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Peacock has long believed that people will meet your expectations.

Ronald Reagan’s expectations of Americans were high. Through him we finally shook ourselves loose from the lingering malaise of the Vietnam War and began to believe again in our greatness. American morale improved quickly and our great American machine started humming again. He believed enough in each of us that he wanted dramatically less government and more reliance on the individual.

Obama’s expectations of Americans are clearly very low. Time after time he has talked about how we have created problems around the world and how injustice is common within our country. His comments work to lower our morale and our faith in ourselves. He believes so little in each of us that he is aggressively creating a larger government that is restricting our freedoms more and more.

Peacock and Spouse took the long over road trip to the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Rally on August 28th, 2010. We agreed that it was one of the best experiences in our lives.

It was an experience successfully designed to help us believe even more strongly in ourselves and our fellow Americans. This increased belief didn’t just come from the powerful words of those on the stage. It also came from those who were there. At least 500,000 people gathered enthusiastically, cordially, and respectfully to hear and share in the positive message presented. Peacock emphasizes that is was a positive message without negative references.

This massive crowd was the friendliest I have ever experienced. At one point there was a concern that a small child had been lost in the crowd. A woman near us commented that this was the safest and most loving large crowd possible for a small lost child. I have no doubt that she was right. It was almost the cleanest and neatest crowd. The grounds were clean and the trash cans full after the event was over.

People came from all over. We met attendees from California, Arizona (they all love Jan Brewer), Texas, Colorado, South Dakota, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Florida, North and South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and other states. We saw old people in wheelchairs, on crutches, using canes, and using each other to stand upright and keep going. Everyone offered help.

The message to people who believe in the principals put down on paper by our founding fathers did not disappoint any of us.

We heard about restoring the America as it was founded. Restoring faith in our free enterprise system, in self-reliance, in community. This was briefly contrasted at one point with rejecting transformation of America to something that is clearly just the opposite. We heard about our inalienable rights originating from God. That government has no right to take those away and cannot grant new inalienable rights. They can only originate from God.

We heard a lot about unity rather than division. The most significant reference to race during the day was that we all belong to one race – the human race.

We heard the granddaughter of Rev. Martin Luther King, Alveda King, say “God Bless America”.

We heard about the greatness and relevance of our founding fathers in our daily lives. We heard about acting with honor in all things. We heard about faith, hope and charity and never heard one word about anger, division or hate.

However, in watching most of the news media after the event, particularly MSNBC, we were hearing nothing positive about any of these things. Even Fox news reported as if they didn’t even have anyone there. One has to wonder what the motivation of the news media is in not reporting the positive nature of this event and instead going on a personal attack against Glenn Beck and others on the stage. Some of the attacks by MSNBC were simply outrageous and in stark contrast with the positive, uplifting nature of the event. They bore no resemblance to what we saw and experienced first hand.

The contrast is striking. Glenn Beck has high expectations of Americans and America. He knows that we will meet those expectations. He believes our inalienable rights come from God and that they were excellently defined by our founding fathers. He believes that wealth is not redistributed through government but through charitable organizations and churches. He believes that we should be asking God to bless America, not damn America.

The message from our president, supported strongly by the mainstream media, is depressing. He wants to make government larger and have it take more control over our lives. He wants us to pass on massive debt to our children and grandchildren. He says the message of our founding fathers is no longer relevant, that we must transform America and put more trust in a government that moves itself farther from God each year. He wants America to have only a participatory role in the world rather than a leading role. In short, his expectations of us are low.

For Peacock and Spouse the Restore Honor Rally was a transformational event. We will meet Glenn Beck’s expectations and will spread the word to others through our words and actions.

God Bless America. And God Bless Glenn Beck.

A  previous PeacockWatch article, Our Great Tyranny Engine, explained how our federal government has gobbled up our liberty by creating a problem or crisis, and then passing more laws that require more government and more taxes to solve the crisis of their making.  This is the basic design of that engine, but as with any engine, fuel is required to power it.  That fuel for this engine is tax dollars, and the main provider of dollars to our government is our Federal Income Tax system.

This system not only creates the means to grow government, but worse, it gives the politicians almost unlimited power to barter away tax breaks and entitlements for campaign funds and votes.  Indeed, our tax code is the big litter box when it comes to transactions between lobbyist and politicians.

