Thursday, January 25, 2018
Monday, January 22, 2018
Fake News in a polite society: the destruction of truth and original thought
Public School in America, 1957.
Fake News in a polite society: the destruction
of truth and original thought
Catholic Law
In our society, we have a Bill of Rights and a Constitution
that are supposed to protect both law-abiding citizens and antisocial misfits
alike. Even caught red handed, a person has the right to due process in a court
of law, and if found guilty of a crime, to pay retribution. Our laws are
supposed to be based on moral and ethical codes, predicated from a Judicial
System of Constitutional Law. If we
find a law no longer serves justice, we have the right to organize and change
it, and this goes for whom we elect into office as well. Nowhere in the history
of US politics is this more evident than today. Indeed, we live in exciting times of historical proportions, and there is a real push to take this country back for powerful oligarchies who vie to control us from cradle to grave.
Our system is unique to almost the entire world, and in its
purest form, promotes the adage that justice is blind. This means to us Americans that we dole out justice impartiality
without bias, striving to be dispassionate and even-handed. This so-called
blind justice becomes manifest when considering the most petty to the most
heinous of crimes.
One might suppose, in the study of American Law, that the
true reality of our judicial system is not found in the utopia of a legal
classroom, but in the reality of life. Catholic Law Schools teach a moral code
called situational ethics, and shows the student that a law is not always
absolute, and can change with each situation. This idea of justice isn't taught
in secular law schools, and yet, it is supposed to be the purest of all
justice.
You see, most of our laws were implemented
by the situations of our lives, and all formulated into law after some horrendous
crime or accident. An innocent death from a DUI, an armed robbery gone wrong,
gross negligence like killing a child while speeding in a school zone, and a myriad
of other intentional or irresponsible acts have stimulated and constructed the
very framework of our laws. They have, in their own right, cemented our society
to be greater than the individual. It is such a powerful concept in its righteousness;
that some men will die to keep it alive.
As Communication Majors, we were taught to see through the disintegration
of truth in our media this past election. Lies were orchestrated as complete
and promoted as factual, and had, what many have argued, an utter disregard for
the potential harm they might cause. In that process, it has left us all
somewhat despondent, weaker, divided, and more fearful as a nation. Patriots of
Liberty are at odds with a Republic compromised by a Progressive administration
elite oligarchy, which use lies and fear to promote their liberal agenda power
base. This Progressive/Socialist/Marxist ideal will seemingly do anything at
all to regain its loss, and is the exact opposite of what is taught to Catholic
students. Sure, we had tender and open minds back then, thinking that the world
is balanced, impartial, and overtly good. This election proved that wrong. This
election we saw the boot on our necks, our Liberty drained, and a stranglehold
being waged on the future of our children. And yet, We the People voted in Donald Trump as President...
Truth
The idea that the
media should be regarded as a veritable and virtuous cornerstone of our Constitutional
Republic was emphatically taught, that truth should be valued above all, is,
after the fact, a dangerous and rather child-like assumption. After all, can we
name something of equal importance? How can one make a viable decision without
truth? If truth is denied us, we can have no informed direction, and being
blind to the facts, surely cannot unite for a common cause.
In that sterilized classroom setting, remembered long ago, our teachers were
emphatic about an idea called voluntary servitude, and explained it to be a
form of slavery. Slavery of many varieties were discussed, and it was mostly agreed
that this kind of slavery was the worst of all. Yes, debt slavery is horrific,
but without truth, our minds no longer belong to us.
When we trust that we are
being told the truth, and find it to be intentionally bogus, it is a special
kind of betrayal, and it goes to the very root of what we are supposed to be as
a human being in a viable nation of free men. This betrayal should be considered
profound in the extreme, as it is traitorous to everything we hold dear.
Without truth, we flounder in uncertainty, and are easily controlled. This form
of betrayal should not be tolerated in a free society, and demanded with an uncompromising
state of mind. If it is found and proved
to be an intentional lie, that source should be denounced with the loudest of all
affirmation, and litigated with the force of criminal justice.
