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How Have We Become a Nation of Dumbies?
FreedomFriend | 10/21/01 | Freedom Friend

Posted on 10/21/2001 12:54:14 PM PDT by FreedomFriend

I'm posting this topic in an effort to try to get a grip on the insanity that plagues this country. Generally speaking, I know the reasons, but it is without logic why our country continues to spiral out of control towards oblivion in regards to political, social, and cultural traits. Thus, without further ado, I will try to explain some of the many examples.

In regard to politics, how can our politicians continue to promote policies that expand government control. Furthermore, how can they neglect to get involved in those areas that are constitutionally given? Not only that, but how can some politicians promote the elimination of various examples of American Rights and, or, Freedoms?

For example, how can our federal government neglect to protect our borders? They do this through their underfunding of the border patrol; a unit of a mere 7000 agents, whereas the NYC police has roughly 30,000 cops. Meanwhile, illegal aliens, non-assimilating individuals, enemies of America, drugs, etc. continue to easily "break-through" our borders. As a result, our culture is under constant attack and is continuously broken down. Not only that, but how can the government, under the guise of public schools, continue to promote an insane mantra known as "Multiculturalism" and "Diversity" despite the known damaging effects and divisionary tactics that have been proven throughout history? How can many of our politicians push for gun control, the destruction of the family unit through Homosexual marriage, benefits, etc, and the elimination of free speech through hate crimes legislation? How can our government be so in-line with what the liberal, socialist elite say and believe? For example, it appears that our policies align themselves up with what the media says, though it is on a ten year delay. How can all of these things be happening to such a great country, though the majority of individuals, deep-down, resent it?

As it appears, there is no "We the People". The people have so little say. It is the socialist elite throughout the media, the government, and the Universities that dictate nearly the entire direction of this country; a bleak one. If good, moral men speak up, the media silences them through the slandering of their names. If good men with GREAT ideas run for public office, many of the campaign contributers, aka big business, will not back them. Thus, they cannot get their views out to the people in comparison to the frontleaders who merely stand for the status-quo; that is, a continuation of socialism and the elimination of freedoms, morals, decency, etc. As it stands, it appears that the government, the media, the schools/universities, and big business (to less of an extent) has been sabotaged by people who hate traditional America and true Americanism.

I often think about the state of things. I wonder why many honorable businesses, organizations, etc. do not put their money together and purchase various thought-disseminating institutions such as networks, newspapers, etc. It simply doesn't make sense. Unless the haters of America do not want to sell, are there really too few financially-rich individuals who have America's best interests at heart, instead caring about how they are perceived or their financial assets?

Are there really too few individuals in congress to speak up for what's right? That is, the Constitution, honor, values, morals, Freedom, etc. I don't get it. Why don't some of our House and Senate members speak with angst on the House and Senate floors? Why don't they set the record straight and come out against the enemies of America by telling the American people what is going on, or by showing some emotion towards American haters in our own government?

As it stands, it appears that all it'd take would be for some honorable, dutiful men to occupy our government. Even the ones who are on our side often do not look like it. With God-fearing, Constitution loving men, we could stop the slide and reverse the trend. However, we're not doing nor seeing that. I only can pray that things change.


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To: ThreadKiller
LOL!

I hear a girl's voice faintly yelling,

"RuuuuuuuuuuuUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnn, FreeduuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuumb......... ruuuuuUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun........"

263 posted on 10/21/2001 4:01:45 PM PDT by bannie
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To: FreedomFriend
For example, how can our federal government neglect to protect our borders?

They've been bought off by big business. And they learned by watching Clinton that the Constitution doesn't mean jack-crap in America any more.

264 posted on 10/21/2001 4:02:13 PM PDT by swampfox98
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To: B4Ranch
I decided that I wouldn't bother with this thread. That decision remains.

For someone that bothered to post 12 words and 2 punctuation marks to a thread that they claimed that they would not bother with, you sure went to alot of bother.

265 posted on 10/21/2001 4:03:05 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: ThreadKiller
I wish ... then I could simply be written off as a 'tin-foiler' ...
266 posted on 10/21/2001 4:03:50 PM PDT by _Jim
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To: swampfox98
humms..."Swamp Fox...Swamp Fox...hiding in the glenn...Swamp Fox...Swamp Fox...with his band of men.."

That's all I can remember...but it was a good show!