The tax code is used for everything from social engineering to pitting people who pay taxes against people who do not, again, for political gain. The system is rapidly approaching a tipping point where the amount of people not paying taxes and/or deriving benefits from the government will exceed the numbers of people paying taxes and receiving very little direct benefit from government.  This creates a perceived permanent majority for the party that is deemed to have provided the most benefits.

The tax code itself is hopelessly complex (even the IRS does not understand many parts of it), costly to maintain and enforce, and intrusive into the private lives of citizens.  It has been abused by Presidents and politicians alike, having been used for retribution against political opposition.  At its core, it punishes success and rewards failure.

Our tax code is all of the egregious things above, but first and foremost, it is the fuel for the engine designed to enslave us.

In 1903 Federal Government spending was a mere 6% of GDP.  The 16th Amendment was enacted in 1913, authorizing the federal income tax.  In the current fiscal year, spending is 45% of GDP, and climbing steeply in the out years of our current budget.

To maintain any semblance of liberty, and to strike at ever increasing federal power, this fuel must be cut off.  Yet, even a smaller engine of government needs some fuel.  If the income tax is repealed, it must be replaced with something that provides predictable fuel,  but takes power out of the hands of the politicians.

Over the past several years there have been alternatives proposed to eliminate the federal income tax, perhaps the most popular being the “Fair Tax”, basically a flat rate consumption tax which would replace the income tax, social security, and medicare taxes.  It has some popular support, but it will never see the light of day in our Congress, and very few politicians of either party will even take questions on it.  Again, it is the source of their power over us.  They will not cede this power, so it must be taken away.

Short of a bloody revolution, how can this be peacefully done?  Randy E. Barnett, professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University and author of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, has some ideas on this.

In his Op/Ed piece (Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2009, “How the Tea Partiers can make Washington pay attention”, Professor Barnett says that the states must take back power from the Federal Government.

Tea Party Peaceful Assembly

The states have the power to call a Constitutional Convention by a vote of two-thirds of the states, and any law produced from such a convention could be passed into law by a three-quarters vote of the states.  Such a move would be feared because its scope cannot be limited in advance.  All things would be on the table.  Yet, says Professor Barnett, “It is precisely the fear of a runaway convention that states can exploit to bring Congress to heel”.  The state legislatures could petition Congress for a convention to propose a specific amendment.  Congress could then avoid such a wide-open convention by proposing this specific amendment to the states before the number of state petitions reaches two-thirds.

What would this amendment be?  It would be a proposal to repeal the 16th Amendment.  Such a threat for a general convention has worked before, and resulted in the passing of the  17th  Amendment, according to Professor Barnett.

The message here is that the states must take the lead in changing the direction of this country.  In November, we may put conservatives back in charge of one or the other of our Congressional bodies, but can we forget what the GOP did when they were last in power?  Both parties at the Federal level are the problem.  Neither is the solution. The solution must begin at the state level.

Below are several charts that show the political make-up of the states as of October, 2009.  The first is a chart that shows state senators (red is GOP, blue DEMS), and shows a lot more red than blue.  The second is state representatives (white being evenly balanced).  Again, there is a similar pattern.

State Senators (Source: Webfoot.com)

State Representatives (Source: Webfoot.com)

We need 34 states to vote for such an Amendment, and it would seem that the best agency to mobilize the electorate state by state would be the infant Tea Party Movement.  This movement sprung from local roots, and before attacking the national level, it would appear that the best chance for success would be at the local level.  After all, all politics are local.

The Tea Party Movement could also take a lesson from what has happened in Colorado between 2006 and the present.  Colorado, for its entire history has been the reddest of states.  In that year, Republicans held both Senate seats, five of seven congressional seats, the governor’s mansion, the offices of secretary of state and treasurer, and both houses of the state legislature.  After the 2008 election, in one of the most stunning reversals of political fortune in American history, the exact opposite was true.

What caused this reversal?  In 2006, three internet multi-millionaire’s who were dedicated progressives conspired to buy Colorado for their cause by using 501 C type organizations, enabled by the new campaign reform laws, to shape their message.  With discipline and focus, they have pioneered a legal architecture designed to take advantage of the new campaign finance laws and an emerging breed of progressive donors who are willing to commit unprecedented resources to local races.

The interesting thing here is that very little has been written in the press on how this historic shift was engineered.  Perhaps this is because that in Colorado the progressives feel they have found a formula to create permanent Democratic majorities across the nation.

