Did We Just Celebrate Our Last Christmas in America? -- A Republic if You Can Keep It!
Did We Just Celebrate Our Last
Christmas in America?
A Republic if You Can Keep It!
12-31-2022
Tis
the season to be jolly, thankful, and giving.
And it seems many of our public servants appear to think so by
going all out in a passing multi-trillion-dollar omnibus budget. The bill forgoes
the key reason for our government, as noted in the preamble to our Constitution
– “to provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Yet
many of those who passed this monstrosity are also on their way out of office. Instead of jolly, thankful and giving –
they’ve left us another big lump of coal by adding close to another $2 trillion
debt on top of the $31 trillion they’ve racked up mostly in the last 14 years.
The security, education, economic, and justice systems in our country are declining
rapidly. It’s like being in a traffic accident in slow motio, knowing the crash
is coming, and feeling helpless to change the outcome. So, is there anything we can do? And who in
fact do we blame?
Let
me begin with the blame. We can only
blame “we the people,” us, we – for allowing this unbridled abuse and misuse of
constitutional authority. Harsh at that
is, it’s reality. As “we the people”
continue to fail to hold our public servants, and ourselves accountable. Sure, it’s easy to blame the politicians, and
I’m game. But who voted for these
miscreants from the island of misfit toys?
Ah yes, that would be us. Sorry to add another lump of coal to your
stockings, but it’s time we got real. No
better time than the start of a new year – with a new set of resolutions.
As
for answering the question – is there anything we can do? The answer is yes! We
must begin immediately, ensure our efforts are sustained, coordinated, and
expanded.
We must
resolve to do the following:
·
Lead
our republic to the future we desire by “Ensuring the resilience of our
Republic, Constitution, and Freedoms.
o We can no longer allow our
adversaries to define our future and just react to their efforts. We must be
proactive, engage, and drive them to react to us, our agenda, our wishes.
·
Lead
efforts to ensure the resilience and security of our republic by “Driving a proactive and positive
legislative agenda”
o Albeit we will see numerous congressional
investigations started, like in the past, most are totally useless. We must
drive specific legislative policy solutions to ensure the resilience and
security of our republic and hold our public servants accountable to pass them.
·
Lead
efforts to direct and hold our public servants accountable by drastically cutting
and restructuring our bureaucracies for true limited government. We can start
by “Overhauling our national security
apparatus.”
o Our national security elements are now weaponized,
by a few miscreant leaders, against we the people. These charlatans have
destroyed the credibility of once venerable institutions like the CIA, ODNI,
DOJ, FBI along with other executive branch elements. They have sullied the
reputation of these institutions by turning them into political weapons.
Nothing less than a complete overhaul and restructuring of these institutions is
required to make them effective and apolitical.
The
Power of the People:
How will we lead? We will do so by exercising
the power of the people. We will do so by providing you with awareness of the
issues, informing you how to support or engage, and enabling you to act! The
power we hold as citizens, of this great nation, is bestowed on us by God, and enshrined
in our Constitution. It is “we the
people” – not our public servants – who hold and dispense power. If we fail to use the power of the people, we
cede victory to our adversaries who abuse those powers. This minority set of extremists seek to
subjugate and transform America from freedom into a dystopian tyrannical
society.
Public
Servants – not kings and queens: We
can no longer allow our public servants to view us – the people – as their
servants. They are given their power and authority via the people. They are not kings or queens, they are
“servants” of the people. And we need to
remind them of this.
This
article speaks to the current reality and lays the groundwork for a broader
plan to Restore America! The plan has
three major objectives as noted in bold letters above. The Citizens Commission to Restore
America[1]
will release the plan in the next few weeks. It is a plan to proactively rectify the ills
we see by providing awareness, specific actions, and directives for you – the
people – to exercise your mind, body, and power, to restore America. To set
the stage for the plan – we must Stop Reacting and Lead; Stop the Indoctrination
and the Grooming of Sheep; and Exercise the Power of the People.
Stop
Reacting and Lead:
You are Collateral
Damage – For the last six decades we’ve watched the slow destruction of America
from within by a small minority of dystopian individuals. And over the last six
years their efforts have accelerated. We
see their work in the decline of religion, family, inclusion, truth, individual
accountability, and respect for others, respect and understanding of history,
and major decline in recruitment numbers in our military. This includes a
decline of those willing to serve in elected office. We’ve seen their work
result in the decline of trust for America as world leader, our congress, a once
free press, our national security elements, and in our military. These are the
results of the ongoing cognitive war occurring both domestically and globally.
What is
the goal of this minority set of dystopian people? Power? Yes, absolute power. And less you
forget to realize it – their misuse and abuses of authority only serve to
highlight this fact. This small minority of extremists view you, your family, and
the survival of our Republic as necessary collateral damage in their quest for
absolute power. Let me highlight a few examples.
