A Civilzation Ending Event

Posted on February 20, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the suicidally apocalyptic death cult that tyrannizes Iran, getting a functionally deliverable atom bomb, would be a civilization ending event. Those that claim otherwise are either ignorant or too afraid to act. A civilization ending event would necessarily kill billions of people in the short run and another billion or more in the long run. Our societies would collapse along with civilization. But, how could this possibly happen… you ask?

The means would be an Electro Magnetic Pulse weapon (EMP). This weapon kills no one when it goes off. It is detonated far above the target. The people closest would only see a flash most would see and hear nothing. The resulting EMP destroys all electronic equipment within a radius of, potentially, thousands of miles. Everything is destroyed, cars, trucks, the electric grid, refrigerators, televisions, PDAs, Ipods, I-anything, electric motors, and most light bulbs. In one quick flash the people under the EMP zone would be thrust back to the 18th Century.

All the fanatical Iranian Regime needs build are 7 such bombs. Detonate one over… Europe, Russia, between Japan and China, Australia, The West and the East coasts of the US, a conventional nuke on Tel Aviv, and the World would change in an instant. All could be launched from a yacht. People that rely on medicine for their survival would be the first to die. All the machines that make the medicine would be destroyed, around the World, so the supply would be cut off. Transportation would also be destroyed so the remaining quantities would rot in storage while people die who need them. But why would anyone do such a thing?

The despotic fanatically suicidal apocalyptic death cult, that has hegemony over Iran, believe they can hasten the end of time by destroying civilization. It is at the core of their philosophy. Ahmadinejad prays for it every time he speaks to an audience. When the Iranian ballistic missile tests exploded at the apex of their arc, the West claimed it was a failure, but Ahmadinejad laughed and said, it depends on what is success and what is failure. EMPs go off at the apex of the missile’s arc. He and those with him, are of the ilk to strap a bomb on their child’s back, send the child into a crowd, detonate the bomb killing their own child, simply to force their twisted will on others that don’t agree with them. Really, are these the kind of people, that should have atom bombs let alone an EMP weapon?

As World political leaders leer at the bonfire, that is Syria today, they ignore the mortal danger that Iran poses. The centrifuges spin and our Elite dawdle their fingers, as you read this. The Elite would waste no time if you or I posed a threat to their power, but dealing with these people, also poses a threat to their power. Since power is all the Elite seek and worship, power is their motivating and de motivating focus, it sets the boundaries of their actions. But, you might ask, isn’t the threat of World annihilation a larger and more pressing threat to their power?

The Elite are more short sighted than most people. They don’t have to look into the future as you and I do. If they miscalculate they simply raise our taxes, spend more of our money and send our childern to feed the dogs of war. If we miscalculate we go into bankruptsy and indigence. The worse the political Elite perform, however, the more job security they have. There is almost no incentive for the Elite to look ahead, in fact, there is a strong disincentive. Looking into the future and doing something about it is proactive. The relative value of stopping a catastrophe is impossible to quantify. How do you count people that didn’t die? It is counting conjecture and is almost never acceptable. But it is easy to count the 100 million people killed by communism or the 10 million Christians killed by Tamerlane. The immediate cost to the Elite’s power of acting outweighs the distant threat of not acting. Once the World is on fire, due to their dereliction of duty, the Elite have a perfect opportunity to magnify their power.

So the Elite will not act. The tyranny of the insane in Iran, know this, and are counting on it. They have eyes, and saw what happened when North Korea went for and obtained nuclear capabilities… nothing. Our media keeps us in the dark. Those in Russia, China and Europe feel they are safe for now. Iran only poses a threat to the US and Israel. Such stupidity will be rewarded by a civilization ending pop in the sky. Cars will stall and radios will stop. Planes will fall from the sky and people will stand in bewilderment as our civilization crumbles around our ears… Like the Iron and clay it is made from.

But, who knows, maybe the next dark age won’t last a thousand years…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Egyptian Democracy in Action

Posted on February 16, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me Egypt is a time bomb ticking away. The ticks grow louder but the Elite are deaf to them. Even as one of their very own children is held hostage. The son of an administration official is being held on charges of fomenting discord. The Egyptian government is now controlled, by more than 30% Salafi, and over 45% Muslim Brotherhood taqiyya, the remaining 25% will be executed at a later date. The new government has been vocal about their antipathy to the peace treaty with Israel. They have openly and vociferously stated they will dissolve it when they are ready. The newly elected Islamofascist government will invade Israel sooner or later when it suits them. They have said as much. This action will usher in a whole new level of evil into the World. I personally shudder at the thought of the loss of human life, that is coming, unless our Elite start getting their act together!

