We are under siege. Wake up America! This is no time to be giving the Administration the benefit of the doubt; we are in trouble. The United States of America is under siege from several fronts: We are under siege by militant Islamists (9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the various foreign and domestic terrorist attacks, are just parts of this.) They are not attacking us because we are free and prosperous, nor because we have troops in Asia, nor because we have not closed Guantanamo. They are attacking us because we are infidels. "Islam by the sword." We are at war with drug cartels on our southern border. They have outposts in U.S. Territory. We have been invaded by the drug cartels. Our southern border is undefended; we have been overrun by illegal immigrants. Our own government is attempting to destroy our nation as we know it. The current federal government is the most left leaning in our history. It is trying to remake our country to match Europe-just as the European economy is failing from the weight of their governments. The Obama administration is totally ignoring the Constitution and establishing new "laws" through executive orders coming out of the White House and rulings by the massive number of federal agencies created or enlarged by the "Imperial Presidency". Where are we now? Nearly half way through the slowest economic recovery in U.S. history (or perhaps the end of recovery and the start of the next downturn), saddled with useless laws and restrictions that hamper business growth, losing two wars (and having lost the international respect we once had), with an open southern border, and with an administration that enforces the law very selectively, and is increasingly swamped with scandals which it attempts to cover up by stonewalling: that's where we are! What can we do? In the short term, we have to pull out of the ditch and stop the runaway pull to the left. In the long term, we have to make corrections to our government (largely returns to the original Constitutional principles) to avoid future runaways (to either the left or the right). And vote! Voting is an obligation as well as a right. I'm not a politician nor am I an academic. I'm an American with a reasonably good education (BA in economics and political science 1960) who has worked for many different companies in several industries for more than fifty years. I have followed national politics for years. I passed the three quarter century mark more than a year ago. I remember what I was doing when Pearl Harbor was attacked and on VE and VJ days. I remember the concerns of nuclear annihilation that swept the country during the cold war. I sweated my National Guard unit being called to war during the Berlin and the Cuban missile crises. And I have never been as concerned as I am now. In all of those other times, the United States was a strong nation because of the strength of its citizens. The U. S. population held to a strong work ethic and moral code. Now, the ruling plurality dismisses individual achievement and traditional morality in favor of government handouts and being careful to not offend minorities-even if this means the destruction of the majority will. And the destruction of the majority's culture and rights. We elected a president with little experience, and about whom we knew next to nothing hoping for a "...change we could believe in." We got the slowest financial recovery in the history of our nation (it's still going and shows signs of getting worse before it gets better), a tremendous increase in national debt, an almost total loss of respect for our government in the international community, and a growing list of federal government scandals. So what did we do about it? We reelected him for a second term. This is the scary part. Have enough voters gotten tied into the gravy train to always swing the vote in favor of handouts?
About the Author: Patrick Thomas was born in California and grew up in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Missouri, California, Wyoming, British Columbia, and celebrated his 13th birthday living in a construction camp in Kajakai, Afghanistan. When not growing up or working in construction camps, he grew up or worked in farming. After graduating from the University of California with a BA degree in Economics and Political Science, he worked in several industries. On the side, he served 3 years as a reserve deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and 5 years with the California National Guard as a Tank Commander and Platoon Sergeant. After almost 50 years in industry, he retired with his wife of 40 years to northeastern Nevada to use his more than 20 years experience as a technical writer and more than 50 years as a horseman to "train horses and write books." A Clear and Present Danger a matter of personal liberty and economic prosperity is his second non-fiction. He previously wrote: The Right to Bear Arms and the wisdom of doing so. He also wrote two novels: Shadows of Evil-the vampires among us, and Earth Rise. Patrick Thomas' web page is www.wolfeagle2012.com and he can be contacted by email at wolfeagle@wolfeagle2012.com