Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain!

Here is what we are supposed to believe:
  • A "humanitarian crisis" has been created by a "sudden and unexpected tidal wave" of 52,000 "unaccompanied minor children" arriving on our southern border.
  • These "unaccompanied minor children" somehow managed to survive the 2,200 mile trek from Honduras to the Texas/Mexican border, crossing deserts, mountains, rivers, and large chunks of cartel-controlled Mexican geography in the process.
Tens of thousands of "unaccompanied minor children" from Central America could not possibly have arrived suddenly at our borders without large scale transportation and logistical support from several governments and the complicity of the establishment news media. It is both absurd and insulting to imagine that anyone would believe such a fairy tale. This manufactured crisis, more than any other, demonstrates the establishment elite's utter contempt for the American people and the truth.

We are not supposed to notice that:
  • Washington's corrupt and arrogant politicians in both parties have been totally committed for more than a decade to granting amnesty to the more than 25,000,000 (not the official false number of 12,000,000) illegal immigrants already here  despite overwhelming opposition from the American people!
  • In June of 2012, the Obama administration announced that it would accept requests for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an initiative designed to temporarily suspend the deportation of young people residing unlawfully in the U.S who were brought to the United States as children, meet certain education requirements and generally match the criteria established under legislative proposals like the DREAM Act.  
  • On January 29, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security posted an advertisement on the FedBizOps.gov website (since removed) seeking contractors to “provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven days a week, 365 days a year. … There will be approximately 65,000 [unaccompanied alien children] in total.” Since that solicitation, Homeland Security officials have upped their prediction and now estimate more than 90,000 unaccompanied children will be apprehended this year.
  • The Republican leadership is openly colluding with President Obama, Democrat members of Congress, "news" media (including neoconservative Fox News), and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to ram this nation-wrecking legislation through Congress. The establishment was stunned when Eric Cantor, the ultimate Republican sellout, lost his primary race and subsequently his House Majority leadership position because of his open participation in this betrayal.
  • Despite heart-wrenching media pictures of cute little toddlers, more than 80% of the "unaccompanied minor children" being "temporarily" housed at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas at taxpayer expense are teen-aged males older than 14. Chris Carbrera,Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said that confirmed gang members in Mexico — including those from Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) — are coming into the country to be reunited with their families, National Review reported on Friday.
  • The MS-13 gang is one of the most violently dangerous gangs in the United States - and one of the most organized. It maintains operations in Washington DC, Oregon, Alaska, Arkansas, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and several other South American countries.  It has been known to have ties to al Qaeda since at least 2005.
If this deliberate and coordinated nation-destroying behavior does not constitute treason and qualify the Washington establishment as a "domestic enemy" of the American people, nothing does or ever will.

FJB

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Searching for Truth in the Empire of Lies

The American people are trapped in a real-world Matrix. Unlike the 1999 Keanu Reeves movie of that name, our Matrix is constructed of misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies. Virtually everything we think we know about our political system is false.

The United States does not have a "two party system". There is one party, the Washington Party, and it has two wings.
  • The Republican wing's job is to confuse those concerned about "national security".
  • The Democrat wing's job is to distract those focused on helping "the poor".
The political fights between "Republicans" and "Democrats" are as staged and phony as a World Wrestling Federation championship match but they do manage to keep us divided. The oligarchs who populate the Washington Party's wings live in the same neighborhoods, belong to the same clubs, go to the same parties, and share an intense contempt for the nation's culture and the intelligence of its people. Every night they go to their Georgetown homes to laugh over a glass of Chablis at the gullibility of the people out here in "flyover country".

The people who run the Matrix no longer seem to care if their increasingly obvious lies are believed or not. The primary objective seems to be to make the "news" so confusing that no one can decipher what is really happening. Or, alternatively, perhaps the establishment's "deciders" have finally gone completely mad. Take careful note of this pattern of related recent events and the scripted behavior of establishment politicians.
 

