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Hat Tip:  Dr. GOG
-neon leon

FROM MY INBOX, A CHILLING TALE

What others see plainly, we often ignore.
Here's something to think about.

I remember asking dad about Castro when I was about 9 years old. I asked, "Is Castro a good guy or bad?"Dad said...he couldn't tell!! This was about 1955. We were living in Louisiana at that time. Dad was in the Army there. Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans were asking the same question! Ike was president.This past July, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a refugee from Cuba . Our dinner conversation was starkly different than most. This refugee had come to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960's. His family was more fortunate than most, as they were able to bring a suitcase...and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary paradise.Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon and fresh ears of sweet corn. This is a menu shared with family and friends nationwide...while celebrating the birth of our beloved America every Fourth of July. 

We began with a simple discussion about our country, and the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the
rulers in Washington .But then he said it. The sentence came naturally. I assume it was unplanned, but it carried the weight of a freight train:

"You know, when Castro took power, none of us knew that he was a Communist".We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical." The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected,

"You mean just like Barack Obama?"He responded; "Yes, just like Barack Obama."
He continued, "We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab more and more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn in your guns. We all complied. I remember my uncle saying after it started; 'Castro will only nationalize some of the big industries. He will never come and take our family's hardware store!!'

But that is exactly what happened. Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My family had owned this store for generations. They said "We now own the hardware store, you work
for us. And that nice, large four-bedroom home you owned...it is now our property also, and...you can move yourself and five children into two rooms of the house, because others are moving in with you."

The lesson learned from this discussion is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their agenda and once in office, they can take totally unexpected turns.
If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a
just society...would be evaporating, just like it did in Castro's Cubain the early 1960's. 

And yes, it can happen here: 

The news of injustice keeps increasing. Black Panthers ("MY people") are not charged with wrong doing by the U.S. Department of Justice...because their crimes are against whites. A white police chief is wrongly smeared by the President for justifiably arresting a black professor. The bondholders of GM are stripped of their assets,without due process, by their own government!

Governmental leaders are bribed in full daylight...only to have all investigation of the crimes stifled...by the Attorney General, who blatantly lies to Congress with apparent inpugnity! The U.S. borders are overrun with criminals and illegal activity, and the leaders in D.C. act as if it is important to protect the lawbreakers while innocent citizens are killed and overrun. When local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are ridiculed and threatened as racists and bigots; they are sued by the very Administration we have entrusted with enforcing the law.

Without the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution is a sham!! Without the rule of law, your "God-ordained rights" disappear or are trampled to demise, and our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only the well connected and politically powerful will be safe. As Michelle Malkin has so eloquently explained in her recent book...a "Culture of Corruption" has replaced honest government.

The only way this problem will be fixed is by massive citizen action. All honest citizens who want to be treated equally must come together and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law...end now!!  Politicians fear the ballot box above all.

Hat Tip: JOG
-neon leon

PEARLS OF WISDOM

I'll bet you've met "Jeff," too, right here in Portland.  On any street.  At any time.  At every stop sign.

Hat Tip: Stephan Pastis, "Pearls Before Swine."

neon leon

THE TOP TWO DEFINITIONS OF "SLEAZY LAWYER"

With profound apologies to Debbie Wassermann-Schultz:  you're only in third place.

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