The Power of the People – Civil Rights to Salvation!
The Power of the People – Civil Rights to Salvation!
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February 2023
Today’s America is far different from that which I grew
up in the 1960’s. Then we were a nation in a Cold War with the Soviet Union, the
evil empire. At that time the United States
of America and our NATO allies, were mostly in lock step in countering the Soviets’
tyranny, despotism, and continual efforts to expand their footprint and domination
world-wide.
Americans practiced nuclear emergency drills, where we
hid under a desk, and took a little iodine pill to impede the potential effects
of a nuclear blast and fallout. Belief
in God, Country, and the kindness of our fellow Americans was the norm.
Our freedoms were exercised fully across America– primarily
free speech. The first amendment empowered
the leaders of the civil rights movement to push back on continued racism of
the Democratic Party. The result of the power of the people exercising their
first amendment rights in support of the Civil Rights movement was Congress
passing The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Many people suffered despite
their freedoms, as many opposed advancement of civil rights and prohibiting discrimination.
People were murdered, abused by the justice system, and subjugated by dystopian
policies that sought to roll back life to the time of slavery. What is lost in
historical revisionism is that the law was pushed through by the Republican
party, over objections of democrats, and was reluctantly signed by a racist President
Johnson.
Concurrently, Americans at that time exercised their first
amendment rights to advance a clarion call for freedom, human rights, liberty,
and democracy to aid those being subjugated by communism. Americans understood the
liberty our country stood for and exemplified given the multiple sacrifices in
two world wars. The greatest generation thrived
– because they understood the power of ideas, the pen, and truth. These
elements were the essence of ensuring the resilience and security of America against
the counter narratives, utopian dreams, dystopian tyrannical ideologies of communism.
And so important at that time as a domestic Cognitive War[1] was being waged domestically,
aided by the Soviet communists, in the guise of an anti-Vietnam War movement
and globally by Soviet expansion.
Americans went to church for healing and to God for
guidance. They regularly reached out to help those less fortunate. Children
were taught respect for their elders. Citizens were held accountable for their
actions. And people didn’t look for government to take care of them, they did
that themselves via hard work, and helping less fortunate neighbors. The family was the center unit in
society.
Our free press, the fourth estate, mostly spoke truth
to power and held our public servants to account. And President Kennedy noted to all Americans to
“not ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” He understood the power of America, the light
of democracy, relied on people exercising their freedoms and voice, and working
in unity, sacrificing, to ensure the security of our republic.
What has changed?
Today, we find God being replaced by government. Respect
for our constitution, country, and freedoms replaced with dystopian propaganda
like critical race theory or the 1619 project. We find our children do not know
how to socialize, are inundated with filth, videos, and virtual reality vice
lessons in real life. We find children no longer respect elders. The youngest
are purposefully abused and sexualized by extremists pushing transgenderism and
drag queen shows as being the norm.
We see respect for country and our laws, replaced and deleted
via historical revisionism by those who despise our constitution and related freedoms. We see the kindness and unity of effort of
our fellow Americans replaced by purposeful intimidation, a cancel culture, and
indoctrination of our citizens and children who drive false narratives to demonize
America, facts, and divide us.
We see civil rights abuses abound – not by citizens
against other citizens, but mostly by our government against its citizens. This
is occurring via the weaponization of our national security apparatus and the abuse
of our justice system. We see police departments defunded while imposing policies
that preclude them from protecting the public, while extremist progressive district
attorney’s forgo the law and use a revolving door to release hundreds of felons,
arsonists, murderers, and other criminals upon their arrest, only to bring them
back in, and send them out that same revolving door hours or days later.
We see political charlatans who call everything racist
– to demean, attack, and drive wedges between Americans. And unfortunately, we
also see our once free press, the once venerable 4th estate, now
become a fifth column that enables the weaponization of national security, progressive
propaganda, and outright lies against “we the people.”
We see our own president demean our country’s history
and purposefully undermine our national security, economic security, prior respect
of world leaders for our nation, and concurrently destroy the social fabric and
compact of our citizens that exemplified the melting pot called America!
It is as if the world has been flipped on its head, as
America and the American dream are being undermined mostly from within. There is an internal insurgency of extremists
who seek nothing more than absolute power and the subjugation of Americans via
complacency, compliance, and ever-increasing dependency on government.
The China Flu (Covid-19) pandemic brought much of
their plans to the fore – as we saw dystopian lock downs and purposeful lies
about vaccines, indoctrination, and censoring first amendment rights, facts, and
the truth via a cancel culture, intimidation, and abuse of authority by our “public
servants.” Their purpose of course, was
and is to divide Americans, to pit us against one another, to remove God from
country, and replace them both with government as savior. All to undermine the resilience
and security of America.
Today, we are seeing blind politicians exemplifying a
level of cognitive dissonance that begs questioning whether they actually have
a brain. The Russian invasion of Ukraine
occurred because of the dystopian policies of this internal insurgency. This is not meant to say we should not support
Ukraine’s fight – but we must do so with open eyes as to the strategic intent
of our adversaries China, Russia, and this internal insurgency.
The war is bleeding our own national security weapons
stockpile dry, and our ability to borrow given a $31 plus Trillion debt. Yet all we hear now are war drums from our
DoD, the White House, and the useful idiots in Congress like Senator Lindsey
Graham who see not the strategy being applied to weaken us across all fronts. The strategy of our adversaries is to bleed
us of our weaponry, of our national treasure, in order to weaken and displace
us as world leader – and snuff out liberty. They are doing to us, what we did to the
former Soviet Union – as they watched, learned, and now replay the film – with
a new script written by tyranny.
We must look to the few levers of power we still have
to fight back. The primary one being the power of the people, as 73% of
Americans believe we are on the wrong track. We must support the new select
committee to review the weaponization of national security[2] which is a replay of
history and the Church Committee[3]. Perhaps this time, we can
finally overhaul and split up and overhaul the CIA and IC into the right pieces?
And we must drive new grassroots efforts such as the Citizens Commission to Restore
America! https://standupamericaus.org/ccra/
We are headed to a tyrannical police state – one in
which there is no longer accountability for the abuse of authority, the abuse
of power, and where those public servants across America who were hired to
protect, to serve, and keep the peace – are being taught it’s ok to abuse power
– as there will be no consequences, or we’ll cover it up. And we are headed from
a melting pot, to a boiling pot![4]
It is time to get involved. Speak up! To act. For all
tyranny needs is for us to do nothing. All freedom needs are for us to exercise
our God given rights, our Constitutional rights. Be forewarned, the thin gray
line between tyranny and freedom is being stretched, it’s time to push back and
ensure the resilience and security of our Republic! God Bless America!
© 2023, All
Rights Reserved, Edward L Haugland
[1] 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, agriculture, social, etc.), but which can include irregular warfare
and kinetics. It is a war that’s 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 change.
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.
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