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Its Deja Vu All Over Again

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on January 27, 2014
Posted in: Conservative Principles, National Politics, Social Conservative. Tagged: , , , , . 2 Comments

I heard today on the evening news a clip of a twit announcing “How Dare the conservatives attack the potentially First Woman President” in response to the conservative press and Conservative Caucus Members of Congress continuing to push Hillary on her involvement in the cover up of the murder of our four American Diplomats in Libya.

Have we not learned anything over the past five years?  Didn’t we make that mistake twice by allowing the Socio-Communist Left to Race Bait the American People into quiet acceptance while our Establishment GOP Co-Conspirators in Congress cowered in the darkness, desperate to be seen as inclusive and not to be called Racist instead of railing against the incompetence and criminality of everything Obama just because he was black?

Who are the real racists here?

We should never have allowed the fear of being labeled cause us to accept the Constitutional Perversions pervasively practiced by this administration over the past 5 years.  I have listed the areas in which our Country has been put at risk through the incompetence of Obama and the steadfast ideology of Progressivism in a previous post.  Their ideas and direction are mis-timed and unfitting in a dangerous world, yet we allowed it to happen despite years of warning about the dangers of Political Correctness.   Our failure to call incompetence and subversion what it is out of fear of being called Racist, Biased, Non Inclusive, Anti this or that, has nearly cost us our Republic.

We CANNOT let the same game be played by the left with any future candidate, community leader, etc., despite race, gender, or persuasion.   We do not have to denigrate to educate.  We do not have to engage in personal attacks against race, gender or persuasion.  We DO however, have to speak the truth at all costs.

The first truth of this new Presidential Election Season is that Hillary Clinton is unfit for office because of issues and unanswered questions going back as far as Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, The Hillary Rodham Cattle Controversy, The Lewinsky cover up, Hillary-care, and most recently and most importantly Benghazi.   And she happens to be a woman.

To quote Hillary herself, “What Does It Matter ! “

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Its Not Paranoia If They Really Are Watching You

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on January 27, 2014
Posted in: Conservative Principles, Florida Politics, National Politics, Social Conservative. Tagged: , , , . 5 Comments

There is a controversy brewing mainly among legitimate Libertarians sparked by the overreaching intrusion into our privacy by the DHS,  NSA and other Obama spy agencies.  It should be causing more outcry among mainstream America, but the media has done a good job of making anyone who questions expenditures on security measures appear as loons.  So you are not hearing much about this outside of local city council chambers where votes pass under various consent agendas to accept federal money for enhanced security measures which prop-up budget tight police departments.

The controversy revolves around DHS grants for the implementation of closed circuit cameras being offered to municipalities.  Of the myriad things wrong and potentially wrong with this program, the opportunities for abuse are astounding and therefore should make these cameras, regardless of their placement difficult to defend, but instead make them nearly impossible to prevent.

When stories do break about these programs, people are scared. And that is not too strong a term.  For those old enough to have studied history in school, the point we find ourselves at today, leaning further left then ever before in our history, with a verifiable Socialist in the White House, an all out attack on the Constitution, the pushing of the bounds of legality in government’s relationship with its people finds us teetering with Tyranny.  Thinking people who are paying attention have a right to be scared.

Many legal immigrants fled their homelands in fear for their lives, from regimes which started out as this “Progressive” administration did in 2008 and continued to progress past this point to all out totalitarian rule.  Can’t Happen Here? Well they are not so sure it can’t.   We got close under Wilson and Roosevelt.  But have we ever been this close?  The current Progressive Liberal Government is socializing our education system, our healthcare system, our banking system, our Auto Industry, increasing taxes and fees on small business, advancing unemployment and advancing unemployment compensation, increasing the rolls of welfare and various entitlement programs, allowing millions of illegal immigrants across our borders and vying for amnesty, legalizing drugs, providing more disinformation then facts thus resembling a ministry of propaganda, spying on everybody through DHS and the NSA, using the EPA and the IRS as political weapons to stumble and punish their enemies at all levels, abandoning our allies, dismantling our military, making deals with our enemies, decapitating conservative military leaders through phony scandals, indicting writers and journalist and conservative politicians, and captains of industry who express disagreement with the current ideology on trumped up charges, and engaging in race baiting, class warfare while implementing comprehensive wealth redistribution policies and so much more …..

