My Latest Debate with a Socialist Far Left Liberal (May 15, 2014)

Subject: Yet Another Debate with a Socialist Far Left Wing Ideologue in Defense of a Dear Friend from College:

I first wish to apologize to you, my readers, for the long absence. I have experienced serious technical difficulties with my dashboard, which still have not been rectified. Worry not, however; I have been keeping very close tabs upon the world and our national issues of interest. As there have been much to have occurred since I last posted, it would be nearly impossible to backtrack and catch everything having transpired, and it is therefore in my best interests to let those issues be and address them when new events and issues related to them occur. It is like the boomerang effect from one decade's pop culture to the next: what once was is now new again. Around the time I last posted, I had been working for two weeks on researching and analyzing the series of events and alliances forming over the issues with the Russians, Chinese, Iranian and Syrian governments. What found through access international news agencies from Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Turkey, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Argentina were rather disturbing, and as I currently have no means to access the edit pages for this blog (the poetry blog has not been affected), I pray there is some means for me to at least recover the HTML coding so that I can at least transfer it to another format or page. I have procrastinated at completing what I have designs for a full website about the same principles as what you have accessed here. I hope that once I finish it, I may end my posts here and instead, redirected you to that site. As I have been censored two and now with my blog's dashboard, as many as three times, I am choosing to move my articles to my own website so that I do not have to worry about content.

Today's post, which probably indicates that Punxsutawney Phil's prediction of six weeks more of Spring, is perhaps the most impassioned debate upon which I have ever embarked. A friend of mine named Kelsey (he is as man) posted like I do an article on Facebook in opposition to President Obama. Upon seeing this, his friend, named Paul, attacked him for being a racist and unintelligent. When I read these comments,  I snapped inside, and wrote to this liberal a very stern series of replies. I am very passionate about my worldly perspective, and I adhere to my convictions, not to the consensus. Here is the debate, where the last reply read of his referencing me as intolerant and bigoted.

“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.” 
― Criss Jami

Kelsey Riffey shared Alex Jones's photo.

May 9 at 8:08am · 

Obama Urges “Wrongheaded” Americans to Trust Government More

Paul Joseph Watson | President bemoans “lack of confidence in our government”.

http://www.infowars.com/obama-urges-wrongheaded-americans-to-trust-government-more/

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  Paul White your blind hatred of the president is obvious, your reasons are suspect. I am pretty sure that you are just filling your head with hate. At least find something important to complain about. Every President has failures. jump off this tabloid op-ed crap and talk about his real problem- trying to lead a mostly racist populous to economic recovery and dealing with a greedy bigoted, corrupt, and antagonistic congress who refuses participate in the process.

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  Kelsey Riffey Paul , you know me better than this. I know he has a rough job and wouldn't want to be in his place. I dislike some of his policies and that doesn't make me hate him. I don't like the idea that he believes that you don't like big government something is wrong with you. What bothers me the people that our his friends talk of white genocide and not a word. I respect everyone that is different from me. If I offended you buddy sorry. I always respected to you Paul and your views.

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  Donna Lawson Sharing for sure..

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  Jonathan Henderson The socialist Far Left's response to any dissent towards Barack Obama is summarized in this statement: "When in doubt, pull the Race Card out!" And after all, since Kelsey apparently hates the president because he is black, why do the Far Left ideologues despise such prominent minority conservatives as Thomas Sewell, Marco Rubio, Allen West, Herman Cain, Dr. Ben Carson, Justice Clarence Thomas, and let us not forget Ted Cruz, Paul? Perhaps seeing the total incompetence on every measure of governance within the Obama administration, you would be only too delighted for the socialist Far Left to simply have total domination of the entire minority population's run as GOP politicians. While minorities continue to lose at greater rates with respect to economic clout and an accelerated growth in abject poverty, your side addresses this issue not with action, but the couplet of inaction married to further race baiting and the demand to maintain their status quo as the poorest subsections in the U.S. Since maintaining their poverty is not enough for you, you wish to support permitting the influx of some 30 million illegal aliens into this nation, providing that many more new citizens based upon a desired amnesty law with welfare subsidies and, as with Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago's new policy contingent upon the inevitable passage of an amnesty bill, only these immigrants will be hired to fill the civic positions and other city-funded public sector jobs while the 92% of the young black population within the city limits remain unemployed and still on welfare, all others should be worse for the wear so long as you may court these new voters.
  