The Apparent Event

The Public Distraction

The Underlying Reality

Benghazi, Libya: The U.S. consulate is attacked by terrorists resulting in the deaths of four Americans, including the Ambassador.

 

A fight between Republicans and Democrats over the administration's initial claim that the attack was provoked by an anti-Moslem video, its failure to save the Americans and a subsequent "cover up", of facts related to the incident.

 

The American consulate in Benghazi appears to have been a CIA installation that served as a transfer point of heavy weapons to Syria in support of the Syrian insurrection against Assad. Prior to the Khaddafi's overthrow by NATO forces, there was no U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, without which the incident could never have happened.

Damascus, Syria: A violent civil war breaks out with Sunni Syrians rebelling against “the evil dictator”, Assad, an American-trained Opthalmologist whose supporters come from the minority Alawite sect of Islam. Assad, whose military forces protect Syria's minority Christians from Sunni fanatics, is supported by Shia Iran.

A fight between Republicans and Democrats over the administration’s failure to support the Syrian Sunni “Freedom Fighters”.

The Syrian Sunni “Freedom Fighters” were stood up, trained, equipped, and advised by NATO nations, including the U.S. They included so-called “moderates”, Sunni members of Al Qaeda, and Sunni members if ISIS. The latter group was so violent they were expelled from Al Qaeda membership.

Baghdad, Iraq: The ISIS “terror group” routes the U.S. trained and equipped Iraqi Army and seizes one-third of Iraq, including oil refineries in the north. The Kurds Peshmerga Army ejects the Iraqi Army from territory it controls. Iraq is effectively divided into three pieces with the section remaining under Baghdad’s control occupied primarily by Shia Moslems and supported by Iran.

A fight between Republicans and Democrats with the former accusing the Administration of losing the “gains” achieved by American forces following the invasion and occupation of Iraq by withdrawing to soon. The GOP’s neoconservatives are also furious that the administration has entered into discussions with Iran about potential military cooperation to stop ISIS from taking Baghdad. It is alleged that ISIS has obtained “STINGER” missiles.

 

It was the American attack on Iraq and subsequent removal from power and execution of Saddam Hussein that destabilized Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, an attack falsely justified by first claiming that he was involved in the 9-11 attacks and, later, that he possessed weapons of mass destruction and a growing nuclear capability. That attack was the precipitating event that led directly to today’s crisis. If ISIS has “STINGER” missiles, they were most likely obtained during NATO’s surreptitious arming of that group to fight Assad’s Air Force.
 
Incredible as it may sound, the United States and its NATO allies are actively supporting both the ISIS and Baghdad government sides in the new Iraq civil war with weapons and training. This is sheer madness!

The Matrix is using Washington's political infighting to divert attention from the violent systematic destruction of political order that now affects large populations stretching from Libya and Egypt across the Middle East and extending as far as the Ukraine. At the same time--and not coincidentally--the people of the United States and European Union have so little confidence in their respective political institutions and are so concerned with the real condition of their national economies as to place political stability in these regions at potential risk. The goal is to manufacture global political, military, and economic chaos to justify imposition of a New World Order upon a frightened and compliant population.
 
Around the world, large national military forces armed with nuclear weapons are circling each other, positioning themselves. The spark has been lit. We are one economic or military Black Swan event away from catastrophe.
 
FJB

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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Terminal Cognitive Dissonance

Fox News has finally succeeded in making itself as unbelievable as MSNBC. That the current Iraq crisis is the direct result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the overthrow and subsequent execution of Saddam Hussein is undeniable. The increasingly frantic efforts of Fox News on-air personalities to divert audience attention from this inconvenient bit of history borders on the comical.

