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The news has been pretty sparse the last two days. Just more doom and gloom. I believe I am starting to get desensitized to the whole thing.



Don’t they understand why? Don’t they know that Warren is a member of the CFR?
Yeah, he denied it. Of course he denied it, after he had said it and unleashed a horrible backlash.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/18/obamas-rick-warren-inauguration-pick-sparks-gay-fury/

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16663.html

Global warming in California? Oh that’s right, heat wave or snow, it’s all Global Warming! I mean Al Gore says so and he invented the internet.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,469164,00.html

I’m definitely not moving to Kansas!
http://www.rense.com/general84/plum.htm

Tensions are running high!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Jaipur/Increased_Pak_army_movement_across_border_/articleshow/3848132.cms

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What is going on?
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/12/acorn.shortage/index.html

You know it is bad when…
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/dec/14/economy-affects-supply-demand-some-special-twists/

I believe that the oil price is set in London every morning, this cut in production will do nothing. Since the price drop, people have started driving more but the price hasn’t gone up, OPEC has already cut production and prices haven’t gone up. Why is that?
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/081215/business_us_opec.html?.v=1

Absolutely ridiculous, these things kill people.
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2008/12/15/story_taser.html?sid=102

Ok, let me get this straight, global cooling is part of global warming?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081214/D952LKP00.htmlbut wait, what about
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/goddard_arctic_ice_mystery/
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLiHWRaJU4
I am confused or maybe the scientists are, or maybe they are just trying to Carbon-Tax us to death.

Interesting
http://www.rense.com/general84/dee.htm

So is this where they are going to put the “dissenters?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04halliburton.html?_r=3&oref=login

Yep, I guess so, at least now I know what my day will look like and that my kids will be there with me….oh joy!
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-19-40/ch5.htm

I’m screwed.
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/14999res20040210.html

They don’t have to guess what I’ll do, I’ll just tell them: “Fight to the Death!”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/23/sentient_worlds/

Survival panic! LOL! I have “Hammer Fever,” reading the book “Lucifer’s Hammer” right now, and I got a bad case!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28249915

Get ‘em while they are young.
http://oldthinkernews.com/Articles/oldthinker%20news/educators_seek_shift_in_u.htm

Nice quote:
I have spoken to a couple of pretty senior bankers in the past couple of weeks and their story is rather different. They don’t refer to the looming problems as being like 1992 or even 1929. They talk about a total financial meltdown. They talk about the End of Days.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article5292547.ece

Interesting Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PIEGK0IbA4

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd419.htm

http://www.marketskeptics.com/2008/12/how-deflation-creates-hyperinflation.html

More birthing pains?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2008arar.php

The nuke lobbing potential just increased exponentially.
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/updates.asp?id=62542

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Damn, it is a pity that he missed!
http://news.aol.com/article/man-throws-two-shoes-at-bush-in-iraq/241945?icid=200100397x1214688379x1200931830

This is very scary.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83364

Interesting, don’t know if I believe it or not, but it’s worth a read.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-moment13-2008dec13,0,2231803.story

Hold on, here we go.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4BD1CV20081214

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081211131911.aspx

The face of things to come?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=696551

Pakistan is the new Iraq.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5339975.ece

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=avVnU01XRJWE&refer=home

http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-12-14_084_gerald_celente_2000_gold_and_the_break_up_of__the_us.mp3

These guys are going to start lobbing nukes at each other any day now.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/14/content_10501122.htm

So now we don’t have to worry about Iran’s EMP, we have to worry about our own.
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12/air_force_seeks.html

Keep COH, Cash On Hand.
http://www.reuters.com/article/InvestmentOutlook09/idUSTRE4BA5CO20081211

http://www.newswithviews.com/Evensen/greg134.htm



And a continuation of the story I posted a few days ago, part 3.
http://www.oftwominds.com/journal08/sullins12c-08.html

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83247

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83249

There goes this guy’s security clearance.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/state/epaper/2008/12/10/1210creditwreck.html

http://www.newsweek.com/id/173514/page/1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3QC1sfQ9RQ

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081211/financial_meltdown.html?.v=23

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-fed-taking-first-steps-to-default-or.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=au1wYjy9hoSE&refer=home

http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812092923/editorial/trilateral-plan-to-corner-world-gold-market.html

