Friday, July 28, 2023

You say you want a revolution?

You say you want a revolution?

 

A revolution in this time has to go beyond military battles and political agendas to get to the heart of modern power, which is the power to control information.  To say that the media has dropped the ball and has long since ceased functioning as the people's watchdog is the understatement of the age. Our system of government is based on having a free marketplace of ideas.  When we were a young nation this just happened naturally. Anyone could start a paper, and if something sold, could make a living.

Truth be told, much of that free marketplace of ideas started eroding with the invention of the telegraph, but by the 1920's it was clear that any kind of free marketplace of ideas no longer held much sway over American political life.  Today, a hundred years down the line, and the undeniable fact is that we do not have a free marketplace of ideas, and that has had a devastating effect on the American mind.

However, the remedy to the problems of the electronic media, with it's open political bias and with corporations using their internet power to stifle the wisdom of the people, is risky to even discuss.  We certainly don't want the federal government to be in the business of regulating online content, and yet the dire threat posed by the corruption of the media drives us to do something.

Instead of going the way of big government control of speech, the revolutionary solution is to go in the opposite direction.  Instead of trying to censor our way to truth, let us shine the light of freedom into the dark wasteland that is the media.  Then, in the light of that true freedom, the people will find their way to the truth.  Let us use the power of government to set up a true public forum.  That way, at least at one point, the free voice of the people could be heard, and the free mind of the American people could be expressed.  That is how best to seek the truth and that is how we can have a modern revolution.  It is called:

The Open Media Amendment

 

 

The Open Media Amendment is a proposal to establish, via constitutional amendment, a national public forum on electronic media.  No laws will be enacted on this forum, and no one will be elected to any office.  The only purpose of this true public forum is that the voice of every person can be heard, and that the public gets to decide who gets more opportunities to be heard.

Two aspects of The Open Media ensure that it will be a true public forum.  First of all, everyone will have an equal opportunity to participate (be heard and seen) on an unedited, uncontrolled live webstream forum.  Second, everyone who is a part of the audience in that area gets to vote on the participants, and those participants who receive a majority vote get another opportunity to appear on the forum. 

The national forum structure will resemble the structure of some mythical national high school basketball tournament. Local forums would have winners and losers.  The losers go back in line, the winners get another chance on the live forum, with another vote.  The one getting the most votes locally goes on to the state forum. 

On the state forum the same rules hold. Winners get another chance, losers don't, and the one receiving the most votes goes to the national forum.

The national forum is where this could get truly revolutionary.  Live, unedited and uncontrolled citizens addressing the entire nation, with the people as a whole deciding who gets more time on the forum.

 

That's the basic concept.

Obviously, it has to be established by ratifying a new amendment to our Constitution.

That would be the way to pay for it, which would not have to be exorbitant. Web sites for each locale with boilerplate software with which to administer the forums. The real cost would be the servers, but that would still be minimal. 

The other reason The Open Media must be established by constitutional amendment is to provide an exemption, for those speaking on the forum, from libel and slander laws, much like members of congress have when they are speaking on the floor of the legislature. This is to ensure that the discussion is completely free, and therefore truth seeking.

In the end this would be the best use we could put our technology to.  Ironically, even though folks will have to get dragged to it initially, the national forum will likely become the most popular show in history.  Think of it.  Kind of like American Idol and similar shows, only serious.. The idea is really quite simple:

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Amplify the free voice of the American people, and let the

free mind of the American people decide whose voice is further amplified.

 

 

 

If you want to learn more about

The Open Media Amendment

go to

https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-open-media-amendment.html?m=1 

or email: comradeamerica2@yahoo.com

 

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Twitter Files and Fascism

 

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The Hunter Biden laptop story is burbling up again, like a cold lunch taco, which is no surprise because this story is not really about Hunter Biden, or the laptop, or Covid, or even about Joe Biden's possible involvement with influence peddling.  Rather, this story has legs because it has mushroomed into one that reveals an emerging fascist cabal openly taking over our nation. With what we are learning via Twitter files this is being done with the unwitting but enthusiastic support of many who consider themselves loyal Americans defending democracy.  In fact, the distracting counter narrative put forth as more important than what some dismiss as dic pics on Hunter's laptop; the supposed insurrection of January sixth, actually folds into and reinforces the fascist cabal story.  This is a narrative which should be of great concern to us all.

