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Abusing the First Amendment

"There is no doubt Van Jones will continue his Marxist radical "hellraising" "in the months and years ahead." In other words Van Jones is going to continue his own "pursuit of happiness" by abusing the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States the very same way he has done it through all his previous life."


Obama's buddy Van Jones 

Text of Resignation Letter From Van Jones. Resignation letter from Obama adviser Van Jones,
sent to Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley.

"I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today.  On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum - urging me to "stay and fight." But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. It has been a great honor to serve my country and my President in this capacity. I thank everyone who has offered support and encouragement. I am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the clean energy future. I will continue to do so, in the months and years ahead."

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: 

It is amazing how every sentence of the "Resignation Letter from Van Jones" is full of lies and distortions. The following are "small" hidden truths behind the words by Van Jones.

The first truth. Obama adviser Van Jones was either fired or forced to resign by president Obama. And if Obama did not order Van Jones' resignation, adviser says, that sounds either not factual, or makes Obama look like a marionette with attached strings pulling by others.     

The second truth. Opponents never "mounted a vicious smear campaign against" Van Jones. Read these facts: The Van Jones (non) feeding frenzy. The truth is that only Representative Pence calls on Van Jones to resign

The third truth. Van Jones never got "calls - from across the political spectrum - urging" him to "stay and fight." White House tight-lipped about Obama adviser.  Otherwise, he would have certainly stayed and fought. No one including his buddy Obama did not want him around anymore after a such appalling racist statement: "Only ‘Suburban White Kids’ Shoot Up Schools".
 
The fourth truth. Van Jones obviously "cannot in good conscience ask" his "colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining" his past. It is impossible to defend someone who openly describes himself as a Marxist and "radical hellraiser". Just read an article about Yale Law School and Why Van Jones went There. Moreover, even former eBay CEO, a Republican candidate for governor in California Meg Whitman distances from Jones. And "she loves black Marxists. And not just any black Marxists. She loves VAN! JONES!" All of the sudden Van Jones Hearts Meg Whitman.

The fifth truth. Van Jones is not being honest saying: "It has been a great honor to serve my country". People of "wrong ideologies" like Van Jones never serve their country. They always serve their own agenda and only their own agenda.  

The sixth truth. There is no doubt Van Jones will continue his Marxist radical "hellraising" "in the months and years ahead." In other words Van Jones is going to continue his own "pursuit of happiness" by abusing the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States the very same way he has done it through all his previous life. Let's not to forget that Van Jones signed a petition in 2004 calling for an investigation into whether government officials deliberately allowed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to occur.

The seventh truth. President Barack Obama has appointed thirty-two czars, as of July 20, 2009 including "resigned" Van Jones. I honestly wonder: are they all Marxists and "radical hellraisers"?  

The eight and most important truth. U.S. Ideological Civil War is continuing and getting more and more intense...
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U.S. Ideological Civil War or Cold Civil War?

A writer William Gibson is famous for inventing the word "cyberspace," way back in 1982. In his latest novel, Spook Country, he is inventing another striking term - "A cold civil war".


"Useful" novel by William Gibson

Quotation from novel Spook Country by William Gibson:

Alejandro looked over his knees. "Carlito said there is a war in America."

"A war?"

"A civil war."

"There is no war, Alejandro, in America."

"When grandfather helped found the DGI, in Havana, were the Americans at war with the Russians?"

"That was the 'cold war.' "

Alejandro nodded, his hands coming up to grip his knees. "A cold civil war."

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:

The term "a cold civil war." invented by William Gibson is missing a very important point. The Nation is currently at Ideological Civil War. The difference is crucial.

A Cold War is the war of deterring with just a theoretical possibility to be turned into a hot confrontation. 

An Ideological Civil War is an incessant battle for hearts and minds of people . 

The current U.S. Ideological Civil War is a direct result of ideological immaturity of the predominant majority of the American people refusing to accept the reality of ideological Battle and personal responsibility to "preserve, protect and defend" Ethics (principles of moral conduct) and Esthetics (principles of Beauty) of the Constitution of the United States from ideological enemies of the Nation and their domestic collaborators.  