  Finally Paul, if you wish to cry "wolf" on the perception of conservative institutional racism, I wish to refer you to the Obama administration's figures from the U.S. Department of Labor, and how dramatically black participation within the labor force has dwindled. If this is the Democratic Party's answer to charges of Republican racism, I would rather accept that derogatory term as a compliment than to read how in 2008, 71.1% of the black population ages 20 and up eligible for work at the end of the Bush presidency has receded to an even more appalling 67.2%. Perhaps the next time President Obama decides to tell Joe the Plumber how the American people need to "spread the wealth" in order to level the field for the poor and minorities, the only spread of wealth he provided was to his Hollywood partisans or the immensely wealthy like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and George Soros. While they gained in tax breaks, the rest of us are seeing leaner bank accounts, rising health insurance costs due to Obamacare, and a labor force now exceeding more than 92 million having left due to the inability to procure jobs, and four years from now a bleak future where more will be out of the job market than there will be taxpayers. That is the change Obama talked about within the domestic economy during the 2008 campaign, and the pledge to move forward less than two years ago.
  
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  Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
  2004 71.9 70.1 70.7 69.7 70.1 70.9 70.9 70.8 71.1 71.6 71.6 71.1 70.9
  2005 69.9 69.9 69.7 70.5 71.4 72.8 73.2 72.6 72.1 72.1 71.1 70.3 71.3
  2006 69.4 70.5 70.7 71.1 71.3 70.9 71.8 71.4 71.2 71.5 71.6 71.4 71.1
  2007 71.5 70.6 70.3 70.8 70.4 70.9 72.7 72.5 71.5 71.0 71.2 70.4 71.2
  2008 70.7 70.6 70.4 70.9 70.6 72.0 72.0 72.5 71.4 71.1 70.6 70.7 71.1
  2009 70.6 70.0 69.4 70.0 70.0 70.0 70.1 69.7 68.1 69.1 69.0 68.7 69.6
  2010 69.6 69.1 70.3 69.8 70.2 69.8 69.5 69.8 68.7 69.0 69.0 68.8 69.5
  2011 68.5 67.9 68.5 68.4 67.7 68.7 68.2 68.9 68.0 68.5 68.4 69.0 68.4
  2012 68.2 67.7 68.2 67.0 68.0 68.8 68.1 67.5 66.6 67.8 67.4 67.5 67.7
  2013 67.9 67.7 68.1 67.0 67.8 67.5 67.7 66.7 67.5 66.9 66.5 65.6 67.2
  2014 66.3 66.5 67.3 66.1
  
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  Kelsey Riffey I just hope this president never becomes a fully fledged dictator . I have a question for every liberal or Democrat if this president stays in power past 2016 would you guys argue that it was OK? I know many who would clap their hands with great joy.

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  Kelsey Riffey Soros was also a Nazi collaborator. No one never speaks of this.

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  Jonathan Henderson I grow quite angry when I read of anyone writing as did your friend. I have ended quite a number of friendships over the past year over issues regarding this form of intolerance and the retaliation through intimidation. One old friend told me I was racist for posting a political cartoon of two white men - one farmer and another a street thug - and on the left there being both with guns during a period of legal ownership of firearms and the right only showing the street thug with them. That was the beginning of the month-long thaw into the final blow that forced my hand when he generalized University of Virginia students as "rich, self-entitled douchebags" (and recall I had a cousin attend that very good school) while saying schools differ and his graduate school - the University of Michigan, which he referenced as reminiscent of an Ivy League school - did not have that. Once I replied that certain groups are like that at all schools when I stated those within Greek life, he then went off on me saying how I only talk about things that anger me, that I needed to find something I like to talk about. After that, an argument ensued for half an hour where I called attention to his hypocrisy, which he denied and at the same time backpeddled on his comments as he did when he had called me a racist a month earlier. At one point, I truly lost it with him and stated how as a liberal, he professes social harmony. After that and a few more details, that was the end of a 14 year friendship.
  
  Margaret Thatcher was quite the conviction politician. I love these statements:
  
  "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous. You get knocked down by traffic on both sides."
  