Is it any wonder people are fearful and suspicious about DHS grants providing for the implementation of surveillance cameras in American cities and towns which could be used to further track the movements of anyone who doesn’t tow the line?   No it is not.    So why are so many small municipalities biting off on this deal?   Money like everything else.  The current regime knows that our liberty is for sale.   Just that easy.  For the cost of a few cameras to allow local governments to keep tabs on their water treatment plants, busy intersections, downtown areas, government buildings, etc., under the guise of protecting the facilities and infrastructure from the threat of terror, our Socio-Communist masters will have the modern day equivalent of the ever present jack-booted Stasi in the GDR mounted on poles, monitored 24/7 and there is no way cash strapped cities, towns and counties are going to say no.

I remember walking down the sidewalk in Reading, UK on a business trip several years ago where the cameras followed me while I window shopped.  So are they safer from terrorism and threat in the UK because of these invasive tactics?  I would find it hard to make that argument in light of a growing number of Sharia Courts there.  It appears the sacrifice of freedom and liberty was for nothing in light of the deterioration of British Culture and Society in various parts of England by those who have sworn to destroy our way of life.  And so I guess even in small town American we’ll have to get used to an Orwellian future that has arrived too soon and without resistance, pretending its for our own safety, while our benefactors let our enemies in the front door to rape our culture while pocketing vast amounts of wealth while pretending to fight income inequality.   Doesn’t sound much like Utopia to me….

“And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”  1984 George Orwell

 

 

 

President Obama’s “Phony” Scandals” – a new post by contributing blogger Ed Riordan

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on July 26, 2013
Posted in: Conservative Principles, National Politics, Social Conservative. Tagged: , , , , , , . 1 Comment

President Obama’s “Phony” Scandals

Yesterday, the President of the United States appeared in Jacksonville to roundup this week’s portion of his current speaking tour on the subject of the economy. Pundits and observers agree that the appearances he has made in the past week were merely presentations of recycled speeches from the campaign trail, and the real purpose of his road trip to a number of American cities was a political one, designed to gin up his support base at a time of his plummeting popularity in the polls, and to distract the public from the plethora of scandals plaguing his administration. Some of the President’s more notable remarks, made reference to Washington’s focus on what he termed “phony” scandals. With unresolved issues like the tragic death of four Americans in Benghazi, the targeting of political enemies by the IRS, the spying done on of American citizens by the NSA, and the intrusion on the first amendment rights of the press at the top of most Americans minds when this President’s scandals are mentioned, his remarks were the red meat dream of his political opponents.  One after another the intellectually honest talking heads in the media lambasted Mr. Obama for referring to such real and important open investigations as “phony”.

This writer agrees with that sentiment, but, in the interest of taking the POTUS literally, took pause to reflect on the real “phony scandals” he continues to be faced with. In the first major act of his Presidency, challenged with addressing a national unemployment rate of 7.8%, Mr. Obama stood on a stage before all Americans espousing the benefits of a massive $1.2 Trillion economic stimulus package, making the promise that all that targeted spending for shovel ready jobs would reduce our unemployment rate to less than 6% by the end of 2012. Since that time, the President begrudgingly admitted there really were no shovel ready jobs, and according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the unemployment rate at the close of June 2013 in the US was 7.6%.
When selling the public benefits of his later adopted landmark achievement, the Affordable Care Act, the President promised Americans that liked their insurance that they could keep it, those who liked their doctors could keep them, and that insurance premiums would plummet as a result, saving the Average American $2,500 a year. As the implementation of Obamacare has evolved, Americans have found all three promises amounted to one tall tale of deceit.

