I am overcome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxNNHW1TJBA

I am overcome
By: Ken LaRive

What can we be if our voice is not heard?

We no longer have a free press, and truth can not come to us by the media. Below is an email exchange with Mr. Bill Decker, BDecker@smgpo.gannett.com, of The Advertiser, telling me that I will never be able to submit again. Why? Because his Newspaper is owned by the Gannett, and it is only their approved points of view that will be published in the opinion’s section.

With everything falling apart around us, the government lies and cover-ups, our stolen money, corruption, and our Ponzy Social Security, none of it will be addressed but from their own point of view. My attempts to show Louisiana crime, the racism of Jena, justice and Christian morality, the reasons we are at war, and the dishonesty and stupidity in our government, are not printed, even if it is taken from FBI statistics.

They see it mostly from the bottom line, to protect their interests, to make money, and care little or nothing about truth, or our liberties.

Please watch the video above, and send this to everyone you know. Email Mr. Bill Decker and his bosses, and tell them your thoughts. I was told that my writing is inflammatory, that it is too controversial, and that I am not a good enough writer to contribute.

Together we can bring back Free Speech, at least here in Acadiana.

Dropping the paper will do nothing, but stopping advertisement will. There are a lot of good people working there, including Mr. Booker. All of them are just caught up in making a living, and satisfying the needs of their conglomerate bosses. I want to harm no one.
However...

Without a free press we are lost.
Tired of being afraid?
Tired of crying?
Perhaps it is time to stand up?
Ask Bill if he will stand with us?
And pray that God will guide us all,
Insired by Love.

You can talk to Bob Hamm if like. Guest columns, I’m afraid not.
Bill
From: Ken LaRive [mailto:klarive@cox.net] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:40 PMTo: Decker, BillSubject: to Bill from Ken LaRive

Dear Bill,
Are you going to let me submit to the opinions section?
Ken LaRive

A cynical laugh for what could have been...

"The secret to making money... is to buy stuff when it's cheap and sell it when it's expensive... it never fails to surprise me how few people do that!” Warren Buffett.

This clip, part one of eight, explains our world from a mathematical perspective that is quite an eye-opener for those who want change... Watch what you wish for, you just might get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Thanks Jack, for...
A cynical laugh for what could have been ...
By Ken LaRive

At no other time in my life have I found myself so distressed and despondent about the future, and I am not alone. According to CNN, two out of three people here in America now believe that the nation they knew in their youth will be significantly weaker than what their children will have. Me too. Never have I seen the media promote so much diversity for a negative response, as it is evident that their actions create the reaction of widespread panic and fear. Constant negativity is in fact creating the problems we face, from floundering economics, bogus global warming warnings, war and the potential for war, health, Socialism, Nationalism, and a barrage of never ending scenarios and speculations that are driving us all to the brink of sanity.

In the process, a lot of money is being made. I for instance, have made more money buying short in the last three months then I did in the last three years. Watching streaming quotes is about as much fun as looking at cuttings over a shale shaker, but a lot can be learned over time. It is evident that huge blocks of money are buying stocks and the sine wave spikes daily. What I mean here is that there is a trend, like the waves a surfer watches, and with a bit of guts one may ride one of these waves for a time along with the big guys. But looking at the graph after the fact, an amazing phenomenon becomes evident, these guys are actually doubling their money every week or so... but then, I could loose it all in tomorrow’s throw of the dice because I am not an insider.

These last months I have seen both friends and family affected by this major economic down-turn, some loosing ninety percent of retirement savings. It was so close at hand just a few months ago, but now, seemingly out of the blue, just an illusive dream. How in the world can this happen? Could it be that fear instilled in us to actually go to cash is causing this crash? What if everyone put their money back in? What would happen?

Sure, greed and corruption, and selfish agendas account for most of it, but one of the primary problems is the way media is manipulating facts. Without a source for truth it is impossible to have an intelligent informed populous. My attempts to get my point of view in The Advertiser’s opinion section has mostly failed, unless you want to talk about holes in the streets, or speeding, but something of substance is ignored, especially if it is not their opinion. I’m told that it isn’t in their best interest to publish such controversy in such hard times, but we know that is false. It is the bottom line, or the promotion of the bottom line that is their primary motivation, and that has nothing to do with balanced truth. What a travesty for articles like “Responsibility in an irresponsible society” “A Libertarian Conservative Republican speaks to America’s sons and daughters...,”or “Silence of the Lambs” not to go to print. It seems a joke that they will most likely never see Lafayette ink, but that is a very serious issue for a Libertarian like me.

A friend of mine sent me an email just a couple of days ago telling me how dire it is in England, and with all of the unaccountable money being pumped into institutions and banks alike, even a one percent prime isn’t jump-starting them. He tells me they are further advanced in this recession because of their dealings with Tony Blair and his ultra-liberal initiation of Socialistic government mandates that are now seeing his country turn into a full-blown Socialistic/Nationalistic State. You see, a buy-out is just that ...private ownership being bought by government. If you want control of the population, own them.

There is a new book published by James Delingpole called “Welcome to Obamaland.” It is a rendition of England’s plight, and it seems the dread, suspicions, and fears we have for Obama is founded on good common sense. Tony Blair suffocated the economy, liberties, and culture, and according to Delingpole, we are headed the same way. Obama will make those changes, our true American Tony Blair.

Religion is no longer in vogue in Europe, and a secular media just like ours has laid to ash Christianity to the point where great cathedrals are auctioned on the block for high end condominiums. One will pay substantially more for a stained glass of the Virgin and Child, though the symbolism is lost.

We should be very concerned here, as this could very well be the end of America as we know her. Free enterprise, capitalism, and all of the subtitle quirks that go along with it like free press and speech, and please note that the liberties that were taken after 9-11 have not been returned. Our government, now under complete Democratic control, will grow exponentially, and shortly the words “we the people” will no longer exist. With that all semblance of a free nation will die.

With redistribution of wealth, it will be found that without the big players, businesses that keep the working middle class alive and healthy will no longer be able to support us. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the reason Obama got more campaign contributions that anyone ever has before might be the reason he is so desperately trying to push his stimulus package forward quickly without proper review? Could it be payback?

Our social security system no longer exists, stolen from us by government, and is said to possibly be bankrupt in one year unless we print out of thin air more money. It will be like adding water to Coke, where the sweet and fizz leaves along with the will to continue drinking it. It will die when the will of the people, called volition, or that element, that catalyst for success called American pride, will have died. It does die, that is reality. I have seen it in Communism, where people had a secure border, or Iron Curtain, to keep them from leaving, and not illegal aliens trying to get in... A Totalitarian Society is one where everything is owned by the Government. Can you see the correlation?

Having the greatest country in the world is not enough? Having the most freedom as any country in the free world, not enough?

Socialized medicine is a failure in every country I have studied, and those who have any means will travel to MD Anderson for help. Only five percent of government sponsored programs work, so why not look at their record? We need to fine tune some things, but full blown Socialized medicine will break our backs!

Though I see both factions of government suspect for this financial fiasco, surely what we have in office now can do us little or no good. Yes, we need change, healthy change is good, but it is something government can not give us, and they will fight us tooth and nail and by any means to remain in control. You see, in their minds, they no longer work for us. And when they buy out our businesses, they will indeed own us. It is called Nationalization.

To take back America from big-brother government will be very difficult. It will take an educated populous, one who can find truth through all of the bogus media rhetoric and propaganda. And I must say, it may well be that our freedoms are now nothing more than illusions, as we are so overwhelmingly apathetic, so demonstratively neurotic, complacently trusting, and appallingly lazy. So evident, surely this election can be a case in point. With no concise proposals but nebulous promises for change, a virtual unknown, a smooth talking minority, and a world coming to grips by cold economic betrayal, war, along with manufactured fear and panic, have to then pick what some have considered the lesser of two evils. How appalling; how frightening! Don’t you feel cheated? What we have lost is staggering, but it was induced by a liberal media who got their representative elected at all cost, including the selling out of America.

Oh, and you thought your vote was an original idea? HAHAHA! Sorry, my laugh might seem to be a bit cynical, but that is exactly right. You see, I have seen the fall for a long time, but could find nothing to do about it. My thoughts were not published, and when it was it mostly went unread. Without an avenue to voice an opinion, and a person to take the time or to give a damn to read it, truth will eco on the canyon walls unheard and unrealized. Oh well, I tried. But that is no consolation when one loves his God and country, and sees them taken away.

One last thing... for a solution.

No free country can endure without free thought, and without both sides to consider, our minds will be flooded by the side in power. So divided, so lop-sided, our country can not accomplish a common cause. No quarter, no resolution, little or no collective commonality is explored or accepted.