  "Do you think you would have ever heard of Christianity if the Apostles had said, 'I believe in consensus'"?
  
  What Paul proved to me was that he believes only in the consensus of those who tell him there is a class struggle occurring, while I adhere to my convictions. Some individuals or interest groups have no conviction and lean upon their own prejudices against anyone who dares to oppose them. Those people stand for nothing and their views are such that when you listen to outbursts of emotional appeal in anger and ultimately condescension, it is obvious that the foundation of their arguments are contrived and its base, quicksand. Once they read a series of figures to corroborate with their socialist policies' failures to accomplish anything they set out to do, they lose all composure and resort to character assassination. It really is quite common.

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  Paul White I am not offended by your comments Kelsey. i just know that you are very intelligent, I am only suggesting that you use intelligent arguments. I never called GW stupid. I hated the way the press belittled his personality. However i found both his foreign and domestic policies dangerous and often badly managed. The same holds for O. I think you have better arguments than the tabloid stuff you use. Jonathon is the only person guilty of character assassination in the conversation. He wrote that long piece of nonsense as an attack on me and made it a manifesto of intolerance. His 1st suggestion was to unfriend me. I prefer your ability to debate. I think you know that when it comes down to it we have similar core values and a common distrust of government and politicians. that is all.

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  Jonathan Henderson There you go again, Paul, once again reinforcing your intolerance and how you are in denial that your inferring Kelsey is a racist for opposing Obama is not intolerance 

  accusing me of encouraging him to block you. If you did not have the race card or some measure of intolerance to lean upon in defense of your failed initiatives within your party's officials, what would you have? The fact is that whether it was Jimmy Carter, the Clintons, or now Barack Obama, they have no competence on sound monetary policy, no competence on how to ensure true social accord other than to promote the most pervasive policies encouraging hate since the Jim Crow era, and for a party of peace, you choose to slaughter scores of innocents in proxy warfare depending upon the race or religion of the nations in question while you wish to contribute to the destruction of Israel. If you want to "bring back our girls" with fruitless hashtag political strategies, why by the same token did the president do nothing to save the 50 college students in Nigeria killed by the same Boko Haram? Would he have lifted a finger had they been Muslim? Furthermore, why did Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State fight to prevent the classification of Boko Haram as a terrorist organization?
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  Before you resort to the race card, please consider how your support for a president with no regard for life domestically or globally destroys your position and the Democratic Party's once November 2 arrives. After all, by your logic, the only hatred possible to exist is to oppose socialist Far Left policies. If acquiescence is impossible to achieve by coercion and intimidation, we therefore may always rely upon               the race card being pulled in desperation.

  
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  Terrorists Storm Nigeria College Dorm, Kill 50   
  

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  At least 50 students were killed in their sleep by suspected Boko Haram militants on Sunday.

A Tribute to a Fallen Local Naval Officer: Will McKamey, 19, Dead Following a Blood Clot in His Brain During Football Practice

In honor of Naval Midshipman Will McKamey, 1995-2014. May he rest in peace.

In Honor of a Fallen Naval Officer: Will McKamey of Knoxville, Tennessee (1995-2014), Freshman Runningback for the Navy Midshipman

My dearest friends and beloved family members,

I want to take this opportunity as I did very early this morning in my tweet to pay tribute to the honorable gentleman Will McKamey, who passed away overnight in a coma at the University of Maryland's Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore following a brave and valiant fight after collapsing during football practice for the Naval Academy at the tender age of 19. He was a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, my hometown. McKamey now has embarked upon his final mission, sailing to the second star on the left, and on till he reaches a new dawn and an eternal morning, never to know a twilight because his candle burned out long before his legend ever will.

As a young man who signed along the dotted line to play in Annapolis for the legendary football program, McKamey also signed himself into service for you, your neighbors next door and across the street, his family and friends, his fellow midshipmen, and me. He agreed to serve all of America so that we may remain forever free. He signed what he knew was the contract that could be his last, and he did so willingly and as a brave soldier, a warrior prepared to fight to the death if necessary. He died in a hospital following a bad break in practice from a blood clot in his brain, but let there be no doubt that he fell on the field of battle serving this blessed nation, our last best hope for the salvation of the greatest mankind has to offer.

