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- Thinker822

I have to say that I was impressed with the number of concerned Americans that showed up to the Phoenix Tax Day Tea Party yesterday. My experiences at protest against illegal immigration left me expecting far less people than what showed up in front of Phoenix City Hall.

I’ve attended several rally’s against illegal immigration and have mostly been depressed by the lack of concern the majority of American’s seem to feel about losing their national identity.

I would guess-timate, and I have no true experience in this type of thing, that the crowd in Phoneix last night was between 2000 and 3000 United States tax paying citizens. Apparently Americans stand up and take notice when they feel the tickle of someones fingers in their pockets. Its a shame the theft has to be so obvious to prompt the the lethargic off their couches. We’re losing the America we grew up in in far more subtle ways than Obama’s debt creation …ways that few seem overly concerned about.

I’ve posted some of the pictures I took in the fed-up forum. Naturally I added my commentary between the pictures.

To date President Bush has pardoned 137 felons and commuted the sentences of 36. Yet one glaring omission from President Bush’s bounty of benevolence has been an act of clemency that would correct what many believe is a gross miscarriage of justice. President Bush has erased the felony records of scores of people guilty of crimes such as tax evasion, defrauding the US government, drug dealing, and embezzlement. Yet the criminal conduct of two Border Patrol agents in apprehending an illegal alien who later turned out to be smuggling 750 pounds of marijuana is not worthy of forgiveness? How any decent President – he is a decent man – could allow these men to sit in jail while pardons are being awarded defies logic.

President Bush, your statement has been made in full. Your shameful stance on Mexican Illegal Immigration and the ordeal of officers Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean will serve as stains on your legacy. These stances have decimated your credibility among conservative Americans and, as evidenced by the results of recent elections, destroyed America’s confidence in the Republican Party. President Bush, even if it’s your last act as President of the United States, commute the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They’ve lost enough of their lives. You’ve proven your fidelity to Mexico and Mexicans. Let these men go home to their families.

The Israeli assault is considered by many world powers to be disproportionate for the three thousand missiles the nation of Israel had to endure over the last three years. The reason for these randomly fired missiles into Israel’s civilian population? To fight the Israeli occupation, of course. Let’s conveniently ignore the fact that Israel completely withdrew presence from Gaza in 2005. Why did Israel withdraw from Gaza in 2005? They bought into the fallacious global notion that Islamic hatred can be satiated by exchanging Land for Peace. Once again the broken bodies of Palestinian children are on television.

Just what is rest of the world’s politically acceptable response to a foe that educates its children with hate and entertains them with a propagandized vitriolic Mickey Mouse? How can the West begin to understand that Palestine’s children amount to little more than Islam’s ultimate malleable tool in its hatred toward Israel and the West? Can the Western mind even conceive of the pure evil that would coerce one’s own child into donning explosives and walking into a crowded bus or marketplace to explode? Yet in the Arab world the Israelis are considered sub- human?

Apparently to the Palestinians it’s perfectly acceptable for their children to die if their deaths purchase their families entrance to heaven. But if the collateral damage caused by Israelis retaliatory attack on Hamas in Gaza kills children, women, the elderly, or the infirm – all fodder for Hamas’ glorious suicide belt – the entire Arab world erupts in outrage and the civilized world is flooded with images that evoke sympathy.

There can only be one response to a people, any people, who have convinced themselves that it is honorable or profitable in any way to use their children as weapons. Any religion or religious variant whose philosophy can justify to its followers the use of a bomb belt for salvation deserves to violently be put in the dust bin of history with the rest of humanities tyrants and fanatical movements. Appeasement has once again proven to be futile in dealing with Islamic extremism and the western world still refuses to acknowledge a fundamental difference between peoples.

Those who forget history, or choose to ignore its lessons, are doomed to repeat it. It appears for the western world that a harsh lesson is forthcoming.

I recall listening to my grandfathers stories about the Great Depression of 1929. He was just a teen at that time but was forced to support his mother and four sisters. Over many bountiful meals, which always included plenty of bread, he would tell the family stories of his experiences. He spoke of bread and soup lines, how jobs were practically non-existent, and how families pulled together as they struggled to keep a roof over their head and to eat. To this day his stories both resonate within me and fearfully motivate me.