Fortunately, this story has been captured in a new book, The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care), by Adam Schranger and Rob Witwer.  The Tea Party Movement, who seems to be wrestling with strategies and organization, should begin with this book.

This is not to say that turning 34 states red will accomplish the constitutional strategy outlined above.  Republican or Democrat, state politics has become the minor leagues where the ambitions are to advance to the big leagues of Washington DC.   Somehow, the end objective of repealing the 16th Amendment needs to be uncalculated into the process of turning these states red.

It is important to note that Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton and others settled on the design of our republic only after deliberate, prolonged and intense study of those societies that have and haven’t succeeded in history. Clearly, they were brilliant men dedicated to the cause of creating a long-lasting society in which government ruled by the consent of the governed. However, it is important to stress that their brilliance permitted the execution of a plan only after long study of history. They could not have reached their inspired conclusion and design if they had been ignorant of history’s successes and failures. They were a combination of brilliant, inspired and educated. Their research led them to understand what had to be done. These men were intensely dedicated to their cause and it is important to mention that the founding fathers’ vision had to survive the test of the fire of their individual and collective intensity. Their exercise was not all peace and love and they fought and argued about all aspects of the Constitution they were producing. They continued to argue vehemently about changes to it after it was passed. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and Hamilton had REAL issues with each others philosophies. But the end result is the most revered document in the history of governments and the birth of the most successful and free society that the world has ever known.

However, throughout the entire 20th century in the United States there has been a very well planned and deliberate effort to destroy what our founding fathers carefully crafted. This effort has its genesis in the Progressive movement which started about 100 years ago and has accelerated dramatically with the election of Barack Obama . During the bulk of the 20th century it was a subtle, gradual movement that sneaked its way into our society past generations of freedom loving Americans. It even escaped the notice of what has been called “Our Greatest Generation” that survived the great depression, saved the planet in World War II, and built our late 20th century economic juggernaut.

Peacock is not the discoverer of the progressive movement’s effort to destroy our republic. That credit belongs to many others who have done years of research and put together the clues that led to this frightening discovery. Peacock just wants to help spread the word and help to mobilize America to save our republic.

Please take the time at this point to read the following two articles. They aren’t long but they are important and informative.

The first one comes from the June 28, 2010 issue of “The American Thinker”. It is titled Cloward-Piven Government and was written by James Simpson on November 23, 2009.

The second one is an opinion piece written for the “Las Vegan Review-Journal”. It is titled Obama’s Agenda: Overwhelm the System. It is important to note that this article is written by Wayne Allen Root who was a classmate of Obama’s at Columbia University.

Obama and the Progressives are counting on American ignorance of their true agenda to deliberately and  rapidly push our great country toward total chaos, and then to socialism, before we have the chance to wake up and respond.

Those who believe in the Constitution and the vision of our founding fathers must vote in numbers never before experienced and quickly remove those from office who would destroy the America most of us believe in.

More and more people are beginning to recognize that Obama’s presidency is a disaster for America. His favorability ratings continue to decline at a very steady pace. He and the Progressive-controlled Democratic Congress have forced through Socialist bills that dramatically increase spending and are opposed by the majority of Americans. His “leadership” has pushed our record deficit even higher at an accelerating rate. The actions listed in the two articles referenced above are a well thought out formula for the destruction of America. While more of us are becoming aware of the disaster we are racing toward too few are ignorant of the fact that this is a deliberate headlong rush toward a well planned chaos designed to destroy America. Let’s be perfectly clear about this. President Obama is a puppet of the Progressive movement as defined by Cloward and Piven, funded by George Soros and pushing its agenda at an accelerating rate now that the nation has installed the most liberal United States Senate voter ever into the American Presidency. President Obama isn’t incompetent or stupid. He is the brilliant tool of the Progressive movement and he is totally dedicated to destroying our republic.

If Barack Obama’s actions aren’t sufficient evidence of his intentions perhaps his associations will help to define his feelings and objectives. Look at the person closest to him in his life. On February 18, 2008 Michelle Obama stated that “ . . . for the first time my adult life I am proud of my country . . .”. She was never proud of our country before 2008? Then why the hell is she still living here? And why is she our First Lady? Then there is his minister of 20 years, Reverend Jeremiah Wright who called on blacks to sing “God Damn America”. And Rev. Wright is in the news again this week with racist and anti-Semitic comments. If President Obama is brilliant then he certainly knew after 20 years that Jeremiah Wright was a white-hating, anti-Semitic bigot. Peacock has been told throughout life that we are known by those we associate with. If those who have been closest to the President aren’t proud of or hate America, or hate white people and Jews then how does our President really feel? What are his real reasons for wanting to be President of the United States of America?

