues to allow our Bill of Rights to be used as a doormat by the Federal government to walk all over us!  It was time to end The Patriot Act last year, not to renew it!

Instead of getting better, things just keep getting worse.  Now in addition to The Patriot Act, Barack Obama, with the help of a Democrat controlled Senate, and a Republican House of Representatives, has signed into law The National Defense Authorization Act, which goes even farther than The Patriot Act does when it comes to trampling on our Bill of Rights, and exercising near Martial Law powers!  And for what clear and present danger are we willing to give up our civil rights?  It was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who said, “If you are willing to give up your freedom for a little security, then you don’t deserve either, and you will probably lose both!”

The last serious attack on our country was over ten years ago!  Right now we allow ourselves to be seriously interrogated at airports, scanned like a box of fruit loops at a checkout stand, only with radar detecting devices instead of light emitting diodes, and we are patted down before we are allowed to board a plane, or a train.  While that may still be necessary in order to keep the skies and the rails safe, there are city engineers who are installing cameras in most major cities of the world, just in order to monitor what goes on in the streets!  And they are creating new laws like The National Defense Authorization Act to haul people off to a military jail indefinitely, without due process of law, or the benefit of habeas corpus, and before we are even found guilty of committing a crime! This is nuts!  All of this is being done under the pretense of a “World Wide War on Terror.” Enough is Enough already!

We have more to fear from the overreaching hand of our own Big Government back in Washington than we do from Afghani terrorists eight thousand miles away.  If we would effectively go after the terrorists in their own countries, in other words go after the source of the problem in the countries where it originates, instead of allowing the bad guys to come here, then we wouldn’t even have to think about doing some of the exceptional things we are doing right here in our own country!  The War on Terror which clearly had a legitimate purpose ten years ago, has now become an obvious overreach today!

You can read more of Scott’s work at www.lessgovisthebestgov.com.

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Counterfeit Conservatives – Newt Romney

January 24, 2012 By 1 Comment

The Devil comes as an angel of light, and he sounds so much like a messenger from God that if it were possible, he would deceive even the very elect.

Of course it is not possible the Bible proclaims, because God is the guarantor of our salvation!  But who or what is the guarantor of our personal freedom?  In the United States, the Constitution is the great guarantor of our freedom!

But how can this amazing document, which is the greatest achievement of our Founding Fathers, who have long ago died, defend even one of our sacred liberties from the encroachments of living politicians who have more than once tried?  The plain and simple truth is that no assemblage of mere words, no matter how lofty or high-minded they are, can defend us unless we are first willing to defend our Constitution. So like-minded conservatives and libertarians must insist upon strict compliance with the true meaning, and the clear intent of the Constitution! 

The enemies of freedom are always those progressive politicians who try to twist and distort the Constitution to conform to their own progressive agenda!  No one should be allowed to reconfigure or transform the Constitution to satisfy their own personal, or their Party’s goals!

Today, some so-called conservative pundits, and radio and TV talk show hosts, sound very much like real conservatives.  But they are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing!  They are trying to derail the TEA Party train!  They are trying to suck the wind from the TEA Party’s sails!  They use the same jargon that real conservatives use, and if it is possible, and you can count on the fact that it is possible, they will deceive the very conservative voters that they are trying to influence.

So who are these phony messengers of conservative principles?  Well I’m sorry to say they are people you know and trust.  They are media personalities that you have grown accustomed to hearing on the radio and television, and reading in the newspapers.

Rush Limbaugh is an avid golfer, and he is supposedly the most popular prophet of conservative values.  He is someone who has made more than a small fortune over the years, leading his congregation of conservative voters, but he frequently leads his followers off into the rough, on the right side of the fairway where you can often find him on the weekends.

Sean Hannity can never seem to get to the end of his long list of progressives, liberals, and RINO Republicans that he is both willing and eager to showcase on his radio and TV programs.  And if he ever does run out of new and interesting liberal guests to promote, then he will just go back to the beginning of his list and start over again.  There is Dick Morris, Geraldo Rivera, Bob Beckel, Ann Coulter, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich, just to name a few.

Of course, we have all heard and watched Bill O’Reilly at FOX News over the years, position himself squarely in the middle on most issues, or straddling the fence so often that one could not be blamed for coming to the conclusion that he must wear a steel jock strap!

But what about the next generation of radio and TV talk show hosts, the ‘next-gen’ talkers?  Laura Ingraham, I’m sorry to say is pushing her favorite progressive Republican, Newt Gingrich. Doug Urbanski was last heard promoting Mitt Romney as 2011 drew to a close, before his radio show was canceled.

The Midnight Radio Network clowns, which broadcast from the great State of Texas, a place that you would normally think is conservative, are a couple of phonies too, who are shilling for Newt Gingrich!  How do I know that?  I called their show once, and I tried to get just a few of the pertinent facts out about the disgraced former Speaker’s record.  But they pushed the little red button that disconnected me before I could! Moments later after they jettisoned my call, they commented that if I wanted to trash Newt Gingrich, I should start my own website and do it there, but not on their show.  So I actually have first-hand experience with those two phonies from Texas.

And I have taken their advice too.  I started a website called NewtWorldOrderGingrich.com.  The two Midnight Radio Network stooges disconnected me after only about 10 seconds on the air.  This was after they had spent the first twenty minutes of their program in a monologue glorifying and praising Newt Gingrich as the only conservative who could actually beat Barack Obama.  There must be a lot of pot-bellied pigs in Texas, because that sure is a lot of hogwash! 

Any Republican candidate can beat Barack Obama.  That’s why it is so important that we get behind a real conservative!  We have a wonderful opportunity before us, if we can just get a real conservative to lead the Republican ticket.

Last but not least there is Mark Levin, a man who has a lot of intellectual and ideological influence among conservative voters, and a man I actually like listening to most of the time…  But as we get closer to the actual date of the State Primaries, he seems to be reserving an awful lot of respect and support for guess who, Newt Gingrich!

