"State" Control

One morning a few years back we all woke up to the kind of "change" that would cause our Founding Fathers to roll over in their graves. But even worse, America rapidly became "state controlled." In the cold war, Communist Countries actively and viciously controlled what people heard on the television. When I visited a "Young Pioneer" youth camp as a high school student, I was appalled to learn that the children of Communist countries never knew what America knew: they were completely under both the mind and body control of their government. Removed from the custody of their parents by the "state" because the government didn't trust the parents, they grew up in a conformist paradise that destroyed individual freedom. Free thought was twisted. New ideas were discouraged unless they fell in line with the government's position. Their press was rigidly encompassed by a fence as real as the fields of land mines surrounding their countries. In the current headlines we find harbingers of the same government control. We have a cover up at a tragedy in Benghazi in which everyone is so busy covering their butts that no one cared a fig for the precious souls lost in that attack. We have an IRS that deliberately targeted political opponents for evil intent and a President who pretends not to know anything about it. The words "pausible deniability" come to mind. In short, I don't believe him. We have the DHS buying up ammunition in a massive effort to control guns and the congress desperately trying to destroy the ability of the people to own them. Then there's the Justice Department confiscating files of the Associated Press- which means that the words "free press" have been obfuscated by a government bent on bringing about the wrong kind of "change" to the nation. We are not only headed in the wrong direction, it's one that will ultimately bring about a division that may not be reversible. When good people rule a nation, it thrives. When evil people rule (or sit around thinking up new ways to control it), darkness floods the lives of the citizenry. As long as most of America remains in deception, believing the lies perpetuated by the government, we are all in jeopardy. I still believe that the vast majority of our military and law enforcement are good people with good intentions. I still believe that the values that made us a great nation are the foundation of our future and hope for our present. But take heed, America, vigilance, prayer, and faith are required to preserve us from this "state" control.