FROM PEARL HARBOR TO PUNK
FROM PEARL HARBOR TO PUNK
Dorothy A. Seese
December 10, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
The memories of Pearl Harbor will come back this anniversary of the "day of infamy." But they aren't quite the same now as they were when we really believed the Japanese pulled off a brilliant, deadly and despicable sneak attack. Rumors were flying within a year or so that then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt knew about the attack in advance and let the blame fall on the admiral and general who were otherwise occupied when Pearl was attacked. The entire US Pacific fleet being in one "sitting duck" position at Pearl should have sounded a giant alarm, but it didn't. We were a patriotic people, as a nation of Americans we didn't want war that was none of our business, but higher powers prevailed. At least we went out to win, something the USA hasn't done since the end of WW II.
Those of us who recall the beginning of World War II are senior citizens. That's a nice way of saying we're old geezers, all of us. We lose more every year to the ravages of time and the mortality of life on earth. We were the most privileged group of Americans that ever lived, because we saw America at its best, and even those of us who were too young to recall details remember that we had a quiet pride in America, and in being Americans. To our younger generations, it's history, all history, and so what?
We won the war against the Nazis and Emperor Hirohito's Japanese imperial military. We lost the war from within by Americans Against America. That fact still stands today, while the US sits precariously as the last world superpower in name only, a shadow of the days when we stood for something.
Germany's revenge came as a socialist revolution. Japan's revenge came by starting the trend of getting more affluent Americans engaged in playing with toys rather than tending to the "eternal vigilance" required to remain a free people.
Now we aren't quite sure in any meaningful way what it means to be "an American."
Does it mean I can vote? Certainly. Illegal aliens vote, why not citizens who were born here?
Does it mean I can go to school (were I school age)? Of course, our government will send anyone to school who happens to land on our shores! Why not a citizen's children? You might not learn much, because the schools are teaching United Nations approved courses on revised facts, tolerance, diversity and sex, but anyone can go to school and pass the courses. No effort required, no one can be offended in America except Real Americans.
Does it mean I can work and earn a living? Yes and no. You can go to work. Earning a living is something else. A lot of jobs are reserved for "those who will do what Americans won't do." So they say. Amazing. The American work ethic, brought over from Europe by a people who wanted to build a nation of opportunity by hard work, is now a disgrace. Luxury, held over in the form of increasing federal debt, continues the myth that America is prospering. Punks who rock, or punk rockers, or rocking punks, receive millions for being maniacs on public display tours, and because they can have everything money can buy and don't care about the virtues money cannot buy, they are America's new gold standard.
Do I have freedom of religion? More or less. As long as Christianity isn't discussed publicly and the leaders of our nation are ashamed of the Bible on which they take their oaths of office, then it is assumed we have freedom of religion. Just don't confuse assumption with fact, or carry the idea too far if you're Christian. You are totally free to be occult, or any form of "experiential religion" that makes no reference to Christ, the Bible or the Christian traditions. In a way, that's freedom of religion, as judicially reconstructed.
Do I have opportunities to become whatever I want to be? Yes, provided you get around the school system and obtain a real education, and then keep your views to yourself unless you are politically correct at the workplace. There's some fine line between being sexually liberated and arrested for sexual harassment, but just play along with the games people play and you'll learn the rules. They bear absolutely no resemblance to the standards of morality that once defined America but that's why we're not really America, we're a gutted America with only the skin exposed (lots of it in some places).
Can I own and display a flag? Of course. You can fly the Union flag, but not a Confederate flag, as historic as it is, because that offends people who haven't any idea that secession isn't unconstitutional and Lincoln never thought of abolition as the cause of the "Civil War" until he needed to keep a Union army together for a good cause. Americans love good causes, which is why all subversion has occurred behind the curtains and banners of good causes. When we're merged into a regional area, the flag once known as Old Glory (sometimes Old Gory due to recent incursions into other peoples' lands and politics) might be replaced by a regional flag designed at the United Nations, but don't let that bother you. If you do, you'll be suspect by the government, your employer and lose your friends.
So much has changed in the geographic region known as the United States that disunity is the order of the day, but don't complain about it. That will offend someone.
The most fundamental thing you can learn as you are defining what it means to grow up "an American" is that such a statement no longer means what it used to mean. It means that you disavow everything that America once stood for and accept everything that the leadership tells you is correct. You even call this nation "a democracy" because that's what the leadership, the media and most people today call it. Do not use the term "federal republic" even if you find out that's what it was designed to be, and that the states were to exercise control over the size, scope and power of the federal government. That founders' notion began to die at Appomattox when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union, and since that time, the Union has been telling the states what to do and how much power they have. Unless, of course, the federal government wants a scapegoat for one of its endless goof ups. Don't worry about learning to spell "Appomattox" as it doesn't warrant mention these days, in school or elsewhere except in certain local areas of the Southern states, often called "rebels" or worse.
And one last thing. Listen to all the rock, punk or otherwise, that you can, know the stars who rise and fall, how many are unwed mothers and who recently was divorced again, so you can converse. Americans and all the people living in this nation who are posing as such, hate intelligent conversation and engage in it only in private, and with trusted friends. Don't be too patriotic either, it will really offend those who consider "patriotism" waving the flag and having an "in crowd" bumper sticker on their vehicle.
If you're from a European background, get a heavy tan and some hairdo and makeup that will disguise that fact. You want to look multi-racial, ethnic, and pitifully undernourished.
By the way, Pearl Harbor is in the island state of Hawaii, which wants to secede from the Union. Just thought you might want to know.