The other day on his radio program, Mark Levin called Congressman Ron Paul, “A real nut job who can’t beat Obama.”  Oh really!  Does Mark Levin now think that he speaks for the entire nation?  Let me remind him that he doesn’t even speak for the Republican Party!  If Mark Levin thinks he has his hand on the pulse of America, and that he knows what most Republicans want, then maybe we should just let him pick the Republican nominee for us!  After all it would certainly be a lot quicker and cheaper!

Levin has ramped up his attacks on Ron Paul.  He has taken them to a whole new level of rancor.  He has called Ron Paul a crackpot and a neo-confederate, whatever that means!  That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that term used in so-called ‘civil’ discourse, broadly speaking.  And he has called all of Ron Paul’s supporters jerks and morons.

If anyone is fracturing the Republican Party right now, it’s not Ron Paul!  It’s people like Mark Levin with their hateful rhetoric.  It sounds to me like he is getting very desperate.  Ron Paul is not my first choice.  I supported Michele Bachman, now Rick Santorum, and then Ron Paul!  But if we don’t get a real conservative nominee this time, I’m ready to throw my support to Ron Paul as a Third Party candidate, no matter what anyone says!  And the Republican Establishment better think long and hard before they try to shove another phony RINO Republican progressive down our throats again!

It seems to me that Ron Paul wouldn’t even get Mark Levin’s token support if he turns out to be the Republican Party’s nominee.  Well that’s exactly the way I feel about Newt ‘World Order’ Gingrich!  I will not support Newt Gingrich under any circumstances.  I will not support a nominee who describes himself as a ‘Real Politik’ Wilsonian.  I will not support someone who is a fan of author Alvin Toffler’s books, The Third Wave and Creating a New Civilization: the Politics of the Third Wave.  I will not support a man who views our Constitution as an impediment or an obstacle that just gets in his way.

Newt once said, that in order to understand him you had to read Toffler’s book, The Third Wave.  He is a big fan of Toffler’s ideas for a new world civilization.  Toffler writes that our current form of government is obsolete, and that it must be replaced with something better, some new kind of government that will work for today.  Those are the kind of ideas that Newt Gingrich is a big fan of!  That is exactly what the far-left leaning political commentator, Fareed Zakaria believes too!  And guess what?  They are both members of the ‘forward-looking’, progressive thinking Council on Foreign Relations.   I won’t vote for a progressive just because they happen to be a Republican, or because they might be one step better than an outright Marxist!

When Mark Levin isn’t openly ridiculing Ron Paul, he is being very disrespectful of the twelve-term Congressman.  Levin refers to the Congressman as ‘Rue’ Paul, as in you will ‘rue the day you ever voted for him’.  But although he denies it, Mark Levin is also doing a lot to advance the fortunes of Newt Gingrich, just by claiming that Mitt Romney is the official progressive Establishment candidate in the race.  Levin says that Romney is a member of the Republican Establishment, while he totally ignores Newt Gingrich’s extensive Establishment credentials!  Newt has a long record as a progressive ideologue, and a 22-year member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He was the House Minority Whip, and later the Speaker of the House, and the third in line of succession to the President.  There is no bigger member of the progressive political Establishment than Newt ‘World Order’ Gingrich.  See NewtWorldOrderGingrich.com.  Also see Newt Worthy or Not,   Newt Gingrich Update, and Newt Gingrich Consummate Politician and Progressive Establishment Republican. 

We have far more to fear from another progressive like Newt Gingrich than we do from a strict constructionist like Congressman Ron Paul!

As far as Dr. Paul’s foreign policy goes, and as extreme as some of his foreign policy statements sound, there is no stricter adherent in Congress to the Constitution than Ron Paul!  Even if you disagree with some of his more extreme foreign policy views, and I do, you still have to admit that his foreign policy positions over the years are far more in line with the views of our Founding Fathers (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison) than any other candidate who is running in the Republican Presidential Primary!  With that said, we also live in a very different world today, and discretion should be the general order of the day.  It is certainly the better part of valor!

Next, let’s talk about some phony conservative newspaper columnists.  Let’s start out with one of Mark Levin’s acknowledged friends, former Democrat, Charles Krauthammer.  A couple of months ago, Krauthammer told the TEA Party activists to pack it up and go home, when they were right in the middle of trying to keep the pressure up on Congress to make serious spending cuts in order to balance the Federal Budget and to reduce the Federal Debt and deficits.

Ultimately Congress did not make the necessary and serious spending cuts, and Krauthammer was perfectly okay with that.  He told the TEA Party in his column that they had made their point, and they should just go home!  Why?  Because Charles Krauthammer is still a Democrat in his heart, and in his mind too, even though he prefers to register now as a Republican.  He probably registers Republican just in order to pull our Party farther to the left too.  See my article, Farther to the Left Too.

By the way, Mark Levin calls Charles Krauthammer his personal friend!  Another one of Levin’s friends is political commentator and strategist, Bob Beckel.  He actually still is a Democrat.  They say birds of a feather flock together.  Well I guess they really do!

George Will may never have been a Democrat before, but he frequently doesn’t sound like a real conservative either.  He is so far removed from the average American voter, and buried so deep inside of the Washington Beltway, that he couldn’t tell the difference between a blue-collar worker and a blue light special.

So what about the primary cause of all of this debate and divisiveness, Newt Gingrich, the disgraced former Speaker of the House?  Newt has such a long political record that all you have to do is read what he has done in the past, in order to know what he will do in the future.

