THE LEFT IS NOT ABOUT DIVERSITY NOR ARE THEY TOLERANT

The left preaches about diversity and tolerance but practices neither. Diversity, tolerance and multiculturalism are words often touted by the left, but they are just that, words. They have no meaning or import, unless they are practiced.

Then again, all variety must still be held to singular comports of value. Saying one has a vast circle of multicultural friends and therefore one is practicing diversity, is a sham, if all of those companions share the exact same belief system. So the left pretends to be diverse, when in fact, their actions are quite the opposite, because progressive liberalism requires unified belief and a suspension of dissenting opinion. 

How else to explain liberal theories based on nothing more than desire and hopefulness rather than reality and practicability. The rise of the ideal of socialism among the liberal youth, shows a complete denial of not just the history, of the failed economic and political system of socialism, but a refusal to open their eyes and see its modern failure, currently imploding in countries such as Venezuela. 

Wanting reality to mimic your desires is childish and irresponsible, but calling conservatives haters because they live in the world of practicality, is willful ignorance. Liberalism relies on willful ignorance and a denial of basic intuitive cognizance. 

The mantra that all Trump supporters are white Supremacist or that Climate Change is caused by human industry that will destroy the world, are cult-like beliefs designed to alienate and insulate the cult members versus the non-believers. One doesn't need to think or deduce for oneself because the cult has deemed it to be true, therefore, it must be true.

To be tolerant means to listen to varying opinions, to be diverse means to accept that people don't all look and or think alike, and to truly be an egalitarian one must respect Christians, conservatives and independents. But the Democrats and their corporate media know that conservative Americans stand in the way of their power lust to socialize America.

The progressive Democrat party has been grooming generation after generation to loathe our American culture, values and constitutional political system, in favor of state controlled socialism and unaccountable bureaucratic imposition of centralized federal control.

Sadly Congress has degraded from writing detailed legislation to instead, creating a broad based regulatory power to a federal agency and allowing unelected bureaucrats to fill in the fine details. This has led to a more politically corrupted federal governance, that has encircled the citizen with laws and regulations that continually encroach on their freedoms.

Yet, unlike the past when government became too haughty, there were always a crop of freedom fighting Americans willing to run for office, demand accountability and re-direct our wayward ship of state, in keeping with its constitutional course. But are those Americans not regenerating given the left's stranglehold on education?

Given the liberal cultism that has indoctrinated so many, who will take the freedom torch from the Baby Boom generation? One needs to ask, will our nation's exceptional Republic survive? 

Given the political selfishness of the swamp, that is Washington politics, we need to wonder when, or if, youth can open their eyes. Open their eyes, think for themselves, and discover the truths, lurking outside the cult of progressive politicians that are using fear and handouts, to aggrandize government at the expense of the economic and social freedom of the people.

To paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin, can America keep her Republic?  

The answer once was an automatic yes, but today however, as the liberal cultist groom children at younger and younger ages, there is serious doubt. Indeed, grave doubt, about our nation's future, unless the cult of media, teachers unions and progressive politicians, are debunked and exposed as the control freaks that are scamming naive minds. 

Today progressive youth cult have been programmed to hate the haters. Seems righteous, except the problem is, that liberals see everybody that doesn't espouse to their worldview, as haters. Therefore the folly of their vitriol is that they have become the bigots. They have become the racists. The have become the sexists. They have become the haters.

 

Yes liberal activists are the intolerant, goose-stepping band of enforcers, clueless that they, not Christians and conservatives, are the intractable supremacist, demanding special privileges. Clueless that the 1st Amendment isn't just for speech they approve. Clueless that the more they disparage, exclude and rant against average Americans that shun their crazy idealism, the smaller their cult becomes.       

MEGA DATA COLLECTION WITTINGLY DANGEROUS

Whatever you think about the Patriot Act, as to whether it crosses the line or stays within the boundaries of the Constitution's  Bill of Rights' protections, one thing is clear, mega data unwittingly collected but allowed to be stored by our government is obviously an infringement.

When Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claimed that NSA was "not wittingly" gathering data on innocence citizens, he not only lied but failed to disclose that the government was also saving that tangential private data. 

Why is our government allowed to keep this collected mega data?  Why aren't more conservative Republicans amending the Patriot Act and introducing legislation that protects the rights of citizens from government intrusion?

