Tyrants of Thought

 By CE Marshall

  DON'T EVEN THINK IT 

Dear Readers-- if you follow me on a regular basis then I apologize for my absence.   My last post was on February 16th regarding the Save America Act (which sadly, is still stuck in the Senate) To explain,  I'm in the plant business and Spring is a very busy time for me- not to mention on April 1  I was bitten by a pit bull (and that ain't no April Fools joke!).  That has taken quite a bit of my attention and occupied my mind.  That entire fiasco will be addressed in a future blog (I think.  It depends if the mood strikes me to review the entire episode). As of right now the saga is still not really over but I do feel I've rounded the curve to the finish line.  

     Today this title- "Tyrants of Thought" popped in my head and I thought to myself "that would be a great title to one of my blogs", so here I am!  What will this be about, I'm not totally sure- but I guess we'll find out shortly.  By the way I am working on a book- titled "An American Voice" or "A Voice of Reason"- I haven't made up my mind.  Maybe another title?  "Tyrants of Thought"?   It will be an elaboration on some of my humble opinions regarding ways to fix our broken, blubbery, fat, ineffective government.  My intention is to have it published an Amazon Publishing and posted with links to purchase here on my blog that you're reading right now.  My goal was to have it published by my daughter's birthday, May 5, but because of the dog bite that idea went off the rails.  Now, my goal is July 4 on time for the USA's 250th birthday.  

     Who are the Tyrants of Thought?    If you've read this blog you know that I refer to the "powers that be" here in the early 21st Century as "The Silent Tyrants" and also on occasion "Mad King George" to refer to the dictators that rule us through media and big government and academia and global corporations (as well as domestic corporations, they surely are not innocent!).  They are all complicit in controlling us and our thoughts, however in particular, the rulers of media, the press, and academia are the vectors of tyrannical thought where their ideas and ways of seeing things are sacrosanct and anything contrary is blasphemous or heresy to the "new world order" that they have been working on so hard and for so long.  Tyrants of thought are not only in these groups, they're in the schools and the churches and everywhere that people gather and move forward to act as a group.  These people tend to be more the minions of the "tyrants of thoughts" and are not where the tyrannical thoughts spring forth from. They are, however, just as dangerous to you and me because they are the "useful idiots" that the tyrants instruct to do their bidding.  They don't think for themselves, and they run on passion and emotion rather than rational thought and common sense.  

     An example of "TOT" (Tyrants of Thought) would be Trump Derangement Syndrome at the local level where the minions have been instructed and are obeying the edicts of the corporate media and the globalists to hate Donald Trump.  The rationale is that he's dictator and a Nazi or a King, etc.... whereas the fact that they are able to say such things on the street corner with no fear of retribution is evidence that he actually is not.  It also is an example of their lack of understanding of our government and how it works- no one person can get his or her way as President.  That would not be true if we had the absolute government that they crave controlling everything.  That is true dictatorship as what we saw in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.   The irony is they are the very people that would enable our government to such power and use its power to encroach on the rights of their neighbors.  This we saw during the COVID pandemic with elaborate fanfare as citizens told on their neighbors for having more than 5 visitors or people were denied visitation to dying family members.  

In my humble opinion, here is a list of the thoughts that tyrannical leaders through various methods, are ruling us and intimidating all of us to think and to not question.  If something is not up for debate or is "settled science" then it is more than likely a tyrannical thought that springs from someone who benefits that we all think the way the want us to think.   On this list, many are such a part of the Silent Tyrants' agenda, that if you don't agree with them then their minions will defriend you off Facebook, etc...  and you are not to be addressed again. You are "persona non grata" as the Latin saying goes.  

The Edicts of the Thought Tyrants 

1) Donald Trump is an insane tyrant.  

2)  Climate Change is real. 

3)  All vaccines are good and are completely safe.  

4)  People are born gay; they don't choose to be gay. 

5)  People who identify as the opposite sex are totally sane and should be encouraged and enabled to do so. 

6) The universe is billions of years old. 

7)  The Theory of Evolution is fact, not theory. 

8)  All physical reality can be explained through science, if scientists don't have the answer now, they will eventually. 

9)  The Holy Bible is to be interpreted according to how you feel about what it's saying and obedience to it relies on whether you agree with it or not.  

10)  You have to get more education in order to be a fulfilled as a human being, no matter how useless what you study is. 