This election was a wake-up call. It indicated to us all how
quickly a system can be displaced. Our founders warned us that we are obligated
to fight tyranny every generation, and to never leave our guard down. We have in no way seen this to be more applicable,
more evident, and it is amazing to consider just how close we actually came to
losing our county. With eyes wide open, we saw our news industry compromised,
masterfully using a mature and artful science of propaganda that has come of
age. It is so finely hewed and constructed that we collectively believe its promotion of lies was
borne from an original thought. We saw and understood that the fires lit in the
press were without substance, and pure distractions from the truth, a truth we were never able to grasp.
No person, or country, are enslaved by accident...
Most all would agree, our judicial process, our misused and hijacked
system of justice, has a very lucrative potential. Some evidently feed on the
ciaos they actually create, and this is by no accident, but masterfully designed
and implemented. In spite of its facade... its outwardly benevolent appearance...
it is created and planned to be milked.
Author's note: A truth, well hidden from America... must be
faced. One day this truth will slip from Pandora's Box, but as of today, it is
taboo in the extreme. I dare say that Presidents have died trying to bring this
to light... It is this, in a nutshell, with appropriate key words to do further
research. Better sit down...
In this process, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA became the Constitution of the incorporated UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It operates in an economic capacity and has been used to fool the People into thinking it governs the Republic. It does not! Capitalization is NOT insignificant when one is referring to a legal document, and this seemingly “minor” alteration has had a major impact on every subsequent generations of Americans.
Let us reiterate...
What Congress did by passing the Act of 1871 was create an entirely new document, a constitution for the government of the District of Columbia, an INCORPORATED government. This newly altered Constitution was not intended to benefit the Republic at all. It benefits only the corporation of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and operates entirely outside the original (organic) Constitution.
Have you noticed that corporations are now considered live entities, and can back a candidate by donations? By passing the Act of 1871, Congress committed TREASON against the People who were Sovereign under the grants and decrees of the Declaration of Independence and the organic Constitution. and so, if you want your country back, We the People, this would be a good place to start...
Believe me. our President Trump knows this very well, but knows that unless he can substantively drain the swamp. his life would not be worth a plug nickle. John F. Kenned, is a good example. Look at what he was doing before he was murdered in cold blood.
Also of note...
"In its landmark 5-4 decision
in the case of Citizens United v. FederalElection Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out years ofcampaign finance law by ruling that corporations and labor unions havethe same First Amendment freedom of speech rights as individuals inusing their funds to support or oppose candidates for election. In his
dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens raised an interesting,if somewhat sarcastic question: does this mean corporations can vote now?
"Under the majority's view, I suppose it may be a First
Amendment problem that corporations are not permitted to vote, given that voting is, among other things, a form of speech," wrote Justice Stevens.
Fake News...
Friday, January 19, 2018
Gunner, my bird dog
Gunner, my bird dog
By: Ken La Rive
111196
His
spotted head lifts for the scent of the woods,
Ears twitch to the least of all sound.
His
coat blends invisibly in fields of dry grass,
Where he moves with a leap and a bound.
He
takes his direction from my point of view,
Fine tunes them with senses so sharp,
That
I take guidance from a wag of his tail,
As he helps me to see in the dark.
A
pat on his head, and a lick on my hand,
Makes a bond as we walk through the trees.
He
turns on a dime from that whistle of mine,
Every fiber of his being for me.
He
runs like the wind through thicket or field,
Bird dogging, zigzagging through night.
Dog
tired and hungry he'll curl at my feet,
Still guarding with all of his might.
When
I'm far from home, he'll wait at the gate,
No
grass can grow long where he stood.
With a jump, and a twist, and a laughing
bark,
He
welcomes like no one else could.
Of
all relationships a man could take,
From life..., from beginning to end.
Nothing quite compares, to the companionship there,
Between
a man, and his faithful best friend.
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Trusting the system but losing the dream… By: Ken La Rive
A book every Patriot should read...
Trusting the system but losing the dream…
By: Ken La Rive
It isn’t easy understanding
what goes on in this world. Most of us are in denial. We turn a blind eye to
the strong currents under the surface of our civilization, even as it sweeps us
along in our little micro-worlds. Ignorance is bliss, I’ve heard said, and we
are indeed what we think we are. Sure, it’s easy to say these idioms, with
feeling, like they are justifications in their own right.
