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With all these reports about dog whistles it makes wonder. How do they keep hearing it? And even further how do we know they are hearing it? It’s unfalsifiable. If you keep blowing a dog whistle and a dog does not come is it because the whistle doesn’t work or that it’s not really being blown. Either way how can we know. We have to assume those telling us are being honest. With our media it’s at the very least worth questioning.

The whole concept of a dog whistle is it’s unique ability to only be heard by the dog, obviously. We are told that many politicians on the right are blowing “white supremacist” dog whistles. Of course, this means only white supremacists can hear it. If that’s true are those that report this inaudible whistle able to hear it and if they can are they white supremacist? By definition they would have to be, right. If they are not white supremacist how would they know? And more importantly why should anyone believe them?

Of course, one can assume a dog whistle is being blown. But for that to be proven correct then a dog would follow, right? If a white supremacist dog whistle is being blown then white supremacist would follow. If a white supremacist doesn’t show up did they not hear it or was the whistle not being blown? What if those that follow or those that claim to hear it are not white supremacist? The only conclusion would be that it was not a white supremacist dog whistle. I’m sure you have thought all these things too. This begs the question; if the whistle is heard then anyone one that follows heard it, and this allows our media to paint a whole group of people with a broad brush. This is precisely what the media aims to do. They make up an inaudible sound that nobody can disprove and claim that anyone who responds is guilty of hearing the sound. It’s brilliant really.

For this really to work the one whom is accused of blowing this whistle needs to accept responsibility and apologize for doing so. This is what we see happening all the time. It completes the charade and gives credibility to a completely made up scenario. Because why would someone claim responsibility for something they didn’t do and if the whistle can’t be heard it proves it exists. Like I said, brilliant.

What about unknown signals? This follows the same logic. If a known signal exists and a person can unknowingly display it then only those that know can see it. How would it be possible for a person that doesn’t know or subscribe to it recognize this unknown signal? What a paradox. This is the world we live in. As a parent I know that it’s possible for someone to display something or say something and not entirely understand it’s meaning and implication. I do take the time to teach them what it means, but I don’t accuse them of purposefully doing it. The most obvious example of this would be the middle finger. When certain gestures such as holding three fingers up has heretofore always signaled the number three it is safe to assume that is what is implied. This most certainly doesn’t require an apology.

To sum up if you keep hearing inaudible sounds and seeing unknown signals you should take responsibility. It may be a good idea to keep that to yourself and work on you. Most likely these things will go away overtime with practice.

Ben Franklin was asked by someone after the Constitutional Convention what type of government he had created for us. He replied “a Republic if you can keep it”. I have been thinking about this a lot lately. I would argue that the Republic was damn near destroyed in the turn of the twentieth century by Woodrow Wilson. With the pass of the Owen-Glass act that created the Federal Reserve and the seventeenth amendment preventing state legislatures from appointing US Senators.

Why did our Founders choose a Republican form of government? It had never been tried before in such a way as they chose. We all have heard this and there are many explanations out there. There are many explanations as why Ben Franklin answered that way too. One of the many may be because he knew as we all do today that when a group of people are hungry for power they will do anything to keep it even if that means not keeping the Republic.

Many of us look around and wonder what can we do, can we keep it/restore our Republic? I have wrote and spoke about educating ourselves a great deal. I believe that is step one. You must read and understand our Constitution. You must have at least a vague understanding of what our Founders where thinking and what they believed. Ok, now what. What do we do?

Many out there are willing to fight to keep our country from being overrun from the left. I have seen videos and read articles about those of you that feel desperate and are wondering if its too late. Have you stopped to consider how a Republic should function? Do you know whom represents you in the government? If so, do they represent your values, do you agree with anything or somethings they stand for? Do you know what your neighbors value? Even if your neighbors have a Biden sticker on their car and that causes your stomach to turn? Its worth having a conversation with your neighbors to find common ground, with those you can.

In a Republican form of government representation is of great importance. This begins locally. What are your local values? What matters to you and those local to you? We have to start conversations with those around us in our communities. If you see someone without a mask on maybe that would be a good place to start. This means we have tools in our tool box and there is something we can do. Get started. Get involved.

