My late grandmother used to say: “potty training teaches a child that he can’t have things both ways.” Therein is evidenced the most revolting aspect of those in the liberal socialist gene-pool. Liberal behavioral control mongers, use deceit, obfuscation, misrepresentation, and outright lies as the currency to further their Leninist agendas.
But through the clever use of duplicity and compliance, they may have found a way to accomplish the single most strived for goal of socialism, i.e., the ability to control public discourse. As an old pastor friend of mine is quick to say, the devil never shows you his horns and cloven feet first. He keeps his hat and shoes on until he is sure you won’t be repulsed when he takes them off. Evil always advances in a matter of degrees. Every debaucherous evil, and every evil perpetrated upon a people and/or a nation advanced in a matter of degrees – seizing upon opportunities that availed themselves along the way.
Control mongers have seized upon the actions of two Los Angeles, radio shock jocks, to advance the most draconian threat to free speech heretofore. KFI 640 talk radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, referred to the late Whitney Houston as a “crack ho,” and liberals seized upon the comments as if they had been singing the KKK national anthem, assuming there is such a thing.
Let’s be honest, Houston abused drugs like people drink water and her morals or lack thereof speak for themselves. Add to that, Kobylt and Chiampou are shock jocks, saying crude and inflammatory things about people, is what they are paid to do. And, as I alluded to, what they said may not have been polite, but by definition they weren’t making things up.
Looking to seize upon any opportunity, liberal socialists in California called their comments racist, sexist, and intolerable. The truth is that they don’t give a rat’s tail about Houston, or what was said about her. Important to them, is the opportunity to use this moment in the furtherance of their goals. Liberal socialists have been trying for years to find ways to blunt the influence of talk radio in the presentation of conservative viewpoints. They are doing their all to have Rush Limbaugh removed from the air – last week WPBR talk radio in Palm Beach, Florida fired my good friend and colleague Craig Henne, because he refused to stop exposing the truth about Obama.
But in this instance, they may have been given the tool they’ve long sought after to control public discourse. Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution calling for local TV and radio stations to limit any “racist” and “sexist” comments on their broadcasts. The City Council voted 13-2 to approve the resolution.
This is a potential death blow to free speech, because it allows liberal socialists to define what is acceptable, it emboldens the enemies of free speech, and it provides for more aggressive attacks to limit and control speech.
I know there are those who feel that it wasn’t nice of Kobylt and Chiampou to say such things about Houston – maybe it wasn’t – but that alone gives no one the right to tell them not to say it. Especially since she abused crack. The Constitution doesn’t say people have to like what is being said, it guarantees people the right to say it. And that is the way it should be.
The action by the Los Angeles City Council will be replicated across the nation, but even before that happens, it allows for constraints to be placed on free speech. It defines hate speech on the most basic of levels. It also places control of biblical condemnation of sin and sinful lifestyles one step closer to judicial assault.
However, it does nothing to condemn the pure filth and raw vulgarity of the left. Therein are the words of my grandmother applicable. Liberal socialists are trying to mess their diapers and keep their behinds clean at the same time, the problem is that it cannot be done. They cannot feign insult and offense over this, and ignore abhorrent things said about Sarah Palin and her family. They cannot claim insult about such collegial jocularity, and not condemn the vulgar things said about Justice Clarence Thomas or Janice Rogers Brown when she was on the 9th Circuit Court.
As I said, it’s not about insult, it’s about their objective of controlling what we say and what the public hears. Because, their greatest fear is that people will hear the truth – and even more frightening for them – that that truth will set people free.
From the introduction of socialism, control of behavior vis-a-vis control of what people are able to hear, see, and/or read has been their objective. If they are able to control the message, they can control the discourse, and if they can do that, their philosophies will be all we hear. The inculcation of right and wrong, good and evil, will be what they say it is.