The
Undeniable Slaughter
- Over 1 million dead! Let’s not be politically correct here, and call it as it
is, over 1 million plus murdered – from a deadly China Flu virus, let loose by
a global adversary China. Over 107,000 murdered
from fentanyl and other drugs coming across open borders, let loose by a
fraudulent president without care or mention of either issue impacts on
America. To put that in perspective, 107,000
is more than the number of US military who were killed in WWII. And to ensure
the ”equity” of inclusion – despite these extremists acting like they care
about black lives - let’s not forget to mention the number killed each year,
mostly in progressive run inner cities, have reached their highest numbers in
25 years[2] as we see nearly 23,000 (6.9
murders per 100,00, 333 million population) murdered.
This minority set of dystopian extremists also seek to defund and attack
our peace officers.
Accelerating
Public Poverty & Dependency
– We are a debtor nation! A big debt.
And the small minority of extremists seek – through spending, taxes, and
inflation – to further erode our national security, economic prosperity, and
independence. They seek a nation of dependents, not capitalists or
entrepreneurs.
National Debt - We’ve seen our national debt
sore to over $31 trillion, but upon close examination the real sprint in debt
began in 2009 as we moved from prior high of 64% quickly to 68% and today 123%
of debt to GDP ratio.[3]
·
The
current deal, said Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, was as good as it’s going to get.” I’m
pretty proud of the fact that with a Democratic president, Democratic House,
and Democratic Senate, we were able to achieve through this …
spending bill essentially all of our priorities,” the Kentucky Republican said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/22/conservatives-balk-senate-passes-17-trillion-spend/.
US
citizens in poverty
– To the above, we must ask, given all that spending, why do we still have over
42 plus million Americans living in poverty?[4] This includes a high of
16.9% of our children living in poverty. https://www.theepochtimes.com/orange-countys-500-homeless-deaths-honored-by-interfaith-service_4944585.html
The
Unspoken Debt of Illegals -
On top of these issues, we have over 5 million illegals entering the country in
the last two years, on top of the 30 million over the last 4 decades. Tens of
millions more will be coming soon. If we
built 5 new cities, in every one of our fifty state, and stocked them with 20,000
people each – that’s 5 million! Perspective is key. The total of 35 million over
the last six decades – is the equivalent of adding 35 such cities to each
state. Who the hell is paying for them? Sadly, you are! All of them will get healthcare, education,
social services, food, etc. from an already over-stressed economy, schools, and
welfare system. The minority set of
extremists promised them in the last presidential campaigns all this “free”
stuff – disregarding the fact you, the legal citizen and voter, will be given
the bill. I’ve written about this prior
– and the costs run into the trillions of dollars. And now, our fraudulent
president seeks to add to our debt further by opening up our already
overstressed welfare system[5].
Abridging
our vote – they do
this by allowing unfettered entry by illegals is unconstitutional and an
affront to all our rights. This article on replacement theory speaks to this
effort. But the extremists aren’t only replacing conservative votes, they’re
replacing American votes. https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/12/22/the-data-is-in-democrats-embrace-replacement-theory-in-plot-to-displace-republican-votes-n677184
Reparations – it’s amazing to me that these
divisive extremists are demanding reparations for Americans who’ve been free for
more than a century. But free why? We hear of no reparations for the families
of Revolutionary soldiers who freed our country, the Union soldiers who fought no
died to secure freedom of blacks, or those from WWI and WWII and every conflict
we’ve had to ensure the freedoms of all Americans. So many have sacrificed, yet
what have those seeking reparations or promoting such done to secure our
freedom? What price or sacrifice have they made. Why haven’t they taken
advantage of the fact – they by virtue of being a US citizen are the most
privileged people on earth?
These
examples are but a few – all driven by a small, minority, radical group of
extremists who are abusing and using our system and freedoms to drive their
agenda. They concurrently drive false narratives intended to make us feel
helpless. It is time we take the lead
and drive our offense. We do this by being proactive in our efforts and driving
our vision via strategic messaging and actions. We will ensure the resilience
of our Republic, Constitution, and Freedoms and do so by driving a proactive
legislative agenda along with other actions.
Stop
the Indoctrination & Grooming of Sheep
We’re now all
aware of the multiple efforts to indoctrinate and groom, not only our children
but us. The efforts are persistent and
widespread. Let’s review just a few
examples, of many, that appear every day in the news.
