As I expected the recent meeting by officials in Kern County trying to get answers to the problem of Isabella Dam, listed as number one in the nation in danger of failing, was an exercise in futility. What the fix is and when remain unanswered questions. But if the dam bursts it will be as I also said, to use the old phraseology, “A melancholy accident,” and, compared to the “big picture” only a local problem. But the biggest problem with issues concerning those of Isabella Dam and elsewhere in America is want of the truth.

The reason To Kill A Mockingbird is considered by many including me to be “the novel of the century” and my writing a critique of the novel on behalf of children is not only her remarkably gifted writing ability, but the fact that Harper Lee did not spare anyone’s sensitivity or prejudice based on race, gender, or religion. She skewered all alike wherever she found hypocrisy and prejudice, even pointing out that Scout’s teacher, a Jew, was as prejudiced against Negroes as any “cracker.” For this reason among many others the film while being great in its own way, earning the distinction of being a “very particular film” not only falls short of the novel, but betrays the message of the novel in its entirety. Not the least reason, I am certain, Harper Lee never wrote again.

But for those determined to find anti-Semitism on the part of anyone telling it like it is, there is Harper Lee. However, Harper Lee is too much a venerated writer and her novel too much a world-acclaimed literary masterpiece for anyone to accuse her of anti-Semitism lest they risk making themselves out to be a kook looking for “a Red under every bed.” Understandably Hollywood wasn’t about to touch this part of the novel, and considering the era of the early 60s it was understandable Hollywood would portray Atticus Finch as though he was a card carrying member of the ACLU, another pointed betrayal of Harper Lee’s masterpiece and a betrayal of her own father who served as the model for Atticus. As I have said many times, if you have only seen the film you have a much distorted view of Harper Lee’s real story, and it is not a world-acclaimed literary masterpiece because Harper Lee took the side of Negroes or thought Caucasians “owed” Negroes and should apologize for being Caucasians, more particularly Southern Caucasians. It won the Pulitzer and won such acclaim because Harper Lee told her story in such a masterful way sparing no one’s prejudices in the process. Reading the novel one cannot but come away without realizing Harper Lee was telling the truth about people, and the truth has a way of making its own case. Tragically for humankind truth has ever been on the scaffold while liars prosper.

The story by Jesus of the “Unjust Judge” has it he did not fear either God or men, but only dispensed justice because he was weary of hearing that widow continuing to demand justice. Not a few of us as ordinary Americans find ourselves in the same case as that widow; and it is one reason I continue to write as I do. Not a few of us find ourselves being lone voices in a wilderness of political correctness that attempts to punish anyone daring to tell the truth about the enemies of America and knowing our nation cannot possibly survive without a national identity based on heritage, culture, common language and secure borders.

A conspiracy of evil whether of Satan or not has to consider those like George Soros calling for a certain “de-Nazification” process of removing conservatives from government. Of course, the first question that came to me was where are those deserving of the title “conservative” in government? And after reading his remarks in full I’m not at all sure who the Nazis are he has in mind, but I’m uncomfortably sure he would include Harper Lee or anyone that believes America should have secure borders and English be made our national language by law and ballots no longer be printed at taxpayer expense in foreign tongues to accommodate the slave labor those like billionaire Soros favor. On the basis of just these things Soros would label me a “Nazi.”

I want the DNA of every criminal, and especially that of illegal aliens that are criminals by definition on file in a national data bank. That, of course, is enough for many like Soros to label me a “Nazi.” The problem with such labels in an attempt to demonize is that when they become too generic they lose any force of meaning. But they have much to do with blackmailing into silence the voices of dissent from those that disagree with forcing an agenda of political correctness upon America. Were it not so tragic in its consequences I could have laughed about a blogger in the Bakersfield Californian expressing wonder over why conservatives were not contributing to the blog. Who needs the grief? Especially when it is perfectly permissible for those flaunting their “liberal” credentials to label those that disagree “Nazis, racists, anti-Semites,” etc. ad nauseam but conservatives dare not react to such attacks.

It has gone far beyond being simply tiresome to be demonized for those of us born Caucasian Americans, to be told we should feel guilty for this accident of birth, that we somehow “owe penance” to all minorities and the rest of the world and to be demonized by those demanding special privileges by fiat of laws intended to punish all that do not agree there should be special privilege by laws attached to race or perversion, that any of us who want to maintain a national identity based as are all nations of the world on heritage, culture, language, and secure borders. Only in America are people being punished and demonized for demanding these common sense things all other nations of the world take for granted and recognize as essential to their very survival.

Consider the lunacy of Muslim fanatics that continue to commit murder for the glory of their peculiar deity and prophet. But there is no concerted outcry against such barbarism on the part of Muslim leaders; on the contrary hatred of England and America goes on apace in the mosques of both nations, and it has been openly exposed the leaders of the mosques in England are preaching a doctrine of hatred toward Western Civilization and demanding England be made a Muslim nation by force. And it is naive at the most charitable to think mosques in America are teaching love for America.

