[ April 18, 2024 ]
I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
Philosophy: Who Needs It, Pg 10
I have always loved this day. It always seemed to me the birthday of humanity, the triumph of centuries of intellectual wresting towards this great moment of individual rights.
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On this day we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which political philosopher Ayn Rand called the “greatest document in human history.”
It was the first time in human history the government was subordinated to moral law. In her seminal essay, “Man’s Rights,” Rand wrote:
“The principle of man’s individual rights represented an extension of morality into the social system — as a limitation on the power of the state, as man’s protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history.”
Which brings us to today. Traditionally a happy day, it’s a non-religious holiday, but it has all the glow and reverence of a religious holiday. But this year, this year feels different. The ground under our feet is giving way. The absolutes that centered us, grounded us, are no longer. Self-determination and individual rights have been extinguished — quickly, decidedly. COVID panic-mongering has become a weapon of mass destruction. You can’t work, you can’t go to church, you can barely leave the house (in some states) — but you can riot, pillage, loot and tear down American iconography if you are a member of the party of destruction.
There is a war waging — a very real war. One that we have warned you of for years. It waged in the information battle-space, but like all wars, spilled over into reality.
Everything we hold dear is in the line of fire — our lives, our livelihood, our traditions, history, our very way of life — our freedom. And yet cowardice, moral cowardice — a fear of upholding the good because it is good, and fear of opposing the evil because it is evil — abounds.
The Democrat Party Is Destroying America
A Stunningly Rapid Breakdown of Law & Order in U.S. Cities
The rising carnage in the inner city is the consequence of this official repudiation of the criminal-justice system. The current tolerance and justification for vandalism and violence; the silencing of police supporters; and police unwillingness to intervene, even when their own precincts are assaulted—all send a clear message to criminals that society has lost the will to prevent lawlessness
I’m not sure what the Right is thinking. That’s this is all a bad dream and it will pass? It’s not and it won’t.
We must fight.
What must we fight for? Those who express it best are survivors of tyranny, oppression, subjugation who come to America to be free. Live free.
Ayn Rand, one of the greatest philosophers in human history, lived under the boot of communist Russia and (just barely) made it out alive. She wrote:
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more—and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e., an individual’s freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by the government. The next was the economic implementation of political freedom: the system of capitalism.
“Man’s Rights,”
The Virtue of Selfishness, 93[..]
It took centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding Fathers. The system they established was not based on unlimited majority rule, but on its opposite: on individual rights, which were not to be alienated by majority vote or minority plotting. The individual was not left at the mercy of his neighbors or his leaders: the Constitutional system of checks and balances was scientifically devised to protect him from both. This was the great American achievement—and if concern for the actual welfare of other nations were our present leaders’ motive, this is what we should have been teaching the world.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 138
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3 years ago
First report: Explosion in Iran at Ahwaz power station
Jul 4, 2020 @ 16:25
https://www.debka.com/mivzak/first-report-explosion-in-iran-at-ahwaz-power-station/
The official IRNA news agency has just reported that a power plant in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahwaz is on fire due to a “transformer explosion” in the city’s Zirqan district. The extent of the fire and cause are still unknown, IRNA reports. This is the fourth mysterious explosion in Iran in in recent weeks. Photos claiming to represent the disaster are circulating on the net.
– This could be more of Israel’s “Independence movement” away from a nuclear Iran
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Recent Iran Explosions And Fires Timeline
June 25, Explosion and fire at Shiraz power station
June 25, Fire and massive secondary explosions at Khojir-Parchin missile factory east of Tehran
June 30, Fire and massive secondary explosions at Sina At’har ‘Medical Clinic’ in Tehran
July 2, Explosion and fire at Natanz nuclear centrifuge factory
July 3, Huge unexplained fire at Shiraz
July 4, Explosion and fire at Ahwaz power station
July 4, Chlorine gas leak at petrochemical plant south of Ahwaz
July 4, More fires near Shiraz
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Every one of those sites uses controllers made by Siemens. There are malware programs that cause Siemens controllers to go into the “Black and Decker Pecker Wrecker” mode, and destroy whatever equipment they are connected to.
3 years ago
I have rights under the highest law imaginable. I am equal to everyone else under the law.