Obama also frequently promised Americans he would oversee the most transparent administration in the history of the Nation, but we were in fact treated to a roll out of stonewalling and cover ups on all the controversies of his tenure from Fast and Furious, to Benghazi and the use of the IRS to assault his political enemies.
For all his promises of the first post-racial Presidency, Mr. Obama has in fact played the race card at every opportunity, to be divisive and gin up distrust at times of critical opportunities to unite Americans.

While some would say with righteous indignation that there are no “phony” scandals before us, I’ll choose to disagree by remembering the scandals of phony promises to Americans like me who are becoming resoundingly disappointed with the phony in the Whitehouse.

Guest Blogger – Ed Riordan: Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda both violates his oath and hurts those he purports to help

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on July 17, 2013
Posted in: 2nd Amendment, Conservative Principles, National Politics, Social Conservative, Uncategorized. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 3 Comments

Today we welcome guest columnist Ed Riordan to Politically UnEZ.  Ed is a strong Constitutional Conservative who is politically engaged both in his home state and nationally.  He has written many articles and is a leader in the fight for Conservative Values, dedication to the Constitution and defense of our Founder’s ideals.   He is no stranger in the offices of our Congressional Representatives and has met with the Speaker’s staff on the IRS scandal and Veteran Affairs during last month’s Tea Party Rally in DC.  I know you will enjoy his opinions.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s agenda both violates his oath and hurts those he purports to help

Attorney General Eric Holder strongly condemned “stand your ground” laws at a speech before the National convention of the NAACP in Orlando, FL, saying the measures “senselessly expand the concept of self defense”. He said that “the list of resulting tragedies is long and, unfortunately, has victimized too many who are innocent.” Mr. Holder would be wise to check the data in light of his making these comments in the context of a more broad discussion of claimed racial inequality, in which the populace was whipped in to a frenzy by deceptive media and political operatives seeking to gain ground by inciting emotional, racially grounded contempt of the law of the land.

According to an independent analysis by The Daily Caller of a database maintained by the Tampa Bay Times, African Americans use Florida’s “stand your ground” defense claims at a rate of 33% of the time in homicide cases, nearly twice the percent of the state’s population they comprise. Additionally, the exercise of the strategy by African Americans exceeds those of the state’s white population rate and results in a successful defense in 55% of the claims by the group, matching the statewide average and also exceeding the successful rate of use of the defense by whites.

In addition to ignoring the glaring facts, which never seem to matter to the politically and racially motivated Attorney General, he needs to be reminded that he is charged with the preservation, protection and defense of the constitution and laws of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic. Bowing to mobs calling for their own brand of justice in a Nation of laws contradicts his obligation and oath. Holder is specifically charged with protecting the unalienable rights of our citizens, those rights we have as individuals that come from God and are not granted by the government. Holder cannot take away those rights in a society comprised of free citizens, and any attempt to do so should frighten the free people of a Nation founded by believers in Judeo Christian doctrine who attribute the granting of our innate rights from the Creator and not the government.

Our laws recognize that the inherent right to immune defense of one’s self from an aggressor is annunciated in the Bible, Torah, and the Jewish law of the Talmud.

Exodus 22:2 World English Version states “ If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him”.

Jewish law set forth in the Talmud states “ if someone comes to kill you, arise quickly and kill him”.

Christian Roman Catholic doctrine, per the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1994, cites and quotes Saint Thomas Aquinas, and asserts “Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor lethal blows”

Protestant Doctrine on the personal and unalienable right to self defense, even against the government, in Samuel Rutherford’s Lex, Rex (1644 and the 1982 Sprinkle Publications edition) cites Luke 22:36, “Jesus advised his disciples to arm themselves in view of likely persecution”

None less than Cicero, Rome’s greatest orator and advocate of personal liberty, argued that the right to self defense was natural and inborn, and not a creation of the government, and that the right to use weapons was a necessary part of that right, and that any view to the contrary was nonsense.

