Individuals under assault

I haven't blogged our homeschool adventures much because, quite frankly, I'm spending all of my "spare" time researching, learning, and determining what is really happening in our country. The fact is, I'm not sure what legacy will be left to my children when they become adults. Will they live in the "land of the free, home of the brave" or will they live in a society where the government believes it knows better than the individual family?

The individual is under assault in favor of the "collective." If you want proof of this, just read about John Holdren, science Czar, who wrote a book called "Ecoscience" that describes how to sterilize the population through our food and water system. Or Ezekiel Emanuel, special advisor (czar) for health policy helping to construct the healthcare bills. He believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens...An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dimentia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov-Dec '96). Thirdly, read about Van Jones, our green jobs czar who "himself stated in a 2005 interview his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class “justice,” and that he was a “rowdy black nationalist,” and a “communist.”

If you don't know what the communist view of families is, then I would suggest you search and read on your own. I don't want anyone to take my word for it; do your own homework. Don't just read a "conservative" view or a "liberal" view; read them all and read the person's OWN WORDS. There is nothing more telling than a person's OWN WORDS.

How could we possibly have people in power with these views? Because they do not have to go through confirmation hearings. There are NO provisions in the constitution allowing a President to appoint anyone he deems necessary and yet, here we are with people of influence whom most in this country know NOTHING about and are not willing to find out.

There have been many eras in history when the common person would say "Oh, that would never happen" and yet the worst HAS happened. We have all become complacent. In the words of someone I know, "The government should run itself, I don't want to be here trying to get the government to listen to me."

Sorry, folks, but a republic does not run itself. This is why we are now here, because we didn't take notice. Our Senators are not representing us, they are constantly working towards re-election. Even though thousands upon thousands of people called their Representatives offices (in 10:1 ratio, admitted by the reps themselves) opoposing cap and trade, it was still passed in the house.

Want to learn some of the truths about healthcare, but you don't want to read the bills? Here are some fliers with PAGE REFERENCES to help you:

CNN: 5 Freedoms You'd Lose in Health Care Reform

http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909.pdf

http://www.deserveliberty.com/library/published/Stop_Socialized_HC.pdf

http://www.saveourcountrynow.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=1469


We are still here, plugging along. But we are concentrating on HISTORY, not the history written in the politically correct textbooks. The real history, about how Roosevelt slaughtered 6 million pigs to raise pork prices, or how he burned millions of acres in cotton to increase the cotton prices, then giving "relief" for these actions by using tax payers money for subsidies (that, by the way, didn't go to the tenant farmers--the poor people--but to the owners). History repeats itself. Read about the Great Depression, this would be a great time in history to do so.