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A Disturbing Piece of History – Update: Twisted History

In 1966, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America awarded Martin Luther King Jr. the Margaret Sanger Award for “his courageous resistance to bigotry and his lifelong dedication to the advancement of social justice and human dignity.” After reading about this I could only say, “What the ****????!?!!?” Why did Doctor King accept this award? Why would anyone accept this award, let alone one of the most popular black leaders of all time?

If you are baffled by the paragraph above then you clearly do not know anything about the history of Planned Parenthood or the personal beliefs of Margaret Sanger. When I learned about history and found out about Margaret Sanger I was shocked that anyone could think she was a great lady who should have an award named after her. Then of course, there is Planned Parenthood which Sanger helped found, that supports some of the most disgusting acts ever perpetrated by humans.

Margaret Sanger was a big fan of eugenics as a means to rid society of “undesirables”. In 1939 she started “The Negro Project” which had the goal of suppressing the black population through “family planning”. Planned Parenthood was started by Sanger with the purpose of racial purification. Sanger would often give speeches to members of the KKK. She references black people as “human weeds”, “reckless breeders” and as “human beings who never should have been born.”

All this brings me back to the original and baffling question; why would Dr. King accept an award named after Margaret Sanger from an organization started for her sick purposes? I really have no clue. I have the utmost respect for Dr. King and his accomplishments and I would just like to know about this occurrence which has bothered me for a while.

For a comprehensive history on the whole subject, I recommend the documentary “Maafa 21”.

UPDATE: I just saw this video in which Dr. Alveda King sheds more light on the lies about the history of the relationship between MLK and Planned Parenthood.

I would have liked to have seen an outright refusal of the award, but this definitely helps me to see more of the picture.

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Great Equalizer

Remember the story of David and Goliath? Goliath had pure size and brute strength and was defeated by a pebble which was hurled by a sling. In those days that was quite the accomplishment, but in modern times this kind of thing occurs a lot more. The fact that it occurs a lot more is really mucking up the gene pool. Think about it. If genes are normally passed on under the “survival of the fittest” rule, then the gene pool should improve over time. There are also the problems of the nurture method being affected by the new ease with which someone can kill someone else.

Let’s say there is a healthy, upstanding individual with a good education and enough money to survive comfortably. Now, we can introduce this individual to an all too common situation in which someone needs drug money and comes to rob their home. The crackhead individual is brandishing the great equalizer in the form of a 9mm. In the days of yore the crackhead would get beat down by the upstanding individual in the ensuing struggle. But with his new weapon he can easily eliminate any trouble that he might have had. Now instead of the upstanding individual passing on his genes and teaching others to be like him. The crackhead will go out and get high with a trashy, promiscuous woman and knock her up, thus completing the new twisted circle of life. The genes and nurture, (or lack thereof) that a person will receive from the crackhead and the trashy lady will, in most cases, produce a person of lower caliber (Pun Intended).

I am in no way for gun control, but rather believe that since they exist in the first place as many upstanding people as possible should have the great equalizer. Gun laws are one of the most stupid thing ever devised by man. Clearly such laws only prevent law-biding citizens from owning guns and give criminals peace of mind when committing crimes.

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Don’t Trust Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is seen by many people as the guy who made that “Contract with America” right before things got nice for a while. He is thought to be a great conservative representative. Just as was the case with George W. Bush you should not fall for the act. Let’s shed a little light on Mr. Gingrich and why he should not be trusted.

Recently, Gingrich has supported Dede Scozzafava as a Republican candidate for congress only because she was Republican. Dede’s views do not resemble anything conservative and Gingrich stated that in supporting her he was simply being loyal to the party so the votes don’t get split and the Democrats win. The question for Gingrich is: If the Republican supports everything the Democrats want, what is the difference between a Democrat winning on a split vote and this Republican winning? The only reason I could come up with for Newt Gingrich not wanting someone who possesses his professed ‘conservative’ beliefs is that he does not actually hold such views. Rather than be guided by principles he prefers to play political games and try for power. Personally I would rather go down in flames while still holding onto my principles than to compromise on what I believed to appease other people.