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JL12Dj01.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1092726/Gender-bending-chemicals-putting-future-risk.html

And a good quote:
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/12/09/report-joe-plumber-says-mccain-appalled/

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83114

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83210

I think I want a bailout too!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-1209broward-bailout,0,6719535.story

Ok, this is just cool. I wish it still was the 1950’s, this would have never got started in today’s age, but I am glad it is continuing.
http://gizmodo.com/5106141/the-curious-origin-of-norads-santa-tracking

So who’s running the country?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKba9P9q0Pgc&refer=home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZtKlAjwhqg

My sources say that the Jundullah group is a CIA established group.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=184460

Why couldn’t this guy be president?
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/11.08/austrians.html

Great.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1212788&pageid=0

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3692255/Asian-trade-in-Free-Fall.html

http://www.panamalaw.org/central_american_nations_agree_on_new_currency.html

I keep up with the earthquakes, part of the “birthing pains” of the bible.
http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/a-magnitude-7-earthquake-hits-kermadec-islands/

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Please don’t buy any more guns….please.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1318968,obama-gun-sales-up-120808.article

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94UMA800&show_article=1

http://www.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=69607

What exactly is going on over there? Are they trying to start WW3?
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5760

So do we all still wear tin-foil hats? A friend told me today, “you know it is getting bad when the front page of drudgereport has links to nationalization and one world governments”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a03e5b6-c541-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html

http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Has-No-Means-to-Re-by-Dustin-Ensinger-081208-723.html

http://www.house.gov/htbin/blog_inc?BLOG,tx14_paul,blog,999,All,Item%20not%20found,ID=081208_2559,TEMPLATE=postingdetail.shtml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/rogerbootle/3658646/Heading-for-zero.html

Good advice from one of my mentors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvOFL6YyDw

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3688288/Pakistan-Were-ready-for-war-with-India.html

Ok, so what are we threatening to do, go to war with Pakistan? Obama sure wants to, he has said it, and so has Biden. So let’s have three wars when we can’t even afford one.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/dec/06mumterror-us-says-if-pakistan-does-not-act-it-will-act.htm

So, is Russia getting ready to defend Iran if the Israeli’s hit them. The world is starting to look like a chessboard.
http://godssecret.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/russia-getting-ready-for-action-in-the-middle-east/

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/now-its-jobs.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081207/us_nm/us_autos_ports

Interesting quote from this article:
Genocide is often the result of a "perfect storm." A country reeling from political and economic turmoil, a fanatical leader promising to make things better and a vulnerable population targeted for blame -- all combine in a blueprint for mass murder.
That sounds eerily familiar.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/25/sbm.perpetrators/index.html#cnnSTCText

Change is coming....

As part of my keeping up with the goings on in this crazy country and world that we live in, I research a number of news organizations and post updates to some of my friends and family. One of my friends suggested that I post a blog to facilitate this update and I have finally decided to go ahead and do this.

Sometimes I will make comments on the articles, sometimes I will just post links. I try to keep the articles short (I think I have a touch of ADD), but all of these articles will be of the subject of the crisis our country and our way of life face in the coming months and years.

So here is the first edition of my "Today's Update" that I will post....hopefully daily.

I have turned off comments because I do not want to allow this to turn into a flame-war blog. If you want to comment, email me @ sempercynicus@(theletterg)mail.com, notice the subterfuge in the email is to twart the email spam spiders, the actual domain is gmail.com.



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html

more of the same
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16292.html

they won’t touch this issue
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-citizen8-2008dec08,0,6500899.story

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82829

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-cop-spy7-2008dec07,0,1237214.story

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B618W20081207?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/05/oil-commodities

http://www.startribune.com/nation/35652259.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aBAw1CQXcZMg&refer=home#

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/swat-team.htm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5269909.ece

http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave136.htm

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG120508.html

http://www.plim.org/01%20usa_dollar_devalua.htm

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1137337&format=text

http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/06/top2.htm

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1714714.htm

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/05/news/CB-Montserrat-Volcano.php

http://www.oftwominds.com/journal08/sullins12a-08.html
http://www.oftwominds.com/journal08/sullins12b-08.html

Thoughts on the 2nd Amendment

Thoughts on the 2nd Amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I have always been told to take things in context, when reading words written by an individual, put yourself in the time and place of that individual, try to walk a mile in their shoes so to speak. Consider the influences, both internal and external, that compel the group or individual to set those words to paper.


