Convoluted Observations on a Cornered Mouse
Posted in An American Revolution on August 26th, 2010 by MorningStarI find it very interesting that when Barack Obama spoke at the Jesuit run Georgetown University his staff went to great trouble covering up the symbols of Christianity in Gaston Hall where he spoke and they were especially insistent about covering the symbolic representation of the name of Christ that otherwise would have appeared on the wall behind him approximately eight to ten feet over his head. Georgetown University was, after all founded by the Jesuit order which is also known as The Society of Jesus and the symbolic IHS has represented the name of Jesus and is considered sort of a trademark of the Jesuit Order for centuries. Without regard for anything other than appearances the symbol was covered with a piece of plywood painted black during Obama’s speech. This is not the only time that Obama’s staff members have appeared to be somewhat phobic about the symbols of the Christian religion but we can only assume that their actions are not personally motivated by their own feelings, but like all good staffers, they intuit the mood of their boss and are carefully attuned to his likes and dislikes and the general assumption is that Barack Obama has little toleration for Christianity these days. Admittedly he went to a Christian church off and on for years but it was more a forum for the festering animosity felt towards white people than a legitimate church. All things considered that “church” and the “churches” frequented by skinheads and members of the KKK have much in common despite their rabid, bug-eyed, ignorant hatred of each other. Regardless, Barack Obama has claimed, in the past to be a “Christian,” whatever that might mean these days, but he has resolutely disengaged himself, his family and the American government from all things “Christian” in appearance for the sake of his interpretation of the separation of church and state.
However, it appears that Barack Obama’s personal interpretation of the separation of church and state is somewhat selective in application because it does not appear to affect his perspective on the religion of Islam. He has frequently opened his speeches to the people of the Muslim Middle Eastern nations with praises to Allah and his attempts to mitigate the “misunderstandings” between Mohamed’s fundamentalist fanatics and the Western nations are steeped in Muslim rhetoric and references to the Quran. Whether or not this implies some inconsistency in Mr. Obama’s policies towards religious matters or not is difficult to say. I don’t want to unfairly pick on the poor guy. His performance has gone from optimistic to wacky chaos to socialistic to unreasonable to just about every extreme that exists, and for me to come along chucking religious confusion on top of the pile of previously demonstrated inconsistencies seems a bit unfair and finicky, but then again, I’m just voicing my opinion and it isn’t as if he reads every critical comment I write.
Having grown up in a predominantly “Christian” society I suppose my view could be somewhat biased despite my lack of both faith and belief in a kind and compassionate Christian God. Understandably, the beliefs of the Christian church remain strong in American society and the religious beliefs, teachings, and superstitious nonsense of the ignorant masses associated with the fringe of Christianity’s more acceptable divisions are imprinted on those who are subjected to them at an impressionable age. In some cases this imprinting is indelible and has long lasting implications throughout the existence of the the individual subjected to it. In other cases these teachings are rejected out of hand despite the extreme youth of the child and their tendency towards being impressionable. The bullshit detectors of children are, more often than not, fairly accurate and operational at far earlier ages than modern science allows.
I will not be distracted into offering proof of that statement, therefore, the reader is free to accept or reject it as they will, and little, if any sweat will accumulate on my hairy backside in consequence. I will state, however, that I remember, as a very young child forced to regularly endure the imbecilic tortures of Presbyterian Sunday School, I consciously rejected them as being utterly absurd at the approximate age of six. My views on whatever transpired prior to that singular point in time where rejection occurred remains hidden, if it even exists, in the farthest uncharted regions of my subconscious. Advanced Senility may bring it out and I may spend my advanced years frustrating caretakers with never ending repetitions of “B -I -B – L – E, Yes that’s the book for me” and “Jesus loves me yes I know, cause the Bible tells me so.” See! That’s exactly what I am speaking of. Rejected yes; forgotten no. Those things are added to the accumulation of junk we call ourselves, and like it or not, they become incorporated into the personality of each of us. Furthermore, whether or not it is politically correct to mention it or not, the United States of America was founded on thick layer of Christian principles by a group of men who were predominantly Christians, practicing or not, and the essential aspects of Christian morality is glaringly evident in the words they spoke, the documents they left behind and the legislation they passed in the formative years of this nation. Christianity is so embedded in American law and thought that any attempt to eradicate it entirely would result in great division and conflict. The religion has changed as have the people who practice it. Overall, Christianity is far less judgmental and narrow-minded than it once was; the churches perspective of good and evil have become so diluted over the years that it is difficult to tell one from the other, but the rigidity of stubborn dogma has survived among many and theological tradition is still the fuel of staunch religious conservatives who are more than eager to fight, tooth and nail, for their continued existence.
