Author: shadowwarrior

At FREEDOMGOFORTH.COM we quite frankly are tired of being told by anyone claiming to be our overlord that we must do this or that, or that we cannot do this or that. We live in the United States of America and not only treasure our FREEDOM and LIBERTY, but we will do whatever is necessary to protect it and preserve it. All of us have a limited life span. You can either choose in this short period of time to be productive and beneficial to our society, or you can choose to wallow in cowering fear under a cloak of oppression and distortion. How do you choose to live, and who do you choose to rule your life? “WHAT IS THE COST OF TAKING A RISK?” There are many in our Nation who have chosen a path of least resistance, one in which simple compliance makes for less friction but produces laziness and communal acceptance under the rule of those who claim to know what is best, who do not care for your wellbeing, but who only care for their own acquisition of power and wealth, and they will tell you whatever they think will help to bring about your submission to their will. We remember a few years ago about a well-known radio host who described this process in his own life experience in school. He had decided to run for president of his class or school but was up against another who sought the same office. The opposing candidate promised everyone a trip to Disneyland if their candidacy was successful. Well, it was, but guess what? There was never the possibility that anyone was going to get a free trip to Disneyland, and they didn’t, but the school students wanted it to be true, but for the candidate, it did not matter. All that mattered was winning the race regardless of anything promised, for it was a fool’s dream. Many have been living in a similar dream-state in the last several decades, a mesmerizing, hypnotic like trance brought about for any individual who desires something for nothing, brought about by those who care not for the fulfillment of any statements or promises made. Over the past 15 years or so, we have been reminded of similar tactics used to entrap our Nation’s citizens into a false sense of hope, believing that anyone claiming to share the wealth at the end of a rainbow would lead to their own happiness, fulfilling all their dreams of a life free of effort and toil, full of comfort and wealth.

Do you remember some of these promises made? “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” These promises turned out to be far from the truth, where health plans not only surged in cost, but forced many out of their customary plans into ones vastly more expensive, and where many were forced to change service and doctor providers. More recently, do you recall these statements? “. . . I’m going to shut down the virus”, a statement made by the current occupant of the White House during his campaign for the office of President. How well has that gone? Now, the same person is making other promises, ones he knows cannot be achieved in his short tenure in office but knows will give hope to millions just because he said it. He is going to reduce cancer by 50%. It’s an attempt to bolster his sinking pole approval numbers, but in reality, will do no more than what was done in his previous attempts. On January 13, 2016, then President Obama tapped the current occupant of the White House to lead the fight against cancer, saying “Let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.” This was certainly a worthy effort, but ended up being only verbal hyperbole, with no plan or real efforts to achieve it, and lead only to false hope and more broken promises. At a campaign stop by the same individual he said “. . . I promise you if I’m elected president, you’re going to see the single most important thing that changes America, we’re gonna cure cancer.” (June 11, 2019.) The current occupant of the White House founded in 2017 his own “. . . Cancer Initiative”, but in the first two years gave NO grants while spending millions on salaries to former Washington D.C. aides. “The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018 and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years.” “The group’s president, Gregory Simon raked in $429,850 in fiscal year 2018 . . .” Tax filings reveal that $56,738 were spent on conferences and $59,356 spent on travel the first year, and $97,149 the second year. They spent $742,953 on conferences. (New York Post, Isabel Vincent, November 14, 2020). This was just another one of his scams, to enrich himself and cohorts, to engender hope in the masses all too willing to believe. Do you trust your tax dollars with this guy? This seems to be a theme of the current government in Washington D.C. The Secretary of Transportation, while presiding over a supply-chain crisis within our Nation, has proclaimed a goal of achieving ZERO traffic deaths. “Over the next five years, nearly $14 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will flow to road safety programs, including $6 billion in new competitive grants for complete streets and safer school routes, $4 billion in additional funding for state highway safety improvements and hundreds of millions for behavioral research and interventions.” There will be a shift from blaming crashes on human error, to a strategy shifting to systems surrounding road users. Whatever that means? There was an “. . . 18.4% surge in fatalities in the first half of 2021 – the largest six-month jump on record – with more than 20,000 people killed in vehicle crashes . . .” (Bloomberg CityLab, Laura Bliss, January 27, 2022.) Brace yourself for an explosion of photo radar traps and procedural changes aimed at making driving much more difficult. The only real way to bring traffic deaths to zero is to ban all vehicles, including bikes, skateboards, Segways, and hoverboards, and to rip up every inch of road asphalt and concrete. Why is it that these elites always promise so much, then deliver so little? Do you suppose it is simply incompetence? No, it is combined with, among other agendas, another form of “Wag the Dog”, hoping to distract attention from other mass failures.

This has been a long lead-in to the topic at hand, “WHAT IS THE COST OF TAKING A RISK?” Many have accepted the RISK of believing pompous elites who promise the undeliverable, who fail to deliver the unattainable. Whether it is in the areas of health insurance, the search for the cure of cancer, or solving roadway tragedies, there have been no successful attempts, and the RISK often made has been exchanged for failure and disappointment. We want to view another RISK that has been consuming our Nation over the last two years. While heeding to those we believed were knowledgeable, we have been systematically deprived of many aspects of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY granted to us by our Creator and guaranteed to us by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The advent of COVID-19, and the current government, social, media, and corporate elites’ response to it, has killed many, shuttered many businesses, and destroyed many livelihoods. Many took the RISK to comply, believing the greater good would result. Now, many are desiring to take a more personal RISK knowing that our personal FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake. Some may have seen the following article written by James Stansbury. This is not our normal form of blog, but we need to provide a portion of his article below for you to consider in conjunction with your response to COVID-19 and “WHAT IS THE COST OF TAKING A RISK” for you.

The title of the article is “The COVID Narrative is Falling Apart.” (American Thinker; February 2, 2022.) Concerning masks, vaccinations, and mandates, he continues below: “. . . Why is there so much disagreement? The late Malcolm Muggeridge put it this way ‘People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.’ Think about it; the Left and their media allies have terrified our children and ordinary citizens so much that they desperately want to believe masks and vax mandates are the only answer. Anyone who disagrees must be silenced, socially destroyed or even allowed to die by withholding organ transplants or life-saving therapeutics. I was taught the only way to fight a lie is with the truth. However, I also know those who placed all their hope in the big COVID lie will do whatever it takes to silence anyone who disagrees. Just ask Joe Rogan about being silenced. It is nearly impossible to overcome emotion with facts, but I will present some anyway: 1). ALARMING VAX SIDE EFFECTS REPORTED BY MILITARY WHISTLEBLOWERS. This story made a few waves last week when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) included a mention in his five-hour Senate hearing. The information came from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), a mundane accounting tool used to track all medical diagnosis of military personnel and dependents for insurance billing purposes. DMED did better than the CDC’s ineffective Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Following is a summary of the most alarming vax side effects: *Myocardial infarction (heart attack) – 269% increase, *Cancer diagnoses – 300% increase. Miscarriage – 300% increase. *Bell’s palsy – 291% increase. *Congenital malformations (for children of military personnel) – 156% increase. *Female infertility – 471% increase. *Pulmonary embolisms – 467% increase. *Neurological issues – 1000% increase. 2). ATHLETES ARE MYSTERIOUSLY DYING OF SUDDEN HEART ATTACKS: In Dec. 2021, Lorphic News, a non-traditional news source reported on the extraordinary number of physically fit, fully vaccinated athletes experiencing fatal heart attacks. This claim was systematically denied by most news sources. However, a chart compiled by the Federation Internationale de Football [soccer] Association (FIFA) confirms this is real and like the above military data, is based on a large sample size. FIFA has member athletes from 209 countries and has routinely tracked athlete health data for 20 years. Their long-term data confirms a fivefold increase in sudden cardiac deaths in only six months of 2021. 3). VACCINES NOW HAVE NEGTIVE EFFICACY: Data has surfaced claiming that continued use of the original vax is causing negative efficacy. Negative efficacy doesn’t mean the protection fades. It means the opposite: it means the vaccines are now weakening the immune system. It became clear that countries with the highest vax rates, were the most likely to experience a surge in both cases and deaths. You can monitor five representative countries daily death rates here. Note that India is included because India was the only one to allow the widespread early use of inexpensive therapeutics. Initially their protocol included hydroxychloroquine but when the more deadly delta variant hit they switched to a protocol that included ivermectin. India had far better results than the others in taming COVID. In the above sample, Australia had the most severe police state lockdowns, mask mandates and a high vax rate around 80%. After some initial sucess, it has suddenly gone from near zero cases and deaths to having an explosion in both. Since spring of 2021 Sweden, noted for its minimal mandates, had maintained near zero cases and deaths as a result of achieving herd immunity early. All that changed when for reasons unknown Sweden pushed vaccinations despite the herd immunity achievement. As a result, Sweden’s flat-lined case and death rate also spiked, thus indicting its herd immunity achievement is compromised by vax negative efficacy. 4). OMICRON PROVIDES LONG-LASTING NATURAL IMMUNITY: A peer-reviewed article titled ‘Cross-reactive memory T cells associate with protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in COVID-19 contacts’ published Jan. 10 in the scientific journal Nature provided a warning and some encouragement: ‘Once widespread infection (such as the Omicron wave) occurs across the world, the virus will eventually circulate endemically, meaning that infections may still happen but with milder symptoms and much less mortality.’ There are two reasons that the transition from pandemic to endemic didn’t happen until Omicron: 1) all the widely used vaccines are based on the spike protein, which doesn’t induce a protective long-lasting T-cell response, and 2) natural immunity wasn’t widespread. In other words, the current vaccines too narrowly target only the original Alpha spike protein and ignore the rest of the virus proteins. This inhibits production of long-lasting memory T-cells that can more readily adapt to new variants and this omission for those most heavily vaccinated appears to have changed omicron from mild to more dangerous. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the dangerous vax side effects described above, it’s time to recognize that COVID is becoming endemic like the closely related common cold or seasonal flu. This means the safest way for the unvaccinated to produce the necessary long-lasting memory T-cells may be by catching omicron. For those facing omicron with an immune system weakened by multiple vaxxes and boosters, age or comorbidities, and emergency use authorization by the FDA for the therapeutics (chiefly ivermectin) India used could be a life saver. However, the political climate today makes FDA authorization unlikely – many hospitals have already allowed patients to die rather than try these proven, safe therapeutics. and last week, effective monoclonal antibody treatments have mysteriously lost their FDA approval. Therefore, it wouldn’t hurt to fortify your immune system with a daily dose of over-the-counter vitamin D3, C, and zinc (all are included in India’s COVID kit). Around 80 to 85 percent of people who died from COVID were deficient in these vitamins and the most vulnerable are senior citizens and the obese (because fat cells absorb vitamin D before it can reach where needed). I’m no doctor so ask yours for dose rates since each can vary widely by weight, age, etc. We are still on our own for an early treatment option so it may be better [to] contact an organization of rebel doctors like the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). U.K. PM Boris Johnson did the right thing by ending all vax and mask mandates and let nature take its course. (The Remnant features an excellent analysis of the politics behind the COVID tyranny.) Denmark has just followed his lead. Will 50,000 fearless Canadian truckers succeed in bringing a strong enough emotion to Canada or the U.S. to end the mandates?”