In order to do that with the Constitution you need to go back into history and realize what these men, these patriots, had just gone through. Just four years after the end of the bloody Revolutionary War, a war that freed the people of the “New World” from the tyrannical rule of the British Empire. To understand the mindset of these people, let us examine a few of the other amendments.


1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


To understand why the founders of our country decided to pen this tenet, think back to why these people fled Europe in the beginning, religious freedom. These people were being persecuted for their religious beliefs, they fled to the “New World” in order to practice their religion in peace, free from the persecution of the Church of England, a state sponsored church. So that is why the establishment of religion and free exercise thereof clauses are contained in the 1st Amendment. Our founding fathers knew their history from 100 years prior and strove to establish a government that would not repeat the mistakes made by the British government. The English version of the Bill of Rights, dated 1689, to which the U.S. Constitution was loosely based, included the freedom of speech clause, but in the English document, this freedom was only extended to the Parliament, who could not be questioned about what transpired inside the Parliament building. Prior to that it was deemed illegal, "any slanderous News ... or false news or tales where by discord or slander may grow between the King and the people ..." So the freedom of speech was considered an integral right to those belonging to a free country. During this same time in England, to publish any works (ie- press) you had to obtain a prepublication license insuring that the material was not of a political dissenting opinion. So basically if you wanted to speak or write anything that you wanted disseminated, it would have to be approved by officials or sufficiently vague that the meaning was obscured. Under the rule of Charles II during the years of 1661 and 1662, ordered his lieutenants to form a force of volunteers with sympathetic political views with “the officers to be numerous, disaffected persons watched and not allowed to assemble, and their arms seized...." We will touch on the arms seized bit a little later. I will not even visit the last phrase in “Jolly Olde England,” I’ll just reference the modern England for this one. They seem to be heading down the road back to their tyrannical ways: In 2005 the British Parliament outlawed free-speech within ½ mile of Westminster that was not first cleared by the police. Why are they afraid of free-thinking people?


So by looking at the 1st Amendment and knowing what you now know about the atmosphere in England immediately preceding the drafting of our Constitution, is there any question why the founding fathers crafted this amendment so precisely?


We will skip the 2nd Amendment until last, so what about the 3rd?


3rd Amendment: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.


This amendment was drafted to specifically address the Quartering Acts that England had imposed on the colonies preceding the Revolutionary War. Although never allowed to reside in the occupied private homes of citizens, the Quartering Acts did go so far as ordering the subjects to provide the soldiers lodging, and provisions in the case of the first Quartering Act. The colonists viewed this as an occupation as would anyone, and the drafters of our constitution took steps to make sure that the republic they were founding did not overstep its bounds of authority. Notice that I said republic and not democracy see my post on http://sempercynicus.blogspot.com/ for the reason why.


4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


The fourth amendment was written in direct response to three cases, two in England and one in the Colonies that occurred before the Revolutionary War. The two English cases involved pamphlets published containing seditious opinions of the King’s ministers, and as a result the King himself. The King issued warrants for the seizure of all their papers and books. The two accused sued for damages and the judge, Camden, decided in their favor. This made Camden a hero in the colonies and as a result, many towns in the U.S. are named after Camden. The third case was called the Writs of Assistance. The Writs of Assistance was a blanket search warrant issued to combat smuggling in the colonies. Agents of the Crown were allow to search any place where they though illegal goods might be, and compelled the public to “assist” in these searches and seizures, hence the name. A Boston attorney, James Otis, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the merchants and lost, fuelling the opposition to British rule. Later, John Adams said of Otis’s lawsuit, "then and there the child Independence was born." The fourth amendment was, yet again, a tool used by the authors of the Constitution to limit the reach of government, especially the reach of government into our private lives. This is the basic right granted to us by our Creator and ensured to us by the Constitution that separates us from the Gestapo of Nazi Germany or the KGB of the Soviet Union.


And now…


2nd Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.


