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Trust, Faith, Happiness
Trust, Faith, Happiness
"Living with faith and trust in G-d can deliver the sought-for happiness. The reason more people do not achieve happiness is because they fall short of the requisite degree of faith and trust in G-d.
"We may worry about our financial future and the ability to provide for our families the way we would like, especially during economic downturns. When adversities occur, we are likely to become deeply dejected. A profound and unquestioning faith and trust in Divine benevolence will provide the serenity, security, and convictions that could eliminate these worries and sadness.
"People have varying degrees of faith and trust. The higher their level, the lesser are their worries and sadness. If we were able to achieve complete faith and trust, our dispositions would be such that happiness would radiate from us.
"TODAY I SHALL ...
... seek to strengthen my faith and trust in G-d so that I may achieve true happiness and be an example for others."
From the book Growing Each Day by Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski M.D.
Stand Up for Religious Freedom
standupforreligiousfreedom.com
The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom is being held Friday, March 23 at noon, local time, outside federal buildings, Congressional offices and historic sites across the country. The theme for the Rally is “Stand Up for Religious Freedom—Stop the HHS Mandate!”
Muslims destroy christian-jewish cemetery from WWII
Why in Gods Name would people do this to the dead ?
An Obituary printed in the London Times.....Absolutely Brilliant !!
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work!"
IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS ONE....
An Obituary printed in the London Times.....Absolutely Brilliant !!
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense
Who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he
Was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red
Tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable
Lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- and maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend
More than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not
Children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but
Overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old
Boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens
Suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher
Fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his
Condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing
The job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their
Unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental
Consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but
Could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to
Have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became
Businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their
Victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a
Burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed
To realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a
Little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust,
By his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his
Son, Reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I'm A Victim
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If
You still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and
Do nothing.
How Many Times Has Obama Lied To The American People?
the man that lied when he said no abortions would be covered by his health care scheme;
the man that lies every time he speaks about the amount of oil at this countries disposal;
the man that lies when he says a President can’t do anything to reduce the price of gas,and then plans an October Surprise release of our emergency oil to temporarily do just that;
the man who proves his own lies when a temporary release of oil has a diminutive,symbolic reduction in the price,but he insists a daily flow of our own oil form our numerous sites (which he now has off-limits) would have no effect on oil prices (no link,just common sense economics);
the man who lied when claiming unemployment would never go above 8%,and who now lies every day about the real unemployment numbers;
the man who lied when he claimed to barely know the unrepentant,racist,anti-American terrorist that helped start his political career;
the man who lied when he claimed no one would lose their doctors or health plan under his healthcare bill;
the man who lied about “shovel ready” jobs;
the man who lied,along with many others,about his supposed birth certificate;
the man who lied when he claimed he did not vote three times to let infant survivors of abortion die of neglect,forbidding their treatment;
the man who lied when he swore to uphold the Constitution,and has belittled it,complained of its “constraints”;and who has ignored it by taking private property and giving it to his union thug friends (GM);or using recess appointments when the Congress is not in recess,or deciding he has the right to kill Americans at will;or start wars with an OK from the UN,but no Congressional approval;
the man who lied when he swore to uphold our laws,and then appointed a black supremacist who is intent on ignoring any civil rights violations against whites;who is intent on protecting every national border but America’s from harm;who has been a willing accomplice in the scheme to defraud Americans into giving up their borders and Second Amendment gun rights,but has succeeded in getting American agents killed instead (and their underhanded roles have been discovered);
the man who lied about not taking money from lobbyists and giving us a more transparent government;
THIS is the man we are supposed to believe,the man whose Secretary of Energy owns no car and has expressed a desire to see our fuel prices to rise to the level of Europe’s;this is the man whose finger we are supposed to accept being wagged in our faces,as he claims he wants to do,or would ever do,anything to lower oil or fuel prices in any realistic,long term way?
PUH-LEEZZE!
We are the People
January 8th, 2010
What do the words “the people” in “(w)e the people, in order to …” mean? Who has told us precisely? Who can tell us? Has anyone, including “The Federalist” done so? [Feel free to tell me if I missed something in my readings of a book that Jefferson called the greatest work in political theory in history]. So let my try my hand at it. “THE PEOPLE” are one and only one thing as described in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. To wit: The term “the people” speaks directly to the fact that truth is a “mainstream political value.”* But as so often happens, the explanation is not yet a certain statement itself so a secondary or second level of understanding is required. The term “mainstream political value” means a value located at the true center of the political spectrum that cannot be redefined by changing times or circumstances. That is, find the “true center” of the whole political universe, a political constant, a single point of reference, itself a problem of social science**, and you have truth.
Which leaves us with yet a third level of understanding, defining or describing “the center of” “the political spectrum.” This is more easily said than done; because, while fewer and fewer people hold the ground farther and farther away from the political mainstream, experience shows that they fight harder and harder for it. “The condition upon which … liberty (rests) is eternal vigilance.” John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. Rest your case on behalf of “the people,” where it matters most, in “the court of public opinion,” and your life, your fortune, and your sacred honor are much more imperiled than the greater number of people tend to show real concern about until it is too late.
