William Boyd made his first Hopalong Cassidy film in 1935. He went on to enjoy a very successful career even into TV. Hopalong was right there with the Lone Ranger and some others as one of my childhood cowboy heroes, but his white hair and black attire with silver appointments really made him a striking presence setting him apart.

Anytime a new Hopalong film was released I could hardly wait to go see it. But one of his early films left me feeling cheated and betrayed; not by Hopalong but by the film’s producers engaging in what we used to call “trick photography.” There was Hoppy mounted on Topper facing the bad guys. I waited eagerly to see Hoppy beat the bad guys to the draw when the film seemed to give a slight lurch and his gun instantly appeared in Hoppy’s hand without his ever reaching for it. This was such a clumsy thing on the part of the film’s producers that even as a child I resented it. This was something Hoppy would never do, this trick photography that demeaned him while cheating boys like me! So, I discounted it as the fault of the film’s producers not Hopalong. They were to blame for trying to bamboozle those like me who believed in Hopalong. But no matter all the films made thereafter, that one scene of obvious trickery in which I was cheated, even betrayed stayed indelibly imprinted on my mind.

Sometimes it only takes one slip for a person or organization to lose the moral force of their position, especially when it comes to religion. While those like Jimmy Swaggart come readily to mind, this same loss of moral force accrues equally to the Roman Church in its refusal to deal with perversion among its priests along with the two predominate political parties refusing to clean their houses as well; and sometimes the good people in organizations suffer the consequences of a lapse of morality on the part of others. Then the good people struggle with the decision of whether to leave the organization, to forsake their “heroes” or stay in the hope of making things better, even as Henry Thoreau and other worthies of the past struggled with the same problem.

Of the greatest magnitude is when people and organizations in America lose their moral positions and in doing so give the propaganda advantage to our enemies, especially Muslims. While Western Civilization has enjoyed great progress in many ways far beyond other nations in history, we are losing our position as being arbiters of morality. And America is fast gaining the reputation of being the worst example of a loss of moral standards thereby giving our enemies the advantage in propaganda, especially since political correctness will not allow the proper demonizing of our enemies. This together with the lack of moral standards in the leadership of America makes our future dangerous in the extreme.

America used to be a “missionary” nation dedicated to taking civilization to extreme corners of the world. But some years ago it became an issue of whether America was beginning to be in need of missionaries sent to us? Perhaps this is part of the reason some artists have targeted my birthplace of Weedpatch for special consideration.

Quite naturally any reference to Weedpatch gets my attention, and the following is especially noteworthy:

The British have arrived, but does Weedpatch care? By Mark Barna Californian staff writer. October 19, 2006. Three artists have crossed the Atlantic to bring public art to Weedpatch, a mostly Hispanic community near Lamont typically concerned more with making ends meet than meeting British artists. The Arts Council of Kern is hosting Jo Dacombe, left, Heather Connelly, center, and Jayne Murray, a three-person group from England collectively known as CoLab, as part of a public art project centered around the town of Weedpatch. Monday's banquet underlined the extremes unfolding in this dusty community -- white artists with English accents trying to convey their inchoate vision to Mexican immigrants who speak not a word of the Anglican tongue. British artists Jo Dacombe, Heather Connelly and Jayne Murray, together known as CoLab, will be in Weedpatch for nearly four weeks, getting to know the residents and learning about their aspirations and needs. Public art will be the result, though nobody knows the form it will take… Is public art really what is needed in this impoverished place? And what would be its benefits? That's what Gregorio Velasco, 46, a farmworker supporting a wife and five children, asked at the banquet. Through an interpreter, Lloyd told Velasco, "We feel that the arts are an expression of who we are as human beings." The project may help Weedpatch residents feel greater pride. Artist Murray put in, "It may be a catalyst for something else." Velasco was one of about five local Hispanics attending the banquet. Afterward, the immigrant from Qaxaca, Mexico, said he was satisfied with the responses. He then spoke of the poor housing, the pesticide contamination, the poverty, the lack of medical treatment and the high rents of his community. "With this project," Velasco said, "people will know more about the terrible conditions we live in here."

Several questions arise from this attempt to bring art to Weedpatch. Like much of Kern County this is a Mexican colony filled with illegal aliens that have no intention of becoming Real Americans, will never assimilate and like Muslims that will never swear allegiance to America Mexicans will always swear allegiance to Mexico not America.

As to giving Mexicans a “voice” will they name the real perpetrators of their miserable conditions, the wealthy exploiting them for slave labor with the aid of politicians that betray America by refusing to secure our borders? Not hardly. So what will the “pride” consist of resulting from this art experiment by the “missionaries” from England? Why not go to Mexico where they would find far more productive ground for their efforts. Oh, that’s right. They wouldn’t be safe in Mexico. And that is a moral distinction between America and Mexico, but one that We the People, not politicians, make for America.

If life were fair Ted Kennedy would have been the one drowned at Chappaquiddick. But life is inherently unfair rewarding the worst while punishing the best. Which is the reason politicians are the worst of people. Only the worst of people lie and connive to gain power and authority over others in order to enrich themselves at the expense of others. It is an evil of government that the worst of people ascend to positions of power and authority over We the People and the noblest experiment in democracy, America, is facing extinction because the worst people elevated to power and authority will always make decisions based on their very worst traits such as greed and avarice.

Rolling Stone Magazine calls this Congress “the worst ever; corrupt, shameful, and incompetent.” But over thirty years ago one political commentator wrote the only way to fix Congress at the time was to get rid of 435 corrupt, shameful, and incompetent people and start over. Three years ago I wrote history would record the Bush Administration and this Congress as the dirtiest and most corrupt ever! But Democrats have nothing better to offer.

Right now it is obvious the wars of Caesar Bush and Company are an absolute disaster. But when questioned on this Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace defended Donald Rumsfeld yesterday, saying that “the good lord” tells the Secretary of Defense “what is best for our country.”

Like most of you I have never found it comforting for any to resort to “the good lord” has told anyone what is best for our country. While I loathe Lincoln the politician he was correct in stating he didn’t know whether the Lord was on the side of North or South, but his pragmatism like that of Napoleon was counting on the Lord to “bless” the side with the most cannon. And the most cannon fodder.

However, because of nuclear weapons the need for cannon fodder may be diminished apart from the potential for killing millions that will have no idea anymore than those children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki why they are being killed. The decisions leading to their death had been made by their leaders and the innocent suffered the result of those decisions. But whether Japan, Germany, or America the rule of the worst ascending to positions of power and authority seems to hold true, and the best people, the innocent suffer the consequences.

Because of this rule of the worst people being rewarded for the worst traits to be found in human beings America is now a nation without a national identity, without a national heritage or culture, without a national language by law or secure borders. But no nation can possibly survive lacking any of these inescapable imperatives defining all nations. Nor can any nation survive being defined by economics without corresponding accountability.

Some questioned my categorical condemnation of Social Services, but my opening this matter and making it known to the governor and others I am quite certain had something to do with this: “Beverly Beasley Johnson is leaving her post as director of the Kern County Department of Human Services for a similar position in San Mateo County.”