If being involved locally and getting to know those around you is how a Republican government functions its no wonder that those things have been highly discouraged. All of us have noticed this. Churches and local gatherings have been illegal or are still illegal in some places. The federal government is too powerful and the only check on that power is local government/state government. No wonder they want it stopped. Do you know what a convention of states is? Is that possible now? Can we encourage three-fourths of the states to do something. We must begin getting involved and encouraging those around us and those that represent us to make change. We can do it and the reason I know that is because the left did it. Over the past fifty years the left has worked locally to infiltrate everything. Look at your local school even the one that you think is ok, its not. The only thing is, we don’t have fifty years.

There is tremendous momentum out there. I have heard from several prominent people that there is no opposition party. That is true the current republicans in the federal government are not a true opposition party. If anything they are the do-nothing party. The spineless, gutless, no principled, all-talk-no-action party. But, those of us not in the federal government including local politicians are in opposition to the left, thank God. We can be the opposition, a wave of forgotten, uncared for people that will put their foot down and say no more. With this political power placed in the our beloved Republican Constitution we can retaliate and rise in opposition to the left.

I hope to see you out there educating yourself and speaking with each other to start a bloodless revolution (hopefully). See you out there.

How can one person subscribe to conflicting ideology?

As I survey today’s political landscape I notice, as I’m sure you do as well, how often conflicting ideology spews out of the mouth of the left. Like vomit from a patient with the flu. Though I’m not a doctor and cannot diagnose anybody, I do believe the best comparison for those on the left is a sickness. Certainly vomit is only one of their many symptoms.

The answer to the above question is, of course, to lack integrity, or to intentionally deceive. That is the only way in which one can subscribe to conflicting ideology. If a political party wanted to sow division into the country a good way to do that would be to confuse the people with different conflicting ideas and claiming to subscribe to all of them. This is a tactic, obviously, to control speech. When one person controls the narrative then they can control what some believe. To punish those that would call them out on these conflicting ideas is the best way to silence critics. When those of us that rise in opposition to the left merely point out this inherent conflict we are labeled racist, obviously you’re a bigot if you see it too.

The verdict was handed down on Tuesday in the Chauvin case almost exclusively without the evidence. Witnesses were called to testify that of course George Floyd was murdered. Without viewing the full context of the interaction between George Floyd and the police it is very hard to determine what happened. And that was precisely the goal to control the narrative and to leave out evidence that points to the truth. The reaction to the verdict was predictable to those that were paying attention. The left told us that this trial was America’s trial, this was historic and that if any other verdict was handed down that did not result in guilty on all counts would prove that justice did not occur. Almost immediately we were told by the left that though the jury did obey and give the verdict that was demanded, it was not enough. In fact, we were told it was not justice. Justice was some other impossible outcome that would be defined separately while simultaneously by others in a fuzzy, confusing, and conflicting way. If anyone points out this conflict we are racists.

It is not hard to search the left and the corporate media (they are one in the same) for an enemy. There are many enemies but perhaps the most citied and most criticized is white people, specifically white males. At the same time we are told that racism is bad. How can one speak of the evils of the an entire race and not be racist, simple change the definition of racism. Then appoint leaders to the cause. Look to Ibram X. Kendi and others race baiters to back you up. The media can proclaim something as racist and then interview one of these leaders to back up this opinion. If someone try’s to point out this hypocrisy even with differing and conflicting definitions they will be labeled, you guessed it, racist.

The transgender movement has gained a lot of momentum while at the same time the male sex is demonized. How can these two ideas co-exist? How is it possible to believe and say out loud that gender is a social construct and doesn’t really exist while simultaneously proclaiming that men are bad? We are told men are bad, evil, wrong, toxic, terrible, and no one should strive to be like that. We are told to teach young people that we should strive to not be men. How can we teach anyone to be something that doesn’t exist while defining it at the same time? Ellen Page was an obscure actress that decided to change her gender and become Elliot Page. This, of course, launched her out of obscurity and into stardom, and out of one gender into another. Ellen Page was a female that was attracted to other females, a lesbian. Now Elliot Page is a male that is attracted to females, straight. If straight, white, males are bad how can he desire to be transformed into one. What’s even more surprising is how this is celebrated by the left. If someone were to point out this conflict they will be criticized and labeled a bigot.

