from – The Parallax Prophecies -
By Ron Ewart, President
National Association of Rural Landowners
and nationally recognized author on freedom and property rights issues.
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“People are a great deal like electrons. When they get too close to each other, they are repelled by each other’s negative charge and can never come together, except in times of immense heat and pressure …. like in a Black Hole, or a world war ….. or the rise of tyranny.” Ron Ewart
When the attack comes, whether foreign or domestic, people that are divided will run in all directions in a panic, just like the people did on the cruise ship that ran aground off the West Coast of Italy a week ago and sent the passengers scurrying in all directions, looking for anyway they could to exit the sinking cruise liner and save their lives. There was no guidance and no plan, there was just pandemonium, an irrational human response that can lead to death.
Americans today, are not much different than the passengers on that stricken ship. We are running in all directions with no guidance and no plan. America is more divided now than it ever was and it will be our un-doing if we allow it to continue. Without a course correction resulting from conservative unification,America will sink deeper into the quicksand of apathy, indifference and wholly desperate ideologies, with no chance of escape.
We are divided, even within our own ideologies. Conservatives or liberals cannot agree between themselves on their ideas or visions of what Americashould be. To make matters worse, politicians in either party are more interested in the reins of power than they are in the heavy responsibility of guiding this nation in accordance with the blue print laid out for us by the Founding Fathers in our constitution, a constitution for which millions of brave men and women gave their lives in its defense over these last 235 years since freedom was born, when a “shot was heard ’round the world.”
The difficulties we face as Americans come from the differences in those two ideologies and the direction that either ideology will take America. One ideology is steeped in enabling weakness and dependency ….. for votes. The other is founded on individual strength, self-reliance and independence. In all respects of the two opposing ideologies, the former must be funded by the latter as the strong among us always have the responsibility of supporting the weak among us, whether we would like to or not if government has its way. The serious flaw in the former ideology (Progressivism) is that weakness and dependency will grow within it to a point at which there are more dependent people than there are independent people. The flawed system breaks down when it reaches that point and maybe even before. Those that are dependent on the system will fail with it and there will be no one to help them since the country will be broke. It is already happening inGreece.
The strength of the latter ideology (Conservatism) is that it breeds independence and self-reliance. The attributes of independence and self-reliance are the foundation of individual freedom. Freedom cannot exist without them. History has proven that a weak nation will eventually succumb to a stronger nation, or collapse from within. A nation that becomes corrupt by fostering weakness and dependency for votes will disintegrate into bankruptcy and chaos; or conquered by a stronger, more determined force; or unwillingly merged into another nation. (think the one-world-order)Europe’s model of socialism and rampant dependency has shown us that it never works and will always fail. Is America destined to follow Europe into the same pit of despair?
If Americais to be restored to the vision of the Founding Fathers as a free and prosperous nation, the only ideology that can accomplish it is the one that has in its foundation, the principles of self-reliance, independence, free choice, free markets and individual freedom. Any other ideology is doomed to failure, national bankruptcy and eventually, enslavement.
However, in order for that one ideology to prevail, those that believe in that ideology must unite around the simple principles of self-reliance, independence, free choice and individual freedom. Any other course will divide the ideology and render it impotent.
If we as Americans can’t agree on the basic principles that we are sovereign, free Americans that have declared our independence from all foreign nations and dictates and governed by a blue print called the Constitution and that the land we now occupy is sovereign land for all legal Americans subject to our laws, we have no hope whatsoever of solving the problems we face today. Remember! Our domestic enemies are those people in power, or those that lobby those people in power, who attempt to manipulate us like puppets and divert our attention away from the fact that we are sovereign, free citizens of this great and exceptional country called theUnited States of America. We cannot expect to defeat a foreign enemy if we cannot vanquish a domestic enemy.
Our problems and our divisions exist because of the human failing that makes us focus on one single issue, while ignoring all the other very important issues that secure our freedom and liberty. Many times that single issue has a great deal to do with what we are receiving in the form of government assistance. Sometimes that single focus has to do with religious beliefs, or the abhorrence of war, or perceived unfair treatment, or discrimination due to race, creed, national origin, or the color of our skin. Although these issues may seem very real to those involved, they tend to overshadow why we are Americans, why we are exceptional and why we have built the most powerful and most generous nation on earth. It is because we are free, but we won’t be free much longer if we do not unite on some absolutely fundamental principles.