Unhappily the Devil continues to reward his own like Kennedy and perverts. And how does the Devil continue to take care of his own? Hospitals get rid of undesirable doctors by giving them glowing letters of commendation with the understanding they will leave and go elsewhere. Schools and Social Services get rid of undesirables in the same fashion. And so it goes. And it will continue to go badly until the best people kill the worst people, those like the monsters preying on women and children, the monsters of Islam continuing to worship a bloodthirsty Allah dedicated to a religion of the sword for example.

Some find fault with the metaphysical construction but nowhere do I find a more plausible explanation for the worst people gaining power and authority over others than the Biblical description of the world being the domain of Satan, and his giving such power and authority to those on his payroll. I don’t worry about going to h--l; whether by the machinations of men or Satan the prevailing resulting lunacy has made our planet a living h--l because the best people do not overcome evil by being good people trying to overcome evil by being nice. Evil has no “rules of engagement.”

Following 9/11 it was obvious Caesar Bush and Company together with a complicit Congress were lying to We the People and had another agenda rather than the one avowed. Now, because of thoroughgoing corruption and incompetence throughout the leadership of America our troops and countless civilians are dying.

An old hymn has it “Where could I go but to the Lord.” But We the People are going to have to depend on something more than expecting the Lord to bless America if we are to survive as a nation; we are going to have to bend every effort to replace the present politics of corruption, perversion and incompetence with leaders who recognize the fact we cannot survive as a nation without a heritage, culture, national language and secure borders, we cannot survive without accountability and without those who will put the interests of America before any others, the interests of Real Americans not those like illegal aliens and “minorities” like Muslims for example. Let me hear those asking for our vote give a voice to We the People on these issues rather than the continued lies and duplicity designed to continue selling out and betraying America by the worst pandering for votes! Who will put America first!

When it comes to the struggle between Good and Evil my Cherokee ancestors had their own philosophers the equal of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus. Take the story of Two Wolves: One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two ”wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: ”Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

My good friend Byron, an Episcopal Priest, and I were discussing the many things not only threatening his own church but churches and Christians throughout America and the world. Then the conversation turned to the nuclear lunacy threatening the world, how our own leaders faced with the potential nuclear terrorism that could be unleashed on America because of their refusal to secure our porous borders seem dedicated only to perversion, greed, and avarice, displaying the kind of lunacy that has disgraced and discredited America and plunged the whole world into a nuclear arms race.

We laughed sardonically about the fellow crossing the border on an elephant accompanied by a Mariachi band. But then, with somber expression Byron said to me, “I can’t believe we are actually discussing the end of America.” Here we were, two rational and very well educated men old enough to remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, old enough to remember how America had literally saved the civilized world from the Axis Powers at such a monumental price in American lives, old enough to remember an America of which we had just cause to be proud, but now looking at a leadership that had evolved over the years to nothing but a bunch of scoundrels falling all over themselves in their haste to sell out and betray America on every hand, leaders that had chosen to feed the evil wolf described by that Cherokee philosopher.

But the very lunacy of our leadership refusing to secure our borders is summed neatly by this note I just received from a friend and I’m passing it on: Let’s say I break into your house. A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV. Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration. Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely. Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests. Let’s say I break into your house. Let’s say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, “I’ve made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors; I’ve done all the things you don’t like to do. I’m hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house). According to the protesters, not only must you let me stay, you must add me to your family’s insurance plan, educate my kids, and provide other benefits to me and to my family. My husband will do your yard work because he too is hard-working and honest, (except for that breaking in part). If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there. It’s only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I’m just trying to better myself. I’m hard-working and honest, um, except for well, you know. And what a deal it is for me!! I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness, prejudice and being an anti-housebreaker. Oh yeah, and I want you to learn my language so you can communicate with me. Why can’t people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America... if you agree, pass it on (in English). Share this if you see the value of it as a good simile. If not blow it off along with your future Social Security funds.

We the People easily see the lunacy of feeding this evil “wolf” and the result will inevitably be the ease with which that elephant can be replaced with a terrorist nuclear bomb because of the evil wolves in our Federal Triune Dictatorship, none of whom even bother any longer disguising and clothing themselves as sheep.

Scientists at Cornell University have launched what one commentator has called a “bombshell” into studies directed at the causes for the dramatic increase of autism. The suspected culprit: TV!

Not a few of my generation were concerned when TV became a fixture in every home the infernal device was endowed with certain evil characteristics; one being the growing parental propensity to use the contraption as a babysitter, parking their children from infancy in front of the tube rather than encouraging children in outdoor activities. But since most my age were living in caves by the reckoning of the growing tech generation our concerns were largely discounted.

Besides, who is going to listen to a cave dweller like this: I recall the night I spied a very large black cricket in the house. However, old age being what it is I was too slow attempting to catch the critter and put it outside; for those trying to catch crickets you know they hop pretty good.

Now while I enjoy the chirping of crickets, what worried me was getting up during the night, and in the dark inadvertently stepping on the musical bug; I would feel bad about that, notwithstanding the usual human responses to stepping on various critters with your bare feet in the dark. But the fates intervened and the cricket finally cooperated. As I was at my desk writing, there he appeared on the floor nearby. Cautiously, I opened the door and successfully herded the cricket out into the night.

Perhaps saving a cricket doesn’t measure up to some folks’ standards of warm and fuzzy, but at my age it seems there is a growing soft spot in my heart for such things. Perhaps facing our own mortality, something that is definitely a part of reaching the twilight years motivates some of us toward becoming compassionate toward crickets.

Maria Shriver was terrific on Larry King doing the interview about her book “What’s Happening to Grandpa?” The subject of Alzheimer’s is one of profound interest to me; and Maria Shriver’s genuine love and concern for her father came shining through. We could sure use more of this kind of thing on TV rather than interviews of perverts and serial killers. This growing fascination on the part of those like King and others with perverts and murderers is really sick. The worrisome thing to me is whether those like King really believe Americans care more about interviews with perverts and murderers than good people who make a genuine contribution to the welfare of America?

Naturally the comments by Maria reminded me of my own situation as an elderly father and grandfather. I wanted my children and grandchildren to remember me as the kind of man that would trouble himself to save a cricket. While I am not of the mind of Albert Schweitzer’s “Erfurcht von leben,” or any Hindu superstitions, there is a certain sanctity, if you will, about life that becomes a victim to the wars of men, something easily lost sight of when in the words of Stalin: “The murder of one is a crime; the murder of millions a statistic.”

Instead of the sick interviews of perverts and serial killers I would like to see on TV more baby bunnies, duckies, chicks, and kittens, birdies, squirrels and chipmunks. One local news channel was featuring animals for adoption and a kitten perched on her shoulder became tangled in the lovely newscaster’s lovely blonde hair. Fortunately, the young lady was smiling and laughing as she struggled with the kitten with one hand while holding her microphone in the other and it was a thoroughly entrancing scene.

It was apparent the young woman genuinely liked the kitten, and her attention was given to the kitten rather than the camera. She was having fun with the kitten, and as a result the effect was one of those warm and fuzzy moments where the newscaster’s real humanity came through rather than the plastic representations of human beings so characteristic of the genre.