267 posted on 10/21/2001 4:04:19 PM PDT by bannie
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To: _Jim
One who foils tin?
268 posted on 10/21/2001 4:06:16 PM PDT by bannie
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To: FreedomFriend
Here's how:
Communist Goals (1963)

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35

1.- U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. DONE

2.- U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.DONE

3.- Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.DONE

4.- Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.DONE

5.- Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.DONE

6.- Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.DONE

7.- Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.DONE

8.- Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.DONE

9.- Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.DONE

10.- Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.DONE

11.- Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12.- Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.DONE

13.- Do away with all loyalty oaths.DONE

14.- Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.DONE

15.- Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.DONE

16.- Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.DONE

17.- Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.DONE

18.- Gain control of all student newspapers.DONE

19.- Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.DONE

20.- Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.DONE

21.- Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.DONE

22.- Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."DONE

23.- Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."DONE

24.- Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.DONE

25.- Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.DONE

26.- Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."DONE

27.- Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."DONE

28.- Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."DONE

29.- Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.DONE

30.- Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."DONE

31.-Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.DONE

32.- Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.DONE

33.- Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.DONE

34.- Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.DONE

35.- Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36.- Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.DONE

37.- Infiltrate and gain control of big business.DONE

38.- Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].DONE

39.- Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.DONE

40.- Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.DONE

41.- Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.DONE

42.- Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.DONE

43.- Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.DONE

44.- Internationalize the Panama Canal.DONE

45.- Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.DONE

______________________________________________________________

DONE EMPHASIS MINE. How many of the above goals apply today in America?

I count ALL BUT TWO...any comments,corrections welcome.

#11 and #35 are the only ones left to accomplish.# 7 was accomplished on 10/10/00. #45 was accomplished on 12/31/00 pending a congressional act of revoke.

And to think...these 'goals' were published in our congressional record as a "know your enemy" theory.

As these are...

Communist Goals (1963)

(Documention below)

-------------------------------------------------------------- Documentation

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

Microfilm:

California State University at San Jose Clark Library, Government Floor Phone (408)924-2770 Microfilm Call Number: J 11 .R5 Congressional Record, Vol. 109 88th Congress, 1st Session Appendix Pages A1-A2842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12

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54 Socialists Are In The United States Congress

18 Posted on 07/25/2001 19:38:21 PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday! The Thread

270 posted on 10/21/2001 4:10:30 PM PDT by a_federalist
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To: bannie
... or one who is 'foiled' by tin ...
271 posted on 10/21/2001 4:13:41 PM PDT by _Jim
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To: bannie
I'm still hiding, bannie. :-) I come out once in a while and whup liberals.
272 posted on 10/21/2001 4:18:22 PM PDT by swampfox98
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To: FreedomFriend
I hadn't read the comments before my prior post to you. I think you ask some good questions and I believe my prior post provides some answers.
I don't know why everyone dumped on you like they did. I hope you don't let it discourage you from continuing to post on FR.
As far as spelling goes.. geez if I had a dime for every misspelled word I've seen on FR I could afford that vacation to Vegas.
273 posted on 10/21/2001 4:24:14 PM PDT by a_federalist
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To: bannie
you mean B4Ranch fibbed??? OK....put B4Ranch with FreedomFriend...they both fibbed!
274 posted on 10/21/2001 4:24:32 PM PDT by ruoflaw
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To: ThreadKiller
Okay, genious, but how do you spell "dumb"? Thus, if you are applying this to mentally incompetant incompetent individuals, that would imply "dumbies".

"Genious"=Genius.

"incompetant"=incompetent

"dumbies"=FreedomFriend

Nuff said.

275 posted on 10/21/2001 4:24:55 PM PDT by riley1992
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To: ruoflaw
And I wasn't kidding about the gas stations either. Can you just imagine the average punk kid with his pants pulled below his butt pumping gas, checking the oil and a.t.f.?  Tire pressure???    Yikes!
276 posted on 10/21/2001 4:26:26 PM PDT by TLI
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To: a_federalist
As far as spelling goes.. geez if I had a dime for every misspelled word I've seen on FR I could afford that vacation to Vegas.

In this medium, timing and context are everything.

277 posted on 10/21/2001 4:27:55 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: TLI
Oh, I would rather not have that mental image..ROTFLOL!
278 posted on 10/21/2001 4:31:18 PM PDT by ruoflaw
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To: hole_n_one
This thread is screaming for one of your pictures, you know.
279 posted on 10/21/2001 4:31:57 PM PDT by riley1992
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To: ihatemyalarmclock
Dumby...you know, Pokey's friend! ("I'm Dumby, Gammit!)

Damn! I'm from the old school. I contend that it was Doc, Sneezy, Grumbpy, Groucho, and Dumby!!!!

And maybe Rudolphby the Red Nose.

280 posted on 10/21/2001 4:33:52 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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