11) The sexes are equal to each other, and each is just as capable of doing anything as the other. 

12)  White people and/or males are responsible for most of the bad things that happen in the world today. 

13) Diversity of people is always a good thing.  

14)  Diversity of thought is never a good thing.  

15)  Emotions are much more important than the logical reality of any situation. 

16)  Any problem can be solved if you hand it over to federal agencies, or the Universities for examination along with lots and lots of money to "study" the issue. 

In the mind of the "statists" or the "thought tyrants" there is no debate to be had with any of these issues.  These are all "settled science".  

In My Humble Opinion.....

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Voting Rights and the Save Act

 By CE Marshall

     Dear readers-  I apologize for my long absence.  Normal life has been calling and keeping me busy but, alas, a current event demands my commentary.  I have been following the "Save Act" which is a federal law in the works to require proof of citizenship for all voters and also instills several measures to prevent voting fraud.  The name comes from the urgency expressed by the Republican party that any other choice will end up in the ruin of our Republic- as is the case for nearly every law/election for the last 20 years- as expressed by both parties' leaders.  It does grow tiresome.   However, I do support the Save Act but I'm not sure it's doom and gloom if it does not pass.  I do think the Democrats are painting themselves into a corner with their absolute opposition to the Save Act.  Have they actually been cheating?  

What's good about the Save Act;

1)  This ensures American voters are represented by leaders they elect not by leaders who are beholden to illegal immigrants that have entered our country outside the boundaries of established law. Statistics bear out that a large percentage of "undocumented" immigrants take government assistance so the motivation to vote and keep Democrats in power would be quite strong. 

2)  Illegal votes- whether from undocumented immigrants or through ballot stuffing and other nefarious means to "cheat" the system should be obviously wrong to anyone interested in fair elections. It's self-evident, isn't it?  

3)  The suspicion that the Democrats cheated in the 2020 election only grows and any and all methods to assure the public that elections are fair and lawful is essential. 

4)  The courts have proven themselves to be either complicit in enabling Democrat success with questionable voting laws (or lack thereof) or they are afraid to make a stand for fear of over-stepping their power.  There have been some rulings that should help "somewhat" in preventing more 2020 types of voting theft.  One ruling, by the supreme court does support efforts to strictly limit voting after election day.  But such rulings do not go far enough.  We need a law to give the situation teeth. 

5)  The Democrats claim this would prevent people from voting, but I don't see how that would be.  We all have to get ID's to drive and we all need Birth Certificates to confirm who we are in many instances.   One concern I've seen on X is that this will prevent women who have married and had their name changed from voting!   A marriage certificate should nip that issue in the bud- it's somewhat frightening that the Democrat leadership has such very little confidence - or they're lying- that females have no common sense to understand the situation.  Unfortunately, they are somewhat correct though in that assessment of the thinking abilities of enraged liberal women.  

6)  The left feigns great concern at the voting rights of American minorities and screams "racism".  The greater concern should be the loss of confidence that all law-abiding Americans have that their vote is being diluted by illegal votes and widespread cheating.  These are the true victims.  

     The Save Act seems a good thing in my humble opinion and should be passed.  The vote will be tight, and they would have to break the tradition of filibuster that requires 60-40 votes in the Senate to pass an Act.  It may be necessary, given that if the Democrats don't have any concern about cheating during elections, then they would have no problem breaking the filibuster themselves given the chance.  In addition, it would appear they may actually be a part of the cheating, at least at the local level in Democrat states and cities such as California and Atlanta.   The days of bi-partisan acts are gone, I'm afraid.  All opportunities to cheat during elections, even the appearance of cheating, must be halted  

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The Arrest of Maduro

 By CE Marshall

                                                        Dictator Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela 

     Much in the news this week is the capture and arrest of the dictator, Maduro, of Venezuela.  The Venezuelans of the world seem very happy about it and most of Latin America seems to be in agreement that this is a good thing.  As I write he is sitting in a prison in New York awaiting trial for drug trafficking and other various offenses to humanity.  We shall see what happens, of course, but the effect on the world political screenplay, as it were, is substantial.  

