{"id":661,"date":"2010-05-21T23:33:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T05:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-05-21T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T05:33:24","slug":"as-i-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"As I Recall &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is instructive to think about how our country slowly came to a point where we are facing a socialistic takeover.\u00a0 I have commented on \u201cMaleficent Disingenuousness.\u201d\u00a0 Below are some of my recollections of how this phenomenon unfolded in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As I recall, President Nixon,      fought the Democrats in Congress for the greater part of his term in      office over &#8220;escalating the war.&#8221;\u00a0 Finally, after winning      the &#8220;Tet Offensive&#8221; decisively, he bombed Hanoi and its Haiphon      harbor for over a week, whereupon the North Vietnamese signed a peace      treaty in Paris.\u00a0 After the US withdrew most of its forces from that      war torn country, after about 3 years, the North renewed its hostilities      against the South and the Democrats in Congress would not authorize the      forces necessary to stop them.\u00a0 Our allies in the South were      defeated, and some like the Montagnards were subjected to genocide.\u00a0      Although the Democrats in Congress were responsible, the liberal press has      distorted the facts enough for history to record that the USA lost the      war.\u00a0 The result is that our honored veterans were cheated of their efforts and today&#8217;s youth are being mis-informed about the truth of the struggle by those on the liberal left that did not have balls enough to fight in the conflict in the first place.<\/li>\n<li>Along those same lines, do      not forget that MacCarthur was sacked for suggesting that Chinese army in      North Korea could (should?) have been cut off in China.\u00a0 After he      sacked MacCarthur, President Truman forbade our soldiers from going North      of the 38th parallel.\u00a0 Repeating that strategy in Vietnam, Secretary      of Defense, Robert Strange McNamara forbade our soldiers from going North      of the 17th parallel, actually defoliating the jungle along that line with      an additional gift to our soldiers called &#8220;Agent Orange.&#8221;\u00a0      He additionally, like President Truman forbidding incursion into China,      forbade our soldiers from chasing our enemy into Laos or Cambodia, giving      the enemy the free zone of the Ho Chi Min trail.\u00a0 Nowadays, our new President      has announced that we will be leaving Afghanistan at a time certain; he      additionally tells our soldiers (or they can call the Defense Department      from the battlefield to get permission to find out) at whom they may fire      and when. \u00a0 Is it just me or is telling your enemies where you will      go or not go, do or not do, or when you will leave the field akin to      giving your enemies &#8220;aid and comfort&#8221; in time of war?<\/li>\n<li>George Bush had lots of      shortcomings, but when he decided to invade Iraq, he did so because      America&#8217;s intelligence agencies, and those of our foreign allies, had      given him information that Iraq was building weapons of mass      destruction.\u00a0 He shared all that he knew with the Congress and the      Congress voted overwhelmingly to support his actions.\u00a0 However, when      the war went sour, the Progressives saw an opportunity to hang an      albatross around not only Bush&#8217;s neck, but also all Republicans by the      demonizing epithet &#8230; &#8220;he lied.&#8221;\u00a0 Their disingenuousness      was in their lying about him lying.<\/li>\n<li>One of America\u2019s great      industries is logging, particularly in the Northwest.\u00a0 Most environmentalists do not seem to      understand that trees are living things; they are born (sprout), grow,      mature, die and return back into the atmosphere from whence they      came.\u00a0 When man undertakes the husbandry of the forests, if he      doesn\u2019t harvest the trees, Mother Nature will: either by bugs, blight,      burning or rot.\u00a0 In any case, the major component of trees is carbon      from carbon dioxide.\u00a0 Trees (all plants) take CO2 from the atmosphere      and eventually give it back to the atmosphere by the action of either      Mother Nature or man.\u00a0 Farmers,      stockmen, loggers, any other users of natural resources are the real      environmentalists, the husbanders of our natural resources, and they understand this process, because      they are intimately involved with nature.\u00a0      Most of the shrill, militant, self appointed, mostly urban      \u201cenvironmentalists\u201d (including brainwashed school children) are probably      too ignorant of natural phenomenon to understand the processes of nature involved.\u00a0 Or if they know what is going on are      disingenuously ignoring the facts in order to preserve their agenda.\u00a0 If      they are in the leadership of the movement, they are almost certainly trying to protect the profits gleaned      from the donations of their uniformed, unsophisticated, and in many cases, na\u00efve      contributors.\u00a0 The enemies of      logging couldn\u2019t kill the logging industry by direct attack, so they      invoked the power of the Courts.\u00a0      The combination of fallacious testimony about the \u201cSpotted Owl\u201d and      the evil disingenuousness of judges with socialistic agendas combined to      ruin the American logging industry.<\/li>\n<li>As I recall, the Progressives      used to call for farm price parity to protect the earning power of the      \u201clittle farmer.\u201d\u00a0 Where is the      little farmer today?\u00a0 The      socialistic progressives have put him out of business with their \u201ccheap      food\u201d policies.\u00a0 Many of today\u2019s      young people would be astounded to find out that many of their parents and      grandparents and their siblings were raised, happily, on 40 and 80-acre      farms.\u00a0 They would be incredulous      if they were informed that the budget of the US Department of Agriculture      is mostly for \u201cfood stamps\u201d for urban welfare programs and only in a minor      way for \u201cfarm subsidy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Unrealistic unionization:      with its super high wages, its governmentally sponsored intrusion into the business world      and its unsustainable pensions and perks; coupled with draconian      environmental regulation; and confisicatory taxation of corporations and      regulation and taxation of investments has killed heavy industry      nationwide.\u00a0 The industrial      behemoth that once was the engine of the wealth of America has all but      disappeared.