A defeat in the U.S. Ideological Civil War means a triumph of "wrong ideologies" and may cause a political, economic, social and cultural destruction of the existing U-nion and loss of the National Sovereignty.
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Interfere with anything in the Constitution

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." - Abraham Lincoln

"Anyone who interferes with anything in the Constitution of the United States is an ideological enemy of the Nation." - Boris Tiraspolsky


Abraham Lincoln

The political religion of the nation

"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others." - Abraham Lincoln





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58 percent of GOP not sure/doubt Obama born in US


State declares Obama birth certificate real, again

CNN's Lou Dobbs: Hawaii officials 'destroyed original'













Nothing could be further from the rule of law


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July 4th Prayer for our Nation




O LORD, God of heaven  save the United States from the irreconcilable Ideological Civil War between Americans with "wrong ideologies" and Americans with "ideology of no ideology"; clear minds the People of the United States with the Power of Your absolute Ethics and perfect Esthetics; let the American people recognize Your Spirit, Your Word and Your Intent in the text of the U.S. Constitution; allow to embody practical ideas and Eternal Ideals of the Constitution in every day life of every man, woman and child in the United States.
 
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Ideological Enemies of the Nation

"...we are in a midst of a decisive ideological struggle, or rather U.S. Ideological Civil War for the very existence of our Constitutional Republic. Most dangerous ideological attacks come from those in Power considering the Constitution of the United States to be an “unfinished document“. These ideological enemies of the Nation and their collaborates are not reluctant to routinely interfere with the Constitution when they see it does not fit their inexorable lust for power, money and privileges." - The time for Battle has come...
 
 
"Lincoln's constitutionalism, I believe, is the only effective rebuttal to progressive and civil rights criticisms. Thus if Republicans are serious about recovering constitutional government, it's hard to imagine how they would be successful without Lincoln. With Lincoln, it's hard to imagine how they would fail." - The political religion of the nation 
 
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties." - Abraham Lincoln

"Anyone who interferes with anything in the Constitution of the United States is an ideological enemy of the Nation." - Boris Tiraspolsky
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Playing Music with Wrong Instruments

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."  - Ludwig van Beethoven


Ludwig van Beethoven


Original score of the Ninth Symphony
 for Orchestra, Soloists and Choir  
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A parable is a brief, "useful" story in prose or verses that illustrates a moral lesson. According to ancient Greek hilosopher Plato parables encapsulate an abstract argument into a concrete, more easily grasped narrative. Here is a "musical" parable related to "wrong ideologicy" of the ruling party and "ideology of no ideology" of the opposition party.

Playing music with wrong instruments
by Ben Imas and Boris Tiraspolsky
 
Both political parties in the United States act like two amateur music players who want to play the Ninth Symphony by Beethoven and sing The Ode to Joy. However, the only musical instruments they have and can play are percussion instruments and banjo. 
 
One player says, I understand that the Ninth Symphony is written for an orchestra and choir, and requires many other instruments - string, brass, woodwind. But I play percussion instruments that are an integral part of the composer's music. Another player says, I could not care less what "other" instruments needed to play this music. I play my banjo, as many Americans do, and I do not need percussion instruments either, because no one could hear how well I play my banjo, otherwise.
 
Finally, a Conductor comes and tells to both amateur players that they cannot play the Ninth Symphony and sing The Ode to Joy by using wrong instruments. In order to explain to them why it cannot be done, he asks for a "useful instrument" - grand piano to play the original composer's score. Alas! The grand piano is not available anymore either. Some time ago BOTH PARTIES agreed to sell the grand piano and purchase the percussion instruments and banjo instead. Continued...
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The Blind and Deaf Mind of the Nation

“Generalizations are shadows of Reality, and manifestation of a blind human mind.” -
Boris Tiraspolsky, Quotations and Maxims 


U.S. Capitol
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The Blind Mind of the Nation
By Boris Tiraspolsky
 
Theoretically speaking, the U.S. Congress is supposed to be the collective Mind of the Nation. The Congress should have a precise realistic Vision of “a more perfect” Future for the Nation. In his own turn President of the United States needs the Political Will to lead the Nation through all historic difficulties and obstacles to that “more perfect”  Future.
 