It seems that only Senator Rand Paul is talking about the need to reform this un-patriotic Act, but then again, Paul supported Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign in Kentucky, so they both seem to be licking the same Utah salt.

The line between private and public papers is being blurred by technology, abused by government, corrupted by elites and ignored by our courts. Hillary Clinton uses a private e-mail account and server to conduct official State Department business (illegal) while innocent citizens within range of an NSA spying operation have their cell phone data swept up and then stored by the government. Hypocrisy or downright Big Brother corrupt tyranny? 

Sitting out in Bluffdale, Utah is an NSA facility called the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center or if you prefer the shorter name, the Utah Data Center.

This huge facility holds all the warrantless, unconstitutional seizure of citizen's phone and e-mail records in  brazen violation of Americans 1st and 4th amendment rights. In what can only be termed astounding arrogance, NSA wants Americans to believe that it collected this data unwittingly and  is not reading the personal information it has collected, all while storing citizen's ill-gained personal correspondence in a classified facility. Why?

I think the hills are alive with the sound of muzak. 

"Do, a tale of insincere, Re, a pocketful of lies, Mi, a name WE call ourselves, Fa, a long, long way from truth, Sol, a whole cloth made of fraud, La, our representatives support for Sol, Ti, a drink to jam our heads, that will brings us back to Do, or duh a tale of insincere."

We have been told that the reason innocent people's cell phones were tapped was because the spying technology is so sensitive it picks up the electronic data from a wide swath area beyond the targeted subject. Therefore, "unwittingly" was the term used for why the agency was capturing and collecting innocent American's private information without  their consent or a court warrant. 

We have been further assured that the agency is not reading the warrantless material that it snatched up in its eavesdropping trawler's net, because they claim they are not. Wow, now that's a gold standard of assurance, is it not?

Which of course brings us back to DO, a tale of insincere. For if the government claims it harvested our private data tangentially and is not using it to spy on innocent Americans, then why is it not destroying it, rather than storing it? 

Fisherman using nets routinely  find many different species they are not hunting, unwittingly caught among their intended catch, so what do they do? Keep them, or throw them back into the ocean? 

If you believe that NSA is being honest and not prying into data it collected without a warrant (naive is an inadequate description of your trust level) consider what might happen in the future, given what we already know has happened in the past with agencies holding sensitive information, like the Internal Revenue Service.

We have seen private information passed around by our government from conservative groups to social progressive groups by an IRS that targeted and harassed taxpaying Americans. These targeted American groups' crimes were merely to be in political opposition of the current administration and seeking to restore honesty and integrity in our political process (TRUE THE VOTE). Yet to date, no one has been prosecuted, no one has been charged, and recent news reports have charged that the targeting continues at the IRS.

But hey, if you are a lawful American citizen, committing no crimes and loyal to your country, why should you fear or care if your government has a cache of personal information about your life held in a classified computer facility, in a Utah, city called Bluffdale between Step and Sheep mountain? (The factual names are so metaphorically accurate you might think I made them up, I didn't.)

So considering that you are a law abiding citizen and in the interest of capturing terrorists, you support the NSA program and think you can trust that your government, then ask yourself; exactly what protections are in place for the government to not turn its focus on you?

Edwin Meese III wrote in an article, May 26, 2010 at the Heritage Foundation regarding the increasing trend of overcriminalization of our nations laws; http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/05/too-many-laws-turn-innocents-into-criminals

" But the typical American’s deeply held beliefs about the freedoms he cherishes and the fundamental principles of his government are no longer as well founded as they once were. Today, he is far more vulnerable than ever before to being caught up in a criminal investigation and prosecution — and to actually being convicted and punished as a criminal — for having done something he did not even suspect was illegal."

More and more we are not only seeing an explosion of laws by our federal and state government but an unmistakable, undisguised and completely brazen political corruption of our justice system. If you belong to the politically correct group, have the political correct pedigree and are part of the elite power peddlers then you are safe from prosecution. Everyone else that is not included on that safe list is fair game and vulnerable.

You might also ask, is that mega data safe from foreign hackers that could use that megadata information for identity theft? Do you think given the revelation recently that both the White House and the State Department computers were hacked that the computers storing data at the NSA would be safer? What about another Snowden, another spy slipped into the NSA with classified clearance but this time with far more sinister plans?