In an election year you would think this would be big news. Sam LaHood held in an Egyptian jail. In an election year I would think this would be even bigger news, a good way to stand out from the crowd, make a stance, or cave, (depending on where the politician sees the American people). But all I hear are crickets. Even the unbiased media are silent on the issue. Stories are on the internet but I have seen scant coverage over the airwaves. This LaHood kid is in far more danger then the Elite here realize. This has a very real potential of exploding in the faces of the entire Obama administration.

Now, the democratically elected Egyptian Islamic hard line government, is ordering the US to continue paying the Dhimmi tax else they will invade Israel. I say Dhimmi tax because that is how they see it. Not how we see it. Perception is everything in the Middle East. Now that we are paying an Islamofascist government not to invade Israel, it in fact is, a Dhimmi tax. They are allowing us to live in peace as long as we pay them to. Like Don Corleone in the God Father. Basically a protection racket.

Since the democratically elected Hard line Islamic rulers of Egypt intend to go to war with Israel anyway, the money and military aid will be used to build up their army, for that eventuality. Every dollar we send them will be put to this end. It is obvious since their rhetoric is uniform and consistent. Only an ignoramus, fool, blind man or coconspirator could miss it.

The Elite in Washington have missed it and apparently don’t understand who they are dealing with. The people democratically elected with total UN monitoring are the same people who cut off Daniel Pearl’s head, they are the same people who had a celebratory gang raping of Lara Logan in Tahrir square the night Hosni was overthrown, they are the same people who will not stop at Israel, they mean to conquer the World. Listen to one single sermon of that henna haired half witted iron sided bigot who is the “Spiritual leader” of the Muslim brotherhood. I bet not one in ten of my readers can listen to an entire sermon without feeling your stomach turn. Yet he is listened to and adored by millions of people in Egypt.

The duly elected and sworn in Islamo fascist government in Egypt today need to get the NGOs out of the country because the NGOs are the eyes of the World. The, “would be” human rights violators need to close those eyes, so they can start the general slaughter. Remember when Saddam Hussein came to power? The legislators were led, one by one, to the firing squad, and shot, as Saddam cried and cried. Poor Saddam, he felt awful, that he had to do it! Just like John Corzine felt terrible he had to steal 1.2 billion dollars from his customers segregated accounts, and the Salfi and Brother hood will… as they lead others to the firing squad.

That is only one facet of what we can expect. There will be a crackdown on the protesters now that they have overthrown Hosni. Just like the Nazis would let the Baltic states set up elections after the wehrmacht would roll through. Then the Schutzstaffel would roll in, round up the participants as potential rebellious elements, shoot them and bury them in unmarked mass graves. The trademark of tyranny… unmarked mass graves, like were found in Iraq. In Egypt the first occupants will most likely be Coptic Christians followed by others.

Was this so hard to predict? There were voices, including me who warned that this would be coming if Hosni was overthrown. But the Obama administration and the Elite in the unbiased media were universal in cheering this human rights train wreck on. The complete imprudence of the Obama administration as well as the unbiased media, has and will, visit horrors on the people of Egypt, the likes of which will make us all turn away from the spectacle of slaughter.

But, hey, the people of Egypt had a free and fair election. The last they will ever see, but at least Obama gave them, 1.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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If I Were Dictator of Greece..

Posted on February 13, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if I were made dictator of Greece for one year , I would implement a much better plan to fix the economy than anything I have seen yet. The stakes are huge but the Elite are playing the lute while Athens burns. The instrument is socialistic demand side fixes, that have been proven to fail, every time they are tried. Meanwhile… circumstances change for the worse, daily. Greek GDP is falling off the table. The situation requires drastic action to stem the economic blood loss, and to, change the trajectory of the debt to growth ratio. Your 401k and retirement are directly threatened by this state of affairs even if you haven‘t invested in Greek or European debt. When it explodes, the Elite will not take any loss, you will, look at MF Global, the Elite will simply raid our accounts to pay themselves off… Then weep how bad the feel that they had to do it! Like Jon Corzine…

Bankruptcy is coming anyways so get it over with. The next thing I would do is eliminate all taxes… At this point, the societal myth of Greece is such that, the Greek people will not pay taxes. As a result of this pernicious situation, everyone is a criminal, since no one pays all of his or her taxes. This creates a corrosive attitude to government and morality that enables dependency and undermines productivity. Since taxes are not paid anyways, eliminating them would serve as a means, to raise some of the underground economy aboveground and produce economic growth.

