PRESIDENT OBAMA AGAIN PASSES JUDGEMENT BEFORE EVIDENCE IS KNOWN

PRESIDENT OBAMA AGAIN PASSES JUDGEMENT BEFORE EVIDENCE IS KNOWN

By Domenick J. Maglio, PhD. Traditional Realist

Presidents of the United States are supposed to be above blatant petty politics. The person who is elected to the office is immediately given the reins to the most powerful position in the world. The people expect him to deport himself with dignity and wisdom. He is supposed to inspire the people’s confidence by focusing on do-able solutions that represent the interest of the people not extreme fringe groups.

President Obama did not wait for the facts to surface before he shamefully appeared on national television to denounce the lack of gun control as the culprit in the Umpqua College shooting. His MO throughout his presidency has been to politicize an event to push his radical progressive agenda. “Never waste a crisis.” We saw this with his community activist advocacy with questionable behavior by blacks being accepted over law enforcement officer’s actions. He made his comments before official investigations were completed. He used the bully pulpit to voice his personal emotional reaction to the arrest of Harvard professor Gates, Treyvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray before the initial legal process was completed.

The day after the Roseburg rampage he again went on television to double down on his edict that the massacre of ten with seven wounded was due to the absence of stricter gun control. He stated he is going to continue to politicize this issue until gun control restrictions were enforced but again offered no realistic plan to remedy the problems.                 

His speculation was a rush to judgment. The emerging facts that the killer asked at the point of a gun “tell me your religion.” Those who said they were Christian were shot in the head and those who answered differently were shot in the extremities. The only guard was unarmed in this “gun free zone.”  The assassin was half black not a white supremacist and came from a broken family like almost every other one of these mass killers. People who knew him acknowledged that he had serious mental problems. The president did not consider all this evidence when he made his premature remarks.

The conclusion of President Obama’s emotional plea was not rational. The shredding of citizen’s Second Amendment rights would not have prevented this or other horrific mass shootings. Evil, demented people have used poison gas, fire, knives, hatchets, bombs and chain saws to kill and abortion instruments to destroy innocent lives.

The culture of evil has always existed and will continue to despise good people who get in the way. Guns are weapons that can kill. Criminals will not follow laws that will stop them from obtaining guns. They will illegally obtain them. This is evident in states like California and cities like Washington, Baltimore, New York and Chicago that have some of the highest per capita homicide rate in the country even though they have the most stringent gun laws. Gun Free Zones like on college campuses and movie theaters are not preventing terrorists or insane people from their acts of evil, instead are attracting them.

The mass killing of innocent people is a complex issue that will not be stopped by the removal of guns from law-abiding citizens. Guns in the hands of good people allow them to protect themselves and others. This is the reason why politicians and celebrities who rail against guns have personal security guards armed with guns.

The curbing of out-of-control violence will only happen when we return to a stable, moral society. This requires that we punish evil and honor life. We must again eliminate political correctness; teach morality at home, at school and in the halls of our government institutions. We need to empower law enforcement; change mental health confidentiality laws in order to encourage professionals to report and institutionalize people who are a danger to self and the community and incarcerate incorrigible criminals not release them.

The elimination of guns in the hands of good citizens will only be an invitation for government tyranny. It is not a policy to eliminate evil, it is a license for evil people to expand and become even more destructive in a society that disarms its citizens.

The president needs to think more profoundly before shooting off his rhetoric. These national press conferences divert us from his current international failures but do not lead to resolving crucial issues.

As Benjamin Franklin noted, those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. Disarming the American people will disarm our ability to protect ourselves and lessen our security.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.

THE DONALD TRUMP PHENOMENON

THE DONALD TRUMP PHENOMENON

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

The political experts are dumbfounded by Donald Trump’s popularity with many types of voters. He is defying all the conventional wisdom of politics.

Donald Trump is the fearless head of a billion dollar firm, television host and public relations extraordinaire. Confidence exudes from every pore of his body. The man speaks without a teleprompter, rarely uses notes but always speaks in a direct manner. The man is not phony, he is who he is and is not ashamed of it. He does not finesse his beliefs and ideas; instead he forcefully hits his audience over the head with politically incorrect reality. He is not a politician.

In his kick-off speech for president in June he shocked and alienated every established Republican by attacking illegal immigrants. He noted that too many illegals are not Mexico’s best but are wanted criminals. His statements were supposedly so over-the-top in the “ruling class” world the pundits were elated that he would lose his following. Initially the media and the Republican Party attacked him. He lost contracts with Macys, Univision and NBC dropped his The Apprentice Show and the mayor of NYC threatened to break all the city contracts it had with him. Then the Kate Steinle killing in San Francisco happened. This incident showed that Donald Trump was on target concerning illegals. After this intense negative media blitz he gained even more support, temporarily silencing his critics.

In the first debate on Fox he was aggressively asked by Megyn Kelly about some anti women references he has made over the years. He deflected the question with a joke about Rosie O’Donnell and confronted Ms. Kelly by stating: “I have been very nice to you although I could probably not be based on the way you treat me.”

The media chieftains, including the Republican strategists predicted this would reverse his fortunes. His numbers only rose. The first question in this debate asked the candidates if they could pledge not to run as a third party candidate. Trump was the only one to raise his hand. This incident was supposed to implode his candidacy. He kept his options open until he maintained and expanded his lead. He then decided to sign the Republican Party pledge once again baffling and outmaneuvering the Republican establishment.

The Des Moines Register newspaper called for Trump’s withdrawal from the campaign. He banned them from his press conferences. Jorge Ramos, the top Univision celebrity reporter was told he was out of turn asking questions in a press conference. Mr. Ramos was escorted out by security and shortly returned to ask his questions. They were answered. Again there was no pushback from the voters to any of these so-called “gaffs.” Rather his poll numbers kept rising.

The political “experts” had to admit he was rewriting the rules of the campaign game. Yet they continue to cling to the hope he would be a summer flash in the pan and fade. Mr. Trump has caused the beltway and the media’s eyes to roll around in their heads. They have no idea why the voters have not booted him out for his politically incorrect answers.

The public is tired of eloquent promising politicians who talk BS and do not deliver. They want a man with courage who tells it like it is and gets things done for the betterment of America.  Mr. Trump’s politically incorrect utterances have stirred the political pot dissolving the fear of censorship. His leadership style is refreshing compared to the pandering ones used by professional politicians. This has encouraged others to speak their minds opening up debate on issues.

He has certainly shaken up Washington by his masculine presentation. He does not unnecessarily attack his opponents but if an attack is initiated he counter attacks with little mercy.  He comes out on top. His answers to most questions are usually straight forward, not evasive.

Candidate Trump admits he has played the lobbyist game of spreading his money around to advance his businesses. He has openly said he has donated to both parties to grease the wheels. He used the fact that Hillary Clinton went to his wedding because he donated to her. He is a doer not an ideologue. Obviously he hires people who are competent and “get the job done “ not intellectuals who talk in circles to each other.

The reason that even the most ardent conservative pundit is confused about Mr. Trump is because they have no idea that Americans are tired of conservative ideas!

They want conservative action and he has the ability and bravado to deliver it.

Mr. Trump says he loves the United States and wants to make it great again. Many Americans believe him because he does not owe the ruling class anything. He is the ruling class’s biggest nightmare, which has entertained many citizens.