Holder’s contempt for law, both natural and constitutional, not only makes him unfit for his office, but serves to undermine rights that are the very basis of our society. His race baiting and politicization of his position serves to divide when we should unite as the Nation of laws we are. He is seeking to destroy both doctrine and laws that are long recognized and defended as the very fabric of western civilization.

The Ideology of Greed

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on April 5, 2013
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There is a problem with our 2 party political system which may not be obvious to some, (besides the fact that this whole one person one vote, or one person two vote thing isn’t working so well lately).

Being a Conservative, I am always looking for reasons why liberalism survives and thrives.  Especially in the face of the toll it is taking and historically has taken on the middle class.  The lie of “Free Stuff” is so transparent to us on the real right that it is difficult to rationalize how it can be so broadly bought into by those it ultimately hurts.

When looking at the differences between the two ideologies, liberal left, represented mostly by the Democratic Party and the Conservative right, represented mostly, and at least superficially by the GOP, the real differences in perspective and patience crystalize.

The Left is an ideologically driven movement.  It has been throughout history.  Today’s Democrats are masters at message manipulation.  Since the party was first hi-jacked by the Progressives in the fist and middle parts of the 20th century they have worked hard to build a machine that promotes collectivism, socialism, indoctrination, class warfare toward the creation and mobilization of the “Entitled” class.  They have been very patient.  The previous surge of the Social Democrats, exposed and run underground by the McCarthy trials slowed them down, but also allowed them to regroup and refine the divisive and subversive tactics that have gotten us here today.    They have used the gift of time wised by systematically infiltrating our schools and universities, our mainstream media, our civic intuitions, labor unions and many of our local governing bodies as well as the United Nations, to now capitalize in a very “Organized” way on the recent phenomenon of social media to organize and mobilize, indoctrinate and reeducate our youth toward the Liberal ideology.

It was Lincoln who said: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

And so we have set the stage through our free society that allowed the enemy to rise from within and shake the foundations of our house divided.

There should be a counter to the internal attack on the Foundation of our free society.   One would assume it would be the Conservative ideology, governed by fairness and logic, free will, entrepreneurship, capitalism and personal responsibility.   By alas here lies the problem.

True Conservatives who believe in the ideology, live it, breathe it and work tirelessly to advance it are in the minority.  People like Trey Dowdy, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and a few others are forced to fight an ever-uphill battle internal to their GOP party.  That internal battle is against greed.

As feverishly as the Liberal movement focuses every breath they take on the advancement of the Socialist Ideology, the mainstream and establishment Conservative counter to that is an equally tireless effort to seek the best vehicle for building personal wealth, Republic and ideology be damned.  It is why we see Conservative Icons like Karl Rove, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Mica, etc. attacking and denigrating the upstart true Conservative Tea Party activists recently elected into office.  The threat to the status quo and the potential breakdown in the flow of power and cash is so great, they are willing, no more than willing, driven, to throw the precepts of our Founding Fathers overboard to retain that power and access to money.

It’s a sad state of affairs that the true conservative leaders of today are forced to fight a two front war for the survival of our free society.  And both exist internally.  One from the ideologically opposed Left, and one from the greed driven self interested Establishment Right.   It is probably already too late to turn the drift to Socialism around through activation of counter measures targeting the Left’s Social Driven campaigns focused on our youth.  Most likely it will be impossible without the full faith and trust of the GOP behind that effort.  That it not going to happen.  Instead the Leadership of our Grand Old Party is going to work tirelessly to make sure they have a safe landing in the new Socialist paradise and the free Republic can go to Hell.

With the Entitled class, growing in numbers everyday by appealing to the naivety of our youth to causes such as Agenda 21, Gun Control, Civil Rights, etc. and with illegal immigration amnesty adding to the Democratic rolls with the promise of raping “The Rich”, what chance do we have?