Ray Chapman, Major League Baseball Player

Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR driver

In the spirit of sport, we never take into account that it, too, is a field of battle. In 1920, Cleveland Indians player Ray Chapman was beamed in the temple during the age where no player donned protective head gear, only their ball caps. Chapman died as a result, still the lone such casualty in baseball history, and his swan song on Earth was sung doing what he loved most: playing on a Major League Baseball diamond as one of a mere few scores comprising of the day's boys of summer. In 2001, Dale Earnhardt, to date the NASCAR Winston Cup driver tied with "The King" Richard Petty for the most championships, was tragically killed attempting to block the passing oppositions' cars for his teammates to speed by during "The Great American Race," known to fans as the Daytona 500. A man of middle age, Earnhardt certainly had many more good years to live had this not occurred. Instead, he also was called Home to Glory, driving along in old number 3 to his last finish line that will evermore remain for him to cross.

McKamey's tragedy, however, transcends these two sad chapters in the history of sport. Chapman and Earnhardt especially lived to see an advanced adulthood. McKamey was never granted such quarter. But the legacy he will leave behind for his family and friends and for the nation that regardless of the terrain - in the trenches on the gridiron or on the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor on the day which forever will live in infamy - he served the United State Navy and died all the same: in service to you and me. And as we wave goodbye to him as he sails unto the stars in the heavens manning his "Old Ironsides," we will never forget his courage, his passion for football, but most of all the human being and model Christian, a soldier of God and disciple of Jesus, so long as there are recorded annuls to be read. 

Billy Joel once sang that only the good die young, and well, I believe we may safely claim that McKamey did. He died for us, his beloved family and dear friends, but also served his ultimate purpose by touching what lives he could until God declared he had performed a job well done. And in the end, what really matters is how God deemed his efforts while living on Earth to have been spent. He spent them well and ever wisely, and in what for us as the finite flesh bearers may appear as a sad, untimely passing, he did God's work on time. In the end, this is all he could hope to accomplish. 

At the funeral of President John F. Kennedy, the "Navy Hymn" was performed by the Navy Band, and sung as the favorite song of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in April 1945. The full title, "Eternal Father," was written into poetic verse in 1860 by William Whiting of Winchester, England for a student preparing to set sail to the U.S. The next year, the melody was composed by another fellow Englishman, the Episcopalian clergyman Rev. John Bacchus Dykes. In honor of Midshipman Will McKamey, a fallen naval officer, I wish to share with you in closing this poem, so beautiful and yet even more so apropos. He never dropped anchor, because his dawn of an Eternal Day has only just begun.

William Whiting, 1825-1878

Eternal Father (Navy Hymn), 1860

by William Whiting

Verse 1: 

Eternal Father, strong to save,

Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, 

Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep

Its own appointed limits keep;

Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea! 

Verse 2: 

O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard

And hushed their raging at Thy word,

Who walked'st on the foaming deep,

And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;

Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea!

Verse 3: 

Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood

Upon the chaos dark and rude,

And bid its angry tumult cease,

And give, for wild confusion, peace;

Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea! 

Verse 4: 

O Trinity of love and power!

Our brethren shield in danger's hour; 

From rock and tempest, fire and foe, 

Protect them wheresoe'er they go;

Thus evermore shall rise to Thee

Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

My Attack on Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre in the Hours Following His "State of the Schools" Address

Above: Dr. Jim McIntyre, Superintendent of Knox County (TN) Schools

My Reaction to Dr. Jim McIntyre's "State of the Schools" Address for Knox County, Tennessee

February 12, 2014 was the third annual Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre's delivering of - and let me ensure that I word this as presidentially as possible - the State of the Schools Address. When I listened to his declaration on the 11:00 PM news that teachers must be provided with greater autonomy in the classroom in order to encourage and to instill greater creativity in teaching students, the only rhetorical response I conjured was to call "bullshit" since he is the main mouthpiece whispering into Gov. Bill Haslam's good ear to implement greater and more asinine regulations and standards with the emphasis on these policies of teaching students not what two-plus-two equals and the answer be two as well as why, but in how to work two-plus-two and adapt it to performing better and to excel on standardized state and district exams in accordance to what the U.S. Department of Education declares is proper and absolute without providing the right to true flexibility in learning different methods for acquiring knowledge to succeed even for the administering of the standardized exams. 