 

Our story begins with Joe Biden's errant son Hunter dropping off his personal laptop at a computer repair shop.  Young Mr. Biden neglected to pick up said laptop and after some time had passed, the owner of the shop opened it up to look at the contents, as was his right.  Upon discovering what might be images of  illegal activities (Was that Hunter hitting on a crack pipe?  Was that him again engaged in sexual actions with a person who appears to be under age?) the owner, acting as a good citizen, brought the laptop to the FBI. 

After some more time had passed with the FBI taking no action, the owner, who had prudently made copies of the contents of the hard drive, passed a copy on to Rudy Giuliani, legal counsel to then President Donald Trump.  After examining those contents Giuliani and the Trump campaign realized that in addition to the salacious information about Hunter, there were emails on the hard drive that seemed to implicate candidate Joe Biden in at least influence peddling, if not out and out bribery involving hostile foreign governments.  Was Joe the “Big Guy” Hunter bemoaned taking his ten percent cut?  Former Biden associate Tony Bobulinski assures us Joe was most definitely referred to as “The Big Guy,” within the organization. Recognizing a gold nugget when they held it in their hands, the Trump campaign decided to launch an October surprise.

While that kind of surprise might not be the most high minded mode of politics, it is in the mainstream of American political tradition.  What's more, there might even be some substance to the doubts it cast about Joe Biden's relations with some foreign powers.  Certainly, with a needlessly awkward and disgraceful exit from Afghanistan and their questionable energy and environmental policies, the Biden administration has played into the hands of the Chinese government, one of the governments that made sweetheart deals with Hunter Biden. 

Another nation which blessed Hunter Biden with a sweetheart financial deal was Ukraine, and during the Biden administration Ukraine has received literally untold billions in unaccountable funding for their war effort against Russia.  While the war effort itself seems legitimate, even noble, the lost funds are another matter.  With the breaking FTX scandal, it seems some of those billions found their way into crypto currency speculations, and some of those funds, upwards to a billion, found their way back to America in the form of contributions to Democrat campaigns in the 2022 mid-term elections.  So it looks like possible money laundering, kickbacks, and who knows how much of that money made it into the coffers of Biden Inc?  All of which is to say that the Hunter Biden laptop story was not only not Russian disinformation, but it seems to have some real substance to it.

That, however, is not the most important aspect of this story.  Nope, the primary aspect of this story is the fascist cabal attempting to take over our nation that the laptop fiasco reveals.

First of all, here is a workable definition of Fascism which applies to both the left and right of our venerated political divide-

 https://lifeinafascistcountry.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-defintion.html?m=1

 

Now let's take a long look at that October surprise in 2020, the one that never happened.  The FBI got Hunter's laptop in late 2019, which gave them plenty of time to examine it and determine its validity.  Given that it has since been shown to be an accurate and honest revelation of Hunter Biden's activities, and given the investigative prowess of the FBI, it is impossible to conceive that they concluded it was Russian disinformation, yet it seems that is exactly what they did.

Elon Musk recently acquired Twitter, and even more recently decided to release what has come to be called the Twitter files, which document, among other issues, how Twitter came to cooperate in the squelching of the Hunter Biden laptop October surprise.

It seems some FBI agents were regularly meeting with Twitter officials, (and presumably with officials from other social media and major media companies) and at those meetings informed the officials to be on the look out for Russian disinformation, especially something concerning Hunter Biden.  So when Rudy Giuliani initiated the October surprise by giving the information to a reporter from the New York Post, who published the story, Twitter not only refused to run it, they would not allow the New York Post to post it on Twitter, nor would they allow anyone else to share it on that site.  Facebook, Snap Chat, Youtube, Google, the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and all the other usual suspects followed suit.

What's more, with the exception of Fox News, and now Musk owned Twitter, the rest of the major media continue to squelch the story, cooperating with elements of the government who desire to silence any information which might be inconvenient to the ruling party.  Harking back to the definition of “Fascism,” which is the alliance of big government with big business against the people, we must recognize that big media is an integral part of big business, and that even if some elements of the government are operating in a rogue manner, they are still acting as agents of big government. 