Taxes would be replaced with import duties on all goods. An equal duty of ten percent put on all imports would be the maximum I would institute. This would only last until the new Constitution was ready and the reset is complete. Then the import duties would be eliminated and replaced with a consumption tax. Income based taxation would be Constitutionally prohibited. All taxation would be maxed out at ten percent Constitutionally. This would hold the new government to an actuarially predictable limit.

All second pensions and pensions to persons under fifty years of age would be immediately eliminated. The entire dependency ethos would be questioned in a advertising campaign across all media. The contrast between someone working daily, while someone else, the same age, plays bocce ball on the beach collecting their parent pension, would be highlighted. I would use every means to inculcate to the people the necessity of being productive. School children, in Greece especially, should read Plato’s reflections on Socrates. The ethos that Socrates propounded was as productive and morally responsible as any. The fact that Saint Thomas Aquinas, one of the doctors of the Church, included the teachings of Aristotle in the cannon of the Church, shows the moral truth of the philosophy. The uplifting stories of Horatio Alger should be included in every school children’s reading around the World.

The next would be to eliminate all bureaucratic regulation while keeping all legislatively founded laws. Regulation, permitting and licensing would be gone. Historic protections would be the only bureaucratic regulation kept. Bureaucratic regulation creates an atmosphere of molasses for the economy. Regular law would be kept and enforced. Criminal law especially would remain because it would be the acme of insanity to eliminate it.

The elimination of bureaucratic regulation would be a huge supply side stimulus to the Greek economy. This supply side stimulus would necessarily generate jobs and economic growth. As people start businesses they have been thinking about for years, there would be creative destruction, with the resulting economic efficiency and productivity increase that follows. These two things alone, eliminating bureaucratic regulation and all taxes, would create the conditions for GDP growth over seven percent, even staying within the Euro zone.

Next, I would set up a new Constitutional panel of ten people, (none of them communists or socialists), using the US Constitution as a model… I would, of course, add a NUMA or Fourth Branch, to it. This new Greek Constitution would limit the power of the Elite as much as realistically possible. Openly avowing, in writing, it’s antipathy to the welfare state and regulation produced by bureaucracy. The last thing would be to, have elections, reset the government, and step down. Go on a trip around the Mediterranean for a few years. Maybe visit Lydia and Sparta.

The path the Elite in Europe and Greece are taking is not working. Clearly it will not lead to a good outcome for anyone. Moreover it puts the World’s economy at risk. Bankruptcy is coming sooner or later, the only question is, how big will it be? Every tranche of money the IMF piles on makes the eventual fall bigger. The Elite, however, are of the opinion that they should do whatever is the easiest thing to do… Keep bailing Greece out. Like a lemming that runs in the middle of the stampede. It has no concept of another thing to do. It just runs. No way that could ever go wrong… Right?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Elite’s Assault on the Constitution

Posted on February 9, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me the US Constitution is under assault as it never has been before. Woodrow Wilson and FDR came close to destroying it, but fortunately for us, they were stopped by the Constitution‘s innate checks and balances. This assault is becoming more and more open. Those that believe it should be thrown out are coming out of the woodwork and avowing their antipathy to our sacred document. If you want your children to live in liberty you must open your eyes!

How scary is it, when one of our Supreme Court Justices, expresses hatred for the Constitution, while traveling abroad! It is amazing, that someone who has more of a fondness for the old Soviet Constitution, would ever be put in charge of protecting the US Constitution. What insanity! She should be impeached immediately. If there is no proscribed means… then by all means, lets add an amendment to it, so we can! Any Supreme Court Justice that despises the Constitution is not going to protect it. A total fool can clearly see that. But the Elite think us so stupid and blind that we won’t? If Ruth Bader Ginsburg is typical of the caliber person we have, protecting our only safeguard from the Elite, the US Constitution, then we are in DIRE straights my friends!

The Obama administration is openly passing laws prohibiting the free exercise of Roman Catholics, and other religions, who have scriptural doctrine against murder… in any form. Abortion is murder no matter if it is committed with a pill, (poison), or it is done with scissors, (dismemberment). The child is killed, no matter if he or she is, killed with toxins or chopped up feet first, the result is the same, the death of a human being. The Roman Catholic Church, along with many other Protestant churches, abhor abortion in any form. Other religions have scriptural prohibitions against abortion as well.

The Elite want to qualify the definition of a human being. Today they exclude the life stage of “fetus” but tomorrow they are pushing to exclude infant as well. The life stage of elderly will be next. Human life itself has been downgraded, by the National Institute of health, to the same level as a dandelion weed. The NIH came out with a new ethics recommendations that claims, “if it is not immoral to weed a garden then” [it is not immoral to kill a human being.] This lowers all of us, no matter the life stage we are in, to a weed in the eyes of government. (If we are no longer useful to the government). Obama the orator, has set up whole life panels, to decide who should live and who should die. Making Obama care, healthcare, distributed by political favor. Is that a form of, promoting the general welfare, or the Elite’s welfare?