The major danger the public has in voting for him is the possibility that in the end he sells out for personal greed. Hopefully he is sincere and his 10 billion dollars is enough for this man to make the right decisions that will earn him a place in the history books as a great patriotic leader who made America great again.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.

No Profiling is Poor Government

The number one function of federal government is to provide protection to its citizens. This is clearly spelled out in the preamble to our constitution.

The events of the past three administrations have shown a lack of resolve in defending the USA against terrorism. The Clinton administration had an inability to see and define the terrorist threat and treated it as separate criminal acts. There was the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers, the Mogadishu incident, the killing of 17 sailors on the USS Cole. There was the establishment of the Wall of Separation between the FBI and CIA preventing any sharing of intelligence information, which made it impossible to connect the dots to identify terrorists and to plan to counterattack them.

The 9/11 attacks on the US did consolidate our forces in a plan to actively thwart Al Qaida. Unfortunately throughout the Bush administration there were security leaks from the State Department, Department of Defense and the Justice Department, which hampered the war effort. There were no public announcements of tracing, firing and correcting the lack of loyalty of career bureaucrats.

In a year’s time the Obama administration has gone back to re-establishing the Clinton’s pre 9/11 approach of de-emphasizing the threat from terrorists. A terrorist act was sugarcoated to a ‘man-made disaster.‘ On December 20th, five days before the crotch-bomber incident, this administration sent five Gitmo terrorists back to Yemen knowing the recidivism rate is 20% or higher for terrorists from that country.

This is not a breakdown of the intelligence community; it is the failure of our leadership to give a consistent message. We are either fighting an enemy at war with us or we have foreign criminals coming to America to do suicidal acts for no specific purpose.

Behavioral profiling does work. Israel’s airline, EL AL, has not had a security breach since the 1960s. Our entire government has stubbornly prohibited profiling even with passengers at airports. Being aware and scrutinizing high-risk passengers is nothing more than self-preservation ,yet the administration ignores this common sense method to stop haters of America from entering our shores.

Homeland Security took the lead in wishing away the War on Terrorism and minimizing security. The Christmas Day Miracle revealed a surprising number of red flags that had to be disregarded by an incredible number of agents. The 23 year-old Nigerian, Yemen trained terrorist was placed on a “watch list” and was denied a visa from Great Britain. He boarded a flight in Nigeria, purchased a one-way ticket with cash and had no passport or luggage. His own father, a highly respected banker, personally reported to the CIA on several occasions, his son’s radicalization and involvement with Al Qaida.

Janet Napolitano initially appeared on television and told America that this colossal security failure showed that our security system worked. The next day she completely changed her story. President Obama’s said 72 hours after this event that it was an isolated terrorist. The next day he related that there is evidence 25 other terrorists were waiting in line for their chance. After this information was revealed this incident became a systemic failure of security.

The real cancer is much more deeply imbedded in our federal government than one or two officials. Their response shows incompetency or an attempted cover-up. The systematic nature of their approval of this downgrading of our safeguards as soon as this administration came into power is much more problematic.

The story keeps on changing according to the facts that can no longer be hidden. We can no longer accept an internal review or blue ribbon commission cover-up with no specific actions taken. We must demand to be given a full explanation of who authorized these changes in policy and the methods that will be used to hold them accountable.

There has been incident after incident that indicates there are people in our government who are more dedicated to protecting our enemies than our citizens. Charging these heinous acts as criminal acts allows the enemy combatants to ‘lawyer up’ and prevent any real interrogation. We are being stopped from reaping important intelligence information.

Attorney General Eric Holder has to reverse his policy of closing Gitmo and treating enemy combatants as criminals with all the rights of American citizenship or be held accountable for its disastrous results. All parties that impede the investigation or fail to swear allegiance to the constitution should be sent packing.

It is becoming clear; the only way to make sense of these illogical and counter productive policies is that there are officials in important positions that have little interest in protecting our citizens. Before the advent of political correctness their behavior would be considered treasonous. This type of behavior can no longer be tolerated without accepting further serious attacks and horrific consequences to our economy and the morale of our citizens.

It is time to clean house or face greater suffering.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School. Visit: drmaglio.com.

The Global Warming Swindle has Imploded

Global warming has moved from a previously held theory now to a scientific fact Osama Bin Laden has proclaimed that the USA with other industrial nations are the cause of climate change. He advised to boycott American goods and stop using the US dollar.

All the “scientific experts” including Bin Laden have formed a consensus with an airtight argument proving global warming. The consensus is called climate change. When it is unusually warm or even frigidly cold, like this winter, the “experts” proclaim it is indisputable proof of global warming and they are not joking.

The only thing American skeptics must do is ignore the “climategate,” Himalayagate, Amazongate debacles and the fact that climate has been changing long before man walked the earth to be converted to true believers. This will be tricky since 57% of the American public- and more every day- believes there is no solid evidence for global warming.

Climategate, the suppressing and manipulation of data was disclosed in thousands of emails going back 13 years. Phil Jones, the head of the British Research Center, had to step down after it was found he used “tricks” to “hide” the decline in recent global temperatures. The correspondence also demonstrated how he and others kept critical articles out of peer review journals, an essential element of the scientific process. This maneuver demonstrated how they kept any dissenters out of the scientific discourse.

On February 14, 2010, the same Phil Jones produced a new chapter of climategate. He said he could not produce data for the hockey stick graph that was the pivotal evidence of global warming. He related that the world was possibly warmer in medieval times than now and said that there has not been statistically significant warming since 1995. Amazingly he said that global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Global Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 report has been factually discredited by the Himalayan and Amazon debacles. Indian glacier expert, Syed Hasnain, said he was misquoted about the Himalayan ice cap melting by 2035. He reluctantly admitted it was included in the IPCC report to put pressure on world leaders.

“Amazongate” relied on a World Wildlife Fund, an environmental advocacy group, report rather than on a scientific study. The IPCC used this political environmental group to make the assertion that global warming could reduce 40% of the rainforest. This was an anecdotal observation not in any way scientific.

Dr. Rajendra Pichauri, the chairman of the IPCC is not the world’s top climate scientist, he is not even a scientist. He is a railroad engineer and has a PhD. in economics. It was discovered he knew about the misinformation of “Amazongate” two months before the Copenhagen conference and chose to withhold it until after the conference. When you follow the money it is obvious he would profit immensely from the global warming hoax.

These three strikes and you’re out should end the fiasco of global warming. Add the additional fourth, fifth and sixth strikes and it becomes a joke. These consensus people were yelling about global cooling in 1974 in Time magazine, India outright quit the Copenhagen conference and China does not accept any of the conference regulations that would limit their economic growth.

Yet our executive branch does not listen or hear the people’s voice concerning the overwhelming evidence smacking them in the face of the fraud of global warming. They cannot make a rational decision; instead, these progressive politicians with all the damning revelations will stay this ridiculous course. The motivation of these self-serving people is redistributing money nationally and internationally as well as political power and socialism through any means possible.

The Cap and Trade bill is supposed to be dead. Our executive branch is making an end run on science and the American people. On December 9, 2009, before the Copenhagen conference, the EPA concluded greenhouse gasses are endangering American’s health and must be regulated. This was a signal to the leaders of the climate change industry that we were going to be serious about Cap and Trade.