Divisions within any group can be overcome by first determining what issues upon which most of the group can agree and cast aside for the moment, those issues upon which they do not agree. Since most people have good hearts and fair minds, the group can then form a strong bond around the agreed-upon issues.
But you ask, what does the group do about those issues for which there is no agreement? That’s the tricky part. If we lose sight of that which unites us and only focus on that which divides us, there is no hope of coming together and we are like the electron with a negative charge that repels all other electrons.
In the hopes of uniting more of us on those simple principles, we have created a survey for groups of people to determine where they agree and how to forge a bond within the group over those agreed-upon issues. We then discuss how to deal with those issues over which we do not agree. That survey is part of a group of documents that we have created that we call the “20 Documents to Freedom“, or as we also call it, our “S-O-S Kit“. It is a useful exercise for groups of 10 or more. It grows even more useful if the results are shared with other groups that have taken the survey.
One might ask why does it take a disaster to bring Americans together? Why was it thatAmericarallied in solidarity after Pearl Harbor, to take on a World War and defeat two enemies on two different continents and two separate oceans? Why was it that after 911 America came together in common purpose to “get” the culprits that would dare attack us? Why was it that that coming together only lasted for about 4 to 6 months before we split up into thousands of fractions of self-interest and started attacking each other again? Why is it that so many Americans are so ignorant of the problems we have created for ourselves and the foreign and domestic enemies and our so-called benevolent friends like the United Nations, that are taking huge bites out of our freedom and sovereignty? Ignorance is not bliss it is suicidal.
Are we not Americans? Then why is it we have been played like pawns by our government and special interests, such that we now fight with each other instead of challenging the enemy that we allowed to make us what we are? Why is it we have allowed outside forces to manipulate us so that we look more like immature elementary children fighting in a school yard, than mature, clear-thinking, informed adults? Why is it we have forgotten that the foundation of freedom is unalienable individual rights, free choice, free markets, independence, self-reliance and personal responsibility, that are supposed to be PROTECTED by government under the framework of ourConstitutionalRepublic, not ERODED by government as it has been doing for 100 years or more under Progressivism?
But take heart! There is a shift in the winds of politics and there still may be hope for America yet. Since the 2009 town hall meetings turned ugly against Obama care and since the 2010 election when several Tea Party candidates were swept into the U. S. House of Representatives by the voters, the other side senses a movement in this country that is contrary to Progressivism, a false ideology that has been growing in America for over 100 years. In this power struggle of ideologies, Progressives will pull out all of the stops to defeat Conservatives. They will lie, cheat and manipulate elections to remain in power. Propaganda advertising, to sway the naive among us, will be unrelenting. Half the American population, that have been bought off for their votes, is behind and supports them. The mainstream media idolizes and promotes them. Our public schools and colleges indoctrinate our children with Progressivism, multi-culturalism and Collectivism with a vengeance. It’s everywhere. How on Earth can we stop them?
Ladies and gentlemen, “The Parallax Prophecies” predicts that if the conservative movement in America does not unite, en masse, behind the principles of freedom upon which they can agree and set aside those issues upon which they cannot agree, this protracted ideological battle that is raging throughout the land will continue indefinitely until what is left of America will be totally unrecognizable from the vision of those who planted the seeds of freedom in a diverse people, on a new continent, 11 score and 15 years ago. We either unite in freedom, or unconditionally surrender and sink ever deeper into a bottomless pit of shifting, oozing quicksand ….. never to rise again.
Rest assured, this writer will never surrender and we will keep pumping out words of freedom, hope and inspiration until our life ends, or we are silenced by those with whom we take issue. Until then, watch for our informational and inspirational messages that emanate each week from ….. ”The Parallax Prophecies
Ron Ewart, President
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS
P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA 98027
425 837-5365 or 1 800 682-7848
Funky plunky – the ONLY Americans who gave their lives for freedom fought in the Revolution in the 1770s. The rest died for empire and corporatism.
“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.”
~George Santayana
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Not a great article. Continues the politics of divide and conquer by making absurd claims that all conservative politics are good, all progressive politics are bad – not just bad, but the enemy within. Nonsense. Ewart’s history misses great swaths such as the conservative revolution under Reagan that deregulated banking and sent our economy to China. Yes, yes, Clinton helped, I know. But the point is this overly-simple call to unite is deceptive from the start.
Yes, we need to be united, and yet we are not. Never have been. But demonizing the opposition instead of seeing their point is self defeating. Ewart wants you to fight a false battle – a crusade, really. Follow out his logic of government being the anti-freedom.