Many other contradictions can be pointed out, I’m sure you are thinking of some while reading this. If all police are bad, why do politicians need cops to protect them? If justice is what is desired, how can we not give it to some? If all people on the planet can come into our country, why do we have citizenship? If criticizing POC and LGBT people is bad, why are countries that do just that celebrated? In this country we are told that the original sin is slavery, though slavery has been practiced by all countries on the globe and some do to this day. The original sin is, sin. Those of us that understand that can recognize that hypocrisy and contradiction are common in a world of sin and that we must look to the problem and how to fix it and counteract it. We cannot, and this is important, eliminate sin. It is a problem that has to be confronted head on, we have to punish and disincentive sin. We have to reward virtue and sacrifice and teach those principles. We are simply living with the results of a culture that doesn’t recognize sin and looks to fix all problems, or claims they can with man made solutions.

Ultimately, I believe, the goal is to move the party farther left and to radicalize more people. This can be done by controlling the definition of speech and then controlling the minds of people. When the left espouses conflicting ideas at the same time they can claim either definition depending on what the opposition attacks them on. This also allows moderates to enter the party while unknowingly subscribing to a more radical ideal. Eventually they drop the moderate position while holding to the radical position claiming they held the radical position all the while. This is the recipe of the left and we are seeing it unfold everyday.

The contempt for conservatives and Christians, especially when those two identities overlap, is well known and documented. The question becomes why? Is it because the left relentlessly opposes what those in the former group stand for? Sure, but what else can it be? Conservatives oppose what the left stands for but as a whole we don’t have contempt for them.

This sudden need from the left over the past couple of decades to cancel and erase what conservatives and Christians stand for has become obsessive. From getting rid of school names that bear great American founders and others. The 1619 Project from the New York Times, an attempt to erase what this great country was founded on. But, what is it exactly they hate? I believe its is Christianity. The left has turned its hate to this country and its founding. Even before the founding back to 1619. Nowhere in our history do we find the pilgrims or William Penn. Whole groups of people that came to this continent to escape slavery while simultaneously supporting Christianity. The left discounts this, obviously, by covering it up and ignoring all together. (An important note: the slaves that came to Jamestown in 1619 were not all African, although this slave ship did just leave the North Atlantic Slave trade. There were approximately 20 slaves and ALL of them were indentured slaves that received their freedom after the agreed amount of time, Africans and Europeans. These indentured slaves went on to purchase more slaves including chattel slavery.)

Ultimately, I believe, it’s freedom that the left hates. Freedom is what the left cannot allow. Freedom has consequences and allows people to do things others don’t like. After all, when Jesus came to this earth on the first Christmas what did He bring? Freedom. Freedom from sin, salvation from sin. What did the founding of this country seek? Freedom. Freedom from government, from a king. Just like other freedoms, freedom from sin comes with responsibility. Its a strange dichotomy the more discipline you have the more freedom you have. This is what the left seeks to eradicate, responsibility because they hate freedom. If you remove freedom it removes responsibility from our hands to theirs.

One must give up freedom in exchange for discipline. For example if I take a job in exchange for goods or services I have to give up my freedom in some capacity in this exchange. If I go to church I give up my freedom for the discipline to be there. With this discipline I then earn more freedom in the long run. Its a win-win relationship. Its still my choice to give up my freedom in this exchange.

Now, if the government pays me to stay at home what do I give up in exchange? Freedom, just like in the example above, except I don’t have a choice when the government mandates I do something. Is that a fair exchange? Some would argue it would be.

This country was founded on freedom and the responsibility that comes with it. It was founded on the principles that our rights come from God and that a proper government can’t take away those rights. They can only protect them. So in order to destroy this country, the left has to make you hate it. In order for you to hate it, you have to not understand it. If you don’t understand it, they can tear it apart. It’s that simple. Freedom stands in the way and if you are willing to give up your freedom for money from the government or whatever gift the government gives, freedom isn’t really in the way.

Christianity is a bedrock on which freedom exists. Make no mistake about it, this country was founded on biblical truths in freedom. Which, as I stated in the beginning, that is why the left hates Christianity so much, because its so intertwined with the founding of our country. In order to destroy this country the left must separate the founding from Christianity and then destroy them separately. This will allow them to detach the country from Christianity and rebuild better without freedom.