So, now knowing many other facts that have been hidden from view by the cancel culture, and those profiting by pushing their own agendas, what kind of RISK are you willing to take? Do you want to follow those who will make any empty promises to get their way, or tell you things you would like to believe, even though you know their histories, and now know more of the facts? Will you seriously consider “WHAT IS THE COST OF TAKING A RISK? One direction can lead to FREEDOM and LIBERTY; the other direction can kill you or may consume you like the surfer in the picture above.

The year was 1950. Few home doors were ever locked to keep out intruders or interlopers, and the fear of leaving your car door unlocked at home or while out shopping was, for the most part, absent. It was a more peaceful time, having once and for all fought the final war to bring peace to the world. My how times have changed. Today, we build block walls between homes where small bushes or short wire fence lines once stood. Home doors are locked not with a simple doorknob, but with deadbolt locks. Car doors are always locked, and most cars now have security systems where if an unauthorized user were to attempt to steal the vehicle, alarms would sound and lights would flash, and some cars even have engine cut-off devices and systems that can track the location of the vehicle. The United States has certainly changed. Why that has happened is a long discussion for another time. We just need to deal with the here and now. Theft is on the rise not only from homes, but from businesses as well, often aided by an unwillingness to prosecute seemingly “petty” crimes, although here a FREEDOMGOFORTH.COM, we do not consider “petty” crimes something to be blown-off as insignificant. We believe they are only steppingstones to bigger crimes, often more violent in nature. Now days, one does not have to simply worry about your car being stolen while you are in a store shopping, but you may come back to your car to find the catalytic converter removed making your car useless, leaving you with a cost of hundreds if not in some cases thousands of dollars to repair. But do not think the hazards stop there, because they don’t. Car jackings at the pointed end of a weapon are on the rise as well. Even locked into your car, you are never 100% safe. Indeed, what has happened to our Nation?

Our personal possessions are not the only things at risk of being stolen in the last several decades. The rise in crime and illegal activities, extending even to the highest levels within our national government, have become not simply personal, but have become a national problem. Over the last several months we have detailed many issues adding to the cacophony of ills. We have talked about the problems in morality and conscience, and we have warned about the worship of money and power. We have exhorted the need to recognize our Nation’s downward spiral created by inattention to true facts and details by those nefarious and covert forces at play having agendas counter to our Constitution and Bill of Rights. If you choose to defend your house with walled fences and locked doors and your cars with alarms, are national borders not also vital for the protection of a nation? So, our question we pose now is “WHICH BORDER IS WORTH DEFENDING?” In the last decade or so we have seen an agenda playing out at our southern border designed to dilute our citizen’s voting rights, burden our Nation’s economy, while increasing strife, conflict, and devastation on many different levels, not the least of which would be in our national security, healthcare, and educational systems. We have addressed the reasons for this invasion at our southern border in prior blogs explaining that there are powerful elites world-wide who envision a world without borders, where national borders are not recognized, where nation inhabitants are reduced to submissive surfs, unable to resist the will of the oligarchs and the monopolistic few, those who wallow in sociopathic self-aggrandizement at their elite gatherings in Davos Switzerland, aiming to enrich only themselves in their conquest of world power and wealth. What have we been doing while all this has been going on? We have simply lived in our own small bubbles, content with the status quo, willing to give a little of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY at the altar of illegal and unjustified mandates promulgated by corporate, social, and governmental elites.

The picture above is emblematic of the desire of many of the world’s nations to control their own borders, to preserve their national integrity, socially and economically. What has been missing in our Nation is the same type of resolve over the last several decades to see to the perseverance of our own social and economic interests. What has highlighted our Nation’s ineptitude to resolve the issues at our southern border is the recent governmental attention to the border of a nation thousands of miles away, where our Nation has little investment, where that border has little direct impact upon our Nation’s citizenry, or social or economic interests. We are, of course, speaking of the border between Russia and Ukraine. What is surprising to us, is that we are willing to send millions of dollars in foreign aid, military and humanitarian, and help to amass our own military members and equipment in an apparent attempt to bolster the defense of this border, while at the exact same time our current occupant of the White House, along with those who control him in every way, have turned a blind eye to our own border which is a greater risk in multiple ways having a direct and transformative impact upon our Nation.

For a moment let us just take a deep breath and realize that any provocative Russian troop movements or exercises may simply be a means to exact concessions from the U.S. and allies. Realize also that the current occupant of the White House could be exercising a form of politics known as “Wag-The-Dog”, where the fly on the ceiling is pointed out while attempting to divert attention from the elephant in the room. If there may be Russian incursions into Ukraine in the future, consider the following. We have been told that there are anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukrainian border and are poised to invade. What really is our interest in Ukraine? They are not a member of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), where we have bound ourselves to some degree to help protect and defend a member nation should one be threatened. They do not provide to us any products vital to our Nation’s endurance or well-being. Many citizens in that nation are Russian, having formally been a part of the now defeated Soviet Union. The only real connection we can prove is that the current person in the White House, along with his son, had business dealings in that country and have profited huge sums of money. Some of those ties may yet exist, and certainly the influence of those ties produces a quid-pro-quo obligation upon the current occupant of the White House. Let us be clear. Our Nation benefits not one-iota from our interference in this border dispute thousands of miles from the U.S. This is not an isolationist stand, this is a stand to recognize that two nations far from us need to resolve their conflicts without our interference, and certainly without us sending our military troops into harm’s way. The current occupant of the White House in preparing to send another 8,500 troops to the area, where we already have troops numbering in the mid-seventy thousand. As bungled as was our retreat from Afghanistan, so bungled would be our further injection into this area of the world. Let us also point out that there are other nations in the region that may have more interest in this issue. It is also time for those other 29 member nations in NATO to finally step up and do more of their fair share to see to their own defense, and defense of surrounding nations that may desire their assistance.

Here is an idea! Why not concentrate on protecting our own southern border? Just last month alone, December 2021, we had recorded 178,840 apprehended incursions across our southern border (dailywire.com). That is more than the three previous Decembers combined (2018, 2019, 2020)! The number of illegal aliens encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2021 were 1,700,000! The number released by the current occupant of the White House into the interior of our Nation in 2021 was 285,000, an increase of 2,000 percent over 2020! Thousands were released with no NTA (Notice to Appear), and of the 50,000 released with a NTA, only 13 percent had turned themselves in! Of the number crossing our southern border, at least 40,000 tested positive for COVID-19! According to FAIR (the source for this information, A FAIR Research Team Report; December 2021) each illegal alien costs the American taxpayer about $9,100 per year! The cost over 2021 for all this invasion is estimated to be at least $3,000,000,000 per year. That’s “B” for billion! It is also estimated that some 400,000 were classified as “got aways” in 2021, those crossing illegally into our Nation but not apprehended! In the last few days, FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests have revealed that thousands of these illegal aliens have been secretly flown, bussed, and carried by taxi and private parties to multiple places deep into our Nation under the cover of darkness, secretly, deceptively. Much of this is being funded by your tax dollars, not only directly from processes orchestrated by the current government in Washington D.C, but also by NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), who have received a vast amount of their funding through grants given to them by our current government, and from foreign nations and other woke elitists who are glad to assist in the internal destruction of our Nation. Now, let us compare the number of Russian troops massed on the eastern Ukrainian border (100,000 to 200,000) to the number of invaders that came across our border just last year (1.7 million). In December 2021 alone, our Nation WAS invaded by more people than MAY be crossing over the Ukrainian border. Which invasion has a greater impact upon our Nation? “WHICH BORDER IS WORTH DEFENDING?” It doesn’t take a trained monkey to figure that one out. Please, no disrespect to monkeys. We wonder if monkeys living in our White House might be able to make better decisions.

We cannot say for certain why Russia is suddenly interested in Ukraine. What we can say for certain is that Russia, under its current leadership, desires to return to the days of the old Soviet Union, a larger land-presence in that area of the world. It was the threat of an ever-expanding Soviet Union that created NATO in the first place. We also know that the current occupant of the White House’s bungled exit from Afghanistan, and how it mistreated allied nations during our abrupt and ill-conceived retreat, left our allies hanging and provided proof of this current administration’s weakness in foreign affairs. Russia also is looking to expand its access to Crimea, which it invaded and claimed during the administration where the current occupant of the White House was the VP. Russia also realizes that our current governmental monkeys cannot handle multiple tasks at the same time, namely a provocative China with respect to Taiwan, an Iran on the brink of developing nuclear weapons, a nuclear North Korea continuing to launch and refine their missile delivery systems, an economy with bludgeoning inflation, an invasion at our southern border, supply chain issues unchecked, waves of increasing crimes, the wedge of racism being forcefully driven in, the failure to apply therapeutics to COVID19, and a Nation preoccupied with a woke agenda.

