Occupy Wall Street -- Revolution or Devolution

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Anyone else a little bored with the whole 'revolution' movement as represented in NY? Really? The 99 Percenters are sitting around with their blue tooth headsets in their ears; their smartphones; some with their tablets and talking about POVERTY in America? Really? For a long long time, America had a clue about destitution and how it looked; about poverty and how it appeared. They saw it when pictures of little malnourished children were shown to incite the viewer to join in a monthly donation to a save the children charity. We see it every time a natural disaster hits a truly underdeveloped area of the world. We don't see people living in squalor with blue tooth devices, smartphones, even electricity. We don't hear of Pizza's being delivered or smoked salmon being made available to them.

This may be the beginning of a revolt against boredom and austerity but it is no revolution against poverty! The folks who are hanging out down there on the streets, many of them as shown in video on various news channels, or interviewed by documentary producers, manifest more middle class than poverty. They may be unemployed; may be even unemployable but they do not know poverty or destitution. In watching the many shots it is interesting to see so many people deliberately crowding around with one another manifesting the baser qualities of humankind 'taking' what they can and while defecating literally on the world. But it is a choice they have made. How utterly embarrassing for America that such a collection of people should be gathering together giving way to a slothful demonstration against hard working and successful Americans!

What is with the whole 'repeat after me' chanting thing..oh wait! That is called 'brain washing'. That is the leadership of  the minions telling their groupie friends 'If I want your opinion I will give it to you!' And are these alleged adults in preschool? Wiggle your fingers upwards if you agree? What?

This is no revolution. This is camping in the park with a bunch of bored people who are enjoying their 15 minutes of fame BUT becoming conditioned to listening to the repeat after me leadership without 'thinking' why? What is next? There is already a segment of the folks there who have made no bones about being ready to commit violent acts against anyone who does not agree or approve of their presence, message or tactics. The foundation and camaraderie is being developed. The large group is forging friendships based on a cause and so long as that cause is kept alive their commonalities will be a powerful emotional and psychological bond. With the right leadership a true REVOLUTION would be easily called to pass. Then the movement veers away from the town centers and vilified icons they are revolting against to the people who 'have' what they believe they are entitled too.

Right now, we are seeing DEVOLUTION. This is a manifestation of a willful break down of societal constraints that have traditionally been engrained in the 'good citizen' with regards to property rights; personal safety and respect for others. It appears the 'ME' generation that has been being groomed for decades has finally arrived at their time, locked and loaded with flashpoint buttons set to call for all out anarchy. We have gone from flash mobs dancing in malls in a seeming spontaneous outburst of innocuous and artful creativity to just mobs waiting for the a flashpoint and artful creativity will only be evident in how those who are pulling the strings, supporting this break down in our society, bring about the anarchy that has plagued country after country for this whole past couple of years! Remember the G20 Summit?

Do you really WANT to encourage a violent revolution? Will you pooh pooh the obvious DEVOLUTION? This is not just another phase. This is an eruption that has been building for a long time, a MANtural disaster sure to bring the world to its knees...I don't know about you but my knees can't take that much pressure!

RESOLUTION through Constitution is the answer to this. A person's character and their faith provides their personal constitution and our interaction with others is based on the application of principles held in America's Constitution! The Bill of Rights provides for the obvious. The right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed but not when it is to the destruction of someone's person or property. The right to free speech is a guarantee but it has consequences when you 'speak' the wrong thing. There are laws against threatening violence against another; or death of another.

Hope I am not alone in praying this plan to overthrow traditional America with a fundamental change will never reach critical mass. The question is, 'can you sleep on a stormy night?'

As Assange goes, so goes Free Press/Speech

Doesn't matter what our individual opinion is on the content, the intent, or the reprint of the Wikileaks vs US scandal. From a 'LIBERTY' point of view, once we begin to muzzle FREE PRESS, or if you disagree with his site as 'press' then FREE SPEECH, to this extent you can kiss YOUR OWN speech and press goodbye!

The morality of his actions with regards his web site will be dealt with by plenty of others. News reports have Mr. Assange and those associated with him, like his attorney, being threatened daily with murder. What happens to him once incarcerated may be an intended -- unintended consequence. He and those who assist him have to make peace within themselves for whatever actions they take, and finally, they must face the music after it is all said and done before the great JUDGE!

