John Brown was an American revolutionary abolitionist, who in the 1850s advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States.
He was tried for treason, the murder of five pro-slavery Southerners, and inciting a slave insurrection; he was found guilty on all counts and was hanged on December 2, 1859.
On the day he died, Brown wrote: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”
Less than two years later, the U.S. Civil War began, the American casualties from which exceeded those of World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam combined.
The United States is now facing its greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. As Abraham Lincoln asked, will a nation conceived in liberty and a government of the people, by the people, and for the people perish?
The 2012 election is the most important in U.S. history, but not for the reasons either the Republican or Democrat Parties would have you believe because there is little difference between them.
They seek to win elections, not to uphold the Constitution, not to show respect for the rule of law, and not to serve the American people, but to obtain power and to use that power to accrue career and financials benefits for themselves and their major supporters.
Mitt Romney does not offer a significant change from the political status quo. So far, the most accurate slogan for his campaign seems to be: “I’m not the other guy.”
The real issue of the 2012 is whether or not the American people will endorse permanent political corruption in Washington, D.C. by voting for the status quo presently represented by the Republican and Democrat Parties.
The United States is heading for a financial meltdown. Projected government spending rates over the next twenty-five years will drive federal debt to unsustainable levels from 50% of Gross Domestic Product in 2010 to 101% and 195% of GDP for 2021 and 2036, respectively. By 2036, every American citizen will own $135,547 in U.S. Government debt compared to $36,267 today.
Article I of the U.S. Constitution requires Congress to pass a federal budget. Despite the imminent threat to the financial stability of the United States and the clear priority the Constitution gives to maintaining discipline in federal spending, the last time the Democrat-controlled Senate enacted a budget was April 29, 2009.
Republicans continue to be derelict in their duty and violate their oaths of office to support and defend the Constitution by refusing to vet Barack Obama’s Presidential eligibility and personal history. They are also recommending Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Republican Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal for Vice President, both of whom do not meet the Constitutional requirements for that office.
Republican congressional leaders, particularly Senator John McCain and House Speaker John Boehner, endanger national security by refusing to probe Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the Obama Administration and condemning those who legitimately request such an investigation.
On July 17, 2012, Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio provided convincing evidence that Barack Obama’s birth certificate, as presented by the White House on April 27, 2011, is a forgery.
In the presence of evidence that there is a criminal in the White House, what actions do Republicans and Democrats take? None.
In general, our elected officials are not concerned about the financial stability of the country, its national security, or upholding the rule of law.
In 2012, American voters are being offered nothing more than a continuation of a status quo incompatible with the survival of the country.
Barack Obama is being protected by a corrupt political establishment. Exposing Obama before the election will thwart the installation of permanent and pervasive corruption in the U.S. Government and pave the way for political reform.
Without that, change will eventually come, but more likely in the form of national collapse and fragmentation.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of “Afghanistan and the Culture of Military Leadership”. He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com
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Define “political reform”. Will that be a fascist New World Order? Will the Elite running the fascist world be the Corporations or BIG BROTHER government (run by the corporations so it’s still a Corporatist state)?
Will that be so we’re all 3rd world countries because that’s “fair”?
Anyhow, YES, the Grand Plan is for the Elite’s version of “political reform” and the “catastrophe” could be WWIII, disease outbreak, a fake alien invasion, or some other concoction of theirs to get the Lemmings to “vote for safety”.
Unlike the men who wear the nation’s uniform and are ready and willing to go into battle at the risk of their lives on foreign battlefields to defend freedom for us at home and our allies abroad, we have by sharp contrast men in our government in Washington who are unwilling to sacrifice anything personal or official as it relates to the office they hold. Contrary to the statesman like leaders of our past, our present day leaders are unwilling to uphold the rule of constitutional law and thus secure for all Americans whom they represent the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They willingly act in ways that ensures the nation will slide inexorably into economic chaos, weakens our last line of defense, our military, against the forces of evil who are just waiting for the right moment to strike, knowingly mingle with and defend from any criticism or vetting the subversives who have been identified and exposed in their midst, passionately defend the killing of defenseless children sacrificed on the altar of hedonism and actively undermine the very foundation of every historically successful and lasting society, the traditional God ordained family consisting at its core of one man and one woman joined in marriage, while exalting that which has been declared in Holy Scripture to be an abomination to God, homosexuality, and homosexual marriage.