Historically, there has never been a solution for the fall of an empire. The people lose their way or are lead astray and a failed state, if not desolation, follows. The form of government can make it seem that destruction takes a lot longer under one form of government than another. Dynasties are known to have lasted for thousands of years. Life in a dynasty can be very difficult for large numbers of people throughout the history of a dynasty. That is worth considering when the relatively short Lifespan of republics comes up. They are known to be 200 year projects, rarely more and often less. We have two facts to go on that should motivate us to do much more to help ourselves (and this help must take the form of social science); as the Founders would have wanted. First, the Framers believed they may have figured out what was wrong with other republics. Washington warned us to “avoid foreign entanglements” as these are also known to be a republican disease. Corruption is bad for government. Foreign corruption is worse. The former weighs upon a nation. The latter drains its life away, sapping its life blood, its self-interest. Surely an entire nation cannot stand far apart from the admonition “to thine own self be true.” People need to stop and think about this. The enemies of republican government undoubtedly use these “entanglements” to undermine republics, and sufficiently undermined, destroy them. Above all else, the Founders were political scientists. Why then have we abandoned the social science they so eloquently expressed. IT MAKES NO SENSE! What is wrong with us? We can do better. The end came to others. It happened to Greece. It happened in Rome. It happened to other great empires throughout the world that were not republics. It just took longer for the state to fail. Second, the sad truth is, it is happening to us in spite of the truly great efforts of the Framers. Equally great labors have risen against us that we have thus far failed to address (necessarily, social science is our best weapon). Long in the tooth, well over 200 years old, the United States is in a general, and rapid, state of decline that has been building for a generation. A period of time that is marked by “free trade” at a loss that has seen the loses grow steadily and much greater over time. What we have that no one else had, if we choose to use it, is modern science. That means big bucks. What natural scientists get. If we place the same importance on social science that the Founding documents do the funding will be found to get busy and do what should be done to (a) make sense of our situation and (b) rise above it.
With age comes wisdom
With age comes wisdom
A guy is 72 years old and loves to fish.
He was sitting in his boat the other day
A guy is 72 years old and loves to fish.
He was sitting in his boat the other day
when he heard a voice say, "Pick me
up." He looked around and couldn't
see anyone.
He thought he was dreaming when he
He thought he was dreaming when he
heard the voice say again, "Pick me
up." He looked in the water and there,
floating on the top, was a frog. The
man said, "Are you talking to me?"
The frog said, "Yes, I'm talking to you.
The frog said, "Yes, I'm talking to you.
Pick me up, kiss me and I'll turn into the
most beautiful woman you've ever seen.
I'll make sure that all your friends are
envious and jealous because I will be
your bride!"
The man looked at the frog for a short
The man looked at the frog for a short
time, then reached over, carefully picked
the frog up and gently placed it in his
shirt pocket.
Then, from inside the man's shirt pocket,
Then, from inside the man's shirt pocket,
the frog said, "What, are you nuts? Didn't
you hear what I said? I said if you kissed
me I would be your beautiful bride."
The man opened his pocket, looked at the
The man opened his pocket, looked at the
frog and said:
"Nah! At my age, I'd rather have a talking
frog!"
With age comes wisdom.
With age comes wisdom.
Sent to me by my good Friend and fishing Buddy
Thomas Tyrrell
Etch-a-sketching and the 2012 election
Much has been said about the "etch-a-sketch" comment made by Romney's campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom. To be sure, it was an unintended gaffe, and clearly concerned the overall campaign strategy in a general election, and not the policies of the candidate, Mitt Romney. But hey, let's have some fun; let's go over some comments the other candidates wished they could "etch-a-sketch" away. We have Rick Santorum's: "politics is a group sport," and "I made some votes that compromised my principles." Ouch. Of course, we have Newt's "colonies on the moon" comment made in the face of a 15 trillion dollar debt reality here on earth, and we won't even get into the various Ron Paul rants on foreign policy (or lack thereof). The problem faced by all candidates in this day and age of a zillion cable channels and Youtube, is that if you are not "perfect" if you do not present yourself in a robotic, sanitized, "pure" manner, you will be eviscerated by your competition and the media, no matter what the context of your comment.
We are at a very important turning point in our history, on the precipice of being destroyed by crippling debt and out of control entitlement spending. As Americans, we must train ourselves to see through the smoke of silliness and distraction which will be blown our way from time to time, and understand what is truly at stake: our very freedom. Let's not judge our candidates on gaffes aides make or a slip of the tongue on a bad day. Let's hire the candidate who merits the position, who has the resume to do the job of getting this country back on track. In 2008, we had a choice between the war hero, with the hot temper and the unskilled running mate, versus the polished, well spoken blank slate who used the teleprompter perfectly. How have the past four years worked for you? Remember folks, etch-a-sketch is a toy, we can't erase the damage of incompetency.
The Road We've Traveled
The Road We've Traveled :
Where has the Obama administration really taken us?
Obama Prepares for "National Emergency":
Obama Prepares for "National Emergency": nationalize everything (even you) w/o congressional oversight
Have you seen the latest totalitarian executive order der fuhrer signed yesterday? Check it out. It's a jaw-dropper, except for those who have been awake.
It calls for a draft, but not just a draft. A civilian draft, of “persons
of outstanding experience or ability” without compensation. If they think they
need you, they can compel you to work for the government for nothing.
They can, under this order, restrict civilian travel by any mode, including
(probably) foot travel. They can ration food. They can restrict water usage,
even from private wells. They can ration any and all drugs, including OTC and
vitamins. They can collectivize farms. They can take over all energy production,
including home solar units.
It also allows for drafting civilians. If they have need of your skills,
they can compel you to work for no compensation.
All this not in a time of war, but in time of “National Emergency” (several
EO national emergency states already in place) or even in Peacetime.
