When it comes to matters of faith there are many challenges, not all of them of a religious nature. Take Apollo 11 for example. Like many of you I was glued to my TV set on July 20, 1969 when that astounding, spell-binding picture of Neil Armstrong came through showing the first man to step foot on the moon. Or did he? NASA can’t find the original tape of that “First small step.” Well, they are welcome to the picture I took with my camera at the very instant of the TV image being transmitted of that first step on the moon.

Ok, so confession is good for the soul (depending). I watched Glenn Beck yesterday lampooning the moon landing naysayers. But yes, Aldrin did have a twitch of the lips when responding to the question of whether he actually landed on the moon, seeming to lend credence to Bart Sibrel’s accusation of the moon landing having actually occurred at a back lot in Culver City (I used to work in that town). And a few films were made capitalizing on doubts about the moon landing.

The biggest problem I have with conspiracy theories revolving around Foggy Bottom is the fact our government has lied to We the People for so long no one knows when anyone in government is telling us the truth. If this were mere cynicism that would be one thing, but in an increasingly dangerous world the attitude of Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men” reflecting what we have come to believe is the attitude of our “leaders” comes through clearly: “You can’t handle the truth!”

Well, I am one American, and doubtless one among millions of others, that begs to differ with our Federal Caesar. Perhaps it is no more than naiveté on my part, though I doubt this; I believe We the People can handle the truth if only those in government were to start telling us the truth. A pathological liar is one that tells a lie when the truth would serve them better. Has the government come to this? A pack of pathological liars? We have just cause to wonder given the infamous pattern of deception from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Warren and 9/11 Commissions, and now with the wars ongoing and the fingers in DC being pointed in every direction attempting to shift blame for the lies and deceptions.

It is understandable given the lack of virtue on the part of politicians that they scurry like rats attempting to protect their backsides and rice bowls when threatened. But the world has become far too dangerous for politicians to do business as usual, and they had better start dealing in truth rather than lies if they expect the cooperation of We the People.

Fairy tales are the proper domain of children, and as a child I loved fairy tales. But it is at the least unbecoming for the “adults” in our government to engage in fairy tales, and then take umbrage when the Great Unwashed take exception to being treated like children and expected to believe such fairy tales.

An attractive young woman was being pestered by a very obnoxious man asking her for a date until she finally told him “I don’t date outside my species.” It has come to this for me in my attitude toward politicians. They have become so utterly obnoxious in their “wooing for votes” it is far past time We the People start telling them we don’t date outside our species.

But it isn’t just politicians that engage in lies and deceptions, the ACLU being an infamous example.

Those of us who know the real story of the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan, those of us who actually lived WWII and were there during that time in our history know it was the right decision to end the war, sparing literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of both American and Japanese lives by doing so. Both Hitler and Tojo would not have hesitated to use such weapons against us, and but for the grace of God, in my opinion, may well have done so had we not acted as we did at the time.

And those of us who lived that part of American history also know it was imperative those concentration camps for Japanese be used. There was absolutely no way to tell who was an enemy and who was not, and given the hatred for Japanese at that time much safer for those in America to be interned. But there are “concentration camps” right now throughout America wherever Muslims and Mexicans colonize. But neither those in government or the media will admit this. Nevertheless despite the ACLU and timorous lying politicians racial profiling had better begin in earnest now just as it was done during WWII. Just one more example of We the People being treated as though we can’t handle the truth.

Here is another example of a truth Big Brother seems to believe We the People can’t handle. I began teaching in Watts immediately following the riots of 1965. The hatred on the part of people in that community was palpable, but I became accepted because I could teach the kids how to run a lathe and mill, how to weld and fix cars, in short I could teach them the skills that would enable them to escape the ghetto. The community respected this, and came to respect me not as a Caucasian, but as someone who offered young people some hope in the face of endemic hopelessness.

But it didn’t take me long to understand what caused the riots, what engendered such rage and hatred on the part of those living in Watts. The people were for the most part ignorant and uneducated, most had never known anything but welfare as a way of life, had never known lives not threatened by crime and violence. But they did know they had no voice in government, and as a consequence they knew they lived in abject hopelessness of anything ever changing for the better. It is this where I preach a “gospel” of putting the needs of Americans before the needs of other nations, where I believe the illegal invasion from Mexico is doing violence to legitimate American citizens like those of Watts because of the illegal aliens colonizing Bakersfield and San Jose, and the threatening “Latino” votes increasingly causing the legitimate citizens of America to be betrayed for the sake of slave labor to benefit only the wealthy refusing to secure our borders thereby inviting that Muslim terrorist nuclear bomb going ofF in America.

Of course enforcing present immigration laws and holding the employers of illegal aliens to account with meaningful penalties and jail or prison time is essential. But in light of the threats against America securing our borders must be the first priority!

Over the years I have been writing of political and social problems there have been those that have taken it upon themselves to attack me personally for my views. But such people remind me of a story in the old Saturday Evening Post.

The manager of a collection agency was dictating a letter to his secretary to be sent to a delinquent debtor. Reading the letter back to her boss, he told her “I think that might be a little too strong.” So, he made a few changes and she read it back to him once more. Again he said, “That’s still just a little too strong.” He changed the wording again, and after reading the letter back to him the third time he said to his secretary, “Now that’s about right. Just drop the words ‘rotten deadbeat’ and ‘no good bum’ and I think we’ve got it.”

You can well imagine how the first letter must have read before the manager decided his final draft was acceptable. And just so with many of the “love letters” I have received over the years of a like nature. I wish those attacking me could at least engage in civilized language, but that is the risk any writer takes when taking on subjects that inspire the evangelistic fervor of their enemies. And though I would like to believe some of those attacking me have the best intentions, like Peter being confronted as Jesus was being tried their speech betrays them.