Newt describes himself as a ‘Real Politik’ Wilsonian, and he said in 1995 that if you wanted to understand him, you had to read The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler.  This book advocates for a progressive new world order, in which adultery, homosexuality, and other forms of immorality are all considered to be perfectly normal and even desirable!  That’s something that Newt Gingrich knows a lot about!  For anybody that doesn’t know history, Woodrow Wilson was a progressive Democratic President in the early 1900s, who was as far to the left in his lifetime as Barack Obama is today.  See Chronicling America’s Progressive Slide to Socialism.  Newt referred to himself as a ‘Real Politik’ Wilsonian!

All of these people are Mark Levin’s friends to one degree or another: Ann Coulter, Charles Krauthammer, Bob Beckel, Sean Hannity, and of course the ever-present Rush Limbaugh.  Together they form a very formidable defense of the status quo, and of the Establishment.  This almost impenetrable defensive line has been assembled in order to block you, and manipulate you, the Republican voters!  Together they probably reach 40 to 50 million Americans every day, with their counterfeit conservative message!  Mark Levin and the rest of his friends are so deep into Newt Gingrich’s public relations campaign that you would have to drag them to the surface with an trans-Atlantic underwater cable!

Finally in closing, I would like to encourage you to think about the whole issue of taxation from a slightly different perspective than the one that is usually presented by the mainstream media (FOX News included).  Everyone is talking about taxes today, whether we should raise them or lower them, or leave them basically the same.  One side claims that we need to raise taxes.  The other side says that we need to lower taxes across the board, in order to avert disaster.  Both sides are concentrating their message on how taxes directly affect middle-income people and families.  However, they are both failing to point out the effect that tax revenues have on our Federal Government, a.k.a. Frankenstein.

If you want to reduce the size and the impact of this Federal monster, then you must not allow the Federal Government to increase its revenues, by any means, no matter where the money comes from!  Whether it comes from rich people, or middle class people, it still goes right into the same old pockets to feed the same insatiable appetite, and to satisfy the addiction to revenue of our Federal Government!  See my article, Addicted to Revenue.
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McCain Endorses Romney: What Does It Mean And What Effect Will It Have?

January 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

When the top elected official of your political Party who is also your country’s President, or past President, endorses a candidate to run for that high office, it means something!  It is not insignificant.  It represents a symbolic passing of the torch!  Not quite an anointing  with oil, but more than a mere casual nod of approval, it is kind of like the white smoke that rises from the Sistine Chapel, that signals the moment when the Cardinals of Vatican City have chosen their next Pope.  In the realm of politics it is the traditional signal that the ‘Establishment’ has selected its next leader!

But what does it mean when a renegade maverick, without clearly consistent principles, and totally undeserving of our Party’s nomination for President, but who received it anyway, and then failed to gain the necessary approval of a majority of American voters, only two years later endorses someone else to pick up the Party’s fallen mantle, and to be our country’s next leader?  What does it mean?…  Well, to me it means absolutely nothing!  It obviously doesn’t carry the same gravitas!  To me it doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot!  But to the liberal, mainstream news media, apparently it is worth at least a passing mention.

So for their sakes, I will briefly discuss exactly what it means to our Party, and to our country, the fact that John McCain has decided to grace Mitt Romney with his endorsement.  It means that the old two-timing renegade from the Grand Canyon State, is trying to keep his name, and his face alive in the news, and he is just trying to remain relevant!  However, beyond that it will take me just three more words to describe the entire impact that a McCain endorsement will have on the Republican Primary. Absolute Zero Impact!

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The Ging”Grinch” that Stole Christmas

December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house
Congress was still working while Americans were clicking their mouse
Eager to know who was up in the polls
Who would win Iowa and New Hampshire before the first snows.
Political candidates were all lined up in a row
Just trying to make it past Iowa and spending tons of their dough
While Republicans were hanging all of their hopes
On the dubious premise voters are more than mere dopes
And pundits in the media conjecture and boast
That voter apathy is definitely over for most.

On Bachmann, On Perry, Santorum, and Paul
Fine free market Republicans who’d make life better for all
But the powers behind the throne have a different plan
They are throwing their weight behind another man
Some claim it’s Romney, but I know the truth
It’s the Ging’Grinch’ that stole Christmas I’ll bet my eyetooth!

Democratic Politicians are running scared in the night
They are worried their pet cat is getting ready to bite
They are scurrying about like a frantic mouse
Convinced that the voters are going to really clean house.
Meanwhile legislators in Congress are in session tonight
Driving fiscal Bills forward with no debt end in sight
Driving down a never ending road
That leads only to financial insolvency, sound economics has showed.

Our country keeps waiting, with our future in doubt
For a leader with courage to help us find our way out
Out of the huge financial mess we have got ourselves in
By trusting politicians who have sold us just spin.
Our Republic is waiting with our future hanging in the balance
Waiting for a good man or woman with the necessary skill and talents
Who will win the caucus in the Hawkeye State?
Can a conservative win New Hampshire, or is that already too late?
All of the candidates are hopeful and their campaign staffs are ready to go
To appeal to the voters and if by chance, Oh
They could persuade and convince us to be ware of Big Gov
And move our great nation with the smallest shove.

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Newt Gingrich:Cashing In on His Political Connections

November 29, 2011 By 2 Comments

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time,
but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time!” –Abraham Lincoln

No Republican candidate running in the 2012 Presidential Primary is a bigger member of the Republican political establishment than Newt Gingrich.  He represents everything that the elite Republican establishment has stood for, for the past 32 years.  He epitomizes the ‘Rockefeller wing’ of the Republican Party.  He is a typical ‘checked pants’ Republican.  And just because he has not held an elected office for the last twelve of those thirty-two years, that does not mean that he has not kept his hand in politics, or that he has been out of the loop.

During the past twelve years, Newt Gingrich has been a well-paid Washington D.C. lobbyist, and political consultant, earning the ‘big bucks’ that his 20-year career in Congress could bring him.  And with his knowledge of all the ropes, and his connections to all of the insiders, he probably feels that he is worth every penny that he charged his clients.