Peacock implores you to study the facts for yourself and reach your own well-informed decision. It appears that the American voter is beginning to do just that. In the last few months we have seen the balance of power begin to shift toward those who believe in the founding principles of our nation and the intensely-researched work of our founding fathers. However, we want to emphasize that the Progressive movement of which Obama is a part doesn’t just represent a difference of opinion over the interpretation of the Constitution and resultant law. The Progressive movement, with Obama as their tool, wants to completely destroy America by driving it into economic and social chaos. This gives them the excuse to abandon democracy, free enterprise and capitalism and impose a socialist society on the ashes of what they have destroyed.

There are many ways to declare and wage war. For some it is continuous economic competition with the objective of destroying another society. Intelligence organizations  constantly seek ways to undermine the enemy while working to discover others trying to do the same in return. There are small scale guerrilla wars, secret armed infiltrations, strategic strikes and full-scale declared wars. For many nations these are all being fought simultaneously and perpetually. Another way to declare war is to quietly, subtly and gradually infiltrate the political infrastructure of the nation you are working to conquer. This can be done from inside or outside or both. The Progressives have been waging this war from inside for a century.

In the United States this war is being aggressively fought by Progressives through the voting booth. Progressives and extreme Liberals have been voting into office those who feel the Constitution is obsolete, believe capitalism is evil and insist on redistribution of wealth through high taxes. These people elected to our highest offices are making appointments of those who are like-minded to powerful bureaucracies and permanent judicial posts.

Make no mistake about it. The Progressives have been quietly fighting this war for a century. This war shockingly accelerated with the election of Obama and his appointments of other Progressives and Socialists. The shock of this acceleration toward Socialism has been so great that it has awakened many Americans from their ignorance of the chaos the Progressives are working toward. Perhaps this shocking acceleration is the wake up call needed to fully engage those who believe in our Constitution and the vision of our founding fathers in this war started by the Progressives. It is frankly a war that Conservatives must fully engage in if we are to save our Republic. Those who believe in the Constitution and the vision of our founding fathers must vote in numbers never before experienced and quickly remove those from office who would destroy the America most of us believe in.

The “Rolling Stones” article about General McChrystal makes it clear that the general has little to no respect for his Commander-in-Chief or for most of his staff. I guess that is to be expected. You have to show respect before you can receive respect and it is clear that the man in charge of our entire United States military has no respect for military people. If he did he wouldn’t be enforcing rules of engagement that end up getting more of our military killed than is necessary. Perhaps our Commander-in-Chief doesn’t understand what President Lincoln understood when he was looking for a general who would brutally execute the Civil War in the short term in order to bring it to a quicker, more merciful end.

Perhaps he doesn’t understand a lot of things.

He doesn’t understand that raising taxes stifles business.

He doesn’t understand that nationalized health care and the health care regulations he is forcing down our throats stifle, and even end, businesses because they can’t afford the extra cost.

He doesn’t understand that environmental regulations that force oil companies to drill in more dangerous waters can result in greater hazard to the environment.

He doesn’t understand that taking from the rich to give to the poor makes the rich give up and makes the poor lazy.

He doesn’t understand that BP doesn’t give a damn about his criticism or his puny financial penalties. They are a British company that can declare bankruptcy in its U.S. branch, expand its operations in other parts of the world and probably improve its financial position in the process.

He doesn’t understand that shutting down all oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico makes our Jihadist enemies stronger while it puts Americans out of work.

He doesn’t understand that our porous borders make America vulnerable to terrorist attack and weaken our economy as American business pays more tax to support the illegal alien burden.

He doesn’t understand that all of these things combine to weaken America economically, militarily, and in the eyes of all in the world who have in the past seen America as the dominant power in economics, capitalism, democracy and personal success.

If he doesn’t get it then he is by far the most inept President and Commander-in-Chief that this country has ever had.

Then again, maybe he does get it. Maybe his actions are designed to level the playing field and make our country just one of the world pack.

If he doesn’t get it then he is incredibly dangerous. If he does get it he is beyond incredibly dangerous.