Watching a segment where a momma duck’s ducklings are rescued from a street drain, and gently placed on the sidewalk where she is anxiously waiting, then to see momma duck with her rescued duckling's right behind waddling off is precious. Rescuing animals seems to bring out the best in people, and the best in us rises to the occasion as spectators; and the majority of us reflect this better quality of humankind, that quality that makes it “a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

One day I saved both a caterpillar and a ladybug, as I did that cricket. The ladybug was a bit of a challenge; as with the caterpillar, rescuing it from inside the house with its cooperation by it simply crawling upon my finger (why a ladybug in the house? Is there something to that pejorative beetle brain?). I took it out near a large pan I have set into the ground and like the bird bath keep filled with water for critters, intending to place it in the grass nearby.

But when I shook it from my finger, it landed in the water. Retrieving the struggling little bug I managed to place it in the grass, thereby saving the colorful little beetle twice; admittedly one instance of its distress being occasioned through my fault, not the little bug’s.

I recall the time I rescued a baby blackbird, which the more cynical would point out would only eat the caterpillar, ladybug, and cricket. Anyway, holding that kind of cynicism in abeyance, I chanced to glance out my window here where I write only to see an adult blackbird having a fit. Looking closer, I spied a baby bird on the ground. It had obviously fallen from its nest in the large oak near the birdbath. It was struggling vainly to fly, frantically flapping its small immature, not fully feathered wings, the adult bird trying to assist and offer encouragement.

Beating the resident cat to the punch I managed to capture the little thing in my hand, despite it hopping right smartly though it couldn’t fly and I’m not exactly as spry as I used to be. Hauling out my ladder, I climbed up, baby bird in hand, and was able to restore it to its nest. Now who would deny this would be a grand event in anyone’s day? There is a great need for warm and fuzzy moments in otherwise “lives of quiet desperation,” including my own. Alas, notwithstanding Nature red in tooth and claw rescuing critters is part of my duties living in the country; and though worthy as it is, sadly not my only calling in life.

To come back to the point of that Cornell study, too many children are now deprived of any real affinity with nature, too many do not have the opportunities I did as a child to form a relationship with nature. And the result of a TV generation may very well be what scientists at the university are discovering about the cause and effect of TV, something far more insidious than its contribution to obesity:

Science: The state of the universe. TV Really Might Cause Autism. A Slate exclusive: Findings from a new Cornell study; by Gregg Easterbrook. October 16, 2006. Today, Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington State. They found that as cable television became common in California and Pennsylvania beginning around 1980, childhood autism rose more in the counties that had cable than in the counties that did not. They further found that in all the Western states, the more time toddlers spent in front of the television, the more likely they were to exhibit symptoms of autism disorders. .. The Cornell study represents a potential bombshell in the autism debate. "We are not saying we have found the cause of autism, we're saying we have found a critical piece of evidence," Cornell researcher Michael Waldman told me… If television viewing by toddlers is a factor in autism, the parents of afflicted children should not reproach themselves, as there was no warning of this risk. Now there is: The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends against any TV for children under the age of 2. Waldman thinks that until more is known about what triggers autism, families with children under the age of 3 should get them away from the television and keep them away. Researchers might also turn new attention to study of the Amish. Autism is rare in Amish society, and the standing assumption has been that this is because most Amish refuse to vaccinate children. The Amish also do not watch television.

Long before 9/11 created the problems our police are now facing I was on my way to a meeting out at Edwards Air Force Base. It was late afternoon and I was traveling in one of the more remote and desolate areas of the base- no traffic in sight on the road. It was about an hour before sunset and the desert was beautiful and serene. I was driving my old Chevy pickup, coffee cup and cigarette doing their usual duty when suddenly seemingly out of nowhere a base patrol car came roaring up behind me, lights flashing and siren wailing. Having learned no less than three times from the California Highway Patrol that obeying the speed limit is no guarantee of not getting a ticket because of abuse under color of authority, I resignedly pulled off to the side of the road.

The minion of the law stayed in his unit for some time jawjacking into his mic. He finally got out, and hand ostentatiously on his gun slowly came up to the rear of the driver’s side of my truck. I had the window down and the officer, staying well behind the door, unusual I thought, asked for my license and registration. He seemed to be exceptionally cautious about advancing any further to me than absolutely necessary, and I had to awkwardly bend backward out of the window to hand them to him which he took from me with his left hand the right staying on his gun.

In a most unusual maneuver he walked backwards toward his car never taking his eyes from me all the while keeping his hand on his gun, and a CHP unit pulled up parking behind the base officer’s car. That officer got out and joined the base cop. Then another base unit pulled up. There were now three units and all the cops were conversing, watching me carefully all the while. It dawned on me that I must fit the description of some dangerous criminal.

Realizing that it might take some time for them to sort things out, I lit another cigarette and reached for my coffee cup. Empty. Oh, well, I had my thermos but it had rolled under the seat of the truck.

Another CHP unit arrived, and on its heels another base car both of them parking in front of me. I was surrounded. It occurred to me that in spite of my innocence if I were to make a sudden lunge for the thermos under my seat I might make the headlines. There were a dozen itchy-fingered cops watching my every move. I had to chuckle at my predicament and decided, in a more lucid moment, that if I wanted my thermos I had better not make any sudden moves in its acquisition. No one, not even a bomb disposal officer, has ever moved more deliberately and cautiously in the retrieval of an object as I did retrieving that thermos.

Did it occur to me to go without coffee? No. Did I think it worth getting air-conditioned by.357s, 9mms, and double 00 buck just to have my thermos? No. Then why, for Heaven’s sake? It was the “principle” of the thing. D--- it! I was innocent! And they had no right to deprive me of my coffee just because they thought I might be an escaped ax murderer or had assassinated the pope!

Oh, well, I got my thermos successfully no shots fired, but in full view of an eager constabulary made a display of very slowly and carefully putting my cup on the dash and very slowly and carefully pouring my coffee; but I did notice a few anticipatory, even hungry looks cast at me.

The conference seemed to be coming to an end, and one of the officers moseyed over. Returning my license and registration, he said that I had been stopped because a stolen vehicle matching mine had been reported seen in this general area.

What a let down! Couldn’t it have at least been someone who had held up a gas station? Were twelve cops so bored they had to congregate to catch a simple car thief? Or, maybe, they just weren’t telling me the straight scoop? In any event, I arrived late to my meeting where I was able to regale colleagues with my close call in becoming that headline and making “Film at Eleven!”

No, this is not a put down of cops; well, except the CHP. And don’t bother telling me about all the tickets I should have gotten but didn’t. It only takes abuse of authority by one bad CHP officer to sour you on the organization; and I have suffered this abuse three times! I know what it is by experience to stand in a courtroom and have a cop outright lie about his reason for giving you a ticket! One I confronted afterward on the courthouse steps was at least honest enough to tell me he had given me the ticket “Because I can.” And he went his way smiling.

Still, “A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.” And so much more today long after Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance.” It was many years ago a friend with the LAPD confided to me being a cop was a “garbage job.” And these many years since his opinion could only have worsened. But it wouldn’t be fair to compare the problems Andy Taylor faced in Mayberry with what police face in Los Angeles or any of America’s large cities.

Having written on this topic many times over the years I have witnessed conditions worsen to the point where our police are emasculated by political correctness run amok, where the threats of lawsuits even by illegal aliens make the job of being a policeman one that no one would want, a job that friend of mine called a “garbage job.”