However, the idea that one entity -- like Wikileaks -- can post documents and the nations appear incensed enough to rattle their respective sables, while other press/speech that is protected, like renown American Newspapers, continues to release the same information with impunity, manifests an obvious 'bigger picture' conspiracy! In fact, it is rather ironic the US Govt is allegedly INCAPABLE of protecting its 'secret' information but thus far no news agency has been able to uncover the real reason why the US or any other nation is so OBVIOUSLY playing the public with staged outrage seeking the shutdown of the man and his business! Facts are: all the while the intelligence agencies for the different countries, like the US, were fully informed as to where he was and how accessible all along!

There has been details released through the media, for instance on Fox Business Network's "Freedom Watch", where the attorney for Ms. Assange has openly shared that his client's whereabouts have been known by the government authorities in the country he was staying! Yet if you listened to the news [even on FBN's sister agency, FoxNews] it is WHERE IN THE WORLD IS ASSANGE?

For what? To be questioned as to his sources? Like the US cannot figure out exactly when and where the documents were downloaded? Questioned as to what else he may have? Again, like the US cannot figure out the nature of the documents? Like the US hasn't got hackers working for them who could access Assange's stash?

We have had the release of military docs; now the release of state department docs; the threat of release of alleged Bank docs. What is it that the US knows he has they do not want released? Or, what is it they are calling his bluff to force him to release!?!

The headline today is most telling: "Assange arrested for not wearing a condom"! And yet, here we are America. We are drawn to a story because of its titillating headline while we neglect the FREEDOMS that are being forever altered, yet again, for our 'safety'! It may be a crime in Sweden to refuse to wear condom, I don't know, but I am so thoroughly distrustful of our government that I would not be surprised to find out AMERICAN dollars will have been spent or promised to everyone from the Swedish Government down to the women making the allegations to get to this point. Again, I ask, what is the end game for the US?

His being arrested for alleged crimes is a separate issue from the international cry to SHUT down Wikileaks and to classify the site as some sort of terrorist consortium as impetus to that end!

His site today; NY Times tomorrow? Unconstitutional abridgment of free speech and we sit by and let it happen.

Wake up! SPEAK up! Let the morality police deal with no condoms. Let the individual governments deal with their 'alleged' lack of internal security. But YOU, YOU stand up and SPEAK your mind and support the right to FREE speech before you have neither!

Better to be Red than Dead!

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA! You stood up, signed up, polled up and stayed up and today began the long trek to bring it home for the kids and the grandkids!

As a child, I was taught to say 'I would rather be dead than red.' Of course, that was the brainwashing verbiage of a generation who feared a communist take over where anyone under the age of 30 would be executed because they could not be taught. But this evening as I contemplated the win I grinned. AGAIN! Communism has been foiled and interestingly by two generations: 1] the one who feared it during the cold war years and 2] their kids!

What is even better is being able to say; thanks to the RED superimposed over the majority of the lower 48 citizens in this country -- the elderly, the infirm, the unfortunate -- will not be denied treatment because of government run HEALTH CARE! Instead, thanks to the vote, America is now on a path to repeal and obstruct the implementation of various aspects of this law through refusing appropriations and initiating legislation to remove the burden from upon the fine folks of this great land.

It will not be easy. And it will not be swift. But it is not the most impending disaster that needs immediate attention. Reining in the deficit, especially in light of the Fed's getting ready to devalue the Dollar by at least 20% Nov 3!

How does that play out? The out of control train wreck America has been riding since January 2009 has had the brakes put on. Will it be enough to bring it to a safe stop? Time will tell. But what will happen is the democratic governors who would indulge their state in 'big government' policies will have fewer and fewer dollars from the Feds to use for their own out of control spending. In reality, the dems who survived the vote tonight will have the hardest time governing in whatever office they hold because the gravy train's engineering staff has been replaced with a leaner more efficient director!

This will have serious consequences for states like NY, CA and HI who are all blue and who have such deficits they are on the brink of financial collapse. Hawaii has a 20 percent food stamp dependency and the State has actively been trying to get as many people enrolled in its food stamp program as possible. Without federal funding that will be a program which will no doubt see drastic cuts. CA hasn't learned its lesson yet. They'd rather be taxed to outrageous levels than to vote in anyone with 'business' savvy. They are so far in the hole they will likely not see the light of day for a very long time. Going back to the teat of the Obama Government is no longer an option. Congress will NOT support it.