There is a law of force in
every person on this earth, believe it or not, and we gravitate to what we hold
as evident and true. It keeps us all sane to feel that we know and understand
the mechanics of the world we live in, and emphatically deny that we could ever
be coerced, or could possibly be carried along by forces beyond our scope of
understanding. How unsettling it would be to realize that we have been duped.
Sometimes I think we are just
too close to this life to see what it’s all about. We are so busy, so caught up with our tangled
lives that we fail to grasp even a portion of the total picture.
Memory is fuzzy, history is
distorted by bias, and time just presses on.
It’s unsettling when a bit and piece of the puzzle emerges after the
fact, and we can sometimes begin to see that our reality has been carefully fed
to us, by the Fed!
Does our life still have
meaning if our reasoning rational is found to be based on a lie? Should we feel
betrayed if our thoughts were discovered to be manipulated? Could we ever truly
trust authority again, knowing we have been used without our knowledge? Are we
considered just working fools, where the forces of power strive to control our
thoughts, our behaviors, and what we hold sacred as a nation? I’ll get to the
point…
It is human nature to try and
justify the workings of the world. We
would like to believe that a young man who goes to war these days has a
justified reason to do so. He is placing
his life in real danger for a real ideal, isn’t he? Shouldn’t he be there
because he sees a noble cause? What ideal is that? Shouldn’t war, even a cold
war, have a reason? How can we justify
our actions as a nation when we aren’t informed as to why we take it in the
first place? You had better sit down for this one…
If you don't choose one, it will be chosen for you...
Ronald Reagan
is said to be one of the 100 most influential people in the 20th
century. As he occupied the White House in the mid-1980’s he accentuated two
things that I will attempt to explain here. One, as a ultra-conservative, he
implemented a free enterprise fiscal policy, including sweeping tax cuts and
deregulation of the oil industry, and two, swore to tip the balance of the cold
war.
Mr. Reagan
succeeded on both counts, but there was a price to pay, and we Americans in the
south, unknowingly, paid it dearly…
Our economy
survived the 1980’s by the skin of our teeth.
I left three companies, from mergers to bankruptcy. Louisiana
was devastated. I read the paper every day for information and hope, but oil
prices continued to plummet, and good hard working people lost everything in an
avalanche of ruined dreams and hopes. I
did what I had to do to survive, as so many oil field workers do: to keep food
on the table. Our wives and children helped pull us through, combining salaries
to get by. In 1986 it was so bad that I
couldn’t even find a house to paint. I left the states to work in a hotel for
two years, displacing my family and leaving my friends behind. I couldn’t sell
my house in Crowley
for 1/5th of what I still owed on it! I had a bumper sticker that
read:”Last one out turn out the lights.”
I blamed
myself. If I could have been smarter,
stronger, or positioned myself better… I thought that the new environmental
liberals (Progressives) had fined the oil companies out of existence. I thought it was a
normal correction, but I couldn’t figure out for what! I was wrong. I was too
close to it to understand, we all were, and information wasn’t published.
All wars are banker wars...
Here are a
couple of points to ponder…
·
Congress did away with tax
benefits previously given to oil and gas drilling.
·
There were massive and
unprecedented tax reforms, by the White House.
·
There was an undeniable link
between the oil industry, the Saudis, and the eventual collapse of the USSR.
With no more
investment dollars, the oil industry dried up to a burned out shell. The Soviet Union
took it full on the chin. It was a “geopolitical blow” according to the book: Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret
Strategy that hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union,
by Peter Schweizer.
By the time
Mr. Reagan was reelected in 1984, his secret economic strategies were taking
its toll against Russia. Credit from the west was gone, and export
licenses for technology were denied. Both liquid currency and traded Western
technology slowed to a trickle. The
Siberian pipeline, expected to bring in hard currency for Russia, was
years behind schedule. The Reagan administration frustrated efforts further by
a concerted technical disinformation program against them.
These
catalysts were in place. “We wanted lower international oil prices largely for
the benefit of the American economy.” Said White House counsel Edwin Meese.
“The fact that it meant trouble for Moscow
was icing on the cake.” To pull this off, they solicited the support of the
world’s largest producer of oil, Saudi Arabia.
