Keep Calm and Carry On

Throughout Texas, public schools have recently been investing in small arms training and implementation in public schools, specifically in highschools.

In Harrold County, Texas, the board of trustees for education has given its consent for certain faculty and staff members to now legally carry concealed firearms at all times. When questioned about Harrold county, Rick Perry supported this act by stating and restating that the responsibility of deciding whether or not to allow guns in schools should be decided by individual districts, also encouraging us Texans not to overreact and jump on the Federal Government’s bandwagon of gun control.

This response to violent tragedy is long overdue if you ask me. Columbine should’ve been the point when we started arming all school staff, creating an environment of defense rather than vulnerability; there is a reason why no one robs police stations or gun shops…

There have been talks throughout the country about creating a national database for crazy people, so we can better keep tabs on them and thereby minimize these kinds of killings. I say let’s not wait for the Federal government to get around to it, I mean this is Texas for heaven’s sake, we don’t wait for crap. At the very least we’ll be able to keep unstable people from buying guns in Texas, and not to mention, when coupled with this new policy of arming teachers, Texas should be a much safer place.

The obviously lazy and/or corrupt Federal Government is inept when it comes to solving problems instead of taxing them. Not to say that our Texas Government is any different, but when it comes to Texas Government we have much more say in the matter, in the sense that when it steps out of line we don’t have to catch a plane to D.C. to lynch somebody.

Let’s solve problems and make Texas an even safer place to live.

Wise up and Rise up!

Dependent - Glenn Goldsberry

I agree with Glenn,

“Over the years, society has become increasingly less intelligent about social and political issues, and has become more economically dependent upon the government to meet its needs; often satisfying more of its “wants”. I believe nowadays that a majority of our nation’s population has instilled an incredible amount of trust and sense of faith in an arguably untrustworthy and hopeless establishment.” – Dependent, Glenn Goldsberry

I could’ve said it better myself, but he did a pretty good job.

(General sweeping statements time)

Our nation has largely become deeply and unconsciously indoctrinated through public schools and government controlled mass media… or in other words, people are just dumb. We have chosen to elect a man to the most powerful position in the world simply because of his color. We are swayed by misleading and inaccurate campaign commercials and reject basic logic, we’re taught to believe, not to reason and study. In a quite literal sense we are a flock of sheep. We believe that the military always fights with righteous intent, when in reality they fight for oil or to maintain our unruly and unsuccessful empire. We praise Abraham Lincoln for freeing the slaves through the Civil War, and we neglect to wonder as to how every other country that practiced slavery abolished it without war. We praise George Bush for avenging 9/11 through the Iraq War, yet we forget that Osama Bin Laden was a CIA informant and that the U.S. created Al Qaida in the 80s to repel the soviets. We’re not taught about many of the founding fathers being associated with the Free Masons or what actually happened to JFK or Pearl Harbor. We need to overhaul this vastly “untrustworthy and hopeless establishment”.  We the People must hold our ELECTED leaders’ feet to the fire and demand our freedom. It’s time we ended this reign of greedy and deceiving shadowy figures controlling our lives through tyrannical legislation like the Patriot Act or hellish illegal prisons like Guantanamo. We must fight for a truly transparent government, one that is so honest that conspiracy theories would become a thing of the past. That public schools would teach true history, not the glorified and edited version of the agenda driven government.

Fight for the constitution.

Fight for what’s right.

Fight like Ron Paul.

Wise up and Rise up!

Libertarian

The American government, a vast and overbearing huddle of the corrupt, trying to benefit through the control and puppeteering of others’ lives and money. Whether the extreme liberal left or the unreasonable righteous right, the minuet differences between them are irrelevant, both are desperately trying to control your lives and take your money. The left would seek to pour your money down the drain into welfare or public housing while the right however would seek to pour it down the drain of wars and imperialism. There is always this constant struggle between these two groups, both trying to control, both trying to overpower, both revealing their incompetence and excessive lifestyles. Libertarians however, have solved the puzzle. Any true libertarian wishes for nothing more than to give you more freedom, more money, and more responsibility. To reduce government is to reduce corruption, debt, war, and crime. Most see government as a catalyst for solving problems, but anyone who actually knows what they are talking about knows that more often than not, government is the problem. If Libertarians would have had their way since about 1900, there would not have been Prohibition, Jim Crow Laws, the illegalization of marijuana, the War on Drugs, Desert Storm, The Korean War, The Vietnam War, The Gulf War, The Cold War, The Missile Crisis, the 16 Trillion dollar Debt, The Iraq War, Imperialism, and a whole bunch of other very expensive and taxing events that could’ve easily been avoided.

Libertarians seek to agree on what we can agree upon like defense, equality, and Liberty, and let We the People decide for ourselves what to do with our money and what we disagree upon. To give everyone the chance to decide for himself what’s important and what to spend his money on, in short, you should be able to do whatever you want as long as you’re not hurting anybody.