Newt Gingrich voted to form the Department of Education in 1979. Education used to be under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, but in 1979, with Newt’s and Jimmy Carter’s seal of approval, the government expanded with new individual departments. The new Department of Education had more power over school curricula and hiring, taking some power away from state and local authorities. The department has been a huge hole for politicians to dump money into without ever seeing improvements in student performance. In fact, almost all important numbers, such as graduation rates, have either declined or remained stagnant since the formation of the Department of Education in 1979. There is no authorization in the U.S. Constitution for federal involvement in education. Supporting this department is a violation of the oath Gingrich took to uphold the Constitution. The infamous American Communist William Z. Foster, in his 1932 book “Toward Soviet America” said,

“Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are…[a] National Department of Education…the studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society.”

This hardly seems like a conservative position for Gingrich to take, especially the part about how the communists called for the formation of the department as part of the way to overtake America.

In 1980 Gingrich voted to give most favored nation status to Communist China; you know the one that kills people in rice paddies. We now get all of our crap from China and they own more of U.S. debt than anyone else.

Gingrich also supported the US signing an agreement to get in on the whole, “General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization” (GATT/WTO). This took the power given to congress by the people in the Constitution, “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”, and gave it away to the international body “The World Trade Organization”. The Constitution does not allow congress to give away the duties and powers specifically granted to it, to an unelected foreign body.

But the big glaring reason to not trust him, is that his own wife could not trust him. Once any politician has an affair, you really see how good their word is. If a promise is made to the person that they love and they break it in the most offensive way, surely they will not care about an oath they took in behalf of strangers. Gingrich had an affair while going after Bill Clinton for having an affair. Technically, he went after Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice, but he did tout family values and character as important, which makes him an untrustworthy hypocrite.

All of these and more add up to make me not trust Newt Gingrich when he says,

“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

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Fruit of Kaboom Mania

We have all heard by now, about the attempt on Christmas day to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to the US. There has been a lot of hullabaloo around the fact that he was already known to be a terrorist and even his own father had pointed him out as an extremist. It was another sign of government competence when the US state department revoked the would-be bombers visa well after the incident occurred. We have the extremely long period of time for any acknowledgment of the incident by the leadership of the US. There is also the story of how he got on the plane in the first place, which involves the bizarre tale of a man in a suit speaking with a manager to overlook the lack of a passport. What most people might have heard about in the aftermath of this incident is the fact that TSA screenings have ratcheted up and people are calling for the use of the dreaded strip search machines on everyone.

What I have not heard pointed out at this juncture and what seems painfully obvious to me is the fact that changing the laws in the US to make screening more R-rated and strict would have very little impact on the situation that has prompted the discussion. The flight was from Amsterdam to Detroit. To have an effect on this type of situation foreign laws would need to change. It might be a good idea to actually require passports since we have them and they are a standard to be followed already. We could even try using our terror watch lists. The ineptitude of people all along the chain in this situation does not give me any confidence in anyone. Either they are completely worthless at doing their job or someone did something on purpose.

Since people couldn’t check a passenger to see if he was a terrorist, which he plainly and clearly was known to be, now citizens of the United States of America will lose even more of their already thin right to privacy. The logic in this situation just doesn’t work out.

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Is Anyone Else Sick of the Lying?

Why do we keep electing the people that completely disregard everything they said while in the process of trying to get elected? Can anyone just do what they say they are going to do? What reasons do they have for going back on their word?

A while ago I was confronted with one of the stupidest statements I have ever heard. someone said to me that Abraham Lincoln was, “The lyin’est president we ever done had.” My reply was, “Honest Abe, really, why do you say so?” At which point I was told that he told the country that he would not seek to end slavery if elected president. Apparently the person telling me this at the time is completely unaware of a little thing called history. It must be hard to find information on a small occurrence called the Civil War. Lincoln did not force the southern states to secede starting with South Carolina. He only responded to it. He did not break any campaign promise, but rather reacted to a national crisis and came out on the other side with slavery ended.