And he hasn't even won re-election ....... Yet. One can only imagine what
the saboteur has in store for us.
Executive Order: National Defense Resources Preparedness hat tip Free
Republic (thanks to Cathy D)
The White House ^ | 3/16/12 | The White House
The White House ^ | 3/16/12 | The White House
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release March 16, 2012 Executive Order -- National Defense
Resources Preparedness EXECUTIVE ORDER
NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950,
as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United
States Code, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States,
it is hereby ordered as follows:
PART I - PURPOSE, POLICY, AND IMPLEMENTATION
Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses
national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act
of 1950, as amended (the "Act").
Sec. 102. Policy. The United States must have an industrial and
technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable
of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense
equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency. The domestic
industrial and technological base is the foundation for national defense
preparedness. The authorities provided in the Act shall be used to strengthen
this base and to ensure it is capable of responding to the national defense
needs of the United States.
Sec. 103. General Functions. Executive departments and agencies (agencies)
responsible for plans and programs relating to national defense (as defined in
section 801(j) of this order), or for resources and services needed to support
such plans and programs, shall:
(a) identify requirements for the full spectrum of emergencies, including
essential military and civilian demand;
(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial
and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of
national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most
critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and
suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical
personnel;
(c) be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the
United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate
resources and production capability, including services and critical technology,
for national defense requirements;
(d) improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the domestic industrial
base to support national defense requirements; and
(e) foster cooperation between the defense and commercial sectors for
research and development and for acquisition of materials, services, components,
and equipment to enhance industrial base efficiency and responsiveness.
Sec. 104. Implementation. (a) The National Security Council and Homeland
Security Council, in conjunction with the National Economic Council, shall serve
as the integrated policymaking forum for consideration and formulation of
national defense resource preparedness policy and shall make recommendations to
the President on the use of authorities under the Act.
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall:
(1) advise the President on issues of national defense resource
preparedness and on the use of the authorities and functions delegated by this
order;
(2) provide for the central coordination of the plans and programs incident
to authorities and functions delegated under this order, and provide guidance to
agencies assigned functions under this order, developed in consultation with
such agencies; and
(3) report to the President periodically concerning all program activities
conducted pursuant to this order.
(c) The Defense Production Act Committee, described in section 701 of this
order, shall:
(1) in a manner consistent with section 2(b) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App.
2062(b), advise the President through the Assistant to the President and
National Security Advisor, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security
and Counterterrorism, and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy on
the effective use of the authorities under the Act; and
(2) prepare and coordinate an annual report to the Congress pursuant to
section 722(d) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2171(d).
(d) The Secretary of Commerce, in cooperation with the Secretary of
Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and other agencies, shall:
(1) analyze potential effects of national emergencies on actual production
capability, taking into account the entire production system, including
shortages of resources, and develop recommended preparedness measures to
strengthen capabilities for production increases in national emergencies;
and
(2) perform industry analyses to assess capabilities of the industrial base
to support the national defense, and develop policy recommendations to improve
the international competitiveness of specific domestic industries and their
abilities to meet national defense program needs.
PART II - PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS
Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the
President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require
acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts
of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other
contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as
deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to
the following agency heads:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food
resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health
resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial
fertilizer;
(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health
resources;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil
transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and
(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials,
services, and facilities, including construction materials.
(b) The Secretary of each agency delegated authority under subsection (a)
of this section (resource departments) shall plan for and issue regulations to
prioritize and allocate resources and establish standards and procedures by
which the authority shall be used to promote the national defense, under both
emergency and non-emergency conditions. Each Secretary shall authorize the heads
of other agencies, as appropriate, to place priority ratings on contracts and
orders for materials, services, and facilities needed in support of programs
approved under section 202 of this order.
(c) Each resource department shall act, as necessary and appropriate, upon
requests for special priorities assistance, as defined by section 801(l) of this
order, in a time frame consistent with the urgency of the need at hand. In
situations where there are competing program requirements for limited resources,
the resource department shall consult with the Secretary who made the required
determination under section 202 of this order. Such Secretary shall coordinate
with and identify for the resource department which program requirements to
prioritize on the basis of operational urgency. In situations involving more
than one Secretary making such a required determination under section 202 of
this order, the Secretaries shall coordinate with and identify for the resource
department which program requirements should receive priority on the basis of
operational urgency.
(d) If agreement cannot be reached between two such Secretaries, then the
issue shall be referred to the President through the Assistant to the President
and National Security Advisor and the Assistant to the President for Homeland
Security and Counterterrorism.
(e) The Secretary of each resource department, when necessary, shall make
the finding required under section 101(b) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071(b).
This finding shall be submitted for the President's approval through the
Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor and the Assistant to
the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Upon such approval,
the Secretary of the resource department that made the finding may use the
authority of section 101(a) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071(a), to control the
general distribution of any material (including applicable services) in the
civilian market.
Sec. 202. Determinations. Except as provided in section 201(e) of this
order, the authority delegated by section 201 of this order may be used only to
support programs that have been determined in writing as necessary or
appropriate to promote the national defense:
(a) by the Secretary of Defense with respect to military production and
construction, military assistance to foreign nations, military use of civil
transportation, stockpiles managed by the Department of Defense, space, and
directly related activities;
(b) by the Secretary of Energy with respect to energy production and
construction, distribution and use, and directly related activities; and
(c) by the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to all other
national defense programs, including civil defense and continuity of
Government.