A more agreeable and reasonable position could not be asked for, this approach to Government would solve almost all our problems. Apply it!

Wise up and Rise up!!!

Sleeping Giants

David Jennings reveals a spark of hope for the Republican Party and its quest for knowledge, previously thought to have been lost along with their integrity, in a recent article entitled Downtown Houston Pachyderms Hear About Failed Drug War. 

His article having been written in response to Dr. William Martins’ speech regarding the failure of the War on Drugs, his audience is unclear. Based on his organization and diction though I would conclude his target audience to be young people of all kinds, obviously not a very precise assumption, but the guy is not giving away a lot to go on either.

Mr. Jennings’ underlying focus point of his whole post can quite adequately be summed up by the cliché of an old dog learning new tricks. He presents this old republican who has both supported and financed the War on Drugs for decades, now however the old dog is realizing his failed attempts at forced salvation and now seeks to educate us on wasteful and detrimental byproducts synonymous with war, especially failed wars.

Jennings correctly and effectively sites significant statistics, highlighting Martins’ message and hopefully reaching his intended audience.

Often times with any serious issue or question there are two extreme points at either end of the spectrum, for some reason whenever the issue or question is regarding the government the two extremes are “righteous government” and “wild conspiracy theorist”.

I personally find that situation to be quite comical, specifically because we are so trusting of the government that if some disagrees slightly with a policy or decision that they are labeled “un-American” or some other ridiculous and dismissive name. This thinking is exactly what Jennings and Martins are trying to combat. We need to understand that our government is not always right or infallible, that in many ways we are more corrupt that than the devil himself, Stereotypes like the “crooked politician” do not fall from thin air.

The prohibition of alcohol was a blunderous joke of political history, second only to the prohibition of drugs. We as responsible Americans must correct and control our government in the hopes of upholding our constitution and our liberty against the web of corruption now strangling our society.

Morality and liberty are defined by the people and protected by law, and whenever laws or their enforcers become oppressive to our existence we must mold them to our benefit.

D.A.R.E. – Deceiving Authorities Regulate Extortion

Wise Up and Rise Up!

Red Herring, for Kids!

Through a recent article regarding Early Interventionism for "at risk" youth, Stan Knee and Adrian Moore suggest that we shift our focus and tax money from prison expansion to programs for youth who example criminal tendencies, the idea being that we stop the kid before he becomes a criminal.

 

Their target audience almost solely being parents, their attempts to make reasonable points based on what we would assume as fact would be considered noble, true, and seemingly the best option for our kids.

 

But as always, I disagree.

Their main goal is to teach these “at risk youth” how to better cope with anger problems and successfully exist in society, which in itself is not a bad thing. However, that is the job of the parent; we should not have to pay for someone to do the parents’ job for them.

To be fair though, the fault does not rest solely on the shoulders of mom and dad. The way to emptying our prisons lies at a much deeper place, government. That is, too much government. A widely known fact to anyone who has actually studied the prison system, except for Knee and Moore, is that the working class and the poor produce most of the criminals that fill our ever-growing prison system. Many programs like the ones being supported by Knee and Moore do far more harm than good, especially in the long run.

 Minimum wage, government slums/housing, and welfare masquerade as crusaders for the less fortunate, however, overtime they prove to be deceiving money pits that do nothing but provide permanent crutches for the poor to limp on and the middle class to pay for. Often when government tries to legislate people out of poverty they do nothing but increase it. Raising minimum wage does nothing but force companies to compensate for their payroll increase by terminating other employees.

Surely more of these failed government interventionist programs are not the answer.

Moreover, the foundation for Knee and Moore’s logic is research and studies that we know nothing about, they simply flash a few respectable names like “Governor” and “Texas A&M”, and lull us into believing their statistics, without us even giving a second thought as to if they are set up to profit from this change.

In short, their intentions unclear and their motives and logic suspicious, it is unwise to heed their suggestions.

Wise up, and rise up!

Insufficient Funds

A recent article published by the Texas Watchdog entitled Pensions of former Texas lawmakers can be kept secret: Judge discusses how Texas District Judge Lora Livingston ruled that the "state is not obliged to tell the public how much it pays in pensions to former members of the Legislature." In short that means that the state can give an unlimited amount of our hard-earned tax dollars to retired law writers. This outrageous ruling by the judge reveals a glimpse of the deep corruption strangling our government. "We the People" has turned into "We the Government"! The point of the government, its main goal, is to fight for our rights and serve the 'people' as a whole, not steal cash from the working man and give it to its rich buddies... Read the article, read what the government-owned general media won't report on or highlight alongside your 'Weather on the 8's".

Wise up, and rise up!