DECEMBER 22, 2012, PART DEUX

It was practically being shouted from the rooftops. The world, as we know it, would end on December 22, 2012. But that date came and went without even a whimper. We now have a new date looming that will certainly change everything. Tuesday, October 1, 2013.

So, how will it really affect us? I’m guessing Americans who's only votes are for reality show contestants feel that it has nothing to do with their lives. Others, often interviewed by Jay Leno and other “Man-On-The-Street” interviewers feel that, as one of those interviewees recently said, “Free Obama insurance? Hell yeah I’m in favor of it!” It’s about time someone else paid for my medical bills!” But, for the rest of us, it seems a good idea to review the pros and cons of this sweeping legislation that is certainly going to change every American’s lives as it relates to government.

I am not going to list them here. That’s what Google is for. I am however, going to point to one example of the insipid senselessness of the totally misnamed “Affordable Care Act”.

To become an insurance agent in any state in the U.S., you have to go through a detailed training course and take a rather difficult exam. After that, each agency has their own training process to insure that each agent is well versed in their products as well as the laws, including contract law, to insure that each policyholder has someone they can depend on to fairly and accurately answer all their questions. It doesn’t always work out perfectly but it is the best formula for the industry.

That is going to change rather abruptly. Under Obamacare, we will now have “Navigators” to advise insured citizens as to their insurance needs. So what is a “Navigator?” Under Section 1311 of the new law, hundreds of millions of dollars are being poured into such upstanding organizations as Community Activist Groups, Labor Unions, Civil Rights Groups, Immigration Rights Groups and other ”Progressive” organizations to hire “Navigators” to walk Americans through the health exchanges. What could go wrong, you ask? Well . . . consider the fact that these people will be going through NO background checks, they will have direct access to all of your data including social security numbers, addresses, personal health information and financial accounts. These are not insurance agents. They are not even federal employees! They are people hired literally “off-the-street” and they are supposed to match the ethnic characteristics of the people they are advising. I guess the thinking is that only an Asian off the street can advise an Asian on their health insurance needs. So . . .if a person just got out of prison for identity theft, they can get hired as a Navigator and if they get caught stealing your identity, the law says that that is wrong but there is no penalty in place to protect us. They can just keep doing their job. But . . .”Please stop stealing identities.” 

Remember earlier when I mentioned that this is one example? Go ahead, start Googling. But I caution you, your head just might explode. Which is pretty much what they were warning us about on December 22, 2012.

A FUNDAMENTAL SLIDE INTO SOCIALISM

When I was in my second year of college in 1968, I decided to attend a meeting of the Students for a Democratic Society. Like most students and many Americans, I was fed up with the Viet Nam war and I had heard that they had fresh, new ideas for America. I went in to the meeting to learn and possibly join the group. I came out shaken by what I heard. Although the organization only lasted for another year, their philosophy and goals have not only endured, but have successfully entrenched themselves into the American mainstream.

My guess is that there were about 100 students in the auditorium that evening. I remember there were four speakers and a slide show. The title of the meeting was “Transforming America from Within”. I took notes but I’m pretty sure they went to the trash bin of my college career when I graduated.

From the beginning, they made no excuses for being primarily influenced by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. They were against the Viet Nam war, not because it was killing American boys at an alarming rate, but because it was a war against Communism. To them it was a futile war because they, the Socialist – Communists in the U.S. had compiled a strategy to transform America from a Democracy to a Socialist state and do it from within. We were encouraged to read articles from Tom Hayden and Saul Alinski along with older Communist Party USA books from the 40’s and 50’s. I never bothered back then. However, when Barack Obama stated in his first campaign that he was going to “fundamentally transform” America in his presidency, I was certain that I had heard those words before. So, I did some very overdue homework that the SDS assigned me 45 years ago. My general conclusion is that they have done a marvelous job in the fundamental transformation business ever since.

Below are just a few of their stated goals.. See if you recognize any of them in America today.

Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

Gain control of all student newspapers.

Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, and policy making positions.

Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.

When you think about it,  this kind of reads like Valerie Jarrett’s “To Do” list.