America in turmoil

By Ronald Joseph Kule

America is under seige. The enemy does not come from foreign soils, although its roots may be traced there. It is not a military conflict waged in the streets and townships across our land.
If it is true that ideas not wars mark the advances (and setbacks) of Man, then this enemy comes to us invisibly, for it is an idea as insidious as any and it can, as with any war, become a victor if it let to stand among us.
This idea is so anathema to the core of any America's soul; indeed, to the core of any man, woman and child on the face of this Earth. It is abhorrent to self-determined peoples everywhere.
What is this idea? In a word, communism.
Communism is at basic the notion that all live for the State's well-being, but people who live and breathe with freedoms as basic as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of their own Happiness naturally realize this is an idea 180 degrees opposite to those freedoms. The concept that we are all cogs in the great all-providing wheel of State, babes dependent upon the full teat of government for our daily sustenance, is TOTALLY FALSE! And enforcement of communistic tenets upon a free people will either destroy the people of America, or cause them to rise up and once and for all, destroy communism for the sake of their own survival collectively and individually.
Each and every human upon this planet is a living, breathing human being designed with certain inalienable rights which NO government may rightfully attempt to subordinate to itself. A State is a group; a country is a group, and groups are always composed of INDIVIDUALS. The foundation, therefore, of ANY group IS the INDIVIDUAL and the inalienable rights each has as part of his or her own makeup.
Today communism in America comes in the face of a smiling young man with precious little experience at governing who through his acknowledged ability to woo crowds has managed to become its president. This man sat through tv interviews and stood before throngs of adoring masses and told us, as he does today, exactly what he wants to do "for" America with a straight face, until faced himself with persons who questioned his vision...and then his response came brilliantly: a big broad toothy smile designed to win you over without ever answering your question. In truth obviously, he never cared about your question at all, because his vision for America was the only importance in his universe.
And the result today of a very uneducated voting process in 2008? A man in the White House who believes with all his heart, along with many members of our Congress behind him, that an omnipotent government exacting financial retribution (read, redistribution) from "big business" and wealthy, productive individuals, will supply all of your daily needs for survival from hereon out.
Ask the Russians who have thrown off the mantel of communism if they enjoyed the 20th century. Ask the Chinese who are outspoken in the name of basic freedoms and self-determinism if they still like living in the Communist State of China. Ask Lech Walensa from Poland; ask the peoples of all the Baltic States and residents of the former U.S.S.R.
America is under seige. American need to wake up to this reality and understand if they do not do something about it - and the sooner the better - they will not be able to...because the State will have outlawed the freedoms we have all cherished for our whole lives.
The attack today is financial. The Achilles Heel of this enemy is financial. The problem is large, and its solution needs to be equally as large, yet it is a simple one: take away the basic tenet of communists - that anything is owed to the State and that the State may tax its people from their incomes. Demand immediate removal of the progressive income tax and any form of income taxation and replace it with retail sales taxation. The money is ours, not the State's. The State is made up of individuals, not the other way around.
The funds you earn are YOURS. Take them back, America! Take them back.