The New York Times has reported on January 5, 2010, that the CIA is now to use spy satellites and other sensors to document global warming instead of doing their job of protecting our country through gaining intelligence. They are diverting valuable resources by this ridiculous new executive order. On January 29. 2010, Mary Schapiro, head of the SEC, made a veiled threat to intimidate public companies to join the Cap and Tax bandwagon. She issued “guidance” to them about reporting to the SEC about their operation’s risk to global warming.

Now on February 9, 2010 the administration has established the Climate Service under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It will be promoting politically motivated predictions for global warming.

These executive decisions makes our government actively involved in the global warming deception.

The global warming fiasco has awakened the American people. Science practiced with objectivity and integrity has advanced mankind. Politicians disguised as authentic scientists are charlatans who want to subjugate the people of the world for their own personal gain.

If meteorological predictions of local daily weather and hurricanes are any indication of the accuracy of the field of science, why would anybody buy into this inconvenient politics except to honor Nobel Peace Prize “scientist,” Al Gore and IPCC “scientist.” Rajendra Pichauri. There is no definitive proof of global warming or CO2 emissions being a cause. But we now know there are many political factors driving this charade. The jig is up.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School. Visit: drmaglio.com.

Government Owns Our Castle

We can no longer use our property or do to it what we would like. Our homes are being micro managed by our government. No, while we were sleeping the government did not decree the end to private property, at least not yet.

We still own our homes and have to pay the mortgage and taxes. Private contracts such as house and land deeds are honored although the government has begun to enlarge its power to take away our rights as homeowners. Eminent domain was for the public good to build schools, roads and other community improvements. It now includes increasing the tax revenue for the government’s good as well as greedy pick-pocketing developers.

Americans have always felt that their “homes were their castles.” The home was a sanctuary under their control. They may not have had great material wealth but they knew a free man could do whatever he chose on his land.

Times have changed. Putting a shed up on your property means you now have to get permission and actually pay a permitting fee, “tithe,” to the local government. Changing your front door or merely painting a room, or upgrading your air conditioner or just changing a large appliance can require a permit. Our freedom to do what we want with our homes has been radically reduced.

Greedy bureaucrats are salivating realizing technological advances can be used to increase their invasion into our homes. Rural wells are being identified and recorded to have the information necessary to impose an unexpected tax on homeowners. These country residents, not the government, drill and maintain their own wells at their own expense to tap into God’s waters. Officials in some California counties want to control the air conditioning and heat temperatures in homes by the use of advanced electronic monitoring. In some urban areas smoking has even been outlawed in people’s own dwellings. The list of government intrusions into our homes is growing rapidly.

There are two main rationales the government uses for stealing our civil rights. According to local government any home improvement has to be inspected by government officials to insure it meets the current building code. This is supposedly to protect the owner and the potential next owner of the house from shoddy work by contractors. In reality it is just another way of controlling and taxing us. Even with “government inspections” any buyer with any brains would inspect the house himself or hire a professional before making a major commitment to buy a home.

The other is a socialistic rationale that the government must limit our rights for “the common good.” This translates into: “you cannot use this item according to your own needs” like air and water since other people in the world may need them more. The government arbitrarily determines a formula that charges you for carbon emissions or water. It is hard to argue for personal freedom when “city hall” is claiming they do this for our children’s future unless you realize all of this rationale is another bunch of bunk to take our hard earned money to expand government further into our pocketbook and lives.

We Americans are at the breaking point and need to draw a line in the sand. We must start somewhere. It is best to begin as close to home as possible. The loss of our rights in our own homes should be a wake up call. If we cannot stand up for our own liberty on our own property, we do not deserve to be free.

Doers are being penalized for being productive. The disincentives to industrious people will lead to totalitarianism but incentives to these same people will create a free, vibrant country. We should leave the good US citizens free to do things necessary to improve their lot in life, not tax them into poverty.

To begin we need to take back our castle:

• Question instead of sheepishly accepting any time the government is demanding money from us for improving our homes or consuming God’s gifts to man like water and air.
• Associate with other like-minded people to run candidates for office who want to protect our rights to be free. (Citizen’s cumulative decisions are more efficient and effective than government’s short sighted ones.)
• Call, email and speak directly to our representatives to enlarge, not restrict our freedoms.

We need to take back our castles or accept the all -powerful government’s approach to restricting rights and housing. Remaining oblivious to government’s erosion of our rights will leave us with no choice but dull, drab state built and run projects like other communist countries. America will deserve whatever happens: we fight for our freedoms or lose them.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School.

From Bad to Worse

In order to control the media, no reporters were allowed to enter the California earthquake zone that killed 110,000 people with 70,000 still missing. The government did not want any reporters or foreign relief workers to question or speak with our citizens even though their aid would help the suffering citizens. The problem would be the world outside who would learn too much about what was happening inside the American borders.

Fear of the secret police is in the forefront of everyone’s mind. Certain words and thoughts cannot be spoken without fear of reprisal. America’s freedom of speech has been choked off with insidious political correctness. When people want to talk honestly about the government they non-verbally signal each other to go into a separate room. Each speaks in hushed voices not to be heard by any listening device.

The average family can hardly afford a tiny prefab apartment while the elite live a privileged life of luxury. Assets of individuals are constantly confiscated for the “greater good.” Taxes continue to rise on the employed to pay for the unemployed. Water, oxygen intake and artificial temperature change are taxed according to sophisticated state meters penetrating the sanctity of our homes.

In the universal medical service system patients must pay money under the table to get an appointment before the usual six-month waiting period. Hospital beds are only available for the politically connected.

This may seem far-fetched to many Americans who take our freedom for granted. In our short history as a nation, many have made great personal sacrifice to put us on the right track when we veer too far to the left or right. Now there are few real patriots in power positions.

Historically the average person pays and a small elite group prospers whenever a people follow a leader who promises something for nothing, An idealistic plan based on hope rather than the reality of personal responsibility and sacrifice leads ultimately to a loss of economic freedom ending in a totalitarian existence.

Europeans are experimenting with this through accepting the European Union. Each of these joining nation’s elites have been willing to sacrifice their working middle class to join this scheme. The silence of the citizens of these countries has been bought by the hope of collective power giving each person more for doing less.

Right now in the EU gas is $9 a gallon and diesel fuel is over $10 per gallon, unemployment is in the mid to high teens. The federal income tax is about 48% with a 19-23% sales tax on everything sold. The price of food has doubled in the change of currency to the euro while incomes have increased only slightly. These results should wake up every American.

Things in Europe have gone from bad to worse. Are we are going to choose a similar socialistic model that is not working? Is the global economy going to maintain or improve our standing as the number one nation in the world or is it going to rob us of our freedoms? We have become soft and greedy. We complain, hold our noses and elect lying, corrupt candidates who spout schemes that will never work.

It is true no matter the level of functioning of the nation there are always things that can be improved. In economic downturns there are always legitimate gripes. We only know how good things were when we look back over time. We blame our country for our almost $4 a gallon of gas, a 6% mortgage rate, for beef at $5 a pound and sharp increases in airplane tickets. We are righteously indignant about the state of affairs and want immediate change without the necessary suffering, which is part of the hustle to stay on the top.

American’s greatness has been built on the backs of free, average people. When these people feel their efforts no longer matter we are a decaying society. We must keep our individual freedom not replace it with “the collective good.” There is no “free lunch.”

