In reading this commentary, you make reference to the "Prince of Darkness", immediately my mind went to that "OLD Hymn" of Martin Luther during the Protestant Reformation. Third Stanza, "A Mighty Fortress is Our God", "And tho this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed, His Truth to triumph thro' us. THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS GRIM, We, tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, for, Lo, his doom is sure. One little word shall fell him!" God is not mocked, whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap. It is written.

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

The agenda of the Statist left (Pelosi, Reed, Frank etc.)has found it's fulfillment in the election of Obama. Obama truly meant what he said in his election victory speech that he intends to "Fundamentally transform America." Unfortunatley, his vison of transformation is the Statist/Marxist kind to have the federal government dictate and control every facet of our lives in complete abrogation of our Constitution.

These fascists must be stopped before America is lost forever.

Well said, Robert. How do you propose that we stop them?

Voting is not an option since ACORN is very much alive and very much funded by taxpayer dollars and we may not have the option to vote in 2010 - a lot of things can happen between now and November such as Martial Law. The Unthinkable can happen when the marxist/fascist elite is totally in control.

Ileana, Robert, Ruth Ann and Michelle, all well said!

It's official now. We've gone beyond the merely rotten to the absolutely ghoulish.

There are unthinkable possibilities at hand, but as civilians our imaginings are limited.

i wonder how these all too reality-based forebodings weigh on those actually serving in the military?

I pray we aren't that far around the bend yet but that the response from the U.S. Armed Forces to any effort by our power coveting leftist/fascist friends to declare Martial Law would turn out to be a bit more than they'd wish for.

I suspect we have our own noble potential General Pinochets making Their own grim calculations: "Let's see..Scenario for Martial Law Declaration...Step One: Round up the two dozen actual supporters of current administration in the Military before visiting the White House..."

Lord help us, I hope this gang isn't too far down the road of calculating counter-measures. We DO seem to have a military that fails to call an Islamist Jihadi murderer of a baker's dozen of their own by his rightful name.

Quite right, Ileana. People say it can't happen here, but that's what they said in Germany too. After the 08 election, the Left haughtily declared, "We won. It's OUR country now." They really seem to believe that's true.

Well, we've got news for them. They will be thrown out of office. It's just a question of when and how. If, as you fear, they rescind the right to vote (hence the reason our Founders established our Constitutional rights as "divine" rights that no mortal man could take away), they will discover what happens when radical Marxists try to enslave Americans. These Leftists can't possibly be that foolish, can they?

OTOH, assuming they're not completely out of their minds, the next election will strip them of their dual Congressional majorities, and reduce Obama to a floundering figurehead without any real power anymore. You may be right; they may not be willing to accept that fate. They might try to install themselves as a permanent oligarchy.

Unfortunately for them, that will mean civil war, and that's a conflict they have no prayer of winning. I simply do not believe they're that stupid.

Michael, you're right...there's no way. They couldn't generate THAT big a crisis that the American people or the Military would let it fly.

Could they?

Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market and deliberative democracy:

Hyde Amendment makes violations costly

December 13, 1998

By Bill Moushey, Post-Gazette Staff Writer

Last year, Congress provided a measure of recourse for some victims of overzealous federal prosecutions.

Legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, allows defendants to recover reasonable defense costs if they can show a federal case was "vexatious, frivolous or in bad faith."

"Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve." Jospeh Story

As you have pointed out, this is NOT what I see happening today!

I have worked hard and paid my taxes every year (unlike several in the current administration). I have kept my head down, continued to work hard and have (so far) survived the economic downturn. As a family, we have embarked on a program to eliminate all of our outstanding debt. We will have our 25th wedding anniversary this year. I am proud of the life I have been blessed with and have worked very, very hard for.

It is with somber resolve that I am beginning to prepare for the worst. In the past six months, I have made my first firearm purchases ever and am practicing regularly to become more than proficient at using them. I would love to help be an agent of change to the direction the country is headed, but I don't know what to do at this point. Sure, we can vote them out of office, but quite frankly, I'm not so sure that the two major parties are that far apart (politics as usual). We need a wholsale change and I don't know what I can do to help make that happen. However, if push ultimately does come to shove, I am prepared to do what is necessary to defend the Constitution, my rights and my freedom.