Sec. 203. Maximizing Domestic Energy Supplies. The authorities of the
President under section 101(c)(1) (2) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071(c)(1) (2),
are delegated to the Secretary of Commerce, with the exception that the
authority to make findings that materials (including equipment), services, and
facilities are critical and essential, as described in section 101(c)(2)(A) of
the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071(c)(2)(A), is delegated to the Secretary of
Energy.
Sec. 204. Chemical and Biological Warfare. The authority of the President
conferred by section 104(b) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2074(b), is delegated to
the Secretary of Defense. This authority may not be further delegated by the
Secretary.
PART III - EXPANSION OF PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AND SUPPLY
Sec. 301. Loan Guarantees. (a) To reduce current or projected shortfalls of
resources, critical technology items, or materials essential for the national
defense, the head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national
defense, as defined in section 801(h) of this order, is authorized pursuant to
section 301 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2091, to guarantee loans by private
institutions.
(b) Each guaranteeing agency is designated and authorized to: (1) act as
fiscal agent in the making of its own guarantee contracts and in otherwise
carrying out the purposes of section 301 of the Act; and (2) contract with any
Federal Reserve Bank to assist the agency in serving as fiscal agent.
(c) Terms and conditions of guarantees under this authority shall be
determined in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Director
of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The guaranteeing agency is
authorized, following such consultation, to prescribe: (1) either specifically
or by maximum limits or otherwise, rates of interest, guarantee and commitment
fees, and other charges which may be made in connection with such guarantee
contracts; and (2) regulations governing the forms and procedures (which shall
be uniform to the extent practicable) to be utilized in connection
therewith.
Sec. 302. Loans. To reduce current or projected shortfalls of resources,
critical technology items, or materials essential for the national defense, the
head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense is delegated
the authority of the President under section 302 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App.
2092, to make loans thereunder. Terms and conditions of loans under this
authority shall be determined in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Director of OMB.
Sec. 303. Additional Authorities. (a) To create, maintain, protect, expand,
or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for the national
defense, the head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense
is delegated the authority of the President under section 303 of the Act, 50
U.S.C. App. 2093, to make provision for purchases of, or commitments to
purchase, an industrial resource or a critical technology item for Government
use or resale, and to make provision for the development of production
capabilities, and for the increased use of emerging technologies in security
program applications, and to enable rapid transition of emerging
technologies.
(b) Materials acquired under section 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093,
that exceed the needs of the programs under the Act may be transferred to the
National Defense Stockpile, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of Defense as
the National Defense Stockpile Manager, such transfers are in the public
interest.
Sec. 304. Subsidy Payments. To ensure the supply of raw or nonprocessed
materials from high cost sources, or to ensure maximum production or supply in
any area at stable prices of any materials in light of a temporary increase in
transportation cost, the head of each agency engaged in procurement for the
national defense is delegated the authority of the President under section
303(c) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(c), to make subsidy payments, after
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of OMB.
Sec. 305. Determinations and Findings. (a) Pursuant to budget authority
provided by an appropriations act in advance for credit assistance under section
301 or 302 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2091, 2092, and consistent with the
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, as amended (FCRA), 2 U.S.C. 661 et seq., the
head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense is delegated
the authority to make the determinations set forth in sections 301(a)(2) and
302(b)(2) of the Act, in consultation with the Secretary making the required
determination under section 202 of this order; provided, that such
determinations shall be made after due consideration of the provisions of OMB
Circular A 129 and the credit subsidy score for the relevant loan or loan
guarantee as approved by OMB pursuant to FCRA.
(b) Other than any determination by the President under section
303(a)(7)(b) of the Act, the head of each agency engaged in procurement for the
national defense is delegated the authority to make the required determinations,
judgments, certifications, findings, and notifications defined under section 303
of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093, in consultation with the Secretary making the
required determination under section 202 of this order.
Sec. 306. Strategic and Critical Materials. The Secretary of Defense, and
the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Secretary of Defense as
the National Defense Stockpile Manager, are each delegated the authority of the
President under section 303(a)(1)(B) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(a)(1)(B),
to encourage the exploration, development, and mining of strategic and critical
materials and other materials.
Sec. 307. Substitutes. The head of each agency engaged in procurement for
the national defense is delegated the authority of the President under section
303(g) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(g), to make provision for the development
of substitutes for strategic and critical materials, critical components,
critical technology items, and other resources to aid the national
defense.
Sec. 308. Government-Owned Equipment. The head of each agency engaged in
procurement for the national defense is delegated the authority of the President
under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to:
(a) procure and install additional equipment, facilities, processes, or
improvements to plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the
Federal Government and to procure and install Government owned equipment in
plants, factories, or other industrial facilities owned by private
persons;
(b) provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned
facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes,
when taking actions under sections 301, 302, or 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App.
2091, 2092, 2093; and
(c) sell or otherwise transfer equipment owned by the Federal Government
and installed under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to the
owners of such plants, factories, or other industrial facilities.
Sec. 309. Defense Production Act Fund. The Secretary of Defense is
designated the Defense Production Act Fund Manager, in accordance with section
304(f) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2094(f), and shall carry out the duties
specified in section 304 of the Act, in consultation with the agency heads
having approved, and appropriated funds for, projects under title III of the
Act.
Sec. 310. Critical Items. The head of each agency engaged in procurement
for the national defense is delegated the authority of the President under
section 107(b)(1) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2077(b)(1), to take appropriate
action to ensure that critical components, critical technology items, essential
materials, and industrial resources are available from reliable sources when
needed to meet defense requirements during peacetime, graduated mobilization,
and national emergency. Appropriate action may include restricting contract
solicitations to reliable sources, restricting contract solicitations to
domestic sources (pursuant to statutory authority), stockpiling critical
components, and developing substitutes for critical components or critical
technology items.
