Author Archives: TheKraken

If you have sworn an oath the support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and you have no idea what that actually means, I’ll make you a deal.  All you have to do is admit that you held up your hand for no reason. Admit that you signed a contract without understanding it and they said there was a paycheck in it for you, so you mouthed the words without knowing, without caring what you were promising, and I will let you go.  No strings attached.

Walk away from your job.  Walk away from your pension, your retirement, your healthcare plan and all the rest of it, because you lied to get them and they are not rightfully yours.  Government … Continue reading →

There are responsible ways to consider the duty to “support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic”.  This is not one of them:

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., believes that his oath of office compels him to protect the country from “rabid” Tea Party congressmen because they qualify as “domestic enemies.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-democrat-calls-tea-party-lawmakers-domestic-enemies/article/2537434

I would like to know what his standards are.  Probably not impressive when you see how he misconstrues the oath itself:

“Really, you’ve got to think, we take an oath to protect this country from ‘all enemies, foreign and domestic,’ and these are the domestic enemies,” Cohen said.

Except that even if he were right, he would still be wrong.  The oath is not about protecting the country; that’s the military’s day … Continue reading →

The United States is falling to a saturation offense decades in the making.  Like the scene in the movie Aliens where the motion tracker says the aliens are so close that they are in the same room with our heroes, we can’t quite figure out where the enemy is, but we know they’re all over us.  In the movie, our heroes needed to expand their thinking from two to three dimensions; the aliens were in the overhead.  For our own purposes we need to look not at individuals and elections, but at the large picture.  Our house is being eaten by termites, and no matter how many individual bugs we squash, it does nothing to help remove the infestation.

Those Americans who most keenly feel and honor their … Continue reading →

Greetings.  I am no longer a Republican.  I am certainly not a Democrat.  Neither am I a member or supporter of the Libertarian party or the Constitution Party.  I support no candidate and I oppose no candidate.  I am no longer a partisan political supporter of anybody.   If I mention names, it is only is far as they carry ideology in support of or in hazard to our Constitution.  I make my own decisions.  I know how to read the Constitution, I know how to think, and I know what duties are laid before me.   I support and defend the Constitution, and this means that I necessarily oppose those who endanger it.

The United States is currently in a Constitutional crisis, which succinctly has the following … Continue reading →

The Short Version:

They are already coming for our guns.  Nevermind the fact that nobody is busting down doors.  This is the phase of a progressive operation where the farthest left beseeches the leadership to do something clearly unconstitutional.  Then the leadership strikes a “moderate” note halfway between what is constitutional and what is clearly unconstitutional.  This has the effect of eliciting a reasonable but easily lampooned reaction from the right, while soothing the tiny minds of the moderate middle, so that the leader’s actions look tame.

In fact, the media assault on our second amendment rights is part of the plan, and no matter what you hear on the news or see in a magazine, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.  No … Continue reading →