Because I have been a supporting member of BAMPAC since its inception, because I spent four years teaching in Watts and write about many things pointing out the plight of Negroes in America some call me a “N----- lover.” The “N” word is not allowed even for the sake of accuracy in writing. But if you defend Bill Cosby’s criticism of Negroes and you are Caucasian you are “racist.” Because I favor Israel’s right to defend itself against that tiny nation’s enemies and even donate money to that purpose some call me a “Jew lover.” I can write that since the term “Jew” is permissible. But if I am critical of Jews bullying others in Hollywood, the universities, the media, or through their ACLU I am labeled by those who refuse to acknowledge the truth but take pleasure in lies and attacking those like me for telling the truth “anti-Semitic.”

If anyone sticks up for traditional marriage and opposes the homosexual agenda of same sex so-called “marriage” they are labeled “homophobic,” though the term is patently ridiculous in view of the fact a phobia is an irrational fear and who is actually irrationally afraid of homosexuals? The normal revulsion sexually normal people feel for perversion is just that; normal. The words perversion and normal are still there in ordinary dictionaries apart from dictionaries of Behavioral Science and no amount of laws passed are going to make sexually normal people well-disposed toward perverts or accept perverts can be “married” in any normal sense of the word.

Who expects Mexico to launch a space shuttle, build a base on the moon and go to Mars? That this kind of scientific and technological expertise is the purview of only the most educated and advanced nations should speak volumes to the logical mind. And are those who do not expect Mexico or the nations in Africa to participate in launching space shuttles or colonize the moon and Mars all “racists?” I don’t think so. But where was the logic to be found in a Supreme Court that for the sake of “equality” demanded the schools be desegregated when such a Draconian decision was bound to have the unintended consequence of white flight and the attendant evils visited upon an entire system of education throughout America?

While it made for a good propaganda film about Thurgood Marshall and as with TKM I continue to enjoy the film, while the problems of segregation were very real and cried out for redress, we have every right to expect more wisdom on the part of those reaching such exalted positions as to sit on our High Court. Such social engineering by activist judges has much to do with dismantling the America that saved the world from the Axis threat and the threats America is now facing. Even now local school boards have to face the same conditions that prevailed during the time of segregation. Just how, do you suppose, are the L. A. Schools to be “desegregated?” You might as well expect the jails and prisons of California to be “desegregated.”

I’ve had the experience of teaching in ghetto and barrio schools, of being the minority member on the faculties of such schools. I know what the cruel poverty and ignorance endemic to such communities does to children and young people. But I also know those like the members of the Supreme Court live in an insulated world of privilege separated from the reality of what their decisions do because of their ignorance to harm the very people they try to help, an ignorance that is not dispelled in the universities like Yale, Harvard, or Stanford.

As with the wealthy, politicians are going to find the best schools for their children; and every parent that can afford to do so is going to try to find a school where their children will at least be safe from gangs and the attendant violence. No one in their right mind without an “agenda” is going to call such parents “racist.” When activist politicians and judges make laws and decisions without regard to reality there is an enormous price to be paid for such folly.

But those clamoring for open borders for the sake of slave labor from Mexico for example have only their own selfish agenda, and it is not one of improving the lot of Mexico, of increasing the standard of living or scientific expertise of that nation, teaching birth control, nor least of all curing the endemic corruption in that nation’s government that uses America to dump its illiterate refuse population; something everyone in the White House and Congress knows to be the facts of the case, but for the sake of the wealthy in both Mexico and America profiting from slave labor will not confront. Far simpler to call those of us who call attention to the facts “racist,” which, of course, has nothing to do with any legitimate attempts to alleviate the suffering of the people in Mexico or stop the exploitation of illegal aliens in America.

Whether the organized systems of hatred to be found in religion and politics, the organization of hatred toward those of us who believe our Founding Fathers were men of genuine character and George Washington’s picture belongs in every school and home of America, wherever demonizing labels are thrown around willy-nilly by those attempting to further their agendas of making America into their image rather than that of the nation that rose to such prominence based on the values of Christianity and the Bible, a nation the product of Christian Western Civilization in the best sense capable of producing an Emerson and Harper Lee we are being torn apart by these special interests that have no intention of preserving such an America; but seem hell-bent on having things their way or like Hitler’s attitude toward Germany at the end to destroy America.

One would think the very real threats to America would be enough for our politicians to do what is right and best for America. But such is not the case. They lie to get elected and lie to stay elected; this is why we now live in a “Press one for English” America. I am not being cynical when I say I don’t expect to hear the truth about Isabella Dam here locally. I don’t expect to hear the truth about why Kern County schools are failing, and in too many cases parents are increasingly afraid to send their kids to school and children are afraid to go to school because of the preponderance of illegal aliens, gangs and racial strife. But if the dam bursts that will be a local problem; when Bakersfield schools are struggling to educate children in the face of impossible odds that is a local problem. But if that terrorist nuclear bomb goes off at LAX, that will not be a “local” problem, but one due to a failed government impacting our entire nation! And no matter what the agenda of those attempting to dismantle America and make it over into their image “The Morning After” will determine what America emerges from such an attack. Of this much we can be certain: It will not be a politically correct America!

That such an attack is coming very few in a position to know doubt. While we might wish for Klaatu or Jesus to save us, the demise of the America that was once a beacon of hope to the rest of the world will disappear for want of the truth, for want of those willing to tell the truth because of their own selfish agendas. And faced with so many enormous problems of enormous complexity I can easily sympathize with those who simply do not want to hear the truth, and in the words of Paul to the Galatians “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” is all too often the case as well.