Freedom is paradox in which one exchanges their own freedom for others. Other times we give up freedoms for the common good. The freedom to drive as fast as we want, not pay taxes, or not wear a seat belt for example. Now what if I ask you to exchange some freedom for a perceived good. The freedom to not wear a mask, not take a vaccine, have the correct politics to hold a job, or get a good degree from a prestigious college. Going even farther what if I wrap it around Christianity? Are you willing to give up going to church just to not wear a mask, or not to get vaccinated? Perhaps you are ok with these things. Freedom can be difficult to maintain. It can all fall apart and crumble, without freedom.

That’s what the left wants is to destroy freedom bit-by-bit. How much freedom are you willing to give up?

It’s interesting to look at these two figures side by side. The great and brilliant Thomas Sowell and the mediocre and polarizing Ibram Kendi. Both are college educated. Both have earned a PhD. And both have studied statistical disparities in race. Oddly enough, the conclusions drawn by each of these intellectuals have polar opposite conclusions.

Thomas Sowell has written for decades about the intellectuals in society, whose end product are ideas. The anointed, as Sowell calls them, have put their faith in education and appointed themselves experts on everything. Experts, mind you, with no credentials and, as irony would have it, no results to speak of. Experts without expertise fill the pages of Sowell’s books. As he points out anytime in history, anywhere on the globe, where the anointed have implemented their ideas, it has led to disaster. In the wake of the disaster the anointed have almost always avoided the consequences.

Kendi, without a doubt would be atop of the list of the anointed. From this top spot he pontificates his race bating poison. Perhaps, no other has done more, while being funded more and charging more, to polarize people and turn our neighbors against one another.

Kendi has altered the definition of racism to include any disparity in outcome. Of course, he ignores any disparity that favors his preferred races. For example if minority parents have two children and one is successful and one is not this could be blamed on the racism of the parents, subconscious racism obviously.

Conversely, Sowell argues that if you can’t get equality from two people living under the same roof how can you expect equality anywhere else, nor should we try. It may be a worthwhile goal to provide equality in outcome, but when you try, everywhere you turn there are a thousand reasons why it can’t be done.

Kendi’s book, Stamped from the Beginning, is a large work of history pointing out a lot of hypocrisy; while ignoring the context and leaving out important facts. Facts that would mention the first administration of this country were largely against slavery and the entire cabinet wrote about it. A large scope of Kendi’s work spends time on Thomas Jefferson, accusing him of being pro slavery and spreading the lie that Jefferson fathered a child with one of his slaves. It may be easy to go along with that and I myself was curious about it but after reading Jeffersons own words and following his work it was easy to see that none of that was true.

Two of the heroes that Kendi chose in this book are in the anointed class. W.E.B Dubois and Angela Davis, both of which praised socialist dictators and were and are communists. Of course Kendi ignores these facts and praises their activism. Later in life Dubois would speak highly of Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR.

In short, Sowell warned us about Kendi long ago. These warnings laid out step by step, the rise of the elite, anointed, intellectual Kendi, and Sowell’s warning are largely ignored. As history has shown the intelligentsia and the ideas they create and promote have had disastrous consequences, and the intelligentsia are without blame. If we continue down this current path history will repeat itself, in the face of vigorous warnings, to an already apparent outcome from which this country barely survived. Survival, I fear, this time, is not a likely outcome.

For too long we have set idly by. We have set complacent and/or apathetic to what is going on around us and we are reaping the consequences of that. Perhaps we were concerned with our own personal lives and whatever goals we had? Maybe life left us with very little time to worry about other things and the bigger picture.

Some of you have not set idly by or have not been apathetic about what is going on around us. It would seem that those of us in the latter camp weren’t successful in opening the eyes of those in the former camp. Either way there will always be those that sit idly by and are apathetic to the goings on around them.

We need to encourage anyone that will listen that we do not have the luxury of time anymore. The days of “go out and get a good education, a good job, and start a family” are over. Every bit of what we do is infected with the left. It’s a virus that can not be escaped. Every classroom, television show, movie, theatrical performance, ad slogan, government agency, sports team, and most big businesses are carriers of this virus. Upon entering these areas you put yourself at risk of severe exposure with a 100% chance of infection rate, without proper protection.