Change does not insure better conditions. It can go either in a positive or negative direction. Things can rapidly crash going from bad to worse. We can go from “the frying pan into the fire.”

Positive change takes work. Only by united citizens pressuring our leaders to do what is best for America, rather than continuing in their disgusting corrupt ways, can we regain America’s exceptionalism.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School.

Robbing Any Citizen's Freedom Limits Everyone

Society should protect the innocent from despicable acts. Murder, sexual and physical abuse, destruction of property and reckless behavior need to have severe legal consequences in order to deter them. However, the more laws enacted, the less free the society. The more choices citizens are able to make, the freer the society.

When governments attempt to legislate preferences, manners and decency it is over-stepping its boundaries. It is going down a slippery path of oppression.

Our government has passed laws against smoking in restaurants, beaches and even in one's home. NYC mayor, Michael Bloomberg, decided educating the people about the dangers of trans fats would be ineffective. Instead he decreed that restaurants had to stop serving trans fats. Congress has established laws, which have curtailed our freedom of speech by making it a crime to utter certain words. A common expression today can be a hate crime tomorrow. Now California is attempting to require "programmable communicating thermostats' in homes so the government can control our heat and cooling during what is deemed an "emergency event."

Unnecessary laws are stifling our liberty. Free people collectively make better decisions than do government elites.

Most Americans have dropped their love affair with smoking being cool. Cigarettes have lost favor in our culture. Very few non-smokers have empathy for smokers. Cigarette smoke stinks and can cause allergic reactions. Many smokers have been persuaded to stop smoking for the sake of their health. Free people can be convinced to live without trans fats and can learn to stop saying politically incorrect things. Laws are not needed to tell us how to live our daily lives.

People in a free nation have the right to associate with anyone as long as they do not advocate violence against others. Some individuals who want to control their neighbor can join a deed-restricted community. Each individual voluntarily agrees to limits his choices as well as his neighbor's. These deed-restricting contracts can stipulate the color or one's house, number and kind of plant allowed and exclude children from the homes of community residents. These rights are not being taken from them; instead they are expressing their freedom to live in an environment that decreases their neighbor's and their own options. They agree to restrict their own freedoms.

It is a radically different act when the federal government limits individual's rights and freedoms. When government robs us of our positive choices it is not in the interest but against the interest of the people. This is despotism.

Even though all citizens should be agitated by the government abridging our freedoms, most of us do not protest. Our silence allows government to whittle away our independent choices. Limiting the rights of specific groups of people creates a political environment that makes all of our freedoms vulnerable.

Proposing new laws to correct a perceived problem usually enhances a politicians ability to be elected. These issues are often manufactured by special interests using dubious polls. Our society should not be changed by the whim of politicians passing laws motivated by special interests but by free individuals making choices over time.

In the past smoking was "cool," Oreo cookies and donuts were the rage, saying what you meant was valued. Today these all have lost cultural favor. People have made decisions on their own to change their behavior rather than being directed by "Big Brother."

America is a country with shrinking liberties. We are unwilling to recognize that government's attempt to unnecessarily restrict any of us will eventually affect all of us. Since most of these laws do not restrict us personally we take the lazy citizen approach and ignore them.

Laws and regulations are strangling our once great and free nation. Our children, our land, homes, eating habits, water and air will be the domain of the state. We are losing our rights and privileges. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

Our liberties will be lost by our not being vigilant to stand up for the rights of others. Losing our liberties in a dramatic coup or piecemeal still ends in a tyrannical existence.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School.

The Tyranny of Minority Special Interests Over the Majority

We Americans must sacrifice time and effort to do our homework in order to be knowledgeable voters. Being too busy to do our civic duty is not an acceptable excuse. Educated citizens must give direction to our government representatives.

When the majority of Americans were educated on the eminent domain, Dubai port take over and illegal immigrant issues, left and right came together to direct our politicians. Through emails and telephone calls to our representatives we demonstrated we meant business. Politicians turned their backs on the special interests of international corporations, developers and financial institutions and turned towards the voice of the majority of Americans.

In these instances the smug arrogance of special interests was wiped off their faces by the average American. When we come together, our message is loud and clear. Politicians listen, perhaps for no other reason than to save their jobs. We stood up to some of the most powerful elites and were victorious for the benefit of us all. The majority should trump the powerful minorities.

The only reason special interest has dominated our political process is because we have become complacent and let them. Various interests have used the power of money to organize their efforts to push their sel- serving wish list. George Soros, of Moveon.org has spent millions of his own dollars to manipulate people into adopting more progressive, secular viewpoints. The oil, financial, NEA, ethnic, homosexual, racial and other special interests hire public relation firms and lobbyists to get what they want passed into law.

Special interests have been immensely effective in controlling the political machinery that many Americans feel they are powerless to compete against. The vast majority of us are acting as if it is inevitable that America will be deviously controlled by the new aristocracy of international corporations, non-profit groups and celebrity elites. We recognize special interest groups can get laws enacted even when it harms the national interest. We know the playing field is getting less and less level for small business and the average American.

Instead of demanding that our representatives are responsive to us, we just sulk and complain to each other. We know that legislative loyalty and allegiance can be purchased by the highest bidder. We ought to use the natural tendency of people to do what is needed to keep and promote their own power. We must reclaim our ability to form the ultimate special interest group called the "American people." By frequently showing our power through our numbers and monetary donations we will mandate our government to work for instead of against us.

In the computer age knowledge of any issue is at our fingertips. We can research, formulate our positions and mobilize large numbers of citizens to show our resolve and will to our politicians. By lighting up the phone lines at their offices and inundating them with emails we can instruct our representatives to do what is right. This will eliminate the feeling of impotency in the political process. The Internet's rapid research and communication gives us the tools to show our representatives how to do the people's business.

The salvation of our freedom lies not with passivity but with but educated, joint action. By showing a force of numbers we will encourage our representation to be motivated more by their moral and noble inclinations than blatant greed.

We will be reenergized by seeing the results of being victorious through our coordinated efforts. A representative government takes effort on the part of the citizens.

We can rekindle the spirit of our founding fathers extraordinary revolution by doing our part. Only through our hands-on involvement in politics can we combat and defeat the tyranny of the minority over the majority.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School.

Vote Your Preference not the Polls

There are very few people that follow politics who believe in the infallibility of the polls although too many of us are influenced by them. Often people alter their vote because the polls indicate it would be wasted on a candidate who has the certainty of victory or no chance to win. In either case our decision on what bubble to fill in can be altered by erroneous polls caused by incompetence, faulty scientific procedures or an attempt to influence the election.

Polls are often blurred and inaccurate snapshots of people’s feelings at a given moment toward a particular candidate. Many people refuse to answer pollster’s questions. Dissatisfied independents who were going to vote democrat or republican switch their party for the evening to skew the results. Some voters do not make up their minds until the last minute. Others may not honestly answer an exit poll question on a particular issue as it might make them appear in a bad light. This encourages self-censorship distorting the data used by the analysts to project a winner. Although it is against the law, these projected winners are often given before the polls close in the entire state. These predictions influence potential voters to stay home or to change their vote.

Our forefathers were right to institute a secret ballot. For individuals to honestly and freely express their opinions, they should be immune from subtle influences and possible reprisal. The pollsters choice of words, phrasing and inflection of his question can manipulate the responder’s answer. Polls do not offer any safeguards from the pollster’s potential influence or retaliation while the secret ballot does. A voting booth’s privacy eliminates any chicanery.