     When I awoke to the news that splashed across my cell phone, I shook my head and thought to myself "only Trump" because it is true that we have never had such an audacious President, certainly not in my lifetime.  The left-leaning public is opposed to it as they are opposed to anything Donald Trump does.  The far-left media - most mainstream media- is highly critical and clicking its tongues that "this action is outside of the law", their favorite line when something doesn't go their way or cannot be credited to one of their allies.  Considering that Joe Biden had a $25 million dollar bounty on Maduro's head, this is abject hypocrisy (the heartbeat of liberal or statist ideals).  It is a huge stretch to criticize the action too much, but the Democrats have nothing else to offer us these days but vitriol and sanctimony.  "It was a superb success, but we don't like it because Trump is behind it" is what they really mean.  

     There is work to be done in Venezuela as the United States' powerful navy proceeds to choke Venezuela's only means of income, oil.   This hurts the people, but the effectiveness of an embargo against an oppressive government is not clear in this case.  We've been shutting out Cuba from most world trade for decades and all that has done has been to hurt the regular Cuban citizen.   I hear rumors of starvation and no electricity through my Cuban-born wife.  Cuba is in such bad shape even Trump has shrugged his shoulders that the country will probably fall within itself.  This is the consequence of over sixty years of oppression and a government that has no concern but for itself, as do all Communist and most Socialist governments.   The leaders of Cuba still trade and benefit by dealing with the Iran's and Hezbollah's of the world, but the people starve and suffer.  Now that Venezuela can no longer help them and China is quite a distance away, it does not look good for the leadership of Cuba.  

     So, given that Maduro lost an election but refused to give up power, I see this as justice for the people of Venezuela.  Establishing a strong Democratic Republic is not an easy thing when the people are weakened and starving by their own government, and Venezuela is still very much under the grip of oppression.  But it is a good thing to try.   Our country is established under a constitution that begins "We the People" and it was built on the foundation of Christian values that empower the individual to live free and be allowed to pursue happiness as God permits.  May we proceed with the good fight to liberate Venezuela and all countries of the Western Hemisphere because it's the decent thing to do.  Even if it's not totally "legal".  Why should we help them?  Consider it paying forward the favor done for us in our Revolution against Britain 250 years ago.  France stepped up to help the United States, and we would not have won our independence but for our French allies.    It is the right thing to do.  

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Century of Lies

 By CE Marshall 

     

     Lately I've been thinking about how much "We the people" are lied to by the government and by society.  It also occurred to me that would make a great blog, so here I am! 

     Most of the lies have occurred at a blossoming rate over the last century.  I have no doubt that lying has been a "beefy" business for a long time (certainly throughout history), but I do think at the height of American Liberty- in the early 19th century- the American people had quite a bit of power and the lies were much more difficult to conceal or get away with.  In those years- 1800 to 1850 the American public seemed to understand their government and what was required of them to keep it in check- and the government had not had time to morph into the obscene untouchable federal bureaucracy that it is today.  The Civil War, with all the good it did, was also the birth of a powerful federal government that within 100 years morphed into what it is today- a government willing to murder the President if he threatens the bureaucracy.  It's as if the American public became "high" on the power and wealth of our country and it became less urgent to spend a lot of time and energy on what the government is really doing.  Today, of course, it's a behemoth with no account to anyone other than itself.  It squanders money and is thick with waste and fraud.

     The waste and fraud are their own topic.  What I want to explore is what I consider the biggest lies of all.  It's not just on the government.  It's also on the media, academia, Hollywood, and the ruling elite- the "Silent Tyrants" that I bring up with some frequency.  The "birthing mothers", as it were.  I will say, however, that for each and every single lie, the lie springs from the government in one way or another.  "It goes without saying" in other words.  As Thomas Paine put it- "society in every state is a blessing, but the government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"  

So here it is; Chuck Marshall's Humble Opinion regarding the biggest lies of the last century.  I have listed 12 so we'll call them the "Dirty Dozen".  

The Dirty Dozen Lies of the Last Century   

1)    Today- "Global Warming- AKA Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity."  Florida should be under water right now.  Culprit: Al Gore, the Democrat Party, Academia, the American left.   Control through fear. 

2)   Today- "Gender is interchangeable and is a function of the mind not biological.  Consequently, it can be altered by surgery and drugs without any consequences to the patient."  Culprit:  Academia, Pharmaceuticals, Medical establishment, American Bureaucracy.  Scientists are there to correct God's mistake- because they are God.  Also, there's a lot of money to be made.  