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The most corrupt city, with most corrupt and purchased city council, purchased municipal judges, school system and college district is trying to define public discourse! REJECT anything and everything that stems from los angeles that is designed for the public good. I do not know how else to phrase things except to say the obvious — or is it obvious to others? Tell it the way it is Mychal
1ltlos: california is best example you can point to as proof socialist utopias do not work…
1ltlos: california is proof that the ideas of liberals do not work…
I like grandmothers…
dennis mccutcheon: I loved mine and miss her every day…
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing. quoted by a famous person.
We have seen and been victims of demoralization which is evil. Now, the crisis and lots of it. We know right from wrong but throw in a crisis and we get confused. For example: A child is walking home from school. A man drives up and tells the girl he will drive her home. She refuses (what she has been taught by her parents). Then, the crisis: The man says I know your parents and they have sent me to pick you up because ‘your house burned down today’ and your parents are not at your home. Now, the girl is confused and doesn’t know what to do. The crisis sticks in her mind; her house is destroyed! She will probably get in the car and never be heard of again. Crisis is a sneaky way for liberals to get what they want. Control of the people. But, it doesn’t stop there. Our first amendment gives us freedom of speech. It does not say what kind of speech. It is right to stand up for your Free Country and be aware of all the evil that prevails to destroy Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. In other words, Speak up when we know there is evil going on. The greatest evil is not saying or doing anything about it.
Edmund Burke
marilyn: your first ppg has been said in many ways…
You are so right about this threat. I call it the “Inch me” theory. It is in politics in the worse way and also it is in selling of any product as well. It is the frog in the pot of cool water with the burner turned on low. You don’t know what hits you until your boiled alive.Anything can sound okay if it is fed to people in very small increments…………unless we are paying attention. I fear that many people are too “busy” with everyday mundane things and do not want to take the effort to keep an eye on what is going on politically. We have young people giving their lives and limbs for their freedom, but it is “too hard” for many people to really understand political foxes to keep the hen house safe. It makes me so angry at their selfishness that will take all of us under if they don’t wake up and smell the coffee!
mamajo: inch me is very good description…
It is seldom I am at a loss for words, but the statement written by Mr. Massie, followed by a profound speech, equal to any ever spoken before God and Man, has taken my words, and left them small, humble, barely worthy of conjunction with the words Dr. King spoke that day.
I can only say, his words ring true, and by the tone, we can all know, by our hearts, and not our heads, they are Truth about Man, and undeniable, worthy of anyone to follow.
Our Nation, which truly belongs to the Negro every bit as it had ever belonged to anyone, is in the gravest danger, and the whole of Our People, all who yearn for truth, righteousness, and the Blessings of The Lord God of Creation, must come together, or all the dreams of freedom and independence will be crushed, just as the laws of self-serving Whites were equally true for Blacks, but the Black People abused by the failure of deliberate intent, and refusal to acknowledge this truth, what is planned for the destruction of Our Nation will destroy all of our aspirations, and only those who aspire to raw power, willing to do evil, only they will see their desires if any of Honorable People fail to cleave to their Honor, first, last and always.
May those words ring out and be remembered for long generations to come because evil never pauses, and good far too often does.
Deeply humble before such precient words,
John McClain
Vanceboro, NC
john mcclain: I too was gasping for breath as I read his speech…
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Glenville High School on April 26, 1967. This is a transcript of that speech.
King spoke at three East Side schools (Glenville, Addison Junior High, and East Tech) and at the Cleveland Job Corps Center for Women that day. The Plain Dealer’s Roldo Bartimole reported, “King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was invited to Cleveland by the United Pastors Association, a group of Negro ministers formed after last summer’s Hough riots. King was asked to investigate Cleveland’s racial problems, and suggest possible solutions.”
How very delighted I am to be here this morning and to have the great privilege and opportunity of sharing with you and being with you here in the city of Cleveland. I never feel like a stranger when I come to Cleveland because I have so many dear friends here in the ministry and in the community and so I always look forward to coming to Cleveland with great and eager anticipation. I certainly want to thank the administration for the opportunity and I want to thank Miss Williams for those very kind words of introduction.
As she was introducing me, I felt something like the old maid who had never been married. And one day she went to work and the lady for whom she worked said, “Ann, I hear you’re getting married.”