I wish I could think of a positive end to this article.   But it is beyond my horizon today.   Maybe another unifying act.  Maybe North Korea is about to do us a favor.  The only thing we can be sure of is the America we knew, is no longer the America we know.

I am an Armed Citizen

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on April 2, 2013
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I live in a small sized city.  Due to the nature of my business and activities I have a slightly public image in a rather defined demographic.  Because one of my roles is in public service, I sometimes have to take unpopular public positions on issues that affect people emotionally and financially.

While our city is considered very safe compared to many, I have had acquaintances get held up as they’ve come out of their homes for their morning paper.  I have had friends mugged while enjoying an evening on the town. I have had a business robbed… twice.  I have had to outrun an irate and road raged driver on the highway.   My wife and I live alone in a nice community but near the woods and a major highway.   I know that we have one of the best, most highly regarded Police Departments in our state, but I also know that it could be 4 to 5 minutes before one can show up to an emergency.  The difference between life and death.

Therefore, I am an armed citizen.

It is my right, and my responsibility.  It is my sacred obligation to be able to protect and defend my family, my life, and property.   I don’t need public approval, social acceptance, or have to rely on laws to tell me how I should do this.  The 2nd amendment and my common sense tell me all I need to know.  Even without the 2nd Amendment, the right of a man to protect those he loves is unchallengeable despite the civic or criminal consequences.  I will never be the guy that just watched as bad things happened to me family.  A close friend in law enforcement uses the term, “I would rather be judged by 12 then carried by 6”.  I could not agree more.

To me, it is as natural as putting on my socks.   My wife and I are armed 24 hours a day.  I am physically uncomfortable if my pocket gun is out of my pocket.   I cannot relax watching TV on the other side of the house knowing that my firearm is in the bedroom and the front door is between me and it.  So it stays in my pocket.   I don’t take my dogs out at night for their last pee, without first making sure it is in my robe or pajama’s pocket.   I don’t check the mail without, or answer the door, …ever.  We keep his and hers side arms attached to our bed, and a short barrel pistol grip multi-round 12 gauge within reach.  I started to feel silly about taking my handgun out on the patio with me when my wife and I enjoyed our hot tub, until a police chief friend I highly respect told me he takes his “into” the tub with him and lays it underwater, within reach so he doesn’t have to lunge for it in an emergency.  I carry at least one extra magazine at all times.  I take at least 2 guns on trips where legal and try not to travel to areas where being able to protect my family or myself is not legal.

And, before you think I am a mafia don, or some other miscreant, I’ll tell you that I am nice guy.  I fulfill a civic role, I am an independent business owner creating jobs and contributing to the local economy, I have raise successful children, I play golf, the guitar, like cars, motorcycles, little dogs, and ice cream, ( to a fault ).  I am a Christian, love my Wife, love my Mom and I Pray.   I have a concealed weapons permit.  I am law abiding and I have only ever been in a courtroom to see a judge sentence the people who robbed me … twice … to probation with no jail time.

There are many like me.  I am an armed citizen, but I could be your spouse, your neighbor, your clergy, mail carrier, or the guy who cuts your grass.

I look at the knee jerk laws that were passed today in Connecticut and watch the debate in DC and across our country and am dismayed by the ignorance of our elected leaders.   I know full well it is a shame, a false sense of security.  It give people a feel good moment, but that is all.  The criminals, terrorists, thugs and gang members, laugh at our laws.  We are making their job easier.  Good law abiding citizens who don’t want to break the law or are afraid to, are sheep in a world of coyotes.  The elected representatives of Conn. Just lit an open for business sign on the unsuspecting citizens of their small sleepy communities.  A brightly let neon sign that says to all criminals and bad guys, “Unarmed Sheep Ahead, Attack at Will”

I, and thankfully my Wife, prefer to be sheep dogs.  We will not let any temporary government get in the way of our right to protect those we love.  I pray the good representatives of my state do not make me a criminal for protecting the lives of my loved ones and my property.  And I pray for the sheep in NY, CT, CA and other liberal bastions of do-gooders who now have targets on their backs.