The recent article in the New York Times, that derided the US Constitution as “archaic” and “idiosyncratic,” is another example of the open assault. The writer of the article seems to prefer a Constitution that gives government far more power then the US Constitution. He claims that the US Constitution has lost favor around the World lately. One of the modern Constitutions he refers to, as better, is the South African Constitution. That one is unabashedly Marxist. The South African economy has fallen steadily since it adopted the communist manifesto as their constitution. There will eventually be widespread bloodshed there because of it. To argue, the South African Constitution is better, than one that has lasted longer, and provided more liberty for more people, than any other, bar none, is absurdity in ten foot red neon lights!

Constitutions are the only means ever devised to protect the people from the rapine and wanton power of the Elite. The reason other Constitutions have not lasted is because they empower the Elite. A cycle is started where the empowered Elite soon become tyrants. The tyranny leads inexorably to bloodshed. The government topples. Then, a new Marxist Constitution that empowers faction, is written, to replace the old Marxist Constitution that empowered faction. The cycle passes aphelion and continues on.

What it boils down to is this, We better wake up fast, or we will wake up to a tyranny. Like the song says, “How did I get here?” The US Constitution has, so far, broken the cycle, but is now in mortal danger. Will you muster to it’s defense or participate in it’s destruction by your indolence? You have to choose one or the choice will be made for you. The one made for you, will most assuredly, be the wrong one.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Modern Hedonism

Posted on February 6, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that while Sodom and Gomorrah may have been destroyed by God’s wrath, they could not have lasted long anyways… as a purely hedonistic society cannot long prosper. Hedonism is contrary to wealth creation. It, in fact, destroys wealth and creates public health disasters. Many will immediately criticize this blog as hate speech, because they know, there is no cogent, non spurious logical response to it. Using the hate speech rhetorical diversion is tried and true. No one wants to be called a hater, even when it is the real hater who is spitting at you, to call attention away, from his own inner loathing. If you think a hedonistic society is for you, read on, if you realize it is a quicksand trap, you will be interested in the argument.

Hedonism is primarily a self centered ethos. It places as it’s highest goal personal pleasure. The premise of this type of ethos is self centeredness. Thus it creates a self centered people. This is corrosive to a work ethic. Work is serving another for profit. This is tangentially self centered, and as such, is contrary to a hedonistic ethos. So we can safely say that hedonism slowly degrades the work ethic of people who practice it.

Once a people’s work ethic has been thoroughly undermined, by the hedonistic ethos, economic activity will necessarily decline. People, who live in a society that has a lowering level of macro economic growth, will always try to slice the pie more “evenly.” They will gladly trade personal and political liberty, for a handout, as long as their self centered hedonistic lifestyle is not threatened. A lowered work ethic, coupled with a self centered ethos go hand in hand, to make the people dependent on government handouts. Hedonism makes people helpless dependents.

Hedonist societies quickly fall victim to invaders. Once a society has so degraded, the people become dependent on government, it is like a house that’s roof supports it’s foundation. It creates a fundamentally unstable situation. The government will be spending in deficit and the people will be unwilling to engage in work or war. This all combines to make the hedonistic society ripe for invaders to sweep in. The invaders can take the remaining vestiges of wealth, and the people themselves, as spoils. Which will not fundamentally change their life anyways, they have been slaves to their desires any way… they have simply changed masters.

Hedonism has led to the fall of every great society since Man coalesced into the City State. It naturally undermines the societal myth. The Mongolian empire rose in virtue and fell spectacularly in hedonism. Sparta is another example despite her twisted lifestyle. Rome being the most well known… Livy warned, and Machiavelli continued where Livy left off, Roman hedonism led to her fall. In the end, the Roman people were so dependent and lascivious in their entertainment, they eschewed fighting in their own wars. They commissioned the Huns and other barbarians to fight for them, offering citizenship as a reward. When the Huns turned against them, the Romans were subject to the terror of true slavery… the terror of slaves to their masters, own desires.

Here we are, in the twenty first century, and are much more intelligent than those stupid Romans. We can engage in any hedonistic desire we have, solve it with abortion on demand, and it has no consequences. We are so clever that we can become dependent on the State without worry. The loss of the American work ethic is of no concern to the enlightened among us, because there is an unending stream of illegal immigrants, who can be worked as indentured servants because they have no documentation. They can be “protected” from our laws, but kept as a permanent underclass… like slaves. They do a better job mowing the lawn than free people anyway.