Despite my personal belief that Barack Obama is neither Muslim nor Christian, I have nothing to support that assumption beyond his own actions and words. He appears willing and eager to step on Christian morality, theology and tradition, but he pussyfoots around Muslim theology like he is afraid of offending the Islamic sensibilities. I suppose some of that can be excused by the volatility of 1.5 billion, mostly ignorant and highly emotional Muslims who are characteristically well known for their propensity to violent outbursts and childish tantrums. Christians rarely riot these days. Given the extreme dilution of their current beliefs they may well be the most tolerant people on the planet because they’ve lost the ability to tell dark from light and good from bad. They have the capacity to forgive the most depraved acts with unwarranted justifications and a perverse sense of understanding. On the food chain of religion, Christianity has lost its teeth, its claws fell out and its glossy lush fur is now tattered and mangy. Jesus might be still tenaciously hanging on but all by all indications he may soon be living in the attic storage room alongside Zeus, Pan and Osiris. Mohamed’s teeth have been honed to sharpened spikes and the Islam of today thrives largely on the ignorance of the poor and impoverished. Nearly 1400 years after the final prophet of a vengeful god became food for the worms, his followers are pushing their twisted interpretations of his words back to the top of the blood drenched heap where all great religions attain dominance. If he were alive today he, like Jesus would be living in anguish as his tear filled eyes took in the mutant form of the child he once fostered, but to the everlasting gratitude of today’s Muslim manipulators, Mohamed is dead and cannot contest the blood thirsty, death dealing beast that has been brought to life by devious and demonic men he would have harshly rejected out of hand fourteen hundred years ago. In the grand scheme of things, it matters little. Barack Obama is a cowardly despot, a quality shared by many American politicians. He has no personal integrity, no strength of purpose, no internal sense of direction, and no capacity to comprehend or differentiate between that which is good and that which is evil. He is only concerned with his ceaseless struggle for power, the capricious winds of fate blow him this way and that and what he supports today may be the very antithesis of what he supports tomorrow because he lacks all sense of conviction and he quakes in fear before the awesome responsibility of leadership, a simple word that he cannot begin to fathom.
Obama can easily insult the community of Christians because it is a popularly accepted practice among the academic elitists he favors. He can condemn America’s poor and ignorant for turning to their religion and their guns for solace in tough times because it is pleasing rhetoric to the ears of over-educated fools who are more than willing to pay $30,000 for the chance to share a plate full of rubbery chicken with a man of no real substance and great authority. It is easy to forget and to dismiss the hopes and dreams of the majority when you surround your over bloated un-meritorious self with well-blessed sycophants untarnished by hard labor, demolished dreams and a phobic desire to avoid the unwashed masses of middle-class, high school educated workers who pull on their cheap jeans before the break of dawn with callused hands and the knowledge that another day’s labor is near at hand. From the window of a chartered jet, all of mankind appears small and inconsequential; their problems are distant and weightless. It is safer and much easier to guess what those minuscule figures below by assessing the data accumulated by professional bean counters. But who’s to say that the bean counters don’t have their own agenda? When lost and without guidance will a broken compass serve as well as an accurate compass or would sheer arrogance prompt the fool to throw both aside as so much unnecessary weight and proceed without benefit of either assured in the knowledge that, as master of all they see, there is no cause for concern. Can any of us honestly believe that Barack Obama would embrace the far more ignorant and decidedly more unwashed masses of the Muslim world than he has their Christian counterparts? I have serious doubts that he would.
I am still trying to figure out why Obama came out in support of Manhattan’s Park Place mosque, not that it was the wrong thing to do, but for a man that will not stand in front of a symbol of the Christian God, purportedly because of the separation of church and state, announcing his support for this mosque during a White house celebration dinner for the beginning of the Muslim Ramadan seems a bit risky, if not outright hypocritical.
For Barack the magnificent, the one true god is power and authority. He will direct his minions to pick up ever scrap and pebble of it that his trained eye picks out, his back will not bend and he will not dirty his manicured hands when he has others to do the work for him. If he has any conviction it is that power leads to greater power as wealth leads to greater wealth, this is the essence of his being and the substance of all that he worships. The religion of power is amoral, it acknowledges no concept of good nor evil but encourages it’s followers to advantage themselves of whatever means are at hand to avail themselves of further gain. Manipulation, slant, spin and omission are the rituals of it’s worshiper’s attainment and elevation.
I have few doubts that Barack Obama will be a one term president, and if he continues as he has, that term may be far shorter than normal. History will not be kind to Barack the Magnificent, and if we manage to survive the remainder of his time in office then we may live long enough to repeat the mistake as we have so many times before.