What can we do? We need to let our current government know of our disdain for their current actions, focusing on the wrong geo-political issues. Contact by phone and email your Senators, Representatives, and the White House as well, and leave your firm but respectful demands to refocus on our southern border, and by no means send more of our troops into that potential powder keg in Ukraine. If you treasure your FREEDOM and LIBERTY, then you must take action. Our Nation and our prodigy are depending upon you.

Our Nation is in a TAILSPIN. The aircraft depicted in the short video clip above is in an inverted spin, but do not despair, this aircraft is doing a form of aerobatics, probably at an airshow, and the spin was intentionally entered to give the crowd some “oooohs” and “aaaahs”. We know this since the aircraft is trailing smoke for sky-writing purposes. The skilled pilot will safely exit the spin and go on to other feats of daring, like low inverted flight over the runway, or Cuban Eights. We show this clip to point out similarities between an aircraft TAILSPIN and a TAILSPIN in government. “Unlikely” you say? Let us dissuade you of that belief.

Most aircraft enter a TAILSPIN as a result of pilot action or inattention. If one pulls the throttles to idle on most aircraft, while attempting to remain at altitude with wings level, with no other pilot input, meaning no rudder or aileron input, the aircraft’s nose will simply drop forward and downward resulting from the loss of wing lift. This is called a stall. We won’t get into the aerodynamics of how that occurs as that would be outside the scope of this blog. What causes a stall to become a TAILSPIN is the inadvertent, or in the case of the aerobatic pilot above, an intentional abrupt input of full rudder deflection, and can be exacerbated by the application of aileron inputs as well. So, how does this relate to a governmental TAILSPIN?

Let’s first talk about inattention. When government leaders and executives become more concerned with trivial matters, and take “their eye off the ball”, major incidences and occurrences can leap forward to devour the best intentions or chosen agendas. When a stall in governmental progress occurs in moving the chosen agenda forward, the government may make irrational and overly aggressive actions to correct the stalling agenda, and a governmental TAILSPIN can occur. The week before last was particularly infested with results from governmental inattention and inappropriate, knee-jerk if you will, and sometimes even fraudulent, actions. We will review just a few. We can start by looking at the most recent polling data. Rasmussen shows declining approval ratings of the White House occupant: strongly approve – 18%, strongly disapprove – 49% (Rasmussen Reports, January 17, 2022). The Supreme Court of the United States invalidated the current occupant of the White House’s injection mandate through OSHA for larger business employing at least 100 people. It was an over-reach of Executive Power in an attempt to usurp the Legislative Branch power of our Republic. Then there was the White House occupant’s speech in Georgia accusing at least half of the voters in our Nation of being associated with racism dating back to the era of Jim Crow, George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis. His promise to unite all Americans seems to be shrouded in an attempt to peel off the scab of the racism wound in our Nation. We will not forget that the current occupant of the White House had close friendships with the former KKK grand wizard Senator Robert Byrd and the segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, and he eulogized both upon their passing. Years ago, he also presided over the Senate’s confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the justice himself saying “It’s a High-Tech Lynching for Uppity Blacks.” It was the current occupant of the White House that help to create the 1994 Crime Bill that led to mass incarcerations of Black Americans. In his bid for the White House office, he boldly said “Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” In a previous campaign, he also referred to Romney’s run for the Presidency saying, “They’re going to put you all back in chains.” Sounds less like a uniter and more like a divider. Let us also consider the financial news of the week before last. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was pegged at 7%, the highest in 40 years. The Product Price Index (PPI) jumped to 10% (Series Id: WPUFD4, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 17, 2022). We can also talk about the supply chain issues resulting in many shelves becoming barer throughout the Nation. Since China has now shut down many of their major ports due to another virus breakout or new variant strain, we should expect these issues to continue well into this next year. Fortunately for Americans, the attempt to make the Senate less part of a Republic by doing away with the Filibuster, the need for 60 Senators to agree to move any proposed agenda forward, hit a major roadblock within the Democratic party, and the attempt to pass this legislation failed. For now, it would appear that there remains the need within our Republic to come to a larger consensus for laws to be passed, rather than for a majority of “one vote” to dictate policy to an entire Nation. Isn’t it hypocritical for Democrats to clammer for the destruction of the Filibuster, when in 2020 they used it 327 times to the Republicans using it only once (Washingtonexaminer.com, May 27, 2021)? Let us not forget that we are still in a COVID porn panic, since there has been an explosion of testing. The “at home tests” are often inaccurate, and the PCR tests can detect COVID weeks after it has been killed within the body, long after a person is free of the virus. Still, more deaths have now occurred under the current administration than the previous one, and the previous one did not have vaccines, wide-spread testing, or approved therapeutics and the use of monoclonal antibody therapies. Who was it that said, “I’m going to shut down the virus!” Oh, yes, that was the current occupant of the White House. We need to also mention the failure of productive talks with the Russians over their mass military buildup on the eastern Ukraine border. Did anyone catch note of North Korea launching more missiles? They did. Well, we could go on, but we think these things happening within the span of just one week are enough to say our Nation has entered a TAILSPIN under the control of an inattentive administration, and one that has taken inappropriate actions putting us into this potential death spiral.

We now need to address how a recovery from a TAILSPIN is to take place. Many USAF pilots learned how to first fly jets in Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). Our reference is the initial training used up until the mid 1970s, primarily in the Cessna T-37, a side-by-side seat configured twin jet trainer, affectionately referred to as the “Tweet” for its high pitch engine whistle. One of the flying proficiency tasks was to demonstrate the ability to put the jet into a spin, and then most importantly get out of the spin. Six basic steps were memorized. The first three were to get into the spin, throttles idle, control stick back, then application of full rudder, one direction or the other. Those were the easy steps. Once into the spin, the other steps were most important. First, step on the rudder opposite the direction of the spin. The real hard part was to wait one full revolution before proceeding to the next step, pushing the control stick full forward. Waiting was the hard part. To not wait would be ineffective leading to panic and the potential for further spin complications. Once the one revolution was accomplished, the control stick was pushed forward. Once the aircraft gained enough speed, the final step was a simple recovery from the dive, pulling back gradually on the flight control stick as speed increased, then the gradual application of power to attain and maintain the desired altitude and speed at the conclusion of the maneuver. Several thousands of feet of altitude could be lost in this maneuver, but that’s what it takes to save the jet and occupants. All of this seems so simple but imagine yourself being in a jet for the first time, strapped into a parachute, in an ejection seat, wearing flight gloves and a helmet, with an oxygen mask on. Imagine how hot it was in the clear bubble cockpit with little airflow, being in the turbulent summer heat of south Texas or central Arizona. Now, consider the stress of all of that, plus the desire to up-chuck, and trying to remember all those steps in the right order and at the right time. Similarly, it is not hard to understand the complexity of problems facing this current government, with so many issues pressing all at once, many unexpected and in this case most self-inflicted through improper actions taken. Is it so hard to believe that a T-37 TAILSPIN and recovery has similarity to a potential TAILSPIN and recovery of our Nation’s government?

First, knowledge of what got us into our national TAILSPIN is most important to being able to achieve a successful exit. Being properly prepared by knowing historical and financial facts is only the beginning. We will have to be prepared to apply known processes and procedures, and to apply them at the proper time, not guessing at things we think might help. This is not a time for experimentation, but the time for the application of knowns, those processes and procedures that have proven effective. We must understand that a recovery will have to be done under some very extreme conditions, conditions unexpected and undesired, and often from forces beyond our ability to dictate and control. Certain actions may even at first seem to be counterproductive. Once initial actions are taken, it will take time and patience to see the spinning stop. To jump to other actions prematurely will only exacerbate the TAILSPIN. Once the spinning stops, we must be careful to not yank back on the levers of power as a renewed national governmental stall and spin could be entered. Slow, gradual, methodical processes and procedures need to be applied and maintained to bring our Nation out of the TAILSPIN, bringing it back under full control, moving again in a productive way. The proper actions that need to be taken have been demonstrated before by those who have been down this road, those who can be considered our “flight instructors”. We need to listen to them, not to the “want-to-be” heroes, or those who think only they have a better way. We need to emulate the method for a successful recovery. The ground, our potential point of destruction, is rapidly approaching. We must all take some responsibility in helping to bring our Nation out of this TAILSPIN. By using our voices, our letters and blogs, and our feet in peaceful actions, we will be part of our Nation’s recovery. If you treasure the FREEDOM and LIBERTY given to us by God, declared to us by our Constitution and Bill of Rights, then you cannot and must not sit idly by. You are a passenger in our Nation in this TAILSPIN. If you do nothing to help, and if the spin is not stopped, all will be lost for you and for all those who will follow you in life.

A QUICK REVIEW OF THE BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2030.

No, the above sentence is not wrong. This is going to be a book reviewing what happened between the years 2020 and 2030. Do we at FREEDOMGOFORTH.COM have a crystal ball, and are we able to know the future? That is our secret. Wouldn’t you like to have this power, to be able to view into the future, to know what is going to happen? Knowing what will happen is of little benefit, unless you take advantage of the information to make corrections or adjustments that could possibly alter what you have viewed by gazing into that crystal ball. The book “THE LOST DECADE” has 11 chapters, and we would like to give you a preview of this book which you can pre-order about 8 years from now. This historical book will be a barn-burn, page-turner, a book you will not be able to put down. It is a book filled with intrigue, deception, and sex, and should be read by mature readers only. After reading the book, you will not be able to sleep at nights, knowing that what has happened could happen once again. It will be the number-one best seller and hold that spot for weeks on end.

