"We've got trouble!" --Tank, The Matrix

Back in 2004, I published The Real Matrix in seven parts (read them here). I had little idea how the process outlined there would accelerate in 2005 and 2006. Indeed, even those still “plugged in” ought to be wondering why the U.S. Senate just gave thumbs-up (62 yeas vs. 26 nays) to an immigration bill that most of the public does not want and would clearly be destructive of this country’s long-term best interests—educationally, culturally, and economically. Those of us out here in the Desert of the Real are aware that the Senate just took us one step closer to a North American Union. In fact, I do not believe the Senate’s action of May 25 can be understood apart from this larger scheme.

Everyone has a worldview. Everyone has a way of interpreting current events. While few study the past anymore, where we’ve been as a society, civilization and as a world counts heavily. In postmodern times it seems everyone and everything is on the move. Advances in trade, communications, travel, science and virtually every field of endeavor have combined to shrink the world immeasurably. Yet what’s shrunk along with that is our ability to properly analyze events (particularly between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 and beyond). So much is happening so fast it’s hard to make a connection.

As I write, the nation is trying to digest the latest military "atrocity," this one allegedly committed by U.S. Marines in Iraq. Notice something revealing but never mentioned about such events. The nation fought in World War II on three continents and many islands for almost four years. In geographical terms, it was the biggest war we ever fought. How many atrocities did our forces commit?

You can't think of any, can you? You can't even name one. Think about that for a minute; then ask yourself why. One possible reason is that, fighting for almost four years in many bloody battles, often house to house, our forces committed none, an enviable record. Nobody made a mistake. Nobody went too far. How likely is that, do you think? How likely is it that suddenly, starting in the Korean War, and in every war since, our men went crazy and committed one outrage after another?

“Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

The French kiss Al Gore received from the mainstream media in Cannes over his shlockumentary fiction ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ exceeded even the chronic revulsion that is symbiotic with all things Al Gore.

The over-the-top fear mongering Gore regurgitates about ‘global warming’ conveniently ignores far more than it presumes to expose.

Now that we are about to have the third Secretary of the Treasury in the last five years and the second CEO of Goldman Sachs appointed to the position, do you think the media and Congress critters will ask the right questions. For instance, Mr. Paulson: how do you feel about federal trust funds? Or: can the national debt be paid off with anything other than taxpayer money?

Since all federal trust funds are managed by the Secretary of the Treasury, these would certainly seem to be legitimate and important questions to ask, but I’m willing to bet that these subjects never come up and, if they do, they will not be probed beyond the most superficial response.

According to the Associated Press and UPI, the American Bible Society has refused to print an order of Bibles with “Jesus Loves Porn Stars” emblazoned across the cover to be handed out to adult film stars by XXXchurch.com at locations across the country.

The American Bible Society contends that such a statement was inappropriate for a New Testament cover. As a ministry to those so trapped by this filth as to seek it out in public, one cannot blame the outreach for trying though, as frankly up until now there was little the American Bible Society would not allow on the covers of their Bibles.

Newsweek's June 5 cover story "Rethinking the Marriage Crunch" is typical of the psychological war waged on society by the mass media.

Newsweek magazine waited 20 years to retract a 1986 story that educated 40-year-old women have "as much chance of marrying as being killed by a terrorist," although they knew it was bogus. The story became part of popular culture, mentioned in movies and television, causing many women to panic.

Suppose that, within America, existed an organization whose leaders defrauded, lied to and stole from their followers.  Suppose that this organization's leadership had taken power illegally after years of honest and responsible leadership.  Furthermore, suppose that this organization killed and maimed some of its own followers and lots of the followers of other organizations.  Finally, suppose that this organization not only preached the overthrow of America, but actively and violently worked toward that end.

In conjunction with the deliberate dumbing down of America, the populace has surreptitiously been indoctrinated to abhor, tolerate, and then embrace the basest behavior in human sexuality. It is not coincidental that the raging, rebellious, out-of-control, bra burning sixties followed the deliberately decadent “research” of Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894-1956), a biologist and a professor of entomology and zoology, given credibility by the Indiana University in Bloomington. His insidious influence drastically affected American culture and society.