In other words, Newt Gingrich is a career politician who has been Cashing In on His Political Connections, and on his many years on Capitol Hill.  He is a member of the political ‘revolving door club’, just like Senators Tom Daschle and Bob Dole, and Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright.  Newt Gingrich is the quintessential insider, a consummate politician, and the farthest thing from the example laid down by the Founding Fathers as you can possibly get!

When George Washington retired from a long and distinguished career in public service, he did not become a well-paid lobbyist and sell his political connections and insider knowledge to the highest bidder.  He got out of politics and retired to Mt. Vernon where he took up farming!

Somehow I can’t see Newt Gingrich getting down on his knees, either in prayer, or in his garden getting his hands dirty.  The point being, is that the Founding Fathers’ idea of a good public servant wasn’t a lifetime in public office, separated by a decade long career cashing in on your political connections!

Let’s take a look at Newt Gingrich’s long record in public office and his lucrative career as a political consultant.  As a Congressman from Georgia’s sixth district, Newt Gingrich served twenty years in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1999.  He became the House Minority Whip in 1989.  He became Speaker of the House in 1995.  That was the same year that he delivered a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Affairs in which he said, “The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution… either we are going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we are going to have to rethink our process of making decisions.” 1 This is a direct quote from Newt Gingrich.  These are his own words!

Newt Gingrich is a fan of author Alvin Toffler, who believes that our American system of government, which was designed by the Founding Fathers, and which is protected by our Constitution, has become obsolete, and needs to be discarded, and re-designed.  According to Toffler (and Newt), “It needs to die and be replaced.”  Newt once boasted that in order to understand him, you needed to read Toffler’s two books, The Third Wave, and Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave.  When Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House, he recommended reading Toffler’s books to all of his colleagues.  He wrote the forward to Toffler’s last book, The Politics of the Third Wave.

“The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution… either we are going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we are going to have to rethink our process of making decisions.”

Those are Newt’s very own words.  That sounds about as close to a regret that we have a Constitution that I have ever heard any politician say!  And it was uttered by the sitting Speaker of the House in 1995, Newton L. Gingrich.  It sounds to me like Mr. Gingrich thinks that our Constitution is an obstacle to overcome, or an impediment, instead of the actual guarantor of our freedoms.

Newton L. Gingrich.  That’s the way that his name appears on the membership roster of the Council on Foreign Relations.  This has been a training ground for progressives in America, and a beachhead for socialism, and the ‘New World Order’ since 1921.  The CFR was founded and funded by east coast bankers, primarily by J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, with help from influential Europeans, following America’s refusal to join the League of Nations. Its main goal was to condition and prepare the United States for full membership in the United Nations.  Today, the CFR continually advocates for surrender of our national sovereignty, and the implementation of world government.  The progressive members of the CFR are globalists and internationalists.  Newt Gingrich has been a member of the CFR since 1990! 2

The Council on Foreign Relations has been instrumental in formulating most of America’s disastrous foreign policy initiatives during the past sixty-five years, since the end of WWII.  These policies have resulted in the rise of the Soviet Union, the Cold War, the rise of Communist China, the murder of millions of people by Stalin in his purges, and by Mao in his ‘Cultural Revolution’, the no-win outcome of the War in Vietnam, and the continuing stalemate in Korea!

The CFR’s policy statements are also responsible for the rather indecisive progress in the War on Terror around the world.  Every administration since Woodrow Wilson has staffed their major cabinet positions with members of the CFR, and Newt Gingrich has been right there since 1990 as one of their most articulate and distinguished members and spokespersons.  He was already a member of the CFR for five-years before he became the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  If Newt Gingrich has experienced any personal change resulting from his conversion to Catholicism, it has nothing at all to do with his long political record.

Back in 1979 when Newt Gingrich was still a freshman Congressman, he helped Jimmy Carter establish the Department of Education that gave the American people Federal control over education.  In 1989 Newt Gingrich became the House Minority Whip.  In 1995, Newt became the Speaker of the House.  In 1996, under Newt’s leadership as Speaker of the House, Congress passed the largest single spending increase to date on education in U.S. History, $3.5 billion dollars.  All of this Federal money didn’t come without Federal strings attached!

Newt claims today that he believes in smaller, leaner government.  But just last year he was back to his old tricks again, touring the country with President Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and Al Sharpton, promoting Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’ education policies, which hand out even more Federal money and require even more Federal regulations over local school districts.  It sounds to me like the (old) dog is returning to his vomit, to paraphrase an old Biblical adage.  In 1999, Newt Gingrich resigned from office over the disastrous midterm elections, in which Republicans lost five congressional seats, the worst loss to date in U.S. history for a Party who was not still in control of the WhiteHouse.  (Not counting the disasterous 2010 midterm elections for Democrats.) At the same time he was involved in an extra-marital affair, and a flap over a controversial book deal.

But, Newt Gingrich can’t seem to keep his mitts out of politics for very long.  Only for about as long as it takes to go on a Mediterranean cruise with his newest wife, Callista.  The allure of power, prestige, and money are obviously just too strong for him.  And with the help of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the rest of the mainstream media who have kept Newt Gingrich in the public’s eye for the past twelve years, and kept his name alive, the Republican Party has managed to resurrect the disgraced Speaker of the House, and re-package him in 2010 as a viable Presidential candidate.  That’s quite an amazing feat of political handiwork!

What do solid conservatives or libertarians say about Newt Gingrich?  The New American magazine referred to Newt in their December 7, 2009 issue as, “The Establishment’s Conservative.”  This is not a compliment!  His last freedom index score, taken in 1999 in the 105th Congress, when he was still the Speaker of the House, was an abysmal 50 percent.  The Freedom Index is an evaluation of a Congressman’s record, based on the U.S. Constitution, and compiled by the John Birch Society, which is very good at watching for Constitutional indiscretions.