Certainly, Donald Trump did not give orders for FBI agents to spoil his October surprise, and yet some of them did.  Operating with presumed authority while in fact operating outside their own chain of command, (deep state?) some rogue FBI agents coordinated with, and probably continue to coordinate with, some of the most powerful media forces in the world to deny pertinent, true and timely information to the American people.  Not only did that squelching of the truth affect our voting decisions, it is even now affecting how we respond to the issues of the day.  Twitter files, possibly the most important story in the history of our nation, has as of this moment received absolutely zero coverage on most of the media.

While this open, gushing and worsening national wound is dismissed a much ado about some dic pics, old news unworthy of our attention, we are instead distracted to focus on some text messages from Mark Meadows, which indicate that some members of congress were trying to resist accepting the dubious election results of 2020.  Good for them.  While it is clear that the election results could not, at that point, be reversed, their resistance might well have resulted in a close examination of how we could prevent that kind of electoral mischief going forward.  No illegal acts were proposed or carried out by the members of congress.

Which brings us to the non-insurrection riot of January 6, 2021.  While some idiots went too far in protest, and even the call to march to the Capitol was very ill advised, there is a much more worrisome part of that infamous day which has not been remarked on in public.  In short, it seems to this writer that someone (or maybe some folks on both sides) was trying to incite a civil war. A war like that would be brutal, stupid and very short lived, and would probably result long term in a much more powerful and controlling federal government.  Let's look at why that interpretation of J6 might make sense.

First of all, even the calling of a rally on that day on the National Mall was questionable; a pointless provocation.  This writer warned against it, and tweeted that it was a possible set up early on the morning of the sixth.  Secondly, telling the crowd to march on the Capitol was a dire mistake.  I literally cringed, and wondered aloud about “why would you play into the hands of your enemies?” when I heard Trump call for the march.  Finally, I will never understand why President Trump stalled for three hours after the rioting had started before he called on his followers to leave the Capitol.  So make no mistake, if some people were trying to incite a civil war, Trump might have been one of them.

Along with him, I would look at Nancy Pelosi.  It is very difficult to understand why she did not, given the tension of the day, call for deployment of the National Guard, which had already been approved by the White House.  In addition, I was watching, via the web, the proceedings in the House that day.  Nancy Pelosi was sitting in the Speaker's Chair moderating the debate among members of the House when the rioters started to breach the doors of the House chamber.  While everyone else in the room was confused about the rising noise, and didn't seem to know what to make of it, Speaker Pelosi had already exited the chamber without warning anyone else.  As though she knew what was coming and wanted it to cause as much trauma as possible, as long as she wasn't touched by it.

The third troubling factor from that infamous day was the behavior of, you guessed it, some FBI agents.  It turns out some agents were embedded in the crowd, and rather than trying to calm things down, they seemed to be inciting the crowd to more destructive actions.  Additionally, there were two explosive devices planted, one each, at the Democrat and Republican headquarters.  The usually very effective FBI has not yet identified who planted the bombs.

It doesn't take much imagination to figure out what might have happened, what some parties might have wanted to happen, if cooler heads, namely some of the more mature members of the huge crowd, had not prevailed.  With the riot ongoing, and one innocent young woman murdered, the mood of the masses could have become unhinged.  Fires could have been set, and much more violence could have ensued.  We already know that some on the conservative side had weapons staged to bring into play, and it is easy to believe that the Antifa forces had already made similar preparations.

As evening fell on that day, if the rioting had continued that long, it is easy to imagine armed and ready for combat forces converging on the Capitol, and a general battle ensuing.  Later in the evening, one, and then the other of the pre-planted bombs could have been set off, further escalating the conflict.  By morning the National Guard would have been deployed and in control, but the feeling would be that the next night more battling would begin, and not just in Washington DC.  After a few days of that, the nation as a whole would have been more than ready for a truly totalitarian police state to be imposed.

Which is the primary goal of the fascist agenda; one which is still on the table.  Whether as a result of a fizzled civil war, or the slowly growing government control of information (always for our own good, don't ya know?) we as a people are in a most precarious position, seemingly primed to fall under some form of totalitarian control.

