Sundown in America

America is facing the most dangerous crisis in the history of our nation. It is not simply an economic crisis. It is a crisis whose outcome may well determine whether America continues to survive as a representative republic ... and whether America remains strong enough to face the massing, determined enemy outside of her borders.

The ‘economic’ portion of this crisis did not occur by accident. It occurred, in large part, as a result of leftist ‘social engineers’ who are intent on circumventing the Constitution to use pretended altruism in order to expand their power and further implement their left-leaning ideological agenda. And they cannot succeed unless the noble foundations upon which our republic was built are completely dismantled.

The current economic crisis, and all of its ramifications, represent a giant step in that insidiously evil crusade.

This economic meltdown is occurring largely as a result of socialist special interests pressuring their friends in congress to relax the underwriting standards for home mortgages. Those friends in congress used all manner of grotesque extortion and shakedown techniques, made legal through changes in law (most notably the Community Reinvestment Act), to pressure the banking/mortgage industry to grant hundreds of thousands of loans to low-income and minority citizens whose economic backgrounds exhibited little or no ability to repay those loans.

When the CRA was created during the Carter administration, the administration also funded with tax dollars numerous ‘community groups’ that have helped the Fed, the Comptroller of the Currency, and other federal regulatory agencies to enforce the act. Under the CRA, if a bank wants to make virtually any change in its business operations — merging, opening up a new branch, getting into a new line of business — it must first prove to regulators that it has made ‘enough’ loans to the government's preferred borrowers. The (partially) tax-funded ‘community groups’ like ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) can file petitions with regulators that stop the bank's activities in their tracks, perhaps defeating them altogether. The banks routinely buy off ACORN and other ‘community groups’ by giving them millions of dollars as well as promising to make even more dubious loans.

Yes, there were other contributors to this meltdown, but years of such pressure and pandering to special interests were the major contributing factor in the crisis we are facing today (and tomorrow ... and beyond).

One of those special interest groups that participated broadly in this dramatic change in banking/mortgage procedures was indeed ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), one of the largest radical left-wing groups in America.

Barack Obama’s affiliation with ACORN is longstanding and deep. He ran an ACORN-sponsored massive voter registration effort (which was later accused, and continues to be accused, of engaging in massive voter fraud). He later became a trainer for the group, as well as its lawyer in numerous election law cases. He received strong financial support from ACORN in all of his election campaigns, and his affiliation with the group and its radical activities remains strong today.

Many involved in the current congressional negotiations on the economic bailout proposal are attempting to make the public aware that the proposal being pushed by the democrats would have a large portion of the taxpayer-funded ‘bailout’ money diverted to whom?

Is the public becoming aware of this fact? No. Why? Because those in congress who are attempting to sound the alert are being righteously ignored by the mainstream media.

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated today, … this deal that’s on the table now is not a very good deal. Twenty percent of the money that should go to retire debt that will be created to solve this problem winds up in a housing organization called ACORN that is an absolute ill-run enterprise, and I can’t believe we would take money away from debt retirement to put it in a housing program that doesn’t work.

Our current economic crisis threatens America’s existence on five major fronts:

(1) It threatens to plunder from the American taxpayers for generations to come, reducing their standard of living, threatening their hard-earned retirement security, and placing debt upon the shoulders of their children not yet born. And why? In order to correct the ‘errors’ made by our leadership, and brought about by the pressures of special interest groups.

(2) It is already succeeding in nationalizing major sectors of American private enterprise, in the banking and insurance industries ... with more to come.

(3) No matter the bailout plan that is adopted, more government regulation over the private sector will be enacted, dramatically increasing bureaucratic government interference in the free market system – i.e., placing yet another socialist anchor around the neck of our capitalist system.

(4) No matter the bailout plan that is adopted, our national debt will increase beyond our ability to pay it down, to the point where our national priorities will, of necessity, be transformed from one in which our safety, security and sovereignty take a perilous second place to our need to merely pay down the money that we borrowed to get ourselves out of this economic meltdown.

(5) Unless those who played an activist role in fomenting this crisis are sought out, investigated, and prosecuted where called for, and unless the citizenry demands an accounting and a broad excising of the corruption in their leadership, once the dust settles -- and it will settle, temporarily, after any bailout program takes effect -- nothing will change. No reform will occur. And our future will be filled with more of the same -- adding to our debt, taking away from our liberties, and putting our survival in jeopardy.

Now reflect back on the fact that the current leader in the race for the presidency has had, and continues to have, close activist ties with a radical organization that played a major role in the above cataclysm.

Why is ninety-nine percent of the American electorate unaware of that connection?

President Bush delivered an address to the nation two nights ago. The subject of that address was the current economic crisis.

In his attempt to explain the causes of this crisis, he insinuated that it all started because America’s economy was considered so healthy that it attracted investors from all over the world. As a result, banks and financial institutions were awash in money, and that state of affairs planted the seed for this debacle.