© 2005 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved
Dorothy A. Seese
December 10, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
The memories of Pearl Harbor will come back this anniversary of the "day of infamy." But they aren't quite the same now as they were when we really believed the Japanese pulled off a brilliant, deadly and despicable sneak attack. Rumors were flying within a year or so that then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt knew about the attack in advance and let the blame fall on the admiral and general who were otherwise occupied when Pearl was attacked. The entire US Pacific fleet being in one "sitting duck" position at Pearl should have sounded a giant alarm, but it didn't. We were a patriotic people, as a nation of Americans we didn't want war that was none of our business, but higher powers prevailed. At least we went out to win, something the USA hasn't done since the end of WW II.
Those of us who recall the beginning of World War II are senior citizens. That's a nice way of saying we're old geezers, all of us. We lose more every year to the ravages of time and the mortality of life on earth. We were the most privileged group of Americans that ever lived, because we saw America at its best, and even those of us who were too young to recall details remember that we had a quiet pride in America, and in being Americans. To our younger generations, it's history, all history, and so what?
We won the war against the Nazis and Emperor Hirohito's Japanese imperial military. We lost the war from within by Americans Against America. That fact still stands today, while the US sits precariously as the last world superpower in name only, a shadow of the days when we stood for something.
Germany's revenge came as a socialist revolution. Japan's revenge came by starting the trend of getting more affluent Americans engaged in playing with toys rather than tending to the "eternal vigilance" required to remain a free people.
Now we aren't quite sure in any meaningful way what it means to be "an American."
Does it mean I can vote? Certainly. Illegal aliens vote, why not citizens who were born here?
Does it mean I can go to school (were I school age)? Of course, our government will send anyone to school who happens to land on our shores! Why not a citizen's children? You might not learn much, because the schools are teaching United Nations approved courses on revised facts, tolerance, diversity and sex, but anyone can go to school and pass the courses. No effort required, no one can be offended in America except Real Americans.
Does it mean I can work and earn a living? Yes and no. You can go to work. Earning a living is something else. A lot of jobs are reserved for "those who will do what Americans won't do." So they say. Amazing. The American work ethic, brought over from Europe by a people who wanted to build a nation of opportunity by hard work, is now a disgrace. Luxury, held over in the form of increasing federal debt, continues the myth that America is prospering. Punks who rock, or punk rockers, or rocking punks, receive millions for being maniacs on public display tours, and because they can have everything money can buy and don't care about the virtues money cannot buy, they are America's new gold standard.
Do I have freedom of religion? More or less. As long as Christianity isn't discussed publicly and the leaders of our nation are ashamed of the Bible on which they take their oaths of office, then it is assumed we have freedom of religion. Just don't confuse assumption with fact, or carry the idea too far if you're Christian. You are totally free to be occult, or any form of "experiential religion" that makes no reference to Christ, the Bible or the Christian traditions. In a way, that's freedom of religion, as judicially reconstructed.
Do I have opportunities to become whatever I want to be? Yes, provided you get around the school system and obtain a real education, and then keep your views to yourself unless you are politically correct at the workplace. There's some fine line between being sexually liberated and arrested for sexual harassment, but just play along with the games people play and you'll learn the rules. They bear absolutely no resemblance to the standards of morality that once defined America but that's why we're not really America, we're a gutted America with only the skin exposed (lots of it in some places).
Can I own and display a flag? Of course. You can fly the Union flag, but not a Confederate flag, as historic as it is, because that offends people who haven't any idea that secession isn't unconstitutional and Lincoln never thought of abolition as the cause of the "Civil War" until he needed to keep a Union army together for a good cause. Americans love good causes, which is why all subversion has occurred behind the curtains and banners of good causes. When we're merged into a regional area, the flag once known as Old Glory (sometimes Old Gory due to recent incursions into other peoples' lands and politics) might be replaced by a regional flag designed at the United Nations, but don't let that bother you. If you do, you'll be suspect by the government, your employer and lose your friends.
So much has changed in the geographic region known as the United States that disunity is the order of the day, but don't complain about it. That will offend someone.
The most fundamental thing you can learn as you are defining what it means to grow up "an American" is that such a statement no longer means what it used to mean. It means that you disavow everything that America once stood for and accept everything that the leadership tells you is correct. You even call this nation "a democracy" because that's what the leadership, the media and most people today call it. Do not use the term "federal republic" even if you find out that's what it was designed to be, and that the states were to exercise control over the size, scope and power of the federal government. That founders' notion began to die at Appomattox when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union, and since that time, the Union has been telling the states what to do and how much power they have. Unless, of course, the federal government wants a scapegoat for one of its endless goof ups. Don't worry about learning to spell "Appomattox" as it doesn't warrant mention these days, in school or elsewhere except in certain local areas of the Southern states, often called "rebels" or worse.
And one last thing. Listen to all the rock, punk or otherwise, that you can, know the stars who rise and fall, how many are unwed mothers and who recently was divorced again, so you can converse. Americans and all the people living in this nation who are posing as such, hate intelligent conversation and engage in it only in private, and with trusted friends. Don't be too patriotic either, it will really offend those who consider "patriotism" waving the flag and having an "in crowd" bumper sticker on their vehicle.
If you're from a European background, get a heavy tan and some hairdo and makeup that will disguise that fact. You want to look multi-racial, ethnic, and pitifully undernourished.
By the way, Pearl Harbor is in the island state of Hawaii, which wants to secede from the Union. Just thought you might want to know.
© 2005 Dorothy A. Seese - All Rights Reserved
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