Junior y Chino Because we love America

Hello? Sleeping Giant?… WAKE UP!

This is the problem with America today.  We have gotten so into the following…

You are either on the side that thinks that the previous administration did a terrible job, that we spent 8 years fighting a couple of wars that we did not need to be involved in, that we did nothing for this country, that we had an idiot for a president, that he couldn’t pronounce “nuclear”, that he messed up our economy with all the money spent on war, etc.  The same side that praised the Senator from Illinois because he would be different, because he would bring about hope and change.  Conversely, there are others who argue that the current administration is sending us into a tailspin of profligate spending, that we are going to fall to liberal ways, that we will have a nation of gays being married, of excessive abortions and other agenda items of the leftist platform.

Although these are important concerns and I do not presume to trivialize who marries who and who has who’s baby or not.  These things however, make us lose site of what is really important… that there is a tremendous change that is taking place in this country.

If I am sound conspiratorial it’s because I believe that there is something wrong going on here.  Think about it… all of us have lied at one point in our lives or another.  What is the natural tendency when we are being less than truthful?  To change the conversation or to deflect and focus on anything other than the lie at hand.

We sit around blaming the “other” party in a two-party system, all the while, the “political class” of the same parties, have the last laugh.  Do you know why?  Because it’s all crap!  We need to wake up!!

Just so you know, who can get married, who is racially profiling, who can have abortions, what socio-economic classes are being oppressed and which are prospering, who we are bailing out… none of it matters if we have our unalienable rights taken away from us, gradually but methodically with precision and persistence, this IS happening.

There are a few things that have been taking place for a long time, that support this argument.

Our guns are being taken away – Let us recall that our founding fathers contemplated that this is a fundamental right of the citizenry in order that they may protect themselves from an oppressive government.  This is where the United States of America was born from!  A tyrannical king who sought to rape the colonies of their property and maintain a jurisdiction so as to fatten up his pockets with the fruit of our blood and sweat.

We keep hearing that guns kill people… NO!  PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.  Does a pencil misspell a word?  These are simply tools used to facilitate the carrying out and action that is the result of intent.  This is why we have laws in varying degrees… to determine intent… murder in the first, second, etc… or manslaughter.

The government has, in times of crisis, abridged our rights to arms under the guise of “the good of society.”  Just ask the people of New Orleans, who had their guns taken from them after Katrina hit.  They were stripped one of their most basic and precious rights… protecting their property.

Recently, some or our “leaders” have stated that 90 percent of the guns used to perpetrate crimes in Mexico come from the United States… really?  Please take a look at this (and believe me all you people on the far left, I have considered the source on this one, but I encourage you to post up an article that can negate or refute this one) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/04/02/myth-percent-guns-mexico-fraction-number-claimed/

An excerpt states the following:

In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced — and of those, 90 percent — 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover — were found to have come from the U.S.

But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.

In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.

Ask yourself this, if you were home and you never cared for guns, but there was an uninvited guest in your home.  You don’t know if he is there to rob you or rape you or kill you or all of the above.  You announce your presence, but there is no answer.  We’ll pretend that you have the power to make a gun appear with a snap of your fingers.  You are holding the gun now, and the perpetrator has reached your bedroom… you face imminent threat, but you don’t know the degree of harm this person is willing to inflict to carry out his purpose… what do you do?  I’ll leave it that because I have a feeling I know the answer.

One other important thing to remember… there are over 300 million people in this great country of ours.  We are told constantly about the dangers of guns.  If one percent of the population committed a crime with a gun, that would be 3 million people.  Let’s break that down to 57,692 gun-related crimes a week, 8,241 a day, 164 in each of the 50 states.  When I lived in New York City, pre-Giuliani, one of the City’s newspapers had, on the inside of the cover, a timeline of the violent crimes committed in the previous 24-hour period.  There were, on average 10 violent crimes committed, with guns AS WELL AS knives, pipes, bats, etc.  Should we take those away too?  Are we to believe that the same can be said about other cities and states like Kansas, Idaho, Minnesota and even New York and California?!?!  The truth is that better than 99 percent of Americans and legal residents of this country are law abiding people who just want to live a good life in the country they love and within the property that they work hard to procure.  Let us be proud that we have the right to protect our property and let us fight to preserve it, lest we fall to those who would have us believe that we are bad simply because we own guns.  Believe me, the government will not give up its right to arms?  Are we even allowed under the Constitution to grant a power to the government, that we ourselves cannot enjoy?

