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Shakespeare and a Sharp Turn Left Away From Freedom

Posted by Chris on Monday, November 10, 2008 8:08:44 PM
 

Barack Obama was elected less than one week ago. Here are the Drudge Report headlines from just one day (today) indicating that many leaders, not just in the U.S., but around the world, considers his election to be the go-ahead for big moves toward “supra-national” authority, diminution of personal autonomy, erosion of the nation-state, and a cult of personality highly reminiscent of the Stalinist era or of certain Roman emperors.

Spokesman: 'Obama Ready to RULE on Day 1'...

 

PAPER: Plans for National Holiday Honoring Obama...

 

UK PM: TIME TO BUILD GLOBAL SOCIETY...

...SEEKS 'GLOBAL CONSENSUS' ON TAX, SPENDING POLICIES...

Britain's security agencies seek to censor media...

 

Gorbachev calls on Obama to carry out 'perestroika' in USA...

 GORE: USA needs 'emergency rescue of human civilization'...

Not to sound melodramatic, but take note: your freedom is threatened. Caesar is about to take the throne, where it may be that

… he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2

I certainly don’t suggest that Obama should share Caesar’s fate. Only that he may share Caesar’s ambition, which doesn’t bode well for those of us who want to remain free members of a republic. We need to head him off at the pass by attempting to reason with our fellow citizens.

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Rewarding the Culprits

Posted by Chris on Saturday, November 08, 2008 6:30:29 PM
If you voted for Obama and the Democrats because you blamed the Republicans for not regulating the financial markets, man, did you blame the wrong people.  In fact you rewarded the culprits.  Here's the proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPSDnGMzIdo
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A Word About Young Voters

Posted by Chris on Friday, November 07, 2008 1:20:05 PM
I hear a fair amount of talk about how young people are different than previous generations, how they process information diferently, how they are more suspicious of hypocrisy.  There's a lot of truth in this, but as one who spends a fair amount of time working with college students, I advise my fellow conservatives to remember this: don't let the sociologists carry you away. Young people are not a different species. The human condition has not been altered, only the external circumstances and the learned modes of communication. Act accordingly. Don't pander to a perceived trend for shallow short-term gains when you need to get in to the real core of the person. There is no substitute for eternal truth expressed from love. And however much the heart is key, we cannot neglect the mind. If they aren't able to think out why they believe the truth, the truth is not likely to stay with them.
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FYI: Faith-Based Breakdown of the Election

Posted by Chris on Friday, November 07, 2008 1:04:52 PM
 Just an interesting bit of polling from Associated Press in the post-election analysis. Not the radical shift that was talked about, but enough to be worth looking at.  From what I hear, the youth and the independents made the difference. The independents can shift again, I'm not worried about that so much. But the young voters don't remember the Cold War (a very pertinent gap in knowledge when you elect a socialist who will have to deal with Russian agression), and they are by and large ignorant of history and of what makes America distinctive.  We need a robust educational effort, as well as a renaissance in creative expression of the principles of the American Founding, if we are to remain distinctive - not to mention, actually sticking to those principles and living out the spiritual truth behind them.
 
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Amazing! !gnizamA

Posted by Chris on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:18:08 PM
President-elect Obama promises to "fundamentally transform" America.
 
Watch out, America. You may get what you've been promised.
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What Would Churchill Do?

Posted by Chris on Monday, November 03, 2008 4:01:19 PM
As you make your final decision about which candidate will get your vote, I have one question to ask you:
 
Which one would Winston Churchill vote for?
 
To help solidify your thinking on this question, consider the following quotes from Neville Chamberlain and Barack Obama, and see if you can tell which ones belong to which man.
 
 
  • “We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.”
  • “We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.”
  • It has always seemed to me that in dealing with foreign countries we do not give ourselves a chance of success unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the identically same facts are regarded from two different angles.”
  • “… I do believe ... that we have to describe a new foreign policy that says, for example, I will meet not just with our friends, but with our enemies, because I remember what [a former leader of the speaker’s country] said, that we should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate. Having that kind of posture is the way we effectively debate [the opposition] on this issue. Because if we just play into the same fear-mongering that they have been engaged in … then we are playing on their battlefield, but, more importantly, we are not doing what's right …[to] make us more safe in the long term.”
Are you able to tell which ones are which, based on the sentiments of the speaker?  If not, maybe that should tell you something. And if you don't know who Neville Chamberlain was, then please find out before you vote.
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