For the benefit of any readers who might mistake my motives, I believe Barack Hussein Obama to be a dangerous Socialist hack who has done and continues to do great damage to the nation. Please see "Stealth Strike Treason" which was written in January of 2013 and is archived on this site. That said, it is dishonest and completely unacceptable for neo-conservatives, whose policies ignited the still-burning fuse, to blame anyone else for the escalating violence in Iraq, violence that has spread across the Middle East, reached into the Ukraine, and now threatens to engulf the Baltic and beyond.

Cognitive dissonance has been defined as the mental stress and discomfort experienced by an individual who is confronted with new information that conflicts with existing beliefs. Millions of patriotic Americans are experiencing cognitive dissonance as events in Iraq collide with the false official narrative that has been drummed into their consciousness since September 11, 2001. If you are among those struggling to square what you've been told about Iraq with the fact that Iran's Islamic government is intervening militarily in an effort to protect the U.S.-installed government in Baghdad, the answer is straightforward. You've been told a pack of lies.

In the wake of 9-11 most politicians wisely avoided directly accusing Iraq of involvement in the attack. Instead they changed the subject, falsely accusing Saddam of possessing "weapons of mass destruction" which threatened the United States. It's worth mentioning that the "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD) label is itself a propaganda device of neo-conservative invention. This newly made-up weapons category allowed them to conflate chemical and biological agents (which many nations in the region possess in limited quantities) with nuclear weapons, a labeling that was then used to conjure up images of a mushroom cloud over Des Moines. The correct nomenclature is "unconventional weapons" or "NBC weapons" (for nuclear, biological, and chemical).

It is an indicator of just how conscious they were of their duplicity that neo-conservative politicians relied upon their propaganda organs (Fox News, The Washington Times, National Review, and the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal) to create the false linkage between Iraq and 9-11. The media campaign to deceive the public was successful. As late as 2011 some 41% of the American people still believed that Iraq was involved in the 9-11 attacks, down from a high of 70% in 2003.

Let's take a quick walk down memory lane to review a small sample of what was actually said by a few of the principle actors. Most, but notably not all of them, were Republicans.
"Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk." –  Kenneth Adelman, a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, February 13, 2002 
“The time has come for decisive action to eliminate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. … Saddam Hussein’s regime is a grave threat to America and our allies, including our vital ally Israel.” - Senator John Edwards, D-N.C., addressing the U.S. Senate, September 12, 2002 
"If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.  Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well, effects American security.” – Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., addressing the U.S. Senate, October 10, 2002  
"It’s a slam dunk case" Former CIA Director George Tenet about evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, December 21, 2002  
"We know where they [weapons of mass destruction] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, ABC News interview, March 30, 2003  
"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason [for invading Iraq]." Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, "Vanity Fair" interview, May 28, 2003   
"There was a concerted effort ... to pin 9-11 on Saddam. It began in the fall of 2001 and it came from people around the White House." General Wesley Clark, Retired NATO Commander, NBC, "Meet The Press", June 15, 2003 
"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months." Vice President Dick Cheney,"Meet the Press", September 14, 2003    
"We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy." British Prime Minister Tony Blair, July 14, 2004  
It is necessary to go back to the very beginning of the "war on terror' era to sort this out. Despite desperate efforts to avoid responsibility by blaming Obama, the current Iraq crisis did not arise because of the President's feckless ineptitude (which is no less real). No, today's problem exists because President George W. Bush and his neo-conservative brain trust decided to invade, occupy, and impose "regime change" in Iraq. Not only was the Iraq war planned well in advance of 9-11, but its plotters were brazen and arrogant enough to publish their plan a year earlier and put it on the Internet! If you doubt that charge, by all means download and read Rebuilding America's Defenses, a "report" commissioned by Dick Cheney and delivered in September, 2000, two months before the Presidential Election and one year before the attacks of 9-11. Repeatedly citing the existence of Saddam Hussein's regime and the entire list of neo-conservative "regime change" targets as justification, the report advocated "transforming" the U.S. military into a force capable of enforcing U.S. mandates around the world, a transformation that would establish a de facto American Empire. Page 63 contains the following provocative and vey interesting sentence.
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event-like a new Pearl Harbor."
The attack of 9-11 provided that "catalyzing event". It was shortly followed by the invasion of Iraq which, as President Bush's inner circle knew full well, had absolutely no involvement in the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.