Since the Great Depression the large majority of American’s have not had any concept of dire need. Our idea of hard times is when we haven’t enough money on hand to go out to eat, to buy pay-per-view, to take a vacation, to take in a movie, or when we have to juggle paying bills. Very few among us, as evidenced by our waistlines, need worry about eating every day and even fewer concern themselves with shelter. We can attribute this pampered condition (some might say spoiled) to my grandfather’s generation. They took the undeserved hardships of financial limbo on their shoulders and endured an economic depression until such time that Wall Street, and America, could recover. Some could argue, as my grandfather was wont to do, that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal policies prolonged the Great Depression of 1929. Some today would say that social attitudes put in place by FDR New Deal policies are a direct cause for today’s welfare state entitlement mentality and, consequently, America’s current financial troubles.

At this moment the jury is still out on whether the second Wall Street bailout bill will pass through Congress. Sadly I think the fear of culpability will allow this over politicked and well fattened measure to be passed. I’m no masochist and I do not find hardships to be romantic in any way. But the absolute last thing this country needs is to give oversight authority or any degree of managerial control to the very bureaucrats who helped to provoke the crisis to begin with.

I’d consider it a gift to my grandchildren to take the hit and weather the storm as my grandfather once did. After all it is the baby boomer generation and my own that created this mess. What selfish right do we think we have to shackle our posterity with a greater and more expansive socialist state? How can we go to our graves knowing that our children and their children will one day be negotiating terms for payment on debt we manufactured in order to maintain our bloated comfort level?

Instead of a $700 billion dollar bailout, my generation, and the boomer generation about to retire, should be made to account for their own mismanagement and selfish policies. It’s the boomer generation and their children (who I am among) who need shoulder the burden for this financial mess. It is we who should, if the situation calls for it, responsibly stand in the soup lines and scrape for our existence. It’s called tough-love and it’s the right thing to do.

Having listened to their deliberately public conversation I was compelled to ask, out of curiosity, why these young women would vote for Barack Obama instead of John McCain. The educated rationale given for choosing Barack Obama as America’s next President was a poor testament to the plight of Lydia Chapin Taft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the rest of the Women’s Suffrage movement. These young women concluded that they would cast their vote for Barack Obama because he is black, young and cute. Drawn into further query by the inane triviality of their reply, and to keep in line with their existing conversation, I asked how Barack Obama would help to lower oil prices. No answer. I asked how Barack Obama would prevent the United States from being attacked on a 9-11 scale after our troops were removed from Iraq and Afghanistan. Again, they offered no answer.

Two days later I had another opportunity to discuss Obama. This encounter happened when I went to retrieve my mail at my rented postbox. I pulled my Honda CRV into a spot adjacent to a pickup truck with an Obama “O” sun rising over a patch of land draped with the American flag and a bumper sticker stating “Piss off a Conservative Think, Explore, and Learn.” As I waited on line for the attendant to retrieve my package the woman behind me asked if I owned the CRV with the “Liberals make me Sick” bumper sticker. I answered that the CRV was mine and for a few minutes we discussed our mutual distaste for liberals. Two ahead of me in line, a forty something woman took offence to our low tone conversation and with a red face proceeded to blame conservatives for everything bad in the world. Naturally she said we were going to get ours when Obama was elected because he knew how to correct all the damage George W. Bush, and all us conservatives, did to America during his eight years.

Not to make a scene I asked calmly, with genuine curiosity and without any intention of agitation, “What it was that Obama was going to change if he were elected in November?” I was told “Our image in the world.” I asked “What was wrong with America’s image.” I was told “We’re seen as greedy war mongers.” I then asked “How so?” After several seconds I received no answer. It was her turn at the counter and the conversation was forgotten. Several minutes later I concluded my business at the customer service desk and found the liberal waiting for me near our vehicles. Calmly she informed me that the reason Americans are seen as greedy warmongers is because we went to war over oil and did so without the United Nations authorization. I asked “If we really did go to war over oil, and now we have control of those Iraqi oil fields, why was gas almost $4.00 a gallon? Shouldn’t gas have gone down in price rather than increase?” “Greedy oil companies” she said. “But we buy 70% of our oil from overseas sources. We can’t really set the base price for oil if we’re not producing the oil,” I answered. Annoyed she left a trail of black exhaust as she drove her gas guzzling Ford F150 pickup truck out of the parking lot.