This national crisis model has been tried again and again since that time and while I believe honest Abe’s intentions, I am unsure of others. For example, George W. Bush said:

He came up with an excuse to go nation build in Iraq because of a crisis. I still need answers to a few questions. What connection did Saddam Hussein have to Al Qaida? WMDs? What was the picture that Colin Powell showed to the UN that was supposed to be WMDs?

The Obama administration is either lazy or they just don’t care about the myriad promises that have been completely disregarded. Here is a video of one broken promise (repeated several times):

Check out the chuckle that all these politicians have when asked about something promised on the campaign trail:

So it’s funny to lie to the people who elect you now. What a hootin’ hollerin’ good time.

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Misattributed to Washington

One thing that really drives me up the wall quicker than other things is when people use false quotes and continue to pass them on. I will begin acquiring as many of these as I can and dispelling them here. My major problem with false quotes is that I very much enjoy the truth and obviously if it is a false quote it is a lie. I may hear a quote and be inclined to use it myself. A person propagating such quotes often makes a fool of themselves. Many times if one wishes to be responsible and check the verity of a quote and its source they will run into multiple examples of people misusing the quote and think they have verified it but really have just seen multiple versions of the lie. Quotes have been given a strange place in our culture and at times can seem to have been canonized by some users of them even if false. Most misquoted people are either founding fathers of the United States or are Albert Einstein.

The first quote I will do, has been attributed to George Washington and in fact he did not say this:

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”

However, the fact that he did not say this does not mean it was not said. In fact, it appears that it is very much an actual historical statement from the 1796-97 Treaty with Tripoli (current Libya). Some of the Muslims in the area had concerns about a new crusade being launched, and the treaty informs them to not worry about holy war, since the government of the United States is not founded on any particular religion.

Many Christians might get upset that this was actually said and if they do then they are idiots. If the United States was founded on the Christian religion then why do we not have state run confessionals or baptisms? Jesus, the founder of Christianity, said that the first great commandment was to love God and the second was to love thy neighbor. These most important laws were somehow excluded from the constitution and are not required. Strange thing to exclude when basing the government on the Christian religion. We also have another problem when trying to base the government on the Christian religion; which flavor among all the different versions is it based on? Many Christians argue bitterly over their view of what is true Christianity. I am happy to keep that kind of contention out of the body that creates and enforces laws that I will abide by. Although contention finds its way in anyway.

Christians can take solace in the fact that this line from the treaty does not mean that the founders hated Christianity or religion in general. In fact I have documented, and will document in the future, statements quite to the contrary by founders that show the necessity for religious beliefs, morals, faith and the providence of God in maintaining a free society. But with regard to government, it is always best to not jump in with certain religions.

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Need of Masters

The great Ben Franklin once said, “As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” During the founding of the United States of America there was a great debate as to whether the people could maintain their liberty or whether they would become corrupt and ruin the whole thing. Many references to “Public Virtue” were made when discussing the topic. After the Constitution was written George Washington said that it would remain intact only “…so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.”

I have mentioned before that trying to spread freedom to different parts of the world can only be done when the people want it enough and when they have the “Public Virtue” to maintain it. Seeing many stories on the progress of Afghan and Iraqi troops I do not believe they possess the will or the virtue necessary to keep themselves free of dictators and tyrants. Have I also mentioned that each generation of Americans seems to creep closer to the “non-virtue” or rather “vice” that is apparent from the Afghan soldiers in this video?: (language warning)

I feel for any Afghan people who are doing the right things and living responsibly, because it appears they will not be able to be free because of the lack of “Public Virtue”. I also appreciate even more the Armed forces of the United States who have higher education levels than the general population of the US and have much better discipline than armies around the world. It is always like banging your head against a wall to try to get people to do what is right for themselves and their communities and countries.

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American Government Atrocities (that we can easily prove happened)

Tuskegee Experiment (1932-1972)
From 1932 to 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service began researching syphilis. They asked for black men with syphilis to participate in the study on the disease and it’s effects over time. Fifteen years into the experiment penicillin was widely used to get rid of syphilis. The experimenters did not stop their experiment there and then though. They wanted to observe the total course of the disease and let the men die. They did not tell the men about the new treatment options but instead just let them die. With this blatant violation of human rights staining the hands of a department of government, what is the clear answer? Another department of government of course. They created the Office for Human Research Protections. This office is now part of the gargantuan HHS.

