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The drill sergeant’s famous shout in the movies is “I own you recruit!” or even something a little more earthy stating very clearly that the recruit has lost every element of control of his life to the military. It was this image that immediately came to mind when Peacock read the opening paragraphs of Susanne M. Schafer’s AP article on January 27, 2011 titled “First lady: Army health initiative may be a model”.

Given the context of Obamacare and other clearly socialist initiatives designed to exercise greater control over our lives I don’t think I am overreacting to the following paragraph from the article quoting the First Lady.

“A lack of fitness is ‘not just a health issue but a national security issue,’ she said, and the military’s health initiatives could be a model for youngsters elsewhere.”

That comment from a First Lady gives me the creeps.

Obamacare scares me in many ways. At the outset it creates a situation in which all personal health care is eventually and inevitably forced to migrate to a government plan and federal control. In the long run, as  the private systems are, by design, driven out of business there ends up being no choice. Obamacare will be the only health care option left. Anyone who examines the numbers sees that this is the only outcome. So, we end up with Obamacare and Social Security to take care of us from cradle to grave. The nanny state promoters like the First Lady will then see it as a national security issue to make sure we all eat and exercise properly. We will be told that if we don’t stay fit we will not be healthy enough to keep the nationally run system financially viable and therefore assure that the nation is secure.

At some point down the road I am concerned that some federal executive going to scream at our descendants through the television, “You will stay fit and eat properly because I own you, it is a national security issue, and we have to keep the health care system solvent”.

Considering what has been happening since FDR dramatically accelerated socialism I don’t think this scenario is a stretch.

We all recall how Barak Hussein Obama came to power.  A young, charismatic, orator, unknown to the public, gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004.  He was quickly promoted by the Democratic Party, becoming a Senator in 2006, and running for the presidency in an environment when the public, conditioned by eight years of character assignation by the mainstream media, found themselves sick of George W. Bush, and the Republican Party.

To a majority of the country he appeared to be the savior, running as a moderate and railing against partisan ranker, Washington’s out-of-control spending and waste, and “change”.  The mainstream media burnished his image and virtually ignored his radical, left wing past.

In an historic election, this country elected the first black man to the highest office in the land, if not the world.  For a brief time, some were smug and patted themselves on the back.

Several days, and only several days, after his inauguration, Mr. Obama stepped out of his acting role, made a hard left-hand turn, and revealed his true colors.  This was an acting role of a lifetime, and he should have received an Oscar.  Instead, he received only a Nobel Peace Prize.  When the hangover cleared, we found that we had elected the most radical, left wing socialist in the history of our country, as the 44th President of the United States.  (How about a shout out here to the mainstream media?)

The next two years were followed a raw show of power, as only a party controlling all of the branches of government can pull off.  Cabinet appointees were not vetted by Congress, merely appointed as Czars, and moving forward the most liberal agenda since the “New Deal”.  We got larger government, more supervision over private enterprise, and less liberty for all.  His stimulus program spent trillions on things that produced no results, but did reward his political base. His crowning achievement, Obamacare, 2,700 pages of legislation that no one had read or understood, was shoved down the throat of the people, in the dark of night, against all of their protests.  It was historic.  No significant piece of legislation had been forced on the country with such narrow margins and such strong arm tactics. Yet, it fulfilled a seventy-eight year liberal dream, and cost his party the House and most of the Senate.  His approval rating plummeted.

Fresh from this self-described “shellacking”, we are now witnessing “Obama II, The Sequel”.  His new role is much the same as his old character, but it will be much more difficult to pull-off given the fact that he exposed himself after the first performance.

The trailer for his new role was previewed in his recent State-Of-The-Union Speech.  Peppered with words such as, bi-partisanship, deficit reduction, investing in education, green jobs, making America more competitive, and jobs, jobs, jobs, his inner moderate is re-emerging.  After all, he did extend the Bush tax cuts.

As all great actors, Obama has the ability to act out a role, but be someone else, to say one thing, and do exactly the opposite.  With personalities of this ilk, you cannot listen to what they say; you must look at what they do.

As a public service to those of you in our costal states, who may actually listen to Obama’s words, Peacock has decided to decode his words so you may better understand what he is saying.  It is not hard to decode.

“Investment” means more government spending and a larger deficit (if that is possible).  “Bi-partisanship” means making nice on the surface until I can find a rock to crush your skull.  “Investing in education,” means throwing more money and power to the teacher unions who have our children enslaved in public schools.  “Green Jobs” means regulating carbon and destroying the economy further by drastically raising the price of energy and destroying more jobs than are created.  “Making America more competitive,” means bigger government telling private enterprise just what technologies they should pursue, and punishing industries that do not follow that lead.  It all adds up to continuing the march to socialism, and the upcoming battles with Congress will reaffirm this.