INTRODUCTION: The Beginnings. The year 2020 started out with a growth unappareled in the nation’s history. Every metric was on the upswing. There was some unrest in many Democratically controlled cities, but that was due to ineffective governance and flawed ideology.

CHAPTER 1: Politics. Politics has been a thread extending through all civilizations since the beginning of time. Often it is divisive and acrimonious. But, as the decade was dawning, there was an increase in beliefs within many in positions of power to favor trends toward socialism, fascism, and communism, believing past flawed attempts to establish such governance could be corrected and manipulated to derive at more acceptable results, although previous histories had shown just the opposite to be true.

CHAPTER 2: Climate. We live in a world constantly being altered by events beyond our control, from earth axis rotations to cyclical periods of cooling and warming throughout the ages. There began to arise a small group of activists pushing a belief system that mankind was the cause of global warming and climate change, and efforts were begun at the highest levels of world governments to resolve the impacts of mankind’s use of fossil fuels and carbon emissions, seemingly unaware that we were not yet ready to shun the industrial era, and having a false understanding that mankind was the only cause. Some were claiming the end of humanity by 2030, but if you are reading this book, you know that to have been more of a threat to achieve a pre-disposed agenda, rather than a true scientific look at historical facts and trends.

CHAPTER 3: Chinese Community Project (CCP). Over the preceding three or four decades, China (formerly known as the Chinese Communist Party) had been using every advantage offered to it by the world powers to exit its third-world membership. During this time, increasing at the beginning of the decade covered in this book, China had taken unbelievable steps to infiltrate and acquire, often through deceptive means, technology. The CCP began expanding its influence world-wide, even saying the quiet part out loud that they would soon be the world leader, controllers of all aspects of economies, influence, and power. Their military prowess and might exploded overwhelming other nations, and through the threats of the use of power, humbled once powerful and leading nation states.

CHAPTER 4: COVID-19. With the nefarious efforts of sociopaths, China developed altered viruses specifically targeting the human race, in fact genetically altered them to target undesirable ethnicities. With the deployment of these multiple bioweapons, China was able to create world chaos, kill millions of people, and destroy world economies without using any kinetic force. Once being assisted by world nations; China then became reclusive and dangerous. Felonious approaches to controlling these viruses caused many nations to lose focus on the real threat and real solutions to overcome these viruses. Many nations used these approaches in attempts to bring about their preferred agendas depicted in chapters 1 and 2 of this book. The CCP was content to watch nations disintegrate, for they cared not for humanity, only world dominance.

CHAPTER 5: Deceptions. During the runup to the beginning of this decade, many major news and media outlets, along with their accomplices in big corporate entities (oligarchs) and social media platforms, began a concerted effort to cancel the free speech once guaranteed by the nation’s Constitution. The cancelling of varied speech led to the promulgation of the many controlling agendas proposed and implemented by the woke minorities. Lies were being told, fomenting hatred among once proud and unified citizens. Laws were often ignored and skirted to achieve the ever-growing destructive agendas. While many of these deceptive practices were exposed, those elected to represent their citizens in the nation’s capital, continued to wrestle futilely with how laws should be formed to conform to the Constitution. New social connection sites continued to form overseas and were excluded from most current laws, which were assumed by many to protect freedom of speech, and the free flow of information and discussion were greatly suppressed. Gradually, citizens were lulled into acceptance and compliance, often fearing reprisals if agendas of the powerful were opposed. Many were suffering incarceration, injury, and death due to multiple protest attempts that were quickly dispatched by rouge police and federal agents. Many of these arresting officials acted under duress knowing that to resist their commanding orders would also place them and their families in similar jeopardy. Governmental tyranny developed.

CHAPTER 6: Morality. Along with the deceptions being thrust upon the nation’s citizens, the waning of the importance of truth led to an unwritten policy that one could do whatever necessary to achieve one’s desired goals. Equality under the law was dismissed. During the pandemic, churches were closed and attacks on people of God exploded. No longer could the nation be considered one believing in a God, but one more aligned with atheism and agnosticism. The conscience of many were seared to the point of irrelevance, leading to debauchery and perversion. The development of transhumanism, the integration of bionics into humans, continued to the point that many lived in a world of Virtual Reality (VR), rarely interfacing with others in the real world. God was beginning to be replaced by man as a god unto himself. The percentage of those believing in a higher being decreased to only 29 percent in the most recent national poll.

CHAPTER 7: Racism. In a huge swing from advances in multi-racial integration, which exploded beginning in the early 1960s, pernicious forces seemed intent on re-establishing cliques, casts, and promoted general division among the nation’s races. A nation that had once prided itself in being the “Melting Pot” of the world, was becoming quite the opposite. At the end of the current decade, the nation is still suffering the consequences of these actions. Many of our youth, now having become adults, and having been heavily influenced by these divisive educational dictates, participate in occasional riots and damaging protests, and push divisive agendas, harming the innocent, damaging infrastructures, causing financial hardships on many, and harming healing attempts. As this racism gradually increased throughout the decade, a new form of geriatric racism grew where care for the elderly and infirm diminished in favor of those younger and productive in society. Euthanasia was not applied directly, but many elderlies were just relegated to facilities and new institutions specifically designed to remove them from the burden of society at large. Some of late have been accusing leaders of purposefully prohibiting life preserving healthcare leading many elderlies to premature deaths.

CHAPTER 8: Immigration. The influx of undocumented persons crossing our southern border early in the decade had led to a host of unintended consequences, some good, but most bad. The unexpected good came in the form of those who were of Hispanic origin. They began swinging heavily into the more conservative column for voting, knowing that the vast numbers entering the nation were taking jobs, funding, and healthcare away from legal citizens, and creating a myriad of issues in education. However, voting systems continue to be subject to multiple forms of abuse, often created by certain states allowing everyone to vote, no matter the age, no matter the citizenship. The bad aspects of immigration were highlighted by the tremendous increase in crime, prostitution, slavery, and terrorism. In mid-decade, the number of terrorist attacks within the nation were hard to predict and prevent, especially since so many terrorists made their way into our nation undetected early in the decade. In the latter portions of this decade, several major terrorist attacks at large venues, events, and malls have taken thousands of lives. The cartels in Mexico compounded the increasing death toll within the nation from poisoned-laced medications and prescriptions. Eradicating these negative influences within the nation continues to pose a difficult task, as these influencers are difficult to locate and mitigate.

CHAPTER 9: Financials. The huge sums of money printed to offset lockdowns early in the decade, due to the fear of on-going pandemics, led to the inability to bring the nation’s finances under control. Early in the decade inflation began to emerge and this led to an ever-increasing need to meet ever-increasing costs of national debt payments. Attempts were made to bring these debts under control by increasing interest rates, but the results seemed of little help over-all, while making goods, services, and housing unaffordable for an ever-growing number of citizens. The wave of homelessness increased which only brought increasing pressure on already strapped local and state finances trying to deal with these issues. The level of violence and theft continued to increase in areas most influenced where many were losing their homes, being unable to afford increasing tax rates and tightening regulations. Today, those entering markets as new adults have few opportunities to better their lives and have become less prosperous than the previous two generations before them. The push for all electric transportation hit a “bump in the road” when many batteries in all-electric vehicles were needing to be replaced, the average cost of $31,500 was beyond the ability for many to pay. Many abandoned personal vehicles and had to join the mass transit movement, forcing many to move into multiunit complexes nearer to the transit stations. Housing prices continued to fall since so many units were on the market, and the vast number of buyers were only those from overseas, namely from the CCP. After the fall of the U.S. dollar as the world currency, Cryptobank, the new world currency hosted by the CCP, continued to devalue the dollar, now converting only 46.3 percent of each dollar into the digital CyptoXi. Many retirement funds were destroyed forcing a lowering of living standards to near poverty levels.

CHAPTER 10: Technology. Few things have exploded more upon the nation than the increase of technology. As of this printing, Thirteen percent of the nation’s citizens are now implanted with microchips allowing instant access to a variety of venues, structures, and businesses simply by walking by inobtrusive sensors. Three percent of the population now have chips imbedded into their brains allowing them to interface with their computers and communication devices only by thought. They can start their cars and redirect routes without touch. House heating and lighting are changed without flipping any switch or changing any dial. They interface directly with their in-home ServiceBot, which now also learns their needs and desires so that the human host rarely needs to ask. In order to function fully and independently, mandates are now being established forcing many to become chip hosts. The exploration of space continues with the latest establishment of the permanent moon colony. After the first disastrous attempt to put a man on Mars, it was finally accomplished by the CCP, now the undisputed leader in world advances, finances, and social structures. China claimed Mars last year as they planted their new flag claiming it part of China’s new World Advancement Renewal (WAR) project. With the growing trend on META to interface with others only via these Virtual Reality (VR) devices, a new psychological disorder, known as VRPsychosis, has left many in a state similar to PTSD, where when a link is dissolved with another contact, depression and frustration can lead to violent reactions which have led to an increase in domestic violence, and even tragic suicidal attacks. After finally identifying the source of many of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), questions remain as to how that knowledge has been a primal influence in the advancement of the world’s technology. Secrets continue to abound keeping the vast majority of world citizens in the dark and subject to on-going speculation, leading to a growing number of anti-UAP organizations, several having religious connections.

