Don't we all remember the scene from "War Of The Worlds" (1953 with Gene Barry) where the preacher confronts a Martian Machine in the street of the pulverized city? He holds out his Bible toward the invader's pulsating "eye" and commands "In the Name of God . . . Stop!" The Machine zaps him with it's deathray beam.

The Martians have landed for REAL now, not at Grover's Mill, but in The Oval Office They did not ask to be taken to our Leader; they said, "We are the one you have been waiting for. We are your Leader." They have been pulverizing our economy and culture for months. They appear to be unstopable and NORMAL humans have no place left to flee. Despair settles over the land. Now Glenn Beck stands up to them holding out his book Arguing With Idiots in one hand and The Constitution in the other. Unfortunately, The Martians do not understand English and believe that power only comes from the barrel of a deathray.

Even though Glenn is a true American Hero and has educated so many Americans about the evils of Martian political ideology, he is about to have his molecules spread to the four corners of the Earth. You see, when The Martians are finished spreading the (our) wealth among themselves, humans will have little remaining value for them. They laugh at our reliance on WORDS and "The Democratic Process" after they had already taken the necessary steps to control both before their invasion.

The one remaining hope that Earthlings have now is that an external Conqueror more powerful than The Martians will come to our aid and bring a VERY BIG can of disinfectant!

--RPC, Friday, October 30, 2009

 BOOK REVIEW:

Throes Of Democracy, Walter A. McDougall, Harper, 2008.

This book approaches the great rift that afflicted our country from 1861 to 1865 not just as a war but as the centerpoint of a whole era. The subtitle is -- The American Civil War Era 1829 - 1877. Expansion, Indian wars, growth of a new Industrial Age, "Social Perfectionism", and "Cultural Pretense" are some topics covered as they exacerbated regional differences. Myths were broken and reborn couched in new terminology. One chapter descriptor is "The Glory And Fraud of Manifest Destiny - 1841-1848". Religious differences between North and South bred tension. The North became what we would call "Liberal" today while the South remained "Conservative". With 19 maps, the book is a hefty 627 pages with 144 pages of notes.

I believe this book reinforces what I have said in earlier articles here, namely that the REAL beginings of America's political problems began in THIS ERA and NOT with The Progressives of the Roosevelt/Wilson era. Those later years were actually PHASE TWO in the long-range plan for the destruction of the country. The FOUNDATION was laid here which was the ENDING of our Constitutional Republic. It was replaced (primarily via the 14th Amendment) by a strong centrist Federal oligarchy. Progressivism, then Socialism, and now today's Fascism have only been possible because of the events of the much earlier "Civil" War era. And, the cracks and strains of this era were direct outgrowths of holes (I think I see 8 of them) in our Constitution from it's beginning. So, what we really need in the largest sense is a) a complete takeover of government at all levels by conservative people who will then b) restore The Constitution and repair it's holes. Something like this WILL happen. I believe it's guaranteed. But it may not be WE who actually do it.  I am grateful for everything that Glenn Beck is doing to wake up people, but somebody please tell him that we don't have a Constitution anymore except insofar as it spells out the structure of elections and offices.  And even these don't matter anymore.  Talking, tea parties, and street marches mean NOTHING to those who rule by fiat.  Their next step will be to SILENCE media opposition.  Then what will we do?

--RPC, Sunday, October 18, 2009

New Books:

Grant And Sherman -- The Friendship That Won The Civil War, Charles Bracelen Flood, Harper Perrenial, 2005.
They first fought together at Shiloh and developed the final strategy to cut The South into thirds after Chattanooga in late '63. This book explores Grant and Sherman's early years as well as years shortly after The War. With battle maps in black and white, the book is about 400 pages and exists in both paperback and hardback. --RPC

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

The Tempting Of America by Robert H. Bork, Free Press, 1990

The Framers And Fundamental Rights edited by Robert A. Licht, AEI Press, 1991

The South Was Right ! by James and Walter Kennedy, Pelican Publ. Co., 1994

Why Government Doesm't Work by Harry Browne, St. Martin's Press, 1995

The End Of Democracy by Richard John Neuhaus, Spence Publ., Co., 1997