It was easy
for the Saudis to do. It only cost about $1.50 back then to produce a barrel of
oil, and they could still maintain a healthy profit at a lower market price.
Intelligence has found since then, according to Mr. Schweizer, that the USSR had an
annual loss of $13 billion from this oil price drop. The end came when Soviets
tried to borrow more from the west. With lack of funds, projects died.
Disinformation made it weak, furthered by the devaluation of the dollar …but it
was oil prices that finally shut the doors.
The country collapsed in 1991...
So what are
the almighty powers of our “One World Order” doing with our lives now? Can we figure out the strategy they seem to
set for reasons known only to them? Is the lack of information considered a
lie? Are we talking about national security here, or is it purely about big
bucks, or possibly just the power to control the masses? Of course, we must realize too, that a
certain amount of secrecy is necessary for security reasons. So trust is an issue also. We have to trust that the people in power in America have
our welfare as the primary goal, and not a selfishly motivated concern. It is so easy to do when you are totally
exhausted working overtime to pay the interest on your credit cards. Fifty percent of us are either too tied up to
pay attention, or too tired to care.
Mr. Reagan, bless his heart, knew these answers. They are lost now to a man spent his last days by his sunny window with Alzheimer disease. What was lost to him, to all of us, is beyond
measure. It seems that what we are is
what we are told to be, and by that process our freedom to rationally choose is
taken away, and our American Dreams will remain just that.
“The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the
armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.”
-William Jennings Bryan in a speech at
National Democratic Convention (1896).
“Public office is a public trust.”
-William C. Hudson, a newspaper
man, produced this slogan from various speeches of Grover Cleveland during his first campaign for
Presidency (1884).
“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that
faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
-Abraham
Lincoln.
War is a racket...
‘Walking the Mat’ In Aberdeen By: Ken La Rive
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| Aberdeen at a three hour dusk... |
‘Walking the Mat’ In Aberdeen By: Ken La Rive
Scotland is an
ambiguous place, full of social contradictions, and Aberdeen, in the north east
corner of the country, is no exception. The people can be warm and friendly, and
also prickly and suspicious. Not really unusual anyplace on earth, but with my
capacity as a traveling oil field worker, I have the opportunity to study many
different cultures. I have picked up
some insights into the thinking of the local people here in Aberdeen, and I see
this: They are changing very quickly.
It seems that
the oil industry, (which has been such a boon to the overall economic
prosperity of the town), is also deeply resented, by some, for ‘ruining oor
toon’, as one colleague remarked to me while in conversation on a North Sea oil
rig. Even though the industry has brought prosperity to a large number of
people, it has also changed the underlying character of the town, and its
citizens.
Not so very
long ago Aberdeen was a small town, with a small town nature. Deeply
entrenched, it had a highly developed sense of community. There were only a few
industries in the town, with fishing and paper making being the main employers.
The locals fondly reminisce of ‘walking the mat’ on the main avenue, Union
Street. It is only about a half mile in
length, and on a Saturday night, all the young lads and lassies would put on
their ‘finery’, and stroll its length socializing and ‘chatting each other up.’
Even young people from the surrounding areas would catch a bus into Aberdeen,
to ‘walk the mat’. Those with a bit of money might drop into one of the various
pubs on the street now and again for a wee dram to ‘pluck up courage’, but even
those without money could have an enjoyable time (with possibly more success in
courting, being sober!). It was a happy and cheerful way to meet people, and
the tradition was known to be responsible for a large number of marriages in
the town, and the surrounding areas as well!
The coming of
the mighty oil industry, with its influx of brash Texans (every American was a
Texan as far as the locals were concerned), caused a basic change in the social
structure of the town. Suddenly, locals who ‘went oot to the oil’ came home
with pockets full of cash, and it was a case of either joining up, or be left
behind while the ‘local’ oilmen bought fancy houses in the posh west end.
Because of this, and because cars became much more common, walking the mat
withered on the vine, while fancy nightclubs, and fast food restaurants took
over. Also the local council became obsessed with the idea of being a ‘boom
town’, and grandiose moneymaking schemes and dreams suddenly seemed possible.
