The Political Inquirer

In the last year, I have heard so many folks at town meetings and organized Tea Party’s state ‘I want my country back”, or “this is not the country I was raised in”. Those concerned speakers are right. At our own local conservative club meetings, the same words are spoken, along with individuals who come up and ask, “What can we do about it?”, or “How do we reverse nonsense?”, or “Where can I find a group I can get involved with to stop this insanity?”
All politics is local, even national politics. Tea Party folks and others like me are now beginning resurgence in our local political scenes. Scenes like the local City Councils, your local School Board and its Administration. We have already taken over the Precinct Caucuses and our County’s GOP Convention and even now, our plans are reaching into the District GOP Convention. Our premise and objectives are clean and responsible government of the people, by the people and for the people. And we are winning. But it will take time to reach out to the state level, but that is where we are heading.
Why? Because we do need to take back our country and that starts at the local level. People need to get involved again at the most basic local level and they need to get organized! You are not alone, there are lots of others who would like to join you and they think just like you do. Find them, and get started taking your country back!
If you don’t think that is reason enough, or you are lost as to what to say or where to go and need some inspiration to spur on your own efforts. Here is a small sampling of Progressive public statements that should scare the hell out of you and get your spirit energized to action.
Now be mindful that these copied statements are reported in various news organizations at different times by different authors and are not my invention or comments. Some have been on TV, Radio, or Major News Networks. These are Socialist and Progressive (communist) statements as currently reported by the press or in their own publications. Viewed together, they are indeed scary and each carries its own problems. But they can be solved and they can be regulated to the back water again, but only if you get involved with the political process. It is there, you can take your country back.
What is really interesting is we often hear these statements apart from each other.   To read them together is a another matter:

JED BRANDT, COMMUNIST: We have to help bring this government down, we have to help destroy this system and that requires increasing the alienation that working class and oppressed people feel. The way change is going to happen in this country is through the destruction of what we call the United States of America.
I’m opposed to white supremacy not because it’s white people involved. I am opposed to the system we traditionally call imperialism and the idea that some people have rights and privileges that are not granted to all human beings. And the solution to that problem is called communism and socialism and we should put it in our mouths. We should say it when we say what is your politics? I am a socialist. I demand that we have health care for people and it’s not a demand that’s negotiable with health insurance companies.
We will take your insurance companies; we will take the farms in this country; we will shut down the military apparatus in this country and I am tired of being told to stuff my anger back in my pants.
VAN JONES: Right now we’re saying that we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to some kind of eco-capitalism where, you know, at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression altogether. But, that’s a process.
RON BLOOM, WHITE HOUSE MANUFACTURING ‘CZAR’: We know that the free market is nonsense.
ANDY STERN, PRESIDENT OF SEIU: There are opportunities in America to share better in the wealth, to rebalance the power. And unions and the government are part of the solution.
THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: My relationship to ACORN is pretty straightforward. When… it’s probably 13 years ago, when I was still practicing law, I represented ACORN. And my partner in that representation was the U.S. Justice Department, in having Illinois implement what was called the Motor Voter Law.
OBAMA: It had nothing to do with us. We were not involved. The only involvement I’ve had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a Motor Voter Law.
OBAMA: And I definitely welcome ACORN’s input. You don’t have to ask me about that, I’m going to call you, even if you, if you didn’t ask me.
When I ran Project Vote, voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it.
Once I was elected, there wasn’t a campaign that ACORN worked on down in Springfield that I wasn’t right there with you.
Since I’ve been in the United States Senate, I’ve been always a partner with ACORN as well.
I’ve been fighting with ACORN, along side ACORN, on issues you care about, my entire career.
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: If you look at the peer-reviewed scientific literature, the debate is over.
THEN-PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: It’s hard to be fiscally responsible when we have all these human needs and we’re inheriting enormous deficits and debt, but that’s a sacrifice that we’re going to have to make.  Families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions. The federal government should do the same.
LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has begun reviewing a request by the Los Angeles Community College District for permission to reactivate speech restrictions under which one professor called a Christian student a “fascist b—-rd” for discussing a moral conviction against homosexual marriage.
After erupting angrily in class, the professor, John Matteson, then told the student to “Ask God what your grade is.” And later threatened to expel the student.
A New York school district faces a lawsuit for encouraging students to explore homosexuality while trying to prevent them from studying the Bible.
Purdue University Students apparently attacked a student-employee accused of racial harassment for his choice of reading material at work, the school now has issued an apology for its actions.  Keith John Sampson, a white student-employee, was cited by black co-workers for reading a history book about the defeat of the Ku Klux Klan by Notre Dame students in a 1924 street brawl. He was reading it in a break-room at the university where he studies and works as a janitor. Officials with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, have been arguing on Sampson’s behalf.
At Missouri State University, one student had her degree threatened and she was grilled in a closed session with faculty members on her personal religious beliefs for several hours because she refused to sign a school-dictated letter supporting “gay” adoptions, a position that violated her religious beliefs.
A MOTHER AND FATHER IN New York were subjected by their school district’s attorney to a faith “Sincerity Test,” which ultimately ruled their beliefs were too questionable to qualify for a religious exemption to mandatory student immunization.  Ron and Rita Palma filed the exemption with their son’s school district in 2006 after coming to the conclusion the year before that the required vaccinations violated their conscience and sense of God’s leading for their family.  Rather than accept the standard exemption form, however, the Bayport-Blue Point Union Free School District demanded the couple meet with school attorney David Cohen. The Palmas have twice been compelled to sit down with Cohen to be interrogated about their faith and their convictions about vaccines.
“If you believe God is on your side,” Cohen asked in the most recent of the two interviews, conducted last fall, “does that mean he’s not on the side of someone who believes in immunization?” “Do you have conversations with God? Has God told you not to immunize?” the attorney asked. “Explain it to me.”
TUFTS UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP was stripped of its official “student organization” status in a secret, midnight meeting because the group would not allow an admitted homosexual to hold a leadership position.
Though Tufts University administration says Tufts Christian Fellowship has not been “banned,” organizers of the group — an affiliate of international college ministry InterVarsity Christian Fellowship — say the decision to de-recognize TCF has the same effect as a ban.
In fact, TFC is no longer allowed to refer to itself as “Tufts Christian Fellowship,” it has been stripped of its student organization funding, meetings may not be held in regularly reserved rooms and the group may not advertise its meetings or events on campus.
The decision to divest TCF of its organizational rights came from a student-run governing body called the Tufts Community Union Judiciary. Tufts’ administration gave the TCUJ authority to recognize student groups; however, no student group has ever been derecognized.