Missouri Mormon Extermination Order (1838 – 1976)
Missouri Executive Order 44 enacted by Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838 stated that “the Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary for the public peace”. Many Missourians had previous conflicts and complaints about the LDS church. Conflicts included the tarring and feathering of church leaders and some disputes about property. A major complaint was that Mormons had come in and changed the politics of the area by voting in blocks. After things started to get more and more out of hand with mobs attacking Mormons and several Mormons seeking retaliation Boggs issued this overly harsh and unconstitutional order. Joseph Smith, the Leader of the Mormons visited U.S. President Martin Van Buren and asked him for help with all the troubles and Van Buren’s response was, “Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you.” The Mormons had a mass exodus to Illinois to escape; leaving behind businesses, homes, farms and other valuable properties.

Slavery
Do I need to say more? Many of the founders of this nation did not want to allow slavery but the southern states would not have united with them in the new country if they made it illegal. There are several clues to this in founding documents. For example, the Declaration of Independence doesn’t include the commonly heard “life, liberty and property” listed as rights but rather “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. The fact that we needed a thirteenth amendment for people to recognize the principles in the Constitution is an atrocity.

Woodrow Wilson
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson they think of a president who lived a long time ago who probably upheld the constitution to the best of his ability in the same way we imagine all the old presidents were just good guys. Dislike for presidents is usually reserved for those presidents that we have watched harm our country. Just a few of the wonderful treats that happened under good ol’ Woodrow:

  • The re-segregation of our military.
  • The imprisonment of thousands of people who disagreed with Wilson.
  • The Federal Reserve.
  • Income taxes made more easy to take from citizens.(16th amendment)
  • Weakening of states powers by making senators elected by people instead of states. (17th amendment)
  • Trying to get the US stuck in the league of nations.
  • Wilson supported eugenics.
  • And more…

MK Ultra
The details of this government program are mostly unknown. The mystery behind it is helped by the fact that in 1973 the director of the CIA ordered all documents on the subject to be destroyed. Some ex-CIA people say that the ending of the program was just a cover up and a disinformation campaign. What we do know is that MK Ultra had something to do with mind control research being done by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, officially in the 1950’s and 60’s. Agents would experiment on US citizens by administering different drugs to them and observing behavior. Many believe that the experiments were just taken to foreign countries but there is not solid proof of that, of course. It also seems there could be some connection between the Unabomber and the MK Ultra experiments.

Eugenics
This was really a progressive American dream to breed perfect humans. Following the work of Charles Darwin that you can change a species with good genes and time, many people decided this would be good to do to humans. In America 64,000 people were involuntarily sterilized because of their undesirable traits. The American practice of eugenics helped inspire Adolf Hitler and his beliefs on race and a perfect race. Many Nazis would cite American scientists in their justifications of their actions. The eugenics movement morphed into the abortion movement over time, thus they still have a way to get rid of “undesirables”.

Operation Keelhaul
From August 1946 to May of 1947 the Soviet Union had a bit of a problem with dissidents escaping and trying to live in areas not controlled by the Soviets. Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt had made a secret agreement that any Russians trying to escape would be rounded up and sent back. American and British troops rounded up Russians from Europe and sent them back to the Soviets. The Americans and British knew that the people were being executed when returned but they still had to follow the orders to send them back. British historian and author Nikolai Tolstoy described the scene of Americans returning to an internment camp after having delivered a shipment of people to the Russians:

The Americans returned to Plattling visibly shamefaced. Before their departure from the rendezvous in the forest, many had seen rows of bodies already hanging from the branches of nearby trees. On their return, even the SS men in a neighboring compound lined the wire fence and railed at them for their behavior. The Americans were too ashamed to reply.

Some people will say, “hey look at these horrible things done by the United States of America. They are pure evil.” But the fact is that these things all go against the ideas that America was founded on. These things were carried out by people who were not following the Constitution of the United States and had no interest in preserving life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness for others.