The wisdom of our forefathers in designing a terrific republic where the 'people' have the power and the inherent drive to protect their freedoms has in our lifetime never been more self evident than today! Sharia Law in Oklahoma, shot down by the people! I am not sure how come that was on the ballot for this is not a country which recognizes a single religious state/authority. Possession and right to carry a gun was voted in by the good folks of Kansas. Freedoms preserved even on a state level.

Today was a true voter revolution in state after state. With the majority of governors aligned with a conservative bend those states will be brought back from the brink of collapse. Within those states, a conservative change in the majority of their legislators solidly sets the respective states on track for fiscal discipline, albeit tough, which will be unpopular with socialist leaning Americans but in time will see the quality of life begin to rise up as the mythological Phoenix.

It is way too early to predict 2012 and the after math of that vote, but if the newly elected Congress and their corresponding partners in the Senate begin immediately the long process of slowing the momentum of the Obama Train until it can safely be turned it may be possible to head it down a more rational and reasonable path. It could build equity -- perhaps building on the 2010 historic success.

For the record, I think the balance is great right now. The power is in Congress. The Senate has its own character, the President his own. It is finally as it should be. No one party in power.

Thank God for the respite. We may never fully know the disaster that has been averted. While there are many people who have sacrificed much to make this happen, there are a core group of visionary people who I hope history will remember well. The media: FoxNews. The people: Glenn Beck and his entire entourage; leaders in the political field, some of whom were elected today, while others were not but in includes those who championed the candidates from the sidelines through their support as well. The nation: Americans who stopped long enough to see there was something wrong with the route the O Train was taking and began to actively stop it. And God, whose Patience, Righteousness, Faithfulness and Mercy has blessed us once more with a call to our core principles and values and a reminder of the responsibility we have as caretaker of the single most powerful form of government since HIS theocratic rule of Israel of old. It is my hope today's victory would be approved as a right course by such American Icons as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It took a bit of Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin to get us motivated and moving but surely their spirit rejoices at the train as it chugs along "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!"

And the winner is? Envelope please

Thought I would join the universal clicking of nails on keyboards around the world as bloggers sit in their respective basements in their jammies, sipping their diet coke and madly recording their pebble of opinion!

I watched most of the day, mostly to see if Rossi, Miller, McDonnell, Fiorina, Whitman, Kasich, Angle and Tancredo were starting to move ahead. Some are, some aren't.

Gagged when I saw McCain trying to sound all 'on it' when he is so part of the 'demogop'! [Of course, in case you haven't figured it out..'demogop' is my contraction of Democrat/GOP.] Listened to Boehner turn a nasty by Obama around to a positive recognizing the 'patriots' who have spent the last 18 months doing what many of them have never done before, get out and 'speak up'. The silent majority has found their collective voice and tomorrow, NOVEMBER 2, 2010, it will resound through the valleys, on the mountains, in the desserts and the plains, over the lakes and hopefully across the ocean. When the day is done, the challenge begins!

Demogops beware! Americans have had enough. Tea Party candidates please learn the lesson of the past few years..do not leave the folks in the dark. Get your work out there. Let us know what you are doing, how it is going, who is impeding it, what we have to do to assist you in sitting down, rolling up your sleeves and getting down to the NATIONAL AUDIT!

We have an exciting election ahead of us tomorrow. Often in our days we have witnessed history in the making. Some has been horrible, traumatic and inconsolable. Some of it was eventful, hopeful, inspirational, awesome and unimaginable. Tomorrow's election will be a bookmark for the first decade of the 21st Millennium! It is likely to dwarf the 2008 landmark election by putting the exclamation mark right over it!!!

It has been great fun these past few months keeping track of what is what. Tomorrow ushers in a new era and new headlines. Hopefully, we can get dressed, emerge from our basements and check out the bright new future...of course, the bright new future is afar off...between now and then there is a lot of hard work, sacrifice and some uncomfortable times. But, when it finally starts to emerge, and we are feeling good about ourselves again, the national pride will be palpable!

November 2, 2010, alas, LIBERTY begins her restoration.

May God bless America.