Can You Handle the Truth?

Remember those dark days of the Cold War? That struggle between the forces of freedom and tyranny?

For several decades, from behind an iron curtain, the forces of communism threatened the free world. They did so dedicated to the concept of shared responsibility.

The Soviets adopted a "country first" philosophy. They believed that, "in the spirit of unity and shared responsibility," individual human rights were secondary to the state. They believed that wealth and morality were best handled by the hands of their mother country. They believed that the government was best suited to distribute prosperity. They believed that the public good was of primary importance, and the violation of human rights over a proportion of its citizenry was an acceptable consequence.

Sound familiar?

Do you agree with John McCain or Barrack Obama? If so, you agree that the size and scope of government must be expanded and responsibility for individual failure should be absorbed by others who had not taken the risk.

• You can blame the well-intentioned Republicans for deregulating the mortgage and banking industries.
  
• You can blame the well-intentioned Democrats and Republicans for starting the problem by permitting the international banking cartel to take possession of our monetary system through the Federal Reserve System and introducing fiat currency.
  
• But, in a just and free society blame is always rightfully delegated to the individuals who broke the law and their cohorts.
  

The requirement to burden all of us for their crimes is evidence of the distance we have come from moral justice and capitalism. By holding criminals accountable we achieve freedom. By asking government to prevent crime on our behalf, we open the door for more of it. Now we have awoken to discover the criminals have hijacked government to plunder the population... The same population of which the government's power once derived.

Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats promote a limitation of collectivist philosophy. Neither wants to restore individual liberty and accountability. The losers will be the law-abiding tax payers under either party.

I think it is fair to ask: Just what does McCain suggest we place country in front of? Our jobs, our family, our city, our state? This is an outrageous appeal to revert to the very things our country was founded to prevent.

And McCain is the conservative's choice for president of the United States.

And no one seems to notice the contradiction.

The Soviets were only one example of this collectivist ideology. There have been many others...

Here are some quotes from the past that represent the direction we are heading.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. -Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. -Benito Mussolini

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. -Benito Mussolini

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. -Adolf Hitler

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. -Adolf Hitler

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. -Adolf Hitler

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. -Mao Tse-Tung

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell