"The most significant threat to our national security is our debt," Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, August 27, 2010


Monday, July 15, 2013

Our Beloved Freedom(s)

Haven’t we all said it?  It’s a free country!  I can say what I want.  There’s no law against me speaking my mind.

One patriot once said it along these lines – I disagree with what you say but I will always stand by your right to say it.

And so it goes – freedom of speech.  There are some sensible restrictions on even this, the most basic of our “constitutional” freedoms.  The most notable being the “yelling fire in a crowded theatre” exception.  That is a no-no.  Even though in many situations one can say something that is not accurate; not even partially accurate; downright wrong or cynical or hypocritical (think Obama telling his audience that Bush II’s debt build up was “unpatriotic” and “irresponsible” and then doubling/tripling the rate at which he built debt) the fact is we all know that there are times when abusing the concept of free speech is appropriately discouraged.

At TheFundamentals, we constantly blather that the Obama fiscal and financial behavior is not only wrong – de facto wrong – because the consequence of deficits is debt and government debt is a burden placed on those who had no say in its creation by those who have no intent to be responsible for paying it back, but that it is immoral and destructive.  Our clamoring is painless – debt is not.

Today all we hear is government supported clamoring.  Today, the clamoring shares some characteristics with a lynch gang – demanding lynch justice for the one they claim was lynched.  These most secular of all secularists are now demanding an “eye for an eye” – straight out of the Old Testament.  They caught religion watching television.  Following charlatans.   More biblical than they realize.

Most of this clamoring comes from the “usual suspects.”  Men and women of remarkable feet of clay who find the chutzpah to rise above their limitations when opportunity knocks.  But have you noticed the two particular accomplices in this lynch mob gathering – NBC/Comcast and PBS?  Both are government based (one is funded by taxpayers and the other relies on government officials to secure its “exclusive rights” to the pipe coming into your home) monopolies which have spent an inordinate amount of time giving audience and time and broad microphone availability to this mob?  Can they “yell fire” with no consequence?   One more human sacrifice for ratings and a few bucks?  Biblical stuff, huh?

Why would it be okay for them to run wild – screaming constantly, darn near 24/7, with government’s blessing while another loaner, struggling kid, with access to some of their secrets, discloses them and is now under similar government mob attack for just letting the public know how government abuses its powers – daily – 24/7?

If it took a genius intellect to recognize that darn near every problem in our society is now government based, you would not be reading about it here, on these pages.  The situation is quite the opposite.  It takes the lowest possible standard of awareness and participation – that which can only occur after years, after decades, of being dumbed down to an acceptance level of pure simplemindedness, to not see that we now live with a government that serves only itself and its perpetuation.  This is the government our founders sought to prevent.

If this government is served by freedom of speech – Katie bar the door.  If not, national security is at risk – you will be indicted for treason.  This is not the government the founders had in mind – not the one they debated – most certainly not the one they documented – not the one memorialized in this document – http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/ .

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