Peacock from the beginning has held the opinion that Obama was designed by the radical left to be a one-term president  Do as much damage to the country in a short period of time and spend the rest of your life traveling the world and giving speeches to fellow travelers.  That being said, no harm in giving it the old college try.  As P.T. Barnum said, “There is a sucker born every day” (or a new voter, as the case may be).

It is an old adage, but one that is true.  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.

Through some unknown means, Progressives have an institutional memory and a long term plan which they have been steadily working at for the past one hundred years.  They have had grand achievements along the way: a progressive income tax, Social Security, Welfare, Aid for Dependent Children, Medicare and Medicaid, and their latest achievement, government run healthcare.  Yet, for the most part, it has been the constant stream of little things that has paved the way for the big things.  Similar to the constant drip, drip, drip of water upon rock, great canyons can be formed over long periods of time.

Conservatives, on the other hand, by definition, really have no forward looking goals.  They are stuck with a life role of perpetual defense, defending the Constitution and the thinking of our Founding Fathers, defending the status quo.  They have no real plan other than defending the line of scrimmage.  Independents, and many in their own party, push for more accommodation, more “reaching across the isle”, so they give up a yard here and a yard there, and oops, the other team has scored a touchdown.  They have no plan, only the dogged task of trying to defend.  They ARE the Party of NO.

This lopsided game, played over a hundred years, has yielded a country and government that would not be recognized by our Founding Fathers.  It has taken us to the precipice of socialism and a failing, if not failed country.  It has placed us on the path taken by so many countries before us, and all have ended up in the same miserable place.  Misery surely loves company, so Europe has welcomed President Obama with open arms.

The Republicans have now taken back the House and picked up six seats in the Senate, a tidal wave by historic standards.  The voters have said that they want a reduction in spending and in the size of government, but they did not vote so much for Republicans as much as they did against the Obama agenda of European style socialism.  Yet, Americans are an inpatient lot, and the Republicans will fail without a radical change in their playbook.

It took a hundred years to get here, and our country will not be restored overnight.  Further, it will not be restored using the same defensive strategies that Conservatives have employed for the past one hundred years.  In short, the historic roles must be reversed.  The Republicans must become the Progressive party and go on the offense.  Such a move would force the Democrats into the role of conservatives, i.e., attempting to preserve the gains they have made and thereby blunting their offense.

The Republican Party must unite and articulate what they stand for, and what their objectives are.  At the same time, they must inculcate in the party the same institutional memory and long term game plan that the Progressives have been so good at over the last century.  As sure as the sun rises, they will be thrown again out of the majority, but in power or out, they must keep working at their plan, being ready to strike when opportunity presents itself. As the Progressives are fond of saying, they must “keep their eyes on the prize”.  There are no short term fixes to the problems we have created over a long period of time.

What might these objectives look like?  Here, in no particular order, are Peacock’s top ten priorities.

I. Tax Reform

II. Social Security Reform

III. Healthcare Repeal and Reform

IV. Shrink the actual size of the Federal Government

V. Reclamation of power by the states

VI. Election Reform

VII. Elimination of government unions and collective bargaining

VIII. Foreign Policy coherence and consistency

IX. Immigration Reform and secure borders

X. Statuary limits upon spending

Peacock will be exploring each of these objectives in depth in future articles.

There is no need in this article to list again the inalienable rights from God that our founding fathers pledged everything to found America on. Even those who are liberation theory proponents or progressives know the list well. If you are using the Internet or in a secondary school in most places of the world you know this famous short list.

Perhaps there is not even a need to point out that these rights are under attack like never before in the history of the United States of America. They have been quietly under attack for 100 years. They have been a bit more aggressively, but somewhat quietly, under attack since the 1960s. Under the Obama presidency they are both aggressively and visibly under attack. They are so visibly under attack that the debate has divided our country to a greater degree than since the Civil War.

The media likes to point to the economy as the catalyst for the unprecedented citizen interest in government and the angry debate on Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The person on the street will give a different story. This amazing level of interest, and the amazing conservative voter turnout in the primary elections, has much more to do with fear of losing the rights that our ancestors have fought for than it has to do with the economy. The insulting and degrading way in which Pennsylvania Avenue refers to the Main Street citizen is simply an ineffective way of demeaning people who are catching on to the truth. The deliberate destruction of the economy by progressives is the progressive’s way to deflect attention from the deliberate destruction of the United States as it was founded.