In reality the collective Mind of the Nation - the Congress controlled by Democrats - is absolutely blind. Moreover, it is deaf, and incapable of hearing independent voices of reason screaming and yelling to stop the Nation from slouching into abyss, the blind Congress cannot see. Now the Nation has also the blind and deaf by "wrong ideologies" President.  

How many times all of us recently heard generalizations by members of the Congress and the President: “the American people want this”, “the American people demand that”, “the American people voted for a change”?

In order to cover these meaningless clichés, Democrats in the Congress and the President shamelessly add the word “majority”. The latter creates even stronger misleading generalizations that “the majority of the American people” are always right.  

Thus Democrats in the Congress and the President justify their pushing the Nation to a political, economic, social and cultural abyss.

Currently, any rational independent thought in America is doomed to be a part of a “minority” and in opposition to the Congress and the President.

This historic model could be hardly considered productive even at a time of Peace. Generalizations in the name of the American people facing ideologically charged enemy with Weapons of Mass Destruction are misleading the Nation in seeing the Truth about itself and  perilous reality of Nation's ideological enemies.

The blind and deaf Congress and the President along with confused “majority of the American people” need to learn that a national debate representing opposite views is a legitimate exercise in “freedom of speech“ at a time of peace. At a time of total terrorist war waged against the Nation, the very same debate turns into U.S. Ideological Civil War between American patriots (Read more...)  and ideological collaborators with enemy. (Read more...)
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Stop Obama or U.S. will cease to exist

"Is he [Obama] president of the United States? According to the Constitution, in order to be eligible for president you have to be a natural born citizen. He has refused to provide proof. I'm not sure he's even president of the United States, neither are many of our military people now who are now going to court to ask the question, 'Do we have to obey a man who is not qualified under the Constitution?" - Alan Keyes

  
"Stop Obama or U.S. will cease to exist"

Alan Keyes said: "Obama is a radical communist, and I think it is becoming clear. He is going to destroy this country, and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.  We are in the midst of the greatest crisis this nation has ever seen, and if we don't stop laughing about it and deal with it, we're going to find ourselves in the midst of chaos, confusion and civil war."

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: In order not "to find ourselves in the midst of chaos, confusion and civil war" the Republican Party must take the following five steps to "preserve, protect and defend" the practical ideas and ideals of the Constitution of the United States:

Step 1. The Republican party needs to reassess a role of the Democratic Party and to recognize it as the Party of "wrong ideology": political, economic, social and cultural, representing interests of Bureaucracies - Federal, State, Local and all those who support these Bureaucracies.

Step 2. The Republican Party needs to take an initiative in introducing widely the Ideology of the U.S. Constitution to be as Abraham Lincoln said "the political religion of the nation", representing interests of the People of the United States.

Step 3. The Republican Party needs to redefine own role from just an Instrument utilized for an election process to become a united Ideological Leader of the Nation, political, economic, social. cultural - the Party of Ideology of the Constitution of the United States.

Step 4. The Republican Party needs to form and establish own Ideological Force of Public Instructors functioning on a permanent bases all year around in every municipality of the country; the Public Instructors  must promote the Ideological Platform of the Republican Party: merge of conservative views and absolute Ethics and Perfect Esthetics of the U.S. Constitution for grassroots supporters, all interested parties and general population.

Step 5. The Republican Party needs to develop working superior Ideological Instruments in ongoing ideological Battle with "wrong ideology" of the Democratic Party; these Ideological Instruments include Education and Training for rank and file Members of the Republican Party, ideologically charged PR and "useful Arts" - more specifically Useful Performing Arts advancing the Ideological Platform of the Republican Party.
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Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday

"The political religion of the nation":

"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others."


Abraham Lincoln

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Ideological immaturity of the Nation

"The failure to recognize the ideological nature of “cause celebre” for Islamic jihadists creates great confusion in minds of the American people and U.S. political and military establishment."


American Daydreamer
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Ideological Struggle with global jihadists movement
by Boris Tiraspolsky

The U.S. Ideological Civil War - to fight or not to fight Terror - is the reality the Nation has to face and deal with. It is a struggle” between those who usurped “constitutional rights” and those who accept Constitutional Responsibilities at a time of War. 
 
The largest part of the Nation's political elites takes advantage of the freedom of speech to voice their mostly ignorant, although, influential “opinions”, on “life or death” matters of total terrorist warfare waged against the Nation. 

