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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Pathfinder on September 01, 2009, 09:06:07 AM
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Interesting read here:
http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/08/restoring-lost-constitution.html (http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/08/restoring-lost-constitution.html)
FTB: "Can we?
Don't doubt that it's been lost. A while back I struggled through Randy Barnett's Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, a college-level text on that subject. Barnett thinks we can, but first he spends some time detailing how we went from, in his words, “islands of government power in a sea of liberty” to the exact opposite - sinking islands of liberty in an ever-expanding sea of government power. For Barnett, a law professor, the changes are viewed through a narrow lens - that of legislation and court decisions. He views the path back largely as a reversal of that course, but I don't think the courts can save us.
If you're a hardcore Three-Percenter, you may believe that the Constitution might be restored by men fighting a 300 meter Second Revolutionary War with small-arms. I'm not so sanguine about that one, but I appreciate the sentiment. If I thought it could actually work, I'd be on the front lines pulling triggers.
Current pundits think the path back might be through a "throw the bums out" sweeping change of our legislative bodies. I'm not so sanguine about that, either, as I'll explain.
But don't for a moment doubt that whatever the government is operating under presently, it isn't the Constitution of the United States that each and every elected and appointed public official still swears an oath to uphold and defend, and it hasn't been for quite some time.
Back in October of last year, I posted a short video of a portion of an interview of Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov discussing the socialist strategy of "ideological subversion" of an enemy country. That interview was taped in 1985. As Bezmenov explained, the process of "ideological subversion" was:
To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of their balance of information no
one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community and
their country.
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow, and it is divided in four basic stages. The first one being
demoralization. It takes from 15-20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum
number of years it takes to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy.
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In other words, Marxism-Leninism is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American
students, without being challenged or counterbalanced with the basic values of Americanism, America patriotism."
Read the rest, very interesting.