God bless and keep the good citizens of Connecticut.

Liberty Granted by God’s Grace Must Not Be Subverted by the Corrupt

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on February 13, 2013
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I was reading from a book of Founding documents this morning and in my reading came upon the Ten Commandments.  It caused me to begin to contemplate again the influence of Religion on the founding of our country.   I have always been a stalwart believer in the hand of God in the development of our guiding principles.   No formed government has ever held true to the laws of God and used them in the development of its system, nor believed in their righteous guidance more than those engaged in the Colonies’ initial quest of liberty.   At every stage of our history the Hand of God has been present.  Leading us on through the flaws in our character and the evilness of our acts but forever seeking the way forward toward true freedom, liberty and equality, not only for our sake but in His light.

So today I am beaten down, distraught and betrayed in my faith in the Great Experiment by those who are working so desperately to destroy Her and to remove us from God’s influence and eternal blessing.

It certainly isn’t new to this age.  All through our history the corrupt have sought to turn the course of Liberty toward the darkening night of Socialism and Subjugation.  Jefferson, Madison, Adams, ( first ), Buchanon, Washington, all battled with influences that would destroy the fledgling fires of Freedom in deference to personal gain and those who would dismantle the very Foundations of opportunity for which they gave their life’s blood to kindle and stoke.

Lincoln has recently come under attack as being imperfect in character by those who would recreate him in their image of corruption. But he faced no different demons than the Founders.  Successfully navigating the sea of self interest and the mis-guided narcissistic power hungry in order to bring about a new face on this Nation and finally start on the long and winding road of Representative Democracy for all.

Throughout the last century we have faced it many times again.  Under Coolidge, Roosevelt, Johnson, Carter and now.  Those who would have as their legacy the “Fundamental Changing of America”.

As so, we are betrayed yet again in our Religious and Patriotic Faith by a Corrupt Congress and a Subversive President in Barak Hussein Obama.  We have a traitor in the Court, a pretender to the Throne and a complicit Congress of accomplices to the continuing removal of America from God’s grace.

We are witnessing a renewed attack on Christianity in favor of extremism in our country and indeed throughout the Western World.  We have a bevy of Leaders who are assisting in that destruction for the advance of a personal gain under the guise of a collectivist ideology.

We are witnessing a systematic attack on Liberty as one by one we watch our First Freedoms come under attach under the guise of National Security.  The 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 10th Amendments have all been directly attacked over the past four years.  The Supreme Court has been subverted through appointments of radical liberals shrouded in political correctness who are accomplices to the acts of traitors of the American Ideal.    The President and his supporters in Congress are now talking about bastardizing the intent of the 14th Amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, further relegating Congress, our Constitution and indeed our system of governance irrelevant.

Now, and once again there is a bill introduced by New York Democratic Rep. José Serrano titled H.J Res. 15 that would repeal the 22nd Amendment removing the Term Limit clause for Presidents.  It is in Committee.  You can be certain that if the liberal’s win the House in 2014, his measure will see the light of day.

The time has never been more important for patriots to speak out.  Speak out and Speak loud to our Leaders, in the press, in blogs, and most importantly to your family and friends who may not be paying attention or understand the impact of the times we live in.  Speak out and Speak loud on the issues of Fundamental Conservative Principle that have been attacked over the last four years:  of Gun Control, Immigration, National Debt, Government Spending, Destruction of our Military, Removal of God’s word from our Government and Schools, Abortion, Gay Rights, National Sovereignty, Misappropriation of our National Wealth, Redistribution, Subversion of our Health Care System, and so much more.  Be Loud, Aggressive, and above all Peaceful in your pursuit of Justice and understanding.  But speak out.

‘Tis Grace that brought us here thus far, and Grace shall lead us home”

“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”.