Americans have become lazy and complacent – Now I’m not trying to do a Bill Mahr here… I’m just saying that we have learned to just let the government tell us what we need.  I love this country and because I do, I love Americans.  I don’t mean that we have become lazy as in we don’t want to work and aspire to be great!  I believe in Americans and what we hope and dream for.  What I mean is, at some point we have stopped fighting the urge to question everything we are being told we need.  I think it begins with the indoctrination of our youth.  What are we teaching the kids these days?  Most of the young people I have talked to about this subject have no idea what I am talking about.  They have not been taught about the Founding Fathers and what they sacrificed.  They have not been taught about history and why we succeeded or failed.  Why we had to do what we did.  The importance of studying history and living according to the time tested principles that this country was founded upon.  I am not naive enough to believe that there were not moments in time where we have carried out horrible acts in order to win a war or secede from an oppressive tyrant, but it is war for a reason.  Nevertheless, we should be more accurately imparting to our youth why certain forms of government and economics have succeeded and why they have failed.  Socialism has become particularly popular among leftists because they can mislead people into believing that government will take care of them.  Where does government get it’s money from?  US!  Those of us who work and pay taxes.  You don’t have to be too smart to realize that government keeps “giving” in the form of entitlement programs which have become all the rage, we WILL go broke.  It’s not a question of when, it’s a question of how soon will this happen?

We are being told what we need and how quickly we need to get it done.  Why? – If you were drowning and I was the only person out to sea with you and I am on the boat, would you want me to throw you a shoe and tell you that you need to put it on now?  Don’t waste you precious moments telling me what you think you need.  I am telling you that you cannot afford to not put on that shoe right now!  Pardon the hyperbole and terrible analogy, but I don’t know how else to illustrate the terrible things that are being done to us in the name of benevolence and the betterment of soci(alism)ety.

We are taking property from some to give to others. - Perhaps the most dangerous of all is this issue.  We are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights which include Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  Can someone, anyone, please tell me how these are not being encroached upon or abridged with the introduction of the current administration’s Socialist ways?  Life – our lives are being fundamentally changed.  No one is saying that we don’t have the right to live, but the way we live our lives will be forever changed.  Liberty – if we are taking it from one to give to another, then liberty cannot exist for either.  Why?  Because we are taking away the liberty of those we are taking from by precluding them from earning to their full potential and thus removing the freedom to procure private property.  We are taking liberty away from the one being given to, because entitlements make that person more dependent on government, thus removing the liberty to do what one wishes.  They will need to get in line for their handouts just like everyone else.  Moreover, as we take from the “rich” to give to the “poor” or “level the playing field” those who were considered the poor will trend upward and there is always someone just a little lower than you are.  Who do you think the benevolent government machine will come after then?  This brings to mind one of my all time favorite quotes by Abraham Lincoln.  Said he…

“Property is the fruit of labor – property is desirable – it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not he who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence…”

This may all seem a bit conspiratorial, but is it not worth discussion and subsequent action to the degree you feel this is real, and applicable in your life?  What is alternative?  Do we sit around and argue about who is marrying who?  Do we sit around extolling the current President and excoriate the former?  Do we waste our time arguing about which party is better?  About which ideology we subscribe to and why it is the better way to go?  The truth is, we argue because as proud patriots who are lucky enough to live in the greatest country in the world, we all want fundamentally, the same thing… I’ll let you fill in the blank.

What can we do?  Be diligent in your responsibility of protecting your property and your posterity.  Question what you are being imbued with… or should I say indoctrinated with.  Prepare yourself… read, talk, have discussions, listen, and again… QUESTION.  Call or write to your elected officials any chance you get.  It does make a difference.  Vote, but be sure to ask yourself what voting for this person will do for you.  Make it personal.  Vote because you think it will be the best thing for you and your family.  Not because it is the popular thing to do.  Conversely, don’t not vote for someone because you don’t think he/she is a viable candidate or because you think it will take votes from the only other viable option – Don’t be a sheep.  Teach children the importance of what they are living.  Teach them the history of this nation.  The real history.  Not the dates they teach them to memorize in school so that they can pass a test.  Tell the world that you are proud to be an American… enough of this “I was born in America, but I’m from….”.  Tell people about the principles that make this country great.  Be proud, not sorry.  Tell everyone you know about how we have been and continue to be at the forefront of so many relevant aspects of life and why that means that government should leave the American people alone to do what we do best.  Work, innovate, create, love, give, contribute… among many other great things.

WAKE UP and SPEAK OUT!!

God Bless Our Great Nation.