Until a crisis occurs, most Americans, busy raising families and earning livings, are only marginally interested in the daily behind-the-scenes machinations that define Washington's political landscape. Because it received almost no coverage in the popular press or television news outlets, only a few know of the decades-long war waged beneath the surface for the Republican Party's soul, a war ultimately lost by traditional conservatives. Fewer still understand the motives of the combatants or appreciate the impact of that struggle's outcome on today's political scene. Many Republicans and real conservatives have no idea that their party, the Republican Party, was surreptitiously hijacked and subsequently subverted.

Here is what happened.

In the 1950s a small group of Trotskyite intellectuals became disenchanted with aspects of Marxism and began a philosophic migration away from communism. The new movement paused briefly at the "Scoop" Jackson/Hubert Humphrey faction of the Democratic Party before selecting the Republican Party as its final host. The migration was led by Irving Kristol and Leo Strauss, the intellectual fathers of neo-conservatism. Slowly but surely, movement activists worked their way into the inner circle of Republican Party machinery. By the mid-80s, they were a force to be reckoned with within the Party. A short but incomplete list of prominent movement members would include Elliott Abrams, Ken Adelman, Richard Armitage, John Ashcroft, John Bolton, Richard Cheney, Douglas Feith, David Frum, Charles Krauthammer, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Richard N. Perle, Daniel Pipes, Karl Rove, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dov Zakheim.

By the way, that many neo-conservatives are Jews is true but irrelevant. The neo-cons use this demographic fact to vaccinate themselves against opposition by playing the "anti-Semitic" card whenever their policy preferences are challenged. The tactic is intellectually dishonest and illogical but it has certainly been effective.

Traditional conservatives never really understood the power of propaganda, naively believing that facts and logic would carry the day. They even allowed neo-conservatives to define the terms under which the battle for control of the GOP would be waged. The very labels that the neo-conservatives assigned to the combatants (neo-conservative and paleo-conservative) served the neo-conservative purpose. Those labels conferred an undeserved legitimacy on neo-conservatism, creating the illusion that a symmetrical division existed within the body of conservatism when, in fact, that which calls itself neo-conservatism is not conservative at all.

It is only necessary to listen to what neo-conservatives openly admit to understand that they are amoral relativists who are using the Republican Party as a host as they manipulate the public in their drive for total power. Consider these quotes.
"You are a reality-based guy and that’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Karl Rove (as quoted by Ron Suskind) 
"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work." - Irving Kristol
"...one can say that the historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills [emphasis added], into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy." - Irving Kristol
"Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable. Because they tend to be more interested in history than economics or sociology, they know that the 19th-century idea, so neatly propounded by Herbert Spencer in his "The Man Versus the State," was a historical eccentricity." - Irving Kristol
For his part, Strauss wrote an entire book ("Natural Right and History") praising what he called the political realism of the ancients who denied that there was any natural human right to liberty or truth. He was especially taken with Plato's discourses on "noble Lies." Strauss implicitly believed, as did Plato, that "noble Lies" were essential to stable government because they gave the people meaning and purpose. Strauss also believed that secrecy is necessary tool for ruling elites. In "Persecution and the Art of Writing", he explained that "the wise" must conceal their motives and actions in order to protect themselves from uprisings and reprisals.

Finally, the neo-conservatives are dangerous to the nation for reasons that go beyond their willingness to fight to the last drop of somebody else's blood. It is neo-conservative GOP party leaders, including the likes of just-defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who are working hand in glove with the Obama administration to ram amnesty for millions of illegal aliens down the throats of the American people. The newly-minted "humanitarian crisis" resulting from thousands of unaccompanied illegal minor "children" flooding across our southern borders is a glaring example of that cooperation. It is time to wake up and smell the coffee.