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
US Budget Office Predicts Robust Economic Growth Through Year End
Real GDP set to grow 6.2 percent from July to December
https://www.theepochtimes.com/budget-office-predicts-robust-economic-growth-through-year-end_3411326.html
“The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said this week that the U.S. economy is poised for real GDP growth at an annualized rate of 12.4 percent in the second half of 2020, with unemployment to peak in the third quarter before falling rapidly through this year and next.”
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
“It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding Fathers.” – Ann RandOh boy! It’s nice to see those two guys featured. The Founders were strongly influenced by both.
Aristotle described an ideal state, a ‘Polity’ that was a democratic constitutional republic, and it was run by leaders who worked to make citizen lives better. It was the opposite of a tyrant government, that was not democratic, had no real constitution, and was not a republic. Just a strong man, working constantly for his own benefit, and subjugating the citizenry.
This dichotomy still rules our thinking, where the people who think Trump is making our lives better, support him, while those who think he is making our lives worse, oppose him.
John Locke helped with the rights of those who had no political power. He said political tolerance was vital, because discussion and structured argument are what advance our understanding, and wrong ideas, or politically incorrect ideas, sometimes turn out to be valuable. Without tolerance and civil discourse, we would waste vast energy in useless hate.
3 years ago
Reply to
Philip
“It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding Fathers.” – Ann Rand
Oh boy! It’s nice to see those two guys featured. The Founders were strongly influenced by both.
Aristotle described an ideal state, a ‘Polity’ that was a democratic constitutional republic, and it was run by leaders who worked to make citizen lives better. It was the opposite of a tyrant government, that was not democratic, had no real constitution, and was not a republic. Just a strong man, working constantly for his own benefit, and subjugating the citizenry.
This dichotomy still rules our thinking, where people who think Trump is making our lives better, support him, while those who think he is making our lives worse, oppose him.
John Locke helped with the rights of those who had no political power. He said political tolerance was vital, because discussion and structured argument are what advance our understanding, and wrong ideas, or politically incorrect ideas, sometimes turn out to be valuable. Without tolerance and civil discourse, we would waste vast energy in useless hate.
3 years ago
Doesn’t get much clearer than what Pam has written above…or these memes!
3 years ago
Pamela, if Trump doesn’t stop the psychotic big tech giants from shutting down truth tellers we are all screwed. That is the most important thing.
3 years ago
Reply to
Sewer Maintenance
And time is running out, because if the Deep State and Red China rig the election to benefit Biden, that window to stop such big tech Commies will have shut forever.
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
I think Biden will fail…. the only way he can “win” is in a totally rigged election with no in-person voting at all.
I’m not sure that Democrats can actually bring themselves to go to that effort just to elect a senile man who hides from the world. In their own hearts they know they have no moral ground to stand on and Trump is the only legitimate leader.
3 years ago
Big Tech giants falsely shut us down by calling us “hateful” etc.
Islam is the most hateful way of life on earth. All we are doing is pointing that out. What’s wrong with hating something as awful as Islam? Nothing at all. If you don’t hate and despise Islam you aren’t human.
3 years ago
A people raised on the Scriptures, were the inspiration of the great Founding Fathers. It was in their houses of worship, that timeless and eternal principles burned bright in their minds. Sublimely expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and upon the Judaeo-Christian groundwork of the Constitution, unrolled a beacon to men.
A great self-governing Nation, intended to be a light on a hill, born from a moral religious people of Manifest Destiny.
What Calvin Coolidge Said On The Declaration of Independence’s 150th Anniversary on July 5, 1926. Illuminating and damning to the current troubled time. See The Federalist
Excerpt: “… the Declaration of Independence was the result of the seasoned and deliberate thought of the dominant portion of the people of the Colonies. Adopted after long discussion and as the result of the duly authorized expression of the preponderance of public opinion, it did not partake of dark intrigue or hidden conspiracy. It was well advised. It had about it nothing of the lawless and disordered nature of a riotous insurrection. It was maintained on a plane which rises above the ordinary conception of rebellion. It was in no sense a radical movement but took on the dignity of a resistance to illegal usurpations. It was conservative and represented the action of the colonists to maintain their constitutional rights which from time immemorial had been guaranteed to them under the law of the land.
[….] This preaching reached the neighborhood of Thomas Jefferson, who acknowledged that his ‘best ideas of democracy’ had been secured at church meetings.