Think about what these men had just been through. They had just broken away from the most powerful country in the world; a tyrannical government who had imposed many things upon them that they thought were “Intolerable Acts.” How had they accomplished this feat? They did this through conviction of heart, strength of mind, musket and cannons. Remember the Minuteman that fired the “Shot heard round the world?” Notice this wasn’t the debate heard round the world, or lawsuit, or stroke of the pen heard round the world. It was SHOT, from a gun. Governments that are no longer operating with fairness, as they should, are overthrown by patriots who are armed. Our founding fathers knew this and crafted the second amendment to ensure that if the republic they were forming ever got out of control, they could not take the tools of revolution from the people. In 1776 those tools were the musket and cannon, in this day and age there are tanks, cruise missiles, aircraft, and fully automatic weapons, all of which the government refuses you to possess…why? People are concerned for their second amendment rights; worried the government will take them away. I say the government is already violating the second amendment, and if they take the few “legal” arms that they allow us to possess, we will descend into the fascist dictatorship in which we are currently heading.

Open your eyes, They lie!

Semper Cynicus (Always Cynical)

Democracy is a good thing....Right?

Democracy,

The word itself conjures up feelings of liberty, freedom, certain unalienable rights, but do you really know what that word means? Do you really understand what America is trying to do spreading Democracy to the oppressed countries of the world? Examine the attached document and learn the difference between a democracy and a republic, and here is a hint: America's founding fathers NEVER intended on creating a democracy. Pass this on to everyone you know.




Open your eyes, They lie!


Semper Cynicus (Always Cynical)

Official Definition of DEMOCRACY

Here are four (4) fac simile section reproductions taken from a 156 page book officially compiled and issued by the U.S. War Department, November 30, 1928, setting forth exact and truthful definitions of a Democracy and a Republic, explaining the difference between both. These definitions were published by the authority of the United States Government and must be accepted as authentic in any court of proper jurisdiction.

These precise and scholarly definitions of a Democracy and a Republic were carefully considered as a proper guide for U.S. soldiers and U.S. citizens by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Such definitions take precedence over any “definition” that may be found in the present commercial dictionaries which have suffered periodical “modification” to please “the powers in office.”

Shortly after the “bank holiday” in the thirties, hush-hush orders from the White House suddenly demanded that all copies of this book be withdrawn from the Government Printing Office and the Army posts, to be suppressed and destroyed without explanation.

This was the beginning of the complete red control of the Government from within, not from without.

(No. 1 fac simile)
TM 2000-25 1
TRAINING MANUAL WAR DEPARTMENT,
No. 2000-25 WASHINGTON, November 30, 1928.
CITIZENSHIP
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Prepared under direction of the Chief of Staff
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This manual superseded Manual of Citizenship Training
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The use of this publication “The Constitution of the United States,” By Harry Atwood is by permission and courtesy of the author.

The source of other references is shown in the bibliography.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
(No. 2 fac simile)
TM 2000-25
118-120
CITIZENSHIP

Democracy:
A government of the masses.

Authority derived through mass meeting of any other form of “direct” expression.

Results in mobocracy.

Attitude toward property is communistic-negating property rights.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. Whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

(No. 3 fac simile)
TM 2000-25
120-121
CITIZENSHIP

Republic:
Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.
Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brough within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny of mobocracy.

Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

Is the “standard form” of government throughout the world.
A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of (1) and executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy. – Atwood.

121. Superior to all others.- Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not
be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered. Democracy is the “direct” rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success. Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They “made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy * * * and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic.”

(No. 4 fac simile)
(A. G. 014.33 (4-28-28).)
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: C.P. SUMMERALL, Major General Chief of Staff
Official: LUTZ WAHL, Major General, The Adjutant General.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON D.C. AT 30 CENTS PER COPY

Why Democracies Fail

A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always
to be followed by a Dictatorship.
(Written by Professor Alexander Fraser Tyler, nearly two centuries ago while our thirteen original states were still colonies of Great Britain. At the time he was writing of the decline and fall of the Athenian Republic over two thousand years before.)
- Reprinted from the Freeman Magazine

Did I say “republic?” By God, yes, I said “republic!” Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, miscegenation, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.
By Westbrook Pegler in the New York Journal American of January 25th and 26th, 1951 under the titles “Upholds Republic of U.S. Against Phony Democracy” and “Democracy in the U.S. Branded Meaningless.”