The part of the U.S. political elites opposing that view is in a minority. It slowly - two slowly -  accepts emerging principles of new U.S. Ideology of Anti-Terrorism necessary to “secure the Blessings of Liberty”, and for survival of the Nation in battle with Terror.

One of the hottest debates in the homeland “ideological struggle“ today, is that the United States is “less secure” because of the war on Terror, or more precisely the military operation in Iraq.

People expressing this particular “opinion” usually quote the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report of April 2006: “the Iraq conflict has become the “cause celebre” for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in Muslim world and cultivating the global jihadists movement”. 

The quote from the NIE presented above is an example of ideological numbness of those who wrote it, and a lack of knowledge of those who repeat it. The truth of the matter is that the sole genuine “cause celebre” for jihadists is and always was the Ideology of the Islamic Law formed more then thousand years before establishing the United States.

From the time of Muhammad (570-632 AC) the Islamic Law explicitly declares that all nations must surrender to Islamic rule, if not its faith. In other words, all non-Islamic Nations are a perpetual subject for jihad, or Holy War, and could be never absolutely “secure“. 

Throughout centuries the Ideology of the Islamic Law underwent times of victories and times of defeats. However, all inspirations and motivations for jihadists come only from two main ideological authorities of Islam - Koran and Hadiths.

Koran is the Supreme body of the Islamic Law, that describes jihadists who die for their faith, as martyrs deserving a unique place in heaven. Hadiths is a record of the Prophet Muhammad’s precepts, actions, and his life, constituting his Sunna, or example of the “role model” for jihadits.

The failure to recognize the ideological nature of “cause celebre” for jihadists creates great confusion in minds of the American people and U.S. political and military establishment.

All of us need to learn a bitter, although, pragmatic lesson of the Global War on Terror: it is not “the Iraq conflict“...or “U.S. involvement in Muslim world... cultivating the global jihadists movement”, but the current vagueness and frailty of U.S. Ideology of Anti-Terrorism! (Read more...)
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Creating a new American Cult

"One needs to be blind not to see that creating and sustaining Barack Obama's Cult is a logical development of the chosen by Democratic Party strategy to get Power and keep Power."
 

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., when asked about whether it was time to bring back the so-called "Fairness Doctrine": "I think it's absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it's called the Fairness Standard, whether it's called something else – I absolutely think it's time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves. I mean, our new president has talked rightly about accountability and transparency. You know, that we all have to step up and be responsible. And, I think in this case, there needs to be some accountability and standards put in place." 

Comment by Joseph Farah:
"...the "Fairness Doctrine" is anything but a nail in the coffin of American freedom. Misunderstanding the 'Fairness Doctrine' 

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:

My comment is not only about the "Fairness Doctrine". Although, I think it is a shameless attempt by elected U.S. Bureaucrats to interfere with the Constitution of the United States.  

Unfortunately, the "Fairness Doctrine" is not just a "nice try" leading to nowhere.

The danger is greater, real and more damaging to the Nation and the Republic then it may seem on a surface. 

I think that the "Fairness Doctrine" is in fact an integral part of a strategically planned campaign by the Democrats to implement their "wrong ideology", or as they say "Barack Obama's agenda" in every day life of the American people. 

For that democratic ideological gurus have developed their "original" powerful Ideological Instrument - new American Cult they are persistently shaping and enhancing for the last two years.

This American Cult is President Barack Obama and his "agenda" of anti-conservatism, call for "change we can believe in" and Obama's personal messianic mission to save America and the rest of the world from the current economic crisis.   

Therefore, all of us must accept that Cult with tears of happiness and If it didn’t leave you teary-eyed, you  are "inexcusable and irresponsible",     

I notice traces of the Obama's Cult all over the place: it is in forming Obama's personal Ideological Force; it is in what Barack Obama told Republican leaders; this Cult is in tactless Barack Obama merchandising, including, but not limited to Commemorative Obama coins, and etc. You name it!
 
One needs to be blind not to see that creating and sustaining Barack Obama's Cult is a logical development of the chosen by Democratic Party strategy to get Power and keep Power.

Moreover, Barack Obama's Cult  seems the only way the ruling Democratic Party can impose own historically empty "wrong ideology" on every day life of the American people.