… When we take all these circumstances into consideration, it is but natural that the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence should open with a reference to Nature’s God and should close in the final paragraphs with an appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world and an assertion of a firm reliance on Divine Providence. Coming from these sources, having as it did this background, it is no wonder that Samuel Adams could say ‘The people seem to recognize this resolution as though it were a decree promulgated from heaven.’
They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
No one can examine this record and escape the conclusion that in the great outline of its principles the Declaration was the result of the religious teachings of the preceding period.”
— President Calvin Coolidge.
3 years ago
Happy 4th of July! We celebrate the triumph of liberty over submission. We the American people will never submit to the tyranny of Marxist totalitarian radicals!
I suggest if you are unhappy in America, you leave immediately. We don’t want to live in your dystopian nightmare. We will never be subjugated by you.
America, love it or leave it.
3 years ago
Communism should be outlawed in America. Teachers and professors who inculcate our youth in these vile ideas must be arrested and sent to a penal colony.
3 years ago
After seeing and reading of the insane levels of hate and violence threatening or ruining the lives of decent law abiding Americans, yes I agree the Democrats are trying to destroy America, but they cannot achieve this alone.
They need the ill bred noisey little people who fume and brag {Kipling} to help them. Those with not much in the way of knowledge, historical, cultural or anything else, are employed in this cause because now the Marxist hard left have jumped into the cab of the BLM mob truck in order to steer that political juggernaut of race hate and envy politics straight into the homes and hearths of the mainstream, everyone should be involved in arresting this attempted revolution.
From the hate spewing anti white racist gang of four to the green cultural and economic vandals to over powerful social media Barons to the halls of academia, Trump supporters must be the unbreachable bastian upon which these waves of envy hate and destruction must break.
In the UK we face the same test from the same kind of people especially from those racist anti white solid platinum hypocrites at Cambridge University who in the same week defended and then promoted an Asian hate filled anti white racist female who stated that “white lives don’t matter” before dismissing a noted white author and historian for remarking on “too many damn blacks” being in UK.
Her freedom to air her views were enhanced and protected while his were destroyed with added contempt.
Politics like nature abhors a vacuum and the political one is being filled by the mob.They have to be matched and defeated, openly and completely.
3 years ago
I’m patiently waiting for the call to arms.
3 years ago
In the new billion-dollar voting system of the One-Party Immigrant-Tyranny Failed Socialist State of California de Mexico, the first thing they do is print you out a legal-sized piece of pliable plastic-coated paper that is your “ballot,” with your party REPUBLICAN printed across the top in bold capital letters for everyone else waiting in line at the time to see. What a sickening joke and a tyrannical infringement of our right to vote our conscience in confidentiality.
No need to bother with any of that, so says Mexican Socialist Party Stooge and Illegal Invader Patron-Thug, CA Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
3 years ago
Xi’s Disease and China are our enemies in this generation’s Great War. It’s either step up, take often extreme risks of death, and do what is needed so that the country and those we care about can go on with our freedoms. The tree of freedom is fertilized with the blood and bodies of good men and women sacrificing all for their fellow humans. I fear this generation is willing to give up freedom rather than fight for it. Please prove me wrong.
{o.o}
3 years ago
Remember, the Second Amendment was not written for the convenience of deer hunters, it addresses tyranny.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
3 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
People don’t know a thing about the past of the USA. But we could all end this right here and now. We just need people who have some modicum of a brain in their heads. We have to expose Obama’s fake birth certificate and talk about the 2008 Newsweek article that said Obama’s the Antichrist. (Belief Watch: Is Obama the Antichrist? https://www.newsweek.com/belief-watch-obama-antichrist-84741)
3 years ago
Israel’s put the West Bank in Corona-lockdown for 5 days but it’ll last 50 years and the West Bank has been taken over by Israel. It happened the day before the July 1st Annexation-deadline.
Nobody’s talked about it. People have gone quiet.
That’s the signal for the Messiah’s Coming. Nobody’s even uttering so much as the murmur of a lamb. We’re saved but no one’s saying it. Hurry to say it or you’ll not be saved yourself and you’ll be doomed for ever.
3 years ago
To understand why this circus of horrors that we are now experiencing is happening, go to YouTube and watch the video there entitled, Who Made the Useful Idiots of the Left.
It has a run time of 22 minutes, 23 seconds, and is well worth every second.
As Sun Tsu wrote in his The Art of War, “Know yourself AND YOUR ENEMY (emphasis added) and you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles”.
