Sarah Palin speaks the truth.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sarah+palins+speech+at+faith+and+freedom+coalition&view=detail&mid=ACBFB66AA6C122111203ACBFB66AA6C122111203&first=0&FORM=NVPFVR

The "T" word

A few blow hards on both sides of the politcal isle are throwing around the word traitor like it was hello. These constitutional titans seem to have forgotten innocent until proven guilty. Edward Snowden according to them has sold states secrets to China and Russia, and Al-Qaeda has already improved it's ability to thwart NSA spying. The smears on what Snowden was doing began fast and furious. New agencies were releasing silly pictures of him calling them "embarrassing".

The media jumped on his lack of formal education. Yes the hig school drop out was able to gain access to the most secret programs on earth and run, just shows you how much you really need American education. The state is no longet aftet him because he broke the law, they are after him because he has made the NSA and the federal government look weak and comical.

Snowden must be a trekkie, remember the quote when Spock was dying in the warp reactor chamber. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one". Isn't that what this man is doing. Having seen the and understood the illegality of this Orwellian monstrosity, he made a brave choice to expose it. I've heard the argument that he should have gone through proper channels.

What would the government have done to him in secret? Where would he be now after going to supervisors and higher ups complaining of the ethics and legal issues with Prism and 215 and other NSA spying on Americans programs? Gone, disappears, at least now whatever happens the world knows. The US government can't hide behind a rendition. My question to you all is this, how could he have broken the law exposing an illegal program? Are the contracts and agreements he signed to work for NSA worth the paper they are written on if they were based in falsehoods and criminal activities?

I wonder who will represent him in his trial? What happens if he is given asylum? How much more does he have to tell us about what our government was doing to us? Even the reporter is being attacked. Congressman Peter King from New York is asking for a James Rosen type investigation on the reporter that broke the story. We cannot and must not allow our goverment to continue down this road to a police state.

Just following orders. Myvoicetv article.

http://myvoicetv.net/blog/irs-rogue-employees-were-just-following-orders/

The falling star

I am almost beginning to pity our president. Bill Clinton's assessment of our president being an amateur is now self evident. The public can now see the results of what a morally loose goverment looks like from the tidal waves of leaks. Nepotism, corruption, hell sex and drugs and rock and roll. You'd think the Rolling Stone were running the country. There is not one part of the government that doesn't  have some scandal being investigated by an inspector general. Blame Bush!

No, blame the man at the top. Was it Truman that said, "the buck stops here". Does the president have enough guts to fall on his sword and say that it's on him. What does taking full responsibility mean today? Just a couple of decades ago it meant that the person in charge screwed up and that it was time to go. What's the alternative, Biden? Oh hell no. I am now asking seeing that his approval rating is still relatively high, what more must happen to bring this president down? So far everything that could destroy a president and some say a country has happened.

The presidents feigning of ignorance seems to resonate with half of the American public. I tell you he must have the strongest trap muscles with all the shrugging he does. Are the Americans that support him just so hypnotized that they can't be snapped out of their spell? For the last few months I've heard pundits from my side say that Obama could rob a bank full of witnesses, on video, be caught red handed, and still fifty percent of us would not believe it. I am starting to see why that analogy is being made.

What has made presidents fall? Nixon a cover up of a burglary. Clinton, a cover up of sex. Carter,  a failed economy. Bush the second, a war. Obama has all of these and he still is mathematically intact. I may have to start looking at the supernatural. Any weird birthmarks?

What we don't know/I'm torn

I find Edward Snowden to be a very courageous man. What he has done could put lives at risk around the world including his. I am not sure if I could have made that moral leap from defender of the government to whistleblower leaving everything behind. The life Edward had and knew is over forever and the NSA and secret operations of the United States will be crippled for some time due to his exposing Prism and the phone monitoring by the NSA. I believe in the rule of law, however when laws exist that violate an existing constitutional right only men like Edward Snowden bring balance back to liberty.

Fear caused us to lose our minds after 9/11. Our cry of freedom changed to the whimper of safety. Many of us chose to protect what we have and forgot our way of life. A free society cannot make a compromise with tyranny and come out unscathed. How many times have we heard since the downing of the Twin Towers that we are giving to much power ti the federal government and that they never give it back?

Even the party that I feel has the best interest of our nation at heart (Republican) have helped to forge the way for the current dictatorship. The anointed and elite have made it there mission to save us fron ourselves. The very laws that we allowed them to use to defend us have been turned inward against us.

Every keystroke now that we right. Every number we dial, every text we send, someone somewhere in the government knows or can know about it. I've had friends argue that they don't care they aren't doing anything wrong. My point is that if we don't push back now on this unreasonable search, what happens when what we're not doing wrong becomes wrong? If we do not make a stand now and take a risk and not be perfectly safe and secure we will create and may have already created that "Big Brother" state predicated by Orwell.

Now the real frightening issue is, we know about Prism, we know about the access to our phone data, what else is there. The tip of the iceberg remember,  underneath there is always so much more. The Obama administration has proved the conspiracy theorists were always right. The Alex Jones, the Art Bell's, with these crazy late night ideas about super secrey surveillance and sinister forces watching our every move, correct on both accounts. Only our imagination now limits us to what our government is doing for us and against us in the name protecting us from terrorism.

I'm torn that he had to break the law to help us be free. Didn't the founding fathers break the law to start this nation?

Bread lines

The goverment has taken over many aspects of our lives.  They have taken over our car companies expect for Ford. Obamacare now takes over 1/6 the of our economy and now has control of our healthcare.  A bad experience at Wal-Mart inspired my hetero life mate to compare that company to the bread lines in the old Soviet Union and Eastern Block countries of thirty years ago. Then it hit me. That food is the last part of our general welfare that the government has not officially taken over. Not that efforts are not under way. I was relating a story this morning to some very loyal fans here at Starbucks about how in New York City salt shakers have been removed from restaurant tables. That in NYC you can't buy a Big Gulp anymore or that pizza companies can't deliver drinks larger than 16oz. These anointed leaders would have been laughed at and ridiculed just ten years ago for proposing these infringements, now they boldly take control.

Could the government or would the government make a play to control the nation's food supply? Yes, it could be tied simply into proper management of Obamacare. That caught your attention. Through the department of Health and Human services food is already being rationed through the food stamp or SNAP program. The federal government could make the argument that to reduce the ever skyrocketing cost of healthcare,  it must manage what we eat to keep us healthy. No more foods that have possible heart disease causing ingredients. No more cigars or cigarettes. Coffee is out, salt, fats, sugar. Without choice or freedom to eat whatever we want, why have more than one place to shop for groceries. What chain in America is near everyone? Yes I am going Alex Jones on you all but who ever thought GM or our healthcare would be owned by the government? Wal-Mart could be seen as so large that it could be deemed important to national security or if it has a bad run in a strong economy, too big to fail and in comes comrade Sam to save the day.

Go ahead giggle at the idea. If you are over forty start to think of what the government didn't control when you where a kid to what's in it's death grip now. When I was about 8 or 9 we were very poor. I remember standing in a food line with my grandmother from the USDA for a free bag of groceries for low income persons at the local community center. That was 35 years ago. The systems are already in place to monitor food intake. The EBT cards that are used in place of food stamps keep a detailed account of what recipients eat and drink. All we need now is a food scare or crisis. Oh man did I say that out loud.

Passing of the guard

With this Ricantotheright reaches it's 200th post! Thank you all so much for the encouragement and support over the years. There are now 38 countries that read Ricantotheright and I value all of you. I hope to bring you more liberating articles in the future. Please take a look at my new articles for myvoicetv.net.
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