This "wrong ideology" results in a political, economic, social and cultural control by a State all aspects of the American people's life and a final triumph of Socialism in America. The very agenda Barack Obama proudly calls "change".
 
The Republican Party can and should take advantage of the ideological emptiness of the agenda and the way the agenda interferes with the Constitution of the United States.
 
This is a historic chance and responsibility of the Republican Party to develop own superior Ideological Instruments and Ideological Forces based on absolute Ethics and perfect Esthetics of the Constitution that capable to withstand and prevent the Barack Obama's growing Cult from taking over the hearts and minds of more American people.
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Obama's personal Ideological Force

"We'll soon be asking you to give whatever time or talent you can to support the President. With your help, we can bring change to Washington and the entire nation."




Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: I am not under any circumstances a part of the current fashion called "obamamahia". However, surprisingly I have received the following email from David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America".  
"Friend --

When Barack Obama was declared our 44th President, you didn't just revel in that victory -- you started asking what's next for this movement.
 
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: This is a rhetoric question. Obviously, Barack Obama intends to keep "this movement" at all the time he is in the White House. In other words this is the beginning of establishing Barak Obama's own Ideological Force to be utilized for manipulating public opinion in case of an opposition to his agenda.

David Plouffe: How is this unprecedented group of volunteers, grassroots leaders, and dedicated supporters going to help make change a reality?

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: This is another rhetorical question. Barack Obama who came to Power by attacking conservatism, calling for change and emphasizing of crisis desperately needs and totally relies on ongoing activities of these "group of volunteers, grassroots leaders, and dedicated supporters". In other words Barack Obama is the very first President of the United States who is practically forming his PERSONAL IDEOLOGICAL FORCE in order to advance his own agenda.    

David Plouffe: More than half a million people shared their thoughts and ideas about moving forward, and we listened carefully. Last week, President Obama announced the creation of Organizing for America -- a group that will work alongside the President to support the agenda you fought so hard for.

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: The future Obama's personal Ideological Force of more then a half million people is an extremely powerful tool to support his agenda. The only question is: why does the Republican Party have no any Ideological Force to resist that agenda? Moreover, there is nothing of the kind currently on a horizon, yet.    

David Plouffe: You can be part of its first steps.

You've already invested in the future of this country -- whether you voted, donated money, helped organize your local community, or got involved in countless other ways.

But right now, your participation in the political process is more important than ever.

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: I wish the words above would have been written by some Leader of the Republican Party. Is anyone out were who intelligent enough to understands that this is U.S. Ideological Civil War for Fate of the Nation? This war cannot be won without knowing your enemy and having superior Ideological Instruments and Forces. Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats seem to understand that well. They do know the Power of Ideology first hand. They won the election by using that Power. (Read more...)]

David Plouffe: We'll soon be asking you to give whatever time or talent you can to support the President. With your help, we can bring change to Washington and the entire nation.

I look forward to working with you in the months and years ahead.

Thank you,

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America"

Continued...
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An ideologically distorted witness account

"I am unconditionally certain that the Communist Manifesto is less essential to the History of this Nation then the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Every word of these two historic doc-uments is about the American Dream and only about the American Dream."



Further decay of the American Dream
by Boris Tiraspolsky

There was a doc-umentary motion picture named American Dream, released in 1989. It told the story of the Hormel meat packers strike in Minnesota, an event anyone hardly remembers anymore.
 
The film enthusiastically portrayed a labor conflict between the workers and the owners of the Hormel company who decided to cut workers’ wages from $10.60 to $8.25 an hour after declaring an annual profit of $29 million dollars.
  
The minimum wage at that time was almost half of $8.25. However, the strikers end up divided into two camps. One camp continued to resist. Another camp decided to compromise.
  
Finally, the company sold a part of the plant to a new company. The latter paid labor only $6.50 for almost the same job.
 
I would not have ever chewed over this twenty year old and well forgotten story and the film, if it would have had a different name. But the film was precisely titled American Dream. Well...
 
Is this story really about having and loosing the American Dream by one group of Americans because of the greed of another?
 