Sec. 311. Strengthening Domestic Capability. The head of each agency
engaged in procurement for the national defense is delegated the authority of
the President under section 107(a) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2077(a), to
utilize the authority of title III of the Act or any other provision of law to
provide appropriate incentives to develop, maintain, modernize, restore, and
expand the productive capacities of domestic sources for critical components,
critical technology items, materials, and industrial resources essential for the
execution of the national security strategy of the United States.
Sec. 312. Modernization of Equipment. The head of each agency engaged in
procurement for the national defense, in accordance with section 108(b) of the
Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2078(b), may utilize the authority of title III of the Act
to guarantee the purchase or lease of advance manufacturing equipment, and any
related services with respect to any such equipment for purposes of the Act. In
considering title III projects, the head of each agency engaged in procurement
for the national defense shall provide a strong preference for proposals
submitted by a small business supplier or subcontractor in accordance with
section 108(b)(2) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2078(b)(2).
PART IV - VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Sec. 401. Delegations. The authority of the President under sections 708(c)
and (d) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2158(c), (d), is delegated to the heads of
agencies otherwise delegated authority under this order. The status of the use
of such delegations shall be furnished to the Secretary of Homeland
Security.
Sec. 402. Advisory Committees. The authority of the President under section
708(d) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2158(d), and delegated in section 401 of this
order (relating to establishment of advisory committees) shall be exercised only
after consultation with, and in accordance with, guidelines and procedures
established by the Administrator of General Services.
Sec. 403. Regulations. The Secretary of Homeland Security, after approval
of the Attorney General, and after consultation by the Attorney General with the
Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, shall promulgate rules pursuant to
section 708(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2158(e), incorporating standards and
procedures by which voluntary agreements and plans of action may be developed
and carried out. Such rules may be adopted by other agencies to fulfill the
rulemaking requirement of section 708(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App.
2158(e).
PART V - EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONNEL
Sec. 501. National Defense Executive Reserve. (a) In accordance with
section 710(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2160(e), there is established in the
executive branch a National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER) composed of persons
of recognized expertise from various segments of the private sector and from
Government (except full time Federal employees) for training for employment in
executive positions in the Federal Government in the event of a national defense
emergency.
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue necessary guidance for
the NDER program, including appropriate guidance for establishment, recruitment,
training, monitoring, and activation of NDER units and shall be responsible for
the overall coordination of the NDER program. The authority of the President
under section 710(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2160(e), to determine periods of
national defense emergency is delegated to the Secretary of Homeland
Security.
(c) The head of any agency may implement section 501(a) of this order with
respect to NDER operations in such agency.
(d) The head of each agency with an NDER unit may exercise the authority
under section 703 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2153, to employ civilian personnel
when activating all or a part of its NDER unit. The exercise of this authority
shall be subject to the provisions of sections 501(e) and (f) of this order and
shall not be redelegated.
(e) The head of an agency may activate an NDER unit, in whole or in part,
upon the written determination of the Secretary of Homeland Security that an
emergency affecting the national defense exists and that the activation of the
unit is necessary to carry out the emergency program functions of the
agency.
(f) Prior to activating the NDER unit, the head of the agency shall notify,
in writing, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and
Counterterrorism of the impending activation.
Sec. 502. Consultants. The head of each agency otherwise delegated
functions under this order is delegated the authority of the President under
sections 710(b) and (c) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2160(b), (c), to employ
persons of outstanding experience and ability without compensation and to employ
experts, consultants, or organizations. The authority delegated by this section
may not be redelegated.
PART VI - LABOR REQUIREMENTS
Sec. 601. Secretary of Labor. (a) The Secretary of Labor, in coordination
with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of other agencies, as deemed
appropriate by the Secretary of Labor, shall:
(1) collect and maintain data necessary to make a continuing appraisal of
the Nation's workforce needs for purposes of national defense;
(2) upon request by the Director of Selective Service, and in coordination
with the Secretary of Defense, assist the Director of Selective Service in
development of policies regulating the induction and deferment of persons for
duty in the armed services;
(3) upon request from the head of an agency with authority under this
order, consult with that agency with respect to: (i) the effect of contemplated
actions on labor demand and utilization; (ii) the relation of labor demand to
materials and facilities requirements; and (iii) such other matters as will
assist in making the exercise of priority and allocations functions consistent
with effective utilization and distribution of labor;
(4) upon request from the head of an agency with authority under this
order: (i) formulate plans, programs, and policies for meeting the labor
requirements of actions to be taken for national defense purposes; and (ii)
estimate training needs to help address national defense requirements and
promote necessary and appropriate training programs; and
(5) develop and implement an effective labor management relations policy to
support the activities and programs under this order, with the cooperation of
other agencies as deemed appropriate by the Secretary of Labor, including the
National Labor Relations Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the
National Mediation Board, and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service.
(b) All agencies shall cooperate with the Secretary of Labor, upon request,
for the purposes of this section, to the extent permitted by law.
PART VII - DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT COMMITTEE
Sec. 701. The Defense Production Act Committee. (a) The Defense Production
Act Committee (Committee) shall be composed of the following members, in
accordance with section 722(b) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2171(b):
(1) The Secretary of State;
(2) The Secretary of the Treasury;
(3) The Secretary of Defense;
(4) The Attorney General;
(5) The Secretary of the Interior;
(6) The Secretary of Agriculture;
(7) The Secretary of Commerce;
(8) The Secretary of Labor;
(9) The Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(10) The Secretary of Transportation;
(11) The Secretary of Energy;
(12) The Secretary of Homeland Security;
(13) The Director of National Intelligence;
(14) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
(15) The Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers;
(16) The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; and
(17) The Administrator of General Services.
(b) The Director of OMB and the Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy shall be invited to participate in all Committee meetings and
activities in an advisory role. The Chairperson, as designated by the President
pursuant to section 722 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2171, may invite the heads of
other agencies or offices to participate in Committee meetings and activities in
an advisory role, as appropriate.
Sec. 702. Offsets. The Secretary of Commerce shall prepare and submit to
the Congress the annual report required by section 723 of the Act, 50 U.S.C.
App. 2172, in consultation with the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, Defense,
and Labor, the United States Trade Representative, the Director of National
Intelligence, and the heads of other agencies as appropriate. The heads of
agencies shall provide the Secretary of Commerce with such information as may be
necessary for the effective performance of this function.
PART VIII - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 801. Definitions. In addition to the definitions in section 702 of the
Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2152, the following definitions apply throughout this
order:
(a) "Civil transportation" includes movement of persons and property by all
modes of transportation in interstate, intrastate, or foreign commerce within
the United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of
Columbia, and related public storage and warehousing, ports, services, equipment
and facilities, such as transportation carrier shop and repair facilities.
"Civil transportation" also shall include direction, control, and coordination
of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership. "Civil transportation"
shall not include transportation owned or controlled by the Department of
Defense, use of petroleum and gas pipelines, and coal slurry pipelines used only
to supply energy production facilities directly.
(b) "Energy" means all forms of energy including petroleum, gas (both
natural and manufactured), electricity, solid fuels (including all forms of
coal, coke, coal chemicals, coal liquification, and coal gasification), solar,
wind, other types of renewable energy, atomic energy, and the production,
conservation, use, control, and distribution (including pipelines) of all of
these forms of energy.
(c) "Farm equipment" means equipment, machinery, and repair parts
manufactured for use on farms in connection with the production or preparation
for market use of food resources.
(d) "Fertilizer" means any product or combination of products that contain
one or more of the elements nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for use as a
plant nutrient.
(e) "Food resources" means all commodities and products, (simple, mixed, or
compound), or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of
being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to
which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from
the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal
consumption. "Food resources" also means potable water packaged in commercially
marketable containers, all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats
and oils, seed, cotton, hemp, and flax fiber, but does not mean any such
material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or
agricultural product.
(f) "Food resource facilities" means plants, machinery, vehicles (including
on farm), and other facilities required for the production, processing,
distribution, and storage (including cold storage) of food resources, and for
the domestic distribution of farm equipment and fertilizer (excluding
transportation thereof).
(g) "Functions" include powers, duties, authority, responsibilities, and
discretion.
(h) "Head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense"
means the heads of the Departments of State, Justice, the Interior, and Homeland
Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central
Intelligence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the
General Services Administration, and all other agencies with authority delegated
under section 201 of this order.
(i) "Health resources" means drugs, biological products, medical devices,
materials, facilities, health supplies, services and equipment required to
diagnose, mitigate or prevent the impairment of, improve, treat, cure, or
restore the physical or mental health conditions of the population.
(j) "National defense" means programs for military and energy production or
construction, military or critical infrastructure assistance to any foreign
nation, homeland security, stockpiling, space, and any directly related
activity. Such term includes emergency preparedness activities conducted
pursuant to title VI of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5195 et seq., and critical infrastructure protection
and restoration.
(k) "Offsets" means compensation practices required as a condition of
purchase in either government to government or commercial sales of defense
articles and/or defense services as defined by the Arms Export Control Act, 22
U.S.C. 2751 et seq., and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, 22
C.F.R. 120.1 130.17.
(l) "Special priorities assistance" means action by resource departments to
assist with expediting deliveries, placing rated orders, locating suppliers,
resolving production or delivery conflicts between various rated orders,
addressing problems that arise in the fulfillment of a rated order or other
action authorized by a delegated agency, and determining the validity of rated
orders.
(m) "Strategic and critical materials" means materials (including energy)
that (1) would be needed to supply the military, industrial, and essential
civilian needs of the United States during a national emergency, and (2) are not
found or produced in the United States in sufficient quantities to meet such
need and are vulnerable to the termination or reduction of the availability of
the material.
(n) "Water resources" means all usable water, from all sources, within the
jurisdiction of the United States, that can be managed, controlled, and
allocated to meet emergency requirements, except "water resources" does not
include usable water that qualifies as "food resources."
Sec. 802. General. (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 802(c) of
this order, the authorities vested in the President by title VII of the Act, 50
U.S.C. App. 2151 et seq., are delegated to the head of each agency in carrying
out the delegated authorities under the Act and this order, by the Secretary of
Labor in carrying out part VI of this order, and by the Secretary of the
Treasury in exercising the functions assigned in Executive Order 11858, as
amended.
(b) The authorities that may be exercised and performed pursuant to section
802(a) of this order shall include:
(1) the power to redelegate authorities, and to authorize the successive
redelegation of authorities to agencies, officers, and employees of the
Government; and
(2) the power of subpoena under section 705 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App.
2155, with respect to (i) authorities delegated in parts II, III, and section
702 of this order, and (ii) the functions assigned to the Secretary of the
Treasury in Executive Order 11858, as amended, provided that the subpoena power
referenced in subsections (i) and (ii) shall be utilized only after the scope
and purpose of the investigation, inspection, or inquiry to which the subpoena
relates have been defined either by the appropriate officer identified in
section 802(a) of this order or by such other person or persons as the officer
shall designate.
(c) Excluded from the authorities delegated by section 802(a) of this order
are authorities delegated by parts IV and V of this order, authorities in
section 721 and 722 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2170 2171, and the authority with
respect to fixing compensation under section 703 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App.
2153.
Sec. 803. Authority. (a) Executive Order 12919 of June 3, 1994, and
sections 401(3) (4) of Executive Order 12656 of November 18, 1988, are revoked.
All other previously issued orders, regulations, rulings, certificates,
directives, and other actions relating to any function affected by this order
shall remain in effect except as they are inconsistent with this order or are
subsequently amended or revoked under proper authority. Nothing in this order
shall affect the validity or force of anything done under previous delegations
or other assignment of authority under the Act.
(b) Nothing in this order shall affect the authorities assigned under
Executive Order 11858 of May 7, 1975, as amended, except as provided in section
802 of this order.
(c) Nothing in this order shall affect the authorities assigned under
Executive Order 12472 of April 3, 1984, as amended.
Sec. 804. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed
to impair or otherwise affect functions of the Director of OMB relating to
budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and
subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party
against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE, March 16, 2012.
The Federalist Papers
But I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular, administrative system who...se aim will be to provide for the needs of the poor, will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will in time reduce the rich to being no more than the tenant-farmers of the poor, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, will benumb human industry and activity, and will culminate by bringing about a violent revolution in the State, when the number of those who receive alms will have become as large as those who give it, and the indigent, no longer being able to take from the impoverished rich the means of providing for his needs, will find it easier to plunder them of all their property at one stroke than to ask for their help.
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society?" (1835)
The Federalist Papers
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society?" (1835)
Can the Secret Service Tell You To Shut Up?
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The First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech, the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Speech is language and other forms of expression; and association and petition connote physical presence in reasonable proximity to those of like mind and to government officials, so as to make your opinions known to them.
The Declaration of Independence recognizes all three freedoms as stemming from our humanity. So, what happens if you can speak freely, but the government officials at whom your speech is aimed refuse to hear you? And what happens if your right to associate and to petition the government is confined to areas where those of like mind and the government are not present? This is coming to a street corner near you.
Certain rights, like thought and privacy and travel, can be exercised on their own. You don't need the government to cooperate with you; you just need to be left alone. Other rights, like those intended to influence the political process, require that the government not resist your exercise of them. Remember the old one-liner from Philosophy 101: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make any noise? Here's the contemporary version of that: If you can criticize the government, but it refuses to hear you, does your exercise of the freedom of speech have any value?
When the Framers of the Constitution wrote the First Amendment, they lived in a society in which anyone could walk up to George Washington or John Adams or Thomas Jefferson on a public street and say directly to them whatever one wished. They never dreamed of a regal-like force of armed agents keeping public officials away from the public, as we have today. And they never imagined that it could be a felony for anyone to congregate in public within earshot or eyesight of certain government officials. And yet, today in America, it is.
Last week, President Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This law permits Secret Service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech, association and petition of the government are prohibited. And it permits the Secret Service to make these determinations based on the content of speech.
Thus, federal agents whose work is to protect public officials and their friends may prohibit the speech and the gatherings of folks who disagree with those officials or permit the speech and the gatherings of those who would praise them, even though the First Amendment condemns content-based speech discrimination by the government. The new law also provides that anyone who gathers in a "restricted" area may be prosecuted. And because the statute does not require the government to prove intent, a person accidentally in a restricted area can be charged and prosecuted, as well.
Permitting people to express publicly their opinions to the president only at a time and in a place and manner such that he cannot hear them violates the First Amendment because it guarantees the right to useful speech; and unheard political speech is politically useless. The same may be said of the rights to associate and to petition. If peaceful public assembly and public expression of political demands on the government can be restricted to places where government officials cannot be confronted, then those rights, too, have been neutered.
Political speech is in the highest category of protected speech. This is not about drowning out the president in the Oval Office. This is about letting him know what we think of his work when he leaves the White House. This is speech intended to influence the political process.
This abominable legislation enjoyed overwhelming support from both political parties in Congress because the establishment loves power, fears dissent and hates inconvenience, and it doesn't give a damn about the Constitution. It passed the Senate by unanimous consent, and only three members of the House voted against it. And the president signed it in secret. It is more typical of contemporary China than America. It is more George III than George Washington.
The whole purpose of the First Amendment is to assure open, wide, robust, uninhibited political debate, debate that can be seen and heard by those it seeks to challenge and influence, whether it is convenient for them or not. Anything short of that turns the First Amendment into a mirage.
Reprinted with the author's permission.
March 15, 2012
Andrew P. Napolitano [send him mail], a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at the Fox News Channel, and the host of “FreedomWatch” on the Fox Business Network. His latest book is It is Dangerous to be Right When the Government is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom.
Have We failed The founding Father's, Is The Question ?
The
Founders did not fail, WE are failing. Before they completed the Constitution,
the Founders warned us that there might be times when We the People would be
responsible to abolish bad government, and re-institute good government. They
al...so
warned us that good government is for a moral people. In the interests of
"civility" and "political correctness", we turned a blind eye and deaf ear as a
very small but motivated segment of our society allowed our Founding principles
and virtues to be removed. The very foundation of our moral society, our Judeo/Christian beliefs have been stripped from our society and replaced with
nothing even resembling principles or virtues.