As with all nouveau-capitalistic societies, there has also been corruption, as
money falls like manna from heaven through the city’s council chambers.
Once you open your mouth, you will not buy a drink. They Love Americans. I learned to drink Scotch.
In Aberdeen,
as in the other larger towns of Scotland, the Labor party has dominated local
politics since the Second World War. As with most situations where a single
party dominates politics, corruption becomes endemic. The influx of money made
it even more prevalent. It is indeed an irony, that, because of the way history
has developed in Scotland, the socialist tradition is very strong, - possibly
as strong as any in Eastern Europe. The socialist Labor party was the only
means by which the power of the dominating and oppressive establishment could
be curbed by the common man. There is a powerful tradition here in Scotland, of
the working men ‘standing together’ by voting Labor. Since the class war has been pretty much won
in modern Scotland, there is no longer an ‘enemy’ to fight. Still, because of the people’s inability to
see these changes, they still vote Labor.
Old habits are hard to change.
However, get
into a conversation with most working class people and they will express views
that are indistinguishable from anyone on the right of the Republican party –
pro capital punishment, pro freedom of the individual, pro low taxation, pro
‘small’ government, etc. They don’t seem to see any irony that, while voting
for a socialist party, they hold views far to the right of most Republicans,
and never mind the democrats! The Scots are a fiercely independent people,
whose history has been one of endless struggle not only against the elements,
but ‘absentee’ English (and Scottish) landlords, and the need to bring up
families against the odds. Because of this, Scotland has produced some of the
greatest radical thinkers, soldiers, engineers and financiers that the world
has seen. Would, for example, Adam Smith (the founder of modern economic
theory), Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander Fleming (the discoverer of
penicillin), James Watt (inventor of the steam engine), Andrew Carnegie, and
many more, have been the successes they were if they hadn’t had a strong sense
of their own Scottish heritage? In the UK’s last election, three of the four
great government offices of state government, Prime Minister, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and Foreign Secretary, were all Scots.
Not everyone was happy. There are broken hearts on the Mat too.
Then again, as
Aberdeen drifted into the twilight of the oil boom, people have started to
waken to the fact that the money that has glutted the town has also had an
impoverishing effect on the social structure. Gone are the fishing communities
around the fish market (now closed). Gone is that ‘cozy’ atmosphere in the
local pubs where in the Northern suburbs, in the old days, ninety percent of
the customers worked in the paper mills, and knew each other intimately.
Nowadays, you are lucky if you know anyone, such has been the influx of new
people, and the exodus of ex-mill workers (now oil men). Most of the pubs have
been ‘modernized,’ replacing time-polished wood with chrome and glass, and
swapping cozy ‘fugginess,’ for the cold of modern ‘efficiency’. The comforting
sounds of clicking dominoes and thud of darts have been replaced with annoying
mid-Atlantic ‘musak’, designed to maximize the intake of beer, but also has the
effect of minimizing the atmosphere, and traditional ambiance as well.
As for
‘walking the mat’, the young people of today would gasp in astonishment if you
were to suggest such an unsophisticated activity for a Saturday night. Some
might say that one would more likely get a mugging than a kiss from a bonny
lassie. Yes, the oil industry has made the people monetarily richer, but has also
taken something away as well.
In closing, a
local Aberdeen joke: A visiting Texan, stopped to talk to a farmer who was
leaning on a gate looking at his sheep. “Sheep hugh?” he ventured. “Aye”
replied the farmer. “In Texas, we don’t allow sheep, we only got cattle” said
the Texan. “Right enough?” said the farmer. “How much land you got here?”
queried the Texan. “Nae that it’s ony of your business, - but I’ve got twa hundred acres” he replied
proudly. “Waal,” said the Texan, “ back
home, it takes me two days to drive across my spread!” “Aye” sighed the farmer,
“I used tae hae a car like that!”
I had more
then a lot of help writing this by my Scottish partner, (who, by the way,
wishes to remain anonymous). I’m sure his reason is sound, but I speculate that
a man’s opinion here is not so readily accepted, as might be possible in our
own ‘free thinking’ America. Aye! What a shame.
It is indeed a waste of spirit…
Cheers to Scotland.
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