Insane? Guess I’m not the Only One - ALAN KEYES

America's Independent Party ^ | February 21, 2009 | Alan Keyes

[EternalVigilance]

In a generally unheralded speech about the so-called "stimulus" package, dated February 10, 2009, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said:

Let me conclude by saying we are at a seminal moment in our country. We will either start living within the confines of realism and responsibility or we will blow it and we will create the downfall of the greatest nation that ever lived.

This bill is the start of that downfall. To abandon a market-oriented society and transfer it to a Soviet-style, government-centered, bureaucratic-run and mandated program, that is the thing that will put the stake in the heart of freedom in this country.

Coburn says that the policies being pursued by Obama will lead to a "Soviet-Style, government centered, bureaucratic-run and mandated" result. As I recall, the Soviet-style of government was a communist state.

Coburn concludes that the continuation of such Soviet-style policies will "create the downfall of the greatest nation that ever lived."

Until a friend sent me an email about it on Friday, I hadn't read Senator Coburn's speech. But on Thursday evening in Hastings, Nebraska, when asked about Obama's policies, I said that he is a radical communist, and that if Americans who care about liberty (i.e., who don't want to put a stake in its heart?) do nothing to stop him he'll bring about the destruction of the United States.

Though I never watch Keith Olbermann's drivel or anything else on MSNBC (and advise others to practice the same abstinence) I read that in response to my comments he questioned my sanity.

If I'm out of my mind, I guess I'm not the only one.

I also read that Olbermann tried to make something sinister out of my saying that unless Obama is stopped (in his efforts to establish a communist state) the U.S. will be destroyed. Compared to the sort of language used against say, Ronald Reagan and G.W. Bush by Democrat and left wing-critics, this is a polite and reasonable exhortation to political action. However the effort to construe it as something else smacks of the tactics employed at the famous show-trials of Stalin's era, even as Olbermann's suggestion of insanity brings to mind the communist practice of committing dissidents to psychiatric hospitals. Could their use of such tactics be the reason Olbermann and his "We're all socialists now" Newsweek buddies (like his guest for the segment, Jonathan Alter) don't want us using the "C" word? We might remember the tactics of communist repression, and notice some similarities.

For more current thoughts from Dr. Keyes, please visit LoyaltoLiberty.com!

[unkus]

Very well said JDoutrider.

Something is going to happen sooner, rather than later,

that will spark a new furry in our America. I relish the

coming fight.

[Canedawg]

A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.
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The first departure in this current chain of events was allowing a foreigner to become POTUS.

[SkyPilot]

Because it so well served their purposes of self-advancement, the liberal black elite became adept at exploiting the fear of perceived racism so prevalent since the Civil Rights movement's conquest of America's conscience in the 1960s. In the process they actually strengthened and perpetuated negative stereotypes, to such a degree that black Americans fell into the trap of seeing their ethnic identity in almost entirely negative terms.

Years ago, in my essay Masters of the Dream, I described the tragically self-defeating nature of the liberal black establishment's negative pre-occupation with racism....the belief that the black identity has no positive content means that, in dealing with the problems of the black community, one neglects to think about policies based on the community's internal values, institutions and resources. Instead, one assumes that the solutions must come from without. The passive victims of history become the passive beneficiaries of philanthropy, the passive clients of bureaucracy, the passive subjects of the domineering welfare state. Despite all good intentions to the contrary, this type of liberalism pushes black Americans back toward a condition of endless childhood, servitude and subjection. Liberal hope becomes liberal slavery.

In reaction against racial prejudice the black elite unwittingly embraced race and racism as the defining preoccupation of the black American identity.

This leads them to be blind to the development of a distinctly positive black American identity, rooted in the assumption that personal moral and spiritual worth persist despite all the demeaning assaults predicated on racial inferiority. The history of that moral identity reveals an incessant spiritual guerrilla war against the devaluation of their humanity that centered ultimately around a simple and unyielding faith in God as the true standard of human worth, and Christ as the one whose suffering, sacrifice and resurrection validated the Godly dignity of every human being willing to put their faith in Him.

Alan Keyes

[Crolis]

That quote needs to be put out everywhere... maybe a patriotic graffiti team needs to be formed. :)

[TurtleUp]

Patriots! I am sick and tired and waiting for the other shoe to drop. I am praying that there are enough non-brain washed Americans left to stop this train wreck.

700 billion shoes in September ... 870 billion shoes this month ... how many other shoes need to drop before we decide to keep our own shoes?

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Guenevere]

we’re waiting, and ready

[ripley]

A Liberal is an adolescent, psychotic punk who is a visceral animal attached to a human brain.

IMHO

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"However the effort to construe it as something else smacks of the tactics employed at the famous show-trials of Stalin's era, even as Olbermann's suggestion of insanity brings to mind the communist practice of committing dissidents to psychiatric hospitals. Could their use of such tactics be the reason Olbermann and his "We're all socialists now" Newsweek buddies (like his guest for the segment, Jonathan Alter) don't want us using the "C" word? We might remember the tactics of communist repression, and notice some similarities. "

They are making Obama worship the ACID test of liberal orthodoxy. No one is allowed to criticize their messiah cult leader or his policies. They are like the hippie girls in the Manson Family. True believers. With the Marxist "don't ask me that question!" attitude. The irrationality is a little frightening. If they had the power they would probably send conservative critics to Maoist reeducation and indoctrination camps.

[defconw]

AMEN!

[defconw]

What is the signal? We(my husband and I ) are preparing. We already have a plan. We have a pact with the BIL and SIL and his mom. Food, arms, shelter. When will we know?

[defconw]

My husband and I have talked about it. If they force Rush off the air. That is the signal.

[mad_as_he$$]

Please. March Madness is right around the corner and baseball is starting.

[21twelve]

Thank you for the backup to this very wise and prophetic quote from a man who knew both history, and his fellow mankind.

[21twelve]

I did some searching to see what was going on in 1816. I learn more from FR and the ensuing searches than I did in High School about this stuff. (At least what I can remember!).

Election of 1816, Madison (DEM-REB) vs. Rufus King (Federalist). Madison won by a landslide.

“Furthermore, President Madison had adopted such Federalist policies as a national bank and protective tariffs, which would give the Federalists few issues to campaign on.”

I wonder if Jefferson was alluding to this type of thing. Although I also found out that Jefferson had also done the Louisiana Purchase instead of having Congress do it:

“In the process, Jefferson abandoned his commitment to a strict construction of the Constitution and moved toward a stronger central government. Jefferson had said he favored limiting the executive branch only to the powers specified in the Constitution. But that document was silent on acquiring more territory through purchase. Jefferson went ahead anyway, fearing that the opportunity to buy the vast Louisiana tract from Napoleon would be lost if he waited for Congress and the states to pass a constitutional amendment specifically authorizing it. Jefferson argued that, “to lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written laws, would be to lose the law itself.”

[tflabo]

Please ALL....return to post #11 and read again the timeless words of Thomas Jefferson. My have we strayed so far off the path the founders gave to us.

[tflabo]

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.”……Thomas Jefferson (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital)

[tflabo]

When the enemy rushes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him...Isaiah 59:19

The standard we raise is the same as our founders...The Word of God and the U.S. Constitution founded on it's tenets.

The three branches of the U.S. Government: Judicial, Legislative, Executive • At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22; “For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.”