The Importance of Constant Pressure, Part IV; The Psuedo Ge-ni?

Nowhere in history has there ever been a successfull Socialist nation, empire, society that has not failed miserably. Extreme examples have been vanquished by war, lesser have collapsed under the weight of the fallability of the political theory itself. The European Union is now facing the inevitable fact that a society based on Government regulation and free handouts is doomed. There are few in the EU Parliament who are willing to accept this dire reality.



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We do not teach the theories of Nazism in our universities, we do not teach White Supremacy in our universities, we do not advocate the virtues of Genocide either. So why do we continue to teach a failed and murderous political theory such as Marxism? Is it some romantic hold over for a relationship lost in the past? That, some how Marxism is ok? Like a long lost love affair we hope will re -ignite?



The first instance of Socialism in the New World occured in Plymouth. It was an admirable attempt to level the playing field. For years, Social injustice had existed in England and now, there was a chance for all socio-economic levels to be fair and equal here in this New England. It was almost the end of the Plymouth Plantation. No one worked, there was no incentive to gain and prosper and trade. It took the Savages to show them how to plant, hunt and create a system of barter where goods and services were exchanged for the mutual benefit of the provider and the consumer. Capitalism was born in the colonies and the profits were relished in that first Thanksgiving.

This series is an attempt to understand where our nation is today with regard to the demise of Liberty. Over the past year I have had the chance to speak with individuals, read and come to know the Socialist trend that has been in place since the early part of the 20th Century. I am taking a "common man's" view in my writing. It is, after all, the common man that Socialism claims to represent. I am perplexed, then, when I am disregarded by intellectuals who are experts in the history and applications of Social Justice as not knowing what I am talking about. Just who are these people anyway?

Liberal Socialists are always the first to make exceptions. It is one of the key elements that makes the theory work. Apply a restriction in one case, disengage it in another case. Government has no right to tell a woman what she can do with her body with regards to the unborn, but Government has every right to tell her she cannot drink, smoke, do drugs or engage in prostitution or that same child will be removed from her custody. The nation must swallow the Un Constitutional Healthcare plan, but the Legislators still get to keep their own plans. Violations of the Fourth Amendment are routinely practised against citizens at airports except for Muslims because that is racial profiling. School children cannot have a Christmas tree in the school foyer, it is a violation of Church and State (no where in the Constitution) yet must learn all about Hannukah, Kwansa and other ethnic Holiday traditions. Everything must be neutral so as not to offend. What is not realized the biggest offense is neutrality itself.

The irony lies in the total power of the Central Government. If they become the overlords of everything, then they are responsible for everything. If they succeed at everything then they are the winners and will further deprive the masses of more Liberty. If they fail, as many Governments are, then who is to blame? It is us who is to blame for allowing it to progress staight off a cliff.

Still, the inevitable failure of Socialism has a silver lining for the Socialist. Failure demands an ever widenning, expanded oppression and perversion of the Law..

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The Importance of Constant Pressure Part II: Civil Disobedience and Historical Context

One of the historically effective means of changing Government Policy, even a Government itself can be found in the actions and results of three mass movements during the 20th Century. The non-violent resistance of Ghandi, Martin Luther King. The third became violent (by Law Enforcement). That was the anti-war movement of the late 1960's.

Civil Disobedience is a risk to all who partake in it. Bodily injury, death and/ or imprisonment are, but a few, consequences of such a choice. Civil Disobedience only works in numbers; very large numbers coordinated and focused on a single act of tyranny or in numbers that practice daily against the policies of a Government.

The entire undertaking of the American Revolution was a mass movement coordinated and focused on the tryanny of King George. The American Civil War was a mass movement towards a Government policy. Though this act of succession was a focused act. The way of life to Southerners was threatened and so they continued to practise daily that way of life against an instituted Government policy.

In the first part I wrote about how enacted laws do two things: They take away Liberty and tax us to pay for the enacting and perpetuating of said law. No one reading this will disagree that in every facet of their lives people run into some sort of law forbidding them one thing or another. Those pursuits not illegal are heavily regulated, or taxed.