You know the snide remark about democracy being two wolves and a lamb deciding on what is for dinner? That came from Paine’s observation that having a house of commons (or representatives) and giving the common man only one third of the power was as good as none. Two thirds of the power goes to the powerful and they exercise THEIR freedom at your expense. The only freedom you have is freedom under the rule of law, aka government. No founder of this nation advocated what Ewart is.
Progressivism is flawed, but so is conservative ideology. Case in point: the Chinese worker, replacing the American one, works 16-hour shifts, lives in a company cubicle, eats in the company cafeteria, has no pension or healthcare or job security of any kind, uses child labor, and their air and water can be grossly polluted with impunity. Free? Competitive? Something we should emulate?
Ewart says, “One ideology is steeped in enabling weakness and dependency ….. for votes. The other is founded on individual strength, self-reliance and independence.” I’m surprised to read this here. Really. Take the Chinese worker’s plight described above and apply the logic of Ewart’s quote to see if it is really that black and white.
we need at least one if not two new parties, these parties and the people who support them have became complacent, apathetic and blind, i don’t want the “lesser of two evils”, i want something good! and no more federal reserve satanists!
Thanks for the inspirational words Ron.
Will pass it on
Long-winded article not saying who you think we should unite around.
It’s Ron Paul or more of the same – undeclared wars, corrupt bankers in control of the economy, and corporate control of our food, medicine and politics.
The tea party and Palin hold no hope of change – they are all toadies for Israel.
THANK YOU! EVERY, Single!! “American” NEEDS/MUST read this!!
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The American people refuse to come together
Currently they trying to elect despots
“Votescam: The Stealing of America,” by James & Kenneth Collier (the foundational book); “Black Box Voting,” by Bev Harris, paperback and free at blackboxvoting.org; “Hacked!: High Tech Election Theft in America” by Vickie Karp and Abbe DeLozier; websites: http://www.votefraud.org — see articles down right hand side of home page; and http://www.TheLandesReport.com (excellent research); http://www.blackboxvoting.org ; http://www.bradblog.com (exhaustive up to the minute coverage of the votefraud issue by Brad Friedman)
Theatre of the Absurd: South Carolina Primary
And Now – We move into the Theatre of the Absurd: South Carolina Primary .
No Paper Ballots.
No Paper Trail.
Just Bleeps of energy supposedly going through phone lines, computer lines, or the wireless ether.
See this 10 Min YouTube video:
“South Carolina, Super Tuesday, and Ron Paul”
This is a 2008 video, but still applies.
The South Carolina Primary “election” is:
* illegal according to South Carolina state law
* unconstitutional as it is in violation of at least two US Supreme Court decisions
* in violation of the “consent of the governed” phrase in the Declaration of Independence
* and in direct violation of the US Constitution in several places, such as Article 1, Section 2 which says, “. . . The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states . . .” — because:
A doubtful election is no election at all, as the US Supreme Court has ruled at least twice that we have a right to cast a ballot AND a right to KNOW that our vote was counted accurately. — We can’t know anything in computer elections as no one can see what’s happening inside a computer.
We, the people, must not accept secretly counted “elections”, on secret programs written by unknown programmers. – when there is no paper trail and no paper — thus, making it impossible to reconstruct anything if there is a computer breakdown.
This is “in your face” violation of law and common sense.
The South Carolina Primary is the “Computer VoteFraud Syndicate” in Action. Please note that all 5 Big TV Networks remain silent on this criminal election activity, — as usual moving as one entity against the interests of the American people.
And ALL coming Primary elections, and the coming November Election will be “counted” on easily rigged, unverifiable computer programs, run basically by 4 major mega-corporations, and programmed by unknown programmers. One company, ES &S (Election System & Software headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska — counts 61% of the vote in the USA at the November Election. See the link on http://www.votefraud.org to the article “How They Could Steal the Election this Time,” written by veteran reporter Ronnie Dugger, which appeared in “The Nation” magazine in August, 2004. ES &S is the company which is running the South Carolina Primary “election” in 2012.
Join the “WatchTheVote2012″ Facebook page and help us blow the whistle on these un-American, illegal secret computer counts — and restore honest voting.
Great article. You just described Ron Paul politics. Division is what keeps the machine working against us. And the media is responsible for our ignorance. A movement needs to happen to demand an unbiased media outlet that has no financial incentive to spread lies. The tea party has yet to realize they are still controlled by their media and two party paradigm.
Thanks again.
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