We can try to hide from the virus, this will not work. As recent events have taught us you can’t escape a virus. One can only protect themselves from a virus. Unlike what we have learned in the year 2020. We can protect ourselves from the virus of the left by improving our immune system, in this case the mind.

We can still send our kids out to get a good job and start a family. First we have to prepare them for the virus that awaits them. The vaccine is a healthy dose of reality, responsibility, self awareness, forgiveness, love, compassion, and most importantly the Judeo-christian principles that all those things embody. This will help to protect the body from the virus with a 90-95% certainty.

Of course, this alone is not enough. 90% is a good rate but, as we have learned, more is required. First, you must understand the power of this virus, it appeals to the innocent and weak minded. The tentacles of racism, violence, taking from those that have plenty and giving to those that have few, money, and an easy life wrap around every little part of you and hold on tight. All that can be done is to resist and fight back.

Without the correct tools it can be hopeless, at the very least it will be difficult to even understand why those things can be wrong. This requires an influence over those whom you send out into the world.

This is the prescription to fix the mess we are in now. We must impart these tools to those in the culture. While previous generations were busy making the best for their lives and children the left infiltrated the culture. Under the nose of those whom should have known better. Only a precious few prepared some. Perhaps, they were too busy, or apathetic. We do not have that luxury.

We must take control over the influence of our loved ones and friends. If you don’t know how to teach these things you must learn them ASAP. Get involved, get your children out of the schools, if possible. This isn’t possible for everyone and those that can’t must get involved and question everything. We must realize this is the only way to take back the culture. The founders of this country knew that education was key. Some where along the line education was taken for granted and forgotten.

Education was paramount to the founding generation. They went to great lengths to educate themselves and their children, some even started schools and advocated public schools. All the founders wanted Judeo-Christian principles being taught to everyone. This, they believed, would protect us from intrusions from the left. It turns out they were correct.

Finally, before you scoff at this and accuse me of indoctrination, let me explain. Indoctrination is the concept of teaching a group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically. What I am proposing is to teach why we believe what we believe. Not to just accept what is being taught without questioning it. We should encourage and anticipate the questions allowing them to be critical to increase our/their understanding.

With this understanding we can go out and face the culture and maybe, just maybe, win back the culture. At the very least you can trust that those whom you send out will not be lost to the demonic virus of the left.

Former Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger made a video on Sunday (1/10/2021) comparing what happened at our capital on January 6th to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a violent and terrible day in Germany 1938 that resulted in the beginning of the Holocaust. To be clear, that violence is not the same as the violence that happened at the capital this year and just for fun I feel it is important to virtue signal again and remind you that I abhor violence of all kinds.

This violence was unlike anything that William Shirer, the author of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, whom was a witness to the horrors of what Hitler did in Germany and he even survived the Holocaust in Aushwitz, had seen in Germany to date. To quote Shirer that year in Austria was “an orgy of sadism”, tens of thousands were jailed and sent to concentration camps and all there worldly possessions were confiscated or stolen. Compare this to what happened at the capital this year where a few hundred people broke into the capital building, broke windows, trashed offices, stole furniture and computers, and in the end an innocent, unarmed woman was shot and killed in the chaos.

In short Schwarzenegger is wrong, wrong by definition, wrong by body count, wrong in the quantity and quality of the violence, wrong on every account.

Because of how often we hear the comparison of Hitler and Nazi Germany I thought it may be helpful to give you a brief history and a little bit of the truth about it all. I remember the first time I read William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and I remember thinking wow there was so much I didn’t know. This was probably because of my ignorance and apathy during school time when I was younger. Never the less I am shocked how often I hear someone compare Hitler and Nazi Germany to something today and it reminds me of my ignorance before I read this thousand page book about it. I keep a timeline of Hitler and Nazi Germany on my phone just to have a reference so I can quickly go to the source of the information when I hear someone reach for the metaphor of Nazi Germany. I want to share it with you, at the end, so you can do the same.

