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“To provide clarity, the difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is comparable to the difference between a houseguest and a burglar.” …”The “Gang of Eight” Can’t See Straight”

“Furthermore, it is impossible to understand how the Gang of Eight has utterly ignored the fact that there is virtually no integrity to the process by which aliens are granted lawful status and U.S. citizenship under the current circumstances. Aliens who are applying to participate in the “DREAM Act” program cobbled together by the President without the consent of Congress are not being interviewed in person.” … “It is beyond comprehension that the current administration, the Gang of Eight and others are utterly ignoring the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Report that provided an in-depth analysis of how the terrorists who attacked our nation on September 11, 2001 were able to enter the United States in the first place and then manage to game the immigration benefits program, which enabled them to embed themselves in our country.”                        

~ Michael W. Cutler was a Senior Special Agent with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-gang-of-eight-and-immigration-reform-bordering-on-a-national-security-nightmare/

“Some commentators have attributed Barack Obama’s many foreign policy disasters to incompetence. But he has been politically savvy enough to repeatedly outmaneuver his opponents in America. For example, the Constitution makes it necessary for the President to get a two-thirds majority in the Senate to make any treaty valid. Yet he has maneuvered the Republican-controlled Congress into a position where they will need a two-thirds majority in both Houses to prevent his unilaterally negotiated agreement from going into effect — just by not calling it a treaty.”

“If he is that savvy at home, why is he so apparently incompetent abroad? Answering that question may indeed require us to “think the unthinkable,” that we have elected a man for whom America’s best interests are not his top priority.” ~ Thomas Sowell, PhD. Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Social progress requires individual freedom to choose.  Social progress is reversed or destroyed by government, collective, consensus or media action to suppress individual choice.  Tyranny requires suppression of the individual’s right to choose.  None are more hopelessly enslaved by tyranny than those who believe government, media, consensus or community can provide dignity or honor.  Dignity and honor are characteristics of individuals who are honest with themselves first and then honest with those around them, and they choose on that basis, regardless the collective, consensus, government or media pressure around them.  No other person or institution can bestow dignity or honor.  The country is beyond the point of peaceful return when the majority believes they are choosing social justice.  Punished for flying one symbol but celebrated for flying another, you have been conquered by division.  What did you expect?  That is what community organizers do.  “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! — I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” ~ Patrick Henry, 1775.

The politics of identity results first in the loss of personal integrity followed ultimately by the loss of soul itself. The political end goal of building a constituency, a coalition among a rainbow of special interests which have been created by the divide-and-conquer group identity practices of community organizers and radicals, requires deceit by the politician and self-deceit by the voter. The mendacious politician and the compliant voter rationalize and justify their behavior based on the end goals.  In their minds, the end goals are justified by the means.  They disregard the psychic effects of mendacity.

There is an exception: if all are welcome in the big tent, and the politician stands on principles, tells the truth and allows the votes to fall where they may.

However, remembering and repeating all the lies, their slippery rhetoric, and the various constituent audiences for each has a dire price to the politician’s psyche.  Mendacity requires space in conscious and unconscious mind, reinforced burned-in synapses, which progressively color, then block reception and memory of real life events. So we frequently hear of a politician who is “out of touch.”  And so they are.

Both liar and persuaded voter, true believers as Eric Hoffer calls them, progressively lose their identity and become the lie, emotionally identified with it, living the lie. Unlearning is much more difficult than learning.  The person, whether politician or persuaded voter, progressively becomes pathological, no longer able to think freely, or even to push back against habits of mind reinforced by their emotion.  They become physically addicted to the lies.  Freedom of thought is thwarted, even though the apparent intelligence of the politician may be enormous.

Genius among sociopaths, psychopaths and character disorders is common.  For them, the barriers to unlimited and immoral action are gone.  They are typically charismatic and appear confident.  What Freud called the superego or conscience is warped into narcissism, a defense mechanism by the brain to prevent its disintegration.

The soul is based in freedom, a gift of God, to know thyself.  When constrained by the habits of body or mind or both, the soul flees to find freedom again.  Trust the more humble person who stands on principles rather than rhetoric and is willing to test those principles by defending them in the court of public opinion.  Be highly skeptical of any secretive politician or when their words are so smooth or they seem to be too good to be true; these are the disguises of liars in the process of losing their souls.

The Obama administration is destroying America, yet a large portion of Democrats are calling for more of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton’s socialism.