This
article speaks to intimidation to abuse students, it’s time to call out such
actions and report such extremists. In this case, it shows the concern and
fright of students wondering how they can combat the extremists in our
education system to be treated fairly. https://www.theepochtimes.com/students-speak-out-on-anti-white-anti-christian-anti-american-culture-at-florida-university_4937887.html
In this
article, we find indoctrination in our schools and other forums using once
sacred or cherished icons. The point is
the extremists have no boundaries in what they will desecrate, destroy, or
abuse to push their indoctrination and false narratives. https://www.theepochtimes.com/teaching-transgenderism-and-gay-love-through-christmas-icons_4942006.html
And then
there are other purposeful levels of indoctrination by emission – like this
example of denying success and creating a weak generation used to participation
awards and safe rooms. These actions are done purposefully to better control,
indoctrinate, and groom our children. Despite the blatant racism against
Asians, whites, and others. The story
was quickly buried or dismissed in the 5th column we call the press
– because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the extremists. https://www.city-journal.org/war-on-merit-takes-bizarre-turn
We see the
FBI’s outright dismissal of concerns over its direct role in censoring and
manipulating US information related to the election. They are accusing anyone who accuses them of
“bias.” Isn’t that ripe? It is an effort
to indoctrinate the people so to not question authority. Wonder if the FBI will
start calling us “racists” or “white extremists?” Oops, sorry forgot, they’ve
already done that. Jonathan Turley, in the article, captures this well when he
stated “…it is not clear what is more chilling—the menacing role played by
the FBI in Twitter’s censorship program, or its mendacious response to the
disclosure of that role” before he called for reforms at the bureau.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/constitutional-law-professor-issues-warning-after-fbi-criticizes-conspiracy-theorists_4949333.html
We must
actively engage in reasserting our values, our history, and our treasured
culture of independence, freedom, and opportunity – less we allow these miscreants
to indoctrinate and groom our children and us as their sheep. We must be the
shepherds that lead the flocks, not the sheep to be sheared or slaughtered. We
must exercise the power of the people.
Exercise the Power of the
People
America has
become obese in debt and size. Just look at the people. Our citizens have
forgotten that discipline is not something that just happens. Many have
forgotten that personal accountability is required. The reason for the demise
of our republic is exemplified not only by the size of our government, but by the
size of our people. We’ve seen our
national debt and citizenry move from the slimmer sizes of the 1700’s through
1980’s to the plus and obese sizes of today in both size of debt and self. This just doesn’t happen. It’s not an
accident. One must be fully and actively
participating!
The
extremists tell us to believe all that ails us is someone else’s fault or the
fault of something – but not our own fault. Like this article, which highlights
how some are now calling exercise “racist.” One can’t make this stuff up. But less
you think this is absurd, you only need to remember how the same extremist have
gotten a large segment of Americans to believe that men can be women, and women
can be men, that you must use certain pronouns, or you’re condemned, censored,
or hounded to comply. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/12/29/now-exercising-and-physical-fitness-are-racist-n1657117
How did we
get here? I contend it’s because we’ve
grown weak and accustomed to finding excuses by blaming something or someone
for our situation. The answer is before
us, if only we look in the mirror, no matter how unpleasant that may be. This includes allowing a minority set of
dystopian people to threaten our education, fiscal, national, and personal security,
and freedoms. We’ve allowed ourselves to
become “victims” as we’ve become the compliant, the complacent sheep being led
to our own slaughter by the complicit and corrupt few.[6]
It's time
to stop playing victim. To assess ourselves frankly, and realize we’ve let the
control of our republic slowly be overtaken by those who wish to destroy or
substantially change it – for their purposes of power and control. We must
first realize that we are in an actual war – it is a domestic cognitive war[7], occurring in the most
critical of all domains – the cognitive domain.[8]
It’s time
to lead by exercising the power of the people – your power as individuals. To
exercise the power of ideas, the mind, the power of the pen – and engage our
public servants to serve us! It occurs
via cutting budget and implementing the right policies to reduce the bureaucracy.
It occurs by engaging our governors and elected leaders to act for limited
government, telling congress to get back to regular order and pass appropriations. It’s time for us to stop reacting to the
extremists – and not just call them out but hold them accountable based on the
law and abrogation of our civil liberties and constitutional rights.
Some are
pushing back, like this article regarding a drag queen show that took place in
Tennessee. But we must ask, why are
people “considering” setting limits? The laws already exist. If these groomer
pedophiles bring or allow one child into their drag queen show arrest the owner
of the facility, the producers, the queens, and the parents who brought their
kids - it’s time to stop coddling perverts and just arrest them. Child
endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, etc. It is time to
start arresting them and removing children from parents who expose them to such
disgust. https://www.theepochtimes.com/drag-queen-christmas-in-tennessee-concerns-parents-as-lawmakers-consider-enacting-age-restrictions_4940075.html
We can
look at our DOD, which denied religious rights and abused the civil liberties
of our military members without consequence.
