I have long had an interest in The American Civil War (should really be called The War For Southern Independence), though I never really knew why. I had hundreds of the Airfix 1" soldiers in blue and gray when I was in junior high school. Remember guys? Do you remember the box with cannons, caissons, and horses? Anyway, I poured over picture books and National Geographics and studied the battle maps with their beautiful colored bars that represented Corps and Divisions along with movement arrows. It was all glorious to a young kid (with his head all full of mush as Rush would say) as long as the 640,000 dead and 1.5 million maimed were kept out of mind.

Today, I learn the politics of that era and realize that the current liberal vs. Conservative War Between The Hates actually began by around the 1820s and erupted into shooting in 1861. It did NOT start with Teddy Roosevelt's progressivism as Glenn Beck has been learning. Hey Glenn, the stuff you've been learning is all true. BUT, that was only Satan's Phase 2 of his relentless assault on this nation of Israel. See my book review in the companion blog about who and where Israelites are today. Phase 3 picked up with FDRs socialism and continued through LBJs Great Society. We are now in Satan's Phase 4 -- an alliance between New World Order communists and Islam (read David Horowitz' book Unholy Alliance).

The typical 19th century response to tyranny and/or oppression was to take up arms and go to war. But in the latter half of the 20th century, we have seen a new and maybe more powerful kind of resistance. I like to call it "People Power". This is not the kind of "Mob Power" that stormed The Bastille in 1789. That mob freed France from it's King, but that mob was stirred up by socialists. That mob carried clubs, swords, and guns. That mob resulted in what was really the world's first communist government over a major country. The Reign Of Terror lasted 10 years until Napoleon stopped it. Russia 1917 was merely a repeat of France 1789. The Bolsheviks however learned from the previous French mistake of leaving Generals alive.

People Power is unarmed, massive, passive resistance. It was started (as far as I know) by Mahatma Gandhi in India in the late 1940s. It resulted in freedom from British rule. The Second People Power took place in 1960s America led by Martin Luther King. He openly said that he borrowed the tactics from Gandi. The Third People Power movement happened in The Philippines in 1986 led by Cory Aquino. All three succeeded with massive social change and freedom. Could The Fourth People Power be forming now here in America? Again, an unarmed, massive, passive resistance is forming against our oppressors -- our ELITISTS in government. I think yes -- BUT -- notice that each of the previous movements coalesced around a central figure. These were SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS not groups, ideals, or locations. As I have said before, the human species acts en mass similar to sheep herds. This is why the Bible keeps referring to us as sheep. Sheep need a shepherd to LEAD them! Sheep without a shepherd run off in all directions. They CANNOT lead themselves from within the flock! Such a disorganized flock is what forms Bastille mobs and Red Brigades. I sense that today's People Power movement may be coalescing around Glenn Beck, though he doesn't know it and would probably not want to admit it. I just hear so many people discussing what was on his TV show the day before. His ratings on TV have gone to the moon. He just may be a man MADE for this time! Remember Jesus' words -- "Do not be overcome by evil. But overcome evil with Good." Today, we must overcome evil not with guns, but with sit-ins. Because the consequences of Civil Wars with modern technology are just unthinkable.

How does all this relate to our Constitution? Well, Amendments can ONLY be drawn up and submitted to the States by Congress. All WE THE PEOPLE can do is petition them to "please" (like Oliver Twist begging for more gruel) consider one. So, if this current People Power pressure succeeds in stopping the communist takeover of our medical system, maybe a MASS movement of People Power in each State to "persuade" Legislatures to "persuade" Congress to introduce an Amendment that would impose TERM LIMITS on all Congrssmen and Senators could be next. Do ya think? You betcha!

--Ray Curtis, Houston, Wed. August 19,2009