Are You Awake Yet?

I'm not good at denial. I have been awake for a long time where the government is concerned and have never been "sheepish" enough to be herded into anyplace I don't want to go. I have been skeptical of power my whole life. I am also a big believer in the old saying that "absolute power corrupts....absolutely"! You know why? Because we all are human beings, and there is no human being that doesn't have some kind of agenda. It's what we do. We serve our own best interests for the most part. Even people like Mother Theresa had a human nature. Her human nature was obviously more humble than most, but she was known to get angry, smoke a Camel every once in a while(the cigarette, not the animal!), and toss back a glass of wine. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as Jerry Seinfeld would say. Actually, these are bad habits, but not the worst thing a human being can do. I'd feel better if a lot more people limited themselves to Mother Theresa's vices.

A lot of people watch Fox News Channel. Their ratings are huge, so it's not just self-styled conservatives or fundamentalists watching. They couldn't even get McCain elected, so it's doubtful to me that the Republican National Committee could be behind the ratings bonanza they enjoy. I think most people believe they can get both sides of the issues a lot straighter there. I know I do. They break most of the stories that expose the underbellies of our government. That explains why Obama is constantly on the defensive with them. But honestly, folks, can there be this much smoke without something being on fire?

So much for the new "transparency" in government. The Obama administration isn't volunteering all this information that comes out. He forgot that the "little people" that he hires to do the footwork to manage his agendas are people with human nature too. For many reasons, the secretaries, the interns, the "gophers" inside the White House are going to continue to leak things to the press. The reasons are probably: 1. money for info, 2. genuine alarm, and 3. plain old "I know something you don't know" gossip-mongering. Human nature once again.

Whatever the reasons, Americans are starting to wake up. Regardless of the personal reasons, as Reagan once said, "the scariest words in the American lexicon, are: We are from the government, and we're here to help"! Too much government has always been a bad thing for people who want to be free. There are already so many freedoms we have lost. People used to be proud of our Judeo-Christian heritage. Now, Christians are at the back of the bus along with white people. There are schools now that give Muslim students the special privilege of going into a special room for daily prayers, and Christian prayer have been given the heave-ho everywhere, not only in schools, but in government. Our president didn't observe the National Day of Prayer for the first time in our nation's history, but he is observing Ramadan, and Cinqo de Mayo and become an apologist for our nation all over the world. Why should we care? If you don't know, I will tell you. This cosmopolitan, urbane, sophisticated and articulate man has a blatant agenda for revising our history.

There was a recent special on Fox News (who else?), that examined our textbooks that are currently in the hands of our children beginning in elementary schools that brush over or completely ignore our founding fathers in favor of elaborating on all the other cultural beginnings of the diverse ethnic groups America has attracted to our shores. The great experiment of America as a free country is what attracted immigrants to come here in the first place. Why glorify the places they chose to leave behind? Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want to, but I think the entire premise for this agenda is to leave real freedom behind in favor of a perceived freedom in which we will be irradiated, homogenized, and packaged in identical containers just like milk. There are already so many things we can't say anymore without getting shamed and scolded by society. Have you seen the recent commercials for "that's so gay"? I hear people from adults to children say "that's so gay" all the time, and I am certainly not a fan of the phrase, but the commercial aggravates me too. I don't know how much they are spending on this indoctrination, but I really wish they would take half of that and spend it on telling the kids not to say the "F" word! I hear that all the time and it really offends me.

If there is going to be so-called sensitivity indoctrination, I have a list of things I would like to see that are a whole lot worse. Kids in school bully kids that are obese, and I can tell you that trickles down from the attitudes of their parents as well as the attitude of the government towards obesity. In the adult world it starts extending to smokers, poor people, and Christians. It is politically incorrect to say that Islam is not a religion of peace in this country. Wow, the entire Muslim world wants to either kill us or take us over and impose Sharia law here in America, and yet the power-elite wants to kiss their behind. What is up with that? Whether you think the war in Iraq against Saddam Hussein was predicated on false pretenses or not, did not radical Muslims fly two planes into the World Trade Center, one plane into our Pentagon, and one that patriots overtook and went to their deaths in a Pennsylvania field that was probably headed for our White House? Don't they oppress their own women, mothers and daughters with genital circumcision, make them cover from head to toe in burkas, and kill them for all manner of things that males can freely do? Oh yeah, that is way preferable to Christianity that mandates love and charity for all? (I hope my dripping sarcasm doesn't short-circuit my keyboard!)

I was reminded recently of all the bad things done by Christians all over the world through the ages, by a family member of mine. I didn't say much at the time, but the Crusades and the Inquisition were operating anywhere from 600 to 1000 years ago now. Once there was a lot of corruption in the Church, but I would submit that one can claim to be a Christian and yet not really be one, the same way you can claim to be a patriot, and yet subscribe to an agenda that is destined to destroy our nation. Christians do a lot of good in the world. They get in trouble for prosetilyzing in many places, and yet they still go and feed the poor all over the world. The whole idea of Christianity is to save as many people as possible. We are told by the words of Jesus to "go into all the world and preach the Word of God". That used to be a major goal in our government as well. It used to be in my textbooks when I was in school back in the dark ages. It was called "manifest destiny" and it meant that we were supposed to bring the light of Christianity to the world. You won't find that in textbooks now, unless it is in a college textbook under the heading of the "lunatic fringe"! They will point to Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Baker and equate them with Jim Jones and Hitler. Personally, I think there is a major difference between men who let their "human nature" lead them astray with women or money and psychopaths and megalomaniacs. Hey, but that's just me.

Hypocrisy has run amok in the world now. If you get caught doing something illegal or immoral, there is always someone else to push the blame onto. The most dogmatic, implacable, and hypocritical people I have run into in recent years have been the people who are so-called "liberals". They won't listen to anything that isn't part of the rhetoric the ideologues in our government and Hollywood have to say. How can anyone with an ounce of sanity believe that all these people who are multi-millionaires and elitists are really concerned for the "little people"? Because they say so? Don't listen for a moment, and look at what they do "for" the little people! There have been so many people who think that the democratic party is the party of the working man. I heard that all my life, especially from my dad who was a democrat. They may have been back then, but that's not who they are now. Republicans haven't always been much better, but they aren't the party of the rich elitists. I wish people could get off the party wagon and just elect a good man or woman who believes in our republic the way that Lincoln did. Abraham Lincoln was the last president we had that had any humility. I liked Reagan a lot too, mostly because he was a believer in the American Dream. All we have now is an American Nightmare from which we need to awaken. There may still be a chance we can get it back. But it's going to take a lot of work from regular people like you and me. We have to stand up and demand our rights under the Constitution back. We have to defy the human nature that says to us, "what can one person do?" We can band together and say, once again: :Don't Tread On Me!"