At this point in our history blacks and whites should be on the same road to success, arm and arm, but the media creates a subculture that is at odds with the main, and a rift is formed. Government promotes dependency. It is all about money, and we buy into it, lock, stock and barrel. Hollywood, the stuff of fantasy, got Obama elected, and a liberal media delivered it into our minds by subliminimal messages long ago though a perfected science.

Mass Communications is taught in university, but few of us on the receiving end realize that these models are being used to control us, from the drugs promoted by infomercials, and move one after another before us from feminine douche, male enhancement, XY KY, the junk foods we eat, all the way to justifications for immorality. A science perfected in film by Hitler’s Lini Riefenstahl’s propaganda machine was the maturation of seventy years after the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written. It showed, no, paved the way for world domination, and our infamous and ill defined, “One World Order”. Lini took the ideology and brought it to the silver screen with much talent, and at that time Hollywood and "The Third Riche" were in favor, readily trading nepotism, technology, and money, not to mention the new manipulative sciences for dominion and control of the masses to tie it all together. Oh what sweet juicy pickings we made after fighting a World War on two fronts, and combined with our lack of a gold standard, the will of a people to now make an American Dream a reality, and to party-hearty in the process, would make us fair game.

The FED? Who are they? Who is Greenspan that he didn’t see this coming? Do you believe that? Do you believe that no one but Maddoff knew about the Ponzie scheme? World banks and One World Order, are they one? It is well known that it was panic that escalated the greatest loss during the Great Depression, so why it is so emphatically produced and directed toward the populous nonstop? Why would government, if they actually had our well-being foremost, wouldn’t try to inhibit and temper those thoughts with optimism? At this point, if a man looked directly into the camera and said, “This is bullshit. This is way out of proportion. I’m telling you, it will be Okay.” He would be the new savior, the new prophet, perhaps false, but he would be accepted as the new Golden Child. The stage is set.

I watched Shrek 3 the other day. Did you see the woman with the man’s face? What is that about? Changing mores, ethics, norms, and it is so under our noses we don’t even notice. It is so overwhelming we believe it to be real! Hollywood is not real, we are.

Remember when we stopped Gangsta Rap music being played in that electronics outlet? Just three years ago, and still only Walt Disney is being played. Why? They saw it wasn’t feasible to continue because it didn’t pay. If we stick together, all of us united, one nation under God, we can make a difference. A cohesive front is the only way a difference can be made... A concise lay-out of what indeed the Republican Party is, none-specific to the term Libertarian, a charter of responsibility and goal, and a game plan for immediately implementation is in order... That would make more sense then blindly promoting change unsupported, untested, and seemingly designed to fail. This Stimulus, so blatantly Pork it is more than ludicrous, it is criminal, and yet the media only gives it a courtesy hand gesture.

Find others of like kind, stand up together, and pray for hope. Armed with hope, and what is good for America, we can make a difference by knowing that a righteous heart is the light of truth. What we do in this world matters, where Truth knows the difference between right and wrong, good and bad. Based on Christian Faith, both the path and the reason will become evident.

The don't-want-to-be Democrats who will not intergrate

New Orleans, do-do, do-do nothings...

The don’t-want-to-be Democrats who will not integrate
By Ken LaRive

Our original America, for the goodness and love of Christ, has orchestrated for the have-nots an accountable government and legal system designed emphatically for them, now insures anyone who wants to attempt the American dream can. All have been given the opportunity equally and with hope; even giving some gross unfair advantage, and yet, there is no way to promise success. This unfair competitive edge has become the cancer of free enterprise, and yet we continue to survive as the greatest nation among many. If we forget this, if we loose this precious element that has been our catalyst for success, we are surely lost. That catalyst is responsibility. Think of what we could be if we didn’t have over fifty percent of the population begging for assistance?

Middle class America, the backbone of our nation, is comprised of hard working men and women who in spite of the sacrifices of high taxes and the blatant loss of liberty, have given to the have-nots with the hope of a better world tomorrow. This has not been entirely successful, as tomorrow is now here. Extended liberal programs have now proven to be doing America more damage then helping, and this must change.

Those few who took advantage of this system, secured an education by dedication and hard work, rolled up their sleeves for the dreams they envisioned, were incorporated into the collective middle class with open arms. Others let opportunity slip by many times without a care or a try.

Unfortunately, the initial positive inertia of this plan, now three generations old, indicates that any further attempt to integrate these misfits into mainstream America is no longer feasible, and causing more problems in the process, one of which is the lack of pride that drives the worker mentality.