It is truly remarkable how far we’ve allowed our societies deductive mental capacity to devolve. Equally depressing is the sheer quantity of unthinking “kool-aid” drinking sheep that have been cultivated in our society. A child could pierce the marketing strategy of the Obama machine yet millions of voting age adults choose to blindly forgo all that is relevant in choosing a leader. Instead they place their hope, not in their own ability, but in an extraordinarily vague representation of “change” that is poised to further expand government, to curtail individual freedom, and to expand economic and social dependence on an all-knowing ruling elite. By today’s media standards, and in today’s society, Jim Jones would have led millions of Americans to a cyanide Kool-Aid cocktail in Guyana rather than the 900 he murdered with his enticing quasi-religious quasi-communist spiel and charisma.

Barack Obama is the quintessential affirmative action candidate. Many that plan to vote for him, as if to satisfy some type of social obligation or quota, simply feel that its “time” for a black man to have a chance at the most powerful office in the world. Are there competent black men and women in the United States who can preserve our nation and continue America’s greatness? Of course! But whenever a qualified member of black American society seeks power he/she is dissected as not black enough, not honorable enough, not charismatic enough, and/or not liberal enough for the media and the democrat party. What’s wrong with Michael Steele, Condoleezza Rice, Colon Powell, Alan Keyes, JC Watts or Thomas Sowell? Apparently the traditional standards of perceived experience, conviction, honor, truth, and integrity have been lowered even below those once required of the former first black president (Bill Clinton).

In politics today it’s important to have no political record to speak of and to offer ambiguous positions on key issues. It’s imperative to create good photo opportunities even if the giant crowd consists of German citizens who have absolutely no bearing in an American election. As if to meet some overdue quota, patriotism (or any heartfelt sense of allegiance to one’s own country) is no longer a requirement to lead the United States. Apparently to those on the left, and those who sip their Kool-Aid, the President of the United States should be more proud of his being born on planet Earth than his good fortune to be born a citizen of the nation he hopes to lead.

The phenomenon that is Barack Obama has proven that in today’s media-fed unquestioning servile society a candidate need only exceptional charisma, crafty speech writers, and good public relations people to coordinate photo shoots and smooth over the automatons faux pas in order to make a serious run at the Whitehouse. Would a white candidate be lauded by the media, not to mention millions of citizens, if his talking points were so vague, his associations so unsavory, or his platform so anti-American in nature? Would any white politician be elevated to such lofty heights if his experience was lacking and his designs for America were so socialistically oriented? Maybe so… provided that white candidate was a democrat.

Undoubtedly many black voters will vote for Barack Obama solely on the basis of his skin color and a cultivated sense of overdue entitlement. Many white voters will vote for Obama out of some misguided “sins of the father” sense of guilt or over the fear of being labeled a racist. Still many others will not vote at all because they are disgusted with the paltry offerings from both the Republican globalists and the Democrat socialists. In any event, one of these two men will be elected as America’s 44th President in November. The prospect for a sovereign America never looked so dismal.

America was born and both God and man saw that it was good.

In its scant 231 years the United States of America has achieved tremendous feats with its culture and technology. America, unlike any country, has significantly shaped its world and, for quite some time, all of humanity benefitted from America’s freedom, generosity, and restraint.

It is said that no good deed goes unpunished.

Since its creation America has been under assault. As the world became increasingly aware of the bounty of natural resources possesses by this cocky, sometimes arrogant, nation of individualist free thinkers, it began to devise ways to replenish their dysfunctional socialist societies with America’s wealth. Yet at each occasion the leaders of the United States of America recognized the subtle (and not so subtle) threats in all their forms and opted to protect that which four thousand colonists shed their blood to create and hundreds of thousands of Americans have died to preserve.

America was the worlds jewel; it was the best hope for mankind, it was the pinnacle of applied philosophical evolution and, perhaps most disturbing to its detractors, it actually WORKED where countless other societies have failed miserably! Unparalleled in history, human beings finally created an environment where people were more likely to die of old age than from disease, starvation, or violence. Americans created an environment where food was plentiful and readily available, where water was clean and opportunity abounded for all men. In America, wealth entitled the bearer to more options in life but didn’t grant social standing, divine right to rule, or any degree of superiority over any other citizen.