She said, “No, I’m not getting married, but thank God for the rumor.”
As I listened to Miss Williams, I said to myself, “All of these wonderful things that she said about me can’t be true, but thank God for the rumor.”
Now, I’m sure each of you is aware of the problems that we confront in our nation, the problems that we confront in the world, the problem that we as a people confront in all of our communities all over the United States of America.
It was Victor Hugo who said on one occasion that there is nothing more powerful in all the world than an idea whose time has come. And I want to assure you today that the idea whose time has come in our day and our generation is the idea of freedom and human dignity. Wherever people are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; or whether they are in Jackson, Mississippi; Atlanta, Georgia; New York City or Cleveland, Ohio, the cry is always the same: We want to be free.
And I would like to suggest some of the thing things that you must do and some of the things that all of us must do in order to be truly free. Now the first thing that we must do is to develop within ourselves a deep sense of somebodiness. Don’t let anybody make you feel that you are nobody. Because the minute one feels that way, he is incapable of rising to his full maturity as a person. You know a lot of people have segregated minds and one of the first things that the Negro must do is to desegregate his mind.
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I remember when I was growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, I had to go to high school on the other side of town. At that time it was the only high school for Negroes in the whole city of Atlanta, the Booker T. Washington High School. When I was a student there we had 7,000 students in that one school. I guess that’s the reason I can’t read too well now, because the teacher had to spend all the time getting the class in order and disciplining the class because it was so overcrowded, but anyway we had to pass by all of these schools, white schools, to get to the Booker Washington High School. And I had to ride the bus from home every morning to the other side of town. And fortunately I had parents who taught me from the very beginning that I was somebody, and that I should never feel inferior. They taught all of us that, that we should feel that we are as good as any other children. And I remember day after day getting on that bus — it was a segregated bus. Negroes had to sit in the back. And often we had to stand over empty seats because the seats up at the front were reserved for whites only.
And I started getting on that bus going across town and every time I got on the bus, even though I found myself having to take my body back to the back of the bus, I always left my mind on the front seat. And I said to myself one of these days, I’m going to put my body up there where my mind is.
Now this is all I’m saying this morning that we must feel that we count. That we belong. That we are persons. That we are children of the living God. And it means that we go down in our soul and find that somebodiness and we must never again be ashamed of ourselves. We must never be ashamed of our heritage. We must not be ashamed of the color of our skin. Black is as beautiful as any color and we must believe it.
And so every black person in this country must rise up and say I’m somebody; I have a rich proud and noble history, however painful and exploited it has been. I am black, but I am black and beautiful.
And so we must be able to cry out with the eloquent poet: “Fleecy locks and black complexion cannot forfeit nature’s claim, Skin may differ but affection dwells in black and white the same. If I were so tall as to reach the pole or to grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul, the mind is the standard of the man.” And we must believe this firmly and live by it.
Now the second thing I want to suggest is this:
That we must make full and constructive use of the freedom we already possess. We must not wait for the day of full emancipation before we set out to achieve certain basic developments in our lives. Now I know the problems here. And I’m not unmindful of the fact that through segregation and discrimination many of us have been scarred.
Many have lost motivation. But I think it is safe to say that there is a host of young people in the Negro community who can brilliantly apply themselves and thereby make full and constructive use of the freedom we already possess. This means we must set out to achieve excellence in our various fields of endeavor. This means that we’ve got to study hard, we’ve got to stay in school. Again, I know the social problems that cause many Negroes to drop out of school but I urge you today to develop that rugged determination: Stay in school, stick with to the end. It may be that you will have to work harder than other people but don’t mind that. Go on and do it anyhow.
It was Longfellow who said, “The heights of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night.” And I urge you today to realize that doors of opportunities are opening now that were not open to our mothers and our fathers. And the great challenge facing each of you today is to be ready to enter these doors as they open.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said on one occasion that if a man can write a better book, or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door.
That hasn’t always been true but it will be increasingly true.