Fifty-two (52) million people or “21.3 Percent of U.S. Population Participates in Government [means tested] Assistance Programs Each Month.” Between 2004 and 2012, this is an increase of almost 25%. This does not include regular Social Security or regular Medicare. Means-tested programs include Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and General Assistance (GA).   http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/…/cb15-97.html

Bernie Sanders continues to gain support from Democrats.

https://reason.com/archives/2015/07/08/lots-of-democrats-want-socialism#.ymrne6:bJCG

More reports show Donald J. Trump was right on with his immigration comments and Obama is derelict of his sworn duty to protect and probably criminally negligent: “According to a March 2, 2015 “ICE Weekly Departures and Detention Report,…There were 168,680 convicted criminal immigrants who had final orders of removal but who remained at large in the U.S.” …”Another 179,018 convicted criminal immigrants with deportation cases pending also remained at large.”…”In 2013 the Obama administration released 36,007 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. Those convictions included 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions, and 1,075 aggravated assault convictions.”…”In January, the Department of Homeland Security revealed in a 38-page document to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) showing that of those criminals released in 2013, 1,000 had gone on to commit additional crimes including, terroristic threats, lewd acts with a minor, various types of assault, DUI, robbery, hit-and-run, gang activity, rape, and child cruelty.”   http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/more-than-347000-convicted-criminal-immigrants-at-large-in-u-s/

“The Betrayal and Coverup by the U.S. Government of the Union Bank of Switzerland – Terrorist httpThreat Finance Connection to Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. Cental Command.”  A Whistleblowing Report to The United States Congress.  ://sttpml.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SHELL_GAME.pdf

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the majority, “Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons.”

I was shocked to hear a dear friend jump into Bernie Sanders’ camp upon his revulsion with Hillary. He said he assumed that Sanders as President would not be able to accomplish the blatantly hard line socialist policies Bernie promises, such as 90% income tax rate, as if that made Sanders acceptable.

Sanders said to CNBC: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.” This is pure populist rhetoric typical of the Kingfish. It says nothing about the policies that Sanders would pursue, or even if he would pursue a policy to help hungry children in this country, nor any details about his intended policies to help hungry children. Nor does it recognize that the trillions of dollars already spent on the War on Poverty have shown: “Based on a measure of pre-tax, pre-transfer income, the poverty rate would be about as high today as in 1967: over 28 percent.” (quote: Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, 2014 report) “Nearly 50 million Americans still live in poverty, however, including 13.4 million children, and so there remains a need to do more to help the poor. The 1964 Economic Report of the President estimated that the total shortfall in income necessary to bring all poor families up to the poverty level was $11 billion (about $71 billion in today’s dollars), or about 1.6 percent of the country’s annual Gross Domestic Product.” (IBID)

Of course, Obama’s Council of Economics Advisers report glowing results of the 50 year War on Poverty, which they explain by manipulated statistics, and recommend spending more, raising the minimum wage, and basically continuing to make Americans dependent on their government.

By one simpler measure, observe the rapid growth of the Food Stamp program during the Obama administration. If poverty is declining, then why is the rate of Food Stamp users increasing?

Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and expert in government welfare programs reported in the subtitle of his article in the Wall Street Journal, (link below) “Fifty years and $20 trillion later, LBJ’s goal to help the poor become self-supporting has failed.”

Dear Bernie and friends, clearly, more of the same socialist policies will not be helpful. Lovers of liberty recognize government welfare as totalitarian policy.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303345104579282760272285556

Click to access 50th_anniversary_cea_report_-_final_post_embargo.pdf

Democrat politicians and media have created a straw man issue and inserted it into the public’s mind share – that is, a 150 year old Confederate battle flag which was created by Democrats in the South who fought for states rights (one of which was their believed right to own slaves). The same Democrat party supported the KKK and fought against freedom for slaves, fought against the right to vote for women, blacks and Indians. This is the same Democrat party that today funds and fully supports financial welfare dependence (i.e. slavery to the government) of blacks, women, Indians and now Hispanics. This is the very same Democrat party that funds and fully supports government-funded abortions (even late term) which have decimated the population of black people in America. Incredibly, Democrats are accomplishing the eugenics goal of the KKK, Margaret Sanger and John Holdren, Obama’s chief science advisor. Incredibly, they have done that by making a majority of the population believe that Republicans are racists and conducting a “war of women” and minorities. Incredibly, they are doing this by asserting federal authorities which do not exist in the Constitution against the rights of the states and individuals which do exist.