GOP friends, study these terms these entities– for they spell the doom of our Republic as we knew it.

Donald Trump, a little over a week ago proposed a scenario I had already pondered.  President Obama w/ MIC and neo-Con pressure could launch a war on Iran w/i a year and then win re-election.  The public will not vote out a sitting president in the midst of war.  And even if this prophecy does not come to pass, every GOP nominee besides Ron Paul supports incremental pressure on Iran up to and including bombing to stop production of a supposed nuclear weapon.  The party doesnt matter, the MIC has moved on from Iraq and is targeting Iran as the next US enemy in the crosshairs.

I am not debating whether Iran wants a weapon or not. I am completely in favor of Israel defending their integrity in the regional matter.  My goal here is to enlighten Americans on the dangers of blind interventionism.  Since 1950, the US has engaged in various conflicts which have little to do w/ our well-being, or were started on fabricated evidence.  The conflicts drag on with poor strategies to win or withdraw.  Research these entities and make informed decisions.  The day is coming when the only alternative will be a third-party ; but it must be popularly supported on a vast scale…

“The real problem, which Washington came to recognize only gradually, was… a deep-rooted suspicion of gov’t power that severely limited the authority of the Continental Congress….  the Congress made itself vulnerable to the same criticism that the colonies had directed at Parliamt itself.  The central impulse of the American Revolution had been a deep aversion to legislation, especially taxes, emanating from any consolidated gov’t in a faraway place beyond the direct control and supervision of the citizens affected…. delegates gathered in Philadelphia were distant creatures who could not tax [colonists in Virginia, Massachusetts, and other colonies] any more than could the House of Commons in London. ” (126)  Washington gave little thought to these questions until after the War For Independence.

Suspicion of strong-gov’t and aversion to taxation from distant central gov’t were foundational principles of our Republic. God bless those Founding Fathers.  It is the Tea Party Movement that seems to arousing those fears in Americans today.  If it stays true to these principles, then America might yet regain its constitutional foundation and become fiscally strong and free for our posterity.

“Only a more powerful central gov’t, he believed, could secure the gains made by the American Revolution, but it would probably require a crisis to make it happen. “I believe all things will come out right at last,” he observed..’” but like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall… run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin.”  In effect, things had to get worse before they could get better; or as he put it, “the people must feel before they will see.”  (150)

Washington was no Madison or Jefferson; and remember he is merely calling for a stronger Union that that provided in the Articles of Confederation.  The Constitution established a Republic with a federal system, checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights.  Since 1933, the scales have swung the other way and the Central gov’t has usurped authority on issues meant for the states.  The Federal Reserve, the Military Industrial Complex, the Council on Foreign Relations, have through both political parties established great centralized power over the economy and foreign policy of the United States w/ little or no input of the electorate.  God help our people to become more educated on the issues.  Less interest in traditional political parties and more focus on ideologies (Conservative, Constitutional, and Christian vs. Socialist, Internationalist, and Multicultural) is what the day demands.  God help us find statesmen again like those of the past…

Robert E Lee revered the Old Union that his father and his father’s friends founded; “he wanted to restore that Union….”  He did not oppose reunification, but stressed cooperation; register to vote and elect “wise and patriotic men”.  “The Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved and the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.  Lee clung to the idea of limited central gov’t….”

In letters to John Walker and Gov. Letcher of Virginia, he stressed these principles.  Speaking of his military actions with the Confederacy, “I had no other guide,… than the defense of those principles of American liberty upon which the Constitutions of the several states were originally founded; & unless they are strictly observed, I fear there will be an end to Republican Government in this country [sadly prescient]“.  British historian John Dalberg-Acton shared this from a conversation with Lee: “consolidation of the States into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.”