The illegal immigrants and contractors should fight our wars for us because the American people are too queasy about it. This is of course completely safe and wise. We are so much brighter than the ancient Romans. They must have been stupid to let hedonism lead to their downfall. The result was a thousand years dark age. Not a big deal to us, because we cannot possibly fall into another dark age, due to our own stupidity. Because we are so learned!

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Snake in the Garden of Liberty.

Posted on February 2, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the true snake in the garden of liberty, is, when there is good governance, people become complacent and stop bothering to vote, those that do, are more inclined to change, change from good governance, is by definition, bad governance, therefore, good governance sows the seeds of bad governance. If you are fortunate enough to live under good governance, this is the blog for you, but if you live under bad governance, this blog will give you ideas…

When people, (lets call them the first ethos), live in a state of general liberty, we become complacent. It is just the way it is. We all are this way, the better we have it, the more comfortable we become. In our comfort we may understand what is in our best interest but we may not act on it. If things are going fine, why fool with them? It is easy to fall into this form of thinking. Especially when we have to specialize so much in our daily work, that we don’t have time to do the proper research it would take, to make a reasoned decision, so we don’t. Leaving those that want change from liberty to statist governance more voting power..

Other folks,( lets call them the second ethos), who are unsatisfied with general liberty, they see their fellow man as a problem, incompetent, stupid, ignorant or what have you, they see it as their atheistically god given duty, to control us, if only to protect us from ourselves. The only really effective means to this end is total government. They believe themselves above the total state they will impose on society. A person committed to this ideology will often die for their cause. By definition this type of person will never miss an opportunity to vote. They understand, all they need to win is once, where you don‘t.

If you think about it, in this way for a moment, it will come to you that this set of incentives and feedbacks, will lead to some sort of frequency. A swinging from bad to good and back again. Except that, once bad governance is ushered in, people of the second ethos will undermine the democratic process, with voter fraud, vote rigging, ballot stuffing, voter intimidation, in short a Chicago style election. So the swing from good to bad will be quick, but, the swing back will be retarded through undermining the democratic process, by those with the second ethos. We, of the first ethos, by definition, don’t seek to control others and so don‘t vote rig. So, once power swings decisively to the second ethos, the pendulum will stop there for some time.

Sometimes the pendulum slowly swings back, but more often than not, it takes violence to get it back to the side of liberty. Statists, by definition, don’t cede power willingly. One Historical example of this process is, Nazi Germany, Hitler was elected in a generally free election. Once he gained power, he consolidated it, and ended the Republic. It took the Second World War to unseat him. Sixty million people died to restore liberty to Germany and Japan. Because of a bad vote.

The future will fall victim, to this pernicious cycle, as we do today. People are people, and we can expect to see, in the future, what we have seen in the past. That is the nature of humanity. We learn very slowly, even when history books, stand open in front of us, with dire warnings. We become complacent, and cede to radicals, our government. Then we complain our liberty is rapidly disappearing. Even as the statist policies cause us to loose our jobs and we become dependent on them.

According to Tzu Ssu, Confucius said, “All men say ‘I know,‘ but they are driven into nets, caught in traps, fall into pitfalls, and not one knows how to avoid this.” We are the people he talked about. We are the ones caught and driven into nets, because we don’t open our eyes. We follow what people who claim to be unbiased say without a glint of disbelief. We look at the cave wall and are mesmerized by the shadows there. Apparently it is in our nature to be this way. To our children’s grave peril.

But then again, if we are so stupid we allow ourselves to be tricked out of our liberty, did we ever really deserve it in the first place? Which would make the statists right, we are too stupid to do for ourselves, we need Big Brother, to do for incompetent us.

Cradle to grave baby, cradle to grave… never to leave the bassinette.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Obama the Orator and Romney the Sophist.

Posted on January 30, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the difference between Obama the orator and Romney the sophist, is nil. They both follow Bastiat’s law, that politicians seek to protect the wealth of their own faction from plunder, while plundering the wealth of the other faction. They simply represent different factions. Like Marius and Gracchus. Neither have any concept that, service to the whole of society… even the hated other faction, is best served, when all are served. They are both progressives and both Elitists, that is why I say, one is wearing a red jersey and the other a blue jersey. It gives us the appearance of difference but in reality they are on the same team. Our team right or wrong, we have something to root for, our own fall.

In these days, I believe it is very critical, that people read some of the classics. They lived the very political tumult we are going through today. The actors are the same they simply have different names. If more people read the life of Phocion it would enlighten people to what is happening today. Couple this with the life of Cato the younger, and people would have a much better understanding, of what is going to happen to our republic. Despite our technology, we are just as human as they, and just as subject to error.