It goes without saying that comparing someone to Hitler is a serious charge and shouldn’t be taken lightly. Far to often this happens and it happens from those that should know better. As I have said many times when I hear something form some prominent person, TV, movie, or a book I always doubt first then confirm. It’s pretty easy to confirm in the first person account of what happened, most of the time, and William Shirer’s book provides us with just that. I guess those that make this comparison and reach for the metaphor of everything is Nazi Germany haven’t read this book or thinks you wont. In fact, that was a powerful tool that the propagandist minister of Germany used, he counted on the ignorance of the people. Germany, of course, went one step further and destroyed books and information they didn’t like so the people couldn’t go to the source or even question it.

Hitler was a strange, violent, twisted, and evil character and although he was hard to understand it wasn’t impossible. I’m surprised when folks say that Hitler secretly took over Germany, exterminated the Jews, took over France, threatened Britain, Africa, Russia, Italy, and the United States. Hitler wrote a book about what he was going to do and the ideology he held, true he didn’t write a step-by-step outline, it shouldn’t of shocked the world. When Times Magazine made him Person of the Year this book was already published and his ideology was no secret. Perhaps, this speaks more to Times Magazine than anything.

This list is not exhaustive and is just a quick snapshot of the time line of Hitlers life and conquests. Feel free to take it and add to it or ignore completely.

1889, April 20th, Hitler was born, he quit school when he was 16.

1909-1913, Hitler was homeless in Vienna, he left for Munich Germany in 1913.

1914, Hitler entered the 1st World War.

1918, Germany lost the war and Hitler enters politics.

1919, Hitler joins a small political group called the German Workers Party

1921, Hitler becomes leader of party and changes the name to National Socialist German Workers Party.

1923, the German currency lost value it had dropped to a rate of 4 billion marks vs the dollar. In November, The Beer Hall Putsch, Hitlers attempt to overthrow the government at gunpoint.

1924, April 1st, Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 5 years in prison where he began work on Mein Kampf. On December 20th, Hitler was released from prison thanks to yuletide amnesty.

1925, Feb 27th, Hitler addressed the first mass meeting of the reborn Nazi party. That same year the Nazi Party has 27,000 dues-paying members.

1928, the Nazi party has close to one million polled members.

1932, Hitler runs for president and fails, in December he is offered Vice Chancellor this makes him furious.

1933, January, Hitler meets with Chancellor Papen and they make a deal to appoint Hitler to Chancellor and Papen to Vice Chancellor.

1934, June 30th, the Nazi Blood Purge, Hitler ordered the death of dozens of opposition party leaders. In August of that same year though clearly unconstitutional he had his cabinet decree a law combining the offices of President and Chancellor. On August 2nd President Hindenburg died.

1935, March 16, Hitler publicly defies the Versailles Treaty and secretly rearms Germany.

1936, March 7th, Hitler takes the Rhineland.

1938, Feb 12, Hitler meets with Kurt Von Schuschnigg, the Chancellor of Austria, and demanded he sign an unconditional surrender. That same day begins the Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass and begins forcing Jews into concentration camps. In September of that year Hitler takes Czechoslovakia. Hitler is Times Man of the Year.

1939, August 23rd, Hitler meets with Stalin and makes an agreement to conquer Poland and divide the territory between them. In September Hitler’s armies invade Poland. On September 3rd Britain and France declared war on Germany.

1940, April, Hitler took Denmark and Norway. In May Hitler took Belgium and Holland. On June 22nd France formally surrendered.

1941, June 22nd, Hitler strikes Russia. On December 11th, Hitler declares war on the United States.

1943, Spring, The American and British allies landed in North Africa and were closing in on German-Italian forces in Tunisia.

1944, July 20, a plot to kill Hitler. In the summer half of Italy was gone and most of Russia, the United States landed on the beaches of Normandy.

1945, March 19, With the Russians and the United States allies closing in on Germany Hitler orders the destruction of Germany and the murder of Germans. On April 29th, Hitler marries Eva Braunn and dictates his last will and testament. Mussolini and his wife are caught and killed. On April 30th, Hitler commits suicide, he shoots himself in the head, Eva injects poison.

In an extraordinary move President Trump was banned from Twitter, perhaps forever. The Walkaway Movement, with half a million members on Facebook was deleted. A giant purge has taken place on social media, a mostly conservative purge. Considering that social media has become our town square for thoughts and ideas its not a stretch to say that Twitter and Facebook have banned conservatives from the town square.

