Posted on 05/26/2018 11:14:52 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
I like what you said. The media joined with the USSR to smear Joe McCarthy and it has been downhill ever since. But Cronkite and Murrow were smooth. Madcow and Tingling Chrissy are shrill screamers who look to be off their meds. People are catching on.
The media needs to feel the wrath of the people. Without them packaging every message and word and determining what to stress and ignore, the Democrats would cease to exist.
Agree, however the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL is the lynch pin. They provide cover for the Rogue Feds. They broadcast the LEFT’s propaganda without question.
More competition in the media industry would remove a keystone of the LEFT.
All this became possible because the media controlled the narrative, and only a few people like you are aware of the problem because the media controlled what can and cannot be discussed.
Politics is downstream from culture. The media controlled the cultured.
One great quote:
The pervasively destructive demand for politically correct language extinguishes the essential means of communication. It is a fundamental part of liberty that dictates that Americans need to speak freely and openly without concern regarding hurting the feelings of others.
Another money quote:
Many young, as well as some seasoned journalists in today’s media, are not capable of reporting the truth either because of their leftist indoctrination in liberal universities or out of fear of the consequences from the leftist editorial board of most media outlets.
I hope some great thinkers on the right break down a strategic progression to allow young new journalists to be permitted to write from a non leftist view and to point out the leftist views. Start small and start breaking through the leftist walls molecule by molecule.
Bttt
We’re onto them
Their bullcrap don’t fly no more
THE GOVERNMENT is your greatest threat - AND you CAN do something DIRECTLY about it. THE GOVERNMENT can forcefully KILL you, LOCK YOU UP, and TAKE AWAY your freedoms. The media can do NONE OF THAT.
The government works for YOU. YOU may take DIRECT legal action to CHANGE and TAKE DOWN the unconstitutional federal government. The media does not work for you and there is NO DIRECT legal action you can take to take the private-enterprise media down
GET IT STRAIGHT.
But no, the The Biggest Threat To America’s Future is the UNCONSTITUTIONAL 80% Portion of the $4 Trillion Federal Government who at this point has thrown off the chains of constitutional limitations and sees NO LIMIT to its power.
That was inevitable after 1865. The original constitution died at Appamattox. As Robert E. Lee wrote in his correspondence with Lord Acton:
“while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”
Exactly what he feared has taken place. The states have been reduced to little more than administrative conveniences in the face of the all powerful federal government. We have a national debt that is out of control. Our constitutional rights are being systematically infringed and we have military commitments all over the globe.
why not take down the entire block of buildings? just in case there are stragglers lurking about. LOL
Today’s media is not dissimilar to the Yellow Journalism of the last century that became synonymous with half truths and innuendo citing anonymous sources. It became roundly rejected by serious journalists and editors with journalistic ethics and integrity. Alas, today’s journalism is lacking in both.
Unfortunately, the Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column.
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Well, many felt that despotic government was inevitable after 1787 when the Constitution was ratified. Some could say despotic government was inevitable after Adam and Eve took things over in The Garden of Eden, man’s fallen nature being incapable of long-term political and social freedom. Man’s oppression and misery in his long, sad history certainly bears that out including what we have been witnessing over the last 100+ years or so in America.
Nevertheless, the Constitution was probably the most inspired political document ever created and America in the 1800’s was one of the very few examples in all of history of true societal freedom and very limited government where the average citizen was economically and freedom-wise, better off than the average citizen anywhere on earth.
The 1900’s saw a spiritual change worldwide, and hidden spiritual condition is the driver for the visiable results. Basically, probably spurred by the industrial revolution, the rise of machines and technology and ease of life, the world basically said, “Thanks God, but we’ll take it from here”, launching a period of worldwide departure from faith in God never before seen in written history.
The visible and inevitable results from the departure of faith and dependence on God has been the move to faith and dependence on man and his government. Whereas in the 1800’s, the size of the feds was around 5% GDP, after 1900, the size of government has climbed steadily to over 20% GDP, a HUGE increase. Probably approximately 80% of the $4 trillion federal government is unconstitutional, thus despotic and illegal, and VERY threatening to We the People.
So now what, throw in the towel? NO! Freedom is too precious and is worth fighting and dying for. The Constitution did not die at Appomattox as some suggest and the STATES could actually do a lot towards the recovery of our free constitutional republic.
Article VI, Clause 2 (the Supremacy Clause) of the U.S. Constitution, confirmed by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, give individual states valid basis for nullifying and rejecting unconstitutional federal acts which by definition are acts of tyranny. Individual states must begin doing this, which, of course will mean those states must be ready for financial independence from the feds – but of course that is the basis of America’s beginnings – INDEPENDENCE.
Individual states must in good-faith nullify unconstitutional federal acts and notify the feds and the world why the nullified and rejected acts are unconstitutional. THE problem is so far there is not ONE governor or state government willing to be financially independent and forego federal aid. NOT ONE STATE! All we need to start the ball rolling is one state that would say, “ENOUGH!” to the feds. Again, it’s back to what do we want - financial dependence on Big Brother and his resulting tyranny or do we want freedom?
As I’ve stated above, states rights and state sovereignty, not lost in the Civil War, could be exercised at any time given the political and moral courage and will to do so. The loss of the South did not destroy state sovereignty or the Constitution.
Below is the rationale of why I think Lee, who I greatly admire, was wrong both in his fight against the North and his assessment of losing that fight.
The Declaration of Independence (D of I) is basically a treatise to the world about what justified the colonists’ secession. It is probably the most elegant and well reasoned justification for secession maybe in the history of the world. It offers justifications of that which “Prudence, indeed, will dictate...” offered for consideration to a “candid world.”
The D of I gives instruction and guidance, not legal or constitutional dictates, for valid secession. However, IMO, the D of I has persuasive authority because of its integrity and influence in American law and culture.
The D of I shows the steps to valid secession and that secession:
1) should not be “for light or transient causes”
2) requires a certain “patient sufferance” while “evils are sufferable”
3) involves notifying and submitting the facts of abuse “to a candid world” (27 specific abuses are listed in the D of I) and finally
4) “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such Government.”
The colonists suffered many decades of harm from George III and continually notified him of his wrongs and pleaded for redress. In the absence of a Constitution, the standard of judging the abuses and usurpations were the long list of broken promises, agreements, and oppressions by England, America’s “central government” at the time.
However, after the Constitution was ratified as the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution itself became the standard for judging abuse and usurpation by the U.S. Central Government. America was a Free Constitutional Republic under the Rule of Law of the Constitution. Any ratifying state and any state agreeing later to join the union knew in black and white exactly that to which they were agreeing. The Rule of Law of the Constitution was now the standard to judge the legality of acts of the central government. Unconstitutional acts of the central government were acts of tyranny, the new standard in America for abuse and usurpation.
The South had not yet suffered any unconstitutional acts from the feds regarding slavery. In keeping with the template for valid secession in the Declaration of Independence, the South should have first notified the feds of what acts were unconstitutional and why they were unconstitutional. Instead they ceded in anticipation of certain federal acts. There was really no “patient sufferance” and no attempt to notify the feds with reasonable constitutional arguments. Therefore, the South’s cessation was invalid IMO. I believe the North had a constitutional right to fight them and get them back into the Union.
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