3)  Early 1930's- "Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union are an example of how successful communism can be if it's done correctly."  The editor of the New York Times famously went to the Soviet Union and saw the evidence of widespread, orchestrated starvation caused by Stalin himself- mostly in the Ukraine-to control that country's tendency to rebel.  The NTY editor chose to ignore what he could see with his own eyes.  Millions died because the "Intellectuals" of the United States and Europe looked away.  Culprit:  The New York Times, Academia, American and European Leftists.  The never-ending infatuation that the left has with royals and tyrants.  (I always read the New York Times thinking about this fact- they have so much blood on their hands and not one ounce of regret.)  

4)  Late 1930's- "Adolf Hitler wants peace above all else.  All that's necessary is to sign over German speaking parts of Czechoslovakia." Culprit:  UK Neville Chamberlain and the blithering idiots of the leftist English and French governments.  We all know what happened with Hitler.  He most definitely did not want peace.  

5)  Early 20th Century- "Income Tax is a fair tool for running modern society.  Redistribution is efficient and effective and fair."  No! It is the least efficient form of taxation- by far.  Culprit:  Woodrow Wilson, American Liberals.  A lot of Economists seem to understand graphs much more than they understand people. 

6) The 1960's - "If Vietnam falls the world will be a domino of falling countries to Communism."  Vietnam fell and quite the opposite happened.  Culprit:  Lydon Johnson, Richard Nixon, US Government, US Military Complex.  War can be very profitable for a lot of people if they keep their mouth shut.  

7)  The 1960's- "JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald."  No, he wasn't.  Culprit: The Warren Report, and multiple government agencies protecting each other.  Our government killed our President.  There, I said it.    

8)  The 1950's - "Fidel Castro will be good for Cuba and its people."  Cuba went from one of the wealthiest to one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere in about 20 years.  Culprit:  American media, Hollywood, the Trudeaus of Canada, Barbara Walters (American journalist).  Same as the Soviet Union above; "The never-ending infatuation that the left has with royals and tyrants".  

9)  The 1980's "The Big Bang Theory is a viable explanation to how all creation appeared." It's laughable- order from disorder?  What "causes" the order then?  Culprit:  Academia, Fawning American pop culture.  It's so absurd that nobody questioned it, if that makes sense?  If you're going to lie, make it a big lie.  

10) The Early 20th Century- "Evolution is an explanation to all that is living on the planet today."  You can drive a Mack truck through the Theory of Evolution and it's many, many holes that scientists assure us will one day be filled by them, of course.  Culprit:  Academia and Fawning American pop culture.  Once again, the scientist has to be the God that explains it all, there's no room for anything bigger than his or her brain.  

11)  "The people elect their government in the United States."  The Reality: The American government is a government of agencies and bureaucrats with special privilege.  They are at the front of the line to feast at the pig-trough of American dollars.  Culprit: The American people for allowing it to happen.  Elected officials come and go, but the bureaucrats stay forever.  

12)  "Separation of Church and State is in the Constitution and/or is an essential part of the American government."  No, it's not.  Culprit:  American media, academia, leftists.  We're guaranteed freedom of religion, but it is never mentioned that the government can have no part in religion.  The foundations of western civilization are based on Judeo-Christian values and morals.  

In future blogs I endeavor to explore each lie and dissect my reasoning and perhaps share some ideas to correct the lies so that our posterity will not have to endure the vomit that comes out of Washington, DC and the Silent Tyrants that rule us. 

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Government Shutdown is Government Failure

 By CE Marshall

                                                                The Parties Must Go 

     Once again, we see the two parties are incapable of coming to any sort of agreement.  They are like petulant children that need a very good spanking.  This most current shutdown is the longest in history, so now it becomes one more example of how bad government has gotten and the fact that it's not getting better.  I throw my hands up on this one, but I must say that the people voted for Trump and the Republicans so if we are truly living in a Democratic Republic then the Democrats need to plead their case to the people in the next round of elections not by stalling the process of legislation.  They seem to be at the will of their more extreme supporters who are focused only on hating Trump and it is working somewhat as the recent elections have shown.  It pays to block the other party, and that is at the core of our most current shutdown.  Anyway, once again the people "all the people" are the last of anyone's concern and it's all about posturing and politics.  The parties need to go- I'm not sure how that would look or how this could be maneuvered, but I believe that's the only solution.  Their only reason for existing is to stop each other, which means they're stopping half the population from being governed at the consent of the people.  Government shutdown is not the consent of the people it's the consent of obstructionists.    

In My Humble Opinion.....      

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