Aunt Maudie told Jem his father Atticus was one of those men that seemed to be called to take on the dirty jobs of society, jobs no one wants but some few good men and women step up and do them despite the wrath of those even in their own communities. Too often the job of the policeman falls into this category.

To repeat something I have said many times, the wonder to me is there are so many good cops. The job attracts those that want to carry a gun and thump heads with the authority of a badge; and weeding out the undesirables becomes an increasingly daunting task, one with which I am very familiar and you would find on my resume. While conversing with one psychologist that was part of the review team for police candidates he shared with me the difficulties finding people suitable for the job. At that, once a person has served as a cop for any length of time this fellow said to me, “You begin to think most people are nothing but scum because that is what you are dealing with every day. It distorts your view of all people and in time it become an Us vs. Them mentality, and results in cops only having other cops as friends, among other things.”

But to “Serve and Protect” has to be understood in the context of what the Chief of Police in one SoCal city once told me: “We are not here to help people, but to slam the door on them.” He made the statement while we were talking about police candidates who had the mindset the job was one more properly being that of a Boy Scout than what being a policeman was really all about.

Folks, among the many dangers America is facing is that of a police force we desperately need to “Serve and Protect.” But in too many cases litigation and the courts are emasculating our police from doing the job we desperately need them to do, and corruption throughout government is only acerbating an already dangerous situation in America.

The Border Patrol is threatened for doing the job it is supposed to do. Violent crime is accelerating in our cities but none dare point to the invasion from Mexico and the gang problems, increasing crime and violence resulting from this invasion. It is blatantly clear our Federal Triune Dictatorship will continue to refuse securing our borders for the sake of slave labor thereby inviting terrorist nuclear attack. In the face of all the reasons for not becoming a cop, who would want the job? These many years after my friend’s dour pronouncement it has become more of a “garbage job” than ever. But We the People are not stupid; we know we need “Dirty Harry” in the face of the dangers threatening America.

As with molestation that knows no bounds of economic, religious, or any other position in society, the culture of corruption in politics seems to have no limits whether Republican or Democrat and it certainly filters through our schools and social services as well. But in these two cases it is usually masked by what is aptly named the “Cloak of confidentiality.”

This cloak of confidentiality hides the sins of many government bureaucracies like the schools and social services and thwarts many well intended attempts to discover abuses in these various agencies and organizations. The Bakersfield Californian has made many such attempts and has gone to court many times trying to get information that could be helpful in exposing evil doers and things like bureaucratic abuses of power.

My work in the ghetto and barrio schools where I would come to know personnel from social services and probation officers better than many parents taught me much about how the cloak of confidentiality obscures and thwarts many attempts to help children. And in few other areas of government bureaucracies are things so hidden from public view as in the schools and social services where even the most dedicated and honest workers quickly realize they are unwilling participants in obfuscation.

Take the work of the “Resource Specialist” for example. While working under contract in this capacity for the Stanislaus County Department of Education I was responsible for the special education programs in seven rural school districts. My IEP’s had to include the entire panoply of school services from the school psychologist, speech pathologist, every teacher involved with each child, continual interaction with every special needs child under my jurisdiction. But the general public would be appalled at the abuses, the thoroughgoing ineptitude and incompetence in this system of the school hierarchy veiled behind the cloak of confidentiality.

Dianne Hardisty has done a good job exposing the bureaucratic nightmare of trying to do business with the state controller’s office, and correctly sums the problem by writing “While it might be easy to make the state controller the "bad guy" in this controversy, the real blame rests with the Legislature and the governor.” But I believe Dianne would agree one of the most frustrating problems is created by people who are not good citizens, people who don’t trouble themselves to study issues and candidates for political office, and at worst don’t even bother to vote!

While employed as a CPS investigator I was standing outside the courthouse when a man walked up to me and in tears asked “What gives you people the power to come into my home and take my children away from me?” I asked him in turn, “Can you name your representative in the state legislature or Congress?” He could not. I went on tell this man the power of CPS comes directly from his elected political leadership, not the agency.

But from the White House on down We the People are confronted by politicians that are only transparent in degrees of stupidity. Take this comment by Mayor Marion Barry of Washington, DC for example: “Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” And how about this beauty by Al Gore: “It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” And when it comes to an uncaring bureaucracy how about this: “Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.” --Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina.

It isn’t a lack of genuine and caring people in our institutions designed to care for and protect children; but even the best qualified are discouraged by the incompetents having the power in our schools, social services, and other government agencies. However even my writing extensively over the past decades about such abuses of power won’t solve the problem of how the best people don’t make it to positions of power and influence. The books about this continue to multiply, TV talk shows and pundits without number keep hacking at the branches of evil while the root continues to spread and in the end even Henry Thoreau was forced to the metaphysical attempting to make sense of this.

My book Birds With Broken Wings is not one that men like. In fact, most men hate it because while it does not flatter women, it exposes some of the worst characteristics of men in relation to women. However, one of the points unflattering to either men or women is the fact the welfare of children is seldom the main consideration in divorce. And molestation often rears its ugly head in such cases, children often being used as pawns. But the truth is ugly enough.

While making my closing remarks to a large group of people at one of Bakersfield’s nicer clubs on the topic of the prevalence of molestation our hostess, a lovely young woman, raised her hand and asked if she could please say something. I gave her permission to do so and to everyone’s consternation she said, “Please believe everything this man has told you. I was molested by my stepfather when I was six years old. But I have never told anyone about this until now.”

To all outward appearances this attractive young woman had no problems. She was quite poised and self possessed, had been doing her job well and seemed quite normal in every respect. But she had a story to tell, however it wasn’t until she had listened to my remarks she found the courage to speak out in an attempt to exorcise the demon that haunted her all her life.

On another occasion a beautiful young woman who had been repeatedly raped by a stepfather over a seven year period of time gave me her handwritten story in the hope I could get Montel or Oprah to read it. Among the horrors she had suffered was the memory of her little brother often trying to hide her from this monster that was raping her. But her own mother was aiding this monster in the raping of her own little girl. After a divorce, the monster went on to rape other little girls but was finally arrested and is now serving twenty years in prison in Oregon. This young woman was called to testify against him, but her testimony had to include her own mother abetting this monster. This horror story goes on at some length including the District Attorney having to go to extraordinary lengths to protect this young woman because of death threats by this monster and its friends, but for the purposes of this brief article I will tell you about another young woman.

I'll call her Sue. She was molested, frequently, by her father. He would also put dresses on her little brother and molest him. When she was in the third grade, she said something to a relative that resulted in the principal of her school calling her into his office. Thinking she had done something wrong, she was fearful not knowing what to expect. What did she find when she got there? The principal, two policemen, a social service worker and the school nurse. If she had been frightened before, she was now terrified! It didn't take much coercion on the part of all these authority figures to get Sue to recant her story. She had made it all up. After all, as these authorities pointed out quite dramatically, Sue didn't really want her father to go to jail, to leave the family with no support, to shame the family, etc.

As she grew older, Sue’s life took the usual turn of the options of the molested little girl; nymphomania, lesbianism, prostitution, drugs, and alcohol. There were the usual failed marriages and children born to an unstable home because of an unstable mother. It was later she discovered her father had been molested himself. This was his “justification” for molesting her and her little brother.

