Harrisburg; Olympia; Augusta; Tallahassee; Sacramento; District of Columbia: all are socialist enclaves of self-important bureaucrats building towers of papyrus leaves that are smothering the land and its inhabitants.
Right on target........
redrock--Constitutional Terrorist
Bump for a closer read when I am awake.
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8 Mb zip file here (50 minute video)
We would be happy to let him know what we have been doing to fight this. Anyone have contact information?
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.
Pharisees and Environmentalists (of the wacko sort). Not a lot changes in two millennia. It's just a matter of morphing, of a sort.
This guy Buchal (an attorney, no less) has my vote for any office he chooses to seek. :)
During the past five decades we have indeed become a nation of appeasers. And we were made that way through indoctrination which took place on two fronts:
So we have become a nation ruled by apathy/sedation/appeasement. It's easier to go along than to think critically, or to investigate....or even (God forbid) rebel. (Bill Bennett devotes an entire book on this subject in The Death of Outrage). And when good and able men resort to indifference, the cream no longer rises to the top. The sludge does (witness the Clinton years).
I would go one step further than Buchal's 'When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst.' America's (so-called) intellectual leaders are in cahoots with the thugs (in many cases, they are one and the same). They are not only failing to foster 'the best' in the people at large. They are deliberately suppressing 'the best' in favor of the intellectual mediocrity of the masses. Our (so-called) intellectual leaders are a part of the master plan to dupe the masses. And how better to do so than to cultivate mediocrity, refuse to reward excellence, and elevate Buchal's 'average men' (even 'thugs') to positions of power.
The 'Dark Forces' to which Buchal refers are self-appointed people (and self-appointed groups of people) who have decided that they know what is best for the rest of us. And Buchal's 'we are always just one generation away from the Dark Ages' is right on the money. Our (perhaps subliminal, but no less dangerous than if it were realized) collective policy of appeasing the would-be tyrants blazes that very path back to the Dark Ages. And right now the only thing standing in the way of that reversion is the handful of thinking people who are screaming from the rooftops (and who, thus far, have made enough noise to keep the ship from sinking). But the proportion of screamers is becoming smaller every day, and it won't be long before the apathetic appeasers' I-don't-want-to-be-bothered attitude is the rule of the day.
Our nation was (temporarily?) awakened by the holocaust of 9/11. But, as heinous and foreboding as that day proved to be, in the long run, it is intellectual abdication on a national/global scale, of the sort that Buchal is describing as occurring in Oregon, that at least 'invited' that very holocaust. If America is to 'fall,' it will be the intellectual abdication of her people that removed her underpinnings.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand... It never did... and it never will... Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.....Frederick Douglas
Grange Leader Joins Protest Against Western Water Shut-Off
Robert Clouse, National Grange Executive Committee Chairman, took part in a community rally that drew more than 15,000 people to protest the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation decision not to supply irrigation water this summer to 1500 farmers and ranchers in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Clouse, of Orangevale, California, was actually representing the District of Colombia in the “Bucket Brigade” of 51 individuals representing the 50 states and the District of Colombia who each dumped a bucket of water into a dry irrigation canal to illustrate the nationwide impact and consequence of the Bureau’s decision.
Under the requirements of the Endangered Species Act, the Bureau of Reclamation will allow the water that would have gone to irrigate crops and pastures in the valley this year to flow to the Pacific Ocean in order to protect the habitat of several fish species that have been found to be endangered. No one disagrees that this region of the country is suffering from the second worst drought in 100 years. The controversy comes from the decision by the federal government to place the entire burden of dealing with the low water levels on the backs of farmers and ranchers, many of whose families homesteaded the area at the encouragement of the federal government and the Bureau of Reclamation following World War I and World War II. As a result of this decision, direct and indirect economic losses to the farms, ranches and agriculturally related businesses in the Klamath River Valley could exceed $400 million this year.
Addressing the rally, Clouse stated, “The National Grange recognizes that the protection of the environment and the conservation of our natural resources are vital priorities. However, the zealous pursuit of unrealistic and unnecessary environmental goals is causing severe economic damage to the farms and industries that are important to our country. And more importantly, these uncompromising environmental edicts seriously endanger out liberty. We do not believe that Americans must sacrifice their prosperity or surrender their constitutional rights in order to preserve our environment.” His remarks were met with hearty applause.
The National Grange, the nations oldest rural advocacy organization with 300,000 members in 3600 grass roots organizations across 37 states, has for more than a decade petitioned Congress to amend the Endangered Species Act to restore proper perspective to the law by requiring public hearings and economic impact statements on the affected areas before a species can be listed. According to Clouse, all Americans must share the burden of preservation, not just those unfortunate enough to live in the vicinity of an endangered species.