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Ripping
Off the Masks
by Art Hyland January,
2012 -- There is nothing more important than
defeating Barack Hussein Obama next November.
His almost fictional elevation to a throne-like
presidency has finally begun to unravel, exposing
the real
 Obama behind a
mask created and maintained by teleprompter
technology. He is famous for being famous,
like any celebrity in this celebrity culture created
by a fawning, dying, old media.Defeating
this child-king is the primary step to finally
defeating liberalism, communism, socialism, elitism
and environmentalism--all intimately related,
representing central control--and all opposed to
individual freedom. To do this the paradigm of
a constant left-right political pendulum must be
changed to one of a perpetual march of individual
citizens constantly heading toward greater freedom
of choice. The idea of acknowledging a
political pendulum is to accept the isms above as
genuine alternatives to freedom. They aren’t,
because they fail to believe in the Constitution
first and foremost; if a philosophy can’t do that,
it doesn’t deserve to be considered genuine for the
United States.
America
is unique among nations because it literally places
its citizens above its governing bodies. Our
Constitution was based upon the founder’s absolute
intent to never allow America to develop a king, or
anything like one. The three branches of
government, Executive, Judicial and Legislative were
 constructed to help ensure a
weak federal government able to perform only what is
necessary for the nation’s survival, leaving the
states and its real kings--its citizens--to achieve
success through the marketplace of free competition,
freedom of choice, and freedom of movement, with the
federal government functioning as a disinterested
referee. All of this remains as law in our
Constitution, but its enforcement has been ignored
or purposely misapplied, which has blurred the
history and the very purpose of the limited
government our founding fathers pledged their
property and their lives to create. We revere
and honor Presidents Washington and Lincoln with
their images on our currency, but we disrespect them
by allowing the very principles they fought for to
become infected by the virus of central, powerful,
stifling federal government.The Socialist Monarchy Barack
Obama clearly promotes expanded central, powerful,
stifling federal government. His short resume
before assuming the office of the president, his two
books, and his transparent history of anti-U.S.
associations, along with his decisions since
becoming president have all been consistently in
favor of empowering government and concentrating the
formation of ideas to chosen elites. Every
effort Obama has embarked upon, whether it’s health
care, the environment or commerce, has one
goal: to ensure centralized government
control, and restrict the free marketplace of
individual choice and production. Given his
willingness to criticize its history, and demonize
his opposition, he appears to have no belief in the
goodness of America itself.
But
the words he uses to convince the electorate of his
intentions belie the philosophy behind them.
His false public persona is one of being restrained,
conciliatory, smart but not too elite, one of the
guys, but above the fray. All these apparent
attributes are concealed in a shell that would
normally be very easy to penetrate, but the general
media has, with important exceptions, created,
enabled and prolonged Obama’s fake public persona as
his true image, while demonizing those who dare
uncover the mask.
Masks
seem to be the operative manifestation of liberals
of all kinds. Greens have masks; they have to,
in order to hide the lies and factual errors so
obvious to any untrained, observant eye. The
science that
 purports to
justify their worlds of climate change, sustainable
energy and environmental justice is sifted for its
testimony to their beliefs rather than open for
objective analysis and discussion. “The
science is settled,” is a phrase unique to the
Greens of the world. Yet true science is never
settled, it simply evolves with constant discoveries
by human observation, testing and
transparency. All recognized progress made
possible by the scientific method is because of the
willingness to be skeptical until proven otherwise,
sometimes many, many times proven, until finally a
conclusion can be temporarily settled pending
further knowledge, always desired. The
educational field is replete with masks as
well. How else can one explain the virtually
unlimited funds devoted to this sector of society,
with results that are unarguably dismal. The
culture that has become education--a transgression
by itself--consumes its resources by attempting to
equalize the level of achievement throughout the
student population, thereby lowering the bar for the
community as a whole. Education used to be
full of measurements, more scientific in essence,
but for two generations America’s culture of
education maligned the promotion or selection of
winners and losers, successes and failures.
The right to fail or succeed was replaced with a
concept that the lie that everyone’s a winner.
Teachers and professors today achieve status by
virtue of not dying. As Spengler recently
noted, “people are promoted for being promoted.”
“Promotion is the flip side…” of autocratic
control. “Severing reward from accomplishment
is just as important...as separating punishment from
crime” (see http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2011/12/14/dictatorship-the-duc-de-saint-simon-and-kim-kardashian/?singlepage=true).
And so teacher and student teach and learn in
a world virtually free from reality, leaving the
student to prepare for life on his
 own, or worse, to become a
ward of the state utilizing hundreds of programs
created for that predictable result. Students
have learned to be expert victims.And
so it is, by virtue of a president who believes in
the state over the individual, who’s administration
believes in choosing economic winners by creating
crony industrialists, along with cultivating a
culture of dumbing down the populace to a
controllable mass of lemmings, our nation hangs onto
a thread of what it used to be. Massive new
debt, unsustainable and unaccountable spending,
unfunded liabilities, and a government shackled by
the momentum of bureaucratic excess has combined to
transform this nation to the Europe of the Americas,
just like candidate Obama desired.
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