There were others involved in Sue’s life, an uncle and a grandfather. Incest was commonplace in this so-called family. Sue's mother kept quiet about it. Sue eventually wound up on disability. By the time she contacted me, she was a basket case. The final straw was when she was abused by a postal clerk. Her food stamps were not in her post office box. When she inquired of the clerk about them, she was told in front of several other patrons: “Why don't you get a job?” Humiliated, a son still with her, no money, unable to work, unable to pay rent or even buy shoes for the child, Sue finally decided she had a story she had to tell.

But no one was interested in her story. After several failed attempts with local media and politicians and in the process having heard about me and my work on behalf of abused children, that I was a writer with media and political connections and might be willing to write her story for her she contacted me. Her disability and a failed operation left her unable to write. After listening to Sue for over two hours, I had to tell her the brutal truth: No newspaper, no TV station, no publisher, no politician would be interested in her story. Sue was crushed.

“Why not?” she asked.

I then told her what you readers don't want to hear; her story was too commonplace to be of interest to the media and people in general don't want to hear about this for several reasons. There's nothing you can do to help, you don't want to believe this is a commonplace story, you're sick, yourself, of people ripping off the welfare system and paying taxes for deadbeats like Sue, etc.

Sue was incredulous! A commonplace story? How could that be? I began the litany of statistics, the women like herself who have told me, personally, the same, identical story; the fact that over one-half of girls throughout America are molested in some way, the reasons children don't talk or can't talk about being molested.

Sue now knows what's she is up against. An uncaring and disbelieving society that refuses to confront molestation for the dreadful, destructive monster it is; and a monster out of all proportion to what people generally believe. We simply do not want to believe that any civilized society could have such a problem of such dreadful and dreadfully destructive proportions!

But Sue wanted me to write her story. And, in a very brief account, I'll do so. Why so brief? Because I have far too many identical stories and hers is not exceptional. She didn't have her arms cut off in a rape, her father wasn't head of a billion dollar empire, and she hadn't been a child beauty queen. In other words, her story didn't have a hook, a gimmick to attract public attention. The fact that it was a common story, a common tragedy, left it exactly that: Common. The fact that such a common story repeated millions of times in millions of lives is, itself, a comment on a society that refuses to believe, refuses to act on behalf of its little victims of monsters in the guise of men, a society that in failing to take action is dooming itself to deserved destruction seems to escape our elected leadership; as well as that of the electorate.

Anecdotal? Hardly. Would that it were. Sue's story is being repeated thousands of times daily across America. But we will treat such stories as anecdotal because the truth of its frequency is something no civilized society wants to confront.

Through molestation, Sue was taught she had no value as a human being, as a person. All she ever was as a female was a thing to be used by men… the brutal betrayal of trust and innocence whether by molestation or adultery, both kin of Judas, the betrayal impacts the betrayed for life. Sue sees her father's face in the relationships she has had with every man. And how many other lives, such as those of her own children, have been impacted by her own tragedy?

But Sue, for what it's worth, here is your story; though so briefly told few will understand the magnitude of your personal tragedy. It's too bad the leadership pays more attention to the airbags in cars than the plight of the multiplied thousands of children who would gain inestimably more in safety by attention to your story. And the stories of so many others in this book as well.

As an aside, after reading the book and having come to know me well a young woman said to me, “But Sam, aren’t you a bird with a broken wing as well?” I congratulated her for an astute estimate of my condition, one that comes with the territory of knowing the truth and writing about it.

As a pilot I am not going to second guess the tragedy in New York. But of all government agencies the NTSB is one of the very few in which I have any confidence. I wish I could say the same of politicians and our schools.

Who of any sensibility is going to credit those like Kennedy, the Clintons, or those who support creatures like Foley having anything substantive to say on the basis of real morality? It is all the same with those crediting Cardinal Mahoney having anything sincere to say about morality and “concern” for children. All self-professed “liberals” like Ted Kennedy and those of his ilk should serve as teachers in Watts to validate their boasts about “caring.”

Most people were aware of the Watts riot of 1965 at a safe distance through TV and other media. But it was up close and personal for me when I became a tenured teacher at David Starr Jordan High School on the corner of 103^rd and Alameda there at “ground zero.” What those at the time living in comfortable and safe neighborhoods throughout America could not possibly understand was the utter hopelessness of those living in Watts that their condition would ever change for the better, and what the extremes of poverty, crime and violence over literally decades can do to any people.

But conditions were dangerous enough in Watts to get the attention of the FBI, a couple of agents coming to the school attempting to get my cooperation should I hear anything that might be of interest to the agency. It was really ludicrous, the agents, both Caucasians dressed in such a manner complete with hats and three-piece suits they might have been wearing FBI stenciled on their backs, coming to have a “private” conversation with a Caucasian teacher in an all Negro school in an all Negro community. Fortunately for me my reputation with the kids and the community was such we all got a laugh about it rather than me becoming a resulting fatality of FBI stupidity.

However, in retrospect most of us felt much safer in an America where TV was continuing to portray an age of innocent opulence, an America that had not yet suffered the wholesale betrayal of our nation by politicians dedicated to slave labor from Mexico and selling out America to the highest bidder. In that America Watts was an aberration, not the norm.

While the problem of violence in the schools across America is getting some much needed attention I was writing about this in the late 60s warning the violence in Watts would not always be contained to the ghettos and barrios, but like drugs would be exported to “lily-white” suburban areas because the issues were not first addressed in places like Watts. When the Mafioso in The Godfather pronounced dealing in drugs was inevitable but should be confined to Negro communities because “they’re just a bunch of animals anyway” he was only giving voice to the attitude of many politicians, the only difference being that politicians think of the “animals” in terms of votes rather than drugs.

When one of my pupils tried to leave his gun at the front office so he could pick it up after school he could not understand why he was refused this accommodation. He needed the gun to safely come to school and safely get back to his house after school. Wasn’t it enough he was even willing to attend school under the circumstances? Try to explain this young fellow’s thinking to those that have never lived in such an environment; try to explain to those never living in areas like Watts where such a request becomes “reasonable” on the part of a child. As with many of the things I write about from experience I don’t even attempt to do so knowing how futile such efforts are.

But the people in Watts were ignored by politicians. It was sufficient the welfare checks kept going out to “keep those people in their place” while the politicians lived their cushy insulated lives of privilege at taxpayer expense. How often I would wish the politicians would come to Watts and see for themselves the abject hopelessness of the children attending Jordan, of conditions in the homes I would visit where there were no books only the daily fight for a grim existence with no hope a future promising anything any better.

However, the very system of the L. A. City Schools at the time was no better since it was a political system designed like government to ignore the problems while throwing money at them. And now that the whole of Los Angeles is reduced to that of a third world nation it would be vain to hope anything will get any better for the schools and the children suffering the indifference of politicians including those in charge of the schools that see elected office only as a license to steal.

When I was first hired at Jordan I was told to ignore drugs on campus because they were not a problem; rape, murder, and other forms of violence were the problem. And sure enough, my very first week on the job a girl stabbed another from one of my classes to death over a boy. But rape and murder in Watts did not merit notice by the L. A. Times and my job as a teacher was to simply keep the kids “polishing belt buckles” and pad the attendance role to keep the ADA money coming in.