CHAPTER 11: War. World War III was quietly conducted throughout this decade. Unlike WWI and WWII, this new war was one waged not primarily using kinetic forces, but one using social, media and financial tools. Infiltration of destructive forces, combined with government inaction, and often naively, allowed it to expand beyond the nation’s ability to control. Iran developed nuclear capability but was quickly degraded by pin-point attacks from Israelite forces. North Korea perfected its development of ballistic missile technology and now can be considered a rogue threat to South Korea, Japan, and the entire U.S. Afghanistan, free of U.S. and allied influences, continued to promulgate terrorist’s threats throughout the world, and certainly within the U.S., following the failed departure of U.S. forces from that country early in the decade. That retreat was finally declared by all nations as one of the worst defeats ever experienced by any nation. Russia was able to claim most of eastern Ukraine by internal conflict created by Russian forces already imbedded within that nation. China secured its grip on Hong Kong, and overwhelmed Taiwan by the blockade instituted without significant resistance from the overwhelmed Taiwanese forces and paltry response by the U.S. and other allies. Shipping lanes in the South China Sea continue to be dominated by the Chinese navy limiting and restricting the transport of goods to nations and forces unfavorable to the Chinese narrative and purposes. The real surprise was the over-throw of the Brazilian government by Chinese surrogates. Panama also handed over control of the Panama Canal to the CCP in exchange for financial assistance and other protections. African countries falling under the control of the CCP surprised many who supposedly were “in the know.” The most prosperous nations there, the ones having the greatest wealth in precious metals and natural resources, were swung toward the CCP through financial incentives, and high-pressure campaigns. The CCP now can claim ownership or majority control over 83 percent of all sources of precious metals and materials.

CONCLUSION: The decade was full of surprises, but many were apparent early on, but just dismissed due to focusing on many minor, distracting, internal issues while avoiding “the elephant in the room”, that being the influence and expansion of the CCP. The nation and world that once existed in the decades before the last one, no longer exist. While constitutions and rights may continue to be touted, the fact remains that many have been muted, in fact neutered, under the control of the CCP.

This concludes our review of the book “THE LOST DECADE”. If you like the read of this book, be sure to pre-order it in about eight years. If you do not like the read of this book, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Get involved. Speak your mind. Act upon your belief. Your FREEDOM and LIBERTY are at stake. We hope in 2030 you will be able to write and read a different book, simply called, “THE LAST DECADE”.

Our blog last week painted a rather bleak picture of what may lie ahead in the new year. While we firmly believe that we must be prepared for such catastrophes, we also believe we must take stock of where we are as individuals, take a deep breath, and realize that all is not lost, that the tide is shifting, that there are reasons to express GRATITUDE, that HOPE remains alive, and that through all of the chaos and strife, PEACE can be possessed. You may wonder how we can seem so negative one week, but flip and be so positive the next? It is not being schizophrenic, it is part of being well balanced so that one does not plunge into a never-ending state of despair, being frustrated with the state of affairs, being so angry that it spills over into every aspect of one’s life. To be so controlled by those kinds of emotions rarely, if ever, lead to positive, healthful results. This is why we choose to be balanced in our approach to what may lie ahead. Fear will never overcome us. Conscience and morality will always be our guides, and the search for and the publishing of truth will always be our hallmark.

GRATITUDE: We would like to begin this short survey of why we should be grateful by asking two simple questions. The first, where would you be today if your mother had aborted you? The second would ask what your life would be like if you were born somewhere other than the United States of America? Now, we realize there may be those reading our blogs who were not born, or even live, in the U.S.A., but even for you, we would suggest considering what your life would be like if you were among the starving children in South Sudan, Ethiopia, or Nigeria? You would not have access to web or phone services to even know of this website, and even if you survived birth, you might not survive your first year. The answer to the first question, more of a rhetorical one, is that you would not exist. Even if your life has been one of ups and downs, and if you have been fortunate to have known wonderful people, been a part of a great family, and even had children you may have borne, none of that would exist if you had been aborted. So, before you start railing against your parents, or society, or the state of world affairs, show GRATITUDE that you are alive to have been able to be a part of the wonderful experience of life, and all the challenges that made you stronger, and the blessings along the way that gave you joy. As to the second question, if you have had at least one good meal today, been able to have and wear a shirt or blouse, and have shoes or sandals on your feet, then you need to take a moment and reflect upon how blessed you are to have access to all three of those things. We dare say that all who read this blog have multiple meals per day, and have multiple shirts or blouses, and shoes or sandals you can choose from to wear, different combinations on every day of the year. Do you reflect GRATITUDE in your life for being alive, and being blessed with food and clothes to wear? We believe that many in our Nation worry more about the peak of “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need” where self-actualization (things like creativity and spontaneity) is your focus, or maybe the second level from the top where self-esteem is your focus, rather than the base of his pyramid where basic physiological needs (like breathing and sleep) consume your daily struggle (Abraham Maslow’s 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation”). How fortunate you are to not have to worry about the base needs of existence. Are you reflecting GRATITUTE in your life for existing and having your basic needs supplied?

HOPE: “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) We have often heard the phrase “Hope springs eternal.” This was first penned by the poet Alexander Pope in “An Essay on Man” (1732). The phrase, or proverb, basically says it is human nature always to find fresh cause for optimism. When one loses HOPE, there is little incentive to press forward, to achieve, to develop and grow, to seek improvement, even to search for truth or justice. HOPE is that innate quality that dwells in the recesses of our mind, in the core of our heart, that calls to each one of us to never give up, but to seek and wait for betterment or improvement. During the covid pandemic, many, far too many, have succumbed to lack of HOPE and prematurely ended their lives. It is easier to believe in HOPE when you are surrounded by others who share the same belief. Isolation breeds doubt and despair, and we must all be sensitive to each other to always speak of HOPE, and to live it in our daily lives. It is similar to thinking or acting yourself into a better way of feeling, like that iconic quote “It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.” There are many reasons to have HOPE in the coming months. There is renewed emphasis on the rights of the conceived but yet un-born. The curtain of deception and fraud upon our Nation’s voting processes continue to be pulled back. More and more of the illegalities thrust upon one of our Nation’s most treasured rights, the right to vote, are being exposed. New media and social platforms are growing helping to reverse the trend of the cancel culture. More are becoming aware that COVID- 19 is a virus and cannot be eradicated and realizing that we must learn to live with it. There is an awakening to the understanding that those institutions we once trusted and depended upon to ensure the integrity our Nation (like the FBI, CIA, NIH, NIAID, CDC, and NIH, just to name a few), are no longer the untarnished, pristine institutions we once thought. We are being made aware of “Mass Formation Psychosis” infecting many in big, elite corporations and those in the realms of media and social networks. There is a renewed emphasis on the need for those who believe in a higher power to come out of the shadows, to be moved to actions, to defend the foundational principals of our Nation. Yes, there is great HOPE before all of us. HOPE is what compelled Christopher Columbus to seek a new trade route to the Far East. HOPE is what propelled the pilgrims to seek religious FREEDOM and LIBERTY to sail west into an unknown destiny. HOPE is what motivated many of our forebearers to push further westward to seek a new life in an untamed frontier. HOPE is what motivates the exploration of space. None of the proceeding, and a host of other ventures, had any assurances of success, but it was HOPE that moved all of them forward. HOPE breeds action, strengthens resolve, and fortifies purpose. “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” (Robert Kennedy)

PEACE: Is it possible to be at PEACE in a world and Nation in crisis? The answer is “YES”, but it does not come with resolving every thorny issue or countering the attack of every opposing force. Peace for many may only come when you as an individual understand that you have done all that you can, that every ounce of your energy and pound of your fiber has been expended, that every avenue and every action has been explored and fully applied and utilized. But exhausting your human effort to achieve PEACE may not be all that is required. We are mortal, and with that comes the reality that none of us will escape this world alive. There may be those who believe that one day they may live extended lives through the use of bionic-human interface (transhumanism), but would that ever bring PEACE, we think not. PEACE does not come through the extension of one’s life, but through the exercise of one’s life. It is not how long you live, but how well you live. When surrounded by tragedy or catastrophe, look to higher aspirations. Dwelling on the past and wallowing in failures, regrets or frustrations, will only entrap you in a constant sense of foreboding, a continuing cycle of despair and depression. You cannot drive safely forward by staring in the rear-view mirror. Getting out of your bed and up off the floor, raising your eyes to more lofty goals, while remembering from whence you came, you can now proceed forward and upward to re-purpose and to achieve. When we approach the end of our life, and in fact apply that at the end of each day, be at PEACE with where you now stand. PEACE is a calming influence that is more infectious than any pandemic virus. It is something of great value that can be seen by others and desired by them as well. For many, PEACE can be inculcated by having an on-going relationship with a higher power, the Creator of life and all that exists. Most of our Founding Fathers shared this belief, and that is why so many references to Him are found in our Founding Documents, printed on our money, and chiseled into many facades of buildings and monuments in our Nation’s Capital. Even in the midst of a Revolutionary War, they found a PEACE that passes all understanding. It is not a feeling. “The peace that passes understanding is a strong, resolute faith and confidence, that no matter what circumstances you encounter, God is faithful, God is good, God will keep you, God will provide for you, and God will bless you. It’s a faith that looks past circumstances to the God who works all things for your good and his glory.” (theblazingcenter.com/2018/08.) Philippians 4:7 would be a good place in the Bible to start learning about this PEACE that transcends our comprehension and allows one to function in our world and Nation today, regardless of turmoil, chaos, or injustice.

In this New Year of 2022, may you find GRATITUDE in your daily lives, live with HOPE always, and find true PEACE that will carry you through.

At the publishing of this blog, we have entered a new year. IS THE WORST BEHIND US? One of the worst years in our Nation’s history is behind us, but will things be better in 2022? We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year, but we believe that will not come automatically, but will only happen when each one of us takes personal responsibility to do everything within our power to make it happen. In some respects, we believe we should host a wake party to put the horrific 2021 behind us, to bury it, and do our best to forget it. It will be one of the gravestones in our National archives we will hate to visit. Unfortunately, the graveyard of history must be reviewed from time-to-time to do our best to not repeat the failures of the past, but do everything we can to learn from our mistakes and missteps to move in a better direction, one that is more productive, healthier, cohesive, and will only build upon the tremendous efforts put forth by those who preceded us to ensure our Nation becomes stronger, better, to become “a more perfect Union” as described in our Constitution. We hate to be pessimists, but unfortunately, we feel that the German philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831) may have a better understanding of humanity when he said, “We learn from history, that we do not learn from history.”