When an appointed, non-democratically elected politician like Dr. McIntyre who has absolutely no popular mandate for implementing county educational policies declares his conviction that teachers need more autonomy to encourage and to instill greater creativity within the classroom setting, what he is really stating is that by providing teachers with this enhanced flexibility in their pedagogical methods towards performing their duties, he is only promulgating that the county and state education boards should only advocate granting teachers more measures to educate students how to pass state and local school districts' standardized tests, not to teaching critical thinking and conceptual analysis that beget true intellectual growth and the manifestation and nurturing of making common sense decisions in everyday life situations. To listen to a student by the name of Ethan Young from our school system destroy the credibility of Common Core is immeasurable in his insight beyond his years as to how it has crippled the nation's schools by stifling the true measure of a student, which is not quantifiable by testing percentiles:

Teachers also have ripped the system in Knox County:

And the coup de gras from Dr. McIntyre himself, who two years divulged his undying support for Common Core and the ever-growing draconian teacher evaluations which are driving many of the wonderful educators I have known for the majority of my life into early retirement based upon their inability to meet a minutia of a standards leading to their ultimately either being terminated or likewise:

Common Core will not provide for students the most important life skill of reasoning as opposed to the government's preference that they instead learn to accept unadulterated absolutism amid its blind indoctrination. It will only manifest a culture of rising adults who know nothing about how to analyze and create conceptual plans of action in their critical thinking attributes, which will be nonexistent. And to pin these failures in educating students of minority races and of low income on faculty is abhorrent and unwarranted since Dr. McIntyre is among those within the government who would seek to continue implementing the policy of maintaining the status quo in order to strengthen his stranglehold on power. Teachers and principals cannot alter this sad state of affairs for the poor; that can only be realized by voting out of office those elected official who not only perpetuate more poverty through their failed economic policies, but who also create more poverty and discord.

When the day finally arrives where the federal, state, and local departments of education and school districts are abolished and public education is both privatized and paid for by the people's tax dollars they themselves earned and are allowed to keep through the fruits of their labors have finally the liberty of choice in determining which schools their children will attend which is in agreement with both the families' religious and cultural values, the practice of government socialized indoctrination of America's children will be rendered impotent and obsolete.

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WVLT Volunteer News 8: 2013 Knox County Schools "State of the Schools" Address Delivered by Dr. Jim McIntyre

Knox County Superintendent spells out State of the Schools
Updated: Wed 1:50 PM, Feb 12, 2014

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) Knox County Schools Superintendent Doctor Jim McIntyre laid out his State of the Schools address, Tuesday evening.

Dr. McIntyre said he is happy with the implementation of his strategic plan so far, and looks forward to staying aggressive in implementing the next five year strategic plan.

Dr. McIntyre admitted that the changes he has, and continues to propose, are radical, but they will pay off to be rewarding.

He also said Knox County Schools are seeing unprecedented academic achievement levels, and recently received all A's on the state report card.

"That's the first time that has ever happened," McIntyre said.

Dr. McIntyre also said he will work toward increasing teacher's salary, since Knox County teachers are currently 35th in the state for pay.

Halls Elementary school teacher, Amber Roundtree says that may sound good, but she isn't convinced it's necessary.

"My concern is, will it be tied to merit pay? I think that's also something we've heard over and over again from our educators, because we don't want merit pay. And there's really no scientific research that shows that merit pay makes a better teacher," Roundtree said.

Dr. McIntyre also addressed the need to close the achievement gap between races and income levels, as well as creating an individualized instruction plan for every student.

You can read more of some of the changes Dr. McIntyre would like to implement, as well as his action steps by clicking on the link. 