<\/li>\n<li>America\u2019s great mining      industry is under constant attack.\u00a0      Mining requires that the Earth\u2019s bounty be ripped from the      ground.\u00a0 A mine is always a gash in      the scenery &#8230; fresh meat for the      \u201cEnvironmentalist\u201d feast upon.\u00a0 The      fact is that although mining may be unsightly to some, it covers an      infinitesimal amount of the Earth\u2019s surface.\u00a0 Modern mining does everything possible to mitigate the      aesthetics of that which is disturbed.\u00a0 But      American governmental interference makes mining so expensive that it too      is disappearing.<\/li>\n<li>The refining of minerals      requires huge amounts of energy.\u00a0      The smelters of ores have in the past caused air pollution.\u00a0 Although the pollution has been      controlled in modern units, once again, unions and governmental controls      have combined to almost completely remove this industry from the American      scene.<\/li>\n<li>America\u2019s greatest resource for energy is coal.\u00a0 There is enough      mineable coal in the US to provide for all our energy needs for at least      1000 years, yet those in political power purposely denigrate or disregard it \u2026 because,      some think, to develop it would negate the energy crisis.\u00a0 No crisis, no reason for government      control.\u00a0 Some say that burning coal      is dirty and polluting \u2026 they dramatize their contentions by showing      pictures of 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century plants spewing pollution.\u00a0 Others say that burning other fossil fuels is cleaner.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see:\u00a0 Coal:\u00a0 C + O2 &#8211;&gt;      CO2; Natural Gas: CH4 + 2O2 &#8212;&gt;      CO2 + 2H2O \u2026 it looks like that on a molecular basis that coal produces      one molecule of greenhouse gas and natural gas produces three.\u00a0 Obviously, on the same basis, the      oxidation of natural gas produces more heat by the burning of hydrogen to      water (also a greenhouse gas), but each fuel produces the same amount of      carbon dioxide.\u00a0 Both fuels contain      impurities, notable among them sulfur, but modern coal plants scrub their      emissions for ash and sulfur so that none is emitted.\u00a0 The truth is that any generation      facility or engine that burns fuel emits CO2.\u00a0      The only commonly known methods to obtain \u201cgreen energy\u201d are wind,      solar and nuclear.\u00a0 One quits with      the whims of weather, one quits at sundown and America\u2019s foremost nuclear      authority, the seventh grade-educated expert, Jane Fonda, says that      nuclear is unsafe.\u00a0 Although there      are lesser-known additional alternatives, they are never touted by zealous      environmentalists who are always talking about \u201calternate forms\u201d of      energy.\u00a0 I suppose because they are oblivious to them.<\/li>\n<li>The attack on America by the      environmentalists through the Environmental Protection Agency has gone      from the bewildering torpedoing of a hydroelectric dam to protect the      \u201csnail darter\u201d to more sinister court ordered legal injunctions.\u00a0 Injunctions that stopped logging in the      north west in order to \u201csave the spotted owl.\u201d From there the movement went to direct attacks on      agriculture.\u00a0 The minions, knowing or unknowing, of totalitarian      socialism have discovered that any act of husbandry by man is almost      certain to disturb some hitherto unknown unseen, unseeable micro-plant or      animal.\u00a0 All that is necessary to      destroy any natural resource based enterprise is to hire some zealot      biologist (with an agenda) to find some kind of minor bit of biology.\u00a0 The zealot can then give the support necessary to his      co-agendists in the government or in a \u201cconservation group\u201d to assert      that the biological form is \u201cendangered.\u201d\u00a0      The EPA will then list the form as endangered; the zealots will then     venue-pick a Court in which to sue before an activist judge; the judge will then have the &#8220;evidence&#8221; necessary to issue an injunction killing      or at least dangerously compromising a vast resource industry.\u00a0 Among those recently compromised by this tactic are logging in the North West, virtually every mining venture, grazing all      over the west, irrigating on the Klamath River and now an attempt to dry      up the huge and magnificently productive San Joaquin Valley in California to save the super unimportant and      hitherto unknown \u201cdelta smelt.\u201d\u00a0      These efforts are a blatant attack on the most basic strengths of      the country and can only be part of a diabolical effort to destroy vital parts of our      economy.<\/li>\n<li>Progressives in Congress pass      Populist laws forcing banks to make loans to unqualified borrowers and      then blame business for the defaults.\u00a0      Duplicity!!!<\/li>\n<li>Socialists in the government,      practicing class warfare, lull voters into supporting profligate spending      by promising to tax only the rich.\u00a0      This is done with the full knowledge of the sophisticated that such      spending cannot be paid for by the rich.\u00a0      Knowledgeable people know that the end result will be not only the      ruin of the rich, and since \u201crich\u201d is a subjective word &#8230; it means you too.\u00a0 The final result will be the bankruptcy, in one form or another      of America and most of its citizens.\u00a0 These policies point to      only one end, a ruining of the old order, the American Republic, the      United States of America and with it human Freedom.\u00a0 It is      the sophisticated child of the old Marxist saw, \u201cthe end justifies the      means\u201d in order to achieve the Socialist Revolution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list of attacks on our way of life being done by the enemies of the Republic is almost endless.\u00a0 I am sure that each of you can (and should in your comments) add to my list as I am sure I could too if wanted to write a book.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that we must, each of us, begin to fight these enemies of Freedom with every ounce of strength in us, in every way that we can.\u00a0 We must make every one that we care for aware of the danger and encourage each of them to ardently join the fight or our children will live in a tyranny far worse than that of our ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is instructive to think about how our country slowly came to a point where we are facing a socialistic takeover.\u00a0 I have commented on \u201cMaleficent Disingenuousness.\u201d\u00a0 Below are some of my recollections of how this phenomenon unfolded in my &hellip; 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