During the most prolonged presidential campaign in American history Barack Obama consistently promised an honest and transparent administration, a government free of the influence of lobbyists, and an end to the partisan bickering and deadlock.
Across the nation the American news media gave Obama their whole-hearted support, handled his opposition with extreme prejudice, omitted facts about the candidates on both sides that, if published, could have altered the outcome of the election, and portrayed Barack Obama as the voters only reasonable choice to undo the work of George W. Bush after they had spent the previous eight years convincing the general populace was the spawn of Satan.
One and a half years after Obama first sat down in the oval office it is clearly evident that his campaign promises had less substance than any presidential candidate in the political history of the United States. His economic recovery plan has proven to be an abysmal and expensive failure. If anything his convoluted programs have made matters far worse than they were before. Home foreclosures are increasing at an alarming rate, the banks are refusing assistance to those who do not fit into narrowly defined categories, their interest rates have escalated and the manipulated unemployment rate is nothing more than a fantasy to hide the fact that more American citizens are unemployed than ever before. The jobs that have been created are all in newly created or expanding government departments and that simply means that out taxes will inevitably be increased to pay those wages.
Every important piece of legislation passed at Obama’s insistence, from the Economic Recovery Act to the infamous Obamacare, will rape the paychecks of the American workers like never before. By 2020, 50% of every dollar earned by American workers will be sucked up by the federal government to pay for the entitlement programs that Obama has created. In direct proportion to the financial hardship of these burdensome taxes, the productivity of American workers will fall like a stone. Effectively, Barack Obama has made us all slaves of the federal government and slaves have little reason to show initiative. Given the fact that Obama still has another two and a half years to go and his “to do” list is growing, 50% by 2012 may be a conservative estimate; it could be higher; much higher. We could end up with a little as 15 cents on the dollar for every hour worked.
Barack Obama swore that he would change the way this country was governed and he has certainly accomplished that. For the first time in the history of this free nation, the American people are getting a taste of what it feels like to live under a totalitarian regime. His legislative acts mandate obligatory individual compliance under threats of financial penalties and possible incarceration.
Agreements and deals are hammered out with special interest groups and multinational corporations behind closed doors and without regard for the opinions of the majority. Instead of choices and options we are handed orders and no logical explanations are offered. The rhetoric flows like water through a burst dam but it is all meaningless drivel and what we, the American people, see has little comparison to what we have been told.
All things considered, it appears that the federal government, a government that is now defined in every detail by a despotic president, is entirely oblivious to the common sense street logic shared by even the youngest of society’s disposable population; that is, even the smallest mouse, when cornered and sufficiently badgered, will come out fighting.
The fastest growing belief in the United States today is that the federal government has become the number one threat to American freedom and liberty. The average citizen of this nation, whether registered to vote as a Democrat or a Republican, has little, if any trust remaining for Washington’s political processes, and most of these individuals have come to the obvious conclusion that the political party they are, or were affiliated with has no intention of fixing the problems or relieving the burdens they are being forced to shoulder. In short, the American people are getting a good feel of what it is like to be the cornered mouse.
These are dangerous times, federal, state and local laws have done everything possible to limit the American people’s access to firearms and ammunition and the primary motivation for these restrictions has less to do with public safety than the entirely justifiable fear that is felt by the elected officials that have chased that mouse into the corner.
The anxiety is building like the rumble of an approaching earthquake; a tidal wave that will destroy all in its path. Revolutions are unpredictable events. Like highly unstable explosives, they often go off for no apparent reason. The arrival of a shipment of tea touched off the string of events that started the American Revolution,
The 1965 riots that shook Southern California and touched off riots in many other large metropolitan cities around the nation began with a simple traffic citation. The full force of numerous Southern California police departments and a well-armed compliment of the California National Guard were powerless to stop any of it, and in the end it petered out of its own accord.
Following the revolution in Great Britain; also known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Richard Price, a Protestant minister, stated with conviction, “ Tremble all ye oppressors of the world! Take warning all ye supporters of slavish governments. . . . Call no more reformation, innovation. You cannot hold the world in darkness. Struggle no longer against increasing light and liberality. Restore to mankind their rights; and consent to the correction of abuses, before they and you are destroyed together. “
The French Revolution which began in 1798 was the result of situations very similar to what we are seeing today in the United States. High unemployment, unsustainable national debt, ever increasing taxes, a complete lack of transparency in government, numerous failed reforms and the conspicuous consumption of France’s wealthy elitists who cared little for the common man forced to prop up their lifestyles.