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I’m with Stupid…but for different reasons

Keith Olbermann recently came the closest he has ever come to saying something intelligent since he stopped annoying me on Sports Center. While he touches on a viable solution the road he took to get there was wrong. He says we should leave Afghanistan and bring the boys home.

We have been in Afghanistan for around 8 years now and what do we have to show for it? Not much. The heroin trade is still thriving, the terrorists keep coming, our guys keep dying and we do not have Osama bin Laden’s head. The sacrifice of our soldiers over there has not been for naught though. Many key terrorists have been captured or killed and the fight was taken to their doorstep instead of in the homeland. But as we sit now it is just a bad position to put our troops in. We should unleash their full power and obliterate the enemy from off the map or we should bring them home. Since we are now bringing Navy SEALs in for court martial because one of their prisoners had a fat lip it might be safe to say that they are being hampered from using their full force. In this case we should pull them home. To say that we need the country to be stable and the people to be free before we leave is a nice dream but will not happen. The founders of our country had a concern that the people of this country might not be “fit for liberty”. I propose that most people in the middle east are not fit for liberty and have need of masters. They are too far in vices, ignorance, anger and hatred to be fit for self government. Until the people who are fit can grow in numbers and overtake those who are not, there will never be a free and non-corrupt government over there and we should check ourselves in those areas too, of course.

Where Olbermann goes astray, this time, is in his insistence that the generals and the pentagon want the war because it is good for their business. He even goes so far as to say that it makes the generals “happy” when their soldiers “suffer”. While the military industrial complex can be a huge problem, I do not believe that generals are “happy” when service men and women are harmed or in danger. He makes a decent point about credibility after the disgusting Tillman debacle, although he is attacking McChrystal and it is not fully clear to me who is to blame for the lies about Pat Tillman. Then he makes the very accurate connection between what happened to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan before their collapse and the U.S. today. He also gives us the obligatory attack of Sarah Palin, which is very blatantly out of place and obviously in there only because he wanted yet another jab at someone he hates. You don’t have to subject yourselves to the torture of watching this video but here it is:

There were some other things that Olby said that amused me. First off, he said that Obama was greeted by a “Three Mile Island of an economy”. Three mile Island was an easily contained, quickly defused and overly reported incident. The current economic situation we find ourselves in is much larger, more dangerous and grossly under-reported, which is quite the opposite. He also states that Obama took a “biblical flood of finance” and turned it into a “cloudy day”. I feel sorry for people who watch this man to be informed. They know nothing of how the economic damage that was predicted to be the bad road, if no taxpayer money was used for stimulus and bailouts, has actually been surpassed with the bailouts and stimulus packages. They also know nothing of the ridiculous amounts of debt we have heaped upon ourselves which could very easily collapse our country.

The second amusing thing was his insistence that “We cannot afford this” referring to the Afghan war. This is amusing to me because he supports every other waste of taxpayer money under the sun and the only area he thinks to cut back is military. It’s just a little glimpse of his priorities.

In short I don’t really agree with him except in the fact that we don’t want our troops to be hanging out over there. Where I part with him is that I believe they should be swiftly destroying our enemies. If they are just going to be targets then let’s get them home.

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Announcing My Candidacy for the 4th District of Utah

I would like to take this opportunity to officially announce my candidacy for the 4th congressional district in Utah. This is an exciting moment for me and I hope to represent the 4th district well.

Since the district has received 1.1 million dollars from the federal stimulus I feel this duty will be very important to uphold properly and make sure that this money is assigned appropriately within the district. I can tell you that I will do nothing to embarrass the people who live in my district and I will always listen to every single person who lives in the district before I vote on anything. That’s right, every single constituent living in the 4th district of Utah will speak to me personally before every vote. That is a promise you can count on 100%.

As congressman for the 4th district I will insure that everyone in the 4th district has health care, Lamborghinis, missile defense systems, groceries paid for, new vending machines, less homework and a 100% clean environment. I will create or save jobs for everyone in the entire district.

If you support my run for the 4th congressional district in Utah let me know of your support in the comments below.

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