I have had many years of experience being forced by the circumstances of earning a living and supporting a family to accommodate the lesser of evils because politicians have only offered greater evils as a choice. And now because of the all too typical greed and avarice of politicians and their corporate bosses Mexico is invading America and colonizing making conditions in schools across America even more hostile to American children. I experienced this as well while teaching in East San Jose where because of the predominantly Mexican population of largely illegal aliens the police were called to the campus 90 times the first ten weeks of school. But the Mexican principal of the school told the media Yerba Buena High School “Did not have a problem” and the San Jose Mercury News didn’t see any problems either.

Over the years things have only worsened in the schools across America, only worsened for families and children trying to hold on to any semblance of education. I used to tell parents back in the 60s “Things are not as bad as you think; they are far worse!” I used to point out concerning education a system for failure could not have been better designed had it been done purposely.”

Now, as I look back over the years I spent working with children in the worst circumstances imaginable I fervently wish I could hold on to hope of some things changing for the better in our schools. But it seems this will remain a wish, and one continually thwarted by politicians living in their insulated worlds of privilege far apart from conditions in Watts and East San Jose. And, from the conditions elsewhere in the world that now threaten the very survival of America as a nation.

Irregardless all the propaganda swirling about it is the duty and responsibility of every American eligible to do so to vote no matter the choices! Too many have given their very lives for America for any citizen of good conscience to fail in this most important responsibility of every American eligible to cast their vote! But it is equally important that Americans raise their voices by all means possible against the evils plaguing our political system. Like Henry Thoreau I do not advocate for no government, but for better government now! And short of taking up arms, again, the votes of We the People is the way civilized people advocate for better government now!

But the evils of the present government that refuses to either secure our borders or our ballots does not invite any confidence in such a government; but quite the contrary. If either Republicans or Democrats want to invite the confidence of We the People they must do something about both our borders and our ballots. Otherwise, it remains only the lesser of evils being offered come November.

Every American has just cause to find the present leadership repugnant. Take the evil of perversion for example. When my good friend and Episcopal Priest came by the other day to share the problems facing his church because of the inroads of perverts our conversation turned to the wisdom of the adage “He that sups with the Devil must have a long spoon.” A proverb is equally explicit: “Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?”

The Roman Church is notorious for welcoming perverts into its ranks while encouraging and shielding them Cardinal Mahoney being a glaringly infamous example among many others, and together with the Episcopal Church reflects the problems in Congress as per the pervert Foley that is of that body’s own making as well. You simply do not invite the Devil to dinner to begin with; such a thing is foolish on the face of it.

But the inherent evils of a system that elevates perverts to positions of power and authority cannot be successfully confronted in politically correct terminology. Things must be called by their correct names; a pervert is a pervert just as an illegal alien is an illegal alien, and there is no such thing as a hyphenated American, only an American. It is only to the advantage of evil to obfuscate and as with Hitler make people believe black is white and vice versa, which, of course, is propaganda not truth. And the truth does not invite obfuscation.

When it comes to confronting evil my dear old friend J. Vernon McGee pastor of Church of the Open Door and teacher of Through the Bible radio would say he would not suffer a moment’s hesitation shooting a mad dog threatening his children. Nor, I am certain, a mad dog threatening any child. Nor do I or any person of good conscience suffer any such hesitation about doing so. And it must eventually come to the best people killing the worst people, treating those seeking the destruction of America and Western Civilization as mad dogs.

For the witch doctors that would “cure” the mad dogs, that would cure the monsters preying on women and children rather than shoot them I have nothing but contempt. But these same “healers” would be among the first ones shot if America should become the victim of the mad dogs threatening our nation. Hope and pray diplomacy will work, that cooler heads among nations will eventually prevail. But only the truth wears well in the end, and the truth of it is that you don’t cure mad dogs; you kill them!

Why wasn’t that monster killed before it raped and murdered those innocent little girls in Pennsylvania? Well, had the monster been known before it committed such an atrocity… and so it goes.

You won’t hear the advocates of such a thing admit it but the immense fallacy of so-called “gun control” has been that by disarming law abiding citizens you will keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Nor will you hear those advocating for diplomacy concerning North Korea and Iran admit they are pressing for giving criminals guns but that is the logical conclusion.

Once you have troubled yourself to think about why nations like North Korea and Iran want nuclear weapons you enter a very dark nether world that civilized nations cannot possibly comprehend on the basis of reason. Both of these rogue nations have leaders demanding worship as gods claiming to speak as gods, both preach a message of annihilation of their enemies, and while Americans have been extorted by taxation without representation to feed our enemies while they plot to destroy our nation we are now expected to trust these same leaders that refuse to secure our own borders and ballots to find a way out of the nuclear crises growing daily; which is why I described the nuclear scenario posited by Michio Kaku together with quite a few other scientists “chillingly pragmatic.”

Diplomacy will not work with bullies, tyrants and despots. There is no “cure” for those preying on women and children, there is no “cure” for the monsters like that in Pennsylvania. You kill the monsters before they kill the innocent otherwise you are subscribing to the lunacy of keeping a “pet rattlesnake,” an apt description of child molesters especially.

Most of us have our demons with which we struggle. As young as I was at the time one of mine came immediately following those bombs being dropped on Japan. This demon comes often at night with a vision of thousands of innocent children whose last conscious moment on earth was that of a brilliant flash instantly snuffing out their lives. And these were the lucky ones.

The “larger picture” was the potentially two million Americans and Japanese saved because of dropping those bombs. But this larger picture does nothing to drive away the demon that has haunted me ever since those bombs were dropped. The entire library of books written on the subject of WWII, the many things leading up to it and the outcome continues to grow. However, once the leadership of Germany and Japan decided war was the only answer for them the die was cast and many millions of innocent people paid the price for the decisions made by these leaders.

Threats, bullying, extortion and blackmail are the stock in trade of all tyrants like that of North Korea. The prevailing madness of the leaders in Muslim nations like Iran is no different. The bloodthirsty Allah of Islam is no different than the “god” of North Korea demanding worship.

But does it always have to come to this: Dennis Prager, “The best are killed in every generation. If you are debating whether to be optimistic or pessimistic about humanity's future, here is a point to consider: In every generation, especially in the last century, vast numbers of good people -- often the best people -- have been murdered by the worst people.”

The difference now is the nuclear factor. There is no practical or diplomatic way to keep nations like Iran and North Korea “contained” and eventually making it possible for nuclear terrorism right here in America. It is only a question of who will shoot first, whether those who believe in “pet rattlesnakes” will prevail or those who know there is no such thing. Knowing this only keeps demons like the one arising from Hiroshima and Nagasaki thriving. But there is no exorcising of such demons unless the world becomes safe for all children. And that will not happen by supporting the monsters preying on the innocent.

It is tragic in the extreme monsters like that in Pennsylvania are not killed before they torture and kill the innocent. However, this is the choice now being given the civilized world which is faced with the monsters in Iran and North Korea. But the civilized mind recoils at the very thought of having to shoot first, and like any civilized person I hope in the face of seeming hopelessness there may yet be a diplomatic solution to the growing nuclear crisis, that the fears of those like Michio Kaku are not realized. But this is the potential fate of the world unless Prager’s observation is reversed and the best people kill the worst people.