One must consider what it means to be banned from the town square? To remove someone from being able to have the freedom to speak in the town square. The freedom of speech protected by the first amendment is sacred and we are reminded that this freedom, among others, are given to us by our Creator, God.

For those that say social media companies are not governmental agencies and are not obligated to abide by the bill of rights; first of all that is not true private companies cannot do whatever they want there are many regulations that mandate what a private company can or cannot do, second of all social media is a place that provides a platform, these companies are not like a newspaper or a magazine. Although, owned privately, this platform is for all to speak on, short of breaking the law.

What were the founders of this country thinking when they set up the first amendment? Did they consider the consequences of what this would mean? The freedom to speak seems simple albeit dangerous. What if the people say things that you or I don’t like? What if? Did this not cross the minds of the founders, did they not have any experience of speech getting out of hand?

The years leading up to the revolutionary war were highly tense and often times maybe even violent. The people of the colonies were extremely on the edge, things could get out of hand quickly and often did.

John Adams, our second president, had a unique perspective. He was in Boston, MA during the Boston Tea Party, and the Boston Massacre. He represented the British soldiers in court during the trial of the Boston Massacre. It was revealed that the mob was out of control and enticed the soldiers to fire. Of course, words can not be responsible for actions, ones actions are theirs and theirs alone. John Adams saw the danger of what a mob could do and, if certain speech would allow people to gather and agitate one another, it could be dangerous. Adams experienced this first hand.

I believe this led Adams to silence newspapers and journalists that said negative things about the government in the Alien and Sedition Act. Congress wrote the bill and supported it as well, they feared what was being said in the newspapers. They feared insurrection, civil war, or worse. Things were getting out of hand and tensions were high the people were upset with the president and our government. Thomas Jefferson, Adams’ vice president, was opposed to the Alien and Sedition Act, he said that it violated the first amendment. I’m sure Adams warned Jefferson that negative things constantly being printed in the newspapers could lead to a mob and his experiences showed that to be true.

Thomas Jefferson strongly disagreed even after speaking with Adams and when Jefferson became president he put an end to the Alien and Sedition Act. I believe that Jefferson saw the danger in free speech but he truly believed these rights were given by God and that the the government could not and should not take them away, he had courage of his convictions. When Jefferson was commenting on the uprising of the mob he said that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants. This comment is full of controversy and what he meant, no one will truly know.

Thank God for Jefferson whom stood strong on the first amendment and didn’t allow the government to strip away our rights.

As we look around now and are experiencing private companies empowered by the government and stripping away the first amendment what are we to do? We should hold strong to our convictions and look to the Jefferson as an example. We know that the government will not do anything in this moment in history to stop what is happening. Many politicians will say they are fed up, but experience has taught us this is politics and doesn’t mean anything.

What we can do as private citizens is support companies that will not try to silence us. The power of the tech companies is enormous and we may not even know what they are capable of yet. We must support those whom support us and not support those whom do not. We can take advantage of our free speech and speak the truth to one another. There is strength in numbers and we can gather together and start grass roots movements to educate others of our history and warn them of what can happen when our sacred rights our taken away.

With the latest attempt of the mob to riot at the capital it makes me wonder why? What was their plan? What was the strategy? It appears chaos was their only goal. Because chaos is all that was caused, tragic chaos. At least, we all know where each Congress person stands on violence, violence from the right side of the political isle anyway.

Was the goal insurrection? It would appear not, insurrection usually takes a different form and is very violent. I can only compare to other violent insurrections that have taken place over history and this latest riot does not measure up.

Was it revolution? Or succession? Again, it would appear not. We have a couple of really good examples in our own history to compare that to.

Let’s compare the American Revolution to what is happening around us today. What drove that generation to revolution? Tyranny, taxation without representation, a military presence, chaos, riots all that and then some. If we were to start a revolution for what the founding generation started theirs we would have long ago. But what started it really? Perhaps it was the baiting of the people by the king. He pushed them, he frightened them, he challenged them, and finally he provoked them the most by firing first. Sure there were mobs in the streets at the time the people were fed up, angry, and violent.

It would be hard to argue that we are not being baited now. Even by the so called republicans many whom we semi trusted. What do you call what is happening and has happened if not baiting the people to act?