Think back to the openning of the West to settlers. If you had the money to purchase a land grant that, probably, was the only physical asset you actually paid a tax on. I am not aware that when you purchased a horse and wagon you paid an inspection fee, or licensing fee, excise tax for the shitty trail you embarked upon. You weren't even required to buy vehicle insurance. You paid cash for your provisions and off you went. Upon arriving at your homestead you were not required to obtain a building permit, file with the EPA before clearing the land or register with the Department of Agriculture before bringing your corn to market. You just did these things, you did them well or no one would buy your stuff, or your wife would leave you because you built a crappy house and your children would starve and die if you did not provide for them.

Many of the points I made in the last paragraph open a Pandora's box for Legislation that did come in the early 20th Century. Quality of food and it's safety was regulated, land was getting destroyed and needed to be protected, cities and towns were springing up and some sort of central planning was needed. Commerce had to be tracked to ensure quality, safe passage and a fair pricing system. Nobody is arguing the historical neccesity of most of the laws we enjoy protection under. What I am talking about is the abuse that has evolved from these laws from the very agencies charged with the responsible management of these laws.

That same Homesteader today would be aghast at the hurtles he would have to insurmount even before purchasing his plot of land. Any reader who is a business owner knows first hand the regulations, taxes, surtaxes (thats my favorite one, tax on a tax), insurance, property taxes, fleet taxes, inspections, etc. The outcry of business today is the mountain of taxes they must pay to operate daily, the onslaught of new regulations, National Healthcare and payroll taxes (profits be damned). Business taxes may have been high during the mid 20th Century, but business was far less regulated, profits assured due to the predominant American Industrial Machine. That no longer exists, but the Government model of regulation does.

The result is entire communities devoid of industry and opportunity. Virtually everything we buy is made overseas where the very regulations that drove production over there, do not exist over there. The cosequence is a 10% unemployment rate nationwide and a 14% underemployment rate nationwide. Here again, the Government model still operates as it always has, tightenning regulations and taxing more from a smaller tax base. Those who cannot pay are fined, closed down or jailed exacerbating a festering economic wound.

Civil Disobedience is one way to directly impact the tyranny of this over taxation without any representation. Change in policy will be, at most, mediocre. The game plan won't change, just how it is played. For too many families this is a no win situation as the weekly new unemployment claims and foreclosures clearly show us.

Some of the ways we can excercize Civil Disobedience on a mass scale could be to organize a citizen Lobby Group to force the votes of our Legislators to lower taxes and reduce regulation through exposing their voting records, private skeletons and shady dealings. Vote out any one who votes for any new "Law" or "Act".

Refuse to obey local ordinances that demand payment for permits, fees. Don't pay your excise tax and stage recurring mass protests to stop this surtax. Quit the PTA, attend every School Board meeting and reject everything they propose. Stage recurring demonstrations outside the homes of your local Legislators and demand their records be made public. Actually post these in local newspapers and pass them out in parking lots to customers.

Get yourself arrested alongside your fellow demonstrators and refuse bail and refuse the fines assessed to you. Then do this all over again and again and again. It will not be long before the press gets hold of this growing movement and the Elected will have no choice but to open a public debate. Overwhelm the system with non stop and widespread refusal to obey any law that restricts your Liberty.

The most important thing to remember is to never engage in any violent act. When the police show up to disperse you, sit down and say nothing. Be silent, resist pasively. Go limp like a petulant child. Let them be captured on a cell phone camera violating your Civil Rights and send that immediately to the local news stations.
Be firm in the knowledge we are all taking the first openly resistant steps to changing the direction of the nation.


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Oh, the Irony

It is interesting that we judge our Presidents on their past records before we hire them, then, wonder why the decisions they make are such a wonder to us when we see them in action. Why, are the, synchophants under them so impugned to the doctrinaire of the policy of the POTUS? It reminds me of the line from a Don Henley song, "...we get the Government we deserve." Most of the lackeys who work in the White House are going to bail on OObi The Clown anyway either this year or after his ACORN/SEIU funded re-election. They take the Golden Parachute and work as a lobbyist for some Shadow Government Corporation and the train keeps-a-rollin'. The American people are left on the platform waiting for a ride.


