June 25, 2014
All Sales Are Final
By Tammy Derouin
Puzzles are challenging.
When you get stuck do you give up and throw it back in the box? Do you reshape the pieces and force them
where you think they belong? Do you
study the picture for guidance? America
has had many un-American puzzle pieces forced into our picture. The original design has been ignored. What will it look like in the end?
The Muskegon Police Department recently acquired a military
vehicle. The growing collection of
military grade equipment continues to grow at the local level across the nation. The police need equipment but there is
something unsettling about military equipment.
Safety and security is important.
However, when power is abused in the name of safety, it imprisons
everyone.
Look at some of the puzzle pieces. The president once stated, “We
cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national
security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national
security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Why would Obama want to have civilian military units
throughout the United States? When he
became President, the United States was the most powerful country in the world. He weakened our military and made us
vulnerable to attack. Dictators fear the
people. This is why they disarm the
population and heavily arm those in the regime. When tyranny rules, the police
are feared. If the mention of the KGB
and Gestapo doesn’t make you tremble, read history.
Rahm Emanuel served as Obama’s Chief of Staff. He is the current Mayor of Chicago. Emanuel once stated, “Citizenship is not an
entitlement program. It comes with
responsibilities. Everybody between the
ages of 18 and 25 will serve three months of basic training and understanding
in a kind of defense. That universal
service – somewhere between the ages of 18 and 25 – will give Americans, once
again, a sense of what they are to be American and their contribution to
country and common experience. As you
look at World War II, now that was a draft – this is not a draft. It is universal service.”
Once I lifted my jaw and retrieved my eyeballs, I
sat in motionless shock, and then I got angry.
Citizenship is indeed a privilege, not an entitlement program. Why does the government provide entitlements
to those who come here illegally? Why
does our government encourage illegal activity?
Our government has devalued citizenship by attempting to give it away,
thereby creating a crisis.
Once again the progressives repackage an idea in
order to sell it. Service in our
military is voluntary unless there is a threat.
If you don’t have an option, universal service is their repackaged word
for draft. They change a word here or
there but the meaning is still the same.
Universal service is supposed to teach Americans how to be
American? The government is forcing an
agenda which includes teaching what they want you to believe. Freedom will naturally create a feeling of pride
in country. Force instills fear and
behavior is altered. Let’s just call it
what it is, re-education training.
Michelle Obama has contributed puzzle pieces as well. She has stated, “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health
care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up
a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” That’s called redistribution of wealth. Forcefully taking from one and giving it to
another isn’t charity, its robbery, government sanctioned robbery. It becomes an entitlement and creates a
division, a class war. Wait a minute;
didn’t Rahm Emanuel say that citizenship wasn’t an entitlement program? They change their words to fulfill their
agenda. It’s a means to an end. Or perhaps her intention is to redistribute
American wealth to non-citizens. It wouldn’t be the first time this
administration ignored the citizens to take better care of outsiders and our
enemies.
There are also these infamous
words of Michelle Obama, "Barack knows that we are going to have to make
sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to
have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a
different place as a nation."
Based on the final picture, this
isn’t a puzzle anybody would desire.
Many examples are available on the shelves of history. The picture would scare even those who are so
out of touch with reality, firmly back in the driver’s seat. The progressives however, know this and
therefore they don’t furnish a completed picture. Instead they sell a dream, a perfect
world. They describe how wonderful it
will be upon completion. All you need to
do is buy it so you can find out what’s inside.
All sales are final.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And
what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do
before”.
The case was brought by Hobby Lobby, a Oklahoma-based retail chain owned by the Green family. The Greens said they are willing to cover 16 of the 20 birth control methods mandated by Obamacare to its employees, but not four others because the risk of abortion goes against their religious beliefs."
