We Have a Convert!!!

This article was posted at Libertarian Republican. It's the story of one man's odyssey from believing in Marxism to Conservatism. If anyone knows the truth behind the Dark Side, it's this guy.

Welcome to the party, dude!!!

NEW PARTY SWITCHER

Government retards, rather than Empowers the Individual

by Dave Salyers, California

I just sent in my voter registration to switch my party affiliation to GOP. This was quite a political journey for me. When I was in college, I considered myself a leftist radical - I studied anthropology and had Marxist professors and learned Marxist class analysis. When I got to the real world and found it difficult to make a living with a MA in that (didn't go on for the PhD), I had to go back to graduate school and get a second Master's degree in social work. (I work in the field of child welfare investigating child abuse and neglect.)

Now social work is an interesting job. For folks like me who have been around for a few years, it has a nasty eye-opening habit which causes a shift in political consciousness. This is not just from trying to empower the clients by getting them to accept the idea of personal responsibility to make productive choices, but also the dysfunctional nature of governmental systems in enabling clients to a sense of entitlement and learned helplessness, developing policies and procedures in reactions to political pressures and lawsuits (or by covering up and taking the blame for decisions by judicial officers), and by attempting to "re-parent" the children of society which should not be a governmental role.

Discovering the Republican Liberty Caucus

From RLC.org Statement on Entitlements:

We favor individual, family and community efforts to relieve the burdens of those who have suffered misfortune and innocent injury. Every individual has the right to the fruits of their own labor and the responsibility to support themselves and their families. The only true charity is found in the voluntary efforts of every compassionate person, independent of any government entitlements, dictates, or programs.

The experiences I had caused me to re-examine the blinders and bias that I personally had been using on everything. So after a period of soul-searching, I went from the left to independent. (During my time on the left I actually knew CPUSA party members.)

I was formally involved with the Libertarian Party for a short while but had a problem with some of their more outrageous platform planks like liberalized immigration policies and open borders.

I now see more possibilities of working for libertarian policies within a major political party where there is at least lip-service to fiscal conservatism and more realistic positions. I strongly disagreed with the direction of the GOP under Bush and the neo-cons (and I would in no way be considered part of the religious right but support their right to their personal religious beliefs), but I like what I have read about the Republican Liberty Caucus and will be sending in my membership dues.

Join! RLCCA.org

Here a Czar, There a Czar, Everywhere a Czar Czar...

The Obama administration continues to skirt the legislative confirmation process by appointing "czars". How appropriate coming from a Communist. Yes, czars have been in use by both parties for decades, but every time we turn around, Barry is appointing someone to advance his Socialist/Marxist/Communist agenda without having to be confirmed by Congress. The count is now up to 33.

What can these people do that their confirmed counterparts can't? Why do they have to have their posts specifically created by the almighty Leader? This morning on Fox & Friends, an interesting fact was brought up: Russia had 18 czars in 300 years. Barry wasn't about to be outdone.

We get bits and pieces about the newest "czar" only when the MSM deems it worthy of letting Americans know. We know about Feinberg, but here are some I didn't even know were in existence. The list comes from Investor's Business Daily.

• Green jobs czar. This post is held by Van Jones. Officially he is Obama's special adviser for enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Jones was a founder and leader of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. The group, now disbanded, had Marxist, Leninist and Maoist influences.

Jones admitted that he became a communist and radical after the officers accused of using excessive force on Rodney King were acquitted. He's supposedly a reformed anti-capitalist, but not everyone is convinced.

• TARP czar. Herb Allison is assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial stability. There's nothing alarming in his background, but there should be concerns about the position he's filling.

• Great Lakes czar. Cameron Davis is a special adviser overseeing the EPA's Great Lakes restoration plan. He's president of the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes conservation group.

• Science czar. John Holdren is an ideologue who frets over global warming (junk science) and is a pessimist (in 1980 he thought the world was running out of natural resources) and misanthrope (he's favored population control).

• Climate czar. Before Todd Stern was appointed, he was a senior fellow at the left-wing Center for American Progress. His empty rhetoric on global warming can hardly be distinguished from that of Al Gore.

• Car czar. Ed Montgomery, a University of Maryland dean, economist and a Labor Department deputy secretary in the Clinton administration, is director of recovery for auto communities and workers. He's no raving leftist, but he is discharging a duty the government should never have.

• Guantanamo closure czar. Danny Fried has the duty of overseeing the closure of the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay. The longtime diplomat has to navigate the fulfillment of Obama's promise to shut down Gitmo, a promise that helped get Obama elected but was always foolish.

• Faith-based czar. Dare we say that Joshua DuBois, director of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is a community organizer? The 26-year-old pastor worked for Democratic Congressmen Rush Holt of New Jersey and Charles Rangel of New York.

• Urban affairs Czar. The White House has a director of urban affairs — Adolfo Carrion Jr. — but no czar for rural affairs. What does that say about how this administration values country folks?

• Regulatory czar. Obama wants to fill this post with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor who has suggested "that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives," against people in our civil court system. Sunstein would likely do a fine job of regulating the country into paralysis.

The checks and balances set forth by the Founders have been voided and thrown off balance. Time to get back to the principles that worked so well for all these years.

Where's the "czar" to protect the Constitution?

First They Came...

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This is a poem by Martin Niemoller. It sums up how we need to stand together to fight tyranny whether we agree or disagree with one another.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.