Following are remarks made by a 28-year-old, future 16th President of the United States, while serving as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives on January 27, 1838: “In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era. We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them – they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Theirs was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; ’tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time, and untorn by usurpation – to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform. How, then, shall we perform it? At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a Trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

You need to read the above paragraph a second time and do so slowly so that you can fully comprehend what President Lincoln was saying. As a quick review, he stated we have inherited a great National land, given to us not of our own doing. Our current duty is to preserve it and leave a continuing legacy. He finally stated that no force could ever overtake this land, except it be done by our own hand. It is the latter point that gives us pause and is of great concern. Over the last several decades, many in visible leadership positions, people in authority, those in positions of power, have allowed our Nation to be slowly invaded by others who seek to do us harm. We are not talking about the obvious, those perpetrating terrorist attacks (although that risk increases with the botched retreat from Afghanistan, and the failure to properly secure our southern border). We are talking about nation states making “investments” to curry industrial, corporate, athletic, and political favor. This “investment” takes many forms, usually involving an individual’s financial greed, as payments for “services rendered” or for future rendering of services. This “investment” can take other forms including sexual (honey pot) benefits, financial opportunities, and asset acquisition, just to name some obvious ones. So which nation states are a threat to our Nation? There are several, including North Korea and Russia, even though they are small in comparison to our Nation, they possess nuclear weapons and that makes them always a potential threat. They have also demonstrated their ability to be able to hack into our vital infrastructure computer systems causing disruption of normal services to our citizens. You might place Iran in that category, but so far, they have not developed nuclear capability and dependable ballistic missile means for deployment, although that may only be months, or a few short years away. The biggest threat to our Nation is the Chinese Communist Party of China. Over many decades China has made investments in our National structure, from assets, to personnel. China has greased the wheels of many within our government and been in bed with multiple NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) supplying them with cash and personnel. They have infused many of our larger businesses and corporations with their own citizens. They have opened their national doors to these businesses, when in compliance with their demands for information, Intellectual Property, and control. Just as one example, Nike has now proclaimed their company to be a “brand of China and for China” (Nike CEO John Donahoe; June 25, 2021). No longer are many of these larger corporations aligned with patriotism to our Nation but have supplanted that quality for one of financial profit. They can no longer be touted as a “Rosie the Riveter” model (supporting our National effort in war) but should be considered in step with “Benedict the Arnold” (a traitor to our Union in the Revolutionary War). Their compliance with an opposing force makes them traitors to our Nation, and in doing so are subverting our great Nation, while impowering China. Lest many in our Nation wag our fingers at these companies, save some ridicule and scorn for yourselves if you buy products or use services from these companies, because you too have succumbed to the lure of cheaper products, often cheaper in more ways than just one. Do you not realize that many of these products are made using slave labor? All those who rail against any form of inequality or slavery in our Nation, should be ashamed when choosing to “look the other way” when it is to your benefit, for this is just another form of seeking personal gain over National patriotism, choosing to ignore what has been bequeathed to you at such great cost, your FREEDOM and LIBERTY. In purchasing or wearing products made or assembled in China, you are declaring unwittingly your support for communism, slavery, and the cancelling of free speech, FREEDOM and LIBERTY. Wake up America! China now has a larger navy (360 ships to our 297; navytimes.com; April 12, 2021), and many more personnel in their armed services (3.55 million; globalfirepower.com; March 3. 2021). The U.S. has 1.4 million personnel in our armed forces (statista.com; March 8, 2021). Bombs do not have to be dropped for it to be a war. We have been in an economic, social, and cyber war with China for years now. We did not declare it, but they did so quietly, insidiously. They also declared quietly a pandemic war upon the world that has killed and wounded millions.

If the threat of China doesn’t wake you up to the DANGERS AHEAD, maybe a quick glance at other cancers at work within our Nation’s borders will? The following efforts will be discussed and possibly pursued by the current government in Washington D.C. There will be talk of adding more “states” to our Nation, favoring the current ruling regime. There will be continued talk of adding more seats to SCOTUS (Supreme Court Of The United States), a process favoring a liberal agenda in an attempt to alter our Constitution and Bill of Rights. There will continue to be the constant threat to overturn the Senate filibuster, allowing a majority of one to control all decisions, rather than creating a need to achieve bi-partisan solutions. Religion and Conservatism will continue to be targeted by government agencies in order to minimize and neuter opposition by claiming them to be national terrorist threats. There will be moves to eliminate God from speech, and documents, in favor of atheistic, communistic doctrines. There will be continued efforts to allow non-citizens to vote, believing them to favor the party currently in power. There will be a continued push to make Vaccine Passports mandatory, requiring everyone to be in compliance with any number of injections the government chooses to dictate. These passports will expand to include tracking and monitoring of all travel and activities and be used to further erode FREEDOM and LIBERTY. These passports will be used to control those in opposition to the current government’s agenda. (See our blog on April 14, 2021, titled “VACCINE PASSPORT”). The current government will continue to pursue the printing of more money to be heralded as a needed stimulus package, keeping many from pursuing jobs which would add revenue to our government and spur commerce. Unless laws are passed and upheld, foreign money will continue to influence members of our government, corporations, academia, sports franchises, and media. There will continue to be foreign threats requiring the attention of our military, spreading it thin, while our military leaders continue to emphasize woke agendas and the pursuit of equity and inclusion. Voter integrity will continue to be blocked. Election laws will continue to be skirted and court challenges will continue to be rebuffed by partisan judges, or those judges unwilling to stand in the breach (see our blog on June 27, 2021, titled, “WHO WILL STAND IN THE BREACH”). There is little doubt the current occupant of the White House is cognitively compromised. The 25th Amendment to our Constitution may be activated, and it would be likely that the presidential candidate who ran with the slogan “Stronger Together”, could become Vice President, and then ultimately President. Soon, the unsustainable sugar high created by the infusion of free money to many of our Nation’s citizens will be depleted, and the reality of inflation will drastically reduce spending, business income, and government revenue.

ARE THERE DANGERS AHEAD? Absolutely! If Americans do not wake up to the threats, many we’ve identified above, our Nation as we now know it will be lost, and the FREEDOM and LIBERTY we currently enjoy will be gone for a long time to come, and maybe forever. There is hope, but it lies with each one who treasures our current Constitution and Bill of Rights. It will take more than just a belief in the foundation principles of our Nation, it will take action and involvement, the application of talents and abilities, the continued pursuit of truth, justice, and the application of righteous moralities. This will not be accomplished by leaving it for “someone else” to do, for that person never exists. It will be up to each one of us, taking personal responsibility, being accountable, not only for our actions today and tomorrow, but by being accountable to our posterity, and honoring the lives given in the decades before us who sacrificed so much more than most of us can ever imagine.

WILL YOU STAND WITH THE HEROES THAT HAVE PRECEEDED US? WILL THEY, AND OUR PRODIGY, FIND OUR EFFORTS WORTHY?

The poor fireman in this short video is having quite the time trying to get his firehose under control. It even takes him down more than once. I am sure we have all experience this on a much less catastrophic level, maybe when you lost grip on your garden hose, or maybe when the sprinkler head suddenly became unattached. You probably not only got wet, but things around you got wet that were not the intended target. Whatever the case, the emphasis on the word “RUNAWAY” certainly led to multiple unintended consequences. When the item that becomes a “RUNAWAY” is your federal government, our Nation is in serious jeopardy. There is little likelihood of bringing anything under control that is a “RUNAWAY” by simple mind-control, or by ignoring it by believing the situation doesn’t exist. It will require a hands-on process, first recognizing something needs to be done, one in which you may get wet, but someone or some group must take action to bring that which is “RUNAWAY” back under control.

Our current government leadership in Washington D.C. seems to be allowing their firehose of issues to squirm, whip, and “RUNAWAY”, out of control. From one moment to the next, few in our Nation have any idea exactly what the target is, and in the process, multiple issues are being sprayed with unwanted, unfocused, even destructive attention. The minute we think there is really something being addressed “one way”, we learn there is not only a new focus, but we find out that the “one way” we thought was being pursued, is actually being re-directed to “another way”. The current occupant of the White House may say “X”, while an appointed director may say “Y”, and then the press secretary may say “Z”. This may happen over the space of one day, or over several months. Meanwhile, those within our Nation are being sprayed with contradictory statements, and have no idea what the targets are, and how they are to be handled.

This type of approach to governance is destructive. It is akin to the game “whack-a-mole”, where after one issue seems to be put down, another pops up, and often it might be an issue we once were told had already been resolved. Consider the example of the horrific method used in the current government’s retreat from Afghanistan. It may be off the minds of those in our current government, but it is a front-burner issue for those American’s still there, and our allies there who supported us, who are still being hunted down, and many are being killed. One can be assured that the method of retreat used will one day come back to haunt our Nation. Pretending an issue is resolved, does not resolve any issue. To “RUNAWAY” from the firehose will never bring it under control. It needs to be addressed forcefully, with resolve, to an acceptable conclusion where we as a Nation have fulfilled our commitments, and our duty to our own citizens and allies.