This Lame Duck session of Congress is anything but. They are using the last days of the Bully Pulpit to do everything for themselves and their friends from Soros Inc. It would be great to see the public take a position outside their homes after January and demonstrate. Nothing ever happens to these people in any event. The recent compromise from Obama on the extensions of lower taxes will most likely be seen from the Left as a capitulation to big business rather than a simple meeting of the minds acting in the best interest of the nation. Our elected officials do not have the right to hold hostage economic restoration because of party politics and desired goals. I think of the line in the movie, "Saving Private Ryan", where The character played by Tom Hanks is told that attacking a radar station is "not our objective..". He replies with ,"Our objective is to win the war!" Political desires are not the order of business here folks, it is to get the job of doing America's work finished.


I remember an incident I went through some time ago. Some one had come to turn off the electricity. I refused the technician entrance to my property and he left. A short while later police arrived with the technician. The police put on their gloves and took out the handcuffs. I asked why this had become a criminal issue and why they are here. This was, after all, a private issue with a private enterprise. They informed me (inaccurately) that the tech had "a right" to shut off my power. I thought this was odd. Being told to do something by a superior has become a 'right'?


In fact, it has, by decree and mandate. In addition, we have confused such declarations from Government and Law Enforcement as Constitutionally protected. That is impossible! How can a decree by committee (or worse, an individual) become a right? This onslaught of 'mandates' have soaked through society at every level. The irony is how much money has been spent advocating such changes in the law, while pigeon-holing the organizations fighting these laws and all the money they spend in the process of defense. Tobacco Companies are a prime example. Warnings were put on cigarettes in the 1960's so that the choice to smoke was squarely in the hands of consumers. The history of tobacco's financial importance to a fledgling American Colony meant nothing to the advocates hell bent on removing some one else's rights to do what is Constitutionally protected. Thus, we have the discriminatory laws against tobacco use in place today.

The entire mis-concept of mandates as rights has been around for a long time. It is taught in Universities under the standard of; " a law was passed in 19..whatever, that gives Gov't Agency A or B more authority to do C or D." These are not 'rights' they are orders handed down from higher up. They are advocated, lobbied by individuals or a select group of people wishing to impose their will upon society at large. The crazy thing is that all of this is ironic. It is ironic because the individual, exercising their individual rights, are scheming to remove some one else's individual rights. The usual mantras are trotted out on stage: Its for the children, protecting women, making us safer, saving lives, etc. No matter which way you present these laws they are nothing more than orders from some one who has no authority to issue them, demanded by a constituency that has no authority to impose them. These 'constituents' are everywhere, Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinam, to name a few!

Individual rights? Freedom to choose? Wasn't that Roe vs. Wade? Does it only apply to certain areas deemed acceptable by some person, committee, or political ideology?? It does! At any point in your life you will find that your ability to depend on the Constitution for protection will vary, not from State to State, but from instance to instance. Any time you deal with any authority figure, whether it be a councilman, teacher, or cop; their position and Federal/ State issued mandate empowers them to decide in your favor or against your favor. Here is the rub, though, try defending yourself and you will soon find yourself on the short end of the Gov't stick. Also, hope the person you are dealing with is having a good day, or isn't angry at their spouse; any possibility is possible. Professionalism has nothing to do with a bureaucrat behind a desk making decisions.

Seldom will you have a pleasant experience when dealing with any one in a position of authority. The reason why people choose these careers are lost to me. If the original intent was to 'serve', then, something got lost along the way. I have been yelled at by police, train conductors, my kid's teachers, my own teachers, town workers, I even had an ambulance driver stop (while taking my mother to the hospital) and angrily tell me to not follow him. I'm sorry, was I supposed to take an alternate route? One time, while taking the train, I was told to take myself and my bike to another empty car. The conductor took my fair and told me he would give me my ticket once I was seated. Low and behold another conductor attempted to charge me again. I informed him of the situation. My God, it was like I was holding the train hostage. I received the cursing out of my life and almost got thrown off at the next stop until a simple radio call straightened everything out. Did I get an apology? What do you think?