Ed Crane, the president of the Cato Institute wrote in the November 2000 issue of Forbes magazine that, “The combined budgets of the 95 major programs that Newt’s contract with America promised to eliminate, have increased by 13 percent… over the years. [Since then under Newt] the Republican controlled Congress has approved discretionary spending that exceeded Bill Clinton’s requests.” 

Newt Gingrich is, and always has been, a big government, profligate spender!  That is in stark contrast with his 1994 pledge in the Contract with America to lower taxes, and decrease the size of government. 

Joe Farah, editor of World Net Daily, in his latest article, Newt Shows His True Colors, Again, on November 18, 2011 has also come out against Newt Gingrich.  With a political record almost as long as America’s progressive slide to socialism and big government, Newt Gingrich has been as much a part of the progressive establishment of this country as any other member of Congress, past or present!

Footnotes:

  1. www.westernjournalism.com.  November 18, 2011. Is Newt Gingrich a Conservative?  You Decide.
    http://www.campaignforliberty.com. Newt (World Order) Gingrich 07/07/10
  2. The New American. December 7, 2009.  Newt Gingrich the Establishment’s Conservative p. 14

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The Biggest Entitlement of All

November 17, 2011 By 2 Comments

Democrats think that Barack Obama deserves a second term in office, and if he doesn’t get it, then America must be a racist country.

In their view he is entitled to another four years in office simply because he is the first black President.  And after all, George Bush had two terms.  So if George Bush served eight years, then Barack Obama should have eight years in office too!  At least that’s what they think.  If Barack Obama doesn’t get re-elected in 2012, then it must be only because America is at its core, a racist nation.

I can already hear the false charges of racism reverberating around in the twisted little intellects of those who manufacture such falsehoods, in order to earn their living from dividing our country.  Therefore, I have coined a new term to accurately describe this disorder, which has not yet found its way into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

I call it EDD, which stands for Entitlement Dysfunction Disorder. Anybody who thinks that they are entitled to something that they didn’t earn, and therefore don’t deserve, suffers from EDD.

The symptoms of EDD can be many, and diverse.  They range from reparations syndrome , to a belief in the redistribution of wealth.  Many blacks who are registered Democrats typically fall into this group that suffers from EDD.  And they are so busy hating white society for past injustices, and for today’s real or imagined insults, that they can’t seem to notice how the whole playing field has literally shifted under their feet!

They are so busy overcompensating for actual feelings of self-loathing or inferiority, that their pride doesn’t let them notice that they are the only ones left who still imagine that they are in any way, shape, or form, inferior!

Their whole identity, and the entire black pride movement, which began in the 1960s with Malcolm X, is so wrapped up in hate (hate for whites, and even hate for themselves in some cases) that they actually can’t see clearly.  If they didn’t harbor this hate, which reminds them of who they are NOT, then they actually wouldn’t know who they are!

It’s time to put the hate down, and open their eyes: The same God created us all, black and white!

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Newt-worthy or Not?

November 8, 2011 By 13 Comments

Is Newt Gingrich the Best Candidate for President in the Republican Primary?

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time!” –Abraham Lincoln

Newt Gingrich

The Record of Newt Gingrich

  • 1979 Elected to Congress from Georgia’s 6th District
  • 1979 Voted to create the Department of Education, under President Jimmy Carter
  • 1990 Becomes member of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
  • 1993 Voted for NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement
  • 1994 Supported the WTO, the World Trade Organization. Voted for GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that subjected Americans to the international authority of the WTO
  • 1995 Becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives and recommends reading The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler as required reading for all of his Congressional colleagues. (See accompanying article.)
  • 1995 Delivers speech to the Center for Strategic and International Affairs in which he blames the US Constitution for making America’s role in leading the world more difficult! Read his full quote in accompanying article, “The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution…”.
  • 1995 Wrote the foreword to another one of Toffler’s books, The Politics of the Third Wave, Creating a New Civilization
  • 1995 The liberal establishment Time Magazine names Newt Gingrich their “Man of the Year”
  • 1995 Appeals to the US House of Representatives to increase the power of the Presidency by repealing the War Powers Act of 1972, and urged President Clinton to expand the US military presence in Bosnia.
  • 1996 Under his leadership, Congress passed the largest single spending increase on education in US history, a whopping $3.5 billion dollars!
  • 1999 Newt resigns over failed midterm elections in which Republicans lost 5 seats, the worst loss in history for a Party who did not control the White House. At the same time, he was also involved in a flap over an extra marital affair and a controversial book deal.

The Reincarnation of Newt

  • 2008 Records the ‘We Can Solve It’ global warming TV commercial for Al Gore along with Nancy Pelosi
  • 2009-2010 Travels around the country with Al Sharpton and Arne Duncan to promote President Obama’s new educational policies: i.e. increased local control of schools with increased Federal subsidies and regulations from Washington. (Sounds like quite a contradiction to me.)
  • 2010 Supported ultra-liberal, pro-abortion, pro-union, establishment candidate Dede Scozzafava in New York’s 23rd Congressional District in a special election, over conservative candidate Doug Hoffman.

The Battle Before Us: First Skirmish

True conservatives, libertarians, and constitutionalists are not just fighting Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. We are also up against the entire Progressive Establishment, that seeks to maintain control over both the National Democratic and the Republican Parties. This so-called forward looking, liberal, elite, establishment supports such programs as:

  • Continued deficit spending.
  • Increasing our national debt, or at least maintaining the current high debt levels for well into the foreseeable future.
  • Monetizing the debt, or quantitative easing.
  • Devaluing the Dollar.
  • Replacing the Dollar as the world’s reserve currency with a basket of currencies.
  • The eventual establishment of a one-world currency.
  • The creation of a World Central Bank.
  • Bailouts for billionaires and other taxpayer financed corporate welfare programs.
  • The suppression of States-Rights.
  • The dissolution of our national sovereignty.
  • The creation of an International World Government that is controlled by inter-national world socialists.
  • The subjection of the United States to the increasing jurisdiction of the United Nations, the World Court, and
    the WTO, etc.
  • The virtual de-constructing of our Constitution and our Bill Of Rights.