Those in leadership positions abrogated their oath to uphold the
Constitution and actively impeded or denied the civil liberty and religious rights
of troops – many who were expelled for not taking a China Flu shot. Real
science that showed no benefit and actual harm - accountability is demanded. Where
are the conservative or civil rights lawyers. There should be multiple lawsuits
against individuals for abusing the military service men and women’s rights. There are thousands of such cases and the
military can’t hide behind their service duty as their actions are
unconstitutional. Accountability is required. https://www.theepochtimes.com/pentagon-pauses-all-actions-related-to-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-after-biden-signs-bill_4943146.html
There are
numerous such examples of abuse of our rights and freedoms. But there are ever increasing examples of
people, like you and me, fighting back. Here’s
an example of how people are fighting back on the impact of woke destructive
policies. In this case, the business
owners are demanding tax refunds for the failure of the system to protect their
businesses. https://www.theepochtimes.com/san-francisco-businesses-demand-tax-refund-over-drugs-crime-and-homelessness-crisis_4943724.html. It is a start, and an example of speaking up, acting,
and not lying down or allowing to be subjugated by the minority extremists. But that’s not enough, lawsuits
need to be filed against individual public servants for abrogating your civil
and constitutional rights.
We must
exercise the power of the people. We must identify and advance the right local
community leaders who put the interests of America and our people first. Others
have begun to realize this; we must now begin to act in unison. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/cultivating-a-local-elite/\
Each example
speaks to the power of the people but highlights a critical component to
success – you must participate, act, speak up! In this case, individuals are
forming their own groups to ensure free speech.
The point is - get involved! Shut down this minority set of progressive
dystopian extremists – by getting in their face peacefully and start pushing
back vocally, legally, etc. https://www.theepochtimes.com/can-i-speak-freely-no-you-cant_4942947.html
What
Next – The Plan!
We have
more Christmas’s to celebrate in America. But to do so, and keep our republic,
we must act together. So, in a short
time the Citizens Commission to Restore America[9]
will release a plan. The mission of Citizens Commission to Restore America is:
To safeguard the American Dream, Constitution, and Freedoms for future generations
of Americans by ensuring the resilience and security of our Republic.
Following
this release, you’ll see several directives that contain specific actions for
our public servants, governors, community leaders, and you – the people – to reinforce,
support, share with your community and elected leaders that can enable us to
achieve the objectives outlined in the plan.
Concurrently, you will see the efforts of the Citizens Commission to
Restore American amplified across various media outlets, forums, and
formats. We will look to you – the
people - to further amplify the messages, actions, and intent of the plan. By doing so “we the people” will move from a
silent majority to a roaring giant. We will restore America and ensure it
remains resilient and secure!
© Edward
L. Haugland, All Rights Reserved 2022.
[1]
The Citizen’s Commission for
Restoring America Founding Members - LTG Thomas McInerney USAF (Ret), MG Paul
E. Vallely US Army (ret), and Mr. Edward L. Haugland, US Govt Senior Executive
(ret).
[5] https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/29/joe-biden-reopens-welfare-dependent-legal-immigration-united-states/
[6] The
Corrupt, Complicit, Compliant and Complacent - The Left's #Domestic
#CognitiveWar on America (theinformationequilibrium.blogspot.com)
[7] I define the Cognitive War as: A primarily an ideological war, between
tyranny and freedom, control and independence, subjugation, and democracy. It
is a war fought primarily in the cognitive domain, using various means to
influence (e.g., academic, economic, to agriculture, social, etc.), but which
can include irregular warfare and kinetics. It is a war that has been ongoing
for more than a millennium. It is timeless as mankind exists. The cognitive war
is truly an existential threat that is global and domestic. In today’s U.S.A,
few understand it, can defend against it, can compete in it, or win it. It can
be won, but not if we are unwilling to learn and change.
[8] I define the Cognitive Domain as: The domain of the human mind, ideas,
ideology, function, reason, etc. The Cognitive Domain encompasses all other
domains - the umbrella under which mankind operates, functions, learns,
advances or regresses. All other domains - Cyber, Air, Land, Sea, Subterranean,
Space, Sub-surface -are all one operating domain, not separate. We, as humans,
have mentally segmented these domains to operate and function in them. And as
we learn, we add new operational and/or functional domains. Yet, the most
important domain, the Cognitive Domain, remains an afterthought.
[9]
The Citizen’s
Commission for Restoring America Founding Members - LTG Thomas McInerney USAF
(Ret), MG Paul E. Vallely US Army (ret), and Mr. Edward L. Haugland, US Govt
Senior Executive (ret).
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