Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
1968, Deja Vu All Over Again
Something's happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there, telling me I got to beware.
The lyrics to Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth could have been written yesterday, it seems to me, and I daresay our nation has not been as polarized as it is now since the late 1960s. This is my first attempt to 'blog,' and to frame what discussion ensues, whether it be me talking to myself in the ether or there is engagement by others in repartee regarding the topics of the day, my core focus is on personal liberty. My blog name is taken from Emerson's Concord Hymn. As a former Wall Street investment analyst turned full-time farmer, I do feel a kinship with those embattled farmers that stood their ground that day.
I am watching our Presidential primary cycle with the amusement of someone jaded by many other primary cycles, yet with a sense of urgency. We have many that would like to assure us, via sound bytes developed through careful focus group polling to ensure that their rhetoric will appeal to our, the public's, ear, that all will be well provided we elect them. However, there is an 800 pound gorilla that our mainstream media seems to be under a gag order to delete from what they hope is your media-saturated brain, a man who is a proven, consistent champion of liberty. That man is Dr. Ron Paul, and in appearance he hardly resembles an 800 pound gorilla! If you are as old as I am, I encourage you to attend one of his campus rallies, as it will energize you. If you are too young to remember the late 1960s, then I urge you to be the standard-bearer of liberty. I think time is of the essence, as our federal government's encroachment on personal liberties enjoyed by We the People is a war being waged on multiple fronts, here and abroad, with increasing intensity. Their policies and thwarting of our Constitution are designed to have us relinquish all hope for the future! Most of all, I encourage you to find your common ground with your fellow citizens, and to avoid the pitfalls of the Us vs. Them mentality that the powers-that-be would prefer us to adopt, as this is nothing but the vortex of the Hegelian Dialectic, which permits those that pull the strings to 'control the outcome.' Read the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and then ask yourself if your leaders, who have sworn to uphold and defend the US Constitution, have taken that oath seriously enough for your taste. A childhood friend of mine and I, who never discuss politics, found this common ground over the bill that would provide for indefinite detention of US citizens, both on US soil an abroad, by the military, a bill that is now sitting at the White House awaiting the President's signature to be made into law: heavy-duty, Constitution-be-damned, Statist law. There are many issues that are like this, and they all bear a common theme -- it is the liberty that made our nation that shining city on a hill! Find this common ground and prepare to defend it.
For now, it is time to check on the barns here at the farm.
The lyrics to Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth could have been written yesterday, it seems to me, and I daresay our nation has not been as polarized as it is now since the late 1960s. This is my first attempt to 'blog,' and to frame what discussion ensues, whether it be me talking to myself in the ether or there is engagement by others in repartee regarding the topics of the day, my core focus is on personal liberty. My blog name is taken from Emerson's Concord Hymn. As a former Wall Street investment analyst turned full-time farmer, I do feel a kinship with those embattled farmers that stood their ground that day.
I am watching our Presidential primary cycle with the amusement of someone jaded by many other primary cycles, yet with a sense of urgency. We have many that would like to assure us, via sound bytes developed through careful focus group polling to ensure that their rhetoric will appeal to our, the public's, ear, that all will be well provided we elect them. However, there is an 800 pound gorilla that our mainstream media seems to be under a gag order to delete from what they hope is your media-saturated brain, a man who is a proven, consistent champion of liberty. That man is Dr. Ron Paul, and in appearance he hardly resembles an 800 pound gorilla! If you are as old as I am, I encourage you to attend one of his campus rallies, as it will energize you. If you are too young to remember the late 1960s, then I urge you to be the standard-bearer of liberty. I think time is of the essence, as our federal government's encroachment on personal liberties enjoyed by We the People is a war being waged on multiple fronts, here and abroad, with increasing intensity. Their policies and thwarting of our Constitution are designed to have us relinquish all hope for the future! Most of all, I encourage you to find your common ground with your fellow citizens, and to avoid the pitfalls of the Us vs. Them mentality that the powers-that-be would prefer us to adopt, as this is nothing but the vortex of the Hegelian Dialectic, which permits those that pull the strings to 'control the outcome.' Read the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and then ask yourself if your leaders, who have sworn to uphold and defend the US Constitution, have taken that oath seriously enough for your taste. A childhood friend of mine and I, who never discuss politics, found this common ground over the bill that would provide for indefinite detention of US citizens, both on US soil an abroad, by the military, a bill that is now sitting at the White House awaiting the President's signature to be made into law: heavy-duty, Constitution-be-damned, Statist law. There are many issues that are like this, and they all bear a common theme -- it is the liberty that made our nation that shining city on a hill! Find this common ground and prepare to defend it.
For now, it is time to check on the barns here at the farm.
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