EVERY time honored tradition is being trampled, our National Anthem, our Flag, and even our Pledge of Allegiance. We are forced to expose our children, through the "education system", to all manner of deviant practices in the name of "tolerance" of "diversified beliefs" and lifestyles. As long as the majority of Americans remain apathetic, interested only in their own personal amusement or advancement, and refuse to steadfastly cling to our Founders' vision, IMHO, we do not stand one iota of a chance of turning this ship around.
http://godandcountry.org/
If We the People REALLY desire change, then the time honored traditions of "GOD and Country" should become the battle cry against those who have brought us to this. Without fire in the belly for GOD and America as the Founders' envisioned her, then it is We the People who have failed.
EVERY time honored tradition is being trampled, our National Anthem, our Flag, and even our Pledge of Allegiance. We are forced to expose our children, through the "education system", to all manner of deviant practices in the name of "tolerance" of "diversified beliefs" and lifestyles. As long as the majority of Americans remain apathetic, interested only in their own personal amusement or advancement, and refuse to steadfastly cling to our Founders' vision, IMHO, we do not stand one iota of a chance of turning this ship around.
http://godandcountry.org/
If We the People REALLY desire change, then the time honored traditions of "GOD and Country" should become the battle cry against those who have brought us to this. Without fire in the belly for GOD and America as the Founders' envisioned her, then it is We the People who have failed.
The CIA Wants to Spy on You
The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will 'transform' surveillance
Catholics Under Attack
http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=20177695&topic_id=24584158
No matter what your opinion is of Glen Beck, you must watch this video of his all the way through. It is frightening to think what our State Department will do to enforce their brand of morals on all of us.
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What is Cultural Marxism?
 Cultural Marxism is a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as “multiculturalism” or, less formally, Political Correctness. From its beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of terms such as “multiculturalism.” Cultural Marxism began not in the 1960s but in 1919, immediately after World War I. Marxist theory had predicted that in the event of a big European war, the working class all over Europe would rise up to overthrow capitalism and create communism. But when war came in 1914, that did not happen. When it finally did happen in Russia in 1917, workers in other European countries did not support it. What had gone wrong? Independently, two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary, came to the same answer: Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interest that Communism was impossible in the West until both could be destroyed. In 1919, Lukacs asked, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” That same year, when he became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun government in Hungary, one of Lukacs’s first acts was to introduce sex education into Hungary’s public schools. He knew that if he could destroy the West’s traditional sexual morals, he would have taken a giant step toward destroying Western culture itself. In 1923, inspired in part by Lukacs, a group of German Marxists established a think tank at Frankfurt University in Germany called the Institute for Social Research. This institute, soon known simply as the Frankfurt School, would become the creator of cultural Marxism. To translate Marxism from economic into cultural terms, the members of the Frankfurt School - - Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, to name the most important - - had to contradict Marx on several points. They argued that culture was not just part of what Marx had called society’s “superstructure,” but an independent and very important variable. They also said that the working class would not lead a Marxist revolution, because it was becoming part of the middle class, the hated bourgeoisie. Who would? In the 1950s, Marcuse answered the question: a coalition of blacks, students, feminist women and homosexuals. Fatefully for America, when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Frankfurt School fled - - and reestablished itself in New York City. There, it shifted its focus from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to destroying it in the United States. To do so, it invented “Critical Theory.” What is the theory? To criticize every traditional institution, starting with the family, brutally and unremittingly, in order to bring them down. It wrote a series of “studies in prejudice,” which said that anyone who believes in traditional Western culture is prejudiced, a “racist” or “sexist” of “fascist” - - and is also mentally ill. Most importantly, the Frankfurt School crossed Marx with Freud, taking from psychology the technique of psychological conditioning. Today, when the cultural Marxists want to do something like “normalize” homosexuality, they do not argue the point philosophically. They just beam television show after television show into every American home where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual (the Frankfurt School’s key people spent the war years in Hollywood). After World War II ended, most members of the Frankfurt School went back to Germany. But Herbert Marcuse stayed in America. He took the highly abstract works of other Frankfurt School members and repackaged them in ways college students could read and understand. In his book “Eros and Civilization,” he argued that by freeing sex from any restraints, we could elevate the pleasure principle over the reality principle and create a society with no work, only play (Marcuse coined the phrase, “Make love, not war”). Marcuse also argued for what he called “liberating tolerance,” which he defined as tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left and intolerance for any ideas coming from the Right. In the 1960s, Marcuse became the chief “guru” of the New Left, and he injected the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now America’s state ideology. The next conservatism should unmask multiculturalism and Political Correctness and tell the American people what they really are: cultural Marxism. Its goal remains what Lukacs and Gramsci set in 1919: destroying Western culture and the Christian religion. It has already made vast strides toward that goal. But if the average American found out that Political Correctness is a form of Marxism, different from the Marxism of the Soviet Union but Marxism nonetheless, it would be in trouble. The next conservatism needs to reveal the man behind the curtain - - old Karl Marx himself. (The Free Congress Foundation’s website, www.freecongress.org, includes a short book on the history and nature of cultural Marxism, edited by William S. Lind. It is formatted so you can print it out as a book and share it with your family and friends.) In his columns on the next conservatism, Paul Weyrich has several times referred to “cultural Marxism.” He asked me, as Free Congress Foundation’s http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind-arch.html William S. Lind |
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