“The commies of the ACLU are not going to let us do “Attrition through Enforcement.”  The courts that are under their control will go along with them and force the illegals down our collective throats. Sorry, they win, we lose!  If we are lucky, we may find a remote island somewhere, but face it, the United States is going to die and we can't stop it,” said Bob K., retired US Army.

Doesn’t that curl your ears?  When letters arrive like this one, I roar! We don’t teach Americans to lose. Not a baseball game!  Not in basketball!  Not a tennis match!  Not in football!  Not a soccer game! It’s un-American to expect to lose.

When I was in college I lived in an old two-story frame house, built in the 1890's. It was a co-ed house with 13 people in it, and ha ha! I was the only renter who had a room to himself! Because I got there first, before everyone else, that's how! Downstairs was the family room, or living room, or community room, or throw-all-the-beer-cans-in-it room, or whatever you want to call it. It came with a TV, which finally disappeared into some cokehead's car and was never seen again.

The year that we had the TV, it brought in three things: the only broadcast channel in town, which had a newscaster who would change his coat when he went from news to sports; another channel from 35 miles away, and a cable channel from who knows where. I think it might have been Chicago, and don't ask me how we got it. This was a good ten years before everyone else got cable, and I didn't have a clue how it worked. It was just there.

It is a tough calling, being a Christian and Paleo-Conservative in America on Memorial Day weekend. This is for the simple reason that this time of year produces the obligatory public statements from key figures of the political and religious establishment of the United States, talking about our nation's greatness and commitment to individual freedom. The speeches are legitimate in recalling who and what we were in a storied past. The problem, however, is this--the patriotic speeches seem to avoid any honest introspection and analysis about who and what we have now become. The disconnect between myth and reality has become torturous for anyone with an ounce of intellectual or moral integrity.
Is It America the Republic? Or America the Police State?

As I peruse the internet, it is obvious that a lot of conservatives are angry at Bush and the GOP. Out of control spending, the Miers’ nomination, the Medicare drug plan, No Child Left Behind, the Dubai ports deal, etc. laid the foundation for dissatisfaction among conservatives. Of course the paleoconservatives also opposed the War from the beginning. The rank-and-file conservatives were unfortunately supportive of the War at first, but now it seems that only the most loyal Free Republic style “Bushbots” remain enthusiastic. A lot of initially enthusiastic conservatives seem to be having second thoughts about our invasion.

But it is the immigration issue and the utter political tone-deafness of Bush and the GOP and their insistence on amnesty that has gotten the base in a state of outrage and Bush’s poll numbers in a freefall. For the first time, I have seen large numbers of conservative activists declaring on the internet that the GOP has lost their support. This is a positive development in my mind. Whether they will be brought back into the fold in 2008 with pleas of “anybody but Hillary” remains to be seen, but at least a seed has been planted. The biggest worry right now for the GOP is that conservative activists will not give money, man phone banks, pass out flyers, or go to the polls. At present (election 2006) a large scale defection of conservatives to the Constitution Party is not yet likely, if for no other reason than prohibitive ballot access laws in many states.

Back in 2004, I gave up hope that the Republican Party would ever again honestly promote a truly conservative, constitutionalist agenda in Washington, D.C. Since then, the GOP has not failed my expectations. It has nose-dived into a big government, big- spending, socialist, Big Brother, pro-illegal invasion party that no true conservative could remotely support!

As a result, I switched my party registration to the Constitution Party. The CP has a platform with which I enthusiastically agree! (See their party platform at http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php) The CP also traditionally enjoys ballot access in over 40 states, which makes it a very viable third party. In fact, in raw numbers, the CP is the third largest party behind only the two major parties.

As I sat waiting in the interminable collectivist lines at the VA Medical Center, I picked up a copy of the American Conservative and read an article by Taki. His money supports the magazine and he writes about the upper crust as if they were ordinary people.

In the body of this piece Taki quoted a hauntingly beautiful poem entitled “Suicide in the Trenches” by Seigfried Sassoon.