The Progressive Movement is well-financed. It has been around since the early 1900’s. The Progressive Establishment attempts to control both National Political Parties, which is why both candidates in a particularly important race can both be Progressives.

They also control most of the national media, both print and electronic, which are the marketing tools that they use to get their candidates elected to high public office. That is why they will never willingly allow real campaign finance reform, because it will take money away from the national media which they own.

The only thing that conservative patriots have on our side is the TEA Party Movement, a few good men and women on Capitol Hill (probably not more than 100), a few good pundits on Talk Radio, the writings of our Founding Fathers, some good contemporary conservative writers and bloggers, and as the proverbial saying goes, Truth, Justice, and the American Way! We don’t have the luxury of just being able to battle Democrats. We also have to come to ideological blows with forces inside our own political party.

The strategy of The Progressive Establishment has always been to get the two most liberal candidates, one from either political party nominated in their respective primaries, and then to promote the most progressive of those two candidates in the general election. Either way The Establishment wins, because they target and dispose of the most conservative candidates in the primaries, and so whichever of the two ‘libs’ win in the general election, it is still a victory for the The Establishment and much better for them then one of the more conservative candidates from either political party.

Newt Gingrich has been a member of the progressive Council on Foreign Relations since 1990. This NGO, founded in 1921, and bankrolled with BIG MONEY from the Rockefeller Foundation and J. P. Morgan among other internationalists, has been dedicated since its inception to dismantling American sovereignty, de‑constructing our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, and promoting the idea of One World Government.

During his long tenure in Congress which began in 1979, and ended in disgrace in 1999, Newt Gingrich supported and even pushed through Congress, as the Minority Whip or as the Speaker of the House, Federally-funded loan guarantees to China. This is one of the reasons that China is beating the pants off us today in world trade!

In 1993 New Gingrich not only voted for the job destroying North American Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA) but he was also instrumental in getting enough Republican support to pass the bill. In 1994, as the House Minority Whip, Newt voted to support the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with his vote on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In his position as Minority Whip, he had the power to postpone the vote on GATT until it could have been modified or defeated in the House, but he chose instead to let the bill pass in a Lame Duck session of Congress. Newt voted in favor of GATT, which subjects Americans to the international authority and the regulation of the World Trade Organization.

The United States Constitution states in Article 1 Section 8 that “Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations.” (not the WTO) Note: It doesn’t say that Congress has the right to delegate that authority away to anyone else. But Congress has abdicated their role and subrogated their authority to the World Trade Organization with the passage of GATT, and with the instrumental help of Newt Gingrich.

Prior to orchestrating the vote in the House, in which Newt himself voted in a favor of surrendering American sovereignty on matters having to do with foreign trade to the WTO, Newt Gingrich testified in front of the House Ways and Means Committee. In his testimony in 1994 he said , “We need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level, significant authority to a new organization…This is not just another trade agreement. This is doing something which twice, once in the 1940’s and once in the 1950’s, the US Congress rejected…It is a very big transfer of power.”

It sounds to me like he knew exactly what he was proposing, and in spite of his warning, he still arranged for the vote on GATT, he still voted in favor of it, and as much as anyone else, Newt Gingrich bears the responsibility for transferring American sovereignty on matters having to do with foreign trade to an international authority. This betrayal was a direct assault on our Constitution.

A staunch fighter against progressive ideas, former Ron Paul Congressional staffer and free lance writer, Rebecca Terrell called Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America a “Congressional con-job” and a “public relations smoke screen.” Her entire article can be read in the Dec. 7, 2009 issue of The New American.

Outside of a brief mention of the words “Promote the general welfare” in The Preamble to the Constitution which is repeated in Article 1 Section 8 Clause 1, the Constitution says nothing at all about creating government entitlements or public welfare programs! Some of the taxes which The Contract with America only purposed to reduce, that go to support government funded welfare programs have no basis at all in the US Constitution. Instead of just being reduced, they should have been eliminated altogether!

More than ten years after Newt Gingrich left office in 1999, and almost twenty years after The Contract with America in 1994, the spending levels for all of these social welfare programs have increased dramatically. That’s why The Contract with America didn’t change much, because it didn’t pull up the ‘unconstitutional weeds’ by their roots. It just mowed them back a little bit. And we all know what happens after you mow the weeds. They just grow back again!

If Newt Gingrich was a true Constitutional conservative, then he would have voted against, and worked to eliminate, unconstitutional programs when he had both the power and the opportunity to do so, instead of just reducing them. Six years after the Contract with America, the President of the CATO Institute, Ed Crane wrote in the November 2000 issue of Forbes Magazine that “The combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate have increased by 13%…Over the years [since then] the Republican controlled Congress has approved discretionary spending that exceeded Bill Clinton’s requests.” That’s why the people were disappointed with the Contract with America. It wasn’t nearly enough, and what little it did accomplish didn’t last!

President Clinton thanked Newt Gingrich for his support of The Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. That law placed additional restrictions on our 2nd Amendment Right to possess a firearm. It also federalized certain crimes involving a firearm which has increased both the size and the scope of the Federal Government.

In 1995 Newt Gingrich made a dispassionate appeal in the well of the US House of Representatives to increase the power of the Presidency by repealing the War Powers Act. After voting for $1.2 billion dollars in 1994 to fund increased NATO peace keeping missions, the very next year he urged President Clinton to expand the US military presence in Bosnia!

Newt has been pro abortion, pro amnesty for illegal aliens, in support of higher taxes at one time or another, and in favor of expanding the role of the Federal government. He is viewed as being anti‑family by many, not only because of his pro choice stance on abortion, but also for his support of gay marriage, and because he has twice divorced and been married three different times. Actions speak louder than words!

