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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

 

 

 

The Message is all wrong

Posted by PoliticallyUnEZ on August 4, 2013
Posted in: Conservative Principles, Religious Conservatism, Social Conservative. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . 2 Comments

The Message is all wrong

For quite some time now I have been struggling with the juxtaposition of Religious doctrine espoused weekly in our local churches against their growing toe dipping into the political sphere.  They are of course following the lead of their Diocese, conferences, etc., and it is a centuries old story.  Church corruption and the manipulation of God’s plan to suit social and political ideologies have been a root cause of repression, aggression and obsession for millennia; the rise and fall of the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Reformation, etc.  It’s not new in our Time or in our culture.

In my lifetime and especially of late, I am increasingly finding myself at odds with Church and state.  God’s message of Love, caring, responsibility and good works have transgressed itself on the pulpit into social political commentary relative to division of the societal classes being exacerbated by our nation’s current socialist political leanings.  The targeted political divisiveness strategy now being employed by our country’s leadership for political expediency of advancing the Socialist agenda has ripped more than one hole in the underlying fabric of our Liberty and harmony as a nation. More has been done in five years to purposefully divide our Union than in the last two hundred and thirty-seven.

So I am dismayed to have been sitting in a small town Methodist sanctuary this morning listening the a mature but new Minister to this congregation degenerate a message about God’s Calling of the Heart and His imploring of His flock to seek Him through their Love and their deeds at all costs and with every fiber of their total capability, into a wealth is Evil and the Wealthy are Damned message.

It was clearly not his intent.  I believe somewhere in his conscience, his heart was true.  But wrapped up in all the orchestrated propaganda afflicting our lives each day, he just could not help himself.  The truth of his political leanings had to come out and his personal message of redistributed wealth over shadowed the beauty of God’s word.  In watching the Congregation and their reaction to his words, I would suspect he did some damage to the foundations of his Church this morning.

The dominant offshoot of the class warfare strategy is that it has divided the society into producers and consumers, givers and takers.  So many people are being cultivated to Take and Expect and to Believe they are Entitled to what others have made and earned  that the generosity of the producers is being tested to the core.

I personally no longer give like I used to, I still give generously, but I pick and choose my Charities VERY carefully after fully vetting their social leanings, their commitment to those they seek to help and the needs of those they provide for.  The Lord says we are not to sit in judgement of others, but He also compels us to be wise in using His Gifts to do good in the world.  We must be wary of Charlatans and Deceivers.  We must be just as wary of those who manipulate His Message for the advancement of political ideology as we must of those who do so for their own personal gain.

Knowing that the head of a Religious organization to which I could offer more of my time and talents in his heart believes I am evil for not writing a bigger check to his Church so that he can redistribute my time and talents for me makes my decision a lot easier.  I shall continue to give generously to do good in the world with organizations who will wisely use my gifts and not squander my talents to advance a redistributive political policy.

 

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
Posted in: Conservative Principles, National Politics, Reflective, Social Conservative. Tagged: , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment

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.

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”.