So there you have it. Based on the prolific written admissions of the movement's founders and the purposeful actions of Cantor and his peers, neo-conservatives stand exposed as purposeful liars and incipient totalitarians who hold the American people and their traditions in absolute contempt. Today they control much of the national GOP's internal workings. If you are an authentic conservative who values the Republican Party and cares about the nation, just how much do you appreciate where the arrogantly dishonest neo-cons have taken "the Republican party, and American conservatism...against their respective wills?"

FJB

Post Publication Note: Mark Twain once wrote that he would have written a shorter book if only he'd had more time. This post is long because details are important on a topic of this magnitude. I believe that readers who care about the subject will have the fortitude to endure its length. Some ideas and content included here appeared in an earlier post. If you are interested in a more complete description of how the GOP achieved its current sorry state, please see "Who Killed the Republican Party", originally published February 4, 2013.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Bowe Bergdahl, Lies, Betrayals, and American Justice

Its been a bad week all around for the Welfare/Warfare State's professional poverty pimps and war whores.

Today, barely eleven years after George W. Bush stood on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln to proudly announce "mission accomplished", Iraq is in flames. Fallujah, Mosul, and Tikrit (Saddam Hussein's home town) have fallen to a powerful Sunni irregular fighting force (ISIS) linked to al Qaeda, ISIS fighters are rapidly advancing on Baghdad as the Iraqi government's American-trained army abandons its weapons and heads for the tall grass. Roads are clogged with hundreds of thousands of fleeing Iraqis, desperately trying to escape the fighting. Turkey is calling for an emergency NATO meeting following the detention of eighty Turk citizens by the advancing militants.

Even as its failed Iraq project collapses, the neo-conservative wing of the Washington Party is attacking the Socialist wing of the Washington Party over the Obama administration's decision to trade five Taliban leaders for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl who, depending upon which wing's propaganda arm you prefer to believe, is either a traitorous deserter or a long-imprisoned and tortured captive of the Taliban. In fact, none of us really know the truth about Bowe Bergdahl. There are, however, several things the American people should keep in mind as they demand that justice be served.
  • Neither Saddam Hussein nor the Taliban had anything whatsoever to do with the 9-11 attack.
  • Not one Iraqi or Afghanistani participated in those attacks which were planned in Germany, Spain, and the United States.
  • As a result of idiotic neo-conservative dreams of Empire, 3,528 American soldiers have died in combat in Iraq and 2,328 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. Many more Americans have died fighting the useless and unwinnable "War on Terror" than were killed on 9-11.
  • Tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghanistani civilian non-combatants, many of them children, have died as a direct result of these unnecessary U.S. wars of aggression.
  • The posturing condemnations of those politicians who profess to be infuriated by the administration's refusal to obey the law would be more compelling had those same politicians not conspired to violate the Constitution, eviscerate the Bill of Rights, and construct a police state on the ashes of the Republic. Neither the President, the Congress, nor all the Sitting Justices of the Supreme Court have the slightest legitimate authority, whether acting separately or in concert, to ignore Constitutional limitations that inconveniently limit their ability to act as tyrants. There is no "national emergency" escape clause in the Constitution, the unconstitutional behavior of previous administrations notwithstanding.
The blood of every young American soldier who died for nothing in Iraq and Afghanistan drips from the hands of the Washington criminals who launched wars of aggression against people and countries that did not attack us. So, as you contemplate Bowe Bergdahl's actions, consider who the real criminals are and ask yourself what their punishment should be.

The developing Middle East crisis is not the only problem on the Washington establishment's plate.  In past revolutionary transitions, the people overthrew the sitting government and installed a new one. In today's brave new world, things have been reversed. To effect revolutionary change, the government simply imports a new and hopefully more malleable and authority-friendly people. Before the current engineered "surge" of illegal immigration began, there were reliably estimated to be more than 25,000,000 illegal aliens in the U.S. (vastly more than the "official" number) with the overwhelming majority of them from Mexico. Now, without warning and little publicity, tens of thousands of illegals, including thousands of unaccompanied minor children, are pouring across the U.S. border from Mexico. They come motivated by Obama's refusal to enforce immigration laws and by the "promises" of Republican establishment politicians to work with the President to immediately enact amnesty legislation.

To create the right political climate, the Obama administration turned up the heat on immigration reform by surreptitiously ordering the transport of planeloads of illegals from Texas to Arizona and depositing them at Arizona bus stations. This blatant abuse of Federal power is intended to punish Arizona's governor for opposing Obama's immigration policies while simultaneously creating an artificial humanitarian crisis requiring immediate action! Obama's Justice Department has gone so far as to retain lawyers at tax payer expense to help illegals fight deportation procedures! This deliberate and completely bipartisan betrayal of the American people was going full speed ahead yesterday when the establishment plan to quickly transform the U.S. into a Third World country suddenly ran into a completely unexpected and potentially major obstacle. House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor, an outspoken advocate of neo-conservative militarism and amnesty for illegals, lost his primary election in a landslide to Dave Brat, a libertarian economics professor and political novice. This development shocked the Washington establishment to its foundations and the chattering class is aghast, frantically trying to spin out the least damaging "explanation".

In light of these developments, it is probably good to remember that frightened tyrants are dangerous tyrants. Again the question arises: Who are the criminals here and what should be their punishment? 

FJB

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Monday, June 2, 2014

Total War!

Your ability to defend home and family is at risk.

Americans have been fighting overt political attacks on their right to keep and bear arms for years. Working through the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America and other pro-gun membership organizations they have successfully defeated some of the more blatant recent legislative efforts. Unfortunately, those political victories are preventing people from understanding the true nature of the total war that is being waged against them. That war is not being fought in the political arena and the pro-freedom side is losing, one battle at a time.

The private ownership of firearms is the last remaining pillar of the original American Culture. It is a powerful symbol of a defiant people's independence. Collectivists understand that they will fail unless it is destroyed. That is why every element of establishment culture has been deployed in a total war to demonize firearms and marginalize gun owners. The entire campaign of lies and deceit is intended to create the false impression that a mass outpouring of public support for citizen disarmament exists when, as record sales of guns and ammunition demonstrate, the exact opposite is true. Consider the cumulative effect of the insane bilge being relentlessly hammered into public consciousness.
  • Elementary Schools: Children are routinely suspended for:
    • Playfully pointing a finger and saying "bang".
    • Bringing tiny (less than one inch long) plastic GI Joe guns to school.
    • Drawing pictures of a firearm.
    • Chewing a piece of lunch pizza into the shape of a gun.
  • Medicine:
    • The leadership of the American Medical Association, over the vociferous objections of many members, officially endorsed and actively supports Senator Dianne Feinstein's efforts to ban "assault weapons".  
    • Not to be outdone, the leadership of the American Academy of Pediatrics goes far beyond merely supporting firearms bans. It actively encourages parents to prohibit their children from visiting friends whose parents own firearms. Physicians are encouraged to frighten parents with false statistics that conflate the very few (and declining) numbers of genuine accidental child deaths with gang-related murders of teenage gangbangers common to Obama's Chicago and other metropolitan population centers universally governed by anti-gun politicians.
    • Despite Congressional prohibitions, the Obama Administration continues attempts to have Center for Disease Control treat the private ownership of firearms as a "public health issue."
  • National and Local News Media:
    • "News" rooms consistently report shootings as "gun violence" as though a firearm somehow committed the crime. "Knife violence" or "club violence" is never reported.
    • Semi-automatic rifles are repeatedly and falsely described as "assault rifles."
    • Anti-gun groups are routinely given "air time" and their spokesmen are sought out for comment at every opportunity.
  • The Legal System
    • Courts routinely impose additional punishment if a killer uses a firearm to dispatch a victim instead of a knife, a club, or a Molotov cocktail. Apparently our judges, prosecutors, legislators and other legal geniuses somehow believe that burning to death is preferable to dying from a gunshot wound.
  • Banking
    • Under the umbrella of the Justice Department's "Operation Choke Point", American banks are terminating long standing accounts of Gun Stores and otherwise blocking access to banking services in a naked and illegal attempt to drive them out of business. TD Bank, The Bank of America, Chase Bank, and BankUnited, NA are known to have terminated established banking relationships with Gun Stores. 
Last September, the Starbucks coffee house chain, amidst much national publicity, asked gun owners to respect the firm's request "that customers no longer bring firearms into our stores or outdoor seating areas—even in states where "open carry" is permitted—unless they are authorized law enforcement personnel." Then, last week, three restaurant chains (Sonic, Chili's Grill and Bar, and Chipotle Mexican Grill) announced firearms bans.  Sonic, incidentally, is a drive in restaurant! This pattern is not a coincidence. It is the result of an orchestrated direct action campaign, right out of Saul Alinsky's community organizer handbook, "Rules for Radicals".