Americans have the right to use the latest technology under the assumption that private stays private. Just because this technology makes it easier for the government to ensnare us without breaking into our homes without a warrant, doesn't mean they should, nor does it mean that Americans must go off the grid to protect their privacy. We need to reform the Patriot Act.

The First and Fourth Amendment in our Bill of Rights has no expiration date, wittingly or unwittingly Congress must uphold our Constitution!

FLYING UNDER THE RADAR

The news media outlets enjoy increased ratings when compelling events such as the missing Malaysian passenger jet disappears from the sky without a trace. They know that the public is drawn into the mystery by a combination of compassion for the missing passengers along with sympathy for their families and the fascination that in today’s fish bowl of technological voyeurism momentous events can still avoid detection.

What happens when major news events strike at the same time? When like today, there is another arguably bigger and more historic story happening, Russia’s invasion of Crimea, why does the media gives it second coverage billing?

The debate over what to cover and how much time to devote to one story over another invokes the age old enigmatic question “which came first, the chicken or the egg”, or in this case, which comes first, viewer driven ratings or significant news that could lead to a world war? 

Some in the news business will tell you that the public always controls the coverage, while others will argue that real news reporting should not be concerned with ratings and instead be governed by simply reporting significant news stories. They claim to not write or make-up the news but merely report it. However, media exercises sole control over whether a story is the lead or buried in the news, along with the amount of time devoted to a story and how comprehensive the coverage is on any news story.  

Therefore when Americans complain that our newsrooms are corrupt, and in the tank for either (mostly both) entertainment ratings or the Obama Administration the proof is in the coverage of the Malaysian jetliner versus the Russian takeover of a sovereign’s state’s land. One story seems to be fueled with more speculation than facts as it flies all around the airwaves constantly focused on the mystery of the Malaysian plane. However, the other major story (Russia annexing Crimea) which is a clear act of unbridled territorial aggression, that has the real possibility of escalating to a world war in the near future is in a holding pattern at the media airport of landing coverage priorities. 

The point is this; if newsrooms want to be taken seriously, claiming they are not info-entertainment like supermarket tabloids and the John Stewart Daily show then why is the Malaysian jetliner story topping the news coverage? If the argument is that we are covering the stories people want to hear then, why not cover the Benghazi and the IRS corruption scandals that somehow have gone media dark and silent?  If the argument is that there is nothing more to report on those stories, then that fails to explain hours of news reporting on speculation as to the whereabouts of a plane when no new information has been discovered. 

Where is the news coverage speculating that the Obama administration covered up Benghazi to win election? Similar to using retired airline pilots to wax about possible theories about the missing plane, why then has media not used ex-diplomats and ex-CIA agents to fill a panel to speculate on what happened in Benghazi?

 

Where is the speculative reporting that the IRS was used by the Obama administration to silence the growing Tea Party groups to organize educated voters to the polls in 2012? 

The news media cannot have it both ways. They can’t argue that they don’t control the news and merely report it and then filter it through their elitist’s lens of priority. They may not make up the news stories (ahem I guess) but by controlling the air time, front page space and the extent of both coverage and investigative follow-up, they do set the news table. They do determine what news is important. They do influence what news Americans are informed about and what news is not noteworthy for Americans. Media does control the information agenda and they have not acted responsibly or fairly to a simple standard of unbiased honesty.

To argue that the repeated lies told by this administration over a terrorist attack in Benghazi during the 2012 election is not at least (we think much more) as egregious as Watergate is not credible. Equally, to have no follow-up investigations and no questions to the White House amid the many still unanswered questions about Benghazi shows more than political bias, it bespeaks a media cover-up.

The IRS scandal is a huge criminal-political corruption yet it has been ignored by our so-called professional journalists. For the majority of media outlets to just take the President’s word that there is not a “smidgeon” of corruption done by one of the most intimidating of government agencies is an appalling indictment of media collusion not just bias.

Congress has low polling numbers because it ignores the will of the American people and seems only responsive to inside the beltway lobbyists. Media is a close second in those low polling numbers because it enjoys a platform to bring important information to Americans but it squanders that for ratings revenue and whines that it is the viewers fault.