So, set out to do a good job and do that job so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn’t do it any better. And let me say that we’ve got to prepare now to compete with people. Many of our parents have been so scarred by years of denial and neglect that they cannot face the same challenges that we face. But I say to you that you have the opportunity to assert certain things and get ready to compete with people. Don’t set out merely to do a good Negro job. If you’re setting out one day to be a good Negro doctor or a good Negro lawyer or a good Negro schoolteacher or a good Negro preacher or a good Negro skilled laborer or a good Negro barber or beautician, you have already flunked your matriculation exam for entrance into the university of integration.
Set out to do a good job and do that job so well that nobody can do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a streetsweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.
Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Sweep streets like Beethoven composed music.
Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say here lived a great streetsweeper who swept his job well.
This is what Douglas Malloch meant when he said, “If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, be a scrub in the valley — but be the best little scrub on the side of the rill. Be a bush, if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be the sun, be a star. It isn’t by size that you win or you fail. Be the best of whatever you are!”
Now the final thing I want to say is this: That if we are going to achieve freedom we’ve got to engage in action programs to make that freedom possible. Let nobody fool you about this. Freedom is never voluntarily given to the oppressed by the oppressor. It must be demanded. And I say to you this morning that this will be necessary all over the United States of America. But as I say this let me give a warning signal that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for first-class citizenship but we must never use second-class methods to gain it. We’ve got to get smart. We’ve got to organize. We’ve got to organize so effectively and so well and engage in such powerful, creative protest that there will not be a power in the world that can stop us and that can afford to ignore us.
Our power does not lie in Molotov cocktails. Our power does not lie in bricks and stones. Our power does not lie in bottles.
Our power lies in our ability to unite around concrete programs. Our power lies in our ability to say nonviolently that we aren’t gonna take it any longer. You see the chief problem with a riot is that it can always be halted by a superior force. But I know another weapon that the National Guard can’t stop.
They tried to stop it in Mississippi, they tried to stop it in Alabama but we had a power that Bull Connor’s fire hoses couldn’t put out. It was a fire within. And I say that we can have that same kind of fire all over the United States of America. And we can transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows through this method. And so I come to you today and urge you to work in the civil rights movement, to join the civil rights organizations, to give of your time and your activity, when you have spare time, in community action.
One of the things that we need in every city is political power. Enough of our parents don’t register and vote. Each of you should serve as a committee of one to work with your parents if they have not registered to vote and other people in the community.
Cleveland, Ohio, is a city that can be the first city of major size in the United States to have a black mayor and you should participate in making that a possibility. This is an opportunity for you.
And so there are things that all of us can do and I urge you to do it with zeal and with vigor. And let me say to you, my friends, that in spite of the difficult days ahead, the so-called white backlash — which is nothing but a new name for an old phenomenon — I’m still convinced that we’re going to achieve freedom right here in America. And I believe this because however much America has strayed away from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned as we may be, our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.
Before the Pilgrim fathers landed at Plymouth, we were here.
Before Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
Before the beautiful words of the Star-Spangled Banner were written, we were here.
And for more than two centuries, our forebears labored here without wages. They made cotton king, and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of the most humiliating and oppressive conditions.
And yet out of a bottomless vitality they continued to grow and develop, and I say to you this morning that if the inexpressible cruelties of slavery couldn’t stop us, the opposition that we now face will surely fail.
We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands.
And so I say, let us keep moving, let us move on toward the goal of brotherhood, toward the goal of personal fulfillment, toward the goal of a society undergirded by justice.
And I close by quoting a beautiful little poem from the pen of Langston Hughes, where he has a mother, talking to a son. With ungrammatical profundity that mother says, “Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor — bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, and reachin’ landin’s, and turnin’ corners, and sometimes goin’ in the dark where there ain’t been no light. So boy, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the steps ’cause you finds it’s kinder hard. For I’se still goin’, boy, I’se still climbin’, and life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.”
Well, life for none of us has been a crystal stair, but we must keep moving. We must keep going. And so, if you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.