President Trumps biggest appeal is that he was a voice for the people, the people that weren’t represented by the corporate elites, and politicians. The president proved on many occasions that he was our voice and he pointed out, correctly, that he is hated because they hate us. Now that Trump is gone so is our voice and whom is left to defend it?

We did what we were supposed to. We didn’t fight back when BLM took to the streets. We didn’t fight back when democrat politicians and commentators called us racist, sexist and phobias of all kind. We voted with our wallet and our ballot we went to the booth and pulled the lever for our candidate in record numbers. It didn’t matter BLM still rioted, murdered, and burned down big chunks of America. The democrats doubled down on the name calling and put people in power that have promised to silence, belittle, and get rid of us, at all costs. First on social media, what’s next?

One thing is for sure we need to remain calm. When emotions are high we make mistakes. Overrunning the capitol was pointless and all the voices condemning it were just as pointless. We need to gather and educate ourselves and one another. There are perspectives to learn from history. We need many grass roots movements to grow and gain influence.

Stop doing things that can hurt our movement. Trump was right the MAGA movement is just getting started. The bait is there don’t take it in the way the want us to, rather in the way history has showed that works.

Hark, the angels are singing, it’s Christmas time invite everyone, even Harold. Glory to the newborn King! At Christmas time each one of us can relax and reflect over the past year.

As we reflect over the past year, perhaps one of the worst in recent memory, it is appropriate to have the right perspective. Many state and federal officials have commanded that we not gather and stay isolated this Christmas, adding a sad end to an already depressing year.

For those of you that didn’t already enjoy Christmas or those traditions that come with them, more specifically Christmas music, this year may not change much for you. Allow me a moment to explain why the tradition in Christmas music can help to make the holiday better. I will also reveal, quite correctly, the greatest Christmas song of all time and mention some of the worst.

Come, let us adore some of the greatest Christmas music. Once you realize that Christmas music is a must to set the mood and help bring the Christmas spirit. Let us explore some of the fantastic lyrics in some of the most traditional songs.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, or in this case sound like it, when Christmas songs first can be heard on the airways. I really appreciate the fact that we are told to have a merry little Christmas. Almost, as if, we can control how merry we may be and that outside circumstances shouldn’t affect it. We can muddle through some how. Next year will be as good as we choose to make it.

One may not be able to gather with family but when chestnuts roasting on an open fire can be heard it can make you wish you were. Most of all, I believe, it will help you appreciate family and friends and the traditions that were created. As with most things when you go without, it will help you appreciate what you don’t have and the loved ones we have lost along the way.

As I continue to beat this drum, ba rum bum bum bum, I hope to keep in time, with or without the help of the ox and lamb. I hope I have lost time and can sink into the past were we all enjoy Christmas much more. It almost requires us to have the innocence of a child to maximize the Christmas spirit. Now look to the future and beat to your own drum to make, to create a magical Christmas.

Where are you Christmas? Can we find it, I believe we can and it can be as magical as you want it to be with the help of great Christmas music. A blue Christmas can come to all of us, there will always be things to be sad or depressed about but I argue that Christmas is a time for joy. If for nothing else than to reflect on the miracle of a newborn child that came to us in human form to be a King and save humanity.

Finally, even Mary knew some of the greatest and worst Christmas songs. When Nat King Cole wrote “The Christmas Song” in the summer of 1937 it penned the greatest Christmas song of all time, with a close runner up being a “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby. An honorable mention is “Do you hear what I hear”- Whitney Houston.

Look out and keep your ears sharp to quickly change the station if you hear one of the following: “ War is Over”- John Lennon, “Celebrate me Home”- Kenny Loggins, “A Wonderful Christmas Time”- Paul McCartney. Worst of all if you hear this song it’s over and you can never unhear it and the horrible lyrics will haunt you for all time. It should be against the law to have such a horrible song plague the airwaves, it’s an abomination. “Same Old Lang Syne”- Dan Fogelberg any Christmas song that begins with “met my old lover in the grocery store” should be banned. That it was a true story does not help.

Now that I’ve left you will the carol of the bells so to speak, hopefully you can hear what I hear. Take heart and enjoy this Christmas with joy and love and above all BE MERRY.