Admittedly, the formula for success was not at first freely given, but now the processes are open to everyone. And so, the term want-to-be can no longer apply to the idle and lethargic, but a new description should now be considered, and the “don’t-want-to-be” needs to be seen for whom they are. No longer should we give a helping hand to those who turn to bite the hand who feeds them by antisocial deeds. In this time and age, no one should be allowed to milk the system without regard for the institution that suckles them, the American middle class.

Those antisocial misfits are predominately a bi-product of the liberal institution that first attempted good, but has now become top-heavy by massive liberal mandates, taxes, and massive spending with the guise of being their benefactor. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is now evident that the cause of the have-not to become the don’t-want-to-be is the social programs that have made them so; where they have been so nurtured they can no longer stand on their own two feet. So dependant, they can not see a future without the directional clarity of big government to tell them what to do. They have lost not only their identity, but with an all-encompassing slave mentality, their very future as men as well, as the True nature and definition of a man is one who is accountable. At this point they endanger not only themselves, but the entire country as well, and with a Party so able to manipulate their weakened minds, it is becoming alarmingly evident that reasoning with them on a logical level is growing more difficult. The Democratic Party should put these programs aside for the good of the whole, and what they can elk from those of weaker, and ill-informed minds for their own selfish use should be curtailed.

As is obvious by this election, the growing dependant multitudes are demanding more all-encompassing handouts from our middle and higher class by the Democratic incorporation of socialism, nationalism, and their duel concurrent redistribution of wealth, and they are duly promised such. Though it may seem that they have now grown to be a formidable and dominating force, the reality is that they have become mindless puppets to keep their masters in power. Is it possible, if not emphatic, that trail Lawyers see the Democratic Party as an avenue to make money, promoting this welfare state? It is well known that divisional diversity, the greatest moneymaker of our loop-holed legal and judicial system, is nothing new around the world, and now incorporated into our mainframe by both default and frivolous lawsuits.

As it is mandatory for working men and women to take a periodic drug screening with their company, I suggest that the same system be used for welfare recipients. A periodic straw-determined drug screen would be the first step in eliminating those don’t-want-to-be who break the law. Those who have two DUIs, a Felony conviction, or is deemed to be able bodied, should also be culled, with self-awareness, accountability, and responsibility as the primary goal.
To keep America free, we should now insure a level and fair playing field for all those who want to achieve, and to stop the handouts for those thankless, and irresponsible growing mass choking our country, further dividing us.

It is most important to note that those Government institutions have grown without bounds, stimulated by the dependency of a class they have created. They should now be required to back off, as they are attempting to dominate the entire country with this false doctrine and standard. They would like nothing better but to have every last person under their yoke.

We should all attempt to understand that further attempts to help those who do not want to help themselves will destroy the very foundation of our capitalistic system. Sometimes, what one may consider tough-love, might be just the ticket to help those who have become so dependant, an abject slave to a system that should have died in the middle seventies. I have watched the same rap music, the same low ideals of raw shock and violent music, the same handshakes, sagging pants, and sideway ball-caps for forty years. Where is the imagination? It is promoted by works like MTV, where dark and evil ideas program empty minds.

So desperate, the growing masses of these irresponsible individuals would rather sacrifice the American free enterprise system for a Socialistic State, then to make a life by their own hand. But then, they have no idea what they are doing on the drugs of testosterone, beer, and a negative self image where ignorance reigns and immorality promoted.

The once great Democratic Party, where leadership promoted responsibility with words like “Ask not what your country can do you, but what you can do for your country.” has become the nipple for sustenance in a new world or dependency... The promised changes promoted by them now seem evident, and what Mr. Obama promised he is now attempting to fulfill. He is giving America what they voted for, but for those who pay attention, they are horrified. It is the same domination, as nothing is given without something in return, and the death of our Republic will be forfeit.

Mr. Obama had secured more contributions than any other president, and nothing is given without something wanted in return. A look at his Stimulus package will be an open window to which these people and institutions belong, and the reason he wants so badly to have it approved and implemented before close examination... He is attempting to fulfill the promises to special interest, not the American People who elected him, or what is good for America.

I end many essays with the same punch line these days, but it is the crux of everything good we stand for and a secure future as well. Finding a source for Truth and a means of expressing it is harder and harder to come by, and without that we are indeed slaves to a system who tells us they know better how we are supposed to live and think than we do. If we can’t take our country back the America we have known will be gone, and so to will each individual be like sheep to the slaughter.