Those in media that argue that Justin Bierber latest folly is more popular to the viewers than the NSA spying scandal are using excuses, allowing their network-needs to continue feeding Americans “Bierber celebrity-Pablum” to distract us from their media malfeasance. We might agree that too many Americans are obsessed with celebrity news and might be bored to change the channel but then so aren’t school children easily bored. Do we then teach children only information they deem popular and throw away vital curriculum?

Responsible journalism requires reporting important news stories period. Otherwise they are misusing the freedom of the press to pander for ratings, pick political sides, hide unflattering revelations about our government and making all Americans more vulnerable to tyranny.

There is a reason that freedom of speech is the first Amendment in our Bill of Rights. There is equally a reason that Obama’s promise of an open and transparent government was and is a fairy tale.

There is a reason why Americans have anger and distrust for our government when both Congress and the Press owned by corporations tell us to look up at the sky, “Da plane Boss, da plane” in order to distract us from their manipulation of our constitutional rights.

More than ever Americans believe that our government is flying under the radar and increasing its covert corruption under our noses with the oligarchic Press turning off the transponder of truth and burying the black box of facts in the propaganda waters off the coast of Fantasy Island. We are rightfully worried that instead of America living out her dreams those elitist power brokers are creating America’s nightmare.

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” (George Orwell)

 Claudia Roazen is a writer from Maine. Her book “ARE WE THE SHEEPLE OR THE PEOPLE? AN AMERICAN WOMAN ON FIRE!” can be purchased at AMAZON.COM or on her website http://claudiawrites-rights.blogspot.com/

BLOGGERS SILENCED? NEVER!

The President told Americans to not listen to lobbyists, bloggers, radio personalities or activists? This is coming from the mouth of a man whose short resume to be President of the United States prominently featured his community organizing for Acorn. Now as President he wants Americans to listen only to who, him?

Call me a racist, even though I am not. Call me a bigot, even though I am not. Call me obstructionists, even though I am not. Call me a Hobbit even though I am not. Call me a wacko bird, even though I am not. Call me a purist even though I am not but call me for patriotic citizen duty to defend our constitutional Republic and I am ready and not intimidated.

Regardless of your political party affiliation when has America ever before had such a partisan President that feels the need to demonize his opposition and show such arrogant cynicism to those that disagree with his policies?

When has expecting our representatives and President to be faithful to their constitutional oaths altered to a radical position? When has calling for small and limited government that affords maximum individual freedom become labeled as a destructive American philosophy?  

Obama has been condescending and condemning of conservative patriots from the moment he stepped into office. He has been aided by a mainstream media that has bashed everyone who dissents as a bigoted small minded racist and it is not just wrong it is despicably divisive.

As a citizen I am expected to respect the office of President and accept election losses as a good sport and wish the President well in running the country. That does not mean I must accept, like, promote and agree with his policies while abdicating my rational, common sense, ideology and opinion. It is healthy to have dissent, healthy to have debate, healthy to disagree and healthy to be recalcitrant to one’s core principles and values. I don’t begrudge President Obama’s liberal ideology why does he resent all those who hold the opposite beliefs?

No American should just listen to politicians instead one must seek to assess the background, previous policies, voting record, party affiliation and most importantly ideology. If we voted purely on what a pundit, radio host, blogger, activist or friend said about a candidate then we would all be low-information voters.  

Our civic duty is to vote for the candidate in the primary that represents your Country, Constitution and state or district’s best interest not because you like a candidate’s style or personality. Unfortunately we voters are too easily fooled by charlatans that bait and switch our vote. It is okay to make mistakes; it is not okay to give up the search for honorable office holders.

The Republicans and the Democrats as Parties have betrayed the American people, one by seeking to ignore and alter our Bill of Rights and the other by capitulating to this erosion for political expediency. The Democrat Party is selling fool’s gold to the people that eventually will be exposed for the complete charade that its government classism espouses. 

The Republican Party is filled with posers that talk about opposition but votes in lock step with big government. The only hope for Americans to insure their freedoms is to successfully revamp the GOP from the Grand Old Party to the new GOP or Guardian of the People party.

It will take many primary election cycles and there will unfortunately be lost battles along the way yet in any deeply held value struggle, when do you give up and surrender your principles?

The answer is simply, never.

                                                                                                      When will you as an American listen only to your President’s teleprompter? When will you turn off your radio? When will you only read only government approved media?

 Your answer should be simply, never.