Regardless of the reason, polls have to be taken with a grain of salt to prevent each of us from wasting our sacred vote. We should vote for who we believe in not attempt to change the election outcome based on a false premise of a dubious poll.

Almost everyone including professional analysts went to bed thinking Obama was up by double digits in the New Hampshire primary and McCain was the inevitable winner in the Michigan primary. Hillary and Romney actually won these respective primaries. Obama’s overnight drop of 16 points in the New Hampshire primary was said to be because of the “Bradley Effect.” This effect is thought to be that whites do not want to appear to be racist to non-white candidates and lie about their vote to the pollster. Regardless of their rationalization they were wrong.

When the pollsters are far off the mark in their predictions, they give questionable explanations. Rick Lazio’s unexpected loss by a wider margin than predicted against Hillary Clinton in the New York senate race of 2002 was perceived as his being too physically aggressive in approaching her during a debate. This theory was called the “Lazio (Macho) Effect.” The disappointing showing of Romney in the 2008 primaries was attributed by some to the “Mormon Effect,” a bias against the Mormons. There is the “Late Voter Effect” where the late voters tend to go to a more conservative candidate and the “Bandwagon Effect” when momentum seems to change the poll’s results. Every time the polls are way off the mark there is another psycho-babble excuse.

In our rapidly moving and changing world many of us learn much of our information from newspaper headlines and three-minute television “sound bites.” Most people have minimal time and opportunity to discuss and analyze the validity of the conclusions of polls that are flashed before their eyes. We for the most part absorb them as fact. There isn’t a “return policy” in our election system. We are stuck with a leader who can do tremendous damage to society for four years. Buyers remorse does not matter.

It is our responsibility as citizens in a mass media society to question information that intuitively seems suspicious. When we follow the herd instead of doing our own homework to make an educated choice we are not doing our civic duty. Allowing ourselves to be led by a pseudo scientific poll could result in a sophisticated coup.

Our faith in polls far exceeds their ability to predict voter behavior. Although we see polls being wrong, time and again, too many of us make our voting decisions on the last poll. This is not logical or sensible.

Electing a leader who will have immense power over our lives is a consequential act. Misinformation can sway an election causing us to elect a candidate opposed to our constitutional protections. Being politically manipulated can only happen when people are too lazy or unwilling to research, think and exercise their right of free speech.

An uneducated electorate ultimately ends in a loss of freedom for the society. A carefully crafted fantasy candidate cannot be elected when people are willing to work and fight to gather the facts. Vote for the person who will represent your beliefs.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School.

Competency Eliminates the Need for Affirmative Action

Some in America are attempting to pass laws to extinguish human nature. Historically only totalitarian nations have tried to override human nature with unintended disastrous results.

The state of Michigan has passed a law making it a crime to discriminate against height and weight in employment. Next will be laws to protect cross-eyed, freckled, sunken chest or large nosed people.

The reality is we are all unique in feelings, looks, thinking and preferences. We all have been discriminated against and we all have discriminated against others whether we admit it or not. Our likes and dislikes are different. This diversity makes life and people interesting.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, continues to shock and mystify us. What could that person see in the other one is a question we continually ask ourselves throughout our lives. It just illustrates that we all see things differently. Our unique human nature and experiences shape our preferences in choosing who we want and do not want to associate with in our personal lives and in the workplace.

For workers in a free market economy there is one characteristic that supercedes all other preferences. It is competency to do the job. When a person can get the job done efficiently with a positive attitude he will more likely get the position over even a family member who is lazy and obnoxious.

There is presently no need for affirmative action laws from a central government to get hired when a person has good skills, good work ethic and a positive disposition. A person with these characteristics is sought after by employers to advance the business. They can be short, tall, fat or slim, dark or translucent, small or large individuals. In a free enterprise economy getting the job done effectively is the major consideration for anyone doing the hiring.

We are in a global economy. The US cannot afford the lunacy of social engineering in the work place. The need to conform to the demographic formula devised by government bureaucrats to appease special interests is a poison pill to business.

When government interferes with our freedom of whom to choose to hire they are not only limiting our liberty, but they are tampering with our free enterprise economy. This is a system that relies on motivating people to do more than the minimum.

The American economy cannot compete vigorously when the free market forces are repressed by big government. The multitude of nationwide employer’s hiring decisions has proven to create a more vibrant economy then putting the power into the hands of a centralized government. We have recently seen the economic miracle of unleashing the power of a free market economy throughout Asia. The best person to perform a job will triumph over some pseudo scientific rationale for supposedly leveling the playing field.

Government interference in the work place in the form of affirmative action only creates resentment. The workers who were selected as part of a quota system will never be sure they earned the position. The worker not selected or advanced to a higher position would likely resent the worker chosen under this arbitrary government quota system.

Choosing the best qualified person is not perfect. The process is subjective. There are always going to be people complaining about being discriminated against. This will continue to happen regardless of any new naïve legislation imposed by governmental elites.

We should transfer the monies given to affirmative action bureaucrats to education programs to increase worker skills, attitude and work ethic. Prepared employees on every level will increase their likelihood of obtaining and keeping a job. This is a win-win situation for the employee and the employer. It certainly leaves the decision making in the hands of the person with the most knowledge of how best to fill the position.

By allowing the employer the freedom to run his own business, the worker, regardless of gender, race or physical characteristics has the best chance of obtaining a job on his own merits. This leads to a greater chance of job satisfaction, commitment and growth in the organization. The government has no need or right to muscle in on the employers’ prerogative to hire someone they may not want.

Let us keep free enterprise free.

The Homosexual Agenda in Schools is Unamerican: Neither Proselytizing About Religion nor Sexual Orientation Belong in School

Many of the same people who want to prohibit any mention of God in our schools are now attempting to ram the homosexual agenda down our throats. They see no inconsistency in repressing over 90% of our society who are believers in God while promoting a small, though highly controversial lifestyle of 1 to 2% of our population.

U.S. District Judge, Mark Wolf threw out a lawsuit filed in Lexington, MA by David Parker, father of a five-year-old kindergarten student. Mr. Parker wanted to shield his son from homosexual lessons. Judge Wolf said in his ruling against this father, “Schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens.” “Gay Topics OK in School, Judge Rules”. Associated Press, Tampa Tribune, Feb. 24, 2007, p. 16.

In other words according to the judge the state, not the parents, has the right to decide on the moral values to teach to children. Our federal judicial system is overruling the will of the people in many school districts. Judges are decreeing what is appropriate in local schools.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has exploited the Equal Access Act to legitimize homosexual clubs in public schools as another non-curriculum club. These homosexual clubs are supposed to be educational and not encourage homosexual activity. More often than not this is not the case.

In the same way, using the same ACLU reasoning, Bible study clubs should be allowed in public school. However, very few Americans believe that a Bible instructor would not cross the line into becoming an advocate of a particular religion. This is the reason why even in the Bible belt, speaking about God is not allowed in public schools.

Children up until the young adult years are developing their sexual identity. They are often innocent and vulnerable to groups led by authorities that promote the alleged virtues of homosexuality. For homosexual clubs to have state sanctioned access to our children without presenting an opposing view, is not a forum for education, it is brainwashing.