JOHN HOLDREN, PRESIDENT OBAMA’S “SCIENCE CZAR,” served on the board of editors of a magazine whose personnel were accused of providing vital nuclear information that helped the Soviet Union build an atom bomb.
The magazine, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has a long history of employing socialist and communist sympathizers, including during the time of Holdren’s employment in 1984.
Holdren is assistant to the President for science and technology, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and co-chairman of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.  Holdren worked alongside communist sympathizers
At the time Holdren worked on the Bulletin in 1984, communist and socialist sympathizers still occupied the magazine’s masthead.
The Bulletin’s board of directors in 1984 included:

• • Board chairman Aaron Adler, who also served on the board of the Chicago Center for U.S./USSR Relations and Exchanges, alongside Larry McGurty of the Communist Party USA.
• Adler was also a member of the Communist Party front, the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights. He was also involved in a committee to celebrate the 100th birthday of Communist Party member Paul Robeson.
• • Bernard Weissbourd, a former Manhattan Project scientist who later served on the transition oversight committee for incoming Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, who was active in Communist Party fronts.
• Weissbourds’ son, Robert M. Weissbourd, later served as chairman of the Obama for America Campaign Urban and Metropolitan Policy Committee and on the Obama Transition Housing and Urban Development Agency Review Team in 2008.
• • Ruth Adams, Bulletin editor, who served in the 1960s on the Advisory Committee of the Hyde Park Community Peace Center. Other Center members included lifelong communist front activist Robert Havighurst, communist activist and radical Trotskyist Sydney Lens and Quentin Young, an avowed communist who has advised Obama on health care.

Holdren, meanwhile, has been a longtime climate-change alarmist who has advocated ideas such as enforcing limits to world population growth.
Holdren’s name was in the e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University in the U.K., which show that some climate researchers declined to share their data with fellow scientists, conspired to rig data and sought to keep researchers with dissenting views from publishing in leading scientific journals.
Holdren has endorsed “surrender of sovereignty” to “a comprehensive Planetary Regime” that would control all the world’s resources, direct global redistribution of wealth, oversee the “de-development” of the West, control a world army and taxation regime, and enforce world population limits.

The 2009-2010 American Civic Literacy Survey says a new study of college students that indicates only a fraction are learning civics lessons. Among the results were that 51 percent of the respondents could not name the three branches of government, and 27 percent could not name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
However, the report concluded, colleges are doing an exemplary job indoctrinating students into liberalism.
The work found:

• • College makes people more likely to support same-sex marriage and abortion on demand, and less likely to support school prayer and the American work ethic
• • A college degree moves a person toward the Democrat/liberal side of the political spectrum, while greater civic knowledge moves a person toward the Republican/conservative side.
• • Gaining civic knowledge produces a more independent frame of mind than graduating from college
• • College professors are more likely than non-professors to believe that America corrupts otherwise good people, the Ten Commandments are irrelevant and educators should instill more doubt among students

The survey organization said the report “clearly shows that college fails to give graduates a grasp of essential elements of American history, government and economics.”
“So what does college do? It pushes opinion leftward on the most polarizing social issues,” said the report, which is based on a 33-question civic literacy test and comprehensive opinion survey.
The survey shows only 24 percent of college graduates know that the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people” comes from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and even fewer – 17 percent – accurately can distinguish free markets from centralized planning.
On the other hand, it reveals the startling impact of indoctrination.
“If two people otherwise share the same basic characteristics, including equal civic knowledge, the one who graduates from college will be more likely than the one who does not graduate from college to … favor same –sex marriage and favor abortion on demand,” the report said.
Similarly, all else being equal, the report said, a college graduate will be less likely to believe “anyone can succeed in America with hard work and perseverance; favor teacher-led prayer in public schools; and believe the Bible is the Word of God.”
Between two similar people, the one with the greater civic knowledge will be less likely to agree America corrupts otherwise good people, that the founding documents are obsolete, that global capitalism produces few winners and many losers and the Ten Commandments are irrelevant, the report said.
“An American can earn a college degree without gaining adequate civic knowledge (and in some cases, even lose knowledge),” the report said. “This must change if we want future generations of Americans to believe in the relevance of our nation’s founding principles and to maintain a self-governing society where freedom and opportunity flourish.”