There is another grave danger to our Nation that is eating away at the core of our values. With a “RUNAWAY” governance, it is often assisted by letting go of that which keeps our Nation grounded to our Constitution and Bill of Rights. When any government official, let’s also include many of those in the corporate world and in mass media, let loose of morals and ethics, we as a Nation are not only devalued throughout the world, but the very soul of our Nation is being torn away as it were an onion being shed, one skin or layer at a time. Before long, if this is allowed to continue, our Nation will no longer be one to be admired for truth and justice but will be counted among hundreds of nations that have failed throughout the ages. The current occupant of the White House had said many times during the campaign that the fight was for the soul of our Nation. What was never made clear was to what end was that “soul” supposed to look like? This was a form of “projection”, an appeal couched in deception in the hopes that those who heard these words would rally to the call, not knowing that the “soul” being sought was one of darkness, sinister intent, and in fact evil. One cannot force upon another their form of morality, but it can be made difficult to resist. Surrendering to the overwhelming power means it is useless to resist. Subsequent compliance will over time create the loosening and bending of once stout, honest and true morals. Consider just a few ramifications of the downward trend in ethics. The rise in petty crimes, including “smash and grab” orgies, and car thefts. The rise in shootings, many leading to murder. While believing that reduced bail or limiting incarceration will solve a believed incarceration problem, we have only really expedited recidivism and more crimes, assaults, and murders. While believing we have corralled the “RUNAWAY” firehose, we only soon find that we are knocked down by it while being sprayed with the very thing that should be under our control, and that the surrounding elements, like business and people, are also negatively impacted.

When power and greed consume many thoughts, it is no wonder so many in this world are distraught. Many in our Nation simply want to “RUNWAY” and hide. This is another critical mistake that does nothing to bring about an acceptable resolution. At least the firefighter in the short video clip above is trying to do something. He has not turned tail and run! We cannot depend upon the hope that anything good will come out of something bad. By our Constitution and Bill of Rights, we have been given a unique power to control our own destinies. It is a mistake, and in fact a great shame, that many are too afraid to exercise that which is provided to us in this great Nation of ours, our voice and our actions. We alone have within each of us the ability and power to make change, to right wrongs, and to re-establish the proper course of this Nation of ours as set forth by those who sacrificed so much.

Do not be afraid to exercise your God given and constitutionally given rights. You do not have to run and jump on the whipping firehose nozzle. Start working your will upstream where the hose is controllable, then move ever so much closer to that which needs to be brought under control. Everyone can do this. Participate at your school boards and city councils. Speak to your neighbors. Plant or carry a sign. It takes no special talent, just the will to get involved. The “RUNAWAY FIREHOSE GOVERNANCE” will only be brought back under control once each one of us does our part, however small or insignificant it may seem to be.

What steps will you take today?

In 2005 a documentary was released called “March of the Penguins”. What you are viewing above is certainly not indicative of what is shown in the documentary. However, what is shown above is certainly representative of many in our Nation who are choosing to RUN AWAY from the attacks on our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. At FREEDOMGOFORTH, we have a difficult time choosing between our responses to this fleeing from the fights that lie ahead. We want to feel mad, but that serves no purpose. We want to feel worried, because the fewer of “us” than of “them” certainly means the opposing forces will have less resistance to the woke efforts and agendas of governmental, corporate and media elites (refer to our blog on June 20, 2021, titled “THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM”). We want to feel ashamed, because we feel that our constant efforts to bolster the resistance to the tide attempting to whittle away at our Constitution and Bill of Rights, have been failing, akin to us spitting into the wind. We question whether there will be any of you “WHO WILL STAND IN THE BREACH?” (Our blog published June 27, 2021.)

Maybe a few of us need to learn a lesson from nature? In the documentary “The March of the Penguins”, we are shown, in gut-wrenching detail, the efforts to which the emperor penguins of Antarctica go to procreate, then protect and raise their offspring. If you have not seen this documentary, it is important for you to do so. They often give their lives to insure the protection, growth, and survival of their species. It would seem that many within our Nation feel no responsibility to our offspring to protect them from the hazards facing our Nation, both from within and without our borders. It would seem many would rather RUN AWAY, than stand and fight to protect not just our own children and grandchildren, but for all in future generations that should be allowed to benefit from the FREEDOM and LIBERTY granted to us through the ages, by the multitude of those who fought, sacrificed, and died for the benefits we often take too lightly. We do not disagree with the concept that it is so much easier to “go with the flow”, than to swim upstream against the current. Maybe a few of you would benefit from reading our blog posted on June 6, 2021, titled “ARE YOU A LEMMING?” In reference to our blog posted last Sunday titled “A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL”, there are those who had been among us, who have sacrificed the beating heart of life to serve and protect. If you would desire to be counted worthy of their respect and honor, you need to RUN TOWARDS the fire, RUN TOWARDS the hazard, to risk your very life and limb. Only then, can you truly be counted among them as a hero. To RUN AWAY reflects cowardice and fear. Remember the quotes from President Abraham Lincoln we posted in our blog on April 4, 2021, titled “turn FEARFULESS into FEARLESSNESS”. “Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.” “To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.” “I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.” 

At FREEDOMGOFORTH, posting our blogs from a state led by a controlling, manipulative government, we are constantly amazed at the number of “sheep” (lemmings) that blindly comply to the woke agendas as their FREEDOM and LIBERTY are increasingly restricted. Not only are the businesses in fear of fines and prosecution, yielding to illegal mandates requiring masking, and undoubtedly soon to be followed with proof of vaccinations (see our warning about “VACCINE PASSPORT”, posted on April 14, 2021), but most individuals are yielding as well. Most businesses and individuals are void of the facts about vaccine and mask efficacies (see our blogs on April 21, 2021, titled, “VACCINE EFFICACY”, and on March 21, 2021, titled, “MASKS vs. COVID-19 – The Facts”). Most individuals walk like zombies into all businesses, masked as compliant little drones, having sacrificed their FREEDOM and LIBERTY on the altar of elite “WOKEISM” (see our blog posted May 5, 2021). It is sad to witness, but it is no reason to RUN AWAY! It is a reason to get into the fight, to join hands to reclaim our FREEDOM and LIBERTY, and to return to our Nation’s citizens that which has been given to us over the decades at such a great cost. We need to work as hard as we can to even prove us worthy to walk in step with the emperor penguins as we together will endure whatever it takes to ensure the survival of our offspring, and in fact, the survival of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY, not just for our benefit, but also for the benefit of our world that looks to our Nation as the symbol so many look to as the national templet to model.

We know that there are those who would prefer to RUN AWAY and hide under a rock, seemingly protected from the turbulence and corrosion going on around them. But be forewarned, what you may be evading right now will soon follow you to wherever you go. You cannot isolate yourself from the inevitable creep of wokeism, for as sure as the sun rises in the east, so will this invasive force move to encompass you anywhere you may attempt to hide. There is only one way to avoid the potential of this inevitability, and that is to stand where you are, fight with all your might, resist the urge to comply with forced mandates, and protect your children and grandchildren, to insure those that follow will enjoy FREEDOM and LIBERTY for generations to come.

Are you concerned with the direction our Nation is headed? Think about the following things: The job market will only improve once the vaccine and mask mandates are repealed. Crime will only be reduced once we re-energize law and court enforcement. Racism will only cease once we stop using it to accuse everyone we disagree with on economic, social, and climate issues. Prices will only stabilize once we are allowed to again become energy independent. Stability around the world will only be regained once we re-emphasize “Peace Through Strength”, protect all of our U.S. citizens wherever they may be, and stand strong with our allies. Immigration will only be brought under control once our southern border is brought under control by the Federal Government by upholding current laws and fulfilling the primary purpose of defending and protecting all of our citizens. Financial stability will only be regained once we stop paying people to not work, stop printing more money, and learn how to live within a budget. Faith in our government and the judicial systems will only be brought back into alignment once our established laws are upheld and those that violate them are held fully and equally accountable.

We have no illusions that many of those who read our blogs are in critical areas of influence to be able to alter the course of any of the above inadequacies in the course of our Nation. We do have great hope that most will recognize these as important areas within our Nation that need attention. We can say for certain that each and every one who reads this blog has the ability, in fact shares the responsibility, to make your voice heard by bringing to the attention of those who represent you in our government the urgent need to alter course. If they do not heed your desires, then let them know they will be replaced with another who will heed to the voices of those they represent.

So, will you prove yourself more noble than the emperor penguins, willing to sacrifice all to ensure the survivability of your offspring, and the very existence of our Nation? What will you do today to help regain our National FREEDOM and LIBERTY?

An homage to our heroes

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all seemed okay.

Many creatures were stirring and most in dismay.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

But one space left open, for he was not there.

The children were restless as they lay in their beds.

All were reviewing sad dreams in their heads.

Mom in her PJs, alone in her room,

Not knowing the future, seemed covered with gloom.

When out on the lawn there arose such a noise,

Kids leaped to their feet, let loose of their poise.

Away to the window, peered through the closed blinds,

Pulled down the string, what was blowing their minds?

The light from the street shown dimly at first,

Gave glow to the objects, and fearing the worst.

When what to their wondering eyes should appear,

But a host of all peoples, and sleds pulled by deer.

With a ton of strong voices, they all sang in cheer,

She knew in a moment she had nothing to fear.

Mom knew in a flash that they came from all parts,

From T2T warriors, to firemen, nurses, and cops.

More swift than a race car, all declared with no doubt,

They belted and shouted, these names they called out.

Now Facts, now Truth, now Goodness, now Reason,

On Liberty, on Hope, on Justice, on Freedom.

To the top of the porch, to the top of the roof,

Now hear us all people, you need no more proof.

From voices now past, to echos still heard,

We glean from our past, moving forward we’ve learned.

Be brave and courageous, be strong and be proud.

We’ve come bearing gifts, so said all in the crowd.

And then in a twinkling, she threw open the door,

And wave upon wave, they placed gifts on her floor.

Each guest was arrayed in colors so bold,

Most from each service, or so she was told.

The gifts were so splendid, each serving a need,

Not one was more special, each useful indeed.

We know of your sadness and grievous loss,

But know we are with you no matter the cost.

Dressed in each service, some blue and some white,

With caps and ribbons, and medals quite bright.