In 1994, Newt Gingrich described himself as a fan of the ideas espoused in the book, The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler, in which homosexuality, promiscuity, adultery, divorce, and abortion are all viewed as perfectly normal and even desirable. He said that in order to understand him, you should read the book. This book is written from the perspective of someone who is writing a letter to America’s Founding Fathers, in which he describes the Constitution and the principles of limited government that guided our Founding Fathers as becoming increasing irrelevant, and obsolete, and hence in need of being radically redesigned and replaced!

In fact the book goes on to state that our current system of government must be overhauled and a new system of democracy for the 21st century must be developed. This is the New World Order that Toffler speaks of, and Newt Gingrich is a BIG FAN of it!

And not just Newt, but this has been the special pet project of the Progressive Establishment in this country for over 100 years. When Newt Gingrich became the Speaker of the House in 1994, he recommended The Third Wave as required reading for all of his Congressional colleagues. He also wrote the forward to another one of Toffler’s books, The Politics of the Third Wave, Creating a New Civilization. That doesn’t sound much different to me then a New World Order. So the former Speaker’s ideas about Toffler’s book, The Third Wave or his ideas about a new civilization sound remarkably similar to the New World Order or the One World Government embraced by progressives. Is this just a coincidence or is there a connection?

One of the main bulwarks of the Progressive Establishment is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). For over twenty years since 1990, Newt Gingrich has been a member of the powerful Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1921 the CFR has been single mindedly dedicated to the goal of undermining our National Sovereignty in order to promote a One World Government.

In a speech given to the Center For Strategic and International Affairs in 1995, Newt Gingrich said, “The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution…Either we are going to have to re-think our Constitution or we are going to have to re‑think our process of making decisions.”

These are Newt Gingrich’s own words! And this is his track record. It is not complete by any stretch of the imagination but it is 100% accurate. He has a record of twenty years in public office that we can judge him by. Now, he’s running for public office again, and no mean office mind you, but the highest office in the land, and you would like to know if Newt Gingrich is worthy of your trust and your consideration.

Well first of all, I must tell you that I am suspicious of anyone who wants to win high public office as bad as he does. The ideal model for a good public servant is George Washington, who didn’t really want the job, only reluctantly agreed to accept the job, and who only aspired to leave public office and get out of the limelight and back home to Mt. Vernon as soon as he could. In contrast, Newt Gingrich has already been in the limelight and in public office for twenty years, and he has still not had enough!

Newt represents the past and part of the reason that we are in the trouble we are in. Why don’t we give someone else a chance instead of bringing back this tired, but still hungry old warhorse from out of the past?

Secondly, while it is possible that his new positions on smaller government, and lower taxes, and his recent overtures to the TEA Party are real, it is more likely that he is just posturing, like any experienced politician, and saying what he needs to say in order to get elected. In other words, he is positioning himself for 2012. But he has always claimed to be a fiscal conservative even though he hasn’t always followed through on his claims. It’s just that this was as far as his claims to conservative values ever went. They never extended to limited government, adhering to the Constitution, or to any social issues!

Thirdly, they say that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but Newt’s are even stranger than most! And by this, I am not referring to his past three wives. He recently partnered up with Nancy Pelosi to make a TV commercial for Al Gore’s $300 million dollar global warming ad campaign. In this 2008 commercial Newt Gingrich said, “Our country must take action to address climate change!”

Really?

At the same time, on his own website, www.newt.org he says, “I don’t think that we have conclusive proof of global warming.” It sounds to me like he is taking both sides of the same issue. We either have global warming/climate change, or we don’t. And if we don’t have it, which he implies on his website, then why is he making commercials for Al Gore claiming that we do, and that we need to do something about it?

Pardon me if I seem just a little bit confused by his vacillating back and forth on the issue, but which is it? Either we have global warming, or we don’t! Either we need to take action to correct it, or we don’t! Trying to be all things to all people means that you can’t be anything to anyone.

In addition to Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore for strange bedfellows, apparently Newt was also partnering up with the likes of Al Sharpton, the notorious, race baiting, left-wing agitator, and with President Obama’s Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and he has been traveling around the country promoting President Obama’s so-called ‘education reforms,’ i.e. increased local control of public schools with increased subsidies and regulations from Washington. (Isn’t that a contradiction?)

But contradictions and increased federal control is nothing new for Newt. Newt Gingrich has always been a strong proponent of increased federal funding of public education from his earliest years in Congress. He helped to get the support needed to pass the legislation that created the Department of Education in 1979, under President Jimmy Carter. Since then, federal spending on education has skyrocketed with no corresponding improvement in academic achievement. Under Newt Gingrich’s leadership, the Congress increased federal spending on education in 1996 by a whopping $3.5 billion dollars, the largest single increase in history!

Finally, in the 2009 special election for New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Newt Gingrich endorsed the ultra liberal Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, over a real Conservative Third Party Candidate, Doug Hoffman who had the support of the TEA Party, the New York Post, conservative Republican radio talk show host and Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin, and other conservatives within the New York Republican Party.

Dede Scozzafava supported same-sex marriage, big unions, and abortion. She was endorsed by Planned Parenthood and the Acorn affiliated, Working Families Party. After it appeared that she was still running in 3rd place behind both the Democratic and the Conservative Party candidates, but only drawing votes away from the Democratic candidate Bill Owens, she withdrew from the race and endorsed her liberal Democratic opponent, rather than conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman. Thus, the Democrat candidate narrowly won the race.

Newt Gingrich’s initial endorsement of Dede Scozzafava cost him whatever credibility he had left with conservatives in his own party, and with members of the TEA Party. He might as well pack it all in now and save all of us Republicans a whole lot of time and trouble arguing over the prospect of his potential candidacy!