That truth is that bloated, ineffective government is claiming that it, not God, is the provider and definer of basic human rights. The truth is that the United States government, as it becomes larger and seeks more control, is the destroyer of the economy. Perhaps in the past this destruction of the economy may have been more through incompetence than through the design laid out by Cloward and Piven. Recently it is the Cloward and Piven design, strongly promoted by President Obama and his staff, that is the chief force in the destruction of our economy. The truth is that this deliberate bloating of government coupled with the orchestrated destruction of our economy through the Cloward and Piven design are the twin excuses that Progressive government will use to usurp God-given inalienable rights and replace them with “rights” benignly bestowed by a government whose purpose is to drive our country, and perhaps the world, to Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”.

This writer, and an increasing number of people I encounter, do not believe that our horrible and erratic economy is the primary problem we have in America or in the world. In the U.S. the primary problem is a never ending series of multiple personality disorder administrations that have created massive year to year uncertainty while acting like control freaks on a spending binge. The horrible and erratic economy is the result of our government’s “mental illness”.

It is this “mental illness” that is bent on taking away our God given inalienable rights and replacing than with government-approved rights. It is this “mental illness” that makes government believe that it can, at will, levy extremely high taxes on everyone and make the decision for us on how to redistribute our income to others in our country and around the world. It is this “mental illness” that makes government believe it can escalate these oppressive activities to unprecedented levels and then accuse citizens of being “Homer Simpsons” who just don’t understand. If our federal government were an individual under care of a psychiatrist I wonder if the psychiatrist would suggest that such a mentally delusional person be locked up for the protection of society.

Of course, all of this is from the perspective of a conservative who believes that the founding fathers were right and that the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are just as relevant today as they were 200 years ago. On the other hand, the true believers among the progressives, of whom President Obama seems to be one, believe in government control, rights bestowed by government instead of God and redistribution of hard-earned wealth by the government to every corner of the planet. The last time the writers at Peacock Watch checked, ours is the only country on the planet that states in its founding document that our rights flow from God; not kings, dictators or faceless governments.

This writer had the unexpected pleasure of spending a week next to an extremely small town buried in a national forest in the mid-west. When driving into town I first saw banners from several churches on the telephone poles. In the middle of town there is a store with a large plate glass window facing the main street. In that window are proudly displayed the American flag and next to it the Ten Commandments. Across the street is a restaurant that replaces one that burned down, along with the family home of the owners, many years ago. The family owners couldn’t afford insurance but the town pitched in to help them restart their restaurant in another building and move into another home. Pride and self-respect required that the family repay their friends, and they finally did. No one asked for government help. Inside this restaurant are walking sticks and stone animals made by the owner’s very elderly father. On the walls there are pictures of friends going back to high school days. In particular, there are newspaper articles about childhood friends who joined the military and thus became heroes in the eyes of those who stayed behind. These are people who know fear of the Lord. These are people who will do whatever it takes to make sure they don’t have to fear our government.

Progressives and conservatives are thus locked in a titanic struggle that has gone on for at least one hundred years, has now reached a massively visible do or die decision point, and which, on some scale, will frankly never end.

Within the framework of United States society and constitution this is a war. It is a war to be fought at each voting precinct and is as serious as any fighting war our country has been involved in. Every voter in this country has an obligation to themselves, to our founding fathers, to our ancestors, to our descendents, and to all the military and civilian people who have fought for, and continue to fight for, our country.

This writer believes that our voting box war will in 2010 and 2012 decide the future of our country for a long time to come. It is not what has become the traditional choice between a democrat or republican. It is a choice between voting for those who want large, expensive, powerful government that defines our rights and limitations and those who believe, as our founding fathers did, in extremely limited government , God-given rights, balanced budget, minimal taxation and control and distribution of wealth by those who earn it.

It is a war as real and as important as any fighting war and it must be fought at the local, state and federal level.

Any conservative who doesn’t vote has betrayed all those in the past and present who have fought, and are now, fighting for our freedom to vote and decide the future of our country. Those non-voters are also betraying the children and grandchildren we know, and all of our descendents who we will never have the privilege of meeting. This obligation to engage in the voting booth war is so clear that even the Homer Simpsons in office in Washington should understand it.

We must meet this obligation starting now and do it in numbers that clog our streets with unprecedented numbers of people standing in line to vote to preserve our country as it was established by our founding fathers.