Ben Steins new article

A reprint from Ben Stein's new article

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
-- George Washington

Ben Stein’s New Article

WE'VE FIGURED HIM OUT!
By Ben Stein

Why was President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. (Pig in a poke means: an offering or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first. A poke means sack.)

They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.

They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.

They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable, super leftist, and not a fan of this country.

The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way helped ALL Americans.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never can be --"a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society."Either the costs go up or the free society goes away... an historical truth.

Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud, if believed to be caused by man. Hillary has also signed on to a Small Firearms Treaty at the U.N.  This is a back door gun control move. If this is approved by the Senate and a 2nd Amendment majority doesn't exist in the Senate now. It will supersede all U.S. Law and the 2nd Amendment. All citizen possession will be eliminated through confiscation. Just Like Great Britain and Australia .

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

Ben Stein is a writer, economist, and lawyer. He writes "Ben Stein's Diary," for every issue of The American Spectator.

You must, as an American, FORWARD this, or you will wake up one morning and your freedoms will be GONE...No longer there!

It is "We the people"......

Veterans unite to save this Union.

Fellow Veterans join me in working to bring the anti liberal groups together, moderates, conservative’s tea party, republicans and libertarians.  I pick fellow veterans for this task because we know the necessity of defeating those who would destroy our way of life.  We have sat back and watched as our one chance, the Republican Party has done its best to blow up before our eyes.  The in fighting has to stop, this goes for all republicans and libertarians who want to get our country back on course.  We all have hot points that we want to see happen but until we defeat the progressives in their own game we won’t have a chance.  They have done a masterful job of dividing and conquering the right and we have let them do it with little opposition with lies and innuendo’s.  It’s time to bury the hatchet and get our MOJO back.  We will have plenty of time to resolve our differences once we regain control of the legislative bodies.  If we continue to disintegrate the progressive liberals will gain such a foothold that we will never be able to overturn their insane ideas.  We don’t need anymore progressive judges appointed by liberals.  I’m not saying to forget your principles, there will be plenty of time to get our point across once our side is re-established in control.  We have lived together many years in this party. Moderates and conservatives and we have brought the country back from the brink many times with solid Reagan style leadership.  The divisions that have divided our party have left us floundering in the wind while Obama and his cohorts have pushed their agenda of big government, socialized medicine and massive debt easily onto our shoulders. 

The real worry I see in all his movements is the purge of generals in high places from our military.  This can lead to not only a weaker force but to a force with allegiance to the President and not the Constitution.  As Veterans we all pledged to protect and defend our Constitution above all, I’m calling in that pledge.  Our bickering and the holding back of votes must stop if we are to win back the Senate let alone keep the House of Representatives.  Blaming the Tea Party as being too radical is playing into their hands.  The Tea Party is a grassroots movement of the people by the people who want to bring honor and patriotism back to our country.  We have lost so many things that give us the ability to bring honor to our forefathers and respect to our patriots, now they would even like to take away our National Anthem.  We gave up God and the basic rules that he gave us to live by and look what’s happened; kids with no respect for life killing other kids, a president that thinks it’s okay to lie to get what he wants and most of all an uneducated mass of voters who regardless of his character have elected him twice.  This has happened because so many have decide to sit out the election because their guy lost the primary.  Wake up before it’s too late; Veterans unite and let’s paint this country red in the next election in honor of the blood so many of our fraternity brothers have shed to keep us free.  Be a voice of healing not a shout of division, there will be plenty of time after we bring a united front to the victory party to decide our final direction.  

Should we be worried about another political diversion?

When Obama pulled our troops out of Iraq saying our job there was finished, he forgot to tell Al-Qaida.  The loss of life there is bordering on 1000 per week and the al-Maliki government is helpless to stop it.  The young men and women who fought and died to bring freedom to the Iraqi people must be looking down on this in horror at what has happened.  No one I know is for war in any way or form, but once we are put in a combative situation it should be our goal to win.  Too many wars have been fought where politicians decided the outcome.  If and when the decision is made to go to war it must be left to the military to bring it to a close with the utmost speed and with the least loss of American lives.  War is a grave and final approach to rectifying a bad situation where no other means are available to solve the problem.  We have fought several wars in my lifetime and only were allowed to win twice.  The outcome of these conflicts were not lost by the men and women who so valiantly fought for our country but by the rules of engagement put upon them by politicians.  Viet Nam is a perfect example of political tampering, we had the firepower to bring it to an end swiftly and with the least amount of casualties but we were held back by the rules of engagement and ended up fighting the enemies war in the rice paddies and jungles.  Note to future and present politicians, don’t send us to war unless you want to come home victorious.   No more political diversions at our military’s expense.

Now the government of Iraq who couldn’t wait for us to get out is begging for help.  As westerners we will never understand the situation or the mindset of the Middle East, we have stained the desert with the blood of our finest and accomplished little.  We have the same outcome ahead of us in Afghanistan, we fight and die and the politicians cry uncle.  In World War II we had to level whole cities in spite the collateral damage to the population, the feeling at the time was if the people feel the pain of war they will force their leaders to capitulate.  It is what our enemies are doing to us now without fear of retaliation knowing our leaders are more worried about getting elected again than winning the war.  We have the technology to wipe out the Taliban and most of Al-Qaida in Iraq and Afghanistan yet we put the burden on the foot soldier knowing full well that he is at a tremendous disadvantage in the mountains and deserts of the Middle East in areas hostile to their presence. 

The NSA has proven we can get into their communications so why put our troops in harm’s way when we can isolate and destroy them with our superior technology.   We have the ability to put unmanned aircraft over wide areas 24/7 armed with all types of weapons to pinpoint their whereabouts and reign down upon them with relentless fire.  Yes there will be civilian casualties it is unavoidable in this war as they hide behind the skirts of women and children but the sooner it’s over the less casualties there will be.  We watched The Soviets in Afghanistan try to win a land war using the same techniques as our guys with the same results.  Why can’t we learn from the mistakes, why do we have to constantly allow organizations like the U.N. to dictate our methods.  If I remember right it was the United States they attacked killing thousands of civilians yet we are held to a different standard.  The Middle East has been fighting this war for hundreds of years and the war hasn’t changed an iota, it’s Muslims vs Christians and Jews.  Sunni’s against Shiites when there are no Christians or Jews to go after.  We have to bring them to a halt out of pure fear or wipe out their ability to wage war completely before we can rest easy by pounding them back to the Stone Age they emerged from.  Iran and all the Middle East is watching how we play this hand, our example will either do little to stop their aggressive attitude or if we show our ability to weed out these militants it just may send their people into the streets to bring down the Radical Mullah’s regime out of fear.   We’ve been nice too long at the expense of thousands of lives, lives of some of the finest among us who just may have gone on to do great things for mankind.