Our President offered up the greatest whitewash of the reasons for this catastrophe imaginable.

John McCain and Barack Obama participated in the first of four televised presidential debates tonight. Because of recent developments, despite the fact that foreign policy was scheduled to be the topic of the debate, much of their debate centered on our economic ills.

Barack Obama pointed the finger of blame for those ills at 'eight years of Bush economic policies -- policies that were embraced by John McCain.'

Did John McCain refute that argument by finally educating the American public regarding his opponent’s personal affiliation with a radical leftwing organization that played a significant role in creating the sub prime debacle? No, he simply spoke in platitudes about how we must all work together, in a bipartisan way, in order to solve this monumental problem.

I am aware (as are many of you) of the major causes of this crisis. And if I am aware of the part that Obama and those of his political ideology played in this catastrophe, surely my President and my candidate are as well.

What is keeping them from making that association a major issue in this election?

At the bottom of this travesty (the magnitude of which I don’t believe we have seen in either our or our parents’ lifetimes) are four crucial, potentially deadly, considerations:

(1) The virtually unbridled power of the mainstream media – who routinely turn our focus (because we allow them to) toward superficial nonsense, and away from information that would be extraordinarily dangerous to those whose ideology they share.

(2) The fact that, even during their deliberations in attempting to solve this economic crisis, most of the democrats in Washington still do not consider the safety and prosperity of the people of this country to be their main focus. Their main focus, even in these troubling times, is the amassing of power and the implementation of a leftist ideological agenda. Why else, when the economic (and possibly physical) safety and security of every American is hanging in the balance, would they still be attempting to divert a large portion of this gargantuan, taxpayer-funded bailout into the pockets of a left-leaning organization bent on social engineering (and an organization that played an activist role in the catastrophe to begin with)?

(3) If republicans in congress resort to compromise, as they have so often done over the past eighteen years, they will have committed the final betrayal. They will have saddled the American taxpayer with an unbearable burden – in the form of financial extortion, the crumbling of our capitalist system through the nationalization of private enterprise, and the granting of oversight powers to the government that were never envisioned by our Founders – all of which conditions are expressly forbidden by our Constitution. Individual liberty will be the major casualty – with security and sovereignty to follow, a distant, but definite, second.

(4) Congress, bowing to the enormous pressure of powerful, radical left-wing special interest groups, started this crisis by pressuring, in an entirely unconstitutional manner, the banking/mortgage industry to do what their special interest lobbyists wanted. Yet among the major end results of any temporary bailout will be the granting of significantly more 'oversight' powers, this time made legal by 'post-meltdown' legislation. The government will be granted enormous additional power to look over the shoulder of private industry and dictate the parameters under which it can function. Talk about rewarding crime, and positioning the country for more of the same ... now legalized ... much deeper, and much more threatening to our capitalist foundations.

I have little faith that the electorate will recognize the genuine nature of the man they are about to elect to the presidency. The media will not allow it. And the citizenry is too lazy to look beyond the mainstream media for answers.

I have little faith that our ‘leadership’ in Washington will once again begin to represent the best interests of the people. The corruption is too deep, and the power of special interests is too unwieldy and unaccountable, and growing moreso every day.

There are enemies at the gate. Enemies of the sort that the world has never known – who see it as their destiny to conform us to their image, or see us dead. When they decide to break down that gate in a brutal manner that goes far beyond the taking of three thousand innocent lives in two skyscrapers, an office building, and a commercial airplane, they will find little resistance. Not because the people within the gates weren’t once rugged individualists who valued freedom ... but because they no longer are.

I pray, fervently and daily, that I am wrong, or that He will somehow intervene.

The need is to get it to a larger audience through making it an article and getting it published in a wide print distribution medium.

There is little interest in such aritlces, except in conservative publications, and that viewership, like this, simply amounts to preaching to the choir.

Thanks for the kind words, nonetheless.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

You used too many words. The Sheep will never take the time to read it ... Besides, “Celebrity Dancing with the American Idols who Want to be Millionaires with a better View of Regis and Kelly on the next Oprah” is on next...

I share your cynicism, and your evaluation of our countrymen's apathy and ignorance -- which doesn't engender a whole lot of optimism for the future of our republic.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

Thanks for the clarification. The creature from Jekyll Island is quite complex as well as quite unknown. I appreciate your not flaming.

A few weeks ago I emailed an honest Democrat friend and invited him for coffee next door to the local Democrat office. He was really interested in my tale about the old time labor organizers and sloganeers naming names and kicking ass of the present wreckers great grandfathers. This guy's folks were probably Reagan Democrats, which is a good demographic for us to cultivate.

... do not give up the items we are protected and ensured to be able to freely own, by our beloved US Constitution, in it's wise Second Ammendment. It is the final line of defense from tyranny. If elitist, holier-than-thou tyrants take power, that will be one of the first things for them to go after, mark my word. History is replete with examples.

Absolutely. Our Second Amendment RKBA is possibly more important than it has ever been, and will become moreso with each passing day.