Thank you Julie. This is exactly what I needed today. Amazing what God will give us when we are in need.
lfrd: amen to that…
After reading your quote of the speech by Martin Luther King I sit here with a mist over my eyes and wonder how I could have been so unaware of the great struggle that took place in my youth.then the words about –they came for the Jews and I did nothing because after all I was not a Jew. Well in turn now they have come for all Americans because we did nothing. I’m sixty six years old now and have never been so afraid for our country than I am now but also like the poem at the end of the speech I have no intention of giving up , I too will keep moving.
VietVet: it was a shared experience…
julie: truly moving…what an orator…
The liberal mind takes something from God’s play book: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Once they convince themselves that they are god and everyone must answer to them and them alone, everything else they do becomes not only easy to see but very predictable.
The next time you hear Obama, Pelosi, Reid et al. speak, keep in mind: they really believe they are god. Then everything they say and do becomes very understandable.
gary thomsen: they’re as predictable as rain in seattle…
Like the Apostle Paul’s friend, Timothy, you,too,have the influence & wisdom of a Godly Mother & Grandmother. These nuggets are just precious & ring so true! The day any liberals determine what is acceptable speech in the name of ‘tolerance’ is the day we are DONE! So what if the truth hurts? Whitney’s God-given talent was wasted on drugs -I heard she didn’t want to live up to the image of a ‘pop-music princess’ & wanted a harder (i.e.ghetto) edge to her image. Look where it got her. A golden voice like that silenced by worldly lusts. These fellas shouldn’t be singled out & twits like Bill Maher given a free pass. End of Stoy. Keep on sounding the alarm, Mychal!
chris: i think is was as much a victim of trying “to keep it real” as anything else…perhaps moreso…she was quoted as telling people she felt she had to become more edgy i.e. thuggish so as to be more accepted by blacks…she was evidently being criticized as not being black enough…her trying to live up their exceptions and that image may have led her to the life she was just barely keeping under control…just a thought…
I was a kid working in a record store when she hit it big. I watched her career from the get-go. Didn’t matter to me what her skin color or musical style was, but That Voice! I know Clive marketed her as an image, but she transcended all boundaries. How interesting the criticism came from the black community & was the same one used against Obama when he first ran for office. I feel horrible for her mother, Cissy as her worst nightmare came true as her talented daughter became a victim of the music biz & she saw it first-hand as a backup singer for Elvis. I fear for Bobbi Kris as that’s the only (abnormal)lifestyle she has grown up knowing.
chris: that keeping it black and keeping it real i.e. ghettoish pushed her over the edge she was already tight roping on…
Life Death and Liberals
Death is a part of life; it is a prerequisite for us humans.
We are grated life by God with the obligation to die at some point. This world and the imperfect conditions for “living” in it is the challenge all of us post paradise humans have to face and be judged for our performance in the particular situation we find ourselves. True Christians know and understand this as the will of a perfect merciful God and loving Father. They also know and understand we have limitations and that we are His children and we can’t become gods ourselves.
Liberals attempt to deny this. They believe they are more merciful than God and that their challenge is to be “gods” themselves. The false power which comes with that notion, they feel, gives them the right to judge, proclaim, and act out the role of one with absolute “authority” within their society. And yes, they will forever consistently strive to capture by any means the power to set the rules of governing which allows them to pick and choose, confiscate and distribute the wealth of their society in a fashion that will first perpetuate their power and secondly separate the citizens into a controlled productive minority as a source of operating capital sufficient to maintain a dependent mob willing to accept social slavery disguised as benevolent charity.
WOW… VERY WELL SAID. thank you Bill
Bill Sr. I must share this. Great words.
bill sr: make that “redistribute the wealth” in a fashion that benefits their theology of control…
Good morning people, what a day the Lord has made. Take every thought captive that we my show the glory of God to this fallen nation. There are times our hearts and mouths are moved to anger, beware of the snare set for you.
sunny: wise words…
Thanks.
bill kelly: pleasure…
How can this nonsense be stopped??? What is going on in our country?
I look forward to reading your articles everyday. I just wish our leaders would be as honest about things as you are.
john cantrell: I wish they were all out of office…thk you…