These instances are not alone to me. They happen every day in the countless news articles across the nation. From a school that restrains a child, a burger shop sued, Christmas denied in a public forum, the denial of Christianity (by a perversion of the Constitution) over Islam under freedom of religion. The entire oxymoron of our modern day.

It would be well to remind ourselves of history and it's stonewall of permanence that we have seen this before and the results are less than what we wish they would be.. We tend to run smack back into it..

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Is It Over for the Tea Party, Now that They have Won?

It was like Saturday Night at the Fights (well Tuesday night). The opponent came out strong, but by ten o'clock EST the route was on. By midnight the scene would be of empty halls with the litter of campaign signs, disillusioned faces staring at tv screens as results were tallied.

Truly, the Tea Party had triumphed. Their losses were slight. Some held on in pockets of resistance and vowed to fight out the voter fraud in court, but, the first battle of the Second American Revolution was over. It is up to the victors to decide the path and whether we, as a nation, can do it again in 2012.

Can we stay focused and true to the ideals of the Tea Party? Do the 2010 elections mean the end of the rallies?. I sure hope not. America has an MTV attention span (next thing we have to fix) and will fall into complacency the minute the Tea Party hangs up the rally flag and settles on it's laurels.

If we allow the Republicans to run the game completely, we run the serious risk of the same mistakes the past super majority made, losing face as a political organization and inevitable defeat in 2012. The worst case scenario is the disbanding of the Tea Party and (quite probably) a political witch hunt of it's members and supporters. The rediculous and liablist rhetoric is rife through the media and Liberal institutions. They are not far from persecuting their enemies given a perfect storm.

However, if we spend all our time "watchdogging" the Republicans we also face a conundrum. The actual party itself becomes just like the Socialist Liberals we defeated. "Our way or the highway" mentality, at the expense of future voters as they watch the Tea Party become totalitarian. We can ill afford either scenario.

The solution, from where I stand, is that the Tea Party continue the pressure from the platform that got them where they are today. The streets. The rallies, organizing, keeping the heat on the sitting Congress. In other words, let me pose this in a question. When is the next rally guys, and where?? We must remain a visible and ever present force for a return to the Constitutional principles this nation was founded on. It doesn't happen overnight, or, in one election. This fight will encompass the next generation, if not, the one after that.

The American Revolution was won in a matter of years. Several times the fledgling colonies lapsed into complacency and many battles were simply horrible disasters. This Second American Revolution will be marred by defeats, to be certain, but complacency will be a death sentence for this movement and this nation will plunge into Socialist darkness for a century, at least.

Our great grandchildren will not know of our founding (or care), nor, will they know where, or, how to start a revolution. If they do, their spilled blood (as riot police shoot them down) will be on our souls dooming the Tea Party founders, supporters, this Republic straight to hell.


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Two Years at WCUW Radio

It has been quite a ride for me these two years at WCUW Radio. I opened this election year with an idea to interview candidates and take a more politicized view towards my programming and content. It has paid off magnificiently. My show is heard across the nation and I have met great Americans who share the same concerns we face together.

I have been met with congratulations and rebuke all at the same time. I thanked those who supported me and fought, without, hesitation my detractors. My musical library has tripled in that same time. The musical genre is as varied as my audience. I have had the pleasure of hosting local artists in the studio, premiering major artist's new material and lending support to other Programmers on thier own shows. I am truly blessed.

My family has been behind me 100%, my guests have been candid, intelligent and forthcoming in all we have discussed. Troy Tyree has been a mentor and a hands on Manager. He has transformed this radio station for the better. The Board of Directors have been supportive and have defended me during some of the negative discourse. I am forever in thier debt and will endeavor to carry the integrity of WCUW with me into the years ahead.

My final gratitude goes to the man who started it all for me. His name is William Leblanc AKA "Cap't. PJ" who hosts The Rockin' Revolution that runs 24 hours prior to my show. He took the initial risk of interning me, devoting half his show time to me. Eventually the Meat and Potatoes Show was born. He is a great friend and an even greater human being. I love you PJ and I am honored to have you as a friend.

In the weeks and months ahead there will be more local artists, more political and comical drop-ins, more live sets and more Conservative Radio that is the foundation of The Meat and Potatoes Show. Thank you everyone.



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