We still have a choice today, but the Elite are rapidly closing any avenue, other than their selections. Gingrich is the subject of tens of millions of dollars of attack ads. Romney, the sophist, makes no argument why he should be the Republican nominee, except that Gingrich must not be. Why? Because Gingrich is the absolute enemy of the entrenched Elite. They will cross any bridge to destroy Gingrich, personally, then turn around and burn it. They despise him with a passion that can only make me admire the man. The Elite loathe nothing more than a threat to their power and wealth. Obama has greatly enhanced the power and wealth of the Elite to the detriment of the masses. But that is why he was elected… by the Elite. for the Elite so no one can rule… but the Elite.

Ron Paul is another the Elite fear. They have an abhorrence of Ron Paul because he represents an awakening of the people from our slumber. He speaks real truth to power, and power only broaches carefully produced and directed, “truth to power.” The Elite are confident Ron Paul is too fringe to win in the primary, let alone the general election, so they only attack his character daily. Not by the second as they do Gingrich. Ron Paul is a real break from the entrenched Elite. They will stop at nothing to stop him were he to get the nomination. I don’t believe the Elite have any compunction about any action that protects their power.

Rick Perry is hard to read. He isn’t a real threat, electrically, so he has been let alone, not to further enrage the Tea party. The Elite marginalize him, by claiming he is so socially conservative, he is unelectable. Of course, that is only a narrative, not reality. The American people always poll 40% conservative. In most general elections no where near 100% vote. So, if in a general election, 70% voted, (a high turnout), then 40% of 100% would represent 60% of the 70% that voted. Showing clearly, the adage that, it is the moderate middle that elects the government, is a myth. It is a myth designed to suppress the vote of the 40% so that a faction, the Elite, can maintain their hegemony.

If we look at a nearer historical example, than ancient Greece and Rome, we can look at the primary between Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford. Ford was the Elite’s guy. The Elite vilified Reagan. They hated him, with a passion similar to their loathing of Nixon… But with added fear of Reagan’s charisma. The siiting President Ford won the primary, Carter won the election. Had Carter won another term, the USSR would have won the cold war, and the World would today be in abject poverty, war and subjugation… 1984 writ large. Reagan inherited a much deeper and more pernicious economy than did Obama the Orator. Reagan didn’t whine about Carter, once he was in office, Reagan fixed the country. That is the difference between a leader and an orator.

When Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative, it was decried as star wars. Yet it has yielded up not only anti missile systems, that can now actually knock out incoming missiles, if they are deployed, but major advancements in satellite, space hardware and radar tracking technologies. The payoff has been a hundredfold. Yet Reagan was called foolish for his forward thinking at the time. Reagan was also a strong advocate of the US Space program. Initiating the International Space Station.

We, as Americans have a choice, we can follow the Elite, to poverty and learned helplessness, or, we can take another road. The wisdom of the classical geniuses is the most helpful insight we can get into what is happening, and what will happen. Ignorance is unforgivable in this age of ready access to their sage advice. The example of Ronald Reagan, the Teflon president, is the closest historical example of the way out. We can always tell who the Elite despise, by the vigor of the personal attacks, (Reagan was divorced you know), both by the Elite’s favorites and the unbiased media. This is an unerring guide, pointing the way out, of the trap the Elite have set for us.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Learned Helplessness

Posted on January 26, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me the American people are being programmed in learned helplessness. This is an excellent way for the Elite to limit opportunities for the middleclass without repercussions. Leading to a declining middle class, (as we have seen in recent years), so that those who are Elite today, will stay Elite tomorrow. This is the acme of Schumpeter’s warning about the already wealthy, and his warning about the intellectual Elite, is also being carried out in our government. Most of those in the Executive branch today are from academia. This makes my blood run cold and it should yours.

Learned helplessness, is a physiological term denoting an instance, where, an individual has “learned” to be “helpless”. This was discovered accidentally when some lab equipment malfunctioned. There were dogs who were being trained to push a certain button and get a treat else get a shock. The equipment only shocked some dogs. Later, when put in a low pen, one they could easily step over, and given mild shocks they didn’t even get up and step over. They had learned to be helpless in the face of discomfort! It breaks my heart that those dogs were so maltreated, if even accidentally, they lost the ability to make self interested choices.

The loss of the ability to make self interested decisions, because someone believes that it doesn’t help, is tragic. They are feeble. That is the state the Elite would like us to be in. Look at what they are doing. The TSA is a great example of this. They eschew profiling when it would save tens of millions of dollars and make the airways much safer. But politics trump safety and efficiency… or, are they teaching us it is useless to complain, you will only miss your plane. You are being taught. Another is the regulation smothering every aspect of our lives. Do we really need the government to regulate the weight of OUR children? Or are we being taught something? Try suing City Hall for a taste of futility.