The lesson to be taken from this is that it is no longer enough for freedom's supporters to join a pro-Gun lobbying organization and write impassioned letters to Senators and Members of Congress. We must fight them wherever and whenever we are attacked or freedom will be lost!

By the way, if you are a Second Amendment supporter who thinks you are unaffected because you don't eat at any of these restaurants, think again. This isn't about whether or not you can carry at Sonic. You are not the target of this campaign. The targets are the millions of people who do not own guns but who might be persuaded that the anti-gun position must be reasonable--because responsible business leaders don't want guns in their businesses. These business leaders are enabling the collectivist anti-gun campaign and they must be made to feel the consequences. Should even one business be persuaded to rescind a much publicized gun ban, freedom will have been served.

If the content of this post makes sense to you, please take the following steps:
  1. Post a link to this page (http://gatetoliberty.blogspot.com) on every pro-Second Amendment, gun friendly, and pro-freedom forum or discussion web site to which you have access that will permit it.
  2. Write, call, or e-mail the CEOs of the restaurants that just enacted bans at the contact addresses and telephone numbers shown below. Tell them that you will not patronize their locations until they withdraw their ill-considered and unjustifiable anti-gun policies. Given the thin operating margins of restaurants, a decision by gun owners to choose other dining accommodations has the potential to be very effective. Be firm but respectful. Use your own language or consider using the following content:
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     Dear X:
Although I respect  your right to control access to your own premises, gun owners also have rights. I'm writing to advise you that I will not patronize any of your locations until your anti-gun policies have been publically withdrawn and I will encourage my friends and family to avoid your locations as well.
To satisfy the irrational demands of an ill-informed minority, you have alienated millions of law abiding potential customers and placed your patrons and employees at risk. You have effectively extended an invitation to criminals who now know their depredations will not face opposition. You would be well advised to research the 1991 massacre at Luby's Restaurant which resulted in the deaths of 23 people.
Sincerely,
Your Signature 
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Address your communications to the following people and addresses:

     J. Clifford Hudson
     President and Chief Executive Officer
     SONIC Corporate Headquarters
     300 Johnny Bench Drive
     Oklahoma City, OK 73104
      (405) 225-5600
     patrick.lenow@sonicdrivein.com

     Wyman Roberts
     CEO and President
     Quality Dining, Inc.
     Attn: Chili's Grill & Bar
     4220 Edison Lakes Parkway
     Mishawaka, IN 46545
     (574) 271-4600
     CHQuestions@qdi.com

     Montgomery F. Moran
     Chief Executive Officer
     Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
     1401 Wynkoop St Suite 500
     Denver, CO 80202

     (303) 595-4000
     mediarelations@chipotle.com

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FJB

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