We hope and pray China and Russia will act and contain North Korea before Japan, Taiwan and others go nuclear. We can hope and pray India and Pakistan do not fire their missiles; that Israel does not have to fire on Iran, there is a lot to hope and pray about. But if it comes down to who will shoot first we better hope and pray it is the best people killing the worst people. And to anticipate those who believe in pet rattlesnakes I won’t dignify such a thing by qualifying who I believe to be the best people. I have already made my position in this respect abundantly clear in my support of Western Civilization.

Perhaps China will buy North Korea? But would North Korea accept American debt to China for the purchase?

There is no “End Game” in sight for a world led of lunatics other than that posited by Nobel Physicist Michio Kaku in his book “Visions” where he theorizes if other civilizations like ours have existed elsewhere in the universe they may have reached our stage of nuclear development and destroyed themselves. I have written extensively on this theme myself, and find Kaku’s observation chillingly pragmatic.

In any event “solutions” will find their own course despite the efforts of the Albert Schweitzer’s and Mother Teresa’s of the world. Michio Kaku knowing well how leaders refuse to listen to their critics took a page from Henry Thoreau concerning government: “Why does it always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?” However, that is the reality despite the self-destructive course of governments. To refuse to countenance this reality is to be ignorant to the point of maliciousness.

To listen to those who would “lecture” about the need for diplomacy in a world where nations with nuclear bombs are led of lunatics is itself lunacy. You do not reason with tyrants and despots; you kill them before they can kill you. Neither Hitler nor Tojo would have hesitated turning America into glass. Nor will any tyrant or despot like that in Iran or North Korea of the same mindset.

In the vernacular “Let’s get real!” No one trusts America because of an utterly failed leadership that is in such disarray it cannot even secure our borders or ballots, a leadership that has plunged America into fathomless debt with no end in sight. There is Israel to face Iran, and China and Russia looking to their interests. There are the many nations like Mexico and Venezuela demanding blackmail of America with no end in sight to this extortion. The UN is so corrupt throughout there is no hope to be found there.

Here is my personal nightmare. The nations comprising the Security Council will gather and the question will be “Who can we trust?” The answer will be to try to forge alliances of nations that do not trust each other and then it will be a matter of who shoots first. And none of this will matter if that terrorist nuclear bomb goes off in America, none of this will matter if by design or accident missiles start flying anywhere in the world.

One of the things I have enjoyed not owning going on nearly twenty years is a lawnmower. No lawn, so no mower; only the natural flora of trees and bushes together with an abundant number of granite boulders gratis floods making a “rock garden” that would be the envy of any wanting such a thing, and providing safe harbor for abundant lizards. Though when the occasional rattlesnake appears I effect its speedy transmigration with a hoe I keep handy. I have no truck with rattlesnakes; not now, not ever. I have this same attitude toward ground squirrels and jays. Guns used to be my tools for the task and I have even shot the occasional threatening dog, but the area has become too inhabited now for guns to be used though I keep a pellet rifle handy to “discourage” the ground squirrels and jays.

But at the approach of every fire season here in the Kern River Valley out come the weed whackers to keep my place from becoming a fire hazard. And with nearly an acre to maintain, each year it requires a lot of weed cutting to keep the weeds at bay.

Any of you ever tried to keep a beautiful lawn weed-free? I’ve suffered buying new homes and putting in lawns with the constant labor and aggravation to maintain them. It requires constant effort even in Beverly Hills to sustain a beautiful well manicured lawn free of weeds. But then, the folks in Beverly Hills can afford it especially for the wages paid illegal aliens and aren’t worried about their properties producing corn, wheat, oats, or rice. The wealthy are not worried about making the soil say “beans” instead of “weeds.”

Weeds have a tenacity that reflects the curse pronounced upon the Adam in Genesis, that the earth itself would be cursed bringing forth weeds requiring Adam and all following him to earn and eat their bread by constant toil waging war against the weeds that threatened all the good fruits of the soil necessary to sustain life.

It doesn’t take much effort on my part to generate controversy; comes with the territory of not pulling any punches speaking my mind when addressing the hard, often dark issues confronting America, things like the monsters in human guise preying on women and children, things like the invading hoards of barbarians from Mexico, my advocating the legalization of marijuana and prostitution, abolition of the death penalty because of the capriciousness with which it is handled state-to-state, politicians that are nothing but predators and so on. Why, one would almost think I never read “How to Win Friends and Influence People?”

But to really rile people and be cast in the role of Bill O’Reilly instead of Wolf Blitzer all I have to do is question the efforts to help children in foreign nations while so many children in America are suffering and cast any doubt on programs dedicated to feeding the starving children of the world asking one question: Why?

Who with any heart for the suffering of children is not moved to the very core of their being by such scenes of human suffering and degradation? But the question remains a legitimate one: Why feed our enemies? What do “humanitarian efforts” really accomplish when America cannot win the propaganda war against our enemies, cannot win by feeding and giving comfort to our enemies? For example, Muslim children receiving aid from America are still taught to hate America and Americans along with the milk and rice we give them. The warlords, tyrants and despots wherever will with the aid of the UN steal from America and take credit for what is stolen. Accountability? As with Big Business, bureaucracies of every description, politicians and judges in America, as with our schools, social services and so much more there is none!

The wisdom of “Charity begins at home” is born out by Americans being actually extorted by predator politicians and their bosses to provide aid and comfort to the enemies of our nation, including those actively attempting to destroy America! And just what is the motivation on the part of those charities by various religious institutions dedicated to feeding the starving of the world when the end product is invariably increasing crops of weeds, and these “weeds” growing up to choke out and destroy Western Civilization? But the lesson of corruption being rife in those nations aided by America is never learned no matter how many times such corruption is revealed. Why not? Look to the “leadership” of America and follow the money for the answer.

What is Mexico producing but human weeds that are encroaching on America, threatening the more noble fruits of American soil? Most certainly nations like China and Russia only applaud the millions from Mexico and elsewhere invading America knowing full well these will never assimilate and become Americans. It is in the interest of our enemies to hasten things like this invasion and colonization of America from Mexico and other barbarian nations where the wealthy rulers and tyrants are dedicated only to their own interests of multiplying their own wealth through slavery. And this is an apt description of own Federal Triune Dictatorship!

Just who decided on “sanctuary cities” in America? Who profits from these and the emasculating of our police agencies from even protecting America from illegal aliens all of which are criminals by definition? Where does the fear of being labeled “racist” for sticking up for America and wanting to secure our borders originate? Who profits from these smear tactics?

Of a certainty the “war on terrorism” cannot possibly be won unless it is fought to win, and this means killing the enemy. But feeding the enemy at the same time making a pretense of a war while sacrificing American lives in the process is an abomination! And We the People had better start making our voices heard against this abomination and against all those from Caesar Bush on down, Republican and Democrat, encouraging this abomination!

From the very beginning I warned because of Caesar Bush and Company starting a war they had no plan for finishing would result in America standing alone. But no “prophet” is ever welcomed in their own home or in their own country. And no, I am not going to go back and re-read “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” but I will continue to have my weeds whacked, chop off the heads of rattlesnakes and shoot mad dogs, ground squirrels, and jays.