You can read more of Scott’s work at www.lessgovisthebestgov.com.

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What the Heck Is Going On In Libya Under Obama

October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

“I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God,
wherefore turn [from your wicked ways] and live.”  Ezekiel 18.32

The Obama Administration seems quite pleased with itself, and everybody else seems very happy, now that Moammar Gadhafi is dead.   

Obviosly his death is no great loss to the world, and only a few of his surviving family and friends are even alive to mourn the loss of this contemptible dictator. (Note: some of his family members were also killed in the eight-month long rebellion.)  This is the strandard thinking, but there are always two sides to every story and I would like to try to point out the other side to this one.

First of all, our American reputation has been besmirched. We made a deal with Gadhafi after 9/11 that if he gave up his weapons of mass destruction, including his nascent nuclear weapons program, and he agreed to reform his old ways, i.e. stop being a sponsor of state terrorism, then we would welcome him back into the world wide community of nations, and we would resume normal diplomatic relations with him.

Does supporting a rebellion in Libya and bombing Colonel Gadhafi’s military seem like normal diplomatic relations to you?  He gave up his WMDs, and he stopped sponsoring terrorism, and he is dead today because he trusted us.  His death may be no great loss to the world, but we should value our country’s reputation.  I only mourn my country’s loss of honor and integrity, and our descent into a rather Machiavellian foreign policy, where the ends always justifies the means.

The United States pulled the rug out from under Gadhafi, after he complied with all the terms of our agreement. That won’t inspire many other countries or world leaders to sign any more agreements with the United States.

The U.S. and NATO bombed his tanks and planes, and disabled his military with months of relentless bombing, and we left him defenseless and unable to even quell an internal rebellion in his own country.  We set him up for his fatal downfall.  It was a NATO bombing mission that stopped his convoy dead in its tracks, as he was trying to escape from the city of Sirte, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast.

We may just as well have pulled the trigger on the gun that killed him, while he was begging for his own life.  He had surrendered, and he was in their custody, and he posed no threat to anyone, yet he was summarily and brutally executed on the spot.

This lawless and uncivilized act of executing an unarmed and defenseless man, who had surrendered, and was in custody, not to mention the fact that he was also a deposed head of state, is reminiscent of what the bloodthirsty Bolsheviks did to the last Russian Czar, Nicholas II and to his entire family. The Communists simply lined them up and shot them all, without a trial, and without so much as a single charge being brought against any member of the royal family.  All of the Romanoffs were summarily murdered.  It was considered a sufficient enough crime for the Empress, and for her children, to be the wife and the heirs of the deposed Russian leader.

The Russian Republic got off on the wrong foot, with no respect for the rule of law, and with innocent blood on their hands, and to this very day the leaders of Russia still have no respect for law and order.

Libya is starting off on the wrong foot too, and in all likelihood the Libyans will end up in the same situation as the Russians are today, i.e. living under another form of tyranny.

The lawless and uncivilized act of shooting an unarmed man who is in custody, and poses no further threat to anyone, without a trial, or any charges being brought against him, is a big step backward, not forward, in the annals of human history.  It is an affront to any pretense of civilization.  And it makes the United States look bad, as well as untrustworthy, to be the allies of such miscreants, who would kill an unarmed prisoner of war in cold blood, and then parade his mutilated body around on the hood of a pickup truck.  Then they proceeded to store his bloodied and mutilated corpse in a meat locker for four days for everyone to see.

Our government is responsible for this crime, this blotch on civilization. Our government is responsible for rendering Colonel Gadhafi defenseless and helpless, and delivering him up to those bloodthirsty savages, who are no better than he was! 

There is no question at all if we had asked the Libyans to capture Gadhafi alive, and hold him over for trial, that they would have done it, because they are beholden to us.

How do you think this looks to other countries around the world, and to other heads of state, when the leader of the free world appears to condone this type of behavior from our allies, and has such a vacillating, Machiavellian foreign policy, like we have under President Obama? 

This is Barack Obama’s foreign policy message to the whole world.  If you put your trust in the United States of America, we will betray you and sell you out!  This Machiavellian foreign policy of expedience is the same message that you will find in the writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Saul Alinsky. The message is the same: The ends justifies the means!  There are no rules!  It is not how you conduct yourself, or how you play the game that really matters.  It is only whether you win or lose in the end that counts!  That was Karl Marx’s message to the world, and it is the message of all of his followers, from Lenin to Obama!  Yes Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Antonio Grimche, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, Van Jones, and our President Barack Obama all follow the same principles. The ends justifies the means, and it’s only if you win that counts!

In addition to not inspiring any other country in the world, or any world leader to ever trust America again, we are lowering the bar for acceptable international behavior, and setting a bad example, not of American exceptionalism, but of blatant disregard for law and order, and distain for generally accepted norms of human behavior. This is much worse than what the Democrats were always complaining about at Abu Ghraib, or at Guantanamo Bay.  The alleged atrocities that were committed at Abu Ghraib do not even compare to shooting a captured head of state, who is a prisoner, and begging for his life.  And you don’t hear one single word from any Democrats about it!

Why did the Obama Administration nearly go crazy last week over the thwarted Iranian attempt to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington, when they are really no better than the Iranians are, or at least their Libyan allies are not.

The sooner we can get him out of office at the next election, the better.  Then we will certainly have our work cut out for us, just trying to restore our tainted credibility in the eyes of the world.

The Democrats used to say that George W. Bush ruined America’s reputation abroad.  They said that Bush was acting like a cowboy.  Will somebody please get a big mirror and put it on the front lawn of the WhiteHouse, so that these guys can actually get a good look at themselves? 

Under President Bush, Saddam Hussein and the other members of his regime got a trial, and they were charged with crimes before they were speedily dispatched!  You can’t say the same thing for what is going on in Libya under Obama!

You can read more of Scott’s work at www.lessgovisthebestgov.com.

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