Despite all the good the United States has done there are those in the world who could not accept America or its ways. Methodically and over a great many years communists, socialist and fascist have taken advantage of Americas freedom and openness to infiltrate American society and cultivate their philosophies in the American psyche. The once proud and fiercely self-sufficient American people were taught in their schools and in their media to doubt themselves, to question their undertakings, and to resentfully loath success (the pinnacle of capitalistic achievement).

“Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” Adolph Hitler- to an ideological opponent.

Today America is precariously balanced on the razors edge of history’s dust bin. A war is being fought on several fronts and the majority of Americans are deliberately ignoring major issues that future generations will eventually have to confront. Issue like: Islamic Fascism, self enduced dependence on foreign oil, mammoth government waste and overspending, illegitimate government programs, cultural/educational/economic erosion due to illegal immigration, the insolvency of social security, degradation of lawfulness, the usurption of individual authory, a total distrust of government, and the dumbing down of American youth (who will one day have to shoulder the burden for the “boomer” generations rape of public funds and establishment of widespread social welfare) leaving them ill prepared for the technological future America itself set in motion.

In 2009 Americans will select a new president for the United States. This president will need to confront all of the critical issues listed above. But it probable that he (or she) will only provide half hearted lip service to one or two issues before claiming congressional gridlock and going about his(or her) private agenda. The coming election will do nothing more than further reinforce the disdain many Americans feel toward their government and underscore the people’s increasing lack of faith in its ability to save this nation.

John McCain is an amnesty friendly big government globalist who cares little about what people want outside of election time. Barack Hussein Obama is an amnesty friendly, charismatic, socialist, big government, anti-American Islamic sympathizer bent on America’s defeat in the war against terror. And Hillary Clinton is a power driven big government opportunistic communist. None of those vying for the Presidency in 2009 are capable preserving or restoring America – but one will sit in the White House.

In America’s future there will be a drastic shift left, and once again, by design, Americans have no real choice in the matter. Finally, it appears, the communists, socialists, and fascists will have their chance to attempt their malnourished philosophies at America’s expense. There was a time not long ago when Americans would be infuriated by these events. There was a time such candidates would bring about the stirrings of revolt. But these days insecure and frightened voters have been conditioned to gleefully welcome the shift left as salvation from their own ineptness or, at the very least, to sit idly by and do nothing as it arrives.

Such conduct by any politician in the United States is harmful to American democracy. But the severity of the problem is compounded, perhaps irreparably, when the politician is supposed to represent the citizens of a border state, a border city or a border town. The citizens of these states, where the issue related to illegal immigration is impossible to ignore, are demanding patriotic fidelity and constitutional servitude from their politicians. But their public servants, like Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, choose to work against the will of the American citizens.

Currently there is a petition circulating in Phoenix to recall Mayor Phil Gordon. The petition was proposed by a group called the American Citizens United (ACU). This group’s sole purpose is to bind patriotic Americans of every race creed and color in order to end the massive influx of illegal aliens that is destroying America’s culture, America’s economy, and decimating rule of law in the United States. Of course this goal is opposed by Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon as well as Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, both Democrats, in favor of their desire to foster a sanctuary city for illegal aliens.

At issue with many Arizonans is the Phoenix Mayors reluctance to shut down the Macehualli Day Labor Union in Phoenix Arizona. This center was constructed in 2003 by the Phoenix City Council and cost the Phoenix taxpayers $120,000. The City Council claimed that the purpose for the Center was to provide a safe meeting place for temporary workers and those who hire them. But many in Arizona know that the true intention of this center was to remove the blatant eyesore of hordes of aliens loitering on street corners and in the parking lots of Home Depot or Lowes stores in hopes of finding work. Aliens, who by US law, have no right to be in the United States let alone take work from legitimate citizens.