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States." Noah Webster

"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." James Madison

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." Patrick Henry

"The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!" Alexander Hamilton

"[A] wise and frugal government...shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson

One of my friends who is a financial planner told me the other day that he was investing his money in gold and ammo. I was a bit shocked, I can understand the gold but ammo? He proceeded to explain to me that gold will buy him larger ticket items that he would need in case of hyperinflation while ammo, a few bullets at a time, would buy him daily necessities such as bread, butter, milk, etc.

Hyperinflation refers to inflation by the hour as experienced by the Weimar Republic prior to the arrival of Hitler to power when German citizens drove a wheelbarrow full of Deutsche Mark to the store to buy a loaf of bread. It was cheaper to burn Deutsche Mark in the fireplace than to actually buy the wood. This hyperinflation caused such an unstable economy that when the Social-Democrat Hitler came to power and promised everybody a Volkswagen and delivered, he was hailed as a god and savior of the German Volk.

I remember stories from Eastern Europe during the communist era of people using commodities as money in an interesting barter system based on theft and deception in order to survive. People would use soap bars, shampoo, chocolate bars, packages of cigarettes, stockings, pantyhose, bananas, oranges, apples, bottles of cooking oil to buy a doctor's services, a bottle of medication, a pound of meat, test results for a blood report, vitamins, or any other service or good that was in short supply or only available on the black market. It was survival of the fittest based on lucrative exchange of goods either bought or stolen from the government.

People were stealing goods at their place of employment and trade them with other goods stolen by people from other places of employment. This way a bizarre barter system emerged because of the high inflation, shortage of goods, low pay for everyone since everyone was employed by the government, no incentive to do better because NOBODY was allowed to do better. If a person earned something extra, the economic police would be notified by neighbors and that person was incarcerated immediately without any due process. A simple accusation sufficed, even though it may have been a trumped up accusation or charge.

Speaking of ammo, I also remember my grandfather telling me how the communists disarmed the population in Eastern Europe once the Executive Order was given to turn in the guns and very few complied. The government hired unemployed goons and criminals from various jails and sent them to each house in the dead of night, took the occupants in a windowless truck, drove them around all night, telling them that they were going to a Gulag, a forced labor camp, and, by the end of the night, the people would be so terrified, they gave up their guns and high value possessions - jewelry, coins, tractors, expensive tools, clocks, radios, cameras, etc. And, when that did not satiate those in power, they took their land and their homes. No eminent domain there, just confiscation plain and simple. If someone rented and the apartment was deemed too spacious, another family was brought in to live at that address. Oftentimes two families of four each would occupy a two bedroom apartment, sharing a bathroom and a kitchen.

Can it happen here? You be the judge. Re-distribution of wealth may not stop just at taxes.

I can only hope me boot shall find Dingy Harrys dirty behind one of these days . they are idealouges with sociopathic personalities corrupting a free and open demmocracy.one could only hope,no pray ! that this aristocrisy meets the same fate Russian czars met in 1917.

Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market and deliberative democracy:

On January 8, 2006, the LA Times reported, "Reps. John Doolittle and Richard Pombo joined forces with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas to oppose an investigation by federal banking regulators into the affairs of Houston millionaire Charles Hurwitz, documents recently obtained by The Times show." Furthermore, "When the FDIC persisted, Doolittle and Pombo - both considered proteges of DeLay - used their power as members of the House Resources Committee to subpoena the agency's confidential records on the case, including details of the evidence FDIC investigators had compiled on Hurwitz." Consequently, "the investigation was ultimately dropped."

Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market and deliberative democracy:

U.S. AGREES TO REPAY HOLLANDS $900,000

Story excerpt: In what may be the biggest award of its kind, the Justice Department has agreed to pay slightly more than $900,000 to Richard J. Holland Jr. and the estate of his deceased father, Richard J. Holland, for their expenses in a bank-fraud case that was dismissed.

The senior Holland had been chairman of Farmers Bank in Windsor before he died in April, and his son is the bank's president and chief executive officer. The two were tried in federal court in Norfolk 2 1/2 years ago on ...

government OF, BY, and FOR "THE BANKSTERS"

"All that is needed for evil to be free in the world is for good men to do nothing." "Those who have the ABILITY to institute change for the betterment of society have the RESPONSIBILITY to do so."