Lee understood History– Rome went through this chain of events; France from revolution thr. Napoleon went through this chain of events; and so has the US.  As the central gov’t usurped power over the lives of citizens (Federalists1790s; Radical Republicans 1862-80; Liberal Democrats- Wilson, FDR, LBJ ; and both parties’ leaders involved with the Council on Foreign Relations 1919-present), the constitutional republic of our forefathers has been perverted beyond recognition.  Read Patrick J Buchanan’s numerous books detailing this process.  The neo-imperialist central gov’t of the US has  repeatedly acted aggressive abroad since 1917.  Countless incursions in Latin America; the Philippines; Lebanon;  nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

To his cousin Annette Carter, Lee wrote, “Every brave people who considered their rights attacked & their Constitutional liberties invaded, would have done as we did. Our conduct was not caused by any insurrectionary spirit…, for our construction of the Constitution under which we lived & acted was the same from its adoption & for 80 yrs we have been taught & educated by the founders of the republic… which controlled our consciences & actions.”   He fought to save, not destroy, the Founding Fathers’ original plan.  Lee died in 1870 believing the country’s ills could be cured within the system created by the Founding Fathers.  I share that same belief today.

The names changed through the years, but the opposing ideologies basically remained the same until after World War I.  The Great War was not enough of a threat to Americans to convince them to surrender sovereignty to a League of Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge led the Senate in defeating the Versailles Treaty in 1919.  Woodrow Wilson’s close advisor Col Edward House organized a group of political and business leaders from both major parties with a long term plan to move the United States toward integration in a World Government.  The Council on Foreign Relations went to work on achieving this goal. The deadlier and costlier WWII proved to be the catalyst to start the process as the United Nations was instituted and placed on American soil in 1945.

Southern Democrats once fought for states’ rights, but they are few and far between now in a party dominated by northeastern ultra-liberals; Ronald Reagan brought to fruition the seeds of Conservatism Barry Goldwater planted, but the GOP never used their years in power to undo the New Deal and Great Society. Do you wonder why big government incrementalism continues unabated regardless of the party in power since 1945?  The two major parties are ensconced with members of the CFR.  There are still good conservatives here and there, but the socialistic world gov’t ideologues control both parties. 

The Democrat party, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, anti-2nd amendmt, and weak-kneed in foreign policy, is hopeless for America’s future.  While disgusted with the GOP over the last five years, one can hope the recent grassroots movement to stop Cap and Trade legislation and Government-Run HealthCare builds momentum in 2010 and on to 2012.  The disgust with the GOP is due to their ranks being dominated by RINOs.  CONSERVATIVES- more Americans refer to themselves as conservative more than any other label.  GOP- 20%, Democrats 33%,Liberal- 15%, Conservative- 35%.  Less Gov’t, lower taxes, free-enterprise capitalism, individual responsibility- traditional conservatism is the answer for what ails us.  No more blind support for Republicans who act like Democrats or sellouts to the CFR. Sarah Palin made the right stand this week supporting the conservative party candidate in the 23rd NY House district race whereas Newt Gingrich blindly supported a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, anti-2nd amendmt Republican in the race.

The two major parties in the US, dominated by the CFR, have control of the election process infrastructure.  In the state of NC, it is almost impossible to get third parties on the ballot.  Where do these parties get constitutional authority for freezing out other choices for elections across this republic? It is unethical and in violation of the founders’ spirit.  While no third party candidate has won the presidency, several have affected the outcome — 1824, 1860, 1912, 1968, 1992, and 2001.  I attended the NC Libertarian Party convention last April and came away impressed with the folks involved with it. Dr Mike Munger (of Duke University) got 3% of the votes in the NC 2008 gubernatorial race; Dr Mike Beitler (of UNCG) is currently running for the US Senate seat held by Richard Burr for 2010. These are good men worthy of support. They offer a fresh choice from the run of the mill professional politician.  While I cannot support all of the Libertarian social issue and foreign policy positions, I score a 90 on agreement w/ their economic platform. There is a Conservative Party which is strong in some states, but not currently organized in NC.   Maybe it has a future here as well.  It is time to press the NC Legislature to amend the elections process and allow greater third party or independent candidate participation.  The major party monopoly on the process must be broken to overcome their wrong-headed policies.