Oh, How I Long for the Time When Grown-Ups Were in Charge: These are the Times Which Try Men's Souls

Subject: Let Us Return to Yesterday, Not to a Tomorrow of Dystopia

For those who may wonder how a leader should conduct himself when the forces of international corruption would derail the democratic legal processes, look no further than President Ronald Reagan's manner of dealing with the union strike illegally launched by the employees of the air traffic controllers' union, all of whom were employed by the federal government, on August 3, 1981 when he first warned and then acted swiftly and decisively in terminating the jobs of the union strikers. Big labor is still a major prohibitive wall to true economic growth and the maintenance of the continuity of American jobs within the private sector. To best grasp President Reagan's swift and decisive measures by which he initiated the economic portion of the Reagan Revolution, simply watch how he conducted his press conference in the Rose Garden about the situation:

Or how he communicated his quest for fiscal restraint and accountability by specifically demanding that Congress approve of his budget to begin the processes of cutting government expenditures:

And how "The Gipper" began to destroy the Soviet Union by his declaration of its being "an evil empire":

How he changed the rules by which the Cold War would be played with his announcement of the most ambitious military project in world history, the Strategic Defense Initiative (aka. "Star Wars"):

And the most public declaration of all, for Mr. Gorbachev to seek peace for the Soviet Union and "tear down" the Berlin Wall:

The results were both evident and clear because the Berlin Wall did fall in 1989 after Reagan left the Oval Office in January of that year:

And Reagan's commentary and approval for the occasion:

During the era of Thatcherism in the United Kingdom, the Iron Lady crippled labor and trade unions within the northern borders of England and that of Scotland which had wrought upon Her Majesty's subjects the infamous slogan of "the sick man of Europe" culminating in socialism's final emaciation of the British economy known as the Winter of Discontent in 1979. Upon her ascent to her role of Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher embarked upon an ambitious plan of stifling once and for all the fallacies circuitous of the mission behind the absolute supremacy of the state: she initiated the practice of deregulation and privatization of state-owned corporations such as Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Rover, British Airways and British Petroleum (BP), multitudes of public utilities and scores more in state public expenditure programs and bureaucracies. Where Labour was not working, Thatcher and the Conservative Party did. The result was the phenomena behind the British economic miracle which reduced massive unemployment and the rate of inflation from its 1979 levels of 26% to her astonishing accomplishment through her faith in the British people to endeavor within the infinite confines of the combined ingenuities of Britons from the cockney peoples of London to Cardiff and Northumberland, until it reached Northern Ireland. With her alliance with President Reagan in confronting the evil empire of the Soviet Union and the initiation of a long and protracted conflict with international foreign terrorists and for Britain, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and because of this commitment to maintaining the peace and seeking the moral high ground of proliferating liberty, the world was not allowed to be destroyed by the love for the bomb, but by measures of deterrence and strength.

Politics are the one arena of social phenomena by which a politician practicing it may use his personal values and core principles to convince those within the gray area of doubt to adhere to his or her side of the issues in order to become elected. The manner of adherence to the law is quite another. The rule of law is the key component to the social contract we as the popular sovereignty through the general will tacitly agree in principle with the democratically elected leadership within our republican framework of government. Those who choose to violate the law, to act in dissension towards that by which the legitimacy of the state is to be drawn within the framework of said covenant should expect nothing less than to suffer the legal consequences the prescribed remedies dictate as its terms to punish the violations of criminal and tort laws.

America has been bereft of the presence of a true leader since Reagan's exiting from the White House in 1989. George H.W. Bush did not meet the criteria by which these standards were set by Ronald Reagan due to his fickle nature amid facing the heat of pressure emanating from Congress. Bill Clinton failed miserably for his wanton ethical and moral virtues and the corruption through which his campaign supporters and his international nefarity with Hu Jintao's Chinese government regarding the exchange of top secret nuclear and other military secrets manifested. George W. Bush maintained the most inconsistently incongruous slate of foreign and domestic policies in the modern history of the GOP as he is classified taxonomically as a neoconservative ("neocom"). And Barack Obama's concept of change in which we can believe was to destroy the American Dream and render our once great nation to the role of the puppet to our foreign enemies and international terrorist cells rather than standing high atop our shining city upon a hill. American Exceptionalism once spread globally whether or not our might meant we were making right via morality; today, our nation is the laughing stock of the free world, and a former Soviet KGB officer now possesses de facto hegemony over the more than 7 billion heartbeats and thoughts sprinkle worldwide. The Reagan Revolution, "Morning in America," has now met its twilight of encouraging individual ingenuity and free competitive spirits by being stifled rather than encouraged, our core values and principles once resonating from our forefathers landing upon this continent being historically revised and the stories told as if it never happened as it did nor at all, and the yeoman resolve which was our sacred covenant within Hector St. John De Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer is now gone. It is now mourning in America.

