The Molly McGuires, the Black Hand, The Free Masons, the cults of taboo from a thousand islands, cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye, the Mormons, the Hezbollah, the Jesuits, the Mafia. Anybody fighting for survival who form a group or joins a group. The Crypts and the Bloods, M13, on and on. Someone wants to be taken seriously so what better way to demonstrate their seriousness than killing someone!? THERE! THAT OUGHT TO CONVINCE THEM! Sometimes you can understand the motive, maybe even sympathize with them. For others you scratch your head and wonder what the Hell were they thinking.

If you kill someone, you're called a murderer and perhaps, rightly so. If you kill several people you are a serial killer. If you kill a large group of people you are a mass murderer. If you kill thousands and thousands, they call you Glorious Leader! Hmmm? How large and effective is your gang? Your tribe? Your Party? Are you a lone wolf? In Winter, the lone wolf dies. What are we? Who are we? If we conquer, we get to answer those questions. If we are conquered, someone else will answer those questions.

The form of government of the United States of America has the potential to be the most inclusive with the broadest scope to enhance its citizens lives and rights, to provide the most in the way of freedom. It takes an educated populace who agree that this is so and to work for the betterment of ALL its citizens. The enemies within this country can be likened to termites or the people boring holes in the bottom of the boat. The fools think they'll be letting the water OUT and the anarchist who are directing the hole boring are their leaders who know exactly what they are doing. They are sinking the ship of state.

Remember the rather stupid movie "Up Madison Avenue"? Putney Swope is the black janitor who somehow gets elected to be the CEO of a Wall St. company? I remember one line in particular. All the board members are terrified of what Putney might do. Putney says (I paraphrase)"Nobody ever got anywhere by rocking the boat." to which all the board members breathe a sigh of relief and then Putney goes on to say "You SINK it!" And the remainder of the movie is just about that!

Well, that's fine fodder for the movies but in real life you ought to remember that our nation is a nation of people, the vast majority of whom want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Are you going to sink them? Just because they may not think like you? Because the have some beliefs with which you don't agree? Because some of them have a different skin color? You don't sink the ship on which your life depends. You work to enhance it, to take care of the problems, to define reality, to serve the needs of the people, all the people of the nation.

If you see a real wrong, don't just carp about it, fix it. Draw attention to it. Approach it in a positive way that extols the virtues of our nation rather than bad-mouthing and tearing it down. The positive attitudes toward our country is whats needed regardless of who is elected. Freedom means the chance to do the right thing. License is what the selfish, self aggrandizing folks believe freedom is. It isn't.