Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?

Townhall.com ^ | January 3, 2010 | Mike Adams

[Kaslin]

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[ml/nj]

On New Year's Day, it did, watching TCU.

ML/NJ

[Republic of Texas]

Genius. No wonder, he’s a Texan!

[RadiationRomeo]

I just heard that song this morning.

[homegroan]

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[GeronL]

great article

[Mercat]

I visit our hospital. I don’t know whether I change those folks lives but they have changed mine.

[John Leland 1789]

This is Christian, Traditional, conservative “community organizing.” It should be employed broadly.

I am blessed by the article. Thanks!

[Mouton]

I moved to a small town south east of Fort Worth in 1990...loved it there. The author is right, many visitors early on from the neighborhood and the local churches.

My time there belied the story that you can tell a Texan a mile away but when he gets near you, you cannot tell him anything. I found the local people to be rich in character, honest, church going and friendly. Oh almost forgot, CONSERVATIVE and patriotic.

[dog breath]

It was nice to read an article where the subject was not wailing and moaning about society but rather had a positive attitude about how to make a difference.

[Gilbo_3]

Those of us who are conservative Christians are apt to blame the problems of the world on others. When we aren’t blaming Obama specifically, we are blaming socialism and socialists generally. But none of these things are really problems. They are symptoms of a larger problem; namely, that others are assuming the responsibilities that Christians have been neglecting for years.

We can’t change the world overnight. But we can change our neighborhoods today. The Recipe has been around for ages. We just have to keep sharing it with others.

if and when that fails...it will be *time* to re-claim the hood by any mean necessary...

thank Kaslin...

[wbarmy]

They are symptoms of a larger problem; namely, that others are assuming the responsibilities that Christians have been neglecting for years.

I have tried to be as diligent as possible with my children and my church to explain that the only real solution is to get people saved. "Saved" people usually don't get abortions, go homosexual, rob or kill, or support those who do. It isn't 100% but it is a lot better odds than the other side.

[Tax-chick]

Excellent article!

[Verginius Rufus]

I haven’t heard that song in a long time, but Fort Worth crossed my mind when TCU beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.

[Blue Collar Christian]

You know Kaslin, I’ve read Mike’s column every time since I had you put me on your ping list, and I truly enjoy his rants, but this rantless column was his BEST! The truth like a biblical prophet. WOW!

[MEG33]

What a great article! Thanks for posting it..

[Sergio]

Thank you, Sir! Good article to start the new year.

Seems that for years, the government has been doing it's best to lessen the importance of the traditional family, and now, I realize, to lessen the importance of “community”.

It's harder for thugs to threaten someone at his home, when all the neighbors show up to help that “someone” out. Hence, authoritarians prefer it when no one looks out for their neighbor.

Mr. Adam's story shows how we can go about making our communities stronger. Again, thanks for sharing.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] Today’s college graduate changes jobs about a dozen times in his career. Since he changes jobs every few years he usually finds himself moving every few years. And since he figures he won’t be with his neighbors for long he seldom takes the time to get to know them.

This was a deliberate corporate policy employed by many of the Fortune 500 companies, from the 1950's.

The model was the Army. The corporate moguls decided they wanted Army-like devotion to The Company from their employees, so they set about weakening community ties of their hands by moving them early and often, to keep them from striking community roots. I know that this policy, with this rationale, was in effect at Humble/Exxon and Conoco, to name two that I knew about in the 60's.

Corporate policy at some firms went as far as social engineering their executives for more "productivity" (time spent in the office). One of the newsweeklies (before they became 100% Communist) ran a story in 1966 or 1967 about how two big chemical firms (the names Monsanto and Dow come to mind, but I can't remember for sure who it was) were deliberately piling on the work in their Manhattan offices, in order to foment marital discord among their exurban-dwelling executives. The senior executives had noticed that men whose marriages were on the rocks spent more time in the office and caught later trains home, so they deliberately scheduled them more work and called them in to the office on weekends, to frost their victims' wives and sour their marriages. Outed, the firms swore off this practice, but they'd already been documented using it.

[T-Bird45]

Thanks for the Mike Adams article for the New Year, Kaslin. As much as Mike’s mom was “horrified” by the visit of the local constabulary to the home of a known ex-felon, it takes both that kind of visit and his mom’s kind of visit to build a community. I expect that the local cops had noticed a harbinger of a trend that continues today in towns that are home to prisons. Families of prisoners move to town and it is not always for the good.