They, our political leadership, have knowingly and willingly allowed the nation to be invaded by foreigners, illegal aliens, for the corrupt purpose of aiding and abetting their hold on power through fraudulent voting practices while said aliens reap benefits at great financial cost to lawful American citizens and taxpayers. By their very words and deeds they invite the wrath of God on this nation by foolishly proclaiming that they are fundamentally transforming America in the name of the most incredulous of euphemisms, progressiveness and political correctness. And for what? So they can satisfy their selfish greed to remain in power and enrich themselves in the process? They would willingly sacrifice the nation for their own personal gain, a very short sighted temporal gain which will if not reversed soon enough end in misery for all of us including those in power, the political leadership or ruling class, and will almost certainly mean the end of America as we have known it. Some would argue that is already the case.
The selfishness of our political leadership was never more evident than when they knowingly allowed a man whom they no doubt knew was likely a fraud, whose background and associations clearly pointed to the fact he could in no way have the best interests of America at heart while using the deceptive language of hope and change and transparency in government throughout his campaign for the presidency, all specifically designed to deceive gullible voters as to his true intentions. Rather than risk any personal political capital by challenging his candidacy our political leadership kept silent fearing being labeled a racist by a heavily biased liberal media if they dared to challenge Obama’s eligibility which might in turn put at risk their seat in the government. Such a risk was in their minds not worth the benefit and so it is that America is today in the grip of corruption so pervasive that our ability to remain a free and prosperous nation is seriously in doubt.
Unprecedented corruption in America has allowed a fraud, a hoax, a criminal felon to assume office as president of the United States and inflict damage on the nation from within, whose past has now become clearer confirming his true intentions from the beginning as one who is driven by an intense hatred for this country and everything that it has stood for no different than the mindsets of the despots we’ve battled around the world in defense of freedom.
America has sunk so low with respect to the corruption of its political leadership that it now remains doubtful that we can ever climb out of the economic hole in which we now find ourselves to say nothing of the ever declining moral values and spiritual health of the nation. This begs the obvious question: Is America doomed to the dustbin of history? While there still may be hope, it is at best a mere glimmer given the record of the challenging candidate for POTUS, Romney, in this year’s election, whose record of government service, whose words and deeds of the past including during the most recent republican primary election, make it clear he is weak at best and will be a poor substitute for Obama, assuming he is elected. The only real hope for America is electing enough true conservatives to the Senate to wrest control of that chamber from the democrats aka socialists/communists who have been the equivalent of a rubber stamp Soviet style Politburo.
Finally, it is worthy of note that the surname of the present occupant of the oval office, Obama, may be part and parcel of the aforesaid hoax as his parentage with respect to his father is now clouded in doubt. All documentation he has provided and has in his possession to identify him has been found to be fraudulent and is therefore useless. What a price the nation has levied upon itself for the sake of trying presumably to right all the racially based wrongs of past generations in one fell swoop with the election and placement of a subversive in the highest office of our government because he just happened to conveniently possess some (50%) black genetic code, the first ever. Such a colossal mistake could in the end result in the self destruction of America, not a perfect nation by any means, a nation with warts to be sure, but certainly one of the greatest, if not THE greatest nation ever in the history of mankind with the most unique governing document ever conceived by man and guided by the hand of Providence, our Constitution, which is flagrantly being disregarded.
The mistakes America has made in its history with respect to civil rights are not worth its self destruction to assuage the guilt that some latter day gullible do-gooders have been brainwashed into assuming by a state controlled leftist media, a media that decidedly exalts the minority over the majority regardless of the issue, even to the point of promoting violence.