To add to the public’s discontent, Mayor Gordon has instructed the Phoenix police to ignore the legal status of individuals they encounter unless they are suspected of or are apprehended committing a felony. This edict clearly conveys the Mayors mindset that being in the United States illegally is not a crime in and of itself and that Americans need only be protected from ‘serious’ crimes. This stance is rather ironic considering Phoenix’s national ranking among the most crime ridden cities in the nation relating to auto theft, identity theft, murder, forcible rape, home invasion, and human trafficking. Considering Phoenix’s population of approximately 1.5 million people its crime statistics are alarmingly high. Perhaps Phoenix’s higher than normal crime rate corresponds to the estimated 500,000 Mexican aliens who reside in the state and are being protected by Governor Napolitano and Mayor Gordon’s imposition of a sanctuary city for illegal’s?

Astonishingly Mayor Gordon instead of enforcing the people’s will has labeled American Citizens United and people like them who oppose his sanctuary city policies “extremists”. Yet it’s the likes of Mayor Gordon, Governor Napolitano, and host of other Arizona state Democrats who repeatedly thwart the will of those who elected them. It is they who reject the legitimate call for law enforcement and border security and it is they that turn a blind eye to the threat their policies force Arizona citizens to endure. Are American laws supposed to be selectively enforced at the discretion of bureaucrats?

The conditioned docility of the American people will only keep them passive and permissive for so long. There will come a day when elitist politicians and trespassing foreign nationals will be called to task. Americans are not passive or complacent by nature. Americans are angry and it’s only a matter of time before the domestic sleeping tiger awakens and Americans reclaim their government and their land. The extremists are those sympathetic Americans, like Phoenix Mayor Gordon and Arizona Governor Napolitano, who support illegal immigrants over the will of the American people.

Mayor Gordon needs to be made an example of. If for no other reason but to send a shockwave up the spine of elitist politicians across the nation who forget that in America they are given the authority to lead for the express purpose of representing the interests of those who elected them. It’s called representative government, it used to exist in the United States and it’s never existed in Mexico.

Recall Mayor Phil Gordon! For more infomation and petition locations visit www.recallmayorgordon.com.

Fed-Up With Political Correctness will be helping to circulate petitions to recall Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon for being too soft on the issue of Illegal Immigration.

If you’d like to sign this petition please contact us and we will let you know they location, days, and times where you can meet with us. You must be a resident of Phoenix who is of voting age for your signature to be counted.

We need almost 26,000 residents to sign the petition to force another election or for Gordon to fall on his sword politically (not that I anticipate he has thatmuch honor).

To the Republicans that are currently leading us, please read my sincere comments, and the article I am forwarding to you.

Sadly, Minister Baldwin is 100% accurate, yet very few of us believe you are listening to him. AND sadly again, we really don’t believe that any of you care that we are dissatisfied with what we see was “OUR” party. We are hearing “words”, but not really seeing any actions to encourage us at all. I am even at a point that I doubt you will even read this, or respond, because I have written so many times that you didn’t. I guess I just believe you will one day see the point, and if not, I guess I get another good nights sleep by getting this off my chest again. You don’t acknowledge this, but you know I am not the only person that feels this way, and this sincerely troubles me for this nation. 

I have been with the GOP since 1968 in voting practice, and in reality…..in patriotic spirit. As I watched the Democrat party become the “Socialist Party”, I became a converted Democrat and Republican Party member in the early 80’s. My family grew up in the Democrat Party in the south, and you know that party turned it’s nose up against family values, AND our Constitution in the early 1900’s. It was incredibly stealth, and “felt” so right that we didn’t see the damage until the late 50’s. The destruction of this nation, that WE as citizens have allowed that party to do is unforgivable. I can at least say that we, as a Christian-Conservative family, tried to be a part of the positive “change” that the Republicans once could embrace.

Now, without argument, the Republican Party appears to be no better, and is headed the same way. The proof is in this Presidential election that really gives our citizens three “Democrats” to vote for. The term RINO sadly became a fact, not fiction by the early 21st century, and we all just let it happen. We are to blame primarily, but those that “fooled” us are complicit, as well. Our only hope is that the Good Lord helps either Congressman Paul, or a strong third party candidate overcome in 2008. If this is not HIS WILL, then by 2009 when the dust settles,
America WILL see that all three of these people, within reason, have the same agenda……..Globalization, and the destruction of our Constitution and our nation. Okay, maybe Obama IS a little more frightening. However, NO ONE in the U.S. has a Constitutional chance of this nation surviving as THE United States of America, that we were endowed with by our Creator and our Forefathers, with any of these three people.