Look at the level of depression in our society. Is that not a perfect example of learned helplessness? Isn’t the prevalence of anti depressant drugs a clear sign that there might be a problem? The Elite want to help, they see the real problem and have a real solution, they will give us the antidepressants free of charge… No way numbing the American people could ever lead to South American style government could it? Or has it already?

Obama asked for more power to reorganize the executive branch, powers he “promises” will only be used to make government more responsive to the needs of the people. This very statement is a cattle prod to the eyeball of every Constitution abiding American citizen. Do we really, truly, want to put more power into the hands of the Executive? I will remind you that Bureaucracy writes de facto law in the form of regulation! What about separation of powers? Even European citizens should be outraged! But, on inspection of the unbiased press, no problem, FDR had it, look what a great job he did on the economy and liberty.

Lets see how the Unbiased media react in the next few weeks. Had Bush said it the unbiased media would have freaked out. But, Obama is their baby, they birthed him, they changed his diaper when it got filled, they carry the water for him, they must back him on this… Else they fall victim of cognitive dissonance. So we can’t expect a righteous reaction from the unbiased media. After all, it would be biased, to not be biased. Just as, a State religion, of atheism, must be established, to protect the government from certain established religions.

I consider the reaction of the American people, to be a test, to see how well we have been inculcated in the practice of learned helplessness. If there is no reaction at all… well, all is lost. But if there is some reaction, then we can say that, not everyone has subscribed to the free antidepressants. Maybe there is a chance we can wrest the Elite from their throne and restore Constitutional government to the US. The Elite will say, resistance is futile… but resist we must, else we pass a world of weakness, worry and poverty to our children.

Sincerely

John Pepin

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Class Mobility and Centrist Republicans

Posted on January 23, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that John Boehner’s performance on FOX News Sunday today is exactly why a centrist like Mitt should not be President. They are both upstanding men of high caliber. They are personally good men and they do in their own lives what we all should do. They are members of the Elite and have the goals and aspirations of the Elite as their focus… Not necessarily the good of the Nation.

Lest you believe I am falling into the fundamental attribution error ponder these salient points.

Look at how softly the Speaker spoke about the President. Boehner leaped opportunities to attack Obama on the Keystone Pipeline, Obama care, the Democrat’s total control of government for two years and the American people’s reaction to it, the list goes on and on. Boehner kissed Obama’s derriere more than once in that interview. That makes me think Boehner is onboard with Obama’s destruction of the US Constitution to replace it with words on the wall of a barn. Words that have only the meaning the Elite give them. Subject to change if it suit’s the Elite. Boehner, despite his personal virtue, disappointed me.

The President roundly criticizes Boehner and his caucus. Even as Boehner eschewed criticizing Obama, the President roundly criticizes Boehner and ascribes his caucus with evil intent. The attack is daily and vitriolic. The intensity is ratcheted up with every bill the House passes and the Senate rejects so Obama won’t have to veto it. The unbiased press is doing it’s job to the best of it’s ability, vilifying everyone who is opposed to total government, as evil. Gary Trudeau in Doonesbury, called anyone who is against Obama evil. Categorizing logic this way is what Islamofascists and Inquisitors do.

Obama is merely speeding up the progressive agenda. Lets face the facts Joseph Schumpeter had the Elite nailed. They only liked the market system when it made them rich Elite, but now they are, the door must be closed. Else they will have to compete with more virtuous people on the way up, even as the Elite fall. This is unacceptable so regulations must be put in place to slow and eventually stop class mobility. Because that is what it is all about. The evil of class mobility. Obama has merely accelerated the miring of class mobility through gumming up the markets with regulation.

When Mitt Romeny had political power he forwarded the goals and ends of the progressives. He was firmly for every progressive plank. He firmly believed, and voted for, the State superseding the parents in abortions for minor children. (Against the proscriptions of his religion). But, after all, doesn’t the faceless bureaucrat care far more for that number, than the parent who has committed his and her, entire life, fortune and most importantly, affection for? The faceless bureaucrat is the side Romney voted on when he wielded political power. The most damming thing Romney is responsible for, however, is Romneycare. As the template for Obamacare, class mobility slowing regulation and all, it is telling that the very people Romneycare was foisted on, (the people of Massachusetts), made the decisive vote for Scott Brown, to end the Democrat filibuster proof majority in the Senate, and stop Obama care. No matter, Obama, Pelosi and Reed used an extra constitutional trick, to get the unconstitutionally sweeping law passed.

Obama came in with a veto proof majority in the House and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. The Progressives had absolute power for two years in the American government. The 2010 election was an indictment of Obama’s policies. The Republicans were not voted in to work with Obama in destroying the US Constitution, they were voted in to stop him! Only a fool or a con man would claim different. The fool has hope of waking up but the con man is in on the con…

The assault on the US Constitution must stop. The original intent must be restored. If people really believe, abortion should be enshrined within the US Constitution, there is a means. If people think strongly enough, the Federal government really should regulate every facet of our lives Constitutionally, throw out the perverted definition of the Commerce Clause, and use the proscribed means to change the US Constitution. It is not supposed to be as easy as, getting five people of the same faction on the Supreme Court, to change the Constitution. That we have allowed it to become so bastardized is to our immortal shame and chastisement. It is time to elect someone who will take the slings and arrows to restore our Republic. A middle of the road progressive is not that person!

Gingrich has won the undying enmity of the Elite, for lowering their power, when he wielded political power. Expect them to personally destroy him for it. He has committed the unforgivable… even worse than Nixon in the Alger Hiss affair. Now he has won South Carolina the vomit will pour forth on him like a waterfall. Lets see how he stands up. Or he dissolves away.

 

Sincerely,

 

John Pepin

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Who Really Needs to be Policed?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, that if any segment of the population of any country, need surveillance, it is the Elite. No other group has a greater ability to lower the standard of living of a people, than the Elite. No other group of people, have proven themselves more unfit to police themselves, than the Elite. History shows, over and over, that the Elite abuse their power for personal gain. There is no nation, city state, country or principality that is immune. But at this place and time, the Elite are instituting more and more intrusive monitoring of us? While the Elite’s scandals grow daily, in severity, and blatancy, yet go unpunished.

The Elite are the ten or so percent that rise to the top of any group of people. Take any random group of people and ten or so percent will lead the group. The ninety percent are happy to follow. That is fortunate because there would be pandemonium if everyone tried to lead. So, Elitist theory states that in any random group of people, ten percent will lead. Moreover, If a member of the standing Elite, proves to be detrimental to the Elite’s interests, that individual will be replaced by another, more suited to protect and enhance the power and prestige of the Elite.

The leaders of any group have the most impact on that group’s success. If the decision makers make good decisions, the group advances. When the decision makers make bad decisions the group falters. The Elite never accept blame when their decisions cause an economic slowdown. The Elite call that “headwinds.” They do, however, take credit whenever there is any advance in society, even if that advance is in direct contravention to the Elite’s past rhetoric.

Logically… who seeks power? Those that seek to wield it. Those that have no interest in wielding power over others don’t seek power. If you don’t like fishing you don’t fish… Unless you are hungry. Some people seek power, to lower the power of the Elite, over them and us. The Elite immediately destroy that person without mercy. The attacks are personal and the intent is personal. In this one thing all the Elite are in lockstep. Any threat to the Elite must be destroyed.

Of course, no one claims, they want to control your life to the nth degree. They claim to be the protectors of society. All they need to really improve society is a little bit more power over us. They promise they will use it for goodness and not evilness. The Elite look into the camera, with puppy dog eyes, even as they tell tales and perjure themselves before it. You have to ask yourself, am I going to believe my lying eyes or honest Bob the used car salesman/lawyer turned politician? Because one of them is lying… And we are still believing the politician, not our eyes.

The Elite are prosecuting people for insider trading today. The inside traders are going to be made examples of. While the Elite have carved out a loophole for themselves, so it is perfectly legal for a Congressman to do the exact same thing, out in the open! Confucius said, that people follow their leaders, if the leaders are corrupt, the people will be corrupt, and if the leaders are virtuous, the people will be virtuous. Give our leaders a good long hard look, are they virtuous or are they corrupt? Have you wondered why there has been a rash of white collar crime in America lately? If the Elite can do it… why not me?

At the founding of the US both the people and their congressmen could post mail free of charge. But, the liberty was so abused by the Elite, in one case a horse was sent, farm to farm, through the US mail, the right was taken away from everybody. A few years later, the Elite gave it back to themselves… not to the people who hadn’t abused the privilege. Of course that pales in comparison to beheadings of undesirables and coerced starvation of millions. Those Elite will have to answer to God himself. I shudder at the thought…

Here on the temporal plane, there is only one conclusion that can be made, the Elite must be policed. They must be policed by the most draconian police force we can institute and force down their throats. No halo shines more brightly, no teeth more white, than that of a politician, when he or she is convincing you that up is down and down is up. Isn’t it time for us, to start believing our lying eyes, for a change? Unless all we want in our pockets… is a little change.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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