Posted on 04/26/2014 10:13:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869
Now and always and under all circumstances!!!
This guy wrote it better than I:
http://www.examiner.com/article/cliven-bundy-racist-not
Cliven Bundy is not a wealthy man. He is not an educated man. He has not had decades in the practiced art of prevarication that is the Left's stock in trade - in fact one of the only things the Left does well. He is a simple man who simply expresses his opinion, without careful word crafting, without considering that there is an entire industry out there with nothing better to do than put his words under a microscope so they can misrepresent them for their own unscrupulous purposes.In fact, Bundy was trying to say what many have said for decades, i.e. that the Left has created a nightmare for the black community, and that many blacks are much worse off today than they were before the great liberal welfare experiment of the 1960s. The welfare state is primarily responsible for destroying the nuclear black family, and endemic crime, drug addiction and unemployment are the direct result. Prior to President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" welfare expansion, the unemployment rate for young blacks was lower than that for whites. Out of wedlock pregnancies were a fraction of what they are now, and crime and drug addiction, while problematic in inner cities, were nowhere near today's levels.
Democratic politicians justify the burgeoning welfare state as reflecting compassion for the “poor and oppressed,” but the fact is that the Left created the welfare state deliberately and specifically to capture the minority vote forever. The infamous socialist authors of the "Crisis Strategy," Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, had much to do with this, and they admitted as much, saying, “If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors.” It worked. In 1960, only 58 percent of black voters were Democrats. By 1968, 92 percent were Democrats and only three percent were Republicans.
In 1961, Cloward co-founded an experimental welfare program called "Mobilization for Youth." Presidents Kennedy and Johnson used his model to envision a massive federal infrastructure that would both fund leftwing activism and buy off minorities. What followed was President Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” and the Office of Economic Opportunity created to implement it. OEO financed "10,000 organizations employing several hundred thousand people” to radically transform U.S. policy outside the political process, according to conservative activist Howard Phillips, who ran OEO in 1973. He identified Cloward and Piven as OEO’s “ideological architects.”
If you have not read Cloward and Piven's treatise on the Crisis strategy, you should do so now.
Yes, I think there is a reason for the changing of labels. I have noticed over 4 decades teaching in a large university that every so many years,we change:
“colored”, “black”, “African-American”, “person of color”, “Negro” (not in necessarily the correct order).
My usual experience has been to be called a “racist” because I had used one of the previously accepted terms that had now been defined as “racist” by the PC police.
It’s quite the game.
Frankly, I was concerned he’d backtrack on his statement.
He stood his ground. He doubled-down, as some pundits will assert.
We could do well to have more like Cliven Bundy. IMHO
I don’t write that lightly. While I was dubious of this whole thing and the man’s intentions at the outset, the more I learn/learned about him, the more impressed I am and willing to defend him.
If you have to apologize for who you are, perhaps you should change who you are!
I pity the ignorant fool that knows so little of Man and his history as to think slaves of government are better off than slaves of persons.
And agreed.
Exactly. Perfect summary.
I just have an abundance of concern for the ‘infection’ of the Right. The extent of it, upon my own investigation, shocked me. I really don’t understand it; there’s no rationale. I’d sincerely hoped I was wrong and that they were right, as the consequences of my being right were far more ominous (as I outlined). Conservative media, particularly those in radio, are conservatives’ last MSM bastion. If we lose them and their disciplined journalistic integrity to emotional whims, political correctness and, if it happens, regulatory stifling of opinion, it’s over.
I got punched twice in the gut in 2 days by sources I still have faith in; I sincerely hope that statement isn’t lost on them...
I have tried. I have expended HOURS I don’t have on this, potentially compromising my own timely tasks. But it was a calculated risk.
I hope the effort is not in vain.
The media makes the most money presenting anything, and anyone, in the way that is best for marketers.
It’s only logical that they behave that way. And that politicians go along with them.
This is the most ‘exciting’ way they could present Bundy’s statement. They’d have made less money presenting him honestly.
One day his point will be taken up by an orator, it has before, and the media will have to struggle to twist it for profit.
Appreciaate your post.
Stupid vanity posts like yours are worthless.
Hmmm...Ok.
There’s no appropriate response to that except a bowel movement....
Gotta go.
Hi RR. This afternoon I have watched the History Channel as they have presented the Rise and the Fall of Germany under Hitler. The Rise part was recorded by using home movies made by German people. They laid open how the German people allowed Hitler to take over. The methods used were similar to the way the liberal elite are using on Americans now. Not all Germans wanted to live under the Third Reich. But once it was in control no one dared speak out or criticize it. Everyone just “shut up” because they no longer trusted each other. So the control was sealed.
I find myself along with many other conservatives in somewhat of the same position. We have to watch every word we say. We can’t speak certain words or we are isolated, ridiculed and destroyed. We just saw that happen to an old man who speaks his mind because in his world he had the freedom to use his own words. He sees an injustice and he says so, but He made the mistake of using “forbidden” words. The Reich and it’s propaganda machine has effectively isolated, ridiculed, and eventually he will be destroyed.
The left wants a homogenous population just like Hitler did; not in physical appearance,but in thought. We must all march to the leftist thought control. To speak otherwise is to be an outcast. I see this everywhere. People are afraid to even talk to one another. I have two children who refuse to allow me to talk about my conservative ideas. Well, we saw in Germany how a “unified” country fares. We heard how every German “loved” Hitler. It was not true. A unified/controlled country is a dictatorship.
Mr Bundy may be the nail in the coffin that seals our country’s demise. The “thought police” are in control now. They even have the so-called conservative media. Now, we fight or become slaves in reality.
I guess I’m in rather a bad mood right now.
Hope all is well with you.
God bless
And then some other FReeper told me to pipe down because our site is being "monitored" by liberals. What is wrong with people on our side? (rhetorical, as all real courage and strength comes from Christ)
It is what communists do best.... their history is replete with examples. There is no reason to presume that they would change now when it works so well.
I understood what Mr. Bundy was trying to say. My point has always been that it is best to stay focussed rather than rambling along. It is a guaranteed way to end up in the quick sand (oooops I almost said dancing with a tar baby but that would have really been bad ;} )
As I said, things are going to come to a head. I don’t know how, but we have to hold out as a country until the Boomer generation fades away, and pray that their children will turn on them and they have turned on their parents. It was a forgone conclusion that the young radicals would take control of both government and higher education. They were a disaster when they were tearing down the fabric of our 200 yr old society and now they are finishing the job. I’m too old to fight now. You young patriots will have to hold the fort and fill the gaps. May God lead you.
Come what may, God is still on His throne and we will continue the fight, with His help. Have a blessed weekend!
This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Ping.
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