They each told their story, their fight and their might.

No message was given considered quite trite.

All who had come offered words and good cheer.

She felt such great comfort, she had nothing to fear.

One special soldier she knew by his name,

Brought forward a sock, she then knew why he came.

A brother in arms, a friend to the end,

He brought forth the gift, a heart needs to mend.

To the mantle he marched, with purpose so clear,

The lost soldier’s sock was hung in the hole left there.

Then stepping back slowly, he saluted with honor,

Showing dignity and pride, his eyes starring yonder.

As slowly brought up, his arm to salute,

Moved down just as slowly, the point was not moot.

Tears flowed down his cheeks as he swung back around,

Moving again forward, his eyes had now found.

Mom and her children now hugging together,

Moving now forward, said he’d remember forever.

He told of their father, a husband beloved,

His unswerving duty to the country and family he loved.

He spoke of their father’s most fervent belief,

If the worst were to happen, to not live in grief.

He spoke his desire that they would move on,

Buoyed by the thought that he’s really not gone.

He knelt on one knee, and spoke from his heart,

Your father and husband will never depart.

Then touching each of their hearts with his hand,

He said he is with you, viewing you from a heavenly land.

He lives in your memory, your thoughts, your prayers.

He’ll always look down, ’cause you know that he cares.

So the stocking, said he, is hung every year,

To remember his love is always so near.

We’ve many more homes to visit this night.

Others are hurting, take to them Christmas bright.

As they all moved away from the home that fine night,

A new joy was found in a family all right.

A Father’s and Husband’s voice could be heard,

In each of their hearts where it now firmly stood.

Christmas is not just for joy and good cheer,

But also a time to remember each year,

That loved ones now parted, no longer to see,

Are still with us ever, and so shall it be.

OneShadowWarrior

We’ll get back to the word SHINNEY a little later in our blog. First, we want to talk a little about what just happened in Washington D.C., the center of our National government. Instead of our government setting a budget to live within, the elected elites (we loosely refer to them as our representatives) have decided to once again kick the can down the road. We cannot say for sure that every household within our Nation lives within a budget. We guess that a few cannot, or do not, for maybe a variety of reasons. Maybe they depend totally upon checks from the government, so whatever they get, they will spend, or charge to their ever-increasing debt on their credit cards. Maybe they live off of someone else, like their parents, or maybe a rich relative who will cover whatever they spend. Maybe they don’t even know what a budget is, because they live off of the policy, “cash-in, cash-out”, and will simply deal with the over-draft charges, or denied use of their credit card at checkout when they are told “disapproved” because of lack of funds. Maybe they simply do not care, because when the debts get just too high, they will declare bankruptcy and start the process all over again. Regardless, we believe most within our Nation are rational beings and understand that one cannot live beyond their means, and when they run low on cash or credit, they will stop or slow down their spendings in order to stay solvent. One thing is for certain. Whenever any citizen within our Nation reaches the point where cash and credit approach zero, there is also zero likelihood they will be able to generate cash out of thin air, that is without doing it illegally by robbing a bank or stealing stuff to resell, as has been the habit of a few flash-mob thieves of late in “smash and grab” orgies in some of our cities of late. Living on borrowed money will at some point always lead to a reconning.

Unlike us peasants, as our “representatives” kick the can down the road, they are above the fray and feel free to spend our taxpayer dollars as they see fit, without any regard for personal consequences or reprisals. They also have the luxury of being able to lie and say: “This won’t cost you, the taxpayer, anything as it is totally covered”. If you believe this, we have some great property to sell you, but if you want to see it, you will have to wait for low tide. How many times have you heard or been told that nothing in life is truly free, that there is always a cost, that money doesn’t grow on trees . . . except in our magical government tree known as the BEP (Bureau of Engraving and Printing), under the control of the United States Treasury Department. Fortunately, for the U.S., the U.S. dollar happens to be the world’s currency right now for trade. What that means is that our government can print as much money as it wants to in order to buy whatever it wants or pay for whatever it desires. The unfortunate consequence of this procedure is that the more money the U.S. prints, the less value remains in each dollar you may hold, and that is called currency devaluation, or in laymen’s terms, your dollar will buy less and less of anything, or put another way, it will take more and more of your dollars to pay for the same thing you bought not long ago. Sometimes our government sells bonds in our Country in order to have the cash on hand to fund our ever-increasing glut of programs. Right now, as we have detailed in a previous blog titled “JUST SAY NO” (published September 27, 2021), our Nation is in debt beyond our ability to pay within this generation, or the next, and that is assuming our “representatives” ever feel the need to act and plan within any kind of budget. We constantly hear their cry to raise the ceiling of our buget, meaning they want to have more money to spend more money. We are also constantly bombarded with the on-going process of CRs (Continuing Resolutions), where we just postpone the process for raising the debt limit to a later date. Here at FREEDOMGOFORTH, we call that procrastination. All we ever hear from them is to just kick the can down the road, hoping that by some miracle we shall one day immerge from the depths of over-spending. They trust they will be rewarded with renewed tenure in Washington D.C. for “bringing home the bacon” to their constituents, or that the need to “pay the piper” will come after they have left their cushy job, and are living high off the hog in retirement, funded totally by the taxpayers of our Nation. Two major flaws exist in the ability to continue to print money to feed the government pig. First, in the not-too-distant future, the almighty dollar will lose favor among world nations and will no longer be something we can print at will. Secondly, no other nation will consider the U.S. to be a viable investment, and the ability to sell bonds will come to a screeching halt. When these things happen, we will not only be “up a crick without a paddle”, but our canoe will be full of holes and sinking fast. Where does a nation go when it can no longer pay its debts? Hyperinflation will occur where you will have to carry your cash in a wheelbarrow to buy one loaf of bread . . . assuming there will be any bread to buy. The rich in our Nation will have fled to more accommodating climes, unaffected by the wreckage left behind. The rest of us will be wallowing in the filth of despair, where wants are no longer dreams, and where needs are no longer met.

Yes, it is a sad thing to constantly kick the can down the road, as the face of our friend in the short video clip above can attest. It also hurts, again as our little friend has experienced from the kicking process. Now let us talk about SHINNEY. Our editor of this blog can now relay a true story that will help to explain the dangers of the on-going policy within our government to continually kick the can down the road. Back in the day before cell phones or computers, there were less opportunities for young kids to lay on the couch and even watch TV, as cable channels didn’t exist, and you only got on the screen what your rabbit ear antennas were able to pull in. So, there were ample opportunities for the youth of our Nation to explore the out of doors and be inventive in the games we played. One of them was called SHINNEY. Imagine an open area in a yard or field where a circle was drawn, maybe 15 feet in diameter. Around the circumference of the circle, five or six (depending on the number of players) small holes were dug, no bigger than the size of a typical dinner plate, but not smaller than a teacup saucer, and the holes were not that deep, maybe only 8 or 10 inches. Every player got a stick. Broom or mop handles worked perfectly. Then there was chosen a can to be used in the game. Each player defended their own hole from a “floater” player in the middle of the circle whose job it was to get the can within one of the holes of a player on the edge of the circle. You could not use your hands or legs, only the stick to move the can. Once the player in the middle was able to maneuver the can into another player’s hole, they then exchanged positions, and the game began again. You can well imagine the shape of that can after just a few minutes of the game. You can also imagine the number of player shins that were being routinely impacted either by the now sharp edges of the can, or the opposing player’s stick. This was not a game for the faint of heart, and wearing shorts was not a good idea, for any denim material over one’s shins afforded at least some, although minimal, protection.

So, what’s the point of this bit of reminiscing, and how does it relate to kicking the can down the road? Shins were not the only parts of a player’s body that were subject to injury. No helmets, gloves, or eye protection were ever worn. There was always blood being drawn from one or more of the players. In some cases, even more damaging injuries were possible, as the sharp-edged can never stayed on the ground level but often made its way above the waist . . . and so did the sticks. The editor of this blog can attest to multiple scars that remain on both shins from this game played many multiple years ago. There was also ample opportunity for several players in the game to team up on one other, and the verbal abuse and put-downs were not that rare. Damage is not only done to the players of SHINNEY, but also innocent bystanders. Long after the kids had played their last game, when the property owners were being assisted in cleaning up the property for a move, both of this editor’s parents received sprained ankles by stepping into the overgrown holes left behind. This is how it will be when any form of SHINNEY is played, for whenever the decision is made to kick the can down the road, we will all suffer some damage, and much of it will be permanent. Failure to recognize a dangerous event, and not take proper precautions, will always leave scars, and they can never be undone. When our “representatives” kick the can down the road, they are only hurting our Nation and each citizen that resides within. To fail to recognize the dangers to not live within a national budget, and even more so, to not even establish a budget to begin with, is pure lunacy and ineptitude which is unbecoming of any “representative.” We do not mean to disparage all who are elected to represent us in Washington D.C., because there are several who go there with the best intentions to do the right thing. Unfortunately, some are often overcome with the bureaucracy that resides there, and find their voice often muted, not just by opposing forces, but often even by those who should be on the same team, the team that should be fighting for our FREEDOM and LIBERTY.

We are tired of our “representatives” playing SHINNEY. It is past time to no longer kick the can down the road, as permanent damage to our Nation is the result. We need to all be active in letting them know that our Nation needs to live within a set budget, and if it means cutting out some pork and fat, all the better. We need to take personal responsibility to talk to those whom we have elected to represent us and serve for us. If they do not listen, but succumb to the intoxicating bewitchment of Washington D.C., then it is our duty to vote them out and replace them with someone else who treasures our Nation and will fight to maintain our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and who will take every possible step necessary to ensure the continuation of our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. Who will you call or email today? Tell them to “JUST SAY NO“. We want to leave you with one thought to consider if you feel unaffected by the topic of this blog. “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” (Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, 1749-1832.)