In the latest re-definition of what it means to be an American, Congress critter Jackie Speier of California has declared that it is un-American to not fund the Obamacare outreach. I guess this latest addition will be added to the long list of behaviors considered to be un-American.

Let’s see, if you are a big business, you are now considered un-American. If you ‘buy american’ you are considered un-American. If you support the NRA, you are un-American. Taking steps to control Medicaid costs is now considered un-American. Gay marriage is considered un-American. It was un-American for the head of the 0-regime to make a call for ‘duty’ and service’. There are numerous other recent examples of behaviors and attitudes that someone has labelled as being un-American.

The problem is that when you consider the united States as a propositional nation, you run into problems. When this happens, it is not a ‘real’ nation, but only a commitment to an idea. By changing the definition of America to an idea, the meaning often becomes fluid and shifts to meet the needs of the handlers and powers that be. When you define America as a particular geographic place, with a particular culture, such changes in definition are not so easily made. The conservative often still view America as a geographic place with a commitment to Christian values. Progressives view America as a ‘proposition’ that ‘all men are created equal’. With that kind of proposition, the door is open to socialism. They often change what equality means as well. Instead of everyone having equality before the law, now it becomes, equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, equality of income. They want us all to be homogenized into a single unit. By shifting what equality means, they change their focus. and change the ground rules of how society operates.

The latest accusations of being un-American are the latest round in the propaganda wars.

I still chuckle to myself knowing from history that the founding fathers wanted the nation to live off of tariffs only. They also had thriving businesses which consisted of smuggling, gun running and other fun filled activities. There were no currency controls. Each State made their own laws. If you did not like the laws of one State, you moved to another. There were no identity papers, and no passports. The government really could tell people no you can not live in our State and mean it. You could import whatever you wanted, including guns. There was no property tax. You owned your property in perpetuity. You had the mineral rights to your property. Perhaps they knew more about what it meant to be an American than people do now days.

Liberty for Texas!

JM

It is a striking contrast how six months after Hurricane Sandy, many thousands remain homeless and the people are raising questions about whether the federal government fulfilled its promises of helping them with how things are going in West, Texas. In West, the people are organizing fund raisers and being assisted by other Texas communities in recovery, since they are not sure that they can count on federal aid. There is a vast difference in how each community has dealt with the disaster they experienced. There are also lessons to be learned in the attitude and response of the people to what occurred in their lives.

It says a great deal when a community remains devastated six months after a disaster and the Governor of that State says that the head of the regime fulfilled his promises. My point is that as Texans and Southrons, we will not be able to count on the empire to assist us. It is nice if they do, but it is not to be depended on. When disaster struck my family with Hurricane Ike, I saw first hand who was there to assist and who was not. The Texas company HEB along with Anheiser Bush had trucks of supplies on the scene pronto. The empire…well, let’s say that they took their time. They did come through, but it often involved red tape, long waits and wanting to take control. I have seen federal assistance and local assistance in response to disasters.

Instead of being frustrated waiting for promises that are delayed or never come through, communities need self-reliance and mutual assistance.

Liberty for Texas!

JM

Another clear call to wake up is the handling of the Boston Marathon attack. The accused bomber said that he “Wanted to defend Islam”. His statement is a direct contradiction of the regime who claims that there is no war on Islamic terrorism and intentionally redefined national policy to view ‘violent extremism’ as threat. This kind of leadership is confusing and dangerous. A further sign is how the Saudi ‘person of interest’ was on the terror watch list, yet allowed to enter the US. . Congress is now wanting answers as to how one of the bombing suspects was allowed into the country AFTER Russia alerted the US to possible threats from him.

What all this confusion makes clear is that this regime is ….incompetent when it comes to dealing with threats. They can not protect the nation from threats, they do not know who the real enemy is and do not want to acknowledge the threat of Mohammedism. They have bent over backwards to kowtow to CAIR and the Saudi government and those entities turn around and attack the sovereignty of the States and communities.

Instead of such confusion, we need a government that does its job. Presently, the regime is too busy trying to open the borders and find new ways to use the sequester cuts to mess up the daily operations while preserving their own revenue than to do their job. Rather than defend the Constitution, they are trying to redefine it and weasel around it.

We need liberty!

JM

As the media scramble to cover the events taking place today in Boston, there are some reporters who are going out of their way to find a connection with conservative groups (Wolf Blitzer) and even Waco (Luke Russert). Using their positions of societal influence to manipulate public opinions is nothing new. The media’s bias is clear. They do not like conservatives or Southrons. Russerts making connections to Waco bends history. He attempted connecting the Boston incident which occurred today, the 15th with an incident that occurred on April 19th. Although the marathon is being run on the day celebrated as Patriot’s Day, the real Patriot’s Day is April 19th. In early American history, it was the day of Lexington and Concord. People celebrated it as ‘Patriot’s Day’. It was also the day the BATF stormed the Branch Davidians in Waco, killing more children than Sandy Hook. Since it was the federal government doing the killing, little was made of the use of armored personnel carriers, helicopters, incendiary rounds or banned tear gas. Although each of these are military weapons being used against civilians, there was not the public outcry in the media like we have seen with the Connecticut tragedy. The 19th of April is also the anniversary of when the Polish freedom fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto halted an early morning attack of Nazi troops who sought the destruction of the ghetto and extermination of its inhabitants. This is the reason the people at Waco flew a flag commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on the 19th, which was the last day for many of them.

The liberal media is making it clear that they are looking for a Southern or conservative scapegoat on which to brandish all the blame for the ills of the nation. The Yankees have a long history of using the South as their whipping boys. This latest incident is just the latest example of how low they are willing to go, even to the point of stretching history to fit their perceptions. When they bend and distort Texas history, it is always a sore subject. The bottom line is that they lie, they distort the facts and when they are on a witch hunt, they make it obvious. It is also obvious that the media is not a friend of the South, conservatives or Texas.

Instead of lies and distortions, we need honest reporting.

Liberty for Texas!

JM