Public education’s mission is neither to promote a particular religion or a particular sexual orientation. Public schools have been established to give all Americans an opportunity to become literate functioning citizens.

American government schools are distinguished from totalitarian government schools because we have refused to dictate a specific way of believing to our students. Religion and moral values in America have traditionally been up to the parents to decide not the government.

When our public schools develop curricula to change our moral values towards homosexuality we have moved into the realm of re-education camps of communist countries. This should send a chill up the spine and spineless alike.

General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on March 13th, stated that adultery and homosexuality were immoral. This caused a firestorm although Christians, Muslims and Orthodox Jews consider adultery and homosexuality immoral. The old and new testaments and Koran alike condemn sexual acts between people of the same sex.

Old Testament: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, such a thing is an abomination.” Leviticus 18:22.

New Testament: “Therefore God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and their males likewise gave up natural relations with females burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.” Romans 1:26,27

Koran: “For ye practice your lusts on man in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.” (7:81)

Homosexuality to many secular people has no moral relevance as long as it is between two consenting adults. They view homosexuality as genetically determined although no definitive scientific evidence substantiates this claim, it is a belief.

In America we are free to believe in whatever manner we decide as long as it does not interfere with the rights of others. A discrete sexual act, homosexual or heterosexual behind closed doors is not the business of our government. It is a personal choice of our conscience.

Whenever the state is able to indoctrinate children into a certain belief system parents and all of us have been robbed of our basic freedom of teaching our children what we have learned through our own lives.

America has a long history of tolerance of different religious and personal beliefs. Our government schools cannot be hijacked by special interest groups to promote their agenda without undermining the essence of our freedoms, the bedrock of our republic.

All special interest agendas should be heard in the free market place of ideas, in books and open discussion amongst individuals. Certainly it is not a government right to spread the secular agenda.

Neither proselytizing a religion nor a homosexual orientation is acceptable in school. We must maintain separation of church and separation of sexual orientation from our children’s education.

Homosexual education does not belong in our schools.

Freedom of Speech Includes Freedom Not to Listen

America is free. We do not have to go into the back rooms of our houses to discuss controversial topics. There is no fear of government officials invading our homes. No one is being carted off for what they are saying, no matter how stupid, vulgar or blasphemous.

Along with our freedom of speech we must retain our freedom not to listen. When government schools tell our children what to believe or when government does not fulfill its responsibility to keep public airwaves open to all viewpoints it has nullified our freedom of selecting what we hear.

Standard programs from Animal Planet to pornography deliver what they advertise.

“Shock-jock”, Don Imus’s remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team that they were “nappy headed hos” was worthless and disgusting although the listening audience was well aware of what to expect from the program.

Imus has done us all a favor of shining the spotlight on one of our freedoms. We have the freedom not to listen. We can be the censors by turning off the television, radio or CDs and not watch objectionable movies. We have the freedom to walk away from people whose influence is negative or evil.

The standard of freedom of speech as only responsible and thoughtful is a utopian dream. Humans being human means we are imperfect creatures. We can make bad as well as good choices in what we say and how we say it.

Anointing any one person to censor speech or allowing self-appointed censors like the Rev. Al Sharpton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson or Bull Bennett will be the end of freedom of speech. Who will censor the censor when the individual uses his power for his own agenda?

Rather than giving any one individual or group the power of censorship we adults in America must perform the task to discriminate what we want to see or hear. We must struggle to create a safe and wholesome world for our children. This is a difficult job for each adult although the accumulated choices of each person is far more just and effective in keeping America a free and vital civilization than relying on the government.

We Americans know we are lied to by Madison Avenue through fraudulent advertising. “Take this product and you are guaranteed to lose fifty pounds in a month.” “This beauty cream will wipe away all your wrinkles.” “A new wonder drug will cure any mental or physical ailment you possess.” The consumer has to see through the smokescreen of deceit.

Politicians of all stripes through their campaign advertising distort their record and everyone else’s as a standard operating procedure. This is true for the vast majority of elected officials.

The citizen has the responsibility to listen carefully, research and make educated decisions. We alone should have the power to turn off the television, not buy the product for $19.95 or choose a candidate on a local, state and national level. It is our decision to make, not the government’s.

Our government has the responsibility to prohibit speech of those who are plotting to destroy our nation or do violence to others. When government controls schools it has. a responsibility to set levels of decency. They set the standards in dress, physical contact and speech to insure an environment conducive to learning. Local, state and federal governments have no right to cross the line into indoctrination of students for the greater good of society.

The responsibility of inculcating values to children in a free society belongs to the parents. Adults can protect themselves through their choices while parents have the duty to do the same for their children.

Education is teaching necessary basic skills to function in today’s society. The moral values instilled in our children should continue to come from the family.

Propaganda from government and media elites cannot replace the family’s role in a free society. Even when attempting to reach a noble cause like eliminating ethnic, religious and racial hatred, local and national governments setting standards for politically correct speech is a “slippery slope”.

This path of political correctness has already led to repression of speech that will ultimately end in totalitarianism.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: There ought to be a law to punish false accusers and corrupt prosecutors

The State Attorney of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, after reviewing the evidence of the Duke Lacross case has stated that the players on the team are innocent of all charges brought by the State Prosecutor, Mike Nyfong. This phase of the proceedings took more than a year. The legal system has yet to determine whether the dishonest prosecutor and the accuser should be criminally responsible for their actions.

The integrity of our legal system demands government officials who withhold or falsify information and citizens who bring false charges must receive severe punishment. The lack of consequences for these behaviors will only lead to a continuing decline of respect for our judicial system.

This Duke case is only “the tip of the iceberg” of citizens being guilty until proven innocent. The perversion of a main underpinning of our legal system: that a person is innocent until proven guilty, is becoming frighteningly commonplace in our nation.

Custody cases, sexual harassment and abuse, hate crimes and domestic violence force the accused to prove their own innocence. They are investigated often in long, drawn out procedures without having specific knowledge of when or where the incident was supposed to have occurred. The government bureaucrat has the power to investigate and determine the possible validity of the charges with little accountability. The investigators are often understaffed and poorly trained to make a just and rapid determination. In the meantime the innocent person accused suffers from not knowing if or when the ordeal will end.

Eventually, when the usual “not founded” conclusion is reached, the false accuser or the self-serving bureaucrat more often than not is immune from consequences for his actions.

Presently it appears there is no consideration of the character of the person making the allegation. Everyone is treated as if he is equally honorable no matter how sordid the past. Even when a person is shown to be a pathological liar his testimony is given equal credence to an individual who has lived an exemplary life. This is absurd. Reputation has and still should matter in arriving at the plausibility of an accuser’s allegation.

This system must be revamped to protect the rights of the innocent. The following recommendations will bring into balance rights of the accuser and the accused. This will bring us back to the original intent of the law: to be innocent until proven guilty.

• A law needs to be passed to make it a crime for a false accuser or corrupt bureaucrat who has blatantly lied to be prosecuted.
• There should be a time limit of 2-4 weeks to determine the plausibility of the charge.
• Should the accuser is found to be lying to the investigators the state should be required to prosecute for perjury.
• Any investigator or prosecuting attorney who is found to withhold or falsify information should be charged with a crime.

These recommendations will introduce a level of accountability to the process.

The Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights guarantees the right to a speedy trial. The person falsely accused of abuse deserves the same protection of a thorough but quick process. Instead of a nebulous “unfounded” statement they should be declared “innocent of all charges.” North Carolina State Attorney, Ron Cooper, publicly declared the Duke defendants innocent to help them regain their good reputations.

Our system of justice cannot give an individual falsely claiming to be violated or a corrupt government official impunity from prosecution after they trample on the lives of others. It may be necessary in our Politically Correct climate to give the benefit of a doubt to a person claiming to be victimized by another.

However, if the self-proclaimed “victim” is blatantly lying, or the government bureaucrat is falsifying information to win the case, they must be punished. A strong consequence will act as a deterrent minimizing the number of cases where a person is guilty until proven innocent.

Fighting is Necessary to Limit Evil: The right to bear arms is an American value that must be preserved

Fighting has gotten a bad reputation. Anyone who fights is wrong in our modern culture. Both the aggressor and the person attacked are equally culpable to our authorities. The image of warriors fighting for good too often is perceived as malicious rather than noble. In the recent past standing up for goodness especially when it meant putting one’s life on the line was considered a courageous act that deserved admiration not condemnation. It still should for the peace and welfare of our country.

In a recent highly publicized incident in New York a mugger had the audacity to snatch the purse of Rose Moret, a 101 year-old lady, in the lobby of her apartment house. When she tried to hold onto it he punched her in the head. We were shocked back into reality that the older generation has more guts than the younger generation in responding to evil with indignation. This heroine knew right from wrong and automatically did what was right. In our hearts we cheered for her and at the same time felt ashamed we have lost our courage.

It is safer and easier to ignore injustices and brutality that occur smack in front of us. In this politically correct society we have been conditioned to turn our backs on people in harm’s way. We have become a society of self-centered wimps. We need to regain our courage.

Combat on any level is a dangerous proposition. No rational person wants to risk his life and limb in a fight. However, fighting is justifiable when it is done to protect ourselves, loves ones, family or nation.

In America each person has a responsibility and a right to protect his body, his family, innocent people and his property from unjustifiable attack. People are evil when they force others to do things against their own self-interest and will. The satisfaction of their desires drives them without any regard for decency and the rights of others. Evil people have always and will continue to exist as part of the human condition. Self-defense against evil is a responsibility of any spiritual person. Placing oneself in a dangerous situation to help another is a kind act.

Mugging, home invasion, rape, childhood sex abuse, stealing, domestic violence and killing of the innocent exists throughout the world. Depending on the time in a country’s history evil acts will be minimal or they will be rampant although thet will never be totally nonexistent. The level of evil is determined by the willingness of good men to take a stand. When courageous people fight against any type of evil it retreats.

We need to teach our children and remind ourselves that weakness in confronting evil causes it to flourish while strength results in its diminishing. Too many Americans have forgotten this historical reality and believe appeasement will magically bring an end to destructive behavior. This is false. It only emboldens evil.

Every humane person who desires a peaceful and good world has no right to do nothing when confronted by evil even if they fear bodily harm. Doing nothing is the surest way to lose our freedom and a just world.

Strongly fighting against evil is a less dangerous approach to insure our country’s existence than attempting to negotiate with it. Diplomacy with evil men buys them time to successfully launch lethal attacks that can culminate in our defeat.

Most Americans have no idea of the real consequences of losing the war to a belligerent civilization. Rape, pillaging and occupation will result in the eradicating of our freedoms, rights, prosperity and the optimistic spirit that has defined us for the past 250 years.

No greater legacy has a man than to sacrifice his life to protect the liberty and life of others. Being a victim or dying a coward while watching innocent people being abused or killed is a disgrace to the individual and a sign of moral decay of a society.

No civilized nation can depend totally on its police force and military to control and stop evil acts domestically and internationally. The people of the nation must be encouraged and allowed to stand up to evil acts. Without high societal expectations of valor on the part of all citizens a chaotic and violent world prevails.

Our founding fathers put their lives, families and personal fortunes on the line to fight the British abuse and exploitation of Americans. The novel Bill of Rights was created to list our inalienable rights as citizens of America. The second of these amendments clearly affirmed our responsibility and right to bear arms to keep evil people at bay. Let us return to the root values of America to preserve our nation.

Iraq Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

"They are saying the generals learned their lesson in the last war. There are going to be no wholesale slaughters. I ask how is victory possible except by wholesale slaughter,” Evelyn Waugh’s 1939 diary. The generals in WWII like in most wars, tend to be overly optimistic.

War, throughout history has been known to be hell. There is untold suffering for anyone facing combat although it is not a reason for surrendering our freedom in the face of evil.

Our nation assaulted an eight square mile uninhabitable volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean. The brass planned on a 2 or 3 day battle but it lasted 36 days. Two thirds of all the armed forces invading the island were either wounded or killed. There were 25,856 casualties of the invading nation, including 7000 dead in a little over a month.

The enemy was unmerciful in its tactics. Religious indoctrination was used to motivate the troops to inhumane actions. There was no following the rules of war. Fanatical enemies blew themselves up with grenades to kill their adversaries. They targeted medical corpsmen to create more havoc and tortured their captured.

On the fourth day of the invasion the commanding officer risked the lives of soldiers by ordering them to place the American flag on top of the volcano. At the moment of flag raising, victory was declared. This was premature. Fierce deadly battles lasted for another 32 days with the last enemy holdout surrendering almost four years later.

As in all wars, this battle was fought with tactical mistakes. As always the military and the national press lied to the public. There was also death from friendly fire. All the horrors of war were experienced.

After accounting for these horrific facts Iwo Jima was a fantastic victory that was instrumental in winning WWII. Turning back from the challenges of this invasion would have extended the war probably ending in defeat of the U.S. A world dominated by Japan with the U.S. a second or third rated country would have been the likely outcome.

The ferociousness, mistakes and tragedy of this battle in WWII were not isolated to merely Iwo Jima but include the fighting that took place in the European and Asian theaters.

The set of circumstances described above sound very much like what we are experiencing today in Iraq.

Yes, our president and military have made many mistakes and the media continues to distort the truth about Iraq. An imminent pull out of Iraq cannot be justified by the difficulties and hardships which are part of any conflict.

It is true our country in the recent past has ignored attack upon attack on our national interests. The Hezzbola attack in Lebanon killing over 200 of our military forces, the downing of the Black Hawk helicopter in Mogadishu, the attack on the Cole, the first Twin Tower explosion in 1993 have showed our lack of desire to pay the price of war to insure peace. Our credibility as a world military power was becoming more and more suspect each day.

We had to take a military stand after 9/11 or risk an escalation of severity and number of incidents against our people. Only after American interests were under attack for many years and the unwillingness of other United Nations countries to take a stand after sixteen un-enforced resolutions, did we enter the war against terrorism. War cannot be taken lightly nor can we surrender.

We can accept the advice of the critics of this and all wars and “re-deploy.” Unfortunately they do not realize even though history has shown us over and over again that peace can only be maintained through strength. Our cost in men and treasure has been great. The mistakes, lies and horror of any war cannot intimidate us into turning our back on the valor of 3000 dead and tens of thousands of wounded soldiers.

Victory has never been and will never be without difficulty and mistakes. America has already paid too high a price to run away from being victorious. The moral scar of abandoning the Vietnamese and Cambodian people and our Vietnam era soldiers has traumatized our nation.