Best to you and yours in these troubling times, AIT.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

Good post, but you're missing the forest for the trees. The thing that is currently tanking our economy (and the economies of the world) is the credit derivatives market.

It was created as a way to extract enormous returns from 'paper' that was just experiencing a 'good' return. It was huge greed.

The mortgage bubble popped in July 2007, and the 'smart people' that created the credit derivatives market didn't build into their plan what would happen in that event.

What 'happened' was the creation of a huge, unsatiable economic monster that is on the warpath. It is eating gargantuan companies.

And it's only on the appetizers.

This bailout plan will not work. Look for 3 to 5 days of euphoria in the stock market - and then the credit crunch will begin taking place again, and there will be no stopping it for quite a while.

But neither Obama or McCain are going to fight off the bailout fraud, to my knowledge.

I believe you're right. I intend to vote for McCain/Palin, but, should they be successful, that only signifies that our slide into socialism (or worse) will occur more slowly than it would under Obama/Biden. Corruption in the rest of the government is too entrenched, and the tendency to compromise on the part of coservatives is too well-practiced, to turn things around at this point.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

As mentioned to Desdamona above, my honest Democrat friend and I are meeting again to see if we can organize a pro-American group of local citizens who can get together and drum out our concerns. However, we have agreed not to formally organize this until after the election so as not to have raw, deeply emotional politics poison the waters.

I wouldn't flame it because it's true and there are a lot of people in denial that there are some really depraved money and power hungry people out there who are willing to destroy everything in order to have all the money and power. And the fact that the name Rockefeller keeps coming up in connection with things like the UN, the invention of PR, etc., IMO, adds credence to the argument.

BTW, the book about the secret meetings in 1911 when the plan was laid out for the Federal Reserve is actually titled The Creature from Jekyll Island

Well written screed... but as I have proposed a few times here..
Obama, Hillary and McLain.. were merely plans "A, "B", and "C".. of/by those you mentioned above .. MClaim himself becoming the republican candidate is a travesty.. I must admit that adding Sara Palin to the mix was pure genius.. a brillant tactic.. Palin is just glitter on the Christmas Tree.. Veeps do pretty much nothing.. But it sure fooled ((ME))... I was not going to vote at all making a statement.. As WAS millions of others.. Does that make me a FOOL?.. Being fooled like that?.. Absolutely..

You must admit whoever is running this Chinese Fire Drill of a political ruse, is SMART.. Just when America is getting ready to notice that Barry Obama has no more qualifications to be President then does P.Diddy.. WE are given something to distract us.. FINANCIAL MELTDOWN...

Golllleeee!.. Shazaam.. Somebody is pretty smart.. Fooled ME... Last nights debate appeared to be other than a play too.. I have a question though.. Since Americas "money" is fiat money.. merely paper.. well then is the financial meltdown also merely ON PAPER?.. And can be "solved" by double entry jedi accounting tricks?.. You know journal entries?..

Here I sit, Scratching my head like a Bobobo chimp on Monkey Island wondering where all the food comes from..

We have somewhat of a double edged sword here. Between Obama's ACORN type antics, and McCain allowing everyone one of God's Children and his brother who broke laws to get here or stay here (many of them part and parcel of the sub prime meltdown you speak of), then we are seriously screwed as the United States of America.

Maybe the best we can ask for is to hold the line with McCain as a toehold, and then massive encirclement around him from DAY ONE to keep one of his pens, old or otherwise, from signing legislation or executive orders amnestying millions of these invaders and outsiders--he serves one term, and we coast back to full conservative mode with President Sarah Palin in January 2013 after she beats the pantsuit off of crusty Hilary. Obama aims to do the same thing as McCain on border sovereignty and "regularizacion". Really, that is where I see the greatest peril, and the Sunset (for America) so aptly represented in your photograph there.

Well done indeed.

Henry Adams, descendant of two Presidents, wrote that no American dies in the country of his birth, meaning that in a lifetime the country changes into the unrecognizable. It seems that we all face that fate.

There is little consolation in it but I don’t think we are going down alone. The whole globalized structure is likely to take a tumble. The maddening part is that we have been led into this debacle by fools and knaves.

I couldn't agree more, mark.

If my essay were much longer, I believe it would have turned people away.

Our public education system is nothing more than an indoctrination facility anymore -- teaching children what to think rather than how to think.

I am a teacher, and I have discovered over the last twenty years or so that, unless they are provided a road map detailing how to get from Point A to Point B, American children are no longer able to navigate any intellectual pathway.

That state of affairs came about purposefully. The left needs to keep the masses in a condition where they need to be led around by the nose in order to move from day to day.

Critical thinking, and the ability to analyze a situation, widespread among the people, are majors roadblocks to the imposition of socialist rule. So filling children's heads with politically-correct 'facts', rather than teaching them to think on their own, is a distinct goal of the current public education system. And they're well of their way to achieving that goal.

Thanks for the excellent insights.

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

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