To me, this entire story is about a problem of lacking the American Dream by all participants in the story: the workers, the owners of the Hormel company, and especially by those who made this doc-umentary. They, to the best of their ability contributed to a decay of the American Dream, turning the story into a preposterous travesty of everything this great Nation of ours is all about.

I cannot even for a split second believe that the American Dream is as cheap as $2.35 the Hormel company decided to cut worker’s hourly wages that year. Let’s for an argument sake imagine that the workers would had gotten their $2.35 back. Where is the American Dream then? 

I am positive that the American Dream is not about $29 million dollars of annual profit the Hormel company made, and a social struggle it provoked, either. I am very far from connecting the American Dream with a totally foreign premise that the history of society is a history of struggles between “exploiting and exploited”. That is called “scientific communism”, and I am with the Ideology opposing it.
  
I am unconditionally certain that the Communist Manifesto is less essential to the History of this Nation then the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Every word of these two historic doc-uments is about the American Dream and only about the American Dream.

Didn't the workers, the owners of the Hormel company, and especially  the makers of this doc-umentary motion picture read them? Of course they did. Why did they have a totally erroneous idea when they proudly named their film? As a result of their irresponsible “creativity” they left an ideologically distorted witness account of what the American Dream is, and in fact, corroded it.
  
Twenty years after the almost forgotten strike in Minnesota the entire U.S. meat packing industry has found the way to further decay of the American Dream. The industry is notorious for widely using a labor of illegal immigrants. These people will never go on strike even if companies decide to cut their hourly wage below minimum wage, and they have absolutely no idea what the American Dream is, either.
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The Key for Ideological Defeat of Terrorism

"One who denies personal responsibility in battle with Terror on the American soil, and insists  in the middle of battlefield on “constitutional rights” that must be protected by someone else, will have neither “rights”, nor “protection”.
 

Freedom Of Speech
by Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978)
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"Constitutional rights" vs. Constitutional Responsibility
by Boris Tiraspolsky
 
“Freedom of speech”, or rather freedom of expression, both oral and written, alleged to be one of the most important “constitutional rights” by many in the United States. Supporters of this view always refer to the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States that guarantees “freedom of speech”. However, understanding of “freedom of speech” as one of “constitutional rights” is commonly absorbed and widely spread misconception creating current ideological draw back of the Nation in battle with Islamic jihadists.
 
First of all, the grouping of these two words “constitutional” and “rights” is seemingly contradictory and incongruous. This type of combination of words is usually called an oxymoron. English poet Sir Philip Sidney gives great examples of oxymoron. His fictional characters - lovers - speak of “living deaths“, “dear wounds“, “fair storms“, and “freezing fires”. So, why is the broadly used term “constitutional rights” the oxymoron?
  
The Constitution of the United States is the Supreme Law of the Land, and everyone in the United States must obey it. The original text of the Constitution of the United States is a sum of responsibilities of the American people both, governing and governed. Consequently, all the Amendments incorporated later into the body of the Constitution, even if they are using such words as “right” and “rights” are, in fact, responsibilities of the American people.
 
Acceptance of “freedom of speech” as the constitutional provision, turned “freedom of speech" into the Constitutional Responsibility of the American people. Moreover, one is either with the Supreme Law of the Land, that orders to “secure the Blessings of Liberty for ourselves and our Posterity” by exercising all constitutional provisions, including the provision of “freedom of speech”, or one is in contempt to the Constitution of the United States.

Constitutional provisions wrongly taken as “constitutional rights” inevitably require a strong additional protection from outside of the Constitution. A heavy reliance on this “outside” safeguards is a direct cause for emerging numerous organizations and bureaucracies protecting “constitutional rights“, and making fortune out of litigations, but being absolutely pathetic and incompetent, under attacks of the Ideology of the Islamic Law, denying any "freedom of speech"and independent thinking. 

One who denies personal responsibility in battle with Terror on the American soil, and insists in the middle of battlefield on “constitutional rights” that must be protected by someone else, will have neither “rights”, nor “protection". In contrast, “freedom of speech”, realized as the Constitutional Responsibility of the American people, will be always protected by those who need this fundamental “freedom” the most. That is the key Principle for the ideological defeat of the Islamic jihadists intending to replace the Constitution of the United States, with the Islamic Law, as the Supreme Law of the Land.
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