Regardless of the clever marketing euphemism used to make surrender seem more palatable, surrender is still defeat. The United States may get a short-term reprieve by abandoning our responsibilities although the negative consequences to our vital interests will be devastating.

Our choice is clear. We can surrender solidifying the world view of our being a paper tiger or we can do the things necessary for victory. A winner grabs victory and does not accept the inevitable suffering of defeat.

America's Internationalists are Traitors

There are many elites in our country who support international corporations above the interests of the United States. These powerful people, often elected officials, are making decisions for the benefit of multinational companies while undermining our sovereignty. Their allegiance is to increase power and money and not to their nation. Many of their actions are treasonous to the welfare of America.

Our leaders should do their job of protecting us rather than selling out America for personal gain. This elitist support is understandable given the multi billion dollars that international corporations have to spend on lobbyists, campaign contributions and advertising. These powerful entities with the assistance of politicians, practically dictate our domestic and foreign policy.

International corporations are outside the control of any one nation. They are mini states. They have no allegiance to a particular nation since they operate in most countries of the world. These entities are amoral with their sole purpose being to make more and more money and gather more and more power.

We Americans have the most to lose from the international’s push for globalism. America has earned the position of the world’s super power through our ancestors and our sacrifice. It is not in our interest for internationalists to redistribute our wealth.

Although the U.S. is the “king of the mountain” we are witnessing before our very eyes international corporation’s dismantling the mountain bit by bit and shipping it overseas. Whole industries have been moved to other nations because of cheap labor, resources or the lack of environmental restrictions all to increase their profit margin with no concern for the negative impact on the public. Their self-serving actions have long-term serious impact on America’s financial and military security.

In the long run the citizens of the USA suffer from our government’s silence. The internationalists use their immense power in politics and the mass media to assist global corporations make the laws. This direct access to affect the wellbeing of America makes them a nation state within our country reminiscent of the city states of feudal times.

Instead of advancing the United State’s interests these elites are manipulating certain aspects of our constitution and heritage to increase corporate power. They are creating a new world order based on global economics rather than national self interests. This makes many rich and powerful people more rich and powerful while making us poorer by leveling the mountain we have worked so hard to build.

Even President Bush, elected as a traditional nationalist has proven himself to be an internationalist. He supports amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants and unbelievably does not support his own border patrol undermining the national boundaries he was sworn to protect. Many politicians including President Bush, our state department, and dignitaries of foreign countries are fighting to eliminate our national borders through agreements such as NAFTA and CAFTA. These accords are only the tip of the ice burg made by ranking bureaucrats behind the backs of the American people.

The Supreme Court of the United States has begun to cite international law to justify the shifting of our established national law away from our political tradition. This altering of our federal laws by elites’ decree serves the purpose of establishing a new world order.

It is a deception by the internationalists to decry that the global economy is inevitable. We Americans have the most to lose. Besides being the number one economy and military power, we have the most representative and free nation on Earth. If the internationalist corporations, through the bidding of these treacherous elites, use their power to determine the direction of the country, our national independence will be lost.

We will wake up one day to learn that America has lost its sovereignty in a coup unless we take the following steps.

• Place a 10-year ban on any ex-politicians becoming lobbyists for multi national corporations.
• Elect patriotic people who will vote against international corporations receiving unfair competitive advantage through tax incentives.
• Change the campaign finance laws to eliminate the immense influence of national corporations.
• Vote for laws that will create a level playing field for competition amongst businesses.
• Support closing borders to maintain our sovereignty in the same manner that Mexico does on its southern border.
• Reward small corporations, that creates most of the new jobs, for staying here and employing Americans.

As we return to a national economy based on national interest, our standard of living will temporarily suffer. In the long run we will regain our economic strength and spirit.

Americans can govern ourselves through our constitution better than being controlled by a world order based on global economic profit. It should not be what is best for international companies or the global economy. It should be what is best for the USA.

American internationalists who revise our politics and culture are sabotaging the vitality of our nation. They must be seen for what they are: non-violent traitors to America.

Worldwide Jihad Good for America

America has lost its historical moral bearings that guided us to be the world’s superpower. We are a nation morally decaying from within. All of us can see this including our enemies.

The Islamic Fascists are right. Western civilization is weak from worshipping materialism. It is self-destructive and immoral on many levels. It is ripe for defeat.

America as the leader of the world needs to learn from our enemies or lose it all.

Believers in God, regardless of their religion should be grateful to these terrorists. Not for the evil of killing innocent people, most of them followers of Islam, but for pointing out the moral decay to which we have become oblivious.

Deceitfulness has come to permeate our society. We are exposed daily to false advertising, fine print in contracts to weasel out of implied responsibility, and politically correct speech that censors our thoughts and beliefs and confuses what we are trying to say. Parents lie to children, children lie to parents, pedophile priests to parishioners, politicians and even the president lies to the people and the media lies to us all.

Lying is no longer a defect of character or a sin. It has become acceptable. We are becoming numb to immorality. We heard ex-governor McGreevy of New Jersey and Ted Haggard of a mega church of 30,000 members publicly describe their secret, immoral and sexually transmitted disease life style in front of their humiliated wives and children.

There is no shame on the part of our leaders obliterating the standards of right and wrong directly influencing their follower’s lives. In spite of their attempt at apologizing the damage is done.

President Clinton, ten years ago, Senator Mark Foley, recently and teachers and ministers continuously are using the power of their office to satisfy their carnal desires and hurting those they are supposed to protect.

The abuse of illicit drugs, alcohol, gluttony, spending addictions and the inhumanity of abortion are rampant in our nation. This must be addressed or we will implode as a society.

No honest and rational American can deny the truth of many of the terrorist’s observations of the decadent state of western civilization.

The people of the USA have a choice. We can be tolerant of our immorality, continuing the slide into the decline and fall of our civilization. We can continue to live self-centered materialistic and uncaring lives not focusing on our commitments to our children, family or nation. Expecting our military to win the war on terrorism without changing our self indulgent, corrupt life styles is naive. The increasing debauchery gives us a limited time before these fanatics get their wish, bringing mankind back to the 7th century.

The alternative choice is to listen and respond to our enemy’s accurate appraisal of our true vulnerability. According to the terrorists, our Achilles heel is not our powerful military. It is our moral corruption that has weakened our commitment to expect and maintain dignified behavior from others and ourselves. The terrorists are relying on the lack of our citizen’s strength for self-preservation. This will ensure their victory and our defeat.

Standing up to demand our children, teachers, businessmen, political and religious leaders but most importantly ourselves, do the right thing is the way to preserve the sovereignty of our nation and civilization.

The vast majority of Americans are decent people who can no longer be silent. We are self-righteously demanding the overwhelming number of peaceful Muslims risk their lives against fanatical murderous terrorists while we remain passive against our own moral disintegration. This is unfair and wrong.

All Americans must raise their voices in unison to clean out the corruption in our country or waste the wonderful inheritance of our forefathers. We must reestablish a “black and white” standard of morality and reject moral relativism.

This worldwide war will be won or lost not by military technology but rather by the moral strength of our people. The battles that will lead us to victory over terrorists will be courageously fought daily in our own souls, families and communities. Returning to a high standard of moral exceptionalism is the answer to jihadists and evil doers within our nation.