9/20/2012

The Cult Of Personality - I Pledge Allegiance To Obama

Posted by Brian

"I Pledge Allegiance..."

The Drudge Report has two links today which should, to people paying attention, alarm the hell out of them.

The first one is a link to an Obama 2012 link which is selling an Obama flag in which the stars from the U.S. flag are replaced by the Obama logo. This follows the outrage a few months ago when it was discovered that a Democrat headquarters was flying an "Obama flag" outside it's building, the only difference being that the blue field was a picture of Obama instead of the logo. This is not tone deafness. This is straight out of Obama's "get in their faces!" comment from 2008.

The second piece is a story in the Washington Examiner in which several Hollywood stars are urging people to "pledge allegiance to Barack Obama" by taking "pictures of themselves with their hands on their hearts and a note explaining why they support President Obama"(Not unlike a video from 2009 where stars urged the same thing). The story reports that Obama staffers are also part of this Obama reelection ad campaign.

That these useful idiots (Jessica Alba, Scarlet Johansson, and Natalie Portman) are lending themselves to this campaign is not chilling, or even surprising. Hollywood elites are well-known for their liberal
causes. The chilling thing is that this comes from the official Obama
campaign. The chilling thing is that this man, Obama, is so arrogant, so power-hungry, that he would
not, cannot see the historical danger in people that would put their faith and trust into a single person as the answer to all of their and the nation's problems!

Portman

History is rife with the consequences of people and nations who buy into the cult of personality of a single person. Hitler. Franco. Mussolini. Mao, Stalin. Peron, Pol Pot. Castro. Mugabe. Amin. The list goes on and on. Millions murdered. Millions more thrust into poverty and despair. People afraid to speak out due to the loss of basic freedoms like free-speech, and freedom to worship a God of their own choosing. And yet, we have these vacuous starlets encouraging people to "pledge allegiance" to an individual, when we have reams of history which tell us how dangerous this is.

Johansson

The incident this past week of a filmmaker dragged out of his house at 1:00AM, because he allegedly "insulted" Islamists halfway around the world with a third-rate, poorly-produced video, should outrage everyone. Yet, the so-called "defenders of freedom", the media, are not outraged. In fact, many supported the arrest and questioning of this filmmaker. At least the ones who weren't completely silent on the whole thing.

We have, in President Obama, a man who would have you believe that he has all the answers. That he is the sole arbiter of of the issues that face this country. Many will say, "but he has to go through Congress", or that "the Supreme Court will keep him from doing anything unconstitutional". Really. Obama's Presidency is already littered with numerous examples of him unilaterally bypassing Congress with Executive Order after Executive Order. His EPA is handing down regulations on a nearly daily basis which is destroying the energy industry in the country. He has ignored the orders of a Federal judge not once, but twice(!), in regards to oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Freedom of Speech?
Filmmaker taken in for questioning for making movie "insulting" to Muslims

As for the Supreme Court: Who can count on them after Chief Justice John Roberts handed down one of the worst, if not the worst, decision in Supreme Court history, with the ruling on ObamaCare. A case in which the government lied through their teeth to the nine justices. A case in which one of the justices, Elena Kagan, was directly involved in the crafting of ObamaCare while in the Obama Administration, and didn't even consider recusing herself from the case. A case in which one of the justices repeatedly corrected the attorney for the Obama Administration, who kept calling the penalty a tax, by calling it a fee. This, after Obama repeatedly told the American people that it was not a tax. Yet, his attorney kept calling it a tax. Finally, Justice Roberts sided with the four leftist justices to find that ObamaCare was Constitutional because he said it was a tax. So, for the first time in our nation's history, the people of the United States are being compelled to buy a service, whether they want it or not. Do you still have faith in the ability of a Supreme Court holding Barack Obama in check if he is elected to a second term?

Keep in mind, that whoever is the next President is going to be nominating two, if not three, new Supreme Court Justices. If the next President is Barack Obama, his Supreme Court picks would pitch the court so far to the left that it would take decades to correct. The damage that would be done to our country would be immeasurable. Our nation would be changed as to be unrecognizable, not only to the Founders, but even to us.

Ronald Reagan once said:

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Our country is at a crossroads. We are on the precipice of falling into despotism. We are currently a post-constitutional society, with an out-of control government, governed by an elitist political class who are more concerned with maintaining their power than governing according to the ideals that this country was founded upon. The Constitution is an annoyance to them. An obstacle to chasing the utopian fantasies common to all other dictators and despots that have tried, and failed, before them to engineer the "perfect" society.

It is not too late to turn the Great Ship around, though we fight an uphill battle against an administration, the media, and a legion of sycophants willing to "pledge" themselves to a man who despises the values and ideals that this country was founded on, and which has allowed it to be the "the last best hope of for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation".

Election day is less than two months away. Let us not be that generation who has to explain to our children and grandchildren of what a great country the United States used to be.

10/24/2011

Air Force Vet Angry Pledge Being Recited At Daughter's School

Posted by Brian
Am I angry or sad? I am confused that someone who found it in themselves to serve her country honorably in the U.S. military would be outraged that her daughter is being taught to place her "allegiance" in only her country. It certainly helps to remind me, sadly, that all of the political correctness and multi-cultural baloney that has become part of the new military "culture" has been a complete disaster. That we are manning a military with a bunch of soft, self-centered "warriors" whose main allegiance is to themselves. It's true that there are many, in fact the vast majority, who join the military because they have a sense of duty to something greater than themselves, but increasingly we are seeing men and women joining because of college benefits, job security, and other less than selfless reasons.
Liberal policies and activists are destroying the esprit de corps of what has been the greatest military in the history of mankind, trying to create a "compassionate" fighting force. This, all with the goal of fighting "clean" wars, and winning the hearts and minds of our enemies by not using "disproportionate" force in battles. I can't disagree more. You win wars by using disproportionate, overwhelming force against your enemy. You demoralize your enemy by inflicting such disproportionate losses on them that they give up. You break their will to fight. You don't trade casualties one-for-one. You kill them ten-to-one, or one hundred-to-one! That kind of disproportion ends wars so they don't drag on for ten or twenty years, saving tens or hundreds of thousands of lives. War is inhumane, and brutal by it's very nature. The best way to minimize the carnage is to have it the war be as swift and decisive as possible. Yes, innocents are killed, as they are in every war, no matter how "smart" the bombs are. Having a limited war of attrition is one of the most inhumane ways to wage a war, both in casualties and in the psychological effects it has on those in the "war zone".
That someone can serve and get out of the U.S. military with this "global" community idea that this woman has just shows how soft, and misguided, that out military leadership has become.

Pledge of Allegiance sparks controversy at John Stanford

A new principal's implementation of a routine Seattle Public Schools policy has ignited a debate over the meaning of an "international school."

By Brian M. Rosenthal

Seattle Times education reporter

When Haley Sides moved to Seattle after four years in the Air Force, she chose to settle in Wallingford so her 6-year-old daughter could attend John Stanford International School — an educational community promoting the same type of multiculturalism Sides has tried to instill in her half-Jamaican daughter.

Sides was outraged when the school's new principal announced this week that students will be asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each day. The practice, which has long been mandated by district policy and state law but has not traditionally been observed at John Stanford, will start Monday.

"It pains me to think that at a school that emphasizes thinking globally we would institute something that makes our children think that this country alone is where their allegiance lies," said Sides, her voice oscillating between disappointment and anger. "This has no educational value for young children. Absolutely none."