Those on the left can point to Trump, and J6, along with recent Trump assertions that maybe we should suspend parts of the Constitution to reverse the 2020 election, and have some credibility in doing so.  However, they would be wise to consider their own house.  They are blithely dancing with a fascist government agency censoring true stories because the ruling party wants them censored, and then laughing about it as though their side is winning a football game by cheating.  No, the cheating you are winking at is just as much a threat to you as it is to us on the right.  A government that can, in combination with a military/ industrial / media complex put a partisan thumb on the scale of a national election, and never get called on it, can do virtually anything it wants.  It can try to incite a civil war to gain even more power, and when that attempt fizzles depict the resulting riot as a partisan insurrection, and still never get called on it.  Without accountability they can and likely will try something like that again.

They not only quashed the Hunter Biden laptop October surprise, but they are succeeding, today, at keeping that ominous story from the eyes and minds of most of the American people.  It is those people, my fellow Americans, that this is directed to.  It is those people on the left who are the real victims of these fascist machinations.

 A question must be asked of them; Are you so enamored with feelings of smug moral superiority that you are not willing to look at the truth?  If the answer is no, if you are willing to look at the truth, then look into the Twitter files articles.  Find out what they are and what they mean.  Matt Tiabbi, Bari Weiss, and Glenn Greenwald are not conservative hacks, but rather are slightly left of center journalists with solid reputations.

I will readily admit that some of the people I and other conservatives voted for might not have our best interests at heart, and so we should reject them for any un-American actions.  If you on the left are serious about defending what you call democracy it is time for you to make similar admissions. Start by admitting that the real battle in the war for our republic is the one we all must fight in the privacy of our own hearts and minds.  We all must fight against accepting false thinking, and that certainly includes you folks on the left.  In the end, if you can do that, and demand your media sources cover the most important story of this century, our democratic republic will have a fighting chance at survival. 

May God continue to bless America.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, September 18, 2022

Legal Abortion and God's Curses


There are a number of dire cultural and spiritual problems that still attach to the issue of abortion, even if we limit the debate to state houses of government.  The most prominent of these sticking points is epitomized by feminists who insist that abortion is strictly a women's issue, to be decided by a woman in consultation with her doctor, and that males should have no say because a man does not have a uterus.  This is first of all disingenuous rhetoric, because while a man does not have a uterus, he does have children, and therefore a natural stake in the abortion debate. More importantly, this radical feminist logic has extremely detrimental effects on society, and will lead the nation, and possibly the entire planet, toward triggering an ancient curse from God.

 

I was always what you could call a “sensitive” male, empathetic to the feelings and pain of others.  Some today would call that a beta male, but they would be wrong to do so.  A sensitive man does not mean a weak or cowardly man.

At around the age of twelve I read a single sentence which changed my life.  It was referring to parenting and said, “They give the most important job in the world to the people with the least experience.”  I have been considering how best to nurture and help children develop into adulthood ever since.

During the process of my own childhood development I was always mystified by the actions and attitudes of a lot of the males around me.  Why, I wondered, are so many guys so violent and brutal?  Why do they have to be so mean?  What made them that way?

A lot of my questions about male brutality were answered one day while I was studying at University.  I had gotten into a discussion with a woman studying to be a mid-wife, and since I had long been friends with an accomplished mid-wife (a mutual friend of us both) I shared my long held opinion.  That opinion, which I still hold, is that since the woman usually needs some assistance in birthing a child, I think it is obvious that the father/ husband should be trained and ready to perform that office.  He was there when the child was conceived so it is only right that he be there when the child is delivered.

I was surprised that she adamantly disagreed, asserting that men are not really equipped for that role because they, once again with the feminist trope, don't have a uterus.  I responded that it is the man's child and wife, both of whom he probably loves and feels more empathy towards than any other person is capable of.  So, I reasoned, who better to catch the baby?  We two never came to an agreement on the issue..

In the course of my normal three mile walk home from campus that early spring day, contemplating the unresolved argument, I was suddenly astounded to realize what she had denied me.  On the walk, I saw birds, male and female, building nests.  I saw trees putting out new buds and growing new limbs.  I saw them all participating in and connected with the flow of life. I realized that she was denying that connection with life to me.  She was saying that since I did not have a uterus I did not have any real and meaningful place in the flow of life.

