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