The morning to which America awakened itself more than 30 years ago following the near destruction of our exceptionalism due to the failed incompetencies of presidents Richard Nixon through Jimmy Carter has now been retracted to its former state. We no longer operate among our allies nor enemies from a position of strength, but from one of cowardice, blatant lies and unbridled deceit. The art of politicizing has never been one comprised of brutal honesty, and today, this has never been more evident. If America is to reawaken to a new morning upon the horizon, we the people must act accordingly, and with swift and decisive resolve. We cannot allow an obvious lie lead to our death knell; we must reaffirm and reestablish ourselves as the popular sovereignty comprising of the general will, not government ruling absolute and amid corrupt bargains. President Obama could learn a great deal from the show of stern resolve of Ronald Reagan. 

Today, the free world is mired amid the greatest international series of crises to popular sovereignty and the general welfare since the conclusion of the Cold War on New Years Eve 1991. When the Soviet Union collapsed beneath the weight of its own tyranny, the world was suddenly bereft of one pole of the bipolar superpower infrastructure and in its stead, left remaining with one: we the people of the United States who were borne of and for the purpose to form a more, but not absolute, perfect union. Over the past generation, the world has beared witness to the alarming rise to the threats of privately-funded and the state-sponsored international terrorist cells consistent within the tenets of Islamic fundamentalism and the continual onslaught from those such as the IRA over the partition of the Emerald Isle which have rendered a world of free peoples to its knees through the awesome mass violent and genocidal activities in the name of a deity and the prophet and nationalist bigotry from the oppressor towards the oppressed. 

When Ronald Reagan declared that America held the torch of freedom throughout the 20th Century, he could not have possibly foreseen a new world order subsequent by a generation governed under the stench of appeasement as opposed to the acquisition of peace through the measures of strength. America did not acquire its peaceful manifestation of our great experiment of popular democracy through republicanism by the measures of cowardly appeasement; it will not today, nor will it ever. A free people cannot proliferate as such if one limb is severed from the rest of its tree. The tree of liberty will never cease to grow from the seed it was sown. If an evil empire as is consistent within the description of the basic tenets of the Russian Federation in its wielding of de facto power within the Eurasian and Near East corridors of the world should first succeed in dismembering one branch from the rest of the tree, her decapitation is only a infinite future away from utter deforestation. We cannot permit this, nor should our allies. We cannot allow Vladimir Putin to annex the Crimean Peninsula through the bearing of false witness to the mockery of popular sovereignty in tacit discord to the legitimacy granted government in power in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. To appease Putin is to cede to him territory not of his property. Once the Crimean Peninsula is forfeited, it can only be reacquired by Ukraine as so many other nations around the Black Sea have attempted over the centuries with at best mixed successes: the tragic phenomenon of catastrophic warfare which will open Pandora's box and render our world, an Earth borne of natural liberty but ceded due to the false belief in idolatry to those promulgating the supremacy of the state, to the state of despair amid moral decadence and the loss of all hope for mankind to acquire the essential liberty for their sacred preservations of their honor, their fortunes, and their lives controlled by a finite source. If, according to Thomas Jefferson, the tree of liberty must again be refreshed by its natural fodder of the spilt blood of patriots and tyrants, so shall it be. But no one wishes for a war which would kill millions, and we should aim at coercing Russian president Vladimir Putin by our strength in dictating the strict guidelines of terms for which the negotiations and mediations must be adhered. Putin does not nor will he ever yield to anything other than sheer peaceful force by our greater strength.

There are measures by which America must lead the charge to crushing the Russian effort to destroy popular sovereignty in the Ukraine that do not require shots being fired, but we must remember to again do so through our position of strength as we are the shining city upon a hill in hearkening upon Jesus Christ's delivery his historic Sermon on the Mount. We have never perfected liberty, and no government nor our own elected representation within the body of republican government ever will, but this does not imply that we shall stop and undercut our systems of core values, beliefs and principles. Until the day when a new spiritual great awakening calls upon us all and we are to realize that we as sinners exist under the hands of benevolence and inherent love from our God and the laws of nature, the bases by which we have declared for all posterity that our liberty is to forever be on the march, guaranteed to each of their offspring, so should the liberties inherent within the hearts of the oppressed by the oppressors globally be recognized in kind.