Then, during that walk to my home, for the first time I understood and empathized with the brutal hard heartedness that so many men live with.  Happily, while I felt that attitude for the time of the walk, I did not hold on to it after that time.

I realized that the hard hearted, emotionally alienated men had come to see themselves relegated to being merely penises, useful only for impregnation, and not welcomed or needed after that for human life to sustain.  They come to regard themselves as not connected to the flow of life. The alienation that mind set engenders in the hearts of men, I realized that afternoon, is what equips men to rape, murder, steal, bully and otherwise do any damn thing they feel like.  Their natural selves, and their essential nature as a nurturing spiritual being has been denied them.  Consequently, many men internalize and embrace that alienated role they have been relegated to.  “Damn it all to hell,” becomes their silent battle cry, and it erupts from a deeply wounded heart.

Now let's consider legal abortion along with its cultural and spiritual effects on the human race.

The legal basis for abortion is the assertion that life, at least human life, does not begin at conception.  But if life doesn't begin at conception, then fatherhood doesn't begin at conception.  Going further with this line of reasoning, if fatherhood doesn't begin at conception, then fatherhood never really begins.  How can a man be held responsible for something (the start of a new human life) that happens when he is thousands of miles away, or eight months deceased, or not in any other way connected to the new human being? Men can be expected to feel a deep connection to the child only if it is considered that life begins at conception.

If it is life only when the mother says it is, then the male of the species is going to be pushed to one of two positions. Either he will begin to deal with the woman as though she is in some sense divine, and unlike himself, entitled to determine whether or not a child is alive.  On the other hand, he can withdraw his heart from the whole process, and become just a baby daddy, taking little or no interest or care in his children's lives.  In that environment, a social environment created by legalized and unlimited abortion, we can expect a decrease in the consciousness of fatherhood, an increase in single motherhood, and probably a huge increase in violent crime.

Feminists will scoff and say, “So what?  Those men, and their fragile male egos just need to buck up.”  Buck up huh?  As in harden your hearts so as to not get hurt?  Okay, sure, we can do that.  In fact, some of us are very good at it.  Do you want to meet a bunch of men that have “bucked up” to the point they are almost impossible to emotionally wound?  Go to any prison yard, especially the ones with death row hardened criminals.  Plenty of “bucked up” men there.  Do you want a world filled with such men?

That then is the point of this blog.  Consider what has happened to the culture, especially in the inner cities, since the advent of unlimited legal abortion.  There has been an astounding increase in single motherhood, going up to seventy percent or more (in some communities) of all children being raised without the biological father present in the life of the child.

At the same time, in the same neighborhoods, we see an appalling increase in all kinds of crime, such as rape, murder and theft, along with a disheartening increase in drug use, with despair and degradation on all fronts.  This seems to be the direct and inevitable result of society legalizing abortion and relegating males to a peripheral role in life. Fatherlessness and all the problems that stem from that social pathology abound.

There are a number of curses from God set down in the Bible.  The most famous are the ones we were hit with right after we ate of the forbidden fruit and were banished from the Garden of Eden.  The first said that women from then on would travail at childbirth.  That seems to be true.  Another said that from then on man would have to make his living by the sweat of his brow.  That also seems to have come true.

The fact is most people don't understand what these “curses” amount to .  They seem to think that God was sitting there concocting some kind of  punishment because we had disobeyed Him.  The truth is, to the contrary, that He was merely telling us what was going to happen to us now that we had decided to not listen to His voice and follow His guidance.  He wasn't concocting or predicting, He was predicating, telling us that since we did X, Y was going to follow.

That set of curses was pronounced very close to the beginning of the Bible.  There is another much less well known curse, at least a curse that might be released on the earth, pronounced at the end of the Old Testament.  (the Protestant Old Testament)

Those last two verses of the Old Testament, Malachi 4:5,6 reads, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

As we enter into an era of properly struggling over the issue of abortion in our respective states, we should all, even non-believers, allow this warning from our Creator to sink into our hearts.  Let us consider the crime, hatred, mayhem and chaos that grows in places where the consciousness of fatherhood has been diminished, and how they are probably the early symptoms of that curse from God descending on our world.  Then let us all, with empathy, compassion and understanding, deeply consider and prayerfully come together to settle this most unsettling of issues: whether or not to legalize, limit, and or prohibit abortion.