Watching a hawk swoop down on the covey of quail in my backyard and scatter it this morning was certainly a reminder Nature is not sensitive to the lives of lesser creatures farther down on the food chain, does not distinguish between prey and predator. It would be vain attempting to tell a hawk to leave the quail alone since it is a predator by instinct.

There is an embarrassing abundance of analogies between politicians and the hawk that swooped down on the quail, between politicians and Nature red in tooth and claw. In the nature of things the strong prey on the weak, but the hawk did not choose to be a hawk, and quail do not choose to be quail. However; easily casting aside any altruistic “Mr. Smith’s” and the hypocritical claims of “public service” politicians choose to be politicians, and as such choose to be predators.

If I had not known before mixing it up in the bars for years before writing my book Birds With Broken Wings I certainly learned the truth of the maxims “Nice guys finish last,” and “Nice guys never get the last dance” during that period of my life. If men are born to hunt them, women are born to be hunted. But it is this too often predisposition women appear to have that invites the attention of those not considered to be the nice guys and the hunter moves in on them. And this is true no matter whether in a church or a bar.

But unlike politicians that choose to be predators, men and women are wired by a multitude of genetic factors predisposing them to fulfill their gender specific roles. And the hawk and the quail are fulfilling their genetic roles as well; the result being life is predominantly unfair throughout; notwithstanding giving full employment to our modern day witch doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists, lawyers, politicians, judges, TV and radio talk show hosts, columnists, etc. ad nauseum.

It would be an enormous error to subscribe anything of personality to “Nature” though much poetic license is taken in doing so. And I have no fault to find with poets and those, including myself, who find so much of beauty throughout nature and choose to write about such beauty. But the fact remains nature as such has no consciousness of person, that life throughout is at the mercy of uncaring elements invariably favoring the strong over the weak, the cunning over the less intelligent, a point well made by Machiavelli and not a few others.

Contrary to reason, it is not that pile of noble books, the worthiest thoughts of humankind by philosophers and those books comprising the library of the Great Conversation and the Harvard Classics by which heaven is to be scaled at last. On the contrary scaling heaven seems to have fallen to the builders of a new Tower of Babel using the Koran, The Prince, Karl Marx, Mein Kampf, and a witch’s brew of such “building stones” for the purpose.

So while recently listening to a retired general answering the question of how the war against terrorism is to be won reply “You kill the enemy” I applauded his succinct sagacity. This is how the Allies won WWII. But the nations of Western Civilization have not won a war since that time. And why not? Because the general summed neatly the process by which all wars are won.

When a man moves on a woman he finds attractive, there are certain rules of social behavior in a civilized society that must be followed. But in barbarian societies, including many of them right here in America, there is only the strong preying upon the weak. Every case of monsters in human guise preying on women and children evidences the fact there are indeed monsters to be found in all nations no matter the degree of civilized sophistication and the multitude of laws ostensibly designed to protect women and children from the monsters preying on them. Still, like our immigration laws and other such no law is any better than its enforcement.

As to WWIII, if this is the case no amount of civilized behavior or laws will take the place of killing the enemy. And just so with the monsters preying on women and children. The only way I can save the quail is by killing the hawk. To save all the quail I need to kill all the hawks and “balance of nature” be damned!

Cold blooded as such pragmatism is it remains the way to protect women and children from monsters, it remains the way wars are won. The world facing the threat of nuclear terrorism it only remains to be seen which nations will prove the more pragmatic. In this it must be remembered politicians are predators. A point to keep in mind as we watch and listen to this present crop of hawks posturing and pandering for votes all the while only seeing We the People as quail. And these predators seeing We the People as only quail are not going to solve the problems of the manifold threats facing America. And since this is reality what does this say of those at the highest point of the food chain, the billionaires at the top feeding on the quail worldwide owning these lesser predator politicians!

Like many of you I listen to the “cooler heads” talk of China and Russia not wanting to destroy America since it is not in their economic interest to do so; of attempts to accommodate Big Oil, Iran and North Korea for the “greater good” geopolitically. But then I think of the hawk and the quail, I think of the monsters preying on women and children only to be allowed free to continue their depredations, I think of the millions of barbarians invading America from Mexico for the sake of slave labor benefiting those at the top of the “food chain” and that puts things in proper pragmatic perspective. You win wars by killing the enemy. But our present crop of “chicken hawks” are only adept at killing quail, not those above them at the top of the food chain.

“First we’ll save the party… then we’ll give the country some attention.”

No, as blatantly obvious as it is Republicans are not saying this but Walt Kelly’s Congressman Frog during an episode in “Pogo” said this when the candidate he was supporting turned out to have skeletons in the closet. But Walt wouldn’t take credit for prescience, he knew politics was a dirty business every bit as much as did those like Emerson and Clemens. But the words of Congressman Frog are certainly timely in light of what is happening right now among Republicans.

Hastert “accepts responsibility” but he won’t step down. Sounds like every politician. There is the “responsibility” of 9/11, of Iraq, of Katrina, all of which leaves Hastert comfortable in “accepting responsibility” for refusing to act to protect young people from the known sexual predator Foley. Like all politicians Hastert feels quite comfortable in “accepting responsibility” as long as it doesn’t cost him anything: Business as usual in politics. He says the buck stops with him. But like any politician the buck goes into his pocket while the focus remains: “First we’ll save the party… then we’ll give the country some attention.”

The real threat to America is the fact there is nothing better than Hastert and Foley among Democrats that have a history of approving perversion in their own ranks. All have the same mindset as expressed so succinctly by Congressman Frog. Save the party; then worry about the country.

People used to get upset with me when I would point out the obvious: No nation that fails to cherish its young has any future as a nation. Nor does it deserve one!

America has evolved into a society that acts like it actually hates children. Pornography and perversion abounds in the guise of “free speech” and politicians pander to perverts and illegal aliens for votes; there are no standards of morality to be found in America any longer and barbarians hold entire cities hostage to gangs. It no longer seems to mean anything to even be an “American” when our borders are wide open to the invasion by millions of barbarians from Mexico for the sake of slave labor benefiting those in Congress that behave as barbarians as well.

We are no longer a nation of laws when neither our children nor our nation are served by the laws that give more protection to the monsters in human guise preying on children than their victims, when illegal aliens are given more rights and privileges than legitimate American citizens and our borders remain open to terrorists.

The many years I have worked to call attention to the plight of children suffering from the cowardly bullies, the monsters in human guise preying upon them have been to no avail; conditions for children in America have only worsened with the years.

But a Federal Triune Dictatorship that is more concerned with “saving the party” while ignoring the worsening conditions for children in America, while ignoring the plight of millions of legitimate American citizens suffering declining wages due in large part to the invasion of barbarians from Mexico and elsewhere cannot be expected to save America.

Schools are failing throughout America because politicians are more concerned with “saving the party” than saving our children. Hypocrites multiply expressing “concern” for the children in foreign nations while the children of America are suffering. America cannot survive by becoming a cesspool of corruption and perversion, by losing its identity as a nation. And if children are not a priority in America, and I mean “The Children of America!” not Mexico or Africa! our nation has no future. Nor does it deserve one!