The word “Revolution” stems from the Latin word “revolutio” which simply means “to turn around.” Essentially, with respect to governments, a revolution would be a fundamental change in the authority and/or the procedural and organizational structures. Characteristically, revolutions are not protracted events of extended duration; most are very brief and many happen literally overnight or in a brief span of days. Despite what many people believe, revolutions are actually quite common throughout history and they vary broadly with respect to methodology, length and motivation. There is a great deal, if not excessive, amount of debate among leading (and mundane) historians, sociologists, political scientists (an oxy-moron if there ever was one), and the essential factor that most, if not all of these over-educated scholars agree upon is that revolution, as a social phenomenon, is a highly complex matter. I would venture to say that the more educated the scholar, the more complex the matter becomes, and more factors (related and unrelated) are involved in that individual’s explanation. While I am certain that all of those studies have some degree of merit and credibility, and any serious student of history would undoubtedly benefit by studying what these individuals have to say, I can state with complete confidence and absolute certainty that the entire topic can be summed up very succinctly.
All forms of government eventually resort to totalitarianism if they did not start there to begin with. Totalitarianism results in ever-expanding oppression. When the oppression becomes so burdensome that existence becomes problematic, the proverbial mouse is in the corner with no means of escape except through the oppressor.
All forms of government ultimately, but in very slow incremental steps, evolve into tyrannies. Initially the people governed welcome the changes that lead to tyranny because they are fearful of real or imagined catastrophes. These fears are encouraged and often initiated by the government and its politicians as a means of gaining political power over the governed. All changes in government result in the growth of that government and all growth in government is paid for by the governed in the form of taxes paid under the coercive threat of punishment including, but not limited to financial attachments, fines and/or imprisonment. In direct proportion to the size and continued growth of the government the natural rights of the governed are slowly reduced thereby transferring the authority of the capricious and untrustworthy individual to the wise and benevolent government.
In case I confused you with the term “natural rights,” I am speaking of the rights that all animals on the planet Earth are endowed with at birth, such as the right to associate with, or not associate with those of your choosing, the right to attain the highest degree of satisfaction possible considering your personal abilities and limitations, the right to come and go as you please, when you please, the right to make all the racket you are capable of making as well as the right to make no racket at all if that is to your liking, the right to live freely in the world and universe as you have the capacity to comprehend it, and the right to defend yourself and the territory you claim against all predators, invaders and thieves. These “natural rights” were, with respect to American citizens, once considered “inalienable.” “Inalienable,” as it was used in the “Bill Of Rights” means something that cannot be taken away or altered by the government.
Eventually, the government grows to a point where it can no longer be sustained by mere taxation of the governed. At this point the government begins to borrow money from other governments under a variety of arrangements. The idea here is that the governed will ultimately be forced to pay the bill with additional taxes. Because the government does not stop growing, it continues to borrow money and the debt grows larger forcing the government to use the tax revenue it takes in to make the payments. When the tax money is used to make those payments there is no money left to do the things that the taxes were imposed for originally, and inevitably, since many things must be done regardless, even more money is borrowed and the debt begins to grow at a faster rate than the government. When the need to pay the debt outstrips the obligation to perform the duties of office the government begins to legislate all manner of bizarre laws and regulations in the hope that these laws will increase revenues, hide their predicament or reduce the overall debt by favoring the debt holder in some manner that is deemed financially beneficial. The majority of these seemingly bizarre laws adversely impact the people governed and they do so in ways that may not be readily apparent and by the time the consequences do become obvious it is too late to do anything about it.
We have long passed the point described in the last few paragraphs. Our government is bankrupt and its continued existence is contingent on its ability to borrow further money from foreign entities. If the borrowing stopped as of this minute, it would be hundreds of years before we would be free of debt, but it is not stopping now and it will not stop as long as we continue to elect irresponsible morons to positions of political importance. No amount of outstanding oratorical skill spilling from the mouth of Republican or Democrat is going to alter this fact of life. Our elected leaders have basically sold us all into slavery for the remainder of our lives, furthermore, the next six generations of Americans, your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and all the way out to their great grandchildren have been sold into slavery just to pay the debt that now exists. If this situation remains as it is today, by the time Barack Obama leaves office in 2012 there will be 12 to 16 future generations sold into slavery, and the president who inherits Obama’s legacy will have little choice but to continue down the same identical path. There is no practical or possible modification, alteration or reform measure that our current government can implement that will have even the slightest effect on the inevitable consequence of the outrageous actions of both current and past elected representatives in Washington D.C.; the government cannot solve the problem because they are the problem and they want to continue being the problem as long as they possibly can.
The mouse cannot get out of the corner by switching oppressors. It cannot resolve it’s predicament by voting for new forms of oppressive torment. It has but one path of escape and eventually it will overcome its natural timidity and summon the courage necessary to do what it must.
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